skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm familiar with the linking capabilities of apps, at least for iOS (haven't played with Android). I think it's a bit limited, as it currently stands, but I feel like the intent of the url schemes is somewhat different from the idea of linking on the web. On the web, you typically link to open content, whereas I feel like apps tend to be more personalized; seems like linking wouldn't work quite the same. Interested to think more about that, though.
"... where you can forge high level client relationships ..."

Great double entendre.
Being smart and talented doesn't make a successful business, even if you add hard working too. The actual valuable part of the business is the ability to get others to give you money for what you do. It doesn't matter how that is achieved, but your worth is directly proportional to how successful at that you are.
Yeah that sounds like a great idea!
That is a really great paper! It should be required reading for all computer science types.
It is awesome. I had a Z80 machine running CP/M (and then Z/PM) in the 80's and when SCSI hard drives became a thing I remember hooking up a 20MB one to the Z80 (max hard drive size 8MB so it showed up as 3 volumes :-) and noted that the computer system on the disk drive was much more powerful than my Z80 system. It was an interesting inversion but one which resurfaces in computation a lot, where a base class for something might be quite complex but the controlling class relatively simple. In the software world you can write 'hello_world.c' in like 5 lines of C code but the amount of code that actually has to run on a Linux machine to make that work is quite extensive.
My problem with this article is not the general sentiment that developers should know the history of the technologies they work with, which I think is absolutely right, but instead how the author seems to put HTTP on a pedestal. It just happens to be the protocol TBL & company came up with in the early 90s for this thing that took off beyond anyone's wildest imagination. It's not some perfect work of art that should be revered. Also native apps don't make me sad. They're faster, more featureful, and have more consistent platform specific interfaces than their Web brethren. There are good reasons they exist and consumers prefer them.
Deal Castle in the UK is also a great example of a symmetrical castle design:

https://goo.gl/maps/NuyXw
The Tragic History of Surgery for Schizophrenia
A similar trick can be used to solve the following problem: considering a rectangular grid, is it possible to find a cycle that goes from adjacent squares to adjacent squares and visits each square exactly once?

Answer (ROT13):
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Also Fort George, built to help pacify the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the 1745/1746 rebellion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_George,_Scotland

Still an army base to this day - although also open to visitors, well worth a visit.
I'm not sure why I'm getting downvoted; it's an honest quesiton. Why does a business have to base its profits around a particular implementation of a thing?
Using Beaver to ship log files to Redis/Logstash
How to Become a Designer?
I don't think that's a very useful point, here. Stereotypes leave plenty of room for women wanting to cut each other down.

FWIW, I also read hostility in the original post, and don't expect that was influenced tremendously by the apparent gender of the author in my case or yours.
Actually a quite good, if quite brief, explanation of quasiparticles in various forms. Alas, the author did not give his audience sufficient benefit of the doubt as to embark upon an equally brief explanation of the pn junction as an example, which would have made this so much more interesting. Full disclosure: I am a physicist.
I am searching for a business partner for eCommerce that would do the whole business part while I will be plugging in and extending automated sales technology I created and use in my other companies, with 50/50 equity split and the initial operating capital provided by me if necessary. However, almost nobody wants to start from scratch, growing the company as their baby (despite having the benefit of immediate use of my mature technology, spending at most 1 hour a day running the business anywhere in the US and non-interfering from my side on their business style except for advices on proven business model I operate and avoiding legal problems); they expect earning $100k within the first 3 months or so with no work at all. Sometimes I feel like there is an insurmountable obstacle between their dreams and effort they put into the work to get where they want to be...
Just like to add that voting isn't the only means to affecting change in this world.
I remembered hearing of the signal but thought it still had other plausible explainations. You are right the article does make it seem like everything but ET's is off the board, or atleat thats how I read it. Thanks for clarifying.
GM's 200-Mile Electric Car for $30,000: RIP Tesla
Wow. Dublin Core. Now that is a name I've not heard since around a decade ago.

It is amazing to look back to my own development history and remember that I too used to care about proper status code, using metadata elements, and the like.

But after adopting so many, and seeing so many either fail to catch on, or infighting tear them apart, or the big names pick them up and then put them aside ... it's not surprising that current developers don't think about them or don't care.
It should. There's a reason for that. :)
Basically, college grads today should do exactly what college grads were doing during the dot com boom? Yeah sure that's great advice!
Huh... That is really not the vibe I get from their website[0].

>"There are a host of nasty intruders on the Internet including viruses, trojans, worms and spyware. Microsoft Security Essentials offers award-winning protection against these intruders without getting in your way."

To me that reads like MSE is really good at protecting your computer. Why should I as a consumer think that I need something else? They really need to message that better if that is indeed the case.

[0]: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentia...
Chevy Bolt to Compete with Tesla?
Oh, you're right. I saw git files in their repository and assumed they were already using git: https://roslyn.codeplex.com
I'm going to have to steal your opening quote, for times when I have to keep it real*8. Source?
I was somewhat thinking about this when I wrote that sentence actually, and it's a topic that needs its own post at the very least.

That said, and with the caveat that I'm aware of the vast amounts of issues around this, I will simply say that others have thought about this problem before us. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Organized_Labour
Your friend read Martin Gardner's aha! Insight, which has exactly this proof in it and is a popular book for young mathematical puzzle enthusiasts.
Well, I'm sure the creators of JSON weren't thinking of XML use-cases at the time. When it comes to solution-agnostic, self-describing, self-validating semantic markup, I'm not sure JSON-LD buys you much over RDF serialized to XML (for example).
The world loses something when the sum of all a human's experiences are lost, forever. All that knowledge, experience, comprehension and interpretation of so many events and facts... Gone, in usually an instant.

It seems awfully wasteful, and I sincerely hope some day we overcome it. I believe we will all be better for it.

But sure, let's excuse the topic/problem by blaming it on the "naivete of zillionaires".
This depends heavily on the length of time you need a communication to remain unbroken for. Current encryption algorithms are probably strong against determined attackers for years or possibly even decades, but what about several decades? With classical communications, your adversaries can store your coded messages and decrypt them when algorithms/technology permit.
Indeed, I meant "used". Fixed this in my comment above. Thanks!
No.

Every even x even rectangle has equal dark and light squares.

Every even x odd rectangle has equal dark and light squares.

Every odd x odd rectangle has one more odd then even, or one more even then odd. (1x1 square is obvious, any odd x odd rectangle can be reduced to 1x1 square by removing only odd x even rectangle.)

Since the T piece creates a odd-even difference of 2, any number of other tetris pieces (including repeats) that only contains a single T piece can never form a rectangle with no holes.
UG in Germany seems like a totally pain in the ass. I was looking at it for side projects to limit liability, but 25% of the profit have to remain in the company until 25k€.

And you can't just pay yourself a salary which varies every month, you can change it once a year. You can pay yourself a variable bonus, but it can be a maximum of 35% of the salary. So paying yourself $1 salary a year and the rest as a bonus doesn't work.

UG is quite good if you have a stable business, but for everything else it seems a bit complicated.
Honestly, I just went to my family doctor and asked for it.

I took a look at the symptoms for Shift Work Sleep Disorder, decided that I was a close match for that cluster of symptoms and took my story to the doc.

Modafinil is not really prone to abuse. It isn't a euphoric, so using too much isn't going to give you a "high". Consequently, doctors are more likely to give you a prescription for it. That's not the case for an abused drug like Adderall.

HOWEVER: all drugs have side effects. I think Modafinil is relatively safe but YMMV.
Is still a military zone, but has no strategic use now a days.

It´s just a museum, were you can visit the old fortress and a coastal artillery battery from the beginning of sXX that used the only Vickers 385/45 remaining from the times of the first world war (huge cannons that were also mounted on Battleships).

La Mola didn´t see action, and in fact it just became obsolete just before being finished (it never got the cannons) because new rifled canons with longer range made close fire and old fortress design completely infective (The bunker and underground fortification era began).

I thing it´s more impressive the fortress that it´s at the other side of the bay, la fortaleza de San Felipe, demolished by the Spanish government once menorca passed again to Spanish control because it was so big that they were unable to man it.
http://descobreixmenorca.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/dmen...
Quite. It's been around for many years but I don't think it ever got the crypto attention that Tor has received, mostly because it was (and is) very little used. A few Russian sites toyed with using it when they started blocking sites for piracy over there but it was never adopted - too slow, not user friendlh enough.
As has been suggested by others, your best bet is to become a sole trader ("empresário em nome invidual").

By becoming one, you then have the choice of having what's called "Contabilidade organizada" (roughly translated, Organized Accounts) or not. To start, you can do just fine without this. It'll probably be cheaper too.

As for taxes, you'll have to pay IRS and VAT, but the later is only if you cross 10 000€ in annual revenue. During the first year as a sole trader you don't have to pay Social Security.

Feel free to ping me if you have any more questions, or if you're around Lisbon let's grab a coffee!

mail [at] tiagoduarte [dot] com
More than that the Community Edition keeps getting more fully featured. To the point where for the average indie developer there isn't that much difference, especially compared to the intro paid edition.
Plus with Bizspark you get 3 Ultimate licences.
"I believe, but cannot prove, that global “AIDS” is a whole cluster of unrelated diseases all of which have been swept under a single rug for essentially political reasons, and that the identification of HIV as the sole pathogen is likely to go down as one of the most colossal blunders in the history of medicine." -- Eric S. Raymond.
Java application servers are dead
I'll take Alan Turning over the Glider, anytime.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1046#comment-236592
One of my personal pet peeves is the misuse of the 401 Not Authorised status code being issued to logged in users. No, try a 403 instead please.
Eric Drexler wrote rather accurately about the importance of a global hypertext publishing network back in the mid-80s (following earlier less-measured but not crazy writings by Ted Nelson); he also projected that one could exist by the mid-90s. (He avoided timeframes when analyzing other technologies.) It's not so much that there are no good futurists as that "you can't tell people anything": http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-an...
I believe this article to o be relevant here:http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-wh...
Modafinil is easy to get a legal prescription for in the US. It certainly was for me.

I get mine paid for by insurance.
Ask HN: Techniques for surviving a job you loathe?
I would love to get some advise from people who have been in less than ideal situations and how they got through it. I would love to know techniques for dealing stress, mundane work environments, and not being challenged.

I was involved in a startup for a year that ended early last year because the person funding it got cold feet - it was his idea. As a result, I basically took the first job I could find, which is in the finance industry. My roles to date have largely been around management of people and architecture.

My home town is literally at the bottom end of Australia. Beautiful place but there are very few development jobs and no paying startups here.

I have a child with another on the way. My partners salary is insufficient for us to live on.

My job is a dev at a medium size company (around 300). The development in this company is appalling, non scoring on the Joel test and the work is boring. There is no challenge, people play games on their phone and sleep all day. The managers are micromanagers and the developers sit at the bottom of the org chart (this is a software company).

I'm building a cool product out of work, but I'm at it alone and I fear that someone will beat me to market (trying for bare minimum viable product). I also fear burn out (has happened before), the company attempting to invoke its IP clause of contract when they find out (legal advice has been that they have no ground).

I'm working 8h a day in my day job and 5-6h a night on the startup. I take weekends off to spend time with the family.

I have a deep understanding and portfolio of experience across mainframe development, enterprise Java, .NET, mobile apps & web development. I need something that challenges me - moving is off the cards due to baby #2 & I doubt selling remote work (if I can find a reliable income stream) to my partner.

For those who have been in similar situations: how did you manage and balance everything?
Of course you are correct. The NSA never gives money to companies to weaken security. That would be unethical and un-American.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-usa-security-rs...

And it's also true that James Clapper didn't lie, he simply misspoke.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-clapper-says-he-misspoke-d...

"It has been very disappointing to have my integrity questioned because of a mistake,"

Did it hurt your feelings as much as mine that they questioned his integrity in such an insulting and unpatriotic way? People who would do such a thing are the real terrorists.
I think organised labour sounds too 19th century to most people in the business. None of my colleagues that I surveyed in my previous (big) company was supportive of those. Trade unions of old used to fight for better working conditions and what are they to fight for in the likes of Google? Better phones for Christmas? That may be an argument until for one reason or another you run foul of your boss or some awkward company policy and then you're completely alone. I guess though today's culture of individualism and the myth of meritocracy in tech companies work very well against any idea of organised labour.
He could have chosen pentominoes instead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomino
My new web app is a big data AI dynamic tooling process management social engagement change tool. Can I have some money thrown at me please?
>>- The admin is a raging [expletive], if you check out his Reddit comments. Anyone want to trust him with a few thousand bucks in anonymous e-cash...?

To add to this, http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/2rp0aw/silkroadrel... , Notice that all his comments are downvoted and check out what he says. Do you agree with any of it? Here's a particularly "nice" thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/2rp0aw/silkroadrel...

...and this.. http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/2rp0aw/silkroadrel...
Ask HN: I forget passwords too much
I forget every other password i set up. Is there any way i can catch up with this ?
Thanks
Email's in profile.
I grew up hating M$, plus I'm British so we get the whole EU anti-trust thing to boot.

But over the past few years Microsoft has made huge strides, especially the work the two Scotts have put in. Huge amounts of source code open source, their PAAS running all sorts of OSes in VMs, etc.

It isn't the late 90s any more, those that look askance at Microsoft these days seem rather old fashioned given the new shenanigans that are going on.
Now that's the first startup I've been excited to read about in a while. It seems to be a very sensible first step in solving the "email inbox is our new todo list" [0] that pg mentioned a few years ago. If they actually success (sadly, it seems they're still in some kind of beta mode), there is a whole vertical of gazillions things with regards to email that they can follow up on.

Interestingly, in a sense as more people are using it, there's a chance that the technical aspect get easier (two x.ai users try to schedule something!). At least until a (hypothetical and will never happen) scenario in which every single email users will be using x.ai, at which point the program turns into a giant optimization and scheduling program, which will be hard - just something fun to think about.

Also, holy buzzwords and business-speak, I really like the startup, but I feel uneasy reading the article.

[0]: http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
Lots of innovation in the early days of the internet came from porn. Whatever you may think of porn, I think those innovations have arguably had wider benefits than just the porn industry. Similarly, AI originally built to maximize ad clicks and online purchases might eventually be applied to more "noble" causes.
Nope, it's in.
>if numbers were as painful to use as ever other thing

Other data structures aren't painful to use in Scheme.
Half of Reddit posts are ignored the fist time they're posted
Jobs are not a finite resource. More people = more jobs, and vice-versa. You make it seem like "jobs" just pop into existence, and then the labor force consumes however much of it it finds.

It's as if you can't conceive of the possibility that the two are intertwined and feed off one another in a constant feedback cycle. One method is "no job = no money = not a good idea to have kids = less workers". Another perhaps: "have job = have money = spend money = buy product = job needed to make said product". Or how about: "No job = try open a business"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/07/w...

Responsibly farmed usually refers to ethical treatment and has nothing to do with CO2. That being said, I am totally in agreement that eating fish has pretty substantial problems. The thing is that fish more wholistically face problems resulting from global warming including coral bleaching and ocean acidification to name a few. Overfishing and harvesting of marine life in nonsustainable ways is just that, but if you are selective about the species and the source it makes a big difference.
fex – flexible token-field extraction
I love all the little space saving features C# has been adding. Null checking is something that every developer has to do constantly, making it a one character thing is super cool, while still maintaining readability.

Lambdas, null conditionals, LINQ, compile-time generics, etc, none of these features on their own are all that amazing, but when you add them all up it just makes for a more pleasant experience.

Most of my time is spent in Java, building an Android app right now, and C#, building services, and I constantly feel like I'm doing battle with Java's syntax (it's interesting to me that the new Android Studio compresses lambda-like classes, like runnable, to look like lambdas).
>So why have append for lists, and string-append for strings?

Because concatenating two lists and concatenating 2 strings are distinctly different operations on different data types, and it helps that they are named as such.
You definitely don't create website on a professional level. If you want to build hobby websites with a fixed width of 800px as it is 1995... that's up to you. Complicated webpages don't have to be slow... if you landed on such one, then you've landed on a website created by an amateur.
Yup, I have one too. It's timeless, does not resemble any sort of contemporary physical artifact of technology, like a bar code or a circuit board, and to anybody who doesn't recognise it, it's just a small decorative piece.
For a rather asymmetric alternative Gibraltar is a fascinating visit. The tunnels are amazing, they're still rediscovering parts, not surprising given there are more miles of tunnel in the Rock than there are miles of road on the surface.
While they may be duals formally, they still have significant differences in how individuals are able to model them mentally.

I've felt the appeal for the message passing style for a while, but always disliked the additional bulk/rigidity of frameworks for it. Recently though, I've been thinking about a concept for program organization based on 'domains' and 'converters,' that's (in part) an extremely minimal message passing system in Java. There's a little essay on my github for the project: https://github.com/westoncb/Domain-slash-Converter
Pictures of SpaceX's autonomous spaceport drone ship
Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in 40 Lines of JS
Show HN: SelectorGadget
"imagine being able to link to specific constellations in the star chart app, the various calculator faces of some popular calculator apps, or a user's city in Clash of Clans. It's going to be awesome."

I'm imagining it, and in most of those cases I'm imagining the horrible fragmentation clusterfk that will have to be solved in Yavascript - linking to "some popular calculator apps" (plural) means either providing a mess of links for the user to decide, or somehow guessing which one to show.

Two alternatives that both land in the "NAH GANNA HAPPEN" category:

* "everybody agree on a standard prefix for basic things like calculators" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

* "allow client JS to detect installed apps" see also the detect-visited-sites-with-CSS info leakage for why this would be terrible...
Seems way too expensive.
What happens when two Amy's talk to each other?
Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD
If that's the attack, then it's well known that PGP is also vulnerable to the same thing: http://www.asheesh.org/note/debian/short-key-ids-are-bad-new...
It has occurred to me a number of times that it might be possible to reverse this process and create a light field display.
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