skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No more serial ports, let alone parallel ports.

Umm... I kinda don't think you can pipe a stream of ASCII and get output anymore. It's something awful.

Losethos has file compression, for starters.

http://www.losethos.com/LTHtml/OSMain/Compress.html

The documents are basically ASCII followed by graphics. I assume you're happy just ignoring the graphics.

http://www.losethos.com/LTHtml/Adam/ToHtml.html

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

d redress was extremely imperfect. It did not always reinstate
them in the possession of the land, but gave them damages, which never
amounted to a real loss. Even in England, the country, perhaps of
Europe, where the yeomanry has always been most respected, it was not
till about the 14th of Henry VII. that the action of ejectment
was invented, by which the tenant recovers, not damages only, but
possession, and in which his claim is not necessarily concluded by the
uncertain decision of a single ass
Sorry. I'm allergic to fb. What's this supposed to do?
The Forbes "article" would have qualified as blogspam in every community I've been in. Giving proper attribution and linkback is a necessary but insufficient requirement.

The question is: how much did Forbes add to the original content to warrant a clickthrough? If nothing of value was added, then Forbes is just jacking clicks.

This is something many subreddits have had to deal with - the many, may spam blogs that simply aggregate links (even if properly attributed) without providing anything of additional value. In the subreddits I frequent we've started banning these, maybe the Internet as a whole should also.

It's amazing how prevalent it is these days to click on a link to read a tiny pithy excerpt of a fuller article. Click on that only to realize that it is also scraped content with no additional value or commentary. You have to get 5-7 clicks in just to find the original, interesting source that actually did any work.
well, everything that could have been done to resolve the situation was tried within reason. it would be an entirely different situation if the process was easy but no attempts were made to use it.
If you don't have a viable product, it doesn't matter.

If you have a viable product, you can sort it out.
The article claims that Fairchild Semiconductor was the first venture backed startup and describes the "fundamental shift [venture capital] represented in the relationship between capital and labor." Capital was now chasing talent.

A lot of valid points to support how an economy in which capital chases talent is novel, including "Silicon Valley operates under a fundamentally different system that continues to drive innovation by removing significant risk factors for talent to work on new developments." And in the context of traditional relationships between capital and labor, the author's point is valid that capital, relative different economic models, chases talent in the VC industry.

Yet I wonder how this premise can fully accepted when so many entrepreneurs are still chasing capital to fund their startups and even when money is 'so easy' to raise in this market, VCs are still seemingly exhalted? Obviously for the most competitive investment opportunities (e.g. to back a seasoned entrepreneur with a stellar idea and early traction in a multi-billion dollar industry) capital is certainly chasing talent. But it looks like this 'talent economy' is still a two way street: talent continues to chase capital as well.
Scalable Architecture for Real-Time Communications
In my county, we spend $90 million per year for our libraries - about 0.5% of property taxes. As a home owner, neary 15% of the cost of your home, is being funneled to the library system.

Huh? I'm not understanding your math here at all...
MIT researchers build wireless 'pharmacy on a chip'
The way I see it, the health insurance problem is the result of different people having different ideas on the "right" amount of health care and insurance to provide. Example... if somebody has a potentially fatal disease and $25000 worth of treatment can solve the problem, then go ahead and do it. But I don't want to pay to have some hypochondriac go to the doctor every time they get a sniffle. Other people believe all medical care should be free. Some people oppose measures to prolong life, some oppose pulling the plug. I haven't even started to touch the controversial stuff in the news recently.
In order to fix health insurance availability, these decisions have to be made, because ultimately any "solution" will require government subsidizing somebody, whether its the person buying insurance or the insurance company or by providing the insurance directly.
Wouldn't that be the first results page from google search?

I thought idealistic like you and although sounds great. Once you have in excess of 1,000 businesses all vying for exposure..then how do you provide that exposure time/place?

The only thought that would be idealistic would be if you're searching for specific niche/vertical product or services. But again once you've exceeded a comfort zone of the viewer. How do you again find time/space? AND be democratic about it? Meaning I personally like to give little guys time/space but money always wins... bottomline isn't it?

PS> everyone.. EVERYONE on about.me has an agenda. No one exposes themselves for the sake of exposure without an ulterior motive.
Yes. I worked in US military hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2008-2010, as well as spending some time in them in 2003-2007. I also spent a fair bit of time in third world clinics (in North Africa, Middle East, Southwest Asia, and also Iraq/Afghanistan), where the main care was for sickness or maternity, including working with NGOs.

The US hospitals also had plenty of local nationals coming in, either due to trauma, or due to illness. I also got to go out with some teams (i.e. the "other" people) when they did medical outreach. A few of my friends are Army SF medics, I lived with an Air Ambulance company for most of 2005, and dated a (non-US, coalition partner) doctor for a few months. I did combat lifesaver and some other advanced first aid stuff, and dive medic. I did get to help out with trauma a fair bit, and I've been first responder at a bunch of traffic accidents worldwide.

Actually, neuroradiology would be my #1 pick (I hate being around conscious patients, and even talking to people who talk to conscious patients is bad. A rad at least talks to other specialists, and a neurorad is going to talk to specialists (rads, neurosurgeons) who talk to other specialists (surgeons, oncologists) who talk to normal doctors who talk to patients, so you're pretty far removed. ER docs are kind of looked down on by other doctors (for basically being stream of consciousness, get them in, patch them up, pass them along), but trauma surgeons are well respected. There's clearly a lot of money in gerontology, and demand for internal medicine (although badly paid, and often in crappy parts of the country), but I'd hate those things.

However, I'm doing a non-medical startup, and going to med school seems very unlikely to be in my future.
How many civil liberties need to be eradicated before you're living in what could be described a fascist regime?

Or a better way to come to think about it is to ask yourself how many civil liberties have been gained compared to how many have been lost over the past 10 years. And do you see this trend continuing?
Show HN: Open Sourced My iOS Reddit Client
Just one comment:

"Last I checked, “bandwidth” is an infinite resource..."

No it is not. There has to be infrastructure to carry that bandwidth, so there is a very real and physical limit on bandwidth. Also, in many countries, bandwidth costs money. Downloading costs money. I know that in America it is easy to find unlimited internet plans (or close to it), but in many countries every gigabyte you downloads costs money. My limit is 40 gigabytes, for which I pay about 40 dollars. After that, every 10 gigabytes I download is an additional 6 dollars.
>It dismisses all women who have real life experience of things men don‘t go through first hand—like child birth or sexism.

Putting these out there as exclusive only to women is absurd. I shared
the experience of child-birth with my wife and have experienced sexism at many points in my career (I work in a female dominated field). The notion
that these things only happen/are experienced by women is just wrong.

What you're arguing for is that certain topics be restricted to a women's only perspective which is about sexist as it gets.
Interesting comparisons. I love the idea and the discussions of what particular tests could offer.

This may ruffle some feathers of people who love their particular framework and derive satisfaction from using it over others....

I think some other questions it's bringing up are even more interesting:

- If no problem is the same, does any framework matter, except the fact that you have one that decently keeps your organized?

- Is there really a one framework fits all approach? I think not. Some benefit from ORM, some might not.

- We all know premature optimization is not productive. Does it matter what really anyone uses?

- If we don't like trivializing a particular framework to these metrics, why do we trivialize any other framework in general?

- How do we build a better comparison?
Lexing is strictly simpler than parsing - lexing is done with state machines* , while many parsers can be viewed as state machines with stacks, AKA "pushdown automata" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushdown_automata). Lexers don't have stacks, which is why basic regular expressions can't do things like match arbitrarily nested parenthesis.

* Basically: make a byte-by-byte flowchart ("an int is a digit, followed by more digits, stop when it reaches a non-digit character and return the accumulated string as an int"), then convert that to code. Pretty simple. Graphviz (http://graphviz.org) makes pretty state machine diagrams.

Just knowing a little bit about automata / state machines will be enough to write a decent lexer. The Wirth PDF above explains it just a few pages (chapter 3). People often use tools like lex or ragel because writing them by hand can be rather tedious (being able to say e.g. "[+-]?[1-9][0-9]* { return LEXEME_INT(atoi(str)); }" rather than writing out the tests byte-by-byte), but they're not hard.

And yeah, the Lispers are able to sidestep parsing entirely.
So, would the test be completely be made relevant if 1.9.3 was used?
According to Forbes' managing editor, their bloggers are paid a flat rate for a minimum number of posts and comments, but that yes, they are given incentives for monthly uniques and repeat traffic:

http://www.quora.com/Do-Forbes-bloggers-get-paid-or-are-they...
Paring helps to alleviate this guilt to some degree. By hashing out technical decisions with at least one other reasonably intelligent person and coming to an agreement, you can have just a little bit more confidence than if you were working on your own.
Prices for "mobile broadband dongles with data" in the UK. Surprisingly expensive, and they have Fair Use policies. A big plan would be 1 GB per month.

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3605265)
I've been to an OpenBSD hackathon (which has been doing them since 1999) and I think those and the Haskell hackathons differ from many of these new events that people are calling hackathons.

For OpenBSD, the developers are all working as a team on a central project, but usually have sub-projects or tasks related to OpenBSD that they've been working on independently prior to the event. They bring their code to work on or debug, they meet new developers that are normally scattered around the world, test code on different machines, discuss new projects, and socialize (which usually brings out more ideas). Most of the time, those ideas aren't finished at the end of the event, but they've been given some direction and help or have been inspired to start on something new.

The hackathons that Winer is writing about are basically just competitions to see who can throw something together in 24 hours or however long the event is. The ones I've seen put on by Facebook and Twilio seem like nothing more than marketing for their own products, and the developers get some marketing for themselves by winning the competitions.
Interesting point... the difference between a language vs. framework is often overlooked..

If there are cases where they may overlap, how would you want to develop a test?
To block open sourced Tor client websites and downloads and so on, at a guess.
- Transparency surrounding freezing of accounts and funds. Mom-and-Pops will go with PayPal anyway, because of their brand power, and the fact that it's so easy to accept money with PayPal. But hackers and people with chops and resources are aware that it happens all the time, know there are alternatives, and are more likely to leverage them.

- Better customer support in general. It's unacceptable for PayPal to be unresponsive for days and weeks when problems happen and there is big money at stake. PayPal needs to study up on what is making Apple so successful in the retail industry and take a hint from their CS staff.
"How to scare off female developers?"

Nail a huge, purple dildo to your office door, and enjoy the quiet solitude of a nag-free, gossip-free, rage-free, single-gender work environment, where you can get stuff done, and in which you may occasionally stroll without pants. Seriously: Either you are qualified for the job, or you aren't. If you are, then stop claiming offense over gender or race or whatever, because all that does is create further division, and not the enlightenment which you expect. What matters is not what the other person says, but rather, how you respond. Every minute that you spend being negative, is a minute you could have spent on a project that will get you that raise or promotion.
Every one of those are about "I should have confronted the decision because I know better but I'll shut up and write to devsigh instead"

Because you have no spine? Pathetic.
Could be in case they want to do literal NSValues later. Since {}-syntax is used in C for both array literals and struct literals, they needed to change one, and the picked the more common one. Otherwise is foo in:

id foo = @{ @2, @5 };

an NSArray containing two NSNumbers, or an NSValue containing a struct with two pointers (which happen to be NSNumber *s)?

I'd guess there were other edge cases they didn't want to deal with, so they didn't do literal NSValues for this release.

Or it could be that it's because []-style arrays are popular these days.

Or some of both; in picking which {} to change to @[], they reasoned that lots of people have experience with []-style arrays.
Canadian Unis let Content Industry spy on private emails to stop Piracy
You do realize this is extacy (MDMA) they are talking about ? I think any revolutionary effects of that would have been discovered by now.
I asked the Forbes blogger about the rules, if any, that govern repurposing content from other publications.

No reply: https://twitter.com/ryandeussing/status/170337298695720960
Interviewing process is broken
"The question is: how much did Forbes add to the original content to warrant a clickthrough? If nothing of value was added, then Forbes is just jacking clicks."

I think a better question is whether or not the Forbes article actually took clicks away from the NYT article. I doubt it actually did. If anything the NYT article probably got more clicks than it would have gotten otherwise. Yeah, it sucks that the person who did all the work isn't the one who got the credit, but it's hard to see how they're worse off for the Forbes piece.
Strata 2012 - Aggregating and serving local places data and ads at Citygrid
Berkeley Computer Vision Class
I suspect that 80% of the calls I get are from recruiters - typically offering positions out of state. Being the polite guy I am, I used to make it a point to respond to all voicemails with a "no thank you". These days, I use an "unable to answer" message that states up front that, if you are a recruiter, DO NOT leave a voicemail - email me instead. And yet, I still get voicemails sometimes. :P

For all of the recruiter emails I get, I have a GMail canned reply that states up front the geographic areas I'm interested in and the minimum rate that I'm looking for. For the vast majority of these emails, I never receive a response.

I have this same basic "disclaimer" at the top of my LinkedIn profile. Every once in a while, I get a cold email from a recruiter who has actually read it. 10 cool points to them.
There's lots of information about this on apple.com:

http://www.apple.com/opensource/
http://opensource.apple.com/
https://developer.apple.com/opensource/
I very rarely read policies on website.. especially for a python snippets aggregator. I'm wondering why it concerns you so much, am I missing something?
Careful, this is a very dangerous path you're walking down.

This is the same thing as "why don't those homeless people just get jobs?!" - it's a failure to understand the complexities of the situation.

It feels nice though, because their failure is not on us (society as a whole), but wholly on them. Moral responsibility defeated!

swombat nailed it on the head: crap food is way cheaper than good food, to the point where a lot of this country does not have reasonable access to healthy foods. There are also other angles - e.g., single mother of two juggling two jobs - do you find something microwaveable or do you cook something healthy with the time you don't have?

In any case, this whole thing is way more complicated than just "hurr durr stupid plebes".
We'll have to disagree about the axes---I think the choice of where to start axes depends on what you're trying to illustrate. For me, absolute differences in wages was what I wanted highlight.

Re: Standard error bars - you're absolutely right. I should have included them, but it was my first time using the googleVis package & didn't see an easy way to add them. I don't have the numbers right in front of me, but standard deviation for each skill was on the order of ~$7/hour and each skill had to have at least 30 obs., though many where much, much higher. If we say n=50, that's an SE of about $1/hour, so clearly one shouldn't take much stock in very small differences in wages. My goal was just to unearth some interesting data---I probably should tone down the implied recommendation lest I'm responsible for a glut of unemployable lisp hackers in a few years:)
Social and real-time messaging and presence are great engagement multipliers for just about any web or multi-platform application. XMPP is a great protocol for chat so why not base all your client/server communications on that? Using strophe, sending an IQ packet and processing the response looks real similar to your basic AJAX call using any of the more popular javacsript libraries.
Interesting. I didn't know it was possible, but, seeing as it is an UDP-like unidirectional message and an old system, it isn't surprising.

Wikipedia has more information for the interested[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_spoofing
The “Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobile
Extreme Job Interviewing
If anything, the Forbes reblog shows how oversensationalized media is expected to be. Even in academia and many peer-reviewed journals, there is a shift towards witty or funny titles in the form of "attention grabber: what this paper really is about". The colon is an imperative. I give an example: "Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn". You can find these examples all throughout peer-reviewed journals and books -- this one came from a textbook: A companion to Asian American studies, published by Wiley.

Even academics need to grab attention, too, and it's part of the product of the information economy (where there is a surplus of information) and a scarcity of time (i.e, attention).
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The frequently grey, overcast beacon of hope.
Looks nice and clean to me. Just lacking in entries. With time, this could be quite interesting. I didn't find any typos, FWIW.
Wha…?

I’m doing nothing like that. Nothing.

The actual issue is the slur. I do not really understand how anyone can think it’s not a slur.
http://central.ly/page/home

http://www.justabout.co/
How to add syntax highlighter on Google's *blogger*
Currently I am trying to use syntaxhighlighter following http://blog.cartercole.com/2009/10/awesome-syntax-highlighting-made-easy.html
Usage issues (specific to blogger):
a)Difficulty in giving the clipboard path string. Blogger encodes it.(Currently using //<![CDATA[ <code> //]]> syntax to write the javascript code)
b)Copy to clipboard is not being shown.
c)If the syntax highlighted code is manually selected to be copied, then on pasting stray characters are being introduced. (for now I am suggesting usage of linux tr command to replace them on my blog).

Replacement to the syntax highlighter would also be appreciated.
As a sample problem try copy-pasting the code at http://pareshverma.blogspot.in/2012/02/datac-miller-rabin.html and running it directly.
I understand that you're probably trying to get Reddit upvotes as well, but I think a link to the repo itself [0] would be better.

And a little critique about your code: you shouldn't set the ivar backing synthesized properties in your implementation (instance) methods. For example, in RDBrowserController.m doing

self.webView = wv

(invoking the setter) rather than

if (webView) [webView release];
webView = wv;

is both shorter and universally safer, and prevents issues if you end up using Key-Value Observing down the road.

It's also safer to retain the new value before releasing the current value in setters you write yourself - this prevents setting to the same value repeatedly from releasing the object prior to retaining it.

0: https://github.com/samuraisam/readdit
That's exactly what I'm talking about, and the main comment I made that was at +4 when I went to bed last night is now at just +1 so I take it as fairly obvious that this people trying to muzzle well presented / supported positions that they happen to disagree with is really going on. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3596880 also was in a tug of war between 0 and +5 for a few days but has settled now on +4.

Two in just the past hour with a quick look at recent comments + one 40 days ago where I noticed it first started happening;

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3610273

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3610330

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3446907
That's for sure. I recently changed jobs and most of the interviews were like that. I especially remember being on the phone arguing O(dumbness) issues while wondering to myself what the hell this had to do with anything I could do for them.
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Firstly, ranting online and confronting the problem directly are not actually mutually exclusive. Secondly, in the real world sometimes a problem just isn't worth addressing; no matter how hard you try, sales/marketing/your manager/the CEO/the users just won't understand, so just work around it and let off steam online instead.
I'll see what I can do, unfortunately generating a sample sliding window playlist isn't the easiest thing in the world to do (I can't post the feed I'm testing it with). Looking at access logs it appears to have something to do with reloading the playlist, as the access intervals don't look like Quicktime's or an iPhone's.
The goal with linking right to the subreddit is that's where I'm coordinating the development effort. There's absolutely no benefit in getting reddit upvotes in a subreddit with 50 subscribers.