skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That presumes they have some idea of the short-term forward volatility of the rubble, which no one does right now

The derivatives market still exists and you can null out future FX risk by paying whatever the derivatives market is charging for it now and passing that cost onto consumers.
I love CyanogenMod (or at least the concept...I'm over dealing with the headache in practice), but the reason I used it was certainly not for improved stability and security.

Not that I particularly trust OEMs/carriers, but the only way I'd feel more secure with CyanogenMod is if I had time to audit the source and build the kernel and OS binaries myself, and that includes whatever code is used to root and unlock your device in the first place. If you do that though, more power to ya.

Also, disabling permissions at runtime is a foolproof way to make an app crash, as the vast majority of apps will assume they're granted the permissions hardcoded in the manifest at compile time.

One last point - rooting your phone and granting apps root access just to disable crucial permissions such as holding a wakelock seems pretty reckless - have you personally seen the source code for that app? At least the dev's website seems legit: http://www.findsdk.com/

EDIT: Even better, looks like the author of App Ops, or at least the owner if the findsdk.com domain, is in China :) https://who.is/whois/findsdk
Freebase is closing down; data going to WikiData
This will take decades to resolve. Random blasts of methane will be very hard to characterise in any methodical way.
ugh. Reamde.

Reamde starts off with a lot of interesting ideas, and then morphs into quite possibly the worst watered-down, airport-paperback, fourth-rate-Tom-Clancy-triller nonsense I have ever read. Avoid it at all costs. Unbelievable plot and character motives. ick.
This is a nifty tool, but it doesn't offer statistically independent samples. For many people, they don't care, but calculating from just a single track is really a measurement of how much your track "drifts" as satellite move across the sky, and not so much your location error.

A better (but still not perfect) way to do this is to take measurements at several known location benchmarks, and then repeat this over a few days. Your local city government probably has a listing of known benchmarks, in Las Vegas the website is: http://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/Find/survey_benchmark.htm

Doing this over the course of several days is important because you get data from several different GPS satellites from several different positions in the sky. This is much more labor intensive, but you will get a much better spec of how much you can trust your GPS.
> we find (signs of) intelligent life

Or it finds us.
You might not need jQuery but I much prefer jQuery's ajax API to using the XMLHttpRequest
Should browsers allow manual .paint() calls?
With the advent of react.js showing that browsers are slow if you call paint too many times, do you think at some point browsers should allow you to stop the automatic updating of the DOM, and allow you to manually trigger paint only when you choose to?
The ethics of hacked email and otherwise ill-gotten information – Poynter
Swift intro exercises playgrounds
Andrew: Alex Handy, here.

So sad to hear this. Dobbs was an institution, and a very respected one at that. Drop me a line, let me know what you're up to next.
I thought "let's check my knowledge of 6502 code by looking at a simple function", and chose http://www.pagetable.com/c64rom/c64rom_de.html#BC58. That got me:

BASIC-Funktion ABS
.,BC58 46 66 LSR $66 Vorzeichenbit löschen
.,BC5A 60 RTS Rücksprung

I don't call that "fully commented". A logical shift right of memory at $66 clears the sign bit? Show me your data structures, please.
I love your market research "I asked a few people."

Binstock, you are the dictionary definition of "ignominious end".
Good point. Thanks for clarifying that.
Depends on the country - when I buy stuff in Dubai with a credit card, the clerk will frequently ask me if I wish to pay the bill in AED or USD.
So you are comparing a 5 year old compiler with 30 years of compiler optimizations?!

I remember the days when C code on home computers just sucked and most of us coded in Assembly for games, as C was a business language.

Compiler optimizations take time, even if sharing backends across languages.
I knew a Will Brown growing up in california ... this better not be you Will.

Anyways, it seems like your mincing terms. Someone speeding "is breaking the law". Period. The speed limit is posted on a sign and you are breaking the law by violating that limit. It is both illegal and unlawful to sped. You are driving illegally once your drivers license has been revoked after so many traffic violations.

An undocumented immigrant may not be illegal -- but entering the country through illegitimate means will usually in no way help you to gain legal residency status in the USA.
The author comes across as being nostalgic of how he grew to perceive the cathedral should look, with little regard of how it was originally created.

I've seen the renovation in progress, and happen to like it. But that's just my opinion...
You base the surcharge on what the swap costs. The cost of the swap takes into account the market's idea of what the ruble is going to do vs. the dollar.

Basically, you make the customer buy insurance against the ruble losing value against the dollar. It's like charging a subprime borrower PMI.
Related: https://github.com/ElbertF/Wappalyzer

Open source, regularly updated detections.
Disrupted to death, by sites like Hacker News. Ironic then the outpouring of sympathy on this comments page. I loved Dr Dobbs but must spend at least 10x more time on HN or SO than there, ironically again, sites which are light or zero on advertising, and make their money obliquely (HN by pumping Y Combinator's VC business cred, SO through focused ads targeting developer recruitment). I guess the lesson is that interaction is where it's at. Static content is dead.
Apparently bitcoin is very popular in Argentina for that exact reason: http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2014/06/bitcoin-ar...
Yes, but there's a simpler explanation as well: they would probably rather not be paid in Rubles for concern that the Rubles will be worth significantly less by the time Apple is able to exchange them for USD (or whatever other currency) than the Rubles were when the price was set.
Interesting, I use VS2013 with C++ and C# all days and rarely have any issues. In my team with 10 devs the only guy who run into problems often is the one who installs all extensions he can find (his VS looks like my mothers IE with all the toolbars). Compared to how often VS6 crashed for me in the late 90s and how buggy VS2003 was, VS2013 feels pretty solid to me. Guess we are not using it in the same way or for the same things.
Ah, the full title, as I recall, was "Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics and Orthodontia: Running Light Without Overbyte".
>Why should I be forced to do the footwork, taking valuable time away from my family, to dig up receipts so I can convince a vendor (who may or may not respond) to give me my money back? Or the bank?

Because you're the one making the claim. Making a charge back takes roughly 2 seconds. And if you've bought something online you should have an email receipt you can find just as quickly.

You've spent more time away from your family replying to me telling me how important your time with them is than you would spend making a chargeback.

>This kind of issue almost always requires a third party reputation broken to step in

Right and they already exist so bitcoin doesn't actually improve the process it just reimplements it.

>Buying products online should be as easy and as trustworthy as buying products over the counter. I see Bitcoin as that mechanism.

But bitcoin actually makes it worse for consumers. Credit cards have really strong consumer protection methods. Bitcoin has none unless you toss on 3rd party escrow in which case it is just trying to patch over an inherit problem. Bitcoin is digital cash. The reason cash works well is because almost every time you use it you are in person with the merchant and can verify delivery immediately. Once you remove that it is near worthless.
This is pretty similar to http://nerdydata.com, except they seem to crawl hundreds of millions of domains and have daily notifications of changes.
It may be comforting that considering the Great Filter theory ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter ) finding life on mars might actually be bad news.
Pseudo Elements and DOM Promise Inspection Now in Firefox Deveoper Edition 36
The sad thing about ad blocking is the advertisers and website owners essentially forced me into using it.

I didn't use any adblocker software until earlier this year (much to the surprise of many other developers I talk with who adopted it much earlier). While I also didn't click many ads, I figured the least I could do for all the free content I was consuming was keep the ads showing.

Then the line between what used to be "real" sites and clickbait sites began to blur rapidly (see, for example, the weather channel site which is now basically a clickbait digital tabloid) and advertisements on "real" sites got really pushy in ways that would previously only be done on sketchier sites, popping open tabs I never requested, etc.

I eventually hit an annoyance level where I was forced to install an adblocker just to keep using the web.
Comments Aren’t Dead. They’re Just Broken
Will the site's content be archived or published in some form or the other?
Massively overpriced, a private office in a Toronto coworking space starts at 2x what wework charges
This is true, but there is always exceptions. The second paper I published I sent off to the journal and after a couple of months I had not heard anything (this was in the physical paper days where you had to mail everything). My supervisor decided to call the editor to ask what was happening. The editor said "oh we published it last month". The whole paper had gone straight through without a single change. This of course was the last time I ever had a paper accepted like this :)
http://pilif.github.io/2008/05/why-is-nobody-using-ssl-clien...
No, it is definitely a case in the US. In his sentence, you could expand it to "That's a shame" or "That's a crying shame", both idioms that can express that something is "unfortunate" or "disappointing", and does not always require a blame.
We paid our authors, columnists, and bloggers. And paid a staff of 2.5 full-time employees and a salesperson. Add benefits, insurance, rent, hosting costs, and taxes--and you're not looking at a lot of profit left over.
Maybe we already don't have great teachers. Maybe we're between a global max of a few great teachers and a local max of lots of not-great teachers, sitting in a global min of a few not-great teachers.
That's silly. 38 years is longer than the 25 year threshold for "long haul" used by that essay.

Success also means knowing when to stop, but even then "sunset" in this context doesn't mean to stop. Doug Kaye did an excellent closing-up-shop podcast for the end of IT Conversations describing why he chose to "sunset" the site, rather than work to keep the site going or shut it down completely.

For that matter, I've closed my consulting business in the US when I moved away. That company was a success, even though it no longer survives.
Careful, sshuttle doesn't route UDP, and by default does not route DNS requests either.

For Firefox, I don't think they should bother anyway, the world is killing flash, if you want to be anonymous on the internet use noscript and don't install flash in the first place.
Seriously! You never hear about a car would accidentally accelerate when you try to brake, or that the tires would spontaneously blow out, or that they would just plain roll over. I mean, the phrase "automobile recall" is practically an oxymoron!

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Prius_(XW30)#Recall
[2] - http://www.forbes.com/2000/08/18/mu3.html
[3] - http://www.cbsnews.com/news/toyota-will-recall-lexus-suv-for...
At the same time, I don't buy a coke by clicking on the ad' when it airs on TV... The impact of commercial is beyond the simple immediate relation "click & buy".
I wrote a small Monte Carlo simulation to estimate π. Feedback appreciated
Here's a fun video on how a modern 8-bit style game was ported to actually run on an NES. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvx4xXhZMrU

You would probably enjoy the book Racing the Beam http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/racing-beam

For a collection of (mostly consumer-oriented) behind-the-scenes material, check out http://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/

Or, if you want to get really technical http://handmadehero.org/
These aren't really "tough questions". Still, Bezos gives a good interview and makes Amazon sound like a good place to work. He's right-on with this:

What really matters is, companies that don’t continue to experiment, companies that don’t embrace failure, they eventually get in a desperate position where the only thing they can do is a Hail Mary bet at the very end of their corporate existence.

I've seen that first hand. It's ugly, especially because the best people leave companies where they don't get to innovate and own new things, so you're doing that "Hail Mary pass" with a lot of deadwood in your ranks.

That said, I'm having a hard time reconciling his pro-innovation stance with Amazon's use of stack-ranking, which causes divisions to ossify and halts innovation. It seems hard, after a point, to innovate if you don't trust your own people. You'll have a core in-crowd that will toss you ideas for a while, but eventually they run out and lose the ability to keep pace.

That's the question that I would want to see asked: how do you reconcile your ideals (which are admirable) with the reality of a company known to use stack ranking?
Yep, they've failed at making it clear.

Hopefully the change to calling the variants "JQuery Compatibility" and "JQuery" will help -- although since they are still saying they recommend "JQuery Compatibility" for most sites, I think they should have called it "JQuery" (the compatible one) and "JQuery Future" or "Jquery Non-Compatible" or whatever.

Anyway, you also could have simply dropped in the equivalent JQuery 1.x version for old-browser-compat with no changes to your code.
So is this just an aggregator of crunchbase/angellist/linkedin or some combination of scrapers and other sources?
It may seem a bit silly to add this, but I think it is good to link the reference for those who may not have seen it before:

Even compiling from source, one also has to trust the compiler...

(see, e.g. the classic http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html, pdf version at
https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...)
That presumes they have some idea of the short-term forward volatility of the rubble

My guess is that your typo isn't too far from the truth. Everything we've seen lately with regard to falling oil prices is geared towards attacking the Putin regime. Eventually the Russian people will find themselves living in a North Korean-style pariah state... or else they'll wake up and take drastic action to keep that from happening. Either way the medium-term outlook for the ruble is pretty much toast.
Fond memories of Dr. Dobbs, back when I was a kid in high school. I still have some issues from Vol 1, but not the first one because my local computer store hadn't started carrying it.

I learned about FORTH from DDJ. And how to write a tiny BASIC interpreter. I wrote my own version of PILOT from hints given me by a DDJ article. How to write a simple assembler, how to do simple computer music. Oh, countless things.

But I haven't read them in decades. DDJ was like the Mad Magazine of the 70s computer scene; random, but always entertaining, and sometimes educational.

I won't miss them, but I have good memories of them.
Good idea. I'll look into that!
Maybe I misunderstand, but my experience is that purchasing a normal vanilla domain name is very easy and very user friendly. The only common issue I have seen is annoying upsell (e.g. "we've dropped an $99 SSL package into your basket, remove it if you don't want it!").

Buying already occupied domains is always a huge hassle. No two ways about it, and a lot of the sites which sell/resell them are scummy as heck. I try and stay away from that as a general rule.
Why I love tech presentations, but hate these 5 mistakes
IBM Watson Analytics vs. Microsoft Azure ML
When a currency is devaluating but interest rates are low, the banks can borrow at low rate, sell rubles for dollars into sliding market, wait for ruble to slide more, then repay the loan with cheaper rubles and make a big profit. The trouble is they also accelerate the slide, courtesy of the low rates. The central bank rate increase was likely done to head off that particular danger. Of course there are many other factors pressing the ruble down as well, which central bank can't control, but at least they are trying to prevent worseing the situation with their own hands.

Long term high interest rates plus high cost of import supplies will likely strangle the economy though. Increased demand for domestic goods due to higher import prices is a good thing, but one needs capital to operate most businesses. When interest rates are high you can't borrow, and when political situation is flaky fewer people will want to buy equity.
I think it is used in the right context. Nobody says that an 'illegal immigrant' has to be jailed, but it is valid to say in general they they have to be deported. This is not a criminal conviction and does not mean calling someone 'criminal', and yet it is illegal. And it does not really matter if they entered U.S. with a tourist visa 10 years ago or just crossed the border in desert. 'Illegal' is just right.
I thought the option to pay in your credit card's native currency abroad was basically just a scam where the shop makes up a ridiculous exchange rate on the spot to overcharge you.
> There may be people buying iPhones for rubles, selling them online for other currencies, and then exchange it back to rubles for a profit.

Why would you do that sort of roundabout route when you could just trade rubles for other currencies directly?

Plus selling the phone back to get rubles doesn't seem like a smart move unless you think you've timed the bottom and the ruble isn't going to slip further against the dollar. Doesn't seem like people really think that.

At the moment, people would rather hold iPhones than rubles. I don't think that's in an attempt to turn a profit, it's just because an iPhone (or a major appliance, or a computer) is perceived to be a better store of value than rubles. Which given how electronics depreciate, is a really bad sign.
The author is ignorant, it doesn't take long to learn that the cathedral is not being repaint, there was a 1cm layer of dust and once removed it revealed on 80% of the surface a yellow paint : http://www.parismatch.com/Culture/Art/Chartres-retour-a-la-f...
The cathedral was gloom, it is for the better. When the only french newspaper that agree with you is Le Figaro, you should know you are wrong. The comparaison with antique statues is not valid, the paint on those statues are completely lost, the paint on the cathedral is just under disgusting dust.
That's the sad thing: you're saying that it still turns a net profit after paying all of its staff and costs, and yet that's apparently not enough to keep it running.
Pritunl VPN server 1.0 release announcement
Tastes differ. I thought it was a fun story and a quick easy read. I'd recommend it to pretty much anyone. My wife, mother, and sister, all of whom are big readers but none of whom are really in the target nerd demographic, all liked it.

Anathem and Diamond Age were harder for me because of the depth of ideas. I had to slow down and think to get through them.

Baroque Cycle was harder because of the sheer number of characters with multiple and/or similar names, which is realistic but annoying. There's a list of characters in the back of the first book, which helps, but it's annoying to have to keep the first book handy when you're reading the others.

Stephenson does have a reputation for starting great books and not knowing how to finish them. But I think I've gotten more than my money's worth out of all of them.
You could probably buy this brand for low 5 figures. 90% of magazines that have gone under in the past 15 years weren't even sold. The few that I've heard of that were went for super duper low numbers, like low 5 digits.
Everything Apple Watch apps can’t do
Show HN: Lettuce – Tinder(design) + Pandora(personalization) for food
A parser for some lightweight markup language, like reStructuredText, sounds like a good challenge.
The mind boggles wondering how a company could lose money selling _digital copies_ of media and software.
You should look up the "Classic Albums" series on YouTube or Netflix. The musicians and producers behind a number of iconic albums dissect their songs at the mixing board. It's really neat stuff.

Here's an example from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENU5dKJvVpY&54m08s
Presumably, if the content will no longer be changing, one push it out to a set of static pages and host it on a single instance in EC2, if it is clearing several hundred thousand a year in its current ad clicks that would pay a system administrator and general "minder"'s salary.

I find it particularly poignant because I recently scanned in my copies of the early compendium volumes "running lite without overbyte" which I had bought at the West Coast Computer Faire so long ago. Unwilling to keep the large format books around, they live on as searchable PDFs on my iPad.
It's not so much that they can't predict the price it's that every dollar is worth significantly more on the black market as the official market rate. Compare the dollar blue (Blue) row with the offical bank rate (Oficial). 13.19 vs 8.57. Many people change every peso they earn to dollars immediately. (www.dolarblue.net)
Diane Goes for You
If we put humans on Mars do you think we could find the source quickly/quicker than using robots? Is it a case of the robots finding signs of life and humans confirming them and getting the specifics? I'm asking because I'm not all that informed on this but from what I can tell robots have very specific missions so may not be able to find life even if they detect the signs.
Calling that "not really 'unlimited'" doesn't seem right to me. It's like calling a truly unlimited, uncapped broadband internet connection "not really 'unlimited'" because you still can't transfer more than speed x 1 month of data per month.
For phones, yes. It's not clear if China is Apple's largest market overall though.
What about Rust vs. Go?
I've been hugely impressed with what the BeagleBone offers; it's really a shame it frequently gets overshadowed by "that other board from the UK". Apart from just having a vastly superior array of I/O options (including analog in, which is really important for sensor arrays) the fact that the design is fully OSS is really encouraging. I hope the community around it continues to grow.
Did you ever consider hosting your own job ads site? This is how Slashdot is still alive and maybe why Stack Overflow was made.

At $300 per ad, you'd need about 800 ads a month to reach $3 mil/year. Achievable?
It's a complete scam. It's called "Direct Currency Conversion" and it's a essentially the payment processor and merchant hoping the consumer doesn't know what's going on.

Amex disallows on their network but Visa and Mastercard do not. Unfortunately, Amex also has forex fees on most of their cards.
Adblock is stealing. I'm pretty sure it's not the case that "amost all" people in tech have no integrity.
If Apple is slow to update its prices online you have a clear arbitrage opportunity.
I don't buy it. MSN.com? Really? It looks like IE users that never changed the default home page. That doesn't mean the website is popular.