skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not that I wish to anyone, but seriously a sole fact that Asange is still alive proves to me a huge shift that happened at some point through US government agencies like CIA with the way they deal with outsiders like himself. Back in ole' days this guy would be quickly found hanging on the rope with hands taped behind, and officials classifying it as a "suicide". Who knows, perhaps he is just too darn popular right now for CIA to send someone to shut him down permanently. I recall the politicians bashing him that he endanger many US troops and US officials around the world with his publications, but yet 3 years later you can't hear about a single instant that someone got hurt due to Assange publications. I think down the line this guy made more good than bad; next time US will plot another inappropriate scheme between countries etc, they will think twice that sooner or later secrets can leak. On the other hand, guys like Bradley are heroes to me, especially now when he's going through hell served by US government. Respect!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning
Yes, but it's US only at this time. Non-US users can still use the personal music streaming service though.
This might seem silly: git pull
hehe , Harsh.

I think one of the main problems is that there is no single agreed way to distribute a program.

At least with Windows Installshield wizard kind of became the defacto.

Sometimes I go to a download page and they offer me a .deb file which is great but then I find it is targeted a specific version of ubuntu that I am not running.
Sometimes they offer a .rpm, or sometimes they just offer a zip file with a random .bin or .sh inside it that I may or may not have to run as root and may or may not do weird things to my system.

Also you get stuff that asks you to do git clone and make etc.
The Real Startup Dogs of Silicon Alley
Is the purpose of this site to highlight how easy it is to build your own framework to suit your needs?
Safari for Android? Never thought I'd hear anybody ask for that.
Then just stick with the DOM and XHR APIs. Those alone have been consistently crushing most desktop applications since ~2003.
Some of the suggestions are a bit odd, but I wholeheartedly agree on the Android simulator. I had to do some site QA recently and trying to figure out how to get it up and running on a Mac was painful.

Eventually just found someone with an Android device and borrowed it.
Why do linux distros keep trying to recreate the gaudy, confusing experiences of the proprietary systems? I want my drivers to work, and a window manager that wraps the file-system - allows interaction with the files. In an ideal world, someone would restructure the four bin directories so that system stuff was in one area, and user stuff was somewhere else so we could easily open what we want by navigating the tree.
You can't share the font software with your audience, and since the only good way to share a slide deck with an audience is PDF (otherwise you'd literally have to share the font itself alongside the deck), and PDF embeds the font, you can't share a basic PDF either.

So, couple things:

(a) You can just not share the deck at all. That's my strategy. Slide decks suck. Sharing them also dilutes the value of your talk; a single talk can be given more than once, as long as you don't publish it.

(b) You can ignore the license. Many other people do that. You are unlikely to get burned by the H&FJ police for doing that. One imagines H&FJ is much more concerns about agencies and big companies accidentally publishing their whole font library in their professional PDFs.

(c) You can, instead of designing your talk in Keynote, design it in Illustrator (bonus: Illustrator is way better), slice the slides up on artboards, convert the type into outlines (a 1-click operation in AI), export them to individual PDFs, pull them into Keynote, and share that.
QT Creator for Cross-platform.
KDevelop for KDE focused stuff.
Not sure what for GNome.

What is wrong with the above?
Unix for Poets is a great set of exercises for someone wanting to learn more about text manipulation with Unix tools.

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~felipe/IFT6010-Automne2011/reso...
It's improved significantly since that video.
It has now become a norm that everyone just drops in jQuery and bootstrap css for most of their projects while they might just be needing a DOM handler and a few utility functions. I have nothing against jQuery or Bootstrap. They are awesome to get things rolling but in most cases there is no necessity to load huge JS libraries with lots of utility functions which one might not be using. Not to leave aside the fact that a few third party analytics, tracking, help desk tools also load/include jQuery in their bloated script.

MicroJS is a good resource. I am wondering how many of the frameworks listed there are actively developed/maintained. Adding the last commit date information might be super useful.
Rightsholders Group to Charge Libraries for Reading Books to Kids
Also take a look at my 3 e-books on awk, sed and perl:
http://www.catonmat.net/books/
That is a case of yet another pair of problems, though: Python is incompatible with itself across versions (understandable, I guess), yet it is hard to run multiple versions side by side (major flaw in Python 3 for reusing the unadorned name Python, instead of making the number part of the name or changing the name of the installed software)
They had another device running it which really was much worse then the SGSII, but with a much smaller screen it doesn't make for great video.
If B2G wasn't performing well at this stage, I doubt they would push forward with it as hard as they are. The transitions and scrolling between "home-screens" shown in the video look quite smooth to me.
I love the mentality behind this effort. More stuff can and should be done in the browser on mobile devices. For this to succeed, the most important problem is not exposing mobile hardware (camera, gps, etc) - it's user input. The cornerstone of the web is typing a url into the address bar, and typing is still a miserable experience on phones. Clicking links on touchscreens isn't exactly stellar either (hence the new verb 'fat-fingering'). If someone can solve these problems, the browser stack is already powerful enough to do to phones what it already did to the desktop.
I am skeptical that this will ever deliver a sufficient user experience when compared side by side to other mobile OSes.

Wasn't the same sort of thing said about the desktop vs the web? Sufficient is the key word here. If the experience is good enough, where users are willing to overlook design quality for the sake of not having to worry about constantly installing and updating apps, then this should do the job. Convenience is king.
Students Loan March (VBPbilal178)
The Student Loans Company Limited is a non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom government, responsible for the provision of financial support. http://j.gs/916651/slc
I still can't think of a reason to ask for it.
Headed to NYC - any hacker hostels or couch surfers?
I'm headed to NYC for the first time to meet with a client and check out the startup scene..Any hacker hostels or couch surfers? UI/UX Designer & Branding / Community Growth & User Acquisition consultant...Coming from SF
So sad that the writer lets himself down in the first line.
US Navy LASR research facility builds robots, not ray guns
Now THAT down vote reflects a really vicious temperament!
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Users start by creating a game list and then can talk about any game they have. From that point they can share all the games they write about with the world. All games are tied together so users are connected by default. Users can earn Trophies by doing awesome stuff and can also be ranked with other users on the site.

Cheerful Ghost is a brand new app and has a growing and dedicated community of people that love games.

http://cheerfulghost.com
Perfect username. The problem is that Linux ecosystem doesn't have enough QA backing the amount of new and changing code. The is partly caused by inflated egos of the competing distro teams.

Ingo is wrong about freedom. Freedom is the cause if Linux's problem: dev teams are too free to make compatibility breaking changes and too many alternatives in core desktop infrastructure, so QA can't keep up.
I can't disagree. In all honesty though, I believe its due to people expecting it to be a simulator when its a full ARM emulator. Apparently, if you have an Intel VT enabled processor, you can make it more usable with the "Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager" - http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-hardware-acce...
Linux kernel performance: Flame Graphs
The world that you like
What about exporting the Keynote to JPGs, and then putting the JPGs into a new Keynote and exporting as PDF?
Ambient bus arrival monitor from hacked Linksys WRT54GL
What a terrible choice of my picture. I did it as a joke and now it gets used everywhere.
Did your users tell you the animations or design wizardry are important to them? I find them really distracting, and couldn't find any useful content on iheartpy. I know it's rough, but you seem to have started with too much skeleton and no meat.
Thanks for this. Bookmarked so that I can use it for future reference. I am going to try out some of those one page .js frameworks soon.
Further background information:

2012-01-02 A 'Wikileaks' party and #JA4Senate in the Australian polity: Can Parliament be 'occupied'?

http://wlcentral.org/node/2401
I use a physical board for this; you can see it on this page:

http://needfeed.com/about/working

If we were modeling it in Trello, our columns would be:

* backlog
* on deck
* working
* on hold
* to review
* done this week
* done previously

We also have a separate backlog for technical stuff.

As you can see by the number of cards, our 50-square-foot wall rack displays a lot more than fits on a single screen. So the medium may just not match the use; my personal Trello boards are definitely smaller.

That said, you should also consider whether you need to track less stuff. It is only worth creating a card if there's some reasonable chance that you'll actually do something with the card. It's much easier to learn to just let go of things than it is to have a 1000-item backlog slowing you down every time you try to work with it.

I also encourage people to put more time into bug reduction and less into bug management. Even though we're a startup, we are very happy we've built an extensive unit testing suite, and a more modest suite of end-to-end tests. Having tried it both ways, it's my considered opinion that if I need a database to keep track of all the mistakes I'm making, I should make fewer mistakes.
Similar difficulty as AI, but lower quality result.

If I'm going to spend a couple hundred bucks on a typeface, I'm not going to share it in JPG format.

I really think the best option is just not sharing slides. Your talk is your talk, not your visual aids.
join was new to me.
I like it....

Always happy to learn a new command.
At the end of the article it reads "Source: Dumb little man"
Is everything cached to the device? What are my limitations in "airplane mode"?

I don't mind the concept of making cross-platform apps. My limited knowledge of HTML/CSS has shown me that while it is extemely difficult to make robust content look good across multiple browsers/platforms, it IS possible... but will developers really have the access to multiple platforms to test their UI on?
You are correct, I believe Spotify is much better than Napster was in 1999. But there are still huge flaws with Spotify. It's collection is often missing songs due to licensing issues. I'm tired of seeing songs greyed-out because they are "unavailable" where I live. Spotify's search leaves much to be desired (Napster's wasn't amazing either, however).

But I think the essence of what Sean Parker was saying was that there are still many hurdles that a legal system like Spotify will have to overcome. If you really want everything without restrictions, pirating is still a better option.
Does it work? If so, where can I get it? Their phone HTML interface is a fine start, but I'd love something native.
I dont think it was there before
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Android: HoloEverywhere Theme
Most of the people who died from tornados over the past few months knew the tornados were headed their way or were in the vicinity. The problem was that they were unable to leave their homes in time because the tornado touched down too close, rendering it more dangerous to leave for a secure shelter (i.e., malls or schools, which must be fortified against tornado damage) than to simply remain put and hope the tornado(s) missed them. The death toll in the Henryville outbreak in early March was caused by a supercell storm system which produced a large number of F4 multiple-vortex tornados (one F4 tornado surrounded by numerous smaller tornados of varying strengths). Multiple-vortex tornados are especially dangerous because they affect a much larger area.

In the Midwest they use tornado warning sirens to alert the populace to tornados. The sirens have several forms of power and are really freaking loud. They're also extremely quick to sound these alarms, since they've had decades of practice at this. They use a combination of sources for this, so that the alarms are usually sounded within seconds of a tornado sighting.

The problem in a nutshell with this app is that anyone who does not hear the tornado warning siren will not be in a position to notice the alert from the app. Also, without a mechanism for updating the tornados, it may actually cause more harm than good: for example, if tornados are not cleared from the app quickly enough, people may be deterred from seeking shelter by the presence of a tornado that is no longer there.
It's only a few weeks since we began working on it. And we've been working on the backend all this while. The design has received a wide spectrum of opinion: some seem to love it, others find it confusing. I think we'll redesign it once we get the backend finished.

We're filling in the meat right now! There's a lot of work to do and we hope to get things in shape so we can call it a beautiful pig and go from there.

Thanks for the feedback though. Would love to bug you some more if you don't mind. :)
Absolutely a fluff piece. No mention of any other legal services that offer exactly what the author is writing about (namely Grooveshark).
Like I said, the three line process is trivially scriptable, so you could make a one-liner script that works like you describe, ie. install https://foobar.com/repositoryX pkg or install ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa nvidia-graphics-drivers. I suppose you could combine the two parameters into a single URL to make it more familiar for users.

I don't see why it'd have to be integrated into apt-get itself, which does other things. The next step would be to create this a GUI process and to integrate it into apt-url, to make it easy to install stuff from the web. Of course making it easier to install stuff from untrusted sources also makes it easier for users to install malware, which I recon is why they haven't made it this easy yet.

If you want to have the ability to pull updates, you need some location to query for them, and that location is the repository. Even if it's just for a single package. If you want to install a single package without updates, there's deb files.
I did a quick survey of a dozen or so engineers here and 0 use IDEs/Intellisense and 100% use syntax highlighting.
I like how it's laid out from the most specific tools that are easy to understand and eventually leads to the pocketknives of sed and awk that beginners might not need until they've exhausted the potential of the previous commands.
This just seems to be cookies that expire. Even with one account you have to sign in again once every blue moon.
Marketing is the next big money sector in the enterprise
Scroutenise: Find what you're trying looking for on the way to your destination
> there is no necessity to load huge JS libraries with lots of utility functions which one might not be using.

I think we really need to see a tracing link-time-optimizer for Javascript code that can be run as part of an asset pipeline. Dump in your huge JS library, run your client scripts (with a thorough test suite) to detect what functions of the big library are or aren't called, then cull off the functions that aren't when writing out the final "compiled-and-linked" client library.
Edge of Space Skydiving: Test Jump Completed
Ask HN: How To Stop Feeling Like An Imposter/Fraud/Not Good Enough ETC?
Hey Guys,

I'm submitting this on a throwaway for obvious reasons - but I really need your advice, and I think you guys are the ones who can help (I hope)!

I often have really good ideas and when I execute them, they tend to get to a decent size fairly quickly - for instance I ran a site which suffers from a chicken/egg problem and within a couple of weeks, with little marketing ($0 budget) I grew it to a few thousand users amongst other stuff I have done which has generated a decent amount of money.

However, when I often do this I feel like a 'fraud' as my ideas and execution seem so simple to me and this leads me to feeling like an imposter/fraud and not good enough to be able to do this!

As a result, its led me to not developing an idea which I'm actually really passionate about and one which I've had for a while - which is starting to see some validation - and from what I can tell will be a huge industry soon from early indications by revenue growth etc from the companies within it.

As a result, I'm asking for your help so I don't feel like an imposter/fraud and not good enough so I can pull the trigger and start developing it as well as launching it without feeling this way?

I'm not sure if its Imposter Syndrome etc I'm suffering from but, if you know what is is im suffering from, I'd really LOVE your help so I can overcome it - as well as any ideas how to overcome it or any experiences :)

Cheers Guys,
Thank You!!
He was joking. Relax.
no but the music industry can destroy the music industry, and they're doing a bang-up job of it. maybe a different way to think of it is: it's been more than a decade since napster and the music industry is just now beginning to get a clue.
Thanks. Pygments looks better than other solutions I've looked at. I just found a Ruby wrapper for Pygments: https://github.com/tmm1/pygments.rb
I'm not sure why WebOS failed. Probably just because they couldn't attract as many developers, so there was a lot less software available. I really liked my TouchPad. Ironically the biggest weakness for me was the web browser - it was buggy and had almost no features.
Small SMD are tricky to solder by hand, especially when nearby component are so close, but it is not impossible.

Now mounting a BGA without a largely automatic machine would be stupid for high volumes (and even for very small one, and maybe even for unitary prototypes), and in this case it would also be stupid to not pick and place all SMD.

Indeed even with very low wages, it would probably be stupid to mount a board manually except for very low volumes and very small boards. Mouting a small SMD can be done quickly with practice, but you are amazed when you count the amount there is (try on an iphone photo or on a random motherboard)
While they can certainly penalize sites that optimize today with respect to the criteria of yesterday, that effectively just means changing the criteria of ranking. Nothing stops site owners to optimize with respect to the new criteria tomorrow. The full implications of the proposition are reminiscent of Russel's paradox, or worthy to be included in a next edition of Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach book.

EDIT: small clarification
Diplomatic community does not extend to foreign legislators. It covers only those who are official diplomats of a foreign country (or those accorded derivative rights, such as immediate family of diplomats). Note that the right applies to the foreign country, not the individuals representing it, so the foreign country may choose (or not) to exercise the immunity.

While many countries (especially Middle-eastern countries) abuse diplomatic immunity with regards to smaller crimes (and especially parking tickets), most countries choose not to exercise the immunity in the case of felonies (except where the death penalty is on the table). Alternatively, the country will exercise the immunity but will then honor an extradition request.

IOW, unless Assange gets himself appointed as a diplomat of Australia, he's done nothing to improve his situation in the US.
It's bash-specific (sh doesn't support it)
I'm actually looking forward to the new APIs that will come out of this project - standardized web APIs that will allow Javascript to interact with everything on a device as if it were native code.
That's because there is no OOP in javascript as in other languages like java or python, javascript only implements natively prototypal inheritance and lexical scope. This very important concept is always misunderstood because of the syntactic sugar like 'new' and 'this'.
You said “I think the only interesting point in the author's piece is the point that English text is more difficult to read when it's randomly coloured.” Åkesson didn't talk about random colors. His sample text isn't randomly colored. It's colored by part-of-speech. Nouns are red, verbs are green, etc.

I find the yellow and green parts of his sample text particularly difficult to make out, because of those color choices, not because of the changing of colors from word to word. If Åkesson wants to claim that “it will inevitably decrease the legibility of the text”, he needs to cite a study demonstrating this. As far as I know, he's just speculating.

We have a historical reason, at least, for writing prose in just one color: it is much easier to write or mass-print in one color. But now we live in an age of computers, and we could perhaps have the computer syntax-color our prose when we read (and write) it on screen and print it to a color printer. If a reader had time to get used to reading syntax-colored prose (and the color scheme were chosen well), would the reader be able to read faster or understand the material better? This question has to be answered by testing, not speculation.
It's not bash-specific. Other shells have it.
Well, that's pretty good news... if it works. There's a lot of garbage on the first page just because the page/site has a lot of backlinks and has the whole site SEO'd by the book (titles, keyword density, headers, etc.).
But not the bourne shell
The email app is more of an email app feature
This can't come soon enough.

Too many sites are ranking by stuffing keywords and buying links.

Next, Google need to find a way to rank a page based on it's role in a broader user experience - rather than being measured in isolation.

Sites (especially in retail) are forced to optimise a page in a specific way to get indexed successfully. The result is everyone putting too much content on a single page - detracting from usability and creating homogeneity for users - like cars all optimised in wind tunnels.