skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many cases the people in these positions don't even need to be able to program, they need to be able to see the solutions that programming can give them. I think this is the number one issue right now. Not everybody needs to be a programmer, but everyone needs to be educated about some of the ways programming can help you.

With that said, we mostly come up with these ideas because we are able to program, so yeah.
In other news today:

"Kim Dotcom... plans to launch an end-to-end encrypted email service to go with his Mega encrypted file storage offering." http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/feb/26/kim-dotcom-...
A triumph of hope over expostulation.
People totally sold their gold absolutely voluntarily. http://twitpic.com/c0f5h5
Show HN: I made a real-life (web) version of the Weasley family clock
Physics engines for dummies
There is simply no comparison in the manner Google treats your personal data with Facebook's attitude toward it.

At Google, as a dev, gaining access to personally identifiable information (that was hashed, anonymized like crazy, and scrubbed in every possible way to make damn sure there's no way the dev using the data could possibly track down any of the users) required jumping through so many hoops and getting so many different approvals and reviews it felt almost paranoid.

At Facebook, for years, they had a master password that could access all information on anyone's profile. They would just flat-out give this password to every single new hire, even people who weren't working with the data directly.
Is it possible that the admin has disabled the service for that domain?
Nice. Statistics about users of which editor have slant or facebook accounts.
Was your data in the Appengine Datastore? I believe elicox was asking about using Google Cloud SQL, which I believe makes data export relatively easy (Cloud SQL is basically managed MySQL). New Django + Cloud SQL also runs basically "pure" Django, rather than the hacked-up djangoappengine of the past, so next to zero code should have to be changed in a move off AppEngine.

I recently made the switch from Datastore/djangoappengine to Cloud SQL, and it has been a far better experience.
Ask HN: What search engines do you use besides Google? Why?
I just did a search of previous threads here, after a day of looking up information in search engines other than Google. My try-out of other search engines came after trying Bing for a search, and seeing Bing invite me to take its challenge of comparing its search results to Google's. (For all five of the searches I tried, I preferred Google's results.) I tried a bunch of other search engines, including some I hadn't tried for years, once that got me curious.

What do you think? Do you regularly use a search engine other than Google? Why do you like it? What does it do better than Google? What's a good search engine to use regularly for looking up varied information?
I missed the original "Facebook Lost a Great Engineer" post until now. I agree with a lot of what was said in both posts, I think puzzles are generally a bad way to hire and they get especially dangerous the more senior an engineer is (the longer they are out of school or out of the initial learning phase if they are self-taught, the more such questions are detached from day to day development and thus you're only testing if the developer has been practicing to interview lately, not whether he or she will be an effective developer).

However, this statement from the "Great Engineer" post struck me the wrong way:

"I would fire any developer who chose to re-implement standard library functions."

That's a terribly absolute stance to take -- consider, for example the widely-discussed fast inverse square root:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root

That was a re-implementation of a standard function (rsqrt), but for a very good reason (speed was more important than accuracy for the use case). While that specific trick is mostly obsolete in development today, if you're pushing the envelope even a little bit with your code, it isn't that rare to run into a situation in which it makes sense to side step the standard library implementation of something.

tl; dr - Developers (at least non-Sith ones) should never deal in absolutes.
Erin Catto's (of Box2D fame) fantastic tutorial on 2d physics
You just pointed out a really important problem with the way voting is currently done (we are fixing this asap). Emacs was added after Sublime, so it had less time to get votes. We are going to be doing some clever ways to reset the graphs soon.
I largely don't accept the premise in favor of: you're more likely to get fat eating foods that promote overeating,, and partitioning those calories into fat, while failing to burn off the excess calories.

That's a large part of the salt, sugar, fat trifecta. It stimulates overeating, it spikes insulin at the same time that you're dumping large quantities of fats directly (dietary fat) and indirectly (triglycerides from fructose) into the body, while depressing inclinations toward activity.a

As to my diet, intake typically ranges ~3500-4500 cal/day. I eat consciously and exercise portion control according to my goals.
The $503 iOS Racing Game: The Expensive IAP Economics in Real Racing 3
Definitely worth checking out. Unfortunately, HTML5 YouTube players seem to start playing automatically, so I can’t just open links to YouTube videos in background tabs.

I look forward to a setting (or simply changing the default for non-active windows) to disable autoplay.
Awesome - thanks for the info and the clarification.

I guess you're correct that we should be careful about the lexicon we use to describe these things. Personally, I don't even like the term Drone.

I see it as an attempt to obfuscate the human element, especially when talking about military operations: i.e. they have a pilot who pulls the trigger - he is just not physically in the weapons delivery platform.

This is a very important, yet very delicate, area that needs to be extremely well deliberated over in the next short while.

I am not confident that politicians have the foresight and testicular fortitude to really make appropriate choices in this matter - especially given the vultures poised on the sidelines with watering mouths over the potential to sell such systems for domestic spying, control and TIA.
For your consideration

http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=emacs23

http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=vim
Definitely agree with this. One of the key innovations to free up more capital in the fly over cities has been de-coupling the board membership from the capital at the Angel or Seed level. We found that early stage investors would put up the money but didn't have the time.
>"Falcon doesn't provide any features that their app doesn't have already"

Features like having a nice UI and providing good tablet support?
http://commandcenter.blogspot.de/2012/06/less-is-exponential...
Please please please don't pull a quora and force people to have to register to see the vote counts.
Itunes site is down
Thanks, I worked through the tutorial, so I know the basics I suppose. But I got to the end and wanted it to keep going, so I guess this book will come in handing for learning beyond the official tutorial.

I'm also going to check out http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com
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I have a Facebook account. Not going to add this page just so I can give emacs another vote.
Certainly iCloud's is the wrong approach for your purposes (or mine). I'm not denying that; just offering a possible alternative to the explanation that "Apple thought these messages were child porn".
the "vim" entry contains too many "I"'s and "me"'s. Which is fine for a site that values 'opinion', but I am wary of accepting opinions from what looks to be an anonymous source.

Something objective like this seems far more appealing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors
Well, it's not so complicated and you will get used to it with time.

1st. You make an easy drawing of the biggest picture that has:

all users/agents involved in your idea and the "business". Nothing techie, just imagine a bike shop, it will be something like:

User --buys in------> Shop ----gets bikes from---- Warehouse

2nd. Then you can continue asking questions like: what do I have in the shop? Should be something like:

workers - bikes - store - money - bike's stuff - back office

Then you can go refining your drawing: which kind of workers, how are their relations between them and with other elements...

From the biggest picture to the detail.

Depending who I'm talking with I use UML, flowcharts or whatever is necessary to explain the ideas.
I understand it's just culture, appropriation is how culture develops. That being said, that piece of music used in this is obviously just a rip off of Dance Yrself Clean, with a small modality change.
I wish somebody "solve" the problem of payments for people NOT in USA. That is something that seriously require solution.
Don't hold your breath for a "proof" involving morality.
While Cloud SQL and Appengine both do look expensive, I have to say the new integration is quite nice to work with. I had struggled in the past with djangoappengine, which let Django run on the weirdness of the Appengine Datastore, but now that I'm running basically "pure" Django on MySQL it's far smoother sailing. Much less setup than AWS and even easier/more straightforward than doing Django on Heroku in my opinion, but ymmv.

Docs on running native django on cloud sql:
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/cloud-sq...

A guide I used to set it up:
http://www.joemartaganna.com/web-development/running-django-...
My eyesight is pretty good and I still think you need greater contrast on your blog and perhaps a bigger font.
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Top World Employer, finally decides to go Tech Savvy
If they're running Windows XP, he probably doesn't - a lot of places have skimped for years and are now faced with replacing hardware and upgrading software to run Windows 7. The results will be good but it's a capital-P project.
Personally I prefer dark backgrounds and light text and will switch eBook readers, etc, to that setting if they have one. But, not everyone is the same. I'd be interested to see what the most popular preference is.
Was it your goal to allow people to make multiple votes? It allowed me to vote for both emacs and vim
Sadly, there's a very real possibility that this could happen as Nanny Computing (anyone coined a better term?) is proving to be quite profitable.
And this is why I switched to an android phone. I can't stand the puritan bullshit.
Sun ’never would have invested [...] in Java' without copyright protection
Is American economic growth over? A TED debate on progress
Hi there,

Filepicker here. Thanks for the compliment. Regarding the url not showing up immediately: We've been working hard to keep the system scaling and performant. One of those things is to have read slaves and you seem to have beaten our db propagation. I'll take a closer look at that and tune it a bit.
I think many people, like me, have been waiting for someone to address this obvious niche that has been crying out for attention.

There's also an interesting path to monetization: it's pretty much models the buying process, esp for the enterprise. Also generalises to purchasing decisions, in general - it's relevant to all transactions. i.e. the whole economy.

However... very hard to do well. It's good start, but nailing it will take a lot of time, effort and luck. Starting in this very focussed and narrow niche is a great way to build understanding of what's needed and how to do it.

EDIT I found the site slow to load (actually got the wait or cancel dialog). Because such a site thrives on as many users as possible, it may be more important to make it accessible to more people at the expense of prettiness (I assume the pie-charts are partly to blame for the slowness). It also biases the answers and votes (maybe a good thing - target that niche?); might explain why emacs got few votes.

The presentation of information is too "detail-heavy" (i) the list of questions includes 3 alternatives and even some lines about each. The typical user wants to scan the topics to find one of interest. (though I guess having a some context is good, since that's what SO does; but only to clarify the question, not the answer).

(ii) in the actual answer, there's no summary of the results [EDIT whoops, there is a summary; somehow I went directly to one of alternatives at first]; no comparison of the alternatives; and no indication of what context each tool best suits ("job" for the tool); instead, each page is all about one alternative. I would guess that something like a grid might work better, with the tools listed vertically, and the attributes horizontally (with the "job"/context first). The user can then scroll down to examine each point in detail (or maybe drill-down, with expanding sections, for truly secondary/tertiary content, like comments/debates). Attributes could be voted on.

In short: organise it to suit the user-task, not the subject matter.
Did humans evolve to sleep more than 6 hours at a time?
White House tells agencies to widen access to federally funded research
Technically they do. It's the Air National Guard, some who fly F-16s or even F-22 fighters. Of course, the Rules of Engagement are pretty restrictive, but they are available to protect a state from aerial threats.

I doubt they'll use F-22s to take out little drones taking photos of someones backyard.
Just tried sending this to myself from another account and received the email.

All the other experiments on here were from a few hours ago. Does this still happen for other people? If it does, it'd suggest it's more complicated than a simple filter on emails containing the phrase.

That said, deleting user data without user input at all is completely insane. It's probably a good thing that iCloud sync sucks so much and developers aren't using it.
I'd be hesitant to be on the side of anyone that wants to couple hardware together with software and control both.
Just tried after your seeing your comment. It throws out a useless generic error "We are experiencing problems with our site...". I think it has something to do with Cookie/ViewState validation to prevent automated attacks.

Fix: Clicked on the "Compatibility View" icon at the top on the browser and the order went through fine.
The answer is Pico (because it has instructions at the bottom).
Shouldn't Notepad++ be on this list?
A Simple Algorithm For Creating Your Daily To-Do List
Promising. Entering credit card information is pain, particularly on touch devices. Is Google Wallet their main competitor?
She's answering the question well, I think, if you've got a basic knowledge of the problem Eligible is dealing with. Frankly, they're not selling to you if you don't understand what they do from their website.

They provide a RESTful API to insurance eligibility data, which is useful because the current (required-by-law) APIs are horrendously complicated and difficult to work worth, AND they're disparate, varying by vendor.
A Cal Poly Professor's Guide to Academic Forms of Address
Government is a specific case of that general rule if and only if group decision making is isomorphic to individual decision making.

The idea behind government is that 1) it is occasionally necessary to impose some course of action on individuals or groups, 2) force or threat of force is a necessary component of said imposition, and 3) making the decision to use force is safer (under the assumption that there is in fact some 'correct' course of action) if you first discuss that decision with as many people as possible than if you decide by yourself.

Whether or not that all holds would appear to be up for debate.
This will eventually be solved by a bunch of people building solutions in different countries and one firm sweeping through and buying up the startups
Yeah I mean Cloud SQL, few years ago i was trying to replace the ORM of Django with he own AppEngine Datastore and it's a nightmare.
Confidence is a funny thing: you can't succeed if you don't have it, and you can't have it if you don't succeed.

In poker, a game which I am not unfamiliar with, it's well understood that having confidence, even apparent arrogance, is a significant strategic factor which can dramatically improve a players results. The example of poker is relevant as an analogy both for getting through an interview, and getting money from an investor; both activities involve a similar degree of imperfect information.

Having confidence helps prevent you from making bad decisions or constantly second guessing yourself when you experience significant variance, it intimidates your opponents and causes them to make mistakes which work to your advantage, and it can drive you to push yourself harder to learn and improve than you would if you didn't think it was possible to succeed.
Don't worry, I promise we're actually homies ;)

We talked it through and he removed the part that bothered me. I'm actually gonna hang out with him tonight...
Light text on a dark background is fuzzy for me and hurts my eyes due to constantly trying to focus. This guy has an interesting theory about black text absorbing surrounding light while light text reflects it causing blurriness: http://uxmovement.com/content/when-to-use-white-text-on-a-da...

I use f.lux to mitigate the brightness of light backgrounds system wide because it adjusts according to time of day.
To be honest that topic is in need of a lot of improvement. We do "objective" viewpoints well when the topic has matured, for example: http://slant.co/topics/what-is-the-best-search-engine-for-we...

We are also building a comparison matrix feature soon that will show something similar to your link. Also we are going to be working a lot on transparency around who contributed. Give us a couple months and I hope we can help you research subjective things "objectively"
I keep most of my templates in separate .htm files and load them via XHR for a handful of reasons, including caching as you mentioned. Works great.

It would be nice if the new template element had built-in support for that (e.g. a src attribute and maybe some sort of control for loading immediately, after document ready, and/or on demand).
The Flash version of YouTube auto-plays for me, so it's about the same.
Emacs has the default screen instead of a screen with code (nicely highlighted) like the others. Also, it has the smallest image. Even the f'ing icon for sublime text is larger. Please be consistent.
Note that with this latest release, the tutorial from the official docs has been revamped and expanded.
My vote for QtCreator when possible.

And then, vim.
Having done the equivalent for a gnarly enterprise web-app when IE8 came out (using mod_headers to inject the HTTP header equivalent) this isn't trivial and they may not have anyone with the necessary skills who is jumping to take on testing and support (everything which happens with that app for the next 6 months will be first blamed as an upgrade problem).

Beyond that, it doesn't actually work: some features won't be completely compatible so you're effectively creating a third browser to test and support. In the case of IE8, it was mostly IE7-compatible but it relied on the browser not throwing errors when JavaScript attempted to set syntactically invalid styles and IE8-in-IE7 still raised exceptions deep in a third-party library licensed by the app vendor. This app was made by a very large, wealthy company – we were paying mid-six-figures a year for "support" – and they preferred infrequent massive update releases, which meant that a week after I reported the bug (around the time Microsoft started pushing IE8 as an automatic install) one of their managers contacted us asking for the patch I wrote so they could redistribute it to other customers.

This is why I won't work on enterprise systems.
For me it depends largely on the surrounding lighting conditions. During the day I prefer dark-on-light; in the evenings I prefer light-on-dark. If pressed to choose one I'd go for light-on-dark, because having your retinas exploded by a pure-white background is far worse than having to squint a little to read light-on-dark during the day.
Yes. And you should add it.
A problem I found with dark-background sites is that majority of the website use light background with dark text. As a viewer, switching from a dark-background website to a light-background-text can be a little painful, especially after spending a long period of time on the darker page.
You are technically correct, and capitalism may be amoral, but people are moral beings, and using amoral systems does not excuse amoral (or immoral) behaviour.

Capitalism allows you to be an asshole, or worse; but it's a moral choice. Bankers cynically spending away people's savings, debt traders cynically betting people's mortgages, insurance companies cynically avoiding payouts because of technicalities, corporations cynically firing workers to optimize profits -- capitalism operates on a playing field where many morally questionable or indefensible actions are perfectly legal.

(I don't know if what you are reacting against is Randian thinking; I'm not an expert on Rand, but if anything, Rand is on the capitalism side, and seems to assume that morality takes care of itself through some Smithian invisible hand combined with an irrational faith in all-powerful people doing the right thing. The OP does not seem like a classic "tech libertarian" to me. Rather, the notion that there must be a humanistic control mechanism to oppose capitalism's inherent unfairness is probably more correctly social liberalism.)

My point: The author of Sublime Text has no legal obligation to support his customers, but there is certainly a moral obligation.
Rollbar (formerly Ratchet.io) officially launches and announces funding
Let's do it the other way around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlip7jZX9m0
That's probably a safe bet.

It's just stupid though. Some people get offended by (for example) "hearing impairment" because... it's implying they have an impairment. You do have an impairment, jeez.

It's different in groups too. I believe if you're profoundly deaf, and you sign and actively involved in the "deaf community", you're Deaf. If you're not, you're deaf. Maybe I have that backwards, but I don't really care.
Looks useful. Not having click to dismiss/a close button by default is sheer madness though. Users expect to be able to close popups and having it just sit there is frustrating.

Also quite of few of the examples fail for me on Iceweasel, throwing reference errors for "msg" etc.
Indeed, and I should probably clarify one thing from what I wrote above: if the Supreme Court had original jurisdiction over a case, it would start with them, rather than being appealed to them. There aren't a lot of cases like that, though.
I have to stop reading these medium.com articles. They are making me deeply saddened, are sapping away my time and energy in minute quantities, and are probably decreasing my peak intelligence/output.
Exactly my thoughts, sigh.
Using nConf and Azure to avoid leaking secrets in GitHub repositories