skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These Ingress-like type of games seem like a good trend, and this game too looks like fun. Just one thing - I probably wouldn't play this in US, certainly not if I'd have colored or black skin. Police there seems to be a little too trigger happy and tends to yell "he's got a gun" even when they don't even see the gun. That has happened a few times too many in US for me to comfortably play this game there. Just the more recent one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XFYTtgZAlE
Shapeways did this at the Museum of Art and Design in NYC for a 3D printing exhibit.[1] It was basically a similar scanning setup that the author described of standing on a lazy susan while being scanned by a Kinect. I'm not sure why this would suddenly cost $180,000 to turn it in to a booth.

[1] http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/2322-shapeways-body-s...
Given the secrecy surrounding the bombs, it is highly likely that not one of them had any idea what it was they were assembling/loading into the plane. All they likely knew was that it was "some kind of new, secret, bomb". It is questionable whether the "high ranking officials" referenced in the plane alignment photo caption even had much knowledge of just what this "new, secret, bomb" really was.
I can't see the use case for wanting to send some information between devices this way. Perhaps PONG or other types of video games?
Unless you're talking about 10.6 or older :

Quoted from 0x0

Also for 10.8: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1768
And for 10.7: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1767
Edit: Further information from the announcement is available here: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2014/Sep/m....

Just posting it here incase someone reads your comment and misses 0x0's
Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risks :).

The keywords are: existential risks.
The Wacko in the Morning Show 09/30 by the Wacko Network
تحميل واتس اب بلس الازرق تنزيل تطبيق واتساب الجديد 2014
Also, the hackers were big users of the the wpi.* USENET groups (which were a replacement of the TOPS-20 MM groups- actually one of the first student written UNIX programs was 'bboard'- because they didn't have news installed on the Encore at first).
The recent Alibaba ipo demonstrates this is a stupid idea and that eBay has been chronically mismanaged for years. That it has effectively squandered such a massive lead and headstart is incredible.
You completely misunderstand the point. "Another package manager" doesn't matter. People can and should use the package manager of their choice (why should I break pip?). The point is to have common ground between all package managers.
Where? You mean the proof of concept?
The work ethic narrative is immensely useful to employers, but in too many situations it's almost totally disconnected from real opportunity and reward.

Ultimately it's a political problem - but not necessarily in the obvious sense.

The most successful and fun cultures reward inventiveness and positive social contributions, and include some element of challenge and competition.

But using money and markets to make decisions about the kinds of activities that are rewarded turns out to be an inefficient, short-sighted and often surreal way to manage what does and doesn't get valued.
Nothing can go wrong :) come on...

Love the concept but I am sure this is asking for trouble. Trigger Happy cops incoming.
Fossil [0] is a scm that does a lot of really useful things that revolve around managing code:

- web interface, native or CGI

- wiki

- bugtracker

Fossil is implemented using SQLite as a storage, which is rather unsurprising given that both are written by the same guy.

[0] http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/index.wiki
This quote from John Glenn always reminds me just how brave those sons of bitches were;

"As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder."
A similar start-up in Berlin/Prag: http://thedustcloud.com

If you're in London, Howard, the founder will be speaking at #geomob on 13th of Jan. http://lanyrd.com/2015/geomob/
Yeah, I am sure we will soon see hundreds of well-dressed, athletic people running around with their smartphone in camera position. Expect this to generate a lot of buzz, because virtual reality is a one way ticket to success these days. See you at the Series A, with neither revenue nor anything beyond a demo video.
Google Shuts Down Its Orkut Social Network
Keep Your Project DRY. Use Layers
502 Bad Gateway, can anyone summarise?
It's probably not just Wi-Fi but mix of Wi-Fi, 4G/3G and Bluetooth :
http://opengarden.com/apps

Given the density of the protest, Bluetooth could work.
Just a day on the job as far as they were concerned. As with many things you might do, you only realize what you were doing was important (often) long after the fact.
4 smart growth hacks for generating deal flow as a VC
Mostly a problem for people in countries where cops are allowed to carry a weapon. In other words, we Norwegians can play in public without running the risk of being shoot by a cop :)
Completely agree. Although the open source movement has plenty of great engineers and is great at solving complex software problems, it doesn't tend to have everything else that great software companies have.

UI designers, customer researchers, graphics artists, strategy teams (to set an overall vision) e.t.c. tend to be under-represented compared to other software companies.

I also think that open source software tends to be less innovative, as 'design by committee' isn't something that is followed inside for-profit companies with closed software.
hey, we are long-time friend of dustcloud and howard. Similar concept, different execution.
hope you enjoy our too
At least one of them [1] knew exactly what it was, I would guess that the others were working for him and had a pretty good idea too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sterling_Parsons
man, 600 person on server, we have not expected to go on hn today :D

#slashdotted!
Well, 1968 was almost half a century ago.

And USSR is not the same thing as Russia. (Ukraine was unfortunately a part this godforsaken union, and was forced to fight on the side of the empire.) Needless to say, Russia did not invade Czechoslovakia by itself. USSR invaded Czechoslovakia. (If you want to put Russia in the subject, perhaps: Russia invaded Czechoslovakia with the help of its USSR union members.)

Again, Russia ≠ USSR.

Putin realizes this difference, which is why he employs these dirty tactics by lying that "soldiers on vacation" are volunteering to fight along side the terrorists in Ukraine. How these Russian soldiers on T-72 tanks entered Ukraine's territory 20km in is beyond me. http://www.newsweek.com/2014/09/19/russian-soldiers-reveal-t... Kremlin claims they were lost. If they were indeed lost, this proves Russian army's incompetence, otherwise it is another case against Putin and his imperialistic ambitions. Over time the pile of lies and lies gets bigger, and it starts to crumble. This pile of lies has grown and overgrown Putin (~> 1.7m), and it is starting to lean towards him, and he has to pile some more and more lies to keep it from crumbling. But it is falling apart.

As Obama pointed out, Russia is only a "regional power."
That region ends where Russian border begins, and this is what we are seeing in Eastern Ukraine: a failing Russian invasion along with a pile of "bullshit" to compensate for incompetence.

> That's bullshit. Quoting Euromaidan sourced "news" is worse than quoting RT.

As per Euromaidan, if you are not happy, perhaps I can entertain you with Ukraine's own RT alternative: Ukraine Today (UT). You can watch it directly on youtube. (a little spoiler: it's not funded by Kremlin nor by the CIA)

https://www.youtube.com/ut

It is quite impressive how quickly they sprung up as a functioning international TV channel. I didn't know you could have a fully functional news station within a couple of months. But then again, we live in a new era, year 2014; not 1968.
I'm guessing its this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUhUzUWOIug
Yes, and your basic point that if it ever seems to you like you'd be better off dead then you should kill yourself, is frankly, outright irresponsible and idiotic. Especially with a disease like depression where one of the symptoms is that things seem more hopeless than they really are. In a community that has lost more than its fair share of members to suicide, this is a stance I really can't comprehend.
MixRadio Hack Week 2 – September 2014
Google's cache does a surprisingly good job with all these fancy video backgrounds:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?ion=1&espv=2&q=...
Amazon has their own payments solution. I've actually seen it replacing PayPal several places, like buying WiFi on flights.
Similarities between the Game of thrones and the now United Kingdom
[Minecraft Animation]-The HeadHunter [HD]
I found out a few weeks ago they made a bunch of those bombs, minus the nuclear elements, for training. They even dropped some on Japanese targets and found they were fairly effective just from the explosive content.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin_bomb
PayPal allows people who don't have a credit card to make purchases online. Many people in European countries don't have a credit card for example. Accepting PayPal is an easy alternative to supporting all of the different payment methods that you might need to meet certain regions expectations.
Well it's a cool idea but I don't want any weirdo come over looking for me when I'm at work, right? ;-) And we both know that some people take their games too seriously, ja? ;-)
> after that a wrongly programmed AI may just as well "spring to life and start taking over the world" few minutes later.

That's physically impossible. AI still needs to improve incrementally and this will take time and resources. We can consider such AI to act like a virus - it will need a host to grow - in this case computer resources. It will be limited by the CPU, network speeds, storage and power. If it grows too fast it will starve the host of these resources which in turn will slow down it's progress. Even if the AI starts on a supercomputer in some university somewhere and decides that it needs more power, most likely it will start by "infecting" other computers on the network. These computers will not be nearly powerful enough to add much to the current processing power of the supercomputer. Such invasion is likely to get noticed. Each infected node will not be another super intelligent being, but due to hardware limitations it will most likely be a software that's limited in scope and designed to propagate and control the resources, linking them with the main host. We can safely assume that restarting, or reformatting the drives will restore the node to it's non-infected state thus slowing down the "invasion". Why we can assume that? It will take AI long time to learn everything about every architecture and operating system and apply that knowledge. The AI that's hosted on a supercomputer will not be able to suddenly start rewriting its software, take over nearby nodes, learn everything about our world etc.

>You're assuming that AI will grow with us and necessarily reach the same value system we have (one we don't really comprehend ourselves, mind you).

No I'm not. Only thing I can assume is that if the AI is smart enough to figure out how "convert" humans to paper clips, it will be smart enough to understand that it's pointless. It may decide to use it's super intelligence to take over the world, and I can't argue with that.. But if it continues to make paper clips even if they are no longer necessary then by definition this is not AI, just a stupid replicator.
PayPal protections are usually considered a disaster for everyone involved. Sellers and companies are constantly getting their accounts frozen, buyers are constantly getting shipped bottles of shampoo instead of camera equipment, priceless violins are being destroyed, etc..
> I certainly does not work as hard as the cleaning lady getting up at 5 am to clean my desk

No kidding. I was in the office at 10 pm the other night, and the cleaning guy came around to empty the trash cans. He's like "man, still here at 10?" And I'm thinking "well so are you."
Wondering why the staff are not wearing any protective clothing while handling nuclear devices ?
One good news is that it seem the developers are already open to port to Linux/MacOS X (source : https://twitter.com/adrianchm/status/502519538672758784 )
integration has been live on my account for several months.
So I booted and put up my servers just for the heck of it since there's nothing I could care about being hacked in it. I was anyways going to wipe the servers and start from scratch. Discovered quite a fun log today.

Basically several hackers have gotten in, installed wordpress, (and the whole apache mysql php stack with it) and done a bunch of other stuff and left without a trace (except for the log of course). Crazy stuff. I'm wondering how many other websites have been hacked and aren't even bothering to check on it.
Looking at the graphic for the reasons from top to bottom

No Market Need - This is real
Ran Out of Cash - nobody wants their product because of "No Market Need"
Not the Right Team - unable to build and sell the product because of "No Market Need", so blame the team
Get Outcompeted - Everybody buys our competitors products but nobody wants to our product because it doesn't solve their problem ("No Market Need")
Pricing/Cost Issue - I don't know how to price the product so that it covers my costs and attracts clients, because I don't understand the market (again "No market need")

I can go on like this for each and every item in this list. Basically, it seems there are two problems on the surface why startup fails. They either build what nobody wants or they expect that clients will come by themselves buying a their product.

First understand your market and their problems, and only after you find a problem they are ready to pay for solution, build that solution.
This is obviously the smart phone enabled version of the old 'Assasins' roleplaying game that seems to be common around my university. I know some people who would be interested in something like this whereby they could utilise it as a framework to setup their own games/rules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin_(game)
Ask HN: How is your time spent working as a developer?
As a lot of articles these days seem to be suggesting, is most of your time indeed spent reading documentation, learning how to do something and understanding the code, rather than writing code all the time? Or is that not true?
The UK is also notable in its plaintiff-friendly libel/slander laws and expansive secrecy/press-gag orders.

And yet RSF still rates the UK as better than the US in it's annual Press Freedom Index (and has for years, IIRC). The US has plenty of gag orders when it comes to 'national secrets' and the like (as does my own country, Australia).

But yes, I agree that fines for tweets is not an example of free speech - but I was saying that speech is multipolar, not a continuum. Sure, in the UK, you can get fined for an offensive tweet. But in the US, there are some areas (8 states?) where you cannot state "I am gay" and legally hold political office.

Each punishment of speech is the opposite of free speech

Which implies that 'free speech' is a universal good. I would disagree - there are cases where free speech does nothing but harm. Westboro Baptist Church picketing funerals is a clear case. A funeral is a once-off event that cannot be repeated, and people are at their weakest. That picketing actually hurts people, directly, and intentionally. If instead they threw punches, there'd be no qualms about LEO's moving in and locking them up, but because they're doing psychological damage (and clearly intending to do so at people at their weakest, who have nothing to do with their gripe), it's considered a reasonable loss in defence of free speech.

The other difference between European and US ideals on free speech/hate speech is that Europe has seen close up and personal exactly the kind of horrors that come from letting hate speech progress unchecked. The WWII era is pretty painful for continental Europeans - they don't share the Anglo world's passion for reliving the glory days where we were unequivocably on the side of right, and we won. Europe suffered incredible pain from hate speech; something that the US has not had to endure. It's something to keep in mind when determining what you consider to be a workable level of freedom of speech.
Can a sufficiently privileged IAM account not create other privileged IAM accounts? If not, and it is a rare enough requirement, one might just use email password recovery in that case.
we have worked this year on an hardware design which doesn't resemble at all to a gun. We'll show at the product launch. Hope you enjoyed the idea!
Really intereresting photos.

It is a bit unfortunate that many of the captions and the sequence of photos are inaccurate. There are many misses regarding which bomb was which and on which plane it was loaded and on which city it was felled.

So, look at the pictures and ignore the captions and then read up on Wikipedia to understand the bigger picture.
Boost regulator might be difficult — my first observation was that there are no power inductors. These would be my next step, but unfortunately there would have to be at least several of those for them to be of any use.

I'd go with shielded 2.2µH/4.7µH/10µH/47µH/68µH/100µH SMD inductors, and definitely more than 1A.
Can't actually think of a case where I would want or need this. Even my Chrome tabs followed me around is kind of annoying lately, since I lookup different things different places without much interest in them elsewhere. E.g. I'm not going to read HN on my phone.
InvoCode CEO arrested for selling ‘StealthGenie’ cellphone spyware app
Here in Buenos Aires, there's a long-running initiative that reminded me of Freifunk. http://buenosaireslibre.org/
Implosion Sphere for Fat Man nearly assembled and about to be placed inside it's casing.

"Its casing".
Why do people have such a problem with it's and its?
Responsive NavBar button is broken.
Also is there any reason to alias a function like in the sample?
I don't how it's incorrect. It's a matter of context and point of view. I's one big avenue blocked over 3-4 blocks.

Last 11 of September, at very least 600000 Catalans over 11km protested in favor of a referendum for their independence. That was a huge manifestation.

The Hong-Kong manifestation isn't that big in size. But it's important and in a more repressive context.
All is working fine now! :)
This seems like a really good way to get shot in real life.
Ubuntu made the change for Ubuntu 6.10 (edgy), released in October 2006 (for those unfamiliar with the version scheme).

A slight correction to the poster before you: /bin/sh was linked to dash (making quite a few shellshock exploits fail on Ubuntu), while /bin/bash was the default user account shell... much as you've suggested!

On Yosemite:

$ /bin/sh --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.51(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin14)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

So yes, anything that naively creates subprocesses using /bin/sh -c is open to shellshock exploits on (unpatched) OS X. :-)
Still, a simple escrow system on top of Bitcoin could provide the same guarantees while potentially being cheaper. It's not like Bitcoin prevents such systems from being created - on the contrary, it has mechanisms to support them.
Once this goes live, PayPal will sooner or later face stiff competition beyond its current stage under the umbrella of eBay, competing against Chinese players like those of alipay and tenpay which already have users in the hundreds of millions. These players are agressively looking into the markets outside of mainland China.

The landscape won't change in a few years, but in a decade, may look completely different.
Wildlife populations have been cut in half since 1970, WWF says
Startup Hacking with Steve Blank at Igniters Meetup Event
What, are ferrets not legal in CA? How can an animal be illegal?
Depends on where you live, I guess. I don't see anybody getting shot over this in Europe.
Yes! There's a lot of fluff on HN nowadays, but every once in a while we strike gold.
For linux users, install xclip from your flavor of package managers and then:

transfer file.txt | xclip

link is copied to your clipboard.
There is quite some build-up of residue in my warp drive's plasma conduits. Is there a ferret lending service somewhere? My EMH Mark 1 is offline.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to Stallmann the language itself, I've always enjoyed working with Tcl. And as you say, it's got a pretty great source code.

But you need more than one leg to stand on, and due to its embedded roots and other hysterical reasons, Tcl did a relatively bad job when it came to building a good package library and infrastructure. Which in turn hurt the community, which made for fewer package contributors and so forth.

And once Tk lost most of its importance and languages like Lua appeared...
They cost between 13k and 26k a piece in 2014 USD. That is truly amazing.

EDIT:

Even more amazing when you consider that they weighed about 10k pounds.
I see shirts were out of fashion back then.
Out of all of those, artificual intelligence is the only one where at least something continues to exist.
ok, let me know if you have some ideas and issues with my projects
Hackathons for a better world
Because it's the opposite of how you deal with possessives in other situations.

...inside Fat Man's casing...

I assume you knew that though and were just being an ass.
http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/sqlite/
Your first paragraph is spot-on: People wanted and got control of their own computer.

However this is clearly changing now:

As data, and now functionality, keeps moving towards the cloud, quality goes up again (a polished app running on all kinds of devices), but there's little chance to tinker, to do it your own way.

Or, where would you say Stallman's 4 Freedoms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition) fit in these days?
lol, cops :)
they have more important things to do!
and there is nothing illegal about running around playing. that's what children do. should we just arrest all children, then?
Also really, really helps to be white.
Because it's backwards of how apostrophes normally work. In all other cases, it is the right place to use an apostrophe:

* ...about to be placed in Fat Man's casing.

* ...about to be placed in the bomb's casing

* ... about to be placed in its casing.

One of those is not like the others.
Tcl's package/repository story was certainly inferior to Perl's, and many other languages'. That's different from the language not being 'solid' though!
Because English is like Javascript - it's weird and is riddled with vestigial design errors, but since it's everywhere, we're all forced to use it.
We (Ionic) don't use web components because they aren't widely supported on mobile (yet) and the polyfills have pretty hefty perf impacts. When that changes we definitely will.
It strikes fear into me that these folks are loading a device that is design to kill thousands of lives, the madness in this thing call war.
TEM SEMPRE ALGUÉM TE ROLLBANDO
Hong Kong was my home base for the last year and a half; I just missed these protests. It is really a shock to see the main streets filled with people; streets I used to walk or ride buses through nearly every day.

Hong Kong is a hugely underrated, beautiful, vibrant city with extraordinarily friendly people, almost no crime, and one of the best transportation systems in the world. There's almost no place you can stand within Hong Kong that doesn't have an incredible view of something. It's also becoming a major hub for technology businesses this decade.

I wish them the best of luck; it would truly be a shame if China is able to exert more major control and turn HK into yet another unlivable Chinese megacity.
Maybe these competitors would want to invest/partner with paypal and splitting from Ebay opens up that opportunity