skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's certainly quite a bit of booze at an Argentinian hackathon. These were the guys who showed up. Half my team disappeared after the Friday evening.
I believe you are.
Let me do some free advertising -- Jenkki professional chewing gum don't have any artificial sugars. They only have xylitol and some base.

You can only buy it in Finland, not even in Sweden (grumble).
Bluetooth is for your xbox controller, not sending files
It's ok. I joined Diaspora a couple of weeks ago and the functionality isn't there. I wanted some album feature so I can put my photos.

I'm in the middle of researching Friendica and it seems like that would be better. I still have to try it out first.
so instead of hiring an employee, you should be putting out RFP (request for proposals), which outlines what you want produced (creative things, a film, a game, or an application for your business). You also show your budget, and you ought to get proposals, and you pick the "best" one.
I posted this yesterday, the only difference is this is the "print" version.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5002806
Oh no, I wasn't commenting on the design really. I think the design is just fine. I was referring to the joke that a comment above me refers to.

"What's black and white and red all over" A newspaper. It's a play on words where "red" is supposed to be "read". I thought maybe you had that in mind when you chose the colors. It would be really clever and funny if you did. If anyone ever asks you that you should totally tell them yes. I bet they'd get a kick out of that.
> The universities that need to worry are ... particularly the ones that try to do undergraduate education on the cheap.

this is a good thing - bad universities that suck up money should be replaced with "free" ones that perform a better job.
Building a blog using Jekyll, Bootstrap and Github pages. A beginners guide
Izik : A tablet optimized search engine by blekko (click about for a video)
Parental leave around the world - visualization
yeah, it would be nice to see what code is actually generated that makes it faster...

... also, have you considered pointer arithmetic? your style of for loop is nothing i would ever write to begin with. perhaps this is why the compiler has a hard time with it - it is quite unusual - the extra loop counter seems pointless and can be removed by a single pre-calculation
For now. What if Google chooses a different OEM for the Nexus 10 II? The Nexus business model basically means one winner (chosen by Google) and N losers.
I think I stated that the large publishers are not wishing to fund such titles and that I think they do so for the wrong reasons. It's just my opinion and I don't see how your statement is much different than what I've been saying.

The potential problems you describe sound like budget and project scale problems to me, not that the genre couldn't make money. If one wishes to spend 5 million plus on a game that only maybe 250k will actually pay for then you are destined for failure. I don't believe I stated otherwise.

If you have a large publisher funding your project, then you aren't an indie title. Plus I pointed out that they do these small projects from time to time to see if there's a chance a genre will be popular again for them to spam the crap out of. I didn't say that these projects were intended to make money.
I think he makes very little sense to be honest. I have a Google+ account which I never use or post anything to because the majority of my friends are on Facebook. All the people I have added on Facebook I have met in real life and are real world friends either present or past (people I used to go to school with) and certainly all people I would like to meet up for a beer with again. I have maybe 150 people on my friends list, just don't be a douche and add every single person you ever meet in the street and you should be ok!

I have a LinkedIn and Twitter account, which are strictly used for professional purposes. No bitching, no moaning, very little swearing (if any). Separation of concerns. I think the fact that Facebook is a Social network would have given that away. I like the fact it is closed, I don't have followers and groups now allow me to target some of my posts. (The only thing FB is missing is Circles, that would allow me to truly separate out different groups of people).

a) it’s too easy to build: technologies or how easy something is to build plays no part in it's popularity, the end user really doesn't care and your average user doesn't know what that .php, .aspx or .js extension really actually means.

b) it has no (large scale) viable business model: It has a viable business model, possibly just not as large as the one the market has put on it, 2 different things in my opinion.

c) this is not what people want: clearly it is otherwise there wouldn't be a billion people using it. I want everything in one place, it's one of the reasons I visit HN, I don't want to go to several different specialist sites to keep up to date with my friends. It's also the same reason I don't use Google+, because I have 7 friends on there and even they hardly ever post anything. If I wanted somethinf very specialist then I would join a specialist forum. Only time I think this could be useful is when I am trying to meet new like minded people local to me - so I think your app nicely fills this gap.
I believe that one overlooked fact is the ability of a company to purchase a license to design an ARM processors for their own particular usage scenarios as Apple has done. I believe this gives ARM a distinct advantage vs. Intel. With Intel you have to wait until they release a processor and then you have to integrate into your design. I think the ARM way of doing licensing will be a boon for them.
The Smarter You Are, the Richer You Are? Nope
Only problem is that xylitol gives you the shits.

My dental hygiene routine which has worked well for 20 years is brush my teeth twice a day, avoid dentists altogether (most of what they do is unnecessary) and soft drinks and stay the hell away from non natural and refined sugars. I can munch ice cubes quite happily.
Samsung Galaxy S IV leaked press release shots?
i can see how this would be useful for requirement gathering or informal high level design, but if I cannot export it to a format which i can version control and/or access programatically it remains a toy.

now if i could have an open source version of it....
Google used two ways to implement the function. One is external linking to js file which could be easily blocked, another is embedding, which couldn't be block(and Google knew it). When we wrote this article, they switched from embedding back to external linking perhaps to make the function easily blockable.
Thank you so much for this! I've been searching for a similar service all along!! Looks awesome!!! Thanks :)
I think Intel is in an interesting business position. Just when AMD is getting into serious trouble, raising possible anti trust issues, ARM steps up. However ARM has actually the inferior architecture (for desktop/ modern tablet use).[1] So they can avoid anti trust issues by pointing to a competitor, who simply does not threaten Intels core revenue generators ( Desktops, Notebook [2]).

[1] I belive they still use in order architecture. And certainly no one but Intel has a 22nm fin fet process running.
[2] I am actually not as sure about servers.
Even if you search for "floss", there are no results. The article has been taken down. Which seems weird...

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/search/search.html?q=floss.
Acer Iconia B Tablet coming to India this month for Rs 7,999
Anybody think implementing the Mega Man in browser would be a cool side project?
Second release candidate of KDE Software Compilation 4.10 released
Very last chance to get a lifetime Salon.io membership for just 12€
Managing startups: Best posts of 2012
Why can't we be honest on HN? If the tone isn't flowery and sweet, it gets downvotes (and responses like yours).

Unless of course it involves: drug legalization, religion, or Republicans. Then anger, hatred, and aggressive posts are up voted.

This is just an excuse. You don't want to see your opinions in a negative light. It's a form of censorship.
I've been using this site for a while now. Good to see it getting a bit more attention.
A third way, which is more like what Facebook did is to get a chunk of the market signed up all at once and hold them there until network effects take hold.

If you add all the photos for Harvard students, that is the chunk.
Ah, thank you! I came into the comments to ask what "X is dead, long live the X" means, but you've saved me some time :)
Unless I'm old at 25: bullshit.

The people who go "into tech" during college because they saw Mark Zuckerberg making dumptrucks full of money probably don't know what IRC is, but the people who had to get into IRC chats to figure out how to make linux work on our hardware (like me, and most of my peers) absolutely grew up with IRC.

I grew up having friends that I met solely on IRC, and having it be a staple of the way that I communicated with certain groups of people; it's the same story with most of the people I hang out with.
I have to pimp myself here. Strider: http://danweber.blogspot.com/2008/07/strider-password-genera...
See fridgescript (http://code.google.com/p/fridgescript/) - because you are going through C/C++ it is faster in its domain (x87 floating point work) if given good clean code. Its not big or clever - just that C/C++ kills its performance a little with restrictions like struct layout rules and standard library math functions being rubbish... (note the compiler uses almost no optimisation strategies and the language is very specific and almost useless though)

That being said, I like the idea very much, I just object to the claim of fastest and the value the claim implies. Beating C is very easy if you know some very basic things about the restrictions placed on it by standards... :)
sbt's incremental compiler is a huge improvement over restarting the compile from scratch each time.

Use "sbt ~compile" or "sbt ~test". IntelliJ 12 + Scala plugin even an external running sbt incremental compiler to do compilation for the IDE.
That is certainly false hyperbole. There a lot of very useful new features in 2.10, and many people are currently successfully developing in Scala, even with its relatively slow compilation speed.

The Scala team knows compilation speed is important; they have dedicated people working on it full time. This release they made progress by creating an incremental compilation system called Zinc that is shared by Eclipse, maven, and most recently, IntelliJ. They have also said that there is no easy fix on the horizon. Improvements will take time and likely continue to be incremental in the near future.
I started an mIRC script site back in 1997. Young developers would email their scripts to me and I would write a very critical review of them. I did this for many months and the site quickly became one of the top IRC sites online. This momentum has carried the site all the way to 2013. While mIRC script traffic has steadily declined over the years there is still a strong community. We still have members posting mIRC snippets to this day. While I've been working hard to transition the site to more modern development platforms the mIRC posts keep coming. In fact I get a little embarrassed by all the mIRC content on the site. One thing I've noticed is that IRC is and always has been popular among very young developers. Many mIRC scripters are in their teens and some grow up to be professional developers. I've been watching them for 16 years and some come back and reminisce about their old IRC scripting days. IRC has been a major part of my life and has in many ways formed my entire development career.
Art.sy moves to Artsy.net due to "issue with DNS servers in Syria"
IRC is still the best chat system. Anyone can get up and running in seconds, there are tons of Web GUIs and its fast as hell.

There are tons of alternatives, but none with the simple ubiquity of IRC.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html ... what sticks with me most from this: crackers break things and hackers make things.
I'm not sure java is being increasingly scorned. The scorners are just noisier.
Note: This PDF hosted on Dropbox is how the official press release was posted and linked to from Art.sy.
SBT provides incremental compilation, so it's not really all that painful provided your using SBT to build your project. Additionally, your getting a hell of a lot of work out of that compiler.
I really would like to find good browser based IRC client that remembers me.
It not only tracked your missile count, it tracked which missile tanks you picked up, as well as which doors you had blown open. There's a lot in there.
A Linux aficionado & Ubuntu fan's reservations about their move into phones
British people generally like the old British "Imperial" system. It's ours! Millimetres and grammes are associated with Napoleon and the E.U. (which are also unpopular in the U.K.).

In British supermarkets, milk is usually sold in pints, except on the packaging it has to say "768 ml".

(By the way, I think your (U.S.) pints aren't the same as our (Imperial) pints.)

Often you see milk in 1 litre bottles instead. I suspect the reason this goes on is because it looks like it's 2 pints, but of course it's actually less than 2 pints. So it's basically just a sales trick to make the milk look cheaper and to confuse customers.

Cream is practically always sold in 1/2 pints, which on the packaging is written as 284 ml. As far as I remember, I've never actually seen it written as 1/2 pint, but that's what it is. I think a lot of people don't even know that it's 1/2 pint of cream.

We still use the Imperial system for lots of other things, e.g. beer, waistlines, car speeds, etc.

Furthermore in speech, the idioms "kilometrestone", "millimetreing forward", "give a millimetre and he'll take a kilometre" just don't sound as good!

In the markets in Holland, you often hear people asking for a "pond" of carrots, or whatever. (You also see it written by the stallholders as "ponds".) In this case, they mean 500g, however (according to Wikipedia) a Dutch pond was actually 494.09 g. (An Imperial pound on the other hand is 453.59 g).

(By the way, I find it a bit embarassing to write "Imperial", but I've stuck with it.)

I would also like to point out that the French and the Italians still measure their computer monitors, and their bicycle wheels in inches! Not their horrible millimetres.

My Dad (who is an architect) tells me that boilers are still measured in BTU's. I don't know if that's still true.

I have to say that the Metric system is definitely easier when it comes to (a) science, (b) surveying, engineering, etc.

For everything else (e.g. toast, road signs, boilers, cream, trousers, etc.) I'd rather have Imperial units.
Personally, I'm looking into the possibility to work at SpaceX, exactly for such reasons. I feel like I can't do anything "remotely important" at any job I've found in the silicon valley, and i haven't done any innovation myself that i deem to be "really changing something that I believe in".

So I though, I might as well help a company that does just that, even if I'm not going to be the one designing the actual rockets.
Awesome. It is interesting thinking about these childhood days. Yea I did have a subscription to Nintendo Power. I actually got in it on the time trial of a mario cart level(i think the first). It is crazy that I actually remembered the code. That is how the brain works I guess.. I do remember one time I guessed a code: Turbo graphics 16, Military Madness: Neptune I completely guessed it as a child and it was like.. uhh. amazing!
Mankind In Transition
Misunderstand the quote more?

He's asking what netscape the group, as in the people building the software did, not what the software did.
For sharpening your axe ##C is amazing, but beginners are regularly mocked and burned at the stake there.

> "How do I allocate a string?"

> "But what is a string?"

> "You know that thing with letters in it. Seriously how do I allocate a string?"

> "Sorry we don't know what a string is, you'll need to define it for us first"

> "OK it's a contiguous chunk of bytes in RAM"

> "Sorry C has no concept of bytes or RAM."

That kind of impractical nonsense.
I've been running an mIRC script site for 16 years. I wonder if you ever posted. You'd recognize my username if you did.
Usually, these "about my year" posts are filler, but this was some excellent stuff. Thanks for sharing it. That takes courage.

I’m not advocating ladder climbers, I’m not advocating jerks being jerks for the sake of jerktitude, I’m just saying, they have a place, and when you find the right asshole, they’re going to deliver and kick ass while doing it. The delicious irony will be, 5 years from now when your midsize is larger than midsize, the asshole who everyone hates will be the only executive of the lot who arguably deserves his merit badge title. Think on that.

Yup. I call this the "DFA Light". DFA = Done Fucking Around. http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/flow-ownershi... DFA usually means that in 6 months, you'll either be running something or fired.

On open-plan offices:

What you describe isn't open plan. Open plan is this horrible bullpen where everyone's visible and no one has personal space. It sucks. http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/no-idiot-disc...

What you want is for people to have laptops, and have private offices for people who need them, and open/communal spaces. I worked at a think-tank that had 3:00 tea (with board games that occasionally went till 7:00) and it was brilliant. Let people choose whether they work in the open or in private. Work space is not to be skimped on. 150 SF per person of private and 150 SF of communal. It pays for itself, because typical open plan offices reduce productivity by 50-80%. This hybrid-plan is something Google does extremely well (although it's technically cubicle-based, anyone who wants privacy can take an office).

On getting fired: there are good fires and bad fires. I won't share my "number" but its nonzero on both sides (being fired and participating in firing) and I've seen good and bad.

A good fire is when they treat it as a no-fault lack-of-fit, come up with a reasonable severance (depending on their finances, this could be zero for a cash-strapped startup, or ~6 months for a rich corporation) and a positive reference. Then it's just a breakup: good people break up with each other all the time. A bad fire is when they cold-fire you and refuse to support your career recovery needs.

For me, it's really about references. I don't need a severance, but if you don't agree on a good reference I will do everything in my power to fuck up your reputation. No or bad reference => war.
This is syndicated from the Time of London:
See
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life/article3606527.ece
here is a daily mail article with a similar thesis
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2237205/Is-flossin...
It might have been better at the time to use gecko, but apparently building a new rendering engine had enough advantages that Apple decided it was worth it. In hindsight, WebKit was the right call. It's powerful enough to run advanced desktop browsers, yet lightweight enough to power (almost) the entire mobile web.
No, I down-voted you.

The elephant in the room for the valley is that nothing is happening. Randomly select a startup from AngelList and tell me what you think of it. Is it creating something innovative or is it a new application for existing technology? And now we've exhausted permutations for social/sharing/tweet/feeds. It's old.

Yes interesting research areas exist. They always have. But what we're talking about here is the proportion of those, especially in the valley, to what the average startup is working on.
I get the feeling you're posting game-icons.net here just as an excuse to also link to your news site. I think the submitted link is fine, but also posting a link to your site seems borderline spam.
Enhancing digital certificate security
There is a setting to turn off background wifi when not plugged in; that should solve your problem on the nexus 7.
Yeah, the simplicity is a godsend. Lets you pump out a minimally viable client/bot in minutes with whatever language you like, without having to mess around with an existing framework or library.
So many awesome new icons, thanks for your work. Now I need to add these to Jetstrap's icon list...
Not sure what Monsterix is, but I have a feeling that innovation is "new way to bounce stuff on the screens" "new API for X", "new protocol for Z", etc. Those aren't innovations, IMO.
Actual desktop replacement. Think about a phone with similar specs as a three year old desktop. You can then carry your desktop around, do actual work wherever you find a reasonable screen and keyboard and you do no longer need to sync several devices.

Apart from this, any real augmented reality application can easily burn any excess computing power you may carry.
I store the secret inside of my paste config file ... which is picked up by uwsgi and passed to my Pyramid app.

You are required to configure my app anyway, and I can store it inside of a config file that doesn't need to be made public or stored in version control.
The algorithm was published in Nintendo Power. Even 14-year-olds could figure it out.

Once you knew MM2 had such an easy system, you could figure out MM3's password system by itself on your very first playthrough just as long as you wrote things down.
When you search on xylitol, use "futile cycle" in the query --essentially, bacteria take xylitol up because it looks enough like a genuine, useful sugar, but can't do anything metabolically useful with it. It would be like humans spending all our energy chewing wood.
> Diaspora is not as good social network as facebook and can not be very good at privacy because personnal user data stored in a pod are not encrypted and can be read by the pod owner. Encrypt/decrypt should be performed only at the browser level.

That would probably kill Diaspora's most realistic (obvious) option for scaling up to the size of a major social network. Right now it's small enough that it's reasonable for individuals to run pods altruistically.

But if it gets big, that's going to get expensive. Somebody will have to pay for all that hardware, electricity and bandwidth. Nobody wants to pay to use social networks, so it sure won't be the users. At least not directly. A much more feasible option is to aggregate all the data you're privy to as a pod operator and use it for advertising purposes.
It appears that they got caught plagiarizing another newspaper: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life/article3606527.ece

Unfortunately, the original article is behind a paywall.
I knew that going in, but only because of this: http://xkcd.com/195/
I like this "problem" because it encourages small programs. Also, Scala's type system is just very complex.

If you have a 2000-file program with cyclical dependencies you are screwed. If you use Scala-IDE (which has an embedded sbt doing incremental compiles, which become non-incremental if your dependency structure is fail and you have a huge SCC) on such a project you are doubly screwed. That's not a problem with Scala. Bigass programs aren't a good idea in any language. The programmer-to-program relationship should be one-to-many (for engagement, productivity, modularity, code quality) and not the "enterprise" reverse.
Will Scientists Ever Move to Python 3?
I think you should read it again, for one it indicates what kind of hacking he means in the opening paragraph.

I'm on my phone, I'll write some more when I get home.

Edit: Something came up so I don't have the time to write much. I will say that what you object to isn't snark, it's subculture. Subculture isn't around much anymore like it were in the 80s and 90s. Also information wasn't as abundant back then as it is today. I guess people have to decide for themselves if they want to understand or dismiss it, a starting point could be the "cfi-en" package in ubuntu/debian.
a different OEM like... Motorola?