skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but for who?

In the case of hiring "hackers", the NSA (and whatever other Double Secret TLA is out there, that we're not supposed to know about) should hire people who very literally think outside the box. The NSA has the problem of what to do with disruptive ideas, or they have the problem of no disruptive ideas. Maybe the "hackers" they hire write Stuxnet NT, or maybe they develop algorithms that solve the Traveling Salesman Problem and open a bigger can of worms than thought possible.

Or maybe the NSA gets nothing from their "hackers" because 9-to-5 regular day jobs in a building with no windows, except fake ones on the fake building around the real building, causes a near-total physiological and psychological block on new ideas. Net loss to society, since some of the "hackers" could be writing code for the next Pets.com .

Or maybe the NSA can't hire any real "hackers" since they almost universally have showstopping blots on their records: sampling illicit drugs, committing minor fraud, getting expelled from school, undergoing psychiatric treatment, nominal homelessness, participating in OWS, whatever, you'd be surprised at what prohibits someone from getting an exotic clearance, which you certainly need to have to work at the NSA. What if the NSA can only hire poseurs and lamers?

Yes, this is indeed a trap.
These man on the street stupidity bits are a staple of late night comedy, but for every stupid person, there could be 50 people who aren't stupid, and immediately get the joke. You just don't see the latter group. There's probably also a third, even smarter group, who understand that if they play along, they might end up on tv.
IPhone 10 - The tallest iphone yet
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It's not the plan; they already exist: gc is the default, fast suite of compilers; gccgo is a Go front-end for GCC.
The Correct Cucumber Regex for Matching Text in Quotes?
It took me a while to find someone with a Bacon number>2:
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Any new and active programming community should be vocal, and node is no different. In fact, both node and rails have very loud supporters and detractors (IE, you).
Well, no actually. The 3GS has some software features of iOS 6 disabled. Check the footnotes http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/
exactly -- perceived improvement because it was more expensive; it must be better
Camera is vastly better, it is not even comparison. Even 4s vs 4 is very large difference.
Fairly similar to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYU1a0lTTTw
Go's declaration syntax has some benefits: http://blog.golang.org/2010/07/gos-declaration-syntax.html

And they didn't borrow the declaration syntax from BASIC, but from Pascal: http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#ancestors

At the time Pascal was invented BASIC distinguished variable types via name postfixes like % and $.

Also, a "forward declaration" is not what the author seems to think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_declaration
> I don't see why anything on that page even has to perfectly line up.

The timeline page is basically unusable unless it lines up really well. Additionally it took me 4-5 times through to realize the years on that page were click actions (except 2013 which looks identical to the others???). Partially because of the annoyance of lining stuff up took me out of the mindset of 'what should i click on' and partially due to the inversion of focus. Generally actions the user can make should be clearly defined and stand out. In this case the current year stands out and the other years are very muted. In most interaction cases the elements that are muted are 'inactive'.

While you can read the content on the other pages with them out of alignment, the stiff breaks in the image background are very distracting.

All I can say to get to the real point is that if I hadn't grown up riding that mountain 30+ days a winter I never would have stuck around long enough to glean anything useful about it.

For what its worth the general feedback I've heard from other Sugarloafers indicates its not just me or my personality type that hates this site, it's a wide range of folks whose response has been "yuck".
Things Go got right;

1. Go doesn't discard the last 40+ years of programming history. Ints, chars, arrays, pointers, structs -- in addition to minimalist types that build on these -- are at the heart of Go's lexicon.

2. Following off of point 1: C and C++ source code and algorithms are easily translatable into Go because they look like Go.

3. Following off of point 2: Because old C/C++ code looks similar to Go, Go's libraries will soon number C/C++.

4. A well thought-out, minimalist toolchain. Working with "go install", vim, and gocode is like dancing in the clouds when compared with the morass that is Eclipse or Visual Studio, let alone C/C++ and its makefiles.

5. Go's object-orientation is done right. Go strongly emphasizes "has-a" relations and eschews the "is-a" relations that are prevalent in C# and Java. To see the effect this has on code readability, look at Go's documentation. For example, http://golang.org/pkg/database/sql/ ...scanning one page tells one all that's needs to be known about a package. Go's objects ride just above atomic data structures. There is not a five-mile chain of object dependencies and corresponding taxonomy clouding one's understanding as in C# or Java.

6. Go's channels give the programmer their very own ksh/bash built right in to the language. Admittedly, this is an oversimplification, but piping program units together is a proven method of strongly modularizing applications and has the added benefit of being inherently concurrent. Languages have been moving away from the shell for decades and have in the process lost its advantages.

(With all that said in point 6, there is still room for something like a lightweight, cross-platform, glue-language similar to bash/ksh that -- like Go -- does not throw out 40+ years of shell history. Unsung Tcl/Tk (http://www.softpanorama.org/Scripting/tcl.shtml) and Expect seems to fit the bill the closest currently, though it does not read like the C family of languages. Perhaps if someone were to build a Go shell, or create a cshell that used used Go's conventions, Go would have a good glue-language counterpart.)
Did the author change the title? It now reads "Google Go: Good for what?", although the article (or, for that matter, the link) still quite clearly suggests (and explicitly says at the end) that the answer is 'nothing'.
Go is a young language with a growing community that should only get better as more minds come to it.

For me it's very accessible for rapidly developing heavy-lifting tools, in particular networking tools. It's not the only language but it's served me well when I've reached for it.
Ugh. It's the same with the Efika MX hardware, otherwise nice systems, made incredibly painful by the lack of 1970s technology.
One of them was an electrical engineer believe it or not. He partially burned the wiring on his 911 Porsche when replacing a lightbulb. Its just crazy.
By that token, there is nothing interesting to see in most of the language advocacy posts on HN.
Java bytecode is pretty close to Java "the language." You can try decompiling some Java classes and see how close to the original you end up getting.

Because of that it's also a pretty awful assembly target, something which is only now being addressed with things like invokedynamic, finally moving Java byte code beyond Java 'the language.'
Microsoft's Academic search uses Erdos as a gimmick:

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/VisualExplorer

(The gimmick is that Erdos is the default for the co-author path visualization)
I really enjoy Sinatra and am indeed using it for REST style API hosting, but the counter argument might be all the security stuff that is built into the Rails routes/controllers. this might be a great case for a stripped down rails app as opposed to a Sinatra app.
The conclusion is that "Go is good for absolutely nothing."
This changes everything!
I have a sudden urge to sell all my stuff on ebay!
At a rough estimate: too much.
He confuses forward declarations with "declaring the type before the variable name".
WebOS was written in C++, eventually with a lot of Qt (the window manager, the dock, system dialogs, etc). The apps were written as web pages, though.

FxOS is all web pages (even the IME!) though currently has the same basic PalmOS launcher model that iOS and Android have; no multitasking window manager.
You can get the iPhone 4S screen replaced by 3rd parties for $90 just about anywhere. Mine was swapped out in less than 30 minutes after being thrown on a marble floor from a balcony.
The Reddit Internet 2012 Bus Tour
You pretty much lost all credibility when you quoted this:

>Harvard – one of the most prestigious universities – awarded an MBA to George W Bush. A man many of us wouldn’t trust to sit the right way round on a toilet.

As a reason not to trust Harvard. The world gets it. Those republicans surrreee are dummies.

/puke

The rest of your article is a bit naive. Computational linguistics is not considered a solved problem yet. Yes, twitter might have 26,000 or some odd tweets from you, but that doesn't mean that they "know" anything about you. It's dumb text.

In fact, now that you've tweeted at the sun newspaper, how is twitter to know that you aren't interested in that newspaper? You're interacting with it, of course you would want to see ads from it, right?

This [meaning targeted advertising] works for facebook (although arguably well since the meme is that facebook ads don't perform) because of the "like" system. I target ads at people who have "liked" things, not at people who have talked about them.
The Temptation of Data
Doesn't sound like a very good alternative. You're paying 10% of the cost of the phone to protect it against (some) accidents, but in the process set it back a generation, by making it thicker and heavier. That's pretty costly as far as insurance goes.
The important thing is not the absolute difference 58.7% - 41.3% = 17.4%, but the relative difference 58.7%/41.3% ≈ 142%. That is, those statistics indicate that left-handed letters occur about 42% more often than right-handed ones.

(While I'm nitpicking math, though, there's something funny about whatever rounding choices made the numbers 58.73% and 41.3%.)
Looking at Vulnerability Assessment in View of Qualys’ IPO Plans
FTA: https://gist.github.com/1942658

Why wouldn't you just do a 50-line Rails app instead, and slot in any other Rails niceties when you feel like you need them?
Y Combinator gets an historian: Inside YC S11 with Randy Stross
Birds of a feather flock together, even in death
Very heartening to see the skeptical reaction this article is receiving here.
This would be a more compelling complaint if proprietary software generally came with detailed, clearly written documentation. Which most of the time it doesn't.

In the worst cases, the proprietary software vendor expects you to pay to get access to the kind of not-end-user-oriented-but-still-useful documentation (like an API reference) that open source projects publish for free.

In other words, it's not that open source software tends to be poorly documented, it's that software tends to be poorly documented. At least with open source software you can go and look and the source code to figure out the stuff the docs leave out.
It is a compromise. Like any long-term compromise, it is gradually bent into a shape mostly determined by whoever has the better bargaining position.
http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/
Last time I checked the Google+ API was mostly read-only.
The autoplaying of a new song is a feature that doesn't work in youtube, unless you make a playlist. I love that I can type in an artist, click a song, and go about my work.
A Rails-powered MUD? You're doing God's work, son.
For people not in the US, you need to change Google to English for this to work.
4, if an Erdos/Bacon number were a thing:

P. Erdős and C. Pomerance published "On the largest prime factors of n and n +1"

C. Pomerance and L. Adleman published "On Distinguishing Prime Numbers From Composite Numbers"

L Adleman was a mathematical consultant in Sneakers with David Strathairn.

David Strathairn and Kevin Bacon appeared in The River Wild.

//edit, Randy Pausch actually appeared in a movie so I'm sure there's a connection there, too.
It's gotten to the point where it doesn't even surprise me anymore that this kind of tripe is the #1 top story on Hacker News now. Hacker News is becoming the "Ow, My Balls!" of the tech world.
Remember Ruby back in 2006? (Or just Rails if you’re a cool dork) oh you couldn’t turn a corner without some douche-canoe evangelizing the wonders of this horrible little fad framework and how it was going to revolutionize delivering software and services to the web and like the Segway Scooter of computer science… BAM in 2011 no one uses it.

Nobody was using Ruby in 2011? Really? Really?

It's not even worth going through and picking out all the mistakes, really. I feel bad about even having taken the time to pick out the one above. It's like beating up the fat kid on the playground.
I think the whole idea of nootropics goes against what I call the "American ideology".

The "American Ideology" being that anyone can do anything they just have to try. If you can cognitively enhance yourself and become more successful then that proves that there's some things some people can't do because they are just not smart enough and that realization is enough to activate full blown cognitive dissonance. People think, "this must be cheating!", "this must be dangerous!", "this must be addictive!", "why isn't everybody else doing it?".
HGST Demonstrates 7-Platter Helium Hard Drive Platform
> 2) It's too difficult for new users to remember the tricks that are supposedly "better." It's a lot like Python vs. Perl -- Perl is a really smart and clever language, but you can type just a few characters more to write Python and it'll be a lot clearer as to what's going on.

Doesn't this same argument lead to the conclusion that new users won't use Perl over Python or --to put it more inflammatorily-- that Python killed Perl? This is surely demonstrably incorrect.
They do have other ways to make money. Brands can be shown as "recommended followers" to users for a price. Brands can also upgrade their accounts to show a banner of somesort (https://twitter.com/nylabone) and support "sticky tweets". Access to their API in large quantities is a source of revenue (I think). Promoted tweets in a user's stream is another source of revenue.

There may be others, but these are the only ones I'm aware of.
I use an extremely slim case just to improve the grip. I found the metal rim to be too easy to slip out of my hand, but with a slim plastic case around the rim, it's secure in my hand. Adds virtually no bulk and the benefit of decreasing the likelihood I'll drop the phone and need a replacement.
Good point. I'm assuming they mean ancient in genetic sense, i.e. kind of species that were typical back when dinosaurs were around and because of their somewhat isolated history, they evolved in a slightly different way from most plants in that geographical area.
(posting this here for easy access/eyeballs)

As a final closing post, here are further links of interest relating to VR's passing:

Goonfleet held a "candlelight vigil" memorial ceremony for Vile Rat, in which they fired cynosural fields (ship-launched jump portals) as a send-off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnfHJGDC_xE
(at about 13:40 he shows the EVE starmap and the graphical effect of lighting that many cynosural fields in a single spot - http://i.imgur.com/TyNDi.jpg . There's also a little guitar solo and 10 minutes of silence, and at the end they start blowing each other up in remembrance of VR.)

Reddit thread on the vigil: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/zsu0u/eve_just_had_a...

Tribute from another old EVE diplomat and former CCP staffmember, 'Seleene':
http://community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=7...

Article on Wired, quite comprehensive
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/09/vilerat/

Mention by Andrew Sullivan, on how Vile Rat's death was politicised by Mitt Romney:
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/09/a-diplomat-i...

News coverage from the AP (and SMH)

-- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/libya-attack-victim...

-- http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/libya-attack-vict...

-- http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/vile-rat-ki...

(the SMH one has a picture of his dragon tattoo, the viletat)

Article on Forbes, with a Vile Rat quote from Reddit:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/09/13/a-look-at-...

And a final farewell to a top goon (comic from a SomethingAwful member): http://i.imgur.com/NrZns.jpg

Off beyond that final jumpgate...
WebKit Multiple Unspecified Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Lefty here. Bad title - writing English kinda sucks for lefties - on blackboards/whiteboards I always smudge the letters as a write left to right. Same thing with some pens. And you can't see the letters your just wrote as you move left-to right. Not to mention the English language was around a long time before QWERTY. Truth is, English was heavily left-handed,we'd all be writing right-to-left. More appropriate title would be 'QWERTY is heavily left-handed'
How many markets actually have LTE now?
[SCO] at least create a precedent that illegally copying code will not go unchallenged

Can you point to any evidence that code got copied, much less illegally copied? Because SCO never could, at least not in court filings. That utter lack of evidence pretty much convinces me that you're so wrong, that your blog entry isn't even false.

Linux was an unstable P.O.S. back in the 90's - Did you even use Linux back then? My own personal experience says completely otherwise. Especially if you compare Linux in 1997 with Windows 95 and whatever Windows NT was current. By 2002, not only was Linux rock-solid, it ran faster than Windows on identical hardware.

Beat it, troll.
Resell value.
Ha! didn't know he worked specifically in this context, thanks a lot. I'm even more impatient now.
For me, the main reason not to switch 100% to the console is the web browser. There is no fb browser with proper CSS and HTML5 support.

At work, I have a dual monitor setup, one of them with a browser, the other with a console running 'screen'. If I could have the same setup in a console I would.

On the other hand, I feel like font rendering is much nicer under X11, and the clipboard support is better.
Because they are expensive tools, not fashion statements.
I'm genuinely curious - Scala is faster and better performant, what is there in GO that there isn't in Scala? I mean, if you were to build a highly scalable web app, why would you choose one over the other? Any thoughts??
He was working for MI6 at the time!
Quickbooks is overkill, not very well designed software and their customer support is horrible. I would use their Quicken Home and Business package if you wanted something simple to use. Of course, if your business grows you would have to move to something else down the road.

I've been using GnuCash and, despite a few quirks, seems to be pretty good and its free.
Unit Test, sure, but at what "unit level"?

I usually prefer "automatized system testing" where fewer "high level" tests involve a lot of code, preferably in a test environment that is close the actual production environment.

Of course, when a test fails, some more analysis is required to determine what went wrong. But it's usually related to recently modified code, hence easy to spot.

That way I get the benefits of automatized tests without the burden of tons of "micro" tests at the class/method level.
With this standard for "essential" you may as well just drop down into assembly language.

The only added simplicity here is for the compiler writers, not the end users.
USB is my least favorite connector, aside from the old iPhone connector. In all its form factors it's universally difficult to get hooked up without physically looking at the plug and the socket, and it seems to break too often. Worse yet, most people I know can barely even tell the different versions apart, and often figure out if a USB cord is compatible with a device by just trying to jam it in and see if it fits.

The new lightning connector looks like it offers much better ergonomics and better durability than any of the existing USB plugs. So I'm happy to see connectors going in this direction. Let's see the USB standard copy the idea.
Indeed, I agree cf my comment on the blog post. It is a 2w at most difference.
The powertop comparison was more about the wakeups than the raw wattage.
It looks like the mockups, particularly the tablet one, were made in MS Paint.

edit: Also, is the "tm" really necessary? Surely they can defend any future trademark infringement disputes successfully without it? Perhaps I'm being naive about the world of intellectual property rights.
This one makes me wonder if Google is about to buy ebay
Risk I/O Now Integrates with The Metasploit Project
Risk I/O, a vulnerability management platform, has added integration with The Metasploit Project. This integration gives users the ability to use the Metasploit database for penetration testing, allowing them to detect even more critical issues in their data.
Firebird 2.5.2 Release Candidate is available
I was starting to get wrist and neck pain from using a laptop on a desk that was too high for my wrists and too low for my neck. I didn't want an external monitor but still wanted my laptop display higher. After investigating laptop arms, etc. I stumbled upon a large platter display stand at a home decor place.

Adding a keyboard tray, a USB keyboard and mouse, and a USB hub so I only have one cable to unplug when I want to move to the couch.

Fuzzy picture: http://benjiyork.com/pictures/laptop-setup.jpg
Looks great, but why does they make it such a big deal? Marketing purposes?
I feel the same way. Some of my friends have an iphone 4, and when I hold it in my hand, sure, it's lighter, but the lack of a round back makes it feel like a brick for some reason.
That's why they were chosen as ctrl-v/c/x
I'm sure all of the perks (and good salary, work satisfaction) are part of their efficiency optimization and retention play. If you don't have to leave for mundane daily things, perhaps you'll get more work done.
Diane von Furstenberg's NY Fashion Week video shot using Project Glass
They could have done better than that (though I do think this one is better than the previous logo)
WiFiKill v1.7 - Eject any WiFi device from network
Piracetam and choline have been studied in an extensive number of clinical experiments. Their effects aren't poorly understood.
Toxic Dust and Space Settlement
Seems like an optical illusion or display related. I thought the same at first. Feels very sloppy that way.