skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you parsed that line wrong. I read it as:

> I don't class it as a 'lie' to quietly favour "crowds flowing in a safe manner" over "the quickest route".

It's a well-formed statement, not a dangling comparative.
Will it remain free for people who download it now? Or will it expire in a few weeks when the commercial version comes out?
My first car had airbags, but not ABS. My parents wanted me to get something with ABS, but the opportunity came up to buy the car for $800 (auto repair shop repo'd it after customer didn't pay bill).

Repos aren't always a good deal though. My sister's second car was a repo that ended up needing almost $2k in repairs on top of the purchase price.
I'm always a bit of in a risk-assessment mode when it comes to the public transport vs cycling decision. Somehow I find cycling in inner city areas incredibly dangerous. It probably depends on one's own driving style, but are there any stats on biking related accidents in London? Some time ago a cyclist in front of me was crashing incredibly bad. If you see someone "flying" of his bike and smashing into a brick wall it somewhat makes the safety aspect a more tangible issue. Ultimately I now end up cycling only in the evening hours or on distances where I can drive through relatively car-free zones (e.g. parks).
I'm not sure I'd call it franchising.

Even with the recent TechStars Cloud class in San Antonio, about as non-startup a city as you can find, the program didn't seem to have any trouble attracting mentors and VCs. Demo day was packed with VCs from around the country and AFAIK a lot of the companies from the latest batch have had no trouble raising seed.

(I'm not a TS alum, but I work out of the coworking space TS uses in San Antonio)
We got bored at our local Hackspace and built a starship simulator using Unity
Turning Off iPhone Critical to Pilots Citing Interference
I guess it depends what you mean by "socialist" - Labour created the NHS and nationalised some of the key heavy industries of the time (coal, steel, electricity):

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/labour_party_nationalis...

Turns out that the NHS was a good idea and the nationalising of industries was a bad idea!

Of course, when Labour re-invented itself in the 1990s as "New Labour" they pretty much became "Conservative-Lite" - I'm still not sure what values they actually have.
I hope this becomes a standard, every news organization needs one of these.
Nearly live DjangoCon Europe Notes
I drove 45 minutes one-way to high school during my junior and senior years in '93-'95. Gas cost .99/1.09/1.19 during that time. It was fifty miles per day, in the mountains, and I got about 15MPG. So that's about $3/day or $15/week. Now it would cost nearly $12/day or $60/week.
The real shame is that so many people are willing to outsource their opinion-building to random ranters on random message boards.
Android 4.3 confirmed by Google developer website
You know I was playing around with ASP Web Pages (Razor) and loved it. Too bad WebMatrix is Windows only.
Journal publishers are little more than "pdf middle men". They offer less value than scribd, which is saying something.
If it looks like it is going to be weird, I try to ask people if they are a hand-shaker or a hugger. I am cool with whatever makes them comfortable.
Might be useful to serve that page over https so the .onion address it contains can't be changed by a man in the middle.
And now you've descended into tinfoil hattery, using the classic technique of tinfoil hatters: punning on the words "honor" and "privilege."

1) Lawyers don't enjoy any special protections from lawsuits. The only special privilege they enjoy is practicing law, just as doctors enjoy the privilege to practice medicine, or professional engineers enjoy the privilege to sign off on certain building projects.

2) The partial immunity of government officials and judges in the scope of their official duties is contemporaneous with the founding, so it's unlikely that the founders would have objected to it. It was so pervasive that if the founders had intended to abrogate it, they would have done so explicitly.

It's a very old principle of legal interpretation that when words are arranged in a series, they should be read consistently with each other. So in the phrase "titles of nobility or honor," "honor" must be read in the context of "nobility." What is a noble? A noble is someone with certain intrinsic privileges. Informal honorifics, like "doctor" or "professor" or "reverend" or "judge" are not "honors" in the sense of the language in the proposed 13th amendment, because they're terms of politeness directed to the office, not the person.
So you'd happily use the N' word, "fag," "gay," and similar since you can re-define them in your head to be just general insults, rather than associating negativity with the groups for which these words were originally used?

Sorry but we both know the reason you're using that word is because you want to paint them as being mentally handicapped which you perceive as "bad." You can pretend that isn't what you're doing but even if that is true that is how others perceive it, because when they hear the word "retard" they think mentally handicapped and you're using it as a derogative.
The dev tools for the .NET ecosystem are bar none. It's one of the only things I miss about working with C# when I switched over to Ruby. That and Linq. :P

Give me a visual debugger over some terminal crap any day.

In this regard RubyMine is a very good solution to debugging Rails applications and Ruby code.
New Data Science book paid preview: Practical Data Science with R
You are right, my bad. I commited a bug in documentation :) Fixed now.
IRC is still alive and kicking. I have been using it for around 10 years. I still use it everyday, along with a handful of my "real life" friends. I feel IRC has always been a slightly more "underground/nerdy" technology and will always remain under the surface of other mainstream user technologies such as FB and Twitter.
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When I run into a male acquaintance, I know exactly how to greet him: shake his hand. Doesn’t matter how long we’ve known each other. I even shake my dad’s hand.

Maybe I'm too friendly or completely oblivious to how socially awkward and creepy I am, but I hug many of my close male friends, even though I am a 'cisgendered heterosexual male.' In a way I am saddened that the author is not on 'hugging terms' with is own father.

Perhaps he is overthinking the trivial niceties of social interactions? In my mind, it's never been a Big Deal. Do what comes naturally, Anything is only as awkward you make it.

After a few misguided attempts at executing the 'urban greeting,' I have since made a conscious effort to demonstrate clear intent upon encountering an acquaintance. In other words, I make sure my hand is clearly oriented in either handshake or urban greeting ready position.

Simply put, it's like partner dancing - one must lead for the other to follow, or else you'll end up with the 'ball-and-socket' when one goes for the fist bump and the other for the handshake/high five.
At the server side it simply gives no choice but proprietary and unreliable ms systems and a weak app/web server (iis). The desktop client side is only good for ms clients. For the devices realm there is nothing to talk about really and regarding windows phone it's a bit early.
I've worked with .net in the past but now i usually avoid it as much as i can.
Dear Kyle Wagner,

Stop using flat design if you have no sense of which colors compliment each other. The dark saturated colors in the top image made me puke in my mouth.
Projections for Backbone collections
How I 'stole' $14 million from a bank: A security tester's tale
>They encourage a design attitude that everything has to operate like the flight deck of a 747

I agree. If you have ever done any development using SharePoint or Dynamics CRM API's and SDK's you will know how much of an overengineered mess these applications are. The unnecessary complexity of these applications does however create demand for thousands of developers to untangle the mess.
Yeah - I can tell you as a C# developer, I get contacted on Linked in several times a week. I'm not looking at all. And if they look at my history, they can see I've been at my current job just 6 weeks. That doesn't slow them down.

As mentioned above, enterprise solutions are huge. There's a lot of money there, and they rely on Microsoft solutions. Sharepoint 2010 has hooks into Dynamics CRM (accounting and CRM), data workflow and reporting (SSIS/SSRS), etc. I've only seen glimpses of 2013, and I think it'll be slow to catch on (as is typical in the corporate cycle) but it will likely be huge in the future.
Thank the Lord that thus far I haven't had to get a tube as part of my commute! The overground every day is bad enough, and I almost always get a seat and can look out of the window there. Roll on the day where working from home as a developer is the default rather than a rare privilege!
A lot of you on Hacker News do heavy duty data science and analytics, and we have been working very hard on a new book on this topic.

Please forward this to anybody interested in data science or R. Also Manning is offering 50% off until the 18th with the promotion code: pdswrco .
I think you meant a tax free return equal to your student loan interest rate - though you ought to factor inflation that reduces the value of the loan
I have actually never seen those buttons before but they look nice. When I get a chance I'll have to play around with incorporating it into a Foundation project.

Unfortunately I don't know too many style elements that are made for use with Foundation yet. I'd imagine most SCSS/SASS stylesheets would work well with it though. Perhaps my next project will be to compile a list of free resources for use specifically with Foundation, similar to what Bootsnipp has for Bootstrap resources: bootsnipp.com/resource.

I'd certainly like to see Foundation's ecosystem to grow to the size of Bootstrap's.
There's something about WCF that rubs me the wrong way. I like coding Web Services. WCF just feels like bloat on top of web services. And traditional web services can be used cross-platform. I'm not sure WCF can. Maybe I'm just sticking with not fixing something that's not broken.
Lost in America: Still No Phone Service After Hurricane Sandy
No offense to Damian, but be very careful about accepting the assertion that something is secure. I'm not a security expert, but I am part of the way through the Matasano cyrpto challenges, and my #1 take-away has been that what you think is a secure design rarely is when held to a high level of scrutiny.

The approach the author has taken here would appear to suffer from similar weaknesses present in block ciphers (e.g., AES ECB). The context here is not specifically encryption, but recovering data from "wiped" drives shares some aspects with encryption. Specifically, statistical analysis of the drive state.

Repetition of a block of data will allow an attacker to exploit that pattern in developing statistics about the data that was there before.

In other words, writing a repeating string of random bits is no more secure than writing all zeros.
Near real time typhoon/meteorological info in and around the Philippines
I think that the addition of WinRT has made a lot of things much more complex in the short run, but I'm willing to wait and see - I think that the long term vision of a portable subset that runs everywhere is pretty attractive. This is definitely a time of transition, so there's going to be some pain involved as everything gets sorted out.

I think you're a bit off base on open source - there's not the same level of emphasis as on some other platforms, but there's a fair amount of high quality open source stuff for the platform, whether by Microsoft (F#, ASP.NET MVC, etc.) or by the community (Mono, Service Stack, nHibernate, etc.). The move towards NuGet packages has increased the momentum here significantly.

I also think that you're not being fair when you talk about Microsoft switching directions on developers. It's certainly true that the new hot MS technology may come out in 3 months and the way you've been doing things may no longer be recommended, but I can't think of any company as good as Microsoft at supporting their legacy technologies.
It's telling how little tech startup activity there is around Eindhoven, despite the massive amount of PR going out that this is going to be the country/continent's next silicon valley.
In what way? They already have Intellisense and controls built into the IDE. Red Gate and Jet Brains just make them better IMHO. Some people prefer CodeRush and JustCode, although with my scenario in purchasing Telerik, JustCode would become part of the deal... Some people prefer DevExpress and Infragistics to Telerik...
You often get these sorts of "lies" on the road network. Signs will attempt to send you on a lengthy jaunt around the outside of a town even if the road through town is major and quicker.

Google Maps and sat nav devices tend to send you the more direct route, however, so I wonder if this technique may prove useless in future and force significant redesigns or even laws to prevent navigational devices making these suggestions.

A memorable one for me is the A6/A7 through Lyon (France). The signs are adamant you should take a 10 mile detour to head south of Lyon despite the A6 (solely marked as "Lyon Centre") going in a straight line under the city without interruption. August is probably the only time it makes sense and even then the entire A6 is blocked as it is..
I acknowledge that you would not like to be asked for a hug. Different people like to be treated differently. But my rule accounts for one thing: there is more potential for harm by not asking. Better safe than sorry, as it were. You are welcome to ignore my suggestion :-)

(Also, the article doesn't suggest you ask everyone before you have sex with them; it's more about being mindful of "is this person really into it, or could I be pressuring them?" If you believe it is impossible for this to happen, think again, as all perception is skewed by personal bias)
> San Francisco homelessness is not a question about rich vs. poor.

Yes, it is.

> It's a question about what to do with people who are mentally handicapped and/or drug abusers.

Drug addicts and the mentally ill and/or handicapped who are not also poor have support systems and treatment options available, and are not part of the homelessness problem. So, yes, its about mental illness and drug addiction -- but also very much about rich vs. poor.

> This is partially a money problem, but it's largely a social problem.

Its a resource distribution problem; its not "partially a money problem" or "largely a social problem", its is completely both (money problems are equivalent to resource distribution problems and are a subset of social problems.)

> A lot of other countries deal with this better because they have stronger family support structures.

There may be some cases where countries do this better because of family support structures, but I can't think of any clear examples -- perhaps you could provide some. Most modern developed nations do it better because they have stronger public social support structures.

> Programming can help, but this isn't a programming problem.

This much is true. Its a policy (and, at a more fundamental level, values) problem, not a technical problem.

> Everyone here who's arguing about their superior European social programs are really preaching to the quire,

"Choir" is probably the word you are looking for; preaching to sheets of paper isn't exactly a sensible metaphor.

> because most Americans on Hacker News would kill to have these social programs.

I don't see much evidence for that "most Americans on Hacker news" would be willing to give up America's bias toward largely privatized health care financing, and income tax system that's heavily favorable to capital, and policy of financing a major part of the existing social support system via additional taxes that fall exclusively on labor for a stronger social support systems, much less that they would be willing to "kill" for such systems.
So I guess if I posted about how I chose C++ and Perl to write Enginuity Search Engine I'd get no love on HN because its boring, stable, scales and just works.
Smart, gets things done, opinionated: some thoughts on technical hiring
One Random Act a Day could save a life
Airline industry divided over passenger electronics
Razor is the worlds most advanced and easy to use view templating enging. It's the easiest and most succinct view engine I've ever used and is a joy to work with.
No no, I want to use Haswell on the desktop!
I remember the TechEd conference when C#/.net was introduced. The put up some Java and C# code side by side, it was almost impossible to tell them apart. They justified by saying they were both influenced by the same languages, but to be honest ".net" seemed like it was pretty much aimed as a play against Java at the times (CLR == JVM, C# == Java etc.)
How maintainable is the Firefox codebase?
It's coming, with the head of ChromeOS taking over Android now.
It's still horrible advice. There is no such thing as universally good advice. Everything must be taken in context, and saying/accepting "no" is often the best path.
Yes, it's still not clear. Your theory is a good and interesting one, but it's not clear that it's true.
Why AIs should have sentience as a byproduct? For example let's say that I want AI to make an accounting software, first the AI will look for accounting laws, then will analyze my requirements and look for similar software already developed, then it will generate the code and offer me the software, where in these steps it will need sentience?
I will add that breast cancer runs very heavily in my family. My sister has had two mastectomies and four occurrences of breast cancer. My mother has had two occurrences of breast cancer, one mastsctomy, one lumpectomy. I took care of my sister after her first mastectomy. I know how severely and permanently impaired my two workaholic relatives are. Angelina Jolie may be less impaired than my relatives because she might not have had lymph nodes removed. But this is major surgery and she is really downplaying that.

My sister likes to garden. She used to dig in the red Georgia clay with a pick axe. These days, she can't even vacuum. Her arms are prone to swelling. She does not have the strength she once had. Her life is far more limited than it once was. For years, my mother owned two pathetic, falling apart bras. Anything new with the eladtic still working made her arm numb and caused it to swell. She cannot tolerate anything snug, so she also wears a hugely oversized one piece bathing suit. They carry on and are not complainers. But the reality is they are both very seriously and permanently impaired.

Having seen what my relatives have been through, I understand why Angelina would make such a radical choice. I have done some rather extreme things as well for health reasons. But I am disturbed by the way this is being glossed over. I hope she remains satisfied with her choice. But with her fame and beauty and social influence, I think she is being negligent and irresponsible to make light of the consequences of this surgery. It may be a perfectly reasonable thing to do, but it is not without consequence.
> What are the anti-piracy people supposed to do?

In this specific circumstance: make exactly the same amends they would expect anyone else to make if they had found someone else inadvertently distributing unlicensed media, which would probably at least be:

* Immediate removal of the content until such time license to use it is arranged

* Payment in full at the author's chosen rate for licensing the content for the period they were using it

* Perhaps including a significant multiplier if the content creators chose to license per user not per server/service

* Definitely including opportunity costs (such as the interest the content creators could have earned had that money been in their accounts from the point it should have been, or interest they have paid out because the money wasn't)

* Willingly open their doors (or not moan when a law enforcer kicks their doors open) for a third party auditor to verify the state of other media they are using

If they are unable to pay immediately, a payment plan (with appropriate interest arrangement, increasing the debt by at least enough to recompense the creators for the continued inconvenience of not having the money and the continued risk of the debt never being paid if the group folds) should be arranged.

> I sympathize if they had nothing to do this and were let down by designers / rogue image reseller.

They would not accept the 3rd party responsibility argument if they were going after someone, so they should not be able to use it either. They should pay any costs directly. If they wish to hold one of their suppliers responsible then they can take separate action to be reimbursed for those funds.

Our sympathy should extend just as far as their's would, which is basically the "setting up a repayment plan instead of demanding all the money this instant or sending them to do prison time" thing.

That feels fair to me. If the content creators in question want to be more generous in their interpretation of the situation then that would be fine too of course, as long as the group doesn't expect them to be more generous.
What is Mono missing for your needs? Between Xamarin Studio and the free editions of Visual Studio, you can now use F# to target iOS, Andriod, Windows Phone, Linux, Mac, and Windows. To me, this is pretty compelling.
Good disclosure on the part of Dribbble.

I have some sympathy; I've seen a Linux server randomly corrupt its file cache, no idea why. Google's study found 8% of DIMMs experienced at least one memory error a year. If you can't trust your RAM, what can you trust? http://research.google.com/pubs/pub35162.html
Stockholm District Court requests seizure of thepiratebay.se
The worst thing is that the misery is contagious
I would agree with the headline but I find the reasons given to be off target.

The web frameworks have become too complex and bloated. Every major release of Visual Studio seems to bring another layer or way of doing things as well as denser configuration files. A decade or so into it there is just too much there there.

I've used Mono but I'm starting to get concerned that Xamarin is concentrating more and more on mobile tools and less and less on the base .Net libraries. As an example I would point to version 3 still being in beta and the documentation on mono-project falling behind.
Academic phishing is real and often overlooked. Here are the articles in question:

http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/05/05/omics-publishing-launches-...

http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/01/25/omics-predatory-meetings/

http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/02/12/omics-ineptly-uses-social-...

That blog is hilarious, I often forward him tips from academic spam I receive. The niches just get weirder and stranger all the way down. What's really strange is that it seems to work.. someone might recognize this eventually, and nab some researchers as advisors on fake startups to boost "credibility".
VERY wise move!
Contrary to tormail.org - you know who owns the TOR-based messaging system and this will surely increase an inflow of "hot" [albeit unverifiable] stories!
Great way to stay ahead of less techy competition.
As a corollary, getting a seat on line 1 during rush hour in Beijing will make you religious.
Re: your parentheses. I didn't read the article, but your point of "ask everyone if they want a hug", if it's important enough for that, surely you should definitely ask everyone when it comes to sex! The "ask yourself if they are OK with it" approach is exactly what most people do with handshakes/hugs/etc.