skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
oh wow. with their trailer website lacking it, appletv wishlist feature as toothless, i really didn't think they'd bother with it in an app. thanks
I've both installed and used Inkscape on OS X with no problems, via MacPorts. My sole gripe with it was that it didn't support my HiDPI/Retina MBP screen.
Good point. The Castle Doctrine used sales promotions to build its initial player base, but not for injecting some fresh blood down the line. I'll do some digging!
Exactly. In some sense, you have to dictate to people who you have no power over, and do not respect you (obviously, I'm exaggerating a bit).
You want them doing that at the packet layer?
I usually dislike any color grading over an entire movie. I recently re-watched Snatch and its heavy green cast felt so obnoxious and ugly.
Yeah, although Google and others were always willing to monetize your work without your knowledge or consent. To some degree that's how the internet works and it's not _entirely_ a bad thing, and a lot of it is not intentional (photograph a painting, share it on forum with banner ads.) But with Google, their change is now they're unwilling to give back without a contract.
I've been trying this philosophy out on a little GitHub Pages editor app [1]. Everything happens client side apart from a tiny bit of OAuth handled by heroku!

1: http://github.com/iamdanfox/ghupdate/
Huh. This is an interesting example of a feature that's very important to some people, and utterly irrelevant to others. I had never even heard of "mail merge" in the context of word processing software, only mass-emailers, and it would never have occurred to me that anyone was using desktop word processing software to run their paper-mailing campaigns.
You can for instance read through 'rayiner's comments on how this happened in law.
I saw the comments here about giving your password to Microsoft, but on iPhone it uses OAuth (at least for GMail and hosted Google accounts).
CSI Computer Science: Your coding style can give you away
I am very much not convinced of the interpretation of the placebo effect as "the fact that just thinking that you're getting some treatment of benefit can have actual benefits." The placebo (and corresponding nocebo) effect is completely intuitive when you think of it as a measurement artifact. It's strongest in self-reported outcomes, it goes away or is massively reduced the better your blinding - all exactly what you'd expect from a combination of confirmation bias and expectations (both on the part of the person receiving the treatment and doing the study).

Even to the extent that there are placebo effects in clearly quantifiable outcomes (e.g. blood pressure, etc) it's still way more plausible that these are due to nonspecific treatment effects (e.g. taking a pill every day for your blood pressure reminds you of your problem with blood pressure and so you take the stairs instead of the elevator or you don't have a second serving of steak) than that there's a way for your mind to just cause arbitrary positive or negative effects above and beyond your normal immune system - but only if it's tricked into it.
You're talking about a security issue where one app could read and write another app's data. That's like saying Android is locked down because you can't read another app's heap.
Ask HN: Anyone wants to get Junior level Django assistant for free?
I am looking for a team with experienced django devs.

I have built very simple backends for Android/iOS apps in Django, built api backend with rest framework, but still feeling lack of knowledge.

When I start project I always open additionally at least 2 things, django source codes and django docs,
if I am working with rest_framework then it will be also opened. I think I may need some mentoring from experienced devs or teams, since they have smell and taste of django.

If you think you need additional help on your project and your team has senior django developers, please feel free to contact me, I will contribute to your project for free.

I have decent experience in C/C++, Java, android development, but I want to dive into django and web dev. recently.

tuyguntn at gmail dot com
That's cuz it's so shy...
The counter could be loaded in by Javascript. If it's backend becomes overloaded it is the only part of the page that fails.

(On the other hand, I don't like using javascript for things that don't need it, so it's not soo clear cut...)
While the collected infrared sensor data-set is non-public, the underlying information (infrared radiation over oil fields) is public.
I like AbiWord, but for some reason it keeps crashing on my Arch Linux system.

Between Libre Calc and Excel, I've always had to revert to Excel for its Pivot Table features. Libre Calc has thus far made a very weak stab at that for me.
It's worth noting that the post you linked to was from 16 December 2014, which is ancient history in terms of this issue. Vince Cable (the UK's Business Secretary) wrote a similarly ignorant and dismissive response[1] to an on-line petition on 8 December.

However, there has been a lot of further discussion, at least in the UK, since that time. It seems that the government and tax authorities here may finally be realising how much they screwed this one up.

Unfortunately, since most of the small businesses elsewhere in the EU don't even seem to know they're now breaking the rules and their respective tax authorities seem far less bothered about those rules, there isn't the same level of protest (at least not yet) so Eurocrats like Ansip may or may not be under any real pressure to fix the problem so far. And it seems that any serious fix does require further action at EU level, because national governments and tax authorities don't have the flexibility to make unilateral decisions on some of the key points (unless they flagrantly ignore the rules themselves, as several do seem to be doing already).

[1] https://www.change.org/p/vince-cable-mp-uphold-the-vat-exemp...
A detailed look into how VCs analyze startups internally
ATK041: Wearable Tech, Sports and Revolutionizing Health and Fitness
What's wrong with the sidebar? If you think about it, most of your available unused screen real estate is on the side of the window, not the top... The sidebar, IMO, is rather more versatile than the ribbon anyway. (Thanks IBM!)
I can't disagree more with the author's assessment of Angular's dependency injection.

DI in Angular was the first time DI made sense to me. And it makes testing really staightforward: test the component you're on top of, mock and fake the rest. Lots of boilerplate, but no actual hassle.
Yeah, JSX. Whoops!
Can Agencies and Startups Get Along? Secrets of the Agency-startup Relationship
Open source is better than not, but there's some great insights in Eric Raymon's paper The Cathedral and the Bazaar[0] with regards to how release early, release often is better for the author, community, and (open source) project both in the near and long term. Releasing it, bugs and all, early on can build a real community in ways that dumping a finished project can never do.

For example, look at projects like the original Netscape/Mozilla or Libreoffice open source projects and how long they took to build communities (with the former, they really didn't exist with non-AOL communities until AFTER a complete rewrite - Firefox - was launched; same was true with StarOffice/OpenOffice/Libreoffice). Then look at the similarly sized projects of Linux distributions, KDE, GNOME, and many others.

Being able to get involved with a project early on, before it's too big to really jump into quickly and make a meaningful contribution, really helps build that initial core of developers who believe in and want/need the project.

1. http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
I second that. The templating is a bit tough to get my head around, not being proficient in Go, but super-fast times to generate the static content.
That's easy to work around, just set the total price to the maximum for all possible rates. It does mean that you're pocketing more revenue from countries with lower sales tax rates, but makes it simpler to manage in the front end.

The calculation to make is will you lose in terms of total profit by charging people in Luxembourg 24% more than you would otherwise (3% sales tax vs 27% VAT in Hungary)?
To simplify a bit, I wasn't claiming the next generation would oppose you. I was disputing your claim that they would support you. I think it's far more likely that they will come to some new conclusion that none of us old fogeys will understand, much less accept.
The secret joke in Silence of the Lambs
How has this performed in the real world? Has it been tried in high traffic areas? (i.e. chicago/nyc)
> Well, in the article the make clear that there is case law that this is illegal and considered "misappropriation" insider trading.

I'm not sure that is the exact same thing. These guys had to do some research.

Consider, for example, a large pork supplier. If they see orders from Chipotle trend up by (say) 30% over a quarter, are they free to buy call options on CMG? What if you're a feed supplier to this pork supplier, and you know that Chipotle is their biggest customer, and see that this pork supplier's demand for feed has gone up by 30%; can you then buy call options?

This is a gray area, and I'm not sure the line is really that clear cut.
Not at the moment - but I am preparing something for release shortly, and it'll be mostly focused around the MOAI framework. If you want to tune in to the forums at http://getmoai.com, that'll be where I launch first .. I'm targetting specifically the Hanappe framework for MOAI, if that will give you some clues ..
Is there evidence to suggest that a brain is that plastic? Genuinely curious. I feel like the "blind people have super-powered other senses" is an urban legend, like the 10% of your brain misconception.
NFL kickers aren't as good as top rugby fly-halves, so until they are, we should expect that improvement is still possible.
Montage the world from the command-line with Google and Instagram
It seems like all the forfeitures listed there are monetary forfeitures, not actually taking away radio equipment.

I'm also unclear as to what differentiates a fine from a monetary forfeiture.
Amelie uses a lot of red and green. Jean-Pierre Jeunet made "City of Lost Children" which also has a strong red green palette. He also directed "Delicatessen" that used a chemical process to give the film a gold glow.
I have stayed on Office 2004 for Mac (running on Rosetta, and with the free docx compatibility plugin: I'm pathetic, I know) for the longest time on my laptop just to avoid having to use the ribbon (which I "experience" daily on my Windows machine unfortunately). Since my next Mac laptop won't have Rosetta I'll have to move on, and that means switching to LO, not upgrading Office.

And if LO ends up also using a ribbon, I'll move on to something else.
What were the security implications for an entity that has applications there?

Anything we should check or change as soon as iTunes Connect is back up?
Web publishers can delete stuff from archive.org
It's great to see people asking for citations. I just wish that sort of mentality existed in the everyday world.

At the moment newspaper articles, tv news reports, etc can all get away with discussing science (and science-related topics) with citing ANYTHING.

I'm not saying it'll solve the vaccine crisis, but in the long run, I think the key is getting citations for statements of facts into public discourse. (then you have to worry about the quality of the stuff cited, but that can be the next step).
Man can't change climate, only God can
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi

So that's a UTF-8 file? Funny it's coming up with UTF-16...
I wonder if Google is doing this with Wallet transaction data. They may not be under the same terms as credit cards for every transaction.
JavaScriptKicks
Remember Blippy?

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/blippy-social-commer...

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/19/the-end-of-blippy-as-we-kno...
Security vulnerabilities in Oracle DSR
"I have nothing to hide" really means "I don't care, stop talking to me about it".
I'm based in the UK but have a few clients in NYC. To be honest, translating from UTC to EST barely requires any thought at all for me now, and I always work to my clients' timezones, not mine - though, to be clear, I would usually phrase a meeting request like, "How about we have a call first thing in the morning your time, 9am EST?" (whilst in my head I'm thinking, "Yes, 2pm should fit nicely with my lunch plans").

Admittedly it does require more effort - and a little googling - when the clocks change; and I have definitely had issues with misunderstandings between iCal and Outlook over what timezone a meeting is in... which you'd think would be a solved problem in 2015, but seemingly not.

Perhaps I've just been lucky, but the people I deal with have always been able to understand that a late afternoon meeting for them would mean a very late evening call for me - and if that's the best that they can do, they are always apologetic and appreciative of my being accommodating enough to do that.
It's terrible. I'm a resident of Michigan and so I have to remit sales tax on "packaged software". The rules for what constitutes "packaged software" recently got changed to include anything downloadable. SaaS is specifically excluded, of course.
Powerstrip: prototype Docker extensions today
A different community certainly, but I've shared many emotions on Hacker News, participated in excellent exchanges of ideas, arguments and discovery. A different flavor, but one with it's own sense of belonging.
Awesome testimonial. If it's superior (or even close to comparable) to skype, I'm switching immediately.
AP's 'robot journalists' are writing their own stories now
Happily it turns out that these new rules only apply in cases where the EU provides an important service: the legality of the trade itself in the first place.
I think your comment is a bit unfair. All the problems you mentioned also exist outside of the FOSS world. People feel the same frustration, but they typically won't say it because of some kind of hierarchy. Is that a good thing? I'm not sure.

The other thing is that FOSS projects typically involve contributors from all around the world and cultural differences are always very sneaky, it looks like everybody is a hacker, but in fact most share completely different cultural codes. For example I've noticed that people from the US are used to cheer a lot, that definitely not the case everywhere. So for US contributors, I'm guessing working with people with a different mindset with respect to criticism can be quite a shock.

So the beauty of FOSS is that it kinda works despite the extreme work conditions (distributed / remote / every body is allowed to say whatever / people work when and if they want / etc.)
I like this..

Most of the corporate type jobs I've worked in over the years afforded lots of responsibility for flexible work location. Some of those jobs I could never work from home and get anything done, others was just fine.

The other key is the folks you have to interact with on a regular basis. Do they communicate well over email/chat/phone or are they only useful in person?

I've seen companies hire people in remote jobs that have no business working remote (bad communication) and some people that would improve productivity if allowed to just stay home when they felt necessary.

Especially in the world of every office moving to open areas with little room for escape. Noise pollution is a big problem.

Edit: Also to the point of expenses. This one ALWAYS throws me for a loop. You're not having to pay for a desk, office, etc for them. Pay for something! Internet, travel, etc. You're saving money with your remote employee in most cases.
Now I understand somewhat better why I often end up ceasing midway through discourse, as my colloquists often end up interjecting requesting definition of whatever neologism has just emanated from lexicon into conversation.... a random sampling of words that I have just today been asked to define either do not feature in this list at all, or are 90,000+ in terms of use. Brobdingnagian, deleterious, autodidact, loquaciousness... are these really such strange vernacular?

I suppose this is what happens when you spend your formative years buried in literature - it probably doesn't help that I mispronounce all sorts, as books make poor elocutionists.

I do worry that as we further and further consolidate our vocabulary that we lose the breadth and depth of thought that nuanced words provide... so did Orwell...
Speeding Up PS1 Emulation with OMAP’s DSP
Greater NYC still includes a lot of very dense conurbation well beyond the city limits. For example, some of the densest cities in the US are those in Hudson County, NJ, and some of the suburban downtowns (for example, White Plains) have skylines that rival midsized Midwestern cities. Newark, though down at its heels, is linked to NYC by a 35-minute rapid transit trip at 10-minute headways, the commuter rail network is even more extensive than that, and bus commuters come to NYC from Allentown and the Poconos in Pennsylvania.

You can't just count an entire massive county as 'LA' while cutting off NYC at its city limits. The stub-ends of the subway lines at the Bronx border are dramatic, but the city doesn't just end anywhere— I wouldn't be shocked to see the subway extended beyond NYC at some point.
This is probably going on right now in lots of other companies that have access to such data. We only hear about the ones that get caught. Seems like they didn't try too hard to cover their tracks. Just think about all the companies that have access to credit card data and all the people that are connected to those companies who could either be selling the data to others or trading on it themselves. Best thing to do to prevent this unfair advantage is releasing publicly available CC spend data.
people that can't afford to have a credit card aren't in the crowd willing to spend $10 on a burrito
Hmmm. Then again, look to gnome and unity to see what happens when designers and ux experts can do what they want: they copy Apple, features and bugs ;-)

For us who use Linux not because of the price but because of the usability it offers this is of course not what we want however cool it looks.
Not to be, ah, subversive, but do you necessarily need business owners willing to go to jail, or business owners willing to employee willing martyrs?

Imagine you hire a number of people who happen to be willing to go to jail for their principles, who are strongly opposed to things like government secrecy, and put them in the line to handle a NSL. If they happen to violate a gag order and go to jail, well, you may have to fire them, but their contract is rather iron-clad and their severance quite impressive, more than adequate to take care of their family during a five year jail sentence...
While working at a tv distribution company about 8 years ago, I used to design these promotional one-pagers for various shows. After a while I noticed all of my designs were mostly blue and orange (or at least the main components of the design were). Then I started consciously trying to use other colour arrangements but orange-blue just always sort of looked best. I celebrated any time i managed to get a good looking poster/one-pager without relying on the orange-blue complementary contrast.

I wonder if women might have an advantage here due to many men being red-green colour blind to some extent.
Somebody mentioned that trying to perform actions on the apps would error out, so it seems more like an information leakage issue.

That being said, when it come back online I'm definitely going to go through all my apps.
> is there a WP plugin to export to a static site?

I came across this a little while ago:
https://decoupled.de/
Very cool app, looks good and love how you can get lost in it for hours... Did you design it?
Parser combinators would certainly have been easier for me, the library author but not necessarily so for the end user.

Contrast how it is done now:

[-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-apvX] SRC... DST

With a parser combinator based approach:

and(
optional(and('-R', or('-H', '-L', '-P'))),
optional(or(
'-fi',
'-n'
)
),
optional('-apvX'),
repeatable('SRC'),
'DST')

And this didn't even handle the fact that options order is not important.
Why Outsourcing to India Will Prevail
Thanks for posting. There's one piece of this that hasn't quite clicked yet for me, which is UI refresh coupled with the event stream approach. In the article's example, for instance, you have the user events going into the stream, which refreshes the cache, db, data warehouse, etc.

In a normal UI, the user makes some action, which would update the db, clear the cache for the affected key(s), and display the updated page to the user. In the event stream processing way, if the front end events are what is being logged and the cache refresh for example is running via Samza or some other processor, how does the UI get refreshed appropriately since the processing of the stream is decoupled? Or does the main app cache remain coupled to the form submission and there are just 'other' uncoupled caches, etc?
Does it get reinforced for doing an obviously bad or good job?
I agree with the shared working spaces being missing from a remote position, but that can be simulated by using things that support screen sharing, Skype comes to mind, as does Google Hangouts. Alternatively, you can use something like Join.me to have a full collaboration effort on one screen, together.

The white board issue - this is something I haven't been able to reproduce either, but I think I've changed my workflow to follow it. Right now, for a remote position, I sketch out my ideas/structures on paper, take a picture, and share it with the team. If it makes sense to them, we're golden, if not, they can each modify the image and share with the team again (and now we have a 'version controlled' 'whiteboard.' In truth, I think the focus should be on finding an alternative workflow than finding a replacement for a whiteboard. Don't ask me though, I have no idea what an alternative would be.

Finally, audio conferencing - I had my team set up Teamspeak which does a fantastic job with positional awareness in a ['3D' environment](http://i.imgur.com/pc3EG3b.png). Of course, this is a setting that needs to be constantly changed/updated based on the conversations, but it works well in large groups where members need to talk to each other, but still hear other conversations that are happening on the side (or 'behind' you).