skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To minimize the amount of unwanted comments.

After all these are submission GUIDELINES - not submission LAW.

And between startup hustle, scala and lolcats there is a wide array of possibilities. When an unwanted submission appears it is either A) Ignored or B) Upvoted.

If you don't agree with submission you can flag it and after enough members of community have done so it will go away.

There is really no need for some of us going around and act rude towards people who have different tastes/priorities.

This kind of holistic argument contributes way more noise than the stories themselves.
http://www.matchandkerosene.com/
Twitter racial abuse: Footballers' complaints investigated - mine is terminated
I'm all for avoiding running things as root, but what does it being written in Ruby have to do with it?
It reminds me this discussion:	Is Printing a Gun the Same as Buying a Gun? (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3019163)
The best I can figure is that you thought about after college when most students didn't.

I can't tell you how many times during my college years I had conversations with Arts/Humanities majors like this:

Me: I'm taking CS, probably gonna get a programming job after school, what are you taking?

Them: Humanities/History of Art/Whatever

Me: Oh, that's cool, what are kind of job will that get you once you get your degree?

Them: ??!!?? I'm getting a college degree.

Me: Riiiight.
sed -i 's/old/new/g' file
The Journal (replacing syslogd)
What are the most effective techniques salespeople use to build rapport?
True, but one of the things an expert is expert at is knowing how to communicate with new clients and ask the right questions.

The expert often knows how to communicate more effectively than a non-expert would anticipate, because she has seen all the common issues before. That's what expert means. When a non-expert encounters a problem for the first time it always feels like a uniquely strange and complicated new thing. But more often than not an expert will listen to you describe your problem for two minutes, reach into a drawer and pull out a standard design that fits 85% of your use case, adjust the settings on the five standard knobs to cover another 10% of your use case, and then focus on the remaining five per cent... or, perhaps, just deliver the solution to you and let you tinker with the remaining five per cent.

It's hard to appreciate this process until you've been through it several times in different contexts. Because one of the things that non-experts are not expert at is: Knowing what the experts can do for you. Telling the difference between a problem that benefits from lavish amounts of personal attention and one that can be solved in ten minutes by someone for whom your problem is a daily routine and who knows just what to ask.
Basic and Digest authentication for a RESTful Service with Spring Security 3.1
In depth Spring tutorial - Set up Basic and Digest authentication for a RESTful service, using Spring Security 3.1
The legal history of "fuck" (2007) [pdf]
I hope Amazon can use its relative dominance in the ebook industry to change how things work. The ideal future would be one in which the publishers simply provide the text to Amazon in some sort of standardized markup (sort of like LaTeX), in which format the books would be supplied to the customers.

The customers would then be able to customize the font sizes/stylings, etc., and use those settings for all the ebooks they read.
Canada's Telecom Market is Rigged, says Wind Mobile backer Naguib Sawiris
On my system, the info documentation for bash 3.1, not including indices, is 53610 words, or 105 pages. The content is identical to that in the manpage. In addition, you have to read it in a clunky, unintuitive, and un-Unixy browser. Far from short and to-the-point, I nearly lost interest just trying to figure out how to coax info to send its output to stdout so I could pipe the 105 page book to wc. The info documentation is not in any way I can measure better than the manpage. Both the info documentation (and I use that term loosely) and the manpage are more noise than signal.
I believe OoTheNigerian's point is that he likes it when the sharing functionality is rolled up into another thing that you do. Say, every time you rate a song 5 stars, or mark one as your favorite. He'd rather not get a popup asking if he also wants to share it on facebook (but have a config option which says "share my liked songs")
I'm I right to surmise that "graphical" refers to graphs rather than "graphics", or was that just one example in the video?
25 days is the legal minimum. My employer gives 30 days paid vacation. Some companies also handle holiday pay slightly differently (while still complying with the law), so it's possible to get paid while you are on vacation - I did.

You have to have a lot of money before the wealth tax hits you, and it's quite low anyway (if you have enough money that the wealth tax will hit you, you can earn more in interest having the money sitting in a bank account than you will be paying).
Make it side-by-side :-)

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/help.php#twowindows
It's completely free to take, and no one will hassle you if you don't do anything at all.

In addition, at least for the ones that happened this fall, if you are taking the advanced stream, you can drop down to the beginner one at any time.
Under marketing and recruiting. Note that the submitter is a two-time cofounder with OP.
Micro Cruz
Nokia Lumia 800 Price-  3.7 inch AMOLED Touchscreen Windows OS Smartphone
Nokia launched a new generation Lumia series smartphone called Nokia Lumia 800 in India. Nokia Lumia 800 powered by Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango OS with CPU of 1.4 GHz processor, Qualcomm MSM8255 chipset, 3D Graphics HW Accelerator. Nokia Lumia 800 has 8MP Carl Zeiss Camera with dual-LED flash and 3.7 inches AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display. Nokia Lumia 800 Key Features: Bright full touch screen display, 8MP camera, Audio Player, Music Player, FM Radio, 3.5mm Audio Jack, Touch Sensitive Controls, smooth single-piece body, 25GB Free Skydrive Space, Powerful processor, Long battery backup. It comes with 16GB inbuilt Memory with 512 MB RAM & 25GB Free Skydrive Space as well. It is available in Black, Cyan, Magenta Colors.
Yes, "graphical models" are a formalism for representing and reasoning about probability distributions using graphs.
Hell of a useless wall of text.
Imsy (www.imsy.com) offers this same feature in a slightly different way. It lets you send the image as an attachment in iMessage
cool, I like it.

I had a similar idea rumbling around my head for a few months now (basically "I live here and I do X"), but the twist you've added of making it stories about people is nice.
Economies of scale: our first VHS player was a couple of hundred grand.
> Further, Daphne Koller is a serious force in the field, and seems to be a pretty good supervisor, so I'm guessing/hoping she is an interesting/engaging lecturer as well. Though, Stanford CS/Stats students are more able to comment on this last point.

What's the source? She's a brilliant researcher, but I've heard quite the opposite about her attitude towards human relationships...
Yes. Confusing, isn't it?
Force WWW onto Domain Name URLs for SEO with .htaccess
I've been using Emacs with Evil for a few weeks. It's really good, possibly the best vim-mode I've seen.
I wish I would have known about dmidecode long before I found out about it.
'man bash' is pretty amazing the first time you actually read through it.
OPERA: Comparing the Two Versions (neutrinos faster than light)
It's not possible to do that from the security point of view, you are the owner of the device. They can make it difficult to massively "scrape" Siri using the same device identification.
Hacker News Community More Powerful Than Recruiters?
Screen is the only real answer, I've ever found.
Why we all get burnt in the bonfire of the bond markets
Survey: Facebook is nearly twice as successful over Linkedin for getting hired
Business storytelling
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The key is to identify how you can best contribute, so you know whether or not you're wasting your time. If you're a small team, everyone's time might be best spent coding to deliver the product. A slightly bigger team might mean your time is best coordinating. The overhead of a "meeting" might be worth making sure everyone's aware of the design instead of creating isolated pieces of great code that doesn't work well with each other.

I might be wasting time writing code when I can best contribute by taking care of 'overhead' so my team isn't blocked - there's an anecdote here somewhere of the PM who would buy coffee for the team so the team can focus on producing code - or i might be wasting time taking care of 'overhead' that doesn't matter yet (planning the optimum office layout) when I can best contribute by writing code.

To know whether or not you're wasting time, you have to know what makes one work "fake" and the other "good", and my list may be vastly different from yours.
I know there is a pretty strong superiority complex here pertaining to cs and engineering degrees, and for good reason, you are in demand. That however does not equate to the assumption that all people should get cs or engineering degrees.

For example, my girlfriend and I both having writing degrees and make a six figure income each. We both know how to script, direct media production and do a variety of things related to technology production -- things we would not have
learned with a cs degree. We focus on, as jobs put it, the intersection of the liberal arts and technology. I produce apps on the side that help teach writing and logic for students.

To be perfectly honest, at work we often spend our time directing cs and engineering majors who "don't get it" and never take the human interface, overall purpose, or business and social impact of the product into account. But we don't insult them, because we respect that they are very smart people who focus on other complex problems.
rickmb said "Sure, I know such places exists" -- and anyone here who didn't know has now been informed. "I didn't know" is no longer a valid excuse.

Once you understand that nudity is a big no-no in some workplaces, it's impolite to leave off the NSFW label.
The Surveillance Catalog
It probably has a greater attack surface that can be exploited. The advantage of iptables is that it does the barest minimum at a high privilege level: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege
Nothing against Ruby specifically, 'though I guess I do have a prejudice (in terms of security) against interpreted languages in general compared to something written in C.
And if all else fails, there is allways english.

My reply to another thread a while ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2910005
Admin Interfaces for Rails Apps: RailsAdmin vs ActiveAdmin
10 inventors of Internet technologies you may not have heard of
I am glad to hear that talented engineers are reconsidering careers in high finance and leaving Wall Street firms for startups that actually produce products that the public benefits from. It's good for them, and it has the side effect of starving the beast of an important source of talent.
Re-engineering New York: More Than a Sci-Fi Dream?
Google's European head office in Ireland would be a great example of that, as well as the shell office in The Netherlands.
News Showcase: Study: Triple threat paints grim future for frogs
DIY Alcoholic Icecream: secret ingredient is gelatin
I think there's still a start-up stigma attached to programmers from financial firms. Unless you have high-frequency trading, algo trading or some other high end signal attached to your name, the assumption is that you are a cookie cutter, untalented programmer.

That's really sad, as the reality of financial programming is that there are lots of very smart, talented programmers working in back office positions. These roles are actually the majority of financial firm development and often require just as much technical knowledge and understanding as the flashy ones.

The flood of recently laid off developers who, unfortunately, are usually in the bottom quartile is further reinforcing this stereotype. Not to mention the push towards outsourcing actual development and pushing good employee developers into management or supervisory roles that was the practice at a majority of financial firms.

So while there are certain reasons that are behind this stigma, as is often the case in these situations, it paints lots of good developers with the same broad brush and actually hurts the start ups themselves as it restricts their pool of candidates.
I don't think that is bad intention :-)

I know the guy who has written that blog post, he was one of my colleagues when I was working at Nokia/Trolltech. This is where Lars Knoll (creator of KHTML) is still working at.
2+2=1? Playing with modular arithmetic
I'm curious. Why do these classes all have their own domain names?
What to steer clear of when Starting On-line Businesses
This is how you should cook your turkey next Thursday
Analog Animated GIF Player
GNU added nothing. The GNU/Linux combination has nothing to do with GNU.
Read his link about Series F stock; in order to implement such a plan it seems that you would have to disregard his advice to just pick simple defaults when incorporating.
Sure, there are times of peace, and there are times of war.

But history tells us there likely will be wars.
I love this. I have in my mind a future where we don't just use open source software for our computers, but we use open source designs for our home appliances and electronics. I have the feeling that, if done well, you could get all sorts of very nice stuff for almost nothing. The next big revolution, after the information revolution, will be the home fabrication revolution.
I'm sympathetic to this viewpoint (though I think some of the criticisms are over-simplified), and have read a dozen or so articles on the subject. One pops up on HN every 3-4 weeks.

So, I'm baffled as to why this particular article exists. What does this add besides a kind of half-assed recycling of the same articles every journalist has been writing? It's not even a particularly analytical or insightful spin on the topic, just the same stuff we've read about many times: college degrees are expensive, may not guarantee you well-paid employment, may not be worth the cost. I thought that was the lead-in to the article, setting the tone with a quick recapitulation of what we've already read elsewhere, but then... the article ended and there wasn't anything else.
exactly. The majority of my job as a freelancer is working with WordPress sites and I love it, but for my own site I just use plain HTML and CSS static files.

If you need to hammer a nail you don't use a screwdriver. The right tool is what matters.
I agree with your description but I'm not sure if I'd call it disappointing. However I think it'd be really exciting if the class offered some sort of final project where you had to use the algorithms on some new domain of your own choosing (although of course you don't need a class to do this on your own).
The inherent class system of the UK tech scene
I doubt anyone who has ever had to deal with one of the big 3 in Canada (Rogers, Telus, or Bell) would argue against this point. Canadians really need to push for an open system that allows foreign competition to enter the marketplace. Until we do, the status quo is simply going to continue to press the advantage they have at the expense of the Canadian consumers.
Unpaid Interns: Real World Work Or Just Free Labor?
Before we know it, someone will have made an app that fully integrates Siri into the Android workflow.
In other news - bears discovered to shit in the woods and pope a catholic shock discovery.
Gymnastics Stuff
Yes, two crappy books instead of just one, for the same price.
The 25 Documents You Will Need Before You Die
Amazing hack: Watch a miniature v12 combustion engine being built
That's why I said "some people".

"but you cannot expect submitters to constantly be aware of such outliers any time they submit a link. Otherwise we would constantly have to check a whole list of obscure cultural sensitivities around the planet"

Of course you know what's not allowed at your work. Do you keep tabs on everything else? I hope so! There are thousands of different cultures out there, better not miss any!
Ha I tried putting the full set of words in but hit the title limit
For renaming css class names, you explicitly call them out by doing goog.getCssName('class-name') in js and {css class-name} in soy.

http://code.google.com/p/closure-stylesheets/#Renaming
Yes, I noticed that semi-dichotomy too.

It is like this Forbes author "Steve Denning" is trying to piggy-back his own ideas on Clayton Christensen's central thesis.
It's still true to some extent, though maybe more in reverse: if you don't have a degree, employers will assume you lack general intelligence and maturity, and not let you past the first-line HR screen (tech is a bit of an exception to this in its openness to hiring people without degrees).
How to make Free Call on your mobile phone or landline
Good list - I think there's a definite hype bubble in cheap 3D printers. All the copy sounds very naive in relation with the reality of what these printers can actually do. Ex: "printer in every home" - that's like saying a CAD designer in every home - not going to happen. Even d/ling from Thingiverse isn't going to be that popular as most of the parts aren't super useful / attractive.
BananaProd: Sell your products on your website in 7 minutes flat
Earn Cash Through On-line Writing Jobs
"But it is the difficulty to enter, the amount of abstract thinking and study required plus the prestige that gets you higher salaries in the end."

The problem is that the "difficult to enter" is artificial and exists primarily as a way of ensuring high salaries of current lawyers through the law school requirement; Clifford Winston explains as much in First Thing We Do, Let's Deregulate All the Lawyers, (http://www.amazon.com/First-Thing-Lets-Deregulate-Lawyers/dp...) which is worth reading for anyone interested in the issue.

It used to be that one could "read" for the bar and hang out a shingle announcing that you're a lawyer. This didn't seem to hurt anyone except existing lawyers. People are reasonably good at figuring out who might be okay at a job and who won't be; the nominal "protection" they get in the form of law-school credentialing is not that far from the "protecting" they might get from Tony Soprano.

P.S. Solid first comment; welcome to HN.
After 10 years in Emacs I've switched to PyCharm (for about 100 EUR). Its autocompletion feature are quite decent (aided by specifying types in docstrings but otherwise it does whole-project type deduction) and I use them frequently.

It has many time saving features -- like real time "pyflakes" like warning, automatic import management (when I type time.strptime it warns me about time being undefined -- would I like to import the time module?).

Only downside is that it can get sluggish in large file on this 5-year old processor.
Classic! If you can't figure which project is, then you are not going to do nothing with that information. Ergo you don't have to know :D

The information is relevant for a lot of other people, the launched website is not important here.
There's only one situations for which tablets are useful.
they get weeded out because they didn't enjoy the subject enough and were doing it for reasons like their parents wanted them to or so they could get a high paying job. if you eat, breathe and shit math then you are not going to drop out of it.
Vivir saludable es mas que...
Any good freelance websites?
I have a pretty tough question.<p>Are there any freelance programming websites that put more emphasis on quality than price? Freelancer.com is one that does exactly the opposite.<p>I'm not in a position to get full time job programming, but, I would still like to do freelance.<p>Any suggestions?
Detroit's clock striking midnight
My, what an enormous quantity of footnotes. There is more footnote than paper. It seems to be largely an excuse to not bother planning and structuring your essay properly.

Very interesting though.

My fuck related question: why do some people on the internet self censor with asterisks in their postings? F*ck and so on. I have tried many times to imagine a logical thought process that could lead to this behaviour, but I cannot. Perhaps someone here who does this can enlighten me?
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Good luck doing that with the Klein bottle cup
Article aside, I still am skeptical about Yipit as a business. More and more daily deal businesses will shut down as the industry consolidates, making their research business less as time goes along. Which means they need to rely on their lead generation business. But come'n.. 1% of revenue from a Groupon multiplied by how many people? You will need millions of users... Plus more consolidation = less need for aggregation. In addition, they'll suffer the same problem as Groupon, which is deal fatigue. The open rate for their emails will decrease as time goes along.
World's largest 3D painting creates nifty optical illusion
Has anyone tried blosxom(written in perl) and pyblosxom (the python alternative)? They are both pretty easy to setup and use.
try :http://pyblosxom.bluesock.org/
and http://www.blosxom.com/
If I wasn't fond of Emacs, I would probably do my writing in AbiWord or WordPad. Putting a lot of work in a bloated format like .doc(x) kind of scares me. Though maybe Word with rtf would perform well.
Usually it's used entirely pointlessly, but the original logic behind it is that those who know the word (in simple terms: adults) will realise what is meant, and those who don't know the word (children) won't be badly influenced.
getacoder.com, elance.com
Why corporations ask small business to research or develop
I think you're missing the beauty of having a a 3d printer at home and needing an enclosure to do an electronics project and just printing one out, or deciding to print out an ipad stand, fork, screwdriver, guitar, etc.

If 3d printers became widespread, we would have databases full of plans made by people and every 3d print wouldn't be a custom one off
awesome slide!
Same here, most man pages seem pretty good at documenting all the available options, but are pretty useless at explaining how the tool should actually be used.

I'd like to see someone dump all the common man pages into a public wiki so people could flesh out the usage examples and suggest alternative tools.
Fluent Selenium (FluentLenium)
FluentLenium is a framework which provide help when writting Selenium Web Driver test with jUnit. You can use the framework of assertion you want, classical jUnit assertions, hamcrest or as in the following examples fest-assert.
Sounds like common sense but you'd be amazed by how many people don't get it! I'm working with 2 startup organizations (my own business and I'm on the board of a charity) and I've seen a ton of time wasted on meta meetings (meetings about the next meeting), and getting paperwork exactly right when it just needs to be okay, etc.

Through my experience in my business I've been able to point them in the direction this article suggests. Basically, we only spend time on things that clearly get a goal achieved. The rest we just leave until we absolutely need it. There are things that need to be finished correctly right now that don't have an obvious impact on later success but those things are far fewer than one might think.
Obvious bullshit. Consider corporate payroll; anyone making more than $120,000 a year gets a monthly paycheck for more than $10,000, and this causes no problems.
Would you have imagined that one of these would be in every home?

http://www.ttsw.com/SuesClasses/OldComputers/ENIAC.gif