skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found myself either re-typing or cutting and pasting so much common code for numerous projects in different languages that I took what started as a template generator for Monkeybars and spun it off to a standalone boilerplate generator.

http://neurogami.github.com/rhesus/

I called it Rhesus since it was to make pieces for Monkeybars. :)

Yes, it includes a template for .gitignore.

It also allows for importing boilerplate templates from git repos.

It's one of those projects that evolves as I find I need this or that feature or behavior.
This article raises interesting questions. He has done low-level tests which do not read much from the data or instruction pipelines, so these tests show compiled MSIL can be better optimized than C++. C++ is prone to accidental performance deficits from problems like aliasing, so that makes sense.

Now I want to see higher-level tests, where algorithms reading significant data or application-level benchmarks are run. The faster the CPU core, the less penalty there will be from C# compilation. The problem is that it would take lots of time to translate something like WORF, GAMESS, or other standard numerical benchmarks.
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Apple changed/clarified its policy to allow VMs and scripting languages, so long as all the bytecode or script is built into the app you submit for approval. Adding more script after the app is installed on the device is not allowed except for the built-in WebKit Javascript engine.
Like Computer, oh well, no Computer in German is Computer. Try Biergarten, oh well.
http://www.top500.org/site/systems/3189

A "Web company" has 13 systems in the top 500. My first guess is Amazon, but anyone have any other guesses?
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I can say that's is pretty safe. Backup is not an issue: copies of all repositories are stored on S3, CloudFiles and Linode's backup solution. People can't access your repos, unless you allow them to.
3 Tips For Choosing A Business Partner
There's a comment on the article complaining about the hate for Perl -- I agree with its sentiment but not the way it characterizes so-called "brain damaged" people.

Modern Perl is really a very different language than what people tend to think of when they hear the word "Perl". It has a real OO layer (Moose), a mature set of web frameworks (Plack), and generally-accepted best practices that ensure code is just as readable and maintainable as Python or Ruby.

If all you know of Perl is hacky one-liners for munging logfiles, skim a copy of the book Modern Perl: http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.html . You might just learn something.
Bitbucket somehow manages to maintain a service of similar or greater quality or reliability and has free unlimited private repos. Github is charging more because they can, not because it costs that much to maintain.
See also the article on this subject submitted almost a week ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2656314
I think there's a difference between deciding that you're skeptical, so that you're not going to act in a way that risks too much; versus publicly implying that it's actually a lie.
I looked at the top six and they all use Linux. Huh.
Yes, I am! :D
You have to be a hacker to know how to host a repo now?
> That old cliche 'nothing is totally secure' is almost right: the reality is, everything is mostly-not secure.

A security hole is one thing, but something like being able to log into anyone's account with whatever you'd like as the password? Or changing a digit in a URL and accessing someone else's account? Come on, that's like the guards at Fort Knox leaving all of the doors open directly to the gold, or the Secret Service collectively going out for a smoke break during a presidential parade.
Under the hood with Win8 -- A Q&A session
Gitolite is a fork of Gitosis that has been both improved and actively maintained. It even has a script to automate converting your old gitosis.conf to the new format.
In the article he illustrated that with a Microsoft C++ library example (a heap?). In the benchmark he fixed it by writing his own. You can do that in C++
The Github ruby gem ( https://github.com/defunkt/github-gem ) provides a nice command line interface to the Github API.
The story is completely plausible and makes, unlike all other explanations, sense.
When in Rome act the the Romes do or you're unlikely to get very far.
The culture won't get more female friendly until there are more women in the industry, but there probably won't be more women in the industry until the culture gets more female friendly.
The solution is as usual, early adopters and lots of time.
Actually, I did it by myself. I have a BS, but I always liked design and I've being doing my own designs through the years! ;)
In the video: Did they actually speed up the "close up" recording to make the applications seem faster?

They let audio track continue at regular speed, but the hand movements seem to be at about 150% ... ouch
Cracking the code of machine translation
It depends on the grand complexity that is derivative work. A while back some kid wrote an EverQuest FanFic that someone found objectionable. Sony was able to sue for copyright violation because it was a derivative work. So no you may not own the copyright to changes you make to GPL software(any software really, nothing GPL specific there), because the court may rule it a derivative work. Wikipedia has a few more interesting examples, see Pygmalion towards the bottom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work
at least in my experience, the intersection of people who scoff at those building new things, and those actually building new things for themselves isnt that large.
We already have a term for the antithesis: leet (733t or whatever).

Perhaps, as often is the case, we'll end up defining ourselves at least partially in the negative. (Not cool, not leet... whatever.)

"Hacker" seemed to serve partially, for a while, until it became synonymous with every online break-in in the mainstream press.
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> I have nothing worth hiding.

Mind putting up a mirror of your Dropbox folder?
> How would I ever be good enough to work with these guys?

"If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room."

Good luck!
hg is slower, but still totally manageable
Call a hipster a hipster to their face, they really don't like it. It can't be used as a compliment as "geek" can. They are all too cool for their own subculture (or think they are).
It does sound like a non-answer to me, because it’s a yes-or-no question and you could read either one into the answer. (Try prefixing it with “Yes! In fact, …” or “No, but …”.)

EDIT: Of the two replies before mine, one seems to have read the answer as “no, but…” while the other read it as “yes! In fact…”, and neither considered the answer particularly evasive.

One of them looked at the Chromium source code, which has evidence for “yes” being correct. Of all the reasons to need to read the source, you’d think we could avoid it when we already have a FAQ covering that exact question.
Is it actually excessive, though? You're just assuming that it's a real problem without any evidence to support that it is.
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A much better alternative is https://ssl.scroogle.org , which doesn't have personalization since google can't tell scroogle users apart. It also has benefits like having a bit of privacy while you search.
Show HN: Anonyvoice.com - leave an anonymous voice message, see it on the site.
The Ruby hat is very short and made of pleated tartan. On top it has tentacles.
There's a scifi story begging to be written about building a perpetual motion machine or trying to generate energy from an unbalanced Gömböc.
They sued a priest driving around in a black Volkswagon Beetle with a God Squad logo that looks exactly like the Geek Squad logo.

It may seem counter-intuitive, but Best Buy did the right and necessary thing to defend their trademark.
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Tell HN: I took your advice, quit my job, and am charging money for my software
Four months ago, there was a huge discussion here on HN about the merits of free, closed-source software and I, a creator of freeware, was in the clear minority: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2185340

Today, I have released an update to my most popular software (millions of users), and have started a commercial licensing program for non-personal use: http://neosmart.net/blog/2011/easybcd-2-1-and-some-big-changes/

Today I am unemployed - last week I resigned to work full-time on my startup and hopefully get things that I've been forever putting off done. I have given this a lot of thought and decided that I would like to give it a try.

Hopefully I will be able to generate enough money from existing commercial users to enable me to continue work on this and take EasyBCD and other software further. I already have three other programs I've written that only need polish and fit to be released under similar licensing terms.

In short, I've realized that giving stuff away for free just doesn't pay (surprise surprise!)
"Anarchy would employ coercion"?

You should read up on the foundations of anarchy before spouting your mouth off, since you are woefully ignorant on the subject. Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Bookchin are all good places to start.
TinkerBrick: Lego-esque case for IOS. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Yay for clever technical hacks that help users circumvent ossified IT bureaucracy. But I'm a little astonished that this is possible. They're running a second process that detects new instances of IE starting up and injects Chrome Frame into them. Doesn't that make a mockery of "admin rights"? Couldn't this technique be used to do just about anything?
This was something of an excuse to try out other features of Twilio on Google App Engine.

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Clickable links:

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2185340

* http://neosmart.net/blog/2011/easybcd-2-1-and-some-big-chang...
I don't know, to me it seems there's a likely chance that Photoshop's implementation of handling large files is just better, and if Paint.NET took a similar approach maybe the performance might be more comparable. By this I mean stuff like not having to go through the whole file to generate a zoomed view of it, etc. Of course this is just an assumption based on the fact Paint.NET isn't in the same class of application as Photoshop, so I wouldn't expect handling massive files to be a priority to the authors. That and Photoshop has been around a lot longer and Adobe probably has more resources to throw at potential problems like this. Either way, these are just guesses to consider before assuming the difference is caused by the language.
Personalization tends to be a nice relevance improvement overall

I agree completely. Reading that page, my first thought was "if (not saying I don't) Egypt is a place I probably don't plan on going to, why should I waste time looking at those links in my search results?"

Overall, I think personalization (wow, this isn't a word?) reaches its own form of market efficiency. If the personalization algorithms are bad, then people would shy away from the search engines that provide them. However, if they make sense, and return the most relevant results most of the time, then that's saving us a lot of time.
Flurry: Time Spent On Mobile Apps Has Surpassed Web Browsing
What's the Hatter hat, then?

http://esolangs.org/wiki/Hatter
People who think that Bitbucket is on par with GitHub are the same kind of people who said that StackOverflow could be cloned in a week. You focus on features but fail to see all the painstaking attention to detail that went into creating these sites.
I cannot see a problem here. Who exactly is being hurt by the "filter bubble"?

The end user is fine - they are more likely to see results they are actually interested in. If a user doesn't trust a source and won't click on their links, they'll soon not have to bother scrolling past them.

The sites themselves actually benefit as well. Sure, they may be bumped from the first page of results for users that are unlikely to visit their site, anyway, but the tradeoff is that they get a higher position for the users who may actually visit their site. It's an ideal trade for those being filtered.

I suppose that leaves the idea that the end result is a "biased" internet. I don't buy it. Google is not removing sites that disagree with them, they are re-ordering them for different users. If your profile wasn't factored in, then what options do they have?

They could order on popularity, but biasing towards popular opinion isn't any better than biasing towards my opinion.

They could randomize the order, this would be without bias, but absolutely useless to anyone.

They could judge the objective truth of sites, but that's far more biased than any of the other options.
End result of the iOS subscription hullabaloo: deleted sign-up links
I think it's a great idea. It would cost me more then $9/mo to setup a box(VPS). Not to mention the hour+ it would take to actually set it up(my time isn't free). Backup isn't a huge issue since it's git and presumably you have multiple devs and dev boxes with a copy of the code.

What might be even more useful and cheaper would be a reverse proxy service that allows you to share your local repo on the public internet. Like showoff.io for git.

The repo limit on github does seem a little bit silly. Limit by disk space makes much more sense.
Wonder how men working as primary school teachers feel they need to "act like women"? Those that haven't been driven out of the profession of course. Funny how it's only "inequality" when it goes one way.
Yes, but if you're solo freelancer or student, you can't beat it.
In the discussion to one of the previous submissions, somebody posted a depixelated video of Super Mario World.
I completely understand how you feel.

You sound successful: academically and career wise. You realise this, yet it's never enough and you compare yourself to the cream of the crop or 'what you could be'.

You need to stop this. Constantly wishing for something more while feeling unhappy with where you are 'in the moment' is a bad state of mind. It is not how you want to experience your life and it is certainly not reflective of what you have already achieved. (Many happy people achieve a lot less!)

There will always be people that are more intelligent or more successful, and so on. No matter how hard any of us try, there will always be something more to attain and, truly, if you wished to feel superior to your peers then Hacker News would not be the best place to be. Other than at a few elite universities and companies it is difficult to find people as intelligent, refined and ambitious as those found here. (This is not a bad thing! Being around these kinds of people lifts you up.)

I am not saying 'give up on trying to attain', and the advice which has been given by many in this thread on how to do so or how to free yourself from tedium is brilliant. But remember that life is not a journey in which the only thing important is moving-up and getting to the 'end'. There is not going to be a top to the ladder you're climbing, and the only 'end' is when you die. [1]

As for: gaining confidence in your abilities, feeling better about yourself, having a better thought process, and overcoming whatever real or perceived obstacles you feel lie in your way; my suggestions are that you:

a. Stop considering your life as a giant examination in which you must constantly seek ways of evaluating yourself. Make your life about finding the people and projects that truly engage you and bring you happiness.

b. Consider life a learning experience: embrace change [2]; embrace failure as a neccessity; embrace as much as you can: whatever you do, remember that this might be the last time that you do it. [3] The experience that you get from your life is all you have: make the most of it.

c. Do not let others approval dictate how you feel you must live your life; know this: the choices you make today will create the person that you are tomorrow. Be happy with who and where you are now. You are the result of the convictions and hard work you had yesterday. Take responsibility and find happiness within yourself.

Anyway, hopefully that perspective helps you find a more pleasing direction to your life.

Good luck! :)

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4

[2] I actually live in London myself, and I am sure there are startup companies around that would be interested in someone like you if you wanted to get a job here. I don't think the experience level required is quite as high as you think it is: it is more important that you are an intelligent man that works hard, gets on with others, and cares about what he's doing. Likewise, there are Hacker News meetups run here and that is a nice way to meet people similar to yourself.

[3] http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/27/twenty-first-century-2....
Shouldn't Dropbox be sued for this?

What's your standing -- how were you harmed? What are the damages?

You can't sue someone just because you don't like their behavior. You need to actually suffer a loss as a result of their behavior, before you've got any standing in court.
I've found that awk is one of those tools whose potential use becomes clear only after putting in some initial effort to learn it. Along with sed, sort, and others, awk has solved problems for me that would have otherwise been extremely tedious.

So the reason "why not be a master the shell" seems more about saving yourself time/being more efficient/knowing the tools at your disposal.
I don't understand this use case:

These projects are mainly side projects, or small freelance jobs I've done through the years, and I want to save them for posterity; who knows when I'll need them, right?

My solution to this problem is called tar. Just clone the Git repos to /tmp, tar up the results, and push the tarball to S3. Done. Archived for posterity for a few cents per month.

This isn't SVN anymore: It doesn't take special voodoo to host a repo. If nobody needs to push or pull from a repo, tar it up and archive it. If one person needs to push and pull from a repo, store it on that person's local hard drive (with backups, of course). If two people need to push and pull from a repo... Well, this is no longer an archive for posterity, this is an active project, and can the team really not afford to pay Github something like $5 per month per repo?
You can download nightlies of Chromium from http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/snapshots/Win/

While not entirely the same thing, it's a start.
So a song isn't an apple. We know this already.
How does the second hypothesis explains both of those tendencies at the same time? It would rather seem to predict that people of mixed race would be found less attractive then those of the same race as the subject and more attractive then those of the other race. I.e. an averaging out of attractiveness rather then an increase of it.
1Password has saved me so much time. It has a nice search feature that allows you to just start typing the domain (or name) of the password you saved and then click it, and it will auto-fill and login.

I am a freelancer and I maintain about 50+ sites (most of those are cpanel logins). I don't know what I would do without a password manager.

I used keepass for awhile too, but it's too buggy and just doesn't work as well.
Mozilla rejects Microsoft's WebGL criticism
As far as I can see from the pictures, people like women more when they smile, and men more when they lose weight.
Sega Hacked : 1.3 million customer details are at risk
DNS API provider Zerigo acquired by 8x8
If you're relying on a cloud-hosted startup to secure gold or the president, you're doing it very, very, very wrong.

The level of complexity of an attack and the ridiculousness of a hole are almost completely arbitrary in terms of compromising the security of a service. The biggest attacks of the past 6 months were performed either using social engineered credentials or extremely common web application vulnerabilities (so common that probably every hole used is on OWASP's Top 10 security holes).

The only reason Fort Knox or the Secret Service works is because it relies on humans spending 100% of their time actively focusing on security, 24 hours a day, every day. No web service I have ever heard of has that level of security.

As far as this particular hole: it's probably a bug somebody left in some code by accident and nobody foresaw the consequences. There are bugs like this in every system. The only reason you don't see more of these holes is because either nobody's looking for them or somebody found it and is keeping it very secret.
The impact of language choice on github projects
How much do you have in savings?

I did this as well, but I had about 8 months to a year in savings.
New Free Vector Uploads
On Vectorpack.net you can now find lots of new free vectors to download. The free vectors are sample materials coming from the vector packs which can be found on the site. Enjoy!
I was hooked after the first ten minutes of the first episode. Also, best opening credits and theme music probably since the X-Files.

That said, I find the show distasteful at times (the use of 'sexposition'), and sometimes it mishandles morality, making it hard to sympathize with any of the characters if you evaluate their decisions objectively. I suspect that like The Wire (and it's probably in that sort of league) it's weakest point will be unrelenting naturalism - constantly trying to show us how terrible and pointless life is, not offering much to aspire to.

But heck, it's mostly just outrageous fun.
> By contrast, Ophelia Dahl of the 4-star rated Partners in Health makes $86,000.

That's still tens of thousands of dollars. Can you point to a CEO of a non-profit making less than $10k? Less than $1k?
You're reading a lot into one assumption you've made. I'm a grad student. I try out lots of little things. I want to keep them, but I don't want them just on my hard drive (I like them to be available on the Internets).

GitHub forces me to open-source those small projects, and I'm usually fine with this, but lots of other people aren't. And if he can offer it for $9, then why shouldn't he? Your complaint is that his potential customers should pay more, because you think GitHub has better features, which he may or may not need. That doesn't make any sense. Having different offers and different price points makes sense, so I really don't see why you are knocking the OP for making something that fits his (and presumably others) needs.
If you're in London, the Taste Card is a good option, although there are only a few 'high-end dining' option available on it...
Five statistical things I wished I had been taught 20 years ago
I imagine part of the use case is "quickly and easily getting back to a snippet within one of those old files", in which case the tarball and archive method won't really work.
DeMarco and Lister's Peopleware.

On a completely different note, if you're interested in functional programming, then Okasaki's Purely Functional Data Structures is a must. You'll still need to code the exercises to make the most of it, but it's not really a tutorial and you can read it without having a computer around.
About a year's worth.
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To both of you (sgdesign, justinph), yes design is 'how it works' as well as 'how it wears time and use' and 'how it breaks'. I did not just use two words--design and decoration--to mean the same thing.

That would be almost as redundant as what I'm doing now. :)
The Making of PowerSchool 7
I love this company !
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