skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I miss Blockbuster, or at least video rental stores. I'm way past the phase of life where owning a collection of movies seems like a good idea, and am tired of companies with their hand in my pocket every month. There was also a sense of occasion- it was a place to go to, everybody got something they wanted, and the family was committed to spending a couple hours together afterward. Browsing the Netflix isn't the same- talk about “managed dissatisfaction"...
But his goal is to eradicate it, not only prevent it. Preventing is a step towards his goal.

I'm not at all convinced that a higher standard of living inevitably leads to lower malaria infections. I actually think the correlation is rather weak, at least in the initial part of eradicating/battling the disease.

I agree with you that controlling the disease by having a stable, efficient and proactive health care system requires a solid economy. I just don't think that's where the problem lies for the moment.
That's fair (I admittedly have always bought new and sold to the used market), though you might need a battery replacement in either case (requiring an Apple Store appointment, or in the case of a PC, ordering the part).
Text is data, just structured in a human-readable way.
Some supporting evidence in a letter from Blockbuster's shareholders to the company when it filed for bankruptcy.

"Jim Keyes and all involved will be held accountable for their actions that led to this today," former shareholder, Niko Celentano, wrote at the time of the bankruptcy filing. "Jim Keyes and his BOD's have failed all shareholders in their fiduciary responsibilities due to them. Jim Keyes is the main reason Blockbuster is in this position today due to his denial of being in a business model that did not work anymore. If Jim Keyes would have seen the changes that were evolving in this industry in the past few years, Blockbuster would not have been in the courts today filing Chapter 11 bk protection.... Jim Keyes has failed in his job as CEO of Blockbuster and should resign immediately."

From http://www.thestreet.com/story/10886236/1/should-blockbuster....
It "does fine" ... for you.

Based on your description, it sounds like you probably live in your laptop. Other folks don't, and a hand-adjustable keyboard stand may not work very well for them. Imagine, for example, trying to raise something like that — even assuming it could take the weight — while using multiple monitors.
I had something like that happen once, but it worked out in my favor. I had misconfigured BIND, which I had intended to run just as a caching name server for my network, and it was listening for outside connections too. Some variant of the Lion worm found it and used a BIND bug to get onto my system.

It sent my password file to someone in China, started a scanner to look for other systems to infect, downloaded a .tar.gz file that contained a root kit to hide itself, unpacked the .tar.gz, and ran the install script contained therein to install the root kit.

Or rather, it tried to. I had ISDN at the time, and had noticed the modem lights heavily blinking even though I was not doing any internet activity. This confused me, and I pulled the plug on the modem. Turns out I pulled the plug while it was downloading the .tar.gz. It got most of the file, but not quite all of it. It lost the last file inside the archive--which happened to be the install script!

Without the install script, it could not install the root kit, and that made getting rid of the worm a heck of a lot easier.
Cell carrier was weakest link in hack of Google, Instagram accounts
Laws that aren't actively enforced by the state are solely there exist so that they can be used to persecute undesirables. It creates the illusion of a free society while keeping an implied state of control against the public. The only just act to do is repeal or nullify the law.
President Obama made a major, iconically-staged speech in Cairo in 2009 regarding relations between Muslim-majority countries and the NATO (approximately) West:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Beginning
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SV is like the 1849 California gold rush. A few people got rich and everyone else just got dirty.
Apology: A Culture a Lot of People Lack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7149908

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8060034
The country classifications are interesting https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/forms-documents/doc_downlo...

A:1 countries are our friends. E:1 countries are "terrorists". The rest are in between. There is also the list of "Supplement 3" exception countries (friends): see last page of http://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/forms-documents/doc_downloa...

This charts shows what's allowed if you have crypto in your product: https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/forms-documents/doc_view/9...

I assume vxWorks is 5E002 (tools to create non-standard crypto systems), which is banned for D:1 countries. Well there is an exception "‐ 5E002: no D:1 countries (unless HQ'd in Supp. 3)".
Are US salaries anything near a big part of the economy? I thought the 99% controlled most of the money. Its unlikely that fiddling around with salaries (even minting money to pay a basic income) will affect the value of money, if we're only talking about 1% (or less) of the money.
Camera Finder Released
If you download on a PC you should also:

a) Use VR Player https://vrplayer.codeplex.com/ or equiv.

b) Set to dome projection

c) Set to barrel distortion
I walked around many a modern development shop, and it's often about 70% Apple since around 2008... Especially now with mobile development.

Traditional businesses have a Windows legacy to deal with, but that hasn't stopped the vast majority from adopting iOS in droves.
Wow, I am both happy and sad.

Happy because I always wished for an html 5 version, sad because I wish I had done it myself
Yeah, I would argue that yielding to the impulse to 'procreate constantly' outside of marriage would be equally as harmful as following any other sexual desires (homosexuality, polygamy, pedophilia, etc) that doesn't line up with how sex and marriage are meant to work - that is one man marrying one woman and them having sex.
Still doesn't have a month view with legible event labels?

Not sure why they can't do this, the default Calendar app that ships with Samsung phones pulls it off beautifully.
It certainly should. Thanks—fixed.
> Encryption export restrictions are an absolute joke. I can go read a Wikipedia article right now that heavily details the inner workings of most block ciphers.

You are right. Encryption exports are a joke. Not because of Wikipedia, however, but rather because of open source software.

It's trivial to find instructions on how to build OpenSSL from source, especially for a foreign government with all the power and money they have. This makes the law in question nonsensical in theory and ineffective in practice.
"How quaint." -- ClojureScript
It's worth noting that the very next release (1.9) is already locked and loaded (it branched to beta). So when Tom says "next release" he means 1.10.

Also, some of the points in the RFC are features that depend on the new templating engine but will likely not land in 1.10. We give guesstimates for when we think things will land in the RFC :)
> One of the biggest misconceptions about us is that you need to have pre-existing connections to get value from the network. Remarkably, you don’t. Silicon Valley is a community of outsiders that have come together. If you build something good, people will help you. It’s standard practice to ask people you’ve just met for help – and as long as you aren’t annoying about it, they usually don’t mind.

There's some truth to this, but it's not entirely accurate. The spectrum of who, what, when, where, why and how is very broad here. The top of the food chain in Silicon Valley is just as insular as Wall Street, Hollywood, etc.

> Yes, the approximately 700 YC companies are all totally independent legal entities – but the connection is so strong that alumni companies get significant benefits from each other.

Not often discussed: some of those benefits are benefits until they're not. A lot of accelerator-backed startups count other startups from the same accelerator as their largest customer segment and a source of early sales traction. When the business cycle turns and "other startups" is no longer a viable customer segment, however, a lot of startups are going to see their sales decimated because they have little to no diversification.

> Unlike other cities where people are mostly focused on cash compensation for this year, in Silicon Valley more people talk about equity than salaries (assuming, of course, that they can afford the wildly-out-of-control housing costs, which is probably the biggest weakness here right now).

This is simply not true. Most angel and venture-backed startups in the Bay Area today offer early employees miniscule amounts of equity, and engineers demand market rate compensation (where market rate compensation equals "what Google or Facebook would pay me if I could get a job there").

If you're a startup offering higher equity in lieu of salary, you will have a very difficult time hiring in the Bay Area. Most engineers are hip to the fact that this isn't likely to work out in their favor.
3 Ingenious Practices for Publishing Apps
Now enterprises with MITM proxies will have to SSL intercept EVERYTHING, which is already a frustrating proposition.
Besides having the not-so-mainstream needed habilities, how do you manage to find that kind of (niche?) work?
>C# seems to look more like Scala with every release

It does, but then that begs the question of "why use c# at all?". C# is still missing (along with F#) scala's most powerful features, and I prefer the JVM and openness of the ecosystem to .NET

The contact I'm on, we're having a lot of success porting away a large C# application to Scala.
Funny story came to mind: You ever have a client accidentally hit F12, then tell your boss that your product was broken because there was a weird thing taking up half the screen?

Seriously: My guess would be download size, performance, maintenance. Especially with Moz aiming to target super cheap hardware with their OS.
http://www.reddit.com/r/60fpsporn NSFW
Text is data, just unstructured. You can't ask meaningful queries of it. That's why we have databases.
Hang on, a cheat sheet to not paying your student loans? Didn't you (we!) sign up for those loans and agree to pay them? Aren't they our responsibility? This feels like a complete cop-out. The "secret" to getting out of debt is hard work and living on a budget. This is gross.

see: http://www.daveramsey.com/show/home/?snid=show
I discovered trakt a few months ago - it's great! They offer an open API and store the imdb id for each movie, so it shouldn't be a problem to integrate it.
Dell has tried offering Linux on laptops: the sales are too low and the costs too high for it to be a viable business. (You can get whatever you want on servers.)

Dell might like to offer OS X on laptops but Apple won't allow it, even if Dell buys its OS at retail.

> offer more configuration options again

Dell offered a load of options when it built desktops in its own factories. Most laptops (including Macs) are built in huge factories in China owned by Foxconn (Hon Hai), Quanta, Compal, Wistron, Pegatron etc, so configuration is generally not an option. (Or not at a price people are willing to pay.)
I definitely agree with not moving the goal posts, I think this makes the scroll indicator useless since we make mental 'bookmarks' based on position. I believe a good compromise would be to keep the document height fixed and without loading everything. This wouldn't work for 'infinite scrolling' solutions, but scale-resetting could be minimized this way.
Ah Scrum arguments.

The biggest source of No True Scotsman fallacies on the internet.
Show HN: Ruby script to help developer recruiting -Using GitHub/Clearbit
A nice little script that I put together to help find developers in my area.

Once I have the list, I look at projects that the developers have worked on to see if they would be a good fit for my team. If they are, I use linkedin to find the best intro so that I can sit down and chat with them.

Please excuse messy code. This is the first pass. I have some other features I will be adding in a few weeks.
JEE is not bad, J2EE is bad.

JEE has no comparable .NET framework/library/tools.
I agree that accessing the right networks will help tremendously, but I also believe that Sama's statement is accurate. One doesn't need pre-existing connections. This almost subtle, yet much more important condition was included shortly after the quote you mentioned: "If you build something good, people will help you."

A grand vision alone won't get someone nearly as far as it may have in the late 90s. A prototype that is nearing that vision with each quickly released new iteration seems to be the entry barrier for someone with no pre-existing connections.
Actually, 3 of us will be fathers in the next 60 days.
Tech groups aid terror, says UK spy chief
It's sad to see that they have resort to such methods to keep their browser alive. Developers are beginning to skip IE testing because of this inconvenience.

I wish Microsoft would finally untie their Browser from the OS and provide standalone packages.
I wonder if it works for domain accounts. Most things don't seem to for some time.
Eye Bombers: Humanizing everything
And another reason to switch to Android.
Umap: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/

Easily create custom maps showing distances, areas, points/pins, heatmaps...
Generally by asking them to paste code into the JavaScript console. Here's an example:

http://sdpcfix.com/security-alerts/facebook-scam-helps-trick...
The adjustable frame/movable base for the geekdesk can be found on alibaba for less than $200/shipped. I bought the frame, then went to Lowe's and had a semi-custom countertop made for my frame, and my end cost was around $350.00. Custom geekdesk max, minus the $1000+ price tag.
Is anyone else having a problem getting to the product site? Clicking the link in the article takes me to http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/wor..., and it doesn't seem to be listed under the "Bekant" line.

Maybe it isn't available in the US yet?
hey, i would love to see this work for google cardboard (i'm too poor for rift ;) - i see there's a get notified when it comes to mobile, but i can't click it.
Thank you for your correction! I am still suspicious that there is some forgotten weirdness lurking in there, but I'm glad someone didn't let me propagate my mistaken recollections unanswered. :-)
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I've been that guy, several times in my career. Moved back to the Midwest, my Silicon Valley employer continued to pay me. Subsequently got other jobs working at startups and working from the Midwest (3 of them at least). Working one now.
decided to make it that way to force people to upgrade Windows when they wanted to upgrade IE.

Not true.
I'm taking this course right now, I'm a little ambivalent about it. They cover various machine learning algorithms, which one can learn anywhere, but they also talk about how to deal with these things in a massive data context. The pragmatic tools needed to wrangle large amounts of data so that you can apply your usual ML algorithms to it is very nice to see.

That said, I don't feel like I'm learning concepts. So far, the techniques have felt like: break up the data into chunks this way, apply a bunch of hash functions that way, this is what ended up working for this particular problem. I guess if you work in the field, the tools you're exposed to will inspire things in your own work, and you'll feel more like you're building a general framework.

The homeworks are terrible. There are no mandatory programming assignments, and the one optional one does nothing to gradually work up to applying the stuff they teach you, it's just, here's a massive zip that won't fit on your hard drive, here's an uninteresting computational question to answer about it, go for it.

The remaining (basic) homeworks are quizzes and they're incredibly tedious. (There are advanced homeworks as well, but it hasn't been that inspiring). One of the recent homeworks was really just a rehash of some high school linear algebra, another one involved doing some computations with a bunch of different points. The points weren't provided in a list, they were drawn onto a jpeg so you had to manually copy all of them down. That's the kind of course it's been.

It's a very light weight course, which is nice if you're working. If your basic math skills are good and you already have some familiarity with ML and distributed computing, 5 hrs/wk is enough to watch the videos (at 2x speed plus occasionally hitting the 10-second-fast-forward) and do the basic homeworks.
I haven't said that violence is acceptable. I'm not sure how you could come to that conclusion, so could you point out where I said it?

What I have said is that when you see violence in public you should not assume the perpetrator has a mental illness because they probably don't; and when you see someone with a mental illness you should not think that they are violent, because they probably aren't.

I can understand the downvotes for tone - it's too late to edit so I'm stuck with those.

I can't understand the downvotes for this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8548999

Edit: downvoters - please let me know why you're downvoting my later posts.
Given the broad geographic footprint of the HN community, I'm curious what folks here think about how much of a role that a tolerance of failure plays in Silicon Valley's track record of supporting commercial innovation.

I don't know if others agree (and it's no doubt an over-generalization), but my intuition is that commercial failure lacks the stigma in Silicon Valley that it does in most other places. Much ink has been spilled on the topic and some have even suggested that Silicon Valley has a "Failure Fetish".[1]

It seems popular to trace the roots of this and other cultural features of Northern California (e.g., 60s counterculture) to the Gold Rush of 1849. But perhaps it simply another artifact of startup density that Sam suggests is so critical?

[1] A sampling from various forums:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/03/silicon-valley-...
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/19/155005546/failure-the-f-word-s...
http://www.inc.com/eric-markowitz/brilliant-failures/why-sil...
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/225202
http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/10/18/silicon-valleys-greates...
http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2013/03/06/pages/1054/
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/17/japan-to-fix-your-economy-h...
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/2012/12/does-silicon...
http://www.quora.com/How-has-Silicon-Valley-developed-and-su...
I am a software engineer at Canonical working in Go on Juju. I live in Massachusetts and have 15 years of professional development experience and a BS in CS from a decent technical university (WPI). When applying for the job, I asked for (and got) the same salary I'd ask for if applying for an office-based job in Boston (which was a fairly significant bump over my old office-based job in Boston). From what I understand, Boston salaries may be lower than those in SF, but the cost of living probably makes up for the difference.
Could you share a link to alibaba for the product you bought? How's the quality of the one you got?
When will google's calendar app have CalDav.

It shocks me that the default calendar for android does not interoperate with any calendar server except gmail's (unless you can shoe-horn events in with a separate caldav app.)
I'm going to give a niche one: VXL

http://vxl.sourceforge.net/

It's like OpenCV but much better written. The only trouble is there's almost no documentation or tutorials for beginners.
Though your "biggest problem" might tie in with mine, I saw Blockbuster's biggest problem being that they didn't realize how much their customer loathed them. All it took was someone, anyone to come along and offer an alternative the model of:
1. Go to a physical store.
2. Pick out your second or third tier choice, because all copies of the one you want are gone.
3. Pray you don't forget to bring it back on time.

Customers hated them, and it would appear that Blockbuster hated them back. Maybe it didn't have to be Netflix, but someone was going to come along eventually and pull off an alternative that has no late fees, always has what you want, and you don't have to drive there. Could have been Redbox. You still have to drive there, sometimes the kiosk is out (in which case the web or app can tell you not to bother to get in the car), but at least if you're late it's only another dollar.

Blockbuster tried to fake it, but it still came off as the same weaselly company with the same weaselly fine print ("no late fees" comes to mind). Hollywood kind of tried, and they seemed a little more sincere, but it was still the doomed physical model.
This.

It'd be amazing if there was an official and well supported Linux port of .NET. Just imagine having C#, F# and .NET libs available in a Linux environment and talking to Linux tools.
Mac Users’ Unsaved Files and Screenshots Are Automatically Stored on iCloud
A Conversation About “Our Secret Life in the Movies”
I'd love a blog post about this, I've struggled with it and given up in the past, but I'd love to migrate our ember-rails app over to cli!
Last time I looked at getting a standing desk for my office at home, I decided it'd be cheaper to get a third monitor and a second keyboard and mouse. They would go on a permanently-standing-height desk next to my regular desk.

In linux you can reconfigure displays using the `xrandr` command. A keyboard shortcut would then toggle between the two desks.
> build a few high-rise

The dominant political view in the area is that building high-rise anything anywhere is something that should be stopped at all costs
Wtf, the Penguin in the second photo has a wrist watch around his wing?
sounds like it's not the place for you. a household making "only" $120k, no matter where you live, puts you in the top 15% by income in the US--hardly the "working poor" (see census data).

trying to keep up with the joneses, on the other hand, can warp your sense of relative privilege. top 15% in the US is among the top few percent in the world. keep that in mind, and that'll help assuage the negative feelings that can arise from comparing yourself to those you otherwise consider your peers.
I'm not sure there was a way forward for Blockbuster. Netflix and Redbox replaced it's core market with alternatives that were both better and more efficient by an order of magnitude.

A massive nationwide retail chain can't just pivot like a startup can. Blockbuster's retail footprint was massive. It had 9,000 stores. Worse, it had franchise stores which it owed a duty to.

Even if Blockbuster could have had a profitable online rental business, it would have been brought down by the retail failure. It would have gone bankrupt anyway.
(Library author here.) Unfortunately, in JavaScript it's not possible to override array element reassignment behavior. You can call Object.freeze on the array, which makes reassignment silently do nothing, but you cannot override it to throw an exception.

The reason the docs say "the methods that would normally mutate..." is that in the specific case of methods (e.g. array.push()), the library can and does override them to throw exceptions.

I would certainly prefer to make that example throw an exception, but it's simply not possible in JS. :)
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