skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes this is a serious problem. I do have a lot of my data tied up in google accounts but I still fear the sudden, unexplained ban-hammer coming down on me with no way to contact an actual human to ask questions off of (see this as a hilarious example of google's support for paying customers: https://plus.google.com/114419328456762929144/posts/NAJbzrZw... )
Arrogance doesn't make you a bad programmer. It, in general, makes you a person that others don't like to be around. And if you want to get hired by a large company, likability is part of the package. Not because it's a popularity contest, but because those other people there will need to spend 8 hours every week day with you.

I know your story - I've not been exactly popular in HS either. I did not excel at quite a few thing. Like you, for a while I thought I could gain more confidence by loudly proclaiming my superiority when I actually was better at things than my peers.

All that creates is resentment. The best piece of advice I ever got - and it might well be meaningless to you, but let me share anyways - was that "Actions speak louder than words".

Go forth, do great stuff. Help other people achieve greatness. Be judicious when you do and don't mention your achievements. (I'm not saying to never toot your horn, but do it by choice, to make a salient point). And never, ever, call yourself "great". There are few truly greats in any profession. Aspire to be one. You'll know you're there once others refer to you by that label.
I'm with you. I have a total love-hate relationship with it. I love how it keeps me in sync across all my iStuff (4 total) but when something goes wrong, even as a developer, I have no clue what it's trying to tell me. And when it comes to email I've really seen absolutely no use for it beyond keeping my Google, Exchange, and other calendars/email accounts in sync. And no, I don't want to save anything to iCloud, I'd prefer it on my hard drive until iCloud gives me the same level of convenience in managing my files as Dropbox thank you very much.
My understanding, and my experience from working with NT4 machines back then, is that you had to reboot them every so often. It wasn't just a matter of practicing rebooting.
In which case, it's been programmed with remarkable incompetence. There's more to spam filtering than deleting messages that are clearly not spam on the basis that they contain a particular sequence of acceptable words.

I can barely imagine the legal consequences of deleting without notice an important email that a distressed mother might have sent to her teen.
Well... OK. You mention the expensive costs dropping with popularity, then when I point out a plate of fried eggs and bacon for breakfast at the diner has always been pretty cheap and nothing new, and they don't "need" GF pancakes or GF toast to serve naturally GF food, you turn it around and make it an availability argument instead...

As for ready to eat meals and such we've done "ok" with gourmet (aka non-noodle) soups and innumerable granola bars. Also sometimes you just have to try something else. Can't buy GF granola bars at this particular store today? Guess you're having (certain) trail mixes.

GF microwave meals sounds interesting. I'm guessing aside from specialty GF products, something rice based would be the best hope?
Thanks. I created a few gh issues to track these.

Re the counter, it is planned that the spinner would take the place of the countdown in the future theme. The messenger-retry-soon and messenger-retry-later classes are in there to make it possible, it just has to be wired up.

Any thoughts on #4, do you think it makes sense to always include {manage: false}?
How does he know? He's not a WebObjects programmer and the tweet is quite vague ("certain types of changes") which implies he's not privy to any real information.
A few days ago it was reported that they also delete mails with subject "Аренда", meaning "rent" or "lease" in russian, and the subject of many spam mails.
I'm going to guess it's due to being billed as "an alternative to alert()", while alert() is rarely used to display messages to the user.
I wish I could upvote this more.

I recently checked out a few online courses on Signal Processing and EE. (Not the MIT ones, though). Khan Academy is good too, but doesn't cover advanced topics like this.

Nothing touches this.

When I see this, I get this tremendous optimism. Online video is going to be a fantastic complement to the internet as a learning platform.

Huge kudos to the xiph.org team for producing this!
I've heard tales of woe from old geezers of having to toggle their pdp8 bootloader in with panel-switches, in the snow, uphill, both ways. In a related matter, I have it on good authority that this very website runs on a computer only slightly more modern than the pdp8. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229488
Everyone is a UX Designer
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/01/07App-Store-Tops-40-...

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/02/06iTunes-Store-Sets-...

Hater be hatin', but what have you done that handled 65 billion multi-megabyte downloads, securely? And we haven't even talked about movies yet.
No idea about Android, but Ruby has been ported to iOS -- there is RubyMotion (commercial) and MobiRuby (open source, based on mruby), perhaps others.
> When I read papers, I often write short notes to myself about
> them, as I imagine most people do.

I picked up a strange habit because of a high school biology teacher.. the vast majority of homework that he assigned was inevitably content creation based on source material. As a consequence, when I read papers now, I compulsively:

* re-draw diagrams in different styles

* make tables for data that wasn't presented as a table

* categorize which claims are associated with which citations

* make lists, lots of lists! You can never have enough lists. Gunkel said so: http://ideonomy.mit.edu/gunkel.html

* change the way information is displayed

* demonstrate equations, or at least attempt to work through them

* make up summaries of content

* paste direct excerpts.. which over time deteriorate in usefulness.

So far, every "annotation solution" I have tried just impedes my work, so I always resort to using some HTTP file server to host my files, or write HTML when I want to add markup to my notes.
He makes a reasonable point about undue hostility in online communities.

That other thread? The article did come across as a little bit arrogant. Not the fun charismatic arrogant either, just arrogant. Still, this article puts that in context.

And threads about puzzle questions are always weird.

You get one camp saying it's not about the answers, it's about the process of answering. When you see a sequence of numbers it's not about whether you happened to see that sequence on Wikipedia last month (and still remember it), but whether you can describe your process of trying to see how it's made.

You then get another camp who just can't seem to understand that the answers don't matter; who say that puzzles test for people who are lucky enough to have seen the puzzle before and don't test for good programmers. (Puzzles probably don't test for good programming, but they're not meant to.)
I would also like to hear your thoughts on how this may be improved?

Maybe this would be a nice way to contribute to Django...
The lack of a configurable User model is the reason I had to abandon django on a couple of projects. I like the framework, but formerly User was tied tightly up and down the framework (contrib.auth most notably).
I'd love to know more about the "jaw-dropping nastiness" so we can fix it in 1.6. Can you elaborate, please?

[I'm a Django committer, FWIW.]
Best Advice: Lessons From My Dad and Steve Jobs
I don't see how power users have been left out. If you mean they try to keep you out of the OS itself I wouldn't consider that being unfriendly to power users. That's just how they've always been. If you mean the whole dumbing down of the UI, I'd say that's pretty irrelevant. As a power user there's no reason why you couldn't just turn certain stuff back on. Plus it's still the same BSD underneath and they still give you the terminal. I keep hearing that they're being unfriendly to power users but power user's are the ones who don't really need friends. I've been using Macs since 10.4 and since that time each time the OS is upgraded it's maybe a little annoying for an hour but then I remember I'm a power user and I know how to open a terminal window and do whatever the hell it is I want to do.
That is not in fact the discussion at hand.

Enraged_camel complained that men are taken more seriously than women, and gave an anectote in support:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5280061

Chc responded that anecdotes were not hard data:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5280329

Enraged_camel called requests like that tiresome:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5280329

I agreed and shared my observation that on HN, requests for data in sexism discussions are generally used to defend the status quo:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5281860

Then you chimed in to suggest that evidence showed equality.

Do you have it? I'm guessing not.
Zuckerberg, Will.i.Am and Chris Bosh Star in Infomercial About Learning to Code
1. No, it's not how the gold went out of hands of regular folks. It was threat of prison: http://twitpic.com/c0f5h5

Also, gold is expensive to transport and store, so paper receipts were used instead. But those were warehousing receipts (until the banks started issuing fake receipts), equivalent to gold. So you can't say that the gold lying in a vault does not have value: it has value because of its readiness to be taken out at any moment for a receipt.

2. You think of economic actors as static role players. They are not. When someone starts buying up gold, the price will go up because he would have to overbid everyone else who wants to buy it too. And the more gold you want to buy, the more expensive it will be until something else that you give up will become more precious for you than gold.

3. I'm not interested in Livermorium. If someone is, it's their choice. I'm also not interested much in gold at current prices and risks of storage and transportation. Some other people are. Also, some people are not interested in using Bitcoin while its market is limited and client app sucks. But I'm okay with both.

4. Bitcoin is more useful than just a currency: http://blog.oleganza.com/post/42262765318/direct-use-value-o...

5. Define utility. When people keep bitcoin/gold/usd/eur balance, it has utility for them (otherwise they would sell). The utility is in expectation that you can sell it later, when you know better what you want to buy. There is always uncertainty in the world and people keep some cash to be able to spend it when they know how.

6. The fact that "hoarder" sells his coins is not a logical fallacy. The logical fallacy is a notion of a "hoarder" as a special category. He is just a buyer. He bought some time ago, then circumstances did change and he is willing to sell. Maybe he's selling because he needs to eat. Or travel. Or he expects the price drop. Or whatever. People change their minds and adapt.

7. You suggest that the trade "stops" when people hoard all coins and cannot buy more, right? Then, obviously they are willing to buy more, they just waiting for someone to sell. So when someone for some reason decides to sell, he will find the buyers immediately.

8. "Trade" does not exist as a fluid continuum. It is just a collection of instant exchanges in time. Trade never "stops" or "freezes". The money does not "circulate", it is always-always located on someone's balance. It never "moves". Even if a truck with gold physically "moves", the money already belongs to someone, so it does not matter where exactly the truck is. Therefore, any theory derived from existence of "circulating money" is false from the start.

Rothbard on circulation: http://blog.oleganza.com/post/43378777734/on-circulation-of-...
Government evolves. I think some dude nailed it pretty good 2300 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_five_regimes
Yeah, don't underestimate the power and flexibility of Excel... also the corners you can paint yourself into by using it...
This is great and I would use this. I even think about porting/forking/stealing this for a German audience.

The only thing that would keep such a site from growing is the relative reservation of less technical crowds (at least that has been my observation). HN, proggit, SO: they are all useful and fun for the technical minded. Similar sites for other segments (excluding cats, cats always win) are much less active and sometimes fail to attract some critical mass.
Basically you sleep in a hotel-like room but with a bunch of wiring hooked-up to your head and body. It's painless, except for the discomfort of sleeping with all those wires. The "output" of the test is an index called AHI, which indicates your level of apnea. AHI > 5 means you might need a CPAP or some other kind of apnea treatment.
Tweeting Teens Help Propel Pheed No1 Social App
Awesome. I love the facebook style.
Make no mistake that if Google could get their own "Galaxy" through Motorola they'd tell Samsung to f themselves, via fax /email too.
Agree with most everything, but when I bought a CPAP machine many years ago, I don't recall needing a prescription (I could be forgetting). I was deemed "borderline" by my sleep study, so my insurance wouldn't pay for it. I went ahead and bought a portable one online for a couple hundred, and it worked like a charm. Funny thing is the place I bought it from sent me the "nurse's manual" with instructions on setting pressure and "under no circumstances let the patient see this manual" :) I've since lost some weight and had septoplasty (to treat chronic sinus infections) and don't need it, so I donated it to my brother-in-law. If your doctor won't prescribe it, you might need to find a new one. Sleep really is one of those three pillars of health.
> Sources for the first two might actually be findable. "Tweet" as a front-page endorsement? I'm not sure if they're trying to be funny or serious. That looks more like something theonion.com would use.

Of course it's an ironic joke.

Yes, even people in big companies like Microsoft sometimes have a sense of humor.
lack of US PhDs? We already produce way more PhDs than the economy can absorb; if anything we should either produce less PhDs or create a better job market for them.
Speaking With the Ember.js Core Team
This looks interesting. I guess they're going through all of this trouble in "digital credit checking" because they don't assume everyone has a credit card?

There's probably a market for a very low friction payment system for high margin goods (e.g. virtual goods, or subscriptions), similar to just doing net terms, for individuals, online. Something where as long as you can guarantee an individual only has one account, you're willing to extend a certain amount of credit per user (not per transaction).
FYI, the "experimental" thing is a community thing, not really a technical judgement. Since this is our first Python 3 release, we want to have some space to make changes between 1.5 and 1.6 that we otherwise would avoid because of our strong backwards compatibility promise. The "experimental" label is about giving ourselves that room and not surprising users if there do have to be changes in the way Py3 support works between 1.5 and 1.6.

Technically, however, it's pretty rock-solid. I'll be launching a site built on Py3/1.5 is about two weeks, and aside from constantly forgetting to `print(...)` instead of `print ...` it's been surprisingly smooth sailing.
>wrap some bureaucratic process around any non-governmental drone programs.

This is already 100% in place and has been for a long time.
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Actually, any mangling of the text is bad. It is bad to drop text, and it is bad to change a line of code to have cartoon graphic images randomly scattered (which you, the sender, don't see but only the receiver does), which makes you look stupid in the eyes of the person receiving it. At least dropping a message makes it look like a network error, the other can make the message sender look like an ignorant fool. (I'm very sensitive to having what I write get changed by something, which is why I absolutely hate auto-correct in a word processor). Both cases have the effect that our corporate-mandated IM client is utterly useless for IT work where you have to send commands or code snippets to others on the team.
Sure I get it. You think loan insurance was invented by the Catholic church (which is wrong) and you think that pre-dated health insurance (which is also wrong).

Thanks for putting it in layman's terms.
Remove all non default gems Ruby 2.0.0
At first blush, this looks fantastic and I'm excited for it's potential. Particularly in my experimental side-projects, I'm constantly looking for some guidance from others.

Closed StackOverflow questions infuriate me to no end - not least because that's where the experts are that are eager to help!
FWIW, that "experimental" label doesn't quite mean that 1.5 isn't ready for prime-time; it's more about setting community expectations. Please see my reply elsewhere in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5289006) for more details.

ETA: That said, the advice to stick to Py2 right now is probably good. There's still some key missing 3rd party packages, so you'll generally be happier as a Py2 user right now.
Ouch, right in what I assumed to be pitch perfect geekdom. I had that coming.
It's turtles all the way down. I love LCD, but here are examples of things James Murphy lifted:

the fall telephone thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEOtckaZtLg#t=0m36s
pretty distinctive way to say "i'm tapped" used in movement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6MIChyCBAU#t=0m43s

in general his vocal style and delivery alternate between mark e smith from the fall and brian eno. really not a bad thing in my book, but still not entirely original.

homosapien by peter shelley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HwmO_GZfzI
sounds like the basis of north american scum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmm14g4cAFc

there's also the more than passing similarity between somebody's calling me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRCAuao67F4
and iggy pop's nightclubbing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3OaMZojJRg

all i want http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6BYCcy5aeo
is pretty much bowie's heroes.
Ask HN: How do you translate your thoughts and logic to a drawing? 
One of the things that I have trouble with is translating an idea or program logic to a drawing on a paper or white board. I could verbally explain it but when I try to draw it I dont know where to start. Do you use flow chart/UML? and most importantly im interested to know how do you break the idea/logic to pieces and draw it.
Server-side views are resource hogs. Client-side MVC is not SEO friendly and throws non-JS (or crappy) browsers away.

My bet would be both, but I couldn't find any framework that could render both server and client side templates based on the HTTP headers without enormous amounts of glue code.
Or if you have an iPhone and an iPad, it's very easy to use up all your free space.
There's definitely a mindset on Chrome that:

- any feature, no matter how small, has some cost (code size, testing, cognitive complexity, etc), and frequently contributes in some way to making the product and/or other development slower.
- as a developer, user, product manager etc, it's up to you to figure out how to convince other people your change is a good idea, and how your change will be maintained going forward, if you have to switch projects for instance.

We have a long history on the Chrome team of deleting code that was only relevant to one or two developers and those developers moved onto something else. It's the only way to stay sane at our scale, frankly, and we don't even do it as much as we should.
This is a slightly awkward friendship you have with the author of the post.
I noticed that the good old script for removing all gems wasn't working anymore because of default gems, so I made this.
I used to use plain text files. Recently I started using Mendeley because it's so damn convenient and it has a very nice UI, but my problems with Mendeley are (1) comments are private and (2) it's proprietary.

http://www.researchblogging.org/ is a great website that aggregates more long-form posts about papers, but it has a really shitty UI and it doesn't do anything for short comments on random papers by random non-bloggers.
Dj's Country Music Classics: Dan Seals - They Rage On
This is great advice, thanks. On that subject, I use CPAP since 2008 but I occasionally did not use it for intervals up to a week (for example, when I traveled I would not bring the CPAP with me). It turns out I had an episode of atrial fibrilation (the heart beats with a weird rhythm) due to a few factors together, but the major one being the lack of CPAP usage. It was scary and I spent the night at the hospital. The doctor explained me that this condition can be caused by low levels of O2 while sleeping, which is caused by apnea.
The hyperbole wasn't the problem. Which you surely know.

Cherry-picking is where you pick the sources that support your case while ignoring the rest. What he did was a sweeping dismissal.

He may be right or wrong; I have no idea. But if you're going to accuse somebody of being an intellectual fraud, you should probably know what you're talking about.
The world's smallest ARM chip announced, designed for swallowable computers
Because many people find threads easier to understand than callbacks?
I agree that it's boneheaded, but I'm not convinced this is a privacy issue, assuming the email only gets dropped. Shouldn't something need to reach the eyes of a human in order to be a privacy issue?
"Zuck, Gates, Dorsey, Houston, etc. are all encouraging people to learn to code for this reason"

Certainly the self serving reason for the push can't be overlooked. The more people that are pushed into coding the more of a chance that Zuck/Dorsey/Houston can find a superstar to hire.

I'm sure in any industry (medical research as only one example) the people in that industry would love if more young people took a shining to what they do. Then they would have more to pick from. Sports works the same way. If you get a bunch of people interested in football out of the funnel comes some superstars and you have an entire industry.
Sidenote: I don't think it is a good idea to wonder why and how government should use violence. First, people around you may be asked why they think anyone can use any amount of violence and when. Before you get a satisfactory answer to that question, it's meaningless to discuss what the government can or cannot do. Government is just a bunch of specific people, particular case of a general rule "person A can kill person B when XYZ".
Absolutely !
Nopes! I can get a root canal and a crown for merely $80-$100 which is approximately 4% of my monthly salary in India. Same treatment will cost me $500 for root canal and another $800 for a crown. total $1300 which is around 20% of my monthly salary.
Why would someone want to be humble?

Lets look at the definition:

hum·ble /ˈhəmbəl/

Adjective

Having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance.

When you're telling someone to be humble, what you're really doing is saying "You're not important, and I want you to know that."

To even say that requires some pretension on your own behalf.

People should not have a "low estimate" of their own importance. They should have an accurate one, and it's their business to come up with it. Not anyone else's.
MinuteSort world record exceeded on Google Compute Engine
I do have around 450k papers from JSTOR (released legally via archive.org). I have these papers indexed and can expose them via openjournal.

PubMed would be another obvious datasource, if you were going to go that route.
Freescale has created a 4mm^2 ARM chip