skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also advantageous because there is less latency between saving "locally" and the changes being reflected on the remote server (or client) as compared to Dropbox. Dropbox has to sync up to the cloud then back down to your remote server, whereas this is direct.
That latency can be a pain if you're making a lot of small changes often and wanting to see the outcome.
This article backs my claim:

http://iss.oy.ne.ro/HTML5-Video-Battery

Hardware decoding or not, Flash is always less efficient than the alternatives.
If your parents are helping you buy a car in any way, you're at the mercy of what they approve of. Parents can also make life difficult for you if you're not following their recommendations, especially if you're still at their mercy for financial support.

The teens you speak of are not the youths he speaks of. You're talking of teens without other financial obligations, living off their parents. He speaks of youths trying to make it on their own.
I've been long for a long time, and have yet to find anything. I really hope Udacity/another MOOC offers a BS in CS at some point.
A Cycle in London when it rains is better as the air is cleaner then due to the rain clearing out some of the crap from the air, and the pollen this time of the year.

Though the tube no better, can still get a black soot build up from legacy old days when they ran steam trains along the tracks and used coal, still soot built up that gets disloged even after all these years. Many tunnels it built up upon and with that can get a tissue and clear your ears and nose and the build up is greater than the old days of being in a smokers pub with all the windows and doors closed for twice the duration of your tube time.

But some lines better than others and newer, parts of the Northern line (black line on the tube map) I always found very aptly coloured when compared to post travel nose and ear tissue.

I also hope you have a travel camera, so can name and shame those nutter drivers on youtube like some people do. I certainly would not wish to brave the roads of central London upon a cycle due to the danger aspect from other road users, not for the faint hearted.
All of the above?

A little background: some of my earliest bits of programming were on VB5, then VB6, and then .NET 1.0 when that first showed up. I spent most of my early years on MS platforms, and for the most part I liked them.

I picked up a Surface RT to hack on last year, after a long absence from .NET. The state of .NET shocked me.

For one thing, the subset of .NET that's available on WinRT vs. "real" Win8 vs. WinPhone is really poorly defined. The documentation is incredibly fragmented, and it was very frustrating the even some relatively basic utility classes weren't available on some platforms. It was a struggle trying to cobble even a basic WinRT app together because of how much trial and error there is ("does this class exist? oh shit, no, okay... what's the equivalent class that's named slightly differently in a slightly different namespace...")

There's also a tremendous lack of open source. I develop iOS apps for a living nowadays, and open source is a huge part of that community. .NET has a huge lack of it - everything substantial is proprietary and commercial. Where I can Google for a bit and slap together some libs in an hour on iOS, on .NET it's downloading the trial libs of some commercial libraries, trying them out, adding the totals, and realizing that the same feature set will cost you $10K a year for these licenses. The alternative on Android/iOS is free.

A more general complaint is MS's schizophrenic support of .NET. When .NET 1.0 first came about it was touted as Microsoft's long-term direction. This was the new platform, and we can count on it being supported as a first-class citizen on all MS platforms for a long-long time. That didn't pan out exactly. Microsoft has a really bad habit of making 90-degree turns every so often that destroys any developer trust. You can't rely on anything on a MS platform because in 3 month's time they could pull the rug out from under you with little to no warning.
Another good reason for odd connections is that it's easier to guide people on common routes. For example, around Bank and Monument, it's often quicker to walk above ground - but only if you already know the route. If you're a tourist, you're herded underground with very clear signs.

It's like progressive disclosure in software. By requiring some level of expertise even to see the options, you help to ensure that novices can't accidentally break things (in theory, at least). Imagine what would happen if TfL did this explicitly with signs saying:

<-- Quick route that way :: Easy route that way -->

They're making the decision for you, assuming that if you're not sure, then you need the easy route.

Other examples of this in the physical world:

* The 'Black diamond' lane in airports (especially when they weren't advertised)

* Special unadvertised rates in hotels

* Theme parks with tickets for bypassing queues, though when these are advertised, they're more like price discrimination than progressive disclosure.
Torrent freak should be auto banned.
You present a false dichotomy. I neither said that people aren't using .NET or that I dislike it. I'm saying that having .NET installed on the desktop doesn't sell copies of their latest operating system, and for most corporates they are deploying web apps via ASP.NET.

I see no reason why I should be ignoring the server marketplace, because IMHO frankly that's where the corporate dollar is.
The most annoying of many annoying things, all of which contribute to the general air of misery.

As I said, glad it ain't me any more.
They'd need more than to open source it, I think. For .NET to make it, they would need some kind of killer app -- something that makes people use .NET despite whatever natural inclinations they may have. I don't see that happening.

I mean, ten years ago, did you think lots of people would be coding in Objective C? It's funny how things change.
Spot on. Absolutely spot on.

I've been away from the UK for a while now, returned for 7 days about a year ago and on the way back to the airport on the underground at the end of an awesome week got a text from a friend telling me I look like Aidan Gillen (that's Tommy Carcetti from the Wire), so naturally I was grinning ear to ear and didn't care who saw. The contrast between my mood/appearance and absolutely everyone around me was just bizarre. I got a few grumpy confused looks from people who must have thought I was mentally ill.

I was told by someone the other day that when I do permanently return to the UK I "ought to move into the working-in-London phase". I'm hoping I will have the option not to - definitely more of a day-tripper London fan here. And don't even get me started on the black snot! How is it possible that even in single day the contents of one's nose can change colour like that?!
Thanks for fielding questions - the article mentioned bare metal provisioning with OpenStack. Are you planning on using this https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Baremetal ? Another method I could envision would be using LXC's as the back end for compute instead of KVM, giving users self provisioning closer to the metal - I just wanted to clarify what method was planned.
>.NET on individual workstations is... irrelevant. Largely.

In your world maybe. For bespoke LOB applications, it really isn't.
I offer a hug to anyone who I'm not in a professional relationship with. Most people seem to like this, and if they don't, I switch to a 'bro hug' in mid-motion. Nice and simple.
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Java isn't looking too good, either, at least in the desktop. You know your platform has jumped the shark when it comes bundled with a toolbar.

The question is, where to next? I've been watching Go for a while, but it looks like a tool from Googlers, for Googlers. Pulling all my dependencies from HEAD? No, thank you. Ironically, Javascript looks very promising right now, compared with the alternatives.
Vivid Cortex is using Golang for their backend apparently: https://vividcortex.com/jobs/
And, that the package(s) you're trojaning aren't signed[1]
(I'm not immediately sure if new releases are automagically signed/digested when uploaded via PAUSE, or what fraction of currect packages are signed)

[1] http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/CPAN-1.94_65/lib/CPAN.pm#Cr...
Ask HN: Online undergraduate programs for web development?
I've looked around but have had a hard time finding online programs for a bachelors degree in web development. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.
I agree that makes intuitive sense, but the article mentions numbers showing the opposite is true in some cases.
Escalating Complexity
I didn't give you authorization to read my comment. You'll be hearing from my lawyer.
So glad I took Principles of UI Design in school, made me appreciate this answer much more.
I like it. But (there's always a but) you badly need a short tutorial. A video would work too. Something to get started on.

Also include a mailing list. I'd like to follow the development of this app (cause it would come in handy for me). But I don't always remember to check a website.
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Thank you! I'll take a look at all of those suggestions.
Maybe not "daily", but very frequently: here is a small selection of some of the small sites on my newsblur newsfeed list: [0]

http://www.jamesaltucher.com : Much self-pity, but also sometimes quite funny.

http://www.astrobio.net/latestnews_rss/news.xml : Is there life on other planets?

http://kaygun.tumblr.com/

http://www.friday.com/bbum : Coding, hardware projects, generally interesting.

http://bestyoucanbe.blogspot.com/ : Insights into the education system in regard to the raising of his neurologically non-typical son.

http://blog.lmorchard.com

http://ex-muslim.org.uk : Oppression of atheists in the Muslim world.

http://clojurefun.wordpress.com : Clojure!

http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath : Bad science, denialism.

http://blog.willbenton.com : Music, logic, programming, etc.

http://www.groklaw.net : Maybe not "small"; detailed analysis of important legal cases.

http://hicksdesign.co.uk/journal : Web design.

http://www.holovaty.com/ : "I'm co-creator and co-Benevolent Dictator For Life of the open-source Django Web framework"

http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones : Combines talented photography, photoessays, and study of the retina.

http://lee-phillips.org : I regularly check my site to see if it's still working.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca : Language issues; can be amusing or stupid.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/maryamnamazie : Freedom for women in the Muslim world.

http://math-blog.com : Infrequently updated, but often great.

http://www.norvig.com : See above.

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/ : Keep track of progress on the pypy Python JIT compiler.

http://www.realclimate.org : Climate denialism and research.

http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/ : They find many new comets (I curate a newsfeed for a planetarium website).

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks : The venerable Risks Digest lives on.

http://intertwingly.net/blog/

http://stevelosh.com

http://tug.org/pracjourn : The LaTeX user group publication.

http://the.taoofmac.com : Interesting take on technology; not particularly focused on Macs.

[0] Note to "bloggers", etc: if you don't have a newsfeed (RSS, atom) I'll probably forget about your site and never go there again, even if I like it, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
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One of the things that I've often thought MS could do to attract more developers to this platform, is to release the brilliant piece of software that is Visual Studio, for FREE. Not just the "Express" edition...the full blown "Ultimate" edition.

They should also buy Red Gate and Jet Brains and bake their products into VS and SSMS themselves, while happily releasing updates and enhancements for FREE.

Bah...what do I know?
Not even that: this legislation is not "the filter", it's a more generic wiretapping-oriented law. It's like they pushed the filter, got rebuffed, so they went fishing for loopholes in other laws.
Nice line: "Skill sets are vectors, not scalars."
Did you watch the video all the way through? Their closing conclusion is that London Underground are experts in what is safe for peak crowds.

Calling it a "lie" is effective headline writing.
Be careful with this. As another commenter pointed out, there are some of us who mistrust any handshake that's not firm.

I generally try to match my handshake to the person I'm shaking, but I feel a shiver of disgust when given a limp hand.

I feel the most trust towards someone with a firm, strong grip.

The only handshake I dislike is the one that literally crushes your hand. But those are pretty rare, and distinct from a firm grip.

I don't actually know which handshake style tends to be most popular.
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The things I personally like about Foundation 4 as opposed to Bootstrap (at least in it's current state), are one; it's mobile-first. So it will always be responsive. I've always been interested in supporting as many browsers/screen-sizes as possible, and Bootstrap doesn't push that right now, although in Bootstrap 3 I suppose they will also be mobile-first.

I also really appreciate the mixins, which I feel not only make it possible to create more semantic classes, but also you can easily customize the base Foundation styles with exactly how you want it to look (e.g. Remove a border from a button if you don't want it). As far as I'm aware, it's not possible to do things of that nature with Bootstrap. Bootstrap offers some LESS variables, but the majority of that is for changing colors and small things of that nature.

If you take a look at the Foundation documents, the majority of the pages have a bottom area that describes the use of SCSS mixins. I think they probably do a better job at describing the ways you can use it than I can.

Also, I loved Bootstrap at first. As a developer, it helped introduce me to some design elements like things like the grid and the overall appearance of their elements. I think that's great. But now that I feel more comfortable with design, I think Foundation gets out of your way a lot more when you're looking to do more design work yourself.
How does this scan service work? Is it just BS?

If software can automatically find code defects... why are there any code defects at all anymore? Just fix whatever their scan says to fix.
Well, that's the fun of art.

A lot of comes from playing with your expectations. I was expecting a somewhat humorous geeky pun or reference; about 90% of XKCD is figuring out the reference. What does he mean by "Time"? They're just sitting there. Where are they sitting? What are they looking at? What's their relationship like? This reminds me of times when I too have just sat there, with a friend or a girlfriend or whatever, contemplating.

And in the meanwhile Randall has just made you FEEL EMOTIONS.

I used to live near this grafitti: http://instagram.com/p/WcpTGfSzx1/ and I would often go and stand and quietly contemplate it while I had my morning coffee and cigarette. It's hard to articulate but it feels rewarding to think about what whoever the artist is had in mind when they made it.
During my 'ton of research', I choose all places that had people with good to great response metrics. It also feels like there are at least a few scams or spammers on the site too. You'd think that AirBnB would work harder to identify and remove those listings in their major markets.
Most of the 8 years or so I lived there I was a smoker, so dodgy nasal secretions and hacking up crap were going to happen one way or another.

The contrast was most apparent to me within a few days of when I moved back here from Australia.

These days I live on the south coast, it's quieter, there seems to be adequate work (and I'm trying to make my own). I'd rather move abroad again than back to the city.
Hell, since they've got deep pockets, I'd consider purchasing Telerik too and bake their controls into the IDE and still give that shit away for free...
Oh it isn't public (I don't use Facebook)? I recreated it with Neo4j and TornadoWeb for a presentation that I gave at a local Python meetup a few months ago. I found the idea around it very cool and i feel that it has a lot of potential to change the way we search/think about relationships.

https://github.com/emehrkay/meetup-graph/blob/master/slides....
Also: In 2010, the median marriage age was over 26 for women and over 28 for men. More and more young people are staying in cities, where cars are much less necessary.

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/09/ne...
thanks! that's what I ended up doing - I looked at creating an OKPAY account, which MtGox can transfer between but I would have to wait the X days to get my account verified and re-submit all my personal documents. bought the BTC on mtgox, transferred to campbx, broke even, and started my dwolla transfers

i'm not pulling my cash out because i don't believe in BTC, but with the uncertainty and volatility at the moment I'm going to take a wait and see approach
Perfectly true - it was more a point about how many drawings there are for this comic given the total number of comics he has done. So I guess I'm commenting on the amount of work he had to do. If you think about the massive 'pan and zoom' comic year or so ago, that was a similarly vast undertaking. I thought it was a catchy headline, but you make a very good point.
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It's simply crowd management. They talk about that in the last 30 seconds of the video.
It may feel awkward at first, but asking is a form of showing respect. The worst that can happen is they say no.

Maybe the best reason to do this is to practice consent culture in our everyday lives. As it relates to HN readership, consent culture would go a long way in improving the work [and convention] environment for women in technology. I wish more awkward nerds would read up on this.

http://pervocracy.blogspot.com/2012/01/consent-culture.html
(this blog might be NSFW)
I took a crack at this tonight and I think I have it working. I also realized how much I have learned recently when I saw some of the stuff I wrote a few months ago.

I've updated it in the the chrome web store. I'll also send you an email.
There's one simple trick: pay the copyright holder whose work you are exploiting. Once you have a license you have nothing to worry about.

If you don't do that, then any recognizable* use of someone else's image is a copyright violation.

*There are semantic games like "what if I shrink the image to a 1x1 pixel and use that in another image, is that illegal, HUH, IS IT?" But I don't think that's what you care about.
If you think that treating genders equally has nothing to do with accepting variations in social norms, then you're missing pretty much the whole purpose of the "treat women equally to men" thing.

Gender inequality is almost wholly a social problem, not a biological one. And
NASA has an open-source project called WorldWind. It's like Google Earth with less features but a lot more layers. It's actually very hackable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_World_Wind#Add-ons_and_pl...
i click and highlight and such out of boredom, similar to how i tap my fingers when waiting or thinking. if i click while a program is 'hanging,' it isn't out of frustration or expectation of a response. people actually do that for those reasons?
What are the piracy people supposed to do? They trusting the websites that provides full movies for them. Should the users have to vet the content again?
I was on a site buying access to full movies the other day and it occurred to me. There is no way for me to know for sure if what I am buying is being sold by the original author. Sure.. I have proof of purchase but if the guy is reselling without permission I have no idea where it leaves me...
I thought they were referring to copy and pasting. There's been many times in the past I've gone to paste something and it wasn't the thing I though I just copied half a second ago. It has resulted in me abusing control + c.
I might add to this, the traditional handshake or the bro handshake. You know, this one: http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/621236127....

I'll never forget the time I accidentally gave my dentist a bro shake. You should have seen how excited he got. Poor lonely dentists...
I'd argue that: yes.

Or more precisely: it either requires usage, or, at the very least: it needs to be a stepping stone for further innovation, which, at the end of the day is used.
According to a lot of job sites .NET isn't dying at all...

Maybe the author has the feeling it is dying because other platforms are in the news more often?
I came here to say this. Oh course it is not perfect all the time, but I find it useful in team and personal-world situations all the time. Sometimes, if i'm feeling really campy, i say "good game" too (if it is at the end of something).
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They have been saying since they started that they were trying to open source the project. See eg this blog:

http://www.cyclestreets.net/blog/2012/01/09/open-sourcing-ef...

And, tantalisingly, the codebase is on github - it's just that the main bit - the routing engine - is not open:

https://github.com/cyclestreets
I've been programming .NET since 1.1 and love the platform. It just works. But, I pick my technologies carefully. I called silverlight not working out. I've been staying away from WCF/WPF. No one writes in the news when something goes right, only wrong. This article is more rabble rousing than anything. You can focus on the things that are going wrong. If you are putting out new technologies, some are going to fail. That's the nature of the game.
> For .NET to make it, they would need some kind of killer app -- something that makes people use .NET despite whatever natural inclinations they may have. I don't see that happening.

By "people" do you mean developers or end users? Because if you mean end users, every end user of Windows uses some program that's built in .Net every day. End users don't care, as long as it works.

If you mean developers, developers go where the people are, for better or worse. There are a lot of people using i-devices, so Objective C lives and will continue to live. There are a lot of people and companies using Windows machines, so .Net lives and will continue to live.
Thanks so much for posting this. I was wondering why since the redesign my movement at Kings Cross was taking so much longer than the route my parents would take with me as a kid going to London for day trips to the Science Museum or zoo.

If I lived in London I'd like to think I would make a project out of finding all the shortcuts and hacks like this applicable to my routine. I'm sure the video is only the tip of the iceberg (especially as Tom Scott generally really knows how to make his stuff short and sweet - anyone else feel the video was edited to pretty much perfection?).
I agree. I've recently noticed a huge amount of .Net resources for the Microsoft Cloud based on Azure, Office 365, SharePoint Online etc. I expect there'll be lots of money made piggy backing LOB .Net applications off these services.
I'm off to patent:

Method to detect an application has hung

- by when a user repeatedly clicks randomly in a short time period of time
Yes! I'm particularly writing stuff for the baremetal IPMI, as far as I know we don't have any of this on production though
What killed go for me, except for the unplesant "mangled c" syntax, was the importing. When I read about that remote import nonesense I laughed a bit and marked it off.
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