skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, I give up. :-) I could continue trying to sort this out with you, or I could just go back to work. Thanks for the advice!
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Great recommendation, but I'd say the torch has been passed to the bona fide Safari extension of the same name:

http://www.math.northwestern.edu/~hoyois/safariextensions/cl...
11 million Dollar Statue of Benazir Bhutto for Flood Ravaged Pakistan
> I suspect you can't beat Java on Eclipse

You can: IntellJ.
Close enough 'shock gate' is funny, phonetically very close to 'socket' right?
...allegedly.
Really, in startup-land it doesn't make much difference in the greater scheme of things. If you have the right idea at the right time, and can execute well, the framework (or lack thereof) is irrelevant. Use what makes you productive - even if it's just PHP. At the end of the day it comes down to experience and personal preference, unless the project has very specific requirements (needs libary x for example).

The only legitimate beef we have as developers is when the choice of tools is not our own. If that bugs you, go and do your own thing.
Yeah, that poor burglar, always breaking into houses which sucks for the people who live there, but consider how hard it is on him! Never knowing for sure how much loot there's going to be, and sleeping bad because you're always afraid the police will come to arrest you! Sure it sucks when your wedding ring is stolen, but he has to endure it in all parts of his life!

Snarkiness aside, being late is not a medical/neurological issue, or something that just /happens' to people. It's a character flaw that only exists because the person who has it doesn't have the will or willpower to change it. It affect everybody he/she interacts with yet through sheer arrogance and self-centeredness, nothing is done about it. No sugar coating on this one - I'm willing to accept that a minority of fat people do genuinely have medical issues, and that dyslectics truly have malfunctioning brains, but for people that are chronically too late, we shouldn't make excuses.

(not meant as an attack, if it sounds hostile it's because I've wound myself up over the this the last two weeks at least a dozen times. People are actually surprised when you're on time, or try to make it to appointments even when there are some minor obstacles! That attitude is so morally corrupt it makes me angry, luckily every now and then I meet someone who's not like this (like this morning) and then my blood pressure can go down again ;) )
Please enumerate some of these "other platforms."

Cannot cite IE (too obvious), or Reader (also Adobe).
Has DHH said anything publicly negative about anyone?
I uninstalled Flash three months ago, and haven't encountered any serious problems. I have Greasemonkey scripts to let me download video from most of the YouTube-like sites.
He is right that acquisitions kill companies, and it is tragic to watch. I admire the romance DHH attaches to his work. You can tell he pours his heart into it.

But he underestimates the benefits of money. Even if "mojito island" is a mirage, having enough money so that you don't have to work again is extremely valuable. You can take long breaks, tour the world, or pursue endeavors that may not necessarily be profitable, such as art, philanthropy, or politics. If you choose, you also have the means to start a new company from a position of comfort and control.

And besides, people often simply get tired of working on the same company and want a change of pace.
Yes, this is a safe search problem. Presumably http://duckduckgo.com/?q=breast+shimming&kp=-1 is what you want.

Edit: FWIW, I fixed this: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=breast+shimming should now work as well.
DDG is actually a hybrid of my own crawling/indexing and BOSS/Bing/others. Additionally, I don't use the others straight up. So for some queries they may look similar and for others they will look completely different.

Wrt to spam sites, DDG often looks a lot different because I maintain a large database of spam sites that I remove from results. I see these crop up all the time in the API feeds I use. It's over 60M in just the main tlds (non country level domains).
Actually I remove tons of spam from the Yahoo, Bing & other feeds.
His real one.
Heh, that's what I mean... Do you guys have a B or C plan? :P
How do I say this nicely? This seems like something written by a 20-year-old, somebody who has worked in academia, volunteer projects, or a startup. Or put another way, somebody from an environment where endless talk prevents work from happening.

In timebox-driven development, every so often you have to produce something of value. So while I've never said STFU to a team, everybody knows that discussion has to start and stop based on the reality of doing something (which the author seems to be big on) Or better yet, the discussion continues all along; the topics and depth of discussion changes as the team moves forward.

Here's a little tidbit: in a corporate situation, once a team starts working at any degree of efficiency at all, the real problem is getting the rest of the business to understand and agree on what the team is supposed to be getting paid for. Lots of work can go into "business alignment" -- getting people on the same page. Technology teams become business decision-support teams. It makes sense if you think about it. Most of the time the real reason something isn't fixed is because people never could agree on exactly what the problem is or how to fix it. To the unaware and impatient, this can certainly seem like "endless talking". In fact it can become "endless talking" -- or not -- depending on the people skills of the team members.

So yes, if I were working on a volunteer team in a startup situation -- a place where there is no immediate customer and both the problem and solution are unknown -- I'd say we have to start putting some code down and getting more of a basis to talk. But I'd never say STFU. I don't know if the author thinks he's being cute or not, but that's just asinine. He's writing an article that applies to 30% of all X, generalizing to the rest of the group, and making sweeping profanity-laced statements in an attempt to drive his point home.

Unfortunately, no matter how many times you say "fuck", how much predicate calculus you use, or how confident you are, you can still screw the pooch by not knowing wtf you're talking about.

I'm not going to get into the whole "context is king" part of this because there's too much to straighten out in this brief format. He's on to something, just draws the wrong conclusion.

This article would have worked better as an "sometimes I get really upset and want to say STFU and start coding!" instead of a "This is reality, get used to it".

If the author is reading, keep the good work coming! Just be careful with generalizations: you can get away with them when you're right for 85-95% of the cases, but in this case it doesn't work.
Cityrail is heavily unionised, to the extent that it's not that rare of an occurrence that you will see staff standing at the ticket machines when you go to buy a ticket to stop you from doing so ( this seems to be their alternative to striking ).

This is in response to wage and staff concerns mostly, and I believe that the fares for the train services at least in Sydney are mandated to be fixed at a certain level unless they pass some kind of bureaucratic process. So, the union won't let the budget slide in the direction of infrastructure spending rather than wages and staff spending, simultaneously the fare fixing keeps the pool of money for the system fairly static.

Thus, infrastructure projects in public transport are glacial / non existent depending on your point of view, for about the past fifteen years I have been hearing about a line being added between Epping and Parramatta that is still yet to be completed, I'm not sure it's even been started.

The fact that the public transport is so bad results in people that really need to keep a tight schedule attempting to minimise their reliance on said system, they'll get a car or move some place very close to their place of work (thus perhaps contributing to the ridiculous rents and real estate prices in Sydney). The less people use it, the less people complain about it, the less reason the tragically inefficient system has to actually improve, and frankly it would probably take the threat of armed invasion to get them to pull their shit together at any rate.
> Having all this functionality available in a single integrated package...

s/available/trapped/

s/integrated/monolithic/

;-)

I think IDEs are useful, yet they always make me think what a bad example of code reuse they are. Code reuse? Are you kidding? Much better rewriting each plugin with each IDE ;-)

EDIT: By "monolithic" I don't mean that IDEs are not modular; I mean you can't use their modules elsewhere.
'Stereotyping' is just a way to extrapolate past experiences, of yourself or of others, into future situations to make reasonable assumptions about those situations. If it's customary for Indians to be late, it's perfectly reasonable for me to assume you'll be late on an appointment if I don't know anything about you. Once I get to know you, and notice that you're always on time, I will adjust my expectations of appointments with you, and maybe slightly adjust my perception of punctuality amongst Indians in general. Nothing racist or anything about that.

(for the record, my personal perception of Indians is that they are quite punctual, because the Indians I've worked with were, and I didn't really have an opinion about it one way or another before that. Latin Americans on the other hand, let's just say that my experiences only reinforced the preexisting notions...)
Haystack halting testing because of security concerns
Good point. Bluray will probably be the last optical media we'll have for movies, but I don't think it'll get replaced completely very soon, as there's a lot of places with consumers willing to pay for HD content, but without great enough bandwidth to stream them from the web.
How do you judge the PR damage of a customer? Unless they bring up who they are elsewhere on the net (assuming it is not obvious) you simply can't judge such things.

So what do you do; lose money each time this happens? Or take a hard line "we're nice guys and all but, sorry, it's costing us too".

And the happy customer might write about you; but the risk is it sets a precedent. So the next month when another customer screws up they think to try the same tactic - and if you refuse them it's even worse press ("oh, apparently I'm not good enough to be treated that way", "2 tier customer service" etc.).

It's a minefield all round.
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FXcast's business philosophy is based on partnership, transparency and fairness between all partners within this financial relationship which needs trust and honesty. These are the essentials for a long term relationship between FXcast and its customers and partners. FXcast taking all potential claims serious and discussing any solution with the customer in a constructive and solution oriented manner. All other business approaches are contradictory to FXcast's model of business culture.

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The day bananas go in the refrigerator, the terrorist will have won. (the point being that once you mash together so many generalizations and cliches, you end up with just a silly hash of meaninglessness)
After visiting a YC dinner and meeting several YC founders, the biggest turn off for me is the cult of personality around PG.
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The first time I saw it, it looked old.

Way too much sheet plastic, close quarters, massive constructs, lack of lighting, utilitarianism, and general weather. And the guns sound like they were made by people who wanted to shoot big bullets. It's not that the special effects are unbelievable, it's that they're not describing a design aesthetic as extrapolated from the present-day experience.
40.1 million people are playing games on iDevices, 45% fine with in-app ads
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I think you are confusing the likelihood of something happening with the estimate based on a given set of facts. The man doesn't have quantum children that are 1/3 boy or girl. So trivially P(the gender of the man's children is the gender of the man's children) = 1. They don't change gender depending on your guess. The only thing that changes is the trueness of your guess of the other child's gender (it changes when you change the guess)

The way to get clear hear is to simulate meeting the man 1000 times, and counting how many times you would have guessed right if you said he has two boys. This yields 1/3 because you don't even guess when he has 2 girls.
1st signs of attacks on certificates?
Nokia E7 Features Specs and Review
I agree with virus scanners being a security dead end, but I don't think virtualization is the answer (but we'll see how iOS does with their jail strategy). Personally I think SELinux is the right model: processes can only do what they are explicitly allowed to do. Vendors have to ship the required access settings along with their application so save users from having to plug it all in manually.
You picked that 0.5 out of thin air, though. You forgot about BG.
Risky business
Passphrase dictionary attack countermeasures in tklbam's keying mechanism
Thanks for posting the article Tom. I'd say persistence, abandoning bad ideas and a healthy dose of naivete (not knowing enough to be scared to try) are necessary for most startups. Well done on Adioso version 3. Just gave it a spin and it's working great. Once again I'm inspired by the startups good old Melbourne, Australia is producing (almost in spite of itself).
Links for the curious:

If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!' [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Mermin]
GMail doesn't even respect In-Reply-To, and frequently screws up threading on any technical mailing list I subscribe to. It's good at its ad-hoc "conversation" grouping, not threading.
I've found that in general, South Koreans both fret uncontrollably over other people's timeliness (viewing it as a form of politeness) and provide all kinds of reasons and self justifications for their own tardiness. One of my friends has gone so far as to say "we care about being on time like a fish cares about water, but being late is just in our genes".

In the end it all sort of averages out and everybody seems to be just a hair perpetually late.
How would "ballers" show how much money they have then?
It's a case by case thing. In this case, the query space is pretty segmented to avoid cruft.
They may have every right to hold the hard line, but a little compassion would probably pay off better in the long run. Some business' bottom line is profit alone, other's are in it to solve problems, and, keeping an eye on money, and can make enough profit to keep living the dream.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10257/1087450-96.stm

reprint of the article for those of us without a NYT login to avoid the trouble of getting in.
Modelling traffic flows: Jam today
DDG uses Bing, but usually not straight up. In this case, the first result is the same but others in the top ten are either different or in a different order. Not that they're necessarily better though :)
You seem to have impressed a wrong spelling into muscle memory.
Ask HN: what's your biggest annoyance with Google Instant?
Well, initially I liked Google Instant. But within a few days, I have started to dislike it. My biggest annoyance is removal of a search box at the bottom of the page. Why would they do that? I used to enter a query, scan top 10 results and then refine my query to get better results. Now with instant I have to scroll all the way just to refine my search.

Moreover, I find is slightly annoying that Google is trying to outsmart me when I'm not sure which exact terms to use for searching a particular item.

What's your biggest annoyance with Google Instant? Or, do you actually like the new feature?

PS: I know there is a setting to switch it off but I wanted to discuss this on HN because Google Instant is a big deal for Google, so Google must be having high hopes about it. Wondering what kind of reception did they get. Is is the next Wave for Google?
Friends of mine know how much I love brunch and my perfect brunch would include Jessica

Hmmm.
* Set a challenge. What do you want that employee to achieve in the time that they're with you?

* Lay out the opportunity. How can they develop and what will the rewards of success be?

* Tell a story. How can a potential employee find out about the role and the company culture in an engaging way?

We included all three of the above when we wrote a recent job posting for a managerial position, "Searching for a Superhero":
http://brightone.org.uk/searching-for-a-superhero/
Had a similar problem when googling ruby 1.9.2 slow snow leopard, since that describes the problem I had. There was no auto-correct, but somehow they decided to highlight the word low in the search results (which may or may not mean that the rankings were screwed as well). I guess slow is just the plural of low. Because of the s, you know. I mean, seriously, if there aren't enough relevant results with the word slow in them, why include a completely unrelated word?
Due to the abysmal and unpredictable traffic situation in D.C., I've noticed people are allowing more and more of a buffer around expected meeting times. It's honestly not anybody's fault if a drive from one part of the region to another, that should take 15 minutes, and usually takes 35 ends up taking 2 and a half (and this is no exaggeration, it drives my business partners from elsewhere absolutely bonkers when they spend any length of time in D.C.).
Interesting rant. I do not think that 3-D printing is going to play much of a part, though. You mention an open-source bicycle; this is a good illustration of the problem.

The bicycle I rode to work today has:
- a frame made of heat-treated steel tubes brazed together
- wheels made of extruded aluminium and stainless-steel wire
- rubber tyres

... not to mention all the other bits and pieces; machined hubs, ball-bearings, etc etc.

I would be impressed at a 3-D printer that could produce any one of these things at a reasonable price, let alone all three. Small scale manufacturing of bicycle parts is confined to high-value niche areas.

I'm afraid I don't see much evidence of decentralised manufacturing here in .au, apart from offshoring, which I doubt has much to do with the sort of open manufacturing you seem to have in mind. I imagine things are the same in most Western economies, although I freely admit this is no more than speculation.
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Cheers,

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With the party thing, a lot of the time I am happy to get there right on time, gives more time to spend with friends before people leaving/ passing out. Unless it's a party I don't actually want to go to then I may make a late appearance.
I've actually heard that exact phrase.
Ask HN: Does anyone distinguish methods names for indirect/direct objects?
There is much advice on naming and many conventions proposed in various languages. However, I am yet to come across any suggestions regarding naming for indirect/direct objects.

It occurs to me that methods of an object should be named in such a way that the method is the verb, and the object is the direct object. The parameters of course would be the indirect objects.

This seems natural to me but I rarely see it. Presumably because it is easier to ignore this restriction. I was curious as to whether there are any guidelines on this, or if anyone else has had any experience of utilising other less common naming conventions.
Even though if there would have been no internet it won't effect my discipline (electrical engineering) directly, I wouldn't be this smart. I would have been an average kid succumbing to peer pressure and taking up the hottest discipline I can get from my <insert standardized test name here> score.
Tell HN: SPIL Games have a $50,000 contest for HTML5 games
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If you're not comfortable with interpreted languages, substitute for Java, C++ or other compiled languages. My question still stands for itself.
When they can print a working bicycle chain then I'll believe this kind of technology is ready for mainstream manufacturing.
the best thing I have done recently is to disable all plugins, including flash:

http://imgur.com/mCfqQ.png

YouTube HTML5 support is good, and for any other video you can directly download. Browser runs a lot faster, web pages load faster, and I don't miss flash ads at all.

I also disabled flash on my parents' computer, and my brothers, and enabled YouTube HTML5 for them. They haven't noticed it yet. It is only a matter of time before more corporate networks uninstall/block all flash, especially with the bad reputation it has with security.

Flash is already dead to me, I can't wait until it is dead for everybody else as well
If the rest if of the same quality as that article count me in as a regular reader. Wow.
One benefit that the original ClickToFlash has compared to the extension is that it works with web content embedded in applications other than Safari.
One of the great things you can do to make some friends when moving to a new location, is practicing any kind of team sport. This alone can make up for any other socializing issue you may have, e.g. language.
> หาเมนบอร์ดช๊อคเกต775

'Haa men bord chok ket 775' = 'Find motherboard socket 775.'

I would have thought that 'socket' would be a direct English transliteration, and use ซ (s) not ช (ch) though.

Are you in Thailand, Jacques? Also, what makes you think this is such an uncommon phrase? It may not rival English, but there are plenty of Thai speakers out there, in many countries.
Already done: http://identi.ca/
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It hurts my eyes to the point where I'm tempted to register torrentizr.com (it's available) and set up a competing service just so the terminology is corrected.
I'm afraid I don't understand the question. You mean naming variables and methods so you can say things like this?

department.adopt(newEmployee)

Seems to me that's a very common convention and has the Department instance as the direct object, and the Employee instance as the indirect object as you suggest. If that's correct, can you give an example of conventions that "ignore this restriction"?
Russians have some serious problem with the english language. And I dont know why!