skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Locally we had a huge problem with door to door salesmen who would case the place out. They walk around suburban residential neighborhoods at noon on a weekday when probably half the houses are empty, maybe with a ladder as a prop, hard hats, clipboards, etc. If no one answers the door 3 times at 1:30pm on a Tuesday, then on the fourth time they pull up in a truck, break the back door, clean the place out, drive to the next house, etc.

They also went around on trash day recording on their map who was throwing out giant cardboard boxes formerly containing large screen TVs, but those are now getting so cheap and so uncomfortably large that they're not so much of a target anymore. My 42 inch would have sold for several thousand maybe a decade ago, but now its just a couple hundred bucks, why even bother, compared to grabbing some laptops or jewelry.
I made a patch for Mozilla, and you can do it too
but this option doesn't work for the "finish feature" part of git-flow
Leaked ‘Windows 9’ screenshots offer a closer look at the new Start Menu
There is an anthropological theory that religion itself ( as we know it ) was an invented construct to overcome the taboo against shedding blood to facilitate war.

Don't think that the bloodshed taboo is all that ancient or quaint; it was a significant concern for , say, 18th century surgeons.
If your money transfer model includes gateways, then trust is involved. You have to trust the gateways (local banks or exchanges) to make the conversion.

The gateways on each end would also want to take a fee.

Add to that the (MASSIVE) cost of compliance globally, and the costs of the model described by Stripe may not be much better than that of existing services (TransferWise, Western Union, etc.).

It's just an absolutely mind-bogglingly large, long, and costly endeavor, and the end results may not be worth it.
People keep saying this, but how much is it actually used? How much do you have to pay the escrow service? How good are they at dispute resolution?

Also, the money has to be kept in escrow until the possibility of a dispute is over, which adds a substantial delay.
Before 'Half-Life,' Valve was making an ambitious MMO
Just had a look at jDBI and it doesn't exactly look like a simple library to me. There's a lot of run-time annotation processing.

Have a look at jOOQ if you haven't seen it yet. There is a pre-compilation stage which generates DAO for you and they can then be used with static type guarantees.
> Java developers are learning (or migrating to Scala/Groovy/Clojure)

Scala can be used instead of Java to build systems, though when a Java developer uses it for the first time to build a system, that system will need heavy refactoring to make use of Scala's functional facilities. Groovy's really intended for use with Java, not instead of it, such as gluing Java apps together, testing Java objects, scripting Grails, and 20-liners for Gradle builds. I don't know how much Clojure's used to build systems in industry, though it's certainly my language for scripting.
Itoh should have been fired.
I think the commentator should read the article. The author does not once mention EJB. The problems he describes are endemic to all kinds of libraries and frameworks and are VERY much a part of most shop's interpretation of "modern" Java development.
I can't upvote this enough. Web 1.0 was "responsive" in that text reflowed and you could layout tables to keep things roughly positioned relative to each other. But everyone in the design community had just got used to desktop publishing and tried to replicate that, frequently with horrible results.
"Still waiting on that Broadwell chip, Intel." -Tim
> Nor has the government-sponsored Post Office ever refused to carry indecent mails (think adult magazines and videos).

I agree with your overall point -- I am aware of no attempt by municipal broadband providers to censor the internet they provide, and the First Amendment would seriously limit their ability to do so.

This, however, is not right:

>Nor has the government-sponsored Post Office ever refused to carry indecent mails (think adult magazines and videos).

It has done this on very many occasions and, in fact, these efforts are precisely how we got much of the First Amendment obscenity doctrine we have today.

Some examples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Comstock

http://openjurist.org/276/f2d/433/grove-press-inc-v-k-christ...
("'Lady Chatterley's Lover'...has been detained as unmailable by the New York Postmaster and, after a hearing before the Judicial Officer of the Post Office Department and reference to the Postmaster General for final departmental decision, was held by the latter to be 'obscene and non-mailable pursuant to 18 U.S.Code 1461.'")

http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1990/spring/es...

Another good comparison might be broadcast (and, to a lesser degree, cable) television where, indeed, the government monopoly has generated pervasive content censorship. But this has been made possible by a peculiar First Amendment rule that really only applies to broadcast TV. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lion_Broadcasting_Co._v._Fe...

I, for one, would rather take my chances with municipal broadband than be stuck with the truly awful TWC service that I am currently stuck with in NC.
Only if that gene happens to be on the sex chromosomes! There are 22 other chromosomes, though.

I'm no biologist, but I believe you are referring to sex-linked traits. Hemophilia is the most studied example, but there are many (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_linkage#X-linked_recessive_...). In these disorders, males with the gene will always get the disease, where as women can act as "carriers", carrying the trait for the gene on one of their X chromosomes, but not experiencing any of the symptoms of the disorder.

Unfortunately for your theory, this interesting phenomenon has little to do with other genes. There is no magic link between separate chromosomes, and almost all of our important traits lie on the 22 other chromosomes, which do not experience this sex-linkage.
Yes, get the pro. Get the 13'', with 16GB ram, and connect 2 large 27'' monitors.
Is it just me or did that feel like that came from Dre/Beats ad team?
It is possible to use OOP without taking the AbstractFactoryInjectorBean train all the way to the last stop.
Why not do it yourself before?
I hope you fought that firing...

... incompetence like that comes from having F6 next to F7 and no checks or authorisation needed for a potentially dangerous action etc. Processes should be designed for people to make the common mistakes... its what they do.
Bootstrapping any tool is going to look that way. To compile gcc you need a C compiler don't you?
Strange, to me Java and ASP.NET (as used by SE) are web languages.
These scalable messaging systems...we have those also. Also C++ mostly. I would be surprised if Google was very different.
It's not about the battery, it's about the portability and the display. A 13" laptop is too big to lug around for me, and the retina display would enhance readability for me (I tend to read a _lot_ on screen, but an iPad is simply not an option for the rest of my activities).
That's a really useful insight. What particular problems did you run across in Python that Java/C++ handled better?
Ask HN: Idea on making Wordpress support as services
Idea on making wordpress support as services - www.wpsupport.io

Would love to validate the idea and hear your thoughts on making it better.

Do you think a service such as ours is a real needy one ? The idea came from few of our clients using our services (Web development services - I am one of the top 10 Freelancer in Peopleperhour.com, http://www.peopleperhour.com/freelancer/vive/ecommerce-architect-php-web-deve/80166) and were trying to experiment our idea with wordpress to start with.

Our main focus at present is to get our first 100 customers. Any input on different channels to try out?

Would love to hear all your thoughts on to it

Thanks,
Vive
I think you will find they embarssed themselves.

Responsibility flows upwards, not downwards. Its just unfortunate that the people at the bottom are often carrying the people above far more than they should...
Very nice - I will have to check it out! Thanks for the tip.
People using ORM can end up writing the second one without it being obvious.
Using airBaltic to get to Hamburg for CCC every year. This goes along with my direction.
Not at all... Black Hat is one of the more commercial, "industry" security conferences out there.
This seems like a complete paradigm shift from the Jobs-days of so closely holding and protecting their brand. Refusing to dilute it with Home Simpson and poorly drawn Golden Gate bridges...

...Or maybe they could just want to increase accessory sales.
Scala Times – a free, once-weekly Scala Newspaper (archive on Twitter)
I love bitcoin, but buying airline tickets with bitcoin is a terrible idea. Airlines go bust all the time with zero warning and anyone who pays with cash/bitcoin is going to be out a lot of money.
nm. just seen the follow up. :)
Me too. I still don't know how counting to 10 will help you press the right key on your keyboard though.
For Android developers interested in building apps in Scala check out Scaloid: https://github.com/pocorall/scaloid.
Sidestepping much? We are, obviously, not speaking about a natural language here.

I think this is an example of an hierarchy without a purpose.

Pointless OO, what's not to love here..
I'm very sorry if you feel I've attempted to mislead you, but the end result is the same: in most US cities, there is only one television provider, and it's always one that has negotiated a favorable contract with the local government. I know you don't think this is possible, that it's been outlawed, and that you're prepared to spend your life asserting that there is no way for a government to cause an exclusive franchise to exist, but there is, and they do. In my city, for example, the government just outright sold land to Time-Warner. Time-Warner doesn't pay for access to the right-of-way because they don't have to any more. In return, my city (and the county it's in) got fiber rolled out city wide.

I'm also unsure why you think that a simple business decision by Google is some sort of Moral Designator. It is the job of a city government to protect the less fortunate. They're not going to achieve that by letting corporations serve rich neighborhoods and ignore poor ones. I'm not sure how a city can "make the terms of getting a franchise unattractive for competitors" by holding them to the same terms as the existing franchisees.

I'm not really interested in having some kind of politically-charged debate with you about it, and now that you're throwing around phrases like 'class warfare,' I've realized you don't have any other actual motivation here. Sorry to have wasted your time on the matter.
Dated and somewhat of a misfit in terms of pricing. I can get an iPad Air for nearly the same price, but I can't run VMs or code front-end stuff on it (I used to hack away on an iPad at libraries and other stuff that had longer iterations, but these days I need a "normal" laptop).
> OOP is too verbose by it's essence compared to closures.

Could you comment on Smalltalk's blocks?
True, there was still value in their operation. It was just a sad thing that someone died in the recovery process (only for the whole batch of cars to be written off).
UK definition of terrorism 'could catch political journalists and bloggers'
Show HN: Rrandomize – get random things shipped to your door
I have received some feedback for extended functionality, I'll count this one as such as well. Thank you :)
Well I'm glad I met expectations at least then :)
Linus Torvalds’ Workspace Is Nothing Like I Imagined
Light Of Pi: Cloud Monitoring With LEDs
Prescription drugs, mostly painkillers. "Hey guys, I'm impaired and I have something you want, come and get it!" Don't forget ADD/ADHD stimulant meds.
IRC: everything is timestamped to the subsecond. Any drifting causes channel takeovers and "random" nick kills, even links fail. Also, since a message from a server is broadcasted across the entire network, one misconfigured server can cause chaos in your hubs or completely unrelated leafs.

Or at least that's how I remember my experience managing an unstable (as in ddosed, every irc service in active development, a few in-house bots, etc) IRC network and having read the IRC and IRCv3 specs and unreal's and TS6 server message specs. If I'm wrong I'm sure someone here could correct me.
People who need to save money turn it off and let the lawn die. Sometimes they replace it with landscaping that does not require water.
RoboCup – Robot soccer livestream
Make your Arduino text you when there's motion in your house
> With up to 12 hours of battery life, an incredibly thin and light design, and fast all-flash storage, what's not to love?

The price for European pockets.
The lack of this [1] Legend of Zelda decal hurts me a little...just a little.

[1] http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X%2Bx1P7f3L._SL1500_...
Society6 has a fun collection: http://society6.com/laptop-skins
I can't find a link to buy the stickers, can you link me to it please.
Talk about workarounds.
As a RoR developer primarily, Jose Valim's new language, Elixir, which looks ruby-esque but runs on the Erlang VM, has piqued my interest in learning more about Erlang.

Erlang has always been on the outskirts of my awareness as something that might be worth looking into, but I can't quite determine what it's best used for. I know it's behind a lot of telecom stuff, and that it powers WhatsApp, but when you're not dealing with massive scale where you need distributed computing and fault tolerance, are there still benefits?

Does Erlang make sense for a side-project web app? Or is it mostly for enterprise-level applications?
I read a Quora post by a Flipkart employee who said that the seller chosen on the home page is often the most trusted seller. I doubt if people would buy from sellers with lower ratings. Nonetheless, a feature to consider all sellers before notifying prices would be nice.
Actually, in the beginning there was no testing and even justifying having automated test infrastructure or spending developer resources on unit tests was a hard sell to management (what are they paying that QA dept. for after all).
InnoEHR mobile app helps the doctors
Oh well, that might be the case. My bad.
Can't find any information for a planned Linux release =(
What are your “tech startups to watch”?
You've probably seen numerous articles with a list of supposedly the top tech startups to watch in the future. It's time to hear from HackerNewsers!
Not very likely in this case - it's a state-owned flag carrier, it's been propped up a few times already and it didn't go under when it had massive losses so it won't happen now when it's finally turning a profit.
Scheduled webinar on healthcare mobile apps
I enjoyed the music. Was that original music made for this film?
Somehow for me it feels for me that the choreography from the Apple trailer is "copied" from an Inception trailer.

Compare 0:10 of Apple's ad with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66TuSJo4dZM#t=34
I think it should ping when it's dropping, before it sinks, kind of like a Macbook does with mechanical hard drives.

Then sonaring it should be simpler, as we know the rough location.
You can see my comment elsewhere, but I've been messing around with Tower 2 some more, and I'm actually finding it pretty confusing. It seems submodule support is still flawed. For example:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s218/sh/755a2a30-db64-4378-bc...

I'm not sure why it's showing the submodule folders as something I need to commit.

I prefer the combined view that SourceTree has of changed files with your branch history. In Tower 2, they seem to be separated.

I do like the breadcrumb trail for going into submodules though. SourceTree opens it as a separate window, which I find annoying.
> The key selling point of functional languages is not lambdas, but immutable state and referential transparency.

Not everyone agrees, evidently! In his influential paper, Hughes argues that higher-order functions and laziness are key to functional programming.
Building an ARMy of Xen unikernels
Classic "individual" vs "any" design pattern.

You want to find my specific kid for nefarious purposes or rob my specific house, modern technology makes that about a billion times easier than decades ago.

You want to find a kid for nefarious purposes or rob a house, any moron can find the nearest elementary school or drive around a subdivision watching cars pull out in the morning and swing back in 5 minutes and technology doesn't help very much at all. If anything technology makes it worse, too easy for nosy neighbor with an omnipresent cellphone to make a call.

So it's being marketed as technology makes it easier for a random scary dude to go after a random victim, but in reality the problem is crazy addicted coworker, crazy ex, crazy relative, not just random scary dude.
It's really interesting that there's dirt on some of these MacBooks. Presumably they must be real machines used by Apple employees or customers, and they intentionally didn't clean them.
Watch it fail first, verify that the failure makes sense, check to see if there's a way to delete one file with -f before deleting the rest with -r. Use -rf only as a last resort, and only by appending the f to an already-failed command whose syntax you've validated.
You can find many of them on Etsy
I liked the cute flashing of the old rainbow-colored Apple logo at the end, almost as if they were sort of going back to that kind of colorful style with the stickers.
Automatic image moderation, removing adult photos using WebPurify and Cloudinary
This article explains how you can have user uploaded images automatically moderated by human expert moderators to make sure that only appropriate content is shown to your users. Integration code samples are available for Node.js, PHP, Java, Ruby on Rails and Django.
I got a Macbook Air from work. Stuck Ubuntu on it, and a big kayak sticker over the Apple logo. They aren't getting free adverting from me. (One fanboy looked noticeably upset when he saw it running Ubuntu).
> It is best understood as “CoffeeScript for Java”, or as “Java 10″.

I wish it would look like CoffeeScript
Tux available here: http://idiffer.de/de/product/Tux
My main point was GC, yes.

Actually the original Oberon type system is simpler than Go's. Its later revision Oberon-07 is even simpler.

All the other ones I mentioned, have better type systems than Go, even support for some form of generics.

Concurrency depends on the language, but you get a mix of threads, co-routines, tasks, active objects and processes, overall.
Have you looked at the Surface Pro 3? 12", 2160x1440, lots of nice reviews.
This is wildly unimaginative. One can do lots of things with massive upload. Super high quality streaming video, over Google Hangouts or Skype, and with Twitch available on every Xbox 1 and Playstation 4. You could have a basically realtime backup system that rsyncs your entire system to a remote server nightly. You can do large asset sharing with remote team members without long download times. Software distribution via bittorrent (Blizzard has been doing this for years) could become basically instant if everyone had gigabit upload speeds.

Limited bandwidth is a really, really constraining bottleneck on innovation. It's a crime that Comcast et al get away with limiting innovation on the Internet to support their monopolies.
[pdf] Type-Directed TDD in Rust
Yes. Compare this, and the iPhone 5C, with "here's to the crazy ones"… it's depressing.
Here I thought it was addictive game like 2048 ...
There's Chi from Chi's Sweet Home on one of them. I wonder if they actually got the rights for that or just figured the Japanese rightsowners (probably the original manga author) wouldn't care.
There are many models:

- OO like in Smalltalk

- OO like in SELF

- OO like in BETA

- OO like in CLOS

- OO like in COM

- OO like in Haskell

- OO like in C++

- OO like in Eiffel

- OO like in Ada

- OO like in Sather

A few more models might exist.
Scientists Edited HIV Out of a Human Genome
>All that said though, there is a large chance that it still won't be enough to solve a very tough set of problems.

I agree, but hope that it is enough to move research along to the point where the pharma industry will see something worth researching and developing.
Would there be any use for this tool if you already know your way around the git command line?
Thank you for your comments! Yes, that's the crux of it - you need a hook or something to nudge people into giving cash for it.

I also suspect that I haven't done myself any favours with the trailer or the app icon.

Still, onwards and upwards :)
Yes, they mixed two songs together, one of which is not out (the beat part), but it is acquired by a rapper and might someday come out as a fully fleshed song.
Sodaconstructor: Interactive creations using masses and springs (2007)
You are wrong. I dug out the documentation associated with the 2008 $220M issuance when I was looking at this yesterday. It is a muni bond issued by the city of Chattanooga "payable solely from the revenues of the electric system" and the project described is "to construct a fiber optic broadband network."

http://emma.msrb.org/MS270152-MS266407-MD521993.pdf
For England that might be true, but in London you should expect around £65k+ for senior dev roles.

I'm sure you could negotiate up to £90k given the right circumstances.
> There are many nicer OOP languages out there, where the devs don't tend to do this.

Because they aren't used in enterprise applications. Just give them time.
I run into this all the time, too. Now my -rf usage is almost always wrapped by this:

rmgit()
{
git status
read -p "Are you sure? " -n 1 -r
echo
if [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]
then
rm .git -rf
fi
}
These stories of "another merchant using Coinbase/Bitpay/etc." don't do anything to stimulate intellectual curiosity. Flagged.
You should expect APIs to be public. For a sufficiently popular service, you should expect people to utterly replace (emulate or rewrite) your fine client and do things that you don't expect, which means implementing things like rate limiting and blacklisting on your server, where you can control things.
Thanks to WinRT is it back!
I don't know how kotlin fares in practice for android, but I experimented with scala on android a few years back successfully.

The thing is, android doesn't really need a marketing blitz as big for alternative languages to be usable. dex converter did well enough on jvm bytecode.
There is a clear ontology in the above classes, and it's nice to formalize that in the language rather than just keep it informal in a naming convention. I mean, why not have subtypes if you have subtypes?
I believe people are much more likely to be allergic to vinyl than to aluminum (or Aluminum Oxide)
Middlebrow is precisely what it aspires to be. It's not a scholarly (highbrow) publication. It's not USA Today (lowbrow). It executes specific conventions capably and asks only that inexpert readers concentrate and enjoy.
Yes, this is a needed service as there can be many issues arising in Wordpress that need to be resolved quickly. I use this service and it is great.
This is not just a British difference. Robbery always involves some form of threat or assault in the US, legally speaking. And colloquially speaking too, except in recent years where the word has lost some meaning.

The US vs. British difference is the verbage of "burglary" (though interestingly this article also confuses robbery with burglary). http://grammarist.com/usage/burgle-burglarize/
I can't count how many times I accidentally hit the Save Game button instead of the Load Game button in Half-Life. The keys were literally, like, right next to each other.
> Python with its main web framework - Django - is really shiny. I would say, it is one of the best web frameworks ever

For small sites, maybe. Once the codebase gets large, it becomes much harder to maintain than a Java webapp of similar complexity written in a sane framework.