skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm upvoting this because I find reactjs a good development tool and would like to see more of those articles. That said, the article only explain a simple case that is not a real world scenario. Others have commented on this issue in the comments.
Just stay away from industries benefitting from production of nuts&bolts?

That ones work might be re-purposed for nefarious purposes is not an argument against attempting to avoid industries where nefarious use is the purpose of the work.
Oh, you fell for the old man-eating toaster trick.
Just because "Agile" has been coopted by consultants, doesn't mean that the agile manifesto isn't a worthy axiom to organize by.

Minimum Viable product just means get things into customer hands early and get feedback, and refine.

Continuous deployment means build quality verification into your process and automate it.

These aren't buzzwords this is where modern software development at any serious software company is small and large. These are not fads, these are evolutions. If you don't see that, I don't see a lot of promise in the rest of your career as you will only be able to find work at old-guards that are not working on anything meaningful or significant.
Triage being the keyword, right? There is no promise it will be implemented just because users want it, or am I wrong and triage means something else for you?
I do think it matters where and how you store your data, but I really like how he puts it simple, is not a battle between to opposing sides, simply there is a need for a data store that is not that structured, it is much simplier to prototype and achieve an mvp with a NoSQL Storage, but once you are in the real world you need to provide some type of guarantee to your users, in terms of data integrity.

In my opinion everybody needs to understand the differences and use each when it is the most convenient, use the best tool for the right job.

But maybe we will start to see some type of mixup between this two systems, because as he mentions in the article, OpenSource is driving the future of the databases, and due to this, the databases of the future would be more dynamic and more synchronized to the needs of the developer.
I hope this is sarcasm because otherwise it is ridiculously short-sighted and naive.
So in my scenario, the public would finance most of the insurance company's defense if I lost?
Advice for a new freelance iOS developer?
Hi,

I'm an iOS developer who also has significant Java and DB skills and I've deployed 5 apps to the App Store over the years.

I want to try my hand at freelance iOS development and would like some advice about doing so:

1. What are the best ways for a new freelance iOS developer to advertise?

2. Do you bill by the hour or by project or both depending and are those rates the same regardless of complexity or do you charge more depending on complexity?

3. What sort of things does your contract cover?

4. How do you handle disputes? You build it as per the requirements and the customer then decides they don't like it?

5. What do you do for artwork like splash screens and springboard icons? Customer brings there own or you sub-contract to a graphic designer and bill client for that?

6. Do you provide any "shakeout" period during which the client can come back with bugs and get them fixed for free or is it once they take delivery, any bug fixing etc. are new charges?

7. Do you offer any sort of ongoing support for apps for a fee?

8. Any other advice or tips you can offer?

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!
That doesn't really prove much for this particular case though, other than a mob with pitchforks is combing through is history.
Where in the world are there no patents today and that also has any significant positive impact on society

Due to the Berne convention, we don't get to have that comparison. Although lots of people argue that China's weak enforcement of non-Chinese IP has had rather a positive influence on their industry.

There's a good history of patents and cartelisation in "Information Feudalism" http://www.amazon.co.uk/Information-Feudalism-Owns-Knowledge...
Sweden. Not UK.

You don't get to impose words that trigger you without historical contortions on the rest of us. Please understand that. Comparison 'retard' to hate crime and racism is just obnoxiously weak and reeks of modern privilege.
Bought a pair at http://www.zennioptical.com/

Measured the PD myself, totally worth it
Well, you're not helping by reinforcing the idea. People in general don't like people who get rich randomly (or as good as), because it's unfair (so it triggers the anti-cheat response), and yet, it's needed. So we should be careful of the bias, and I think it'd be all the better if the occupation was taken by people who care about the definition of their occupation. The hate on traders is a feedback loop leading nowhere.
It is a low level language, it is blazingly fast and powerful if you use it correctly.

It is also badly designed and disliked as far as I can tell just about universally in every aspect as a language. Objective C is also blazingly fast and powerful if you use it correctly but not everyone wants to. It isn't about not knowing it has access to bitwise operators.
I'm only saying that when engineers discuss how they are affected by their work environment, they should keep perspective on the actual value they provide to their employer, which is not equivalent to what and how much they produce on a daily basis.
WordLens was an awesome app and it's good to see that Google is continuing the development.

The new fad for using the 'deep' learning buzzword annoys me though. It seems so meaningless. What makes one kind of neural net 'deep' and are all the other ones suddenly 'shallow' ?
I remain active on both (along with reddit and Ars Technica too). I see value in each community's ways of doing things, and it doesn't bother me one bit that Slashdot's editors have bias, so long as they're transparent about it when posting opinions which tends to be the case.
So, will you be the one fixing this bug?
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_win...

:->
A possibly relevant research paper that they didn't mention: "Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network" http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02531
Coming Soon – AWS Device Farm Support for iOS Apps
This seems like practically the archetype of the current events story the guidelines ask people not to upvote. Please join me in flagging it off the site.
Stop CISA: Join EFF in a Week of Action Opposing Broad Surveillance Legislation
Link goes to s/retard/git/ commit

Where is the issue mentioned in the title "threatens tonshut down"?
I guess that you nave never been to a demoscene event then (or it doesn't count as a hackathon in your book).
Lots of chance that there are teams there working in frenzy to finish their demo in time while across the table others are busy boozing till they drop (accompanied by the requisite loud banter).

If a team really need quiet time at such an event, they usually retire to (the basement/a hotel/someone's garage/a coffeeshop).

And no, they don't just hack software demos at such events, I've come across (noisy) 3D printers, pinball tables, slot machines, robots in many sizes and shapes, RC racing cars, drones, you name it.
So then what are you saying? Wearing comfortable large headphones with quiet ambient noise and active noise cancellation causes you pain in your inner ear?
Same here, we're using CouchDB to get offline data on mobiles.
It's quite ranty, seems the author didn't really do much research - in this thread there are several promising classical only streaming services mentioned -

http://www.contraclassics.com
http://www.idagio.com
http://composed.com

Composed look like they will be doing a good job - https://composed.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0hpm5/

The recommendation engines on Spotify, Tidal etc are usually rubbish for anything, so I'm not surprised it's the same for classical.

I've found Youtube to be the best place for more niche music, and their recommendation engine is pretty good. Sure it's not super high bitrate but does the job for me. Ads are the only annoyance.
That is one of the main reasons that I stick to firefox and safari for my browsing needs. The extra battery goes a long way (and chrome's poor tab handling).
Scaling Tapstream
The central mistake of the second half is this:
“Vision 1: CONNECT KNOWLEDGE, PEOPLE, AND CATS. This is the correct vision.”

He conflates computing with the Web, and argues that the Web is fine just the way it is; it just needs to be spread more widely. As if there aren’t plenty of people already trying to do exactly that.

What he ignores is that computing is an expression of human creativity. Like literature and music, you take it into a context that it wasn’t written for, and it rarely produces a desirable response. As long as computing is relevant, we will need new software.

The last 100 years of computing machines have proven that this still applies. A web based on ad revenue is no good in an area with poor electricity infrastructure and low bandwidth, so the famous M-Pesa has a completely different interface and different software than Wells Fargo Online® Banking.

The article/talk has some good points, but they aren’t connected together in a good way.
Civcraft in a Time of Peace
Reddit is going to have a field day
No, that's crazy.

This is another reason not to bill hourly: it forces you into a mindset where you start accounting for things like individual emails.

Bill daily or weekly, and raise your rates to the point where you don't have to count beans to provide decent customer service.
Nice try Monsanto.
Still not very much content - not sure if this was worth posting yet
Truck firm wants to deploy delivery drones on the move
You can make a ADS-B receiver for less then a hundred dollars using a SDR and Raspberry PI.

http://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/build
Insightly How-To: Easy Automatic Contact Merges
> They don't do anything for visual distractions

Until recently I was sat next to someone who not only drummed on the desk and with his feet but spent half the day twirling around on his chair like it was a damned fairground ride. Since moving to a new desk, my office life is much less tense and I'm a lot more productive.
Hey, Brandon here—I'm the founder of this project! Just saw the incoming link and thought I'd pop over. Happy to answer any questions!
> what do I do from here?

It's time to power network. Start attending local/regional linux meetups. Introduce yourself to the fellow attendees, try to be helpful, make friends.

Incidentally, this is where you'll hear about 'hidden' job opportunities. Say a contact realizes you know your stuff. He thinks you look normal-- he'll be more likely to refer you a hiring executive in his network who could use someone with your skills/background.

Check out Linux meet-ups--find one, get it on your calendar & go asap> http://linux-user-group.meetup.com/
I'm equally outraged by bullfighting in Spain, don't worry.

I should probably be similarly outraged by killing animals for food, but there's something about it being done purely for entertainment that is particularly sickening.
The closest you could probably get right now is editing cue files. Years ago, I would group together certain series of Pink Floyd songs when I converted to mp3.
The dentist lured Cecil onto private land from a national park to shoot it. It's illegal to shoot animals from national parks and he was inside the park when they lured Cecil out. He was a part of that. And then he shot it.
I don't care if he had permits to kill animals on private land when what he did was take an animal from public to private land. It would be kind of like scanning a computers ports, then hacking to it and bricking it, get caught and claim that scanning the ports is legal so the rest should be too.

He should be extradited to Zimbabwe to face the criminal charges brought against him.
Last time I checked, iOS has about 14% market share, while Android has 79%... Especially for something meant to be by proximity only, you'd want the highest chance of it being on the phones of people nearby... heh. Instead, this gets released on iOS only. Good luck with that.
I have moved my small apps to Dokku on digital ocean

Process was quite smooth, simply by replacing git remotes

https://github.com/progrium/dokku
Well, if all it cares about is looks...
Microsoft hasn't made any changes to Minecraft yet, have they? The login and authentication servers are still on Amazon, right?
Another example of security not being taken seriously. The proliferation of IoT devices could end up being a disaster if security isn't a primary consideration in their development.
React – Flux – Reflux – impure functions create fragile applications
Why the fear over ubiquitous data encryption is overblown
The Perfect Storm Colleges have not Prepared you for and How it can be Prevented
Acceptable by whom? It's a privately owned service, not a democratic platform.
Thanks! Yeah, we're storing IDs and we're already using a bucket. Thinking about it now, it doesn't seem so daunting. :)
The Red Herring of Digital Backdoors and Key Escrow Encryption
For the most part i agree with you, but there is another aspect.
I grew up hunting, and for the most part, I'd characterize the hunters I knew growing up as ardent conservationists (look at the work of duck unlimited), and those hunters would view killing a species under pressure or of conservation value as unconscionable. Point is, most hunters want to see the species that they hunt to thrive - this is the antithesis of that.
The definition you gave appears to be from Merriam Webster [0]. This is a good starting point, but it's crucial to note that the word "censorship" predates the modern web, with publicly read-write websites. So the word publish [1] has been radically altered as well. As for publishing, have a look at the MW examples: they all cite books or magazines. That's an old conception of publishing that clearly needs to be updated.

And censorship is intimately tied to that definition.

1. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censor
2. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/publish
This is a cached copy. The Washington Post pulled the original shortly after it was published.

The original link was here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-need-for-ubiquit...
What 30 Classic Games Can Teach Us about Security
Virtual environments doesn't work for the interpreter itself. Not only that some of the packages will need to build c extensions and they use different versions of the same library which might break.
The same tools, if they want. jsfunfuzz has been privately available to other browser vendors for some time (although possibly not the latest version?).
Who that car is following and how long the spend sitting at red lights (or in traffic leaving a light) would likely have a larger effect. If you have enough data points you can reliably correct for it but there's still gonna be exception cases like the industrial area that's polluted during the day and the adjacent down that the wind blows the pollution to at night (Google doesn't drive street view cars at night AFAIK).

I don't know how much Google takes season into account when routing street view cars but areas with a tourism industry would be cleaner in the off season and colder areas will be dirtier in the winter (more fuel used for heating, less trees). Also something that could be accounted for...
Unless the democratic DPRK uses more terrorism against us.
that announcement is phony ;)

seriously though, twillio is a great product, cheers to them!
> They stop doing it when I tell them to knock it off

Oh, I wish what you said was true. It's funny because they didn't do that when I was on an older version of Ubuntu (11? 12? I forget). It just kept popping up and telling me to update no matter what I did. Stuff like this: http://askubuntu.com/q/218755
Yep, VirtualBox + CentOS and go nuts. Don't waste your money buying a separate computer, and don't waste your time trying to dual boot or removing Windows and using Linux full time.
I've never had much of an inclination to hunt myself, but I know a guy who periodically makes hunting trips in Africa. According to him the meat is usually given to local villagers. They also target older males in the group to give younger males the chance to mate. I have no idea if any of that happened in this particular hunt, though. (I'm also relating this all second-hand, so I can't totally vouch for its accuracy.)
Ikea makes a nice birch tabletop of a similar size and aesthetic:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50106773/
What's going on at Github is rather perverse. And it happens to be around the word "Meritocracy".

Because of the "feels", the word meritocracy is a 'disempowering word'. It makes people with less skill feel 'less valuable'. So the impetus is to raise your skill? No. It's to devalue others who call you on it, or disregard your uninformed opinion.

What this accumulates to is the Github rug in the headquarters. "The United Meritocracy Of GitHub".

As quoted,

"GitHub's Julie Ann Horvath, a designer who also founded the company's all-female lecture series Passion Projects, said the rug first became a problem when photos of it made their way into feminist discussions online.

The tech industry isn’t still predominantly white and male because white men are better at their jobs than everyone else, it’s because many white men have had more opportunities to succeed than their minority and female counterparts."

Yep. Because of patriarchy, meritocracy really isn't. Oh, and throw in a bash to Paul Graham. Because 'patriarchy'.

And of course, there are also allegations that the Feminist Hackerspace DoubleUnion denied a GH employee because of the rug. Some equality, huh?

So, the same cancer that hit Reddit (free speech -> 'safe space') is coming to other companies, unsurprisingly. And we have feminism to blame.
I'm not sure what this lion possesses above everything else, but apparently it's more outrageous to kill it than say a deer or cow.

He was part of a research project. People knew him by name. That alone doesn't make him special than others, but when an animal has a name, it is being tracked, people are working with it etc, then they feel a connection to it. Versus an unnamed animal. We all love our dogs (and other pets) while simultaneously eating pork, drinking milk etc without feeling any sympathy or love for the torture these animals go through in factory farms. Simply because these animals are "out of sight", so we don't feel anything for them (that is why the animal industry fights so hard to make it difficult to film the atrocities - using ag-gag laws etc).

None of the above is to say what we are doing (or not doing) is right. Simply that humans feel a connection to things they know and identify.
>One AP per 5 active devices, give or take.

Probably never heard of professional office routers. You can have several times that.

Even if working in a 100+ person company, all such companies I've been already have all the company wide wi-fi and APs the need, so I don't see why the parent's company couldn't.

As for "ensuring they do proper hand-off as you move around the office", it's much easier with APs than plugging and unplugging ethernet cables -- which was the alternative we were discussing.
"Squeezes" is very relative. These phones are equal to or larger than most desktops 10-15 years ago, back when I was doing AI research with evolutionary computing and genetic algorithms. We did some pretty mean stuff on those machines, and now we have them in our pockets.
Got the reference to the dongle-gate now, and for the record I don't agree on public shaming.

The fact that this got into the HN front page and received hundreds of comments means that some people do care and this is an actual issue(?), censorship or what not.

Which is sort of my point. You never know when your repository will become popular for reasons good or bad, but it will reflect on both the author and GitHub.

GitHub will probably get the flak either way: for censorship if they try to force the author to change it, or they might be seen condoning the behaviour if they do not do anything.

Just an aside. I'd like to think that anything people put on GitHub is going to become somewhat like public record. It will stay there long after the project has been abandoned.
You can go really far with most relational database engines by adding hardware to a single instance instead of adding more instances.

> In the majority of cases I see, people are not dealing with "big data" but think they are.

Spot on. The amount of stuff you can do with a single $2,000 box these days is astounding.
That tiny start buttons and menus are not that tiny, if you have a monitor in front of you. They are tiny only if your real dpi and the dpi that the apps expect do not match. And on the contrary, the controls became huge, wasting ton of space in the Metro/Modern versions.

Metro tiles are OK for simple apps, but you are not going to make CAD or NLE with that. For these apps, you need those tiny controls, ability to cram lot of them into small space and ability to adjust the design to the target intent. Metro tiles won't help you with that.
Documenting REST APIs – a tooling review
What are the advantages of using a neural network over generating classification trees or using other machine learning methods? I'm not too familiar with how neural nets work, but it seems like they require more creator input than other methods, which could be good or bad I suppose.
Done and done. Let's see if they want to make this a policy. https://github.com/renataskyfire/WebMConverter
Hiawatha: an advanced and secure webserver for Unix