skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the FAQ, downvote arrows only occur after you reach a certain karma threshold. A long time ago, this was bumped to 200, and about a year ago (October 31, 2010), that was again increased to 500: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529

I believe that the marker is still at 500.
If you are seeking a masters in CS most universities are only looking for programming languages, computer architecture, data structures and one algorithms course. These are the prerequisites for most courses.
I'd like to hear more about how secure their service is. I don't want a dropbox-oops to mean that someone can read all my e-mail archives with no password.
Certainly is tough to measure success, but I don't think it is just a young person attitude (that being said, I'm a fairly young person). I think I'd rather make sure that my son/family was financially stable then be successful in his eyes... I figure take the biggest risks when you are young, prior to the family/mortgage/etc. I couldn't imagine risking it all when I was primarily supporting others.

Just different ways of looking at it
But how do I know which DNS servers to trust?
I think the companies with failed IPOs are ones nobody has heard of.
Steps to find the IP address of your Phone
Steps to find the IP address of your iPhone
Target launches new site but they’ve managed to completely fail in so many ways
Improving Automated Timezone Detection (ie, 99.9 of your are doing it wrong)
Stanford Video Lecture on Modern HCI featuring mobile web app
Totally agree that TC will not 'make or break' your company. The beauty of being a startup is that you are judged primarily on your product. It is as pure a meritocracy as you will find. This is why I love it.

However, TC has become very powerful. Even Googles General Counsel speaks directly to them (http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/25/google-patent-fight). Yes the influence is not a binary 'pass' or 'fail', but it is significant enough for the CrunchFund to benefit from their writing.
Wow! Thanks for your awesome feedback!

I really like the markdown idea (and the others, but I think this should come first), so I've opened a gig if anybody wants to earn a bit of money to add that feature to it:

http://gun.io/open/8/add-markdown-support-to-lightwrite

(and there are a few other LightWrite gigs here: http://gun.io/open/tag/lightwrite/ )
Great news! Congrats to Simon and Natalie.
Thanks, dilap! That does make the concept a lot clearer. Especially the Haskell-ish typing. :)
How many car accidents are caused by drivers who are texting?
I'll take this one further level meta: why the hell does any site need to know "who" I am, period?

I know the obvious answer: for the advertising and marketing leverage. I'll do my own hand-wave here and say that this is specious, that there's a sufficiently rich predictive dataset based on other extant characteristics (browser type, IP location, on-site behavior) to do an adequate job of targeting ads to my instance of AdBlock+.

A large part of the reason I don't subscribe to sites such as The New York Times is ... I feel really uncomfortable having my list of reading preferences on the news site available. That's discoverable in all sorts of ways (legal or otherwise), and I have to trust in the Times, its staff, temps, contractors, third-party business relationships, vendors, ISPs, systems disposal methods, etc., etc.... Multiplied by every site on which "I" have an account. Um. Thanks but no.

There's the issue of payment. Bitcoin is only the latest iteration of a digital cash. Many banks now offer one-time payment tokens. There's no technical reason (though arguable usability reasons) for me to have to provide a shared secret (my account number and verification code) with every online (or offline) financial transaction. This system is proving increasingly fragile, and both online and offline systems have and will be compromised. Cash risks only the current value held. Credit/debit risks a future stream of compromised payments.

I'm moderately fine with the old-school world of pseudonymous passwords, especially with fallbacks of cypherpunks/cypherpunks, or cowbodyneil/cowboyneil (or BugMeNot) on sites. If nothing else, I'm sending a very clear signal that I don't want my data mined and I don't trust YOUR systems for guarding against this so I'm invoking my own.

There's still the closing problem of delivery. This can be managed by various means, including selective disclosure to the shipper only.

In the real world, we engage in complex transactions based on very limited identity and information disclosure. The person who makes my pencil (or ThinkPad) has no idea who I am or where I live, let alone much information about the other entities responsible for the production of the product.

The technologists here know that building a modular system with limited information disclosure based on what's needed to accomplish a given transaction, presented at the interface between operations, leads to a simpler, more robust, and ultimately better system. Why are we trying to design an online commerce system that's at such odds to these principles (see "ads/marketing comments above)?
The join(1) command is designed to do exactly this:

join -a2 -t: <(sort .nls) <(ls | sort)

(I think this is different from your pipeline, in that your pipeline will print files in .nls that aren't actually in the directory.)
"the problems begin when people start trying to paint behaviour as an immutable product of predefined genetic destiny, and then using this to support political stances that promote their own status in society"

At the same time, trying to change people's behavior is a lot like cutting down the rainforest or wiping out indigenous peoples. It sounds like a great idea, but the destruction of cognitive and behavioral diversity is probably going to lead to our extinction in the long run.

That's not meant as a justification of the status quo, but rather to point out that no one really knows what the fuck is going on.
Here's a direct link to the YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKArupEBE6Y
> While there are things to like about Tyler — a cheaper cost of living than Chicago, for example, and no lengthy commute

This city is in the armpit of nowhere. Unless he's working at the university or from home, he'll have a commute.
The Tweet-A-Watt was one of the first things I came across. In my situation, wireless seemed overkill considering my power plug is always within 10 feet of the PC.
> I don't recall developing an eating disorder or wearing makeup at an early age

Shouldn't you take this as evidence that there is something different in the way girls and boys are treated? In case you're not aware, eating disorders are horrifyingly prevalent among college-age women. [this statistic](http://www.anad.org/get-information/about-eating-disorders/e...) reports 25% engage in purging, and in my anecdotal experience, that number could be an underestimate. It would stretch my imagination to think of purging as being a biologically rooted phenomenon, so I'd say it has to have societal roots. Saying that women are statistically more likely to go to college, and therefore can't complain about a society that profoundly fucks with their psychology is analogous to saying that blacks are statistically over-represented in sports, so they can't complain about a society that holds them back in so many other ways.
A Handy Use For An Autoresponder
Sprint Files Lawsuit To Block AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
Apple is hiring two security personnel
This looks great. One very important application for such a device is for viewer analytics. A lot of companies, e.g. Nielsen, would like to automatically gather data on what you are watching. Now, its relatively easy (well, if you have access to the cable box) to know what channel you are tuned to but they don't know if you actually watching the TV or not. One necessary (but not sufficient) condition for watching is, of course, for the TV to be on, which can be detected by a gadget like this.
LG, Philips, Sharp team up on Smart TV apps
There's no need to be fair to AoL. Its record speaks for itself.
No, that's like saying "There probably a biological/psychological need to create gods that transcends culture or learned experiences."
Better yet would be to use extended file attributes to store the description with the file itself. See attr(5)/getfattr(1)/setfattr(1). Unfortunately I don't think extended attributes are preserved by most version control systems :/
Great news! well done. Love to welcome you to Tech Centre Manchester - perhaps an event to introduce Lanyrd to the North West community
NodeKO : Irregularities around public votes?
Isn't it odd that the six dots in the logo are not in Braille configuration (two columns of three dots)?
I'm wondering the same thing, I'm heading towards my GCSEs and would like to go to events, and earn revenue from what I create.
Editing a registry entry and typing a command in couldn't possibly be a pain to anyone on Hacker News...
the addition of the iPhone 5 could do more to increase smartphone sales among Sprint’s current subscriber base — and put more stress on the carrier’s network thanks to its unlimited data plans — than it will to attract new business

As a long-time Sprint customer (10 years), this is the most worrisome part about the impending iPhone 5 launch. All those Sprint customers who resisted the urge to get a smartphone, or who have BlackBerry, WinMo, or early Android devices whose contracts are coming due might jump to the iPhone. That could be disastrous for Sprint's network, since iPhone users have been known to be very data-hungry.
Extreme Reach, Boston Video-Ad Startup, Going Big with New Financing
official at last. yay!
I often wonder about these types of regulations. I would much rather see a 1$/bulb tax on incandescent bulbs drive people to more efficient solutions when it's reasonable to do so. So, if I want a 150watt light for my attic that is on for 15 hours a year then there is no reason to go with LED's at the same time I am now much better off using an LED for kitchen lighting. Does anyone know why such things are so rarely used?
I agree that the things I named aren't tasks of huge importance, and I hope it doesn't seem like nit-picking, but they were examples of the sort of thing I like to do when I'm first looking at a language. I like to play around with the features the language touts, to try to get a good feel for how it "thinks". The other option is just to start out writing unidiomatic nonsense that doesn't use any unique features of the language, and I feel like I'm teaching myself bad habits when I do that.

Anyway, my point is, this is pretty much the state of the Clojure documentation right now:

On Clojure.org:

- List of features

- Alphabetical list of functions stretching as far as the eye can see

On ClojureDocs.org:

- List of functions by namespace

- Long list of functions by "category"

- A cheatsheet consisting of the long list of functions by category with descriptions removed

ClojureDocs is much better, but it still isn't enough to even implement a simple facsimile of hash-set or figure out how to start multiple threads in order to take advantage of all those swanky concurrency features. (The concurrency example is actually something practical I wanted to do. I have a slightly quirky bin-packing algorithm that I wanted to parallelize and I felt stumped staring at the list of functions. Finally I found a Stack Overflow post that said to just use Java's Thread.run with a Clojure function.)
Did you read this:

DictionaryPresenter.new(PostCategorizationPolicy,
Post.all).as_dictionary

Yeah, so that's getting a bit long. It happens. :)

STEVE! LOOK OUT! BEES!

So Steve wants an index by letter for posts. Building an index by letter for a collection in Ruby is practically a core function of the language. Generalize my comment above to, "don't wrap core functions of the language up in classes; do them in idiom".
To Raise, Or Not To Raise (Money)
Your conclusion is that they were acting the way they were expected to - which is certainly possible. I'm not sure. But I don't think you considered another possibility, which is this night out was a release, and it was refreshing to go out and not think deep thoughts. Or, in other words, to go out and have fun.

Yes, when you're with good friends you know well, you can seamlessly go back and forth between serious conversation and fun, goofing around conversation. But when you're around new people, and you want to have a good time, I think we (as a species) tend towards goofing around conversation. If I've been working a lot, a night out where I don't think Deep Thoughts is exactly what I want.

And for the record, I tend not to go into too much detail about my work unless I'm seriously prodded because, really, what I do is boring to most people.

So, my point: there are alternate explanations.
I lot of the people who refuse to accept biological origins of gender differences don't usually have much faith in evolution to begin with. Funny how both the far-right and the far-left tend to agree on things, especially skepticism of science (or at least its casual dismissal) that counters their zealous views.
If you read "A Deepness in the Sky" (and, perhaps not necessary but nice for the sake of story (a very good one, with its own ideas) and author's intent, his prior "A Fire Upon the Deep"), you'll encounter several other technological ideas -- e.g. smart "dust", biochemical mind "influence" ("focus"), etc. -- that are currently playing out in practical terms in the contemporary technological and research worlds.

What can make scientists with a literary gift so interesting is that their formal position helps them sit on the cusp, looking forward, while their literary skills help them articulate what they see coming.
The report goes well beyond who does business with whom; it traces the lines of control among transnational corporations (TNCs). FTA:

“despite its small size, the core holds collectively a large fraction of the total network control. In detail, nearly 4/10 of the control over the economic value of TNCs in the world is held, via a complicated web of ownership relations, by a group of 147 TNCs in the core, which has almost full control over itself. The top holders within the core can thus be thought of as an economic “super-entity” in the global network of corporations.”

It would be interesting to see a followup on the individuals who sit on the boards of the 147 TNCs. It's likely to be a pretty exclusive club, since directors often sit on the boards of more than one corporation, further consolidating the decision-making authority and creating a potentially catastrophic single point of failure in the world's financial systems. We should consider restricting directors from serving on more than one board, to decentralize authority and create a more robust and diverse system of corporate governance.
The point of gender issues isn't to say women shouldn't care about beauty, child care, or or emotional connections. The point is that women can choose to care about the realms of life you described as "masculine"- jobs, academic accomplishments, financial independence.

The problem with gender issues reveals itself when the activities and traits you traditionally classified by gender are enforced on individuals of that gender. When a young woman's boss passes her over for promotion because she is around the age many women decide to bear children. When a young man is mocked and humiliated for doing ballet. When a woman is declared selfish because she chose her career over staying home with children.

There are women who don't like children, and have no desire to raise one. There are men who would rather stay home and cook, clean, and raise children than have a "smart job".

Treating traits as "feminine" and "masculine", which is what happens when young boys are encouraged to look at cars and young girls are told to be pretty, sends the societal message to young girls that she cannot have a smart job, academic achievements and so forth because women don't do those things.
Lanyrd is one of those weird sites that I expect never to work because of how hard it is to consolidate content, and yet it always works. Glad to hear that things are going well for them; without Lanyrd I'm not sure how I'd sort through conferences.
Through Breaches and Bad Times, Security Budgets Are Up
Something does not smell right here. This letter sounds immature. If there was a large scale MIM attack, the team setting this up would not post something like this.

Hacking into a CA and stealing a certificate could definitely be one-man operation. But a large scale MIM attack requires a lot more resources.

* Hacker would have to pipe, monitor/store all the traffic), this requires a lot of server space and bandwith that's not easy to obtain, anonymously... from Iran.

* One needs to "hack" into the individual ISPs and alter routes/etc

* I didn't see any certificates for banking sites, but for targets such as google, wordpress, TOR etc. Even if you have collected the info (terabytes of stuff) it takes time to process through them.
Conveniently enough, this article has a helpful graph of the most common screen resolutions on Windows:

https://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/26/improvements-...
I blogged about some of the problems I faced: http://monogatari.doukut.su/2011/07/my-experiences-with-appl...
I suppose it depends on the specifics of your program. BS in CS over here, never had to take a compiler class as far as I remember.
I always liked the term PORC (Plain Old Ruby Classes) for the Ruby analogue of a POJO
Objective-C is now the 6th most popular language according to TIOBE
Thanks very much. Lots of people ask us how we scrape the data... the answer is we don't, it's all added by our community (the only exception is the schedules for larger events such as OSCON, which I sometimes import in to the site).
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I do realize this, but the heads up is appreciated. In ST2 everything just fits so neatly together, and the (very nice) API is geared towards Python scripts.
Conan O’Brien’s Burbank TV Studio Is Up for Rent on Airbnb
The second half of this post made me think about _Style: Toward Clarity And Grace_, the (geekiest ever) writing book Richard Gabriel recommends (and it is great). The first fifth of the book does little else but rail against "nominalization", which is the bad writing habit of turning verbs into nouns, which abets flabby passive voice writing.

Isn't that exactly what Steve's doing here?

Combining the flexibility of Ruby with one of my favorite patterns from "Working Effectively with Legacy Code," we can take complex computations and turn them into objects.

AAAGH! BEES!

Look at Norvig code. I'm struck by how he just gets to the point. "Here's how I'm modeling my data. Here's a few functions that work with the model: whack, whack, whack! Here's 'main'. Boom, I solved Soduku."

"TurnaroundCalculator" doesn't even need state. Why is it a class with a bunch of private methods? Sure, this code doesn't belong in an AR model. So stick it in a function!
I'm personally of the opinion that there's a finite number of times that I'm willing to tolerate "histrionic linkbait" headlines.

From tech crunch and a number of other providers that find themselves in the top spot on HN I've personally stopped logging through to the actual article until I've at least read a few comments.

Does the discussion warrant my heading through to the full source? Usually, no.

I know that from the general success of these pages and places like Fox News, there seems to be a near-enough-bottomless appetite for histrionic linkbait in the news, so I'm pretty sure it's never going to go away.

Part of me however wonders if there is any correlation between those posts we see from time to time entitled "I'm leaving Hackernews forever" or "Hacker News has gone downhill" and the number of high-drama BS posts that make it onto the front page over a particular timespan. Maybe it's just cumulative over time, you eventually have your "fill" and leave.

I guess I'm kinda just rambling a bit... but it seems to me that TC puts out a lot of noise. Was "angelgate" pre-AOL ? Maybe it's always been that way.
What JDBC string and driver should I use to connect to database servers?
What happens when your startup is acquired?
Success depends on founders and acquirers sharing vision and control
Steve isn't talking about which model code belongs to. Nobody is attacking the idea of factoring code out of models. But I'm attacking the idea that the place for any refactored code to go is into its own class.
It's not so much that we felt pressurised by our friends, but more to do with the fact that we were disappointed in failing to live up to our OWN expectations. Simply put, we graduated from two of the best Universities in London, and here we were, earning $15 a day (split two ways!). Financially, this was wrecking us. It wasn't about bragging rights or earning more than our friends, we loved what we were doing and had foregone great salaries to live out our dream - but not earning enough to even buy a week's worth of groceries scared the crap out of us.

Sadly, quite often, people here in London seldom respect you when you say you're running a startup, thinking you're probably just unemployed and can't find a proper job.

I guess in the end, the fact that we couldn't contemplate failing really pushed us to devise innovative strategies to succeed on the App Store with very little money (we'll explain this in detail in part 3).
The demo as described is kind of silly… it's easy to get two bulbs to appear to generate the same color white light reflecting off a given background; there are at most 4-5 variables to adjust (given that humans have 4-5 different classes of light sensors). A group of 5 LEDs (red, yellow, green, aqua, blue) could be made to pass this test but would render colors terribly.

Color me impressed when participants can't tell the difference between rainbows generated by each light passing through a prism – that would be a much better test of color rendering ability.
Congrats guys!! Excited to see where you take it!
We'd love to come up to Manchester some time - drop us an email: contact at lanyrd dot com.
I had this friend who called up to talk about an idea. I listened for about 20-30 mins, made what i thought were meaningful questions, then asked him, i have an idea too and if he wants to listen? He said, he'll call back in an hour and was gone. I guess, he wanted me to execute the idea:-). Btw, am working on implementing that idea of mine, only it's going slower than i would like it to.
I actually came across a high school friend's mugshot on one of these (many) sites a few months ago and emailed the state AG and Department of Commerce inquiring about the legality of these sites.

Received a reply that this was not yet on their radar, but that mugshots are considered public domain. Not sure what to make of this, but it seems a bit extortionary and surely unfair to those people who were ultimately found innocent, yet still have their mugshots appearing on these sites.
Sure and I agree with your point about his example - it's not a good example.

Did you read this:

We've already added a new feature: any collection can now be displayed as a dictionary

I think this a very weak motivation for creating a new class!
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Apple takes Chinese food company to task over their logo
Good resource to learn a new language
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Got nostalgic for some old school gaming. Wanted to share. Enjoy.
http://pastebin.com/1AxH30em <-- Check this out

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2011/03/comodo-hacker-releases...