skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Armstrong, the Django-based and open-source news CMS, is now released
In Cambridge, MA the police have been enforcing traffic laws with bikers. Dunno what effect it has had, but enforcement, IMHO, as a place in getting bikers to obey the traffic laws.

Drivers, on the whole, behave pretty badly too. As a driver, biker, and pedestrian in the Boston area I don't think I would say any of those groups act better than others.

Would love separated bike lanes. Biking in the city is very satisfying, but also nerve racking for me.
I applied for a kit when I first heard about this, but the kit's been sitting on my desk for a couple days.

I just went ahead and did the swabbing. It was very simple, took only 2 minutes, and was completely non-invasive. (It was also completely free.)

If you haven't signed up yet, please do so. Even if you don't care about Amit (I have no idea who he is), you might be able to help someone else in need.
Isn't there some sort of city council that decides this sort of thing, rather than a sole executive? Most public works projects don't go through a referendum from what I've seen, which would be impractically unwieldy.
2 weeks milestone/warning for the next few months: It gets worse. Then it gets better. Then you just have to get used to the new lifestyle.
Put That Techcrunch Down
I find it funny that you consider it a joke and yet it has made more impact in journalism than anything else in the last 10 years.

It also appears to be one of the most well-reported jokes around.
Get Better
Good article! Like his conclusions mention it reminded me a lot of what XNA developers were going through when it was first released in 2007.

In general garbage collectors are sensitive to the volume of objects in the heap and the number of live references, since the collector works by scanning all live objects and following all references contained. If you can't reduce the volume of memory you use explicitly then you can take a stab at reducing the memory used by various language features. Boxing value-types -- such as using a non-generic list of integers, using delegates/events/generators, using specified capacities with System.Collections.List<T>, etc., can all go a long way toward lowering overhead. Reducing the references (by moving to storing indices) can be fairly easy and can be a significant gain as well.

Disposing of IDisposable objects (via using-blocks) when you're done with them rather than waiting for the collector to harvest and/or finalize them also helps considerably.

I think in general more explicit memory usage patterns can benefit even when using a managed language -- you know more about your program and where performance matters than the garbage collector ever will.
I am only interested in recruiting programmers. I tend to believe that every role has a specific optimal recruiting process. For instance, if you read upthread, you'll find that none of this advice is germane to hiring direct sales account managers; I can similarly lay out a short list of pitfalls to hiring marketing people.

Also, while I am somewhat motivated by the idea of a fledgeling developer wondering whether to include her GPA on her resume, I'm speaking mostly from the perspective of a hiring manager. So, your problem of "fitting the boxes" isn't my problem. As a hiring manager, I'm always going to tend to be hiring for specific roles.

Having said that, the best advice for overcoming this obstacle is the old, cliched stuff in _What Color Is Your Parachute_: expend effort on networking your way to a face to face discussion with the person in your dream company who can make a hiring decision. Bypass the hiring process as much as possible.
Ask how he/she left...

Would they hire him/her again.
10 Years And 320 Million Units Old: Apple iPod
For something this lovely, you wouldn't really be stealing, just helping.
What is a Certified Coding Specialist
First they laugh at you.......................then you win.
What's Happening in Manchester
I just hope Jeff realizes that the amount of work per child is exponential not linear. So having twins will be about four times the work of just one child.

Also, I'm sure Jeff has already done the math on this but at at roughly seven diapers per day, 40 diapers per week, 2000 diapers per year, your average child goes through about 5000 diapers. 5K down, 10K to go :)
I did read the last paragraph. IMHO, Its too cyclic (link wise) and ambiguous to be of much use. But if it really was what the authors main agenda was, then props to them...except why in the very last paragraph? What is everything before it? What is this 'seem' business?

You shouldn't write down every answer in the book and hope the reader will pick the right one. Thats a multiple choice test, not an informed article.
In theory, yes. If you want to see adults behave like they're immortal, spend an hour in Copenhagen bicycle rush hour. Copenhagen bicyclists are actively taught that they are superior to any other mode of transport, and it shows.

And yes, I have cycled in Copenhagen for years and not at all innocent in this matter.
I'm a daily bike commuter and I would love to see a Netherlands-like biking network in the US, but it's hard for me to imagine anywhere that's not as flat as most of the Netherlands. I could see it here in Portland or maybe Philly, but I don't think it would really increase the numbers of cyclists that much in, say, Seattle, where I used to live (and bike).
My kid is a little sensitive. He was born prematurely and he also inherited a little allergic material from me. A month ago he had a very mild version of Lyell syndrome, most probably as an allergic reaction to an infection with staphylococcus aureus.

He's over it, he's doing great in general, he looks his age both physically and mentally and to us he's the best kid in the world (and I'm sure we aren't exaggerating much), but ever since he was born we have been freaking out, being extra careful not to catch cold, doing all kinds of tests for hearing, eye-sight, immunity, allergic reactions, bacterial infections and so on and so forth.

Imagine that in the case of this Lyell syndrome, the doctor warned us that he may lose all his skin, and that this is extremely dangerous because it will behave like being burned. Fortunately it didn't happen that way, but imagine the stress.

Now, I don't know what kind of problems I'll have later down the road, but I'm pretty sure health-related problems, especially when the child is between 0 and 2 years, are the worst ;)
> I find the behavior of most bikers in traffic to be dangerous, obnoxious and rude.

And I find the behaviour of most drivers to be potentially fatally dangerous to me as a cyclist and pedestrian.

> And the worst part is you can't say anything

And I can't say anything to the drivers because they are sitting in a multi-ton closed cage that they can't hear you unless I yell close to their window.
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The Pen is Mighter
When it comes to creative, free form idea generation, nothing can beat the old-school pen and paper method.
I suppose if "you win" means a jail sentence, then yes.
Tracking information across sites doesn't necessarily mean tracking information while logged out. They've publicly stated that the tracking while logged out feature was a bug. Also, this patent (based on the abstract) doesn't state anything about tracking non-users which is another issue highlighted in this blog.

You can certainly make a case that this patent might cover those features but it depends on whether or not you want to put your tinfoil hat on.
he's vastly overestimating his importance to everyone else

I think you're vastly underestimating the number of people in the startup community to who he's very important. He's not Steve Jobs, but he's someone a lot of us care about.
Antepedia is an encyclopedia/index of open source components
> You're being dishonest by quoting that one line, and ignoring the fact that I'm an electronics and software hacker.

Your being an electronics and software hacker is irrelevant to any argument.

> I guess, in your book, because Woz used drugs, he doesn't qualify as a hacker, eh?

This argument makes no sense. You used "hack" to describe the process of taking LSD, saying that taking LSD is sufficient to make you a hacker, which I pointed out means my technology-phobic parents are also hackers. I did not say taking LSD disqualifies you from being a hacker, merely that it is not sufficient.

> This is just childish posturing on your part, since you're not an engineer.

You should let my employer know! They're wasting money on me if I'm not actually an engineer!

I'm not even going to try to continue past this point.
WikiLeaks stops publishing to focus on raising funds.
Game drives at Erindi Private Game Reserve, Are they as great as people say?
> In the end, saving Amit's life is better than not saving it, all else being equal. Especially when the goal is so clearly defined and within reach.

I know...

But he could've had the same result AND acknowledged the fact that millions of people have equally important life-threatening afflictions, that his is no more important, and that his experience has helped him realize the greater good of focusing on promoting a cause like bone marrow transplants.

Instead, he chose to come off very selfish and presumptuous of his own importance to literally everyone he can reach. Just read the promotional materials, it really is shameless.

Back to my original comment though, it would be cool if he continued exactly what he's doing, but for other people, if this works out for him.
This seems pretty cool. But is the viewing angle of an LCD an inherent property of the particular materials used or is it a side effect of uncertain manufacturing processes? I.e. could an LCD screen's viewing angle be changed if it was manufactured more precisely or calibrated better or something?
Jelly wasn't just a coworking space, it was (as far as I understand) the first public coworking space. Surely before Jelly freelancers were working together, but Jelly was the first "come one, come all!" kind of coworking space. And it's free.

And it makes sense. Amit is a "come one, come all" kind of guy, which is why so many people are rallying behind him.
I have to disagree with you about dark matter and dark energy seeming contrived.

First it's hard to call dark energy "contrived" when it hasn't really been contrived, conceived, or created at all. That is, no one has really made any strong, convincing claims as to what it actually is. The term is really just a placeholder for the fact that something is providing a long-scale repulsive force (and so probably has negative energy density). Although it can be "explained" by a cosmological constant, that just punts the question to what the cosmological constant physically is.

As for dark matter, it is the simplest, most elegant way to explain the variety of observations that point to its existence. These observations include small-scale dynamics of dwarf spheroidal galaxies, the rotation curves of galaxies, gravitational lensing due to galaxy clusters, and more. All of them can be explained if there exists some unknown particle which interacts only weakly with other particles. While it's true that the standard model predicts no such particle, it's also true that it's known that the standard model is an incomplete theory.

You might argue that it could just as well be that our theory of gravity is wrong. (Certainly at the quantum level we know for sure that that is the case.) But inaccuracies in our theory of gravity at large scales have difficulty explaining the dark matter problem in an elegant matter. Consider dwarf spheroidals. These are the smallest of galaxies; in terms of luminous mass, they are only slightly more massive than globular clusters. Yet globular clusters are 1000s of times smaller than dwarf spheroidals. How can they possibly remain gravitationally bound on the scale of 1000s of light-years when globular clusters are only bound on scales of a few light-years? Dark matter can explain this by simply saying that dwarf spheroidals have relatively massive dark matter halos, whereas globular clusters have almost no dark matter. (Which one would expect in standard galaxy formation scenarios.) But modified gravity theories have difficulty explaining why two systems with similar masses interact so differently.

We can similarly see that galaxies of all sizes exhibit a range of dark matter fractions. If the problem was merely with our theory of gravity one would expect all galaxies of a given luminous mass to have the same dark matter fraction. Any modified theory of gravity which explained these observations would not be aesthetic. The aesthetic explanation would be some hitherto unknown weakly interacting massive particle.
I love children but I am looking forward to NEVER having them. My sister's got a couple now and my cousin's boys are carrying on the family name for the people in my family who care about that.

I think it's incredibly selfish to bring new kids into the world when there are so many that nobody wants. I don't normally say that to people and I don't really hold it against anyone (I do understand the motivations for having your own children), but that's how I feel.

If really want to do something useful and not just serve your own desires, why wouldn't you just adopt?
Yes, the first three months come with very little reward, it's exhausting. During that time almost all I can remember is my daughter crying, she cried to take a bath, to change diapers, from gas. And maybe the worst was that she cried really, really loud, affording comments from doctors and other professionals (that are in frequent contact with different kids) that she had "good lungs" or "strong personality".

Then at four months she teething started early and she couldn't even sooth herself by biting toys, so it was a real burden for everyone.

It was only after that period that things really started to look better, with her interacting more and developing a more visible personality.

I heard somewhere that babies should actually spend three more months in gestation, but can't since we started to walk upright and now have a narrower birth canal. I think it's a very elucidative theory, because in that period I really don't think that babies are ready to face the world.
Rails 3.1 and installing Ruby 1.9.2 with the 'fast require' patch,readline,iconv
contact the person who runs the site, I'm sure they'll do their best. From what I've read here, it's just one person doing this because they enjoy doing it. You tend to get excellent customer service from those types of ventures.
You don't need to put your home address on your resume, but having some mailing address can be helpful; I've sent books to 4 or 5 candidates in the past month or so, and each time I had to ask for an address, which felt kind of awkward (like, maybe they didn't want to disclose their address?).

I think it's fair to worry that some brain-dead screening process will weed you out somewhere based on your address (ie, by sticking you in the "need to relocate" bucket), so for whatever this is worth: you definitely don't need to include your address on your resume. No reasonable company will discard a resume because it lacks a home address.
Great article. To add: It also doesn't help that many of NYC's bike lanes are less safe than just riding in the middle of the road.

The streets of Manhattan are a dangerous jungle for bikers. Cabs hit and run on a daily basis. Some of the bike lanes are in between parked cars and the car lanes making the risk even higher. Car doors, pedestrians running out, cars hugging the edge to make a turn, cars double parked. It's a far cry from a dedicated lane.

Personal experience time: When I first started riding in NYC it was a cautious, rule following experience. Then after a while you see how little respect you get and how much you genuinely have to look out for you're own life and you stop caring. You perceive every passing car as a potential death/bodily injury threat and pave your own way.
interesting, I didn't even notice the lack of capital letters until I read your comment.
Looking on the bright side, if FB were given a very broad patent on this, it would mean that we could focus on just blocking FB's efforts and let their lawyers keep anyone else from doing it to us.

This is just another step in the privacy versus marketing arms race that started with simple things like cookies and web bugs. Those who care will block it and those who don't will become resellable data.
I bet when she gets to school Alice is going to be trying to pass secret notes to Bob.
Show HN: Full screen presentation - clickable wireframes
Neat stuff, qrush!

Some feedback: the order in which you introduce the concepts on the page seems backwards. You're starting with the "how" and ending with the "why."

I know this is just an MVP and you're focused on the tech types, but I, for one, had to read the page more than once to really 'get it.'

My humble suggestion:

1. Set the context with the Siri screenshot, which iPhone 4S users will recognize. ("Okay, I get this. We're sending a text with Siri.")
2. Next, demonstrate the value with the SMS-and-response screenshot. Hook the imagination. ("Wow, that's cool! How can I do that?")
3. Context established, hook in place, continue with the how-to screenshots, technical details, email signup.

Kudos again for the neat project. You may have just sold me a 4S, too!
Steve Jobs memorial - Steve asks Siri a question
Nice. Anyone got any bets on which open source video player will become the standard?

We're using jPlayer (http://www.jplayer.org) here, which seems to have more traction than VideoJS so far (http://www.google.com/trends?q=videojs%2Cjplayer), but it's nearly a year since any updates were released.
Just released new collaboration features and this demonstrates a piece of that benefit
High Performance Enabled SSH/SCP
"Rational" is a loaded term but in the context of the Austrian school of economics, to which Hazzlitt subscribed, it's not such a big problem. The Austrians assume that man is rational in the sense that he acts purposefully. Joe chooses to exchange A for B because he believes that will be better for him. That is all. There's no assumption that B is in any way objectively better than A, or that Joe will be happy after the exchange.
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Indeed. I would "shamelessly" do damm well whatever I have to, in order to survive. Especially in a situation like this.

Plus, word is that Amit is a really great person. I wish I was south asian, so I could help...
For me, the first 6-8 weeks were the most difficult. It starts getting easier and you start getting better at it. Hang in there.

Your parents didn't mention it because they probably forgot how difficult that part was. It passes quickly-- even though it may not seem like it at the time-- and is mostly a blur when you look back. Take lots of pictures. Think about keeping a journal.
Why not model GEN-2 GC frequency, then do the following:

1. When a gen-2 is likely to occur (looks like 3 vertical lines on your chart), tell the load balancer to stop forwarding requests.

2. Let any existing connections finish.

3. Run the GC manually.

4. Ask the load balancer to start sending requests again.

This seems cleaner than marring what sounded like already complex code with additional cognitive burdens.
The $300 House: One Year Later
Thanks nz, I too was trying to "get it", and I wanted to see if others would too. Definitely could use some clarification and I'll continue to refine the concept...once I get it in the hands of some more folks.
I think I want to stay away from interrupting listening. I know there free so complaining is kind of pointless and lame, but I cant stand it in other music services. I might look into a service like http://carbonads.net/.
Capitalism may be a heroic venture, but buying and owning stuff is not the part benefits mankind. I was also oversimplifying with respect to "in it for the money", but the fact is he fought a lot of patent wars. Patents are simply land claims (a ka buying and owning land) and it is not all obvious that they benefit society in a heroic way - capitalism or not.

Also, sorry, but you are just stupid for assuming that I am Marxist just because I criticized some businessman. I never even mentioned any charities. Go find somebody else to vent your frustration to.
I hope you guys are working on a pro-privacy email service
It's complicated, though. I think there's probably at least a bit of selection bias at work. There are plenty of cyclists who take traffic laws as seriously as drivers. But you're not going to notice them as much. And, here, in Portland, it's easy because most (not all) drivers are used to having cyclists in traffic with them and understand how to behave.

I used to live in Seattle, though, which had a lot fewer cyclists, and drivers in general were not used to watching out for bikes, or understanding cyclists' behavior in traffic. So, there, I had a completely different mindset. I saw motor traffic and traffic laws, including lights, stop signs, etc. as obstacles through which to navigate. I had to always be vigilant about where cars were, where they were going, etc. I always had to take care to see if there was cross-traffic (including pedestrian) coming at intersections or not. I didn't really consider myself part of traffic so much, because most drivers didn't.*

To be fair, part of it was that the elevation changes in Seattle are so drastic that keeping momentum through intersections was a lot more important. And it's true that this is the attitude that many cyclists have: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71JZgBLKMTs

* The somewhat paradoxical part about this is that I've actually had more traffic 'incidents' with cars here in Portland. This is because the abundant bike lanes and friendly drivers don't require my full vigilance all the time. Which is obviously not true, but it feels that way. I let my guard down in a way that I shouldn't, and obviously couldn't in Seattle, but it's easy to get lazy here.
With my experience, LinkedIn will say that you are an anonymous user or give me a list of 15 people to guess who you are. I also don't think the people recommendations algorithm includes whose profile you visit.
Show HN: easily export balsamiq to HTML/CSS
This is an interesting book, but I think it's inferior to Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom when it comes to illustrating the core concepts underlying a free market viewpoint.
He is using his disease to call on his community (the relatively small community of technologists and entrepreneurs) to sign up to be bone marrow donors knowing very well that there is only a small chance any one of us will be a match for him but that we may very well be a match for someone else.

So yes, he is championing other peoples' life-threatening needs!
The Google Monopoly
nod. My latest vice is Python. Oddly enough, still doing low-level stuff thanks to WDK.