skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a way to reproduce this? I haven't had any issues with losing files from Finder in any way shape or form.
Well, if you are interested in visiting the area then I would definitely recommend Lebanon(I'm obviously biased, but still). Most people speak English or at least understand it, though fluency does vary quite a bit. So you shouldn't have too much trouble talking to people even if you don't speak Arabic. And we have really good weather for most of the year though it can get very hot and humid in the summer.

If all you know about this place is gleaned from the news it sounds like a warzone but it really isn't, and there's usually quite a bit of warning before anything security-compromising happens -- With the exception of the 2006 war with Israel, that was quite sudden. But relatively few areas were affected.

As long as you stay away from Hezbollah-controlled territory(The deep south, the bekaa valley and the souther suburbs/ghetto of Beirut) you won't get kidnapped or anything like that :P

If you do take a leap, shoot me an email(in profile) and I'd be more than happy to assist :-)
I don't think he's talking about removable drives - he claims internal drives are getting added to the exclusion list. Details here:

http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-TimeMachine-exclude-bug.h...
Still, just because something gets easier with practice is not an intrinsic reason for people to do it. I could claim the same for juggling. Something I find a lot of fun in doing, and which has gotten doable with practice. Which is why I said this is true for most any artistic endeaver. (I suppose juggling is not necessarily artistic, but I don't know what to categorize it as.)
Very interesting hypothesis.
Apple’s 128GB iPad shows the world exactly what Apple does best
While Amazon's service has a price advantage, there are some differences that could justify Zencoder's premium for some customers.

Amazon gives you a maximum of 4 encoding pipelines. These operate like queues. If you are processing many jobs simultaneously, and encoding multiple versions of each video, then those queues could start to build up. With Zencoder, all your jobs are processed in parallel, no matter how much you throw at it. In my experience, queue times with Zencoder have averaged <10 seconds.

For batch jobs, that aren't sensitive to encoding times Amazon's queues shouldn't be a problem (ex - a media company encoding a huge library into a bunch of different formats). Business video services or online video platforms may want to optimize around keeping queue times low to get client videos out quickly.

Zencoder also seems to be working on premium services like closed captioning (an FCC rule says that programming that is shown on TV must have closed captioning when it is shown on the web), live streaming, and packaging HLS streams. Finally, Zencoder supports formats like ProRes 422, that Amazon may not (I haven't seen a list of input formats yet). Zencoder also has great support and a great API.

I'm a Zencoder customer and don't have any vested interest in the company. In fact, I'll be taking a look at the service to see if it meets our needs. I just wanted to highlight that if you are making a decision around transcoding, you need to define your requirements, understand the trade offs, and test the different options.
Yeah, that's the right way round. Crazy, huh? The only reason I can think of is to have parity with the "MacBook Pro with Retina Display".
Hi all! It started off as a 1 day project and then I ended up getting carried away.

A few features:

- Smart pre-caching to minimize load time.

- Collect interesting vines. Right now, it just dumps it into local storage.

- Duplicates elimination.

- Categories that act like channels for rough curation.

I think the most interesting part about Vine is that you get a huge amount of short-form content with high variance in quality. This is very similar to 9GAG where enjoying a single piece of media is quick and there is a large corpus out there. This means you build an effective curation mechanism, you get a lot of value. In either case, let me know what you think!

Find me on twitter at @jiggityk. I will also be hanging out in the Olark chat on the site.
For me, writing and programming feel very much of a piece. They seem to fire up the same parts of my brain, the feel like the same kind of mental exercise, and a completed project in writing or programming gives me the same kind of satisfaction.
Maybe since they can't really upgrade beyond the major version of 10...

Where can you go from there? Where?
Spezify - Visual Search & Inspiration
What’s Wrong with Best Practices for FlexPod & Vblock?
Absolutely. It can go a long way to not be petty about it.

In these situations, I usually offer a normal bit of criticism, both positive and negative, and then let that be the end of it. Sometimes the client will come back, sometimes not.

Either way, you've preserved your relationship and they might well come back to you when they want to see some revisions down the road.
OS X is less of an entertainment platform than Windows ... when you look at the fact that games are still almost always released for Windows only/first.

OS X was and still is a platform for creating, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, and I would even go so far as putting iWork into that same category. Windows has Windows Movie Maker but it doesn't compare to iMovie in terms of output and the kinds of things the average user can accomplish with it.
I bet he wasn't amused by the number of ST2 users who got the ST2 beta and were using it without having got round to paying, in fact I'd bet this was the majority. The trouble with honour systems is that not enough people are honourable.
Startups: You've Got To Know When To Go All-In
1. www.ommageo.com - a video sharing social network using Google Earth as the UI (web version only, Launched last week)
2. Lets just say I launched around the same time as Vine, but have you heard of Ommageo or Vine? HAHA I am not deterred I plan on building out the iphone and android apps.
I've been looking for this for quite some time. Thanks for posting! I'm a heavy VIM user and now with clang support I don't have to go into bloated Xcode to do autocomplete.

Has anyone had luck integrating LLDB externally into vim?
It goes all the way to 11!

(Side note: I'll go back to Reddit now ;-))
In maps view they are easy to find since they are surrounded by a grey area. Is that the entire area dedicated to the gulags?
As a boy there was a common game that friends would play, which was -- if Newton were to come back today, what technology would he be most shocked about.

I found this quote interesting, and I think shows how hard it may be to predict such things:

"What amazed him most of all," Peskov recorded, "was a transparent cellophane package. 'Lord, what have they thought up—it is glass, but it crumples!'"
The person I was mentoring (that prompted this blog post) was having trouble getting ANY code down on the screen. Being able to write SOMETHING was the hurdle for this developer to overcome.

In most cases though, I agree with you.
I'm pretty sure anyone would not be too upset if that suddenly started happening.
Same thing for me (different code). I believe the server is on it's knees.
The Changelog - Relaunched Member Supported.
The other main predator that also hunts in this fashion? Wolves/dogs. There's a theory that it was this overlap in hunting styles that made us natural "partners" and led to the close relationship we have today.
Jarawa tribe which lives in Andaman, face extinction after coming with contact with civilisation
He remained in the EU and fled into the embassy.
I didn't mean the indentation, I meant leaving away brackets.
Goodbye Jody.  You Really Were Awesome
As is the case with every part of AWS, we add additional features and options over time based on customer feedback and requests. Please feel free to let us (or me -- jbarr@amazon.com) know what you need and I'll bring it to the team's attention within 30 minutes.
"Nothing lives longer than temporary code."

Love this quote. I assumed it was an existing quote/idiom, but it looks to be original.
Meyers-Briggs was never meant to pigeon-hole people so that organizations could be better aligned, or for social engineering purposes. As a psychoanalytic tool, its main purpose is to help the subject understand his or her own inclinations.

Any application outside of therapy or introspection is pop-science; and any application within those fields is only relevant if the subject accepts the categorizations of the test.
a lot lower than i expected - also would love to see the package (so $150k + .5-1%) distribution.
Isn't this just usual prototyping? I rarely consider best practices when trying to implement a non-trivial prototype because flow and creativity is broken when attempting to adhere to best practices at the same time (in my experience at least).

My current project contains some non-trivial code so there was a lot of prototyping. If I spent time ensuring this code was also well written, I doubt the problems would've been solved because half of my energy and concentration would be spent on scaffolding and not the actual building.

Having said that, I still find documenting the prototype as important as real code. When it comes to refactoring the code, it helps a lot.
I'd like to know as well, and I wasn't able to find it in any of the rest of his articles...
On the other hand, I guess they did not know/had not rediscovered tanning, because

> A couple of kettles served them well for many years, but when rust finally overcame them, the only replacements they could fashion came from birch bark. Since these could not be placed in a fire, it became far harder to cook.

they did not replace their kettles by a leather cauldron.
The Super Supercapacitor
pthreads isn't going anywhere. Grand Central Dispatch uses it!
How does it work in the US? The police catches you, you enter trial - how múch time is allowed to pass in between?
It's not original to me. Not sure where I heard it, but I know it's not mine.
Don't suppose you've got a blog or anything about your encounters?

Would be interested to hear the account of someone who's a geek enough to hang round here.
I didn't say there was no value in convenience. Of course there is. I use email. I'm posting here instead of xeroxing and snail mailing what I write. But HN isn't trying to monetize my personal information, and it isn't trying to be my only portal to the Internet.

Yes, AOL in its heyday brought lots of people online--and made them think that going through AOL was the only way to get online. Facebook has brought a lot of people social networking--and has made them think that allowing Facebook to monetize their private information is the only way to do social networking. They are encouraging people to choose short-term convenience at the expense of long-term control over their own data and their own online lives.

My point is that saying "lots of people use Facebook" is not the same thing as saying "Facebook is doing things that are good for its users, or the Internet, or society, all things considered". Same for s/Facebook/AOL/.
This is my approach as well. This basically amounts to planning to throw one away anyway (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PlanToThrowOneAway) or rapid prototyping (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RapidPrototyping).

After coding the first implementation you will always realize things that you didn't anticipate that could improve the design. It's easier to get it working quickly, find the holes in the algorithm/design, then refactor it to be pretty and maintainable.
Show HN: UK Weather Visualisation
Show HN: Connect for a Cause, Bid on meetings for charity
He addresses this in the article. Something about cpu usage, yadda yadda. I'm curious as to how he can be so sure about performance though when fundamentally not understanding how floats and ints get converted to binary.
While I agree with the underlying point, the title is an argument in semantics (and I would say misleading and wrong - it is never OK to push bad code).

It may be unelegant, it may lack any number of "best practices", but if your code solves a problem, doesn't break other things, and can be refactored effectively, it doesn't count as bad.
> and we aren't worried.

So are you working on designing them out? Or are you counting on them never giving your AWS account short shrift?
I went to check TextMate after reading this news and surprised to see TextMate is very actively developed. Hope to see TextMate raise once again!
blog post by course instructor Colt McAnlis
http://mainroach.blogspot.in/2013/01/the-past-and-future-of-...
A mobile developer with iOS skills makes 65k in San Jose but 90k+ in all the little cities around it. Something must really suck about San Jose. ;)

Practically though, this exposes their underlying data source. Averaging across limite data sources can suck sometimes.
Well it's an endurance method vs a distance method. "Run your prey ragged" I guess. You could do that on steep mountainsides just as quickly (perhaps even more quickly) than open plains. You'd just need to not lose site/sound of them in the dense forest which should be doable.
Write prototypes in a language that you don't use in production.

It allows you to get to grips with the problem and prevents you from just copy-and-pasting large chunks of the "i'll rewrite this later" code into production.

I tend to write my prototypes in Perl as I used to use it a lot in the past for hacking things together. It translates well both to Ruby on Rails (front end) and to C (with low level server magic).
It's very hard to imagine a situation in which Amazon could lock new entrants out of the video encoding market. All you need to enter this market are a fast connection and a server farm, both of which you can get for yourself or rent from numerous IaaS providers.

Amazon might very well have a price advantage, but other parties that can offer better quality of service or better L10n or whatever will still attract customers. This is how markets are "supposed" to work.
This one is great too. Any others that are similar that folks know about? Leandomainsearch.com is pretty great too
"in the long run this code is not maintainable since all the white space makes the code looking not distinctively enough."

Where do you get this? The only instance where I see Python becoming unreadable due to whitespace is when a developer abuses whitespace where it's not needed e.g. a = [ 'a', 'list' ]

Another example could be chaining method calls Java-style, but all of this is alleviated by just following PEP8.

The significance of whitespace has no effect on the readability of a language.
I have always liked Sequel Pro. Then I started looking for an OSX Mongo client, and having seen what's on offer, I love Sequel Pro all the more.
DbVisualizer (www.dbvis.com) is multi platform and has excellent support. It is Java based and commercial which may be a problem for some.
Why did it fail? What went wrong w the startup?
Yeah, it's a little bit of a 'turd in the punchbowl' with regards to OS X criticism. I stand by my opinion that Snow Leopard was the last version of OS X that I felt truly enhanced my experience, but a lot of what he says in the article is nonsense.
What it takes to build big HTML5 apps today.
Apple iPad jumps to 128GB, starting at $799
Isn't that normal? I though lowercase module name, uppercase class was the standard casing.

threading.Thread would seem to be consistent with the Google Python Style Guide (threading = module, Thread = Class)

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.ht...
Unfortunately, it's for the most part flawed as the correct setup you mention requires the human element to behave itself to maintain balance.
Actually, they do have two-factor auth and apparently have had it for over a year now (I had no idea as well) Hit https://edit.yahoo.com/commchannel/sec_chal_manage to set it up. They've also finally added https support to Yahoo Mail. It's turned off by default, but still encouraging signs considering how long we've been waiting for it.
Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery
5 Lessons From a $213,000 Launch
How do they bring the prey home after hunting it 30km?
XBMC 12 released
Can someone whose used both compare this to Unity3D for me? I know Unity is closed source, but it's the one I've used in the past (and found it really nice.)

How much harder is Torque3D to develop for (or is it easier?)
This represents the launch of Connect for a Cause, a startup based in New Orleans.

The idea is to auction lunch meetings, where proceeds are donated to the charity of your choice. Bidders earn a meeting with someone that might be otherwise hard to reach, and auctioneers raise money for charity.

Please share your thoughts!
Microsoft decided? They have their XBox division which makes lots of content.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Studios
Congressmen want answers from Aaron Swartz prosecutors
I found this post which indicates that Agafia is still alive and now trying to recruit church followers to live in the mountains with her.
http://www.byzcath.org/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/363063/A...
Well of course not. Paying 33% less means 50% more value!

But in all seriousness I look forward to the post.
I just saw this happen with Yahoo. Their email homepage had an API error which essentially took the whole thing down.
There are a number of tribes along the Amazon who have never been contacted by the outside World, for example Brazil actively tries to identify isolated Indian tribes by fly-over but a policy to not contact them. Here is a story about drug traffickers massacring one of the documented, but uncontacted tribes: http://www.ibtimes.com/uncontacted-amazon-tribe-massacred-pe...
I'm the Francis in the original article...

Some years ago, I helped make a bug reporting for cities too like you mention, it's http://fixmystreet.com/ - equivalent in the US is http://seeclickfix.com/

I wonder if subconsciously that was one of the reasons a bug tracker for my house felt like an obvious idea.
Ask HN: What should I learn to be a Rock Star Programmer?
Currently Linux sysadmin with 15 years experience. Cannot seem to find a company growing technically or innovating enough to keep me engaged. Loved programming in college and would like to make the jump to programmer. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
The flip side of that is there's usually little for that particular individual to personally gain from spending that monopoly money, even if it actually helps department X cut costs or raise sales dramatically, whilst a conspicuously bad change to companies' spending patterns may still get them fired.
Writing is a challenge indeed. Especially for me since the last one year. It used to be that if I had a collection of thoughts, I would try to flesh them out into a blog post of atleast 300 words with relevant links.

Today, I try to _compress_ my thoughts into 140 characters or atmost a status update on Facebook/Google+. This makes me (and most of my regular blogger friends) guilty of neglecting my blog for the longest period of time.

Long form of writing is extremely satisfying. It organised one's thoughts and more importantly useful for a future reading. I am impelled to continue practicing it atleast for the sake of posterity.
Facts are fickle.

That Obama is christian is not a "fact" to people who believe that he's secretly a muslim. Like all other good conspiracy theories, it's based on an irrefutable possible situation. You can't "fact check" that.

Second example on the page, "House Speaker John Boehner claims that raising taxes on the top 2% would kill 700,000 jobs", the link lists three bullet points to refute this: one is completely unrelated to the statement made, the second assumes that Boehner misrepresents rather than misbelieves Obama's intention to only use the revenue to plug the deficit and editorializes that the job loss would happen over a long period of time has an impact on the truthfulness of the statement. The third claims that "relatively small" effects on the economy is not enough to say that proposal will "would slow our economy".

That's not a fact check, that's a counter argument.
In 2010 Werner Herzog released a documentary about trappers and their families living in the Taiga. It's called "Happy People":

http://www.wernerherzog.com/62.html

I really recommend it. The people survive their arduous living conditions by continually preparing for the next season. They've done the same things more or less for generations, always working, and pretty much cut off from modern civilization. Makes you realize how happiness is a fairly relative value. Their lives are completely defined by the need to survive, and as long as that's accomplished things are good.
Internal Reprogrammability in Emacs
Yes, I don't know if it is the Finder itself, or so other part of the OS/kernel that is in fault, and NO, I don't know how to reproduce it because it is such a scary experience (happend two or three times if I remember correctly) that I don't even want to go explore it, since I never even received an automated acknowledgment email from apple for bug reports or dump posts or anything like that. One time, there was a directory deep inside the one that was beeng moved that had the same name as the top level (I don't know if this was related to the error though) and midway there was a useless error saying some error happened and half the files could not be found not in the source not destination.
Hi all! It started off as a 1 day project and then I ended up getting carried away.

I think the most interesting part about Vine is that you get a huge amount of short-form content with high variance in quality. This is very similar to 9GAG where enjoying a single piece of media is quick and there is a large corpus out there. It seems like conditions are ripe for an effective curation mechanism. Find me on twitter at @jiggityk. I will also be hanging out in the Olark chat on the site.
It is not probable. He would not remain in jail this long unless a judge determined that the "probable cause" that the prosecutor brings forward every 2 weeks is strong enough for him to remain jailed. Despite what some people seem to believe, this is not part of a plot to keep him behind bars "just because".
It's pretty much a given that moving from one major release to another is going to break things. Since you're using Django as an example then I should point out that this is why Django spent half of it's life in a pre-1.0 state where there were major changes from the .91, .95, and .96 branches which broke every minor version up until 1.0 before it was officially released. Remember when the admin used to be tied to each model instead of decoupled? I sure do - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.0-porting-g...

I'm half surprised you didn't just create a requests-1.0 branch and then give the third party libraries time to upgrade instead of pinning to shas. I have several projects that depend on requests<1.0 which will run just fine for some time.
There's a few, but there honestly isn't a great replacement. I honestly do not understand the logic behind this move.

"Hey let's get rid of the service we have that requires almost no engineering resources and brings people to google multiple times per day!"

Outside of myYahoo there's an homage to iGoogle

http://www.ighome.com/

and here's a bunch of alternatives

http://www.howtogeek.com/129155/6-alternatives-to-igoogle-fo...
Stephen King mentions the technique of dedicated places in his book On Writing (which is great by the way).

He suggests the idea place is a room with a door that you can close.
I find I need more complicated notes than I could store in a TODO application.

For example, see here where I had a general bug, took notes, got quotes, and (as someone above mentions) attached photos of fireplaces.

https://github.com/frabcus/house/issues/15
Are you saying Amazon would buy Salesforce, or that Amazon would buy Heroku from Salesforce?