skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have the Android version ready, but we are waiting for one final feature: the ability to target Android 4.4.3+ specifically (as it's the first with Canvas hardware acceleration built in the web view, which we need).

Kindle Fire HDX on the other hand, we released through their 'html app' option, meaning we can actually point to manyland.com and don't need to provide a compiled project. Pretty neat from Amazon!
Your syllogism doesn't work. The dot-com bubble wasn't "the ultimate promise of the Internet". It was the irrational valuations assigned to a specific set of unsustainable business models popularized in the late 90s, and driven by pre-profit and often pre-revenue companies going directly to the public market for liquidity.
Work in Startups
In my experience (limited mostly to Gainesville) a lot of fairly residential streets in Florida with speed limit ~30mph are ridiculously wide, often 3 or 4 lanes each way.
I get lost and cannot find back people! That's what I don't like about this game.
With a single click, your web content becomes a stunning native mobile app
This is pretty great. It would be nice to see support for OneDrive for Business (Office 365) as well.
Thanks, I just started with Raywenderlich for lack of alternative, but also for the independence. Thanks for the encouragement.
same problem here, linux mint - any browser
Thanks, that was the scenario I was afraid of.
Absolutely! I loved Compuserve's Worlds Away back in the 1990s, it's rooted in Habitat, and it was a big inspiration for Manyland. I've never seen Habitat except in trailers, and it looks absolutely amazing... like much else of what Lucasfilm did.
I'm 'people' as well and am not alienated. Nothing to stop you offering a mini-lecture on PR but for myself, rather you didn't. I can make up my own mind on Kaya as presented.
It is stuffy, but I wouldn't call it backward-thinking, unless mindless hedonism is what passes for forward-thinking these days. Raising children without marriage would be akin to starting a business without incorporation or contracts. Strong bonds, group loyalty, and long-term planning/character are what let man build something larger than himself.
Yes, I totally agree with you. But I am diving in - hopefully it will be a worthwhile journey.
My first programming experience was in VB6. A local college had a week-long camp for middle-school kids to learn various things. A few of my friends and I took the programming unit as one of our two choices, and they taught VB6 (this was probably about 1999). We came back home with source code and executables, but missing the VB6 runtime and disappointed that we couldn't continue working on our programs. We even made screensavers! Anyways, one of my friends' uncles gave that friend a copy of VB6 that he pirated from the company he worked at. We made some other programs, but I haven't looked at them for a long time. Recently I found back the source code, but was disappointed to find that it could not be opened in VB.NET. Furthermore, it's stored mostly in binary files, so I can't even read much of the code.

It's probably for the best though - the code we wrote is almost certainly quite ugly and hacky, and I could certainly write the same programs much better today.
(Sorry for that, can you please contact us at we@manyland.com)
That's a clever approach (dust trail). How do you reconcile the undoing of the removal with any new structures built in that same location?
Google with 8 o's (Better search result)
I think we tend to overrate _perceived_ inconveniences that affect us personally and underrate _perceived_ inconveniences that affect everyone else.

Perceived because...

A place that caters to slow walkers and cyclists, if minimally well designed, actually improves car traffic throughput. Yes, that may sound counterintuitive. Go look at Copenhagen. You'd never be able to squeeze so many people through so little transportation infrastructure if they were all traveling by car.
We actually have in our pipeline an idea of allowing user upvotes to bring comments and stories back from [dead]. I have no idea when we'll get to it, though. In the meantime, gus_massa has it right: check that it isn't a dupe, and then email us at hn@ycombinator.com if the story is particularly good. You can also try reposting it by using a slightly different URL—but only if it isn't a dupe (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).
'oping' fixes that issue:

$ oping msn.com
PING msn.com (23.101.196.141) 56 bytes of data.
echo reply from msn.com (23.101.196.141): icmp_seq=1 timeout
echo reply from msn.com (23.101.196.141): icmp_seq=2 timeout
echo reply from msn.com (23.101.196.141): icmp_seq=3 timeout

Also, in standard ping, you can type Ctrl+\ (sends the QUIT signal) to get an update, e.g.

$ ping msn.com
PING msn.com (23.101.196.141) 56(84) bytes of data.
<<< Ctrl+\ >>>
7/0 packets, 100% loss
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You're just describing the changes in the license, and none of those seem particularly objectionable. You seem to agree that the DRM restriction is quite harmless. The anti-tivoization clause might reasonably apply to iOS, but I don't think iOS includes any version of these utilities, and that still wouldn't explain excluding them from OS X. It's not like they couldn't just take them back out later on.

And the patent license seems least objectionable of all. The primary change from GPLv2 seems to be having to include some language accounting for it in the agreement for any patents they license, which they have every incentive to do regardless in order to be covered in case an employee puts an Ubuntu ISO somewhere public, and in the worst case they're still only in the same situation they would be if the patent in question had been owned by some patent troll.

Also, the post I responded to is talking about "Apple and other proprietary software publishers." So Apple is more the exception than the rule in having any trouble at all with the anti-tivoization clause since most software vendors don't make their own hardware.

I still don't see anything that should make it so untouchable.
Modular, composable, typed optimizations in the tagless-final style
If I had time to play, I would definitely hang out here!
Yes! And so you can say: Employee.ReportsTo.ReportsTo.ReportsTo for example.
Internet comments, and HN is no exception, are often about proving how smart the writer of the comment is. But I feel like it's the opposite of what you describe: Discussions on complex technical subjects are sparse because only the well informed can participate.

Posts like this one spawn larger threads because everyone has an opinion that sounds plausible. It's sort of the same phenomenon that leads to a problem requiring great expertise to understand and solve having lower votes on Stack Overflow compared to something telling you to add a semicolon.

Still, optimizing for fewest comments while successfully describing the subject sounds like a great strategy.
57% of Languages Do Not Have Gendered Pronouns
Show HN: Flubber – another PHP framework
One of my first jobs was writing software for call centers. The agents did things like CS, take payments, etc... I frequently went onto the calling floor and sat with the agents to see how they worked. Their bonuses were in part based on speed, so any software I wanted them to use had to not slow them down. They also had to deal with multiple separate programs, so additional software had to get out of the way when not being used.

It was a great first job, and I learned a lot about writing usable software.
That's interesting. Roughly how do they get their data? That graph looks nice, but we had a lot more than 0 users in May, so I'm not sure they're measuring a real trend. Are these supposed to be daily visitors?

Last I checked, our numbers show around 250k unique IPs a day and 2.5M a month. This has grown quite a bit recently; Sam tweeted about it the other day.
If you look at the data.gov site, you will find datasets from Chicago police department that contains official names and how much salary they withdraw, everything public.
We're a great community and 2 developers. A lot of work goes into the details (we must have spent over a day just tuning the jump, or the way chat words are floating and such, not to mention the whole architecture Scott has set up), as well as to adjust to what the community is asking for, and new needs we see. It won't surprise you that a lot of the work goes into making things mmo-compatible.

JavaScript/ html5 has pros and cons but one thing that is fun is to be able to quickly release updates, sometimes several times over the course of a day, which will then instantly be visible to everyone in the world (and since we're using a browser wrapper for e.g. the iPad version, it will also be updated across devices).
"it seems to make men more introverted, suspicious, unattractive to women, and oblivious to the way others see them"

So basically, cats created 4chan and its userbase. Well played!

But seriously, none of these articles ever seem to mention that a cure is being worked on. Also, is there an easy way to test for this parasite?
Thanks, I'll definitely check it out. I love vim bindings in the browser and I want to go back to the xmonad route on my new workstation. Having vimium/vimperator/pentadactyl made that a lot easier.
Chris wrote me about six months ago asking about Kaya, so I sent him a similar presentation. It seems to me also that there might be overlap (from the little I know about Eve).

I think we have a safe lead, though, based on that we've already spent many years getting through a lot of the implementation issues, which are the real crux. I wish his team a lot of good luck, because the devil is really in the details.
People tend to forget there were many players out there back in the day. Amoga was so far ahead in 'multimedia' infront of Pc and Mac that it's not even comparable until 486 era. Not to mention SGI and Sun machines. Pretending that Mac was some kind of single origin of everything or Pc being a toure de force is just wrong.
Are you suggesting that college education is so poorly structured that it is important to give students a few years of practice, instead of improving the learning environment so they can learn more? Maybe the kids wouldn't even need college lecture of they learned the 400person Chem/Calc/whatever 1 class material the first time the saw it in high school.
the really excellent part of this presentation is that he calls attention to the exceptionally poor nature of openssl's code months before heartbleed
Seeing the implementation would be a interesting, but certainly it can be powerful and bring transparency.
What consensus? All I'm seeing are assumptions that being able to read code easily means it is more secure. Someone can easily write an open-source project that looks like it is a secure project but can easily be misused to do bad things without people catching it in the act.

Look at Heartbleed and how lack of funding led to a horrible bug being missed. There has been other open-source projects hit by similar issues. Just as there are closed-source projects being hit with their own issues.

The nature of the code license does not, and I stress this strongly, lead to anything being more secure than other solutions.

A properly funded and talented team of developers working on an open source project is just as secure as a properly funded and talented team of developers working on a closed source project.
This isn't quite as clear cut as it might seem. See, for example, the first comment for Mandarin:

http://wals.info/valuesets/44A-mnd
> I thought "what a nice wind sound effect" until I realized it was the CPU fan in my laptop.

hehe... can I say we totally planned for that...

(sorry though! if you were around green mountain, that's actually our busiest area. Hope you stick around with us, and let us know how the upranking to 5 goes, it should be smooth over the coming days, and then you can do everything in the world.)
A more in depth analysis is really needed. What the author does not adequately address is the origin of these behaviors. Writing online is public and global. Holding an unpopular view or offending the wrong group can cost a job or end a career.
except when I live 20 miles from work and the public transit system has no regular schedule that will suit my needs, meaning I'd have to arrive at work 1+ hours early, or 1+ hours late, carrying my laptop bag with all my work supplies + my school bag with all my university supplies. (not everyone lives in SF). This simply is not practical, nor is it practical to impose every person should "just ride public transit".
a refrigerator doesn't need the internet to tell you what you need. I'm not a big fan of 'the internet of things'. I see no use for an overpriced thermostat that I could achieve the same result by just turning down the thermostat when i leave. If I am forgetful, perhaps I could apply some sticky note technology.

not to be mentioned politicians have been saying 'we need to upgrade our electric system to a smart grid...' i was like oh cool, whats a smart grid? i was thinking like super efficient wires that had little resistance and cool switching systems. no, its just meters on your residence that can measure electricity so precise they can tell when someone stays over, or when you turn on the lights.

The electric company is trying to force me to switch, keep calling for an appointment. no thanks.
[co dev here] Interesting you mention this. When we saw Glitch closing, while we never had a chance to try it, we did see the amazing community spirit of the Glitchens. For our earliest launch, we invited Glitchens to give Manyland a try, and they built the very first blocks!
Mind emailing us so we can look into this? we@manyland.com Please let us know a bit about your system and browser, and the area you were in. Thanks!
> introverted, suspicious, unattractive to women

I suspect I may be infected.
American Liberal Times
I'm assuming that most people are more interested in happy marriages than stable ones (at least before they've made the commitment). Now the marriage traditionalists might not. (This seems to be supported by at least one or two of the people posting here. But at the same time, one of them still mentions "happily-ever-after".) Even going back to the Declaration of Independence we see "pursuit of happiness" mentioned prominently in even those much more conservative times. Going significantly farther back than that I can start to see how "stable" might be significant, but in this day and age "happy" seems like a safe bet.

On the other side we have the word "divorce", which everyone agrees means "definitely unhappy". However, "not divorced" is definitely not a sufficient condition for "happy". The word "stable" is in the middle and can go either way. In one sense I agree it has a strong similarity to "not divorced". But in another sense, I think a lot of people read "stable marriage" as being very similar to "happy marriage". So to the extent that stable == happy, it's missing the point of the actual stats. And to the extent that stable != happy and a good proxy for not divorced, it's missing the point of what people really want out of life (and marriage).

This brings us to your response to my other comment, and there I think you're right on the money. The purpose of marriage is the main issue here. In my mind, the traditional view is synonymous with "stable" and not getting divorced. And the fact that the OP is talking about "stable" and "divorce" in the way it is suggests that the traditional view of marriage is a strong influence (although maybe my religious background is biasing me here). But none of this is very relevant if "happy" is what people are really after.
Don't fall for it. They'll sell you a $2 exercise book for $25 (or $60 if you want them to digitise it for you. You pay the postage). Still, at least they're no longer claiming their cheap'n'nasty exercise books are genuine Moleskines any more, which they did for many years.
Is it the same kind of misery, though? If the situation in Cuba is as you describe, then at least the basics of keeping a roof over one's head is a solved issue (maybe not well solved) and other problems require a different kind of solution that is not yet a recognized problem by the government.

The same problems may be occuring in the US, but with the addition of the misery of no roof and no food.

It doesn't speak well of either country, really. But, Cuba has a solution to the problem of homelessness, implemented in a crappy way.

But the US is just flat writing people off.

I'm not thrilled with the US and I doubt I'd be happy living in Cuba either. But at least I wouldn't be homeless.
About the moving parts, I am developing a mobile app. I am starting with Swift and hopefully pick up Java for Android later on.

I expect heavy data processing at a backend database, maybe on Amazon or Google cloud. I am not sure what I need there. Maybe MySQL?

Also do I need something extra for interface between frontend and backend?

You have been very helpful. Thanks.
I don't know if Ekman is real or not (probably not), but any serious study of predictions should report both precision (are your accused liars all guilty?) and recall (did you catch all the liars?), not make statements like "70-percent accuracy." Especially if we are using these techniques for security screening, these numbers are essential. We'll also need to educate security personnel about the unintuitive nature of false positives, where even if a test achieves a low false positive rate, a given flagged person still has a low chance of being a liar (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox).
The article is 3/4's fluff, and 1 paragraph about the author's actual reasoning behind narrowing lanes. Saving 4, or 8 feet of space isn't going to magically make pedestrian crossings super safe.
You can detect the infection with an antibody test [1] and treat it with antibiotics [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis#Diagnosis

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis#Treatment
Ask HN: Please give feedback on Sociology program
My wife is thinking of putting together a program for the Sociology department she works in. If you are an employer would you have use for these skills?

She is trying to create a Certificate for Bachelor holders, as well as a Masters in Social Research

They already have courses on :
Social research methods
Social statistics

They want to develop courses on:
Data management and analysis with an emphasis on big data
Survey design
Research funding
Qualitative Methods (interviewing and focus groups)
Program evaluation

Software packages used would be Stata and SPSS. R is not used much in the department.

The intent is to create a path that is relevant to the current employment market. Any input is welcome.
"Error establishing a database connection"

Never heard of that one. Is it by Arthur C Clarke?
My comment is intended to be taken broadly on average. Based on what you say here, I would agree with you that staying married might have been a better choice in your specific situation.
Snapchat doesn't work particularly well offline...
It is unfortunate the shadowing did not also go to homework and extra curricular activities. This is an area that is neglected too. If he had sat through a practice, then gone home to read 200 pages and do two hours of homework, his conclusions would be even more dramatic.
Wouldn't it make a little sense to do a small SaaS project and get a little money trickling in? Especially if you enjoyed it?

Technical sales always pays well. There are not that many people that can do both selling and tech well. Many introverts do well at selling, since listening to the customer is more important than talking at him.
I don't think it's amusing - I think it's great. I use emacs every day, and have for many decades.
Marines in Ebola Land
I wish the United States had not decided to send 3,000 Marines into the hottest Ebola virus outbreak area in History. What can Marines do to combat a plague? Why not just send more doctors and other professional healthcare givers? Just comment on my blog, "American Liberal Times" if you want to: http://americanliberaltimes.com
Looks like you trust the client on their window.ig.game.O722.rank, which allows people to remove blocks at the center and trap people. Check area 2, I think.
I was thinking about Bad Apps that users voluntarily hand their login details to (so they can download snapchats they get sent). Those don't need root, since they're just mimicking the Snapchat app and receiving the photos directly.

But it doesn't work, since you need some way to generate new API keys for your second device... which could be a Bad App.

If you 1) enforce one key at at time (so one "device" at a time), 2) rate-limit key changes (if you switch to a new device, or Bad App, you can't switch back within a day or two) and 3) eliminate Bad Apps in the app stores- you effectively limit Bad Apps to being entirely web-based, and hopefully the restrictions on webapps will make the Bad App sufficiently a pain in the ass to use that people won't want to switch to it, even though it lets them save photos, since it locks them out of the real app.
My neighbour, the Nobel laureate
Thank you so much. Great feedback. This is a hard medium to discuss all of your points so please email me and I'll go through, point by point.
How to meet other gay software developers in SF?
It is a little isolating being the only gay programmer at my startup. Would be nice to meet other gay programmers in San Francisco to make friends and talk about things. Not really into the Castro scene. Anyone knows of any good groups to meet other gay developers?
Since the live stream isn't working, will the recorded videos be uploaded later?
have you tried meetup.com/gay-hackers ? seems promising.
Thanks! It is, and that's a really nice use of it. It also functions as a built-in version control, unlimited/infinite undo, etc.
Seems the FBI is claiming the servers were his, and he was operating them, so they are prosecuting him. But somehow they aren't his property, and therefore not protected by the 4th?

That seems bassackwards.
I think the problem isn't that tabbed browsing exists, but that window managers are not good enough to handle user experience as well as tabbed browsing does.
Ask HN: What are some ways to get my first 1000 users for my parenting website?
Opening this up to the entire Ask HN community.

I have been working on a website for babies and parenting, like babycenter (http://www.tinyadults.com, still under construction). In order to get to product-market-fit, how do I find my first 1000 users (parents being the core user-group)?

Rather than say "try posting on parenting communities", I would appreciate more specific links / tips and ideas. Thank you for reading and sharing your ideas!
"Find the insight, not the error."

Unfortunately, people on the internet seem to do the opposite.

For a given domain, some people want to learn new things, while others just want to defend their current level of knowledge. Ultimately where a comment adds value depends on whether it is motivated by the former or the latter.
Thanks, Dan (or whichever mod did that). You saved the thread.
Yeah, this definitely reminds me of a lo-fi Glitch.
Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid of Dropbox,” Avoid Facebook and Google
Looking at the opinions of specific individuals is kind of missing the point. Theo de Raadt and Bill Gates don't much care for GPLv3 either.

Ask it a different way: How many popular GNU/Linux distributions have zero GPLv3 binaries in them? I expect Linus has GPLv3 software on his own machine.
Yes, we'll put them on YouTube like the other Startup Schools. It does take awhile for us to transcribe the talks for closed captions, so that might take a week. but the videos will hopefully be up by Monday.
>> Up to a third of the world's human population is estimated to carry a Toxoplasma infection
[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis]

That's almost inconceivable. The other studies around this bounce from 10-25% too. I assumed toxoplasmosis was rare - but that kinda scares me.

How do I get a test for me and the family?