skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
friend of mine went on holiday to Tokyo (UK resident) a few years ago, he told me that the Yakuza seemed to have a corporate head office, a modern building with receptionists, typists etc, is this true?
By "Take control of..." you mean "act with the permissions of the app", I assume? I can't see how Angry Birds the app would ever have full control over my Facebook account unless there's a catastrophic vuln. in the Facebook API.
Any idea why they appear to prefer `cmath.pi` and `cmath.e` rather than `math.pi` and `math.e`?
Orwell recommends Anglo-Saxon words wherever possible (instead of grander sounding Latin and Greek derivatives).

http://mla.stanford.edu/Politics_&_English_language.pdf

What's great about this essay is his use of examples.
i have a document that i've compiled over the years, that i try to look over every morning. It has a list of quotes/maxims and daily habits.

tried publishing it out:
https://writer.zoho.com/public/07e664bb675348bd84c355190c36c...

funny but i forgot i had Ben's 13 already added :)
i guess it doesn't work if it gets too big for a daily brief.
One usability change: put the collapse link on the left side of article title (ala reddit), this makes it quicker to find the widget since it will always be in the same place.
Kanban Library - the central knowledge base
Even comparing yourself to other achievers isn't as big a problem as what some people do:

>It's bad enough comparing yourself to Isaac Newton without comparing yourself to Kimball Kinnison.

Eliezer Yudkowsky, http://lesswrong.com/lw/y7/the_super_happy_people_38/
Thanks for the heads up. I'm not sure yet whether 1600x900 is the right choice for him; Windows software is still not as resolution independent as it should be and he needs rather large text. I think that the retina pro would actually be quite good in that aspect because the scaled resolutions are very well implemented there, however $2.3k for my father's usecase is quite a stretch ;).
A Summary of Seed and Angel Investments in the First Half of the Year
Wacko in the Morning 09/04 by Wacko Bob
No offense to the author, but the length of this thing! may as well just use http://docs.python.org/library/index.html
And, they shall call themselves: The Super Awesome Best Friend Club
Very useful! Instead of "optically scanning" all the first level comments I can collapse each comment after reading.
What To Do If You Have No Idea What To Do
Lots of props to the blog author for going through the hoops that I suppose we should all be going through. I've always placed the CC books up there in the pantheon of great software engineering books. This is a chink in the armor and I hope Mr McConnell takes the time to provide a response although I'm not holding my breath. Another object lesson in not accepting things at face value.
This is not a flame or a troll, but seriously try Windows Phone. It actually gets this spot on.
"Have no idea how this site hasn't been shut down by the SEC. "

Because in America they have this stupid thing called "freedom". We know that the government should regulate everything like is done in countries like China or Russia, and nothing of value could be done unless you know someone in the party or bribe the gatekeepers.

KS has nothing to do with investors in the stock market sense.
Previously on LessWrong: http://lesswrong.com/lw/9sv/diseased_disciplines_the_strange...
"The fact that no studies have produced findings that contradict the 10x claim provides even more confidence in the 10x claim. When I consider the number of studies that have been done, in aggregate I find the research to be not only suggestive, but conclusive—which is rare in software engineering research." Steve McConnell http://forums.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2011/01/09... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4117417
Only one I disagree with is #12, "Chastity. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.", this is breaking his own moderation virtue and is heavily motivated by social pressures on sex.
If you like this, check also out mine: http://alexander.kirk.at/2011/12/06/new-feature-for-hn-colla...
It's been round for a while :)

My bookmarklet has also been included in this very nice browser extension: http://hckrnews.com/about.html
Reminds me of the Greek Cardinal Virtues[1] , or The Resolutions of Johnathon Edwards[2]. It seems that is modern society we have failed to explicitly pass the importance of these kind of character qualities to our kids.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_virtues
2. http://www.apuritansmind.com/the-christian-walk/jonathan-edw...
At my office, we actually still have some Windows 3.1 servers in production alongside some Windows 2000. Replacing the software running on it has proven to be a bit more of a trick than previously thought.
It is similar to PDB files, which is fine but that is not the issue. The issue is that the abstraction is criminally tall. We're talking a tower of:

Process: C# --(compiler)--> Js --(parser)--> IL --(compiler)--> machine code/interpreter.

Type conversions: Static --> dynamic --> static --> none.

That's just too much to go wrong in my mind. I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.
The post adds approximately nothing to the headline.

It's also worth noting that Apple has deprecated the UDID, and new and updated apps are no longer able to access it.
Think of a java applet in a browser catching all your keyboard input for instance; the general idea is that secure system must guarantee that user input goes where intended and only there.
What about Pokerstars?

Their US operations were shut down the FBI recently on bank fraud and money laundering charges.

http://www.tightpoker.com/news/pokerstars-shuts-down-2347/
July seems to be the hot month. I wonder if anybody has an analysis of raises vs times of the year. Could be pretty interesting if there was a trend.
China's Largest Seach Engine Gets Mobile Browser
I wonder if there's any left gathering dust in some crammed warehouse somewhere. I imagine it'd probably go down a storm these days.
I don't think so. I think he is making a conscious decision to limit something in his life that is not necessary, and that he might find as a distraction. Sexuality for all its enjoyable qualities can be a distraction to the best of us, and there is nothing wrong with taking an attitude towards it that says I will limit something that is good and I enjoy for something I perceive to be better.
I have been using this to provide collapsing comments for some time: https://github.com/andrewheins/HN-Comment-Hider
> Thing is, standard knitting machines are expensive and cannot be controlled from standard cheap consoles :-)

The Passap line ($1-3k depending on model, IIRC) could be controlled by PCs, which were relatively cheap even then.

One of the Passap accessories, not included in that price, was a motor to move the shuttle back and forth.

Unfortunately, Passap is out of biz.
The question is, is that legal/constitutional for CIA to have that data without a warrant on so many Americans?
Yes and no. Because a song is a thing that should be experienced front to end. So either your choice is missing a few seconds (which sucks) or switching back to your audio program and restarting the song, which sucks as well. Also, reversing during the song _is_ odd (you turn the world around - literally).

Why? Because some lazy headphone producer didn't bother putting labels on their not-so-cheap headphones phones, a thing that any proper company in the market does. As mentioned above, Sennheiser even puts little marks on the headphone so that you _feel_ that it is wrong.
Why is it a better index?
UDID is a few years old is it not? It's surprising it took people this long to figure this out.
Managing user expectations in responsive design
Hopefully this will end in a discussion in which the actual data underlying the table can be had and matched up.

Anecdotally, it seems to make sense that it is more expensive to find and fix a defect later in the process. If a dev finds a defect while implementing a feature, only his costs are involved. However, if a defect is found later in the our process, at least 2 qa analysts are involved: one to find the defect and another to confirm it. After that a project manager schedules out time and assigns the defect out to a developer, possibly not the one that introduced the defect gets the assignment to fix it. The developer fixes the defect, a build is made by the build person. The original tester retests the defect and marks the fix as being verified.

That seems complex, but there are possibly even more steps than that. Unit tests may need to be written, customer test cases may need to be updated.

I don't know if the costs end up being exponentially greater, but they would seem to be greater.

At any rate, it would be good to have someone independently validate that data.
Does anyone know why so much cabling on Curiosity is on top of the vehicle, exposed to the elements?

Surely it would be safer to contain those cables in the body? It would just take a rock to fall on the rover from a cliffside or similar to damage those cables.
See https://gist.github.com/3620903#comments for a better solution!
Technology is the chief driver of social mores. In Franklin's time, too much sex would likely expose you to health hazards such as syphilis, or unwanted babies. Today, we have medicine and contraception that should minimize these risks. But I think this point still applies - it just depends on your definition of "rarely"... no more than twice a day perhaps!
Asp net Web Development
If you're Chrome user by any chance, you can try also my simple extension:

NavigComments @ Hacker News

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aelihpmbbbpmljkdco...

Supports hiding comments marked as read.

Works only with http://, I have to add https:// one day, but I always forget it... Also some other things should be improved, then I could update NavigComments @ LWN too.
I think "for health" covers it. The admonition "never to dullness, weakness, or ... injury ..." is being rediscovered en masse over here: http://reddit.com/r/nofap
BitTorrent study finds most file-sharers are monitored
Growth hacker? Bite me
New Tool explores Flippa seller history
I don't really understand the fuss about the Python thing. `#!/usr/bin/python2` should work on pretty much any system, not just an Arch Linux system. Whatever happened to "explicit is better than implicit"?

If the Python community eventually wants Python 3 to become the default, they will all have to deal with this issue sooner or later; Arch is just opting for "sooner", as that's in line with the way Arch approaches all changes. The real problem is that there are two incompatible versions of Python, and most Python developers give too little thought to forward compatibility to include an extra '2' in their shebang lines in order to disambiguate their intentions. Just because python == python2 on most systems today does not mean the status quo will forever be the same, nor that it ought to be.

In any case, there is no problem making Python scripts work on Arch, even if they use the ambiguous shebang. All of the official packages work out of the box with no problem, of course, and anything unofficial (i.e. AUR packages) just needs a single, trivial sed command added to the PKGBUILD. Arch is not "maintaining a separate fork of each Python package". This is the opposite of true; in fact Arch packages are, on the whole, far closer to their upstream counterparts than the same packages from other distros, where it is common for huge divergences to be made from the upstream defaults. Hardly worth ranting about.

You come across as if the Arch developers viciously attacked your family or something. Maybe it's just a distro with different values than yours, man! Relax, there are lots of other choices! It's not supposed to appeal to everyone, but for those of us who align well with the Arch "philosophy", it's fantastic.
Like most in the HN community, I've had my fair share of failed projects, each of which I learned a lot from:

1. Happy21stBirthday.com - I thought it would be a great gifting site for fun & light-hearted gifts for 21st birthdays, but couldn't get enough traction. If any1 has better ideas to utilize this domain, plz share.

2. Rebutl.com - a video debate site (similar to ESPN's 'Around the Horn') where users could debate about various subject matters and get prizes/rewards after viewers voted for the winner.
Quantum chip breakthrough in the next 3-5 years
If we have any indication that the information is false, first then should this really become an issue. Until then, FBI is the most likely source.
If a webservice tries to send a push notification to a device that has not registered for push notifications for the entitlement requesting the notification to be sent, the notification gets discarded. Remember, all notifications are to be pushed to Apple using a certificate generated on a per-app basis, who in turn pushes the message to devices.
One critically important aspect of programming knowledge is String manipulation
Does the site have some kind of "request commission" feature? Ie I can send out a request for a specific gadget I need made and people can bid on the project.
Improve performance with Redis pipelining
Finally it all depends on AntiSec. We have no idea wich 1'000'001 datasets they published (first 1m, last 1m or random). If they have access to all 12m UDIDs + the additional information (Country, Postal code, Addresses) they could at least release some statistics about it, this would make it a lot easier to find a (potential) source. (E.g. If we knew wich percentage of the UDIDs came from Europe etc.)
If you are not dating another nerd science can actually ruin the date.
Bookshop launches rescue mission to digitize out-of-print sci-fi titles
If the Apple persecution of Samsung succeeds, we should all be worried that next NFL teams will start patenting their strategies and suing each other.
you need an addendum about awesome shirts :3
Anyone who relies on (for example) Oracle Database on Linux. Not so much for the compatibility itself (oracle do maintain their software), but because it builds trust between the Linux kernel team and the software vendors who are shipping stuff on top.

If it wasn't for this promise, I think it's much less likely that people happily developing for Unix would have moved over to Linux
It's more blunt and heavy handed, anyway.
The US Secret Service is apparently interested in busty Columbian girls, why wouldn't the FBI be interested in German girls? Fetishes come in all shapes, sizes and colors, even institutional fetishes.
The linked post isn't about the 10x claim, it's about the unrelated "defect cost increase" claim.
What about PokerStars?

Their US operations were shut down the FBI recently on bank fraud and money laundering charges.

http://www.tightpoker.com/news/pokerstars-shuts-down-2347/

Can anyone else confirm they have PokerStars installed?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4473730
Commercial vendors do. It is surprisingly hard to maintain proprietary software for linux, as different versions ships with different shared libraries, have different ways of doing things. Even maintaining systems that need to run on RHEL 4 through 6 takes _a lot_ of effort. And when you're creating commercial software, effort means time and money.
Well, there's always http://www.reddit.com/r/cableporn
HAProxy 1.5 supports SSL offloading and downstream encryption
Should be linked now... Amazon hadn't put them up yet. I wrote the book using Libre Office.
Why do you think we've failed in this respect? People always automatically assume that things were better in the past and that the current generation is ruining things.

Maybe we're succeeding at passing on these character qualities to our kids at a higher rate than at any time in the past? There were thieves and liars and murderers and lazy people and scum bags 200 years ago too.
1. It has more data sources.

2. It lets you fiddle with the 'normalized comparison' to weight the sources differently. If you play right, you can make your favorite language win!
Remove flash fullscreen "Press Esc..." message
Regulary updated utility to remove the annoying message when you enter fullscreen.
How did you get a lowercase first letter in the title? I thought HN auto-capitalized submission titles.
If you open the .deb in Software Center, it'll take care of the dependencies for you at the same time.
Amazing! Thanks for this.
ABCs Of Factoring Risk Into Cloud Service Decisions
> Is it worth the security? I don't really know. As long as it is in very stable democracies, it ought to be safe...

Uh, hell no. We have already seen the kind of evil things the FBI are willing to do in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cointelpro
Great link. There goes my afternoon :-)

The first item is amazing as well (ST-124-M3 inertial platform i.e. Gimbal unit for Saturn V)

About: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST-124-M3_inertial_platform

Pron: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/ST-124_u...

This sort of engineering is as much art as engineering and I truly respect the people who designed and built it.
You need an appropriate cert for that.
Valve Software recruits hardware experts
I say we failed because I don't see many adhearents to this. We don't live in a society of prudence, justice, restraint and fortitude. I also don't know of any explicit planing to pass these on to our kids explicitly. We might _hope_ they pick up a few of them along the way, but do we as a society actively try to teach our kids these things ?

And I am not saying what you personally as a parent do. As I know that I plan on explicitly trying to teach moral principles to my kids, but I don't think we as a society teach them.
So yeah, long story short from what I gather is: I couldn't find the referenced sources to the table I am referencing so it must be false!

What a leap of logic, seriously...
I am absolutely astonished someone would even consider deploying a Rails app on windows.
The edge resistance. The weird, inconsistent, PITA edge resistance it puts in between screens.

Whoever thought that was a good idea needs to be thrown off the team, forever. It drove me absolutely nuts until I finally managed to get rid of it.

I use FVWM2 at work with two monitors, when I have time I plan on moving to xmonad. I've used Dropbox and a few other lightweight WMs too. They all worked OK with my dual-monitor setup.

I've used Unity at home since the beginning, and it's the single worst multi-screen experience I've ever had. I only stick with it in hopes that I'll get to watch it evolve into something useable.
When Ideas Become Gold
One Click To ‘Nuke’ All Your Facebook Privacy-Infringing Apps
Thoughts on the Nexus 7, supposed iPad mini, and the mid-sized tablet
I wonder why, in the examples, they make you click the 'render' button. It'd be cooler to just attach 'render' to the slider moving. Pretty impressive though.
Ben Franklin was a hacker god. He visited Europe by ship and instead of curling up with a book on deck, he grabbed a thermometer and a notebook and discovered the Gulf Stream.
Once again, a refusal to acknowledge the difference between taking a physical object and making a copy of some information. They're DIFFERENT THINGS.

I'll say that again for the hard of thinking. Taking a physical object is NOT the same as making a copy of some information.

Put another way, just to make sure, making a copy of some information is NOT THE SAME as taking a physical object.
CABLES & WALL SOCKETS!!!!

Keep that in mind! There is nothing worse than having a lot of leads and cables through your house. If you are lucky enough to build your house from scratch think it through:

Think about where will you need wall sockets, how many of them will you need

I would suggest you think about the gadgets you will use in your house and design it around them.

Of course this is to be taken in account only if you get seriously annoyed with cables and leads (as I do).. otherwise... not much to say :D
It affects anyone who lives in a society that is being tracked by their government.

It may be a good thing that the FBI can better track criminals, but if it is used to track political dissidents or to monitor foreign or unpopular companies it should be a concern for us all.

I'm not saying this is happening now, but we should be wary of going down that path.
Electric Vehicle Sales on the Rise
I've been using Instapaper since pretty much the first day, and my information is not in the file. Not to say they don't have it, but, it's not in that file, FWIW.
Three seconds on Google would correct you, or would have prevented you from spreading disinformation in the first place.
Great research and post. There's another startup http://www.whogotfunded.com/ who specializes in tracking the funding wave.... not sure how they make money though...
Jason Calacanis interviews CloudSigma
Jason Calacanis interviews CloudSigma COO Bernino Lind about cloud computing, iaas & our unique client vision
Sad to Think About | Socyberty
Just had to post this photo which I found after looking around as it's related:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/System_Te...

Saturn V instrument unit.

Awesome piece of engineering.
That's not at all what he way saying. In the conclusion at the end of the article he said that "I therefore no longer consider Table 1-1 in Test-Driven iOS Development to be representative of defect fixing in software engineering [...]".

So while the data might still be true, the numbers are not necessarily accurate and thus you shouldn't base conclusions on that table. He doesn't say that the values are wrong - just that they might be incorrect.

On a related note: I'd love to get real numbers for this. Fixing bugs happening in production certainly feels much more expensive and cumbersome, but is there real data aside of this table which now apparently is inaccurate.
Do we really need to go into tired cliches of what kind of people own which device? We don't even know how this information was acquired.
It's available now:

http://www.amazon.com/An-Introduction-Programming-Go-ebook/d...
A more likely source is neustar (a spinoff of Lockheed), who also has all that information and is actually in the intel business.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4355706
“Search… is obsolete” Says XYOLogic As It Takes On Mobile Apps Long Tail
GlobTek Power Supply Basics #4 - Understanding Batteries
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http://LangPop.com does not track Go
It looks like to me like the only asset they have is their list.
Science is about building and organizing knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions. And that is true for some areas in psychology,especially in case of research based on methodologically correct experiments. However it's true that in many areas we still lack of such approach and thus results. Instead there are still many myths and straight-up bullshit.and that's real shame as it affects the public image of the field.
Don't worry, I'm sure a mod will be along to change it to match the article any minute now anyways.
It wouldn't be "willingly". But If Apple was presented with an order from a court, then yes, they'd have no choice. They could fight it; but they'd lose, depending on the reason. Frankly the only reason would be some terrorism angle.

But those types of actions are rare.