skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all due respect, if Nintendo were to introduce Samus with the blue suit that she's wearing in the latest game, then we would have other kinds of problems, mostly to do with how female characters are designed to appeal the male audience. My personal preference is that I like her wearing the classic yellow suit. After all, if a male can wear protective gear when he fights against pirates in space, I don't see why a female shouldn't.
Hipmunk's visualization is a great way to show the flight times.

I also love the tabs they use to open different searches. I live equal distance to three airports and can quickly compare prices at each.
It's small - I launched an MVP into this area recently. Business people who are inundated by email want a heavy, full-service solution like SaneBox, whereas consumers have been conditioned into thinking that everything regarding email should be free. There's not a lot of (paid) room in the market left.
You kind of need to know who yummyfajitas is, first. I didn't know who he was until I engaged him in a slapfight a week or so ago.
How I integrated my custom calendar with my Android phone
This article really made me rethink importance of investing a great deal of energy in core problem.
More importantly, we hardly notice that there is such a deep problem we should solve.
This has been around in Rails since 2008 using ERB:

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/rails/branching-the-database-alon...

This way you can enable a branch-specific database (if needed) and switch back and forth during the day if you need it.

One could somehow easily adapt that for another development framework, though!
Of course, they cannot do Mandarin to English yet - that's 2.0 :-)
Anone know if there's there a mechanism for keeping the android games up to date besides manually checking and re-sideloading? Also interesting that most of these games aren't on google play.
We set a cookie when you click that and don't redirect to the error when that happens. So two questions: 1) do you have cookies enabled 2) what's your browser?

Feel free to e-mail support@art.sy with this.
I love comments like these just because they reveal how many people don't actually read the comments they reply to (even if they're only two sentences long!)
OK thank you :)
Not just writing bad code, but learning from the bad code so you can solve a similar problem in the future with better code.
Bau5
Most of the apps I had in mind when reading the article were social apps with some sort of chicken and egg problem when it comes to user adoption.

I believe that apps having a chicken and egg issue should try to break the distribution cycles they put in place. After all, Twitter started booming because Jessica Alba created an account. Although Airbnb did some great hacking, they manage to get 2 minutes on CNN with their Obama corn flakes.
Got a Kinect for your XBox yet?
My body likes to shoot up my blood pressure far off the charts whenever someone tries to measure it. Of course, the pattern only grows stronger from these experiences.
A similar service was posted by someone else here yesterday. There is only one problem with this scheme of password generators and managers: you have to keep track of multiple key phrase when your password expires. If you are recording keyphrase with the service name (two words) on continuous basis, than you might as well use a local password manager to genera/record a password.
Branching the database along with the code
that's great to hear, more power to you.
Why Facebook ditched Hadoop’s MapReduce
I think the prize needs to be larger to mitigate the risks involved. $20m doesn't seem like enough for the costs involved in launching a droid to the moon.
> just as I wouldn't rewrite Hamlet as a girl for my daughter

Actually, that's sort of an interesting thought experiment. I was going to point out "Get thee to a nunnery," but I guess "monastery" would work fine. I think the act of rewriting Hamlet with gender-flips would be a nice exploration of sexism.
In recent times, Kayak has been shifting to push customers directly to airlines and hotels, instead of pushing them through online travel agencies like Priceline.

I suspect this is Priceline admitting that it (and other OTAs) are losing relevance in preference for the meta-search model.

Smart move, and I don't think they're dumb enough to ruin it. Read up on how successful Priceline was with their Booking.com acquisition.
Cool post! I've seen a lot of beginners learn to code (I started a non-profit to help bring more women into software development) and while we're addressing the issue of code literacy, there's still a huge skills gap between those who "can code"/ have done some tutorials and those who are ready to flexibly architect software.

I'm hoping to make the process of going from newbie to experienced easier and more meaningful with CodeMontage (http://bit.ly/CodeMontageLaunch) - you get to work on real, open-source and social-mission projects, you get feedback and code reviews from experienced developers, and you build a portfolio of open source, quality code that you can reference later or use to get a job.
It's also really nice for the experienced developers / experts in a language to be able to give code reviews on important projects - it's nice if you have a friend willing to pair on your side project, but definitely can wear on a relationship over time (and when all your friends are learning to code...).
Or, it could be that they were releasing their Q3 financials today.
They do, you just leave the return date blank.
Why do these posts get up voted. It's all just masturbation.
I don't understand how there can be no appeal process.

My understanding (see http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq.cgi for instance) of the DMCA is pretty straightforward. If you wish to have safe harbor, you must respond to notices and counter-notices. So if you send a counter-notice and are not sued in 2 weeks, the material has to be put back up. If Youtube fails to do so, they lose their safe harbor and have an insane amount of potential liability.

What am I missing?
agree 100% its an epidemic.
This was clearly a he-tortoise. After all, an author only introduces a female character for some special reason, right?

This kind of thing certainly applies to me and music. For some reason, it's hardly noticed when a North American of Hungarian, Polish, or French descent decides to play Irish Traditional music, but someone with Hispanic, African, or Asian descent playing that kind of music is frequently asked questions about how she/he got into Irish Music, or if they're in conservatory or are studying ethnomusicology, as if only "white" people are the default, normal human beings. A lot of this plain ignorance. For example, there's a thriving pan-celtic music scene in South America in countries like Argentina, where many people are playing the music as part of their heritage from celtic regions in northern Spain, like Galicia and Asturias, so there's no reason why the above attitudes should necessarily apply, depending on where in S. America that person is from.

Most people have a caricatured view of the world, where the only culture that matters is the majority's, and everyone else's culture is just some kind of distracting "flavor of the month" which only survives out of some sort of jingoism and has no deep artistic value on its own. Let me tell you, this perception has nothing to do with artistic value, and is only an illusion woven by political and economic power. Often the best music is made by people who have neither.
My current goal is to minimize, and have 5 words and 2 graphics on the home page, nothing else. TLDR etc. don't know how yet.
Also, I wouldn't be surprised if we see another OTA scoop up Hipmunk soon while it's (relatively) cheap.
I'm not remotely worried about priceline ruining kayak.

Kayak was the best interface before hipmunk, and it may (or may not be) the best interface now.

But there will be more improvements in travel buying interfaces... whether those improvements come from kayak or someone else, Kayak's current interface will seem kludgy in a couple years.
It's fairly common and works pretty well if you have a good test coverage and monitoring in place.

GitHub is a documented example (and I happen to deploy branches daily too :-):

https://github.com/blog/1241-deploying-at-github
20 CSCs Updated to Address APTs
This again depends on the domain and programming language you will be working on. But almost always the following line holds good.

Make your code readable.
I assume they have their own "submit page" that normal users don't see.
> It might just come down to culture.

And/or historical accident. Maybe it's like the appendix - not the result of any modern circumstance, but it's here to stay for the foreseeable future.
> How is this better than looking around the corner myself with a thermal imaging camera?

A rapidly moving camera should get a lot more pictures, a lot more angles and room coverage than a handheld one in a static location. Would be fascinating to hear a founder on this, how to combine all those images-- under desks, behind cabinets, under bed, etc.-- into something rapidly grasped by the viewer.
This isn't a setup issue. Don't work on more than one branch/feature at a time. It's a bad idea and not conducive to getting shit done.
If competence is absolute, then there should be some way that you can objectively measure it (otherwise how do you know its absolute?).

What are the ways to objectively measure the competence of a programmer?

If that was the case, then it would be much, much easier to hire and fairly compensate programmers than it is in reality.
Why would we not want to? It's cheap entertainment if nothing else. As a taxpayer, if you're making $100k gross, your annual contribution for NASA's entire budget is about $100/year. I have no issues with spending $10-15 a year (it's not going to be NASA's entire budget) to see a mars mission in my lifetime.
That is some fancy stuff.
Was it Samuel Clemens that observer, what a harvest of speculation you get from a little statistics?
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It's own company: http://www.tnooz.com/2012/11/08/news/priceline-buys-kayak-fo...
Yup. You would be in the antumbra: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diagram_of_umbra,_penumbra...

Better than nothing I guess? Probably not by much though.
I agree that it doesn't really sound like him, but the voice is far better than most Chinese computer voices that I've heard and is totally understandable.

Seems like my years of learning Chinese and living in China are about to become useless...
They released an Android App with their first bundle that allows you to check for updates and install them easily.

https://www.humblebundle.com/app
To someone who spent years learning Chinese as a second language, and then made my living for years as a Chinese-English interpreter, that was pretty impressive.

The economics of the issue is that a machine interpreter just has to be as good as a human interpreter at the same cost. That's a reachable target with today's computer technology. EVERY time I've heard someone else interpreting English or Chinese into the other language, I have heard mistakes, and I am chagrined to remember mistakes that I made over the years. We can't count on error-free machine interpretation between any pair of languages (human language is too ambiguous in many daily life cases for that), but if companies develop tested, validated software solutions for consecutive interpreting (what I usually did, and what is shown in the video) or simultaneous interpreting (the harder kind of interpreting in demand at the United Nations, where even in the best case it is not always done well), then those companies will be able to displace a lot of human professionals who rely on their language ability to make a living.

Right now a lot of interpreters in the United States make a lot of part-time income from gigs that involve suddenly getting telephone calls and joining in to interpret a telephone conversation in two languages. This is often necessary, for example, for physician interviews of patients in emergency rooms or pharmacist consultations with patients buying prescribed drugs (where I last saw a posted notice on how to access such an interpretation service). The IBM Watson project is already targeted at becoming an expert system for medical diagnosis, and patient care markets will surely provide a lot of income for further development of software interpretation between human languages.

It's still good for human beings to spend the time and effort to learn another human language (as so many HN participants have by learning English as a second language). That's a broadening experience and an intellectual delight. But just as riding horses is more a form of recreation these days than a basis for being employed, so too speaking another language will be a declining factor in seeking employment in the next decade.
I'd like to point out that affirmative action directly leads to more racism. I've heard many racists assume that affirmative action is the sole reason someone (is in college|has that government job|got that scholarship).
Ridin on the coattail of top tier posters is a surefire way to get your comment noticed.
If you want to walk through the lessons with him, you can check out:

http://learningcorona.com/

http://www.coronalabs.com/products/corona-sdk/

Lua is a simple language and might be good for picking up basic concepts. Corona has an unlimited free trial, and you can build simple games with very little code. The result will run in the Corona simulator (which will look like an Android or iPhone).
Here is a link to the actual article, sans media bs.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1474442212...

Ps. lots of things can damage your brain long before you are old. Don't go flipping out because of this one article.

If you are interested in learning more about disease, etc, go to www.pubmed.com and search for info there. There you will find links to actual studies (not from the media) and you can inform yourself. If you are interested in a particular topic, look for review papers. NIH has mandated that these must be available to the public (free) for at least 1 year after publication.

Although this one article is not as bad as others, I can't stand when the media talks about scientific experiments.
"This just in, study shows that normal drinking water will murder your whole family!!!!......[small font] if you are a bacteria in Antarctica and it's Tuesday night following a purple moon. [fontsize]
Hispanics, Asians and Thirty Somethings Saved Obama
$207 million cash in the bedroom [video]
"requires close to no training"

Throwing a ball is simple. Flying an RC helicopter is difficult.
Well, that's just cool as hell.
I think the reason is that their system is not DMCA. They respect the DMCA but also provide a stronger (for the rightsholders) service that was triggered here. ContentID makes them judge, jury and executioner.
PyCon 2014-2015 is hosted in the Palais des Congrès, which is downtown, so you will not need a hotel room for PyCon and another in town for tourism.
You mean about how there's no character named "Maya" in the Zelda canon? I think they'll be able to work past the character customization. Somehow even Mass Effect players manage to discuss their game.
Actually, that's sort of an interesting thought experiment.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2000/aug/23/artsfeatures.e...

It's been noted that in many parts of Africa, the reaction to Hamlet's reaction to his uncle would be: A man dies, so his brother marries the widow -- that's the good and proper thing to do!
Git missing after installing Mountain Lion? - James Brooks
Bonus points for photos of your nerf blaster.
This is what I'm most afraid of. Ads are starting to quickly plague the internet. They've already screwed up TV and made it completely unwatchable and internet is next. YouTube is already extremely annoying to navigate.

I've recently gotten to the habit of having two browsing windows open. If in one of them I stumble across something that forces me to watch 30 seconds of ad (which happens increasingly often), I flip focus, continue browsing something else and come back to the other window later.

It's great to hear they can now start to ensure I watch the ads. What's next, API that checks if you have system sound muted or too low?
Elasticsearch secured $10M in Series A venture funding
Don't Spam Me, Bro
Someone should do a mod of Ico where Yorda rescues Ico.
I've seen LOTS of non-viral apps (and worked on a few) that had the production value / cred to get featured in the app store and get epic press. They eventually fail UNLESS they have some sort of other distribution magic (viral, supporting parent site, ongoing word of mouth, etc).

Here's a screenshot that illustrates the gravity in the app store:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s4/sh/d66940e4-8098-4d40-8185...

Apple will frequently feature high quality apps-- they cycle these all the time. This particular app (top tier investors, featured in NYT, WSJ, etc, etc) was featured twice. You can see what happens afterwards.
There's an awkwardly worded survey question at the top of that article:

"Do you know if your blood pressure is in the normal range?"

It could mean "Do you have normal blood pressure?" or "Do you know your blood pressure?"

I think grammatically it means the latter, but my guess is most people are reading it as the former. I'm not sure which one the author intended.
Outstanding example of how to hustle for interns/employees!!!
Any advice for the slightly motivated beginner?

My wife has recently asked me to teach her some programming. I doubt she will be that highly motivated though. I am guessing her interest is just to explore this world and perhaps better understand the work I'm doing. I have never taught any beginners but this could be a fun experience for both of us. I am wondering what kind of assignments, projects or scenarios to go through, and what kind of a development environment to use.

I love python and think it's probably the best language to learn (and use), but I'm not sure how excited my wife will be from looking at a console? I was considering a little bit of javascript together with HTML/CSS, but most of the programming involved with interactive web pages I find a little boring... Any suggestions for some cool simple projects to walk through and learn programming with?
http://swagger.wordnik.com ;)

Auto-generates from a json response on our server.
HTTPS redirect error hampered Romney campaign on Election Day
You did not insult me, but you sound like a robot because of preserved English sentence structure.
Near real time speech to speech translation is awesome[1], but the voice sounded more like how i would picture ASIMO speaking (ie a 1980s speech synthesis) than 'his' voice.

1. is anyone here fluent in mandarin to assess the quality of the output?
Congrats, you have a great site.
Do you intend to add social features like a follow button not only for artists but also for collectors?

I believe it helped a lot http://theartstack.com/ getting users.
In some ways I hope it doesn't. Take the recent Deus Ex game, they steadfastly refused to offer a female view of the game.

Their reasoning was this was Adam Jensens story, and he is male, certain in game interactions would only make sense in that context.

That said, why we don't have more female videogame leads is beyond me. I'd like to see something like Deus Ex's opinionated take on games than say more of Mass Effect N's dual gender choice. The latter had some rather weird situations if you switched genders. Certain interactions became downright weird or even creepy.
I like it, I've been looking for something like this. Some features (dreaded feature creep!) I'd love:

1. Map interface with little lines from my home base airport to the possible destinations - It's just fun to see.
2. Sliders to increase/decrease budget - Dynamically adding/removing routes as I change the $$ limit.

Maybe these would only take another weekend to add? </joke>
Many people disagree with you about what the goal should be.

You can't turn back time and undo abuse. Trying to do so is just a waste of resources. In the race metaphor, the solution would be to just make sure everyone starts on a even footing in the next heat. In real life, I would say that means making sure all children have equal access to healthcare and education, regardless of their parents' income or circumstances. I don't see why race-based policies are necessary to achieve this.
Great recruiting blog post. What intern doesn't want to have this kind of impact? Video looks cool, we'll see if it's good enough to get them into YC.
The implications of this kind of technology reaching consumers in the next decade or so are really interesting.

If we can get to the point of having handheld devices that can accomplish live translation of spoken word, what exactly is the point of different languages anymore?
In GEB, the protagonists are the Tortoise and Achilles. I think this particular passage is about the french translation that Hoefstader proof-read (as he's fluent in French); the French translator called the Tortoise "she", because "tortue" is of feminine gender so most "tortues" characters are naturally female in French.
He has a very sexist quote at the bottom of his page, "If it is not logic, it's magic. If it is not magic, it is female logic."
In my opinion programmer competence is not absolute, but a little bit more absolute than what ed's post suggest. :)

A very rough measurement of programmer competence:

The programmer is given a product specification. He creates the program in T time using S size of code.

1/(T * S * S)

is a very good approximation of how good the developer is. (small size is more important than the taken time, that's why I've taken S square. We can tweak the formula of course. Maybe 1/(T * S * S * S) is even better in some cases.)

TL;DR: the most common thing amongst good programmers in my opinion is that they are masters of the DRY principle, but they do not overabstract; in essence they write smaller code to problems (usually even faster) than not so good programmers. The bigger the system is, the more and more architectural/design skill is needed to keep the code base small.
Product Performances
How about the mentor needs to describe in their own words why they would make a good mentor?

You might see I have no reputation on Stack Overflow, no code in Github, but I've been writing web code for 16 years. I might have a few things to teach someone, but you wouldn't know it from my online reputation scores in the usual places.

Even if someone was a coding rock-star, they might not make a good mentor just by that skill alone. Some of the best coders are quiet and anti-social, and trying to get information from them can be difficult. I'm not saying all are, or even a lot, but I've known some very smart people who struggle to answer "why did you do it this way?" in a way others can understand.