skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not certain we know enough about the domain to say the profession can grow up. We're still building bridges by placing downed trees across rivers. It works, well even, but we're still trying to build a multilane causeway and it is going to take a lot more trial and error to get there.

I believe it is a good thing that we have people working with all types of mentalities. People building software to power airplanes can use the downed tree and know it is going to work, even if it is not pretty and requires a lot of extra effort. People building web startups can experiment with the cutting edge technology and see how it fares, slowly passing the good back to the more conservative groups.

I think we're pretty lucky that we, as an industry, don't need to completely grow up. It keeps us constantly trying new ideas, some of which are good.
What you said is completely true, but we were going for 1984-esque post apocalyptic scenarios. Imagine every ISP shuts down traffic to all domains / addresses except a small whitelist of mega corporations (fox.net, facebook, msn, etc). Great Firewall of China status, but far far worse. You literally have no way to transmit data over the internet except through "using" a website on a browser.

Obviously not a scenario that we will see any time soon (hopefully), but it was certainly a fun challenge to work on. It was also extremely hilarious to see two computers, side-by-side, chat each other actual network packets inside a browser.
How to Avoid Google AdSense invalid Clicks?
Is it worth making the world a worse place just to get a measly thousand bucks?

I think it depends on whether the person set to net a thousand bucks would agree with you on whether censoring a mascot makes the world a worse place, or whether they think censoring the mascot brings the world, such as it is, into relief.

It may not be that most people would care about the daemon turned devil. But that can be all the more incentive to just do what the vocal minority wants. No one else really cares, and that is as much about making the world a bad place as the person who actively insists on censorship. So why should you make an effort against a disinterested population?

I agree with you, but I think it is important to realize that there are varying degrees of both willfulness and jadedness that can make an argument like "you're selling the world out" fall flat. As much as I find a lack of resistance from people toward the censorship calls of others, apathy and jadedness are far more often the cause than agreeing that something ought to be censored.

Maybe finding a way to convince these apathetic ones that the world isn't beyond redemption would go a long way to convincing people that these things are worth fighting against, but I am still trying to find a reliable and repeatable way to do that. I will always be the seemingly naive optimist I suppose.
Not to mention how politically incorrect it would be to try to call someone out on it: "Hey, aren't you Louis Smith? You said you were black on the application, but you don't look black at all!"

I can't imagine it happening.
Ever Tried Lock picking? This perfectly applies there ;)
You cannot change the ratio of idiots in population. Change what you can change - yourself, and learn how to take advantage. ^_^
1) It looks very interesting, but I've looked at more todo list, GTD, project management, kanban, and issue tracker apps than I can list. I wouldn't mind giving this a whirl, but... I have to give my credit card info? Just to get a good look at it? Meh. At a minimum, a proper free trial is probably a good idea. Or better yet...

2) ...a cheap (or free) tier for small teams. I'm reluctant to bring this up, because it sounds selfish (and hey, maybe it is) it really would be nice. Consider: Small teams arguably don't benefit from the tool as much (I mean, a single dev can do just fine with post-it notes). And further, if you get small teams hooked on a tool early on, it can really pay off when they get larger and need more seats. :)

3) Minor point, but Vimeo is not really the best choice to host a long video. I watched the whole thing, went off, then came back to rewatch the part with the kanban board to think about how it might be useful for me. Or rather, I came back to TRY and rewatch the kanban board part, 'cause Vimeo doesn't support seeking to arbitrary locations that haven't been loaded yet.
2012 recovery predicted for Thai property
Sounds like a business opportunity. The customer might be willing to pay more for Wi-Fi that is not powered by Satan, and more again if it was powered by God. I'd choose Wi-Fi that is 'Powered by Science!' - the best Wi-Fi of them all.
Yes, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's SPDY's fault. I think SPDY has a pretty small impact. The biggest slowdown comes from routing the whole site through Amazon's servers in the first place, and then converting it to whatever file it sends to the tablet. So it happens that just connecting directly to the site is faster. Clearly Amazon is not as experience in this as Opera with Opera Mini/Turbo.
Big 10 Championship Game Preview - Game Tickets | Game Schedule
The inaugural Big 10 should be a good one. I expected that the teams in this game to be placed a little higher, but oh well. I think it has potential to be the best conference championship of the year. I like Wisconsin in this, but there are so evenly matched it's pretty much a guess.
Zillow? Zillow's already public. I see a lot of careful work and research went into that list.
As an Australian sitting 210ms+ from most web servers I use regularly, this is great news. Muxing all assets for a each page load into a single TCP stream will make page loads oodles faster.

As others have said, this won't help much until common servers (nginx, varnish, etc) also support SPDY, but it's a move in the right direction.
I think I'm on the side of the general non-sysadmin population here.

I used to get the BSD magazine, and I got a puzzled look or two from the neighbors. I just said "oh that, it's a computer thing". No big deal.

But how would you feel if you ran into your neighbor at the mailboxes and they were getting magazines with swastikas on them? How about if you went to use the hotel network and the sign-in page said "Powered By" and a picture of a guy in a white hood standing under a burning cross? You might feel a little weird about it too.

There is a language of symbolism and iconography that exists in Western cultures. This image of a demon/devil/satan has a relatively coherent meaning. It developed this meaning long, long before some guys in a computer lab chose to use it to represent something completely unrelated, as some kind of visual pun. It's as if they were intentionally trying to be confusing.

So cut it out with all the snickering about "look at all the dumb superstitious people who can't wrap their heads around a daemon process".

This is the kind of antisocial behavior that gives nerds an image problem.
In all likelihood I've been an Emacs user much longer than you

According to your CV on Github, you're a few months older than me. I started using Emacs in 1999 on my Rev. B iMac running MkLinux. I also have code in the Emacs core, maintain cperl-mode, and wrote eproject (which seems to be pretty popular these days). I've also taught Emacs to high school students. So it is quite possible that I know what I'm talking about.

Such configs are designed to spare them the effort it took people like to me to develop them and achieve good productivity.

They may be designed to do that, but how are you sure your design works? Do you A/B test? Do you have any data?

My philosophy differs from yours. It posits that people will not learn things though being forced to do something; people will only learn if they have internal motivation and easy access to facts. The real world is not a bunch of cookie-cutter problems that can be solved by applying a set of rules. The real world is too complicated for this, and in order to be able to navigate in the real world, you have to build skill and intuition. You do this by practicing with an eye towards improvement. If you don't have intuition, you are just a wet bag of protein, fat, and water acting like a very shitty computer. And no set of configuration files is going to give someone intuition.

Let's talk about disabling the arrow keys. I get why you want to do that. The arrow keys are far from home row, and the context switch takes a long time, and that distracts you from what you really want to do: your work. If you tell someone that they might believe you, but they won't really believe you until they try both ways and decide which is better for them. It might be that the habit of pressing the arrow keys is impossible for them to break, and using the Emacs navigation keys will never work for them. By not giving them the choice, they won't ever be able to use Emacs at all, and that's worse than using it wrong until they decide they want to try to improve a bad habit.

Learning is a feedback loop, and if all you get is negative feedback, you won't learn. By starting at the "end" (your "ideal configuration"), the user misses all the learning that he would have experienced by starting from the beginning and working through until the end. He needs positive feedback to get started, and that means using the arrow keys until they actually become a bottleneck for him. In the mean time, his brain can be put to better use; learning his programming language, learning about incremental searches, learning about the kill ring. Eventually, all those things will be so second-nature (through focused practice) that he'll be looking for new ways to make himself even more productive. At that point, it becomes worthwhile to try and break the arrow keys habit. But before that point, it's not worthwhile.

With a one-size-fits-all configuration, you teach people that Emacs is brittle and that they are dumb. And that's the opposite of reality; Emacs is flexible and the user is smart!
Google made SPDY and it's already in Chrome. Gmail and some other of their services use it.
I'm not sure from what you've written that you're applying from somewhere in africa but international students are considered on a completely different scale than domestic students.
If I was on the Kodak board then right now I would use every single penny I have to buy Lytro's light field technology. I would then use all of the work that Kodak has ever done in optics and cameras to increase the resolution, decrease the size and make light field a part of the camera. That is one thing an iPhone can't and won't do for the foreseeable future.

I would then leverage Kodak's knowledge of chemical printing to push lenticular printing forward and tie it in with a light field camera. I would push things out with aggressive marketing. I would make it fashionable to shoot your lover with that camera. ("Capture your Kodak moment like never before") After launch if the services idea picks off and Kodak's lenticular printing facilities start humming then I would lower the Lytro camera's profit margin and make it mainstream.

The second thing I would get into is making book/poster publishing a commodity and create an on demand publishing system using Kodak's expertise. I would tie in with Amazon et al and make it better, cheaper than doing mass runs the way we do today. It will be challenging, but it is achievable.

The third path I would pursue if I was serving on that board is to use old printing technology to improve 3D printing. I would ask the question, is there a way to focus a beam of light and locally catalyze a reaction so that a crystal can be created layer by layer? If not then is there a way to do something equivalent to this? The answers to these questions might very well be Kodak's long term future.
Type rm -rf /* in your terminal emulator, place your finger over the Enter key and feel the temptation:

"We stand upon the brink of a precipice. We peer into the abyss—we grow sick and dizzy. Our first impulse is to shrink away from the danger. Unaccountably we remain... it is but a thought, although a fearful one, and one which chills the very marrow of our bones with the fierceness of the delight of its horror. It is merely the idea of what would be our sensations during the sweeping precipitancy of a fall from such a height... for this very cause do we now the most vividly desire it."

Edgar Allan Poe - The Imp of the Perverse
Thanks for informing me that it is not legal to scrape http://www.indianrail.gov.in. I am rewriting the code to scrape only http://indiarailinfo.com, which does not explicitly forbid scraping. Is it legal to scrape such a site (without overloading it)? Is it legal to share that code?
Pasting ay. lol im going to be up all night
Lots of negative reactions here, some of which might be coming from extrapolation.

I'm reading his main points as:

1) Enthusiasm can be as important to productivity as adherence to "best practices." Doing something fun/interesting feeds enthusiasm.

2) It can be helpful to have someone else taking on the cognitive load of managing the project.

3 & 4) Offloading decisions to conventions and heuristics can also reduce your cognitive load, even when you're an expert who knows when/why to depart from them.

Still seem controversial?
I prefer not calling projects startups, Since, I try many projects, So, calling something startup, after "rails new project_name" sounds like a disgrace to a startup to me.

(ofcourse, opinions differs)
You bring up a very good point, one that I didn't even consider. I, also, would want my children to have similar experiences as me, it terrifies me slightly to think of how different things could/will be.

I still think that puts Kodak outside the realm of cameras and printers, but could possibly reinvent themselves to that market.

Last December my mother purchased a Kodak slide projector for my grandfather. We set it up and projected some of the 17 carousels, and clicked through them, as he and my mother would tell stories relating to them. It was a wholesome family experience, and we would probably not all crowd around a computer screen to do something similar in iPhoto.

[Note to Kodak: Ignore my earlier statement about getting out of the camera/printer market and do a couple production runs of slide projectors… we've now gone through two of them because they're just so old!]
When someone offers the opinion that rejecting high-performing Asians is a "serious double standard" I ask myself a few questions.

Do Asians have considerably higher academic performance than most other ethnic groups? Yes, they do.

Do I believe Asian people are inherently more intelligent and capable? No, I do not.

Do I think that colleges should admit students based on academic performance or intelligence and capability? I think intelligence and capability are clearly more important qualities.

The only conclusion I can draw is that academic performance is clearly a bad indicator in some ways, if it so severely favors one racial group. Therefore colleges' unwillingness to judge Asians with the same standards of academic performance is a reasonable policy to me.
In a country with a healthy, functioning government, this sort of deliberate corporate evasion would be swiftly recognized, and countered with rewrites to the legislation, or legislation which was more flexible to begin with.

This doesn't seem too hard to me. If we've really decided as a society to make corporations track and retain data about their everyday operations and internal communication, then let's DO THAT. This silliness about whether it's ASCII text sent as email, or ASCII text sent as text messages, is just embarrassing.
بادو الزاكي ينجو من الموت المحقق بشواطئ اكادير
Kinda curious how many businesses will adapt this and if services like heroku will be able to pass on these savings to their own customers.
All Wi-Fi is powered by science. I'll pay you a million bucks if you can show me a Wi-Fi router powered by Jesus.
the FreeBSD devil is so cutesy I find it hard to believe someone would be that offended. And it's not like "the devil" is some sort of huge taboo in the US, it is often used in relatively benign product's names.

Some example "demonic" products off the top of my head

- New Jersey Devils (NHL team)

- Dirt Devil (a vacuum)

- Devil's food cake (a popular dessert)
Most people reading the headline would interpret it that way.
I take it that you think that celebrating Halloween is also "antisocial"? Plenty of people I know might dress up on as a daemon or devil on Halloween, but few people would dress up as a Nazi.
Americas Top Franchising Organization
I think the person who originally designed the page was proud that he was using FreeBSD and he decided that he wanted to share this information with the world. Doing so would make him happy; perhaps he imagined that a FreeBSD user would one day see the logo and enjoy his life a little bit more because he connected, although indirectly, with another in his tribe.

Little decisions like this are what make you human. Don't let your fears and inhibitions turn you into a robot because some interview with Steve Jobs said not to put "powered by..." logos on stuff. Do what feels right in your heart. Enjoy life first and figure out how to make money without compromising your humanity.
ABSOLUTE MUST WATCH: Thrive Movie 2011
Wow.. is it really necessary to slag off someone else's project like this? Is it even fair to name your project after the original if it's completely re-written?

I don't know Ted—and he may make some valid points—but after reading the README the lasting impression I have is that he's a complete asshole.

Keep it classy folks.
Added. Thanks for the suggestion!
Easy fix, remove the logo from the splash page if you know people get offended and you worry about it.

People seem to get offended by almost everything. It is not FreeBSD's fault if people are so intolerant to the point of running away from a hotel because they saw something that they don't even want to know what it means... this is called prejudice, and this is an even more antisocial behaviour than sticking to a friendly looking daemon logo.
Maybe choose one of these (NSFW!):

http://freebsd-image-gallery.netcode.pl/?gallery=Daemonette
also often used for school mascots, at places such as Duke, my high school, and many others surely.
Awesome. Love it.

Lately, I've been on a rampage of technological regression. The digger I deep into many tools, the more I wonder "How is this better than ${RELEVANT_TWENTY_YEAR_OLD_TOOL}?"

I'm discovering that "worse is better" so many times, I've stopped searching for what's new or popular in any problem space. Instead, I go looking for the "history of" the problem space. Turns out, that tends to yield better solutions.
Penn Jillette is correct: nobody has the "right to not be offended".

I think that it's deeply unfair to compare the BSD daemon logo to a swastika, unless you believe that open source is communism that robs pro-America operating systems like Windows.

The woman at the hotel speaks of abuse from seeing this symbol, but who apologizes for my abuse at the hands of the deeply irrational? It's not my fault that so many people choose to take their spiritual beliefs so far past zealotry that something so inconsequential as a logo would upset them, and yet it's somehow my problem because I'm apparently supposed to be constantly on the lookout for opportunities to not offend people who believe in bullshit.

These people would never extend me the same courtesy if I asked them to remove their Christian jewellery. I'd be laughed off if I phoned the front desk of a hotel freaking out that someone put a Gideon bible in my drawer.

I live in a relatively sane place and I consciously avoid going to places where it's socially acceptable to burden rationale behaviour with uncontested religious observance. They can believe what they believe and I'll continue to sleep through Sunday mornings. But the apologists who are smart enough to know better? Those folks should know better than to fall into such an obvious slippery slope.

TL;DR: I'm an atheist and I want a refund because someone put a Christian bible in my hotel room. Why are you laughing?
Use a script to alias rm to a mv command. Then to really delete something explicitly use /bin/rm.
Not checking also revs up the "race-based selector" in admission officer's mind. Now they imagine you having the most disadvantageous "race" for your admissions.
Jump Cheerleading
No it's not. If it were really a problem, Betty Crocker wouldn't sell Devil's Food Cake mix, and there would be no Red Devil firecrackers.

Odds are this person is being ridiculous, and had no intention of actually paying for the $1,000 stay.
Pennsylvania mesothelioma attorneys
They claim to have 92Kwh of LiFePO4, in their Concept_one vehicle.92Kwh will be approaching 2000lb just for the batteries. Just looking at the batteries in their rendering, I don't think it is possible to have that much energy in 10 little modules. I could be wrong, but something about the car that doesn't add up right.
Why is “Everything is a File” unique to Unix operating systems?
BozoCrack – MD5 Password Hash Cracker
Sean-Connery-responds-to-Steve-Jobs-request-to-be-in-Apple-commercial
You Need to Remember That Your Acne Should Be Included in Your Skin Care
Looking for job web designer, webmaster
I am webmaster and web designer and my portfolio so far looks like this

http://spretinta.ro
http://rentacarroman.com
http://cmedroman.com
http://legteam.biz/dia
There's a chasm of difference between a router that's powered by Jesus and one that claims to be powered by Jesus.

Customer's only need to believe it's so, much like the case presented in the internet being powered by the devil.

Anyways, off to brand "Holy Routers" with an image of Buddy Christ as our logo. "Why bother with other routers, ours have the divine connection."
How To Build MLM Leads using only Facebook
Ask HN: What assumptions about your product turned out to be false.
The First step of any software product is some assumption, even if we know for sure that there is a problem. Our Solution for that problem is an assumption until it works. But, For every idea/feature/assumption that worked, there are many others that might have failed.

So, what were the assumptions, you thought for sure will work, but didn't work in real world.
The secret history of the about:jwz url
Apple will probably take its time, like always, to do it just right.

But I agree, siri in a box would be a great next product for apple and a great tool/toy for developers. It brings the TWINE project to mind http://kck.st/ruJgAV If the experience is a simple as the one portrayed in the video you linked and is as versatile or beyond TWINE it's going to be amazing.
This is what I would like to see: Two comparative histograms of SAT scores for Asian and non-Asian applicants to Ivy League schools. One for all applicants, and the other for those accepted.

Here is my suspicion (or what I would like to hear): Asian students are significantly higher-scoring, in both histograms. Such a result would go a long way towards vindicating the college admission process, and suggest that universities don't explicitly judge those who mark "Asian" by a different standard but rather choose to largely discount SAT scores (and by proxy academic performance).

Similar studies were used to discredit claims that engineering and science departments were practicing gender discrimination against women. Does anyone have a reference to a study on race in undergraduate admissions that takes this approach?
Aboutjwz-aboutmozilla-and-the-netscape-throbbers