skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jimmy Wales is very active on Quora and answers pretty much any question with his name in it (and it's "free" to ask him to answer) if anybody cares to post this. I was going to, but since the comments here seem to say the article is without merit, I wont.
it's best to think of steam as a new package manager for games, the same way you would have ruby gems or npm packages.
I have WebStorm and it is great. I was thinking about phpStorm and appCode. Can someone confirm that IDEA with Plugins will have the same feature of those apps? I am trying to see what is best to buy separate apps or IDEA alone and add plugins.
Europas Awards: Public Vote Category To Find Europe’s Hottest Startups
Jetbrains site seems to be down completely now; I keep getting a maintenance page
It makes sense if the intended interpretation is the same as the spoken version.
As a separate response, I think it's worth seeing if you can pinpoint WHY you're not happy after a certain amount of time. As kombinatorics says, you risk looking unemployable if you flit around a lot.

One option in your situation is making a virtue of it (my other reply), another is working out what's making you skip around. Indeed, I think that's pretty important for you to try to have a handle on so that you can make better decisions as you go. Tricky thing is, the WHY is not always easy to work out.
I'm in Bolivia but I get prices in British Pounds including VAT costs. What gives?

If I use a service like HideMyAss.com to get the US page, I can see the goods in dollars and that price I should be charged.

Any suggestions? I shouldn't have to pay VAT as I'm not located in the EU.

Thanks!
Dis reg ja!
EU will charge Samsung 'very soon' in Apple antitrust case
Three Essentials for a Modern Web Publishing Architecture
Snapguide Comes To iPad Because Future of How-To Is on Tablets
Wow, this is great. My PyCharm upgrade is due and I might get the IDEA license too!
Totally agree. But then the question becomes, what do you do when countries actually increase spending and debt when the economy is good, and therefore have nothing to spend when the bad times arrive. The main distinction between Iceland and Ireland is that Iceland can print its own money.

In the UK it seems that 'nasty' parties that advocate spending cuts in the good times get voted out of office, and replaced by parties that increase spending.

So it becomes less a question of economics and more one of politics. For the moment Germany might see "living within your means" part of the DNA, but few other countries do. And I imagine that, as Germany gets further integrated with the rest of Europe, that kind of thinking will be weakened.
This screenshot alone is worth $25 to me: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nGVTKms6ALo/TysNLgb6rGI/AAAAAAAAAJ...
> When I think about it, it's actually the first IDE for any language I've kept using for longer than a couple of weeks.

This is exactly what I say when people ask about pyCharm. I think i've tried a dozen IDEs and its the only one I stuck to. I've used it for a couple of years now for django and python development (and they've also just added first-class Flask support), plus I use it for front-end/javascript coding now too, I couldn't live without it now.
If I have pycharm - is it more or less the same when I install e.g. the Ruby plugin?
AppCode is not a part of the IDEA bundle. It follows XCode more closely than the generic project format that IDEA and the other apps use.
Hypermedia APIs on Rails
Oracle Unveils Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0
Ads help, sure. But it's bad advice to tell people to do that FIRST. There are other ways to get on top. For your restaurant example people should try to use Google's services to the max: add the restaurant to Google places for Business so that you get on Google maps and street view, get a Google+ account and post some pictures of the food, client comments and special events, post special events on a public Google calendar. Even have a Facebook and twitter account as they play nice with Google rankings, especially Facebook pages. Even one post a week is effective. There are lots of things a small business can do before even touching their websites code. After that you add Google analytics and then as a last resort you buy ads.
Paid Software Doesn't Mean A Company Treats You Any Better Than Free Software
No, you can criticise people who are homeless.

What you can't do is use your lucky situation to cast all homeless people as feckless, lazy, stupid, inflexible people who deserve to be homeless because they just don't make enough effort.
In the late 70s a book was published called "Juggling for the Complete Klutz". It claimed that if you could find reverse in a Volkswagon Beetle, you could learn to juggle.

This was given as a joke gift to literally thousands of geeks by people who thought "Yeah, right, like that's gonna happen." And then it did.

So in the early 80s there were, for the first time, thousands of geeks who could juggle. At least some were going to take it a bit seriously, and at least some of them were going to apply scientific processes to trying to understand the vast and bewildering array of possible tricks.

Paul Klimek of Santa Cruz was chronologically the first, but he didn't really tell anyone. There's a pre-cursor in an article by Charlie Dancey in Juggler's World magazine. Boppo and Bengt (in Colorado, not California) started to try to make it popular, but got some crucial things wrong and didn't explain it well. They were also extremely enthusiastic, and some people stopped paying attention, which was a shame.

We invented it independently very shortly after, and our explanations were tighter, cleaner, and more focused, as you might expect from mathematicians.

It was subsequently invented independently by at least two others that I know of. It seems to have been "The Right Idea."
The perfect name reminds me of the Douglas Adams story somewhere in his third Hitchhiker book - about the Reason.

And sometimes, after some of the worst of these outrages,
the Dwellers in the Forest would send a Messenger to
either the Leader of the Princes of the Plains or the
Leader of the Tribesmen of the Cold Hillsides and demand
to know the reason for this intolerable behavior.

And the Leader, whichever one it was, would take the
Messenger aside and explain the reason to him, slowly and
carefully, and with great attention to the considerable
detail involved.

And the terrible thing was, it was a very good one. It was
very clear, very rational and tough. The Messenger would
hang his head and feel sad and foolish that he had not
realized what a tough and complex place the real world
was, and what difficulties and paradoxes had to be
embraced if one was to live in it.

"Now do you understand?" the Leader would say.

The Messenger would nod dumbly.

"And you see these battles have to take place?"

Another dumb nod.

"And why they have to take place in the Forest, and why it
is in everybody's best interest. the Forest Dwellers
included, that they should?"

"Er ..."

"In the long run."

"Er, yes."

And the Messenger did understand the reason, and he
returned to his people in the Forest. But as he approached
them, as he walked through the Forest and among the trees,
he found that all he could remember of the reason was how
terribly clear the argument had seemed. What it actually
was, he couldn't remember at all.

And this, of course, was a great comfort when next the
Tribesmen and the Princes came hacking and burning their
way through the Forest, killing every Forest Dweller in
their way.
Android Phones And Tablets Ranked By Battery Life: Longest Lasting Smartphones..
The people to blame are the ones who got Greece into the Euro in the first place. If they had stayed on a sovereign currency they would, almost definitely, have a lower GDP than they did on the Euro, but:

* They wouldn't have as much of an external debt problem.

* Their ability to export and attract foreign investment would be much better.
Android vs. iOS: UI Guidelines differences
I've been using PyCharm for almost a year now, for professional development (and some pet projects), and I am very happy with it.

I never had PyCharm making undetected changes to my code.
Maybe they want something shot with the product falling in midair, or a model with a fan blowing his/her hair and clothing? Or it could be some appliance/machine that they want to capture in action (a popcorn popper would be a mundane example).

Heck, maybe they just want to shoot a product sitting in the middle of a cloud from a fog machine.
Depends on the job, and depends upon your aptitude and particular area of expertise. Most organizations will want a mix of expertise and experience, to make a "fully rounded" team, so people who are enthusiastic, can speak to a couple of different disciplines, and who can communicate effectively will always be in strong demand. Computer Science and Mathematics is a good combination to have. For example, for a lot of the stuff that I do, mathematics helps a lot, particularly demonstrable familiarity with statistics, linear algebra, basic calculus, and anything else relevant to machine learning. If you match that with good technical skills in C++ (or perhaps Java), you will have a highly marketable skill-set across a range of industries.

Personally, my undergraduate degree was in Artificial Intelligence, so I have ended up doing fairly well with quantitative developer & data science oriented roles, and have never found myself short of work, irrespective of the state of the broader economy.
"and therefore keep it out of the package manager"

That is not much like my reasoning. Taking something out of the package manager does not generally make it so that it is taken care of by the same thing that takes care of TF2 being up to date. Making Steam handle Steam updates does.

Once you have introduced Steam as a thing that handles updates for you, moving Steam updates from package manager to Steam is clearly not exactly the same issue as removing things from the package manager in general.

(I mean, it sort of is if "the package manager should handle as many things as possible" is your goal. It is not if "as few things as possible should handle package manager-like things" is your goal.)
Newtown kids v Yemenis and Pakistanis: why the disparate reactions?
I was going to buy it, but now that JetBrains is having a great sale I'll just an IDE (which is what I wanted anyways). RubyMine FTW!
Politicians must not elevate mere opinion over science
Laurie Penny: A woman's opinion is the mini-skirt of the internet
This post says it.

"Introduce and pass a bill to eliminate software patents, retroactively, and do it now." --- agreed, 100%

Even more frustrating than the current situation is the fact that it's likely to continue for the forseeable future unless we do something about patent trolls. As hinted at in the original article, the legislation in progress now is pretty much useless and not going to make much difference at all as far as trolling is concerned. Far more powerful stuff is needed.

Aside: it's mentioned in that article that if IV personally filed all its suits, the courts would likely consider it a vexatious litigant. If so, shouldn't the cheap gimmick of using shell companies to get around this be seen through and ruled ineffective by the courts?
The Story of Why HTML5 Matters
I've been using PyCharm for 2 years now and I love it. I am thinking of buying WebStorm, as the web app I work on has gotten a lot more JS heavy.

Would I be better off getting IntelliJ and getting plugins for it, or having PyCharm and WebStorm separately? This has an impact down the road when I have to renew licences!
I think their location detection code is lagging out a bit, but on every pricing page I've seen there's a bit to change your country to anything you like.
Indian OS in development by Indian defense org
There's a difference between unpopular and loathed.
Only our copy writing robot will be offended....he will be shot.
Modi is strong candidate for PM post from the eyes of general public. BJP is reluctant to project him as PM candidate as there are many incapable and corrupt leaders without mass base eyeing for the post.India requires Modi like PM for real competitor to China and all round economic growth of India.
...we may have very few humans left of that era
In case you're not able to get through right now: The offer is valid until Friday, 21 December 2012, 5:11 am CST (GMT-6)
There seems to be no command for adding the contact's postal address.
The GlacierWorks team (in cooperation with URC Ventures) also made a photo-realistic 3D model of the Himalayas using images that were captured using a helicopter.

The preview video looks promising: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEs3euTgj8s

Background info: http://urcventures.com/whats-new/
Magneto A static site generator.
Google in 2013: Five things to watch for
Thats exactly the point why people are reluctant to donate. The budget for running Wikipedia the website is rapidly approaching single digit percentages while the foundation is hiring at startup rate.
Which would only be sort of bad if the patents weren't shit.
looks awesome.. which bootstrap theme is this?
But which legal name? I (along with everyone in this country) have 2.
I'm curious as to what questions it actually raises? There was, a long time ago, someone who has now left as COO. The WMF (which the article consistently calls "Wikipedia") runs quite an open operation. Sue Gardener put in excellent processes into place and the organization is quite a tight ship by all accounts.

Probably there are some stuff ups. It's a non-profit. The business cards issue sounds like one of those. That's something that can happen with any organization, so not sure if that's enough to see some sort of nefarious scheme conning people out of their money...

Of all the issues that Orlowski could nit-pick on, he chose the most ridiculous. There's nothing to see here, just a bunch of assertions with no evidence or even earth shattering revelations.

Frankly, the article is a hatchet job. Bravo El Reg, a quality publication!
I'm a ruby novice, and I love me my IDEs. I've been quite happy with RubyMine, this coming from a Visual Studio user.

It also integrates with using Foreman so you can still debug in the IDE, which since I deploy to Heroku (and I'm a big ol Ruby novice), was a really big plus.
The patent troll industry in aggregate last year collected around $22B in revenue. In aggregate it dwarves IV, although IV may be the biggest individual player. Legally-sanctioned evil on a giant scale...
As far as I can tell, "making sure the site doesn't work on an iPad".
Actually, philosophy passed that bit quite some time ago. Being omnipotent is not a problem for free will.
The Working Hipster's Clojure
intellij idea 50 bucks only, this is a steal !!!
Israeli Embassy Facebook Post: If Jesus and Mary Were in Bethlehem Today..
A personal license for Resharper is exactly why I've been hoping for a sale.
China Now Blocking Encryption
True the way he codes proves that he is unfit for the postion, it's not that I want to steal his job, but I want credits for what I do!
Can't raise bug for everything, say for ex: He is working on something which he can't fix and the solution is so clear for him, he takes my help and in team meetings he says we did it and later on when he is reporting to the higher auth he claims that he only did the major part and I did nothing :\
RubyMine is very good.
The stock Android browser is still called “Browser”. My Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.1.1 has Browser version 4.1.1.
Someone aught to tell Cory Doctorow. I know how impressed he was with Orlowski...

http://boingboing.net/2006/01/11/correcting-the-recor.html
W3C publishes the full HTML5 specification
Does anyone know what is going on with the Sublime development? There haven't been any updates for a long time now, even on the dev channel, and I'm wondering about its future. I use it at work and home and absolutely love it, so I hope the project isn't 'dead'?
as it is no located in Germany

Facebook have an office in Germany.

Here's some job postings: https://www.facebook.com/careers/locations/hamburg and their Facebook page for the office https://www.facebook.com/FacebookHamburg
Quora is the new experts exchange. They even blur out answers like experts exchange did. I've never seen any other website do that!
Web devs gasp: HTML5 takes big step toward standardization
killer feature being it doesn't crash every 15 minutes!
Could you link us to something explaining the number & the throw? (BTW I saw your talk as a kid, though before I knew any real maths. Very fun!)
Yeah, I was actually surprised to find how low UK taxes seem to be (or how high US taxes are) when I was investigating it for work several months ago. US spending levels are just outrageous. It would be interesting to compare the national budgets of the US, UK, and a few other countries, perhaps over time.
Facebook have an office in Germany.

Here's some job postings: https://www.facebook.com/careers/locations/hamburg and their Facebook page for the office https://www.facebook.com/FacebookHamburg

Regardless Facebook Ireland Ltd., would fall under Irish, not German law.
You know what I would like to see? Better fees for Micro Payments. Amazon Payments has exactly the same fees for transactions >= $10 of 2.9% + $0.30 (and has always refunded fees for refunded payments), but adds a much more reasonable micro payment fee of 5% + $0.05 per transaction < $10.

Check out:

https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/helpTab/Checkout-by-Am...
There are also some interesting "behind the scenes" photos on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/glacierworks/
You know what would make this a really awesome sale? If we could just buy it all for an even bigger discount.
National Geographic has held interest in the rights to photographs for a quite some time. They have long and continuing relationships with experienced attorneys specializing in this area. They have nothing to gain from cutting off their brand from the general public.

This appears to be a reasoned response.
@sergiotapia, you can switch your country... on the purchase page you should find text below the table to do this...

Purchases from 123 are charged in XYZ. If you are not from 123, please select your country
I'm in a fun (and unique) situation. I work in and am paid from the UK, but am on a US Salary. I get a performance based raise on my US salary, between something like 2.5% and 5%. The fun part is that at the beginning of the year, they also set the exchange rate! It lasts for a whole year, so it can have good or bad consequences. The gods favored me last year, but who knows what the beancounters will come up this year. I could get a 5% raise but a -7% hit on the exchange. Or I could get a 3% raise and a +6.5% boost on the exchange. Oh the gloriousness of being an expat!
Thanks for the answer! I am going to try to find whats a part of the IDEA bundle so that I have a more defined picture before purchasing :-D
Can someone explain to me what does it mean to "renew" the license? If I pay for the license now, assuming the world does not end tomorrow, will I have to pay for it again next year? How much?
The Atlantic: Why 'If We Can Just Save One Child ...' Is a Bad Argument
Well, Facebook have an office in Germany for one thing.

Here's some job postings: https://www.facebook.com/careers/locations/hamburg and their Facebook page for the office https://www.facebook.com/FacebookHamburg
Conversion rates are also pretty bad as 50 USD transforms into 47€ + VAT. I'm not really complaining since this is still a good deal.
Cargo-culting to success and understanding
Welcome to Quartz
It's great to see someone taking a new approach to news. They really seem to get how people consume content.
Yes, it's a hit piece, but that doesn't mean that the author doesn't raise some good questions.

What's the purpose of Wikipedia, anyway? Is it an online, open, encyclopedia? Or is it becoming some kind of quasi-political organization with tendrils everywhere?

There's one thing we are learning about the net: everybody wants to own the entire net. Whether it's Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, or Wiki, once you get so large you start thinking of the internet and your service as being the same.

Wikipedia has the money it needs to operate, yet still it grows. If anything, the bigger they get, the more demanding they are getting with asking for contributions. Why? I believe that's an excellent question, and investigating the answer is also fascinating. (As is watching the story continue to develop over the next 5-10 years)
you could just purchase IDEA and install python/ruby/c++ plugins for free
You are a god walking amongst mere mortals.
There are lots of economists, and I believe is the majority, that actually kept advising to let the banks fail.

Economics is a deep and complex field of science, I urge you to get a better grasp of it before doing such shallow statements.
Internet Funnel for Japan
Renewing just means you get another year of upgrades. Not renewing doesn't mean you lose the right to use what you already bought.
AppCode has been a wonderful tool for me. I have been using it since the EAP of 1.0. If you've used IntelliJ IDEA before you will feel very comfortable here. The refactorings are great and only getting better. The debugger and the ability to inspect variables much more easily that in Xcode is awesome. I just recently renewed my support on AppCode and I could have saved some cash, but the tool is so inexpensive as it is that I don't care. But, I am going to buy my upgrade to IntelliJ IDEA 12 today. I've had every version of IDEA since version 2!

But, again AppCode is an awesome tool. When you consider the only way JetBrains can write a tool that reads Xcode projects is to constantly reverse engineer what Apple puts out, it's quite amazing.
I cringe when I hear people say this. It works in speech to the extent that "irregardless" or "I could care less" are acceptable.
Nothing to be seen in Chrome v23.0.1271.95
Oh, and the volume discount schedule is MUCH more reasonable on Amazon Payments (starting at $3k per month vs. Stripe's $1m per year).
I actually did install this on my Ubuntu system, but it only gets 10-15 fps (as far as I can tell). Not quite watchable.
It is quite common for countries to have an explicit double standard for themselves and private companies, especially with things like documentation (and doing trials and locking people up, and fining people). This is not new.
Report: Building a Mountain in the Netherlands [pdf]
The renew is for the subscription license for upgrades. With some of the applications you can get all the updates for free for a year and then you would have to buy a new subscription if you want newer versions if you don't want to pay any more you can continue to use the version you have until the end of the world.
Who should I follow on Twitter? Microsoft edition
Nope, not yet. But it's easy to add and will be in there soon enough. In fact it's already listed in the roadmap at http://ppladdressbook.org/development/roadmap/!
Thanks! That dropdown was really hard to find, and the text for that option has bad contrast with the background.

Works!
How a Simple Smartphone Can Turn into a Deadly Weapon
One of the best things you can do is ask your colleagues and your peers about their salary. That's the best way you can find out whether your pay is in line with "the industry".

Some companies have specific rules against disclosing your salary - try not to work for those people :-)

It may also be worth asking for an equal pay audit[0] - are you being discriminated against because of your sex, race, etc?

Finally, don't just look at salary. Look at the total package - pension provision, holidays, bonus schemes, company car, discount schemes etc.

[0] http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/advice-and-guidance//tool...