skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if you are being deliberately obtuse. The lazy workers are not performing adequately under the system, they are gaming it by focusing only on monitored metrics.

This has real consequences for good teachers, who have to justify what they are trying to teach to a principal who only cares that school funding will be cut unless standardized test scores improve.
On the iPhone 1px means 2px? Where was the rage? If Microsoft had done this, everybody would scream about distorted web standards.
This announcement reminded me too of when Linus commented (upon the integration of virtual memory into Linux) that Linux had become the Emacs of terminal emulators.

Pretty funny that by integrating a Terminal emulator, Chrome becomes the Emacs of web browsers.
Sorry TechCrunch, but I *do* want more women to join startups.
Thank goodness. I was worried that they might be misused. I feel safe now.

Go to sleep, citizens. All is well. All is under control.
There's actually a really interesting article/email I read a long time ago saying that emacs main competitor was the browser, and that it was likely to be overtaken by it unless emacs reacted in some way.

I can't find the article with a cursory google search right now, but maybe someone else knows it can find it.
A profile is being generated about you, slowly but surely. It starts out as a vague picture, but the more you communicate, the the more clearly you define yourself. It includes your political affiliations, interests you display online, who your friends are, your every movement, your sexual preferences, close secrets, and anything else that can be gathered about you. These profiles are stored in a government database that allow contractors to test threat-detection algorithms to identify potential threats to national security -- aka, status quo. These reports will be sent to the appropriate LEO to summon and indefinitely detain you. You will be sent to a secret prison. You will not have a court date. Get ready for the New America.

Edit - Yes, the hyperbole is strong in this one.
Another classic short story that gave me chills is Isaac Asimov's The Last Question (1956):

http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
> There is no way to link to an individual page, so while the manuscript is "online" it is not addressable as part of the linked web. Scholars who write about the manuscript will be unable to link to a specific item or to share linked-data with one another.

You can add a /n to the end of the URL, where n is the page you want it to point to.
Internet Society Joins Opposition to Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
Google or someone at Google? I cannot figure that out from that page, and I do not see a business reason for doing it. Or is this intended to be the software equivalent of JTAG on Chrome OS? What am I missing?
Am I the only that feels that while, yes, the original "low-res" examples do look different on a high-DPI display vs traditional resolutions, they don't necessarily look worse?

It's just different. No one says they have to be identical, and IMHO the original does not look bad on an iPhone screen.
My concern was about everyone hitting the update servers at once and yeah, I realize they have a nice little CDN working at their disposal... =)

My question was more about a mandatory OTA update instead of letting you use one out of the box like the original Kindles did. Part of the magic was being able to open the box and start reading within a few seconds. If you're now subjugated to doing a "firstFindMyWifi-Connect-pleasewait-waitsomemore-lowbattery-OOPSBRICKED", you're going to diminish the experience.
R is very much in demand these days. You definitely will want to leverage that skillset/experience.

Focusing on being a "web developer" will merely put you in a ocean of millions of qualified candidates, but being a web-dev who can do things like data-analysis, perhaps info-visualization, and who is conversant in scientific domains can give you a significant edge.
Two things:

1. Why does this technology need to be associated specifically with OWS? Sure it serves a need they might have, but why not let the technology stand on its own? Surely there are many other uses in addition to OWS for this system.

2. Skype will probably be giving you a call fairly soon.
For those of you too young to remember, all the early web browsers supported telnet: URLs, usually launching an external telnet client.
Facebook Is Completely Redesigning Profiles (Again)
I think "Gentlemen Learning Code" would be a great name for such a workshop. And we would wear monocles and brown tweed. It would be both educational and ironically hip!

In all seriousness though, LLC is doing some great stuff, and I'm glad to see it getting some recognition here.
It's a great emotional tool to bring tangible people into the discussion. Although having powerful statistics and logic is nice, it's appealing to see the faces of real people that would be affected by this bill.

I can't find it now, but there was some interesting research done a while back on charities. Turns out that people would donate more to a charity that helps a single child rather than one that helps a million children, simply because the former has a more tangible benefit.
I highly doubt Newton said that. That's a modern, post-romantic way of thinking. Moreover, it would have been hugely impolite in the 17th century.
That's too bad. I too found Plone's in-page editing to be a little too far beyond the reach of the average client, but then again, I used to send static website "versions" of a website on zip disks to a client in the mail. They knew not of FTP.
You're totally right. I think when I say "coding", I don't literally mean writing code. Coding requires different facets of creation: designing, testing, etc. I think another way to say point 1, is to say that the person should be passionate about technology, which I guess is kind of like point 2, but for tech.

And of course, you want someone with some breadth of experience and interests. I would venture that a well-rounded person has a lot more to offer just because he has a larger set of tools at her disposal that can be used to solve problems.

Finding that "special" someone is always such a challenge ;-)
You must have a certain website or subset of the community in mind. I actually got a Kindle 3 a couple months ago and the majority of the discussion that I could find about homebrew on the device was centered around removing the ads. I browsed 4 or 5 forums before deciding it was a lost cause.

In fact, I wasn't even really able to find anything other than removing the ads and changing the screensaver as what you can do after your kindle is jailbroken.
phones are exported with that code in place

They are? (I hadn't been following this that closely but...) My understanding was that the issue was American carriers customising the OEM software and selling that kit to their own users.

See, for example, "So far, all of the major British providers have denied using the tool on their handsets" -- http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/05/european-regulators-set-s...
many people already suggested that the idea is not novel. this implementation doesn't add what i wish we had in a modern inline content editing framework: structure.

wikis had it for a while now. [[newpage]] anyone? i am wondering how difficult it would be to take wikis out of their textareas.

the other concern is naturally security.
I think it is best to learn something about coding or wireframing. try codecademy.com or something. This way you will better understand how to communicate with your techies.
Hm.. I wonder how many people will switch back to TextMate 2 from Vim/Emacs/Sublime Text?
Women (and everyone else, really) should do startups
The Value of Trying
Even though SOPA is an American bill it still has a very big impact on the internet for citizens in every other country.

That being said I think it still makes sense for the site to just list American entrepreneurs/developers/designers/etc.
I came here to say exactly this.

Chrome should try and remove features, not add things nobody is asking for.
God is just and he's my friend. Be afraid!!

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\SWIFT.TXT

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or other, help to deliver me from the desolate place and condition
I was in. But at the same time the reader can hardly conceive my
astonishment, to behold an island in the air, inhabited by men, who
were able (as it should seem) to raise or sink, or put it into
progressive motion, as they pleased. But not being at that time in
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This is one of the things that Rails gets right. There is no real need to be creative here. Rails just comes with a default layout built in, no need to 'choose your own' for the 'own' sake. It doesn't, btw, mean that you can't use your own, just in this case you'll need to add the relevant directories to the path yourself. The standard layout and built in generators are just brilliant.
Show HN: I made a social todo list, and just opened it up to the public
All of the previous kindles have been rooted and I don't know of any homebrew to support epub on Kindle 3.
Ahh the good ole' pre-publication information embargo :)

You're right though... somebody (i.e. one of the thousands of collaborators, from undergrads to PIs) probably got the email that said something to the effect "we'll be releasing results on the search for the Higgs tomorrow, and until those results are released you aren't allowed to talk/tweet/email/post/facebook any information about the experiment. Of course, this doesn't mean they know anything about the paper, only that they know there's going to be a paper that discusses something. The people who really know are going to be the ones with the tightest lips.
This just in: there are a massive amount of developers working on a single project. Not all of them are on the stability team. Just because they're adding feature X doesn't mean that they're taking any amount of resources away from bugfix Y. It's a false dichotomy typically imagined by those who have never worked on medium to large-sized products.
> Sadly I had to pull the alpha since it’s now all over twitter w/o proper introductionary text, hotfixes, etc.

(http://lists.macromates.com/textmate-dev/2011-December/01465...)

Maybe something to do with the IMPOSSIBLE TO MISS REQUEST TO NOT RE-PUBLISH THE ALPHA INFORMATION that people can't seem to comprehend.
"The issue is money. Which nobody is proposing more of for our state universities."

A few things. First of all, I'd say a pretty good proportion of the best programmers I know were self taught (i.e. didn't go to college or else majored in something completley unrelated to CS, e.g. French lit).

Second, there are growing opportunities to learn code online. I don't even need to mention any of them to this crowd.

Third, most of the CS majors I talk to say that CS curricula are out of date and almost always have been (at least with respect to what employers are looking for, in terms of theory it's less true).

Fourth, as the author makes clear other universities are sweeping in to fill the gap left by UW.

So, is this really a problem? I guess it's a problem for UW because they don't have the sense to move resources from weaker programs to CS. But then again, is that what's really going on? It could be that UW is simply wishing to enhance it's program by being more selective (and the UW people in the article might disagree with that). or it could be that UW's administrators are just morons, that wouldn't be the only case of stupid mismanagement in American universities.

I just don't see what the big deal is. With today's opportunities nobody is being denied the opportunity to learn coding.

Of course, maybe people really, really want to learn actual academic CS instead of just getting employable skills. I seriously doubt that though.
Download link: http://www.multiupload.com/VA06QA4MI0
Requires a Textmate 1.0 serial to use.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4893720/faye-vs-socket-io...
I was thinking the same thing, but from what I can tell there seems to be significantly more opportunities for a web-dev rather than someone that specializes in R. Or I might just be looking in the wrong places...
3) Are your refactoring steps too big? (Is it actually a "rewrite"?)

Or maybe its a sign that unit tests are your favorite hammer.

When to support your testing methodology you have to say that shuffling a bit of code or structure around is probably a bad idea anyway because its a big change, you've gone off the deep end.

For better or worse unit tests shackle your code in place. Maybe the "refactor" or "rewrite" is a good idea, maybe it isn't. But its not up to the unit tests to decide that.

I've heard way too many times that the headaches introduced by unit testing are actually problems with my XYZ rather than a negative consequence of testing. If the tech you're trying to get me on board with comes with a long chain "you don't understand" and "you're doing [other thing] wrong"s after the fact, you've done a horrible job of explaining what you're selling in the first place.

If I take this advice, and also practice TDD, I wind up in a situation where iteration is impossible. What were once nice tools to check that my code does what I expect, have suddenly locked me into a waterfall methodology. I suddenly have to know what I'm going to do before I do it, and when I change my mind changing the code significantly isn't an option either.

Just admit that tests are not a panacea. They add significant cost to a codebase, and most of that time we accept that cost because it is more than made up for in improvements to code quality. Please don't pretend that all those costs are a good thing.
For the love... anyone please upload it?
How is Azure less secure?
WirelessHeadsets - with the Help of Video Conferencing
The effectiveness of Video Conferencing solution is that you can arrange online seminars, corporate meetings, and training session. The technology is piercing far and wide and getting fame very rapidly. High tech video conferencing is the new way to chat. One of the secondary advantages of video conferencing is the communication at the entire level – akin to face-to-face communication.
Flat glossy?! Did you see where they mentioned "specular highlights?" Proof positive.
Though I agree with your reasoning, I don't think the "+" is going away, and I do think your buddy will end up winning.

Like Circles, the + is becoming it's own strong brand, and though it may be that "Google+ == Google", the plus brand will stick around.

Likely, Google will still retain the non-plus Google search, but put most of it's efforts into improving and integrating the "account required" Google+.
Does knowing a specific programming language matter?
Allan pulled the download. It will be officially released tomorrow.
if you came from a background where you were on an ad sales/accountability team and knew all the metrics they usually look for in a website, I'd say that's VERY valuable.
Not only law enforcement, but general intelligence and especially marketers and advertisers. They will soon know you better than you know yourself
http://danielmillsap.com/blog/technology-news/carrier-iq-the...
and what about when you want to mention someone? will you reply to their profile? pick an arbitrary tweet? Twitter has a unique distributed, free-form environment where topics and interactions aren't aggregated in a page - it lets the users make these connections with @ and #
Your self-control is just masterful. Congratulations.
At least Firefox still does. Actually it supports any foo:// protocol if you're willing to configure an external program to handle it :)

Edit: instructions here http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol
Which is why it's nice to be in full control of the software/hardware stack you use. Walled gardens may look nice and be convenient in the present, and may even give the illusion of security, but in the end they're inevitably abused.
I imagine all three are superior to TM2, especially Vim and Emacs, after you bust through the learning curve no point ever going back.
>If they become a label they have to start giving advances to artists

Why?

Logic now costs $200 and a MacBook. I daresay that most musicians pay far more for their instruments than they have to for a production studio.

The idea that you have to invest $$$ to produce an album (hire Timbaland as a producer, spend megabucks on marketing and A&R) is more a byproduct of the blockbuster music market than a logical necessity. If you want to produce a blockbuster, spend blockbuster money, but don't assume that this is the only path to success (success defined as being able to make a living as a musician).
It would be false if he had said no work on stability was happening. However, new features come with a cost in stability (both through introduced errors and less manpower on the stability teams). Google has been putting a lot of features in (nacl, dart, etc) and it is coming at the expense of the basic browsing experience.

Interesting that as Mozilla figures out it needs to focus on the basics after getting slammed by the smaller, faster Chrome, Google does the exact same thing they did.
Am I to understand that people who live in Washington DC do not, in fact, matter? The state drop down has no provision for DC.
You argue in absolutes. That's - difficult.

First of all: You can opt out of that feature with minor hassle. I usually don't like opt-in by default features, but here he has a point, imo.

Now - if you opt out, where is your problem with the change? If he would break future versions of AdBlock to force ads on you, someone would step up and make sure that there's an AdBlockBlock plugin.

Are you, by chance, using applications on the mobile OS of your choice that displays ad to gain revenue?
Of course it is a matter of opinion, but you have to keep in mind that node itself isn't a framework like rails, and express while similar to sinatra with declaring routes is very un-opinionated about how it handles things. That is one reason I enjoy using node and a lot of the modules and add-ons created for node, giving me the freedom to do what I want from the start and not fight against the 'right' way the creators intended.
Though he'll probably shoot me for calling him a "Task Master," you might want to contact DanielBMarkham about task management tools.

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2011/12/tyranny-of-th...

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DanielBMarkham
I believe they hit on this in Made to Stick.
Fast Track to the Mobile App: Design Challenge Winners
So Sproutcore 2.0 split into two camps, Ember.js and Amber.js? Someone correct me if I'm wrong, this is confusing.
As a commenter in the original article pointed out, homeschooling is a work around, not a solution.

As a home-schooled kid myself, I would suggest thinking very long and hard about all options and long-term goals before doing it. There are positives and negatives to everything of course, but the +'s and -'s of home-schooling can be very far reaching and long-term. You can't just exit the plan and move on without consequence.
Dealing with Java’s Input Streams
Instead of going with "amber.js" they went with "ember.js"

sproutcore 2.0 = amber.js = ember.js

They're all the same with the final one being the official new name.
There's probably some kind of law in there. My browser history is Mosaic -> Netscape -> Galeon -> Firefox [1] everytime jumping to a new slender browser since the old one got too bloated or too old. Firefox lost its slenderness a long time ago but I never found anything to replace it with.

[1] I think I missed a few.
> If someone puts up a 600mb file called 'Thor (2011)', what do you think it's going to be.

It's my most recent dataset for a Thorium reactor design. Or it's a catalog of theses that mention a certain Norse guide.

> I guess what I'm saying is are they supposed to download and watch every single file?

Yes. They're claiming ownership.

Let's look at it from the other side - how can the upload site know who owns the copyright for something?
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"Various studies have shown that software broadly contains something like 6-16 bugs per 1000 lines of code."

As more features are added, the number of bugs will increase, so in a sense everyone who is not on the stability team is on the instability team. Which means the stability team would need more developers as a counterweight...
Agreed. This is intended to make SOPA's impact on American jobs clear to our politicians.
As someone else noted, weight is a huge one. In fact the first iPad I bought I returned because it was too heavy. Later got an iPad2, but weight is still an issue.

Web browsing kind of sucks. Like the YouTube experience is crazy buggy.

I find the keyboard hard to use for anything, but the smallest notes.

Getting content on the device, e.g., movies I've transcoded, is an exercise in pulling out my hair. Tedious and time consuming.

And this is just me doing stuff on it that people say I should be able to do well on the device. I don't even include the deficiencies for things everyone knows that it doesn't do well -- so it gets a free pass on it.
as far as congress is concerned, that may well be accurate.
Ahh thanks so much.
Looks like this has been around since 2004. <sarcasm>So useful! I bet this will catch on like wildfire!</sarcasm>
I suspect that you're significantly overestimating the competence of government.
GOD

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+14...
LightSqaured Struggles to Save Network After Leaked GPS Report
Kind of odd, it was announced as "Amber.js":

http://yehudakatz.com/2011/12/08/announcing-amber-js/
Trine 2 Update 2 - SKIDROW
Algorithms Course Materials, by Jeff Erickson
Wikipedia Considers Total Blackout to Oppose SOPA
Thanks - I think that was it. Phenomenal book.
If the FBI is conducting an investigation into possible criminal activity by Carrier IQ then the manuals and guides are direct evidence showing what the company intended the software to do, making it evidence in an ongoing investigation.
> To expand, in the USA most (all?) of the data produced by the US Federal government is public domain

I doubt it's all, since there's a lot of confidential stuff in there.
Defamation has always been an exception to free speech. It is also not a criminal offense so the government doesn't have the ability to use it for censorship. Cox is still free to write what she wants without repercussions from the government. Being a civil case all the plaintiff had to do was prove the defendant maliciously inflicted significant harm to his reputation in order to be awarded a monetary judgement.
Quick work. Thanks.
Social and Gamificaton as Layers
Yes. Or you have a really really bad computer display. Welcome to the crowd.
Except the number you get this way is not between 3 and 4. It's essentially infinite with no functions in the model that separate it from the finite numbers (and this can be proven in PA: if a number isn't 0..N, then it's greater than N).

Generally, I don't think it's fair to characterize this story as something studied by mathematicians. Really, it's an exercise in reasoning about nonsense.
And all I can think of is.

Holy Shit. Stallman was right.

Prescience is a dangerous gift for ones mental health. I like to think of RMS as driven mad by his vision not seeing vision because of being mad.
I'm wondering if there was some kind of copyright/trademark issue at play here.
After playing with TM2 for half an hour or so, I don't think I'll be switching back from Vim. I was hoping for some split-screen action and maybe some advanced autocomplete intergration, but it doesn't seem to have either. It's looking to be a great update and improves on a lot of things in the existing version, but if I were honest, I'd have to say I wouldn't bother upgrading if it wasn't free.

That said, it's obviously an alpha release, so who knows what the future will hold.
>>Yes, the hyperbole is strong in this one.

Considering the link below I'm not so sure:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/indefinite-military...