skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't daringfireball also like that here?
Further to this, it's not unusual to see a massive rack of SIM cards for different networks in practically every supermarket and paper shop you walk into.

This isn't uncommon for us.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=724420 <- Comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3448317 <- Repost, no comments

There are many more, some with discussion, some without. A search will find some of them.
The side menu thing on that site makes the scroll bar completely unusable.
But it also shows the importance of Wayback Machine.

Which, sadly, seems to be suffering. At least, all of the times I've used it in the last couple of years, its indexing had slowed significantly or even stopped on the sites I was looking up. I'm not sure what the deal is, but it could certainly do with a large endowment.
This website is blocked as 'pornography' at my workplace. So... that's interesting.
Google+ WILL Dominate Facebook - Here's Why
Look for the number of visits to Google+ to explode in the months of August and September of 2012.
Interestingly, the BBC's obit had multiple videos (represented by a picture with an icon over it, as is the convention) but no still photos. I am obviously not an expert on this :) but I thought their article looked great.
maxko87 has an auto-submitter for extremetech stuff:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wMnxadU...

evo_9 is another weird account that does a lot of extremetech although he really looks like he's on Ars Technica's payroll more than theirs:

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=evo_9

They also have at least one employee submitting:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mrsebastian
trying to write out documentation on how to use something is as helpful as TDD in some cases for the "making you figure it out before you start".

Where TDD shines is giving you a tiny testbench to see that your implementation is heading in the correct direction before you get too far.
The article does talk about this...
I like the idea of having a standard place to find this information. It's still for robots though isn't it? Why not include this information in robots.txt?
well, at least it exists. When going to family for the weekend, I could at least have it charged by time we go home. That being said, they'd have to let me have the garage, and we couldn't really use my car while there. Still a hassle, but it could be worse I guess.
Shouldn't we be using XML for this???
I'm referring to iOS. Not OSX.
Apps: Sublime Text 2, Codekit
Frameworks: Sass & Haml

:)
They still have to prove in court that you acquired them illegally. Presumption of innocence still holds, at least in theory.
...except, that it isn't C++ standard compliant, and you are worse off than when you started out. "full-featured C++" is misleading.

http://www.insectnation.org/howto/living-without-root

https://linuxfr.org/nodes/18919/comments/632920

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.c%2B%2B.root/5924
This claim (that there's a big niche for curated computing with one central curator) would sway me a little if it weren't for all the patent litigation. And the really strong network effects in OS adoption.

Where I'd expect them to be: no correlation a priori between whether a computer has a multitouch interface and whether its own owner can choose what software to run.
+1 for this. The cars which combine electric and gas make a lot more sense until we get to at least 5k range with electric. I'm not joking about that either...
I routinely go over 5k miles on trips where plugging in for 5 hours would be problematic.
Another problem here as well is the case of poor people. They don't have a lot of money and often times have to travel great distances just to get to work. I know of people who work for Stanford and aren't highly paid professors/doctors/lawyers/etc and routinely commute 60-100 miles each way.
Original Kommersant article (in Russian):

http://www.kommersant.ru/pda/kommersant.html?id=2009256
Being married is one thing; having kids is another.

As an entrepreneur with two young children, I know it's hard to keep a balance.

The hard part isn't necessarily the limited number of hours. It's possible to build a successful startup while working 40 hours a week, provided you're really focused and not goofing around during those hours.

What's hard is many startups have a youth culture that glorifies in working all the time, though much of that time is drinking beer and playing foosball. That's great when you're 23. But I (and many others with kids) would much prefer a professional culture of focused, intense work from 10 AM to 6 PM.
Show HN: Simple SaaS Metrics Dashboard for Stripe
All this hate for about.com just goes to show how much of a bubble some of you guys' internet activity exists in. As far as "content farms" go, they are very good at what they do. The quality of their articles have always been very well done (for the information I was looking for). I never got the feeling of landing on an SEO spammer site when I landed about.com. Actually, I used to spend quite a lot of time on about.com many years ago. Their sections are more than just content farm pages, they're also communities centered around specific topics. Think reddit without the childish memes and BS. The quality of discussions there were always much higher than you'd find on most popular places on the web today.

Much value exists on the internet outside of the techcrunch echo chamber. Dismiss it at your own peril.
>>I'm just suggesting that the general population doesn't have 50k to spend on something that only provides one very specific utility.

I doubt that. Take a look at this:

http://www.autospies.com/news/Study-Finds-Americans-Own-2-28...

The average American household owns 2.28 vehicles. The percentage of households that own three or more vehicles is a whopping 35 percent.

Furthermore, the most common pairing of vehicles in American households with two to four cars is a full-sized pickup truck and a standard, mid-range vehicle. The latter can basically be a Tesla.
Securing Stripe's Capture the Flag
You can buy a consumer black and white (no Bayer) digicam again, made by Leica. Its not cheap though. There used to be a Sony one.
I think you overestimate the physical cost of books. From http://michaelhyatt.com/why-do-ebooks-cost-so-much.html, "Second, physical manufacturing and distribution expenses cost less than you think. Some people assume that these two items represent the bulk of a book’s costs. They don’t. Together, they account for about 12% of a physical book’s retail price."
Two weeks ago I went to go find a new primary care doctor, largely because I had received my results from a 23andme kit (but also because I didn't care much for my old doctor). The SNP matching told me a lot of things I should look out for later in my life, and it let me select someone who specialized in all the ways I was going to break.

Some people may be creeped out by a fully sequenced genetic code, but being able to sit down with a doctor and go through each match individually and talk about it was one of the coolest experiences I've had. I'm actually going in for a blood test tomorrow for the first of yearly checkups I'll have for a particular cancer that I'm at a high risk for, which I otherwise wouldn't have known about had I not done the genetic test.

Issues and concerns with the ethics of genes will inevitably arise, but the opportunities that it presents casts a shadow far greater than the problems.
velly nice
At what point is Gittip going to be issuing 1099s for all of the individuals it donates to?
It's up to them to prove you did anything wrong, which they won't be able to. The RIAA only targets people who illegally distribute digital media (something they can prove).
Quite, it's was filled to the brim with anxiety.
You're really overstating the situation.

There are any number of two car households where one car is unsuitable for long family trips. Somehow they exist just fine.
Intel has been doing graphics parts for ages - going back to their i740 in the '90s all the way through their GMA family of northbridges.

They've always been equivalent to low-end previous-generation parts from ATi and NVIDIA. They've never had anything even remotely comparable until the HD 4000, and even that is a bad joke.
Ya, blogger has a bunch of issues. We'll probably have to move away from it if they don't fix them soon.
Can't tell if he was serious or not, but metaclasses have no place in a 30 day quest to learn Python.
This is a very helpful post. I teach beginners and one of my theories has been: you "just" need to understand for-loops, if-statements, and of course, how to invoke methods...and then you're going to finally understand why programming is worth it.

But those fundamental concepts are not at all "just" easy to grasp for some reason. I don't know if it is just the particular syntax or what. So it's very helpful to have a learner explain the difficulty.
What's wrong with "bad" form? The guy ran his races, maybe had fun, didn't mention injuries. What's the problem?

I say this as a barefoot runner. I've stopped caring about "running naturally" or similar nonsense. If you look at the research, things that correlate with injury are mostly doing "too much, too soon". There are a couple other things, but from this I conclude that if you do something gradually (like build from 5k to a marathon over some years), then you are minimizing your risk of injury. But if you do something non-gradually such as couch to 10K, or 10K with form A to 10K with form B, you are increasing your risk of injury.

Certain types of shoes that may or may not prod you into some "more correct" form do not correlate with lower injury rates. I don't think much research has been done on bare feet, but reading barefoot runners' forums leads me to believe injury rates are at least in the same ballpark as any other group of runners.
Nice try, Ask.com employee.
Interesting that most saw no change in revenue. While the article does make a point for price testing and competitive intelligence, the story I'm taking from the data is that it might be a bigger issue of marketing. What channels are driving your new user interest and sales? Pricing is so marginal - $0.99, $1.99, $2.99 - that it seems there's a relative inelasticity for app pricing. Consumers are more interested in what apps they have a perceived "need" for and thereby exposure and recommendations are a larger determiner of sales than pricing.
> See underscore's bind()

Better, just use Function.prototype.bind, 0 bytes gzipped with Vanilla JS.
RIM: In Hindsight, Yes, We Missed Multiple Paradigm Shifts
Ask HN: Idea Feedback - Hubot for Business
Hi HN,

I've talked to a number of teams on interviews, meetups, etc. where they are using Hubot internally alongside Campfire, IRC, HipChat, or something similar. It seems to be an increasingly popular tool for collaboration and automation on small teams.

An idea I had recently is to offer something similar to Hubot, but focused on business users vs. developers. Also focus on popular commercial services (CRM, analytics, document management, market research, etc.) which these people rely on and are paying for today.

The core offering would be:

- different plugins that know how to talk to various 3rd party services

- a chat bot that can sit in your buddy list, campfire room, etc. and awaiting your command

- a variety of commands that can pull reports, perform small tasks, etc. on command ala Hubot... ideally with different options to control formatting, combining, scheduling, etc.

The key value being:

- bridge a variety of services together in one interface

- remove the technical barrier of having to setup a bot/agent

- provide a easy to use management interface for configuring everything

Some things I like about this:

- able to immediately market to established user bases on both the communication side (HipChat, Campfire) as well as the 3rd party apps

- given people's enthusiasm for tools like Hubot, custom dashboards, etc. it feels like people would find this appealing

Any constructive feedback and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
The article says:

We drove from Fontana on the eastern edge of the L.A.
basin to San Diego and all the way back to L.A.'s Pacific
edge on one charge. Five hours of continuous driving.

The 233 mile, 5 hour trip was done on a single charge.

To me that's pretty far - I could tolerate a 1 hour break every 5 hours.
I'd imagine they are, since they're all 2-3 generations old and relegated to the "USED" bin.
In developing countries, like India, getting access to coding classes is less of a problem than nurturing a culture of innovation and problem solving through technology.

We don't need more coders. We need problem solvers. Active problem solvers who can understand a domain problem and solve it using the right technology tools. The problem with the term 'coder' is that they tend to been seen as IT laborers. Push some pre-digested specs to them and they convert it into lines of neatly formatted Java code.

From my experience, learning to code is not a skill that all kids like to learn. On the other hand, many adults from varied domains want to learn to code. Physicists, agriculturist or even a plumber wants to learn how to solve problems using computers. They have a real need for it and the desire to learn.

Most kids want to make game. There is nothing inherently wrong with that. But, if you bring the whole 'developing country' context, it makes much more sense to empower the people who are dire need of coding skills.
OP here: we ripped a really small chunk of code from our internal metric system and slapped it in Bootstrap. We open sourced because you may not want some third-party snooping on your revenue numbers (plus, I suspect the churn and CLV metrics could be greatly improved). The code is a bit rushed, but its a start.

I still can't believe someone hasn't made a proper product around connecting to and loading data from Stripe to create a pre-generated metrics dashboard.

Though it only loads data "on-demand", it is rather inefficient (horribly so), so if any Stripe guys are reading and want it to stop hammering their servers, let me know...
This Guy Made $28,000 A Month Writing Fake Book Reviews Online
That situation would completely lock out any new innovators from entering the market, since they would need (a) enough money up-front and (b) the explicit permission of most if not all leading patent holders.

The major companies would effectively be using unjustified patents as a form of collusion to erect insurmountable barriers to entry around the US mobile market.
A metaclass is simply the class of a class.

Rather than elaborating on that, there's a stack overflow answer that's often linked that is uncharacteristically decent at explaining here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/6581949/637787.

Note that as I said, I would suggest you completely ignore this and not even bother reading that right now.
I'm still curious as to how points are superior to cash back provided by, say the Blue Cash Preferred.
Ask HN: Google Transfers?
Hello, all -

I've got an interview with Google coming up, and I don't want to jeopardize my chances by asking this at the interview.

I live in Boulder at the moment, but I've always wanted to experience living abroad. I know that Google has offices all over, and I'm curious whether Google employees have the opportunity to transfer without having to re-interview or anything like that.

If I got a job, which I know isn't a piece of cake), would I have to leave Google to move abroad or could I continue to work for them out of another office to scratch my itch without taking an extended break?
Not poor practice in that Functional Programming is poor practice (it's great practice!). Poor practice in that JS is object oriented and JS engines optimize for OO style, see https://developers.google.com/v8/design for example. So avoid `this` if you don't care how fast your code runs.
No, the topic was presidential college admissions. This one, because it was JFK, was historical. It also was political, because we were talking about a politician, a fact that does not change whether it was a current or past politician.

And your analogy is wrong too: It is like saying here is code from CP/M, and someone saying "how do modern OSes handle that feature?". That question is not advocacy for new OSes, it is a question of comparison between eras.

You are trying to ascribe motive and sinister desires to a neutral statement.
I remove DRM from everything I purchase.

Who inherits my iTunes library (or kindle library etc etc)? My estate does.
Perhaps it was a bit mis-worded. I meant that they cast themselves off from Engadget. A bit like I might cast-off my boat in search of adventure.

I think extremely highly of Topolsky et. al.
A possible fallback when the browser doesn't support the fullscreen API is to go "full page" (position:fixed;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%).
Content Creators: Please Share Your Timestamps
Would you mind expanding on the details of your running form that you think are "bad"? Did you attempt to change these immediately? Change to what? How'd it go?

In you 5k to marathon training, what sort of paces did you typically train at? Was it all a jog or did you do any speed work?

Thanks, from a curious bystander.
I Googled "conways game of life"... then this happened.
I'm not a Python developer, but in general metaclasses are classes represented as objects. You can also have objects for methods, attributes, and whatever else your object system provides. These objects of course also have classes that you can subclass and extend, apply traits to, and so on.

This is very useful for introspection and dynamically building class structures. Which extends to it being also a common API for extensions to your classes (I'm playing with a Perl/Glib project using the Moose MOP framework to allow Perl classes to have Glib signals, for example). Speaking for Perl/Moose, it's regularly used to modify or extend the behavior/capabilities of attributes (by applying traits to them).

Even just the introspective aspect means your program can easily know about the structure of your classes, for serializations, debugging, proxying, auto-generating documentation, auto-generating command line arguments, and so on.

This is just a rough outline, and in no way complete. I'd guess here's a good language-agnostic starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaobject
Scientists can hack your brain to extract information using a cheap hardware
There's a registry hosted by IANA: http://www.iana.org/assignments/well-known-uris/well-known-u...
This judgement says nothing about innovation. Note to whiners: copying isn't innovation. Apple innovate (and have exceptional design taste), that is why they are successful. Samsung just produce thinly disguised, poorly made knock-offs. Samsung have history, before the iPhone Samsung made Blackberry knock-offs, its what they do.

The important aspect here is that Apple went after the most obvious plagiarist (and softest target) first. Now there is a precedent, Google were the most blatant IP thieves and I have no doubt (nor do Google) that Apple are just warming up for the big game.
I always assumed that they kept a small, fixed percentage of their seats open for legacy admissions. I thought this was actually something accounted for in their written policies. Perhaps not anymore.

The interesting thing is that, whatever political interests they want to indulge, they need not be swayed by a potential student's family's ability to fund a new building any more than they need be swayed by a poor but gifted student's inability to pay full tuition. Their endowment is the largest of any university in the world, at $26 billion, and there is no shortage of people willing to give them more.
Great, looks interesting.

Now for pete's sake, put a link to your service on your blog.
The download contains the Babylon toolbar, but if you open the installer with 7-zip, then extract and run $TEMP\PrivitizeVPNInstaller.exe - you get the VPN sans the adware.
The Importance of Getting Sh*t Done
Diaspora Founders to Move On, Handing Over Social Network 'To The Community'
Apple v. Samsung - The Innovation Argument
I'm sorry but I think that's absurd. That's like suggesting Samsung had a problem with this trial because it made a phone. It's not that they made a phone, it's that they made a phone that stole the look, feel, and function of the iPhone.

The kinect is a motion gaming device, but that is where the similarities to wii end. That's like suggesting the PS3 infringed on the xbox because it's also a console.
They are more likely to get bought...
Nice; just wrote a [fairly naive] implementation in Go myself.

It works but it's not very fast. For a 36x36 grid; I can do ~5,000 iterations in < 30 seconds or so. I'm sure a large part of the bottleneck is the fact that my "viewer" is just STDOUT redirected to a file; I want to implement some buffered I/O and then try my hand at writing HashLife.

I have to admit: I didn't think the game of life would be much of a game; but it's fairly fun to mess around with!
Why bootloaders are locked down on modern smartphones
The top of what?
ice cube said "life ain't a track meet, it's a marathon".

you take risks. you build something. you learn to build and manage a company. you learn to raise capital. you learn to negotiate a buyout. you learn to ship products and support customers.

for business, personal or any variety of reasons, the founders decide that being acqui-hired is their best option, and have an entirely new set of skills to apply to their next business iteration.

but you're labeled as "failures" by this jacques mattheij.

i don't agree with him. not at all.

teddy roosevelt said:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Isn't it possible that all the data have to be printed out and stored in multiple copies? :)
But those stats are only from people who visit w3schools, no?
But that's not yet in the cards. Realistically, you need to be talking about 2.5 hours as the effective range, as almost nowhere will have the full speed charging setup.
Guy makes $28K per month writing "fake" book reviews
I suspect more $100k cars don't get used on the 450 mile journeys. They're certainly far more common in the city than on the highway between cities. A $100k car is a very different market than a $50k car.

What is interesting, though, is that at least in Los Angeles pretty much every other car in the $100k range is a lot more common than the Roadster. I think I've seen one once. Even considerably pricier cars are more common than that.
Thanks for this. How would I use it in Rails? Any tips for integration?
That's the feeling that I am getting. I like being introduced to concepts early on, even if I don't fully grasp them. Somewhere down the line though, I will see something more advanced and go, "OH! Meta classes. I kind of know about those!" and it is pretty helpful. It works kind of like that learning by immersion (especially for languages), where you are just in the thick of it and sooner or later things start to make more sense.

I agree that it's an advanced concept, but it helps when people post stuff like that here and explain it so that I am at least familiar with it existing.
Definitely agree, and Grexit is great for that and I do really like the tips. Not trying to denigrate here. Just pointing out it's a factor in some settings.
Thank you Elon for giving us back the future. Tnx.