skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of this stuff is what you might expect from the level of a craftsman. For those of us who aren't interested in putting in the 10 years to get to that level, we'll make the joint compound and the wrong washer work good enough.
A Facebook phone makes no sense. So it seems probable that this is just one or two new apps for Android. Similar to their remake of the iOS apps a while ago.
I've always speculated that the main force driving down rent prices on the west side of San Francisco (and down through Daly City and Pacifica) are largely due to the weather being foggy and chilly more often (especially in the summer) on the far west side of the northern peninsula, so it is seen as less desirable. I'm sure there are other factors at play as well, but that seems to be a major one.
Thanks for sharing, did not realize ver20 was in testing.
Well, you are not your DNA.
Laravel!
Wow! This is so cool!

This proves Python's ability to be RAD.
Not really, the incentive to copyright incentivizes the invasion of privacy. I can walk behind you with a trash bag and voila. Sure, they are different but related.
Not sure if your theory can really account for the 7X difference between Play and Netty in the JSON test. They both create a trivial name/value pair and pass it to the JSON serializer. In Play's case, it gets passed to their Jerkson wrapper for Jackson. What would you even change about that code?

(Note: I'm not necessarily saying the Jerkson wrapper is the culprit. Could be Play's routing framework, or something else.)
While I would probably have the same reaction if I was living in Cyprus, important points are missing here.

The way I understand it: Cyprus failed to control their economy and required the help from the European Union. In order to lent them a crazy amount of money, they wanted some guarantee. They could not provide anything, so their government had to use the peoples money to pay for the governments previously bad judgement about not saving up for bad times.
Some cars, several buildings and some things look like they've been abandoned yesterday. The VW for instance looks cleaner than my car, which I drive daily and wash regularly. Other cars are completely smashed up, rusty. The same goes for roads: some look like they've been paved yesterday, some are completely cracked and overgrown.
Not meaning antthing by it, just an observation!
Well yes, grown-over-time permission systems are also at fault when it comes to the lack of security in third party extensions/apps. IMO unix is still the standard in terms of simplicity and power of permissions - if the system architect separates concerns correctly into different base entities ('files'), the permission system just falls into place. You know what other system did this pretty much perfectly? Lotus Notes. Yes, I'm serious - it's a document based DBMS with per-document permissions where everything is a document, including the application design, contacts, logs, calendar entries. Too bad its UI is still stuck in the early 90ies.
This is a win, but it's still a bit disappointing. The SEC has been directed by law to come up with rules to allow the crowd funding provisions of the JOBS act to come into force and they've blown past the deadline and been dragging their feet. I think there are a lot of people in high positions there who just want to see the whole thing go away.
If Nokia was making $60billion in revenue and $12 Billion in profits, like Google, than maybe. Bottom line is that every company has to do what is best for them, no go along because another one said so. Since things at Nokia aren't going as well, patents might been as having a higher priority. Nokia and others have spent decades inventing stuff about phones.

Google is doing this because they see something in it for themselves, make no mistake. The true intention will show a few years down the line.
What keeps the fraudsters out of ordinary investing? I'll give you a hint, they're there. Hopefully there will be enough visibility and due diligence to keep them in check.
It's the "technically" that matters, though.
7% levy was proposed on all accounts, and it was illegal to put levy on insured deposits, and it was asked to put this levy on all banks even if they are solvent.

Can you quote what high interest rates are you talking about on deposits? And what about interest rates on Current Accounts? Business usually pay money to have these accounts.

Cyprus also has higher interest rates on mortgages, and most Cypriots have mortgages, so they are not actually having any profits because of "so-called" high rates.

If European Union is so concerned about Tax-Haven issues, why didn't they come clean and ask Cyprus to raise tax rates as they did in 2004 when Cyprus joined European Union, And what about Luxembourg, isn't it where Apple is registered for saving taxes ??
What’s wrong about being a real person with opinions? That is, unless you behave like an idiot, which is certainly not the case here.
what's this title, this sound like trolling at best.

"Next up on HN, walking eclipse on your Raspberry Pi"
> I wouldn't want the web as a platform to be that good

What? Are you so ideologically caught up that you actually wish something wont get good? It is totally reasonable to to think something isn't the right approach or a waste of time, or to not like the workflow, etc. But to actually wish that something wont get good enough to be a general solution even if it can? How does that make any sense?
Ask HN: Open sourcing a previously closed project
I'm working on cleaning up the codebase for one of my side projects, and there are things in the repo history that I don't want floating about in the wild. Is there a list of security best practices for this sort of thing? I'm thinking of starting a new repo with only code from the latest "safe" HEAD. I'd also love to hear about people's personal experiences doing this, not limited to the security ramifications.
Klout and Bing Try to Bridge the Gap Between Online and ‘Real World’ Influence
> IMO/IME, implementing is always the hard part.

I'm actually surprised anybody would say that. To use an example, you're saying it's more difficult to implement quicksort than it was to come up with it in the first place?

IME, compared to thinking up an algorithm, implementing them is very easy.
I agree, stupid headline, stupid tutorial
NYTimes especially has been hyping up cyberattacks and cyberwarfare a lot lately.
Want to Help People? Just Give Them Money
So, you deposit your money in a bank with very high interest rates - very high because they invest in risky Greek bonds. If everything goes well, you keep the interests. If the risky investment of the bank goes bust, we (EU citizens) should pay you the risk, even beyond the insured 100k. Is that correct?
It depends.
For distribution where you know you will never optimize at runtime, yes, it's completely worthless.

But part of the reason you may find it worthless is because none of these VM's really perform the strong alias analysis and load/store redundancy removal techniques you could perform at runtime.
I don't think egress filtering is either practical or the only solution to this problem. I believe are other solutions, better ones that don't involve traffic filtering and threatening the open nature of the internet.
'29 percent are cohabitating, 33 percent are single, and 47 percent are married'

And that is total of 109%. How's that?
First off, Friedman is not a doomsayer. Friedman correctly diagnosed the underlying causes of the Eurozone's malaise a decade ago. If the Eurozone entered into a fiscal union, much of the fundamental problems would be remedied. Political pressure/forgoing of sovereignty makes such an event highly improbable.
Not to mention that it seems like in this case the person in question may be whining about untaxed funds that he skimmed of his company. Oh no, I am being robbed of money that wasn't mine!!
I expect it's at least somewhat referencing this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wgQvij3rVE#t=214s
But the JSON test was 7X slower too.
I'm not sure how good that would be for helping you understand the formulas. I think they would probably make them more obscure, especially with optimizations. What if you tried to teach yourself Linear Algebra just by reading the source code of Intel's MKL (if you had access to it); I don't think you'd get as far as if you just studied a traditional math based approach.
So, the scenario goes something like this: you've been in business for a few years. You've got let's say 20 employees. And you're profitable! Barely! It looks like with some hard work and a couple more years, you can get the company to about 2x the valuation at its last round. From there who knows.

You'd just fire everyone, walk away, and hope to hit bigger next time? Your investors are unlikely to agree that this is the best way to use your talents...
Web development is quite a different beast. There’s huge amount of life and struggle in the ecosystem, but only a fraction of that pushes the platform forward. I am relieved every time I move from some web development work back to plain, sane Cocoa APIs.
For me it's the opposite. I regularly update goodreads to keep track and share with people whose recommendations i value. Most people don't read only on kindle and only from amazon.

There are two sides to this : goodreads clearly needs a better interface and reviewing system on the one hand, on the other hand, what if amazon decides to restrict it to content bought from amazon?

I hope the site stays independent and is not merged into amazon
You forget that Cyprus' banks are bankrupt because the did bad investments; it's not as if "the IMF wanted to restructure Cyprus' banking system" because they woke up one morning and just felt like that.
Yeah! Right Thinkers! DDoS all those awful Wrong Thinkers! Knock their bastard servers right off the internet! That's the solution!
Well if you wrote a program in any Turing complete programming language, you would be done; how "trivial" it is doesn't matter. :)
Behind the business model of MailOnline, the biggest newspaper site in the world
The counter-argument to that is that kids take a lower track than they could well handle, if they have talent but are a bit lazy, or come from disadvantaged backgrounds (socioeconomic class where parents have no academic ambition, or perhaps no interest in their kids' school at all). This is not entirely rubbish, although I do think that some different tracks would be a good idea.

When I went to school, there were e.g. three different levels of maths in junior high here; with my kids, everyone in the age class followed the same curriculum in maths, languages etc. This leads to a differentiation of schools - since you can't select more ambitious classes within one school, parents try to get their children to elite schools where the academic level is higher and there are fewer distracting "students".
it is not the opposite, but it definitely stops you from being called or perceived as 'nice'.
Not everyone wants to go to college. A lot of people enjoy working with their hands and are really good at it, and plumbers, carpenters, welders, machinists, mechanics, and electricians are a lot more useful to society than yet one more person who squeaked through the state college pushing paper in some dismal office. And likely happier too.

The idea that a college education automatically leads to a better life than preparation for honest skilled labor is pretty elitist in my opinion.
Seems to me that CodeIgniter to Django is a much bigger leap than PHP to Python.

Or even in general, unless you're dealing with a language that has a fundamentally different approach, frameworks constitute a much bigger learning curve.

Especially if you're coming from a simple, lightweight framework like CodeIgniter to Django. Much of what the author describes would also apply if you go from CodeIgnitor to Symfony, even though it's still PHP.
> a long long time to understand

No. The vim language has a simple and easy to understand grammar that is very close to that found in many natural languages. That part is freaking easy to grasp. The vocabulary is a lot bigger, though, but like with natural languages, you can be a perfectly functional speaker/user without knowing everything there is to know. As long as you make yourself understandable and know how to use a dictionary you are fine.

And, like with all natural languages, practicing, making mistakes… are keys.
Playing devils advocate, sometimes it is the "breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks" that is the hardest thing to get started.
The Internet helps politicians listen better to their electors. If they want to.
It's rather simple: you are proccessing huge grids of 3D data, it's always going to be less then-optimal unless you write parts of it in languages that can do this fast.
(This also includes interaction between blocks if you are going to processing a lot of those.)
It seemed like I was reading the story about myself. I started to code very early too! It was PHP and MySQL. First — no frameworks and libraries. Then — CI (later Kohana, Fuel etc.). Then I was bored and I started to learn Python. Time went by and I were a Django developer. So here we are. :)

P.S. Python is totally ready for web development. Django was released in 2005 and it's stable. There are other frameworks too. YouTube and, of what I'm heard, half of Google is using it (maybe they are rewriting some things to Go now). Ton of popular sites uses Python and Django too! When it comes to deployment, I stick to Nginx that serves static or sends request to gunicorn. It's stable and fast. :)
There's always the choice to be made:

The handyman/contractor/mechanic has the skills, and the tools, and probably knows what to do, but in my experience often doesn't give a shit about the quality of his work. (But see below)

I don't have the skills, and may not have the tools, and I don't know what to do, but given time I have proven myself able to learn, and I really do care how things turn out.

Often 'giving a shit' makes up for a lot more of your initial ignorance than you would think.

If there was some great way of finding that rare someone who did have pride in their workmanship (or at least could adequately describe the various tradeoffs that might be made) it would be a lot easier for me to trust someone else to do the work.
India as a great power
Even if you are right, it would be a lot more helpful if you reasoned as to why you think that. That would help the original author improve the article and anyone else reading this to write better headlines and tutorials.

Your comment at the moment adds no value. The author spent hours writing something and you dismissed it with less than a reason.
Unified API of WebSocket and HTTP long polling/streaming for Clojure
Well, the submitter of this article has a 5 year old account. They frequently submit news articles from a variety of sources, and are also an active commenter. (Though, they do seem to like posting quotes.)

The other two atlantic articles on the front page are from 2-3 year old accounts that likewise post a lot of pieces from various newspapers.

You're welcome to dig through their posting history for a conspiracy, but it's not jumping out at me.
Maybe I missed it. What solution does the author offer?
Someone should do this, but like for real. Start with a talk on the existing peer reviewed literature, including history and methodology. Tell me if we have evidence that meditation produces positive outcomes and what those are. Show the experiments and results. Show me live FMRI/EEG/EKG readings from good meditators. Tell me how to meditate. Let me get some guided practice. Let me try some biofeedback. Have some workshops, Q&A, etc. Don't lean on religion. Don't try to tie this into particle physics or some other transcendental nonsense. Don't talk to me about superpowers. I'll pay good money for an event like that.
I didn't mention it because the previous poster made a very valid point about ethnic Greeks speaking Greek next to Greece investing in Greek assets.

However there was no reason as to why a country with such a small economy should come up with an arbitrary 6 billion euro for a 10 billion euro bailout beyond forcing political will over a small country to send a signal to others. If you need 10 billion euros, you're not going to be able to find a quarter of your peak GDP at a time that your banks are screwed by yourself.
A fork for those having trouble getting this to run on Mountain Lion.

https://github.com/mckoss/Minecraft
"They do not control what you build and run on your device through Xcode"

Late response: There is some software I want to run that I do not have the source to. There is some software I want to run which is not being written because the person interested in writing it is not convinced that they will be able to distribute it to anyone in a convenient or profitable fashion.

I don't own a PlayStation, but of course have many other computers that are "appliances" (mp3 player, digital camera, etc.). I don't expect or even want all of those to be general purpose computers. For a long time I thought of my phone as an appliance, but with modern smartphones it's pretty clear that being a general purpose computer >> being an appliance and so I want to use platforms that are open in that way.
It is a mistake to think that radiation is evenly distributed. Or that all radiation is equally harmful. Neither are all animals and plants affected in the same way. This is much more complex than some averaged random statistics will have you believe.
OK but at the same time, many people could have gone on to successful careers by going to college if they hadn't placed into the vocational box. It's not as if a college educated person could never become a welder or that that person has missed their chance to become a carpenter. By your same implication, and I know it is not that popular, a lot of people work as welders, machinists, etc that would jump at the chance to be able to move to another career.

Calling it "honest skilled labor" is just a way to load the issue with emotional weight. It's not elitist to recognize reality and there is actually no judgement being made here about which is "better" but it is clear than going down one path so early in life and close doors for other paths in a way that is not true in reverse.

There are plenty of people that would love to go into, what you might call "dishonest" positions, but feel they cannot and feel there only option was to go into the so-called "honest" positions. Honestly, I think your view of "honesty" is unfair and simply a ploy to prop up your position. I've dealt with many auto mechanics and I would not say that they are all pillars of honesty or whatever you want me to believe. :( Just being honest.
Why? The occasional profane code comment or commit message proves
two thing; (1) you're human like the rest of us, and (2) you both
find and fix the mistakes. The frustrating stumbling blocks that
you hit are good things for others to know, even if your reaction
may have been a bit too severe in retrospect.
PHP was my first language and it helped me stay interested enough in programming to stick with it. I commented on this a few years ago, and it's now an ancient thread, but there's some good stuff in the history books: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=324578
Schools using Khan Academy have the ultimate in "tracking" - each student has a customized class geared exactly to his or her current abilities.
so different outcomes for different racial groups = racism?

have you taken a look at the competitors in the 100m sprint in the last 30 years?
There's a link at the top "UPDATED: What do we do now?" -- http://www.cyprus.com/cyprus-bailout---what-to-do-now.html
What do great team members do?
ReactiveCocoa Extensions for AFNetworking
Ignore pirates. They are not customers. Spend [...] Research indicates that piracy has negligible (and sometimes positive) effect on revenue levels.

I beg to differ, actually. Here is some scholarly research of the kind you'll never find on Techdirt. First one needs library access, sorry.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11151-007-9141-0

http://www.cba.edu.kw/krouibah/Publications/2010-The%20fight...

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1782924

http://kastoria.teikoz.gr/icoae2/wordpress/wp-content/upload...

I'm not trying to be an apologist for DRM. It's a failure in many ways, but you know what - I feel the same way about cookies, login/password hassles, and two-factor authentication.
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Original art?

http://blog.tetuanvalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/thep...

Source:

http://blog.tetuanvalley.com/2011/11/beware-the-trough-of-so...
Sure. That's why one third of the USA is overweight. Probably a rare metabolic disorder. ;)
World's biggest DDoS attack that Almost Broke the Internet
[rant mode on]

1. 80% of the bang takes 20% of the time

2. Writing games is 99% fine tuning and game play

3. It's just a rendering exercise, certainly not a "clone"

FYI: The above is "the internet" in three lines! :-)

[rant mode off]
Oh, Independence Day. That was a great TV show. I particularly liked the advert breaks every 15 minutes.

I think you're making my point for me.
Sometimes parents don't care. You realize that right? Sometimes parents fall into the same traps and don't help in opening up doors for their children. This is extremely common by the way. It's not that I think it is 1850; this happens every day. You may think it sounds crazy but there are plenty of kids that think that vocational jobs are their only options, very early on in life and I think these decisions are made for a number of reasons that may be faulty, especially so-called "aptitude" tests that young people take. People are not always who they were at 11, 12, or 13.

As for the business of the honors/AP separation. It's just silly. There are plenty of different combinations of non-honors-non-AP/honors/AP students in no-college/"state college"/top-tier permutations. Your story, I guess is fine, but not to be flippant, is not really signifying of anything as far as this is concerned. I don't think the proposed formula is a real thing.
Thanks :) Well, there's that, but I'm less worried about being viewed as a potty mouth and more about stuff I did early on in the development process like having passwords in config files and such.
You're describing two episodes of competent customer service. Nothing incredible, just good work from a company you're paying money to. The problem is not with their quality -- once you do get someone on your case, it won't be a minimum wage script reader in India, but rather someone pleasant who can actually help. The negative perception of Google customer service stems from an apparent disinterest in providing proper support channels in the first place for some of their services, which leads to many unhappy episodes pulling their average down.

I do believe this is a problem they can fix by just throwing money at it. Customer service is not rocket science, hire enough decent people and give them some leeway and they'll make everyone happy.
The Economist has pretty good analysis too, but then they would, wouldn't they? This is excellent, and refreshingly grounded.
Pyglet is very slow for releases, it's almost always better to build it right out of hg (pip install hg+https://pyglet.googlecode.com/hg/). It's had Cocoa support for something like a year, at least.