skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll definitely give it a shot.

From a usability perspective, your download button could be better. It doesn't download right away (which is fine), but redirects to downloads/win for me. Might be nice to have it auto-scroll to the win downloads since it took me a while to figure out what was going on.

Here's a screenshot from Win7 32-bit: http://i.imgur.com/2RT6u.png

That random pink line makes it unusable for me.
Siri 'Eyes Free' Mode Coming to Chevrolet Spark and Sonic in Early 2013
thanks - looking forward to the patch
'very good technique' The important part of a one time pad isn't the xor, it's the length. This does not even begin to resemble a one time pad. It's an xor cipher.
Apple Said to Fire Maps Manager After Flaws Hurt iPhone 5
Bitbucket innovation week launches several new features
I've been working on various underlying components for this for a few months now. The components are part of a larger vision, but this site is the start of it.

This site is a very simple concept - upload documents and they're converted to PDF for you. The remainder of my plan builds on this, so I'm wanting to make sure that this core feature works really well. So, I thought that there's no better way than to launch it as a stand-alone website.

It's currently free to use until I can feel like charging for it is the right thing to do. I'm also interested in any feedback positive or negative! Thanks.
Currencies like USD may fluctuate but they are a bet on the long-term stability of the US, and are tightly regulated, even if that power is sometimes abused to debase the currency.

Pretty much every fact you name in that sentence is part of why I'm storing some of my value in bitcoin. I wouldn't count on the long-term stability of the US.

One of the main problems with Bitcoin from my perspective is that nothing backs its value

Nothing backs the value of gold, either. Come to think of it, I'm not sure the whole "backing" concept is really valid. I mean, yes, saying currency X is backed by metal Y is giving you useful info, but metal Y is always just a commodity.

the value is unregulated and purely arbitrary and thus subject to all kinds of manipulation and confidence tricks.

That's somewhat the case now becuase the market is pretty illiquid (bitcoin is only used by geeks). If/when the market is really liquid and the total value stored in bitcoin is enormous, that won't be the case anymore.

The current price depends entirely on confidence.

That bothers me too. But, ultimately, there will always be a demand to store value, and bitcoin is a good candidate, since there is a fixed number of them. If bitcoin were to become really big, whenever there were a price dip, speculators would jump in and bring it up again. And I think we've already reached that point to a large degree. It seems like there really is a floor on the value of bitcoin (and this will be increasingly true, and the floor will get increasingly higher, as bitcoin becomes more popular). You just aren't gonna see gold go down to $500/oz in current USD; nor are you going to see bitcoin go down to $3 (if it does, I and a ton of other people will be snapping it up as fast as possible... which is why it won't get there in the first place).

Actually, it could go down to (say) $3 if a big holder of bitcoins dumped them all suddenly and irraionally, since the market isn't that liquid, but there would be an immediate price correction, so it would just be a temporary blip.
Crowdfunding - The unexpected cost of success
"Sexy Movie Stars of an Unexpected Gender Free"
You've got a good point, and there's lots of exotic types and in-betweens on Wikipedia which I didn't list. My list was to point out that we've named more than the 3 classical states of matter.
Oh yeah, no question that the opposite is also true - the big-ego computer geek who will argue over every last little $100 in annual salary and benefits because he believes that he's God's gift to programming.

(And everything in between - my post was a generalization of one side...)
The Great American FAQ
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2012/_08/_16/Pe...

the petition is currently pending but it seems they didnt reach enough people.
How James Bond works
What additional classes of errors does e.g. Rust introduce?
I am in the same boat as you (dropped out after 2 years, then started working full time). I prefer to leave it off my resume because I like to address it myself in conversation (also I know who cares based on who asks), but honestly either way works. So long as your resume is not barren I do not think it is that big of a problem to leave it off.

As far as responding to their question, just be confident and direct. "I left university because of X, and I do not plan to complete my degree at the time/until I do Y/whatever". The reason you give will be a lot better than the possible reasons they might think up, so do not worry about it. There are many legit reasons for dropping out, including that it just was not for you, all they want to know is that you did not drop out because a personal flaw that may make you a bad employee. If you dodge the question, give a fishy response, or make too many excuses, it may seem like you have something to hide, and they will start speculating.

One last thing, do not put too much weight on this question. While I personally do not want to work for a company that has a strong degree bias either way (I left my last company, which I otherwise loved, on a sad note because of this), I do not think that this is that a definitive indicator that a company looks down on people without degrees. I have found that sometimes either someone who is not that technical and who's opinion is not that important (HR person or recruiter) is asking because they do not know better and are just compiling information for a higher up who did not specifically ask about your education, or sometimes an interviewer will ask it because they want to know how you will respond (whether you will be silly and apologize, or be confident in your skills, what's your view on education, etc). It is one of those questions where you can just say "No, I did not graduate" and it is not a big deal and you move on, or you can start to sweat, give a long winded excuse, and make your interviewer worry. If they do have a degree bias and do not hire your for that reason, well, then you dodged a bullet.
Pretty cool all around, but it needs a lot more stability work. It crashed a few times just scrolling around in some of my python projects, and there are quirks such as complaining "This font can not be used in this editor" if I open the font selector and then click "Cancel".

Also, changing the margin line doesn't seem to take effect unless you quit and restart the IDE.
No more than the years-old sharing features in Google Docs/Drive, I'd imagine.
I don't think that subway checkpoints and stop-and-frisks were part of the reason that crime went down; in fact, I'm pretty sure that subway checkpoints are a very recent post-911 creation.

And I'd say that public transportation is a pretty essential liberty in NYC.
I've seen the paperfold effect a while ago, very nice , count me in as an early adopter, the non-distributed model works though and I dont understand why it is so frown upon among the hackernews circles. I for one care more about the frontend than the backend, in which both for buddycloud is nice, the team is talented

o@buddycloud.org ;)
Great article. When I speak to students about becoming entrepreneurs, the one thing they seem to gravitate toward the most, is the notion that you get to do what you want, and nobody makes you do things you don't want to do. It is fairly astute, because bad founders do live in that world. It is one of the first myths I dispel (after getting rich quick, and flexible hours). It is hard to make yourself do things you don't want to do, but it is the life of a founder. It takes a lot more discipline to make yourself do the "tough things" than it is to have someone tell you to do them.
Yes, but several hours later than my post on HN. I found and posted it while it was morning in Europe while people were still sleeping in the US.
you should've linked to the actual landing page: http://thepdfmachine.com/ and not the very minimal sign up page IMHO.
Three Free Data Visualization Tools for Data Professionals
Compilers can't detect logic errors which tend to be more common with faster development.
The major source of errors in a kernel is device drivers, and Linux typically is running many more drivers than the embedded kernels you mentioned. Look at any Linux point release: the majority of churn is in driver code, to fix bugs.

Thus, it stands to reason, Linux is likely less stable than an embedded kernel without all that driver code.

I run a pre-emptive embedded kernel (QK) that's extremely tiny and, in fact, was validated by myself with KLEE (a symbolic checker) to exhaustively verify correctness. I'm certain it's more reliable than Linux, which carries no such guarantee (and is orders of magnitude larger -- even excluding driver code).

Bug rates correlate extremely close with lines of code. All else being equal, a large system has more bugs, simply because it has more opportunity for them.

If you truly care about correctness, doing formal verification, model checking, etc. is the way to go, not "lots of people use it so it must be stable".

To benefit from formal verification, you have to design your code around that, and most systems today are not. It's hard to retrofit verification on top of a legacy codebase like Linux.
Google can try all they want but the internet marketers always win. Going on some of the forums where SEO gurus network will really reveal a lot to you about the potential and how much they can really earn.

No reason to work in house when you can get contracted for absurd amounts in your bedroom.
That came to my mind too, but it's no longer just Markus and hasn't been for some time. They currently have 66 employees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlentyofFish
This is long overdue. I've been inserting links to Google Docs (the old name for Drive files) into emails forever, but plenty of people I know don't realize how easily they can do that and give up if a large file cannot be attached to an email. I'm also surprised by how many Gmail-using friends of mine don't even know there's some hefty free file storage a click away even though the link to it has been at the top of their Gmail for years.
"4837109 by bornhuetter 4 hours ago", "4836095 by trendspotter 10 hours ago"
Nailgun project now on github
When Google News hosts the entire article, that's because they've worked out a deal. No deal, you get a link. (Or at least that's how it worked last time I looked into it.)
> SSN especially is treated like it's super-secret even though practically everybody asks you for it - banks, employers, car dealers, credit cards, lenders, etc.

Ironically, the IRS doesn't. I know of someone who had to authenticate himself to the IRS (I think when getting a new social security card) and was prepared to give them his SSN, when the agent scolded him, 'Your SSN isn't a means of identification'.

If only they knew!

> Government loves to ask DOB for some reason like it's a big secret - even though looking for congrats of anybody's facebook page allows to know DOB for like 90% of people.

DOB is public record (by one means or another) for almost any US resident.
Is this based on QT Creator?
> given Japanese weapon laws

Gun rights are not the be all and end all of freedom.

> mass CCTV survellience

I see absolutely nothing wrong with the use of CCTVs to monitor public places (or the use of them to monitor private places by the owners of those places). If civilians are allowed to record the police in public, then the police should be allowed to record civilians in public too.
Cool, looks oddly familiar: http://2012.beercamp.com/
Could you post this as a comment on SBM? I think it'd add to the topic and would spark additional conversation.
Set Up a Raspberry Pi as a Personal Web Server
Not of much help when somebody has hold of your actual identity. I have reached for a much simpler solution instead: not use G+ in the first place. Sadly Google's extension of G+ to all of their property also gradually leaves me avoiding more of Google's products every day.
Most (all?) of the team is based in Argentina. I'll bring it up to one of the devs (a coworker).
Anyone can add services to your BT account; BT isn’t worried
My gut reaction was 4chan as well and I feel like that's probably true; well, for the English speaking world anyway.
OS development can be fun. I'm writing a hobby OS myself, but currently using GRUB. GDT and interrupts are working, so I can already e.g. get keyboard input. But there's nothing like usermode programs yet.
I'm 16, so what bcantrill said might be true ("there is a certain arrogance of youth here").
OS/2 now: Why IBM lost out and how Microsoft won
It's a bit odd to do the time.Sleep in this code because it means that select is often not able to receive on the ch channel:

select {
case r := <-ch:
fmt.Printf("%s was fetched\n", r.url)
responses = append(responses, r)
if len(responses) == len(urls) {
return responses
}
default:
fmt.Printf(".")
time.Sleep(5e7)
}

It would be better to use time.Tick

ticker := time.Tick(50 * time.Millisecond)

select {
case r := <-ch:
fmt.Printf("%s was fetched\n", r.url)
responses = append(responses, r)
if len(responses) == len(urls) {
return responses
}
case <-ticker:
fmt.Printf(".")
}

Also, there's no need to use a buffered channel. Each goroutine that's handling a URL get can just wait for the send on the channel before terminating.

ch := make(chan *HttpResponse, len(urls)) // buffered

can just be

ch := make(chan *HttpResponse)

And another thing that could be done is to not have asyncHttpGets return a slice of *HttpResponse but have it return a channel and then range over it. Then asyncHttpGets could run in its own goroutine and just close the channel when done.
How does this compare to PyCharm?
okcupid.com was for a long time.
> First, crime has come down by huge amounts in NYC.

As many other commenters have mentioned, the decrease in crime is not related to the removal of civil liberties. The crime decreases occurred prior to the implementation of many of these policies.

> Second, I question whether most of the police actions are giving up essential liberties. I can see how some might think so, but I can see how many would not.

They are infringing on constitutional rights. I don't see how those rights could be seen as anything but essential.
It would be possible to do this, but as you note it would potentially be annoying in practice. "tailcall" is a reserved (but unused) word in F#, so the compiler could be extended to issue an error if the user prefixed a non-tail call with that word. This "opt in" approach would presumably be less invasive while allowing people to indicate cases where the semantics are actually important to them. Having said that, as far as I'm aware there are no current plans to implement such a feature (and I haven't seen users clamoring for it, either).
They are not organic, they are just smooth. Any other smooth motion probably would do.
What Vehicle Should Startups Use For Seed Stage Fundraising?
Say I'm looking for a mapping application and one doesn't even have data for where I live, or some other attribute that would cause me not to consider it in 6 months when I look for mapping apps again.

I do the same for restaurant reviews, I might give one 1 star even though it serves palatable food, just not the kind I like.

By doing so the recommendation algorithms that harvest my feedback have access to both positive and negative feedback pertinent to me to give me better future results.

That's how those kinds of scoring systems work best, not by averaging everyone's scores and pretending we're all robots that (dis)like the same things.
Text message your location from a desktop
Hacking Job Search - 3 Meaty Ideas
Tons of startups & huge demand for talent... Youre not just one of the pack. Find the best, build your cred, sell your talent.
I wonder if this will cause storage optimisations on their data centers.
It's one thing if you release a buggy product. It's another if there's a surprise OS update and it breaks something in your app and you haven't been able to update it immediately.
Ask HN: Dribbble for programmers
I had this mad idea today, I love seeing little shots of programmers code, or programmers sets ups, or anything which shows someone coding. So how about a dribbble like website but where you upload shots like screen shots of your code, your set up and so on? Is it something you would be interested in?

If you would fill out this poll i would be very grateful.

http://poll.pollcode.com/ccyp7h
Bloomberg seems to be the real source. So this is the more import link. But it was posted elsewhere on HN, too. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4837902
Mapping the global 1,000 robot makers
I agree with everything you say about being childfree and I can tell you as a man that I hear the same things you do when you express your feelings about not having children (I am assuming that you are female from your username, apologies if that is incorrect).

However, this anecdotal evidence says nothing about society as a whole.
There's usually a price for not negotiating as well, and it's not just monetary.

By negotiating you are presenting yourself as someone who stands up for himself, and more of an equal to your potential boss. That sets the stage for greater responsibility (if you want it). No reasonable person ever begrudges someone being a hard negotiator on salary and benefits.
Firefox with MSN
Do you have links to some of the other studies? I wouldn't mind going through them as well.

Cheers.
I thought that was founded by several people?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okcupid

Created by Chris Coyne, Sam Yagan, Christian Rudder and Max Krohn
OkCupid’s founders (Chris Coyne, Christian Rudder,
Sam Yagan and Max Krohn)

From wikipedia, seems it was never just one person.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OkCupid
I actually have never thought of that. Seems like Google has created a ratings system that both the general public uses for comparing apps, developers use to determine place in the Play store (as well as overall experience), and Google uses for recommendations.
Coincidentally that's also next year's Pokemon game title list
The reason why this has happened consistently in medicine is because the studies are being funded by for profit companies and they are using extremely biased methodology to make their drugs look much better than they actually are. Whereas MAPS is a non-profit, and their methodology is designed to be as neutral as possible. The research may well still not pan out as trial sizes increase and patients are more effectively double blinded, but there is definitely reason for optimism based on the results so far.

If a for-profit company pushes a study through a first stage trial and then loses out at a later stage they lose much more money than if they had given up quickly. What's really necessary for most promising early stage treatments to not pan out is for genuinely good treatments to be rare, plus people being more likely to report impressive results than failures. Both of which I hope you'll admit are just as much a problem for not-for-profit researchers as for-profit ones.
I already had a bad day and shouldn't have read that line in the end. I am going to go and crawl into a foetal position until daybreak!

Don't be depressed about it. Three words: parallel vs. serial. Build redundancy in your system. That's what "networking" is really about. Redundancy and parallel support.

In a typical corporation, unless you're savvy enough to devote serious effort toward internal networking, you have serial dependency: you need to get along with your boss, who needs to get along with his, and so on... up to the company itself performing well in the market. It's a chain of dependencies up to the top. If one link breaks, it disrupts your career. Parallelism is what you need to aim for.

If you have 20 1-in-5 chances, then your odds are overwhelmingly good of getting at least one hit: 98.9%. What you have to do is string together a set of these low-probability, high-impact opportunities... and be resilient against the inevitable rejections. As much as I loathe the "Game" worldview, don't get "one-itis".
Since when is glass (I assume we mean soda-lime glass) a separate phase of matter?

My impression was that it was a solid, and that the myth that it's a highly viscous liquid was based off of incorrect analysis of stained glass windows, etc. that were more likely explained by imperfections in the production process.
In other words, Steam lets the market decide on the appropriate level of DRM, and otherwise nothing you wrote is materially different from what I said.
I use google chrome myself...
People who install the app aren't required to rate.
spec-matching is a specialty of good agile companies, but web-dev shops don't usually write their own db/server software.
With 'government' this is an issue of regional dialect, not a mistake in the article. I only learned very recently that there are two interpretations of the term. It looks like to you 'government' means the executive body that enforces laws. But to the writer of this article, and I think to most of the US, 'government' includes the entirety of executive, legislative, and judicial.

(At least I think that's your complaint, and not a nitpick of how they explained that Bundestag is an official body.)

Back to the merit of the legislation. Google is only using headlines and tiny snippets. They aren't copying articles. They aren't doing any harm to investigative journalism. All they do is point people at what they were searching for. It's not their responsibility to help the newspapers if the newspapers are having trouble. Google's already linking to them.
'HTML5 vs. Hybrid vs. Native Dilemma’ - The Bigger Picture
You are mistaken, but it's a fair mistake. You were probably thinking of Plenty of Fish which was run by one guy for a long time.
That's an interesting point. The way to combat that is with long term relationships.

For example, I work as a software developer for a real estate brokerage, and have mentioned the sell side realtor scenario you bring up.

The answer is always: yes, it is in the short term interest of the realtor to take the first offer. But in the long term (as they screw more and more people) they will be hurt by this behavior.

In fact, there is long term incentive (because, in the US at least, people buy and sell homes multiple times over a lifetime) to get the best deal for the seller, so that they will:
* refer the realtor
* use the realtor again

To bring it back to recruiting, if you had a relationship with the recruiter, and they knew you were going to go back to them in 1 or 5 years when you were ready to move on to your next job, they would have a rational interest in finding you the right job (and the same interests hold true if employers have a relationship with the recruiter).

This relationship, if it exists, really turns the recruiter into a headhunter. (Aside, here's my favorite headhunter/recruiting information source: http://asktheheadhunter.com/ )
Interesting post by Markus Frind on just that, "Digital 100, most valuable boot strapped company" - http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/digital-100-mos...
I have a site that get 1.5 million monthly uniques according to GA as well.
Apps for tracking specific medical conditions.

Apps related to financial difficulty: budgeting, bankruptcy, etc.

Apps that seem mischievous: hacking, tracking, encrypting, pirating, etc.
Popcorn Maker
You don't go throwing around claims like "Fort Knox-Level Security", "near-ridiculous level of security", "We are not aware of a better DRM scheme than ours", "virtually uncrackable" etc, unless you're either the real deal or you're incompetent, because only a fool would assume that nobody in the whole of the internet would call their bluff and gleefully throw it in their face.