skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both the Google and Yahoo caches show ~550 reviews on their copies from 5-10 days ago.
Being pedantic much? We are our universe, this is true. What matters to us are other people and the systems we live in. You're not going to go far trying to make friends with a star. If we are the only conscious beings in the universe, then maybe humanity is the most important thing in the universe, no?
Philco , thanx for the info, I am 3 years after I had to close down shop of my startup, and my biggest regret now looking back is not to have stopped sooner ... its a very difficult decision to let go of something that you have invested so much time/effort/money in ... good luck , this experience will help you a lot for the next projects
Daunting Division
Download.com bundled nmap with crapware, apologised when found out [2011]
I rarely install Java on a new machine because of their installer. It feels too maleware-ish to me. In fact, I would go out of my way to find a non-Java alternative for most software I need.
# of reviews varies per region, I think you only see reviews from your own region.
Not improbable that his figures are right.
first, the apex fallacy is about, say, most ceos (most people at the top) being men - it's about assuming things given the extremes. but in the case of the tech industry, most programmers (most people at all levels) are male. we simply dominate - we are a clear majority. so it's not about bias from extremes. we dominate even in the middle.

second, arguments based on the apex fallacy assumes that power can be treated in some "average" way, so even if the top has power, if the bottom doesn't it somehow "averages out". and that's pretty clearly not a good model for how society works (which is why these kinds of arguments are popular only in fringe anti-feminist groups).
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kashlik

considering this appears to be the same Kevin Ashley, and he is listed as a "Architect Evangelist at Microsoft Corporation" this is almost certainly just a marketing fluff peice.

flag it and move along folks.
[Somewhat relevant, somewhat off-topic]

Commission collections and ethics aside, I actually cannot understand the venom towards Ask (its search results). I believe in keeping web searches open with multiple choices made available to users, so I actively support all viable alternatives (meaning I use Ask, Blekko, ddg, lycos, yahoo (bing) among others instead of Google for regular everyday searches). Ask search results are very much comparable to Google's, i.e., the search is not "inferior" as claimed.

As for ads, google's adsense ads are just as much in-your-face as the others (ymmv), so don't think this point is such a big thing either as claimed.
If the public didn't know it existed at all, it would be both less effective as a means to limit fringe behavior (police states control through fear of not knowing who is working/informing for them), and would endanger the members when they tried to exercise police functions.
Cloudbase.io comes to BlackBerry - cloud hosting for mobile developers
You can submit an erratum and an author will comment and often clarify, so formally speaking the answer to your question is yes. But other implementers don't generally read the errata, so you have to expect that your interoperation peers haven't read the clarification.

Once you understand the problem, the clarification, and that your interop peers do not, I bet your implementation's handling of the issue will be conservative in what it sends and liberal in what it receives.
"the most popular desktop app development language" on MS Windows only, where GNOME doesn't run
John Brennan’s Senate Confirmation Hearing 
John Brennan will face queries about his role in the Bush torture policies, and questions regarding Obama’s drone program, kill list, and shadow wars. Hopefully his confirmation hearing will provide insight into the ugly new face of American power.
I get "libclang: crash detected during parsing" when used with clang 3.2. clang_complete with clang 3.1 worked fine.
Building Something That Your Users Will Actually Want To Buy
Scientific communication as sequential art: Bret Victor
Sellfy, E-Commerce Platform For Self-Pubs, Adds Stripe, Paymill CC Processing
The APIs are written in C, and have bindings to most languages.

Recommending is all they are doing here (the title is quite inaccurate)
I haven't seen any of the ads and not the game (not American), but the Oreo tweet has reached far beyond USA.
I haven't used it but is PhpStorm no 'real' IDE for PHP? There's a vim plugin for various JetBrains products too (including PhpStorm) and it works well with IDEA.
It's cute, and I bet it helped sell exactly zero oreos.
Marketers patting marketers on the back, w00t!
US diplomat: If EU allows 'right to be forgotten' …it might spark TRADE WAR
The Internal Memo (1951) That Allowed IBM's Female Employees to Get Married
Why would this matter at all? Using one GObject library doesn't then mean you can only use GObject libraries...

If you're using GI to access GObject libraries like Gtk+, you can still use any library your language supports for anything you want to do.
World's First Digital Laser Designed and Built in Africa
You can, just follow these simple, but detailed instructions for Ubuntu users for upgrading vim:
https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/wiki/Building-Vim-...
To not mess with system-installed vim: remove --prefix option and VIMRUNTIMEDIR, then build and install with sudo make install, which will put the files in /usr/local.
I agree that the vitriol towards Ask is unwarranted, though I do find the inclusion in the Java install to be very much in the realm of crapware.
Live chat on Planet 5D
It is possible to reason about the effects of a goto into the middle of a for loop (or switch case), of course, but doing so is likely to make you angry. :)

I believe those are reason enough to avoid doing those particular things, even if the global jumping of assembly of course is even worse.
My small business is now hiring; is this an adequate contract?
I've been trying to keep it very simple, but am a little afraid of mismatched legalese. Is this a valid contract to offer? Am I being fair? (This isn't really the usual startup thing, I'm mostly looking for part time workers to do assembly, testing and field support ).

http://robots-everywhere.com/re_wiki/index.php?title=Operative_Handbook
And with more enterprises floating around, stockbrokers would definitely have more to do, and I thought the idea was to get rid of them.

Gosh, this forcing fiscal motivators on people sure causes some tricky unintended consequences.
Does not display that anymore, now it shows as hacked.
Dijkstra himself later clarified: "Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the go to statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline!"
Fun with composition and interfaces
I already voted: I uninstalled Java from every Windows PC I have.
I can sure see Oracle responding to a petition on the Internet!
No, not much, it is very rare to hit more than 0.8 without cheating somehow ( like placing banners where they are hit by accident )
Not at all. I'm quite serious. I'm actually interested to see if this could be done.

But this is very interesting :-) Can you point to any documentation?

Edit: the issue with porting LibreOffice to Javascript is the sheer size of the codebase. I don't suppose anyone has a block diagram anywhere of OpenOffice/LibreOffice that divides it into modules?

I mean, how do you tackle such a massive codebase? It looks like Michael Meeks has a good idea about this, but the biggest problem with the codebase is that there isn't any high level, quality documentation that shows how it works.

Also... and this is probably just me, but I can't even find the entry-point to the code. That's always been my issue with these apps, but that just shows my exceeding lack of ability in C++ coding I suspect.
Ah, internet petitions. The best way to feel good about doing absolutely nothing.
Evernote, MobileIron, Pure Storage, Marketo, DDS and SurveyMonkey... what do they have in common?
Yes. But, it doesn't reappear as soon as you remove all text. The placeholder reappears after you remove the text, and change the focus.
I don't believe that the protests didn't change the outcome of the war. I wrote in March 2003 [1] that the Iraq War "is going to be much more closely criticized than other wars in the past", and it has been.

[1] http://www3.sympatico.ca/taylormcgreal/speakingtruth.html

Compared to previous wars, which went on for years and killed millions of people before anyone even noticed, the Iraq War has been dogged from the outset by scrutiny and criticism. As a result, abuses have been identified more promptly, denounced more broadly and discontinued more quickly.

Things are actually getting better, but our expectations are changing faster than our institutions are conforming, so it feels like things are getting worse.
its the most popular desktop app dev language period - by sheer numbers. I see these people as the target market for Linux, especially with the closed marketplace of Windows 8 RT.

I am not sure these developers would come onboard with knowledge of javascript - so the biggest advantage (ubiquity) is nullified.

I am not sure which developers is Gnome targeting by choosing javascript. At this point in the evolution of OSes, its all about the app marketplace.
I agree... I mean look at JSONP, that's basically the inverse hack. After all: what's the point of enforcing same-origin-policy in AJAX but ignoring it for <script>?
STUDY: When is the Best Time to Publish a Blog Post?
Labelled goto statements were around as early as ALGOL-60.
Wolfram or Searfoss. I'm guessing Wolfram. Based on a 2 minute Google.
How to create 3D applications with Java 3D
name.com and name cheap are both backed by enom. name.com is explicitly owned by enom and namecheap is an enom reseller. Not saying that enom is an asshole, just that its a good idea to know who you are really dealing with. Both of these shops have to abide by enom's policies.
Right. That was part of the confusion, because as I said above, lots of programmers of the day didn't see the point in inventing a bunch of special cases when a simple general case existed.
Letting this rest for now, I'd like to hear if others have any success
AOL Rumored To Be Buying Peter Rojas And Ryan Block's GDGT Site
You can still use C/C++. The headline and article are misleading. You can also use the other bindings available. However, they can't support everything under the sun.
I would prefer to rely on languages which can provably ensure all cases are handled than to rely on gotos to artificially improve a complexity metric. Really.
It's still a tricky choice though. By going with Flash you're tying yourself into a dying technology which may not be such a hot choice if you're building a business [1]

I'd still try to go with js/html and shim away as best I could for older IEs.

[1]http://swombat.com/2011/12/7/picking-technologies
You mean: stop bundling crapware with our crapware!

Note: I have no problem with Java on the server or client, just the applet and browser plugin model.
You can still use python. Read the blog post linked to in the article. They aren't removing support.
Hey, Lynx - women are astronauts, too
By bundling advert-ridden applications with their latest OS, Microsoft aren't really all that far off the mark from your comment.
Micro Responsive Grid - a tiny little fluid grid
You might be interested in looking at the Common Lisp "Conditions" system, which allows code outside of the stack to provide error-handling logic.

In general, though, I think it's more about presentation than the language per se. I've often felt that an IDE or editor that could selectively highlight or hide the different pathways through the code would be a very useful tool.
> I fired up my Tweetbot for both Hurricane Sandy and Election 2012. It depends on who you follow, but for me, it made for a much more entertaining night than just watching the CNN talking heads.

Tragedies like Hurricane Sandy, all about the "entertainment"...
If you're using jQuery, check out my plugin: https://github.com/remybach/jQuery.superLabels.
Vala does look good.

When it comes to language bindings GObject creates bindings for multiple languages. I know I'm only ever going to use Gtk via python personally.
Hadoop Stack at Foursquare
Wolfram is nothing like Woz, though.
The folks from http://atthepool.com are running Flask in production.
However, an unconstrained goto in C can be realized via the setjmp() longjump() library functions.
Because that would require someone to invest time and money in writing malware which will only ever make it on to a handful of devices and will be removed when those devices are updated.
IIRC hippie-expand requires users to press a keyboard shortcut (like omni-complete in vim). This plugin seems to always present a completion menu (updated after every keypress).
Following the Superbowl ad, this got some extra coverage by Forbes and Discovery.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mahaatal/2013/02/04/axes-super-b...

http://news.discovery.com/space/private-spaceflight/super-bo...
Wikipedia has shown us what ridiculous bureaucracy does to a community; it's sad that Stackoverflow has been turned into a utterly useless site despite the lessons that could have been learned from Wikipedia.
Remote encoding of VoIP doesn't make much sense, especially if the V is video. Processing power will be cheaper than bandwidth for a long time when you're talking about this much data (CD quality mono audio: 700kbits/s, 720p30 4:2:0 video: 332mbits/s).
Show HN: Hacky – Hacker News app for Mac
Please, please, please take the blinders off. This is unambiguously a misogynist attack that follows a painfully well-established pattern of targeting and harassing women online - a pattern that nearly every single woman who has a significant online presence experiences.

Please, please do some reading on this - it's not hard to find reports and analyses of online woman abuse, and it's not hard to recognize the recurring themes and motifs, which prominently include image-based harassment.
Hi, app developer here. I hope some of you may like my little app. To prevent too much ranting here are some quick answers to possible questions:

Q: The Hacker News website provides much more functionality than your app.

A: That's right. The app isn't made to replace the Hacker News website. It's made for frequent readers like me who want a quick and friendly-on-the-eye way to access the stories.

Q: I want your app but I don't want to pay for it.

A: No problem, Hacky is open source! Just get a copy of the source on GitHub and build it on your machine.

Q: Why are you then charging money for it in the first place?

A: Personally I like getting my apps via Mac App Store. It means easy updating and restoring. Unfortunately providing an app in the MAS isn't free for the developer as he has to purchase a Developer Certificate from Apple. (Additionally a developer likes to buy a beer from time to time)

Relevant Links:

Website: http://www.hackyapp.com

Mac App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacky/id584949645?ls=1&m...

GitHub: https://github.com/eliaskg/Hacky

Edit: Here, have some Promo Codes:

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Enterprises will put up with almost anything, including this type of bullshit. The cost of switching is far too great. Same goes for lots of Java devs who make their living off the Oracle ecosystem. Also, probably most consumers that install Java don't realize how crappy this tactic is.
I had to use GoDaddy once, it was a terrible experience.

I use name.com and never had issues! The interface is very clean and the service is cheap.

Good luck!
> The vast majority of web developers is developing for the web out of necessity.

I wouldn't call it necessity. I, for one, like the openness of the web, how it allows me to deploy software to all my users at the same time, the customization, etc. I don't believe it's the holy grail, but it's hardly out of necessity that I develop for it.
The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
When I was about 9 years old someone gave me a copy of an Erich von Daniken book, which I inevitably thought was the wonderful thing I had ever read. However, doubts started to creep in after a while and eventually I worked out that it was complete nonsense - but for a while I really wanted that stuff to be true and got quite angry that people weren't interested in this wonderful truth.

That experience left quite a mark on me - I still have a tiny bit of guilt at believing that stuff for a short while, even though I suspect it probably made me much more level headed and skeptical when I got older.
Thanks for writing this. I consider myself as a fixer and builder but often wonder if this nature of mine has gotten me more trouble than otherwise.

To fix or build something for someone is so rewarding that you sometimes forget to do your own mundane but important stuff. Soon things accumulate and you deeply regret having been tinkering at things that doesn't really "matter".

But one way of looking at this is that atleast some of those people never forget me and are often happy to help me back in ways I could have never anticipated. Sometimes while helping others, I get to learn something really cool which becomes a bigger reward in itself.

After reading this, I feel that perhaps we are, after all social beings, probably instinctively acting this way. It gives true happiness to oneself and others. Perhaps that's what matters in the long run.
Jonathan Blow criticises Linux dev tools
Beyond cargo cult software design
To say that each of the 40 companies will be worth at least 1 billion is indeed unlikely.

But all that is required for the investors to be "rational" is for the total value of all 40 companies to exceed 40 billion.

So if two companies end up worth 25 billion each and the rest are worthless, that'll still have made it all worthwhile (assuming as an investor you diversified across all 40 companies).

In this scenario, we could rationally say that "each of the 40 companies had a 5% chance (2 out of 40) of being worth 25 billion dollars, which made them worth 25/20 = 1.25 billion dollars each".
There’s No Such Thing as a Universal ‘Best Time’ to Post on Facebook
Great advice. I guess I really have more to think about here than just "how to handle support". Thanks Brian.
Congratulations. You've just disqualified yourself from working on SIL-4 safety-critical software. There are no such languages that can provably ensure all cases are handled: there are only testing processes.

Aversion to a technology is not the same as mastery of that technology. goto has its time, and place. Certifiably, so.
I'm fine with advertisements in desktop apps. Those guys have to make money. But I think there should be a way to pay a fee and forcibly remove them even if the developer didn't code for it. It's your machine, after all.
Maybe someone (and by "someone" I of course mean "not me!" - my own internet nerd-rage falls well short of doing this, not being much of a Windows user) should write, maintain, and SEO/social-media the hell out of a "Java crap-ware un-installer", which prominently advertises MS-SQL, SAP, and perhaps Postgres while it does it's uninstalling… Then get all the geeks to start telling their bosses "Oh, Java's hijacked your search again? No problem, just search for the "Java Bundled Software Uninstaller" and download it and run it!"
On the contrary, please continue. Improve it by adding BonziBuddy and friends. Please please please ruin your already non-existent reputation, Oracle. Help ordinary people who have no idea what Oracle is, connect your name with spam and spyware (and security problems, ofc).
Go to http://www.ninite.com and get the Java installer from there. It's malware-free and streamlined.
They published a part of it about 2 weeks ago.
The site looks a bit weird on a retina display btw.

http://i.imgur.com/efSh1hv.jpg
Are the advert-ridden applications made by Microsoft? If so that says something about how far they have fallen. Why compromise your brand when your making money on hardware and software?
Why Aren't Cities Littered With Dead Pigeons?
This looks amazing, props to MapBox for putting out yet another beautiful, approchable and useful tool.

From the product page[http://ideditor.com/]:

"We’re building iD in pure Javascript, using d3.js and SVG for map display."

This has got to be the coolest non-graphing use of d3.js I have seen so far.

Anyone who hasn't should view the demo here: http://geowiki.com/iD/
Ok, let me put it this way:

What do you estimate is bigger? The amount of plain C libraries or the amount of GObject based libraries? Where would you put the amount of available perl/python/ruby modules?

(The amount of C libraries not in GObject is my answer to your question ;) )
I'm pretty sure we're on different pages here. Some languages can detect that there are unhandled cases in a selection statement (case, if etc). Those languages can enforce the handling of all cases, which to me at least renders the concept of a dangling case moot.

I didn't say that you'd leave the cases untested. I'm just saying that in some languages the compiler is more of an ally than in others.

I'll write to Galois and Praxis to tell them that they're disqualified from writing SIL-4 software.
I'd never used Ask, so after reading your post I compares a search for "cuda device to host memory copy" [1] and [2]

On google I saw no ads, and the links on the first page of results usually contain the search term.

On Ask there are ads, and they look very much like search results - there's no coloured background to identify them as such - and the search results contain irrelevant links to other Ask properties like "Can I Copy From Youtube? | Ask Jeeves" and "How Memory Stick | ask.co.uk/how"

Personally I won't be switching from Google to Ask.

I'll admit we might see different things - let me know if you'd like screenshots.

[1] http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cuda+device+to+host+memory+...
[2] http://uk.ask.com/web?q=cuda+device+to+host+memory+copy
The heart of the matter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9zBGgpzl0I&t=300
I don't like this trend of US sparking trade wars everywhere. In the end it's a lose-lose outcome, for both parties. Do they really not want companies to do business in Europe over this?

I think it's just an empty threat. And I really hope EU doesn't cave in to their demands. They've done it plenty of times already, and I don't remember hearing much about "US caving to EU demands".
[ http://them0vieblog.com/2012/03/28/the-thick-of-it-series-ii... , in case someone else is also curious]
Talk about a debatable choice of words…
FedEx bandwidth (XKCD What-If?)
Angular can take any kind of json so it doesn't really matter what rails return. It could re-use ember json format just fine.
Adblock. Things like that should only be a problem once.
Whether you're adding IDE features to vim or vim features to an IDE, you'll always going to have to live with compromises.
I found it enlightening at why GOTO is considered harmful by programming in BASIC as a kid.

Oh-oh spaghetti-oh!

Not that you should waste your time programming in a GOTO dependant language, but it becomes pretty obvious after a couple of days why GOTO sucks.

The opening article is pretty vacuous imo. That's not really a legitimate use, it's just that C++ doesn't support finally.
And here you are talking about it on Hacker News.

Massively successful move on their part.

Massively.
Many companies will go bankrupt if X will happen. X=(tape recording, internet, ATMs, privacy laws, any kind of regulation).

I can't really hear this argument any more. Sure, any regulation will have bad side effects, but who are we? A planet full of people or a planet of companies that want to maximize profit on our back? The world will not end if we are allowed some more privacy for us.