skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To avoid setting up a new account, I found you can just hit the stop button after the main page loads but before the nag box appears.

Which if anything makes this misfeature even more annoying.
An Environmentalist's Conversion
One feature of such a better society is that it should be classless. As long as there is there are segments of society whose happiness, health, and stability are dependent upon the whims of the ruling class rather then in their own hands then these problems will persist.
Ok. I'm quite new to Rails. How do I apply this patch? Or am I better upgrading rails completely? How do I do this.
Hey, did you hear that scanf() will accept XML and YAML and automatically convert it into pointers handy for you to dereference?

Neither did I.
If Kickstarter wouldn't support micro-investment then someone else would, and if they also supported the Kickstarter model, I see no reason why Kickstarter would prevail in the long term.

I've read that Valve Software would like to fund games on this model but as of now they can't legally do it.
Not all financial firms are evil. Not all evil firms have that prejudice. However, there are evil firms that do.
'Sold' in this context means 'in the channel', as the article confirms.

It doesn't mean in the hands of consumers. It doesn't mean that cash has passed to Microsoft since most of those will have been on credit. All it means is that in an effort to show that Win 8 is not a dog, MS has pushed out 60M licences to manufacturers and retail outlets.

Not earth shattering. And you can knock off two users from that total: I bought two laptops over Christmas, yet to boot into Win 8 on either of them.
Wow. Didn't realize this was such a touchy subject for ya. Forget I ever asked. :)
s3://aws-publicdatasets/common-crawl/projects/url-index/url-index.1356128792
They'll have a hard time defeating my thesaur-ator and idiom-ator.
I wish someone would do a Learn Clojure the Hard Way. The comments in this thread is a great documentation of the unfounded fears of the language.

I also want to point out to those who are using Windows: Yeah, you could, but this is not a good idea. Leiningen 2 is not available for Windows, but you can still get quite a bit done. At some point, you just have to bite the bullet and install a VM with Linux to really dive into it.
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How do you think we, as individuals who wish to change this, can do it?
Before Trello, I used a simple text wiki named ZuluPad. Now I use five Trello lists:

1. Customers

2. Follow Up (contacted potential customers)

3. To Do (uncontacted potential customers, features, bug fixes, business tasks)

4. Done 2013-01-06~ (tasks completed this week, nice to look over at the beginning of each week)

5. Wishlist (everything that isn't a priority)

I use checklists to keep track of development tasks and testing. I write comments when I interact with a customer. Trello is awesome. I just wish it could make Google Calendar entries for cards that have due dates.
Events like this are usually not booked last-minute, so "less than a week" is probably a mitigating factor, not a damning one.
Wikipedia has some info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_Unite...

Maybe a lawyer will stroll by and give you a real answer.
Another option is to right click the section in chrome and delete the div. An even more general option, if you have adblock, is to right click and use "Block this ad" to block the div forever. You will also need to block the div in the background that shadows the text.
Please, if anyone's reading this, do not release a proof-of-concept until everyone has a chance to patch. (I sense there are a lot of already busy Rails developers today).

By the way, what do freelancers on HN feel about general responsibility for security maintenance after the work has been done?
> they did end up writing about 3 different implementations of PHP because of their scale.

And each of those implementations is PHP. It is open source and is available to the public. I am working on integrating it into my stack.

> If anything, their case shows that they threw enough money at it to make it work.

I thank them for their money and will now apply their hard earned work.

What other language has that kind of commitment behind it?
Emergent phenomena don't have "objectives", mate. GDP is a derived statistic.

> I hope that in the remainder of the century we can can transition to better forms of society where the health and happiness of the general population is more important than the efficiency of our economic structures.

And your proposal is? A lot of alternatives have been tried in the past several thousand years and almost all of them suck. Real hard.
That popsicle sounds pretty damned good.
Leiningen 2 is absolutely available on windows. And clojure on windows is the same as clojure on any other platform. That's the beauty of running on the JVM.

Light Table has a windows client; Eclipse with the counterclockwise plugin (a leiningen/clojure plugin) runs great on windows; running from the command prompt works great on windows.

I agree though, that a "Learn Clojure The Hard Way" a la Shaw would be nice.
"Out of the ~250 programs I wrote last year, 2-3 would have benefited from being written in a functional style."

Donald Knuth
If a large shareholder insisted that build a moon base, would they be required to consider that, too?

If they owned 51% of shares? Well, er...
The government now own no shares in AIG, it was paid back in full and with interest. In fact, the US made $18 billion profit from AIG: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/government-makes-177-billion-...
This is what I think may be their biggest problem. Because of the outages, and due to my own stupidity, I have been caught with my pants down twice because Github was always just up. And then I thought, well, lesson learned, they won't go down again, and ker-pow (I'm stupid like that).

So I have had to create a secondary remote, and for private projects, it's really easy to do so. Which is kinda problematic, because those are the accounts that keep the lights on for Github. If I have to cut budget, it's a lot more likely now that I would consider cutting the private repos.

I just hope they figure this out soon, so I can forget about how easy it was.
Or, you know, investing in infrastructure where it is needed.
I think the problem is that there's very little overlap people that accepted the bailout and people who are running the company today.

We like to think of corporate entities as these monolithic self-governing decision-making entities, but most likely it's some top executive's knee-jerk reaction to not meeting the 2012 goals that his bonus depended on.
Maximized on a 1080p monitor it was irritating with far too many internal scroll bars.

Great list of commands though.
There was a really nice paper at the last IEEE Security & Privacy conference where they did an analysis like this on blog postings.

http://randomwalker.info/publications/author-identification-...

I tried a similar analysis for a class project using Twitter data, and it worked surprisingly well considering the small amount of data in a tweet. Would-be-anonymous posters beware!
Dish Network Makes Bid for Clearwire, Topping Sprint Offer
DOJ and USPTO look to limit standards-based patents
Very misleading it's really Hank Greenberg the Ex-CEO of AIG who ran AIG into that mess in the first place that initiated the lawsuit.
Unfortunately I'm in NYC, though I'd love to hear your thoughts on ACH! Let me know if you happen to make your way out here at some point - my email is nqvgln@nqvglnzhxrewrr.arg (ROT13).
The video below mentions that there's a hardware "SYNC in a box" available, and a software emulator in the works.

http://cnettv.cnet.com/ford-touts-car-app-development/9742-1...
The conspiracy theory is central to the larger theory.

If you believe that the world we live in has one, or a few, central intelligences directing how it has unfolded, then it's relatively easily changed. Find those people, usurp their levers of power.

If it's bullshit and nobody anywhere has that kind of influence, then it's impossible to usurp the Secret Masters and use their mechanism.

So. Yeah. It matters to the argument if there's a conspiracy.
You're absolutely correct in your analysis of the housing situation. I was only citing the prestige factor as one of the contributing causes.

It's a mixture of regulatory corruption and price inelasticity. Prestige is just one of many Manhattan's demand drivers that, due to the inelastic nature of the price curve, drives it up.

Regarding school, I think it's both. The question is why these rich people don't want their kids going to school with such people. I think it still comes down to college (and possibly prep high school; nothing before HS matters from a connections perspective) admissions. If college admissions gave as much of an advantage to white, middle-class students of NYC public schools as they do to Andover and Dalton grads, these people would quickly change their strategy.
Except this one http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4680604679800715&pid=1.7
Great job so far, I've seen a few mobile based marketplaces similar to your MVP. You could list it on Flippa to generate interest.
http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/ebooks
I call BS.
Doesn't even address genetic integrity. But dog knows mons#nto can use the PR right now ...
Look, if you actually understood what an abstraction means, you and the rest of these guys (JoelsSpolsky, I'm looking at you) wouldn't even be pulling the "mightier than thou REAL PROGRAMMER" argument.

You know what debugging is? It's patching up the leaks in abstractions. Thus, we all think about what's behind the abstraction pretty much every working day.

Ya'll soap-boxing is annoying the fuck out of me.
It seems like you know that hackable cars are already the norm. Hopefully, with a focus on security and open software development, cars will become more secure.
Please Both. You need to be able to see real-time and long-term.

All Dashboards should show goals you set or something that's unusual compared to your past data. THAT is the reason why everyone's confused by most dashboards - they're visualization for the sake of looking good first. When they're done right they let you see the state of things, whereas feeds are like alarms - too many or too few can make you stop giving a damn.

Be like a scientist - ask every question you can think of. Then try to answer it with data and if that answer changes over time, keep it on a dashboard. Then set alerts and snapshots to the feed, so only what's really important will bother you.

What we need to work on is how deep you can ask questions of an external service. Giving me my choice of 12 pre-baked table columns or API endpoints isn't going to answer my real goals. 12 pre-designed draggable widgets aren't either. I want to ask big questions first instead of combining little answers.
Family Farmers Mobilize in Ongoing Battle Against Monsanto
This is hands–down one of the best pieces I've ever read on the Internet.

I love the message of not hating "The Man". I've noticed in the past years more and more energy being wasted on hating things which are beyond our control (at least, they are if we only spend our energy on hating).

To focus instead on building our self-reliance (and creativity, etc.) is a brilliant take-away.

This is one of those bits of writing that didn't add any knowledge but reminds me of things I forget on a day-to-day basis.
Audi Demonstrates Smaller Autonomous Car Technology at CES 2013
Nice idea!

It looks that pythontex (https://github.com/gpoore/pythontex) is a more mature package. It seems it does not require to give shell permission to the script. It also supports syntax highlighting through pygtments and a python console output mode.
Quick question. Let's say you both own equity on a 35-35 basis (with the investors owning the remaining 30%). I don't know if this is the exact right number. Anyway, your cofounder decides to can you and the board is on his side. You still own 35% of the company, right? Is there any way for the other founder to screw you out of that without screwing himself too?
Pretty interesting. I wonder if any non-technical approaches have been tried - like educating drivers to move to a right-side lane if they're slow. At least on the 101, it seems like so much of the congestion would be alleviated if slow people stayed out of the left-side lanes. It'd be safer too since it'd remove the incentive for drivers to weave through traffic.
Exactly.
"We're now beginning our descent, which..."
(scroll scroll scroll)
"...was 20,000 feet before now"
What role do industry representatives have in writing a huge bill like Dodd-Frank, and the implementation of it after it passes? It was my assumption that industry has a big role in crafting the laws that regulate them.
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Yeah, it's always appeared to me that the main driver is geography. And housing regulation is pretty much the same thing—having more high-rise housing on Manhattan would keep prices down in the same way that being able to build further and further out does for DFW.

I'm very interested to see what DFW looks like in a couple of decades if it keeps growing rapidly. Will it be a sort of sprawl of still-low-density suburbia for over a hundred miles E/W or N/S? Will a significant density increase in the core eventually come after hitting some kind of "maximum suburb distance" for most people? Currently it's at about half the number of people as the LA area in a similar footprint, but unlike LA it's not surrounded by mountains and ocean and could keep growing outward forever.
Or how about when you put that 256th character in a ruby string and end up overwriting heap metadata? Man I hate it when that happens.
That is not what would happen at all. There were a list of buyers both for BoA, Citibank, et al. None of the buyers were american corporations. In fact, there were dozens of banks bought by international banks. They would eventually sell the junk back to the US government under the treat of just defaulting and exploding the US market.

That romantic vision of how the market works is very different from what happens in reality. There were cases where individuals were responsible for the havoc, most are in jail. But, in general, banks were stupid and led by a government desperate for GDP numbers and campaign money.

There is a culprit for the re-insurance and debt re-packaging mess: The american people. Freedom without social responsibility is not freedom, is something close to anarchy.
I think would. Note that considering it isn't the same as carrying it out. Presumably they'd consider the moon base briefly, notice that the cost/benefit ratio is enormous, and decline.
Ford's AppLink-enabled apps run on your iOS/Android phone and the vehicle's voice control and buttons are additional interfaces to control the app that's running on your phone. So regular Pandora from Google Play or the App Store has the code to integrate with AppLink vehicles in it already.

This is different from GM's approach, where the apps are built to run on the vehicle's own hardware.
Consider it, yes. However, how does one define 'consider'? The board looks around at one another, one or two offer negative points against the suggestion, someone calls for a vote and they decide not to do it. 60 seconds from the time the suggestion comes up, it's voted down. I'd say that they "considered" it.

But given lawyers and the unlimited ability for people to just file lawsuits, there's probably a legal definition that entails at the least a few hours "consideration" of such proposals.

/cynic
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The accusation is that the government used AIG to bail out the rest of Wall Street, forcing AIG to settle trades with big name Wall Street companies for a loss. And on top of that, the gov't charged 14% interest on the money it lent.

Yes, they could have "not accepted" that deal. But there are two sides to this.
The 1998 Rom-com Cupid [1] had an episode with an "elite linguistics ninja" that could purportedly tell where a person was born and grew up based on word usage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cupid_episodes
This is my dream for Torbit (http://torbit.com). We currently show performance data in a typical dashboard, but I wish we had a newsfeed as well. We're playing with some ideas, but it turns out to be a really hard problem. I'd love to show a newsfeed with stories that say "your site is 5% faster because you changed this one JavaScript file" or "your site is 20% slower than usual right now due to a spike in IE6 usage in China". Those stories are simple for anyone to understand, but really tough to generate without a ton of false-positives. You have to account for daily, weekly or other seasonal changes in traffic patterns, even ones you wouldn't have an easy way to predict (like a commercial break during the Eastenders). You have to know what's typical for each site so you can detect anomalies and also be smart enough not to set off alarms when you get 5 visitors from Liechtenstein instead of 1. You have to wrestle with correlation vs. causation. It's a fun challenge & anyone who's interested in tackling it should check out http://torbit.com/jobs. :)
Update to 3.2.11, 3.1.10, 3.0.19 or 2.3.15, and you'll be good.
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In the still it looks like Iron Squidman.
Github have their own datacenter and hardware, they are not relying on any cloud provider out there. It makes it harder to handle spikes of load, but they actually have an I/O intense service which justifies that choice.
I thought (and am still inclined to think) that the logo belongs to an airline, not a soft drink.

Then again, I don't drink soda and don't watch television.

I seem to recall street advertising of the new Pepsi logo around 2008 and was utterly baffled by it for months.
Sounds like you have had a bad day, so I won't hold this too much against you.

I suggest you not take all of this so personally.

Have you read the lecture that okal posted the link to? It's from the early 1970's and speaks to the early days of when abstractions were first being implemented for computers in general. Perhaps it is you who does not understand what abstraction means.
Twitter just told us how cool its real-time search is and how it makes money
There is a tried and true method of getting to the front-page of HN, which is to take whatever implementation choice you've made today and make broad, completely unsupported claims that it is universally applicable as a law of the universe. This applies to a shockingly high number of non-news submissions, regardless of a lack of rigor to the claims.
From 1945 to 1976; as powertower said, http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/ebooks
I wonder if java.net.HttpURLConnection would be enough?
This is the same company that had a service failure where you couldn't withdraw money from your account recently because their ATM cards wouldn't work and they have no bank branches. I don't think you want to be an early adopter.
Canadian researchers,Intel, and Plastic Logic to create ‘paper tablet’
Install rlwrap, but then just always stick to `lein repl`. It's pretty rare to ever need to run Clojure without lein.
Great resource. Thank you for sharing.
This would be acceptable.
What "white, middle-class students of NYC public schools?" The school system in Manhattan is only 14% white, and almost three-quarters of students qualify for free or reduced price lunches. It goes a lot deeper than just college admissions.
I think the appeal of this for me would be that it feels less flow breaking to use my command-line (all work things) than using the browser (mix of work things and distractions.)
What are people "fed up" with exactly?

Overdraft fees? All banks ask you to opt-in. Is that really the thing people are "fed up" with? I find it hard to believe these people have much money, and why Simple would want these idiots.

I have no issues depositing my money quickly, withdrawing my money, and accessing a transaction log. My bank even provides a mobile app to do this. I was asked to opt-in to overdraft, and all the charges were explained very clearly. I bank with Chase.
As others have commented, when you're first starting out as a freelancer, it's helpful to start in your local community at in person events. Meetups, niche events, networking events, etc.

Of course, the frequency of such events depends on your local market size. There are a variety of sites out there, and a lot compete on price like you hint at.

I'm working on a new startup called matchist (http://matchist.com/talent) that finds you quality clients that pay on time, every time, without competing in a race to the bottom on price.
You are completely wrong about what is precious about Kickstarter. If you expect projects to be on time you couldn’t have picked a worse thing than Kickstarter. That’s not what it’s good at. And it’s nevertheless completely awesome.

Take the Double Fine Adventure: It will completely overshoot the estimated delivery date by a long, long time. However, following its progress has been one of the most awesome media consumption things I have done this year. I don‘t even care if the game is ever released (well, I do, but only because I want Double Fine to do well, not for my own enjoyment).

At Kickstarter you give money to something that might or might not work out in the end, but that will most definitely overshoot its estimated delivery date – if it doesn’t it’s a fluke. That’s how you have to see it. Maybe that’s not something for you, but for me it’s great fun. And that’s all that matters.
How can a black hole produce sound?
You've not refuted the article but merely described it as naive, ridiculous, etc. Whilst it's true that a quiet highway attracts drivers, that doesn't mean that reducing the drivers this article discusses won't deliver benefits.
The mobile version with it's long scroll is much better.
Already in my gem file ...

gem 'rails', '3.2.3'

I think that patch maybe? But I dont know how. Google is not helping,
Really love one of the comments:

We're talking a grand piano at least 12.2 metres in width. However, the depth of the piano (from front to back) would have to be of the order (length of middle C string≈0.6m)×257≈8.6×1016m ≈ 9light years in order to accommodate a string of the appropriate length.
One of the key benefits I get form a dashboard is being able to recognize that something's wrong, even when it's entirely different than anything I've seen on that dashboard before.

I'm not convinced a feed would allow me to do that.
Or from firefox's web console: (Ctrl-Shift-K) and in the little eval bar:

$('div#TB_window').remove()
$('div#TB_overlay').remove()
Song of Github - let me sing you the song of my contributions.
I'm currently making regular morning and evening roundtrips on I-395 near DC. My northbound segment in the morning is in the same direction as most traffic (into the city), and the entrance is metered. When I do that same segment in the evening, it's the less traveled direction, and there is no metering. This is interesting because the evening drive is often just as slow as the morning drive, even though there's less traffic, something I blame entirely on the lack of entrance metering.
There are known undefined behaviours and there are unknown defined behaviors.

Which is worse?
Yeah. Since perspective is one of the few things I can control, I just look at it in economic terms. Supply is short. Demand is high. I'll do what I can for a slight edge. :)
And out of the ~250 programs that Knuth wrote last year, 2-3 would have solved a similar problem that your typical professional programmer would solve.
Built while babysitting a migration. Naively approximates the algorithm that generates the contribution graph; I didn't take the time to try to reverse engineer what they're using.

Put your sound up and listen to some frantic piano goodness.