skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You add an if using the ternary style syntax. i.e. "if foo then bar else baz". I think that's sufficient for what piep is trying to do. I can't imagine trying to do anything else with indentation that couldn't be accomplished with list comprehensions.
47237 [http://stackoverflow.com/users/8206/eli-bendersky]
Learning Lua from Javascript
A Mammoth JailbreakCon Giveaway
That's probably a typo, and should be "bogota"[1]. His titanium ones were probably bought from SerePick.[2]

[1] http://www.theamazingking.com/bogota.php

[2] http://www.serepick.com/products.html
Self-Driving Car User #0000000001
Tl;dr A bunch of politicans with geopolitical goals made central policy on how to direct a bankrupt nation in turmoil. A nation which has existed in perpetual corruption under collectivism. Yet this is described as a failure of privatization?

I can't wait for the day Russia isn't under corrupt leadership. The natural and human resources there are vast and untapped. To think what the world would be like if they had followed Adam Smith instead of Marx.
Best Buy is not going out of business because Amazon is good. Best Buy is going out of business because Best Buy sucks. I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't live near a Fry's.
YC W12 messaging - Pair, Carsabi, 42floors, socialcam, Exec + 26 more
The burden has shifted from the bio to the informatics. We need to be able to sort through this much data without needing access to university-scale computer facilities.
If you go to Cregle's iPen Kickstarter page - Comments section - you'll see it didn't live up to expectations. (Google iPen, should be first result).

Calibration issues, broken, etc. I was really looking forward to a precise stylus (pressure sensitivity is number 2 priority to me), and I'm still waiting…
Hair Loss at post 60 calls for immediate attention
SocialShield Acquired By German Security Company Avira
I'm not exactly sure what your talking about. The results for Google's minecraft search are pretty crummy too.

#1 minecraft.net (can't tell from the search results if it's even the games real website, since there are ~.com, ~.net and ~.org sites all run by others)
#2 minecraftforfree.com (a site distributing the full version for free?!)
#3 minecraftwiki
#4 wikipedia's article
#5 pocket edition on the android app store, not even the actual website and no links to the iOS version?
#6-10 youtube videos of people playing or reviewing minecraft
#11 3 news links about minecraft
#12-13 both link to googlemapsmania articles on minecraft maps.

Oh and a nice link at the bottom about DMCA requested removal of a link (sent by Mojang at least). I imagine due to copyright/IP violations like link #2.

YMMV though due to Google's search personalisation...

The minecraft forum isn't listed until the second link on page 2. I'm not sure if you missed it but the forum is link #10 on the DDG search...
So You're A Startup: How To Create & Maintain An Advisory Board
To save you some time:

Japan: September 13, 1985

US: October 18, 1985 (NES launch) or November 17, 1985
Let's also not forget that the whole flags/arguments debate is often not really that useful in todays *nix command line, either. I'd love to see more command-line utilities work like the Heroku gem and less like sed. (Yes, I know it breaks the whole Unix philosophy of one tool == one action, but from my experience it is far easier to get new people to learn.)
ACTA: reasons for committee vote against referral to Court of Justice
Dojo is probably the closest thing to a full application framework, give that it utilizes Require.js for AMD, has a test harness a complete object model, and a widget system with a life-cycle. The one thing that it lacks is a router, it has a state management mechanism, but it is no where near as robust as Backbone so I tend to prefer to use Backbone as my macro application router and then Dojo for everything else and mix in jQuery plugins for off the shelf widgets that Dojo does not have. The real power in Dojo is in Dojo.connect, I know jQuery has a plugin to provide this functionality but connect is the heart to Dojo, once you start wiring events and observers up via connects the architecture becomes very easy and straight forward. The thing with JavaScript is you really have to embrace an event based architecture, I know when people first come over they want to write macro controllers that control a view, where JavaScript works much better if you write discreet widgets that emit and respond to events. So you can have events like userInfoUpdated(userInfo) and any widget that needs to respond to that particular data update just connects a listener to the userInfoUpdated function. In jQuery you can use $(object).trigger("userInfoUpdated", [data]) and listen via $.bind. It is similar to connect but it does not give you a function signature on the object and it piggybacks on the event system so you have to be conscientious of bubbling and suppression, as you can bog the browsers event system down in larger apps. Thus I prefer connect as it does not piggyback on the event system.
Hailo Nabs $17 million for Cabbie-Passenger Matchmaking
CSS layout gets smarter with calc()
War’s Benefits: A Face-Saving Gift
> the asker just never bothered to click accept . . . and the original user is evidently no longer interested in getting it answered.

I find this very annoying, too. I can understand why it would happen from the point of view of the asker: he might have found the answer on some other website 5 minutes later, or he might have just decided to find a workaround. Still, I think SO should remind people to accept answers (penalize them for having low accept rates) or have the most upvoted answer selected automatically after a while. Nobody wants to write detailed answers for someone who isn't interested in the question anymore.
Monster Solar Tornadoes Discovered
I am so sorry to hear that.

At least he got to see Spider-man.
Why Drive Up To A Theater, When You Can Float Up To It?
You've been downvoted to hell... but why?

Is there a taboo on commenting on his looks? This is the worst pic I've ever seen of him.

I get that this is a part of the unique 'character' which produced the free software movement, but after a point it hurts his message. I wish he'd groom himself a little - at least when he's on stage.
Your experience is different than mine. My answers usually seem to get voted up proportionally to how good they are. Granted, it's been a while since I've actively participated, so things may have changed.
If you're answering Objective-C questions, I think quality has definitely dropped off since the site started. These days it's about 50-50 whether a given question will boil down to "I don't understand why different instances of my UIViewController subclass are different objects." (Incidentally, my claim to SO fame is that I was the first person there to get a Ruby badge. I think that makes me king of the hipsters or something.)
First time I've heard that...but I have to say it's basically true.
Yeah, it looks like a typo. A Google search for "ZX Spectrum 48x" shows this article as the top result, and the Wikipedia page only lists the 48k and 16k.
Two Florida judges reject copyright troll fishing expeditions
Patience requires absolute control over your thoughts, words, and deeds.
Intel and ARM Head for a Bloody Chip Collision
sorry folks due to high traffic ,server crashed..
acqq nails it -- there's an upper bound, and in the meantime you have to put all those panels somewhere. Get ready to write off a lot of land to scale up.

(Get ready to write off a lot more if this is how you're planning to power the magic desalination plants that will give us infinite water).
I have DDG set as my default, but I admit that that's more or less despite the quality of the search results.

When I'm searching for "discovery" purposes, such as when trying to diagnose an error message, I add a !g. When I want an image, !gi. If I want to look up some library, I use !clojure, !python, !php, etc. The only time I let it fall to DDG is when I'm looking for some specific thing that I don't know the URL for, like "American Airlines", or something that I know has a lot of results of about equivalent quality, like "Pulled Pork Recipe."

I find I'm effectively using DDG as a search routing service. I really enjoy that, and I miss it when I use a computer that's not set up with chrome and ddg as the search default, but I feel like they're missing out on some ad revenue here.
no problem, let me know if you have any issue, I will help as much as I can, my email is in my profile. As well feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn if you have an account.
Wow. In the future, if you're going to put quotes around something someone said, make sure they actually said it. Re-arranging words that I used into new sentences doesn't count.
Yes.

In many cases, I don't think it has anything to do with employees wanting to be there. The problem I've found is that most managers (and VCs) I've met seem to think that if you aren't devoting your life to your code monastery, you aren't productive and you aren't dedicated. Startups place an enormous amount of value on "ass in seat" time even though sometimes being in the seat isn't often the productive thing to do. There is a horribly mistaken belief that the more you sit at work, the more you get done, and if someone else is sitting there longer than you, they're a "better" employee. It's perception, not reality.

If we really want to go the fuck home, managers need to drastically change what they think "productive" is in a knowledge industry. Writing code is not like being on a factory line. The motions are not repetitive and you are required to be creative. I think I'm as productive in a 30 hour week as I am on a 60 hour one: in the latter case, I'm spending too much time spinning on overhead or burned out and playing Portal.
Somewhat related: when the Linus Torvalds award was given to the FSF, Stallman responded with something along the lines of "Giving the Linus Torvalds award to the FSF is like giving the Han Solo award to the Rebel Alliance".
Good comments. Being paranoid, I double checked the database I used! Neither 'qi' nor 'za' are in the database I used.

I'm not arguing that they are, or are not, words. I'm just saying that they were not in the dictionaty file I used :)
having cracked the glass in two kindles, making them useless.. this is such a nice news, but too late :)
There are 2/3 solution, CouchDB can serve arbitrary files over HTTP, you can have a proxy to server your app and the couch api from the same host, or you, and the other is CORS, CouchDB doesnt natively support CORS yet but that is coming very soon, in the meantime I have been using a node.js CORS proxy
The high bit is don't, unless you're working in some specialized industry where credentials count for a lot.
It seems that DRACO works by binding double-stranded RNA. This will work for many, but not all, viruses. Viruses can also have single stranded RNA genomes, like influenza, as well as single- and double-stranded DNA genomes, like herpes. Optimistically, this is s cure for a subclass of viruses.
I wish more science would get behind crowd funding, then we could potentially have this kind of stuff sooner/at all. I wince at all of the amazing science that doesn't kick off, not because of a lack of feasibility or interest but simply because of a lack of funding.
Vagina Invalidation Argument
Google Unveils New Revenue Option for Web Publishers (Customer Surveys)
Discussions about Stallman rarely say anything new. A single line about RMS's appearance is adding nothing to the conversation, and risks a de-rail. (Already you responded, as have I. IHBT.)
Single page link for those who would prefer to read the article whole, rather than broken up into four separate pages:

http://www.networkworld.com/cgi-bin/mailto/x.cgi?pagetosend=...
No, I mean the specific examples that prompted you to make the comment I was responding to. You wouldn't make such a broad claim without at least one or two examples, would you?
DDG: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+movie+where+evil+is+in+a+toaste...

Time Bandits is #8

vs
https://www.google.com/#hl=en&output=search&q=the+mo...

First hit.

I realize it is in fashion to make bold claims that somehow Google destroyed its search in a monomaniacal pursuit of social, but a hyperbolic if not patently untrue story. Yes, the user interface has changed and gotten fancier and more cluttered with the introduction of toolbar and sidebar (that's been happening over years, prior to G+), but the actual organic results have not changed much at all except to improve on average, even if you take into account Search Plus Your World (which you can disable)

Shocking, but most people at Google do not work on G+, it is not the sole focus of the company, and the narrative that Google is simply dropping everything else to mindlessly chase Facebook is blogosphere fiction. There are over 30,000 employees and I would be surprised if even 2% of them worked on G+. Teams at Google are typically small and at any given time, people are working on a large number of projects. It's simply not Google's culture to mindlessly focus on a single unproven product to the detriment of others. If anything, Google is frequently criticized for doing too many new things at once, and that's what you get when you have a company run with engineering culture.

Google makes most of their money from Search and Ads. You can bet that they watch data from search quality and marketshare like a hawk, and if social was causing Google search to suck more and lose customers, you can bet they'd turn it off in a heartbeat. It's been said by some analysts that every 1% loss in search marketshare is $1 billion in revenue. Facebook isn't making that much money, and so from a cost-benefit analysis, sacrificing billions in search share revenue to try and gain social-search revenue doesn't sound rational.

It would thus be reasonable to assume, that any changes Google actually makes to core search are a) conservative b) subjected to a battery of scientific tests and c) as low risk as they can make them to their core business.

But the way you read things in the Blogosphere, Search has been radically altered. The evidence just isn't there.
I would take a look at how WordPress and Pyro (http://www.pyrocms.com/) others (http://storageroomapp.com/) built out their system. How you store content push/pull content (json? xml?) your backend db (Mongo, MySQL, etc.) as well as your front-end (build themes, simple code language like wordpress to be able to build a blog or a job board in minutes).

Good Luck, - keep us posted!
So true. I recall when their stores opened. They were clean, the shelves were stocked with relevant products, and display units functioned.

Now it's just a dirty pile of what's left from last Christmas and display units that are un-powered or broken.

Don't get me started on their staff.
Makedoc - jsdoc documentation online generator (for github hosted projects)
I have always thought this about the iPhone (and smartphones in general)

When you put your finger to the screen, it should "bubble zoom" clickable links. and you could slide around to get the exact link you intend to.

Viewing pages with tiny clickables meant for the precision of the mouse is infuriating.
Do more than think
The problem I have with this is nicely illustrated by a (possibly apocryphal) story about John Steinbeck. He wrote to a college paper that was printing an entire page of the word "FUCK" He asked them to stop, not because it was offensive, but because it was devaluing the word. Swearing only serves to get a strong emotional reaction when it's uncommon.
Hackers attack security hole within Microsoft Office for Mac
I got excited about the title of this article when I read the first two words, but then I discovered more words after that.
It's already been going around the public news circuit for a while, and they undoubtedly got some extra support and funding because it did. PLoS ONE publications are much easier for the public to access.
OK. It makes sense! Had a play with it today and saw more people mentioning on Twitter.

Good luck!
Sounds promising. It'll be interesting to watch and see how this evolves.

Here's an off-topic comment issued in the spirit of constructive criticism for the site (please don't downvote based on this):

If any HN reader has an account with process.org could you --if you agree, of course-- suggest that a small gray font against a gray background is simply not a good idea? On an iPad without zooming it is really straining to read. On a desktop with a 24 inch 1920 x 1200 monitor it is not comfortable. Bad idea. A larger black font would be best.
Personally, I find it more annoying to see so many "my business I hacked up over the weekend" and "look at my startup that I created in 20 hours" posts. I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure I see way more of these kinds of posts than I do ones that contain expletives.

In fact, I would prefer a page full of posts with titles that contain 'fuck' rather than an entire page of posts about copycat blogging platforms or 'my weekend project, now app, now "business," made with rails and coffebonemongodb.js'.

Well, that came out of no where.

Time to read the OPs post.

/rant (which was supposed to be in reply to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3771670)

Edit: I definitely agree with the video and wish everyone worked like that. The part about the managers leading the team by going home on time is true too.
It's worth noting how Fred Wilson is in a very precarious position to be
advocating privacy since he is invested in many companies that profit
from invading privacy. It's great to see him advocating improvements to
privacy even though ensuring privacy by technical means is undoubtedly
against his personal best interests.

It is entirely feasible to build a web browser which ensures privacy,
but it would come at a steep cost. If you disable the "REFERER" [SIC]
sent by the browser, a lot of sites break. If you disable the
"USER_AGENT" sent by the browser, a lot of sites break. If you disable
"COOKIES" in the browser, a lot of sites break. If you disable "FLASH"
in the browser, a lot of sites break. If you disable "JAVASCRIPT" in the
browser, a lot of sites break. If you require PROXIES or Onion Routing,
a lot of sites break.

With mobile devices, disabling GPS/Signal location, network access,
address book, and many other features will break a lot of
sites/apps/services.

I'm sure you can see the pattern.

The tough question is, would you use a browser/system that intentionally
broke most of the web/Internet to ensure your privacy?

Do you want to be the person fielding support calls from your mom when
some company on the `net insists on having privacy invading misfeatures
enabled?

The most "ambitious startup" might be in trying to fix the privacy
and security problems of the existing Internet by refusing to support
the regularly misused misfeatures, but the resulting loss of
functionality and compatibility might be too much to bear.

> We should be careful not to undercut the economic underpinning of the Internet in our attempts to regulate online privacy.

Whether regulated by new laws or prevented by technical means, you would
not eradicate the economic underpinnings, instead, the underpinnings
would simply change. For example, people would still pay Google to
display advertising along with search results even if it was impossible
to do user-identifiable profiling. The untargeted advertising might be
less effective than targeted advertising, but it would still be far more
effective than no advertising at all.
It's just an intensive. Probably the most innocuous use of the word 'fuck' there is.

If English had standard intensive forms, and we could add additional intensity just by tweaking a word ending, we wouldn't have this issue. But we don't.

Normally I think unnecessary swearing is lame too, but I'm having trouble figuring out a better way to intensify 'go home'. 'Go the heck home' is corny, 'seriously, go home' lacks the same punch, and 'GO HOME!' is just ugly.

I wish I knew how and when 'the fuck' became the intensive of choice after an imperative. Now that'd be interesting.
Not mentioning the fact that a lot of their employees in SF have very poor English for example, so they cannot really answer any product questions.
I often find myself doing the showroom thing with BB and traditional bookstores - but I typically do not go to the brick and mortar store on purpose to look at stuff. I am usually out with friends or visiting other stores (say, at a mall) and happen to go in. So if BB bankrupts, I am not going to feel particularly affected, because I usually go direct to Amazon anyway. (Prime helps with that motivation)
I'm missing a bit of the logic here, then. If I kill the cells infected, won't the latent viruses go and infect a different cell anyway? DRACO appears to be a medical scorched-earth policy.
Yep, all medical science researchers worldwide are in on a plot to curb population growth for profit. Definitely.
Haha, no problem at all.
Dear DC Comics / Warner Brothers:

Please reach out to this man, and offer him free and clear usage rights to "Batman," "Superman," and other pieces of your IP for charitable causes. In fact, do one better than that, and offer him funding to build out a national superheroes ("Superfriends"?) program for others to get involved.

If he's interested, of course. Maybe he wants to keep this small. But seems to me like there's a fantastic opportunity to lend Batman a hand here.
Text only cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Note: I'm sort of meta-replying to all your posts in this thread here, so some of the bits I talk about come from other posts too.

It seems that your analytical process in this is only one-dimensional - maximize impact per dollar. This is reasonable, however it seems to ignore many possible definitions of "impact". Impact could be "lives saved" or "infections avoided" or any number of things that fit nicely in an optimization like you suggest. However, there are other forms of impact which could be considered:

* Instead of maximizing number of people impacted, there is a maximization on "best impact" per person.

* There are non-monetary forms of impact, in the form of giving people a feeling that someone really cares and respects them. A token donation, or some "bare minimum" bit of charity leaves many people feeling worse than they would without it, particularly when done poorly. Perhaps the optimization is on "make those who can get it, feel they really have someone on their side"

* And so on.

Further, as I mentioned, impact alone is not a bellwether dimension in how to figure this stuff out. There are considerations of:

* what does the giver feel comfortable giving (e.g. does the target cause ethical conflict w/in the giver)

* Does the giver have any non-monetary contributions as well?

* Does the giver want to be semi-anonymous?

* Does the giver want direct contact?

* What does the giver get as a result of this? It may sound "unaltruistic" or some other BS, but just handing over cash does not satisfy some people the way direct helping does.

Basically, my point is, while you have a decent metric, it is not the only one, nor is it worth discussing in isolation of the rest.
Sigh, do people really don't want to see that full support for one liners (not to mention anon funs of > 1 instruction) is a feature?! :-(
Hooray I like DDG and switched awhile ago making it my default search. Congrats.
It is properly too early to tell, but if this proves to be something real, we need a march of dimes founding situation and we have to make it as much a national issue, and as important as when Jonas Salk headed the team that cured polio.

One thing it will do is it will cure AIDS -- an insanely great achievement -- another thing it will do is that it will inspire a generation of kids to become scientists, which we sorely need.
If that happened, I'd just take greater advantage of online return policies if something was completely off from what was expected. A thorough reading of user reviews usually stops you from buying anything egregiously bad.