skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI I actually lived through the Thatcher years so witnessed first hand the effects of her policies. I lived in one of the communities that she destroyed through her policies of privatization (enriching her supporters in the process) leaving thousands of workers with no future employment prospects and very little hope as the private sector having made its money promptly left town and did not deliver any of the promised new jobs.

(I agree that the actions of the unions in 70s are also to the blame, but a better approach would have been to engage the unions and slowly transition to better balance of public and private sector industries rather than the union busting and throwing the baby out with the bathwater that MacGregor and Thatcher did)

In answer to your question would I rather pay billions in the cost of benefits to support people being unemployed or billions keeping people working in nationalized industries or the public sector ? At least with the latter you are getting something back for your money rather than people sitting on their arse all day watching daytime TV.
I hope he doesn't teach it using Tornado! :)
I just felt that the answer dodged the question. Your response to me answers the question i.e. you don't know if you will improve Classic. By saying the majority of design and development efforts will be focused on Next and then saying that you'll continue to support Classic implies by omission that no further improvements will be made.

Edit: To be clear, I'm not criticising the position of you not knowing - it's a fair position given this is launch day. I'm criticising the fact that the answer to the question didn't say we don't know.
Sex! Drugs? Maybe. Rock and roll? We'll find out!
Would you care to elaborate on this? Are you referring more to the removal of posts that have made it through the filter, or the lack of approval of posts that are stuck in the filter?

I think we do a pretty good job. No choice is as clear cut as people would like it to be (especially when it is their own content on the line). I've heard feedback from people who think we do an amazing job at moderating, keeping the ever-growing cesspool from leaking into the sacred realm of /r/programming, and I've heard feedback from people who think we're the devil, and that we're censoring the will of the people, and somebody call the ACLU right now!!!

But any community is going to get feedback from those two extremes. That's just how people react to moderation. The fact that there seems to be pretty equal feedback from both extremes tells me that we must either be doing something right, or everything completely wrong.
Lack of developer interest is going to become a huge problem for them on down the road. I was recently at a meetup where all the folks who do Windows development professionally had Macs.

That's going to become a serious problem for Microsoft. .NET is alien to Apple and Apple is alien to .NET. (I say this as someone who uses Monodevelop on his Mac daily.) I don't think developers will accept using a primary OS and a primary development stack that don't fit together very well for long. Eventually, they're either going to switch back to Windows, or stop developing for it.

And I don't think it's going to be the former, because in a million tiny ways .NET developers (i.e., most of the people who develop for the platform nowadays) are also made to feel like second-class citizens on Windows. Kind of ironic for a company whose CEO is most famous for shouting "Developers! Developers!" while going into a fugue state, but there you are.
I don't get it. According to his profile, the guy is not a recruiter and his name is not Jeremy. I'm confused.
Some of the demo apps are better, some basically the same. Overall improvement, I would say but kind of subjective.
Cloud Paging Startup Numecent exits stealth mode
So a guy hacks github, he's a hero. A guy hacks a bunch of media organizations, and he's a villain. I really don't understand the groupthink these days.

How is one of these okay, and the other not?
Annnd .. here's a followup one day later. I released the PND for the Open Pandora console, in case anyone is interested:

http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php?/topic/7405-here-is-...

Added fullscreen support and wrapped it in a launcher for file selection, courtesy of PickleLauncher (helpful utility for precisely this sort of thing in the Open Pandora scene..)
I completely disagree. I guess we have different philosophical views and will never agree, but I will still try to present my point of view, for the sake of the debate.

In any kind of business relationship, there are two parties involved, usually a seller and a buyer. In this case, it's the business and a costumer. If a transaction is illegal, both are equally responsible and thus liable, not just one of them (e.g. rape is not a business relationship, so the victim cannot be blamed, but prostitution is (as long as it's not forced), so the prostitute is breaking the law as well).

If the US makes some business relationships illegal, when one of the parties is in the US, it should go after that one party, not after the other one. E.g. copying DVDs is illegal in the US, but legal in most of Europe. Should I be punished for offering the service of making backup copies of DVDs for EVERYONE, or should the US punish the US customer that was using a service that is illegal?

In a way, what the US did is disrespect and ignorance of Canadian national sovereignty. Canada seems to be OK with that, but I hope that other countries won't be...
Can someone image link so I dont have to go to fox news?
This is the core secret of the sampling theorem. It says if you have signals of a particular type (bandlimited) you can do a certain kind of interpolation and recover the original exactly. This is no more surprising than the fact that you can recover the coefficients for an N degree polynomial using any N points on it, though the computation is easier.

It turns out that if you reproduce a digital signal using stair steps you get an infinite number of harmonics— but _all_ of them are above the nyquist frequency. The frequencies below the nyquist are undisturbed. Then you apply a lowpass filter to the signal to remove these harmonics— after all, we said at the start that the signal was bandlimited— you get the original back unmolested.

Because analog filters are kinda sucky (and because converters with high bit depth aren't very linear), modern ADCs and DACs are oversampling— they internally resample the signal to a few MHz and apply those reconstruction filters digitally with stupidly high precision. Then they only need a very simple analog filter to cope with their much higher frequency sampling.
Is this the ultimate troll move?
This is a custom theme called: five3
Personally I really like it too
No, there's no performance difference. Utilization is "time the instance is turned on", not "level of CPU usage".

Low utilization, for example, would be an instance you only turn on once a day for 30 minutes to do a scheduled task. Most of the time, it isn't running.
Having used the Preview for the past few days, on one hand, I can agree with the analysis about the dissimilar experiences between the Metro and classic environments. However, I can also agree with a commenter on that blog about how people will get used to it once they stop griping; at least, that's been my experience.
It's only a pricing thing. (Think of it as a variable capex/opex tradeoff)

Source: AWS guys that I met a couple of weeks ago were repeating this like a mantra (I think they get a lot of support requests for it)
How SV Startup Ifeelgoods Prevents Fraud Using Social Data
I can confirm it also happened for me while using Chrome (17.0.963.56)
Is this going to be programmers/engineers only? I hang out on HN because I'm interested in general tech news and like the entrepreneurial spirit of the site, and would enjoy meeting like-minded people. But I'm not a programmer myself, and if this is a meetup intended more for people who want to discuss whether Rails should ship with ActiveRecord::Base.attr_accessible(nil), enabled, I'm afraid I'm going to be rather far out of my depth.
Coursera Cryptography goes live
I had to change the title from: 'WE'RE BLOWN AWAY: This Startup Could Literally Change The Entire Software Industry' because it was making me queasy....
I agree with pretty much all of his points. But the argument that code will 'never align' with line numbers seems like a dismissal that debugging exactly what you wrote is very valuable when tracking down subtle bugs.
Love the site, although people are going a bit crazy, which is to be expected.
Evaluation of Malware Detection Apps for Android
More about LulzSec's Sabu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(computer_security)#Clas...
I agree 100%. Without time tracking Basecamp Next is useless to us too. Migrating Classic to Next and losing our tracked time is no option.
We mainly use To-Do lists and time tracking. Time tracking as it only is available in the 49$/month price plan was the single reason we upgraded.

I'm a bit disappointed now as i was looking forward to Basecamp Next.
It will be a while before we have a real sense of how "crippling" this rollup really was.
ah ok then. Well i guess thats good news. That will make our business a lot cheaper to run...
That's because everybody agreed to support open standards but, if a major player stops doing so, then we are back to the dark ages. :)
- PHP is the easiest to find hosting for, to setup and to learn.

- PHP is still the best at generating web pages.

- PHP offers all the tools needed to build strong applications (PHPUnit, xDebug, XHProf, ...)

- PHP is not as bad as people like to say.

And I could go on for hours on why I (and others probably) stick to PHP.
It just seems too niche for a Superbowl ad and the whole presentation of the ad makes it apparent the manufacturers believe they've revolutionised the tablet space with, behold...the stylus. Setting themselves up for disappointment.
The only difference is that instead of people thinking that it is a harmless prank they will send in homeland security/swat team/etc with loaded weapons.
Sorry, but this is exactly what continue supporting in context of software means for everyone. This is a standard term, there's nothing disingenuous. You don't expect new features in your old Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation without upgrading to a new version, do you? But you can expect bug fixes as long as it's supported.
Good stuff. We use ST for everything and have anxiously been awaiting this release.
Don't send a resume, send a pull request.
California all-you-can-fly airline startup subscription "less than $1000/m"
AMD Confirms Existence of CPU Bug
Color hunter: create and find color palettes made from images
Federal court NY District unsealed the charges this morning..as people were arrested
Oh man, I wish this was available when I was in school. This field has always interested me, but it seems that the bar of entry is super high (trading account).
"The new layout engine in Sencha Touch 2.0 is so fast we had to use a high speed camera to measure it." source http://vimeo.com/30296006. Read "the improvement is so tiny you couldn't see it, so we slowed it down for you to see". The responsiveness on Android was horrible (check forums). Seems like the only real improvement so far.
Obfuscate your e-mail address with PHP, JavaScript and CSS
Here you go:

Michael Stapelberg - 4:41 AM - Public
Nearly every time I use the OpenSSL command line tools I get angry. It’s 2012 and OpenSSL’s s_client still doesn’t work with IPv6. Every time, I go to the Debian bugtracker first. Every time, I see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589520 and apply that patch.

I’ve been doing that so often, that I had enough of it and went to the OpenSSL request tracker: http://rt.openssl.org/index.html?q=ipv6 (user/pass: guest/guest). Turns out they actually have several patches lying around for that. The oldest one is 5 years old!

I cannot understand how the OpenSSL developers fail to merge several working patches for an issue which is obviously important enough for several people to come up with various patches for 5 YEARS! :-(

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589520
Fair enough. I don't need line numbers specifically when I have a full-on in-browser graphical debugger so I can debug exactly what is being interpreted. There's work underway to handle mapping back to source files, and when that arrives, it will be "nice". However, listening to NodeUp podcasts, people think that line numbers not lining up is an absolute deal-breaker, which I just don't find to be the case at all in my personal experience.
NLP_class, algo-class and crypto-class are now live
Fake Name Generator
I simply can't work to the same productivity on a laptop as I can with my desktop. I would absolutely love to, and I am envious of those that are (or believe they are) just as productive on a macbook air as they would be on say a 27" iMac with another monitor.

I really hope to attain that level of productivity and mobility, and I understand that some output is better than no output--When I am working I want to be using the best tools I can reasonably afford, and that for me is a desktop with a few monitors and plenty of space to spread things out.

Now when they release a high-res macbook pro I might get one, but for now I am sticking to a desktop.
Think again. As seen in the ThePirateBay debacle, Sweden is practically in the US jurisdiction, as far as online crimes are concerned...
Nice to see this, as it seems to address one of the most common concerns about using CoffeeScript. I have to wonder, though, how many minds will it really change? Maybe a lot, but I'm wondering how this will pan out. I'm guessing some people provide line matching for debugging as a concern but will continue to move the goal posts as this and other barriers are removed.

I feel like that's a pattern I see around here, which is odd because if you'd rather just use javascript that seems totally reasonable without an excuse.
>You can either get an underpowered mini for the price of a powerful Linux desktop

Have you considered the cost of electricity? Power consumption at idle on the average desktop is like 4 or 5 times that of the mini. Also the mini sleeps and wakes quickly and reliably, and probably draws less power sleeping that a normal desktop draws when powered off. (You have to either unplug the normal desktop or flip the switch on the back of the power supply to get zero power consumption.)

There's also the noise issue: an idling 2011 mini can be heard in a quiet room if you are very close to it, but you would not notice unless you are listening for it.

P.S. I am curious whether Linux on modern hardware sleeps and wakes quickly and reliably. When I ran Linux (on hardware made in the 1990s) I kept it powered on and "awake" (not sleeping) continuously because that was the only way I could always sit down and start typing. In contrast, I usually sleep my 2011 mini when I walk away from it.
Wow, so many that are wrong with this link:

1) it uses a hashbang

2) i added it from the ipad, it does not work on the web

3) try clicking on the unprefixed link on an ipad: it redirects to /timberners_lee which then redirects to #!/timberners_lee, which then submits a form or sth. Clicking "back" after that brings you to "mobile.twitter.com/" instead of here

4) when you visit the non-mobinle link from a web browser (Chrome), it first loads your personal frontpage and then reloads with the actual tweet page.

All this for less than 140 precious characters. Where is the world heading to?
It looks very nice, but I'm a little confused as to what should be included as a service. My website has forums. Do I need to say I collect user comments? Do I need to do that for all user-contributed information? How specific does it needs to be? If users can contribute books, do I need to specify that I collect isbn numbers?
Is that a phone screenshot, or did they just resize the page in IE? But seriously, for such a nice looking framework, you'd think the writer would take the time to generate that image on a handset with (better? existing?) font aliasing.
I also think that lack of line-number mappings is a fair criticism of coffeescript. If the article is rejecting FUD, then it should target statements like "debugging is a nightmare." I agree with the author's overall point that you can usually track down problems without a lot of fuss.
Semi-related anecdote: Ruby enforces commas in arrays but the problem still exists for [f 1, 2]. Is it [(f 1), 2] or [f(1, 2)]?

Apparently as a consequence of this ambiguity, even [f 1] has become illegal in Ruby 1.9. One of those god-awful undocumented changes that broke my apps. :(
Er, for many, many employers (like mine) with very small dev shops -- I'm talking 2 devs here -- a single bad hire DOES have an extremely deleterious effect on everyone and everything else. Not everyone works at an organization with so many devs that they can afford to have an incompetent 10%. If you'd like I can regale you with my personal experience on just how damaging a bad hire can be.

All steps SHOULD be taken to avoid bad hires, and ... I'm sorry I really just cannot believe I'm even having to say this. Where the hell do you WORK? What do you do for a living? I seriously can't imagine anyone I know holding the belief that it's no big deal to hire a bad programmer.
If you're considering trying Coffeescript, here are a few thoughts for you. Remember that the Vim plugin for Coffeescript compiles your Coffeescript to a js automatically every time you save, and it even shows you immediately if there are any errors. I've had difficulty setting up other Vim plugins, but this one was blessedly simple to get going.

An awesome tool for helping you to learn Coffeescript is the "Try Coffeescript" tab on http://coffeescript.org/. This lets you type a little bit of stuff, and see how it translates into Javascript, in realtime, while you type. I still use this today when I'm trying to verify I'm on the right track with a bit of punctuation (meaning, leaving punctuation out, usually).
While python/ruby are arguable better languages in a lot of ways, they're also completely different and lacking in a lot of what PHP offers.

Everyone has their own languages of preference, and personally I really dislike working with python (not too much experience in ruby) while dealing with websites. I cringe each time I'm forced to check the manual for random function behavior, but its not enough to make me move over.

What I'm really looking for is an improved version of PHP. One that keeps most of its style but removing the backwards-compatible crap. It looks like HipHop may go down that path in the near future (they've already added python-style yield generator functions)
You might try MapDroyd, which downloads Openstreetmap data for offline display. You can select individual countries or states to download.
>Apple products tend not to depreciate in value (much) so the cost isn't that prohibitive

Don't you think there are many iPad owners out there who are thinking the same thing ? Were are you all going to dump your iPad 2 at the same time ? Especially if it has a killer feature that makes a lot of people want to upgrade and also makes the old iPad less desirable. Also include the original iPad users who will be upgrading. My guess is second hand iPad market is going to take a dive when iPad 3 comes out, so selling before that point might be a better idea, if you can live without your iPad for few weeks or so.
Groups allow information trading. It is basically essential if you want to cash for your hacking activities, such as carding and 0-day selling. I am not totally familiar with "the scene", but I'm pretty sure there are plenty of incentives for hackers to regroup
There's a slightly less breathless and more coherent report here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/06/lulzsec-sab...
"Cloudpaging can do all this because it doesn't use "pixel-streaming" technology like other virtualization tech. Instead it temporarily downloads bits of the application itself (instructions) and runs them on the device. It can almost magically predict which parts of the app the user will need, and downloads only those parts."

"Imagine showing up to a party and letting all your friends play the latest version of Halo from your phone. That's crazy cool."

Something just doesn't feel right about this. You're supposed to believe that technical explanation and then believe that you can play a game like Halo on your phone because it only gets the pieces of code you need!
edit '+ 2 .' should be '+ 25.'

so: (x * 10 + 5)^2 = x * x * 10 * 10 + 2 * x * 50 + 25 = x * (x + 1) * 100 + 25.
Good call. Now you'll be protected when the US government starts cracking down on those Conway's Game of Life websites.
Another vote for KeepassX. Use it on both Mac and Linux (and the Windows version when I need to at work.) It's a great program.
The key difference for me is that when I would search for a question via search engine and an EE link would show up in the list of results it would look pertinent and I would go to the link only to find the answers blurred out and obfuscated. It's downright infuriating. If they want to keep their data private, fine, but don't show up in my answers list of open data. The faster EE is wiped off the face of the web the better. The guy who wrote this article just doesn't get it.
Thank you for the question. You need to inform the user about the personal data collected. Examples of personal data are cookie, email, username, name, date of birth. I suggest you to add everything you recognize as used on your website.
If your website has a blog or a form, I also suggest you to create a different privacy policy just for each of them.

Thank you for asking, and let me know if you have any other question :)
Why ask when they've got the usage data? I'd presume canned features are the ones least used across all users.
Hacker News has long been ok with people posting their own stuff. If you've worked long and hard on something, be proud of it and show it off, within reason (don't post the same thing day in and day out).

What looks more dubious are all the new accounts signing up just to write pithy comments. That'll get you banned if you're not careful, Andrea.
This is an Old joke (see above)
I can agree with that... I was born at the end of November and.... Ohhh look, a squirrel!
Unfortunately the U.S.G. has operated in this manner for a number of decades. It is merely expanding it's power into a new realm.
So far been fairly happy with SC2, my client has built a proof of concept app that probably pushed the limits of the framework for controllers/models/views/etc but it's still performent on most of the iOs/apple devices.
I use lastpass and 1password, with Chrome in OS X as an intermediary. I definitely prefer the 1password mobile apps, even on an Android tablet. But LastPass is a big win at work where I can't run 1password (looking at you, NMCI).
I've got it configured so that when I press meta-alt-x it sends the username, a tab, the password and enter to the keyboard. This is functionally equivalent in the vast majority of cases.
On another note, the work environment is a crowded open space with people constantly yelling to each other. They advertise a 50 hour work week with no lunch break. My impression is that your base salary is just over $100k, without any indication of bonuses for software engineers.

If (emphasis on if) that is true, the only reason I can see people going there is a false sense of elitism.