skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something changed, because I reviewed a few of these charts last month and they indicated no fall for any of the top trending words. So, they must have changed the way that they are rendering the data, or adjusted the data.
Just downloaded the binary and it works great, cool project!
I reckon Tesla's automation compares well with any other automaker in the same stage of the product life-cycle. I don't see a complex product such as an automobile ever being automated to the point of needing only a janitor to mind the factory. There is no lack of robots, which is the statement that prompted my response.
Robot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/77735091@N08/7395856658/
Robots: http://www.flickr.com/photos/77735091@N08/7351817696/
Robot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/77735091@N08/7338398440/
Kickfolio lets you embed iOS apps on any webpage
Why the rush? Quality and proper execution take time. They are going to destroy the existing car industry, and they are doing the same with SpaceX to the space industry. Apple takes just as much time developing their products, and planning marketing launches, and preparing for increased future demand -- you just don't hear about it because they don't want you to for the 2-3+ years they are polishing everything.
Windows 7's market share decreases for the first time ever
Haha, for sure.

I believe in meritocracies, but am well aware that what people do, say, and say they do is often 3 separate continents.

If you have any thoughts on my other post in this thread, I'd be interested to read.
Hardly the same. Lets not kid ourselves into thinking any of the popular software we use is bug-free, which is nigh impossible feat for any large codebase. If this rails bug had not been discovered, it would still be there.
Out of curiosity, which frameworks are you moving to?
Shouldn't this bug have a dependency on bug #0 - existence of Windows tax?
I have one of those keyboards and it's huge -- bigger than my Nexus 7. I've played around with a bluetooth mouse and that keyboard on my Nexus 7 but it still doesn't seem that great for doing real work.
If everyone is really going to take the route of "My X Framework is fine b/c nothing's been reported" then I'd like to contribute these links showing vulnerability break downs...

* Rails: http://www.cvedetails.com/product/22568/Rubyonrails-Ruby-On-...

* Django: http://www.cvedetails.com/product/18211/Djangoproject-Django...

* CodeIgniter: http://www.cvedetails.com/product/11625/Codeigniter-Codeigni...

* Top 50 Products (Better stop using these too! /s): http://www.cvedetails.com/top-50-products.php
infos: http://allthingsd.com/20130128/sales-talks-fell-through-so-a...

but sales talks “unfortunately fell through a couple weeks ago.”

I wonder how often this happens. Just this week another company (own3d.tv) suffered the same fate.
HP piles on with its own 14-inch Pavilion Chromebook
I don't have the source but I remember reading somewhere a long time ago that a Southern accent is mostly a slowed-down version of a British accent.
Industry and education - friends or foes
I know you're not supposed to share these things, but I found it really useful how last time there were public PoC we could use to test our patches. Any such thing this time around?
So their figures concur, indicating a marked slow in computer engineering last year.

I know personally 2012 was a very bad year for I.T. here in Australia. But it has seem to be picking up a little since the start of 2013.
Ignore Ruby Go Python
Why the movement toward Ruby? This is complete inefficiency. Why are we rewriting all this code when we have many of these same structures coded in Python? Just because one big name web developer preferred Ruby - guys, let's get real again.
Code formatting, a change in perspective
The Gift of OPCD: The Making of 50 Song Mashup Pop Danthology
What's wrong with the Dreamliner?
>the sci-fi ray gun-inspired Zapper

Actually, the design of the Zapper was heavily influenced by the High Standard .22 LR target pistol: http://i.imgur.com/1i9hyvx.jpg
What is “Growth Hacking” really?
I was part of an Internet based, but highly topical, forum. The experience was somewhat similar. Clumpy and fairly self-selecting. Some people did meet, out-of-band and/or in real life. But the nature of the community, and the worldwide physical dispersal, kept this rather limited.

Actually, while the forum had a very specific topic of focus, people there got to know each other rather more generally.

It's the one place where I wore an avatar. One of the cartoon character defaults.

The anonymity and strong community ethic of respect for privacy actually facilitated communication.

I find the "real name" initiatives ("now with photos") trending to the same sort of superficiality I run into "in real life".

"Brogramming" and a lot of the rest of the "current trends" also come to mind.

I think some of us are going to continue to look for those more intimate, even while more anonymous, communities. HN used to be (more than) a bit that way, before it exploded. (Where, too, people chose to reveal themselves to others, but on an opt-in basis.)
What -should- be the case and what is the case are often demonstrably, and substantially different.

Witness government organizations who pay $x for a position, or $x * 1.25 for the same position if you have a degree, for but one example.
JavaScript backend scripting framework
Can we please embrace JS on the backend and develop a framework so we may use one language for everything?
With DuckDuckGo, the porn star is 3 of the first 5 links, even with Safe Search on.

Only 1 of the remaining 2 is kellegous.com (The other is a health care consultant on LinkedIn).
Ask HN: How to do SXSW right?
Wondering what YC companies have learned makes the most successful SXSW experience.

Crowdtilt (YC S11) had a great idea and is renting out Coyote Ugly[1], but wondering if there's any other advice I could source from the masses.

[1] https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/sxsw-coyote-ugly
This looks like the Google Urchin deal (2005) which became Google Analytics. Google got its hooks into every web page/site with the Urchin deal. I guess Twitter is looking to do the same on mobile via Crashlytics. Good move.
Watch it, pedant. We know you know what he meant.
Another unlikely watchmaker, Dan Spitz from Anthrax:

http://www.hodinkee.com/interview-meet-dan-spitz-anthrax-gui...

edit: lol
RE: loss of the transbay tube. The Bay Bridge carries roughly the same number of commuters as the transbay tube. In the 1989 earthquake part of the bridge collapsed and it took several weeks to repair. The Bay Area did not screech to a halt. Sure we were inconvenienced and there was some economic damage, but we coped.
Imagining a 5-Inch iPhone
+1. These things are basically fancy infrared goggles, detecting heat emitted from your body.
Electric car came and went because the oil industry bought up the technology. I imagine this scared many investors away from investing time and energy into it, and I imagine this drove many people into research and wanting to develop technology that would not be for sale to oil giants.

Tesla is already compared to BMW, and even as a better option. You should look into / watch some videos on Tesla as from what your saying seems like your knowledge on them is limited; Not saying this as a put-down, I've just kept up with Tesla a lot.

Do you know about their Supercharger stations, etc? And Tesla is building a very strong brand, beautiful product, etc.. Tesla's growing at exactly the speed they're wanting to, demand for their product is higher than supply. They're getting everything prepared, testing the processes, and I imagine will ramp up in a big way once it makes sense.
GMail web performance optimisation actually slower.
Who Owns the Words That Come Out of Your Mouth?
Why would you want to do this?

Vote up that which is good and allow the indifferent to languish.
I don't buy the argument that the Facebooks and Googles of today can't find the "elite" people they need. They just have not, until recently, been willing to pay what it takes to recruit those people.

I went to one of the more well-known STEM magnet high schools in the U.S. Lots of very bright kids, total immersion in science and technology. Looking back on my class 10 years later, I see way more people in finance, consulting, law, and even accounting than in STEM. Until the recent Silicon Valley salary wars, the tech industry just didn't pay salaries sufficient to compete with those other industries for graduates. Contrast my brother, who graduated from the same school, and recently from one of HYP. Tech attracted a lot of people in his class. And it's obvious why. Salaries at the top software companies are now quite attractive relative to any other industry besides Wall Street (and a lot of people would take a 50% paycut to work for Google rather than Goldman).
I'm highly skeptical in terms of 3d printing and laser cutting. Laser cutting has issues with tiny pieces heating up and warping. It's something they warn you about when designing parts. Most of the 3d printed parts I've seen pictures of have visible ridges due to print resolution. Also, I question material strength in 3d printing. While the goo coming out of the print head will be hot the deposited material is likely to have cooled.

Source: I'm slowly designing and hopefully making my own clock. I'm targeting more mantle piece size so I can hopefully get away with laser cutting.
Transcript: http://www.freakonomics.com/2013/01/17/who-owns-the-words-th...
Congrats to Jeff and the team!
If you don't mind using php, Symfony2 seems to be as professional as you can get. I moved from Rails to Symfony2 and never looked back.
Happy to help ;)
That's not really a fair point. I think it's better to look at their market segment. The people who want a nice-looking (luxury) car, roomy with 4 doors who are environmentally aware. That being said, there are/will be numerous established players (American, German, Japanese) who will provide a vehicle that could fulfill this market segment in one way or another.

Keep in mind consumers with certain existing brand loyalty are more likely to buy from your trusted brand before buying from a relatively unknown car maker. Especially, one that doesn't have as many dealership footprints around the country, which further reduce the probability of a sale.

You can make the argument of Ferrari who have a niche market and who have stayed in the business despite all the competition. However, Ferraris had/have a long history of racing history and certain brand around handling and driving. They are targeted to that audience. Tesla sedan is marketed to a whole different segment that could as easily buy a BWM, GM, MB, VW or Lexus before they would buy a Tesla.

Tesla is innovative, but their innovation is not something that can hold everyone else back. I've seen the car and how beautiful the interior and the center console is, but it's not enough to hold the competition back.

Lastly, Tesla is yet to offer a leasing plan. Nissan is offering an amazing deal on their Leaf. I looked at it and my projected fuel cost saving was roughly the same as my lease rate. Meaning I could drive a car for FREE for 3 years.

So now Tesla is going to move to a saturated market and they need to start adding marketing costs, dealership expansion costs and other unseen expenses to maintain their sales and suddenly they are not going to have the same profit margins and are going gradually get squeezed out. Their only hope is to sell to Toyota or MB who already buy components from tesla.
Really cool point in that video about how the original pronunciation of "hour" sounded just like the original pronunciation of "whore". Which led to puns that worked back then that do not work at all in modern english pronunciation.
Nice as it is to see the advertising industry in trouble, this will put even more control into the hands of google.
No, it is not.

When a particular bit of code gets audited, you tend to find a bunch of holes. And any time you find a conceptual mistake that was made once in code, odds are that a careful audit will find it repeated.

Everyone thinks that they are different, until it happens to them.
> Today, it is impossible to satisfy Silicon Valley’s appetite for engineers and scientists with people born in America.

Well, at the price you're willing to pay anyway. Try competing with banker bonuses (or even gasp VC pay) and watch the population shift.

Sounds like he's all for capitalism until he has to open his own wallet.
That would be a great argument if my peers had formal education or experience with big clients. None of them did.

There is no "point" to be made by my post, rather a description of two vastly different ways I was treated for the same work I was doing during the same point in my life — one online, one in person.
why Python?
Welcome Travis Jeffery to 37signals
With all due respect I'm not surprised. My media buying agency had tried buying traffic from them about a year ago and the quality of the traffic we got was shockingly bad. Support was not at all helpful. We were left thinking that they either had no measures to combat click fraud in place, or that they had no problem with selling that kind of traffic.

Common problem unfortunately in the media buying business, but not a foundation to build a long-lasting company on for sure. Word gets around.
You might be surprised how common hunger and malnutrition are even in places like the United States.
Notice no crash is evident when querying for any one of the terms: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=engineer&l=
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=engineering&l=
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=programming&l=

Thus there's something funny going on
Crashlytics was never really on my radar until today, but I'm really impressed by their design work. Really great stuff.
Google updates Drive for iOS with multiple photo/video uploading + more
Maybe at Microsoft
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=google%2C+microsoft%2C+app...
FPGAs, 3D Printing, and spaceflight
Apple quietly pulls 'editors' choice' of Twitter's Vine
I never thought about it in that way, and that is interesting. It's like the more we have the opportunity to not look human, we take that opportunity to look more human. But, thinking about it, it makes sense. It's personifying what society has deemed as the perfect image. In response to your comment, I think you just need to give culture time to experiment with new ideas when new opportunities rise up. I've actually never played in an avatar world, but I imagine, for example in Second Life, new styles or physiques. Maybe you could tell me?
If I read this correctly, the main negative point was that the author was not paid as much as his colleagues, though he did get the position. The author suggests this is because of his height. To me (a young professional in the software development industry) that screams that the author did not know his own worth and therefore did not negotiate a high enough pay. I'm young for the positions I have held, and am roughly of average height, but you can be sure that I will get paid the same or more than my colleagues, because I understand how much I am worth and I am willing to say as much.
This doesn't actually affect rails 3.1+

Awesome.
Siskel & Ebert face off against a grumpy critic who doesn’t understand Star Wars
postmodern just posted he found it on twitter. so i would expect public PoCs/metasploit code to be released soon.
Restrict Admin Area To Only Admin Users
It's kind of a lot of power (hundreds of kilowatts for a panic stop from 60mph), so a reliable resistor bank would probably add more weight/bulk than it buys in reduced brake wear.
He'll be happier than he would be if your site was compromised for someone else's gain. These patches are annoying but some people are doing us a favor by finding, reporting and fixing them.
Quick & dirty find (for Rails apps 3.0.x)

find ~/rails -name 'Gemfile' -exec grep -E "rails', '3.0" {} \; -print
Actually, the 'shiney' new versions don't have this bug. Only rails < 3.1
I think both languages have a very vibrant following and future. I think it's worth it to learn both and encourage anyone to do so. There are many terrific open source projects written in both languages and I can understand why any developer would want to dive in and expand their horizons. It seems that the hot new language changes almost monthly but both ruby and python have proven that they belong for the long haul.
Fascinating tool. Some other interesting ones:

financial crisis in effect:
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=repo+&l=

no idea about this one:
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=terrorist&l=

no idea about this one either:
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=escort&l=
The distinction you are trying to make is not between emitting and not emitting radiation - most of these scanners emit some form of electromagnetic radiation.

The distinction you're trying to make is between ionizing radiation (x-rays; causes cancer) and non-ionizing radiation (all other sorts of electromagnetic radiation including visible light, infrared, microwaves, and so on; doesn't cause cancer).

The TSA currently has some scanners that scan using x-rays and some that scan with non-ionizing radiation.

A regular boring old security camera is also a scanner that emits non-ionizing radiation - most of them use infrared LEDs to illuminate at night. If you could see into the infrared it would look like every security camera has a big flashlight mounted next to it, shining on you. So the target, you, gets irradiated with non-ionizing infrared rays, which bounce back to the camera and are recorded. Using different wavelengths of illumination, you find that some of them penetrate clothes easily to see what's underneath. That's what the NYPD/security apparatus are interested in.
> we’re merging with Twitter

Why don't they just say 'acquired'?
I laughed for a really long time about the silent second g.
The notion that some areas still speak the original language was debunked in the linked article.
I think the problem is that she appears on multiple sites. Even if you get the first link (as you do when I Google you, but Google has me pretty heavily bubbled into technology), she gets a good part of the page. This is because search engines don't like to return a bunch of very similar responses. So while hits for you are limited to the several sites you are on (your site, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook), there are apparently tons of porn sites that she is on.

I'll throw in that Google did a pretty good job of giving you links. On "my Google", you got 4 of the first 5 links, but non after that on the first page. On DuckDuckGo, which doesn't bubble me in, (but has a technology bias) you only got 1 of the first 5 links.
I've always thought this kind of analysis doesn't look closely enough at the impact of non-English-native speakers on the dominant accent of American English.

In other words, the vast majority of Americans are not from English-speaking countries, and the immigrants learned English when they arrived.

Thus the English spoken in the key port/immigrant destinations, plus the impact of all those immigrants' accents, should massively impact modern American English.

One theory I've come to is based on the fact that modern Dutch-speakers of English tend to have a very American (rather than Britsh) style accent. I propose that early New York, being Dutch and the most important immigrant gateway later on, probably had a bizarre Duthified English which had a scaled impact on generations of immigrants who came through New York.

Similar stories are probably found elsewhere.
You are a kid and SparrowOS is your tree house. It's not your main house.
Nature Has A Formula That Tells Us When It's Time To Die
The usual fallacy: "the more vulnerabilities found on a piece of software the less secure it is."

That just doesn't logically follow: your chosen alternative framework just might have not been thoroughly audited (yet.) Or not audited by the right people, etc.
The EU-funded plan to stick a “flag this as terrorism” button in your browser
hahaha. You are right! But I just want to know!
I see a downturn when looking at a single term.
6 Tips for Efficient Collaboration of Distributed Teams
That's what the frickin' lasers are for.
This is taken from a British sitcom, 'Alan Partridge'. It features a Norfolk and a Geordie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSHHbfY6MVc It's actually a pretty good example of a Newcastle (Geordie) accent despite being a comedy show.

Finding a good example of a Brummie accent as proven more tricky as I'm either stumbling across paradises where they over accentuate the "twang", or TV personalities where the access is suppressed a little. Ozzy Osbourne is from that area and in his interviews you can sometimes hear the accent showing through. The pronunciation itself isn't hard to understand; I highlighted it because it's a unique accent. I think these days it's mellowed quite a bit though.

This video isn't work safe, but it's the best example of a Welsh accent I could find. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwUrMEZWj5o (this is also probably the accent I hate the most - I couldn't explain why, but it just grinds)

This is the Cornish (south west) accent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jbxdZE3g80 It's probably the closest to the old Shakespearian English that someone linked to in these comments.
Absolutely true: it's the basis for a hypothesis more than anything. "Are there more availability tweets on Twitter in the last month than previous months?" However, if OP wants another data source to show what the Indeed graph is showing, using Twitter might prove interesting (or not)
I'm not a DDG user, but it's easy to measure:

$ time I=$((I+1)) curl -s "https://duckduckgo.com/d.js?q=test&t=A&l=us-en&p=1&s=0" >/dev/null
I=$((I+1)) curl -s "https://duckduckgo.com/d.js?q=test$i&t=A&l=us-en&p=1&s=0" 0.01s user 0.00s system 3% cpu 0.256 total

I saw it go over 800ms a couple of times, anyway, I don't intend to run a DDG benchmark.

However, just for the sake of the discussion, about architecture and language choice etc, the interesting part would be to see how many rps before starting to degrade. There is no point bashing it and comparing it to other search engines that have more resources behind them.
Does Your API Have a Built in Incubator or Accelerator Program?
http://xkcd.com/1102/
Given the limits of the data type, I really am not going to think ahead until I change the data type[1]. If the new datatype can hold 10,000 numbers, then I will probably go back to an algorithm.

I am really not sure about these embedded systems that have more RAM than ROM / EPROM / Flash. 384 bytes used for constant time performance in and embedded situation sounds pretty good to me.

1) not only would that be premature optimization, it would also change a function from constant time to variable. I do wonder about how big the stack frame is.
>>>For the first time in human history, it’s possible to be represented (almost) solely through the merits of your work.

I don't want to detract from what he went through -- god knows short people and other physical "non-conformists" are too often treated differently (for bad and good) -- but Andrew Carnegie was short too. What we're all suffering under is image indoctrination from mass media, from magazines, movies, TV. Every time I hear someone say something like, "S/he looks the part," I want to reach for an imaginary gun. Life is not effin Central Casting. And it's all gotten worse in just the past 10-20 years, with everyone on mass screens seemingly all having the same damn jaws and jawlines, looking like they all came from the same limited gene pool. It didn't used to be that way. Anyway, Napoleon was also short. Don't let anyone push you around.

EDIT: After reading a sales-related comment here, I was reminded that Ross Perot is also short. He made out OK.