skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but the entire SF Bay Area is much more populous than the Austin-Round Rock Area
What evidence do you have to support your claims?
Have a look, quite a few mfrs have products that either ship with DDWRT or at least advertise "support" (I guess they mean compatibility?) for DDWRT.

http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&...

http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index
True, but there are also good stories with Dell. My housemate a few years ago had a Dell laptop which would no longer charge. Out of warranty they offered to fix it if he sent it in, but he was heading out of the country over Christmas. They sent out a technician to fix it at our house within a few days and everything was sorted.

That was excellent service.

Not everyone has good dealings with them, but it's not all bad.
IPhone naming: when simple gets complicated
visual selection replacement is good too.

:'<,'>s/this/to that/g

I think vim does that automatically when you have a selection active and hit :
I read big physical books in the car, while driving, when at a red light. I wonder if I'll get a ticket for this.
One last time: our friends at LucasArts
Please join me in honoring one last time the LucasArts team.
After you know how to write DDL by hand, can explain the normal forms and know the difference between the various types of joins.
Thanks. This is what I was looking for when I read the article, yet it didn't specifically mention that "manual operation while driving" is what's going to be illegal.
You know crt + H (global find and replace) takes what's highlighted and uses the last thing you looked for it nothing is highlighted.
That sounds like a lot more work...
Judge Strikes Down Age Limits on Morning-After Pill
Tiny espresso cup? At least Americans had taste back then!
Ask HN: I've made an OS WPF Restaurant POS but it isn't interesting anymore.
I'm not an OS man and started it as a pet project. Somehow it is active for two years and users love it but it seems not so many developers are interested on WPF anymore. How can I improve this for attracting more developer attention?<p>https://github.com/emreeren/SambaPOS-3
Table 2: Frame busting conditional statement

we consider following tricks:

document.write('')

setTimeout(function(){document.body.innerHTML='';},1);

window.self.onload = function(evt){document.body.innerHTML='';}

None of them was bypassed further in the paper. (I used Ctrl+F)
Either they're bitter or extremely gullible. Or both.
First time I ever saw a video in 144p on Youtube. Was this ever the main video format on Youtube?
It looks like "least resistance" here means, "I don't want to have to go to the gym, so I bought equipment so I could exercise at home." No shit, Sherlock.

You don't need much equipment to get a good workout at home. Most of the machines at the gym are for isolation exercises. They serve three purposes: they help sell memberships, they're useful if you're injured, and they're useful for serious bodybuilders. This is, I think, common knowledge.

But I think it bears repeating that if you have an injury, free weights might not be for you.

As a side note, Schwarzenegger did an AMA over on /r/fitness yesterday. He was a powerlifter before he was a bodybuilder, and his advice is simple.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/1brg0z/im_back_ama_...
no - it's abundantly not trying to be sensationalist.

Life typically means just that - it's not some shorthand for a term of imprisonment.
How to add a mobile phone UI to your Raspberry Pi project
A common pattern in administering large Linux workstation installations is having the machines poll a central user database which generates new group/password files. Of course ideally you can pull a subset, but if everyone needs to be able to log into that workstation, then everyone needs to be in /etc/passwd. There are other solutions, but this is a simple and effective one that means most people can still log in if your authentication servers are down.
Should scientists consider health care careers
What's the practical alternative, then?

Not the ideal alternative, which we all agree would be nice, but what is something that might actually work?
Austin really is a great place to be a techie.

Submitting resumes last week was a surprisingly optimistic experience. In addition to several referrals from friends, I'm qualified for development work at diverse companies, from games to chemicals to media to nuptials.
Why? Keep it, all the better to confuse competing intelligence agencies.
Insight Cable (recently acquired by TWC, sigh) has been installing a plain modem + cheap Belkin router for years now.

Amusingly, they always set the SSID to 'insight_wifi_XXXX' and their formula for WPA keys is `firstname[0] + lastname + housenumber`.
Now This Is How You Use A Go Pro (video)
Some of this is terrible advice.

You want strength, you do high weight, low rep sets of compound barbell lifts.

Dumbbells are a body-building tool, not a strength building one.

Press machines are horrid horrid horrid. At best they don't target the important stabilizing muscles that compound lifts are supposed to. At worst they can pull your movements into unnatural ranges of motion, causing lasting damage to your joints.

If you have no one to spot you, buy a power rack. It'll work out cheaper, and you'll be better off.

Honestly though, the best way to get in shape is not to MAKE yourself exercise, it's to find something that you ENJOY and do that. Judo, BJJ, boxing, squash, tennis, football, badminton... join a sports club, have fun, and you won't even notice yourself getting fitter.
We should measure our food in exercise not calories
Habit is pretty much the biggest thing here. Looking at the success of P90X and others, it's all about working out REGULARLY. Everything else pretty much builds on the habit factor -- motivation through competition/ finding exercises that are fun, diet to enhance, etc.
Not everyone can afford a lawyer.
AFAIU this is not an "official" Mozilla site. Which you can see in the footer ("Created by Josh Matthews"). But I might be wrong.
What's the big deal? I knew about it since I joined Google+ :P
I'm willing to bet that tons of people get their start this way. Obviously not exactly that way, but in very similar ways.

Access to this kind of information is easier than ever.

All this doom and gloom is self-pitying bullshit.
Io9's New Design
One of the reasons I recommend Zed Shaw's "Learn Python The Hard Way" to people that want to learn is that it tells you to type out the code in the exercises. It's not quite the same as stumbling into it with the lure of having a game to play, but I think it probably has some of the same intoxicating power.

To me the weird part is that nobody gets their start sitting at a computer with somebody else. Or at least, if you do get a group of kids around a single computer, they're sooner going to watch YouTube (or play Minecraft) than learn to program.
catastrophic stall !! nose plant into water at 300 km/h!
This is also a big problem in health tech: the people that are good at identifying the problems (doctors, public health officials, etc.) don't communicate them but instead focus on convincing others to build their vision of the solution (which tend to be inadequate, or even counterproductive).

Given that the author is the founder of health tech startup (EligibleAPI.com), it's hard not to read this as being implicit in the post :)
My ISP also sent an "all-in-one" device when I hooked up.

All I really wanted was to set it up in bridge mode in front of my pfsense box, but couldn't do this. I cloned their router's MAC, put their router back in the box and used my existing 'dumb' modem.

Perhaps this would work for you as well.
One of the hardest parts of applying technology solutions in healthcare is finding providers willing to iterate with you. Hardest for enterprise level innovations, for obvious reasons. Article made me think about the power of someone with a CS background entering every/any part of the healthcare ecosystem (nurse, PA, doc, admin, community health etc...). Every place health system I've worked in favors "one of their own" leading innovation over someone with greater expertise from outside. Storm the castle from inside & out?
> The whole thing is a mess and there is absolutely fuck all you will get out of canonical by either mailing them or raising on launchpad, paid up support or not.

It's open source. For some reason you seem to have unrealistic expectations here. If you're prepared to do the work to fix it, then you'll be heard. If you're not, then you'll only hear echoes of yourself complaining that the problem isn't being fixed.

If Ubuntu has introduced a patch over Debian or upstream, there's usually a reason for it. Here, it looks like it's adding some kind of useful functionality for standalone users.

> and some of them like two major MySQL issues I raised on an LTS release are unresolved after 3 years even though we were paid landscape and supported users

MySQL is a particularly sore point. Upstream (Oracle) have a closed VCS and bug tracker. There's very little that can be done about MySQL issues except to wait for Oracle to fix them. Slackware and Arch have already moved away from MySQL for this reason. If you have a packaging issue, then Ubuntu in time inherits whatever Debian's packaging have done there. There's little different between Debian and Ubuntu's MySQL packaging (they happen to mostly be looked after by the same person wearing two different hats, anyway).

I fail to see how Debian is better here in the general case. Ubuntu inherits most of Debian's goodness. In areas where differs, yes Ubuntu can introduce bugs not present in Debian. But it usually differs in the first place because there is extra functionality available in Ubuntu aimed at the everyday user.

Again, I think most of the complaints about Ubuntu are really complaints that the open source world isn't fixing your special issue. Ubuntu just tends to get the flak because it is popular. People have fewer expectations from other distros for some reason, even though they are all based on the same upstream sources.
In other words, it doesn't matter that it's the image of "a 3.5in floppy disk," it matters that that's a symbol that tells people "save."
Problem with buying your own equipment: I'm in my early 20's, so haven't settled into a permanent residence yet. I move around fairly often; I doubt this is uncommon. Exercise equipment is difficult to move (often by intention!) so buying it is just cause for headache.

I do own one 15 lb sandbell, which is basically just a more versatile medicine ball. I can do enough exercises with it to avoid not being able to move for three days after a game of ultimate. Anything more would be much too inconvenient.
> Is it worth it to launch a digital publication that targets men?

Of course not. A physical, hardcover edition would be way better: if you are targeting men, at least get some benefit whenever you score a solid hit.
I think we have better solutions. Most of my social contacts are on Facebook with an optimized ranking system so I see what's important. Much of my work is handled on wikis instead of people emailing me documents. Links people might have emailed are now posted on twitter or other websites. Quick questions and answers are now in IM. Job inquiries are left on LinkedIn or HR management software.

If your inbox is jammed with work email, then you have a bad job. If your personal email is jammed, then you need to click 'Unsubscribe' more. Or you're a public figure, in which case they always have gotten mail, postal or electronic. The internet just let a lot more people become public figures, so be careful what you wish for.
10 things you MUST DO to become a successful app developer
Austin is not a 'semi-large city' - according to the U.S. Census, it's the 13th largest metro area in the country.
I don't think CS grads, however good, will make much of a dent in mech or chem eng salaries and perks...
History also teaches that secrecy is a tool of the powerful state forces to oppress and kill the weak civilians.
I love vim but I don't think that block editing mode does what they want to do quite as well. Do you have an example where they excluded a line or lines from block editing?

an example:

class="item"
class="item"
class="item"
class="item"

st2 would be able to select the second and fourth line item and be able to change those to "item odd" without touching the first and the third ones. similarly they could do the same and add even to the other two.

class="item"
class="item odd"
class="item"
class="item odd"

this blog post shows it in action:

http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-0-re...
There's an alternate stylesheet for the page, but yeah, it's not very discoverable unless you like to read source code or have some extensions installed. In Firefox, one can switch the stylesheet with View > Page Style, don't know how about other browsers.
This "single entity" argument makes a lot of sense. But then shouldn't NYC be the next step after testing in smaller cities like KC and Austin?
Results on my machine, normalized to C

Native (C): 1.00
Firefox/SpiderMonkey: 1.38
Chrome/v8: 1.97

Firefox and Chrome are running on asm.js code from compiling the C source.

edit: link: https://gist.github.com/kripken/5327216#file-sudoku-asm-js
I'm sorry, but this is a terrible response. Clearly this person's expertise is in web design, so why would you expect them to pick up an entirely new domain of knowledge when they're already able and willing to contribute web-design now?

Having somebody who has only just learnt how to code contributing to a massive codebase is in nobody's best interests. All this will do is increase the workload of the developers who have to review the potentially crap code and, on top of that, it removes a potential contributor from an area where they could contribute far more valuable resources in a domain in which they actually have experience.

Suggesting that the op picks up an additional skill in their spare time is fine, but not at the expense of being able to contribute in an area where they already clearly have experience.
The Last Thing On Your Mind
Not to argue, but attention is not the blocky thing we like to think that it is.
Building a Roguelike in Javascript Part 3a - Carving Caves
That is, of course, true. Were I unable to afford a lawyer, I would politely decline the request. If I could't afford an attorney, I feel like I couldn't afford to get mixed up in something like this either.
The disembodied head on your github profile might not be doing you any favors. You need to get in somewhere and stay for a couple years, then companies will see you as a better potential investment.

I would work with a recruiter. For all the complaining around here, they can really help you sell your story.

At first glace your repos have reasonable code in them...

I would also look at soft skills. A 1 in 10 conversion on phone interviews seems low. Are you failing the phone screen, or the "hello" meet and greet? Where do you think you are going wrong? You can usually read this by their voice/reactions.

edit: you seem to be optimizing the resume part when that falloff is normal (many positions will be filled, unless you are applying to new ones).
Embed the link in a joke/lolcat/puppy/political forward-email and spam it to all of our relatives/acquaintances who regularly do the same.
The absolute most interesting thing about this station, from the article, is that the government wanted an article about it to be deleted. Which means there's probably more there that is interesting. So, they've now broadcast to the world "hey, scrutinize this otherwise innocuous-looking radio site to find what we wanted to hide."

Someone didn't think this thing through.

They should have just edited it to make it sound more boring or to contain red herring information like "This site is notable for its former use as communications center and currently for the largest pygmy marmoset population in Europe." Anyone reading that would click the pygmy marmoset link and the base would have been hidden in plain sight.
It's funny that the two comments so far defend male literacy.

Maybe instead of arbitrary arguments for or agains this, we should probably try to track down believable sources and therefore help this guy:

http://www.lloydshepherd.com/2012/07/21/tracking-down-data-o...
For all the whining about US-centricism on HN, let people take an interest in France for once.
I have yet to pay, atleast two if not three years in.
I've plugged this here before, but so what: http://stronglifts.com/stronglifts-5x5-beginner-strength-tra....

The key observation here is that your average person doesn't need a particularly sophisticated routine to get "average in shape" (if that makes sense). I think the conventional wisdom that you need to be eating health food all the time and running an hour a day makes people feel like it's just not worth the effort. If you're like most people and not even getting 7-8 hours of sleep, an hour a day of working out isn't in the cards. But: "eat lots of protein and work out 3x30 minutes a week" is so much more approachable.
I have found kettle bells to be both effective and mobile.
> I hit 90 pounds per hand on the flat bench press (up from 25 per hand at the start).

I call BS unless he's tinkering with terminology. 50 lbs max bench press to 180 lbs max in 5 months is impossible.
I like driving / motorcycle riding too much to agree with this, but it really is ridiculous that some people are afraid of computers driving on public roads. When I see a Google self-driving car on the road, I am relieved.
Is the female/male fiction ratio 80/20?
I've heard it as high as 100 people a day, but it's also a part of the whole 'the sky is falling'/'welcome to Austin, please don't move here' attitude that pervades the entire city's culture. Also, 'Austin was great before you got here.' So I take those statistics with a grain of salt.
What if a lawyer step forward wanting to help? Wod he need to learn how to code? Your comment is disrespectful. This person is asking for opportunities to help, and ou response is learn something valuable. As if design was not. Mozilla needs designers too. More so with the mobile OS looming on the horizon.
I know it's slightly off topic, but with the risk of being downvoted:

you want to see some really old-looking pages and feel some nostalgia? Just go to DMOZ - http://www.dmoz.org/ - and click through the categories. They have hundreds of pages that felt right out of 90s. (If they work at all.)
As someone who would have been ran into multiple times by texting drivers, had I not been paying full attention to what was happening around me, I wish these sorts of laws were rigorously pursued.

However, I think policing of this really only makes sense in some areas, those where there are a high number of pedestrians or cyclists who are at far greater risk of serious injury.
You can find more episodes of Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe (the spin-off) on the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles

https://archive.org/details/netcafe
The entry 13" Retina MBP costs €1530. (€1550 here for some reason). The comparable one (256GB SSD, better CPU) costs €1730. [1]

In comparison, the Dell one is €1400. €300 is a significant price difference IMO. Of course, they're not entirely the same. The Dell one still has a better CPU, the Apple one has a higher res display. The Apple one obviously comes with OS X, which could mean an extra €100 for a Windows license if he really needs it. Then again, his site [3] indicates that his previous computer was a Macbook which he ran Linux on, so I guess it's irrelevant.

[1]: http://www.apple.com/it/macbook-pro/specs-retina/
[2]: http://www.dell.com/it/p/xps-13-l321x-mlk/pd?oc=n0013z26&...
[3]: http://volpino.github.io/#home
Also, yoga. It's ubiquitous, you can start small, and although you may, you don't have to interact with people so it's a great stepping stone for a shy person.
That's not what CA law says.
>>We could all have our passwords publicly available (that would be an interesting experiment), but I'll guess that you wouldn't be willing to post yours here.

Come off it. Hyperbole much? Why don't you take it even a bit further and in the name of transparency have everybody walk around nude so that you know, we can see that you are not carrying any weapons.

You know the comment you replied to did not talk about transparency to this extreme.
You are putting a lot of faith in technology that doesn't exist nearly how you imagine it.
Boston Dynamics: Dedicated to the Science and Art of How Things Move.
Austin has a huge incorporated area. Yes, there are some small towns at the edges (Round Rock, Pflugerville), but the city constantly grows and takes in new developments.
Apparently it is their only code in C according to this!
No editor wars intended, but for someone interested: multiple cursors for Emacs: https://github.com/emacsmirror/multiple-cursors

Do watch the video linked to on this page!
> but try looking at it from a non-American perspective.

I think you mean the pro-censorship perspective..
The Financial Times Writes About How The City Of Medellin Has Changed
True, but they are still out to make a profit, it goes without saying that if they do not at least generate enough revenue for expenses they can not continue to exist at that rate in perpetuity - but the reality is profit is required to create Trusts to pay pre-existing liabilities such as bonds and pensions, not just cover overhead - in fact we are seeing major cities file bankruptcy setting new precedent in bankruptcy law. See, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-03-31/news/sns-rt-us...

I can not help but like your spelling of organised with an "s", I think I am dropping the "z" and using "s" from now on. Wish I could give a 2nd +1 just for that.
The Google cars aren't really so powerful yet. They defer to humans in anything but perfect highway conditions or a completely closed area with other cars banned. Without an accurate map, they can't drive. I think they don't even change lanes independently.
nobody gets their start sitting at a computer with somebody else

My experience tells me that when you are just a bit beyond hello-world, it's way better to sit alone and maybe even disconnect from the Internet. I was starting with nothing more than a book on Delphi and the help system of Delphi, which included Win2k SDK, and feel that only by this way you could develop good debugging skills. I know some people who are learning software development, and the single skill they need badly is troubleshooting complex problems on their own and not relying on colleagues.

edit: now I see that my point is about sitting together with someone more skilled, but you're talking about kids leaning together, which is totally different.
That is where, i think, the raspberry pi excels. I bought one for my 11 year old niece and we got busy immediate g with minecraft and python with it. Lots of fun and crazy code has been had. Plus she looks forward to weekends when we sit down and code new stuff for it.
I can drive perfectly "non-recklessly" whilst operating a phone, etc.

However, put a dangerous situation in front of me, and I'm going to be in trouble if I was not paying full attention.

It's much better to provide a disincentive for bad behaviour, than attempt to prove that this bad behaviour was a contributing factor in an accident.

Much like speeding.
Your opinion might change after someone sends messages to your contacts as you by spoofing your phone number (very easy).
Built in GPS should probably disable input when the car is moving, to discourage distractions.
Finally an article relevant to Matt's website domain.
I feel pretty comfortable putting my faith in experimental technology rather than average human beings.

Nothing against human beings of course, just when it comes to operating motor vehicles it ain't much to beat.
As someone not old enough to have seen this take place live, I did appreciate this presentation so much. Now one can only wonder when will our generation bare witness to us landing on Mars?