skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lean toward he did this at great personal sacrifice.

I agree, but I am not so well informed that I can reasonably exclude all other hypotheses; nor do I think is anyone else so well informed. I don't put a lot of stock in the Snowden-is-a-CIA-operative-kneecapping-the-NSA hypothesis; it's more of a whimsical idea that is amusing to think about. It reminds me of some spy fiction I read years ago by Viktor Suvorov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Suvorov

>If it was a turf war he wouldn't left for China and stuck in Russia.

I'm not sure how that follows. Snowden's wellbeing would definitely be in jeopardy if he had remained in the US, even if he were a CIA operative.
That what he has written, complete with its oracle, and his communication style/content is directly a product of his unusual mental state.

It's notable because he writes the software in ways that someone without his condition would not consider. You can't separate the two.
transcript: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/gmaxwell-sidechains-elemen...
Open-Source Loan-Level Analysis of Fannie and Freddie
But not in S3, or on the CDN, for example.
DHC anyone?
You can actually do that in most modern GUI toolkits. It's usually called something like a WebView widget. See also the Chromium Embedding Framework. None of these talk to a separate running browser, to be fair.
The Birth of Algebra (2000)
> REMOTE OK

This is one big lie, company policy is to bring people to the office.
Your resume lists responsibilities, not accomplishments. I know it might sound stupid given your qualifications and the interest you've had from big boys, but some of these smaller gigs for remote work read the resume differently. Read up on askamanager.org about changing resumes from responsibility- to accomplishment-focused. It could make a big difference for an hour of rewriting.
Interesting, the battery life and management was the only part where I thought it was really good. I never ever managed to drain it even on long days.

I did not do too much, Browser, GMail, Camera, Music. That's it. It crashed on unlocking quite often. I'd get a black screen and the small rotating logo would appear. After the OS was back again it needed a reboot as no app would start up again in this "recovered" state.
Roaming just isn't a practical solution (way too expensive) but neither is this. Honestly swapping out SIMs between country isn't too difficult of a task, and likely saves you a ton of money when compared to roaming or this "borderless SIM." Lots of countries go with cheap prepaid options anyways.
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Hiring developers South Africa, Cape Town.
Web, software, database developers.
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Subjectively most British adults are frighteningly passive to surveillance and seem oblivious to losing privacy rights, I would not want British people to create the Magna Carta of the internet!

Disclaimer, I am British.
Fast arbiters
The article mentions that a funeral director mistyped a SSN, so the SSA does receive bad information from "trusted" sources.

That said, I would presume they ask for a full name, not just a SSN, in the death notice. They don't seem to be verifying that the name more-or-less matches at all. Certainly there are not 12,000 deaths a year where a one digit error in the SSN would lead to another person with the same name.
How Munchery is literally eating the world
This has been done before, with Bluetooth - and it really pissed people off.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/blog/2008/jul/21/bluetoothbl...

http://www.cityware.org.uk/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23665490
This seems nice. I'm a fan of outliners.

I like your font and the general feel of the application. It does feel like Workflowy.

It's missing some of the features of https://checkvist.com which is a more fully functional outliner tool then Workflowy. Checkvist is also focused on being 100% keyboard driven.

Also checkout http://www.moo.do/. It's a more innovate approach then the other solutions.

I'd recommend adding some inline help for the keyboard shortcuts.
> How are they not locked into the 'silo' of FirefoxOS and the FirefoxOS APIs? If the answer is that the apps are 100% web standards compliant then users already have web browsers that can run those apps without needing to use FirefoxOS, so what is the point of FirefoxOS for users?

Because the other platforms don't support all of the standards developed by FirefoxOS, and will have no incentive to implement them without competition. Basic economics.
Here is how to see the point of Go:

Open the rosettacode web site. Choice any algorithm you are familiar with. Place Go version and Java version. Compare the number of words and lines.

Compare the Maven hell with how Go solves the same problems.
Can you recommend any specific resources that helped you get a handle on org?
I played lemmings on my HP48SX... it worked fine :)
Good. Session types are not the only approach to typing interaction, although probably the simplest.
That's where locking down the branches and preventing rebases comes into play. It prevents someone from accidentally doing what you describe.

Most people only know github and I don't think they expose this locking feature in their UI which is a shame.
You can definitely get vertically scrolling launchers on Android.
Quantitative easing is evil
> How are they not locked into the 'silo' of FirefoxOS and the FirefoxOS APIs?

FirefoxOS is fully open source, while the Google platform is not. At the very least, that provides an environment where the source code for all the official supported platform is Free Software, which isn't true for Android.

This means that all users could share the same experience without depending on proprietary software (except maybe for drivers and BIOS specific to the hardware platform).
I haven't had a chance to try reverse engineering the APIs, but on the surface nothing has changed with the accessibility framework, which means we're not going to get much progress towards better window management.
Thanks for sharing, I have lot to read now.
> It's no different than saying which inputs are passed to a function.

In that case, why isn't it just (more or less) equal in syntax to a function call?

Why do I need to build a graph, where a functional language would just let me build it implicitly.
New Window. Right click on a bookmark folder. Open all bookmarks.
He is referring to the lack of guards in your header files(#ifdef NAME, #define NAME, #endif). That will prevent the preprocessor to include the file twice so your compiler can be happy.
Not to be confused with VTEC...
#2 and #3: That is probably fine, the thing that really struck me was that it wasn't clear what the user should do when they visit the link they were given.

Only time I visit Brum is to fly somewhere from the airport, so no! Name came from a favourite sweet when I was younger and it was also the name of a great cartoon in the 70s.
Their LoadBalancer is IPv6 only in EC2 Classic which is being deprecated.
Yes, the Feel At Home from Three UK feels like the future!
The experience is very, very good - invisible.

Assuming you are visiting one of the 16 destinations they cover, you don't need to do anything. No signups, no opt-ins, nothing. You just go and use your phone like you would in the UK.

I also never felt that they were throttling the connection in any way, but I never really tested this.

Plus you don't even need to be on a monthly plan, any PAYG has all the same benefits.

Edit: Added reference to PAYG.
I just checked the first 5 C tutorials the showed up in Google and non of them talked about code organization in anything but the most superficial sense.
> Cross-platform portability obviously isn't their goal.

As someone who runs a couple of obscure platforms, I swear every time I have to use a non-Autotools project. Autotools may be slow and may check for seventeen different fortran compilers even if your project never uses fortran, but portability-wise it simply works.
How depressing is it for us in the US that the Indian tax code is simple enough that someone can "show HN" a tax calculator.
I like to think that the unwritten rule of the fed is to print as much money as possible without having inflation. As long as there is no inflation they are creating wealth out of thin air that benefits us all.
>> In my culture, this would be insulting because it would suggest being distant from family, in the sense that the son ought to believe his parents wealth is his also, and later willingly contribute his earnings when his parents need anything. It is a difference in the degree to which individualism is the norm.

This is very interesting, and brings to mind something I've been struggling with recently (I'm USA-ian by the way). As a father I want to instill in my children a sense of self reliance, a sense that they can go into the world and make their own way, and be successful, without my help. In my world view, that is the best gift I can give them.

I personally come from a background of rural poverty, my parents weren't able to help me at all financially, but growing up working shoulder to shoulder with my father on the (meager) family farm taught me the value of hard work and thrift. Which I think have served me well (I am clearly biased).

So, from that angle, I don't want my children to see my wealth as their wealth, or my success as their success. I would like them to view my success as the result of hard work and perseverance, and an example of what they can achieve, indeed, they can achieve more.

I post this merely as an example of my thought process, which is evolving. I can see how there is value in what you relate here. So thanks to you in a non-distancing sense :)
Do you store any other data other than typed in, like IP, browser, etc?
I've had the same experience, AT&T works very well though.

I just got back from the US to a message that said:

Great news! You’ve saved £1,489.55 over the last month while using your phone abroad...

Why they wouldn't improve the UX for such an amazing feature isn't hard to figure out...
The Startup 'SaaS Army Knife' Infographic
It's in the mainline B2G repo, so you should be able to follow the instructions at https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/b2g to get a build. Use `./configure.sh aries` to configure for the Z3C. Other supported devices include the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5.

https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/B2G/blob/47113646d3d1692a267c...
I meant Tolkien may have originated the term "fell beast", not "fell" in general.
I think the standard was to be paid on the 1st and the 15th, but you could opt for one monthly pay check if you had trouble saving for rent with the twice a month schedule.

I never really thought about it. Are weekly or monthly that much more common?
Supporting IPv6 doesn't necessarily mean IPv6 exclusively. Also, there's always tunneling. Hacky, but it might be the stick that is needed to whip people into actually using IPv6.
It's on github and compiles to an .exe and a .scr.. but ther is a buffer overflow on on of the building geometry generating routines that I had to add a check to , to get it to build under free vs2013.
TSA's failures start long before screeners fail to detect bombs
Why the Ubuntu developer portal moved to DjangoCMS
Big telco silences researcher with DMCAs after he exposes JavaScript injection
AppNexus Launches the Age of Bring-Your-Own-Algorithms for Ads
Crowdsourcing translation of Gettext projects with open source PyBossa
I assume there are other students in his classes. Care to explain them?
I was thinking to catch errors which could crash the program. Actually you should install a signal handler for SIGFPE to take care of this.
Happy to be Here
Another option would be to use the language called "R". I'm fairly new to it but its pretty much a programming language for math. Lots of libraries. Great programmatic graphing capability (ggplot2). Easy to dump file data into it.

In my lab a lot of biologists run there data with it. I think something like 80% of the graphs they publish are created in it. Better then excel in my opinion.

R, and Rstudio is what I've been using.
The app can support IPv6 while not actually using it for communication. This would be a matter of allowing people to enter IPv6 addresses, websites, e-mail addresses, etc; logging, and displaying IPv6 addresses rather than hard-coding IPv4-only approaches, etc. Basically, prepare your app so that if your backend supports IPv6, your app already does.

It would be bigger news if iOS 9 required all apps to support not having access to IPv4.
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I doubt that is something that Apple consider to be their problem: what the developer chooses for their back end is their business. If the relevant parts of AWS don't support IPv6 then developers will have two choices:

1. Use some sort of v6-to-v4 proxy service

2. Or chose another system for their backend

Given that Apple are apparently using AWS as part of their iCloud, I suspect it won't be an issue though. Perhaps Apple know that Amazon will be rolling out appropriate changes in a timescale sufficient that they can be reasonably sure there will be no problem?
Certainly in Norway and Sweden I've never even heard of anybody being paid on any other schedule than once a month (normally on the 25th). Until right now it never really crossed my mind that people with 'regular' jobs would get paid any other way.
I enjoy them. I still can't tell if this one is real or intended as humor. That's fascinating to me.
Comcast is going for a pure IPv6 core network, they are currently at 60% of their customers getting an IPv6 address of some sort (cable modem or even cable box).

T-Mobile's network is IPv6 as well. Especially for customer devices that support 464XLAT: https://sites.google.com/site/tmoipv6/464xlat

There is a LOT of support for IPv6, and many companies like Facebook are finding that IPv6 actually offers better performance end to end for their users.

Take a look at this NANOG presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfjdOc41g0s
Why a Tech Bubble Might Not Be as Bad as It Seems?
You missed the bit:

> That day, I made the mistake of telling him, in English, “Thank you for inviting me” before leaving his house, realizing the import of my words only after they had left my mouth. He didn’t respond, but I saw his expression turn sour. He was filled with disgust. I couldn’t even apologize for thanking him. The damage was done.

So of course, implicit debt and duty is great because of the closer ties. On the other hand, you run into the risk of hurting people and breaking those ties quite easily by simply talking about it.

That's not a scenario that would happen by mistake in ordinary condition, only when foreign influence is put into the mix. In a multi-cultural context, the American way seems a bit more robust to mistake.
AKA money exchange transactions
Remembering a Stranger, Celeste Torres Victoria
Ask HN: How do you challenge yourself?
I am serial beginner in lots of fields, so from time to time I try to challenge myself, this time I am going to challenge myself by building marketplace in 10days.

So how do you challenge yourself?
How Washington keeps states from regulating Internet providers
How the English language became such a mess
And where does your data get paid for?
If you're acute, and prescribed physical therapy but can't stand, it's not going to work either though. There's no problem with being on opiods for a short period of time to relieve the pain, and allow you to take on a proper course of physical therapy, and get the exercise and movement you need.
Hacking “Chutes and Ladders” using R
I'm not from the US, and I've never heard of anyone paid biweekly, that's why I found it weird.

According to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics, it's actually the most common schedule over there: http://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-3/how-frequently-do-priva...
https://www.livecoding.tv/
Like most things, it depends. In the USMC infantry the general orders are pretty relevant to daily activity (all the way up to Sgt), so practical application reinforces the learning. I can still rattle off the definition and justifications of deadly force in a single breath, and its been 10 years since I did any interior guard duty. I had to do some scripting in perl 4 years ago, maybe 10% of the day for a year, and I don't remember much of it aside from the shebang at the top and the *.pl file extension.
To be a scientist you need to know how to research, thing that takes a minimum of 4 years with the supervision of a senior professor. Also your results need to be reviewed by other researchers... And even with all this process in place many times we make mistakes... so imagine what can I tell you about an acupunturist.
Event Horizon Telescope could take the very first picture of a black hole
>REST, in the form coined by Roy Fielding, is actually almost the opposite of what "RESTful" means today

Doesn't matter. Real world usage defines words, not original intended meaning or etymology.
Wow, cool. I love Cape Town, and think it's awesome that there are tech companies trying to make it work there!

One question: when I was staying in Cape Town, there wasn't a lot of broadband infrastructure to speak of. I and my hosts all used cellular modems to get online. I didn't know anyone with a wired connection. The cell tower near the flat would go down between 5-6pm every weekday as people returned home from work and overwhelmed it.

How does a web software company deal with this? Do you lease a line and rent a datacenter? Do everything on the intranet and push when you can?
So, a more succinct Java, that can't leverage the JVM ecosystem? Why is that better than Scala, which can also be more succinct than Java, but can leverage the JVM ecosystem?
great! could you explain in detail why you want to replace MOC:

"The redesign allowed us to completely remove the Qt Meta-Object Compiler (moc) system. Moc is a code generator and did not support many aspects of C++ including templates, complex data types, static type checking, and relies heavily on string comparisons. Removing moc improves run time performance, reduces the complexity of the build process, and allows more issues to be detected at compile time."
Not sure if it's changed now but https://medium.com/@STRML/ending-jsxhint-1c09ed36cca9.
noprocrast is done through user/cookies, I have it enabled but will sometimes switch into a logged out browser to continue reading.
certificate signing is free. always has been. it's the app store part that costs you.
pretty obvious that they don't actually like what they are doing

Not to get into a debate, but there are tons of people who don't like what they are doing. But they are still good at it. Sure they may not be truly happy, but they are good at what they do even if they don't like it.
Ask HN: How does Metal from Apple affects OpenGL's future?
This is related to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9684066
(5) in the list, over and over and over again. Started up nine years ago when I was 22, and my 20's are a meaty blur of distressing situations, all of which fundamentally stem from trying to fulfil the often conflicting needs of staff, investors, clients, and all the rest. I care about people being happy, far, far too much. Many telephones died brutal deaths to bring you this message.

The outcome is that I have nil joie de vivre, and have become a dour old fuck at the ripe young age of 31. I've gone from boundless enthusiasm and optimism when we started, even though we are now finally coming into our own and running the business less like asshats, to viewing the world through crap-stained glasses.

It's cost me friendships, relationships, my health, my sanity, and pretty much everything else that's actually worthwhile in life.

I suppose I do at least still have enough introspection and perspective to realise that it's not as bad as my wounded instincts lead me to believe, but it's a never-ending struggle to consciously adjust my perceptions.

If there's any moral to this story, it's to learn to not give two craps about other peoples' happiness as early as you can, and to learn to clamber over people and stamp on their faces to achieve your goals. Unfortunately, I can't get behind that ethic, so am doomed to forever feel that I'm letting people down - thanks, negativity bias, you sod.
Canada poised to pass draconian anti-terror legislation
Frankly I see this as specifically why they offer iAd for App developers - they (apple) control it so they can ensure it still respects user privacy (i.e. not using your previous history to build a "profile" about you and while showing you ads).

They know that without it, app developers would just use one of the "for profit" ad networks (i.e. a network whose primary profit base is serving ads, in comparison to iAd which possibly doesn't even break even?).

While I would love for Apple to have some kind of "block tracking sites" in Safari, I doubt it's likely to happen as a a first-party option. Safari 9 for OS X and iOS seems to have better support specifically for content-blocking extensions, so hopefully something like Ghostery or similar will be available for iOS later this year.
As I see for Atom.io there is something similar: https://atom.io/packages/hydrogen
RSchema-Hamster: Schemas for shaping immutable data
let me see if i can find a shit to give about that...
My first reaction was the same as many comments below. "He made a poor choice and now doesn't want to take responsibility."

But...

I was talking to my sister the other day, who just graduated from an Ivy League school. All her life she's been in accelerated programs with other well-to-do kids. I realized that she has always interacted with people with above average intelligence, above average connections, above average wealth. I'm betting that many HNers have at least one of those privileges. The overwhelming majority of people do not.

Over time I see a recurring theme: that people who are uneducated and poor are so easily taken advantage of. I've seen single moms lease $30000 SUVs for 600 a month. People who, after work, sit in front of the television and spend -all their money on the weekends.

The world makes it so easy to fuck up. I always have to remind myself, a person with the single privilege of above average intelligence: what is obvious to me is not obvious to others. Yes, books are ubiquitous and cheap. Yes, people should know what they are signing up for. Yes, debts should be paid. But perhaps these things some of us take for granted as simple realities are not so obvious for an overwhelming majority. It is not their fault.
As others have pointed out - which they can do anyway because they own the entire operating system and application runtime.
I'm curious about how memory management would work. Swift has rejected garbage collection in favor of ARC.
Parse was acquired by facebook more than two years ago (April 2013), so they had to plan it for a long time then.
Useful Gmail Filters for GitHub Users
I believe we were studying Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" at the time. Now that I think about it, it was probably more like 10th grade.

But it was an informative exercise, as I've since found that many good ideas also fall into this category along with all the nutty ones.
Ask HN: Startups and health insurance?
Moving to SF to work with static web tech in a startup (netlify.com) is a dream come true.

But one thing that I'm totally unfamiliar with is health insurance. I'm from Denmark and we simply don't have any. So any and all advice is very welcome.

My wife, 7-year-old daughter and I are looking for good insurance, where the deductible isn't huge. Is this possible without going bankrupt before we get started?

I've seen a few of these threads, but all seems to be several years old, so thought I'd make a new one, with Obamacare and whatnot happening in the last few years.