skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't remember if it applies to this particular glyph, but I've had some issues in the past with some configurations of IE and/or Windows, where the unicode symbols wouldn't render. Just something to be aware of, if you're blindly using these in web sites aimed at the general population.
How to secure your tab from security threats.
Well, how else do you think http://www.bennylingbling.com/tag/schrodingers-bug/ originated
Commenting is disabled for the job-ads that are mixed with the stories on the homepage. Maybe thats what pbhjpbhj meant with reply?
Same here, all I could find was geothermal stuff talking about High Yield Poly Exchange Ready Loops and stuff just branded with that name.
Looking with Cassandra into the future of Atlas
Apple LCD suppliers to pay $1.12B in price fixing settlements
Hey. It's a nice idea, but there are problems with this.
The actual output varies depending on your hardware & driver combo, and is substantially affected by the state of the graphics drivers (e.g. What types of anti-aliasing or interpolation are enabled? What color profiles are loaded?) The RGB pixel values on one machine will not match those on another machine.

You could imagine writing an 'is image almost equal' comparison, but I'm informed by those who have tried (pyglet developers) that this is substantially harder than it sounds - the differences between images are not what you would expect.

The alternative, if you want anyone else to be able to run your tests, is to tie yourself to a particular OS/hardware/driver combo. Not appealing for many projects.

Even if this could be done, this sort of 'compare snapshot' test is brittle, because, of course, we're talking about high level functional tests here, so you'd be snapshotting your whole game/application, not just limited aspects of it in a limited environment. Hence the screenshots would change all the time. Every time you added or modified any functionality you'd get a failing test and have to manually compare the images and assert that the differences were OK and then commit the new screenshot. This is ripe for overlooking small regressions, and makes subsequent bisection very difficult.

Of course, we haven't even got into the aspect that, as an end-to-end test, your test code would actually have to interpret the images and send mouse/key inputs to successfully play your game. Through to completion, of course - how else would you know your game-completion conditions were all wired up correctly?
Anyone know when you get to downvote submissions? I still don't have that yet.
The 10-million-year sapphire hard disk
Alternatively, you could stop preying on children.
once it gets moody if you don't?
Luxurious Commodities
Breaking news: an employee doesn't call his employer a dick in a public forum
Hackers Publish Over 450,000 Emails and Passwords Stolen From Yahoo
Mobile Assistant Battles
Site is hacker-newsed / hack-noosed / h-neutered. Try alternatives:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2011/11/17/10238146....

http://chryss.eu/?p=331

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/02/unicode-character-pile-of-po...
Fake sarnie shop's big fake Likes leaves Facebook looking flaky
Does any browser actually rely on WebKit's JS Core? I know Safari has Nitro and Chrome has v8, so I'm not sure what would use this code except maybe konqueror.
>"a zero false positive rate simply doesn't exist."

Laughable. It does when Facebook are going out of their way to read something that is absolutely none of their business. You can easily obtain zero false positives by not turning anything over the the police.
Mixed reception to Newry Orange parade
Anyone else got suggestions?

Break up the banks.
You might want to consider setting up some basic monitoring. If you don't have much time to put into this, you get one free watcher with Pingdom (no affiliation other than that they watch my website for me), and you'll get an email if the site goes down again.
If you've never thanked your car, you've never lived anywhere that it gets cold.
Costa Rica Adventure Tours: Make Lasting Memories
Elon Musk actually stated his idea for an electric jet in his cameo appearance on Iron Man 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuG2AVFB-g0

Musk was also the inspiration behind the characterisation of Robert Downey Jr in the Iron Man films.
Better visual searching in vim
you will definitely want to cache the post, my HN posts that have staying in the top 10 spots for a few hours easily get 600 simultaneous so you can probably expect the same. good luck!
Replying beside untog because I'm not permitted to reply to untog.

You don't downvote submissions. You just don't upvote if you don't like it.
If there is one thing that you do need to do, its turn off the support forum. Its full to the brim with spam, and is (probably) the only part of the site that actually does need continuous attention. Otherwise, congrats!
one thing i always find missing in these tips is what these remaps replace.

here: in visual mode pressing * (or #) visual-selects until it finds the word under the cursor.

i prefer the behavior presented here.
Fine. "no less" than, in answer to those (him) trying to spin it as something perfectly legal/acceptable which nobody should be concerned/outraged/surprised about. If staring at strangers in stores will get you thrown off the premises, how much more so when staring at thousands of strangers and publishing their reactions?
That's the story with the calendar app I use, http://30boxes.com/

I don't think a new feature has been added in about 5 years and it barely seems maintained, there have been a few day-longish episodes of downtime but other than that it works great.

It has all the features I need and am used to, and I don't have to worry about the product constantly changing. In a way it's almost better to use a neglected product.
This is a big assumption.

See this animated example that danso posted: http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/

Yes, a difference of maybe 5ms won't be noticed... unless you're going a lot of sorting. Selection Sort is basically the slowest sort of all.
I was in the process of doing that as you typed that out. I never thought it would be needed though!
Hey. Out of interest, Jason, would you personally write a functional test that spun up a local SFTP server like I describe? As a developer who's better than average, it presumably wouldn't take you a couple of days to get that working, but even so, would you consider cheating a little and mocking out the sftp client calls? If so, would you still call it a 'functional test'?
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The Urology-specific EHR system includes clinically defined templates for common urological complaints, a history of present illness and a review of systems.
+1000 for Georgify chrome plugin!
>Because most people's experience with Windows is through the cheapest keyboards...

That part is so true. Running Win7 on my MBA '11 has been the best laptop I've ever had by a large margin. I should say I was routinely buying $2K Windows laptops, not cheap junk, but junk none the less. Hopefully PC makers are serious about stepping up their game.

The only Windows users I need to support are me and my wife with only the newest peripherals, so my experience hasn't been the same. The manner in which the UAC pops up has gotten me a few time though!
Good article and a good reminder of how what is just a side project to the creator can be so important to its users.

It looks as if he's updated his forum software about as regularly as the site's main code because it's full of spam (http://forum.invoicejournal.com/). Might be worth fixing that as the consistent number of sign-ups and invoices suggests there is a community of users there to be fostered.
Game Designers in the Social Space
Social Game Designer Roles and Responsibilities
Varnish is amazing, just install it by default, it can't hurt.
Microsoft hatches Bing Fund incubator for startups
Analogy wise -

We didn't let the foxes in the hen house, the hens asked and got more freedom to manage the coop. They invited hens and animals from other farms over used them to run an abbatoir. Our imagination can't believe it, so we talk of foxes.

I agree with most of your points, except that the umbrage directed at the Fin industry is too personal or heated.

I think most people who are intelligent, can't fathom the level of the atrocity being committed here.

For Libor, they are being accused of flat out fraud. Fraud so utterly blatant that it was normal for the industry.

And Barclays is one of the 'good banks' - its getting off of on good behavior.

This is just rapacious greed, fraud, and abuse at a scale that the word definitions come across as weak.

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Link for interest

Morgan Stanley's stab at what the fines might look like/via FT alphaville - http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/07/12/1081181/some-more...
Errr... yeah you are right.
:butterfly

;)
The first contract program I wrote was when I was 17 years old. I was working at a service station changing oil. Some guy comes through who wants to stand around while I do the work (it happens) so we struck up a conversation.

Turns out he was a bookkeeper and had just purchased an Apple IIe and wanted to use it for his clients. I knew nothing about accounting, he knew nothing about computers, so it seemed like a good match :)

Four weeks of spending free afternoons at his shop, and it was ready to go. He was happy and I had 200 bucks in my pocket. Life was good.

Almost 20 years later, I get a call from him. He says the program isn't working so well and he wants to upgrade. I'm like WTF? Does anybody in the universe still even have a working Apple II anymore? Why would he keep using something like that for 20 years?

He told me that as computers modernized, it became a bit of a status symbol to have an older-looking system spewing out reams of reports. His customers, who were mostly small construction companies and such, got the feeling of stability and security from something that was unchanged.

It is a very strange feeling to get a call about code you wrote a long, long time ago. If I would have had any sense, I would have realized from the experience that programming is normally an extremely tiny part of actually making a business work. But it took me many more years to figure that one out.
At Home Depot they recently put cameras on the self checkout line, with a little display to show you that you are being recorded.
Inventor of Electric Football Dies
A Fireside Chat with Elon Musk (video)
> Everyone who has used vi(m) has copied and pasted text in while in command mode and done who knows what.

try to set mousemode (vim) if vim is compiled with x11-support.
Top CEOs Aren’t Using Social Media, Study Says — Should They Be?
Newscoop announces API for news apps and 4.0.2 release
OWC’s Mercury Accelsior SSD: Blistering Fast
My best example is a Perl bug I corrected.

It occurred only 27 second by year! Just to think about the probability to detect it knowing the code is used only about twice a week.
EVERYONE has limitations. Everyone still has to sleep X hours per day. Spend X hours per day doing X. Kids or no, I can only squeeze out maybe 4 - 6 hours per day of solid coding before my brain quits on me. The rest of my working day is doing less taxing things which still need to be done as a freelancer.

Budgeting time is just like budgeting money. You just have to make sure you're spending it well. It's best to be diversified, so spend some of that working time on something which can bring in an alternative revenue stream. It may not pay off right away, but it could pay off huge in the end.
I have never touched power shell during my use of nuget fwiw. I'm not even sure how to if I wanted to. As far as I can tell it's just a graphical user interface. There might be some command line options somewhere but it does not seem like a first class citizen.
CWinApp theApp;

using namespace std;

unsigned long cnt=0;

void ThreadProc()
{
while (TRUE)
cnt++;
}

int _tmain(int argc, TCHAR* argv[], TCHAR* envp[])
{
unsigned long i,nRetCode = 0;
CreateThread(0,65536,(LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)ThreadProc,0,0,0);
while (TRUE) {
printf("Press <ENTER>\r\n");
getchar();
i=cnt;
printf("Line:%20u %6u\r\n",i,i%100000);
}
return nRetCode;
}

-----

400Mhz counter (Not human!)

http://www.losethos.com/files/BIBLE.TXT

God says...

23:24 When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest
eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any
in thy vessel.

23:25 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then
thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a
sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.

24:1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to
pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some
uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and
give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

24:2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be
another man's wife.

----

God's in a bad mood.

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"There is no plausible objective answer to this question, thus its not for StackOverflow."

The first half of that sentence is absolutely true. But judging by the enormous number of upvotes, StackOverflow itself (i.e., the people who make it up) disagrees about that second bit.

I fall on the side of Stack Overflow at large. Programming is, among other things, an art. Like in any art, there are sometimes situations where there is no objective answer, and the artisan needs to make a judgment call. And in those cases, a wise artisan may still wish to consider the opinions and experiences of other skilled artisans before deciding on an approach.

Stack Overflow has an excellent format for facilitating this, since it allows some people to share their opinion or experience, and for others to indicate whether they have a similar opinion or experience by simply upvoting that answer. The only thing in Stack Overflow that doesn't actually fit this use case is the green checkbox, but that can be ignored easily enough.

A forum, on the other hand, is a terrible fit for that use case. Forums are for having a conversation, not for getting a quick pulse of what other people are thinking. They leave no way to contribute other than adding an additional post, and they leave no way to get a quick idea of what everyone else is thinking other than reading every single item in the resulting mountain of posts and manually tabulating it all.

It's just possible that the SO masters have fallen out of touch with the SO community. To the extent that they have done so, they are a detriment to that community.
Would you believe me if I told you that was a conscious decision? :-)
Looks great, but by default it subjects the user to the markdown gotcha of wanting to italicize text_with_underscores_in_it. EpicEditor, by contrast, has italicizing underscores_inside_words turned off.
I find that working too many hours outside of 9 to 5 quickly becomes lethal too. And working on side projects as a cofounder feels very much like cheating on a spouse for all the reasons you mentioned.

One approach is to look for future needs and do quick startup related R&D projects in place of true side projects. This doesn't have all the benefits of real side projects though. And it has some real disadvantages too. It still feels like work and can lead to resentment and burnout if you aren't careful. But this the best compromise I've found.
Match truck and load online through load board
Suain logistics is going to launch load board concept first time in India to abolish the tedious & time consuming manual process to arrange for loads and trucks.
Through our online portal one can find tons of loads for various routes on a PAN India basis as well as . get availability of empty vehicles for various routes on real time basis.
New post, How varnish saved my ass when I was #1 on Hacker news. :-)
Tempting, but may be a bad idea. Within hours of applying this to my personal site I got emails that the layout was broken, from people using older browsers.
Amazing Lisp Books living again in Clojure
Who cares. I never use Facebook or Twitter, and the use of those applications are and should be completely voluntary.

Even writing a news piece like this, illustrating that certain people aren't using social media is useless and attempts to set a standard which shouldn't exist.

Maybe they don't use it because they're busy? Or perhaps they're too productive to even attempt to use something so time consuming? All speculation and no actual useful information.
If you go to any package on nuget.org, it's the way you're instructed to install. For example:

http://nuget.org/packages/Nancy
If your comment is about subconsciousness, its basically worthless for this discussion. We're talking about men that just grab a piece of women ass[1] or ask for a all-girl pillow fight - thats pretty conscious, even at a certain level of alcohol.

[1]: At least, thats how I imagine they would put it.
I'm in the same boat as you. The code-switching is kind of freaky.... It just happens, and the appropriate language is used for the apporpriate part of the conversation, with the appropriate people who would understand. And I feel the ideas/emotions are transferred more efficiently than when using just one language. Which is why it works so well when angry and venting :).

The challenge I'm having now is doing the same with my kids. My older child has had no problem, and spoke only Spanish until preschool, but my younger one speaks in English to her sister and is having a more difficult time with Spanish...
2 years of graphic designing
PowerShell was clearly tailored for system scripting, sysadmin, filesystem manipulations, etc... and it does a very good job at that.

Where I find it lacking is in the manipulation of large (10s of GBs) text files, which is what I do most of the time. If I try to cat a large file to wc -l I have to kill the shell because it starts eating all my memory. Even when the memory is not a problem, it is considerably slower than Cygwin or MinGW. I think that the lines are converted to System.String and cached in memory; if this is the case it might be very hard to solve this without an architectural change.

I haven't found any good equivalent of less or grep, things like head and tail are unnecessarily verbose, etc..

Also, the text input is not nearly as advanced as readline-based shells (no Ctrl-K, Ctrl-Y, Alt-Backspace, history search, decent completion...).

I sincerely hope that someone (MSFT or others) comes up with a better solution. Cygwin/MinGW are a reasonable trade-off but PowerShell proved that a much better integration with the system is possible.
> PowerShell is still treated as a second class citizen in the Windows eco-system

This is so completely wrong it's not funny. The majority of Microsoft's server GUIs are now built completely on PowerShell. This includes basic products like IIS, Exchange, etc. Where I work, most consultants who implement or maintain these products have learned PowerShell and use it regularly. Windows Server 2012's default option is "headless" install (Powershell only), and that's been an option since at least Server 08 R2. Powershell is certainly not an afterthought - it is at the core of Microsoft's server administration GUI plans. MS have completely committed to it.
Already done so many times :P

http://blog.historio.us/how-we-got-100000-visitors-without-n...
I remember my grandmother worked in a comic book factory and she used to swipe a couple different computer magazines for me that they printed there...loved those things!
Yeah... to demonstrate how painfully incorrect this submission is, I think this comment from the real sorting code (which switches between mergesort and quicksort for different workloads) does quite well:

// For numeric comparison, which is fast, qsort is faster than mergesort. We
// also don't require mergesort's stability, since there's no user visible
// side-effect from swapping the order of equal primitive values.
One team is livestreaming their work on a youtube live stream.

See this thread for the details: http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/wgk0k/live_coding_icfp...
one-up
3800 communities of reddit in one JavaScript visualization
Stories like these make me think that the whole software industry is a huge conspiracy theory :)

Thanks for sharing
I don't think that's possible at all. If you'll have a listen to their recent podcast #31 - it explains how they see this.
Tips for dealing with Software Inventory
New comments have a brief time without a reply link - although you can still get to it by going to the comment itself through the "link" URL. The purpose is to slow down the back-and-forth arguments between two people that become "Nu-huh!" "Yeah-huh!"
What it’s like pitching to grandmas acting like VCs
Show HN: Winstagram | Explore Instagram In a amazing way
My uncle works at helicopter factory nearby as technician, part of his job is to maintain old database that keep temperature readings from meters inside some oven for making plastic parts (hull, etc).

The system works on old PC with MS-DOS, and database is in clipper. I think the system works for at least 15 years already.
Why cannot both be true? You write something for yourself, but also publish it in the event that it benefits someone else.

But even so, I think the context here was more like "write the sort of book you would like to read", not strictly "write the book so that I and I alone can then read it".
Me as well, having Romanian parents, being born in Thailand (where they taught me English) and coming to Sweden at age two. Romanian, being the last language I learned well, is the rustiest of course.

But I too feel that one can appreciate the commonalities of all the languages, and that, at least for me, I often can see how languages are built, through the pre- and suffixes, and how they work in a Latin manner. This has helped a lot when I had to learn a fourth language in school (French for 4 years, Spanish for 2 - both being very poor now that I haven't trained).

For these reasons I am shocked that people actually thought that raising a bilingual child would do damage their intelligence, seeing how a lot of smart people have been polyglots - although that was not necessarily something they were raised to be, but still.
Here’s what to do. Technically it’s a little harder. Don’t enter labels in the text field because as soon as you type they are gone. How do you check you responses when reviewing a completed form?

Can someone explain that sentence to me?
CCleaner Cleans Up All Those Messy Files
Some time ago I showed visualization of reddit in parts, using SVG.

I add WebGL support to my library (https://github.com/anvaka/VivaGraphJS ) and wanted to visualize full graph of indexed reddit.

A blog post describing how it works: http://blog.yasiv.com/2012/07/visualizing-communities-of-red...

Would love to hear what you think...
After a few years working on a OSX machine I arrived at a new job and had to work with a windows machine. I had the idea to try Powershell so I could share scripts with my colleagues, as I always done. One year later I am still using it, no one ever had any interested on learning them (but they always ask me to run that "dark magic script that load that excel spreadsheet").

Even if my primary goal was not achieved I am still happy that I learned a few tricks with it.