skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't, they mean Dark Side of the Moon. It's not exactly Floyd's most obscure album...

One thing I learned at Amazon, data quality is a huge problem for any media information. It wouldn't surprise me if this specific instance was just a missing field somewhere which you could use to "fingerprint" the data source (or more correctly, one of the data sources, because aggregation is the next huge problem in media data). Often these data sources are in truly awful formats as well, with special problems when it comes to eg. Unicode names.

The popular stuff gets fixed quickly, everything else gets to rot until someone with the right mindset and interest goes and fixes it. The bet with a lot of sites that take corrections is on whether there are enough people who care to make a difference.
I did not mean it to be a "stab" per se, people are entitled to their own opinions, but I was genuinely concerned with OP's prospect of getting un-biased answer here. Too many people are too emotionally involved when it comes to Apple. And from what I've read so far on this issue from many other sources, many Apple critics use the price drop as a way to validate their opinions, which I think is a bit too soon at the moment (the critics may or may not be right, but right now it's definitely too soon to tell) and the drop can be explained by perfectly reasonable market mechanism in the short term.
Indirectly. He's referring to developers, like you and me. But, Apple, being one of the smartest businesses on the planet, is playing the exact same game. If you actually strike gold with your app/unicorn, they win. If you don't, they're still getting paid. This is just smart business.
I'm not looking for trading advice or opinions on how the company is doing, but rather an objective economic explanation of the market factors at play.

There is not a logical/objective explanation, because markets do not follow logic. Markets are powered emotions. Seems the market feels that APPL is not worth so much these days. That will change tomorrow, and then change again the day after. There is no way to predict it. If you would like to learn more, read the book called "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham. Mr. Graham was Warren Buffets professor and mentor in college.
That's because every other Windows 8 device maker took the hint that Microsoft would eat their lunch if they didn't shape up. Look at all the new Windows tablets, laptops, and phones and you'll see Surface in them. This was the unspoken theme of that launch event where you saw variations on Surface from many different manufacturers.
Add $5 to have Linux installed on the on board flash.

Wait, what? It doesn't even ship with an OS?
Build and Analyze podcast ending December 17
IIRC the A10 specs are closed (and at a time I've been involved with a project including a A10, I've even been reported the A10 designers did not even have written one...), so this might not be the best SoC to start with, especially to target Linux geeks, promising them openness.

Also $50k of funding seems quite light for this project.

I hope anyway that it succeeds, because it would still be an interesting device.
I think the impression of anti-Apple sentiment (imagined or real) is worth discussing though. Write up a blog post/self post and submit it.
I would greatly appreciate if you don't call opinions you disagree with "idiocy".
The hazards of working for an Israeli startup
I believe he meant that the OS was ten years ahead when it debuted in 1984. By the time it was on your desk some 13 years later the rest of the market had caught up and in many ways surpassed it.
Yes, I wonder if the differentiation between Punch Quest's tepid profit and between TF2 and other successful in-app-purchase games is that Punch Quest is a single-player game with very little social action. It's certainly a high quality game, one of the most polished endless-runner type games I've ever played. But since the game is enjoyable without all the purchasable perks...and because I have no one to brag to/compete with...I don't have much incentive to buy anything. In a sad way, PQ's competence and good faith is the cause of their troubles.

TF2 is surprisingly making a lot of money for its age and niche community (I call it niche because it's tight-dependence towards teamwork makes it unforgiving to newbies who'll get booted)...I don't understand why people buy the hats, but I do think there's an advantage to picking up the special weapons.
What is it with some of these websites? A list of twenty banned books that requires twenty page loads to read? No thank you.
An opinion with something to back it up can be discussed reasonably by reasonable people. Bold assertions with no backing are idiocy.
I wonder if the distribution of hits to these domains follows the popularity of the underlying "correct" domain, which is what you'd expect if random bit errors were causing these hits and would help corroborate his claim.
Site is already removed from "Register" - it received some warnings and had to remove some articles concerning drugs.

But still we are worried about censorship process here.

And, well, maybe it's a coincidence but still I have noticed some problems with internet connection when "Register" started to work. And that also worries me, of course.
What making the HN front page can mean for your blog
You are missing the point. None of it is selling well. The OS or the Surface itself. And HP, the biggest OEM seems pretty dismissive of the idea of Microsoft eating their lunch:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/15/hps-todd-bradley-doesnt-s...
> Vim is as extensible as Emacs in letter and spirit.

without knowing Emacs how could you claim that.

Actually Emacs comes with smtp written in elisp[1] and IMHO Emacs is more customizable than Vim. But I won't say Emacs is better than Vim.

Peace..

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/smtpmail/...
Here's the print view:

http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/Books/2012/1003/20...

Edit: Although I don't know why I bothered.
A practical step might be for tool-authors to always ensure their tools are obviously customizable for a variety of initialization needs.

Very few IDEs have made it easy to distribute and maintain custom components. Companies that I've seen have custom Eclipse plugins end up having a specialist, which means that the tool itself is too complex for the typical user to maintain.

Editors, on the other hand, are typically easier to distribute since you have mostly scripts. But since most places I know of avoid forcing the same editor on everyone, and the scripts are editor-specific, this is usually something a company is afraid of.

Few tools I've seen have examples of customization for anything beyond "launch a script". I'd like to see something like "here's how you would manage several background processes during your editor session". Customization needs to be brought into the realm of things typical users should do, not something they merely can, if they think about it.
Stanford University ACM Team Notebook (2011-12)
"Dotcom says that the company will consume 2 terabits of daily bandwidth, which in perspective is more bandwidth in a day than the entire country uses right now."

I'm fairly certain that a country with more than 2.6 million people on the internet [1] will use more than 256 GiB in a day... Even if just 256,000 of those people (~10%) downloaded a single megabyte in a day, you're already at the 2 terabit figure - and something tells me that much more than 10% of the internet connected population in NZ will download more than a single megabyte in a day.

Come to think of it, I probably downloaded around a megabyte worth of stuff just opening the article to begin with.

[1] Ministry of Social Development, New Zealand, "Telephone and internet access in the home." http://socialreport.msd.govt.nz/social-connectedness/telepho...
I agree that climate hell appears to have already started. But 500 years is a while, and I'd expect attempts to roll it back starting by 400 years before that time. (Assuming with the author that tech civ continues, etc.) The most plausible reasons against would be conflict or a dominant power that prefers the warmer globe.
>let's say we want an estimate of the region in which bombs are likely to fall.

That seems like fundamentally the wrong sort of question. You never actually care directly about something like -- the point of statistics is to inform some decision-making process. And it almost always becomes more obvious how to proceed when you keep in mind what you're actually using the stats for.
'Build and Analyze' has not become 'stale and repetitive' in my opinion and I will miss the show. From my own blogging experience, however, I understand that Marco wants to end his successful show on a high note. Being the host of a weekly podcast show is quite a burden and his other projects (in a wider sense, i.e. Instapaper, The Magazine, wife and child etc.) are probably challenging enough. In addition, the show has probably become less important from a marketing perspective. Anyway, thanks a lot to Dan and Marco for many great episodes! :)
The new url was caught by the duplicate filter.

The poster of this new article added ?fromcat=all to the end of the url to evade the filter.

It's gently infuriating.

I'm not sure what the answer should be. People should submit less? Should only submit great articles form good sources? More people should follow new and flag the dross and upvote the great articles. I dunno.

Perhaps banning any filter evasion that isn't ?repost=1; ?repost=2 etc might help. At least then people could easily see how often this had been reposted.
I agree to some extent but i wont go as far and say that programmers using IDEs are bad.
Notch of Minecraft uses Eclipse, John Carmack uses Visual Studio for 2 decades and still loves it. In large Software projects i think that it helps even the best programmers.

On the other hand there are also alot of bad programmers using textmate etc..so i wouldnt relate the skill of a programmer to their development enviroment of choice!
Android is on the flash by default, Linux on the SD card. So you're getting two OS's. The $5 is to overwrite the flash with Linux.
Judging the potential of Windows 8 and its ecosystem by its first month would be like judging Apple by two quarters of falling stocks after ten years of great performance.
Your link to Urban Airship just above the code is bad, it links to urbansirship.com
Modeling with data
Entrepreneurshit
> without knowing Emacs how could you claim that.

Where did I say I don't know emacs? I don't know what is emacs's mail support implemented in doesn't mean I don't know emacs.

> Actually Emacs comes with smtp written in elisp[1]

I said:

"If it doesn't, I am in complete awe - not by the extensibility but by the pointlessness of implementing smtp server in elisp."

Implementing a smtp lib that talks to a smtp server is different from implementing a smtp server.

> IMHO Emacs is more customizable than Vim.

I have used Vim and Emacs for considerable length of time. I ended up choosing Vim and use it as my main editor. I have read source for many plugins in both Vim and Emacs. Vim is as extensible as Emacs. I won't debate how elisp is better or worse than Vimscript, because that doesn't affect extensibility.
The word for moderate republican is "democrat". This country doesn't have a truly liberal/left wing party.
IP and business law resources for start-up 
IP and business law resources for start-up
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When Apple was at $700, it had the market cap of Google, Exxon Mobil, and Caterpillar combined.

In a hypothetical scenario, would you rather own all of Apple or all of Google, Exxon Mobil, and Caterpillar?

My point is, I'm not sure P/E means as much with such a ridiculously high market cap.
The article is presumably referring to a transfer rate of 2 terabits per second, not 2 terabits of data transferred over the course of 24 hours.

2Tbps for a country of 4.5m people sounds about right.
What if the votes and comments on duplicate URLs got merged and the story clock was set to the latest one?
Mule Radio Syndicate show in 3...2...
Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.
Why don't they just edit the password directly in the disk image (like this: http://libguestfs.org/virt-edit.1.html#non-interactive-editi... )?

I wrote a neat little tool called virt-dmesg which reads rather than writes kernel memory in VMs in order to pull out things like the kernel messages (dmesg): http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-dmesg/

Also, since when is "Ubuntu" synonymous with Linux?
If you're already running Java, jedit.org is worthy of your attention in this area. Extensible with Beanshell, or with plugins written in Java.
but there's no indication that he shares Steve Job's ability to drive Apple to launch revolutionary new products every few years

Can we at least wait a "few years" before declaring that Cook's Apple isn't able "to launch revolutionary new projects every few years"?
C++ refactoring: changing a virtual method
Remembering the "evil" discussion from not too long ago, these two statements are not compatible:

"This tool is for legal purposes only. The code is released under GPLv3 license."
Are these patents really evil, or just positioning for an endgame where everyone settles financially based on their portfolio?
Maybe he's made more money (he is not doing too badly from everything I've read) doing what he does than trying and possibly failing to run a tech company. We'll never really know...
Hi, I added documentation to your code so people new to Haskell might understand what is going on:

https://gist.github.com/4105864

Even with extensive documentation it is only 3 lines longer than the Go version ;)
There are actually three issues here:

1. Are reviewers rating the data using the right scale/format? 1-10 might mean one thing to you and something different to someone else. 1-10 might be inappropriate when you really mean a multiple choice, 1 of N text descriptions. Different types of inputs mean reviewers will think about things differently, and also mean you'll have to process your data differently to get an appropriate visualization.

2. What are browsers trying to get out of it? Maybe those ratings, or their descriptions, are helpful in the general case. Maybe they're only really helpful when someone actually wants to make a decision. Maybe browsing by rating instead of by product is how things should be sorted. There's any number of possibilities in how potential browsers might use your service, regardless of your intent.

3. Only after you know those things can you decide on an appropriate visualization, and I must warn you that something that looks really attractive and draws people in and gets people to say how awesome your site is is not necessarily the visualization that will be most useful. In addition, most-useful-at-a-glance is not the same as most-useful-after-I-understand-it or most-useful-with-a-lot-of-practice.

This sort of thing is why an actual designer is useful. You've got a lot of encoded assumptions and we're trained to break them down.

That said, to answer your question, even though it might be the wrong question, there's a great O'Reilly book called "Information Dashboard Design" which explains how to make data visualizations that are actually useful.

After you get through that, you might look for an old book called "Using Charts & Graphs" by Jan V. White. It's out of print, so finding a copy might be hard, but it's the opposite of the Tufte books someone will invariably suggest, but which are inappropriate for you. "Using Charts & Graphs" specifically talks about what we now call infographics: telling a story using a chart or a graph.

(Tufte's books are inappropriate here because they're textbooks for print people, and while they have lots of good information, implementing their takeaways in electronic form is left as an exercise to the reader. It's way too much work for this situation.)

You might also try to dig up the work done by Summize back in 2007/2008, before they were acquired by Twitter.

Finally, if you'd like to talk more about this with an actual designer, you might be interested in a design "office hours" experiment I'm running, called UX Hours: http://uxhours.com/. For comparison, this well-defined question, resulting in advice on things to consider and two places to find out what you need to do, is just about right for a 30 minute consult.
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s/in/wrapped in/
I definitely understand the feeling that the podcast has become stale. I still enjoy it very much, but topics have had to become more and more specific lately and as such I feel the show runs the risk of losing its "timeless" quality. However, I do hope that Marco considers staying with 5by5 when he does decide what he wants to do next. Mule Radio is great too but I really love the dynamic that Dan brings to all of his podcasts.
oh woops, thanks, my bad.
Perhaps in 1984 it was a year or two ahead of the competition (Windows 1 was released in 1985). Or another way to look at it is that it was a decade behind (the Alto was released in 1973). In any case that's no excuse to sit around and do nothing for 13 years.
'War room' is a good description - that kind of environment is designed, and well suited, for 'all hands on deck' crisis management where everything has to be thrown into dealing with the current emergency; you don't care about burning tomorrow's resources today because if the emergency isn't dealt with, there won't be any tomorrow. If that's the kind of job you're doing, then yes, that's the most productive environment for it.

If you're building a product, that's a different kind of job and needs a different environment.
Security Vulnerabilities in Java SE - technical details
Why is it considered a "ban" when a library chooses not to shelve a book? This is a poorly written article aside from the paging format. I only read three pages of it but by the third I still had not seen any explanation of an actual banning. One it says was banned with no explanation, the other two it says were banned by libraries. I checked out Wikipedia and all three (Oz, Harriet and Merriam-Webster) were "banned" by school libraries. No student or family was prevented from owning or reading these books. The schools simply chose not to put them on their shelves, or removed them from their shelves, and might have publicly criticized them.
I'm interested in knowing this now, not in a few years...
Why am I in a grey zone for manipulating a bunch of bytes that I have downloaded into a format I find convenient?

The bytes were distributed legally by the copyright holder.

I downloaded the bytes legally using an ISP that I paid for.

The author did not use a robots.txt indicating his wishes that I not download the bytes using an automatic tool.

The bytes are unprotected by DRM.

I have no intention to distribute the bytes to anyone else.

I have not broken the DRM on my ebook reader.
I thought that initially, but they mention in the article "2 terabits of daily bandwidth", which I assumed to be a metric of per unit-time. Furthermore, I found a graph detailing internet usage per user per month for various countries [1].

If we take New Zealand to be equivalent to the North American average (higher than the European average) of 14.5 GiB/user-month, and apply that to the 2.6 million internet connected people in New Zealand, this equates to an average bandwidth of 14.5 GiB/sec, or around 116 gigabits per second.

The only way you can get close to 2 terabits per second is to assume all of those 2.6 million people use 256 gigabytes of bandwidth per month - and certainly, I don't think that the people in NZ use ten to twenty times as much bandwidth as the other countries in the world [1]. (Other assumptions: 30 days in a month, and all of the 66% internet connected population in NZ uses 14.5 GiB per month)

[1] http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0912/
Textadept uses Lua as scripting language. Sublime Text uses Python as scripting language. Any hipster working on a text editor that uses Javascript as scripting language?
I actually pondered on this for a long time, and I haven't come to a conclusion. I cannot, however, counter any of your arguments, as I thought some of the same things myself.

This is a surprising train of thought.
Expected release dates?
Embargoes, NDAs, and tech journalism’s way of doing business
The Developer Incentive Snakepit
Good on him. I had a New Zealander friend explain to me that residential bandwidth gets metered into two categories: local to New Zealand (cheap or even free) and any data that comes from overseas, which I find a complete ripoff.
You need to find mentors in person.

Working for a startup isn't going to teach you how the design industry works; it'll teach you what that one startup thinks a designer should do.

I talked with a startup recently who thought they needed "a designer." It turned out they really needed like five different kinds of designers: an illustrator, a UI artist, a gameplay designer, a game systems designer, and a user experience or interaction designer.

If you're interested in becoming a professional product designer, or in doing any sort of design work for startups, there are professional organizations which can help, indirectly.

Your local IxDA, UXPA (nee UPA), and AIGA meetups will be good places to find professional designers (freelance, agency and in-house) whom you can ask to mentor you.

There's probably also local technical "co-founders wanted", Hacker News, and technical freelancers meetups, where you can find local peers in need of design help.

In all cases, talking with someone in person is going to produce better work and give you a better feel for the interpersonal relationships required than doing things over email or Skype.
Funny to see this, since I just recently thought about unsubscribing from B&A in Downcast. The thought would have never crossed my mind a few months ago, but Marco's right.

Episodes started veering into niche discussions specific to iOS developers (see the episode on in-app vs. iOS-level settings). Occasionally Marco and Dan would discuss the mobile market but their opinions are established after >100 episodes, so we never saw any surprises there. The overall effect, though, was a show that felt "ready."

I'm one of the people that emailed or tweeted at Marco whenever I disagreed with him, but I'll miss this show. B&A started two years ago when I was just wrapping my head around Python, and I really enjoyed hearing people geek out about development (and coffee and cars and...) during a time when I was just realizing that an engineer's life doesn't mean writing some terrible language alone in a cubicle.

Thanks to these guys for the good run. Siracusa will have to fly the geek banner a bit higher now.
let's see when will first vi plugin for it come out..
Their apps just don't look that good. Spooky headlamp?

http://www.campfireapps.com/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/henrys-spooky-headlamp/id469...
This is fascinating, but I just can't discern a practical purpose.

The novelty of the "I just converted this huge piece of software written in c or machine code into JS" type of post usually extends only to the title. The link itself generally serves only to evoke a profound "WTF" (and in this case took upwards of 40 seconds to load.)

Although I appreciate the undertaking of compiling prodigious libraries, drivers, etc. into JS, I don't see practical value in the product of said undertaking.

The fact that this practice has proliferated throughout HN recently is odd. This kind of thing is certainly remarkable, but it doesn't do anything.
Use lxml.html instead of BeautifulSoup