skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can use the Dropbox App to do that for you, it will sync your media with your Dropbox automatically.

I think in this sync issue DRM is at fault. Sync between old iPods and iTunes worked that way because music was DRM'ed and they didn't want you to give your friend your 40GB iPod and let him copy all your music. It has been carried away too long, there should be two way sync.

This is a special pain in the ass when you have more than one Mac.
Ask HN: is the Sublime Text 2 development kind of slowing down?
I must first say I absolutely love Sublime Text 2. Best editor I've used in years.

However, I'm a bit concerned at the current speed of its evolution -- the plugin system is great and lets you improve quite a bit of things, but the core could be improved as well. By reading http://sublimetext.userecho.com/ I feel like things are slowing down a bit. What do you think?
Free course on SublimeText by Tuts+
The money I'd pay to have that as a 24" desktop monitor.
Something tells me that even though it's not in the budget, that they will come up with money or overtime to pay people to do the job anyway.
30% of the traffic is returning users.
Thanks for the feedback lena. I am happy to say user profiles will be in the next version as we are working on them right now. Also thanks for the feedback about the Dutch description, I will fix that.

As for extra leaderboards, we are looking into it. We didn't do it at first because we thought having 15 leaderboards would be a bit over the top.

Thanks a lot for the feedback, I really appreciate it.
The object-resource impedance mismatch: modeling HTTP in JavaScript
Ask HN: Why teach theories when they are not applied in reality?
Maybe it's just me that is unlucky with companies which I worked/work for but as I see and get from some friends working in another companies (all fields included) theories are not working.

Now I'm wondering what is wrong ? Schools or companies ?

The problem it's a spend severals years learning theories from my teacher, practice it and once you're working for a company you just face de reality and nothing work like your learned.
Microsoft trying to certify Minecraft
tl;dr : Apple screws up. The totally-oh-so-unbiased Gruber defends them anyway. For the rest of us who don't give a rat's ass, life continues.
Toshiba to launch hybrid hard drives (SSD and conventional)
I was just stunned by the first comment by Matt

"Only thing I can write is "I should have heeded to your warning"".

How can someone have such bad taste.
> American culture appears to approach diet most scientifically, yet has probably the least healthy population

What makes you think this? Assuming you mean the USA,
I would think there are countries in northern european where diet is on average approached more "scientifically". For
example, national nutrition recommendations are taken
very seriously and abided by in school/workplace cafeterias.
Chrome extensions have a fairly limited API that lets you do some pre-approved things using an HTML/CSS UI.

Firefox, on the other hand, provides full access to its internal modules; a lot of the browser itself is built on JavaScript and XUL (the UI language) and extensions are essentially on equal footing in that regard: they can extend and even replace a lot of the browser.

A good example is sqlite-manager, which is essentially a simple but full-blown database manager which can read and edit SQLite databases, since it has filesystem access.

There's also the oldish Chatzilla, which can connect directly to IRC servers (a Chrome extension can only connect to HTTP or websocket servers). And It's All Text! which can launch a local text editor to edit a textarea field.
> Also, thinking about it, I'm not sure that motion blur actually becomes significantly easier.

For motion blur, you take frames at different points in time and distribute the tracing ray over time. So it's actually pretty easy. Don't know if it's practical or efficient tough.
Ugh, I feel dirty after reading that...

I guess the B-Ark hasn't left yet.
fyi the correct procedure is to plug in old device transfer purchases back up device plug in device restore from backup

iOS: Transferring information from your current iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to a new device
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2109
I've built lots of little side projects (see http://jgc.org/labs.html) and I have lots of other commitments (like a full time job and I'm not wealthy) and I can tell you a few things that have worked for me:

1. No TV. About four years ago I got rid of my TV. It started as an accident and turned into a habit. Now I watch movies either via a streaming service or DVD. I also watch some TV series (typically I will watch one series at a time, finish it and then move on so there might be one evening a week where I will watch, say, an episode of Downton Abbey). The key here is that I never plonk myself down in front of a TV and channel hop and I'm ruthless about the quality of what I am watching.

2. Null route reddit, Facebook, etc. I realized I was wasting a lot of time on sites that have no actual value other than as a pure distraction. I simply null routed them in my broadband router.

3. Slow down. Some of my projects take forever because I don't have time. I stopped worrying about it and gain satisfaction when I do finish things. Just the other day I was making a nightlight out of a candy can, an old perfume bottle, an old wall wart and some LEDs as a gift for a small child. I realized that I'd started it when $SIBLING was pregnant.

4. Make time in a relationship. It's also important to tell your spouse or whatever that you are going to spend time doing something away from them. That way you can carve out some space (might be just an hour a week) where you do what you want.

5. Parallelize. I tend to make lots of things simultaneously. That way when I've got a spare 20 minutes I can do something on one of them. For example, on the nightlight I recall a couple of months ago realizing I didn't need to go to bed right then and I could spend 15 minutes hot gluing some parts of it together.

PS One more thing... I think some 'distractions' become less important as you get older. In my experience, it's more important when you are younger to know about the latest TV shows, movies, memes etc. than as you get older. You may 'need' to know about them for some forms of social acceptance. As I am no longer young I don't feel the need to 'fit in' as much and so when someone says "Did you see X Factor last night?", I just go "No" and we talk about something else.

PPS And by observing others in the 'maker movement' who have children their solution seems to be to involve their children in the things they want to do. Chris Anderson is a good example of this, his kids seem to always be involved in his projects. I saw a talk where he was discussing 3D printing techniques and a number of his examples were of things he'd made with his kids for them.
You might be interested in this article

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/02/features/tri...

Regardless of the fact that it's written by a man who resigned from the NYTimes because of plagiarism, it's still interesting imo.

The gist is: the body is complex, so complex that often research mistakes causality with a simple accumulation of facts.

Keep holding your breath.
Playing cat & mouse. Always a smart move.
How much did it end up costing altogether, and how much would it cost to make another?
> But what % of the total user-base actually pirate apps? That is the more important figure.

This very idea is explained really well in this article: http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/05/Another-view-of-game-piracy
Quite cool, but when are you planning on changing the permissions?
Odd, it doesn't for me (either in the betas or final version). Maybe there is a setting somewhere...
I remember being a child and learning basic with a manual in a foreign language (English) I did not understand and an Italian-English dictionary. It was thirty years ago (shit, I'm old!) and admittedly my memory is foggy but I remember it to be funny and easy.

If some kids really need all these hoopla to start programming I wonder if they should really try...
Why doesn't Ruby include class reloading as a language feature?
How do you recommend that they regularly backup a user's email messages without storing that user's login credentials for that email service?
Communities make business sense
I'm not sure if they changed anything, but Youtube has been the first search result for me since I upgraded my iPhone. It's not in the search results for the iPad since Google hasn't released Youtube for the iPad yet (or at least last time I searched).

I wonder if there's saved state in the app store that's modifying the search results.
Bad Piggies and Angry Birds Hit the Road in China, Turn Shanghai Skyline Green
Is the ip_hash directive not good enough for what your looking for?
they can't, unless the email service gives them oauth.

and even then allowing a 3rd party to backup your emails is a very dangerous thing to do. they say that credit card is more dangerous, i say no. for credit cards you can claim fraud.

when your email gets hacked, potentially your whole digital life is gone
> The language itself knows nothing about tasks; they're purely part of the runtime library.

How are they implemented? Do you provide access to low level concurrency constructs such as CAS, threads etc.?
Then what you need to write is, "I think that unproven email backup services are a bad idea", not, "these guys are idiots because they store a retrievable copy of your email credentials" which is necessary for the service that they are providing.
in fact, seeing how your account was created to post that comment and seeing how it doesn't make sense, i would suspect that you actually work for them.
A story of a programmer
We've been using crossrider.com for our plugin. It let's you write the code once in javascript and then it packages the plugins for IE, chrome, firefox and safari. They've been out of beta for a while now so it's pretty solid. It's also free! (and no I don't work for them :) )
Everything he said makes perfect sense and I agree with it. A brief look at my HN profile should tell you I don't work for them. (Never heard of them before in fact.)

I think that you are practicing cargo cult security -- you're doing a cargo dance here over password storage mechanisms in a case where it doesn't apply.
>The move has . . . everything to do with a future Linux-powered console/SteamBox

I doubt it. Right now Valve only sells software. To get into the console business is to radically change the nature of the organization. Just marketing a new console enough to give it a decent chance to break even would cost enough to require Valve to raise money. And since consoles are not a growing market, there is little potential financial benefit to the move. (In fact, the market is probably shrinking because of competition from tablets and smartphones.)

No, what Valve is trying to do here is make the Linux desktop a more attractive platform for games in order to give Steam a better chance to survive if Microsoft makes its survival on Windows untenable. Valve is worried by Microsoft's creation of an Apple-like app store because, well, Steam is an app store.

If they are sane, Valve does not want the hassle of creating and maintaining their own platform: they just want to be able to continue to deploy Steam on existing gaming platforms. They probably hope Steam will continue to be able to thrive on Windows and probably see their porting of Steam to Linux as an aid in negotiations with Microsoft.
Ha. I didn't spot that bit...

My point was though that allowing keyword and non-keyword forms is good for everyone. If you can't remember the parameter order you can just use the keywords (assuming the naming is memorable enough - which might actually be a can of worms in itself)
Problems Raytracing Doesn't Solve
Select PDF Image & Extract Text from Image of PDF File in the Cloud
PDF files are widely used among developers as these are easy to create and manipulate with maximum security. PDF files are portable and support interactive functions that make it more popular among different file formats. Now, there might be scenarios where you need to extract text from PDF files. Saaspose.Pdf allows you to extract text from Pdf files in no time. You can also extract text from images using a combination of features of two REST APIs i.e. Saaspose.Pdf and Saaspose.OCR. Consider a scenario where you need to extract text from an image in the PDF file. For this, first you need to extract image from PDF file using Saaspose.Pdf REST API.
I'm currently porting my Firefox extension to the new Addon SDK. It does indeed look more like the Chrome/Safari/Opera model and makes things easier (like restartless addons which was hard to do before in Firefox).
I'd never understood while people code in their native language. It's just so.....wrong.
>They say Apple's browser and HTML5 support are conspicuously superior to Android's.

Not even remotely true for anyone who's used ICS. And it's not "Apple's browser" it's the rendering engine from the KDE(GNU) world which Apple improved, and Google improved just as much. Safari is so overrated it's not even slightly funny. Chrome, Firefox and Opera are light-years ahead of Safari.
what they could have done is to allow users to autoforward their emails over to their servers or something. not impossible, but i'm not their employee and i'm not responsible for thinking up business strategies for them.

so yea. not necessary
There's an idea that richard garfield likes to bring up, which is that if a player plays random moves, they have a chance (a very small chance) of beating a grandmaster.

I wonder what would happen if you interjected very occasional random moves on purpose to extremely advanced chess AI. How often would it make a top player second guess themselves?
I don't own a TV so maybe I'm not the best person to comment, but my feeling is that even though most modern TVs are filled with features, few people actually use them.

Apple might do pretty well by just bringing to market an easy to navigate device which would enable people to easily buy content from the networks (or whoever owns the content). Just like we do on iPad.
Having more smaller clients means that my status as a freelancer increases due to there being more people who can vouch for me. There also is the people factor. I like to work with startups and help get their MVPs out of the door. Which means that I'm not only coding, but helping people follow their dreams. You don't get that big personal sense of accompishment when some big-Co. is succesful with something that you helped build. When the smaller client hits it big with your code it is a very good feeling. Nothing like helping the little guy get his dreams.

Another point is that smaller clients are more straightforward with me. They just want to get their project done. Big-Co. usually has a list of stupid requirements and proposals that make me waste too much time. In my experience, smaller clients have always paid in time. Big-Co, not so much.
My tips for finding time for side projects
how does it not apply?
I gave up on Windows Phone because there was still no Skype app 6 months after I bought the phone, even though Microsoft acquired them. iPhone 4S Just Works...
scoutzknivez
sv_gravity 300
Note the warning from the README:

"Although this is a major upgrade version of pgModeler it is recommended NOT EXPORT the models created directly to production environments. Not all possible code generation were tested in this way, is its your own risk export the models into environments that are not intended for testing. The project's author is not responsible for any possible loss of data due the inappropriate use of this tool."

https://github.com/pgmodeler/pgmodeler#warning
It's a blog post, not a paper.
I'm not a condensed matter researcher, but from what I know these particular majorana fermions are quasiparticles, so it's a little misleading to directly compare this to the Higgs boson which is an elementary particle. Still, this is cool because it means topological quantum computing might be possible:

http://stationq.cnsi.ucsb.edu/~freedman/Publications/96.pdf

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/dl.aspx?id=154238
So what you're saying is that they should limit their market to those users that can successfully set up email forwarding, solely because storing passwords is bad.

Part of the service they're offering is that they'll restore the contents of your mailbox in case of accidental or malicious deletion. I have

mail:/var/mail/associatedtechs.com/rob@associatedtechs.com# find . | wc -l
24846

...almost 25,000 messages in my mailbox. How do you recommend that they restore 25,000 messages to my mailbox without my account credentials?
Hmmm. Let's see.

"Transit directions aren't available for these locations" (Nottingham, UK).

Nearest pub not on the map (admittedly it's not there on either Google Maps or Apple Maps, but I guess it's only been open for about three years), and the nearest one that is listed has actually been demolished for about 3 years (it's gone on both Google and Apple maps).

No traffic shown on the driving view, at least around here.

Also no street view, but at least it's got aerial views of the town that aren't just clouds.

So unless I'm after an aerial shot of an area and maps.google.com isn't working, it's a "no thanks" from me.
Crowd Sourcing Sucked, So I Put Instagram API to Work Instead
http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpUpstreamRequestHashModule this should work for you
For the people that have already tried it, is this finally a good Postgres client for the MacOSX? Haven't found any that comes close to Sequel Pro for MySQL.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580204
Why you should tell your Boss what you really think
I'm not making any argument about whether Apple can be successful or not, merely on the incompetency of the author.
There's no reasonably priced option when you're abroad (even within Europe), that I'm aware of.
Video: Moore's Law Radio - an all-digital WiFi radio
"3G connectivity is not available everywhere, etc... but in 5 years from now I believe it will be a non-issue."

I don't agree: 1) The bandwidth is a limited resource. 2) You can't install senders in every corner of everything to cover blind spots. If you haven't experienced both I believe you're using your 3G almost always without too much moving around and in the area without too much heavy users.
Mountain Lion compilation is broken. OS not supported.
It's worth revisiting. We had huge problems with it when we tried it out in 2007, but I tried it again earlier this year and was pleasantly surprised - I got everything working, easily, and nothing broke. And I got that speed up.

My gut feeling tells me that your profiling is correct, however - any significant PHP application (that isn't written terribly inefficiently) will have its bottleneck in data access and not the parse/compile stage. There's very little point to speeding up by 250% a portion of your app that only accounts for 2% of execution time!
I am going to turn to a book because a book has what Codecademy does not have and needs: A professional editor who will question everything with the eyes of an outsider who is also experienced at developing information for learning. I got the impression the Codecademy stuff was done by the first person who chose to do it with absolutely no background in any teaching techniques or even basic informational delivery skills.
Sweet hack!
Really? A $-tail sperm cell logo for a dating website?
+1 to avoiding if. Tryfiles is amazing!
because there's no way their service could ever work without storing passwords, a fact that this article completely ignores.
Let’s write better software
Use the "gear" on the top right, go to Worldwide ( last option) and use the US or UK. The experience will be as if in the respective countries.
Kids definitely sucked up all my spare time.
I think they are working on something. Remember this from a few months ago: http://store.steampowered.com/bigpicture/

I agree that valve isn't a hardware company, but there are plenty out there for them to partner with. They could be taking the Windows/android approach to set top boxes. That would certainly be refreshing.
Adobe Releases Open Source Font for Coding
> It has survived numerous storms and worked very well supplying our house with reliable power, far more reliable than the solar panels we had used exclusively up to the point the windmill was finished.

Italy certainly has its share of troubles these days, but the above made me smile a bit. There are still some good things here.
So, which language should American programmers use in their code?
I did something similar a while ago albeit much less complete: http://syskall.com/hn-crunch-greasemonkey-script-for-hacker-...

It adds a little picture and info bubble next to the username of HN members who have a CrunchBase profile (I manually compiled a non-exhaustive list here: https://github.com/olalonde/HN-Crunch/blob/master/hn.php#L5).
and by storing the passwords, they are putting their users at risk. and we are in an era where email security means more than anything. it means access to all your services.

they should go think about how they can design a service securely before offering it.
I really hope this breaks the horrible Linux feedback loop.

We don't have games because we don't support games. We don't have hardware support becuase we don't have anything that requires hardware support.
This article is nonsense. The author isn't saying anything substantive about the "security" of this particular company. It should go without saying that email backup services will currently, in most cases, need to store your email login information in a retrievable way.

A slightly better post might have been,

"Beware unproven email backup services. Don't forget that if they make a mistake, potentially all of your email messages can be exposed to someone else. Since you probably have account credentials for other services stored in your email box, that situation can get ugly really fast."
Random thought, this is a pretty decent example of using Bootstrap out of the box. I can tell it's Bootstrap, but the splash logo draws me in.
There are many well known versions of astrology like Indian Astrology, Chinese Astrology, Egyptian Astrology and Western Astrology. Indian and western astrologers create and study an astrological chart popularly known as the `horoscope’ for an event based on the position of the stars at the moment of the event. Indian astrologers have a firm belief that there exists a meaningful link between the time someone is born and the qualities that are inherent to his/her personality. The birth chart reveals a lot about the person and his destiny and predictions can be made by studying the person’s stars. By seeking help from an astrologer, people can make meaningful choices about the direction of their future.
I found it interesting that he barely touched what I feel is the most important part of freelancing: marketing. Yes, right now you can name your price if you are a good developer, but how do you show that, and how do you evaluate projects? (I know he touched on what kind of clients to keep.)

When I freelanced, I evaluated clients on three criteria:

* had I worked with them in the past?

* did I know anyone who had worked with them in the past?

* everyone else

If I trusted them or people who had worked with them, it made the engagement easier all around (though you still need a contract!).

As far as finding new clients, I relied on word of mouth, which probably didn't lead to as many opportunities as would have occurred if I was more active in various communities, but I was ok with that at the time.

Also, I wonder what the author moved on to?
so you do concede that it can get ugly really fast.
What nation do you belong to?