skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if it's the same one he uses, but I use "Nanny" for chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cljcgchbnolheggdga...
(or leechblock for firefox)
Ha ha - didn't notice. Well spotted :)
Lego - the Largest Tyre Manufacturer in the World
Indeed-- this is closer to performance art than graffiti.
I have this vision of a custom Vim keyboard for the iPad where every key is labelled according to its function. Hence, in normal mode, 'd' would be labelled 'del' and 't' would be 'goto'. Then press 'd' once, and 'd' is labelled 'line' and 't' is labelled 'upto'. In insert mode, it would display characters, of course.

A keyboard like this (for Vim or otherwise) could seriously change the game for text editing.

Have a special 'keyboard' for entering snippets. Have one for navigation. Have one for actions. Combine them like you combine Vim motions/actions.

Now that is something I look forward to. Maybe that Logitech keyboard with little screens on each character was indeed a glimpse into a better future.
Yikes. This is a really blatant mash of Google+/FB with no mobile presence and an enormous identity crisis. They even basically straight up stole "circles" and even use "Circles" as the bullet icon for the <ul> displaying them under "Feed". The "dropdown popup" on each post looks pixel for pixel identical to G+'s, "Video Party" = Hangout (which would be hard to beat anyway as Hangouts are impressive if you've not used them lately and will soon be 100% plugin free), FB's "What's on your mind" = So.cl's "What is on your mind".

Is there anything new or original here at all, except for some bad "text as images" and other MSN/Live/Microsoft account styling cues? Good god, this is just, embarrassing.
Vein 0.2 released - Cross-platform RPC/PubSub via WebSockets
From that perspective, Ron Paul and/or Bill Still > Gary Johnson.

Yeah, but Gary Johnson > Mitt Romney & Barak Obama. And Johnson will (likely) be on the ballot in all 50 states, probably the only candidate other than Romney or Obama who can make that claim.
I was reading this article (on my computer) and when Schmidt says "Take your eyes off that screen and look into the eyes of the person you love. Have a conversation, a real conversation"... well let's just say that I actually turned in that exact moment and looked at my wife to have a conversation, and she said "shhh, I'm watching my program on TV!" Guess we're a modern couple haha
Well in Python 3 you can warn them:

def fib(n, m:"donotusethisparameter"={}):
14% of the participants are from the United States (second highest after India):

http://google-opensource.blogspot.de/2012/05/google-summer-o...
I just went to my first hackathon this weekend, and I quite enjoyed it. Doing a week-end project is much more fun in groups, and there is a final presentation to enjoy and aim for. For this particular hackathon, we had sponsors who offered us free food and five prizes of 2000 pounds each. Considering they were only twenty teams, that's really not bad.
I have never been to a hackathon, but I do find the conditions of some of them a little strange. Why not provide normal work (call them fun if you want) hours for participants, say 8 hours distributed over three to four days? If your concern is people using the spare hours to work more on their products, well then great, make that part of the rules. In this case they will get three 8 hours shifts with all the support you can provide as an organizer, and the rest of the day they are on their own (StackOverflowing, real life feedback..). I can't help but notice that one of the reasons the author is complaining can be traced back to this let's-code-all-night type of deal. If only they can make that optional.
It's obviously invalid to patent orbital trajectories. It's also obvious it would cost millions and take decades in court to fight it, and if you won the satellite would long since have ceased to be relevant.
Don't believe everything you read/hear about Spain
Because that "if" is a statement whereas the ternary expression is, well, an expression. There are places expressions can be used that statements can't (eg lambdas) and that x or [] won't work (eg when x is False).

That said, people still seem to favor your form as the more Pythonic way. Personally, I think that's just because the ternary expression is relatively new.
Harold McGee's "On Food and Cooking" (non-affiliate link: http://www.amazon.com/On-Food-Cooking-Science-Kitchen/dp/068...)

Similar, scientifically, to Alton Brown, but much more detailed (and less humorous). This is equivalent to an O'Reilly book on food.
Thanks. What's the best way to find duplicates? I know that there's an HNSearch (it's not really good) and Google, but the titles might have been changed...
If owners are not liable, what stops the owners of inherently dangerous businesses like car rental

How exactly is car rental an "inherently dangerous business," in the absence of a legion of berserk trial lawyers doing everything in their power to make it so?

Seems like a near-perfect illustration of begging the question.
That was a joke, intended by Marc Jacobs to satirize the fashion industry.
That's essentially how offices were in the 60s/70s - giant open floors with wall-like solid/glass partitions up to the ceiling. Also more configurable than drywall when the floorplan needs to change. Take a look at the current season of Mad Men for example.

I think what changed was cubical walls are much cheaper and easier to move and some managers like being able to walk around and keep an eye on everyone (Lumbergh).
Schadenfreude is one I am familiar with as an adopted English word.

Desenrascanco: They gave the English equivalent: "to Macgyver it".

Guanxi: We call that "goodwill".

Nunchi: Social savvy. It's opposite is called socially awkward or gets labeled as ASD (and, no, I am not joking).
When/How/Why did HN turn into an entertainment gossip site?
Human evil and muddled thinking
Why wouldn't easy have known? easy isn't hellbanned AFAIK.
I think your headline doesn't work very well because it doesn't describe the actual process : you say

"Pick your favorite sites. Take a video. Swipe to share."

And what I would do is more like :

Pick a video I've made / Make a video > Slide to the site I want to send it to.

Or maybe I just haven't understood the process at all ^^
This article is superficially correct but omits enormous amounts of detail.

Woodblock printing is ancient, mostly used for religious texts but requires very little infrastructure. Obviously not suitable for small printing runs, as the entire block has to be carved at once.

Bi Sheng invented movable type using porcelain characters. But Chinese is fantastically ill suited to that sort of printing; it was viewed historically as a novelty and not used basically at all. He decamped to Korea where he found a more receptive audience, IIRC.

Gutenburg's type alloy and the casting process were the real core of the innovation; the rest of the technology existed, but wasn't compelling without the ability to mass produce characters and with a reliable type alloy.

Oddly enough and for reasons I don't fully understand, woodblock printing didn't take off in Europe until after moveable type came in; mostly for illustrations, IIRC.
> Start a free website with Weebly and call it IWillMopItUp.com. And let people know that you will mop up their mess for $20 and hour.

Hahaha, where do you come from that you think a janitor gets payed $20/hr? And college grads are waiting tables everywhere; I know dozens doing just that. You are clueless.
Not that I necessarily agree with the views of the parent post (I don't know them well enough), but I think you're looking at "now" to argue the impossibility of "then". In other words, I don't think our current society really reflects much of what society will have to become in the fairly near-term future.

We already have effectively unlimited energy in the form of the sun (we currently collect only a tiny, tiny fraction of its full output), I don't see how teleportation factors into it, food production seems likely to become almost entirely robot-driven within, say, a 50 year time-frame (by competitive influence), we're progressing by leaps and bounds in the area of human health, and population management will obviously be necessary to balance quality-of-life and resource concerns.
We tend to call those "meetings" rather than "conversations".
What I find most exciting is that in the coming years, the technologies that right now only seem possible in big labs might experience a revolution– might acheive the ease and cheapness that software development has today. Some examples: Fab@Home for 3d printing http://www.fabathome.org/, Arduino for hardware hacking http://www.arduino.cc/, and BioBricks for genome hacking http://biobricks.org/.

This article really struck me as a fascinating example of garage-based genome hacking that turned into something really useful. http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-09/are-genome-hac...
Who's Hanselman and what is this article about? I generally ignore random blog stuff like this.
Serious question: Why would day and night on earth being equal length impact orbital mechanics?

Edit: I realized this might sound sarcastic. It isn't meant to be.
What if two people need to work together on a computer and they only have desktops. The commom-area closed room doesn't do them any good.
Starting a project is a very different experience from joining an existing one, what is your motivations?

By the fact you asked this question I am guessing you have heard it is good learning experience / opportunity to work on open source, if so then joining an existing project is what you want to be doing. There is no lack of thousands of single author open source github, they often server a practical purpose for their author but you rarely learn something new (past technical questions) by working on a project by yourself.

Look at the software you use day to day, find out whether they are open source, pick out the ones that are closely aligned with your skillset and ones that you enjoy the most. If you find you dont have much choice after that, look at alternatives to the software you use, it will very often have an open source alternative.

Once you have found a project, Join the community, thats generally the mailing list and an IRC channel. Look through their bug tracker, often projects will label their bugs as 'goodfirstbug', they will almost always need help with triaging / reproducing bugs and improving bug reports and often with documentation and the like.

When you start doing this introduce yourself to the community, say you would like to get involved and ask for guidance, good open source projects will usually have people that are very happy to help out newcomers to get acclimatised .

Dont expect to join a project and make sweeping changes or redesign a bunch, you will often need to become familiar before you understand the project dynamics.

Good luck :)
Lets not pretend that every human is capable of doing any of this if they only had the time. The people who are capable will do it, the rest won't.

It seems unlikely to me with advances in genetics (and 'consumer' demand) that future generations will reflect the intelligence and talent distribution of current generations.
Voyager Mobile, a 22-Year-Old's Cellphone Start-Up, Launches After Delay
It passed the "is it worth arguing it in court" patentability test. Would there be an ROI on the legal fees, time, etc to fight the patent? No? Then the patent holds up.
Most clocks I've seen anywhere just show the current time.

In fact it's very disturbing to come to an aisle of clocks and not have them all showing exactly the same [current] time. It feels wrong.

And who'd buy a stopped clock anyway? Even though you know it just needs batteries, it feels somehow dead/broken. Your subconscious tells you not to buy.
I don't follow you. Of what use is it to say that "ideas are never patentable," and then hedge the statement by pointing out that trivial application of the idea to any given concrete object renders it, in effect, patentable?

Why couldn't the grandparent poster file for a patent on a particular sequence of turns and braking/acceleration maneuvers needed to drive from one place to another in the least amount of time? Under your reasoning, all he has to do is add "with an automobile" to the abstract series of instructions, in order to be granted ownership of those instructions with respect to their execution with an automobile.

How in the world can anyone think this is OK?
Except you're not supposed to be looking at the keyboard when typing. But yes, that does sound like a fantastic learning method.

And I think you mean the "Optimus" keyboards -

(http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/)
Deepak,

Totally right. The goal with the way I talked about the Tenderloin was more to forewarn people. If you know what you're getting yourself into and follow the street-wise tips you provide, it can be a great place to work and an easy walk to the Financial district or SoMA where many work.

Thanks,
Jason
There is a Python2.5 backport of collections.Counter() at http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576611/
Often the person in default is not willing to make any more payments, they have essentially given up on paying off the debt or they may feel the loan is unfair.

The larger reason is that collecting debts becomes a lot harder if consumers know that the lender will just reduce what they owe if they hold out.
So what if ms fong dies next next? Is the manufacturer now responsible since they are the next step up in the ladder of profiters of the car?

You could assign the consequences of blame arbitrarily like that but it would have negative consequences on society. For example people would be less likely to do anything since association can now always lead to 100% blame. It's like a mobster who tries to get you to repay a relative's debts. That never makes sense and neither does this.
The clocks hands are at 10 and 2 because it "frames" the manufacturer logo, which is just below the 12 on analog clocks.
Yup. Textastic is a code editor. I've been developing Worqshop as an IDE.
Some quality issues, but fun nonetheless. Love watching this piece by Rachmaninov. It gives you an idea how freaking huge his hands were (and thus how difficult it is to play).

http://qiao.github.com/euphony/#158
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It's probably based on the problem of malicious clients in the network consensus problem. It states that if more than a third of all clients are malicious it is not possible to come to a consensus.

The solution would be to have a trust of clients. Where every clients vouches for another. The most important thing is that it has to use certificates, if not you get the following problem.

I am client 'c'. I heard from client 'a' that client 'b' is dirty. So I tell this to client 'd', but the truth is I'm lying. However now the problem is: Is 'a' lying about 'b' or am I ('c') lying about 'a'? However having the messages signed by the clients solves this problem.
iSSH has done it and it has been in the store for years.
Assuming he sleeps simply hugging his laptop, which is unlikely. He probably keeps stuff in a bag, with a padlock, either tied to the bed or strapped around an arm. That's what I do when I don't trust the lockers, it's not unusual for them to be made of flimsy corrugated-board.
I'm a generalist
Thanks. Yup, an easy fix. I've spent months doing the Heroku and GitHub integration; at the expense of better editor. Will improve the editor soon :)
Hoe kies je een veilige autostoel voor baby’s en kinderen?
I believe childless people of both sexes should have to pay their share of the cost of raising the next generation, yes.
>The world _will_have_ an energy generation problem.

It will not. We orbit a self-sustaining fusion reaction which by definition will last our habitable life. The Earth, at least, is pretty much set.

> If it was so absurd then there would be environmentalists who would argue for nuclear and thorium reactors.

>That is not the case.

Many environmentalists argue for nuclear and thorium reactors. What decade do you think it is?
That's a great point. When I first came out here, the friend's place I stayed at was in Oakland and the 20-25min BART ride to the Montgomery Station to get to work in SoMA wasn't bad at all.

I think the key is finding what you like. Some people like urban environments, others the suburbs, while some like the hybrid kind of areas like you find in Western SF.

In my opinion, to have a good work-life balance it's important you live somewhere you like.
From the patent referred to in the article:

"The present invention is directly applicable to a quasi-GTO having any given inclination but is especially advantageous to a satellite launched in either March or September into a highly inclined quasi-GTO because the lunar flyby is capable of removing all of the inclination"

Not very helpful. From another patent ( http://www.patents.com/us-6149103.html ):

"If the satellite 10 had been launched in March or September (around the time of an equinox), the lunar flyby could be timed to occur when the node of the moon is close to the node of the quasi-geosynchronous transfer orbit, so that the earth return orbit has an inclination near zero and the inclination of the orbit of the satellite about the earth could be completely removed by the lunar flyby. Launching March or September is advantageous for satellites or spacecraft because of the sun being normal to the required attitude of the satellite."
i guess it's too mainstream for you
Correct me if I am wrong: won't those uTP forged/bad "datagrams" be dropped by the client when hash don't match ? And then wouldn't the client ban those source IPs from its pool of connected peers ?
It's called 'An excuse'

They probably wouldn't have killed if it was in the correct orbit all along, but they probably considered "risk of fixing" vs insurance payout
> they're simply a way to sell more tickets.

That doesn't sound like taking advantage; that sounds like quid pro quo. Developers are buying tickets to attend a hackathon.
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Oh I know, and I saw your other comments on the subject too. I'm just as disgusted by Political Correctness as you are, perhaps even more so.

In Europe, it's strictly forbidden to say anything negative about Africans or Muslims (or a combination thereof). That makes you a disgusting racist.

Our "Latinos" (Spain, Portugal, etc) are not sacrosanct, because they're just Europeans. Not that anyone talks about them anyway.

In our fervor for political correctness, the West seems to have forgotten that an immigrant is just someone who's moved into another country - nothing more, nothing less. In Finland, though, "an immigrant" has become an euphemism for "a Somali". Over there, maybe it's code for "Latino".

I don't think the author of the original post used the word in a negative sense. As I see it, he was just describing an area.
I remember when this was news. Last year. Flagged.
Microsoft quietly launches So.cl website, still a research project
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Setting up my custom "10 second blog" with toto
GDP of the world is ~$63 Trillion [1] ... #justsayin

[1] http://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_...
No.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmed_Data_Processor

Expensive, but by no means did it take up a whole room.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine

Still not exactly a "personal computer". And still expensive, but getting closer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800

The microcomputer that sparked the microcomputer revolution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_computer_club

The two Steve's were active members.

While there were mainframes that took up whole rooms, systems that didn't were available in the 60's, but at prices only large organizations could afford.
It's not the day/night length.

It's the angle of the earth relative to the orbit of the moon. It's a geosynchronous orbit, so it must match the equator, including the angle.

Presumably in other months the angle of the moon's orbit (relative to the equator) is wrong for using this maneuver.
What next, planes which can only fly south because Boeing have a patent on North?
Are you sure your analogy is sound? Ms fong had a 100% share in the car, but she already lost 100% value of the car to an entity at fault which is dead. Like a natural disaster, both entities can not reimburse for the fault, however the ride sharing company has willingly assumed the role of protector in the car case. But now the fault for the damage caused by the car while operated by someone else is more analogous to people getting killed by rubble in the factory during the hurricane. The hurricane can't be sued, and the fault doesn't technically lie with the factory owners, so society doesn't have a right to assign the consequences of fault arbitrarily to the owner now does it?
Honestly, I think if you replace the landlord reference letter with anything from your school that demonstrates your a responsible student, that will suffice.

Your key will be the offer letter. If you're making significantly more than the monthly rent amount, that will alleviate a lot of their concerns about you making rent (which is what most of those materials are really all about proving).
Heard at ISOJ 2012: "Making software is easy. It's the journalism that's hard" (13th International Symposium on Online Journalism)

I can only speak of the Buenos Aires startup scene. It's even worse than OP states. For example, this weekend an organization called "Palermo Valley" (claims to be non-profit but runs on a .com) organized a "Geeks on a Plane" meetup. If you see the about us pages and speakers it's full of marketroids, SEO "experts", journalists and douchy business types. A hacker friend was there and reports: "I just went to a palermovalley meetup and it was crawling with nontechnical people and too loud to talk".

There was another conference-meetup oriented to startups recently, but not for programmers. One of the talks was about how to handle the "monkeys". It was basically how to manipulate and find ways to make junior programmers work overtime for free, and pay them less by giving away token gifts. And of course never hire people over 24 or "too experienced".

Make sure you get paid fairly for every hour of your work. They need us more than we need them.
> If you don't speak English in America, you tend to be
poor and less educated

Such as the Asian immigrant population.

Read closely. He says "tend to be". You've offered a supposed counterexample, but tendencies can't be disproved by counterexamples. "I know some really tall women" doesn't disprove the statement "Women tend to be shorter than men."
I disagree with this - I've been to several hackathons/API hack days, and like anything I guess you could be exploited, but I don't really see it.

What's nice is not only did I get to focus on building one thing straight out from start to finish in the alloted time, but it's mine - I get to commercialize it, market it, etc.

I definitely wasn't exploited - for all three of the ones where I've won a prize, I was the driving force/sole developer/whatever, so there wasn't some evil "business guy" getting me to work for free :) For Startup Weekend, I pitched, no one wanted to build what I wanted to build, so I joined another team. No big deal.

One of the best ones I went to was simply a "you hack all night on your own thing, no distractions, we're just keeping the lights on and ordering pizza." I think it might have cost $10 for the space.
The author can't be too happy with the picture of Albert Einstein at the top... For those that don't remember this Albert guy made one of the most important discoveries of all time; working in solitude, in the Swiss patent office, in-between reviewing patent applications. :)
Hstore's query is only string matching, you cannot do the rich querying which mongodb allows.