skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Logitech has other multi bluetooth keyboards. Ever since I broke my apple one I changed over to this one (http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/illuminated-keyboard-f...) Logitech Model #K811. To change device, I hit fn + f1,f2,f3 and it takes about 5-10 seconds to pair to the other device. I believe I have to hit fn since I changed it to use the standard F keys by default.
Usually there's a "timeout", which will let you resubmit if it has been a long time since the last submission.

But in this case, the URLs are actually different, though they redirect to the same canonical version.
and also lot of headaches :)
In this case they're different URLs. But I believe generally the easiest way is to append some nonsense parameters to the url.

http://www.wired.com/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/...
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-hona...
Then he/she did.
Congrats on the launch! I just signed up and it tells me that this in invitation only :(

Also, according to the pricing - https://nodegear.com/pricing.html, the development version for testing out small apps is not free?
absolutely true. For the poor and the elderly, the money comes from the government (as you noted). Tapping into that should be straightforward, but it must be incredibly difficult. Otherwise, it seems that VC's would have invested heavily into tapping that. I suspect that the last thing the government wants is (more) scrutiny about its business practices from the private sector.
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Quite the contrary, Russians are very much alive. They won the WW2, but lost the Cold War. It all led to shrinking the nation from 250mln people to 130mln (less than Nigeria). But Russians never lived that well, like nowadays. I saw it with my own eyes in St Petersburg and Karelia. I can compare it to images of my childhood in the same area.
Russians are always reborn and never defeated.
I had the opposite, ordered a LT bluetooth keyboard in NL and it was a German version.
cool, now we only need to wait another 5 years and we will see celery integrated in Django :)
"Conclusions[...] Syntax highlighting doesn't improve legibility."

Yes. And the author completely missed the point of syntax highlighting: it's not useful to read the code, it's useful to WRITE the code!

It's when writing it that you want some early syntactic (and slight semantic) feedback.

If you type a keyword and it highlight like a function name, you get a hint that you have a typo in your keyword.

If you type a function name and it highlight as a type, or as an undefined token, you get the same hint.

And so on.

Just like automatic indentation of the code does provide you good syntactic hints about your parenthesizing (or brackets or begin/end etc), and let you notice at once when something's unbalanced or misplaced.

(This is also the reason why python is bad: editors can't do automatic indentation of python code.)
Fair point. Maybe the answer is, instead of trying to sell something to the poor, look for a way to enable the poor to sell a service to the rich?

I mean, two of the biggest success stories in the recent startup scene are Airbnb and Uber. What do they do? Provide a way for people who don't have much money but do have a useful asset (a spare room, a car, respectively) to make a bit of extra cash selling a service to those with disposable income.

What other opportunities along those lines are still open?
Might be being a bit thick here, but what is supposed to be happening? When I zoom the image disappears.
Yep, this is so old but enjoyed reading it considering the recent nude celebrity picture leaks.
Actually, this is standard layout.
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Great - it works for you. But you go further and claim that it must then work for everybody.

> I've always just used my real name online - so instead of having an email address like sexy_asian_chick88@hotmail.com, I just used my name. It's a little less embarrassing when you have to give it to people, and I sort of got over those sorts of email addresses in grade 5.

You can't see the value of bob@corp.example.com and barbera@mytransself.example.com for someone to blog about the widgets their company makes and also about the best places to buy clothes?

> sure, if I was living under a oppressive regime, and had to get data out

People are beaten every day in the US for being gay or trans or whatever. Sometimes murdered. Often discriminated against. While I feel Brandon Eich's opposition to gay marriage is abhorrent I kind of feel sorry for him being kick out of a job for it.

> And really, what am I writing online that is so private and secretive that I need to firewall it from my actual identity? I wouldn't be having such discussions on a public forum online - I'd do it offline.

There are so many reasons people might want to talk about something in a public forum but not want to tie it to their identity. At least, they may start wanting to keep it private before they reveal their identity. Why deny them that choice? But here's a list:-

- battered women

- battered men

- victims of sexual abuse

- members of the glbt community, especially if they're preparing to disclose to family members etc.

- people with "embarrassing" diseases.

- people who face stigma - being religious or not religious in a not religious or religious area; having severe and enduring mental health problems, etc.

This is just a partial list! There are very many more!

> And quite frankly, considering the awful quality if YouTube comments, I'd applaud any attempts to make people even slightly accountable for the awful and often hateful c*ap they write on YouTube comments.

Have you read comments under newspaper articles recently? Real names, horrible comments.

Improving comment quality is important. So far it seems that you need to set expectations and have some kind of moderation. This can work even with anonymity. See, for example, early /R9K/ (at least when they had the robot image) for an example of not terrible commenting without real names. But some people really strongly prefer real names - http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/UseRealNames
Does anyone have any recommendations for a 10-11 inch netbook for ultra portable hacking? It's rather hard to find places that still sell them nowadays (lots of tablet-a-likes with a keyboard attached). Basically going to be a vim-box.
Editors can, and normally do, automatically indent Python.
Looks like a child of emacs org-mode and consumer-friendly google calendar. Sounds interesting, what sparked you to do it?
Yes, I tried getting pigdin for whatsapp client on linux to work, but for some reason it doesn't work anymore because the OTP hack thing isnt working. :-/ I'll have another go at it maybe .. Windows and Mac there are plenty.. And its also about the fact that switching between another handheld device back and forth is a pain. I don't want to let go off my keyboard.
Hey, just a heads up: That link is set to private. I get a message saying 'You need permission
This form can only be viewed by users in the owner's organisation.'
I don't get why this is so newsworthy and "innovative". Matias makes a good line of keyboards[0] (even a mechanical one!) based on the same concept, just with 1 wireless and 1 wired connection. Wired is a lot less of a hassle for me anyway, and you don't even have to change the batteries.

[0]: http://matias.ca/onekeyboard/
Very often our discussions on these topics tend to dwell on the supposedly unethical behaviour of this or that corporate actor. Instead, maybe we should recognize that incentives to lobby (and sometimes, to cheat and bribe), are built into the system, and focus on changing the institutions so that such incentives are removed. And in this area, modelling could play a big role.
Adding to the list, Contour is a recent open source library that is easy to use and extensible:

http://forio.com/contour/

it also has good documentation:

http://forio.com/contour/documentation.html
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The video on deman service for UK "Channel 4" has coke-cola ads that take my username (from the 4OD login) and superimpose text on a bottle image.

It's really creepy, even though it's obvious and trivial.

It's also counter productive - I haven't used 4OD for ages precisely because of that creep factor. Even though I knew they were doing it before the ad.
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This is a much stronger case against highlighting English and against using really nasty themes, which no one considered good ideas to begin with.
Ok, no worries. I'll try to find another solution then. Thanks anyway
His point is that using actual, grammatically correct, sentences is not the same as using several random words. As your mobile keyboard autocomplete well knows, after a certain word there are words more probable than others.

How many people use this kind of approach, I don't know. Schneier seems to focus on "three random letters" kind of attacker.
How did you get this to work?
I did a quick search on the topic and the best resource I could find was this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1479056
I will try it out when I get home.
If you go to the bottom of the page and select "Change location", you might find that it's available in your country. I can pre-order for the UK (however unfortunately it's £49.99, a fair bit pricier than $49.99).

I've also just found that Currys (our last major high street electrical/electronics retailer that isn't part of a department store and is ubiquitous in most cities) has it available for next day delivery - http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessories/accessori... - only the white version, sadly, and it's also £49.99.

Edit: Also, when pre-ordering on the Logitech UK website, it asks me to select my layout and color.UK layout is available (thankfully - a lot of Logitech portable Bluetooth keyboards available on Amazon are US layout only).
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Well, the argument is that quantum indeterminism implies quantum time travel is possible, because the grandfather paradox is solved/migitated by indeterminism in which the grandfather paradox is still a valid outcome. However, quantum indeterminism itself is not yet completely undisputed; some theoretical physicists such as Gerard 't Hooft maintain that quantum mechanics can be both deterministic and consistent with current experiments.

This also raises the following question - if quantum mechanics is undeterministic, then the macroscopic world is at least probabilistic. If probabilistic systems allow the possibility time travel on the quantum scale, would the grandfather paradox also not be solved on classical scales? Since it is possible that me killing my grandfather in the past would fail with some very small probability (due to various quantum effects adding up), would the grandfather paradox then not also be solved in this case? I'm not sure if I'm interpreting the article correctly.
I have a feeling the US auto retailing comples will become a canonical example of various concepts for Econ textbooks for a long time. Austrian creative destruction, regulatory capture. I also think there might be room for new concepts such as regulatory accumulation and you could find some good examples of this here too.

For anyone who knows the ins and outs of the system.. What prevents a dealership from setting up a base in an unregulated state and selling new cars directly to consumers everywhere in The States using fixed pricing. No showroom, test drive or salesman costs. Just a website with a price and trucks that deliver the cars.

Is there no usage loophole created by interstate commerce? Aren't all these laws local?
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Do you really want to go to 10000 conventions for the same thing?
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Except the article seems to be saying that Apple's two-factor auth isn't required to access iCloud backups and that it only protects account details, payment methods, etc.
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Hi Andy, its public now. Sorry!
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Ask HN: Are tech job specifications detailed enough?
We’re a team of two well established software engineers looking at how we can improve the job hunting process for everyone.

We have a hypothesis, based on our experience as job seekers, that job specifications are often vague and uninformative. Sometimes key pieces of information are missing that prevent candidates from making an informed choice.

Currently we're building an MVP, but we’d like to further validate the problem space by asking a couple of questions:

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Hi, thanks for your feedback. We'll consider this option. In the meantime, please don't hesitate to use the system as one app is given for free.

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Too gimicky for my taste. I have the Logigech K760 (the solar one) and it's awesome. I prefer it to the default MBA keyboard.
Which is why you trust AMD, a company that's headquartered a whopping 600 second drive away from Intel [0]. How is Intel's stuff backdoored, but AMD's stuff not?

[0] http://goo.gl/maps/EB1LA
I find it quite patronizing that you assume the only reason anyone would use MySQL is that it is the default choice.
This is invitation only to catch out robots and bad people, and because we're running in Beta.

As soon as you sign up though, your invitation will be approved ASAP.
I don't know how it's over on the iOS devices, but with my Macbook/android setup I use mysms for texts, WiFi keyboard for long passwords and couple.me for texting with my girlfriend. Back when msn live still was a thing I used Adium but I can't bear to have skype open all the time since it's impossible to make the window smaller, at least now I can use Fluidapp and use couple.me as a sort-of native app and resize it to my liking. And my girlfriend likes couple.me since it has all these neat little things such as thumbkiss, stickers, easy photo sharing... etc.

A long time i've been thinking about getting an external keyboard for my phone since I don't really like a touchscreen when it comes to typing. But this keyboard over a mechanical keyboard isn't really an upgrade if you ask me. Better get a good coding keyboard! And if you really are thinking about self-improvement when it comes to coding and working behind your pc, I'd always suggest Steve Losh his article: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/

MySMS: http://www.mysms.com/

WiFikeyboard: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.volosyukiv...

Couple.me: https://couple.me/
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You should look at some wordlists. A lot of qwerty / qazwsx / asdf combinations appear.
Whoa, I totally missed that link. Thanks!

Now .. I can order it in various languages, the only English one being the UK layout. ;-)

I'm reasonably sure I want the US layout, trying to compare them now to spot the differences.

Edit: Yeah. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards - I am used to/want the US one. So still no luck unfortunately.
Just curious, why can't the shape be generated from the outline of the image alpha with an offset, rather than having to be generated by hand?
Cao I join the downvote train?
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Enable 2FA everywhere is good advice.

The big issue for me though is Twitter. It does not support 2FA with FreeOTP (or the proprietary Google Authenticator). I don't want to install the Twitter App or hand over my phone number for privacy reasons.
Your tool is nice. The idea of doing vector graphics like this in the browser is very alluring. I worked on something similar for a long time, maybe you would find it useful:

https://github.com/artursapek/mondrian

http://mondrian.io

The original idea was also to create an animation tool which could export to canvas code and/or SVG files with embedded JS. Ended up just being a generic SVG editor.

I eventually couldn't keep committing the time to develop it, but it was a fun project for a long while. Really got interesting when I started thinking about algorithms for something like Pathfinder (unfinished work: http://artur.co/pathfinder.html) and a freehand drawing tool which outputs cubic beziers (the crayon tool in my example). Also fun was coming up with data structures for undo/redo (mine still kind of suck).

Anyway, have fun with your project.
Yes, a "rewrite" is the wrong way to think about this project. A typical programmer might be able to produce 10K lines of production code in a year, which means it would take 10,000 engineer-years to rewrite it all.

The OP needs to think in terms of stewardship, not complete reconstruction, and make improvements by small steps as a gradual process.

I talked about a similar problem here:
http://short-sharp.blogspot.ca/2012/08/fixing-broken-codebas...
> C is different and I would argue that it has prevailed because it is more closer to the metal.

It prevailed because it was married with an OS (UNIX) that spread into the enterprise.

History proves that system programming languages only survive when they are married with an OS and are the only supported language(s) in the OS vendors SDK.

There wasn't nothing in C that couldn't be done in then existing Pascal dialects.
This is great. Virtual Box like interface for docker.
Can't understand why people would downvote this, Highcharts is extremely inexpensive compared to the other costs that go into a commercial product that would require extensive charting and the gained productivity and savings in development time are incredible. Two years ago I migrated a ExtJS web app that had taken 2 years to build to Highcharts + Bootstrap in about a month or two. What amazed me was that for every ExtJS charting extension that had to be written on top of the existing facilities to create more complicated graphs there was a built in option for it in Highcharts or a simple extension in the community forums.
A friend of mine (and his brother) are involved with DotOcean ( http://www.dotocean.eu/en/home) . They were also participating the event in London, you could check out the event exhibitions http://www.nauticexpo.com/exhibitions/

DotOcean is in the dredging sector, they check the ground for the type through a device they developped. They have multiple niches right now, but that is the most important one, i suppose.
This is cool, but reading text with oddly-shaped images inside of it is pretty annoying. I hope CSS shapes aren't going to be used excessively.
IM is way worse than 10 years ago. Everybody is on proprietary, locked down systems - Skype, Facebook, WhatsApp and whatnot. Adium was great back in the day but now it's incompatible with most of the chats I need to be in.
> Email messages are ASCII only. You can put non-ASCII characters into a header however. It looks like this:

To me that is a good example of how email is flexible, and also simple.

It's flexible because it could support non-ascii text strings, without changing a thing.

It's simple because the protocol doesn't care what the subject says. It only cares that it's an ASCII string.

That sounds like good engineering to me, as well.

You could argue that a new version of the email protocol could be improved to do away with those hacks, but that doesn't take anything away from email's simplicity and flexibility.
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It doesn't mention whether it runs on MX reds??? Is it easy to change the switches, are they soldered on?

Is it easy to change the controller?
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How much interest would there be in a […] fork of the Scala toolchain?
Try to use those arrays as function arguments.
As with most issues, there are costs and benefits with the minimum wage. It appears that Norway, Austria and Germany, amongst others, do not see a balance in favor of the benefits. Unsurprisingly their unemployment rates are low. Were I useless to an employer (as once I was) I would rather work for some wage (as I did) rather than exist (and get used to existing) on handouts from the wealth created by other tax payers' work.
For most users the changes aren't too troublesome (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards) but I'm so used to coding on on the UK one I find it difficult to switch. The \, #, " and £ are the ones that cause my most difficulty. And to me, the little US enter key just strange (it's double-height on UK keyboards).
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Teatro deploys a dedicated cloud server for each Pull Request (change in the code) on GitHub, and provides a comment with the link to the server. No need to do anything manually – Teatro automatically creates server specially for each branch. Service monitors the new commits and updates code on the server automatically.
Thus, you can run any number of parallel test servers under each feature and only when it is needed. Servers are not "live" all the time, and are suspended during idle time and do not waste resources.

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Rudi, we're aiming to keep it simple but still enable advanced usage like linking Docker containers.
Can someone offer a couple of real-world use cases for the masses?

I have all the Apple devices I need (MBA, iPhone, iPad[*
1], iMac) synced through iCloud. Why would I wanna switch between them, to add a notification or send an iMessage?!

[1] That's kind false. I don't need an iPad, it's just a perk :-P
No, but there's hope it'll be supported under iOS8's app extensions and custom keyboards. It does have it's built-in browser for now.
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I liked this, I have some of the 1500s or so recipes from when I have been inspired watching historical cooking documentaries, but the problem for me has been figuring out how to translate them properly to modern ingredients.
> The problem with email is there is no directory

That's like saying that the problem with home addresses is that there is no directory.

Well, that's why you ask the people you wish to interact with the contacts he prefers. Business cards, writing you a quick email, phoning them,... You know, stuff that works for centuries.

What doesn't work at all is spreading your info for anyone to see and having to spend the good part of a day to fend off cold callers.
Google working on super-fast 'quantum' computer chip