skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree ... though not for any of the reasons stated (so far). I'm paying for my bandwidth and the current trend is that bandwidth may become metered. No one can therefore force me to provide them with bandwidth to advertise to me. It seems to me that it's analogous to the fact that telemarketers aren't allowed to call my cell phone.
I tend not to like the headlines and slant of either Mother Jones or Reason for similar reasons, but I do think a lot of interesting stuff shows up in both of them, so I've shied away from completely ignoring them (this article isn't really one of the better examples of that point, though). With some articles, I can mentally imagine rewriting them with slightly less inflammatory language, and fewer digressions and cheap shots, and end up with something quite good.

One hypothesis for why good content might show up in such venues that isn't redundant with articles from a more neutral source (which I would prefer, all else being equal) is they basically get a bit of "partisan bonus" income (built-in readership and appeal to a base) which lets them fund some actual, not-purely-propaganda investigative journalism which would be harder to fund if they didn't position themselves in that manner. Put differently, it can sometimes be a way of monetizing journalism that wouldn't otherwise be linkbaity enough to be profitable, by slathering the core of what might've been a good article in a layer of partisan appeal to get eyeballs. Of course, that explanation does rely on there being such a core...
Wow, does every city of that size that uses Windows pay that much to Microsoft?
I disagree. “unique_ptr” and “shared_ptr” both model very simple ownership policies, yet there is still value in separating them from the objects whose lifetimes they manage. The value is in their composability—a programmer can rely on “unique_ptr” to do the right thing automatically, in a manner enforced by the type system. When writing C++ code, I spend an irritating proportion of my time navigating the minefield—it’s well worthwhile to encapsulate some of those details.
It's interesting that the first app they got into a store was the Windows 8 version: http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/d23cc2b2-c105-4db3-9946...
Investors are probably more guilty here - entrepreneurs, most of the time, are trying to "create value", in PG/HN speak. Investors who swindle entrepreneurs are just making money off others' efforts.
Great list!! Thank you! I've been creating my own list over the past while on HN, but it's nowhere near as comprehensive.
I really like this. I only have one computer, and it spend the whole weekend on the office. When I'm home I want to learn something, with my iphone. The problem is, the actual MOOC alternatives don't have mobile solutions. Now Udacity allows you to download the videos. But this is not natural and I have to put on my dropbox, open a video at once, and sometimes they have 6 second videos.

Now I can learn when I'm on the bus and on my couch. Thank's Khan Academy!
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Eeeeh, iterating on Android can be much faster than iOS. No week-long review wait. Of course, if your iterations are significantly longer than a week, it really doesn't matter.
First clear evidence that dogs do not naturally distinguish objects by shape
Such a transformation was made with the designer and developer community Forrst and has been quite successful. I'm sure there are many more niche communities I'm not aware of -- to avoid the tragedy of the commons such quality communities are often not heavily advertised. For instance, Forrst is invite-only.
This will have marginal impact on Fb revenue for 2 reasons:

1. What people share on Facebook <> what people really want to buy\consume\order

People are trying to look nice on Facebook. Facebook has to come up with some non-trivial statistics. What those guy who liked SF Giants and Obama is willing to buy. This requires 'Hunch-like' insights. And we know that Hunch business model was not a big success. Google's exercise is much easier, becuase Google knows what user's looking for, privacy of search request helps a lot.
This could be fixed in only one way - through introduction of search engine within Facebook. Facebook could acquire Blekko or hire bunch of people from Google\Bing.

2. Site owners will get higher CPM with Google than Facebook. And will prefer using Google ads in most cases, not Facebook ad.

This will happen for the same reason as N1, Google has higher advertising relevancy and offered price than Facebook. Facebook will be sucessful at niche sites only - like Zynga, junk sites that are blocked by Google, etc. This could work for brand advertising, with pay-per-view model.
Sorry, but a lot of these points look like Microsoft-playbook FUD. I'm guessing that you're trying to get more hits via SEO on a hacker-friendly website.

However, most of the people here are Linux by default on their servers, and whatever comes natively on their laptop - which for most web developers seems to be OSX these days.

To address your points (quickly) :

Incompatibilities : DOCX isn't even compatable between Microsoft products, and we recently noticed that gmail converts it silently to DOC : Making it a broken format if the documents are ever sent over the web to a client.

Interaction : Not as much of a problem as Microsoft would like. Clients seem quite ready to accept formatting snafus as Microsoft's problem. For WYSIWYG, use PDF. For editing, formatting is flexible. Conversion team HA!

Installation : LibreOffice on Linux is a much more scriptable solution that Windows/Office. Purely because of licensing issues. Difficult to take a lecture on security...

Email : Selecting a decent email client is pretty easy. Particularly since Microsoft Outlook's implementation of IMAP is so broken. If you're interested in restriction employees from forwarding emails, I guess that's something that could be handled by some sort of corporate email relay - which will probably run quite nicely on a UNIX system.

Visio, Project, or OneNote : Actually, not everything has to be bought from Microsoft, does it? This is kind of scraping the barrel, unless your solution requires all software to be bought from Microsoft.

I'm pretty certain you'll have plausible-sounding rebuttals to all these points. But (short of downvoting me off the page) my off-the-cuff response will be linked to your copy-paste effort for everyone to see.
Somebody, anybody, PLEASE win this with a reasonable programming language instead.
I remember the first time I sat down with my C64. That thing was quite scary. Full of buttons that had weird symbols written on every face of the keys. It had a disk drvie that would make drruuuun prrub drruuun sounds while the little light flashed. Boy, did it looked busy. The power button was nowhere to be found by this 7 year old. The cables? Where do they go?
Little by little I kept breaking down each issue I faced. Its funny how things never change. One cable went here, the other there. Turns out someone was smart enough to make the cables fit in one way only. Then I found the power button after hitting every possible key on it. Luckily I had managed to plug it in before doing that. The monitor came alive and suddenly I had a working computer in front of me. Little did my oldest brother know that unplugging it would not keep me from using it.

Then came the issue with not knowing how to use the thing. I did not speak or read english and the manual was written in it. What was PRINT? GOTO? Well, that was for me to find out. Turns out, I still use the same method. Break up everything into pieces and work with each piece at a time. I do miss that C64.
Yup, I find the ad targeting for my personal FB account to be actually quite good.
>What’s notably interesting about this book is that it works through all programming lessons in HTML5 Javascript, using the new Canvas tag.

Definitely taking a look at this one. Thanks!

edit: if the creator is reading this, you have a stray "might of" part way through. It's "might have" - sometimes shortened to "might've" which sounds similar, hence the unfortunately-frequent mistake.
Where I work we're a Win7 shop for our MOE, but we do still support XP clients (PhD students generally get quite shitty if you recall their laptops for an upgrade midway through their research) and will do so until the very last day of XP support by Microsoft. It doesn't surprise me at all that the percentage is still as high as it is.
Very flawed article. Confuses the media's erroneous conclusions about findings and application of neuroscience with its validity as a subject of scientific study.
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I honestly didn't realize this was a Chromebook ad, anyways, c00l
Can you dig into (1) a bit more? Agree that most people are consumers not producers - but FB cleverly and incessantly worked towards making the most hardened consumer into a producer (Like being the first incarnation thereof). Half that site's audience visits every day. They like brand pages and friend's posts. They disclose location when they upload photos.

All of this is low-friction data production unlike the review example you use above (most people are terrible at writing original content unless absolutely required to do so).
I found it felt very natural to use Linux Mint coming from Windows 7. In fact I even thought Mint is more intuitive than Windows 7. I can't say I had the same experience with Ubuntu's Unity, though.

Also I need to try out Zorin OS (zorin-os.com) one of these days. It looks like they made it so it works as much as possible like Windows 7, so it should be even easier for people switching from Windows.
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It's not, but a huge pressurized dome would be pretty much expensive, I do not think a colony on Mars would be able to produce more than subsistence level for the pioneers.
This. To me, Silverstorm's comment seems to be along the line of thinking of "If you've got nothing to hide, then why do you care what they know about you?"
The hardware update savings struck me as a bit contrived. Maybe they didn't technically need to upgrade hardware in connection with OS upgrades, but hardware needs to be updated periodically regardless. Seems like they are just disassociating the timing and claiming savings.
Quite a big prediction there
Netlib (http://www.netlib.org/) is the home of LAPACK and BLAS and many, many other classic, robust numerical code, almost all in Fortran 77, and would typically need advanced background in numerical analysis to understand the details.

In any case, if you want to do numerical analysis, it is better to use existing code than trying to write your own.
Any chance of making the source available for learning purposes?
Ironically, this Guix thing would be perfect... for Windows.

Right now, I have to maintain my own list of GnuWin32 installers (wget coreutils cygutils diffutils findutils grep gzip less patch sed tar unzip) retrieved from sf.net, with a 30 lines batch script to deploy them, plus a powershell command to retrieve wget as the first step.
While the article discusses using --word-diff to view changes by-word rather than by-line, which fixes the problem of paragraph reflows cluttering up the diff display, the bigger problem I've had is that it's not entirely obvious how to patch in that manner. As a result, if two patches touch the same paragraph, they usually conflict. You could avoid that by using the classic researcher approach to collaboration: taking locks on sections. But if you're going to do that, SVN is actually better, because you can break out the sections into separate files, and use SVN locking to do the edit-token bookkeeping, rather than having to pass around a "Mark is currently editing Section 2, pls don't touch" lock through email or in LaTeX comments.

Here's a StackExchange thread discussing possible solutions for finer-grained patching: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5587626/git-merging-withi...
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More ladies should apply.
For those still following, "#ubervanlove" and "Uber" are trending on twitter in Vancouver right now.

Mayor Gregor Robertson (@MayorGregor) says: "Getting lots of @Uber_VAN tweets. City Hall not involved, BC govt appoints Passenger Transportation Board. #UberVanLove"
With 35mm Film Dead, Will Classic Movies Ever Look the Same Again?
For those that would rather use another language, nowadays can pick from a big hall of languages, besides the usual suspects of Clojurescript and Coffeescript: http://altjs.org/
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I think it 's mostly a question of meaningful consent. Just as a 14 year old cannot consent, legally, to having sex with a 30-year-old, a child cannot really be trusted with the choice to opt out of school.
Install instructions would be helpful.
Pressure.
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"The dustbin of Past Industrialists" includes Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, R.J. Reynolds, Eli Whitney, and a fair number of others who are in our history books, whose names have entered the common vernacular, or both. I'm playing Devil's Advocate here, but it's still a serious question: is the reason we don't hear about the Stallmans of their eras in similar fashions because there simply weren't any, or because as it turns out, it's not the successful industrialists who end up in the dustbin, historically speaking?

I don't mean to downplay Stallman's contributions, and as maddening as I frequently find him I think he makes some very important points. The software world needs people like him. But I honestly think anyone who imagines that Stallman is going to be a household name in 70 years while Steve Jobs and Bill Gates will be forgotten is engaging in a hell of a lot of wishful thinking. I do hope Stallman is remembered then (and ideally favorably), but Jobs and Gates undoubtedly will be.

(As an aside, I think it's somewhat interesting that Jobs is the current decade's boogeyman, while Gates was the last decade's. Maybe this is because they're both deserving of it, but I suspect it has a whole lot more to do with "tall poppy syndrome" than we care to admit.)
Did Britain's Bill Gates fiddle £7bn deal, or is he subject of a US vendetta?
They are not even afraid to admit that they openly support the incumbents over new competitors.
hmm, I took a class she taught at CMU.

She was an OK teacher, but kind of scary... there was a sense that if you made a mistake, there would be no mercy shown...
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What is the goal or challenge? I can find no reference to the criteria that contestants will be judged on.
Oatmeal Studios pleads: We're the little guy, had to sue The Oatmeal
G.E. Looks to Industry for the Next Digital Disruption
Still doesn't solve the "intent" problem.

I doubt that people are going to "Like" erectile dysfunction Pages anytime soon.
Dotcom: "We've hit the jackpot"
Would that suggest our language is connected to our vision?
Contrived is a bit uncharitable. 5 year old hardware (which would be around the calibre of a Core Duo with 1Gb ram?) is still perfectly serviceable for your average office worker.

With Linux they have the choice to defer hw upgrade until it's justified for reasons other than 'we need to upgrade the OS and because the current hardware came with an OEM licence and so is not covered by any volume licencing deal that may be in place (without spending extra) its cheaper to buy a new PC with a Windows bundled than it is to just buy the software upgrade then the hardware when it's really needed'.
Not really surprising though. Bill and Melinda Gates are probably the #1 donors to KA.
So now we're treating sql injectors the same as murderers? Is a little bit of reason as regards sentencing too much to ask?
Or tool use.
Before this gets too popular you really need to change the name and remove anything related to the olympics. The US Olympic committee will send you a cease and desist letter and follow with a lawsuit if you don't change it. The olympics are a big business and they protect their copyright fiercely.

A few examples:

Knitting olympics crackdown: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-22/why-the-u-do...

Robogames was formerly Robolympics: http://boingboing.net/2003/11/24/olympics-serves-robo.html
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Here's some constructive criticism for you: turn the anger down a bit. It's a conversation, not a fight to the death. Second, learn how to write coherently. It helps if you want to be understood.
Amazon linux was already a variety of CentOS wasn't it? We used it where we would use CentOS on other providers.

Very pleased this has happened!
Jeremy Hammond's background is much better covered here[1].

In particular, he created HackThisSite[2] 9 years ago, which, among other things, has challenges like Stripe's capture the flag (web version).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hammond

[2] http://www.hackthissite.org/
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I'm not sure whether you were aware that almost every major Windows release has required significant new hardware purchases? Corporate IT usually delays rolling out each new Windows (preferable, but senior management gets impatient), but that just spreads the increased TCO over the hardware refresh cycle.

2006: Vista premium required new hardware because it required WDDM1.0, and the first cards to support it were the NVidia 8800's [1] [2] and ATI R520 core [3]. Note the whole "Vista capable" fiasco [1] [5], hence Vista premium is the relevant point.

Windows 7 hardware requirements were the same as Windows Vista.

2012: Windows 8 requires at least 8 GB of RAM [4] even though Microsoft claims it has the same requirements as Vista (1 GB RAM). That also means the 32-bit version of 8 is crippled from the start. UEFI Secure Boot, also "not a requirement," will increase the hardware TCO for IT departments purchasing machines meant to have Windows 7 – they first have to disable Secure Boot.

It's understandable that machines from 2006 will not still be around in 2012, but Microsoft is definitely the cause of the increased hardware TCO.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/vista-users-frustrations...

[2] http://www.anandtech.com/show/2116

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R520

[4] http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/57536-...

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_Vista#Vist...
Damn you math! PV works just fine. Too bad we don't have a high density mobile energy storage method to compare to liquid oil. When that happens, sub power will rule all.
"The biggest problem in ad networks isn't cost-per-click, it's fraud. And that's where Facebook has a huge advantage"

wat? In what world do you live in where Facebook has a huge advantage, let alone any advantage, over Google who has been tackling the problem of click fraud for 10+ years. FB doesn't even do a very good job of detecting fake accounts (I have a few active ones of my own).
This is my home state.. city/county mind you in fact. I can remember back in middle school we were giving our SSN as a way to purchase our food, it was our pin code. Thinking back it makes you think if some of those kids have worst credit then others. Privacy doesn't seem to be a big concern in the state anymore, I was just reading that a few states, Texas being the only one to, wanted to conceded from the United States, I just don't understand it, times are changing.
Install ST2 Package Manager (http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control)

Cmd+Shift+P -> "Install..." -> [name of theme] -> [enter] -> done.

(editted) Ugh, apparently these are not in the package manger. Call me lazy but I'm not going to clone these on all four of the machines I use ST2 on. (The "ugh" seems unappreciative, that was more due to my incorrect assumption; don't mean to sound ungrateful, a couple of these look very excellent.)
it does handle procedures, functions, triggers, etc.
Some people get less for murder..
Maybe it's just that particular breed of dog used in the experiment (border collie), or even that specific dog. Even the paper title cites a singular dog.

The paper 'Word Generalization by a Dog (Canis Familiaris); is Shape Important?' by Emile van der Zee, Helen Zulch and Daniel Mills is published in PLOS ONE on 21st November 2012 and is available at: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049382*
HackThisSite - I remember that, thanks for the extra intel :)
The font color for comments is too close to the background color -- could use some more contrast. This goes for almost all of the included themes.
Cool. So it basically improves water's efficiency to absorb energy in the form of light.

Can the same idea be applied to improve water's efficiency to exchange heat, to make it cool easier? Then you can slap a turbine and have the perfect steam generator.
> You can't be subjectively thankful of something that you wouldn't otherwise exist to be the subject of.

Sure you can. You couldn't be disappointed if things had gone the other way, but you can certainly be thankful to have dodged a bullet.
New exercises are added every so often. For example, some basic matrix math was just added a couple weeks ago. We're currently iterating on our current, lower level ones, to try to figure out what works the best, before we move on to higher level math and other topics.
Thanks, the video pushed me over the fence into making the purchase. Seeing an actual demo really helps in understanding what it does.
Can I ask why you use ellipses so often?
The iPad app has been out since last spring...
Because of the Assange affair, us Swedes have had the opportunity to first-hand fact-check statements made by famous leftist/feminist activists (the likes of Naomi Wolf and Michael Moore). The whole process appears to have left a lot of people disillusioned. A lot of books and other kind of media made by these people have been sold here the past decade.

Here is a series of blog posts fact checking Naomi Wolf:

http://samtycke.nu/eng/category/naomi-wolf/

After reading this I can't trust this person.
Lazy ass...

@hayksaakian,
Add

"color_scheme": "/home/victor/documents/Iceberg.tmTheme"

to your Preferences.sublime-settings with corrected path.
That was one lesson. There were others as well, and they're related. It was a temptation to believe that they were a kind of magic bullet that acted as a scoped resource scavenger. Mostly vtable jump resource cleanups through dtors in the usual way.

Unfortunately it was slow, and as others have mentioned, sometimes difficult to debug and heap errors can propagate out of order, depending on other conditions.

I'm in no doubt about the value of the auto_ptr variants. However I'm often brought in to speed up projects that don't meet performance requirements, and it often entails rethinking structure, simplification, replacing generalised ctor dtor lists, and rediscovering where const references, independently of move semantics, lead to algorithmic questions that need reexamining. This leads back to encompassing scope, and from there it's often the right thing to institute a better model.

The benefit can be a lot less instructions and resultant speedups.

Perhaps I've had too many of these jobs, but hey, it's a living.
Well, there is the definition of modern argiculture, which goes something like:

"Modern agriculture is the process of converting hydrocarbons to carbohydrates."

In other words, the way we feed the large human population, is by leveraging a diminishing supply of fossil fuels to grow food. Replacing fossil fuels with food in that equation doesn't really work; we need to think of something else.

Not because making biofuel is impossible, but because one of the main uses for fuel would be to make food -- and making food and making biofuel is in direct competition for resources.
To be fair, that's generally only a criticism of fMRI experiments. Far from all the neuroscience research being done.