skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can science test the supernatural? Yes
Big data in travel domain
Uninitialized variable value unreliable... really?
Yikes, it looks more like a Gilt/Fab site than something I'd feel comfortable renting my place through. Resizing is a disaster, which is weird because this site would be easy to media query up.
How could I get involved or find out what kind of work could be done? Could you drop me an email, davedx@gmail.com :)
Here are some HN discussions from earlier this year, for those confused about the what/why of Rust:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3501980 (v0.1, January '12)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3792403 (March '12)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3774075 (v0.2, March '12)
Alan Turing
Alan Turing
Alan Turing http://www.huntto.org/2012/06/alan-turing.html perhaps with it the loss he held the post of mathematics at the University of Manchester
How LinkedIn Has Turned Your Resume Into A Cash Machine
I've spent 8 precious years of my childhood taking compulsory classes in german language. As it turned out later, most of young germans speak excellent english. I should have taken french.
If you end up in a big collaborative space with loads of people from different countries, they will all end up speaking english anyway.
Repo.js - A jQuery Plugin To Easily Embed A Github Repo Onto Your Site
You will not gain wide spread support with an iron fist. You will just gain developers who resent the disabled. Education is /way/ more important than legal requirements.
That's the fakest looking homepage I have seen recently. If I didn't already trust Eclipse I wouldn't start now.
I really wanted to flag this, because I really don't think that it's constructive to engage in this kind of satire and what-not. How about put the other guy's shoes on for a minute, and ask yourself how you'd feel if you were the author of the post that inspired this one?

That said, this bit struck me as so funny that it (sort of) saves the thing:

Currently we're in double stealth mode (the public doesn't know what we're building and neither do we).

ROFLMFAO.
Somewhat on-topicish, does anyone have any recommendations for colocation in Toronto? The only recommendations I've gotten for a reliable provider has been for peer1, but they are insanely expensive and both their support and sales staff are quite the opposite of helpful. For reference (since peer1 tends to make up "whatever we think we can get away with" pricing), I was quoted $60/Mb for 95th percentile or $0.85/GB (which puts 1TB of data transfer at nearly $1000!).
Really looking forward to switching to this. My 3.7 setup has been acting up (most annoyingly, pydev locks it up because of race conditions in the builder).
Found via: http://functionn.blogspot.de/2012/06/repojs-light-weight-jqu... - Functionn - Open Source Resources For Web Developers & Designers
I love this!

But, there needs to be some sort of category and search functionality. For instance, if I wanted to buy a homemade headphone amplifier, how would I find it? Right now all the electronics are just on a list sorted by... I don't even know. This system is not going to work as more gadgets get added and the site grows.
We're using the bleeding edge master builds of Rust. Our work on Servo informs the direction we want to take Rust, and vice versa. Servo has been really valuable to help us determine whether the language features really work out in practice.
So basically tumblr with zero sign-up?
This blog post was obviously done without even a few minutes of research. Developers have different and valid reasons for choosing BSD vs GPL/LGPL. BSD lets the developer give up any and all control and lets everyone do whatever they want with code/software. The GPL lets the developer share but enforce that the code/software will remain Free/open. Lots of folks who develop in their spare time like contributing but don't want someone taking their work and closing it up, commercializing it and making money off of it without contributing back to the overall community. There's a reason GPL/LGPL is the most popular software license.
Using Java to deal with multicore programming complexity: Part 2
>I coud have saved you a lot of trouble. Your results confirm what all dating web sites have always known, and which we've made no secret about: Nearly all initial messages are sent by men.

I am curious: Are there any variables which, after you control for them, make this go away or diminish? i.e., high income, feminist leanings, political beliefs, etc. ?
Any weekend project is "shipping" (in that sense) now? Good grief.

Not hating on OP or his site, just sayin'.
Whilst I don't want to take away from an 11 year old that can do some basic HTML it's more accurately "a form that posts to googles chart tools", with nothing really of note aside from the age of the creator.

Don't mean to rain on his parade but the title is more than a little sensationalist to me.
We’ve found love in a cordless place
Great article.

I was however confused by "I also needed a recruiter who was smart enough not to poach a founder".

Was he saying this just because founders in SV are not a good fit to Meebo? Or are they bad employees? Or that it is considered bad to poach to hire a founder?
Search & Category browsing will be live later tonight.
Can it do code markup? I was looking for something the other day and I didn't want to set up my own 'blog'. Tumblr couldn't support Github gists for some reason, so really that' all you need.

Edit: On first glance, it doesn't seem to be able to embed Github gists. Darn.
What's the tech stack for this, if you don't mind me asking?
Hey now Accusey Adam (or is it Conjecturey Constance?), put down the pitchfork. There's no need to accuse people of sockpuppeting/gaming just because you don't like their project. It's hurtful to hear people call you a cheater when you just want to get feedback on your project.

Tamal has a pretty neat looking service (yes, one that's been done before, but still pretty neat). I've seen SPLASH PAGES with zero functionality get more votes on HN; why shouldn't Tamal get his 15 minutes?

Relax and watch the blinkenlights.
the question is not "do they look alike". the patent is invalid if there was prior art. and there was: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/08/24/139925696/sam...
Unrelated to the discussed topic in the post, but it reminded me of The Codeless Code, an absolute gem. http://thecodelesscode.com/contents
I disagree. Satire is a valid form of commentary.
Brilliant. I'd like to read the SF version of it :)
Interesting. This was written before Google released Chrome. How parallel is Chrome, exactly, compared to the kind of browser described in this blog post?
Is this not how we hire writers?!
UCLA researchers develop nanoscale microwave oscillators
The people who are upset with Groupon don't research what they are doing or don't ask the questions that they should ask. Owners need to hold themselves responsible for not doing their research.

If a business wants to create value from Groupon they should limit the number of groups, increase the time to redeem coupons, provide first-class service to Groupon customers, and take the 75% marketing expense instead of 100%. Think of it as paying less than 100% for a marketing task.
3 Ways to Incorporate Wicker Furniture into Your Home Décor
If you’re looking for a décor that’s going to stand the test of time, you’ll get it from wicker furniture. After all, this stuff has been in style for decades, and it will continue to be in style for decades more.
It's About Damn Time
Applying ‘Centralized Control, Decentralized Execution’ to Network Architecture
If this store sells physical objects which get delivered by mail, isn't it more like a regular online store?
Things Amazon won’t tell you
> In the year that Eclipse Subversive (SVN) finally makes its 1.0.0 release, most of the projects at Eclipse have moved to Git.

Java SDLC in a nutshell.
It's interesting that you frame the next forty years as something you're mildly optimistic about and beyond that pessemistic (as do I). I wonder if our cognitive dissonance is involved (personally and societally) because we expect to live out a reasonable amount of what's left of our lives ok, but beyond that?

We've got some real challenges stacked against us as a species. I personally think they're probably insurmountable, but then I never guessed growing up that I'd be talking to you by tapping on a little glass screen while sitting on my own in my living room.
There's nothing wrong with details: all the little hacks that work for us that we can share and copy. They're fun and cool and can really help.

But make no mistake about it: details are not issues.

But... is there any requirement that every post to HN be fully deep, weighty, intellectually challenging issues?? Sure, this crowd loves a good intellectual debate (too much so, most of the time), but there is also a practical, down-to-earth side to the crowd here... actual entrepreneurs who are in the middle of building companies, and who find reading about the experiences of others useful, even if they serve as nothing but inspiration, or encouragement.

Sure, a post like the earlier @ryancarson post is mostly details... but so what? That doesn't mean it isn't a valuable post to some of the members here. Maybe it wasn't for everybody, but here's a thought: no piece of content that gets posted here is interesting to everybody.

Frankly, I'd rather talk about issues.

So would I, most of the time. But that doesn't mean that the occasional "details" post deserves this much angst and controversy.
1) Automatically resurface popular old articles after x days (or some other metric). This will hopefully stop reposts and tie in previous discussion.

2) Order the comments feed by "most recent active" (so Max(childDatePosted) DESC THEN BY Max(posted) DESC".

Happy to dig into the Arc if you'd like a hand.
There is code markup, but no syntax-highlighting (yet).

Edit: Gists is a good one. Added to my to-do list.
American Express goes with a brand development agency
really great article on how American express is going with a brand development agency
Daeken's point below is spot on, but I thought I'd add that, if we don't have the manpower to rewrite everything in a safe language, we can go out of process and sandbox like Chromium does. (In fact, the plan is to sandbox even the safe code.) Of course, that's plan B; plan A is to parallelize the entire stack, top to bottom.
It works for me in IE7 on IETester (mostly e.g. there's a correct mixed content error and the "popular cities" tab doesn't work). I assume they have looked at their stats and concluded that IE6/7 doesn't represent a large enough proportion of their market to support it. I also wouldn't regard airbnb as a large company.
By cheating.
I doubt this is a protest.

Either it's criminal violence targeted at the company (the protection racket hypothesis seems likely at this point) or it's something designed to destabilize the government even further. This second idea is less likely because, if that's the intention, a government building would be the target.

Also, the damage to the building itself seems rather minimal. The entrance is completely destroyed and some repairs may be required in the wiring, but the structure seems unaffected. I guess fire suppression systems worked as designed.
WebKit, like all engines, is fundamentally single-threaded. Of course, there can be some parallelism added to specific components--in the case of Chrome, multiple tabs (to be more accurate, multiple origins) can execute in parallel--but there's a scalability limit to how far a single-threaded design can take you.
How to Grow a Terraced Garden | cleaners Palmers Green
Sure, it's valid, but is it constructive? I don't think so, at least not in this case. This whole thread is nothing but a lot of useless meta navel-gazing. In fact, I regret even posting in it, the more I think about it.

On to something else... I don't come here for this kind of negativity.
Rails on Passenger on nginx, omniauth for Twitter authentication, redcarpet for Markdown support.
> you need to be considering accessibility from the very start

Should you be? Yes.

Do you need to be? No.

I can't spend an extra 10% (or 5%... or even 1%) of development time for the 0.001% of my users who are disabled or using screen readers. The return on investment is just not favorable enough.
And how much of that office furniture that makes it to the clearance companies matches the ergonomic preferences for a computing desk?

To put it bluntly: I don't think I've ever seen an adjustable height desk with a raised stand for a monitor in an office environment. Consumer home-office furniture are lousy with those features. But for most office furniture, you're lucky if they buy a $10 wooden monitor stand or if the desk's adjust more than they need to allow for leveling.

You'd have to haunt the clearance company to actually score a good desk and I still doubt you'd be walking away with one for $40.
Of course it's "shipping." Why wouldn't it be?
Thanks for the counter-points. I believe your argument is in some way a version of "but just like the A-bomb example, we already have mechanisms in place that can help deal with this"

This is true. Note that the A-bomb situation may very well still spiral out of control over the next 20-40 years. Too often we get lost in arguing immediate benefits or drawbacks and lose the plot on the bigger picture.

Suffice it to say that I don't understand how these local group dynamics will do anything except exacerbate the state's interest in controlling what the population knows and thinks. I imagine "good" effects, like promoting altruism, will be encouraged. "Bad" effects, like pointing out gaping problems with civil liberties and calling for massive peaceful political change, will be stifled.

Also note that traditional ideas of small groups have them all being in the same geographical place. This is no longer true, and this alone might have greater ramifications than any of the other technological changes do. We could very well see (medium-term) a re-introduction of the clan and lots of associated desultory and internecine warfare. Or just general chaos and instability. Beats me, I'm just an internet commenter. You should know what kind of track record we have :)
You save code + accompanying documents in order to build up a portfolio to demonstrate to a potential employer how you work, how well you know your tools, and what your idea of a shippable product is. During the interview, you can talk about why you wrote the software, what designs you tried, what kinds of challenges you faced while doing so, and how you surmounted them.

At my company, we offer coding challenges for people who don't have a portfolio already. But really, why not just write software of your own choosing so that you don't need to do coding challenges to prove your ability? It's a far more efficient approach.
Is Microsoft Feeding the Android Machine?
woah, I thought the stylesheet hadn't loaded properly - those images are giant!

looks fun though :)
I personally like the look of the site. I think it is a bit overdone, but still visually pleasing. I completely agree with your resizing comment though. In 2012, if you are going all out on a redesign, the site should be responsive.
How difficult would it be for a developer from the states to try and get a job out there? It's been a dream of mine for a while to venture out to Berlin/Germany and work out there for a year or two. I was born in Germany but do not have a passport (parents moved to the states when I was a year old).

I've visited once before and the sentiment is right, everyone out there spoke english (at least the younger crowd). I've been following the Berlin Ruby User Group but have been struggling to find good resources beyond that. Any recommendations?
You realize for someone to see that you're checking in all the time they'd also have to be checking in all the time and stalking your profile ?

I don't know OKCs reasoning behind it but I can think of a bunch of arguments. For example say you've messaged someone to rearrange a date and you want to make sure they've logged in since you sent it, or say you want to catch them online and want to know the best time, etc.
Everything you just said can also be said by Walmart or Applebees but they are required to build ramps, custom bathroom stalls, and special parking spots.
Smart Entrepreneurs Plan Key Networking Activities
Adobe Edge - Flash like editor for Html5
It's nice, but don't get why it should be able to

* Read Tweets from my timeline.
* See who I follow, and follow new people.
* Update my profile.

so, not registering, sry...
There's no real way to 'verify' this. They would have to provide the source code in its entirety and several card-carrying, certified cryptanalysts/cryptographers would have to vet it and then publicly approve of it. That will never happen.

Users have to have some level of trust. Like everything else in life.
thanks moe. working on a solution for this as well. will push in the update with search & categories
I don't have actual numbers, but it's my primary desktop at home, and it saw everyday use.
Application Development: Reasons Java Has Supplanted C++ ...
That was my point. Not the specific reason but just a good, respectful letter/email.
Firefox 14 for Android is very fast
Same for me. It keeps freezing as well. I am pretty floored they they decided to use silverlight... why?
Obat Tradisional Ambeien
Couldn't have said it better myself. That is some of the best landing page photography I've ever seen.
Iconic tech sounds are beautiful when you slow them down
I run https://snipt.net/, and I just built in a blogging platform, seems like it might be what you're looking for: https://blog.snipt.net/announcing-the-sniptnet-blogging-plat...
I think this piece is important commentary (satire) as brown9-2 wrote, because it's an emperor's-new-clothes reality check on the startup ego/culture. It's meant to say "do you know how you sound? you sound like this." Yes it can be hard to get harsh, critical, no sugar coating feedback like this, but isn't that what the HN is all about? Better to have someone clue you in to this sooner than to have everyone snickering at you behind your back. With this market feedback, original OP can now pivot & expand, so to speak. ;)
The greenish glass tables don't have that problem; the black ones do.

The other nice thing is that Logitech "darkfield" laser mice work fine on even clear glass tables, somehow.
Ramps and stalls are standard on any construction nowadays, and there's nothing special about disabled parking spots - they're just the ones closest to the entrance with blue lines instead of yellow.

This on the other hand.. aiya.
Striking Back in Cyberspace: Sanctioned or Vigilantism?
Atari turns 40 today.
I'm aware of that.

The point I'm trying to make isn't really associated with an exact period of 40 years. Looking back on these kinds of discussions, many times people who watched trends and worried about underlying philosophical problems got it right -- but only after decades or perhaps centuries have passed. Usually things come along and all the old folks say it's terrible, all the young folks think it's awesome, and not much is accomplished. Fundamental changes also fit into this pattern, but the problems never show up in any reasonable amount of time for people to remember who gave the warnings. So we forget. I could use a lot of examples, but the arguments against the ratification of the Constitution of the United States come to mind. All of the arguments against the structure were panned as being wild absurd fantasies: that there would be a standing army, that the government would consistently overspend, that the federal government would take more and more control from the states, and so on.

They all turned out to be true, but the "winners" of these arguments lost in the short term and weren't around to see how prescient they were. As these trends continue it's the rest of us, many generations later, that have to deal with the problems that were easily foretold at the beginning.

So it might not be 40 years. Might be 100. As long as we agree that these predictions are real problems whether they happen next week or in 2200 we can carry the discussion forward.
Interesting. That's worth mentioning on your landing page. I overlooked that.
White Source Releases JNinka- Free Source Code Scanner for License Discovery
Poaching is a myth. You assume the only reason your folks are working for you, is they don't know about a better deal elsewhere?

Every sensible employee should regard every paycheck as a renewed offer of employment. If a better deal exists, its their choice, not yours, whether they stay or not.

Your only real option is to treat employees well, make sure they know you appreciate their talents, and try to generate some loyalty.
Thanks, glad you're liking it. Gonna work on google login soon...
Immediate feedback in Zeta Code
Give 151 Front a try. http://www.151-front-street.com/
Reminds me a lot like http://checkthis.com/ except a micro-micro blog form
Regulation stifles innovation. We are in an era of rapid & incremental deployment. This is an undue burden to place on developers.

This is the way this is supposed to work: Netflix designs a service. People who don't enjoy service give feedback to Netflix. Netflix then decides how (and how quickly) to improve their service. If people are happy with this, then everyone wins. If people aren't, then they go and build their own service. If they succeed, then shame on Netflix for missing an opportunity. If they fail, then why should government regulation be have to get involved when the market proved this to be a bad idea (keep in mind, this is a video streaming service, not something really related to the pursuit of life, liberty & happiness).

It is very possible that the thought to add closed captioning crossed Netflix's mind, but then maybe they found it to be too expensive & possible illegal to implement this feature that wouldn't be used by their target audience. Maybe this feature is on their roadmap. There is also little precedence here. Not every screen on every movie is required to show closed captions. So why should Netflix be hamstrung by the government in this way?
They were running a database with clear text passwords, in my opinion, their vague statements should get a pessimistic reading.
Beautiful design. I like how it focuses on the imagery (as it should) and once again great typography.
Twitter has three permission levels: Read Only, Read and Write, and Read, Write, and Direct Messages.

In order to have it Tweet on your behalf it needs Read and Write permissions. Along with that comes all the other permissions. If I could exclude it I would.
Now that's what I call a flame-war.
This should also be called "Responsive design fail".
It would be 1000% more awesome if they handled board fabrication and stuffing for the sellers, ie they became "Shapeways for electronics". Perhaps they can team up with DorkbotPDX to get low quantity boards made.
The video won't play in my Android by the way.

How about that blurb? ;)
Online spaces are spaces of public accommodation. Companies should be taking reasonable steps to allow access by the disabled.

I'm not informed enough to comment on whether the particular ruling made sense in light of the law, but the "this is obviously a horrible decision!" vibe of the article is confusing, and leads me not to trust their conclusions about it.
It loaded for me in ~2 seconds, on a 2010 Macbook Air. I think we're at the stage where 'heavy' pages are permissible, and even advantageous at times.
I’m reacting to my thought process in viewing women’s profiles. If I visit a profile just twice I have a pretty good idea that they are checking it every day etc. If both times I visit they were online within the last 2 hours (extreme example) I know they are checking it a lot.

While that information doesn’t really matter, I noticed that I sort of laugh about it to myself and make assumptions about the person. If I am making assumptions, women are making assumptions and if the environment is as highly competitive as described, you really don’t want anything against you.