skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some useful arguments but the sarcasm isn't needed…

And it belittles some of the complicated arguments such as: If you develop to the test, the test will always pass— but that doesn't mean that your software is any good. Loosely coupled development and testing can result in the tests being more powerful proxies for overall quality.
We run BigCouch from Cloudant and it's amazing. They are awesome folks and spoke at our conference last year.

https://github.com/cloudant/bigcouch

Disclaimer: I'm the community manager for http://www.2600hz.com
I think the truth is no one is truly "happy". Its just a word that expresses an ideal emotion that can be felt for periods of time. "Being happy" is also a industry in itself, think about it.
Where is the Senate resolution?
For anime in this genre, the pace can be a bit slow at times. This series is definitely character driven, as opposed to being event driven (although there are of course events that drive the characters). Since it's a bit of a "coming of age" story the focus is more on their development, and it takes a few episodes for the anime to set the background for the story and its players before it starts "moving."

One way to appreciate this approach is to contrast the storytelling techniques of western comics vs Japanese manga in the 90s (as they have since borrowed a lot from each other). The book "Understanding Comics" explains how in a western comic book each frame, while containing art, typically contains a lot of text. The story in western comics at the time was very textually driven, with the art as an accompaniment to help illustrate (ha!) what occurred in the text.

In contrast, manga could spend pages on images where the only "text" would be textual sound effects, devoting much space to creating an ambiance or mood. Furthermore, dialog might be more sparse and short, with greater reliance upon illustrating emotion. In fact, one of the reasons that the stereotypical anime style of big heads / large eyes developed was because of the realization that it was an effective technique to wordlessly convey emotions in characters (although this style actually originated in a western comic, Betty Boop).

Sorry, my memory is a bit fuzzy as to how Understanding Comics explained this all, but if you consider this difference in approach to storytelling, you might better understand what "slice of life" anime are doing. The intent isn't necessarily to pull you into a series of events and "go somewhere" immediately.

That being said, I heartily recommend this series. I had always found jazz interesting, although it was a bit too esoteric for me to know where to start. This series introduces jazz through some songs that are very easy to get into, even though they have a lot of depth. The end result of this, for me, was that I ended up taking up the sax and loving it. :)
Announcing the Canopy Labs Customer Data Framework
One of the Top E-Commerce Website in India Stores Passwords Incorrectly
This is the main philosophy of the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita which says :

"Your right is only to work, and never to its fruits.
Don't be motivated by the fruits of work. Nor should you be attached to inaction."
Wages have not declined.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/ECIWAG
Still many reputed websites stores their passwords in clear text... which is very frustrating. Here are my assumptions why it is like that

1. Developer(or one who designed it) has no knowledge in security.

2. Even if the developer has knowledge, adamant lead who doesn't have any knowledge in security won't allow the developer to change the code he has written.

3. If it is an existing application and business is running smoothly. Business guys won't allow to make any changes
Apple Hires Hacker Who Helped Save Windows From Security Hell
We have a saying in Germany:

> People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

( don't criticize other people when you yourself have faults and weaknesses )
While not being able to comment on 6.001, at Stanford there is an alternative for ``enthusiasts'' called 106X, which is a sort of more intense version of the 106B class and is taught in C++ I believe. Some students skip A/B and just take X. A, B and X all get really good reviews.
TDD is test driven development. You are talking as though TDD is same as adding unit tests.
i don't really disagree with you (and i felt unfair even when posting).

in my defense, all i can say is that what rubs me the wrong way is not the process, or the fact that someone is learning, but the tone. yes, we're all on these different stages at different times. but once you acknowledge that, shouting about any particular one as "the" solution seems a bit strong. especially when you know that you're going to look back on this particular point as just one more - perhaps confused - step.
$80 is about £50.

Here are some t-shirts at that price. (http://www.bbcicecream.eu//category/t-shirts)

I don't think there's anything other than the logo to make them that expensive. There's no fair trade or made-in or organic or anything else. Just a logo.
Kernel programming isn't some mystical art, you can just hack on it and see what happens like anything else. It takes more work to get any particular thing done and it's harder to debug, but I wouldn't discourage someone from making a startup just because it required kernel development and they didn't know anything about it.
Being Uncharitable to Those Who Disagree
WTF? This was a somewhat incoherent list of "stats stuff"; I especially liked the equation:

signal
confidence = ------ x \sqrt(sample size)
noise

(none of the terms in the 'equation' were defined beforehand) which was led into by 'so when someone says “is your result statistically significant?” then it means he is really asking “What is the likely hood that your result has not occurred by chance”' No no no no no no no no no no non.

Edit: corrected despair-induced typos.
The times are right now.

Manufacturing in the country seems to have bottomed out a few years ago. Since 2008 several big manufacturers have been bringing jobs back from overseas.

The plain truth is that outsourcing was probably done too fast, by too many companies. There are a lot of reasons for the new in-sourcing:

1. Chinese wages climb every year.
2. American wages especially in unionized workforces have declined as unions allow for lower starting pay.
3. Oil has gotten more expensive -- ships use oil.
4. American natural gas has gotten much cheaper -- many factories use natural gas energy.
5. Companies have better QC and time to market when producing locally.

Not all jobs will come back. Nor should they. But it's definitely happening.
Maybe Google's Course Builder

https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/
Yep, I already use that, but it only works for people in your Gtalk "friends" list or somesuch, so I still see that for anyone who contacts me that I haven't talked to previously.
copyright reform is a fringe issue

5 years ago, it was. Today, after the SOPA/PIPA thing, it's much more mainstream. People who 5 years ago thought I was weird for talking about Lessig, today are familiar with Sonny Bono and feel strongly against copyright extensions.
"This memo starts out with a highly dubious argument about the meaning of the copyright clause."

What's dubious about it? Isn't that the standard constitutional interpretation? I've always heard that it's supposed to work like a balance with incentives for creators on one side and public domain access on the other side, with the goal being to maximize invention and innovation.
I think you just described the Libertarian party...
Zynga applies for Nevada Gambling License
I think that can be taken further. I may well be wrong, but I don't find it hard to imagine many free market people would say "Why should a person's work EVER pass into the public domain?!"
This is also an English expression.
"Our brains are already better at strategy than the most advanced computers"

--- for how much longer? and when taken at scale, is the human race really all that great at strategy? We are so much at the mercy of emotions to ever be truly great strategists. What if, for example, given food production and water usage etc the math dictated that the population must reduce, do you really think this strategy would be adopted? Of course not.

i don't really see the point of self-flying helicopters, it's not like there's a shortage of bright young men and women who want to fly these things. The real challenge isn't flying helicopters, but finding ways to resolve situations without blowing shit up. As fun as that might be...
Seems like evidence in support of the relative success of the "Scroogled" campaign then, at least in targeting people dumb enough to post things they don't understand (presumably on the basis of the pun catching their eye...?)
Though I love the concept of backing up all my social messages continually (does it sync to my desktop like Dropbox?), backups for backups sake usually don't see much widespread adoption. You have to offer something as the central benefit and backups as the unsung bonus. Like Dropbox solved file sharing and syncing across devices.

You could try, for instance, syncing different microblogging accounts in terms of people followed (Twitter, App.net and Diaspora) and a central hub for seeing incoming mentions and dms (think the now defunct CoTweet), and aggregation of contacts for phone (iPhone and Android apps that do a better-than-vanilla job ) so that I have one contact for each person, grabbing latest info from all networks.
Trello for Agile Development at BlockAvenue
I bought a few CRT monitors in the past 10 years, do I get any benefits from those $1.92B? I don't think so.
effective and well-funded government

I think that first word there is probably the main problem "we" have with the whole notion.

You even go on to list examples how our historically unrivaled well-funded government[1] has failed to do anything "effective" of the sort:

health care, energy reform, infrastructure, social safety net

You should really add in "education and housing" to the list of extraordinary government failures.

[1] http://www.heritage.org/federalbudget/federal-spending
Can we stop this hero worship please. We're all adults here and while Steve Jobs was clearly a great leader of Apple, we don't need the constant Steve-was-god rhetoric.
Apple to bring back U.S. Mac production in 2013
The reason this is mostly true is that most developers are doing CRUD apps. Its been like that from COBOL through VB through to Web Apps, nothing really changes. Learn it once and then just repeat. Once you stray into a field where some domain knowledge is needed then experience counts for a lot more.
You're right that perhaps what the paper was saying was to radical to be really implemented but sometime radical things are need to bring change! You can't be paying over a billlion dollars for the music in a single ipod...
Hmm...a 90min Youtube will have to wait until I'm done writing tests.
I'm about to turn 21, but I've been about the same height and weight since I was 11 years old. Two years ago I tried a new pair of sneakers, otherwise most of the clothing I own are gifts from the holidays (a sweater, slacks, work boots). The rest is clothing from when I was in middle school or just things from my father's or grandfather's closet. When I do buy clothing, I want it to either be incredibly inexpensive or something that I'll never have to replace. I could care less about branding or design if it still fits well and looks right.
Happiness comes from making sincere efforts in challenging endeavors that at least some other people think are worthwhile.
Xhosa is our most exotic language. But will try to find ChiSukwa too if needed.
Autopsy of a Failed Growth Hack
Scary thought, also when armies can't think for themselves.
Oh, we certainly do massive automated testing. Our release testing script takes currently an 8-core machine about 4 days, and our nightly test runs on about 6 configurations, taking about 2 hours.

However, often the units have properties which are very difficult to specify in isolation, and from experience almost all bugs come from many algorithms reading and writing the same data structure (I'm not thinking of threading issues here, although they are another issue).

Consider something like a sudoku solver (the things I work on are much more complicated than that). Usually writing the function which checks the condition 'a row/column/box are all different' is very simple. The errors come when these functions interact, each effecting each other as they are called.

Certainly, this kind of situation is very unusual. Most people write code which lends itself more naturally to test-driven development, and in those situations I approve of it.
Shpaml - A DSL (in python) for HTML generation
i have a game on hn, where i try to guess how many posts before someone criticises "the government". you beat even my cynical best guess here.
We'll find out in ten years.
How much do the Mad Men really drink?
> Single-issue voting is a great way to empower crazy people.

I'd never thought of it that way, but it's a damn good point.
Have you checked the JavaScript console?
"Apple is making the exact same mistake the RIM made. They've gone from targeting hardcore fans, to targeting teenagers."

What is a RIM "hardcore fan" these days, and how many of them still buy RIM products? How profitable is the demographic who wants a smartphone but needs a full keyboard?
We were running our own Bigcouch cluster and having all sorts of issues scaling to large numbers of databases (50k+), but after moving to Cloudant it handled it just fine.

It does cost more, but we don't worry about our database now and can focus on what we're actually good at.

Their search feature seems to be pretty good too. It is based on Lucene and is very flexible!

Chris Sharkey, Bislr
Historically the limit on voltage has been the dielectric constant for air. Once you exceed it, the air ionizes, and you get a short. Visible as 'lightning' going through the air from source to its ground counterpart. Transmission line effects limit the ability to send AC power long distances as the every time you switch the potential you generate magnetic fields and some of the energy is radiated off into the space around the wire.

AC has been more desirable to date because of a relatively easy infrastructure for converting it, and for sharing it on the same line. Transforming DC into AC is easily done by driving a generator set but for most things you'd want the genset to convert to 'standard' three phase AC and then re-use existing city wide infrastructure.

What bothered me about the article was that nowhere does it explain how you can make a DC breaker that can actually disconnect at those voltages. Since the dielectric constant is a function of distance, when the breaker first opens there is an arc because, the current really really wants to keep flowing. And the dielectric constant of ionized air is quite small. "Regular" breakers have a fan that kicks in once they get to a minimum distance apart to "blow out" the arc (it pushes it out to extend it and thus 'break' it, see the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIkNY5xjy5k for how this works)

Anyway, would love to hear actually what it was they invented.
Georgia Advocacy Council Verses Socialist Enemy Agenda 21
They are abnormal in the sense that they are a minority. It's not a value judgement.

Do you accept that those with enough proficiency to be creating commercial software have different modes of computer usage to the majority that don't?
WHY is this the "best sweatshirt known to man"?

The article doesn't provide any information about American Giant's manufacturing or retail processes except that it's all done in the US.
no, not at all. I quoted "reporting" because hn isn't a journalistic site, it's a news aggregator/curator or whatever. I actually meant it! There are so few good ways of discovering the good mobile stuff from the crap that I am truly glad this is now making it onto HN.
In what way? I'm no huge fan of RMS, but McAffe is in a whole different league of "weird relationship with computers and the internet".
Salaries are one of those numbers where averages are a very poor metric. The compensation for the highest earners tends to be astronomically more than those a few percentage points lower on the pay scale. I suspect the median salary of CEO's is still somewhere around the 750K range.
I'm fearing this could be the new <marquee> or <blink>, or because iPods (and iPads?) don't have vibrate it won't be used.
Sun, SGI, Commodore and IBM stopped making personal computers... so yes, Apple compares very well indeed!
106a is meant to make programming accessible to people who aren't or weren't considering being a CS major. I would say it is one of the most well thought and enjoyable classes at Stanford.
How to add a custom compiler to Xcode 4
For me, having a close personal friend pass away illustrated with painful precision how little time we have in our lives. In the blink of an eye, we'll be on our deathbed.

There is nothing more valuable than time. Nothing.
this has to be one of the dumbest things I've seen written on hn for a while. Are your reading comprehension skills really so challenged?
It's not clear to me iPhone/iPad/iPod won't come back at some point. The news that Foxconn has started replacing workers with machinery means the labor cost portion of manufacturing is going to go down, regardless of geographical location. Robots in China aren't going to be any cheaper than Robots in the US, I don't think.

Of course, the number of people required will be a lot lower, so the number of jobs brought in likely won't be that large.

I've heard the supply chain argument a lot, so it might take a while, but the original reason for outsourcing, ie: low labor costs, is eventually going to go away.
In a browsing session, the Google account you sign in to first will be the default account used by Google.

For Plus, the link for using your second session (as given in the Switch Account menu in the top right) is https://plus.google.com/?authuser=1 . You should also be able to use https://plus.google.com/u/1/ , which is the link used in the top-of-page nav menu on google.com after switching to your second session.
Can you tell me pls, do you archive only HTML or also and other assets?
" if my choice of senator or congressperson helps make the difference between a land war in Iran or not"

It doesn't.
As ususal, looks like the best description made it into Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current

The ABB breaker contains four switching elements, two mechanical (one high-speed and one low-speed) and two semiconductor (one high-voltage and one low-voltage). Normally, power flows through the low-speed mechanical switch, the high-speed mechanical switch, and the low-voltage semiconductor switch. The last two switches are paralleled by the high-voltage semiconductor switch.

Initially, all switches are closed (on). Because the high-voltage semiconductor switch has much greater resistance than the mechanical switch plus the low-voltage semiconductor switch, current flow through it is low. To disconnect, first the low-voltage semiconductor switch opens. This diverts the current through the high-voltage semiconductor switch. Because of its relatively high resistance, it begins heating very rapidly. Then the high-speed mechanical switch is opened. Unlike the low-voltage semiconductor switch, which is only capable of standing off the voltage drop of the closed high-voltage semiconductor switch, this is capable of standing off the full voltage. Because no current is flowing through this switch when it opens, it is not damaged by arcing. Then, the high-voltage semiconductor switch is opened. This actually cuts the power. However, it only cuts power to a very low level; it is not quite 100% off. A final low-speed mechanical switch disconnects the residual current.
This neglects one important consideration (for me, anyway), which is convenience. It's nice not to have to maintain a stock of bottles or cans.
Our pricing as stated on the page can be somewhat confusing. We're working on making it both less expensive and more transparent to the end user.
Presumably the reason they changed it is becase "twttr" sounds stupid. :P

Every time I see a name like this, I think: Great, now what do you do when you tell someone to go to your domain? How do you pronounce Twttr or fllwrs in conversation? Do you say "Twitter without the i or the e. Followers without the o's or the e."? That's dumb. You shouldn't need to explain how to type your URL. Chances are I will forget. To complicated.

It's a stupid naming pattern. People need to stop it. -_-
> --- for how much longer? and when taken at scale, is the human race really all that great at strategy?

We still mop the floor with Go programs and AI in RTS games.
A friend of mine with a dark and cynical wit, with whom I was enjoying a good dinner at a large and crowded restaurant, looked around him and declared: "So this is what people do? They just exist."

That is the end of the conversation on happiness and most people for me. Despite being brilliant and greatly successful in their chosen fields, not a person I was friends with in school is now in a job that they take joy in. None of my old coworkers who talked on and on about how they hated their jobs have moved on to better things. The most contented people I know do not do very much with their lives. These are not the 'successful' people, nor are they people with whom I would want to spend an enormous amount of time, as they do not have much of interest to say.

It has been suggested that melancholia and depression are deeply related to intelligence and creativity. Good; bring it on. I would much rather have moments of doubt and darkness and get to enjoy all the fruits of the intellectual and creative life than the banal calmness of normal existence.
As for why people keep saying that Apple is targeting teenagers, the reason is that the iPhone has a crazy bathtub curve to its user base and most people only see half of it. The wealthiest, most successful business people I know all own iPhones. On the other hand, all the people I know with who are unemployed with uncontrolled substance abuse issues also own iPhones. Everyone in the middle owns Android. In a particularly funny anecdote, I knew someone who went through rehab, got clean, and almost immediately tried to replace his iPhone with an Android.

If you don't know any crackheads, then the iPhone seems like the phone of the wealthy entrepreneur. If you don't know any people who are successful in business, then the iPhone looks like the choice of the crackheads. Your experience is warped, but no more so than those who say its the phone of teenagers.
Ruby Hash#fetch default value gotcha
Do the Easy Ones First
Zynga Antes Up on Gambling : Stock price rises
Yes, among small-L libertarians there are very strong schools of thought for both stronger and weaker IP protection. And each thinks the other is nuts.
IPhone and iPad are terribly boring, what's next?
Interesting take on the evolution of new technologies. It is true that iPhone updates are more and more obvious and that we miss that WOW effect that Steve Jobs use to provide. What's next then?
Sinofsky was a great tech leader and shipper of products. The people who replaced him seems weak sauce.

I'm not sure if firing someone creates faster progress in an area vs. just shipping more products.
Hey, c'mon, I only paid like ~$2500 for mine.

;)