skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That article is still fairly good of a read, with a couple things slightly out of date, which I will note here simply for pedantry or anyone interested.

BSD no longer uses CVS; FreeBSD specifically has moved to SVN for their primary revision control system, and CVS and related tools (such as csup) are deprecated and in some cases disabled. Along with that, linux kernel is now in git, not bitkeeper.

While source is still the "base" method of installing and updating a FreeBSD system, and it will certainly always be available; now, binary base system and add-on utilities are becoming more popular. Specifically, `freebsd-update` can be used to update the base system's binaries and source. `pkg-ng` adds `apt-get` like binary package management.

ZFS is definitely one of the major things that has FreeBSD on all of my systems. I even run ZFS on single drive laptops:

pool: zroot
state: ONLINE
scan: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
zroot ONLINE 0 0 0
ada0p3 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
My friend, life can be so wonderful. You most likely have a chemical imbalance that can easily be treated. See any doctor and you'll see what I mean.

Please follow up.
We have term limits in California, along with a reputation for one of the most dysfunctional state legislatures in the nation. Term limits are not the panacea people seem to think they are.
HN, Techmeme, Twitter. My Twitter feed is mostly pointers to tech/design articles.
Show HN: ARAnalytics - Simplified iOS Analytics Library
HTML-based weather app
If you do decide to add tests to an existing code base, I found "Working Effectively with Legacy Code"[1] to be a good guide. Check out the table of contents.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Fea...
TMZ
Ubuntu 12.10
Here's the problem with telling creators and publishers that they - and they alone - need to be the ones to "find another business model".

There is only one business model to find, which is this: Offer something people want. If they decide to take it without paying for it, fuck them up. And that's it. Everything else is charity.

Obviously, a well-run state divides this labor. A person stealing from a grocer doesn't usually get damaged by the grocer personally. The grocer just call the cops, who take care of all the nasty work involving guns and jails and heavy fines, etc. On a higher level, contracts get disputed in court, and people who default suffer a different range of penalties. But make no mistake. They suffer palpable harm. That's the whole point.

In the real world, among actual humans, the decision to buy is based on TWO factors: Do I want this? And must I pay? If the answers are yes and yes and the person has money, you've got business. But if they can simply take what they want for free, then a sizable percentage will. Not all, but enough to drive you out of business when word gets out. The whole reason we have laws courts and cops is to counter this. But somehow, only artists are expected to do business without being able to take their protection for granted.

Now you may be right in saying the copyright - as it stands - is no longer a viable means for inflicting the pain which backstops commerce of every kind. But what "finding a new business model" really means is finding a new vector for punishing those who'd destroy a business by taking instead of paying. And obviously, in a civilized country, punishment is the domain of the state, and they take a justifiably dim view of "private enforcement" (e.g. the Mafia).

That's why "finding a new business model" really isn't up to creators and creators alone. Under a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, It's up to the people to take some responsibility as well. And that means deciding what enforcement mechanisms that can live with, making sure they're funded properly, and accommodating them to the extent necessary to be suitably effective. What they don't do is say "Fuck you, you're on your own - figure it out or die," unless they're insanely short-sighted or they truly want the target of their rage to die.
CGI/Perl Cookbook
Thanks for the input. I'm definitely not charging by the hour but I feel I could learn a lot more from the book so I'm definitely going to get to it soon. Did you derive more success from it as a result?
I would not be surprised if they get hit with a Class Action someday. For their long tail products, the impact to single users is small but across the board, i'm sure it adds up.. reminds me of that evil scheme to take .0005% of a penny from everyone.

Their B2B services is also lacking, turn over for their employees is high y/y.

..maybe this is the new of state internet services at scale?

edit: grammar
When is it Time to Pivot or Quit?
Perhaps 3D printing will never be quite as fast, but it won't end up mattering very much? The article did alude to one possibility - that demand for mass customizability would alleviate any speed disadvantages.

A practical example might be: Let's say I need some chairs. I can go down to Ikea and pick up one of 5 mass produced chairs they have and be done with it in half a day. Or I could browse through designs and reviews online, pick something I like and have it arrive a week and a half later when it's done printing (or have my neighbourhood or home printer take that long...)
This is definitely a good thing. Support the developers. It takes a lot of time and effort to build an app. Surely a single dollar (usually) is not too much to pay. Im' still surprised how cheap most apps are for my phone ;o
Another FreeBSD discussion a few weeks ago had a bunch of good answers to this question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4895022
guake! (:
The bigger problem imo isn't so much that language changes, but that many of the rules enforced here (and in some older style guides) never existed to begin with, in the sense that not even elite or literary usage followed them, let alone common usage. There was an unfortunate period in English grammar, around the late 19th and early/mid 20th centuries, where grammarians tried to "purify" the language with invented rules, often modeled on Latin grammar. Strunk & White's Elements of Style is one of the offenders from that era that sadly lingers on in reprintings.

A tool based on rules that bear some closer resemblance to actual English grammar would be interesting to me. Maybe something that checked against the recommendations in a recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. The technical aspects of this tool don't seem hugely tied to the specific constructs it currently flags, so perhaps that could be done (though the source is not available, so perhaps not).
Arch linux with gnome.
> Looks like yet another "malvertising" situation.

And that's all the same to end users. When will the web evolve past these pests?
I don't believe the suckless team is working with the same definition of "modern" as you might be.
My mistake. I was trying to illustrate the more theoretical problem of bootstrapping a compiler without a compiler, since I personally find that fascinating. These problems were really solved years ago, and their only place nowadays is in an educational context.
The point is not sheer volume. It's that the market for which this volume was produced has tastes and interests vastly more diverse than the narrow spectrum of interest to the aristocracy. Also, within this arrangement, the artist himself has vastly more liberty, since the patron (i.e. the publisher) is far less interested in controlling the work itself, and far more interested in what sells. Audiences, in turn, trust the taste and inspiration of the artist, which puts the creative ball squarely in his court.

Put these factors together and you'll find that creation itself encompasses a far greater range, and with that, the sum of human culture and knowledge grows exponentially.
> indirectly make money

Indirectly? Read the blog post. $5 moved from the customer's credit card to Google's bank account. Clearly, Google is directly making money from this person.
this is arash from dropbox. a similar thing happened to us a couple years ago and mattcutts helped resolve it pretty quickly (https://twitter.com/mattcutts). I would try to reach out to him ASAP.

edit: ack. just read his twitter feed and it looks like he's out for a week.
I went over to Pinterest and took a look at the popular and found nothing worth looking EVERY DAY. That's when I realized you said PinBOARD and not PinTEREST.
I'm not sure this qualifies as news as this same thing has happened to other large sites from time to time.

What likely happened is that one of the 3rd party advertisers on Twitpic delivered ads that contain something classified as malware thus resulting in the entire Twitpic site getting blacklisted.
There are totally a bunch of workarounds, it's just another exception to this, I was using CoffeeScript so I was able to grossly simplify the MDN one https://github.com/calvinmetcalf/communist/blob/master/src/s...
He hates unitaskers in the kitchen because they take up finite space and money. These don't really apply to tiny free apps. It's like complaining about an extra key in a keyring you never use in a drawer you never open.
A true dictator could reserve life extension technology only for himself and his cronies. It would be the ultimate weapon for political control.

I actually agree that the potential benefits outweigh the risks. But as with all transhumanist technology, the risks are quite enormous.
What hardware did you have issue with?

>Installing additional software on Windows 8 is vastly easier.

huh? Besides the fact that I can install every application I need in a single command in a few minutes, or despite USC's one-click install of all software... Windows requires either independent one-off nuanced installers or require using the Store that has hardly any apps and requires you have and link a Microsoft Account.
I happened to be reading Make magazine's 3d printing guide, and I was struck the similarity to late 70s/early 80s personal computers. Lots of different technologies. Kits. (Mostly) terrible cases, even wooden ones. All sorts of "solution looking for problem" kinds of examples - 3d printing a coat hook is the "key all your recipes into a computer" of this decade.

To outsiders, 1970s computing looked like a bunch of kooky hobbyists, and it wasn't far off. I think in 10 or 20 years, 3d printing is going to be the solution to lots of problems we haven't considered yet.
I first learned about HTML by studying the tags in web page source codes in college. This was not part of the curriculum: I was picking up the skill off my own bat.

Likewise for Javascript and CSS (and basic use of forms and CGI); I first learned about them by looking at inline scripts, and later learned how to invoke external script files. I was already out of uni when I began to learn about them.
StringFormat for JS – a simple template function
Hey guys, I wrote this so we could experiment with trying out different iOS Analytics Providers at Art.sy.

It uses cocoapods to handle all the dependencies so all you have to do is just include which analytics you want in your app and you can use the same API for them all. It's been used in a few apps now and it was time to clean it up and get it out to the world. If anyone wants to know the raw details there's a document in the url for contributing that discusses how it works.
Beautiful-2012
This isn't entirely true. You can auth $1 and then never capture it, which will result in no money being charged.
That list of criticisms isn't really so harsh but rather honest constructive suggestions and realistic assessments of where 3D printing is now.

That being said, there are a lot of comparisons to 70s era computers and it seems to be a valid observation. However, past performance is not indicative of future results.

In 10-20-30 years after the 70s hobby home computing club, applications are obvious.

So, maybe this is hard to ask, but what applications do you think are going to be obvious in 30 years time? What is the Visicalc of 3D printing going to be? What if there is no killer app?
One technique I use is to search to get focus on the link, and press enter.
So for instance, to follow your first link I'd type ".tut[enter]", or for your second, ".tube[enter]"

This works in Firefox too, if you dismiss the search box first.

Not really better than link hinting, but good enough that I haven't felt the need to find an extension that does it.
That is a very nicely done analysis. I too have wondered what a 'modern' valuation of letters might look like, this approach seems reasonable.
What law are you referring to here?
How to press "any" key
This is really a very funny picture. It shows the best way to click ANY key when you read the message "Press any key" on the screen of your PC.
This is a neat tool, I hope it continues to improve. Suggestion: allow users to choose from the major style guides.
This is why you should avoid Google when you can.

They're eating the Internet. The more you depend on them, the harder it'll be to cut ties when they give you crap.
Copyright is totally enforceable, and it's enforced just fine right now.

Your big blind spot here is that you're thinking of copyright infringement as just downloading. Both when looking at whether it's right or wrong ("what's the harm if someone in Saudi downloads Pirates of the Caribbean?") and now from the enforcement standpoint. The real value of copyright, to content creators, is to keep a Google or Apple from coming along, digitizing every movie and song, and selling them for a nominal price to drive Android/iOS device sales.
They actually have a deal with google where all of their comments are directly indexed and attributed to the sites (likely similar to canonical references).

It used to be a problem a couple years ago, and sites would then use the API to load in comments and include them server-side. Obviously this wasn't ideal, but it's a solved problem now.
Looks like the safebrowsing console is lagging. It currently says "Updated 5 hours ago". I guess once the information propagates to it, you'll have more details.

http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnost...
TV and other "old media" also commands big money because companies like Apple focus on it and still see massive successes. It works. Does Apple even do banner ads at all? I don't remember ever seeing one.
This is nothing new, Google customer support has always been terrible.
More data on holiday shopping, with a mobile twist
I thought that's what I said, and also what the parent said. I was refuting that the reason sites authorize $1 instead of $0 to validate a card was to stop spam/scammers -- that's a valid reason, but the root reason it was always $1 was because $0 authorizations weren't possible.
I wonder if Google's malware warnings have ever been reviewed by lawyers. Because this entire feature smells like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Dzone http://www.dzone.com
I bought a bike too last year. I paid list price, had them install kiddie seats, I paid list for those too.

The last place I would drive a hard bargain would be in a bike store.

For one, I can afford the bike + extras, otherwise I wouldn't go out to buy it, we're talking relatively small money here. I simply set a budget and didn't exceed the budget, which may have influenced my choice of bike but that's fine.

When I went back a few weeks later with a small problem (crank play) the guy instantly dropped what he was doing, fixed the problem immediately (obviously no charge) and asked how my kids liked the bike. We talked for a bit more and he asked me to come in any time there is anything wrong with the bike right away.

I love the bike and that guy running his small business.

I wonder how he would have treated me if I had decided to haggle with him over the price of the seats or the bike using my negotiation skills. Relative to my income that guy is working a lot harder for a lot less.

Maybe my perspective about bike store owners changed when I worked for a bike store when I was 15 (newspaper route + working in the bike store paid for my first computer).

Car dealerships I approach in an entirely different way.
Ashamed to say this, but Microsoft FrontPage, when it comes to HTML and CSS. That how I started to understand what the markup of the web was and after a while ditched FrontPage for Notepad and took it from there.
You're trying to create a categorical distinction between "negligible" and "absent" marginal costs that doesn't have any practical significance.

There is a huge difference between ten million negligible and ten million absent, which is highly relevant to this discussion. If the benefit is negligible per person, and the cost is negligible, the social good is difficult to evaluate. If the benefit is negligible and the cost is nothing, then the social good is clear. If you can't see this, you can't be effective in this argument.

and left an amount of money equal precisely to the marginal production cost

Paying for something at cost is actually a net benefit to the creator. It reduces risk, increases market visibility, and lowers production costs by increasing volumes. Now, a business that doesn't make any profit is a difficult business to operate, but I'm not sure that it's morally wrong to pay for the marginal cost of production. Products are often sold at deep discount (probably not below cost) or are given away for the benefit of the creator.
For transcendental meditation, try meditating on π.

I prefer algebraic meditation, so I meditate on √2 instead.

EDIT: This was downvoted within two minutes. Get a sense of humor, HN.
Environment Matters: How I became an iPhone Developer in One Year
Copyright is totally enforceable, and it's enforced just fine right now.

Seriously? If you believe this, there isn't much more I can say.
All Hale King Google: Google AdSense Account Disabled
FBI hostage negotiator is given the feeling he just made a good deal. Salesman pockets his commission, dealership sells a car and makes money. Everybody happy.
I was looking for this kind of summary, thanks for posting it, but after reading it I fail to see how "Nibbles" and "Expanding the pie" are not basically the same thing.
Dishonest title: iPhone5, the only Apple phone released in 2012, came out 9 days before end of quarter, only for some regions, then 2 days before end of the quarter for a few more, then Q4, for still more. This title is like saying "We didn't sell many burgers today" when you only started selling burgers 10 minutes before close"

http://www.zdnet.com/apple-q4-2012-hardware-sales-by-the-num... (Apple's "Q4" is actually calendar year Q3 for the chart in this article) to see the spikes in the sales graph.

Additionally, Verizon customers who got the iPhone4 when it first came out didn't become upgrade eligible for 3 weeks after the release of iPhone5

Quarterly numbers are silly to look at when comparing Apples to Androids, as Apple has a yearly release cycle, and Android phones a functionally continuous release cycle, so you're not getting accurate rate numbers by sampling too frequently.
If i'm researching something:

HNsearch.com, Topsy.com, pinboard.com, stackoverflow.com, getprismatic.com, subreddits for specific topics.

Sometimes, delicious.com, which i used to go every day.

subject matter specialists on twitter,

______________

If i'm not researching something:

I open chrome and firefox pages to manage extensiosn/addons and those are the only pages i let myself open (my version of no-procrast)
If you're poor with kids, you'll probably pay around $1800 more due to reductions in the Earned Income Credit.

No kids, your tax rate goes up a little, and you lose the 2% payroll taxes, and the American Opportunity tax credit for education.

If you're middle-income, you'll probably pay $2000-6000 more.

If you're earning closer to six figures, you'll probably be hit by the AMT and pay over $10,000 more this year.

Around 30 million new people will qualify for the Alternative Minimum Tax if no legislation is passed to increase its income thresholds. That means instead of a progressive tax, you'll pay a flat income tax rate of 26% or 28% on every dollar, plus the higher payroll taxes and lost credits.
Because it's so much all about dynamically-typed high-level languages today that raw pointers and manual memory management seem old-skool and cool!
I strongly disagree. Blue is less bright to rods, that's it. If you happen to be looking at even gray, then sure the fact that blue seems a quarter as bright means you can chop off two bits. But if you look at pictures that are blue, without a lot of other colors to wash it out, you're going to have the exact same 450 distinct brightness levels over the 100:1 contrast ratio that the eye picks up.
http://www.contemporist.com
Daily routine because of my obsession with architecture, home design and styles.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/
Hours and Hours of video on how things are built, by hand. I'm utterly fascinated by the craft of building tangible objects with your hands.

http://wireframes.linowski.ca
A legend in the Interaction Design field

http://sidebar.io/
..and most recently, I enjoy getting my design related digest from Sacha Greif & Co.
DoD 8570 Security+ Deadline Looming
I don't have particular must-read sites so much as collection of sites with potentially interesting material set up in Pulse which I scan through twice a day or so.

I end up reading stuff from HN [1], The Verge [2], Wired[3], A VC[4], VentureBeat[5], AllThingsD[6], Technology Review [7] and Ars Technica [8] most often.

They aren't strictly digital related, but I get a lot out of Archinect [9] and core77 [10] for design interest.

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/newest, 2: http://www.theverge.com/, 3: http://www.wired.com/, 4: http://www.avc.com/, 5: http://venturebeat.com/, 6: http://allthingsd.com/, 7: http://www.technologyreview.com/, 8: http://arstechnica.com/, 9: http://archinect.com/, 10: http://core77.com/
Oh please! You may dismiss Distrowatch, but then you have to provide some better alternative metric. There isn't one. It is plain to anyone who checks the site regularly that although Ubuntu has more installations, Mint surpassed it in mindshare last year, closely followed by (gasp) Mageia! And I'm happy to see Puppy continuing to do well. It must be so boring to be a WinAppleSerf.
At least those bother to acknowledge their customers, even if their response is wrong. At least it gives you a chance to fight back.

Google simply utterly ignores any kind of complaint. There is no worse way to treat people than to completely deny their existence.
Wish I could upvote this one twice. Listening and paying attention are crucial to developing understanding of people.
> "technical debt can never exceed the economic value of your code, which in a startup is extremely likely to be zero"

That's something to quote right there.
Or the more likely cause, which it was an easter egg. Google got caught with it's hand in the cookie jar, and removed the offending code before it got in trouble.
I got tired of visiting each site individually so I built http://skimfeed.com
What were some of the first things that ran through your mind when you first started learning HTML, CSS, and/or JS?