skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes of course things are linked. But javinskie's post makes it sound like the 55,000 deaths are the Mexican government's fault alone. While the Mexican government is no doubt not the most effective, the druglord themselves are massacring people. Whereas in the US, it is the government causing the most damage on its own, by overly incentivizing the incarceration of minor drug offenders. And it is this government over-enforcement that is the parallel to the copyright issue at heart. Not the near civil war in another country that is partly linked to it.
Then why don't you stand up and recover your right to not being detained indefinitely without a fair trial, your right to move freely around the country without being asked for ID, your right to privacy, to mention a few? All those rights have been taken away by the government and you did nothing.
I'm saddened by the trend "the code is the specification".
> I still don't know what I want to do in the future full-time

This would leave me to say go to University and do some kind of Engineering degree.

I am just finishing my Design Engineering and Motorsport degree. I feel like my eyes have been opened to a lot more possibilities than before I started University.
I don't fully understand the excitement either. But I don't think learning to program is really one its strong points. Learning to work with input/output systems might be on the list but there are other platforms for that as well. I think the pi has a combination of low cost, relatively high processing power, and significant input/output capabilities that really attracts hardware hackers.

For learning to program I think I'd just go with a javascript scratchpad in a browser. Or for core concepts and less kludge, maybe just a node repl. I guess you could use a pi for that if you don't have a machine that you want to play with but that isn't why people are jazzed about the pi.
The Responsinator, a layout testing facility
A wafer-thin Ruby wrapper for accessing Nokia's Here Maps Places API.
Für Blogger: Google Play Apps einbinden
This is nothing new. Minecraft: PE has been available on iOS since November of last year.

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Pocket_Edition
The name of the article is misleading. It is all about the greedy fat cats that want mice to go to the mousetrap, but moaning about high prices for cheese, so they are unable to charge the mousetrap properly. Good for mice, bad for cats.
Google Project Hosting
Why should we fund a project that has repeatedly ignore its own community? Why fund a project that has numerous Google SoC projects not merged in? That is wasting donated time and money.
Show HN: Calendar Clash, find meeting times for groups
Enfour's Open Apology Letter for #softwarepiracyconfession [pdf]
Practice writing that has an observable effect. For example, write Facebook statuses and see who "likes" or "comments" on them. Think about how you write emails and to whom. See what styles and contents tend to be effective. Try different variations.

(Don't draw conclusions too soon; there is a lot of random variation in responses.)

Also I agree with what everyone else recommends. But, in my experience, there's no substitute for these real-world experiments that appear in my day-to-day life.
Show HN: Tiny Cassette - Create playlists with youtube and soundcloud
So, are you saying it would make you happy if an ad-less Minesweeper were available in the Store for a couple dollars?

I prefer buying paid apps when they're available too. I don't play a ton of games, but I own the paid version of the ones I play that offer both choices (Words with Friends, Letterpress, Drop7).

I think we're seeing that pricing model fade away though, particularly in the gaming segment. Developers have discovered that only a tiny minority of paid games will be popular enough to hit the Angry Birds jackpot, driving them toward ads or IAP approaches instead. Even when they do hit that jackpot, some popular paid apps are struggling to subsist in the long term with no mechanism for paid upgrades (e.g. Sparrow).
A short film on corporate espionage and cyber security
The most important asset for a private school is connections.

I've experienced schools that were directly tied to the industry, so that the local companies would first go there and check with the teachers to see what student would be suitable for their company, instead of advertising the position through the usual channels.

The student would go from graduation right into employment without having to do any actual job search.

If you are an institution that has an established connection to the local industry, then I think such a school would be able to survive the online offerings from other international schools/sites.
We are thesis driven to the core. We believe in what we believe in, for good or bad. And that is large networks of engaged users that have the power to disrupt big markets.

This seems like a trivial true-ism, and utterly useless as a strategic guide, yet he cites it as their core thesis.

I read the whole thing, and I'm still not sure he said anything concrete. There were lots of bits that seemed concrete [1], but on pausing and thinking about it for a moment, they all seemed to be of the variety "There's more blue than red, but don't forget there's some green there too."

ETA: I don't intend to crap on the linked article; I'm sincerely struggling with my intuition that there's very little light for all the heat in VC pronouncements. During my startup experience I continually heard sage bon mots like "it's a move-fast environment." Okay, how fast? Are there move-slow environments?

[1] Cletus' post above does a good job singling out statements that appear concrete but are either literally non-sensical, or just trivial a=a observations.
A nice non-technical overview of the problem. I'm not affiliated with Deloitte.
Perhaps a more fruitful question is, why are virtual worlds created through gaming (i.e. Minecraft, World of Warcraft) much more populous and resilient than virtual worlds created for other reasons?

Personally, the only possible circumstance in which I'll adopt a non-gaming virtual world is when the quality and stability of the non-gaming virtual worlds has reached the level to that of the gaming variants. I always found Second Life to be extremely tacky.
It might be interesting to see what happens in Russia with the recently released Yandex browser. After 3 weeks it had 1.8% market share, according to Wikipedia.
Community resources? The Raspberry Pi has almost zero hardware documentation, a closed black box controlled by a massive binary blob and an absolutely despotic PR disaster named Liz Upton who actively insults and derides developers and others in the RPi community.

Here's a fun excerpt from http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221 :

Liz: ... keep trying to rustle up some outrage if it gives you a kick; I’d recommend finding something else to do soon, though. We don’t want you developing an ulcer.

Developer: Am I allowed to be outraged by the fact that it’s not really open, since I see no mention of actual documentation for the hardware? Or by this: http://www.raspberrypi.com/mpeg-2-license-key/ ? Can I get outraged by that?

Liz: Well you /could/, but you wouldn’t half look silly.

Nice going, Liz. That's right, anyone who actually wants to make full utilization of the hardware they paid for is 'silly' and we're only rustling up outrage for 'kicks' when you post a press release announcing how open source you really aren't.

Here, have a nine page thread of people complaining they were banned under weak, insane excuses like 'concern trolling' because they dared to mention things like 'your supplier isn't sending me anything' and 'My SD card gets corrupted when I unplug the device sometimes': https://www.element14.com/community/thread/20081

It's got massive hype since it's a $35 Beagleboard, but otherwise it's bringing nothing new to the table that hasn't been done by others and increasingly done better by other devices.

The remainder of the situation seems to be a collection of people more interested in their awards, hype and press releases than their actual users and developers on their forums. Frankly, there's quite a few ARM SoC boards out there with GPIO pins and all the bells and whistles of the Pi, many of them have even beefier hardware. None of them have this horrible baggage and all of them will run the same software for the most part.

So that's great that many people are going to target this device, but it's hardly an 'exclusive port' to the RPi. The real bet to back is Linux on ARM.

Personally, this board gets me much more hot than the RPi and prices are only going to come down on similar future boards: http://www.arndaleboard.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
The following solution defines a function to transpose each scale taking advantage of the mathematical properties of notes:

def notes_name(numbers):
notes = "C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B".split()
return [notes[(number % 12)] for number in numbers]

def transposition(notes, start):
index = start - notes[0]
return [(n + index) % 12 for n in notes]

def gen_scales():
c_scale = [0, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11]
return [notes_name(transposition(c_scale, note)) for note in range(0, 12)]

for scale in gen_scales():
print " ".join(scale)

EDIT: make the code prettier
I agree. The data is not the best, but having some data is better than none, as long as the graph is taken with a grain of salt.
Macintosh portable running OSX
I'm just a single data point in the opposite direction, but any site that I go to frequently that has an app, I'm almost certain to prefer interacting with it via the app.

If the app is just a crappy webview to their site, then no, but I tend to ignore those sites altogether.
If you know enough music theory to know what a relative minor is, it makes sense.
How do you propose independent security researchers compete with governments on a resource basis?
Developed in Clojure and Clojurescript. Any feedback/comments welcome!
daily currant is a satire site.
Playing Catch and Juggling with a Humanoid Robot [video]
Tablet Display Shipments Finally Top Notebooks in October
Works fine in Firefox 17, try updating your browser.
A trick to generate a cycle of fourths or fifths is to multiply a chromatic scale by 5 or 7, respectively:

notes_name([n*7 for n in range(0, 12)])
> Do you understand that "any female-positive topic" -> "what about the menz" is exactly the problem with this attitude?

It would be nice if "gender equality topics" weren't exclusively "female-positive topics", and that the topics about how men get the bad end of sexism weren't immediately met with sarcasm and derision.
Hi, author here. This was made primarily to solve my problem of creating playlists with music from several services. I know the app isn't very polished ( I mean there aren't even accounts!), but I wanted to get some feedback from the HN community before throwing features into the app. I hope this is useful for some of you.
This is my favorite by far.
Yes, precisely. Still this is a very interesting research and you can see clusters of languages like the most popular ones. I just noticed that people often tend to look at a chart and jump to quick conclusions, so just wanted to add this "grain of salt" :)
God says...

21:20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he
die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

21:21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be
punished: for he is his money.

21:22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit
depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely
punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he
shall pay as the judges determine.

21:23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
21:24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
21:25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

21:26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his
maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

21:27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's
tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

----

Doctor's meds fuck with my eyes. God is just.
Step 1: Don't use unexpanded acronyms or anything like "USP."
> Do you just accept GPL violations?

It's hard to violate the GPL without plagiarizing.
Wishful thinking: Perhaps they got rejected already, so any objections are moot?
Agent - Go-like concurrency in Ruby
Agreed. To get around this but keep the per-field editability, a toggle to make all fields editable should be available, as well as expose an atomic aggregate save trigger.
Nice ideas! I have a small list of higher priority features to add first, but I am adding these to my queue:

- refraction polygons
- concave/convex lenses
- concave/convex mirrors

I think the easiest way to add these would be to just make them fixed objects in the level (so the only drag-able items would still be the straight mirrors).
You could get an hp5500 (maybe there are other ones out there, this was the best a couple years back), and provide color service with simple binding options. With some clever color management, a photobook that I pressed on this got several best photo book of the year awards at photo-eye. The downshot is that there are too many online services that do this sort of stuff these days so you would have to become a creative hub / print shop for people to congregate.
/I/ should be the gatekeeper on /my/ device. Apple's all or nothing approach means that for hobbyist usage, or internal app distribution, etc, you still have to pay that $99/year, even if it's not going into the regular ecosystem.
Fair enough. They appear to object with 1 of following 2 reasons:

1) Company X does not appear to specify sufficient mechanisms to allow communities to protect their names and reputations from misuse at the second level, except through defensive registrations.

or

2) Company X is proposing to exclude any other entities,
including potential competitors, from using the
TLD.

Restricting common generic strings for the exclusive use of a single entity could have unintended consequences, including a negative impact on competition.
>> That theory has the big advantage of being neither anthropo- nor neurocentric. It can be related to any physical system (biological or otherwise).

This advantage has a downside: the definition is so broad that any large, integrated system can be described as conscious. Of course, you can argue about what counts as "integration" and whether, say, Los Angeles is really a well-integrated system.

Reference: http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.fr/2012/06/why-tononi-shoul...
It's not "expanding their service" when they remove the functionality that was central to the previous version of the app.
Because it's not quite the same when some employed 30 year old pirates something.
This case has an aura of "THINK OF THE KIDS!" - a scam that seems to be working with other issues, but this time in reverse. It's high time these %^&*-suckers got a taste of their own medicine.

I'm all for making a living our of art, but not like this.
MAFIAA kind of stuff must end now; they live in the past while ruining the future.
For an ironic take on rhetorical devices have a look at this blog (in particular the older posts):

http://writebadlywell.blogspot.it/

Each post is an example of a writing technique... overdone. I find it brilliant in how it manages to be hilarious and insightful at the same time.
In the demo video the augmented elements seem to blend very well into the surrounding dynamic lighting. In the real world it never looks that good, especially in an outdoor setting where the lighting changes throughout the day.
The first thing I did after installing ML was disabling GateKeeper, problem solved. Signed apps are a good idea for "illiterate" people, it prevents them from installing malware and spyware.
You can se a solution in Python here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4828828
II see where this comes from: jQuery fails to load and they're not using $(document).ready().

It happens on my school's network, jquery.com is painfully slow...
And contrary to the OP's assertion, there is no "missing trick" here.
In the "build a search engine using python" online course , people had to do a project,a search engine. some we're really interesting projects(and probably not easy , since the students are new in programming).

And if you look at the arduino, many people are doing interesting projects.

So i don't think projects are so hard to implement as a part of an online course.
> He wants to diminish the stigma around talent acquisitions. Why? Because that's how VCs get paid in the vast majority of cases.

This is wrong. Remember the power law! The vast majority of the value of a VCs portfolio will be represented by their 1 or 2 most successful investments.
this is an incredible graph, I am sending to all my coder friends
http://vimeo.com/49718712 Concurrency is not parallelism by Rob Pike
> The fact is that functional idioms work badly in languages that don't have syntactic support for them.

You can even remove functional from the sentence. Powerful features of languages like Python and Lisp don't get you more power than languages like Java. They give you more power per unit of effort.
Or in perl:

join "\n", map { $_->{description} } grep { $_->{description} ne "" } @mylist;

sorry, every time i see something like this, i just can't resist to post code in Perl. =)
Very interesting article, but what will happen if that cover film will be broken in some part by a meteorit or by bad weather?
Video game craving 'bad as alcohol'
is it possible to get numbers and units on the axis? what does the 80 mean, I think this is incredible
BTW, that was a very strange quote. Let's make up some numbers to highlight the strangeness. "If 0.1% of the kids in Ethiopia learn to read without school, what does that say about the 0.5% of the kids in New York City who do not learn even with school?"

Put that way, it's a silly argument because it suggests that most children learn with school.

Or here's another way "If 99% of the kids in Ethiopia learn to read without school, what does that say about the 75% of the kids in New York City who do not learn even with school?"

Put that way it has an entirely different interpretation.

So without numbers, that phrase - selected as being important - is actually meaningless.
Agree, this is the way to do it. Backed by actual scientific research on how people read (surprisingly/sadly rare).

If you can actually follow all of those rules in a written document, it will be clear and easy to read. It's harder to do than it might look.

(Also, I believe Gopen has a couple books expanding on this article.)
Programmer autonomy is a $1 trillion issue.
Intellectual property is the Inquisition of our times.

Hopefully things will turn for the better and people of the future will see our outlawing of non-commercial sharing of data as one of those stupid things the troglodytes of the 21th century did. But IP will die a slow and ugly death.
Java doesn't get a lot of press or cool points, but the enterprise world is massive and anyone in it knows there's still a lot of spending going on for java projects.

It's also worth noting that several other languages on the list only run on the Java Virtual Machine. (Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Gosu, Ceylon). Jobs for these languages are commonly filled by people who identify as Java developers.
For each viewer, that seems likely to me. For viewers collectively, there is more information; some viewer's girlfriend is going to be someone who studies trees, and another viewer is going to think some character looks kind of like the President. This effect of viewer diversity might justify the video file being more than a megabyte!
For those like me who wondered why this was posted since the book content was out of date: The Django Book project needs help updating the book to cover Django 1.4 and beyond. Send pull requests to https://github.com/jacobian/djangobook.com
I was on a Eurostar from Paris to London a few months back, with a family of 5 next to me. The daughter, about 13 or 14, didn't stop playing ?Angry Birds (not sure) on her device for the entire 2.5 hour trip, even when the meal was served in front of her. Scary.
Finding Brad Feld's Finest Thoughts
Sadly for the attention-grabbing headline, "as bad as alcohol or gambling" means, for most people, "barely addictive at all"...
I suppose we should be grateful that your foolish hyperbole didn't compare IP to the holocaust.
Yup, surprised that he didn't directly mention crowded space. The argument around ossified consumer tastes and large players sucking oxygen out of the room is fair but ignores the multitude of consumer startups working in the exact same problem/solution space - location-based social networking to pick one convenient example, say.
Me three. I've got a new (bought on friday unlocked from an apple shop) iPhone 5 and I've used the magic text message to change the APN settings.
Also allow wealthy families to network with each other, on top of whatever connections the school itself sets up.
Yes, A Domain Name Can Be Protected By The First Amendment
As drug industry’s influence over research grows, so does the potential for bias
Removing landmines with the wind
Yes, it would mean that consciousness is pervasive in the whole universe, and, that, for example, your cells are probably conscious. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis.

The point is that the nature of the experience is isomorphic to the integration process, which is very different from system to system.

That's why IMO, for example, anthropomorphism in AI is a dead end, and the turing test is irrelevant.
TLDR: C# 2.0 had ugly syntax. article from 2006

in c#3.0 we write

string.Join("\n", mylist.Select(x=>x.Description()).Where(x=>x != "").ToArray());

and now

string.Join("\n", mylist.Select(x=>x.Description()).Where(x=>x != ""));
Finally, mainstream media addresses the elephant in the room re:education.
Simple gesturing is a much more organic or natural experience than fiddling with dials and buttons in a very specific manner. Focus is a big deal for a lot women (anecdotal evidence) when it comes to achieving sexual climax. So the mor natural the controls are the less they have to focus on anything except the way they feel. It makes sense to me.
Three cheers for Australia! I think our experience with the last set of TLDs show us that having more isn't necessarily better. Think of how many domains you'll need to capture to protect your brand (Australia's main objection).

I think the other way around this is to boycott the new TLDs ... if anyone wants to collaborate on a couple browser plug-ins I'd be more than happy to help.
The submission of the renamed project: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4827955
Hmmmm... That's a bit shady, especially charging for MPEG-2 support and other codecs. Not quite sure what they're getting at there.
You know /YOU/ can turn it off on /YOUR/ device, right?
It is unfortunate, that the type of positions that employ .NET developers, enforce C# (or sometimes VB.NET) as their language that targets the CLI. While I understand the need for consistency, it would be nice if IronPython or F# were accepted. But dont just feel defeated, make a case to your architect or manager, they might be open to it. However its worth noting that in my experience, C# is a fine language - especially if you can move past .NET 2.0 and use lambdas and LINQ.