skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like ActiveRecord, where it comes with an adapter for several backends, but in order to use a backend you need to install a library gem which is not a dependency of ActiveRecord.
They probably have mapped a list of IP address blocks to universities. Pretty clever :)
What is refer.ly for? From their site, it seems they are to earn referral revenue?
Did anybody try playing with this kind of monitors? Is it any good in terms of ghosting and refreshing?
Because I would bet that the security professionals working for and contracted by Google and Facebook to be an order of magnitude better at their jobs than those hired by Nokia. I would expect Google and Facebook to be better at closing holes and better at detecting and closing security breaches if and when they do happen.
I use BitBucket for the same thing. In the old days I hosted my own SVN server but now I've migrated my projects to Git and pushed them up to BitBucket. They are private repos that only I use but it's awesome to have a backup as well as being able to push from my machine and pull down from my server for deployments.

Free hosting for private repos is really great, and it ties in nicely with SourceTree.
Apparently nothing is sacred when it comes to trying to make a quick buck.
Guess it's good timing to mention my startup for college textbooks: http://fiftyorless.cloudapp.net
Misread this as 17-inch at first and got excited. Really want an external hi-dpi retina-type display
If you're a bit paranoid about quality/support for some of the cheaper 27" monitors out there a good compromise is to wait for the Dell U2713HM to be on sale. It's regularly 30% off which brings it down to ~$500 (+ GST in Australia, AUD and USD are comparable). I'm happy with mine!
Just to clarify, the link goes to an original article written by me - not copy/pasted quotes from the resources listed. I have curated the links, added commentary and opinion and presented them as a blog post. The only difference is that instead of the links being text they are big beautiful images. Referly makes money when people buy products included in posts... anywhere you see the orange "buy" button we stand to make a small commission (usually around 5%).

The best way I can describe it right now is a community curated magazine with some social shopping features. Still a work in progress, but we're already helping more than 20,000 bloggers get paid for producing content on their areas of expertise.
I switched to a MBA 6 months ago and have been very happy with it. I'm not a hardcore developer, so ymmv, of course.

Homebrew is pretty handy. Not having to muck around with cygwin or some other command line addon in Windows has been quite nice.
Why not have Watson kill people? They are just carbon molecules strung together.
I don't expect Windows PC manufacturers to use that resolution anytime soon. Some of them might start using it towards the end of the year, perhaps for 15" laptops, but it won't be en masse, so you might have to wait until 2014 for that. I don't think I'd get any device that is 10" or larger without that resolution (or 2560x1600) anymore, though.
Microcenter sells one @ $399 with the same warranty but has DVI/HDMI/VGA/DisplayPort. I'm assuming same panel as it is also IPS LED.

http://www.microcenter.com/product/384780/EQ276W_27_IPS_LED_...
You know you just agreed with the comment you replied to right?
That is about the same path I took. Then I realized the joys of ruby.

Referrals are where it's at.
I hope this is a trend towards higher resolution monitors and displays in general.
Why ‘Arrested Development’ Really Represents A Breakthrough For Netflix
Except the analogy to Python lacks one critical point: C++ headers and Python imports do not work in nearly the same way. Do not EVER use a "using namespace <foo>" in a header file; any code that #include's such a header will pull this in.

In .cpp files it's ok (and almost required if you're using boost, unless you want boost::foo:bar::type everywhere). It still requires a bit of thought, though.
They are IPS panels, so color reproduction should be pretty accurate. Of course it will always be better if you calibrate it yourself using something like a Spyder colorimeter.
Professors assign a single textbook, and students are forced to buy it.

No one put a gun on your head to go to that college. You took this decision and then you must be responsible for the costs of tuition, housing, books... Inform yourself well of the college and professors before enrolling too.
Grape is also affected:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/ruby-gra...
Maybe his wife should have given him the first "no".
The buildings/structures out there are in interesting ratios. One of the U buildings is ~64m on 3 sides. Another one is 125% bigger on the smaller size, and then in a ratio of 1:2:1 per side.

A couple more buildings are about 108m, then there's more at about 86. Again, the bigger one is 125% larger. The big building is about 144m on the left and 154m on the right. To the right of that, there's another complex that's about 133m to the right of that (125% of 108m) Maybe it's on the inside of the build black building?
The C basic data types have minimum defined ranges, with the actual ranges being available as compile-time constants, and that's really all you need in almost all cases.
Textbook publishing companies are legal. They might be unethical (or that's your opinion), but they are operate legally.

Piracy is illegal.

You are complaining about an unethical company and solving the problem by doing an illegal action. Isn't this selfish?
Wiki markup didn't suit the non-technical crowd.

If you're a fan of wiki markup in Confluence and have upgraded to >= 4, you might want to use this plugin.

https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CWP/Wiki+Plugin+...
Am I the only one that keeps the same value for night and day? I have it set to 5400K regardless of the hour. I like the subtle warm glow to remain constant instead of fluctuate.
Great now let's see it for video!
It scored 3400 on the Chromebook a couple of months ago:

http://gigaom.com/2012/10/22/intel-v-arm-the-chromebook-perf...

The dual core 1.7 Ghz A15 may be faster than your quad core 1.5 Ghz Krait, but it still seems like a lot of it still depends on software, which I'd attribute in large part to Chrome itself, and perhaps in small part to the Nexus 4 drivers and Android itself.

Also, is it me or does Octane seem pretty single-threaded? Quad cores don't seem to have much of an impact over dual cores.
From Monoprice on the warranty: "we are guaranteeing these monitor will have less than 5 dead pixels. [...] By comparison, the industry standard, even for industry leaders like Apple and LG, is 10 dead pixels or even more."

Is this true? None of my Apple devices have ever had a dead pixel, but I always assumed that even one dead pixel would be enough to convince the Genius Bar to give me a replacement. Anyone have first-hand experience with dead pixel warranty replacement on Apple devices?
99 Ranch is also great. It's not as high quality for fish as Tokyo Fish Market, but good, and definitely cheap. If I were in the South Bay I'd shop there a lot more.
One thing to be aware of is that all of the cheap 27" monitors I've seen (including the Monoprice one) have a DVI-Dual link cable only. If you have an old Macbook Pro then it will have a port for this built in, modern Macs don't have this and PC's may do.

I tried to skimp and buy a cheap passive Dual-Link DVI - Display Port adaptor but it didn't work so I had to buy an active one. I'm pretty sure that Dual-Link DVI adaptors have to be active and they start at $70 http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&c...
So for a small increase in their tuition, students would be getting free textbooks, or for a small increase in taxes (or just not spending so much on the military), society would be getting free textbooks. In what version of the universe are these negative things?

As for the "professionals" at the publishing companies, what exactly is their profession? We do not need publishers to copy books for us anyone, because we have computers that can copy the books faster, cheaper, and on a much greater scale and if students need printers, they have access to them. So what professionals would you be referring to? Textbook publishing companies are not academies where experts in a subject spend their days writing about that subject; universities are the academies where experts (i.e. professors and researchers) are paid to write about their area of expertise. Textbook publishing companies hire people who can make fancy covers (which adds no value to books), double check typesetting (which is a redundant task, since librarians and professors can do that), and operate machines that print and bind books (but we do not need that anymore, because we have automated ways to distribute books). So in what way are we "going against the specialization of labor" by asking for books that are CC-SA licensed, written by professors, and shared over the Internet?
So you're viglink or gumroad but with images?
I have a Crossover 27Q (similar to this, probably sourced from the same place as other brands on ebay: Catleap, Shimian, wherever Monoprice is getting them, etc). Gorgeous minimalist metallic shell. Swivel display. Adjustable height. $375 from Ebay. Pixel perfect. I can't exaggerate how amazing these displays are. They're the same LG panels used in Apple Cinema displays at nearly a third of the cost. It's wonderful to be able to have three files up side-by-side in Sublime without feeling cramped and have a Terminal and VLC stuck to top.

So, yeah, if you're bummed about these not being available, there's tons on eBay, alibaba, etc.

A few other tips:

First, Intel HD4000 can drive these displays but it must be over DisplayPort. Yes, this means that my Macbook Air (2012) with the Apple Dual link DVI adapter works fine with it. However, my desktop with HD4000 mobo does not have DisplayPort so I'm now driving it with an NVIDIA GTX660 over Dual-link DVI.

Second, many of these displays output incorrect EDID information requiring that you manually modeset in Xorg to get it to work with Nvidia's proprietary drivers. (Nouvaeu seems to figure it out on it's own, but it's a bit of a dog at that resolution).

Third, most of these lack upscaling support meaning you must be able to output at its native resolution; no hooking an xbox up to one.

edit: Sorry to link downthread, but turtlebits stumbled upon one that might not have these limitations/faults: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5040906 before anyone jumps on the ebay link below.
I would highly recommend http://overlordcomputer.com for a comparable product.

They were originally a reseller of the Korean small batch monitors and decided to seek their own distribution channel. The company is focused around gamers (hence the questionably cheesy name), offering an "overclocked" model capable of reaching 120Hz refresh rate (which lets you play games at 120 frames per second), but I use their ME model (60Hz, but multiple inputs, including Display Port) for my office. I had nice screens before, but the Overlord screens have blown me away so far. The real estate is fantastic.
There seems to be a power substation here:
39.580234, 76.058357

And one large tower connecting it to a grid extending south here: 39.579052, 76.060278
> It's interesting to see the music industry keep moving forward and allowing this type of stuff to happen (and the itunes match/etc services). The other two big industries are so far behind.

There is also a big difference in how easy/legal it is for a home user to convert the physical good to a digital good. Ripping CDs is trivial and legal. Ripping DVDs is illegal due to the DMCA, and ripping books is physically challenging. The larger the barrier to ripping, the more publishers can charge people to own both formats.
I agree with this so much. A few years ago I realized that my C code wasn't longer or harder to reason about than most higher-level languages (yes, that factors in the memory management and even error checking), except for one thing: those languages came with built-in resizable arrays and hash tables.

I was grossly disappointed when the C11 revision had nothing about some default algorithm implementations in the standard library. If a C hacker needs something more specialized than those default containers, they can go write their own (they would have anyway), but for the rest of us it allows getting something reasonable off the ground relatively quickly.

APR and Glib are nice in theory, but most software shouldn't require such dependencies. Also, every C hacker I've spoken to has a different opinion about the quality and usefulness of those two libraries; most dislike the two.
I'm interested to see what changes they end up implementing. For such a respected guy, I've always been surprised that Squidoo was his project. I rarely see Squidoo lenses in search results that amount to more than filler content and affiliate links, although to be fair I've also taught myself not to click on them. I know of a few websites that automatically flag Squidoo links in user profiles because it's so frequently used by spammers. Not a dig on Squidoo, I'm just curious what route they'll take to drop that reputation.
Time Zones, Ruby on Rails, and MySQL
Actually, we use Skimlinks. Think of it like Pinterest with a transparent business model.
Kind of confusing product line. What does "Grade A" vs "Grade A-" mean?
Wish I'd seen this one before I bought my Dual-Link DVI only monitor.
Macbook Air (2012 at least) with the dual link DVI adapter can. Source: I use it with my MBA.

It's really funky. Intel HD 4000 has the ability to drive this high of a resolution but only over DisplayPort, HD4K+HDMI or HD4K+DUAL_DVI is a no-go, so be warned. If you have integrated graphics, you will need an external card (unless your mobo has DisplayPort out). I've got an Nvidia now driving it over Dual link DVI.
According to NYT this morning, most people are getting H3N2 (which is a nasty one), but the vaccine is very effective against it. Note that it takes two weeks after the shot for immunity to build up.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/health/flu-widespread-lead...
Where is functional "good?" Other than in abstract math or FP advocates' heads? :D If it had been any good, it would have been used on a pretty large scale... we live in a pretty large world and someone would have figured it out... and then the others would have fallowed suit...
C is built to run on a MASOS (multiple address space operating system) like UNIX so it wouldn't run as fast on a system like the Lisp machines that uses a single address space. Many of the things C deals with like the file system and interprocess communication would be obsolete in a system with single address space orthogonal persistence. Running C on a Lisp machine will be possible but at a performance cost.

JavaScript would run faster then it does on Von Nuemman machines because it would use the hardware support for dynamic languages and since JavaScript runs in a browser independently of the OS, the new machine architecture and OS wouldn't be a problem. Haskell, in so far as its purely functional, would probably run the same as it does now.
I don't think your link made it onto HN ... could you email me the name of the odesker?
I got an email notification indicating the apps I manage were running on old Rails which I don't believe they are having updated them today.

When I push to Heroku I get "Using rails 3.2.11" but the email said one app was on 3.2.1 and the other on 3.2.9. The script they link to says both apps are up to date too.

So don't panic if you get the email and you know you have already updated.

Edit - False alarms acknowledged by Heroku in blog comment:

Dominic - Sorry for the false alarm! We collected data on a lot of apps, and ended up notifying some users that had already updated. If you already updated your app, no action is required.
Oh, sorry. I saw the paragraph and the "Show" and clicked through to the first one.
The C standard library is specified as part of the language specification document. The language defines two kinds of implementations: "hosted", which must support the entire standard library; and "freestanding", which do not.

Those embedded systems that do not support the full standard library are 100% compliant freestanding implementations, but are not compliant hosted implementations.
It's not. Monitor resolution peaked in 2004 and then went down. Also, much of the cost reduction since then appears to be due to quality reduction, not efficiency.
They're probably all LG panels under the hood[1]. Different resellers have different pixel policies, and they can be a bit hard to keep track of.

On these size screens, Apple won't replace <11 dark (dead-looking) or <9 light (stuck-looking) pixels. HP's policy is about half that. Lenovo is like 4 or something. Some of the other manufacturers have even more complex policies which depend on the position of the stuck/dead pixel.

And in practice, if you complain well enough in the store, Apple may replace for you even if you're under the line.

[1] When I say "they", I mean these 27" IPS panels, whether they're from Apple, Dell, HP, or some random Korean company.
Right - the vast majority of these CDs are classic releases from the 70s, 80s - definitely not time sensitive. Amazon just tends to have them for super cheap, whereas iTunes keeps the price high. I figure now I have the best of _three_ worlds. Physical CD, Itunes Match syncs it across all my gear - and now, presumably, it will stay in my Amazon Locker forever.
Am I the only one who would rather see more work around thinner bezels for better multi-mon experiences? Seeems like all the large panels have at least an inch to inch and a half bezel space; two next to each other and the non-lit area get obstructive.
Evilest Kid Killed in Newtown, CT Elementary School Shooting: Identified
There is ipdb.

"ipdb exports functions to access the IPython debugger, which features tab completion, syntax highlighting, better tracebacks, better introspection with the same interface as the pdb module."

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipdb
"You are complaining about an unethical company and solving the problem by doing an illegal action. Isn't this selfish?"

No, it is called "civil disobedience" and it is one of the few effective nonviolent ways to promote change. Further, the law is completely out of alignment is this regard; it is in no way promoting the progress of science or useful arts, nor is it helping to ensure that a needed industry remain solvent. We do not need the textbook publishing industry, because we have a much faster, cheaper, and effective way to distribute textbooks: the Internet. If the law continues to protect these unethical and laughably anachronistic businesses, then the law itself is wrong.
Ask HN: How does your Startup use AngelList?
It seems to be very hard to get followers as startups cannot follow other people. How do you get more followers and how have you used AngelList to your benefit?
Flights With Friends Launches To Take The Pain Out Of Group Travel Planning
I wouldn't worry about it. At the scale I could see it being an issue I think the right answer becomes to simply store all the transcoded versions on disk and serve them directly. It would in all likelihood be more cost effective to pay for the storage than to pay for the CPU time to encode everything on the fly given the small size of audio files.
Nonsense... I have never heard of anyone being attacked in any way through java... it's just "security" firms that come up with all kinds of obscure things and try to scare people for pretty much nothing...
IIRC, Trader Joe's has delivery but not online orders. You go to the store to shop, and then they deliver to your apartment. That way you can walk or take the subway even if you buy a lot of groceries.
I've seen that on non-partial indexes when doing and order by query that has an index. The query planner sometimes preferentially chooses the ordering index to do an index scan, then filters out all the items that don't matche the query predicate. This is great when you're likely to take the last 10 timestamps, but falls flat when you have to check 100k items.

One sneaky way to deal with this is to order by an expression that can't be indexed, like id+0. I've had 4 order of magnitude speed ups when that sort of query tweaking pointed the planner at the right index. (And in that case, a partial index)
until we can get publishers to pay heed, students are happily renting books. Chegg has seen tremendous growth for its rentals.

Also, there are open source books
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/chegg-partners-with-opensta...
Amazon in the US has this model for sale for $650 now. Great price for a great panel.
Exactly. But the things they want seem pretty pretty unobtainable from what I've seen.
I'd love to. I insist that it blend local and mobile and that we be agile and fail fast vs the fast follower's vanity metrics. Let's crowdsource our pivots so we can split test the cohorts.
Stop blogging about how fun coding is
You devalue the profession and craft when you do this.
In some contexts, sure, it can be rewarding and enjoyable. The same can be said about just about any other job. It can be fun to push shopping carts around or paint or whatever.

By proclaiming how "fun" and "rewarding" it is, you are leaving it open to Tom Sawyer fence-painting political arguments which devalues the very real tedium and decade-long learning curve experience required, along with your own intelligence.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this patch works in Ruby 1.9, where YAML is actually the Psych module. Any Psych experts know how to make this 1.9-compatible?
"Heard of", maybe not. But "working with" I can believe. A friend of mine was writing an assembler with a built-in arithmetic expression syntax last year.

Clearly it was low-level, because it wasn't trying to abstract away hardware - but it also wasn't just a straight-up (macro) assembly language, since it provided some specific features that needed a more sophisticated compiler to work properly.

When we speak of low-level coding, almost any abstraction can constitute a huge jump in power from the machine language.
I was following along until he said "There is a dinosaur called the Brontosaurus" was no longer "true." Apparently I missed that update:

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/09/166665795/forget-extinct-the-b...
You do not need to cast to or from `void *` in C, and it's not idiomatic to do so.
No worries, I think we have a UX problem where it isn't clear what is original content and what are resources we are linking off to. I'll work on that
In the display world, Apple, Dell, and Samsung pretty much get top pick of all display panels being created for 27" IPS screens; so other brands have to settle for panels that aren't rated at A+ (which means no dead pixels, no ghosting, no light bleed, etc). Most A- and A panels might have a small (nearly indistinguishable) amount of bleed or one dead pixel.

The reputable resellers or new brands offering these screens typically offer a 'Pixel Perfect' guarantee at a small up-charge ($20-ish) to guarantee the screen was inspected and had no dead pixels in the warehouse before shipping to you.

I'm not an expert by any means, but I did substantial research before purchasing.
Hackers hook the Nexus 4 onto AT&T’s LTE network in limited markets
If the proxy also gives you certs to trust it can. Many corporate proxies do this (silently, as they control the PCs) and I've seen more than one academic campus where to access the wifi you have to accept a certificate.

On iOS this comes up after connecting to wifi as a reassuring, secure-seeming, official-looking page that pops up inviting you to accept the new certificate. Do so and boom, you're vulnerable to a MITM.
click on one of the monitors, the product description has a video describing the differences.