skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once had a large CPAN dependency install fail because one of the modules' tests included an http request to a 3rd party website which happened to be down that day. I wanted to strangle that developer when I finally tracked down the error (it wasn't failing with an obvious error that would let me easily recognize what was happening, I had to read the code itself). That is going a bit too far with the testing, I think.

And though I admit the culture is great overall, that does seem to be my experience with CPAN. You never know what you're going to get. It's like that to some degree with every language but with CPAN there's so much trust in the system it can be harder to identify and filter out the lesser quality stuff.
For most of my previous employers, if I ever heard...

"Hey, they just released a new major version of $LANGUAGE today. Can you go upgrade it on all our production servers?"

I'd probably fall out of my chair from shock. Most employers that I've had tend to stick with the version of software that they honed their skills on and were hellbent against upgrading at any cost. (Note: Most of my former employers developed on the LAMP stack, which doesn't help PHP's rep much I suppose)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope ?
Hi, we're currently in private beta, but you can apply for access: http://gameclosure.com/beta.html
this emulator has been crippled to only run a handful of bundled roms, because apple don't want their users to run custom executables, despite that they are interpreted.
One of the respondents makes the point that a company can loose a lot by hiring a bad candidate, but "false negative cost a company close to nothing."

While there is truth to this, I would say it is less true when there is a labor shortage. By not hiring a good candidate when they have the chance, a company looses the revenue that candidate might have helped them earn while they spend time looking for a surer bet.
Cost, complexity, difficulty, perceives trouble bonding, how?, risks, issues with the child's family. There are some.
How often are they required to travel to your head offices for face to face meetings?
I know I am going to sound snarky for saying this but it seems like every company that doesn't actually have a game changing idea for a product ends up building some sort of planning tool.

I am not saying that planning tools can't be innovative but most of them are a combination of overly complex and not easy on the eyes.

I am assuming that most people who want to go with a scrum board that is digital are going to use trello https://trello.com/. I again believe even trello is overly complex but at least it's easy to look at.
Ah yes, the good old "dictatorship" of the proletariat which introduces "despotic" inroads in order to create a communist utopia. For example, the Eastern bloc countries were "dictatorial" and "despotic" because they were never communist.
An author's open letter to DOJ
Definitely sounds like a bad test. Unless there's a specific reason for the test to have an external dependency like that, the test harness could always bring up the (HTTP) service locally before it runs.
> boxing the time for creativity ends up killing it.

John Cleese argues the opposite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShmtsLhkQg

From the rest of your comment, it seems to me that the feeling that it's a chore might be more the reason it kills creativity - not the setting aside time in and of itself. If you don't look forward to that time (not saying that's a bad thing, one way or the other), you probably won't get much out of it.
That information is not even close to being as complete as what they report to you in webmaster tools. There might be 2000 pages pointing back to your site and that query will return 50 (just an example, not hard numbers).
The site you linked to talks about why a higher sampling rate then what cds use is unnecessary. However, lossless audio (a different thing) is always good and is supported in DVDs, Blurays, and Cds. Lossless audio is often indistinguishable from compressed audio but is usefully when rencoding to a lossy format. (lossy to lossy will produce noticeable quality loss) Flac is a good thing and is supported by the MVK container.
I can understand how one might come to be a libertarian: through disillusionment with the government of the day, one comes to believe government itself is the problem rather than its particular form. The problem at the core of libertarianism is the slavish belief that the 'free market' is somehow guaranteed to produce results beneficial to society as a whole, or in the more sociopathic cases (which I suspect are the majority), benefit for themselves at the expense of others in a way that government cannot.

This argument neglects the fact that there does not exist any such beast as the 'free market' except in the platonic form - real transcational characteristics of goods and services, as well as the characteristics of the medium of exchange, always lead to a particular form of market emerging. Specifically, because of the fact that capital compounds capital - it is in the very nature of unregulated markets to concentrate resources in the hands of a few.

Why should we therefore be satisfied with 'free' markets that lead to enormous concentrations of resources in the hands of small numbers of individuals, far skewed away from the distributions of human ability according to measures of intelligence, aptitude or what have you? A market is a physical system to be engineered to produce the social outcome of most benefit. How you decide what is of 'most benefit' has some contention, but I'm pretty sure concentrating resources created by a majority in the hands of a minority is not it.
In computer science, polymorphism is a programming language feature that allows values of different data types to be handled in a uniform manner.

This may be ad hoc polymorphism (often synonymous with overloading) - or parametric polymorphism (as in ML or Haskell); but it's unclear what they actually do without some language semantics.
In long-term, facebook will be the next AOL. Think about it.
And ... been meaning to amend my original post with this:

If what you build becomes sufficiently ubiquitous, then even a bad design becomes "intuitive", if only by way of familiarity.

Is it intrinsically "better" to drive on the left or right side of the street (it apparently mattered in days of knights on horseback and needing your sword arm where it could do some good). Probably not .... but once you make that decision, you'd damned well better stick to it, and there's a lot else that follows as a consequence.
Yes. Can discuss it privately. Please send me your e-mail in the contact page of http://www.databigbang.com/#contact
I know what you mean. It still amazes me that it's so easy to find games (even it cutscenes!) where foot planting doesn't keep the feet from skating across the surface.

It seems like such a simple thing, and I'd rather have a game get that right than render a realistic mustache. A quick check of a trailer on YouTube seems to show that Madden 13 still doesn't have it, and it breaks the immersion every time I see it.

Backbreaker [1] did it two years ago, and it looks so much better to my eyes because of it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbreaker_(video_game)
It actually feels good to me to see you talk about the idea of society pushing you to have kids with such incredulity. You clearly haven't experienced the religious culture that I have, which pushed my wife and I to have children ASAP, and continually preaches that if you don't find parenthood (particularly motherhood) extremely fulfilling then there is something wrong with you. I assure you that this culture is still very alive and well in 2012.
Yeah, I still use it. After all, I have many years of bookmarks in there. I'm happy to see it emerging from stasis now that Yahoo has set it free.
Looks like this is from The Architecture of Open Source Applications: http://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html

There's some other good stuff (and a book) on the site as well.
4 ways to work ON your business, not just IN it
Encounters with open source communities
Did you read the article? It addresses that in the very first paragraph. Spotify breaks the mute button and this fixes it. It's not a matter of removing all ads or screwing over Spotify.
The whole point of showing colored circles with numbers in them like this is to convey a sense of relative scale.

But none of these appear to be to scale. So they're completely misleading.

May Tufte have mercy on your soul.
I'm really sad that the Chromebox only has Bluetooth 3.0 (not 4.0/LE), and the Chromebook 550 doesn't seem to list Bluetooth at all.

LE would be amazing for the kind of corporate environments the Box would work in -- as a user presence/locking token.
I still use it too. I like it, but it seems to be down 1 out of 3 times I try to use it, so let's just say it's 33% dead.
Ah, I see your point. Maybe "absolutely hate" was too strong. I wrote that pretty quickly. The sentiment I was trying to express is that I really don't find the iPad useful at all, nor do I even enjoy using it as a toy.
Google may gun for whatever it wants to, but sales of Chromebooks have been really dismal so far, and I seriously doubt the Chromebox is going to be much different.

>but it may soon be the cheap laptop the IT guys at your work start issuing to employees who don't need the heavy lifting power of a mac or windows machine...

The Chromebook isn't much cheaper than equivalent laptops with which you can access Google apps as well as run other programs.
It's weird and may relate to different Things being measured, but UK decommissioning seems to be vastly more expensive than US decommissioning. Judging by news coverage anyway.

Edited for spelling.
Yeah, it's low even for around here. They were asking for students, though, so low wages can be expected.
Show HN: Desktoppr - Dropbox Wallpaper Syncing
I use Beanstalk every work day (for the last 8-9 months) and when they rolled out their changes I could tell a difference.

Didn't know what those changes entailed, but this is interesting. Thanks!
眼睛整形
Here's the un-paginated link

http://www.drdobbs.com/article/print?articleId=240001128
Same boat. Some of my most impressive hires have been fresh out of the oven so to speak.

In some markets, I think it would be pretty foolish to start putting blanket 'must have +years' experience on postings. It only takes a 15 min phone call to pretty quickly judge where someone is at to proceed further or not. I'd far rather 15min of my time sourcing diamonds in the rough, than eliminating them through poor job postings.
The problem is in practice @_ is abused like crazy. For example:

1) I've often seen people shift from @_ half way in the middle of a function. If you really want to be certain about a method's formal parameters you have to read the entire function.

2) Also @_ is used in other circumstances which can cause mass confusion. For example Try::Tiny uses @_. It is difficult to guess if you getting a formal parameter or something else entirely (I"m not a fan of magic variables in case you can't tell). If you're Chromatic you might be able to know the probably hundred of uses of @_, but for a normal programmer you're screwed.

3) What if you want to use named parameters? You essentially have make a pointer to a hash, populate it, and unreference it.
my $p = {'name' => 'val1', 'name2' => 'val2' };
f($p);
sub f {
my $name = $_[0]->{'name'};
my $name2 = $_[1]->{'name2'};
}

In other languages like python you can just do something like:
def f(name, name2):
...

f(name = 'val', name2 = 'val2')

I've never seen a language handle function parameters as poorly as Perl. I forget almost all the Ruby I once knew but I'm pretty sure it is handled in a reasonable way similar to Python.
What about sales figures for the Chromebooks? It's been very close to a full year since they've been lauanched. And by all the accounts sales have been really bad.
台州生活
Google employee explains how they use sitemaps and how we can benefit from them
Kubuntu Community Update
I like this.

See, we've spent the last year doing an Omniture implementation, using T&T, and frankly, its been a waste of money and time.

This isn't a criticism of the T&T tools; its a criticism of our own internal analytics handling and analysis team, and possibly the implementation guidance we received from a few places.

You can guess at generalizations from the A/B/N changes you've made and try them again, but practically speaking? Meh. It seems like the learnings from one page are very hard to transfer to another page.

That's why you don't see posts like "Top ten generalizations about how to make your website better!" instead you pay "SEO Expects" and "Analytics Ninjas" as consultants and they tell you things like "pages with images convert more, generally, but that may not be the case for your specific website because of blah". Handy. Do you have any more generic and obvious advice that doesn't tangibly translate into practical changes to my website?

Here's the thing: Running an A/B is easy, but analyzing the results is really hard. Generating some kind of general analytics rules is very hard.

The reason I like this approach is simple: it's easy. It's easy to implement. It's easy to explain. It's easy to convey to the designers that you're doing a 'throw at the wall and see what sticks' approach to pages. It's easy to explain to managers how why the best page has been picked. You don't need a self important analytics ninja who will go on endlessly about user segments and how if you segment the data differently you can see kittens in the page view statistics.

Just make lots of pages, and see what happens.

It's not perfect, but it's enough to get started~ (...and honestly, that's the most important thing when you're working with analytics; it beats the hell out of a 3 month implementation cycle that ends up with... page views <-- to be fair, personal opinion about uselessness of implementation not presently shared by marketing department, who likes the pretty graphs. Whatever they mean.)
I'm guessing he's referring to a course being offered on the Federalist Papers, for what it's worth.
First, mad props to you for taking control of your situation. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans can't (or won't) do that. If americans had control of their own medical actions, they would be even more susceptable to medical advertisements and would ultimately make terrible medical decisions (like, for instance, not giving their children vaccines due to fears about vaccines causing autism).
Why would people pay for newspapers?
they applied Kyiosaki pricing model -- can't compete cheap, so make your product very expensive. So with monthly fee $900, any ideas of how many subscriptions they actually are selling?
I'd love to see the breakdown of hosting providers -- Heroku, EC2, AppFog, Rackspace, etc.
Nothing will satisfy everyone. Stack Exchange is great at serving people who want to ask and answer well-formed questions with specific answers. It doesn't even pretend to be good at serving people who want to have long, open-ended discussions about fuzzier topics.

What's wrong with that? Judging by the activity on the sites, they're serving plenty of users pretty well.
There's also Droplabs, free downtown LA co-working with a Burning Man vibe. There's at least one Very Interesting startup developing out of Droplabs.
FBI Busts Mayor For Hacking Recall Website
http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Urlteam

Defunct URL shorteners:

tr.im
xs.md
4url.cc
litturl.com
chod.sk - Appears non-incremental, not resolving
gonext.org - not resolving
ix.it - Not resolving
jijr.com - Doesn't appear to be a shortener, now parked
kissa.be - "Kissa.be url shortener service is shutdown"
kurl.us - Parked.
miklos.dk - Doesn't appear guessable: http://miklos.dk/!z7bA6a - "Vi arbejder på sagen..."
minurl.org - Presently in ERROR 404
muhlink.com - Not resolving
myurl.us - cpanel frontend
1link.in - Website dead
canurl.com - Website dead
dwarfurl.com - Website dead/Numeric, appears incremental: http://dwarfurl.com/08041
easyuri.com - Website dead/Appears hex incremental with last digit random/checksum: http://easyuri.com/1339f , http://easyuri.com/133a3
go2cut.com - Website dead
lnkurl.com - Website dead
minilien.com - Doesn't appear guessable: http://minilien.com/?9nyvwnA0gh - Website dead
memurl.com - Pronounceable. Broken.
nyturl.com - NY Times (bonus points for being longer than nyt.com, which they own). Taken by squatters
digg.com - discontinued - [2]
u.nu - "The shortest URLs. period." Website dead since at least 1st of october 2010 (http://web.archive.org/web/20100104023208/http://u.nu/)
While gyros are way cool, adding them for stability reeks of overengineering when simply adding another wheel could achieve the same effect. This reminds me of the urban myth of the Russians using a pencil instead of spending money to develop a zero-gravity pen.
Protecting Your GNU Linux System from Dropbox
Bitly grew out of a necessity when twitter was just starting. That need has been filled by a plethora of options, so what's left?
3 using FrontPage?!
Come hack the auto industry at CarWoo (YCS09)
We've been getting a lot of great press recently (we were featured on The View a few weeks ago) and are growing quickly. Too quickly, in fact, for our current team to handle...so we're looking looking for an awesome Rails developer to join us and help us scale things to the next level and continue taking the online auto industry by storm.

You'll join a great engineering and design team that's working hard to bring car-buying into the 21st century. The features you create will help turn the mostly terrible experience of buying a new car into a wonderful experience for our customers.

Responsibilities

Work with Michael, Erik, Scott, Rimas, Tim, Andrew, and Patrick, and Derrick to create a world class set of products. We're a small team (just 5 engineers and 3 designers), but we work smart and get a lot done.

Here's some of the cool stuff we're working on right now: a Redis-based queuing system to optimize our operations across the country, 2 iOS apps (for consumers and dealers), and a stealth web crawler.

We do story-driven development, so you'll get the chance to work on any or all of this stuff if you so choose.

Qualifications

- Deep knowledge of Rails and everything that goes along with it (MVC, REST, relational database design/SQL)

- Solid grasp on modern web application design using Javascript, HTML, CSS

- Experience with version control systems (we use Git/Github)

- Solid testing methodologies and willingness to write comprehensive tests before release

You get extra bonus points for:

- Extensive Javascript experience outside of JQuery (e.g. Backbone)

- Ability to write complex SQL

- Understanding of good RDBMS design. Experience optimizing queries.

- Experience with memcached, sphinx, and nginx

- Story-driven development

- Web service/API development (REST)

- Experience with iOS development (Objective-C)

- Ability to play ping-pong skillfully and/or drive a go-kart furiously

Perks

- Full benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401k)

- Take as much vacation whenever you want, as long as you get things done

- $5,000 to buy anything you want to get your work done (must include an Apple computer of some sort)

- A substantial amount of equity in the company

If you're interested, send an email with your résume and something interesting about yourself to michael@carwoo.com.

We're based in Silicon Valley, but if you live outside the Valley, we still really want to talk to you (we'll pay for your flight, hotel, and meals when you come interview with us).
The value of customer service
I'm not sure if running dropbox traffic through Tor, at this presents as an option about 3/4 of the way through, is "friendly" to the Tor network as it currently stands. If my goal were merely to protect my IP from being disclosed to Dropbox, I'd probably just use a VPN.
It'd easier for a repo hosting service provider to provide an integrated planning tool. It'd be easier for customer too. Of course, only when they do it right.

I love Trello, but it's supposed to be generic, and thus, not easy to use it as a Kanban board (limit number of cards per list, etc) out of the box.
I don't think anything new or especially interesting has been said about comment quality, but the author displays such a wonderful command of swearing that I enjoyed the article immensely. It's refreshing to see such eloquent profanity on the web!
It seems to use Intel HD 3000 [1] and runs WebGL surprisingly well [2][3] (actually better than Macbook Pro with the same GPU [4]).

[1] http://www.chromestory.com/2012/05/samsung-chromebox-price/

[2] http://twitter.com/Tojiro/status/207604697073324032

[3] http://twitter.com/Tojiro/status/207607126716198914

[4] http://twitter.com/thespite/status/207618510443134977
http://vim-adventures.com/ press L to read license.

I seek to highlight how Doron convinced me to buy without getting any more specific about the offering; the quality of the response demonstrated his bona fides to me.
I used to play a high-quality Linux game called Battle for Wesnoth to which he contributed.
Why do they need gyros to balance the bike? I can do that myself.
Apple CEO Tim Cook in the hot seat for the first time at All Things D conference
So the logic is: you wouldn't understand because you're not a parent, but if you are a parent then you're not a good one (i.e "you haven't been able to take the same things I have from this experience").
It seems to me this leads down a path to open source. Use a text editor to change the source, then recompile. Because even config files have to decide at some scope what can be "configged".
Being a new DSLR user, I see this as a great learning tool.
Howard Bloom's New BOOK
I split lanes (San Francisco) to avoid being rear ended by an inattentive driver.

Isn't that statistically the least likely way of getting hit on a two-wheeled vehicle? Drivers may be distracted, but even the most inattentive look in front of them.
Why do you need another wheel? I don't see a lot of tipped-over motorcycles lining the sides of roads, after all...
I can't think of a way to address your points directly, but would you consider the massive sales of the locked and limited iOS devices to be a valid counter example?
I've been using the beta for a month or two now, and I must say that I'm impressed. I didn't think I'd like the new shell in Gnome 3, but I don't have any complaints and is actually pretty slick. I'm running it on a T420 and it supports all the hardware perfectly and seems to get better battery life than Kubuntu (Maybe different kernel version or something...).

I love being able to install any needed development tools with a simple "sudo yum install".
I am not in the mood for a debate on gun control. I do agree that guns aren't a prerequisite for violet death but they do make the process significantly easier given they are designed for that purpose.

Your example compares apples with oranges.
4 Unintended Consequences of the JOBS Act for the Startup Community
A Cautionary Word on the Deferred Life Plan
Are the majority of medical procedures ineffective?
1) Adopt a convention of extracting your arguments at the beginning of the function.

Also, sometimes you just want to work on an arbitrary list of items. If you process one item and then shift it, that's a reasonable thing to do.

2. If you adopted the convention in 1, this shouldn't bite you. (I've never actually encountered this issue myself...)

3. You are misinformed. You can easily do something along the lines of:

f({a => 'foo', b => 'bar'});

sub f{ my ($args) = @_; say $args->{a}; }

There's probably a module of CPAN to do this even nicer.
The problem is that we've poured so much money into roads that any technology that doesn't use them is at a multi-billion-dollar disadvantage.