skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, in general I think the proposal is sound. I just wanted to add that GH might be in a position to add "trust" quickly since the accounts already contain a little bit of information. Many people there have a paid account and so are at least known by credit card. It's not much and by no means perfect, but it's more than we have now.
The problem here is all the accrued Brand Equity was for the BlackBerry brand/identity, not RIM's
Thanks for pointing that out. I updated the blog post with a brief description and added the what and why to the readme.
Assuming the original cost-cutters decision was correct, it isn't twice as expensive.
In the words of the Lord, our Saviour, Mr Robert Downey JR...

"Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy"

Alliances accumulate supercapital fleets so they can fly their collections around with relative impunity. Of course it tends to be awful for everyone who doesn't get to be in the big fleet - as they rarely get to play. This leads to the congregation of supercapital pilots in the same alliances.

Pandemic Legion is famous for this - as they have long had the biggest fleet, used it the most, and thus attracted large numbers of other supercap pilots. But they do not hold space.

And to correct a seemingly prevalent misconception - most titans and supercarriers are personal possessions. There are some alliance/corp owned ones - but the majority are simply owned by long time players who either botted (completely un-policed for a very very long time), scammed, traded, speculated, Wormhole'd or Ratted/missioned (Oh god please no - boring monotonous PvE in the extreme for low returns) their way to 80b isk fortunes.
HR or legal? :)
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Looks neat. I just download it. Is there any reason it's a .pkg instead of a .App that can be dragged into Application folder?
Great but why limited to Node.js?
Agreed, tagged it with windows so it's at least searchable.
Agreed, the underscore in the data-attribute isn't ideal. I initially tried to use camelCase, but alas, we often forget that DOM elements are case-insensitive:

http://cl.ly/image/2c113k1h1L41
In the question round-up, someone asked how the switch to a "direct connection" will fare (in comparison with the current system under BB7, I understand).

No clear answer there. It's not like it's important for them, right?
The NSA, of course.
BlackBerry Appoints Alicia Keys Global Creative Director
The audio file on wikimedia commons provides automatically transcribed closed captioning that is unintentionally hilarious. The Portuguese subtitles include "Tchaaaaahhh puaaaoooooaaahhhhh" and "sshhhhhhshshhhhhhh."
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dial_up_modem_noises....
This move makes sense and is well overdue in my mind -- at least from a consumer perspective. The Playbook was branded as the "BlackBerry Playbook" not the RIM Playbook, which was ridiculous IMO (and still is). But they've made the decision and recognize that the RIM name is probably unrecognizable to the consumer, but BlackBerry is. I'm fairly certain the rest of their offerings to business (ie. BIS or BES) are associated or under the BlackBerry name anyways.

Dropping the "RIM" name makes sense, although the timing is distracting
How do you manage critical stuff like security problems such as this one? Do you have a process for that or is it best effort?
I am surprised that they are moving towards git and not Mercurial. Isn't Microsoft a sponsor of Mercurial? Perhaps this is because hg already has very good tools for Windows. I suppose I am just a little confused as to why git gets more attention than hg.
The heavier the shame you carry on your back the longer it takes to get back from exile. And when finally you come back home you chuckle and laugh, wondering what took you so long. One of the bigger lessons I've learned accepted with maturity and age.
I don't think so. Passion, in this context, generally means an intense motivation and desire to engage in some activity because it gives you some kind of enjoyment. Since people usually get much more enjoyment from an activity they've mastered than one that they are very clumsy with, they're likely to become more passionate about it as they become better at it. That isn't a guarantee, though. It's entirely possible to be very good at something but not really enjoy doing it.
The OpenPhoto Project
It's a parable, not a real world situation. It's meant to illustrate how an appropriate abstraction can remove complexity from a problem as requirement get piled on.
Ask HN: Review my startup (TasksOnSteroids)
Hi everybody,

it would be great if you could take a look at my goal- and task-management website, http://www.tasksonsteroids.com.

It's a website for all those who are interested in optimization of their goal- and task-management using the three methods
- Task Management Matrix (aka Eisenhower Matrix)
- Dreamlining (made known by Tim Ferriss in his book "4-Hour Workweek")
- Bucketlist (a list of 100 goals, like in the movie "The Bucketlist")

Would be great if you could give me some hints what I could do better on this site.

Many thanks in advance.
Chris
Dropbox Launches Quick Start File Previews And Virtual Photo Album Sharing
This is a straw man example. Headaches or sinus pressure may be a better way to explain your point.
A lot of truth in that. Writing about it and getting it out of my head was a huge help in the process of moving on.
Automatically compile your frontend assets (CoffeeScript, Jade, Stylus, ...)
How-To: Mobile App Landing Page with Parse and Twilio SMS
The mistake people make is to work on a TOPIC they love, when what they should do instead is find WORK that they love, regardless of topic. So if you enjoy programming, maybe you can do that writing bank software and still have fun, but if you love chemistry you might not like the day-to-day of a normal chemist.
So didn't you just state that a placebo needs to cause side effects?

Doesn't that mean that it's poison by nature if said side effects are negative?

Screw wanting to take part in that.

"Here's a pill that will cause oily discharge and nothing else" Yum!
I wonder how this will work with SSH keys. I've been using Git Extensions (http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/) with VS 2010 for a while now and have been pretty happy with it, but it has taken a long time for the SSH key support to get to a usable place.
Tent: a protocol for distributed social networking and personal data storage
There are no ethical issues.

1. Study participants are told that some of them will receive a "sham" (placebo) treatment. Participation is voluntary.

2. It is not known whether the drug they are testing is effective or comparable to the current standard of care. Determining that is the purpose of the study.
A couple of other reasons to use centralized version control:
1: You are a Fortune 100 company and need to have access control on your codebase (so you can give contractors access to only a few files for example)
2: The code you are writing is subject to regulatory control.
Say hello to Trovebox
Author here. So, yes, bootstrapping the JSON on initial pageload would be a lot faster than waiting for the Backbone.Router to fetch it (for the Rails + Backbone approach). But therein lies the problem I was talking about: to bootstrap the data for a particular URL, but to also have the client-side request the proper data for that URL in response to a pushState event, you end up needing to duplicate the mappings from app URLs to API resources on the client- and server-sides, and you need to be able to access the same API on both sides as well.

We avoid this with Rendr by defining routes, controllers, models, etc in a way that can be run on both sides.
Breach Analysis: Data Source biases
FlexMinder raises $1.4M to revolutionize your healthcare accounts management
daeken is absolutely right. BIOS is a fucking nightmare.

Real mode (or the lack of it in Intel VT-x) still wakes me up in a cold sweat at night.
تحميل برنامج الياهو
يعتبر برنامج الياهو ماسنجر من اشهر برامج الشات حول العالم بل
ويعتبر الياهو ايضا من اقدم البرامج التي يتواصل بها الناس مع بعضهم البعض قامت
شركة ياهو في الفتره الاخيرة باضافة العديد من المميزات الرائعة للياهو ماسنجر
Show HN: New app lets you design badges online (No more painful Word templates)
Weird little factoid from the cognitive behavior folks -- action comes first, then motivation. So it's impossible to be excited about something that you have not spent some time with. And the more time you spend, the more likely you'll feel excited by it. People think it's the other way around, that you feel motivated and then go do stuff, but it's not.

So everything you've ever gotten excited about started off with you not being very interested at all, but giving something a shot, whether it was a book, a lecture, a website, or so forth.
Yes this will happen to me if after a search I try to amend what is in the search bar. However, simply clicking on the search icon resolves this.
That's a topic that comes once in a while in our studio. Artists, generally non-technical people like to look what's inside the file. This way they can spot an extra bone in an animation, or material that should've not been used in an model. Sometimes changing the model allows for merging, or doing diff in the source control system.

A more elaborate 3D diffing is what's needed, like the one shown here: http://3drepo.org/ - but it's not an easy thing, and not very easy to integrate either.

Sometimes binary files might be bigger than text, not often but possible - for example if double is used for number it always takes 8 bytes, while as text it might be just two (0 and space).

Also certain source control systems (like perforce I think) can store differences only if the files are text, otherwise they have to store full copies (that's really not a big game changer, but one more little detail to be aware).

Artists, coders often would look for a material/bone by just using Find in Files/grep/etc, and although this might work for binary files, it's harder to show the data.
The article seems pretty clear on that.

"When we made the decision that we were going to take the DVCS plunge, we looked at many options. Should we build something? Buy something? Adopt OSS? We looked at Git, Mercurial and others. It didn’t take long to realize that Git was quickly taking over the DVCS space and, in fact, is virtually synonymous with DVCS."
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The sound of silence is really an admission of guilt.
Check your mute switch.
You're correct that most of computer science (except for the explicit mat classes you're required to take) doesn't inherently rely on existing math knowledge.

However, they way computer science is taught does assume prior math knowledge. Thinking back to the very first example algorithms in my intro class--we had to impliment addition, multiplication, then heron's square root method.

Very basic math, but that was around the time many students dropped the class.
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It may be a symptom of my own possibly-pathological preference for reusable modular design, but I'd want to make tiny toilet-only cars. Borrowing anonymouz's diagram style:

+---------------+ +-+ +---------------+
| | |T| | |
+---------------+.+-+.+---------------+
O O O O O O

Then all carriage-cars and toilet-cars are…

• reversible

• interchangeable with others of their type

• easily externally identifiable at shunting yards

• able to represent either the original 1:1 carriage:toilet ratio, or the cost-saving 2:1 ratio, or any other ratio that might be desired

• able to represent any desired min-distance/max-distance in carriage-car-lengths to the nearest toilet

• able to be upgraded/serviced independently (including occasional periods of operation outside of usual ratios, as trials or when cars are out-of-service)

Of course the costs of extra couplings (in construction, linear deadspace, and operational overhead), and effects of such unevenly-sized cars on travel characteristics (stability, wear, fuel-economy, etc) might outweigh the explicit flexibility benefits.

But such flexibility is less risky in the abstract and more easily-rewritten world of software where I practice, as opposed to the world of railroad engineering, as practiced (perhaps not coincidentally) by my father's father.
Yes, the .pkg installer allows us to automatically kill a running Inky process, which would otherwise prevent installation from succeeding.
Then it's a rare paper that is good science. This would not really shock me but it doesn't make it any better.
True. The code you copied is still under MIT/X11/WTFPL etc. However, with GPL, the combined work, so the code that you copied and the code that you added yourself must be GPL. This is not true for MIT/BSD/X11/WTFPL. Under those licences, the combined work can be licensed under any license you choose, even a closed source one - so your original assertion is wrong.
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I keep my privates in the .ssh folder within my user directory. TortoiseGit and Git look there. The only thing odd I have to do is use putty to convert the key to the format used by Tortoise.
Ideone allows Octave codes
So true, I never hear consumers talk about Blackberry anymore.
I think you first have to ask why Microsoft is supporting git when Team Foundation is, itself, Microsoft's primary source control system.

The answer is most likely because people use git. Lots of people use git - particularly the crowd Microsoft is actively struggling to appeal to which is the entrepreneurial/startup crowd.

I've never used hg so I can't attest as to which is "better" but I really don't think that matters to most people. The only question is if it is "good enough" and git is.
Trains and Planes
I'm a little late responding to this, but there are good points here. It seems like a good compromise might be to have the FDA release the details of the trials / placebo ingredients. That way they can be mapped to the studies that used them (assuming the studies don't just start documenting them). That might be happening already, I don't work in the field, so I don't know.

Anyway, I found this comment useful. Thanks for replying.
My pet theory is that it's to convince you that your computer is doing something, instead of sitting there. One of my happiest moments growing up was finding out how to mute the damn thing - it annoyed everyone in my family :)
I use a similar system, but only because I know the people who wrote that one. It's nice to see the code, but there's still no guarantee that this is the code that is running on the real site. Now, having the code available makes it possible to run it myself if I'm super-paranoid, which is cool.

So, thanks.
I live in Europe now, but before when I was in Canada UBC and SFU would do 'Community roundtable cafe philosophy' and there was often Math and Physics professors there. Here it's all Math professors in the cafes with their own roundtable and it's advertised on the University events page. I believe all these events are sponsored through the University.

Here they mainly talk philosophy and crazy advanced, graduate level mathematics that are way beyond my comprehension and often there are industry programmers, visiting professors on vacation, math self taught geniuses who smoke a pipe with huge unkept beards that look insane, students and even this anarchist group that shows up sometimes to talk game theory.

A few Math dept profs hang out on Sundays here too where all the public chess boards are set up and are fully approachable to answer questions as long as they aren't engrossed in a game.

Clicking on the Events page for the UBC Math dept they always have visiting Math profs give free seminars to anybody who wants to show up, and it's easy to get to the university. Every month at least 5 seminars there's one coming up by a visiting prof from UC Berkeley on Lattice Poisson AKSZ Theory, a bunch of discrete math seminars, and 2 seminars today on chemical distances and shape theorems in percolation models with long-range correlations, and retractions of representation varieties of nilpotent groups.

These guys stick around afterwards and are fully approachable I would talk to them all the time about offtopic theory and went to the student bar with a few of them and other students for a few hours.
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When I was growing up, my buddy's dad happened to be an old Berkley unix guru greybeard mad scientist type who told great stories of dumpster diving and the olden days. I was running a BBS at the time, and he told me stories of working in a modem manufacturing facility in QC. According to him, they would whistle into the receiver of each modem in order to test that it was at least minimally operational.
I tried this a number of times by dialing into my BBS and got good enough to be able whistle up a 9600baud connection. I don't know why, but I really relished getting that rush of static noise after connecting successfully.
Today we've had an interesting discussion at our startup about subordination, and stumbled into a question where do good technical leaders come from.

Our CTO's thesis was that no sane technical person wants to be a boss; rather, he'd be doing "real interesting stuff", real science and technology, but someone needs to take responsibility for the project, and it also pays well.

My answer to this was that yes, being chief is not much fun, but if you really care about "real interesting stuff", you'll want to do it in the best possible way, and you quickly realize that you could make use of some subordinates, then teach some engineers... Eventually you find yourself in director's seat.

To which our CTO replied, this was his case ^)
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How do you wake up in the morning?
Being a programmer usually consists of very late nights sat in front a screen, which makes getting up the next morning increasingly difficult.

After having a few nights in a row without much/any sleep, I find no matter how many alarms I set, I am never able to wake up the next morning. To the point where I have considered an electric shock anklet!

Is this a common problem; if so how do you over come it?
Ah! In that case, professor, a couple more caveats. Chicago prop shops notoriously underpay. The IB's pay higher, but still less than google/fb/twitter. All of my uchicago classmates are in finance with roughly 50% in chicago, rest in nyc. With graduate degrees they don't pull in 200k...atleast as per the reported stats on the career counsel pages. So cs undergrads pulling in 200k in chicagob while working 9-5 in the finance industry....very unlikely. But if there is such a person out there, he/she is amazingly lucky. 200k goes very far in chicago. You could buy a nice 3 bdrm house with acreage about half hour from the loop and still have money to spare.
Looks great!

I'd just like to note that those working on Backbone single-page apps hosted by an ASP.NET site can also achieve this idiomatically, with the use of the Nustache view engine and controller actions that can do HTTP content negotiation.
Will Boston Beat Silicon Valley in the Start-up Game?
There have been a lot more problems with the 787 than the batteries, as the article describes. And you didn't address the central thesis of the article, which is that the root of the problems lies in how the project was managed.
Ask HN: Known CouchApps in production?
I'm considering CouchApp for what's going to be a large deployment (millions of users). I'd like to know about at least one major site using it. Does anyone know of any?

I just want to know this is a sane choice to some extent security-wise and for scalability.
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What else do you want the marketing department to do, when the flagship product they've been prepping to sell has been delayed for so long?
By that argument, MIT is even more free. Licensing your code under MIT basically says "here, you can use it inspite of the fact that it's copyrighted to us, no strings attached. Go forth and multiply." This is why the GPL gets portrayed as viral. It spreads to the parts that I add and restricts the license for my additions. Don't get me wrong: It's a completely fair thing to do - the authors are giving me something for free, but it's still a restriction.
Also see this Python variant you can easily host yourself.

https://github.com/Achiel/SecretSexChange

I do not like storing my passwords etc with a third party.
What treadmill model did you end up using?
Basically the way I view it is like this: we know that lawyers and hackers only have some overlapping domain expertise, but we'll need to work together in order to achieve good tech law reform and everyone's going to have to get out of their comfort zone to some extent. Whatever markup tool we deliver, a wide range of lawyers should be able to find it not too hard to use; hackers will be more unforgiving about a UI that has, say, latency issues (guilty look), but a good UI shouldn't have those anyway. Finding the right balance of user needs to satisfy with the resources we have available is of course going to be an ongoing process, so we're just gonna have to keep an active ear out for what people are asking for.

It sort of dovetailed with the aaronsw Noisebridge hackathon, but we started hacking on it independently about a day before. Christie, who's a Noisebridge member, realised the hackathon would be a good place to present it, and did. Via that, we met the http://hypothes.is/ guys, and things have continued to snowball from there :)
Write combining is not your friend
I'd argue that isn't really the use case for their free tools. They want you to make ASP.NET web sites, Windows Phone apps and maybe a few simple desktop apps.
None of this is accurate.
Who cares what Lamo thinks
This quite different in that it focuses more on events and spaces than on specific companies, but still a pretty cool map of the Seattle startup scene: http://startupseattle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Startup...
An Invitation Back to Faith
Now they just need to combine this and their Git-TF project and you can use both git and tf on the same project for mixed teams.

Another nice feature would be to convert existing projects from one to the other but that would be a huge undertaking.
Horizon T101, combined benefits of being more reasonably priced and necessary weight capacity.
I'm not a felon. AL is.

As a felon, I would err on the side of reporting criminal contacts.

(I personally also have an obligation to report compromises of classified data, too, so I would have reported this.)
What inspires Jack Dorsey?
As with web/sites, /apps especially if run by inexperienced Project Managers.
Why I want to be a bank when I grow up...
I don't mean more disclosure to the doctors on the pills, if that's what you thought, which I'm only assuming because I wasn't attempting to question the validity of clinical trials at all. I was saying given the language the person I was replying to used, it seemed like the doctors were actively trying to figure out what which pills were which, evidenced by the fact that instead of going "dang, we accidentally figured it out and now are susceptible to bias. We should start the trials over right NOW instead of wasting money" They went, lets retest these patients since the outcome isn't coming out like we think it should, something they should know isn't going to fly.

Also not saying specifically that it was malice, but that it's either malice or stupidity, or both.

Also, I have ethical and intellectual standards of doctors doing things that will impact hundreds of thousands of people.

Not sure why you said "Who cares if doctors will figure out which medication is the placebo?" - Since I didn't even insinuate that.