skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it's based on GNU/Linux yet misses important features

I don't like this misconception. Yes, it uses a Linux kernel, but it's not a Linux operating system. It's nothing like a Linux OS, like you mentioned. It's not even trying. I mean, my Roku box sitting in front of my TV is based on the Linux kernel as well, and it doesn't have a package manager, X11, or alternative window managers.

Based on the Linux kernel is completely different from a Linux OS. Android isn't trying to be Linux for smartphones. You're complaining that your car is a frame on wheels but it's too heavy for a horse to pull. They're designed for completely different purposes.
> Third, aside from CO2, coal has a variety of other nasty constituents: mercury, uranium, thorium, arsenic among others.

How high is the radiological pollution from coal I wonder? All that stuff gets turned to ash and spread around by wind and now it will be some kind of slurry I guess. Still have to do something with it.
I commonly stream Spotify on my MacBook while tethering via my iPhone at coffee shops.

Little did I know I was paying $10/GB to let others listen to music.

Thanks, Spotify, thanks.
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Seems like we'd be better off with a system just like the Whitehouse one but designed for petitioning both the President and our representatives at the same time. At the end of the day, the executive branch doesn't make laws. It just signs them at the end of the process.

Fixing the DMCA needs to start in the legislative branch (or be ruled unconstitutional by the judicial).

The petition system should geolocate you, suggest who your representative is and make sure that you sign a petition on a national issue that is delivered to your representative together with only the signatures of other constituents in that representatives district. I reckon the system should also prompt you to forward the petition not only to friends and family with the same representative as yourself, but also friends and family who live in districts that haven't received many signatures yet (i.e. it should help fill in the holes).
What's surprising to me is your absurd notion that people can control or own intangible ideas and thoughts.
what nonsense, sure google's useful, but no more so than bing or any other company that wants to build the same. How about the cellular carriers, or the infrastructure companies that make internet in your house possible. Google was an inevitable company, someone would have made the web searchable...

Google Glass isn't progress, it might lead to some progress, but right now its a delivery platform for commerce and a camera.

Ok Glass, CTRL-ALT_DEL
It's not THAT crazy, the drive manufacturers saw demand stay constant while supply dwindled, there response was to raise prices across the board. They really have no need to drop them again, as quickly as they had been before the flooding. As soon as the first major producer drops prices back to normal levels the others will follow suite, but no one wants to be the first, since people are still buying them at inflated prices.
I keep my KeePass file in Dropbox, it means that file is actually on my computer but also synced to the cloud. Copy offers the same behaviour, unlike Wuala: in Wuala you can't access your files without having their Java-based monster running.
Oil Sands Mining Uses Up Almost as Much Energy as It Produces
> From my reading, four of the shader units in the PS4 are reserved for Compute Units; things like physics (just cause 2) and lighting (battlefield 3), which cuts the raw advantage from 50% to 16%. Apparently on the 720, developers will be able to choose how to allocate compute units across the cores.

You are reading bad sources. PS4 can allocate everything to graphics. And even if it couldn't, a lot of the graphics work in today's game engines is run as compute shaders anyway, so it would not matter in the slightest. The whole "cuts the raw advantage" spiel was concocted by fanboys to make themselves feel better. I strongly advocate that you pay no heed to anything said by anyone who mentions it.

> Mainly useful for stereoscopic images or 4k. How many people have 4k tvs and 3D tvs? 16 render output units are plenty for 1080p (the PS4 has 32).

Completely untrue. The load on rops doesn't depend on just resolution, but on what they draw. In deferred engines (which everyone uses now), you can often reduce load on other parts by storing intermediate results, spending more fillrate. On consoles, everyone designs their games to spend all the fillrate that is available.

Fillrate does, however scale linearly on resolution and frame rate, so if a game is designed to run on Xbox next at x resolution and y frame rate, to run at 2x or 2y you would need twice of it. Which is probably why Sony has exactly twice of it.

> At the cost of half the storage (4GB vs 8GB).

?!? What exactly are your sources anyway? PS4 has 8GB of GDDR5.

> Textures will probably be able to be larger on Durango

Umm, no. More memory means larger textures. The textures will be pretty much identical for the consoles.

> More of some things; less of others. Faster at some things; slower at others.

No, Orbis is strictly superior in everything. Which is my point.
How One Startup Uses Scala to Handle Exponential Growth
And how is CO2 form Fe2O3 different than CO2 from the air?
Is it just that it is easy to capture? Then what?
Thanks to URLBox, Implemented on my URL Shortner http://xgd.in/

Checkout - http://xgd.in/viewdnsinfo+

Note: I am removing it, since it does not work when a person is not logged into the system - its a shame and a sham
Why entrepreneurs need to share moments of weakness with their startup peers
Checking Your Security Isn't a Once in a While Thing
Great work on the app. It is not only useful...but a joy to use. The small design touches make all the difference.
It didn't seem complicated to me.

You either license a site to use it, license a team of app developers to use it in however many sites you like, or buy an OEM to ship it.
This. Very. Site.
A visa that says you don't need a visa. Nice!
It's the Library of Congress, and they didn't revoke the exception so much as they failed to renew it.
With a program like NetLimiter
How about setting up a firewall rule so that Spotify can only talk to Spotify's servers? Here's a post from Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/jdhj6/is_there_a_wa...
Actually... Racket is a Scheme dialect which is a language in the Lisp family.

Much like Clojure, Kernel, and newLISP are languages in the Lisp family.
Define dangerous? Are you concerned with security? In which case, don't eval untrusted code, and you're fine.

Maintainability? If done right "code is data" could improve the maintainability, or decrease it drastically, just like any other feature. If you have 80 lines of comments for every 10 lines of code, you've decreased your maintainability, comments are dangerous by that logic.
Monkey Patching iOS SDK - Swizzling
Not sure about Plato, I would rather say Buddha.)
Documentation Mistake -
https://api.urlbox.io/v1/$URLBOX_APIKEY/$TOKEN/png/?$query_s...

https://api.urlbox.io/v1/$URLBOX_APIKEY/$TOKEN/png?$query_st...

Options Not working -

$options['width'] = "1024";
$options['height'] = "768";
$options['full_page'] = 'true';
$options['force'] = 'true';

Wierd - The Screenshot only works when I am logged into the Site.. Its a shame that it is this way
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4632410
This is not a sure bet, but just ask about their latest funding round and how much they got and how much of a percentage they gave to the investors. For example, Company X just closed a 1 million dollar Series A and gave up 50% equity. That means the company is valuated @ $2 million.
I agree, much healthier than 5 years ago. I think it still lacks something in "the culture" department. I can't really put my finger on it.

When I was comparing my experience in the valley, I would say i noticed in the valley : an embrace of risk, a willingness to cannibalize successful entities, and a focus on the future. Which one is missing in Toronto?

In my limited exposure of cities, if I had to rank them, I would put : Silicon Valley, Austin (texas), boston, toronto, denver, orlando, london, berlin, chicago,
No, per the "spotify technology" article linked to in the discussion-.
The real problem is that there are too many congress people. We have 535 congress members trying to come to an agreement on important things like actually developing a working budget. Can you imagine over 5,000 people voicing opinions on what a budget ought to look like?
Wedding Party Scores A Million-Dollar Seed Round
Good to hear stories like this. Just because something is cheap doesn't mean it's rubbish. A $99 Android tablet has a better operating system and in some cases better hardware than the first and second generation iPads.
My favorite thing at LivingSocial (and other startups) is "unlimited time off". Yeah, good luck with that.
This kind of thing is key to getting mainstream acceptance for p2p. Eg some ISPs try to forbid use of p2p apps, it's important you can bring up Skype and Spotify and WoW as mainstream apps that use p2p and aren't reasonable to ban.
Nice, always nice to see new (and free) codeschool courses. I wish Codeschool would do Android course since I found them a bit more entertaining then teamTreehouse.
Brand Protection Agency Hiring .Net Hacker
This position's primary focus will be the development of web applications for our business intelligence products. This is a full-time, in the office position with a startup company, and the ideal candidate would be comfortable coding on the front & back-end.

The developer will be exposed to the latest technologies including ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, .NET 3.5 and 4.0, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, ext-js and other open source frameworks.

As part of the team you will be involved in project planning and development from architecture and design through deployment and production maintenance.

If you have an eye for detail as well as the ability to write well structured, clean code you might be the right candidate. You must be willing to learn and adopt existing coding standards. If you have experience with atheistic design tools like PhotoShop, that would be a plus.

Most of all we are looking for that person who wants to be part of a team and build something great. Someone that will work hard, learn fast and will put in the time and effort required to turn out a first class service for our clients.

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/30881/c-sharp-asp-net-developer-fte-dallas-brand-protection-agency?a=Au7FeZq

http://www.brandprotectionagency.com
LinkedList.prototype.reverse = function () {
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Sure - I'm not saying it's the solution, just an option if it really bothers you.
While this is an option, I prefer to stream my music than have it using space on my solid state drive and I only have premium to avoid adverts.
How could someone who had flown 950,000 miles on United, blogging about it the whole time, be totally unaware of this rule? There are two explanations.

1) He knew about the rule and decided to flaunt it anyway.

2) He did not know about the rule because it is so rarely enforced as to be invisible.

Personally speaking, #2 sounds more likely to me. I take photos onboard most times I fly, and not once have I been asked to stop, even on United flights. I've never heard of any friends or family being asked to stop. I've never even read about this on a blog before, and lots of people blog about flying and travelling.

In short, whether or not he was in technical violation of the rule, it's ridiculous to hold someone strictly to a standard that is never enforced with any regularity.
I start using 1password a month ago (half price while the Macworld sales). But I only use it for important services like email, Dropbox, because I am too lazy typing the master password.
Especially useful for testing network protocol interactions faster than you could if you had to wait for real time to pass. Cool stuff.
Thanks men!
Thanks for the reply. I'm still not convinced. Yes it's possible that the scriptures are inaccurate. What source do you pull your reasoning from and what makes your source more accurate.
Agreed. It's sad that he is so neglected in the west, though he's still a hero in Japan.
If you are a JavaScript, Ruby, Python programmer it will teach you where first, rest, map, reduce, partial, apply, and a slew of other methods came and what functional programming is. It also has the side effect of teaching you how machines work at a low level (if you follow the SICP) with "environments" and frames. If you are a Java or .NET developer you'll pick up functional techniques and understand the origins of the object model. That's not even getting into macros, which basically are runtime code that writes code. I'm not aware of another language that has lisp style macros.

Ultimately it will help you be a better programmer even if you don't at first see the benefit.
:)

I too was about to post /r/cableporn.

As someone who is responsible for data enter design and deployment - if anyone on my team was not acutely OCD over how the cabling looked, well they would not be a member of the team very long!
A roughly spherical asteroid of radius r has volume

4/3 * pi * r^3

Using Ceres as a benchmark for typical asteroid density, an asteroid of radius r has mass

[volume in meters^3] * 2077 kg/(m^3)

On the asteroid's surface, acceleration due to gravity is

[Gravitational constant] * [mass in kilograms] / (r in meters)^2

which simplifies to

(6.67384E-11 * 4/3 * pi * 2077 * r) m s^-2

If we mine on a 1km diameter asteroid, the dust we kick up will accelerate towards the surface at 2.9 * 10^-4 m/s^2. A dust cloud 10 meters high will settle in about five minutes.
The thing that makes me most sad about this is that you're beating yourself up for losing investor's money.

Let me tell you - the investors are entering the arrangement knowing that they have a 90% chance of failure. That's why they want deals that might give them a 10x return on their investment and they turn down "lifestyle" business that might return a meager 8% year over year.

It's great that you obviously care about your investors. But you should feel just about as bad over them losing their money as a gas station should feel when people lose a dollar buying a lotto ticket.

They made the decision to play the game, knowing full well there was a higher likelihood of failure than success.

Best of luck to you as you'll inevitably build something else.
There is no catch. Just a non-profit side project that I really like!
Objective-C is a Piece of Shit
The cost of your developers using environments that they aren't adapted to is higher than the cost of dealing with inconsistencies introduced by the fact that they use Windows. It's more of a hassle for you, sure - but it's not your needs which matter in this context. I say that from the experience of having worked with people with a similar mind-set.

The job of a manager is not to bend the environment to his needs but to aid the people that do the work.
> At what point did it become OK

When everyone agreed to it, I suppose.

> If so, fuck that, and fuck investors.

This seems rather naive. No one takes investors for the fun of it. Investment describes a mutually beneficial relationship that occurs when an enterprise needs funding. Investors shoulder the financial risk and burden and thus demand compensation in the form of (probably worthless) equity.
Python Design Pattern examples
i think the ux handholding approach is great.

HNers are different from most consumers, so even if it seems annoying to some of us, it probably wins by reducing ambiguity for a much larger set of users.

Obviously, it shouldn't happen EVERY time you use the app, but as an intro for new users, it seems awesome.

Are there tools like mixpanel that you could use to track engagement and usage patterns of cohorts afterwards on mobile?
No worries. I didn't mean to sound harsh in my tone. I thought your comment was a snap judgement without any real research. If you did do research you would know that I don't do all of the teaching, we bring in experts from every location, just like a conference.
Thanks. Apologies on the tone.
Right. I was just about to say. This is hackers do it. Sniff out the traffic and block really selectively.

My concern woud be: Am I violating TOS when i don't share bandwidth?
I like this idea a lot, but seriously - a tweed blazer is your first offering?

Did you A/B test the offering in terms of what your target customer would consider appealing? (I fully realize you may be targeting pretentious hipsters or middle-aged english gentlemen of course. :)

I'd also suggest maybe an "outfit" (shirt, pants, jacket/shoes, etc) instead of just an item too... no idea if that would result in better conversion, though.

At any rate, best of luck to you... I like the direction you are going.
Haha, after all these years of knowing the expression "happy as a clam", it still cracks me up. Go figure.
Are they new? We've had them in the UK starting from about 7 or 8 years ago, unsure if we still do.

All that ever happened when one reached the 'must get a response' threshold was some staffer would write a couple of quick sentences about how they weren't going to do whatever the thing was, and how you were wrong for wanting it.

Useless exercise all round.
Right, but those grids are built up from hacks upon hacks. They are not supported by the platform, except for through indirection.
Ok, the case for locked phones is that you can get a $600 phone for $200.

If you want to truly OWN your device, you can pay fair market value for it, and get service from whoever you want.
The relevant conclusion from the legal blog: "private publishers can’t claim much copyright protection in state codes:"

The article and the HN comments linked are about attempts by private publishers to lay claim to state codes, not about their success in doing so. The blog article concluded that they would be completely unsuccessful as to copyrighting the text itself and generally cites case law supporting this proposition. (See the blog for the cites.)

As I stated before, the text of the state codes cannot be copyrighted as a basic rule of American law.

Other aspects can be copyrighted, and this is where copyright gets tricky. The formatting (i.e., presentation) of a state code can be copyrighted, as can analysis of the code (b/c that is a distinct work), and the particular database selection can also be copyrighted within reason (meaning the particular choice of items stored and the relationships between them, so long as such choice and relationships are not purely functional).
Sencha Touch is derived from jQtouch code base and is really fast compared to jQueryMobile. jQM is slow but is easier to start with than Sench Touch. But Sencha Touch really is a great product.
If you wrote an application that does nothing but call SetFileAttributes I suspect you've not heard of the attrib command.

Most of this is just "it's different, wah." Maybe it's not so bad to people who are used to it the other way. Maybe to some the dotfiles are the weird thing.
Last i heard idle clients (i.e. not currently streaming) are supposed to drop out of the P2P overlay, so it shouldn't be uploading if you haven't listened to music for a while. I haven't tested if this is actually the case though.
I imagine something like Little Snitch for the mac would work very well.
A good solution nowadays is to ban everything that is not work-related and have people just use their cellphones with their own data plans for that.
>>>In the old times, a good label for wine was just the name of a family who knew how to craft wine, and same for clocks, cars, and on. The brand was a simple hook to hang a carefully pampered reputation vis-a-vis your clients. The core was craftmanship.

Completely agree on this point. The over commercialism of brands has killed the idea of good craftsmanship. Add in our "throw-away" society and it looks bleak for people who just attempt to build something that lasts.

If there is one thing which depresses me most on a daily basis, this is it.
Well, my first shot while keeping it in the myth and magic realm:

level 0 (the "word processor" or manipulating data with not programmable tools): you are wizard's apprentice - and you clean your room by using the tools yourself (as real world brooms and scrubbers are not "programmable" :) )

level 1 (the "programming language" or "programmable tools" or code level): you are a wizard now (or an apprentice that stole the master's wand or magic hat, something) and you use your wand to instruct/program the tools to do the cleaning for you according to your rules/program

level 3 (either meta-programmer or dsl or language for building languages or the code-as-data level): you are now a master wizard that can control other people and even other wizards that can in turn control other wizards and so on... (you have a language for writing languages or, in fact, any language that can treat code as data because you can now use it to make other languages)

...if you're looking for some imagery for it, master Walt's cartoon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSTWy25hRiI is pgood inspiration for level 1 (especially if you want to emphasize how "hard" programming is), but you'll have to look for yourself for level 0 and 3 images
Build your own website: Python vs. Ruby
Sencha and jquery mobile have slightly different techniques.

With Jquery your app is an HTML page with your own markup which is then styled and functionality is added to your elements by the framework. I find it more designer-oriented compared to sencha.

With Sencha your app is usually just a single div and everything is done through JavaScript. I find it more programmer-oriented. It has been a couple of versions since I used sencha seriously but that is how it was at the time.
Why was the Scroogled campaign petty?
I'm mostly shocked at how I simply was uninformed that spotify was using my connection so. I know over the past few months I've had occasional and even sometimes frequent spikes of latency while gaming.

I'm often left confuddled at these spikes as I won't have anything open I would consider requires much bandwith. Also, even though I would have high latency, opening a browser and navigating through sites would work as smoothly as ever.

Now I know to look at spotify specifically and I would not be very surprised if my spikes of bad internet activity are a result of spotify leeching my upload.

While I think it makes sense for spotify to use p2p in their system, I would have thought there would have been an indication of it in the options with an option to disable such services.
Coding Across America: HumanGeo
I'm working on that too. Man this site is a disaster to integrate with isn't it?
The “Thank You” Effect: Improving Service 1 Step at a Time
As a customer, having few fancy charts isn't that important. But the ease with which allows customizations and the support it provides is more important. D3.js, GoogleCharts, Flotr2, etc. are too complex to customize. When it comes to building a product and not care about how to get your charts done, Highcharts is the best solution.
Those were all excellent bullets.
Two Guys Create Legit Way to Pay Debt Online
American companies will have more willingness to hire you remotely or outsource work for you.

I would not just limit this to being American. Being British I have felt that it has been a big contributing reason on why I have been hired over people from countries such as China or India.