skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"People". Oracle software (DB, Java, etc, behind a firewall(s)) runs in every big company. The people reading this probably are still using Java (Clojure, Scala etc) from Oracle (as OpenJDK sucks), so what 'people' are you referring to? A consumer? Nope; doesn't care. Who is 'people'?

I'm not a fan of Oracle or anything, but I have worked for enough big companies (Oracle's paying clients) to see that this won't matter at all to Oracle's bottomline. And probably not much to their reputation either; I used to run OpenJDK on my smaller devices like my pandora; Oracle made an ARM version of the closed source JDK. Now I really want to use open source, but that binary brought tears to my eyes; it's blazingly fast, seems to use less memory than the other versions, is stable compared to openjdk and it showed that Java indeed is in the hands of Larry fully. There is no other option for Java and JVM languages.
It is more than that because I want members to help each other and become friends.Each member is equally important and no matter what problems you have the group is there to support you.And you can also have fun playing some sports, going to an event as a group.So many possibilities.

This is not a therapy group.I am not trying to replace doctors.I just know that everyone needs some cool friends and have some fun.

Btw you don't have to write your email here or something if you want to join.You can email me and stay anonymous like others.

Thanks.
> Why would you spend money going to war with a competitor over such a trivial matter?

I think the Quirky people genuinely thought they were ripped off. They wanted to be seen as the small company of inventors being ripped of by a much larger company. Unfortunately, they lacked enough introspection to realize they have done worse, and now they look like hypocrites.
Paris (France). If I could snap my fingers and change one thing about how Americans communicate, it would surely be to stop them saying Paris, France. Or London, England. Or Moscow, Russia. Or ... many similar examples. Please abandon this whole meme. Normal people know where the great cities of the world are.
Does he rip on DHH at the start?
It'll be all the rage at parties.
Ubuntu Phone Platform To Rival Android, iOS
Torvalds’ Number Two Quits Linux (And Not Because Linus is an A*****e)
I hear people say this often and never quite understood it. The idea is very important. Having a bad idea vs. a good idea is like the difference between trying to sell snow to an Eskimo and trying to sell a glass of water to a man dying of thirst. Given the right salesperson, both can be theoretically done and both can be screwed up, but that doesn't mean that execution is everything.
One hour since, they have not restored the website.
Love Ubuntu, but looking for something faster? Read on
So I refreshed and got "Github for Cooking" which sounded funny at first, until I thought about it. Which then led into a 15 minute discussion with the wife expanding on the idea. Now I wanna build it.
If the government just had 0.142% waste they would be amazing.
It probably does. On my 13" MacBook I need to zoom out to read A List Apart now. If I zoom out two steps in Firefox it takes the font size from 18px to ~14px (guess), which is much more comfortable to read.

It's sad that we haven't gotten further with typography on the web. The solution to "some people have to zoom in" should't be "other people have to zoom out".
Mozilla Shows Off First Two Firefox OS Phones, For Developers Only
If you use the logic that it doesn't matter because other people will donate, that leaves me clear of ever donating to charity, safe in the knowledge that other people have got it covered. What a relief!
Shazam, but for beer.

I think I might be on to something.
You write "I want to learn a new programming language, or continue learning one I started in school, something that will compensate for the lack of algorithms in my work"

If that is all you want, almost any language will do. Maybe, you want to take on a new one every month or so for a while to get a broader view on what's out there. Your experience, it seems, is only with Algol :-), so I would pick something different like lisp, Haskell or Forth.

Having said that, I think you should first think more about whether there is a deeper reason why you want to program. It might not even be the programming itself, but the learning itself. If so, reading about programming languages (or maybe even on computing history, physics, linguistics, history,...) can be a better idea. On the other hand, if, in the back of your head, you have this idea to write something to solve problem X, that could direct you in your choice of language.

In other words: what is your itch?
How Will AirBnB Change the World?
Sure you can. (Just gave it a shot on a Ubuntu VM the other day while exploring shared library linking.)

Do some systems really have a flag more forceful than -f ?
After Facebook Moves, Social Startup Follows, Abandoning ‘Stealth Mode’
Google+ posts are rated unsurprisingly much higher in Google results than Facebook posts.
Meanwhile my restaurant owner friend wants me to sign a NDA for his startup idea. Oh God, why?
All actually good startup ideas are bad ideas when they are started. Everybody thought twitter was retarded, and nobody had any idea social networking was even going to be a thing when facebook launched. If you only work on things that people agree seem like a good idea, you are probably the 5th team that is working on it, and you probably started about 3 years too late.

This actually ends up giving many real successful startup ideas or just good ideas. It also gives a lot of bad ones, but here are some I noticed:

OKCupid, for music. (Pandora)
Github, but for knowledge. (Wikipedia)
Hacker News, but for knowledge (Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange)
FourSquare, but for photography (is that Instagram?)
and a bunch that are more of a stretch.

So, here are some ideas it had that I think are are actually good:

OKCupid, but for shopping (better, hyper personalized product recommendations).

LinkedIn, but for beer (more like "it's Just lunch" for professional relationships, set up one on one beers and such, foster mentor relationships, etc).

Github, but for fashion (imagine something like paper dolls, where users can mix and match shirts, pants, accessories and share the combinations with each other, and then purchase complete outfits).
HTC Droid DNA : The Rich Taste Of Authenticity
Google Cloud Platform Moving to GitHub in Boon for Developers
You mean like Paris, Texas; Moscow, Idaho; and, London, Connecticut?
Maybe, but for how long?

It's wikipedia and this is HN. There have to be a few wiki admins around here who can defend it from reverts and procedural nonsense if someone slips in a few well-sourced edits.
Programmers angry over blocking of GitHub code-sharing site
> would it be difficult to decouple the assessment of an instructor from the test results of his/her students?

In fact, I think it would be critical to do so. Students may perform well on the exam for any number of reasons other than having a good teacher, and they may perform poorly for reasons other than having a bad teacher.

> If the assessment of a student's learning comes from somewhere else, what other mechanisms could we use to evaluate the effectiveness and (or) competence of their instructors?

Well, it's not like we can use exam scores now to evaluate the college-level teachers. The sad truth is that to a large extent, most people who teach at the college level are evaluated primarily on things other than teaching. I know I'm a pretty good teacher not because of good test scores, or good evaluations, but because students come back to me months or years later and talk about things they learned in my class(es) that set them up well to find their way through a later class or a job. But that kind of feedback is very difficult to quantify.
According to the definition from the source document, visiting this link is probably sufficient for you to be counted as a Google+ user.
Google woos developers by releasing cloud platform code to GitHub
If you buy the same phone from Amazon, without monthly payment plan, it's about right. In most of Europe, where Google doesn't sell it, the price for this phone was about $800 on launch. Google is heavily subsidizing it and the $299 price is just incredibly cheap.
Where are all the people? Paris today has the same buildings, but is overrun by people and cars!
He means that execution is more powerful in general. If you can sell snow to an Eskimo, imagine what you could do with a good idea.
Oracle's Java Headache Worsens
Nokia újraszervezése 1100 állásba kerül
Unsafe exception throwing in Java
I do not remember the authors and exact words, but here it goes:

1. If you do something that is not moving you towards your goal then it's moving you away from your goal.

2. What you DO NOT include in your product is as important as what you DO include.
More than 1 brain behind E=mc^2
An inside peek into the Polygon design process
Bookmarklet that rotates webpages 90 degrees for easy reading while laying down
Touch-sensitive video-screen floor is in step with you
HTML5 Vs. Native Mobile Apps: Myths and Misconceptions
This will end well :/
I can't really tell. I just like them a lot.
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5117707
Debian:

# rm -rf /
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on '/'
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this fail safe
I'm 50. Made millions. Lost millions. Regrets? Sure.

But it's really a question of perspective. A friend of mine needs 2 kidneys and a liver (try having the "regrets" discussion with them). When I look around, really look around and see the situation a lot of people are in, I get grateful. And gratitude is the answer to that situation. Make a list of all the things you have to be grateful for. You're on HN, you're educated, a bunch of people here care.

Go help someone else. Volunteer at a homeless shelter. Visit the sick in a hospital. Go to the SPCA and pet the animals. Take action.

It's also the middle of winter. I used to suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder living in Canada. Fish oil + vitamin D + exercise helps. Moving to Key West helped more :)

Finally, I had to accept that I was exactly where I wanted to be. I took all the actions to get me here. I take the blame. I own it. Mine. Figure out where you want to go, big goals, small goals - and take daily steps to get there... you're either getting better or getting sicker... make the choice to take the actions to get better.

And this may involve asking for help. You've made a good start here, but there might be underlying depression as others have mentioned... therapy of some sort... meditation (my favorite)... stopping drinking or drugging...

This too will pass. Hang in there. Use this situation as the impetus you need to change some shit that needs changing. And I want to see the next post from you as "Tell HN: Feeling Better, here's why"

Good luck!
Use HTML5 to make developing mobile applications less costly, complex
I wasn't aware of that. In that case, I'll give it a try.
OK, so you are saying that in the situation where there is a conflict of interest then HR should be involved so that the matter can be dealt with fairly. In that case why not bring the matter to HR when there is an issue to be resolved. This is a situation of a higher level employee abusing their power over a lower level employee and could happen whether a romantic relationship exists or not. What does HR having foreknowledge do to help prevent such a situation?
Show HN: Listen to popular hip hop music from different countries
What feels even cheaper are the public protesters (assuming they are in fact real unpaid people). It's bad enough when people go all frothy over iOS vs Android, but over household product brands? I mean time to re-evaluate your priorities people.
Absolutely, you need both. I'm not sure how to quantify which one is more powerful or important, especially since "idea" can mean many things, from a very vague concept to a fully fleshed out and vetted business plan. I was just taking issue with the "ideas are worth nothing, execution is everything" mantra.
Share more about meditation if you don't mind.
The Eternal Sunshine of the Classic Linux Desktop
Lessons from the Facebook Mobile Website Team
Screenshot of the site: http://imgur.com/fOU8BgU
Can Virtual Classrooms Recreate a Traditional College Experience?
Hmm... helping developers politely decline the amazing opportunity to work on a lousy app/startup idea. Someone should write an app for that.
Yes, that's why he said to find out "who was planning to kill the protesters".
Is there a correlation to Google asking me yesterday to merge my Youtube account with my Google account?
Black and white photos make the past seem so much further away. The colors truly make them feel real. Its hard to believe it was so long ago with such vividness.
Ask Kleiner Perkins’ Ted Schlein On How The VC Industry..
I'm sad that this comment is the last on this page and not the first. I imagine that - after LT is complete - some Smalltalkers will hold a competition to replicate it in 48 hours. I believe they would succeed - building on top of Smalltalk environment with Morphic[1] this shouldn't be too hard.

For those who don't know why: go grab Pharo[2] Smalltalk and "Pharo By Example"[3] book and play with it. It's absolutely beautiful, an experience well worth a few days of time.

[1] As already noted Morphic was first implemented for Self and is not a neccessary part of any Smalltalk.
[2] http://www.pharo-project.org/home
[3] http://pharobyexample.org/
From what I previously read on india:

Farmers often waste water because water is "free", and the majority of the food often rot. This exacerbate the problem of farming enough for everyone eat.

We'll need technological solution, in addition to taking a variety of non-technological measures in order to protect our harvest and the local environment, such as encouraging farmers to use only as much water necessary to grow their crops.
Huh, sure enough, I stand corrected. Must have entirely forgot that I added that option while rushing to play around while things were being removed. Thanks!
Fake Amazon Page Is Best Online Resume Ever
Your post is pretty solid, but the tone in 1) might be a bit harsh. There's a fine line between giving someone the needed "kick in the ass" and just kicking someone who's already down.

Anyway, what I really wanted to ask you was to expand on 3). How did you do this? Specifically, which resources did you find helpful in learning this technique, and how long did it take before you noticed improvement?
Iùl not deep enough in photographer jargon to be sure I interpreted your mention of "low exposure" correctly, but as I'd see it, that photo is of low average exposure, and "normal" exposure on the light sources. And the fireworks do look superposed: that hints at long exposure, which "cameras" have been able to do before we even had camera lens.
Why wouldn't using hangouts count as using Google+?

Its a feature of Google plus. You're using it to interact with your peers.

Just because the feature set is not narrowly defined to Facebook standards does not make it less of a social network.
Y Combinator Backs Its First Non-Profit, Watsi; Paul Graham Says He’s..
Again, this is a situation where there is a conflict of interest that could happen whether there is a romantic relationship between the two employees. Would HR really have the ability to stop such a promotion knowing that at the same time they must keep and relationship confidential?

In the UK, I've never been asked by a company to disclose any office relationships. Usually such relationships are had in the open even between different level employees.
Probably the govt. was just trolling around
10 Casualties of Facebook Domination
The methodology of "active" users is always more than a bit suspect, but a) the source for this post (by some random person on g+?) isn't even from google and b) this:

> I'm actually kind of annoyed every time I have to log onto Google+ to do something because I know they are about to add me to some press release statistic. There's something "evil" about that in my opinion.

is a bit of an overreaction. You use hangouts and you dislike (if) that gets counted as an active user? Who on earth cares that much about self-promoting press releases?
With all this online education, the Ivies and a few public ivies are going to be more competitive than ever. They're going to have all the student performance info, and recruit heavily from the best students.
The Javascript programming language should be taught in public schools
BR and FONT tags? What kind of markup is this?
There is no need to add "France" to disambiguate Paris because Paris is an iconic location familiar to every educated person in the world. If you want to identify an obscure town in Texas that shares the same name, clearly you do need to add "Texas" to disambiguate.
The video does mention some documents leaked that are password-locked and encrypted, and that they will start seeding some redacted information from it to media outlets. So we'll probably see soon if any of it is real.
The pricing is simple. They have a lot of wealthy legacies - students whose parents went to the school - and those kids get in. They also want to get the top talent, and for them, there are scholarships. The model is simple - the massive capitalist economy requires intelligence and a lot of will. The fact is, genetics and chance, while favoring the rich, don't favor them that much, and can give you mediocre-performing offspring. Someone has to do the hard work - and it's going to be the ones who get in with scholarships, who will get hired by the children of the wealthy. I know, it sounds distasteful, elitist, and plutocratic, but that's how the system works.
Ruined one of my favorite webzines.
Git tricks and tips
For others wondering; the file names refer to the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Justices_of_the_Supreme...
What is something that always loses money worth?
How is evaluation "tough" if you have the entire corpus of the student's work in a course? There's less need for testing if you can see all their work. The point of testing is to come up with a simple statistic that sums up someone's knowledge and performance.
I thought the 35 years was false.

Sentences aren't cumulative like that... or was my understanding wrong?
Germany being an exception.
Absofuckinglutely this. These 'hacks' annoy IT directors and allow self-described Deliverators to congratulate themselves amongst their script-kiddie nmap brethren in some private IRC. Then there's the more altruistic 'hacking' which uncovers truths obfuscated by those who've wronged in the interests of greed and cronyism.

This prank is immature, ineffective and honestly a waste of taxpayer money - additional personnel will be hired and major unnecessary purchases will be made of consulting services and software and equipment which we'll likely have to foot the bill for.

You're doing nothing to protect our civil liberties or expose the misdeeds of the corrupt and complacent. Try again.
1. It's plagiarism, not just copyright infringement. It is (or was, not sure it's still up) labeled "Baby Got Back (Glee version)", on the Swedish iTunes store, Coulton is not credited at all.

2. It's being sold for a profit...

3. ... by people who sue others for disproportionate sums, for sharing stuff for free.

Coulton actually published a karaoke version of the song, they just added a new, almost identical vocal track.
AES256 encrypted files, apparently juicy stuff
Someone who is sexually harassing another employee is not exactly in what I would call an ordinary romantic relationship. Who in their right mind is going to go to HR and say hey you know me and that employee over there well he's giving me sexual favours in return for his position at this company.

A person no matter what level he is at who has a genuine consensual relationship with another employee should not cause the company any issues which HR would need to resolve so I still don't understand the need to declare all such relationships to them.

For what it's worth, in the UK it's perfectly OK to have a secret office romance and such things are not required to be declared. It could be that our cultural differences are the main reason for this difference in opinion.
The Bitcoin social network
A drop of water on molten sodium (slow motion video)
The planet is split into essentially three groups: the western world, China and the arab world (Middle-east + large parts of Africa).

China isn't going to attack us, they make far more money trading with us.

The arabs on the other hand.
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HTML6 ;)

But seriously, I think they were either going for maximum compatibility or didn't really care.
This is phenomenal advice and very well-written. Thank you for sharing it.
I agree about the overreaction but if you dial it back a bit there is a valid underlying point. If he does nothing social on Google+ then he isn't really contributing anything to it's growth other than a single digit in some statistics.

I'd like to see some better metrics although I can see the practical difficulties in obtaining them.
Thanks. There are some hn'ers who are ready to help newbies. But that kind of requires atleast a minimal knowledge on compilers. right? What i am looking for is an application or a small game developed in c++ that uses various libraries, to understand how the project is structured in the first place. How the classes have been designed and how they interoperate.
Why in the fuck don't a group of qualified investors and political hackers quietly mask their purpose to form a top-tier PAC to fuck with the system for the interests of private citizens? Fight fire with fire, because campaign finance reform is not going to happen in the US.
Wtf. Each and every time I think I finally got a fairly good understanding of America, I'm made aware of something like that.
no but you can execute

rm -rf /*
I consider this a farce, but U of W isn't a top tier college, so that's OK. It's a good college. They're really devaluing their regular degree by offering a test-based certification.

The future of education isn't in testing. That's not education at all, really. The future is going to be in helping the student to develop a body of work that can be evaluated. There will be testing, but here's what it will be: every bit of work will be recorded, and evaluated. It'll mostly be evaluated by computer programs.

Think about it. If you have a test with 150 questions, how is that really better than, say, 500 homework problems? If you have a few 500 word test essays, how is that better than, say, 5,000 words, with some stats about time taken, revisions, and other information about the body of work?
OK, but I still don't see what HR could do in those cases with prior knowledge that they could not do with knowledge at the time an issue is raised.

For example, if I have just been fired by the manager who I just dumped, I go to HR and have them resolve the situation then and explain the conflict of interest given that we were in a relationship. The manager is given a talking to, I keep my job and the situation is resolved. Please explain how this situation plays out differently under your rules.
Agreed. It gives them a new boogyman. A terrorist that cannot be named or specified by race, ethnicity, or any other factor. It opens the door to anyone they deem a threat being detained in relation with "anonymous". The very thing that made them will kill them. When the boogyman is nobody, it incriminates everybody.