skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I’ve been riding since I was 12 years old and have done several long-distance rides. Here I was getting schooled by a homeless person."

How is his being homeless related to his knowledge of bikes?
This does not include June 2012

Blueford v. Arkansas (6-3, Opinion by Chief Justice Roberts, on May 24, 2012)

Coleman v. Johnson (9-0, Per Curiam, on May 29, 2012)

Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the (5-4, Opinion by Justice Kennedy, on April 2, 2012)

Gonzalez v. Thaler (8-1, opinion by Justice Sotomayor, on January 10, 2012)

Greene v. Fisher (9-0, opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia on Nov. 8, 2011)

Howes v. Fields (6-3, Opinion by Justice Alito, on February 21, 2012)

Kawashima v. Holder (6-3, Opinion by Justice Thomas, on February 21, 2012)

Lafler v. Cooper (5-4, Opinion by Justice Kennedy, on March 21, 2012)

Maples v. Thomas, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections (7-2, opinion by Justice Ginsburg, on January 18, 2012)

Martel v. Clair (9-0, Opinion by Justice Kagan, on March 5, 2012)

Martinez v. Ryan (7-2, Opinion by Justice Kennedy, on March 20, 2012)

Messerschmidt v. Millender (6-3, on February 22, 2012)

Minneci v. Pollard (8-1, opinion by Justice Breyer, on January 10, 2012)

Missouri v. Frye (5-4, Opinion by Justice Kennedy, on March 21, 2012)

Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority (9-0, Opinion by Justice Sotomayor, on April 18, 2012)

Perry v. New Hampshire (8-1, opinion by Justice Ginsburg, on January 11, 2012)

Rehberg v. Paulk (9-0, Opinion by Justice Alito, on April 2, 2012)

Setser V. United States (6-3, Opinion by Justice Scalia, on March 28, 2012)

Smith v. Cain (8-1, opinion by Chief Justice Roberts, on January 10, 2012)

Vartelas v. Holder (6-3, Opinion by Justice Ginsberg, on March 28, 2012)

Wetzel v. Lambert (6-3, per curiam opinion, on February 21, 2012)

Wood v. Milyard (9-0, Opinion by Justice Ginsburg, on April 24, 2012)
Really enjoyable, thanks!
My opponent had some bugs where he could place chess pieces on top of each other. And he was unable to move pieces that were in certain positions. He was on Chrome, Mac. Unsure if the game or the browser failed, I had no problems
The British banned several industries in India to encourage the development of those industries in Britain. One of Gandhi's famous acts of disobedience was leading people down to the sea to make their own salt, an industry that was forbidden in India at the time.[1] The British did do a few good things for India, but they did some really bad things too.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March
Because Apple's cost cutting has increased competition. Increased competition is usually better for consumers.
"Any number of" and "standard mobile widgets" makes for an oxymoron.

As for working with designers, no, I'm not a designer, but I find that implementing designs in iOS and Android native tools is far easier than attempting to jimmy HTML+CSS into implementing the behavior and layout as provided by a designer.

In the world of views, I can simply position them where I want and apply arbitrary logic to how they move, scale, etc. This makes it tremendously easier to implement complex designs than straight HTML/CSS.
I just saw another rehash on the front page (which I don't mind much at current) which drew the inevitable responses:

Old member: This has been on here n times!

New member: But hey, as a new member, I appreciate it!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4189220

A way for new members in particular to see the "Catching Up With Hacker News" classic content they appreciate (on their front page, by default) seems like it could help mainstream them into the community.
This upgrade pricing is good for Microsoft. Currently they face more competition from current windows users not upgrading to Microsoft's newest OS than they do from OSX and Linux. Microsoft gets people off XP and Vista, an old operating system and its widely reviled successor. They get to tout fast adoption rates and wide availability of the new features which helps them with both developer relations and with goes hand in hand with their tablet strategy.
I don't think it's related to Apple at all. I can't believe people are trying to give Apple some credit for it.

Two real things:

1) No one ever buys Windows upgrades, so this is a motivator to shift to Win8. Consumers and businesses just buy a new PC and large businesses get licenses automatically.

2) They now have the opportunity of upselling inside the operating system (which they've been playing with for a long time - since 2007!).

That is it. No pressure from Apple.
the sword costs less than 100k in game gold which would be 40 cents
HTML is also one of those different methods. It just so happens that the browser renders it instead of spitting out the raw text.

That said, non-HTML output bypasses the view entirely in Rails (it makes sense to), so it can equally be the case that the distinction is correct.
Or, if you please, are the current card systems that dumb? Yes, they are.
Yes but with added responsibility of running my own payroll etc using my corporation. However, no more red tape stuff like performance management, raises, bonus etc. Client and I agree on a rate, I get paid and when done, I move on.
I'm certainly no fan of PHP, you're correct, but people will continue to do new things in it for many years to come, because that's what they know.
Craig Newmark: Privacy, Google, and Facebook
The real shame is that supermarket tomatoes train an entire generation to hate the taste of tomatoes. Anecdotally, I know a lot of people that opt for "no tomatoes" when eating out. Tomatoes are that annoying mushy pocket of water in your burger, or that mealy texture in your sandwich. That's unfortunate because vine-ripened tomatoes are deliciously sweet and tart--there is no confusion about whether it is a fruit or vegetable.
Lets be clear; this has little/nothing to do with apple. You can't spend $40 to switch to the latest OSX on your regular PC, so it is just not direct competition.

I can only assume they think this way is how they will get most money from selling to end users, and I wouldn't be surprised at that being the case. No doubt they make most of window's licence money from OEMs.
"The only time I see $UI is when I hit the windows key, type "chro" and hit enter to launch Chrome. In this use case, $UI isn't anything more than a bigger start menu"

$UI = [Metro|Ubuntu Unity|DWM/dmenu]

Strange how these changes all come along at the same time. Does Mac OS have a text based launcher at all?
Boot to Gecko / Firefox OS is a Gecko based mobile OS. However, the open apps platform we're building lets you run an HTML5 app on, well, any HTML5 device including Chrome, IE9, etc.

This mostly applies to the Marketplace in how it offers paid apps; we have a decentralized receipt format to let the paid app run on any platform. Unlike any other mobile player, Mozilla is truly making the web the platform. Our platform is not Firefox OS. That's just one device to support open web apps.
"Power will go to the hands of rogues and freebooters. All Indian leaders will be of low caliber and men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles" --Winston Churchill
Tired of people shitting all over your tweet stream? Try doghouse.
Mixtaping.fm Is Reviving A Lost Musical Art With Bootstrap Basics
This looks very interesting, but if I'm reading the w3c proposal correctly, I think the CSS/HTML divide still makes it extremely cumbersome; is there any way for an x-tag to accept an argument that modifies its drawing via CSS?

eg, this would be equivalent to:

tableCell.textField.font = [UIFont ...]
Indeed. Our security police means that we have to put our iOS and Macs on the DMZ rather than internal network.
To someone who is about to learn Java, would you recommend Clojure instead?
Thanks for the feedback. Not sure about being able to drop pieces on top of each other.

Also, in chess, you can only move pieces that have available moves. For instance, if your knight is pinned, you'll be unable to move it.

If this continues, please let me know!
Ah, I apologise - I thought they were offering a real-world replica.

I'm also fascinated on how they're going to do this: I'll offer good money that says within 5 minutes of logging on they're either town-PK griefed, chat channels are flooded by gold-selling bots or their account is banned for non-RMAH advertising within the game.

[Disclosure: I do not own a copy of D3, nor have I played it]
Apple has consistently stated that they don't make much money from their App Store (or iTunes content in general).

How are Microsoft (and Amazon, whose entire $199 Kindle Fire pricing) going to make money in this market?

No doubt they want folks on the store, but I question whether this is the reason behind the $40 upgrade pricing.
Citation needed? Apple's app store isn't a huge revenue source by any means [1], let alone profit. I've seen no evidence that App Stores can be any kind of profit center.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-apple-revenu...
The main complaint I hear is the change of start menu behavior, but most people I know use a keyboard based launcher anyway. If you're typing the name of the thing you want does it matter if it's going into Launchy, the Win7 start menu or the Metro interface? As long as you quickly get to the app or file you want, the interaction (typing) is pretty much identical.
If you like this sort of thing, check out the Arrowlets[1] library for JavaScript. It uses "arrows", an abstraction in a similar vein to monads, to make CPS functions and event handling neater (among other things).

[1]: http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/PL/arrowlets/

From playing around with it, I think the arrows from that library are more useful to practical JavaScript programming than monads.
I remember turning on the weather channel in high school, and the person would always stand in front of the west coast, blather on about the east coast at length, and then dedicate a few seconds to the west: "it's going to be sunny in most of California (no kidding), with massive snowstorms in eastern Washington which may or may not isolate the entire state, now back to you Bob".
A move to hardware? The recent surface demo and this as a hint of a more Apple like MS to come.
I already was skimming, but they completely lost me at "If you have 20/20 vision, it’s generally accepted that, from this distance, each pixel on the E is now one arc minute in size." The angle that a feature extends on one's eye is independent of one's eyesight. If it is one arc minute for you, it is one arc minute for a blind person at the same distance.
Eh? Next you'll be telling us W8 is going to be the nail in the coffin of Appple?

There's NO question that the W8 upgrade pricing is a DIRECT result of Apple's usual $40 upgrade pricing.

BTW: Lets see how easy it is to update WXP to W8 - a single click in the Microsoft Store?
That's where the good radar/sat stuff comes in. Wunderground does a good job at this, their stuff is very customizable. Lately I have been digging the Dark Sky app, weather at its most simple. It tackles very short term forecasts with specificity (it's going to rain in 8 minutes). I live in Florida so I know it's going to be hot, the only question for me is rain.
Show me the code. Before I believe this, I'll need to see a codebase that uses MOVE and not MVC and manages to do things which are not easy in MVC. It's find to rant and rail against old patterns, but patterns are descriptive, not prescriptive. Once you see a solution that has the same "shape" in a few different contexts, you might have found a pattern. This puts the cart before the horse by proposing the pattern before it has been actually used.
>That's a very narrow victory though.

Yes, but at least three major parts of the dissenting opinion do not apply to backscatter machines.

First, Justice Stevens argued that heat emissions can easily be detected by the general public by a variety of means that do not involve special equipment.

Secondly, he argued that heat emissions are a part of the public domain once they leave the home, and are therefore fair game for inspection.

Finally, he argued that because the data provided by the sensors was incredibly crude, and gave no specific details about the home's contents, their use did not constitute a search.

And while I disagree on the whole, all of those are at least reasonable points that a sane person could make regarding IR sensors. But they utterly disintegrate if you switch to talking about firing x-rays into someone's home or car and generating a detailed image of its contents.
Alan Cooper (article author) also has a company and wrote several books (About Face, Inmates etc). And is considered the father of Visual Basic! But yeah, goals are timeless. I wish software/website authors realised that the goal of most users is to use their software and site for as little time as possible because they manage to achieve their goals quickly. Dialog boxes and similar stuff annoy the crap out of me. The programmer of the app/site has deep comprehensive information and they can't make their mind up, then why dump it on the user? You can trivially mitigate most things. For example if you provide undo across sessions then you don't need to ask users if they really meant to delete. Firefox on Android does a great thing - any closed tabs are shown at the bottom for a short period of time somewhat faded. Touch it to bring it back to life.

We have 4 git users on the team. The one writing the most code (me) is Linux only. The next person (about half time git) is almost entirely Mac. Another two use git but have no idea what it does and do not care (both Mac). They merely run the tools we store in git. Additionally our stuff is scattered across several repositories (for good reason). To do work you need one more of them. The Github for Mac client only lets you sync one repository at a time which is painful. I wrote a script in the end that syncs all repositories.

I would love to have a goal oriented gui for a git flow since I'm very lax at the moment, not having time to learn how to micromanage the sequence of commands needed. Heck I still have to look up the flags to git stash everything time I use it.

But being Mac only means your software is of no value to us. Thanks for the offer though.
RIM instituting developer crunch to get BB10 shipped
The purpose of the distinction is to prevent even more confusion about what MVC means.
I beleive its both. If they are going to live up to their promise of more frequent, smaller OS versions then they'd have to come in at a lower price. Lets hope this is the beginning of a trend.
Up until 1992 the weathermen would still stand in front of the hurricane while blathering on about rainstorms in the midwest. Then Andrew happened and that changed everything.
Singly Developer Contest: Build an app that uses Contacts to win an iPad
Spotlight. 2005.

Windows 7 is likely my last version of Windows. All I use it for now is occasional gaming and I can't see developers dropping W7 support for a long time unless they're heavily incentivised for some reason by MS. Even at $40 for W8, I'd personally be throwing that money away.
What I really dislike on Java is that you have to repeat yourself, over and over and over.

For example, you have to write all these getters and setters ad nauseam, even if all they do is just setting the damn variable. Or the anonymous classes, the syntax is horrible.

Now I understand that the object model is simple and easy to understand, but still, I prefer Scala more. It works with java, but it's many times easier to actually use.
What's even more heartbreaking is that he's quite active on HN even though he's banned.

If you read his comments there's something definitely wrong with him (I hesitate using that phrase, but I don't know how else to say it). He's a talented individual with a strong work ethic, hopefully he gets the help that he needs.
I'm pretty stoked about it actually.
They didn't call it useless, they said it could be useful, if done correctly. From their point of view, if it were done correctly, the user ought to be able to block Windows. But since that will be difficult, it undermines the security advantages of Secure Boot. Their position is quite consistent.
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China hackers enter Navy computers, plant bug to extract sensitive data
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This way to get printing services for every type of printing items is now not only easy, affordable, attractive and durable too, that can go very long for your selected way of advertisement.
As stated, it's crucial that privacy be fully respected for users. The key thing may not necessarily be knowing exactly who someone is, but instead knowing what they've done (which features they use and how often, which marketing emails they open, which support tickets they file, etc) and using this to give users better experiences personalized around their history of interactions. Providing this type of experience from web companies is what we're working on at Klaviyo (http://www.klaviyo.com).

In most cases, companies are tracking all of this data, just in multiple different systems and not bothering to pull it together (i.e. why do I get emails about product features I already use?) to use to make my life better.

On privacy, companies need to make sure they are being open with users. For most of these so-called "people analytics" companies can choose whether to include personally identifiable info. Companies need to be intentional, and should choose to anonymize customer data when they can (but should still treat people uniquely based on their past interactions, even if they can't put a name on someone).
When comments like 'I'm pretty stoked about it actually.' yield a -50% sentiment, something is broken.
He wouldn't have been the first person to read them then (middle sentence).
There are extensions.
Is the Elephant’s Footprint Clan hiring?
Spotlight is a text based launcher. Cmd-Space amd start typing.
Dog Days of Summer
One data point: yesterday, num_in_app_purchases / num_new_downloads was 0.0158, so about 1.6%. Though this is an imperfect stat, since there's probably a delay before you get bored with the free songs and decide to buy the IAP.

I do make enough revenue now that I could "build mobile apps" for the rest of my life. Of course, this trend has only been true for about one month. So there are no guarantees... I guess I just need to continue to work hard and crank out new fun apps. :-)
For my 86 year old mother Facebook has been a boon and a great confusion. She keeps asking me about how people send her messages. There's email. There's Facebook Messages. There's her Facebook "wall". Then other people's statuses show up on her news feed or whatever you call her "home" page. She thinks those are also messages sent to her. It's a bit much. We think we have this straight because we work with all these things. But, Great Grunt, it can be hard for the uninitiated to figure out. Thankfully, no one has talked her into having a Twitter account or a smart phone with SMS and a few dozen social apps.
This looks very cool. I play a lot on http://iggamecenter.com, which has a zillion games, but is kinda clunky and does have the extra friction of requiring players to create an account first. What you've made is definitely better for the use-case of IMing someone a link to play.

However, if you add the ability to find other players on the site/play a random person, as has been suggested here, I think you may find that accounts being optional is a downside. Some people will make one move then leave, or just play very slowly and poorly. An account system where you can see stats on someone's past games helps avoid that un-fun situation.

The game I would most like to see you add is Hex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_%28board_game%29 Maybe Dots and Boxes would be nice too as a casual game that can be played quickly, but has a bit of depth.
What multitasking does to our brains
So basically Controller has Operations and Events

Kind of like in MacOS it has methods and delegates?
GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3 billion healthcare fraud settlement
> Replace the "friends" in his original post with "acquaintances," and his point stands.

That's changing the argument, those words mean totally different things. My point is, Facebook makes keeping in touch with acquaintances easy, but isn't necessary to keep in touch with actual friends. Friends are people you see outside of Facebook.
To be clear, Malte Spitz released this data voluntarily to Zeit. The accompanying article is available here:

http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2011-03/data-protecti...
I can actually see that, the physician would make it part of an IRS audit (I am trying not to laugh, because I think I am being serious about this).
> I think when you mix that sort of mentality with modern entertainment, you get quotes like these. Sure, we say, "any normal person" understands the difference between cartoons and real life. Perhaps Mrs. Carreon would even agree that she understands the difference. But she is somehow not convinced that we understand the difference.

Time to burn some Karma.

Well, here's the disturbing truth of the matter: There is a small minority of gamers that don't understand the difference. Just like there's a small minority of moviegoers who "don't understand the difference" and novel readers and consumers and even producers of media of all sorts. Sturm und Drang novels precipitated suicides of young people across Europe. People who talk to the public at the Vatican had to deal with people who thought The DaVinci Code was real. (And I suspect they still do!)

Also, as in other media, some celebrities act in anti-social ways and are actually somehow excused or admired for it. Again, this is nothing new. There also comes a time when the majority of sane people need to come out and say -- "Okay, that's entertaining, but here's how real people act."

There are people out there who believe that all of society's rules are just hackable machines to and are out there to be exploited, and it's their right to get away with as much as they can, even to the point of throwing out basic human decency. (And if you're not aware of this, then just start some in-depth conversations at a con some time.) What disturbs me is that there seems to be considerable lionization of antisocial behavior on the Internet and in gaming culture -- to the point of there being entire ideologies to justify it.

I am not siding with the Carreons or Jack Thompson. Nor am I against the Oatmeal. It's just that they're not 2D villains in some black and white narrative contrivance. They're human beings, not NPCs. Subtract the stupidity and shortsightedness from their position and see what's left. If you're honest with yourself, you may not like what you see.
"The big epiphany for me was when I realized that the server has its own MVC, and the browser has its own MVC."

While I'd still advocate DRY over this POV (unless of course DRY leads you here naturally), I will agree this is a generally valid viewpoint, because you've got the server-client model built in there instead of glossed over. And you are now the first person who has gotten me to be generally agreeable about MVC used in the web world.

Which raises the interesting question of building a framework that builds this idea into the core, with server-side MVC, client-side MVC, and some sort of defined crossover instead of the usual hacky stuff that emerges from single-MVC.
The author probably never heard about the 'service layer' pattern. The problem that 'MOVE' is trying to solve is a non-existing one. If you're stuffing all your logic in your controller, you're doing it wrong. The logic should be in the service layer, that's how it has always been.