skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They host nothing except links. Should google be held responsible for what their search results contain?
I know the OP is making a joke, but in case you haven't read about it:

https://plus.google.com/106189723444098348646/posts/aqy6DvvL...
> Administrative Contact: Wheeler Van Vlack, Tarah

I think I know what you mean even with the site being down.
You should feel special that you can apply for invite.
I look forward to checking it out!

Hopefully I'll already have the bases covered by the time you release; I certainly will try to get you some usable feedback.
The Unlikely Ascent of Palestine’s Green Architects
You can code your own applications that interface with Google Earth as illustrated with these interactive demos:

https://developers.google.com/earth/documentation/demogaller...

Warning, "monster milktruck demo" and "flight simulator" will take about 4 to 8 hours of your free time. Not as addictive as most video games, but approach with caution.
I really appreciate you doing this. The lovely gentleman at Rackspace just broke the crap out of my site when he UNPLUGGED the server my VM was living on. I'm doing a site restore right now.
Reprogramming human cells using SCNT
For the first time, scientists from the Oregon National Primate Research Center have successfully reprogrammed human somatic cells into pluripotent embryonic stem cells using a technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). This research could have exciting implications for personalized medicine.
This is relevant to my interests. As a configuration engineer who occasionally programs ("one-man devops team", a co-worker called me), I've looked at Javascript with disdain. A two-month stint as a full time Javascript programmer (in extjs) a while back didn't help that... the language felt awkward and unnecessarily crufty to me.

But now that I'm developing from scratch for my own startup, I'm finding myself back at Javascript. Node.js is actually solving problems for me as a server, and I'm plowing through a number of Javascript animation tools for data visualization problems (D3 is currently winning). And discovering CoffeeScript has made the whole process more pleasant, hiding the unaesthetic syntax issues and giving me best-of-breed features from elegant languages like Python, Ruby, and Haskell. List comprehensions in Javascript? Yes, please!

I'm not to the point where I can find charm in the icky parts yet, but I'm finding Javascript solves problems I can't solve elegantly any other way, and CoffeeScript goes a long way toward hiding the cruft.
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...

Sorry if my URL has extra stupid bits, I don't do this often
Hilariously well thought out, I'm going to try this.
I myself can do ~ 5-6 hours of quality work a day. I can do 8-ish hours once in a while, but I feel mentally tired the next day.

If I try to work more hours, I end up writing shitty code or no code at all.

I've no problems to work 6 days in a row or even skip weekend altogether though.
> you have to pay ~600€/month for mandatory health insurance

This seems surprisingly high, I'm more used to a base cost of +-110€ (in the Netherlands).
Nice to know this is still worth digging into... I'd forgotten about it.
Google App Engine Adds a New Language
You can break down the argument for individual rights as follows.

(a) The best and moral thing for you (or anyone) to do is to act in your own self-interest, i.e., in the pursuit of your happiness

(b) The governmental system that best allows this is one in which each individual is sovereign as long as they don't impinge on another's sovereignty. i.e., _initiating_ force is diasllowed, but retaliatory force under objective control (i.e., the government) is allowed.

Of course, establishing (a) and (b) objectively requires many dissertations-worth of philosophy, but I think it can be and has been done. And fortunately, they are intuitively plausible.

I wouldn't call rights "innate," but some people do. More often, people arguing for "innate" rights are just making an assertion.
I was commenting on your assertion that there is nothing intrinsically wrong with high levels of wealth equality. The degree to which that is true, assuming an intrinsic morality, is the degree to which "your" (which I intend to mean you, the person posting as aidenn0) moral system corresponds to that intrinsic morality.

As there was no argument pertaining to the actual existence of an absolute morality, all we are discussing is your model. All that we can gleam from that model is that steady per-capita income increases imply a good outcome for everyone, and that a good outcome for everyone implies that economic disparities that exist along with that outcome are not morally wrong. Therefore, there's no need to assume that moral relativism is a valid outlook, only that there's no proffered evidence that your assertion represents an aspect of that hypothetical intrinsic morality.

If there were one, evidence that a particular condition compels a particular conclusion in one's model would only imply a particular condition within a moral universe would depend on the correspondence of one's model to the reality of that universe.

Also, blah, blah, blah, blah-de-blah
>How many won't admit it?

And how many don't even know?
Authomatic: loosely coupled authentication library for Python web apps.
Send money to friends with Gmail and Google Wallet
The search box on the settings was an eclipse feature before it was an intellij feature.
Android Studio Early Access Preview
I get it, we're all supposed to hate the IRS, but this is a really terrible article about some scumbag lawyers trying to get a quick settlement. This is just an new play on medical malpractice trolling.. And if there's anyone I trust to give me the scoop on the IRS, it's Wesley Snipes' tax lawyer!

From the filing:

A lurid but vague class action accuses corrupt and abusive IRS agents of
stealing 10 million people's medical records without a warrant - including
"intimate medical records of every state judge in California."

Sounds juicy..

After being put on notice of the illicit seizure, the IRS agents refused
to return the records, continued to keep the records for the prying eyes of
IRS peeping toms, and keep the records to this very day.

Peeping Toms? Getting pretty serious..

Adding insult to injury, after unlawfully seizing the records and searching
their intimate parts, defendants decided to use John Doe Company's media
system to watch basketball, ordering pizza and Coca-Cola, to take in part of
the NCAA tournament, illustrating their complete disregard of the court's
order and the Plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights.

The IRS agents had the audacity to order lunch and watch TV? How salacious.. So how did they end up stealing so many confidential records?

"Despite knowing that these medical records were not within the scope of
the warrant, defendants threatened to 'rip' the servers containing the medical
data out of the building if IT personnel would not voluntarily hand them over,"
according to the lawsuit. "Moreover, even though defendants knew that the
records they were seizing were not included within the scope of the search warrant,
the defendants nonetheless searched and seized the records without making any
attempt to segregate the files from those that could possibly be related to
the search warrant."

So they executed a search warrant, seized a server related to the financial crime they were investigating, and that server happened to have some confidential medical records too? And this is worth $250 billion in compensatory and punitive damages?
I never had a big problem with Obj-C. It felt like any other language other than having to manually manage memory. The problem I struggled with was Cocoa as a whole. It may no longer be the case but not too long ago, there was a lack of consistency between the different APIs / SDKs. Most would written and accessed with Obj-C. A few would still be in Ansi-C. For someone who isn't a C expert, this just killed me.

Does this bridge help fix that?
Thanks for your note re WINE.

Edit: tried it myself too - install ran without problems. Seems like most things work fine but code editing itself was buggy, couldn't select the correct text or position the cursor on text in the code editor. Sadly that makes it unusable for me.

Kubuntu 13.04 (WINE 1.4.1).
Kinda a non sequitur, but is this the flat design that everyone wants? Im not impressed.
You might find the uncle of this comment to be interesting/relevant.
An early access preview of Android Studio can now be downloaded but they caution:

"Caution: Android Studio is currently available as an early access preview. Several features are either incomplete or not yet implemented and you may encounter bugs. If you are not comfortable using an unfinished product, you may want to instead download (or continue to use) the ADT Bundle (Eclipse with the ADT Plugin)."
Early access preview available now:

http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html
I'd love to see some of the supporting arguments for some of those not because I doubt them, but because I'm curious.

Know Thy Edge Cases, and all.
> I feel a weird sense that karma will have it's revenge on me if I cross the line of enjoying some success vs being a greedy, selfish prick. I know it's not rational but I just feel that this could be a temporary gold rush and I don't want to burn bridges.

Not being an asshat isn't irrational.
May be someone can now crop up a quick and simple Google Reader alternative?
Send money with Gmail
Can anyone find the cluster of technical/programming subreddits? Closest ones I see are the Startup hub, and java_help. I know they're in there somewhere though.
The shortage is of trust.

Talented people are scared that all but elite firms will fuck up their careers and therefore are only interested in a few companies at any given time. (Interesting enough, those companies are often places like Google that, except for the validation that getting hired by one indicates, aren't great for career progress.)

Firms end up having to buy talent at a panic price (acq-hiring, which usually involves purchase of mediocre talent) because they've lost faith in their own people or, at least, the middle-management filter that has occluded any visibility for talent at the bottom.

There is no shortage of talent or capital. Both are abundant in comparison to the actual limiting factor, which is trust.
"Get your rat out"? Seriously? That's got to be one of the most foul things I've ever heard. Real life is so much more disgusting than fiction.
Can you give an example of a system where queue-like interfaces have been removed but data races still exist. I feel that there are some important, and interesting, details I am not grasping.
Do you care to back up your claim about religious institutions.

No, I do not. Anybody who has even a passing familiarity with history should be able to recognize the truth in my comment. Beyond that, this discussion isn't important enough to me to justify going out and treating it like a research project and providing citations and sources in meticulous detail.

OTOH, perhaps I am wrong. So be it.
The persons name is: Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack

Shouldn't the name be: Tarah Wheeler van Vlack ?
More background on Monsanto:

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto...

Those who concentrate on questions of narrow legality with respect to this organization are missing the forest for the trees. We have observed this system long enough to know what it does. The reason this system employs an army of lawyers and private investigators against the town of Pilot Grove (literally, the henchmen outnumber the population of the town!) is not because it seeks justice in fair proceedings. They kill the chicken to frighten the monkeys. It doesn't actually matter what a particular farmer has done when the Monsanto Man starts snooping around. The Beast must be fed, and until all American farmland is under the control of a single corporate operator that transfers all profits directly to Monsanto, the Beast will be on the hunt.
definitely. Would love any feedback. To be honest, I am writing this because I get a lot of queries like yourself in my field of work and I decided to give something back to the community. I am expecting to have this ready in next 30 days.
It's just an embedded youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=...
Why not remind this guy that it is against the law to kill people when you can put him into prison instead?

Ignorance of the law is no excuse, and it is doubtable that this is even a case of ignorance.
can be downloaded here

http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html
I'm pretty sure I read at least on of the NASA reports where the pilot in cooperation with the passenger positively identified that the interference stopped when the laptop was turned off, and started again when it was turned on.
Maybe not the best choice of words on my part but within the context of liberal democracies I'd say the US system as opposed to the aggregate of the European systems is vastly different, different enough for me to look at them as opposed systems.

Maybe it's also a result of my living in the western US after having grown up in Germany. Vastly oversimplifying I would say that here we start with the question "What is good for the individual and for business?" whereas in Germany it seemed more like "What's good for society and country as a whole?" Either way you end up with a lot of compromises but I think the basic starting point is really quite different.
How does that work with transitive dependencies? If my app uses A, which in turn uses B, do I fork A and B and then edit all of the imports in my local fork of A to now point to my fork of B? When I take new drops of A, do I have to make sure my locally changed imports don't get borked?
I'd argue that the iPhone has a better camera too. The colour reproduction on the more (IMHO) sensibly sized screen is better and the quality of the overall hardware quality and finish is superior as well. All in all it's horses for courses.

"and arguably the most popular mobile operating system" I know you said arguably and gauging by shear volume, sure. Does that mean the majority are choosing Android over everything else. I'm not so sure. Numerous studies have shown that iOS is used a lot more by those that have the platform versus the majority of cheap commodity handset that merely ship with, if you'll forgive me, an unholy bastardisation of Android installed; normally unsupported and at best 3 or 4 releases behind what is current. Android in it's "pure" form is fantastic. I'm not going to tell you that Android is "crap" because that is an utterly ridiculous position to take, much like the rhetoric levelled the other way. Sorry for that stream-of-conciousnses nonsense...
I asked for eggs
I also wish we had a way to include "special"[1] characters in names. My name would have a "ć", so I could never spell it correctly and had to anglicize it. I guess including spaces is a good start, but it would be nice to have the ability to add other characters too. Or, allow some kind of alternative spelling where every character is allowed so that people could actually still type my name using an American keyboard or a Czech one or whatever.

[1] As a developer, I got into the habit of calling non-English letters as "special characters" until someone pointed out that these characters are only "special" to people who don't use them.
Could this potentially hurt Paypal monopoly?
Everything you wrote was true several years ago, but today it's no longer true. Eclipse is pretty stable now since it has OSGI under the hood. UX wise though it's still pretty crappy. I wouldn't be surprised if the new Android IDE is still Eclipse.
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At last! Eclipse sucks...
Meteor 0.6.3 Released
Node v0.10.6 (Stable)
Stating you bought your twitter handle is a quick way to get your account deleted.
Let me know if this works. I have a friend who has been doing the Euler problems just for fun. He doesn't seem to believe he has the chops to be a full time developer. I'd love to show him he is wrong.
I tried rackspace years ago and had this happen. There was no apology, compensation, or admittance of guilt. It totally irked me and I stayed away from rackspace since then. I'm actually glad to hear they still do this today... my "unjust" fears are justified :)
Any idea on price yet?
Just trading off one problem for another but remote work is definitely part of the solution.
I generally read the Economist by means of their website, and its quite interesting to read the comments on articles; they usually fill in the gaps of the articles or point out errors (especially in the case of articles focused on a single country, which if flawed will bring out the nationals in force.)
I'm guessing either,
1: Javascript
2: Ruby
Probably javascript since Google has a lot of experience running javascript on the server.
How quickly can I get money out of google wallet? this url: http://www.google.com/wallet/how-it-works/in-store.html doesn't really render properly in chrome. I guess I can spend the money pretty easily once it is in my wallet.
The downfall of Sparrow.app [video on site]
Well, no, you're wrong about that. If there really were anything other than superstition supporting the thesis that personal electronics could realistically and predictably have a deleterious effect on avionics, then that would indeed be a security issue.

>incompletely studied electronic effects.

Are you an electrical engineer, or similarly educated in RF communications, and thus able to determine whether the EMI testing that's been done is incomplete?
Yes. But religious freedom is usually[0] limited to cases were it doesn’t interfere with the rights of others. The right to be protected from sexual discrimination in the workplace is usually a pretty strongly-enforced right, and this also wasn’t a private meeting but a public, work-related one.

[0] Depending on your jurisdiction, the phase of the moon and sufficiently many other things that this message box is too small to list them all.
The addition of the tap event is a big improvement for the mobile side of Meteor apps. Good news.
You make quite a point out of this being a problem for women. But presumably your husband (whose last name I assume is Van Vlack?) has the exact same problem?
Focus. If the window can't be brought into the foreground it's dead.
While the OP may be making a joke, it is indeed in poor taste to actually make this joke given his revelation of his condition. Sometimes you just don't need to make the joke out loud.
One trick I've learned to avoid getting your hand crushed: instead of keeping your index finger connected to your middle finger, extend it along the other person's wrist. It gives your hand a stronger shape, and it's harder for the other person to grab your fingers.
This is an important topic, but the article is needlessly sexist. It pretty much assumes that men don't have hyphens or spaces in their names, even though her husband does. Women might have (a lot) more trouble with this than men, but jumping to the conclusion that there must not be any women on the Comicon website team is unwarranted. Also she explicitly calls "single capitalized word" names "heteronormative" which doesn't make any sense at all.
JavaScript Is Awesome
Actually, I think qualified people are there. But the job market for programmers right now is a bit like the dating market: the really good prospects, at any given time, will most likely already be involved with someone. So the reserve army of unemployed programmers is really tiny.
This is still a gross mis-representation.

The extra seats are only utilized when the plane is beyond the capacity of the old configuration. You'd need to know how often this event occurs in order to produce a meaningful number.

Until you can separate cause from effect, you have no way of knowing if the change in loading was due to reconfiguration of the seats, or other policy changes that occurred around the same time.
How is this going to be handled, as a money exchange system ("yo, here's for covering lunch for me yesterday"), or like a payment system ("send your payment to shop@gmail.com")?

It seems presented as the former:

> you can securely send money to friends and family in the U.S. - without leaving your Gmail inbox

but people will assuredly try to use it as the latter. When that happens, how will Google address fraud claims?

Edit: Specifically, I mean, how will they investigate fraud claims? Will all transactions be final (easiest), or will they try to refund people who make mistakes (harder)? And what happens when a GMail account gets hacked?
I don't know anything about Skype but yes, people have definitely extracted passwords saved in IM clients like that.
If there really were a problem wages would be increasing drastically, my Alma Mater's CS department would be spamming its graduates with employment opportunities, and there'd be loads of non-Java, non-.Net job ads in places besides the SF Bay Area, New York, and other 'startup hubs,' but there aren't.

Your stats are a farce. I've never met a programmer/software developer in my life who makes more than 100k if they aren't essentially management. Median US salary for a software developer is $69,564. The 90% percentile is 100k. Please come back to planet Earth.

Likewise, in places where wages are higher it appears to be mostly about cost of living. The last time I calculated it out making 50k in the armpit of nowhere USA turned out pretty close overall to making 75 or 80k in SF or NY with taxes, commute time, and cost of living factored in.

update: I'd meant to reply to a specific comment. Oops. I'll also caveat that different sources seem to use software developer to mean different things. I'd consider a web developer a software developer, but they supposedly get paid on average significantly less, probably because it draws in a lot of self-described people who do websites but don't really program.
Trevor, really appreciate the post. Any reason you chose elance over other sites (odesk, guru, etc)? Any additional tips (eg did you try encouraging certain freelancers with great credentials to bid on your work)?

Just to toss it out there, Go (Golang) is becoming increasingly popular, but still has a relatively small community (much of which is based outside the US). This seems like a potential good case for using freelance developers (when language experts are few and geographically distributed).
Cue the typical and tiresome language-wars snark. (And time to burn some karma.) This kind of behavior is often just a shallow and distinctly anti-intellectual "irrational jingoism." If you read between the lines, so much of it just comes down to "I don't like X. I don't understand X. Doing X in the programming I do wouldn't work. It just must be bad."

That's so often just about outward signs. Programming is complicated, and the fields of programming and Computer Science are vast. If you're not aware of how miniscule a sliver of the whole thing you command, odds are you're just another unwitting Dunning Krueger victim.

Don't judge a language by what you find strange. Don't judge a language just because it wouldn't suit what you do. Figure out what makes it powerful and why it works. Until you do that, please just shut up and don't add to the noise.