skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AdBlock Plus and Ghostery do not only kill the Trackers, but also kill the design/css.

Not quite sure, why that is, but site doesn't really look good.

Non the less - hope this guy has success...
List of Known hoaxes in wikipedia
I was discussing this with someone earlier on IM: I think that there's also a lot of fruit in a "_why as myth" angle. He himself said what you said, in the Poignant Guide, the part where he talks about his own suicide:

> Blix was right. I’m in so [sic, should be 'no'] shape to write this book.
> Goodbye until I can shake this.
>
> Aw, come on!!! You're leaving us here??
>
> Ha! I was right! He flipped his lid! He's all burned out
> and he's going to shoot himself in the head!
>
> But what about us? This doesn't bode well for us.
>
> Oh, *we'll* be fine. We're famous. Other people _will_ sketch
> our likeness.
>
> We'll be twice as famous when he's gone. People can be
> so idolatrous with their mourning!

http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/chapter-6.htm...
Funnily, the UN takes a stereotyped approach to this classification rather than geographical one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe#UN

There, Slovakia is classified as Eastern, East-Central more concretely.

The westernmost countries of Europe, Spain and Portugal, are not classified as Western by the UN. The CIA considers them Western Europe though, and Slovakia is Central Europe for them.

I have to say that the CIA classification makes a lot more sense to me, the UN one seems to take a perceived cultural/economic approach that's both fuzzy and stereotyped.
Oh, I thought US circuits would be spec'ed at higher amperages to make up for the lower voltage. How does that work for high power appliances then? I have a 10kW induction stove, how could you ever get that kind of power from an installation running at 110V?
By this logic most free people are people who don't use computers at all, they have no switching barriers.
That's the whole point of having a first-party API for common DSP and compute tasks; Accelerate uses NEON where it's available, uses SSE/AVX where it's available, used AltiVec where it was available, and will use $(FutureISAExtension) where its available. Most of the time, developers can just call the interfaces without worrying about the details at all.
One more time. It's horrible and wrong that this kind of vendor-lockness and insecurity of personal data "by default" exist and considered OK. And that fact that they added switch to make you able to install your own OS doesn't change this fact.

> Want the secure version, great, that's what you get. Want to put your own stuff, just flip this switch on the back, and it's no longer secure, and you can do what you want to it.

This _is_ your own stuff, you're paying money for it, and it _should_ be "secure version" of it, and why do you need to flip anything to get this at all?
It's ugly because it was hacked on the (ipython) REPL, but here it is:

import requests, re, json
get_captions = lambda content: [post['caption'] for post in content['response']['posts'] if 'caption' in post]
get_domains = lambda captions: map(lambda caption: re.sub('<.*?>', '', caption.split('</p>')[0]), captions)

def process(url):
offset = 0
domains = []
while True:
resp = requests.get(url.format(offset))
if resp.status_code == 404:
return domains
domains.extend(get_domains(get_captions(json.loads(resp.content))))
offset += 20

domains = process('http://api.tumblr.com/v2/blog/plaintextoffenders.com/posts?notes_info=true&api_key=<mykey>&offset={0}')
with open('/tmp/domains', 'w') as dfile:
dfile.write('\n'.join(domains))
I'm not saying that every possible genre out there can be developed for and make money. I'm saying that there are genres out there that can make money that the big publishers are ignoring because it doesn't fit within their no risk taking mindset. I don't think we're necessarily disagreeing with each other here.

If Journey was bankrolled by Sony, then no, it is not an indie title. But then "indie title" can mean different things to different people. My definition is the thought that a major publisher was not directly involved in the development of the title. Fez is an indie title despite being "distributed" by Microsoft; I wouldn't give Microsoft much credit as a distributor just because it was on XBLA. Minecraft is clearly an indie title whether Microsoft partially funded the port for their system or not because that was not the original game. There could be debate whether the XBox version is an indie title at that point though. Brutal Legend is not an indie title if funded by first Activision and then EA.
I'm fairly certain that's the pun.
I mean being able to compile to a .app file on OSX, .exe on windows, etc. TideSDK can do this in a wrapper-type of way like you mentioned.
Overall, this is a great update for the jQuery docs! It feels much more clean, and is a lot easier to navigate. My only complaint would be the dark code blocks, does it bother anyone else's eyes?
Abort would terminate the entire process, whereas Fail would return an error code to it. Older (pre-2.x?) versions of DOS did not support the concept of I/O error codes at all, so the Fail option wasn't present: instead, you had the charming 'Ignore', which would pretend the operation had succeeded, returning the I/O buffer with (partially) corrupted information.
He appears to have made zero sales. By most metrics, this is not a "better sales page".
>I'm just uncomfortable with the fact that this potentially could be some individual's screw up and that for all intents and purposes we're pirating it

A store has a sign that says "free bread", you take a loaf, and later it turns out that the sign was put out by mistake- are you a thief?
I wanted to build a simple tool for personal use some time ago, and wanted to make it a desktop app in JS. I evalued many options, but I wanted a native look&feel, and with a comprehensive API. In the end I chose Mozilla Rhino+SWT, it really satisfied me. I'm waiting for Nashorn!

(edit: typo)
Makes sense - people who would actually pay for Adobe software probably wouldn't settle for a free 6-7 year-old version, and people who wouldn't pay for Photoshop anyhow will use the free versions, meaning (a) it's now really hard to be "the cheaper Photoshop" if you're a competitor, and (b) once the guys using the free CS2 can afford to buy this sort of software, they'll probably get CS6 instead of a competitor because they're more familiar with it.
Wiki.debian.org security breach
Haha, the soap bubble: yep, that's de Landa alright. Great post, I really enjoyed it.

You know, something about de Landa bothers me a bit, maybe you can chew on this and sometime, we'll discuss it: he wants to "de-postmodernize Deleueze" (even though he's careful that Deleuze isn't pomo, just that he uses dense words), but I'm not entirely sure that you can really separate, say, A Thousand Plateaus from the performative properties of the text. It seems strange to me that a materialist would want to remove the ideas from the primary material that they came from.

That said, he does a damn good job of making it a bit more accessible, especially to technologists.
China blazes trail for 'clean' nuclear power from thorium
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The politically correct term is "temporarily abled." This sounds goofy at first, until we realize that if we live long enough, nearly all of us lose our abilities in one way or another.
The website is down currently but if it really is money which was embezzled from a bank account then I agree. You do not need to sue the guy. Embezzlement and theft are both crimes in most jurisdictions so the police can handle the case for you.

EDIT: Seems they were aware it was a crime and just did not want the hassle of appearing in court when they were busy with the company.
So that's averaging 40 app downloads per account in 2012 alone. Higher than I would expect, but I guess a lot of people download a lot of free apps and then immediately delete them.
Did I miss something? The New Orleans maps show soil lead levels and income levels. Even if these maps were to show correlation (it's not clear they do), and even if they suggested causation (which is anything but clear), we would need to see a crime rate map to even get at the question the article deals with. The maps are pretty. What are they meant to show?
23 Freebie Interface Icon Sets for New Website Projects
Design aside, does something like this work? I notice he's starting with just an idea (he has no place, no visa) if he can find a family willing to take him in for a year is that the hardest part, or will it be difficult for him to also get a visa and a place in a school?
"Thing a week" but for Programming
Time Warner tried to convince us they needed to send a tech out to screw a coax cable into a modem, because, you know, it's hard, there's so many ports!

We declined the privilege of paying them $50 and staying home from work to wait for the cable guy, and figured it out ourselves on the first try.
"academic challenges"

Which challenges the school chooses to address is a political issue in and of itself. If the goal of the school is to educate students so that they can become outstanding citizens, then it is probably not a good idea to train them that Apple's approach -- with its restrictions and censorship -- is how things should be, which is precisely what they are doing by giving everyone iPads.

Words of wisdom: "The medium is the message."

"they're validating a model that would make it easier for open source alternatives to flourish down the road"

There is nothing about the iPad that helps open source. It is a computer that is built from the ground up to fight against any sort of hacking, tinkering, or user programming. In what world does open source mesh well with "pay us to be able to distribute your programs" or "you are only allowed to program the computer in the languages that we choose?"
I like that a lot!
Effective psychopaths never end up behind bars. They climb the corporate ladder. I've seen them in action and, as bad as they are for the companies they work in, you can't come away from seeing one in action without thinking, "Damn, he's good".

The violent ones are the lower class of psychopaths, and most prisoners aren't psychopaths. The smarter, high-class psychopaths are the corporate back-stabbers. They learn how to "manage up" because the ROI is so high.
Realtime Node.js App: Stress Testing Procedure
Page loads just fine on Chrome on Ubuntu as well.
Lengthy discussion from an earlier submission of a different source:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5016597
all these tricks are nice and useful, but in my experience they cost more time and are less effective than just lying out all needed paper material in front of you, on your desk, so switching between them is merely a matter of moving your eyes. Of which the electronic equivalent is having lots of screen space like 3 monitors.
You're right, a difference between my service and yours is the fact that you use Last.FM. I use The Echo Nest though, it's an amazing service. Tubalr uses The Echo Nest and builds playlists based on artists top tracks.

Tubalr used to use Last.fm but found out that the last.fm api went down a bit to much for my liking. After switching to The Echo Nest I've had 0 downtime due to the API I use.

Tubalr also creates "radios" in several ways. Check out the explore page(http://www.tubalr.com/explore). You can browse top genres, subreddits, and a huge list of genres.

As far as recommendations, type in an artist and click the similar button and you'll get a playlist full of artist similar to what you searched. (http://www.tubalr.com/similar/My+Morning+Jacket)

Example Genre Search: http://www.tubalr.com/just/indie+rock or http://www.tubalr.com/just/dubstep

Example Reddit Search: http://www.tubalr.com/r/metal or http://www.tubalr.com/r/realdubstep
DI is about glorified global variables!

Can you expand on what you mean by this?
Ha, everything I've read about that world seems to be young guys clowning around for attention - magic tricks and funny outfits.
It would be interesting to know if older applications account for more or less than 50% of the downloads this year. In other words has the potential for a new app gone up or down as the number of apps in the store has grown?
Why developers sell their mobile apps
Everything you need is part of the standard Android SDK directional pad support, start/select buttons shoulder pad buttons and joystick support

An existing game can be switched to use the physical buttons with minimal work... This isn't a rewrite, more like connecting another source event to the functions that handle user interactions. I expect most games to need less than a couple of hours of work to support this device.
> people who are excited about that don't need to be told not to be.

Whoah, if you got "Don't be excited" out of this, then I've failed: I am trying to not get too excited, just in case, but it's certainly exciting.

At the end of the Poignant Guide, _why talks about his own return: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/chapter-7.htm...

> Don't "hi" us!! Where have you _been_?
>
> Just Around.
>
> ...
>
> What about us? Do we have to take a nap?
>
> No no! We got chapter eight...

I don't want to read too much into the emphasis placed on the 'U' in 'around'...

Seeing a great actor pick up his most famous role and re-take the stage is certainly a reason for excitement.
Many people (like myself) don't consider the US and Canada "pretty similar/equivalent".
Nothing is wrong with letting your program read it's startup parameters from a properties file (and thus doing all the wiring up of classes in code yourself). Spring and it's bean.xml files are meant as a replacement option for that for when you find that doing-it-yourself is too tedious/too much code.
Is this even aimed at people outside of India? The currencies are listed in rupees only.
Smartphone Shipments To Top 1B For the First Time In 2013
Good observations. I've also noticed that sometimes, in order to pursue these "greater" virtues, we leave behind former virtues. For example, sometimes in order to make something testable, we make it less encapsulated. Or, we keep the encapsulation and make it more complicated in order to achieve the testability.

There's nothing wrong with this per se, but if you're going to forfeit one virtue for another, the bigger virtue had better be worth it.
I don't understand. There are schools (the majority of them!) that do neither tablet nor laptop "1-to-1 deployments", for maybe this very reason.
Go Daddy Offering Ten $10,000 College Scholarships
I think it is because the site is under heavy load. Reload and it looks fine again, or give a service unavailable error...
We No Longer Support IE7. Now What?
If you have vmware Fusion, you can install Snow Leopard within your Lion or Mountain Lion.
IMO, X-windows is the culprit.

The lack of a real winner takes all windowing solution on Linux means everyone has their different flavor of desktop, all of which are slightly different everywhere. And not like Android different, far worse as far as fragmentation goes, especially sound (if you feel like pointing out sound isn't part of the user interface, I'm going to point out you're not the person who feels undeserved by Linux as is).

I predict Android on the desktop before Linux on the desktop, and if Linux comes to the desktop, it will come mostly from the work of VALVe saying "This is in" and "This is out" and pick the winners and merge them together into a cohesive whole.
I wasn't meaning to imply you were bashing the kid (though now you've mentioned it, I can see how my post may have read that way). Sorry for the confusion :)
ShellJS: Write Makefile/bash scripts in Node.js
Yes, pretty much like South America starting in Tijuana or the Far East being west of California.

It is just a case of a relative description used as an absolute description, which is often quite convenient. Being capitalised is an indicator of that.
If you're building a simple system then it probably won't matter what you do.

Nothing could be farther from the truth.

When you're building simple systems you're up against hard limits for efficient team size - you need the system to remain simple. The reason is that a totally flat team structure only remains incredibly productive until you get to 5-8 people or so. Then you're stuck. Adding a person adds more communication overhead than useful work. Adding process makes everyone less efficient. The result is that you need to do both - and according to published literature don't get your old level of productivity back until your team has 20+ people on it.

Therefore the prime rule is to maximize efficiency. If you're going with the "small team of competent people" approach you can assume competence, but need to do what is efficient.

Efficiency here means long-run efficiency. This isn't just "throw together spaghetti and hope it works". This is throwing together stuff fast, and making it maintainable by a small team (partly through keeping it simple enough that people can hold program state in their heads).

I listed a number of features of the approach I took - I'm not sure why I'd want to give all that up just to save a few lines of code.

As long as the code is not crazy, lines of code is approximately the same as effort. Therefore adding lines of code reduces efficiency. You also added complexity - which gives more to think about during debugging which also reduces efficiency.

It is true that you gain a number of advantages. However the advantages you name fall under the YAGNIY principle. You Ain't Gonna Need It Yet. If you do need it, rewriting stuff to add that is likely to be a reasonable amount of work. In the meantime we save effort in writing, save effort in comprehending, and get to move on faster if we just leave it out.
> There should be 1 or 2 names on it max.

The founder and co-founder's? Couldn't resist, :+)
I read some scanned PDF files (over 150MB) and they work fine in GoodReader on my iPad 2. I'm sure that graphics heavy vector PDF files would work even faster.
I personally like the dark code blocks. It's the blue they chose for the background that bothers me a bit.
It's been more than 20 years now since the Iron Curtain lifted, so I guess people might as well start getting used to the idea that old divisions no longer make sense.
And 70% of those will be Android.
UK education 'graduate' here. I have three children. I both love and find this development abhorrent.

Positive things:

The amount of textbooks I had to carry around was immense whilst at school. I actually physically injured myself carting crap around all day.

There was always a shortage of books in the library. This allows side channels to be used (I.e. Stealing eBooks) as well.

It allows offline communication between students and teachers. Getting time is hard.

The information is interactive.

Bad points:

EVery back end for these things (particularly LGFL Fronter is a fucking huge piece of shit with absolutely no consistency or information architecture. This is the killer.

This will be a substitute of actually taking notes which is an extremely important part of assimilating information and understanding.

They will get broken in two seconds flat. Back in my day we had BBC Micros. These and TI-81 calculators are the only thing to survive. If its not left after a nuclear war with the cockroaches, then its not going to survive a UK school.

Apple. No way should a closed platform be used in a school. The government have fucked that up since the introduction of RM PLC in 1992. The predecessor Acorn was so open it was unbelievable. We'd regularly hack something up in class for data collection or calculation or control from scratch.

I have seen the quality of work from a UK secondary school. The children need to learn to write and be creative with real tactile things before they get abstracted away with technology.

The inflexibility will dumb down education to only answers that can be machine marked.

It will contract out most common skills to a machine on demand. Children, much as some of the more stupid adults today are pretty much google regurgitation machines. I see other children's homework which is basically cut and pasted bits of web sites.

Oh the shelf life of IOS devices isn't good as well. 3 years per unit before it either has a useless battery life or the unit is no longer updated and the app store won't push new apps to it.
Two problems (IMO):

A. I understand that this is an inspired act sparked by the very recent events in India...but more explanation needs to be visible in order to make this organization seem legit. I'm not talking about showing us your registration and non-profit organization permit, I mean "Kickstarter Pitch" level: I'm just giving my money to who now (listing a few organizations isn't enough, I need names of reps to at least be assured you're just not misappropriating their name)? How is it being spent? What is the purchasing price that you're using? What are your plans for transparency (i.e. a weekly/monthly report on how many sprays have been given out).

I realize that last bit may be hard because you're not at that volume-of-action yet...but this could be slightly mitigated by either securing a decent donation from a group/benefactor or the organizers themselves making the initial sizable donation. Yes I guess that sounds a bit entitled ("why can't you build the distribution site AND purchase the supplies") but if your call to action is going to berate people for just sitting around on Facebook...well, you kind of put yourself in the position to set an example, right?

B) The "Buy a pepper spray" graph just reeks of "white knight syndrome":

> A can costs Rs. 400. Have enough money to buy one? Do it. If you are a dude, buy one for your sister, your partner and every girl you care about (which should be every girl you know).

What if you are not a "dude"? Just hope that, as a female, someone will purchase pepper sprays for your sister, partner, etc.? Also, not all affected by the rape problem are girls. Some of them, including the victim at the most currently famous case, are women. And that last sentence parenthetical is just patronizing and redundant: if I am the type of dude who would buy pepper spray for the women in my life, I don't need to be told that I should care about women, or any fellow human being, for that matter.

Not trying to be overly harsh here. Congrats on you for stepping it up and trying something out. But if there's resolvable problems (IMO, of course), might as well think about them now and help the success of your noble mission.
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But those expressions also return things. Why can't they be gen? Why would I use a proc instead? It seems like I must be missing something, but I can't see it.
Now someone needs to go get this other guy and have him post his side of the story on HN.
It's also a good way to fight piracy, since so many people currently learn Adobe's products on pirate copies.
Very very smart, thanks a lot for this.
I've worked for two startups and got to know their CEOs well.

The first was probably not a psychopath but definitely a narcissist, and would do bad things if he thought it was necessary to the health of his business, including lying to keep people in the company. He failed after spending millions on a launch party in the early 2000s, and his reputation never recovered.

The second was an out-and-out psychopath: dishonest, manipulative, and hired worse people than him (to do his dirty work and keep him clean). He's still going strong.