skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, that was exactly the idea -- solicit feedback on something that works but hasn't too much 'chrome'. I received more than 200 really useful suggestions (and bug reports) and the tool will definitely evolve. It already is.
The JavaScript SDK – Truly Asynchronous Loading
Okay, those pics are definitely cool.
My city's aging infrastructure is having trouble withstanding the population boom that's come with recent high density building. Sewers, traffic, and public transit are all suffering from unchecked construction. Sometimes NIMBYs have good reasons to fight development.
Another good one, although Scheme oriented (like SICP) is How To Design Programs: http://www.htdp.org/

The second edition is a work in progress, but it gets you going pretty quickly with graphical programs, so it's a bit less cerebral (and arguably more interesting for many beginning programmers): http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/
I don't get it, how do i export, for example, some account's journal entries to Excel, or the list of fixed assets?
You're absolutely right. TOS is badly needed as well as stressing the point of the site -- reviews are private. Thank you for pointing that out.
Will we be able to explore the code and develop before making the choice to purchase the service and support?
I also wrote this response a while ago, which has additional details: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4530903
Free Forever is Dead, Long Live The Freemium Model
An absolutely valid point, thanks!
OpenPhoto + PixelPipe; 73 ways to liberate your photos
It was not just "timing" that killed Lisp (if one can even say that Lisp is dead -- I use it in my day-to-day work, and I am not alone). While the world's Lisp hackers were working on lofty AI dreams, the world's Unix hackers were spreading C to every college, university, and business out there. Had an open, portable, low-end OS like Unix been written in Lisp, I suspect the programming world would be a much different place today.
I think the issue is that good spam detection systems, at this point, require a server to do all of the processing. This is why they created Akismet and provide integration by way of a plugin.
It's also a store front for buying mp3s.
Ziggurat On Mars Astounding Mystery Discovered
Have you tried patching the now() method onto datetime.datetime instead of replacing the whole class? If that doesn't work, you could replace datetime first:

import freezegun; freezegun.monkey_patch()
from datetime import datetime

After that, freeze_time would just set a flag on your datetime class.
Firefox OS Simulator 1.0 is here
That is for a court to establish in what we call due process.

But what happened instead was that a prosecutor found they were not protected under safe harbor. With the stroke of a pen, that turned the business into a criminal racket. Overly general mafia and drug war laws then allow the prosecutor to confiscate property and freeze funds, killing the business.

Of course a judge still has to sign off, but there are no provisions for the accused to defend themself or even be informed of the process.
Other than admitting to piracy, his needs sound like the same as anyone with a music collection of any realistic size. I struggle with many of the same issues around the emphasis on the "album cover" as the unit of organization in 11, so I don't think it's as niche as you make it sound.

Agreed that it's a step away from the top level submission however.
Yep, happens the same thing with comments (found out thanks to a mouse malfunction)
Why skies are blue instead of purple
It took down the whole Chrome process.
My Takeaways Between the Differences of Blocks, Procs & Lambdas
The founder agrees. :) It's serious omission. Thanks!
> you can even make your own syntactic extensions, so if infix math is necessary, then you can
have it

...in what Lisp and how can one do this?
My favorite new feature: you can finally search through your own gists!

I use gists all day every day: it's where I dump and share pieces of reusable code. It's always been a huge pain to search for something you know you gisted, but can no longer find without browsing through 20 pages of 3-line excerpts. Search makes this a million times better.

The new code editor is also pretty sweet!
...no...he's probably referring to any other streaming music service, where you do get access to almost every album/song, like Spotify.

EDIT:

Yeah, see the guy he replied to. He's referring to Spotify Premium.
I think the problem is that people assume that extending the language means that everyone writes their own "for loop." Lisp programmers generally have enough taste not to do that, and if they do it's something more like writing the "iterate" package, which you can control with team policy.

Generally, though, where macros come in is in defining things that would otherwise involve a lot of boiler plate code. E.g. SBCL uses a DSL built on macros to make it easier to write reuasble backends.
Last time I tried to use Samba 4, earlier this year, most of the config directives I was trying to use weren't supported. Has that changed?
When someone casually states that he has an "80gb collection of pirated music," I assume he feels that the act of copying contrary to the wishes of the copyright holder is either a good thing or, at worst, ethically neutral.

For those of us who disagree with this idea, it is important call out instances that seem to minimize the significance of this. By remaining silent, we help encourage behavior we disagree with.

Opinions differ. Strategies for reforming copyright differ. But I think the issue is important enough that people who think it's OK to ignore copyrights en masse should be explicit about their beliefs. Is your opinion that:

1. Copyrights are bogus. I should be able to copy anything I get my hands on.
2. Copyrights are good if they benefit licenses such as the GPL. Copyrights are bad if they benefit big record companies.
3. Copyrights should apply to books. Copyrights should not apply to music or software.

My opinion is that there are many aspects of current copyright laws that I would like to see changed, but that generally current laws should be followed unless they rise to a level of evilness that calls for civil disobedience, a principled and public decision to disobey the law in an attempt to get the law changed. I also think that the benefit of the doubt should be given to the author of a creative work as to their wishes for the copying of the product of their work. Personal convenience or being a cheapskate are not, I believe, sufficient reasons to fail to pay for the copyrighted materials that you have obtained.
There's no need to be nasty.

What I mean is simply that though I object to the idea of bowing to a statue I could probably do it. Not that I could somehow fool them into thinking I had when I hadn't. I'm not that naive.

As for running off the mouth, I live with me all day. I have a pretty good idea what I can and cannot do. Your sample size of people who have gone to DPRK and had no trouble shutting up is both self-selected and not large--and they probably have better reasons to be there to boot. I would hope that people with my views and my trouble keeping them quiet would be smart enough not to go.
+1 Thanks!

The only thing I'm worried is spam proliferation once anything is public so everything needs to be really well planned ahead.
Promise my memory hasn't turned to mush-- if anything, it's improved?
That is the same point as tptacek. All these facts are for a court to find in due process.
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I'd say yes. In the bad old days, you only got to number 1 because of payola. Chances of an unsigned Korean artist getting there. 0. He for sure did not fit the boy band/pop star profile.

Now you can go from someone mostly unheard of to a global superstar outside of traditional channels. Now, if you are already someone signed on a big label and have a big name, then 8.1M may not be huge, especially for how popular it was.
For someone who's not familiar with the app, I have to do a lot of decoding of your home page to figure out what exactly the product is and why I should be interested.

Your /tour "Features" page explains it much better:

"TEAM INBOX & CHAT
Replace IRC, IM or Skype chat with Flowdock."

That's something I can quickly parse and immediately understand.

I also echo the sentiment that more screenshots (hopefully with call-outs/highlights) would probably help out.
This is a really cool idea - and it shouldn't be too hard to get it to talk to recommendations, personalisation & wishlist if those APIs still accessible as a web service? However, I haven't used the E-commerce service for a long time and I think it might have been turned off or replaced with something more advertising-oriented.
I can't make enough sense out of this comment to fully reply to it. The DoJ obtained enough probable cause evidence to support discovery of Mega's emails. The emails showed the owners and operators of the company conspiring, in black and white plaintext email, to further the use of MegaUpload as a vehicle for making money via piracy. The DoJ initiated a prosecution, which is now working its way through the court.

If you don't believe commercial piracy on an industrial scale should be criminalized, then naturally you'd believe that there aren't enough due process constraints on the DoJ to pursue those cases. But if you accept the fact that creating hugely profitable high-volume piracy applications is a crime under US law, it's hard to see the "due process" problem here.
Totally right, sorry for leaving it out-- basically I use that section for anything that doesn't fall into day-to-day stuff or to-dos. It's some idea I had that I wanted to put down, thoughts for the future, etc... Meeting notes go in the day breakdown (notice all the bright blue stuff blotted out of the day summary in the last screenshot). Hope that makes sense!
I agree, and the "cartel" that you've described carefully limits the number of foreign physicians who can compete with Americans. I agree with you about law at the middle to low end, but clearly the very elite schools still often lead to lucrative careers - and this is another field that clearly has established barriers to entry that make it more difficult for foreign firms or lawyers to compete.

Elite science and engineering programs, on the other hand, seem to be going in the opposite direction from the AMA and ABA - the graduate schools in these fields are willing to enroll a majority of international students, and the US senate is talking about "stapling a green card" to every graduate degree in a STEM field (but not to every JD, MD, or DDS). And even if they did include the professional degrees, the respective professional organizations are empowered by the US government to severely limit how and where they can practice.

All that said, I think this simply lends more support to my original point, which is that US citizens have discovered that the fields that require heavy science and math often put them in the path of competing with very talented immigrants and international students, whereas fields that require less math are more lucrative and offer a safe haven from international competition.

It may not be a free market at work, but it clearly is a rational and expected response to market conditions created by government policy.

In short, if you're a very talented US citizen who wants to maximize the return on the effort you put into education, it is rational to get a little bit good at math, but there isn't much of a premium on getting really good at math relative to what the professions offer. If you're an international student who aspires to immigrate to the US, on the other hand, getting really good at intensive math and science fields is a high probability way to gain access to the US market.
I hope the bot buys an ebook about horses.
To hazard a guess, I would say it's setting up min/max/preferred width/height or margins on UI components and then dynamically computing the best way to lay them out at display time or when the window size changes. Java has a GridBagConstraints layout manager class that does something like this, and similar layout management shows up elsewhere. Apple's new AutoLayout is a collection of constraints too.
BlackBerry Phones Get Free Calls Over Wi-Fi
Well, if the current version is any indication...

Fortuitously for this article, I've spent the entire day today trying to get samba sharing with AD. Oh, NT_USER_NOT_PERMITTED? Bbbut, the user is there; I even have it working on another server!

I'm sure it's my fault, but still, as of this moment, I hate samba more than almost everything.

At any rate, congrats.
Akismet, while a plugin, is included in the default WordPress install -- it just has to be activated. I'm not sure how a standalone install of WordPress would competently fight spam in the automated manner you're advocating. Since spam techniques are constantly evolving, it's a pretty challenging machine-learning problem to stay a step ahead. That's where services such as Akismet come in.

http://akismet.com/how/
One of the problem, every article talks about X% improvement in ONE SPECIFIC TYPE of solar cell. The next article is Y% improvement in a completely different kind of cell.

Also, "in a lab", and "in production" are two totally different things.
Probably clearing a biological sample through customs.
> One theory that's been postulated is that women have affairs to increase the genetic diversity of the sperm that compete for her egg, thereby increasing the chances that her children will have good genes.

That would be better expressed like this:
> One theory that's been postulated is that women have affairs.

The speculation about the reason for the affairs is just silly. Seriously. This made-up pseudo-evolutionary explanations for things that are so popular really do not add anything. Try it: ask 10 different women who have had affairs what their reason was -- they are real, live human beings, so you can ask instead of just speculating. I'm guessing that 0% of those women will say "to increase the genetic diversity of the sperm that competes for my egg".
This actually uses control moment gyroscopes [1] in a scissored-pair configuration, the subject of my undergrad thesis. These differ from standard gyroscopes in that they are gimballed to produce a reaction torque. They are actually most commonly used on large spacecraft for attitude control, so the comment about "technology from the ISS" is quite relevant.

However, the statement that there are "two for redundancy" is dubious. The torque from a control moment gyro is not produced in a constant vector - the torque vector rotates with the gyroscope as it is gimballed. Thus, if there was only one gyro, some component of its output torque would be aligned with the yaw axis, which would create some rather unpleasant and dangerous effects. The scissored-pair configuration is required to cancel out the yaw torque.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_moment_gyroscope
For statistics I'd be interested in seeing quantiles, regressions, and coefficient of determination.

I intend to contribute what I can in those areas.
Aye, if one has that much motivation to chuck Windows for AD, then it's only logical that Windows on the desktop, Exchange, etc., are not on the scene.

I've done a lot of work with other directory servers too, and AD does the best job of any when it comes to multimaster replication and a few other things. However, using it purely for LDAP for an environment full of Linux and OS X machines is a tough call...
The TFO cookie is only generated once per client "source IP" and is good until the key is changed on the server. (Scare quotes because at the source IP may be spoofed).

For an attacker to learn a cookie that's valid for a given victim "source IP", he only needs to be passive observer somewhere along the route. Even if we believe that's very hard in most cases, if it's possible at all, he has the mother-of-all anonymous reflected DoS amplifiers. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-fastopen-02#secti...

So, yeah, using a key that's rotated after a short amount of time -or- number of uses (whichever comes first) seems like a good idea.
In pretty much any Lisp by using macros. It is a 10 minute exercise in writing a simple parser, or you can just use one of the parser generators out there (plenty for Common Lisp, probably plenty for other Lisps).
Just a note, especially for non-Europeans who are thinking of doing this:

I just used 23andme from Canada during the $49 A/B testing. Delivery was next-day, and other than 15ml of saliva being a lot to collect, the process was pretty smooth. They say it'll take 2-3 weeks, but realistically it took them about 4 business days to process my sample.

Unfortunately, almost all the results are for Europeans. There may not be that much of a difference between Europeans and Asians (I'm not sure), but it's worth mentioning. They also don't test for repetition induced diseases, so things like Huntington's won't show up.
It's a personal preference, and it's still possible to pick a list view with no album art in iTunes 11. I often have a visual recollection of album covers, be it singles or whole albums as well as physical location (if it's real singles).

It's not really only albums that gains from album art, singles with remixes would still have a cover which I vastly prefer myself as compared to a blank square.

Still it's a critique of iTunes as such, while the submission is related to generating color themes from an image algorithmically.
Google Docs is, as far as I know, OpenOffice

I've never heard about this before, and if true, would be really interested in knowing more about the story behind this.

Got some choice links?
That's grim and completely unacceptable!
+1 for full-res screenshots. I like to see what I'm getting before having to create an account and download an app.
I know it is not the same as a supported module, but zfsonlinux.org has been reliable for me on a CentOS 6 dev box. Of course as an RC, I would not deploy it in production, but I have high hopes.
Define a function that transforms an infix form to a prefix form.
Write a reader macro that understands some special character to mean that the following form is an infix form and uses the function above to transform it.
Done.
POP: Turn Your Paper Mockups into Working Prototypes
You could do it in ~15 lines with Clojure: http://www.fogus.me/fun/unfix/infix-src.html

I suspect most Lisps would require about the same.
I forgot to add: Poor HN comment by Stratoscope.

I'm sorry, Rebecca, I should have found a much more polite and constructive way to phrase my comment. Please forgive me for my bad attitude yesterday.

Perhaps I could get back to you with some more positive and specific suggestions on how the article could be improved? In the meantime I just wanted to apologize for the tone of my comment.
Reminds me of:
http://xkcd.com/576/
What's a good music player for OS X? I just want something simple that plays mp3s etc. and helps me manage my collection. Even before this redesign, iTunes was too bossy for me to like it. Is there something like Winamp when it was good?
I get the impression that Clojure is at least entering the conversation in some places. Some companies that need concurrency control capabilities that they find difficult to implement in Java are starting to use Clojure, or at least considering using Clojure to make certain Java business applications threadsafe. The fact that Clojure runs on the JVM and can be called from inside a Java application makes this easy to do, but in a bottom-up campaigning situation the hard part is convincing management to sign off on your use of the language as an "approved tool."
Twitter adds filters, but misses the point
"From just those sources, PSY and his camp will rake in at least $8.1 million this year, according to an analysis by The Associated Press of publicly available information and industry estimates. But for online music sales in South Korea, he'll earn less than $60,000."

This is the important part of the article. He earns around US$0.00015 per song sold in his own country via online sales. He earns a hell of a lot more via Youtube and iTunes. What gets him up to 8M is other advertizing deals.
Good job team!
As an employee of a company that uses ADP, I can certainly say that their software has a horrible user interface and its login authentication system is from 1996. So, having two other large payroll companies (Paychex and Intuit) certainly hasn't pushed ADP into improving their UI.
This was done a few years back as the result of an XKCD, the original article is gone, but there's a few articles about it: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-11/09/xkcd-packages... http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20022153-1.html it's a cool idea.

Not sure if I'm imagining it, but I think that someone built this into a web service that you could subscribe to and it would buy things for you every day. Does anyone remember this? I can't find anything via HN search, but I'm sure it was a show HN at some point.
I normally don't like when someone posts an xkcd link, but this was the first thing that came in my mind http://xkcd.com/576/
For bolding text, create an attributed string and draw it with CoreText. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8322020/display-nsattribu...

If you only support iOS 6, you can use a UILabel and set the "attributedText" property.

I notice a lot of new iOS developers jump to open source libraries to abstract away important frameworks. It might save an hour, but I think it's counterproductive to not do things by hand the first time.
Being a native Swede very much into electronic music I was very interested in learning about Ákos Rózmann! He was a complete stranger to me until now. Thank you very much.
Steve Jobs and the Meaning of Work
While it's true that there are regional price/rent divergence phenomena, the transactional costs exceed the profits and effectively segment owner-occupied and renter-occupied housing into noninterchangeable goods. Quoting from a BLS meta-study [1] who cites an earlier BLS manuscript by the same author (original paper unavailable):

> Despite this novel divergence finding, the third novel finding is that there were evidently no unexploited profit opportunities. The detached-unit rental market is surprisingly thick, and detached housing is readily moved between owner and renter markets, so the capital specificity issue highlighted by Ramey and Shapiro (2001) should not play a big role. However, the large costs associated with real estate transactions would have prevented risk-neutral investors from earning expected profits by using the transaction sequence buy–earn rent on property–sell, and would have prevented risk-neutral homeowners from earning expected profits by using the transaction sequence sell–rent for one year–repurchase. The large wedges offer a partial explanation of the significant divergences: rents and user costs might evolve somewhat independently until their divergence becomes large. Another way to put this is that the owner-occupied and rental markets are segmented.

[1] http://siteresources.worldbank.org/ICPINT/Resources/270056-1...
Only on Hacker News would the top reply to a comment about a person discovering their father was not their biological father be about privacy and opt-ins...
They're determined to move away from what made them a cool distro in the first place.
thank you, interesting link. Does TCP Fast Open have anything to do with the "slow start", which a few major websites are known to violate[1][2] ? just out of curiosity. It doesn't look so, at a first glance.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-start
[2] http://blog.benstrong.com/2010/11/google-and-microsoft-cheat...
Intel brings ARM alternative to data centers, including Facebook's