skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an AMZN shareholder for years, I guess I think of it the other way: I own shares because I believe they provide value to me and society via service and bringing about efficiency, and I as a proud shareholder am evaluating them in such a metric, opposed to quarterly earnings numbers.
For e.g. VT switching, the right-side modifier keys won't work.
It feels like there should be an option in between "2-3 books a week" and "multiple books a year". I read every day but it's rare for me to finish a book in a single week, since most of my reading happens on the bus or over the weekend.
The VLC logo is a traffic cone.

That visualization sort of looks like a cone.

Coincidence?
The main website it was on no longer exists, but there are bits and pieces here and there.

http://code.ohloh.net/project?pid=LOfjD4AHjNo&prevcid=1&...

doc_code2html() takes PHP code as argument, and uses built-in PHP tokenizer to add CSS classes to code. After that, you can use vanilla CSS to color things up. Up to this day this is the simplest and most accurate PHP highlighter I've seen.

doc_getCodeAnchors() takes php code as argument and returns an associative array of anchors. I.e.:

array(
'MyClass.methodName' => array('line' => 3, 'type' => 'class', 'name' => "methodName"),
)

Comments class was a controller that actually displayed files with highlighting and comments, allowing you to add and edit comments.

And yes, I am fully aware of deficiencies of that code, but I still think the core ideas there are pretty cool.
Nicely referenced. I just noted that Siracusa and Marco seemed to start shows very soon after leaving and despite saying things about probably coming back they haven't.
If you invite the soldier into your home, you're bypassing the Constitutional protections you're granted. If Facebook gives its information to the government willingly, there is no Constitutional question to be had. CISPA was a voluntary program, you had to solicit the government in order to be involved, not the other way around.
Philosophical question: For companies that are conglomerates, or at least have very different business units (like Amazon or GE or Microsoft), should those companies be required by law to break out their earnings by major division?
> What is the most important single thing for each person to be doing?

I figured out the focus and priority part, but that angle, each person, is still an eyeopener.

It's something I've been struggling with, I know what the priorities for the product are, but not everyone can contribute (equally) to those priorities, and I don't want to make them feel like their work is less important.

I think looking at it from this angle will help a lot.
Perfect timing for YC interviews.
I still don't understand why Clojure isn't a Lisp. Because it's built on the JVM? Because it encourages using immutable data structures? Because it's becoming popular? Someone point out the key paragraph I missed connecting "Clojure is imperfect and hyped" to "Clojure is not a Lisp".
Court Denies Motorola Billions From Microsoft for Patents
I believe confirmation is usually just a process of double-checking data and waiting to see a regular cycle of wobbles or occultations. Directly observing a planet with current telescopes is difficult but it has been done:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Exoplanets_detected_by...
It took 7 hours for the thugs to reach the daily ATM maximum limit? How do you buy expensive goods with an ATM card? That sounds completely bogus to me.
IIRC you actually have to remove the Heroku postgres DB for it to pass if you're running RDS.
> I'm not sure if your question is implying that you could float your way up to LEO altitude. I suspect you couldn't with anything that could be engineered.

Even if you could make it, I doubt it would work for very long.

Such a balloon would presumably be quite massive and probably impossible to maneuver. As such it would be a nice target for things that were actually in orbit (moving quite fast relative to it). It would probably become swiss cheese in the matter of days/weeks. (probably not a problem for the balloon itself I suppose, but I can't imagine anything you would be hanging from it would be happy with that.)
New TinCan eLearning Communication Spec Released
One big mistake people do is conflate society as a whole with all its members.

Society, as a whole, probably doesn't care about a new cockroach species. But there is someone who does, just on Earth.

Similarly, among any civ that has the basic biological impulses required to become an interstellar civ, there are going to be people who want to branch out on their own, who want to study something on their own, who want to be the first to contact something new. It's all those millions of edge-case members that will do the amazing stuff.
Wow this is pretty cool. I don't live in SF nor am I a club-goer, but I assume the market for such people is pretty big.

How do you get your data? How trustworthy is it?
The title is slightly misleading: Google bans apps that do not update through the Play Store from the Play Store, not from Android.

They do not (and cannot) ban such updates from Android.
'Fundawear' offers long-distance foreplay [video]
YC interviews today. May the odds be ever in your favor if you're using linode.
Multi-paragraph lists are exactly the same problem I'm having with Markdown. It's so annoying that I have to dig in the HTML-code afterwards and fix it manually.
You also get to more lessons if you complete the button example on the landing page.
> DTS is really bad.

Maybe I was lucky. ~One year ago I had a problem with one of the Apple frameworks in conjunction with sandboxing and filled a DTS request. It took some time but the guy that I had contact with was very competent - so I guess it was an actual engineer. That or your average DTS intermediary will talk about disassembly listings with you.

Yes, the process was pretty slow but it was not painful IMHO.

Coincidentally I had asked in #macdev on freenode first and was greeted with some snarky remarks how I must be wrong as the reviewers know what they do ...
No! Hue does not vary independently from perceived saturation and brightness in the HSB color space.

You would need to use something like the Munsell system to achieve this.
You might be right, but he did post it to a community that leans toward the hyper-male-minded-problem-solving side of the spectrum, so it shouldn't be surprising.
This was back in the middle 90's. Here's the full story:

My friend was working out of town in a suburb of Lisbon and had to take a train everyday in the reverse flow ( commuters were coming in to the center, he was going out ) so the train was pretty empty one day and he was alone in the carriage.

Two guys walk in, sit next to him and one of them produces a dirty syringe, says he has HIV and that the my friend better cooperate or else.

They escort him out on the next station and go into the tunnel where the syringe guy held him for all that time.

For the next few days he was completely paranoid and he had a friend in the police who tried to find the robbers but unfortunately they couldn't.

"All is money" at the time ( he was 19 ) was around $3000 in today's money, and the bank didn't help ( it wasn't a credit card ). He had no form of insurance either.

He was always a very shy and inward person and that episode made him much more so.

But the years have passed and now he is quite normal and has become a really good 3D artist.

I haven't met him since I left Portugal but I guess he doesn't like to talk about this episode.

Another friend of mine was beaten up when he refused to give his pin and two other friends just gave it without resistance.

This is why I always have just enough money for daily expenses on the card bank account. It means I have to constantly top up that account which could be another security problem but at least if I am confronted with a violent situation I'll just give my stuff away and minimize my risk of physical damage.

[EDIT] Actually I was just on his website looking at his recent work and maybe he was more affected than what I imagined.
This man is a god. I love that his "Videos" are demos of his tech. Inspect element, my friends.
Of course. The proposal is to buy a rocket to send a large number of small satelites somewhere, and split the cost among the satelite owners.
For the love of code, please place a 'delete account' option within your gui.
Did you ever think that if you don't want their emails, you're not their target audience? And so they don't give a fuck how you feel?
Note that there are two ways for this to happen (orbiting one of the stars, or both) and both have been discovered.
This isn't limited to just geeky t-shirts with obscure references. Clothing is one of the easiest ways for a person to indirectly advertise their interests. This helps lower the 'awkward approach' barrier for strangers that might like to strike up a conversation. Instant conversation starter.

Even living in the PNW, I still get plenty of waves and cries of "Go Pack!" whenever I wear a hat or shirt supporting the Packers. I wear the memorabilia for myself, but the social benefits don't go unnoticed.
When I show friends why I'm excited about web technology today one of the examples I use is your work.
founder here. any thoughts/suggestions/nitpicking are appreciated.
We're using Dashboard for Launch Pad and it has been awesome for our founders. Excited to have the chance to use it!
Self-Assembling Furniture
Police arrest suspect accused of “unprecedented” DDoS attack on Spamhaus
re: DNS CNAMEs, thanks for the feedback! I've updated the relevant section:

> This ensures that in the event of an infrastructure-level issue, core components can be replaced without requiring you to make changes to your apps.

You are right, it's not about protecting the platform from an app being DDOSed - that example was far too specific. It's about ensuring that an app is configured take full advantage of the flexibility and redundancy that our infrastructure is designed to provide.
Do you want to hire?

Hire remotely. I know right now in CL and BG there are good and not very expensive developers. And they would love to work for you.

I can't recommend IN developers, as they want to climb the corporate ladder more than coding.

And, no, I'm not interested, I'm in CO and I don't care about Ruby. The slowest framework I'm contemplating right now is Node.js, the other two are written in Lua and C++.
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It does make you look like you wasted hundreds of dollars on one outfit.
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I think something about the high resolution makes flat design (which is really just a derivative of 20th century modernist design) somehow feel ultra-clean. There's suddenly a new depth to the minimalism. It stands out more against 3D elements. It's much like how Swiss Design feels very different on paper vs. on a screen.

Subtle texture and animation on a retina display can recreate the latter effect to some extent.
I don't know about that when you can simply go horizontal (automatically, even) if the need arises.

Building with cache: guaranteed added upfront cost, complexity, and time to ship, without knowing if/where caching will serve you best.

Building without cache: Guaranteed upfront savings, faster time to ship, with automatic horizontal scaling as a backstop if the need ever arises, while you work to integrate the cache.

And, remember, databases cache too. Throwing extra RAM and tweaking the DB cache config can also be a viable backstop short-term.
>but the reality is most people don't have the skills, the right idea, etc... to make a successful startup and would have been better off working for someone else.

You never know that until hindsight, and the opportunity cost for finding out for yourself, whether a new college grad or an established (financially cushioned) engineer, is historically low.
I'm running into a bug on the second lesson. Unless there's something subtle I'm not noticing.

http://i.imgur.com/n2WcCzY.png
Mobile phones where not so common at the time ( circa 1995, Portugal), so the guy holding him couldn't tell how much money was in the bank account and how long his "partner" would take to empty it.

Large transactions are more difficult to pull than smaller ones and I guess the guy was sampling the limits of the card with reasonable sized chunks.

But to rationalize the actions of a heroin junkie is hard and I won't try.
Also, they're talking "inflation adjusted revenue", not profit.

The music industry is as profitable as it ever was. They just don't need to spend money creating CD's and shipping them all over the world. Direct to consumer (or through a service like Apple) is the future.

And more artists won't need a record label at all. Like Macklemore.
For what it's worth, I came across this yesterday and tried replicating their results. I didn't use exactly the same process - I used the S&P 500 and the trading strategy was not exactly the same (because i'm using a framework that makes something else easier to try). But my approach was close enough that I would expect to see similar results if their results were robust enough to be of any use. I didn't get similar results, in fact 'debt' went the other way, and I calculated an associated p value of about 0.8 (i.e. no significance whatsoever). Of course I could have made a mistake, and having come this far going to spend some time double checking everything today, but it'd also surprise me greatly if there was money lying around for the taking this easily..
> being smart (an overrated trait in many circumstances).

I disagree, the advantages of being smart appear in an astounding number of contexts, from making a lot more money than everyone else to living longer to having better teeth etc (and yes, most of the many IQ correlations survive after conditioning on the obvious stuff).

The real issue here is that intelligence correlates with income to such a degree that progressive income taxation (very common) may already be playing this role.
Wow, I didn't even notice that. That is very slick! I played some of the "videos" and thought the implementation was nice, responsive, and smooth; I had no idea it wasn't pre-rendered video.
I believe this is not a fully accurate picture, although the example you give in your second paragraph is definitely accurate.

At a high level you aren't allowed to use "material, non-public information" for investment purposes, but information isn't material just because you can make money off of it in some way, otherwise "channel checks" would be illegal. Material non-public information has to come from insiders of the company, so the only argument that could be made that it was illegal for Google to make investments is based on material information that was being provided to them, via search terms, by corporate insiders. If they are merely using the sentiment exposed by the public to them through search terms that is probably legal. Similarly it's legal for hedge funds to fly planes over department stores and count the cars in their parking lots to gauge the level of business they are seeing at Christmas time, even though this isn't public information.
Marvel and Doctor Who and Darth Vader aren't really related to IT though. I'm aware of all three, and seen a couple of the Star Wars movies, but that's it. By her argument, Trish would be alienating to me, a male in IT as well. People in all fields have hobbies and interests outside of work. I don't think this is a sexism or even IT issue.
Just today I was in the test lab for the ticketing machines at the transport company I work for. Our machines being unattended and often in public spaces, skimming is a real concern (and it has happened to me personally).

The solution? Adding a plate with random bumps to each machine, and also adding a contraption infront of the card slot into which you place your card and then slide it in (see http://blog.webwereld.nl/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/nspas.jp... ). This last solution seems to be patented BTW.
WxPython – Having Fun with Silly Ciphers
Appcelerator Cloud
http://www.appcelerator.com/platform/appcelerator-cloudservi...

App42
http://api.shephertz.com/

Kumulos
http://www.kumulos.com/

Kinvey
http://www.kinvey.com/

Apstrata
http://www.apstrata.com/

Buddy
http://buddy.com/

Stackmob
https://www.stackmob.com/

Proxomo
http://www.proxomo.com/

Iknode
http://iknode.com/

Kii
http://www.kii.com/en/technology

CloudMine
https://cloudmine.me/

Applicasa
http://www.applicasa.com/

MobDB
https://www.mobdb.net/

Windows Azure Mobile
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/

FeedHenry
http://www.feedhenry.com/

-- My favorite ones are in the order of preference following :

Appcelerator (currently using it )

App42 ( tried it )

Stackmob (tried it )

Kumulos
"...musicians will have to increasingly rely on touring, merchandise sales and endorsement deals to make up for lost album sales." Yes, yes they will, just like they've always done because of how RIAA members take the large part of the profits from record sales. Again, the only ones for whom anything changes are RIAA members.

yes, that’s largely true. and i’d say the extent to which labels profited over artists historically is pretty fucked-up. but, riaa itself aside, labels do serve a real purpose and are a valuable player in the space, like them or not.. and going from having the labels asymmetrically commanding industry profits (largely derived from record sales) to artists now doing the same (largely derived from other streams like touring, merch, …) may feel like ‘justice’ but isn’t an optimal state. they may have excess profits to coast on for a while but, in the long term, if both artists and labels can’t monetize the end result is less good music out there.

this disconnect in the market has hindered progress for too long (and i do blame the labels for it), but the solution should be shifting to a more equitable split of overall profits that reflects the value record companies generate in building-up an artist’s brand..
> people in rich nations are not driven to reproduce

It may be true for many, even most. But you would need to expand it to all. Otherwise those who do want to reproduce and spread will continue to do it.

Also, we may be in a lull. There may be some gene that either makes people not want to reproduce, or makes people really want to reproduce. That gene is about to experience a whole boatload of selective pressure.
The temperatures you're comparing are between the core of the earth and the radiation temperature of the surface of the sun. It's way hotter in the sun's core (20 million Kelvin IRRC)
In India, you can pay for GMAT using MasterCard, but not Visa
From My experience in last 1 year, since the only payment method is credit card, I have failed to find one Visa card, through which I could schedule my GMAT exam. But as soon as I try Master Card, it works like magic. Is this just India? or me?
TL;DR Twitter = Evil
Damn decent offer.
I've not seen Star Wars. Well, I tried to but fell asleep 10 minutes in. Oddly, I'm not feeling like an odd one out here, even so :-)
How easy is it to scrape Google trends? Is there an API?
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English man, english! I can read arabic, but not the 95% HN users!
I have no problem believing that, if there is alien life, that many of them are quite different.

I do have a problem believing that there is lots of alien life and all of them will come to this guy's "it makes sense to me so it must make sense to advanced aliens" conclusions to say home.
ehhh you arent really backing up your points. We have to take this argument for what its worth, i mean we are basically talking a thought experiment along science fiction lines right here... and thats ok, makes for an interesting change. BUT in lines with that you have to from a thought experiment standpoint justify your arguements...

The original author went to great length to justify his arguments, I think a lot of his are flawed, but they are at least fully thought out/hashed. You cant play this thought experiment game without playing by the same rules...

You believe intelligent life is rare in the galaxy, also you believe inter galactic distances are so vast that even with mature FTL travel those regions will remain inaccessible. I dont really see a strong justification for the second postulate, the first i am on the fence about
Dallas. ~2400sqft maybe? I forget. It's pretty easy to lock in ~9c rates here. I think I actually pay 9.6c per kwh because I chose the "100% Windpower" option.

I expect the car will probably kick that up <$10.
his point is that a startup should be resourceful period. a startup doesn't have to think of liquidating their assets unless they are going out of business. I use a 10yrs old ibm thinkpad. I've been hacking Unix systems 1994 and started writing C/x86 asm back then. I get odd looks when I go to meetups and pull out my old clunky hardware. I bought it for $100 3 years ago, it works great for me. No matter how fast/sexy my machine is, it doesn't write the code. I do! I've always stayed with older machines due to an experience I had around 97. I had an IRC friend in Poland, he had a 8086 machine. I had a 486 or possibly early pentium. He wrote a routine that was way faster than mine because his only experience was through his 8086, so he had to make it fast enough for himself. I realize that having top of the line hardware puts me at a disadvantage, I can't assume that most of my customers are going to use the latest. I work as if they are going to use the slowest. Th e only time to code with the latest/shiny is multimedia intense projects like game development. Web development? You can use a 15yr old computer.
Another option for getting a web color scheme:

http://webcolourdata.com/

It shows a color profile for a specific web site you search for. Obviously, taking a web site's entire color scheme wouldn't be wise. I just use it for getting color scheme ideas - not using the exact color scheme and color hex rip offs.
When Everybody Starts Wearing Smartglasses, Google Won’t Be the Only Player
This app is great, especially if you don't take its recommendations verbatim. I haven't seen anything else that comes close.
Coke Supply Chain Delivers Medicine to Remote African Village
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Apple's iCar is finally here
Fairly recently Facebook changed their app to do all updates through the app instead of Play. It's easy to go back to Play but it's not what they usually do anymore, at all.
Why Alibaba could be China's next $100 billion IPO
Sure, I started as a researcher 14 years ago, then drifted to what I thought was a sweet spot then, half-research / half-programmer. I say 'sweet spot' because many applications did require both the academic and the applied background at the time, so for the sake of thrilling applications, it was worth 'downgrading' to pure engineering work when needed. Now I believe the game has changed a bit, coursera and others are infusing the minds of engineers with highly technical knowledge far more rapidly than before.

Typically I am astonished at the number of implementations of deep learning techniques (Shark does include some, AFAIK).

My past experience is that I had write many AI algorithms myself because I could not find any suitable, free and/or open implementations (or other researchers would not share theirs ;) ).
Nate Silver: What Big Data can't predict
Apple's stock soars to new all-time high