skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's to prevent comments identifying companies that do not wish to be revealed. Also, it lets the founders making the more embarrassing postings be quietly and indirectly guided rather than letting them be mocked publicly (as many used to deserve, but the postings have generally been better in the last year. The system works.)
Very touching :)
The Entrepreneurial Lessons of Great Sushi
So, I'm an introvert, and I'm not antisocial. I don't agree with the author's argument at all. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that his opinion doesn't end there, either, and it's to get people talking and thinking, so I'll do that :)

Some of my best friends are extroverts. What's important is they understand that I approach social situations (and, indeed, many things) differently than they do. As well as just being fun people, they really help me to navigate (and organize) social situations and to meet new people. Without them, I think I would be pretty boring, and I would be even less creative than I am. After all, a big part of creativity is making unexpected connections, and you can't do that if your own ideas have all developed in a vacuum.

Sure, I think it's puzzling that some people really do appear to benefit from those regular meetings in which they sit in a circle and think aloud (and slowly) for 45 minutes every week, but I've met enough conscientiousness extroverts to know that I need to appreciate what works for them, let them have their time, and (where it's appropriate) try to work with them on their terms. Really awesome people will return the favour, and there are more than enough really awesome people out there. Honest.
Firefox 18
Most people in every profession fail at #1.
We've thought about this. I think we'd have to charge an import fee; encrypting GBs of data in small, useful chunks is not cheap. It might be something we offer one day, but probably not from the start (especially since, as you noted, there would be almost no security benefit).
As a Canadian, you can walk in any branch of 3 banks and deposit cash to get Bitcoins through Canadian Virtual Exchange, see https://www.cavirtex.com/methods
There's Serif software. Although for Flash there's really no other option. Synfig and other free flash tools don't do rotation.
I'm looking at this suggestion and somehow it seems like the exact opposite of the intent of REST. You're looking at a query that doesn't make any changes on the server and trying to figure out how to do it. Then you run into the fact that GET is incapable of passing bulk data the way the other verbs can. And instead of being slightly misleading by wrapping what is a GET at heart inside a POST, you would rather make the query cause changes on the server just so that it uses 'POST' correctly. You're taking a clean, standalone query and perverting it into a dirtying one.
787 electrical fire at Boston Logan
[...] the average U.S. consumer buys 68 pieces of clothing a year [...]

I'm speechless. Can that figure be true?
This is just a viewer, not the app that syncs
I really don't see why anyone flagged this comment, so I upvoted it.
Knowing that the problem will be immediately resolved is well worth $50.

The cops were happy to come and take a report but they never seemed all that interested in solving the crime (doubtless its a very low priority). In the other stolen laptop case a wallet was also stolen and the thieves used a credit card at a gas station. We gave that information to the officer but we could never get them to return phone calls. If we had threatened the guy with arrest we probably wouldn't be able to actually back up that threat. Why risk the cost of a new laptop plus the loss in productivity of setting up a new laptop, worrying about what information was on the hard drive, etc?

It's sad to think that a person can get away with a property crime in a medium-sized city and the cops will be indifferent, but that's the way it is.
Perhaps I'm reading the article wrong, but I believe some of you are getting too upset over what I took to be self-deprecating humor.

> “The more the merrier, right? It’s a proverb, you know.” Yes it is: a proverb coined by an extravert.

I mean, I started laughing right here, so I don't think an overly critical analysis is apt for this article.
Licenses Matter
You're talking without knowing the facts.

While the image we westerns have about ninjas is largely a myth, what people nowadays call "ninjutsu" is actually a collection of techniques that made their way onto modern jujutsu, kenjutsu, etc., plus a variety of more obscure knowledge (exotic/makeshift weapons, explosives, stealth). Calling these people - whose heritage can be traced back to that period - "pajama wearing idiots" is a disservice.
If ever there was proof positive that Groupthink was alive and well it is the HN comments page.
Is it just me or does this only count commits to master? Nothing in branches seems to show up for me.
I think you'll find Blackwater are actually honourless ronin.
CES Is So Uncool It Might Finally Be Cool
I had an interesting discussion on the Adobe thread, and I thought I'd flesh out my posts into a full blog post. I'm a wannabe IP lawyer, so I'm sure I'm wrong about at least half of it ;)
Moon landing couldn't have been a hoax
I might not be in the majority here, but I like the redesign. Some of the entries might not be as complete, but I'm glad the comments section is gone because lets face it rarely was there anything useful in the comments, this isn't php.net.
Are we still calling them extroverts? I thought the term was "douchebag" these days ;-)
Here's a bit shorter version of this amazing letter:

puts 'Augusta, we <3 you!'
Career Advice from the Weight Room
Which will only be portable when all implementations support it :-)
This isn't officially released yet.

If you're the type who would be willing to install this, you should consider using the Beta channel instead. Beta releases are generally very close to release quality, and you'd help gather telemetry data earlier.
The battery life is the only thing that worries me. I am excited about everything else.
Hah! I went for over-achievement, I suppose.
The author is propagating the stereotype that introverts are anti-social. This is not the case. We simply require more time to ourselves for mental wellness. This does not preclude socializing or going to larger events.

Exactly what I was about to post. The author sounds like he has a serious social phobia. I can definitely relate to what he says, but those are not qualities specific to an introvert.
I'm surprised Apple doesn't have a policy on reissuing phones from the same carrier.
Yeah, it's not like some alien benefactors would have placed a geodesic array of transmitters in the Oort cloud that would cancel out all our inane radio spectrum emissions.

Or could they? Hmmm...
Love expressed is always amazing, no matter the number of lines!
That guy who said Javascript is the new Perl has been proven wrong.
Nice! Reminds me of judofyr's "On Camping vs Sinatra"

http://timelessrepo.com/on-camping-vs-sinatra
"This article is total overgeneralizing scientifically embarrassing bullshit."

Ex-freaking-zactly! It's complete and utter bullshit written by a socially-inept person who should be ashamed of this borderline racist-level propaganda against extroverts.

I'm happy to make some generalizations in return. Maybe the reason this person needs to blame extroverts is because nobody wants to work with them in the first place. Maybe they're actually not an introvert, but an introverted sociopath incapable of feeling empathy for others and thus unable to relate to them on any level whatsoever. Just maybe.

Solid gold bullshit.
Both disguise and stealth techniques were taught. It's obvious they would mix with the local population and look inconspicuously most of the time, only breaking into houses at night is what called for a dark shozoko.
Landscapes: Volume 3
Oops you are right, good point, I am not a mobile developer so only web and desktop crossed my mind (also Indeed already has iOS on top 3 top trends on the front page of /trends)
How should I change the title to reflect it? (though I think for non mobile developers it's still an important insight)

Edit: changed the title to be a little more correct, feel free to suggest how to make it better
On the plus side, pirates are still going strong.
No! C and C++ are define NULL identically: it can be either 0 or (void * ) 0 at the discretion of the compiler author.

So the bug you mention which bit you by using "C library from C++" was not caused by a difference between C and C++. It was caused by a difference in the definition of NULL between those two compilers. You could just as easily have found a C++ compiler which did work, or a C compiler which didn't.
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If interested in cofounding a startup. Please post a comment with contact info. LOOKING FOR A CODER THAT CAN CODE IN OBJ.C and HTML/CSS.

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Why, to collect us for their zoos of course.

We may also make good pets, like the monkey on the shoulder of some alien Michael Jackson.
Reminds me of the time I was carded when I bought Baking Soda.

I see a lot of weird shit on the internet, I generally like my reality to be a bit more logical, but every once in a while something really does make me say WTF.
My sociopath meter is off the charts. Worked with one for 5 years and he shared almost this exact same worldview, including the stereotypes and phobias.

In any case, this generalized propaganda BS is to be disregarded in full.
The latin thing really got me too; the author constantly comes across as inconsiderate and elitist. He knows best, and being introverted is best. Case closed. Everything else is just him showing off how smart he is, and how he can totally do things better than people who are succeeding, but he doesn't want to because it might involve interpersonal communication.
Corporation not person in carpool lanes
For Mac OS sales in-store will always trump sales out-of-store; the Mac buying experience is quintessential for the average consumer. This comparing Linux Chromebook purchases on Amazon with Mac OS is irrelevant to me.

I will say the comparison to Windows-based computers is a bit surprising however. Still, the type of person who buys a computer on Amazon is more tech-savvy anyway and would prefer a Linux-based OS as compared to the other two.
All the public keys of your account are public in Github.com-- are you mad?
The Improbable is the New Normal
Rescued by a Bailout, A.I.G. May Sue Its Savior
I agree that really good ideas can come out of discussion and interaction with other people -- but I think this works best with 1-3 other people. With a small group, you can have a productive conversation that successfully identifies and solves the problems in an idea. But the least effective group brain-storming sessions are ones with a large number of people, and those are also the ones that are worst for introverts. With too large a group you end up with a reluctant high school English class socratic seminar.
"When working with good people, we riff off each other and fill in the gaps in each other's ideas that we wouldn't have even realized were there if we were working on our own."

The kind of synergy you describe may happen when a bunch of really smart people get together, assuming that their egos don't get in the way. But, on average, meetings are attended by average people. Which means that smart people will be outnumbered (and perhaps resented).
Best of Everything from all over the world: It’s Las Vegas: It’s CES 2013
Best of everything and new of everything from all over the world will be shown to the world in its usual luxurious and elite style. Replacing old technology by new and the reason are the giant companies like samsung, sony, lg, htc, huawei, acer, asus etc.
Yes, but I tried to focus on Languages, not libraries / frameworks.

The reason I posted it was

1) most people think (at least I did) that Scala has no jobs (well, absolute job count is still low, but it's encouraging to know it's growing fast)

2) my surprise, as it seems that Indeed changed the algorithm of the graph, few months back it was a different picture (Scala was behind Clojure for example)

3) seems the trend is faster than Ruby, which is interesting
HTML5 Canvas Lightning
I wonder if, as a laptop, I would not prefer to turn it off when I'm not using it. That way the battery would not really be a problem.
Would they pay you on schedule if you were late in delivering?

Are you willing to extend them a loan for the sake of the larger venture? Because that's essentially what you will be doing. Particular circumstances will decide whether or not you can/should consider that loan as being secured to some or any degree.

Will e.g. people die if you don't come through? In that case, you have an ethical consideration separate from the financial contract.

P.S. Can the situation sully your reputation? What good will is at stake, if any, that is of value to you aside from the particular contract and relationship itself?
When, if ever, is “number of lines of code” a useful metric?
The absolute version of the graph, as opposed to the growth version, shows a different story:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+ruby%2C+python%2C...

The fastest growing languages also happen to be the languages with the least jobs. I imagine Scala's growth will tail off a long time before it can compete in sheer number of jobs with javascript or java.
> AFAICT there is not a well-understood definition of first-class outside of "first-class functions."

Why not just the same notion of "first-class" as functions? In other words, that the feature is actually represented by a run-time value that can be passed around freely and stored. This is the usual definition of "first-class" that I hear most people use in the programming languages world. Examples include first class control (continuations), first class references (boxes, mutable cons cells, etc.), first class environments, first class modules (see OCaml, units, etc.), first class labels, and so on.
Really appreciate that! Yes, I definitely intend to provide an API.
Build Apps For Cars
I appreciate that! :)
Especially when it doubles as a learning exercise for your Daughter one day :)
Yep, known and painful, but the point of the post is to show it's relatively growing, and doing so very fast. Many people (such as myself) look at the absolute number and get discouraged, so this is a little good news to Scala fans
Google for Warby Parker. They're arguably the fastest growing online eyeglasses retailers.
Bravo. Better than _The Suit is Back_ by a country mile. "If You're Watching, It's For You" (http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/08/if_youre_watching_its...).
I am hoping they come back, but guessing they were intentionally removed. I found the answers to many edge-case problems in the comments, and some might be hard to include in the docs specifically because they were version dependent or just not as intended. I agree that ideally those answers would be in the docs.
> Since the U.S. demands fingerprints of non-citizens entering the country

Not entirely true, I know that Canadians can enter with nothing but a passport (and a non-biometric one, at that) or enhanced drivers license.
Craigslist adds map feature
Lego Announces Mindstorms EV3
This is the design equivalent of "Don't optimize prematurely."

If you optimize too soon in programming, you could run into all kinds of pitfalls. You might make the wrong thing efficient; you might spend a ton of time making the right thing efficient and then not use it; you might make something too complex by accident and it could screw you later on. So you wait to optimize.

You make the simplest solution that will work first, then optimize later, if needed. Often it's not needed.

The same should go for design, as it's an excellent fundamental principle of creation in general. Don't prematurely optimize: in other words, don't make things too complicated, too soon. Don't build something up before you have all the information. And don't build things you might not use until you know you need them. All good general rules of thumb, and they apply to all your work.
I'm nowhere near the top of my profession, so I'm baffled by it. I'm actually glad to read about it, since my non-dev friends don't understand it and get angry at me for bitching about people trying to offer me work! I am however, a minority in the field (a woman) so I sometimes think that this fact MAY have something to do with it :/

It really gives me even more reason to hate the recruiting spam - when I'm called "Mr." or when they tell me that "We're looking for a couple of great dudes like you!"
Show HN: Collaborative Haiku and Poetry
I think he means don't be afraid to work at a problem you care about and you'll probably end up helping someone else. Although I'm not sure if he's saying the opportunity to provide value for others is the goal or just a byproduct of your own interests...
Firefox OS shows up on a mystery phone
Awesome work dudes, I've been wanting something like this for a while.
2012 at Automattic
It only counts commits made to a master (or default) branch. Once your branch gets merged, we'll backfill all of your contributions.
when looking at svg graphics and 3d models.
Unsurprising verdict.

However the judge's reasoning is very weak.

I frequently drive in the carpool with one or more children who cannot drive in the car. By the judge's reasoning, this should not be allowed because our driving together does nothing to relieve congestion. Why not? Because I'm the only person present who is legally allowed to drive, so we'd be in one car regardless of the availability of the carpool lane.

If this was indeed the reasoning, I hope that this argument is made in the appeal.
Check out the podcast Rob co-hosts if you like it, always lots of practical advice.
http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/
SeedRuption: Convertibles vs Priced Seed Rounds
How so? The drug dealers are converting Tide back to dollars, and a significant portion of their business is still done with paper currency.

The drug user is who acquires the Tide, and then barters it for drugs. As other have pointed out, shoplifting Tide carries less risk than burglary, armed robbery, prostitution, etc.

If anything I think this speaks to the resourcefulness of drug users, and/or, the effectiveness of black markets.
I imagine it depends on definitions. I bought a dozen pairs of socks in November; does that count as 12 pieces of clothing or 24 pieces of clothing? Do the hiking boots I bought count as clothing? And if a new parent is buying baby clothes, who is the consumer -- the parent or the baby?
Can it be more than that, with Windows 8’s app sandboxing?
People are people but they are not always sitting in my car. How do I claim My LLC was actually with me?
Have you considered adding StackOverflow as one of your "Resume" links? That's, personally, where I keep my most up-to-date information. And now I think it's time to update that information.
Hmm, doesn't seem to be connecting all the dots. None of the committers to Cassandra show Contributions there on their profiles: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/graphs/contributors
Checkout LifeSlice by Stan James (https://github.com/wanderingstan/Lifeslice) for OSX - the script takes a screenshot, picture of the user and tracks web browser usage. The sample report leaves much to be desired from a design aesthetic but the data is available.
If you include socks. Individual socks.
Samsung hits five quarters of record profits, sells 500 handsets per minute
'Hashtag' Declared 2012's Word of the Year
Many stores will not do anything to physically stop shoplifting; they may call the police but they won't stop you. (A Whole Foods employee was fired for attempting to stop a shoplifter, because employees are not allowed to touch customers.) So I imagine you'd just fill a cart with Tide and push it out.
“The telephone network is obsolete”: Get ready for the all-IP telco
If we are counting an 8 pack of socks as 16 items of clothing, for example, 68 seems a sensible number. Counted otherwise the number sounds dubiously high.
Even more so. The majority of my work is in organizations. Before it was difficult to see what I was doing. Unless someone is really interested in my emacs settings.
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
--Bill Gates
Are there examples of other schools that have tried this type of programming competition?
Try turning your phone into the portrait orientation.
At first I thought this post was poking fun at the Bingo Card creator-style annual reports.
Yeah, in general they help citizens pretty well, and help citizens a lot more in dangerous places. Although to get US citizen services in Baghdad was really complex; despite it being inside a fairly secure area (the "Green Zone"), I wasn't allowed to carry inside, had to make an appointment a week in advance, etc. I ended up just making friends with people at a nearby heliport who had badges to escort me in. It turns out most of the extra security was because they had slightly better quality food than the nearby military bases, and were trying to keep military people and contractors from eating all of it.

The Embassies in Bangkok, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, etc. were all excellent, however.
The AI of John Madden Football (2004)
Very nice. I hope some day there will be a collaborative site to create stories and novels.
Drunkasaurus! Oh man, 2009 was a good year :)

I'll echo what skates and iba said -- battlecode was probably one of the most productive things I did in school. when everyone else is trying to teach you how to properly to document your preconditions, battlecode is purely about GSD (get s* done) - an extremely valuable lesson for an aspiring young entrepreneur.

my favorite battlecode hack: we used to assign a fixed "cost" to certain methods, namely Arrays.hashCode(). one of the more experienced players figured out that everyone was using this to checksum their radio broadcasts. he then proceeded to reverse engineer the hash code algorithm and spam teams with enormous messages that had legitimate checksums but were actually just megabytes of trash! the poor opponents would just sit there chewing cpu until the engine finally killed them for using too much heap :)

edit: actually read through cory's post - glad to see he already mentioned this one!
Surely the problem with their argument is that when they were bailed out they did have a choice; it was either accept the terms or go under. So if they accepted the govts terms, why should they now be allowed to argue they got ripped off.
In war against cancer, progress is in the eye of the beholder
Create MS Word document and convert to image and PDF file using Saaspose.Words
JQuery UI in EmberJS
This is tangential, but I'm curious about your partner "startups." Most of the listed companies are established, monolithic organizations that are notorious for onerous and extensive interviewing processes. Do these companies employ different practices in your "speed dating" environment? If so, why? If not, how does this service offer distinct functionality beyond an exclusionary set of abbreviated interviews, which would conceivably be less appealing to both parties?
Show HN: Bug Tracker, a standalone bug tracker for iOS
myforum.com

yh.to

railsapps.com

rorapps.com

If you know anyone in Yahoo, tell them about yh.to :)
It is an admonition that you should do work that creates a better life for people other than yourself. This is giving service to others. When a majority of the people do this, everyone's life is really great, when nobody does this a few people have great lives and a large number do not. Its fundamental to Christian theology and a number of other schools of thought.