skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't find it terribly unlikely that non-technical managerial-level people within the company were unaware that certain code had been open sourced. I know that unless I make an effort to let other departments know about it, that no one at my company would have any idea we created, or even used, open-source code.
For those who sometimes prefer straight GUI, you can just drag the folder into Sublime Text (or Textmate) and it will open it in the sidebar (probably obvious to some, but I did not know to do it until I saw somebody else do it).

Also, another thing I have grown really attached to:

Command-Option [1,2,3,4] to open up multiple views within one window, good for viewing several files at once.
What’s preferable: Exceptions or explicit error testing?
You know how I know you're 15? Light grey text on a white background.

I remember when I was younger and discovering ImageMagick - a perennial favourite for building little tools on top of.
In the case of EBCDIC, there are several places in the alphabetic collation sequence in which non-alpha characters are interspersed among the letter codes. Most notably between R & S, though it appears that I-J also includes a standout. The fact that there are multiple incompatible forms of EBCDIC doesn't help matters much.

Makes sorts really tweaky.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebcdic
Getting ready for Borderlands 2 for Mac
Show HN: www.WikipediaTop.com - what's hot 
Show HN: www.WikipediaTop.com - what's hot

http://www.WikipediaTop.com

A new and improved version.

This is a small project to visualize what's buzzing on Wikipedia.

This is an early iteration - I will try to improve it in the future.

Feedback is welcome!
Wasp Sting Pictures (with image) · LindaSamson · Storify
Just another proof that they're no more than a bunch of assholes
The point of the technological singularity insofar as it interacts with reasonable prediction of the future is that reasonable predictions tell you that it is next to impossible to make any sort of reasonable cultural/climate/landmass/population/other soft prediction much past this century.

Hard takeoff scenarios seem to be unlikely (no self-improving AI going from human project to godlike status in a couple of hours while rolling its own molecular nanotechnology foundation). The reasons for this are the same reasons that make rapid global takeover of the internet by a viral monoculture unlikely today: results take effort, some results are opposed, some results are intrinsically hard, no breakthrough happens in a vacuum.

But: by 2040 it will be possible to emulate human brains the hard way. By all means tell me that every human culture will refrain from taking full advantage of all that can follow from that over the decades that follow. The economic benefits of human and built-from human intelligences instantiated to order are incredible. The possibilities spiraling out from that are so much greater than everything that has come before that it becomes very, very hard to say what comes next.

You could see a world in which there are trillions of entities of human and greater intelligence by 2100. With their own cultures, so much greater and broader and more varied than ours as to make us the first snowflake in the blizzard. They may or may not have access to molecular nanotechnology and as much of the solar system as they care to begin making over by then. What will they build? How can you say? Culture determines creation.

Equally, you might not see that world. But it looks most plausible to me that software life will erupt from our culture in much the same way as we erupted from Greek tribes thousands of years ago - but much more rapidly. If you can show me you can sensibly predict the details of today's world by an examination of the Mediterranean Bronze Age, then I might be more inclined to think it possible to talk about what lies on the other side of emulated human intelligence.
Here’s How Spotify Scales Up And Stays Agile
It's a standard Github Pages template.
Refer to the film "idiocracy" for a dystopian vision of why this is happening and what the outcome might likely be.
I'm pretty sure the airlines would just keep prices as they are and pocket the extra $5 per ticket. :)
Ridiculous: Apple granted patent for artificially turning book pages
For a detailed explanation, see the soon-to-be-reclassified-as-a-documentary film Idiocracy: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
Sure, there are lots and lots of things that WebKit does better than IE. I'm just pointing out that it's a tradeoff; it's not cut and dry in favor of WebKit.
Yeah visuals are confusing, here is how I would fix it:

Make each players view of the game unique such that it is easiest to decipher where their ship is, and where incoming bullets are. So the player's ship could be bright white, the harmfull bullets bright red or orange, and everything else a darker color. What the next player sees is different - a view designed to distinguish their own ship, and player 1's ship is dark. Make sense?
Fission Strategy is hiring a senior developer,PHP/DJANGO
Loved the deck. Any plans to put up the a video of the entire deck.
Food labels
The author continues to compare now to 500 years ago, while I think a lot of his prognostications might right on target I think that these advances will come much quicker than 500 years. If we took the magnitude of advances for humanity from 1512-2012, and we applied those magnitudes today that it would happen in the next 100 years (5:1). I do like his non doom-and-gloom approach (disclaimer aside). I agree with some of the other comments that if you ask any human at anytime if the world is in its worst state in history, the answer will be yes and I think the author understands this isn't always the case. Great read.
pg puts his time and effort into managing the community, rather than the page controls.

He's repeatedly, periodically made comments on efforts to improve moderation, filtering, ranking, etc. And those efforts are evident in their effect upon content.

"Stagnant" is not an accurate description.

Finally, HN is a tool -- a tool for communication. In that respect, it works pretty well, and is actually somewhat UNIX-y, I'd argue. (E.g. leaving notifications to external add-ons, private communication to email et al., etc. HN focuses on its core purpose of posts, comments, and ranking (public discussion).)

P.S. This is, obviously, just my observation and opinion, FWIW.

P.P.S. Sorry -- rereading the parent comment, I think we are more like-minded than I first thought.

One might say pg has focused on the message, rather than the presentation. Which has worked rather well. Although I think I and some others are also just fine with the presentation -- readability over eye candy, and with the effort put into other aspects of the site.

And... as some have observed, sometimes it is suspected or outright apparent that supposed "limitations" are actually a feature. For example, limiting disruptive, low S/N back-and-forth commenting.

I guess I've written all this in part for the benefit (if any) of some newer members who happen to read this. Experiencing HN over a longer period of time, I've found perhaps (presumptively) somewhat deeper insight into pg's and the moderators' approach and management.
This sounds alright in principle, but I could be shooting myself in the foot for later - I hate to go down on rate ever so setting the bar higher is probably not the answer.

I take the sentiment though.
The discussion is way way bigger than that.
Simple AJAX Comments with Rails
It may not indict you directly, but it certainly helps finding the person behind it.
Ah -- didn't see that. Wasn't so much a criticism (it doesn't take away from the article at all) as it was an observation that something really trivial stuck in my head ;)
Neuroskeptic has a good response to these articles at http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2012/11/were-probably-not-g..., essentially arguing against Crabtree's thesis for being too speculative.
> I want to have several Dropbox folders in the same computer, that's all.

If they are all from the same Dropbox account then it already works, although you may need to use symbolic links or equivalents.

If there are multiple Dropbox accounts then you can do it on Linux because they also have command line tools which you can run as separate instances pointing to different accounts (clean up environment and set $HOME).
one more:

http://new.weavesilk.com/?d6v4
(needs 1920x1200 or above)
If engineers were journalists
The dedication and hard work is evident. Great job guys!
FreeBSD Project Discloses Security Breach Via Stolen SSH Key
Insofar as fiction goes, the technological singularity has been done. It's sliding out of fashion for the moment. The authors have done their job, pointed it out, on to the next thing. But the real world continues to trundle along as it always has: the underlying trends and emerging technological capabilities remain even as fashions in SF come and go.
It means that in developed countries there is almost no natural selection, and it's unethical to weed out weak genes synthetically because that's called a holocaust.
> Most young Republicans are fiscally conservative and socially apathetic.

I might have completely nonrepresentative acquaintances, but the young Republicans I know are mostly evangelical Christians, and definitely not apathetic on social issues. They are however more socially liberal than older evangelicals on certain generational issues; e.g. you won't find many people under 30 who want to re-introduce laws criminalizing sodomy.

edit: And actually on the flip side, I'm not sure they're fiscally conservative. Compared to older evangelical leaders who strongly support the Reagan-era evangelical/business-conservative-alliance, among the younger generation there seems to be more skepticism of markets, and focus on poverty/inequality as issues.
Very Cool, this could really work!
That is hustle. This should be posted in response to every "how do I get a job at X startup" question.
>but their stock is likely to drop down significantly in the coming year.

Care to put some money on it?
I've stopped using them ever since they were first known to violate their own privacy policies:

http://floydfe.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/imageshack-founder-v...
That's a pretty stupid comment. Take off your blinders and read the rest of the article.
The "feudalism" charge, as well as the Randian one, proves to me that you've got no bloody clue what you're talking about, either about Paul himself or economic theory. Paul is a disciple of the Austrian school and von Mises, not Rand's Objectivism. But those distinctions are lost on you and prove how little you know.

But it really doesn't matter much now, because this thread has dropped off the front page, so your ignorance and your advocacy of Federalism (and the federalistas who enforce it) can't poison the well.

Perhaps you should get back to me after you've read the books and are ready to engage in a real debate on the issues, but at this point you're wasting my time.
What the new Microsoft logo could have been
There's a composition I like very much, by GY!BE, "She Dreamt She Was a Bulldozer, She Dreamt She Was Alone in an Empty Field".
Maybe you could do similar genre?
HTC deal, Apple says it’s interested in resolving dispute with Google’s Motorola
Can this also be applied to CPU assembly?
So even though for me it was a one-shot deal, I had plenty of time (I was moving) and it made sense for me to get their 'Platinum Membership' which includes many of the extras -- for a few months - which covers 100 sets for free each month. Still it was definitely expensive - more than I'd like. The end result were high quality (but definitely large) pdfs. I could use their "fine tune" services to optimize for different platforms / compress, too, but for me that meant additional storage / time if I kept the originals, so I didn't use it much. In the end I spent a lot of money, but now have copies of my books -- which I didn't have to ship long-distance and which I don't have to physically store now. I'm more-or-less happy-ish.
According to the USPTO site, "The work of examining applications for patents is divided among a number of examining technology centers (TC), each TC having jurisdiction over certain assigned fields of technology."

Since this office is part of an "effort to provide better quality patents for regional economies," my guess is that they will be responsible for reviewing at least some patents in Valley-specific technical areas. That's just a guess though.
That was true back then. Nobody could foresee that Reddit would get acquired, and Digg would swing for the fences and fail.

Among other things Digg got overly ambitious, and took what turned out to be too much funding in the subsequent years. In the meantime, Reddit was growing organically under Conde Nast without the pressure of VCs looking for a return. Digg was forced to take big risks, and we know how it turned out.
They 403'd this specific link it looks like. An image I uploaded about an hour ago seems to be working still. [1] is the data it returned for the 403'd image. Here's [2] some Ruby code if you want to try it out yourself

[1] http://pastie.org/5393401
[2] http://pastie.org/5393444
This is an excellent explanation.

As you say, if we assume that my set of macros are the machinery, then truly my "BRAINFUCK()" macro is Turing complete.

Using this distinction between language and machine, how peculiar that a Turing Complete thing can be expressed using a language which is not Turing Complete itself.

The question is really - are these distinctions between machine and language always meaningful and without contradiction.
Lack of memory on iPad1 plus general lameness of Safari on iOS 5 and above, I should think. (But mainly lack of memory, I suspect - Safari is not quite so bad on iPad3.)
Definitely a fun read, lots of things to nod and shake your head at. For example if we've mastered the fusion power generation process then rather than carbon remediation we may find we have to burn things occasionally to boost atmospheric CO2, the reasoning goes that we've basically converted all of the arable surface area to 'farm' land, we have converted all of our industrial and motive mechanisms (cars/trucks/trains) to electricity, we use the Fischer-Tropch process to create jet fuel which can take CO2 out of the air, so not only are anthropogenic sources of CO2 but natural sources (forest fires) are removed from the system. If we are pulling energy geothermally out of volcanic hot spots that will leave their tops just frozen enough to not erupt (another giant source of atmospheric CO2).

It is really really hard to predict past a point where the energy problem becomes 'solved.'

I also expect that all of our computing / electronics devices will be essentially 3D printed out of carbon in various forms (tubes, balls, graphene) providing the various roles of switch, conductor, gate, and substrate. Those will be connected by a mesh of networking that is a couple of gigabits wireless and perhaps a terabit when hard connected. The low marginal cost of bandwidth will make it pretty much non-blocking bandwidth everywhere.

I expect we'll be eating a manufactured food product that is tasty and nutritious and the domestication of livestock and the use of any other living organism (including plants) will be considered 'quaint'. No one will have to go hungry because the combination of low cost energy and the ability to assemble food will allow for free 'food' (although not designer, "high end" food).

I think the more interesting question though comes from biology, which is to say if we have completely decoded cellular biology then there won't be any excuse for being sick or not 'healthy' (and by that I mean optimal function of all organs including the brain). At some point during the development of that capability the aspects of ones genetics which determines sexual orientation will be completely mapped out and understood and there will be a big debate about what we do about that, do we 'cure' homosexuality, do we offer to make everyone 'omnisexual' etc. There will be huge and heated debates about what is and what isn't normal.
Show HN: Gif Spinner, Animated Gifs + Music
Samsung, yes. Thanks for reminding me.

(Then, of course, there are dozens of others but those are so small players that it doesn't matter much.)
I am very disappointed by this article, since it in my opinion clearly misrepresents the things Marc Espie said:

If you look at his original:

-) "Those vendors say "we're not in the distribution business, distribution
problems will be handled by OS vendors. We can break compatibility to
advance, and not think about it, this is not a problem." [...]

"This is a mindset we need to fight, and this has to be a grass-roots
movement."

-) "in some cases, you even have some people, who are PAID by some vendors,
agressively pushing GRATUITOUS, non compatible changes. I won't say names,
but you guys can fill the blanks in."

-) "Either you're a modern linux with pulseaudio and pam and
systemd, or you're dying."

Source: https://lwn.net/Articles/524608/

Not being a BSD guy myself, but being a fan of minimalistic linux systems, being a fan of keeping dependencies low, of not necessarily throwing out software that has done it's job for 10+ years to just get the newest gadget in, i actually think he's right with many things he says.
Sigh, its a cool board, at $100 it would be game changing, at $250 its just another evaluation kit. The continued lack of docs on the ARM GPU is extremely annoying.
http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/11/here-comes-the-boom-2012-...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/11/here-comes-the-boom-2012-...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/11/here-comes-the-boom-2012-...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/11/here-comes-the-boom-2012-...
I must say that the icicle plot of the same data is way more readable. The crisscrossing lines are all but useless to get a feel of the data.

go to http://www.jasondavies.com/parallel-sets/ and click on icicle plot to see what is going on.
Charles Stross is not unaware of this; he's written multiple novels on the topic of the singularity including "Accelerando" and "Rapture of the Nerds". I recommend either of them if you're interested in the subject

This blog post is simply a different approach to the topic. Basically, what would happen if the singularity never happens and it's just us humans trying to solve the problems on our planet.
Didn't seem to work for me in Chrome, but did work in Chrome Canary.
AdBlock Plus would not change anything. He's complaining about Amazon Instant Video's web interface being part of the Amazon store, so when browsing videos to watch you also see the list of other formats you can buy each in, related products, 'customers also bought' products, etc. These are not ads and AdBlock does not remove them as it'd simply be wiping out the whole page.
My computers, all of them
I don't think they've released much publicly but most of the speculation I have read has said that Twitter's revenues are good. I don't find their advertising model too intrusive either which is a good sign. And with half a billion accounts and at least from what I've seen, more and more people joining, it's hardly a fad.
Are you saying children should choose their schools?
I think it's a bit off on the predictions relating to energy. The best way to explain why is to borrow from Vinod Khosla's theory of energy black swans, and assume that the forms of energy we know and make use of today are going to be replaced by forms of energy we either don't know of or haven't yet managed to master.

500 years is simply a long, long, long time from now in terms of human progress. I think the energy description provided here might possibly fit a model of our energy mix 100 years from now. However, it's very unlikely to be the one we follow 500 years from now, simply because the basis for energy-related discoveries dictates that every few decades an entirely new form of energy is discovered and gets subsequently iterated upon until economically viable. It simply isn't factually reasonable to assume that we have already discovered all possible forms of energy production.

By the way, i did energy-related research which is why i wanted to point this out. Regardless of these flaws, I thoroughly enjoyed reading that essay.

tl;dr: energy-predictions 500 years out are not reasonable because of Vinod Khosla's theory of energy black swans.
IIRC, some of these have been in their Safari (safaribooksonline.com) subscription product for some time?

So, this represents the addition of direct sales of DRM-free ebook versions (on oreilly.com), as opposed to having the content at all?
It's as simple as this: it is extremely hard to do a big business on something that is trivially reproducible (like Twitter is), just because there is a big momentum at some point. Because the outcome is one of the following three possibilities:

1) You ruin the experience because of the business model. People switch to a competitor that is annoyances free as you were.

2) You ask for money. People switch to a competitor that is free as you were.

3) You invent a business model that is an added value for users instead to be a problem. You win.

To make "3" working you need to be open minded and design the business model for months, with creativity, thinking at your users. It's hard but you could do it, but unfortunately there are this guys that gave you millions that will ruin this process. So "3" is very very very hard for Twitter IMHO.
As a later comment points out, in a manner as arresting as the vision it criticises, roots are how plants get their inputs. The soil feeds the plants! - not the other way around.

But, maybe in 500 years they'll have fixed this.
What you are seeing. Is a reversal of sentiments from all front. Steve, is a scary negotiator to go against, that's why apple got the deals it got.

If you are buying based on PE, good luck.

Yes I put my money where my mouth is. Sold AAPL, bought TSLA.
They do slightly different things. I think each can benefit by incorporating the main idea of the other:

- Working on multiple projects who need different JVMs running at the same time can be a hassle in clove (you have to create a service for each), so it can be fixed by doing that the same way drip does.

- Running scripts and having a persistent JVM is still very useful, and clove (albeit I haven't cleaned up its code properly) gives a terminal into the JVM, really fast. So, drip can use the same technique (passing capabilities; a *nix feature) to let you hook into a JVM very quickly. [see the "screenshot" part at the bottom of http://hovel.ca/clove]
Would a true libertarian society view nations as pseudo corporations and citizens as shareholders? Would the more highly compensated individuals be considered to have a larger stake in the state?
I have a couple of FreeBSD machines which pulled binary packages between those dates. I'm not overly worried. The packages have been removed and installed again from ports after a fresh portsnap dump and the systems have been verified with "freebsd-update IDS" against known good signatures. Any modified files were manually checked. I use MAC on each machine and pf up front on firewalls so I know what is going in and out as well.

The fact that these mechanisms are available is the reason I use such a system.

Also, if you consider any problems like this happening to a closed source vendor, you may never know it's happened. And don't tell me they don't do it as I've worked for a couple of companies that felt that burying security fuck ups was acceptable practice. It's why I don't work for them any more.
> Eventually we turned to the last items in the Oculist trove: nine copies of a four-page document written in a mixture of old German, Latin, and the Copiale’s coded script. The message was more or less identical in every set.

I feel kind of sorry for them, that at the end of their journey they found what was essentially a Rosetta Stone for the code they were decoding.
Sushi is Python package builder
Imgur has some restrictions as well. It's their (Imageshack's) "view image" pages that are horrible.