skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi everybody! I'm a, uh, book junkie too. It's been seven days since I last bought. I used to keep myself strung out on Manning Deal of the Day emails to keep the buzz from the last purchase going. But then I discovered that O'Reilly's Safari books online also has Manning... and No Starch Press (the Learn You a Haskell/Erlang guys) in addition to several historically terrible publishers. But with O'Reilly, Manning and No Starch I haven't felt the need to buy. Except for Two Scoops of Django, dammit.

Downsides: no early access (it seems) and no physical books, which I love. But seriously, if you have a habit, it seems like a good deal. I just signed up for the 10 day trial and I'm loving it so far.

Disclaimer: No disclaimer, just a happy habitual book buyer.
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He could just kill the product, like Google did with reader. Would that spur you to start paying?
The question in my mind is: is there anything beyond the Higgs? Particle theorists hoped the LHC would find whole new families of particles supporting any number of exotic theories. If the LHC finds the Higgs and nothing else, there will be a huge exodus from the field: given the cost of the experiment, a bigger one will be a hard sell in this climate.

Could be a good time to pick up some physics PhDs for your data science team.
To be fair, the Who's Hiring thread is an absolute pain to navigate after it gets paginated, so the chance of a job ad being seen in the middle of the month (by someone who's already seen the thread) is relatively low.
I think this is just the market for $300-$5000+ bottles of wine.
As a mechanical engineer I 100% agree with his POV.
Code search allowed regular expression searches.
Born Lucky
I managed to escape the site without being asked to "connect" with every single person I've ever contacted via gmail. Hooray!
Military aid to Israel, making Israel the the only nuclear power in the Middle East in opposition to every other country there (they all support a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East), is not "Foreign Aid"; it is pure (misguided) self-interest.

Are there other instances of Foreign Aid that also align with self-interest? Sure; but calling the funding of a proxy military in the most resource-rich area of the world Foreign Aid is really stretching the semantics. Why not go ahead and classify the entire military budget as foreign aid, since we only ever do things with noble intentions?

The other large portion of "foreign aid" used to go to the dictatorship in Egypt...
Ask HN: How do I talk to 2nd graders about code?
In a few weeks, I will be talking to my son's 2nd grade class about what I do: coding, with a focus on building web sites. What should I talk about?

I'm not as interested about them knowing what I do, though I will talk about that some. I will probably talk about a web site I created (www.animalcrossingcommunity.com), mainly because it's about a video game franchise that many of them may have already played, and thought that is at least something that I do that they can truly connect with.

But I'm more interested in planting an age-appropriate seed about the world of coding, so that if this is something they're inherently interested in (but may not realize it yet), this will help them realize that and pursue that interest.

I historically have a hard time connecting with younger kids -- or other people, in general -- that are on a different level, particularly when it comes to code. So I thought I would seek out the help from the HN community.

Particularly, I'd like to talk about things that might be interesting to them. I also would like to give them something to take home, like a list of sites (just a few to get them started) that talk about coding on their level.

What have you guys seen that would be good to share at this age? What suggestions do you have?

If it matters, I have 30 minutes or less to talk to them.
So I added a feed to theoldreader, and it shows as last updated: 14 hours ago, even though there's been posts since then. Google Reader has already picked them up. The Old Reader sure lives up to its name of delivering me old news...

Other alternatives I tried are also disappointing. July 1 will be a terrible day for the Internet.
I am so not going to buy this game.

EA just don't get it so I will help them a bit by choosing to spend my money elsewhere.
Well, not all projects show off on video. IMHO, a video is a sloooow way to present information. I'd rather skim through some examples/demos/interactive docs.
If you're looking for a super simple solution, check out Sajak https://github.com/jed/sajak. It's great for making a basic JSON API.
I was expecting this to be yet another navel-gazing exercise, and was pleasantly surprised by how informative and upbeat it was.
Missing option: http://www.vienna-rss.org/
> It looks like GCC is overtaking Clang as the compiler with the best C++11 support

There seems to be a myth going around that Clang has or had better C++11 support. Apparently when the author did his last shootout Clang had a slight edge over GCC, but over the long run GCC has had the better support most of the time. I started using C++11 (or C++0x as it was still called) in February 2011 and at that time GCC 4.5 had significantly better support than Clang.

Not to denigrate Clang's other qualities - I wanted Clang's better error messages but had to stick with GCC to get the C++0x support I needed.
Any (relatively easy) way to import all your feed from gReader?
That's unfortunate. It has a lot of quality content mixed with the revenue-generating pop stuff.
It's not just Israel, we didn't make Israel a nuclear power (they built the nukes in the 60s using a french reactor design IIRC), and if the Saudis had nukes and Israel didn't, then their positions on a nuclear free middle east would be reversed.
Show HN: Leantics - Blog posts from Lean Startup Thought Leaders
How does a Go solution compare to a Perl, Python, or Ruby solution? The latter languages offer quick solutions to problems but they don't often scale to large projects built by large teams.
Feedly does a decent job of picking up on which feed I mean when I put a site name in. I don't know how well that will work once they transition to their own API.
The Higgs was not guaranteed to be there, and its absence would have been obvious and discoverable. If they'd seen no signal by now everyone would likely be comfortable saying that there was no standard model Higgs.

However, SOMETHING needs to break electroweak symmetry---this is known because the W and Z gauge bosons are massive, and it isn't possible to formulate a consistent gauge theory with massive bosons without symmetry breaking. Whether it was the Higgs mechanism, or some technicolor (strongly-coupled, QCD-like) theory, or something else entirely was not well constrained before the machine turned on. With that in mind, it's clear that it might be that what they found is not just a standard model Higgs, but one of a number of higher-energy excitations. If that's true then the Standard Model is not, strictly speaking, correct, though it can be thought of as an effective field theory ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_field_theory ).
Not really.

For one, everybody does it them with XCode and auto-complete.

Second, the verboseness there plays a function: it makes them self-documenting, whereas with C++ types/iterators/etc you're just repeating yourself.
Tim Berners-Lee Explains The Necessity Of Open Web Standards
Check out Brief for Firefox, I've not felt a need to consume RSS any other way.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/
The same happens to me, but I think it has the opposite of the intended effect. The "brain hack" does indeed work better at capturing my attention, but it just makes it all the more sickening to me and creates a strong negative association with the product. I suspect it even makes me more likely to actively avoid a product I would have otherwise bought.
The game has bugs aside from the server issues. I hope they fix those too.
Hooray! One time I read the Fleshbot RSS feed, and I've never been able to un-read it -- it just stays in my "Read items" queue.
Go full monty. Flip it over and buy a full steal drum (tenor) pan.
Bring Ruby VCR like behavior to Javascript testing
> Healthcare and medicine break down when they become for-profit instead of for-health ventures.

Saying for-profit and "for-health" (whatever that means) are mutually exclusive is simply not true. I just picked up some allergy medication yesterday for $10 that is performing excellent. My exercise equipment is manufactured at a very fair rate. I think a profit motive was critical in providing me this invaluable preventative care.. so I can't see it your way. I think a more true statement would be, ventures that are heavily regulated break down, and I would agree.
As opposed to gmail, which I visited in a browser (with AdBlock) once, to set up two-phase auth during that loud security push?
ditto. is there a cache or anything up?
Not only does gofmt make the code consistent for people, it makes it machine consistent. Once the code is "fmted" parsing, replacing, etc is simple.

Which, btw, gofmt does does pattern replacement.

http://golang.org/cmd/gofmt/
Just to be sure, this is a marketing technique, not a method of funding a movie. The actual movie will cost around 20x more just to cover production, talent, editing, and distribution costs.

Consider Kickstarter marketing that pays for itself.
It was 64 before this news. The site regained some functionality when it went down to 12. I chose to go to Feedly instead, which was prepared for this news and works perfectly.
Google Official Blog: A second spring of cleaning
You're misunderstanding the quoted passage. In either case it would be the Higgs that they were searching for.

The uncertainty is about the structure that exists beyond the standard model. Some sort of Higgs is still necessary in almost any extension to this model, which is why everyone was so damn certain it would be found.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson#Alternative_models
So, they want lots of engineers to do work for them and then only pay the one they like?
Thanks. All I meant was that to me my work is not a means to pay the bills, and perhaps I'm not even particularly good at it. I just enjoy doing it. OP is being offensively presumptuous with that statement.
People don't fund semiconductor research directly either. Hundreds of millions of people pay Apple.
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Your comment generally frustrated me as another "cloud basher" of which we've heard a million times before but then I saw your last sentence, burst out laughing and had to give you some props for it. The cloud is completely pointless and hindering in some situations. Thank you for reminding me of that. -- A Serial Cloud App User
10 Leadership Nuggets from Betty Friedan by Lucy Marcus
You don't have to host the email yourself. Just grab your own domain, set up a free gmail account, and forward all the email from your domain to the gmail account. Configure gmail to always send replies as from you@yourdomain.com.

What this does is eliminate the biggest point of lock-in to gmail. In the worst case scenario you can switch to another email provider with the flick of a DNS entry, no worries about losing your email address.
Here's a mirror for anyone in the UK:

http://www.bbc.com.nyud.net/future/story/20130312-failure-is...
Parking Is Hell
Markets represent what rich people want.
Ask HN: Questions to ask when hiring a windows developer?
We need to hire a windows developer for our startup. As the tech guy, I'll be taking the tech interview. Problem is I (and no one else in the team) is familiar with any windows programming (most of us haven't used windows in years!). We are not fans of asking puzzles in interviews to judge a candidate. Though they help to gauge the calibre of a person, we are more interested in figuring out how familiar the person is with actually programming for windows (.net, c#, COM, etc.) and how fast can the person deliver on the product.

So what are some windows-programming questions that I can ask him/her to figure out the depth of their knowledge of windows programming and judging their technical skill? We will of course ask generic programming questions as well.(We will also probably ask them to code something over the weekend).

Thanks HN!
Rather irrelevant, but it also happens to be my birthday and "Steak & Blow Job" day.

Mathematical constants, great food and sexual pleasure, not to mention presents. I am truly blessed!
Reader is Dead Long Live Reader
Advice From Billionaires: How To Not Raise Spoiled Kids
Consumerism is driven by our natural susceptibility to peer pressure coupled with the evolution of symbiotic corporate entities that have adapted to make advertising ever more effective and ubiquitous. The problem is that consumerism is now the dominant way we distribute wealth. If everyone suddenly started living simpler, the economy would collapse. Quitting consumerism cold turkey would be like quitting heroin.
This is an awesome way to encrypt your malware code based on the OS environment of the target.

Looking forward to the researchers finding out more about who did that.
Actually I'm an Archlinux fan but I haven't yet encountered any software targeted at ubuntu that wouldn't work on archlinux too (with some work from repackagers, but as a company you don't have to do it because people who want to use it on an "unsupported" system will).

It's just another linux and everything can be ported from it if necessary. Even unity would work fine, once ubuntu's patched x.org and libindicator were on Archlinux.

As far as I know ubuntu has been the the most popular (for targetting software) distribution for several years now, so why not?
The Death Of The Open Web
Well, I work with teenagers and it is quite suprising to me how infrequently they check their email. SMS and Facebook messaging have much higher priority in their communication hierarchy.
The Gene Machine and Me
Amazing. I have always been fascinated by cryptology and espionage. What these virus(Gauss, Flame, Stuxnet) are doing/accomplishing is simply amazing. The cutting edge of cyber warfare.

I don't really have anything to add to the discussion, i know little to nothing of cryptology(sadly). But its stuff like this that inspires me as a programmer to be better, to do better. If these aren't examples of programming that is truly changing the world idky what is.
People who think there is going to be a reaction remember that the public's reaction to this is probably going to be...

"Google Reader? What's that?"

or

"Google Reader? Is that like Google Wave or something?"

or

"Google had a product that would read to me?"
>When you make data available to someone, there is no obligation for them to use it how you want (except to not redistribute as per copyright law). That's how data works.

Well, that depends on the law of any given country.

For one, they could give the data with a specific licence -- "you can only view it on our site, with our theme and ads". One could even argue that you have a moral obligation to at least see their ads, as they are what pays them for the content you consume.

But the mere "that's how data works" I see as fatalistic. Data works the way we make it work. We should not let technology dictate to us if content creators should be compensated or not.
There are some major issues. One of them being the traffic problems that were posted on HN yesterday. Traffic is supposed to be somewhat challenging, but there is really no way to fix it unless you remove all intersections. There are also other bugs such as not being able to plop the sign for the trade HQ. Also I built the trade building with the rail road tracks (forgot the name) and it will take deliveries of items like oil but it will never hold the oil or ship it out. It just disappears.

The budget controls don't go as deep as SimCity3000/4. In the past I could shave a couple dollars of the road budget, but that would result in pot holes and less repairs. Can't do that now.

The cities are also very small. I'm waiting for EA to release some "awesome" DLC that gives you a decent sized city. The more I play this game the more I like SC4.
Foundations and applications for secure triggers
Prose: multi-language literate programming
Unsustainable maybe, but then historical evidence proves no political endeavor is sustainable. Most sustainable entity really goes to the the Catholic Church. On that note I'd argue historical sustainability is not a great way to choose political models.

As for counterproductive, the US has a number of good examples of "forcing" people to do things being productive. WWII and the moon landing are the classic examples. Of course, since I'm not a free-market capitalist but a staunch advocate of democracy, I don't really view government-directed activities as forced but rather democratically directed.
Exactly. I'm all in favor of ad blocker software, but if you want to use it why should your preferred walled-garden provider be responsible for giving it to you. Install software you control. It's better for all of us.

If Google or Apple wants to make money with a walled garden and (in Android's case) subsidize our use of the open source result, then I think that's a pretty good bargain. IMHO, our part of that is letting Google play in its walled garden as long as their part (AOSP) is intact.
Cruise ship without crew abandoned in stormy North Atlantic
Bulletproof demos using Chrome's playback mode
Notice I said "get by" rather than "stay on top."
I voted for Tiny Tiny RSS, since I've just installed it and I'm liking it. After a bit of customizations it's quite close to Google Reader.

But I would have voted for Google Reader if it were an options in the poll.
I think the developers of a couple of the biggest RSS readers should get together and decide on a standard file format to store "metadata" such as read items, starred items, etc.

This file could be stored on a server or in a user's Dropbox folder. It would allow users to pick an RSS reader freely (per platform), without losing and rebuilding all their data. It also keeps all this metadata in sync, one less worry for the developers.
How naive non-Chinese are to the level of blunt corruption - Github is a global crown jewel, similar in infrastructure to Google products.

Any consistent frustration to the entire Github customer base is low cost to do, and easily worth it in cyber attack cost/benefit analysis.
"useful but comparatively rare operations (lambdas)"

I think it is rare just because people is not used to it, once they discover the flexibility of lambdas functions you would start seeing them more often (even abuse of them)

I am remaking a event system that I did for a turn based card game and the use of lambdas is just so natural that I realized now how painful and weak was the previous code.
This is what farms will look like in the future
Remember the recent Google Reader outage? There's no such thing as a zero-touch web service. There's always some resource commitment, and sometimes running a successful business means making the hard decisions, like shutting down services that are used, but don't generate revenue, and don't contribute to your core business.
I bought it and I recommend this. At least at this point. Or even better go buy SimCity4 for $10.
Binary builds are one advantage. Compile your go application and deploy it. No need to also install Ruby, gems etc.

You can cross compile as well. IE compile for Linux from OS X.

http://dave.cheney.net/2012/09/08/an-introduction-to-cross-c...
You can add new, custom root certificates to the system and use them to manually sign a fake server certificate.
The want lots of engineers to do open source development licensed under the Apache License. And they will pay 10 that they like.
If only we could build the airbnb user base up in a day as well.
Between the massive interest in this topic and the fact that many google reader competitors were crushed by load last night, I'm having a hard time believing use has 'declined' as much as Google is implying.
Nice! You'll find my side project, http://wikioverland.org extremely useful.

If you need anything at all, please don't hesitate to contact me!
I used Objective-C in the NeXT days...
Seems odd that you were down-voted. This has been a known tactic for unscrupulous anti-virus software vendors for more than a decade...
> This is a big problem of free market fundamentalism, in my opinion. It's far too optimistic about how rational people are.

I think it's a problem with your understanding, in my opinion. If you accept that people are inherently irrational, wouldn't a representative government be equally irrational? Unless of course one accepts the notion of the benevelent actor who burdens himself with the task of propellingn society foward against its will. A parental figure in a sense, who safeguards his sheep for the greater good. You essentially believe in batman, and I'm the optimistic one. I say this lightheartedly, simply trying to illustrate my view.
I'm sorry for your loss, but how does it make you an expert on how much funding is given to malaria vs male pattern balding research?
If only you could attribute your images properly. I can't find an attribution or mention of PlaceIt or Breezi anywhere.

Example screenshot used in blog post:
http://placeit.breezi.com/productshots/40
Moving from Google Reader to Bloglovin
I've been fucking off EA for decades by not buying their games and going outside instead. It's great, I can strongly recommend it.

It doesn't totally fix the traffic pathfinding problems though.
A mobile web app version of the Live Music Archive (archive.org)
Or, they're encouraging developers to have fun with their open source projects and putting a prize at the end of it. It's not like there's someone twisting the ends of his moustache contemplating turning them closed source once they've got some good code on there.
I wish I had the skills to crack that, purely because to see how it was made and understand it, just out of curiosity and to see awesomeness.
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great idea. Can you please enable a couple of sub-task level to make it really useful, similar to Google Task? where does collaborators edit the list?

you're off to a great start. keep up the good work!
Digitize your Kanban Boards with JimFlow (Open Source)
JimFlow is a hybrid tool that combines advantages of both worlds: A physical board linking all tickets to its digital counterpart.
Through the use of corresponding QR Codes, a camera monitors the physical board, automatically detecting any QR code movement.
Then, using JimFlow software, an electronic image of the board is generated, viewable in any web browser.

http://vimeo.com/43397424
What's not just Israel? I mentioned Egypt. The two make up the bulk of the foreign aid (or at least did before the Arab Spring; I haven't looked at it since then).

We don't know the details of Israel's nukes, but you are right that the Washington consensus is they developed them themselves.

The only thing preventing a nuclear-free Middle East is our veto in the UN.
All I can offer is anecdotal evidence. What I can tell you is that as an investor, I would run away from OP. It's not an entirely rational response, just instinct.
What you can do to save Google Reader
I don't think that renormalization has much to do with this! :P

It's enough to say that the standard model has to have some input from the real world -- mostly the masses of the particles and their mixing angles. Renormalization just makes it harder to talk about what a particle's mass "really" is; it doesn't really increase the number of parameters in the theory.
I (and most here) can clone most sites, but can't create a business.
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