skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much has already been discussed about DFW. And still being written(for example: http://www.thepointmag.com/2012/essays/coming-to-terms). I must say I'm almost surprised to see Hacker News branching into literary subjects, but of course there are related topics concerning technology in his work. Next thing we know, we'll start seeing articles about philosophy and metaphysics!
Drupal 8 Core Initiatives. What Should We Expect?
It's a valid ruby method name!

def ಠ_ಠ
puts 'i like turtles'
end
"Even so, your entire rant about specialization has been said far better by a far better human than you"

What makes someone a better human than someone else?
Ask HN: How should I open source SimpleAuth.com?
While I'm a big open source user, and I've committed patches to open source projects, I've not yet open sourced a full application.

I launched SimpleAuth.com a while back and there are a bunch of users. I don't mind continuing to pay for the servers as I have SA integrated in many of my own projects as well. That said, I don't have the time to keep up with maintenance & new features that could really make it more widely used (eg iOS SDK).

That brings me to this post. Should I open source SA? If so, how? Or should I just try to find a few individuals that will help maintain/update it without going full-out public git repo?

Of final note, the code isn't pretty, so part of my fear, however irrational, is that while the code works well, the cleanliness of it isn't near my normal standards when I'm not scrambling to get something done.
The above link pretty much answers everything. Please, skim the first two pages before replying. It explains why 'curve of pursuit' is the wrong strategy, how the lion can win if the tamer stays on the circumference, why the tamer should not stay on the circumference, and how to make this all mathematically rigorous.
The task manager Wunderlist reaches two million users
Because comparing app loading time to website page load times is meaningless.

A better comparison are common tasks in Photoshop, like selection, fill, layer operations, filters, etc. - things that are done constantly while using the application. I don't have any point of reference, but they feel pretty responsive to me. If the article was making a case that Adobe has been neglecting optimization for common operations, then bringing up Basecamp or other webapps would be relevant.

I'm not sure how to explain it more clearly than that.
How Many C Programs Are There?
Uh, yeah, and neither did pretty much anybody else. nginx has only been of any significance for a few years. What's your point?
Unusual or Unique Flags
Flags have been used since before we began recording history, to symbolize movements, peoples and even individuals. Every country in the world has a flag – some weird, some beautiful and some incredibly boring.
Why's this on HN? We all know the answer to this.
I simply understood the EU label on that TechCrunch page to refer to Europe, not the political entity. I don't think that's an unreasonable way to read it in a journalistic context. There is no other readily available shorthand for referring to the continent, particularly since EUR refers to the currency.
What better way to describe to a less tech-savvy audience? It's "social coding" after all.
I believe the Lion can go as close as he wants to the tamer but never have both the same position. If you consider the Lion and the tamer have a size, then in a finite time, the Lion reach the tamer.
He'd been doing it for a long time:

http://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf
Windows Phone and PhoneGap Series – Article #1 to #10
The course contents doesn't open on a android tablet. It says loading... for sometime, and it just stops after that. I tried with stock browser and Dolphin browser and both have the same issue.
Only in the second year? Why not the first?
Shrinking my Googleprint
like it.

can you elaborate on this: "The score is based on your and others' preferences and interests and involves more math than most people would ever want to know"

whats your ideas/approach to solving chicken-egg problem?
Please note that I'm not saying STL shouldn't build a startup community. I'm a fan of startups hosting in the Midwest (for obvious reasons). I'm saying that grant programs like this might not be the way to get there; good startups can take money from lots of different places, so the STL grant program might be left with a bunch of business-plan-startups that couldn't get money from anywhere else.
There's an alternate strategy that relies on time moving in discrete chunks, and both players moving simultaneously. But it's completely dependent on how the space is modelled, which indicates (to me) that this isn't a satisfying / robust / realistic solution.
I'm really glad that you thought it so good! :)
Microsoft Office for iPad sounds a lot like Office for WOA tablets
Its likely I have missed something, if this guy's video matched another video, why is it his one which is the offender and not the other video? Does this mean that the videos uploaded by the record companies are flagged as being legitimate by default ? If so, who decides that one then? Must every "legit" publisher register are some how legitimate?

If it were me, I would want to find out which video was supposed to be the original of which the IP was allegedly stolen, and accuse them of taking my material. Surely by these standards one of r them must be illegal, right?

Or does this lark only work one way for the benefit of the dear old mega-corps?
Researchers defeat video CAPTCHA antispam tests
28 pages and not a single diagram. This is why I always struggled reading academic papers.

For a problem like this when the first thing I did was have a picture of it in my head, I would have expected diagrams to be essential.
This is interesting tech. I feel like I should like it.

Watching these 360° videos, I always feel a certain anxiety. Part of it is technical – the interface is so clunky that "swiveling my head" is painfully awkward. But part of it is inherent – I worry that I'll miss the part I'm "really" supposed to be watching. I feel like I should replay the video 3-4 times to take it all in, but I just don't have that kind of time. I wind up navigating away to resolve the tension.

A big part of cinematography is directing the viewer's eye through framing, focus, etc. A brilliant example is the 3D IMAX version of Avatar. The giant screen is only the first challenge. Since curent 3D technology simulates stereoscopic cues but not focal cues, they had to direct the viewer's attention in 3-axes to avoid uncomfortable perceptual mismatch. To their credit, this only happened to me a couple times.

So despite the cool tech, this is a step backward for visual storytelling imho.
Well, I have switched to NGINX for some projects, and am considering the switch back if Apache gets a few things nailed down (this release is a move in the right direction).

The main reason is: I don't care for that much performance in the raw one standalone server case, and I can always put Varnish on top. But I do care for easy of installation, breadth of documentation, etc, and with Apache you got that in spades. This can be in even very simple things, that I can solve in Nginx in 15 minutes, like, say, Wordpress having specific rewrite rules and support for Apache built-in and not for Nginx. It's trivial to solve, but if I used Apache, I wouldn't even have to.

Given two platforms, one of which is better than the other but less popular, I usually stick to the most popular one (within reason. Like, I won't go for PHP, but I would go with Rails, not Padrino or some even less known thing).

Fewer problems down the road, and if you get into those, people have already encountered them.
Certainly Google doesn't "like" to make any kind of solutions to help a dying industry. The content recognition system likely cost in the tens of millions in development and is probably eating up lots and lots of processing power just to operate it.
Why do other people care about what you choose to call yourself? This sounds more like an affirmation one would do in front of the mirror than something to shout to the world.
Mathematics aside, is this one of those puzzles where the answer is "of course the lion tamer is not caught - because he's a lion tamer and therefore the lion does not chase him."
The real problem is that the standard requires a browser vendor to behave in this way. Microsoft is implementing the standard, but arguably shouldn't since it appears to be outdated and flawed to begin with.
So if someone goes to Mashable and clicks a "like" button, it won't work unless they specifically allow 3rd party tracking on Mashable? And then again on the WSJ, and again on Youtube? Or is it that they need to allow Facebook tracking once and then it works on all sites that have a "like" button?

If it's the former, then I'd say P3P is horribly broken and bypassing it for "like" buttons would be the only way to make things work.

And even if it's the latter, giving a site carte blanche tracking rights seems too coarse for comfort (unless you could grant permission ONLY for "like" buttons and nothing else).
I thought I saw a squadron of pigs soar by this morning. Too little, too late, I think, though, as nginx & friends have devoured their market share over the years, and it's going to take a good year or two for distros to start supporting 2.4 - probably 7 or 8 years for RHEL!
Invoke CSS3 animation by onClick event
It does sometimes make sense to have identifiers in non-English languages. If could be for a DSL, or it could be because the business logic concerns concepts which is not trivially translatable to english.
So, basically, the guy screws up in the first place by not using mock objects, then claims a 5x speedup because he switches to some weird gem that runs things in a transaction?

If he would've just used mocks in the first place, he wouldn't need to waste time trying to cut it down to five minutes.
Give interns real product work and you'll be delighted
since i'm a target audience for this course (non-technical person aspiring to learn how to code), how would i learn proper programmer convention (ie the Python way) vs. the computer scientist convention?
How to change your life: From the author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
This looks extraordinarily well done. What are you planning on doing with it? I can think of a lot of different use cases.

("How well does it integrate with ArcSight"? Sheesh.)
7 Awesome Cloud-Based Invoicing Softwares Accessible from Google Apps
Not all are, because not all of them are worth it. For most companies, the worst scenario is that a low-ranking officer will ask them for a little money for krysha.

But Yandex is no small potatoes.

Also, it's a mind trap to refuse to ponder the behavior of security services just because we have little information. It's their very nature not to let us know what they're doing, but scraps of information amass with time and you can connect the dots. Or perhaps you think that we should not try to think to much about these topics?

I'm sure you've heard of Russian authorities cracking down on some NGOs under the pretext of fighting software piracy. Do you really think it was about illegal Windows and Office? Or perhaps someone didn't like what these organizations were doing, but had no legal arguments against these activities? See, I have no evidence in this case whatsoever, and yet I know with 99% certainty that the real reason had nothing to do with piracy. But call me a conspiracy theorist.
Because it's awesome!
Great lightweight task manager. Will use this instead of sticky notes now!
Possible add ons:
* have an option in the dropdown that will open the current config file in case it's not open.
* built in keyboard shortcut to open the menu
I hate questions being phrased like this. I always end up thinking of things like "who entered the cage first", which is important in reality but has no bearing on the mathematical nature of the question.

If the lion tamer is in the cage before when the lion enters, then it's unlikely the that the Lion will catch the tamer. Unless there's some other factor, like the lion has been starved, or is nervous.
Attachments.me Goes Automatic, Adds Box To Its Cloud Storage Partners
Normalizing bids for a new PPC campaign launch
Study: First impressions of a website form in less than a second | Articles
The version used by Sebastian targets a wider audience who are not familiar with the pythonic idioms and have just skimmed a bit of python to do the course. Using a loop over array index is the way many students iterate over an array. This should not reflect on Sebastian's coding ability.
5 Quick Fixes for a Slow Computer.
> Apache can be tweaked in so many different ways

I can't stress this enough. Besides all the configuration settings, you can really dig into the internals.

Our production deployment of Apache is custom-compiled with something like 90% of the modules disabled. Only the basic stuff we use.

Each deployment is unique, making benchmarks pretty useless.

If you need to choose which httpd to use, decide based on how easily it'll fit in your stack. I promise you, if you hit the performance ceiling on any of the httpd suites out there, you'll have bigger fish to fry.
FRACT: Myst Meets Music Making - Played with Synths and Sequencers
Looks great. And reassuring. I just followed the instructions and restarted. https://github.com/basho/riak_control
Smartphone and App Growth Soars (INFOGRAPHICS)
A great deal of he complexity comes from OS vendors doing nigh-unspeakable things to httpd.conf. The default httpd.conf from Apache is a bit gnarly too, but compared to what redhat or ubuntu do... not cool.

The mandatory configuration is actually pretty minimal, especially if you are using it as an app server. Take, for example, http://kasparov.skife.org/blog/src/wombat/httpd-conf-cool.ht... which sets up a bunch of mod_wombat (precurser to now-bundled mod_lua) stuff.
I was one of those people who, by virtue of working for companies that provided health insurance as a benefit, never had to worry about it... I always simply assumed that it was simply a matter of paying.

Then I got laid off. That in itself was no problem - I simply went on COBRA, and nothing changed about my coverage or anything else, for a few months. Unfortunately my employer was struggling with business issues, and wanted to switch to a different insurer, which did not provide service to my region. They asked if I would seek out private health insurance coverage, and I agreed to.

That's when I learned what health insurance is like for the 20%... Employer-provided (and thus group negotiated) health insurance - what I thought of as "normal" health insurance - is a far cry from what you can get if you're out there on your own. Not only do individual health plans cost more and give you less, they are also hard to get. The underwriters are suspicious of absolutely anything you saw a doctor for, even if it turned out to be nothing, or was subsequently fixed, and they want 10 years of your history to pick over too. I had to go to my most recent doctors and persuade them to send letters to the insurance company explaining that I was cured, or didn't have a case that required surgery, etc.

I'm covered now, but it was kind of a nightmare. And I'm not just healthy, but somewhat well off financially. What must it be like for the rest?
Hypermedia APIs explained [video]
Disappointing Steve Yegge rant on Agile. TLDR: Agile sucks, but I've never done it, now I did it, it's pretty good.

Google does Agile OK, but I wish Steve Yegge could see Agile @patientslikeme - no BS, lots to love - it'd be a very different blog entry.
Canonical reveals Ubuntu for Android
So who creates the λ functional JavaScript library?
U.S. Being Left In The Dust Of The Global Telecommuting Revolution
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Fucken monkey see monkey do. Planet of the apes.

I wrote a compiler mothafucka -- we are different species.

LoseThos is Identity Mapped and multitasking. My compiler calls MALLOC for memory and puts the code there. My scheduler saves regs and loads-in the next set of regs. What's hard about this? You got your head up your ass with Linux on the brain. Ba ha. Imagine China inventing something!!

LoseThos is master-slave multicore. Core 0 can farm-out jobs to other cores. Sure other cores can have multiple task. The scheduler never shuffles them around. Fucken monkeys -- why would you do SMP? Mine's got locks for file access from all cores, but it's not SMP.

Blue-eyed monkeys are still monkeys. Some people are morons who will never understand originality. The fuck you thinking doing SMP? That's retarded and you've been caught plagarizing shit nobody in their right mind would do! Cores should be heterogeneous in hardware, too -- it's obvious.

Satan and Santorum. I'm playing to impress God, not man.

God says...
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net certainly serve distances decked daemon dreaded dens
temporately Firmament necessary elders don't_even_think_about_it
hold_on_a_minute captive murmured earthly I_quit watery
pronouncing PRINT unruly

Just think about heterogeneous CPU's. You could have the other cores being like something out of a GPU. I think I'd rather have 100 floating point units than 4 cores. A few identical cores are good, but a bunch of little ones in addition to a few sounds better.

For servers you can benefit from SMP but on a home system master/slave.
"echo HELLO WORLD  /dev/my_lcd"
> There's the bug in your logic: A packet to London may touch less routers

Regardless of the number of routes, the ISP knows before relaying your packet that certain destinations require the use of paid traffic while other can be accessed with peered traffic. I agree with the grand-parent: it seems strange that ISP are not charging more for access to IPs that are outside their peering agreements. I am not suggesting it; I just find it strange that they are not trying to push it on us like the mobile operators are trying to do giving you free access to Facebook [1] and their own music stores while charging for access to other sites.

[1] 0.facebook.com
I have a Touchpad myself, my wife has an iPad. I do prefer using WebOS than iOS. Love the multitask.

Only problem are the apps :(
Microsoft attacks Google, ignores the same violations from its partner, Facebook
Affordable health care is a luxury? You must be very young (and likely male).
One of the cool parts of webOS being released under the Apache license is that it makes patents much less of an issue. The Apache license's patent grants mean that Apple, Google, Microsoft, or anyone else can freely take the best parts from webOS without having to worry about HP suing them. (Palm had a lot of valuable patents on mobile/smartphone UI, which are now essentially off the table.)
Unfortunately, still no sign of per-host logfiles with dynamic virtual hosts (mod_vhost_alias).
After UK High Court Ruling The Pirate Bay could be Blocked
According to the judgment of London high court, the Pirate Bay could be blocked in the UK due to committing copyright infringement by this torrent site and its users.
Between this and PHP5.4, LAMP performance is finally progressing.
Apache 2.4 Takes Direct Aim At Nginx
His video isn't identical to another video. Rather, something within the video (it might have been a five second sample) triggered a false positive match against something else that someone thinks they own the rights to.
How to Manage by Doing Everyone's Job
Great work, but if I were to upload captured packets to a third party I'd loose my job as well
Start Making
> But regardless of the cause, there's overwhelming evidence that people, in fact, prefer in-fix.

How many people have seen anything other than in-fix? Of those, how many got a fair shot at an alternative?
This started off sounding really cool, and then on page 2 they reveal pretty much nobody's going to have access to it.
Is Watching TV Over the Airwaves Making a Comeback?
> Google sounds like an exceptionally disciplined software-engineering company indeed! This to me implies they do NOT need Agile.

This implies discipline and Agile (big 'A') are mutually exclusive. From my experience you have to be very disciplined to do Good Agile (and I have experience of Bad Agile too).
Boston newspaper: no website until there's a business model
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Show HN: Nezumi 2, iPhone app for Heroku
Good luck with that. DNS lookups are only a few bytes long and thus are probably the easiest protocol in common use to smuggle. So technically it won't work.

However, a country could abuse its own population in order to force it to work most of the time. There's probably not a technical solution to that problem, people need to use the freedoms they have to oppose techno-authoritarianism before it can take over.
Show HN: A Non-trivial Open Source iPad App
Playbook OS stole the cards feature, OS 2 includes the number row keyboard for all password inputs (this is super useful), and email tabs.

It also gets 354 on html5test.com, the highest of any tablet browser, including Chrome Beta.
I try "learning" spanish while commuting using this Android app:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pervychine.spanish...

I love this way of learning
Agile and waterfall aren't the only two options. There are other methodologies, like spiral and RUP.

I don't think the death of the "Agile" brand will do much. Sensible people adapt the process to suit their needs anyway, and "good agile" isn't too far from what you'd do if you just tried to get your work done without all these methodology salesmen knocking on your door.
I think it's a little different because "Own" is an actual approved action while "Don't like" isn't. Can you shoot me an email (just use our contact form)? Would love to learn more.

Thanks Geoff!
Comparison of e-book formats
I agree that non ASCII identifiers are to be avoided, but they may be some exceptions, I have written code like this (in Go):

type Polar struct {
R, θ float
}
Very cool! I've been hacking around with modifying HN's interface via JS a lot recently - this will be a welcome tool in my experiments.

One comment: The up/down votes are really "strong" visually. Perhaps make them smaller and/or lighter in color?
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There are many holes in the question... Such as asking if it is POSSIBLE. We know that all things are possible, however improbable, so the answer is yes.
Facebook Profiles Found to Predict Job Performance
It's valid in Python 3 too.
You know how it works. You already have a shop full of people trained to work your legacy apps, with their shiny MC* certifications, comfortable in their safe lifetime dead-end jobs... What do you think they'll do? Use the tools they have been using for a long time now or explain management (because they really don't decide anything) they need to learn to use better tools?

Do you really think most MC* people are eager to move on to tools that make their certifications worthless? When they move, they do along Microsoft's designated path and rarely stray from it.
If the lion just waits, I bet the tamer will die of dehydration first.
This is exactly the environment that agile is designed for. It's oriented around getting to a state of producing results in teams with low cohesion, poor communication, and ineffectual or non-technical management. The problem is that people see agile as a one size fits all solution and try to shoehorn it into situations where it's not helpful. Even worse when people misapply the core concepts and it becomes just another excuse for micro-managing.