skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because both LLVM and Clang are librarified from the off, so you can hook them into your own code and use as much or as little of them as you want. You can insert your own passes, make your own drivers, add your own analyses to the static analyzer (http://llvm.org/devmtg/2012-11/Zaks-Rose-Checker24Hours.pdf). Or use it to get information to show in an IDE.
Why it’s critical we cover so-called “controversial” science
Most of the things you'll "learn" with Gentoo are how to get such-and-such a package to agree to build & install. Gentoo is all about groveling through configs because you're stuck in a 1993 mentality of trying to save 100 kB in your binary by excluding GIF support in Firefox and stripping symbols out of /bin/ls.
The 10X Developer In You
I like that heroku-bartender. I'll have to use it.
can you tell me which tld was it?
Thank you, Mike, for continuing to push ahead with D3. It's nice to see so many folks are using -- and benefiting from -- it!
Medium: Now Full-Featured Writing Platform, Adds Stats.
The headline made me pay attention to how long the article page took to load, and it actually seemed quite slow to me.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=threeper
Oh, that's fantastic news. Thanks for updating me. I will check out the list archives to learn more.
I'm sure that military service:

1) Is a better filter of those that shouldn't own a gun.

2) Trains a certain level of responsibility / respect for the weapon.
Ask PG: Where did the rest of my 'saved' stories go?
I've been around for a little while and upvoted at least a hundred stories, but when I went looking for one of them today, I found that my 'saved' page only has 9 stories listed: http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=nfriedly - what happened to the rest?
I've heard this is a really good introduction book, http://www.amazon.com/Objective-C-Programming-Ranch-Guide-Gu...

Having read their Cocoa programming for OS X book (http://www.amazon.com/Cocoa-Programming-Mac-3rd-Edition/dp/0...), I can wholeheartedly recommend their books.
How Do You Put Your Phone Into Your Pocket?
Rust and Go may be superficially similar, but they are night and day semantically. They're also aimed at different niches and have wildly different goals. So though it may be tempting to compare the two, it's not an especially productive exercise. :) This town is more than big enough for the two of them.
Yes. More organisations should follow the lead of Bristol Council: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jul/07/when-zombies-a... - Most are are in the deplorable state of unpreparedness demonstrated by Leicester Council: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-13713798
End of days - get your supplies with a text
Why is this useful in any way, shape or form?
The most interesting bit for the Hacker News crowd is probably the OmniPresence sync engine which is designed around open web protocols (so anyone can host their own cloud) and supports documents from any app, not just ours. (On Mac, OmniPresence is a separate app; on iOS, it's a library which will be freely available as open source.)
What would it take to patent some crucial process in IV's "business" model (like establishing shell companies to avoid declaratory judgements) and then sue them?
TSA Budget in 2011: $8.1 Billion [1]
US air travelers in 2011: 730 million [2]

Cost per screening $11.09

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Adminis...

[2] http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/number-air-passengers-increase...
Why fonts look awful in Chrome, and how to fix it
I think that's wrong: there's no way for a site to know what DNS servers I use. Instead, they use a reverse lookup from the apparent IP I'm connecting from... that is available to them, and is unrelated to my DNS servers.

Or can you supply a reference/explanation for how'd they'd know my DNS servers?
5 Last-Minute Tech Gift Ideas For People You Hate
If they install it, they'll have nightmares. If they don't, it's just a useless box that will sit on their shelf and periodically remind them that you don't particularly care for them.
To get on HackerNews.
The mirror is to run the backups on, not the backup itself.
Assange's Xmas address from his embassy exile
We (Bloomberg) have a very nice C++ library designed on top of the IANA timezone data that will hopefully make its way to GitHub eventually. The API for that library allows the caller to specify either explicitly DST or STANDARD or an UNSPECIFIED enum value which means the API will let you know whether the resulting conversion is ambiguous so that you can take correct action. This only comes up to bite you when you are storing datetimes in non-UTC timezones. If you simply store UTC there is no ambiguity when converting to a specific location's timezone.
OK, but again, it's the only source of this info in South Korea. Here, we have a very robust Wikipedia, endless health sites (for those "How I get pregnant?!" Yahoo! Answers style questions, and an infinite array of other very chatty, very dedicated sites.

I just feel like this ship has sailed. Quora reminds me of Everything2. Remember that site? It's still around, but does anyone really use it much anymore? It's another attempt to put all the info in one big pile. I just don't see that type of effort working anymore outside of a Wikipedia setting.

Also, you know what else is huge in South Korea? Starcraft. But that hasn't helped Activision's stock too much in the States since the merger with Blizzard. South Korea also has insane bandwidth to yer home. I'd much rather investors emulated THAT success than some nebulous info site's.
PigeonRank - The technology behind Google's great results 
From Aprils Fool Day 2002
PhpVirtualBox needs a new project lead
This seems like a very strong case for public health in the developing world, beyond merely helping direct beneficiaries, it makes the country more economically productive and thus able to support itself.
A great refinement would be: on the error page, suggest alternate sites with similar content that are still reachable.

Or even: for the exact URL visited, suggest the one page in the remaining long tail that's most like (by some text/semantic measure) the originally-requested page. (Or even: redirect automatically to that page.)
Seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if VCs used this when evaluating ideas for new email-related products. I don't think you could do any better no matter how many hours you put into due diligence.
Cartoon about work and the holidays
We need to keep repeating this basic fact to people who think this kind of thing serves a purpose:

"Reducing the number of people" who can access your precious content without your permission is stupid, because it only takes ONE person. He will readily share it with the rest of the world -- and probably already has.
Beta: pressureNET Data Visualization (open source Android barometer network)
inDinero (YC S10) seeks Lead Developer
inDinero has been hauling for over two years now, growing to over a thousand paying business customers, and we're looking for a lead developer! Both founders (Andy and Jessica) studied computer science before starting the company, and they wrote most of the initial code until product launch. Today, the company has five full-time developers scattered across the globe, and we're looking for a tech lead who can oversee our team and it's growth as we go from five to thirty.

What will happen day-to-day?
>Spec out new product features with our design team
>Improve our engineering workflow
>Get feedback from team on how we can speed up their work
>Make sure the test suite runs faster and is continuously running
>See that all devs get their technical questions answered promptly
>Update the dummy databases that our developers test code on
>Prioritize long-term structural improvements to make to our infrastructure
>Upgrading Rails
>Using something like mongo to track events
>Make sure the servers will scale
>Ensure high security
>Audit code base every quarter
>Refactor and modularize key parts of our code base.

Skills we're looking for:
>Ruby on Rails, 1+ years
>Java, 2+ years
>HTML/CSS/Javascript
>Sysadmin experience (Debian)

Interested? Shoot a note over to jobs@indinero.com with why you'd be perfect for the role!
This is our first attempt to show everyone the data that we've been collecting with pressureNET, our open source Android-powered barometer network. Tomorrow we're going to update pressureNET on Google Play to include this tool, and soon we'll be doing a full launch. If you have some feedback that would be excellent.

There are a couple of bugs I know about: there is a data gap between Nov 22 and Nov 30 2012, the 'share' link opens in a weird place, and the graph does not re-draw properly in stock Android browser. If you find anything else, please let us know!

In general, what we're trying to show is that we have some really incredible data - and there's so much of it that we've not even looked at the vast majority of it. We want to open up our API to access the backend archive soon to let anyone query it. The NEXT MAJOR STEP is to get a livestream service going whereby researchers and companies can use our live weather data.
Since the UK's gun ban in 1997, gun crime has gone up 89% in a decade: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223193/Culture-viol...

"The latest Government figures show that the total number of firearm offences in England and Wales has increased from 5,209 in 1998/99 to 9,865 last year - a rise of 89 per cent.

In some parts of the country, the number of offences has increased more than five-fold."
Why is intellectually dishonest? Is your view that the 100% of gunshot suicides would have been successfully committed anyway through other mediums? Or they lives don't count because they don't value/want them?
I'm quite wary of blaming employees for the perceived faults of their employers. Too much of our economy depends on morally debatable activity for me to be comfortable tossing around the "what you do for a living is bad for America" line willy-nilly.

For example, here on HN people seem very cool with the advertising industry. But I remember in engineering school, the popular refrain was that advertisers and marketing people were leaches sucking out the marrow of American industry. Yet, lots of engineers now happily work for companies in bed with the advertising industry. If you work for Facebook, you work for a company that depends heavily on an industry (advertising) that exists mostly because of government granted monopolies (trademarks), and whose business model depends on getting teenagers (who aren't competent to enter into contracts and don't really understand the ramifications) to give away their personal information in order for advertisers to try and sell them things they don't need. I think you can make a credible argument that what Facebook and similar companies do is morally objectionable, and that "I'm just doing my job" is no excuse for people who work in Silicon Valley figuring out how to maximally exploit these kids.

But I don't really want to go there (glass houses, etc). I think there is too much complexity in the underlying moral calculus for it to be reasonable to go there.
I don't know -- could be a sign of NIH syndrome.
Furthermore, the suicide rate in “gun-free” Japan, at Number 7 on the global list of national suicide rates with 23.8 per 100,000, dwarfing the comparable rate of 11.8 in the heavily-armed United States, which comes in at Number 41.
Recurring events. Specific points in time are just that and can be represented properly, but what about that 10am meeting that happens every 2 weeks that you added into your calendar? The calendar app doesn't go create an infinite number of events into the future when you add the recurring event -- it simply stores 10:00 America/New_York and does the proper timezone conversion when for each discrete date.
One of the codes may be a one-time-pad reference to a book which may no longer exist OR the ciphertext may simply be a meaningless fraud.

Another is probably written in an invented, private language.

Two others are short enough that brute force approaches will almost certainly create false positives.

In general, brute force can only work if you have some idea of what to expect the clear text to look like.
Are you kidding? Some keywords on Google Adwords go for $100+ per click. PER CLICK!!
Mistakes agencies make: a story in three acts
Tubes.io is a hosted scraping and web automation platform
One thing not commented on in this article is that AT&T and T-Mobile are doing the exact same thing. Of the big 4 US carriers the only one not explicitly blocking Google Wallet is Sprint.
First Google voice, now this. Le sigh...

I was in the business of mobile applications pre-iPhone, the era of phone companies picking winners or trying to do things themselves and the net result was that most mobile functionality beyond the basics was garbage. Not just the devices but the poor choices mediocre people at some high-mid level in the phone companies would make on all kinds of weak decision making criteria led to bad poorly thought out software choices, both on the consumer side and the enterprise side.

Of course carriers thought it was in their best interests and that they could beat market based product discovery. Neither was really true as the explosion of innovation caused by the iPhone and the cadre of early post-iPhone mobile app developers demonstrated.

This kind of move by Verizon is a misguided step back to that world. It's frustrating and stupid and in the long run unlikely to be a win for Verizon, despite any short term gain for some internal project or other built by a second rate team put together to defend someone's budget allocation.
If the hypothesis that "more guns = more crime" were true, then as the number of guns increased, violent crime should also increase. However, we see the opposite is true. US violent crime is down for the fifth straight year since 2006: http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/29/justice/us-violent-crime/index...

But since 2006, gun sales have soared: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/01/05/9983727-fbi-firea...

"Purchases of handguns and rifles, which had held steady throughout the early part of the decade, began to surge in 2006 and have nearly doubled since then, according to FBI data."

So a doubling of gun sales coupled with a declining violent crime rate over a 5 year period should handily dispatch the notion that "more guns = more crime", correct?
Social advertisers spooked by Instagram backlash
Someone shoves you? That's assault. Did you think of reporting the incident or pressing charges? Serious question.
what he (i assume?) is saying is that when a cdn wants to supply data to you, they want to do so from a server as close as possible.

now, typically, dns is configured so that your dns requests go to servers that are "near" you on the network.

so, say you're looking for google.com. the dns server near you will be configured to say that google.com is a server near you (and near the dns server). effectively they are inferring location from dns lookups (and then providing you with a nearby source).

this is completely different to looking up the requesting ip in a database which is what i originally assumed was being discussed (hence my confusion and perhaps yours). but it (this process for choosing cdn providers) does seem to be called geolocation by cdn people (just google "cdn geolocation").
Very cool. Thanks for the clarification.

Also: I'm not an expert, or a lawyer, but it's my understanding that you can't copyright titles, but you can trademark them, or portions of them.

The guys (IDW?) that publish the "For Dummies" book series regularly enforce the trademarks around their name and cover design.

Hollywood often gets around the copyright problem by trademarking some film titles (this is why it's always "Disney's The Lion King" and not just "The Lion King.")
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/case-studies/

Requires Silverlight
I recommend RamNode
http://www.ramnode.com/
So then we could have some items that could be banned in virtual worlds that were allowed in the real world. And other items that could be banned in the real world but that were allowed in the virtual world.
Snow in canvas land
For anyone currently trying to learn marketing, (like me) this is a textbook example of how content marketing works. Don't worry about what an SDK is, you just need to know that this article is content marketing promoting one.

The purpose of the article is to pitch a particular SDK called Box, but most of the words are spent talking generally about SDKs and what makes a good one. Only at the end, once we're convinced the author understands the SDK market, does he throw out the meat and show us an SDK that (surprise!) meets exactly the criteria he just laid out.

To apply this to your business, you need to get articles on your blog and elsewhere (Esp. elsewhere, backlinks are what drives SEO) with a similar format: four to six paragraphs of <Here's what I know about $MY_MARKET, look how smart and plugged in I am/we are> followed by one or two of <Look, $MY_PRODUCT fits all the things I just laid out> <link to my site>.
The following phrase struck me as very odd:

"No, you want your phone book to be managed by Google or Apple"

I suspect lots of people will never ever want any company to manage their phone books.
I'm sure the citizens suffering the aftermath of Katrina and Sandy know how quick and responsive the federal government is, right? Or the shop keepers in Koreatown during the LA riots. Bottom line is, why on earth would I want to rely solely on the government for my own safety and self-defense?
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a) We decided not to support h.264 for non-technical reasons (patent-encumbrance etc) for quite some time.
b) We don't have infinite developer resources, so it just hasn't gotten done since then.
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?

This statement is telling because it is contrary to the basic principles of the patent system. Patents are intended to disclose inventions; to provide an alternative to secrecy that allows mutually beneficial cooperation between competitors. Intellectual Ventures has abandoned all pretense of using patent law as it was intended.
Best way to reduce chance of hash collisions: Multiple hashes, or larger hash?
Can you use Google Wallet on a rooted phone?
Have you tried piping the dump directly to a compression tool? We use pbzip2 for our dumps which works great if you have some CPU power to spare. The largest was around 8 Gigs uncompressed, but the total size of the plain text dumps is over 20 Gigs. Hardly an issue for EBS that way. Did kill the DB for a few minutes several times before using cstream to cap the dump bw.
Where can I find binaries for 32-bit Ubuntu 12.10? Or a VM image? Will the Windows binary work in Wine?
You get the phone subsidised from the retail price of $600 to $100, and your carrier gets you to drop your pants.

You should totally find a way to reduce carrier to a dumb pipe. Everything carriers (or ISPs) try to add to the service is awful, harmful and anti-market. Make them just provide the connectivity and shut up.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure you can trademark titles. An example is the "X for Dummies[1]" series that has at least threatened to sue people[2].

People currently associate "Learn X the Hard Way" where X is computer related to your lcthw project. If you let other people use it, that distinctiveness will go away and it will likely not be something you could trademark

[1] http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4009:ae...
[2]https://www.chillingeffects.org/protest/notice.cgi?NoticeID=...
Previously submitted and seriously doubted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4889266

In that thread[0] revelation[1] said:

At perfect efficiency, this seems to give you about
55mW for a hour, if I asked Wolfram correctly (for
20kg lifted one meter) - [2] - So probably a hoax.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4889426

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=revelation

[2] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=20+kilogram%E2%80%90for...
Don't worry, the data's not lost. It's just a bug that will disappear in the next restart, probably in a day or two.
As far as I know it works perfectly but Wallet will complain about the security implications of the phone being rooted.
I use NetBeans for development, and always feel like I'm slightly inferior for not relying on vim. There's certainly a lot to be said for it, but I really like (1) being able to zoom straight to the definition of one of my functions (can vim do this?), and (2) being able to code offline / on localhost sometimes.

And I think the second point is my problem with this. Chances are, if I get a cheapo PC or a tablet to code on, it's because I'm traveling. If I'm traveling, chances are I'm not going to have a reliable Internet connection. I've got a mobile hotspot, etc etc, but sometimes the simple method - working locally - is the best.
I use Google Wallet on my Galaxy Nexus using T-Mobile. (Or at least I did use it until my free $10 ran out. I don't get how it's supposed to be more convenient than swiping a card.)

Verizon won't let phones access their network if Google Wallet can be installed. That is significantly different from every other network.
> Quora's mission is to share and grow the world's knowledge

By hiding that knowledge from everyone who doesn't sign up or log in with Facebook/Twitter? Sorry, but I'll be celebrating the day Quora dies, hopefully at the hands of StackExchange.
"It also costs less than one-tenth of the price of the MBP, so, given that, the hardware performs much better than one-tenth the quality components."

Except that it may not. You have the initial cost and then the $25 a month for basically the life of the Chromebook. Not to mention that it becomes rendered useless if you hop on a plane and happen to be on one of the many planes not equipped with wifi. Even if it does have wifi, it is just another expense to add to the cost to use a Chromebook as a development computer.
If your entire development environment consists of a browser then I guess it'll work
Nice ! though I dont think using a Syrian tld would be a wise idea at the moment.
The problem with that is if you run into the wrong guy it might get you killed.
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But Quora has had trouble continuing to grow, and has yet to
announce or implement monetization schemes. Broadening its
scope could help.

Profound.
The Last Christmas in America?
> I swear, the only people who know of it or use it are Arrington junkies.

Reading that was such a coming-of-age moment for me. In having me realize that HN is not the place I always thought of it as: of adults so much smarter than me, who hold nuanced take on things and discussed issues thoughtfully.

No, Quora is not full of 'Arrington junkies' -- or whatever else you want to call it to feel superior over another part of the web. Questions answered, and answers questioned are often so full of insight that I just very often browse around to pass time. It's like reading an interesting book.

I thought the description 'Jimmy Wales’ site serves as an objective reference guide for the world, while Quora offers subjective answers to popular questions.' was quite fitting -- Quora serves its purpose quite well, and I do think it can comfortably grow and evolve into its newly stated goal of becoming a platform for users to publish their writings on. Tone down the knee-jerk cynicism please.
Might want to try Pencil: http://pencil.evolus.vn/Stencils-Templates.html