skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I missed it, but I did not see a sample size. Without this, the study is meaningless - the odds of a correlation between two variables each with two possibilities is not that improbable (i.e. flipping two coins and hitting heads both times in one group, and tails in the other group, with 20 percent error).
Agreed; they have bullshit specs for the S.
PHP's top result: jQuery...
Seems like a good decision and something that should be handled by an extension.
I don't think fitness and muscle mass are entirely correlated, unless you consider marathon runners much less fit than the average obese person.
Reform: Decouple Your Rails Forms From Your Models
http://limi.net/checkboxes-that-kill/
OpenStack is packaged for Debian. You just won't find them in the official repos. This guide may help: http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/cont...

devstack will work on Debian as well, although it is not officially supported.
I can only assume your definition of 'technical users' includes all people who might want to disable javascript?
Yes, this is one of the problems I spend the most time thinking about how to solve.

FWIW, my current theory is that the problem is not the comments themselves, but the upvotes. There are often moderately stupid comments far down the page in any given thread, but they're comparatively harmless, like someone walking down the street mumbling to himself. The problem is that there's a type of stupid comment that attracts upvotes from a certain type of user. If we can recognize either the comments or the upvoters, we can solve the problem. I've been collecting a corpus of them for a while; it may soon be big enough to be useful.
Is there any way to show the full content of a feed in a river of news style? I only subscribe to full-text feeds because I use RSS to give me reading material, not headlines.
Please point where I say "only".

All I'm saying is that rich, "alpha" male are in the best position to frequent gyms heavily and bulge muscle. They have the drive, the time and the money. I think the study reached at this data, then (IMHO, wrongly) concludes there's a correlation (strong men choose competition over collaboration) instead of a causation (egotistical rich men have bigger biceps).

Also, biceps circumference only relates to fitness or strength up to a certain point, hypertrophy is left to bodybuilders. Just look at the average tribesman for examples of extreme fit people with average body measures.
Correct.

Tax avoidance has evolved into a shell game of jurisdiction shopping and regulatory arbitrage.

In the USA, states got so fed up with companies assigning their trademark and copyrights to DE subsidiaries they could make tax-free royalty payments to that they started doing combined reporting to nullify the effect of those constructions. Even though companies had no offices, employees, or business in DE, they nonetheless were claiming that their very valuable IP was situated there.

The net effect is that it's easy to deduct royalty payments in a high tax state and have them appear in DE, a low-tax state.

Not to be undone by combined reporting, they've (companies) now expanded this approach to offshore destinations to keep the benefits of transfer pricing. GOOG does it. AAPL does it. MSFT does it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strate...
I saw that yesterday. It doesn't work for me. I am also using icomoon. I copied font to HTML file and also remove other fonts, but I couldn't get to work.

Same guy stated in other comment that only icomoon working for him.

I am also including another font, and since that won't work, I am just gonna load everything from remote server.
Thanks for the advice.

You're right, I'll be sure to narrow down my core capabilities so it doesn't look like I'm a jack of all trades.

Thanks again!
When S3 first came out, people used it for this without considering its latency issues, and it was a disaster. S3 is not a CDN and shouldn't be used as one; this is the reason for CloudFront.

While I can't compare CloudFront to other CDN's, I do know it works well for my clients that have been using it (and certainly better than serving directly from S3).
E with scatterings of GNOME's software suite has always made a pretty good combination, every time I've run a free desktop in the last 8 years it's always come back to that.
If there's one book I'd recommend on the subject of Tax Havens, Tax Avoidance, Tax Evasion it's this:

"Treasure Islands, Tax Havens and the men who stole the world" by Nicholas Shaxson

http://treasureislands.org/

Really, an eye opening fascinating read.
U.S. could use cyberattack on Syrian air defenses
U.S. abilities to defeat Syria's air defenses are central to a debate over whether to intervene in the 2-year-old civil war. Electronic methods to disable enemy air defense systems include the injection of malware, a form of computer software, into the air defense network through a computer attack or by traditional electronic warfare aircraft capable of jamming radar.

The radars act like wireless transmitters and jammers can send false or destructive information into the radar, which then gets into the network, said Shlomo Narkolayev, an analyst who previously worked on cyber issues for the Israeli military's Unit 8200, which handles cyberwarfare.

"It's not hard to do this," Narkolayev said.
Lots of hate on Microsoft "It's a secret ploy to deceive innocent hackers into thinking Google is anti user. HISSSSSSSS"

The fact is, Microsoft built a user-centric application, focusing on all the things a user might want to do. An application that treated youtube's servers exactly for what they were, servers, servers serving content. No different than browsers that have ad blocking extensions, or extensions to download videos, or whatever else a computer might want to do with data (did you know a smartphone is computer? Cool huh? ).

Microsoft made an application that put the user first. Finally. Even if this is just a PR stunt, even if they have the worst intentions, they did the right thing. If Google wants to contend this they can go suck on my freedom.

The proper response to this was: "Wow Microsoft, great app!" It doesn't MATTER what Microsoft's intentions were.
Certainly not Amazon, or they wouldn't have provided a service that acts as a CDN based on an S3 bucket.
I add this feature on my todolist ! Thanks for suggestion.
Here's a crazy idea: come up with a method for getting rid of pests forever (say, 10 years) in a given house.
Yea, I know. I think it probably goes back to that SO joke about "Q - I have this programming problem" "A - jQuery"
Deal terms were not disclosed. That said Airstone is planning to fund development using the acquired funds.
The problem is that $_ is global and always in package main.

A specific problem that fixed this in my memory was a bug in my co-worker's code which boiled down to his looping over an array with $_, then calling a function in his loop that was in a CPAN library that assigned to $_. The result was that he wiped out his whole array.

Whenever you are calling out to code that someone else wrote, you don't know if issues like that could exist, and therefore it isn't safe to use $_. Conversely if you're writing code that someone else will call, be a good citizen and don't assign to $_ either implicitly or explicitly.
Find someone that's successful in your community business wise and befriend them. Find someone that used to do what you do and now does more upper management type deals that has connections and then they will start referring you to people if you're good. Find a good designer to partner with that needs a good back-end person. I started this way and just last week closed my biggest client ever because of a referral for aforementioned mentor friend I made. Might not work for everyone, but connections and referrals are what worked best for me.

And it goes without saying, do great work. Not just good enough work, do great work. Work that people will be impressed with and you'll grow even faster. Don't take on too much to where your work quality dips down to just enough to get by. If you suddenly have an overflow of clients, charge more.

Edit: Also put your name/email in your profile. I just tried to find it and I was going to email you for some projects I have going on. Also, post on HN when the freelancer post every month comes up.
It's a great decision. JavaScript is now about as common as HTML.
Personally, I use arch with lxde. At work, we use ubuntu, and I add lxde.
Don't have an edge location in Australia currently, but our Hong Kong POP could work with reasonable latency - we can test that. Let's discuss offline.

malatortsev at advection dot net
And I would say on top of this put down not only what you're good at but what you would prefer to work on, and what makes you happiest and excited. If you take a bunch of jobs that you don't like (which you may have to do at first) you will eventually get bored and loose your excitement.
My favorite animated-GIF version, via maxgif.com:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/b2d0e6039db4d09a5b543bd121012321/...
i3: instant productivity. Failed as an Awesomewm user, but now rocking i3 with dual-monitors; a developers' dream. The only thing remaining from my Ubuntu Unity install is gnome-settings-daemon.
Add ons are evil[1] and should be avoided.

I'm happy for sane defaults and hidden options, but hiding the option for turning javascript on or off seems a bit much. Maybe they have numbers showing most people leave it turned on?

It's interesting that Javascript has a dialog box in the browser options, but other stuff (flash; etc) doesn't.

[1] evil is perhaps hyperbole, but I don't like extensions.
He does raise good points. I would tell every non-technical person I know to keep JS on. Yeah, you can do bad things with it, just like you can for cookies, but for the most part there's more important things I'd have them worry about.
your points illustrate some reasons why I do not consider this a community,in a positive sense. there is a lot of interesting discussion, which is good, but it exists to serve and is largely constrained by the need to create a social engine for private investment in tech companies, and the ecosystem that entails.
Firefox made sure the "break the entire Internet" button is not easy to find.

Those bastards!
It's officially a business! It's called YC.
Why? In my experience and opinion add-ons are optional and enhance the experience for those who opt to use them.
3 weeks ago, I was hit by a car. I was cycling. The car was going 50mph. When I was hit from behind, it felt like a wall had come out of nowhere and had slammed into me. On the ground, I was in so much pain I couldn't move, yet as I lay on the ground screaming, I was strangely calm enough inside to be thankful that I wasn't dead.

I was in the hills (I had been training to prepare for a multi-month bike tour), so I was helicoptered to the hospital. If just a few things had gone worse, I could have been paralyzed or even dead. The driver had his eyes off the road to adjust his sun visor, so literally anything could have happened. I was aware of this myself but the paramedics and doctors all made sure to make me aware of my said luck. I've somehow gotten out with just a few broken ribs and abrasions throughout the left side of my body (probably will be permanent).

It's definitely brought a renewed sense of appreciation for the time I have left here on this little blue ball.

I wasn't going to write about this until all the insurance claims had been settled, but I felt compelled to spill the beans here on this occasion here. I guess it's a sign that I've grown pretty close to this community.
I should add that here on the west coast of Canada (Victoria, BC), the startup/freelancing scene isn't that great especially at first glance, which is why I was looking for stuff elsewhere. Jobs here are mostly PHP, Java etc. But that's not tech I see myself working with long-term, so like you've said I'll focus on what gets me excited.
In my opinion, "time" is the biggest one; he mentions it first, but I don't think the gravity is expressed adequately. I have time to waste on HN because I spent a year and a half building the one I'm on now; at this point a blog... just doesn't matter. That's most certainly not meant to be a general comment, but in my case, time was a problem to the point where, once it wasn't (as much), a blog was no longer valuable.

Whether it's valuable or not is highly dependent on your product, your goals, and your audience. I don't think there are many areas where it's totally worthless, but if you're actually an entrepreneur and not just tentatively trying something out and looking for backers, in my experience it's hard to find enough time to both blog and promote your blog unless you're either a minority-share-of-the-grunt-work partner or already so plugged in to some popular scene that you don't actually have to worry about the exposure a blog would otherwise be intended to bring.

I guess the point of this is that "I can't blog" is the equivalent of a first-world problem in a first-world profession: If you have the time and/or connections to do it and make it effective, it's likely you'd succeed in a very similar way without it.
Hacking is often prompted by a fourth species: productive laziness - lest we forget, seeking to not be lazy is also grasping.

Productive laziness leads to the improvement of tools from new programming languages to editor extensions to automating testing.
An HN Alternative for Long-form Content
We also can't ignore the fact that there is no downvote button for stories. So, if you dislike the article or disagree with the author's conclusion, the easiest way to register your disapproval is upvoting a critical comment.

(I see this as a sign that the flag link is properly used to mark dupes, spam, and inappropriate content, so there is a silver lining.)
I'm only on servers, so it's Debian or CentOS. I've had too many flaky issues with Ubuntu on servers. Also I have OpenBSD, Illumos derivatives, OpenWRT, etc. on servers/devices.

Desktop is nearly always OS X, except for Windows for "toy" gaming use.
"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone
does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands." - Judge Learned Hand
>> I feel sorry for the Gnome guys - they get crucified if they do or don't advance the platform

I don't think this is true. They get crucified because they're trying to create a desktop experience for a market that doesn't exist.

Their GNOME 2 user base were all workstation users who were using GNOME 2 in their day to day lives get get work done. Instead of making GNOME 2 better (under the hood) the GNOME developers decided to jump onto the tablet UI bandwagon and drastically change the UI. However, their user base simply didn't need this, they just wanted a more stable desktop top rather than a different one.

In my opinion, the crucial mistake the GNOME developers made was forcing this new UI experience through peoples throats by chucking out everything they accomplished with GNOME 2. GNOME 3 should have been a separate project under a different name. If it really was that much better than GNOME 2 then at least people had a choice to switch. But now we can't and everyone is scrambling to find a GNOME 2 replacement..
Canadian Police and Government Caught Pirating Movies and TV-Shows
So by definition a dictator cannot use the courts to steal from his people?
1) Appeal to the hippies. Remove pests without using "chemicals".[1]

2) Subscription plans and home-owner training. EG: bedbugs are tricky to kill in one visit, so do a visit, and train the home-owner how to coax bedbugs out to kill them. And then do a follow up visit a week later.

The subscription plan is for "social housing" - in the UK we have a bunch of low cost semi-emergency bed&breakfast accommodation. They have problems with bedbugs, maybe cockroaches, and other vermin. Quarterly visits would help keep those down.
As stated: Portfolio, portfolio, portfolio. Make friends with a good designer, or make very good friend with Bootstrap.

If node.js is what you want to do, worm your way into the community and get yourself to the point where you're either a contributor or known to contributors that actually work in the corporate world. Those are valuable references, and with no work experience, your references could make or (more likely) break your chances.

I guess my only personal advice would be not to expect too much, and to be willing to at least consider The Dreaded Corporate World. You shouldn't expect freelance gigs when you're brand new and don't actually have the experience to earn a freelance gig, so if you get one, feel lucky and make it count! If not, understand that success usually takes time, and experience is time well spent, whether it's in your dream job or something less ideal.
I learned AutoCAD commands in the bathroom. Using a printed manual. When I get serious about Emacs, I will send RMS $45.

http://shop.fsf.org/product/Emacs_Manual_24/
Without karma it's very difficult to submit links that anyone will see.
I've never dealt with pest companies. Are they generally on time? Are their prices fair? Are they selling stuff that breaks often or constantly needs to be refilled?

Is it something that home-owners can do themselves with just a simple kit (different kits depending on the terrain, geographic location)? Can the "middle man" be cut out?
Top Objective-C link points to ASIHTTPRequest, an obsolete networking library that is no longer supported (and even its developer recommends against using it).
Education is costly, so much that in sometime it's going to be elite only. Hell, it's elite only right now, minus the huge loans.

So, instead of making it affordable, elites(whether they reached their elite spot on talent alone or they were born with silver spoons) they are suggesting to skip it altogether(if one can't afford it).

It's a lot better in those countries where Govt. provides quality education to greater extent and even private fees are regulated. Or maybe it's demand and supply mechanism. For people from other countries it's just the best short cut for a green card, especially the Asians.
I've the "talent" to not care about environment/sound and noise, because I thought myself to focus & learn while my classroom went mad. When I start coding on something I forget time, eating, drinking and everything else.

This is a real horror-story that happened not long ago:

A handful fire-wagons and police cars were outside. My mum called, the door ringed, but I didn't hear anything due to the focus. I just complained silently about the lights that blinded my eye from the window. Suddenly I realized that it's night and that it wasn't the sun, so I asked myself what that was. And realized that the worst thing that can happen got real. I was in burning building, alone, coding. During the high-focus I was in the "FLOW". The building got evacuated, because of the fire. Everyone was outside, sirens, police, firemen, but me. Nothing happened to me luckily and the firemen could kill the fire in time, before it spread. The cellar had to be renovated.

Yes, I was very productive, but you can see the danger of that.

I learned from experience though that I can be similarly productive and stay more conscious when I hear music with low volume that contains no vocals. DnB for example, but I don't hear the music consciously enough to be selective about the genre.

Because I know better now, I do sequenced high intensity programming sessions of not more than 60min and separate research sessions with a time-limit.
Screenshots are an absolute must. I don't want to create an account just to see what it looks like.
I've seen people who have huge lists of not well programmed add ins that do Weird things.

It is a personal preference and I probably can't justify it if pushed.

Specifically for javascript: that's part of the browser, it's not an extension. So configuring it should really also be part of the browser. I prefer Firefox's approach to settings than Google's.
DOJ Spectrum Plan Is Not Supported by Economic Theory or FCC Findings
I am an Arch user, but I am thinking of switching to Fedora or Ubuntu again.

Arch just takes too much configuration and time, and the dual-head is a pain. It also doesn't support fglrx drivers, because the X version they use is too high. It's more of AMD's fault, not Arch's, but it still requires too much work.

In general, I like Arch's minimalism, and it uses very little RAM, but I am sick and tired of wrestling with it. Ubuntu has a completely different vision of what an operating system should be, and it's probably more suitable for general public (but probably not me). It always worked great out of the box, and Unity is not that bad (even through I prefer tiling WMs). I just don't like the technical direction Canonical is heading (MIR, upstart). I wish there was more input from the community in this kind of decisions.

Kudos to Mark Shuttleworth for having such a strong vision of what an OS/computer/smartphone should be like, and going through with making it a reality. It takes a lot of determination to not yield to the critics, and follow your ideals. I just think it would be better if Ubuntu contributed back to Desktop Linux ecosystem, and not re-invented the wheel.

Also, a lot of criticism of Ubuntu is minor details, and short-sighted. Ubuntu is one of the most rapidly changing distros/OSes, so a lot of things are going through major changes. This causes it to often be buggy, unstable and crash-prone, but in the end it improves at a much faster pace than other OSes. I believe once they polish it, and get some OEMs for phone and computers, they have a real chance of competing with Apple/iOS, Android and Windows.
Start a blog and portfolio where you can post about projects that you are proud of, and that show off that you can work with certain technologies. That goes a long way towards getting work, as it demonstrates that you know what you're doing.

To meet people, go to developer meetups in your area for the technology that you would most like to work with. Tell them you are looking to do some freelancing - I've seen many people start partnerships and projects that way.
You learn something every day. I was sure URLs are not case sensitive until now.

While domain names are not case-sensitive, the rest of the URL might be. In our example, this would be everything that follows “.com” as in wisegeek.com/are-urls-case-sensitive.htm.
That generaly means using stronger chemicals. Bugs eventually develop immunities, so then even stronger chemicals will be required in the future.

I think there are ways houses can be built that help prevent bugs from getting in. I know there is a device that can go around pipes before being cemented in a foundation which prevents bugs from getting into houses that way. Perhaps prevention is the new way to stop bugs?