skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our designer can simply push the updates into the application git repository and a new version of the application is deployed. It removes friction.
New Parallel Programming Guide
In order to convict someone you need sufficient evidence. When someone is captured in a war zone, usually by non-Western forces, evidence collection is not a top priority.

So either you hold them indefinitely or release them.

Obviously Obama believes that it is too risky to let these people go.
I also picked up IntelliJ this time around. Even though I mostly do .Net development, it's too good an offer to pass up. This gives me an excuse to translate some of my libraries to Java.
We used to call this writing a diary...
Why publishers stand between us and better games
Securing ZeroMQ: draft ZMTP v3.0 Protocol
Start the morning with some coffee and sarcasm. Fun read. Though it might be problematic that some managers might take it serious. Usually the dumb ones.
I was a college newspaper advisor
We are a new startup and would love to get your feedback. Thanks.
Show HN: An e-commerce project for refugee aid
It started as an idea that, after some inquiries, seemed like it might gain some traction. So, I went ahead and put together a campaign to raise money for refugee aid, on the back of a rather absurd but (to my dark senses) humorous product.

I am blogging about each step of the process as well (http://cynicallysupportive.wordpress.com/). If/when it fails, I will at least have a record to share about how to run an e-commerce failure.

Send me criticism and kudos alike, but read the blog so you don't mistake me for a bleeding heart.

Cheers,
-s
In terms of my little framework, you're exercising the pattern engine by making predictions and immediately having them validated. Notice how some people will try to sing along to a song even when they've never heard it before, and how the best pop songs make this very easy to do.
News isn't necessarily bad for you, and it's not a good idea to live in a bubble of cherry-picked information. However, the mainstream news is fraught with all kinds of problems so you need to be prepared to believe that what appears there is at best a partial picture of the events. The phenomena of churnalism also illustrates that it's easy to believe that what looks like impartial information is actually just crudely re-arranged press releases from particular companies who likely have a vested interest in the content and framing of the story.

So don't switch off the news entirely, lest you fall into a state of general ignorance about wider events, but be prepared to interpret it critically.
Dear Amazon, Add Stylus Support
The sad part is that my current boss follows his "do not" list to the letter.

Yes, I'm working on leaving. Eight hours of that crap in the office, then usually 2-3 hours of job hunting in the evening after working in the yard or otherwise getting the house ready to sell.
Web Font Services Compared, 20 Ways to Create Cool 3D Effects and more
Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)
Just curious... did you actually look at the project before writing all this?
Joking about what?
That's brilliant.

However, I don't think it's only PMs who indulge in that behavior. I've seen managers and engineers (yes, indeed) do the same shit. Internal competition within companies is pure corrosion and it's always detrimental. I'm convinced that there are no exceptions to that.

The rare good manager is K-selective insofar as she intends to reproduce (scale) processes with quality and moral decency. If she runs a company, she won't hire before she trusts, and she'll make sure everyone gets credit and autonomy. Most managers are r-selectors, though; they over-hire, don't trust, and throw shit at the wall until something sticks.

The egoistic bad-guy PMs being described here are the ones who thrive in the typical r-strategist corporation.
Do it to keep a record of code you'll want to reference again sometime soon.

Same applies to ideas you've had or article you've written really.
I keep my personal IntelliJ license up to date. Mostly because I like choice and competition. I would be sad if jetbrains didn't exist.

I use work-provided IntelliJ for the day gig. It's okay.

I use Eclipse for my personal projects. Momentum mostly, been using it since the alphas. But I do greatly prefer the single problem(s) view. And the InstaSearch plugin rocks (Eclipse's stock search blows).

I use SublimeText for most non source code editing.
This comment is why communication sucks.

Edit: (I'm kidding, not being mean)
I loved it because I actually believed it (with vehement disagreement) until about a third of the way through.
Blob detection in JavaScript
Democratic Reddit, where votes can be bought for 20-for-$1 https://coinbase.com/checkouts/35297a275c385a75d231fd4a6edd5...
I sometimes use my blog posts as an alternative to bookmarking. Many of my blog posts are like bookmarks with annotations, and it also makes it much easier to refer other people to, when I need to cite sources, break down a large article or complex subject, etc.
I prefer 7-zip over RAR anytime. Stronger crypto, better compression, great parallelization and free.
Here's an interesting thought experiment: Imagine you are Obama, newly elected president. Under what conditions would you reverse yourself and let Gitmo stand? What information would you have to become privy to that you weren't before in order for you to change your mind?
Watching the Smarter Every Day video linked in a couple of other threads, it seems 'harmless.' The guy shatters it in his hand with nothing other than safety goggles on.
Google didn't invent Web advertising and the page linked to doesn't have any AdSense ads. In fact, Google has restrictions against using too many ad networks or filling pages with too many ads, and that will cause your page to get down ranked.
I was at a Startup Weekend a couple weeks ago and had the opportunity to talk to one of the speakers about the UI I'd put together (his speech was on U(I/X)). I knew my landing page didn't look modern, but couldn't put my finger on the reason why. He asked some excellent questions that forced me to understand the principles and the site looked a lot better after a few tweaks.

It's easy to be a critic (especially of yourself), but it's so much more important to answer the question 'Why is this bad?'. It's difficult. I'm not aware of any AI that can do this. It's what separates us from the machines... for now :P
I see the research as production. There's an autonomous system processing the event stream and deciding on trades that's hands free. I see that as a haskell codebase with C speedups for critical stuff, with no R anywhere to be seen.

But then I see a wrapper piece that reports to humans about what's going on within the system. I see R as a great visualization tool for that.

I've had good success so far with using R as a fast column database, solving big data hassles, but there may be better solutions in that space.
A quote comes to mind ... Capitalism is the greatest system we know of for creating weath. It is also one of the worst systems for distributing weath.

It seems we are coming to the point where automation has significantly reduced the need for labor in producing basic commodities. It is particularly challenging when one has to advise college bound students as to what subjects offer a rewarding career. The essay speaks highly of the wages in the medical profession ... I think that part of the essay was misinformed. I don't know any medical professional who is not independently weathy and can get by on their salaries. They have massive loans to pay and if they have their own practice, they have to deal with TONS of crap .. insurance, marketing, and so on.
Is this particular distribution related to either the Mughal or British invasions?
Grrr. I was going to do a presentation on exactly this next week, and have just put a presentation together on management that pretty much says all these things but Kenneth has done a far better job. I guess I'll go in the corner and sulk. Just kidding :)
Santa Barbara Is Not The Next Silicon Valley – Here’s Why
I wish this post were written in a less sarcastic tone and more directly. It's an important topic and deserves to be less off putting than it otherwise seems at first.
I think that's why he said (paraphrased) "I troll U" at the end. Most software engineers would get the joke immediately, but many managers wouldn't.

The problem is that executives never read to the end of anything. They still have to call their kids (or interns, same thing really) in to show them how to work a "scrollie bar".

There was a very large company that required every employee to submit a 63-word summary of accomplishments per quarter (do they still do this?) I pointed out, rather publicly, that this was precisely the low-end of adult reading speed (3.5-8.0 words per second being the typical range) times the short-term memory loop (18 seconds). That didn't go over well.

Ah, managers. They sure love sunbathing in the Yucatan, but that bright point just above them isn't the sun...
But how elegant it is, umm... :)
Assuming there's no grub password set. And assuming you don't need a password to reboot it.
Bottom up tree traversal doesn't require an explicit for loop as long as the language supports first class functions.

bottomsUp(node) {
recurseChildren(node, &bottomsUp);
switch (node.id) {
case FOO:
break;
case BAR:
break;
}
}

At the end of the day the actual code (the switch) is what matters, and the "glue" can be made a couple of lines either way.

PS. On a separate language feature, I like match with algebraic datatypes more than switch, but I don't know if Go has match. Go Rust!
Go is also a statically typed language with a compiler written in the last two decades...
Google Store South America is made with ASP.net
Google Glass Enables New Forms of Cheating
I don't think your security analogy applies to trading algorithms. Open source is good for security because it aids in the discovery of vulnerabilities. However, good trading algorithms are usually reliant on some form of information asymmetry. If you make a discovery and develop a trading algorithm to exploit it, I would think it would be advantageous to keep it a secret for as long as possible. This is not my field of expertise so please correct me if I'm misunderstanding your analogy.

Edit - I love the project by the way. As others commented already, there's a really strong argument to be made in favor of open sourcing the infrastructure side of this. And that appears to be where most of your effort is focused (e.g. open infrastructure, private trading algorithms).
I hope he is being ironic. After all, it says THIS page is why the internet sucks. Otherwise, the sense of entitlement is ridiculous. He has a free, hosted blog because it is ad-supported. He must be taking the mickey
I've never been in the military but if someone gives you an order, even if it's "impossible", you are still in violation?

I mean how is anyone still at their post if the COMMANDER IN CHIEF tells you not to be there in a year (three years ago).

It's a flagrant violation of command.
Somehow it strikes me as odd that the executive can go around starting wars, one of the most costly (blood & gold) behaviors a gov't can engage in, and one that explicitly requires the approval of congress, without congressional approval, but when it comes to closing a torture dungeon it's 'well gee whiz I'd love to but mean old congress won't let me. Sorry- my hands are tied!'

horseshit. There's more than one way to skin a cat and with the unchecked might of the US military (which is basically what the executive commands these days with our spineless-vis-a-vis-war congress), I do not believe the president couldn't figure out a way to dissolve Gitmo if he wanted to. He doesn't want to, this torture happens because Obama wants it to happen.

EDIT: I'm probably wrong here in my first paragraph ^
Agreed. And not just code. Things you've done, why and how. Sometimes you spend a lot of time searching Google and Stack Exchange to piece together lots of fragments of information. Writing a blog post about it not only helps keep it in one place for yourself if you ever need to refer to it again, if you document the pitfalls you encountered it may even be useful to someone else.
Intel Tries to Secure Its Footing Beyond PCs
Bitcoins: A Giant Bubble? Maybe, but the currency could still be worthwhile
I think the problem is a little more nuanced than watching news or not watching news. It has to do with what media scholars call agenda setting theory.

That is, media can't always persuade us to believe in a story, but they're very good at persuading us to think about a story. News sources like Fox, MSNBC or CNN might dwell on 3-5 leads in a day. Because they're so ubiquitous and influential, they might make you concentrate on (even debate) an issue that has little relevance to your life.

The solution is not shut out news altogether, but to consciously seek out sources of news that are relevant to your interests and your community.

It's analogous to consuming food: if you pay attention to what you're taking in and where you're getting it from, you'll feel a lot happier and healthy.
Worth subscribing for two reasons:

1. That guy's smile always makes my day better.
2. You learn cool shit.
Not in my part of the world! (Ireland)

Usually I bring sunglasses and an umbrella with me each morning, just in case.
This fits in with an observation (internally, of myself, so probably not scientifically valid) that when I dance to music, it starts to feel like I'm creating the music with my movements. Of course I'm just moving to what I know the music is going to do, but it feels good when you feel like you're doing the opposite.
This is not a situation where we should be outraged at a president breaking his promise (yawn), but a case of an executive order not being carried out.

We should not gloss over the fact that Obama's 'promise' (or rather, executive order) to close Gitmo came after the election. One of his very first acts as president in fact. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/20/obamas-first...

The question we must ask is why did it not close? And, if Obama can't close this abomination, then who can?
SOA IS Not DEAD
Honestly, I didn't find the article particularly funny or original, but I can't really blame the author for it.

It's probably one of the cases where reality exceeds the worst exaggerations one can come up with.
Replying here as I can't add on another reply below

The way we do our monitoring/UI is with zeromq/protocol buffers as an external surface to the trading system (basically a PUB socket) and a very thin bridging and translation layer to WebSockets and JSON in python. That way you get to use d3 or anything else on the front end. We use backbone, knockback and d3 with coffeescript.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Resolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milita...

Fair disingenuous so say the President started wars without congressional approval.
...so I told them "Hey, you forgot about the Iranians, and I can tell you where they are!"...
This has now been added
Hey I don't have access to Skype right now but I would love to join if you haven't found someone. If you want to send me some more details/open up a discussion you can find my email address in my profile.
Facebook With Attorneys General For Teen Social Networking Safety Program
No. Questionable downloads use rar archives because of the compression was generally higher than zip and allowed you to "split" files so it was easier to transport over usenet.

A virus isn't useful until it's extracted anyway.
From a valuation point of view I think Bitcoin behaves more like a stock than a currency.

Imagine you have a tech company with a decentralized, very cryptographically strong, and very reliable global wire transfer system with a lot of great features. Imagine that this wire transfer system gains a lot of users and a lot of mindshare, and becomes a heavily discussed and very recognizable brand. (At least as recognizable as Paypal.)

What would this company be worth? Now divide the total current "float" of Bitcoins by this total valuation and there you have the rational value of 1 BTC.

A pretty high valuation, at least in the billions, seems reasonable given that there are mobile chat startups going for $1billion right now.

I also don't think Bitcoin is a currency in the classical sense. I think it's a new thing, a genuine fundamental innovation in economics along the lines of the invention of equity or short selling or similar. It's like a hybrid between a currency, a stock, and a wire transfer system, and is more than the sum of these parts. It might be the first fundamental innovation in economics in quite some time.

Part of why I see it this way is that traditional economists, even very bright ones like Krugman, don't get it. IMHO the "pop Austrians" that tend to love Bitcoin also don't get it. It's possible that its creators don't even get it. This amount of combined don't-get-it-ness combined with its growing popularity signals a fundamental piece of novelty in my view.
Progress of ARM support in openSUSE Linux
i personally thinks apps are the future and browser is not. Some even think to go beyond an app that needs to be opened by the user but something that does things frictionlessly like via alerts and all
python's nltk, I've not yet looked into it but do plan to.
JavaScript: Need for Speed
The economics of mobile game publishing
This is true and I can confirm this. I sincerely urge everyone to check any executable for viruses before they double click on it, while running on Windows, especially!

Just because your antivirus scan doesn't tell you that it's a virus, doesn't mean the file isn't infected. Always, try uploading the file to a cloud based solution like http://virustotal.com which will return scan results from several anti-virus engines. Even if the detection ratio is as low as 2-3, you should be extremely cautious.

Attackers on the internet generally store Viruses inside a container like RAR or Zip and password-protect them. And they supply the password separately. This can be seen in forums, etc. where there is a lot of traffic. The logic behind is that when you run a scan against a virus package hiding behind a password-protected container like RAR or Zip, the anti-virus engine will fail to determine that the file is infected and some engines will even tell you it's clean! Always extract these files, scan it, or upload to a cloud scanning solution and then run it on a sandbox environment to be safe.

I have been a victim of several such attacks in the past (several years back) wherein these files were sent to me as Email attachments and the password was mentioned in the email body as something like "Hurry, open this, run this..etc". And even many popular emails vendors like Gmail fail to detect such files (even till date). Just don't fall for it! Maybe that free smiley software isn't worth it, after all?

For my fellow Windows users, there is an excellent free anti-virus that comes with a Virtual Kiosk and Sandbox mode (meaning, if you run anything inside a sandbox, even a virus won't be able to affect your computer) provided by the popular security guys Comodo:

http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-security/free-internet-s...

Cheers!
Aereo: The future of TV is here today
Chief Product Officer And Early Engineer Jim Patterson To Leave Yammer
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You are kidding me?
The site since it has not subcategories a la 'subreddit'. Should utilize paths that are built in persistent way. Thus
news.ycombinator.com/1, news.ycombinator.com/2, news.ycombinator.com/3 for driving futher along...
As an AmigaOS 3.1 stalwart unable to view HTML5 content, I’d love to see an Internet partially based upon a TeX-like markup. Rather than “<!DOCTYPE html>”, such a document would use “<!DOCTYPE typeset>”. An alternative browser would parse and present the markup when either the doctype is encountered, or a “.ts” extension is linked to. Typeset content would be displayed using the traditional tricks of typesetting: kerning, proper justification, avoidance of rivers, optimal reading line-length, etc. Here’s a sample of what the web could be: http://i.stack.imgur.com/W9uon.jpg .

More often than not, today’s Web is gaudy and garish, as 99% of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript’s functionality is unneeded for everyday reading. For plain reading a Typeset browser and typesetting-friendly markup would an improvement over the status quo, wherein every man reinvents the art of typesetting at his website, and often with tragic results.
Malware On Mobile Grew 163% In 2012 - 32.8M Android Devices
I'm a son of an immigrant. Why?
When to Roll the Dice in a Startup?
> Going from matrix operations over the whole timeseries ... to deploying to an environment that streams updates to the timeseries one at a time. I think that this is an area that haskell has the potential to excel at, given it's strong guarantees on structure.

exactly my thought. Algo guys get stuck in matrix land because that's where their tools take them. Whereas this came out in R last week: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/stream/index.html

python is a better toolset than R maybe, but the R problem domain seems broader in the last few months anyway.

My interest is in monitoring thousands of algorithms in real time directly within the messaging environment, and before the data hits a database. That type of concurrency is where haskell can muscle up and do the job.
Why isn’t all email encrypted?
Ask HN: How to monetize this service?
http://whos.it/techcrunch.com

I've been working on this side-project for three months. I bought the domain name several years ago to build a whois service better then existing ones.

Here is how I planned to monetize it:
- domain name reselling
- paid API service
- advertising
- selling the website

In 2009 when I bought the domain name, being a reseller seemed the best idea, but now in 2013 I don't have too much confidence in either one.

Can you give me some ideas to monetize this?
Unless it's at a football match
That it's, among other things, what they wanted to hear to elect me, and that I'm elected now, and can't in any way be held accountable for idle promises, and that standing firm on that principle is more important to my handlers than a bunch of bleeding hearts.
13 years ago I spent a LOT of time on C2.com. Every time I see one of those pages I have flashbacks.
I worked at newsweek and later The Daily Beast as a web developer in charge of analytics, so I can provide some insight into this.

The product managers were under constant pressure to increase traffic, so they'd add every new feature that appeared in front of them. Facebook, comments, social crap, stock ticker (that -nearly- happened), it didn't matter. Each one of these did add a marginal amount of measurable traffic.

Here's where the analytics part kicks in. The numbers did not reflect that our readers hated all that noise, and the product managers wouldn't dare remove something that generates traffic. So no matter how pointless something was, if it generated traffic it stayed for good.
Nice, I finally bothered to play with it. I have read about many languages, ut this was so nice visualisation I wrote my first BF program.
The fact that you will have no chance of accomplishing your other policy goals if you do.
I'm having way too much fun with this.
You're making very strong allegations towards a group of humans solely based on their ethnicity or religion.
i like the visualization. but i still don't get how Brainfuck works. I guess I'm just not tech-savvy enough.
Sounds great, but way beyond either my paygrade or budget.