skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't the cost essentially zero if you just install them when you're doing other work?
Jumio Brings Its Automatic Card-Scanning Technology To Mobile Web
This slide deck takes 24 slides until they get their hands dirty, which is a new record in my book.
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The Era of Cloud Computing
Boj The Collector : Appbook narrated by Jason Donovan
In this interactive appbook, Boj finds out all about collections and what they mean to him and his buddies. Join Boj in a journey around Giggly Park as he collects things, builds things and generally makes stuff from other stuff!
Read to you by Jason Donovan (Pops in the TV show) these books come alive through multiple interactions, games and even a sing-a-long section at the end so the whole family can join in.
Facebook has been doing a fair job of banning them. Can't wait for BuzzFeed to be removed next.
Advanced lat/long formulas with source code
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Whether you make your site fully screen-reader compatible is up to you, but enabling some simple hacks (e.g. custom stylesheets, browser zooming) really goes a long way.

Yes! It isn't as if "please don't use horrible fonts; please choose high contrast colours; please allow zooming" is some onerous difficult to follow arcane ruleset.
Zalando, Rocket IPOs Herald Tech Startup Wave in Berlin
Google reportedly wants in on Virgin Galactic's space business
It's true that the GPL-licenced code will remain GPL licenced, the MIT-licenced code will remain available under MIT though.
Hm, I’d be happy with some max-width:50em or so on the actual text. Now if only Firefox had a built-in way to apply custom user stylesheets to websites…
I've never considered this, but the history of Wikipedia over the next 100 years might be an insanely valuable source of insight about culture.
Good you mention application and ARIA ... I've just come out of a project where the initial brief completely disregarded anything in terms of accessibility.

Full on angular app, no native forms or form elements (because they "look ugly" apparently).

Then the ultimate end client wants to go live but forgot to mention they had a mandatory accessibility audit.

So I've spent quite a bit of time working out how to make things work for screen readers using the ARIA specs. And it really worked quite well.
My takeaway from this is to make sure everything is working with the keyboard correctly, spend some time thinking about tabindex, labels etc, and where I can push back requests to get rid of native browser elements.
> Regarding HN being too wide, why don't you narrow your browser window?

Narrow my browser window because this one site makes it difficult to read? I could do that, or I could just use a content script and leave my browser at the width I prefer. I maximize my browser for distraction free reading.
What's the wattage on these? AFAIR Qi is at 2.7W, which is not enough to sustain my Note 2's charge during browsing or video.
I understand your comment and support it -- I have, many times, thought of implementing a POSIX userland in Go, but the task has daunted me, so that has not been realised till now. What bothered me was the fact that they show usage of CVS as an alert for deprecation. I concur your argument though, no-one can judge no-one else for what they choose the create in their own time. But CVS is perfectly usable software (and I am telling this as someone who has spent a month trying to CVS-checkout OpenBSD source tree, only because $CVS_RSH=rsh rather than ssh).
The Pacific Northwest trends towards indirection in speech, far more than any other place that I've been

Having interviewed with a variety of Seattle companies, I'd say that they are primarily hiring pragmaticists who 'jel' with their culture. Education is respected, but not at the premium it is in Boston.

In terms of growth, the NIMBY crowd isn't in power at the moment (and hasn't been for a while - construction is going nuts), but I wouldn't be surprised to find that in the next elections, anti-growth candidates will be elected. The Stranger (alt-weekly) seems to be making anti-growth & anti-tech their plank right now.

In terms of jobs? Seattle, Boston, Austin, Boulder, Phoenix, etc all seem IME to be at rough par - not like NYC or SF, but definitely up there.
It seems important to note that this was a study of 35 people.

35.

That seems like a surprisingly low number from which to draw broad conclusions of brain activity for adults diagnosed with ADHD when they were children.
Indeed, I don't get why people focus on Apple in this regard so much.

I've seen some rather egregious examples from every company. Its an internal developer thing meant to get developers developing on the platform. Almost everyone in that room knows the hyperbole. Just like people at Microsoft Build know the same. And as you noted Google IO as well.
TVShowTime turns put.io into a better Netflix
Awesome example of a full service built on top of put.io
Indeed, the question in the title has long been overdue.

And, yes, bad — no, really BAD readability of web sites seems to be quite standard these days (including HN). And, on top of that, the worst offenders block the zooming functionality in mobile browsers. Mankind never had a shortage of torture specialists.
Neither myself or the author presented a controlled study; they are both individualized experiences that may or may not be relevant to one's own project. I'm simply trying to say that the OP isn't gospel. That said, for the forcefulness of the headline, I would've expected much more data.
I think the title is misleading. Hacker News itself did not generate $1500, posting something on Hacker News helped your company generate $1500...
Zidisha (YC W14 nonprofit) invited to Global Accelerator at the United Nations
Speaking of name and shame. People sometimes bring a lot of intensity to bear on a single statement or campaign contribution. It would be great to see similar intensity for acts of omission. If someone leads an organization that hasn't made even a weak effort at improving accessibility or diversity, that deserves some gnashing of teeth.

I think what accessibility and diversity both have in common is that the problem can seem overwhelming. Progress needs to happen step by step, organization by organization. We should encourage and compliment people who are taking even small but meaningful steps -- and "shame" the ones who are making excuses for not even trying.
Aerobic exercise improves brain, cognition, and cardiovascular fitness in aging
neat, but i'll stick to nasm, thanks.
They're usually very blatant about where their ad money comes from. See their 7-Up (http://www.theonion.com/video/today-now-offers-7up-ten-chanc...) and Acura (http://www.theonion.com/video/did-the-media-treat-bachmann-u...) sponsorships. So this doesn't surprise me.
HN is tiny and unreadable in default Android chrome.
> So why do we think it is perfectly acceptable to spend time ensuring that our websites work in IE9, but not that you can navigate them with a keyboard?

Lack of empathy, basically. There's very little financial or technical incentive to supporting disabled users. People just don't give enough of a shit to help people who have a hard time using technology. Sadly it's going to take a strong push from an advocacy group for disabled users to be taken seriously, just like they were necessary to get ramps and rails as required for all businesses.
Do you know anything about LastPass? You don't trust them with your data because they don't have access to it:

https://lastpass.com/how-it-works/
Depends on the price of the rubber bits or the moulds for the concrete ones.
The Onion's version of BuzzFeed?
Qi is well supported in almost every wi-power device. Nearly every phone that supports wireless power today, already uses Qi, including already released devices from Samsung, LG, Nokia, BlackBerry, Motorola, and many others over the last two years.

PMA / PowerMat is the odd man out. The only time I see it used is when Duracell pays for it (either in their own Powermat line, or their agreements with folks AT&T requiring companies to make Powermat devices like http://bit.ly/UwhZ2R )

I was really hoping that this wouldn't end up being another drawn out compatibility war, and since 99% of the momentum and device support is behind Qi already, it seems efficient to let Qi win.

Of course, if Apple releases PMA in the next iPhone, PMA will win by default, no matter how late they choose to release it.
Well, this shows the legislation is broken. Uber drivers can work without having to pay for medallions/licenses/what have you, and having to fulfill cumbersome regulations. If you rule they get a pass, then so should the cab drivers.

They'll still get hosed because without a medallion system bottlenecking the amount of suppliers, taxi service becomes a race to the bottom that can't support a decent living. But at least they won't be _twice_ hosed like they are now.

EDIT: I'm not saying Uber is wrong and should be stopped and the taxi drivers protected. On the contrary, the legislation could be opened up, dropping both protection and regulation of the taxi industry, now that Uber exists as a competing solution. However, the current state of affairs, where some drivers are taxed and regulated (taxis) and others are not (Uber drivers) is just going to make the former group collapse under the burden of regulation.

Also, I'm merely observing that opening the market to a huge supplier pool effectively means the end of the taxi driving profession (for reasons that have already been stated a hundred times before). Not saying this is good or bad, it's just the way the market works.
That video brings satire to a whole new level!
Also see the slides of Simon's talk at ZuriHac 2014 last weekend:

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/ZuriHac2014#Talk_by_Simon...
While the milkshake icon is in part for humor, it doesn't represent the same concept that the other icons represent. The acts of 'sharing' a piece of music and 'sharing' a milkshake are different. When people share a milkshake, the implication is that they're both there drinking it. Sharing a milkshake like you'd share an article would be to give the milkshake to someone else. You wouldn't even need two straws.
My favourite is missing from the list: \usepackage{needspace}.

LaTeX' page-breaking algorithm gets it right most of the time but sometimes a bit of help makes it even better, i.e. a

\needspace{4\baselineskip}
\subsection{Something}
Lorem ipsum ...

tells TeX to insert a pagebreak here if there's fewer than 4 lines of text left on the page, otherwise just carry on. Unlike \pagebreak[n], this is not optional.

\usepackage{refcheck} belongs in everyone's toolbox as well.
>Ghost supports Windows XP 32 bit and Windows 7 32 bit.

What? Doesnt look like a lot of people will be able to use this. I guess if you had vulnerable XP systems you could use it on your network to attract malware you're already infected with.
I think the result is better than getting Techcrunched for sure. HN is a better audience when targeted with a product that startups would benefit from.
Nor am I a lawyer, but I'll point out that the GPL is only based in copyright, so if there's no chance of copyright infringement then the GPL terms don't apply.

I believe the relevant part of the GPLv3, regarding "whole package" is:

> A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent works, which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work, and which are not combined with it such as to form a larger program, in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an “aggregate” if the compilation and its resulting copyright are not used to limit the access or legal rights of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit. Inclusion of a covered work in an aggregate does not cause this License to apply to the other parts of the aggregate.
if uber doesn't work out for a driver will they have forfeited their black cab rights? JW
Here [1] is a list of some Winograd schemata devised for testing artificial intelligence chatterbots. It boggles my mind how diverse an AI's knowledge of the world and relationships contained therein would have to be to resolve these, especially when you think about how natural that process is to us, up to the point that we don't even recognize the ambiguity.

[1]: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/davise/papers/WS.html
you do not need a licence to be a taxi. You need one to be a cab. Uber are NOT cabs. they are private driver. You cannot hail one from the street.
It won't be very long before NPs using expert systems will do a better job than physicians using the same old techniques they always have, for at least 95% of patients.
It's pretty common to do MRI-scanning when you're being diagnosed for any kind of mental disorders, just to rule out the possibility of brain damage.
I worked on this! It was a pretty fun project, and I'm really excited to see what the writers do with it.
The Scala folks like to say that newcomers can start with procedural OO and then slowly grow into the functional mindset. Developers don't need to learn and use all the language features from the get go. I suppose that the same advice applies to Swift.

Having said that, Swift is not nearly as intimidating as Scala.
Faster Database Forking
Court Rules for Pom Wonderful in Dispute With Coke
Could you provide a link? I've never seen rubber bits added to a sidewalk before.
I'm never sure if those product placements are actually paid, or if they're just making fun of the concept.
the irony is palpable
Here's a little insider's secret: http://www.clickhole.com/achievement-hole/
The tech boom is everywhere. Some cities have more visibility but I think it's going in some fashion in most major cities or metro areas.
Great work on converting blog readers--typically a low-converting segment--into actual paying customers.

Although I agree that your blog should target people who actually fall within your target audience--who are almost always a subset of "businesses and people with real money"--I'm curious why you think that's the reason that article did well.

Did it have a higher conversion rate than previous, similar articles?
The Onion was lampooning infographics before they took off and evolved into "listicles" at least 10 years ago.
Rust has memory safety by default. However, it can do memory unsafe things in special blocks[1]. So it can do everything low level that C can, including controlling memory hardware [2]. It does unsafe things only in special blocks that can be specifically audited. That's part of why I find it so promising.

C has no memory safety by default. So if you want to audit your C program for memory safety problems, those problems can be anywhere. Even if that C program/component doesn't actually need such low level access in the first place!

[1]: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/rust.html#unsafety

[2]: Here's a list of (hobby) kernels written in Rust: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Operating-system-develo...
I think a lot of us are somewhat happy with freedom being maintained by the laws of the land. Granted, those do seem under attack, as well. Oddly, by a similar mantra as what leads type safety.

Consider, in a "type safe" law system, intent doesn't matter. Only what you did. Now, look at the laws that run on that principle.

Now, I personally think this is probably orthogonal to type safe programs. But I'm not completely convinced, yet. Type safe programming seems hamstrung by the fact that a type system only really protects that which is specified in the type system. Which seems to mean you can't easily have a variety of ways to do things, as ultimately the type system has to grow to encompass all of the system.

Now, I grant I'm probably just soured by some bad systems in the past where a change to one part required a rework of the entire system.
Facebook to Let Users Alter Their Ad Profiles
In Memoriam
Yes I have used the Dreamplug, the Mirabox is a logical upgrade from that. The Mirabox uses a Marvell Armada 370 SOC. When I first got my Mirabox the kernel support wasn't great. But Marvell has been contracting with an embedded Linux contracting firm, Free Electrons, to get everything into the mainline. Free Electrons has done a great job and now you can run a stock kernel fairly easily.

The Mirabox comes with the Marvell fork of uBoot which is unfortunately quite old. It doesn't have support for device-tree, for example. I'm not aware of a newer working version from either Marvell or Globalscale. There was some initial work to get Barebox working on the Mirabox, but it is very feature limited.

On the plus side, you don't need a JTAG console to reflash the bootloader. Lots of Marvell SoCs support booting over a UART connection using an Xmodem protocol[1][2]. So you can reflash/unbrick your Mirabox using just the USB serial port. (I think that the Dreamplug also supports this protocol, but I have never tried to use it on one.)

[1]: http://git.pengutronix.de/?p=barebox.git;a=commit;h=0535713b...

[2]: http://git.pengutronix.de/?p=barebox.git;a=commit;h=6bb3a08c...
As a user of these services I can stay that I am very happy about this *(I didn't know, but somebody here on hn claimed github auth did the same thing). This is exactly how it should work. What on earth is your excuse to really need my email address? I am sorry if I sound rude, but this behavior enrages me somewhat.

If you wish to track data that is connected to my identity, i.e. provide continuity in your service, store some stuff that I made, settings, preferences, you don't need my email address.

If you really wish to communicate: Talk to me on twitter, it's nearly public! With oauth you receive a token as a representation of my identity, not my email address. If you really need an email address - then why do you need oauth?

If I go to a store to just browse through the shelves I don't have to give the clerk my telefone number. Why would he need it anyway? To annoy me every once in a while and bully me into visiting his store, which I voluntarily entered in the first place?

Here is a positive example:
- Go to iron.io
- Log in with your twitter account
- Nothing happens: You can use the app and they show you around pretty nicely.

Yet Iron provides a service upgrade, which requires credit information. They ask for it, specificly when they need it: When you want more from their service. In that case you have to provide them with the info.

This is how websites could handle this issue. Log in with oauth. If you REALLY personally need to contact me, then you can ask me later. Not upon login or to distinguish me from other people or provide continuity.

Emails are communication handles. They shouldn't be a poor man's surrogate database primary key.

I remain very curious: What does _your_ service need my email address for?
Higher temperature super conductors and advances in technologies I guess. The machines are cooled with liquid helium which is expensive and requires a lot of additional tech. If you can live with a lower signal-to-noise ratio you can have lower magnetic field strength and you can maybe use liquid nitrogen. Still not stuff you want to have at home in significant amounts.

Additionally you need a very homogenious magnetic field. This is accomplished by rotating the field very fast by rotating the reels (part of why the machines are so loud). If we find another way to fix this or find a way to deal with it (possibly a supercomputer with supersoftware) cost and size might go down. But this was the best solution available which indicates the size of the problem.
Hoo-ah How we almost doubled number of billable hours in one month
Scalling webapp deployed to Dokku
Well, 'imitating human conversation' is what the published versions of the Test seem to be about.

Unfortunately it seems the current state of the art has only devoted to imitate the superficial parts of it. I'm not aware of anyone trying to build SHRDLU-like model for conversation that tried to understand and remember what is being said, rather than merely reacting to it.
Oftentimes, narrowing HN below 1280px is still not enough as the content then scrolls sideways, so there is a very good argument for putting a width on content that doesn't adjust to the window size properly.
You have a good older brother.

I recommend these apps.

<Developing>

iTerm2

Firefox

Sublime Text

Cyberduck

Xcode

Gimp(Image)

Skitch(Image)

<Productivity>

Evernote

Dropbox

Alfred

Memory Clean

1Password
But sharing a milkshake isn't like sharing a piece of music. If I saw the icon below an article, I'd think, "read this article with another person". (Ok, maybe I would think 'share', but that doesn't make it a good symbol.)
I totally agree with this, I like seeing these posts and being aware of the ways in which Apple is twisting the truth to serve their marketing; it's interesting to see the process behind the presentation, but there seems to be a disproportionate amount of examination around Apple keynotes, and never say Google ones, and I'd love to see the spin others put on their presentations.
MRI machines need liquid helium [1], so probably never?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging#How_...
Finally! Clickhole by the Onion...
But what do we do about that...

... things turn out to be not well balanced (a fact... for whatever reason)

You can make millions in a guys only world in SV (doesn't the lack of private life suck? The lack of a balanced ;) peer group?).

And on the other side (outside SV) startups just do not work out that well (and in the long run likely bowing to SV). Now IT is an important future industry... and it's creation is NOT well distributed.

Like the gold rush (which happened for some reason also in California)
Good post. We need to remember that security is a transitive verb: we secure something against something or someone. As you say, DRM is "securing" a device against the user.
The Power of iOS 8
So far, nothing. I got my money back because they couldn't deliver the software during the entire dispute window. That being the case, the Credit Card company just handed me my money back.

From what I can tell, Amazon failed to process the chargeback correctly on their end and the order doesn't show it was ever done on Amazon's end. I'm not really surprised.

The last email I got from them on the subject was that the software was now available like 3-4 days after the dispute ended. I didn't even bother to download it since I just got it elsewhere with the refunded $$.

However, I didn't do the chargeback until after 3 separate CSRs [including 1 from the vendor] all told me they wouldn't do a refund.
Are there stats on whether having a disability makes you more or less likely to make a purchase in a given product category? E.g. does having a disability correlate with not having a job, which correlates with having less disposable income, which correlates with making fewer purchases?

Or does a disability correlate with going out less which might correlate with spending more time and money online?
So they spent a lot of time and money learning to crack buggy whips very well. Too bad there are automobiles now.
It can be difficult to gauge presentation tone for completely unknown audiences. If the audience for the presentation was mostly a group of "corporate friends" with unknown common technical background, it probably went well. If the audience was a bunch of unrelated HN people who want information _now now now_, a meme every other slide is a bit tiresome.

(gratuitous self promotion): I'm starting a long-form intro-to-Swift ebook series: https://matt.sh/books — no meme graphics, guaranteed.

The first book was released yesterday and more are on the way!
I'm curious if there's another Boston and New England :-) The Boston where I lived 10+ years had a lousy weather where you can't survive without an air conditioner during summers because it's so humid. Moving to Seattle/Redmond was a good idea in more than one way :-)

Doing a startup in Boston is definitely no fun. That's true.