skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm inclined to trust GOV.UK to have the most current information there, as DVLA reduced its costs a few months ago. My assumption is that DVLA hasn't updated its forms.

That said, it's a source of confusion. Someone, somewhere, hasn't been proactive with that information which should have lead to GDS clarifying the ambiguous cost (assuming DVLA isn't going to get round to updating its forms in a reasonable period of time).
The most recent way I found out was the offer letter that spoke of my grant said "on board approval." A year later, they had never gotten board approval. I was long gone, but another year later and my old colleagues had finally gotten their grant. Preventing board approval for a long time is a nice way to extend the 1-year cliff. Even better, my email to the controller and then to the CFO was completely ignored. That is what really set off my spidey-sense. IMHO, if the officers aren't willing to acknowledge my questions in email, they have legal reasons for not having anything recorded.

Oh, and they were recently acquired by BAE for a lot of money. The officers made a killing, but my friends made around 4-figures. I have no idea what they did to get board approval but it feels like they rejiggered things to dilute everyone else.
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> And I am talking about marxism, not Marx works.

Why did you call jwdunne's distinction between Marx's theories and marxism a "no true scotsman" when you're making the exact same difference?
> First though, why is JavaScript hard? Consider the following cases

I've never come across this problem in a real life project, and this is a pointlessly contrived example that diminishes the rest of the article. This is not hard. It might be slightly baffling at the beginning, then after ten minutes you get used to it.
I'd quibble with this a little. I don't think music qualifies as another language in the way that we're talking about. I'd say it qualifies about as much as a programming language does. I don't think anyone would suggest that knowing C++ or Python will make it easier for you to learn Russian. [Source: I was a professional violinist for 25 years before I got into programming.]
At a previous job, we had an office in Shoreview. I live in Austin now. I would consider Minnesota winters and Austin traffic an even trade at this point (40 minutes to drive 8.5 miles to work this morning).

One thing I noticed about Minneapolis is that the people there are nice. I never ran into anyone that was a jerk. They were all hard working, except in their brief summer when everyone took their vacations.

There are lots worse places to live + work.
Show HN: Aqua – A website and user system (Hapi/React/Flux)
I haven't held a phone with one hand since 2011. I do mean that literally has I've owned a 5.1-5.2" phone since then. Therefore don't use my thumb to interact with it at all.

The whole "The 'ow' zone" section assumes small phones, small hands, and right handed users.
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Thanks for the positive feedback and the contribution, I appreciate it. It's a good book :)
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> Of the tens of thousands of pages and approximately 50 volumes of collected works of Marx, at most 5 pages spell out what socialist society should or ought to look like.

http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/2uegfi/karl_marx...
>> As a manager I can't very well come along later and say "Here's the real reason we let you go." Because the lawsuits would start to fly.

As a manager, it's your job to do that BEFORE you have to can them. There is no reason you can't take a person aside and have a discussion. Is anything wrong? Are you OK? In my opinion your performance is lacking in area x,y,z. It's your job and it sucks to have those conversations, but don't feel bad after the fact for slacking off until it's too late. Nobody should be fired for poor performance and not have a clue as to what went wrong.
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LeadPages is based out of Minneapolis...and they kick as much or more ass than any startup San Fran can produce.
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Rebasing isn't just a pain, it's rewriting history.

I'm so tired of this!! Of course you never rewrite history on a public branch!! Of course rebase is fantastically helpful on a private/feature branch where you are doing development, before you do your final push to the public branch!!

Can we stop with these tired, old tropes please??
Superior tools are only superior if they beat spam filters.

So, either your cheap tool works and spam gets worse or it fails and people just use more expensive options.

PS: Spam is a billion dollar industry and plenty of people with fairly deep pockets.
Thanks, I will have a look.
* Sell direct to local advertisers like newspapers do. Look for affiliate deals for sites with localized versions (e.g. Groupon-deal-a-day, Dating).

* BuzzFeed style native-advertising (sponsored content) -- clearly mark it as sponsored. Good example of who would want this: events that sell tickets.
I had an employer that did this on purpose, insisting because it worked so well for a time that it was the best way to do things for SEO. We owned almost 400 domains related to the business, and just had tons of comments and backlinking pushing juice the the handful of real websites.

I complained and explained it was only a matter of time before the whole thing fell through and got hit by an update or blacklist, but he didn't listen. I did at least redesign the main websites to be html5 with good metadata to mitigate it.

This is what happens when C-levels think it's still the dot-com era.
This is very confusing - you might want to think about another name or at least changing your design.

The name, logo and theme/color-scheme are all very similar to sendowl. So much so that I assumed that this was another project by the sendowl team until I saw this comment.
This is just not true. I worked on three of those servicing missions as an engineer. They were required to keep HST running and to enhance it's capability. Adding COSTAR to fix the mirror fuckup was one tiny piece of the servicing missions.
A lot of open source comes from companies who make their money not by selling technology but by selling services, often by leveraging data, which they guard jealously. They have little to lose and a lot of geek cred to gain by open sourcing useful projects, not to mention the bonus of "commoditizing your complements" a la Spolsky.

This does not apply to companies that sell the technology itself. Not to mention the fact that telecomm R&D is not like software R&D, which, let's face it, is mostly just re-doing D for R that happened decades ago.
The gig economy won't last because it's being sued to death
You're missing the point. For all of them ut doesn't matter if my consumer website serves multiple assets.

That's what I'm talking about.
Apparently "think different" is a one-way view these days.

In any case this is not a case of discrimination as much as it is a case of poor screening and hiring. For a lobbyist position (a face and a voice of a company towards legislators) Apple should have vetoed him based on possible conflicts of interest with company policies and social stance.
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/dev/random on FreeBSD uses Yarrow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarrow_algorithm
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That is allowed, only the android browser is restricted, there too you can run anything on the beta version.
>> This complaint is a narrow one

While this is true, the implications could be far reaching for companies here in the US

Since Apple has instituted their "walled Garden" approach to all their software and now Microsoft is doing the same with their software, it would open the door for more litigation against both companies as "monopolistic" if Yandex were to prove its case against Android.

The interesting question then becomes, if "monopoly" means not having choices once you've selected a company's OS (meaning you have to use their apps, their browser, their API's), or is it irrelevant since you do have a "choice" to go with whatever OS you want to use to begin with?
This kind of use-case is actually part of why I started using Flipboard in the first place, back when I had an iPad. I could consolidate my social media feeds into a "magazine" and just skim the highlights.
As I mentioned in another thread, on my mobile Chrome just dies, it is not even sluggish.
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I believe most Minnesotans are a little uncomfortable by this attention, and we'd like to go back to quietly making lots of money now.
The most important shortcoming of basic auth is the idea of building it into the protocol to begin with. Session authentication is superior to basic auth.
Show HN: JukeTube – YouTube in Polymer
No big company in Russia is "neutral." They don't have those business freedoms. Kaspersky is a good example of how deeply tied Russian companies are to its security and political apparatus:

http://www.wired.com/2012/07/ff_kaspersky/all/

>maps.yandex.ua

Most/all map vendors follow local politics in regards to territory disputes. I'm not sure why you think that's unusually generous of them. If anything, the Russians know that keeping UA under their thumb and using their services instead of western services is to their advantage. A more apolitical move would be having it listed as disputed on both maps.
Just discovered yet another JS framework.
Hi HN!

Last week I attended a hackathon organised by the local GDG (for polymer). Well me being a back-end developer mostly - this was my first project that required some actual design and this is what I came up with during the last weekend:

A Jukebox for youtube, Design looks good but functionality is still a bit edgy around - search doesn't work - things are finicky etc.. but feedback would be welcome for me to decide wether I should continue working on it or not.

http://zeusk.github.io/JukeTube/
The JavaScript output from Elm, in this case, is over 12,000 lines of code. I'm pretty sure you could write this in <100 lines of JavaScript, the lack of a "coherent and strong type system" notwithstanding.
Music is just maths, but so far I've never ran into the correct formula. Progressions, rubato, ... I don't know a lot, but none explained to me why some movements felt good and others didn't.

Music notation is mostly wrong to me, it doesn't explain a lot. You learn more by trying to do anything offbeat. It breaks the notion of time. Same for harmony, most of the beauty in music comes from slippery progressions that aren't transcribe on the score.

From my experience, the sensation of beauty in music has more to do with physic notions like momentum, and complex rotations more than well tampered scales. That's why no amount of theory will make you a good player, because then it's about feeling the physics, the subtlety, the sensitivity, inertia, acceleration...

And you last point just resonates a lot to my previous comment. Music ain't that complicated, that's why when you see it correctly, the complexity fades away and you can remember an apparent "whole lot" easily. It's a very abstract function thus tiny, something you either get, or learn through years of deep listening.

ps: that's the programmer speaking obviously, but I cannot help but to see a strong resemblance between asm - higher level programming languages, music theory - actual music understanding. A few combinators in Haskell, or APL get you to express vast amount of logic, that would take pages to write down in assembly (or a score ;).
Thanks all for pointing out the correct numbers!!!
Why I ditched Microsoft Word for LibreOffice and couldn't be happier
The non-free Google Play APIs, which are heavily used by many Android apps. This makes it a real pain to run popular Android apps on Blackberry, for example. So in practice, very few users do.

Edit: Warning - lots of downvotes in this thread, seemingly for any Google critical comments.
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Google has customized results, every person gets a different amount of pages in differing ranking.
> then refused to make it available to the public.

Why would they make somebody else's licensed work freely-available?
> Of course we could have also easily launched 5 redundant space telescopes for the cost of those servicing missions.

Maybe not. Hubble ended up costing over $2.5bn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope by launch day while a Shuttle launch cost around $450m https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle . Certainly there would have been economies of scale, but it doesn't seem assured you would have got another four Hubbles for ~$500m extra. Moreover I'm not sure whether the redundancy would have dealt with the lens problem, or whether the same error would just have been replicated in all five satellites.
Chrome came bundled and set as the default browser on my phone.
Because it poisons data produced on that machine in an invisible way.

Normally you could use a system like this on a trial basis and keep the results. For example, you might run some image processing on it. You'd want to make sure the output was good, but having done so you could then use those images for real-world tasks without worry.

But replace "image processing" with "generate a private key" and now you're deeply screwed.

Well, now we know. Don't generate crypto keys on pre-release OSes that you're going to use for anything important. That's reasonable. But I don't think many people would have thought that way before.

And of course pre-release OSes aren't the only place the danger lies. Debian had a similar problem that made it to releases and stayed undetected for a couple of years. The point is just that "silently break all your crypto" is a much worse vulnerability than mere crashes, or even corruption.
Yeah sure, it's all Microsoft's fault in a decade where the majority of web users are using non-Windows mobile phones.

Gosh darn Microsoft for building a high quality cross platform application kit!
Totally. I do come across duplicates and bad questions which necessarily must be closed, but I always do my best to help solve the problem that the human on the other end of the question is experiencing via the comments. There are rules, mostly good, mostly in need of enforcement to keep quality up, and I think they work in the individual human context.

There's a balance of rights / responsibilities, and if you have the right to closevote questions and earn magical rep points, you have the responsibility to explain why and try to help.

Herd-mentality and behaviour (demonstrated as closevote requests) seem like the opposite of this.
Regarding the last paragraph, I think the fallacy accusation had referred to the unstated universal claim that failed communist states were not really communist.
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Yes, cause you are getting customized results.

Try http://www.google.com/custom?q=hackerspace&num=100&safe=off&... it will show you that they actually found those thousands of results, but only if you search with an older algorithm.
I would not state it as broadly as "computer people."

A lot of computer people are indeed that way. But many others are not.

Invariably, when something goes wrong, the group that doesn't read the manual visits forums or chats to seek help from the group that does.
Not commenting on the overall value or quality of the thing (not having used it) but seeing as it replaces a more traditional setup of smartphone and tethered smart watch, the price isn't terrible.

My Moto X cost around $450 and my Moto 360 retails for $250 (though I got it on sale for $175). If the end result of this setup is one object on the wrist and one in the pocket, it's only a bit more expensive than what I've got. Likewise, if I had bought a more expensive phone (iPhone, Galaxy, etc) then the total would have been a couple hundred dollars more.

Combine this with the novelty of the Neptune and I can see how they wouldn't charge drastically less than a current smartphone/smartwatch pair. In this situation, the main "brain" is just in the wrist part instead of the "phone" part.

I don't imagine I'd be in the market for this mostly because it seems a bit too "ooh future!" looking for me but I can certainly appreciate the concept.
Wouldn't RSS fit this role?
My grandfather worked on the Hubble mirror. It was, at the same time, one of his proudest accomplishments as well as a source of embarrassment.

Everybody agrees that the mistakes with the mirror were a real screw-up, something that should never have happened with better management and organization.

However, my grandfather also pointed out that there's another direction to point the blame finger, that actually never enters into the discussions. According to gramps, it was understood that they wouldn't be able to get the mirror perfect (admitting, of course, the actual error was worse than any spec allowed for). Apparently they knew they weren't able to control perfectly for the distortions that would arise from moving the mirror from Earth's gravity to weightless, and perhaps other factors.

But the original goal for the space shuttle was supposed to make it relatively easy to bring the thing up into space, try it out, and tweak it or even bring it back for repairs. According to gramps, this was always a fallback possibility, and the fact that it was so difficult and expensive in practice reveals as much about the failures of the space shuttle program as it does about the Hubble mirror - but the latter is always the focus of the discussion. Indeed, the shuttle gets credit as the savior, if anything, rather than any blame for how poorly it served its intended mission (including how many years its own program delays resulted in delays for the Hubble itself).

Caveat: this is all completely based on the opinion of one guy as communicated to his grandson, and potentially suffers from all the errors that this might imply.

EDIT - fixed mis-wording in para 3.
The standard android and iOS navigation controls are directly within the "ow zone". Application "up" in the top left, system "back" in the bottom left. App switcher in the bottom right. The "go/search" button on the keyboard, bottom right.
Maybe it's because you're in Minnetonka, but you think you're in Minneapolis.

I live in Minneapolis and have no interest in commuting out to Minnetonka. I won't even bother checking job postings out there. Unless you live on the western suburbs, getting to Minnetonka is a huge pain.
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There were 6 Hubble missions all of them where manned.

I suggest that the savings of using unmanned missions, not making a serviceable telescope, and saving 1 full trip would have paid for construction of 4 additional telescopes with minor design updates for instruments and or fix bugs but no changes to major systems. With the added advantage of not risking astronaut lives on a publicity stunt.
Last I looked into this, it seemed that masquerading as a custom launcher was the way to go. Any reason to avoid this technique?

Aside: As a long time Android hacker, it pains me to see iOS seems to do this better with "Guided Access" mode. Just look at the variety of apps which use it: Square Register, Envoy, etc.. Sorta sad it's not an Android platform feature by now.
If Google penalizes it, does it mean some people can frame competitors by doing false-flag spammy SEO?
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"Bynd Zero". Yeesh. This just feels like another thing I'm obligated to burn down and manage. A better solution, for me at least, is to continue to not care about Twitter and Instagram, and stop caring about Facebook. You're not missing out on anything. Nothing bad happens if you miss little controversies or links to blogs.
Thankfully, United States v Microsoft Corporation solved this particular dilemma in 2001.
This needs to have simple plugin modules for ecommerce software and content management systems. Otherwise, why bother? Truth be told, getting the newsletter signup to work is a low priority for developers that have to do such things, so rolling one's own integration just is not going to happen.

There also need to be 'free' accounts for developer use. You don't want to be paying $$$ a month when you are merely testing if a newsletter sign up box works and on-boards the customer nicely.

Free accounts can be limited to a mailing list of 5. That is ample for test porpoises.

One thing that irks me about many email newsletter service things is that they think that their software is the centre of the universe. When integrated into something else, e.g. an ecommerce store or a blog, it is the ecommerce software or the blog software which is the 'centre of the universe'. There is really no need to strip as much as possible information about the site visitors and their spending habits, to then bring this into some glorified email contrivance.

I am quite surprised that this market exists for 'we can send email for you' services. Any computer is capable of sending an email, that is how it should be.
But that's the nice thing about Minneapolis: with only a modicum of planning where you'll live, you can bike or take public transit year-round, and it's not that expensive. I can walk/bike to two neighborhood grocery stores and a Whole Foods (all within a mile or so), three coffeeshops (blue-collar/hipster/coffee snob), etc. I only drive a few days a week because I work evenings and just want to get home at 9 pm instead of waiting for a bus transfer, and the high-frequency buses are concentrated around rush hours. (We can take a direct bus to the opera and delicious cocktails, fortunately.) Our house was not cheap but not expensive and the utility prices are not high because it's reasonably insulated, even though 90 years old.

My friends in Ann Arbor have the two cars and the high utility costs, but here in MSP we've got the one ancient car, non-expensive house in the heart of the city, and unremarkable utility costs (and we cover our year's electricity with solar panels).
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Yeah the thing I most wanted out of the post is a torrent to the data.
arbitrary levels of prioritized multiplexing within a functioning congestion control context is the killer feature of http/2.

header compression exists merely to enable that as an implementation detail.
Probably not; people have been doing this for longer than Node has existed
To be fair, the suburbs are full of bars, too.
I think it has a lot to do with attention span. Watch any typical British Comedy, although littered with occasional quips, the main joke is an episode in the making and delivered with full flourish long after an American audience has switched to another show. There's a reason Benny Hill was popular here!
> I.e. the help-screen at the beginning is re-rendering 30 times a second, even though nothing changes.

Not true. the nature of the virtual-dom is that it doesn't rerender if nothing changes. The implementation in elm is extremely efficient. It doesn't even diff the actual DOM, it diffs the inputs to the DOM. It can do this because of the pure functional requirements of Elm.
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Progressive Enhancement is not about JavaScript availability