skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks so much for the LDT link, it's exactly what I was looking for (and thought impossible).

I can't speak for the GP, but my problem with ACE et al. is that they replace the textarea with their own HTML structure (e.g. a div for every line). I understand the reason why, but it means they have to reimplement all the textbox behaviour and they never get it completely right.

For example: when I double-click on a word in the textbox I'm writing this in, and then middle-click somewhere else, the word gets pasted there.

In ACE, it pastes a different text in a different location.

ACE is brilliant if you want to a full-fledged text editor. But it's an overkill if all you need is a normal textarea with some colours.
Dijkstra and the fictional Mathematics Inc.
You are right, this is the best workaround possible. This is still a workaround since it need to memory map the whole APK file.

In our case this is not really acceptable since we develop a SDK that is embedded by developers in their app and this would put constraints on their app if they want to embed an index.

Btw I think an evolution of the APK format could be to have 2 different parts:
- a part that contains compressed data and stay on disk to launch the app
- a part that is only used only for installation: extract uncompressed files and store them on file system.
Great points on SKU counts and the long-tail. However, can you tell me the source of your financial data?

I had a quick look at Google Finance (Financials, Annual Data) and I see the following for 2012: Amazon's total operating expenses as a percentage of revenue was 98.2%. Costco's was 97.2%. Wal-mart's was 94.1%. Based on this data, you might argue that Amazon has a cost disadvantage relative to both Costco and Wal-mart. But before reaching any conclusions you would need to back out Amazon Web Services and the Kindle (from Amazon) [1].

As a quick and dirty analysis, we can back out the $2.909b Amazon invested in R&D in 2012. Note, neither Costco nor Wal-mart have a line item for R&D. In this case, Amazon's operating expenses as a percentage of revenue is 92%, or about 5% less than Costco's and 2% less than Wal-mart's. [2]

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[1] You might also want to back out Sam's Club from Wal-mart.

[2] Given Amazon has revenues that are just 11% of Wal-mart's, you could argue that Amazon's cost advantage will likely increase as it further scales revenue and operations.
Odd, it works fine for me (and this exact feature was skyscanner's original USP.) e.g. http://www.skyscanner.net/flights/tll/lond/130215/airfares-f...

Note that sometimes you have to click the "show all" link at the top of the search results to get low-cost airline results to appear. (This is possibly revenue-related.)
Finnish campaigners seek crowdsourced change to copyright legislation
I think it's good. It's a bit laggy compared to the iPhone version but otherwise it provides the functionality I need in a good way.
NanoLight - The world's most energy efficient lightbulb
Amazon announces acquisition of IVONA (text-to-speech)
Hey, great work! One thing I found - your MomentCell example seems to steal focus from the document. You can't blur it by clicking elsewhere, which means any other keystrokes (except escape or enter) on the page go directly to it.
The Facebook client is getting better, don't forget how bad it was 2 years ago.
I even created my own client for that reason. (Shameless plug: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flipster)
Coming soon, the car that runs on air: Peugeot Citroen unveil new 117mpg hybrid
"Never Explain, Never Complain"
-- Cole Porter
"If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged."
-- Cardinal Richelieu
Maybe this explains why Cisco has neglected to fix the giant WPS security holes in their routers.

Reaver destroys WPS: https://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/

Cisco's routers are mostly listed as "TBD" for when they will fix this: http://homekb.cisco.com/Cisco2/ukp.aspx?vw=1&articleid=2...
A music notation app that supports handwriting recognition
>Anonymity and cruelty are orthogonal concepts - there is nothing about anonymity that implies or requires cruelty

You'd be surprised. Do you have anything to validate that statement?

Because the empirical observations of anybody on this internet thing (forums, comment threads, etc) suggest otherwise.

Perhaps you start from a logical premise ("I don't see any connection between cruelty and anonymity") but forgot to take into account human psychology factors (e.g "Hmm, I can harass that guy a little harder, it's not as if he knows who I am and can get back at me").
linking BTC addresses to PII? what does this mean?
It's also very like a travel site we built a few years ago

"I want a cozy family hotel in chicago for three days in march over a weekend, flying from london"

Users just typed in "chicago". We nixed the natural language stuff after a few months.
“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” - Theodore Roosevelt
Thank you! I hope you will. Things are moving really quickly internally. In other news, we fixed the splash screen. It now permanently dismisses so you shouldn't see it too often. That was our intention we just didn't quite get it right the first time ;-)
I assume SpaceX is hiring Austronauts that are former NASA employees.

How many years down the road will it be before we need to start privately training Astronauts for SpaceX?
I'm amused by the above comment, and all the wild assumptions it makes.

Whereas a Bloom filter is relatively well known (in compsci circles), how many people know:

1) Who Wilt and Wither are?
2) What they "described back in 2003"?

Are they scientists? Did they wrote a paper in 2003 describing something similar? Have them or anybody else implemented anything based on their description?

The use of the word "just" especially, is, err, especially misguided.

Can you point to other implementations? If not then it's not "just an implementation", it's the FIRST FRIGGING IMPLEMENTATION!
Don't commit your private keys to public repos
Stealing focus is intentional because I want you to correct your mistakes, this is the same for all other cell types that do validation.

But not giving up focus by clicking elsewhere is not. File me a bug and thanks!
If Ember-Data isn't ready for production, and Ember is, then why is it in the documentation on http://emberjs.com? Either it's ready to be used, and can go in the official guides, or it isn't, and the guides should recommend something that is ready to use.
The iPhone version does. The worst offender in this regard is Twitter. I get notifications of direct messages and mentions on (1) the website, (2) the official app on my iPhone and (3) the official app on my iPad.
Recent Ministerial action offers hope of court reprieve to Newry business men
Agreed. Unfortunately it seems to be a common misunderstanding of optimization and things like machine learning, that you somehow have this set of almost universal black boxes that can apply to any domain without much thought. When you gain some practical experience it becomes clear that good results come from knowing the domain very well.
Firefox for Android already supports WebGL - seems to work fine on my Galaxy Nexus.
Simplicity is the most Complex Feature
Damn it gets even more amusing!

A Google search for "Wilt Wither 2003" doesn't return anything relevant (at least in the first 2-3 pages).
My favourite from Hacker News, not the most influencing but a fun one that I rather enjoy bringing up in the work place.

CFO asks "what if we spend our money training our staff and they leave?", CTO replies "what if we don't and they stay?" - JAVagueArgument
Facebook is currently the best IM platform in terms of functionality, stability and ubiquity. In that light, notifications are important.
Those are good reasons for some people, sure. I guess I still see FB as 'just a page' rather than an full, integrated comms service.

I really don't want it as a full integrated comms service!
They are on Steam...
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_4_4__12&term...
I'm worried that there could be a focus on compairing if stuff is less than three.

Just kidding, I think it's a great thing that females are getting a new role model in the tech field because talent should decide if you will become a programmer and not ancient role models.
Do you need Java?
Like this little "fact box": http://www.cymascope.com/cyma_research/soundhealingimages/Pr..., only reference to "Prime Resonance Frequency" I could find on the web was on a few new-age sites, and apparently they have managed to find the frequency at which a cell vibrates.
The petition:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cel...

The HN discussion of the petition (in short, it's not nearly enough, but it's a start): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112020

I'm at a loss for words over this one. All I can think to say is: money talks ladies and gentlemen. Freedom is the only thing that's ever been worth paying for.
Dorky is OK: Google Glass does not have to be the next iPhone to win
And I agree with them on that point. Closed app stores with no ability to sideload are, to put it plainly, evil.
In 2050, Flight Time From Europe to Australia Will Be 90 Minutes
What about extorted wallet votes?
Automattic Acquires Simperium
Automattic Acquires Simperium, The Y Combinator-Backed Data Syncing Startup Behind Simplenote
I think it's a joke - "Wilt" and "Wither" both being opposites of "Bloom".
ClojureScript Piano Chord Recognizer web app
3 Charged in Bank Malware Scheme That Hit Thousands of Computers
Arch BSD: Arch Linux Atop The FreeBSD Kernel
Allow me to ruin my karma...

Maybe we could focus on retraining non-technical people to fill tech jobs. Or people with outdated skills, and clamp down on age discrimination. There's a lack of programmers and an abundance of food-service/sales workers. We should re-work high school in the US to focus on vocational work, such as programming or other skills such as industrial electrical work. And as we've just renewed unemployment benefits, doesn't this give government leverage to force people to learn things?

We tell America that with new automation and technology comes the need to educate yourselves for the new jobs. Now we're going to add unlimited temporary workers to compete for these new jobs?

But that's not the quick fix corporate America is lobbying for. They want masters/php grads to come in and be essentially locked in to working for them for at best an average salary. If we refuse to educate our public in useful skills, then I'll take unlimited H1Bs, as I'd rather have a vibrant work force in our country than a scattered remote one and see innovation and taxes go elsewhere.

Granted, I'm all for comprehensive immigration reform. Let's do it comprehensively and let in a steady stream of people to fill all levels and variety of jobs. Let's let people live the American Dream and let them choose jobs or quit jobs or strike out on their own. That's what we're not giving H1B holders. And that's the competition we're giving ourselves.
Google Is Building An Experimental Wireless Network Perfect
Garden Drones: New possibilities in personal aerial vehicles
Series A crunch blah blah… Get over it. Learn from Africa’s example
Revenge-Porn Website Victims Launch Action Against Texxxan and GoDaddy
ITA is by aviation geeks for aviation geeks. Now I'm totally happy to punch in "MEL LHR EK+ X:KUL", but most normal humans would prefer "Melbourne to London on Emirates with stopover in Kuala Lumpur". Also, ITA has zero support for more open-ended queries beyond limited date ranges, which is what Adioso is focusing on.
Court Rules That Banning Sex Offenders From Facebook is Unconstitutional
Shrunken proton baffles scientists
Cool stuff but maybe not as revolutionary as the title claims it to be. Minus the NLP most of these searches have been possible for years at my favourite swedish travel aggregator site.
My College Project (Ireland) - Feedback appreciated
<p>Hey all,</p><p>I've just launched my college project in Ireland. It's an online business classfield service (free).</p><p>Anyway, the link is above and would love if you could give some feedback on it (if not from Ireland, even just aesthetic feedback).</p><p>OK, thanks again :)</p>
Piston, Razer Edge could bring the rise of easy PC gaming this year
Did Facebook just kill every start-up in the social discovery space?
The Giant Squid Talker
I would say if a startup overhead time of < 10 second bothers you, you're not working with "data". Of course sed and grep have less overhead, but I wouldn't even thin of trying out a new tool for files/datasets larger than, say a Gigabyte. (Rough guess, I know you can use grep and sed in under 10 seconds for larger files, the point is about perspective and complexity.)

Clojure is sadly a really bad choice for fire-and-forget cli scripts, but "large scale data processing" doesn't fit this criterion for me.
Microsoft Releases Windows Phone 7.8 SDK — Ahead Of Long-Awaited 7.8 Update
I got bored at Christmas so I built a social network
Someone had to point it out, yes. I had the same thought and it made me sad. That page is beautiful, quirky and funny, made with DIY love. It's a perfect example of the value of remix culture, adding a touch of originality (yes, originality) to brighten up an otherwise boring github page.

I believe the author picked the cross hatched texture background to match the rest, as well as the font and the muted retro green and orange-red, so it's not like it was a mere copy/paste job, either. More like (apart from the name pun) Austin Powers is just another ingredient, like the colour to paint with, the texture, the font, etc.

Further--this is a personal belief so take it cum grano salis--if one releases a blockbuster film, one of the (intended!) effects is having its iconography engrained in the public's mind and culture. Saying you cannot use imagery that has been force-fed into the public consciousness at all, is like getting hit by a fire hose and being told you're not allowed to drink or wash with the water. And I had this thought, having to fear being punished for using a certain icon to communicate your ideas, is a lot (but not exactly, I do hope you can see the similarities though) like what the Danish cartoonist had to fear when drawing Muhammed. (let me repeat: there's a lot of differences between the situations, but also an eerie similarity)

Anyway, it's a really great library, I'm looking forward to having an excuse to use it.
Kickstarter kills new GameStick backer tier
Well. It's really the only work visa that's really available to anyone who is a highly skilled professional and wants to move to states. It's a de-facto "get on the path to citizenship" visa and it's the only possibility for people like me to live and/or work in states permanently or semi-permanently.
Hands up. Palms away. Thumb and index finger extended (don't do this at a school in the US of A). Whichever one looks like an "L" is left.

Caveat: if you turn your palms inward, you will get confused.
A friend of mine did something similar with evolutionary algorithms: http://kowaliw.ca/projects/deva.html
Ahem: "...using the CymaScope instrument".

Though I do notice that crucial bit was dropped in the headline...

I can't add much more about what they're doing; I can't bring myself to read about God's vibrations of the universe etc..
Focusing Creativity: RPG Genres
Publishing a jar to Maven Central
Surviving a Game Jam
He didn't say "and achieve the same results" he said "and nobody could tell the difference".

I'm sorry but I don't really understand the difference between the two. Can you elaborate?
skip the google part, they have built it but dont seem interested in commercialising it.

komatsu trucks are commercially running hauling in Rio Tinto Mines in Australia

This year toyota, audi, and other car makers would be showcasing their own versions.

google is not manufacturing cars, it has to acquire a company like toyota to monetize in multi billions, which will not be the case.
Express Ctrl – a controller-like interface to Express JS routing
Best Practices: Five Tips for Better Playtesting
> Similarly, their mobile app is capable of delivering far less ads than the web page, so they'd rather people sat on that at their desk rather than browsing on their phone.

So basically their strategy for accelerating mobile usage is "don't support mobile"?
That is kind of a beast: the part they're excited about test firing - which generates 31,000lb of thrust - is just the motor for the fuel pump for the main engine!
At least gameplay-wise Black Mesa is very different from Half-Life. To me it is different in a bad, dumb, modern way. Please do not suggest that it is the same or even superior to the original game.
But is it possible to allow app to take pictures (when you want), import contacts (if you want), sync contacts (again, optional) etc without those permissions?

I'm not an android developer, so someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but usually those permissions sound like you're giving up all your data but in reality it's just used to do something simple as to prevent vibration/ringing/notifications while you're talking on the phone.
Dwayne Johnson s’inspire d’une photo pour le film Teddy Bear
Les ours en peluche ont la cote à Hollywood ! Après Ted, voici Teddy Bear. Dwayne Johnson serait la vedette de ce film, produit par ses bons soins. Le projet est développé avec l’aide de New Line.
Facebook may be making you hate life, study says
Let's say you're correcting a 200 line HTML file, currently open in your text editor, to make it look neater. E.g. fixing tags like

< p id='some_id'>

It would be ideal to use regular expression find and replace to look for:

< ([a-z])

and replace with:

<$1

Of course, be sure to review every replacement to make sure it isn't part of javascript or something like that.

IMO it'd be faster than writing a script and then running it against the file.
Often that purpose is to say "don't do it this way".
Isn't it commonly accepted that when R&D say "10 years" they actually mean "hopefully", "20 years" they mean "we don't know how to do it, but we might discover it" while "30+ years" means science fiction?
I have no idea about the work areas where I don't happen to work. Maybe retraining people for doing PHP stuff is actually a very good idea. Some company (I lost the link) recently posted "$5000 for a month-long training and we guarantee you'll get a $60k job offer or your money back" for RoR.

However, there is a whole bunch of people who work in niche professions. I work in VMs. There is maybe a 100 people (maybe 200) who are even remotely in the area of dynamic language VMs. It takes years (sometimes tens of years) to be highly skilled and be able to deliver what some companies want. Right now, H1B is really the only viable option for such people to go to states and has a whole bunch of strange requirements, that should not apply. Do you really suggest a McDonalds-worker-trained-IT-professional can be competitive in such area?

On the other hand, I can assure you that visa costs outweight importing people for average salary. It's really about shortage of skills (or shortage of good immigration policies) that drives those efforts, not the will to employ people for less-than-average money.
Currently, only the Windows version is on Steam.
"There's no profit in Peace" - Oscar Harrison, drummer from Ocean Colour Scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OesTFysRzbc
Exactly, we should be way past the stereotypes that crippled society for ages. Programming is for everyone, initiatives like this one are a good step in that direction.
Why was WHEEL_DELTA chosen to be 120?
It's about time, I remember seeing Sony doing webgl on their experia android phones a while back

http://developer.sonymobile.com/2012/01/25/webgl-implementat...
Enyo: A Truly Cross-Platform JavaScript App Framework
Facebook stops Twitter users using new Vine video app to contact friends
On Functional Programming in Java
It doesn't help that it's much poorer than any of the other cities mentioned yet is far bigger than SF and Chicago combined...
HTML5 or Flex Framework
Please Join Us: The 100 Linux Tutorial Campaign
And labour costs.
In 2013, Mashable is writing ridiculous headlines.
Five ways to hack a better Netflix experience
> But he suggested the project could make enough progress to begin attracting private funding in another 10 years and aim for full operations by 2050.

So private enterprise will finance some project for 30 years before it starts to become operational? Considering that rocket scientists are usually not idiots, it seems that there could be an actually interesting story behind the "90 Minutes" headline.
I'll bet you it can't. Please prove me wrong.
This is the kind of study where I just have to say, "Whatever." No one believes MSFT to be unbiased here and, as for the Munich's IT group's claims/counters/reports, no one believes theirs will be unbiased either. It's basically a "He said, she said" argument [1]. They can have reams of back and forth interviews, quotes, and reports but, in the end, it won't make me believe either side. Each side has too much at stake to be unbiased. But, internally and to their clients/staff, both sides can point at their own reports/stats and proudly parade them whilst ignoring the existence of the other side's refutation/claims. It's win/win - Munich "wins" by showing their report to their staff and bosses ("Look how much we saved!") and MSFT "wins" by showing their report to potential clients considering the same thing.

Whatever.

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=he%20said%20s...: "An argument between a guy and a gal where the points made on either side can't be proven convincingly enough by either party to someone who has no clue what they're arguing about. Further exacerbated because you have no idea if either person is exaggerating or telling the truth and so nothing can be resolved."
What is new here? Rocket powered aircraft concepts have been around at least since World War II. This seems to build on proven technology so why should we need to wait until 2050?
https://github.com/orangethirty/marketing_bits/blob/master/o...
If you need Java, use this one instead
Bad infographic...
I bought a low power VIA board to run OpenBSD on. You can get them far lower than 250W.
or maybe in 2050 only the super rich can afford to fly, because kerosine got so expensive? Who knows?
We are hardware made from software
NS2 is a great game but it seems to require a supercomputer to run. My Q6600 and GTX560Ti can run most new games smoothly at decent settings, but not this one. I can barely reach 30 fps at some points.
Ma conosciamo la “porcata” di sistema elettorale con cui andremo a votare?
Validation reinvented... again
One man’s journey to London to launch a startup
Dwolla:Bitcoin::YouTube:Daily Show clips
A court case against mugshot websites raises First Amendment issues
How Google Glass could change the enterprise
I think you might be overlooking the intelligence of your average server or bartender. I know people who are literally geniuses and decided to pursue liberal arts majors and masters only to find themselves 10 years later earning $2 above minimum wage working at a used bookstore. Another friend dropped out of a masters in statistics with overwhelming student debt to work as a picker at an Amazon warehouse (years later he's now an operations analyst of some sort). Take these people and train them, along with the McDonald's dropouts and years later you will have former burger-flippers ready to fill a variety of average coder slots along with the punk geniuses working on new compiler designs.

Sure, this isn't a magic solution where we all learn and make 100k/year and fix all labour shortages. We need immigration, no doubt. But don't we need it for all careers, if not for the companies, then for what we want the American experience to be for newcomers?