skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm being overwhelmed by where to began. I'm a solo founder and I'm building a platform from the ground up but now - this part of the analytics is just so fuzzy to me. Interested in talking via email?

My email is in my profile if you are? I can share some links - I can't post it here because I don't know if the server can take the traffic.
But surely the fact that very few use Windows 8 could signify that it is not the leading edge, because it is unpopular.
Careful with your years. Teslas 2012 revenue will break $400mil. 2013 will likely break $1bil.
"These are the sad realities of politics in Massachusetts."

This is the sad reality of America. But the trouble is us (the people). The average American has the attention span of a gnat.
But mobile windows never used any rectangles that weren't aligned to the pixel grid... They didn't have rotated ones.
Care to check a dictionary?
That tracks with something else I heard about recently via Twitter: Indian Android OEMs releasing devices without Google Play because they had problems with Google's terms/fees. That was confusing because the only thing I'd seen about Android's economics ( http://www.asymco.com/2012/05/13/android-economics-an-introd... ) said that the money flowed in the other direction: Google paying OEMs for search traffic, etc.

However, if Google is discriminating between OEMs then that makes more sense. The typical terms (that, say, Samsung or HTC gets) might be quite generous, but the Indian OEMs don't get the same deal. I find it a bit surprising that Google couldn't come up with better terms for the huge but poor Indian market, but maybe there were non-export clauses or something similar that got in the way.
Before you go and rewrite everything in Haskell for speed, it might be worth trying to reproduce the results from here. I tried to and C was much faster than Haskell:

http://paulspontifications.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/when-hask...
Oh boy! More "hacker" "news"! I'd love a breakdown of what Lindsay Lohan is up to, "hackers" need to know!
Imagine two nodes, both initiating updates to the same row. One has observed a number of node additions and deletions. The other has not. They will perform their updates on disjoint sets.

> There's not really any way that nodes can disagree on this.

Atomic, dynamic updates to a ring are a difficult thing to do. If I'm missing some additional mechanism that ensures agreement on ring membership, please explain.
Well, Android has more users than iOS, which would make it analogous to McDonald's. Popularity doesn't automatically mean something is leading edge, but certainly the fact that something is extremely unpopular like Windows 8 makes it unlikely to have much impact.
Kids have been learning BASIC by themselves since the late 70's. When someone understands BASIC he/she can move on easily to other languages and concepts like OOP and pointers, which FreeBASIC has. If you choose Scratch or Alice and move too far from text-based languages there's a risk that they may not be able to convert their programs to other languages and become limited by the "features" of ALICE and Scratch. If you teach them BASIC, you'll eventually find a compiler even for Android or iOS.

Phrogram seems to be a dialect of BASIC too. But really try FreeBASIC first, unlike Phrogram it's free.

Here's a BASIC for Android: http://laughton.com/basic/
More BASIC compilers and interpreters: http://basic.mindteq.com
http://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-do-a-weekend-Vipassana-retr...

5th result on google for "vipassana retreat, bay area"...
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If you have access to the folder where the application is deployed (eg. TOMCAT/webapps/) you can take a look at (TOMCAT/webapps/3rdpartyapp/WEB-INF/) and if you see files called applicationContext.xml or any spring.jar files under WEB-INF/lib, it uses Spring.
AAPL closes at exactly $500.00
What what you say is a good age to try and introduce a child to programming?
I've built a few prototype multiplayer games that use web sockets (Socket.io actually) and the performance has been encouraging. One game I posted on HN had over 30 concurrent users without noticeable lag. It was also terribly inefficient. Each client had 5 msgs/sec outgoing and 150 msgs/sec incoming. The incoming messages could definitely have been optimized.
More: http://seekingalpha.com/article/1002601-buy-apple-on-january...

> But now, however, the gains of the Summer have come back in and Apple's share price has only to stay flat for the next two months for all those call options to expire worthless. The institutional money managers that wrote those options, if they were to try to manipulate Apple's share price, have a lot of incentive to keep Apple in place for a short time, then drive it higher:

> Apple is getting a lot of buzz for being undervalued here, but there is an enormous amount of pressure on the price at these levels that will be lifted after options expiration. If you like Apple, consider having some patience here and making a buy at the end of the day on Friday, January 18th, 2013.
What about the ~64% of us who use something other than Chrome?
They are fun devices, enjoy it better than the Nexus One I'd been using. It sux that they still don't include expandable storage, unlike Nexus One, I wasn't going to upgrade but these were too cool for me to pass up.
I was going to suggest this as well. Why would you bother with a database for something like this? Maybe it's a data mining effort.
> Now, it's not clear if everyone else was doing it in this case, or whether the crooks were convinced (falsely) that everyone else was doing it.

It's professional cycling... pretty much everybody that made it to the top was doing it.

Yeah there are probably exceptions, but the pervasiveness of doping in cycling is surreal. If you're actually in the top echelon and stand a chance of winning, there's a very good chance that some of your chief competitors are doping. Obviously this puts even good people in a real quandary...
Yes, Lessig is a real human being, and it's good that people like him have reach and audience. Not quite sure how that happened! :)

I like your posts, Jacques, so I vote that you switch into action mode.
Sure, I'll shoot you an email.
Return to Zork, the first graphical non-text based Zork, is the most memorable computer game I've ever played. It was the first time I saw computer graphics so beautiful in such a haunting mysterious world. Sometimes I still have dreams about it, and occasionally during world travels I'll see something that reminds me, "oh I was at a place that looked just like this before... in Zork!"

RTZ was even better than Myst, its cultural successor.

I realized, a few months ago, that Rebecca Snoot from RTZ is Rayanne Graff from My So-Called Life. WHAT? Yes, it's true.

You are in front of a white house...

Pick up rock, throw it at vulture...

Remember to dig up the bonding plant -- if you cut it, you won't be able to get into the comedy club by the cliffs of desperation later on.

Want some rye? Course ya do!

It's now been 20 years since that game came out. Woah. Two decades. 1993. It's still vividly seared into my mind.

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

If you can find an ISO of it, it'll run in DOSBox, I believe. Beware, though, that you need the encyclopedia that comes with the box -- awesome primitive copy protection.

Great game, good times. Any other RTZ nostalgites here?
HBase.
Sure, it could. It could also be ahead of its time. Do you have an argument as to why Windows 8 and Windows Phone is not leading edge, besides the fact that it isn't very popular?
US Software Developer Caught Outsourcing His Job to China
A big aspect of the NYC lifestyle is having very little space or stuff at home and living your life outside the home. Most New Yorkers don't have what anyone in the first world would consider a kitchen... at best you've got a two-burner stovetop, a toaster-oven-sized oven, maybe a microwave, a miniature refrigerator, a tiny sink, and a few square feet of counterspace. And one or two plates. Most of your meals come from the huge assortment of restaurants and delis that fill all NYC neighborhoods.

For many years I lived in NJ and worked in NYC, and I typically spent $20/day for a bagel and coffee in the morning and take-out lunch from a local shop. That's not exactly an extravagant lifestyle.
Not disagreeing with you, but one comment that I think should be made on the Semmelweis piece: as I commented when it was posted on HN quite a while back, Swartz comes close to arguing that people who admit their mistakes deserve, not just to have that admission acknowledged as a positive thing, but to be promoted, have poll numbers soar, etc.

I think that's too strong. If Carmen Ortiz were to admit she made a mistake, does that mean she should be promoted? Become a candidate for Attorney General? I don't think so. Admitting that you made a mistake is great; but if it's a big enough mistake, admitting it might just be the first step towards resigning so someone with better judgment can take your place.
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Kurzweil's predictions: good accuracy, poor self-calibration
> Second -- people don't really fault Lance Armstrong for doping.

Of course they do. Why wouldn't they? He's a cheat. The fact that many other people were cheating too is irrelevant to how he's judged for that. That just makes professional cycling as a whole look terrible too.

Even if he had been a saint in every other way, he's still a disgraceful cheat.
And, in all likelihood, the same would have happened in this case.
Not sure how often (2) arises anymore, since you're often paying in battery life or cloud computing charges.
"I could have been a human being. Instead you twisted me."

That guy's going to have issues.
This. While it's regrettable Facebook has decided to strip platform access from "competing social networks," they are certainly within reason doing so, particularly as the restriction is part of their terms.
awesome movies!
Did Glee Rip Off a Jonathan Coulton Cover?
Facebook private status updates made public by Storify
"But I did come away with the impression that he is emotionally "different" or verging on psychopathic."

Drugs don't change the fact that it takes a vicious competitor to win the Tour. Eddie Merckx was called "the cannibal."
Also, since the dev kits come with Doom3, I assume Id Tech 4
It's not. That's because gene therapy is really difficult. The fact that they're doing clinical trials at all does mean that they're spending a huge amount of resources on it, though, as it's not easy to get to that stage.
for a split second there I read this as Papa Bear O'Reilly donating the book. During that split second my brain was almost fried trying to make sense of how he could have written a book titled "Open Government"
When is this scheduled to come out for retail???
Original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=M...

Glee: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y...
I am less interested in legit and more interested in how they extended git to make it so all their new commands worked.
It's a great thing you can tell the future regarding Aaron's life had it continued.

I'll ignore the strawman.
That's not IT issuing you a new password, that's you changing it. The point is that biometrics are perfectly feasible as one of the two factors (instead of something you know) and can still be revoked.
Consistency is a safety property. HyperDex, Hbase and BigTable all provide linearizability, which has a well-defined meaning. Cassandra does not, and most of its descriptions of consistency only refer to the behavior of the system, and not the properties you can rely upon. Pointing to the number of replicas read or written only clouds the issue.
Hell, it would be effective as a data: url.
> an incumbent can simply pay for the privilege of having no viable competitors.

Pay who exactly? They could pay the government, of course, and that's usually how things go, but that's what I am opposed to.

> Is there a strain of capitalism that doesn't hold it critically important that new entrants should have unfettered access to the market?

It depends on your definition of "unfettered access." Most capitalists, for example, are fine with the failure of a competitor who has no idea how to run a business, even though his incompetence certainly fetters him. Pro-capitalists are generally strong advocates of private property, so the only types of fettering they would oppose would be violations of property rights (like theft, assault, or threats thereof). Simply using capital to one's advantage and to the disadvantage of one's competitors is, as the name suggests, not generally considered a bad thing in capitalism.
You're right, and I have to clarify that I don't necessarily agree with the idea that new display technology is the real cause of this new trend. But I do think we will be able to get better results from simpler, minimalistic designs with better resolutions.
Your views are consistent with a paid or otherwise incentivized "shill" with vested interests in taking the opposite view of any positive legislative action regarding the Swartz case. You knocked the earlier legislative proposal, now you are knocking this.
I am speaking more of direct sensory based shock, at "dying" or fear (horror genre), as apposed to "neglecting meatspace concerns".
Correct. There's a quarantine attribute.
Though, I'm believing it now that the confession closes a chapter, A few things still linger in my heart about this whole thing.

A. They still can't prove, how he did it, how he was not caught for so many years, and barely proved that he did it, which in itself is not concrete.

B. It appears he is being forced to make all these statements, to do what? So he can be allowed to come back to sports again, his life's passion. If I'm a sportsmen, of that degree, I might would be vulnerable to blackmail if they took my one passion away.

C. After I read his Wiki page, it appears, to be case of sour grapes for some of his competitors, who pursued these charges against him over and over again. I mean, ok, we know now they were right, but what before that? They were no forensic experts, all the accusations were based on doubt and jealousy back then.

D. There is something terribly wrong with how this case has been pursued legally, a lot of things don't sum up. Like until 2009, UCI had him clear in a row with a doping official, at least officially, meaning, if any doubts, they were not being actively pursued by UCI. The biggest bolts in this story were by 2 of his former subordinates, who were both "Fired" before turning hostile. And it was actually Times Newspaper, that followed it up with a reprint of a 2004 book in 2012 (8 years later), the same time when another newspaper 'interestingly' sued a sportsman, i.e Armstrong.
Checkout HyperDex. We just released a new version, and it is indeed consistent as nodes join and fail.
I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree then. Perhaps you are a far more conscientious programmer than many out there; the number of buffer overflow exploits would suggest so. C++ doesn't make you immune to such things, but it does give you the tools to make such things less likely to occur. Further, I like compiler-enforced type safety. For when C was created, utilization of void* was a brilliant idea. Language design has moved on since then, and as much as many people really hate template-based C++ code, I honestly welcome it in comparison.
This is silly and disingenuous partisanship. It isn't at all a "anti-republicans" thing in his comment. It is a "hey this guy may be doing this good thing, but don't go about declaring him 'a good guy strictly on our side' (for whatever side that happens to be), he's done these other things that a lot of people are against". Its a sanity check.
That's a nice gesture by O'Reilly. Salute.
Hands on with Kim Dotcoms new Mega
Can I paste a huge data url here? Let's see.

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Ha, it works!
Most people who started by themselves did so at 11 or 12, like Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates.
Bash Tip: Closing File Descriptors
That's how covers work. They can be a nice thing — essentially quoting an artist you like — or they can be bullshit, like this.

It's not illegal, but it's not ethical.
Irrelevant points. He tries to deflect the issue from Lance and he shouldn't. I don't care if Lance cheated. I don't care if any athlete cheats as long as they get their deserved penalties from their respective sports authorities. The issue here is the hypocrite image that Lance and his PR team drew to the rest of the world. Everyone through of him as superman. He sold his image as a believer and fighter while he was none of that. Again, I don't care about cheaters but I despise hypocrite preachers.
More than social media, it is the traditional media that is making the bad seem ugly. If anything, it would only depend, on technical scrutiny, and not the opinion of people, if Boeing ever decides to kill 787.
"Your Mac Keeps A Log Of Your Downloads"...

In your user account.

There's quite a difference right there. I thought it was some kind of "hidden" file (not unlike the GPS location which was saved by default on any iPhone with a GPS -- up to the latest iPhone!?) which had now been discovered.

It's just in your user account so it's no big deal.
a rough idea of what is happening here - this is something like sql injection, but for jsp pages. if you use un-sanitized data in a jsp page, evaluated via spring's expression language, then you may execute code, provided by users, on the server.

(expression language can be used elsewhere, but it's not so common and much less likely to received user-supplied parameters)

also, this article http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/The-ghost-of-a-Spring... is much clearer about affected versions (3.0.5 and below are bad; 3.0.6 can be fixed via config; 3.1 is ok)
Ban = not apply federal funds toward, right?
It's even worse when you have to mix CFRefs and Objective C. Without ARC you don't need any __keywords to do so, and when you switch you know where they come from.
NASA sends Mona Lisa to the moon with lasers
> I like your posts, Jacques, so I vote that you switch into action mode.

I'm thinking of something a bit more substantial than a blog post.
When benchmarking HyperDex we found something similar. Cassandra is better at writes than reads by a surprising amount. Given Facebook's elaborate caching architecture (which likely pushed for such an inversion) this makes sense.
You don't need to extend git; the git command "git $FOO" just runs the command git-$FOO; git-commit, git-add, etc. are the binaries that do a lot of the work. In this case, I imagine they install binaries like git-sync, git-graft, etc. when you run "legit install".
Same thing here. I think the line height is a bit off on the blog.

But when used with proper spacing, I like Sans Serif anywhere. Even HN is using Sans Serif and its quite usable.
Mega Launches: Brilliantly Secure, But Not Anonymous
Yet you are confident you can predict his future, it seems. I have an opinion about which of two options is better. Of course I could be wrong. Maybe Aaron would sell another piece of a company, enough to pay off the fine/penalties/interest and not be homeless. If it were me I'd jump off a bridge before I'd endure repeated anal rape, let alone everything else Aaron was facing.
My understanding is that WebRTC includes udp-like connections between browsers directly. P2P, rather than client-server.
I like this guy a whole lot, too. Let's give this guy a mic!
Cornyn has been gunning for Holder for a little while, asking for his resignation earlier last year.

http://www.google.com/search?q=cornyn+holder

Edit: spelling
Really not a fan of "sprout", "harvest" or "graft". They're not descriptive of what's happening just by their name.
This can be done in two ways:

1. Git aliases.

You can add configuration to git so that git subcommands invoke arbitrary commands:

https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Aliases

This is what legit does, here:

https://github.com/kennethreitz/legit/blob/develop/legit/cli...

2. Any executable in your path named 'git-foo' can be invoked by 'git foo'.

Neat, huh? It's a useful way to create your own workflow scripts without having to touch your git install.
Is this a vulnerability in some way? Like could I replace someone's git-add binary to expose private source code? It scares me that someone can change my git behavior so easily.
A-men.

Personally I like "skeumorphism" in many cases. Why? 'cause in those cases they made it pretty, and I like pretty.... :]

Usability is of course a baseline requirement, but there are many things you can do on top of that, of which the "make it look like leather!" is one. As long as you're mindful of the baseline, it's all a matter of taste (and taste is fickle).

Unfortunately the anti-skeumorphism fad seems in many case to be even more shallow than the skeumorphism fad, obsessing over the look and ignoring basic usability...
Could be me, but I don't see your email in your profile. From what I remember it has to be in the about section for others to see it. If you want to shoot me an email mine is in the about section of my profile.
Jacquesm, I've seen a lot of your posts in the last week and can see you're pretty cut up about this whole thing.

I think it might be a good time to follow Lessig's lead and give yourself a little time off to reconnect to your own family and life.

The fight for Internet freedom etc is not a sprint but a marathon.
Obama signs bill 'in secret' making FREE SPEECH ILLEGAL
Has the author considered it's because hackers value liberty? There is no place for liberty, individual sovereignty, or natural rights in a communist state.

In a communist society, you don't get to hack. You only get to do the things provided for and prescribed to you by the ruling party.
This is something I have mulling for a long time, and a fight I think is worth starting. Lets go open access!

I am currently researching fully distributed file stores via Distributed Hash Tables. I have been looking for viable services to convert to a fully distributed system. This is now on the top of my list. Lets make this better! allow all the colleges to partially serve and have backups of all the content.
There are certainly practical issues, and hopefully those will in the end dominate, but don't for a minute think this isn't about fashion. Skeumorphism was about fashion, and anti-skeumorphism is about fashion.