skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, yes. Another little piece of comp.lang.* lore: the expression "Bullschildt" was not invented for nothing.

See also his annotated version of the official C standard, which at the time it was published contained not only Schildt's comments but also the complete text of the standard itself. The standard was available from the international standards bodies for a small fortune, yet the annotated version was available in bookshops for a modest fraction of the cost. It was widely speculated that the difference in price reflected the value added by Schildt's comments.
Wikipedia is a serious website, for the most part.

But at times I think some people take it a bit too serious and that's a net loss.

If nobody gets hurt or slandered and the content is legal you might simply tag it as 'non-noteworthy' but leave it anyway, as long as it is true and might be of use to someone some day.

Digest users of WP could simply strip such articles automatically.
Oren Michels on APIs, Platforms & Profit (video)
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Great advertising for kickstarter!

I'll bet you they will get more out of this than diaspora in the long run.

There is an interesting Jewish sub-theme to all this, Diaspora being obviously a term with a strong connection to the Jewish faith, most or all of these four are from Jewish heritage and Zuckerberg himself is too.
>>But UTF-8 has a dark side, a single character can take up anywhere between one to six bytes to represent in binary.

>What? No! UTF-8 takes, at most, 4 bytes per code point.

I thought each half of a UTF-16 surrogate pair used 3 bytes in UTF-8, but it turns out that this is an incompatible modification of UTF-8 called CESU-8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CESU-8
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Is it necessarily wrong? I looked at it for a second too long before clicking... and while I'm sure it's a typo, I think it does work out if you understand it to mean "contains everything, including the A4"
that guy drank too much of the Web 2.0 naming coolaid

That would be "Horsedick.MPEG" from the movie Miss March. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_March
I used TeamBox a short while a few months ago, but switched to Pivotal Tracker, and haven't looked back. My opinion is that PT is excellent for development teams (or even solo developers).
Choose Your Raincoat
Take a look at these raincoats, maybe you’ll find one that soothes you perfectly.
Back in the day, us kids used to just make groups devoted to someone. I guess now Fan pages are more appropriate.
Rapid wireframe sketching in google
Hidden Standard C++ "Lambda" (Goes-to) Operator
Admitting he/she doesn't normally bother to read points in entirety - upvoted.

Ignorance is bliss.
>You do realize 'Google' is a corruption of 'googol', right? :)

... to go even more meta, "googol" is a corruption of "google" - as the name was suggested by Kasner's (the mathematician) nephew. It was the last name of Kasner's newphew's favourite comic character, Barney Google.
Last time I tried BitBucket it just didn't work over my employer's http proxy. Googled it and it was some unresolved issue back then, lots of people had the same problem.
Guido’s Python: Objects 101
Ruby would be great as well, even though Eclipse's ruby support is not the best among IDEs. Maybe this could encourage this situation to change it.

Not sure if you already implemented it, but from the video it feels you click a lot when navigating through the uml graphs. Showing all nodes on the uml graph within a distance of 2 or 3 (depending on the ammount of nodes) would make it less clicky. Not to mention that a node on its own not really useful.

Grats on the very nice tool.
In 2.6 you can use: "from __future__ import unicode_literals". Use b'...' to get a str() instance instead of a unicode() object after that.
Before coding... Think
It doesn't seem to be a simple process like a bug that lets you in. You have to have complete control of the device and load software onto the phone. The video is over an hour and moves very slowly, I didn't watch the whole thing but I think that's the gist of it.
The problem with MBAs is that they think you can only learn what a typical MBA program teaches in business school.

I learned everything that the authors learned in business school managing my own successful open source project. And I didn't have to take a loan out.

So to all those people who are seeking an MBA degree to learn "the business side of things" - start an open source project and try and make it successful. It will be the best learning experience of your life. You will learn more then any MBA from any university. And you'll be 80K+ less in debt.
You know I met some of these guys at the NYU hackathon a few weeks back.

I didn't know they were working on this Diaspora thing at the time.....but the team members I spoke with knew very little about software development and were generally pretty clueless.

Unless the one team member I didn't meet is some crack lead developer I don't see them getting any software built that will actually work well anytime soon.

They've got the traction though......hopefully that will be enough for them to raise more money and pay real developers....lol
Net-Worth Obsession
Bought the eBook version when a friend's iPhone got wedged during an update, and an Apple Store "Genius" recommended proceeding with a reformat, losing hundreds of baby pictures.

Was able to recover 90%+ of the images using the jailbreak/dd/file-carver technique as outlined in the book. So, thanks, "iPhone Forensics"!
Ask HN: Please review my Mac App
I don't want to sound like too much of a jackass here, but do you have any reason to think that other planets are warming? The rhetorical technique of "pose a question without any real backing, then demand proof when someone answers" drives me nuts.
Here is a clue: TechCrunch is a technology reporting tabloid. This article is click bait. Prognostication at this level is no better than picking lint from your navel.
Hello HN,

In my limited spare time I have been working on a small side project, it is an application for Mac OS X called OneWay. To sum it up, it is a contextual FTP, SFTP uploader (upload only) that integrates into the Finder's Context Menu. It allows you to upload any files and folders in your Finder simply by selecting them and right-clicking. You can also easily add frequently used locations to your context menu for future use! And You don't even need the application open!

Basically my goal was to create the easiest possible uploading solution that is light-weight and doesn't require me to open a Terminal. While applications like Cyberduck and Transmit are great, they really offer way more functionality than I need. I found that 90% of the time when I use FTP/SFTP I am only uploading, and secondly I find that I am often uploading to the same places (host, directory).

Of course, there are bugs... But how will I find them if I don't push it out the door already! With that said here are some helpful things to keep in mind.

#10.5 (Leopard) Users#

Unfortunately there are a few known issues for you. Firstly, it is out of my control but your contextual menu items will be added to your Finder under the "More -> OneWay" menu. If you do NOT see them there at all for some reason, please try restarting your Finder. You can do this by opening a Terminal, and typing `killall Finder`.

#10.6 (Snow Leopard) Users#

Your contextual menu items will live in the top level of your Finder menu! Though please note that in order to SEE the menu items you MUST have at least 1 file or folder selected. Also note, that if you add enough menu items, OSX will group them all under the "Services" menu instead of in the top level.

Thanks for checking out my app guys. Please post any feedback or bugs that you find.

Nick
People can make theoretical arguments all day long, but nearly every person that's seen my iPad has been interested in it, hesitantly asked if they could pick it up, then stood there and played with it for as long as they could, usually just saying "wow". Often punctuated with "I'm gonna buy one of these."

If Apple can continue to get these things into the hands of ordinary people (and from reports about how many people are playing with them at their retail stores, they're accomplishing that), they'll continue to sell amazingly well. I've never seen a product sell itself as easily as iPad does, including the original iPod and iPhone.
Schools, companies, ISPs, etc. Probably whoever runs email servers today, it's the same idea (imagine if email were all controlled by Zuckerberg).
How about getting the raw materials like tap water?
Verizon, Google Developing iPad Rival
For you tommy - zer veb is over....
Digg's biggest problem is the cartel that determines what stories will get to the front page. There's an illusion of democracy, but behind the scenes, there are people pumping and pumping to get their content to the front page for SEO purposes.
I'll put up for at least one, but I want them to get to the point where I believe they'll actually complete this.

For now they're kids with good intentions that have landed a 'live one', let's see if they can run with it and have the stamina required for something like this.

10 years ago I would have been much quicker to jump in but I've learned the hard way to be a bit more wary.
Hi,
I participated in Paris Startup Weekend last december. It was amazing, I met very interesting and competent people that I still see today. And best of all I actually built a startup: http://www.submate.com we just launched the MVP 2weeks ago and it's a tremendous experience.
I can assure you that we are now a real startup ! We have been selected at Plugg, The Next Web and Nonick and we are actually raising a seed round.

Startup Weekend is great !! And even better if you understand that everything actually start the next monday morning...

(in my experience, there were more marketing/biz guy than dev and very few designers)
He was even nice enough to proofread this post for me. This was a startup. CJ new that.

Heh.
The classic ways are mental illness, alcoholism, drug addiction, and (quite commonly) all three.
Maybe he only knows Python.

Sorry. Couldn't help it :P I love Python, but there seems to be less commercial demand for it than almost any other language.
Only Old Fogies Hate the New Facebook, Research Suggests
- earthquake

- divorce

- protracted illness

- market conditions beyond your control

- mental problems
I wish a few more people would start something so I could rest my weight against something.
How is that even remotely a lambda?
They should send these immigrants back to where they came from.
Microsoft's Office Web Apps: a Web suite from a company that hates Web suites
I had to look at the item ids to see who wrote that first!
The term diaspora is not exclusive to Jews. Just ask the Irish diaspora, the African diaspora, the Greek diaspora, etc.
I'd like to see such software living on a moderately priced beefed up router. Call it an "information appliance"... It would function both as, a gateway to the internet when you're at home, and persistent store accessible from anywhere. Having it live on top of your firewall would make it easier for low-tech users to make use of such a device.
Planting a Tree, Unix-Style
It's "known to be crap" among the people who already know the language, because of folks like Seebs. That's the point.

It's a little dated now, I suppose, but it may be worth remembering that Schildt's books were very popular at one point. Quite a number of people learned C from that awful book, with no idea how many bad habits they were ingesting.
A well told story about great people. And also a refreshing break to have people who know about Engelbart rather than trying to locate all UI design on a certain infinite loop in Cupertino.
I would have upvoted it on reddit. Here it is just noise that does not contribute.
It'd be kind of possible. Not all of them use liquid materials, but even then, the ones that do look like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwQ5HA8sE-k

Right now, you load the material into the machine with a small crane-like thing. So theoretically, I guess you could hook up piping instead. But that's still a honking big machine, and you'd need a machine that'd be larger than the things you're building with it, really.

I think eventually, it could happen. It's just not going to happen any time soon.

My favorite theoretical material supply scheme is grabbing carbon out of the air and re-configuring it into whatever you're printing with ;)
"I think that we really need to begin to look at who's really homeless - not by choice and by misfortune - and who's really homeless by choice, and have a different solution for the two different populations."

And thus in a nutshell describes the moral hazard of such programs. It's just another situation of balancing a program for those in truly in need and those trying to take advantage of the system. Very difficult to define boundaries.
What bothers me the most is the flash animation with the overview of the steps. What a poor Fitts implementation.
Windows. (And don't even mention Windows POSIX.)
Clearly, in his example, there are people out there willing to sell at $26.10

I am not sure where you are getting this. I don't believe it to be true based on my understanding of the mechanisms involved.
Funky, it uses a firewire exploit.
Agreed.

One small change: use pseudonyms. Plural.
I will definitely use this. Going to install it when I get home [no Mac at work :( ].
True enough, but the Jewish connection really is a fairly strong one, and a large number of people would recognize the word as to be intricately related to the story about the Jewish people being 'scattered to the four winds' after leaving Israel.

I think their Jewish background is what caused them to pick it, not because they relate it to African, Greek or Irish events.
And now they seem to be automatically installing new "search engines" for you in Chrome, with the default keyword as the name of the website. So now, if I type "site:en.wikipedia.org blah" into my Chrome addressbar, it automatically redirects me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=blah&..., instead of sending the query "site:en.wikipedia.org blah" to Google.

You can remove this in "Options->Basics->Default search->Manage". But still, I found this seriously irritating for three reasons:

1. Wikipedia made the (IMO quite sensible) decision to enable "noindex" in talk pages, deletion debates, etc. to prevent random Google surfers from accidentally running across all the libelous/embarassing content and other crap that ends up in project space. Now that stuff becomes more widely exposed agian.

2. I want to search for occurrences of the word/phrase "blah" on Wikipedia, not go straight to page "blah". "Blah" may be a phrase with some meaning, but the Wikipedia page "blah" may be about some idiot garage band or website who chose it as a catchy name for themselves --- and since "Wikipedia is not a dictionary", that page won't have any information about the actual phrase "blah" I'm looking for.

3. I plain old don't like the Wikipedia search interface.
I found it to be pretty interesting.

I tend to fall on Apple's side when it comes to not wanting to be forced to support a technology that it is against. That being said, seeing the CPU usage on these simple HTML5/JS games was a bit shocking - no idea if that is due to sub-standard coding, or if it's inherent in JS, but it seems to blow a hole in the "Flash is a resource hog" argument.

I am wondering if better developer tools for creating graphical HTML5/JS and/or JIT compilation will help with this. Clearly an iPhone is capable of amazing things graphically, but that's all been on the native app side.
even better is the "skip intro" button...
In my experience at the Detroit one marketers/social media people made up the majority. Also IMHO was one of the more poorly planned events that I have been to.
The most important part is when he shows a <canvas> demo running poorly and says something along the lines of "in my day to day work, I can't use this. It won't work as a solution."

The debate right now is one side saying you should use "HTML5" because it's more open than Flash while Flash is buggy, bloated, and proprietary. The other side is saying "I need Flash to give my clients what they want." Just like people started using CSS over table-based layouts when it was pragmatic, people will stop using Flash when Flash stops being the best tool for the job. There's nothing wrong with that.
A simple primer to HTML5-Flash that you can send to non-techies
Yeah, we wrote it in-house. I was speaking with the WordPress team about merging the changes back or something and sponsored a GSoC project for PerformancePress, but they ended up going somewhere else with the GSoC project that I mentored which ultimately failed.
Yet ruby has its own idiosyncrasies, with nil.id evaluating to 4.
Much more valuable than his money is his advice and contacts.
I love how there's the classic old Unix-commandline-sex-joke on the chalkboard in the background of the image.
I'm sure those example files were legally obtained if you're posting them publicly :)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++.moderated/msg/f...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writings_of_Herbert_Schildt#Rec...

"Schildt's books have a reputation for being written in a clear style that is very easy to understand.[10] Their technical accuracy, especially of the earlier works, has been challenged by reviewers, including ISO C committee members Peter Seebach,[11] and Clive Feather,[12] Steve Summit, author of the C FAQ[13], and numerous reviews in C Vu from the ACCU.[14]"

I'm not an expert on C, writing, publishing or proof reading. Over the last twenty years, whenever Schildt's name or books have come up in conversation online or off, there has always been an associated foul odor.

There are so many good books on C, it's just not worth it to waste your time and space on his books.
> Then they proceeded to threaten the country with financial and economic ruin if massive amounts of publics funds weren't transferred to them.

Did they?

From the outside, it looked more like "those institutions are too vital, so we're going to pump money in and tell them how to do things" from govt officials.

Which reminds me - the US financial institution bailout is close to break even with the exception of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (which the Dems insist on pouring more money into - they voted down liquidation early this week). GM and Chrysler aren't even close.
Supreme Court nominee Kagen brought Lessig to Harvard, strong on fair use
Of course! :)
If identica is a relevant comparable, it will be tough for them to get mainstream momentum, but their site will be useful for a certain type of person, which could actually give it an 'identity' and make it at least useful in the nerd niche.

Cute that they got the touch / grep / mount / fsck fsck fsck joke in there on the chalk board.
All I could think when reading the article were they were taking advantage of the system and a lot of peoples hard earned salaries.
The way C++ is parsed, there could be --, > and --> operators...
That's because most people don't understand how easy is to intercept email at the ISP.

In any case, that's A LOT harder than mistakingly making sensitive information public in a social network like Facebook
Python library management with Pip and Virtualenv
sweet, sweet revenge... :)

been fixed. thanks.
I think the writer gives too much credit to mathematicians and too little to politicians. Politics doesn't look the way it looks because politicians are too stupid to understand your counterargument. I'm sure most politicians are well aware of the logical inconsistencies or fallacies in their argument, but more importantly they realize that their arguments and talking points are a means to an end and not an end in themselves and you don't get bonus points for correctness.
It's an odd choice to use a name with such strong historic connotations as opposed to something generic like Yahoo or Google. This might create expectations or alienate some users. And the asterisk is just annoying. But on the other hand, if they are successful the name won't matter one iota.
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The problem as I see it is that it's hard to form rules to discourage bad thinking and practices. It's not like we can imprison people for engaging in stupid arguments. Else, everyone - myself included - would be in prison. Short of such draconian consequences it's hard to find a system of incentives that encourage good thinking in the long run.

It's sort of like the bill being proposed in Congress that would limit lawmakers' ability to be lobbyists. It's a noble gesture but doomed to failure. A congressman wrote the part of the Medicare Prescription Plan that prevents Medicare from negotiating prices of drugs. He's now a $2 million a year lobbyist. If he couldn't be a lobbyist he'd be a 'consultant' or a 'researcher'. It just doesn't work.

The essence of the problem is that it's tough to fight apathy, ignorance, and stupidity. Collectively we are easily manipulated. Look at how many people think Sarah Palin is smart. If you don't tackle the issues of apathy, ignorance, and stupidity then you get the current system and no set of rules is going to change this.

As voters, we need to collectively focus on the qualities of a candidate and not which party they are in. Is the candidate smart? Does the candidate show signs of loving to learn? Is the candidate willing to say something like, "You know what? I'm not an expert in nuclear proliferation. There are lots of them around and I'll listen to their counsel and make a good choice." Is the candidate able to see through bullshit?

We've got it all wrong and in this sense I agree with Gowers. He has a creative solution. In the long run it won't help. Greed, incompetence, ignorance, and stupidity are too rampant.
Well with 2 Fans there's obviously a lot of Brand Building necessary
If the usocket library suddenly disappeared, along with all the current Lisp implementations, there would be no guarantee that someone making a new CL implementation had to implement the library in a way similar to usocket, or even implement a socket library at all. It's the same as saying "everyone uses Emacs to edit Common Lisp, so it's the standard Common Lisp editor".
Yeah, that's what I got to. Summary: the title on this post is completely misleading.
I agree for the most part but some of them really are dumb. It's power, the limelight, and a ego boost that some of them crave and thus are easily manipulated. Definitely, though, it's true that they make bad arguments because it gets them to their goal. It's not because they don't know that the argument is bad, it's because they know the viewing public largely doesn't know this.
I don't know, to me the name was very apt.

A large number of people leaving their 'home'.

I've seen worse metaphors.
From my experience with PPC landers, this is almost certainly the case. Getting someone to click an ad works better if the site is ugly. I am not sure on why but my guess is less distractions and perhaps 'get me the hell out of here.'
1. I really like Singapore's solution to welfare, it's called work-fare. Singapore only gives the homeless help if they are willing to put in work doing -- something, anything. It could be as simple as carrying a brick from one side to another for an hour. The simple fact that they have to earn their meals negates the sour taste of hand outs and yet still allows for the homeless to have a route to take to get back on their feet.

2. As a secondary note, while welfare is unfortunate, what is more unfortunate is that we spend more money on murderers than those with mental illnesses roaming our streets. It is a twisted system where doing a crime towards society is given more monetary reward than simply not being able to fit in.
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