skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You shouldn't be looking away or tempted to do so. As a bicycle rider I'd appreciate it.

You know darn well you study a map far more and require far more brain distraction checking the screen than hitting the next button on your media player.
This is an astute observation. Additionally, Apple just opened a large campus in Austin, which is also home to Dell. It's a good roll out strategy: middle of nowhere, semi-large city, then bay area/chicago and maybe even NYC.
Ann: Bitcaddy - Bitcoin Addresses Shortener
dont get stuck in command mode on us...
Wow, some real schadenfreude going on there.

I really don't understand some of the bile that follows Persson around.

Are people really that fucking bitter that a guy who by his own admission is a complete klutz (programming and business-wise) can become so successful?
The most awesome feature of SublimeText for me is multiple-cursor editing (Ctrl-D on a word). It only bothers me when I can't skip next occurrences easily (It's possible, but it's hard)

It surprises me how users of other major editors don't use multiple cursors in their day to day editing tasks. It'd be awesome if subvim included the best solution vim community has to offer in this regard.
Yes, a military radio station. They are far from uncommon, and certainly have super secret things happening in them. But their existence and location? Not really a first class secret, nor one exclusively revealed by Wikipedia. :)
Here's why: In 95% of the cases you create a git branch, you check it out. In 95% of the cases you create a directory, you do not cd into it.
The problem with transparency is that there are those who would exploit it. 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. So I could understand the french gov't not willing to divulge this information at the moment either.

If history has been any lesson, conflict will come, regardless of whether you want it or not.
The tax of new: how to add features without killing your product
In an ideal world, whether code is open source is neutral. The extra ease of finding bugs is balanced by the fact that people can and do find then fix them. Theory says that these two are, to first order, equivalent. So end user security is the same. (But code quality tends to be higher with open source software.)

However whenever code moves towards being more open, you've got all of the vulnerabilities of closed source software, and all of the bug-finding ease of open source software. This is the worst of all possible worlds.

Therefore #5 is true. The fact that you have easy access to known-to-be-crappy code increases the vulnerability of that code.
I was pulled over for this exact reason in CA. I went to court, showed cell phone logs that I had not made or received any calls or texts, and the case was dismissed. The judge said specifically that "I'm not convinced that using maps is any less dangerous than texting, but I have to rule as a matter of law that if you were not communicating with anyone, then it is not illegal." Apparently angry birds would have been okay too.

(note that this happened in 2012, before the ruling in this article)
When should I use an ORM?
New Yandex Finnish data center to enjoy cool climate and trim costs
I've always been surprised that people bother installing Ubuntu on anything other than a personal laptop or desktop computer. Genuine question: what does Ubuntu offer as a server OS that isn't available in plain Debian?
An important, but rarely overtly stated reason for foreigners to attend grad school in the United States is immigration. A graduate degree (esp in STEM disciplines) is a relatively secure way of getting a student visa, getting a job while on OPT, getting an H1B and finally a Green Card. Of course it does not mean that immigration is the sole reason for asians to attend US grad school in hordes, but it is an important one.

Funnily enough, when you apply for your student visa, you're required to assert that you will return to your country after your education in the US is over :-)
From reading the post it seems fixing the three issues mentioned would have been faster than writing all this. Honestly, if you can understand the code, those are really minor things.
Pressing Ctrl-K,D to skip an entry is quite cumbersome, especially if you missed an entry and there is no way of undoing the last selection.
Yes, but you'd be getting more of the pie. The pie remains the same size, granted, but you can still make quite a lot from owning a significant portion of the processing power.
Multiple view maps
What use is that? If people don't know enough to upload a file to their router, they definitely won't know enough to configure it after it's been done.
Since Eric S. Raymond wrote Cathedral and the Bazaar in the 90s, it's been clear that (often) contributing code with an Open Source license results in lower development costs in the long run because you don't have the overhead of maintaining your own private fork. For example...

Lets say you pick up a piece of Open Source software, implement it and make some bug fixes and new features along the way. By contributing those bug fixes you avoid the overhead of having to merge your own bug fixes and features into the code base again and again as you pull in other bug fixes and features from other developers. By releasing your bug fixes and features into the open source code base you have a competitive advantage over your competitors who maintain a private fork of the same software.

Open Source is not charity. It's profit driven. For those that say "it's the right thing to do," either they're doing it for the competitive advantage mentioned above without realizing it or they might just be wasting their time releasing useless open source code. That's not to say I don't think releasing your code is often the right thing to do, I'm CTO for a nonprofit bringing Open Source to Open Educational Resources (http://ole.org) and collaborative development in farming (http://farmhack.net), I'm clearly no crazy capitalist but we use open source for the competitive advantage because as a nonprofit, why not do the best you can do? Open source rocks. Thank you to the giants who pioneered Open Source.
More or less everyone, I imagine.
There is probably an explicit copyright policy inside the book.

If there isn't you should assume you are violating their rights if you are publicly publishing their works and you would be better off using a private repository.
BareMetal OS -- a 64-bit OS written in Assembly for x86-64 systems
Vim has block editing mode (ctrl v - select, shift i, write text, esc) and the ability to record macros. With those two features you can do everything multiple cursors does and more!
Right, but municipal bodies in some places are still organised as corporations.
Excuse my ignorance, but this is a desktop tool. How does a single desktop machine have hundreds or users and groups?
I think the idea is to prevent the reckless behavior before it becomes reckless driving, the same way that drunk driving is illegal even if you're not driving recklessly. For example, if you get pulled over for a busted tail light and the officer smells alcohol, you're going to jail.

Not saying I agree with it, just trying to expound on their logic.
Back in 1999 the common knowledge among geeks was actually "build your own."
You think flaming against software you don't happen to like is the hallmark of a professional? For what it's worth, I don't portray a "conflict", I allege in no uncertain terms that it is people like you who try to instigate it. You speak in absolutes as far as your personal preference in software is concerned, making it clear that you think all people who use anything else are unprofessional idiots. I'm not sure you are aware how arrogant and abrasive this sounds.

I'm not writing this to attack you personally, but I want to call attention to a kind of behavior I think is not acceptable, and it sure as hell isn't productive in any setting - least of all a discussion with a diverse group of developers. You should not be able to get away with this so easily. Whether intentionally or not, you are poisoning the discourse.

You get to say all the reasons why you like product X, and all the reasons why you dislike product Y, and then we can have a discussion based on these points. Just asserting X is obviously superior, and Y users are ignorant nincompoops is not OK.
I think it depends on whose perspective you're talking about. I think for typical engineers, especially in EE/CS, the increase in earning power from the PhD doesn't make up for the six years of lost income and career progression. But I think from the point of view of society, it's absolutely worth it. The most brilliant engineers I know are PhDs. They have this incredible depth of theoretical understanding of a particular area that I think is hard to achieve without those years of dedicated study.
This seems rad, my only 2cents is that using modifier keys is not very vimmy. But altogether really cool. Nice work.
Yes that seems to be the case http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/andy-gilmore-2
Read the paper I posted up thread.
A ton of companies have tried to monetize spare cpu cycles. The problem is that you can't do anything valuable with them. Most problems aren't trivially scalable, you have to assume malicious users so that means you need to essentially double efforts, and third parties aren't comfortable sending data through the system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_radio_station_of_Pierr...
As a power user, I like updated packages on desktops without the hassle of running testing, and a debian-like system for servers with a predictable release date and packages newer than 1996 for servers.

I love Debian but Ubuntu really did wonders for Linux adoption. This said, wherever squeeze is modern enough, I will use it instead.
cloud-init for programmatically configuring new instances https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CloudInit
Just tried C-D on my rarely used Sublime Text, but I'm not sure if I'd personally prefer that over something like `:%s/one/two/gc`.
No harm in putting it back up on the front page again, I never saw it the first time.
Likely would not be detecting the type of pollution levels that you'd want, but it has expansion capabilities. Funded by Kickstarter. I'm looking forward to getting mine:

http://www.sensorcon.com/sensordrone/
CS Outreach Magic
Puppet/dd?
That's a nice idea, but what if they go out of business before the arrests are made?
I agree with you on some Thunderbird bug particulars, and I weighed in and in at least two cases helped turn things around:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668655

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579372

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478468

Sorry I was not earlier on the scene to help -- people are supposed to mail me when my early warning systems don't see a problem in the community.

Honest question: did you try to intervene or get involved in any of these cases?

/be
Would this acquisition just serve to take it out of the market? Google already has a text-messaging (a better one) with Google Voice. I ditched my $20/month texting plan a few months back and have been quite pleased, especially with my ability to open my texts in a browser and use a physical keyboard.

Granted, the privacy is completely nonexistant; my texts might as well be on my facebook wall. But that doesn't really bother me.
They're not going to be able to legislate safe driving. Drivers are oblivious to the danger they wield with two-ton blocks of steel. It's not just distractions, it's a total lack of care.

Piling on more conditions and limitations on phone usage will create further contempt for these laws. Light-up road signs that threaten fines as consequence -- ignoring the dangerous consequence of distraction -- don't help.
> And we do need to fight that at each and every turn because until governments get it

I read an interesting article somewhat related to this:

http://krypt3ia.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/digital-natives-dig...

It uses Anonymous and Wikileaks as examples (which you may or may not disagree with), but I'm linking it for the general discussion about a sort of digital generation gap, how the "governing class" of people hasn't caught up with this digital era quite yet.
Switch to 5 GHz. You'll need a new router and WiFi adapters, but they're available. You won't have quite the range, but even business locations with dozens of 2.4 GHz networks (e.g. Physician office buildings) will have 1-2 5GHz networks total, and most off the shelf consumer laptops don't support it right now so adoption will take a while.
The code does seem pretty bad. At the minimum, if such a hack is necessary for some reason, it should have been documented.

But let's be mature about this. Ubuntu is a combined effort and includes a lot of volunteer work. Have you sent a quiet note to the developer who wrote this code? His name is plainly visible on the quilt patch.

Why you have to call out open source code that you think is bad in an open forum? Have you looked at openssl recently, for example? Why is this worse? Or is it just because Ubuntu is everyone's favorite target at the moment?

You're being affected because of a pretty obscure use case (NFS home directories), which is something that the vast majority of Ubuntu desktop users do not use. Do you have a support contract with Canonical for your large enterprise deployment? If you don't and prefer to go it on your own, then why haven't you submitted a patch for this yourself?

Have you asked for a full refund?

If you don't like "the Ubuntu clown car", why are you riding on it at all?
I'd rather have debian stable. At least the packages actually work. Ubuntu is so damn unreliable (even LTS).
> Computer magazines of the day would print strings of code on their back pages, which could be transcribed by the reader to create a playable game, and this code-by-numbers task gave Persson his first experience of what would later become his profession. “My sister would read the lines out to me and I would tap them into the computer,” he says. “After a while, I figured out that if you didn’t type out exactly what they told you then something different would happen, where you finally ran the game. That sense of power was intoxicating.”

It's kind of weird to think that no-one gets their start like this anymore.
It sure is public and notable now.
They still haven't updated it with Servo as a Rust project? I'm slightly disappointed.
Routable, an in-app URL router for iOS and Android
Buzz Aldrin will punch you in the face!

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronauts_Gone_Wild#section_...
The only way forward to a sane future is to ban all humans driving all cars. Increase funding and scale of self-driving car efforts to get them on the road as quickly (and safely) as possible, then ban all the humans. I can see no other reasonable end to this insanity. 30,000 to 40,000 Americans die every year in car accidents that are pretty much all human error. Ban the human drivers.
And how would we decide to whom to extend the certificate? To whom should we entrust "conversions"?

You are talking around the larger problem, which is a huge one for many extension and app ecosystems (e.g. Google Play, where weak-AI scanners fail to stop malware and spamware).

Mozilla uses community review, which works much better but is of course imperfect, a human thing.

No one that I know of has solved this larger problem. I would be interested in research pointers and tips (not complaints).

/be
The Top 8 Priorities for Any One-Man Marketing Team
The five year Long Term Support edition.
It would be cool if this were decentralized by adding the shortened address mappings to the blockchain.
Microblogs: Small beginnings
Show HN : Spacefuck Programming Language - Your code is invisible
Say no to reimplementing the browser's parser in JavaScript
I was just poking fun, I completely agree with you. I work in publishing: editing is a major part of my job. My mom is an author, my dad is a literary agent. Friends used to joke that I was born with a red pencil in in my hand – that was before I learned not to correct their spelling without being asked to do so. You can be always right, believing you're very helpful, and end up with very few friends ;)
"From now one there's three ways to do things: the right way, the wrong way and the Max Power way!"

"Isn't that just the wrong way?"

"Yeah but faster"
It's interesting how the problem of getting too many emails is still a problem 18 years later and the solution of 'filtering things into different folders' is still the best we can do.
This is a great idea, pitching is something that a ton of us struggle with (even in written form). The more exposure and feedback we can get, the better off we'll end up. This almost seems like a place to just test your idea out, but I think this platform could serve for both idea testing and perfecting your pitch.

It's like code-reviews for pitches :)

By the way, the 'viewed' count increments for every page refresh, even when the same session/user is viewing it. I just thought I'd mention it. But hey, this could be a feature.

Best of luck!
YC S13 candidates unleashed "World redeem" mobile game
Besides being at Google Play and Amazon, "World redeem" is now available at Apple Store. Download it and check it now. facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/WorldRedeem
As a hiring manager of non-specialized software developers, I take people with 4-6 years of real world coding over a phd any day. We generally hire phd's at the same level/pay as a bachelors in cs with maybe only a nominal amount more in salary. the skills you learn as a phd are not really what the industry needs, unless you manage to find one of the small number of jobs that requires whatever specific thing you studied as a phd. like the article says, those are very few and far between compared to the # of students exiting with degrees.
Better hurry up. Condo construction is taking over the city. Rental market is skyrocketing. There are 82 people relocating to Austin everyday, according to my realtor friend.
How could they? You can't do this on your Wii et al. Modern home systems are geared towards a strictly consumerist experience, not a creative one.

This is one of the reasons the Raspberry Pi was created.
Becoming a better Programmer: From Nairobi to NYC
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
I thought he was charged with murder or something.
"Because if you look at the books that are selling, and you look at the fiction books that have impacted our popular culture (Twilight, Fifty Shades of Grey, etc.)… they are for women."

This seems a little selective!

What about stuff like Tolkien, Pratchett , A song of fire and ice and countless other fantasy/sci-fi things?

Perhaps Women see reading as a more social experience , whereas for men it's more of an individual activity?

Amongst my female friends , it seems that if one of them has read a book then they have all read it. So perhaps that might explain why the bestseller lists will tend to favour books intended for women?
Thanks. I thought about this but DNS poses one problem, in Europe many ISPs overrides default TTL for up to 24 hours and caches the response. This means that even if I change the DNS record the ISP will serve stale responses to my customers and the problem will still be there. Therefore I can't rely on DNS unfortunately.
@aculver:

You're right. There's a difference between validating your _value proposition_ (for which you really need to talk to your customers) and your overall business model (where other experienced entrepreneurs can provide valuable insights). I guess The Pitch could work for the latter, but I highly suggest the initiator looks at the reasons so many similar platforms failed.

Petri looks interesting. Actually sounds a lot like some of the plans I have. I run Beta List[1] and noticed a lot of pre-launch startups don't know the best practices of doing customer development, leveraging their beta list, et cetera which made me think someone should build a service to help guide them through that process.

Not sure how far along you are and if our product vision matches, but perhaps it might make more sense to work together than compete. Feel free to contact me if you're interested in having a chat: marc(at)betali.st

(Just keep in mind we _might_ end up building competing services so don't disclose anything top secret :)

[1] http://betali.st/
Agreed. I also dislike that I have to click a button (with text that probably isn't accurate anyway) to see the next result. A list of possibilities would be much preferred.
In one of Marco Arment's podcasts last year (I've been going through the old stuff lately), he mentioned how in Kansas City, the city is in charge of what can go on the poles (rather than smaller jurisdictions), so there is only one entity with which Google would have to negotiate.

Given how much of a clusterfuck residential development and zoning restrictions are in SV, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Goolge would have to negotiate with many many governing bodies to roll out fiber in 'its back yard'. (Wasn't it San Mateo that blocked some Bart line extension back in the day? I remember a HN'er sharing that info with us a few months ago)

Maybe Austin is another city where one entity owns all the rights to the telecommunication poles and pipes. Even if that's not the case, Texas cities have proven to be more business friendly than California overall in the last decade. There's probably an incentive for State govt to coerce cities to work with Google to build infrastructure that will help business. Heck, it'll surely help Rackspace and other Datacenters to have a stronger backbone of internet bandwidth.
I lived for Computer Chronicles in the 80's, but lost track of it in the 90's (when I didn't have a TV).

This episode on UNIX from 1985 (with a bearded Bill Joy) is great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7P16mYDIJw
So so. Remember reading an article in a Russian technical journal about it a while back. Apparently that is why one of the prototypes crashed, choppy sea. The pilots pulled up (as that is the typical instinct of a pilot) and that disrupted the ground effect and it crashed.
I rarely use global find and replace nowadays (just for complex regex replaces). I hold Ctrl-D until all occurrences are selected and type the replacement string (assuming occurrences are low in quantity, which they usually are in most cases).
This thing is bigger than Austin or Kansas City.

This is Google's answer to the cold war declared on the Internet by Comcast and Time-Warner Cable.

Do any of you remember when Comcast was complaining that Google was making billions of dollars selling ads on Comcast's cable modem service? Do you remember them saying that they wanted a part of that revenue? That this was UNFAIR?

Make no mistake: this is Google making the cable companies watch their step. If push comes to shove and the cable companies start to try and constrain the open Internet in an effort to extract rents, you can bet your bottom dollar that Google will expand this service QUICKLY and get into the wireless broadband business post-haste.

This is about ACCESS. Google isn't Google if they can't ensure that they get the visits to their web properties. Right now, the cable companies are the only game in town in way too many cities. This is wrong. We should have competing wireline providers. I'm no Google apologist but I can't say that I disagree with their strategy.