skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're welcome; I had asked Vandad to check over the code, and he got back to me with a new set of examples very fast. He also confirmed what you found; Xcode 4 is really good at figuring out what it should do. I'm really glad about that because I've had a lot of trouble opening other peoples' projects and even opening old projects of my own in Xcode 3.x.
Will the Bill of rights be reinstated now?
The first thing I said to my wife when I saw this was, "Maybe I won't have to take my shoes off at the airport anymore."
This is one of the many reason why I will not be voting for conservatives tomorrow
"I have Dissociative Identity Disorder. AMA"
I have a feeling that this is going to result in an increase in security procedures.
I read most of this. It was worth the $20. (Wufoo: "We're a fan of [ad retargetting] because it works." is probably worth $20.)
Don't worry, even those of us that haven't use the allotment still can't load the page because the site is so overloaded.
I'm reasonably sure they do spend the summers (though probably not in all cases) doing the things you described in the first paragraph.
Tomorrow morning on the White House to-do list:

1) Quickly find (or make up) another evil empire or shadow enemy to be afraid of. Suggestions: Wikileaks, music pirates, subversive citizens, militias, Arab dictators, nullification by jury educators ...
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I think the one on the right (same one you indicate) is definitely more readable. I'm a former copywriter, so I'm more verbal than visual in some ways, and I am still quite sure you have this right. For further reading and info about user testing, you might check out books by Jakob Nielsen -- ie: Designing for Web Usability, and Eyetracking Web Usability.
Osama Bin Laden Dead
Osama Bin Laden is Dead
Watch at http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/president-obama-delivers-stat...
Doesn't surprise me they're pressuring. What does surprise me is that we didn't capitulate the moment they asked. Now that's change I can believe in while it lasts.
Obama just won re-election, if this is true..assuming if he can get gas prices down..
You're not missing anything as the title covers nearly everything, other than that an announcement will be made by the President shortly.
What kind of evidence do you have?
Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden dead: U.S. officials
USAA DepositHome: bad engineering and terrible UX
I've been surprised how often a software engineer will describe something technical and arcane, and everyone in the room assumes it must be comprehensible to everyone else. After a few such incidents, I decided it was my responsibility to ask questions until I understood what was being described to my satisfaction, and to hell with trying to pretend I'm smarter than I am.

The result was surprising: I appeared smarter. When you say, "Excuse me, I don't understand this," and everyone else is thinking that, too, and especially if it turns out to be a bad presentation or a fundamentally incoherent concept . . . well, you look perceptive.

And if you make sure you understand things? You look pretty darn smart later on.
This is a much more complex piece of news than most Americans think. I just hope they don't show his body on TV. That's going to just incite and inflame jihad-minded fighters.

And I sure hope this doesn't make the U.S. pull out of Afghanistan in the next 90 days like NBC just implied, because that would be bad for everyone in that country.

EDIT if OBL really was killed in a mansion in Islamabad, that changes a lot in relations between the US and Pakistan. If he was killed in the FATA, then it's pretty meaningless operationally, it's just a news deal that will inflame the jihadi world for a while.

Edit2 Abbottabad is in NWFP, so not exactly Islamabad and a different interesting. If Obama didn't get Pakistan's permission before going, that is interesting. Not going to change wars on the ground except for a inflammation in jihadi tensions.
He may become a lot shorter on followers as a result of this. Meanwhile, there is upheaval in a wide variety of Arab countries, which will probably have important national security implications for the United States--possibly for the better--even if Al Qaeda disappears.

P.S. I am listening to live coverage from the BBC just now (relayed by Minnesota Public Radio), and the most interesting thing about this evening's report is that apparently Bin Laden was found in a villa in Islamabad, the seat of government of Pakistan.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/live

As of 11:09 pm est, it is either over or hasn't started.

Image: https://skitch.com/sudonim/r7b7f/the-white-house
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> Soldier quality is more difficult to assess

School administrations try (and fail) to determine "teacher quality" by looking at standardized test scores.

Quality of teaching is easy to assess however: you just have a few experienced teachers pop in and observe a class or two, and it's obvious to them if the teacher is good or not.

> Also, 14% isn't bad given that many teachers have 2 months off.

It's not 2 months off, it's 2 months unemployed.

When they hire you as a teacher, they ask you ahead of time if you want them to reduce your paycheck amount so that you can receive checks during those 2 months.
I'd also be interested if there were any correlation between meta discussion and it's affects on trends. So I'd be curious to see ycombinator (and/or hacker news) in the "mentioned companies" section.
So true, the real issue I think the author is trying to bring up, is that C might not be the right tool for every job. I agree, but personally C is the most fun to use.
For those who really want "TextMate + vim", until the newer options mature, you can try this.

https://github.com/philc/textmatevim
You should make an html version of your resume. A lot of people won't use a .docx version.

Also, if you're going to send people to your personal site, you shouldn't use one that's under construction. You would be better off using flavors.me to make a temp one, then changing it once you've spruced up your site.
[...] 1 sec [...]. Good enough for command line tool [...]

lol
Major US or World news always comes up on HN.
It hasn't started yet. I'm watching NBC news and they're filling time while waiting for the President to speak.
Great point (and good story about the prof's reaction too). It's quite possibly a combo: some people have innate ability and just "get it" no matter how bad their teaching is; others get it by a combo of teaching and work.

And yes, time to read the book for this and other reasons!
So Hacker News has probably gotten worse if you like to read every single post, but better if you only like to read the front page.

It is hard to define what a "quality" article is and not sure if I agree with his assumptions, but I personally have seen exactly this over the past year compiling my weekly Hacker Newsletter.
Hopefully for the better. Al Qaeda has proven very resilient, so hopefully this breaks them down.
delete cookies, read 20 more.
VM vs language: not really. The version of .NET heavily defines the capabilities of the language, as it's also tied to a compiler, and multiple languages tend to get new features at the same time. e.g.:

>Generics are only supported on version 2.0 and above of the Microsoft .NET framework, as well as version 2.0 of the compact framework. [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479866.aspx]

The day Microsoft (or anyone else) allows you to create generics in the VM for 1.1, which is quite a different one than 2.0 and above, I'll happily admit I'm wrong.

Single vs multiple dispatch: yeah, you can fake it with reflection, but it's not part of the language feature.

Nullable: Good point, missed that part of the page. That would be nice.

IEnumerables are covariant in .NET 4, I missed the covariant part too: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd799517.aspx#Varian...
I think the author misses the point: you can't just look at code and expect to understand performance, in any language. That's what profilers are for.
I will agree that micro-optimization of known hotspots is mechanical, but finding the right areas can be deliciously difficult.
I read a scientific american article (or blurb if i recall) about boids when I was a kid. I wanted to have boids so badly after reading it, I stayed up on school nights teaching myself java. Haven't stopped hacking since -- still stay up on work nights, still trying to learn java...

anyways, just thought i'd share that little piece of nostalgia, how it all began for me
Bin Laden is dead, sources say
By the way, remote is fine, but we are located in Gaithersburg, MD. just outside Washington, D.C.
Computer Science Killed Bin Laden
As reported in the Huffington Post, Obama instructed the CIA to step up efforts to find Osama just 3 days ago on April 28, 2011.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-s-chafetz/post_1988_b_854...

According to the article, Obama was concerned that the Taliban might gain political influence in Afghanistan after U.S. troops leave and if so, they may invite Osama back to the country. The believe is that killing Osama will help prevent the Taliban from regaining control.
Something that frustrates me about the field of computer science is that there are a lot of jerks who think that just because they've "mastered" some programming language or know some obscure unix commands, they are gods and you are nothing.

I don't think this is at all unique to CS, or even to technical fields: it's the Dunning-Kruger Effect all over again.

Regarding women in CS, it would go a long way in helping to simply treat them as people. As an IRC op, I find it sickening how often, particularly in online programming communities, people hear the word "female" and start acting like utter idiots. This results in both unwanted negative and positive attention: but furthermore, continually reinforces the idea that a female is some sort of odd, unusual creature deserving of special study. This doesn't merely bother the victims -- it also helps convince them that they're the odd one out, and that they don't belong.

This doesn't have to be blatant sexism -- it can simply be comments like "oh, you're a girl?!" when someone uses a female pronoun. I've seen this happen dozens times in a single channel in response to a single person over the course of a few months.

Some of you may be thinking that this is just a problem for 4chan and Reddit. But the interesting thing that I've noticed is that the incidence of this problem doesn't seem to be reduced much with more professional communities, or in more mature environments.

Rather, the only statistic that seems to be consistently correlated with these kinds of problems is the perceived male/female ratio in a community. The instance the perception gets created that "this community is almost entirely male", problems begin to occur. This seems to be a constant everywhere from programming communities to writing communities to roleplaying communities to fandoms.

If you're male, you've probably been responsible for some of this at some point. Maybe it was just one comment. I mean, what harm could one comment do, right? But a hundred people making "just one comment" stops being a joke quickly -- and instead makes half of the smart aspiring programmers out there feel unwelcome. This is of course self-reinforcing: by making women feel unwelcome, the "almost entirely male" perception is perpetuated.

(An interesting question might be why the reverse problem rarely exists in communities perceived to be almost entirely female.)
I can answer specific questions here if anyone has any.
This is huge news for the U.S. We can argue whether this is the sort of news which should be posted here, but it will likely have a huge emotional impact for the U.S. Our nation came to a standstill on 9/11 and this story will likely have some impact on productivity. ;)
[Update] Killed by a firefight by American operatives on the ground in Pakistan just in the last day, according to the President's speech.

From Los Angeles Times report:

"Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, related the news to mourners at a memorial service for political consultant Kam Kuwata. Feinstein said Obama was announcing it on TV as she spoke. However, she announced the news well before Obama began to speak."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-pn-osama-b...
Your new here, but the general consensus is that this is an okay thing to do when it is something big. I wouldn't worry about it too much.
Where did these come from? Are these Wuala employees or something?
Why the downvote? How is this not completely relevant to the discussion at hand?
Me either -- it's instead of the referral code from another person (which gives you a GB)
Interesting. According to commentators, on NBC I think, he was killed a week ago during a drone strike and we've been waiting for complete confirmation beyond any doubt.
Suggesting that a cleaner/simpler syntax should be used doesn't mean he wants to code in Ruby/Python. They have plenty of their own flaws. He just admires their syntax since it is very readable.
agreed, almost seems as though the taliban would act out in order to prove they are still relevant without osama.
It's correct usage.
How do they know it isn't just some guy that looks like Osama? Did they take his DNA a while back?
Official: Osama bin Laden is dead
Copyright has fair-use provisions. I don't see how using a service to reformat content and remove ads is any different than using a DVR to record TV and fast-forward through commercials, or to use the feature of your TV that converts 4:3 content to something that fills the 16:9 screen. It may not be what the people holding the copyright on that content want, but our society has decided that's Too Fucking Bad.

An application that downloads articles and removes the ads is like a DVR for web content.

And, honestly, I don't think it's too much of a stretch to allow outsourcing of the DVR-ing. I can pay someone to clean my house; why can't I pay someone to record TV and then send me the video files?
The main issue with small odd lots of penny stocks is that you'd be killed by the commission costs. Most high school "stock market" simulations ignore transaction costs to keep things simple.
Between when I made that post and now, an additional 100 group messages and 500 messages have been pushed through. I haven't seen a jump like this before, presumably due to Bin Laden's death.
8 years after Bush's Mission Accomplished
Hackers eat. Many hack food, or at least cook. interesting articles relative g to food ar on topic here.
Sure, I'll take some.

But to help you visualize in the mean time: imagine choosing interior furnishings by always saying, "I'll take the cheapest, please", and you'll have the right feeling. It's not beautiful in its simplicity, it's shocking in its lack of personality.
I could possibly swallow this accusation if only there were an established history of this behavior. +cough+
To pick a nit, thats not "As reported in the Huffington Post". Gary Chafetz is not an employee or reporter, he's one of those "unpaid bloggers" you hear about. What newspapers used to call "op-ed writers" or a "letter to the editor".
Here's what I did:

First, get the latest version of Xcode that's compatible with your OS. You can find older versions of Xcode by clicking on "Developer Tools" on the right side of this page: http://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MemberSite.woa/w... (you may need a free Apple developer account).

sceaga has a branch for Tiger and another branch for PPC, I happened to be using Tiger on PPC, so I picked the Tiger branch. From https://github.com/sceaga/homebrew , you want to click "Switch Branches" on the left, choose your branch, then click "Download on the right. Or, just click one of these:

https://github.com/sceaga/homebrew/tarball/powerpc

https://github.com/sceaga/homebrew/tarball/tiger

I opted to install into my home directory, rather than /usr/local, so to get it into place, all I had to do was extract the tarball, put the resulting directory where I wanted it (I called it "brew"), and then add $HOME/brew/bin and $HOME/brew/sbin to my $PATH.

If you want it in /usr/local, see the instructions at https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Installation , but in the "curl" line, replace their URL with the one you picked above.

You should now be able to type "brew" and see its usage message.

At this point, "brew install" worked for me, except that it wasn't chmodding binaries as executable. At the end of installations, it was giving a bunch of messages like "file: invalid option -- h". This appears to be because my 10.4 PPC version of "file" doesn't support "-h". To fix this, I installed the gnu version instead:

brew install libmagic
chmod +x ~/brew/Cellar/libmagic/5.04/bin/file
brew link libmagic #libmagic doesn't add gnu "file" to your PATH without this command, because it doesn't want to override the OS-provided "file"

After that, homebrew seems to work, with the following caveats:

1. "brew update" (which updates the package manager
itself) will try to update from the non-PPC, upstream
version of homebrew. I just don't use this command.

2. "brew doctor" complains that my gcc is too old
(because I can't use the latest Xcode) and can't
seem to detect that I have X11 installed, even
though I do.

I've also found the people in #machomebrew on irc.freenode.net to be a helpful bunch, although not many have experience with homebrew on PPC.

Let me know how it goes!
ABC reports that the FBI has a sample of his sister's DNA
I wouldn't say it's that shallow. Osama's death has serious political repercussions, much more so than e.g. Michael Jackson or Billy Mays. It could certainly generate interesting discussion.
I am not American...but I feel like one today!

Wonderful news!
Why? He was only following the plan laid down by the previous President. Nobody in their right mind should credit this to Obama. The US Military should get the full credit. They are the minds and planning behind what happened not any President.
That was one of my first thoughts upon hearing the news! "Can we go back to walking people to their gates?" Part of me is afraid of retaliation, however,...
> or if it wasn't so hard to fire teachers.

It takes a few years to get tenure. Also, note that teachers sign an employment contract for each year they teach. This means that the administration has 3 chances to simply not renew a new teacher's contract if they don't like them.

So, it's only difficult to fire teachers after you've had them working for you for a few years.

And even then, the district can make your life miserable without firing you. They can have someone from the central office sit in and observe you every day. They can give you a lousy schedule, give you too many preps, move you between crummy rooms, or a number of other things to get you to leave.
Advanced Nmap
If everyone is a worse programmer than they tell others they are, that means I'm probably a worse programmer than I give myself credit for, too. :(
Because it's probably inaccurate. Reports are that he died a week ago, plus 3 days is not long enough to "step up" anything.

Additionally huffington post should never be your primary source for anything except opinion.
The question is, who will be the next third world "evildoer" that all Americans come to know by name by virtue of US propaganda?
I think Sony knows now why they should care about it.
Tablets are not ready for prime-time yet; hardware manufacturers haven't had time to design good components and gear up production, and there is no software to speak of. There is the iPad and that's all the industry can handle right now.

In a few months, we'll see the good Android tablets start to roll out. Asus' transformer is the beginning of this cycle -- better hardware than the Xoom, same software, and much cheaper. By Christmas, I predict that there will be at least three excellent Android tablets in 7" and 10" form factors. You have to be patient -- if you want a tablet now, get an iPad. You won't be able to use it for anything other than what Apple says you can use it, but you can do those things today. If you want to do whatever you want, you will have to wait a bit for things to really get started.

(Yes, I owned an Archos Android tablet a few years ago. Fuck Archos. Never has a product made me hate a company so.)
I'm with ya, even through the downvotes. Why does everyone think the rest of Al Qaeda is going to just give up and go home?
I hate you for saying that, but I fear that you're right. I forget who noticed this (perhaps it was George Orwell), but the bureaucracy of the British Navy kept growing even as the British Empire collapsed.

The response of any bureaucracy is to double down.

Back in my days as a Catholic seminarian (don't ask), I met a well-connected priest who told several of us that the Catholic Church in the United States is going bankrupt, not because of lawsuits stemming from pedophile scandals, not because of the cost of supporting priests or other religious, but in order to make payroll for laymen working in diocesan bureaucracies. He gave the example of the diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, saying that there were a thousand laymen working full-time in the chancery alone.

I still have trouble believing that number. What does it take to get a business with that many employees?

In any case, the principal way in which Catholic dioceses have been responding to the lack of funds is to shut down parishes rather than scale back the bureaucracies. So, yes, I'm afraid that you're right. The TSA will only get more intrusive.
Al-Qaeda leader Bin Laden 'dead'
Flagged. Everyone already knows, this doesn't need to be on HN.

From: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Off-Topic: ... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Are you starting a "deather" movement?
Not just the US. There were a lot of foreigners who worked in the World Trade Center and died on 9/11. I recall shortly after that day reading that for some large number of countries, 9/11 was the largest terrorist attack on their citizens.
The headline is a response to an ad hominem attack. I haven't read the article, but I am sure it is closer to politics than "hacking food".
Two families choose different paths to academic excellence
It's very simple. I like it. Unfortunately, I don't have a use for it.

As for in-place editing, Neyric's javascript library has something along these lines.

http://neyric.github.com/inputex/
This is where I found out about it.
Why analyze it further?

A lot of people on HN operate online services. Or are interested in data security and computer law. Or just like to analyze words and read between the lines.

Is there someone on HN who thinks Sony has no culpability for their own security failures?

I'm more interested in the degree to which Sony is owning up to their security failures.
Osama bin Laden's legacy lives on with every traveler being herded through body scanners, with every illegal search in our 120-mile-radius Constitution-free zones, and with every warrantless wiretap.

Until his legacy dies, he lives on, as strong as ever.

...

Can I at least bring a tube of toothpaste with me when I travel now?
Not everyone has to go to college.

Everyone should have a trade, though. And there needs to be some framing of background - call it 'education' - to be able to have a cultural awareness and to also ably manage practicing ones trade.
They're saying that we've had his body for a week, it's only coming to light tonight because word leaked through congressional aides. Presumably they were waiting for confirmation beyond doubt.
Just to clarify, is this politics? Should it be flagged?

The January 9th AZ shootings articles were all flagged and pulled from the site - I'm having trouble seeing the difference between that piece of news and this.