skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm doing a serious project in RubyMotion at the moment. It doesn't save you having to know Objective-C, since all example code for doing anything in Cocoa are still in Objective-C, but it does save you from having to write in Objective-C itself. That means, no writing everything twice (header files, type declarations), and no brackets. I find Ruby a lot more readable, even when writing the incredibly long method names from Cocoa.

But the real payoff is threefold:

1) You can use and write very ruby-ish wrappers for things. A great example is teacup, which lets you essentially write stylesheets for your UIViews (and I guess now NSViews).

2) Working with collections like arrays and hashes is MUCH more convenient. You can spend a good part of your time doing just that.

3) Command-line toolchain. It's not for everyone, of course, but for those who work better like that, it's a revolution.

Right now it's pretty wild west. There's no obvious winner in terms of libraries for the data layer, for example. So taking on an RM project right now either means rolling up your sleeves and hacking on the infrastructure, or just living with raw Cocoa, without benefit of autocomplete. Give it another 6-12 months and I think you'll see a very strong contender.
Understanding Tablet User Experience: Cognitive Load
The easy part of replacing Feedburner, is building a replacement.

The hard part, is keeping a good replacement open for the next decade with near 100% uptime.
Monetization Cheatsheet
It would have been 13% of papers reproducible if this blasted paper hadn't ruined things and included itself
Free licenses always restrict use. You cannot use them without sharing your changes. I don't know what an "Open/free" license is, but if it's your invention, I guess you get to define what a "True" one is.
Icenium now has integration with Sitefinity 6.0 (Telerik's cms)

You can now edit and manage your app through a cms.
Perhaps an MP3 => OGG JavaScript converter is in order.
> You're more optimistic than I am if you think that a government committee will be democratic, or that such a committee (democratic or not) would base its decisions on clinical considerations, or that people would not be outraged at rational clinical decisions.

As opposed to the democratic decision that's already being made in board rooms?
Facebook ads support? Here's where to look.
I'm pretty sure that's the case. I got suggestions for 2 people I played WoW with and the only ways we communicated were in-game chat, voice chat, and we had a single e-mail chain where we (the officers) talked about....something, I forget what. I'm guessing one of them imported their mail contacts because I doubt LinkedIn has visibility into Blizzard's social network or private voice chat servers.

I think the creepy part about LinkedIn is you can actually see who views who. If Facebook did that it would be very embarrassing for a lot of people.
My guess is the neighbor put your name in LinkedIn's search box.
Michael Arrington vs Jennifer Allen (Case 2:13-cv-00810-JLR) Filed 05/07/13
M$ ruined their reputation for good, so much that all their actions look questionable by default. To be honest they never even tried to restore it, and it doesn't look like they care. They continue their racket with brazen conceit, and there is no one to blame except themselves, that they lost the benefit of a doubt.
How do I flag astroturfer accounts on HN?
RubyMine IDE from IntelliJ [1] is a nice part of the tool-chain. It has auto-complete for RubyMotion.

[1] http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/
I have met the Codecademy founders, and I find what they do to be admirable (as you do) and wish them the best.

However, I don't think they (or anyone) would argue that coding instruction is sufficient to revive the possibly long-gone "American Dream". It's a small piece of the puzzle.

The real problem is that while there's infinite demand for solving problems and making the world better, most people don't get jobs that provide access to that infinite demand. Those jobs only exist if you have savings to go off on your own. Otherwise, you're a subordinate supporting someone else's career, and demand for subordinate labor is going toward zero, due to technology. It's so low that if you're over 40, you're probably priced out of those kinds of jobs unless you're an executive.

Most people need to work in those subordinate jobs (to get savings and credibility) before they can create their own jobs, but those subordinate jobs are now being eaten by machines, which are just much better at reliable, cheap subordination than any human.

The gap between what the world needs (problem solving) and what people can get steady income to do (subordinate labor) has reached an unacceptable level, and it's now tearing the economy apart and shutting what used to be a bidirectionally reliable labor market down.

Providing easy access to coding resources is an admirable step in the right direction, but this is a huge problem and it's not going to be solved by one website. Given that universities with trillions of dollars (as a set) in endowments have failed to solve it, I think that this problem is going to be around for a while.
Most likely. I'm not sure if that makes him or LinkedIn creepier.
> second of all, law firm client lists and VC client lists are not complete. you think they put all that shit on their website???

I agree, they wouldn't put that on their website. And, if they are an ethical firm, they would both disclose the conflict AND send you somewhere else as soon as any hint of a conflict appears.

That the firm in question didn't do that says something very sad about the state of business ethics among some people in this world. :-(
Software Out, Hardware Start-Ups In
Show me a market where such a restrictive view is mandated and I will show you a failed market. This notion that "trading should benefit the market" is complete and total nonsense propagated by people with no understanding of liquidity. Trading is adversarial by definition.

1987 was caused by portfolio insurance from major funds, not HFT (which didn't really exist then as it does now). HFT also didn't cause the mortgage crisis. That was long term consumer financing & Gov mortgage buyers & pension investors. HFT was definitely involved in the flash crash, but what were the long term implications of that? Zero. The most recent blip was caused my dissemination of bad news via a source that had been compromised. Again, not HFT.

Want to hate HFT (I do!)? Hate it because it isn't profitable (which is why I left in 2010) and because it still sucks up engineering talent like a black hole of despair.

These anti-HFT articles that occasionally come out are hilarious because the money that put HFT on the public radar simply isn't there anymore. Look at GETCO.

The question I have is why is the public so willing to accept disinformation? Residual banker hate?
I think they do compliment each other. Both Ghostery and Adblock come with something NoScript doesn't have by design: A wide array of predefined filters (for trackers and ads, respectively).

However, NoScript is still very useful for (imho) two things: disabling extra functionality that you don't use in exchange for faster loading time, and for browsing on potentially dangerous websites.
Good answer. Thanks. But it still seems to me that this can't be the American dream. It is satisfied so well by so many other countries with healthcare and good employee protections.

The American dream must surely be an exceptional one, to justify some exceptional hardships?
It is not general purpose.
A small group of us are interested in developing healthcare related apps. My email is ryan.teo (at) gmail.com.
Sure... the computer did it. Can't you just blame the dog like everyone else does? lol
> They keep their costs down by rationing coverage with wait-lists. I know a few people from the UK where their family members lived in daily pain and had to wait YEARS for their number to be called. They also limit the availability to the best medications and procedures to keep costs down. Also the quality is also quite poor, hundreds of people in the UK have died of dehydration in the hospital because the staff forgot to give them water.

So we don't have these problems in the U.S. under the current "free market" system?

Before you answer, I already know that the answer is "yes we do".
No, you generally can't distribute them with out sharing your changes. Big difference.
That article says "Data are ideal for managing with Git."

I one time tried using git to manage my data. The problem is, I frequently have thousands of files and gigabytes of data. And git just does not handle that well.[1]

One time, I even tried building a git repo that just had the history of pdb snapshots. The PDB frequently has updates, and I have run into many cases where an analysis of a structure was done in a paper 3 years ago, but the structure has been updated and changed since then, making the paper make no sense until I thought to look at the history of changes to the structure. Unfortunately, git could not handle this at all when I tried it, taking days to construct the repo and then that repo was unbearably slow when I tried to use it.

Git would probably work well for storing the data used by most bench scientists, but for a computational chemist puking up gigabytes of data weekly on a single project, it is sadly horrible for handling the history of your data.

[1] http://osdir.com/ml/git/2009-05/msg00051.html
You're probably joking... because his graphics are all stock and that layout could be thrown together in hours even with pondering time included.

eg his rocket ship:

http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/file404/file4041209/file40...
For some background, Hyperbole and a Half started out as a comic more light hearted, but then the author went through some depression. This is her first post in a long time.
Oh sorry I missed all the questions/replies for this.

I have my own firefox extension which I hacked up from an abandoned old firefox extension (called "soundextension" by Torisugari) not suitable for release, but there is a more modern extension here which does most of the same:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noise/

The click sounds I use are from old Windows 2000, I doubt XP/7/8 has them, NIMclick.wav and NIMover.wav

https://www.google.com/search?q=nimclick.wav+nimover.wav

I vaguely remember I also had to edit the sound files to cut the volume way down, so my PC sound could be at normal levels while the clicks were much more subtle in the background.

Once your brain is trained as to which click means what, you get a good sense of what a page is doing, sneakily or otherwise. Won't work with websockets though.
Interesting, one question though. Who thought orange text on white background was a good idea? Ow
Scribd is broken without javascript. Here is a better link:

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/Untangling_the_Web.pdf
> You cannot patent "operating system software" because it is an abstract concept with no embodiment, like "flying car" or "hyperdrive spaceship"

Exactly why I started my sentence with _take it to the extreme_.

Innovation in the US may not have slowed down (I would argue that it has, although I'm not in the US), but it has definitely become quite expensive. In my opinion, that's a barrier for independent software developers.
First of all, I think this technology and application is awesome. Glass really is pushing the boundaries of what can be done in the physical world with contact to software and the internet. I just worry that it's approaching communication platforms a bit too swiftly, especially in light of recent controversy regarding usage while driving (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/technology/personaltech/go...).

Really hope that some sort of legal precedent is set so that us geeks and developers don't have to worry about distribution if we want to invest time/energy into building apps for Glass.
Would you prefer one exchange? Interesting things happen to commissions (the real enemy) when exchanges consolidate...
Domain name change leads to 20% drop at HomeAdvisor
Yes, I did this as well. Was quite easy on my phone.
So true. I forgot there's a better way than the typical office!
The American Dream is freedom. The concept goes back to the 1770s and originally had nothing to do with cars or houses in the suburbs. Freedom from old relationships and inherited ruling classes and entrenched, market-capturing oligarchies.

Corporate employment is not the American Dream. It's a sign that the "Dream" is over.
I have the impression that the average sentence length is more on the order of 15 words per sentence, but I might be wrong.

The cubic time complexity is for exhaustively finding the best parse. In practice you can use various approximation techniques, such as coarse-to-fine parsing used by the Charniak & Berkeley parsers. I believe these two are faster than the Stanford Parser, and the parameters of the approximation can be tuned to have faster parsing at the expense of accuracy. You could probably get a reasonable parse tree for a sentence in one second. The fastest PCFG parser which does not do such approximations is bitpar. Another avenue is to try to use the GPU; there has been some research into this.

Dependency parsers are indeed faster but in general their accuracy cannot be compared to constituency parsers, because the information in the output is of a different nature.
For a while, Linked in was present a password input box that looked like "You failed to login, try again" at a glance, but in reality it was asking for your email address and password. From that point, they could read your email and extract all your contacts.
yes you need to donate 10 euro to the ugandan charity Bram chose to support.

http://www.vim.org/sponsor/
There's no persistence in your example: how would you plug that in?
Consider this:

You just died because, during treatment for an easily treatable medical problem, a lack of regulation allowed some part of that treatment to have a higher probability of complications.

Now go sue.
Steven Wozniak discusses early Apple years and BASIC
Yeah, I've noticed that quite often. If you happen onto the profile of pretty much any woman that's above average attractive (and quite a few that aren't) you get that. I don't think the same is case for the men, though perhaps I'm just blind to what women finds attractive in men...
Raptorize: A JQuery Plugin
Turn Bad Stress Into Good
Not sure I understand your point here...

Are you suggesting that on a national scale things would have turned out for the better if Japanese Americans started shooting anyone who tried to intern them? Or if Black Panthers started shooting cops in the street?

It seems to me both those scenarios end up in a bloodbath. One which both minority groups would have little chance of surviving. And when the massacre is over, the government will say "Look - we were right all along! They were violent terrorists and we had no choice.".
Apple's Lightning Connector Detailed in Newly-Published Patent Applications
Let me know how that works for you the next time you don't pay your taxes that fund the Interstate I take to get to work.
Ask HN: Books or online courses on the topic of implementing garbage collectors?
What are the best books or online courses I should go through before writing my own GC? Are there any free ones?
Consulting company to unmask "cyberbullies" who post mean things online
105-Year-Old Woman Says Bacon Keeps Her Alive
Here are some things I find more creepy about LinkedIn:

-It tells people when I view their profile. So now I never view people's profiles because I don't want to look like a stalker. Imagine if Facebook worked this way.

-An andecdote, but maybe you've experienced it: a guy I worked with about 3 years ago (and only for 2 weeks) has "endorsed" me several times recently. I don't know if this is some kind of quid pro quo, but it makes me somewhat uncomfortable.
Well, that's speculating that copyright will be extended again before 2019.

Like that would happen....

Where's the scotch again?
The experience I related above took place around 2008/9. Sorry if that's a bit out of date. I looked through your links and it does look like there have been recent efforts to produce bare-bones themes, though the OP's theme is much better documented. What I really want to see is a version of the Codex that actually guides the user through an exemplary theme, and OP's theme comes pretty close to that.

And yes, I'm referring to the weird `if (have_posts()): while (have_posts()): the_post();` boilerplate. Back then, for a PHP newbie like me, it looked like a magical one-liner ... until I realized that the loop actually terminates hundreds of lines later with an endwhile/endif statement. It's so easy for newbies to miss the significance of the two colons, especially if they're not familiar with the "alternate syntax for control structures".

Although I now understand how the loop works, it still pisses me off that I have to call a function to populate a bunch of hidden variables/objects that are later fetched by other functions. Too much going on behind the scenes == difficult to grok. A simple foreach() loop would have been much more intuitive. Perhaps this will happen sometime soon using the Iterator interface, now that WordPress has finally left PHP 4 behind.
I like your version of the American dream. :)
Yes, for a new developer. But for a designer who doesn't have time to learn the codex?
It's funny how the exact same news on the pypy blog did not make it to the front page. Anyway, here you go for a full announcement including benchmarks: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2013/05/pypy-20-alpha-for-arm.h...
> In your little world everything comes from the government, as well as your ideology it seems.

I suspect we may well share some sentiments, but you're coming off as needlessly argumentative. Yeah, sometimes I do too :p
Oh yeah, the Lua support is there, I was meaning a concentrated effort to have Lua replace VimScript completely.
Is it only in life sciences? Remember the cold fusion and the faster than light particle fiascos?
The reason that many people think the WP loop is badly constructed is because it entirely works by side effects. A (very simple) WP loop looks like this:

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post() ?>
<h2><?php the_title() ?></h2>
<?php the_content() ?>
<?php endwhile ?>

There are four unique functions there. All of them depend on non-obvious global state and three of them are used specifically to produce side effects. the_post() invisibly overwrites a global and changes an iterator. It not only mutates global state, but it does something different if you accidentally call it twice. And WP's the_whatever() functions echo something and return nothing?! Want to do some filtering on the title before you print it? Better use get_the_whatever() instead. WTF?! Heres how it should work:

<?php foreach ($post in $wpdb->get_posts() : ?>
<h2><?= $post->title ?></h2>
<?= $post->content ?>
<?php endforeach ?>
You can disable the option in your profile settings to not show when you've viewed someones contact info, however, this means you'll no longer know who the people are the view your profile.
UEFI to make its way into mobile and non-PC markets
Yes, and Shizuo Fujita and Laurent are THE top contributors. Both HipByte employees. Matt's last commit was two years ago:

f6908b2 - 2011-04-28 21:50:28 -0700 fixed a stupid bug in the Xcode4 template (Matt Aimonetti)
Utah, the mountains are on the east. Especially seeing as 3/4 of the team graduated from BYU.
Worst apps ever
Look if you are comparing a station wagon to a Tesla, you are just not even close to their target market. A BMW M5 sucks for camping too, and it has nothing to do with the range.
Free licenses always restrict use. You cannot use them without sharing your changes.

From section 0 of the GPLv2:

Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted

That seems to be explicitly not restricting use, yes?

I don't know what an "Open/free" license is

The Open Source and Free Software people tend to use similar (and often the same) licenses, even tho they don't like eachother and can't agree on anything (or rather they only agree until someone points out that they're agreeing, at which point they start nitpicking on their ideological differences).
That or they have information on where you and your neighbor once lived. I have signed up for a couple of online brokerage accounts where they ask me questions about where I or my family have lived in the past.

I got questions like; "At which of these 5 addresses has $BROTHER ever lived before?" And one of them was correct.
Day Against Digital Rights Management (DRM) Heats Up Debate
May 3, 2013 was the Day Against Digital Rights Management (DRM) according to a press release from the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Timed to coincide roughly with the 20 year anniversary the open World Wide Web, FSF and more than two dozen other organizations announced the circulation of a petition opposing DRM measures to be delivered at the World Wide Web Consortium in Boston.
Speeding up your Webfonts
> Last I know Sweden is not doing too well compared to Finland.

I don't know if that's the case, but if so, it just might be related to Sweden having shitloads of more Somalis than Finland.
Performance optimizations in the FB recommendations plugin
To keep clients, it's the work, but also the bond
In fact, Facebook does quite the opposite - there's always been demand for "see who looked at your profile" apps on Facebook, and Facebook has always gone out of their way to squash them. It's something they most certainly don't want to happen on their platform, with good reason.
Yeah, it's a blog post. It's not based in science or excruciatingly fact-checked. It's just one guy's slightly cynical take on American culture.
W3C proceeds with Web video encryption despite opposition
No offense, at these price points the car better damn well be perfect. When they deliver a car at an every man's price point and score very high then I will be impressed. A year to two down the road and maintain that level of performance I will be impressed. Until then, cars are these price points have large enough margins that extra time and detail can be baked into the process.

Kudos for beating the other luxury guys.
I'm not sure what you're getting at -- copying an API interface is allowed, because API interfaces are not copyrightable see Oracle v. Google.
Windows 8 - Worse than New Coke?
I love stuff like codeacademy.

It gives people with even the remotest inkling of an interest in programming the opportunity to explore that interest in a hassle-free environment (much like those of who grew up in the 80's had with Speccies and C64's) and instant positive feedback is a great thing.

If however you think completing codeacademy courses makes you fit to program for a living you are dangerously (and expensively) insane.

Knowledge of a particular programming language in-depth is a tiny part of what makes you a competent programmer.

In fact once you have learnt one or two languages you can learn another pretty quickly (though mastery of the idioms can take a while).

However to me a "coder" and a programmer (software engineer/developer) are completely different beasts.

Personally I'm waiting for surgeonacademy always fancied having a go at a transplant and they do seem to spend a lot of time on the golf course!.
Ouya Is First Kickstarter Project to Raise Significant VC Funds