skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nearly correct according to http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/6/19/05641/7357 the initial code was provided by Spider but since NT3.5 it's been mostly (see the article for why I say mostly) MS code in the kernel (and the userland code is BSD 'cos it works and ain't broken)
> Some awesome devs make Cool GPL Software™. Hundreds of large proprietary software companies like the look of the software, but it's GPL, so they can't use it.

Yeah, good think Linux is BSD, otherwise it wouldn't have any companies writing code for it. Oh wait...
Can you do X smaller and faster without jQuery?

If X is non-trivial and you need to support old/crappy browsers, then probably not (well, not without person-years of pain).

Conversely, if you can get away with targeting only IE9+, WebKit and Mozilla, or if X is dead simple, then almost certainly yes. And you should try it, too, because jQuery is a big warty kitchen-sink of a framework. In those cases these days I use CoffeeScript and a few simple homegrown helpers[1].

[1] https://github.com/jawj/affogato
Looks nice graphically, but it still doesn't solve my problem of automatically finding a torrent and downloading. Also, I don't want to register for yet another site that keeps track of some stuff for me, and I'd like to watch my shows on the TV instead of on a computer.

I've submitted my own solution for this a to HN a couple months ago:
http://schizoduckie.github.com/seriesguide-chrome/

It's a chrome plugin, that automatically shows you the magnet link with he most result from a TPB mirror whenever an episode of your favorite tv shows came out. Click that magnet link and it' ll be picked up by your favorite torrent client.
This takes the hassle out of the wole process for me:
- Get notified
- Track what you have already downloaded
- Find a TPB mirror that works, execute search, sort by most seeds

I've also included a general TPB search to just find the most-seeding torrent for any search term.
Soros: General Theory of Reflexivity (2009)
I don't really understand why Cannonical has decided to concentrate on adjusting Ubuntu to mobile, their main "selling" point is that you have a full desktop OS available on your phone. If they play their cards right, Ubuntu for Android [1] could pick up a huge percentage of OS market share in a couple of years when "desktop enabled" smartphones start replacing PCs for a lot of people.

No one else seems to be going in that direction, and by running alongside Android (for now) they wouldn't need to worry about the mobile part and have instant access to a huge existing userbase.

[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android
The inside story of Aaron Swartz’s campaign to liberate court filings
When this first came around, I was surprised how big Greenland is after all. It's not a small island, it's as big as the entire US East Coast.
Hey did this come out of the domain exchange idea I had a week or so ago in one of the threads on HN? If so, great execution. I like the idea of a "kudos" being used as a virtual currency.

Just looking at the instructions now is there any way to make them shorter (maybe 3 or 4 steps instead of 6?) Also step 6 is very vague. What are "golden domains"? I mean I may have some idea but it's really not clear to an average user. What makes a domain a "golden one"? Are my domains "golden"? Anyway you get the picture.
"So who is right? Well, the BSD camp is."

Gave up at this line.

As far as I'm concerned the licenses give different freedoms and pointing at one or the other as objectively superior is just dick-waving.
This is ridiculous. The infographic shows examples of 'successful' startups that have only been around for 2 years, then setting them side by side with 'failed' startups that took 5 years or more to fail.

And as someone else mentioned before, Zynga is far from a success story. It's one of the most memorable failures, if anything.

I'm sure the study provides very sensible results, but this infographic is a complete misrepresentation of it.
Didnt really use the 2.X version much, but 3.0 looks sleek and has some cool features, ill give it another try!
See a current submission to HN

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5187709

for a more nuanced discussion that is not a rehashed press release, but an edited long-form article by an experienced writer on the topic.
I'd prefer for it to not. It's better to use nginx or stud to provide HTTPS on top of an HTTP app.
I think you don't understand my original point. This guy is nothing more than what we both have agreed, a "dick".

"there is nothing wrong with doing this"

Of course in the case where someone has a domain infringing on another's trademark, that is in fact very wrong and can lead to legal problems.
Mixpanel is awesome, but still uses Google Analytics on their own site
“But Shakespeare didn’t just read these texts and imitate their best parts; he made them his own, seamlessly blending them together in his plays. Sometimes the literary approach got Shakespeare into trouble. His peers repeatedly accused him of plagiarism, and he was often guilty, at least by contemporary standards. What these allegations failed to take into account, however, was that Shakespeare was pioneering a new creative method in which every conceivable source informed his art. For Shakespeare, the act of creation was inseparable from the act of connection.”

Page 220, Imagine by Jonah Lehrer
Well, apparently prior art has nothing to do with trademark. So, to paraphrase The Big Lebowski, they're not wrong, they're just assholes.
Golang Weekly Returning February 2013
A nifty revenge would be for the net to repurpose the term "space marine" as a synonym for some disgusting activity, like vomiting. For example, IP lawyers makes me space marine all over my carpet.
No good scientist will ever say "definitely". In any case, you're right not to "believe" science, it's more a case of "beyond reasonable doubt".
nice for sharing your insights.
i like the approach on the press. it's always hard to get good press coverage!
That's quite amusing. I see the problem: when the shape distorts enough to connect its boundaries across the south pole, the outside becomes the inside.
That is unlikely. What is more likely — as there is significant historical evidence of it — is that GW has a legal department entirely run and staffed by the closest equivalent to ghouls we have.
Show HN: Campuslively, for college students to view and post events
The recovery partition is likely at the end of the drive, which means it can easily be deleted and the other partition appropriately extended.
I'm not bashing them, I'm only saying it merely shows that although event/action tracking is a great approach, "traditional" traffic analytics are still needed.
I guess it depends on what kind of results you want. It's possible to scan the public IPv4 address space reliably, but it requires a bit more effort than just sending out packets to see what you get back over a relatively short time frame.

You can split the address space up across several different scanners on different physical links. You can estimate the RTT to a network segment you're scanning and base your timings on that. Probing with TCP packets can yield better results than ICMP packets for this type of activity. There's so many variables involved.

Build a tool that allows you to send ICMP packets at a fixed rate (preferably in the kernel, or even without an OS at all if you're into that. Getting precise timings in user land is hard) or just a tool that sleeps between packets with the possibility of not sleeping at all. It's an educational experience. Scan a relatively small range of addresses bound to hosts on the other side of the world at different speeds and see the diff in results. Maybe there's a good tool for that already.

Whenever I read about "We've scanned/product X can scan the internet in X hours" I'm very sceptical. Unless the results are verifiable in some way (which is hard to guess/estimate for such a large sample) or the approach they took seems like a sane one (very subjective I guess), I assume they don't know what they're doing. The reason I assume this is because I've been there myself.
Isn't the Sony PS3 operating system largely based on Linux?

This is much more about what you let customers do with machines. There's a tension between "anything goes" (and rampant piracy and cheating) and total lockdown. Big companies seem to go the route of sealing everything up. It's unclear that this is totally necessary.
If you would like to use opinion data in your own apps you can check out the poutsch API http://poutsch.com/developers/
There's a touch issue:

When you successfully match a country, the shape turns green. However you can move the shape once out of its position. It remains green after the move but you can't move it again (future attempts to move the green item are treated as panning the map)
Meh, if the map supports zooming, I don't consider it cheating. I didn't even try to zoom, but I'd have used zoom had I been aware. Now the guy above that looked at the page source-- he's cheating. ;-)
What specifically has he done to make the US government more "left" other than health care reform (based on Republican proposals but for the sake of argument lets allow that as a liberal cause)?
Funny you should say that.. I was about to launch with a similar product but a little more complicated.
I was waiting for someone at the airport and I saw your post/comment and it made it clear to me that I'd over complicated the idea.
So I pretty much went back to scratch and came up with name2.me... Thanks for unintentional "push" in the right direction.
When we see top domain names come through we are going to mark them as "Golden" and give the opportunity to the highest kudos users to get in first.
Thanks again.
So what it means is that copyright can not be used as a means to censor free speech? Well, that's what I understood anyway.

That's still interesting. And although I also found the wording very confusing, I upvoted it (I usually do this as a bookmarking method). Please, don't hate me!
And this is how 3D printing becomes regulated out of existence.
Dinosaur extinction an asteroid the only cause?
I play a lot of computer games and have heard of Warhammer 40,000. I have never heard the phrase "Space Marine" in relation to Warhammer though. No doubt if you play the game it's impossible not to, but expecting people to be familiar with Warhammer AND know that they use Space Marine seems folly. Especially since it sounds pretty generic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_marine
The difference is in expectations. The Surface Pro may be slightly immune to that, but when someone buys a tablet, they are buying a media consumption device, so that they can download and read/watch/listen to files at their leisure. There is little file system access, and it is largely abstracted away.

A PC is a general purpose device with full access to the file system and the ability to do much more than a traditional tablet. If the surface is a touchscreen laptop it should be marketed as such. I cant believe that we are all having the discussion around what a megabyte or multiple thereof is. PCs smartphones and electronics have always been so specific as to their tech specs I dont understand who decided it would be a good idea to have a conversion factor between megabyte and a "million" bytes. At the end of the day, however, its just tech press and people with too much time on their hands complaining about a small aspect of a device. Articles like this make me grumpy...
I was hoping for some more evidence of causation. The new research is still circumstantial, in that before it was the assumptive cause because the impact was dated to within ~1 million years of the extinction event, and now it's even more assumed to be the cause because it has been dated to within ~11,000 years of the extinction event.

Where was the line drawn for it to be "confirmed"? Is circumstantial evidence the best we can do?
those are essentially different code bases (python/java/vb6).

As the other replier wrote, having different style variables and naming conventions in the same project - really, the same file - is somewhat distracting.

<?php $x = 55;

$numberOfPeopleEmailed = 23;

$What_The_User_Chose = $_POST['chosen'];

do_something_withVarName($x);

$sFirst_Name = _$_POST['name'];

it gets distracting. While it's been rare for me, I've occasionally dealt with large files with different styles of var naming contributed by different people. It's far more of a mental nuisance than tabs-v-spaces (I'm a tabs guy, fwiw).
GPL (same as above)

FAIL.
I've heard of it, but knew nothing about it. There's a long list of space marines in fiction I would have pointed out before someone pointed out that this franchise also has them.
Today's relevant xkcd:
http://xkcd.com/1171/
"Where is outline mode?"

The bug's still open:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38262

Grandfathered in from:
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3959

It seems crazy to me that such a common usage mode doesn't seem to be driving any development work.

I'm one of a large number of people who won't be using LibreOffice until that RFE's addressed properly (nope, Navigator view is not an equivalent thing).
This isn't an infographic. This is text with colorful backgrounds and icons.
You cannot set up traps on your land in most countries.
Totally true, given the additional facts that a collector would pay a big amount for getting a mint piece of something he may have already, but in a bad shape. Plus, a lot of them are Japanese versions, which will appeal to those, who only have a USA version, after all, japanese voice-dubs are really world apart!

I also found some pieces that I would pay a lot to have, but then again the problem is I can't have them individually.
Maybe some gaming site or community or museum can pick this up?
Please read the whole article before commenting.
Didn't they refer to characters in the Aliens films as Space Marines? The movies predate the game genre I believe.

Obviously the 1930s has both trumped.
Perhaps science changed in the last decade, but when I worked on my PhD words like "confirmed" and "definitely" were frowned upon.
As I have said elsewhere, the terminology is relevant because it is the terminology of the disciplines that deal with this stuff. I can accept that people will want to talk about this stuff without knowing anything about it at first - that makes sense, and without already knowing that it has already been studied how would they know? When people learn that there is actually a prior literature and well developed disciplines that deal with this stuff however, then deliberately turning their back on even the most basic part of the literature and the discipline when there are people who are literally explaining it in front of them is rank anti-intellectualism worthy only of contempt and scorn.

When looking at issues of gender in history, modern history does use the language of privilege - ie sexism might be talked about as manifest in terms of what records or history is recorded and treated as important by the people who are being studied. When discussing issues of gender, modern Philosophy has to deal with system level analysis - hence the use of ideas of systemic sexual discrimination as sexism. Recent sociologists seem to non-controversially use this terminology also.
How is that "extortion"?
A much more nifty revenge would be to have Games Workshop stripped of all their trademarks, not to use a SciFi staple into nonsense.
Greatest F1 Engine Symphony
Fabrice is awesome. I am also extremely impressed with the code written by a guy that goes by the name of Bisqwit. He has multiple videos speed coding here: http://www.youtube.com/user/Bisqwit
The numbers I'm familiar with were under a dollar for Flash that you'd want to have in a computer, with decent bandwidth. Not garbage flash drives made from a chip fab's borderline rejects.

Apple is making at least 50% margins on this, probably /much much/ more.
> The performance hit is minimal, but the ability for code to be used from anywhere (as C libraries can be) is extremely important.

I'd argue about the performance hit. (And I programme in Haskell for a living.) But FFI, on the other hand, isn't too unpleasant in functional languages.
Just the sort of ideas i need.. Thanks
> it's still your Kindle and Amazon should therefore disclose any information they have stored on your Kindle.

What's to stop me from mentioning to a group of friends that I hardly use my Kindle anymore, and one of them offering me $50 for it? Is it still my kindle? Do I have to specifically de-register it before the exchange takes place?

What if I beat my wife nightly and she takes off one day into hiding, taking our Kindle with her? Am I legally allowed to recover any location or usage information (assuming it contains that, like a Fire) to teach her a lesson that leaving me is a bad choice?

One should be forced to obtain a warrant to obtain any information about a digital device (kindle/ipad/surface/galaxy) that is not the kind of information readily given by the operator of the underlying service to end users by default. It'll prevent a lot of shitty "edge cases" that unfortunately aren't uncommon, including unwarranted digital spying by law enforcement in the first place.

I agree on the second point though. When one encrypts a disk on OSX, it requires a complete and painfully (to a lay-user) manual process to wipe that disk to reuse unencrypted if the encryption key is no longer available. The same process should be employed for re-registering any device without the knowledge of the previous registrant's information.
Ubuntu Invites Phone Makers to Cheat on Google
Heh. Be jealous - I'll be working in the same team as Fab, starting next month :D
There's no forEach in IE8.
Perhaps D?
The Site44 Workflow - Light weight workflow with real-time deployment
Yes, that's roughly what it means, and it isn't exactly surprising, nor new. The rhetoric in the article is tabloid-style reporting.
Is it true that Einstein failed Mathematics many times during his school days?
Encouraging Women To Be Quants and Programmers: Jessica McKellar
Fabrice Bellard is the man!
Ask HN: What will be a good naming strategy for a Server
We've been having a funny discussion in the office about Christening our 3 new dedicated servers. Any pointers on how you named yours?
Three tools for managing work-related stress
Before modern day phones where you had direct control of GPS (circa 2004ish), I had my phone stolen and filed a police report. I called my phone company at the time (Sprint) and they would not lift a finger to use the built in GPS to find where it was despite the police standing in front of me at the time after I had filed the report. The police were willing to do something, but Sprint said they couldn't.

Such things always made me question why they bothered mandating having GPS in "dumb phones" in the first place. Obviously there's other reasons, but none that seem to help consumers.
"If there’s a secret to this superhero-level productivity, it appears to have less to do with comic-book mutation and radioactivity, and far more with discipline, confidence, rigor, and many years of practice."

This is one line that you should take away from the article. Most of us think that highly productive programmers are magicians but we forget that they are just like us, just hard working and disciplined.
Balancing text for better readability
When I checked both the versions of his full list:

Mega: running

Dropbox: Error (509)
This account's public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!

http://i46.tinypic.com/w9jtia.png
Obama is center-right, for now it seems.

He is taking several of Gramsci positions in social issues.

But I won't say he will become a communist or anything close to it.

Also I say "leftish" because it IS "leftish", not because I deride the left or something (I am a former socialist actually)
In Aliens, they were officially called "Colonial Marines"
In France and many other places in Europe is common to work 36 hours per week, so you have a reasonable amount of time to do your own stuff.
Why branding is so important
There's also the issue the extinction event is not instantaneous, but took a long time

As per wikipedia: "The fossil record shows that the tempo of the K-Pg extinction was extremely rapid, occurring on a scale of thousands of years or less"

But it is "confirmed" in the absence of better opposing evidence. Better results probably only with a time machine, or a better explanation
I believe it's a plugin he is using inside Sublime Text. Might be this one: https://github.com/Xavura/CoffeeScript-Sublime-Plugin

alt+shift+d - Display compiled JavaScript
More than that, the original copyright was something you paid for, it lasted 7 years, and then you paid more for a one time extension of another 7 years. So some things fell into the public domain even faster than 14 years.
There are plenty of designers out there, and I agree that dribbble is a great way of finding a database of designers. But when you do find some designs you like and are getting ready to contact people, here are some tips:

1) Personal taste - designers are unlike developers, whereas design skill usually can't be quantified. You can't give a designer a code test. My main qualification for a designer is if I like their work. Their style usually remains consistent throughout their projects, so there's no guessing involved. Request their portfolio and imagine how they would interpret your app. Do you think it meshes with your personal style?

2) Personality - can you talk to this designer easily? How open are they to your opinions? Make sure you feel comfortable chatting, because I guarantee you're not going to like something in their first iteration. You're going to want them to change it, and the optimal outcome should be them welcoming the change. You also want someone who can criticize your opinions in a nice way.

3) Make your app sound like the bomb - the good designers have a chip on their shoulder. Many of them are able to choose who they work with, so you're going to want to make your project sound fun to work with. Its important, because why else would a top designer want to work with you?

4) Don't worry about distance - designers are easy to work with at a distance. Just make sure their fluent in your native tongue to get points across.

Good luck!
Funny that you mention MooTools because his example of good jQuery is the typical MooTools class.
How many zeros more?
Datacenter location followed by rack id and then the server id. Makes it quick and easy to find out just where the server is.
Jeff Weiner wants to be king of content marketing
"With GPL you're stuck with the hobbyists and the very few companies that can survive getting paid for support of their GPL software."

Not really mate.

Lots of companies use linux for firmware and release their firmware code. Linksys, Netgear and Western Digital are just a few that spring to mind.
>How does he finance his production of top notch open source software?

Check his webpage notes regarding the 4G LTE implementation. Its commercialised to a company called Amarisoft and it appears Fabrice is involved in that.

Look at their client list...government and telcos. I'd speculate its quite a profitable enterprise.

http://www.amarisoft.com/?p=about
If you bother reading the complete article, they come to an actual conclusion and comparison at the end.
After reading parent, I've decided to use Java for all DOM manipulation.
Clojure libraries, an overview
I'm not a parent.

Why would you want your child to not see nudity? I've seen nudity as a child and I'm fine.