skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current speaker was the first the be voted in in an exhaustive ballot suggesting that he's likely had more support (or at least more consensus) than previous speakers.

Where he's disliked it's largely by those in his own party who don't like one or more of his own political move from the right towards the centre (and not just since being speaker), his Labour supporting wife or in some cases either his more humble beginnings than some of his Conservative colleagues or his own apparent ego. To me much of the criticism seems to stem from personal and political divisions within the Conservative party as Bercow's performance.

You're never going to get an entirely impartial speaker given that this is someone who ran as a political candidate for one party or another but I think you need to consider the criticisms in the light of who it's coming from.
That is their eventual plan. The purposefully haven't moved everything over at once because that would require a colossal effort. They are aiming to have moved all government websites over to the platform by the end of 2014. Lots of time to do it without expanding the team to the point were they lose the innovative thinking.
JUnit testing REST Services and Spring MVC
H2 support 1.5 for Alfresco 4.1.1 Enterprise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankton#Biogeochemical_signifi...

Primarily by grazing on phytoplankton, zooplankton provide carbon to the planktic foodweb, either respiring it to provide metabolic energy, or upon death as biomass or detritus. Typically more dense than seawater, organic material tends to sink. In open ocean ecosystems away from the coasts this transports carbon from surface waters to the deep. This process is known as the biological pump, and is one reason that oceans constitute the largest carbon sink on Earth.
When does a user become 'long term member'?
Ask HN: Should I switch to Rails
Hey all, I have been building my product for the last couple of years in my spare time. I have outsourced some and built some of it, but is now MVP ready and we are now beginning to apply for funding. We started off with CodeIgniter (a lightweight PHP framework) to build a prototype, and we now have about 60% of the product built. The code is not as clean as I would like it to be. I just started to clean up my code before we pivot, and I started looking at foundation and basecamp to standardize, and I see a lot of great resources out there built on Rails.

What I am struggling with is should I switch to Rails given all the support out there for Rails? I have to come learn that the programming language does not matter to a large extent, but I wanted to be sure before I pivot.

Thanks, and appreciate any help.
Anonymous announces #OpPalestine targeting high profile “Israeli” websites
There's been more than just this post that have got 1000+. I'm guessing this filter doesn't search the entire archive of submissions.
I'm not saying that it wasn't a conspiracy and assassination.

I'm saying there's no good evidence of it. So far there are natural explanations of what happened, plus the douchebaggery of the Russian politicians.
Natural-Gas Market Stung by High-Speed Traders
there is also http://news.ycombinator.com/best
although only recent links are listed on it
Backend is important, it’s just the last of components
Process process process, Jesus fucking.christ. it's around every.corner now. You know what process works? The ones your developers will do. It's no the same for every developer. I.can't function in Scrum, but my own process works great for me. Some people can't work in my process but function great in Scrum. Whatever the system is just work with your.developers to figure out.how they become happy. So sick of these posts detailing.complicated solutions when sitting down and having a few fucking.conversations with your developers would solve it.</rant>
Notice that the first link I posted there is to a working Rust REPL (though it's rather rough at the moment, there's a lot that could be done to improve it).
I will not make the same mistake again. I already bought a Nexus7 and I'm very impressed with the quality of the device and the high availability of good and cheap applications.You can really realise how limited, poor and primitive WP7 is after playing 10 minutes with some android 4.1 device.Microsoft lost this race like they did with Zune.They should stick to desktops and ultrabooks.
Yeah, I was being sarcastic and generalising for effect.

That said, I was pretty harsh to the one that sold me a mortgage, her incompetence at completing the paperwork and delays nearly cost me the chance to buy my house. In general most of my interactions with bank staff have been poor or at least just adequate. I've never had a particularly "good" experience with one. I keep using them, because as you say, we need them. Well, we need bankers. Just perhaps not the ones we've got.
Given that I bootstrapped the service on my own saved time, bootstrap was an easy choice, just like knockout.js, dotcloud (hosting), recurly (billing).

I really wanted to avoid a born-dead app, and leveraging bootstrap and these other tools was very encouraging.

On the couple hundred of beta-testers, nobody complained about bootstrap, unsurprisingly :)
If the iPad is a luxury item why have other companies not beaten it in price/performance? The Surface doesn't have a retina display, for example. Yes, Apple make a profit on their hardware, which is apparently not the case for Nexus tablet or Surface (rumor has it), but their devices are pretty competitive in price for equivalent quality. They just ignore the low-end market in the non-iPod category.
2012 Tech Industry Graveyard
That's not true.

This one got 4269 points:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078128

Hint: Steve Jobs
The only way I'd get an RT tablet is if all of the XP (yes, I'm still using it!) programs I use came out with an RT version. That's very unlikely. Is there still a controversy over Firefox having an RT version, btw?

I'll wait for the full 8 Surface -- but if the rumored $899-$999 pricing for that is true, I might wait and wait and wait for prices to drop.
Im glad it turned out this way. He committed a crime, yes, but I can't help but think the US would have handed him a far too harsh sentence.
This is a great list of mobile apps cost. Thanks for sharing. You should also check out http://www.contussupport.com/mobile-application-development.... . They are another great app development site, that I have come across lately.
Adding a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse should make a tablet-based office suite quite useful.
Can we get promo codes now? That and the ability to turn free apps back to paid.
I think it did help. They have 100K+ apps in the Windows Phone Store.
Common Crypto contains functions for

• Hashing: MD5, SHA1, SHA2

• HMAC (hash based message authentication) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash-based_message_authenticati...

• PBKDF2 (password to key) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2

• Symmetric Encryption: AES, DES, 3DES, CAST, RC4, RC2, and Blowfish. (The algorithm selection is poorly documented in the man pages, I'm reading source here.)

It has an API that would not surprise anyone who has used a similar library.

It is open source, APSL 2.0. You can read it here: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/CommonCrypto/
What a bizarre thing to say.

First, there is real value in having code like this available as open source, and working using open data. The analogy to crypto would only hold if there were already good open alternatives around. It doesn't sound like that's the case. But second, crypto is basically a solved problem with clearly defined but subtle best practices. Geocoding is totally different. There's plenty of room for experimentation and totally new approaches that wouldn't fit into existing frameworks. I don't see how discouraging that experimentation can possibly be in anyone's best interest.

(Since credentials are being asked for: I used to work on the geocoder of Google Maps, as well as on geocoding data quality issues.)
Looks like a nice improvement. And, they made the login link a little easier to find!
Game Configuration with JSON
Shocking pants aim to stop bedsores
How to work with video tag in HTML5
You're absolutely right, all it is missing is a pic of the "parked domain girl". I cannot put my finger on why exactly it looks like a parked domain, however.
Depends on what you mean by “further to the right”.

From WW2 to the early 1970s, there was a two-party consensus on government intervention in the economy, and that consensus moved “right” even before Reagan. (One of Carter’s legislative accomplishments, for example, was deregulating airline fares.)

On the other hand, the country has moved “left” on social issues. Can you imagine any politician in 1975, outside of the most extremely liberal districts, saying that same-sex couples should have legal protections equivalent to those of a married couple? And now that seems to be the “safe” position for right-wing Democrats and left-wing Republicans to take. The ERA hasn’t passed, but the courts have been more critical of laws that have a disparate impact on men and women (the technical term is “intermediate scrutiny”).

Regarding protracted military interventions in foreign countries, the parties seem to have moved “left” in the aftermath of Vietnam and “right” again with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
All of them are recent ones, not top submissions of all time.

For example, the post on Steve Jobs's death (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078128) got 4,269 votes!
Not just the dictionary but all built in OS X cocoa niceties (of which the dictionary is one but only a small part of it) suffer in highly custom UIs like Chrome
The South Africans and Kenyans have already built a strong technology scene, so really it's not far fetched. The market is already there and still pretty much open for most products. The talent is available to kick start the industry, a lot of computer science graduates lying around doing nothing. All that is left is for the government,the corporate world and other stakeholders to take advantage of this opportunity. I would also like to point out that telecommunications companies like Econet and MTN have also contributed a lot to their countries' GDP. While the drawbacks you mentioned are significant; they can be solved if everyone involved can share the same vision.
Tech conference for people called Ben*
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Apple what?

Apple didn't really use OSM. The current OSM is pretty good, by the way. It's just a pity some data is still wrong (for example, many postcodes in Madrid, ES).
Marie Curie was a groundbreaking scientist and an admirable figure.

The need to celebrate the one symbolic "woman of science" is sexist and crude. The idea of one "woman of science" makes the work of other female scientists seem less important. The idea that the "woman of science" be symbolic makes Marie Curie's work seem symbolic and unimportant.

Why can we not just celebrate both Marie Curie and Ada Lovelace as excellent scientists, leaving gender out of the discussion?
I've been developing professionally ~20yrs, about last ~10yrs been more focused on process, development practices, etc. Not saying I'm an expert, just that I've "been around".

The thing that struck me immediately was focus on tools. Process is not about tools. Tools do not solve problems (believe me as you grow they'll cause many problems).

Figure out* process, only then look for or make the tools that you need. Best to start out with the simplest thing that could possibly work. Which for many is whiteboards or some similar low tech solution.

* you (should) never stop evaluating and improving process. One of the best processes to adopt is "iteration" with bits of evaluation and planning in between.
And there is a university in Lublin named after her too.
The location of his victim is irrelevant IMHO. He was using a computer in the UK. Under the Computer Misuse Act, one must not use a computer to access another computer without prior authorisation of the owner, which he did not have. Therefore, he has committed a crime under said act in the UK.

I feel quite strongly about this, because if I were to ever commit such a crime for whatever reason, I would want to be prosecuted in the UK. Therefore, I should expect the UK to prosecute people in a similar situation.

There was a number of UK online gambling website owners arrested in the US for "selling" their services to US citizens. They were providing a service to UK citizens on UK (or at least non-US) servers and, at the time, didn't prevent people from signing up based on their IP (or other geographical information). The US felt it was their right to step in...

* I am not making an assertions on anyone's guilt, since they've never actually been proved in court.
I'd imagine one of these[1] would make it much less annoying to use.

[1] http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/04/qwerty...
Mandriva foundation gets a new name : OpenMandriva
One point from article that I found fasctinating/weird:

>The on-screen keyboard is QWERTY (which I don’t understand as that’s only useful for two-handed typing)

Personally, I hate when devices like that use anything different than QWERTY. I feel like I can translate what my fingers hit on regular keyboard to what I see on screen and input with thumbsticks, whereas when I'm presented with ABCDEF keyboard I feel like I'm 3yo again, hunt-and-pecking.
Attention to detail? Baaaaad. Generalizing entire nations? Gooood
Keep it civil man. You can argue your points without calling names. As a party with no horse in this race, I find the conversation interesting enough without the need to get nasty.
Interested to know why you chose Facebook chat over the others.
> You're never going to get an entirely impartial speaker given that this is someone who ran as a political candidate for one party

I think thats the main problem. He/she acts as a moderator, and I struggle to think of any other forum where a moderator has such a glaring potential for the appearance bias (whether exerted or not). On the plus side he is elected, on the other-hand its by MPs and not the public.

Its not just an issue with the current speaker, similar allegations are levelled at most. Fewer with Betty perhaps, some say because she was a "mother figure" who was well liked and commanded respect, others say she was vicious if you spoke out about her and it wasn't worth it.
Scot here. Majority of that "anti-english" racism would have been in gest, part of the banter. I've moved around several parts of Scotland and can confirm that it is just part of the humour landscape. Most Scottish people have no problem with England or English people. (I understand the media's portrayal of the independence debate may sully this, but independence it about more than getting away from England 305 years later). British people could be held to the same standard in our treatment of Germany with a constant berating of WWII jokes, however we in-fact have no issue with Germany and realise it was a long time ago.
I think the "Ask" link at the top does this - it actually shows Ask HN and Show HN posts.

http://news.ycombinator.com/ask
Just bookmark the following URL:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22...
The letter "ł" is pronounced like an English "w" not "l".
Your post is too long for me to address all the points :)

Common Lisp, Prolog & Smalltalk all have their issues - fortunately they all deliver on the big idea - a reasonable meta system. But there are an incredible number of incremental improvements that could be done to what we know is good about these systems - this work absolutely needs to be done and IMO Clojure is one such example of this.

As far what does Clojure have to offer CL programmers - there are a few CLers in the Clojure community. Those that have actually put in the time end up liking Clojure just fine as far as I can tell. You should talk to them and find out what they like. For the the rest, I think CL was born of a culture of Lisp infighting. For example, the CL / Scheme rift makes little sense to me and probably has deep historical / political roots that don't interest me that much. It warms my heart that Lisp luminaries whether CL (Richard Gabriel) or Scheme (Dan Friedman & Will Byrd) are looked very highly upon in the Clojure community.

I think it's important to note that the number of users coming from Java is about as large as Ruby & Python combined. Clojure is Lisp after all and the syntax probably won't jive with people attached to surface syntax the way some Ruby & Python devs are. Adventurous Java devs are probably plenty excited about the lack of ceremony ;)

As far as predicate dispatch - I wouldn't say it's stalled so much as it's a project with a few tough pieces to work out. One big hurdle was getting cKanren worked into core.logic. That's now mostly done. So the next step is to clean up core.match. Also, I spend a lot of time on this thing called ClojureScript ;) so I haven't worked on predicate dispatch nearly as much as I would have liked.

I too have little interest in Go, but some hackers I respect really like it. So obviously there's a lot of things that Go gets right.

Finally, I'm not convinced that Clojure doesn't bring anything new to the table. I agree there is no one feature that I can point out that doesn't exist in some other decent PL - but after some four years of Clojure programming - this language still make me smile!
Would it be silly to attempt to analyze an image of a natural fractal in order to approximate the equation which forms the fractals?

Has something like that been done before?
Given that he supposedly cracked secure computers, which I would hope was no simple matter, the US shouldn't be extraditing him to face prison. They should give him a job.
... and the Russians severely limited education opportunities for females ;-)
Both parties have "reinvented" themselves multiple times over the years. Arguments could be made on if a young LBJ, JFK, Nixon, Clinton, Lincoln, Bush Sr. would fit into the current version of the party they belonged too.

Plus, much is made of the "radicalism" (ultra conservative / ultra liberal) in each party, as if it hadn't existed before. That's not very true.

My only quibble with the graph is it skips the times that 3rd parties probably cost someone the election (1992/2000 are probables) which means the states were actually leaning the other way.
That's overstating it a bit.

In some cases it's a genuine dislike (and worth noting that it's one way or at least stronger in one direction - the English are largely indifferent to the Scots) but in most cases these days it's more a more casual comedy thing, similar to the way the English dislike the French - they don't really but it's fun to have a frenemy.

As with most prejudice it goes largely with education (or lack of). I'd suggest that anyone who had an opinion on McKinnon (or any similar case) would probably be open minded and informed enough not to really be biased.

Just a mild defence of my adopted home - I'm English living in Glasgow and have never seen or experienced any genuine anti-English racism.

But we'll see just how many Scots want shot of the English in a couple of years when we get the independence vote. Current polls suggest that they're not so anti-English that they want to go their own way...
Much contrary belief, I agree with you that there is a lot of talent. These developers are very talented and intelligent; they lack the experience and exposure. Given time and the right investment, there won't be much difference with the rest of the world.
I learned of Marie Curie in school (~30yrs ago US). Never heard of Ada Lovelace until much later.

And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper way, way more awesome than Ada. Length of nanosecond http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8
http://mobilesort.com/ - An iPad app for learning piano notes. Took about 100 hours, gets a steady 5 sales per day
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22...

Search sorted by points?
I like the idea of windows 8, just not the execution. If MS' future is Metro, they should have went the iOS route with dedicated devices -- windows phone 8 and windows tablet metro that run the same apps -- and eventually added classic desktop as an app when x86 emulation was good enough on arm.

There should had been a clear distinction between the two environments. As it stands now, metro is billed as the only start menu on x86 devices, but the full os on RT devices. This is confusing and offers no compelling reason to buy the RT version.

I see Apple releasing OSX as an iOS app in the near (>=5 years) future. The reason that will work for them is because iOS is a standalone brand that people understand.

Just my 2¢, I'm not a windows user.
The new TV ad is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mSckyoAMHg

The Surface RT does some things better than the iPad. For example, it has a MicroSD slot and a full USB port. The side-by-side multitasking view is pretty nice to put a chat or Twitter client while browsing/working etc. The built in snap out stand is also pretty cool.
If you layout the letters in 3 horizontal rows, I expect it to be QWERTY. I suspect most people (such as yourself) agree. I have seen onscreen keyboards (such as with my DVR) that layout the letters more like a square. While you are hunting-and-pecking it does have the advantage of being faster to traverse using directional buttons. I believe the Apply TV does the same thing: http://www.podcastingnews.com/content/wp-content/uploads/200...
I agree with the principle that trial should be where the crime is committed but this isn't a clear cut case for that criteria and there is in my view a strong argument that the crime took place in the US (the computers he misused were there and he knew it) even though Gary was in the UK.

That doesn't necessarily mean that Gary should have been extradited but the grounds for not doing so should be different. Health is the stated reason and I don't intend to argue with it not knowing his precise medical details.

I would say that for this case that either venue is reasonable.

For the Richard O'Dwyer case and also the now complete Natwest bankers case there is from what I understand little reason to see the US as the appropriate jurisdiction. On the recent terrorist cases I haven't read much but it sounded as if in at least one case there were accusations of setting up training camps in the US making that reasonable cause for extradition but that perhaps for one or more of the others the US link was significantly weaker.
I seem to believe more and more that there are 2 kinds of willpower:

1. "make yourself do something" type of willpower - and this type is depleteable, finite because every time you use it you accumulate some kind of latent stress, frustration

2. "make/think yourself you WANT TO DO something", and then obviously do it because you want to - this type is not depleateable and the more you believe in it the more you have it (I think religious or mystical people tend to have more of this - maybe this partly explains the amazing feats of some monks and things like these...)

I believe more and more that "willpower" is an umbrella term that covers very distinct concepts that we have not yet separated and that these (the ones concluding for either "finite" or "infinite" willpower) studies will be later looked upon as either wrong (some) or "unfalsifiable" (unable to prove they are false) because they are too ambiguous, same as it happened to freudian psychology and then it really went out of fashion never to came back in full strength again...
Given that the domain name/service name is ambiguous, I'd like to see an explanatory byline under "Small Design Services", something like "pairing freelance developers with small businesses"

random other first-glance suggestion, change the .ico to the same green as your base colour... your app got lost in my tabs and I had to hunt to find it

looks intuitive and easy to use on first view though

nb I'm not a design guy, could be wrong