skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true what you say about libraries and turtles. Still it's rare the event when I get an NPE from my/our code.

Sometimes think I would love to have a layer between us and Java. Some sort of FFI which returned everything on an Option.

Probably too cumbersome, but still ...
This is pure fantasy, but I feel like a good solution would be for Netflix to legally be allowed to stream X concurrent sessions of a movie with X being limited at the number of physical copies they own. Perhaps if all concurrent sessions are being used you could schedule your session for a different time window.

It obviously wouldn't work for new content but might solve the issue for rare or older movies which you cannot find elsewhere.
An article about that very topic made the rounds on HN about a month ago. It was interesting. Basically, it argued that a lot of classic and niche movies will reach the verge of de facto extinction once the DVD business finally dies. Netflix's streaming selection is indeed quite thin, especially on genre movies and classic titles. Same thing with the selection on most streaming services, and even on a la carte digital download services like iTunes.

Netflix's DVD business has basically reached its point of exponential decline, and the only ones holding out seem to be the film buffs and aficionados. Even old folks are switching to streaming now.

It's an interesting time to be a film lover, and by "interesting," I mean it in the sense of that curse about living in interesting times.

My guess as to what happens next: we'll see the increasing breakout of streaming providers by genre or interest. Some genres will have big enough audiences to bear out the cost and logistics of running a business around them (for example, anime and Crunchyroll). Other genres might not be as lucky.

And then there's the black hole: titles only available on DVD, or even VHS, because the companies who made them went under. In a lot of these cases, nobody bothers acquiring the rights and remastering the films, because from a business standpoint, the payoff just isn't there.
There's more out there than rust-http and Teepee. For example, the Cargo registry is using Rust bindings to Civet...

(That said, yes, it would be bad to build on top of a deprecated library. This library isn't new though, it's older than the Teepee announcement.)
Reddit launched their own first app just last month. I wonder if they'll be closing down AMA now that they've negotiated this deal.
http://www.redditblog.com/2014/09/announcing-official-reddit...
Any word on whether it will be open sourced? I'm satisfied with my current app I use with reddit https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader which is open source
Anyone remember the HP Veer?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Veer

This phone was advertised for beeing as small as a credit card. Now Nexus 6 is as tall as a whole opened wallet.
As much as I admire Will.i.am for trying in this space, this thing will be dead on arrival
Isn't this the same as the current nexus 5 model, just an updated OS? Has the price dropped from a year ago?
We talked about it at the last work week a lot https://github.com/rust-lang/meeting-minutes/blob/master/wor...
I understand that. I have a slightly elevated body temperature myself. But the nurse, who had been treating a patient known to have Ebola, called the CDC to advise them that she had a temperature (presumably relative to her usual temperature).

It seems to me that if we're dealing with an unusually high-risk situation, it's better to err on the side of caution, no?
If the phone is in "letter" orientation the keyboard would be entirely reachable... Do some of us want to respond to a text message with the phone/keyboard in landscape mode with one hand? That would seem a bit tough with any recent smart phone.
I can't imagine they can hold out for much longer. You can already stream basically every other major sport over the internet.

I wouldn't be surprised if DirectTV has some sort of exclusive contract to provide all of the games, but that can't last forever.
I've tried to "go mac" about 3 times now, at quite a bit of expense, and the horrible and endless well of failure that is Finder continues to rebuff me. Even as Explorer continues to change and ends up with some weird corners, it's such a much better and more efficient file manager.

I'll find myself going weeks, enjoying my rMBP, then I'll need to do some heavy duty file management and end up in Finder-hell and immediately wish I was using something better. DirectoryOpus, Midnight Commander, anything.

It says something when the CLI is not only faster to use, but more user-friendly and discoverable than the GUI.

In fact, I'm about to start work on a bunch of file management and I've been putting it off for a week just because I don't want to interact with Finder.

Gahhh, it's a terrible terrible piece of software.

(maybe I should just break down and install this http://www.ragesw.com/products/explorer.html)
What program do you use to annotate PDFs? I have a Lenovo thinkpad with wacom support, but I haven't found a good piece of software to sign PDFs with.
It seems that their AMA app is targeted at non-Reddit users and will coexist with this new one.
Can you post anonymously on StackExchange (honest question)?
Will.i.am introduces Puls smartband
Android powered?

Certainly they didn't make their own OS, if it is hackable it will survive.

Wristband is way too thick though, are there components in there?

Like every portable device, battery life is going to be the huge problem, we just do not have sufficiently advanced battery tech yet.
as if you needed more testimonials michael, but this thread is full of them! :)
It did, yes.
Yeah, I agree with the pure fantasy part. Content owners would absolutely hate this. They also love DRM, and the content siloing that results.
This was introduced at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco.

here's some additional info (because the IamPuls.com does not have a lot of information): http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/15/will-i-am-puls-smartwatch...

For context, see also: http://will.i.am/
Christian Bale in Talks to Play Steve Jobs in Aaaron Sorkin's Jobs Biopic
Is this still the case? I just watched an AIV movie on my Nexus 7.
What we need to do is treat drug addiction as a health problem, not a crime.

That way, people get accurate information about the risks and can seek help if they want to change their behavior without the risk of being thrown in a box for a few years and not given any help at all. That way, people can get access to cleanly made and refined substances, which mitigates many of the health impacts which stem from chemicals left from processing or extraneous substances in the drugs (eg, plant matter in your weed).

We've already tried what we're trying with weed with alcohol - and it was a completely and total failure. People who like altered states of consciousness aren't going to listen to being told no, and what we get instead of legal providers and healthcare professionals is gangsters and incarceration.

Prohibition is a failed policy every time we've tried it. Repurpose the funds to cover the health impact of the legalization, and we're all better off.
Any chart you pull up is not for after hours trading.

Note that, while you agree what I said is true for most cases, I was downvoted. What is this? Reddit?
Xtensio: Create a one-pager for your startup or crowdfunding campaign.
How does it support icon sizes - multiple resolutions stored in a single format?
That's OK; they can now go, with their education of illegal drugs, and now setup shop and sell those drugs now legalized. Seems to me these employees would know the ins, outs, does, and donts of the business. Or they were just brutes and learned nothing while incrementing the weekly/monthly incarceration counter.
Multi-core networking at 600,000 QPS: a py-lmdb success story
I agree that it was garbage before, but it's worse now. I searched for every variation of "cannon 60D" I could think of today and didn't get one hit. Anecdotal evidence at best, but the point is, Google's business model with google shopping is not setting them up to be a meaningful competitor to Amazon whatsoever. I agree they needed to do something but turning google shopping into a competitor with Google's own CPC service seems like a poor idea all around.
A news junkie finds out that distracting himself makes him less productive. From this we can conclude that ALL people who have two screens should forget the second one. Right.
I'm not sure the intial problems really sabotage my point. They were able to, year after year, squash bugs while adding substantial functionality that was missing in 10.0.

I guess "not having quality problems" was a poor phrasing. The point is that they weren't suffering from a quick release cycle. But perhaps it's ambiguous.
> Illegal cannabis = freedom to live in a place where your children aren't exposed to drugs

You're abusing the term "freedom". Freedom is the right to act, not immunity from the effects of others' actions.
Stack Exchange's ToS[0] are pretty permissive:

> Subscriber may not (a) select or use as a profile name a name of another person with the intent to impersonate that person; or (b) use as a profile name a name subject to any rights of a person other than Subscriber without appropriate authorization.

[0] https://stackexchange.com/legal/terms-of-service
Then integrate it, with a user preference toggle for keyboard shortcuts. Same with HN and HackerNew[1].

1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...
EditorConfig is excellent. Straightforward to write a configuration file and pretty great editor support. I've only ever used the Vim plugin, but it works seamlessly such that I don't even notice.
Useful New Features in Emacs 24.4
I'm surprised they haven't implemented many of the features that RES has. I certainly don't use RES to it's full extent, but I find several of the features crucial to my Reddit experience.
"Reddit is fun" is one of the better Android Reddit apps
What I see is that quora cares about its users more that it cares about "how the internet works".

Is that that awful?
Really?

> During this contact tracing process, officials made a staggering 18,500 face-to-face visits.

Who here thinks the CDC has done anywhere near the same level of review?
Google has great customer support... if you spend thousands of dollars in ad buys with them. We had weekly conference calls with google back when our ad buy was in the 40k+ a month range. They won't give you the time of day unless you spend a lot of money with them though, which means 95% of their customers get little or no support at all.
That slide was a simplification of the Lambda Cube that they showed right at the end. That's probably a good starting point for better references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_cube ... the wiki page isn't particularly approachable, but there's more detail if you follow the links.
It's no longer truly product search. It's simply a catalogue of ads that have been paid for.
Apple and Facebook offer to freeze eggs for female employees
With so many players in the mix, I wonder if some consolidation is likely in the near future. Less streaming services with more content breadth is much more valuable to consumers than figuring out which services offer which content.
They do. I'm very confused as to why Reddit didn't just go through that process to transfer the app. It would have saved a lot of people a lot of trouble.
I don't understand why Quora requires signup to JUST VIEW the questions and answers? How do people doing nothing but viewing it affect the site in any way, aside from getting it more pageviews, which is generally a good thing? I understand having an account to contribute, but just to view?
Additional Link:
15 Oct 2014: Letter to David Wilson and Howard Chu regarding Python-LMDB
http://lkcl.net/reports/python.lmdb.html
> a laptop is perfectly fine for me still.

Tablets are fantastic, so much more useful. So much easier to carry around. Sure, a laptop is perfectly fine, so is a desktop in one room. But if you travel a lot, then they are so much better.

And since you could get a reasonable tablet for $99, you don't have to be too wealthy to appreciate it.
We were at my work, but unfortunately Terraform was lacking a number of critical features for AWS at the time. It's an amazing tool, but it needs a bit more time in the oven for our use cases :)

We ended up writing a "clone" of Terraform that just did the things terraform was missing using Boto, except our state files were readable JSON instead of a binary format.
Subscriptions? Surely not. It wouldn't make any sense to use an IAP Subscription for that. Surely it's just a normal non-consumable IAP.
I heard they tried but the dude didn't want to move from wherever, ohio to SF.
On devices like the Samsung Galaxy series where you can swap the battery quickly, battery life ceases to be a concern.
It wasn't ever a production device. The entire product line was constantly updating to bleeding edge, and thus hardly ever worked. Consumers shouldn't ever have had one. The real mistake was handing them out.
Environmental costs are part of the economy. The cost of solar includes paying highly-skilled workers to build the panels. The cost of coal includes paying doctors to treat the resulting increase in lung disease, etc.

The problem is that we don't measure economic activity accurately, because we ignore draw-down of capital (human, natural, or otherwise). Fukushima actually increased Japan's GDP for a quarter, because the damage-response activity gets counted in GDP while the loss of physical capital does not. Fossil fuel use suffers from this problem in two ways: 1) the value of the capital removed from the ground isn't counted (i.e. nobody counts selling off their family furniture as net positive income, but resource-rich countries count selling off oil or minerals as such); 2) the loss of human and environmental capital is ignored (strip mining mountains causes rain to wash away river banks, and that's money directly out of someone's pocket).
Do you think that it may be possible to predict or model the structure of a brain with similar formuli?
You're right, the real-time multiplayer stuff is only available for Android and iOS right now. It'd be nice if they made a web-socket solution to handle this.

https://developers.google.com/games/services/common/concepts...
You can actually use Nuzzel to look at other people's feeds too. So it's probably a great solution for the "filter bubble"...
Just wow. I was considering making a switch from ios, but this reality just put me off until their next release.
https://github.com/alienblue/alienblue
Would this be a good time, then, for a Qwikster clone to pop up? Given the impending market opening?

I wonder what they could do better catering to a narrower market. I dropped Netflix DVD service, but I'd consider something better.
shrugs. In all seriousness though, thank the people around your office for me! There are some substantial hurdles to make this integration a practical reality, but if Docker and Msoft can actually pull it off we will see a new world of crazy possibilities. I can't wait!
Interestingly, the Ruby developers I know seem more inclined towards Clojure than Scala. One stated he was more attracted by immutability than type safety, hence Clojure over Scala.
Obviously, it's not worthless, that's just hyperbole, but it's sad to see people who would probably be the first to say that they are reasonable, evidence-based, pragmatic computer engineers fall into the manichaean trap that is extremism: either something sucks (Java) or it's awesome (Haskell).

The truth is that Java's type system is a bit in-between. It's a reasonable type system that's tractable for a huge portion of the developer community (hence its success) but which falls short of some required qualities to be able to show proofs by applying the Curry-Howard isomorphism.
The most popular hours are 9 AM EST to 1 PM EST: http://minimaxir.com/img/hn-submissions.png
Ugh! Ok, I shouldn't complain, but I originally chose the iAlien app only to run into the scam that that developer put on by claiming a takedown based on the name by Alien Blue (IIRC, I'll try and provide a source if someone requests it) requiring users to buy the new app. I was really happy with iAlien, but I wasn't going to pay the extortion for the "new" app.

Only about 6 months ago I bought Alien Blue + Pro, now I have to do it again.

It appears that if I get it this week I will probably be able to save $4, so that's good, but I feel a bit scammed by the iAlien developer that I don't trust some of these apps anymore. I do trust that reddit is a good thing, so I'm probably set from here on out.

And, in the end, I know it's only $8, but I hate being scammed, it's the principle.

Alien Blue is a good app so I'm happy for Jase the developer and I forget why I originally chose iAlien over Alien Blue now, but hopefully we get some good advancements in the mobile interface which is my primary means of accessing reddit.

EDIT: Adding links to controversy here as well:

http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/1wk2n3/the_ialien...

http://www.reddit.com/r/ialien/comments/1wbtqe/ialien_has_be...
Indeed, it has a completely different target. In fact, it was built as an experiment to see what could be built using reddit data without being Yet Another reddit Browser.
Pretty cool, I think the most amazing thing I read was that he's married with kids while building this. A little bit there, a little bit here and it all really does add up. Pretty neat.
Of course it's still possible to exploit any software you might be running behind the router. That is why I agree it should be just one of many steps you ought to take if you care about anonymity. I never said this is a plug-and-play solution to internet anonymity. Still, hiding your IP address is one important factor in anonymity and probably the biggest use-case for Tor. Using a separate, dedicated device for this purpose makes it practically impossible for your IP address to leak e.g. because of a browser exploit.

Case in point, when the FBI busted users of child porn sites in 2013, they used a Zero-day in Firefox [1] to leak the users IP addresses. This would not have worked for users with a device like this. They could've tried to gather evidence through other means using this exploit, but that's definitely harder than simply opening a network connection and would only work in cases where the exploit could access anything that would identify the user.

(Obviously I'm not unhappy about child porn users getting busted, but I thought it would serve as a good example.)

[1]: https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-53.h...
I'm visiting Japan, but I don't read Japanese. When I visit this site everything is in Japanese without any button to change local.

Apple and Ikea will redirect you to a url with country code in it (ikea.com/ja/en/bedroom kind of style) making it easy for people on the tech savvy side to manually change locale. But Google? No way in hell am I allowed to read this in English if I'm not physically in an English speaking country.
No, there NOT an appreciable difference in readability of Latin alphabet above 400 DPI, and 300 when a subpixel rendering technology is used. Unless they're doing careful side-by-side comparisons, test subjects need better than 20/20 vision to notice any major improvement over 300 DPI.

The truth is battery life and game performance take a huge hit, so the manufactures can put a bigger number on their spec sheet. The consumer is the loser of this idiotic DPI race.
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I wonder why they keep insisting on this obstacle. It possibly serves well as an audience selector. People who are too impatient to sign up should possibly be excluded from the user base that the founders of Quora have in mind.
no except using VPN or Tor :S ... great!
The point is that (as I understand it, which may not be that well) folks on that side tend to frame this fundamentally differently than you do. They don't view a system of laws as an evolving structure to balance rights and harms, they view the legal code as a formal statement of society's shared moral standards.

So if drug use is considered immoral (which, keep in mind, has been the standard mainstream message since before almost all of us were born), that philosophy would imply that society has a moral duty to declare that publicly and to punish those who practice or promote immorality. (And naturally, to address your last point, violence done by the societally approved defenders of morality (i.e. the police) is more acceptable than violence done by people actively breaking the rules and thus the common moral code.)

I won't swear that I have any of that exactly right, but it's the sense that I've gotten from many conversations and articles about this sort of thing. I pretty strongly disagree with their premise about the purpose of laws, but within their framework I think their behavior is reasonably sensible.
I own 2 separate apple PCs. And seriously considering replacing one of them (Mac Mini) with Mac Pro ($3000 starting price !!) for video work. And probably getting another mac laptop for wife.

I got on the apple fan train kinda late, like right around when they transitioned to Intel.

With that said, I sometimes feel Apple hitting it big with iPhones was similar to someone winning a lottery. Often when someone wins jackpot, he grows distant from friends/family because of his money. He loses his direction in life due to the sudden infusion of wealth.

I feel that way with Apple.
The FAQ on pressurenet.io/about/ should be updated to show that the iPhone 6 does in fact have a barometer.
> Starting Jan. 1, no companies will be allowed to set up a Double Irish scheme. Ireland also will phase it out through 2020 for companies that already have one, Noonan said.

I wonder if there will be a mad dash to set up corps in Ireland over the next few months.
No, I haven't. Thanks!
yes ... it's frustrating. I actually can read Japanese a bit, still even if you are LOGGED in to Google with preference English, they show you the Japanese page. Well done!
VPN or TOR to the rescue ...
I'm a hobby iOS developer, could you provide a link explaining how you can do this? I seem to remember reading something about Apple enabling this at one time, but I don't remember the reference now.
Family businesses look to sell up rather than pass on business
Seriously, thanks for doing this.
> It doesn't seem like a lot of people actually use Amazon's video thing, though.

Amazon sent me snail mail a few months ago to remind me I got Amazon Instant Video with my prime membership and that I should use it some time, so I'm thinking you're probably right.
(New) Moto X doesn't.
"They start by solving the easiest problems first, get some funding and hit the wall."

Exactly! Just repeat keep repeating that process!
You might like this as well, I came across it the other week it details how one startup got their initial traffic. This stuff really is hard so don't feel bad if your ideas fail, I'm pretty happy if I have one non-shit idea a month that ends up helping at my startup as most simply do nothing!

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/237922
One of my favorite C preprocessor hacks - emulating named parameters in C.

https://gist.github.com/robmccoll/5236408528c8c664c201