skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our tech site (servicestack.net) last month stats:

- Chrome 59%
- Firefox 18%
- IE 8.7%
Using Showoff, like this: https://github.com/pvh/postgres-bits
perl is an interesting language in that it is the only one that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
to be or not to be = ff

(2b OR NOT 2b)
Hey guys, I'm one of the co-founders of TypeEngine. Been a bit of a whirlwind evening/morning, for sure.

Just want to put it out there that we can't agree more with Marco, in that great content is what it's about. We're proud that TypeEngine will give indie writers and publishers the chance to showcase their work in their own app (that they own).

P.S. TypeEngine publishers have full control over the typographic, color, and branding properties of their app – no need for red links if you don't want 'em. :-)
I see the value of this distinction, but I can't shake the feeling that a word used for years has been co-opted by marketing and replaced with something that sounds silly when spoken out loud.
I believe that's also the model of Gore Associates, makers of Gore-Tex.
Q: Why did the computer programmer show up to the Halloween party in a Santa suit?

A: OCT 31 = DEC 25
Karma: A Tiny Wi-Fi Hotspot On A Mission
"Why a career in computer programming sucks"
http://www.halfsigma.com/2007/03/why_a_career_in.html
I moved away from MySQL to PostgreSQL recently, you can do it too =). Just be sure to read about its differences and how to tune it for performance.
Robbie is doing great work blending novel volumetric and 'holographic' display techniques and new 3D gesture controllers like the Leap. Check out his Iron Man interface video linked off his Vimeo profile - can't wait for him to blend this in with more Pepper's ghost work. Keep an eye on this guy --- I'm sure we'll see lots more surprising stuff from him to come - he is guy who made a keyboard out of moss after all! ( http://robbietilton.com/blog/?p=1318 )

If anyone is interested in seeing another 3D display that looks like a hologram check this video out that our team put together: http://bit.ly/voxie-preview
Henry Blodget is a well known known for being an Apple Troll.
It seems this guy have a personal vendetta against Apple.
The "issues" with Apple he listed and the explanations are full of the same unsubstantiated rumors that have been regurtitated by the incestuous tech journalists and analysts.
"No pay, but great blackmail opportunities." But on a serious not, it mentions she worked in San Francisco, so it was probably legal.
The irony here, is that the outrage over these generated t-shirts is increasing their visibility and promoting something that no one had ever heard of or cared about before.

The sadness here is that disparaging boys is much more acceptable, and people immediately assume that these shirts are referring to raping women, completely overlooking the fact that men can be victims of rape as well.
The Little Fighting Game That Could
Can't thank you enough. Maybe i can help you dev though?
The prison rape jokes are especially noteworthy, as many people now seem to assume that getting raped as an inmate is indeed normal.
No, the content is the same disgusting shit. Algorithms are not some sort of magic excuse that frees you from responsibility.

Ok, so there was no bad intent. That’s alright. But the bottom line still is that Amazon is selling disgusting crap and nothing can change that. People criticizing that led to the removal of said disgusting crap. This played out quite nicely, actually.
Tony Hawk: How I Learned to Say 'No'
Man who risked life to stay in stricken Fukushima nuke plant breaks silence
Greatest: a C unit testing library in 1 file
Berkley Course: http://alex.smola.org/teaching/berkeley2012/statistics.html

Scikit-Learn Docs: http://scikit-learn.org/dev/

Google Research: http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html

Caltech Course: http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html

Basics in R: http://www.statmethods.net/advstats/glm.html

R packages for data science: http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/10-R-packages-I-wish-I-knew-abo...
> The median net worth for householders under 35 dropped by 68 percent from 1984 to 2009, to $3,662.

In case anybody else was wondering, those figures are in 2010 dollars, adjusted for inflation.
In the same vein yet different :
http://django-configurations.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Although, it looks like you can not have both the classic settings.py and django-constance at the same time, right ?

It would be nice to be able to have both backend, one for config var that hardly changes and one for settings that can by customize by someone not versed in IT through an admin page.
I wonder if the fact that all of the example "rock star" professions are in industries that are, at best in a transitional period and at worst are dying has anything to do with the proliferation of unpaid internships and poor working conditions and salaries.

The real problem is educating college students early on about the ramifications of their choice of major. Perhaps this also calls for an evaluation of which subjects are emphasized in American high schools as well.
The following anecdote about Steve Jobs is from [1]:

I was sitting in Steve's office when Lynn Takahashi, Steve's assistant,
announced Knuth's arrival. Steve bounced out of his chair,
bounded over to the door and extended a welcoming hand.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Professor Knuth," Steve said.
"I've read all of your books."

"You're full of shit," Knuth responded.

[1] - http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
It was the small New England town I grew up in outside of Boston. Typically they manage their own power distribution, and purchase power from a utility at a rate fixed by the highest peak usage of the year, which tends to be 1:00 sometime in early August.

I was setting up a system to detect the peak usage and alert the attendant to send a fax (1992) to our local college generator plant to switch over some of their power to us, thus reducing our yearly power bill by a lot.

There was a title grabber in charge of the department, and a highly competent engineer running everything and keeping the crews going. That was my boss. Each summer I was doing new and crazy things, from house calls for bad TV signals from grounding to mapping out the entire grid. Oddly enough there was no documentation as to what house was on what circuit.. it was in the heads of the old linesman. Most of the time when they got a call about power outages they drove around looking at what houses were dark and what were not.

Sometimes the older linesmen would call me on the radio to meet them somewhere, and we'd end up in their back yards taking a break having some beers. I learned a lot from those old curmudgeonly linesmen. They made fun of me non stop, but always with a wink and roaring laughter. Especially when I cut power to half the town.
SPDY proxy is there since a long time: http://www.igvita.com/2012/06/25/spdy-and-secure-proxy-suppo... (you have to run your own proxy though).
They weight results against number of internet users in different countries according to CIA, most of others don't weight. Major source of difference is China, just select China on StatCounter and see.
Because the jokes and the people who tell them are generally insensitive. So you're raising a sensitive topic in an insensitive way.
Sounds like you could write publicly about this, it sounds fascinating :-)
There's a big difference. Now I have the luxury of time. That was not the case ten years ago.
Petl - A Python package for extract, transform and load
This morning I tried to use the same password and it wouldn't let me, so maybe they fixed this issue.
They aren't making 22k/yr is his point though. A US based dev, who is working 60 hours per week, and not making 50,000$+ is doing something wrong (or chose low pay for a cool company etc)
But that's the right answer! How many distinct ancestors do you think you have 40 generations ago? We're all inbred by the pigeon-hole principle.
Postgres does not store keys in primary key order, actually, but in write order. This is an artifact of the MVCC model. There is a CLUSTER command that would do what you describe above, but it is (effectively) useless since you can't really run it without taking the database offline while the table gets rewritten.
The app vs. The platform
Here is another version

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Granted, those 40 hours give them a salary above the median US household income in most cases.
As far as I'm aware prison rape is actually pretty rare outside of a handful of mainly US institutions.
Well, so is being a lawyer or a doctor. Those jobs aren't what TV series and movies would have us believe either.

Most lawyers don't try high-profile murder cases. Most doctors don't save countless lives during their day-to-day work.

Even the most glamourous job of all - being a rock star - isn't really all that glamourous if you take a closer look at it. Those rock stars who ultimately love what they do and hence take their work seriously have to work very hard and be very disciplined to make it.

Same thing applies to programmers. Sure, most programming jobs are in a corporate environment and working in such an environment can suck quite a bit. However, the more your work sucks the more potential there is for actually changing something for the better, even more so if you're a programmer. Programmers can create wonderful designs and feats of engineering with little more than a bright mind and a computer.
Agreed. I organized a startup conference (http://thestartupconference.com) for 3 years in 4 cities, always with PayPal as payment. Some advice: make sure you are incorporated. Definitely don't use a personal account to receive payments. Assume that most of the money may be stuck for a while, but know that you'll get your payments eventually, so arrange for backup financing.

Bottom line: if you do this as an amateur, expect to be treated like one. You can't script banking like you'd script ssh.
There have been a few occasion's where I've managed to pry the number of Wine users out of Valve over the years -- the Linux usage numbers look fairly similar.

Unfortunately, there was a period of about a year or two where the hardware survey would crash under Wine, so the data is probably very biased against Wine users (even I learned not to opt in).
Title needs to be changed to reflect factual content of article: "executives ... and shareholders."
I use a Lamy Al-Star with a fine nib fitted. I find the choice of ink much more important though, some of the inks I've used feather a lot and others dry too slowly which isn't great for someone left handed.
The best ink that I have found is Noodler's, its cheap, comes in fairly large bottles, and has an amazing range of colours.

Edit: Noodler's website, http://noodlersink.com/
Those items you highlighted could be taken as tongue-in-cheek humor. Shirts with slogans like "Keep Calm and Rape Her" or "Keep Calm and Hit Her" are vague, and this lack of content makes it harder to find deeper meaning other than the face value.
This article might as well be about the game development industry
Linux Performance Analysis and Tools and Methodologies
I was particularly surprised by the referenced outrage over the 65+ hour-per-week job solicitation. 65 hours per week, although inordinate, isn't entirely outrageous. It equates to 12 hours per weekday plus a half day over the weekend, which is effectively the hours I'm subjected to by school, and is well within the realm of what I'd be willing to work if it was the difference between employment and destitution.
If it ain't broke don't fix it, said no Apple developer ever.

Part of me wants to believe that they added a single slab of a touchpad mouse, created something completely different, so they could not only patent the technology but also patent the "Apple difference" in their machines. I sure as hell prefer to use the traditional 2 button style on my Thinkpad. I can even use touch scrolling and do nifty 2-finger click stuff.
I agree, generally, and I agree that the title is not unbiased. But I think that a lot of the patent plaintiffs are trolls, particularly those that do nothing but buy patents and then sue. And in those cases, the defendants are often not innovators. Some of those patents never should been granted, but that's for another thread.
Since you're only going to store the hashed value, there's no practical reason to limit the maximum length of the password.
No, you don't. It would certainly be helpful, but it's not necessary. You could, for example, get the public key directly from the recipient. If you want to send money to Uncle Joe, then Uncle Joe can write his public key on a piece of paper (or, more realistically, print it on a business card as a QR code) and hand it directly to you in a face-to-face interaction, no third party signer required. Indeed, no signer at all required in that case.

But you do raise a valid point, which is that identity binding in general is a hard problem. But there are solutions (trusted third parties, web of trust). Like I keep saying, this is a long story.
Soviet gamification
Done. Used the second half of that sentence to make it more appropriate.
But the way that gets used seems to be the officer somehow smells pot on every damn person they want to violate.
I don't know, this seems sort of silly. Working through abstractions such as metaphor and imagery (both visual and textual) is essentially working with the wiring of the brain already. Consider, plenty of people have explored such wondrous places as Middle Earth. None have literally walked around in it. Would it be neat. Sure. Especially in an instant gratification sort of way.

And this is not to mention the cognitive trouble this could lead to. Isn't hard to imagine a situation such as Mal from Inception happening.
Is this much different than creating an admin-enabled extra_settings table with key and value fields?

I'm probably missing something.
Apologies, but can someone explain this one to me?

Q: Why don't jokes work in octal?

A: Because 7 10 11.
Well on Linux your only choice of (mainstream) browsers is firefox or chrome/chromium so you would probably expect that.

Same with office.
This is actually less of a solution than my solution, because the printing of the paper is certainly a waste of the paper, the old coworkers didn't need to be printing anything, let alone on both sides of the paper. At least my note taking was constructive.

But I've solved the problem in an even better way, I just plain don't work in an office with coworkers anymore.
I've been thinking about it and wondering if it could work for service company. Possibly it would if the clients also bought into how things are done.

Maybe the starting point for this would be if the whole team is involved in the process of vetting the clients and choosing the projects.

If enough people on the team are interested enough to make it work, then they will be motivated enough to please the client, agree to time scales, budget and all that sort of thing.

But, in all honesty, I'm not sure. You would have to be a company that everyone wants to use, so that you would have enough potential clients 'bidding' to be actual clients.

If this was possible, I would love to do it!
At least the hypocrites know what they're doing is wrong.
Using UUID(or anything other than sequentially increasing numbers) for primary keys is a good idea because when you have high number of concurrent inserts happening, if you have a sequentially increasing primary key(implemented via a b-tree index), the inserts into index will result in hotspot(as all the inserts will be at the end, in the same place). Whereas if it is random number (like UUID), the entry into indexes will happen at different places thus avoiding hot spots.
Fuck you. If you can come up with a problem that needs a law to protect people, you can come up with an example that doesn't consist of "Oh won't somebody think of the children"
Rap Genius gets a (YC) tag, but Heroku don't?

I've always wondered whether the cut-off is time- or success-based. Maybe pg should write a Boolean return function for that. :P

Big props to Rap Genius for explaining the problem so plainly in the article. Unfortunately, many people of prominence in tech aren't even capable of talking about what they do to laymen.
I was expecting a page that takes forever to load or some such... :)
I swear, there should be a basic course in the fundamental concepts of supply and demand required as a part of graduating middle school. I overheard a kid (teenager) talking the other day about how he was going to work for a big record label finding talent. I wanted to shatter his little world by asking him: "do you know how much d--k you're going to have to s--k to work your way up in that kind of job?"

The job market is weak, but there are jobs out there. Not just programming. Nursing, accounting, etc. Tons of baby boomers getting ready to retire means opportunities for young people. But those opportunities are not in oversubscribed professions like media and music.

Before we had our daughter, my wife, being from the west coast, was like 'oh, you shouldn't put too much pressure on kids--they should be what they want.' I, being Asian, thought exactly the opposite. But now that the baby is here, my wife has done a total 180. "Penn undergrad then med school" is her new plan. Like a good little half-Asian.
There are two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
Open source PaaS sounds good! The download button is a bit confusing to me – it directs me to a docs page, then i click on what is appscale, suddenly i am on youtube???

name: do you know goscale?
plug: i am one of the fortrabbit founders ;)
She didn't 'complain' about that.
Sorry, you're wrong.

An author's heirs can reclaim any rights that are transferred. See, for instance this: http://www.authorsguild.org/services/legal-services/terminat...

"What if the author is dead?
When an author dies, his or her termination right, known as the “termination interest” is inherited as follows:

if the author has no children, the surviving spouse inherits the author’s entire termination interest;
if the author has children, they split the termination interest with the surviving spouse — the children take half, divided equally among them, and the surviving spouse takes half;
if the author has children but no surviving spouse, then the children inherit the author’s entire termination interest (divided equally among them);
if any of the author’s children is dead, that child’s interest is inherited by his or her own children (divided equally among them); majority action by the children of the author’s deceased child is required to exercise that child’s termination interest;
if the author’s surviving spouse, children, and grandchildren are all dead, the author’s executor, administrator, personal representative, or trustee owns the author’s entire termination interest.
The author’s heirs (as listed above), or their executors, who own and are entitled to exercise more than one half of the termination interest, either individually or together, may terminate."

And in other comments, I addressed the works-for-hire issue, where the creator never owns the copyright to begin with. You can't terminate works-for-hire because legally the person who hired you is always already the author.
Definitely the right answer to gpg's "Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect more entropy!"
Glad you liked the book!
I believe this explains it:

One big difference is that NetMarketShare tries to measure unique clients, while StatCounter measures web page hits.

Since the power users browse (probably a magnitude of order) more web pages than the normal users, Chrome and Firefox is overrepresented in power users who browse a ton.

Toothpaste marketshare analogy. It's possible that 70% of people use Colgate and 30% use Crest, but Colgate sales by volume are only 40% vs. 60% for Crest, since Crest users tend to brush more daily and use more of the toothpaste when they do for some reason.

Or a car analogy: Toyota sells 40% of cars and Honda only 30%, but 60% of miles driven on roads are by Honda cars since they use it more. Which has a higher marketshare?
Well, it depends on what people are offended about.

If they're offended that a shirt exists somewhere, anywhere, saying to rape someone then sure, there's probably no difference here.

If they're offended that some asshole went out of their way to make a shirt talking about raping people then it's a bit different. There never was anyone who went out of their way to make a shirt. This is the near-equivalent of running "rm -rf * /" to remove only sub-directories and accidentally inserting the extra space.

So should they have checked their verb list better, or thought more about the possibility of what their algorithm would generate? Absolutely! But their sin was not nearly as bad as actually thinking that such a shirt would be acceptable to make.
That's why I said "no patrols." A drone shouldn't just be flying around waiting to see something. It should be sent only after there is a warrant.
Warren Buffett to CEOs: Please Stop Complaining About Uncertainty
UDP packet walks into a bar. Bartender doesn't acknowledge him.
Warren Buffett's 2012 letter to shareholders [pdf]
Isn't it illegal at the federal level? Maybe report it to the DEA?
using the syntax tree for navigation was a brilliant insight. really nicely done.
IOS library to Duplicate Mailbox App's Interface
A gay themed online casino? Real first world progress right here...
Heroku does it with 7-8, maybe ten people for all events around the world. So do other companies like 10gen. Why not PayPal's developer community staff? What's their problem?
People can complain to whoever they want. If you don't like Amazon censoring based on complaints, go ahead and do one of your silent financial boycotts. Let us know how effective it is.
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Many of these are good, but why are so many of the quotes coming out as question marks?
There are 3 types of people in the world, those that can count, and those that can't.

There is also the joke about someone finding a secret NASA lisp program. To prove it he sent the last 40 pages.
Using a big salt is essentially the same as using a secret character shuffling algorithm. The difference is that the salt value is thought to be on the 'data side' and not in the code side, so it's allowed to be secret. The distinction is pretty arbitrary, though.
On the way to a sales call, a salesman, a project manager, and a programmer were kidnapped. When their employer refused to pay the ransom, the kidnappers granted each a last wish before killing them. The salesman said, "I still want to make the pitch I prepared for today. It's awesome and will only take an hour." The project manager said, "I still want to present my Powerpoint for this project. It's only 92 slides." The programmer said, "Kill me first."
> The amount of innovation that hasn't happened because ...

I've mulled this over many times while waiting for my (licensed) DVD player to boot - there's no economic pressure for DVD player manufacturers to compete, since there's such a large barrier to entry. Sure, the hardware is cheap, but the software is both terrible (crashes, odd UI behavior, dictates work flow) and slow, slow SLOW.

DVDCCA is clearly a cartel, at least in terms of behavior, if not actual legal definition, and we see it in terms of lack of innovative UX on DVD players. I see this as akin to the Windows experience vs Linux experience. Windows boots slowly, apps start slowly. Linux boots rapidly, and gets speedier over the years, not slower. Apps start fast, windows open instantly (instead of showing a dern splash screen for 30 seconds). Microsoft is something of a market-fixing cartel. The Linux market has a lot of competition, pain points get addressed quickly, the experience changes.
RE: YC Tag - I think it is because Heroku was acquired.
I don't think UnoriginalGuy actually works for dropbox -- that first line is on the actual blog post too.