skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll play devil's advocate. I don't think you are now stupid as in your cognitive ability is lessened, but you are settling for a lower standard of thinking (assuming how you used to spend that time was more mentally taxing.)

I think that you are unwinding after more strenuous living, which is great, but I encourage you to find more beneficial ways to recreate that are also a lot of fun.
That's odd. Last I heard, farm and construction equipment manufacturers were doing a great business selling stuff that stood up to decades of hard work. Of course, they cost multiples of what a cheap family car (itself capable of a decade+ of use with proper maintenance) does, but that's a minor issue.

And there are those annoying over-the-road trucks that easily rack up well over 1,000,000 miles and keep going. But it's a crappy business model, so they should all be out of business tomorrow!

Of course you can build a car that will last 50 years. The problem is that very few people would be willing to pay the price, so no one bothers making them.

FWIW, I have a garden tractor in my garage that's coming up on 30 years old and I expect to get at least another 10 years out of it.
It reminded me of this rather amusing music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UgGXo38Guc
How to really fight CISPA
Has either of these been 100% confirmed or are they just rumored?
Input Deprivation Week: This is boosting my productivity like crazy
It looks nice, but the name Linux, will stile scare a lot of traditional users away...
The problem here is that many people make the mistake thinking that all of the calories "used" are calories expended as energy. For people with insulin issues, some of those calories are preferentially stored as fat and are never available to be used as energy, thus requiring them to eat more in order to make up the energy imbalance.
Seeing as you can obviously use technology to not worry about extra angle bracket syntax and closing tags, I don't see why you need to hide them in order to achieve that. I'm surprised by the number of people who want to strip out visual cues like that. To me, that makes life harder.
Like Unity, Cinnamon has had a lot of work done since Unity came out. Judging either of today's offerings based on experiences from when Unity was whelped isn't doing anyone any favours.
I still think Samsung has the best idea for such multi-tasking with "Dual-View":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ3krff1JCE&feature=yout...

It's not limited to only one column, like in Ubuntu and Windows 8, it splits the apps even, so you can use them fully, and you can even expand or contract one over the other. I think that's a much better implementation.

But Ubuntu's idea for using the phone apps on the side is not too bad either, but that secondary app seems to be meant more as a "companion" app rather than another full app that you want to use in the same time, and give it equal share of the screen (especially on larger screens).
Bulk loading Amazon Redshift from the command-line
Introducing a simpler way to get more subscribers...
Evolutionarily speaking, 10k years is a drop in the bucket. The paleo diet postulates that while we can eat daily and grains, we haven't evolved to do so b/c 10,000 years is too small a period in which to do so.
> C'mon ppl, developers are not that lazy!

Challenge Accepted
What pre-existing condition? This was after I fully recovered from the pneumonia, the stomach ulcer, and the norovirus.
From bug to exploit - Bakery single sign-on for Drupal
Northern economics versus southern economics
sounds awesome!!! I'd like to give this a shot!!!
I would love a blog post or screencast showing how you do this
I'm missing over 40 btc from coinbase account too! They were even there previously but now it says they're gone! There is no trail of them disappearing through transactions though!
Not sure how I missed that. It's a kick-ass little feature in my book, because while I appreciate the "implied HTML tags", I do find them easy to miss.
More US Citizens have been killed by the Federal Government than by any other organized group. The military has been involved with strike breaking [1]. The military was used to suppress the southern states from seceding from the union. [2] Say what you want about the horrors of slavery, but the southern states had the right to secede and were suppressed militarily. More recently, the President has suspended the 4th amendment, and, quite relevant to this article, authorized murder of US Citizens using drones.

These are facts. There's no leaping to conclusions here.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_union_busting_in_the...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War#Causes_of_se...
The authors of this piece try to make it out like it's Apple that's now become a security risk, when this hack is really Java's fault. It makes you wonder if Oracle is entirely up to the responsibility that comes along with inheriting the entire Java-sphere.
Regarding B, it's a practical defense, but it also means it was something of an effective attack: undermine the efficiency of the marketplace by adding a barrier to entry.
Nobody mentions root access. Do I get it by default? This would be the only differentiating factor for me.

For example, I hate it that I cannot edit /etc/hosts on my iOS devices.
Propellantless Space Drive Called "EmDrive" Made in China
Small Miracles in a Ball Pit
Source: http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/sim-city-5/1224978p1.html

[...] As anyone who's played one knows, one of the simplest pleasures
of any SimCity game, dating back to the 1989 original, is the
consequence-free "What if?" scenario. The kind where you obliterate
your city by triggering an apocalyptic wave of fires, earthquakes,
tornadoes, and monster attacks, then time-warp it back to pristine
condition by loading a saved game. When I asked Lead Producer Kip
Katsaelis if the 2013 SimCity would allow that same pleasure in its
Glass Box-powered cities, the answer was a simple, disappointing "No."
The online connectivity Maxis has built in means that reloading saved
games will be impossible, even when no one else has a city in your
region.
Rat Robot Beats on Live Rats to Make Them Depressed
This just so awesome. As an Ubuntu user, I was feeling left out :)
I was worried about DRM, but the beta convinced me it was worth it. Server-side simulation processing makes the game run lightning fast.
Ten Things Young CEOs Seem Likely To Get Wrong
Facebook phishing scam: free Southwest flights
So you're saying that as long as I'm taking the heads off my 2001 Xterra, I may as well replace the thermostat while I'm at it ;-) ISTR it's the same engine.
Trust me, when you have really crappy hardware (Intel Atom 1.3GHz w/ 512MB mem), you will notice the difference. Execution of commands that takes 2-3 seconds on Gnome Terminal will be nearly instant on xterm.
Stackoverflow attention, PHP vs other languages
Recently I started learning Python (used to do PHP before), this gave me a fresh perspective on stackoverflow.com and I began wondering is it just me?

Whenever I had questions about PHP or JS, the views quickly racked up to ~20-30 in seconds and I had an answer or a few in a less than 15 minutes. Now after posting my third Python related question, I'm starting to see a pattern of meaningfully less views and few, if any, answers/comments.

If you look at the number of questions, PHP with ~346K and Python with ~165K, that is kinda what you should expect. So does this mean that when it comes to vibrancy and rapid attention, PHP is as good as it gets on stackoverflow?

P.S. I did look up Java and Javascript, which by the numbers seem to equal PHP.
we are bipeds, we designed for standing up a big part of the time

Do you eschew clothes, eat only raw foods, sleep outside, and run to work (on bare feet) each day?
My vimrc file with step-by-step instructions for installation:

https://github.com/alanhamlett/Alan-vimrc

Some features in my vimrc file:

* Code folding for bracket or indention based languages

* Edit multiple files in tabs using minibufexpl plugin

* Using the Solarized color scheme

* Using Vundle for plugin management (apt-get for Vim plugins)

* Common swp, backup, & view directories (No more ~ files left around)

* Useful defaults (spaces instead of tabs, remove trailing newlines, etc.)
Great post. One thing I've been thinking a lot about lately is the variance in outcomes in an exit. Contrary to what's written on TC, etc., it doesn't always seem like a happy thing for the founders. At the end of the day you are (probably) getting a normal job again and not working on something you love. The right decision is highly personal and shouldn't be rushed into, and I believe you should figure that out early and plan the business around what really matters to you.
I posted this about 20 minutes after I sent them an email about it. I just checked my account right now and the missing coins are back in the account. thanks for the fast response coinbase. Hopefully that doesn't happen again.
I came into this article thinking that it was someone at Twitter, probably as part of the interview process, that told her this. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like the title is a bit misleading.
This stood out to me, too. Apparently [1] this is what their own internal estimate is.

On an semi-unrelated note, the effect the dynamic controls in some of the mock-ups have is interesting to observe. While I liked how play controls came up when I moved my mouse cursor over the image of the tablet playing a video (http://i50.tinypic.com/5b1bms.png) it almost made me feel disappointed when I clicked on "play" and nothing happened. I wonder if as a user persuasion tool this is better or worse than a static image.

Edit: it is also strange how they show mouse over effects in a mock up of a touch interface.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/02/canonical-idUSnBw1... ("Canonical estimates
that...")
Daniel Suarez's novel "Kill Decision" is a more riveting take on these drones. I highly suggest it to anyone interested in drones portrayed in a sci - fi plot.
This title is a bit misleading. I read it and figured that she was "told" this (that she only got the interview because she's female) by someone who was in a position to know. Only after reading the article did I figure out that the intended meaning is closer to "Stanford CS freshman encouraged to believe she only got Twitter interview because she's female".

EDIT: For the record, I think the actual article is very interesting (much more so than the one I thought I was going to read), and it is this that motivated my comment.

EDIT 2: Aaand now it's been replaced by the article's own headline, which unfortunately tells us almost nothing when taken out of its original context. Sigh.
Its not just you. For the record, its some random person at Stanford that said it.
Somehow this made me think of the Indiana Jones / Tomb Raider movies: In both if the protagonist simply stayed uninvolved the various artifacts would never have been found. It is often the way with US military (perhaps replace never with "not for much longer"): Most enemy and potential enemy designs and innovations are the direct result of espionage on the efforts of the US.
Yes but Python also isn't generally distributed the same way. You could argue the same about the C++ redistributable across Windows and even .Net (I think 4.0 runs on XP), but malware for these are still executables. Silverlight may be the only common ground, but then that's the same as Flash, Acrobat or similar plugin.

And as you say it certainly doesn't run in the browser on so many disparate systems making watering hole attacks not nearly as damaging if there were to be Python malware in the wild (and I'm sure there are).
Why, this looks like the very same keyboard I'm typing on :) Except I bought it before the laptop out of curiosity.
So it's fine to save your game into /dev/null as long as the game is lighting fast? How does that justify DRM?
Not saying it's easy, but if you want raw data, there is a lot out there.

FEC filings from the last few decades: http://www.fec.gov/data/
Bills and legislators: http://www.govtrack.us/
Lots of data, but hard to access: http://votesmart.org/
A nice tool/repository for extracting and sharing data: https://scraperwiki.com/

This is just the tip of the iceberg. I'd be happy to talk with anyone else about finding what they need.
This is exactly what she was told. Read the story; the point is that women are being told that they're getting interviews because they're women. To say that the title is incorrect trivializes her experience.
Squiggly underlines? What, do you mean:

1 class Hello
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--INSERT--

Like that? Of course; heck, even xterm does that fine. If you were referring to something else, I'm not too sure...

EDIT:

Never mind, now I know what you're talking about. No, I don't think you can get those in terminal vim, but I'm pretty sure there is a plugin for it.
Completely agree. That's some flaming link-bait if I ever saw any.

An arrogant peer told her that (in less words, mind you). Just as unfortunate, but not nearly as egregious as suggested by the title.
Question: What are people actually doing with technology like this right now? (i.e. who are the people who see this and think.. yay, I'll sign up now!)
Servus for Mac 1.2 is released
This. I really hope they're able to get that integrated soon. That would be awesome.
KDE is a DE. Ubuntu is a platform. They are not the same thing.
Some people like different things than the things you like.

I like `abstractions` instead of `tools that let me coexist with clunky things`.
That is absolutely right - and thus your sysadmins do not need to learn a new language / DSL. cdist is mostly about being simple
> The Ctrl is still readily accessible with the left pinky.

What I meant is that it's easier to access on a Lenovo keyboard than on a non-Lenovo keyboard, since it's closer. I have a hard time hitting Left Ctrl on the Dell keyboard than on my Lenovo keyboards.
Apple, Macs hit by hackers who targeted Facebook
False. The title suggests that someone at Twitter made that statement.
QA & UX
We tried this (our daughter is almost 6 months old) but every bloody doctor, nurse, family member etc. that we discussed this with put the every living terror in us about accidentally killing her.

The baby slept well, we did not.
> I would hope the standard for cryptography is higher than "nothing obviously wrong with it"

Can you please show me where that was the design decision that selected AES? Or are you just making an assumption that the code was not written by professional cryptographers and extensively peer reviewed?

AES-CBC is still a perfectly valid safe choice for implementations today. The most successful attacks against it, are ironically, due to OpenSSL's poor implementation. (http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/594)
Identifying power lines and people isn't necessarily as hard as you say. With a simple image, it's true machines can't match human perception. But when you take into account infrared for viewing human profiles, magnetic sensors for checking for power lines and the fact that the bots are mobile and can investigate and base their analysis on 3d space. The computational bang for your buck is also continuing to improve and sensors are continuing to get smaller. These systems aren't possible yet, but they may be in the relatively near future.
If you say that the title of this post is misleading, you are trivializing the experience of this young woman. She is finding out that all her colleagues at Stanford in computer science are telling her that she is only getting job interviews at prestigious companies because she's female, and you think that the problem here is that there's a single word wrong in a post title on Hacker News? Priorities, people.
Second Sight’s Bionic Eye Implant Approved in the United States
Still no template inheritance! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when that's the one feature I need / care about and none of the newer template languages implement it. I'm spoiled from Django/Jinja2/twig.
>Yet another announcement by Canonical that isn't backed by a "Buy" button.

-- nor a "Download" button for hackers wanting to install an alpha version on their Nexus tablet.

I looked unsucessfully for a Download button on the OP, the "developer" page that it links to and http://www.ubuntu.com/download.
The most cringe-worthy part of the article is that the author begins by describing the person who eventually taunts her as one of her "best friends" at Stanford. Best friend, my ass. Learn who is your friend and who is not. Don't claim people as your friend if they're not. This goes 8x for calling people "best" friends.
I prefer "is circular thinking." Most people have no difficulty understanding the idea of circular reasoning even if they have no idea what it means to beg the question.
In regards to everyone here talking about unity crashing:

xmonad+debian squeeze

My laptop has been up/plugged in for 72 days and I have no issues whatsoever ;) Sometimes stable is a good thing.
UD professor brings access to previously untapped higher frequency bandwidth
This is very true. Right now the only solution is to plant somewhere. But props / wings will become quieter as the systems become more efficient (think of a fan vs a DC motor prop).
Multi-pane input via cmd-shift-i, and saved pane/window configurations through cmd-shift-s and cmd-shift-r also come in handy.
Did You Say Hybrid Cloud? Really?
Actually, there is commercially available optical flow sensors available today.
Sign Now: White House Petition To Legalize Mobile-Phone Unlocking
Drag queens, fake beards and chocolates: Notable diamond heists
Yeah, that's cool and all, but I avoided using XML with attributes because attributes can't / don't nest.

{ name: 'joe', dob: { m: 1, d: 2, y: 1934 } }

<user name='joe' dob='...???...'>

<user><name>joe</name><dob><m>1</m><d>2</d><y>1934</y></dob></user>

I actually wasn't trying to make the "XML is bigger" joke because that isn't what's important to me. Structurally XML is harder to use.
I have not done so myself, but I always imagined that it would require dropping out the engine. As such I'd call it a tedious but well-defined task for someone with a lift and plenty of time. If the job can actually be done without removing the engine, yes that sounds incredibly frustrating.

The 993 series in general is still a fantastic car today but the turbo model in particular looked absolutely stunning when it was introduced. They gave up a lot of character when they re-tooled in 1999.
Where you see malice and oppression, in this article, I see insensitivity and maybe a little ignorance.

There is a big difference between a dumb question, which I think her friend asked, and a personal attack; that difference is intent. Considering this was one of her "best friends," I really doubt that that was his goal here.

That's not to say she shouldn't have felt hurt -- a dumb question can still sting -- but please don't make this specific molehill into a mountain.
The source of the comment matters GREATLY.

For instance, I could say that Robert De Niro only got cast in the Godfather Part II because he was Jew. That just makes me a bigot or an anti-semite or whatever. But pointing out that there's a bigot in the world is not a story; it's not novel. However, if the original casting director for the movie says the same thing, then it is true and you have a story.

This article may as well be titled, "Someone Somewhere is Sexist". There's very little story here.

Edited: Removed curse word after reading child reply by calibraxis. Argument remains the same, but is more civil.
How Users Hold Mobile Devices
I'm currently doing a CS degree entirely over the web at my local university. I already completed 4 classes and I have an easier to time to focus and learn than when I was in class with other students, in which case I was constantly distracted by social interaction.

>>The research has shown over and over again that community college students who enroll in online courses are significantly more likely to fail or withdraw than those in traditional classes, which means that they spend hard-earned tuition dollars and get nothing in return.

I'd be interested in seeing the full statistics here. In my case, the course material is the same online than for the in-class students, and the exams are the same, given at the same date, same place. I've seen the exam's average result for both online and in-class groups on my math course last session, and the average was higher on the online group.

Maybe it depends on the type of online course. I'm doing synchronous courses, but can watch the replays at any time. We have a web site dedicated for each course, with forums and can always easily talk with the teachers and get quick answers for anything. I believe asynchronous courses would be much harder to follow.
"The video talks about adding a keyboard and mouse and using it like a desktop"

A mouse and a keyboard doesn't mean it can run anything. I can use a mouse and keyboard with Android currently and it still won't support my development environments. Heck Android doesn't even fully support its own development environment.
I don't count columns, I resize to taste.

I also resize often, particularly when using vimdiff, because I often use smaller screens (either because I am watching other things in tmux panes at the same time, or because I am working on my eeepc).
Cartoon about Downton Abbey and Bravo TV
I fully agree that we need more women in technical fields and that the social stigmas that work against this should be slowly eliminated. (Slowly because it can't happen instantaneously, not because slower is better.)

However, I'm going to disagree with something with a little bit of the other stuff. Let's assume that "I knew I wasn’t very good at CS..." is true, and that this isn't just modesty. Then work harder and learn more and practice more and code more and study more! Make yourself good at CS! Don't let yourself use your gender as a crutch or let it hinder you. Earn what you get because of what you know and can do. Don't accept the 'special treatment' you claim you are getting because you are a woman.

Perhaps I'm missing the main point the article's trying to make. If anyone wants to give a concise to the point couple sentence summary I'd appreciate it.
Trading strategies studied using graph-python
using graph package, graphviz, py-dot and python, public data from cftc, check out hte insights gained from plotting a network graph representation of the strategy
Coursera, Udacity, and EdX all have great courses. Algorithms is not the starting place though. You first need to learn the basics of programming (functions, variables, looping,...).
Never Lose Your iPhone with Linquet
Has top level windows been implemented yet. It's been on the todo for a long time so has a lot other new feature requests.
Fraudsters spam out scams via SMS text messages
There are many problems with SC4. The most egregious one (for me anyways, someone who likes to build insanely dense cities) is that pathfinding "bug".

The short version is, your sims must find a reasonable commute from home to work, otherwise your economy stagnants and unemployment runs rampant. SC4's pathfinding heuristic disallows a sim from going backwards to go forwards.

This creates many transportation deadzones and a lot of unintuitive bottlenecks. You will literally see sims live directly next to a subway station that takes them directly to work, but they will drive instead.

There is a mod to fix this, but the performance impact is expectedly awful.
whey protein is really just the leftovers from cheese production ... it's not that unusual of a substance.
I really dig this kind of simplicity and clarity. The similarity to python really helps to keep things understandable.

Any chance of making this work with http://angularjs.org/ ?
NYU Launches New Center for Data Science
What about the web is stone age and that you would need for web development to be on par with native development?

Genuine question here. We're working in this space and we want to know more about what you feel is lacking. We have our ideas on how things can be improved, but we want to hear specifics from developers like yourself.