skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The new title is the same as the post title on Cyanogenmod.org.

The change doesn't really lose information; almost everything in the original title was false. Perhaps a better title would be "cyanogenmod.com hijacked by rogue admin, transitions to cyanogenmod.org". But the usual policy here when changing titles is to change it to the original title of the article, which is what it is now.
Good point about the old title saying 'by developer'. Probably since I knew what had happened already it didn't stand out to me, but I see how folks would think it meant Steve took it down.

Again I don't think the title was meant to read that way, but yeah I agree that was not clear and the new title/direct link is much better.
Possibly because it advertises to potential customers that your company has a measure of stability from capital investment - not going to go bust anytime soon.
1. They're much more expensive

2. You need to retrain your cleaning staff to know how to handle these. It's like entrusting them with dusting off your server rack.
Seems somewhat nonsensical to claim the man is the "best computer programmer in the world", (ignoring for a moment the notion that there is such a thing) since only a small percentage of computer programmers in the world even participate in these events and that the "best computer programmer in the world" couldn't care less about such competitions.
Cisco's 6Lab Provides Global IPv6 Deployment Statistics via interactive map
Who made that music? And do they make more from where that came from?
Visual video game building tool now builds binaries for Linux, Mac, Win
You might like "Aardvark'd" then, if you haven't seen it already: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/11/07.html
And it wan't by a developer. It was by a rogue admin. "By developer" implies that it was done by one of the core Cyanogenmod developers, perhaps even Cyanogen himself.
As OP I agree. The title was not sensationalist. I guess moderators changed the link and title. I agree with changing link but not with the present title. The .com domain was my bookmarked domain and usually I will go this domain first before going to any other CM link. As a donor to CM I felt shocked that even the .com Google apps account is now taken down by rogue admin. Usually these accounts were used by users and other developers. All the social media were also linking through this .com email addresses AFAIK.
Why is everyone complaining about the title? Yes its a bit sensationalist but all of this is detracting from the actual story here.

While it's true that cyanogenmod.com going down may not serve a functional problem to most people but it is a pretty sad story. I have used Cyanogen on a couple phones and all my Android devices use the Clockwork recovery, which is an incredible tool. I don't know the specifics but I don't think anybody on the Cyanogen team was receiving money for their work. Granted, there are premium versions in the Play Store, but certainly nobody is getting rich of Cyanogen or clockwork.

The fact that somebody is screwing them over just to make a couple bucks seems pretty terrible to me. These guys do this for fun and for the good of the community (not to mention for the good of Google), so my heart really goes out to them. I hope you get everything sorted out and get everything back up.

There is a PayPal donation form at the bottom of their site. I have donated in the past when they have asked and I'm sure I will this time if they make an appeal to pay for legal fees.

Again, so sad to see this happen to such a great group of devs.
My guess would be that 1) public profiles bring in more new users and 2) most users don't bother to check their settings
It can work. As a young engineer I started a primarily-software business in the early 90's and was too independent and unsophisticated to even consider outside investment. Honestly I wouldn't have known where to start - there was no public internet yet. I did however bring in a trustworthy partner with a completely different set of innate skills to complement mine. Both of us worked hard, used credit cards when we needed to but had to make money all along the way, followed the demand to design our products, grew the business and finally sold it when the dot-com era was peaking. Even though we weren't really a dot-com, money was flowing freely then in many areas around it. I was old enough to remember the housing boom/bust of the S&L era and I was betting the dot-com era was unsustainable too. There is always luck involved to some extent and it was a white-knuckled ride but in hindsight the worst case outcome was corporate or personal bankruptcy and we were young and would have had plenty of time to recover. I know others who have similar stories.
> If it was radiation wouldn't it be enough to destroy us living in such close proximity?

Different kinds of radiation differ by how deep they penetrate matter. Simplifying a bit you can imagine that for every atom the radiation passes, there's a probability that it interacts / gets absorbed.

Radiation that passes thousands of kilometres of rock without interaction will have a rather low probability of interacting with a mere metre (or so) of human.
Maybe there was a middle ground, but the former title made it seem like CyanogenMod itself was taken offline, and made no mention to the domain itself. I'd say in situations like that it's just better to default to the actual article title.
It's almost always unfair to dismiss criticism of a thing as being solely due to jealousy.
> What MIT decided was to move from a curriculum organized around topics (programming paradigms, then circuits, then signal processing, then architecture) to a curriculum organized around applications (let's build and program a robot; let's build and program a cell phone).

While this is offered as an excuse for switching away from SICP, I don't like this either.

Programming paradigms are the perfect introduction to programming. First, it naturally teaches you one of the most fundamental concepts in computer science (abstraction) by example; with the SICP approach, you learn about abstractions by constructing your own idioms for abstractions within a programming paradigm!

Second, applications become easier and easier to develop the more one learns to break out of a single paradigm and borrow ideas and tools from each as needed - otherwise, it's easy to get stuck in a rut and miss a simple but elegant solution to the problem at hand. Being able to cross-pollinate features or ideas idiomatic in one language to another gives you a Leatherman instead of an x-acto knife.

Having a fundamental grasp of programming paradigms makes programming languages feel like a second skin, rather than an obstacle sitting between the brain and the binary output.
I don't know what this is, but as the guy asked for money for the domains, which he didn't own, I'd think about asking the police to look into this being extortion.
Also it is designed to facilitate stool examination, as it was invented when huge dysentery epidemics spread through Europe.
These are really cool. I like seeing start and finish pictures from cool projects.
No longer an issue. From the top of the article: "Update: Skype has fixed the issue, overhauling its password reset process."
pretty rude. why don't you offer to help?
Same feelings. Here's another piece that also demonstrates his desire to provoke:

http://theamericanscholar.org/upper-middle-brow/

In this case, the kind of upper-middle-brow cultural consumers he is examining (in a rather unfriendly way) is the readers of the American Scholar.

So it's not just throwing stones at engineers. (And we are a touchy bunch, as this thread shows. ;-)
Music by Sam Hulick, whose work you may have heard in the video game, Mass Effect. The track is titled “In a Strange Land” and is used with his permission.
Oh I agree completely; I certainly don't think saket123 meant to mislead people at all. It was just an unfortunate choice of words causing a little bit of a dust up. Maybe now any relevant conversation can happen!

So let's all go answer or up-vote philp's comment!
Glad it was helpful. If you want to see why Unix programmers scoff at OOP, I recommend "The Art of Unix Programming" by Eric Raymond.

OOP advocates threw around words like modularity and encapsulation and a lot. But nobody told programmers that Java and C++ have much worse modularity and encapsulation properties than the traditional Unix style.

Ideally under Unix you would have small Java programs and small C++ programs working together and passing messages. But that's not really how a lot of people architect things these days. You tend to get monolithic Java codebases and monolithic C++ codebases. People don't design protocols with care.

The web is also very Unix-y. It's structured around data and simple protocols. Yet for some reason programmers insist on "abstracting" the web with objects. These attempts have uniformly failed. There's a reason for that.

On a related note, this was discussed on HN recently: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/163185/torval...

Note that Linus Torvalds is a C programmer -- he doesn't use any "object oriented" languages. Structuring programs around data makes them modular. A main reason is that you can adapt data from one form to the other, to glue together pieces of code. You can't adapt byzantine sequences of method calls and inheritance trees -- you end up having to rewrite. Look at classes in Java programs that have the word "Adapter". Often they are a big smell and barely work, and this is because the fundamental abstractions being used are non-compositional.
In the beginning there was sccs.
Perhaps you are one of the stand-to-wipe types, but if you remain seated throughout the drying operation you will not have to deal with any rivulets.

Also some toilets have an air-dryer.
Thanks for the pointer. I've read a few articles thanks you to. It still seems awfully complex and demands very proficient git usage to do even simple operations. I don't think that's suitable.. but I'm curious are you using it with Unity?
Ubuntu for Android Project
I argue for your definition:

"Big data is when the size of the data becomes part of the problem."

Mike Loukides (O'Reilly) mentioned to me that Roger Magoulas (O'Reilly) was the first he heard using that definition.

According to this definition, physicists in the 80's were doing big data.
Bid the minimum and work your way up until AdWords starts showing your ad, and work from there.
Yes I think sheer size is actually just a small part of "big data". The number of dimensions/facets to the data is more important...don't know if that's the correct term, but I mean the ability to, given the schema of your vistor records, analyze which browser has the highest change in bounce-rate given a certain kind of design change in your site. The old-fashioned visitor record type...the number of database pings per day...would not have this much dimension for analysis.

Another part of "big data": the ability to gather, clean, and organize it in a normalized way.
Some thoughts and musings about making things for the web
I completely agree with everything said, but I also think that conversations about languages and paradigms are worth having.

Yes, it's true that you can solve the decision on what language or paradigm to use in a few minutes or hours, but your options are not only limited to those that you understand, but are limited by the depth of your understanding.

A lot of the time the decision is likely nothing more than personal preference, but if there is a chance that one paradigm will work better for solving some problem or class of problems; I'm interested in hearing about it
Hangouts are very different use case from Skype. Skype is a messaging platform, g-hangout is a teleconference platform. They have intersecting, but not identical uses.
I'd love to see more sketches just to see how much detail a designer puts into a sketch on average, and how that varies across different areas of design. It's nice to see barebone sketches like Maykel's and Ian's. Even after reading bill buxton's book on sketching, i still catch myself trying to refine sketches just so they look nice even after an idea is explored.

Thanks for compiling these, looking forward to see more!
I tend to side with empowering devs by default (of course), but I see your point. Readability should be addressed with adjustable fonts on all devices anyway. The only possible case I could see is augmented-reality stuff where the real size matters, maybe such as rendering a ruler to the screen. An edge case, admittedly, but if it were my edge case, I'd be pissed.
GIF is dying, PNG is taking over
Pay-as-you go gaming is actually a really interesting idea.
Nice. I like the Cue one the best, because I think the evocative toast image and simple CTA come together nicely.
I really wish this would come to Canada, and Toronto specifically. The business internet market in this city is ridiculous and ripe for a real disruption.
It's like the galaxy map in Frontier Elite II was, in my imagination.
Are you reputable? :-P
The best part of these toilets is not the washing function, which in Asia frankly not a lot of people use (I lived in Hong Kong, Beijing and traveled extensively across main cities in Asia) but the heated seats. Once in a ski lodge in Niseko, Hokkaido, Japan, after a long day of snowboarding, these heated seats really save the day - Japanese perfectionism at its best.
Multibuy is your friend! I sat down and worked out our real toilet roll cost and it is lower than $5/mo
Phew, my first instinct when reading the start of that post was that some rogue code had been committed.

Note: it's a shame most of the comments here are about the title of this post.
Israeli Military Live Tweets War
I like the idea of buying a related domain and donating it to the community as mentioned in another comment. I agree that we as community of hackers should try to figure out how can we help CM who are just a group a volunteers doing great work for the community.
Siri versus Google Voice Search: Fight
Exactly, without answers (or an instructor) exercises are pointless. It really makes me mad when I see a book that doesn't give also the answers, how should I know that I did the exercise correctly?
I saw that in Spain, too.
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/filters.html

Not sure if that's what you're looking for, but it should contain the info for what is being used. I took a quick glance and it looked like it was at minimum using the following 3 svg filters:

‘feGaussianBlur’
‘feOffset’
‘feMerge’
If you buy a house that is not new, and your toilet is working, replacing it will be definitely not on the top of your list. And since other renovations - which usually matter much more for people take priority. Add to that the fact that "we recently did a new kitchen" sounds much better in conversation that "we recently bought a toilet seat which costs only a little less than a used car" - and here you go.

The factor of the cost is important too. For $1700 I could redo a whole room - why would I spend this on a toilet when I already have a perfectly working one? Of course, if money is not an issue, it's different - but for most people money still is the issue.
My high-school CS teacher structured his course around SICP--he worked with Brian Harvey to build the curriculum--and looking back I can definitely see the power of this approach.

I agree whole-heartedly with what he's said in this piece and hope that others can continue to reap the value of SICP. It's made me a clearer thinker and better programmer.

One might say that SICP is unique in as much as it transcends coding as an act of "slinging code at a screen", pushing readers to think carefully about the nature and design of their programs. That's only a sliver of what it does, but it's ever so easy to miss that as a beginning programmer.

Yeah, it definitely takes discipline to get through, but it's quite rewarding.
Not a language but a library: see SNIT (Snit's Not Incr Tcl) at http://www.wjduquette.com/snit/ is a fairly complete object system for Tcl that eschews inheritance in favor of composition.
There are loads of profitable bootstrapped companies. Not taking outside investment can definitely slow your growth, but you own it 100% and can dictate the direction that you are going in. You also don't get some of the pressure that funded companies sometimes get. I know a number of seriously successful companies that were started without funding or investment - many of them are quietly getting on with making money :)
Show HN: We just launched Homelight, a data-driven realtor finder
Topcoder is such a great site that it can't even program a Captcha to let you in when you get it right :0>
We (the Linux GL driver team) are planning for a February release of our driver that is ES 3.0 compliant.
On second thought, I agree. I believe I've lost my wager. Thanks for the correction.
When I first started using toilets on my own I stood to wipe. Eventually I figured out that I could remain seated.

This was on a western toilet.
Artificial wombs: is a sexless reproduction society in our future?
Israel Defence Force Announces Major Assault on Gaza via Twitter
Draw Something and Words with Friends now available on Nokia Lumia
Just an FYI, Toto sells regular toilets in the US. They come with seats that don't slam. I think Toto also sells seats separately that do that.
WOW, that is amazing. I'm always blown away by stuff like this, where you can actually get a sense of how small we all are and how distant even the closest neighbor stars are.

I just close my eyes for a minute and think (or try to), what would it be like for those people that are finally able to reach, say, Vega (I know it's not the closest). Sure, this is not a big deal in sci-fi, but for reality, it's pretty mind blowing. This is 100% why I seriously want to live for a few hundred years: to have an opportunity to see the first time we actually go to the nearest star.

In the meantime, I guess this will have to suffice.

I also love this image that is not interactive like this, but still mind blowing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earths_Location_in_the_Uni...
I thought Obama was promising transparency not too long ago.
Should we expect a tech stack overview blog post?
I think the keywords you used needed to be cut down. You don't want to get just any clicks. Every click you pay for needs to be from people searching for exactly what you're offering.

If you want me to take a look through your keyword list drop me an e-mail. You should be able to get 1-5 sign ups in your first 100 clicks. If you don't - it's time to pause the campaign, re-work your landing page & try again until conversions get better & better.
Easier is subjective. The alternative OP is suggesting is sitting on the toilet and reaching between your legs. Personally, I find it easier to stand up, bend over and reach from behind.
Can someone explain to me how this would be termed a planet?

Doesn't the very definition of planet imply rotation around a star or other celestial object?

The BBC article is a little better: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20309762
And it links to the actual paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0305
Thanksgiving HN: 160 Days of Our Startup in Pakistan
The IDF Is Live-Blogging Its Attack On Hamas
Warning: Scientific accuracy is not guaranteed. Please do not use this visualization for interstellar navigation.
And this is a great way for Referly to create a stock photo collection they can later sell. Seriously, a good idea.

Wouldn't be awesome if they made all images freely available for everyone to use? Some european price comparison network kinda (no really free licenses) does that: http://bepixelung.org/
congrats!

Two questions:
1. Why is the app called Recommend it and not Refer.ly?
2. You seem to focus on different use cases than with the web site, for power users that share more instead of all users. What was the rationale behind that? Ebay or Amazon apps do both.
I read:

And due to the small size (and lack of funds), the CyanogenMod.com domain was bought by a third-party back in 2009 and donated to CM, when CM was a much smaller project and had no online presence besides XDA.

I must be missing something (and speaking from a US perspective), but was $10 really unattainable in order to secure a domain? Three years worth would have been $30-ish dollars now. Genuinely curious what led up to this scenario.
Yeah, I'm disappointed with that. I bought the phone because it was popular and I was sure it was going to have support. Guess I was wrong.

Always buy a nexus!
Cleaning old Artifactory artifacts
Interesting, hadn't even thought of that
Since algorithms are always a hot topic here at HN, I'd like to point out to those interested two online courses that are going to start at Coursera soon, both are continuations to previous courses and both are starting in about two weeks (come December):
'Algorithms, Part II' - by Robert Sedgewick & Kevin Wayne of Princeton themselves [1], and 'Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 2' - by Tim Roughgarden of Stanford [2]. Online courses tend to be by far not as rigorous as books are, but I took first part of Prof. Roughgarden's course and it was very enjoyable on all sides.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partII
[2] https://www.coursera.org/course/algo2
2) An artificial sound to overlay embarrassing
farting sounds: Without this feature, it was
common for Japanese women to constantly use
the flush in order to create a louder sound.
This was obviously a huge waste water.

Was this an issue because Japanese walls are thinner? Or homes smaller? Farting isn't considered particularly appetizing here either but I don't remember a single time this has been an issue (or ever hearing someone farting from outside the bathroom).
It was quote from MIT Technology review paper. Objectively I agree. TopCoder is very well known competition, also Petr won Facebook's Hacker Cup. But this is not the whole World. There're also ACM competitions, International computer science olympiads and many other corporate contests.
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"large enough that the [storage] and manipulation becomes part of the challenge"

-- Also: [acquisition] (not/just storage). the genius of Google and FB. they [create] massive, usable data sets.
There's this – potentially apocryphal – story that the etymology of the term "monkey patch" comes from someone mistaking the then-current term "guerilla patch" for the similar-sounding "gorilla patch".

Big data seems like a very similar story to me. It has nothing to do with the size of the data, not even with the complexity of the analysis, it simply means, "a movement that wants to do more with more kinds of data." Nowhere near what big data used to mean, but outside of technical circles, we're beyond the point where that even matters anymore.
Changing Up Your Code Editor
Or they could become a major investor in a company which has "free speach rights" and just write one big check. I expect in 2016 some country is going to decide that they should just spend a few hundred million dollars to get the foreign policy they want.
Bizarre. I always first wipe with some wet toilet paper and then use dry for the finish.
1. We think this app is awesome for our power users, the curators, but the majority of our users are actually shoppers so we wanted to reserve the right to create a canonical "Referly app" for them down the road. Long term most UGC communities only have 1-2% contributors

2. It is really an issue of focus, to build a marketplace we have to nurture both sides but in the early days it is difficult to do both well. You raise one side up, make it good enough, go work on the other side, then switch. That's the approach we are taking and right now most of what we have launched is really for the power user who is doing the sharing.
After being in multiple countries, I can safely conclude that if you think the daily 'paper' routine can clean it properly, it can't. If you think only a water jet can clean it properly, it can't. You have to use both. My schedule is something like : Paper->Water jet->Paper and I feel perfect after this! :)