skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a member of the Pelican dev team, I think I speak for all of us when I saw we were thrilled to see such a high-profile site running on Pelican. The folks at kernel.org were even kind enough to mention it on their new site: https://www.kernel.org/pelican.html

Those of us in the #pelican IRC channel had a rousing cheer and virtual clinking of the glasses. :^)

If anyone has questions about Pelican, please feel free to ask here or on our IRC channel.

Edit: And if you're going to PyCon in Santa Clara, CA this month, hit us up on Twitter (@getpelican) to get info about our pre-PyCon meetup.
I'm not US-legislation expert, but similar legislation with similar intent applies here in EU - and it's quite clear.

Payment processor and/or agent status should apply if you are handling data and information only and not for a moment become 'holder' of the money - i.e., if the money passes directly to, say, a bank account held by the recipient company based on your data.

If the money at any time held in your name and you just have data saying that $X belongs to A, $Y belongs to B - then even according to common sense you should be licenced and post the bonds. And to the extent that banks are exempt in payment regulations, they have the same (or stricter) requirements in their regulation as credit institutions - i.e., they don't put bonds based on payment volumes but they have capital requirement regulation that provides a similar assurance of solvency.
when would you use this, I'm curious
>>So we should use thinner walls or none at all?

This is the textbook definition of a strawman.

What I am pointing out is that nobody is discussing how to train/educate humans to be more resistant to social engineering attacks. Instead there seems to be an echo chamber of "X system is so much secure than Y system!" which is really banal.
Could doctors use a gestural interface like this to write templated notes in an EMR on touch devices? Most of the notes that doctors write have repetitive structures. Hence, EMRs like Epic have come up with features like Smart Text, which expand special phrases into large templated sentences with certain bits of data prepopulated and keywords that can be toggled between values (present/absent, etc.) with the keyboard.

But the key complaint with these EMRs is that you need to type to use them, which is awkward and breaks the flow of conversation with a patient. Eye contact is important during patient interviews. Therefore, most doctors use paper and type them into the EMR later (waste of time).

A lot of people (and companies like drchrono) think that the way forward is to use tablets like the iPad mini or the Galaxy Tab, which balance the intrusiveness of the computer form factor against the ability to enter data. A pain point of tablet EMRs is text entry--but like I said, a lot of notes that doctors write have predefined structures, like code.

I think there is potentially a lot of money in elegantly solving this UI problem with a new interface like Tiled Text.
My pet theory[1] is that they'll jump to 4k/QFHD (3840x(2160,2400)) by using the same panels for a desktop Retina Display and as a stand-alone Apple TV. I think this would "shake things up" without having to sell in iPhone/iPad volumes.

A desktop Retina Display would be a great pairing with a Mac Pro replacement, which one might expect when Intel's Haswell starts shipping, which happens to be around 106 days from now. And they could retain the existing Thunderbolt Display as a lower-end model. (It also helps that Apple's current models all support outputting that resolution.)

A 4k Apple TV would allow them to differentiate from most of the TV market and soak up a fat margin in an area where only one of their major competitors (Samsung) as any position. And it wouldn't cannibalize the $99 Apple TV box in the process. There's still the chicken-and-egg problem of getting 4k content, but Apple, with iTunes and as a pipeline for Netflix, et al., seems to have a good position to get it.

[1] As a person so hip he doesn't own a TV or a Mac, yet finds the speculation irresistible.
Reverse Engineering Shopify Private API's
but it is idiomatic in C, which is the point of the slide. C was built around a performance focused idiom, which is to pre-allocate memory and then do in place writes and swaps to mutate the buffer to the state you need it to be. Python is built around an idiom of largely creating copies of objects and appending them to dynamically allocated lists. Its a much slower idiom.
The article frustratingly doesn't say whether this is a simple and correctable RAM one-bit error, or a permanent defect in a storage device. It's possible they don't know yet, but ideally, the A computer can be brought back to full functionality and serve as a backup to computer B.

The real irony will be if the defect was created by a stray neutron originating in its own radioisotope power supply.
HTTP+JSON Services in Modern Java
This is sort of off topic so apologies in advance. I am a data scientist who wants to get into designing visualizations on the web. Is there a 101 of where to start? I have not done much on the lines of web development so I don't really know if spending a few months learning say Javascript is what I should do?
Ok, this is pretty cool. Creepy, but cool.
The Importance of Performance
Facebook knows this, however, and its been hinted at that this is by design. It will mean that they always have users.
I'm not objecting to that. I'm objecting to the (perhaps unintended) assertion that "sudo -i" means "give me an interactive shell". It does happen to give you an interactive shell (assuming you don't specify a command), but as a side effect. "-s" gives you an interactive shell too, but the semantics are different.
This is pretty nice. Where's the iPad Mini though?
mmm.. foo tartar
Why Coders Should Try Quilting and Origami
ITunes Gift Card Generator Torrent
iTunes Gift Card is a product of Apple.
lower than what?
Some vectors are related to Client, yes, i am just going deeper than spec because we should care about them too
linked lists are the default data structure underlying almost every implementation of Stacks and Queues and the variants of those. they're far from useless.

they're also such a flexible data structure that it is literally the ONLY data structure necessary to implement any of the LISPs.
This is basically Unix shamanism.
It's not so clear if MBP will even be a product line in the future - I'd bet that in the future Apple will want to have just two laptop lines, Air and Pro, both with Retina displays.
Wh.gov/obama is 404, but guess what isn't?
Someone is making some interesting short URLs:
http://wh.gov/poop
http://wh.gov/dude
http://wh.gov/dick
http://wh.gov/bush

These two go to the same picture of Biden, so it's not just random 4 letter assignments:
http://wh.gov/cunt
http://wh.gov/wank

See what you can find =X
no. Perl is mildly faster, not crazy faster. same order of magnitude.
Someone is making some interesting short URLs:
http://wh.gov/poop
http://wh.gov/dude
http://wh.gov/dick
http://wh.gov/bush

These two go to the same picture of Biden, so it's not just random 4 letter assignments:
http://wh.gov/cunt
http://wh.gov/wank

See what you can find =X
Bryan:

Thanks for this post! I watched your first Google Hangout with Peter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPj_caLNkkY) from beginning to end. Very insightful :)

As a self-taught developer (Python, JavaScript), when I tackle bigger projects I often find myself thinking "I'm doing this wrong" or "this architecture doesn't feel right", followed by "I wish I had an experienced developer friend I could talk to". Airpair could maybe make a good candidate for these types of struggles.

I guess one question I couldn't find the answer to is, how much does this cost, at least a price range ;) An expert's time is precious!

Will check out your second Google Hangout recording soon!

Cheers,
Nicolas
Thanks for the tip. I am not interested in switching from Sublime to something like IDEA, though.

(IDEA is a Java/Swing app, and I'm very sensitive to apps that don't look or feel native on OS X. Yes, Sublime is crude in places, but at least looks and feels native. Being a Swing app it promotes certain GUI conventions that have not been relevant since the early 2000s. It's tabs and toolbar hell and looks like something out of a bad Windows nightmare. Sorry if that sounds snobby, but if I didn't like beautiful GUIs I would not be using a Mac.)
Yeah, for some reason Firefox won't show the gradient. Not sure why. In the meantime I made it so it would fallback to a solid color.
this is not a new idea. www.macrumors.com has had this for ages...
Exec is looking for full stack engineers to build local services platform
Sure. Also check out Meteor (which will blow your mind, but is very opinionated about what else you can use alongside it) and Derby.
You could stop being an apologist. Neither will happen, though.
It already has, in the sense that early adopters and content creators have largely abandoned it in favor of other services (mostly Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram and now Vine). Facebook is now mainly the realm of corporate-sponsored pages and gossip among non-technical folk, so basically MySpace circa 2004.

Granted, it's much less aggressively bad than MySpace was at that time, since people can't arbitrarily embed HTML/CSS/JavaScript wherever they want, but its stock prices are absurdly over valued and it has never found a way to monetize its audience, and it has totally lost the trust of its users.

The main thing Facebook has going for it is that everyone is on it. But most high-profile people only use it as a place to link to their profiles on the services they actually use, and people will follow the people they "follow" on to new services, if you follow me.

I think it's safe to say that it will become more and more of a ghost town over the coming year or two.
Blog readership demographics comparison by age
London, UK

Wigwamm - An auction for rental property, every Monday night.

We're building in Meteor, so if you love JavaScript and want to build a product people love, visit http://blog.wigwamm.com or tweet me @WigwammHQ

In addition to technical talent, we'd be keen to talk to any biz dev people, especially if you have property experience.

Probably should say we're funded and work out of some beautiful spaces.
>* This is polytheistic as it has assigned divinity to something/someone other than God alone.* //

It sounds like you're outside your comfort zone. Jesus is not other than God [the Father or God the Spirit] in orthodox [little-o] Christian belief. It's confusing for sure.

Catholicism includes the veneration of saints but they are categorically not gods, nor are relics gods, so how can the inclusion of such elements indicate polytheism.

Interesting that you mention Islam as one of the criticisms of Islam is that many supposed adherents appear to worship Mohammed as a god, certainly as much as Catholics "worship" the beatified. There is also the notion, warned against in the Quran IIRC, of worship of the djinn which could be considered analogous in some ways with veneration of the saints.
I think I know what I am going to do over the weekend...

Every time I meet my colleague in the kitchen what we talk about is how phase shift of 0.5 and has reversed the polarity which serialised the hyperplane clustering by 1.1
Can't find the article right now (help?) but Blogspot (now Blogger) can create blogs instantly - the loading spinner and wait are completely artificial, to assure users.
FWIW I interviewed at a financial software company in NY wearing a button-up shirt and jeans. I got the job.

But that company had a strong developer culture.
Few days back I read an article that the flower communicating to the bee. Now this. Mother Nature is awesome.
That's why they get paid the big bucks. Genius!
Since forever, Chrome has been doing scroll at less fps than Firefox, where I can read comfortably while scrolling.
I thought for a long time that TC was paying YC for flow (always suspicious that of all the articles on a given topic, it's always the TC ones that make it to the top of the front page), and the actions of this story convinced me that there is truth to the claim.
Most likely has to do with not having the font you are expecting (Myriad Pro), as well as different defaults in size in browsers. My sans-serif font that you are falling back to is Droid Sans at 15 font size. The fixed width of the svg you are working with is making the whole area you are trying to fit things in to be too small.

In short: Lack of responsive web design
Perhaps the students were treated better at the Apple store because they were buying 15 macbooks. Surely they didn't spend that much money at all the other mall stores.
Pelican's default theme includes explicit thanks, and a link, in the footer of every single page -- which is certainly more noticeable than attribution inside a CSS file.
The tv show had a part where they say they always give the manager a stupid option and a realistic option to make it feel like he made the decision
jgraham explains it in this comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5307583
An alternative is to add a duck, or something else gratuitously out of place.
Isn't that the same phenomenon as television? It's still going strong. (Increasingly coupled with a realtime twitter stream)
> Someone could take my work, turn it into a piece of crap, and put my name on it.

Am I right in thinking that this is forbidden by other laws than copyright law?
This is a very cool project, nice work. It seems to be very similar to an older project for Emacs named Versor[1]. There's an interesting document out there talking about how to operate Emacs and Versor using a gamepad[2], similar to how you're doing here. It seems that Versor eventually compromised on entering necessary text with a real keyboard and using the gamepad for all navigation and other editing purposes. I actually had a weeks-long thought experiment involving Versor and a 3d-printed gamepad with a chording keyboard on the back. It never went anywhere, but it was fun to think about.

[1]: http://emacs-versor.sourceforge.net/

[2]: http://www.cb1.com/~john/computing/emacs/emacs-gamepad.html
that is a corporate lore story. See item 5 "A duck"

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/new-programming-jar...
HappyFunCorp (http://happyfuncorp.com) - Anywhere

We're trying to find 5-10 good developers, and we're also interested in designers and project managers.

We do web and app development for a panoply of clients ranging from Fortune 500 to brand-new startups: right now the distribution is roughly 50-50. Most frequently Android/iOS apps with a Rails-on-Heroku back end, but there's a fair amount of other variety too (PHP/Drupal, HTML5, etc etc etc.)

We're loosely based in NYC, with another cluster of people in the Bay Area and a third in Delhi, but remote engineers are very welcome - most of us (including me) work remotely 90+% of the time. We prefer people with a reasonable amount of experience under their belt, but there are always exceptions. And we pay well.

If you're interested, email me: jon@happyfuncorp.com
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining it! This was my first time using SVG. So, what is the best solution? Defining SVG styles in a style tag?
I'd love to see more editors/IDEs that operate at a higher semantic level than plain text. The biggest problem is of course interoperating with existing language/development ecosystems. I have pondered in the past about a language or platform where everything is stored internally as some form of AST, and text is just one of the possible representations. It would at least solve the coding-style (well, the formatting part at anyway) issue for once and for all; everyone just maintains their own CSS/XSLT-alike transforms with tabs or spaces and brackets and semicolons wherever they like.

I've come across occasional research projects in 'structural editors' which only allow semantically correct input (and, depending on the size of the input alphabet, can function through almost 100% autocomplete menu input)

Anastasia[1] is one that I know of, and this Modeless Structure Editing by Sufrin et al.[2] looks interesting.

The main issue I can see, apart from the effort involved, is how to deal with incomplete documents, since almost by creation or editing process will have interim invalid structures. Emacs paredit can be pretty infuriating if you don't use its specialised operations and try to edit your code in a way that malforms the structure.

[1] http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/projects/anastasia/

[2] http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/bernard.sufrin/edit.pdf
its more likely he was mocking doomsayer articles like this one
Maybe you mean this as a joke, but I am a wheelchair user, and it is often really not fun to push myself through the airport. So.... your joke falls a bit flat.
Why would you just dump a ton of html into a json string like that? That's weird....
I did mishear the comment, but immediately prior he's saying he doesn't expect the surgeon to be well-dressed. Which is wrong in itself - being well-dressed and looking orderly is important for surgeons because it helps put patients at ease and builds rapport with them.

I didn't give the speech more than a few minutes because he seemed quite confused by the term - while the speech might not hang on the semantics, I was thinking 'what can he offer if he can't even keep his context straight'.

Also, taking your summary as a pracie, it seems to be missing a fundamental part of acting professional: a measured response when acting with others, be it clients or other professionals. You can be competant, inovative, and teach and still be a histrionic, self-aggrandising arsehole that creates drama left, right, and centre. 'Being professional' includes downplaying drama that isn't directly related to the core work of the profession (if your lab is about to run out of a critical isotope, this isn't a drama you want to downplay).
No, it's not forbidden as a matter of statute, but you might be able to sue in civil court. There are plenty of things that aren't legal violations strictly speaking, but that someone could sue you into next Tuesday for.
SEEKING FREELANCER - Anywhere

HappyFunCorp (http://happyfuncorp.com) - We're trying to find 5-10 good developers, and we're also interested in designers and project managers.

We do web and app development for a panoply of clients ranging from Fortune 500 to brand-new startups: right now the distribution is roughly 50-50. Most frequently Android/iOS apps with a Rails-on-Heroku back end, but there's a fair amount of other variety too (PHP/Drupal, HTML5, etc etc etc.)

We're loosely based in NYC, with another cluster of people in the Bay Area and a third in Delhi, but remote engineers are very welcome - most of us (including me) work remotely 90+% of the time. We prefer people with a reasonable amount of experience under their belt, but there are always exceptions. And we pay well.

If you're interested, email me: jon@happyfuncorp.com
Paradoxically, a social interface would kill Reddit, as it thrives on anonymity. Also a Catch-22.
ZTE unimpressed with Samsung's Exynos octa-core chip
Perhaps this isn't the best place:

I eventually want to move on beyond ruby and java and try out a functional language. Clojure, Scala and Haskell all seem interesting. Haskell because it's pure functional. Scala and Clojure because they're functional and on the JVM, and out of the two, Clojure.

So it's between clojure and haskell in my mind. Haskell has a great tutorial book/website (http://learnyouahaskell.com/). Is there a great resource like this for clojure? (obviously there are many books, but what's the best, and ideally, does it have a free online version that I can try out before buying)
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Speaking for myself - and only myself - I would judge the code based on the project's apparent maturity. If it's something that's been obviously just stuffed up there because, hey, version control- yeah, I am not going to fine-tooth it. I've got stuff like that out there, so I can't bash others. :) But if its something that's been going for a while and seems to have some set of users, sure, I'm going to expect a certain level of professional attention to be given to the codebase.

As a professional, I understand that lots of code is written to get the job done, and shouldn't be polished until it gleams, the ROI on that isn't really there. As much as I like seeing code that's been turned almost into a piece of engineering art, I don't think its worth it for most professional work and even for personal projects... those lovingly crafted comments go out of date, that tight & elegant functionality has to get chopped up for the new feature's logic flow.

But I guarantee you that everyone is idiosyncratic about what they do for hiring. I think between the 3 guys who do most of the hiring on my team, we have between 3 and 6 opinions. :)
I also switched to colemak but things are still good in vim.
You got your n key under your right index finger, and I use searching for long range jumps. Vim was designed for qwerty not colemak, so you do have to compensate in some areas but I feel that just the efficiency colemak provides to typing english makes up for it.
For data analytics, would you employ from overseas like the UK?
Its not a wordsmithing issue. Its PR. It is not "class" or "grace". If you study the Co's history, this would become clear. The withdrawls of cash from the company by its senior management, for example, are "classic" but not "classy".
Bloc (http://www.bloc.io)

* We're looking for generalist developers (we're a Rails shop, but if you're willing to learn we're willing to teach)

* We're a small team of 6 (three technical cofounders)

* We pay market salaries and offer early-employee equity.

* We have traction, revenue, and funding

* Located in SOMA, San Francisco

* Health, Vision, Dental + 401K

At Bloc, we're building a vertically integrated education platform. If you're interested in bringing an Apple-esque obsession to building products in the education space, you should give me a ping! roshan [at] bloc.io
Here's another example of operation at a higher level: http://subtextual.org/subtext2.html
This is good if you are into roguelikes:

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-01/

All parts:

http://stevelosh.com/blog/
Has WordPress Lost its Magic?
If you have failed to grok vim, ditch the arrow keys
And all the good content on Reddit comes from HN

Which is not meant as facaetious as it sounds - in financial terms Facebook is the Belgium Dentist of ephemeral trivia.
Tablets vs. TV: Which Screen Time Is Better For Your Kids?
Well, it wasn't the employee that was getting the money.

However, on a larger scale, I would tend to agree that stores that sell expensive things hire better salesmen.
Casual homophobia in realtime
TIL:

http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/40/II/C/61/IV/6135

40 U.S.C. § 6135

Parades, assemblages, and display of flags in the Supreme Court Building and grounds

It is unlawful to parade, stand, or move in processions or assemblages in the Supreme Court Building or grounds, or to display in the Building and grounds a flag, banner, or device designed or adapted to bring into public notice a party, organization, or movement.
Then again I spend far far too much time on here, and all HN uses to keep me here is a points system.
Paymill did a very similar service and is available in quite a few countries.
I'm surprised the school didn't work with Apple's education group (which you have to do over the phone)
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> audio engineer/mixer

Audio really attracts crystal-power wackos, somehow more than others. I've had to dodge all sorts of completely idiotic thinking both in the digital and analog world. Hell, it's the whole business model for Monster Cable, as one example.

Video encoding is a close second.
Yeah, I don't know that it's really anything to do with Facebook per se, but rather the fact that it's 2012 and people's parents are now signing up for social media sites.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5301375
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