skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For instance, they could use a proprietary NFC solution. Works just like Apple Pay, just instead of a credit card number, it's a CurrentC account number. Sure it doesn't too well on iPhones, but I bet they could pay Samsung, etc. to include native support in their hardware, and that's a good chunk of the market.
Touchy topics to avoid in Asia
I met the Cartesian Co. guys at Maker Faire Atlanta. They have a working circuit board printer available for sale right now.

http://www.cartesianco.com/
>Should we make ALL research available to EVERYONE at EXACTLY the same moment? You can see how ludicrous that sounds when you consider how much research is behind some form of payment.

Any gov't entity ought to, when possible, Yes.

For certain, the terms by which these reports are made available ought to be disclosed to all parties. No party should be arbitrarily or "accidentally given" an advantage over any other.
In Ruby, it does _not_ mean mutation. It means 'danger.' Sometimes that's mutation, sometimes its other things, like throwing an exception rather than returning nil on error.
Another thing is that SIGINT interruption (via Ctrl-C or whatever character is configured) and SIGHUP signals
wouldn't be reliable if faked outside of the kernel.

Firstly, the tty driver can read and respond to a Ctrl-C even if the application is single-threaded and spinning in a loop, or blocked on some device other than the TTY. If Ctrl-C were handled in user space, then there would have to be a thread through which the terminal I/O goes. Secondly, that thread would have to be completely reliable, and never block or hang for any reason other than reading from the TTY.

Also, a security feature known as a SAK (secure attention key) needs to be in the kernel. A TTY which implements a SAK cannot be entirely transparent.
Different MCX here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Customer_Exchange
Not to mention it would be difficult, if not impossible, to parse in the first place (the contents of a macro invocation are stored as token trees within macro AST nodes, within the regular AST).
Check out this site that lists really good landing pages. http://www.land-book.com
neither would i ;)
No map is an island: Introducing a connected JavaScript Maps API experience
Although there's a lot more in-depth, actionable information out there, this blog post by Amy Hoy seems tailor-made to your question:

http://unicornfree.com/2013/how-do-you-create-a-product-peop...
Let's see...

I haven't written a post mortem yet, partly because I'm still building it, and partly because I hadn't seen it under heavy load (although I woke to emails from linode screaming at me about high CPU usage)

* The idea is one that I've been toying with for years. I've made other experiments that got some notice here a few years ago, too.

* There are some extra features that I still want to add at some point ('formations' for pre-building shapes, as an example. The database table is there, but no functionality.)

* Nothing given up on entirely yet.

* The only rearchitecting that happened was replacing the board UI with a canvas implementation. The initial version used a table and was painfully slow. From past experience I knew that wouldn't cut it, but it was an easy starting point.

* the initial commit was... October 2nd, but I didn't start working on it till a week later. All in all, I've just grabbed time between other (paying) projects.
Not one thing about that was condescending.

Have you spoken with someone aged 65+? How about people living in flyover country?

Most do not care about their abstract rights, as the OP stated. Life is mostly okay, maybe not as easy as 2000-2008, but pretty easy. Therefore, they don't want to rock the boat.
We've kind of learned from that incident now. It's still very fresh in people's minds, and mentioned quite often.
MIT Creates a Visualization System to Track the Way Robots Think
One could argue that the main purpose of the device (or the main reason users use the device) is not to broadcast identity, it is to let the user connect to the internet within the perimeter of their domicile.

Just like you can argue that the main purpose of windows is not so that people can look in, it's so that people can look out, and light comes in.

I agree partially with what you're saying, but there is a mismatch between user expectation and what the technology actually does. I don't think the fact that the user used it implies they consented to the technical side effects.
Why would it do that? Phone owners compete by displaying famous models by famous brands. The idea that they'll compete on hardware specs requires more evidence.

I suspect there's always been a strong element of competition based on physical size in computing. PC cases are about as small as you can take that and still leave room for customisability.

So my guess is the overlap between the competitive hardware concept space, the custom-build concept space, and the pocket device concept space might be big enough to drive a tiny niche, but not a full consumer frenzy.
Isn't that same "raw bank account information" on every check you write?
My takeaway from your story is that the high connections your landlord probably had to draw upon was the reason you prevailed with the electricity company.
Nifty, but not incredibly novel. SQLite's VFSes have been around for some time, albeit in smaller breadth and scope. I think one thing this kind of glosses over is the notion of transactions, what if load/fs contents change between independent parts of your query, are they memoized, recomputed, etc?

Having said all that I'm going to install it and try it out because it's new and shiny.
A taste of Rust for C/C++ programmers
Direct link to the WayBack Machine:

https://archive.org/web/
Human blood is far more mass produced than printer ink. There are currently about 7 billion mostly independently owned and operated production facilities. The problem is the supply lines and market prices. Distribution of the surplus also tends to be fairly shitty.

(that last bit was a poop joke, not a statement about my opinions on the subject of donated blood distribution)
I'm concerned about all the critical websites powered by drupal, including Whitehouse.gov.
I'll add Metafilter. Simple, no CSS or HTML5 tricks. Loads in a heartbeat. Doesn't crash my old iPhone like, oh, Medium, Wired, Atlantic, or any of the other modern sites.
yeah they said drupal 7 was vulnerable to sql injection however it looks bigger http://www.techworm.net/2014/10/drupal-7-vulnerable-sql-inje...
Planet-forming lifeline discovered in a binary star system
Also, to emphasize and expand on 'critical thinking', liberal arts teaches you to question ideas and assumptions, your own and others', to be open minded to and assimilate new concepts, and to communicate well.

> Instead of "learning to think" and being prepared for a fictional career in academia

This is overstated. I expect that the great majority of high-paying jobs are held by people with liberal arts degrees. The idea that they are worthless in the job market is a popular exaggeration, but wrong.
There is also the consideration that you will never know your security was insufficient until the day you do.

You can take reasonable efforts to secure your site. You can follow the best practices that you find. You may even have the best programmers money can buy.

But, in the end, until you are caught with your pants down, you may have no idea that you are actually vulnerable.

We make mistakes. Some of them are stupid.
That's quite useful!

I just gave it a try in a current, Firefox-not-being-sluggish state, and it seems it may be a bit hard to correlate profiler lines to exact tabs. (For example, 7 of the top 13 rows that had domains associated were Google-API-related, but I don't think they're being used from Google pages...) Still, when I next enter a laggy state perhaps this will help finger the culprit(s) unambiguously. Thanks!
For a home printer I love my Konica Minolta MC1600W. Cost <$150 on Amazon, "ink" lasts forever, and replacement toner kit is cheaper than many Inkjet replacements.

Plus it's quick, and produces great everything. Probably wouldn't satisfy a professional photographer, but for me it's a lot better than any Inkjet I've ever owned. Especially since it's used so infrequently. With Inkjets the print-heads would frequently go bad between usages. That could easily push my "few pages to print every few months" use-case into dollar-per-page territory.

The only downside is it doesn't have air-print, never will, KM has discontinued it, and at some point in the future I won't be able to buy replacement toner cartridges.

But I'm OK with that since it's already lasted longer and saved me more money than any previous printer I've owned.

If I did have to replace it, I'd definitely get another Color Laser. The Brother HL3170CDW comes in at $100 more, you can get all four colors in high-yield replacement cartridges for about $100, and it includes AirPrint.
The TechCrunk article that MacRumors get their info from says: "When it’s time for a user to check out, they request to pay with CurrentC. The consumer then unlocks their phone, opens the CurrentC app, opens the code scanner, and scans the QR code shown on the cashier’s screen. In some case, the reverse may happen where the consumer’s CurrentC app displays a payment code and the cashier scans it."

So sounds like one or the other.
Yeah, it's a problem with no great solution. That's one reason why I allowed registered users to make multiple armies.
Google Play Movies is getting second-screen smarts for Chromecast
A new approach to making instagram shoppable
Yes. Steve Jobs was notorious for driving his team to do the impossible, no matter how marginal the utility might seem. He set the bar pretty high for design. All outside indications seem to demonstrate Tim Cook doesn't drive it to the same degree. I think Apple will still try to deliver on those traditions, but especially as the iphone 6 shows, they're not doing a great job at it.

Apple seems to lead the way in making things thinner, and following behind in making "new" things. Its a clear void.
From what I saw you can use a wireless keyboard/mouse so the issue of reaching won't be as prevalent. Though you might mean you would actually use touch all the time, but I couldn't see myself doing that.
Sure, but that's also adding several years and a huge amount of development time/risk - it's creating a whole new spec, implementing it in both handsets and payment terminals, and deploying those updates. During which time, the non-halfassed standard will be chugging along just fine, increasing marketshare and generally not sucking.

It's technically possible, but one of those things that's deeply unlikely to happen, particularly given the lead that Apple (and, very likely, Android in the near future) and the credit card companies have in rolling out a solution.

EDIT: added a missing word
Macros have a freeform syntax, with the only restriction being that delimiters within have to be balanced. I don't see how an IDE could provide general syntax highlighting for them.
You bring up a good point jacquesm. When you think of it as HP trying to identify market segments, the connect to us form includes company information and position. You could database possible applications.

I do not feel they are stupid, just noting the amount of monies poured into this website for a non-functional product for a company that is desperately seeking revenue. Can HP R&D make it to 2016?
I agree with the general sentiment of this thread. This redesign was not needed in the first place. The new website is incredibly slow to load, and the infinite scrolling thing absolutely sucks. While I can see all my uploads with the old(better) website, the new one doesn't seem to work. Just says "Fetching more results", and then nothing happens. With the tabs, if I try to list my uploads by, say, text, it reloads the page and switches the tab to collections, and then I have to click the Uploads tab again to see the filtered results. Same when I remove a filter.

Even on my workstation computer with a nice overclocked CPU, I can see the CPU usage jump to the top whenever I load the site. The website takes 19.90s to load with cache disabled, with ~200 requests and 6.5MB of data transferred. The older website takes 4.21s to load, with 18 requests and 280KB of data transferred, in contrast.

Meanwhile, features like the ability to playback WARC files that are uploaded by users don't seem to be getting any attention, but a feature like that would make so much sense for a site like the Internet Archive. I can see they provide a player for media files, why not provide something for WARC files too, then?

As a heavy user of the site, the redesign(at least at the current state) will only ever hinder my experience, I can't see it being helpful in any way.
Looking for a Design Behind Amazon’s Devices
Lawrence Lessig on Institutional Corruption–Congress: The Paradigm Case
Been posted several times on HN but April Zero always deserves a shout.

http://aprilzero.com
In reality, as a consumer, I average 3% back on credit cards. I probably average 2% fees on cash, between ATM fees and driving to free ATMs.
Were the paying customers actually using it? Did they love the product (ie, would be a 9 or 10 on an NPS survey)?

If yes, then you should have worked more on sales and marketing.

If no, then you built the wrong feature. Blindly adding a collection of features won't help. You need to figure out what the one feature is that will make customers rave about the product.

The core problem might be that your product ideas were "pretty good" ideas and not "very good" ideas. "Pretty good" ideas are deadly, because they are just good enough to suck you in, but not good enough to make a product that customers rave about, and thus not good enough to make with a product that is easy to market or spread by word of mouth.
it's NuGet under the covers
Please do not editorialize titles like this. It's against the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Republicans are about "relatively" less government control then the only other party I could rationally choose from in an election - the Democrats.

The choice here is not between good and bad. It is between two less than optimal choices (which is most often the case in life).
Why is this posted now, more than 2 weeks later? Even back then, within hours, people had publicly published working examples of remote code execution via simple single HTTP POST requests?

For example: https://twitter.com/i0n1c/status/522495098630987777
If your target audience is 'makers' then why is this being marketed as a toy? The underlying idea is great, and I'm very much looking forward to someone implementing this correctly — but I'm not interested in buying a giant toy for creating more 'moments' for my 'followers'.

I want something for doing actual creative work, and that's the only metric that matters for a product like this anyway. Maybe Bret should give it a try (http://vimeo.com/97903574).
I watched the second video first, so it was pretty obvious what it actually does. The first video is a bit useless.

I hope they sell the camera part separately, that's the awesome part. The touchscreen doesn't seem to serve a purpose, that would be just as good or better with a mouse or trackpad.

The touch idea is cute, but I don't see the point in touch when there's no tactile feedback.
It might be conceivable to fund a basic income via money creation, but that would require more than simply printing money, a complete revamp of the banking system and monetary policy. It's an interesting idea, but somewhat above my head.

I'm from Norway, where we already have a big welfare system funded by a progressive tax system. And which would already be able to fund most of a basic income. So obviously the idea of redistribution isn't that big of an issue around these parts. As a result, I'm perhaps too quick to assume funding would be done through taxation.

Not sure what you mean by "other sectors". Other relative to which sector(s)?
If the rest of the world manages just fine with the current education model, then maybe the solution does not lie in revolutionizing the education model.
It's only $100! Thew cartridges are $100,000.
The 10 People You Find in All Meetings: Dog Edition
John Seely Brown: High Tech, Higher Ed, and the New World Order (2000)
Well, sure, but it's a lot easier to steal a million of them from the "secure cloud technology" than in person.
`cider missing` fails when it can't find a formula and writes nothing to the file...
I know the answer to this. In 2014, the thing that keeps the police from saying anything else is a recording of the entire situation. Recording is standard practice in most interrogation situations. I say most, not all.

Story Time; I was interviewed for a crime I was tangentially related to (my employer at the time was robbed while I was on the clock, they were investigating any possible connections on my side). I kept repeating, "I would like to speak to my lawyer please." Once my lawyer came, he advised me to just be honest and tell them that there was no connection. I was just uncomfortable about talking to a cop behind closed doors and was 17.

When asked what we talked about, the cops response was something along the lines of, "nothing, the little asshole just kept saying lawyer. Check the tapes."

It was then that I realized the power of video.
>Well if it is measured at the 1-second or 1-millisecond level, yes the exchanges are in compliance. At the 100-microsecond, 10-microsecond and nanosecond level, perhaps the exchange is in compliance at the 50th percentile.

And once you hit the <1 millisecond level, it's hard to even get reliable measurements, which makes compliance for "same time delivery" really really freaking hard.

Keep in mind, when you're talking about the nanosecond level, you're at the point where the length of cabling between the systems matters.

Sure, there's a lot of new tech coming out, especially with using GPS to synchronize clocks, but it's still a major issue.
I think WalterBright was arguing that being able to argue any point of view, right or wrong, with equal facility is a bug, not a feature. :-)
Speeding? Jaywalking? Because that's the level of danger non-violent drug crimes present. To deny someone an education, something so valuable to not only their future but a value to society at large, over a minor crime is to cut off our nose to spite our face.
It says that they will also ban any content that talks about net neutrality. It is sad that this doesn't even surprise me.
For Protection Score, it's rated 0.0/6.0. For something that's 80% accurate, included with every computer by default (and turned on by default) and constantly updated, it's being done a massive disservice. Yeah there are better free AVs out there, but given the choice between nothing and MSE/Defender, I'd really rather everyone use MSE. There's a long way between 80% and 100%, but an even longer way between 80% and 0%. Especially when the AV is no longer even the most important part of PC security. That starts at the browser (every browser) and continues into UAC (on every OS) and things like SmartScreen verifying the reputation of executables (not just scanning for malware).

I wasn't meaning to call you out on your source, just the message that this test seems to give off ("MSE is worse than nothing").
OK, thanks for the hint! I'll try to play with CORSed image texture binding to see what the performance is.
Where is the reference implementation?
It will install cask for you, but homebrew needs to be installed via the script on http://brew.sh/#install (you also need to have Xcode or Apple's cli tools installed).
Or is it that Apple markets products so well that by the time whateveritis hits the shelves, it doesn't seem "weird" anymore?
The SEC is a government agency. It should not be favoring some citizens over others, and the SEC should not be giving market advantages to those it regulates.
Safely Roll Out Your Next New iOS Feature
[wuala] Termination of free storage and storage promotion [pdf]
San Francisco Design Agencies Feeling the Squeeze
The takeaway: if you run a site or application that is accessible on the Internet, you are responsible for ensuring the site, servers, and infrastructure is maintained after the initial build is complete.

If you're helping a client or company build a new site/app, and they are not ready and willing to either maintain the site themselves, or pay for a decent maintenance contract, or otherwise guarantee that security patches and hot fixes are applied in a timely manner, they don't yet value their website/app enough. It's your job—as someone who knows the consequences—to convince people of this.

This applies all the more when a project is built on a widely-used platform like Drupal, Wordpress, RoR, Django, etc. Though bespoke/lesser-used frameworks may provide a tiny amount of protection through obscurity, that's still no excuse for not educating people on the importance of maintenance in any software project.
And they said no personal details was hacked as if email does not comes under that http://www.techworm.net/2014/10/currentc-hacked.html
I think that the 'call-by-name' behaviour in Scala is confusing, because you can write something that you think will execute once but actually, it might execute multiple times and there's no obvious marker that it's special. When you have something that is potentially major, you generally don't want it to be invisible.
If you need to advance exactly 50 pages, the worst thing there is from a usability perspective is to press PageDown 50 times, instead of clicking 5 times with progressive pagination or inputing the number in other traditional designs.

pinterest, facebook or twitter are whole-content streams, that's why they benefit from infinite scroll.
But they're not. Acceptance of packages not addressed to you but to someone you've never heard of would have been the action establishing probable cause. 'Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil' is a standard for God, not the police. I am OK with law enforcement employing bait that is intended to be active to criminals; what they're not allowed to do is induce people to commit criminal acts who were not otherwise inclined to do so.
Would you mind submitting an issue here with more info? https://github.com/msanders/cider/issues

Edit: pretty sure I fixed the bug - could you verify by trying the version on master?

pip install https://github.com/msanders/cider/archive/master.zip
His point stands. Don't make it easy for them, this is wrong and they need to be made to understand that it's unacceptable for them to pull these kinds of stunts.

IMO he shouldn't have let it rest after the electricity was turned back on, he should have pressed the matter by trying to contact the media about this and by getting a written statement from the landlord regarding the events for future reference, and should have written a blog post about it.
New study shows three abrupt pulses of CO2 during last deglaciation
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