skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a disposable income before Steam had quite come into its own. I still pirated games. I think the biggest thing for me is not having to go to a box store to buy them. I hate going to stores, any stores, given the choice I will always choose online first. Steam being a viable and convenient source of games was the nail in the coffin, I have never bought a game in a retail store nor pirated a game since.
Fortunately, having plans in place and actually carrying out these plans are two completely different things.

One UK political leader has had the courage to admit that even if the UK had received a nuclear attack from the Soviets he would not have launched a retaliatory strike. After all, if your deterrent fails - what exactly is the point in using it? [Not something you can admit at the time, of course.]

Would a West German political leader really have agreed to nuclear land mines being used? Most of the weaponry in the Cold War was there for posturing - no political leader ever expected to use them. Even Khrushchev (who was clearly a hard bastard) could only cope with the thought of nuclear weapons by accepting the fact that they would never actually be used - it was all a bluff.
but isn't it questionable that you're (seemingly) writing the same stuff, from scratch, for 28 years now? shouldn't there be a work order processing standard solution for aerospace by now?

like an engineer re-inventing the process to build bricks anytime a new building is requested.

industry observation, not personal.
WordPress Security Plugins for a Clean Installation
Button at bottom opens a modal that I can't scroll on an iPhone 5.
Production is quite different from the design, even if they are often done by the same people.
Put down your smartphone
I think that the reason that the taxation rates are capped like that is that they represent a regional differential. You'd be annoyed too if your taxes were ten percent higher than a neighbouring town for no discernible reason.
Care to cite where your stats on piracy affecting game developers came from? Or did you just hear it somewhere on the internet somewhere and it sounded good?
You should probably not use a computer/smartphone/xbox/playstation/etc. then since pretty much every app, game, and website you use does this.
I found that having a failed startup was good resume fodder to some extent. I was worth more in the marketplace after my failed startup, since I was perceived as having a more versatile skill set.

(It helped that my failed startup, while financially a failure, was cool and helped me demo a lot of advanced coding skills. :)

But I did run into a personal problem: after being a startupper, I found it very hard to transition back into working for someone else. In the end I had to sit down and be honest with myself: did I want to start another startup right now or did I just want a paycheck? I decided-- for the time being-- on the latter. So I had to swallow a bit of the radical self-direction I'd become accustomed to and decide to work for my employer since that's the deal.
This is ingenious but if used in a work environment should result in instant dismissal.
Intro to PostgreSQL arrays, basic concepts and normalization
Introducing A New Series:  Magic UI Moment Mondays
It's also unreadable unless you know the trick or see it, making future maintenance by others difficult. Clear and simple is usually better than complicated and tricky.
I remember seeing 2.6.42 on my ubuntu 10.04. May be it was kind of an alias for some 3.x version.
Electric radiators with processors used as distributed datacenter
What precisely is wrong with people copying things for free? Since these are non-rival, non-finite goods -- that is, as many people can use or reproduce them as want to without obstructing anyone else -- there is no basic physical reason for restriction.

It is illegal, but that is not the same as immoral. For illegality to imply immorality the law would need to be shown to be itself moral. But unfortunately the law has (like the game concerned) been rigged by particular interests for their own purposes. No-one has so far produced good evidence to show the current laws are economically beneficial overall.

So the intellectually honest and moral position is to admit the law is unfounded, gradually abolish it, and try to figure out other better economic arrangements that allow people to do what is the obviously moral thing: freely use and copy non-rival, non-finite goods.
You're almost a decade off; 20 years ago Doom was released and the hottest game I knew of.

The North American release of the NES was 28 years ago now.
I was commenting on that very topic. Guess how I learned basic accounting better than approximately one startup-ish CEO? Playing "Railroad Tycoon" on a PC in the late 80s (90s?). And a couple other games, but mostly RRT. That much later led me to read Graham and Dodd and the more modern fundamental analysis guys, although analysis is useless in the current mostly speculative driven equities market. Anyway the point is you can learn the basics playing a computer game.

Its pretty scary that a little gaming decades ago puts me ahead of at least the absolute bottom of the CEO barrel. It would be like discovering that a couple hours playing Doom and Quake put me ahead in tactical skills of at least one SEAL team member. The amazing part NOT being my minimal skills, but the amazing part is the bottom of the barrel of "famous major real world players" is so incredibly deep that my minimal skills none the less easily beat theirs.

The other weirdness is I spent about $50 and a couple hours (well, maybe dozens... it was fun) playing a game and that boosted me into the low percentile of CEO skills. Apparently I would be well qualified to run an absolutely bottom of the barrel startup as CEO into the ground, and instead of spending $150K and thousands of hours to learn that, I just played a game for awhile. The financials and time investment must depress the guys who graduate at the bottom of their MBA classes knowing less than I know. That weirdness is an interesting aspect of tech/gaming/computers in that most people pay attention to the highest achievements but the effect on low end is also important and not discussed enough.
Now they have good reason not to want either.
Which is worth more, coffee w/Tim Cook or a Lamborghini?
Or do buy the game, encounter the DRM, then download the CD-crack or whatever to bypass it. The various piracy figures are incredibly simplistic and just group "downloads" as "total number of pirates".
OVH is the leader for Hosting in Europe. If they messed up, they should fix it quick, but the other provider you mentioned are not perfect either.
Today begins Technology Entrepreneurship at Venture Lab
This course introduces the fundamentals of technology entrepreneurship, pioneered in Silicon Valley and now spreading across the world. You will learn the process technology entrepreneurs use to start companies. It involves taking a technology idea and finding a high-potential commercial opportunity, gathering resources such as talent and capital, figuring out how to sell and market the idea, and managing rapid growth. To gain practical experience alongside the theory, students form teams and work on startup projects in those teams.
This is the second offering of the class. Last time, nearly 40,000 students from around the world participated and worked in teams together. The top teams were matched with Silicon Valley mentors, and the best teams at the end of the class pitched their ideas to investors. Many of the alumni of the last class are continuing to build their startups and will be mentoring teams this time.
By the conclusion of the course, it is our hope that you understand how to:

Articulate a process for taking a technology idea and finding a high-potential commercial opportunity (high performing students will be able to discuss the pros and cons of alternative theoretical models).

Create and verify a plan for gathering resources such as talent and capital.

Create and verify a business model for how to sell and market an entrepreneurial idea.

Generalize this process to an entrepreneurial mindset of turning problems into opportunities that can be used in larger companies and other settings.
I was in high school in 1985 and our computer club built a Heathkit HERO-1, which had a 6808 processor and also had to be programmed through the hex keypad. After a few months of hand writing machine code and typing the opcodes into machine, I wrote a simple assembler on the Apple //e that would then download the assembled programs to the robot through the RS-232 interface. So much fun.
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You can solve this, of course, by using the inspector in Chrome to select the '<div class="code">', and then entering copy($0.innerText) in the console.

So this is actually easier to solve than the audio mode of reCAPTCHA.
The lack of LTE on the Nexus 4 isn't a deal-breaker for me. Having an unpolluted OS is more important. Thanks for reminding me of this phone.
Peter Thiel Is Wrong -- Entrepreneurs Should Stay in School
no. Applications are an exception. Servers can do what they want, they have that freedom as far as I'm concerned, but the client is me. It's my computer. It does what I want. Applications should never be antagonistic to me.
I'm not writing the same stuff. I've written over a thousand different custom applications using the same technology. That was my point. This environment is so tried and true and so effective, it still kicks ass after 28 years. Pretty amazing when you think about how much has changed.

shouldn't there be a work order processing standard solution for aerospace by now?

I'm sure there is. Just like there are blog, website, & CMS standard solutions. And plenty of people using them. I never see them because those people would never call me. Like many other programmers here, I imagine, we only see the customers who need something custom, almost always for good reason.
> I am very much pro discussing things but with so much pushing forward and "this is THE WAY" I (as many others) are getting a bit tired, which might be as good because in the end, what do we want from life? Glass? Technology? iOS? iTunes? The roomba? What?

What's wrong with any of these things? The technology required to make the Roomba effective meant so much more has been created. The Roomba isn't the end. It's a sign of how far we've come. And do we really want to waste time doing what the roomba can do for us?

As for iOS, what's wrong with that? It's done tremendous good. Both my children have Autism, and what iOS has done for them is amazing. No one could have predicted that before, but now it's a standard part of treatment.

And Glass. Who can tell you what Glass will lead to. It's still too early to tell.

That's not what Scoble was directly referring to, but in each of these cases, we are taking advantage of technology. It's so easy to talk about a log cabin in the middle of the woods, far from the city so you can gaze up into the sky and watch the stars. However, that's far too selfish and egotistical for me.
The trouble with this is that you now have to switch "commented" to "active" and vice versa, when I think the aim was to have a single-char switch (although the syntax is pretty horrible, to be honest).
Splitter - Introduction to Kendo UI Course - Part 17
I've been using this for a while in my JS projects. I'm about to start my first job as a web developer for a medium-sized company so I'm glad I came here and read all the backlash to this technique!
It looks rather good! But I do wonder if I'm the only person who was more than a little put out once I found it was the "hostage" model of open source - i.e. pay us enough money and we'll release this. Of course, there's nothing to say you can't do this, and I do applaud people finding ways to make OSS pay. But this way leaves a funny taste - it feels somehow counter to the spirit of the thing.

Possibly my ire was raised a bit further by the fact that I found that out in what seemed a slightly bait and switch-y way - "Try this!" click "Maybe later if you pay us!" Hmmmm.

Those gripes aside, it looks pretty.
Alright, but realistically, I don't see "no waste" economies coming up and staying up for good. So, better work hard on those filters than shrug it off.
Cool trick. But there is no reason whatsoever to prefer this to a simple:

git co branch

Sorry. I've been burned one too may times from source-control-by-commenting-out.
By that definition, any game you play that you can't master on day one is a shitty experience. That's an exceedingly hard customer expectation to meet: a customer who doesn't like difficult challenges or learning curves.
Hacking suspect arrested for 'biggest cyberattack in history'
That is horrifying. That is completely horrifying. Sounds like neither should you, or I.

Except the websites, servers can do what they want.
Not on Asha. I had two for investigation of market.

N9 is great phone :)
This is actually a technique that retail stores discovered a while ago.

They used to make it very difficult to return products, and rarely would you get your money back. But then they realized that if you make returns simple and painless people stop second guessing their purchase since there's less risk if the product doesn't work out later.

So more people are buying the product and those that do return it are not left feeling burned, making them more likely to purchase again from the same store.

Nobody wants to feel ripped off, and taking that risk away from customers helps remove that mental hurdle they face thinking "but what if it sucks?"

Game developers on the other hand have a bad track record. Returns are basically impossible, even with everyone's favourite Steam.

With paid reviews, gaming social media and relentless hyping. People are tricked into buying a game that's not as good as its made out to be and are left feeling scammed. Not a great way to treat your customers.
Futurama: advertisements in your dreams
BakManager monitors your backups and notifies you when a backup doesn't happen
They did not sue a non-profit. RTFA.
can we get a number of these airdropped into North Korea?
That would be a problem with the iPhone's default silent switch then.

Not saying it's not an issue the app should try to work around a broken iPhone, but if the iPhone's silence switch can't be trusted to do the simple job of silencing the phone, it's a problem with the device.
Okay, since we're not linking to any studies backing up our statements, I decided to look at the historical performance of the funds offered by my company. There are currently 40 funds available. The best performing index fund is returning around 11%, with a 0.15% expense ratio. This 11% return is beating 37 of the 40 funds. When you factor in expense ratios, it's beating all of the competing 39 funds, many by a wide, wide margin.

Now obviously, this is a small sample. There are many funds out there that might be doing better. And yes, my timeframe is short; evaluating returns on a single year (especially a bull year like 2013) is foolish. But so is making generalizations about fund performance.

And here are some links to support the notion that relying on actively managed funds is counterproductive:

http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/mutual-funds/...

http://business.time.com/2012/02/24/index-funds-win-again-th...

http://us.spindices.com/resource-center/thought-leadership/s...
The fundamentals of both (as opposed to fads) haven't changed much over time. Even so, I'd grant that keeping up with the latest tools of the trade in programming is more than enough to keep a person busy.
A traditional sewer system is not more complex than a traditional fresh water system or a traditional paved road system – in fact, it might well make sense to build the sewers when you pave the roads (or slightly before that…).

What it does take is some planning and some functional local authority.
We get most of our neighbour's post as they are a basement flat - they are 31A and we are 31.
If code reviewers were just for checking mistakes, then unit tests would be enough.

Code reviews are invaluable in education other developers about your code, how to support it and how to develop on it. But information should also flow the other way and the give the reviewers the opportunity to present the accepted practices to the developer. In the long term, this saves developer time as the code base stays coherent. Code is read many times and needs to be understood by many developers even though it is written only once.
This Is How NASA Is Testing the Supersonic Airplanes of the Future
How a Serial-Killing Night Nurse Hacked Hospital Drug Protocol
Interesting. Why do you say this?

I've heard that Israel is an amazing place, and most of the Israelis I've known well I've really liked.
so how do you keep trying new environments and after validating them return to your preferred one?

asking cause 28 years is an eternity in regards of IT - or at least that's what we hear day in, day out.
Yes, and this way the inactive code is still checked for validity and does not leave -Wunused-* warnings. Use `#if 0` if you want to disable code that is intentionally invalid, then grep your codebase for `#if 0` and delete those dead code blocks with extreme prejudice.
OVH founder, Oles, posted on Twitter that OVH has not been compromised https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/328845993867083776
Asking for head shots is common practice in Los Angeles as well.
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Maybe that will be useful for others but overall maps experience on asha is not very good.
That really is an intriguing phenomena.
Obama at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences -- live stream at 11 AM EDT
Which OS Dominates the Arab Mobile Market? [Infographic]
There is nothing in the article that says anything about anything related to Google Chrome.
It's definitely about having the right attitude. I was able to find a job that gives me a lot of autonomy, but also direction. At the moment, I quite enjoy letting someone else make the big decisions for me!
I ported this to Node.js and created a module called node-summary. It doesn't quite bring back the same results, but it's still summarizing nicely.

Check it out on GitHub https://github.com/jbrooksuk/node-summary or NPM registry https://npmjs.org/package/node-summary
Agree with most of what you said. Just a note: 'Bhaiyya' is a 'taboo word' (or mildly derogatory, if you prefer) for folks from UP. Source: I am from UP, India.
>You could take it one step further and crowd-source to find stolen cars or license-plates. //

So it seems Orwell didn't anticipate that we would carry the cameras that spy on us with us ... take it a couple more steps further and the secret service have a system where they can look through anyone's [with smart-glasses] eyes at what they're seeing.

Imagine Boston if after the bombing the authorities could requisition the view of everyone over the previous hour (cached for your convenience) and run that through a mapping program that can literally recreate the 3D scene with peoples movements and interactions for that whole period. Awesome power.
HTML5, but I can't try it in my browser? Or play on my Android?
and make it compatible with ie6. legacy forever.
No worries, but I'm surprised people always bring it up :) As I said before, it wasn't really much different where I was from in the UK 15 years ago. I expect there are other places in the west where it is still the case.
LG to start selling curved OLED TVs in South Korea
My dad had one of those. So cool, I enjoyed keying in "programs" on the head keypad to make it move and speak (I was around 9 or 10); I would have loved your tool (if I could get it for the Osbourne we had then...).
Great Use of Design Storytelling by Samsung [video]
>> not 100% sure, but i think you'd be singing a different tune if these glasses hade came out of apple.

You think wrong, unless I was paid to promote them.

>>also, calling glasses dorky makes you one of those bullies everyone on here loves to hate. what's wrong with glasses?

People wearing them look like @ssholes and dorky. Of course IMO, some might find them sexy. I don't http://hungrytravels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/bluetoot...
No, no, no, no, no! This is a terrible idea, and will end up causing you a massive headache in the long-run. If I see commented-out code like this, I will delete it because that's what version control is for.

If you really need to turn code on/off in different environments, you should be using feature flags: http://code.flickr.net/2009/12/02/flipping-out/ and at the very least you should be detecting the environment:

if (ENV == 'dev')
testStuff();
else
productionStuff();

This is much more meaningful to other developers (and to yourself in the future).
There are a number of static site generators for node.js. I can recommend docpad.
I don't think switch to Google's engine is the cause, it's rather another symptom of the same thing — after Jon von Tetzchner has left Opera Software has changed their priorities.

Change of engine, downsizing (and old-time developers fleeing the company), and now the lawsuit to me indicate that Opera Software now favors profits over preserving company's culture, image and web standards influence.

Hippies have left, suits have taken over.
Free. Open. Try it.

If you pay us. Oh...

Seems really nice though.
Handwriting is quite handy, as the level of technology required is very low. One can do it in almost any circumstance.

I type all day, but I can still write well enough.
Not to mention, Mozilla corporation is not a non-profit :)
The UI seems to have taken a page from http://mouapp.com/
Its a terribly painful. I have tried every single one of the options. I am still finding it extremely difficult to get it working. Once I managed to get it to print to pdf, then started the bigger problem 'Paging'.

Paging is quite painful. I am writing my own code to split tables to fit into pages.

If you can solve this problem. I would gladly pay.
Kernel releases have been getting a bit more frequent. A couple of years ago they were about 80 days apart, now it's closer to 70. A change, but not a huge one.
Ask HN: Would you be interested in reading a book on developer's career
Hi, I'm considering writing a book about the career of a software developer. Again. Will you be interested? https://leanpub.com/baaad
Another reason to not use a wordpress base, security.
I have never had more compromises with "fully patched" software as with wordpress.
I apologise for the confusion guys, this site wasn't really intended with you in mind as the target audience. I believe there was another direct link to the Kickstarter campaign which would have been more appropriate for HN. The marketing site is simply a "pretty thing" to attract some interest from consumers / casual users. Not intended as full demonstration or marketed at developers. I'll post myself when there's something you guys will actually be interested in (aka a GitHub link with a public repo in it).

And yes "impatient in Manhatten" - that can be arranged, bro.
Let's put the code to text and test if it runs?

I've made a start, but it takes a little longer than I'd thought (handwriting is often hard to read). Let's do some crowdsourcing?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/192TW6ghnmMFnVaNvIe98aqTG...

Edit (+12mins): I see lots of people viewing, but not a single edit over the past 10 minutes.

Edit (+60mins): One other anonymous user helped at last and the document is complete, but didn't leave his username in the contributors list yet. Anyway, thanks!

Now the big question is how to run this. If you have any idea how to run it, let us know!
Unfortunately I'm not a programmer (I can write enough code to be dangerous) - but more of an ops/product/sales type person instead, so it was a bit harder for me to find something.

I was also surprised at how long it took our developer to find a new role - he was extremely good, got first interviews quickly but it took companies a long time to make a decision. And we're in London, where those skills are in very high demand.
PrinceXML doesn't support a lot of the Html5 and CSS3. Canvas support doesnt exist, so I cant print charts.
What do you mean "View the Universe in different wavelengths"?