skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just as another data point, I agree with magsafe. I've used Core Data a bit recently and haven't really had any problems with it (though I agree it could be nicer).

My huge, huge, huge problem, on the other hand, is sync. I don't want to get locked into iCloud and the idea of Apple offering multi-platform support is unrealistic.

If you offered this as a cross-platform solution + syncing I'd sign up immediately (it sounds like this might be where you're headed anyway).
Visual Basic for Applications, AppleScript and HyperTalk have all supported different languages at some point...
Inequality is the wrong diagnosis. As msandford pointed out, it's more likely to be a minimum standard of living issue and having enough to lose. If inequality was a main factor, you would expect Pakistan to have similar crime rates as Sweden, when in reality they're not even close. (PG has an essay on inequality being a boon to a nation's economy: http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html) You could also look at the religiosity of a country, but the trend there is that lower standards of living correlate with higher religiosity. (http://www.gallup.com/poll/142727/religiosity-highest-world-...) I'm more inclined to think the causation goes from low standard of living --> religiosity rather than the other way around, given the United States. However there could be other deeper factors that give rise to a low standard of living, such as a nation's average IQ -- you're not going to see a nation with average IQ of 70 outperform let alone match a nation with average IQ of 100 in terms of standard of living.
KissTest, a Simple, Fast, and Beautiful Unit Test Framework for PHP
Is Anyone Proud of Their Company Blog?
Who is responsible for it? Who writes for it?

Are there any best practices you can share?
Mutable Algorithms in Immutable Languages, Part 3
Agree, hence why I said drop the meme but keep the finer points. :)
Cross-Platform Binary Exploitation
Looks similar to Haxe, in that they're targeting interoperability. But with less platform support.

I personally have yet to use Haxe, but the people I know who use it love it. I'm keeping it in mind for a good use case! Such as sharing application logic across applications, though in practice last time I did that things got very messy, it was easier just to duplicate application logic across applications. Kotlin/Haxe would be great for cross platform libraries though.

Both Kotlin and Haxe do have GADT, which is a feature I'm finding harder to live without :D Also Kotlin appears to have record types!
I just built a pair of PCs using pcpartpicker. I had similar thoughts:

1) I really like auto-filters on compatibility. If my CPU and mobo aren't compatible, don't let me put both on the same build.

2) I don't need to see big pictures of most of the components. I might want to see what the case, monitor, and peripherals look like, but I'll only look at the SSD when I'm installing it.

3) I didn't see an easy way to sort or filter by specific criteria. On PCPartPicker, I sorted HDs by $/GB and was able to easily scroll down the list until the first drive that was large enough (1 TB), and probably could have filtered it to only include those. Here, I just have a bunch of hard drives to pick from, in no particular order, without a lot of advanced options -- and I didn't even get many on the screen because of the large images.

It's just a couple steps away from being a really excellent site.
(MedXT CEO here)

Yes, we're currently integrating "The X Toolkit" from Boston Children's: http://www.goxtk.com/ It should be ready in October/November.
We have a few contributors for the G2 Crowd blog (http://about.g2crowd.com/blog), but it's a great place not only for sharing company news, POVs, media coverage and more, but to publish highlights from your user/customer base as well.
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Ask HN: Finding small, local companies who need websites?
I want to stop doing overly complicated freelance jobs and just stick to small mostly static websites for local businesses. Instead of doing 1 or two big projects a month, I just want to do 4 small sites for a fixed price.

Any idea on where to find small companies in need of a websites locally?
Here, that layer doesn't exist. This program takes the place of the OS, and communicates with the hardware directly, without an OS in the way.

This can be done because ages ago, the PC hardware interface was almost completely standardised, and all PCs to this day implement that standard for backwards compatibility.
Dart Flask-like Microframework
When Steve Jobs was at the D8 conference back in 2010, I just felt that Kara was always breaking the flow and that Jobs was almost ignoring her.
Isn't that fairly risky? What if they had passed the account to collections?
> It's not like engineering has a monopoly on hiring technical talent.

I hope your next medical procedure is done by a surgeon hired by the hospitals marketing team.

Good luck.
PHP-5.6 isn't even out yet.
Also missing: an obvious way not to include an HDD/GFX card (I just tried the "pro" setting).

I think your categories are too large - e.g. you show various motherboards but really no way to choose which one you want (i.e. physical size, minimal ports, other characteristics), nor an easy way to select the chipset.

Similarly, the SSD grouping simply had "SSD"s. Again, features like encryption support and/or powerloss protection might be interesting to look at; and even more obviously, I'd really like to narrow down the selection by size.

I saw you preselected the 4770K, yet the 4790K is it's successor (and certainly should be an option).

All in all, I want a system to satisfy various needs. Some aspects I may not care too much about or know much about, so a default choice or bias is fine, but there's almost always some aspect I do care about. And if you really don't care, you should probably look into just buying some ready-made HP or whatever (no idea which brand is best) box, and at least you'll get good somebody to put the thing together for you (and be responsible when it doesn't work).
People choose electric shock over being alone with their thoughts
I bet the humanitarian work of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is his way of atoning.
What fraction of traffic does your blog do compared to your main site?
A company which hold patents without implementing them is basically not following the spirit of the law.

Playing Devil's advocate, what about a company like ARM, which designs and patents new CPU designs and then licenses them to others? We can't claim their patents aren't implemented. Should they be forced to make the CPUs themselves?

And if not, what would prevent NPEs from licensing to one small company and then suing everyone else?
Insofar as I could tell, doing a simple s/-webkit-//g got things working, except for the gradients due to them still being in the old format.
Having two extra configurations for Linux gamers (open source and proprietary) would be pretty cool!
My email is there (at least, I can see it).
It's also not really running on "RAW METAL" because it's using BIOS interrupt routines for drawing and input.

It's still awesome, though, and the code is really cleanly written and easy to follow.

Because the code is so nice, this would be a fun project to try to port to Protected Mode with its own HAL and maybe drivers for one set of hardware (perhaps QEMU's). Could be a fun experiment in why OSes are hard and x86 is painful.
Go to Google. Search for your favorite companies. See if they have Google Places pages, Facebook pages or websites. Chances are some of the smaller ones won't have the latter.
Out of curiosity why switch back to residential? I've been generally happy with their business service in both MI and FL. Seems like normally you don't have to deal with most of the BS that residential people do.
I'm guessing you're from Spark Devices?
Nginx on FreeBSD
The ToP was written in 1986, published in 1987. Many strides have been made since then, with many strides to go.
The author doesn't seem to say anything accurate. This isn't going to be 5.7. My understanding is that since there is something that is not this that is 6.x and that since this would be a major rev that this is more likely to be 7.x than 5.7

Then there is the magic "100% faster" but there isn't an explanation of what makes it faster, or what types of things will be faster. Is it faster for Computation? Faster for String manipulation? Is this mostly just memory access? Will Wordpress be faster? or things build on Zend? Or Drupal? Who will see this be faster?

I want to be excited. I don't really like PHP but I support a lot of it, and speed and stability would be great things to have improved, but I want a "why" that goes beyond, "The secret to this performance increase is that nearly 60% of cpu instructions have been “retired” by more efficient code"
aren't these the 8 reasons people stop being Javascript programmers and become vacuum cleaner salesmen or something ?
...and reviews by others, and a process by which known bad extensions get taken down.

It's not watertight (as the recent abuses in the chrome web store illustrate), but it's better than nothing.
Would be more informative if one could see what those brands use node.js for. X uses Y without any reference is always a bit disappointing.
It gives a clear path to revocation of bad actors as well as future updates.
They're from the BBC's article linked in the OP. So take it up with them.
If you want to be on that team, don't wait for the job announcement. Actually: don't ever wait for job announcements. :)
You are right they don't need to be, but from a building code perspective you can't bury the controller behind a wall. You have to make them accessible behind some kind of a wall plate so for aesthetics reasons people will likely end up putting switches there anyways.

I think the better option is, as you said, have all switches be wireless, and somewhere like a basement and have a bunch of 'controllers' to tell it to switch on or off.
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No need to be defensive. I was just clarifying for others reading.

EDIT:

Now that I look at the OP article more closely, it appears you may have conflated the F-16 CPFH quoted in the article as representing the F-35 CPFH. I don't see mention of CPFH for the F-35.
It's especially amusing since Firefox supports WebM, which is VP8 video in a Matroska container. WebP is a VP8 frame in a simple container.
Looks pretty nice to me, though giving in to the irresistible force that is SDWebImage has allowed me to remain relatively ignorant of the finer points of image caching on iOS.
TIL: people too lazy to write three whole words are more interested in sarcasm than saying something sensible.
Have a look at the yellow pages (not online) and visit all the companies who advertise a website. I think you'll find loads of them who say 'Under Construction' or who have a very basic website. I recall looking a few years back in the Yellow Pages Book and I was amazed at the amount of businesses who advertise a website but don't have one.
Perfect little casual game. I played around with something similar during a github game challenge, but never finished. Nice work.
This shouldn't be downvoted. In fact, it's why the GDP is not a very good measure of what we actually want to know.
Analysis vs. code review
> All trolls are NPEs, probably, but not all NPEs are trolls.

I'd disagree with the characterization that all trolls are NPEs, as well. A company that technically produces a product implementing a patent, but nonetheless engages in trollish tactics (e.g. barratrous lawsuits inviting quick settlements for just under the cost to litigate; scattershot lawsuits against large portions of an industry; or in general tactics that stifle innovation and suppress development activities) still qualifies as a troll.

And on the other hand, I wouldn't give universities and similar organizations a free pass to being patent-fueled leeches.

Then again, I'm not convinced that there's such a thing as a legitimate patent lawsuit, either.
I'm not sure I understand about the clues. When you click a square, it inverts the colour of that square and the ones around it (up, down, left and right).
Lora is like 10 bits per second... really slow.
Right now its all buzzwords and vaporware. We are in 2004 talking about the "cloud."

However, its coming, much like the cloud has.
Count down to GSX self driving cars?
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Send me yours and I can add it as a preset.
Ahh - the OP should urge the primary developer to publish this on the addons site - it looks nice!
You can press Ctrl + Alt to emulate AltGr
I kinda like this. Years ago I toyed with building a similar inversion type puzzle game based on a hexagon field. It also had the problem of devolving into more or less random clicking once the field got bigger, and so frustrating the player fairly quickly as the play progressed. The hexagon play field did lend itself to having differently shaped playfields which added something to the play on smaller fields. Not sure if that idea has any merit for this game, though...
Considering that tech jobs I’ve seen advertised in England pay between 1/3 and 1/10 of what I would expect a similar job in the US to pay, that seems about right.
Crowdsourced ISEE-3 Engineering and the Collective Mind of the Internet
Why TOWIE -Lucy Mecklenburgh is trending today?
I'm pretty sure the Halifax card I mentioned gives the Visa wholesale rate too. I generally get same rate as quoted on FX sites anytime I've checked it.
Safeway delivers. Pretty sure it's not free, but not sure if they have a delivery fee or a minimum order.
Cool idea. I had the same problem with the intro video that others have mentioned. I'm gonna read more when the Android version is out, since this might actually be able to fix a common pain point I have with my apps with data persistence (I'd like to be able to read recently touched questions in my Stack Exchange app even when I don't have internet, which requires a damn complex caching layer).

Just a side note: The SO link you have in the footer seems to not have any questions about your actual product in the tag, but about Java realms instead.
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For those who have been using this - how is the pricing? The reason I ask is that I don't see how Google can make money (especially with free shipping for 6 months) without putting a markup on items. Perhaps they are just trying to gain traction and are willing to bite the bullet for the first 6 months.

I did a quick comparison between a random product: LG 42" Class 1080p 60Hz LED HDTV. Target's direct online store offers the TV for $379, while Google Shopping has it listed for $449.99. I haven't done other comparisons, but this seems to confirm my belief that Google is marking the products up to some extent.
The Internet of Things won't be that useful until it starts tying in several external services. I imagine then there will be enough value added that it will go over the tipping point for consumer recognition.

I'm personally waiting for my refrigerator to detect my food inventory, and auto-order grocery delivery once a week to restock itself. But seeing how Safeway, Shopping Express, Amazon Fresh, etc. don't even have an API yet, it's going to be a long wait.
Proposal to split California into six states, Silicon Valley one of them
I was just displeased as you were I'm sure to find out that a billionaire used smiley faces too

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/53358dd4ecad04e75a8...
Not sure if it would be possible to add the price for a similar configured PC from the major pc vendor sites like HP, Lenovo,Dell etc for comparison purposes.
You might enjoy A Bug Hunter's Diary by Tobias Klein.

It's a detailed series of technical essays about vulnerabilities the author discovered in real software, how he went about finding and reporting them, and what happened. The appendices are helpful for those without a background in some of the techniques he uses.

http://www.nostarch.com/bughunter
Yours was a knee-jerk reaction. You did not really read my comment.

It is not the responsibility of the hospital marketing team to perform a medical procedure. They do hire surgeons and medical experts to make sure the hospital capabilities are differentiated from other hospitals. It is their job to compete with other hospitals as patients make their selection process for where to go.

Going back to out real industry, many orgs in a company can hire, and do hire, technical talent. And this technical talent perform their technical function for the org that hired them.
The real problem is that bogus patents are being granted in the first place.
There's no way to "securely encrypt" a phone number.
> And on the other hand, I wouldn't give universities and similar organizations a free pass to being patent-fueled leeches.

Universities are a major source of the basic innovations that companies profit from commercializing. So who is leeching off who?
If they are actually able to rescue this space probe and get it doing science again, a week after a front page NY Times article reporting that it's hopeless http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/science/space/space-probe-... , this will make a better movie than Apollo 13.
> And the most annoying is shift+enter.

Ctrl-enter is send in at least the US version of Outlook, it has been for years (e.g. at least the last decade I think.)

Shift-enter is single new line, across all versions of Office apps.
Spring Texas shooting event-who is the surviving 'hero'?
Yea, I read that Windows Search 3.0 was part of why Vista was so slow. 4.0 improved the performance though.
Comcast 'Embarrassed' By The Service Call Making Internet Rounds
The secret power of consoles is that the hardware doesn't change over the course of the console's life in a significant way. If I buy an XBox 360 on ebay, I know that ANY xbox-360 game will run on it. In contrast, PC gaming is a mess of compatibility questions.

If I want to play the new Wolfenstein, or Watch Dogs, or any "new" game, chances are my 2 year old PC will not be able to run it well (unless I spent $$$$ on it, rather than $$). If I want to play a new game with all the dials turned up to 9 (or 11), I basically expect to spend $1200-$1500 on a new PC every two to four years.

If I look at OLDER games, it's even worse: Will this game even install? I have a giant library of games which I would love to play, but I can't figure out how to get them to run on a current version of Windows. (Sea Dogs, Starfleet Command 3, etc.) These games are ten years old, and I can't even get the installers to run correctly -- or if I do, the game crashes for other "win 8 >> Win XP" reasons. I would pay money _again_ to be able to play some of these games in a reliable way (and have re-bought things for Steam), but most of the time they're not supported anymore.

My Wii will still play Windwaker (11 years old), and I can buy an XBox and any copy of Halo and be pretty confident that it'll run, even if ten years old (assuming the hardware hasn't failed).
This looks similar to idonethis.com

There was a lot of discussion about it in prior threads. Long story short, I guess the need for your product is already validated.
An Explanation of the Evidence of Weaknesses in the Iron Dome Defense System
Personally, I'm stoked. The first connected home device I got was an Internet-connected thermostat when I got my home HVAC replaced two months ago. I had no idea I was getting that in the package, and I love it. Looking forward to the day when I no longer have to curse myself for forgetting to start the dishwasher when I'm away from home.

Keep in mind that in terms of factoring in costs, yeah, that will be true at first. But it wasn't that long ago that you had to buy an aftermarket modem as part of the barrier to entry to getting online on your personal computer. In a few years, connectivity will be the new normal, and prices will adjust.
I do hate software that auto replaces :) with a graphic emoticon.
Whoa .. I had no idea.

Do you know how it looks to outlook users?
Microsoft ICE is pretty solid. Also: https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/about/our-research/defa...

My understanding is that Microsoft does a lot of cool stuff, but until recently most of it got shut down for conflicting with Windows/Office-centric priorities.
What is funny is that Word 2013 can be configured to generate pages that even MS's own IE10 won't render properly by default.
Perhaps they need to pay their ISP for the premium package? :)
Several people on this thread correctly diagnose the problem is not NPEs but "it's too cheap to obtain and hold large patent portfolios."

Once a patent is awarded ANY application that references other patents should be able to re-open examination of those patents if the applicant can show evidence of the existence of prior art or articulate a reason for obviousness or other reason for invalidation. Patent examiners should get bonuses for passing patents that stand up to such scrutiny and get decreases in bonus if they let through patents that are subsequently invalidated.

There should also be a bounty for invalidating patents through an administrative process, not requiring litigation.
This is something we are definitely looking into but for all cryptocurrencies. Coinbase only supports BTC.
Google Is Looking For Developers For Its Modular Smartphone Project
Yes, but the title of this article says "5.7" which implies something different from "phpng"
Almost 40? This'll give you hope
Comcast's customer service nightmare is painful to hear
Learn how to analyze a business problem and come up with a solution. See my blog for a rant -http://taprun.com/blog/business-of-programming
I downvoted because you make grandiose claims without any real, non-FUD sources beyond you work at Facebook. You just say there are "BETTER THINGS!!!" without listing at least one and why.

1) From a productivity standpoint PHP is pretty hard to beat in general....if you already know PHP.

2) A poor craftsman blames the tool.

3) PHP's inertia extends to the entire ecosystem really, not just the tool.
Thanks for the summary, my video game knowledge doesn't go back that far, haha. I agree though that the differences between consoles and PC's are starting to blur. For that reason I'm rooting for SteamOS. I think it won't be an easy transition, because gamers are so entrenched in their ecosystems, but I would love to see the strengths of both platforms together and do away with some of the old principles the gaming world is holding onto.
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> Apple Mail treats cmd+r as reply; acting as an alias for 'get mail' would make a lot more sense as it's analogous to refresh.

However, Apple's poor shortcut choices are made much less egregious by a built-in way of (re)defining custom shortcuts (under System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts); Windows does not natively offer such an option, I think.
You must concede that they are particularly prevalent in this community, and that PG's essays are notorious for their abundance of footnotes.

Oh, and they are used as a substitute for the lack of hyperlink markup in HN, which makes them a necessity when linking sources in comments.
Some clarification here about PHP versioning: the next minor version of will be PHP 5.6, which is still under development and has not yet been released. What is referred to as PHP 5.7 here is phpng, a proposed next major version of PHP. There's a lot of confusion about version naming of PHP, so it would be great if the author and HN could fix the title of this post (i.e. s/PHP 5.7/phpng/) as soon as possible to prevent spreading any further misinformation.
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Buy google ads for "your town name web design" and variants. Or get to the top seo wise.
The compose window of Outlook is WinWord. Outlook (up to 2003) used Trident (Internet Explorer engine) to show HTML-mails. Nowadays Outlook HTML view is powered by Word layout engine as well (for security reasons, as MS said). It cannot handle many CSS style elements, background color and is stuck with HTML 4.
Do men interrupt more than women? Yes, they do