skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How Can Chromecast Connect To Your Friend’s Phones Without Using WiFi?
In the case of the tax software there's a big question I have:

Do you have a rules engine already or not?

If you're hodge-podging it all together and all the rules are implicitly defined by the code as it exists you're in a bad spot. Knowing that the rules will change every year your goal isn't to grind out this year's changes really hard for six months (and then even harder for another moth to change the final changes) and then slack off for five months.

Instead you should implement a system such that the specifics of the changes are captured in the rules. Once the new drafts come out you need to look for what all the possible new rule categories are, what additional data needs to be captured, etc. But then once things are finalized it's a matter of tweaking the rules slightly to capture the final wording of the bill.

This may not be something that applies to you, though. What area do you work in? How does the debt pile up without choices being made?
http://go-here.nl/game/PlanetArray.html

Forget about the CS degree. This will teach you how incredibly slow a coder you really are and let you upgrade to Starcraft like apm. Additional version can be made in almost unlimited variation.
Every GPS unit sold in South Korea already come with a database of every speed camera in the country, and the database can be easily updated every few weeks. Connecting this to the speed controller is only the logical next step. I'm actually surprised that it took Hyundai so long to connect the dots.

I don't know about the US and UK, but whenever the Korean police installs a speed camera, they put up a clear warning sign 500-1000m before the camera. There is absolutely no secret or surprise about the location of a speed trap, and the police apparently doesn't care to catch drivers by surprise, either. Someone probably figured out that drivers tend to slow down when they see the warning sign, and do so gradually instead of suddenly since the actual camera is still a quarter mile away. In other words, transparency about the location of speed traps actually increases road safety, even though it probably reduces police revenue.
The military and government in general makes extensive use of contractors for specialized tasks, but manages to audit and limit their behaviors to the degree that they're performing work on behalf of the government, recognizing that contracting out government work doesn't make it not government work.

How are these any different?

Even if they are contractors for specialized policing (something I find dubious, but am not sure is actually a bad idea), why wouldn't they still be subject to regulation as government employees while performing government work?
LINE on Firefox OS
Agreed, insurance premium hikes are big compared to the fine. It's usually cheaper to hire a lawyer...though that also costs more than the fine.
This was a good article.

But, I might point out, relationships are one thing, marriage is another. The article started with one topic and then wandered off into the other. I highly doubt people stayed together 70 years ago because they paid more attention to each other. I think it was just socially and economically harder to divorce.

In addition, the recommendations are good, however it takes two people to follow them. Having had a number of short term and long term girlfriends (the current one for over 8 years, she may be the last, who knows....), I have found there is such a thing as an attention vampire. People who have no respect for your space or focus. People who think your entire existence is to pay attention to them. And, I have found that there is no satisfying these people and they will move right on to someone else as you inevitabley become exhausted. So, I would speculate, in addition to the excellent points in the article, that successful couples have reasonable, respectful, and most importantly, compatible attention requirements.

Also, paradoxically, I found that paying too much attention to __some__ people causes them to place less value on your attention. When they no longer value your attention, they lose respect, and this causes a downhill slide in the relationship as well. The article is, I believe, written from a female point of view (can I say that? does it make me a bad sexist person?). It is a valuable and beautiful point of view. But like most things in life, balance and measure comes into play, and failing to recognize this leads to disaster as surely as ignoring your partners needs does.

Just my thoughts. I didn't do a study.
This is not surprising. Once women have about 10 sex partners or so, they feel they simply don't "need" a man. Any man who dates her after that will get half-assed relationship efforts and increased entitlement. She knows how easy it is to get sex that will at least validate her.
Mexico tried giving poor people cash instead of food. It worked.
Then you are not raising enough :)
Boring pr that ignores the elephant in the room, NSA and other intelligence agencies undoubtably have super user access. They probably even have agents that work at Facebook to ensure they don't lose that access.
Manuel Navia[0] would likely disagree. To an extent, at least.

The fleet-footed companies you talk about, generate at best, lead compounds. Turning those leads to INDs (investigational new drugs) and then actual "medicine" is totally controlled by the FDA and is a multi-year, multi-million dollar endeavor, that is well beyond the ken of the fleet-footed operators. Many of these drug candidates fail late in the game, after 5-10 years of human trials, sinking the investment of time and effort with them. Meanwhile the patent clock is running and a drug that hits the market has far less than the 20 year patent term to recoup the costs and generate revenue to discover and groom the next life saving drug.

[0]http://www.oxbio.com/mnavia.html
Something that gives a counter opinion to group think is never appreciated. Better we all sit around and stroke our egos, with every statement implying how magnificent we are and at the same time implying how everyone else is churning out debt filled shit.
That was meant as a point point about supporting IE8. Any recent library should just works on mobiles, but very few work on IE8. That is perfectly understandable, and justifiable, but it's also frustrating because the shiny is just out of reach for many enterprise-focused products who have to be compatible with IE8 for another year or two.
This is actually the only way to do integer arithmetic in Javascript (without the array types introduced by WebGL). It's how asm.js signals integer math as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asm.js#Examples
Phoenix is the Wild West. There is very little regulation or oversight, generally.
The causal ordering defined in the paper is stronger than that. It says that if process P performs event A and later sends a message to process Q, then any event that occurs in Q after Q receives the message causally follows A. I don't think the blog post was meant to imply that the order of events within a single process does not need to be respected, though it doesn't specifically distinguish the single process case.
Yes, never dismiss it. In fact a lot of the time over-engineering is just another form of technical debt, but it also has an upfront cost as well. At least the under engineered solution is cheap up front.

I would much rather come across something under engineered than over engineered.
What an amazing story. Best read of the entire week. It's 20 minutes well spent.

A look at their website (and the profiles they're hiring for) gives a clear idea of where she is going. You don't need iOS/Android developers, or ASIC/FPGA designers, or hardware and mechanical engineers, to support Walgreen's Wellness centers.

She's clearly going after the last mile. Blood tests for the masses. In your phone. No need for prescriptions, or visits to Walgreens.

This is way bigger than a $90 billion dollars blood test industry.
Black people with similar economic backgrounds get longer sentences. The longer your in prison the more likely you are to go back AND the more likely close relatives will end up in prison.
Please explain how potential harm from entities you voluntarily engage with is in any way comparable to the harm of a single entity that can ruin or end your life on a whim regardless.
Washington Post has a very bad mobile experience. How am I supposed to read this?
http://imgur.com/DyePAYJ
From that I remember that is a bit of an over-simplification of the situation somewhat but I cannot really find a good source of events.
Eh, I use a large number of the top plugins in the OP, but I've never had any trouble dropping back to "vanilla" vi/m in ssh shells or whatever. It's just a matter of convenience; there's nothing there that's so totally transformational that you won't be able to use vim without it.
My personal opinions on templates, for Javascript and other languages are:

* Use something that is HTML-aware instead of something that treats HTML as text. Even if you have the template engine still spit out HTML strings in the end its going to be able to escape user data in a context-aware manner and get rid of useless whitespace.

* Logic in templates is fine and separation of concerns between view and model does not have to mean using different languages for them. My impression is that most "logic-less" templates eventually reinvent broken versions of variables, loops, conditionals and subroutines so I would rather use a real language from the start. An example I like is giving different classes to odd and even rows in a table. The solution is obvious if you use regular loops but can be quite tricky in many template engines.
I used to run without any google play services and running pure aosp.
I stopped because Android is just so much better with google and fuck it, who cares about me any ways. Not to mention compiling aosp is a pain.

Like seriously, no swyping in aosp keyboard? so i install google keyboard, then i might as well have everything. one piece of proprietary software from google, might as well go all the way.

Though i still get most of my apps from f-droid and will use an open source alternative if its as good or better. example: i prefer cyanogenmod gallery to google+ and vlc to google music, poweramp
Please Calculate This Circle’s Circumference
I wonder about visualizing the algorithms that visualize the algorithms. Being serious and curious here.
You don't voluntarily engage with police or prisons whether they are government run or private corporations.
It really doesn't, in that it doesn't actually build an argument of any sort.
Why not even exercise will undo the harm of sitting all day
How not to promote a language: hide almost all examples of source code for the language behind at least two clicks in PDFs. I was finally able to find an example of defining a variable after visiting the Tutorials page and reading through the first two and a half powerpoints, the first two not containing a single line of Chapel code.

Seriously, if I need to spend ten minutes just to find out what the language looks like where an example is somewhere between the extremes of the ten lines of code in the "quick reference" chart and the 313-page formal language definition, I'm probably not going to dive into the setup process to get the thing running when I can just go learn Rust or whatever.

https://twitter.com/MozElevator/status/368467593805328384

To someone on this project: you'll get a heck of a lot more community behind your code if you have at least one or more pages that look like the following:

http://dlang.org/comparison.html
http://coffeescript.org/#overview
https://www.python.org/doc/
http://doc.rust-lang.org/tutorial.html#syntax-basics
http://learnyouahaskell.com/starting-out
http://tour.golang.org/#1
http://www.scala-lang.org/documentation/getting-started.html
http://clojure.org/getting_started
http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php
Well not for actual code, but how about a medal for repairing a database?

It was 1984. I was stationed at Babenahusen, Germany - Field Artillery. Yes, I was a 13 Bang Bang (13B). At that time, I was the only one to have a PC in the barracks. I used to stretch a phone code to the wall phone in the next building and dial up BBS's.

Anyway, I ended up working on the brigade's Wang System. I got there cause the S2 saw me hacking away on my Commodore one night and thought I was perfect for the job. Next week I was reassigned. Classic for the Army.

The PBO (Property Book Officer) did something, I never found out what - but the system crashed. Many of the personal records were stored in that system (and on 8" Disc's - remember those?). And it was my job to fix it.

I had completed Wang's various training courses so I was familiar with the system. But I had no clue how to even figure out what happened. I ended up calling Wang in NYC. And over the phone their engineers and I got the system back up. It took almost 2 days. And I got at most an hour of sleep.

I got an Army Commendation Medal out of it.
What's best payment gateway for startup?
For my startup, I'm looking for payment gateway. what would be ideal gateway for every transaction between $8 - $10 and monthly volume of $100K? Also which should be scalable..
Citation re IRS treatment of LLC? Afaik this s not true.
Amazon 'Bullying' UK Publishers
If it's any solace, we're not going out without taking you with us!
Debunking the LZ4 "20 years old bug" myth
It seems notable that trying to run a modern computer without Google is about as quixotic as was trying to run a '90s-era computer without Microsoft.
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But the landing page doesn't say much as well. The first section is "Why?," and the only "what" is "Ampersand.js is a well-defined approach to combining (get it?) a series of intentionally tiny modules."

I don't know what that means, and the reasons for it are "simplicity of tiny modules and npm dependency," which are not exactly convincing by itself, as I can do that just fine with plain Browserify. Then, going to the "Learn" page I get my hands busy.. with something I know nothing about.

This is heavily marketed towards Backbone users, I'm guessing.
> I don't know about the US and UK, but whenever the Korean police installs a speed camera, they put up a clear warning sign 500-1000m before the camera. There is absolutely no secret or surprise about the location of a speed trap, and the police apparently doesn't care, either.

Of course they care. That's why the sign is there.

The objective of a speed trap is to make drivers slow down, not punish them. If it's hidden and the driver does get ticked it means it failed at it's goal because you had a speeding car on the road anyway.
There are other (non-google) swipe keyboards.
Do you have a reference to this? I've heard this argument before, but haven't been able to find any hard stats.
It's a good article. Those who prefer to have their phones disconnected
from Google for whatever reason at least have some options to limit
exposure, but unfortunately, preventing the mobile web browser in the
phone from leaking information like location, history, and habits to
Google (and plenty of others) is going to be really tough.

Also, the article glossed over an important issue; the need to use
closed-source proprietary binary blob drivers to make the hardware
usable. With drivers running in kernel space, the potential damage of an
intentionally or unintentionally bad driver is pretty much unlimited.

The most problematic drivers are usually the graphics drivers due to
complexity and their impact on both system and battery performance.
Since the companies making the graphics chips (well, they're often just
graphics cores within the main processor IC rather than separate chips)
like nVidia, Qualcomm, Arm Inc (mali), and Broadcom (to a lesser degree
lately) refuse to release the documentation necessary for open source
hackers to write drivers, tons of unnecessary effort is wasted in
attempts to reverse engineer the binary blob drivers so open source
drivers can be written.

There are quite a few efforts under way to produce open source drivers
for various graphics "chips" on various types of ARM systems. Here are a
few links I've collected:

http://freedreno.github.io/

http://bloggingthemonkey.blogspot.com/

http://limadriver.org/

https://gitorious.org/lima

https://github.com/grate-driver/grate/wiki

https://github.com/laanwj/etna_viv/wiki

http://www.raspberrypi.org/a-birthday-present-from-broadcom/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7320828

I haven't seen anyone succeed in making a fully open source blob-free
phone yet, but people are working towards that goal.

Unfortunately, even if open source devs eventually solve all of the blob
driver (and chip documentation!) problems, there will still be an
unknown, untested, and unaudited chunk of code running on phones that
cannot be legally altered; it's the baseband processor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseband_processor

Since the baseband processor controls the radio(s), it's actually
against the law (FCC in the US) to modify the broadcast/receive
power levels or frequencies. As such, each baseband processor has
to be tested and certified by the FCC, and any change means it has
to be tested and recertified again.
Then these signs would be all over the states, and cops would be putting up signs around their speed traps.
Making video editing (even just the basics of it) even somewhat simple is a challenging problem. Props to you guys!
Mozilla takes the Web 3D with Oculus Rift VR experiment
I'm a little surprised that so many people deliberately mangle URLs to see if there's anything listening on :443, myself. I might just pull SSL off the other domain on IPv4, and put it on a separate IPv6 address...
Shit. Hadn't thought about that.
Oral-History:Claude E. Shannon – GHN: IEEE Global History Network
optimize social profiles.
Contour http://forio.com/contour/
Anything that includes a trademark (like info-secure-apple.com) or "risky" term (like atlanta-usbank.com) typically ends up getting manually verified, even for domain-validated certs. Not saying that plenty of dodgy stuff doesn't slip through the cracks, but it isn't quite a wild-west free-for-all...
Since there's been so much arguing back and forth about this patent and its legitimacy and what it says about the state of the US patent system, I thought it might be a little useful to post a link to the patent in question:

https://www.google.com/patents/WO2005025413A3?cl=en&dq=ininv...

Here's a search of all the patents with Holmes as an inventor:
https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&q=ininvent...

I hope this helps ground the discussion in fact to some extent.
How to create super-targeted ads for app installs with Facebook
Paul E. Ceruzzi's A History of Modern Computing does a good job of filling in the story, as Bricklin wishes here that someone would do. It is especially good on the 1950's, 60's, and 70's, and the origins and legacy of DEC (Digital) and other companies and people that loomed large at the time, and were influential in creating our present world, but are not so well remembered nowadays.
This is really informative post for separating Android from Google, to the maximum extent for conscientious people. Location, contacts, wifi access points getting shared with Google very much annoys me. But I was even more peeved of Android when there was no way to store contacts locally. No option to store on the phone, but instead you had to save to google account. I am not doing that. So I went the whole hog and installed CyanogenMod and Xprivacy module (the least I could do). And also disabled Google contacts sync (this enables local storage, did not try it on stock android). So I am annoyed that Google is so invasive in gathering data, but also relish such a beautifully designed OS and the flexibility it provides. And also, appreciate the hard work of developers. Android makes so much possible.
"The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz" Released
The multiple device synchronized recording is really awesome.
Color me impressed. I do wonder if there's any way to reliably influence the pattern of the mutations. On the surface, with the differences in thread-scheduling patterns, I'd say it seems like a meaningful improvement on the randomness of the system PRNG.

If you have a sufficiently well-developed model of thread-scheduling patterns, then the randomness reduces in quality to that of the system's PRNG. But thread-scheduling is a serious pain, so this seems promising.
I keep looking for a lighterweight alternative to OwnCloud for Calendar/Contacts.

I really want to switchover to a proper CardDav/CalDav setup that actually supports "Tasks" in my calendar, exactly how Google doesn't and continually fails to.
To be honest, I'm not sure why this is such an issue. Any sane student would recall the relation that

PI = 2 * Math.atan2(1,0);

The exercise listed in this link is one of futility, and also one of gross oversight. Using the above will give you the appropriate type (float or double, whichever you define PI to be) and will give you the best precision available on any given machine (though really, the machine precision issue is something that is somewhat agnostic towards language).
Blender 2.71 is out
Almost all the features you need to buy as a reasonably priced add-on but the in-app demo lets you try them all out and they work really nicely.

Being a video editor myself, they did a pretty awesome job at making the simple actions pretty intuitive.

I'm just curious to what the output resolution is.
Most areas with speed cameras (local) drivers already know where they are and cause a dangerous sudden braking condition anyway. I do fear that all the automatic nanny's are making people MORE likely to Facebook while driving their 4000lbs death machines though.
> "Northwest Regional SWAT" just sounds less scary than NEMLEC.

Wrong. It all sounds like a militarized police force with little to no responsibility. For example, the SWAT launched a flash bang grenade in the crib of a 2 year old. But you know, the SWAT response was a botchet attempt at finding a non-violent drug crime.

The kid still has a hole in his body that hasn't healed. And they are unsure of brain damage. It's likely though.

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/24/a_swat_team_blew_a_hole_in_m...
Like most aspects of the military, they don't want/need experts. They want someone who knows which knob to turn until all the nixie tubes light up.