skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is naturally true; however, there is at least no rat poison in them.
A common logical fallacy is the false dichotomy of government vs. corporation. In modernity, there is no meaningful difference between the two. Power is a zero-sum game. Both groups must increase its own power by decreasing the power of the individual it encounters. Both consume power from people in the form of money, labor, information, abstract freedom, and civil liberties. Ultimately both groups can become most successful by being hostile to humanity (as opposed to "promoting human progress").

Welcome to the Kali Yuga! The age in which down is up.
In Java, IIRC, the cast fails with a ClassCastException. That seems to me to be "failure is reflected at runtime".

In C++ with RTTI, IIRC it returns null. That's also "failure at runtime" (of a sort), but you have to check it.
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Agreed. There's no way to get out of this, and learning new things is going to have to become part of your routine. Rails and Angular probably won't even exist in 10 years, so you're going to have to know the next thing by then.
We need a way to do digital signatures on images such that they cannot be faked. It should verify the image, location, time, and serial number. I know, this seems impossible since someone (the camera) needs to know the private key and that could be compromised.
The Most Enduring (and Endearing) Features of OS X Throughout the Years. Part II
I feel nostalgic, in a weird way. With Google Glass coming into the world, it's nice to remember there was a time when filming your day required a pioneer spirit and a DIY rig.

I remember this interview when Justin was just getting started...

http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/06/06/a-conversation-with-j...
Fist of all, I am quite aware that funny remarks are frowned upon on HN and I agree to this policy. That said, I think that http://www.bash.org/?244321 is still the correct and informative answer.
It's not pessimism. Some people enjoy the journey whether there is a destination or not. Some people only enjoy a journey when there is a destination.

To each his own.
Why is this being downvoted? This is how I used JTV for the past five years and I'm sure tons of others here did too.
Contractors are not subject to labor laws.

However, if it is discovered that a "contractor" is an employee everywhere but on paper, then the employer can still be liable for labor law violations. IIRC part of the test is "Can they choose their own hours? Do they use their own tools or are they provided/maintained by the employer? Does the employer dictate how they must do their work, or only specify deliverables?"
Amazing post from someone who's done amazing things and has an amazing life. He's also done a great job of highlighting the different expectations and demands between men and women in the workplace. This reminds me of someone else who changed directions in life but received a surprisingly large amount of criticism. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-huerta/why-i-left-google...) I have the suspicion that Schireson will not get the same amount of criticism that Huerta received when she wrote her article. But in any case, it will be interesting to see how Schireson's post will be received.
I have moved heavyweight libraries into separate storage. Quotas were exceeded by outgoing traffic, but statistics are counting every hour and now it works.
Also not subject to federal pay withholding (for taxes). So its important to get it right.
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Been there. Shift your hours back to 9-5. Helps considerably. You don't lose the evening then. Gives you something to live for.
I thought about this and I'm building a safety net: each email will include an attachment with a CSV of your historical data so in the worst case scenario that the service shuts down, you'll have a built-in archive ready to go.
Actually, you get 20 Gb database / month for free per app. https://parse.com/plans
No. It will read the subject first and only if the subject is empty will it read the body.
Everyone reading this thread would probably appreciate it if you provided more information. Your brevity almost sounds like gloating as it says nothing in regards to the well-being of your employees except that the money that you managed to owe them less than half of what the DOL originally figured.

In your other comment, you mentioned "some hidden rule"– what rule? How did you go about resolving it? I expect you could have some extra insight given that you did not involve a lawyer on your behalf. Size of the company, timeframe which this took place, etc. would all probably be helpful. We want to know what the less nefarious reasons you mentioned above actually are.
If you want to get your feet wet with some real work, I highly recommend joining the folks at assemblymade.com. They have a really neat platform for collaboration that will allow you to make real contributions to a commercial project. One of their most active projects, Helpful, is a Rails app and would be a great companion project to the typical self-taught track of learning.
"Power is a zero-sum game" doesn't sound right. You inspire people to do something, they create something. You chill their spirit so they are dissolute, you lose something. Definitely possible to create and destroy power.
What are you talking about? Ever heard of Twitch?
Siri does read it back to you... at least she does to me when I'm using my handsfree setup in the car.

"Your message to PERSON says SIRI-MANGLED-MESSAGE. Would you like to send it?"

You can send or change it by voice.
How has Vladimir Putin made his $40B fortune?
Say "read it to me."
QR codes to the rescue!
Do companies really discriminate if you've been unemployed for a few years, even with good reason?
I've never heard of that before, and would be interested in knowing how common it is.
I wonder how gmail will handle the type-ahead for addy's in diff languages. Especially since I only type in US English.
Push for pizza is Yo for pizza
http://welcome.pushforpizza.com/
The idea that you could only use user input is not realistic. 15% of Google's incoming queries have never been seen before by the search engine. There's not enough user input available.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm really just driven to explore the implications of a radically simple data structure. So hopefully it's possible to build something that's more useful than bubble.

The short term goal is just to get people to think more broadly about what cryptocurrency can mean. Your essay does that brilliantly, thanks!
"doing it wrong" sums up how most people use most software.
It would be more like "this motel, known to be frequented by prostitutes, and every guest, regardless of their purpose for being there."
ClaroRead and Jaws are popular. We're talking about high priced software actually built for people with disabilities. Not using Balabolka to speed things up because someone is too lazy to read. (I do it all the time.)
You make your friends go through 30 pages to learn of an idea they could get from a paragraph?
When I first opened the site there the main graphic loaded really slowly. Its a 2.1 MB PNG; you may want to change it to JPEG since it'll be way smaller and look just the same (especially since its a photo to begin with).

http://www.shalinshah.me/voice/images/bg2.png

Edit: I made a 60% JPEG from this PNG that weighs in at 281KB if you want to use it:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/okqij5hiubw08sz/bg2.jpg

Also somewhat weird that "Get this app" isn't centered like the rest of the content.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/80piftabnf57jwt/Screenshot%202014-...
Browser-based P2P file transfer
That's not relevant at all to that person's question. Did you link the right thing? That is the generic password "joke."
Read carefully.
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I've thought about this before, and it is actually pretty easy. You just do a hash of the image and push it into the bitcoin blockchain as a transaction. done. Only downside is that it will cost a wee bit of money and that you need to be connected to the internet at the point when you shoot the image (or, at the point where you want to have the image verified). See:

http://www.proofofexistence.com/about
Seems abrupt. Would be nice to give users a couple of weeks or a month to download their content.

Edit: never mind, looks like they gave plenty of notice.
Hmm, so you're saying bluetooth triggers that?
Regardless of the legality issue, a privacy bundle subject to these vulnerabilities is not really a privacy bundle.

TOR should stand on its own. If its security is dependent on legal framework than it's insecure.

In my opinion, nothing can ever be considered completely safe. All you can do is make sure the attacker's effort is bigger than the value of what you are protecting is in his view.
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I more or less agree just some minor clarifications/nitpicks
> Officers got through OTS not BMT
> Reserve physical requirements are the same as Active duty requirements
> The Air Force's cyber warfare career field is called 1B4[1]

[1] http://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/saf_cio_a6/pu...
Ah yes, that's probably true. I meant because of the higher frame rate.
Nope. We had checked in advance about the legal airspace and stuff, so we didn't expect too much blowback.
While we're at it, can we simplify the grammar of an email address? Does anyone really embed comments in their address?
This is like "Yo" for pizza
Have a good day :-)
What you're referring to may be both (a) true and (b) valuable but simply isn't "type safety" as is being discussed. It's unfortunately confusing to talk about this stuff since "type" is an overloaded word.
Would've been nice if he gave heads up at YC Hacks or something.
Another unnecessary down vote.
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"Did the employee not complain to management prior to involving DOL?"

Definitely not. Was a small company so I would have known.

"And if the employee did not, do you have an idea of why?"

I think they were probably upset about something else. One interesting thing was the DOL office was a mere 2 blocks from our office. Perhaps that played into it.

(More detail in my other reply)
but it's no worse than several displays, screens and buttons that area already present in your car that divert your attention even more than a HUD would.
I only down vote when something is demonstrably wrong or offensive. I thought that's how everyone is doing it, so I wondered what could I have written that was wrong or offensive?
Moar this than I can upvote. Getting in early changes your entire day. Sure, you sleep less, but unless you have an acute medical condition you can get used to it within a week or so.
RTTI returns nullptr when casting a pointer, but it does throw an exception when casting references. Both of these behaviors are well-defined, although the first is kind of questionable.
It's not trivial. This is 2014, not 1960. If computers should do one thing correctly, it should be to display text. As it happens, only a small subset of languages can be displayed correctly in email addresses. It's completely and utterly ridiculous.

Sure, it's understandable as email is an old and a widely used protocol, so changes are difficult to push through. But it's not acceptable, and it's not "relatively trivial".

There's no risk of "breaking the web", since the web is already broken for billions of people.

If email can't be made to support UTF-8, then email should be replaced altogether.
And the linear top/down flow, also known as manifest ordering, is now available with Puppet. See http://puppetlabs.com/blog/introducing-manifest-ordered-reso...
The unfortunate answer is "it depends."

There's three reasons why text might appear blocked out: corrupt data (we'll ignore this), data in formats the text renderer doesn't "understand," and data in formats it DOES understand but doesn't have the prerequisite fonts to draw.

Typically when it is a lack-of-fonts issue you can copy it back out and paste it elsewhere and it will work fine as the data's consistency is kept.

But when the text renderer literally doesn't understand the underlying data (either because it is misconfigured or doesn't fully support UNICODE), when you try to copy back out you'll often get a corrupted version of the underlying data which cannot be reused (e.g. a 2 byte character treated as two 1 byte characters).

That issue is less and less common in 2014, as MOST text renderers support 2 byte UNICODE characters even if they won't have the fonts to render the full sets. But around the year 2000, it was fairly common to run across a text editor which under-the-hood was just ASCII and it would corrupt irrecoverably UNICODE inputed.
Usually in a Ruby context you'd refer to something like Fixnum or String as types when really that's their "class"

irb(main):005:0> 3.class
=> Fixnum

Such a "type" doesn't have much to do with "types" as discussed when referring to static types. They're simply orthogonal concepts.
Orrrrrrr wake up early and do some exercise and coding while your mind and body are still fresh.

Half of you probably just said, "yeah right!" but you might be surprised. I was a dedicated morning-hater until I got a little older (like into my 30s) and started sleeping better (sometimes).

Best part about working/exercising in the early morning hours is that nobody bothers you. No sales calls, social obligations, etc. (Edit: Unless you have kids and need to get them ready for school, of course...)
fair enough. I was just throwing out "any logical reason (if there is one)".
That only establishes the date of registration, not whether it was taken with a camera at a specific location on a specific date.
They made an announcement a while ago as I recall, I think it even made the front page of HN as well.

EDIT: Yep, heres the link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7826313
Respectfully: Are you implying that the United States is a liberal democracy with an independent press and functioning courts?

Or are you suggesting that the argument of privacy exists only as a function of context? (e.g. One doesn't desire one's future employer to be made aware of one's disease, but one does desire his/her physician to be made aware...)
Wikimedia runs 1,000+ nodes on a really small box. No need for multiple masters. Just increase your worker threads.
Or work for 2-3 hours every morning before work.
Not everything is available digitally--mail, for instance. Sure, given the choice, I'd choose an existing digital book over one I scan myself, but I can't for instance choose a digital version of the medical bills the hospital mails me.

That said, this isn't an entirely unique concept, and you're right, positioning the camera is challenging. There are tools to help with this--arms and stands that position devices at the correct height to photograph a standard-sized sheet of paper. It may strike you as entirely impractical, but I remember the days when scanners were huge and bulky things, and even now when they aren't, I don't necessarily have the desk space to keep one out, or the desire to hook it up and store it when not in use. A reliable camera-based OCR solution for my Android phone and an arm/paper guide calibrated to the S III would rock, and assuming reasonable material prices and standard markup (I.e. not the absolutely huge markups of AT) it'd be competitive with dedicated OCR solutions and hardware.

Source: I'm blind.
While, I agree with your statement; that a "fundamentally flawed piece of foundational infrastructure is incredibly dangerous".

I was not aware that patio11 nor anyone for that matter, have presented any "fundamental flaw" within the "engineering artifact" known as bitcoin. Which apparently, has also been elected to the position of "foundational infrastructure".

Advocation requires an argument, in this case one which I am actually quite interested in reading.
The S-boxes were hardened against differential cryptanalysis long before it was publicly disclosed as a method (about a decade), largely because they got the team at IBM work on DES to keep the secret.

So it's entirely within reason to think the NSA has the potential to be a decade ahead of the public on matters of cryptography.
How to: Reliable messaging system Mobile to Server
Folks

I am building a simple customer service messaging system for businesses where customers can chat with Agents using mobile. In essence, the mobile app sends and receives messages to/from our server.
Any recommendation on what kind of infrastructure should we use (pubnub, pusher, realtime.co) for messaging and the server side recommendation (RoR or node.ja - any issues with RoR?).
It's imperative that we don't loose messages and build a reliable and secure messaging system.
As soon as I saw that it combines OBD II information from the car with turn-by-turn information from Google Maps... and they offer a 30-day money-back guarantee upon receiving it... sold.
Says you as a freelancer have to pay??? Is that a subscription or a commission fee?

$69 dollars a month for a potential fee of 300-3000... hmm. Could be good but sounds like a lot if all you get is 300 leads.
I can't get it to upload any images, from either mobile or desktop.
Should Engineers Design?
Lol in denial much, you're brave idf kkkunt has been sentenced to 30 days in jail
I really don't understand the point you're trying to make here. The parent says that tech industry workers are "deluded" because they think of themselves as part of the "ownership class" rather than the "working class," thus allowing the "fruits of their labor" to be "stolen," so clearly he's talking about the behavior of individuals, albeit en masse. Because they're deluded, they're acting irrationally.

All I'm saying that given the job fluidity within the tech industry as a whole, it is unlikely that individuals are going to allow themselves to be compensated at rates very much less than the value they provide. Having the government force employers and employees to account for their work on an hourly basis, so that their labor is not "stolen," is a restriction on their respective individual freedom. So the other side to the parents argument is that maybe the tech industry as a whole is not deluded, maybe it just wants this freedom.
You might be able to use Twilio and OpenVBX to just forward SMS to your existing email address.
What's depressing is that bank and mutual fund websites don't generally have OAUTH or 2FA and they're the ones with the worst consequences they get hijacked.
As long as you don't mind using the service provider's seed value, Yubikey can do OATH TOTP.

http://www.yubico.com/applications/internet-services/gmail/
Uber passenger rating hack is back online
Transferwise would be great for you. I've used it for a couple of years now transfering money from pounds to euros. It's super quick, cheap and easy to use. This service uses the exchange rate which is quoted on reuters and asks a tiny 0.5% fee.

With the below link you will get your first transfer for FREE:

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> "Unlike the cleaning staff, who can "be shown the door if that's how they feel about it.""

Cleaning staff are (overwhelmingly) entitled to overtime pay, by law.
Really, the iPhone is tired already. As is Android. Nothing new under the sun. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Apple has done nothing really innovative in some time. Neither has Google.

Bigger screens mean nothing in the end.

Wake me when the holodeck is a reality.
MongoDB CEO Max Schireson steps down
After a quick glance at the standard, I belive email providers like Google who support SMTPUTF8 could support having two email addresses transparently to the user.

According to the standard: "If the message cannot be forwarded because the next-hop system cannot accept the extension, it MUST be rejected or a non-delivery message MUST be generated and sent."

Google could preserve a backup ASCII email for all UTF-8 email addresses, which would be used in the case the recipient doesn't support SMTPUTF8.

Of course, I don't know if Google has plans to support this.
This is a start, http://www.tox-chat.com/

Like cryptocat, tox claims things that are not proven to be true by developers that aren't qualified to be writing or designing the protocols for a secure encrypted chat.

Having the intent to do something isn't the same thing as actually being able to do it. People will use tox and get p3wnd with very dire consequences.
A few of my more paranoid* friends already suggested this a while back, this just proves it. :D

* Possibly s/paranoid/informed/
Silicon Valley wouldn't exist if those would be paid.

If that's the case, then Silicon Valley doesn't deserve to exist.

The only people for whom it's reasonable to expect unpaid overtime are genuine founders with real control over the company and their place in it, and who will get real rewards if it succeeds,

You work so many unpaid overtime hours that your actual hourly wage isn't THAT high anymore.

Maybe you do. Except on projects with direct benefit to your career, it's a waste of time and you'd be better off to stop. You don't get more respect by being a chump. You just get loaded with more grunt work.

You want your bosses to think you have leadership potential, not that you're a hard worker who can be used as a garbage disposal for stuff no one else wants to do, or who will accept abuse downwind of others' mistakes (understaffing, bad planning, etc.)

especially if you also take only 10 vacation days into account

Don't work for shitty companies. Three weeks is the absolute minimum.
It's 48 hours. You can be legally expected to work anything up to that without overtime pay, as a salaried employee.

And penalties for requiring employees to work over that, apply only when this is exceeded when it's averaged over a 17 week period.

But you're right, many fields pretty much bring up the 48-hour overtime exemption contract to you on day 1, many temp jobs, or things like catering/bar-work require you to sign one of these.
Explosion at China plant may delay release date for iPhone 6
I've got an 8k word essay that I've been working on for a while about the engineering case against Bitcoin.

I'll be looking foward to seeing it Patrick. I've got my own rant about why BitCoin is (mostly) a terrible, terrible idea but haven't committed any of it to written form as yet.
Hi, I'm Sol.

Any questions, just ask.
The stellar test server seems to be down, even through the tutorial.

One thing I don't understand is why do the rich people have more say than someone with less Stellars?

https://www.stellar.org/about/mandate/#Stellar_creation
That was awesome, I'd love to hear some more manuals like that, perhaps something for programming.
> You don't just randomly put s*it in your mouth because it "looks innocent".

Kids do.
A lot of cases of "accented characters" are much simpler, compared to e.g. Chinese or Japanese, where the mapping is not 1-1 (a given kanji could have multiple readings, or for Chinese, pinyin is not 1-1). There's also a number of people who don't know the ASCII mapping for their language. Chinese can be written with bopomofo or 5-stroke input, for example. There are programs for input of indic languages that use visual keyboards.

Let's say the Internet had been invented in Japan instead of the US. How would you feel if people told you that you had to write your name in katakana everywhere? As another commenter mentioned, internationalization is here to stay, and if we want to expand to the next few billion users it's even more important. FWIW internationalized usernames are already available on a number of non-email platforms (Weibo as a prime example). For email to remain competitive, it's important to keep up in the internationalization space.