skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, having those activities permitted doesn't make Argentina civilized :P (tongue-in-cheek, I'm Uruguayan).

I live in a proper Secular/nonreligious country :) (1) and we tolerate both as well.

(1) we have separation of church and state, and only 4% of regular Christians, though 60% do believe in some sort of god

http://countrystudies.us/uruguay/43.htm

Argentina does not have separation of Church and State (though they don't enforce it much, they even had a Muslim-raised president), and the United States has a state-mandated belief in God.
I'm not being picky, this isn't a sideshow, and I think it's very relevant to developers. As most "systems" developers are quite familiar with C and with Java, and Go is the new kid on the block, it is important to point out that Go essentially solves the same problems Java does, and not those that you'd turn to C to solve. This is especially important to point out because Go's objectives initially placed the language in the C space, or so it seemed to many.
Nice looking site!

I'm a professional programmer just getting started with indie game development (it's so much fun!). The biggest thing I want out of a game hosting site apart from actual sales is insight into the potential players/customers. I want to know which categories are popular, whether free demos are increasing paid sales, which platforms are selling, where are viewers coming from. I want to see what people are saying about my game, what they are rating it and why. It's not hard for me to put up a quick page with a paypal link to a file download, but you can add lots of value with good analytics and things like comments and ratings.
The article's main point is that the founders didn't do anything really noteworthy, technologically speaking, and so Yahoo overpaid for the talent in question.
#ShockleyQueisser
Sorry, that's goalpost hiking. You said they didn't provide an automated transition tool, not that it wasn't perfect. Go's tools will only issue warnings in some cases too, so I'm really lost as to what you think you're saying here.
Firework Flare (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/firework-flare/id513766705?l...). 'Twas my first iOS app. Took a lot longer than expected to make mostly due to inexperience, taking on iOS, Cocos2D, UIKit + xCode and a lot of design work done myself.

I make nothing from it these days even though it has IAP available. It ranks favourably under "firework" and a bit less favourably under "fireworks". It gets about 2-12 downloads a day, maybe more during July 4th, new year etc.

I've considered switching it to paid just to see what it would pull in but haven't as of yet.
I use a Galaxy Nexus on T-Mobile; I don't pay for tethering, and they only kick you back on HTTP connections if you're not paying for it (DPI/Layer 7). I just use HTTPS for everything when I tether my MBAir to my phone.
I don't have data on "usually" but I always find it a good way to determine whether the candidate is: (1) prepared; (2) interested; and (3) thoughtful.
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So an iPhone is $600, but I can buy an iPad for $320?

That alone is pretty impressive job Apple/AT&T/Verizon have done on positioning & playing to people's psychology.
That's the glass is half empty view.

The other view is your're saving money by being given an interest-free loan to purchase the phone.
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Please add how you manage and install dependencies (including stuff from github that is not on pypi)
That may be fine for some, but newsletters are inherently limited by the amount of space they are willing to provide to links, and by their domain, because most letters are topic-specific. While newsletters can support maybe 20 links per week, RSS is adept at handling hundreds if not thousands.

Moreover, one of the great benefits of RSS is that it is customizable and one's reading experience pertains specifically and only to them. With newsletters, one is throwing their reading experience to the mercy of the newsletter editor. This is not to say that newsletters aren't valuable. Their spontaneity and conciseness provides a great reading experience. (Although, I think Twitter is superior at this type of thing anyway.)

But, given the idiosyncrasies of newsletters, I just don't believe that they are tenable alternatives to RSS. Those who want to read a lot of content from an eclectic array of specific sources still need something like RSS.
There's something wrong with this picture... You're trying to tell me an
"Internet Famous" security pen tester is unable to get into the Computer
History Museum?

Well, I made it in here. I showed up yesterday and locked myself inside
a running CRAY overnight. The burns were worth it, but I still haven't
managed to get out yet...
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I never got into RSS readers, but I use Hacker News and Reddit for the purposes Marco is describing. I have Pulse on my phone set up to follow a handful of RSS feeds (Hacker News, The Verge, Daring Fireball, Ars Technica, etc.) so I have an easy way to see what's happening if I have a couple minutes to kill throughout my day.
Let's agree to disagree that this is an important point.
Nor could one ever be built, since Turing Machines have features like infinite tape memories, which would be rather difficult to manufacture.

One could argue that Turing's contributions to cryptanalysis (e.g., breaking the German Enigma cipher) might have had an even greater effect on the world: in the grand scheme of things, defeating Nazi Germany was probably more important than paving the way for computers and the internet.
SendGrid automatically adds click tracking and opened email statistics. Also, god forbid you actually try to use the Amazon SDK for PHP. Two days I'll never get back. Additionally, I was unable to get Amazon to verify my domain so that I could even send emails through their SMTP server.
This crowsourced site shows where T-Mobile has high speed 4G on the band you need.

http://www.airportal.de/
Elephant - Persistent Key-Value store with Full Text Search
Yeah, there's not much saving for me either. It'll cost $200 less over the course of two years if I go with 2 lines and T-Mobile's unlimited data plan (compared to the 2 lines and 6GB share everything plan I have from Verizon).

But, as you say, the Verizon plan lets tethering be as much as that xGB as you want. And for me, T-Mobile only offers very slow 2G service in my area while I get LTE from Verizon.

After those first two years, you do start to save real money ($40 every month, in my case), but that assumes you don't then upgrade to the latest iPhone or whatever and start all over again.
I have recently started writing small stand-alone scripts/apps in Python3. It's been a pretty interesting experience. Aside from certain frameworks not supporting Python3, it's been pretty easy. The biggest problem for having code that I want to run on Python 2 and 3 has been unicode vs str literals until I discovered

# encoding: utf-8
from __future__ import unicode_literals

After that the only code that explicitly does something different is a library I have (https://github.com/ipartola/groper) which cares explicitly about int vs long.
Are we saying that since the system apparently works in Denmark it therefore works everywhere and that there never be any government-is-evil considerations?
And where "full speed" means "limited to Sprint's comparatively weak 3G speeds or spotty 4G coverage".

(Not being able to stream a 360p YouTube video on 3G is kind of a pain.)
The creator of Instapaper doesn't see the value-add of using an RSS reader to skim the postings of a high-volume site, for readability/usability reasons?

That's a curious blind-spot.
I think the great problem Facebook solved was to remove all the noise that exists in the real world while we are trying to keep touch with our friends and acquaintances.
But now it is bringing back the noise. Partly because of this tendency that people must share and share and share, and share a little more. Partly because it became so easy to keep in touch with acquaintances that we now know that are some good reasons behind all the noise of the real world. We have too many acquaintances these days to keep in touch with all of them.

I've being thinking a lot about this because I am trying to solve this problem of noise and focus in friendships with my startup.
Yep. I read about 10% of Techdirt and Android Police but those 10% are usually things I'm really interested in so deleting them is not an option. So I usually just skip the headlines and open up whatever sounds interesting.
I wasn't exaggerating when I said that meeting people was "effortless" - they came to me.

Back then, people would look for interesting profiles on Yahoo's proto-social-networking site at profiles.yahoo.com and then send that person a message on Yahoo Messenger... this was before the bot infestation. I developed several friendships that started as random IM messages.
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>I'm saying is maybe increase high end income taxes

Ah, so you are saying this kid should have his not $30M but $29M taken away from him, because you perceive he didn't earn it. That's quite diferent!
I was there "back in the day". There were lots of people who stayed with a company for decades as well as lots who jumped ship after a couple of years when their employers couldnt keep up with the salary escalation. One or the big differences was that there were many more layers of management. Engineers were reasonably well paid, but the salary range was fairly compressed. In general the highest paid engineer could not make more than his manager. When a man got a family and needed more money, he was promoted to a manager. There was the HP Way where nobody was fired and engineers were taken care of.

While there were startups, there was not the froth of new ventures that there is today. Finding a job was very much word of mouth, newspaper classifieds, and head hunters, not the easy searching of Craigslist of today.
Oodles of improvements to Chrome’s spell checking (Chrome 26 released)
I intentionally did not use the word "disrespect". Thnx for the link.
Hi, said author here. The particular article was written around 2 years ago (April 2011 to be exact) when crypto was still a fairly new concept to me. As a result there indeed are some flaws with the article. Having said that, some extra explanation can't hurt.

> Example 1, regarding hashing something several times: "In order to retrieve the original password a hacker has to crack multiple hashes instead of only one." Nah, guessing is only more time-consuming.

I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say with this example. The particular list item was meant as one of the examples why I think people would do it that way. It's not too uncommon that I read some article about a developer doing that because it is supposedly more secure.

> Example 2, regarding the same thing: "The first reason is pretty easy to bust: simply add more hardware (or better hardware) and you're good to go." This applies for bcrypt as well.

Bcrypt introduces a weight/cost (whatever you'd call it) factor who's sole purpose is to prevent this. The higher the factor the slower the process takes. The nice bit about it is that with a weight of N the hashing process always takes the same (due to some bcrypt voodoo that is beyond my knowledge) amount of time. You also can't change the weight since that will result in a different hash being produced (it would be fairly useless otherwise).

Having said that, I agree that the article could've been written in a better way but it will remain as is, simply because I try not to edit articles after I've published them.
Great article.

Also for me, it was a timely recommendation of a branch of gitx - I just started using gitx yesterday, and this branch of it seems like it will be of great benefit.

Does anyone know other tools that make life easer for git users on OSX?
Komodo is pretty awesome, but I though I'd chime in with the perspective of someone who switched from Komodo Edit to PyCharm last month. I've been using Komodo Edit for nearly a year, and was quite happy with it as a Python editor. (Our build and test utils are all in makefiles and other scripts, so I run them on the command line.) It's an all-around awesome editor.

I switched to PyCharm a month ago and am EXTREMELY happy with it. I have not touched Komodo since then. The ONLY things I miss from Komodo are syntax highlighting of $Everything (e.g. Makefiles, Bash scripts, Perl, etc) and the ability to easily open files from elsewhere (e.g. /tmp/foo.bar). Both are things that Jetbrains have said detracts from their focus of delivering an awesome __Python__ IDE -- and I grudgingly agree. PyCharm is more polished than I'd dreamed - so much so that this is the first time I've been willing to spend money on an editor in over a decade.

If you already have an existing project folder, you don't need to create a new Workspace or Project -- just open that folder.
That being said, you cannot seriously say that not going out with the rest of the office doesn't affect their relationships with their coworkers, at least in the sense that everyone will know everyone else better than this person knows everyone else.
Sometimes I use to listen rain and forest sounds at very low level. I live in a nice and quiet neighbourhood in Barcelona city and I can enjoy such moments with this kind of music.
How was Kent Beck recruited to Facebook?
Asynchronous Versus Synchronous AJAX
Most parts of the world that aren't the US or Canada likely also say "aluminium".
Am getting the same error. :/
Just for fun, I tried to pay $0.00 for X-Moon. I got a fun message that said:

"Name your own price to get download access to X-Moon. There is no minimum price, pay what you want.

Due to processing fees the minimum amount is 50 cents."

I realize it can still be downloaded for free, but it's not really "no minimum, pay what you want".
A minor clarification, Unity Free does have real-time lighting, just not real-time shadows.
I have the feeling that many people are distracted by the bad video. The terminal actually looks like this:
http://www.bestubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/eae91__...

It's very clean and nice looking... I don't understand how this is distracting.
You mean Caldav not webdav correct?
I think that if this competitor is willing to pivot based on a insight you had without even having a MVP, with no data to support it, than you don't have to worry about them. They will just keep pivoting everytime someone smart give them a tip and will be lost sooner than later.
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Here's my $100M idea. I'm selling it to the highest bidder.
How do i switch the tabs?
I'm sure Yahoo employees are asking questions too.

$30 million could be spent on building daycare for all Yahoo mums and dads who can no longer work from home.
Yep, pretty much this for me too.

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/1528/imageiq.png

I read all the things in the "Interesting" label, they get one new item once every few days at most.

In the mass news section, I keep up to date with the first site but all others I only check up infrequently (hence they regularly get to 1000+ and I don't mind, that's normal).

And the Occasional label is kinda in between, but in reality I don't really read anything there anymore.
Telegraph to put up metered paywall
Don't you feel that it's -somewhat- misleading to compare blocking ads to illegally downloading ("stealing") content?
I have some rather strong misgivings when purchased talent != high quality engineers where software product/company acquisitions are concerned.

There are some excellent professionals out there with a far more rigorously proven and solid track record of knowing how to reach an audience. You're suggesting the 17-yr-old & 2 compatriots have proven themselves to possess $30-million-worth of reaching-an-audience skill?

[edit: spelling]
Was rebooting the server to adjust some performance issues. Also caching a bunch of stuff to use static pages instead of hitting the database.
That iPad is a generation behind in processor and only has a 1024x768 pixel screen.
I'm the author of that post. And I certainly did not mean to imply that 100-year-furniture is not economical! It costs more in the short-term (for instance, the Stickley couch I bought was $6,000), but I know it'll last for decades, so I don't begrudge a cent of that expense. Especially since it's so gosh-durn beautiful and comfortable and does exactly what I want -- just as good software does.
SCOTUS: Drug Dogs Require Warrant
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The workflow for amended returns is absolutely, utterly, horrific.

If I recall correctly, it involves loading your existing return, making changes, and at some point (only vaguely defined in documentation), changing something different (err, this is a very bad description, obviously - but suffice to say, as someone who has no issue navigating complex systems, the times I've done it, it's been a horrible and fraught experience).
I wouldn't consider "how" people file a problem. I choose to file on paper still, and will until I can upload my tax data from my machine directly to the government's computer without passing through some third-party provider that I don't trust to keep my data safe.
Didn't they get a phone in return ?
So what's really different with their new plans? Just that they are trying to educate people that phones' subsidies are included in the 2 year contract price?

If they are trying to do that to get people to buy phones at full cost upfront instead, I guess that's fine, if that's indeed their strategy. But if they are just going to promote their $99 phones with 2 year "installments" - then nothing has changed, and their "un-carrier" marketing is invalid.
One strategy:

1. Examine your top (most engaged) x users each month

2. Quantify turnover in that group

3. Qualify which features/content they are using more/less than quantify more/less

4. Evaluate (3) against your business model - are your priorities focused where your top users are focused and does your business model work if that is where the focus remains?

--

Can spin your own version of above but believe the key is to focus on your most active, engaged cohort...the cohort that will ultimately sink or swim your service. Other analysis can be valuable too but not if it distracts from understanding your key user/customer.
You have to understand that to many people, any money that the government has been unable to obtain from you is money "lost" to the system or is listed as a "cost." These people would disagree with your statement that the IRS didn't lose that $5000. To them the IRS most certainly did lose that money.

To expand on your thought that people view the IRS as the evil entity. They are just misguided, the true enemy is the overly complicated tax code that is rife with abuse by many people within the IRS, Congress, and the private sector to the detriment of the majority.
Is there an ability to upload a demo of the game?
Will there be some kind of discovery system for buyers?
Docker, the Linux container runtime: now open-source
Show HN: provision redis with one command
Hello fellow hackers! We’re Ryan and Kyle, the chief explorers at Adventure. We’ve recently started on the journey of realizing a better data platform for internet connected applications. What does that mean exactly? Well we want to make it easy to provision, manage, monitor and scale your data infrastructure. Though that’s talking big vision, we’ve definitely started small and could use your help.

Can you watch the video on our homepage, add your email if interested, and offer us some feedback here? We’re especially interested in critical feedback. Do you understand what we’re building? Do you like the product idea? Do you want to manage hosted infrastructure from the command line or web interface? You won’t hurt our feelings, so tell it like it is!

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I think the author makes this comment:

"Summly's entire business model seems to revolve around catering to this demographic. Frankly, it pains me."

I reads like a critique of Chubby Checker's "Twist" from a professor a Julliard. Perhaps, and I say that because I can't know what they were really thinking, but perhaps that was the point. This company had successfully "catered to this demographic" (which was defined as young hipster like brogrammers) and while those guys drink their PBR and deck out their mancaves perhaps it is a demographic that Yahoo desperately wants to reach? Maybe the whole point was that Yahoo folks were building things for middle-aged dot boomers and not for the cool kids.

Maybe the goal was to get more people who could quickly assemble a MVP from existing APIs that appealed to the emerging cohort of buyers and trendsetters. Maybe NLP wasn't the point.
> Google is an advertising company, not an Internet search company.

Those were perhaps the good old days. Today's Google makes less and less from ads and more from big data i.e., spying and selling (and trading) ever more extensive information about individuals, business entities, governments and other organizations. This is where the New Google (post "don't be evil") is competing Any service or app that doesn't return it's investment in PII (Personally Identifiable Information), Corporate Espionage (as it used to be called before there was Big Data) or state secrets is at best a loss leader.
From his own quoted post:
"I lived through 8 years of a non-reading president along with everyone else. I know that the brogrammers out there are constantly getting texts from their buddies to plan the weekend's broactivities..."

Thanks Professor, now I don't have to continue reading your post – ie, you're kind of a jerk.
Just be careful to not fall into the "if it's good, it's Capitalism, if it's bad, it's human nature" fallacy.
Why confine this to games?

I think the layout and format of the site is great, but I dont see anything about it that necessitates that particular vertical. Why can't I use this to sell my OSX app?
Five arrested in £1.7 million malware bank scam
T-Mobile has been upgrading their network to provide "4G" in the 1900 Mhz band which makes their 4G compatible with any 3G capable AT&T smartphone.

Oddly, San Francisco appears to have been upgraded already (http://blog.t-mobile.com/2012/11/20/t-mobile-enhances-covera...)

I have an android phone just switched to T-mobile here in DFW, I get 3G and HSPA speeds at work, but EDGE at home.
As a US person who visits other countries, I get scared about making a mistake in immigration issues. Going through customs in a country where you don't speak the language (well or at all) is scary.
As long as they un-bundle the price of the phone from the price of the plans, consumers win.
I go back & forth with HN, the reason being that I often star items that I'll want to follow-up on later.

For instance, if I read something at home that I want to share with the crew at work, I'll star it. Likewise, if I come across something at work that really doesn't apply to my job, but it's still interesting, I'll star it so I won't forget to read it at home.

Granted, those functions are not part & parcel to RSS readers, but it's one way that a reader can be extended to offer value beyond the normal RSS featureset. Much like the "note in Reader" feature, which I also used multiple times a day...
Adobe is hiring CloudOps Security Ninjas
How do the newsletter curators find interesting long-tail links?
One percent software professionals in advanced countries
Pretty easy to support nearly everything if you just use an iframe and ask for a fixed width/height. Kongregate rebate does this for HTML5 and Unity games to great effect.
Nexus 4 + t-mobile off contract is just fantastic. I knocked $50/month off of my monthly bill from Verizon (and got more in return). The thing pays for itself in 6 months.