skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason the page crashes safari and chrome on iPad after loading halfway.

There is an interesting issue regarding ticket prices which the article mentions but doesn't discuss in detail. Many years ago it was affordable for a family to go to the movies every weekend. Now, ticket prices have shot up so much that its a pretty expensive habit. I wonder if a forced deflation of ticket prices could improve the situation
Seeing the link is akin to passing the newsstand from a medium distance. Clicking the link is akin to picking up the newspaper and seeing the small print. Skipping the ad is akin to opening the newspaper to the continuation of the story inside.
I’m sure they’ll say they haven’t seized the property yet… They’re just holding onto evidence. After Michael spends thousands on lawyers fees to get it back and prevent a default judgement and seizure he might get it back. This could turn into one of those ridiculous, United States vs Buddy (yes against the property not the person) cases where Michael will have more trouble defending the boat as only a third party witness if they allow his testimony… After all they’ll claim there is no known rightful owner and that it was abandoned at customs. Sick.
Doesn't seem to work anymore, I guess the autor removed it?
> If you have a heart attack you are in no position to negotiate what is a fair price or not

But that's not what's described in the article: "his wife Stephanie knew she had to get him to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Stephanie’s father had been treated there 10 years earlier"

If you consciously choose to consider only a single provider, it's nobody's fault but your own that they now have all the negotiation power.
“Borrow,” of course, really meant “steal,” since there was certainly no intention of giving the inventions back.

No, it did not mean "steal." They were not depriving the inventors of their creations, but using the ideas. What would it even mean to give the inventions back?
> usually also the ones with the "I don't want to know all this business shit" attitude

Very easily identified early in school as the ones who say "I don't want to know all this history shit" or "I don't want to know all this writing shit"
I really try to be nice and give an article by Sebastian Marshall a fair chance when it crops up on HN.

But every single time, I'm disappointed. There is little to no editing, no digestion process that I can detect that would turn what I find to be haphazard notes into an actual product of a writer. I see that he really, really cares about saying something - apparently, though, not so much about being understood. The content of these articles is at best something that somebody else somewhere has already said better and more succinct. At worst, it's meaningless drivel that could just as well be the work of the postmodernism generator[1].

After a while, the words blend together and I remain astonished how others find meaning in his writing. Maybe they need to supply it themselves?

Can anybody point me to something even moderately tangible that Sebastian Marshall has actually done?

And yes, I know he has published a book. A book that seems to be about how he's a guy who is crazy and does things. But I have yet to see what those things actually are, besides talking about doing things. The level at which you apparently can never actually learn what he does is maddening to me.

[1]http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=antirez <- best one I heard so far :-) this thing is fun.
Suzuki method
Tactical Sectors - brilliant and challenging puzzle game for iOS
Expect this technique in the future malwares and software protection DRM systems for making code analyzing harder.
Where The Magic Happens
The degree gives you a tour of the foundations of the solution domain.

Mastery of the solution domain and knowledge of various problem domains cannot be taught in a 3 or 4 year degree.
I disagree that it's important unless you're the person designing the solution. If you're not (and in many/most teams you won't be) it's far less important.
@ohadron Thanks for submitting my little experiment to HN. It still needs a lot of work. would be glad if you can contribute on github.
I am afraid you missed my point. I was responding to the statement "Cheap 3D renderings of hypothetical uses of not-so-technically-feasible dronish things. Nothing to see here.". That statement is so categorically dismissive that it prompted me to ask if he/she was equally dismissive of other (relatively recent) similar inventions. Nowhere did I suggest that "technological skepticism is wrong". To rephrase your comment more aligned with my point: "people were skeptical about X 10 years ago, and now we have X, therefore the skepticism about X (not everything under the sun) was wrong".

Last year we witnessed an amazingly complex landing of the Mars rover. There were about a million things that could have gone wrong, and I would bet money that there were skeptics (probably even within the technical leadership). Were they wrong to be skeptical? Of course not -- they had sound reasons to be skeptical, and a strong chance of being right. However, the mission was a success, and those skeptics (smart as they were) were proved wrong.

I'm surprised you pounced on my statement rather than the absurdly dismissive comment I was referring to. I'll write it off to caffeine :-) .
Whenever I hear pg speak, I always forget he's from Great Britain. There isn't a discernible trace of an English accent in his voice, at least to my ear. That suggests to me he must have moved to the US at a young age.

I also give big thumbs up to Bloomberg West. The pace of the discussion is usually just about perfect.
Dean Capewell Decorators | Painting a Room.
I was reading about this the other day, I cloned it locally but never got around to changing it. I think the biggest problem is the rendering engine. Some magic has to happen to match the scope name to the sample code, that can't be easy to do, but you've managed it, how does it work with complex scopes etc?
Sharing music, video and/or porn on the network will be mostly inevitable. But on the other hand, the web of trust should limit the impact of this alot. If you consider that people interested in curating/helping with the leaks and documents would distrust peers putting porn/music/video up, there will likely be 2 or more networks with little trust between one another.

You didn't mention anything about anonymization of the nodes/peers. I am guessing you're thinking of putting this behind Tor?
With ASP.NET if you are in a 32 bit machine (who still is?) you have edit and continue so you can do the same as in Play. AFAIK they are working to bring that to 64 bit machines too.

Don't understand me wrong. I see a lot of value in Play. My only beef is with the "this the awesomest thing you'll ever see" approach to selling it.
I don't doubt that Scala does the things that both languages do in a cleaner, more regular way. But the kind of syntactical abstraction that Scala supports lets you replace semantics that you can't replace in Java, which creates uncertainty. Consider this:

a = b

In Java or C this can only mean one thing. The value of variable b is assigned to variable a. In Scala it could mean the same thing, or the = operator could be overloaded and b could be a method call. If you need to know which one it is, for instance because you're trying to understand someone elses code, then you have more work to do than in Java.
I just tried it again - it's working for me.
Your point about writers is a real problem. Way too many literary novels where the main character is a writer.

Too many people, especially worker bees like engineers and janitors, tend to focus only on their part of the job and not how it fits into the big picture.
Also, it's just me or does MIDI.js have the potential to lead the renaissance of midi music on the internet? I had almost forgotten midi files existed if it weren't for this lib.
That is actually bus used for commuting within Bangalore city and belongs to BMTC. It is not a long distance bus and hence in no way relevant to redbus website!
How iOS6 Will Help You Deliver Better Apps?
> The profession of programmers who only know how to program should disappear like the profession of scribes who only know how to write.

Everybody "knows" how to write.

There's a difference between literacy and mastery.

Without fluency in the solution domain, the problem domain will simply remain that: a problem without a solution.

The Other Jacques's point was that as developers we often see lots of problem domains and that learning about them is useful.

I tell my customers that part of my job is becoming an "instant expert" in the part of the world they've called me in to help with.

The only subject I can think of with similar professional requirements would be law, where deep knowledge of the solution domain is required and quick acquisition of the problem domain is a predictor of success.
Interview on Sentiment Analysis with DataSift's Robert Passarella
Works great with Textastic (iOS), too!
You guys are doing with post-its, what Twitter did with news and Foursquare with location.
Kudos
Slightly OT: Why would you ever put a QR code on a web page instead of a link?

If I'm on my computer, I'm not going to pull out my phone to scan it. If I'm on my phone, how would I even scan it?
Google Android - An Open Source Platform for Android Application Developers
JToast, my first jQuery plugin
Greece has particular problems. A culture of pork barrel, corruption, nepotism and tax evasion (not to mention cooking the books) does not make for sustainable governmental spending. But now that they are implementing unprecedented cuts, the country is going down the drain.
I found the title of this post to be misleading or at least stressing its point. The article says

"Some Internet Archive employees have elected to receive some of their pay in Bitcoin in April."

so it's not all employees, not all of their pay and not all of the time, as I expected from the headline.
A liberal arts education gives you an advantage over other engineers. "You mean this guy can actually read and write?"

Especially true if the business ever needs to write a technical proposal to win a contract. Very important to have engineers who can read and write then.
Omg, her voice and the way she asks questions is so intrusive and annoying.
Any one know how much it would cost to let a failing bank go down, but compensate the people with their money in that banks?

I never found out why we couldn't let that happen. If a bank fails, and I have $10,000 in it, give me the money, not the failed bank. Then I can pick a new back, which should in theory be stronger with the new influx of customers form the now dead bank.

Besides, what happened to capitalism and competition? We capitalists seem to ditch those principles the second it goes wrong, expecting socialist payouts from the people to bail them out. No, businesses go bust, that is the whole point. Survival of the fittest. Strength through competition. That is the American way, no?

Worse still, was the bail out of the car industry. How did that happen? A whole load of new companies killed off right there. People would have left, some would start new firms, some would got an bolster existing firms, and so on. Now, the same stagnation remains because it was propped up.

Ah, pah. Just another one of those things that leaves me depressed, confused, and cold.
can not update to Chrome 25 yet! but works perfectly fine on Chrome Canary 27, so it should be working on 25 too.
Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'd be wary of advocating pure automation as a replacement for a good old-fashioned manual eyeballing.

The point of a smoke test is that for all your care in testing and deployment, you still might have missed something. Stuff goes wrong, and not always in an immediately machine testable way. You don't need a full QA department, you just need to open up the bits you've changed after a deploy and have a play to make sure nothing's obviously out of place. It's a small step to make a non-optional part of your process and it has a potentially huge payoff.

Adding the automated integration test is a great thing to do, but complementing it with a human is even better.
The bits on performance are interesting:

http://learn.jquery.com/performance/

Although the bit about variable definitions on one line under performance is absolute rubbish: http://jsperf.com/variable-definition On chrome it's the same, on Firefox their suggestion is slower. Added an issue, https://github.com/jquery/learn.jquery.com/blob/master/page/...

The best way for a software engineer to learn about jQuery in my opinion is to look at the source code though.
I've held programming jobs in: Water Treatment Process Control, Workflow Management, Clinical Trials Management, Electrical Power Monitoring and Simulation, and Medical Imaging. In each case my natural curiosity led me to learn as much as I could about the field. I always enjoyed talking to the domain experts at each company and asking them as many questions as they could handle. There are usually one or two people who relish answering these questions and I especially like the ones who talk fast, mock astonishment at my ignorance, and proceed to try to fix it.

In water treatment, I learned about oxic/anoxic bacteria and how they're grown and recycled in the process to treat waste, how to write chemical metering logic in a PLC because I was the only one left on-site to do it, how motors are controlled with variable frequency drives, how proportional-integral-derivatives are used to prevent oscillation in feedback based controls.

In clinical trials management, I learned how double-blind studies are made, the process of randomization and dispensing drugs, medical coding and the life cycle of the trial.

In power systems simulation, I learned about three-phase power transmission, resistive and capacitive loads, active and reactive power, the challenges of hooking up a lot of solar panels our existing grids, how data centers are build and cooled and powered, microgrids, power meters, intelligent breakers and more.

I feel privileged that my skills at software development have exposed me to a variety of fields and that I know how several important processes in our word work. And I got to take home a nice salary while gaining that exposure. I do lament that, unless I pick a field and stick with it, I'll never get to work on the difficult programming problems that require a decade or more of experience and knowledge.
Tablets Take Off In 2012 According To Millennial, esp Kindle Fire & iPad Mini
Using JDBC to Perform Data Manipulation in Java
Its for times when you want to open a link on your phone when you are reading it on the computer. Like the Chrome to phone chrome extension.
> see iceland

Support banks until the goverment collaps? Does not sound like a great idea.

> If you live and a free country and abstain from participating in politics, then in my opinion you have abdicated your responsibility as a citizen.

Voting is irrational form any perspective. Political organisation is not really worth the time it costs. Thats that sad true, economily speaking the goverment is a externality it would be good if everybody did inform themself be active (add so on) but in reality you yourself doing it is just a waste of time.

For that reason the idea came up that there should be a constitution. The problem is that that did not work very well, the constitution was just overruled or ignored (for sometimes good reasons).

What to make of the situation is hard, some people want more federalism so the voter is more effected by his opinion, but many people oppose that because why have good things someplace and bad other places, it would be much better to have good things everywhere.Other people want a new constitution, but I do not see any reason why that would not end the same as the other consitution.

Again other have tons of ideas, change the style of voting, change the style of representation and so on. Again others become anarchists.
Here's a very funny rant about the overuse of QR codes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2rVYvylvZc
I wonder which project you believe require the most help?

Would be fun to have a small working group in Manchester (UK) - shout if you're in the area and are interested.
Yay no taxes, the end of civilization.
I guess it all depends on the student in question. Me, I majored in Computer Science, but I love all areas of science and study them on my own. Same with History, Art, Philosophy, Music (played violin & clarinet) and Literature. I was probably one of the few odd students in Computer Science at my school that actually loved the creative writing and art courses he took. I am not a great artist, but I can talk to someone who knows way more about art than me and relate to what interests them to a point. Such things lead to forming connections with people and exchanging great ideas across knowledge gaps between them. It also helps you to form better analogies and metaphors for explaining difficult, technical concepts.

I would have actually gone into teaching History if the United States school system was not as limited as it is these days in what one can teach students. I probably read and study history as much as I do about software development. However, I love Computer Science and have no regrets about going into it instead.

Any student that does not strive to be well-rounded in as many areas of knowledge as they can outside of their field is really missing out on life. Entrepreneurship in general is all about knowing what will make life better and it's hard to know what needs improving if one does not have experience in areas outside of their field.

A person does a great disservice to themselves when they choose to isolate their realm of knowledge to a narrow field, no matter which field it is.
I would say there is no hypocrisy, since the people of the industrial revolution are long dead. Being born in the same nation 200 years later doesn't make you bound by the opinions of your ancestors.

Likewise, the germans of today should not be considered evil Nazis, even though some of the original Nazis are still alive.
I can read a book faster than I can speak or hear words.

In addition, books can usually be found, on almost any topic, which are intended to bring a novice up to a basic level of conversancy. Reading one (or two) such books will make discussions with the experts much more productive.

Plus: it's fun to learn about new things.
AVR Tutorial - A Hobbyist's Guide to Hacking 8-Bit AVR Microcontrollers
Gamespot is not shutting down, it's not theirs anymore. Gamespot (as nuke.com) and 1up both spawned from EGM, which was once in ZD and it got shut down (EGM did). Gamespot has since changed owner, and EGM recently started publishing again independently.
You are mistaken because you are, like many others, confusing peer review with "pre- publication peer review", the act of your peers judging a manuscript before publication as is currently implemented.

The peer review that is allowed by the system I mention actually enables post publication peer review. The review of papers that are already public (either in some preprint or in some published form).

Right now the only mechanism that is allowed in terms of feedback in the pre-publication peer review model, is writing to the journal for a corrigendum, or even a retraction. As witnessed in retractionwatch.com blog, few are enthusiastic about publishing corrections to papers that have gone through their inefficient pre-publication peer review process. Not only it is inefficient but it also directly yield examples such as the ones you, rightfully, point to.
He moved to the US at age 2.
> the sort you should be using if you're working regularly on a computer

Could you go into more detail on this? I've been using 12 and 13" screens regularly for my day job for years, and I find the extra physical area of larger screens rather arduous. Basically, if there's some kind of ergonomics concern I'm prepared to change, but not otherwise.

> wider aspects -- they use your eyes better

Seems false, otherwise letters would be typed in landscape. There are other things in my FOV and that's a good thing.
This is all true. On the other hand, it's worth mentioning the major benefits that Jane Street gets from OCaml:

1. Excellent single-core performance.
2. Code is fast to write and can be quickly adapted, so you get the agility of the typical dynamic languages but the benefits of a static type system.
3. Although the community has few members, the quality of engineers in it is very high. Someone who knows OCaml well is much more likely to be a good hire.
4. Legibility of code. Partners review production code. These are very smart guys, but they're traders-- not quants or programmers by trade.

Writing libraries, if you have the resources, is a small cost. It's heavy upfront, but once you have good libraries, that's no longer an issue. That issue depends on the scope of your project. You probably wouldn't use OCaml for a web project you intended to deliver in one month.

The benefit that I think is most interesting is the 4th, because the reading of code is where most software companies seem to fall down. Of course, this involves style as much as the language itself, but OCaml is, in my experience, the language best optimized for the reader's concerns. Haskell can be similarly legible (and is much terser) but one can also go off the rails with it.
In general, I completely agree (though I have never seen it happen before). This is not a link, however, but a bitcoin address encoded as a QR code.

I - as do many others - have a Bitcoin wallet application with some change on my phone. Having the QR code here makes it easier to contribute something.
The US allready has the FDIC, meaning that in every account you allready have 50k insured, witch would take care of the 'poor people who suffer the most'.

Saving the banks was never about saving the poor who have money in the bank, or saving the 'banking system'.

> That is the American way, no?

Not anymore, banks are saved, so are car companys, motorcycle companys and so on.

The 'socialist' swedenish let there car company fail.
I never noticed that before, which is why I used them.
It was actually very good. She was engaging and it seemed like she not only knew what she was talking about but also really wanted to know the answers to the questions she was asking. She was leading the conversation even with 2 such heavy weights at her desk. Good job.
Bundestag holds 'unusual' hearing on German Copyright Act
Neither of those have shown to be a success.
If you've got nothing on your record, you'll probably be pereived as a good person. If you have any negative history at all, suddenly you become a fundamentally bad person who's just being good right now. At least, you've proven that you are "capable" of doing something "wrong", even if it was just being at school on the day of a protest.

What nobody wants to admit is that, in the right circumstances, most people are "capable" of anything.
I love that essay.

Can you give an equivalent word which conveys the full meaning of inter alia with the same degree of pithiness and directness?
you can read this conversation to know more about the problems : https://github.com/aziz/tmTheme-Editor/issues/4
I think islanders where luck that the goverment (including central bank) did not have the power to do what they wanted.

The central bank garantee there banks that the would not be allowed to fail, this was clearly stated in a report around 2004.
This is the best thing I've seen on the web in 2013 so far.
Amazing amazing job
The vent is along the back of the hinge.
We don't have any API's in js to access the microphones other than getUserMedia API.

On the Drive integration, there is access to other developers for FS for apps and extensions, so it is not just tied to drive http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/fileBrowserHandler.ht...

There is quite a lot of local Storage 32gb and 64gb.
"Confound those who have said our remarks before us" -- Aelius Donatus, circa 4th century AD.