skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happened to our 1500 Pledges?
Do you support organizations?
Show HN: Printchomp print goods order/comparison engine
hotel IT here: they last for between a year and 18 months and are generally replaced as part of a fixed maintenance cycle (floor by floor over a period of 2 or three months).
And I hope that as a result of those outages, the power companies and state and local governments will evaluate if any policy or infrastructure changes could improve their ability to get the power back on.
I think we're saying basically the same thing, but you're more patient than I am (and possibly more willing to compromise).
Who said anything about lowering the bar for anyone? There is no bar to attend most hackathons, no qualifying heats or even resume screening.

You also assume that lowering the bar inherently attracts less-qualified people than the marginal alternative participant.
That is not true unless the outcome you care about is whatever bar you are using to measure and people accurately self-assess (or universally apply).
For example, there is a 1992 study that found that SAT scores were equally good at predicting success of women and men, but only within those groups. Women performed as well during college courses as men with SAT scores 50 points higher (http://her.hepg.org/content/1p1555011301r133/). In such a case in order to maximize total academic performance, you would need to compensate for that systematic discrepancy and lower the SAT bar for women: what you are actually doing is normalizing the predicted-college-performance bar. That would not maximize total admitted SAT scores, but might maximize the outcome the college actually cares about.
I would say that is closer to hacking the justice system then robbing a bank. Still, any civilized government should offer all of its citizens at least the same rights and benefits as that countries criminals.
"and whose priorities will shift wildly after she gives birth in October."

Are you insinuating that she'll focus more on her family than her job?
Hmmm ... for the record, here's the thinking that led to the current tip structure:

http://blog.gittip.com/post/26505682007/is-personal-funding-...
IOS 6 Beta 3 ables you to download free App without Apple ID
Was that guy in Norway part of a known terrorist group or something? Why isn't he a "madman" like the one in Aurora, US last week?

I do find terrifying what's happening in UK lately, seemingly all of the sudden from those of us not living there, like that new law proposal to monitor everyone's private communications. Not too long ago that kind of proposal would've been seen as insane. Now it seems a lot of politicians are taking it seriously, as if history before the past 20 years doesn't even exist, and we've all started from scratch 20 years ago. They now think monitoring everyone is a "necessary" thing to prevent the "evils" of the world.

Also, in US, isn't it strange how they don't talk about terrorists "hating us for our freedoms" anymore? Is it because they've realized what a stupid statement that was to begin with, or because they know they're taking them away one by now one, and it's best not to mention this dirty word "freedom" anymore?
In the case of fraud where does the liability lie ?
42 years? That must be more than manslaughter.
Maybe we can idolize him and not seek to become him, but try to be somewhere in the middle.
No link to any product info on comms.io? Lame.
I would like to see some live data integration into Excel, like pulling server logs into visual graphs in Excel. It shouldn't be too hard with the plugin from http://www.ironspread.com and python, right?
Yeeesh, yeah definitely put on an "unofficial" tag. Just because the stackoverflow community wants a podcast, I'm thinking this would be akin to stealing their name and starting "The stackoverflow podcast".
Agreed. But I think you could still do the shades of grey. Just need to determine the amount a cell is occluded.
"Non-programmers?" Where are you getting that from?
Interesting approach, but like some others I'm wondering if this is the fastest and easiest way to do this kind of thing, especially since you are working with a tile based grid.

Probably a combination of 2d portals and raycasting would do the same trick, but more efficiently. I also think it would be easier to implement, and more flexible if you want to have moving obstacles. Most of this stuff is standard fare in even the simplest of 3d engines and well documented, the 2d case would actually be a simplification of those algorithms.

Nonetheless I think your solution is pretty clever and interesting, so kudos for that.
What about turning the cursor to a hand when hovering on reactive elements?
Right.

I was thinking about whether there could be a way to apply your technique, without having to do the polar + cartesian conversions.
Oracle lowers the flag on Fortress language project
If you're not averse to C#: Eric Lippert has a series about visibility in a rogue-like game (it's either/or, no shadows, but still a nice read) on his blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2011/12/12/shado...
The captcha bit was me just fooling. There are no captchas for unsubscribing. Well, I've never seen any, at least.

I did this for 2 reasons:

1) It was an absurdly simple MVP.
2) I actually have been looking for this service, so I wanted to see if others had any interest.
3) Wait, 3?
If the non-Backbone version grows from 16 lines to 16000 lines, then the Backbone version will probably grow from 40 lines to 40000 lines, and will still be worse.

I agree with everyone that it's necessary to structure your code, especially as it grows, I just don't think using a generic-structure-fits-all approach like Backbone is the way to do it. The structure should follow the business functionality, not an arbitrary abstraction that helps the developer talk to the computer. You may end up with 16000 lines of javascript, but if they're spread through 1000 modules that are each clearly related to specific business requirements and/or specific controls in the UI, then as a maintenance developer you'll be able to find the 16 lines you need to worry about for any given task quickly and easily, and then you'll be able to understand those lines once you get to them.
I'm not saying he should not publish this at all. I just think it will be more responsible to try to work with the vendor. Right now he has not even made that effort.
Ask HN: Are there non-english programming languages and what do they look like?
I am a native English speaker and have always taken for granted that programming languages were in English. I was curious if people had built languages in other languages besides english and what they might look like? Are there any popular ones? Have any taken a drastically different path than the English ones?
As I understand it, HN was the subject of a web crawl that was sufficiently agressive that it was effectively a DOS. As a result, access to older items was limited to try to limit the damage.
Hmmm ... example I can look at?
Any chance you could provide a link to those videos? I'd be interested in checking them out.
DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris to startups: ‘Complexity is your enemy’
ARM and TSMC Collaborate to Optimize Next-Generation 64-bit
Haha. You are probably correct on both fronts.
From the fact that programmers don't go to "hackathons" that are 8 hours long, have no set purpose, and are run by marketing weasels who say things like "build awesome hacks".
Considering there are zero captchas implemented for unsubscribing, why yes, yes it is webscale.

boom

:)
Short answer: No.

Long answer: Trying to figure out the best way to do that. See:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/27
Wasn't he a buddhist? Not that that means anything. Buddhist's are more then capable of being shit-heads.

But if he was a practicing buddhist.. wouldn't he had recognized what leads to suffering? Desire of course. Desire to be be perfect. Or maybe his desire to prove he was right?

There are other words I'd use to describe him (and several other corporate giants); arrogance comes to mind.

Sometimes these men think there really did do it all on their own. Why I love hearing a billionaire say, "I'm a self made man". Oh really? So all the people who worked for you, cooked for you, kept your schedule, managed your companies, investments and life didn't do a damn thing? Really?

And that's what I think of Steve Jobs. No doubting he was brilliant and had amazing taste. But he wasn't the most important person in the room. At it's start Woz built Apple. Steve just sold it. And today, he didn't design the products, but he had vision of what he wanted. And many of us wanted the same thing. He was a damn good salesman. And he had a great ability of keeping everyone on focus. But he wasn't the most important person in the room. Apple could (and it does) go on without him. And I think he knew it. And it dogged him all his life.

I'm also believe in karma. And the way he died,, his long battle/suffering - leads me to believe he had debts to pay. I only hope, in the end he died clean.
Try the cache:link or you can see it here http://cl.ly/IGd0. Good for them for being very quick with clearing up the confusion by taking it down.
I agree with this. And, I've also realized I didn't implement it this way when I created http://imby.me

But I'm gonna change that, now that I've considered the error of my ways.
Very cool. Are those annotations crawlable? Is there an RDF schema for those kinds of snippets?

PS: While this is a very small step in the right direction, it's very small.
It was organized by women. I presume that if she wanted babies she would have them. Sperm is not that expensive.

Programmers who happen to be women are coworkers, not baby-making machines. Your attitude is so wrong I don't even know where to start, except to suggest that you clearly don't understand emergence, evolution or humanity.
P.S. Started a ticket to track this: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/177
Terrorists want people not to continue their way of life. This is their main objective. They want people to live in fear. By voluntarily creating fear about terrorism, we make the terrorists goal easier.
8 million passwords dumped from gaming website Gamigo
Explore the world and discover what makes you happy. Hopefully it will be something that makes money; if not you'll have to find a career you enjoy (or don't mind doing every day, at least) to pay the bills.
Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors
There's a cinema in Valley Stream, NY with metal detectors after a number of shootings in the 90s. I went there exactly once, it's off-putting enough to make me want to go elsewhere.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/aurora-shooting-highlight...
What to Tell the Children About Their Inheritance and When
Sure, I'll ask Alex (the original HNpodder) to make it clear.

Also, the title of the podcast is HNpod and certainly no "the" in it. So it would be more like "SOPod" than "The StackOveflow Podcst".
I would read about Buckminster Fuller. He had the same goal. For example, "Critical Path" is a good start.

Another book to consider is "How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life" by Alan Lankin.

Invest time to understand yourself. This could be learning about Zen/Buddhism or just taking time out to journal, take walks, etc.

As a member of Hacker News, you might want to look for "worthwhile problems" to throw your energy at. Good problems need to be hard enough to be interesting and help enough people but still be attainable.
Who said anything about money? He changed the game multiple times in multiple industries, and had his greatest successes as he was fighting death. If you compare his net impact vs. actual wealth he was a pauper... and esp if you look at his stake in Apple, as the majority of his wealth was from Pixar/Disney.

There are too many 'responsible adults' wallowing in mediocrity who more than anything else actually drag the system down. Maybe you can look up to them as role models on how to raise a family (although I personally would disagree as the majority fail at that anyway)... but how to leave a mark on this world and push for excellence, I will look to people like Steve, Musk, Frank Lloyd Wright, Edison/Tesla, etc. Please don't conflate the two.
Seriously? What is the point of limiting yourself to one OS and then gripping about some app X not running on your flavor. Get a VM and buy a copy of Windows; problem solved. I have 4 OSes running on my laptop three of which are running under a VM. With the unity mode I don't normally even see the seams. I've got Snow Leopard, Windows 7, Ubuntu and Redhat. Actually I have 5 OSes but I don't use my Windows 8 pre-release which might have expired by now.

I am eagerly anticipating tools like this maturing to a level where really serious development can take place. I mean, I did a good bit of development in Flash and Flex but things really didn't take off for me until there were really powerful editing tools that went beyond dropping a few things on a canvas and tying them together with code. This tool but at a Unity 3D level of editing would super nice.
Worth mentioning that most people trying this would probably go for the self-checkout, so you'd have to swap barcodes with something that weighed the same amount.
Would you have bought it last week if you had known they were being bought by Google and effectively killing the product line?
The second paragraph, yes, that's my thinking. If @m5rk and I write up enough rules and process, with enough data, that would be useful to some biz like, oh, gmail. Maybe.
This looks to be a cool tool for automating spreadsheet work, and Excel is fine for a very small client list, but for a long term solution you can use Insightly CRM for free forever with up to three users, and it integrates right into Gmail to track your conversations with clients. http://insightly.com
(Disclosure - I am the CEO of Insightly).
hmmm... I didn't realize that the world's jellyfish population was in such jeopardy that we needed to create an artificial one. Thankfully we have science looking out for us. o_0
A Self-Made Man Looks At How He Made It – Whatever
Awesome, I disagree of course but its a great discussion. My experience is with the integration of low cost compute into the flows rather than manufacturing. However I find it striking how similar your argument sounds to the ones that IBM made early on about how PCs would 'never' threaten mainframes because they didn't have the IO capabilities or the printing capability. And while certain markets still use them (credit card processing for example), a lot of things they were used for succumbed to a new way of doing things because it was cheap.

I suspect that much of the challenge with CNC penetration is with the costs involved. But could easily be wrong.

Current injection molding does make thousands per hour and that's certainly achievable with thousands of 3D printers running in parallel, but the place where I think you will first see disruption will be in the 'short run' segments, where people would make 100,000 parts (minimum run) and only sell 10,000 units. Their price per unit was effectively 10x in that case. But they have no other way to get to 10,000 at the moment. In the compute space that is how the market disrupted, lower performance of the unit offset by the savings of not having to over provision for the compute capacity. Will be interesting to watch.
Typical American home is cluttered with possessions — and stressing us out
FWIW, I'd love to see a $1.00 option added to the mix. 25¢ is too small, $3 is too much, $1 is just right. :-)
10 Examples of Best Buy’s Geek Squad Violating Customer Trust
I wish I were surprised that this sort of hostility is only shown when attracting women is one of the main goals of an event.

But I'm not. I'm not.
Would it be fair to say that this approach for achieving gender balance can thus be summarized as: "quotas"?
Totally doable, but up to the programmer if they want that functionality or not. In the library it's as simple as setting a GraphObject's

cursor: 'pointer'

The only sample I can think of that has that functionality is this one:

http://www.gojs.net/latest/samples/basic.html

In the above example it is set only on the colored shape to indicate that it is possible to create a new link if dragged from the edges of a node.
"This only ends in tears." - Every small bus. that went down this road ever.
It's still worth visiting, in my opinion..
Why the next generation of video games needs a next generation of television
Defcon: Hacker Conference Hits Twenty Year Mark in Vegas
VMware Buys Nicira for $1.26B
If you believe in MBTI, Steve Jobs is pegged as an ENTJ.

This is the brief definition of an ENTJ:

"They tend to be self-driven, motivating, energetic, assertive, confident, and competitive. They generally take a big-picture view and build a long-term strategy. They typically know what they want and may mobilize others to help them attain their goals. ENTJs are often sought out as leaders due to an innate ability to direct groups of people. Unusually influential and organized, they may sometimes judge others by their own tough standards, failing to take personal needs into account."

Here's the kicker:

ENTJs are among the rarest of types, accounting for about 2–5% of those who are formally tested.

A generation of people are going to try really hard to emulate a cult status figure's personality but at the end of the day that's all it really is: a bad fidelity copy.

Don't live to be Steve Jobs, be you. And if it so happens that you turn out awesome then great. If not, then work on acceptance.
Reading this I'm reminded of the movie Network. A major network producer sees the value of producing original "disaster porn" (my term, not from the film) for public consumption in a television news magazine. Only here we see that a one-hour news magazine hardly begins to strain the attention span of the average consumer. Rather the author of this blog post seems to recognize that the public is desirous of far more, and that they may be led so easily by piecing out details bit-by-bit. How often does real life deliver on--and even exceed--it's own satire?

On a related note, the author is listed as Edward O'Neil, which just happens to be the name of the actor who portrayed Stan Mikita in the referenced film. Color me intrigued...
I'm female and I believe this is true to some extent, but that the good work done by women engineers and women in tech groups outweighs it.

It is hard going to an event and wondering if people think I was invited for free because I'm a woman. Going to a hackathon and having people believe I'm a designer on sight. Having people nod their heads understandingly when I mention I'm a PM, not a full time engineer (any more).

It's rare, but once you get a touch of the impostor syndrome it's very hard to shake. I'd believe rationally that 90% of the people at one of these events would be ready to embrace me for my abilities and not care about my gender. The people I work with certainly do an outstanding job of that. I've just had enough odd comments and sceptical looks that I believe there's a grain of truth to the paranoia.

On the flipside, the last Startup Weekend I went to was SWEDU, where I worked with two other female iOS engineers, a female marketer and a male teacher to pull out an awesome iOS learning game in less than 54 hours. So.. good things do happen. :)
How about a little super glue in/on the DC power port?
Without a more complex example that shows the 'real' benefit, that would just be another unsubstantiated claim.

I know I'm setting a tough bar, but Backbone (and most frameworks) ask for a lot of faith. I've seen far too many "Framework X will make everything easier; all you have to do is totally commit yourself to it until switching to something else is not a feasible option" claims, almost always followed (eventually) by "Yeah, sorry, we really thought it would work out."

In contrast, libraries like jQuery say "Hey, you don't need us, but if you want to do X you can use us to do Y, which is simpler." They don't require a huge commitment up-front; you can start to use them gradually and let them prove their worth. I think that's why jQuery and many library-type products have been so successful compared to the framework-type products.
Synthetic jellyfish a hybrid of rat hearts and plastic
People have mentioned syntax-highlighting, which is cool, and I'll be checking it out shortly.

But MY favorite feature of zsh is ZLE: the Zsh Line Editor. The fact that I hit up-arrow, and see the for|while|if statements as I typed them, rather than mashed together into a horrible, semi-colon infected, one-liner (like bash) is awesome.
11 million passwords from hacked game website dumped online
This is a little bit different because it's only giving users with pre-existing accounts an option to change their username to their real name. Anybody who registers a new account is forced to use their real name (or a fake real name).
http://xkcd.com/538/ is sort of relevant, no?
Windows and OS X Boot Camp: running Redmond at “Retina” resolution
Probably the marine is a quiet guy, and his mom (perhaps incorrectly) feels like she has to stand up for him. OTOH the girl seems to be making her case pretty well so the father feels like he doesn't have to add anything to the convo.
Disclosure: I used to work at Postmark.

ISPs are way more interested in maintaining relationships with ESPs that keep junk from getting to them in the first place than the ones that "quickly fix once the damage is done". It's one case where "asking for forgiveness" isn't preferred over the more careful approach.

SES is more like outsourcing sendmail on your own server so you don't carry the burden of maintaining/securing it, except that you don't have control over it when something goes wrong and you have the same lack of customer support if you don't know how to fix it. If you value your messages getting to the inbox, it's the least desirable option. For sending low-value emails, though, go nuts!
Fair enough. Being a good boss who actually mentors their employees is a secret weapon anywhere. :)
Ostensibly because high demand fields are more likely to get hired and lead successful careers outside of Amazon.

Logistically it also simplifies things because you can respond to "Why can't I pursue education X?" questions with "because the BLS doesn't list them"
Head of Kaspersky Labs: there's "too much freedom" online
For most people quitting your job is an extremely risky proposition. Even if you do have a financial safety net, there are no guarantees other employers will be jumping at the opportunity to give you a job.
I think there are good examples to take from Jobs. It's all about a time and a place, sometimes you want to drive to resolution, and be a dick, because that is what will produce the most efficient best result, and for other things, good enough _is_ good enough, and additional pushing will not result in substantive improvement. Wisdom is the ability to pick those two situation apart.
Actually, it is possible to host PHP on Heroku. For some reason, it is not particularly well advertised (unlike the Python/Node support) but if you push your PHP files they should do the right thing: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7947499/deploy-php-to-her.... I believe this is what they use for their automatic Facebook integration (see https://github.com/heroku/facebook-template-php).
The reporter just added up the maximum possible sentence for 6 class-3 felonies. This is SOP in reporting on crimes even though there's no way she'll get that.
Agreed. Plus, bindAll [1] does quite a lot of magic under the hood that IMO is an overkill compared to passing the context object.

[1]: http://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html#section-52
Why does the IT industry continue to listen to Gartner?
Developers: request for complaints