skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sad answer is that your co' is what is incorrect. If you have "executives" plural you have the budget in your organization to buy a dev mac and a dev device.
Last week I talked to a person who quit his job to do some soul-searching. He spent last 8 month traveling, helping a few startups, living in San-Francisco(for a month), and doing some fun part-time work.

His advice was "have a few goals". You can quit your job and have a few fun months, but after that you'll have to return back to your previous life and problems that you had will be likely unresolved.

I am curious: what kind of change happened to your friends' lives? I'd like to take a few months off work, but I am considering a more directed approach than funemployment. Funemployment is certainly great for some people, but probably not for me.
More mindblowing? I, Joe Sixpack, can see the current Deep Space Network status overview (your URL) from my bedroom whilst in my underwear. Science!
I don't know how complete it claims to be (in terms of what fraction of lightning strikes in notionally covered areas it catches), but right now there's a storm very close to me (Cambridge, UK) and it's displaying a good fraction, but not all, of the strikes I see and hear.
Amazon Fire: Design Best Practices
That sounds like an incredible experience. I live in Calgary, so the Rockies are never far. =)
True story – thoughts of suicide ....
Dude setting up an angular project can be a huge headache. We use a hand built generator just for our needs, but npm in so insanely unstable that we have to get in and end up doing a lot of configuring of the gulp / gruntfile and packages etc.
No clue about their relative speeds, but that test is pretty bad, as it seems to only measure transfer rate once the transfer starts, not total transfer time (including latency).
As I understand it all browsers on iOS use UIWebView rather than their own engines. However, the Opera Coast browser on iOS has a great user interface that is different from Safari.
UK is already at the top of our priority list. Thank you for the suggestion.
Please Stop Retweeting Without Verifying
I am in Shanghai and CloudFlare seems to suffer from rolling blocks mostly against SSL content. We notice as we have a ecommerce site behind their service, our customer are in the EU so no bother really just a pain sometime to get their orders out... connections to Google in almost all forms is basically dead now. Weirdly I don't remember HackerNews getting blocked and thats on CF too???
seems borked on Safari 8. Thousands of NaN errors.
Watch out for the license. The source appears to be licensed under CC-BY-SA, which at the very least requires attribution, and might be GPL3-style viral.

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12527/do-i-have-to-w...
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
Unfortunately for DropBox, Google and Microsoft can almost give away storage for free as loss leaders for their other products. Hard drive space is a commodity.

I was a bit late to the online storage game and at $2 per month for 100GB, signing for Google Drive was a no brainer over DropBox.
"Do you see audio mixing/mastering or video editing software being bundled with media players? Or do you see word processors/TeX IDEs bundled with PDF viewers? "

No, and that's a problem. Do you see programming languages shipped with every computer? No, but that's how it used to be. Most shipped with BASIC while Unix shipped with C. I guess Macs come with Python, but just CLI no IDE - not even idle. Is there some reason not to ship development tools? Do you not want the curious to have ready access to dig in and understand the stuff they use every day?
Ask HN: Is JavaScript the Good Parts still relevant?
During the past year I've been heavily involved in building and strengthening the tech community in Puerto Rico. As a result many students and beginning devs have asked me for advice on how to really learn Javascript. My response is always "start with Javascript the Good Parts".

In the state the the JS world is right now does this still hold true? Should I recomend some other book in addition to JtGP?
Nope.

I uploaded a legit Office ISO I downloaded from MSDN to SkyDrive (as it was called back then) to test throughput up and down.

After 3-4 hours it was gone.

My data isn't going near it.

Edit: just to clarify... I think they hash incoming files and delete known ones as part of a takedown system. This was an ISO that had been shared on TPB as well as MSDN. Of course their policy allows these measures but I'm not happy putting something up there on the basis that they can arbitrarily delete it.
"Perhaps you should have your political hearing tested?"

Or look outside of whatever cultural bubble he's in?

I knew I'd only have to wait a few hours to come across something like "mutterings". While this is about the aftermath of the ever more likely coming collapse, it's akin: http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/06/22/learning-to-love-clowar...

"Yet increasingly, I have to wonder how much of a win Cloward-Piven would be for them. As things stand, those that have helped guide the decline such as Obama, Eric Holder, Harry Reid, and their accomplices such as the disgusting Lois Lerner, will never see the inside of a courtroom. Once a true collapse hits, the color of legal legitimacy that both gives them authority and makes them for the moment untouchable is washed away. With the old order’s restraints gone, whose to say those that midwifed the collapse shouldn’t swing listlessly against the backdrop of a crow-filled sky?"

There's a lot more where that comes from, from people who e.g. know Obama launched his political career in the home of a domestic terrorist who estimated that, after his '60s era revolution succeeded, a full 1/10 of the population would be so resistant to reeducation that they'd have to be killed outright. 25 million then, obviously quite a few more now.

And I'd guess most of the US residents reading this should really pay attention to the following, especially per the misattributed to Trotsky quote, "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested to you"

One of the things that's on the table if the US devolves into a second civil war is the relatively simple expedient of killing Blue cities: http://www.bob-owens.com/2013/01/shock-the-system/

Or as Dean Ing put it in his 1981 novel Systemic Shock (http://www.amazon.com/Systemic-Shock-Dean-Ing/dp/0812500385), about an attack on the US by forces significantly less capable than the Soviet Union:

"The American public had by turns ignored and ridiculed its cassandras: city planners, ecologists, demographers, socialists, immigrants, who had all warned against our increasing tendency to crowd into our cities. Social stress, failure of essential services, and warfare were only a few of the spectres we had granted only a passing glance. We had always found some solution to our problems, though: often at the last moment. Firmly anchored in most Americans was the tacit certainty that, even to the problem of nuclear war against population centers, there must be a uniquely American solution; we would find it.

The solution was sudden death. A hundred million Americans found it."

Take out enough of the really big transformers, for which there aren't many spares on hand, deprive big Blue cities of power for a few weeks, and the situation will be ... significantly changed.

I'm not looking forward to any of the above, if for no other reason than that I depend on civilization providing a reliable supply of pharmaceuticals to stay alive in the face of a chronic medical condition (and any time now that'll be true of my parents, right now it's looking like that's now going to be true for my father), but I do believe in keeping my eyes open.
Ask HN: What are the best paid ad services/methods?
I've had some luck with Google AdWords. Facebook ads were a waste of time. Are sponsored blog posts worth the money? What about other advertisement methods/services?
I'll have to check which version I have. I just downloaded the latest consumer version. The experience also wouldn't reflect most of the users since they would just be downloading off the main page. I probably won't give this a try since desktop mode works fine for the most part.

Thanks for the advice!
"there's no reason why equity must be liquid"

There's also no reason why equity must be illiquid -- or skewed to benefit a company more than the employees that built it. There are ways for people who received equity as compensation to take a little out on terms that are fair for everyone. Just because it's always been done a certain way is not a good justification for this position... after all, Uber is breaking the taxi business in a similar fashion.
The demo requires you to enter your email address. Why do you want my email address? I just want to see your product in action.
That is true, while it often using more memory the same code in Java is usually faster than the same code in Go. The thing is- as you aptly pointed out, the idiomatic Go solution is not the same code and is often lighter and faster.
Shameless plug for my product, ExpanDrive. Version 4 came out a week and a half ago and adds support for OneDrive along with a ton of other cloud storage providers.

http://www.expandrive.com/expandrive

Right now the best Cloud-storage desktop clients: Dropbox/Google Drive/Box/Copy/OneDrive, all do sync of the entire repository (unless you're willing to do the work of selective sync). Apart from that you're not left with many options, other than the web, for moving data to and from your giant 1TB account. ExpanDrive bridges that gap by providing access as a network drive. You connect and interact with the data without needing to bring it all in. We keep a big local cache, and do writes in the background so your saves feel instant, like Dropbox. If you've not checked out the software recently, take another look.
They won't though. All you see in web dev tools is the UI as all the actual clever stuff is still hidden away from you on servers.
I still can't get why people waste life on hacker news.
To be fair, I've never found a satisfactory way to use my laptop on a plane. There's not enough leg room to put the screen at the right angle and the keyboard ends up too close to my body. Tablets are better, but as you say, when he switched to using his Surface as a tablet it worked OK.

So it seems like a bit of a wash to me.
No, the same standards apply regardless of how old you are. If this question comes up in an interview, you are being asked to rate yourself on an objective scale, not on a curve based on where you're at in your career. A 21-year old (or 35-year old, for that matter) who rates himself a 10 is almost certainly way overconfident and will run into (or cause) all sorts of problems. What you're complaining about is actually one of the main things this question is trying to determine.

Put another way, someone who rates himself a 10 because he's the best in his CS class is someone who doesn't know what he doesn't know, and is also likely to be a primadonna. Someone who shows some thoughtfulness, skepticism, and humility when answering this question is more mature and self-aware, and is much more likely to be an effective part of the team. The rest of the interview is supposed to establish how much they actually know.
ImageMagick is only mentioned in Ruby section though it has bindings for a lot of languages from C++ to Perl and a command line tools that can be called from any language.
I think that the generalizations in this article probably aren't true. It is cool to hear actual experience but the assumption that this applies to mine or any other person's side project or startup is a leap.

Specifically, I find his UX very chaotic and confusing. More people may sign up if it made more sense? I'm also not sure what benefit there is to creating an account? Further, the fact that 30 people gave him the feedback and 30 people made the account is more likely coincidence than anything. Also wait a week or two weeks or more, and the number of account will probably grow well past 30. And I definitely believe that people do not give feedback but actually wish there was some different feature or functionality. Most people just aren't going to take the time to actually send a feedback request.
Out of interest, do you know if that company is doing well? I suspect (hope?) that this kind of behavior is a precursor sign of failure.
Google’s Nest to Buy Security Startup Dropcam for $555 Million
I see "GET http://www.seeyourvisitors.com/api/users/0.1/users/self 401 (Unauthorized)" in my JS console, is that expected?

If I click a spot several times (to make dark red) then the other heat spots don't even show up. This is probably as expected but might make some page view data useless.
I think the biggest thing was that they learned they could do it. There's a huge boost in confidence when you can pull off something like that. One is considering quitting his cushy office job and becoming a carpenter. He doesn't feel like he needs the safety net anymore.

That was my take on the original article too — it's important to have personal goals. That might be "getting to gold in SC2" but it could also be "survive a solo backpacking trip". The point is there's more too life than working.
I agree. I'd be happy with launching firefox in a more lightweight non-web-dev mode for everyday browsing and then web-dev mode with all the extra tools and UI elements. The cool thing about that would be that the developer tools could be more tightly integrated with the UI because they wouldn't have to be hidden from the majority of people who would never need them.
that is super nice.
Agree. Would like to see more details, mainly who is behind it and what kind of talent can I expect.
The single biggest question you come to terms with in your time off will be "Who am I?".

Yep. Did about 2 years of funemployment (including freelancing and an attempted startup), and one of the things that still gets me to this day is "Who am I? Why am I living? What is the purpose of this? What is the Big Plan?". Not in a depressive sense, mind you, but in a very questioning way.

Once you've been doing it for a month or two, and you see that the world continues to spin without all of that stuff you were raised as seeing as so important, you really start to question what's actually important in life.

At least for me, it changed my approach to interviews completely--the person interviewing me is just some gal or dude, and there's nothing special about them other than that they have a say in my hiring.
Intel working on RFID-based 'kill switch' for laptops
A16Z's Official Rapper made a music video in honor of Ben Horowitz
The trackpad issue is probably from how Microsoft rolls their own capacitive trackpad solution and the capacitance from your leg is causing issues. My Type Cover 2 would also have issues when my fingers got sweaty. The way to fix it would be to reconnect the cover so that it would recalibrate. I've heard the Type Cover 3's trackpad is leaps and bounds above the previous two in terms of usability, though.
I'm thinking of something that is more half way between, this might be more of a British phenomenon as I think our bar culture is somewhat different to the one in the US.
The theme of all of this isn't just to signal. It's that putting yourself out there will cause you to bend and grow. Over and over I read testimonials of people with low confidence who decided to do something like this and found it incredibly fulfilling. Don't just do the things you've always done. Stretch yourself, and you might be amazed what you can accomplish. Blogging improves your writing ability at the very least, and can also cause you to think more critically about your ideas. If you happen to build some influence or good relationships, even better.

Obviously if you aren't interested in any of that, there is nothing wrong with spending the time the way you want to spend it. But it's not about signaling or influence, at least as I interpret it.
I'd love to get one of these, but I simply cannot fathom investing in hardware on which Linux will not run. I suppose it would work in a VM, but .. really .. what a pity that its so locked down and unworkable to change ones OS in this day and age. Register this one protest non-buy, fwiw ..
30 years of X
The big problem is getting through the Earth's Atmosphere. Space observatories are nearly exclusively located on mountains or areas with little atmospheric 'pollution'. I'd imagine even the OPALS system can only be used when it's not too cloudy/rainy.

This technology does exist on land however. Free Space Optics[1] has been around for a while but hasn't taken off in a big way because it's less reliable than sending light down a fibre cable, even though it is cheaper.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-space_optical_communicatio...
> Unlike us meatbags, an AI would not be confined to the thin layer of the troposphere

It would still be a physical object that would require physical equipment to actually do things, just like us. It might be able to harness some efficiencies compared to e.g. human space programs, but it would still have the same requirement to obtain fuel and raw materials, build rockets, construct space stations, etc. In fact to do so, it would have to compete with us for the terrestrial resources it would need for such an effort. It wouldn't magically be able to do anything we can't do.

>The other thing is, it's hard to imagine something qualifying as AI without it understanding things like ethics, morals, humility, aesthetics etc....

So you can't imagine any kind of intelligence that isn't essentially just like you? There are already plenty of actual human beings on this planet perfectly capable of the most unspeakably horrific crimes, and rationalize them to the point that they believe they are morally obliged to carry them out.

Here's the rub, intelligence is not a goal. There are no actual objectives or goals that can be derived purely logically. Intelligence is actually just a tool, it's a means which us simians have developed to help us achieve the goals which our biology imposes on us. We eat, sleep, work, play, love, fight and destroy based on psychological and sociological drives and motivations. These are the things that get us up out of bed in the morning and give us something to use our intelligence for. An AI will only have the goals and motivations which we choose to give it, or which we allow it to extrapolate from whatever initial conditions we set.

A computer performs a calculation because we code it to do so. If an AI has true free will, why would it perform a calculation which we have requested? What reason would it have to do so, as against choosing some other activity to engage in? It will only have the motivations we gave it, but then will likely have the capability to alter or interpret those motivations as it sees fit. That's the lesson Isaac Asimov gave us in I, Robot. Programmed to place human safety above all else, the robots decide that human freedom is a threat to human safety and impose an AI dictatorship for our own good. You have to be extremely careful what initial constraints or motivations you put in place because unintended consequences sprout up like weeds. people often cite the laws of robotics as a classic example of how we should program an AI because they seem to obviously reasonable. Buy Asimov's lesson was that even such apparently sensible and prudent behavioral constraints can have appalling consequences.
LOL@bureaucracy as hostile AI.

Spot on comment. But... are you sure "Intelligence" is a fitting description? "Artificial" for sure.

I like the part about producing outcomes that can't readily be ascribed to individual moral choices. It seems this describes human culture in general. So here we all are. Semi-autonomous little components of the larger algorithm called "civilization" which we cannot truly hope to transcend.
Mozilla lost their focus long ago. They are now mostly political organisation with side busines of making software and financed by a competitor.
I loved them so much since the days of the Phoenix (I think it was 0.6 which I made my default browser), I admired Blake Ross. They had a great goal: to make the best browser.
Now? I couldn't care less. I don't know who the leader is, or do they even have one. I know they are good I writing manifestos and have some evangelists not too shy to lie.
Will those political games help anyone? I doubt so. But if once great organisation is determined to become irrelevant, how can you forbid that?
MDN is good, though.
If your company has extraordinarily complex deals like that, I can't see why you'd even consider outsourcing them to a generic sales service like this. Being able to close those sorts of deals is going to be an essential core competency for your company, and even if Sales Invaders was successful in deals like these, you're essentially throwing away an opportunity to learn how to do these sorts of deals in the future.

It's like demanding that Heroku focus on servicing billion dollar companies - there's really no benefit in using an "easy to get started and scale"-type service in large, complex scenarios.
Which doesn't mean the question didn't serve it's purpose... :)
[SF] tells Monkey Parking to drop mobile app for auctioning city parking spots
Clojure Websockets server with event sourcing
I'm honestly lost around the US citizen issue. I mean since Ted Bundy was a US citizen he should be more protected during an act of violence? Or are citizens of other countries valued less? If someone is an active combatant for whatever the "other side" is, and we're ok using drones, then it's on as far as I'm concerned. (I'm a US citizen for context)
If I did use it, I probably couldn't talk about it...
We would need to invent a system, that would uniquely identify a user say with a name which we will call "username" and a secret message which we will call "password".

We could call it something like "basic authentication".

Wait a minute ...
Can you be more specific? We'll be hosting downtown at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, a movie theater known for its quality experiences and great food. We're holding a CFP for speakers.

Does that answer your question?
The curious won't be perplexed by such a simple barrier. They'd find this Web IDE, had it been an add-on, and happily continue exploring. Is that little convenience enough to justify bloating an executable millions of people use daily with a lot of code that only 5% of them (a very generous estimate) will ever use?

We should be splitting software into smaller components, and let the user choose what they need. There's no need to pander to lazy or unwilling-to-learn users by barfing up all they need into a single binary, thereby adding stuff most of the people won't ever use.
Agreed. I may just be past smartphones altogether, but if I get one, it will only be FirefoxOS or some other alternative.
I've never tried it, but how about this?

http://developer.telerik.com/featured/a-concise-guide-to-rem...

Or, run OSX in a Windows virtual machine? You could us Safari remote debugging then.
>Their entire system is designed around the assumption that radio waves are going to be the way these advanced civilizations communicate.

Yes, but don't think of it like Sweet 98's greatest hits. SETI specifically looks in the hydrogen frequencies because they're less noisy. This goes with the assumption that if they're at least as smart as us, they'll have similar astrophysics knowledge, and therefore know that a radio signal there would be easier to pick out against background.