skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree you need to be very careful when you evaluate claims by manufactures. Independent testing is very hard to find, too (outside the German Tour magazine which does a decent job).

But in this case it is unlikely their findings are particularly biased. It's worth noting that the point of the original article was that the Specialized testing actually verified an earlier finding that hadn't been tested properly since.
5 add-ons and applications to take more out of Basecamp
Speaking openly about a problem is a sign of strength, not a weakness. It's a sign of a weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.

You want to be educating people of what you are doing. Copying an idea has little to do with the codebase being either small or clonable and more with the people behind the idea. And I don't mean just about having courage. Ideas by themselves are roughly worthless. There's no market for them. There's no place where one can go and buy an idea.

Describing your idea in detail doesn't mean other people will copy it. First they'll have to be convinced it's a good idea. If you ever tried to change anyone else's mind you know by now how hard that is. Not even founders themselves can predict how well their own ideas will do. Larry and Sergey originally tried to sell Google to Yahoo for $1m.

And even if people are convinced your idea is a good idea, they'll still have to compare it to the existing idea they are already working on and see which one they're more likely to do well with. A better, more ambitious idea might seem frightening. A simpler idea might seem more tangible. It could be at least a year before one can convince themselves it's ok to let an old idea die, and at least two years to pursue an ambitious one. Ambitious ideas really are that frightening.

If you are not convinced choosing between two ideas like this is hard, here's a simpler test that doesn't even involve a good idea. When you have only a bad idea and no good ones, how long does it take you to stop working on it?

Regardless, good ideas will have competition anyway. You can't avoid it. So actively working on the next step of getting feedback on what you have is a sign you are strong enough to take the next steps, however small they seem, as opposed to hiding to avoid competition.

Dropbox launched on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863) and their biggest gain wasn't the number of users they got from HN. Their biggest gain was probably that they became less frightened by the idea of one day evolving into a startup with 300m users.
Is Dalia Research the Next Gen of Market Research, Interview with Nico Jaspers
Here's a link to the iBook on iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-swift-programming-langu...
> Who consistently can't find major landmarks.

I was going to write this, but I didn't because It might just be that their pronunciation of things are just way different. I spent maybe 5 minutes saying "tuk tuk" to a friend, and finally she said "ooohhhhh duk duk", just a sliiiiight pronunciation difference. I can imagine names of things (landmarks) are even more sensitive.
This was one of the things that bothered me the most about moving to a city as an adult. I didn't miss the people I grew up with (heeeeell no), but I noticed the lack of a night sky actually started to wear on me.
Here are good resources to find dark areas:

darksitefinder.com/maps.html (world coverage but not really detailed)

http://avex-asso.org/dossiers/pl/france/zoom/cdf-normale.htm... (France only, very detailed)
http://bootstraptemplates.io/infogram/how-much-minecraft-mad...
Probably put these apps should compensate for the fact that humans can't run that fast nor that they can run over water.
You seem genuinely open to discussion. UI issues prevent offering all I'd like, but I suggest you add sociology - particularly the family unit and successive generations - with your economic views.

The arguments on this post lack enough dimensions to be of any use other than generating conflict.

Eviction based solely on age is a fruitless direction to move in. A (35/50) y.o. with a 4 bedroom house is not comparable to a 4 bedroom house, owned by two (35/50) y.o. people who (are raising/raised) 3 children, one of whom (birthed/returned home with) a child.

There are many other dimensions to consider, but I am unable and unwilling to continue.
Understatement I would expect given the design of https://stripe.com/about
When the Java 8 Streams API is not enough
Yes. Sometimes thumborize.me will get the image sizes weirdly. It's there mainly to give you an idea. The settings are the standard ones that come with thumbor. If you tinker with the settings you always get best results. I highly encourage you to try it on your site with different quality settings. Setting up thumbor in your machine takes like 2 minutes. Have a look at the getting started page. If you need any further help please do not hesitate to create an issue and we'll most definitely help you.
A [Hopefully] Useful iPhone 6 Comparison
Don't know why you're getting down voted, sure Swift has some neat features, but if any other company released something like this that was closed source, no one would really care.
The dependence on capitalization interests me because I've found that when you scan paperwork, you can get pretty far in terms of recall (say 94%) by insisting on perfect capitalization, and you only get to 97% when you relax this cconstraint.

I would say overall though, there is a huge focus on "hiring as a problem" and "getting hired as a problem" and not very much on "what do you do with these people once you've hired them." And I think the latter is the thing that really matters because you won't (1) get the results you are paying for or (2) retain people if you don't fix it.
Is this enough, though? Probably to prevent an attacker from stealing your account, but not to stop them from reading your emails.

Do you encrypt your emails? Do you regularly send emails to other people (who probably have Gmail accounts)?
Yep, that happens when we don't find any images in the DOM. I'll work it out to improve the wording...
ArsTechnica is reporting that lefties will be accomodated, but the strategy to be used was not clear.
Some people might downvote me for this (as happened before) but I have cookies disabled by default. Only if I need to interact with a website I am ok with traces and I allow cookies for that domain via the Cookie Controller add-on.

Now the strange thing: thumbor requires cookies in order to serve images. It requires quite lax settings since allowing cookies for thumborg.org as first party only doesn't suffice. I need to accept all possible cookies, I think because one offending cookie has domain .thumborg.org.

I think serving images should not depend on cookies, or is there a good reason?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8295102
Unfortunately, Harper isn't really interested in finding a piece of Canada's history. Rather, he is looking for evidence of early arctic exploration to justify nationalistic sovereignty claims of the artic, so Canada is well positioned for northern trade routes and oil exploration once all that nasty ice melts.
Did blob cause our warm summer
I assumed the watch was in the bag, as it doesn't say that the watch is waterproof.
Yeah, but we live in the physical world where there are actually finite number of positions that the strap could attach. "Infinite" is just marketing speak here.
This is more-or-less the result of the "everybody should go to college" public policy of the past few decades. Degree inflation is the natural consequence.

Degrees are used (rightly or wrongly) by employers as signifiers of where the candidate lies in the normal distribution of potential employees. Pushing more people into college does not fundamentally change the shape of this distribution, it merely inflates the credentials required to find the top X percentile.
any tips on plugging-in any 3rd party image processing filters? Maybe I looked in the wrong place, but could only see storage plugins on the wiki.

For example, we have a ruby-based library for converting images for different types of colour-blindness[0]. It's available from ruby, or via the command line. How could we use it as a filter in thumbor?

[0] https://github.com/kenhub/shikimo
I didn't really intend that to be literal. I'm going with the "skiing as a metaphor" here. Yes, people will do something arduous and inconvenient for the experience, but they do it rarely. The inconvenience is tolerable when you do it every once in a while to get a unique experience. The same level of inconvenience is not at all tolerable as part of your day to day life.

If the argument is that VR will become "an experience", then I'm fine with that. But a capital-E-Experience is the opposite of everyday mass adoption.
This looks neat but frankly these days with vim + YouCompleteMe I have everything I need.
My code is just under GPL because I just wrote it as part of another program that's also GPL. That said, I'd be happy to re-license it as LGPL since I'm the only one who's touched that code, but since you'd probably want to drop it in to another program instead of compiling it as a library it wouldn't make much of a difference.

I've seen a few getopt.c implementations that are MIT I believe.

Personally I'm guessing that those getopt implementations are probably all different (Just because it hardly takes any time to write one). AFAIK gnulib is GPL itself, so the getopt inside was just licensed GPL too, same thing for util-linux. libc is LGPL though, so that getopt.c was licensed as LGPL. It is kinda curious though, I'm personally just surprised that there are so many implementations of the same thing.
TIOBE Index: Java and C++ at all time low
Not yet. It appears that new features will be added according to their popularity[1].

[1] "We will support other project models in future. Priority depends on the votes in tracker: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/CPP-274 "
I/O Multiplexing using epoll and kqueue System Calls
A myth about lemon law
The Consumer Must Prove The Exact Cause of the Problem
When defending a "lemon" case, many manufacturers and dealers like to argue that the consumer has to prove the exact cause of the defect or non-conformity. This is sheer nonsense. It hardly may take an expert to observe that, for instance, the brakes will not adequately stop the vehicle he is driving.
Once the buyer has found out that the product is not performing and eliminated the buyer's fault, the burden is on the dealer or manufacturer to establish the various defenses, such as misuse or abuse of the product.
Find us on http://calemonlawinfo.com/
I'd been happily developing with VIM for more than five years but last year I tried RubyMine and once I let go of my perfectionistic/unixy point-of-view things got a lot easier tbh. If I were still doing systems programming I'd be very tempted to try this new IDE. Be warned though, the JetBrains products are usually not very pleasant to look at (alas there usually is support for themes).
Hey so it is, that's awesome. Thanks!
Flagged out of front page though.
JUnit in a Nutshell: Unit Test Assertion
Capturing a UART Design in MyHDL and Testing It in an FPGA
To add some balance, I found this article "The Biggest Myths" (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html) to be really helpful in sorting out what is going on with systemd. I was a bit sad that Upstart did not win on the Ubuntu side because I had already invested in learning the technology and I quite like it versus SysV init scripts.
is/was Javascript open source?

what matters is the platform

no one cared if Javascript the language was open source when it was the only way to do client side scripting for web pages.

similarly Swift has iOS and OSX - other languages are available on these but I guess developers are anticipating Apple emphasising Swift over Objective-C going forward
Red Hat/Fedora, Suse, and Debian are massively popular.

Gentoo is fairly large, but the others are niche.
I would be happier with 4 arms, as a fifth arm would make balancing awkward.

Let's hope that if you get a "smartwatch", people will start buying you plenty of them!
readerrrr: I appreciate you taking the time to consider the possibility that someone else doesn't know what they're talking about.

Won't you return the favor?

The whole point of Minecraft is user created stuff.

And that's why it never should have been closed-source. It is foolish of users to build their worlds in a closed universe, where a 3rd party could wipe them out on a whim with a forced update.

But we should forgive those users for building on unstable ground: they are children, after all.

Yes, Minecraft has captured the imaginations of a generation of children.

Captured is the operative word.

Minecraft is more open now, than it will ever be at Microsoft.

I need not (and won't) point out that this doesn't mean [...]

Anyway, +1 for Minetest. (You might like it!)
read their statement carefully:

“We acknowledge Reggie’s contribution to the creation of Snapchat and appreciate his work in getting the application off the ground.”

I wouldn't think they'd add a sentence like this to their press release if his only contribution was only an idea.
Nice implementation, but I still prefer something like gif brewery where I can set the parameters myself.
Experts learn.
He is wrong. In fact Apple charges the banks: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-10/apple-said-to-reap-...

Which makes sense, when you read the technical details published earlier today here on HN: http://clover-developers.blogspot.de/2014/09/apple-pay.html
The Appstore revenue is dwarfed by hardware sales, with all of Appstore/iTunes revenue being less than 10% of iOS hardware sales.

Apple certainly doesn't NEED the 30%, but it's very doubtful they'd reduce it.
Ah I see. I shouldn't assume that nobody uses it. I turned off the Dashboard shortcut and made my F keys work like F keys. I typically use Spotlight to launch anything, although there was a time when I used to use Ctrl-F3 to take focus to the Dock, and then open the Applications folder.

I might start using Launchpad more. The transition is pretty!
I can't believe Apple would release a brand-new language with zero baked-in support for concurrency. In this day and age? Looks like developers will have to resort to 2nd grade efforts like GCD. I just don't get it. There's no excuse for it. Port Go's channels and go-routines to it, or something else, but come on - it's 2014, not 1998?
Focusnabbing is (currently) a non-issue at the OS level because of keyloggers. At least on X11, it is possible for a program to capture the key events of any other program (in the same session), even if the other program is running as a different user (including root).

I do not know if other systems are simmilarly vulnerable.
Nice stuff but the trash talk at the begining is unconstructive and almost led me not to read the rest of the stuff.

If you want to drive yourself crazy looking at corner cases, try C++ or Scala.

I'd also disagree with the idea that parallel is not a priority, since (1) we all need speed, (2) even phones these days have 4 or more cores, and (3) parallelism is hard.

Really anybody can write methods that do fun things with iterables (think Guava) and it can be very worthwhile to do so. Yet, that's the trouble with functional programming advocacy, is that functional programming makes it oh so easy to do the easy things, but people still end up doing the hard things in C++, Java and other workaday languages.
Ask HN: I want to remotely access my EHD. Advice?
The Wacko in the Morning Show 09/10 by the Wacko Network
I'm sorry, I honestly have no idea what you're going on about here.
Anyone can point to the list of supported merchant/developer countries for Apple Pay? Or is there any plans to add new countries to apple appstore?

It is 2014 and I'm still unable to publish [any] apps on Apple app store and paid apps on Google Play... I'm based in Georgia, Europe.
350 posts on Hacks in 2 years
There's nothing at all wrong with state (i.e. variables) in programs - relatively few programs don't use state. The issue is with UI modes ... reusing the same UI which means two different things according to the mode its in.
Yes, that made me chuckle in a disappointed way. I wonder if they sit and think of things to say to brighten up the dullest of details / non-features?
It wasn't mentioned, but I fully assume the watch will be waterproof (at least water resistant). They incidentally come in contact with water too often (rain, hand washing, etc) to not be.

The Moto360 is water resistant and the Pebble is water proof, so if the Apple Watch isn't, it's seriously in trouble.
In airliners without flight by wire, the levers move because the automatic system it's engaged directly to them. With fly by wire you have to replicate that system, at least with the throttle levers. I guess that a servo motor and a control-indication circuit it's not the cost that concerns Airbus. It's all the chain of costs related to changing the flight philosophy.
In the case of the sidestick you could link them mechanically, with a disconnect lever to isolate them.
Or you could just declare this mount non-automatic in fstab.

This is not a bug but the sane reaction to a mount you declared essential not being there. Just continuing and hoping that the mount is not important despite you declaring it so would be horribly naive/insane .
I was being optimistic :-)

I don't use it on Windows anymore - and I only installed it on there out of interest! Same went for Safari on Windows.
Low power GPS jammer at the Whitehouse, perhaps?
Visit the iPhone 6 page and scroll down [1]. There's a list of participating banks and merchants (currently US only).

https://www.apple.com/iphone-6/apple-pay/
IDS and NSM: let's talk about SELKS
I wear one all the time. It's purely fashion.
This is also available on Linux and they have a few nice videos which show the UI etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvQeK9a0a24
>I, for one, fail to realize how can one design any half-complex app (gadget, whatever) to be stateless.

It's fairly obvious, isn't it? A keyboard with no shift key is going to need twice as many keys... but of course you'll also never find yourself accidentally typing with caps lock on. That's the trade off. The UI becomes more complicated.
I only use it on the Mac to turn off the "automatic sync" feature on the iPod, and to do a manual backup of my wife's iPad. I must say that the backup interface for the iPad within iTunes is pretty poor. Not the feature - the interface. Mighty confused.

I use Floola to shove songs on my iPod. Might be worth a look? (Mine is a 6th-gen classic).
Why so many kids can’t sit still in school today
Apple Watch Debut Initial Thoughts
Science fiction authors don't build things. The driverless cars are real, and they work. The Loon balloons are delivering Internet access to remote regions right now.
Well it's hard to say that JS had this much attention in 1995. Let's give swift 20 years and see where it takes us?
Why does it matter that it's not open source? There is plenty of closed-source stuff on here all the time. Maybe it's getting attention because the iPhone is still an incredibly profitable platform to code for, and a lot of people on here are involved in that.
Easy, get a race belt.

These are nylon belts with a buckle and a small expandable pouch. They also have 2 toggles to attach your race bib too.

They are just big enough to hold your phone, keys and some cash or cards.

You'll see people doing fun runs wear them to avoid carrying a pack for their stuff. To prevent water damage, put your item in a ziplock bag.
The problem with 2FA for me is that I am underground for a good part of my day, without reception.

I use google voice to get notified of calls and voicemails so I can be fairly responsive, but obviously using another service that can be accessed in multiple places defeats the point, especially when owned by the same people.
Maybe he wanted a discussion about, how apple news bury interesting news. Instead of discussion how founders get screwed?
> Quietly moves along to Android.

That wasn't very quiet at all.
Elixir v1.0.0 released
It will be interesting to see @gruber's behavior with regards to the watch. He seems more or less condemned to buy and wear one all the time given who he is. Will he find it actually useful or more of a pain? I could see an over/under betting pool on the number of days it would take before he ultimately decides to give up on it.
Invite visitors to chat and increase your sales
Where I am there has been one business that offered a 'cash discount' higher than what I got back from my credit card. It went out of business.

All the gas stations give 10c/gal, my credit card gives 5%. at 3$+/gal I'm at 15c/gal.
Missed this completely, thanks! Updated the article.
They are currently using a trick trying to circumvent the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL issue. But it is highly dubious whether this is legally sound:

ktime_t dtrace_gethrtime(void)
{
return ktime_get();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dtrace_gethrtime);

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/31357.html

In the end I assume this is intentional to keep the license issue of dtrace and ZFS in a dubious state. Thus preventing other distributions from shipping it. Meanwhile Oracle can ship it because they aren't going to sue themselves and the kernel folks seem rather uninterested in lawsuits as well (and even if they did then Oracle could drag it out forever considering that the company seems to have more lawyers than developers).
Elixir Release v1.0.0
I wonder how such things become possible. As co-founders shouldn't you have a written (and lawyer checked) agreement on how the company is shared amongst you?

How can one betray the other besides of letting him/her unknowingly sign an unfortunate contract?
It doesn't actually make any implication that Tomas was conceived before they met. Maybe an affair early on in the relationship that the father managed to cover up.
I have an algorithm for minimizing my coin count. When I buy a soda or snack from a machine, I put the smallest denomination coins in first (nickles) and then work my way up (dimes, then quarters) until I have put enough money in to make my purchase. The machine gives me change, and as long as the item costs at least 25 cents (a practical certainty!), I'm sure to have fewer coins in my pocket afterwards.
Fond memories. I used to use WindowMaker on my old RH 6.2 system (or was it 7?), maybe even Fedora 1. But I never understood the dock - I was expecting a Windows-style task bar and the dock really isn't that.

The fact that it sat beneath other windows meant you had to constantly shift windows to get to it, which I found frustrating. Likely a configuration option?

It probably runs excellently on modern hardware, albeit with no GPU acceleration or anything to reduce main CPU cycles.
It's really easy to say "Based on the information, nothing to do with the fact that she's a woman, people assumed she was a recruiter".

That ignores all the times when people who are given the same information -but about a man- but who don't make the assumption that he was a recruiter.
Interesting-thanks!
That's not how I remember it.
iTunes was released before OS X. It was a time when Apple was more or less a joke of a company, surviving because of the hard-core few who refused to abandon it. Somewhat of an oddity.

The iPod did not work on Windows (which was, what, 99% market-share in those days?) and required this insane thing called Firewire. Firewire. Even the name was funny to me.

I was a Linux fan-boy, patiently waiting for The Year Of The Linux Desktop, and was quite dismissive of that bulky little device, much like everyone else who was a techie. The Rio or whatever is what people were sporting.

And yet it basically destroyed the entire Taiwanese MP3 player market in the US in what, 2 years? Nokia should have seen it coming 7 years later...