skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No not really, I wanted to say something about the attitude.

I didn't think the points merited response, because it's self-evident that the blanket statement of 'the data is useless' simply isn't the case.

Anyway, let me be specific:

1. I can see why folks might want to be able to turn it on or off, but introducing visual inconsistency between different user profiles would feel pretty wonky to me.

2. Keeps the information dense. I don't need to know exactly what was committed in order for the information to be broadly
useful.

3. Incorrect.

4. Recent = relevant.

That's not to say that I think it's perfect - for example, the 'current streak' will tend to 0 days for most users as noted by other comments, but overall I think it hangs together pretty well.
the broken leg and walking analogy is quite cool!
Technic is just mechanics. The other three are quite the same, plus sensors/actuators and programmable.

For a 8 years old I'd start with plain LEGO. And then introduce the rest a little later.

But this depends on what the kid already likes. I see no problem in going straight to programmable stuff if he/she already showed interest in it.
Is android the next big gaming platform?
With the kickstarter success of Ouya and Gamestick and the announcement of project shield from Nvidia, is android set to become the next big gaming platform?
The article makes reference to the need for Standards organizations to charge for standards so continue fundind the development of those standards. I've contributed/am contributing to three ANSI standards and we're not compensated for that work. In fact we have to spend money out of our own (or our firms') pockets to work on these - I'm spending $1,000 to travel to Washington DC next week for a meeting of one of these standards groups.

When complete, these standards will probably sell for $80-$100 a pop and I'll see none of that. ANSI as an organization will contribute by providing some editing and review (although the bulk of that work will be done by unpaid peer reviewers) and it's necessary for them to charge a nominal fee to support their work, but having seen this process from the inside, I don't see where this money is going.

We need standards, but the gatekeeper aspect is a sham. When contributors start getting paid for our efforts, maybe I'll change my mind.
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I disagree. I think typing one more command "sudo !!" is much easier and straight-forward than doing

1. Ctrl+p. Go to the previous line in bash history.

2. Ctrl+a. Go to the beginning of the new line.

3. Type "sudo ". While you're typing your whole commandline shifts around as well.

The latter mixes history commands, navigation commands and also modifies a previous command instead of just typing a new 7-letter command. It's also more in terms of keystrokes (though just barely).
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Sarcasm ?
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some unexpected driving forces of organizational culture in an agile software development company are uncovered in this article. full of insights for an inquisitive minds, looking to improve the culture in their organization. based on real-life cases from a real company.
The biggest value of an xbox is probably the heavily subsidised price point and access to a proprietary ecosystem and console exclusive games.

Unless Valve can pull out a huge amount of launch titles this will have a very weak ecosystem of it's own so will have to compete directly against other "gaming PC" companies such as Alienware.
Maybe, but that would require a custom keyboard as well. It may have something to do with giving the keyboard inputs a higher priority.
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> Which is exactly what a console is.

Not really.

- The Xbox 360 doesn't have a date/time chip. It gets its time from the cloud (Xbox Live).

- The security architectures of these platforms are extensive, to prevent piracy, cheating and malware.

I'm guessing that the days of standardization of console hardware are over; the mobile market has proven that you can innovate and increase power, and developers are happy to comply (as long as there is money in it). You can't /reduce/ computational power or feature sets easily, but you can certainly improve them.
It is already a big gaming platform, you can't ignore such a huge market. Unfortunately, high quality games are not there yet, but it gives a bit more time for the smaller studios to make something fresh.
Does Kashflow jibe with Canadian banks? And is there an Evernote addon in the plans?
For me it's not as much the tools used (since the techniques of seaking around places should still be the same) but the mindset behind. So maybe there's no demand for classical ninjas now. For Ninjas using Ninjutsu skills and modern tools at the same time, I think there is as much demand today as ever (on a international scope, in Japan I can't tell).
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If you really think that, you need to need to study more marketing and usability. No offence intended.
Really cool idea. The descriptions in iTunes are all in Dutch, though…

edit: actually, even the app itself is mostly in Dutch. :)
I'd like to see them try and prove they were taken advantage of by referencing their own incompetence. "Your honor, the defence claims that we were sophisticated investors but look at what we did. Are these the acts of a sophisticated man who knows what he's doing?"
Disagree a bit with the ecosystem comments.

You're underselling the exclusives on PS3 and X360. For all of the Zelda, Mario, and other first party Nintendo games, you have a bunch of Uncharted, God of War, Killzone, Gran Turismo, Halo, Gears of War, Forza, Viva Pinata, etc. between PS3 and X360. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_exclusives_... - there are a lot of exclusives between the two.

I would just say Nintendo was left out of all of the cross-platform games, which is a shame. Much of the Wii's "unique" ecosystem is garbage.

We may be going through a new "shakeout" period, similar to the 3DO and Jaguar days. As for mainstream adoption, I don't see any of the newcomers (OUYA, Project Shield, Piston) taking off, but it'll be fun to see what happens.
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I'm confused about the analogy - who did AIG shareholders con?
The title is a little misleading, it led me to believe that it was about Android app developers, not custom distro developers.

That being said, I'm a bit thorn on this. From the developer side, Samsung seem a bit too prickly, specially when Android is touted as an "open" platform. On Samsung's side, it has no obligation whatsoever to provide all the data and source when asked.
I thought this was interesting advice, and suggest that people don't focus on the money. But do focus on not getting into a shitty job that oppresses others (like prison guard, or security guard working in certain situations, or police).

If you live in most "developed" countries, you will have access to a social "safety net", which will allow you to live (even if below the poverty line) even with a crappy job. Use it. Take what's yours.
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AIG should STFU and be glad to be living in a socialist economy.

In a real free capitalist economy they'd be dead. It sure would have brought turmoil but... The sooner this fake economy goes down, the earlier real recovery can start.

We're only pushing the can down the road and, meanwhile, creating all the necessary condition for a much harder landing.

Nicolas Nassim Taleb said that companies like GS and AIG should STFU and that their employees should be getting minimum wages (and certainly not more bonuses).

You have to realize that AIG is effectively on "life support" as Taleb puts it.

When you're on life support because you screwed and when an entire country is bleed by taxes to keep you alive (all the money that went to AIG is taxpayers money), you better STFU.

I can't even begin to understand the various people explaining here that the terms were not reasonable.

Next time let GS / AIG and all the ones benefitting from the "crumbs of capitalism" as Buffet puts it (i.e. finance) to die a horrible death.
ls -l | grep drw

I know, it's a bad habit
but in marketing, as in mails and comments, you or your loyal users do not always write http:// in front of your domain.

i consulted a sh-tload of companies on this question (and yes, i also think i have better things to do), any company that chooses non-www URLs regrets it down the road.
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The best offices I've worked in have always had a Spotify account set up, so anyone can remotely connect to the machine running Spotify and put whatever they want on.

It's good because we always get a mix when people get past letting others know how bad their taste in music goes. We've gone from Paramore to Jurassic 5 to John Mayer in the space of an afternoon before, and the mix tends to help everyone relax.
Not exactly. The key thing you're missing is that AIG weren't actually the main beneficiaries of the AIG bailout, the people who bought CDSs from them were. Effectively, a bunch of other companies convinced AIG to to sell them insurance for way less than it should cost, in many cases on property they didn't actually own, by conning them as to how risky it would be.

To continue the metaphor, it's like if a guy conned your family out of their life savings, and then the Government generously seized your home in exchange for paying the guy who scammed you the rest of the money you owed him which you couldn't afford to pay.

Edit: see, for instance, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-fiderer/the-cdos-that-de...
When I read this news I was expecting something like this http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/Stefan (show all repos that this person had done any commits/opened issues). Kinda sad.
While I'd love to recommend a YC startup, Coinbase charges much more in fees than MtGox or CampBX, for example. Yeah, they provide more features and a cleaner UI, but if you want to just buy some bitcoins, stick with lower fees from established players.

Whoever will be the first to create a shopping platform, as Coinbase plans to, will very likely get a nice boost and probably become the #1 player.
This is a feature that I figure is available in many addons that add functionality to the tabs in Firefox. One of the pros with Firefox is that "low level" GUI behavior can be modified.

Tree Style Tab is my favorite example of this: https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-se/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
Consoles are usually marketed around games, especially exclusives. If this is a standard PC it won't have any and will be around twice the price of any other console.
"Take" has so many meanings it's ridiculous. It doesn't imply just one thing, it implies several. You take after your father. Did you take the test? She didn't take much time. He took quite a beating. I took a dump. We'll take a look at it. I'll take a stab at it.

"Appropriate", the verb, is also flexible and also does not imply depriving someone of something. You can "appropriate" something when you create art, and you can be accused of "cultural appropriation", but in neither case is anyone deprived of what you appropriated.

So shut up. The argument about semantics is shit and you should stop repeating it.
I had the same question - I study in a system that emphasizes on rote and knowledge rather than on understanding. I graduate with a bachelors in CS in a few months and am extremely unhappy with the education I've gotten. I plan on taking a year off and studying on my own - starting CS from scratch really, taking a couple of Udacity/Coursera classes and possibly finding a job/internship at a startup near where I live, hoping that it would lead to something of an epiphany or a life changing experience.
Nothing concrete I've in my head, it's for my school data mining course.
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I know a few people who live like this but most of them are semi-nomadic rather than totally rootless. They have a home city where they live for half or so of each year, the ones who are richer / picked a low-cost city own or rent a home there permanently, others pick up a new rental contract every time they come back.

There's also people who aren't strictly speaking nomadic but do take long (multi-month) trips and work from there.

The only quibble I have with this article is the use of the word "rich". No-one I know with this life-style is really rich, they have good upper-middle class incomes doing jobs that are easily done remotely and they leverage that to live in a way that other people cannot.

I think that as these guys get older most will start to move from nomadic to semi-nomadic to "takes long working vacations", but some may indeed live like this forever.
When you play in big business level, except from marketing statements, there's no such thing as open. In this context, open was touted by Google as an advantage over iOS just to get mind share. Give them time and they'll tear this notion apart. Samsung already started.
"For the same reason the government gave AIG $187 billion, the banks would have figured out how to craft a deal such that to the public it appeared that AIG was a viable financial entity."

So why didn't they? Maybe because they were BROKE and people were wondering which bank would collapse the next morning. AIG gobbled over $100 billion in a month or so, otherwise they would have defaulted and everything would've been toast.

That same week even the mighty Goldman Sachs kissed Buffet's ring and got $5 billion from him, yet you expect dozens of top banks, with different exposures and interests, getting together to put up $150+ billion in a few hours. This is recent and I remember it really well.
The days of walled-developer-gardens are over! The barrier to entry into the lucrative console markets are lower and lower with every day that passes .. as a developer who could never afford a PS3 or XBox dev license, I've been participating as much as I can in the open hardware arena (GP32, GP2X, Wiz, Caanoo, Open Pandora) as much as possible .. and now the dream is finally coming true!

I can't wait until the day these things start shipping - I for one welcome the opportunity to have as much diversity in this market as possible ..
In today's news, companies all over the country scramble to replace their freelancers who all have norovirus simultaneously.
Those are some pretty good tips, they are real world at least and usable.
I have inadvertently being doing this for the last three months due to the proximity of the print screen and backspace buttons on my keyboard.

It also acts as a fallback version control :)
On false dichotomies and diversity.
The author is saying the technology lagged behind, and presents content that just says "you can use javascript for more than you could in IE5!"
Awesome thread! :)
you missed to multiply by 2h. 86400 frames equal only 1h.
I didn't propose a law, it was a principle and details can be worked out. For example you can start by deleting the past 10-20 years that created such monsters. Citibank, BOFA, Goldman Sachs etc were /are too big to exist in the current form so they need to be broken up. If they fail because they made stupid bets for short term bonus cash, they go bankrupt and not many people care.
I'm another victim of linkedin's shameless mailing spam, I had disabled my account, but they still try to send me connect emails again and again, und you got no way to stop them...
The htaccess password on the admin page is a pretty good trick I have used for years.
Ask HN: What Programming Languages/Tools I use to teach a 6 year old 
I am Planning to spend a few days with my six year old niece. What can be the Right Programming Language/ Tools I can use to initiate her into programming..

Any nice small project ideas for her would be an added bonus
I'd say common sense. That was the first thing I though when I read the title.
Obligation, no. But they seem to have "promised" devices and support for the CM dev team (I may have misunderstood that though.). They got the devices, but not the support. So i think it's fair enough of that guy to call them out on it. Don't promise things you won't keep. At least not to people that you want to keep around. (Whyever they would care about CM...)
The book recommended to me when I was doing Ninjutsu was "Ninjutsu: History and Tradition" [1]. It's written by Masaaki Hatsumi himself.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ninjutsu-History-Tradition-Masaaki-H...
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Try "Graphs".
And people say web development isn't difficult.
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People I know doing this work only for clients outside the country they are currently in. Whether this is 100% legally ok seems to be an open question and depends on the country but I've never heard of anyone having a problem.

Many countries grant citizens of wealthy countries 60 or 90 day visas pretty easily.
Yeah, the shadowstats site is interesting. Outside of the valley, it's very apparent the real unemployment rate is quite high.
> Everyone will probably have a different experience with their videos, he says, but he says self-reflection is never a bad thing.

People's infinite capacity to forget things is both a blessing and a curse.

Be prepared, when reminiscing about the good times, to be reminded of some equally bad times.
Scratch. http://scratch.mit.edu/

It's perfect for teaching the very basics of computing while working towards a fun goal - creating a simple game.
That's surprisingly honest from Sony labelling it as what it is, rather than pretending whilst we all can see what it's purpose was.

Seems like another example of how much copyright laws need reworking when things like this are par for the course though.
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"reveal.js" is a fucking plague, and image macros are the new wordarts.

Welcome to PP 2.0, browserdeath edition.
I came here to second kilroy123's request since I hadn't heard about the cease and desist issue yet.

It would be interesting if you could find an appropriate way to explain that to users; perhaps with a reference to http://resume.linkedinlabs.com/?
I am surprised there are still so many i386 installations. I have been running mostly amd64 for quite some years now. Both for severs and desktops. I know for sure the servers my job bought in 2007 ran amd64.
I don't really know why everybody is crazy about Backbone, when Qooxdoo (http://qooxdoo.org/) it's a lot better than it. You don't even have to know/touch html/css. You also have an automated generated page (that contains all of your js files or 1 big file if is min), OOP classes 'like' in Java, and full UI library.
Take a look at http://www.alice.org/
So true. Took me a while before I realized each Incognito Window wasn't isolated (but shared cookies etc).

A better behavior here would perhaps be that after having the first Incognito Window open, the next would be become "Incognito Window 2". The "detective icon" could have a number overlay and each window would isolated. If you want to share data between the open pages the natural thing to do would be opening a new tab.
One of the the way I use break point is stop a particular thread based on its name e.g Thread.currentThread().getName().equals("TestingThread"). This is very helpful while debugging multi-threaded application. My tips are on http://goo.gl/H5Li0
I just hope that Motorola+Google will be a rolemodel in the future in this regard. The Google Nexus devices have been very good to go for modding. Now Motorola needs to do that as well. They could even make us of the modding scene to provide regular updates instead of what is currently the case with every manufacturer for non-Nexus devices.
Oh well, you might learn a new language as well ;)
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You know this includes all recent Intels right? AMD64 here means "the 64 bit extension to x86 that's not the Itanium one"
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I recall a Nova or something on PBS several years ago where an MIT student had built a contraption that did essentially that. The thing that struck him when analyzing the data was how much every day was more or less exactly like the other.

He wasn't particularly philosophical about this fact, but I remember thinking this could be very depressing to some people - and jostle others into doing more with their lives.
Still, as the narrator of the linked video says, "trying to make the best documentary of my life" seems to take an odd third-person perspective of one's own existence.

In another vein entirely, I've always felt there was something bordering on the "sacred" about memories. They're as personal a thing as you can have. Being able to rewind and see everything that ever happened to me would take something away from that for me. As with many technologies, you'd gain something, but lose something precious too.
I paid the 2nd hand price and it is worth every cent.
Best chair ever and I have no backpain anymore.
If address #1 received a coin, and then address #2 transfers the coin out, and there are no mentions of that coin in-between, then can someone be sure that address #1 and address #2 are actually the same address?
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Do I understand correctly that "AMD64" is the name of an instruction-set architecture, implemented in CPUs from Intel as well as from AMD?
The key element seems to be the embrace of game controllers by android, e.g. you can already plug'n'play with XBox and Playstation controllers:

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/feature.asp?t=how_to&c=4522...

which apple seems to be fighting, even preventing iOS specific controllers if they're not tied to specifc apps:

http://kotaku.com/5947934/the-first-apple+approved-ipad-ipho...

The controller market is a little bit, ahem, fragmented, but generally seems to be converging on the PS3 style since it allows the double analogue sticks to operate pinch, zoom, rotate and other two finger gestures. Compare Archos tablet with gaming controls, their tv-box with gaming controls, and the new Nvidia portable console:

http://www.archos.com/img/products/gamepad/dwd/Ambience-corn...

http://media.begeek.fr/2013/01/ARCHOS_TV_Connect_TV_touch_re...

http://i0.wp.com/hypebeast.com/image/2013/01/nvidia-unveils-...

Though interestingly Nyko only just released a couple of handsets build for Nvidia chips and in collaboration with Nvidia that use the XBox 360 layout of having the dpad as a secondary to the analogue.
I wonder if this might end up as a trend towards the 'leaders' on the Android scene moving away from the Samsung stable to another manufacturer, and if so will that lead to the community following? Samsung is doing fantastically well at the moment so it doesn't make sense for them to start picking up a bad reputation for not playing ball.
Is this the final design? Am I the only one who thinks this looks extremely ugly? Hope it's not the final design, I'd love for it to succeed.
The undercover cop selling the nail salon $1000-worth of stolen goods for $30, then busting them for a felony is a little harsh and dishonest. They relied on a trick, too (including expensive items, like quality headphones, with the Tide, ONLY to push the "retail cost" of the goods over the felony-minimum).
Haha! Brilliant point! Exactly!!
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Fantastic! Exactly what i was looking for..
I wish all my thinly veiled marketing schemes could make news on the BBC.
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Great to see more and more B2D products getting press in mainstream media :)
Yes, it's the code name of the popular Intel 64-bit architecture (which is implemented by Intel and AMD CPUs)