skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a bit condescending. Twilio and similar services may not be of obvious use to everyone, for example. However, once I explained what it could be used for (and the recent patio11 Twilio presentation helps), most of my friends, while perhaps not needing it, grokked why I was interested. Some saw the utility for their own projects, as well. A more useful response would be to explain what you would use this for and why it might better/different than other solutions. Even a short, one or two sentence project synopsis is more useful than a condescending response like this.
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In Massachusetts, 201 CMR 17.00 sets a $5000 per violation fine for losing personal information. The law itself is poorly written, so it's unclear if a violation is per individual, or per incident. I would love to see it enforced per individual, and for our AG to go after and destroy Anthem, and all the other companies that keep getting away with this.

If enough companies are destroyed, eventually they will start taking security seriously.
Wow, this definitely seems to play into the hands of the gullible. Given two pieces of information (salt water + replacable anodes) we can deduce they are building zinc-air batteries. The same kind of battery is described on the Sci-toys[1] site.

Basically this is a great way to sell Zinc. Not exactly "renewable" since it takes more energy to turn zinc-oxide back into zinc than it produces when zinc reacts with air.

On the plus side, carrying round zinc and copper (for the cathodes) without the electrolyte is easier than full up batteries. And you may be able to get water and salt on site. As a bonus you should get ZnO precipitating out of the solution as the anode corrodes.

[1] http://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/echem/batteries/batterie...
They Put Mayonnaise on Beards in Belgium. Wait, That’s Not Right. 3 EU Confs
WatHifi: Best of reviews of $xxxx audiophile cables and parts
The map search doesn't seem to work at all - "New York City, NY" decodes to 0.00, 0.00, apparently.

Also, the full-size image for the Union Square Dead Drop[1] is ... not very full-size: https://deaddrops.com/db/images/fullsize/32/935838.jpg

[1] https://deaddrops.com/db/?page=view&id=32
She's your girlfriend, not your employee. If you want to treat her like an employee, you better start paying her. Otherwise she's doing you a huge favor helping you (not the other way around) and you should treat her with respect and gratitude. And oh boy, when she finds this on HN you can say goodbye to your big endowment.
From one of the readings, contacting one bureau should be enough. They are obligated to contact the other two.
Syn flood...
There are "USB condoms"[0] that let you only use the power pins of USB, but sadly that is not applicable to this concept.

[0]: http://int3.cc/products/usbcondoms
DDoS

edit: now back
Vaccines are not 100% effective so some vaccinated people will be infected.

And you must be joking when you say it is better to get the disease to have immunity instead of being vaccinated
> Many US Army soldiers carry 70-80 lbs of gear into combat. The idea is to lighten that load by having machines carry some of it, in order to save lives and shorten conflicts.

Minor correction: from talking with folks at the Naval Research Lab, it sounds like soldiers empirically will respond to lighter loads by packing in more until they hit the target weight (more batteries, more ammo, more armor, etc.). Of course, this is just good evidence that they value the effectively higher capacity even more than they would less weight.
And you know that because you've worked at which large tech companies, exactly?
I was around when Chris Stevens, Tim Clarke, and Jan Paul Moorhead created these. Seems like unless its a blockbuster like Destiny - soundtracks don't get the kind of budget they once did.
Be sure to click the equalizer control icon and run the webgl and web audio experiment. (might be chrome only)
If you were sitting in Elisabeth House, there's a chance we met ;-)
we too were fed up of tel-com companies over here, limitations like no more 200 messages per sim per day to prevent spam! but we really needed something for internal uses, just built it. Multiple devices support takes care of per sim limiataion :)
So I am guessing that this is a side thing and not your primary business. Because 7 months of non-payment would easily equate to $100k+ at reasonable rates. Missing that kind of income would be pretty obvious for a small team let alone 1 person.

Given that, my bet is the amount is relatively small and not worth litigating or really starting a war over. Don't post publicly on Facebook, Twitter etc, it does you no good but people/companies will see and remember it. Most usually not in the positive way.

Unless the amount is significant just write it off. I get when you need cash that this can be a hard thing to do, but it is the most likely outcome anyway, so put your efforts into finding a new source of funds.

However, that said, after you get it in your head that you aren't getting paid (changes you mindset), then try this. Send a personal email, voicemail and text saying something like: "hey look, I worked for 7 months for you and yea, I'm an idiot and didn't stay on top of my invoices, but man, I am hurting and could use the payment like we agreed." And say you are willing to take it in some smaller chunks instead of one lump sum if that helps his team out.

Your friend may have initially just screwed up too, and now be embarrassed that he got so far behind. He may have wanted to pay you, then realized the sum is larger now then he has free cash. But if you offer him a hand and a graceful way out, he may surprise you. At worst, he doesn't answer and you haven't lost anything more than a little time to write a note and make a call etc.
I'm going to assume that there's no way for the creator to enforce this, anyway - but is there any way to access one of these without endangering your machine? I'd rather not use a burner-laptop every time I try to see what's on these guys.
Absolutely. I think of the window managers of my youth, Motif, 4dwm, DECWindows. Then I look at "modern" systems and for every step forward we have taken 2 or 3 steps back in usability, ease of programming, and even aesthetics. Hell I'd rather use - and program - GEM than GNOME. I wonder if this is one of the reasons developers are flocking to the web even for local apps, because programming a modern Linux desktop up is such a disaster.
HTML has luckily until recently been too limited to allow many of the UI atrocities well paid developers at huge software companies have managed to produce.

Take a look at the in depth critique of Lotus Notes. Half of it is still valid for the current version 18 years later.
I thought I'd gone crazy the first time i tried to use the somewhat special IBM password prompt in Notes 9.
Dropbox had yahoo mail integration 2 years ago: https://blogs.dropbox.com/dropbox/2013/04/yahoo-mail-dropbox...
Another huge problem with all of the above alternatives is deployability, upgrade cycles, and general "installability" UX issues.

Runtimes like Java that want to install the runtime as a separate package on the system which must be separately approved and separately maintained. This also results in loads of different versions of the same runtime installed on the same machine.

As an alternative, the app author may sometimes bundle the runtime. Result: package bloat.

As another alternative, the app author may statically link the runtime. Result: binary bloat.

So your choice is between included bloat and secondary install bloat, not to mention version management nightmares and conflicts and other horrors.

Java's deployment issues are what killed it as a platform for shipping desktop apps. I tried to ship a desktop app with Java once, and never will again. C# is a bit better as it's generally installed on all Windows machines, but is MS only so is not portable.

C++ = portable, not horribly bloated, deployable, update-able, and mature.

There aren't any alternatives. This is not really a technical problem... it's just that nobody has gotten their act together to ship something that addresses these concerns. A lot of programmers don't seem to understand installability and ship things that demand follow-on package dependencies and other bloat. General rule: every installation step or sub-package exponentially increases the difficulty of deployment and maintenance.

Another problem is that these languages try to do too much. They try to be languages and runtimes, which in practice means they're OSes-within-the-OS. That means bloat is pretty unavoidable. A JVM is functionally not far from a VM running in a hypervisor, so you might as well just ship apps with Vagrant or something.
But is Node.js "he" or "she"?
For a more interesting project that resembles a "anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space" -- but is in fact much more useful, see Edgenet:

proposal: http://cultureandempire.com/html/edgenet.html

slides: http://cultureandempire.com/edgenet.html#/2/1

(funded) indiegogo project: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/edgenet
A new counselling service harnesses the power of the text message
I hereby accuse Hackernews user vinceguidry of war crimes for the publishing of propaganda. His trial will be held in one paragraphs time.

In light over overwhelming evidence that vinceguidry has published news that is fallacious and quite frankly silly (The idea that GWB and Tony Blair are being held accountable for War Crimes because some self-appointed group of people in some backwards state can hold a war crimes tribunal and publish a document), I find him guilty. His sentence is execution, disembowelment, being kicked off the internet, and being tickled with many soft feathers. News of his sentence will be published to a registry of war criminals located here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9029804
How to build a sustainable company
Well, to be fair, the identity theft demographic can be productive in generating votes.
Ask HN: Jump from quant finance into tech startup
Hi Hacker news! I am considering leaving my career in quantitative finance (2+ yes) to join a tech startup (none in mind ATM).

Has anyone in the community made a similar jump?

Did you find it difficult or realize any considerations in terms of skill set reqiired, lifestyle, and/or compensation ?

Thanks all for the tips or advice!
Hitachi to Buy Pentaho Open Source BI Solution
I'm not a fan of Jeb Bush either, but what do you think of their released statement?

> This is an exact replica of the public records on file with the Florida Department of State and are available at anyone’s request under Chapter 119 sunshine laws.

It sounds to me like this is an issue with Florida policy if this sensitive data could be accessed freely already, even if they hadn't released it in this public manner.

There are many places where the blame could be laid, including in the case of SSN leakage state employees that put these SSN's into emails instead of keeping them in a safe location in a secure HR system. At any rate I don't think that Jeb Bush is the only one at fault here.
exactly this. If you had a compass and were on the planet while those crystals were forming, the 'north' part of the compass would point you to a point along the equator rather than in the upper latitudes as it does now.
I'll try to find some of the ones in New York.

It would be nice if there was a "confirm" button, to confirm that the drop was still present.

(Maybe just clicking "submit" while the dropdown says "working" does it? Don't want to test this.)
Seven More Languages: Elm Day One
U.S. government is poised to withdraw longstanding warnings about cholesterol
When you say quant finance, do you mean you're an Excel ninja? Or that you do your work in code? That will make a big difference.
Why you should stop printing business cards
@z3t4 data cards from phone providers are carrier locked and don't allow third party softwares to access modem via AT commands. We've tried with some generic data cards from Huawei and ZTE and they work great

For example
http://www.amazon.co.uk/HUAWEI-E3256s-Wireless-Mobile-Broadb...
or
http://www.amazon.co.uk/computers/dp/B004VU09BU/

You'll have to check for micro SIM support though. I haven't come across a stick which supports micro SIM yet.
Or you could ride a pony :).
the piratebox project is much better http://piratebox.cc
at what point in the processes of proving a concept does it make sense to get IP protection?
This has been around for a while, and given the vulnerabilities in USB stacks and OSes is somewhat dangerous. When it appeared over at Reddit someone called it a "USB glory hole."

Same thing applies to chargers in public places. You never know whether it's just a charger.
Which is convenient, since Disney-the-company will never die, and need not have any actual human connection to Disney-the-man-who-actually-created-the-intellectual-property. So it provides a mechanism for people other than the person who created the work or his heirs/designated beneficiaries to profit from his work forever.

Defining "creators" as actual human beings provides a useful marker for how long a copyright is useful: at some point that human dies, and then at some point later his heirs die, and then at some point later their heirs die, etc. So you can look at the question in terms of how many generations should have a monopoly on their forefathers' works. Defining corporations as creators takes that marker away.
Every one I've tried in SF doesn't exist anymore.
My 3 year old daughter asks every night (for the past month) for "The Napping House", in which we have verious sleeping creatures stacked on top, with much repetition. She ALWAYS asks me to swap the adjectives -- e.g., "snoozing dog, dozing cat" rather than "dozing dog, snoozing cat". She gets it right every darn time, too.

She even wants to swap the words that have plot-meaning -- like, why is the mouse wakeful, and how does a slumbering flea bite the wakeful mouse? /shrug. It's been my carrot to get her to try and read it herself.
I embedded one into a wall in my neighborhood. It lasted about two weeks before it completely oxidized.
Etcd 2.0 – First Major Stable Release
I'd like to add 'hover the mouse in the magic spot' to the list, where UI elements are hidden until the mouse is above them. Facebook and Google are primary offenders. It's so goddamn hipster and entirely useless, even harmful.
The problem is that investments in the future and public goods will always be unfunded in a free market capitalist economy due mainly to the free-rider problem. Fixing it would have to involve the government (or a government-like entity) subsidizing these projects. Of course care would have to be taken to make sure this money is properly allocated, the incentives are properly aligned, etc.
He missed the proposal within the context of the current conversation. He is actually responding to an email earlier in the thread that linked the original email from 2005[0].

RMS does't use an Internet browser so he fetches pages and recieves them in email. He received the html file a day after he had already written his response that he self quotes[1].

He wrote the linked email before he replied without actually having viewed the link of the 2005 email. Therefore, he was unaware of its contents.

It makes little sense out of context.

[0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...
It does. There are gradle/Maven tasks to upload your artifacts to public Maven repos, and they're easy to set up so that Travis publishes them whenever you create a tag.
There's no silver bullet, but it can't be hard to do better than a nine-digit number you reuse everywhere and is almost impossible to change.
This wasn't exactly "an attempt to improve user experience". It's a hack day project that we use internally to help the different BU's communicate. The bonus is we get to have fun with it because we wrote it.
Fragmentions
Terrible choices: MySQL
>Specify the Dockerfile to use in build

oh man it's finally here. I'm excited.
EFF Files FOIA Suit Over U.S. Marshals’ Cell-Tracking Spy Planes
Reflex mirror??!? Get out. Rangefinders forever, baby!
http://instagram.com/p/i35NJLQAeM/
On Windows, where C is considered legacy and C++ is allowed on the kernel.
I really like the transitions on this site. Material design is pretty awesome.
To make it absolutely clear, the owner of this tumblr finds this stuff hilarious and doesn't believe a word of it.

In the context of audiophile grade hardware, magical parts in your digital pipeline (USB, toslink, CPUs, hard drives, etc) cannot make things sound better or worse, magical parts before your power input stage (power cables, fuses, etc) cannot make things sound better due to the AC->DC filtering stage, and magical audio interconnect cables (RCA, 3.5mm/6.3mm, etc) cannot make things sound better by paying $xxxx for a $25 or less part.

Want perfect stereo RCA cables? http://www.monoprice.com/Category?c_id=120&cp_id=12004&cs_id...

Want perfect 3.5mm cables? http://www.monoprice.com/Category?c_id=120&cp_id=12004&cs_id...

Want perfect digital coax, mono RCA, and subwoofer cables? http://www.monoprice.com/Category?c_id=120&cp_id=12004&cs_id...

Want perfect bare speaker wire? http://www.monoprice.com/Category?c_id=102&cp_id=10239&cs_id...

(I'd stick with AmazonBasics for HDMI and Toslink, and Anker for USB though, Monorpice's current gen of those suck).

And just think: Monoprice is still marking these up to make a huge profit.

And what are these $xxxx-tier companies selling? These. They are selling these. Standard thick copper /w good interconnects. Parts that took 50 cents to make.
The hardest part is actually layout managers, i.e. what happens if you want to support more than one pixel width. With all its clunkiness, CSS & DOM actually solve that.

edit: they actually have their own layout implementation(s). I wonder how those compare to the built in browser versions (performance, correctness, ...)?

https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas/blob/master/lib/La...
Just curious, how can you tell it's down specifically because of a syn flood?
Does it matter? std::string is safer than the dog's breakfast that is strcpy/strncpy/lstrncpy/strncpy_s/mempcpy on any platform. And static_cast<myclass> beats (void*) everywhere - Linux, Windows, OSX, Android...
It ran in Firefox, and then froze my browser :(

Edit: Oh, working fine now. I should mention I'm running the Developer Edition (which used to be Aurora), two versions ahead of "current" Firefox. 37.0a2
Yelp has had the online eat24 integration for a bit now. I guess they bought it to be able to control the integration further?
The truth is they are essentially the same. I just draw the distinction because porting apps between them isn't always automatic.
It works offline in Chrome - I think this might be Service Worker...
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/archisman-rudra/4/62/621/en

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-kramvis/1/508/a16/en

http://www.linkedin.com/in/lmsanch/en
I've been doing research into Docker, because the ideas of making a dashboard to easily manage entire apps quickly and easily is very compelling for building and managing rapid prototypes. With the addition of a stats API and parametric Docker builds, this appears to be a realistic use case.

I still haven't found a good answer to whether you can embed Docker images within a parent administrative Docker image, though, in order to achieve ultimate portability. Who Contains the Containers?
The "desktop" market is considerably larger than you think it is. It includes a vast array of professional apps for things like CAD/CAM, SPICE, numeric simulation and analysis, graphics and "real" word processing, management of large data sets, industrial control software, heavy clients for complex remote control applications, typesetting, etc. along with the standard web and software engineering use cases.

These are not "legacy" apps. They are huge cutting-edge professional suites that drive massive chunks of the economy and contain some of the most complex and challenging computer code ever written. We're talking about stuff like Monte Carlo analysis and genetic algorithm generation of physical machines, simulation of massive electronic circuits, etc... some of these things are the closest thing software engineering has to modern wonders of the world.

Go try re-implementing SolidWorks in JavaScript as a client/server app or for Android or iOS and then tell me desktop is dead. Then there's the whole issue of security, privacy, and data ownership. Cloud demands a lot of trust in the provider, and mobile treats user data with something near contempt (apps "own" their files, etc.). There is absolutely no way I am writing a novel or a Ph.D thesis in the cloud or on a mobile device. I'm doing it on a machine I control with a backup system I control where an app being pulled from an app store or a cloud provider experiencing a hack/failure won't obliterate my two years of work.

Granted that such things can be written now in languages other than C++, and sometimes can even be shipped in those languages without torturing the user with secondary runtime installs and other insults. But C++ still really rules here. You write it, you build it, and you ship it. Bloat is fairly minimal. Even if you use Qt the bloat is still a lot less than Jabba.
Xcode 6.3 requires OS X 10.10 Yosemite
Thanks--that would certainly be good to clarify.

I work at a major hf in C++/R and do a large amount of data analysis and signal generation research. A bit of excel too :)
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We currently have several open positions:

* Senior Developer – Data Platform: Build a near real-time data analytics platform from the ground up.

* Electrical engineer

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An ideal candidate:

* will be fearless… learning new skills and stretching beyond a defined role

* will be comfortable independently transforming ideas into amazing solutions

* will know exactly what it takes to ship high quality software on-time

* will recognize when a workaround is more appropriate than an elegant solution

* will communicate ideas with clarity and precision

* will write clean, elegant, simple, testable code

* will commit often, perfect later, publish once

* will take pride in their work

* will want to work with others who do the same

If you are interested in being one of our first 20 employees email me at crumley@nuve.us

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KeystoneJS v0.3.0 released
Except that this statement: There isn't a person in this country (US) who truly cares about all the collateral damage of our drones. is demonstrably false.

I presume you were employing hyperbole but it is important to note the difference between waging war in Afghanistan using drones versus waging war in Iraq using cluster bombs. The latter case has a much higher non-combatant casualty rate. Further, the more accurate such munitions become the easier it is for non-combatants to avoid areas where they are likely to be killed or injured.

I have yet to meet anyone in the US military who considers warfare "humane", and while I would not be surprised if such people existed, it has not been my experience that they are in positions of authority.
Pipes 2.0 makes it even easier to keep up with the topics you’re interested in