skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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To celebrate they are giving you a birthday gift!

And FLAT UI PRO (Twitter Bootstrap) coming soon!
His point is that there is a gap between actual search functionality and people's understanding of it. Users expect to be able to type in something similar to how they would describe a product to a store clerk (e.g. "I need a pink, impact resistant iphone 5 cover."). But search fields don't understand language patterns or sentence meaning. Search fields work off key words, ranked by priority. These key words match item titles, descriptions, tags, categories, etc. It also isn't capable of doing word substitution, so it may not know you meant "case" instead of "cover". So if "cover" doesn't appear in the title or description, the search won't rank it that highly (if it's a "case").

In this case, putting the query as something like "iPhone 5 case pink" would have probably returned results that were more aligned with what the user was looking for, but most people aren't going to think that way.

When you understand how a search input actually works - text input, query statements, database structures, ranking algorithms, etc. - you think about searches in a completely different way. Most people don't understand these things, so they think about searches in terms of what they would ask an actual person for.
Kinect for Windows new Version with integrated Kinect Fusion
Back when I was deciding what cloud drive to use I considered SkyDrive for a little while. However, after they admitted to the scanning of your files for nudes and illegal material I dropped them straight away and will never return.

I've heard of the security issues with Dropbox so I always have any possible private/sensitive data encrypted in case the worst ever happened. (I use Dropbox because I have not found a alternative that just works)
Introducing Parse Push Analytics
PG's Underhanded Compliment: Elon Musk is Steve Jobs without Taste
Good idea. Me too.

I think Google is not much concerned about the crowd which loves to brew its own coffee(HN and the elk) and curate their Ghostery/ABP prefs, but they are rather focussed on the majority which loves to buy things online and also click on ads and hardly care how much Google reads their email.
re: "You can change handsets pretty easily when all your data is in the cloud."

True enough. I was up and running in minutes when I upgraded an old Droid to a Samsung S III. I just had to install the couple of apps I use and logon to my Google account, then wait a few minutes. Everything was there.
Case study: How the Obama campaign rethought web forms to increase donations 49%
Building the Future of Healthcare
America is short term thinking, China is long term thinking.
Why do JAVA, C# (and the like) IDE's have such complex feature sets? Is it not a reflection of the complexity that those ecosystems require for maintaining your code?
I actually built something similar idea wise just because it seemed like a fun project to play with (http://roofmapper.com). However my implementation was very simplistic in comparison.
The post is a bit confusing, though, because well before you get to the line that you quoted, the article states:

"And we’re upgrading all Linodes to 8 cores! Right now. As in all you need to do is reboot to double the computing power of your Linode. By the time the host refresh is completed the average Linode will be running on hardware that is less than 1 year old."

I, for one, thought that it was ready now after reading that. In fact, from the comments, it's clear that for some customers, this is in fact ready:

"BizzarTech: Rebooted my 1024 and moar cores!!! Thank you!!"
So the solution for someone with expensive bandwidth limitations is to download additional software on top of the software they already downloaded just to configure a setting that was already inside of the first download?
Karl Rove Will Find That Republicans Can’t Buy Talent In Silicon Valley
UX Drinking Game
He went to gawker first then to at & t he hasn't got a leg to stand on , he tried to profit front he flaw before reporting it..
I attempt to block anything that does DOM manipulation, uses Backbone or underscore, uses "Date()" (since it's probably a benchmark and those are slow), and a few others.
Alias: An Alternative to Heroku F*cking Console
Agreed, it also it has significant industry usage.
> So maybe next refresh is the memory?

Probably - according to their FAQ it looks like each host has about ~20GB of memory which is pretty small these days.
Does anyone have a link to the video? Or for various PyCon 2013 videos in general?
Could be a new declarative language.
Actual tweet: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/312799463393591296
Tailbone - Restful App Engine and then some
That's really interesting. You're absolutely right on the first point. The issue is more of one where a corporate environment with prevailing discomfort discourages the high-end deliberate practice, because people don't want any more risk or pain. As for the second, this is the first time I've heard about it, but it makes a lot of sense.
> If he doesn't care why should I?

If you pay US taxes you're paying to keep him in jail. I think he's a vile idiot. I don't think he should be in prison.

There's a bunch of stuff that I think he did wrong, but I'll have to read the court documents to see if I agree with them.

For example: He could have written a proof of concept script, and only downloaded a sample 10 pages, rather than grabbing as many as possible.

I might think that would have prevented him going to jail, but would the court agree?
Has anybody made a gallery of real implementations of Randall Munroe's hilarious ideas yet? I recall at least three exhibitions: this, M-x butterfly, and Hell Tetris; there are probably many others.
Really?

Eclipse, Netbeans, Maven, JUnit, JLog

J2SE libraries - pretty much all of them

Apache libraries

Hibernate

J2EE libraries

The list is endless

Even Google App Engine manages to be way more convoluted in Java than in Python or Go, it's not even funny
Catalin Voss in theDishDaily's On the Radar Profile
Meet Catalin Voss: Stanford University Freshman, Accomplished App developer, Podcaster and StartX Innovator in Residence in this week's On the Radar
It's not Google Chat in web interface. It's just chat, a noun, not a service name (like mail compares to GMail). At least in my interface, and Google confirms. [1]

Also, I wasn't presumptuous, it was just an innocent remark.

[1] http://www.betabeat.com/2012/02/10/google-says-gchat-is-not-...
Still puzzled why the primary inspiration for this is Twisted, which has some really ugly APIs.
Bret Victor's 2011-2012 Showreel [worrydream.com]
Lots of nifty unreleased software sneak peeks here. Also an astonishing display of software productivity in just 2 years of work.
Ads are the core of Google's business.
SimCity players offered free EA game
Because people who know the good side of java have jobs.
If Guido still worked at Google would this have been hosted on google docs and I would have been able to read it without Office?
I'm pretty sure AAPL's selloff has less to do with long term thinking and more with retail investors/hedgies who rode the wave seeing the stock go down and decide the party's over, it's just time to get out and take profits. Rinse, repeat. AAPL's current valuation is absurdly pessimistic of the company's future prospects.
I thought that this was going to be a link to buy physical HN magnets. This turned out to be much cooler but, if they were available, I would also buy this for my fridge.
Must be the mindset. I've seen plenty of straightforward, well written C# code with none of this garbage. I'm sure it's the same with Java. And you would see plenty of Ruby code written in this kind of style if Ruby was popular in enterprise software development.
Pinterest Begins Rolling Out New Site Design
The basic site is in Ruby and Rails, but the API, which handles all the high volume stuff, is written in Go. So far it's fantastic. I'm actually giving a talk at Bacon in London in April on my experience building this in Go vs. Scala or Node: http://devslovebacon.com/conferences/bacon-2013/talks/why-no...
Wait what!?

I was talking about Digital Ocean.
This is probably the most elaborate setup for a joke ever.
I am reading it in the browser on Linux, so I'm pretty sure Office isn't required
Some people stick with what they know. Twisted is horrible to work with though
Backbone.Marionette introduction/tutorial
Visualizing the differences between UX and UI
You wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX. You wake up at O'Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, BWI. Pacific, mountain, central. Lose an hour, gain an hour. This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. You wake up at Air Harbor International. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?
It's a blind insistence on caution.

There are thousands of things one might want to do in the future, and many managers "prepare" for each and every change they can conceive.
It wasn't just being mean.

First-hand experience in my case. He and his GNAA attacked my volunteer-run open source project and did many things, including calling Child Protective Services (CPS) and making false complaints -- leading one of my volunteers and his children to have to undergo interviews with CPS to suss everything out.

They emailed one person's professors at university and made false, damaging claims. Bosses were tracked down and jobs were contacted. Parents were found and harassed. Our web site was attacked and taken offline. Our business associates were contacted and they concocted a fictitious business persona to file spurious complaints with our payment processors, leading to us being dropped from two providers.

weev was not just "being mean", he transcended that to stalking, bullying, and harassment. He caused emotional harm to my volunteers and staff and fiscal harm to my business. All in the name of "trolling".

And yes: we pursued the legal route. The FBI is just not super interested in tracking down some random dude on the Internet for harassing a small business. They were happy to talk to us and very compassionate and gave us some advice, but that was the extent of it.
How is evidence-based medical information less accessible than alt-med? There's books about it at bookstores, libraries, and online, ranging from the AMA's "Family Medical Guide" up to specialized texts on just about every topic. Plus, at least some of the literature is available for free online.
Sorry, but in which war? Nixon was elected to the Senate in 1950.
Is there a more authoritative source? This article comes off very heavily as "Here's some FUD. Oh by the way, our product just so happens to alleviate the problem that we just pointed out."
I wanted to prove you wrong so I went to Google.com/talk but sure enough, you were correct. Even the title of the html document[1][2] says <title>Google Chat - Chat with family and friends</title>

I was not trying to be presumptuous. I really believed you were wrong. GChat just sounds wrong to me. However, something sounding wrong to me has never stopped it from being true.

[1]: https://www.google.com/talk/

[2]: http://i.imgur.com/ceHnRcA.png
"Ron Conway will invest in mobile cat neckbeards."
Bing image of the day wallpaper with Python for Mac
I just rebooted one of my Linodes, and I got this:

processor : 7
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 45
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650L 0 @ 1.80GHz
stepping : 7
microcode : 0x70a
cpu MHz : 1800.059
cache size : 20480 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 13
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 cmov pat clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht nx constant_tsc nonstop_tsc pni pclmulqdq ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes hypervisor ida arat epb pln pts dtherm
bogomips : 3600.11
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

Edit: I should perhaps mention that this is a 512MB Linode, on the off chance that it makes a difference.
I get it. It's like the fish.
Gaining knowledge (or wisdom if you like) can be "vain" if you forget to live ;)

Imho that is a very valuable lesson.
I think the use of Lua language doesn't prevent Wikipedia to provide these features in future.

They are more resolving server performance issues. The client processing is not to be affected.
I'm reading it in the browser in Chrome on OSX, you don't need office!
Doesn't work on this ipad. And I hate using a laptop in the bath.
Keep in mind that all of these discussions tend to jump between definitions of Energy. For instance he may have been quoting total energy usage, which includes things like fuel for cars, while you may be thinking of electricity usage.

Similarly there are several categories of consumption, which can also be used to skew numbers one way or the other.
So beautiful.. should ... have sent... a Perl book writer.
Cartoon - Internships
"The Bachelor" is reparations for boys molested by Disney
Just set it as a daily/hourly cron to make sure you have the latest image :)
How to Get Some User Feedbacks - Just Ask
That's very true, but some of the smaller sub reddits are also vile.

Justiceporn (people getting their come uppance) and cringe (originally things that made you cringe in sympathy, but latterly videos of socially awkward youth that Reddit could bully and mock) are two examples, but there are others.
Sounds like opera:config - which doesn’t render the ‘Advanced’ tab in its Preferences menu useless.
You can do many of those things to your car, but some of them might nullify your warranty.
Sorry to hear about your bad experiences. If you need a high quality partner in outsourcing to Vietnam, please shoot me an email codersquare.com AT gmail.com . I'm the CTO at codersquare.com . A promise made that you won't be disappointed
Horizon Problems
Reddit Debuts Original Web Mini-Series (Exclusive)
You'll only get that if people educate themselves. It was never mentioned to me in school that I can remember.
EFF’s Fight for Open 3D Printing Continues at Ask Patents
> The entire certificate manager

Get rid of the rest of it, but please, please make installing and using client certificates as easy as "installing and using" cookies. Make them sync with your profile, even! Client certs are the most wonderful security feature nobody has ever heard of, and it's 100% because the UX is horrible. Make them happen transparently and the web will take a permanent step up in security.
I had this feature available on my Transformer ~2 months ago.
There would be a more authoritative source if the "source" had linked to the website. Until that I am inclined to agree with you.
> No, don't solicit spam for the bug that wants to remove the options

It's not spam to discuss the merits of implementing a feature request.

> instead, go file a bug saying that Firefox should check the user's quota in addition to statfs. Easily added, and then Firefox becomes that much more automatic.

Not possible - the quota information is not made available in any standard way, but rather by a non-standard dot file in the user's home directory. I know the quota information should be exported by rquotad but things aren't always that neat in the real world.

Even if it were possible users may still prefer not to sacrifice any of their quota-limited home directory to Firefox cache. Who's Mozilla to presume they know what users want?
Ah, too bad I won't be in London then - I would have loved to hear that!

(/me is a Go coder, (former) Scala user)
Python Software Foundation Reaches Settlement
http://splasho.com/upgoer5/ as well.
I think SCM tracks history a lot better than an inbox. Even when I am coding by myself, I like using source control so I can easily remember what I did two days ago. Also having a history makes it easier to remove buggy features or re-add features if business requirements change. Instead of searching through an inbox folder, just view the history of a single file.
Used my ninja skills and found it. Here is an example: http://extremetracking.com/open?login=46union [NSFW links on site] I just found a random example

It appears to be incoming search terms for a webstie that has the ExtremeTracking service installed. So it's not really that it's public, it's more that the incoming search terms are just saved along with personal identifying information (ISP/IP) etc.

Website states:
"Adding the tracker to your site is not complicated. If you are familiar with HTML-editing just copy and paste the tracker code into the source of your pages and you are ready. The tracker code can also be handled fine with WYSIWYG editors and content management systems, scripts and blogs. You can use one and the same code for all your pages or the more advanced code to report groups of pages, it is all possible. We will be happy to help you through. At your My Account you find all your tracker details and setup instructions clearly explained as well as your personal code-checker to check if you have copied your code correctly."
> We have marched, protested, voted and won. Human rights, gay rights, pollution and justice.

This is not true by any stretch. Human rights have been and are continually violated, esp. for minority groups, mainstream gay rights has become assimilationist and has abandoned the LBTQ of LGBTQ, and pollution abuses continue and many of those abuses moved overseas as perpetrating corps. went for cheaper labor.

> But it took effort and now the injustices are less obvious, are not next door but a long way away, and so it seems we can stop and rest.

The injustices are next door, they happen every day. The root causes of issues have not been addressed and classism, racism, sexism, and capitalist patriarchy are as much of a part of western society as ever.

> But injustice is like entropy - it never rests and so we let the torture be done in our name, we don't mind that the youth of the country are given sentences for looting longer than murderers, we don't shout that companies who leave their virtual doors unlocked should not be upset i they find people inside the building

It should be noted that people have tolerated and/or endorsed this kind of structural dysfunction for a long time and continue to do so. But you are right in that injustice is systemic and will continue even if people feel hopeless or tired of fighting that injustice.
That's odd, see http://www.betabeat.com/2012/02/10/google-says-gchat-is-not-...

Apparently Google endorses Google Talk and resists the GTalk name. I guess it's easier to be found when your page title is Google Chat even when the service is called Google Talk (did you notice Google Chat is not anywhere but the page title?)
I think there's actually no other tool like sqlmap.

But there is no tool that will come close to competing with a top-notch pentester on a SQLi hunt. Automated tools just don't cut it. There is nothing like watching First Blood in action.
"There are also numerous examples of normal medicine cures that have been dreadfully harmful. Thalidomide and SSRIs to name a couple off the top of my head,"

I also want to say that this is pretty disingenuous as a statement because I named harmful CAM treatments in response to your question "if you have heard of a treatment which anecdotally works, and has no reported side effects, then why wouldn't you try it?". I was pointing out that alt med really cannot claim to have no side effects. It often does claim this, but it cannot.

Many medicines have dreadful side-effects, yes, even the ones we still use, but these are measured and quantified and (in theory) the treatments are only used if the main effect is worth it.

With alt med there often are side effects and there is no proof that any of it works, by definition.
I've seen this done in a PHP project (to the extent that it is possible), so I'm pretty sure it is the mindset of the developer.
Except for the part where the company sells the phone to you without extending any lines of credit. This is not like buying a house or a car using loan money.
I absolutely agree that if Al Awalki was being detained by the government on American soil, he would have been entitled to file a habeas petition to contest his detention. Absolutely no doubt, and there was an 8-1 Supreme Court decision just this decade, post-9/11, that reaffirmed this principle. Habeas is the bedrock of our civil liberties and we should guard it jealously.

But habeas is a procedure for challenging illegal detention, meanwhile Al Awalki was a fugitive. He was not in the hands of U.S. authorities, on U.S. soil. He took up arms against America in Yemen, and was hiding, evading capture. Habeas is inapplicable to a person who is evading the government's attempts to bring him to justice, in effect evading the government's attempts to give him due process. It is inapplicable by the very nature of the device--a writ from a court to order the release of a prisoner being held by an executive authority within the court's jurisdiction. No U.S. court had jurisdiction over Al Awalki.
Some very smart things going on with those guys...
What you are doing here is actually the opposite of providing context.
they are not simply complements.

Which argues against this change, right? If you think the next Dropbox could have some red flags along with its positive signs, you'd want to mostly ignore red flags.
AFAIK, all PyCon 2013 talks were recorded and are being processed. Once they're finished the videos will be uploaded here:

http://pyvideo.org/category/33/pycon-us-2013
Sigh, another Async framework.

Yes it has nice features such can replace the reactor/hub thing. Has futures/promises/deferreds. That has all been done before in Twisted. Yields are cute and there was monocle, I wouldn't say it exactly took off : https://github.com/saucelabs/monocle

Twisted has inlineCallbacks that use yields as well. Just import Twisted into stdlib then and use that.

I am surprised that gevent was dismissed. Ok, there is also eventlet, if someone doesn't like gevent. Monkey patching is scary? Is it really _that_ scary? Most sane and portable IO code probably runs on that today. Why? Because there is no need to create a parallel world of libraries. Write a test does it pass? Does it handle your use case? I'll take not knowing if my green threads switch tasks and add another green thread lock, instead of doubling my code size with yields, callbacks and futures.

Let's talk about Twisted (sorry couldn't resist WAT video reference). I remember for years searching for parallel libraries to parse exotic protocols. Regular Python library is there, but no, can't use that, sorry. Gotta go find or write one that returns Deferreds. You add a single Twisted module in your code, good luck! -- it ripples all the way to the top through your API and you are doomed being locked into the Twisted world forever.

When gevent and eventlet came around it was like a breath of fresh air. This is what sane concurrent IO looks like in Python:

http://eventlet.net/doc/examples.html

My fear is that many will just say fuck it, I'll just use Go/Rust/Erlang for IO bound concurrent problems.

It is nice having a benevolent dictator, except when he goes a little crazy, then dictatorship doesn't sounds so much fun anymore.
Hermione Way at the Villa Austin
That's right, I'm simply considering growing certain parts. It sounds quite gross the more I think about it, but I suppose there might be zero pain involved? It's certainly doable.
I can't help but lose a little faith in humanity when I see that faith in humanity is measured via Twitter.
This is a really prejudiced statement. There are any number of things which are open like SPDY or V8. The closure of Google Reader (or Google Wave, etc.) may be annoying but it isn't a monopolistic power grab.
It's exactly this sort of "our users are morons" mentality that drove me away from the Gnome desktop environment.