skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the belief is based on the fact that it was released as closed source into a world where open-sourcing languages has become the default. This implies a strongly made business case for keeping it closed source at Apple.
[IANAL]

I doubt that case is based on any whizbang technology that gives Apple a competitive advantage. I expect that the decision is based on opinions from the legal department and a risk assesment of the potential for being smacked with someone's patent portfolio. Unlike a from the ground up open source project, Apple has a lot of cash on hand and makes an attractive target for lawsuits.

Also unlike a from the ground up open source project, pull requests are a hassle because of licensing and patent issues...again all that cash makes Apple a target for lawsuits.

Finally, the fact that there is a user manual rather than a language specification suggests the possibility [but does not prove the existence] of kludgey implementation compromises for performance/compatibility/expediency reasons. Because Apple is a products company, this sort of code could be construed in a legal argument as Apple having knowledge of latent product defects.

Against all this, what is the upside for Apple? Love from the general development community maybe. But from their business practices in recent years it does not appear to be something upon which the corporation places a high value.
Facebook for Beginners – February 11th, 2015
No, gold miners have incentives to maximise their profit, which is different from maximising their efficiency. Take, for example, the typical refining process for low grade ore[1]. This occurs in a lot of developing countries, and involves chucking all of the ore on the ground, then leaching it with cyanide... which then runs off into the nearest river.

Gold mining and refining can be nasty stuff.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_cyanidation
Oh, so that's why all open source software is terrible?
Emscripten Porting Examples and Demos
GLSL Sandbox
RadioShack Suffered as Free Time Evaporated
This ignores the risk of not lending them out, which is difficult to quantify, but is considered significantly greater than 0.
I used to work on a system that require a stored procedure for every database call - it became very annoying. I understand that stored procedures used to be the only way to ensure a query was optimised, but that isn't the case these days.
To get behind paywall google "RadioShack Suffered as Free Time Evaporated"

This should also work:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...
That sure sounds like bread and fish piracy to me. We better lock this guy up. You say his name is Jesus. Is he Mexican, or is that an alias?

(BTW, Jesus is dead, his father was some schmuck who knocked up some girl that we now call "Mary" for some reason, and there is no God.)
Though the data we have is under constant scrutiny for
its accuracy, methodology, and usefulness, the Centers
for Disease Control reports that the current rate of
autism diagnosis in the United States is 1 in 68. This
is a continuation of a trend identified by the
Environmental Protection Agency that started between
1988 and 1992, when the worldwide diagnosis of autism
spiked from 6 in 10,000 kids to 24 in 10,000.

The main problem with this data is that the definition of autism has expanded over time. The category of "aspergers", a relatively limited form, was eliminated and folded into "autism", making historical numbers hard to work with.

This article is mostly talking about the most low-functioning forms of autism, for which the numbers are far far lower than 1 in 68.
I have always like the ambient sound stuff, but normally those sites are not well designed. This site is pretty darn good looking. Any plans on an Android app?
I'm not really sympathetic to this argument. I agree that people deserve to get paid for their work, but it's foolish to put one's head in the sand and pretend that we aren't surrounded by devices that make it effortless to push around sequences of bits. If your entire business model collapses under the weight of copy and paste, it's just not a very good business idea. Networked computers are ubiquitous and they're here to stay; authors, artists, and developers should take heed.

Of course, in actuality, piracy is demonstrably benign. Isn't it strange that in the age of digital piracy, indi-game developers are more successful than at any other time? Movie studios are making more money than ever before, HBO continues to completely destroy the likes of Netflix in profitability despite producing the most pirated TV-show of all time. The fact is: pirates are mostly people who've already paid or would never have paid anyway. I think we can all agree that piracy is ethically wrong, but I think it's also pretty clear that it's not very harmful.
How Much Does App Development Cost?
Pulling the plug
BTW check out other howistart articles:

http://howistart.org/

You'll find a sampling of Go, Erlang, Haskell and a few others.

Here is the repo: https://github.com/howistart

And of course many thanks for Tristan for curating it!
Netflix is Available in Cuba
There is a deeply unpleasant variation on this in Ken MacLeod's The Execution Channel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Execution_Channel
Our current civilization would burn in flames? What a load of poppycock.
Last time I looked, the proprietary bootloader for the Pi also had a license forbidding you from running it on boards not supplied by the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
If the dirtpig sees his shadow it means his body is opaque.
WhatsSpy, a Tool to Spy on Whatsapp Release Public
I haven't had an iPhone for a long time but the last time I used Siri all the functionality required a data connection.
Spoiler: because every day can be Groundhog Day.
I'm reading this later, but upvote based solely on the title. ;)
I like this idea a lot, do you have an auto response set up in your email or manually send it to them?
If you want the ISO just to make a VM, you might be able to get a fully legal one from the modern.ie website:

https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools

The VMs you get from there "self destruct" after a month or so but thats good enough for most testing purposes.
> It was a working shuttle that flew to space and was in many ways superior to shuttle.

It was designed to be a manned spacecraft that never put a man in space, by any reasonable logic it was a failed attempt.

> It just didn't make economic sense

And exactly what part of the space race made economic sense? The Apollo program alone was something like $150b fixed for inflation.

The Buran looks like more central planning failures from an incompetent regime on its way out. Please stop making excuses for Soviet leadership. They clearly dropped the ball after a few early successes in the space race. By the 70s the Soviet program was in tatters and a joke and by the 80s the Shuttle did incredible things that the capsule based approach simple couldn't do (repairing hubble, etc). Obviously, the cost estimates of the shuttle were lower than real cost, but I can't think of any major project where that wasn't true. Now that we are motivated to do more than LEO, the Shuttle was retired for a capsule based approach that is a private and public partnership between NASA and companies like SpaceX who are showing us how cheap rockets can be.

Its unfair to compare failed test projects, which were also fairly uninspired copies, like the Buran and the N1 to workhorses like the Saturn V and the Shuttle. The Russiophilia around here is pretty high and unfairly so. The Russians deserve credit for their early successes but they were not able to keep them up and oddball projects like mounting 50 cal guns on space stations or launching (and failing thankfully) space based weapons platforms (Polyus) should lead to their criticism, as well as their uninspired 70s and 80s failures and pathetic attempts at cloning western successes like the Concorde or the Shuttle.

I'd rather live in a world where the Shuttle, Apollo missions, robotic missions, and Hubble were real and did amazing things, as opposed to being told by some single-party government stooge that its "too expensive" and cancelled. Thankfully I do live in that world and we have the space science and achievements to prove it. What a wonderful program NASA has been. Its a shame it gets hand wringing and criticism from geeks while the largely dysfunctional later-day Soviet program gets all accolades and excuses.
Which is even more cut throat, since you're basically selling political power: rich people would be able to afford way more, than the poor.
Hot Girls
In my form right now - no. But it is possible to configure emails sent to recruiter too. Thanks for idea!
SendGrid for iOS released
I didn't see this behavior on my iPad ... Perhaps a broken "mobile first" site?
Yeah. Autism is diagnosed by symptoms and the symptoms have changed over time. It used to be that an individual had to actively avoid social contact. Now they just need to be socially impaired even if they seek contact. As the symptoms have changed and as awareness has increased in the medical community, so have diagnoses increased.
btw some more background on where this came from: https://gist.github.com/mikermcneil/5746660
The asynchronous library – Christophe Henry  Meeting C++ 2014
There are no "entry level" devs in SF. Either you're hired at a big firm/company (google/twitter/facebook) and you start off in the 150-200k/year range or you have experience.

All the entry jobs are filled by H1b, and most the non entry jobs as well.

Worked as a consultant/contractor in the Bay Area for ~3 years and GTFO. I made over 100 but less than 150 with 15 years experience.
My app: Sellow is the WhatsApp for buyers and sellers
An excellent article, well written and incredibly easy to follow along and understand what's going on. We need projects to start doing documentation like this.
Using Death to Succeed
Thank you for the kind comment! About Android app, yes ;)
I would wager that most of the people that put the time to put these test cases together also get paid to handle these problems and build solutions. It's a giant misconception that open source is written by a bunch of hobbyists in their spare time on the weekends.

Most open source gets written by professionals employed to build something, and the open source work is part and parcel to their day job. I send patches upstream to the open source libraries and tools I use all the time. This is all happening while my employer is paying me to be on the job, and in fact is heavily supported by my employer.
Potentially allow the vehicles to go to hostile environments (battlezones), bad weather conditions, and of course, epidemic zones (like ebola-struck regions). It will save pilot lives (crucial when there is a major event and many pilots are needed). And it will help contain disease.
Seconded - we have been running Seafile for the last few months with several shared folders. It works flawlessly and is quite fast.
What Your Startup Can Learn from Drill Music
Olimex has products that stack up similarly.
This Drone Ambulance Is Totally Wild, and Totally Inevitable
No, the real argument is usually that the executive contracts are constructed such that trying to weasel out of "bonuses" for them probably is ill advised.
Understanding React JavaScript Rendering in Flux
The Navy has been considering unmanned MEDEVACS for a few years now.

http://www.wired.com/2012/08/robot-medevac/
Looks very interesting, I'll have a better look at the product tonight.
Possibly; I tried to read on a computer.
Storage Made Easy Achieves 171%Year on Year Growth in Recurring Revenue in Q3
>>State tax return fraud has been largely non-existent... so non-existent in fact that USA Today reported the state of Minnesota got suspicious when there were 2 reported cases of fraud

I doubt it. Most states are poor at fraud detection, they are likely losing a lot but just don't know it.
Bitcoin tipping machine with Raspberry Pi
Between which dates? If I'm reading this correctly, Jan 08 to Jan 14 is 212 to 234, which is about 10%. (This also matches the statistic that I happen to have memorized of 8% inflation between 2010 and 2014.)
How to Set Up VPN on Mac OS?
I believe in open source, but am not a hardline. I'm also entrepreneurial, and like to help out others make a business of making development tools.

Personally I don't think only open source projects are superior. In some domains like say design tools, paid for tools have much more choice and polish.
Wait, did I just say Knuth was wrong?
Don't most database libraries convert parameterized queries into stored procedures at runtime? None of the overhead of manually managing stored procedures, but all of the safety benefits.
Read at first as GitHub's IPO.
TL;DR: We found that the GPU global memory is zeroed only in some configurations.
you can get the data back. do read the article and paper published.
I have no problem believing that they have a higher threshold for approving apps that cost more money because of the expectations that come along with a high priced app in their store. A slightly buggy app offered for free could still be helpful, but the same app for a fee could be a liability.

Did you change the price to tier 1, or a higher rate? I have helped test apps that I thought shouldn't be paid, and without seeing yours it is hard to tell.
Does the form represent the priority of concerns you have about a position?

i.e. does the compensation and perks come before technologies and management?
Correlation doesn't imply causation. RadioShack suffered as tech toys' guts became highly integrated and didn't yield to tinkering.
Show HN: Storyform – Publish responsive magazine-style articles on any domain
Uber Needs Our Permission to Grow
I agree that it's not the insane uptick that the raw statistics would seem to indicate. But disputing that fact doesn't negate the fact that 1 in 68 kids has some form of disability (not saying you did... but I have seen that from some people as reason to dismiss the issue).

I actually don't care one bit about the diagnosis itself. It's not as if having the diagnosis means you can take a pill to get rid of it. The only benefit we got from a diagnosis came from insurance paying for certain claims they previously would not have.
Looks great! I would love it if you added a "coffee-shop" sound, something like this: http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/cafeRestaurantNoiseGenerato...
My wife is BCBA certified. She told me once that for certain kids, early therapy can make the difference between a kid going to University and a kid having to be institutionalized.
No, the copyright police are paid for by our taxes. The RIAA/MPAA doesn't do much more than lawyer work, for the real shit they make the FBI do it.
> had the audio processing chip in them

I doubt that was ever actually true. It was probably a kind of shorthand to explain to users that some processors had the right kind of power management to enable efficient always-on speech recognition.

And, another thing, local speech processing doesn't mean you are safe from recording or from large-vocabulary transcription. Compared to what 1980s speech processing runs on, even when throttled-down to conserve batteries, you've got ample processing power in modern smartphones.
> The question of whether downloading actually harms industry or not had not been answered.

This is kind of ridiculous. I think we all know that it hurts the industry. Only in your third scenario does downloading actually help the content producers. And you're leaving off two groups that hurt your case:

* people who would watch the show on TV but instead download

* people who would buy DVDs but instead download

Based on people I know who torrent, the second group is actually fairly large.

Your argument is like "people who go into a store and steal a DVD shouldn't get in trouble because they probably wouldn't have bought that DVD anyway." Which is clearly a ridiculous argument.
Pi-Top, a Raspberry Pi laptop you build yourself
A vast number of recruiters are not in-house recruiters so they will never have most of this information anyway.
Jailing the people responsible for committing criminal misconduct and confiscating their gains seems like a nice solution to this dilemma.
May be slightly, but more importantly, all these fields required - i.e. this information what I consider most important about opportunity and usually takes quite awhile to find out from my experience. So I offload it to recruiter to do it.
I love, recommend, and use Noisli often in our open plan office.

The only tiny annoyance is that I really like the ambient cafeteria noise, and after a while I start to notice the looping! There's a very prominent bit where a lady shouts "Swwwwing!". There isn't much you can do about it though other than make the sample much longer, and it's hardly a problem. Just something I notice.

Thanks for the site. I actually registered noisebubble.com a while back with something similar in mind, but you beat me to the punch and I'm happy you did.
> p2pvc does not get around NAT, so you may need to port forward. It uses ports 55555 and 55556 for audio and video respectively.

Nice use case for IPv6.
Understanding Debt
But Seriously, ‘Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet?'
Love the idea and I'm interested to see if anyone bothers. As you say, if the recruiter cares and isn't playing the numbers game, it's not a huge task for them to go through for a good enough candidate. You'll likely get few responses but from the recruiters who you want to be in touch with.
What does Microsoft have to do with Netflix?
> Swift is statically typed, so it doesn't really compete with JS or Clojure.

This seems to imply that developers make a static vs. dynamic choice separately prior to and separate from evaluating other aspects of languages to choose between them. While some developers may do that all the time, and some may do that some of the time, I don't think its true as a generalization.

Certainly Go is statically-typed, and often portrayed as competing fairly directly with Ruby/Python, which are not.
An Up-Close Look at the Monumental Task of Building a Bridge
Your two paragraphs contradict each other. Which is it - people torrenting would be happy to pay but can't get hold of it at any price, or just going for what's free?
I've never been with a company that didn't have serious problems with MySQL replication. At least once a month master-master replication breaks horribly and must be manually fixed; often by having to delete and remove data. MySQL replication half-works at best.
Exactly, and I always hate to simply not respond to email, because it is always a possibility, that this particular email will lead to a better job.
>I am wondering why its not applied everywhere already?

In the US? The FAA.
Phil Mason has a video about this research[1] on his YouTube channel. There are several others on there about intermediate results.

[1] http://youtu.be/LmlAYnFF_s8
Very cool project.

I made something similar for Android last week: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playwithvo...

If anyone uses this on a touchscreen device, I'm curious what you think about the slider that Noisli uses for volume control. Do you prefer the slider, or would you prefer to tap on the icon to toggle pre-defined volume states (off, 33%, 66%, 100%)?
How would you feel about a software dev with 1-3 year professional experience and no computer science degree joining an apprenticeship type program to go from intermediate to advanced level? Shopify has interns, is this what was intended?
Love it! Fireplace + night sounds...feels like I am at my house outside of the city.
And this is perfectly fine. Better noise-to-signal ratio.
Snowblowing is NP-complete
As a frequent Raining.fm and Coffitivity user, I find this awesome, and will definitely give it a try while working!

I'd strongly recommend finding an easier name to remember/spell though. If somebody told me "go to noisli.com", I'd spell it noisely.com. Ideally it should be something that's easy to remember and speaks to its function (noisey.fm, ambient.fm, and backdrop.fm are all available domains).
Yeah, FlightRadar 24 tends to have better data:
http://www.flightradar24.com/reg/ur-82060

And it is on a full schedule, but it is so expensive to rent that I'm not sure it's actually booked 24/7 like the smaller Antonov An-124s. It just sits in Kiev a decent amount of time.
Looks and sounds fantastic. Very well done. Love the simple interface.

Only annoyance is that the sounds are stacked in 2 columns on a laptop. I'd love it if I could see more of them on my screen at once.
Well, the cloud IS easy to spell
I think a Youtube videos does not qualify to be titled as 'demo'.
Thank you for your suggestion.

As I said in the previous comment, it doesn't really matter, since I want to solve the problem primarily for me by minimizing the costs, so my current problem is adopting the best technology, marketing is orthogonal for the time being.
A good recruiter is worth its weight in gold, I think this is useless against recruiters who are just spamming; because it's a numbers game for them, and they don't have the time to be filling forms when there's money to be made elsewhere.

And a good recruiter might find it a bit pretentious. I'd rather take the spam than risk my career.
If you are a home user Tonido (http://www.tonido.com) is a good alternative.
You really should use stored procedures to provide a layer of abstraction between the code and database - you can't easily refactor the db schema + keep your application online when your application access tables directly.
Most probably, this reasoning would have morally justifiable if the commodity is essential, say, medicinal or may be to lesser extent educational.

May be me, you and some others have the benefit of doubt that we will be good Samaritans, we won't resort to piracy unless the payable content is not available.

That really doesn't absolve tons of other people who abuse free content through piracy while having alternatives.
Just create the VM and clone it before you login for the first time, and use the clone. Never expires that way.
One day to create a better Internet together
If I see email from recruiter worth a following up - I never risk it. But this is rarity, more often you get boilerplate emails. But who knows, may be one particular recruiter with boilerplate email is actually care.
UK Government Releases Its Hacking Guidelines, but What About the US?
Thank you so much for using Noisli and for recommending it!
Also thanks for the feedback!! It's something we will definitely keep it mind to keep improving the service ;)
Security Engineer Manifesto
This is only a shining example of what not to do if the popup isn't working. If it's driving away 50% of users but capturing the email addresses of the other 50% then it's absolutely brilliant and everyone should implement one immediately.

The job of a website is to effectively help a business grow. That isn't the same thing as making everyone who visits the page happy.
On the role of CTO
Looks really nice. Im on a phone and the site and demo worked really well. Congrats on launching and all the best! How long has the product been in development?
Is the "Foosball table" item a negative or positive?
Hm, this is maybe the smartest project I've seen, in a while. Great work! :-)
I actually don't doubt that State tax return fraud is much less prominent than Federal tax return fraud, for one key reason: there's less money at stake, because of lower state income tax rates (more importantly, lower per-taxpayer state withholdings -- which are in part due to lower rates, but I also get the impression that at least some states use withholding formulas that are more likely to underwithhold than the federal withholding formula, resulting in both lower refunds and less money that can be stolen by tax return fraud, even compared to the nominal tax rate.)

Its more profitable to do fraud where the money is.
commute to work: 1

the % of ppl who fit this criteria is less than 5%
Simplified Front-End testing with Selenium