skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would strenuously, strenuously argue against ever, at any stage of the company, at any kind of company, with any data of any significance whatsoever, letting developers initialize dev environments with production backups.

That's not a disaster waiting to happen. It's a fractal of disasters -- no matter which part of the idea you examine, it has an infinite number of disasters in it. It is an Ice-9 of disasters: you introduce it to perfectly sensible engineering decisions and they become disasters, too, just by contact with it. ("Do we let our developers work on laptops?" "Sure." Great, now our production database is one car window away from causing catastrophic reputational damage to the company.)
Yeah, the more information you require the less likely people are to fill it in.

I've been a fan of "search" not categorise for bugs for this reason. People are more likely to blog about, or tweet about a bug than put it into a bug tracker.

The role of an issue gardener is a really useful one too. A person whose job it is to go into issues, and make them useful for developers. To communicate with all sides, and enhance the process for everyone.

A great example of this is when @pyalot tested out various webgl implementations on different browsers. Then he went to all the bug trackers, and made notes. Then linked to various specifications, and pointed to test cases.

http://codeflow.org/entries/2014/jun/08/some-issues-with-app...

This one guy through this has done a massive service to WebGL and the web. I've seen too often various bugs and issues go through 2-3 browser iterations because that's how long it takes for people to seriously test out features and report bugs.

The collaboration going on now because of open bug trackers in web browsers is amazing.
That library looks like garbage. The website describes convnets as a "type of restricted Boltzmann machine." How can anyone trust a library with that level of misinformation?
So, where's the proof that this is from Nokia? I can't find a reference to this on a pre-existing Nokia property, the entire thing is on zlauncher.com except where they link to generic Nokia privacy policies and in one spot say to email press@nokia.com - so nothing that indicates they actually have access to Nokia.com. They've created a brand new twitter account that doesn't appear to have been acknowledged by any existing accounts. It seems weird to me. I don't really believe that its not Nokia, but it is enough uncertainty that I'm not going to install it.
JACK is a huge amount more than just a per-app volume mixer, it's basically a virtual audio cabling system. Very handy if you've ever had a need to pipe audio between applications or manipulate audio streams from arbitrary apps.

It's also a complete pain in the arse to get running on Linux, due to the ALSA+Pulse stack being in the way.
I think the most likely outcome of this is valet items being given preferential treatment on eBay. Just wait until your items are a tiny spot at the bottom while the valet items take the main spots, and that 30% commission will be the least of your issues.
YZF,why can't we start from an optimized FPGA - i.e. small memory blocks spread all around with massive bandwidth and low latency, and find a way to give decent enough access to the cpu to all that memory ?

And yes i know that the cpu will be the bottleneck, but it will be the bottleneck anyway.
Why is sniping frustrating? How can sniping make me lose an auction if their snipe bet is lower than what I entered as my maximum?
20 Photorealistic Aircraft Renderings: Take A Flight To Artificial Reality
The Color Theory Crash Course Pt.1
This article causes me to question my trust in BoingBoing and Cory Doctorow. The extruder is not the only open source component Makerbot is trying to patent, here's another one http://www.openbeamusa.com/blog/2014/5/22/stay-classy-makerb... Seems the open spirit of Makerbot has been run aground by their new corporate owner.
Zero Day Vulnerability in Social Networking Service LinkedIn
Really? Because the stall for me was that "sign in with Google+" demands permission to read my email address book.

"Fuck" and "you" are the only things that come to mind there.
unfortunately the people I would want to play this with don't all have gmail accounts.
Thanks for sharing. Apart from the surge of nostalgia, anyone should listen to the streets of rage soundtrack (1991). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discography_of_the_Streets_of_R...
I used to play the game just to listen to the music. It might sound old fashioned now but it was incredible back then.
The Spaceballs references almost makes me cry of nostalgia. Thanks!
direct download of the APK is here

http://apps.goodereader.com/android-apps/personalization-and...
Non-mobile link: http://nautil.us/issue/14/mutation/meet-the-father-of-digita...
Needs a G+ login, so it's inaccessible (and as others wrote: Probably wouldn't work on a rooted phone anyway).
Wow. Not only this guy is good at what he's doing, but he also seems to be a great person.

I'm impressed.
I've seen quite a few local businesses in the LA area that do this already; maybe eBay can do it better, but they won't get to eat the entire market by just showing up.
That depends on how you look at it. A short-sighted manager might think that way, but it will hurt (early) adoption / engagement. The target audience for big support contracts are enterprises anyway, and they will not buy support solely for the documentation.
Seems like the Appstore 30% fee model is becoming standard everywhere now. That's not a very positive thing...
People that never experienced what dealing with state security agency means.

I am a child of the Portuguese revolution. My family lived under the Salazar dictatorship.

My Spanish, Greek, East Germany, Eastern Europe friends "enjoyed" similar experiences.

Whatever the law says are dead letters. The security agencies are the law.

So for us Europeans it is very hard to understand how the common American thinks such agencies follow any law.
Yes. RootCloak works though.
Interesting to see Fred Ehrsam (Cofounder of Coinbase).
Why London? Wouldn't it make more sense to have it organized in a mainland city such as Berlin or Paris where many more Europeans can easily get to?
Definitely Swift, i have mentioned and curated content here, about why and how. http://goo.gl/8X9H2u
T-Mobile US does not operate as a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. It's a separate, publicly-traded company. DT owns 72% of it post-MetroPCS merger, but operates separately under the same brand.
Cops are basically saying that they can do illegal things, and then actively conceal them during the discovery process so that defendants cannot challenge the illegal conduct in court. This kind of thing isn't going to stop. Everyone should assume that any unencrypted cell phone calls and texts can and will be examined by law enforcement. Act accordingly.

That said, defense attorneys really need to be on the lookout for cases like this, where only vague references to confidential sources of information are disclosed. If they know the tell-tale signs, they can ask the judge to issue orders during discovery that will put the prosecutor in the position of either being held in contempt of court or disclosing to the defense the specific illegal tactics the police used.
The compiler used is DJGPP, a port of GCC that comes with a DOS extender, a POSIX-compatible C library and pretty much everything else needed to pretend that you're using a Unix system. Basically Cygwin for DOS.
That is weird.

Also:

- They don't list Nokia X in the supported (tested) devices section[0].

- SSL certificate doesn't belong to Nokia

- Whois records are hidden trough proxy, doesn't sound like something a company like Nokia would do

- They belong to Microsoft now, I don't think Microsoft would allow them to launch this, if this the Mobile Devices section of Nokia.

- Domain was bought from GoDaddy. Nokia, like most of the big companies, uses MarkMonitor.

[0] http://feedback.zlauncher.com/knowledgebase/articles/374249-...

EDIT: This seems to be a project by John Kneeland. https://twitter.com/SirKneeland http://kneeland.me/about/

I found his e-mail in the Google+ login app.

EDIT2: They claim to be the real Nokia, the part outside of Microsoft. https://twitter.com/SirKneeland/status/479686206318342144
Why someone making $100,000 a year can't get a bank account
I would have tried to message you privately, but you don't have contact info.

Maybe you don't notice the nuance of your writing, as English is not your native language, but you are saying that ALL dutch people are racists. This is why you are getting a negative reaction. If you think that is true, you are wrong, and guilty of the sort of group-oriented negative thinking you are upset about. It might help future interactions to say, instead of "x are nazis" (which indicates you think they all are) to, say, "I couldn't stand living there, there were too many people doing [negative racist attitude]"
Crema Marfil Porcelain tile | spanish tiles
Yes, I'm aware they aren't delegating the rocket design to the marketers. Smaller team, faster to market, cheaper. The discussion is around accelerating innovation and SpaceX perfectly demonstrates this, despite "rocket engines" being the earlier example given for how it's not true.
The other HN submissions of this article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7918768

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7898113
What a load of gibberish.
It makes sense, thank you!
An abstract idea isn't physical. You can patent a machine, or a drug. You can't patent a method for dividing two numbers. However, a machine for dividing two numbers—assuming it's novel, not obvious, etc.—is fair game.
Well-thought and a fine read.

Re: sleep and moods, though a plausible idea, suffers from a tight binding problem. This is very costly in terms of time invested for reaping the "aha!" moment.

I sat down to elaborate the reason and a possible solution, but the word count went over 1100. So, here it is in all its glory:

https://medium.com/@vidagdha/qualitative-improvement-for-pro...

Basically. Decouple. Please read through and feel free to comment.
agreed. There is absolutely no proof that this is Nokia and the key is signed by goDaddy.

Sounds fishy.
> Everyone should assume that any unencrypted cell phone calls and texts can and will be examined by law enforcement. Act accordingly.

Duh. It is a good thing that law enforcement can examine texts and phone calls, unencrypted and encrypted. However, it is unacceptable that doing so is hidden to the courts.
This comment doesn't respond to its parent at all. It's like you read the first sentence and then stopped.
Beijing Implicated As Hong Kong Vote Sites Crash Under Massive DDoS
Coinbase users are probably buying many more bitcoins than selling (new users looking for an easy way in) so it would make sense for Coinbase to try to buy these.
London has 5 airports; there is also the Eurostar. If people really want to go, I'm sure they can find a way. Surely if thats too high a barrier it says something about how serious they are about founding a startup?
Show HN: Open source app with native ads
This post remind me a lot https://rbt.asia/g/thread/41920845
Indeed.

Tl;dr: D: kinda cool, not enough though. Rust: kinda cool, not enough though. golang: kinda cool, not enough though.

Also how is D '''not a "high-performance" language'''?
"No need to read", the first visual newsletter
I was sick of ugly newsletters with loads of text and impossible to digest. So here's my solution: the first visual newsletter. Reduced to the minimum but loaded with maximum inspiration about business innovation through design & technology? You're invited to join the reader community in 30+ countries!
That's great. It's kind of (personal interpretation here) Rick Dangerous meet Wonderboy. Congratulations to the author for believing in his own dream, that's real dedication.
DevOps Days Amsterdam Livestream
Well... it's not all that impressive that Milwaukee has ramps available. Chicago is practically named after them. The region produces them in abundance. But go find good miso in Milwaukee.
> To infringe a patent, you must make, use or sell a product incorporating the invention. A patent by itself does none of those and hence cannot infringe anything.

How are you intending to distinguish program source code in an interpreted language incorporated into the body of a patent specification from a software product consisting entirely of that same code?
I read the entire comment, the initial point about the title being misleading irked me.

There was nothing misleading about it, it accurately conveyed what happened. IMHO we're beyond the point where micro-debating the various ins and outs of these things is helpful. Yes they should have done what he/she suggested, but yes - NONE of this should be happening. It's tiring and ridiculous.

The future is going to be tricky, we need to move faster and more efficiently than this.
Also a re-post.
Do you happen to have either a 50mm 1.4 or 1.8, or a really wide zoom (10-32 or 16-35)? I might be interested.
Yes, but UK is not schengen, so for any non-EU living in the schengen area this presents a barrier.
If you want a complete replacement for C++, I think you'll end up with the same complexity and rules as C++.
Cover looks very nice, but I won't install it as I don't have a high degree of trust of the app with my data
a power control module for an LTE radio is patentable

It's worth drawing a line between "a particular solution to the problem of power control on LTE radios" and "any method of doing power control on LTE radios". Far too many software patents seem to cover any solution to the same problem, not just a particular implementation.

(Note that the software in the DSP also gets the benefits of copyright protection)
Depends. For lazy people it's an easy way to get rid of their stuff without the hassle of packaging, getting scammed, etc.
'Female' is a race, according to the City of Palo Alto
While it does not frustrate me personally, it does seem rather pointless to list an item for several days or weeks when the actual sale takes place in the last five minutes, and to show a 'current price' which has little relevance to the final price.

Ebay might as well call it a sealed bid second price auction and be done with it.
Just to be puckish: you can get amchoor ("ground fucking mango powder") at pretty much any Indian grocery. If you search for ["amchoor" "san francisco"] (not "ground mango powder"), you'll find Yelp'ers and Chowhounder'ers comparing SF stores on price for it. :)

That Afghan syrup you put in water and you grew up drinking, you may have me there.
Streets of Rage 2 is even better, but really, everything Yuzo Koshiro wrote is worth listening to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzo_Koshiro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYGBqmxoLrg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjaW4ZYzVHI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foFbN-KokGE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRMfy4ONrr4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP5j7kBJq8o

And he's still at it, almost 30 years later!
FBA is seller's stock distributed by Amazon with the same levels of commission. They just charge for storage and handling of the item at warehouse.
The more data will be published, the more we'll understand the need for a data curation process.
Business: Assumptions and Authenticity
This looks cool, however, I can't find anything about the costs... Is this free to attend (if you're invited)?
Yes, it is free.
Botconf: the botnet fighting conference
"If you're not using DOS as your operating system then DOSbox can be used to emulate a DOS computer."

That made me laugh.
They're up!

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ-uHSnFig5NCQkhJfkn8o...
Large organizations employing people who must follow procedures dictated by algorithms and committees, with no one to appeal to, no one with authority to over-ride "the system," and no way to exercise judgement. Small companies in most niches will always have potential customers if they manage to keep a human face and personal interactions.

Banking, telecoms, and a few other industries are exceptions, because the regulations there are prohibitive. But one has hope that there will always be space for the personal touch.
Publicclass.se for more beauty
i submitted this same url but I made the title:

“Juliet. On her balcony.”
FIFA bans Beats headphones from World Cup matches
LinkedIn ignored SIX WARNINGS about account-hijacking bug
My thoughts exactly. Some people need to stop crying and start writing software.
This is standard practice for launchers, it allows you to add widgets with direct call buttons for contacts.
Rather more worrying, perhaps that eBay won't be able to tell the difference between a genuine and counterfeit item and end buyers will end up being screwed by the protection policies in place because "they obviously verified the item themselves". If you've ever fought a dispute with eBay, it's a battle that leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth.

However, I don't have a problem with eBay as a third party as the benefit of the larger market and capital gain versus the risk pays off[1], but when it comes to being the middleman as well, the buyer and the seller have a lot more to lose.

[1] There are always chancers, fraudsters and complete muppets (idiots).
Some of the valet-service users will become regulars sellers. Some people who would never use ebay might become users because of this.
Since we're being pedantic, many cities have different rules for what is allowed in a front yard vs. a back yard, which may actually be the problem... this often leads to the occasional news story about the town that forces someone to remove a garden in their front lawn, etc.
> Decentralization, n. The security assumption that a nineteen year old in Hangzhou and someone who is maybe in the UK and maybe not have not yet decided to collude with each other.

With parentheses:

> Decentralization, n. The security assumption that (a nineteen year old in Hangzhou and (someone who is maybe in the UK and maybe not)) have not yet decided to collude with each other.
Top World Cup Moments in History You Have to Know 
Do you know the top 10 world cup moments? This article shares top 10 best moments in World Cup history for you including Hand of God, Goal of the millennium, etc. If you can't remember, you can watch them on YouTube or convert them to watch on the portable devices offline.
Ask HN: Advertise an ios app
Hey guys!
I'd like to know how to advertise an app in the other apps and the budget it's gonna cost.
It looks like it's off the record and nobody clearly talk about its cost and the best way to promote your app effectively using in-apps ads.
Thank you for you help!
You mean like auctions are now? eBay is just a storefront now.

I do pretty well (£600+ a month) out of just buying items in auctions which are rather well hidden then selling them via the storefront/buy it now process.
I ran into Nils Barricelli while reading Turing's Cathedral, which is a book I enjoyed throughly.
If you think 30% is high, I would like to introduce to you Getty Images, the juggernaut of stock photography. They take 50% now.
Lack of support for rooted devices probably rules out a whole lot of potential first-adoptors
That is One SLOWWWWW website
Google Play is accessible only if you hook your Android device to a Google account AND you Andorid device vendor has put up the $$ to use the proprietary Google apps like Play.

The real question is why so many apps are distributed only through Play, excluding privacy-conscious users and open source Android devices.
> he was dealing with a vicious bully

Really? Posting on twitter and github doesn't make you a vicious bully. Chad's whole post seems super defensive and unprofessional, which is typical when you point out the privilege of the privileged.
Is there a good easy-to-use software/service that does that kind of alignment of accurate text transcript to audio/video?

I used to have some links but the companies went out of business.
FWIW... this is exactly why we launched Lollipuff (YC W13): https://www.lollipuff.com/

eBay is notoriously plagued with fakes. For some designer brands, fakes can account for 75% (or more) of the items sold [1,2].

The key for Lollipuff: We have brand experts authenticate each and every item -- ie. real, human experts augmented with sophisticated software to make things scalable. We like to think of it as "eBay without the fakes", or if you prefer "Palantir for designer goods" (software-augmented humans).

[1] https://www.lollipuff.com/blog/41/ebays-counterfeit-epidemic...

[2] https://www.lollipuff.com/blog/123/ebays-counterfeit-epidemi...
A New Bike Lane That Could Save Lives and Make Cycling More Popular
Compare ebay to 'real' auction houses; ebay has always had very low sales fees. 30% brings it much more in line with the bricks and moratar auction houses sales costs.
The alternative is 'throw out not completely useless stuff because I can't be arsed to sell it'. It's win win the way I see it, I'd dump half a truck of stuff on their dock if they'd offer this in Europe.
As a developer, I like the point where the recruiter is not trying to bait us with bullshit ("The Facebook of Uber for Porn"). Any mail containing a "our company does X" gets send to the trash.
How do they expect people to post just over 4700 items per day?
F-Zero and F-Zero X are games I used to play just for the music. They are so metal.

There is an excellent album with all the music played on real instruments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I9h7SkZICg&list=PLF1AF918F7...
XFCE 4.10 does at least launch pavucontrol when you click on the "Sound settings..." menu item under the volume applet. However, you're right that it only shows one volume slider in the applet menu itself.
Wow, css has come a long way, it never ceases to blow my mind when I see stuff like this
Why you’re (probably) not a great communicator
The idea that OOP is a fad and that everyone is abandoning it is... absurd. I think that the author thinks OOP means ObjectListenerBuilderProviderFactoryAdpterImpls and repeated use of words defined by Gamma et al. Actually, OOP is just the practice of encapsulation and abstraction, and the avoidance of globals/singletons* in favor of infinitely instantiable instances. These are not a fad, they are necessary components of all large-scale software.

The Linux kernel, which is entirely written in C, is a fine example of object-oriented programming. File descriptors are object references. The filesystem is a beautiful heirarchy of polymorphic nodes. There simply is no non-OOP way to implement these things.

* I cannot mention singletons without linking this essay of mine, even though I'm somewhat embarrassed that I never found time to fill in the rest of the site: http://www.object-oriented-security.org/lets-argue/singleton...
I am a happy user of ElasticSearch I always thought that it would pass the "Call me maybe" test with flying colors...Well, not
How did you think that it would suggest you who to call or notify you of incoming messages?
Inspire Your Team with Supportive Leadership Tactics
Equally, if a company's only revenue stream is paid upgrades, doesn't that mean releasing software in urgent need of upgrading, with bugs and poor forward-compatibility is in their interests?

And if a company's only revenue stream is monthly or annual subscriptions, doesn't that mean firing all the developers and letting the product stagnate as money keeps flowing in is in their interests?
I bet money, it's simply most frequent app and contact called.