skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much does saying someone is a Ruby wiz tell you about the programs they create? Knowing how to write functional, efficient code is no guarantee of producing a useful, interesting, or beautiful program.

Edit to add: beautiful software is a design problem--encompassing both function and looks. If the functional design is good, but the person doesn't know Photoshop, it makes sense to hire a Photoshop wiz to help them with the looks. I think we're in agreement, though, that being good with the tool is not by itself evidence of good design.
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The reasons why the number of sourceforge visitors with Linux is declining might also include GitHub, which became hugely popular in this crowd.
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If you want to experience a modern Perl, you can use perlbrew[1] to install it for your user only (e.g. you won't need to muck with the system's Perl), cpanm[2] is a modern and easy (and zero-configuration) tool for install modules from CPAN. MetaCPAN[3] is a modern browser for the CPAN archive. Task-*[4] collections are good for finding modules in the ecosystem related to a subcommunity or project. I think Task-Kensho[5] is a good collection of modern Perl modules to start out and try the language. To me, the most influential projects right now are Plack[6]/PSGI[7] and Moose[8].

Community-wise I'd keep an eye on the IronMan aggregator[9] and blogs.perl.org[10].

[1] https://metacpan.org/release/App-perlbrew
[2] https://metacpan.org/release/App-cpanminus
[3] https://metacpan.org/
[4] http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/search?query=Task-&mode=dist
[5] https://metacpan.org/release/Task-Kensho
[6] https://metacpan.org/release/Plack
[7] https://metacpan.org/release/PSGI
[8] https://metacpan.org/release/Moose
[9] http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/
[10] http://blogs.perl.org/
Sencha Touch 2 is in developer preview now. It has a steep learning curve but I think it is worth it.
is non-commercial production civil or criminal? i assume commercial production would primarily be a criminal proceeding , though the victim is also able to sue for damages and reimbursement. Is it the same for non-commercial production?
Anyone know of existing jQueryUI sites that have been converted to jQuery Mobile? It seems well documented for how to build new stuff, but if I've got an existing app with jQuery UI Sliders or jQueryUI draggables, if/how best can I convert/update it to get better touch support and/or support for more devices?
They say they're cross-browser, but their examples extensively use -webkit- css properties without the corresponding -moz-, -o- or the "vanilla" versions. None of the page transition examples work in opera.
That was alleged, but IIRC, the studies showed that there was no toxicity, and that the women with leaking silicone implants didn't have a higher incidence of problems than other women their age.
It's good to be nice if you genuinely want to be nice.

If you are doing it because you are living out a "covert contract", then people can smell that and it's not attractive.

Have a look-see at this: http://evolutionmale.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/nice-guys-aren...

(Not pointed at lukifer in particular, I'm sure he knows this already).
Here are a few others:

Sencha Touch: http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/

jQTouch: http://www.jqtouch.com/

iui: http://www.iui-js.org/

Jo: http://joapp.com/
If it works like Rain-X without causing the streaks that show up painfully in sunlight, that would be a pretty big deal.
There is. The banks mark up their costs. Wires were $7 at my bank 12 years ago, they're up to $25 now. Sounds like profit to me.

There are a ton of alternatives out there for transferring money. Wires are just one Fed product that happen to have a specific speed/security/limit/regulatory system.

Off the top of my head, if you want to move money, there's at least: ach, wire, image clearing, paper check clearing, image exchange, the atm network(s), the debit card network(s), the credit card network(s). That's leaving out paypal, western union, dwolla, and whoever else has started a money transfer business.

Almost every single one of those has different guarantees about timing, reversability, regulations, and transaction limits.

Wires happen to be a ca. 2 hour difficult to reverse (but possible) from /to banks connected to the FED. They're more expensive, probably on the order of $1 + staff overhead.

ACH is a roughly overnight to/from any bank connected to the fed, pretty easily reversible for 3-90 days. They're ~$.01/transaction at scale, and you can batch huge numbers of them into one file, so they scale. That's where most bill pay and direct deposits go, as well as a ton of other stuff.
They seem to have counted downloads, rather than site visitors.

The decline in Sourceforge downloads by Linux users is likely to be down to the fact that most will simply grab the package from their distro's repository, rather than getting it from SF. If I download, say, FileZilla on my Windows machine, I get it via Sourceforge. On my Ubuntu box, it's in the repo.
I can’t remember the last time I found a project hosted on SourceForge. Actually, I can, it was http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/ about 4 years ago. I assumed everyone had moved en masse to Github?
I've been looking at something similiar for huge static HTML files of autogenerated documentation.

I don't see why I can't deflate the tables as javascript data and then use JS to inflate and display them.

Just playing around with it I was able to compress a 120MB HTML file to 3.5MB.
It would be interesting to use QR codes to track food in general. By putting QR codes on the menu in a sit-down restaurant, I could have a log of nutritional value, money spent by each person in the meal, expenses, etc.
Really cool! Our company, theory11, designs and produces high-end playing cards. If you're into cool cards, check out our Monarch Playing Cards designed by Curtis Jinkins released this past Friday: http://www.theory11.com/playingcards/monarchs.php
These are exactly the first two things I thought. Design without requirements really turns me off.
This really shouldn't be news to anyone that's married to a fairly emotional spouse.
HTML minifiers/compressors could only get the 120MB HTML file to 104MB.
And Spine Mobile: http://spinejs.com/mobile

(disclaimer - I'm the author)
BizTalk Session with Gary Vaynerchuk and Jason Fried [audio]
EU Adopts Resolution Against US Domain Seizures
These "Perl is dead" posts seems to come from trolls from certain other language communities. And in many cases, it is the same persons writing them...
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I think they need to work on their data collection. The unknown "Other" is almost as large as the other OS categories combined. This makes it hard to draw any conclusions.
Unsurprisingly, Windows dominates with more downloads than all others combined.
No, I didn't RTFA, but I'm going to blow off some steam anyway... experimenting on mice for human-related studies (behavioral, physical etc) is not only lazy, but fraudulent. It's a waste of tax payer money, and its overly cruel on en entire species of animal.

And we constantly reference these studies with lab mice again and again for answers to human problems. It's a fraud.
RIP Internet. 1960 - 2011. Freedom had a good run. Please enter your credit card info to access this restricted webpage.

Facebook surcharge: $.33

YouTube access: $2.51

Priemium internet package: $55.99

Super delux (fewer roadblocks) internet: $99.99

Establishing ownership of the internet is quite a prize. I wonder how much it is worth? Probably wont be long until the big content makers slice and dice and monitize the
internet until it has a content payment plan delimited in links clicked and actions performed and content viewed/downloaded.
Android malware infections skyrocket, says Juniper
Nokia trying to attract consumers,developers with new low prices
I'm not into the whole sys-admin thing or the Ruby hotness or the Node.JS hype but I noticed that there are more utilities or tools that are written in Ruby lately.

CloudFoundry seems to be written in Ruby and it looks like a bunch of sys-admin tools.

Chef, Puppet are both written in Ruby and utilized Ruby (or Ruby DSL?).

There's a strong push for Ruby lately and it might be because Ruby is kind of similar to Perl so some sys-admins are okay with that?
This was a great in depth interview that had a lot of great gems in it. Definitely worth watching for anyone that is/wants to build a software company!
good stuff any iPhone dev should know.
jQuery Mobile is certainly one the most (if not The most) optimized platform to build on right now. It offers 'depth' & 'breadth' in almost all the core areas one might expect. I have been building on it since it was in Alpha and have personally experienced the team roll out fixes upon fixes, which leave the competition in the dust.

Kudos!
It's interesting that by threatening to attack both DNS records and payment processing without a trial or judicial review, everyone has jumped on board the "compromise" that they are willing to accept payment processing take downs of free speech sites without judicial review as long as the DNS records can be saved. Which were never a real issue anyway since you can just switch to offshore DNS servers, or switch to raw ip addresses as most of us did when wikileaks.org was taken out.

It seems to me this has been the goal since the beginning. If the bill was only about attacking the finances of sites, the discussion here would have been about how this is an attack on free speech. By bundling it with another issue to be given up as a token sacrifice, a goal they weren't even really interested in to begin with, they are able to get the public to support and even advocate their original goal, which otherwise few would have been in favor of.
Not that I agree with his proposal, but youre assuming that someone wouldn't pirate something that they weren't willing to pay money for. That almost certainly isn't true for a significant population.
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Out of curiosity, could you write a little about what happened to you?
Yeah that's how I get almost all the software for my GNU/Linux boxen, all from repositories. And if I'm hacking on something just pull it out from Git or BZR or SVN or similar. Many projects also left SF since they started with changes that made it a bit of pain to use.
Apple Updates Final Cut Pro X to 10.0.2
Are they really jokers, or were the tasks unreasonable in the first place? The only way to know is to understand the tasks in detail, which I suspect the author doesn't.

The whole "just get it done" thing sounds impressive, but it doesn't hold up in reality. Just cure AIDS. What are you waiting for? People are dying! Get that cure finished by Monday.

Also note that there's a large border zone where things are possible but require sacrifice. They could get it done by sacrificing their leisure, their health, their social status, their unrelated duties, their morals.... It's up to them to decide how much of that is worth it. This is not a decision to take lightly.
If there starts to be a lot of content located at .bit domains, if all the major browsers become peers, or if the process of getting a domain becomes very easy.. if any of those things happen, I could see the situation change.

Look, I don't expect the current DNS system to suddenly collapse. Who knows what the future holds, though? It's only been 20 years since the Soviet Union fell. Perhaps in 20 years, we have a new Union oppressing people on a massive scale. Decentralised mechanisms for communication look a whole lot more interesting when your life is on the line.
After one hour, you'we written 5 out of 34 comments dissing a language -- then you call others for troll?!

Look out for the sun, I hear it might give you a grayish complexion... :-)
One thing I've noticed on my Windows-based laptops is that I accidentally eject the DVD tray more frequently than intentionally ejecting it. In this case I prefer the lack of a discrete eject button.
Actually what was counted was the OS of the people who downloaded software projects.
The point isn't whether those services are legal or not. The RIAA fails to accept the fact that the internet has made middlemen (gatekeepers) utterly obsolete. The internet doesn't "have the potential" to be a an efficient means of distributing digital data - it's the whole point of the net in the first place.

The RIAA wants the advantages of the net without having to deal with the consequences (namely, being obsolete), which is laughable, not to mention futile. I hope they'll be out of business soon so we can look back at their stupid whining in a few decades and heartily laugh at the faint memory of copyright while we freely access the shared knowledge, culture and information of mankind.
All that stuff specifically does make for a bad leader.
I empathize with the intent, but it makes me wonder: are war metaphors insensitive?
Reminds me of TWAIN

Toolkit Without An Interesting Name
And you might support the book (in both senses of the word "support") with a web site.
Actually the graph states that 90 degrees is the zero line because anything less doesn't count as hydrophobic. The whole page in fact explains what the graph means.
Last time I checked, the easiest way to crash Safari was to copy the latest failing crash tests from the WebKit source repository.
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Mass Joomla Component LFI Attacks Identified
Joomla Component LFI Vulnerabilities

Joomla has hundreds of Controller components. Check out the Joomla Extension site for examples. Unfortunately, the vast majority of these components have LFI vulnerabilities. The vulnerability details are pretty much the same -

The vulnerable page is "index.php".
The "option" parameter is set to "com_xxxxxx" where xxxx is the vulnerable component name.
Input passed via the "controller" parameter is not properly verified before being used to in
The citations in the article don't talk about secure boot at all. Windows 8 is perfectly able to boot from BIOS or UEFI without secure boot, and given that the context is a bootkit that works on Windows 2000 to Windows 8 it's entirely possible that it doesn't have anything to do with secure boot.
NFC-enabled SIM cards to become a worldwide standard
This is actually kind of close to the truth, though not as phrased. The best programmers do indeed crib cool ideas they find in other people's work and combine them in original ways. Of course, "website" is not a useful unit of programming information like it is for web design, but if you replace it with equivalent terms like "programs" and "academic research," then you're not too far off.

Disclaimer: I actually do agree with Amy's point that randomly stealing design elements without understanding is like copy-pasting code from Experts Exchange. But imitating and remixing is such a time-honored tradition among artists that I hate to see it painted with such a broad brush. There's good stealing and there's bad stealing, and it mostly has to do with how intelligently you do it.
Ironic then, that this kind of testing is mandated by the government.
Here's the link to the researchers website, which has more information: http://www.stoned-vienna.com

PS: The url of the submission points to the comments. Please edit.
Stop. Think about what you're saying for 20 minutes before you reply. No web browsing, just think. This reminds me of an old koan about an unhappy guy...long story short, he was middle class and never fucking got stuff done...
Changing nature of DDoS attacks
The volume of packets-per-second (PPS) has almost quadrupled compared to Q3 2010, illustrating a significant increase in the size and diversity of DDoS attacks over the past 12 months, according to Prolexic Technologies.
It is a bit herky-jerky on most of the mobile devices I've tried it on. I've written an app that is fully client-side rendered and plan on compiling it down to native using phonegap. I'm optimistic that this will help a bit (I don't have any technically sound reason to be optimistic - I just am), and that the library will continue to improve, and mobile browser speeds will do the same. Overall I've enjoyed using JQM and it's proved a very valuable tool to get quickly to minimum viable.
There are some major inaccuracies in the way biomedical research is presented in this article. For one, in nearly every mouse study, confirmatory studies are also carried out in human tissue cultures (Hela cells are a famous example), which are completely absent from their pie chart.

Secondly, the article completely ignores sequencing efforts - an astonishing oversight in my opinion. Obviously, we can't do genetic studies on humans, but inexpensive exome sequencing is rapidly allowing us to do observational studies in humans.
Google Music Shares Tunes With Google+
This is such Americanized bullshit. There's no difference between the two.
There seems to be something to this. Google didn't hire a random hacker to work on Python. Guido just couldn't not work on Python, and inevitably, if you are that kind of hacker, there's a company somewhere who benefits massively from having you in their office every day.

Who, besides Larry, can't drag themselves away from hacking on Perl? I'm assuming those people are all employed. If not, we should get them a job!
you just don't get it, don't you? The exposure amount is just one variable. Just for example of how exposure amount alone is meaningless to determine the outcome - locally deposited ~60Sv (with ~20Sv deposited into healthy tissue) during radiotherapy course is rarely fatal while 5Sv received whole-body during the same period of time would almost always be fatal.
Your assuming you need to deter violation. Many organisations like the red cross operate just fine despite the free rider problem. Personalty, I don't support copyright for Music performances period end of story, and I doubt the vast majority of musicians would notice a difference.

However, more generally the final penalty needs to be adjusted by the penalty associated with being prosecuted. If the penalty is 1,000$ / song, but you need to go to court to defend yourself then the effort associated with that court case is also part of the penalty of enforcement. Also, because your fine can't drive you past bankruptcy ridiculous penalties have little meaning (this plays into the last banking bubble. I can sell a trillion dollars worth of insurance far below costs if I don't have a trillion dollars because my downside is limited to the value of my assets.)
IMHO, what happened to Wikileaks is a clear attack on free speech for which the companies involved should have been penalized. That this didn't happen says a lot and Google should have chosen another way to get their point across.
More!

Good article, Peter.
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Thanks to all you guys! The programming assignments are brilliant. All my (non-technical) friends and family I've been telling about the class think the whole thing sounds really cool.
An ad hominem attack with a dash of appeal to authority...enlightening. If you require proof of sexuality's impact on human behavior, I recommend reviewing the extant literature. Here are some examples:

1. http://www.amazon.com/Red-Queen-Evolution-Human-Nature/dp/00...

2. http://www.amazon.com/Moral-Animal-Science-Evolutionary-Psyc...
This looks interesting...
It's only ironic if you believe everything the government tells you.
I think I wrote up something very similar the last time jQuery Mobile was posted here, but I'm afraid it hasn't improved much since then. This is exactly what happens when I touch a menu item using my iPhone:

1. The Safari address bar momentarily drops down from the top and then back up again.

2. A loading modal appears for a few seconds and then disappears.

3. The page I'm currently on jumps to the top.

4. The new page slides in from the right and the old one slides out to the left.

Steps 1, 2 and 3 are extremely jarring and, in my opinion, totally unnecessary. (I mean unnecessary from user perspective; I understand that the behavior is probably difficult for the framework developers to control cross platform.) I guess there's an argument for #2, but does the user really need such an obnoxious cue that content is being loaded?

Anyhow, I'm a huge fan of the idea behind this and I'm really rooting for this framework to succeed. But I could not at this point in good conscience implement it for any projects I'm working on, sadly.
Walk down the street. Every business you see that isn't closing down is doing things people want.

Go online. Find out what people are searching for. Look at the vendors who provide those products/services. Figure out how to do it better/differently/more efficiently than them.

Make up random word combinations that seem likely and google them. What businesses are built around those concepts? Are there forums where users congregate online. I remember in one of Spolsky's podcasts he made up "software for the rubber industry, or something." I used to drive by Rubber Industries Inc. every morning and chuckle to myself. There is no concept so strange that someone hasn't made a business of it yet.

Coming up with business ideas should be nothing short of trivial. The hard part is finding something that matches your skillset and interests and that is used by a customer base you can reach cheaply enough. It doesn't have to be world changing or incredibly technical: people make millions of dollars washing cars for pete's sake! I'm sure the car washing business needs software!
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A fat-fingered admin accidentally banned both Google and Twitter. I unbanned them. When this sort of thing happens would you please email us instead of posting on the site about it? When you post on the site it takes longer for us to notice and takes up space on the frontpage.
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Is there a copy of their interpreter available? I'd like to see how the relations are setup to be able to "run backwards".
From the perspective of a software developer - I'd say once a month, and make it very clear that you're looking for multiple developers, not a replacement for someone who got hired&fired since the last posting.
The problem with such proposals is the unfairness of it.

I mean, OK, you want to "protect IP", but in case of a false positive add a note in there that the complainer should pay the affected party a sum proportional to the complainer's market cap, such as this (numbers pulled from my ass, but you get the point):

- Microsoft: 1 billion USD
- MPAA: 1 billion USD
- RIAA: 500 million USD

There you go. All is fair.
We attempted to do a project with jQM and dumped it in favor of Sencha. The performance just isn't there for anything but the most trivial apps. Sencha has a significantly steeper learning curve (jQM is mostly markup while Sencha apps are mostly JavaScript-generated) but performance is much better. And performance is pretty important on mobile devices.
Doesn't Flex already include Webkit? So you could just build a Flex "browser" that simply displays your HTML5 page?
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