skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Harris thought the Hitachi sounded very ethereal, almost out of phase, and rated it lowest; the Seagate was sharper with a more thumpy bass, slightly brighter with a slight tendency to sibilance. Both lacked much drive in presenting the Madonna track, and were certainly ‘mushy’ […]

If the Kingston SSD stood apart from the disk drives for its mostly good yet quite alien character, drive four made itself known for entirely the wrong reasons. This Corsair drive (another SSD) conspicuously highlighted vocal sibilants, and had a hard, relentless quality that was impossible to miss." - http://www.enjoythemusic.com/hificritic/vol5_no3/listening_t...

This hands down beats anything I have ever read on the internet. The bliss of walking through life this stupid must be wonderful. I struggle to grasp how these guys can put their pants on let alone function what are quite possibly full and rewarding lives. Con artists?
I wrote an outline for a short story that begins with the drone extermination of all dissident hackers.
Apple Will Spend $848M Building a Massive Solar Farm in Monterey
Seems plausible. Thanks!
Once again, depends on who you ask.
By international laws (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) it has been illegal starting 19481[1].
USA, however, still struggled with racial segregation until the 1960s and until then wasn't really illegal in the States. In South Africa, it probably wasn't illegal either as the government made the law themselves.

[1]Or 1976
Wood burning creates quite a bit of indoor pollution. It gets worse for people living where there aren't much trees, who resort to burning dung.
Intellectual Property and Pseudo-Innovation
In the past, Google I/O was home of big announcements of disruptive technologies.
Security vulnerabilities in a network-disconnected TV?
> IBM is a company, an entity. it is made of people, but it is not a person (although americans might try to disagree..)

Neither the American legal system, nor most Americans actually treat corporations as people or believe they should be treated like people. The fact that people regurgitate this falsehood is utterly ridiculous.

Our legal system uses a construct called legal fiction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_fiction) as a convenient scaffold to extend existing laws to new domains (sort of like subclassing from a base class). In most of modern economies corporations have many, but not all, of the same properties as persons (they can own property, have to pay taxes, etc.) We use the legal fiction of corporate personhood as a structural aspect of the legal system to make this work.

Nobody actually believes corporations are people.
Rx programming is so great. It's one of those things that you seldom find a use case for but when you do it leads to 50x easier and more readable code. It truly is for events what Linq was for collections Mostly only useful with more advanced ui and network programming though
A loan is typically the textbook definition of an investment..

Banks give a student X dollars, after college the student pays X + i. The bank takes some risk and receives more money than they started with. I'm not sure how it wouldn't be an investment.
I only asked for the most basic permissions as detailed on extensionizr.com

The only reason I need "change data on LinkedIn" and "view browsing history" is so we can redirect you to the right profile page.
Orbitz Settles Suit Against ‘Hidden City’ Ticket Website
"...compensation..."

Trading a high probability of a decent bonus for a low probability of a half-decent equity payout (I guess, also no unicorns).
Not sure why this won't still work in theory.
100% YoY increase:

Salary Year 1: $100 - you are allowed to go $60 into debt

Salary Year 2: $200 - you are allowed a further $120

Salary Year 3: $400 - you are allowed a further $240

Salary Year 4: $800 - your total debts are still around half a year's salary, which is only modestly troubling - banks would most likely be happy to service your debt at a competitive rate.

If you recognise your period of fast increasing salary is over, you are now advised to save $320 - which pays off much of your debt.

In practice, there are some other problems which you partially recognise - depending only on salary doesn't give you a diverse portfolio of investment; salary is more likely to suffer an unexpected shock than business income; expenses are difficult to reduce.
io.js is a fork of node.js, so the commit histories are the same prior to io.js becoming a thing. it is a new initiative.
‘The Imitation Game’ Distorts Alan Turing’s Legacy
Also in Chinese, "我有頭痛", tho "我有头疼" is often used in mainland speech.
I don't know any details about NodeRED, so not sure how that factors in. All I know is IBM was interested in using Node in products, as OP mentioned and their involvement in the foundation shows. Agreed, divorcing Node from the underlying engine isn't hard -- the point was whether the community would accept such a fundamental change in the project or whether a hard dependency on `v8` forevermore and `nan` as a pill to ease the pain is "good enough". (The `spidernode` project was the work of an intern at Mozilla and really was more like the `nan` abstraction, shoe-horning SM into `v8`'s existing API and isn't the kind of fundamental abstraction I'm referring to.)
Well, to be fair, any public Maven repo is a MITM opportunity.
They're getting quieter anyway.

I'd personally love to have one to help me carry my groceries and such. Or perhaps as my wingman (wingbot?) when I'm out on the town drinking. That would be cool.
Use Homebrew to manage Node.js and io.js installs on OS X
So IBM has started to lay off its engineers to become a patent troll?
Wiggle how you want, but it's still not the same thing, is it?
It does have linked local addresses by default. It's the more complicated setup of actually routing IPv6 addresses outside our current host that's not enabled by default.

https://docs.docker.com/articles/networking/#ipv6 has more of the details (and the discussion at https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/8947#discussion_r22534... is also useful)

Basically, we can't use existing router advertisements (as I understand it) because you also have to tell your current IPv6 router that the entire prefix you use for Docker needs to go to this one host as opposed to just the one IPv6 address that host would auto-assign itself via RA.

Since there's manual outside-Docker setup involved, we can't really automate this bit. If there's a nice clean way to do so, we're definitely open to a PR (I'd love to have something simpler myself)! :)
That seems unlikely, based off the bad blood developing between CoreOS and Docker. See the links below:

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/9538

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/10643
First wall in the garden.
Or perhaps "All their cells have recycled over the last 7 years, so we can't prosecute."
Each of these features can be implemented on top of a canvas renderer. Not saying it's easy, but can be done. The browser itself does it, everything is 2D textures in the end.
> I can't imagine that anyone is actually using C++ for web apps (are they?!?)

Well, Apache and IIS modules, or web access to embedded devices.

> C++ compilers are part of an ecosystem - of course you don't make money selling them.

It wasn't always like that. Back in the 80's and 90's if you wanted a compiler for any language, including C++, buying was the only option.

I did buy a few of them.

Microsof only offers Visual Studio since the 2005 version, as open source started to make a dent into Windows.

The .NET SDK was the first developer tooling that Microsoft offered for free.

Given the price difference between Macs and PCs, XCode isn't quite free. And you need to pay 100 euros/dolars yearly if you want access to the developer program.

And if you look into the games consoles, embedded market or high performance computing, compilers are still commercial.

But in the desktop and server market, hardly anyone will be willing to pay for compilers in 2015.
>Chrome Experiment Ahead

There a thread earlier today on HN where a bunch of people expressed their disappointment with the Chrome-ification of Google products. Seems sorta apropos to that thread.
LOL, didn't expect it to work with React Hot Loader practically out of the box (except for <Text> for some reason): https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas/pull/3/files

The fun part is tweaking text layout algorithm and letting Hot Loader pick up changes when replacing components. Without browser refreshing, of course.
God, I had repressed what old windows UI's looked like
I Know True Is This Much: A Few Python Koans
That niche is already covered by organic dogs, though; perhaps these robotic dogs are meant to be a replacement that requires less training expenditures?
The most important takeaways from MySQL prepared statements
From my point of view it did add significantly to the discussion.

I'm surprised to learn that people do use Siri in genuine situations, so thanks for your reply in that regard; although I still feel gratified that another commenter has the same experience that I do.
i don't like it. in fact i think it's the most abhorrent practise we do as humans.

> The point of a corporation is to allocate resources more efficiently than could be done by legal individuals.

noise. tell me - which is more "efficient" (i.e profitable), avoiding paying out insurance claims over insignificant inaccuracies, or caring about the family of 5 with a household income of $30,000, who's dad broke his arm whilst cycling to work, by a driver who was on their phone and caused them to run a red light?

> We can expect corporations not to facilitate mass murder.

oh, so we should abolish arms manufacturers?

> We should expect corporations not to facilitate mass murder.

you should tell this to BAE, or Lockheed Martin, or.. well, literally anyone on this list; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defense_contractors

> The argument that we should not punish transgressions just because some corporations are not punished for transgressions is cowardice in the highest degree.

absolutely not. there is no cowardice in that statement at all. it's a recognition of what companies in this world behave like. look at the actions of pretty much every big company. ask yourself - is your world view more accurate, or is mine?

again, i don't like it. it's sickening. but to hate these creations for doing exactly what they are made to do (again, make cash) is just.. senseless.
> the folks at ryka, a manufacturer of women's shoes, wanted to be certain that no potential customers could be excluded. thus, rather than providing option (or radio) buttons to indicate one's gender, they decided to use checkboxes, to allow the potential customer to indicate male, female, or, well, both, and for that matter, none.

Er, yes? That is in fact somewhat more inclusive than choosing male or female with radio buttons? Not ideal, but still better? Why is this in a hall of shame?
This isn't 4chan.
What is dev.facebook.com?
> a feature, not a productive

That line was so incisive when I first heard it in 2011 that it's stuck with me ever since:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropbo...

Edit: Hey guys, it's the only primary source I could find citing Drew Houston's conversation with Steve Jobs, wherein Steve Jobs stated that Dropbox was a feature, and not a product.
It's really annoying how long it's taking to add fuse support to containers. If I want to act on remote filesystems I have to use something like rsync.
future plans for firefox?
You might want to look into Panamax and Shipyard for nice UI on top of Docker management. http://panamax.io/ http://shipyard-project.com/
Do think it might cause harm if the domain names were retained?
How to install LiteIDE on Ubuntu
The Evolution of Batman in Cinema
15-year-old bug allows malicious code execution in all versions of Windows
Yeah. I've written a few non-fiction humor books that don't make me laugh but others enjoy. It's similar to how I can't tickle myself. The only way I can enjoy my writing is if I forgot that I wrote it.
Fair enough, just a bit wary of "new apps" permissions, but often will add extensions without reading permissions if it is known app. Note to self reassess criteria for reading permissions.
Your annual revenue growth rate + your operating margin should equal 40%

My immediate reaction: So I guess I need to cut Tarsnap's prices and slow its growth rate?

On further thought, I suspect "should equal" should be "should equal or exceed".
"giant balls", per the press release. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eat24-successfully-s...
> As other commenters here are pointing out, this is doing a disservice to the company and to your now-former coworkers.

Again: so what? What's in it for _me_?
Coincidentally I was listening to Spandau Ballet when I spotted this.
> Antonio is currently leading a major tech stack transition at GoDaddy using NodeJS and NoSQL.

Kudos to GoDaddy for recognizing talent and embracing change. Congrats the Nodejitsu team!
> I am indeed talking about the 1/2 second before.

Then you are alone in this. Even amongst technological people, never mind the general public. This amount of time is perfectly reasonable.

> Once we allow those technicalities to slide, the truth is easier to bend and/or ignore.

No it doesn't. Slippery slope might be a valid argument in some places, but not here. You are overreacting.

> to prevent this sort of subtle-switcheroo.

There is no subtle switcheroo.

It's very very simple: It only sends audio when commanded to. That is the essence of the difference, and it's all that matters.

And don't tell me "next they'll send 1 hour of audio when triggered" because they won't. You are being ridiculous if you think that's where it's headed.

Taking outrageous positions like this just makes people ignore you.

> the trigger word (I feel dirty saying that phrase)

? Why? Does it have some special meaning I am not aware of?
a person is a single conscious entity. there is no change in 30 years.

a company will have almost entirely changed in 30 years - the son should not have to pay for the sins of the father, etc.
There are some implementations, like PINQ:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/PINQ/

One difficulty is that the modification isn't necessarily a one-time thing that then allows the dataset to be published. In many of Dwork's proposed applications, the dataset is maintained by a trusted party and gets modified on-the-fly by adding appropriate noise in response to particular database queries.

So for most of these, you can't just imagine "do this to the database, and then you can publish it on your web site"; it has to be interactive.

In that case, there just may not be that many situations (yet?) where people agree on who can and can't be trusted with the personal data, and want to cooperate to set up this kind of relationship.
automated delivery service ?
This year it will be big announcements of Chrome-only technologies. </sarcasm>
I have been trying for years to make sense of how to use my digital camera. I usually just fumble around good article getting me going the right direction.
Time to cancel my nodejitsu subscription. GoDaddy lost me as a customer when they started supporting SOPA. This news is a big loss for me.
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Super Mario Kart was released for the SNES in 1992. I would absolutely argue that it should be in the public domain by now. I would also argue that Mario Kart 8 should be as well, and I'd argue you should not have copyright at all.
That is not very clear from the docs then which say "By default, the Docker server configures the container network for IPv4 only. You can enable IPv4/IPv6 dualstack support by running the Docker daemon with the --ipv6 flag" - that doesnt sound like link local addresses by default...

Will have to take a look, I guess there are lots of potential setups. If you have a /64 per host it should be ok anyway, if you have a /64 for the network it might not be.
Same person, though. Without going all philosophical about it though, here's an example: let's assume there are two companies, one a sole proprietorship, the other a corporation with 10 employees.

Both companies commit the same crime, the nature of which is unimportant.

It takes 30+ years for the case to enter the judicial system. In the meantime, the guy running the first company is still there, while the 10 employees of the second company are no longer the original 10.

Is it as fair to prosecute the second one as the first one? I don't think so, because at that point you're assigning way too much value to the legal fiction of personhood. A company is made up of people, and I really don't see how there is any justice to be served in prosecuting people who didn't actually commit any crimes just because they work at a place with a certain name.
Finally I have both Gdrive and dropbox.
I think Dwork's account is that the continued use of services without careful statistical analysis and addition of noise will lead to information leakage. She didn't seem to argue for or against decentralization, but rather that there is no such thing as a non-personally-identifiable fact or a non-privacy-sensitive fact (eventually every fact might lead to some inference that a data subject didn't want to be drawn, in some hypothetical situation).
When you realize that you will make more than the patent costs, plus the legal fees to sue an infringer.

Before then, I'd say you have better uses for the money.
Heh. From what i have seen elsewhere, jwz and at least one high up within Gnome has some antagonism going between them.
I'm telling you the economic justification for a corporation. I don't like it either, but denying economies of scale as a reality of our world is silly.

I would be fine with abolishing arms manufacturers. Have you stopped using Google yet? Because they are the Lockheed Martin of the 21st century.

I agree with you that corporations are psychopathic. But to suggest that fact abdicates us from all responsibility of trying to return agency to the individual is foolish.

We have the power to say no. We have the ability to reshape the world whatever way we want it. Recognizing the evil that is conducted isn't cowardly. But refusing to do anything because "That's just the way things are" is.

EDIT: a don't
You don't use third party keyboards, then?

Because they regularly break. Swiftype, Swype. Keyboards disappear. All sorts of stuff.

And iOS 8 isn't really that much better. I've seen weird screens where all the apps are shown, in different orientations, text rotated while the app maintains a different orientation, in Apple apps and third party.
How I Helped Make Run an Empire – An iPhone Game / Fitness App
I'm glad someone else said this, you've echoed a lot of my thoughts. I'm a huge react fan, and I think this is super neat - once again showing the flexibility and power of React's component and render model. It'll probably have a big impact on game UI for the web.

That said, doing this on a content-driven site is absolute madness. It breaks so many things, and throws away so many fundamental tenets of the web. by the time they've reimplemented everything they'll have probably lost all performance wins. The fancy animations are a miniscule gain for such a great loss of functionality

Excited to play with this though, since I'm learning canvas and graphics!
Can you expand some more - does this software connect to a modem to send SMS's to nearby phones? Is this software similar to a stingray device, or am I misunderstanding this?
I wondered that as well as I'm in the same situation, but then I wondered if it works as a target if it means we should be spending more on staff and reinvestment to grow even more? But that'd mean the %age gets even higher so.. maybe not ;-)

I also don't really understand why having a higher margin is useful in a declining business. It's either a lost cause or one should be reinvesting in reversing the growth problem, no..?
That's about what I had thought would happen.
The last couple Google I/O events have been disappointing because it takes an above-average amount of effort to get any of the neat things shown off (even six months or a year later). The most common example probably being that I don't know a single person running Android L. (Past examples might include Google Glass, and their Flagship phone, which someone I personally know was just recently able to order despite wanting to buy it since its announcement) Even taking into account that it was released after the announcement (November 2014, right?) It still seems awkwardly long. This isn't anecdotal either as can be seen in their dashboard: https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
Maven artifacts can be GPG signed; GPG signing is required for Maven central.

It would be irresponsible to use a service like this to build binary JARs that you then signed and uploaded with your own signature guaranteeing their providence.
SpaceX launching DSCOVR on Falcon 9 at 6:05ET today
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If you suppose that companies only ever respond to financial incentives, then you can imagine changing that behavior by creating a financial disincentive for it, such as legal liability and payment of money damages. The companies don't have to have a sense of morality for this theory to work.
This doesn't strike me as very productive. Whether sharing a link can be a crime is, of course, exactly the point under debate.

And I don't see how you can dispute that whether sharing a link is a crime depends on what is accomplished, and what is intended, by sharing the link. There is, of course, no law that criminalizes sharing a link per se. But there are plenty of laws that criminalize things you can do by means of sharing a link. Take GP's example. You write up a murder-for-hire ad on your private server and post a link to it on HN. That's solicitation of murder, no less than if you had made the solicitation in person or by mail. You may as well argue that talking to someone, or sending a letter is not a crime.
Security guards tackle net neutrality activists for interrupting FCC official
My thoughts...

This seems to be basically just a chat server (with message attachments). The notebook style UI is cute but doesn't seem to mean anything. Is there anything here I couldn't do on Skype?

What platforms does this support? There's a picture of a laptop, a tablet, and a phone. They all look vaguely like Apple products, so maybe this is Mac/iOS only, or maybe that's just the icons you happened to have on hand. If it is Apple only, that kind of platform limitation will be a big (almost certainly fatal) handicap to collaboration software. If it isn't, you need to make that clearer.

A hamburger menu (traditionally used to mean "everything else") on the left, and an ellipsis menu (also traditionally used to mean "everything else") on the right? Oh dear.
No, but I used to work in film, so for me there's a ton to learn and appreciate about the craft - camerawork, writing, pacing, editing, performances, sets, locations - the creation of an immersive world that you experience with the characters.
Ah yes, I also learned to program by typing in these games, and reverse engineering to see how they worked. On a TRS-80. Which given RadioShack's recent bankruptcy makes this article a bit more nostalgic for me.

Btw, your comment about using the book before you had a computer reminds me of a music prof at my college. He would read musical scores for pleasure more often than listening to actual music. Or at least so we were told by the younger professors.
Hardest programming challenge
What was your most hardest programming challenge? Something you thought it is impossible but finally did it.
PersistIQ (YC S14) is hiring a full-stack engineer – core team
A good step forward from "Addons are distributed via HTTPS and therefore secure". Some probably would prefer if developers could sign them themselves without submitting them online, but you'd still need the certs signed by a Mozilla CA for the browser to be able to check them...