skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a "rails community" issue. These are individual members. Rails is software that works for a lot of people. The "community" doesn't tweet.

Most of us just want to write code.
Signed up and hooked up AdWords, Analytics and Facebook in 2min for a small social builder game I'm working on (http://www.kogama.com). Waiting eagerly for the data to be imported. First impressions are very good and I like the angle you are attacking the analytics problem (understanding and learning from data, rather than collecting).
I have never heard of anyone involved. But at this point I would count that as a win.
Inquinamento ambientale: danni fatali per le nuove generazioni
I know, it is not Github, making these Keys public, but Gihub might consider, protecting its users, that do this.

Just my 2 cents.
Am I missing something? I realize I didn't login (I don't use dropbox), but every part I click on has nothing but a datasheet and specifications? No footprints, no symbols, etc. listed?

Unless this is a bug, perhaps it would do well to show that there are X symbols and Y footprints for those of us just perusing? Additionally, only getting reference to about 140 parts, I'd hope that you would've launched with more than that.
Why would you assume that, because they wrote an alternative to an existing tool, they don't know how to use it? Perhaps she just doesn't like sed, or would like to use the replace functionality in an environment where it's not clear ahead of time whether GNU or BSD sed are available. Or any of a number of reasons. Your assumption that she must be ignorant to have created her own solution is just as boorish as the original tweets, imo. Was tmux written by a person who had "either never heard of or never learned how to use" GNU screen? What about GNU itself? Why bother when UNIX already exists? People have lots of reasons for writing software, and deciding for them whether it's "the right thing to do" because some other software already exists is absurd.
Has there been any confirmation of the very juicy rumor about Skype and the NSA? Brieftly it is this:

The NSA put out a $1 billion RFP to crack the encryption of skype - their inability to listen in on this huge communication channel was really a bummer for the NSA. Microsoft says "Hmm" and buys Skype for $8 billion, re-engineers the archtecture of Skype so that it is centralized rather than P2P and easily decrypted by Law Enforcement.

Or is this only another juicy rumor? Is there any citation for this RFP from the NSA, for example?
I'll amend it, sorry, but it aggravates me slightly when someone is writing several paragraphs, describing in detail how much they are free from digital distractions, and so on and so forth, and at the very foot they say... Follow me on twitter.

... it speaks volumes to me, none of it good.
Eventually it will have compelling reasons to upgrade ( i.e. Firefox might not be back ported to fc17)
I guess they are counting on the premise that in future people who have their info public on facebook will increase... Given the things they have accomplished so far and the amount of investment that has gone into facebook, It will not be surprising if someday FB does add user web surfing data... (permission-based of course)
Steve Klabnik is a Ruby Hero and one of the most present Rails commiters and evangelists. Yes, the community doesn't tweet, but its elected champions do.

The parents post shows precisly the effect of personal behaviour to the communitys image. Hiding behind the group is harmful for it.
I'm pretty blown away by how well written and civil a lot of posts are on this thread.
I can live without my smartphone, but I don't need to. Life is better with it.
And I can't see why people consider "I’ve started calling people more" a pro instead of a con.

Why do people think that a person immersed in a gadget is a bad thing? I wouldn't be doing anything better without it. I would be bored to hell, as it used to be before I got my first gadget.
Responsive: A Task for the Developer or the Device?
Beyoncé lip sync
Did she really lip synced during the innuguration
Open comment to Internet Activists, Journalists and Academics: You're not going to get what you want by piggy-backing on Microsoft's proprietary platform. Specifically if you're an Internet Activists you shouldn't be relying on some company's proprietary tool for disguising your communications.

There's plenty of open and secure VoIP clients which coupled with open encryption standards, VPN's etc. will suit your purposes. Use those things, not Skype.
If anything, the traffic monitoring and rerouting capabilities of a smartphone were worth it for me. I broke my iPhone and downgraded to brick. After the first traffic jam I got stuck in, I decided to grab a used iPhone on eBay. I could use a GPS, but why get one when a smartphone offers so much more?
If everyone is liberal in what they accept, there's no pressure on anyone to be conservative in what they send, so that eventually withers.
Folks please try Discretio for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.discretio....)
Open source (GPLv3) secure VOIP solution. For the moment only Android version is available but iOS and desktop
vresions are in the queue...
In the US. In other countries, not so much.
"The world's free universal parts library"
"There are 124 more parts"

A ways to go!

If footprint/symbol files and part metadata will be sourced from users, will that communal resource be made available through an API and/or bulk data releases? Or will it be controlled and enclosed?

The screencast has an old front page which mentions "Like Wikipedia[, we will not charge for access]", so my hopes and expectations are high! Of course Wikipedia is not a for-profit endeavor.
Argh. How could you read this post and still miss the point so badly?

It is not about languages, it is about ideas. And the fact that you need years to master each of these languages because of ideas they are built upon, not because of such trivial things as syntax.

I strongly suspect that Joe would be equally comfortable with this list was C substituted with Go, Smalltalk substituted with Io or JavaScript substituted with Lua.

To paraphrase: "what is it with people liking or not liking JavaScript"? I know what is it with these people: they are noobs (sorry in advance, this is not intended as offensive). I have been programming for just twenty years now and I just recently, a few years ago, understood all this, so I'm not exactly surprised by your post, but still, I thought that email so well written as Joe's here would repel this kind of "Javascript is bad, use WhatEver(tm)" talk.

It seems I was overly optimistic with this one.
Haha yeah after I wrote that I got to thinking that "large town" may have been more in keeping with the scale. Thanks for calling out my exaggeration.

I think that the reason people (like myself) call out billionaires is because they are such a convenient distillation of the real problem of income inequality.

>About 20 000 houses in my neighborood would settle you for about $15bn

Damn where do you live?? I might point out that $750,000 homes are not typical. ;) 120,000 more typical $125,000 homes could be had for the same $15bn sum. Which is just wild to think about.
Let us know if you find some organizations that you like! I'm sure many here would love to read such a post and help contribute.
He calls it "being wrong on the Internet", but doesn't actually admit to being wrong, much less apologize. He seems to take umbrage at being called out on dickish behavior.
Joe is fearless and an inspiration. For those with 25~ dollars to spare, pick up Joe's 'Programming Erlang' and never regret it. I _think_ differently after reading that book. I am mainly a musician, but what he uncovered for me regarding our brains and how we think blew me away.
What words developers prefer to curse (using GitHub)
Using the new GitHub search we can finally count what are the developers preferred curses:
- 661,912 crap http://bit.ly/W1dzxp
- 292,221 fuck http://bit.ly/W1dJ7Y
- 276,799 shit http://bit.ly/W1duK4

'Crap' and 'shit' is preferred by C-developers. 'Fuck' by Web developers.
Links to articles that talk of storing data on DNA, bacteria and diamonds http://miningbigdata.blogspot.com/2012/08/storing-data-on-dn...
Insight.Database: The Anti-Anti-ORM for .NET
I like how they manage to quote themselves from a TechCrunch article.
"Bringing Data Together" says their CEO.
I recently got a Nokia C2-01. Very basic thing that is used for calls and texts and doesn't need charging every half a day.

It's also on Giffgaff in the UK so it costs me £20 top up a month for what I was paying around £80 a month for before.

It is a weight lifted from my shoulders in many ways.
Do you have TalkTalk in the USA? They seem to have won all of the worst customer service awards here in the UK for the last few years. Also in my experience, they are easily the worst company I've ever dealt with.
AFAIU Python's closure have been incomplete for a long time. I think they've become true, complete closures after the addition of the nonlocal keyword on 3.0

Please correct me if I'm mistaken. This all comes from a cursory research on the subject.
Well, I'm in Sweden on a gigabit connection right now. Quite a few countries have good cable and cell infrastructures. So, "other countries" might generalizing.
It's highly common for people on here to complain about how slow many modern websites are, mainly because they rely far too much on JavaScript or are trying to do too much on one page at one time.

File size is a very real measure that needs to be monitored. Naturally, if you're building a basic website then it's hard to make your pages too bloated, but I've had numerous interview candidates throw over CV's with basic one page portfolio sites that hit the 15MB mark, and these people often don't get the job.
I do (perversely) use Fedora to see where RHEL is going longer-term, and 18 has been really rough for me so far. Not impossible, just demoralizing.

Is the installer buggy, or just un-usably confusing? It's both. Sometimes the "submit" type of button is waaaay down in the lower right (e.g., "Continue", and sometimes it's in the upper left ("Done"). Modals are not differentiated from full screens.

Forget customized partitioning -- I tried everything I could and never got it to fully accept my very ordinary partitioning choices. An exercise in frustration.

To summarize, it feels like a thick, hard-to-remove layer of dysfunctional GUI gunk has been added needlessly, and it's time-consuming trial and error to remove to get back to something more tolerably vanilla (e.g., dig into grub, remove "rhgb quiet" and keep stripping things off until it's clean enough). And that's just the aesthetic stuff.

The xfce and lxde spins are vastly better but give fewer options for, e.g., little systray widgets, so I feel conky (really jurassic but lovable old pre-DE widget) is required.

If someone is looking for a "just works" distro, I'd recommend Crunchbang. Personally, I'll continue to work through the F18 issues and file bugs, but the problems are more philosophical than technical per se.
What is the best linux-compatibile open source with encryption alternative at the moment? The wiki page shows that many haven't been updated in quite some time (Twinkle). Does anybody have experience with Blink?
Here's David Cramer's notpology: http://justcramer.com/2013/01/24/being-wrong-on-the-internet...
"Overreacting" considered harmful
Some weird stuff going on with the if clauses:

Switch
His power level is 9000. It's almost 9000?!"

This should probably be:

#### Switch
His power level is [p6=5000[5000..20000,1000]]. It's [warning_2[(p6 < 8000),(p6 < 9000),(p6 == 9000),(p6 > 9000)]low.,almost 9000?!,9000!,OVER 9000!!!]

Anyways, I think this makes for completely unreadable Markdown, which is the totally opposite direction of what it ought to be.
Because, believe it or not, we're not all considered as important as the president of United States or the head figure of one of the most popular religions. Therefore, we're not all treated that way.

You might think that your time is as valuable as theirs -- and I'm not arguing either for or against it -- but the fact is that you would be a minority and the world doesn't work the way we think it should, but the way majority decides (or is led to decide). And the world's that way not just when it comes to phone calls.
How Money Can Hurt Employee Motivation [INFOGRAPHIC]
Back in the (2.1.x) day it seemed like I was running ac kernels more often than not. Nowadays though, I've been away from the kernel world for so long that I don't even know how big of a deal this is. Anyone care to chime in?
Very sorry to hear this and I genuinely hope that the canonical neckbeard's family situation improves.
Compared to the Linux (open) world? There was no real interface before 2000. Even with the core Linux developers like Linus, he absolutely did not care about the user space. Linux was sort of this competitor to MS Windows and the main creator of Linux didn't actually care to building user interfaces. Sure Linus was a kernel hacker and was trying to building the compliant OS system. I bet Steve Jobs didn't just look on the Apple OS kernel. He focused on the design of the hardware and the design of all the software. It is myopic to completely ignore the desktop arena. And a lot of open source developers were like that.
I used to do that with a TravelCard in London in the late 90s. £4 used to get you round the entire city and you can eat well for £4 on top of that. It's probably doubled now.

Some out of date Kodak 35mm film (free) and an old Praktica camera (free) and the city was mine. That, clothes and a rain coat and I was happy :)

I don't advocate it, but trespassing has certain interesting side as well and is free (if you don't get caught).
It used to be much worse.

It seems to have improved significantly over the past year. Not sure why.
[GER] Besseres Javascript
I have an unlimited 4g lte plan for 50/month through metropcs with a boring but functional android phone. The cost for getting an iphone through AT&T seems rather high to me.
What I tried to hint at is that you can play this infinitely. When you are equaling apples with oranges then you can an unlimited number of differences between those two to show that this apple is not really an orange. It makes no sense.

Blindly dismissing the benefits of free software just because some other aspect of computing hardware is also important is short-sighted and/or silly.
Skype's overall quality has been on a very steady decline recently. From call quality, to call drops, to offline contacts showing as online and vice versa, to privacy concerns - Skype's position has never been weaker. It still got an obvious momentum, but it is actively pissing of a lot of its users.
Twitter; you don't have space for detailed (and possibly constructive) criticism, you substitute witticisms because that's what gets retweeted (i.e. what the environment rewards). Maybe you read another snarky tweet just before and want to one-up it. Maybe you just worked on some messy code and are a bit frustrated and this looked like the right place to vent.

Off-hand snarkiness can be pretty mean, but that doesn't mean that everyone who engages in it is a fundamentally bad person; In fact I sincerely doubt anyone here has never written something similar.
Tablet: Personal Computer in the Year 2000 (1988)
I think that "pace" is something very much disrupted with various doodads vying for one's attention.

I spent several years with my family in a rather primitive house. We tried to minimize use of power when possible to save money and not be dependent on it. As a result, our refrigeration needs were minimal.

For several months, we started shutting off the main power circuit into the house for one day a week, usually Saturday or Sunday (and banning the use of battery-powered gadgets). It was awesome. No phone calls, no humming of the refrigerator, no ability to distract oneself easily with the PC or a movie or the radio. We would eat basic meals, go on walks, or just sit around the house/property on our own and reflect. I'd read more. The evenings were often spent playing cards together, often by the wood stove, with candles, talking more, drinking wine.

I miss those days, and someday hope to return to such a situation. This isn't some kind of snobbery. Such silence and freedom -- such idle time -- is good for the mind, body, and soul (at least that's what I personally believe). I encourage people to experience such peace when they can.
Debian stable or FreeBSD.

Everybody else seems to be losing the plot. Well, I bet Slackware and Puppy continue to work just fine.
I am using on dailylife a smartphone, but i got the same issu:

No camera; I don't take pics from my smartphone.

No music; Not enought choice of music in the format required and anyway the player leak too much battery and it is lagging.

No maps; 10 minutes to get a fix...

I’ve started calling people more; taking 10 minutes for a fix on the agps built-in is too long

I don’t care for my phone; it is so heavy that I got asked at airport

My concerns were mostly right, but I can live without these things; but someone told me QtMoko was usable, I will give it a try also.

Let me the time to compile this thing ( Not going back.. for now )

Message sent from my OpenMoko Freerunner GTA02
My Nokia (C2-01) has never dropped a call. I did a 4 hour call up the East Coast Mainline in the UK with no drops at 120mph :)

But spot on to all your points :)
Not a very big deal, though I'm sad he has a family crisis. The only entry in MAINTAINERS left for Alan is drivers/tty/serial. He's been doing some kernel bugzilla triage too, that'll be missed.
What's the relative speed of floating point add vs. floating point multiply?
> No one reads (books) on buses/trains anymore.

They do here (Tokyo area).

What's interesting is that a few years ago, far fewer people seemed to be reading; everybody was staring at their phone. Lately (within the last couple of years), however, this seems to be changing, and I see many more people reading actual books [this is helped by the fact that Japanese paperbacks [文庫] are almost perfectly suited for train reading, being small, thin, light, and flexible].

My guess is that the bloom has passed to some degree, and highly capable phones have become so normal that people are less fascinated by them, and more likely to see the tradeoffs compared to things like books/newspapers/etc. [and indeed, I seem to see more people reading actual broadsheets on trains lately as well]

That doesn't mean people don't look at their phones, of course; many do. But books are back, baby... :]

[This is all merely my personal observation of course; YMMV...]
Ironic that the post just before that on her blog is about dealing with the assholes you will likely encounter in Open Source.
No worries, I'm a native speaker and I was just as disappointed to learn that it isn't a parts store.
Comparing Heat Shields: Mars Science Lab vs. SpaceX Dragon
How to test whether your idea has a market
Lessons learnt while building an HTTP API for a mobile service
Interesting product. But wow, your website really looks like http://puppetlabs.com/ in color scheme and layout, but most especially the logo.
Do it with your SO and your kids in their pre-teen years, and you will start to believe that this is about as good as it gets.

For me, every time I do this, I get a feeling of contentment. I also feel inspired.
Wow, David Cramer is a total asshole! That Steve Klabnik guy is also an asshole. The only one who doesn't appear to a complete dick is Corey Haines, whose apology was better. Not great, but better.

Here's the thing - if you ever even consider saying things like this to someone on the internet, you're an asshole. It's not a one time accidental thing. Nope, it's in your personality. I hope I never meet either of these two individuals, but if I ever meet them face to face I will make sure to tell them exactly what I think of them.
Journalists and activists report having their Skype calls tapped
I don't follow the kernel nearly as closely as I used to, either. That said, here's Alan's most recent commits on the mainline (3.7) tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git....

That said, I too of course hope that whatever situation he is in the middle of goes well.
The people involved determine what is fair not me. However, I can see some factors to consider in regards to the personal loan.

First it prioritizes cash over effort. This expresses a lack of faith in the startup. Second nothing poisons personal relationships like debt. Third it means that B has an incentive to quit and get a regular job earlier in the company's life cycle because he has an additional bill to pay.

Arm's length marriage is not a good idea.

I think the personal loan makes a hash of things. Suppose founder B writes the critical piece of code? Should he require founder A to pay for it? Suppose he makes the critical sale, should he get more equity?

Founders bring different resources to the enterprise. If one founder is unable to contribute a critical resource, the sensible options are to find a working source or forgo the enterprise.

If you must have your money back, don't invest in a startup.
I found SA quite a while back as a plugin for my shopify store. I started using them right away to track weekly and monthly sales for my store. I was really impressed with how easy SumAll was to use, but never really bothered to visit the site because they sent out gorgeous weekly emails with all the information I needed.

So finding this here is really wonderful. I'm happy to see them moving beyond just tracking sales and on to tracking me. I've hooked up my FB, Instagram, Twitter, Analytics and Shopify information for now.
He really spent a lot of time not apologizing. In fact, not once in his entire post did he even begin to apologize. Most of it was him trying (and failing) to excuse his behavior in the most childish way possible: by blaming everyone but himself.

Seriously, what an asshole.
Here's an interesting lecture (sorry, I couldn't find a non-split version) he gave at a university in Sweden (where Erlang has a much greater influence, ahhh the sanity of Northern Europe ;P)
note - the sound is dim for the first few moments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uIhawQ1G0I

He goes into some of the choices that went into Erlang, and some interesting experiences he had as the project went forward. He gives a different list that he feels the students in attendance should learn:
C, JS, LLVM Assembler, one of ruby or python, and one of Erlang or Haskell.
Here's what I said to Nathan:

"You can’t sell to ANY of those people."

And he can't.

Are you just quibbling for the sake of quibbling?
"These renderers start at the light source and stochastically generate and follow photons."

Yes, that's similar to ray tracing, but going 'backwards'

Rasterizing is certainly faster, requiring more work in the 'intelligence' of scene assembly.

With raytracing (or physics rendering) you have lights, objects 'naturally interacting' with each other so shadows, reflection, radiosity comes ""automatically"" (still hard to do)

With rasterizing you have triangles with different colors, and it's up to you to paint them accordingly.
That's a main reason why I don't. But I gather that in some circles the social pressure to tweet is not much short of arm twisting.

I doubt you could find many twitter accounts (barring commercial PR stuff) whose history is entirely free of rudeness.
This is the winner of a competition organized by Apple in 1987 to design the personal computer of the year 2000. The section "The Machine" in particular is a surprisingly accurate description of current tablets.