skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I believe that this is the proper way of stealing an idea, just like Picasso once taught us...

You took the concept and tried to developed it even further. Successfully or not, I can praise this, unlike the other ripoff...
ABAP.
Kids don't have access to the Market and parents have to explicitly white-list an application, so there's not much danger there.
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Amen, I almost totally jumped ship when MVC was a 'new' thing, if they hadn't brought out ASP.Net MVC when they did I would have left.

The only thing I hate about C# is the 'magic' they keep trying introducing to the frameworks. ASP.Net was bloody awful but if you haven't checked out MVC 4, this is truly WTF were you thinking MS:

http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/getting-started-with-asp...

GetAllProducts magically maps to api/products/

GetProductById magically maps to api/products/{id].

Fucking retards, just give me the tools, not the magic. It's so focused on incompetent idiots. It's even worse than the stupid and almost but not quite utterly useless user membership crap they infect your code and database with. That's what's pushing me away from C# more than anything else, the random magic that will suddenly kill your application.
No F#?
Since I started using the term "trade school" here I want to be clear I don't use it as a pejorative term, just a differentiation.
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> While the language is nice, there isn't a lot you can do with it in terms of productive development that you can't at least approximate in Java

There is no substitute for lambdas :)
Agreed.

More information is necessary. I'm really scared of signing up to something with my fb account without know exactly what for.

It's not a question of people jerking around the every topic like this, here in hacker news. It's an actual need that those who made the service didn't pay attention to.
Dealing with nasty user feedback like this is one of the most painful parts of running a product. It still amazes me how many people refuse to consider the fact that there are humans on the other end of the computer. Instead, a lot of these arguments turn into accusatory conspiracy theory threads, as though things changing is a sign of some "secret plan". Is it that hard to believe that a product team is just trying their darndest to create the best product they can? Sometimes they'll get it right, and sometimes they won't, but constructive feedback always goes further than angry fist shaking. There's something about feedback for products on the internet that brings out extreme paranoia in people, and I don't get why that is.
I like the message sending syntax of objective-c. At first it was so weird, but now I almost hate looking at anything else.

After awhile, I think most people even begin to appreciate it's verbosity. You can make it read like english pretty well.

Of course, I'm sure I wouldn't like Objective-C without Cocoa or I wouldn't like writing it on Windows.

I've never been able to get round the whole whitespace thing in Python and Ruby. I really like brackets and they've always been the strongest thing to signal where code starts and ends.
perhaps, they also announced a 10" version
Chrome is definitely their most recent homebrew hit.

I'm surprise no one else has mentioned it, but I'm really excited about their self driving car research.
Is it still a good choice if you don't intend to deploy to Windows?
What You Can't See You Can't Get
It's amazing how everyone is under the notion that Dustin coined the concept of simplistic blogging with a minimalist UI! Hilarity ensues for days...
Well i agree,facebook get to play privacy champion.
Firefox versions change faster than my kids clothes
Az a CTO of a product company, I am faced with the never ending challenge of Firefox. But the time you get through a short test cycle, the next release of Firefox is out. The worst part, the rendering changes causing the application to need tweaks for every version. Thus, changing faster than my kids clothes.

In honesty, I love Firefox land use it personally. From a commercial standpoint, it is killing me.

I like continuous improvement, and the community behind Firefox. Imagine Firefox was an electrical standard that people needed to use. Every (insert short time period) that electrical standard changes, jut a little bit.

Love you FireFox, but this making me think of dropping support for the browser.
How is being acquired by Groupon a great outcome for your customers? Your company that you put your heart and soul into is almost 100% guaranteed to die. It seems like a totally random and a bit of a silly purchase.

It seems little more than a developer acquisition which will result in feefighters shutting down in 3.....2.....1.....

EDIT: I shouldn't post when coming back drunk from the pub, but seriously, don't be proud about this, you sold out. This is like seeing your favourite band sign to Sony. If acquistion was your end goal then gratz.
This isn't true; at least it wasn't a year ago. SL, out of the box, doesn't include all the cernlibs or the ROOT libs and is even a royal PITA to get these things to compile on. Don't even think about things like ADAMO or PAW. I tried to get SL working for a day. I gave up and just installed Ubuntu.
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When did SourceForge become so nice?
How Heroku Manages High Availability
Ask HN: Who's Using Obtvse/Svbtle
Are you using Obtvse, or were you one of the elite few invited into Svbtle? Why did you choose to?
It's not so much clever PR as it is common sense. If there's a potential problem on the horizon, nip it in the bud.

Facebook isn't really in the PR game - there have been enough catastrophes for that theory to be blitzed. This was simply something they could release a statement about and not have to worry about doing anything.
Not sure if it's a viable idea with all those wireless transmissions.
I answered Objective-C only because I'm considering the entire ecosystem around a language in addition to the actual language (its features, idioms, and syntax).

Objective-C isn't a particularly pretty language, in my opinion - but when XCode's powerful code completion, decent visual debugger, and awesome static analysis come into play, it's a lot more attractive.

Plus, for me, programming is about the goal, with the journey an oft-pleasant and very engrossing side effect. Objective-C hits the sweet spot where the language and toolchain gets out of my way and lets me build beautiful, functional software that people actually use.
Persons are challenged by the perceived need a telecommuter brings to the table. In reality a telecommuter costs the company less overhead.

The root is corporate culture does not know how to change. Or is unwilling to.
> (that’s ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP') to silly old Internet Explorer)

Such disrespect for the browser that invented Asynchronous Javascript class.
I'm not sure how much generalizing you are doing. But, I was quite literally inspired by the exact words Dustin wrote: "essence of blogging" as well as the recent unveiling of his UI. I don't think I ever claimed he coined anything.
BB84 Protocol, the first quantum cryptography protocol, explained
The 'customized GNU/Linux distribution' is actually a rebranded Mint 10.10, and it's so incredibly ugly and overloaded with visual bloat that I cannot imagine anyone would use this for anything: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeoEuYxwMMk

IMHO that's a pity because I believe there could be a real market for stylish, high-end boxes with a polished/tweaked Linux version preinstalled. However, "Commodore OS Vision" is anything but that and the hardware is ridiculously overpriced, so this opportunity seems to be left for someone else.
Your list basically boils down to "C# isn't <insert favorite language>". Which is fair of course, but most of your list wouldn't really make sense in C#.
Hey all - thanks for all the comments. This is clearly something we can improve a lot on and we'll work on getting something pushed out. I appreciate everyone taking the time to let us know.
I'm simply generalising here.
I know of only one guaranteed way to win from a lottery: don't play it.
Well, I'm not the gp, but I am a former C# guy who's happy to be out of that world.

1) I dislike C#'s types; they're neither as strong and intelligent as a ML/Haskell language nor as convenient as a Python/Ruby family language.

2) I much prefer the sense of design displayed by Python and Ruby open source projects over C#. (Not that there aren't issues there!)

3) I hate Visual Studio. Nice debugger, crappy interface for writing code. Horrific user interface design for the most part. (At least back when I was writing C# back in 2009!)

4) I hate Windows. Linux and Mac are far more developer friendly. I hated dealing with Cygwin to get some sort of reasonable (crappy but tolerable) command line environment.

5) I love git. Until fairly recently, git was not available and stable on Windows. For it and for many other bits of software, windows is a second class citizen.

Shall I go on? Because I could. But I'll leave it at 5 for now.
No worries, glad I could help.

I think another thing that gave me a boost was when, for whatever reason, I decided that I should avoid for loops when writing day-to-day python. I started using list comprehensions, and then map, filter and reduce, and functools.partial, whenever possible. I had tried to approach lisps before, but I found it easier after those became habitual.
Although I think I agree that it was a smart move from Facebook to say that, I'm not sure if it isn't really a growing problem. We need more data to determine that.
This article sucks, the quality of online journalism has taken a new low...there are no citations...just rambling that eventually one finds to be a total misunderstanding of the results and of science in general...ahhhh...
Actually, this would be a better idea than the one in the article! If we can use the rat as an energy source it would beg almost unstoppable.
"Blue collar" was a poor voice of words. You're right that the white/blue collar divide is not a creative difference.

But I still feel that software development is a creative field whereas most of medicine is reactive. All fields are based upon past knowledge so the use of APIs seems irrelevant since they are just tools used to create.

The criterion to differentiate between creative and non-creative fields seems to be whether multiple "correct" answers exist. Obviously in programming the solutions to problems vary in terms of algorithms,implementations, etc. On the other hand, medical diagnosis is either correct or incorrect. Even prescribing treatments seems to be more of "do X with A factors, do Y in the presence of B factors" rather than an individualized, creative approach.
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I remember working on Rotor when I was at Corel.

I'm glad to see someone still uses it:)
You don't want theoretical help. You want real-world help. Hang out at the counter where tickets are sold. You're bound to encounter someone who asks what serial numbers the tickets end in. Take that guy out for a drink and find out what he knows, how he knows it, and if it ever worked for him. I've seen several people ask about the ticket serial numbers and not buy, but scratch-offs aren't my thing, so I didn't bother to pursue it. But there's clearly knowledge out there that people have about this. [typo edit]

Also edited to add: Even ask the dealer. He might know something -- although it'd probably be against the rules for him to say anything, even what he's seen. But maybe he can point you to customers who know.
Weird that nobody mentioned AnyAsq, which is pretty much the same thing: http://anyasq.com/

Although Askolo looks better and nicer to use, so hopefully it'll stick around. I just created my profile, ask me some questions about design!

http://askolo.com/sachag
I am looking to move my company's office and wanted a good way to search for places, so I went to 42Floors's site this morning. I found a couple of reasonable offices on the map, clicked on one, filled out their few things the site wanted, and then the page said "a representative will contact you shortly" and I had no further way to take any more actions to actually find or view any offices. Now it's 4:15pm on a Friday and they still haven't gotten to me, but I can just go to Craigslist or wherever and email people straight away and go look at offices with very little delay.

In short, I can't tell what value the site is supposed to offer (it certainly doesn't seem to be helping me find an office).

So I think they have bigger problems than the way they open their blog postings. I would say that shit isn't real enough yet...
This is a statically typed language mind you. If you're passing something around as values, you're gonna need to declare what its type is (of course there's type inference, but that just turns it into a totally different language)
Another quick nit: please update your From address for your notification emails to include a friendly name (like Askolo or something). Right now, since no name is specified, GMail only displays the part before the @ symbol as the sender, so I get "notification" as the sender... and that looks like spam.
Got to be C/C++ because everything relies on it in some fashion. For example, interpreted languages almost always use a C/C++ built interpreter. It's also the most direct route to assembly which is the ONE....
It was true at CERN while I was there (01/2003-12/2004).

I remember the IT division had a nice SL installation where all ATLAS projects where one yum away, if not included already on the default installation.
I don't need any help today, I just wanted to say you're awesome for offering your help.
this is a well-meaning but badly misguided stance to take. open source is a gift economy, and as one of the "producers" i am more than happy for people to accept the gifts i'm freely putting out there. the reward is getting to feel that i have made their lives better (and that too at no incremental cost to myself). in my role as a consumer, i likewise know that there are people out there happy that they have made my life better. there is absolutely no need to make people feel bad about taking from open source if they don't have the time or inclination to give anything back - that just cheapens the idea of a gift.

now would i like people to contribute by way of code, money or bug reports? definitely. but they should do so because that is a gift they wish to give to the ecosystem-at-large, not out of some sense of reciprocal obligations.
It's a self-serving simplification to make that criticism. There are lots of ways for a team to assess if users want to switch back to an old look beyond simply counting how many find that setting. In-house usability testing, user panels, customer feedback, etc. And they're all more objective than a forum thread.

Any product with millions of heavy users is going to have a subset that are upset by any change, no matter how positive it is. And if you make no changes, people complain that the product isn't being updated.

It's easy to be snarky and whiny. Sometimes it's hard to remember that not everyone may see the world the way you do.
Ember.js or Backbone.js with Rails? 
I want to start using one of these frameworks with Rails - what are your thoughts?
This voting scheme is known as "single-vote-plurality". And it's a giant suckfest. Beyond two candidates, it completely falls apart, and tends to suggest very different results than the actual preferences of the voters.

Hypothetical example. Let's say that 1/4 of HN likes C, then Lisp, then Python, then Java. 1/4 of HN likes Python, then Lisp, then C, then Java. 1/5 likes Lisp, then C, then Python, then Java. And 3/10 like Java, then Lisp, then Python, then C.

So we have:

1. Java has the highest number of votes, even though 7/10 of HN thinks it's the worst language. Java wins!

2. Lisp has the fewest number of votes, even though it's the only language to appear in the top two preferences of 100% of the voters. Lisp loses!

In other words, the results from your voting scheme suggested the opposite of what people really liked (and disliked). This is a known, and very common, pathology of single-vote-plurality and becomes more and more of a problem the more candidates enter the race (and you have a gazillion of them).

Since you can't have people easily express their rank ordered preferences on HN (eliminating Condorcet, IRV, and the like), the next best thing would be to do approval voting. To do approval voting, you'd change the wording in your posting to:

"What languages do you like? Vote for as many as you want."

Then the winner is then the language with the most votes.
cool! thanks brian. i liked what you said about a startup's success also requiring an understanding of user psychology.
But you don't have any principle objections against them? What tells you this script does not suck in comparison to the real one?

I think it would be fair to claim it is the same thing on a smaller scale, because in both cases, it takes much more resources (and creativity) to come up with the original idea/design than to create a copy.
Appeal should be possible in e-form too.
I once did some reading about this so I'm curious for more information (since you seem to know what you're talking about).

This is probably a stupid question (my favorite kind): Are there good arguments for why a car engine isn't conscious? Isn't it just the "other minds" problem in a different form?
Thanks - we'll get that fixed up.
Googling gave me http://www.scratchoffcodes.com/ I have no idea how legit it is. Never played, but it would be cool to figure out if there was a system.
Should note that it's chrome only.
Pinterest does something about copyright infringement
I suggest you check the Extended Support Release, tailored for your usecase: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/

For some context:

https://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2012/01/10/delivering-a-mozill...

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise
People who design these games think about security. Sometimes (rarely) exploits get unnoticed and go into production.

I'm confused about why we are supposed to believe that there is anything exploitable about this particular card?
I'm not sure how many Groupon engineers were devoted to Scheduler, but I do know that the core of Scheduler used to be OpenCal, who Groupon acquired last year: http://opencal.com
Allowing it would create security issues; nothing to stop the app from showing a fake system bar that appears to let you out of the app, but actually keeps you in and snoops information. And having no hardkeys means there's no 'safety hatch' that you know will get you out of the app (like Flash's "esc to close" warning)
Looks like bits and pieces are coming back up. We can access FTP/SSH accounts now (berbils).
It didn't make it into the article, but if you use Do Not Track with Firefox blekko will turn on "SuperPrivacy" and not save any logs at all, or pass the query to any third parties.
everyone stop upvoting python ! http://imgur.com/gtLOb
What is your level of understanding of the philosophy behind either framework?
For web hosting Debian and CentOS appear to dominate.

http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/os-linux
Most of these stories are faked. It's becoming pretty evident that most stories put out by the news media today are either faked or they are grossly distorted beyond belief. Media today grabs alot of ideas from corporate PR firms that need ways to distribute marketing, press and political items quickly and to make them viral. Stories that gain that "viral" status become authoritative without actually having any basis in fact. With today's internet one can quickly source the actual underlying story from local news sources - if the story is not outright fake - and see this is the case. Good observation from the blogger...
Most reasons are obsolete, but managers don't know it. They've been burned trying to cobble together conference calls, GoToMeeting and other screen-share tools, and Skype video into something workable.

But now there are unified tools that make it easy. They're starting to gain traction. It takes time, so until then we're stuck trying to evangelize hiring managers one at a time.
Well, there's definitely some that aren't perfect. But how many and which? That's for guys like you to find out.

There are professional "cashers" that have figured out how to hack a small percentile of games in MA. They take advantage of a few things, but if you have $100k you are guaranteed to make a profit.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/broken-lotteries/

Now this guy is a trained statistician from MIT and Stanford and has put math behind it. He figured out the tic tac toe game.
Source: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_lottery/all/1

So as you can see all games aren't entirely fool proof. Good luck!
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One story I read was, IIRC, the Maryland state prison system. They demanded to look at the FB pages of prospective prison guards, to determine if they or their friends have gang affiliations. The fear is that, if hired, they might engage in smuggling contraband into the prisons on behalf of prison gangs.

A worthy goal, but handled poorly.
That doesn't sound all that good to me. My steps to finding what IQueryable provides:

* Cmd+Tab to Chrome

* Cmd+L for location focus

* \IQueryable searches DuckDuckGo for IQueryable and takes me to first result

I get to use the editor I want (hint, not visual studio), and I know a lot more about IQueryable anyway and can continue poking around in the docs to learn more about the 'nearby' bits of the API.

I don't really want my editor to write code for me after only a fraction of the characters. I like writing code. I agree with Inufu, I feel like completion of more than, say, IQu[tab] is starting to show redundancy I'd prefer not to have in the first place.
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He works on Go at Google. He updated an earlier version of Go to run on an earlier version of NaCL, but it's since bitrot as NaCL's formats were changing at the time.
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Strangely, even though it has a public Github repository, you're not allowed to copy it according to agentzh's copyright notice.
How did they do it? I assume they asked Samsung very nicely :-)
Gliimpse: Animate the transition between markup and content
Looks like those are for (three character) codes under the revealable area of the card. Kind of like a checksum for what was won.

Based on the comments it looks like the reliability is a little bit sketchy.
Prolog ∈ Other
My wife is an ER and ICU doc. I think you're crazy thinking this guy is getting into startups for financial reasons! Anyway:

1) She consistently asserts that handoffs are the most difficult and error-prone part of the job. They take up a large chunk of her time. Further, with work hour restrictions only getting stricter, the number of handoffs is only going up.

2) While face-to-face interaction is indeed crucial, surely there are improvements to be made! Let the doctors give crucial information face-to-face, secure in the knowledge that basic patient information is stored in a trustworthy system, and you should see less errors.

> they are very closed minded and it's hard to get change.

Obviously this is a huge obstacle! But even by your own argument, there are surely ways to improve, and an ex-doctor is the ideal candidate to figure out how to do so.
C# (or, .NET) really has tremendous capabilities for low level stuff. There is one thing missing, though: support for varargs on cdecl functions.

Of course, you can always just use C++/CLI to wrap a native library into a nice .NET managed interface, and not deal with the pinvoke stuff at all.
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