skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, I've never quite managed to find what all these problematic corner cases actually are.

The bit that jumps out from your link is the fact they now support iOS, and iOS won't let them programatically send/receive SMS. It seems to be a case of "now we support iOS, to keep feature parity, we're stripping out our main feature!" -I insert my own <slowclap /> at this point.
How do they protect the ticker tape thing from attacks, like say, a DDOS?
How is it bundled anymore than any other mobile data package?
We've had these in Australia for years. It's called the Webster Pak and is a method of packaging done by pharmacies. It was invaluable for my grandparents when they were too old to see/sort their own pills.

I think the webster pak looks more functional than lots of baggies. It's a less ambitious company though, it's not trying to be the whole pharmacy, just a method of packaging.

http://www.webstercare.com.au/shop/item/community-webster-pa...
> if you're problems are much better expressed in Haskell, why are these developers not using Haskell?

Generally because your boss won't let you.
From an executable standpoint there's not a ton of lockin -- anything running a certain version of libc should behave the same way. You can compile an executable that will work on both Ubuntu and Amazon Linux.
I have written several thousand review articles over the last dozen years or so. Reviews of (in descending order) comics, books, films and albums, for diverse print and digital media. It is possible that those who approached you sincerely would like your take specifically. That does happen, but more often, I have found, is the case of reviewing being a cheap effort at adcopy.

Honestly, I feel that aside from family and friends of those responsible for the source work, reviews generally go unread by the bulk of the masses. I really think most PR persons are incredibly lazy, and instead of making efforts to think outside of boxes, rely heavily on the old standbys of reviews, interviews, and press releases (ready for copy and pasting among the blogging elite). If the creator responsible is not "a name", then PR persons are compelled to get someone, anyone, to view the work. And then, more often than not, the PR persons pray that such person will do the selling for them.

I realize this sounds bitter. (I've spent far more efforts on promoting indie creators than I have on developing my own works, to very mixed results.) But ultimately, composing review articles is essentially unpaid adcopy work. I think a strong review should be handled along the lines of a high school book report. The habit can be a neat exercise unto itself, as far as writing in general. But there are many snakes in the grass.

All said, if the work/s in question truly strike you (for good or ill), then by all means have a go at formulating your opinion on the matter for others. If only for the sake of trying something new. But be weary of getting locked into it. You do one review, then the publisher or producer may well send you another soon enough. And as I am fond of saying, inundation only suits dry fields.
Amazing how propaganda machine NY Times is fast to cover this story.

That crash was totally not strategic at all. /s
I live in DC and just moved into the city about a year and a half ago, changing my 60 min+ car commute to a 20-30 minute bike commute. It is absolutely the best decision I've ever made in my life.
Care to share more of your bookmarks?
Nothing new there. Microsoft has always been very open their research, and Apple hasn't. They prefer to talk about products they will actually ship vs. things that might happen at some point in the future.
one of the reasons i'm generally Ok with Slack's valuation is that there is a ton of room for a messaging service to offer a service that is secure and auditable at the level that the SEC/FINRA and Banks require. Like the article mentions, if you talk to the people using BBG, it's really the chat functionality that provides the main value for literally everyone, at least in my experience (former front office dev)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9393096 previous discussion from earlier today.
on linux, using us-mac:

è: option/r-alt+`

ê: option/r-alt+i

ë: option/r-alt+u

(for example, option+` followed by e will do è)

i mostly use us-mac because i'm used to using option to type accents and because i can keep my en keyboard and type on pt-br without problems.
I think that having a student operated discipline system might be getting dangerously close to the same groupthink cultures we see online, even on HN. Ultimately I think that while a unified community like this has its place, it tends to push people towards agreeing with the group for sake of social acceptance rather than what's actually good for the community.
I took a big chance on something that failed. Simply put, don't avoid the warning signs that it is failing, even if others feel that it isn't. Here are a few personal examples:

1. You believe that your company will get paying customers (or investors), after 'this thing' or 'that thing 'happens. You feel like you are holding out too much for these things to happen.

2. Your partners seem to act oblivious to the failings of the business model and tend to cling to it. They fail to understand that admitting defeat sooner than later is more important that an idealistic goal and business plan. This failing would be coupled with a dedication that "we need to hold on and keep going if we want to make this happen."

3. Your partner/s do not recognize the importance of their own or your personal welfare, because the goal of the startup is more important. This can be true despite not making any strong sales or establishing investor relationships in the time span of at least six months or more. (I personally say 'six months' because you have personal finances to attend to. Frankly, six months with absolutely nothing is a sign in itself, in my personal opinion.)

4. You feel guilty for giving up. You are also guilted into not giving up.

Stop believing you lost your life. At this time, you need to fail fast. Realize that sinking yourself more into risk will create more problems down the line. Leave now. Take your skills and maybe get a job somewhere else and build up your wealth again. I was almost broke myself, with my wife, in another country (which I still am in now.) I failed fast; got my resume out there and a month later, had the movers come to move where I got the job. It was fun, it was sad, but it was a life lesson to be more attentive to this stuff in the future.

As a side thought, there might be a lot of glamour around startups these days, but business is still business. If you are going broke, your DOA-startup is nothing to glamourize.

I wish the best for you.

EDIT: Just as a follow up to this ... I went from the startup to one of the most interesting jobs I have had, given the new programming challenges to work with. Life can lead you down interesting paths. :)
Chord progressions of 25,000 songs
Instant.io – Secure, anonymous, streaming file transfer
They already release those.

http://developer.amd.com/resources/documentation-articles/de...
>> "No one is forcing openness here."

Of course they are. Information that wasn't supposed to be public was stolen and made public against the will of the creators/owners.
If the data is mission critical to your company, you consume the feed via private leased lines or interconnects.
When Open Access Is the Norm
I've always though an Open Pandora would make the perfect on-call support device. If you get paged and need to fix something then it's a pain to try to do anything from your phone, especially if it's more than completely trivial (at which point, why are you even being paged).

The alternative, usually, is to carry a laptop, or to make sure you're never too far from one. But that diminishes your freedom when outside of office hours. Sure, you could take work laptop out to dinner, or to the bar, but you usually don't want to.

I'd be interested to hear if anyone's used an Open Pandora for on-call support.
The line has been made so that those with the power to throw us in cages already have that info. I would say that publishing the info of the far more powerful so that the far less powerful can see it is a far lesser issue. You are asking if we should draw the line at 10 meters or 11, while it has already been drawn at 20 km.
Wolfram Alpha does a pretty amazing job of taking an existing graphic and turning back into a graph-able equation... eg:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=graph+looks+like+batman

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=graph+looks+like+bart+s...
I'd willingly make that sacrifice if the emails of the corrupt in power were also published.
Letter to My Widow- Short Film
There is no line, any line would be simply arbitrary.

If you get your email stolen and the people who got access to it found out you were doing some illegal activities, then it would be irresponsible not to publish your email to expose those illegal activities, especially if you are a Fortune 500 company.
There are a bunch of other events it can read from now: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-lambda-update-productio...

There's also the dynamodb streams preview: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developergu...

I think the future will probably be measured in GB/s.
@icebraining I can't reply in the thread so posting here.

Other internet data packages are bought explicitly by the user, and treat websites neutrally.
Docker 1.6, Docker Compose 1.2, Docker Machine 0.2 – in action
Philosophy and info for new students
They are absolutely complicit in a gross violation of privacy. I've spent some time looking through the emails. There's information about people's health (I found an email where one person informs colleagues that he was recently diagnosed with cancer), personal correspondence, a record of purchases, privileged legal documents, etc.

By using their megaphone to give these documents publicity, by making them easily accessible and searchable, Wikileaks is absolutely complicit and has done wrong.
As someone who does 8 interviews a day and loves to help candidates understand what they did wrong and how they can improve; this is really, really nice of you.
There is a good chance my view is heavily biased, obviously at one point in every European country the military was held in high regard, regardless of class. My perception is that at least in Germany being an officer is no longer something most young people would aspire to or even consider as a career path. Nor is volunteering for the army considered a particularly attractive option. Obviously other countries might have larger success in indoctrinating the young, US propaganda and Hollywood certainly do a good job at glorifying their military.
That's the way a smart business would think. I wonder how smart Bloomberg is? It's not uncommon for the goals of employees ]assign blame, cover ass, grab more power, short term profit] to be misaligned with the long term goals of the business.
I'm working on mobile app to easily organize skateboard sessions. https://twitter.com/GetSeshApp
The Forgotten Monique- Short Film
From 'The Zen of Python' - "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

I'm not sure I've seen any "Python's too simple" posts. Maybe Go's criticism is based on some other factor?
How does your commute look like, if you don't mind asking?

I commute north-south, alongside S1 train. I noticed it recently got a lot harder though. It seems like there's construction work everywhere (even on the riverbanks and channels). I need to to add extra kilometres just to cut through Mitte.

Also my route is very "hilly", both ways (northern Mitte to Schöneberg). I guess going east-west may be a lot easier.

I have to agree though, cycling is usually faster than U-Bahns and buses. Trams are not even worth discussing. I still found S-Bahns to be the fastest.
Bloomberg started out as a network system independent of the Internet. Michael Bloomberg was a network engineer. I'm not sure they ever really switched to proper TCP/IP. This company sure looks like a dinosaur these days. However its hard to imagine a company being able to replace even a chunk of their infrastructure. They are tightly integrated into all institutions and there is no other service which offers a complete coverage of all the world's financial assets.
Say a student spends all day on HN - that's a day dedicated to reading and discussing topics related to hacker culture. I've learned so much about programming and computer science in general from HN, and even physics, biology, politics, and other topics. There's an education to be gained from everything in my opinion.

Even mundane things, time wasting games like Cookie Clicker, still have some educational value behind them. Could we get more education out of drills, homework, and regular testing? Maybe, but they certainly don't provide the same level of engagement.
>Is it because we assume the human is capable of compassion and empathy?

No - it is simply because a human is self aware and will act selfishly. By making a human accountable for the actions they can reasonably be expected to follow the rules.
Attracting more developers does nothing to attract more users.
The problem with a survey asking people how much they love their language is that people will employ all kinds of biases to suppress the cognitive dissonance of choosing a terrible language.

The harder something was to succeed at, the harder you'll try to convince yourself it wasn't wasted effort.
SpaceX: Mars Colonial Transporter
They certainly played a big role in actually making things happen. I'm not sure too much about how - I know a bunch of them are connected with a private school in Rome, LUISS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libera_Universit%C3%A0_Internaz...
Looks interesting! I saw a talk at Fluent Conf last year with similar ideas (part of it that really stuck in my mind was overlaying your org chart with commit data to see if there was a module that had people from different teams making changes in it).
This is the premise of software as a service.
We switched from Hipchat (buggy in the beginning, smooth and ideal at the end) to Hall (a buggy, slow, awful mess) to Slack (also slow, but not buggy, and awful UX).

Hipchat gets notifications right. Slack and Hall seem to have (in)sane defaults, and not quite right customizations.

The web-view of Slack is slow and stupid.

It's picky, but I loved the vim/sed style substitutions in Hipchat. Slack FTL.

But the biggest annoyance by far: In Hipchat you could reorder your chats however you felt like. In Slack they're fixed. And team chats are arbitrarily (feeling) broken up into groups and channels. Which is a completely useless distinction for most I think.

Hipchat had @all and @here. Which seem pretty self explanatory. Slack has @group, @channel, and... I guess that's it. No version of @here AFAICT, and depending on what sort of "room" you're in, the @all equivalent changes.

The iOS app also makes something that looks like a room picker and instead makes it some other menu I forget. And notifications will happily occur on my laptop, computer, iPhone and iPad all at once if I don't catch it at my desk in time. Here's a hint: If you decide to notify my phone, don't notify anything else at that point. No cat picture or CI build notification deserves Def-Con 5 treatment.

But it has themes? And useless giphy integrations? Honestly I don't get the love at all. Form over function at it's worst. I really dislike it. :-p
yep, lets not forget 700mb + executables...
"When Fascism comes to America, it will be called anti-Fascism!"

- Huey Long
As time goes on I get more and more disillusioned with solutions that begin with "why not just write".

Nothing excites me more than having to think about supporting yet another codebase deployed to non-technical people who will undoubtedly cause more bugs than thought possible and open more JIRA tickets about it with increasingly vague title names.

At some point Slack or [integration of choice] is cheaper than having an internal engineering team to write half-baked communication solutions.
All your private correspondences is already fair game to those with the power to silence you, torture you, cage you for life, and worse. Yet there is so much outrage when the general public, which holds little power in comparison, gets a glimpse to the inner workings of the elite (such as mega corporate entities).
DelBene returns to Microsoft to strategize opportunities
Facing the Nameless
"3D charts require a web browser and system that support WebGL" :(
Meanwhile, in the DC Metro Area, parents are being charged with neglect for letting their 6- and 10-year old children walk home alone.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/maryland-coupl...
Новое введение – семейный день
Immutable Infrastructure: Networks
To piggy back off this, some are easily able to go out and find a job after a failed startup, but it strongly depends on your skill set and where you live. Programmers in the Bay Area - easy, founders outside the US - this could be much more difficult, I don't know. What I do know is that doing a job search in a tough market after a failed startup, with no money and bills due, can be even more draining and depressing than seeing something you were so passionate about fail.

I don't want to get you down, but want to encourage you to look for the option that is best for you (the OP suggested starting another startup, if you can as well). It may be hard right now, given your emotional state, but if you are the type of person that has always been able to find creative solutions to problems (or ways to do things better) no matter what you are working on, then have confidence in yourself that you can add value by doing this in whatever you decide to do next.

As far as what to do next then, start small. Look for the easiest/lowest risk way to make $1. If it's manual labor - mowing lawns, cleaning houses, whatever, then go do it. You'll rebuild your confidence in doing this, and if you believe you are a creative problem solver (most founders are), you will see new ways to do your work as you go about it. You will also figure out new ways to scale, and build a business. It won't be an easy path, but you will start to feel better about yourself almost immediately, and that's what's most important.
I guess if you are trying to use Light Table as "the uber clojure IDE" then it was never a goal for Light Table. Intellij Cursive is probably a better editor for that. Light Table's aim was for a form of interactive programming. Anyway, using an editor as an end user is very different to just playing around with its source code, although I applaud that you have done that. I will look into "Self" some more as I don't know enough about it. Do you have some good links on Self to get me started?
I can only speak about Greek. That doesn't work very well there because many times a word is accented depending on its role in the sentence or its grammar (and via versa).

So if you just apply automatic spell-correction, you have to proof read it afterwords, which is more of a hassle than accenting it manually -because it's a more cognitive work.

Correct accents in greek matter a lot. Reading incorrectly accented words make comprehending quite a bit painful and slow, my guess is because the brain expects something, receives something else and then tries automatically to make sense of what is trained to know it's wrong, slowing the whole process down.
New xps 13 developer edition 8gb/256gb costs 200$ more than the windows one
I was looking into buying the Dell XPS13 developer edition and as one can see:
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd?ref=PD_OC
going from 128gb ssd to 256gb costs a 400$(949->1349) premium, which I found very surprising. So I checked the windows model as well:
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-9343-laptop/pd?ref=PD_OC
only 1149$, 200$ cheaper + windows license!
I also liked this comment by sillysaurus3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8592888
This is very interesting!

"it could lead to a fully self-powered solid-state image sensor that produces a useful resolution and framerate"

In this case would it be able to output colors?
If your YC funded company engaged in illegal activities, why not?
As these contributions were already made public, nothing has been revealed.
Take some time to think about solutions, and your vision. If you go through all of the possibilities and you cannot figure out a game plan to get you to your goal, then it is time to change. And if you are spending all your efforts on keeping the doors open and have no time for your vision, then your startup is not working. It's okay to take a side job or pay for hire as long as you have time to work your plan. And it is okay to take a break, rebuild your resources, and then pick up your great idea later. This iteration of your project may be over, but if you still believe in your ideas, then they can still succeed. Failure is when you stop trying. Or, maybe better, failure is when you stop moving forward. You can learn from each iteration and make the next better whether you call the previous iteration a failure or not.
> I thought the initial concept of wikileaks was to publish documents that would reveal scandals"

Well. From an early version of wikileaks website:

"Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. Our primary interests are oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to those in the west who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their own governments and corporations."

http://web.archive.org/web/20070114162346/http://www.wikilea...

> Most documents were, at most, of interest to diplomats and historians. But no major scandal came out of these leaks.

What people don't seem to get is that the cables wasn't about the US. But about what every other government where doing with or saying to the US behind their own peoples back. E.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contents_of_the_United_States_d...
You didn't even explain what your company is about, we don't have enough information to asses if you should keep going or not, therefore it's clear you are not seeking for advice on startups but just for support on an emotional and personal issue. I'm from a third country also, so I completely understand your troubles. 2 advices: to be successful, you need to try at least with 3 o 4 different projects, it's very rare to be successful straight away. 2nd, the rules of the game in 3rd world countries (I'm talking LatAm here) are WAY different than what you read in Techcrunch and the like, so don't compare yourself to what you read here. Good luck.
Got acquired, worked there a couple of years, didn't enjoy it. The performance review cycle is a train wreck.
As we go increasingly wireless, we become keenly aware of recharging batteries. Consequence is greater interest in "ambient power harvesting". A device powered by its own sensor's energy input is insightful. What next? keyboards powered by typing? trackpad/mouse by clicking & movement? Screens with an extra sub-pixel for light collection? Smart watch "self-winding"?
25 open-source log monitoring tools for Linux
Sounds like you're against lobbying in general, which is fine, but I'm not sure this is a smoking gun of any wrongdoing. I assume the law was passed through Norway's standard (public) legislative process.
Would web agencies be interested in using outsourcing platforms?
I was wondering if web agencies would be interested in outsourcing high volumes of small tasks, super fast, to a pool of curated experts. What's your thoughts?
Use Facebook's Parse Core in Your Ionic Framework Mobile Apps