skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, apparently as a former Lutheran I learned the Catholic version. Seems it is even worse than that link suggests though, as there are two texts which are considered to be the 10 commandments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments#Two_texts_with...

How was I not aware of this...
I am not falling for BB again !

In my last iteration of smartphone purchase, I bought a latest-at-the-time Iphone 3GS for my wife and the latest-at-the-time Blackberry Bold. Since then I have watched in envy as my wife could get so much done on her phone than I could on my BB. My BB never did much beyond email and BBM ( I love BBM )

In this iteration, I recently placed an order for Nexus 4 and a Iphone 5. maybe if they are still around in 3~4 years from now, sure I could consider going back to BB.
it weirds me out that not a single place in the US you can get fresh juice (save from one or two chains of fresh juice only). Where i came from, at least orange and lemonade you can get at pretty much 100% of restaurants.

yet, every glass of water comes with a thick slice of lemon dangling on the rim of the glass. Go figure.
Lovely. This is really the first true smartphone OS since webOS that I'm actually excited for. The gestures are a little worrisome, however, with a 4-inch display. I have small hands, and it seems the gestures would require use of two hands...

Another thing I noticed -- it seems like the UI's colors and typefaces were ripped straight from Android's Holo interface. No big deal, just something I noticed.
"Women are also more likely than men to talk through problems."

Citation required.

Positive stereotypes like this create just as hostile a work environment as negative ones.
If you don't mind me asking, what platform were you on before? I'm considering ditching my iPhone for the Z10 as I'm so tired of Apple. I really miss the unified inbox in BlackBerry world and the hub sounds promising. App selection is not that important to me.
Lessons:

1. Don't hire people without getting to know them first a bit.

2. Don't hire people who cannot give references.

3. Don't expect cheap jobs to come through. You pay for what you get.

4. Do hire someone from the monthly HN freelancers thread. Lots of reputable people in there.

5. Don't expect a freelancer to also be a security expert. Some just deliver the system, you need to hire security consultants to make it secure.

6. Do subscribe to codejobs. A newsletter I run where people like you can meet and hire reputable people. Its free. http://eepurl.com/uOdzP

7. Rants like these put you in a bad light. Put them on your blog and link here. Posting it directly makes you lose control of the content in case this turns into a PR disaster.

8. Posting the name of the developer is not cool. You are not giving him/her/them a chance to post their side of the story. For all we know you are the scammer.
But that's not the point - it sounds familiar because it is a catch call term that has been broadly used in science fiction literature.

This isn't trademarking the term, "lightsaber." This is trademarking the term, "laser sword."
I've had quite good luck getting responses to my bug reports, but it requires active lobbying. You need to figure out whether it's a Chrome bug or a WebKit bug. If it's a WebKit bug, file a link in WK's Bugzilla and link to it in a crbug issue. Then, go on IRC and pester the person responsible for fixing that component. It's helpful if you can go through the source and propose where the bug might be.

Examples:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32303
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35472

I hate to pester people who are already working on other things, but some bugs just need to be fixed at the browser level.
Thanks, never saw that before. Was logged in to Google Account on the browser sync, but apparently not the store.
I would argue that in the UK, s11(2)(b) of the Trade Mark Act could be used to make my argument. The book features a marine who is in space aka a space marine. The usage is necessary to describe the product. Admittedly this may be a tricky one to run.

Your point is more about exhaustion of right where goods have been put on the market with the owner's consents. In the UK, this would be covered under s.12 of the above act.
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Did you even read the review? This isn't related AT ALL to the old OS7 Bold or any other Blackberry line, which were awful. BB10 can do much more than an iPhone and be just as productive while providing a rich media experience.
On Delphi and Looney Toons: Oracle Acquires Acme Packet
Getting more representation from people being kept out due to sexism isn't mutually exclusive with talking about sexism critically within tech industry. They go hand in hand with making sure that people who want to program and be a part of tech aren't kept from doing so.

> This is a good example of why I think "diversity" initiatives are missing the point. The point isn't to have equal proportions of races/sexes/nationalities/etc., the point is to ensure that they are all treated equally and justly. Many diversity movements do the exact opposite and treat people differently based on their sex or skin color. I think this is unjust and can often make problems worse, not better.

To begin with, the people who are underrepresented in tech are already treated differently on the basis of gender, race, etc. Knowing that and aiming to make sure that you include those people at some ratio isn't unjust. In the case of dev bootcamp chicago, they knew it would be easy to sell seats to the wider dev community that consists mostly of men, so they made a conscious effort to get the word out in spaces that inhabited mostly by women before going to their usual sources. That is most certainly fair considering that had they not done so, it was likely that men would greatly outnumber the amount of women attending.
"...what is considered acceptable for a certain person..."

Then perhaps it is society that needs changing. But from the inside out. This patching from the outside in is never going to significantly affect the roots of the problem.
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http://pivory.com/#topic/1736
How Skype Is Helping Topple a Dictator in Syria
Not being a jerk at all. If it's alienating, it's alienating.

Although it's interesting, because I like being targeted. If someone organized a nearby tech event that was accompanied by a big rack of ribs and an evening of firing off guns into the desert, I'd sign up for that sucker in a heartbeat.

Perhaps that's because I would never think 'oh, the organizers of this event are just putting these activities together to attract more people like me' - the social engineering wouldn't be obvious to me, and if it was I just wouldn't care.

I wonder why the organizers didn't just say 'okay, this event has 50% tickets for men and 50% tickets for women'? That'd certainly be the simplest way of getting to the ratio they wanted, and it wouldn't involve mixing in other gendery activities.
Ha. Say hello to the "1.3 trillion mailing industry" cited in the CNBC interview. Not to mention "8-9 million prvate sector jobs".

If you do some research on the history of the US mail, specifically air mail, you might find some interesting details. Is it possible that "junk mail" was used as the justification for air mail service? What role does junk mail play in the economics of the mail system?

The CNBC interview also says the US moves "40% of the world's mail". I wonder how much of the world's junk mail the US is responsible for? Vis-a-vis other countries, does the US produce more junk in proportion to legitimate mail? Does junk mail drive the US mail system?
Is it open source? Can I see the code?

Edit: Specifically I want to validate the claim "all my data stays on my browser"
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How about confronting the guy?

This is the one thing so many people fail to do, even though they don't want to leave. People don't suddenly stop being decent human beings incapable of change when they become managers or owners.

I've confronted people "above" me with their failures and have been confronted by people "below" me with mine. It hurts for a minute, but very rarely does that lead to escalation, and more often then not it at the very least a genuine attempt to change.
Legal wrangling aside, I don't see a problem with a lack of "innovation", the same WH40K I played as a kid would still be fun today, however it is certainly interesting to see how WoTC has attempted to innovate to sell new products.

The main difference, of course, is that WH40K is wargaming min-maxy and specific troop-based versus D&D allowing a great deal of flexibility in the rules and creative content.
Carriers finally get a cut of Skype Credit sales, starting in Russia
That is definitely not true, as women are underrepresented in business leadership positions, esp. at higher leadership levels.
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I don't even know where to begin with this.

In all comparisons, you should remove confounding variables. Yes, you should benchmark something you actually care about, otherwise what's the point? That doesn't mean all other variables are immediately null and void. That's why I said said if your goal is to measure ruby execution time, you should remove startup time.

As for the practice of benchmarking in general, you're partially right. Micro-benchmarks are usually useless because they don't map to real work load. But profiling and speeding up small portions that are used heavily can have drastic improvements that in isolation seem small -- the death by a thousand cuts problem. Not all improvements come from isolated instances with very slow performance profiles.

This fallacy about DB access and not needing to optimize really needs to go away though. Even if 50% of your app is spent hitting DB, you have opportunity to speed up the other 50% and it's likely far easier. Ruby in particular is ripe for improvements on the CPU side. I managed to reduce my entire test suite time by 30% by speeding up psych. I managed to cut the number of servers I need in EC2 in half by switching from MRI, Pasenger, and resque to JRuby, TorqueBox, and Sidekiq. And I've managed to speed up my page rendering time anywhere from 8 - 40x by switching from haml to slim. None of these changes required modifications to my DB, none required me to write assembly, none required me to switch to custom-built hardware, and each helped reduce the expenses for my bootstrapped startup, while improving the overall experience for my customers.
A Warning to Fortune 1000 CEOs: The Mobile Crush Cometh
This frustrates me too. I've run into a laundry list of Browser (mostly canvas) bugs over the years, 95% in Chrome (my main browser) and 5% in Firefox.

I think the thing that frustrates me the most isn't the bugs themselves. After all, in general for OSS I'm not paying anyone to make or fix things, and they owe me nothing.

What irritates me is when high-profile projects like Chrome and Firefox (coincidentally both browsers, but that's not my point) then promote themselves as serious, professional-standard projects that people can rely on. They and their evangelists take great pride in stealing market share from established closed source/commercial alternatives (IE in the browser case). Then normal people start using them, expecting a better experience. But then every time there's an update, we play the "will my software even still work?" lottery. (And this applies not just to the browsers, in that example, but also to all the web apps running on them, for which users might be paying real money.)

Unfortunately, on the kinds of geek-friendly forums where these movements tend to start before they expand to the general population, it's often sacrilege to criticise a favoured OSS project. You may get hostile replies, or simply voted into obscurity by whatever mechanism is in place, even if like jwz you take the time to cite specific problems or have provided detailed bug reports and test cases. (Doing the latter is absurdly difficult for many of the large projects anyway, but it gives them a convenient excuse to ignore problems.)

Again, it's completely up to these projects whether to promote helpful contributions or to be hostile. They're giving their stuff away, and owe the rest of us nothing. But it would be nice if there was a little truth in advertising. If an OSS project isn't going to take bug fixing or regression testing seriously, it shouldn't promote itself as professional standard software. (And if a project is created/maintained entirely by one amazingly generous person running the whole show but who has limited time to devote to the project and can't keep up with everything, it would be helpful if there was a prominent warning to that effect somewhere people considering that project would find it before they started relying on it unwisely. Perhaps that would even prompt more concrete support and/or contributions to help the project out.)
Is https://www.appointmentreminder.org/ what you're looking for? HN thread of the launch by patio11 here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1975316

There's a bunch more on google
But do they care about bugs in previous versions? Or do they only address bugs in the current/beta version? I suspect the latter, which means there's a growing set of non-critical bugs which get re-reported in every version but never fixed (priority always lower than shipping new features). Otherwise, I don't know how to explain the seemingly increasing instability of the software: memory leaks, crashes, etc. I even bought a new MacBook Pro this year, and maxed out the RAM at 16gb, but Safari still crashes and has the same frustrating issues like the occasional won't-refresh-local-url-without-quitting-and-restarting. Such bugs don't get added with new features, they've been there for a while in previous versions.
That's right. The article was indicting caffeine, yet the presented graph is "ER visits associated with energy drinks"
Here's a litmus test: If a user loses their credentials, is their data unrecoverable?
KDE5 is going to require a significant refactoring of the code base into qt quick 2 and c++11 anyway. Just look at all the things they need to add to kwin (though it is probably the worst case): http://community.kde.org/KWin/Qt5
Once the USMC, which has for the past few decades used Starship Troopers as an inspiration for how it should be organized, actually commences near-Earth-orbit operations, I'm sure they'd have an opinion about this mark and this sort of lawsuit.
Go blackberry!!!!

Become another market for me to sell my stuff \o/
It's still relevant. Increasingly, mobile OSes are less about where they are now than where they will be. Apple have been outstanding in that regard- providing OS updates to really quite old phones. Vanilla Android has been just as great, but individual Android manufacturers less so. MS has been terrible. BB has a history of being terrible.

So, Blackberry's past is relevant. No, they might not repeat it, but absent of any other evidence, we can only judge them by past conduct.

just as productive while providing a rich media experience.

I don't even know what that means
What's it's like to work at SEOmoz
Trader Joe's sells fresh squeezed orange and tangerine juices.
Anecdote: Many many stores proudly display 'proxy' models in the windows, presumably made by the staff. I know of very specific rules for tournaments but I can't see casual gamers enforcing them.
Because Christians are generally speaking quite ignorant of the Old Testament, and not infrequently the New as well. Every religious Jew on earth is well aware of this, and if you read the two versions side-by-side you'll see the differences are stylistic and not substantive--the shade of difference between "honor" and "love" or "remember" and "observe" is just not that great, though our practices often are explained as owing to these distinctions.

If you are looking for something about the Bible to be upset about, you can certainly do a lot better than this.
Meet Dilys Sun, the ‘Codecademy girl’ from the Crunchies
If you're in a STEM major, just wait until your senior year or so.
It's not open source. You can verify this by the fact you have no login for Chime, so if you switch computers there's no "user profile" for you following you around. Beyond that, I'm not sure how else you want to verify this claim.
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"Wear Sunscreen" is listed in the "Parodies" section of the linked wikipedia page -- seemed like a stretch to call that a parody...
"At the time of the talk, Etsy’s had twenty women on its 110-person engineering team, which is a roughly eighteen percent (or a four and half times) increase from the previous year. It’s not quite hockey stick growth, but it’s a huge step forward."
http://www.scribd.com/doc/124175489/Quora-quora-com
HTTP Archive: new schema & dumps
Postal Service to end Saturday mail delivery
They've always said that all PlayBooks will receive BB10. Who knows when though.
Cozumel
Logic.ly: Build and simulate basic logic circuits with just a few mouse clicks
I personally haven't found any WYSIWYG equation editors that are nearly as fast, easy to edit, and good looking at the built-in MathType/MS Word equation editor.

If anyone has suggestions for LO plug-ins or other free software, let me know.
sigh Let's call off the angry accusation slinging straw man slap fight and just pencil in on the official forms that we did it, shall we?

I haven't said, nor do I mean to imply, that my dad is better than your dad, err, I mean, that software development is somehow on a higher plane or superior to other work. However, there is something that sets software apart from most other work in that it is almost entirely design work, even "construction" is design work. (Of course, there is often something that sets most genres of work apart from other genres too, every industry has its unique aspects.) A particular engineering task might require more man-hours in design than in construction but that is an edge case, and the ratio is unlikely to be higher than an order of magnitude, the norms still apply. And again, software sees a rather larger range of scale than almost any other industry. The difference in, say, the amount of data handled by a given piece of software can range from a single byte (or even a single bit) up to petabytes or higher (the LHC processes zettabytes of data per year). That's 21 orders of magnitude. The difference between the smallest features in a microchip and the longest superhighways on Earth is only 15 magnitudes, and those are considered to be hugely different industries.

The main point I wanted to get at though was that due to the primacy of design individual talent can often have an outsized impact on overall product quality or capability. You certainly see that in many other disciplines but not necessarily on the same scale. Because, again, it's not terribly rare to have a situation where a piece of software developed by a single developer is just generally better than one developed by a team working at a multi-billion dollar mega-corp. That's the equivalent of some guy building a Mach 10 plane in his garage that runs on solar power. You tend not to see extremes on such magnitudes outside of software.

Indeed, it's even a driving force in the industry, as the idea of being able to build some new or better product from nothing and scale up to a billion dollar company in a matter of years starting from only one or two founders is rather common in software and shockingly uncommon outside of it.
Dear colleague,

I am the best, most innovative and most efficient human you are likely to ever encounter. I have yet to do the research, but my gut tells me that empirical evidence would surely prove that my organizational and note-taking methods are universally and uniformly the best for all human beings living on this planet. As such, I judge my subordinates not on their performance or their contributions to the team, but rather by their ability to recognize the unquestionable brilliance of All The Things That I Do. While I stand here waiting for you to fetch your laptop (by the way, next week we are switching to iPads - NO MINIS!), I will post an insightful essay to my extremely valuable blog explaining my frustration with people who mistakenly believe that any human being anywhere would not be better off if he just tried harder to emulate me.

You may now commence agreeing with me,

Your Team Manager
> Serfs occupied a portion of land and owed a portion of their crops to the lord of the manor or their feudal lord. It was slavery in all but name.

Add in the ability to occasionally submit votes that are statistically irrelevant and you've got modern Western democracy.
Challenge HN: Let a suit evaluate your project
This post is meant to settle a friendly argument between myself a few hacker friends of mine.
I am a 'hackersuit.' I have a business degree & work in business development. I can also hack enough to contribute to the product I work on at a valley giant.

I taught myself to code over the last few years b/c I was tired of the attitude I got from hackers when I talked about concepts & ideas. Now I only appreciate what hackers do more.

There are two premises that motivated me to write this post:

1) I believe that both suits and hackers under-appreciate each other. The lack of symbiosis is the reason most start-ups & projects go nowhere and/or fail.

2) Hackers pigeon-hole business folks just like suits do hackers. Suites think that any ol' hacker can just 'write some code' and build their product; hackers think any suit can 'do some marketing or sell the product.'

Neither is true.

What I'd like to demonstrate to hackers is that some suits (like some hackers) have 'it.' Call it intuition, business savvy, a sixth sense, whatever. It's the ability to determine whether an app, website, concepts, etc. has market value or potential.

So the idea came up to use HN to ask people to share what they're working on and then have me - the suit - give VC-style, pinpoint feedback to show why/how whatever project does/does not work in the market

Our goal here is to a) prove the importance of some suits - those with 'it' - to the conceptualization & execution of a project, and b) dispel the theory that any hacker can just 'create something and turn it into a business.'

But, the larger aim is to prove that if we want to move ourselves forward, we're going to have to develop a much healthier respect and appreciation for each other - hackers and suits.

So, if you're up for it and have a relevant, project post your MVP, app, site, whatever and I will break it down.
Should Google Turn Off their PageRank Meter?
If you are interested in better living through chemistry then I encourage you to peruse this site:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_of_death
Ask HN: Which Shift key do you primarily use?
I just realized that I never use the right Shift key. Always the left. Do any of you primarily use the right Shift key?
The Camelot of collaboration: The case of VAX Notes
As someone who used to work for BlackBerry, this was always the stated direction for BB10. Whether or not that's changed in the last few months, I can't say, but while I was there the intention was always to release in the US last to work the kinks out.
Really?

C:\Users\andrewj\Desktop>type test.cs
public static class Test {
public static void Main(string[] args) {
foreach (string arg in args) {
System.Console.WriteLine(arg);
}
}
}
C:\Users\andrewj\Desktop>csc test.cs
C:\Users\andrewj\Desktop>test.exe a b "C:\Program Files (x86)" d e
a
b
C:\Program Files (x86)
d
e

Do you mean "language x" on .NET?
Introducing the Dropbox Sync API
Maybe the starring system can be this?
Netflix: Solving Big Problems with Reactive Extensions (Rx)
Intense!
What about limiting the number of services for the free version; say the first five are free, then a one time fee to unlock additional.