skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Title (which is the original article headline, but that's still no excuse) is misleading due to inconsistent capitalization (which is neither standard nor title case). "Google Lawyer" isn't a proper a name, it should be either "Google lawyer evicting third-grade teacher" or "Google Lawyer Evicting Third-Grade Teacher".

It is also misleading guilt-by-association, anyway, since other than the fact that the landlord works for Google, it has nothing to do with Google, but treating "Google Lawyer" as if it were a proper name enhances the already-misleading character.
Alan Kay: The Pitfalls Of Incrementalism
Google I/O Live Blog
So Polymer is like Bootstrap with Angular? How is Polymer related to Angular or React?
Cocaine is far more water soluble than baking soda. Extremely, extremely water soluble -- about 2 grams of cocaine can dissolve in 1 ml of water (compare to baking soda: About .1 grams per ml of water)

You can't clog a toilet by flushing cocaine.
That sounds like it is doing something fancier then periodic snapshotting, such as using an immutable filesystem, where every fs operation is inherently lossless (up to garbage collection).

Of course, I might be reading to much into the continous nature of a slider. Does anyone have experience with that feature?
Wait, do you not see the difference between a one-time transaction with a third party that installs equipment they neither own nor operate and that has nothing to do with content, and an ongoing service relationship with a company that both owns and operates equipment that has everything to do with content?

Are you fucking serious?

"I don't see how the law can make a distinction based on how I acquired the content in the first place, provided I have both of those rights."

In the case of Aero, you didn't acquire the content from the broadcaster. Aero did. And Aero is not authorized to redistribute the content legally. The law can distinguish between your paying them for content and you paying Apple as easily as it can distinguish between an iPhone bought from directly Apple and one bought from a mugger who stole it from someone on the subway.

Like you said, "I have the right to accept the OTA broadcast and to store, transmit, and view personal copies of the broadcast."

Sure, but what you do NOT have the right to do is set up a commercial operation that resells those "personal" copies to others, which is precisely what Aero was doing. So yes, you can set up your own antenna and run it yourself. What you cannot do is set up a business that sets up antennas and runs them for other people.
Aereo Says That SCOTUS Ruling “Sends A Chilling Message To The Tech Industry”
I've had the opposite experience. To delete all emails from a given contact....search for from:contact, select all, delete. Idk how that could be more intuitive?
Krita is an impressive painting app, but not really designed for photo-editing. The developers of Krita currently have a Kickstarter campaign running to fund new features and possibly port it to the Mac

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-open-source...
Based on the name alone, I thought this was a bunch of activists trying to put together an open-source hardware automobile, that would look cool at the surface level, but would spend the next 10 years arguing over whether it should burn CNG or #2 ULS highway diesel, and finally end up as a human-powered pedicab with an on-demand electric motor boost.

But then when I saw real companies were involved, I thought exactly what you said.
"You can't clog a toilet by flushing cocaine."

At least, you can't afford to.
Angular can use Polymer components.
> Right, but in that example, the question of choice doesn't come into play. The paralyzed driver knows what it means to take a life, but they cannot act, regardless of determinism's validity.

Yes, but doesn't determinism mean that all of us 'cannot act'?

> From a moral perspective, there is no distinction between the illusion of control and actual control

Are you saying a fully capable driver would be culpable if he was under the illusion of full control while he drove over a pedestrian? Consider a vehicle malfunction, which goes unnoticed by the driver, leading him to believe he didn't brake or steer fast enough. Is the driver still at fault or is it the car? Doesn't actual control matter?
Interesting, I didn't know that. I guess it makes sense though. This report puts the value at $738 trillion: https://bea.gov/scb/pdf/2010/06%20June/0610_christian.pdf.
Are you suggesting that it should be illegal to rent an antenna via a recurring fee?
I think a better way would be to setup an MDM profile that will automatically wipe devices that have been offline for a few days.
Assessment Centre
Unfortunately to snooze an email we need to be able to read the message and reinsert it. That requires full read/write permission.

If we instead just replied to the thread, we could probably get away with just read permissions.
> SF requires EA evictions to come along with rather large (for a typical renter) compensatory packages.

The accusation here is that this eviction is specifically timed to avoid the coming increase in those packages. Which should be an obviously anticipated effect of a large increase -- while it will discourage such evictions once it goes into effect, it will encourage them in the period between when it is passed and becomes effective, because anyone who might want to do them in the near future is incentivized to accelerate them.
The Material Design PDF seems like it's nothing but pretty pictures with copy. I think Google could do a better job of explaining the concept by using examples from their redesigned UI.
I don't currently use graph databases in production, but I do, however, have some experience.

I use both, in a similar vein of "using Elastic Search". It could be your primary store, but it's sometimes it's more pragmatic to have two sets, a "solid" base.

This is not to say that it can't be done. What I'm stressing is that larger "changes" are hard and difficult to handle - which means a lot in the start of your process, and less in the end, as in, when you're deciding how to model your data. For instance node layout (new properties? different type? other constraints?), and mass updates are also a bit cumbersome.

Usually I have more than one SQL table (naturally) since the data I've used in graph databases is mix and match (otherwise I'd just use a fixed schema and some relational DB).

-- As for "how that works", for me it's:

routinely update from my base database with queries alike: ID > last ID.

This has worked as expected, in terms of what data you get in, and which limitations you impose (e.g. timeliness).

I'm currently making a shift to running all data in my graph database as I've settled on a model (which edges, which nodes, which properties).

> querying from two different databases is going to slow down my responses

True, but depending on your data (do you know one of the queries beforehand - e.g. is your postgresql query enriching whatever your graph query returns) you might have success tying (inserting) some of the SQL data to your graph database.
Google unveils Google Fit, a fitness platform for developers
In Polymer ajax is an element: https://github.com/PolymerLabs/polymer-ajax/blob/master/test...
Thanks, I'll leave it here https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/539027-never-argue-with-stu...
> With that said, these tenants are compensated between $5k and $18k per unit. Sucks to get evicted, but that sounds like a windfall situation.

Depends. If you get kicked out of an affordable place and nothing else affordable is available, compensation only delays the inevitable by a few months.

For the most part I'm inclined to agree that, if landlords are being abusive assholes, it's a problem with the landlords, not with the wealthy tenants or their employers. Still, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect major employers to assist with the needs of their community, regardless of fault or blame. If Google's policies are indirectly enabling shitty landlords, it would be neighborly of Google to use their clout to lobby for pro-tenant ordinances, and maybe politely ask their employees who are landlords not to be dicks.
Skyhook has shipped 150 Bitcoin ATMs, plans to ship 1,000 by end of year
Hi there, I work at Priceonomics. Thanks for the suggestions. We'll probably do a blog post about our marketing strategy of this book, but I wanted to address your point that the book had reviews as soon as it launched on Amazon. How is that even possible?

Many people had advanced copies of various drafts of the book. When the book went live this morning we emailed all of them letting them know it was up there. Hence people (all of whom are regular readers of our blog and seem to like us) could review it even though the book was only just released. Hope that clears up your questions!

BTW, do you have any data on the optimum pricing of an ebook being $2.99-4.99? I would love to see it.
You could use Zapier: https://zapier.com
Your email is the least creepy thing Streak has access to. There's also a feature that tells the user when an email they've sent has been read.
I highly doubt Google adopted this from your demo.
I've seen an application in production using e-mails as a message broker.

It worked pretty well.
I'm also getting this in Firefox 31 on Mac OS X.
Interesting observation. It's really hard to shake off the shackles of presentism and imagine what the US would look like on an alternative timeline where the US government had not aggressively promoted home ownership and easy credit. The economy and legislation are now so thoroughly distorted in favor of home ownership that it's difficult to imagine how things could have been different.

Specifically, I'm wondering if there was a time when we were having the same debate about housing that we are now having about college tuition, but that it has been long enough (and there have been economic gains for homeowners) that we conveniently forget how much our longstanding policies drive up housing prices. The idea of buying a home on a full year's salary sounds crazy, but then again there was a time when 4 years of college could be paid off fully via part time work while at school, something that is distant pipe dream these days for the majority of jobs within the reach of most college students.
I wouldn't have said it in so much words, but the authors are onto an important new business model:

free web stuff and sell books

The key point is that content in the form of a book (a unit of meaningful discourse) can be productized and offered in a sidebar. Instead of advertisements that pay micro cents per impression, why not offer a book and make 40% profit on print books and 97% profit on eBooks sold?

I'm not sure this will work for journalism, but for a lot of other types of content (ahm... hm.... textbooks), it's going to work for sure. The questions are: (1) what kind of reading is better done in book-sized chunks, and (2) how to decide which content goes into the free stuff and how much into the paid book.

The OPs are using the improved blog posts + new content equation, which has never been tried before. It will be very interesting to watch.
I submit that if heavy development of new housing started in SF, arguably the cure for the city's rental property drought, these same people would be protesting that as well.
This could be really useful for anyone working in this space; I'm hoping Google Fit will have a Web API as well, so it's not just an Android lock-in scheme.
Whether they drop support or not, clearly their idea here is to replace it.

Replacing globally supported open standards with proprietary APIs is one of the things people hated about Microsoft in the past.

Why does Google seem to get a pass from so many developers for this type of behavior? Or worse, get applauded for it?

If the argument is IMAP is out of date and crappy, then OK, let's make a new standard. Unilaterally making your own API is not the way. Unless you don't care about anyone but yourself.
Ask HN: How to invest $1, $10, $100, ...etc.?
What would you do with a dollar or ten, etc.?
https://vwo.com/blog/how-to-calculate-ab-test-sample-size/
I have my Calibre folder backed up with BT Sync and unDRM my kindle books there, so I can open them on anything with BT Sync installed.

I always buy with Kindle and convert with Calibre then read in iBooks. It'd be nice not to have to do that.
Statement From Aereo CEO and Founder Chet Kanojia on US Supreme Court Decision
Can I get this on iBooks?
These new "Material" design guidelines are great and I hope that we see designers start adopting them. I also hope developers start adopting Googles great animation guidelines. The added depth combined with the animation provides a great UX. Start of the next trend in UI for sure. Albeit a combination of skeuomorphism and flat.

Reminds me of this post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7555012
Hipster CEO coming to Android in July
It says parent under your post, but are you really a parent?

Could it be that some people have different points of view on language usage around their kids?
Not at all secure if you run it on DDG, since you give your password to a third party before you even get it yourself.
I posted this above as well, but cocaine is extremely water soluble -- 2 grams per ml of water will dissolve, or a little over 20 times the solubility of baking soda. Even with a low-flow modern 1.28 gallon toilet, it certainly wouldn't "clump up" -- more like instantly disintegrate.
Good lens source (US):

http://www.surplusshed.com/finder.cfm
"Material design with Polymer" I thought the headline was about a materials design startup, not a UI library. Can you please add more unrelated jargon and nonsensical analogies from random fields to your documentation?
It's not about time or anything so logical. It's about wowing tech-illiterate executives with flashy new toys.
Why My First Priority Is To Maintain Blog
This Is What Math Equations Look Like in 3-D
It now says

> Note: The Gmail API should not be used to replace IMAP for full-fledged email client access. Instead, see IMAP and SMTP.

Note the NOT.
>> you ask me to do something I believe is a waste of time

You can see the proof for yourself when you burn through the following two books within the three months.
a) http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Interviews-Inside...
b) http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-...

You need to spend 4hrs+ on weekends though. You will get to talk to candidates already working in the top companies and will be working in a group of 20+ highly motivated and intelligent peers.
Is it necessary to only license that IP back in non-commercial ways?
I mean, isn't this advertising 101? If you put an ad for something in front of an audience that won't buy it, you're going to get terrible performance. If you're selling $1000 b2b software, don't advertise on flappy bird.

https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1722057?hl=en

edit: I guess the contentious point here is why they enable non-specific in-app ads by default.
Curious to see this. At my "just failed" startup, our first product was a booking app targeted at tattoo studios. It was a hard niche to crack for a variety of reasons, and in retrospect we've moved on a little too soon without spending enough time exploring alternative applications.
I've used ports, but I've never developed a project using it, so maybe I should try that out. But "uses makefiles" does not make me particularly optimistic for its pleasantness. I really prefer (and think it's been proven possible to build) declarative, rather than imperative, systems for managing dependencies.
It took me about 30 min and >15 captcha's before I could register for this site. The audio didn't help either...

They are getting ridiculous.
NYC Resiliency Project Finalists (RISE:NYC)
It is not 100% clear but it looks like the authentication credentials in the blog post are static and are shared between clients (from the code comment: “In real applications, we will not have the authentication credentials lying around in code. We will store them in external configuration.”).

This is REALLY bad idea to have static and shared credentials. Especially in the case of mobile client when the client code itself is in a "hostile" environment. A "bad" guy can inspect the code and extract the authentication credentials. As soon as it happens, you need to update all other clients to push the new shared secret.

While OAuth protocol has a number of problems, it gets this right: all the tokens are specific to the client and the compromise of one token would not compromise others. The application can react by marking the compromised token as invalid on the server side without requiring expensive clients update.
This idea maybe born when E.Snowden revealed some secrets, as you know USA spectates everyone everywhere
Just because the first time you ever heard the word "skeuomorphism" was when it was being trashed within the context of apple's previous UI designs doesn't mean that the concept is complete rubbish in its entirety.
This model isn't that new. Webcomics and Tumblrs have been putting out coffee table books for years.
We need 7 red lines. All orthogonal, two with green ink and the rest with transparent ink.
Thanks. I was assuming some fake reviews were a ironic piece of guerilla marketing :)
Takes way too much time, I wouldn't wait.
> Whether they drop support or not, clearly their idea here is to replace it.

Its clearly their idea to replace it for some use cases for which IMAP's design is completely unsuited. Beyond that seems to be speculation.

> If the argument is IMAP is out of date and crappy, then OK, let's make a new standard. Unilaterally making your own API is not the way.

Actually, unilaterally creating your own API, getting some real use and experience with it, and refining it and submitting it for standardization is exactly the way that useful new standards usually get created. Attempts at creating standards not based on existing unilateral APIs often result in things that no one ever implements, like XHTML 2.
Technically? No.

Practically? Yes.

Otherwise, nothing would stop a contributor from cloning the repo on GitHub and running a competitor without paying any of the other developers.
I think I'm in camp #2, and I lost you at 'but if you were a different you, and made a different decision..'. If your thoughts and actions are fated, how can you be a different you? Or try harder? Isn't all that fated? First you tell me that I don't have real choice, but then you tell me to exercise that choice.
> this kind of language

Could you explain a bit about this? Is this an American thing? Two different online advertisement platforms refused to place ads for my book because of the "swear word" in the title. I didn't get it...

To me bullshit isn't a swear word at all... except for the unpleasant graphical nature of reference, I would classify it totally in a different category from other swear words. It like a strong version of "crap" ... as in what kind of crap is this?
Since you can use Objective-C (and therefore also Objective-C++) libraries directly in Swift, it actually has quite a nice integration. Objective-C++ is a far better interface layer than something like FFI or having to write C wrappers for everything (as you see in most other languages).
> BTW, do you have any data on the optimum pricing of an ebook being $2.99-4.99?

I smell a new post!!!
Content Experiments for Wordpress
>>I'm just a little tired of all the C++ critics that insist that only naive or inexperienced programmers use it and they'd all be equally productive if they'd just man up and use C for a while.

I'm not sure where you run into all those C++ critics that prefer C. Programmers that like to write C seem pretty rare to me. The criticism flows both ways: for example the C++ FAQ (http://isocpp.org/wiki/faq) labels every feature that's in C primitive, dangerous, and obsolete. I don't see C++ programmers as naive and inexperienced at all. The biggest problem with C++ is how complex and difficult it is. It might have been considered friendly to newbies at one time, but nowadays I'd be surprised to hear that an inexperienced programmer was using C++. These days it's associated with native code and high performance (C is either lumped in or ignored).
Take the Pain out of Bootstrap Theming with LESS
Also, from the same lab (MxR at USC's ICT) where Oculus originated [1]: http://projects.ict.usc.edu/mxr/diy/fov2go/

[1] "Spun out of MxR’s VR2GO and HMD prototypes, the Oculus Rift is the single most anticipated piece of VR technology to date." http://projects.ict.usc.edu/mxr/diy/
No, because to be a currency of any kind someone has to be accepting it as tender for something else. There needs to be a trade of it somewhere.

Now Canadian Tire money is a different, yet somewhat analogous, story. It's not virtual, but it certainly is used as currency (my local university pub used to accept it at par the first Monday of each month - that was great).
wait, what? there's one downloadable pdf for offline viewing, the main version (bigger, literally the first thing listed)is not pdf: http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introducti...
I can't believe how many people are stoked about this. If you look at https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/auth/scopes, basically apps can do a combination of a) have full control, b) read everything, c) do everything but delete emails, or d) read/write/send drafts.

Granting that level of access with no fine-grained control to 3rd party apps seems insane to me. I predict at least a couple major security incidents in the future.
I'm curious as to how you're dealing with the licensing costs, as they shut down most hopes I had. Granted, Neo4j said they had a "startup" license but due to family issues i never followed up. Still seems a bit extreme to me for the price, but I also (at the time) couldn't really compare it to much else.

And on the topic of Cayley... I'm stoked. I'll give it a try tonight. Easy to use, and graph databases, haven't really gone hand in hand for me.
You are free labor
Seems obligatory to link to "Memory part 2: CPU caches" [1] from Ulrich Drepper's "What every programmer should know about memory" [2].

1. http://lwn.net/Articles/252125/

2. http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/
Google’s “Cloud Save” lets your app or game sync across iOS and Android
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