skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question isn't whether Nimrod is good or interesting, but whether it's covered in third-party literature that can be cited. If you flesh out this comment into an article giving an overview of Nimrod and its notable features, and publish the article in either a trade magazine or an academic conference/journal, then that would certainly be helpful.

That mostly just follows from Wikipedia's ambition to be a tertiary source. Unlike a collaborative knowledge-production wiki such as c2.com, where editors are supposed to develop their own judgments and original analyses of topics, Wikipedia is just supposed to summarize the secondary literature, with citations. So the presence of decent secondary literature to summarize is the main prerequisite for an article. I don't think that's the only good way to run a wiki, which is why Wikipedia is not the only wiki I contribute to. If someone starts a wiki to be a comprehensive programming-language history & reference, I'd contribute. But I think having a tertiary-source wiki that only cites information to solid secondary sources is one useful kind of wiki to have.

It's interesting that outside of HN (and maybe Reddit), Wikipedia mainly gets the exact opposite kind of criticism: lots of people complain that it's far too loose in its citation standards.
> saving NaN%

LOL

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/o8o544awvvw92on/thumborize.me_-_Tes...
Then it has to have its own build system, with its own descriptor files, so you're maintaining two build systems anyway. Might as well pick one of the existing ones.
This seems very childish, will likely negatively impact third parties, and doesn't really even get the message (any message) across to them.

It also somehow manages to miss the point of what the Net Neutrality debate is even about... At this point it is mostly about peerage fees and if ISPs can extort them from third parties. It won't suddenly cause internet speeds to drop to pre-broadband levels, even for non-fast lane services.

I now have a negative opinion of "MaxCDN" and "neocities." I've never heard of them before, so now my only opinion is a negative one. Good job?

This is misguided. These guys have the right idea:

https://www.battleforthenet.com/sept10th/

That is more constructive, gets an actual message across (rather than passive-aggressive nonsense), and best of all might actually swell a movement for positive change.

As an aside, if I was a customer of either "MaxCDN" or "neocities" I'd be pissed. You guys are no better than the ISPs, purposely degrading third parties' traffic (between your clients and their users) to further your own agenda.
> new app

> screen shots of ios6
Ahh yes, votes of disapproval...
Sorry, just venting my frustration at
[[insert corporation with soulless corporate board here]]
gobbling up another
[[insert small company with real passion for the craft here]]

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the exit frees those with passion to really let loose and experiment. I hope so.
> Why would any global app show an American national political campaign to all their users?

Because it affects them, too, and they have a right to know what the risks are, even if they can't do anything to help very directly.
Main problem is that someone in US just can't get the relevant info on 99% of the overseas teams out there. The ones that you first google out are usually the ones who advertise the most and who generally always oversell their resources, and thus produce really bad results. Experienced small teams usually already have a number of clients, work hard and are not that visible or fast growing. So try playing smarter and avoid corporate outsourcing channels, and instead reach out to overseas developers' communities on twitter and conferences and contact developers and teams directly. You'll get much better results.
"unreleased products" are definitionally neither successes nor failures in the marketplace.
The codebase was part of the Linux kernel for a long time, however. That's what the OP probably meant.
The State of Rendering
Care to back that up with sources or a reference?
That would be asking for a new feature, not asking for the preservation of existing functionality.

Even so, the answer is that yum and apt have already been packaged for Debian, so can install those, install alien, and then convert deb packages to rpm packages, build a repo, and work from that. Ask around, maybe other people are interested in doing that too.
I'm amused because this is basically the app from the (forgettable) movie The Darkest Hour: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Darkest_Hour_%28film%29
re Internet Slowdown: I'm stuck on a dissonance between the status as presented vs. the reality as I understand it. I may well be wrong/uninformed and I'm happy to be educated if so.

Here's the status as presented:

"Battleforthenet.com (a project of Demand Progress, Engine Advocacy, Fight for the Future, and Free Press) has organized a day of protest against the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposal that will allow Internet providers to charge companies additional fees to provide access to those companies’ content online. Those additional fees will allow Internet service providers to essentially choose which parts of the Internet you will get to access normally, and which parts may be slow or inaccessible."

Here's my 2 points of dissonance:

1. "...FCC proposal that will allow Internet providers to charge companies additional fees to provide access to those companies’ content online."

a) the FCC proposal is about allowing Internet providers to optionally provide higher speed/quality access for a fee, not about "charging" fees "to provide access".

b) There's nothing stopping Internet providers from doing this right now, since the original FCC net neutrality regs were shot down by the courts. So saying the FCC proposal would "allow" them to do it is not accurate, as they are "allowed" to do it right now.

So, as far as I know, the correct statement would be:

"... FCC proposal that would not disallow Internet providers from providing an optional fee-based service to companies for higher quality/speed access to the companies' content online."

2. "Those additional fees will allow Internet service providers to essentially choose which parts of the Internet you will get to access normally, and which parts may be slow or inaccessible."

From reading the FCC proposal, I think that an ISP would not be allowed to slow down or make "inaccessible" content from companies that have not paid a fee. Rather, the fee would be to improve speed/quality of access to a company's content.
udev is a necessary component of Linux. You could say just use a fork like eudev. Fine (for the time being). But the thing is, you can't remove udev from the Linux kernel if you want to keep it calling Linux, as it'd be a fork.
Why is your car exempt?
Thanks dude. I'm the Founder of the app. It's been a lot of work and has changed forms a number of times, but it's finally out on iOS & Android and is starting to grow and work at connecting people around the world.
Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts
So you're the three of em just had a verbal arrangement and not a signed contract detailing company divisions?
Interestingly I have one hit for my gmail on isleaked.

Looking at that link I see freebiejeebies, which if I check in keepass I created an account for in 2008 with a unique password (as I tended to back then, even for throwaways).

Sure enough the first two characters match that reported by isleaked (Though case doesn't match..)

Having gone through the majority of the other entries in keepass, that is the only password starting with the two reported characters.

So can safely say freebiejeebies was compromised at some point.

Now to work out why I'd have an account on there in the first place ;)
Haven't seen the film, what's it about?
The 30% as far as I understand is roughly covering the cost of running the app store. I.e. huge revenue but not really much profit.
Lots of stuff, you could for instance use them for sensors, say to monitor the temperature of your house and control it from anywhere on the Internet.

With some of the faster wifi modules that can run linux on them, I could see making a system of wifi enabled speakers for a house, so you could stream the same music to many rooms.

I'm planning on hopefully using something like the ESP8266 attached to a microcontroller to control/inspect
my brewing hardware (so I can see what my beer is doing - admittedly rather niche ;)
...true that. The Android App is brand new... the iOS app design and website design is not. Working on it!
Presumably you are getting CAPTCHA-walled because your shared anonymous IP has a history of abuse? How do you suggest that is tackled?
1. Why don't we have this now?

2. Why should ISPs be forced to provide more bandwidth for some companies at the same price? There are already tiers of service at the consumer level. Why not at the content producer level?
A lot of tools don't support them yet. Robovm in my case (I filed a bug against them, though), but also Cocoapods, for example.
Ask HN: How do you go from being an average developer to a great one?
An average developer is probably one who can write code, solve issues by looking at stack overflow, intermediate with a programming language.
But how do you become someone with great skills who is respected in the industry. One who works at places like google, twitter or facebook and can crack interviews without preparing for weeks. Solves algorithms and other CS questions with complete confidence.
I believe the biggest answer here is probably practice and I agree, but is there someone who has gone this route?
Please share your thought,resources,advice. Thanks !!
Microsoft's haul on Apple's big day: 2.5M page views of anti-Siri ad
This is great and comes just in time for me. I'm close to my monthly minutes limit and have resorted to using Hangouts and Skype, where I still have some credits remaining. Now it'll be a no-brainer, if the calls are free.
How Do We Define 'SIP' for Telecom in 2014?
I Have No Stuff
Global suicide rates
I'm always confused why companies don't invest more in better teleconferencing tech. I mean, for a small fraction of the money being saved with offshore work you could have a meeting room full of screens and networked whiteboards and wearable high-quality mics and wall-mounted cameras and crystal-clear VOIP and whatnot, to put you "in the room" with your counterparts. None of this technology is science fiction.

But yeah, the inability to extract the words "I don't understand" or "I don't know" from foreign workers drives me utterly batty.
I didn't mean going at it alone with two rented boxes but rather a service provided by your operator with the rental like http://www.soyoustart.com/en/anti-ddos.xml
Are letters taken more seriously than emails? That's good to know, thanks.
New York City Gets a CTO
tptacek

Only because I disagree with his views on everything (besides crypto).

Just kidding. If it weren't for the tptaceks of internet, I'd have no reason to ever leave a comment.
> - many of us do buy development tools and open source is just a nice to have feature

I realize this seems nit-pick-y (and for that I apologize), but that's a false dichotomy.

Open source != free. It's possible to pay/buy open source software.
It remembers the second authorization on all your devices?
How Open Data Is Transforming City Life
Small engine, low emissions.
In my haste I forgot to ask what kind of music you listen to. The soundmagic e10 is bass-heavy and you'll probably have to switch off your eq settings. I use them with my iPod classic (with flat eq setting) and they sound superb. However I found out that there's a bit of interference when I plug them into my MacBook Pro.

I also sometimes use my AKG 451 which aren't as bass heavy as the e10 but also sound really good when listening to Amos Lee for instance.

Bottom line is you should probably take your music player with you and have a listen before purchasing if possible or you'll just have to rely on review sites like WhatHifi.
Aliens invade. The protagonists happen to be startup founders who were in Russia negotiating a deal at the time. It has a rather implausible take on what being a startup means, as I recall.
Awesome toolie!
SQL Layer launches, bringing Google F1 like capabilities to FoundationDB
Benefits to physical co-location at a startup stage (where you want to be moving very fast) are not to be overlooked. There's a reason people go to the lengths of living in the same house when working on a startup.

If you really have to outsource then try to find the best engineers and hey, why not offer them equity if they are really good? Nothing like long term incentives to motivate people think long term.

Avoid outsourcing houses where you never get to speak to the guy who is actually doing the work, just find talented individuals. Appreciate this might be tricky for startups who don't have a clue about code reviewing but generally HN freelancing threads would be a good start.
> It’s an uncomfortable truth, but most publishers can’t be reasonably trusted with personal information like email addresses and phone numbers.

Citation? Anything? That point isn't well explored but it is a "truth" apparently.
He said:

> once you have that sort of money, there are only a couple of reasons to run it up any further:

Your reply seems to indicate you didn't read what he said, but instead read your own meaning into it. Your #3 doesn't make sense as a reason to "run it up any further".
What I meant to ask was, "what did people do before Stripe came into existence"?
Does meditation boost your creativity?
I recall seeing somewhere that a problem with the website was that it was declining. The average numbers were on the lower end of the acceptable range, but that was averaging high early activity with low late activity, which is not a good pattern. I could be totally misremembering, though.
The account I found on this list was captured in the adobe.com breach (http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2013/10/important-custo...)
But WeeChat in a terminal multiplexer + Glowing Bear offers you exactly that. When you read something in Glowing Bear, it is marked as read in WeeChat. You can access it securely from anywhere with any modern browser or smart phone / tablet. When you feel like using the native command-line client, just ssh/mosh into your server and attach to your tmux/screen session. There are other relay clients as well if you want to use those.

(Sync from WeeChat to Glowing Bear and between multiple instances is something we're working towards with the developer of WeeChat)
That's pretty easy to test, simply compile an array of pointers to functions in the BSS and then print the sizeof (or use nm), then do it again in packed mode.
I'm curious how much, if anything, Apple makes off of this. It's pretty clear they're not displacing anyone in the existing merchant payment value chain (which is the mistake most other companies have made) but it's not clear how Apple makes any money off of this.

I have a hunch that Apple might not be making any money at all off of Apple Pay. Apple operates their business very differently than many tech companies. The vast majority of Apple's profit comes from the ridiculously high margins on their hardware. They develop services to increase the capability of the hardware platform; and any money resulting from the operation of those services is secondary.

When Apple initially released the iTunes store, they operated it at a loss. The entire iTunes store and all the payment systems, etc. that go along with it were built in order to sell iPods.

There's a very real possibility that Apple looked at the mobile payment market and said "Shit, there are way too many entrenched interests for us to insert ourselves in the value chain and take a cut. But having a superior mobile payment system will help us sell more iPhones, so we'll do it anyway." Those entrenched interests are what have kept every other mobile payment company from making a real dent in the overall payments ecosystem. Unlike with iTunes where Apple made demands about how the store had to function, they placated the industry while coming up with a solution that worked for both end users and the industry players. We'll see if it catches on, but I expect it will.
Me too. My password is in the dataset, but it's one I've never used with my Google account. It's my "low-security" password that I use on sites that I don't really care about.
Word for word from my ISP admitting to using a man in the middle attack
> I'd argue that modal behavior isn't a bad thing so long as those modes are very clearly distinguished.

No, that's bad. Your user can always miss the cues, in fact, you have to design considering they will miss.

In vim and other examples you gave, modes aren't a problem less because the distinction is clear and more because being in the wrong mode is not a cause of disaster - but they're still annoying.

The problem with the Airbus VS would exist regardless of indication of the mode it's in, even if it had a giant bright orange screen explaining the value shown is in feet not degrees, because the operator would develop blindness to it. A possible solution is having two VS displays, one for feet and another for degrees, such that the operator can disambiguate at a glance. Another is standardizing to one unit only (which is harder).
Work with people smarter than you
I don't know if they consider it consciously, but it's about the costs to the sender: emails are cheap and easy to fire off. Phone calls and letters a bit less so.
CartoDB takes $8M to build platform for “thousands” of niche mapping apps
As an individual US citizen, that is probably all you can do, though I would call "signed the letter to the lawmakers on Battle for the Net" slacktivism.

Slacktivism is -
" "feel-good" measures, in support of an issue or social cause, that have little or no practical effect other than to make the person doing it take satisfaction from the feeling they have contributed"

Donating money to the EFF, well you would hope it goes to paying the lawyers fighting these things in the court, so you are directly contributing to a practical effect. Comments to the FCC are actually part of the FCC's process, so while they may ignore them, that is the actual way to get your input to the FCC. Even more so when you send a personally written comment instead of filling in a form letter.

On the other hand, click to sign a petition, throw up a banner add, put a little black box on the web page, send a tweet, change your avatar, these do nothing. However because you feel like you did something because you had to change some html or upload some image somewhere people do these instead of anything that would require any real thought.
Building a blog using Flask and AngularJS
Installing rpm packages by converting them with alien to .debs seems akin to systemd's sysv compatibility layer.
Ask HN: Please pay a little attention here?
Hello folks,
I know you're really busy and stuff, but just pay a moment here. You won't regret it. We all know about the #internetslowdown that's gonna happen tomorrow.

I, request you to please make a contribution, in some way or other, to let the guys at FCC know we won't let them do this.

Mail them with your views: openinternet@fcc.gov

Reach out to their chairman: http://www.fcc.gov/leadership/tom-wheeler-mail

Add plugins to your website: https://blog.cloudflare.com/participate-in-the-internet-slowdown-with-one-click

And lastly, register your mail here and encourage your friends to do the same: https://www.battleforthenet.com/sept10th/

I know, it's time consuming, and also, that it's really difficult for you to spend just 10 minutes for the platform responsible for your very existence, but unless we don't act now, we might have to regret later...
Thanks, will definitely add it.
One of my throwaway gmail's is in the leak, the password matches the password I gave at devicescape.com
I don't know if Swift would be the best language to learn programming. Python is probably a better option. I would avoid platform specific languages until you are hired to work in that space. Open platforms like Python are much easier than close platforms to get started in Computer Science.

A good place to start with python would be the Introduction to Computer Science course on Udacity.

https://www.udacity.com/course/cs101

If you are interested in ML, I can recommend taking the Programming Languages course on Coursera after the python course.

https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang
I have to disagree. I don't see what's so amazing.. The EAP is limited to 60 days.. so you're either going to pay the $X00.. or move on to something else. If you can't buy it, I don't see why you would want to learn it just to abandon it 2 months from now.
If he was banned because some newbie (or anybody else) demanded it I'd happily join him in exile. Though I very highly doubt that would ever happen. And I'm at odds with Thomas on plenty of subjects, that doesn't mean there should be demands to squelch those that we disagree with.

I would not even want to see people banned for asking other people to be banned. It's just totally against the grain of the community. I read back some more through 'compare's' comments and he did indeed have a run-in with Thomas so you may be on to something there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7493419
Ometa is itself written in JavaScript (or rather it meta-compiles itself into JavaScript). Here: http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa/
Yeah, and he had his own TV spinoff! I have the DVD's, but i don't want to watch the entire series on the chance that I still won't be able to figure out the answer.
I didn't read that post that way... I don't think "the same year of experience repeated 10 times" actually leads to expertise. That phrase, at least the way I've always used it and the way I feel I've seen it used, is more like saying "somebody who just keeps doing the same thing over and over again and doesn't even attempt to learn anything new". Ie, it isn't just about not learning new skills, it also includes not improving existing skills and knowledge.

At least, that's the way I always interpreted it.
I don't want to go to work sometimes, but I still do it.
Not that I disagree with your point, but I haven't seen a distribution support two init systems at once. It would be a nice thing to see.
LibreOffice? Is this still....a thing? Is the OSS community still trying to beat MS at this meaningless game? What's wrong with Google Docs? First thing I do in Ubuntu is uninstall this cruft. A fat client office suite, how quaint and 1997-like.
Xcode is extra strange because it's so non Mac like. Drag with right mouse button to connect things, unintuitive icons with unhelpful hover text...
I can understand not allowing me to post anonymously - but to go as far as refusing me read access? Really?

Actually tackling the problem, hmm. Storing a single cookie on the cloudflare domain so I only have to auth with CloudFlare once, would be better than nothing. I don't like the tracking aspect of that though. Maybe there's some kind of advanced crypto which will solve this in a privacy conscious manner one day.

Unless IPv6 takes off fast more IP addresses are going to be shared. It's simply a terribly crude measure to assume IP address = person.
I may be a prude, but why do you feel the need to swear both in the medium post and the website?
Show HN: Jitney – Uber for not Uber
Fear and loathing in Rolex-ville
Oh I don't know, the anti-SOPA campaign worked out pretty well.
Redesigned my portfolio using Impulse
Everything's amazing and nobody's happy (part 1)
Completely agree! Please watch out for some of these companies that will email/call you repeatedly and say "we can do Java, Python, C, COBOL anything ANYTHING!" usually they can't. With the prices they offer, it's often pretty tempting but don't be fooled that easily. Do some research into finding good shops.