skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Criticism: I'll note that after reading both the README and the copy on the frontpage of qtile.org, I still don't know if this is for X11, Windows or OSX. I assume X11, but it's not really explicit.

[ Note: the screenshots give it away, but you have to click first because the thumbnail screenshot on the front page isn't big enough to tell. ]

That said, it's nice to have a tiling WM in a language I know well. I've fiddled with XMonad in the past, but have a very thin knowledge of Haskell (a few times I've tried to do complex things and muddled my way through using the compiler as my guide).
> 118198 kernel ansic=117893,perl=305

That bit is the kernel. File systems, drivers and so on are best though of as plug-ins to the kernel. Architecture dependent code would probably normally expose only one set of symbols rather than all of the code, probably should have included memory management.

Likely if you include all that code you'll turn up a few more longish names, but the net effect is pretty much the same: really long names are rare when you've laid things out properly but 30 characters and up are certainly no exception.
Cool game, and really nice work in 48 hours!

I realize security probably not on the top of your feature list in 48 hours, but since I work for a security company doing security assessments it's is one of the first things I think about. I noticed an issue that will let me win without racing.

The reason I bring this up is not, in any way, to diminish your work, but to highlight that you don't get much security for free in these types of frameworks. So this isn't a big deal for this game, but in case somebody was using this for a more sensitive project they may want to be careful.
This cartoon actually explains why the Higgs Boson and tachyon hunting folks use p=0.000001 or so, not p=0.05. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Not a problem with frequentism at all.
That's probably right, I know they have improved security greatly in the last few years.
Balls? They are passing the costs onto their buyers. Takes no balls at all really.
[Hugo's Hacker House roommate here]

Hugo went from zero coding experience to holding his own with seasoned Javascript & Ruby devs in 9 weeks. I'm not sure if he's just an exception, but it sure paints app academy in a positive light for me. I hope more of these "Learn to Code for Free" camps pop up around here.
With HTC Patent Deal, Apple Is Going For Android’s Jugular
I really like my Windows Phone 7 phone (OS more than phone) so i'm definitely going to upgrade to Windows Phone 8. I really like the design and some apps out there have some really nice live tiles.
The degree of funniness is approximately exponentially related to how many hours of your life you've spent on each of the three.
$22 Android Tablet Aakash 2 launched in India
[Instructor at App Academy here]

I'm really proud of Hugo; he came in to App Academy as an 18 year old kid with no coding experience, and through sheer force of will, learned enough to land a junior dev job in nine weeks.

If you're interested in the course that Hugo took, check us out (appacademy.io). Students only pay us when they find a dev job after the program.

Hugo's fellow students are doing great. 11/15 of our students were unemployed before attending App Academy. 13/15 of our graduates have offers or are working in tech jobs now at an average salary of $83,000.
It would be nice if iOS powered the touchscreen in the Tesla S.

I'm convinced that Tony Fadell is merely proving the automatic home market to Tim Cook, but wouldn't mind being back in the fold, maybe even replacing Scott Forstall.
I do wonder if this is officially licensed:

http://www.chumby.com/guide/search?sort_by=score&device=...

I've had it on my chumby for about a year.
My co-founder and I made one called Brains[1] for a past Railscamp. Aaron Iba also taught a course at MIT[2] with a similar competition.

[1] https://github.com/chrislloyd/brains
[2] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
It mentions XCB in the overview, which gives it away as X11 pretty well (at least it did to me).
Interesting, but I think I'll stick with my own system[1]. I organize by task, not repo or program. Also I try to do a minimum of symlinking, instead relying on convention and PATH manipulation.

Edit: I don't mean to discourage you, by the way. The more variety in dotfile management the better.

[1]: http://bugsplat.info/2012-08-11-task-oriented-dotfiles.html
I'm not sure why but the video wasn't showing up on that page for me. Here's the Vimeo page: http://vimeo.com/53062800
I write classes that are named like "WhateverManager" in Python.

Now if you said "Module" or "Builder", then you might be right.
Gotta say, as a sophomore who's been debating dropping out college, that these junior positions exist at all is encouraging.

I always thought my trajectory would be to go to my current school, transfer to a better one, get some good internships, and graduate with a CS degree. But my grades aren't where they need to be, so I probably won't be able to transfer to a good school. Honestly I've been concerned whether or not I can afford it anyways. Going for a junior position, or even a paid non-college-affiliated internship, is far more appealing.

I've got a pretty decent GitHub, and I've launched a few apps with another in the works. My major (and it is major) concern is that I don't have a good grasp on CS fundamentals - algorithms, data structures, etc. But it seems easier now than ever to teach yourself this - whether through Coursera, or through reading a variety of sources, and practicing on sites like Project Euler or Interview Street.

Maybe Hugo's experience was different than the average developer drop-out because of his ability to get into App Academy, but I'd like to think anyone who can demonstrate programming knowledge and intelligence has a shot, degree or not.
Which article are we suppose to read first?

Pretty bad user to interface design here

Wordpressuserinterfaces.SciFi.com
The left (IMHO) sees the right as having lost touch with reality (e.g. Sarah Palin), or as closeted racists. The right (in my experience) sees the left as weak, mewling followers of a Socialist secret Muslim bent on taking away their guns, making their children gay, and generally destroying 'merica.
$99 design! I think the major reason Apple became the Apple is because they stayed as far as possible from $99/design concept. Reading the following about the original design will give more clarity why Apple copied it one to one:
"...Since then [1944] it has become a Swiss national icon,[2] included among examples of outstanding 20th-century design by both the Design Museum in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City". I hope Apple will pay to MOMA too, who else will support the Art:)?
What I'm going to say only applies to K-12 schools in the USA. College is much better.

In many places teachers' unions are strong. Unions tend to unconditionally reward seniority. They frown on management being able to tie pay to talent/ability, or get rid of people who are grossly incompetent (let alone merely below average). So the talented are frustrated because their abilities aren't recognized, and tend to leave if they have better options, while bad teachers know that they have a safe job once they get their foot in the door.

With high-stakes standardized testing, nonessentials like computer science have a tendency to take very low priority. Many high schools' definition of "computer science" is "how to use Word and PowerPoint, and maybe make a website (if you're lucky)"

Actual programming is something students generally venture into on their own. Teachers -- especially bad ones -- often feel threatened by students who are smarter than they are. (Remember, schools attract the incompetent.) Students are actively discouraged from pursuing advanced topics like programming on school equipment (and in some cases are even punished).
The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt. It's a great book on manufacturing clothed in a fictional story.
You know, I have a mathematics and economics background. I love coming across CS/Applied Math gems like this. In my daily work I never even consider the computational consequences of resorting. Love it.
There's perl in the Linux kernel? Please God tell me that the Linux kernel doesn't have a perl interpreter built into it.
It takes a breath for blank lines or new paragraphs.
http://tts-api.com/tts.mp3?q=High%20Quality%0AWe%20believe%2...!
> photographers in Canada: as of today, you now officially own the copyright to all your photographs regardless of whether they were commissioned.

Dosen't this make it impossible to hire a photographer to take photos for you?
There isn't in the kernel itself but there is perl code in the build process. If you want to build the linux kernel without dependencies on interpreters then you're in for a rough time.
I really like gnome shell. My rule of thumb is once you get it working don't go for updates.
Something similar but based on the Terrarium.net game: http://terrariumjs.wiselabs.net

Cool factor: the blue ball teleports your creatures to other people's terrariums to get them to reproduce and invade.
> Nothing! The problems occur when people think that it's not.

I don't really understand what you are trying to get at. Is it wrong or it isn't?

The hipster comment is spotted on. This post is evident of that attitude. The OP has to dig up an internal class whose name is probably generated to bash Java. And your original comment basically went further and claimed this long class name is the evident of what is so wrong with Java in general.

If there's no pressing pressure to refactor, then it has work well for its purpose. You want to limit class name to 8 characters to force programmers to pick shorter name? It's an internal class, for god sake. What's the impact on 99.99% of the programmer out there?

Development is a process of compromise and trade-off. Developers don't have infinite time and infinite budget to code. They have to pick their battle and do the more important things.
Nonprofit Innovation Blocked at the Federal Level: The Continuum of Care Program
Yes! Even a "Trash Exchange" where all moderated posts are dumped instead of deleted would be an improvement.
We are really fortunate that CS skills are in such high demand. That this is even an option is pretty amazing. However, the day may come when the market turns down and the thing that makes an employer hire the next guy and not you is a piece of paper that says he stuck it out in college. Good luck whatever you do!
Ah well of course, should've dug deeper :). Very nice job for 48h!
HackerNews HD+ is a great one.
I built a tool to hack Letterpress
How was working with light table?
It's a bit entertaining to listen to a song backwards beat-wise. (Click play, hit the left arrow key twice, click at the end of the song.)
> who owns a photo of person? the photographer or the person himself?

The photographer.
and all Apple's designers should swear they have never been to MOMA:). From wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock ):

"it has... included among examples of outstanding 20th-century design by both the Design Museum in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City"
You have to flip it over.
I'm pretty sure if you have lame installed, say can output directly to mp3.
I can sense your frustration; I feel similarly. I got a degree in Psychology of all things, which makes my self-taught programming skills even less desirable compared to most.

Reason I went to shipping my own code for clients and customers is that they don't care about my degree or programming practices...they only care if I can ship or not.
Spotify Valuation Drops by $1 Billion
Yes, it supports the subset of IPA that more or less maps to English phonemes (Getting a voice talent to produce clicks would be a neat exercise).
For the night lighting on the Eiffel tower, this law is talking specifically about 'commissioned' work, where an artist is hired by someone else to take a photo. Normally the commissioner is granted unrestricted use of an image, but the copyright remains with the photographer. Before this law, another law must have made the copyright default to the person or body that commissioned the work.

For your second question, it was always the photographer. You gave them permission to take a photo of you (by word of mouth, or being in public). You never commissioned then, so the previous law doesn't apply. The eiffel tower is different because the owner of the work only grants the rights to take photos if the photographer agrees to a contract to their terms (I'm not too familiar with them).
Alone Together, Again
Except that in Apple's case such blatant copying of a design would be worth at least $30 per instance.
Poking holes in your code is mentorship. If you have some ego about lines of code you wrote you aren't going to be happy with a career as a developer because over time everything is slowly tweaked and rewritten.

I don't know what a 'poor practice' is though. Getting something out the door is key at most places. You need to get most of it right though.
Corabbit - new file sharing and collaboration service (currently in beta)
As long as it's at least $7 the math still holds, even if they'd stopped shipping iOS6 after the first weekend.
Organising by task sounds very similar to our goals.

One of fresh's major features is being able to source a subset of another's dotfiles (at a per file level). For example, in my office we are all using fresh to source common git aliases.

This module/task idea is certainly interesting and is something we have been thinking about. Thanks for your feedback.
Making the Choice Between Money and Meaning
I imagine the effect on Junior pilot salary by senior pilots[1] could have some influence on the attractiveness of the profession.

From what I've read, people have mentioned that senior pilots who have great influence on union decisions, take a somewhat expectedly selfish attitude when it comes to negotiating salaries whereby junior pilots are left holding the bag. This gets repeated by junior pilots when they become senior pilots.

[1]http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines
I think Apple should actually pay another $21M to your high school as well:). I am pretty sure some of their designers go swimming in between researching for "inspiration" for the most iconic designs of human civilization:)
I think Javascript also suffers from something like this: functions inside functions inside functions inside functions. If Java is the king (queen?) of horrible naming conventions, Javascript is the prince(ss) of horrible code structure. It might be why both are named Java...

var foo = function(foo, bar){
var bar = function ( function (x) {
this.something = function (z) {
return function (y){}}}}};

//or something like that. Only a fool would
think the code above is real or even correct.
> attachments to sales, like extended warranties (whoops, I mean "AppleCare"

This isn't exactly objective feedback (personal anecdote) but I've never been pressured to buy extended warranties, aka Apple Care, from an Apple store. They explain what Apple Care does and without sounding like my new purchase will explode before its utility expires.

Regarding the article - would installing anechoic panels underneath the tables result in a meaningful reduction of noise? If they want to preserve the look of the store, it would be the simplest solution.
Some idiot is probably using booleans in some magic "arithmetic". A collegue once told me returning 1 for truth was handy because he could sum the results after a map, and compare the sum to the count of input elements to see if all succeeded. This only slightly more "handy" than returning TRUE and ANDing the result because you can say "X/N succeeded" (leaving the user to wonder which N-X failed is fine, I guess.)
not that i partake in the gloating, but considering all the echospheric rhetoric thrown at the president over the last four years (just think Rush Limbaugh) i think the gloating is very, very well-deserved
US TV networks suffer sharp dip in ratings
Affluent people in Europe actually use public transport.
It looks like if there is a problem, you can restart qtile and be OK. Also, you might be able to get away with setting your monitor configuration with xrandr before starting qtile.

If you like tiling and multiple monitor support, I suggest you check out Wingo. [1] It's a hybrid window manager written in Go, and configured in simple INI-like files.

Disclaimer: I'm the author.

[1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/wingo
God is just.

God says...
C:\Text\QUIX.TXT

many than by a card too few; for to hear it said, 'such a knight
is rash and daring,' sounds better than 'such a knight is timid and
cowardly.'"

"I protest, Senor Don Quixote," said Don Diego, "everything you have said
and done is proved correct by the test of reason itself; and I believe,
if the laws and ordinances of knight-errantry should be lost, they might
be found in your worship's breast as in their own proper depository and
muniment-house; but let us make haste, and reach my village, wher
The most important piece of advice I can give you is to go directly to the decision maker. Call them if you have to. Make up some excuse to talk to them on the phone. Tell them your e-mail bounced but you really like what they are doing and give them a short summary of who you are.
Reminds me of this blog entry:

http://blog.notdot.net/2007/4/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Part-1-BK...
Leaflet - An Open-Source JavaScript Library for Mobile-Friendly Interactive Maps
Neat I guess, but I wish it hadn't been released. There's something to say for security through obscurity when the target is only a video game.

I hope my boss doesn't find this. He's already a prolific words with friends cheater.
This was an amazing read. I'm very happy to have read this, and I now know that other people feel similar to me.

Thanks for writing this article =)
You have no grasp on theory, your grades are bad and you want to drop out?

Don't drink the Kool-Aid, stay in school. Use Coursera and other available resources to augment your university education.
I keep seeing 'PaintContext' as 'PainContext'.
The page you linked to gives statistics for successful funding, not successful delivery.
If you are a good programmer and get turned away for that reason, thank yourself for that bit of luck.

I went through college, learned dittily squat when it comes to cs, and now I'm playing catch-up hardcore with js/functional programming/kernel hacking/everything.

Autodidacts rule the world today, and they will only continue to become more influential. Nobody can push you harder than you can push yourself.
Apple makes $21 million (in profit, not revenue) every 3 hours. It makes sense for them to make this go away to avoid damage to their brand more than anything. Also, considering how litigious Apple has been lately as an opportunity cost of the use of their legal team fighting this sort of thing in court is probably not a good idea.

More so, the money they would pay to the Swiss Federal Railway will come out of a heaped up mound of money that Apple would have trouble bringing back to the US anyway (due to tax implications). Overall this is a fairly sane move on Apple's part. Get it out of the way, and move on.
Hitchhiking for me is the exact oposite of technology. It is about connecting with people on a deep level. When I give rides I always hear amazingly unique snip of someone's life story and it inspires me.

When I get rides I realize how compassionate humans are. I have hitched all over the world in cars, motorcycles and a pump trolly (train), my mother even hitched on a turboprop plane once.

I met this guy Rock Eagle who free soloed the Eiffel Tower, an 80yo driving 90mph over a mountain pass to visit his girlfriend, a young woman hitchhiking North and South America alone (and doing just fine), a drunk gangster who told me he wouldn't kill me and parents who gave me the keys to their house and car while they went on vacation.

Big cities are hard, but you take public transportation to the end of a line or bus route and start there.

There are risks associated with any activity, but the most dangerous one is sitting on your ass watching the world through a screen.

Your thumb has been and always will be the most sustainable, renewable, friendly, loving, compassionate, eye-opening form of transportation on this planet.
Making filtering and searching your REST API easier
Can anyone offer some context or comparison as far as how facefaceplus measures against (the now shuttered) face.com or lamda labs api in terms or accuracy, performance API design? Thanks!
Are there tiling window managers for Windows or Mac?
Congrats, it's a very good app!
Not to mention the other share that are eligible, but couldn't be bothered.
On Chromium 25, it wouldn't load, so I checked the console and saw "Uncaught Error: SYNTAX_ERR: DOM Exception 12 jremix.js:28".
I've made a habit out of just linking to the OSI page: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
I fully expect an unbiased evaluation.
Cisco Calls Patent Trolls Racketeers
Inner ear implant uses biological battery to self-charge
As a Captain myself with over 5000 hours, I can say every single word of the linked blog is true and accurate with no exaggeration.

The thing thats astounding in all of this, is how both the FAA and the airlines sat for 5 years since they mandated age 65 and did absolutely nothing. Now, everybody is begging for forgiveness and leeway.
Hmm, a dishonest response, that ignores what I said. There is little point in this discussion continuing.

Collective Rights is a popular concept that a quick google would reveal to you. It is not about Clans, Communism or Relgion.

Democracy is not a cure to oppression.
The author neglected to mention that robocars are coming and so hitchhiking will become irrelevant before it's second coming.
From racists?
> They are more interested in conveying the truth than being factual.

That is an interesting statement, I don't think I understand what you mean? Isn't conveying the truth being factual? Or is this an expression I am not familiar with?
Dumb home turns smart with change of lightbulbs
It would probably be instructive to consider what it would mean if you extend this out further. If we have a function that also ships it out on a socket, are we going to get

send_router_message_header_as_xml_string(...)?

If it also does error handling of some sort, are we going to embed that in the name?

My point is still ultimately the same as others here, but I'm trying to demonstrate it from the other direction. It isn't that the long function name is OK, it is that it is poorly decomposed into tasks. But digging another "why" back, the root cause for that is what you say later, that it "increases the overall complexity of the bookkeeping" etc., and the reason for that is that C isn't really that good a language for abstraction. After 40 years of experience with it we've managed to create some best practices that carry it far further than anyone could have imagined at the beginning, but when it gets down to it, when you have a language that doesn't abstract very well, you do eventually end up paying the price in functions like that. It probably is the right answer in C, no sarcasm, but that's not the same thing as saying it's the right answer in a more general sense.

(And to be more concrete, C has poor facilities for composing abstractions together without complication and loss. On a feature-by-feature basis you can make it do pretty much anything you want, Turing Complete etc etc, which makes it hard to see in blog-post-sized examples, but they don't wire together very well.)