skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose I should qualify that:

Visual Programming gets you to a point where you can "use" the language faster. I appreciate this isn't the same as pure comprehension.

My original sentence is a little off.
that doesn't mean that others don't find it to be an extremely important feature.
Clay Shirky does not agree with Buffet's reasoning:

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2012/05/warren-buffetts-newspap...
By focusing your reporters just on the more in-depth stuff and running rewritten press releases for everything else, essentially.
Wow - this looks really awesome. The ability to use haml is a nice touch too.
It is interesting, but what I really need in the JSON functionality of PG is some internal representation that will allow fast and efficient exploration of the JSON blob within the query. i.e. being able to refer to a single attribute within the select/where/groupby clauses without having to pay the toll of serde every time.
NASA gets two military spy telescopes for astronomy
I agree - none of the other frameworks I've tried have felt right, but this looks like a great fit with Rails - we'll see if I feel the same way after using it though :)
Javascript has no native module system that I am aware of. But there are formats+libraries such as AMD (used by Require.js) or CommonJS.
Cheat sheet for converting between OpenCV, SimpleCV, and Matlab
Dear Oracle, the Java APIs Are Not A Work of Art
You were witnessing the people who are directly connected to the event, either through a member of the team or through the school. What about the other 500, 5,000, or 20,000 people in the town that didn't care enough to have instant notification, but still want the information even if it's a day later? That's where you make money.
Node.js pure JavaScript driver vs Firebird library wrapper
Agreed. And given that he's just taught the basics of Groovy to the audience, the likelihood of them being able to accurately project how many LOCs it will save them seems pretty low.
Thanks Harjeet.
I don't know if it's the _most_ important feature, but I wouldn't build a serious site on top of anything that didn't have some sort of built-in sharding story.

With postgres you have to roll your own. If you want to bridge the gap from postgres to mongo, I think that's where you have to start.
Advanced Minesweeper
Data Crunching on a Shoestring Budget
Content marketing is the best marketing.
Congratulations on this. I love the idea of tying the back end and front end. I can't see a reason not to integrate with Rails! And it is awesome that you have the in depth guides, that is very refreshing! Will this work with Slim? I like using slim and not having to worry about the HAML % all over the place.
This is a spectacular move by Microsoft because it takes the main feature from Nintendo's upcoming WiiU: a touch-screen for games.

Nintendo has released an entirely new system, while Microsoft has kept up with Nintendo's innovation by using devices you already own.
Facebook Open Sources Production Code
And since an "overnight success" take about ten years, there should be 20 "once in a lifetime" events for every "overnight success".
Pry is absolutely my favorite REPL. It's everything I wish the xmllint shell was :)
"I'm wondering where the rest of the community was when this harassment was going on at the bar. So a whole group of conference attendees was just standing around, letting this victim be harassed?"

As many of the comments here suggest, people just expect that these types of people will stop if/when a woman puts her foot down and says something to the guy. This sounds great in theory, but for people like the harasser, it often just agitates their behavior.

In a male-dominated group setting, he probably felt even more comfortable and possibly even validated by his peers when none of them chimed in (if they were overhearing any of the conversation). For men and women alike, even though it isn't right, people find it easier to try to ignore it than make it an issue in front of others -- especially people you respect and are likely to see and interact with again.

What Julie really emphasizes in her post is that this innocent-bystander attitude needs to be addressed -- this guy shouldn't have felt it was within his grasp to solicit her to begin with. Even creeps have limitations and a more active community approach in dealing with the very concept of them can help stop it.
Facebook open sources internal C++ libs
If you define the market narrowly enough, you could argue that the Honda Civic is not in competition with the Toyota Corolla, but you're just creating a self-serving definition at that point.

The vast majority of consumers will never install or run either Visual Studio or Xcode. To most consumers, Windows laptops are in direct competition with Apple laptops, because they are both general purpose computing devices that will do what the consumer needs.
"but I wouldn't build a serious site on top of anything that didn't have some sort of built-in sharding story."

There are many serious sites that don't need sharding.
"Unless he's planning to build sharding on postgres too, I think he's missing the point."

NoSQL seems to have three general claims (I'm not saying whether these are correct or not): (1) ease of administration in some cases; (2) different data model; (3) better performance or availability in some situations.

The author is clearly addressing the second, and you are clearly talking about the third.
Is this a birthday reminder app? What are the app recommendations mentioned in the title?
It will work with any Rails JST binding. Just use .jst.slim instead of .jst.hamlc (remember to use JS version and not Ruby one :D). Everything that has a proper binding to Rails should work out of box.

For everything else, it has an abstraction layer so you can attach any template engine. We are woking on a guide that describes this process.
The link doesn't work for me ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu... )

This one does tho (removed the ?2.0_): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu...
You have anything to back up that assertion? It doesn't match what I've been told.

Edit: Right, user key enrolment is impossible on the ARM devices, but we've had no indication that the signing service will be restricted to x86-only.
interesting notion! who's to say the big bang wasn't caused by a supermassive blackhole on the other 'side'
I wasn't aware we had good indicators for SID. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002533/

Lists some. Right after saying we don't know what causes it. The things listed are pretty generic, like smoking around a mother expecting, etc. But nothing a hundred percent. It's also the biggest cause of death in children under one year of age.

Not sure where you are getting that it's something not to worry about. I do wonder how many children you've had though.

Edit: Oh the point's made above were to beg the how would one get prescribed something that so far seems pretty random.
Yeah, my hope wasn't to gather a lot of club music but the website simply gathers what is popular lately, which tends to be dance music.

It took me about half a year during my spare time by. With college its hard to maintain grades, a social life, and a website at once; On good weeks I could dedicate about two hours every other day, on bad weeks, not even an hour.

The website is powered by Youtube--every track is hosted on their servers. My website crawls the internet for keywords of the latest tracks, aggregates them on Youtube, and calculates its "ufonies" with a formula that I wrote.

The 'ufonies' are the numbers on the right which indicate the popularity of the song.

Thanks for your feedback! I really appreciate it :]
Should be pretty trivial for him to shard collections across multiple databases with the same level of intelligence as MongoDB's automated sharding simply using the primary key, since MongoDB doesn't join.

Not sure how sharding is the point of MongoDB, though - in most of the universe, sharding is a database architecture/schema-level thing, not a database-server level thing, and for good reason - it's pretty darn hard for a database server to shard effectively without some knowledge of the app layer (and which keys are likely to become hot).

Personally, if I really wanted a flexible-schema "document based" database, I'd have implemented this using the FriendFeed K/V + Index model ( http://backchannel.org/blog/friendfeed-schemaless-mysql ) plus Postgres's HStore functionality, storing K/V per document in an HStore rather than in one giant K/V table like FriendFeed. That way I wouldn't need to use V8 and JSON parsing to run queries, and the mythic MongoDB-style "sharding" would be just as easy (just distribute the document -> hstore table across shards keyed on ID again).
Oracle sues to smash patent troll Lodsys
How so? I've only ever seen them eliminate external configuration files. Hell, thanks to annotations and some simplifications to the standard, EJBs have turned from the epitome of overengineered bloat into a simple, lean service layer.
exactly like google's terms, minus the legalese
Arch Linux enables package signing by default
"Um, no. Nothing in the economy is zero sum. Wealth is constantly being created and transferred."

Created and transferred are 2 completely different things and I think OP is against innovation that simply transfers wealth (popular example is financial industries). A more cynical example is Groupon, which transfers wealth from small businesses to them.

Creating wealth is making something more efficient like creating the airplane or the internet. Or improving the standard of living like creating a cure for a disease.

It's actually very very hard to do it, and less than 5% of tech startups probably succeed in doing it, even the ones that are successful.
This sounds a lot more like a static information display than another screen for gaming.

EDIT: but yes, there's no reason why this can't be as dynamic as what's on the WiiU. Nintendo's competitive advantage can become a commodity overnight through software alone.
exactly. calling the find_in_obj() function can get fairly expensive, especially given the need to execute JSON.parse() for every call.

there is definitely a lot of room for improvement in the postgres native JSON toolkit. i am hoping that building this exposes more of those issues and helps move it forward.
Why the downvote hate? A few videos demonstrating the problem would eliminate the controversy, as well as let the offenders punish themselves in their own words.
Weird... I developed it on Chrome OS X. Are you sure you are running the latest version? Perhaps you are in a country where Youtube is blocked?
The blog post was clearly not talking about "a cheesy pickup line". Please don't make a pretty obvious case of sexual harassment seem harmless.
To save money on the SMA-N cable and connectors, I would probably just use a long USB extension cable and put the USB WiFi module directly on the can antenna. Of course this only works where the antenna is not installed outside.
My browser is Safari 5.0.2 on the iPad 2 (iOS 4.3.5).
Small businesses drive employ almost half of all employees (and more than half during boom cycles).

The technology sector has an overinflated sense of the value it provides to the economy in terms of jobs created or productivity growth. Note that the article you cite does not refer to technology startups, it refers simply to new businesses under the catchall "startups."
Yes, I thought the phrase was famous enough

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mallory
The problem is not the availability of a free alternative. Hardware vendors could already simply choose not to implement secure boot - the default policy is a single configurable switch during the build. The problem is that vendors believe they can make more money by selling hardware that meets Microsoft's requirements. Coreboot doesn't do anything to help there.
The error doesn't occur for me and looking at the code, such an error shouldn't occur at all... Thank you for informing me of it though :] I will look into it deeper.
Relational databases have a history of absorbing the advantages of other systems when they come along, particularly changes to the model (cf. object databases and XML databases). As the author shows, a similar thing will happen quite quickly for document models.

Architectural changes are slower, but you can also start to see this happening in postgres with features like unlogged tables (i.e. don't write to the recovery log for changes to this table) and transaction-controlled async commit (i.e. don't wait for this transaction to hit disk). More changes are in the works.

MongoDB will have a chance to have an impact, and will be successful if they are able to keep innovating. If they just stand still or incrementally improve, they will be marginalized. Now that Mongo has center stage in the NoSQL movement, it will be interesting to see what they do next.
IE on the Xbox? I wonder if that means I can request one for my desk at work for browser testing.

Article is kind of light on details though. Does that mean the presentation was light on details? I'm guessing this is only for Windows8 devices.
Isn't this a category error? If you need to query within serialized data, you don't want to serialize. Normalize your database for this.
if you don't agree, reply. don't downvote
this has been posted before, but have an upvote for effort
I adopt the "works for me" definition which, in the end, is the one I should use to select hardware for my use. Of course, you should probably not use the "works for rbanffy" definition for your own hardware acquisitions.

Most of my apps are designed to run on Linux. My IDE is Emacs and my system management tool is a shell. With that in mind, anything that's not Unix-like negatively impacts productivity. I have used Cygwin on Windows but, while it goes great lengths to make Windows a comfortable environment, in the end it's just not worth the effort if you can just run the real thing on your machine. Windows also takes ages to set up with software downloaded from just about everywhere. With Linux, I issue an "apt-get install" and sit back while the environment gets assembled. On a Mac, I have to install the xcode command-line tooling, ports and everything from that point on is completely automated. On Windows I don't even want to think the steps I'd need to take and the buttons I'd need to click before being able to just work.
In the dark, in front of the glowing green screens, there's a whole community of shy and held-back Estohacknewsers.
MementoMap development over the #singly10k weekend, by the numbers
http://mementomap.net

We believe in the awesome potential of data to tell your story - so here are the numbers behind MementoMap development over the weekend!

In 45 hours we produced 3465 lines of code over 127 commits. This includes 1170 lines of Objective-C, 1123 lines of Python, and 248 lines of JavaScript. To fuel this insane effort, we had 2 order-in pizzas, an $89.00 Safeway run for snacks and beer, 5 bagels from Progressive Grounds, 1 delicious homemade zucchini risotto, and countless free foodstuffs courtesy of Singly.

Our commit breakdown by team member:

45 Author: Evan Stratford <evan.stratford@gmail.com>
30 Author: jverkoey <jverkoey@gmail.com>
19 Author: Valkyrie Savage <valkyrie@eecs.berkeley.edu>
18 Author: Travis Brooks <traviscb1998@gmail.com>
13 Author: Joe Blaylock <jrbl@slac.stanford.edu>

Note the substantial contributions made by our intrepid design/product team, who jumped in to help with frontend work on Sunday!

The breakdown by day really shows off our accelerating pace, especially since we only had 9 waking hours before the 5pm development cutoff on Sunday:

10 Date: Fri Jun 1
56 Date: Sat Jun 2
59 Date: Sun Jun 3

All of this code went in to building 4 main components:

1 Nimbus-powered iOS app
1 Django-based intermediate API layer
1 Django-based app for story creation
1 Django-based app to allow friends to upload content into your story

The first 3 were used for our Sunday demo. Due to time constraints, we decided early on Sunday to postpone development on the last 1.

We hit 4 bugs/quirks in the Singly API:

0) Providing a [since, until] range gets you the last 20 results in that range. This makes it difficult to iterate forward in time, which was something we wanted for the product - after all, that's the way you experienced your story in the first place!
1) As of this post, the Singly API docs still claim that they use UNIX timestamps. They actually use JavaScript-style timestamps, which are in milliseconds. This confused a few teams: "wait, why are these photos from two millenia in the future?"
2) On Friday night, the API was occasionally returning "misplaced" items whose timestamps were way out of order with everything else.
3) All Singly API requests go through the Singly applications on each service. Since users tend to have more content on Facebook than the other supported services, it was no surprise that Facebook started throttling the Singly Facebook app during the Sunday last-minute coding rush!

Thanks to the entire MementoMap team for an incredible amount of engineering, design, and marketing output!
Well it happens (possibly) twice every lifetime.
The next time after tuesday/wednesday this week will be in 2117.
If you don't, please take a moment to share your thoughts with me :)
Standards Body Sides With Apple on Nano-SIM
Because there are so many people unemployed, a potential employee really needs to be at the top of their game to get a good job, but it also requires marketing yourself (to stand out among the thousand other resumes).

When I was looking for work, I would tailor my resume to the job. I might only send out 5 resumes/day, but my response rate was many times higher than the machine-gun approach.

If you really want to improve unemployment, make it easier for businesses to survive through something like tax incentives. The businesses are the ones hiring. Most people don't want to hear this. They would rather tax them to death (and then wonder why they are leaving the US or laying off half their staff).
Has anyone else realized Julia is Sexist????

What about the guys that are getting sexually harass by other guys???

I was at the conference and my gaydar was off the charts
I think a better starting point is defining how large does something need to be to be significant. Otherwise we are nothing better than the guy in the back of the room shouting "Does it scale?", which given the amount of context in the question renders it impossible to answer.
Here I would side with Amazon.

It's not like skipping ads on Tivo or being forced to watch unstoppable trailers on a Disney DVD.

You have made an honest and fair deal with Amazon.
You can buy a Kindle or they will pay you $20 in return for viewing some pretty unobtrusive ads. Hacking this version to skip the ads is basically unfair.

In reality few enough people will do it to impact Amazon, and the jailbreakers probably also own other kindles AND buy more books from Amazon than the average person - but Amazon is on the side of the angels here.
I suppose using this logic, getting a PHD is luck too. So is running a marathon or any other thing you accomplish in life.
Alcohol does tend to make assholes feel like they are good to go for being an asshole.
From watching the Ars live blog, they announced it's on Android and iOS as well. Good move, there.
I thought it might be the jack of all trades issue. I find phonegap to be a great framework when it is appropriate to use. In the project I mentioned, it fits the client's needs perfectly. I wouldn't use it to develop an app that needs tighter access to the api or hardware than what phonegap offers. I have another project using audio units - phonegap would be a bad choice there.

It's a mistake to compare these frameworks to native apps, not that you did but several posts are. They are different, and that's good. It's like complaining that C isn't object oriented. Find the right hammer for your nail.
Meaningful metrics for incubators and accelerators
Nintendo didn't develop the WiiU for the new controller, I would imagine the tablet controller would work on the current Wii just fine. But it's time for a console refresh so Nintendo might as well toss in a new gizmo to entice people to upgrade. I expect MS and Sony to do something similar although I would imagine this feature will carry over to the new MS console since it doesn't require new hardware.
No need for discipline if you love playing guitar
They should, were it not for the backward compatibility requirement.
iOS apps don't have access to a home folder, and the new Sandbox model for OS X is that way, too. Each app has its own folder, with no access to the folders of other apps. There are APIs to access data from other apps that share it (for example photos and the address book, so you're right to be wary there), but no direct access to arbitrary folders. This is both good and bad, of course. It forces you to jump through hoops if you legitimately need access, and makes certain types of programs difficult/impossible to write.
If that's the case then that's actually quite nice of them. I would not have expected that.
While you have a point, you seem to miss the original problem of browser frameworks. Browsers work _differently_. This is not the problem of a framework. Moreover nothing can stop you from using node.js + DOM mock to test anything you want. Unfortunately most of these tests will stay useless. So it's not about a possibility to write them. It's about a sense.

And btw, we are going to implement node.js tests to use Travis very soon.
Does the Honda Civic compete with a Maybach?

For most users, Windows laptops, Apple laptops, Chromebooks and iPads are in direct competition. All four do Facebook just fine.
From my experience with CV, one of the biggest unsolved problems and rarely publicized aspect of the field is how much variable tuning is often required to get good results. I'm curious how sensitive these demos are to different environmental conditions and the robustness of the algorithm.
I referenced a particular piece of software, which I thought was well-known enough not to need a link. I am not trying to look cool, but rather point to existing cool technology, and stand by my comment.
"the effort of unsubscribing"?

I don't understand why you would ever waste your computer's cycles on receiving and deleting a pointless email...
I really don't think this is direct response to Wii U tablet controller, and if it is - it's not a very good one.

Wii U tablet has buttons and screen in one device you hold in your hands - I can't imagine constantly switching between 'traditional' Xbox controller and Android/iOS/Windows 8 tablet, whereas switching from pressing buttons to using touchscreen on Wii U is infinitely easier.
That's pretty sweet. Using Youtube you avoid having to host the content yourself too. I guess what threw me off was that you only present the audio.

Being a student myself, I can relate to your situation I guess. It's really inspiring that you successfully pulled through building something nice without compromising other important stuff!
I really do need a monitor that can stand vertical. Wide screen monitors for reading text makes zero sense.
Creating UML class diagrams in the iPad
Very simple app that I wanted to have, since I really like yuml.me diagrams, it needed a port. Will improve.
First Principles of Interaction Design
We need a standard wire format for code to be run on browsers. Fortunately we have one: it's called JavaScript. If you look at the internals of that format, it happens to be designed to be written directly by humans, but if you find that design suboptimal (and it would be surprising if it wasn't, considering it was put together on a ten day deadline with contradictory requirements) you can ignore it and just treat it as object code to which your favorite language can be compiled.

Doesn't Google make some internal use of a tool chain that compiles Java to JavaScript? And then of course there's Dart and CoffeeScript. I'm sure there'll be more.