skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
jaw dropping. super neat payload dropping mechanism -- egghunts 'shellcode' collected from button presses to the controller!

this is a hacker at the peak of his form.
There are some useful entries on stackexchange for using git with LaTeX. Also useful if you run into any problems: http://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=git&submit=search
>I'm not going to clone these on all four of the machines I use ST2 on.

I use a portable version of Sublime 2 synced via Dropbox. It works pretty well. One copy of settings/themes/snippets.
> Eight minutes?! Eight?! Like, can we use those eight minutes to take all the developers out back and have them shot?

And this is how you know the punch card is dead.
In most cases they are authorized (and paid by) the legal copyright holders to find violators. At least in US most cases are brought by industry organizations.

I heard (and believe it's true) that in Germany, lawyers are given the right to bring cases against law breakers (maybe only civil) with no client, without support or even knowledge of the "victim". Paid on a bounty system. Idea being all these lawyers are incentivized to go out and deter crime.
Using RVM the right way (and never typing "bundle exec" again)...
I See 7 job titles. A couple are hardware designers ("architect" like design a building), a couple are "solution architects" which a name for a pre-sales coach/tutor/guide role, and a couple are buzzword soup in project management that I can't figure out what the role actually is, maybe the fabled software architect being derided here.
Original article looks soooo troll-ish so I think it has been written is such way intentionally, to draw attention to the problem for example.
I've worked for two of the big games publishers and yes, they both included this clause as part of the contract to say that they own anything you create out of hours.

Which is ironic, given the amount of work I've done for them out of hours.
Elon Musk lecture at the Royal Aeronautical Society
My guess is that they could succsefully argue that the 1 for 1000s is simply a technical optimization.
You know what they say, Works Slowly > Breaks Quickly
it is not raii as i understand the term. there is no destructor involved in closing the file, there is just a function that opens the file, passes your code the handle, then closes it when you're done.
Tubbo, you've been hellbanned for months. Nobody can see your posts...

(really dislike that method of banning people - he has pages of thoughtful contributions)
TLDR: Notational Velocity to vimwiki.

I was using NV, but the Find-Next feature stopped working from OSX Lion. I then renamed the file extensions to ".wiki". I used some perl scripts to remove the spaces in file names and camel-case them. Used "ls" to create an index page with links to each note. Now i can access my notes both through vim (using vimwiki) and through NV.

vimgrep and the ack plugin are good replacements for NV's search.
Stranger yet, the code example is PHP.
Experiments That Keep Going And Going And Going
> This will blow your mind

Truth in advertising!
What exactly are we comparing here? The methods or the actual fields?

> 1. The primary objective of science is to understand the world around us whereas the primary objective of design is to improve the world around us.

Well yes - they aren't the "same thing" by definition. One has to do with "this" body of knowledge, and the other has to do with "that" body of knowledge.

> 2. The end product of a scientific method is a theory or law that is absolutely rigorous and independent of people, whereas the end product of a design process is a solution that can always be improved, depending on people.

I would also pose that perhaps the second of the two primary differing aspects listed is not true - at least not the way it's written. The scientific method does not always in "a theory or law that is absolutely rigorous and independent of people". We only find better ways to describe the world around us. Over the course of our history, we have always found better ways to explain what we held as an absolute truth previously. There does not seem to be an absolute (an entirely new discussion).

If you accept this point of view, then the parallel to design is quite obvious.

The way this article narrows it's scope - I would say they are the same thing. But at the same time the scientific method was... well... designed? So... what do I know?
I'm sure it would be nearly impossible to use a garage door opener instead.
There is a coursera class for python that is leaps and bounds better than whats currently on codeacademy. Much better organized, video lessons, better tools, and better feedback system

https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython
I think it is about priorities.
If loading speed is not a priority for the client, we need to know what is their priority? Try to address the priority first and then focus on making it faster.

If the application is built for large number of customers, one needs to make it fast no matter what!
Hmm... Adding it was easier than I thought.

Screenshot: http://d.pr/i/5rF3

Patch: https://github.com/pooriaazimi/tomorrow-theme/commit/978f1be...
[Assuming custom software, not shrinkwrap]

Sometimes you have to do what the client needs, not what they ask for (Because they sometimes don't have enough experience, knowledge, etc. to know. That's why they hired you, the expert).

But, this sounds very clearly unneeded feature they client does not want, will not help them, and would be wasting their money to implement.

Even without the coffee excuse, startup time for something that starts up once or even a few times day is going to be low on the bang per buck backlog.
Unfortunately, reality has boundaries.
Carlcalderon's color schemes are also very nice, especially Stereokai, Calydon and Tyrann Alex. Check it out: https://github.com/carlcalderon/sublime-color-schemes
The products and work that Google is doing is far, far more interesting to me, but that's a pretty personal reason. I have inexpensive tastes and live modestly outside of my electronics so I don't think compensation or likely even benefits would be an overriding concern.

What is making this a hard decision for you?
The GPL was never intended to eliminate NIH Syndrome.
Hmm, the most popular GUI apps on the planet: iOS, Windows, MacOS and Linux apps, are written in C.
Great choice. There's software to remove the DRM from books, of course ... but the best way to remove it is to shop at places that don't use it.
I doubt that the top spy was fired for not sharing his secrets.

If anything I would guess that he was fired for allowing his secret to leak (which means incompetency).

Realistically though, all that scandal is just a cover for real reason why Petraeus was fired - probably something like policy disagreement with superiors.
If you haven't seen the movie Traffic (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181865/), I highly recommend it. There's a scene where Michael Douglas' character, who plays the role of US Drug Czar, is in a room full of politicians and lobbyists. He is told by one of them that basically this is a war that will never be won nor end. The only success would be vaguely getting usage down. There will always be a demand that creates the supply.

edit: this scene from The Wire also has a great perspective on the war on drugs -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA5za4VsskM
You may be interested in "Made of Code" http://madeofcode.com/posts/29-photo-my-new-textmate-theme-8...

Sample of Made of code theme in SL2: http://d.not.mn/made_of_code_sample.png (the code is https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/swift/proxy/c...)
I always wanted a steam-powered laptop. Bring on the brass and leather!
It seems to be not working at the moment.

"An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments."
Works on my stock Samsung Galaxy Note I.

YMMV, but afaik, all stock Samsung builds have retained this feature.
"Simple observation of consumer behavior has shown over and over again that people simply don't care..."

Depends on who's doing the research, doesn't it? Because my repeated observation for 25 years is that, when people become aware how they're being screwed by -some- technology (starting with C64 copy protection), they turn away from it.

So the behavior you claim to observe only obtains so long as consumers can be kept ignorant about their options. You might hope for that, but once people discovered the flaws in Edison's phonographs and records, they moved on. And, oh yes, they will.
EXCLUSIVE: IDIOTS ARE EASY TO SCREW
Show HN: Docverter, the hosted document conversion service, is now open source
Show HN: Find an Awesome .COM Domain
I guess you're right, that's really the only choice we have; the government we have today, or the government of 1984.
There are predators in the works, aren't there? The term is somewhat subjective, but not very much so to the people who feel like they're lunch.
Nanotech research stifled by patents
Yeah, even my minimalist theme keeps comments salient: http://i.imgur.com/4uYrH.png.
Business economics vs. national economics

a purely business economic point of view does not make sense in public spendind. No highway is econimical for itself. One must consider the national economic benefits. With free software, it is clearly higher than for proprietary. The license fees fund the stakeholders of an American monopoly. Expenditure on migration, training, adaptations benefits local companies and people, improves and promotes the local know-how and the common good free software.
Why does every post on this blog have a hot girl attached to it? http://duckranger.com/author/admin/
Facebook might've been more interesting before becoming public, because you could get a lot of money at IPO if they gave you free stock. Now, not so much. Google is a much better company overall.
You can add any Github (or Bitbucket) repository to Package Control.
Computational Journalism Publishers Workbench 1.0.0 Released
Dogs definitely recognize their acquired family, human and canine (and feline, etc), with no vocalizations. My Shetland Sheepdog had near 100% accuracy going and finding a huge selection of latex toys (caterpillars, alligators, and so on) and knew them all by name, many by name and color. And, yes, I know the obvious retort of "but dogs don't see color", which is false, as it is for cats; the correct statement is that they are both _likely_ color blind in the sense that there exist colors distinguishable by humans which to dogs (and cats) look indistinguishable. So, I could ask her where she put her green alligator and she'd repeatably, for years, with such games return from god knows where later with well over 90% accuracy (even if it was a grey alligator to her).
That's actually a great argument in favor of SaaS I had never considered.
I had this exact same "we take our coffee break while this is loading" experience.

However it wasn't our code and we ended up fixing it, for free to the client and actually at a non-insignificant expense to us, because we wanted to show the client that we were better then the previous vendor in hopes of winning more of their business down the line (which we did).

So if you don't fix it you leave yourself open to competition.
This? http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/08/joint-policy-...

Please explain where Google harmed Internet freedom.
Without Google and Android the mobile Internet would be 98% gated by the iOS app store and 2% mobile web running on dead-ended mobile safari with a slow JS engine.
AFAIK, Portable version of Sublime Text 2 is only available on Windows
What about Randi Zuckerburg?
Isn't this the perfect case to find another job, quit, and have them beg you to come back as a contractor or for your actual worth?
Not on Google's mobile browsers :-(
This is neat! Thanks for making it open source.
Contrary data point: the only DRM I regularly pay for is Netflix streaming, and I could drop that without too much pain. (I do wish I could buy ebooks more often instead of paper books.)
If you're interested in this you might be interested in a another unsolved message.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case

Also written up recently at http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/riddle-on-the-sands-20121119...

Unfortunately the evidence is that decryption might depend on either a unavailable first edition of the Enlgish translation of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubaiyat_of_Omar_Khayyam
and/or information from a person who died in 2007.
Cooking your own configuration in the cloud
Although configuration is one of the most important aspects of cloud deployment, it is often neglected. There are several automation tools and platforms available, such as Opscode Chef or Puppet, but a minimal infrastructure is usually required to be able to use them. They are really good at automating configuration in large environments, but this is not always the use case in the cloud.

People want to create services in the cloud quickly and easily, without having to worry about infrastructure apart from the services that they are deploying. So how could service configuration be automated? SSH or command-line scripts are often very complex to build and maintain, and making them work on multiple operating systems can be painful. How could this be resolved quickly and easily? The answer is to team up Jclouds and Chef Solo. They’re a perfect match!
So companies can say "not our fault" when they provide services to enemies of the US/humanity.
At http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/community (package control website), there are tons of color schemes (just search for scheme) with their corresponding github repo (most of them with screenshots to preview).
Guy Kawasaki: "If a company can get just 1% of the people in China to drink its soda, it'll be selling a ton of soda. This is true. At the same time, it glosses over the difficulty of getting 1% of any market to use a particular product".
Agile Is The Route To "Differentiation" Applications
I for one am grievously offended. This degree of Truthspeak is a Droneable offense, and the number of priceless American jobs that would be lost with marijuana reform is an insult to the tens of thousands of Mexicans slaughtered for them.
Hey! Thank you! Really appreciate it, put a lot of effort in to writing it, and I hope you enjoy reading it. If you have any questions, feedback, comments, or even wanna bounce ideas off me, and have me play devil's advocate, I'd be more than happy to do so.
sounds like some employee hid this code somewhere

sleep(7*60) //coffe time
This is not a particularly enlightened view. While many people think top-down neuroscience like cognitive psychology, using techniques such as fMRI is the entire field, the majority of subfields in neuroscience are bottom up, and attempting to answer smaller-scale questions more concretely than we can in humans.

To say that there are some over-interpreted cognitive psychology studies so all of neuroscience is worthless completely misses the point.
Love love love the Tomorrow Night theme with comments. Though I would much rather have brighter comments.
Ill stick with apt and yum than you. They've proved themselves enough to me
Funny that governments always cite safety concerns, and yet I can't find any research that shows that services like Uber are less safe than taking a traditional cab.

What I do see are lots of lawsuits from incumbents about "unfair competition".
The flaw in the argument that ending the drug war will financially starve the cartels..(true) & if fighting criminality is our stated policy then it's the right thing to do..is that it's overlooking the accompanying weakening of the law enforcement- prison-military industrial complex & YES, I know people don't look at it that way, but the police & the entire drug fighting establishment are also an interest group set on keeping their budgets & their privileges.
Calderon is a coward, he should have stated the obvious before he was set to leave office. How many lives were lost in Mexico because of his stubborn delusion..or cynical political calculations ?
That is not what the posted article is about, though, so the title is still misleading.
Would be more interesting to negotiate something possble, like asking to buy something at a premium from the #1 guy. This was asking people to hand over something valuable for no reason.
I could picture myself reacting exactly as described. It's a good point.
I don't think Google plays the Walmart game, at least not consciously. A new Nexus phone is a buzz enough on its own. What is worth considering is the unusually low price for a new flagship product, which I believe easily doubled the demand. I suspect a logistical issue of some sort; maybe 3rd party related.

The Black Friday comparison is a stretch, but one can see a resemblance in spirit. Put all those F5's in one room with a pile of Nexus 4's and, changes are, you will see some action.
This is nicely named tool. I will never use it, but it is informative and I really like it.
Too bad you couldn't make it work as a business.

I have something similar, but a slightly different focus (image->image and pdf->image using Ghostscript/Imagemagick) here:

https://github.com/lookfirst/convert

It would be good to combine it all into a single service.
This reminds me of the Soviet claim in response to American criticism of human rights violations. "And you are lynching Negroes", the claim went, from the thirties on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

Point being, RT and similar Chinese outlets talk openly and fairly on issues USA hates to talk about as sovereign PR retaliation. Overall, the effect is positive: world powers muckrake each other and compete to see who can look least bad in the eyes of the World.
Ask HN: algorithm used in Hacker News, that determines the front page news
Whats the algorithm used in Hacker News, that determines which post gets to the front page.
Backbone is like jquery or express , it solves a problem , and that's it , not some bloatware like other webclient frameworks. People like simple , minimal things they can build on top. It is pragmatism vs opinion , minimalism vs maximalism ,bauhaus versus dadaism , lego vs playmobil.
That's pretty cool. Nice work.
If I was wrong in suggesting Astroturfing, then I apologize. And thanks for un-downvoting me.

Looking at what developers are choosing (when given a free choice) also makes me think that Microsoft is losing ground. They used to be able to claim "It's better" - a much more enticing sales pitch than "You can never leave".

On the enterprise front, going forward, it's going to be easier to get management interested in web/intranet delivered solutions via the PC (or iPad) browser. Far fewer worries about roll-out, hardware upgrades, etc.

One of the big arguments that Microsoft (and its partners) has always been switching/training costs. And with the Office 2010 button bar, coupled with Windows 8 'tiles', I think they've created a massive own-goal. It's pretty easy to roll a rock-solid Fedora/XFCE/LibreOffice/Thunderbird/Firefox image, which will feel very familiar indeed to users.
"Game development is sort of like being a musician. If nobody likes your songs, you can't make up for it in volume."

Love it.
This little tagline gimmick was done before it started.
Google Game Could Be Augmented Reality's First Killer App
+1 Thanks for sharing. Regarding the language of choice, I think there's some Scala, Erlang and other frameworks in the mix at either party. I think it depends on whether you're working on core products, or the duct tape that you mentioned. (Example, Twitter attracts both sides of the camp - Django and RoR). But regardless, with your skillset, I think you'll be happy with the challenges and intellectual stimulation at either place. It's ultimately about the cultural fit like you said. Congrats, and all the best on the new job!
I don't think it's that trivial an argument - firmware is being constantly modified to help the internet expand and secure itself, and software is in the same boat; the same cannot be said of Maxwell's work. While Maxwell was foundational, it's hardly in the state of flux that code is in.
Is it slow because of this coffee? : http://goo.gl/GPDSh
"Google's one of the few places where you can say "I have an idea that has a 5% chance of success, will take a year to investigate, but will radically change the world if it succeeds" and get buy-in from both management and your peers."

Is this really true for the average Googler? Honest question.

From what I hear from friends working there, superstars like Peter Norvig or Sebastian Thrun may get a year(EDIT or more! see comment below) to work on self driving cars or massive neural networks doing computer vision etc, but a lot of developers just fix production bugs on Gmail or Google Plus or whatever, and implement incremental features decided by their managers and don't really have the option to work on the cutting edge projects, especially if you aren't working in the Mountain View office.

(Not to challenge the rest of your points, they also tell me Google is a good place to work, but Sebastian Thrun might be able to pull off working on self driving cars even at Facebook.)

Fwiw, if I had to select between FB and Google, I'd go with Google (I have some superficial reasons not to work for FB, mainly because I don't want to do 'social networking'), but once in I'd do everything I could to change teams to one of these world changing groups ;).
If the ads weren't awful, people wouldn't block them.

Micropayment networks like flattr and gittip might work, if they could build social momentum like tipping a waitress.
It does matter when it comes to CO2 fixation though... if you only get 0.1% efficiency in fixing CO2 with biofuel production, but would get 1% with normal forestation, then there is a quantifiable difference.
Indeed, sometimes "bad but not enough to do something about it" is worse than "unacceptably bad". Broken central lock will get fixed immediately, broken driver's door lock will make the owner crawl over the passenger seat for weeks :)
I actually just added a wiki for this exact purpose, but had a problem deploying it.. spent 2 hours debugging, eventually rolled back with zero patience. I know what is wrong now and I will do it on monday. But yes, I understand the problem, and it is my goal to fix it with the wiki as a supplement to the resources.
Black Friday Steal: 2 Hours Left - 75% off Ice Cream Startups Book
What seven things can geniuses teach us about being more creative?
Lennart Poettering on Canonical's User Session Support in Upstart
A dad rewrites The Legend of Zelda for his daughter.
Gravity.

Score decreases over time, so interesting news bubble up, and older/no-longer-relevant news gradually decline.

(= gravity* 1.8 timebase* 120 front-threshold* 1
nourl-factor* .4 lightweight-factor* .17 gag-factor* .1)

(def frontpage-rank (s (o scorefn realscore) (o gravity gravity*))
(* (/ (let base (- (scorefn s) 1)
(if (> base 0) (expt base .8) base))
(expt (/ (+ (item-age s) timebase*) 60) gravity))
(if (no (in s!type 'story 'poll)) .8
(blank s!url) nourl-factor*
(mem 'bury s!keys) .001
(* (contro-factor s)
(if (mem 'gag s!keys)
gag-factor*
(lightweight s)
lightweight-factor*
1)))))
Yes, we've been working some on making the website more mobile-friendly -- just last week we added some styles for our topic pages:

http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra

Visit that page on a phone to see the alternate layout; we're also working on improving support for tablets.

I'll look into making the inputs use type="number"; off the top of my head, there's no reason why we shouldn't make that change.
I can't get it to work. I add the git web url, I restart sublime, go to install and the themes don't show up as options...
This seems to portray them in a negative light, but I think the lack of installers/uninstallers is wonderful.