skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote the article. One comment about the iPhone only issue. Of course I probed this with Ray -- a communications app is really handicapped if you can't share it with all the people you want to contact. His answer was that Talko wasn't going to take a shortcut of writing one version and porting it to different systems--they wanted to get one totally right and then then work native on the others. That's why, he says, that Talko right now is totally free in beta form -- kind of a tryout period -- and that no monetization will occur until Android and Web versions work fully. He thinks that Android folks will appreciate a fast native version in a few months (my estimate) rather than a balky one now and forever.
You joke, but Apple did have a clothing line at one point...

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-80s-clothing-line-2014-...
Installing up to date dev tools is easily done on Mac with Homebrew.
This article is making a much bigger deal out of this than it is. Walmart has entered into a marketing agreement with GoBank prepaid cards. You can already get one at gobank.com, sans Walmart.

It offers some, but certainly not all, of the benefits of a checking account. For starters, they don't give their customers checks (so it's not a checking account). These accounts cannot send or receive wire transfers (though they can receive direct deposit or any other ACH-based credit, such as those from PayPal). It also supports ACH debit, and it has a form of of a bill pay service that uses PayPal to pay any phone number or email address. You can also have the service print and send a physical check directly to anyone, but I believe it takes more than a week. Calling it a checking account is a misnomer at best.
I personally have seen very few success stories that involved Azure. The messaging coming through to the public is that Azure is buggy and unreliable. I can recall seeing a couple of major downtime incidents ([1] at least) in the last six months, and a significant number of major ones over the last few years (certificate renewal issues, leap day issues, etc [2][3][4]).

I wouldn't choose Azure myself, and I would actively recommend against choosing it to others from what I have seen (unless you are building a solution on .NET/Windows, perhaps). I can't imagine that I'm alone.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-azure-virtual-machine-cloud-...

[2] http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2013/02/24/windows-azure-ser...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5266947

[4] http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/leap-day-glitch-caus...
I think this is as thin as phones are going to get. The camera is going to be the limiting factor, the bump that Apple now have proves this. However, I may be wrong and some kind of pop-out lens assembly is the solution to this.

In that case, eventually the width of the Lightning port will be the limiting factor (I'm assuming Apple will probably obsolete the headphone jack within 5 years once they work out how to recharge headphones regularly and easily)
I wish they would have included Clojure or some other Lisp. I've been doing some Haskell and am actually a bit disappointed with how much less concise Haskell is compared to Clojure. I'm definitely a newb, but it feels like you have to do a lot more boilerplate/duplication especially around records.
Disturbing VIDEO: How Killer White Tiger Mauled a Man at Delhi Zoo [Very
If it were me, I'd have just refused to sign it and let her take the risk that she didn't own the code. It was her changing the arrangement after the fact, and if she'd wanted an NDA and invention assignment she should have brought it up ahead of time.

He was doing it for "free" because he was doing a class project and saw it as a learning experience. He not only didn't get paid, or get equity, but in fact paid for the opportunity to do it. The idea that there is any conceivable reason why he should in any way be restricted in the future is sad.

Hopefully the "agreement" is simply a copyright assignment on the physical code.
No, this data has not been released yet.
You don't have to pay to use the site, apply for properties, or advertise properties - the fact that wasn't immediately clear is something we probably need to work on!

We charge to advertise on external websites only (who charge us), to conduct referencing (because it costs us), and to set up tenancies (again, because it costs us) - rental transactions complete daily on our site completely for free.
I've just finished doing the same for Edinburgh, UK and share many of the OP's frustrations. The monopoly that many letting agencies have in that they are also managing apartments adds to the shortage of accommodation in Europe's largest cities. Unlike in previous years, besides a worsening of the availability of accommodation I have also noticed an increase in scammers this year (i.e. people copying pictures from other city's agencies and trying to convince people to pay pre-deposits or application/administrative fees to 'secure keys').
Then it's the same thing as just saying "no". Which isn't discrimination, but it's just logical. If the market price for renting is 1000, and I ask you for 10000, that's basically a "no". And to give some glimpses towards answering your question, the basic answer is the laws, and information asymmetry. I am only aware of the local situation, but the law is strongly, to the point of unfairness, in the side of the tenant. And in sum, the owner has less than 1 hour to judge psychologically if the person in front of him is trustworthy. Something that is easily faked.
We are not talking about a single tenant here, OP had enough data to mine, we are talking about whole munich.

Are you telling me that whole munich had arab tenants at least once in their past?
Even if it happens to "only 2 percent" of iPhone 6 Plus owners, that seems like a pretty big number to me for such an issue to even exist.
The part that bothered me most about the situation (and I realize that it's only your side being told here) is that she gave lots of warning signs that she was not holding up her side of any form of partnership. If she couldn't show up to the meetings, give you feedback on the tasks that you were tracking, prepare for your discussions of the app, etc... you should have run away from her right there.

Never stay involved with partners who aren't adding their share of value in an undertaking. Since she wasn't paying you or even offering equity, the least she could have done is to participate in the work that you were doing for her benefit.

Don't tolerate being systematically disrespected.
I like the idea, but I think there's probably more friction than I wanted to. Nevertheless, I'm not your target customer, I don't have a team or manage projects.
Touche. The link of interest would then be:
http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/SRTM1/

Where the current 7 regions are:
http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/SRTM1/Region_definiti...
Suppose language A offers only a very low-level way to express something, and language B offers the same thing but also a much more expressive (but less performant) way to express it. IMO it's misleading to say that language B is "slower" than language A.
Support for Asm.js Growing?
But... why should anyone have a different 'preference' from another person?

Thanks for the book recommendation.
For more info:
http://www.csoonline.com/article/2687265/application-securit...

This should be fun
"Successful swing traders win only 50% of the time."

Save yourself a lot of effort, toss a coin.
>In a liberal society, the question of "why should a citizen be allowed to do X" is wrong. The proper question is, "why not?"

The "why not" is implicit in my question, but I will rephrase if you prefer: why should content producers not be able to enjoy the economic benefit of their labor?

>Taking means "dispossess someone of (something); steal or illicitly remove". There's no "taking" involved.

This rationalization is a pretty old one and it's just wrong. The economic value of the creation is absolutely being destroyed and thus the creator is being dispossessed of that value.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. Now that you explained it, I think this is a GREAT business model.

Thank you for existing.

(Does it work great? Do you have a lot of paying customers?)
Sounds like a worthwhile book to finish and publish!

There's a few things I forgot to mention.

You will have to do your own marketing. None of the self-publishing services will help you with that.

A Good Reads[0] account can help with that, but I haven't had much success with it myself. If you figure out a good marketing strategy please let me know :)

If you're outside of the US and are charging for the book then both Amazon and Smashwords require you to fill out US tax forms as they're both US based. Amazon have a wizard which will help walk you through this. It seemed really daunting when I did it (I had to phone a US tax office for an EIN number) but was actually quite straight forward.

If you've got any specific questions, let me know.

[0]: http://www.goodreads.com/
Interesting article. I live down the street from the Acatel-Lucent Murray Hill campus, and have explored it occasionally while running.

The campus is bizarrely sad, like the article describes, a place where its best years seem behind it. They have one of those trail/fitness courses that snakes around the back, and it's in terrible disrepair. And a basketball court with broken nets and weeds growing through it. But they installed a brand new shuffleboard court! I guess the demographics of the place have changed...
The best sign I have seen related to this topic is from my mechanic shop:

"If you think a good mechanic is expensive, try a bad one!"
Reviewers talk about whatever the manufacturer holds up as a feature. That has nothing to do with consumer demand. Further of course they "matter" in that you want a device to be comfortable, but your notion that customers of Apple devices demanded thinner or lighter is specious -- I have literally never seen anyone complain about prior iterations going back several generations being too thick or too heavy. It is not something anyone seemed to cry out for, despite your quick blame-the-user assessment.
Here in Canada they charge that cost only when you don't have a minimum balance in your account. So they idea is you either provide them with enough to collect interest or they take that fee from the account (and of course, the fee is far more than interst on the minimum balance would be, so functionally it's a monthly "fine" for going below your minimum).
An HTMLCollection in the HTML DOM is live; it is automatically updated when the underlying document is changed.
When it comes to bribes / "lobbying", apparently our government prefers to go after US politicians (by paying Washington think thanks to produce "research" on various subjects of importance to Norway). Thankfully most of the stuff they lobby for is actually an improvement on typical US government policy (then again I'd be biased - I'm Norwegian).
"Really failed"? According to Forbes in July of this year[0], Microsoft is second only to Amazon in the cloud market, and gaining. I'm not sure how that counts as a failure, except in the sense that Microsoft makes a popular whipping boy.

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2014/07/28/amazon-i...
You just made me want to read this book... Thank you.
Didn't the gov't kill the usurious overdraft charges? I don't follow American news too closely anymore but I remember hearing rumbling about that... iirc that's why American banks started moving over to the model I see here in Canada - large minimum balance or ~$10/mo in monthly fees.
Thanks that's good validation.

I assume from your comment you must be a Contractor, can I ask how do you find it?
I think the interesting question is when there is a fast-and-complicated method available in both X and Y, and a slow-and-simple method available in only Y. Saying Y has to use the slow and simple method because that is "idiomatic" would be misleading, when you could be comparably fast with work comparable to doing it in X and that is the solution that would be used when performance matters.

I don't know whether this is actually a situation borne out by reality or merely a hypothetical, though.
That doesn't sound right to me. "I just want to get rid of the whole project" sounds like a position of great strength in a negotiation. You might as well say "I'm not signing anything unless I get X" and as long as X is less costly than hiring someone to duplicate your effort, you've got a deal.

My approach would look like "I know that I have a relatively stable job lined up and am facing less risk than you, which is why I'm willing to step down from 50/50 to 30/70 while signing this NDA, or 20/80 to sign a lesser agreement, like a non-compete which still allows me to reuse my code. I'm not accepting a 0/100 split because I don't have to; make me an offer which isn't insulting. Or pay me for the hours I put in. Either way." If that burns a bridge then I'm not sure that I would have wanted to save that business relationship. I'd think "Surely an MBA can understand that a dedicated employee who takes it upon himself to be more prepared than his boss at every meeting and who actually delivers the prototype should be compensated somehow."
For jquery, the page is often on your server and the script is on a CDN. The worry is that if an attacker compromises the jquery source on the CDN, they can exploit thousands or millions of sites on as many different servers. If each of those servers were serving pages with hashes, the modified jquery on the CDN would be rejected.
Maybe "discrimination" is other name for "bad decision when good information about the other part is lacking".
Given that he was about to start a full time job, he had a choice of deep sixing the code and being 100% sure her venture would fail, and have a smidgen of responsibly for that, or let her have the code and have no responsibility for her almost certain failure.

Either way, he gets nothing besides a lot of invaluable experience, that became certain once she tried to formalize their implicit? arrangement. This way all the onus for bad outcomes is on her head.
I have to say, while I like the prices on their products, all the PC family of non-food services drive me batty with the most amazingly awful customer service I've ever seen in that sort of service. Individually the CSRs are generally friendly, but collectively their processes are awful. The phones, the credit cards, etc.

I still use their services, of course, because I'm a chump and only encouraging them to continue treating me like crap.
Hardware video codec support is almost always a seperate module, yeah, as are audio processing and video input/output.
See the W3C Spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-75708506
Long before that, probably. People are currently working on a couple of attempts now.
Bash specially-crafted environment variables code injection attack
so basically turn off AcceptEnv in sshd_config?
It is not stealing because theres is nothing that the original owner had and now does not have.

you could try to say that the person who downloaded something represents a potential sale lost, but i think its a bigger assumption than you are recognizing that the person would have ever paid for the property.

the producer has in no way lost all the value of the property, they have simply lost 1 single potential purchase.

I fail to see a material loss. Would you file an insurance claim if I broke into your house and made a copy of a dvd you owned? [if you think this is a bad example because of ip rights, change it to a picture you drew]

by your logic, reselling an item you own is also theft, since that represents a potential lost sale to the original producer - do you agree with this or do you have some way to reconcile this?
That is great! I just signed up with my existing IBM ID. I am enjoying using IBM Watson right now on a customer project, and being able to experiment and learn on my own will both help the effort to help my customer and perhaps use IBM Watson for personal projects. BTW, I like your dev page, with starter kits for multiple languages and frameworks.
My current package is along the following; 45k, 2k bonus, pension, private health, private dental, some training, and perks (gym, subsidised food, etc).

Regarding the pro's and con's in terms of benefits yes, I am considering them, and still a substantial net salary increase (2x)
A Short History of Everything Java
I think you'll find your instincts on this one are a bit off. These days, companies seem to value some variety over stagnating at one company or on one project. Hiring managers like to see people with a variety of accomplishments, and that can be pretty easy to demonstrate if your contracting projects are interesting and give you the ability to see the task all the way through.

When you are comparing money from contract to permanent, keep in mind there may be lots of hidden costs. I can't speak for the UK, but in the US contractors need to be thoughtful of taxes (and the cost of having your returns done if you can't do them yourself), health insurance, PTO (contractors are only paid for the hours they work), insurance, retirement/401k, etc.

Be sure to do the math.
“Everything is unusual on this trip,” says Bernard Meyer, managing partner of the firm.

Meyer is the great-great-great-grandson of Willm Rolf Meyer. He founded the company in 1795, choosing a spot in Papenburg so construction projects would be safe from storms.

In his wildest dreams, I doubt Willm Rolf Meyer could have ever imagined this as a legacy. Or that his family business would survive 219 years and apply its experience this way. Remarkable.
The Go team must feel (deservedly) proud. Since the Rosetta Code programs are typically written to be clear, this shows that without resorting to technical tricks and knowing the intricacies of the language and its libraries Go performs better than both Java and Haskell, but of which are often lauded for their speed.

From anecdotal experience, I've written some Haskell code, and compared it to optimized versions. There is a whole lot of knowledge that goes into optimizing Haskell, since you need to know how to make things eagerly evaluate, etc. Plus functional languages make it really hard to reason about memory usage (doubly so for lazy, functional languages).
Aerial photography + incentives paid based on evidence that the forest remains, coupled with dedicating part of the funding to paying locals to help look after it creates a strong incentive shared by many groups to ensure it works.
> a full moon (or no moon) is ideal to ensure the water was at its deepest.

Here's a fun word: syzygy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syzygy_(astronomy)
Have big security vulnerabilities been cropping up more often recently or does it seem that way because I've started to pay attention?
env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test"

From https://securityblog.redhat.com/2014/09/24/bash-specially-cr...
0day: Extracting WPtouch Mobile Plugin License Keys
DirecTV and credit card companies do this to me all the time. I'll receive a letter that looks like some kind of greeting card or invite with no identifier but an address. The font used on the outside mimicks human handwriting, so it looks authentic if you're not really paying attention.

I kinda get excited I'm getting invited to something, I open it up, and its a fucking ad.

I don't understand how people do business with businesses that mislead you like this. I mean, if they think of you so little before you're a customer, imagine how badly they will treat you when you are one.
I'm working on a book that targets this. Hit me up (email in profile) if you're interested in a spot of "beta testing" =)
Istanbul has been a godsend for my company's JS-based projects. When paired with grunt-contrib-jasmine, it gives instant visibility into how much of the client-side app is actually under test, and gives everyone an incentive to keep improving coverage.
He/She is a much "better" person than me. I would not have given the code for free, I would not even have given the code at all. I've developed tough skin over the years. Lots of us who code do so because we really love to, outsiders look at us as business stupid and easy to push around, and more often than should be the case, we get taken advantage of.
They should have just cloned https://emailprivacytester.com/ instead. The code is available for download on github.
One language I've been playing with lately is Lua. It's really nice how you can get it to interoperate with C code very easily. For applications that have well defined "hot loops" that need to run fast and where the rest of the code mainly exists for flow control, etc. Lua is really nice to use.
> Or use syslog() like a sane person, and let that "extra thread" live inside the OS IPC mechanism.

As it turns out, we had nearly the same symptoms as the OP. After running strace on syslogd (CentOS 5), I realized that it also does an fsync() after every call. A quick trip to the man page and a configuration change later, our issues disappeared.
So I took a great unix/linux systems programming class, http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~lib215/ where you learn about all of the system software that you take for granted. Among other things, we had to write our own shell. There is an awful lot to consider, and most of it you are just trying to get to work properly. With regard to security, you feel like you are protected for the most part because the shell resides in userland and it's basically understood that you shouldn't trust foreign shell scripts.

Is the worry here that the code gets executed by the kernel or superuser, enabling privilege escalation? Otherwise it wouldn't be a big deal that extra code is executed by a function declaration.
I'm not particularly in the market for this product, but two quick bits of feedback:

1. What is a "FanOut"? I see it on your pricing table, but I'm not sure what it is exactly. I could guess, but I probably shouldn't have to if it's critical to your pricing.

2. (Minor) In a couple of spots on the pricing table you have the "$" after the number.

Screenshot with comment: http://screencast.com/t/rRqJCbjb

EDIT: I should mention that you have FanOut defined in the FAQs, but I think maybe a tooltip or something on the pricing table would help (especially on the homepage).
Huh--I think I've been sniped by the larger screens and curves of my coworkers' Android phones. They look thinner than my 5S, but they're about the same thickness--sometimes even more. My assumption was that Apple had been playing a game of leapfrogging vs Android phones on thinness.
WebStorm 9 EAP
A good salesman will get you to take a bad or mediocre deal while at the same time convincing you you've gotten a great deal. Always question "facts" thrown out by someone trying to sell you something.

"instead of doing a price cut, it may be worth explaining why your product is worth more." This is news?
BlackBerry Passport: A $599 smartphone with a 4.5-inch square display
Udacity Raises $35M to Train a New Generation of Developers
another option: http://nitrous.io/ they offer free development boxes
I wanted a thicker sturdy phone with more battery and without a protruding camera and I don't think I'm the only one.
Help Lucía (11) buy a Mac to code her first App. She can't sleep
>... this was a particularly uncomfortable and inappropriate conversation to cover through emails and text messages.

I think this is a key lesson. If you're getting into a business relationship you need to be able to dispassionately discuss arrangements and contracts. It is far better to do that via email than verbally.
I don't think so. From what I've been reading it can be exploited via http requests. I'm sure a metasploit script is right around the corner.

Edit: oh looks like only like mod_cgi related stuff is.. thats good then sort of
That's one giant interplanetary leap for India
I think they should put a thicker battery in the iphone. why do cell phone need to be so thin? they are hard to hold.
Yahoo prodigy Nick D'Aloisio opts to go to university
How Facebook and OkCupid Broke the Law When They Experimented on Users