skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He lived a full and beautiful life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOi45THGJdQ
agreed, which is why Microsoft should be held to account for not prioritising fixing this problem. However, I felt that the portrayal of this particular hole in the linked article made it out to be more than it is.
How we use Backbone.js to build our startup – Part 2: Routers
HTTPKit does support WebDAV, Auth & SSL. But CocoaHTTPServer looks nice as well.
Well, barring actual dirt on your face, if you don't smell no-one will be able to tell how often you shower. Or care.
I wound up taking two screenshots, one showing the top, one showing the bottom. It kinda worked, but it was the only kludgy part of the experience.
The complete package page looks a bit messy to me (messy stacks of videos and what not).
A traditional picture of a Polish wedding is a huge village party lasting for two days with huge families, everybody is totally hammered, there's the creepy drunk uncle, and for sure there must be at least one fight after which nobody remembers what was it about. Nowadays, especially in big cities, it has somehow faded away. Probably because weddings are so expensive and people came to their senses as they have their contemporary problems, also it's not viewed as cool to trash a wedding, so maybe people tend to control themselves more on such occasions. People get really hammered on casual home parties among friends and clubbing in town, not on weddings.

It's something sometimes hard to explain to Americans, but in Poland, Russia, and most of Eastern Europe in general, vodka is a big deal. People don't care about drinking beer or wine (although they are very popular), but there is a certain culture and ruleset about drinking vodka.
I once wrote a C++ scaffolder in Lisp.

It's amazing to have one of these. But it's even more amazing to code one yourself. Everyone should do it.

Right now I want a Lua Rails like framework (I'm always interested in raw machine performance).

It seems Orbit (http://keplerproject.github.com/orbit/) is what I am looking for.
The science-fiction series Babylon 5 used this as a plot device in one episode - a group of hostages were located partly by identifying the background hum of machinery in the terrorists' video of demands.
It's actually true that people respond better to longer sales pages. It's been an internet marketing staple for years.
For chefs, almost certainly. For waiters (i.e. the ones relying on tips), well, not so much. The expectation appears to be that nicer restaurants will be frequented by relatively wealthy patrons who are perhaps more willing to tip gratuitously for exceptional service. This keeps waiters on their best behavior without having to pay them a higher wage up-front.

Source: friend who works as a waiter at the most decadent restaurant in town.
yes. people like me worry about people like you.
&&/|| can bite you just as well:

if first_user = User.find(4) && second_user = User.find(6)
...
end
>> I'm surprised to be honest but maybe I'm missing something.

Give it a proper whirl, you'll never go back.

Proper python REPL history across sessions (not hacking up a substitute using a $PYTHONSTARTUP file to load readline history and register an at exit handler to dump history). History becomes as useful as a large shell history (i'm sure i did something similar last year, what was it?...)

In line charting, makes visualising any random thing (runtime of function, memory usage etc.) so easy you'll start doing it all the time.

The webserver notebook can stream line collaboration with co-workers. I like the ability to make "interactive documentation", although truth be told i haven't used this as much as i could yet.
What other OSes do you require? GNUStep lists various BSDs, various Linuxes, HP/UX, Solaris, Windows and some embedded systems:

http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform_compatibility

I also had a large-ish system running on AIX.
My first shell was csh. I put off switching to tcsh, but eventually did. After a while I grew used to the new features of tcsh, with tab completion being the most obvious. I then went back to csh on some machine and realized just how dependent on was on tab completion. It became frustrating to type all of the filename again, rather than just the first few characters<tab> follows perhaps by some another character+<tab> for disambiguation.

I don't want to go back to a shell without tab completion. Is tab completion extremely useful? Functionally, no. I can live without it. But I will avoid that if at all possible, and that's not something I felt before I used tab-completion.

I get the sense that IPython is the same way. It's not essential, but after many have used it they have the sense that they don't ever want to be without again.
video with article here where you can see it working: http://live.wsj.com/video/dual-screen-russian-smartphone-to-...
bought the book. very well designed sales page that is convincing. Too bad the pricing seems abit wonky (50 dollar jumps is a bit weird IMO).

Ah well, I prefer reading anyways :D
Ahh.. I forgot about the quotes. That's what I get for posting immediately after waking up. Thanks :)
It sounds quite noisy inside from the video
That gramatical error was particularly grating. As for the price umbrella created by introducing the $250 product first, I'm unsure. When dealing with very large sums, it's difficult to make one value appear comparatively "trivial." $70 is certainly less money, but it still, unequivocally, a lot of money for a book.

I also contend this umbrella phenomenon because, with such a high starting price, it's likely to just alienate people. I saw that first price, assumed that it could only get higher, and nearly closed the page. Linear introduction of information can afford the seller ways to manipulate the customer, but it can backfire on them as well...
How to start a business and not get punched in the face
I found this pretty shitty too.
I want a browser plugin that hides all position:fixed elements on all websites.
Very cool. Here's my attempt at it, which uses the JS library Color Thief: http://thomaspark.me/project/expandingalbums/
Your favourite authors and artists have day jobs.

Why should musicians be any different?
I was lucky enough to find IPython early on when I started with Python. I'm constantly amazed with its feature set. Some cool things I found useful:

The "run" command for running python scripts:

* -t to print timing information

* -p to print profiling info from profiler module

* -d run the script under pdb interactively (with -b to set line breakpoints)

* -n to set __name__

All of these things can be done fairly easily on their own, but doing it through IPython makes the output so much easier to read and work with.

Whenever I'm working with data I need to visualize, I like to use:

ipython qtconsole --pylab=inline

to get a terminal-like window that has inline graphs from matplotlib functions.
It can be defeated by jamming the relevant frequency bands, i.e. by overlaying other mains recordings with random fluctuations. No deed to remove the original.

I'm not sure a notch filter would be enough because, even though the mains is supposed to be a perfect sine wave, some harmonics occur (sometimes with a much higher frequency). Perhaps by filtering all harmonics as well? Sound quality isn't exactly a must in these situations.

It requires a technically astute criminal, though, and most aren't.
Don't call this things "voting machines", call them what they primarily are: computers.

The word machine implies predictability and being built for one purpose only. Computers are not predictable and are furthermore designed to solve any problem, including committing election fraud.
I hate this line of thought with a passion. So if your talent happens to be musical you're only hope for a remotely related career is to be a loss leader for niche retail?

Plus if you're just taking stock shirt and putting your bands name on them then you're little better than a pan handler begging for money. People are only buying your outrageously priced shirts to keep you playing music. Why can't we just pay artists for their contribution to society instead of "pretend buying" their overpriced t-shirts?
Agreed. It's just not worth it, especially with implicit return.
any particular reason you are not mapping to the aggregation framework which is a lot faster ?
Some initial feedback was that people didn't know what I meant by web application. So they asked that I provide examples.
It's really hard to find good concise help in this area, if Nathan's previous book: http://nathanbarry.com/app-design-handbook/ is anything to go by, this should be excellent. Purchasing now.

I'm also looking forward to seeing the response from this landing page - Nathan's normally really kind about transparency when it comes to this sort of thing. Great job.
PyPy had 1,353,000 euro in EU funding, so they have received a similar amount already. However, pypy is also a much more ambitious project, and needs a lot more funding than IPython to achieve its full goals.
You talk as if your way is fundamentally different. In both cases someone is curating what kind of music you hear for you because there are far too many bands to hear them all. The question is just who is making the selection for you.
Against 'Objective' Algorithms: The Case of Google News
Yep, that's exactly the rationale. Some people shower just-in-case, some don't. Different strokes.
Why Afternoon May Be the Best Time to Exercise
Spotify is good for popular music. But try being classical/opera fan and using Spotify. Though I hear it's getting better.

I have a 120GB music library in iTunes. And most of it was ripped from CD's. I'm not happy about iTunes 11 due to Cover Flow an DJ being dropped (I liked both) and - I don't know, maybe I'll give Spotify another go.
Quabel – An online text editor helping you write distraction free
Perhaps less of SQL can be mapped to the aggregation framework than to map/reduce.
Any chance you're going to have the book printed? I like reading on paper, still.
Fixed. I didn't realize that was a mistake. Thanks for pointing it out.

I'm not sure what works better for pricing, so I am trying this layout as an option. I did pack a lot of awesome stuff into the complete package, so I want everyone to see it.
Scanning his submissions, I think http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/48/entry-4298-lessons... is relevant.
this looks like keyboard input not mouse input?
I haven't found a good printer to work with. Though I would also like to get some copies printed.
Amazon is choosing to sell via iOS devices. They did fine before the iPhone was released, and I doubt having to forgo the sales via IAP is making a dent in their non-existent profits...

Here's a game. Go to Amazon, tell them you want to become one of their merchants. See how far they'll negotiate with you regarding their cut of your sales...

iOS is Apple's platform, just as much as Amazon is a platform for sales. Apple has just as much right to control it via rules and fees as Amazon does.
How to prevent your Wordpress or Joomla site from getting hacked
Why are the packages not sorted by names ?
Tornado not there ?
Wtf with the background ?
Looks great, I was going to build something very similar to this for a side project. Look forward to trying it out.
return False;
What is amazing is how much of those timeless insights is still relevant 6 years from its writing, or even 6 years from now into the future.

What is more amazing is even someone who possesses so much insights, has sufficient financial ammunition and more than enough connection and reputation couldn't make alltop.com a big success.
Evidently not--Galina Vishnevskaya didn't make it today.
That feeling when you check your cc balance, and you notice that godaddy took 5$ for some service you never wanted in the first place...
This looks really fantastic, great job. How long will the promotional pricing be available? I want the 'complete package' but won't be able to stump up the cash for a couple of weeks.
The following are equivalent:

if /(?<meaningful_var>regexp)/ =~ string
puts meaningful_var
end

if /(regexp)/ =~ string
puts $1
end

This may not look like much, but bare in mind you may be using the current selection in several places, at which point you'll probably use the following for readability either way:

meaningful_var = $1

In any case I think that sometimes the latter is preferable, that's why I'm not into these kind of black and white conventions. OMG, this line is 85 characters, you suck.
Why we won’t have tablet-native journalism
Ask HN: How are you dealing with scraping hits from EC2 machines?
My website is being constantly hit by scrapers from EC2 machines http://d.pr/i/bLtE . I went aggressive and blocked all access from Ec2 IP’s http://bit.ly/SUOaof until I realized that quite a few reader proxies like Flipboard are based out of Ec2 and blanket blocking of these amazon machines wont help. How is the community dealing with this problem? Can you advice?

Edit: I’ve seen somewhere that Stackoverflow blocks all the ec2 machines. I don’t think this is the most optimal solution considering many legit services. Also the hits come from different ip’s.
How to create a Business Ecosystem
Ask HN: How do you manage your one-man project?
I am doing some side projects at my "copious" spare time (getting up at 5am and work for 2 hours). I think it would be a shame if I end up wasting time. So, I wonder if any of you, in your one-man project, use any software development methodologies (scrum)? Any project management software (evernote)? Or do you relax and not keep track of it at all?
Currently I only do job related work in C++, JVM and .NET.

Never looked too much into GNUStep, because it is not clear to me how far Cocoa and the latest language changes from Apple are supported by gcc and clang + GNUStep.

On my line of work it is the customers that decide the technology, not me, so they have a hard time thrusting Objective-C outside Apple's environment.
The "complete package" gave me sticker shock, so much that I almost closed the page then and there. It was only out of curiosity as to why the $200 price tag was worthwhile that I even kept reading to find more purchase options. It put a bad taste in my mouth, honestly, and I'm left feeling pretty confused by why you won't let me cherry pick my own interview+book package. I'm just having trouble seeing the dollar value in what you've assembled, though I'm sure if I broke out each piece of what you're offering, it'd seem like quite a deal, no one is offering "pieces" of what you're offering, so I just see the whole thing as overpriced.

I was excited to follow the development of this through the newsletter, but I'm not a customer now. Maybe if you offered to trickle out the interview content as you developed it, for some kind of $9/mo fee? I would've been on board with that, or a similar approach. Though I guess not being a total squid I might not have been your target, I was really just interested in what those accomplished professionals had to say, maybe also thumbing through the book -- which while I'm at it -- I'm also not convinced provides the kind of value a $30 price should. I was kind've under the impression you'd include some real "how-to" meat, at least periodically, but there doesn't appear to be any of that. I think I'd get more value out of "Don't Make Me Think" or "Rocket Surgery Made Easy", and I could score both in a native kindle format(for $30).

I think you probably did a lot of hard work, and I'm still tempted to spend the $200 just for the interviews; but I don't feel good enough about what I might be getting. I saw the early version of the Ryan Singer interview and it didn't leave a $200 impression. I hope you've had a lot more success selling to others who really need a comprehensive resource or don't understand many of the fundamentals, it certainly seemed like it would be more valuable for them.

Also, just as an aside, the WordPress favicon feels cheap, and worse, lazy.
that is some good reading. thanks
"Again, this fails for a lot of electronic music though."

It also fails for classical music. But since I ripped CD's I just scanned in the cover and added the art. Trust me, it was time consuming. But there is hope, iTunes has added much more classical/opera recently. So changes are, if I had to do this all over - a lot of the art would be available from iTunes.
Kind of ironic considering Windows 8 visual/swipe password feature. Which, in general, is quite novel and interesting, albeit not very secure for various other reasons.
Suggestion, add some sort of image/logo beside the main header statement "Are you scratching your head wondering why people sign up for your application, but never come back?". Makes it more believable.
The ridiculous copyright extensions pushed for by the mafiAA? Ridiculous suits against network printers, computer illiterate grandmas, and children, sometimes for more than the GDP of the entire world?
> (Do you tip cab drivers? If so, why? Their whole job is to take you to the place you asked for, that's why you pay them).

I tend to tip cab drivers here in NYC very high, anywhere from 25% to 50% depending on the fare. (I tend to tip high generally simply to avoid the embarrassment and accidental cruelty of tipping low)

NYC has crufty licensing rules for taxis, and the actual driver may be leasing the right to drive (the medallion) from a fleet owner or some corporate entity, which cuts into their profits a lot. Among my peers there seems to be a bit of disdain for cab drivers generally. A lot of people seem indignant about being able to pay with a credit card which results in less profit for the driver. I've seen people who are rude to drivers just as a matter of course.

So I tip high, and I pay in cash. I don't claim to be making the most perfectly rational economic decision here, but I hope that by doing so, I show a little appreciation and gratitude to someone who is performing a service for me.
I don't have any experience with MongoDB, but the example put me off using it completely. The MySQL query is concise and brief, the MongoDB equivalent is bloated. Only after several seconds I was able to deduce that the MongoDB query probably does something more than MySQL query. Can you please make the examples more comparable? Or did I misunderstand the MongonDB and it actually is so bloated by design? I believe it is not your goal to discourage people from MongoDB , if so, better not do it unintentionally.
Nicely done Nathan! Please keep us informed about the commercial side of this, like you did with the earlier book. It's very interesting to follow.
Writing mathematics in emails
I didn't realise that Mongo was so...verbose.
S.F. supervisors back micro-apartments: How much space does one really need?
If you're doing that, then you're better off recording your audio with balanced XLR or such like and not have any hum to begin with.
Seriously?

I mean seriously?

You're supposed to be a UX designer. And you honestly can't see how that looks like social proof, that you are visually implying that these companies use your product?

I want this book so bad. But your contact form is awful. You can't design the simplest form on the web. You don't actually seem to have any actual experience in designing web apps, working for one unidentified startup.

I'm afraid I'd be spunking my money.

The screen shots are awful and show you can't actually design a good UX, take this as an example:

http://nathanbarry.com/wp-content/themes/nathan-refreshed/im...

Who puts a cancel button there? Seriously, that's the worst cancel button placement I've ever seen.

UX is very different from graphic design. You seem to be a graphic designer, not an interaction designer.

This book is one I've wanted for ever But it's got all the signs of being a stinker, the blind leading the blind.
They walk in the streets now and then within 30 miles of Washington, DC. But garbage cans are easier to chase down than even fairly sedentary & nutritious pedestrians, so there's not much danger.
Not to mention that it should be an absolute priority for the software to be open source, and easily verifiable by anyone, which doesn't seem to be the case for many such voting machines. And I think that should literally be a crime. It should be illegal for states or local governments to buy voting machines with proprietary software.
UK Government to lend through P2P lending startups Funding Circle and Zopa
So why is an article about the Metropolitan Police forensic lab in south London (UK) illustrated with a stock photo of what appears to be a US power socket? (It might be a Euro socket, but it's certainly not a UK one.) Do they not have electricity sockets anywhere at the BBC that they could have taken a picture of?
I assume they're sorted by the number of downloads from the Python packaging index (PyPI).

Tornado might be one of those packages people install from their distro's package or download from the parent website rather than via PyPi.

As for the background ... <shrugs>
Microsoft security bulletins for December 2012 - Hacker News
http://www.amazedsaint.com/2012/11/changing-times-for-web-de...
What’s the Ultimate TV: iTV, Google TV, Kindle TV?
Not particularly useful, I tried a simple join and I got this error message:

Failure parsing MySQL query: Unable to convert queries based on more than one table
The Roger Williams Code - team of scholars decrypt a secret language
I may be missing something obvious here. How would this code bite you?
It might be mostly cultural. I show appreciation and gratitude by using the service, reasoning that all the compensation necessary is included in the price. I don't see the US way as paying extra, it's more like "pay what you want in a specific range", whereas the European way is more "this is the price we've all decided is mutually fair".

The former way would be more efficient, if it weren't for the social stigma of underpaying. I'd love to overpay for good service and underpay for bad service, but nobody underpays, in practice. Still, I guess overpaying for good service is a good way.
If you think there is a clear and fundamental difference between data and code, you do not understand security.
>I often wonder, under what moral authority, other than "It was really easy and I wasn't caught and/or punished for doing it" people feel comfortable "pirating" other people's intellectual property.

I would guess that's because me, a good deal of my friends, both online and in real life, and a number of acquaintances (YMMV) consider "intellectual property" to be a rather unintuitive (and by extension, stupid, not deserving of respect, and many other similar terms) concept.

No respect, no "moral authority" required.

The actions of industry lobbies which are acting, ostensibly, at the behest of its members, are not serving to increase that respect. An institution which society at large does not respect is doomed to fail.

See also speed limit laws on any major highway in the USA. Sure there's a law, but it's enforced haphazardly, most people have no respect for it as a law, (indeed, studies would suggest people drive at a comfortable speed for them regardless of what the sign says), and we're a better society for it.

You could make the same argument for piracy, given the use of sampling in the music business, to the revelation that pirates actually buy more media than non pirates, and quite possibly others I could think up were I not fresh out of bed.
Great job! Congratulations on shipping!
In some of the power grids in the US, the clock-sync thing was something that the operations were required to maintain over a 24 hour period. One technique used to monitor this was a simple electric clock. Electric clocks have synchronous motors, meaning that changes in frequency of the supply would change the time. The target was to be sure that at, say, 6pm, that the clock would show exactly 6pm, even though it would vary a bit during the day.
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So the referer is a local Selenium server? How did you figure out it was an EC2 machine?
Except that any "software which parses documents" is essentially an interpreter that runs code which it calls "documents".