skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty telling that of everything I said, you get hung up on the definition of linkwheel.

It's still a crap tactic regardless of whether it's a pyramid or a wheel. Here's an idea - why don't you work on providing actual value to your clients instead?
Have you been in a "Club Fed" type facility? Maybe it isn't as nice as you seem to think.
Jolla prices first Sailish OS smartphone at €399 for a 2013 launch
Finnish MeeGo Startup Jolla Reveals First Phone With Customisable Shells
Disclaimer: I think that Japan has too high a debt. But saying "These costs will significantly rise with a lower yen, therefore the product prices will catch up and they not be competitive anymore on the global market in a couple of months" is mathematically wrong.

Japan imports raw material, adds value with labor, and re-exports that material. The price of the raw material, if it doesn't change between importing and exporting it, is totally transparent. But with a lower yen you have actually lowered the cost of Japan's labor. So, yes, devaluing your currency makes your labor more competitive - you just made your workers less expensive. The downside? Your workers are less expensive - ie, poorer.
Cool info, but the presentation could use some help. The pageloads to view companies are slow, and once they show up, the grid of technologies is not the most thoughtful way to organize the data. It's not clear to me whether order has any meaning.

There's got to be a better way to categorize the technologies used. Perhaps separating the core web request stack and from the support components would be a start. Some aggregate information across all of the companies would be useful as well.
That link talks about putting the entirety of very small files into their inodes. I don't see anything about combining the tails of multiple files in a single block.
My dad gave me a similar advice too. Turns out this advice works with my personality: everything can be considered a puzzle and I have great fun working things out.

I like figuring things out to understand them. Allows me to extrapolate on them and make fairly okay/spot on predictions. Works well on most fields from math to computer science. Doesn't work as well when you try to apply this on human beings.

That I think is where I come into a lot of difficulty when interacting with humans. Trying to understand humans is not like trying to understand machine parts of math theorems. You cannot take them apart. I still have no idea how to understand how humans work
And it will also cut down on the amount of link and content spam generated (under the hood of SEO) making things better for everyone. But this is what happens with open systems. Some people start gaming the system, others suffer as a result of it and then everyone starts doing it.

EDIT: After reading other posts in this thread, I can certainly say that I have always shared your anger towards SEO. Web is an open resource for everyone to communicate and share knowledge on. I hate when some people just come in and start abusing it for their own gain at the cost of others. Down here someone is discussing about linkwheels and link pyramids. While spamming away this shit, they don't realize that they are making this open space dirty. While they make profits from their clients and their clients make some short term profit, someone else has to do the cleanup part and waste time behind this. Its like running around in a library and filling in the shelves with junk content and advertisement. It overshadows and make it difficult to find the real content.
In this Context, consider Context a text editor: http://www.contexteditor.org/
Bing releases translation tool for Klingon
Yahoo $1.1bn bid to buy Tumblr
vi != nvi != Vim

Try using heirloom vi or Solaris vi sometime. Even nvi adds a lot of convenience.
I've heard this so many times that I've grown tired of it. The "$15 in quantity" claim from Xilinx and other FPGA manufacturers. Yes, it is quite likely that after 2 years your order of 100,000 units (first batch in a larger 500k schedule, of course) will eventually reach that mythical $15.

I've learned to design things using my local distributor as a pricing source. I use Farnell and look at their qty 10 pricing. That, together with the fact that a part is available at all, is a good indicator: I know I can get the pricing down at least 40% if I achieve quantity. And I have my feet firmly planted on earth.

So, that Zynq chip? Farnell doesn't stock it at all, and findchips shows one source, beginning at $105 per chip. Ouch.

I realize hackers enjoy tinkering with FPGAs, but for most practical applications in this power/performance range you'd be much better off with a Freescale i.MX6, those begin at $15 (quantity 10) and $42 will buy you a quad-core. Those chips have loads of peripherals, pretty much anything you can think of, and pretty impressive graphics accelerators. Which means you end up using pre-designed, tested and documented subsystems instead of developing your own logic.
Yes, it is possible. Which is why I wrote little chance rather than no chance. Given the magnitude of the debt however, it is a very unlikely outcome.

Consider that just to achieve close to zero GDP growth over the last nearly 20 years, the government has been borrowing and spending ~10% of GDP every year. It will require an enormous amount of growth to offset even that spending, and you're still at 0%.
Food for thought: Rather to colonize another planet, wouldn't it be easier to build the telescopes to spot a 5-20km sized asteroid and then deflect it?

The deflection would probably need less fuel than putting a colony on mercury (or mars or the moon) that could survive independently...
Thanks for this. You just made my day! :D
Then python is also a functional language just like cl. Except no-one calls python a functional language, and everyone seems to call cl a functional language.
Might be true in 2004, but is it still now? http://gogameguru.com/zen-computer-go-program-beats-takemiya....

Also, as to whether it is harder: I think we will see a complete analysis of go before we see one of chess because of its simpler structure. Reason is that go is mathematically simpler. Because of that, there actually is math on go. For example, http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Go-Chilling-Gets-Point/dp... talks about math that proves the value of some endgames that had been discussed for years by pro go players. Yes, that is a fair stretch from making good moves in the beginning of a game, but it's way better than the exhaustive searches we need to prove anything about chess endgames.
It's amazeballs.
It's written in Java, and Swing to boot. People are unlikely to accept a slow, memory-hungry editor if it's not an IDE.
Wow Github is on Rackspace?
And $70 is a successor of 50
When I implemented Bootstrap 2 with an existing site I found that the icon sprite was getting loaded on random pages. Turned out there was existing CSS that used "icon-" as part of the classname which was getting picked up by the Bootstrap CSS.
It is often useful to not have to store anything server-side and just round-trip signed data in the cookie. Of course, using a format that can execute code on deserialisation is still a bad idea: a successful attack on the signature should at most let someone impersonate a user, not do anything to an app.
They've had this policy for over 2 months. Not sure why.
No pico/nano love?

Just kidding, I've only used it in dire emergencies too.
Well at the end of the day, somebody still has to pay you if your business is to continue running. So unless it's an ad-based business, you're gonna have to figure out how to monetise. It could be targeted at university departments instead, for instance, who you would convince to buy a license for their cash-strapped students. Point is, your marketing would have to be geared to that particular case. If you optimized to get non-paying students, you won't make money.
This isn't a very helpful advice. We always understand how it works. Our understanding is often superficial and even wrong but nevertheless sufficient more often than not.
What the future looks like inside SRI research lab
The Font Awesome licence is much better (permissive) than the Glyphicons one.
In my experience, sometimes you "click" with a certain architecture, because it more or less maps to the way you work, and sometimes you don't. When you don't, it will be easier to adapt it if it isn't too opinionated.
wow, what a kind reply. Thank you!

For now, it's just a pet project, I'm not yet sure in which direction to go. But I'm pretty sure it's not going to be like hipchat, in the sense that it will not be just a place to chat with co-workers or friends.

I would like to capture the spirit of IRC as it was in the 90's, really. A place to hangout and have mass discussions with lots of people...
I don't think your use of hamburger buttons is appropriate. Maybe a normal button would be better?
Yes but if you choose to stay out of it (i.e. invest in content and not bother with SEO techniques which cannot really be approved or disproved, unless you work for a search engine) you don't suffer when the algorithms change, because you don't care about it. Your clients/visitors will still come to you because they like your content/service. They will probably share you with their friends. People tend to help each other and if I find a nice website that does something I need, I will share it with my friends if i think they will benefit from it.

As for spam, I have become immune to it. I just ignore it and try to not affiliate myself with websites that generate it (i.e. I don't even bother visiting the websites, let alone purchase their service or what not). The Internet is like a big city... if you contain yourself to a certain area (where all your needs are met), you can live your whole life without going in the slums or the rough neighbourhoods.
www.builtwith.com seems to be pretty accurate, probably a good starting point for that information.
Normally Sublime Text 2 or nano.
I really want to get into vi/m but I honestly can't get my head around all the shortcuts ;~;
Are we gonna have one of these every other day now?
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article16803847.ab

Last paragraph.

Apparently he feared for his life and does not which it reveal who used his computer/connection.
Well, vi is the editor I use 2nd most (after Emacs), but I use nvi nearly as often as I use vim, and I avoid the vim extensions (except the useful :help).

I imagine changing vi to vim would be a bit like changing Emacs to GNU Emacs.
I'll miss this one :( Looking forward to the videos, though!
Nothing stopping you using IDEs purely as a text editor if you want.
Xcode!
...and to "other cli" just as well ;-)
i still love C. the idea of a yearly programming language is confusing though, are "last years languages" suddenly useless? or is it a personal learning thing?
NetApp boffins first to go in 'WORKFORCE DECIMATION' plan
I think we have a winner.
You do that war stuff, I'll chat with God.

God likes bears and elephants.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrHiEYGqnEk

God likes soap operas best on TV.

I had a horrible thought -- what if bulls fought to the death with those tusks.

As I pondered how expendible elephant males are. I thanked God He wasn't cruel like they would be if they were god, sick puppies. Dinosaurs though. (God's laughing)

God says...

his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

36:1 Elihu also proceeded, and said, 36:2 Suffer me a little, and I
will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.

36:3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe
righteousness to my Maker.

36:4 For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in
knowledge is with thee.

36:5 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in
strength and wisdom.

36:6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the
poor.
Ha ! reminded me of the time where i would do a search and upping the number of magic axes i can have for Ultima 4 as well. Good ol'days.
And don't get me started on the obnoxious jerks in books: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Elephant-Baby-Puffin-Picture-Books/d...

EDIT: I should probably try and make my point rather than just snarkily wave my hands towards it. Material for children which involves the main characters being obnoxious or rude or bad in some way is much older than the recent round of Disney shows (the book I'm linking to is from the 70s, and is intended for a much younger audience than the live-action Disney shows). This is because kids learn the concept of "naughtiness" at a pretty young age, and so find presentations of this naughtiness funny. They're not going to take these characters as simply role models to mirror, because the very reason they enjoy reading about or watching bad behaviour is because they are familiar with the idea that this is not how you're supposed to behave.
Luckily for him, the value of AUD is almost exactly the same as USD.
First, all my bitcoins in bitcoin-24.com got frozen, then in bitfloor and now the same thing will happen to mtgox?? Seriously, it took a month until I could access them again. Good that I know better now, because now I will withdraw all my bitcoins from mtgox immediately and transfer to coinbase...
What to expect at Tuesday's Xbox Reveal event
I sure hope that the back-cover thingy is more than just splash of color. Well, maybe they are trying to score some nostalgia points from old 5110/3310 users :)
I think he meant unprecedented level of slavery, after slavery was officially "ended".
what do your , & % commands do?
Why not just bill them from your home country?
I'm really confused here, what is the use of 'solitary' in a shared cell? He's either a threat to others or he's not. If he is, he should be on his own, not with a cell mate, why wouldn't he be a threat to the cell mate? And if he's not a threat to others, he shouldnt' be in solitary. Isn't that the point of solitary?
Out of interesting (OS X Users) - Emacs or Aquamacs?
As another nice effect, higher-order functions (or as we call them in their use as control structures: combinators) unify data structure and control structures. E.g. folding over a list is equivalent to various loops, the Monad instance of Maybe represents simple exception handling, trees and their traversal are identifiable in some sense, etc.

At least in lazy, statically typed functional languages, like e.g. Haskell.
Jolla Sailfish OS based device shipping this year
It is basically slavery when you get someone's labor without paying them for it.

Here are some interesting things to read if you want to know more.

Good general overview of prison labor:

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/04/04/prison-labor...

More detailed account of prison labor in Nevada regarding casinos and construction.

http://vltp.net/casinos-prison-labor-strange-bedfellows/

The slave market:

http://www.unicor.gov/

You can even get slave labor to operate your call center:

http://www.unicor.gov/services/contact_helpdesk/
Not to mention the mobile version literally only allows one word of text per line...I'm on an iPhone5 if that helps, but the sidebar is...over zealous, should we say
RoR or web2py
Hi, so I'm fairly new to web dev and looking to learn something new. I have exeriences using c# asp.net and mvc and even using the java play framework.
I want to learn a scripting language at the same time so im weighing up between RoR or web2py. I do not have a mac which RoR seems to be alot easier 2 use on.

I'm looking for information on what is easier to use? Going to last longer? Will help my development career? Ease to deploy?

Any other helpful tips are appreciated.
Thanks
Visual Studio for coding, Microsoft Word 2013 for texts.
Part of this may be due to the recent emphasis on machine learning techniques, which tend to be assumption-free...

No statistical technique is assumption free, unless it is purely descriptive.

Some of them are free of explicit assumptions known by the practitioner, but that's not the same thing. In much the same way, my code is all bug-free.
'Healthfully' (as in healthful) or 'healthily' (as in healthy) are both fine according to the OED.

Personally I've never heard of 'healthful'. Looking around Fowler's Modern English Usage suggests preference for 'healthful' is a U.S. thing (an even there it seems people are unaware of it, judging by the comments at a U.S. dictionary site). Fowler's also notes 'healthful' is considered 'old-fashioned and literary' or 'formal' by some teaching dictionaries.
Not true for Java. Docs even say:

\d A digit: [0-9]
\p{Digit} A decimal digit: [0-9]

which is actually somewhat depressing. I'd expect the named class to include the full Unicode digit set. It's surprising to see:

ab1234567890cd matched 1234567890
ab𝟣𝟤𝟥𝟦𝟧𝟨𝟩𝟪𝟫𝟢cd no match

from code using
Pattern.compile("(\\p{Digit}+)");

EDIT: and perhaps more surprising to see in the logs:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "𝟤𝟥𝟦𝟧"
at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:48)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:449)

That'll keep someone guessing for a while...
Vim/emacs are text editors and can be customized to act as IDE. IDEs are IDEs.
If asked What is your primary IDE, you can still say emacs or VIM
Interview: We chat with the creator of Classic Shell
I could imagine you have more expensive tools at home that you use less often than a text editor.
To expand further, lowering interest rates at the ZLB doesn't do anything because people will hold money rather than deposit it at a nominal interest rate at or below zero. Hence, central banks must buy assets: treasuries in the case of the Fed and JGB/ETFs in the case of BoJ. Buying assets is effective at the ZLB, according to Keynesians anyhow.
I still don't believe it is harder than shooting from a human point of view. In World War I there are several accounts of soldiers being trained to kill, put in a situation were an enemy is shooting at them, and they still can't pull the trigger.
Although Eclipse makes a pretty good attempt at doing just that!
That probably didn't gain as much traction because half those items weren't text editors and he was missing a ton of IDEs to even make it a worthwhile poll in that regard. Plus Dreamweaver has no place in either such poll.
the title is still misleading.
Yes, only nobody cares about and nobody uses vi anymore.

Even the "vi" mode in a lot of distros is vim with a compatibility flag. And people only use it in an unknown system to edit some admin files in a hurry.

Vi in 2013 == Vim.
Actually, I believe that people from post-totalitarian countries might be more sensitive to human rights related issues than people from countries that never experienced totalitarian regime.

As an adult I had lived in both US (only 7 months) and UK (2.5 years) but I grew up in communist eastern bloc and my experience leads me to believe that our collective bad experience made us sensitive to warning signs that people from always-free countries just don't see.

I know this is highly subjective and I might be over-sensitive but if I were an American I would freak out about news like "a guy not given gluten-free food in prison" or "TSA forcing dying woman to strip in public" or "warrantless surveillance" or "indefinite detention"... because I would perceive them as not only signs of serious erosion of respect for human rights but also signs of pre-totalitarian state, and I would be scared shitless that really bad times are coming again.

I cannot comprehend that Americans mostly just don't care.
Looks very good.
Was the back cover added just for show to this sleek phone or it actually covers sth bulged?
Unveiling an Indian Cyberattack Infrastructure
Awesome, sound very interesting topics! Are you uploading the presentation somewhere?

We are organizing the Shanghai Hacker News (come if you want) and are starting to move to a more formal approach than just drinking beers and speaking around. I can you have the kind of things that could be good food for thoughts.
Apologies for the poor design, I'm working on improving it. The posts are Markdown and can be read directly on GitHub if you're struggling with my awesome design.

https://github.com/martinrue/martinrue.com/blob/master/posts...
Wow, I had not even seen that. I do not know how I feel about this.

ITV is one of the biggest TV stations in the UK and their mobile player being Samsung only is pretty aggravating:

"Our intention is to extend this supported device list to as many Samsung devices as we can and to that end, we would appreciate your feedback."

Am I now a second-class citizen on android for having an (LG) Nexus device?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.ITVMobileP...
Just curious, can you name any counter examples?
Editplus - http://www.editplus.com/
How much could I improve the performance of one of my websites in 1 hour?
>I have an irrational hatred towards SEO. People should stop investing money and time in trying to influence an algorithm that constantly changes and actually invest that time and money in creating better content or a better service that people actually want.

The problem with this approach is that it's entirely possible to invest a lot of time creating wonderful content people want to consume and then have it fester in obscurity because no-one gets the chance to see it.
Agreed. I was expecting languages used, server environment, etc. A little disappointed.
Ah okay I see, thanks!
YouTube has just turned eight
In case you believe that HN threads are of value, here is a previous submission with a significant discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4637196

In addition, this particular item has been submitted many times before. Here are some of them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4167834

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4170972

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4185226

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4355548

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5167935

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5666751

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5679080
Thanks for posting this (as I sit here coding at 5am).
Have you looked at Django?
Do you not find MS Word a little overkill for working with plain text? Surely at the very least you'd want something that defaulted to monospaced fonts and didn't add formatting to your selections.
That is true. Good content triumphs in the long run. But still, other people with crappy content and links can rank above you and take away the traffic that you deserved.
I want to see iPhone version of Hacker News. It's not hard to create, and most of links that shares here already iPhone-friendly.
> I thought we got over editor flamewars ten years ago?

We did... and Emacs won. ;-)

> Seriously, though. Try different editors, figure out what works for you.

Absolutely. It's the best way to separate the chosen ones from the heathens. ;-)
Aha. White-hat all holy guy detected.

I care about value as much as you do. Value is important as far as things goes, but if one does go all holy about providing value and "somehow" the visitors will come, forget about it mate. They won't unless you pay through your teeth for PPC/PPV traffic or you do SEO. White hat SEO? People say that, but do they really know what "white hat" means? White hat means you do nothing more than spreading your links on social networks. If you do ANY form of linkbuilding it's grey/black. No two ways about that mate.
Perhaps, but none of them had free alternatives that are equally capable.
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This comment is in the same category as the one PG talks about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920

I don't want to pick on you because there might be a place for your comment but it's not at the top; we need to stop voting these to that position (I'm not encouraging down-votes).
s4 is the most popular mobile handset with android on board. I'm personally very pleased to see this coming with pure os and without samsung's bloatware that one can't even delete so easily. And cyanogen is just bad for s4 for well known reasons.