skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spring Cleaning Repos - Open Sourcing all my ROR Apps
Hackers,

My OSS Ruby on Rails applications:

RecipeTrees - source (https://github.com/nazar/recipetrees), site (http://receiptree.com)

A recipe database but with a twist: users can fork recipes for alteration; all forks are tracked via an acyclic graph. Other features: nutritional value calculation and inclusion of recipes within recipes. Stopped coding in late 2011.

Parlmnt - source (https://github.com/nazar/parlmnt), site (http://parlmnt.com)

Parlmnt scrapes Legislation information from http://parliament.uk and presents it in a more debatable manner. Provides data via a JSON/XML api. This is mostly a Backbone.js application. Still coding but is in early alpha. Helpers welcome.

MediaCMS - source (https://github.com/nazar/MediaCMS), site (http://pantherfotos.com)

A commercial media library supporting: photo/video/audio uploads with background processing with large format support. E-commerce mechainsms available for media up-loaders (i.e. price per image size, audio sample rates etc). A large Rails project clocking in at about 17,000 LOC. Stopped in early 2010.

DarkFallSage - source (https://github.com/nazar/DarkFallSage), site (he's dead, Jim)

DarkFallSage is a WowMaps type website aimed at the DarkFall MMO. Features: custom Google Maps tiles that use the game world map to overlay loot/mob information; mob/loot database; support for clans public/private forums; skill trees; discussions on each game item/skill. Stopped coding in 2010.

Waster - aka TheLastBunker.com - source (https://github.com/nazar/wasters), site (she's dead, Jim)

Wasters was aimed at the Fallen Earth MMO. Wasters was developed to catalogue crafted items, not too dissimilar from the Bill of Materials shipping problem. I re-invented the wheel on this one by figuring out the Materialised Path pattern. Stopped coding in 2010.

Live long and prosper.
Google Has ‘No Plans’ To Launch Retail Stores
The Heretic - An opinionated newsletter on all things startup
Could this be a Windows-only issue? I found that it was unreadable on Firefox 19, Opera 12.02 and Chrome on Windows 7.
It seems like SDCH has been around for 4 years, I presume the lack of data means it hasn't worked out.

A barrier to implementation of SDCH is deciding what dictionaries to create and when to update them.
I don't know much about the specifics of facebook apps, but could anyone outline the differences between facebook's approach to apps and google+'s?
The Smartest Comment Yet About Google and Facebook
In your scenario, it sounds like you'd be better served by pushing the incomplete work to temporary branches. At least, if I were working with you, I'd rather have working code in master than a bunch of "git commit -am Hometime" dumps.
Thanks for posting about this, I think you've mentioned it before and its changed my mind about offering a free product, other than a 30-day trial for my current side-project. I don't want to get a couple hundred users who love my product but are just a burden for me when the site fizzles. I also don't want 500,000 customers I cannot monetise or even get any marketing value from. With a consumer-oriented site like the SP it is different - you have to give something like that away
Server-side view or client-side MVC?
DHH claimed that the development experience of client-side MVC is inferior compared to traditional Rails development. And he only gave two vague reasons - ruby and 'unnecessary' complexity. his article first shows some code comparison between the two paradigms to demonstrate the software design drive for client-side MV* and then talks about the business drive for client-side MVC(*) - interactivity.
Big data startup Tremparel is a text analytics provider for technical documents
Indeed. Completely unreadable on both Chrome and Firefox, on Ubuntu. Had to use ireader.
That would depend on what school you go to. Inner city slum? Move.
They might be able to sign up if it was cheaper - but it doesn't mean they would. Cheaper isn't always "enough".
Stop looking for the hackers and start sharing data about the hack
Most interesting point: http://www.thefancy.com/ (the promo site in the video) ISN'T EVEN USING THE SERVICE!!!
YouTube has asked me over and over for the past year to use my real name on YouTube.

NOPE NOPE NOPE.
Another very nice and mind-bending presentation on coroutines, that eventually takes things so far that he creates a mini "OS" with coroutines as tasks, complete with system calls and a scheduler: http://dabeaz.com/coroutines/
How many millions of dollars has the developer of Sublime Text made? Less rewarding, yeah right.

Surprising how your nonsensical comments are always voted up. The dumbass herd mind is alive and well at HN.
Which Ben Affleck Acceptance Speech Do You Prefer?
I just think they're redundant.

Indention in non-Python code is 100% aesthetic; it doesn't affect program behavior, we just do it because it helps us non-compilers understand the code. And if you follow most any sane coding standard, indention will always be congruent with braces.

So, you're essentially attempting to convey the same concept -- program structure -- via 2 different mechanisms: tokens (curly braces) and indention, where of course the former is required, while the latter is the fodder of more flame wars than anyone cares to count. The sad thing is, these flame wars over code formatting are the most contentious to humans and yet the least meaningful to the compiler.

One solution would be to remove the indention -- hey, we already have the tokens informing us of the lexical code boundaries...but this produces unreadable code. The other solution is to remove the tokens; since we as humans will naturally structure our code in block paradigms, then we can piggyback on a behavior that is already innate to programmers.
Do you mean we should unionize?
I've done that already with missed+cake+day and forgot+cake+day yesterday and it yielded a couple of sign-ups.
Why every rival tech company should be scared of Samsung
Apparently, this worked out so well for thefancy.com that they took it down. I can only see the usual suspect: Facebook and Twitter sign-ins.

In fact, I've checked all the sites listed in the article - none of them have Google+ sign-in.

Also, they say you sign-in via Google account, but I suspect it also requires a Google+ profile in order to use this feature.
Until you refactor some python code and the indentation gets messed up without you noticing... Been there, done that.

And unlike languages with explicit begin/end markers, an editor can't re-format it or warn about it, because there is no information to work with.
Mid-2013 expansion for Internet names targeted
Capacity study? Hahaha Like they're going to go to the schools and someone there will "know" how much internet they need. They can't even go to the schools and get a good estimate of how many students they expect to be attending in 10 years, almost all the schools in the US are reactive to that sort of thing, they build new ones when the old ones are either so broken down that they can't fix them or they are over capacity. If you go to the schools you get one of two things: 1) a tiny internet straw that 2000 kids share and it's useless or 2) an OC48 to a tier one peer that 163 kids and teachers use for email.

There is something more fundamental, there were probably schools that had nothing close to reasonable internet access. (Likely a lot of them were in places where they can't get great internet at home either.) The masses were fed up with it, especially as they thought their kids were being left behind so they beat on their representatives and they just got a blob of cash to fix it, costs be damned. You think it was going to make the parents happy when they announce that it's going to take 7 years to get DSL to their child's school?

It's a monster of our own creation. No idea how you solve it... the people that doll out the money have no idea how to do the work or how to estimate if an estimate is good or not; they're just too far away it and the public's memory is too short term.

They probably did open an RFP to multiple bidders.. That's just game theory though, you think the bidders want to leave money on the table? Every where I've seen government bids produced, they increase the costs.
You shouldn't stop at assholes. People who make it hard to work together or people who communicate poorly, are so incredibly frustrating. It doesn't matter how technically capable they are, it's going to hurt the team effort.
Most of the requests seem made up, thats just my opinion though.
It's just a normal unreadable article in Chrome on OSX. On Chrome on Windows something's broken.
Have you heard of any non-enterprise software that charges annual fee for an access to the updates?
It did strike me as odd that showCloseButton isn't true by default. I can't see many scenarios where you would want to force the user to leave their screen obstructed after they've seen the message.
What LG Will Do With webOS
The Danger Of The Samsung Monster
Wasn't that the pitch for Google+? :P
Staples is now selling Apple products
Very cool. I was skeptical but your page did a nice job of showing benefits and differentiating yourself from other providers. Thanks for sharing and good luck. I'll be sure to try it out in the near future.
> It reminds me of people bitching that iOS 6 runs slow on iPhone 3Gs.

Yeah, because last release of iPhone was iPhone 3G. And because there were only one bug fixed release of iOS on iPhone 4 and 4S. Oh, wait, that's not true.
> I expect some people to never ever leave XP, because they'll have one little activex control that their entire multibillion dollar operation runs on,

What about the expense of the Chinese/Russian/Whatevercountry hackers totally owning them because they use IE6?
Twitter Windows Phone update brings it 'in line with other Twitter apps'
Looks very nice. Look forward to trying it soon.
A Philosophical View Of What Boards Should And Should Not Do
As a single guy, I didn't realize how much sleep a parent loses until staying with my cousin and her newborns. It's like being a soldier constantly living on the front line.
If you had a brain, you would understand what you actually wrote.

But since you don't the best we can do is downvote you.
Beyond Data about Data: The Litigator’s Guide to Metadata
They're actually all real requests people sent in. What do you think could make it more apparent? Perhaps we could show the results?
They are still working hard on something after the Mat Honan hacking < https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mat%20hack#h... >.
Thanks! The email-to-post is the easiest way to try it out. Just send work to premier@mobileworks.com and it'll get done.
Oh, sorry about that. I had a problem with outbound traffic and it should work now. Thanks a lot for your feedback!
Chromebook Pixel review: another impractical marvel from Google
The rule of thumb that I've heard (from a health cost sharing ministry [0]) is that you should expect to be able to negotiate a discount of at least 40% if you're a self-pay patient.

My sister shattered an ankle a while back, and was billed around $40,000. Between reductions, writeoffs, and charities the hospital connected her to, she ended up only paying about $5000.

[0] http://www.chministries.org/whattodo.aspx under "general information"
{hideAfter: 10} is default, meaning it will hide in 10 seconds without intervention.
I read on the internet (thus potentially to be taken with a pinch of salt) that even having a single beer in the evening can cause a worsening of the second half of your sleep. (Which is a bit weird as one might imagine the alcohol would be gone from ones system by then.)

I've tried total abstinence from alcohol and it really makes an AMAZING difference to how I feel the next day. (But perhaps it's just a placebo effect, since having read that internet article... YMMV)
Great to see an alternative to Facebook log-in. It's usually either Facebook log-in or e-mail based log-in, which works really poorly on mobile, when you don't have something like LastPass to autofill.
IE10 just asked me to reboot my computer in order to complete my install. Did we just go back in time and nobody told me?
We'll take a look at it on an iPad, thanks!
I wonder what percentage of questions with the highest hit rate on SO and SE have "closed as not constructive by x" on them.

My 3 groats here says lots.
What you describe is exactly what I've been looking for. There are remarkably few resources on this.

We have users in Singapore who access various XML-heavy web services in our NY office. A dictionary-style over-multiple-requests compression technique would be brilliant for their case.
I emailed tclamattack about this posting inquiring about him doing some work and he seems pretty on the level.

To do some promotion for him, here's his company page: http://pitbot.net.
IE9 auto-updates have been enabled for over a year, and IE8 has yet to fall to a single-digit percentage of page views... (Of course, IE8 share is kept high by the large number of users still on Windows XP, which won't be the case for IE9.)

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Internet-Explorer-Windows-U...
Pirate Party buckles in face of Pirate Bay lawsuit
Hmm, looks like the blog post went up before the partners rolled out to their public-facing sites. None of the partners I spot checked have G+ login yet.
OP here, what do you think makes a good acceptance speech?
Nice service! Seems similar to Amazon's Mechanical Turk. You can find more examples here as well: http://aws.amazon.com/mturk/#bus-case
Bingo. Reading and writing used to be a separate profession as well.
I remember the days before the "Don't allow this site to show more alerts" checkbox when, if you accidentally left an alert in a loop, your only option was Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
But most have access to Excel. VBA has it warts but the step from Excel is small and creating something valuable is actually possible for beginners.
If they could only be pickled...
It's almost as thought Google designed the service for the benefit of users (who will then vote for developers with their feet) than for the benefit of spammers....
I think they fired the whole 'steam box' team..
> ​In addition, I've yet to see one thing Glass can do better than any other product.

I've read that "the best camera is the one you have on you." If Glass is always on you, it will be the best camera you will likely ever own. All of those moments that last for just a few seconds are out of reach of even your ever-present cell-phone.

Here, try this - click here:

http://www.timer-tab.com/

Once you click there, try to take a picture with your cell phone as quickly as you can, and then stop the timer.

I hope you didn't cheat - if your phone was in your pocket, you counted the time to get it out, if you have a PIN on your phone, you had to enter it.

I got about 11 seconds the first try, and 6 the second. Can you seriously not imagine that Glass would be better at capturing those random moments?
We definitely do the initial interview via phone/Skype. There absolutely is room to grow and move into other areas of the company with experience. I highly recommend becoming familiar with the platform through the "front lines" of support. It gives engineers a different perspective on our service.
You would think, but the same question was closed there as Not Constructive:

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/188455/why-do...

Very common on StackExcahnge. A bunch of high rep users swoop in and close questions that don't meet this weeks version of the rules that were decided in the Meta site that only the high rep users read. It reminds me a lot of Wikipedia.
You make a good point but it is flawed. The startups that have been successful without a revenue model are an itty bitty little minority. Compare to those that have failed without it and you can see that the pattern is clear. You need to design with profits in mind. You don't open a pizzeria and give away pizza. You give samples once or tsice but you charge for pizza from the start.

But I'm not blaming or shaming you. Your project got further than most. It was very good learning experience which has give you a lot of tools you did not have before. Tools that will help you on uour future endeavors. Just make sure to starting charging from the start next time.
Can we please kill the Word resume?
Excellent example about how to handle a bullying situation. Now I know how can I help in a positive way if I detect something similar going on.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems there's still no offline permission to share on a user's behalf. It seems to be a deliberate design decision, but it makes life tricky for somebody wanting to make a social media management platform (ahem) since there's no mechanism for scheduling future posts, etc.
I wasn't sure if these type of posts are helpful/wanted here at HN. If not, I'll make sure not to submit them again. Thanks for the feedback. - Ryan
> Just give us incremental updates

Incremental change tends to suck all the joy of developing when you know something could be done better by a refactor but you still have to work incrementally to not have any breaks and delays and keep the customers satisfied. If you really do something because you love doing it and not just for the money, you must say "fuck the customers" once in a while - I'd prefer such a guy working on the software I use because in the end it just means he cares about that piece of software, so regardless of the bumpy ride, things will be for the better further on...
Lighttpd is missing... but good benchmark anyway.
By "modern" I mean a subset of systems which excludes first generation systems as well as some second and other generation systems, it's generally just simpler to say "modern" than be more specific. If I said "modern computers use integrated circuits" the timeline of modernity would be clear, I don't mean state of the art, just not archaic.
Client-side Messaging Essentials
I always wondered why they don't integrate Play/pause in tab if you are on YouTube page - since Google is owner of both.
Some languages do support Unicode for things like arrows and other mathematical symbols: http://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/agda/pmwiki.php?n=ReferenceMa...

Languages which support this (including Agda, I believe) usually support some fallback to ASCII, allowing you to type "->" instead of a Unicode arrow, because it's easier to type on the vast majority of keyboards.

Of course, APL also famously uses all kinds of symbolic nonsense.
I wonder if Apple's rejection of apps that track their users* will result in this API being blocked on iOS?

* http://www.tuaw.com/2013/02/26/apple-rejecting-ios-apps-for-...
We typically conduct the first interviews on the phone or Skype for interesting candidates. If it makes sense to do in-person interviews, we're happy to cover the cost of transportation for candidates we're excited about. In other words, if you're excited about working with CloudFlare, don't let the £150 stand in the way of applying.
History has shown a lot of anti-hoarding propaganda, but not a single empirical example of how it can paradoxically happen that people are buying more and more of some commodity only to have its price drop to zero. This does not sound logical to me.

Your problem is with definition of "trade" and "hoarding". If you rephrase your statements using words "buying" and "selling", then it'll be clear why you create a paradox.

When people "trade" they are doing an exchange: one buys coins for a product, another one buys product for coins. If the demand for coins grows, buyers of coins will compete between each other to offer more of their products for coins. Hence the growth of the coin price in terms of other products.

But the trade (or "hoarding") can only happen if someone is willing to sell, right? So the actual exchange (at any price) will happen only where people are selling coins.

The trade does not happen continually, it is discrete. In the night people sleep and do not trade. And when trade occurs, it is instantaneous. 100% of time money and products simply stay on someone's account.

If at some point everyone expects price to rise and nobody sells, no trade occurs. But still everybody is willing to buy at the last known price. What can we say about price without recent trade? Nothing - we only know last price from yesterday (or last week). Do coins suddenly lose all their value since nobody is trading? No, because people are still willing to buy.

When a single seller expects that the price will not grow further, but there are real products to buy for coins (since everyone is still willing to buy), he will sell his coins and establish a new price. Maybe the same as yesterday, or lower. And the market will find another price. Maybe lower, maybe higher.

Please point out logical problems in my statement before repeating that "no trade means no utility and total collapse".
ClearType?
No. This is basically binary diffing and compression.

Edit: err, you are correct, I didn't realize WAN optimization included binary diffing and compression. Should google before I comment.
> but what you're paying for is that tool on that day.

Well, not exactly with Kick Starter project. And, I believe, most people bought Sublime Text 2 when it was in beta, giving funds to develop the tool to what it was today.

> ST3 is in ridiculously early beta, if it's not working right right now then don't use it

Yep, I was a sucker once for buying ST2 when it was in beta, helping the developer to make a living developing it full-time. This time I'll just treat him how he wanted to be treated, like other software product, let him deal with his financial problem himself until he release the software.
This is EPIC!

An entire signal processing tutorial in 25 minutes.
This guy is a master of explaining AND of using tech
so the combination is very powerful. You will probably
learn more useful stuff from this video than from taking an entire signals and systems ugrad course.

♫ > #ADC(soundcard) > (wav) > #DSP.compress > (mp3) > #DAC(soundcard) > ♫

What else is there in #DSP? Watch this video!
As far as I can tell, after having read Martin Richards's BCPL book and the BCPL reference manual, BCPL allowed only $( $) as section brackets. Looking at the current BCPL compiler code, it seems that it does now allow { } for section brackets, but the comments in the compiler suggest that it wasn't added until 1995. BCPL's section brackets were neat in that you could add a label to them and they would be parsed much like HTML tags. I think it's likely that B introduced the curly brackets in lieu of BCPL-style section brackets and omitted tagged brackets altogether, then B begat C, etc.
The Smartphone Market Has Turned into the Cereal Aisle
I think people need to be more proactive about this sort of thing. If you're uncomfortable, don't assume it's normal! See if there is something to it.

I used to have a lot of trouble breathing at night. I would sleep, but be exhausted in the morning. After college, I got surgery for a deviated septum. Then I started using a humidifier and Breathe-Right strips religiously at night. Now, I've got a baby that doesn't sleep through the night and I still wake up every morning quite refreshed. :)