skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a bit perplexed by this, too.

I live on the other side of the hardware-software divide (I'm an ASIC guy), so I don't really know in-depth about Ruby or Rails. My impression, though, is that Ruby is a great, expressive language, while Rails is essentially a DSL on top of it that lets you very quickly build web apps without actually dealing with a lot of Ruby. That, in fact, many Rails developers tend to have a bit of a reputation of not being good programmers because many don't know the underlying language well. Is there some truth to that, or have I come away with the wrong impression?
I seriously doubt people are going to start losing web design jobs simply because of cheap themes. Cheap themes have been around since the internet turned commercial and yet there are still web design jobs.

Cheap themes serve a specific market, cheap people. The same market exists in every creatively based market such as video, print, 3D models, etc. I don't see those jobs going away.

Web design jobs will not disappear because there actually is a market out there that does not want cheap themes. This market wants a customized site that suits their needs and the needs of their own market. This market will want a website that is custom to them that their competition simply cannot buy from a cheap theme market. This market understands the idea of "you get what you pay for".

I await the next story that claims X will die soon because of Y even though X has been doing just fine with years of Y already in place. I'm accustomed to these kinds of stories, I'm a PC gamer and I've been told every three-to-five years (conveniently this is typical console lifespan) that my hobby is dying even though I've been doing it for over twenty years with no intention of stopping any time soon.
Logging "Access Denied" events is important for security, too
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_lifecycle_management

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_data_management
They are buying views.
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They escape single- and double-quotes, what else is there to worry about?
I've been a manager.

One day you'll realise that you're the failure, not the staff. Either you let the wrong people in your team, you fucked up their motivation or you're a bad manager.
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I have a plea for those posting: Please tell me what you do so I know if that's something I'm interested in.

Example (not personal, you were just the top post right now): "Etsy.com is hiring all kinds of positions from engineering to design to marketing. Come join an awesome team..." I have no idea what you do or why that should interest me.

As opposed to: "Lot18 (http://www.lot18.com) is revolutionizing the way people buy wine and epicurean products online." Thank you, now I know whether I should continue reading based on whether that's something that interests me.
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Instead of down voting can someone give some examples...
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I have no idea what your library is supposed to provide from your front page. What's the elevator pitch?
What's with the obsession with free beer?

What's next, hackerspaces with liquor permits and bartenders?

Wait, that would be pretty cool...
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Agreed. There's a trend to invent items to fill these confusing pullaway lists. Not to pick on Sharypic (it's delightful), but the menu shows only two things: News and Events.

Remember, when you copy Facebook, you inherit their constraints. A full-featured app for an eight-year-old social network of 800 million has to do a lot. A do-one-thing-well photo app? Not so much.
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The Pyramid project is using chipin.com to collect donations for rewriting the documentation.

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/pylons-discuss/sGupDbtrq9E...

Kickstarter has a number of open source projects. Diaspora being one of the more popular ones.

Just search for Open Source on Kickstarter, you can see dozens of ones that have gotten funded.
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What bugs can teach us
Picking nits here, but (limited) crashing (by design) is exactly why Erlang's failure handling is solid. It's like an automotive crumple zone for your application.
read Zed Shaw for his take on that
- He complies with the DMCA. - He provides direct 'delete' access to his servers for the content companies.

The way I heard it Megaupload was basically designed to perfunctorily comply with the DMCA while actually not deleting content and keeping it accessible.
This is a lost battle. It's like arguing that decimate means killing only 1 in 10, or that literally refers to a something factual, or that a virus does not need your admin password to install itself and spread.
Actually I've not seen this, excellent, thanks for posting
It's nowhere near enough notice to take reasonable action.

You say it could be done in a weekend. Do you know this because you've done it?

To do anything other than an emergency exit, you need time to evaluate and select alternatives, and that doesn't include things like GMail, where there needs to be an overlap for people to update my address etc. (yes I used my own domain - no google didn't make it transparent enough that my gmail address didn't leak out).

As for the flood zone analogy - that's absurd. At some point along the way I'd have had to decide I was going to stop using them. In my case that point is now.

You seem to be suggesting that it should have been before now, and that a change in terms and conditions isn't a reasonable indication of their future direction.

Consider that Google's could have changed their T&Cs in the other direction - to commit to greater segregation of user data had they thought this was important.

They didn't.
I tried that in chrome too, saw it didnt work and presumed the site handled it, not my browser, IE9 avoids it as well, even shows a little popup saying the site has been modified to prevent xss, latest FF still displays the alert though.
Well, AMD has their own low power core, Bobcat, which I'd bet they're going to be combining with Sea Micro's stuff. In fact, given AMD's move to synthesized design for Bobcat I expect that they'll just take the GPU out of a Brazos chip, put in the logic from SeaMicro's special connector chips, and boom you've got a pretty compelling product.
Related: http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/04/how-tweet-it-is-library-acq...
Library of Congress already has an archive of public tweets.
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> Justice in this country is really bizarre.

Although I upvoted you, I don't get you. You seemed to be fully aware that the system in US was designed to collapse and the country is pretty much owned by offshore banking cartel with privetly owned banking system and Federal Reserve that has as much to do with "Federal" as "Federal Express", but yet you brag about "justice being bizarre".

Kim, as I read somewhere "flew too close to the sun". He was too big, grew too fast and "wasn't the part of the family". You not choose to be a part of a family because you are wise and know how to make millions, as this example shows.
he can't possibly know what he's talking about (which, is presumably, colors or something)

The “Light” theory of color says that Black is not a color. The “Pigment” theory of color says that White is not a color. Therefore, the author really doesn’t know what he’s talking about!
You can have an OS running and not have it 100% stable for long term with small latent bugs. I've actually got a prototype board I'm working on right now that runs Linux just fine but will lock up and need to be rebooted every few days.

But as you said, for 20 quid who cares?
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/proc is an attempt to retrofit plan9 ideas back on Linux. Plan9's is far more powerful, because you can control the visibility of filesystem mounts per-process.
Beta testers wanted: network monitoring tool NetHound announces private beta
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I can feel a bit of his pain, though. I think some of the trouble is that there are things that should be closable, but the (.close x) isn't enough. A Closable protocol could help with some of this.

Granted, laziness still makes this issue very, very tricky.
I really want to like OpenStreetMap, and I think it has a ton of potential, but right now I think it's just too difficult to contribute to it. The only choices for map editing are JOSM and Potlatch and neither of those are very user friendly.

Just now, I tried correcting a missing street near me, spent about a half hour playing around with the tools, and gave up. As OpenStreetMap gains popularity, I hope some of these companies using the data will devote some programmer resources to improving things so that "regular people" can contribute too.
Company C launched product P on date D.. did mentions go up?
Are tweets about company/topic/place/store positive or negative? What do people tweet about when inside our store?
Making Your Business Successful in 2012
"analyze tweets posted each day for anything said about their products and services."
Interesting that it has less velocity than Rails did at inception. Less of a revolution?
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Programmers are a dime a dozen. Good programmers are somewhat more expensive.

If bleeding-edge technology X proves to be widely useful, you have a brief window of opportunity where simply knowing X gives you an advantage.

Then you slowly become two for a dollar, three for a quarter.
The one possible privacy problem that I can see is that they are selling tweets that users can no longer control - if I said something a year ago that I wish I could take back ("Hi everyone, just to let you know I'm gay" or whatever), I'm now unable to delete it, or even review what it was I said, but it can still be sold and tied to me.

Still, not something I personally have an issue with, and I suspect not something most people would have an issue with.
"File-Sharing, such as giving my friend a CD I burned, is not file sharing in the same sense as Torrenting something which is also being torrented by 400 other people."

Actually, I think that the underlying moral principle would be the same for the two. If you are stealing something - it doesn't matter whether it is $5 or $2000; it is still a theft. The scale of it should only govern the punishment if that is the intent was different - which I believe is not. I do not think that one can justify sharing one copy vs sharing 50 copies _morally_; the justification will be economic.
http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/

This link always gets mentioned in relation to artists/labels and who gets what, so here it is.
I consider myself an alumni from this team, and I can say for sure, this is an awesome shop. Every developer should work a job like this.
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He will not be found not guilty. At least not 100%. Justice system will have to find something, anything, not to entirely discredit itself.
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You could use Closure Compiler for that instead:

https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/js-for-c...
Except this "special tool" did no such thing. It invalidated URLs pointing at content. The same content was kept accesspible via other URLs, and uploaders knew how to exploit this. Furthermore, the number of URL invalidations was capped, and one of the seized emails reveals that this cap was determined by the amount of countent they could risk to lose without affecting their revenue.
CERN, EMBL & ESA launch Helix Nebula, a European Science cloud
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Stealing? The internet runs on computers, everything is stolen every other second by buffers, caches and in the end just the machinery. NSA is stealing gigabits of data every second from backbones, yet no one has reported their data lost yet.

Do not start a pity tour for record companies looking to push laws that will actually put real people behind bars for pushing around bits and bytes.
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Try this : http://www.google.com/trends/?q=ruby+on+rails,+node.js,+php&...

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Wait, so this "article" makes a bunch of claims against Twitter based on zero authoritative links and a bunch of unsourced quotes from ... the Daily Mail?

And we're supposed to take this seriously? Come on, doesn't it take more than a bunch of unsubstantiated claims for the HN community to jump on something and just take it at face value?
RIM’s Q4 likely to disappoint, iPhone 5 will overshadow BlackBerry 10
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A Future Web Development Framework – Template View
Since when does being articulate, convincing and well versed in the industry make you a "good" person?

The guy has several previous convictions for fraud, insider trading and handling of stolen goods.
Given two sorted lists A and B concatenated as a single list AB:

Divide the list up into sqrt(n) pieces, each of size sqrt(n). Create one such piece consisting of the sqrt(n) largest elements of the combined list and move this piece to the left-most position (call this the buffer piece), while the remaining pieces are simply formed from the remaining elements. Note that the remaining pieces will retain their ordering from the fact that A and B were originally sorted (as long as care is taken not to cross the boundary of A/B), while the left-most piece need not be sorted at this point. Stable? [I didn't see it in the paper, but I think it's necessary] sort the sqrt(n)-1 non-leftmost pieces in non-decreasing order by their tail element. Finally, merge (details left out as to when to stop the merge) the longest sequence of pieces constructable from the beginning of the un-merged list so that the tail element of any piece is not greater than the head element of it's downstream piece with this sequence's downstream piece, using the left-most piece as the buffer and swapping the min element of the two lists into the min buffer position instead of overwriting the buffer element. After a merge, the buffer piece will remain as a single piece and may be re-used as the buffer for the next merge. In the end, simply sort the buffer piece. Notice that we may use an O(n^2) sort for the two sorts that we need to perform without breaking the merge's linear time property since in both cases we're sorting sqrt(n) items.

The min element of the remaining pieces will always make its way into the min buffer position a sorted lists' pieces will not be re-ordered by the tail-element sort.

Anyhow, many details left off, but you asked for a gist and I believe that this qualifies as a gist.
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Browser-based IDE Eclipse Orion gets 0.4 release
Wiping out another - on that particular island, where they were non-native.

Invasive species cause havoc and removing them (whether by killing or by trapping[1]) is hard but useful work.

[1] See hedgehogs on some obscure Scots islands.
It would be much more positive and educational (and therefor more useful) if you pointed out some specific errors and their fixes, so people could learn something. What you're doing here is fair warning to people working off this code, but w/o adding some useful info it comes of as mere trash talking.
worse is better?
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When people say list, I think linked-list. When they say array, I think contiguous array. I wish we could standardize on that terminology, it makes sense and allows easy differentiation between the 2 concepts.
Con men tend to be convincing, it's kind of a job requirement.

Seriously, read up on his past.
so true. public is public. Anyone could have data mined all these twitts...
But the difficult question that may rise is the "right to delete".
IMO it's a hard dilemma: history VS privacy.
Can someone decide to delete all its trace and destroy everything he built? On the other hand, we need to keep trace of what's happened in the past, don't you think?
15 Excellent Design & Photography Resources from February 2012