skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never been a fan of Sublime Text because it doesn't feel like a native Mac app. They lost me when they made the preferences command open a window to edit a settings file. Both BBEdit (still my favorite) and TextMate feel much more native & user friendly.
Nah - not true. I'm bored with the argument that insurance companies are the bad guys. Gotta give me something more original :)
Show HN: The TV API - Free Comprehensive TV API and Episode Guide
If I'm reading this right... it actually bans Google Maps while explicitly acknowledging the feds' right to use whatever drones they want?

We need better small government advocates.
Fashion Startup Frank & Oak Plans for a Big Second Year
Anything that allows us to treat the insurance companies as a relatively homogenous, interchangeable set of entities reduces their power to impede progress. This is true whether you believe that they impede progress intentionally (i.e., are malicious actors), or just incidentally.
I am not saying that a degree is not important! I'm just saying that just being a CS major does not make one a great programmer and likewise, a great programmer need not be a CS major. I believe a history major can become a great programmer...as said in the video, learning how to program just takes determination.

I was an econ major and learned html/css in a few short weeks pretty darn well. At least enough to land me a web developer position with a rising startup. I have decided to change my major to a more technical one purely because I enjoy learning both HOW to program and what I can do with it--which I'm learning is just about anything :)
I came in here to say this. People are multi-faceted. They can be risk-averse in one area, but risk-taking in another. I suspect there are better indicators on someone's nature than how they cross the street. IMO, just how they carry themselves is probably a better indicator than whether or not they wait for the light to cross.
Here's an article that shows how to set up both Rails 3.2 and 4.0 with Ruby 2.0. Uses some new features of rvm. "With both versions on your machine, you’ll explore the new features of Rails 4.0 while continuing to develop projects with the most recent stable version."

http://railsapps.github.com/installing-rails.html
Perhaps Jeff Atwood Should Stick to the Code
Better late than never, right?
No.

Government should never get a pass on a prohibition just because it's the government. Au contraire: save for very narrow instances (ex.: nuclear weapons) handled with intense care and oversight, government agents should be subject to any and all restrictions inflicted upon the populace at large. People have rights and delegate them to government as granted powers, not the other way around.
if you're not using ebay's api, then how are you gathering this data? or am i reading this incorrectly and you are indeed using ebays api?
I mentally cross out the "not" and the "un" or "in"; then it reads correctly.

e.g.:

"not uncommon" becomes
" common"
Show HN: What can be done with a LiveCode, modern-day HyperCard, and a pledge
Hello,

I came here to show some cool stuff that I made with LiveCode, an HyperCard on steroids, and why I think it makes a great programming language for both beginners and seasoned developers alike. In the end, I make a pledge for the readers to help the kickstarter to make LiveCode an open source language in the terms of the GPL. There are only about 24h left and we're almost there but we need help.

My little article is at:

http://files.andregarzia.com/pledge.html

The KS campaign is at:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1755283828/open-source-edition-of-livecode

Thanks in advance for all the help making a wonderful tool open source and free!
Boosting mobile HTML5 game performance with WebGL
BTW, if anyone here wants an API key, use this invite code: hn2013
Isn't this a spam blocking technique?
Some of what Putnam reported was flawed, and his book that you cited was interpretative. These "actual mesasurements" that you speak of do not show that in-person social engagement has been in decline -- that is Putnam's interpretation of the data. Others have different interpretations (which I happen to agree with much more). For example, see http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/96apr/kicking/ki....
Of Course Someone from MIT Introduced ’4D Printing’ at TED
White Dwarf Stars Offer Best Potential to Identify Twin Earths
Yes. That's up to the particular configuration of the site. It varies from site to site, but for optimal results you want it big enough to keep the content of the common pages of your site.
This no-profit IMHO should focus on creating a free, cross-platform, awesome system similar to Codea iPad app [1], that is, the BASIC of 80s. Everything not in the same line is too boring.

I've a very very positive experience with load81 [2], something I wrote almost solely for my son. In the latest months and thanks to this program my son learned to write Lua code and we are having a lot of fun.

I don't think it would be possible without a system that makes drawing a circle or checking where the mouse pointer is trivial.

[1] http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/

[2] https://github.com/antirez/load81
The most depressing documentary of all time I recently watched on public television: Rise of the Drones. And to top it off, the end credit suggested that the major funding of this program was provided by Lockheed Martin!

You'd be better off not watching.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/rise-of-the-drones.htm...
What's up with the Google Top Bar?
Thanks!

That's expected - after all, everyone think's they're above average (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57568186/everyone-thinks...), it's the phenomenon known as illusory superiority... "On a scale of one to 10, you probably think you're a seven. And you wouldn't be alone."

(Disclaimer: though granted, I'd hazard a guess that most HN readers are generally above average.)
>Huffman coding alone wouldn't do a lot in that example. Huffman coding lets you build a prefix code to pack symbols into variable length sequences of bits, depending on the frequency of the symbol. A dictionary encoder, like LZ77, would replace repeated sequences by references, and that would make the two variable names equivalent. Deflate uses Huffman coding to pack the LZ77 compressed data using as few bits as possible, making it more efficient, but LZ77 is the part removing the redundancy.

That's how gzip works, but all you have to know that gzip WILL be packed via huffman coding in a compression algorithm, and you will be able to conclude you can have a far longer variable name length with no cost.

The actual algorithm itself is a far less common topic than huffman coding.
Yeah. I'm graduating this semester with a bachelors degree and starting a job at $105,000 salary. I'd like to see a community college grad pull that off.
US Internet 'six strikes' anti-piracy campaign begins
I wrote "frank" because I frankly exposed the events that actually took place (receiving the resume, word counting in it, decision). What facts are you frank about?
Would you like a resume where the word "men" appears 8 times? Or "whites"? Would you like to work with people who tout being white, Danilo Campos?
#UXmarch: better products for everyone
It should send the messages to your spam folder, then.
The particular example I'm referring to, it is used over 100 times.
It's posts like this making it to the frontpage (and the inevitable comment thread) that make me sad about what HN has become.

What happened to the idea of making submissions (and comments) cost karma points anyway?
I'm on the latest Firefox on Mac 10.8. The "run" buttons do not show up at all...I had no clue what I was supposed to be looking for.
They're not indexed. That's an offset.

Naming things. Again.

1 indexed arrays are truly indexed :D
I feel like I'm repeating myself. My point was that she wrote a piece that effectively relies on the authority of the author, and that authority was dubious.

Think of it this way: if she was a reporter or science writer writing a sourced, reported piece --- or even if she was an essayist constructing a series of arguments for why women shouldn't be talking about their challenges publicly or attending symposia --- her authority would in fact probably be out of bounds. But this piece is neither of those two things.
This is more a purr/growl replacement than a alert() replacement.
Startup Stress isn't just for Founders
Indeed - this doesn't tell you anything. Was nginx configured well? Was apache? How much difference would it have made? Is the old apache version relevant? Pointless test, unless you intend to use those settings on that software on similar hardware.
Yes, there is a place. Usenet is a popular forum for holy wars about the lexical syntax of various programming languages.
That's the right GitHub org, the samples should be showing up there soon.
This happens to me all the time, my company hasn't allowed youtube (plus a swathe of other stuff). But youtube gets me annoyed the most. I usually get a hyped 'check this out' friend a friend on IM, then I have to spend what feels like an absurd amount of time swapping accounts and fighting against chrome modals which is always prompting the wrong account details for login. When I'm finished I have to log out and back into my work account. Total pain.
Are Cable Companies Hoping Usage-Based Internet Access Will Help Thwart Netflix?
My guess is that there is some amount of quota that goes unused. You pay for 40 hours, you end up using 30. That probably helps a little, but still... how is this profitable? I'm with you.
I use it for this: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/dwriterpro.html

Enpowering academics and whole communities alike.

Richmond Mathewson.
Sorry guys, I wasn't trying to start a political debate on HN. I was just stating the fact that most of the media sources mentioned in the comment I was responding to are very much pro-Obama administration. That could conceivably affect their decision not to report on cases like this that simply can't be spun in a positive light. Regardless of what party is in power, if they are committing acts against US citizens that are wrong, they need to be publicly called on the carpet for it.
JPEG optimization tools benchmark (for Linux)
Mentions use of an obscure(?) Windows IPC mechanism: Windows mailslots (circa Windows 2000).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36...

* a pseudofile that resides in memory
* use standard file functions
* cannot be larger than 424 bytes when sent between computers
* can broadcast messages within a domain
The OP mentions that it doesn't go to spam, it's deleted entirely and unretreivably. It should also be possible to turn it off.
Isn't this Mobile Me all over again?
He also forgot "people who have been fined or otherwise hassled for jaywalking, and therefore think twice about crossing when the light is against them."
As I recall, Zuckerberg did seek investment. And he went looking for terms a little more generous. For 15 to 20 grand, some advice, and a friendly introduction to other investors, Zuckerberg wouldn't be willing to trade them a stick of gum. Much less 5% or more of his company. Ditto Bill Gates.
Oh look, an appeal to authority.
Solution: Don't use iCloud.
Bash Scripting In Chef pt1: You Don’t Need To Learn Ruby
That's fine except I wasn't trying to comment. I was just trying to view some trivial video shared by a family member.

Instead I was assaulted with this UI atrocity forcing me to evaluate some complicated modal dialog before I could even view the damn video. I mean, look at it: it's a pretty clear yes/no question with three confusing answer buttons and none of the labels answer the question posed at the top.

I could tolerate it if it happened when I tried to upload, comment, like, report or favorite something, but just to watch? If I had been logged out I wouldn't have been hassled by this. Apparently my sin is having bothered to create an account at some point in the past when I just wanted to click the like button as feedback to some poster. Why is it so unreasonable to like things without endorsing them? I guess the answer it to delete my youtube account and lurk moar. Fine. This is exactly what wil warned about.
ya I agree. I don't like that behavior at all (I hate false positives more than I hate spam).

I just remember there being debate/discussion about this before.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tzink/archive/2011/08/09/why-silentl...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_delivery_report#Silently_dr...

"As discussed in Section 7.8 and Section 7.9 below, dropping mail without notification of the sender is permitted in practice. However, it is extremely dangerous and violates a long tradition and community expectations that mail is either delivered or returned. If silent message-dropping is misused, it could easily undermine confidence in the reliability of the Internet's mail systems. So silent dropping of messages should be considered only in those cases where there is very high confidence that the messages are seriously fraudulent or otherwise inappropriate."
Why Does Privacy Matter? One Scholar's Answer
Rats trained to scratch and sniff to detect landmines
Marissa Mayer Is Completely Right
This is how founders should deal with startup failure
IANAL but I expect that if that specific women read this comment she'd now be in a position to sue for discrimination quite effectively.
It has been mostly debunked - and is attributed to choices people make:

Here is Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, explaining that the portion of the gender wage gap due to bias and prejudice is about 25% of the total gap. That is 75% of the gap is due to various career choices and career preferences that differ between men and women, and the remaining 25% is due to bias and prejudice. So if the wage gap is 24 cents on the dollar, the wage gap due to bias and prejudice is 6 cents. Still something to think about and work on, but a whole lot less inflammatory than 24 cents.

http://www.freakonomics.com/2008/05/01/robert-reich-answers-...

“Q: I’d be interested to know your thoughts on the feminisation of poverty and the male-female wage differential. How much of that is due to career choice?

A: Rough estimate: About 50 percent of the differential has to do with different career choices made by women and men. Twenty-five percent involves greater time women spend on care-taking of children and elderly relatives. The other 25 percent is due to bias and prejudice in the labor market.”

(citation - this comment: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2012/12/17/profit-opportu...)
I appreciate your efforts, but this response doesn't really answer my question. It's too granular (and a bit biased). When I go to your web site, I need some context. I need business problems that this software solves. Based on the name I would say it's Medicare/insurance eligibility checking, but the web site should guide me through what needs the product addresses and why it's better than the alternatives.

Also, I'd advise you not to jump straight to messages about "non-technical bureaucracies." It's certainly true in some cases, but it sounds derogatory. Better to address the objectives these people are trying to meet.
I had no idea they had a name, thanks!
20oz of brewed coffee with no sugar or milk, ~5 calories :)
This wil be embedded in their OS too...
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Puerto Rican Website Dances the Harlem Shake
PNG is lossless.
Yep, we just discovered that bug in the underlying doc library (https://github.com/HubSpot/executr/issues/1), thanks!
PlayTo Beta Released for Windows Phone 8
Clearly it's time for hobbyists to switch from making drones to making anti-drone rockets!
It could be server side spam filtering (not all spam messages make it to your spam folder with any provider - the worst offenders are often just thrown out).

Just saying it is possible that this is an over-aggressive spam filter vs. Apple taking such an invasive measure. Although, Apple has done similar crazy things before, so who knows.
My new micro-hobby is waiting for the walk sign. The whole point is to experiment with self-discipline and not following the herd. It's hard to stay put when someone crosses while I wait, and I find that fascinating!
let me know when that blog post is finished!
Wilco: https://github.com/HubSpot/messenger/issues/9
he was charged with violating the CFAA and wire fraud

Um, yeah. That's exactly the law[1] I am referring to. That's why I linked to it before and why I'll link to it again. Go read it. Because the rest of your comment is just plain ignorant, and please understand: I don't mean that as an insult. You may mean well, but it's really counterproductive to make up your mind about something while remaining untethered to reality.

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030 (You may find the phrase "and with intent" to be relevant to answering both of your questions.)
There is absolutely no chance that this bill will pass.

Crazy bills championed by people that either don't understand them, or are just posturing are semi-common. Just because it has been proposed, doesn't mean anything.
> You'd be better off not watching.

Ignoring a problem usually doesn't make it less of a problem.
Everything about icloud - from the terrible design to the clunky interface - is as Steve Jobs liked to say, "shit". I have icloud and I'm not even sure what it's for; is it a backup service, an e-mail provider, or a way to find my phone? None of these have much in common, so the fact that they're all bundled together really confuses me. And its name is a bit of a misnomer, you can't even do standard cloud stuff like share photos (like you could with mobileme).

I don't mean to stray off-topic, but this article just confirms my intuition to avoid anything with icloud in the name.
Technically, you don't have to type any { or } to write C code. ??< and ??> will do 'fine' as replacements, as do <% and %> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphs_and_trigraphs#C)
You don't get off to persuasive start when you call everyone who disagrees with you (before even making it clear what you're disagreeing ABOUT) a moron.
I'm glad that punching back worked out for some kids, but I would be wary of inferring a general rule from that. Might be the kids for whom punching back didn't work out just didn't tell their story.

What could also happen is that the bully gathers his friends and strikes back in a big way. Or maybe he has a knife. Or whatever - I don't know, probably I would try to punch back, too. But I don't think it is essential for people to go through such an ordeal.
Data.seattle.gov
But the VC has an idea. Which is use the money to make more money by allowing others to build businesses. That's a business model itself. It requires the same amount of planning, marketing, PR, etc. They also have to turn a profit or face a bigger doom of losing lots of money on a bunch of bad businesses.
How’s the weather? TMP102 + Raspberry Pi + plain old C/C++
Woodworking at the heart of education
So, let me get this straight: they're proposing to prohibit anyone who may actually contribute something valuable to society from using the technology, but give full license to those pretty much guaranteed to do evil with it?
My identical-twin brother is a doctor, and I make far more than he does. The reason is that I don't call myself a programmer [1]. Instead, I've built-up enormous amounts of domain knowledge [2] in addition to my software engineering skills.

As for the career prospects of anyone fresh out of law school, the legal profession suffered a massive meltdown in 2008 and hasn't recovered.

[1] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...

[2] http://jacquesmattheij.com/domain-knowledge-or-a-lack-thereo...
With this new signin, will it be possible for someone to develop an application that automatically publishs my site RSS feed in Google+?
It is very difficult to convince non-technical people to buy technology they cannot see, touch, try and in a general sense, "feel". Because you know, non-technical people do not know what "specs" are.

And they also do not browse the internet like geeks.

If people go to apple.com, they "see" things, or even at amazon.com.

The simple question is: where does my mom have to go to buy a Nexus 7? Certainly not to google.com, not even nexus.com.

Yes, 4.7 million people have bought a nexus 7 (or 4, whatever). The first-gen iPad (which nobody would buy anyway) reached 3 million in 80 days.

People SAW it. At apple.com. And then they saw their friends'.

Ditto the Galaxy. You see: samsung.com, as easy as that. The S-II sold 5 million units in 85 days.
Boredom is hardly an argument for what is a large part of the problem. The history of contemporary insurance dates to the catholic church and the prohibition of usury. To get around the ban on lending money at interest, loans could be insured.

Default risk was priced and risk was conserved!

Fast-forward to the present day, the insurance concept was applied to healthcare as a way to smooth out one's healthcare costs over a lifetime and eliminate tail-risk to the individual. Since the 1930s, the insurance industry has evolved into a system to avoid paying for your healthcare costs. First, the growing expenses were thrown onto the employer (think auto manufacturers) and when the employers can't support the cost, onto the healthy by passing cost increases on to employees through increased premiums.

The fact is that if you consume something, you or someone(s) else will have to fund your consumption. The second law of thermodynamics applies to healthcare as well. There is no free lunch here either.

Insurance companies end up as an additional layer of administration expense. In the case of financialization of health care, the administration is extraordinarily expensive!

Risk is conserved!
I think it's also very important to consider the different businesses these companies are in; some management structures naturally lend themselves to certain industries more than others. For example, something tells me that the "velvet sweatshop" model might not work so well for Shell, while obviously the data-driven model is a very natural fit for Google's business.
A template tag is one thing. Populating the template with data another. And based on this proposal it would definitely not be my first choice. without at least some kind of data binding it's not going to be an alternative to the currently available javascript template engines.
Agree, you can only compare both, if both are tuned for optimal performance for the specific situation.
I think you'd have trouble buying a Mac that doesn't have multitouch support today, considering that Macbooks come with multitouch trackpads and iMacs come with Magic Mouses (with desktop trackpads advertised alongside them).
>her authority would in fact probably be out of bounds.

This is exactly the question, why does her authority matter at all?
Spark gap radios and Ku-Band jammers are handy too.
Your second citation only cites your first, which is not a debunking but a comment in an interview - which says 75% of the gap is due to career choice - but the link I provided shows gaps by career, making that distinction moot.
I'd say Yes, you can certainly get a _good_ job.

That said, I'm not sure if you've thought about the states, but just throwing this out there: I've been in the US for 8 years now (came here for college, been working since) and without my degree, I believe my chances of being here would have been reduced to almost none (I realize this every time I engage in any visa-related matter).

There are other ways you can get here (internal transfer, investor visa etc), but I think it's worth mentioning since you said that you'd like to leave Hungary. I briefly contemplated dropping out of college but looking back there's no doubt in my mind it was one of the most important and best decisions of my life to stick it out.
Designing Sensing Scenarios armed with a Raspberyy Pi