skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typing practise for programmers
> law is one of the few remaining ethical professions.

No, it isn't, at least not in general. There are lawyers who enact their job as an ethical profession and we should be thankful for them. But there are lawyers who couldn't care less about being ethical who do pursue their own self-interest or unethical interests of others. Therefore it's not an ethical profession. Just one where you might find someone who cares about your rights.

I don't want to throw the same insults at each and every lawyer, because there are clearly some who don't deserve it but the majority of lawyers I had to deal with so far definitely deserved every bad name they're called.
Maybe you should wait until they are down longer than 15 minutes to make a big deal about it?
$linq – A Javascript LINQ library v1.0 Released
You can increase your payment later, usually.
Why do it so convoluted?

Just create an URL hotkey: http://i.minus.com/ivEwdZPVJYHA7.png
iABC is amazing font.
They've been down for at least two hours now.
I wonder if this is a world record for the biggest comic ever.

Does anybody know?
Browsing C++ Source Code on the Web
Apple A6 SoC outperforms Intel Atom in JavaScript test
Well, if we permit functional programming languages all the problems concerning imperative control flow magically go away...
dave's law - Software development always takes 50% longer than expected, even when you allow for dave's law
At least chrome offers bounties for people who find bugs
and? (nice to know they use varnish though)
HN has a ring detection algorithm.
Seems to be up now, anyhow.

For those who didn't get the reference, and failed to see it "live" since the site is working: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation.

Basically, it's an Amiga retro thing. Which is awesome.
http://rssident.com/feeds/?t=job&e=java

http://rssident.com/feeds/?t=job&e=telecommute

http://rssident.com/feeds/?t=job&e=remote

http://rssident.com/mash/?t=job&e=java
India's UIDAI provides Aadhar API for online authentication
Name and shame never works. There is no shortage of people who already have no reputation to speak of and who are happy to grab some (more) money.
The Most Insane Lego Machine I’ve Ever Seen
They've been down for significantly longer for myself and several other people on #bitbucket on Freenode.
But that is fixing the symptom, not curing the disease. Throwing out the guy that manipulates Wikipedia for personal gains stops him, but not any of his peers that are also subverting the project. It is very unlikely that not a lot of governments and corporations have realized how hugely important Wikipedia has become. Therefore I don't think this guy was alone. In the future, people astro turfing Wikipedia will be more careful to avoid being caught but they wont at all disappear.
This seems a little small to be practical to read...
DWP previously confirmed its IPv4 block is used and too costly to renumber
Cheers for that - I genuinely didn't know there was a quick way to do that - and it seems neither do any of my iPhone 4s using friends, as they were all as stuck as me - I look forward to speeding up my mornings now!
Excellent, I've never heard of that as a solution from my iOS using friends, so I'll do that now. They were just as stumped as me!
Is this common knowledge? Sounds like incredibly poor practice to sniff emails & address books without prior permission or at the very least, transparency.
imgs.xkcd.com seems to point to a CDN, so it's unlikely to kill his server ;)
That website is impossible to get a quick overview on for me. Those centered lines looked like "thoughts" at first but it seems they are subheadlines? The whitespace feels all weird to me. The text is very huge and uncomfortable. The content itself is badly written (and to me, liking reading something is important. Surely the author's name is "Oliver Reichenstein" not "oliver reichenstein" as the font looks like. Rant over.
University builds supercomputer from Rasberry Pi and Lego
I can't get that to work on my ipod touch or iphone 3gs - (and it's pretty tricky to do on the screen) - should it work?
Also, no ligature :/

I have ligature on my website by using:

text-rendering: optimizelegibility

with Computer Modern.

For many technical reason, typography on the web is hard. I had written my though about it here (there are images, this is why I simply don't copy/paste):

http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Typography-and-the-W...
I was looking for where the spider was hiding.
That's rather naive. You conveniently forget the fact that before you shoot down an F-35, first you have to spot it.

Not to mention that building a drone with capabilities similar to a manned fighter is a very hard problem and you can be quite sure that US's rivals (China, Russia) are decades away from fielding one.
Google Transit is available for far more than just the US. http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/transit/

Germany got support just a couple of days ago. That said, so far it only covers trains -- which also tells you that being marked green in that page doesn't say much about the extent of the support -- so for the most part I'm (happily) stuck with my existing dedicated public transport app.
Does it know from which of a pool of servers should it get the data, based on that identifier? If not, it doesn't violate the patent.
Rolling with Eventual Consistency
Have more info to share? I wasn't able to find anything related to it on HN.
A couple of notes:

* I think the inconsistent application switcher icon / app title display issue is due to intents. If you click an image in your GMail it uses the Gallery to display it, but you are still in the GMail app. At a technical level I understand what's going on but I think it either needs to make it clearer what's really going on (for example have the GMail title bar above the image, and have the intent embedded like an iFrame, as well as fixing the icon/screenshot issue), or spawn a new application to handle it (which, if the back button behaves as per the spec in that application, would be totally transparent to the user). Both of these approaches are similar to existing solutions in the desktop world so I think the familiarity would defuse the confusion.

* Icons - I like that the icons are all over the place, in style, size, shape etc. It's a common criticism from an aesthetic perspective, which I agree with, but from a usability perspective it makes it a hell of a lot easier to pick out my apps. I used to use Go Launcher with a theme to make everything a bit more iOS-like and one of the things it did was make all icons the same outline and size by generating coloured backgrounds on them. Obviously, this is far lower quality than actually having uniform icons designed by humans, but I found the lack of silhouette and size variation made them blur together more.

* Horizontal support - I don't know why, but some apps don't change based on the tilt sensor, and some do. My old Motorola had a dock and when I put it into it, it forced everything including the homescreen into landscape mode. If you have a custom launcher they usually have options to control whether or not the homescreen & launcher will go into horizontal mode or not, and on both devices I've tried this, if you allow the homescreen to go into horizontal mode everything else follows - including the dialler. This is the only point in the article that I would say is definitively incorrect.
Just what is the CSS 3D perspective property?
In my opinion, whatever decision you make definitely has its pros and cons. I find no exceptions.

I simply see the good that has happend due to that decision and fell good at that moment.
http://sivers.org/horses

It's the most unexpected things that gives us happiness and by defination, we have little control over that.
I would think more than half the code for these types of systems is exception handling.
How did it become a classic though? Through people copying whoever first thought of it. Then copying and copying on.
Unfortunately this problem is really hard to solve.
Does this remind anyone else of Limbo, the monochrome video game?
They all ask for permission and most people just tick the box. Linkedin lets you do the same thing. People give them their passwords to their email accounts willingly. Looks to me it's a pretty common practice but I'm no expert on social websites. I wouldn't do it but that doesn't matter, there's always plenty of people who will.
I find it amusing that geeks worry so much about browsers and the security of them at a software level, when every computer I've repaired in recent memory was owned by user stupidity (I would call it social engineering, but smiley packs and .jpg.exe's are hardly advanced trickery). All browsers, IE included, are pretty damn secure these days. People's brains? Not so much.
I will steal your XKCD cookie and order a thousand t-shirts :)
As other people have mentioned Penn & Teller don't have a problem with people copying their ideas & improving them or performing them in a different way.

The problem here is that the chap was then SELLING the trick for thousands of dollars, that's where Teller started to have a problem with it.
Perhaps someone could patent the business method of patent trolling. Then sue the trolls for patent infringement.

I suppose this is wishful thinking. No doubt some patent troll company has already patented the idea of suing patent troll companies, and will sue you for infringing their patent if you try to sue them.

Personally I think it would be best to just abolish the entire patent (and copyright) system. But I know how impossibly unlikely that is.
The screenshot of the error page before:
http://s7.directupload.net/images/120919/69zd4jog.png
Still down for me (Italy)
No, ideaSpace, out in West Cambridge – http://www.ideaspace.cam.ac.uk/ – where I work on a product called Unifyo which helps businesses integrate separate information systems, cloud applications and e-mail in a lightweight way (https://unifyo.com). Always happy to chat, e-mail in profile.
Ship Games
I'm searching for a 11"-13" ARM notebook with atleast a half-HD resolution or more. I want to use it for C/TeX/HTML&CSS/LibreOffice, so Android is a no go for me at the moment. The only solution I've found is using the Motorola Lapdock together with a MK802 or similiar ARM usbstick.

Does someone know a device who will meet my criteria?
I get this quite often (Chromium/Ubuntu here, too). It usually fixes itself by zooming out/zooming in. I always surf with 120% zoom, and I've kind of assumed the bug is related to that. Do you surf with a non-default zoom level?
I saw it at Cyberport in Berlin, Friedrichstraße. They have several outlets in different cities: http://www.cyberport.de/stores.

Also online: http://www.cyberport.de/smartphone-und-foto/smartphones/A409...

They also have the white version.

I think you can check online if the phone is available in a specific store at a given time.

Edit: Amazon.de has one for 319€ at the moment: http://amzn.to/S4rtbZ
The git backend is still up. Can commit to a private repo. Edit: Actually I can browse repos on the site and can view my account.

It just seems to be the home page. Everything else I've tested is working for me.
in my 10 year experience working as a developer at web design companies the prettiest the layout the designer came up with the less functional it is in practice.

...and lets not get started on what happens once the end users start adding content... I feel like crying!
In Lion, I'm pretty sure this only works if you enable "Three Finger Drag" in the trackpad settings.
The article fails to mention that there are at least two contributing factors in the technology stack, raw CPU speed and efficiency of the JS engine.
my wife signed up and followed a few so i got to watch some of the lectures - i was amazed by the quality of information they are giving out for free!
Honestly though, I think we need to take more responsibility in helping shape that copy. I've also had pretty bad experiences when the client had a dedicated writer assigned. My favorite approach is to, whenever copy is missing, go to a competitors site or Wikipedia, and copy/paste. At least you get an approximation, and it helps everybody who looks at the project start responding to and thinking about content. As UXers/designers/developers we might actually have a very good feel for content and are in a great position to get the process started.

An interface with Lorem Ipsum is like a portrait of a person without pupils drawn. It becomes abstract and all live is missing.
Also icons in Action Bar don't have labels. The label appears after long-pressing the icon but vthe ast majority of users doesn't know this.
You can download a new build of Torchlight now that fixes a few crashes.
I think he already has:) Look around you at all the people playing. Hint: the ones writing code are winning...
Italian Baked White Fish Recipe
hi, this is as good a moment as any to promote a little bit a lib i coded some time ago.

a simple (cross browser) wrapper to make getUserMedia really simple, you call

Sinne.getUserVideo(success, error[, options])
//https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/Sinne

and get back a nice HTML5 video element with the webcam as the input

here is a simple demo using the `Sinne` http://www.backpacker.io/ - an HTML5 mirror
Heroku vs Nodejitsu
I am not saying it is useful only that it is not a game changer for most people. Even in Japan you can use apps like Hyperdia for the JR and subways.

The iPhone predates the official launch of Google Transit and at the beginning didn't have many cities and so many providers have apps available.
Why would anyone use Go?
I wrote a li'l app that does something along the same lines. However it captures a data uri from the webcam video and sends it via a websocket to a second user who's also doing the same. It gives you a video chat just without the audio... https://github.com/bencevans/MediaStream

Just thought it may be of interest ;)
I can confirm that for germany too. Maybe only europeans are affected?
One name comes to mind when you mention the above: Robin Williams. There is still talk of him paying off comics after indirectly doing their material on stage or on television.
And fundamental. I've always considered any software patents to be a farce because they are based on the fundamentals of the underlying microprocessor hardware and code. I would not take issue with copyrights on programs but not patents. To patent software would be like patenting books where, like books, you are piecing together the fundamental words of a language to create a work.

A copyright makes far more sense than a patent.
Damn. Prior art.
DeployGate - simple real time solution to the hassles of beta testing
Can someone explain what happens to time while you travel this way?

Is your family at home going to be older when you come back from one of those trips?
Get the new chrome from a few days ago. It's much better, it's not slow now (I'm typing this comment on it).
PHP Packages | Image Uploads & Management
I had to sit and explain the process to both my girlfriend and my Dad recently, I think one of the issues is it's a "you have to know it to know about it" situation, it's mentioned plenty by Apple but given that the products are pretty user manual free there's many things that you have to know it to know it.

Hope it helps, you can show your friends and bathe in the satisfaction of knowledge sharing. Also on iPad, 4 finger swipe to move between apps, 4 fingers up to show App Tray, full page pinch for home. Not hidden by any stretch, but not widely known.
> you can’t remember it when it wears off

Bullshit.
I hated the change of the search button. It used to launch the in-application search instead of google now. I'm still not used to it, month later.
No. MDMA is itself a stimulant. "Ecstasy" and "molly" are synonyms.
EmberWatch: Ember.js Community Resources
This blogpost is painful :

1) no link to the course,

2) no link to the Udacity homepage,

3) no mention of the price or if it's free.
SLOW CLAP
Not on my Galaxy Nexus, I just tried it.
Reminds me of Scott McCloud's infinite canvas idea:
http://scottmccloud.com/4-inventions/canvas/index.html
Impressive by the way!
You can't really call it cross browser when it doesn't support browsers that don't have getUserMedia.

You had me excited for a second there because something like this with a flash fallback mechanism would be really, really useful.
Not really. I will continue at home.
Nice lib!

I was thinking of libifying my thingy, in a quite minimalistic way (at a minumum, the user would just pass two functions, one "update" and one "draw", which would receive a the current frame and, in the first case, the delta time).

This way you could just get freaky with the canvas effects and composing capabilities and stop caring about the low-level stuff.

I see you know your way around building nice, clean APIs; could you suggest me article/book about it? I'm kind of a newbie to that sort of things.
Most of these are valid, but he undermines his own case with some of them e.g. icons being the same size. That's a valid issue, but the Android guidelines are correct that using every pixel of height would look uneven. It is the same issue with capital letters, A should generally be taller than T so that they visually look equal in height. Dismissing this as "just eyeballing it" is favoring OCD-style logical consistency over actual user interface consistency, since icons with the same pixel height can look inconsistent to users.

Time for two of my favourite quotes "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds", and "different isn't always better, but better is always different" and to note that this is the kind of article that Gruber used to write about OS X when Apple were rapidly evolving it in it's early days[1]. It seemed to me even then that it didn't recognize the tension between improving what's broken and keeping everything consistent.

[1]: http://daringfireball.net/2004/10/brushed-metal
There are multiple problems with checkout done with steps either accordion or not, it hides valuable information, you need to do x steps until you get to payment/delivery step to see if your preferred option is available.

Most website don't bother having a page with details regarding all accepted payment/delivery details and people go directly to the checkout hoping to see all options there but when they see all those steps and forms to fill in, they quit.

I think the best way is to have a fat free checkout and ask only absolutely necessary things and put checkboxes where additional information might be needed to show the necessary inputs, in this way having everything on one page without steps is possible and is less typing for the user and he is shown everything he needs to know to place the order.
When it's unclear how we might even possibly begin to cure the disease, treating the symptom might be the best that we can do in the short term.
its a "let uns look at your contacts so we will find other friends of yours on facebook"-feature. and a lot of people (sadly) dont care about this.
Introdução ao Shell Script no Linux
The median HN user is a white male who uses Chrome on OSX.
I am no web designer, but I have made plenty of websites in my time. Right now I am rebuilding a site for a product that I sell. I decided to go with a one page web site with lots of javascript for clicking around and animated images. The words on my page that are typed out are: Available At, Contact Us, and F.A.Q. . . . the other content is my logo etc. While I do see that good typography can equate to good web design, I will also add that good images, code, colors, and usefulness also help.
git backend working also for me (Italy)
Well, for what concerns the part I focused on (the canvas part) there should not be any performance issue with p2p.

For WebRTC p2p video streaming in general, it seems promising. At the moment, though, there's little to no browser support and getting a full system (there's also a server involved, to initiate the connections) is not automated or abstracted yet.

For more info, check out this page: http://www.webrtc.org/running-the-demos
Elop running out of time to turn Nokia around
Les Seigneurs Streaming
Oh you! Can you suggest a gif? ^^
I really understand the problem you are tackling : you haven't found a BugTracking system that works for your company. Especially because you are in the web development field so you know exactly what you want.

But I think that the problem is not that "Some are great but expensive, others haven't changed in years, most are too complex and are re-hashes of the same product." The problem is that they have not been built for you.

This is why there are so many bug tracking, to-do list and project management solutions. Savvy people aren't satisfied with what they found because it does not fit 100% with their ideal solution so they want a custom one. So they say: "Hey look what I've build! It's so much better than the others". It's true for you and maybe for some other people but it's not true in general. It's just that everyone wants a custom bugtracking, to-do list or project management app.
My fully zoomable (think google maps) version based on http://leaflet.cloudmade.com

http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/
Yes. We need more explosions and dancing dogs done in Flash. That's what makes the web better. No need for words.
"e.g. you can't see the message above if you've typed a long message in Messages in iOS"

Lost my iPhone so can't check this, but I'm pretty sure you can drag the visible bit of the message above down to collapse the keyboard and see the whole thing.
There is a lot of public information (http://psiram.com/en/index.php/Focardi-Rossi_Energy-Catalyze...) that screams "scam" but I'm not expert in the field. His approach to research does not seem to help his case at all.
I see what you did there.

I hope he sends you rates on par with London, NYC, or SF. ;)
Simple answer: probably not. You wouldn't experience time dilation in this scenario, because the ship itself isn't actually moving faster than light speed. In fact, it's not moving very quickly at all. It's bending space around itself, while remaining within a flat and undistorted region of space inside the bubble. With respect to objects inside the bubble (its own frame of reference), the ship is not moving faster than light. (A beam of light inside the warp bubble will still travel faster than the ship, for instance).

Basically, the ship is able to traverse distances faster than light can, but it isn't actually moving faster than light.
Less radioactivity release than coal I think. Due to the levels of radioactive material naturally occurring in coal deposits.
Ask HN: Best A/B or MAB Testing Tools?
I was wondering what people find to be the best A/B or MAB testing+analysis setups?

I'm currently using Google Analytics if that matters, but am totally open to adopting any mature tool! The posts on A/B and MAB have been really enlightening so what's the best way to take the next step and implement it?
Considering that Google had to train 10,000 computers to identify cats in pictures, Porn detection is damn near impossible to do. [http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-06/26/google-brain-...]

So i tried this API:

A picture of an african lady with her legs spread wide open.

result:
"score": 0,
"resultcode": 0,
"porn": false

second pic was 2 white couples fornicating:
"score": 92,
"resultcode": 1,
"porn": true

third pic - african lady with breasts exposed:
"score": 0,
"resultcode": 0,
"porn": false

Maybe it only works on light colored people.

I won't even bother with a picture where there may be some fellatio.

I used Face.com's API prior to it being shutdown to try and detect porn by measuring the % area taken up by a persons face. This sounded slightly feasible since a head shot should not be porn? But a close up of a BJ or a facial...

The only solutions for now is to manually moderate or use crowdsourced solution like
http://crowdflower.com/rtfm

Side note: There is a free 25 API calls per day option, but you have to enter a credit card. Suck
How do i change my birthyear on FB?