skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that Mac OS straddles these two worlds perfectly well and you're a working professional, why not claim a mac as a tax deduction? (If your jurisdiction allows for that)

As for your question, the answer depends on whether you need the GPU acceleration in your adobe products. If so, you'll obviously want to run them on your host system. Support is getting pretty good but it is not there yet.

Parallels and VMware have both rolled out JIT translation of DX->opengl instructions with a windows guest, which is quite impressive. I doubt this improves your lot, though.
A site dedicated to "How can I explain the meaning of XYZ to my grandma?" would make a great wiki!

Re LaTeX: The new crop of online LaTeX editors are making it easier to use, taking away the installation/setup barriers amongst other things. I helped to develop https://www.writelatex.com to try to find a way to bring the language online to an Etherpad-like frontend.

I still never had this good an answer for what LaTeX is though - wish I'd thought to ask...
A couple of months ago, I un-liked everything except for a couple of bands.

Main reason was that I don't have the time or patience for their changes in privacy. I couldn't even remember some of the things I had liked back when the feature was first introduced and I didn't want that to come back to haunt me at some point when I am not paying attention to their privacy policies.
We won't* fully correctly emulate a single human cell using deterministic computers in any reasonable timeframe. Even if we had a fully characterized model of a healthy cell, what mechanism would we then use to prevent/eliminate cancers? You still have to get something in there in order to kill the cancerous tissue, whether it's drug-based, mechanical, or radioactive. Claiming that attempting prevention/treatment is futile until a probably-not-in-our-lifetime goal is achieved is defeatist at the highest level.

*: Before responding, read the still-highly-relevant: http://www.andersonlocalization.com/pdf/more_is_different.pd...
It's quite common. Chicago just overhauled their website and lists the salary of every single public employee: https://data.cityofchicago.org/Administration-Finance/Curren...
I have an associate who recently switched from a Linux host to a Windows host running Linux VMs. He spends almost all of his time in his Linux VMs doing dev work, but finds it very convenient to have the Windows host when he wants to play a game, run Photoshop, or do one of a handful other things that don't have good equivalents on Linux.

It's almost tempting to switch to a set up like that but I don't have the heart for it.
Well, we've been there before - more people than needed to do all the work available. As a result, we instituted the idea of servants.

So get used to a future where you either have a personal entourage, or will be busy doing errands for people who actually have money. And chances are much higher for the latter.
Out of the ones I tried fb_secret seemed to have the most real results.

https://github.com/search?q=fb_secret&type=Code&ref=...
Regarding the mappers:

There's another project called the Powerpak, which is essentially an FPGA programmable flash cart. You can put it in your nintendo, and it will allow you to play nintendo roms stored on a CF card. What might help you about this, I think, is that the mappers are loaded dynamically off the card. So this allows the creator of it to add support for more mappers as time goes by. I don't know if this would help you, but maybe you could use this for your own project as well? After all, if your FPGA nes is the same as a normal nes, then you could use an FPGA flash cart to load all your games. At the very least, maybe looking at the mappers would help you out.

http://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?products_id=34
The use of pre-paid mobile minutes as currency
What it's like to work in sales at Yelp
This is a day in the life series on what it's like to work in sales at Yelp! What do you think? Is this consistent with what your startup or companies does?
How do I stay tuned?

Is there a form somewhere to leave my email?

Thanks!
You can make your wishes explicitly known, it's called 'advanced directives' however most people either don't know about this or don't want to have to think about it because it involves facing their own mortality.

IF you really don't want CPR, or heroic measures to be taken on you, then get a DO NOT RECUSSITATE' or DNR tattoo on your chest or side, where the defib pads go (just in case) and carry around a copy of your advanced directives in your wallet.

For everything else, you will be conscious and thus have the ability to tell someone 'no'
Go fmt your code
maybe they should increase the 'streets' budget (and not just have 1 company get all the contracts) and then clean up that gigantic pile of trash that the city is. never seen a more filthy city than Philadelphia
Not sure why this was downvoted. Care to give feedback?
It is actually surprising how little people protest about unregulated sharing sites like airbnb. It may be that big cities have lost the sense or the need for community or local identity, so that everyone can be considered a short or long term resident.
Well, I gave it a try with a temp id. The analytics is impressive. But, I am pretty concerned abt privacy despite their claim of not storing any personally identifiable info.
Once BroBible finds out about it, it's gonna go viral. I don't see why this lady had to be flat out mean to him.
Google Startup Services - Prediction API
I prefer Apple's approach in all comparable apps simply because they do a better job of separating content from control. I dislike Google's grey on grey and Microsoft's "some text are buttons, take a stab at it" approach.

I must be strange because I fell that gamecenter is a pretty good metaphor and easily puts purpose into context when shown to the user (start a match on letterpress on the ipad and you get a gamecenter popup). I dont understand the find my friends leather, but it is really just a skin on top of a standard set of ios controls, it doesnt take away from usability.
I don't know if they do or not, but I don't think a developer should feel bad for doing what he can to ensure his work isn't stolen.

If I wanted to, I could raid the WP theme and plugin repo and re-sell all of them. Since I'm a developer, I could offer support that exceeds the level most get with free themes/plugins and provide value. I don't because I have ethical boundaries, but there are plenty that do not.
Because Mac OS doesn't straddle the worlds perfectly well. It's definitely more compatible than Windows/Cygwin, but you still spend a lot of time trying to get things to work and/or compile correctly on OS X that would work effectively "out of the box" on a Linux machine. A recent hire has insisted on using a Mac OS workstation and his install time for new tech stacks is through the roof when compared to developers on Linux workstations.
The broadband future is faster, but still unevenly distributed
I think tech's overall optimization/automation effect is good/great for humans, but only if society adapts. In Star Trek's utopia, it's said that the limitless bounty created by tech has basically removed the need for currency and competing economies...but will that happen in reality? If it becomes technologically possible to cheaply produce robots that replaces nearly everyones' jobs...will society be able to say, "Awesome, let's all relax now!"? I can't imagine that we'll ever accept that, even if natural resources become nearly limitless.
Say Hi to Backbone.js
> A "salt" is a small random value used to vary KDF output with the same password input. No salt means that any two users with the same passphrase will have the same KDF output.

Where would you get this salt from on the client side? That salt has to be the same every time a user tries to access their data from a different computer, otherwise you wouldn't be able to decrypt your files with the derived key right? So how is this salt magically transferred from one computer to another? The alternative is that you get the salt from the server along with the encrypted file, but then I don't see how that improves security. Or perhaps what I'm saying here is pure nonsense, in that case I'd very much appreciate a clarification.
It will only be non-descriptive if it doesn't catch on. See, for instance, Django, Pyramid, Twisted, etc. Twisted is a particularly good example, since it shares a similar analogy: Twisted could reference the twisted pair networks use; Delorean references a time-traveling vehicle.
Half on-topic, half off-topic: WebGL Lemmings port: http://webglgaming.com/lemmings/index.php
New York is definitely dirtier than Philadelphia.
OpenSUSE also considers switching from MySQL to MariaDB
Man. After LayerVault's post, the term has taken on a life of it's own.

Minimalism never precluded the use of effects or interactions to create depth (and I'd argue that "Flat Design" never precluded this either). Just because skeumorphism was one extreme, doesn't mean everything has to use another extreme as a baseline. Using the "flat" end of the spectrum is entirely unnecessary. A name isn't neessary for everything...

Also, for what it's worth, I much prefer Andrew Kim's characterization of the spectrum as skeumorphic to digital [1]. Digital doesn't have the connotations that "flat" has

[1]see: http://bit.ly/VfSQ7T
Remembering Aaron by taking care of each other
Looks great, i run a mobile app agency and we are forever having issues due to developers not testing adequately, having some external company test would be really useful!
In the immortal words of Charlie Brown, "I killed it..."
Playing In The Sandbox Helps Developers Learn About Bugs
I don't understand this jaded perspective. If we accept "business reality" as a default baseline, the measure of acceptable standard just gets shifted that much further. It's important to denounce this behavior, if for no other reason than we as a community need to make our ethical compass clear.
I love the idea behind this. I seem to recall that the previous version wasn't terribly stable on my Galaxy Nexus. I'm eager to give the new version a try.
On social media buttons
How we reconciled having with not having the notorious social media buttons on our blog.
http://www.yiiframework.com

It is actually really well suited to integrating existing code/database (with component architecture and model/controller generators) and takes a lot of principles from the RoR way of doing MVC.
In a way, there is already a system like this in your brain. Reputation is something you formulate yourself based on meta-information about the outlet you're reading. You do this already: ever read an article and look up at the URL to check and see if it's hosted at a reputable source, like nytimes.com or salon.com?

What would help is more meta data available to the reader. So, instead of measuring an unmeasurable "truthiness" (because really, what is truth, in the philosophical sense...) how about a Chrome plug-in that pulls down meta data from other sites that have written about this outlet.

So, you read NYTimes, and your little plug-i pops up some links to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair or some such similar thing. You can read up on that and see that there have been issue sin the past, but for the most part, NYTimes remains reputable.

I guess it would need some sort of Hacker News-like inaccuracy tracker. Post bad stories, more up-votes, more likely to be detected as relevant meta info on the TLD it comes from.
The previous HN thread claimed that it's better to have a bracelet or necklace or similar than a tattoo, and in particular that tattoos may not actually be followed as consistently as bracelets etc.

I'm not interested in the debate as to why this is, just trying to inform people.
Complaining about email? or is it complaining about communication?
Technology has always been killing jobs, however in the history of man there have always been room for long-term job growth. Otherwise we would not be where we are now. The article is fairly shallow in blaming only one thing for the recession and joblessness. Suddenly the massive debt is no longer a problem, the fact that there are lean manufacturing methods that can compete with mass production is overlooked, etc. The situation really is more complex than one or several journalists can hope to investigate by crunching several time series.
They do tend to come with things like, "Benefits: monthly mountaineering trips, and we spear-fish for team sushi lunches once a week," which are perhaps slightly more appealing to young singles than the over 30s.

Certainly this 'boring old fart' would rather get home to his family at the end of a long day than spend even more time comparing haircuts with a bunch of yippy twenty-somethings.
Obviously this is taken to a fun extreme, but it reminds me of a good practice: error pages should be treated as yet another way to engage with your visitor. Too many times I see people relying on the ugly default error pages provided by a web framework.
Private keys committed to Github repositories
I didn't say anything about crime. There are all sorts of things that make your life far worse without causing crime: fast food, credit card debt, laziness. Unsurprisingly, many of them are sexual; promiscuous sex and adultery can ruin your life and the lives of those around you even without STDs.

In a nutshell, I didn't say "porn causes sex crimes," which would have been untrue and silly. I said that sexualized media has major detrimental life effects. And the links that I provided back that up. Keep your kids away from porn. It will hurt them in the long run. Violent video games aren't going to have any effect.
Learning to Code from the Other Side of the Digital Divide
Useful features always act as marketing.
Andrew Jenkins and the Operationalization of Social Media
Agreed on the former. I don't think the latter would be sketchy considering anti-soliciation is quite often enforceable throughout the USA. Just not in California, so you resort to other means (that, yes, might run afoul of antitrust, but that's what you do when you're competing...)
It used to be that, in order to get access to someone's rolodex, you'd have to befriend them and do a ton of things with them to maintain that said friendship. And even then, you still had to go through them to take advantage of that rolodex of connections, where they would keep rough tabs on who you were and how often you took advantage of these connections, so that they could come back to you when they need to take advantage of your connections in turn.

Looks like these days, someone like Wolfram can get full access for the price of a few cute graphs.

At least, the data that the egomaniacal Wolfram gets his hands on is limited to those people who are easily fooled by shiny gifs.
Awesome. I will contact you for sure! Can you send me an email or provide your email address? :) (mine is in my profile)
e) urge your representative in government

Well, there are 700,000 people in the average Congressional district. Go ahead and urge, it will do nothing. You need some kind of political megaphone (like a newspaper) to get them to listen.

I also see absolutely no reason why supporting regulation
of short term rentals somehow commits you to supporting a
failed section 8 program, other than that the government is
involved in both.

The point is: should we trust the same government which is moving in murderers next door to intercede? As for whether the program is failed, no argument there from me, but has "urging your representative" done anything about it?

The idea that new laws will solve a problem is the fundamental fallacy. Who is enforcing the laws? What is their track record on other problems? And so why do you trust them?
There is no doubt that resources are being allocated more efficiently. Also, it s making available to the masses what used to be exclusively for the ultra rich (you can sleep in a castle in Tuscany or rent a private jet, pretty much the only thing left exclusively to the rich is going to space, for now).

This kind of economy is here to stay, and it will probably become the norm in many other sectors too. It will be interesting to see the long term effects in the general economy.
Never heard anyone say "I am a MSc. CS" before!
I wonder how they combine the database and the repository/git data raw
Journalist here. FYI, the day someone I don't know emails me with a "hot inside tip" is a day I spend tracking down the emailer and calling my sources within the target company.

Just so you know, even at the big news sites, good hot tips from unknown emailers just never happen. Great hot tips come from getting corporate employees drunk, then chasing down their leads from other directions when you're sober. Anonymous insider emails spilling the beans only happen when a company is about to, or currently going bankrupt, or some such other catastrophic melt-down. Then they come crawling out of the woodwork.
The ugly reality is that the effect of automation seems to be further stratifying the haves from the have-nots. By definition, automation makes things cheaper and more profitable by taking away jobs. If there aren't OTHER JOBS also created, we have a situation where the owners are systematically getting richer and the workers are systematically getting poorer.
Multi-armed Bandit Experiments
Customize External Links in your WordPress Posts
The idea that labor is something which can be traded for income is a myth.
A lot of potential for recruiter spam if someone just takes an hour or two to write a tool.
What happens in Sweden? Does the state assign a doctor to you? What happens if you don't like that doctor and want a different one?

I wouldn't want to do away with the freedom of choice, convenient as it may be to have a default. Besides, once you've chosen all those things you can just stick with them for years on end.
We finally have a premiere
Unfortunately I don't think I can.
Another translation is that: They acted "in the belief" that they were doing the legal and ethical thing, and they acted in accordance to current MIT policy. However, MIT policy was flawed, and these people were misguided.

The report may well end up being a condemnation of the system, which is just as well. Abelson is perhaps preparing people (particularly the witchhunt crowd) for the possibility that there was not a malicious actor on MIT's side, yet the system is still broken enough to allow such tragedies to occur.
I didn't hear a single skeptical voice. Given Abelson's background, I can think of few people at MIT better for the job. If anything, I could imagine him being too partial towards Aaron (and maybe that was the skepticism?).

I don't think he has tainted anything for anybody, with the possible exception of tainting it for those who are currently wielding torches and pitchforks, but nothing will appease then.
I was wondering if the flaw was intentional.
I'd been toying around with a post like this of my own after getting tired of hearing bitching from both "camps" in the design community (skeuomorphic vs flat), so I'm glad to see this. The current trend has become totally flat design, but as with most things in life, this is all about balance.

Completely flat design has no sense of layers or depth. This is important because users need to know where they are at any given time within your application, they will feel lost otherwise.

Completely flat design is also flawed when it comes to call to actions and various controls. Sure, a big red button in a sea of gray stands out, even if flat. The problem is when you can't have just one big red button (or you don't want a rainbow of buttons, which will look awful). You need your call to actions to stand out, and a perfect method of doing this is by giving said button depth or weight. It suddenly stands out from the flat design around it.
Unless you enable Historical Analytics, we delete your data after one hour.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/fbfaqs.html

"I’m concerned about the privacy of my account information. What is done with my Facebook data?

We value the trust that our users put in us, and are committed to maintaining the highest standards of privacy protection.

In order to do analysis on your Facebook data, it is necessary to cache it temporarily on our servers. We acquire the data through the Wolfram Connection app using the Facebook API, respecting whatever privacy settings you and your friends have given to Facebook. Our system is set up to cache your data on our servers for one hour, which allows you to perform queries efficiently. The default behavior is to delete personally identifiable data after one hour."
No worries, thanks for posting it so quickly!
They could realize those things are not usually liked by the same person, ask a user if this is a family account and let you define family members and their preferences within that account.
By past social convention, you'd give it to him for free.
He saves money he'd spend on something else.

For your friend? Maybe. But most people you transact with on AirBnB are not your friends. So this hasn't really commoditized a friend relationship.
Cool. I've dealt with similar circumstances - one of my favorite incidents was a remote farm inventory database that kept getting corrupted because sheep kept head-butting an electric fence that was shorting the power to the nearby farmhouse.

Sqlplus still is the choice to do most things for old school Oracle DBAs :)
I'm an American who typically values choice and being able to shop around, but I agree that it ends up creating this sort of unpleasant situation in healthcare. Lots of reasons, but two big ones are: 1) lots of buyers who cannot say no, e.g. someone in an ambulance on a way to a hospital is not in a strong negotiating position; and 2) the insurance model doesn't work that well, because incidents are strongly correlated within an individual's lifetime (hence the notion of "preexisting conditions" and the need for employer-tied group plans to pool risk without adverse selection), not independently insurable.

I live in Denmark currently, and I do find the healthcare system here a lot more sane. I have some choice; for example, I can choose a doctor. On that angle I actually have more choice: I can choose any doctor, and keep him/her, whereas in the U.S. I had to give up the doctor I liked when I was a kid, because my dad's company changed insurance plans and my doctor wasn't covered by the new one. And I don't have a huge bureaucratic mess of insurances and plans and bills to deal with, or worry about how changes in my employment will affect my coverage.
I did not know that. Thanks! (Heading to ebay to score one).
Not sure if I'd count it as "best ever" but it was amusing. Definitely a subtle way to just have fun.
Schooled by the Alpha Wolfram.
Isn't that the end result of capitalism? To optimize returns on capital. It says nothing about labor or workers.
i know, but in the context of code search foo_bar is almost always a single token, since the underscore is nigh-universally used in variable and function names.
looking at these graph searches, now I finally understand why Zuckerberg called his users "dumb fucks"
Kindle isn't really Android and doesn't use most of these features.

Countries that are not on Google Play usually have legal / export restrictions, do they not?
Spotify US New Homepage [music auto-plays]
No, this is people committing their private keys to a Github repository. Github is not at fault.

edit: submitter has since updated the title, was: "Github giving away your private key"
I found about that a short time ago while crawling github with Nuuton. A lot of people don't seem to be security aware. This is one of those things that search allows you to have fun with (by fun I mean be surprised, and by with I mean to only look and not use). You should see the stuff to be found on facebook.
Machine Learning in Financial Trading: Theory and Applications