skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are the rockstar dev's not interested in things like automated builds, and unit tests? Are they really "rockstar" dev's? It might be political. Maybe they like being the only ones who know how to build the product, or that it has to be done on their machines.

Sometimes people shoot down ideas of those below them because they don't want to see a "threat" rise up to compete with them. Maybe if you can't convince the rockstars, just get everyone else onboard.

So you created the "pocket", are you getting anyone else involved? If you already tried to get official adoption of these practices and that didn't work, I dunno. You might just get it done. A lot of times managers ignore requests like this because they don't want to bother with change. THey don't realize the benefit, or they don't want to try to force change on a team (maybe they don't want to adopt anything the rockstars aren't into).
To be fair, process shrinks, the driving force of computing power, are measured as lengths e.g. 32nm.
It is theorized that earth at one time had rings, but that they later coalesced into what is now our moon.

It is also theorized that the reason that the reason why Saturn's rings do not do this(though this could just a matter of time that we are now viewing them at) is because they are prodomonantly ice crystals which constantly bounce into each other breaking and re-freezing. IE why we can see them at all(reflective surfaces on the ice) rather then them be covered with dirt & dust and rendering them unreflective.

Further more to your question I "think" any planet or even any object could have rings, its just there are many factors that go into play and singularly it is REALLY hard to see them, and we only have our galaxy where we would be able to tell if an object did or didn't have them.
0.5 was a rather smaller release than previous ones, due to Niko being distracted by RiverTrail[1] and ParallelJS[2] and Graydon being distracted by setting up the new Buildbot infrastructure as well as relicensing the compiler.[3] There have been some big changes (most for the better, IMO), but there's still a rather lot of half-finished things floating around. All the same caveats of past releases apply: work in progress; use at your own risk; the language will continue to change; code that you write now will break in subsequent releases.

0.6 should be a rather exciting cycle though. I'm hopeful that a lot of the semantic cleanup will be more-or-less complete. Also, they're getting a new but temporary full-time developer in the form of John Clements,[4] who's taking a sabbatical from his university position to work on Rust.

[1] https://github.com/RiverTrail/RiverTrail/wiki

[2] http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2012/12/05/self...

[3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.rust.devel/2593

[4] http://www.brinckerhoff.org/clements/
Hypothesis Thesis
Sorry, I completely messed up my post. Replace every 'timezone' in the post with 'day light savings' - it will also make a lot more sense then.
Future smart spies: Innovative leaps in 2012
A Spammy Year in Review
Real-World Uplift Modelling with Significance-Based Uplift Trees
I first skimmed this and thought, "how remarkably annoying" ("reading" it was too hard with the collapsed lists). Then I started digging into the lists and realized it is a wonderful satire of HN.

To the author: fix up the lists. Having them concatenated makes it too hard to read, so you home in on the X's, missing the satire completely. If you make them pre-formatted using the spaces at the beginning of the line, recognize there is no auto-wrapping, so long lines need to be wrapped.

Anyway, thanks for the smile.
If you look at some recent "freemium" games like My Little Pony [1], then mobile games can very quickly start to cost $50 or more. In that case, it was selling a single in-game pony for £50/$80, but cut the price for that pony to $8 after user complaints.

1 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20629245
I can only imagine malicious uses for this. "Sorry, you're no longer allowed to access Google, Facebook, Twitter, or Wikipedia." Not that that is entirely a bad thing.
I added it as a comment to the top answer, but it was removed. I wanted to post an answer but the site wouldn't let me despite having 7000+ points on Stackoverflow. Oh well.
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I agree with this, if everything works with the company's current process, there will be no way to convince people to change, and there wouldn't be any reason to.

Try to maybe focus on fixing problems that your company actually has.
also, .bd domains cannot be purchased exclusively. You need to prefix com/net/org before the bd TLD
It's a template that used to be big over at Slashdot and probably goes back to usenet days.
The 2nd Amendment should protect the Internet, not your AK47
You fail to mention rack rental fees and network IO fees, and maintenance (parts replacement, parts shipping/handling, cost of downtime, maintenance staff salaries).
Yup, I've read that. The account by the reporter from Outdoors (?) was extremely graphic in detail (but disputed by others in the party). Sad all around, but through those deaths came better regulation which has led to a 1:7 ration of attempts/deaths vs. 1:4 in previous years.
Bruce Schneier broke these codes before breakfast, and now he's gonna break you! http://www.schneierfacts.com/
Lets take a look at two repos on sourceforge and github:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc/

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js

They serve entirely different purposes. Sourceforge looks like a sales page, listing features and downloads. Gitub has the contents of the source right there at the top, before the readme or description, even!

Github seems to be focused on developers, while sourceforge is like a download portal for open source software.
RIM Earnings
Check out http://www.criticue.com/ - this a new site. Here is the HN thread about it http://www.criticue.com/
Yeah. Exactly, on the edge of the square. Awful UX.
I wonder how this library deals with ambiguous times around daylight savings. For example on the day of switching from summertime to wintertime the clock goes from 2:59 am to 2:00 am again resulting in the hour being repeated. If you know the correct time zone for that timestamp, it is still ambiguous which of the two UTC times it maps to.
Oh we have a ring, its just full of telecommunication satellites :-)
Quora To Be Web 'Library Of Alexandria'
>This is a common practice for asset management firms, and it’s just common sense. Do stock brokers broadcast tips to their competitors? Does Warren Buffet tell the world where he’s investing next? Does Disney broadcast which plots of land it is planning to buy for its next theme park? Of course not, and IV takes a similar approach to our investments.

Those guys declare what they did after the fact though to put things into the open, which I don't think IV does.
Does GHC use the LLVM backend by default or do you have to manually enable that?
That would be a cynical view of it, sure. I do consulting work, 90%+ of it out of sight. I could technically hire some offshore help to do it for me, but it turns out that the reason people pay me what they do is the insight and knowledge that I bring to the work. The exact same principal applies here.

I can see something like this (not necessarily this implementation with their ridiculous psuedo-currency) having applicability for core developers of widely used projects (Apache, nginx, Linux, Cyanogen, etc). If they gave useless replies the jig would be up.

Aside from the technical, in the gaming community lots of people like to email Gabe Newell about Half Life 3, for funny comments, etc, usually to cash in for karma on Reddit. It would make it more interesting if he could have something like this with proceeds donated to charity.
Vandalism on "Dell" page on Wikipedia by Dell employees
WikiWatchdog is a tool that reveals anonymous edits on Wikipedia by IP addresses of organizations.

Here we can see that the page about Dell was vandalized by a user with a Dell internal IP.
Did you create an account first? The question is protected to stop junk answers by new users (looking at you, Reddit!), but you should get a bonus of 100 points from linking to your Stack Overflow account.
WikiWatchdog is a tool that reveals anonymous edits on Wikipedia by IP addresses of organizations.

Here we can see that the page about Dell was vandalized by a user with a Dell internal IP.
Though I sympathize with the plight of atheism (both militant and non-militant), you are wrong about your very alliterative definition of militant as someone who wields weapons and wages war.

militant |ˈmilətənt|
adjective
combative and aggressive in support of a political or social cause, and typically favoring extreme, violent, or confrontational methods: a militant nationalist.
Zynga Japan is going to be closed next month
I'm happy that BitBucket keeps evolving as a viable alternative to Github. Alternatives are good. Competition is good and healthy. I personally prefer BB because I like Mercurial more than I like Git. IMHO it provides all the same benefits with a much saner interface. Bitbucket also seems to provide all or almost all the nice features Github has.

And, the biggest boon of BB vs. Github is free private repositories.
Quick Google search: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle
Yay, item macros. Means top-level elements can now dynamically created. Also another big change is "auto-move" where you don't have to write move everywhere.

Also the repl is nice. I think having this and having Rust bootstrapped give it a leg up on Go.
Oh man, that is classic aha.
No no no, Koryo Tours is a tour company run by Brits. They're just a tour company. They don't do programming. The programmers are with NovoTek in North Korea. Koryo Tours paid NovoTek to make the game.
I'll tell you once I've built it. ;)
Yeah, I was about to say, this is old as dirt.
Yeah but at least use a proxy! LOL
This is by the same guys as the million short search engine (Google minus the top million). Probably good to use this in combination with the dns to find things that are not just broken links.

http://www.millionshort.com/

The search engine was discussed on HN before:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3910304
I have worked for a moment in company writing some GSM infrastructure sofware, and my first thought after reading the article is that it neglects the fact, that nodes of mobile network are expected to pass broad and comprehensive reliability tests (both the software and the hardware). That, I'd say, can make a ton of a difference, compared to a simple proof-of-concept.

On the other hand, any proof-of-concept is always welcome, interesting, and can lead to new great developments.
The press release is considered "definitive" for some reason. This is how our PR team explained it to me.

This is actually a very interesting conversation. It is interesting to see that the post on the AWS blog, hosted on TypePad, is seen as more official than the press release.
I just wrote about his same idea: http://bckmn.com/pay-for-your-life-online/
Probably worth investigating the Atra-Hasis flood myth.

It is the original version of the retconned Gigamesh myth, which was in turn retconned into the Noah myth.
Have you set up Provisioned IOPS for the volume?
A holiday wish list from Facebook marketing's finest
DynJS is an open source Javascript runtime for the JVM
The only "tone" in "I've never understood why bible fanatics are so fixated on that story, it's one of the bible's most conspicuous flaws." is the one you've projected onto it. On its face, it's an honest statement of lack of understanding. It was neither unnecessarily offensive nor was it unnecessarily derogatory. You only see "tone" because it doesn't support or affirm your worldview.

Additionally, even explicitly saying, "Anyone who believes the bible is the literal word of God is an unwise and foolish person" isn't intolerant. Intolerance is more than just disagreement. Intolerance is saying, "You should not be allowed to think those thoughts," not just "If you think those thoughts, you're unwise and foolish." It's unwise and foolish to think that jumping off a bridge will solve your problems. It's unwise and foolish to believe that vaccines cause autism. Many things in this world are unwise and foolish, and it's meaningless to claim that whenever someone refers to a belief as unwise and foolish he's somehow "intolerant" of those who hold that belief.

It is no more "intolerant" of me to say "If you believe the Bible is the literal word of God you're being unwise and foolish," than it is for me to say, "If you believe that programming languages should be dynamically typed you're being unwise and foolish." The only difference is your sensitivity to those claims.
Looks very nice. I don't know why I personally need it yet, but I think I'm going to buy it!

One question -- why didn't you use the App Store? Was your decision technical, financial or both? I really appreciate the convenience of the App Store, especially for updates.
the other is fucking hacked.. lol...
Go on iTunes-U and download the Stanford iOS lessons. That's the fastest and best way to learn iOS development. As for Mac development... I'm not sure. I've not dabbled in that yet.
CloudFlare's new web protocol speeds up dynamic web performance
The People's Republic of China is more liberal now than a few decades ago, but not more democratic. The leaders are still not elected by the people.
The "creations" that people are posting are low-res cellphone pics of food and random scenery with a faux-retro filter added. Why so serious?
My choice is git or hg + bitbucket.org.
Sure you can. People make "lightsabers" and call them replicas. http://trueswords.com/ has anime, game etc. sword replicas.
Downloading Movies and Music Stays Legal in The Netherlands
I think in this case it's like driving a car, flying a plane, speaking Mandarin, or performing surgery- at which point is someone proficient enough to call themselves a developer?

Knowing only about 1% of the commands, code, and frameworks available to a top iOS developer can still produce some impressive results.

Teaching a child to write a fart app in 8 weeks- easy.

Teaching a child to write a top 10 app in 8 weeks- next to impossible.
We're talking about a difference of $10k USD per instance per year.

You'll want at least two for redundancy so that's $20k spare change if you go dedicated. That buys quite lot of rackspace, network IO and spare parts.

Staff salaries don't factor in because if you need storage of that scale you can't do without a competent admin either way (the $20k comfortably pay for a fully managed colo with remote hands).

Needless to say most deployments of that size will need more than two boxes, at which point the markup tips entirely into wtf-territory. Note my calculation was really generous here, too. In reality you get steep hardware discounts on top that make amazon look even worse, and you can buy boxes with higher storage density for an even better $/GB.
North Korea's goverment will report the website outage as a CIA plot carried by an elite group of hackers called "Hacker_News".
This is one of those topics that, I think, will affect many people, even though it's poorly understood. The less successful will be on the barrel end of the gun, and the more successful will probably try management at least once.

People often think, in big companies, that managers can unilaterally fire them. Actually, if they play the angles, they can usually work out a transfer because any communication that might inhibit their ability to reinvent themselves on a new team can be construed as harassment. (If transfer isn't possible because the company is small, the only way to win is to get out.)

The solution, for an employer, is not to let reviews be part of the transfer packet. Managers should have the unconditional right to require someone leave the team, but not to block transfer.
Thanks, I did see that site. I was looking for something that would allow involved interaction for testing/using rather than aesthetics.
They should have put the tool tip text on it at least :)
Free and unlimited private repositories =p
Perhaps there's a kernel of truth in there, in the form of a boat. But kernels of truth can get pretty amazingly distorted over the course of centuries or millennia of developing mythology. There's a kernel of truth to the Greek myth of the Cyclops, but it has nothing to do with giant one-eyed men. It's fossil elephant skeletons, with their nasal cavity looking a lot like a huge eye socket.

Even given, for the sake of argument, that at some point there was an actual boat at the root of this myth, the likelihood that this Ark is a replica of that boat is only not a whole lot greater than the likelihood that the world did actually experience a rainfall rate of 12 inches per minute over the course of forty days. The vessel described in Genesis is simply not plausible, neither from an engineering nor a historical perspective.
1) Available domains totally broken. Searched for "auction" - it told me auction.com was available, as well as sell.com, sale.com, etc

2) Unlike domai.nr, it will send me to an affiliate (obviously the purpose of the site) even if they don't handle that particular TLD (for example, GoDaddy and .ly)
“How Do TSA Employees Feel About Working For a Despised Agency?”
Unspoken Requirements of a Great SDK
No, the default backend is the native code generator. You need to use the -fllvm flag to enable the LLVM backend.

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.6.1/html/users_guide/code-...

"[The LLVM backend] is an alternative backend that uses the LLVM compiler to produce executable code. It generally produces code as with performance as good as the native code generator but for some cases can produce much faster code. This is especially true for numeric, array heavy code using packages like vector. The penalty is a significant increase in compilation times."
The priorities here are all backwards. The leading cause of death among those 15-24 is suicide. More people die in the U.S. from suicide than from car accidents or murder. The lifetime prevalence of mental health disorders is 1 in 3. Mental health spending now surpasses all cancers combined, yet where is the cultural emphasis on treating it like any other preventable and treatable illness?

The issue here isn't guns. It's how we diagnose, manage, and treat brain health.
"Free Market" is a consistent term that refers to a set of laws that allow commerce to happen with as few restrictions as possible. I agree that some people forget that those basic laws, such as property rights, are required. However, those laws are so simple compared to the current state of commercial regulation that the free market is often called regulation-free as shorthand.

That said, I personally do not think software patents have a place in either what is conventionally called a free market or in a well-regulated market.
Same issue with .ly domains
Great concept. I think it stretches credulity to call the internet a form of "arms", but the point is very well taken -- open access to information and unrestricted communications, along with the right to assembly in its online forms -- should be a basic part of U.S. freedoms.
Thank you! :D

I've scribbled down my reasons for releasing outside the MAS here: http://blog.servus.io/post/37663343570/servus-1-1-grand-stor...

Regarding updating: Servus has a built-in auto-updater, so it's easy to keep it up to date.
This is a view I have seen elsewhere. It's consequence is that everyone should have firearms at home in every country.

Are you sure you want that? Because, you know, you shouldn't want something for yourself that you couldn't reasonably want for everyone.
This copypasta predates HN by many, many years.
Search PandoDaily for Supercell articles, there is at least one that covers it.
This sounds like a plot line in Charles Stross's Accelerando.
Hope for Non-CS Majors Learning to Program
Yes, that's true! It does goes best with the 'Basmati' type of rice
Another great LLVM tool that I don't see much press about is scan-build. It does static analysis and lets you navigate the results in your web browser. I believe Xcode builds this in but it's nice for anyone not using an IDE.

http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/scan-build.html
Beaten still by relics during pilgrimage, a gajillion splinters from the "one true cross", thousands of "totally authentic" foreskins and knucklebones of every one of Christ's followers.
If you use these servers you may see a lot less advertising. That's because more than a few of the top 100/1000/10000/1000000 sites are actually just ad servers, assuming Million Short is using Alexa as the source. And because they appear in the top Alexa list one might guess those particular ad servers serve a significant share of the internet's advertising.

Another thought is you could potentially use these as general purpose DNS servers; e.g. they are all Amazon EC2 I believe so with respect to the DNS-based geolocation efforts of many websites, you'd be treated as if coming from the location of whatever region the datacenter is in. Just add the top 100/1000/10000/1000000 sites to your HOSTS file.
> As a recipient, you have complete control over the mesages you receive. Your inbox is sorted by the number of credits attached to each message, so the more valuable messages automatically rise to the top.

Don't they mean, I have zero control over the messages I receive?
Catholics don't use the KJV. King James was a Protestant. The contemporaneous parallel to the KJV used within the Catholic Church is the Douay-Rheims, but even that isn't approved for liturgical use in English; only the Revised Standard Version (RSV) and New American Bible (NAB) are.

The term "apocrypha" is one only used by Protestants, as a pejorative term for the books Luther excised from the Septuagint, the Old Testament used by Jesus and the Apostles. The non-pejorative term is "deuterocanonicals", so-called because they were canonized later than the Old Testament books Luther accepted. Notably, Luther also excluded four New Testament books from his canon: Hebrews, James, 2 Peter, and Revelation. I suppose he found sola fide a lot easier to defend when he didn't have to contend with James' "So you see that a man is justified by works, not by faith." The Reformation didn't follow Luther's lead on the New Testament, though, and that's why Protestant Bibles have 66 books, not 62.

I'd suggest a little more warm up :) Some of us were really into this stuff before departing the faith.
It's not "shorthand" it's "intellectually dishonest." It's an attempt to hide the fact that what you're really asserting isn't that "regulation is bad" but rather "I think these particular regulations are bad, but I'm very much attached to these other regulations." It's a lazy attempt to get out of arguing against the merits of particular regulation through an appeal to the theoretical merits of an "unregulated market."
In general, I think religions require a few outlandish, unbelievable stories. Kind of like a shibboleth.

Anybody can believe stories backed up by evidence and reason. But it takes a special kind of devotion to our group/tribe/congregation/whatever to believe these ridiculous absurdities. That's how we know you're one of us.