skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you have shell access to a hosting account...

autossh -M 25841 -ND 127.0.0.1:8088 -i /home/.ssh/id_rsa user@host.com

and then tell your browser (or foxyproxy) to use it. one-line vpn that probably won't get blocked by china, ever.
There is only one browser available for the iPhone and several different "skins" for that browser.
They are not homoiconic. The underlying datastructure for many schemes, and racket, is not a list. It is a syntax object. Of course you can still do metaprogramming with syntax objects but I wouldn't call it the same thing.
Eric Holder is not one of 4 million. Eric Holder is a personal selection. It's not like it is a random failure in some lowly backwater office. It is a failure and a coverup going to the very top - to people personally appointed by the President. So if you think people are responsible for a mobile app done for them - then they should be responsible for the mess in their administration too.

And if we start counting how many projects endorsed, sponsored and initiated by the federal government failed recently, we could be here all night.
OT: Am I just being an idiot, or is it very non obvious what one has to do to see more than a couple of lines of Google Plus posts on an iPad?

I finally figured out that hitting the share icon brings up the full post and an edit box so I can add my thoughts, but that seems unintuitive to me. I would not normally hit a share link until after reading something. Is that really the way they intend it to work?
Thanks for this work, it looks really nice.

I was looking at the github comments about a home brew recipe in which it was stated that aside from a recipe creating a VM, the Mac OS X port would take a bit longer.

Is that a full port from one language to another? Or just an issue of the different flavors of *nix that need dealing with and probably some of the dependency tree issues that come with it?

I'm curious what needs be done to get it building on Mac OS X — perhaps I could assist somehow.

I see a few dependencies that don't immediately sound familiar. You may have better luck with MacPorts, which uses tcl as the language for their portfiles.

Portfiles are just like homebrews recipes, but MacPorts always builds new, including the entire dependency tree ( and dependencies of dependencies etc., etc. ), for which they have thousands of working portfiles. Since those are completed and working, you wouldn't have to worry about those until you wanted to be able to make a binary outside of any package manager.

MacPorts can build binaries now ( new feature ), so you could just as easily instruct it to create a standard Mac OS X installer .pkg which makes sure everything goes in the right place, on the right platform, for the right architecture.

They are an exceedingly friendly and helpful group, I'm sure they would live to see this software in their package/portfiles list.
I'd pay $20 to see pg carry around a Helmet of Silence he quickly puts on whenever somebody starts annoying him.
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Did they not launch a while ago: http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/06/rethinkdb-expands-beyond-ss... ?
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I think focussing specifically on facilitating the initial consultation means the product can create a better experience for people looking for legal advice - scheduling, video chat, free consultations, and a bunch of other little details. We'll leave the DIY document creation to others.
June 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroku
I actually had a conversation about emergent behavior with a friend the other night.

He stated that he had started doing things he didn't necessarily agree with and wondered how these behaviors could have become habits.

One potential explanation was that you are the sum of the people you have your five closest interactions with, over time. So your five people in any given situation are likely different from other situations and the average of all of your five person cliques are what effect your behaviors when you aren't actively cultivating them.

The person (actually people) I live with has actually become a daily toxic influence, so as a last resort I'm making the environment switch (moving to San Francisco) to attempt to generate a better environment.
Self-control need a stall? Gargle artificially-sweetened water, researchers say.

Sorry, the article is behind a pay wall. The summary does nothing to impress me.
Anyone starting a revolution now would technically be labelled as a counter-revolutionary (this is the terminology they use at least).
$COMPANY is doomed because they're ignoring $BUZZWORD. It's sort of like $INANE_ANALOGY.

I give them 3 months, tops.
There's nothing wrong with web app over mobile app. Actually, recently here on HN was a number of articles about coming trend of switching from native apps to HTML5/web apps. It is a valid choice, especially when you need to communicate a lot of data, so you need network connection anyway.

Of course, that web app needs to be working - but the choice itself is completely fine. Given the circumstances, I would seriously consider going the same direction if I had to do an app like that.
I appreciate the separation of reputable from pseudo. I did a search, but a disproportionate amount of the content was fluff and pseudo, and I don't really have the expertise to tell quickly between the closer cases.
Well any product release is a huge effort, especially database product. Things got done and pushed out of door. Congratulation well deserved.
They don't care about their international image. Wondering in the press on why "the world doesn't trust China" is a complete red herring, they really don't care and think they are in a strong enough position not to care.

Everything went downhill after the 2008 Olympics, I mean, Twitter, Facebook, everything was open before that. Now? Its getting worse and worse every month.
me too, so I started perusing their website and found a link to their next website, where I saw...

http://main.wikispeed.softlaunch.352media.com/car

Personally, I'm not liking the chassy and it looks a bit shaky for my interests. That said, if everything is interchangeable, maybe I could get some better suspension in there.

It's an interesting first design and I'd like to see where it goes. Surely there's a way to design this to be more luxurious without sacrificing too much in terms of performance.
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Interesting how the articles on the HN homepage are almost timeless. Many of those articles I find just as interesting as the one's posted on today's homepage (perhaps more interesting since there's more programming and less consumer tech news).
Obviously, Dick Costolo is unfit to be the president. Will have to write it down in case he decides to run.
I'm not sure what kind of training background you come from, but many of the exercises you mentioned are core parts of training programs for competitive athletes in a number of sports.

High rep oly movements = dumb? In what situation? With what intended training effect?

Rep/weight schemes, in a periodized training program for an athlete are set to achieve a specific training goals. In one phase of the program that may be power endurance, for example. In a training program for competitive rowers high rep (30+) sets of power cleans at a low weight may be used to build power endurance.

Deadlifting 65% of 1RM for max reps is another very common exercise prescription for athletes building power endurance. If the exercise is stopped when form breaks down, I see nothing wrong here. 65% is a relatively light load. If you have a decent deadlift it's only about 300 lbs or so - a good athlete will have no trouble keep form for sets of 10+. The desired training effect of a high rep 65% effort is much different than a 85-100% max strength effort, or even a 65% low rep, speed focus.

High rep box jumps, for untrained individuals = a bad idea. If you've built up to it and have no achilles issues, this is not a concern.
Evernote + iPad - the future of education?
How Evernote and iPad combine can change the way we work and study.
Git 1.7.9 added the ability to sign commits. Previously you could only sign tags:

* "git commit" learned "-S" to GPG-sign the commit; this can be shown
with the "--show-signature" option to "git log".

man git:

All objects are named by the SHA1 hash of their contents, normally
written as a string of 40 hex digits. Such names are globally unique.
The entire history leading up to a commit can be vouched for by signing
just that commit."
I guess that explains all the soda cans around my room after a long coding session.
I agree with your assessment that you seldom need to type at volume (and speed) in everyday situations where a change of layout would be significantly beneficial.

In addition to that, a strong pragmatic point for sticking with QWERTY is that most keyboard shortcuts in editors and other tools are designed with QWERTY in mind.
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They already do. Federal government regularly fails spectacularly and it regularly costs us taxpayers billions. And so do local, state, municipal, etc. governments. Presenting it as if this is some unheard of failure that disqualifies everybody involved including the candidate is silly. A lot of successful websites failed, many multiple times and for prolonged period, despite employing top talent and spending millions on them. Failure is always an option.
You're right that his example is possible in Python, but that's only because with happens to be part of the language. If it were not, you couldn't write my_with in Python code alone.

Meaning that the next time you need a feature that doesn't exist in Python, you can't add it.

You should cut these examples some slack; in reality, it's going to be hard to come up with a five line Python example that's ugly, because Python is quite a nice language, and most rough edges have been sanded down over the last 20 years.

That doesn't mean the techniques aren't useful in real world programs, like when you need to build a DSL - just that they're hard to explain in a dozen line HN comment.
I would guess that the gdb thing is to prevent cracking of their DRM, not to hide some PII tracking. Do you know if you can attach gdb to something like Xbox Music (Zune)?
The article mentions that before colemak they weren't even touch-typing qwerty. Simply making the effort to learn to touch-type will certainly match the speed improvements they noted, regardless of layout.
So you prefer the way the calendar application looks now?
Now Paul Ceglia might even owe Facebook legal fees
You're being redirected because JavaScript is disabled. I should make this more clear.
If there is anything a president's job isn't, it is to micromanage.
Programmers must program. If anything at all prevents a programmer from programming, he or she will grow unhappy. Incomplete designs, slow builds, too many salespeople, noisy construction out on the street, whatever. Programming good. Not programming bad.
Totally true. I caught myself exploring some of the "old" links myself.
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> real differences exist between law and programming, although they are remarkably similar.

As someone who (perhaps like you) practices law and does some programming, I wanted to agree with this statement. The fields are remarkably similar. If you gathered a list of "best practices" for writing good code and a second list of prescriptions for writing good legal briefs, it's striking how much advice overlaps. That's because clear thinking about complex systems is the heart of both worlds, and both sets of professionals have to (working within a set of constraints and syntax) work out an elegant solution that can be readily understood by their peers.

As for the OP, the first year of law school has a habit of shattering whatever hazy dreams people bring with them. If he now wants to hone his programming skills instead --- and in this economic climate for lawyers, that seems like the safer bet --- then I wish him well.
Could you guys offer a C driver? (preferably not c++)
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Counter to the typical view of F&F:

http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/27/fast-and-fu...
Do we really need a dedicated SysAdmin and DBA?
We are a lean startup (2 developers/1 business guy) growing very fast. We are experiencing some scalability issues (headaches, no-sleep, etc) and some people say that we need to hire a dedicated sysadmin. What do you think about it?
Chinese people are not just Americans without good internet access...

The Chinese propaganda/education/censorship system is set up to accommodate all levels of disbelief of propaganda - that's built in to the propaganda, too.

So there is the official line, then there's the unofficial official line - which is generated by being pessimistic relative to the official line.

If the official line is that 7 people died in a disaster, rumors will float around that it was really 70, and people hearing that will feel content, cause hey, 70 people is not a lot to pay for 20 years of good economic development. Since they're anchored by the official line, suspicions never jump to 7000 people died, 20k people had their lives destroyed, which may be the reality.

It's the same with corruption - if an official gets busted for embezzling, skeptics guess that his wife is still overseas with millions, he had a couple cars, mistresses - but now he got his due and will never get out of jail. But they never guess that he was the equivalent of a mob boss in his city, had peasants disappeared, isn't even actually serving jail time, etc. (because that story would never, ever be mentioned again.)

So, rumors slightly inflating the official line are allowed, even encouraged, since they strengthen that line. But rumors showing that the official line is totally fake are destroyed - any reporter who brings one up can look forward to a life in a small town working in a factory, no education for their child, and nobody would ever hear a word about it, anyway.
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Stack Overflow (you may have heard of them) runs a Windows stack with Linux used only for caching & logging (because it's "cheap").

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflo...
http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/3/stack-overflow-arch...
Petraeus quits over extra-marital affair
What I don't get is why this is grounds for a resignation. Is there some sort of special security issue that supersedes his private life?
Hobby grade remote control helicopters get around 7-10 minutes of flight time (without 3d acrobatics), and quads can easily get 20~ minutes without adding any additional batteries. They usually don't come with as complicated electronics as the video suggests.
Ouch, that's nasty. A patent claim that lists a bunch of compounds, of which only one works? No wonder the court struck it down; the filing itself is actively obstructing knowledge.
My friend Kevin recently did a hangout describing how to do an HTML5 game in DART. It's probably worth a quick look. https://plus.google.com/+dartlang/posts/7pbKH7bZxkL
6th item on the list --> "8 points by hhm 9 hours ago"

Wow, talk about points inflation!
I'm a glassblower as well as a programmer, and it's the same deal in this seemingly quite different line of trade. I recently was working in a group shop environment where many things were preventing me from getting work don - distractions, inadequate ventilation, inconsistent fuel supply - and I became quite unhappy.
yup, this is actually want everybody wants. You can't have a boring, repetitive job. Challenge wakes everyone up unless you don't rise up to that challenge.
Cool, I didn't know that could be done. Can it work for global and local variables as well?
Leaders have to allocate attention to detail based on the strategic importance of that detail. The innovative application completely supplanting traditional Election Day strike list processes? The CEO had better be assured that's going to work by several different checks, and by multiple sources. Even then he probably had better have some backups in place.

I voted for Romney and yeah, this does have me reconsidering just how competent he is.
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They did just that in the coursera course "Software Engineering for Software as a Service". A VM is available for download and as a rank amateur I found it a great way to dive in. https://www.coursera.org/saas/
notch (of minecraft fame) has done several live coding sessions for various games of his. He's pretty fun to watch, and I enjoy the music he uses too. You can find some of his archives at http://www.twitch.tv/notch/videos
Do I'm getting sued?
Good stuff Nikhil!
It really depends on which city you live in. 72k is more than enough for most small cities. Where would you live?
"The buck stops...somewhere else."
A lot of startups that are trying to be cool have lots of distractions. In fact, distractions are what they spend their time trying to create. They want to have people around who are on the 8 + 4 plan. Weeks will go by as the programmers spend 8 hours working and 4 hours fucking around.
Due to security policies ordered by a 48 yo REMF.
Yeah, I took it the wrong way. No worries, I should have a thicker skin.

I was very lucky with my medical stuff. My wife has excellent, I mean excellent group insurance. Even with that, I still had a lot of out of pocket/copay expenses; and getting canned sure didn't help since I was the primary breadwinner. Universal healthcare wouldn't have helped me with my lost job however; only something like a short-term disability plan (which I have now) would. So I think there's a place and need for charity and non-governmental aid. The US is population is pretty generous, but it's hard to know where to ask for help, and if you can count on it when needed.
No, there is an accusation that there is a cover up going on - this has not been proven in any sense.
http://news.ycombinator.com/newest

Upvote only interesting things
I was hoping to see at least one person showing off their HN re-design. ;)
A lot of good content is buried in archives of good blogs/news sites, and popular aggregators such as Flipboard completely ignore anything but the freshest materials. I worked on FavoritePosts.com a while back, it basically helps you discover older content that's otherwise invisible due to our existing content consumption habits. Maybe I should launch what I have so far.. It's like Prismatic for older stuff.
Deployed just prior: poor project management; late delivery.

DDOS defense: crashing

realistic traffic levels: more than the 3 ppl on the coding team
There really has. D 1.0 has 20 days of life left, and D 2.0 is really amazing. It has the C++ idea of "it's only there if you want it" but taken to an amazing degree. Yes, it's a little more verbose than most FP languages, but honestly, if you're interested in verbosity, go use J or Coke.

The thing I like about D is that there's no surprises, everything works the way you'd expect it to. You can guess at what code should look like, and chances are it'll work.
There's signed commits, yes. Is there also "apply these but only if they have a valid signature from one of these people"? That's what I didn't see.
Judge agrees to consider juror misconduct in Apple patent trial
We recently did a case on Zara at my b-school (Ivey). Really pragmatic use of technology and a very humble management team.

They really take the old maxim that 'fashion is fleeting' to heart in their operations and manufacturing chain.
No, just that you're plainly talking out of your ass.
>I'm still unable to understand how this is going to help me

I sometimes consider changing layouts but it all comes back to that one simple statement. I don't touch type and I still hit the 120 WPM sweetspot on QWERTY - but I feel that any benefit of Dvorak/Colemak would be wasted if I didn't also learn to touch type.

I fear it would be a lot of work for no discernible benefit other than geek cred.
Besides Apple's nefarious Dr. Evil world domination uses, it can also be used to protect programs from each other. If your browser denies ptrace, it will prevent rogue programs from reading your passwords out of its memory.
There aren't enough political, human interest, and torrent-related stories. Must be a fake.
There must be remote management systems that will capture DVI output and provide mouse/keyboard commands over USB. Modern Macs all do netboot so that takes care of the remote media. Probably isn't cheap, though.
Yap pretty much. There was an article from an insider about how these large consulting firms work.

They are hired in order to protect against liability. They are paid money to say what clients want to hear (but in an official "report" and "power point format") and then if shit hits the fan executives can always point to "But look we hired the best of the best, these experts all agreed we should go this, so it is clearly not our fault".
Being in the military he has no private life; he's in violation of the UCMJ. Also, because of his rank and position there are security issues.
But I'm guessing the real reason for the investigation is that he pissed the wrong person off, or it probably would have been swept under the rug, so to speak.
> typical media store

There are several BitTorrent clients to choose from!
I'll be admitted to the bar soon (studying law since 7 years).
I started programming over a decade ago, but had to learn it my free time.

I love how working in law and programming is very similar at its core. Law is a science rooted deeply in logical thinking. You also employ patterns to work more efficiently.
Studying law actually improved my programming skills considerably.

I guess the op will never find out about that :)
Hopefully, your application knows that this field here is a date encoded in a string.
"Utter incompetence" is composed of more than one mistake.
Microsoft CEO: Apple iPhone Will Fail (2007)
It's not a stretch to think that a functioning GOP GOTV campaign could have made the difference in 4 swing states that tipped the election to Obama (CO, FL, OH, VA), where the vote differential was just under 400,000.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/as-natio...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Au5WjgbQnYrSdFd...

Romney had 37,000 field volunteers, plus phone bank. I don't know how many were in each of the four tipping point states, but had each of them been able to bring in between 10 and 20 voters who didn't vote (of the 2 million extra who voted for McCain in 2008 but were absent this year), Romney could have won.

Instead it sounds like due to the massive Orca failure, they all gave up and went home.

(and fwiw, I say this as someone who voted for Obama. Not sour grapes here, just assessing the IT project failure.)
Not really, since a program wanting to circumvent it can just attach before the call is made, or use other mechanisms to read process memory.