skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are things you can become damn good at it if you put the time in. Those are definitely worth doing professionally. But, there are also things you can get mediocre at best if you put in excessively lot of time. Those are not worth trying to do professionally, although hobby is another matter.

On the other hand, I think that we underestimate childrens ability to get up again after failure or isolated stray word of discouragement. Telling children they sux one too many times will lower their self-esteem, sure. However, most of them will recover from hearing something slightly discouraging once in a while just fine.
Upload and run with all the security and management done for you is a great way to get going in web development. I don't feel that the idea that everyone doing reasonably simple PHP stuff should have root access 'makes sense' actually does.
Potentially yes. But I would not agree in all cases. Does the teenager enjoy the activity? That could be reason enough for him to pursue it. And there's shades of grey here we're not addressing... OK so he doesn't have Jordan's innate talent, but does that necessarily mean he has no chance at all of pursuing a pro Basketball career? Of course not. There are many still valid and useful skill levels between the two extremes of "not fit for the NBA" and "Michael Jordan".
nobody said sucker anybody from money.

When undertaking a project of this kind, you will need capital. It is clear from this post, the they ran out of personal (?!?) money. Heck, to even "save" money, the manufacturing was taken to a UK company (?!?!?). Not manufacturing hardware of this kind in China is a really really bad idea for several reasons.

> 1) NOBODY wants a tablet with 2 year old specs.

You are mistaken. the low cost tablet market exists. I would rephrase that to most people do not want a slow / unresponsive tablet. those are two very different things.

> 2 almost nobody wants a KDE/gnome/Firefox tablet.

How can you even make that statement when you don't even know what that would be like? People want a tablet that responds well, to browse the web, send email and check their Facebook acct. For some segments of the world population the ecosystem of 3rd party apps is irrelevant since they never ever download an app.
It opened to the public last December, so no invite needed
What is a mental illness then? It's just a brain with a somehow different state configuration - and why should one care?
It is just a bunch of atoms and their relations anyways..

Can you really explain in your worldview why you would care at all?
Android hiding GSM crypto status, issue open since 2009
Taung Child: a fossil of a "Australopithecus" child probably killed by an eagle
> After recently having to work with modern PHP, I have to say a lot of the criticism of the language is unfounded. It's changed a lot since I first used it.

Criticism doesn't become unfounded because things become better. Things become better because of criticism.
Short: no. I'm guessing it's about sharing files and commenting on those shared files. But, that's a guess. So, try another version of your explanation.
Very self aware I'm sure ;)
More on point:

So I am understanding correctly message passing will most likely by the paradigm you encourage?

And, less on point:

> Other answer: we will be talking about our multicore ocaml implementation at ICFP in September. I still don't want to see it in Mirage though :-)

Wait what what what? So it is ready for prime-time? (Note, I did not say production.) I remember reading about it on Jane Street, but thought there will still proposals and lots of theoretical and planning wrinkles to iron out before an implementation became reality.

I do not want to derail this informative post by you anymore, but do you have a link to more on that topic?

And I remember seeing mention of Irmin and not getting how ti fit into your work, asvm. Now seeing it as an answer to my question makes sense.

And thanks for your work on Real World Ocaml. I have decided to get back into programming, and some of my co-workers were taking CS classes and systems programming (ironically Harvard Extension School, I can't afford it but good for them) used OCaml. This reminded me to come take a look and I find your book, and the OCaml resurgence fascinating.

Maybe one done, I will look at the Haxe compiler and go: "it is not so complicated, I get that now." Only in OCaml could I see people doing such crazy shit.
Unfortunately, putting fuel driven cars underground is incredibly dangerous. One major fire could asphyxiate many people. Even in reasonably small tunnels there have been major disasters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Blanc_Tunnel
Ha! That is great.
First taste of Rust
Thank you for kind words.

That is where we are planning to extend this. Also, eBay and Amazon dropshipping are a good target for this.
> when you live in a house where the internal climate is such that it will let mold grow, it's downright unhealthy to live there

Why do you believe this?
From this post: "The I2P vulnerability works on default, fully patched installation of Tails. No settings or configurations need to be changed for the exploit to work."

From https://tails.boum.org/security/Security_hole_in_I2P_0.9.13/... : "Tails does not start I2P by default. […] Still, an attacker who would also be able to start I2P on your Tails, either by exploiting another undisclosed security hole, or by tricking you into starting it yourself, could then use this I2P security hole to de-anonymize you."

So either there are two security holes (one amazing one that actually starts I2P, and one contained to I2P that finds your IP address once I2P has started), or they're exagerrating.
You can be realistic and at the same time strive for self improvement. The main thing is if you enjoy doing something, you can engulf yourself in the process, and the results will come. Everyone is not born with the same ability and some will get farther than others because of this. Deliberate practice will even the playing field some and should still be used in order to gain mastery in whatever skills you desire.
A Batteryless Sensor Chip for the Internet of Things
I love it. You can even change pages with Cmd-Left & -Right. Nicely done.
yes, but you don't understand how many miles the avg. person walks in a day who lives in an pedestrian/public transport friendly area.

It is far, far more than you think.
20 cool Clojure functions
Being a programmer is not everything it is cracked up to be. My work involves much of what is considered to be at the top of the programmer food chain, but I am still unfulfilled and wish that I had been a park ranger or something like that instead.
Job Guarantee vs. Basic Income
You have no idea what you're talking about. Legacy integration systems typically cost several hundreds of millions of dollars and take a decade to complete.

Legacy integration is huge and horrendously complex task. The coding is the least of it.
That's not a lot, actually.
B-64: A man in the UK just flew a foil party balloon around the Earth
Doesn't leak metadata, yet they say it's using direct connection? - Massive fail. Afaik, if you form direct connetion between Alice and Bob, you're leaking metadata and clearly revealing connection as well as communication times, amount of communicated, called communication pattern. If that's not metadata leak, I don't know what is. RetroShare has provided similar kind and even bit better features earlier. But with same limitations, it doesn't hide communication patterns and doesn't stop metadata leak.
What if you combined a tram with a train? Oh wait, they already did:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tram-train

Or do what actually happens in cities, namely hub'n'spoke: tram lines to each city's central station, high-speed/capacity lines between cities.
Maybe we should just let the cars drive themselves and have a treadmill inside the car.

"It feels like you're running at an incredible rate, Harry."
That is a really nice, well polished theme. Hats off to you.
The other common phrase is for redundancies, "You are all very talented and deserve success.".
TV Tropes and Spontaneous Linked Data
So I guess with this bigger picture 840M$ sounds like a cheap mistake now...
I think it would be much more interesting for film than for photography, adding a huge amount of creative power to the editor and cinematographer in post-processing.

EDIT: I wonder if there are any stop-motion animators who have tried working with this camera.
What a good way to do some social good whilst also opening up a new userbase that was not previously accessible.

With Facebook and FaceBook Messages both in the available applications, they get a foothold there ahead of their competitors.
If they say "cross product", don't they actually mean "cartesian product"?
Functional C version for comparison https://github.com/skaslev/catmull-clark/blob/master/obj.c
Fantastic! I read the Iliad a few years ago, and just got round to reading the Odyssey while on holiday last week. I'm still amazed by how readable and downright enjoyable something written ~2700 years ago can be.

I think what I really liked about the writing style of Homer is how he conveys human emotions and personalities. In fact sometimes the raw emotion can seem over the top: I'm not sure what is done more in the Odyssey, eating and drinking, or crying.

Read the Iliad and the Odyssey if you get the chance, they are surprisingly accessible and fun!
Geocaching is another good smartphone-GPS hobby.
Some car manufacturers will be perfectly happy to cannibalize the business, see e.g. Daimler's car2go
> During the trip I took after the conference I saw a drive-through ATM and a drive-through pharmacy.

The drive through alcohol shops and the drive through mail-boxes where the things I thought were funny.

Also, the Outlets at Gilroy, Califoria, have a major road going through the middle. There are only 2 crossing places on that road. And people do think you're weird if you're walking between them.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@37.0198782,-121.5659382,2724m...
Ah yes, because the very poor have a good disposable income.
It's amazing the amount of downvotes on posts that comment just how tremendously difficult it is to plan, design, code, test, and support a website that has to serve literally hundreds of use cases and is meant to last multiple decades and integrate with thousands of other government systems that have been standing since the 60s and all have their own idiosyncracies in protocols, documentations, and bureaucracy.

It looks like most people in HN have never actually worked on large systems and have no idea just how costs increase exponentially, how internal politics and policies affect those projects, and how infernally hard it is to think in terms of systems that have to be used by more than a handful of use cases.

There's not doubt that government projects have a huge amount of internal overhead, but if you compare them to the stuff that goes on in multinationals that have working systems in the 60s, it's really nothing out of the ordinary.

I know a guy who worked in a project related to one of the largest insurance companies in the US. It's a 60 year-old system running on IBM System Zs, AS/400s, Unix and Windows systems, with varying degrees of hardware and software obsolescence, running custom COBOL builds and compilers, integrating with thousands of external APIs, on half a dozen data centers with completely different specs. There was a literal library of documentation spanning millions of pages of requirements to describe how policies flowed through the systems, how batch processes should run, and what tests should be used to make sure a lady who took out an insurance policy on her TV in the 70s can still cash out on it now and withing 20 years in the future.

All this does not even include the network topologies spanning TCP/IP, custom frame relay protocols, proprietary NICs, SANs for storage and backup, tape libraries, electrical layouts for data centers, etc.

There's more than a few reasons why large software projects fail; I have not even begun to include the intricacies of the aforementioned industry and have not even counted the regular issues of any project.
> The Internet.org app will be available first to Airtel subscribers in Zambia and we’ll continue to improve the experience and roll it out to other parts of the world.

And by coincidence this is how net neutrality as a concept will not be a thing in Zambia going forward.

Screw you, Facebook. Your efforts to lock in the next few billion into an ecosystem controlled by you are utterly despicable. http://i.imgur.com/5RrWm.png

If you truly cared about doing something good, how about creating something like standardising a low bandwidth HTTP header? How about just channelling money into actual investments in infrastructure? How about working on multicasting information cheaply out instead of unicasting it to every single locked in member of your ecosystem? Why Wikipedia and not Urban Dictionary, Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg or GitHub?

Please let us know if you're going to be the winners and losers picker in the way I can see from the screenshots of your app so we may, and this may be a tad hyperbolic, prepare your very well deserved destruction. Who exactly elected Mr. Zuckerberg as Mr. "I decide what free (pun intended) speech is"?
I bet one could make a successful business by just noticing aqcuisitions as they happen and immediately starting work to clone the acquired product exactly. This pattern of shutting down the acquired service and leaving all their users hanging is so common that it seems like it should be easy to capitalize on.

In this case, you would have had two years to see this coming (and if you check out the comment thread from when the acquisition happened, you'll notice that everybody did see it coming) and do the rather straightforward development work to get a new version up and running. Then all you'd need do is drop a link in this thread right here today to your feature-wise Rapportive clone that actually still works as advertised, and you'd have 326,000 new customers tomorrow.
The fourth amendment doesn't protect you from other people reading your post. It probably _does_ protect you from the government reading your post (though, apparently not protect you from the NSA logging all your mail[1]).

It is a crime for other people to read your mail, though that protection comes from the legislative branch, not the constitution. Specifically, Title 18, Part I, Chapter 83, § 1702 [2]. If you could convince a judge that § 1702 applied to e-mail, you might be able to ruin Google's day. It'd be a very different legal argument than the fourth amendment legal claim. Whatever comes from Microsoft's legal arguments about the 4th amendment won't have a bearing on this line of argument.

I still think the best avenue for a conspiracy theory motive for Microsoft is to get a ruling that says "if the e-mail provider examines the communication for any purposes other than facilitating mail delivery, then the communication loses its 4A protections." That would allow other competitors to advertise strong 4A protections, and force Google to choose between that sweet, sweet personal data or also advertising 4A protections.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mai...

[2] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1702
The Illiad is a surprisingly good read, although I freely admit I skipped the one chapter that was just a big long list of ships and men. Oddly enough, I didn't immediately recall any of the deaths mentioned as the top three grimmest in that infographic. It was the gruesomely detailed descriptions of disembowelments that got to me!

The combat and gorily detailed deaths of the Illiad are so vivid that I've often wondered if Homer was himself an experienced combatant or, alternatively, when all that detail was added. The Illiad was passed down as an oral tradition before being written down, so many veterans of war could have added embellishments over the years, or perhaps the man who finally wrote it down was a soldier or physician (or possibly both)!
I guess it's official, Facebook isn't going anywhere and will continue to become more and more part of our lives. They're getting close to the level of Google (which I do trust with my data because they are transparent about most issues before people start asking them to be).

http://newsroom.fb.com/pages-directory/

http://newsroom.fb.com/resources-projects/

We can avoid Facebook all we want but one of these days there is going to be an app or product that's superior to all competitors and were going to be required to use our Facebook login, for many of us it's already happened.

I wish they would allow us to restrict what information was given to apps, whether or not the apps "required" it. I never login with Facebook but sometimes check the permissions it asks for, all friends, all info, etc are the norm. I don't want any service to have access to my list of friends, photos (that not even friends can see), and any app my friends have can access my information, I just don't trust the apps/services not to misuse the data or to have the data stolen.

I'm starting to trust Facebook a little more, but it's going to take time. I do trust Facebook more than some sites like LinkedIn, but that's not saying much, LinkedIn will never have my approval.

More open-source technologies (and services) and less requirements to "connect your Facebook profile" would go a long way in my opinion. Give users the option to connect Facebook and the adoption rate (and trust level) will be much greater.
Handsfree Android apps
The Shifting Funding Gap: Are Startups Prepared?
I don't believe he's travelled very far.

I live in south east Asia and see Windows Phones (specificity Nokia) ALL the time. In Thailand it seems to be super popular as a cheap phone. Everyone owns iPhone or Windows Phone. Seen them a lot in Cambodia too.
This is the problem. Intellectual ability should never correlate to the inherent worth of an individual. You can be an idiot and still have the same right to happiness and everything else that comes along with being a human being. But this doesn't mean we should not accept certain realities based on how people might interpret science. Science just is. What we need to fix is how people act towards one another.
Google I/O 2014 App Source Code Now Available
The internet.org website is down: http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/internet.org.html

500 Internal Server Error

-- http://www.internet.org
Egbert B. Gebstadter
I believe you can. This is how to do it retroactively http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-adjust-app-and-web-site-pe...

I think there is an option for the same kind of control when approving an app as well (on the web at least)
Just as a side note, its great to see someone trying to make good use of the new top level domains.
Micro haters cut 87% off my electric heat bill
Uncovering the Layers of Perfect Landing Page Design
While there’s no one perfect landing page creation process to fit all use cases, there are four steps I follow whenever I’m designing a new landing page: (1) Knowing my target audience. (2) Determining my business goals and KPIs. (3) Designing the landing page experience with both business goal and customers in mind. (4) Ongoing A/B testing and optimization.

How does your landing page creation and optimization process look like?
Check out Stacklead they do exactly this - YC W14
Reference: http://www.dynamicyield.com/2014/07/landing-page-design/
Ah, I see. Interesting. Thanks for the explanation! If a public tour is ever offered on such a repair ship, I'll check it out, it sounds like awesome technology.
Is www.garten-fussballtor.de the website which earns 100€/mon?
Seems like a throwback to the days of the web portal (ala Yahoo.)
Ah, nice. Those have definitely been improved since the last time I made a site that used Facebook login.

2 years ago it use to be a data-miners paradise, you could grab almost all users data plus all data that their friends shared with only friends, it seems like they've updated these privacy permissions as well.

Apps do still have access to photos that I'm tagged in that I've got hidden as best as I can tell is possible, not even Google has access to that information.
Panasonic and Tesla Sign Agreement for the Gigafactory
It still shows all the user profiles to me. Has this been rolled out only to selective groups?
Indeed, I personally am looking for a nix admin to help me setup/secure my personal Ubuntu server. Finding someone I can trust is a huge battle.
PHP was always stupid easy to use (and abuse), the fact that Laravel is another easy framework doesn't turn any tides. The actual tide was turned by Symfony2 which was the first well architected, well designed PHP framework when it came out in 2011. Since then a mature, knowledgeable community created a lot of great components.

Laravel on the other hand is exactly where Codeiginiter was: easy to pick up, and easy to write crap code in. The whole Facade nonsense is already being abused to no end, not to mention the ORM, Eloquent. Similarly to CI, if you want to do something remotely advanced with it, you end up reading the code constantly, because the "great" 10 page documentation is only for absolute beginners.
> PHP is definitely the lingua-franca of the internet.

I think they misspelled Javascript.
Hm, this is a pretty good idea. Have an Android apps already been created using this HandWave library?
The best place to start is by doing one. The easiest to get into, by far, is http://www.microcorruption.com

It is the best beginner CTF I have ever seen in my life, and I've been CTF'ing for 9 years.

Incidentally, if anyone here finds that they really like this stuff, my team (Samurai) is all about teaching those who want to learn. Email me at borski@tinfoilsecurity.com :)
In the US, higher density goes hand in hand with higher homelessness and crime. I'd prefer more density than traditional suburbs, but if it's dense like a European town you'll have panhandlers and pawn shops all over.
It's funny how they describe the app as "providing a set of [...] basic services" and they include Facebook.

Not a basic service at all in my opinion.

(Also there is no Twitter, what a surprise !)
It's unfortunate that 7 commercial entities have adopted the internet.org brand. When I read the headline, I assumed this was from the Internet Society, but they are http://www.internetsociety.org .

Anyone know which non-profit organizations have a governance role in internet.org?
Yes, it's an entire book. It has a better organized superset of the material from the lectures. Many things missing from the lectures are in the book and many things explained briefly in the lectures are explained in detail in the book.

If I can scrounge up the time, I'll write a review soon.
I don't want root access. I want to sign up, upload my files through FTP and have it working instantly without having to worry about anything else.
I've been to Medellin and never felt unsafe, it's mostly unsafe out in the jungle.
Dual screen brilliance is what YOTAPHONE is!
You cannot reply your own messages to add more info/context.

It is a nice idea but I think it would be great if it supported OEmbed and Markdown.

That would make Sublevel more simple than Tumblr for publishing with a low barrier like Twitter.
> I wish they would allow us to restrict what information was given to apps, whether or not the apps "required" it. I never login with Facebook but sometimes check the permissions it asks for, all friends, all info, etc are the norm. I don't want any service to have access to my list of friends, I just don't trust them not to misuse the data or to have the data stolen.

In the new API version announced at F8 this year (which will be required for all apps as of next summer) users can choose upon authorizing an app which permissions to provide, and friends' data is no longer included as it was before.
You can now Shazam from your Mac
This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for. I'll use the library and let you know what I think.
you want the internet to be widespread?
Promote things like long-range wifi and mesh networks.