skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the worst week in 11.5 years to joke about what a part of me wishes he had done, for the good of society, so I won't.

Seriously, though, we need to fucking take this industry back. (I am so fucking serious about this issue that I am willing to fucking split infinitives with "fucking".) These executive assholes are destroying trillions in value ( http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/programmer-au... ) and we have no fucking need for them. Do we need people who understand business, economics, relationships, and sales? Absolutely. And more than anything, we need genuine teachers to step up and provide leadership. What we don't need are the short-sighted extortionist fuckheads who pass for management in most companies.
Most importantly, Sailfish offers real multi-tasking as we know it from desktop operating systems. While in Android or iOS your application is suspended when you switch to another one, in Sailfish they can run in the background.
It's also not necessary to move someone to management to give them more authority. Most software engineers don't want to deal with hiring/firing people or any of the other stuff that comes with being a manager, but they would be interested in having more say in technical decisions.
I'd rather have true threading power than thousands of 3rd party modules.

The modules can be re-written. By removing the GIL, we are giving a definite power boost to the language(applies to ruby too)
I'm surprised there are not more viable OSs. The domination of computing by mobile devices is still in early days. There is definitely room for improvement versus both iOS and Android.

Among the would-be competitors, the Jolla team is best equipped to mount a challenge.
Sorry Bootstrap, it's over between us
Thanks for pointing it out, we're working on implementing a "merge profile" feature. Once completed, duplicate profiles can easily be merged into one.
> I hope this is a retaliation for the abhorrent behaviour of reddit users

You don't like vigilantes, but you hope vigilantes are punishing reddit users?
I wholeheartedly agree with this. I work at one of the top cancer research labs in the world, and you'd be surprised how dysfunctional our organization has become. It's perfectly described by what edw519 has outlined.

Seeing millions of dollars poured in projects that go nowhere since they are executed by incompetent workers lead by machiavellian managers is horribly depressing.

I feel that a startup setting would be incredibly more efficient to do what we do. But of course it'd be difficult to fund it, unless it's operated as a charity or it's backed up by the gov't.

In the meanwhile I'm acting as a stoic and enjoying some tiny victories.
Bioengineers Build Open Source Language for Programming Cells
The scanner feeds on tunein and broadcastify seem to have been cut? That's consistent with reports that the perp was last seen using a laptop and SWAT were surrounding his location. Also the press have been asked to stop tweeting what they hear on their scanners.

Anyone know a working live scanner feed?

UPDATE: "MA State PD and Boston Police have requested via social media to not post search locations for the Boston bombing suspects - the Boston PD feed is temporarily offline due to this request.", http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/mid/13/?rl=rr
Thanks, much appreciated.

And my view of management, is mostly that they're drawn in the wrong place on org charts. They should be below the workers, assisting and helping to support the workers rather than ordering them. Workers themselves are the ones with the knowledge and most qualified to make decisions based on sharing that knowledge.

I can't find the link I meant to, but this one deals with this view pretty well: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/DevelopmentAbstractio...
I think you misunderstand grand-parent. Once again I will use a quicksort example - we all know quicksort, even if not iterative, then surely recursive version, right? Ok, so here goes quicksort implementation that is dead simple and easy to read:

quicksort=: (($:@(<#[), (=#[), $:@(>#[)) ({~ ?@#)) ^: (1<#)

It's in J. Someone who wrote this has much higher chance of being 10x than someone who implemented the same algorithm in Python. That's all I think grandparent wanted to say and if so then I agree completely.
Are you really going to give them better experience (IE8 vs whatever latest chrome)? What is it going to be?
I only have the idea, because bitcpoin shows us what was not foreseen in its design. Bitcoin is indeed a "vehicle for speculators", look what is going on with it now. The average Joes and grandmas Sallies are cut off completely, they cannot afford bitcoin at 100 bucks a piece or even a Jally, and can't compete with fat cats that are currently summoning all bitcoins and mining related things in just few hands.
I'm trying to imagine the inflation that would result from reliable fusion technology. That said, currency that is destroyed as the backing energy is consumed is an interesting concept.
There are at least two ways to get hired at Google:

* Apply blind

* Work on something fascinating, and have someone on the inside want to hire you

The second one is normally acquisitions, but it's how researchers often get hired away from universities as well.

I'm not saying it's likely for someone to get hired the second way, but it is possible.
I assume that proper implants would be ones that improve or provide vision. You should have the full benefit of such medical advances, of course! But should a medical device be designed for covert surveillance?
The relationship between bitcoin and energy is not an equality. The energy cost of mining should approximately match the available reward, but that is because miners are adjusting their activity.

You wouldn't purchase my heating bills from me...
Well put it this way: What can they do that we can't replicate? ;) Behind China's great firewall there are lots of alternatives to twitter, youtube, facebook, google (this one I know by name: Baidu), etc.

So technically feasible, yes. Realistically... depends on whether developers of these clones can find something that gives them an advantage over the originals, besides privacy or legal issues. Businesses want to keep data in-house regardless, and not many consumers care enough. Having one global network for social networks has certainly advantages, but when the laws in the "home country" (for the lack of a better word, if there is any) become hostile and privacy invading... then I don't know. If I could pay to get off of all google services and have my data imported into a dutch google clone, I'd do it.
Yeah but usually not as the system of record/origin for any data. Mostly for consuming data from elsewhere, and often in conjunction with various plugins (some of which can allow Excel to act as the "front end" to a production server that actually crunches/stores the numbers).
Watch Andreas while he is working
Why don't you RTFM and see for yourself?
> Nor is this surprising; the reason nobody looked too closely at the numbers is because they agree broadly with every other paper and model out there.

The data Reinhart and Rogoff used hadn't been analysed together before so their work was original, and it got widely cited. The results failed to be reproducible, and now the analysis has been found to have multiple methodological errors, of which the spreadsheet error is just a minor component. Reinhart and Rogoff didn't cause austerity, but they published a high impact paper supporting austerity that has now been discredited. Also, it would be interesting to know how you get the impression that their results "agree broadly with every other paper and model out there".
"While in Android or iOS your application is suspended when you switch to another one"

That's not correct. Android has multi-processing. The Android runtime enables Service components to run in the background, and has preemptive thread scheduling, and has had these features throughout all publicly released versions of Android.
Got excited when I saw the download and realised it was for an SDK. Ah well, that'll keep me entertained for a bit.

Hopefully they'll be working towards having something releasable so people can start using it in the wild soon, it looks interesting but it's going to need many eyeballs on it before it's ready to play with the big boys.
Getting a slashdotting is not a "DDOS attack" under any definition although the practical consequence is the same. If the resulting traffic overload is caused by a (massive) router-configuration error or similar mishaps, it's also by definition not an attack.

Sorry about being picky around semantics, but still: No point in throwing words around to the point where they become completely pointless.
What exactly is shitty about it? Old browsers can still display text, images and hyperlinks. There are millions of use-cases perfectly covered by them.
That is just a count of US dollars used in currency transactions.
yep, sustainability is not just for the biosphere, it's for the econosphere too. It's great to provide big benefits to everyone, but then when things turn down, we get the mess we are in today.
Like this?

http://www.ymacs.org/demo/
Firefox OS has potential. At least you can load it onto a Nexus device, although it is extremely limited.
First Sailfish device will be released next month (May): http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/17/jolla-to-show-first-phone-i...

May be some devs can get a hand on it
That was so amazing to watch. Here's a question, and forgive me for my ignorance. What happens to all the water droplets that escaped the washcloth? Aren't they worries about the water finding their way into equipment or electronics?
Sorry. Old peeve of mine with people thinking the CC network does more than it does.
I don't know what bars you have in your area, but here a lot of bars have security cameras, which already record everything. In my opinion, the bar is a public place, where you should not expect the same privacy as in your home.

While I like the privacy and even worked on software which will help protect it, I'm in favor of the right to film in public spaces, this way we as society can highlight bad things without being afraid of charges just for filming.
Meteor Introduces Tighter NPM Integration, Overhauled Package Management
I don't think that's true. A lot successful founders I know started their own companies because of frustration at their current company. Ironically they pull the shit that annoyed them with their own staff.

Even people with a lot of charisma will have a lot problems if they have no official company authority.
How enterprise software sales is just like politics
The human centipede goes 4chan>reddit>media>hn
MeeGo was pretty great at running a lot of Linux binaries, wasn't it? I never had a phone with it or played with it, but it always seemed it was a big step closer to a mobile OS that allowed your phone to do most anything your desktop could do. If that's the case, I hope it takes off. Being able to run most BackTrack tools on my phone could be nice.
I think it is about time to create an open and standardized publishing model for academic papers, which also includes the datasets and the code used for all calculations.
When Michael read about the Gervais principle it inspired about 100,000 words of response: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/?s=gervais&submit=Se...
You have no expectation of privacy in any public place, period. Photographers have always had the right to take your picture without your permission, as long as it is not used for commercial purposes. It sounds like your complaint amounts to this: everyone will be a photographer once this becomes popular.
It'll be your choice, then, to patron bars that enforce policies that you support.

Just like I choose bars that don't allow smoking.
Yeah which pretty much make Keynesian policy useless since it can't be implemented within a democracy.
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How long is it until Beer O'clock?
The answer to life's most important question.
This reminds me of kilowatt cards[1].

[1] http://www.kilowattcards.com/
Good point. I think you might mean "to a witchhunt", though, not "as a witchhunt". </GrammarNazi>
nope, bing did not work correctly in the past. A few web searches reveal that it has been like that since at least 2011.
I agree with you. Too bad HP did not. WebOS was really fantastic and just a bit ahead of its time performance wise. I feel like I'm one of the few users that "got it".

It is good to see another opensource OS step into the arena.
I think part of the problem here is that many devs often don't understand how much power they yield over their own situation. If you're good enough to be depended upon in every panic situation, that means you have more say than you think in the circumstances surrounding your work -- specifically regarding pay, scope creep, working environment, etc. If you don't assert yourself nobody will coddle you, because that's how capitalism works. The goal of the company is to maximize profits, but the cost (both time and $) in finding a talented, hard-working employee is huge and employers know that. So you have to stand up for yourself because you hold more cards than you think. If you have a passive personality where you never push back and don't stand up for yourself you will get completely rolled over.

I've met devs who only consider one side of the employee-employer agreement -- "don't get fired, don't get fired, don't get fired." What about the other side? "If ___ quits, we are screwed."

This is the reason why we invest in our skills, this is why we read things like HN, this is why we make ourselves indispensable. Because a higher level of skill, both technically, socially and in business, not only makes you a greater employee, but it gives you more autonomy over your own circumstances.

I don't agree with the comments here that encourage people to half-ass their 9-5 because "you owe the company nothing." I encourage you to do the opposite -- become so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. Be such a valuable perspective/contributor/asset that they shudder at the thought of losing you. Be great and the power will follow.

And if they still treat you like shit, leave. If this doesn't apply to your industry, leave the industry. Good, smart devs are hard to find and someone else will pay good money for you.
I have not used Peewee, but at first sight the most visible difference is the query syntax - Peewee uses method chaining, whereas Pony ORM decompiles Python AST. I think that many queries can look simpler in Pony than in Pewee.

For example, if I want to retrieve all pairs of different users with the same name, in Pony this query would look as follow:

select((u1, u2) for u1 in User for u2 in User if u1.name == u2.name and u1 != u2)

In Peewee, this query probably would look something like this (didn't test it):

User2 = User.alias()
User.select(User, User2).join(User2).where((User.name == User2.name) & (User.id != User2.id))

It’s probable the matter of taste, but I like Pony syntax better. Another example is taken from the Peewee doc:

staff_users = User.select().where(is_staff=True)
Tweet.select().where(~(Tweet.user << staff_users))

In Pony, this query would look as follow:

select(t for t in Tweet if t.user not in (u for u in User if u.is_staff))

Also, this simple version is possible, don't know why it is not as simple in Peewee

select(t for t in tweet if not t.user.is_staff)

Also, I don’t know if Peewee supports IdentityMap and optimistics transactions.

On there other side, it seems Peewee already has migration support, whereas in Pony migrations are not implemented yet, this is the next task.
If a medical device will have the ability to record(to help those with dementia for example), will you discriminate against cyborgs?
-1547. How in the name of a million fucks is that a breakdown? That sounds like a breakthrough. He's being honest about his atypical and unfortunate trajectory. I wish more people had the fucking cojones to be that way about their setbacks and rejections.

Silicon Valley's tolerance of failure is paper-thin and a "heads, I win; tails, you lose" mentality. It means, "it's morally okay for me to fail you". It justifies fast firing and VC caprice, but if you actually fail, you're every bit as ostracized like PNG garbage as in any other society.

On edw519's so-called "breakdown": The guy's been handed a shit sandwich by life-- when your IQ passes 150, conflicts with authority are inevitable; it comes to you looking for fights, and if you don't see it that way, then your IQ is not over 150 and probably not even 140 because every genuine 150+ I have ever met has experienced that-- and he keeps working his ass off and doing the right thing. Balls of Steel. You know how fucking hard it is to keep working your ass off when every signal coming your way is negative? How fucking brutal it can be to keep believing in yourself in a world where people avoid the sick, unlucky, or unpopular with no concern as to whether it's their fault?

I have a lot of respect for winter travelers like 'edw519 and Abraham Lincoln. Summer traveling is nice, but you only get a sense of the real landscape if you go when the trees are bare.
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I don't think I'd call Bitcoin an energy proxy, since the energy is used up. A currency that can be redeemed for energy is something different.

It makes sense to me, since in principle the amount of currency in circulation could naturally adjust to the size of the economy. To make that work maybe you'd need demurrage, to prevent utilities from printing up kilowatt vouchers for production in the distant future.

Since a watt is a watt, you could have as many issuers as energy producers, without worrying about exchange rates, though limitations of the electric grid might force them to be somewhat local.
This is not new and probably will not be fixed fast - the situation has been like that (unchanged) since at least 2011.
The "background check" questions for verifying your identity will have been drawn from a credit reference agency or similar. It may seem creepy, but actually if you want to verify someone's identity online and mitigate the risk of identity theft, the alternatives are limited. Of course the fact that they mixed you up with your Dad is unfortunate to say the least; your date of birth should have disambiguated you.

What they should have done is explained this, rather than just baldly present you with what appear to be alarming and intrusive questions.

Having different levels of service depending on the level of identity assurance is sensible for many applications, but for a funds transfer system I agree that it does not seem sensible.
I think you're in the clear.
Read the bottom half of the book. It's likely a quote in "Jobsian derelict French."
> This is exactly why the government feels like they should get involved in regulating the internet, because we aren't taking care of it ourselves. I can already see how a case will be put together next week using the reddit witch hunt threads as a reason why the internet needs censorship. Think about what our responses are going to be to that.

What we do online is a reflection of what we do offline. To think that there aren't offline hunts and people who go around shouting those things without the internet is absurd. To suggest this is why we need internet censorship easily lends its self to the argument that people's every day offline lives need to be monitored and controlled.
That is not the function of Incognito mode. Use it only if you care about leaving traces of yourself in your local history.
IRS tracks your digital footprint
If those rules are indeed set in stone, admins/moderators have abandoned the idea of enforcing those rules years ago.
There'd be no use in printing vouchers for more energy than people have a use for. If more abundant energy means usage expands, that means the size of the economy is expanding, and the currency would simply be adjusting to fit. You only have inflation if the currency expands faster than the economy does.
CoffeeStrap is in open beta
If you have an Android phone, go to their website; grab the platform binaries, and flash it onto your phone using fastboot. (Disclaimer: you'll have to root your phone first, so be prepped for broken warranties.)

I'm kidding ofcourse. The real answer is, wait until they release some device that supports it!
You can demand that people not wear Google Glass in your home; it is no different than demanding that people not photograph the inside of your home. My college roommate had such a policy: absolutely no pictures of him in our room, and he politely asked that no pictures of him drinking alcohol or being around alcohol be taken. In a public place, you have no such right, with the exception of commercial use of the photo (which requires your permission).

A more important concern is whether or not Glass users will be able to choose service providers other than Google. What if Google pulls the plug? What if I want to use Glass in an environment where business secrets might be recorded? That is a far greater issue than the presence of a camera.
I basically agree with OP, but this incident really made me wish there was a better framework for collaboration between LE and amateurs.

For example, it would have been great if the FBI had put up a site with instructions like "use this form to upload better pictures of this person". Because seemingly within minutes of the FBI releasing really bad photos, Reddit had found much better photos, knew their exact hats, etc. But the communication between the two was incredibly haphazard.
why would you use bing?
Your last tip is a gem! Combined with :10sp, it's the perfect recipe for a mini-TODO list.
I would be interested in hearing more. If you want to shoot me an email with details on what you need, we could start discussing some possibilities.
Realize that Bootstrap is as much an HTML/JS framework as it is a CSS framework.

Looking at Bootstrap's examples it's pretty obvious how easy it is to make a Bootstrap-backed site look completely different.

Bootstrap was made to be used in parts, or as a whole, and has a lot of useful plugins (like their carousel).

Abandoning it outright because you don't like the way it looks just makes me think you're a back-end developer that doesn't want to put any effort into the UX/UI of the front-end.
How to find jobs listed from LinkedIn quickly and easily?
The first real successful attempt to reimagine the daily newspaper for tablets?
For a game to be fun, it needs to give the player a sense that they are progressing ... getting a higher score, advancing to a higher level, seeing the next bit of the map, whatever. To play a game and score more than last time is success, even if your character ultimately fails by "dying". That reward is why we keep playing; if a game didn't give you the impression that you were getting further you'd feel like you're failing and soon give up. If you turned the score counter off in Tetris no one would play it for very long.
FRP seems deeply awesome. Thanks for explaining it.
Sailfish has a Qt-based UI stack. It may also not depend on one specific application runtime environment as much as Android does.

There are also some hints that Sailfish is taking an approach similar to Ubuntu's for touch and GPU support on mobile devices and blending Wayland with Android's compositor.

In other words, Sailfish is likely to be closer to a mainstream interactive Linux OS, and a closer cousin to Ubuntu, Firefox OS, Tizen, etc. than is Android. It's different times now, and you don't have to diverge so much from the Linux mainstream to create a good touch user experience.
Its so much easier to do this in something like Python, Scala, Ruby... or just about any language other than Java. I built my own ORM (but uses Immutable objects) in Java that uses a fluent DSL. Is it good... no it sucks compared to what Scala and even .NET offer.

But then I thought screw that... SQL is a pretty good language so why not just make writing real SQL easier:
https://github.com/agentgt/jirm/tree/master/jirm-core#sql-pl...