skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Black perl - originally by Larry Wall & updated for Perl 5 by Ovid (http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=17000)

BEFOREHAND: close door, each window & exit; wait until time.
open spellbook, study, select it, confess, tell, deny;
write it, print the hex while each watches,
reverse "its length", write again;
kill spiders, pop them, chop, split, kill them.
unlink arms, shift, wait & listen (listening, wait),
sort the flock (then, warn "the goats". kill "the sheep");
kill them, dump qualms, shift moralities,
values aside, each one;
die sheep, die, reverse system
you accept (reject, respect);
next step,
kill next sacrifice, each sacrifice,
wait, redo ritual until "all the spirits are pleased";
do it ("as they say").
do it(*everyone***must***participate***in***forbidden**s*e*x*).
return last victim; package body;
exit crypt (time, times & "half a time") & close it,
select (quickly) & warn next victim;
AFTERWORDS: tell nobody.
wait, wait until time;
wait until next year, next decade;
sleep, sleep, die yourself and
rest at last
This also relieves bus congestion which includes people who don't have licenses. Perhaps they should be burdened to show that they are maximizing the general vehicle occupancy, and thus kids count as passengers.
I must confess I have not seen many. I drew inspiration from Marc-André Cournoyer and his post "how to apply to a job" http://macournoyer.com/blog/2010/02/23/how-to-apply-to-a-job.... However, I've entertained the idea of writing code as prose for quite some time.
As someone who has been doing this for the past six months, the folks here are right. You kind of learn as you go. The beginning of my trip was in Barcelona, and I had no idea what to do.

Talked to a few folks at hostels, found out what was cool to see in Spain, and used the web to figure out how to get there. Ended up traveling all around Spain for a month, just by getting somewhere, spending time, plotting my next step, and then going.

It might be a little intimidating. It should be. The uncertainty is what makes the journey so much more worth it.
A corporation is not a physical thing embodied in a stack of papers. This guy is an uninformed crank.
Aww poor ninjas. It must totally suck to, you know, die like that.
See also:

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4995060

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5011974
Writing Web Apps Quickly With Mortar
You should see what he can do with ANSI.
DIVISION 16.6. AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
...

38750. (a) (4) An “operator” of an autonomous vehicle is the person who is seated in the driver’s seat, or if there is no person in the driver’s seat, causes the autonomous technology to engage.

...

38750 (c) (1) (G) The autonomous vehicle has a separate mechanism, in addition to, and separate from, any other mechanism required by law, to capture and store the autonomous technology sensor data for at least 30 seconds before a collision occurs between the autonomous vehicle and another vehicle, object, or natural person while the vehicle is operating in autonomous mode.
Valve-Backed PC Hardware Will Be Shown Off This Week
less -F

Won't page if less than one screenful. zsh users can also do:

< filename

(less than character)
Lies that Block Startup Success
It's clearly stated that he's quoting Franklin -- "America's first great scientist."

Here are some other statements about Franklin from Wikipedia which might illuminate the meaning (and maybe Norvig's assessment of the quote's relevance to computer science, information retrieval and Google):

Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment. In the words of historian Henry Steele Commager, "In a Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat."[3] To Walter Isaacson, this makes Franklin "the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become."

Franklin never patented his inventions; in his autobiography he wrote, "... as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."

His inventions also included social innovations, such as paying forward. Franklin's fascination with innovation could be viewed as altruistic; he wrote that his scientific works were to be used for increasing efficiency and human improvement. One such improvement was his effort to expedite news services through his printing presses.
I use it (even when I cannot compare it to Stripe):

+:
- Focus on an easy to use API for payments on websites/backends,
- support for subscriptions,
- sending money out to you once per week,
- a light way to maintain customer data,
- due to the technical solution which they choose (token contains payment data) you don't have to worry about PCI and so on on your infrastructure.

Main point is that the setup is super-fast.
I found this an excellent read. Amongst other things, the advice to look for your potential future in the older people you observe at an institution, is a good exercise.

This may also, twisted a bit, offer some insight on your own perspective. At whom are you looking? Quick, before you over-analyze this. If your gut reaction has you fearing you're destined for one of the drub jobs/careers, rather than one of the interesting ones, this may be a worthwhile piece of introspection, regardless of the institutional context.

I used to dream of the interesting -- if also challenging -- roles. But I feared and continue to fear falling into something unappealing and unwanted. I should have worked more on this latter -- there was a message there.

As I've moved through the years, I've done some exceptional work in what are typically "mundane" roles. But... it was perhaps always somewhat more of a struggle, as my work style and the work I did was contrary to the nature of the role and caused no small amount of friction with management and the institution.

I don't know whether that will make sense as I've written it. But such observation and consideration can show you not only the institution, but aspects of yourself. Perhaps ones that need addressing.
So if I remotely summon an autonomous car to pick up a kid from school, the carpool lane is legal while the car has only the kid?
Actually, it's more like a guy who just conned your family out of their life savings is hanging by a rope, which is breaking. You don't feel inclined to save them, but unfortunately, they're hanging over a crowd of innocent bystanders. You agree to save them, mostly so that the others are not injured. While you do, you make them agree to give back all of the money they stole under shitty terms. They do so by screwing over the guys who helped them pull the con job, who are now coming to you asking for their share of the money they stole from your family.
Lecture on how to rip and convert DVD to PS3
This is a video tutorial on how to rip and convert DVDs to PS3, so that you can enjoy your DVD movies on PS3 with the help of DVDFab DVD Ripper. Lean more about DVDFab DVD Ripper at: http://www.dvdfab.com/dvd-ripper.htm?ad=hcj
Interesting. I'm reticent to implement any of this. Why? Because it adds a bunch of complexity where none is required. As I said before, I might add a URL shortener if the need arises.

If my goal was to get the smallest possible URL, you would be correct (well, you still are...) However, for the same reason people prefers a website named "ycombinator" over "zgrrc", even if the url would be shorter, I don't mind not being concise.

If I can check my url and without any database see that it's project X, device Y, object Z, it makes debugging easier.

But you are absolutely right: there are ways to make short, unique urls. I just don't want to use them.
"better" or just faster since its written in C ?

It is not a drop-in replacement for ack. e.g. there are some basic usages it does not support -- iirc counts (ag -c pattern).
I dunno about should, but we would likely be competed out of existence.
Cool, I haven't seen that one before. I also like this one: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/
Lovely advice – it took me some time to realize that I needed to find myself before finding a career – but oh how I wish this advice were more compatible with 5-figure debt.
Note that the above defines an operator, and regardless, in your scenario, you aren't in the vehicle.
This whole case has been ridiculous from the start. It was pretty obvious from the start that this case wasn't going to end in the defendants favour, I honestly don't know why this guy has decided to waste the courts time with this. A stack of papers is not a corporation, the corporation itself might own the papers but paper does not encompass an entity. It's a carpool lane violation, not murder why can't this guy just cop it on the chin and pay the fine? It's going to cost him a lot of money in legal fees if he appeals this.

If this guy wants to waste money so easily, the least he could do is perhaps consider donating some money to a charity. If he wants to throw his money away, at least he'd be helping people.
Since it registers itself as a storage provider, it doesn't really need to sync locally. File open/save dialogs in Metro apps have a Dropbox location once the app is installed, same as SkyDrive (or Documents, Photos, etc). That's preferable on RT devices, which this app is probably primarily aimed at.
Except that bankruptcy (particularly corporate bankruptcy) is hardly as permanent as death. And no-one making decisions at AIG was personally on the hook for remotely that level of responsibility.

Conflating their position with calamitous death seems borderline disingenuous. You're soliciting emotional reactions to an unforeseeable emergency. But AIG was in a situation that years of rational business decisions put in the cards. They not only should have known it could happen, but they'd also know that their gains from having done it far outweighed the personal potential losses.

Which is almost certainly why the gambles were made in the first place and puts the lie to any analogy to human desperation in a split-second survival scenario.
Ah, very clever. I figured it would make changes to $HOME temporary but couldn't immediately think of why you would do that.
Did Valve and Nvidia  just build a Wii U killer?
An Apache 2.0 license has just been added
I wouldn't call it automation per se. HVAC control is simply named... well, control.

The last control company I worked for was heavily invested in the Delta controls' products. (All working on top of the BACnet protocol) Last I heard Delta also started to toy with Zigbee.

In my head there aren't mutually exclusive, as the BACnet architecture enables it to be built on top of other protocols. (BACnet/arcnet, BACnet/MSTP, BACnet/Ethernet, BACnet/IP...)
I like it! Ideally that will come out in court (should it go to trial, although I consider that unlikely). Someone should make a Matrix spoof where the kid at the Oracle's house says,

Boy: Do not try and recover the money. That's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth.

Neo: What truth?

Boy: There is no money.

Neo: There is no money?

Boy: Then you'll see that it is not the banks that are broke, it is only yourself.
If AIG would have went bankrupt, shareholders would have got nothing. After all the liabilities paid out(to the wall street clients who had credit default swap contracts), there would have been nothing left. US put 170 billion into a company worth $2 billion(market cap at the time) for 92% stake. There is no legitimacy to the claim.
at least know how to read ruby source code
Chozanshi's Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts translated by William Scott William. My friends have found that book awesome. Hell, so have I, and I'm not training in the lineage. Chances are, that book is gooblygook to you and you're better off with something gentler like Dan Millman's Way of the Peaceful Warrior instead.

I'm being a bit of a trickster here. @samsteve has some direct sources.
On zsh, "print -rC2" for printing some listing in 2 column format. The number of columns (C) can be specified. (print is a builtin).

zsh's file globbing is awesome. Some simple ones:

*(.) - only files
*(/) - only dirs
*(.m0) - files modified today
*(.om[1,15]) - 15 recently modified files
Ask HN: Rule of thumb to measure the MAU/DAU for Mobile Apps
As an analyst in a tech research firm, this is a question that that I keep encountering and I must confess that I just haven't been able to answer this convincingly.

Ideally I assume that it would be a combination of the below:

Current MAU = "Total App Downloads" + "Release Date" + "App Category Customer Churn Rate" + "App Platform (iOS/Android/Windows)"

But none of these data are directly available. Would be great if someone could throw some light on how to approach this.
Remove trash Emacs leaves lying around:

$ find . -name \*~ -delete
Oh yeah. Draeger ... Heheh.
I'm working in the midwest where the average experience level among developers is "several" years. (I don't know exactly, but it's probably at least 5). I'd be surprised if the average engineer salary here is as high as the lowest pitchbox bracket.
I believe FF is heavily used in the HN community.
Someone is not keeping up with the times.

Blackwater -> Xe Corp -> Academi
From the article:

> The choice is not a simple one for the insurer. Its board members, most of whom joined after the bailout, owe a duty to shareholders to consider the lawsuit. If the board does not give careful consideration to the case, Mr. Greenberg could challenge its decision to abstain.

Which is reiterated by the expert they interviewed:

> “On the one hand, from a corporate governance perspective, it appears they’re being extra cautious and careful,” said Frank Partnoy, a former banker who is now a professor of law and finance at the University of San Diego School of Law. “On the other hand, it’s a slap in the face to the taxpayer and the government.”

It may seem reprehensible, but they are obligated by law as a public company with obligations to its shareholders to at least consider it. Whether they join or not, and under what merits, should be how we judge them.
Huh? He did it intentionally to waste time and apparently has money to spare on the fight. Either way, there is now legal precedent at odds with the concept of corporate personhood. Presumably he wants this concept to go away and is now one step closer.
If you review the situation with AIG, the only available bankruptcy option available to AIG was Chapter 7, aka liquidation. There was no scenario without the government stepping in that they could have used Chapter 11 to re-organize.

In this case, a corporate liquidation is exactly like death, the assets are divided up amongst the creditors and the company ceases to exist.
The latter point is probably not as important since we're talking about averages anyway.

I would imagine boots do not count since we're talking about detergent here, although some shoes can be thrown into the washing machine.

There are three comments about socks now :-) But to get to 68 you'd still have to buy 34 pairs of socks. Even if you exchange some of them for shirts, pants and underwear, you'd need a pretty big sock drawer if you keep adding and adding every year...
How to design breakthrough inventions
Unfortunately, not really.

You see, home automation seems to always do "it's own thing" in regards to industry standards, which is why I manifested myself here.

If you want to know more about building control however, you can just type "hvac control" in google and you should be in the right spot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Automation
if i had been the kid that bought a laptop for 50 dollars, and should have known it was to good to be true. I dont think getting my 50 dollars back would have been part of the conversation my dad had with the company that the laptop belongs to.
'Own Goal'!

http://normanconquesttech.blogspot.com/2013/01/adobe-scores-...
I'm quite sure I'm using the map feature on craigslist for more than 3 months now..
"Give 'em the razor; sell 'em the blades"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebie_marketing
Most of the search results for "scala" in my area (seattle) are not actually Scala jobs, they just mention it, as in "experience with scala and 3 other languages we don't actually use is a plus", so not sure how accurate the graph is.
The Australian government made WCAG 2.0 a mandatory requirement of all government sites. Many claim to conform to the Double-A requirement, but very few bodies do accreditation and the standard itself is almost incomprehensible.

A List Apart did a pretty good article on the issues with WCAG 2.0 in 2006:
"To Hell with WCAG 2"
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/tohellwithwcag2
They feel the need to use something other than dollars.
It's possible that this is a viral marketing campaign to get you to think exactly that. Other comments go into detail, but it seems impractical to do this on a large scale as mentioned in the article.
That episode of Human Weapons was really funny to watch. It was even funnier watching my friends roll their eyes in disgust.

The two dudes tried to bust in on a training session, swaggering in, and didn't know how dumb they were being. They got passed on to someone else who was amused by all of this. And obviously did not have enough footage to do what they wanted, so they had to backfill it with nonsense.

You're better off tracking down Chris Crudelli's Mind, Body, Kick-Ass Moves. Hatsumi liked him enough to personally play with and terrorize him.
My understanding of this service is that it is meant to be used for people that currently have jobs, but would consider offers above a certain amount. Basically a way to say "only contact me if I get an offer that matches my interests above $XX".
Is there an online community of Dublin entrepreneurs or a meetup? I'd start there since a lot of the people there have ideas but no programming chops. You can probably post to the startup/technology subreddits and see if you can fish someone there.

Edit: As orangethirty mentions, you're probably too late to start promoting this if the event's 4 days away. Good luck anyway! :)
If I don't have two kids and the wife (I'm glad I have) I can do that too, although I'm not rich at all but I can afford the travel while working on my software products.
I don't think anyone would sign off on a viral marketing campaign whose message was "buying our product might make it look like you're about to buy drugs".
When I use it (i'm french as a second language), I would usually use it to mean something closer to "sorry about that" or "Sorry, but ...". For example, "Sorry, but the road is closed.". I would not use it in the context "I'm sorry for what I did.". So, it's not a direct translation.
Someone below posted it.
A User Experience Lesson From a Loaf of Bread
Given you're replying to people talking about securing razors and making blades easy to steal, that's not really relevant.
any otherway to implement 2 interactions of JqueryUI to Ember View?
Breds 11
Most companies don't even have any apps out for their services. There isn't even a Spotify, Rdio, or Pandora apps, and they have a lot more to gain. Releasing Win8 apps is a pretty low priority item for almost everyone.
I was wondering if/when there was going to be a representative showing up for comments.
I cannot express how disgusted I will be should AIG join the suit. The notion that AIG was somehow wronged by the government in this case is beneath contempt.
M2M Marketing Group - Profitable Sunrise Presentation
Diego-San Crosses The Uncanny Valley
Reminds me of this obfuscated C classic: http://www.ioccc.org/1990/westley.c

If you want to compile it, replace each "1s" with "is" in the code and compile for example like this:

gcc -Dis=1 westley.c -o westley

(or just put is=1; in the beginning with the same substitutions).

Normal compilers don't like 1s notation for short. Then run the result with some integer parameter ;)
Yeah but the maintenance overhead on such complexity...
Just wait till the teenage years!

Nah, given the design decisions inspiring this codebase, I don't have any reason to believe your daughter will have any challenge extending and reusing its functionality once she's grown up. ;-)
Nothing that can happen to a corporation is like human death for the humans making the decision, nor for the humans who stand to lose money for having invested in that company, nor for the humans who are employees at the corporation.

It just isn't the same. Not remotely. There's no parallel.

AIG, via its decision-makers, took the bet that the bailout would work out for them for the same reason they took the bets that put them into that position and the same reason they're taking the bet that it's worth suing the federal government: a sober analysis of risk/reward suggested it was the best business move.

No-one acted out of desperation. No-one was going to be hung for their misdeeds. No-one was jumping out a window for grief or committing seppuku for shame.
Tablet PC Market Forecast to Surpass Notebooks in 2013
I have seen it noted that common law countries in general tend to resort to lawyers early and often. Indeed when comparing major construction in different countries, having a common law legal system is a risk factor for having much higher costs.
Not entirely. If you're taking two children, then it's better than two adults driving the children individually. But if it's only one child, there's no alternative.
Ask HN: What happened to QuietWrite?
All work and all play [video]
That chart is statistically meaningless.

It just shows % change since an arbitrary date in the past. Obviously, since different languages are on different parts of the growth curve, it results in a pretty unfair comparison. In particular, it will give very high values for any language that happened to be starting from a very small base at the beginning of the time period under consideration.

log of absolute values would be a much more interesting chart.
I agree this calculus textbook reads more like an introduction to analysis textbook for sophomore/junior level mathematics majors. Complete with problems one step away from asking your to write proofs for the problem solutions.

While I can't wait until some higher level math is available online. I don't think that's what they're going for here.
Such a killjoy, bringing reality to the anti-corporate angry mob party.
That's not true, the shareholders would only have gotten nothing if the creditors insisted on immediate payment / and/or liquidation.

Given the fiscal situation I'm sure they would have seen the error of their ways. AIG being liquidated would have been possibly the worst thing for AIG's creditors and the best outcome possible for the people of the United States.

The government used the assets of AIG for it's own purposes and did not compensate the shareholders, the government was perfectly at liberty to let the institution collapse, but instead chose to prop it up.
I agree with you, Startups for the Rest of Us is one of my favourite podcast, not too long (30-40min) but every week (or so) is full of great advices
We're also about to re-launch our website and we have very similar service offerings. Reading the critiques and praises here is helpful for us also :).
No, liquidation of a corporation is only like a human's death in that it implies the division of the entity's assets.

But the humans making the decision to accept the deal do not feel fear that they will cease to exist and they will leave their loved ones behind. They don't have the animal fear of physical pain either. Unless they have been terribly reckless with their personal finances, they are not at any risk of actual death. At most, they have dread of embarrassment and the shame of having failed the trust of their employees.