skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People aren't using DDG much not because of any difficulties in the browser, because they don't want to.

You are wrong and you know it. Most people use whatever is the preset default search engine in their browser and that is why Google pays a lot of money to Mozilla.
Wooden device that makes your bike clop like a horse.
Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl
I love this, bicycles & Monty Python all in one helping.
Chrome, SourceTree, XCode, Sparrow, Skype, Paymo, Eclipse
Sweden has in the past illegally handed political asylum seekers over to the CIA without extradition requests, knowing these people would be handed back to the regime they escaped from, to be tortured.

Later Wikileaks released documents that showed that years after this had supposedly been stopped, Swedish military intelligence uncovered that CIA rendition flights were still ongoing, with the cooperation of Swedish airport staff.

So there might not be much for Assange to worry about legally, but that doesn't say much.

He might very well be paranoid, but Sweden hasn't exactly acted in a way that does anything to give someone in his position reasons to trust they'll even follow their own laws.
That's not true. A film projector has a moving shutter - only part of the image is visible on the screen at a time.

You can prove it by using a camera with a fast shutter and trying various shutter speeds. If you have a leaf shutter in your camera you'll have to hold the camera in all 4 direction to test it properly - you don't want the projector shutter and the camera shutter to interact weirdly.
It appears to have an error on slide 23, where the flatMap should return 1, -1 at the beginning rather than 1, -2?

I don't know enough Scala to say with certainty but that seems to be an error:

Seq(1,2,3,4) flatMap { x =>
Seq(x, -x)
} == Seq(1,-2,2,-2,3,-3,4,-4)
If you believe that your stuff can be interesting to other people please, feel free to submit it, but don't spam your blog. If you end up writing just because you HAVE to, people will start to complaining. If all your articles were crazy interesting I would not mind reading even 2/3 each day(but beware this is not really a realistic situation)
Do yourself a favor, if you are honestly interested and not "trolling", then query your favorite scholarly search engine for the effects of noise on plant and animal life and find some information that will be helpful. I can almost guarantee you will find something to read; however I refuse to do it for you. Here is a balanced study that relates the necessary decibels to impact pollination/predation in a controlled study at a level of 12 db[0]. 12 db is significantly less than the energy produced from human conversation at a distance of 3 feet.

The word you are grasping for but missing is "aggregate".

Spare me the rest of your hyperbole. I can't speak for others but I have zero use for your "idioms" as evidence or exasperations as they add nothing to the conversation.

Finally, if you prefer analogies, please consider this one: "It's not like the CO2 the exhaust from my car emits can actually affect global warming since it is only slightly higher than my neighbors". Noise and light pollution are real and growing faster than the rate of human population, sorry to ruin your day.

[0] http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/279/1739/2727...
There's been a bumper crop of stupid comments on HN this year, but yours should win the county fair.
True. "Nobody can understand this pain" is either self evidently false (at the very least other indebted, divorced start up founders understand it and likely many other people who are worse off) or a tautology (everybody suffers differently and thus nobody can understand the pain of anybody else.)

I personally don't get worked up about that kind of self commiserating sentences.
Don't know about Stallman but Assange has some ego issues that didn't get smaller with the media attention (though to be fair without his ego he probably wouldn't have survived being the public image of Wikileaks) and Dotcom always was a Grade A scumbag.
Why I love working with family people
Definitely, I have in mind something more like monthly. But in any case, over time, anyone checking my submissions would see my own posts dominating the track record, even if spaced over time. That's what drove me to ask.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4817574
People with higher education are likely to be somewhat smart, somewhat capable of acting on their own initiative and from somewhat well-off backgrounds, all of which are likely to be somewhat beneficial in a startup. Correlation is not necessarily causation though.
I am still waiting for someone to come up with a CAS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage) file system like git.
yes, we remember the year 2008, here's the thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=108172 and another one from 2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2320846

are we running in circles?
But there is a feedback loop - the faster you take the water, the slower you can get it.

And the more water is returned the faster it ends up in the air. My estimate from wind speeds is that everything will stabilize within 2 days.

i.e. taking water from the air will have no impact. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4816580 where I expanded on the topic a bit.
That's what they want you to think
</conspiracy>
It's very disappointing that DDG is resorting to the same whinny PR tactics as the less than savory competitors.

It's fairly easy and straight forward to add DDG to Chrome or Android, much easier than other platforms in fact, you’re not being “shut out” because you're not the default engine.
That is perfectly fine don't worry. Many submissions are actually from startups looking for viewers and possible customers. This can be considered "spam" but if an article is actually interesting I really do not see any harm to the community, just benefits.
You've made a couple of interesting decisions (that I may not have done if I were writing this myself):

* Picking CSC over Visual Studio for compiling initially
* Explaining namespaces thoroughly in part 2, then glossing over them in 3 (I also don't know if I entirely agree with what's under "Using Statement")

No major criticisms with structure/style/order. I find that when teaching a programming language you just wind up dumping information on the person learning until a point where everything clicks, so the order of explaining this stuff probably isn't that important.

One thing that I'd suggest fixing is the indentation on the code. The number of spaces being inconsistent is something that could massively throw off people who don't understand nesting. Other than this, it's a good set of tutorials so far IMO.
I run into the 2G limit very frequently too. I usually shutdown my home & work systems only once a week. Firefox too runs continuously from the 1st day of the week.

Over the duration of a week, as I open more webpages, the virtual memory consumption rises continuously till it hits the 2G limit and then the process kills itself. Usually during the last few hundred MB before the 2G limit, it becomes pretty unresponsive.

I believe you're referring to the linker options for large memory awareness
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wz223b1z%28v=vs.80%2...

I'd be glad if as a user (not developer) I can set that option somewhere.

P.S., I am a developer, but over time, you learn that building unfamiliar codebases is not a trivial exercise. On Win32, I'm just happier downloading vendor provided binaries. On Linux, I can be both, happy and frustrated, building my own binaries with Gentoo.
I absolutely hate tutorial videos. Not that anything is wrong with them, I just like text more.
Well... a new whale species has just been found... http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-rar...
I don't understand why hn needs its own search engine. What are the advantages of using hnsearch compared to using google with 'site:news.ycombinator.com'?
What's your target audience?

It seems too verbose for programmers and too specific to a toolset for those who are just starting out.
Wait, people buy startup concepts? Who does this?

The concept is the easiest of the easy bits. If you cannot do this bit yourself, you have absolutely no chance of doing the rest of it.

Save yourself $450 and go to a few hackathons. You'll get ideas for free that are better than any of these.
I don't know of any.

But if there were it would be something that requires acid or digestion to "activate". Or perhaps something that can't be absorbed without something the only exists in the gut.

Bacteria actually could do that. Inhaled they would rapidly die, but in the gut they could live (more food for them) and cause illness.

Also, the gut will absorb things faster than the lungs. So I could easily imagine a toxin that has little effect when inhaled (since it's absorbed too slow to cause damage) but causes trouble when eaten (everything is absorbed at once).

But I don't know of any specifically.
>rather than to put the horse in front of the cart as they're doing
As a non-native speaker, I am confused. Over here, we put the horse in front of the cart back when we still used carts and horses. Makes more sense to me.
PG I love how you call the companies the "Octoparts" or the "Wufoos". Its a nice touch!
> The part I don't understand about this view is why would Sweden be more likely to extradite him to the US than the UK would?

Sweden has cooperated with handing political asylum seekers over to the CIA, knowing they would be sent back to Egypt to be tortured, in blatant violation of Swedish law and international obligations. Wikileaks published documents showing that years after CIA rendition flights had supposedly stopped, the US ambassador had been officially summoned to receive a complaint after Swedish military intelligence had uncovered that they were still happening, with the knowledge of airport staff.

Meanwhile, in the UK, there are extradition cases that have gone on for a decade with no resolution, as UK courts take this very seriously, and a substantial portion of extradition requests from the US are refused.

To add on to that, consider the behaviour of the Swedish police and prosecutors. Maybe they are just inept. Maybe there are other motives for how they've acted. But if you're someone like Assange, who has seen several US politicians calling for him to be executed, coupled with past illegal handovers from Sweden to the CIA, it wouldn't be that strange to get a bit paranoid about things such as why the case was reopened after it had been closed, and why the prosecutors categorically refuse to interview him abroad, when they've done that for substantially more serious crimes.

Personally I think that the most likely explanation is not US involvement, but "just" political point-scoring by the prosecutor and appointed lawyer for the alleged victims, both of whom have a history of trying to get support for making Swedish laws regarding rape substantially stricter.
I tend to work in Oil and Gas, on the subsea installation side of things, the Oil Company doesn't like to advertise the position of subsea assets so I guess making data on them freely available is out of the question. I think the research project we worked on was call Serpent, it might be worth a google..

Also to record subsea date you dont need a manned submarine, ROVs are used day in day out and now AUVs are used more often.
In abstract, centralise everything.
You have a "Domain Controller" which is basically a server which everything authenticates against.

Settings from domain controllers (privileges etc) are propagated over the network to other servers (Email,File servers etc).

So when you authenticate against a DC (by logging into your workstation etc) you get a token back which can be sent to other hosts on the network who then understand what to grant access to based on that token.

This makes it easier for a large org with an international presence to allow say marketing teams in the London and New York offices to have access to the same files etc and be able to use each others workstations interchangeably whilst all being managed by the IT team in Mumbai.

This means that if you stick to mainly MS products you get the advantage of knowing that everything will integrate into AD so you spend less time handrolling shared authentication etc.
If protection was granted for contract clauses, firstly it would be far easier to search for existing clauses that were protected, and secondly, it would be far easier to draft around a protected clause.

Also, in the patenting process in the first place, it would be far easier to provide examples of prior art therefore making any attempt to patent clauses far harder.

Finally, advancements in contract drafting take place at a much slower pace than technological advancements in other areas, again, suggesting to me that many supposedly novel clauses would be obvious in light of prior art.

Still, an interesting idea to think about all the same.
Well, actually it seems that HN search has taken the opposite approach (NOT indexing new items).
"we" = the authors of this paper:

http://www.sss-mag.com/pdf/97_mmlan.pdf

Percival is an inventor on one of the fundamental WLAN patents (recently in the news):

http://www.google.com/patents/US5487069

Skellern and Weste were the founders of Radiata Communications, which was first to market with 802.11a, before being bought by Cisco.

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/75649/cisco_acquires...

I'm one of the other authors. Maybe I'm wrong, in that the written history tells it differently, but I'm recalling what was said around the meeting table and across the office partition. I might be a bit loose with the terminology, but to me it's not packaged up neatly into standards, as it was a non-linear development process when I was dealing with it.
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Have you noticed any tangible benefit to using a 64-bit build over a 32-bit one? Performance of the current x64 builds as measured by responsiveness and javascript benchmarks is about on-par with the 32-bit version for most things; the performance and even compilation of plugins is however another matter entirely and the reason for using Firefox for me over another solution is almost always the plugins available.

I have been using PaleMoon builds and from what I gather the source tree is not being tombstoned, just the nightly builds. [0]

The reasons given for crashes (driver/component out-of-tree bugs) make sense but I'm not really involved in the development or testing so I'm sure others will have better input.

[0] http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1700
...because Google doesn't offer site specific options such as sort by date/points?
Great start Jeremy, I've read the entirety of chapter 3 and skimmed chapter 1, you have a solid foundation.

However, I have a few, hopefully constructive, critiques:

(1) As mentioned by qwerty69, links to the other chapters would help a great deal.

(2) Your target audience is "newbies"? If that's the case, it makes sense that you would provide a little more explanation for critical concepts such as variables. In chapter 3, specifically, it feels as if you gloss over the topic by deeming it a "a space to put data." Maybe you're just looking for your audience to build an intuitive notion of the concept, but annecdotally I've always enjoyed learning the essential details when tackling new topics.

(3) Speak authoritatively; don't inject fluff into your sentences. It drains mental capacity. For some examples:

"You just press that button and it will compile and run your program. Or you can just press F5 and that will do the same thing" ==> "Press that button, or F5, to compile and run your program."

"The new method Console.ReadLine() is pretty self explanatory, it reads a line of text from the console" ==> "Console.ReadLine() reads a line of text from the console."

Concise, to the point, and much more effective. I prefer reading books that explain the most in the least words possible.

Either way, keep up the good work. The more resources budding programmers have access to, the better!
I don't remember and F1 story getting so popular on HN, the Austin GP has helped :) I think the sport is fascinating because it really is a battle of geek engineers and drivers. The most successful geek around today is this guy:

http://en.espnf1.com/korea/motorsport/image/92108.html

Normally the champagne can get stuck in your eyes.

These guys and the huge teams behind them battle off track with each other and with the regulations, and the strategists and races battle on track. The off track battles make these cars safe in accidents at 300 km/h (186 mph),

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtrzvwayniM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GQ0MBMhDjo

Robert Kubica was unconscious after the crash and he missed a race but Mark Webber hit the barrier at 280 km/h (174 mph) and walked away from it. As some other readers have mentioned, there has not been a driver death in F1 since 1994.

A typical trade off we might think about in software is this:

http://cheezburger.com/6747638272

:)

In F1 the trade offs when writing the regulations are between safety, cost reductions and entertainment.

And yet the two aspects that make the cars go slower (safety and cost reductions) are exploited to the maximum. No matter if wings are taken off the car to reduce downforce, or traction control is banned to reduce speed into and out of corners, or if fans are declared illegal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-rZKlutlzE), the cars each year go just as fast as the year before.

For example in 2009 this little trick from Brawn GP caught most teams off guard and won them the championship:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5oDu6nSgBg

Interesting story: the development of this car had been carried out by three teams separated from each other so that they each understood and explored the regulations differently.

If you're interested in F1 I recommend Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZthxDFy_pM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmOixmxpXF4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHjeAS7HQbg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUZJVY-sHo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-eiKYyVr2A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOhgI1hQA68

The Peter Windsor podcast is good, and Scarbs has been on it a few times:

http://smibs.tv/the-flying-lap

And there are plenty of blogs around. For me the perfect dose of racing is:

http://axisofoversteer.blogspot.com/

The last race of the season is this weekend in Brazil. Qualifying is on Saturday, the race on Sunday. The times are at http://www.formula1.com/

I sound like an F1 spokesperson!
I'm not going to lie, this might be the best headline ever.
http://i.imgur.com/X9Cvh.png
google "code kata" - there's a bunch of great things to learn.
Why blame lawyers for the instructions and aims of their clients in engaging in litigation?

It is up to the courts to judge the legitimacy of a claim on its merits, not bar associations to determine that someone is unfit to practice purely on the basis that they represent a client with an apparently legitimate claim.
I use Pale Moon 64-bit, custom-built and optimized Firefox clone: http://www.palemoon.org/
It's also rather starved of energy sources - not the ideal environment for large organisms.

I'm sure there are hundreds or even thousands of bizarre and interesting species to be discovered, but the likelihood that any of them will be impressively large is very slim.
The problem is that the initial hurdle of configuring it, when considering the time spent, is expensive in face of AD licensing.

LDAP goes out of the way to be complicated. Ad is nicely packaged, clicky, clicky, and "anyone" can manage it.

That's where MS makes its money. People are expensive.
Do you remember EA Spouse? Although it looks defunct now, the spouse, Erin Hoffman, went on to found GameWatch[.org], which aimed to address these issues. AFAIK, they at least curbed the worst offenses, like those that led to the scandal, but...

If you could get enough studios to realize the important of a good QA department, there'd at least be a niche to form a company dedicated to it, where skilled QA could get what they deserve.
Clicked through to the article hoping to see a picture of the laptop. Was not disappointed! :)

On topic though, this just shows how ridiculous the MAFIAA is getting these days. Unfortunately, this episode played out negatively on the artist as well - who probably had nothing to do with the event. So piracy harms the artist, but in this case the MAFIAA hurt the artist even more by prosecuting someone for it [1] ? Not sure if that's justice, but it feels quite strange to think about it.

[1] - The article says that the artist experienced a serious backlash on her facebook page from enraged fans.
If you take slides 52[1] to 63[2], you can see the emphasis put into run-time diagnosis.

Which is really important for largely distributed systems. Google wrote a little about it when they introduced their global run-time performance tracing tool called Dapper[3] in "Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure"[4]"

Modern Internet services are often implemented as complex, large-scale distributed systems. These applications are constructed from collections of software modules that may be developed by different teams, perhaps in different programming languages, and could span many thousands of machines across multiple physical facili- ties. Tools that aid in understanding system behavior and reasoning about performance issues are invaluable in such an environment.

[1] http://monkey.org/~marius/talks/twittersystems/#52

[2] http://monkey.org/~marius/talks/twittersystems/#63

[3] http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/4/27/paper-dapper-googl...

[4] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36356.html
Jobs in Oman
First Capital today has announced the launch of a new online job board: www.jobibex.com . The site is developed using world-class technology used in designing job boards. As it is the first job board to be launched by an Omani organization, www.jobibex.com will attract job seekers and employers from Oman and the entire MENA region.

First Capital CEO Ali Al Lawati, explains the site’s strategy; “Our latest initiative in the job board space will allow us to gain market share and better serve active job seekers looking for recruitment opportunities in the MENA region in different niches. It would primary serves the national initiative in Oman to present job opportunities for young Omanis in the private sector. Gradually, we intend to expand in the MENA region. As a matter of fact, we have set up an office in Tripoli- Libya as our 2nd station in the region.

The site also allows employers in the region to search and identify talents that suit the requirements of this rapidly growing region. We believe markets like Oman, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi, Qatar, Libya and other active markets in the MENA region will continue offering attractive employment opportunities for job seekers from around the world.

As www.jobibex.com servers unlimited professions moving forward, we are likely to focus on fulfilling the urgent needs of professionals in select sectors. Such sectors include; Islamic Banking and Finance, Oil and Gas, Airlines, IT, Infrastructure and Hospitality.

First Capital plans to utilize its strong track record of prior success to enhance this new job board. As the region struggles to gain a solid footing during this challenging economic time, www.jobibex.com is well positioned to help employers find the best talents.
I hope it's not too off-topic to say that I thought someone sent a TheOnion article to HN.
I imagine the death throes of this dying industry are going to get worse before it gets better.
Why not model laws as UML patterns ?
There are some projects in this area, like:

http://git-annex.branchable.com/

http://camlistore.org/

What exactly did you want out of a CAS file system?