skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Not as good as Franklin's list in my opinion, but it's exactly the type of thing you're saying we need, there are many boy scouts, and there are other organizations with similar goals and explicitly taught virtues. Perhaps you should take a look around outside your echo chamber

The boy scouts are a far smaller echo chamber --and not only they are not that many, but they have almost zero influence to modern society and kids.

Plus the issue is not about some specific private club or organisation catering to the matter, but for societal norms in general.
How is the casino able to sue the gamblers? I would think they would have to sue the card manufacturers for delivering a product that wasn't prepared as agreed, which caused material losses.

Who at the casino thought that suing their customers was a good idea?
A Look at the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM)
They had news articles about protecting his phone back when he was elected.
If they've deprecated the feature, are they doing anything instead to accomplish the same effect as the UDID?
SpinGo is growing fast, and would be a great place to land a dev job!
Meanwhile at Referly: Gangnam Startup Style
Soccer embraces Big Data
I don't think your argument applies: you are talking about running new binaries on an old OS/kernel, but this is not guaranteed to work. New system calls and kernel interfaces are added all the time, so new binaries are unlikely to work on old kernels. The promise is in the other direction; old binaries are guaranteed to work on new kernels.
>The gamblers unlawfully took advantage of the Golden Nugget when they caught on to the pattern and increased their bets from as little as $10 to $5,000

I don't understand why a casino feels like it's legally entitled to a profit even when it fails to perform the simplest possible action to maintain an edge: shuffle the cards!
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I read something a while ago from an IP lawyer, he said that in such an occurrence they would instead just sue you for negligence.

There don't seem to be many wireless LANs using WEP anymore anyway because of the obvious security flaws. Perhaps some grandma with an old router could get away with claiming ignorance as a defence but the average HN reader probably couldn't.

As for the car analogy perhaps this would be similar to leaving your car unlocked knowing full well that it was likely to be stolen by criminals.
Web moguls' most valuable homes revealed
Pure speculation: shuffling the cards takes time. Time which could be more profitably used to separate gamblers from their money. This is consistent with the way in which MBA's look at retail transactions and logistics.
...And for him, timing was everything. That is my take away.
From TFA --
Firefox 16 will be the first version to support incremental garbage collection. This is a major feature, over a year in the making, that makes Firefox smoother and less laggy. With incremental GC, Firefox responds more quickly to mouse clicks and key presses. Animations and games will also draw more smoothly.
For just a moment, I found myself worried about how they would hold up when it rained...
to your points an interesting article from business insider

It's Becoming Clear That No One Actually Read Facebook's IPO Prospectus Or Mark Zuckerberg's Letter To Shareholders

Quick hits from the article

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Didn't anyone even read Facebook's IPO prospectus? The answer, I can only assume, is "no." Because if anyone had read the Facebook IPO prospectus, they would have learned, among other things, the following:

Facebook's growth rate was decelerating rapidly.

Facebook's user-base was rapidly transitioning to mobile devices, which produce much less revenue.

Facebook's operating profit margin was already an astounding 50%, which suggested it had nowhere to go but down.

Facebook's CEO had a nearly unprecedented amount of control over the company.

Facebook's CEO had set up this astounding level of control intentionally. Mark Zuckerberg knew all about how impatient public-market shareholders are. And he set up the whole company so he would never have to pay attention to their whining.

In the 9 months following the IPO, insiders would be free to sell more than 2 billion shares of Facebook that they had been holding for years.

Facebook was going public at an astoundingly high price for a company with these characteristics—about 60-times the following year's projected earnings, in a market in which other hot tech companies like Apple and Google were trading at less than 15-times.

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-stock-letter-shareho...
Guide To Online Collaborations: Useful Tips, Tools & Apps
Cambridge University launches free Raspberry Pi programming course
There are a few phones named 'Venice', presumably for the 'Venice is syncing' pun. My iPhone is named Venice for a different reason, but it's not in the list.
Client-Side Frameworks Suck
Ask HN: An app to analyse my own browsing history?
I'm an analysis junkie through and through. I love gleaning any kind of qualitative judgement from accurately quantified data. Like judging that office IT departments suck because most visitors to a site I'm analysing use IE7 during normal working hours, but IE7 drops to nothing at the weekends.
But it's not enough. Those judgements help me in my job, but do little to help me. I want to see what my own habits are in a crystal clear way, and to see if I can optimise my own behaviour online. How long do I spend on particular sites within a certain date range? How often do I click? Can I make a judgement on productivity rates based on how often I'm on procrastination sites at different times of the day? etc...

But all I have to help me do this is a slightly optimised history extension for Chrome. And all that lets me do is search my history better. I want date ranges, graphs, click data, user journey, time on site, bounce rate. All from my perspective as opposed to a single site's perspective.

It's possible, easily possible, but I've never seen it done. Unless one of you knows? And if so, show me. I'm dying to check it out. Google Analytics for Me.
Talking of Steve Blank, "get out of the office" anecdote.
After studying philosophy & ancient greek, I wanted to know what real life was so I joined the Paris firefighter Brigade for a 5 years contract. One evening later on, working on my 1st startup, things were tough, a Friday night after dinner with my cofounders I wanted to go back to work. When putting the key in our office door, I looked at my hands and suddenly realized I had them both… and then that I had both of my arms, my legs and my brains were in my skull, (it's not necessarily that way, like I did see brains out of a skull (that's not what shocked me btw, but that strange little pinky cube 10 meters away on that street as we were going back to the truck). That was enough for me that night. Was I an entrepreneur suffering, struggling, risking my relationship and all my savings? (with that startup I eventually lost it all). No I was the lucky one. I did not open that door, turned around and went for a walk instead. I was alive. Hey! I still am :)

// In memory of four of my firestation colleagues, two, motorbike accidents (after 72 hours duty), one (a chief): heart attack 9 month after retirement, one dead in operation, rescuing the corpse of a missing speleodiver. http://www.plongeesout.com/portraits/portrait/maignan%20nico... he was 27 and the coolest, nicest guy you can think of.//
Getting to “Hello world” with d3
Most non tech people are just using an ISP provided router, every ISP that I know of provides a router with WPA2 and went around replacing old WEP routers a few years ago. I can't remember the last time a WEP network showed up on my smartphone.

Of course there are other ways someone may have broken into your network.
>Our society decided there's no survival value in living a virtuous life: saving money for a rainy day, delaying gratification.

I think the problem is that it's not society that decided that (as a collective) but individuals.

And it's a shame, because while maybe "there's no survival value in living a virtuous life" for an individual, it's an absolute necessary survival condition for a society.

This "every man for himself" is the undoing of society. That's how you get crazy high homicide rates (that make the rates in similarly developed societies like Germany or Japan pale in comparison), substance abuse, rising poverty rates, etc.
Video: five mediocre products Apple should stop making now
Ichiban means "number one" or "best", but I don't think it quite matches what the author of the article is looking for. Ichiryuu means "top class", maybe that would be better? But my opinion is that they could have conveyed the idea of "successful entrepreneurs in Japan" without the superfluous Japanese :)
I would like to know more info about how they know what the rats are dreaming about. It sounded like they knew with a high degree of confidence that the rats were dreaming about something. I want to know they knew this.
My Quotes and Aphorisms file is over a megabyte, it's been growing for 16 years. I formatted it so that the fortune-cookie program can pull up quotes at random, or I can search it with various keywords whenever I want.
Startup Doping
> However, your comment was about how you skipped through a post and made a snap judgement. This doesn't help anyone - nor does it make your comments relevant.

On the contrary, it does both. You need to learn that, in modern times, people are going to glance at your website, read the first few sentences, and draw a conclusion. Again, complaining about it is pointless -- all you can do is accommodate reality, as I am sure you can do.

Top-flight advertising executives spend a huge amount of time writing and rewriting advertising copy, sometimes changing just one word before submitting the result to a focus group, because a prime-time advertising spot can cost upwards of a million dollars. Do you think they complain that consumers rejected their offering because they chose the wrong word, or worse, misspelled it? No, they fix the problem and get on with their lives.

Fix the problem and get on with your life.
> They are the ones tracking everyone, including non-FB users, via a tracking cookie the moment you visit their site after all

Twitter has started doing this lately as well (though allowing you to opt-out if you so choose).
Except the person buying the inferior product is trying to re-sell it to the next sucker for a larger mark-up than you are. I have as much sympathy for speculators as I do gamblers.
If Free = Ad supported, its not self evident that free = inclusive.

Can you have an inclusive experience that is not ad supported?
Amusing exchange over at Reddit:

Redditor 1: "I bet not a single f$%k was given about that table among the readers of the book :)"

Redditor 2: "That table, or something like it, features strongly in every software engineering textbook that I've ever seen. The numbers differ, but the increasing order of magnitude differences are roughly the same. It's the essential justification for nearly everything in software engineering. "A single f$%k" doesn't begin to describe the importance of that table."

And yes, "the essential justification for nearly everything in software engineering" is broadly correct. Anytime you see an argument that "it's important to get the requirements right" for instance, it's based on studies that purport to show these numbers.
Travis CI integrated into GitHub pull requests thanks to new Commit Status API
Right. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the only way to protect a strategy in football is to keep it secret?
In 1.5 years of work, I received 10,349 emails.
Pinky and the Brain?
Apple announces September 12 media event
Melted Provolone, Roasted Peppers and Meatball Sandwich Recipe
I have serious mixed feelings on this. Continuous delivery is near and dear to my heart. I do it, I advocate for it. To me, the idea of big-bang 3am release clusterfucks after "testing phase" and "code freeze" feels as archaic as using leeches to drain foul humours from a diseased body.

But this, sensationalist link bait "secret" messaging just debases the real good work people are doing. This is why people dismiss real innovations as "snake oil" and it breaks my heart.

There is no "secret", just some generally applied truths:

* The safest change to a stable system is the smallest change possible.

* Automating tasks (test, deploy, etc.) can save time.

* Tight feedback loops are better than loose.

* What is best for shrink-wrapped software is different from what is best for software as a service.

There, I just saved you thousands of dollars in consulting fees.
This new one is better. I used yours for a while some time ago and it's extremely annoying that the collapsed comment is not aligned to the rest of the comments at the same depth. Gives you a weird feeling that you collapsed the parent and the next one is its child.
When you randomly collapse comments the result may be a mess where you're not exactly sure who answered to who.

Also, your collapse/uncollapse button is placed on the right instead of left so its X position may vary, making it a bit more difficult to collapse comments in a series.

Good effort though.
Practice in front of a mirror or video camera a few times. Write some notes. It's not too hard to get competent, even if you can't become phenomenal.
Except for their underwater workforce and the general lackluster impression now that everyone has seen the busted IPO.

Along with their earnings, revenue and user base no longer growing quickly there's little reason why the stock still supports such a high P/E. Definite downward momentum.
Newry Council passes marriage equality motion
Each game likely used a fresh, unopened deck of cards. If each deck is non-shuffled then each time a fresh deck is opened you will see the same cards in the same order. Assuming the casino arranged for their vendor to pre-shuffle the decks it seems reasonable, if not a bit lazy, to not do a shuffle at the table. If I were the casino I'd be suing the vendor, not the gamblers.
Congratulations on releasing. I remember the announcement and trailer for this a while ago and was quite impressed. I have fond memories of stop-action games like The Neverhood so I'm always glad to see someone utilizing the technology.

You should consider getting at least a 720p version of your trailer up and maybe improving the website.
Made In Toronto: The Bookbinder: Don Taylor
in a perfect world, everyone can learn from books. i know that my learning style is MUCH more interactive and i only really learn in a classroom setting. Having done the spring dev course for Starter League (then codeacademy) I can tell you how amazing it is to have material presented, then challenges with pair programming right in class. TAs walk around and help you when you get stuck, thereby teaching you how to deal with error messages. learning from a book can be such an isolating experience, whereas classes are much more about community.
Announcing the Github Commit Status API
They aren't actually rejectIng apps. But yes, they're replacing it with something akin to androidid. Check the uidevice doc for ios6 if you have it.

The real problem is the lack Of referral tags on installs. Android got this right I think. As it is ever advertiser uses a different hash of some Id whih means I have to store every possible identifier in plain text to hash later. Considering we have 3 million udids, Mac address, etc... This particular leak is unimportant.
I had no idea that sock drawers were such a touchy subject.

However I would say that if you want to maintain a culture of technical excellence, it should be built well enough in the first place to cope with things like occaisional wayward comedy about the possible sock organisiation habits of fans of practical topology, without getting too upset about it.

Otherwise it isn't a very good culture of technical excellence and it will all fall apart the first time somebody sneezes.
A comparable situation might be a misprinted price tag at a car dealership, which they are not required to honor as long as it's corrected when discovered.
Apple's officially announces Sept. 12th event Get your laughing hats on
I love reading about flight hardware. I have a bookshelf full of this stuff.

Mars itself is neat. But they haven't done much exploration with this rover yet, and so: Knots is what we got. :-)
What is Churn?
What Jobs really meant by saying: “Good artists copy – great artists steal”
Apple announces September 12th iPhone event: ‘It’s almost here’
Couldn't agree with you more. Definitely one of my favorite contemporary writers. There's something special about his command of language and refined sense of humor that lays bare the truth in the starkest of ways.
According to the source material, this attack was not believed to be from an established Yakuza gang, but from a gang that has filled the void of gang violence, apparently:

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Investigation Division One 警視庁捜査一課 (Homicide and Violent Crimes) is investigating the case as a homicide. On December 14th, 2011, a group of twenty men burst into a Roppongi Cabaret club and assaulted four members affiliated with the Yamaguchi-gumi Kokusui-kai (山口組国粋会), with beer bottles and blunt weapons, injuring one of them severely. The police suspect there may be a possible link to the two cases. The assault in December was believed to have been carried out by members of the Kanto Rengo (関東連合) a loosely networked gang different from the traditional yakuza, and not a designated organized crime group. Kanto Rengo is known for extremely violent assaults and because they are not a designated organized crime group, they are subject to less restrictions than the Yamaguchi-gumi and other crime groups.
http://www.japansubculture.com/10-men-beat-one-guy-to-death-...
The Laser Doodler
Not to mention FB has been issuing RSUs (not options) for several years now, which means that 1) Later employees still get a payout, of course only half of what they were expecting
2) Anyone early enough to get in when they still were giving options has an good strike and is still gets off fine
An IP still isn't a person as your computer could be remotely controlled. Maybe grandma shouldn't have been so negligent when updating her Java package when a known zero day exists.. Expecting anyone besides a HN dork to know WEP is outdated shows how closed minded some of us are.
I guess they figure that they don't need to worry about the low-stakes gamblers. If they don't come back, the casino's out much less than they can sue the guests for.
That article was on the front page of HN a week ago. Comments here http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4438828
Major respect for that attitude - short sightedness is toxic. This is investment and education done right.
ok, FBI have all information about us, and now? what we gonna do?? come on guys...
Like other post-processed tilt shift effects, this will look best when objects are very short when measured perpendicular to the blur. If you have an object that spans most of the frame and crosses the blur then you will have parts of the shot which are at the same focal length but have different blurs which will give away the effect.

These examples were well chose to avoid this issue. The Empire State Building actually has the blur running vertically which is why you don't see it there. And the airplane is a great example because the front of the plane and the jetway are in a plane and the falloff was well chosen to start just above the top of the jetway.
> " It is preposterous to propose that Apple --or any company for that matter-- would willingly do that."

Unless Apple-or-any-company was seeking assistance from the FBI to track down fraud or something similar.
They have to fulfill the rewards it says. Which really means that you shouldn't promise a version of your product if you can't deliver it. Rather it might be better to make the rewards things that are easy to deliver such as shirts, stickers, etc... Definitely some projects like Ouya that have promised a console will technically have to refund people potentially millions of dollars if they can't ship the device.
I saw that. But the price is quoted in Euros, not in bitcoins. It is a subtle but relevant difference.
I largely agree with Cuban. But there is risk associated with going out too high. You can reprice options, but that introduces new complexities and risks.
Software fences
Not at all surprised that it's going to be the "iPhone 5". Apple accepts that two-year contracts mean there's going to be an ebb and flow to their phone sales, and thus it's worth making as big a "bang" as possible for each new device, even at the expense of having buyers delay their purchase waiting on the new release.

But the iPad doesn't have a contract, and they'd prefer the average consumer not sit around waiting for the "new" iPad any more than they'd wait around for the "new" Macbook. Obviously some consumers are going to go to the Mac Rumors buying guide, but not many. By not hanging a big number on the brand, they mitigate the "I'll wait for N+1" mentality and hopefully spread out sales into the months post-release when their margins improve.
Apple Schedules Event For September 12
> Most techies would've scoffed at the MacBook Air, if it were described to them with specs

Those "techies" probably couldn't use an Air anyway - not like you're going to be walking around your windowless server room too often, and you certainly wouldn't want to take work home with you. And macs can't even run Exchange Administrator!

Most programmers I know, however, were delighted. Raw specs have never been a good measure of a machine's usefulness, but the size and weight you can take straight to the bank. The air is a lifestyle computer at a time where a lot of programmers are beginning to think more about their lifestyle and realise it's cool to go outside and actually walk around and stuff. Maybe half the (web) programmers I know have them now.

Specs! I guess you can't ignore them, but in my experience the more people go on about "specs" the less productive use they turn out putting all those gigahertz to. In normal use the computer will spend 99.99% of its time waiting for the stupid slow user, and I never seem to need to compile Gentoo or compress bluray movies in a big hurry all that often. What I do like to do is put my air in my coat pocket and walk down to the café and do some work, and if your overclocked oil-cooled 12-core neon-lit Extreme Edition alien-head-logo-having AC-powered Gigantibox can't do that then it is basically a piece of useless junk to me. Good for games though, gotta say.
Exactly. Here in The Netherlands, marketing historically has been a part of the faculty of economics. It involves a lot more statistics and model data than peope think.
David Ebersman, the Man Behind Facebook's I.P.O. Debacle
Vinyl's Resurrection Serves as a Cautionary Technology Lesson
Stock grants were the last thing that attracted me to my position at Facebook. Their other benefits, and especially the workplace environment itself [1], are far more desirable to me than stock grants, especially when the salary range is already extremely competitive.

1: https://www.facebook.com/careers
No, but people without any successful campaigns (they either never have had a FB marketing campaign or their last one failed) will get doubts about if FB is the right venue. I personally think stock price is a bad proxy, but many people still look at it.
Why is haproxy reloading an issue ? It works pretty well in my experience (although I am not in the web business anymore, so things may have changed in the last two years).