skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't a consumer product - prettiness has nothing to do with usability. This is an extreme power user environment where discoverability and aesthetics take a back seat to consistency and reliability.

Think of it less like a computer program and more like the cockpit of an airplane. It needs to be powerful, it can require training before use, it needs to be consistent, it needs to be fault-tolerant and mistake-tolerant, and it doesn't need to look good.
Ruby Manor 4.0 - introduction video
Not ugly enough. You need to make the white space less uniform, and the line-heights less generous.

Just kidding, this is terrible. Great work!
I was in my 40s before I ever played a console game. I don't think this is an artifact of nostalgia for one's youth. The PS2 was the dominant console before this generation, and it definitely supported a more varied set of games, many of which were whimsical. Same could be said of the PS1, I think (although I only played those long after their heyday).

The games on the XBox, and even more so on the XBox360, have felt like a much narrower nich, heavily aimed at the "Rated M" audience... The PS3 has been a little (but only a little) broader. Nintendo emphasizes another niche but it has definitely been marginalized.

I agree that many of these games migrated from the PC (or expanded to) to the XBox platform, but what's missing, for me, are the alternatives, to the point where I don't plan to buy another XBox. (Not sure I'll buy another PSn, either -- will have to see more than came with this generation.)
>It's still difficult to beat perl in a production Unix environment to fix a hot issue, especially if you know your way around regular expressions.

That may have been true at one point, but what advantage does Perl now have to any number of other languages with great RegEx support?
This looks brilliant. My only concern being, consdering an extra layer comes in, how much is the performance affected by this?
It's difficult to provide advice without knowing a little bit more about your motivations. For instance, why did you leave the bigCo? Was the work unfulfilling, or were there other issues?

Without knowing more about your situation, I have two comments to offer:

1. Make sure you're exercising regularly. When you get out of shape, neurotransmitter ratios can make your problems feel a lot worse than they are. I've seen big boosts in mental acuity and feelings of well-being in my own life every time I've gotten back into shape after a hiatus.

2. Make sure to keep things in perspective. You're clearly ambitious, which can be a good thing, but we have to remember that even in our field's less-exciting jobs we get to solve problems and work on puzzles all day and generally receive 99th percentile pay (globally speaking). It sounds trite, but the phrase "first world problems" has helped me see my situation in a more objective light in the past.

Good luck!
The missing images icon is a fantastic touch, it's only missing an annoying mouse cursor effect (I'm guilty of using them).

This bought a tear to my eyes, right before the burning, but it's very nice.

Also, did I see rounded corners and the lack of nested tables?
With YCombinators investment in Watsi, is it a charity investment, or do they actually intend to make money off Watsi, and if so, how?
"Site created with Notepad" hehe http://divshot.github.io/geo-bootstrap/img/test/notepad.gif
This is the first time I hear about this. Could you tell us how many talented developers there are in the "bunch"?
Someone should abstract this out (for an arbitrary number of languages) into a program that would provide annotations for vim or emacs or...
Cooking up a half-baked bad idea involving ssh keys
How "integrated" as in "how many users" are these pageviews? What is the target audience of your app? What is the type of the app? Game, business app?

How long did you need to acquire these 3M page views? What is the ad/sales revenue (if applicable) resulting from these pageviews?

How long does a unique user stay on your app (i.e. how long and how does he use the app)?
You're 6 days too late :)
Typo on my part. My comment was in reference to this:

"It seems pretty brazen to ask people to give the company some slack on repaying deposits when they haven't really come clean on what went wrong."

Which is exactly what Cyprus is doing with its banks right now. They've frozen most of the assets of their depositors and are taking a percentage of the existing accounts.

And still no one wants to actually analyze the problem to see what's wrong.. the answer is simply "throw more money at it."
Life lessons learned as a software engineer
Put an email in your profile or email me.Maybe I can help you with that depending on the situation.Thanks.
It's a charity donation
Note: if you don't trust this, paste into a text editor!

It works with this CSS:

position: absolute; left: -100px; top: -100px
Nice to see another GT person on HN! (Did my undergrad there.) Have you worked with Dr. Sherrill? It's funny you mention him; I was actually reading one of his presentations on electron-electron correlation last night.
Mobile games are a very different niche, as are flash games. LittleBigPlanet is defintely a counter-example (for PS3), but there aren't too many others.
One can conceive of it, and yet it's never been done. Curious.
Wow - this is spot-on! I most definitely built a few of these in my day and even used the same "user construction" .gif.
Great trip down memory lane. Thanks for reminding us what not to do. ;)
Nice collection of one-liners:

http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt
So this researcher went from notifying Linksys to open disclosure to the internet after only a month? That hardly seems responsible.
Bribery is free speech too. Yet bribery is illegal. So where do we draw the line? Consider the special interest groups today that take this approach: "I'm not coordinating with the Senator, but I did start spending millions of dollars of attack ads on her opponent as soon as she voted against Cap and Trade on carbon emissions, and after she left Congress I hired her as a 'consultant' paying her a multi-million dollar salary." Currently that's on one side of the line. I think it needs to be on the other side of the line.
If your program is well factored then it probably won't be hard to switch to IO ten levels deep. Bonus: Haskell makes refactoring easy!
Yes, that was the point I was making - your original post was implying that people won't use a Bloomberg feature because "other people might work out how they're trading".
What kind of trade secrets this guy could possess that made GOOG feel so threatened to make this offer, since nobody is indispensable, right? Care to shed some lights on this?

I know GOOG has been dominating the search market for more than a decade, does it also have the same position in the ad market?
So does the U.S.
That's what's clever about his proposal. You get matching funds from the government if you accept limitations on the contributions you receive.
What Gun Guys Think (incl. feeling unrepresented by the NRA)
Wow, I have forgotten just how ugly parts of the early web were. This theme is pure genius, it reminds me of the olden times :)

That it still is reactive makes it even more surreal.
I can assure you that many undergrads and grad students are happy to use the symbol eta.
>>what can I do?

Hosting your own gallery and deciding public-private-public-semi-lockdown must have occurred to you I reckon. And you can sure do that. Keep a back up all the time.

AAMOF if you've enough enough at your shared server or VPS then it will become another backup, in addition to local and remote( sth like backblaze, crashplan).

PS. I didn't use Snapjoy much but had few photos there. Just casually put over there after creating my a/c. It was some referral. I can't login now(it's alright) and the good old blog post link, is still there, in which they they promised our photos were safe they will get back to us. Did they?
A Practical Intro to Data Science
> the most popular alternative system being one of the only worse ones

Which is this?
Ah yes. I've a vague recollection at the lack of Ruby at the time ;)
Was the Xbox 360 really a huge success? It came second or third in sales for its generation of consoles. 75 million units in seven years is a small number compared to mobile devices. Android sold 144 million devices in Q4 2012 alone.

I think the next generation of consoles are going to struggle against cheaper systems like OUYA and tablets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_wars#Worldwide_sales_fi...

Wii – 99.38 million as of 31 December 2012

Playstation 3 – (IDC January 2013 estimate: "about 77 million")

Xbox 360 – 75.9 million as of 31 December 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone#Historical_sales_fig...
At least it's responsive.
I would wager a large contributor to this is that the idioms of some of these specialized fields do not generalize to other use cases.

So, while some researchers have gotten it such that a relatively straight forward implementation in a new language with new tools is better than the old way, the folks working the old way have not exactly stagnated.

This seems especially likely when you consider that for many of the really fast implementations, it is not that they are using no abstractions. The abstractions they are using are very close to the machine, because the machine is the abstraction they are using. (That make sense?)
I agree that deadlines are more evil than good.
I get that, I would have just thought even with a product optimized for the traits you mention would be a little more advance. That said I realize I am making a snap judgement here from a single screenshot of the software which is probably not entirely fair of me. I was simply under the impression that the tools traders used were a little more advanced looking I guess.
Yeah, I did. Sorry about that.
If you showed a teenager this theme, I don't think they'd believe the web was ever that ugly.
Regarding epen allocation.
What if only 2 engineers are needed and 100 are interested ?
I'd disagree, I'd say these are not the underlying problem, they're symptoms.

The underlying problem is the disengagement of the electorate and the horrible process of running a campaign. There are lots of reasons for those things but if you want one big villain to point a finger at, then it should be the media. The media have turned elections into a scandal-driven celebrity-driven mess, almost completely divorced from the issues. Sane people avoid running for office partly because of the horrible negative impact the media will have on their lives.

And then you get a process where good candidates are actively driven away early and where nothing of substance is seriously discussed in the media. And we wonder why the system is full of narcissistic glory seekers who think they can get away with anything.
Basics of Git Rebase
Big Dutch hoster attacked by DDOS
Now, the next step would be to realize that the underlying problem here is the existence of Government itself.

It's an arrangement where a small group of people:

- Is in a position to accept bribes in exchange for influence.
- Decides everything for 300 million *individuals*.
- Uses other people's money (or conjures more out of thin air).
- Is not responsible for their actions.

What could possibly go wrong?
Lasher is a badass.
Maybe I will play the bastard in this role, but I respected Ebert far more for triumphing over what he went through than his actual reviews.

I watched (and loved) Siskel & Ebert when I was a kid living in NY. When I saw it, it came on late at nite on a Sunday after The Twilight Zone or Tales from the Darkside which always scared me.

I'll still never forgive Ebert for giving a lukewarm (possibly thumbs down) for Heat after all these years. Don't get me wrong. I love the guy because he loves arts but I just won't ever forget.

Every time I loved a movie Ebert would piss all over it while Siskel loved it. Needless to say, you can tell which fan I am of the two. With that said, the greatest thing about him is that he overcame any obstacle presented before him. Maybe it's the love of a good woman that allows this.

I'm always the student but I can't figure out how to be as great as he was.
> Incumbents have a HUGE built-in publicity advantage

This isn't true 100% of the time. In recent years people have been pretty eager to vote out incumbents, in some cases in favor of people who can barely speak in complete sentences...

> the only way a challenger can counter that is by spending money on ads and events.

There's also the press.

That last bit is interesting, thanks.

edit: I remain amused at what people will downvote
I had a visceral reaction after this page loaded. Well-done on the theme.
There is Idris: http://idris-lang.org/

It seems similar to what plinkplonk is talking about.
I think Glacier shall be better as you wanted sth for backup. Some data that is just going to sit there needn't be costing those many dollars as it would cost you with S3. Reliability is all the same for all practical purposes. I am waiting for a Glacier client that saves my data in some format that I can read with any other client with the same key. Arq is Arq-to-Arq only.

Another option is CrashPlan. Been using it. You can have Glacier with CrashPlan too. It's that cheap.

How many GBs/TBs?
One of many examples by which making the web a better "application-delivery" platform makes it less secure, less reliable, less predictable and more tedious in its original role of sharing text, images and links.
"The Right Way". This part made me especially LOL.
Looks broken for me in Chrome 27.0.1453.15 beta
I'm 17; was the internet ever actually this bad? That spinning "HOT" gif next to "Buttons" is giving me cancer.
what about disciple and mu ?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10784124/non-lazy-branch-...

http://anil.recoil.org/papers/2011-cufp-scribe-preprint.pdf
These extra features make CrashPlan such a killer app otherwise I would have ditched them long ago for BackBlaze which has a native Mac app and their (BackBlaze's) interface is like at least 13X* times better than CrashPlan.

*note: a random number out of frustration. They have one(native app) in works since 2-3 years it seems.
Or maybe he wants to have GPIO pins in a Mac environment with Apple support and guaranteed control from iOS devices.
How are mobile games niche? Angry Bird has 1 billion downloads.
>was the internet ever actually this bad?

Yes.
What you're saying is the underlying problem is human nature. I could agree with that. But you are not going to change human nature.
But what if I, an individual, do not want one of the candidates to win. I should be able to do anything in my power to cause them to lose - write books, op-eds, documentaries, commercials etc. Additionally, what limits do we put on newspapers, famous people, unions, employees, news programs?

"In the final week of the 2012 election, MSNBC ran no negative stories about President Barack Obama and no positive stories about Republican nominee Mitt Romney, according to a study released Monday by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. "[1]

It seems that any restriction starts to favor certain groups. For instance, unions organizing volunteers

"The A.F.L.-C.I.O.’s president, Richard Trumka, said on Thursday that the nation’s labor unions would have 128,000 volunteers working on the “final four days” of the 2012 campaign, saying these volunteers would knock on 5.5 million doors and make 5.2 million phone calls." [2]

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/21/msnbc-obama-coverag...

[2] http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/labor-unions-t...
I think the filibuster would be fine if politicians actually had to hold the floor, Mr. Smith goes to washington style. These guys are lazy, entitled and have to make a lot of fundraising calls -- being on the floor that long would actually hurt their bankroll.

As it is, they just file a procedural motion and bang, nothing gets done.
Westwood Studios' Legend of Kyrandia series arguably although it's themes were somewhat darker, the overall style was definitely more light-hearted than today's visceral FPS.
Cartoon Parenting
Even worse: http://www.karl-fritsch.de/
I'm pretty sure you can find my location from any number of other things, such as geotagged photos I post, so this doesn't seem like such a terrible intrusion. Not to mention that "log in to this server, we already have your public key set up and ready" isn't exactly inviting.
If you want to experiment with some filters like this in real time, I made a simple page to work with your webcam like this: http://mizzouacm.github.io/javascript-workshop/

You can fill in the filter function to see the effects in real time. You can also get screenshots by clicking the filtered video. It's pretty fun to see what interesting filters you can come up with, and I'm hoping to host an intro to javascript workshop utilizing the demo.

I can't take credit for the idea; I got it from the wonderful Hackers At Berkeley workshop[1]. I am starting a similar club at my university and wanted to do the same kind of workshop. I rewrote the demo because I wanted it to be real time, and I also just wanted the fun of implementing it myself :)

[1]
Blog about workshop: http://blog.hackersatberkeley.com/?p=97
Demo: http://introjs.hackersatberkeley.com/
Leading Thinking and Books on DevOps, IT and Business IT Revolution
Oh yeah. Low points (for me) were when it seemed like every site had <bgsound>.
Oh, yes. Oh, yes, yes.

However, it was only (mostly?) like that for personal/very-low-budget pages. It's not like all designers back then had suddenly lost their sense of aesthetic.

It's not very different from the MySpace profiles of a few years ago.
I don't think there is any right that is unbreakable. A person can choose to not have medical treatment even if it kills them, meaning the state is willing to allow someone's right to life to be infringed (by that person). A person's right to a medical treatment can come up against someone else's right to life (in the case of abortion). Right to free speech is balanced against immediate public panic (the "fire in a crowded theatre" thought experiment), and is also balanced against someone's right to a good name (i.e. libel and slander law). The right to own property is balanced against the state's right to tax you. The right to privacy is balanaced against your child's right to not be abused (meaning the state can look at what you're doing). etc. etc.

Can you succinctly name a right that never needs balancing against another?
It cracks me up that people believe that money is the only way to influence legislators.

How many congressmen have kids, siblings, spouses, mistresses who work for companies in their districts? How many Senators have golden parachutes into the private sector after leaving? How many politicians, advisors, etc have book deals, speaking tours, etc.. which happen to be announced right after (days) their retirement?

And that's not even including the fact that Congress' staffs and spouses are not covered by insider trading rules: http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/19/politics/stock-act-loophole
The implication is if you are white, and especially if you are male, you don't deserve what you have, or your opinion doesn't count.
The original website for Space Jam (the movie with Michael Jordan) is still up:

http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

Not quite as bad as the OP's link, but still--that was a high-profile professionally designed site in 1996.
A simpler method and probably just as effective is to ask ... I'm in Boalsburg, PA. The reality is that you can't do much with my public key other than giving me permissions, which I'm free to use or ignore. If I lose my private keys, I'm going to be scrambling!
I read it as the circumstance being ironic in that Mexico is much further south and one might not expect to find so many ingredients native to that area also to be sourced locally in Vermont.

I guess the "irony" might be found in having to be in Vermont, of all places, to find locally sourced Mexican cuisine. I don't know whether that is really "ironic", in that there is a significant movement for locally sourced food in Mexico, as well. (In which case, one might better describe the Vermont experience as "surprising", rather than "ironic". Meaning, it's not ironic because you can find locally sourced Mexican cuisine in Mexico, as well.)

For those wanting to revisit the meaning of ironic, one exercise might be to run the lyrics of Alanis Morrisette's song through your head:

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/alanismorissette/ironic.html
The 90s were truly the golden age of the internet.
You can do parallel computations in Python e.g., many numpy functions can utilize more than one CPU:

import numpy as np

N = 5000
# create a couple NxN matrices with random elements
a = np.random.rand(N, N)
b = np.random.rand(N, N)
# perform matrix multiplication
c = np.dot(a, b)

Cython makes it easy to write C extensions for Python if necessary.

You can also do a compute-intensive work in parallel using multiple processes:

import random
from multiprocessing import Pool

def fire(nshots, rand=random.random):
return sum(1 for _ in range(nshots) if (rand()**2 + rand()**2) < 1)

def main():
pool = Pool() # use all available CPUs
nshots, nslices = 10**6, 10
nhits = sum(pool.imap(fire, [nshots // nslices] * nslices))
print("pi = {pi:.5}".format(pi=4.0 * nhits / nshots))

if __name__ == '__main__':
main()

The code calculates Pi using Monte Carlo method http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/MonteCarloEstimateForPi/
This was once the Microsoft home page: http://www.microsoft.com/misc/features/features_flshbk_hp1.h...

Then there's the official Space Jam site (the movie with Michael Jordan, you might want to ask IMDB) which is still up (Kudos to WB:) http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm Click around there to see some spinning buttons and other "nice" stuff.
My huge problem with Perl is readability. Sometimes, across teams, there are just too many ways of doing some simple thing and one is plain perl code to one person, is a 5-minute and stare at this line hack to another.

I, personally, haven't noticed this happening any more in large Perl projects than with any other language. Yes they happen but, like with other languages, they're usually opportunities for team members to learn one thing or the other (either "this is what this does" or "please write comprehensible code to the rest of the team" depending ;-)
Significant Indentation in Lisp
Tips to Find and Validate Potential Customers
This is really silly. The end-game is a coarse geolocation? Most people use real names on Github, or freely discuss their locality on Reddit... You don't even need the ssh keys (or the honeypot!) to tie a username to a specific area.

Seriously, if you can design a honeypot that can convince programmers to log in with SSH, maybe you should just launch a Start-up.
Facebook Home: Another Android Lock Pick
I will use significant whitespace for several important reasons for the programming language of my current project, and came across the referenced newsgroup discussion. Didn't think that this topic would be so huge :-) Even people like Peter Norvig participate in the discussion.
One real (but unlikely) issue is if people are careless; comparing public keys could reveal identities that are normally hidden.
A Eulogy for LucasArts (in pictures)
You bet! As far as I know, you're the first person to read it.
"There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.” Michael Crichton
Guys thank you very much for your comments, it is very encouraging that all of you have the same positive opinion on code-learning. I will definitely keep up with CS50 classes. Thank you for your feedback/ support.Alex
Oops yes. I see that now. I told you I was rusty!