skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The subtitle of the blog is: "News and updates for Quicklisp, the Common Lisp library manager." so that's not too bad.

Anyway thanks to Xach for quicklisp, it made experimenting with CL libs much easier!
"No one could possibly monitor that" is the same argument the pro-creepshot people use to explain why you can't ban pictures of children or candid pictures. Apparently because they think the only way to solve that is to hire a PI to painstakingly investigate each and every submission.

Those are both nuts. You handle the issue the way adults handle the issue:

1. Say "you can't post X."

2. Count on the fact that most people won't post X once you tell them not to (on pains of account sanction, which are already in place for rules against things like spam).

3. Deal with the complains of false positives and false negatives on a case-by-case basis.
Cool - best of luck
It's the Metro - it is given away free on UK public transport (at least here). Not quite a tabloid, but it's not exactly the Financial Times either.
Thanks for the tip on AMQP.
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Retrofitting older web apps into a new responsive design that adjusts well for iOS and Android
Disregarding whatever is happening with that metaphor -

All that's being put forth here: vertical touch has a different ergonomic profile, potentially a negative one, and it hasn't extensively been deployed in this industry until now.

The sole novel input scenario with Windows 8 and its first generation hardware is that it enables vertical touch. If nobody uses it at all, then it's just another laptop and no harm's done.
So, what does this tells us about photos of feet?
From dpreview: http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/10/17/GoPro-Hero-3-Black-W...
The existing Hero HD and Hero 2 models have essentially been re-housed in smaller cases with updated user interfaces and will sit alongside the Black Edition as the White and Silver Editions, respectively
I liked his last sentence "This is how you get made" as it seems to simultaneously allude to the concept of "Made Men" in the American Mafia and to Horowitz's penchant for putting quotes from gangsta rap in his blog posts :-)
"Most prisoners have low impulse control and are stupid."

Source?
Well don't put Perforce on such a high horse. Yes it can hold a lot of data, but one common reason brought up from corporate IT guys about why they were looking into Git was that they were having some problems scaling Perforce. From downtime to storage issues, cpu's overloading, etc. The lag from a remote office was annoying, the read-only replication servers had some annoying bugs that forced some users to abandon it, etc. On more than one occasion I have heard horror stories about the lag if you want to sync from 8:30-9:30 in the morning or are trying to sync/commit at 5pm in a large development office. Various perforce commands are very expensive and they all run on the server side so the equivalent of git blame can really tax the server. And if the server ever went down unlike Git you can't keep working. All of the above means you need beefier and more expensive Perforce servers. And don't forget about the licensing costs!

Sure Perforce is nice, but it is hardly perfect. No product is perfect and for every situation you want to evaluate what the real issues that need to be solved and make the tradeoff's necessary.
If you take that verse in context (Ecclesiastes 9), you'll see that Solomon is lamenting the fact that "time and chance" ultimately negate any individual merit (strength and swiftness) in the long run (since in the end we all die). The swiftest runner could trip or pull a muscle, and in the chaos of battle anything could happen. Take David Vs. Goliath. Solomon's own father defeated the stronger opponent. Other circumstances of chance can change the tides of war, too.

It's interesting to note that after Solomon became wise, he began to fall into something of an existential angst. I think that shows in this passage.
I think it was intended to mean that it eschews some advanced/clever functionality in favor of having a shallow learning curve. That doesn't make it the best tool for the job (nor does it prevent it from being so), but it implies that you can get started on solving your problem in thirty seconds rather than having to spend two hours prepping your dev environment and web stack any time you want to make a change.
That's exactly the way it should be. Hopefully this will become the standard before long.
They used the One-Click patent against their then biggest rival Barnes & Noble

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click

Several organizations have boycotted Amazon for that:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html
Even at that point, there was the PDP-11 compiler and the compiler for the Perkins-Elmer implementation, not to mention the (straight) C compiler (/usr/bin/cc) vs the Portable C Compiler, both of which were available on V7.

The maxim then (and now) being: Don't Write Silly Code.
Pursuing patents is one thing, utilizing them offensively against a competitor is another. Amazon used their one-click patent to harm competitors, but I've seen no evidence of Google utilizing patents against companies who haven't first filed patent litigation against them. I don't think Amazon has set the better example.
http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency/internal/...

You're right -- those PUE numbers from the article were talking about their PUE at the time. Google's 2012 average PUE across all facilities was 1.12/1.13 with a minimum PUE of 1.09/1.10.

Also, Google puts enormous care into the process of calculating PUE since it's kind of black art and if you aren't careful you'll leave out some aspect of your operation that will mislead you into thinking your PUE is lower than it is.
Photos of feet are fine.
A lot of things on TPB are not up for sale in the first place. It's much like YouTube a tiny slice of content is vary popular and much of that is pirated, but for every "Battle at Kruger" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM
theres a lot of Let's Play Unreal World 10(1/2) Buy a Boat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JOeQJGDgNw.

As to TPB specificly it's think anime fan subs for nitch shows that are never going to be released in the US.
Making comments become as important as live code is never a good idea. This practice also encourages arbitrary syntax and would eventually lead to a mess of different standards with no cohesion.

Having a proper `pragma` declaration would be ideal.
You sound like someone I know. I agree with the above. This cert is definitely applicable for engineering tasks at my place of business and something I will probably pursue. It's very beneficial when proposing on harder tasks. Web dev, which I do as well, generally doesn't reach this level of rigor.
What is it about this comment that you worry is so "controversial" or "dangerous" that you wouldn't consider posting it under your real name? (I'm not saying you should, I'm just curious.)
It's always surprising to me when developers give away their product for free when they launch. Seems like creating some buildup before the release by getting the game into reviewers' hands would be a better solution.

When I see a deal like this, I'll go ahead and grab the app even if I have no intention of playing it. If they launched with a discounted price and I saw a number of positive reviews, I would be more likely to buy the game to check it out.
When you are in school, "I don't know" is the only answer that is guranteed to gain you no points. Any other answer has at least a chance to be perseived as correct or partly correct.

Given that most of us were raised in schools, there might be a correlation.
>Giving them $40M was not. Right there you killed the greatest force to do the undoable.

If motivation and investment capital are negatively correlated, then the Valley has bigger problems than I thought.
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Psyche!
Simply put, if you had to attach your real life identity to everything you posted online, original content would dry up overnight.

Would it? People created original content long before they could post it online with an expectation of anonymity. There are a lot of people who use their real life identities online. Just as I am, right now.
I'd agree with that, good insight.

Though I did make one (hopefully reasonable) point that it fuzzes the lines between code and explanation of that code, which I don't care for. The article also gives a valid reason that tools are not expecting this and won't correctly accommodate (though that could be considered a short-term problem).
Comments regarding methods should be added to clarify how they are intended to be used, and what the results should be expected to be.

Comments within the code should be used to highlight things that are not what they seem. They should answer any "WTF?" questions that naturally arise. A typical example is something like "Hack: Need to pass fifth argument as -1 to avoid crash in broken library".

Comments that act like descriptive audio are useless.
BH really loves that boxing reference.
Adding an HTML5 Pacman widget to function as my blog's header. Eat all the text, new text pops in. - http://cautery.blogspot.com/
That's true to a certain extent, but sleep is more than just conserving energy. People who don't or can't sleep start to have all sorts of problems. There's something fundamental to how our bodies and brains work that we do while we sleep, and that's interesting (doubly so because we don't understand how it works).
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The pranks emphasize how carefully Google narrated each shot on here. Earlier today on HN I saw a link to a Wired article about Google giving us an insight into their datacenter. Although somewhat true, the article is very superficial and hardly mentions any tech details, and the indoor street view very carefully avoids the interesting stuff.

Try going next to a server on the streetview, it'll skip right past where you clicked and only show you close-ups from empty racks or racks without servers. Also I can't see anything about their cooling systems, which you hear a lot about and would be interesting.

Also, don't mention how some things are blurred out, and how there is a huge curtain on one end of the streetview tour. I was honestly disappointed by how little Google told us, compared to the sensational title.
There is no consensus that the patent system is broken. Amazon's self serving position doesn't help build that consensus.
1-Click purchases, which is close in ridiculousness. Buying stuff online clicking once was such an outstanding innovation that it surely deserved protection from all those thieves who never could have figured that out by themselves...
while I hope this never happens, it might finally give impetus to p2p wireless darknet/shadownet/rebelnet... Whatever they will call it then
In corporate environment, I have learnt over the years that if you don't know something, it is ok to say so as long as you say it as "I don't know for sure but let me find that out for you".
Why use blogger over Tumblr? Any reason?
Well, You're still young, that's a plus.
You mention your project (in your company I assume), which seems to mean quite a bit for you. Besides leaving your friends, that's another point worth considering. Is this project close to completion?

Quite honestly, you're the only one really able to answer your question. If you don't have much to loose, and a lot to gain, you should go for it. Being young means that you can afford to lose a bit of time in that sort of experiment, and that you probably didn't invest a lot in settling where you are. At some point later in your life, unless you are really successful (or if your job allows it), the world will expect you to settle somewhere, because it gets harder and harder to do it as one get older (think savings, relationships, building a family).
Can you explain how you're doing so? Printing is a nightmare in my win/mac/iOS household.
If you want something done then you need to start on it yourself. Disregarding what QuickLisp has accomplished because you have to deal with more than one package management system is trollish. You'll probably want to start by designing a plugin framework that can support multiple versions of any given language. Also need to be able to bundle dependencies per application, on any operating system, so that you don't pollute the global package space for any one given application under developement. kthx
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My favorite is the Android figure with some ear protection on:

http://goo.gl/maps/EzEbs
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"When I was a kid.. I was outside playing. Seriously."

I think the author of this piece is really trying to help his struggling child succeed. To that point, right out of the gate, we learn that his child was, "[...] significantly behind his class in handwriting, letter reversals and spelling." In addition, we learn that his child was also receiving additional help from his teacher, in order to help bring him up to his learning level and potential. Finally, the author later notes that, "[...] I'm taking an hour per day with this."

That said, while I understand the overall sentiment of your comment, it comes across as condescending in this specific case. We're not talking about a parent that is grinding his child through hours and hours of flashcards, with no opportunity to play outside; we're talking about a parent that is trying to help his child succeed and be at the same level of his peers, by taking 1 hour a day to work through a learning routine.
I like how Doritos, for example, really stand out in this image.

It's funny, just today I was listening to a podcast[1] where a guy from Frito-Lays talked about how they have a bunch of salespeople who are responsible for discussing with each store manager the position of the chips, the amount of stock, the promotions, etc.

I wonder if they're starting to reach out to Instacart and similar virtual grocery shops.

[1]: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/08/odonohoe_on_pot.htm...
There are different kinds of death, and the ones mentioned in that study are not really the kind I would like to go through.
Notice that way down the hall past the stormtrooper is a sign that says "Pharmacy" Wot?
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All major companies must play the patent game today. They would be insane not to.

I think it's completely valid to play the game while working to change the rules for the better.
How does any of this relate to /r/creepshots?

Photos of women, predominantly of age, seen in public. Statistically, and by virtue of the photos being taken covertly, very few of the women featured would have known there was a photo of them floating around on the Internet.

Very rarely is a name put to a photo, and reddit specifically prohibited the posting of personal details on the site.

Even if the subjects did find out, so what? I'd be flattered if someone had taken a photo of me in public and posted it online saying they'd like to have sexual relations with me, that I have a nice ass, etc.

I'd be a little creeped out, but not to the point where I'd be calling for the banning of the activity.
It's awesome that people are writing articles on this stuff, but man -- some of the code in those examples is pretty rough.
I've just ported java's bean vaidation to PHP using annotations in comments, and I strongly disagree.

Point by point:

1. dx regressions

I've designed the annotation system so that if developers misdeclare them an exception is thrown. Unit tests will fail, and the software will not run. Someone checking in code that fails to such a degree deserves what's coming to them. That covers php -l. Var_dump and debug_backtrace are irrelevant to my use case, and I use proper breakpoints and watches anyway (phpstorm + zend debugger). I don't even understand the point he's trying to make about IDE linking. Which leaves the argument about comment folding, which I think has some merit, if you think comments shouldn't be read, which I don't.

2. Readability

Nonsense. Learning an API always requires getting used to its idiosyncracies. His proposal to use static variables looks less readable to me.

3. Reliance on another library

Yes, that's kind of the point.

4. Icky feeling

Aha, bingo. The author came in with the opposite bias of myself and drew an according conclusion.

To conclude: the use of annotations in comments is not better or worse than alternatives, it's all in the eye of the beholder.
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Thought this was the norm but have heard that it makes it sound like you are more interested in the money than the job (proposed alternative is to make it more about the value you bring and other context, e.g. cost of living).
Yup you're right. And nope, it's not possible it LESS. Mixins actually aren't the same thing, they are just a way to duplicate code, which is exactly what you're trying to avoid. I'd seriously recommend you try Sass. It's got much more going for it.
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IE10 is really good. Not "good, for IE" good. Just good good. The article about how they increased JS speed is particularly interesting:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/06/13/advances-in-ja...

What worries me is that IE11 won't be out for another year, or longer, which won't be good enough.
I am talking about compromising photos of minors.
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This is incredibly true for me. I blocked time sink websites (like HN ironically) in /etc/hosts for about a day, and then I constantly went back and reverted my changes. Then, I wrote a daemon that constantly checks the host file and puts the blocks back if I changed it. I tried making the installation and operation as obscure as possible and try to forget the metaphoric key. However, I eventually ended up spending a bunch of time to rediscover what I did, so I ended up disabling this script as well...
They're doing it as a promotional thing, as they're working on a new version of Carmageddon right now.
If Amazon were merely collecting large quantities of patents and using them against companies who instigated patent litigation against them, I wouldn't be calling Bezos a hypocrite. I understand that - not acquiring patents is almost suicidal right now. However, nobody forced him to patent something trivial (One-Click) and abuse it to gain a competitive advantage.
The reflection tools aren't meant for constant run-time use.

"PHP 5 comes with a complete reflection API that adds the ability to reverse-engineer classes, interfaces, functions, methods and extensions. Additionally, the reflection API offers ways to retrieve doc comments for functions, classes and methods." [1]

It's an awesome way to generate automatic documentation for big projects. Of course it's possible to use it for other stuff like pointing to a template (though I'll point out that it can be done faster and more obviously by replacing it with a single function call at the end of the method), but "right tool for the job" and all that.

There's a very widely understood premise in programming that comments are blocks of text in source code files intended only to be read by humans and have no effect on program execution. When you change the semantics of something so well-defined... God help you.

Also worth noting in your sample code is that many ORMs simply query the DB for the schema and cache that result, so you don't need either of those. Merely being able to connect to your database is sufficient. The former comment (@Column) is a nice, short, human-readable format so developers can see what a column is, but having your code execution depend on that is crazy. What happens if someone minified [2] the code? Or ran it through a bytecode accelerator [3]?

I'm not going to stop anyone from abusing comments in their own codebase, but I sure as hell won't let this behavior infect mine.

[1]: http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.reflection.php
[2]: Yes, I know that's pointless in server-side source code - doesn't stop it from happening.
[3]: http://www.php.net/manual/en/reflectionclass.getdoccomment.p...
Ok, no big deal :) Case closed, and good luck with your extension!
Sleep-deprived teens are more prone to depression,obesity and poor grades
Decent tutorial, though I find the official Python HOWTO to be a more thorough and appropriate introduction to sockets for the complete newbie...

http://docs.python.org/howto/sockets.html
The startup I'm working on is a flashcard mobile webapp that uses spaced repetition, but also uses multiple choice quizzes for new cards that get harder each time a card is shown again. This lets students transition from answer recognition to answer recollection without that anxious feeling that comes from trying to recall recently learned cards.

It was designed for adults learning vocabulary for second languages or professional certifications, but lately we've been trying to see what kinds of features we could add to make it more useful for kids as well. The recognize-to-recall transition could really be useful for students who otherwise would be overwhelmed from the anxious feelings of recalling recently new cards.

One feature we're looking at is the use of mini games and tiny (10-15 second) video clips to make the app more fun and help space out new cards a bit more.

If anyone has a child who could benefit from reduced-anxiety learning, I'd love to chat with you and get your thoughts. Check out my HN profile for my contact info and more about the webapp.
I am using windows azure mobile services for my windows 8 app and I am totally impressed... I have been a critic of azure for a long time but I guess it is true that MS gets it right on the 3rd version
Would you like a Mobile App with That?
People have already been making this mistake: calling out Jeff Bezos over Amazon's one-click patent is a strawman by the name of tu quoque (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque). This is a non-argument. Being a hypocrite doesn't make you less correct.

Regardless of past transgressions, Jeff Bezos is right. Governments and their people need to examine their patent laws (I would argue all IP laws) and figure out what the right amount of protection is necessary given our modern world.
Minor suggestion: Add screenshots of the current look of the app. I haven't seen nor used Instacart so far.
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