skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, I've had to do similar in Java before and it just took breaking out what I wanted to retry into a separate method. Nice simple clean Ruby is preferred, but it is possible already, at least...
Would there be temperature change as well?
There are few concerns:
1) It is likely that the exception is non recoverable, from the place it occurred and may need to be wound back multiple levels

2) Runtime that defensively handle exceptions as specified at every point will need to keep stack state indefinitely deep

I believe, rather than exception syntax, the issue is abuse of exceptions. Exceptions must be raised on recoverable errors, but they must be handled at the right abstraction level. So how about raising the 'throws' on your functions and then handle them at the right abstraction level. Why not spent a little time designing your exception handling tree before implementing.

That said, the 'recover' keyword may be really helpful in many cases.
Here you go: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:39agAaD...
This sounds like rationalizing to me. OP should a/b test this to make sure what to use.
RailsConf 2012 Videos
This is a signature move from Boies, although Jacobs name appears first. All throughout the SCO Vs. Novell litigation Boies tried to end run the judge's viewpoints by introducing late, obscure and illegal motions.

It's interesting to note that the litigator who won the case for Novell (Jacobs), while working for Oracle seems to be running a typical Boies play, the type of which probably factored strongly in the outcome of the SCO Vs. Novell case. If I had the clout that Ellison has, no way in hell I'd want Boies on my team given how he fucked up the SCO litigation so badly.
Buffet likes to invest in companies that last for a century rather than latest hot thing (in the past decade).
I agree with you, to be honest.

Also, nice article. Well written and interesting.
eBooks are my thing.

The overall feel of the page is that of spammy and sleazy "eBook" sites. The wide margins with text in the center in a Too Damn Long scroll. At the end I expected a Two For One Offer so I could Start Making Money Now.
This is great site to keep in mind, I added a link to the blog post. Language filtering feature would be nice, the Django section seemed to have many French ones on the first page.
Hey, where’s my “Generate an appropriate comment” button?

According to Mark Zuckerberg, people using Facebook are “dumb fucks,” so probably they should be guided?
> The fact that Ruby can express things very concisely has nothing to do with whether or not learning Objective-C adds an appreciable amount to time to the process of learning Cocoa.

Here's the disconnect. That was never my point.

Please re-read my initial comment. You responded to that comment, hence you're responding to my initial point, which has nothing to do with your argument.

Do you get it?

The problem is your just not able to express your point, clearly, in relation to the context of this topic. Maybe face-to-face, verbally, you'd do a brilliant job of it. But in the written form, well... Not so good.

A little humility on your part would go a long way. Just saying ;)
I don't understand why you're being downvoted.
This is not reddit. Please use the comment section to seriously discuss about the topic in question. Thanks!
I can't tell if this is sarcasm ;)

I figured UK trumped Canada for Tuesday due to the time zones -> HN views on Monday night in UK timestamped as Tuesday.
I couldn't agree more, and I'm glad to see you picked up on this.

I feel the same way. I'm far more comfortable, and have far more trigger time on one language over another, and those inherent nuances make me far more productive.

Of course it's easy enough to learn a new language/library, but that's not the point. The point is what do I know now, and what can I be productive in, the quickest.

Kudos.
Very cool. Are you planning on adding support for the new Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release soon?
Thanks for that. Do you have a good example of someone doing it better? It ended up long because there is so much I want to say. Do you think it would be better reformatted as a couple of larger blocks of text?
The 13-year-old CEO who invented a cure for hiccups
Warren Buffett: Zuckerberg Right to Keep Control
I wear a hat because my dermatologist told me I'd better, while she was carving chunks of flesh out of my forehead.

I've since discovered that a wide brimmed hat makes walking in the Seattle rain quite pleasant.
The MySpace interface was an abomination. The fact that users would tolerate it says something about the standard one has to meet to hold an audience. It's not very high.

FB has a clean interface, generally, but it's what's going on "behind the scenes" that is at issue here.
That's an interesting reaction! I'll leave it red for now but changing that color is easy enough. The intention was to draw someone to the only "call to action" on the page.
Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) binary ReST IETF draft
The thing about the Red Hat model is that it's a choice of a particular software company to decide which model they choose to pursue. Autodesk charges a lot of money for its proprietary products, and will sue you if you try to pirate them, and Red Hat will give you the software for free and charge you for services.

The objective of the RIAA lawsuits isn't to kill the Red Hat model for music (although perhaps they would if they could) -- it's to preserve the Autodesk model for music as an option. I don't think they're going about in in the best way but I can see why they are doing it -- they believe that the Autodesk model is as economically and morally legitimate one as the Jonathan Coulton model of distributing music for free and then making money on touring.
Thanks for the link. As a man who has worn hats for past fifteen years, this would've been interesting. Shame that there is no Kindle version...
Why? I'm reminded of a line from the SIP v4 draft[1].

"This is not the real world, this is the IETF."

1: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kaplan-sip-four-oh-00
Embracing Dynamism
Observing Resources in CoAP
Those books also seem to be good at repeating popular wisdom unquestioned, like the story of the Romans' vomitoria.
Django contact form with simple honeypot
In America the carriers controlled the market and the device manufacturers where beholden to them. In Europe it was the other way around.
I guess mass production started to play a part in simplifying clothes around the Victorian era
“You lie awake at night worrying about what is that which will disrupt your business model,”

Your business model is ripping people off, I hope you die of insomnia (not literally). Phone bills have skyrocketed in the past 5-10 years as everyone has a cell and as salaries more or less stay the same. Let's not even talk about customer service.
tc is very useful for managing traffic over low bandwidth connections. I have used it to control traffic over satellite links (T1 scale throughput) with great success.
I'm now obsessed with finding the Stuff Smith version.
This literally sounds too good to be true.

I found no contact or company information on their website, except 2 email adresses. I can't verify if this is just a clever way of mass deploying a stealth botnet or something.

Will you trust them?
Wow, that’s pretty “nice.”

P.S.
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I feel dumb for trying to think of some Apple product that had only three letters in it.
I am shaving my head tomorrow and I am not even american. But the message is subtle and clear :) It is also summer.
But people are spending far more time on their phones today than they were 5-10 years ago. It shouldn't be a surprise that they're spending more money on their phones, accessories, telecom service, apps, etc. than they were 10 years ago, regardless of what their salary is, since the phone is involved in more aspects of their life.

For what it's worth, if you want to use your phone in exactly the same way you did 10 years ago (occasional short voice calls), you can do it much cheaper today than then, with a TracFone.
Google Could Face $10 Million Fine For Tracking Safari Users
But a steelworker in Buffalo, or an underemployed
construction worker in Las Vegas, can't easily take his
skills to where they are needed in North Dakota or
Wyoming if he's underwater on his mortgage.

Maybe the federal government could ease this problem by taking over, temporarily, underwater mortgages while an owner is working out of state.
> Whenever an exception happens, programmers could twiddle a few variables and set the program back to where it was before.

This is missing. The first point of the OP is entirely as described though.
MagPi people: Please make your landing page non-flash; or at least figure out how to put a link to a non-flash version on the outside of your flash <embed>.
Fighting an uphill battle in getting people to recognize an economic ontology that isn't comprised of "Capitalism" and "THE OTHER GUYS!".
As soon as I can get a VM loaded and run through the install catalog. I should be able to get that taken care of by the beginning of next week.

It's mostly to fix any build dependencies that have to be installed as distribution packages have name updates. There were a handful between 10.04 and 11.10.
One thing I notice about public transport - especially the London Underground and double decker buses in general - is my head often touches (or is very near) the top without wearing a hat. So, I am not sure how the story holds up. Unless previous generations were substantially shorter?

I think it has more to do with class in the UK. With each generation, the class division has faded, and to a degree, hats were one way of advertising your class. Even today, baseball caps are seen as part of the uniform of the "underclass" (that is, when they aren't worn by sports people).
Good thinking! I was thinking about which edutech play was really the most interesting and couldn't quite settle on one. There's really no dominant contender yet, so I'll hold off until the next list.
>so Notch may be slightly responsible.

I have seen a similar phenomena. I assure you that none of these people have seen a picture of Notch.

The fedora/trilby/etc could be better said to have simply never gone completely out of style. It's popularity just seems to ebb and flow like the tide.
> Not an obvious win as far as I can tell

How ironic, then, that you got the brackets right on the second one but not the first one.

Adding extra quotes and spacing confuses the issue needlessly, too.
Go and get the cheapest Verizon plan and see how it ads up close to $100 (incl tax and fees.) I have one, no data at all and a 2008 phone.
Hats look cool on cool guys, and programmers often aren't "cool guys". Perhaps you're a brogrammer?
Android Malware Used to Mask Online Fraud, Says Expert
It looks like it's a good UI on top of Opscode's Chef platform. You choose your Chef recipes and run a script that downloads the Chef client and starts installing recipes.

So, it doesn't seem to be too good to be true, at least to me. My guess is that this is an MVP for a product designed to put a non-awful UI on top of Chef (Opscode's SaaS product is, imho, borderline unusable).

That said, there is a high bar here for trust, no doubt about it.
It's true. And I'm not running a stealth botnet or anything.

I'm just better at building things than trying to write marketing collateral.

Feel free to email me directly at long at rayburst.com
I've been using tc a lot recently in the research I've been doing and I have to agree that finding good documentation/examples is somewhat difficult to do. There are a lot of weird gotchas (the naming between uplink and downlink being one of them -- root vs ingress). Of course, I'm working on a better framework for controlling network resources, so I have to learn how tc works to provide a simpler interface for doing the things it does.
well written answer.
I am looking for faster lane, don't have 3-5 years.
What do you suggest?
Jaguar XKX Concept
TERA hits the #1 spot for Amazon downloads
Another FB engineer here - I actually work on the system that caused this false positive. You're right that if we were actually trying to stop constructive discussion from happening, that would be bad. We're definitely not trying to do that - in fact, our goal is the exact opposite.

Similarly, if we let through blatantly malicious or spammy comments, I think that would be bad as well.

While I wish I could say we were perfect at stopping spam, the reality is that no spam classification system is perfect. Sometimes we err too far on the conservative side, and spam gets through. Sometimes we err too far on the aggressive side, and good content is incorrectly blocked. That's what happened here - it turned out one of our spam classifiers was a little too aggressive, and we've turned it off.
The first thing I thought when I saw is image was that I would love to see an animation of the sphere collapsing and refilling the oceans, etc. Assuming the animation simulated actual gravity and water fluid dynamics, I wonder how long it would take and what it would look like? (That is, the initial reflooding, reforming of rivers, clouds and ice caps, and so on.)
If HN could stop posting stories of teens and youngster geniuses creating greatness in the world, and making me inadequate as a person, that would be just swell. TIA.
Is the FCC likely to let a new entrant in to disrupt the oligopoly? Presumably that's part of their remit as a regulator.
FYI the recipes are all custom written. The community ones are aren't very standardized and usually are only good for installing from distribution packages.

(And if you look through the install output, you'll also see where they get stored on your server if you want to review anything that's being done.)
I didn't mean to imply that all Android phones are fine; my point was specifically about the SGS2. Even with its crapware, it is in no way unusable out of the box.

Having used a Motorola Backflip before this, I certainly know the perils of crappy phones crippled with crapware. I just don't think the SGS2 is one of them.
Simple little gem to start/stop Resque workers from Capistrano
I agree - we've turned off the classifier that caused this false positive, as it's clearly too aggressive.
Kid owned and operated radio station
U.S. Army Captain Dies During Skype Session
If I hadn't read this Show HN before visiting your landing I wouldn't have known that it was about an ebook. Not only do you not mention this above the fold but a quick search on [book] only returns 'facebook'.

There's something off about the faux book graphics, so I don't think you can exclusive rely on it to signal that this is a landing page about an ebook.

The link bar at top makes me think that each link loads a new page. That's a bit confusing and doesn't really add that much to the design of the site.

The keep Me Posted button is a vague call to action. It should be more direct and independent, e.g.: "Tell me when I can buy Startup Privacy".

* "The World is Not Standing By" is too cryptic.

* "Avoid The Pitfalls of Others" is great and should be closer to the fold.
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Not ad hominem, agreed, but certainly rude. However, I disagree that the poster characterised the situation in this way! He never called him a jackass, and it can't even be said that what was stated was equivalent to this.

The original post made an observation about a way they perceived nirvana posts to HN, then gave substantial reasons why they disagreed with him. There was no aggression tha I could read, only disagreement.

Nirvana is wrong that the original post was the equivalent of "you're wrong, jackass". There were no insults given, this is entirely something that nirvana has read into the post and that isn't there.
Weekends are quiet.
> This is especially true when compilers do it, pretty sure JMP statements are used for function calls.

That's a bit silly. It's like saying that writing raw opcodes is okay because the assembler does it.
So I see. Again, this is very cool. I hope you are planning on turning this into a commercial product.
Microgaming New Flash and HTML5 Online Games
I don't think that's how sharing someone else's post works. If I make a friends-only post, and you share it to your friends, only the intersection of our friends can see it. I agree this is maybe not as clear as it could be on the UI, but I believe that's how it should work. If you find otherwise, would you mind filing a bug at www.facebook.com/whitehat?
Interestingly, there is an estimate of the size of a sphere containing the water of the world's seas in Twenty Thousand Leagues under the sea:

"THE PART OF THE planet earth that the seas occupy has been assessed at
3,832,558 square myriameters, hence more than 38,000,000,000 hectares.
This liquid mass totals 2,250,000,000 cubic miles and could form
a sphere with a diameter of sixty leagues, whose weight would
be three quintillion metric tons."

According to Google and Frink, 60 leagues is less than 1/4 of the 860 miles estimated here; I'm not sure how much of that is due to the smaller scope of the estimate in Verne's book.
I don't agree with parent: the design isn't sleazy at all. If anything I think your design needs more WOW, not less. There's no sense of drama that highlights the importance of the topic (but you got something with the "Avoid The Pitfalls of Others" section which, if redesigned, could be incredibly useful).
Do you have an example of FB blocking imgur images? We certainly don't intend to, and I'd like to get it fixed if we are for some reason.
Track clicks on links in your tweets
He makes a brings up an interesting point about the idea checking the effectiveness of interview methods. It seems that lots of people have intricate hacks for divining the talented programmers in an interview, but NO ONE can back their methods up with hard data based on performance and non-performance of candidates over project time-spans.
Hackers to Compete for $20K Purse at AT&T/Facebook Hackathon
Assuming you're competent in both, e.g. you are good enough to be professionally productive in either and can ramp/dial your skills to match, this is dumb advice.

Especially because good designers that understand how software works are freaking hard to find. Half the time I've spent with designers ends up in "yeah, good idea, but it doesn't work that way...".

In fact, for bootstrapped start ups, you're a gold mine whether you do the design or just own getting it done. Want a job?
That is all very good feedback. I'm wondering what I should do about the graphic. Maybe I should get rid of it altogether -- since this will be an ebook it is really only there to help visitors recognize that the site is about a book. Given your point about not recognizing it as an ebook landing page it looks like it fails in that department anyway.
Greatness?

"It's very rare, when you're evaluating businesses, that you can envision a company or product being around 100 years from now." Hiccupops is one them. "It solves a very simple, basic need."

My hiccups go away before I can complete an order for any products relating to hiccup relief. If you're a human being you can stand a few minutes of unpleasantness.
From my understanding, I think they meant that mosh would deal with the more congested conditions better then ssh, thus providing a better experience. Just a hunch though.

That being said, mosh is rather cool ^_^
I am curious to know how this re-re-re-re-post has always managed to get to the front page.
That's like saying there's no market for umbrellas since it will stop raining before I can order an umbrella, and any human being can stand a few minutes of getting wet.
Verizon is an expensive provider. The cheapest Tracfone plans are $12 per month if you only make a few calls per week.
Why underused?

It's it well known and heavily used.
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Today just feels magical.
"Today just feels magical. What a wonderful day." said my fiancé as she walked out the door this afternoon to take our son to her Mother's house.

I am a weekend warrior, a wantrapenuer, a dreamer. I am constantly tinkering with a new idea, or an old one. Striving for the piece of mind that I have finished working the equivalent of a life time's worth of work. I'm 2-3 weeks away from my first beta launch.

When today began, I was discussing with my girl what we were going to do today. Because she was concerned with me meeting my side project goals for the weekend, she thought it best that she give me a full weekend of free time. I told her that I think we should do something fun today, even if it is just for a few hours. So we did.

This morning I went to a coffee shop and banged out code for about 3 hours. I came back and, my son (almost 2) and I, listened to Louie Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and Frank Sinatra while Maggie got ready for our weekend outing. It was amazing to watch him fall into a trance listening to Louie sing La Vie En Rose. Now we have video of him running around the apartment dancing to Louie, something that I will never forget. We went to market street, shopped, had sushi, and my boy played in the water fountain with other kids from the neighborhood.

We came home, William took a nap while his mom and I made a couple jack n' cokes and watched an episode of Shark Tank, drinking and joking the entire time.

Some of the most valuable things in life can not be bought. Don't miss out on them or let them slip away because you are distracted. If I had taken up the offer to spend the totality of my weekend coding, these memories would never have happened.

If you are like me, striving for more than a paycheck and full belly, I hope you find some time this weekend to create memories that you will never forget, memories that can never be bought.

Good luck and best wishes of success to you and your ventures. For me, its time to refill my drink and get back to grinding out the future that my family deserves.
Interesting theory. Regardless, I'll quote P.J. O'Rourke:

"A hat should be removed upon greeting a woman, and remain off for the rest of one's life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat".

I'm only half kidding. Hats were probably more functional when bathing was less frequent. Unless you spend a lot of time in the bright sunlight or out in the cold, today there is little reason to wear one so now they just look silly.
For people with cancer it's not so trivial.
You can't mention Pirates of Silicon Valley without mentioning Triumph of the Nerds. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerds
3 Reasons to Embrace Crowdsourced Design Contests
I think it's simply related to the fact that the Mac OS has become more popular, not necessarily the command line.

Only a correlation. Regular users generally don't use the command line.
This is a very good summary.

Spamming is very central to FB. Lots of unsolicited email, by default. Noteworthy is the early battle with Google over who gets access to your email contacts/address book.

Second is the female audience. Without them, FB loses its appeal to many people. And would fail to have gained momentum at universities.

If Mr. Zuckerberg had only stolen the email addresses and photos of his fellow male students at Harvard for his photo-comparison "project", which he noted, judging from the looks of some of his classmates, might as well include photos of "farm animals", and posted them online for other students to see, I sincerely doubt many would have cared.

However, if you obtain photos of female students, email them and tell them you have posted photos of them online, and others can rate their appearance, you can bet almost every one is going to sign up to check things out. This is the "secret" of FB's success. Because once the female students have signed up, the male students are soon to follow. This is also why Google+ is a relative ghost town.

I like the idea of FB: being able to communicate with almost everyone via the web. Who would not like that? It's great. And it will certainly not die with FB.

I'm just not keen on the people behind FB.