skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the concept, but I don't think we have enough people who are capable of doing the work. Those that are would have a tremendous advantage. Why would they share with the public?
MyBitCoin Team Responded to Hacker Attack by Getting Shitfaced
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Glass kitchen doors are popular today, not only used in spotlight cabinets, but in whole kitchens often using coloured glass.
There are only so many ways to design a unique rectangular phone or tablet, but Samsung tries to make theirs look closer to Apple's than the others.

Samsung's TouchWiz interface, at least on the phones, could easily be mistaken for Apple's interface in iOS as well, whereas HTC and Motorola's phones can't really.
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I didn't even realize you could do this. Won't the swarm stop talking to you if you don't share?
Apple blocks Galaxy Tab 10.1 sale across EU
The Definitive Guide To Forms based Website Authentication
Real hash tables are coming in ECMAScript Harmony: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:simple_maps_a...
Yes. It has happened many times. I talk to people who rate themselves highly in all things MySQL and can barely write a join and can't really explain anything about how it works.
He has a moderately positive review of her book: http://www.bogost.com/blog/reality_is_broken.shtml

He disagrees with its approach in the end, but credits it with being much better than what he categorizes as gamification:

One can only hope that McGonigal's book scores an epic win against the trite, simplistic trends in "gamification" that her smart, sophisticated ideas overshadow.
Apple briefly becomes largest U.S. company
Hmm, no offense but that looks a bit staged (or perhaps its just near the end of the cleanup) a few people sweeping with brooms, most people milling about and watching them.

A sad thing for me is when I start to tell a young person about a riot that I experienced and they think its 'cool.' There is nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, 'cool' about a riot. You can read about mob dynamics, you can imagine heroic acts of protest or defense, but nobody seems to capture the pure evil that seems to permeate the air when rule of law loses its grip for a moment.

The veil of civilized behavior, and the relative safety that brings with it, is quickly dropped by a few. Those few cause pain quite disproportionally to their number.
And what about future riots?
Sexual orientation is not universally a protected class. I don't know about non-US employment law, but at least in the US, I believe it is on a state-by-state basis.
Google Group Members to Use Facial Recognition to Identify London Rioters
No, it's not really that similar. It's gamesmanship from Apple.

People have thought my really chunky viewsonic g-tablet was an ipad: http://www.viewsonic.com/gtablet/ and it is no where close.
> Predeclared variables are just as prone to typos, which will also break your code -- and just as prone to broken scoping. By accidentally shadowing an external variable you make it unreachable for the remainder of the current function, and all nested functions within.

You declared a variable once and use it n times. If you accidentally shadow a variable, via typo, then you only have one place to check for the typo. The compiler/interpreter will complain if you don't happen to also consistently made that typo everywhere you use the variable.

In language with implicit declaration, everywhere you use the variable is as likely to have typo that the compiler/interpreter cannot check for you.

1 place to check vs. n places, is a no-brainer which one is more error prone.

> By accidentally shadowing an external variable ...

In language with explicit declaration you have to accidentally declare same name AND use it with that accidental name. If both doesn't happen, the interpreter will complain.

In language with implicit declaration, one accidental typo is all it takes to accidentally shadow a variable.

You have just made a case against implicit declaration.

> There are no situations where shadowing a variable is desirable. [...] if you accept that shadowing is undesirable, and choosing a more descriptive name for the inner variable is preferable

So, to name a local variable "list", you have to look up on every outer variables involved to make sure nowhere else also use the name "list".

And let's give up on naming an outer variable name "list" because, who knows where some inner function might decide to use such name for local variable.

> choosing a "more descriptive name" for the inner variable

More like "more redundant name". Implementing "date_diff" function? Forget naming different of it "delta", let's name it "date_diff_delta", or else it might conflict with some outer variable name.

Congratulation, you have successfully remove concept of namespace from your language.

> if you accept that shadowing is undesirable

Then you should consider other job than programming.
Some more details: http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/08/preliminary-injuncti...

No patent or trademark is the culprit but rather the design (as in: look) of the enclosure. Above article does link to this document: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61944044/Community-Design-00018160...

That’s called a community design, it’s an EU thing, here is the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_design

This article deals a bit more with community designs and especially the concept of the “informed user” that is somewhat central to them: http://www.linklaters.com/Publications/Publication1392Newsle...

Here are images of the current iPad: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/

Here are images of the Galaxy Tab 10.1: http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxytab/10.1/spec....

(My personal opinion? It seems absurd to me that you can protect something vague like this. The Galaxy Tab and the iPad seem sufficiently different to me as to not cause consumer confusion.)
Dupe
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2859234
Show HN: Weekend Project - YouTube TV 
http://youtube.andrewdenhertog.com

Over the recent long weekend, I developed a TV application for YouTube. It's designed to continuously stream and play video to your computer in full screen mode. Videos pre-load, so playback is uninterrupted.

The video stream is controlled remotely via your iPhone, which lets you choose different streams, as well as play/pause & volume settings.

Hope you enjoy it.
Actually, the entire situation reads eerily like the Trainspotting novel. Looks like all the Francis Begbies are out in force.
Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook On November 5
I wish HN had a "wow" button. Simply upvoting a submission like this one seems... inadequate.
Likely just people preparing for Burning Man and other Labor Day camping.
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This happens a lot in Florida. The problem is, water level near the costal cities is so close to the surface, buried lines often move anywhere from 1-3 feet from the original documented location. Verizon was rolling out Fiber to the Premises in Tampa, and finally after so many water/sewer main breaks, the state/county/municipality blocked them from using equipment to dig.. they had to start digging by shovel. That really put a damper on the FiOS deployment. Related article: http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2007...
The best estimates I know of is Sandberg and Bostrom's 2008 Whole Brain Emulation Roadmap: http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/3...

And yes, this is pretty relevant - it demonstrates that perfect emulation is extremely expensive (in line with the critics of the idea of AI or brain emulation), but it also demonstrates how this doesn't matter in practice. (eg. I'd be happy to be a nigh-immortal upload if the price was a few glitches in an obscure memory I never think about.)
I've always though that Samsung borrows heavily from Apple but the Galaxy Tab seems like a real stretch. There is enough of a difference between the two products where a customer shouldn't get confused.
CoffeeScript needs to be a fast moving language because it's still being developed. I imagine that, like most languages, it will eventually settle into a fairly stable, mature language spec.
Inheritance in JavaScript isn't "a mess", it's a paradigm you don't understand[1]. Objects in JavaScript don't have "classes", they have prototypes, so if you want class-like behavior, of course you'll have to implement that yourself. Just like if I want to make key access on a dict fall through to another dict if the key isn't present in Python, I'll have to implement that myself. You may think that's silly, but in a prototypal language that is fundamental behavior.

The `new` keyword was intended to provide the appearance of classes (Java classes, specifically) to make prototypal inheritance less scary to users such as yourself coming from a class-based background, but it's a scam— it creates an object with a prototype, not an instance of a class, and as you're aware it has only caused more confusion about how object inheritance in JS really works.

I find the distaste that new developers have for `__proto__` a little analogous to an inexperienced front-end-only Lisp developer who likes parts of the language, but thinks the whole thing would make more sense without `eval` confusing things at runtime. They're not wrong, exactly, they just misunderstand something fundamental about the way the language actually works. The object prototype is there, it's mutable, and that should be exposed. Ignoring it won't make it go away.

So I'm not surprised you haven't seen a use case for prototypal inheritance, just like that guy hasn't seen a use case for `eval`. You're not going to because you're not looking; you're thinking of objects in JS as having classes, and that's just a fundamental misunderstanding.

For what it's worth, I only write CoffeeScript, which makes everything you think is a hassle in JS easy. In particular, the `class` keyword which has a much prettier, more traditional-seeming syntax to build constructors. But it's a highly leaky abstraction— if you don't understand that what it's compiling to is a function that creates a constructor and sets properties on its `.prototype` one at a time, you will be very confused by the more complex behavior. On the other hand, if you do understand what's going on behind the scenes, it allows for powerful metaprogramming, since you can call methods of the "parent class" or even the prototype itself during the definition.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming
> PIGS as it is called: Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain)

Nitpick: initially it was PIIGS for Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain, especially since Ireland got worse much faster than Italy has, and Italy is still on the cusp, as it were.
If only.

1) "Fiduciary duty" in 2011 in the USA seems to mean maximizing share price at all times. If you don't, you're out of a job.

2) Compensation is largely tied to stock price -- either via options, or via bonuses paid explicitly on stock price.

One thing you can do is bury your own specific bad news in a general downturn, since you'll be blamed a lot less for external things. E.g. if you have recalls, bad numbers, etc. to announce, announce them on a day when everyone is getting hammered for exogenous reasons.

But yes, definitely worse for companies who have registered but not completed IPOs.
No, NP-hard problems can still be solved, just not in polynomial time.
Reading the title alone, I thought of personal contexts rather than professional.

I have had influence in personal contexts. By not judging, spending time with the person, and slowly explaining my point of view -- often after listening to theirs without immediate response or interruption.

Key to this was the investment of time. And key to that, perhaps, was that I enjoyed the person, even if I did not agree with some of their viewpoints and opinions. They were fair with me and enjoyable to be around (within the limited context of our relationship), and that provided the context for trust and understanding.

I'm mindful that these same traits may apply in professional contexts. You may not agree with someone else's approach or opinion, but you may enjoy spending time with or working with them. Over time, they may come to a greater appreciation of your point of view, especially as they observe your abilities and integrity.

So... it's back to time and relationships. Convincing someone may well be more, or something else than, a brilliant argument that provokes an immediate transformation. You earn respect and trust, and perspective comes along for the ride.

Of course, this is predicated on some positive professional or personal connection.

I've experienced this at work. I have been smart and I have come through with solutions. Over time, others have come to grant my ideas consideration because of this. It's worked in large corporations, allowing my to bypass normally undefeatable red tape. If people know you and have learned to rely on you, you can often at least get due consideration. And, in turn, if the answer is "no", you may get an explanation, rather than just "no". It's worth the effort, for them.
Apple Now The Most Valuable Company In The World
With the ease with which the burner can be turned into a bomb, it's portability (like a large Molotov), and the $15 price tag, I would be really surprised if it were genuinely an outlier (in the sense of being a chance correlation with current events).
Alternate title: How not to represent data in an infographic.
I actually think Coffeescript has one up on Python in some places. Splat assignment, for example, and a slightly simpler idiom for iterating through objects.
You have to identify when they're applicable and adapt the algorithm to your problem in your code using the libraries you have available.

If you can outsource the problem and plug in a solution, that's great, but it's not always possible.
Yo dawg I heard you like Firefox...
Paste this inside of your Firefox address bar to have Firefox render itself

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
Did Russian raid bring down Mac Defender malware company?
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64% of Small Businesses Think Social Media Is Unnecessary
> I don't see any inconsistency between a universe created by God and any scientific observations we make within that creation.

I don't know if there's a name for this argument, but it would seem to imply that a god or gods are not necessary (whether or not it or they exist). When you combine that with Occam's Razor (the hypothesis that makes the fewest assumptions is likely the correct one), my interpretation is that there is likely not a god or gods.
I think it's the result of people wanting to do something to show that the community cares, and realising that actually the local councils had already done a good cleanup job overnight.

Nevertheless, I thought it was a heart warming gesture.
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The infographic is too full of eye candy (crap graphs) to be of any use. If you don't stare directly at the fans they cause an optical illusion and seem to spin.
I think you're equating short selling with fraudulent market manipulation. Short selling has no soul - flipping the buy-then-sell to sell-then-buy ( that is, shorting ) merely allows the pessimists to place their bets along side the optimists, and the markets are better off for it. A great read on the subject:

http://leedsonfinance.com/2009/06/13/the-sec-is-at-it-again-...
Crowdsourced Contest Platform Now Looking To ID Problems, Not Just Solve Them
Startups aren't completely independent of the market. They either seek to IPO or be acquired by a company. Both of these possibilities are highly dependent on the availability of excess capital. When the market goes down, acquirers & potential IPO purchasers have less capital.

This doesn't mean it affects an entrepreneurs day-to-day life, nor should it. But, VCs by definition invest until they can get an exit. If the IPO and M&A market dries up, it is harder for them to get an exit, and thus they are less likely to invest.
No, they'll just send you less data. See BitTyrant for a detailed examination.
The geeky power of light
IE probably has huge numbers because it's prevalent in the corporate world. Most corporations use Microsoft and either discourage or prevent their employees from downloading other browsers.
If these people that are forced to use IE at work aren't tech savvy then they probably continue using IE at home.
I'm assuming that there are still a large number of static websites, without any server-side programming. But either way, a percent graph that doesn't add up to 100% is just absurd.
...that thing is monstrous. It seems to me that it presents an almost frightening display of information. The synonym handling is great, but why not keep the original tag display and show the wiki description as a tooltip when hovering over one of the options?

I personally think the ui is kind of intimidating, and will drive people off tagging because of the suggestion that you should actually do all of the "work" of reading those descriptions.
An aluminum bat to the head would greatly increase the chance that the person will be killed rather than just knocked out. I certainly disapprove of the looters and rioters, but I don't think they deserve to die.
In the past I've had a rough time parsing PHP (for an rdoc-style project), despite PHP having some built in support for parsing itself: http://php.net/manual/en/function.token-get-all.php

Perhaps if one attempted to pull the parser out of Facebook's Hiphop and use that..
They're about to be told to by the US government via the "Protecting blah blah child pornography act of 2011" if it's not stopped. Look it up.
Although I am deeply unreligious and disagree with much of what the Vatican says regarding birth control etc, I've been impressed with the Vatican's statements in past years re: the Big Bang, evolution, aliens, etc.

The Vatican's chief astronomer said that aliens likely have souls and he would "gladly baptize one if it asked".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/17/pope-astronome...
8000 Christians openly advocate killing atheists on FOX Facebook page.
Can someone explain to me the Next Google metaphor? And is a raid a metaphor for a regular job in this case?

I'm also not that knowledgeable in MMORPG terms, but I do know things like "drops" and "PVP", and I can deduce other terms.
I think someone in another thread mentioned that this is a game theory problem - no one company has the incentive to start enforcing some of these decisions, since it may drive uses away. ("Ugh, I hate AT&T, they always make me enter my stupid PIN number for my voicemail! I'm going back to Verizon when my contract is up!")
Inside sources say that it will be called Nitendo 3DS
Anonymous Plans 'Operation Facebook'
Can you make a similar list of achievements to aquire Soft Skills?
I could be mistaken, but from previous articles regarding the serial port on the iPhone, this is NOT an actual RS232 port, instead it is a software emulated RS232 (serial) port, that actually does not provide low-level access to the device. Instead, it filters things in realtime, and interprets incoming/outgoing messages as needed.
It's been done, and it doesn't always end well: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20021735-93.html
That's not what I asked, though. It's easy to believe someone says they know MySQL but doesn't. It's the combination of all of them that I'm skeptical about.

1. Has built websites for 10 years

2. Websites have all been on MySQL

3. Is a verifiable domain expert in a field that is useful to you but isn't programming.
Feel free to give me more suggestions!
Good luck proving anything to those who unconsciously and automatically shun reason.
Patent Troll Lawyer Sanctioned Over Extortion Tactics
Looks good, yes, and not safe for work.
Taazr looks Arabic to me (تازر). According to Google Translate, it actually is a word: "Synergy." Was that the origin of the name?
Good part is that Galaxy Tab might get a bit cheaper in other parts :P
Nuance Deal is Key for OfficeDrop and Other Cloud Sharing Startups
Entire U.S. Stealth Fighter Fleet Grounded
It wasn't staged, it was happening all over London - people were out in Clapham, Peckham and Tottenham too. There were a lot of people out making a lot of difference both literally and psychologically
I would imagine that those people may want to avoid media coverage, and would thus settle (in their favor, or the alleged copyright holders') quickly and without much fanfare.

I'm personally wondering if they've ever attempted to sue an organized crime figure, or relative. I wonder how many of these suits get quietly dropped after someone stops by their family's house for a "friendly chat".
Metal bats are long lasting, but ash bats can last a long time, too, especially if you can avoid getting jammed (hitting something with the thin part of the bat just above where your hands go.) I have a child-size ash bat that's just starting to crack after being used by three generations of my family. The parent is probably referring to maple bats which are used by about half of major league baseball players. According to conventional wisdom, maple is harder and tends to shatter more easily.

Or you could try to track down a Tidal Wave softball bat. The Tidal Wave was a metal bat with a cap in the handle so you could fill it partially with water. The momentum and non-compressibility of the water made those bats crazy-powerful. (And illegal in any semi-organized game.)
Not everyone know how to name their photographs. The proper photograph naming scheme is simply the biggest missed opportunity since the dawn of digital cameras. Using the naming scheme of Dates Pictures Taken, along with a word or two of the event, people can save themselves from aggravation in managing their thousands of digital photos.

Generally, photos are taken of an event and on a particular day. You may have multiple events in the same day, so you can further nest by time as well. But that's as far as an average user go.

It should be user's own responsibility to manage their naming schemes and sorting. You can then upload folders to any web service (or don't even bother if you use Sugar Sync or Dropbox etc).
I hadn't thought of that. When I think of people buying little propane stoves, I always think of them doing it for survival. What I thought was that some people are getting their last minute emergency supplies just in case things get worse.
Apple briefly passes Exxon as No. 1 market cap
This is ridiculous. They are suing over a rectangular shape and a certain size / weight?

So I guess only Apple can make a thin tablet. Any other one will be an infringement...

Can Ssamsung sue all other TV makers since they are all rectangular, with a bezel, and is flat? They all look too similar to Samsung TVs!
No I have had 1 and 2 though. I haven't really met anyone who tried to convince me they knew anything other than programming and databases to be honest. I'm also not sure how that would come up.
IMO CoffeeScript exists because we can't really avoid JS for web apps. But avoiding PHP is pretty straightforward - you just use python, ruby, or whatever.
It seems to me that there are only so many ways to design a thin, tablet-like device. How different would Samsung have needed to make its tablet so as not to have been affected by this to begin with?

I don't really know much of the background surrounding "community design rights", but I really think that this is a slippery slope to head down.

Competitors should do battle in the free market - not in the court systems.

Let consumers sort out which is the better product. They have no problems doing this without the aid of an injunction.

This stifling of competition via the court system is just another avenue to stagnate progress within the electronics industry.