skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use jobberbase, http://www.jobberbase.com/ , on a site http://jobsinireland.org/ it doesn't handle payments, but the verification of jobs is easy, as it sends the admin a link to approve the submitters first job. After that they can post again with out the check.
Who's the OP and why do we care about his opinion?
Hey, not sure but we'll look into this. Thanks
4chan is civil.
Necessary context for this article can be found in an earlier Hacker News comment

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5196734

by another participant on an earlier article from the same blog:

> > It appears you've made some sort of resolution to publish and promote a blog entry per day in 2013. 40 entries in 41 days this year vs. 46 in all of 2012. You should reconsider - whatever your reasons were, I doubt they included a desire to develop a reputation for presenting topics that were sensationalized and thinly researched [1] produced with a pace that ensures discredited theories dont get reviewed.

[1] http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/02/drug-companies-stop-h...

> Wow, nice spot and they have all been submitted to HN. I have never seen anyone's submission history be so hell bent on self promotion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=techdog

That was followed up by another set of comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5240084

> I'm beginning to flag these posts.

I agree.
So much the worse for using Android. It's past time that we have proper Linux on phones without interposing all the Google-Java stuff.
I agree, there's lots in the online/offline chasm that could be filled
The first FAQ link seems to be broken (maybe a web server setting gone bad?)
BTW, this is a great resource. Thanks for sharing this!
That just seems like a poor attempt at trolling. "I have to figure out what server I need" is a problem with amazon? I just double checked, and the process is literally identical between amazon and rackspace:

1. pick an instance
2. see the hourly price
3. multiply it by 24 x 30

Which part of this is a problem, and why is it only a problem for you with amazon?
Downloadable content, what used to be sold as expansions when distributed in CDs.
> I mainly do my programming by SSHing to it and using Vim on my ipad.

I've both actually done this, and told people about it on HN. I'm ashamed.
Even nailed the search, if you didn't catch that.
Since TDD proponents started claiming credit for good reliability practices that come from different backgrounds than TDD.
The people who are making most of their money from gold-mining are not blogging about the location of their mine.

Perfectly put.

But hey, I'm a consultant. I understand why, and how they do it. I'm not knocking on them, because they do provide value and are not scamming anyone.
Thanks! We had most of what we planned to have done by that time. We fully launched a month later.
Google Exception in Obama’s Cyber Order Questioned as Unwise Gap
I feel like I spend my life saying this: "Hang on, don't worry, it's coming."

NFC is taking time because there are so many stakeholders, there is hardware involved, and the value chain is not straightforward.

That said, Sony is going big on putting NFC into consumer electronics; they made quite a splash about it at CES [0]. I heard earlier that they're talking about 50 new NFC-enabled products in the near future.

There is also a lot more in the wings, as the phones are now getting out there and into the hands of a desirable demographic group.

[0]: http://www.nfcworld.com/2013/01/08/321784/sony-pushes-nfc-at...
For eggnog and other recipes that necessitate raw eggs, one can always use pasteurized eggs. It is easy to DIY if you have an immersion circulator. If not, some stores sell them now.
Scientists Overcome Uncertainty Principle
RICH TAKING CREAM
Eclipse pretty much does this out of the box. I guess so do IntelliJ and Visual Studio. You can also display the name of the last person to change a line in the same position (ie. svn/git blame), which is very useful to quickly find out who to talk to regarding a section of a file. The commit message is displayed on mouseover.
If you measure something, people will try to increase it. Just by presenting the number, people are encouraged to maximize it.
Down Loadable Content. Addons that kind of thing.
> What did your colleague have trouble with?

I remember him trying to move a window to the other monitor and having bounce back repeatedly. Very funny to watch.

> git is a usability nightmare.

No argument here. The design of the commandline UI is terrible ("git checkout" is the first offender you're likely to meet). However, it's powerful enough that I'm using all the time, occasionally bridging with SVN when needed. Once you get hooked on cheap local branching, you can never give up.
Smooth, I noticed it ACTUALLY WORKS with video unlike Animoto
Sure, this definitely isn't the right approach for all migrations everywhere. When we have migrations that we know will take a long time, we try to make them non-invasive enough that we can have code that works with old and new schemas simultaneously. That way, the migration can take as long as it needs to, and everything Just Works™.
Show HN: dandelion - the one-stop shop for smart, high-quality geo & linked data
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4598818
Thanks for the catch Djoerd! We will fix it now
Hey, that's my line!
XWayland exists, but it's not the issue. We want to run native Wayland apps remotely.
Any good brief reviews of these games? Which ones are worth playing?

Also, I tend to have the most time for gaming while on the bus or the like, playing on my phone. Any of these particularly good or particularly bad in a mobile form factor?
It turns out that the amount allocated to 'Development and Creation', 'Testing' and 'Implementation' was $191 436, a fairly small proportion of the total. $2.1 million alone was spent on 'Planning' and 'Design'.

It's difficult to find any legitimate costing in these estimates, especially as more complex and more important South African government sites have been created and deployed for as little as $27 670.
I don't know Ruby, so this is probably obvious, but: Why does quine() need an argument? What good is __FILE__ there?
Just an oversight. Most of our work is done by people who graciously volunteer their time. We'll get that fixed.
For, say, adding a new column or changing indexes, one can probably just run update w/o any code changes. For more complex cases, you might need to modify the code to work with both old/new schemas. It's all about details :)
I'll wait until the Linux version I bought in the previous bundle actually works without crashing after five minutes of play, I think.
Yes Dungeon Defenders is the headliner of this pack. Very interesting game: third person shooter, team based, tower defense.
Seems a little thin and scattered. There's a ton of amazing (and free) info available from Stanford.
How I got my dream job (part 1)
Im sure graphene will be involved with that too ;)
That is interesting, I'm glad you enjoyed it. If you're ever interested in comparing notes let me know.
Samuel_Michon, I can't reply to your comment directly, but just to let you know, you're hell-banned, and no-one can read your comment.
More than 2/3 of work on firebug is done by 1 mozilla employee, and there 2-3 other people we contribute to firebug from time to time. So it's pretty much in house.

IMO starting complete rewrite of firebug, in form of devtools, was very wrong. 2 years ago firebug was order of magnitude better than chrome devtools. Now it can't keep up with chrome. But firefox devtools only starts to become barely useful, If all that work have gone into improving firebug, Firefox would be ahead of chrome now.
Yes, that's a little odd. If you shorten the search term, the results come up just fine: http://urlsearch.commoncrawl.org/?q=nl.utwente.cs.wwwhome/~h...
Low latency feedback is important for some things, but complete double buffering is the right default for a window system, because flicker is even worse than touch lag.

This is one of the reasons people think iOS is so "snappy." It goes to great lengths to never show you a partially-drawn frame. If you compare Safari to say Internet Explorer on Windows RT, you see that IE looks like ass when rendering complex pages, because it'll happily show you frames it's done laying out yet.
Have you thought of getting in touch with Vice magazine?
How I ended up with Mac
I'd love it if there was a feature to search for a specific URL. Like if "com.google" just loaded the Google homepage if you put it in quotes.
Google's new design language handles this pretty well using "almost flat" design. They still have a rectangular button (no gradient or rounded corners), but there's a slight drop shadow.
"All games in this Humble Bundle are compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Android."

That tells me enough to know I wouldn't enjoy any of those games.
From my understanding, it seems like what we want is a VNC switch in ssh rather than necessarilly display server specific functionality. Go even further and maybe the ssh server could just use the RFB protocol vnc uses.

Any Linux VNC server worth its salt already support tunneling RFB over ssh. To take it a step further, you would just need very little display server support for an ssh server to request the framebuffer of an application it opens and send it via RFB or the vnc server to the client.

And I'd imagine Wayland already has some mechanism for other applications to read somethings frames. If it is generic enough, ssh should be able to use that. My only concern is that Wayland would need to be rendering programs but not displaying them locally, and I don't have any understanding of Wayland's internal implementation enough to know if it supports hidden windows like that.
> Why do subsidies matter all that much?

Because balancing a budget is easier when you have more money?
I greatly prefer ambient, and my favorite ambient artist these days is the late Lucette Bourdin: http://www.earthmantra.com/artist-detail.php?id=17

I'm also very fond of Steve Roach.
Don't support the scientific paper racket.
Instead have this link to a joel spolsky post from 2001 about why the web is dead. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000296.html
TDD is overrated. It's main benefit is that it forces the developer to express the same things twice in two different ways. It is like entering your password twice for verification. You get immediate feedback if there is an inconsistency. On the other hand, there might be methodologies that reveal more bugs per developer-hour, such as code reviews or spending more time on having a clean design. In fact, TDD often leads to a hacky, non-object-oriented design as it forces the developer to add ways to inspect and verify the internal state of whatever is being tested - thus perforating encapsulation.
Hello. I think first and foremost FireFox should build in support for disabilities, so that one can get to its UI Elements. The nice side-effect is that governments, which has laws regulating software for the benefit of disabled workers, then are able to use it.
I, on the other hand, have grown to love tests more and more.

Not for reasons of finding bugs – though that is often a nice side effect – but because once I have decent test coverage I don't need to look at the application anymore. Being able to run the tests in the background to verify my work is sane, while I move on to the next feature in parallel, I find, is considerably faster than the code/build/review cycle you find yourself in without a decent test suite.

My own performance, being a limited commodity, is the most important factor and I find tests help me increase output, not slow it down as you suggest. They are certainly not a panacea though. As always, use the right tool for the job.
I actually didn't even look at the last one because I believed it was Android-only.
Home Cleaning Service Pathjoy Becomes Homejoy, Raises $1.7M From A16Z And Others
Linus Torvalds is considering the Chromebook Pixel as his primary laptop
Also as one tries to take a higher level view of the office, one of the conclusions could be that up until now the primary goal of the office was to offer shared access to some central resource as it was impossible to offer this resource (wahtever that might be) outside of some central location. Now given the global connectivity this shared resource(s) are most often avaialbe globaly as well, and the question becomes evident more and more each day as to why keep the office anymore...Why do the 'kolhoz' if everybody can have their own farm now.
You should, I like that idea very much.
I was also having a similar problem with mixing work & personal data. Now I am using Canary as development browser, that itself is enormous resource hog.
If you will continue working on such a project I am happy to help!
I think you might have nailed it.
Unfortunately, my eyesight is less than perfect - for example currently my screens are closer than arms's length from my eyes (granted, I have pretty long arms). So, in my case, the bigger monitors would force me to do neck movements, while for people with really sharp eyes they could be great.
Does it have multiple cursors for typing?

If so how is that implemented?

P.S. Also how is dragging implemented with two mice? (Just clicking is easy, you just have one hidden mouse that you make jump about when anyone clicks)
"I hate to be the person to point out": The brain-washers offer to help explaining that only when you realize where you have gone wrong can you end the self-loathing you are now experiencing.
Heroku Add On redesign: Impact to Spreedly lead flow
Also, this sentiment is popularized as worse-is-better: http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
Top results for "com" are a little odd. Seems like @ wasn't filtered from the domain part of the URL (though it should be, I would think).
For those that don't know, the bundle comes with individual Steam keys. Dungeon Defenders and all its DLC are in one key though.
You've got it backwards. It used to be called 'Humble Indie Bundle', and it didn't have Android versions.

[1] http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/33272/GDC_2011_Humble_Ind...
I used to play Dungeon Defenders on my phone until it was retired and liked it.
Beat Hazard: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/12/03/game-review-shoot-em...
Super Hexagon: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/01/19/new-game-terry-cavan...
The other games are debuting their android versions but the iOS originals have positive reviews.
want my dotfiles? I added a cool hack that lets you do hjkl by rubbing your penis on the ipad screen. You have to map it with your DNA though.
> "If you keep rolling a thousand dice, eventually they will all come up sixes"

A thousand sixes in a single simultaneous roll shouldn't happen in the entire lifetime of the universe. If your system is that safe, you're in pretty good shape. But rolling a thousand dice where you get to set aside each six you get, you should expect to get to all sixes in 30 or 40 rolls.

Whenever you're engineering a system for safety, the key is figuring out how much needs to go wrong for the system to fail, and how many opportunities you'll have for those things to go wrong. Diseases being carried from continent to continent is a fairly normal occurrence; contamination will happen fairly regularly, and the biggest protection against it becoming widespread is herd immunity.
Dell, Intel, Red Hat, VMware Team on Linux for Health Care
Make it a fractal graphene antenna and you've got next years funding locked up!
FreshBooks Wins Gold For Customer Service
Except that there are people actually relying on remote GUI apps right now, that aren't web apps and won't be. Seriously.

This is one of the reasons why Wayland is, after 4+ years, still not seriously deployed anywhere. It's easy to sit back and pontificate about how things "should" be. It's a much more involved proposition to actually getting around to breaking people's software. No one wants to pull the trigger with Wayland.

And, I suspect, that's part of the reason Canonical went with Mir (and for the record: I completely agree that the technical justification there is bunk). Wayland is forever-evolving and never quite there. Shuttleworth wants something to ship. If your requirement is to pull a trigger, you at least want to know that you own the gun.

Is that good or bad for Ubuntu or the community? I don't know and won't try to guess. But I will say that at least some of the ire directed at Ubuntu might be better directed at the Freedesktop folks for not getting something ready years earlier.

Basically, if X sucked so much, why wasn't there more urgency directed at replacing it? Crying now because someone else got there first seems counterproductive.
You have obviously never actually done this with eggs that are less than a week from laying... The pH of a fresh egg is closer to neutral and this causes the inner membrane to really stick to the shell, even after cooking. After the eggs have been washed and refrigerated for several days the pH edges closer to 9 and the egg is easier to peel (and the cooling trick works.)
Great article. Not just about TDD but about all of startup culture. The discussion here is about TDD but how about the long hours. They are not necessary either. No process needs to change. If your company requires long hours, management has made huge mistakes. Period.
You need more karma. There's a karma threshold below which you can't downvote. I haven't reached it either. Soon, though. And when I do. Oh...
>I'm not against eating chicken mainly because of this experience.

I don't understand your reasoning there. To me, whether it's ok to eat an animal should depend on whether it can experience suffering, not on whether it has a good personality. I mean, is it ok to eat people who are jerks?
Patio11 is the man.
Wow inspired by Mirai! It was indeed a very cool application. In my oppinion stomped on PowerAnimator and Softimage.

Mirai was written all in common-lisp. Wings3D, inspired by Mirai, is written in Erlang.
Ask HN: isgl3d help?
I am a student using isgl3d for my thesis project. It would be great if I could correspond with someone who has used the library. I would be willing to pay for your time. Thank you. Please respond to: isgl3d.help@gmail.com .
Except that isn't it either, Android bundles 1 through 4 where named Humble Bundle for Android.
> Brad Conte

I'm honestly really curious about this. Could you elaborate?
You're bringing unrelated issues into the discussion. The point isn't that transfer payments have zero impact. The point is that transfer payments have less of an economic impact than than, say, using the money to blow up things in Iraq. So just looking at federal spending as a whole isn't a great way to measure the economic impact of government--you have to dig down and see where the money is going.

Another way to look at it is: consider two governments, both spend 30% of GDP. The first spends 25% on bureaucracy and the military, and 5% on transfer payments, while the second spends 10% of bureaucracy and the military, and 15% of transfer payments. Which government probably has a lower economic impact? Which government probably has more "fat" to trim?
Actually no,The Humble Indie Bundle is just one of many flavors of bundles that Humble Bundle has offered. This is, in fact, the fifth Android bundle. The first Android bundle was offered at the beginning of 2012.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humble_Bundle
Video chat on Chrome via WebRTC plugin free
Yahoo Mail silent on a massive data failure on March 1st, 2013
It looks like Yahoo has deactivated/deleted thousands of its users' email accounts on March 1st 2013, and is ignoring all requests for clarification.

I've personally lost over a decade worth of emails even though I'm an active Plus subscriber (which means I pay to never get deactivated). I have also been ignored by their customer service department since I contacted them four days ago.

See below for links to thousands of other users complaining about the same issue:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Y-Mail/messages

http://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130302142839AAiN3Qk

http://nz.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130302094306AAK7ivU

Search on Google for "Yahoo Mail account deactivated" and you'll see a huge number of recent posts, all from March 1st 2013.
can you start with some dumb-downed obvious places, and slowly work up to harder and harder to recognize? Even something as simple as Statue of Liberty or Mt. Rushmore would be a good introductory... IMO
I think it's just that the site converts unicode urls for display purposes. If you click on one of the links with "@" in it, you'll see the real url in url encoded format

http://%2E%2E%2E@harunyahya.com/Ajax/get.comments/oid/4612 176.34.181.212 20120516214328 text/html 912
"There’s just nothing out there that quite lets you do multiple mouse cursors at the same time"

Certainly there is quite something out there since 2010 which does exactly that: http://www.multimouse.com
Because the games I like are usually designed with one device and OS in mind. Touch, joystick, mouse, and keyboard interaction all have their strengths and disadvantages -- games specifically made for them use those strengths. The same counts for the different OSes and their native SDKs.

Unless these games are completely different on each platform, I doubt they would impress me. Granted, it can be done – Super Monkey Ball is a great example – but obviously, it's extremely expensive to do so.
High frequency trading explained
From my understanding and observations when I visited Japan for a couple of weeks, Japanese people don't eat/drink/smoke while walking. Even for outside vendors, they will eat it on a nearby bench or stand and eat it before moving again.

I did see smokers often in the smoking areas. More than I see in NYC.
As Russian poet said to describe his portrait:

Себя как в зеркале я вижу,
Но это зеркало мне льстит.

A. Pushkin

Translation:

I see myself as in a mirror
But this mirror flatters me.
Great idea, but the background makes it hard for me to use the site.
I'm not saying it's a wash. I'm saying that the economic impact of each dollar of federal spending isn't the same, hence looking at simply the size of the budget isn't a good criterion. E.g. I'd much rather have a government with a $3.8 trillion budget, $2 trillion are transfer payments, then one with a $3 trillion budget, where only $500 billion are transfer payments.

For the last 40 years (leaving aside the spike caused by the response to the repression), federal expenditures as a percentage of GDP have been around 20% of GDP: http://stats.areppim.com/stats/stats_usxoutlaysxgdp.htm. During that period, discretionary spending as a percentage of GDP has fallen. That's not consistent with a narrative that the government has kept growing this whole time.
Twitter open-sourced an implementation of this concept recently: https://github.com/twitter/fatcache https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5202868

I hope Facebook ends up open sourcing McDipper in the future.
HN, I must work for an 'evil' company like Monsanto?
I have 30% shareholding of my own startup and we have possibilities of working in a SAP solution for Monsanto. I think Monsanto is an evil company, I must say no?
Well, pg isn't on that leaderboard. Not sure what karma means or what it's worth other to the user than giving one the ability to down-vote (which should require posting a reason for having done so, but that's a different thread).

As a tool or "quality score" that aims to control and keep a forum from derailing this kind of a scoring system has probably done OK. Not sure if it is solely responsible for these effects on sites like HN and SO, but there's not denying that the signal to noise ratio is far better than for example USENET S/N or some forums out there (vBulletin or phpBB type).

Having operated a forum before I can tell you that it can be an absolute nightmare (I was using vBulletin) on many fronts. HN seems to be able to maintain decent quality.