skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the omission in the title, and what title would you suggest? The title does not, to me, imply any nefarious intent.
That is a serious load of crap and if that's how you deal with the people in your life, I wish you luck. Because we all go to extremes during our lifetimes and the only way back is for others to understand and allow us to move on.

Marco is not a government, he is one dude who has taken a lot of crap from 9to5. He got mad and acted. He regrets it, but I don't like bullies very much and sometimes those who are bullied will go to extremes.
1977 - was probably gas powered but must have been impressive tech for the time to warrant a ban!
Me and 3 other friends went through the same phase when switching over to the paleo diet; pretty regular thing, you just need to churn through and eat plenty of good fats. Nuts are a helpful snack too.

I would also highly recommend that you work out on a fairly regular basis; eating properly is one side of the equation. I've personally recommended Nerd Fitness (http://nerdfitness.com) to quite a few persons. It's very easy to start with and you can build it up to a fairly serious work out if you're motivated.
Being a former player, I can think of some good uses for this technology.

1) Automatically attaching image galleries to the Armory* profile of characters based on account id

2) Easy to give credit to players providing screenshots for Blizzard run contests

3) Opens the Armory API a bit more

Obviously, these can all be exploited due to the "openness" of the screenshot format.

*For the WoW illiterate: The Armory is a public database of player's characters, items, achievements, etc...
Disney Claims House Of Mouse Built With Copyright
How I Pitched My First Startup
I really don't get why this post come on front page of HN and what am I learning from the site.
The pricing seems like a complete rip-off, to be honest. $10 for a sticker? $40 for a t-shirt? $1000 for a skateboard?

For comparison, you can buy a top-of-the-line longboard for $200, full kit. An essentially equivalent product [1] is selling for $500 a pop, half the price. That's more in line with what I'd pay for a luxury product like this.

Also, I'm not sure how comfortable this would actually be to carry around. Most longboards are around 7 pounds... this says "12 to 15" in the description. So, basically, this is going to feel like I'm carrying two skateboards around, not one.

[1] - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1645804961/the-zboard-th...
How the U.S Air Force is Moving Towards IPv6
#Builtinquebec: Startups building native and web apps in Quebec City.
I think they care, but they have their constraints. They'd rather polish and add important functionality first, rather than radically redo the whole design. After the LibreOffice / OpenOffice split it's still probably not at the point of such step. But I'm sure at some point they'll address it.
Alert: Your Plant Needs Water
BonsaiJS - A lightweight graphics library with graphics API and SVG renderer.
Future Trends in Enterprise Software
Awesome! Can't wait to see it, and let me know if I can help out on the API side at all.
Come on, was this really the first time somebody correlated hunger with riots?

Also, I appreciate the scientific method, but it is not true that we can not know things without it. For example the people who go rioting because they are hungry know that they go rioting because they are hungry.

Over time, lots of people have rioted because they were hungry, and the knowledge has slowly attritioned into the public body of knowledge...
I would not be so quick to jump to conclusions. You can see his target weight is 250lbs, and the more weight you have the faster you can lose lbs.
Semi-OT: Why is it so hard to find yesterday's highly-rated GoDaddy outage discussion? Neither sorting by relevance nor recency nor points will find it. Or maybe there wasn't one?
MOBILE /WEB DEVELOPMENT MANAGER (startup)
Uh oh, I'm a guy and I didn't know until now that I've been using girl tools!
This to read the full thing: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s...
Is this Patient Zero the first person to whom they gave the track, or the first person to share the track resulting in viral distribution?

There is a difference. Dead ends are possible and entirely likely.
> "Throughout our history, we have provided 99.999% uptime in our DNS infrastructure"

I think he's implying "until yesterday".

I've used GoDaddy for 10 years or so, and this is the first DNS outage I can remember.

That's an impressive record, imo.

(Personally I've largely switched off GoDaddy to Namecheap now, but not because of uptime, rather because I grew tired of the sucky GoDaddy website and sucky APIs)
I don't think that Steve Yegge quite got his conservative-liberal categorization right, but I think he was on to something. And you're a flaming liberal. As another flaming liberal, I completely agree with what you said. But I am weird about trying to see things through other people's eyes, and I can see why others might not agree. Particularly if they are towards the conservative end of the scale.

For those who don't remember offhand what Steve Yegge said, https://plus.google.com/114613808538621741268/posts/fnhfBGry... gives you how I would draw the distinction. Basically conservatives are willing to put up with ceremony to get benefit. And liberals avoid ceremony.

My categorization of pg is because his top desires for code seem to be that it works acceptably well, is short, was fast to write, and is easy to change. None of these goals are compatible with having much excess ceremony.
The companies listed are some of those that have signed on with us to hire students.

We are a couple weeks away from our first hiring day. If you're looking for devs, sign up here: appacademysummer2012.eventbrite.com!
I have some inside knowledge of this, and the author did not pick the headline (it's common practice for copy editors to rewrite it). Agree that the headline is ridiculous, but if you go on to read the article, there is context to the analogy.

It says so in my profile, but for disclosure, I am a co-worker of the author..
Ughh. That sounds about what I expected unfortunately.

Sorry to hear this as any reasonable corporate structure understands 'shit' happens in the tech universe. Fix it as expediently as possible and move on, putting in place as much protection as possible to prevent it in the future.

Do you think we'll see a true outage report or is this unlikely?
Ask HN: Would you hire me for an internship?
I'm 23, and received my degree in finance this May. While trading forex I came across something called a Java API, started the online Stanford Java course, and from that point is was over, I fell love with programming.

I have been coding for a little less than a year, going through a few Python books and coding every exercise, but it didn't really “click” till about 4 or 5 months ago. Since then I taught myself C and recently Ruby.

I've made a few usable programs this past summer in addition to reading stacks of books; K&R, half-way through The Linux Programming Interface, Eloquent Ruby, Debugging with gdb, Web Application Hackers Handbook, and others.

Small, safe, secure Ruby server. Work in progress. https://github.com/Ghostface-jr/Rube

C workout application that I used to print out a daily workout regimen. https://github.com/Ghostface-jr/Workout-Generator

C app that uses the Leafly.com api to retrieve information.
https://github.com/Ghostface-jr/Leafly-app

I found that I really like networking, unix, and security. I am learning how to use Metasploit, nmap, ect and am working my way through exploiting some machines; Metasploitable, Windows XP, stuff like that. I am also have considerable knowledge of web application security, especially relating to Ruby-on-Rails. I know I still have a lot to learn but am excited, motivated, and ready to contribute starting on day one.

So anyway, I'm looking to move to the Bay Area or Seattle asap, if you were a tech company would you hire me for an internship with a full time evaluation after 5 or 6 months? I ask because I feel like I'm at the very beginning of the learning curve and when I see posts of amazing projects by people younger than me on HN I question my abilities.
Finally! I can run server code! I just might take another look at them now!

Edit: Huh? Why was this downvoted? The problem I've had with Parse for a long time was that I still needed a separate server to do some backend processing that was not feasible to do on a client. Now I may no longer have need for that server.
Fruits have sugar. Sugar turns into carbs.
> I think that a good developer should be able to write good software with the tools available.

While that's true, it would be hard for me to consider someone a good developer if they, given the choice, chose poor or inappropriate tools for a job.
I love working with the sort of people you describe, but they are pretty rare, and they don't send out emails like this. I've worked with people like the OPs emailer (not because I got such an email, just because I needed a job), and its pretty much the equivalent of this:

"Hey I heard you are an experienced removalist, and I am moving house at the weekend, so maybe you could help me out? I won't be helping, or lifting anything, but I will be giving lots of advice about the best way to do things. Even though I have never moved house before, I believe my advice is valuable because I have watched a lot of episodes of Holmes on Homes"
I worked for gate5 (Now Nokia gate5 GmbH) in 1999 and it was surely a technology driven company in Berlin.

Maybe most companies anywhere are not so much technical driven? The company I founded myself was only technical and that was the reason it didn't last long.
No: this is more about being able to define middleware that allows you to process information that would either be too costly to transfer to one of the clients or which is too sensitive to be trusted to a client.
We think the incentives align better with this model. We want our students to take the best job for them, regardless of whether the company is paying recruiting fees.

As far as recruiting fees go, when employers make a decision on salaries, they look at the total employee cost. If the employer needs to pay a recruiting fee, that goes into the cost. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch, etc, etc. :-)
The 'Brute Force' Scientific Method to Debugging
Turns Your Ultrabook Into a Gaming Rig
Can we stop linking all this to TechCrunch and giving them hits? Parse has a blog post about this, so let's link to that instead.
When will Microsoft finally learn how to properly use web technology?

When they invent some good web technology. Oh, wait, they totally did... You heard of AJAX?
Not sure how we get to the word "dwarfed" in that analysis, since despite ranking below Europe on life expectancy, the US does significantly better on heart disease and cancer mortality.

Point being: something's going on here that confounds life expectancy comparisons.
Stop!! You might get your period!
Python.
2-space indentation.
Facepalm.
There are many other single points of failure besides network failure, such as pushing the wrong configuration. In fact it seems to me that it would be rather rare for a multi-homed datacenter to have a network failure.
Don't worry Cataclysmic - the list is agnostic, we just write about all things related to female entrepreneurs. You won't get cooties!
I don't like bringing politics to HN but I do want to counter your anti-OWS rhetoric. Equating the opposition of the maldistribution of wealth to "some evil overlord" is just being fatuous.

The shortage of resources that comes from overpopulation is a problem which needs to be solved in the long term. However it wouldn't be a problem just yet if it weren't for a handful of people hording the majority of the world's wealth. The problem at the moment isn't a lack of resources, but rising prices due to a shortage of resources. If income for middle and lower class families hadn't been stagnant for the past decades then those rising prices wouldn't have been a problem. That's what people are protesting. It's not a class warfare, it's not a hatred towards people who are well off (like myself). It's about needless suffering.
Agreed. This exactly.

Since the point of all of this is to prevent evil downloading that robs these poor companies of money, I would like to see some figures relating to the amount of cash that the MPAA/RIAA spend on legislation and policy in an effort to 'save' money.
Project Management: The biggest complaints [Infographic]
There are a lot of ebay market research tools out there. You will need to stand out either by pricing or by feature. Good luck.
My thoughts exactly! This makes it much more appealing to me now. If they add in some helpers for Core Data I would be even more excited to try it.
Almost every javascript library you use is a singleton, so your second sentence makes no sense. Check the example, it is just the module pattern. If a programmer wants to deviate away from a pattern, the language lock-in won't stop them.

Also, the command pattern is a great tool for handling undo/redo on a UI. I think you are being way to dismissive of some good advice. Just because someone is trying to share a better way of doing things that is based on ideas created in another language does not detract from their value.
I don't know why it is hard but I picked it up from my browser history: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4500993
How do they secure this?
(I'm not critising you massarog just using your post as a hopping on point :)

Kind of a big difference in battery size from the Zboard to the Boosted Board. Quoted mileage is not that different either. Given that the board has to move a human at 20Mph I would wager that the smaller of the two batteries is not big enough. Its barely larger than a couple of mobile phone batteries.

They say the motor is rated at 2kw. Something that size using that much power is going to get pretty hot and the wires and battery are also going to get hot. I'm pretty sure that brushless motors don't like working at low RPM (anything less than about 10,000rpm) Looking at the transmission and wheel size, at 20mph those wheels are going at 1,100rpm. Which means the motors are probably doing about 2-3 times that. Under high load (like this) brushed and brushless motors are comparable efficiency.

I'd love to see a prototype of this but the motors and batteries don't seem powerful enough (having been a model car enthusiast for many years) - I'd love to be proved wrong. I wanted to put some brushless motors on my bike but after doing the calcs never got any further than the drawing board.

ZBoard seems more realistic to me.
the lightest zboard weighs 30 lbs vs 12 lbs for this. Big difference in tote-ability there.
Really, it just isn't. I spent about a decade starting around when this essay was published writing Java. There are some obvious analogs between Java's design and the industries it's found a stronghold in. It's a language about prioritizing risk aversion, and thrives in organizations obsessed with the same.

If you were to design a programming language inspired by a large government bureaucracy that has much more machinery in place to not get fired or sued than it does to get work done, I imagine it would look a lot like Java.

As such, Java is a very useful tool for allowing large teams of average or even below-average programmers to produce serviceable products.

Of course that statement is terrible flame-bait, so let me be clear: That's not all Java is good for, and I'm not describing all Java programmers. Not by a long shot. I'm also honestly describing this as an asset to Java, and in my opinion the asset that's most responsible for the success it's enjoyed.

As a programming language for building things, Java is probably the worst example I can think of among languages and platforms that have experienced any popularity over the last decade or so. The amount of scaffolding required to express an idea is staggeringly off-balanced, and points at Java's primary concern: to avoid problems. Reading a Java program is an exercise in trying to extract what the programmer intended a program to do, while laboriously reading through all of the more-obvious things that the programmer intended the program NOT to do.

These things come in the form of a lot of ideas that aren't at all bad on their own, but coalesce into a symphony of painful excess on the axis of generalizations, exception handling, type declaration, contract validation, and data conversion.

A colleague of mine (who programmed embedded C) once reviewed a large Java commit of mine and commented that it seemed like 90% of my code was spent handling exceptions or converting data from one type to another. He was right, and though this is likely to be debated.. it's not because I was a bad Java programmer, it's because I was a good one.

In over a decade I think I met only one person that I think felt especially expressive in Java, and even he wouldn't use it for lots of everyday things that it made particularly painful (dealing with the filesystem or building web applications come to mind).

My personal opinion is that most people who say they love programming in Java love programming and either haven't invested in an alternative enough to know better, or find the particulars of a programming language a rounding error in the calculus of what they enjoy about programming.

I was in the first category, and God bless folks in the second. I envy them.
The ability to run server code is so great. It amazes me that they got this far without allowing it. But I guess the mobile app market is so huge that many mobile apps didn't require it.
You're forgetting internal routing; e.g. unreachable database server.
Things Overheard at TechCrunch Disrupt
It took me a while to figure out what lessneglect was really about.. I.e. I feel the messaging on the front page is the kind of "Use us, we'll save you thousand of dollar".. yes, but how exactly?

After looking at the screenshots, I had a better idea. From my understanding, it's a feed of the actions happening on your website. So, rather than having a "Facebook feed of latest news from your friends", you have a "Feed of latest actions on your website".

Again, from my understanding, the way it works is by providing an API to the developers. Basically, for every actions on my website, I'd send an API call to lessneglect.

I think I like it.. mostly because I find it's very hard to follow my users across my websites to know what's happening. I use external tools such as Google analytic and mixpanel.. but even then, it's more of a "stats" page than a real feed of what's happening.

I think the homepage has some cool UI effect but the important messaging is missing. I'd cut the "Turn upside-down" or "Less Neglect is web software that takes the job of supporting customers to the next level.".
Shuttleworth Invests $1 Million in Ceph Storage Startup Inktank
I think describing that linked product as "essentially equivalent" is a bit misleading. It takes 5 hours instead of 2 hours to charge, the top speed is 15mph instead of 20mph, and it weighs 37 lbs. instead of 12-15 lbs.
I'm wondering if it's just because those foods happen to also be foods with low glycemic index [0].

Based on an NPR story I heard yesterday [1] (if correct), I'd guess that you'd get similar results eating any of those types of foods [2].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_index

[1] http://www.wbur.org/npr/160757730/low-and-slow-may-be-the-wa...

[2] http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/76/1/5/T1.expansion.html
> XML is not Turing complete

No, but it's also not a programming language. Of course, there are languages that use XML as their syntax, and many of these are Truing complete.
Where's the license file?
>Programmers aren't immune from overestimating their competency

I would actually phrase it differently: programmers quite often overestimate their competency. I am not sure if it is unique to programmers or just an instance of the general inability to objectively analyze ourselves, but I do notice that the vast majority of programmers I have met (myself included :)) have a tendency to consider ourselves a smidge more capable than we actually may be from a purely objective standpoint. Then again the stretching is what grows great developers, so that overestimation that spurs you into attempting things just outside your current grasp is probably a net positive.
Best Self-hosted Wiki software?
But didn't he announce the attack before-hand?
What can the airliner SAS teach us about how to focus on our customers?
>Many people have heard of it, certainly, but they often have some vague idea that it's a command-line interface for ultra nerdy experts. That's why Android and Ubuntu both avoid using the word 'Linux' in their public branding.

That actually is a lack of gratitude and failure to improve Linux image on their part. But I agree with the rest of the above. Removing the bundling won't magically solve all issues, but it's a huge blocker which prevents any kind of solutions from reaching the broader audience.
And the face cards. Where's my suicide king?
I lost 40-50 pounds (and have kept it off for ~4 years) by:

1. Cutting pop out of my diet. I used to drink it every day for lunch, and now I drink it ~once a month max.

2. Eating smaller portions of snacks - I used to sit down in front of the TV or computer with a bag of snacks that I would devour. Now I either take a handful from the bag, or I put some in a bowl for me to eat.

And overall I just try to eat until I am full, which I used to have trouble with.
This is great! And perfect timing! Just today I was starting to write a set of external hosted scripts to generate XML from my Parse objects, but this makes everything much easier. Parse is just terrific!
Thanks to news and media people have a false sense of "Overnight success". Which isn't realistic and in most cases possible. There is "overnight popularity", but not "overnight success".

I think that's what's throwing entrepreneurs off. Our failure to realize that:

1) Big things have small beginnings.

2) All things take time.
This is great, but not quite what I had hope for. Yes you can run custom code, but only what their current API allows. It just saves time by not having to transfer data to the client to aggregate.

Step in the right direction though.
I didn't disagree with your analysis. I was only pointing out that accidents(ranked 5th) are indeed one of the top cause of death in the US, which I didn't make it clear in my last comment.
That's one I hadn't read, although sadly I agree with much of it. As one of the people who worked on the 'LiveOak' project which was the final, and presumptively last gasp, of Java before Sun 'redeployed' all of us, there was this really modest view of what the language was. And then it was released and folks started saying "Gee if people deliver programs in the browser, and Sun owns the language/environment of the browser, they are going to freeze Microsoft right out of the market, brilliant!"

Except nobody who was actually a part of the Java group said that, they said "Gee you can push a chemical molecule viewer to the browser at the same time you push a model, that will let you publish stuff without having to wait for browsers to 'catch up'"

Sun corporate had their own ideas though, and seeing it as a way to 'attack Microsoft' (which looked pretty unassailable in 1995) and a lot of other people were feeling the same way, and the language got hijacked. That was a sad thing indeed. I feel sorry for the developers who create a technology that is perceived as the way to 'kill Apple' or 'kill Google' since it will be very popular and ultimately corrupted by those who would seek to use it in that role. I have the misfortune of having worked on something which Sun tried to kill Microsoft with and Oracle tried to damage Google with. 2 for 2, yuck.

So if you can separate the language from the politics, there is a lot to like, it has been influential in a number of positive ways. But the taint on the language from the politics will be its most enduring legacy I suspect.