skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is painful Amazon checkout process? Did you mean painless one-click buy that makes me spend more money on Kindle books than I would want to?
A twenty year old re-imagines applying for a job
Facebook Graph Search pwns your privacy
I'm sorry but being a little naive, but what is the big issue with Fedora 18? I moved to Fedora 18 from Ubuntu 12.10 because it was so awfully buggy. Every other time I turned on my laptop I would get a black screen with an error message. Another reason were the Amazon search results in Unity.

In comparison, Fedora 18 is superb.
Sure, but the latter doesn't mean the former is okay, especially when it comes from folks who are, to some extent, "celebrity" programmers.

Better still, why go out of your way to criticize someone else's code?
Ask HN: Runners GPS watch for hackers
I'm looking for a GPS watch that I can use to track runs. I'd like something that I could perhaps tinker with. Anyone got any suggestions?
All of those companies have had self-driving car projects for a decade now.

Might want to pay attention.
Deelay.me, delay proxy for HTTP resources
Why teachers need to implement learning for 21st Century Teaching & Learning
Chris Dickinson on "replace"
"z" are also pronounced "zed" outside USA. Actually that's how I learned to pronounce it first.
This was also done some years back as http://linkpot.net/ so podcasters could read out URLs on their show more easily.

However by just testing it I think I broke it..
> developers are now allowed to merge code that breaks the build on non-Apple platforms

So we can picture OpenWebkit available on github in a week or so then?

Seriously: Apple cannot honestly believe this move is going to benefit anyone, can they?
At the moment I have no plans to expand. My current company is just a one man consultancy (service based). At some point though I will start or join another product based start-up, at which point I will be. If you would like, contact me via my info in my profile and when that time comes I will let you know.
Do many people also like to drive trains,or pilot airplanes?

Its a paradigm shift in the usage of an established commodity,one that will take some time getting used to.
Completely agree. First it is bad for the field in general to have only one approach. Currently rendering HTML5 and its transformations is a complex subject, without competition we don't know if there are better ways to accomplish this task.
Twitter isn't coming up to anyone, twisting their arm and telling them to be a dick. Lots of people manage to use Twitter without coming across like assholes.

If one feels that 140 characters isn't sufficient to correctly represent one's nuanced thoughts, then don't tweet.
Very clever. Had to check the URL after I arrived to see what was going on.

Doesn't have to be the most readable format since he has the same information in other places.
Take a look at my comment to klaut, the same applies for you, feel free to contact me, but I am not actively looking for people.
A better statement would be that it is intended as satire, to comment on current state of our society and so on.
It's benefitting them :-)
CircuitHub (YC W12) Aims To Be A One-Stop Shop For Electrical Parts
Well, someone isn't in touch with their emotions. You apparently run away from conflict and try to bully others into doing the same.
Unfortunately I pointed out and filed bugs for many of these during development, but they were ignored ...
> I cannot even make this stuff up: <url>

You are clearly well versed in this subject. So, how would you attribute this remark?
Yeah. It's interesting to see people who embrace WebKit-only code right now openly criticize MSIE for the damage it did to the web 10 years ago.

WebKit is the new MSIE. And WebKit-only code needs to be shunned the same way we (eventually) shunned MSIE-only code.
Facebook report
Securing your Apache Hadoop cluster
Filming begun on WikiLeaks movie
sounds cool, needs more demos
Outstanding idea! I've been in the industry of viewing resumes for a very long time and love to see someone take a risk and try something new. Well done.
I'm not any kind of experts on stocks, but I thought the basic principle was that people buy and sell on what they expect to happen, creating a price, and if something new happens, it's not whether that thing is 'good' or 'bad' in some absolute sense but rather how that differs from expectations that matters.

So a really crappy company doing slightly less crappy than expected would under this theory send the price up and a really amazing company doing slightly less amazing than expected would send the price down.

Does Gruber not understand this? Or does he make more advertising money from acting as if one of the largest companies in the world (by various measures) is being discriminated against in some fashion by a shadowy conspiracy?

Also, wasn't his previous conspiracy theory that Apple stock was being artificially held down to $500 dollars when it rightfully should have been higher, if not for those meddling kids/institutional money managers, but then it would rise swiftly after January 19th and the evil money managers would therefore make billions? Obviously they're not as good as manipulating the price upwards as downwards, if that was their plan.
The fact that Google has been pushing Chrome only features onto the open web for a long time now, coupled with everyone not running Chrome currently getting ads for it pushed into their face all the time, on all Google-owned services, tells me all I need to know about Google's real stance on web-standards.

I think Chrome (in what it has allowed Google to do) has been bad for the web.
The site looks more like a tech blog (like techcrunch etc. but still in its nascent stages) than an online learning platform. The content does not match up to the standards of what you will call education. It has a long way to go before it justifies being an online learning platform...
Their print links[1] are pretty good though. Normally, I object to linking to print pages because they usually are formatted in a way that makes them unreadable (e.g., very tiny font and very wide columns), and often provide no way to reasonably find the non-print version if you want to look for things like comments and related articles.

However, the Forbes print link uses a reasonable font and a reasonable column width, and has at the bottom a link to the non-print page. (It does invoke a print dialog, which is a bit annoying).

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/chunkamui/2013/01/22/fasten-your...
The data is simply too dirty to be useful for anything other than novelty searches, and possibly searches involving the 1%(?) of people that actually put their life graph on FB.

Maybe next step is FB adds user web surfing data (aggregated?, permission-based?) but hard to see how FB could pull that off?
You can call it whatever you want to - what name do you prefer?
You're heartless, those poor lemmings were plummeting to their deaths!
I don't think it is satire; I think it's just a cool idea for a résumé.

EDIT: Oh, I see what you're saying. Call it satire and it's ‘fair use’
I don't get why people are reacting so negatively to this apology. It was concise and sincere, reflecting and learning from a mistake. A lesson we can all learn from, it's far too easy to forget that there are people with feelings behind avatars once you've been cruising the web for a long time.
37 people only gave you one star? Why? ;-)
"No copyright infringement intended". Isn't the act of copying Amazon's style intended copyright infringment?
> "Now Gecko is old, buggy and slow - at least in comparison to WebKit."
> Even if this is true, its only true today. It will eventually get better, leaving this >argument irrelevant.

Even if it is true today, Mozilla is working on Servo (which will hopefully prove to be a success). There isn't a single reason to not develop competing engines.

Competition will drive all sides to improve their engines. And standardizing on WebKit is like standardizing Linux (it's just a kernel not overall browser). Slow and very hard, if not down-right impossible.

I wish Mozilla all the success in the future but I don't want a monoculture of any engine (Servo/WebKit/Presto/Gecko/<insert engine name> included).
I love it, but there's a good chance Amazon will be contacting you to take this down at some point.
I think it's referring to the later posts in the thread, such as:

"Btw, Joseph, you're a quality example of why I detest the github
interface. For some reason, github has attracted people who have zero
taste, don't care about commit logs, and can't be bothered.

The fact that I have higher standards then makes people like you make
snarky comments, thinking that you are cool.

You're a moron.

Linus"
How to track lifecycle changes of OSGi bundles
I am a perl lover. I fully adhere to the idea that perl (or python or ruby or javascript) should be used instead of sed/awk/sh/grep/find each time we need to go beyond the basic usage of these commands.

I have never said that everybody should know the arcane parts of sed (http://uuner.doslash.org/forfun/sedtris.sed). The unix tools work best when they are combined together (with pipes). The basic usage of sed is very useful to combine unix commands. Knowing the basics of standard unix tools has always been a time saver for me. Here is an example of a command that I may need in some unusual cases:

for i in $(awk '/PWP/{print $1}' machines) ; do

echo $i; rsh $i df . ; done

In my case, it does not worth being a script, because I may not have the same need before a month or two. Without unix tools, this would be a pain in the ass.
Dear W3C Technical Architecture Group
I agree that you are better than me.
I had seen this also,I filed a bug ,they waited till the version reached End-of-Life and closed bugs asking me to reopen the issue,if it exists with latest version. I see lot of bug closed like this.That's bad.
The first thing you learn as a web developer with respect to (modern - ignoring IE 7 and even 8) cross browser compatibility is that all browsers have their quirks and all of them suck. Off the top of my head:

Until recently, Chrome 'implemented' the HTML5 date input by giving the user a spinner on the side of the input box which, when pressed, will set the date in the input to '00-00-0000'. Worse, this renders the normal feature detection used by libraries such as modernizr.js useless.

Text rendering is badly broken for Chrome on Windows right now. http://i.stack.imgur.com/MsHdy.png - Firefox, Chrome, IE9. Bug report: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692

There was a bug that caused inset box shadow used to be rendered outside the element. This is fixed in recent desktop versions, but still haunts older versions of Android's default browser - versions as recent as the one included with 3.x Honeycomb are affected.

Browsers, even modern ones, are incredibly quirky. Moving to a monolithic Webkit market will not help with any of the bugs listed above, nor, I suspect, most of the bugs one might encounter today as a web developer.
It's 8 guys hacking in a small office in Boston. Hardly a "Wall Street" company. (disclosure: I've worked with half the team before... and they're all the best devs I've ever worked with. I do not work for Quantopian.)
Contribute to opensource without leaving your browser
> Pizza delivery will not be an entrylevel job

Why not? People are still going to want the pizza delivered to their door, not to their driveway or parking lot.
Why I'm glad my iPhone broke
I'd really like to point that this is the Rails community. There's a lot more hidden beyond all this, where people do behave like Matz shows. Projects like vagrant spring to mind.
Thank you, I really appreciate.
I read that in perfectly fine English. That's not corporate speak, it's a guy doing his job taking extra time out of his day to inform disgruntled users on a forum in some corner of the internet.
Introduction to JSF (Java Server Faces)
Yeah, because, why would you comment this instead of some Elon Musk circlejerk about going to Mars. Like that is ever happening.
> New homepage for http://fundrise.com launched today. It's fully responsive and built with Helium (http://github.com/cbrauckmuller/helium), our in-house responsive framework.
"SEO > Most resent best practices"? Is that new?
Indeed, public perception will be an issue. I still have hope that people will get over it.
oh this is cool!
You are absolutely correct! I'm afraid in some ways the Rails community does the Ruby community a disservice, because even some of the people like me who dabbled in Ruby before Rails existed have forgotten that there's more to the Ruby community than Rails-centric projects.
Mysticism != severe schizophrenia.

One is a variety of spiritual practice pursued by healthy people seeking divine communion, enlightenment, or some other desirable but hard-to-attain spiritual state. The other is a problem, usually with the physical brain, that harms the ability to perceive reality and often causes immense suffering for the person who has it.
Gillian Tett, meet William Cronon
Why Open Source Hardware Is No Oxymoron
“It’s time to stop treating data center design like Fight Club,” said Jonathan Heiliger, “and demystify the way these things are built.”
Emacs runs native on Windows; no need for Cygwin.
When they say "shop", I thought it was going to be a specialized store for buying parts.

In fact, it seems to be more focused on becoming some kind of cross-application database of parts information, storing data sheets and CAD models for use in schematics design. Their own description includes the word "library", which is more descriptive. I guess I'm (as a non-native speaker) is intepreting the term "one stop shop" too literally, when the context seems to allow it.

At least that's what I think, so far. Also, the only way to "log in" seems to be to connect my Dropbox account to their site, which I found odd.

Also, since they promise free access, I'm not at all sure about the business model here. Of course, lots of other people seem to be so I'm sure it's fine. :)
TL;DR: Business as usual. The GEMA are indeed a bunch of idiots.

So the video was automatically taken down because the GEMA flagged it for copyright infringement. Dotcom said "they will hear from our legal team". The Video was up again, probably roughly until the GEMA click the "refile" button.
You know, those two are not incompatible. He might have left out the preventDefault() call on purpose.
SO you did actually remind me of one of the issues I did have which was the --nogpgcheck, but I already knew that was coming because I didn't bother to download the rpmfusion GPG key. It is annoying that fedora doesn't acknowledge that most people will be using rpmfusion and plan for that in the upgrade instructions.
I would link that a "review" to your answer to the common interview question: "What are your weaknesses"

"Phil Dub often works too hard and put in too many late night unbillable hours on projects as he is a perfectionist"
Seems to be so. I've only seen similar disclaimers on (copied) Youtube music videos before. This might be the copyright version of "I am not a [racist|homophobe|...], but ...".
Wow! That is one cynical stance right there.
Yeh, if "Buy now with one click" had a breathalizer component I'd be a lot richer right now. But then again, I wouldn't have a USB Nerf cannon...
Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/978/.
You mean the process where I'm logged in, add some items to my cart and when I click checkout get asked to login again, get to the 3rd screen and I'm told they don't ship to my country? Yeah, painless.
This has clearly been infringed on for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain; vis-a-vis, employment.

Amazon's monetary losses over this offense must be immeasurable. Jail time or crippling life-time debt could be the only satisfactory retribution.

/s
A Week in Africa – by Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google
T Mobile Rated as 3rd most hated company in 2012
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Neat! However, here is some (hopefully helpful) criticism:

The stars bar chart bothers me because of its inconsistency, first it says 5 previous positions, and then you have 233 reviews, but the average is not quite 5/5.

You need to proofread this better. I have found a 'resent' in place of 'recent' and in the same section I'm not sure that 'Main Skills Rank' is the right title.

Other than that, very very nice idea and good luck!
The truth about PaaS vertical scaling and why you are being “oversold”
Virtually all auto accidents are because of human error, and computers can handle any situation with lightning-fast (literally) reflexes.

If driver-less cars become the norm, the practical need for toddler car seats will cease to exist.
How to create multiple background images in CSS & Javascript
Preach on. I will also point out that a lot of coders don't know the different between code that is "ugly" and code that simply hasn't been prematurely optimized.
Infoxicate - hand made notification service
Dear Charlie Rose: A open letter, an open-source iPhone App.
The installer made me feel really stupid. I think the only other UI that has that effect is Calibre's.

EDIT: interesting read about the installer redesign: http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2011/06/16/making-fedora-easier-to...
Just to be clear, I'm not with testelf!

Just wanted to point that out in case you get the wrong impression of them not replying to your (fair) accusation :)
[The] moment we start treating the Web as a zero-sum game and stop collaborating on the vision of a better online experience, nobody wins.

WebSQL[0] is an example where Mozilla (and their enabler in the HTML 5 standard, Ian Hickson) actively hurt users and developers by supposedly avoiding a monoculture by demanding multiple implementations. WebSQL should have been part of HTML 5, and we, as a community, have failed both users and developers since it's not. We failed because of an ideology that is hurting us in this instance.

Some history:

The lack of multiple implementations of SQL (the language) is the "reason" the WebSQL standard is in maintenance mode. But here's the deal: all WebSQL implementations today (e.g. WebKit, Google Gears) are based on SQLite, which is public domain software.

Specifying that SQLite[1] itself be used in the WebSQL standard, along with a WebSQL API for querying the actual SQLite version (e.g. "SQLite 3.7.15.2"), would directly solve literally every actual objection someone might have about WebSQL, except the multi-implementation/monoculture objection.

But the "multi-implementation/monoculture" objection should not be an objection at all since we're talking about SQLite: public domain software that every browser vendor can just use directly, and interested parties can check out the code and study if they want to know what is supported, and what, if any, "quirks" are present (the usual reason why codebases are not used as "standards", which is a valid complaint).

SQLite is just pure awesome and WebSQL makes it possible to do some really great things in the browser. Ideology here is just hurting everyone, for no actual benefit: instead of a monoculture, we have no culture at all.

[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/

[1] http://sqlite.org/
That which does not conform to your world view must be disparaged, because you'd feel embarrassed to be caught red handed in the process of learning. I get it.
I once saw a BBC documentation about "why do car drivers easily get angry at each other?"

This is really interesting, maybe you want to think for a minute yourself before I reveal the reason. When I watched the documentation to the end I was surprised, but when I think about it now I'm not surprised anymore:

Car driving involves no eye contact, in fact you hardly ever see the face of the other person. People behave differently and more nicely when they look into each other's face. One illustrative example were Laughter Clubs. People go there to laugh. So when a new member joins, all others stand around him, start to laugh and look him in the eye. No matter if the laughter starts artificially, only few moments later the person in the middle cannot stop laughing... ;)

Back to the topic: Twitter is probably the most impersonal way to communicate. E-Mailing with my tax consultant is more personal. I cannot tell how often I realized that misunderstandings were created with E-Mails (which have arbitrary length.) Or even text messages which are limited to ~500 characters; but Twitter? 140 character stubs to talk to complete strangers?
Proper schemas (based on an algebraic type system) with a simple serialisation would indeed go a long way.

Sadly, there's still too much choice there as well. Even worse, many would reject the very idea.
Google complied with 88% of USA requests to hand over information 2nd half 2012
Good work guys. I'm already a big fan of feasibility of product. This addition really made it double.
that's a great idea. I hate linkedin, need an alternative :)
Its not just this. The time that happened to me, the project got behind and so I made the mistake of putting the customer as the top priority and dedicating more and more hours to try to get things back on schedule.
But not quite! ;)
Somehow that extra 68.3ml makes all the difference.
I do not think HR will like this resume... However, if bosses find this, they will be absolutely interesting in this resume. Whatever, good luck mate.
True. We are currently focussing on getting good teachers on board. Therefore the look. And yes we are not yet what you would call a platform. Any changes in design that you suggest?
"Now Gecko is old, buggy and slow"

Fuck off dude. A monoculture is ideologically bad in itself but at least you could come up with some tech args. Saying that basically nullifies the entire thing.
On ASP.NET, you mean ASP.NET MVC, because the ASP.NET and its HTTP pipeline is not open-source.

And this is my problem with their efforts. Even though I applaud them for it, these efforts are half-hearted and half-baked.
> open source is not concerned with design or usability.

Not if you define those words the way Apple has. But that's a perfectly obvious statement: Apple's way is antithetical to the whole idea of Open Source, at least to the extent of Apple being obsessed with forcing a specific workflow on everyone who uses their products.
> It's a hard problem and not solvable via local agents alone.

Oh, Really?

Ants seem to do okay.

Following your, umm,, solution of critical external hyper networked global oversight it seems there'd be the mother of all traffic accidents if the servers went out.

Biologically emergent local behaviour seems wonderfully adept at converging on globally optimal solutions via local agent actions. Perhaps you're right, maybe Google is the only company capable of replicating the efficiencies of termite mounds.
This is very well written. A very interesting and verbose (not in a bad way) way of answering the everpresent question "What language should I learn?"

PS: Yes, I know that not the whole discussion was about this question. Still.
I believe the "b" in bcrypt stands for Blowfish, which is the underlying encryption algorithm used in this open-source, cross-platform file encryption utility to which I was referring. I hadn't known about the bcrypt used for password hashing.

My original point wasn't to recommend a particular encryption software. My intended point was that you should take responsibility for protecting your files yourself, and rely as little as possible on trusting others, like Kim Dotcom.
Now I'm waiting to hear how deliberating it feels when the computer breaks ... wait, how is one going to blog then?
Sky Broadband struggles with demand after adding subscribers
This is exactly it.

Time and time again you see large groups of people in this community exhibiting behaviors that show that they are unaware of normal social and societal conventions, and an inability to relate and sympathize/empathize with others.