skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's easier to sell to taxpayers that grants are being awarded to do X Y or Z things that they might be able to see or use. That is opposed to basic science research that doesn't necessarily have any applications.

The buzzword these days for it is "translational" research.
Having hooked my iPad up to the tv so my boy and I can use our iDevices to play Fifa Soccer, I can attest that the differences between playing on the tv and playing on device are significant.
Seems that it is only down in Australia & New Zealand.

I was able to get on it via a vpn. They have updated the page with the following message:

We are currently investigating issues related to font serving in Australia. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you have any questions, please drop a note to support@typekit.com
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Instead of angled_brackets<> they should probably try to go with D's style of templates[1], which uses an operater !, to signify its use.

Also, I personally believe that camel case for type names would be a net loss; the underscore separates the words nicely, and I think it's pretty clear from the syntax what is and is not a type name (in my extremely limited experience).

[1]. http://dlang.org/templates-revisited.html
Ah, my mistake. Thanks for clarifying!
Deep dive into Rails/Rack parameter parsing
Breaking the filter bubble via curation and discovery maps
Don't quote me but I think most widely used is Django. But there are other such as pyWeb, Flask etc.
Beautiful, and if you didn't try the WebGL "DEMO" go back and try it.

I like the way the original faces map 1:1 onto the original mesh, too ... which would be important for a Minecraft-like environment with many block types, rather than the binary one discussed.
What do you mean? Replaced them with what?
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I personally use cinch to do window management (or at least arrangement) on osx. Mimics Windows' Aero Snap functionality, and does it pretty well. Never had a need for the zoom button.
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I remember a story about the FBI going after some college kid with a single thumbnail in his browser cache, though the other circumstances were:

- Somehow they came up with his IP in a sting where a link to a file was posted somewhere. I don't know if this was posted to a kiddie porn forum (or someplace where just hanging out there is enough to make you suspicious) or just someplace like 4chan (where there's a number of people that will click the link out of curiosity).

- He had 'recently' re-installed Windows. They claimed that he had obstructed justice (or some other B.S.) b/c he had destroyed evidence. (Evidence that they couldn't prove even existed, IIRC.)

- He had a single thumbnail of kiddie porn in a browser cache.

I think that he just settled with the Feds, but cases like this stick out in my mind because it makes it seem like we're all riding the razor's edge and could fall into the Federal justice system at any moment for some random, stupid reason.

[ Plus taking down a pedophile is brownie points to local politicians, which may (or may not) be pressuring them about crime statistics. ]
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/index.html

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.x/spring-fram...
:shell

(Never ever leave vim)
If Google wants my heart, they can lobby to end the drug war
I think it's great that Google is rallying behind the LGBT movements around the world. Sure, you don't get jailed in North America for being gay, but it can still get you beaten or killed in Jamaica or Egypt. So kudos for fighting the good fight:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/12/google-legalise-love-campaign-rocks

However, Google fighting homophobia is always going to be a fairly ephemeral notion. There will be gains and progress, but it's hard to say what a success scenario looks like for Google on this issue.

I'll tell you what's not ephemeral, though: America's un-winnable "war" on street drugs. It doesn't seem to matter how many African America males they lock up, how many billions of dollars are allocated to ruining the lives of recreational drug users. It doesn't matter that Amsterdam is one of the most civilized places on Earth, or that Portugal's drug epidemic has improved dramatically in most age groups since decriminalization. Quite simply, so long as there's status quo partisan politics and intense lobbying, the saga will continue forever.

That is, unless a logically reasoned and highly funded progressive organization steps in and makes a lot of noise. I'm ecstatic about asteroid mining and colonizing Mars by 2023 just like everyone else, but what I'd like most is for innocent people to stop getting killed or jailed for smoking weed or being physically close to someone else who does.
Any ad network is susceptible to this sort of fraud. A group from China managed to amass large sums from Google ads until they were caught and shut down a year or two back (Techcrunch ran an article about this). I am sure there are some that still manage to do it successfully. The true value of a click is one that is quantifiable beyond likes.
* How many users signed up because of the click with a valid email ? Captchas / honeypots can be used to filter spammers. * Of these users that signed up, how many are active ? * How many users bought the product as a result of the click ? etc
You many need to drill down deeper to avoid some layers of spam users. But yeah, the way the value is measured should not stop with how many users 'liked' a product. It needs to go deeper.
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It's pretty much just ripped from Paul Graham's essay "what I've learned from hackernews": http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
A point is not necessarily 1/72 inches. TeX, for example, uses 1/72.27 by default. See http://www.oberonplace.com/dtp/fonts/point.htm for details on the different definitions of points. Even once you've settled on a definition of point as a unit of length, there's still the problem of defining what a "12 pt font" means; does it refer to the cap height, the length of an em-dash, or something else?
There are hundreds of IP lawyers with strong technical backgrounds who could tell the difference between the patent in your example and say the OFDM patent [snip]

Okay, let's take that argument and run with it. If there are so very many talented IP lawyers with strong technical backgrounds, then why is patent law so bad in the first place? Why are we even having this discussion?

I think there are two reasons. First, I don't think there are enough good IP lawyers covering software patents and software patent law. Why? Software is a very new field and it is changing very quickly. Even the foundational structures of our industry are less than a century old. As such, it's very easy to sneak through "obvious" patents simply because they don't look obvious to someone outside the field. Second, the patent attorneys who do understand how software works and how software patents can be used to constrain and thwart software development all seem to be employed by patent trolls.

For example, let's look at the recent Kelora patent case [1]. In this case, Kelora patented "parametric search" (e.g. drill-down search). They then filed suit against basically every online retailer that allowed shoppers to drill down by category. Now, to a programmer or a web developer, the concept for drill-down hierarchical search is obvious, maybe even a bit blasé. But to someone who isn't as well versed in software development, it can definitely look like a new innovation that deserves patent protection.

Fortunately, in this case, the patent was overturned. But not before it did its damage. Before Kelora took on the big companies, it managed to win settlements from a number of smaller firms [2]. That highlights the true cost of software patents. The cost isn't mainly from the patents that are contested in court. The cost is mainly from the patents that aren't. It's the cost of a business that has to shut down because it violates a patent it didn't know existed. It's the cost of man years wasted because a product has to be redesigned to avoid patent litigation.

Yes, patents do protect innovation. However, they protect certain innovations at the cost of making other innovations much more difficult. In software, especially, they form a tragedy of the anti-commons, where, in effect, your competition has veto power over your innovation. It is increasingly clear to me that these costs do not justify the limited benefit that patent protection brings for software. That is why software patents should be abolished. They are simply not worth the cost.

[1] http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/califor...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/26/kelora-obvious-software-pat...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_anti-commons
Probably that whole "being one of the original members of the Reddit team" thing.

But, you know, I could be wrong.
A Million-Year Hard Disk
The total price of the Digg acquisition was around $16 million
We've been thinking about doing this for some time -- potentially have a FOSS (host yourself) version and a paid cloud version.
There are the obvious benefits to taking the role, but here some reasons I have turned down a similar role in the past:

* By the time you're good enough to be a tech lead, you may want to venture into consulting/contracting and earn more

* You may be in a position of trading development time for managerial duties, which you may or may not enjoy

* Depending on the politics, lead dev may be just below the proverbial corporate ladder glass ceiling

* A lead dev may ultimately spend more hours working to solve a particularly challenging technical problem, which may rest on your shoulders

* You may want to work somewhere else as an 'architect'. This is a very subjective job description, but could propel you faster if your aim is to climb the HR corporate ladder

* If the development environment is lacking now for you as a senior dev, it will lack just as equally as a lead dev
This re-emphasizes one of my own personal rules of entrepreneurship: when someone offers you a FU money exit, and you don't already have FU money, you take it. You take it and walk. Because if you don't, you might regret it, and who knows what the future will bring. After you reach FU money, it's not like you can't go and try building another new product/service/website/gadget again -- you can, except you'll be starting from a much safer and happier place, with more resources, connections, eyeballs, etc.
Yea, this reminds me of the MS/IBM DOS 4.0 fiasco, though in this case it is much worse.
Were you the college roommate I had who suspended the alarm on a string over the bed so that standing was required to turn it off?
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^ For those that wonder why there is even a separate clean log.
Fwiw, Vim plugins:

Chrome/ium: http://vimium.github.com/

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pentadactyl/

Opera: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/vimoperate/

Anyone know any for Safari or IE?
How is the proposed usage (slide #8) different than the bad usage on slide #4 ("shorthand for setting multiple properties on an object")? The code for sharing module scope works fine as long as you stick with "a.i" instead of just "i" (i.e., are not lazy).

As mentioned elsewhere, using `with` is very slow: http://jsperf.com/with-versus-without
Hang out at top universities. People there are ambitious and always looking to work on stuff - and there's usually an event or club or two that you can attend where you can meet like-minded, action-biased individuals, even of you're not a student.

Hack-a-thons are also good.
Really? The people that were there in the beginning to see subreddits develop... aren't smart enough to "search for subreddits" and find ones that are interesting? Or aren't involved enough to find those subreddits organically?

Maybe it's a bad assumption, but I guess I don't give a shit. This whole "we have to cater to the lowest denominator is the whole thing we're trying to avoid, is it not? Digg was fine when they went after geeks. As they tried to make it social and opened it for massive appeal it went down the shitter. I have no problem with the more refined subreddits staying hidden. If people can't manage to find their way there, they probably shouldn't be there.
What Was Your First Coding Book?
>failing miserably at getting my rpi to do anything useful

Really? What are you trying to do with it? My RPI won't play 1080p video but I've got a tiny little app using omxplayer to play back HD content from my server very, very reliably.
I fully support leaving a job that is not satisfying, but I can't recommend creating a profile on a web site that implies that you regard yourself as a rock star who requires a leather furnished tour bus and a bathtub filled with chilled champagne before you can consider joining an unworthy enterprise. I assume any employer desperate enough to scope out talent that has this attitude is probably the kind of place I don't want to work at.
'man -K' is also useful, for when you want to search the contents of man pages and not just the descriptions.
Agreed and Facebook does a better job than most to keep this to a minimum. If you take any time whatsoever on an ad you can reduce this further by ommitting developing countries. A valid like is more valuable than other ad goals because conversions can receive future messages from the advertiser for free. Disagree with most of the article.
No, rDNS And whois are different things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois
vs
reverse DNS, which you are obviously familiar with.
Don't touch my code
Shape the position. Don't let the position shape you.
So engineers (coders) at IBM, Microsoft, Apple, HP, Dell, Wal-Mart, etc. should give up their "dangerous" jobs and seek out startups?
I think scammers, even the ones in Nigeria, use a wide variety of tactics. I think it's prudent to be wary in a situation like this, where the OP is explicitly looking to offer services for money in an unusual situation in what will likely be an unconventional transaction.
Ask HN: How do you run your product process?
This is a long and open question in the history of software engineering, and it's talked about some, but I'd love to know what the HN community does.

- Agile.
- Extreme Programming.
- Cabals (from the Valve Employee Handbook).
- Waterfall.

What do you use? What works? What doesn't? How do you prioritize features and goals?
I'd bet a majority of reddit users have never heard of digg.
Is this an indication that Digsby is going out of business?
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None of the links you list have prices available. Let's go with Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Transformer-TF300-T-B1-BL-10-1-Inch-Ta...

Price point: $384. With an LCD. This isn't even close to comparable to the product they're trying to make. So to close the gap, you say:

> Drop the camera, the touch screen, the battery and the enclosure, I bet you I could get a deal for these boards well under $50 for 10,000+ lots.

Engineering tightly integrated consumer electronics products like these isn't a menu. You can't just "unplug" the monitor "remove" the battery and then repackage it. Redesign of a processor board of this complexity isn't a picnic; it takes significant EE expertise.

And with an initial price point almost 4x that Ouya promises? Please. This isn't "comparable" at all. You want a comparable piece of hardware? See http://trimslice.com/web/order-direct. Twice the price point with significantly less horsepower. That's what people are probably going to get in the end with this project.
Emacs:
Conkeror http://www.conkeror.org/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Awesome-Game-Creation-Programming-Re...

Learned a click-based "programming" method called The Games Factory through this book when I was 11 I think. Ever since then I've been hooked on tech/programming.
If I try to type to 'wiggle' a link in Google search results, it always just continues typing in the search input box.

While using the escape key to 'escape' a 'wiggle' makes sense, setting it to backspace makes it easier to access and also makes sense, or allowing users to configure which key to exit a 'wiggle'.

Thanks, I like this.
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I was thinking something along the lines of a portfolio of work or LinkedIn profile to get a better sense of your skills/identity. I actually have a scraping project related to a nonprofit grants prospecting startup and wanted to see if you would be a good fit for some work.
Yes, you should take the role. Here is my reasoning,

Tech leadership is different than tech development, very different. You cannot know if you have the skills to do it without trying it and giving it a shot.

If you want to build something bigger than something you can build yourself, you will need help. If you need help you will need provide leadership to that help so that your vision is realized. Communicating technical vision, while still being open to modifications of that vision, is a hugely valuable skill, worth double what you are currently making in salary.

So if you have the support of your management, and you go in saying "I'm just trying this out and don't get too comfortable here cuz I might suck at it." you will be able to 'safely' find your strengths (or weaknesses). Its important that you do this without getting an actual 'promotion' because if you aren't promoted then you won't need to be demoted if it doesn't work out. Your management gets to 'try it on' without risk and everyone wins.

If you do have this strength you can consider other paths in your career than the ones available with only coding skills.

What you do not want to do is get 'trapped' above your skill level. Which is to say you get promoted to a place where you can't be effective and the only option at that point is to leave.
Google "experts misunderestimate"
there's a problem regarding false positives though. A portion of those may be guilty of other things.

There was this interesting article on this idea of terahertz lasers in airports. I think these machines are great because they are programmable and specific. You can program them to look just for explosives and this reduces the search issues significantly. But what of the fact that they would mean the TSA might be Constitutionally barred from looking for drugs? Would this retard adoption?

I think if you want to show you are doing a great job at law enforcement and minimize the warrant requirement, you want to have as many false positives as the courts will let you get away with. "Yeah they only found a few oz of pot, but they had probable cause to believe he was a sexual predator, so the evidence is admissible."
You should see this thing, dog-eared, warn out...but still kicking! Even though it's not very useful anymore, I wouldn't sell this book for anything in the world lol

Do you remember your first programming book, or have a particular favorite?
This number makes much more sense if you are just talking their 7 mil uniques. I think the $500k was perfect "dot-com fail sensationalism".
It wasn't a book, but I clearly remember sitting around with my dad and typing in games from magazines (they would just list the source code on a couple pages).
Still reported as 500k for the domain name, code, and traffic, which seems crazy low.
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If you use Pry's `edit-method some_object.some_method`[1] you can actually open the method in an editor and it'll even fast forward the cursor to the first line of the method.

[1] https://github.com/pry/pry/wiki/Editor-integration#wiki-Edit...
So who gets the $12M that was paid for the team?
The domain name alone is worth more than $500k.
> 15 different Digg patents including the patent on “click a button to vote up a story.”

HN is doomed
Try these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1176294

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
It doesn't need that.
OH YEAH! I did that too! Oh man I forgot about those magazines...what where they called..."Ahoy" Magazine or something like that for the old Commodore 64 mags...yeah yeah :-P
Definitely check out Pry (http://pry.github.com). It's designed specifically for your use case... Just start Pry, load the gems you want, and then navigate to the method/class you want to know about using Pry's `ls` and `cd` commands. Once you find what you want, either use `show-source` to view the source directly in Pry, or use `edit-method` to open it in an editor.
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This story hasn't changed at all - the earlier reports were that the purchase hadn't included any of the staff, it's old news that they were hired by WaPo.
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>I sat watching a directory copy to our office NAS today saying "About 5 seconds remaining" for around 45 minutes. Something is definitely broken there. Before that it said "10 seconds" for ~20 minutes and "1 minute" for ~30 minutes. It was copying... the speed/time calculation just clearly didn't take into account copying lots of small files (<=1KB) is a very different scenario to 1 big file. Let alone it just shouldn't be that slow...

So you are new to this "computer use" thing?

Because shit like that happens _all_ the time, in all OSes, from OS X to Windows to Linux, to NetBSD, to Haiku, to whatever.

It can even have 20 different explanations, besides the OS. "Doing a directory copy to the office NAS". Maybe the network configuration? Maybe the NAS?

For major issues and bugs I can understand the complaints --like the buggy XCode.

But do people (and hackers much more), think it means something to have tiny complains about some one-off annoyance that who knows why and how it happened?
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Well, I for one, like it. And I have been using OS X since 10.2
I'm like that, exactly, but with Emacs.

A long time ago I narrowly escaped being like that exactly, but with TECO :-)

I've learned not to fret about people's choice of editor. FOr instance, if someone was happy in NotePad, as long as it didn't affect me, I learned not to care. (I might grit my teeth in frustration, watching them flail for minutes at something I could do in seconds with my choice of editor, but that's my problem).