skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used Adblock Plus for several years without remorse. Last year I started some websites and slapped Adsense on them to cover server costs and realized I would be an hypocrite if I kept using Adblock so I've stopped since.
A small step in OGSS setup, a large step for your company
America’s PhDs on Food Stamps
I have no idea why.

But I will say that after reading your app's descriptions on the google play store I still have no idea what they do.

- You give me generic quotes from people I've never heard of and don't care about ("Highly recommended")

- You then waffle on about nonsense ("The whole family is going to be charmed: beautiful melodies give magical life")

- More nonsense ("Inspired by classical music boxes that have been around since the 19th century, the Magical Music Box is a natural descendant in the era of digital toys."

- Then features, then songs, then "music boxes"

WHAT DOES THE APP DO?! WHAT IS IT! JUST TELL ME! Talk like a normal person.

Sorry, but when I go to a new app the first and most important thing I need to know is "what is this? What does it do?" and your description fails almost as badly as something can fail. You then write tons and tons of nonsense that nobody cares about.

The screenshots AND YouTube videos likely got you every download you have had.
Even with HD, it's worth noting how little 1080 content is consumed.

Agreed. I know 1080p looks great and all, but 1080i/720p for many is good enough. Going from SD to any HD is such a huge jump that the next levels are only incremental and generally not worth the cost. Content restrictions are where the next revolution needs to happen. Commoditizing the cable operators away from the content is key.
I think this is one of the most interesting parts of the old subway - http://www.urban75.org/london/leinster.html

There are fake houses in London, with very real looking facades, that were built so that the steam from the engines could escape.

Epic.
Understanding is a poor substitute for convexity (antifragility)
NetworkWorld - 12 Must-Watch Security Startups for 2013
Check out the list of security startups that NetworkWorld thinks are a "must watch" for 2013.
The corollary: code stoned, debug caffeinated, and document drunk.
In a world where devices are getting smaller and smaller, and hobbyist PC computers are going the way of hobbyist automobiles, the RPi offers a cool choice of open hardware you can really play with. This is a milestone I wish they had hit sooner by trying to solve their supply chain problems.

On a personal note, I don't want a replaceable battery or hackable ROM on my phone. I want that thing locked down tight, and small as possible. I'd rather "hack" a $35 board than a $600 phone.
Snapdragon 800 vs. Tegra 4 features, specs compared
What a terrible guy Zuckerberg is. He donates 100M to charity. Then he makes a lot of effort trying to get a platform to incentivate others to donate. Finally he convinces other millionaires to donate money and worst of all he tries to push them into donating more. What an awful guy..
I think you're missing the point. The author is very well aware of the fact that the question "Have you got kids?" is very likely going to lead to a question about their spouse, that's why he chose that example!

The problem is how should he respond to that first question about kids? He can lie, and say that he doesn't have any, heading off the awkward situation, or he can tell the truth "yeah, I've got a couple of boys" or whatever. But if he tells the truth, he knows there's a good chance that he is going to get asked about his partner, and once again he has to decide whether he is going to lie or tell the truth.

The real problem comes from the fact that he is in the back of someone else's car, and he knows that violence against homosexuals is a depressingly common phenomenon. He doesn't know the driver, and hence can't know if they guy is going to be cool, or if he's going to decide that tonight's the night that he looks the passenger doors and drives off into the night to kill his passenger in some dark alleyway. Being less melodramatic, he could very easily find himself being dumped on the sidewalk halfway to his destination.

Hence the lies. But lies are tiring. You have to keep track of which ones you've told "Wait, did I just mention that I have to get up really early tomorrow to get the kids to school for a rehearsal? Damn - I told him I didn't have kids!" Anyway, that's what he's getting at.
That's a problem I have. I always have ideas for this weekend projects that could bring some extra-money but I always get discouraged because, living in México, there's no easy way to process credit card payments. PayPal IPN is everything we have and it kinda sucks.
I ordered mine through element14 and got it two weeks later around July this summer.
Nope as per the latter part of the article they set up a new one: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
How I stopped forgetting things
Most of Stripe's fees go straight to credit card issuers. We wish the underlying costs were lower, and would happily cut our rates if so.

Compared to other companies that help you accept credit cards, though, I think that Stripe's prices are very good.

The main difference between Stripe and other companies is that 2.9% + 30c is pretty much our only fee. There are no international card surcharges, monthly fees, American Express rates, etc. By design, those details aren't always obvious with other providers.
Try not returning your car, and you'll find out why they wanted your credit card.

People walk away from a cash deposit more easily than a credit card.
Rails SQL injection flaws cause Dutch Government to take site offline
Did you evaluate other ticketing packages before developing Nodephone? It looks really slick and the Twilio integration is a great idea.
There is a bare-metal ruby cross-compiler?

Or are you talking about the ruby interpreter written in C running on an OS written in C?

Java is available? Again are we talking about a bare-metal Java compiler (possibly supported by hardware being able to execute a subset of Java natively), or the large collection of software written in C and C++ that is supplied by Oracle?
Live Messenger had essentially become irrelevant long before the Skype purchase. Most of my contact list had moved to gtalk, and of course for a lot of people in the in-Facebook functionality replaced it.
Technically, Microsoft doesn't tout their C++ compiler as a C compiler, just a C++ compiler that has support for certain older C features.
No I suppose not, I'm more speaking from my own experience having a number of friends who are teachers, all of them care deeply for their students and work hard to do the best they can, and all of them could stand to be much better paid.

Hopefully, since this is going to bonuses, those are weighted well on performance and so may be better incentives than just salary. Then again, the teacher's union may have negotiated specific bonus rates that have to be paid across the board.
My guess is this message means Microsoft are looking to retire Skype accounts in favor of Live accounts only, which makes sense to me.
My 2c. I have a 3D TV and I buy 3D blu-rays. Its the only reason I buy blu-rays now. Otherwise I buy online on Amazon or iTunes. We don't go to the movies ever. I do, however, enjoy the kind of silly, action movies, such as Transformers, that many of my clever friends turn the noses at. Not coincidentally these friends don't see the value that 3D adds to a movie. "The Piano", or "Withnail and I" probably wont ever benefit from 3D treatment. OTOH, action movies like Transformers, and gag movies like Despicable Me, are ideal for 3D and we now have about 10 glasses in our house for like minded friends and sleep-overs. I sincerely hope that there are enough of us to keep the 3D market going.
Is Samsung the new Apple?
Why you won’t see anything that cool at CES 2013
Yes we're working with First Data / Citibank right now on this very agreement.

However, this is the first I've heard of Moneybookers. Why do you prefer them over PayPal or something else?
Math Envy and CoffeeScript's Foibles, Part 2
MIT researchers crack cheap, precise gene therapy
Pebble smart watch shipping to Kickstarter backers on January 23rd
Here you will find all the information you are looking for http://www.elinux.org/RPi_Buying_Guide
MCM Electronics (http://www.mcmelectronics.com/) has them in stock, and ships very quickly.
Revealing Errors
Google Play Saw 'Tremendous Growth' in 2012
While I didn't think much of the article, I found the font to be attractive and easy to read.
I have been planning on ordering one for a while, but always get a little confused on what else I should order with it -- any recommendations for someone thinking "hey, I want to tinker around with this thing" -- sounds like an SD card with the OS on it, and then a power supply cable are a must, any things you'd recommend?
I bought two Model B's from Newark[0] on Jan 2nd, shipped on the 4th, and received on the 7th. Wickedly fast. I think they will be out of stock soon.

[0] http://www.newark.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?id=43W530...;
Samsung announces eight-core Exynos 5 'Octa' chip at CES
What Startups Need To Know About Health Insurance in 2013
Diamonds as an investment? Only probably as the worst investment one can make in their entire life.

Don't believe me? Try to sell one.

Diamonds are a total scam. They are not rare. They are not special. Only a fool would ever buy one.
There is an open science movement.
Web Audio API user? You don't need that ScriptProcessor
Yo Dawg I Heard You Like Processes
Are 'Coding Tests' Effective in Developer Recruitment?
Just had a back and forth with Salesforce about a developer position and it ended after I politely said I do not take 'code tests'. I believe that these mandatory coding tests are ineffective in doing anything but changing the company/hire dynamics in a bad way. Am I wrong? What do people think and what are some other experiences developers have had?
IDEs are Dangerous
Pebble (YC W11) Smartwatch shipping January 23rd
>they are not interested in supporting more of ISO C

>* For C++11 conformance, we're interested in implementing the C99 Standard Library

Source: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/...
Small Accelerators More Likely to Produce Groundbreaking Innovation? Maybe.
The Economist studies web comics
Ah, unexplained downvotes on what I believe is a reasonable point I make...

At the very least, if data cannot be made anonymous, and can so easily be associated to persons, then this is an argument that they should have never collected it without my consent in the first place. This would be an invasion of my privacy.
Dell's Project Ophelia (Thumb-size computer)
Public transport (BART + AC Transit) already carries the majority of transbay traffic, so I don't understand your claim that there is no alternative to driving.
ah cool thanks for that, I didn't realise!
A better sell is cheaper quality projectors or larger screen Larger screen size for less. Consumers will buy more 60" TVs if they drop to sub-$500 territory. More 60" TVs mean more "smart" content can be stuffed along the margins. Hardware is a commodity, but viewership on smart TVs will be the rage. TV manufacturers will be like phone carriers - subsidize the hardware in order to hook them on the software.
Do you know how Java Multithreading works?  Test yourself with this assignment
Read qz.com on Chrome with Ghostery enabled (quick userscript fix)
Show HN: FileRock, a Secure Dropbox Clone, goes Open Source
"Sketchfab Releases Material Editor, Geeks Panties Get Thrown at Screens"
Another data point: I bought shoes, the guy at the running store said to get a new pair in about 500 miles. I marked down my year-to-date distance traveled in my fitbit and got a new pair when I had gone about 600 miles (some padding for when I wasn't wearing my running shoes). Personally, this hack worked well enough that I wouldn't buy this sensor.
Ignoring the condescending remark for now, it probably was possible to run lisp without Emacs, but none of the tutorials mentioned how. They all pointed towards Emacs.

If I recall correctly, one tutorial (and several IRC lispers) even stated the following: "How do I use this with vim? Just use Emacs + SLIME, you'll be better off for it."

It's probably changed (at least I certainly hope it has), but it certainly hampered my adoption of lisp.
CES 2013: Large format tablets
Classic Stackoverflow moment:

howdoi -a parse HTML with regex
Very nice! (Is there a way to rotate rather than just strafe-move?)

Now if there were a game that reproduced the scenes and people (including Psy) in the actual video -- and let you blow them all to pieces, stopping the music each time a scene is cleared -- that might get another billion plays!
Codecademy Launches New API Course Track with Parse
The App Engine SDK and workspaces (GOPATH)
Using RegEx to Dredge Up Info in a Large Project
Is that because March 15th is the Ides of March?
This seems like a lovely wry way of expressing YAGNI/MVP/shipping:

If I'd known then that it would be my most famous accomplishment in life, I might have worked on it another day or two and added some more options.
Pycon 2013: Complete Schedule with Tutorials
Even Americans didn't have electrification or indoor plumbing everywhere in the 1930's.
Earth-like planets closer and more numerous than was thought
Thank you for the link.

I believe that we learn more from our failures than from our success. Though I dont think you will fail. But learning about your experience and the learning process would positively impact all.
FAQ on Violence
To Learn How to Program, It Has To Fulfill A Need
Agreed, the one time Amazon needed me to migrate an instance they told me when they would forcibly stop / start the instance and allowed me to do it before hand. How did you set up screen on EC2? I've had problems with it in the past but got it to work pretty well recently.
Ask PG: How would you update your essay 'Beating The Averages' for today?
Am I correct in assuming that Nashorn is to Java as Lua is to C/C++? That is, that this is meant to embed JS as a scripting language in a Java program rather than to be used to run existing node or browser code?
> It matters to the argument if there's a conspiracy.

I don't believe it does. Taking the dot-points as fact (People work almost all the time, etc.), which I believe they are, then we accept that as the reality of our world, and we can make a choice to do something about it as individuals (i.e. stop buying stuff), or not (i.e. keep buying stuff).

For an individual to make that choice and take action, it makes no difference why that is the current reality of our world. It only matters that it is.

We don't need to usurp any powers from anybody (real or imagined), or use any kind of mechanism as you suggest, we just need to change our actions as individuals (if we decide we're not happy with the way things are) or keep doing what we're doing (if we're fine with the way things are)
Simple but effective advice.
Review of The Well-Grounded Java Developer
2013 AT&T v. Verizon Spectrum Battle
Has anyone found a link to the raw transcript? The editorializing here seems rather pandering, but It would be interesting to read what actually went down.
"If the POST was made with ID removed from both the URL and body, the password of a random account would be reset and the account automatically logged in to:"

That seems like a very strange bug to occur.
A HDMI cable, a keyboard, a mouse and a powerded USB hub may come in handy, too.

[Edit:] I forgot to mention some lego bricks http://www.thedailybrick.co.uk/instructions/Building%20Instr...
A good idea for a blog post would be to compare the features of your project with Laravel and Silex, both of which also do matching and anonymous functions.

I understand yours has nesting but with all the frameworks out there, it becomes hard to choose a newer one without a comparison with the existing ones.
Would be interesting to know how many users are using MSN - seeing numbers over 300 million reported in 2010. Wonder if Skype can handle the traffic?
If you're interest'd, I believe I've been given some cool coghacking/body hacking opportunities: http://webjournal.nerdfiles.net/2013/01/09/hacking-the-willi...
Second the vote for Mixamo... awesome service, makes creating animation loops really fun and easy.

We're reworking the animation system in Three.js, so soon you'll be able to make your animations in Mixamo, and deliver them on the web. You can do it yourself with Three.js, or with our help using http://studio.verold.com (though, if you're going to do another Gangnam style, please use a better remix - like https://soundcloud.com/stirling-inch/pretty-gangnam-fly-stir...)
(I'm the post author.)

We did not intend for readers to think that hardware configurations were changing while the instance (virtual machine) was running. As EC2 does not support live migration, this is not possible.

When you use EC2 (or any cloud infrastructure) a lot, you stop thinking within the constraints of physical servers. The very nature of EC2 is the first letter of its acronym: Elasticity. You are able to bring up functionally equivalent duplicate servers when the demand arises and terminate them when the demand no longer exists. This exists not only for HPC applications (our domain), but even horizontally scaling web servers based on demand.

EC2 allows you to request different "instance types". A given class offers the same cpu speed[1], memory, and disk usage. To make scaling tractable, you need to make the assumption that if your program operates correctly on a single (or even a few), say, m2.4xlarge instance types, it will do so on all of them.

Customers do not use us solely because we provide an excellent distributed computing interface. They also use PiCloud, because we (thanks to the capabilities of Amazon EC2) are highly elastic. This customer doesn't want to continually run several dozen m2.4xlarge equivalent instances, because their utilization doesn't justify doing so. Instead, PiCloud allows them to run massive computation for a short time and not incur charges when the servers are no longer needed. (Resulting in far lower average costs than having their own on-site cluster.)

Think about how this customer would have used EC2 directly within these constraints. Their workload would be something like deploy a few dozen servers, run computation on said servers, and terminate servers when complete. After getting this application to work correctly, they may conclude they are "done". It might work for months, and then one day, he would find that some "jobs" raised Illegal Instructions. And there would have been no way to anticipate this happening. And from their perspective, where the "requesting dozens of servers" is part of the application, the hardware had changed underneath them.

[1] Yes, performance will differ a bit across different instances. However, you expect that functionality is identical across all instances of the same type (e.g. m2.4xlarge).
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Testing Webhooks from your Command Line with Node.js
It also re-affirms the business model of creating a super-cheap yet capable development platform, and then not attempting to extract max profit from it.
Ah, technology.
I agree, the copy is bad. Describe what the app does first and foremost. Then include anything else. Apps are meant to be useful helpers. They cant be useful to me if I dont know what it does.
Your life's work
I'm not really sure encouraging people to use really old versions of your software is a smart strategy.

For one, it's unsupported and doesn't run so great on modern hardware and operating systems.
It's not the language that has problems, it's the environment. If you're already living in Java land, being tied to the JVM is a big plus. If you're not immersed in Java, you need to learn Java (and the libraries) and Clojure at the same time.
Couldn't they have made a simple password protected download page? The licence holders this whole thing was intended for already have registered an 'adobe id' (have access to the backend of the adobe website).

Learning to work with a big software package makes it harder to switch to another editing suite. Free cs2 does make sense.
It's illegal to use it if you don't already have a license. If you're willing to download an illegal version of Photoshop, you might as well just get a cracked version of CS6.
"and all of them could stand to be much better paid"

Many people could make the argument that they should be better paid. It's a supply and demand situation. There's enough people who want to be teachers that they pay can be what it is and people will still want that job. Don't forget also that a standard teaching job comes with much time off and some good benefits. Airline pilots are notoriously (from what I read) underpaid. I've read some really whacky low numbers. So that's something to consider before taking on a career in aviation. Or in teaching.

If the collective people stop going into those careers then the remaining people will be highly paid and the balance will shift. Like with programming.
Interesting. I would add a few ones for managing social media: mention, hootsuite, socialbro...
Founder Weekly (Issue 61 - January 9, 2013)
I would say that a "perk" - if it's one I actually appreciate - does improve my quality of living (albeit not dramatically, or it's more than a "perk").

Having said that, if you are spending money on beer or wine (or anything else, really), and it is not improving your quality of living, maybe you should stop spending money on beer and wine and instead spend it on something that will improve your quality of living. If you, for some reason, can't (then maybe you have a problem that needs to be addressed, but otherwise...) then a "perk" of getting these things for free does mean you have more money available for things that will increase your quality of living (perhaps by freeing up other resources like time that can be more directly invested in quality of living, however you experience that).
Wonder what's their strategy for Lync. I always thought MS bought Skype mainly for it's popularity in the corporate market.
4 weeks with Microsoft Surface
There's another word for these people: management.
Curso de videojuegos
Stomach-Pumping Machine Makes Calories Disappear
Show HN: Teacup, CoffeeScript Templates for Developer Happiness
IRT trains can run on BMT/IND tracks, but you'd have to jump off them if they stopped at a station.
Pricing for similar hardware has literally crashed in the time it's taken Pi production levels to ramp up. There are now multiple ARM vendors with open source BSPs supporting hardware that's much more powerful and with comparable pricing. See for example http://www.cnx-software.com/tag/amlogic/ and http://www.cnx-software.com/tag/freescale/ .

Unlike the Pi these offerings usually come with Bluetooth, WiFi, larger flash and 1GB RAM in dual or quad core configurations, and pre-packaged in consumer friendly boxes ready for hooking to a display, although access to auxiliary IO buses may be more difficult. SATA (Mele A1000G), GigE (Wandboard) and mini PCI designs (i.mx6 Sabre Lite) are even available.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think an Adobe ID was required to legally buy, install, or use CS2.
Why? Just because it's old does not mean it's bad. And unsupported is great for them - they don't have to spend resources supporting it!
Gender Gap in Spatial Abilities influenced by Culture
FriendCode raises $150,000 in seed funding from Kima Ventures and others