skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rolling Stone: The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Aaron Swartz
Optimizing your customer development cold calls.
Culture is not about Esthetics
Looks like github is down x___x
Let us call cry synchronously...
By the way, you may not be aware of this, but RIM had (and still has, somehow), a huge consumer following in certain countries like Indonesia because of the chat applications it provided ahead of the rest. Until not too long ago it was bigger than the iphone and Android phones there (I need to find a link for that, though...)
> Think about - there's nothing that stops them from selling pirated books, movies, clothing at a huge discount compared to, let's say, Amazon.

And that is precisely when Bitcoins will receive renewed focus from officials all over and g-men will step forth to somehow try to make operations involving Bitcoins illegal.
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/github.com
SSD drives are only as fast as the BUS. SATA BUS tops out at around 100 MB/s. While the RAM BUS tops out at 15,000 MB/s.

150x faster data access is very significant.
No, but at this point the prison and incarceration industry is large enough that it has a lobby dedicated to pushing its viewpoint.
Eh, most of what they are doing is corporate espionage with the intent of copying and cost cutting. If your business is susceptible to being undercut on price alone, your days are numbered regardless.
Thanks for indirectly calling me ignorant. Don't see much of that on HN. Googling what you gave did not give me any reputable sources of nations doing both these two things

1. Attacking critical civilian infrastructure
2. Outright corporate theft

Once again, any reputable reports will be appreciated. (For any crazy statement X, one can always find a forum or website backing X. Thats why the insistence on reputable sources.)
Great idea.

I wish they'd publish more info about their vendors (i.e., is the 401k a bunch of high load or expense ratio extortion, or is it Fidelity/Vanguard funds?)
Both meanings are equally repulsive and are activities without merit. The fact that this is about coffeescript doesn't surprise me at all.

"and just starting to learn CoffeeScript, because it seemed rather cool"

This thought pattern is wholly flawed. "Seems cool" is not a reason to learn coffeescript, in fact there is no good reason except syntax fetishism, which is also not a good reason.
Pretty excited about seeing F2FS in mobile devices eventually, as mobile devices still need all the I/O performance they can get, considering most manufacturers are using cheap flash storage, and even the high-end ones aren't that fast.
Windfarms break energy record in Spain | Environment
At the moment it's had some reports of syncing issues (e.g. not syncing when it should), and a few performance odditites. All that being said, I'm not sure i've seen reports of any corruption outright but it is fairly new compared to the ext family. I'd say stick with EXT4/3 if you're using the desktop ssd for anything serious, if not, go for it; it doesn't look like it'll kill your cat and/or wife.
At Front of Brooklyn Bus, a Clash of Religious and Women’s Rights (2011)
> I use locate probably 80% of the time, find maybe 20% of the time or less

Absolutely true. find is way too slow. I was hacking on some AOSP code recently and finding a file took upwards of 1 minute. locate on the other indexes the files on your hard disk, so is generally much quicker.
git stash has other cool features and use cases (for example, when you want to pull from upstream and you have conflicting changes.) http://git-scm.com/book/ch6-3.html is a nice summary and the manpage also gives some sample workflows.
Yeah, I was more productive yesterday. But I did read google cached versions of HN.
Good-bye App Engine: Porting from Google App Engine
can not believe only 500 lines of code
Nice haircut.
It was his IT skills that got him the big sale to Yahoo that got him the bucks to start YC. Not sure where this comment came from.
Just a caveat though, jacques_chester is using the term in a way that's metaphorical, but not correct according to the literal definition. That is, if he now understands someone else's point of view then that implies there's still a 'he' to have understood something, which means that he couldn't actually be in a state of non-dual consciousness by definition.
Well, I'm not arguing that "forall" drug users, large negative effects exist... you're only showing that "there exists" at least one drug user where large negative effects exist. We're really arguing magnitude - I imagine we probably disagree on which side of the scale the magnitude is heaviest. But beyond that, yeah I agree that it would require the right tests, and that definitely gets beyond my knowledge.
How can you do any real work on a 11" screen? I'd get a tablet if I need something that small.
Some of my personal favorites:
http://www.dodgycoder.net/2011/11/yoda-conditions-pokemon-ex...
"Pokemon exception catching" (Gotta catch 'em all!)

And in OOP, Spaghetti with meatballs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code#Spaghetti_with_m...
I had a medically prescribed steroid (cortisone) injection in my shoulder to overcome an injury. It's pretty common

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortisone#Effects_and_uses

Having said that, there are different types of steroids and not all of them are prescribed by (honest) medical experts.
Interesting point that there is greater demand for qualified sperm doners despite being paid far less than egg doners which are in surplus.
It's not command line, but it has a nice web interface: transmission-daemon.
Could someone link to a lawsuit in which a farmer's crop was contaminated with Monsanto seed without his knowledge and then sued by Monsanto? I hear this enough that I must insist on a citation.
Or there's the option of a professional employer organization like TriNet: http://www.trinet.com/
Well Microsoft had "I can do it too" kind of innovation, if you like, but rarely pushed for something very new on the market by themselves. I have rather known Bill Gates and his friends for his "innovative" market practices to crush competition than actual product innovation (having OEMs install Windows by default, and threatening the ones who would not do that to get the next versions of Windows later, and so on).

I reckon that PocketPCs were probably an exception to that point, and there are here and there innovative parts in the company, but it feels more that it's "innovative DESPITE its roots" than anything else.
Twilio Hack gives you exclusive tracks by Trent Reznor and the Beastie Boys
Code Red.

http://www.caida.org/research/security/code-red/coderedv2_an...
Of course Windows costs Dell money. There is an exact same Windows version of this laptop with the same CPU that sells for $50 more than the Linux version (see the fourth configuration in my link).

Or one could argue that Windows costs nothing to Dell, because they just pass the licensing fee (the $50) to the consumer.
Unless you're dealing to others maybe?
This is getting off-topic, but:

I put in $E amount of effort to produce a product priced at $X (let us say a software product). Somebody steals the source code I use to produce the product and sells the same product at $X-E killing my business. How is this justified in any sense?

Yes, there have been cases of Chinese hackers stealing source code.
Wow, thanks Hacker News! (One of the Zenefits Co-founders here). One quick thing to point out -- we are actually YC W13, not w12 (small slip-up from TechCrunch on this point).
This is one of those things that sounds sort of clever but is obviously just nonsense. Lots of things are possible that we limit or prohibit because it's desirable that we do so.

If the creation of this sort of tech is desirable -- and I'd argue that the market really, really wants this stuff -- then there's nothing weird about creating legal mechanisms that support it.
Windows Mobile still goes strong in the PDA market with retailers and for POS devices. My company makes custom software for WinMo PDAs, and admittedly my opinion is colored by the fact that our software is also a POS (pun intended), but I can't really believe that WinMo once held a dominant market share. Or rather, I can believe it, and can believe that the iPhone had it for lunch.
I agree that the license accomplishes your intended purpose in a very straightforward manner, and I do not pretend to have even the slightest footing from which to suggest otherwise (or that you should change it).

I was only sharing my selfish desire to see the utility classes you've created to make Android’s AudioMixer API usable for your app become more widely available - some of the functionality you've implemented should have always been supported at the operating system level. As I'm sure you're well aware, licenses like the LGPL attempt to push the balance slightly towards more widespread usability while ensuring any additional contributions return upstream.
Hmm. Tested this and one of the girls in the results was my younger sister... Cool idea and design, but results seriously need some work.
Pain point - plain and simple. Startups take note: this looks very promising
> deploying JVM based stuff (Clojure) is no fun at all).

In what world is typing "lein uberjar" and moving the resulting file to your webserver considered hard?
This reminds me of a feature that I wish that database systems supported: Make it impossible to execute DELETE or UPDATE statements without a WHERE clause.
Yeah, the problem with TriNet and other PEOs, though, is that they cost thousands of dollars per employee per year -- while Zenefits is free. They do more than we do, of course, but a lot of small companies only need someone for benefits administration, mostly.

If you need sexual harassment training, & other liability-reducing stuff, TriNet makes a lot of sense.
Use PDF, it's a format that will work for anyone, or any device and is printer friendly. Now whether you want to use LaTex, html, or word to design your resume is up to you.
Outlook.com reaches new milestone, no longer in preview
1. Saying that the rest of us are law abiding is an exaggeration.

2. http://www.drugpolicy.org/drug-facts/cocaine-and-crack-facts
I am surprised this didn't get more upvotes. The falling price of a ticket every now is a genius idea. This on a wider scale could be interesting.
Ditto. Azure looks nice enough, but at this point I can't in good faith recommend to my employer that we become any more exposed to opportunities for the carpet to get yanked out from under us by an executive in Redmond who's forgotten to take his Ritalin.
401K is in invite-only alpha right now. There are a few vendors we work with -- Schwab, The online 401k Company, Sharebuilder, and Vanguard. In practice, these are the best options for small businesses out there.

We don't get paid by 401K companies, so we don't have an incentive to recommend anything other than what we think is awesome for you.

Also, one thing we've promised our early 401K clients -- if they want to work with a 401K company that isn't on our list, we'll build an integration specially for them.
BIND 10: Configuring DHCP for DHCPv4 Clients
I think anyone who is not deterred by 5 years time is either in one of two categories:
1) About to commit an incredibly serious crime, in which case they'll probably get life.
2) Mentally unfit to participate in society, in which case they'll probably fail the psychological evaluations I've mentioned.

I'm not saying I have a perfect plan, it's just something I think is the right step towards improvement.
Arguing over the terms is avoiding the crux of the issue.

Because (much of) the income for the site came from affiliate links, her revenue was closely tied to what she wrote. And not simply in the "I have to write interesting/helpful things to maintain my readership", but in the "Posting a review of a good book will be financially more beneficial to me than posting a review of bad book".

Having those sort of external influences makes it harder to maintain your journalistic integrity. You (are tempted to) get distracted from "which story is best for my readers" to "which story will generate the most income".

Having those (undisclosed) external influences, while also being extremely vocal about how external financial motivations are bad for journalism, is hypocritical.
Indeed. Moreover, if the Backspace key (Delete on Mac) doesn't cut it for you, Alt + left arrow on Windows or ⌘-[ on Mac do the job just fine.
Wow, they go through this whole spiel without even asking the question of whether or not IQ is hereditary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

Apparently it is but all the "countless good outcomes" and "positive externalities" quoted in the article boil down to job performance, income, and literacy. As long as you're going to start a eugenics campaign why not throw some other criteria in there like life satisfaction, propensity for illness, muscular strength, generosity, tendency for violence, lack of elitism, or any one of a million other possible objectives.
AMD's FX-8350 is a 32nm part. I don't know to what extent one company's 32nm process can be better than another, but but if there is a difference, I'd expect Intel to have the advantage. Given that the AMD part has 1.2B transistors on a 315mm^2 die and the Intel part has 1.16B transistors on a 216mm^2 die, I'd say the fabrication node isn't the whole story. (Even Intel's quad-core Sandy Bridge E part is 1.27B transistors in 284mm^2)
Those were the days. I made over a million dollars per year for several years running. And to think it was for a program that ran on a computer with a 1 mHz clock, typically had 16 kilobytes of RAM and one 140 KB floppy drive for "mass" storage.
I doubt they can. This is the most commonly cited case [0] but it's pretty clear from the facts that the farmer was not an innocent, unwitting victim. This claim is made in bad faith so often as to make any discussion about Monsanto almost pointless from the start.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmeis...
That depends on the laptop. On my Thinkpad X220, pressing the Fn key triggers a normal KeyPress event with keycode 151, so no problem remapping.
Where is the happiest city in the USA?
Yes, what they have done is difficult, the process is what should be protected, not the product of the use of the product, nor the contamination caused by the product.

2. No, I'm not a farmer, but my ancestors were, and the family farm is surrounded by other (current) small farmers. The "field corn" (intended for cattle feed) that grew on my grandfather's farm in the '70s-'80s was far sweeter than any engineered "sweet corn" I've had from any supermarket for the last 25+ years. This corn was grown using the old methods which I've seen many claim (as you have) are no longer used. Maybe the industrialized farms aren't saving their old seed (because they're likely all using GMO seed), but the small (family) farms still are (especially organic ones). Why wouldn't you use this method? Why sell something you have to re-purchase, especially when, after several seasons, the seed is effectively acclimated to your environment and more productive? (of course you can't use this method if you're using GMO seed)

"3. Ugh..."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1290104...

TL;DR: 86% of "wild" canola is GMO, most of which contain multiple engineered genes (multiple generations of contamination). At this rate, it won't be long before "wild" canola is extinct.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/17/local/la-me-gs-organ...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/27/147506542/judge-...

This will likely be viewed by those supporting Monsanto as BS, but I'll include it anyways:

http://www.thefutureoffood.com/

Countless heritage species of corn grown by families in Mexico are GMO contaminated... effectively wiping them out.
Don't know what you want to be when you grow up? That's okay
Kinect was not acquired.
>There would still be the social cost, though, of the much more highly-addictive drugs (compared to alcohol).

You're assuming usage would increase. Legalizing drugs but taxing the dickens out of them removes the huge profit motive from distributors, so you would see less "marketing" and fewer unsuspecting people getting addicted in the first place, and licensed distributors would be far less likely to unlawfully target children. Then you can use the tax revenue generated to fund anti-drug programs like the ones that have been relatively successful in reducing cigarette smoking in recent years, to stigmatize drugs use as much as possible socially.

And we can make getting drugs very unsexy: Require them to be sold only by licensed pharmacists who are obligated to describe the correct dosage and side effects etc. For hard drugs, require them to be consumed on the seller's premises with a physician present at all times and the user to be attached to medical monitoring equipment.

The goal should be to make drug use legal but lame. The problem now is that people don't recognize the risks and costs and foolishly choose to consume dangerous and addictive substances. Make them go talk to a legitimate physician in a lab coat who explains how doing this will cause their teeth to fall out and suddenly the whole idea just seems silly. Meanwhile the availability of legal drugs makes it totally irrational to make illegal street purchases and defeats the black market.
We've been working with Zenefits over the last week and their level of customer service so far has been ridiculously good.
At first, I was confused, thinking that the porn site beeg.com posted a networking tutorial.
I really love the way you show skill proficiencies. Mind if I use the idea?
They should pick whichever license they are comfortable with, that is their right as the copyright holders. The fact that this is all open source at all is amazing!

If my understanding is correct, the software is licensed under the GPLv3 which means that someone else can already re-use any portion of the code in another (GPLv3-compatible) open source app.

My personal preference is the LGPL, which attempts to protect the openness of the code while allowing commercial use. The FSF covers their position on this briefly in their discussion on choosing the right license for a project:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html

> allowing proprietary software developers to use the covered library,
> but providing a weak copyleft that benefits users when they do

but they also explain how they prefer to leverage useful functionality to help the spread of free software:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html

> By releasing libraries that are limited to free software only,
> we can help each other's free software packages outdo the
> proprietary alternatives
Real Money Gaming? The word is gambling.

To say you're "not going to be improving someone's everyday life" is an understatement.
Thanks, that's really helpful! I wouldn't have considered that. It still seems risky using a dev branch for my main web server, but I'll look into it.
First, you're begging the question. Second, I think you should reconsider words like "evil" to describe the type of work Monsanto does. You're choosing a pretty emotional word about a mostly banal patent litigation.
Review: Mailbox for iPhone- Email, But A Little Better
Example of batsheet?
Unfortunately, you've linked to the mobile version of this site and article. Even tablet owners will want the much-better-formatted full-site version:

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-brilliant-life-...
In other words, data serialization is different than object serialization.

YAML syntax supports user-defined types, JSON doesn't. Of course, nobody thinking straight would deserialize unsafe objects, so it's practical to think of both JSON and YAML generally as data serialization formats and nothing more.
Respecting Failure
Pulse of the Alley – Fueled
FYI: None of the quotes are loading for us... we're a Utah company... is that why?

Edit: Melting servers. :) Just got a JSON response that looked failing.
"Mandiant discovered several cases in which attackers logged into their Facebook and Twitter accounts to get around China’s firewall that blocks ordinary citizen’s access, making it easier to track down their real identities."

Amazing.
A similar linux distribution: Liberté. This one's based off of Gentoo (Tails is based off of Debian)

http://dee.su/liberte
The paper you cite really only talks in terms of access to/possession of goods. So yes, in the US you may be more likely to possess a car than someone in Bhutan. But whether that is better is debatable.

By comparison it's interesting to look at 'happiness', obviously that has it's own problems in terms of quantifiability. However, at least it involves asking the poor how well off they are.

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic457678.files//Hap...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_national_happiness
Yeah, just put the venv's bin dir at the head of the script's PATH.
(off topic) I'm sure that was true at some point, but the comment is out of date now. To my surprise, if you download the current bash source code from [1], it actually has a yacc grammar -- see parse.y. It's 6000 lines, but it would be less intelligible without yacc I'm sure.

Honestly, it might be Stockholm syndrome, but I don't find bash hard to parse at all. The only real problem I see is that people get in trouble when they try to nest quoting styles. But there's basically never any reason to do that. User-defined functions basically eliminate this (may not be POSIX compliant, but supported in all shells I know of),

I factor all my shell scripts into 2 to 10 line functions and they are super easy to maintain and are 5-10x shorter than any alternative.

[1] http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html
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Most of my bay area friends were from work. If you work at a high quality place, you'll make friends there, then as natural attrition happens, your network magically spreads to other places and gets more diverse and interesting.

(FWIW it was Justin.TV pre twitch. Holla JTV/Twitchers!)
>>5 years is a very, very long time and if we actually made an effort to rehabilitate you could teach a person a ton in 5 years.

Rehabilitation and reformation is a two way traffic and for that two way traffic to work a lot has to click at once.

Frankly speaking a lot of people can be reformed, especially the poor ones or people coming from poor families. Or people who commit crime in a impulse or fit of sudden rage(Who as a matter of fact are not criminals at all). For such people a term called 'justice to the victim' mandates a certain term of 'punishment'. I think the same term must be used to rehabilitate and reform the person.

Now the problem is something like this. The prisoner needs to be convinced that he can make a living out of every day work. Which is difficult- you have to go and out and really find a way a prisoner can achieve that, then the prisoner has to be himself willing to undergo a change to get into the new world. This is a ideal scenario.

Jail reforms were a thing here in India. To take small time thieves and other petty offenders and reform them so that they could re enter the society was taken. But taking into consideration the trauma of being in a jail, then to be treated like animals and forced to live in sub human conditions. To be in false hope of getting released/out on bail. Then to carry the stigma of society always considering you a criminal and prison inmate at a time.

A person will get little time to think about reform and rehabilitation. What a person in that state would go through total devastation, or at most a emotion of relief if he can get to divorce his wife, let them free to live without the burden of being known as attached to a family of a criminal. Hope that his kids can somehow make it through well in the real world.

Or worse after spending so much time in the prison a person might get institutionalized to the prison.