skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big companies have ridiculous sums of cash on hand right now that they are not investing.

People keep wealth in other forms besides banks.

There is a lot of hoarding going on and it is one of the primary reasons the economy is not growing.

But the point is... as wealth concentrates, consumers lose the ability to purchase. So things grind to a halt. There has to be some mechanism to counter this trend.
http://context.io/docs/lite/users/webhooks
Massachusetts high court orders suspect to decrypt his computers
I don't get it... why not just make your account creation endpoint sleep for 10 seconds? Add a little thing for users to focus on so they don't notice the delay. All set.
Damn, should draw FSA fors RegExps.

Like this

https://www.debuggex.com/r/IC3q9sEdkKjhuLWU

And explains it like this

http://regex101.com/
It's interesting that you mention google Now , because I feel like that is the service for something like a smartwatch. Very little user interaction required, and it actually does push out useful information.

It kinda dissapoints me that there aren't more exploration into pebble-style e-ink screens. Having to charge my watch every day is annoying to say the least.

But I would like a good wearable notification viewer.
I'm one of the founders at Shot Stats and here to answer any questions.
I don't mean to exclusively blame the victim, but you can only go so far to protect a user if they won't protect themselves. I haven't read through the suggestions on the site, but it seems like this should be the primary -- as a user, you need to take care of your own safety and not rely on good development practices to protect you.
You could label it "NSA access".
Did you self-publish or work with a publisher? What were your margins like in the end?

You're right, this is not a new model per se, but it's becoming more mainstream.

What fascinates me is the power of print-on-demand because it allows anyone to easily get into the book business. If Gutenberg's invention of technology giving people access to books was a revolution, it would make sense that technology that gives people access to printing presses is also going to cause a stir.

(I keep a notebook of links to articles about the book business here spundge.com/notebook/6774/ , in case anyone is interested.)
Hah. Well, Perl isn't a bad language, it's just past its prime and being outcompeted by other languages. It had a moment where it could have remained relevant but they missed it.
I can feel your pain. If I can offer one single piece of advice, it's this: reduce scope and focus on the essentials.

Every single API changes from time to time. Managing the conflicts of multiple change schedules on interdependent subsystems quickly becomes an O(n!) problem. You will have to choose some balls to drop - because you'll drop some, and, in some cases, you should consider dropping the least important ones immediately and working under the assumption those balls are gone forever. Some can be delayed - APIs that offer legacy modes, the toolsets that don't need to be updated (and fully supported) immediately. Skipping versions may be fine and running your servers on CentOS 6, while not sexy, is workable.

This approach has kept me sane.
Excuse me. It seems like you are the one assuming "Not as bad as the Soviet Union" is good enough. My family is from an FSU country, and they would not settle for that.
Actually, I like the insane competitors. It's often useful to drive up their insanity so they burn themselves up sooner.
I agree, and I got nuked as well, but I'm still going to express my opinion. It seems to me that it's possible to come up with a creative title to draw people in without resorting to profanity. Profanity has shock value but also will turn off some people, so it's risky and possibly counter-productive.
> (very legitimate) resentment felt toward businessmen, farmers and politicians by salaried Indians

Resentment toward farmers? You gotta be kidding me. I agree with the argument that most of the illegitimate wealth get invested in India in one way or other and most of it might not be present in Swiss banks and several other things from the article, but above comment shows the author has no idea how Indian society is operating internally. I have lived both in village and in the city, I've seen salaried city/village people having many opinions/feelings for "farmers" but resentment was not one of them.
And Notepad++.
Pretty much any company outside the consumer web space has the luxury of not having to embrace every new API version.

And you don't need to necessarily use Java/C#.

I worked for years writing Python code for my government.
I couldn't image handling email without a service like this, so I've built one as my first out-of-Codecademy project. I'm kinda proud that it works!

Free to use: http://www.pfalke.com
Open source: https://github.com/pfalke/returnx
Right. The question asked is "Does the technology have substantial non-infringing use?". In the "Betamax case" [1] it was ruled that using VCR's for time shifting was fair use, even though a VCR could be used to illegally copy and distribute content. It had substantial non-infringing use. Bittorrent has substantial non-infringing use, so it is not illegal, though it also has illegal utility.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Univer....
Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, Girlfriend Arrested In FBI Takedown Of Redbook
> Unlawful assembly, for example.

I thought about that example specifically and it does not seem to fit.

Normally the problem with too many people assembling is that they they block businesses, road ways, etc. In this case each person is not doing the same thing as when N=1. Some N+1 person comes along and decides that it is ok to block a door way or a road, or can not tell that their addition adds to an egress problem if there is a fire. In the example of unlawful assembly of N>>! people are not taking the same actions as when N=1.
The Dark Side of Meditation
> looks like Windows Metro?

Superficially yes but it's really just a new coat of paint on top of a slightly revised UI. My eyes instantly glaze over looking at these screenshots because we have this boring font combined with a boring use of whitespace with little variation in text size. It's all the bad parts of Metro / Modern UI without any of the good parts.
I hope it goes the other direction - your phone, tablet, tv etc evolve into dumb screens for your watch, which will quickly if not already be powerful enough to output movies, books, apps, work etc onto your preferred display.
I actually asked the author about this, and at the very least, he plans to add the H1-H6 key commands that made me a fan of Mou:

https://twitter.com/uranusjr/status/481901582104006657

I'm impressed with the early results of this. Considering that Mou hasn't been updated in months, I'm glad to see a successor in active development.

I've tried a lot of Markdown editors, and Mou was the only one in my experience that got the keyboard commands down pat.
Just give cash. Equity entanglement is not worth it.
The offered improvement is, I guess, process Google-sized 'Big Data' without the significant issues of Hadoop style clusters. Beyond that, there's not enough details.

To give you an example, data import speed has always been an issue with Hadoop - Facebook are quite proud that they can import 320TB of data into their Hadoop clusters in a day.
Projects like Apache Spark have demonstrated the power of a more complex DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) approach that allows for more precise control over the data-processing flow, compared with the simpler execution model of M/R. All of the major Hadoop vendors are pivoting, and simultaneously adding support for Spark (which can work with the Hadoop stack, but is not part of it), while also supporting the development of one or more technologies that are trying to retrofit Hadoop into a more powerful model, such as Tez, from Hortonworks.
Right I can't seem to be able to order the NFC tag variant:

Cannot find variant (request_id: e6778ba4-1faa-41fa-96da-f666ee6c2073)
A cool thing about the past couple releases is that Eclipse is not a "forklift upgrade" any more. All you need to do is add

http://download.eclipse.org/releases/luna

to your "Available Software Sites" in your Install/Update preferences and then check for updates.
Just to you are aware, you are presenting a false dichotomy. There are plenty of languages that are both garbage collected and give you quite a bit of control about memory layout (D, Go, Rust, etc).

For example, in Go if I wanted have a slice of Foobar ([]Foobar) but wanted to have them allocated close to one another I could write:

const neededFoobars = 100
backingSlice := make([]Foobar, neededFoobars)
seqfoobarPtrs := make([]*Foobar, neededFoobars)
for i := 0; i < neededFoobars; i++ {
seqfoobarPtrs[i] = &backingSlice[i]
}
Beyond xss: Identifying Xml eXternal Entity vulnerability (XXE)
Yes, but they're CSS dependent and can often be broken on mobile clients
One downside of pixelmator (as compared to Acorn) - you can't cut/paste Excel spreadsheets and get all the nice formatting and gridlines - Acorn handles that.
I'm surprised at all the somewhat naive and pseudo-street-wise responses to what I consider a common sense stance.

Of course, I know that my child is being exposed to this kind of language in the schoolyard and in the media. She's heard me accidentally say it in earshot a few times, for Pete's sake.

I just consider it a coarse and low class way of expressing oneself. I know she'll eventually be teaching me swear words I've never even heard. I know she'll privately be speaking that way amongst her friends and peers. I know it's in literature and essays that she'll be reading.

I just find it distasteful to hear a young child speak that way, and I find it offensive to hear an adult talk that way in front of a young child. It's how I was raised, how nearly everyone in my generation was raised.

Look, if one of these kids, who thinks it's cool to put words like "Fuck" and "Bullshit" in the title of a blog or e-book, were to walk into a five star restaurant that requires fancy attire and start dropping the F-bomb, they'd be asked to leave or at a minimum generate some annoyance and disruption.

But they wouldn't speak that way in a five star restaurant, nor would they walk into a day care center and speak that way, nor would they curse in front of a neighbor's young children. Why? Because they know better. They know that society, even today, does not condone that kind of language around young children.

Many, if not most, parents would disapprove to the point of threatening with violence someone who was clueless enough to curse in front of their children. At a minimum, parents would whisk their children away and shun such a person as a clueless jerk or someone with mental problems.

If the authors of the book think they're being cute by using bullshit in the title, they're wrong. They're just resorting to a cheap trick that may trigger the "so what, that's how everyone talks" type of reaction in some, but will trigger the equally legitimate "Get that off my screen!" reaction in others.
Your turnaround on this is awesome. Down with people complaining on the delivery time. :)
Me too. I love the Ubuntu Phone approach -- one device that does it all
What lenses are you using? That seems like the crux of the matter.
Palmer Luckey's been pretty blunt about it: http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/292twe/cardboard_a_v...
Perhaps inductive charging can make this process less annoying - an inductive charge-plate on the nightstand, dump all your gadgets there without plugging anything in.
I've been wearing a watch every day for years and I have no interest in this stuff either. Honestly, I like the idea that my watch is just a stupid thing that tells me the time, having it beep at me every time I get an email would just feel like I'm being tethered to a computer even more than I am already.
I don't want it in my kindle library where she might see it.

The simplest solution is to not acquire the book.
Good news, it may not have warranted discussion in the day 1 keynote but news of Android Studio is coming on day 2

Session title: "What’s new in Android development tools", 9:00 AM

https://www.google.com/events/io/schedule/session/ac46ad42-1...
Icelandic Skyr Is Coming for Greek Yogurt
How do these articles get published/noticed? Here is the Assange leak amounts - http://bit.ly/1sGtsfk - And I do hope these people do not get away from what they did.
@alieteraz - your comments below have been extremely informative and though urdu occupies the collective conscious of all Indians through bollywood (90% of melancholic melodies are invariably in urdu), we have never given the script much thought.

I think you fought admirably with Apple, Twitter and Microsoft for getting Urdu fonts included ... but that is the wrong battleground.

The arena for you is simply the browser and mobile . All you need to do is get Nastaliq scripts adopted into Google Webfonts (free for anybody to use in their webapps) and into Android (installing a font through a Launcher theme is incredibly easy [1]. Do NOT try getting it included in the Android base)

do you think you can get together a Kickstarter to fund a nastaliq font, good enough to be usable ? and then try getting them into webfonts and android themes ?

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pete.app.apext... and http://appcrawlr.com/android-apps/best-apps-launcher-fonts
it does support search

EDIT: see https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/v1/reference/users/t... and look at the 'q' parameter
>Last week, a study by the Indian business confederation Assocham put that figure at nearly $2 trillion. Just to put this astonishing figure in context, that’s about the same as India’s gross domestic product.

Why do even educated writers compare unrelated terms? GDP is per year. That sentence is like comparing a distance of 60 miles to driving at 60mph.
$23 to ship to Australia. Just a bit too steep sorry mate.
What Jobs Do People Find Most Meaningful?
sorry we were just messing around with trying to fix the product description thing. Try going back to product page and adding to cart again and it should work.
If that's the case I disagree, even if self driving cars were flawless I would want to have signage that makes my interaction with the self driving cars obvious and obviously safe.
Wow that was quick.
Yeah, it sounds like vim just isn't your thing.
There should a dollar sign before hello, e.g.:

bash [ -z $hello ]

...or is that a bashism that I'm not aware of? If so, that's just horrible.

Personally, I prefer to write portable shell scripts. Entering "!posix test" into DuckDuckGo to obtain the man page for "test" yields far more meaningful information for the same problem.
Spot On. Most Indians are aware that - wealth stashed abroad is probably not trillions and have no illusions about what that money will do when brought to India. For many of us - it is just curiosity. There is some money definitely and more than how much - people are interested in knowing whose money it is!

I doubt though if politically connected people will ever get exposed, but my morbid curiosity continues.
yeah, sorry about that. international shipping is pretty difficult. Let me look into it and see if we can adjust that.
"and the real contribution from Google in this area was arguably GFS, not Map-Reduce"

This, a million times over. Map-reduce is not difficult to implement. Implementing a distributed, petabyte-scale filesystem to hold the data being accessed by thousands of workers is what's difficult.

It's just a shame that Hadoop (and HDFS) are what we're saddled with in the outside world. They're a total disaster area, from configuration difficulty to memory usage to speed to monitoring. But since HDFS is the only commonly used distributed FS, you're pretty much bound to Hadoop (and the rest of the horrible Apache ecosystem).

The world needs a good, stable, well-written distributed filesystem (ideally, one not written in a bloated language designed for remote controls and set-top boxes).
I like to imagine that Google Cardboard is an internal company joke at the expense of Google Glass.
If you're in Toronto / Waterloo and aim at the b2b space, please email me: sunir olark.com

We're doing another meet up of the local b2b cloud software folks next month as part of the one and only trade association.

http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com

You can ping me even if you're not in Ontario; I just happen to live in Toronto. We're globe spanning. :) We're doing events in Seattle (next week), Atlanta, Raleigh, Berlin, and Boston in the next few months.
For me there was initial confusion, but that completely went away once I found the instructions.

Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to trigger the magnetosensor on my Moto G.
Perhaps simply an info box which points to the implementation, set off from the usage results. No reason to give the results equal screen real-estate.
My boring answer... At every level you'd look at your available investment choices and try to balance a predictable return with the rate of potential growth. Hopefully as you walk up that latter, you get stepped into a more lucrative pool of choices. Likely the best things available on each rung are going to be the investments that you personally understand best.

$1 - A can and a piece of cardboard to use to beg for money

$10 - A spray bottle and rag to wash cars with

$100 - A book

$1,000 - A few classes at community college

$10,000 - A really cheap degree of some sort

$100,000 - Index funds

$1,000,000 - Rental property
GMO algae or yeast grown in tanks as a complete protein to replace the resource wasteful meat we eat so much of is a really good idea.

I expect it is the future and wish there were more work being done on it right now.
The lenses used for the Cardboard were from Durovis. Google (@ I/O) also used the Durovis Dive to demo Project Tango.
Weak passwords? Better call The Doctor
I don't follow. The lost money is an amount equal to what the whole country makes in a year. Why is that a bad comparison?
Penny In Your Pants
Sorry I mean the web version. It really is impossible to do both.

On mobile? I think it's even worse. Look up your nearest favorite chain and it zooms in on what it believes is the one you're looking for. What if it's not? There's a tiny 3 lines in the search bar that I apparently have to click to list all locations.

And anytime I snap to location? It zooms in. Really I'd love to just write the few lines of code it takes to toggle between current zoom level and default zoom level when snapping to location.

And they've stripped features. New UI is fine but at least keep old features nestled around somewhere. I used to be able to look up directions and then nestled in settings view "gas stations along the way". It's near impossible to do that now.
For some reason I've always been amused by "which [". The idea of 'punctuation' being a command or a filename is something that threw me.
> . But if you use C++11 you risk leaving VS2010 users (and below) in a situation where they can't use your code at all

And embedded developers! Don't forget us.

C++2003 if we're lucky.
TopatoCo sells books and other merchandise from webcomics artists: http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=...

Some of these, like the xkcd and the DinosaurComics books, are repackaged webcomics, some of those are 'originals' that didn't appear online before.

The publisher varies between books - the xkcd book for example was published by breadpig: http://breadpig.com/products/xkcd-volume-0
Here's how the arrangement was described last year in a Gigaom article.

"the antennas are “multitenant” which means that, when one Aereo subscriber is not using an antenna at a given time, it is available to all other subscribers."

http://gigaom.com/2013/02/06/inside-aereo-new-photos-of-the-...

So no, it's not "your" antenna any more than a weekend rental from Hertz is "your" car. Moreover, the antenna is only part of the package. The real lyncpin making the system work is - or was - Aero's proprietary transcoding setup and the equipment that handles the feed coming off the antenna, and that is definitely not run on a 1:1 basis.

I mean, the whole idea that this is a bunch of individually "leased" equipment packages that just happen to be co-located in the same facility without any meaningful overlap between each person's personal, individual feed ("just like me putting my antenna on someone else's roof!") is such complete and utter bullshit.
I find it funny that they aren't using a Chromebook and Nexus 5 and the Nexus 7 as the product examples but instead iPhone and Macbook and iPad.
I am curious to know why has this been posted on HN and why do I see it on the homepage?
The pink, it burns! Signed up :)
Luis Suarez – PacMan
That hardly helps at all. Now instead of knowing your exact password, your attacker knows that your password is one of these 10-20 entries, and it's easy to just try them all.
In Waterloo I think it's possible with a seed fund that puts in 100-150k at 2 to 3M valuations before the good ones get picked up by YC.

A lot of Canadians move down to the states anyway because developer salaries are like 2-3x higher.
DoorDash Turns 1
So it would be ok to by the equipment, then occasionally pay for repair when it breaks? What is the dividing line that would make buying and paying for repairs ok, but not renting?
Actually you can have a graph database in postgres as well! Look into queries using "WITH RECURSIVE", and you can do pretty much anything a graph database could do. From the specific use case I had, there was actually no difference in performance between neo4j and postgres. I really enjoyed using cypher, and it was a pain to translate a query written in a graph-specific query language to a postgres equivalent with "WITH RECURSIVE", but because postgres was already a part of the stack I stuck with it.
It looks nice. However, my biggest complain is that it's playing too safe. So that it feels more like a style guide than a vision.

E.g. When the style guide talks about mass and force in animation, I was expecting something much more than some recommendations on tweening. In many cases, it feels like a shallow reference to the physical / material, not quite the meaningful "metaphor" that it aspires to be.

Polymer, on the other hand, is pretty awesome.
You must learn to ignore!

Apple Swift? lol. You can still write god awful Obj-C for years to come.
Can we go back to the ' Chicken Little sky is Falling ' meme of Zero Hedge ,it helps me when I feel like externalizing my pain and insecurities .
I'm always finding another bash magic variable. '$?' is 'exit code of last command'. Last week I found '$-', which tells you which flags are currently set (set -x, set -e type of thing).
so why do we need that? there are a lot of origami examples, but this one from google, and you all start to bustle.
Most likely we will use a laser cutter but if we get enough orders we will have them diecut.

Also a cutting plotter would dull very quickly cutting through corrugated so edges would not be as clean.
Ask HN: Is Internet as Tower of Babel a useful metaphor?
On 2012-12-21, Gangnam Style reached 1,000,000,000. A big odometer ticked over. An apocalypse is the dawn of a new age. Aquarius is a water-bearer. Tubes. The apocalypse was the transition from analog to digital. Back when all the people spoke the same language and were building a city with a tower to heaven, God came down and said "Now that this they begin to do, nothing will be kept from them." In 2014, billions of people and machines speak XML. That number has never been approached before, and our current interconnection system is vastly more powerful than anything that preceded it.