skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I loved playing NES games on my SNES. Wait.

In all honesty, the digital era could well be a boon for backwards compatibility if anyone tried enough. Nintendo are a great example, packaging up old games to be sold on the Wii Store.
I'm not even sure what side effects "display: none" would have here.. But that's beside the point. The point of prerendering is to to deliver an instant "swap" of the prerendered tab when the user navigates to that page - think of it as a hidden tab, which gets swapped in for your current one. As a result, the render is "instant". With iframe.. you obviously don't get that.
[to] verify the integrity of the operating system and prevent unauthorized programs such as bootkits from infecting the device

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8#Secure_boot
Egregious invasion of privacy? The dean authorized a search of the subject lines of emails sent by a specific set of employees using an email system provided by their employer. A system which based upon law and I'm willing to guess the acceptable use policy faculty agree to, they have no reasonable expectation of privacy when using. This was done in order to determine if student information, which the university has an obligation to protect, was leaked along with other information regarding the disciplinary action. Doesn't sound like an invasion of privacy at all and certainly not egregious.
I am a perl dev for almost 3 years and i learned it at my job after i tried ruby and python.

For more than a year i felt i should have chosen ruby because of how intuitive it feels: you read the code always from left to right, whereas in perl you often either go from right to left or from the center of the line outward. Besides that, fuby also has that principle of less surprise.

However, after I got accustomed with perl, i started to love its expressiveness and flexibility. And now, I almost got to love the "there's more than one way to do it" mantra. Regarding Python, I see it more close to Perl from a readingness perspective, but with much less flexibility embedded.
A comparison of the different hints, and which browsers support them: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/ch10.htm...
lets use base 12:
1/4 Hispanic = 3
1/3 Black = 4
No asians mentioned.

I'm going to guess the author double counted fair Hispanics?
Truecaller: collaborative global phone directory
Secure Boot is ostensibly a security feature, making it impossible to load kernel-level code that hasn't been signed by an authority recognized by the device's hardware. The idea is that this makes it harder for nefarious actors to do nefarious things to your system, because they'll be blocked from the most basic access to the system hardware and be forced through normal OS security channels.

In practice, of course, it's just about solidifying lock-in with a cover story that's obviously weak to those with technical experience but is justifiable to politicians and regulators who would otherwise be all over MS for facilitating this kind of funny business.
The indictment is just a list of the stuff the prosecutor thinks will make the defendants look like bad people. They haven't actually proved anything yet.

>I really don't see why everyone is assuming these guys are in the right. I don't see much to support that claim.

You don't see much to support that claim in the indictment? No kidding.
Say what you want, but I left my entire, close-knit family behind in Ohio when I moved to San Francisco for better opportunities on better engineering teams. Nothing in my life keeps me connected with them the way Facebook does. Nothing else draws together an audience as broad. From my teenage age cousins who use FB their way, to my Baby Boomer parents, to my Greatest Generation grandparents. They're all there in one place.

Also, they've faced enormous engineering challenges. Yes, Facebook style problems have great fanout results. You can almost accuse it of being easy in that way. But at their size and with their growth rate, nothing is easy.

I'm not a big facebook user. I didn't touch it until i moved away and my family over time started using it. But your slur here is absurd. Facebook has given a lot of great engineering back to the community. Thrift. Cassandra. Open Source networking hardware, etc.
I think JacobJans was attempting to be angry/sarcastic.
We do say PS1. And just "xbox" means the 360 now. I guess for us, PS1 made sense, since its 1, 2, 3, where the xbox doesn't follow any numerical order. Plus, the mini-version of the PS1 released after the PS2 came out was actually called the PSone by Sony themselves. I still have one, plus the screen accessory you could dock it into[1]. Add in a cigarette lighter adapter, and it was great for long car trips.

[1] This shows the PSone and the screen http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/PSone.jpg
A EULA is a legal document, it can contain myriad of terms. Indeed, most EULAs bind you to future as-yet-disclosed terms as well. That's no small thing.
Link is broken for me, but here it is from Google's cache:

http://goo.gl/OVPCV
I'm 22 and I have trouble reading the text. I don't even have glasses.
I think the WiiU was Nintendo's attempt to port the interface of their wildly popular DS console into the living room. The two-screen (one touch, one not) interface, the button layout - everything DS is in the Wii U. And it was designed with only a single controller in-mind - group gaming would be using the old Wiimotes.

Basically, a return to the hardcore world they'd abandoned with the Wii, taking what they'd learned from the DS and bringing it over.

The device seems to be a half-hearted move back towards core gamers, but they kind of got lost in the middle and got interest from nobody. Perhaps it's doing better in Japan where there's more room for that middle content - for complicated, elaborate overwrought single-player experiences without screaming about hardware power.
He's saying that the entire USB system won't be initialized, which means no keyboards that use USB.
Metaprogramming syntax isn't built in to ruby. Instead, it's really internally consistent and lets you leave out a few tokens, which means it's really easy to write libraries with beautiful interfaces.

The built-in features usually try to solve the general case, rather than focusing on specific use-cases. For example, in python you have iterators, which make it easy to have a block of code that is run multiple times with different bindings. In Ruby, you have block syntax, which solves the more general problem of "let me pass this anonymous block of code to this function", and they built iterators on top of that.
So basically, we need to engage in superficial nonsense, because people are so immature that they can't settle their differences amicably? I'll make sure to teach my child that.
Most of them I wouldn't even call them books, quite a few of them are just links to research paper.
Found a Book on Amazon? Get it for Free
transactions between private individuals vs public companies, banks and the goverment
No other book has had as large an impact on HOW I write code than Clean Code. My code today looks radically different from how it looked 3 years ago.
My initial reaction on the new regulation was "good luck with that one" but... like you point out, large organizations will likely comply to take down requests or risk getting blocked (for less tech savvy users anyway), and eventually reduce their reporting or self-censor.
I-am-not-a-lawyer, but my guess is that organizations outside of Singapore that ignore the law will put their executive staff at risk of prosecution if they ever travel through Singapore (a significant hub of air travel).
So the likelihood that this regulation is toothless and can be circumvented via proxies or Tor is low.
nijk, I'd like to upvote your comment, but you've been hellbanned.

For those who can't see the dead;

"We have no need for 7 billion Einsteins. Humanity is a team project."
Rails is a big part of Ruby's popularity, but let's not forget the impact of Chef and Puppet as well.
Texas? Texas is the first state that acts on this?

Color me surprised.
Amazon Cloudfront down
in Australia anyway. Everything including cloudfront.net
I think that's a false dichotomy. Every employed programmer is building software to solve problems. The "product" of that labor doesn't have to be something that a non-programmer uses. For example, our memcached engineers at Facebook are building a product in the sense that other engineers will consume the service that they maintain. The word "product" simply helps to frame the fact that the goal of their work is to build, maintain, and optimize this service. If the work they are doing isn't towards that, then they aren't doing their job.
I'm constantly shocked at how completely Nintendo's competition has abandoned the field of couch gaming. Sony hangs in there with the various Little Big Planet titles, but otherwise the industry seems to ignore the ocean of distance between Call of Duty and Carnival Game Pack 4. Even Capcom made some absolutely stellar entries in this genre back on the Dreamcast - Powerstone 2 is the only thing that comes close to the awesome mayhem of Super Smash in a 4-player brawl.
Thanks for the post! I understand from my interview process with Facebook that every engineer screens candidates. What are some things that have impressed you the most of anyone you have recommended for a position?
What if the EULA forbids you from installing a third-party OS?
But the information they would retain would be the same information they'd have if you'd signed up with email and manually entered information.
According to the article there was a specific script to be followed when distributing the survey. By informing the students of their 5th amendment rights he deviated from this script. Beyond this it was obviously the intent of the school system for students to complete the survey fully and honestly. He knowingly took actions which he knew might lead students to not doing so.
This is exactly what I was feeling. Hey, you have a cool idea, and you don't necessarily want to create an additional login account (which would add yet another security risk to each user)? Don't use facebook, because clearly NO ONE uses that </sarcasm>.

Really though, I think that the target market for ... social people... who want to have social gatherings... would likely be people on Facebook.

Just because HN in large hates Facebook for XYZ reasons, not all of which are unjustified, I really don't think it's fair to shout at the developers for choosing to use it.
Colorado Marijuana Regulations Signed Into Law
Recordium: A powerful audio-recording iOS app that lets you highlight
Are you sure? I understand not waiting for slow hardware to settle, but the entire usb bus is going to get skipped, even the most lightning-quick hardware?
Godus - A game with a "god"
Regarding your point 1) I agree, but it will never fly in a technology-centric place like this that practically worships anything "tech"! In effect, things like vaccine breakthrough, free sanitation, etc., are much more impactful, but are no longer making headlines or headway, in a way that they should. You have a good point.

As for point 2, I agree too, but that won't fly either (for the vested interest of many in the crowd interested in being entrepreneurs) :-|

Quick EDIT:

>> where are the non-tech entrepreneurs? Are there solutions that don't
>> require computers anymore? Are there ways to get funding for such a solution?

non-tech entrepreneurs? Like hedge funds? ;)

You ask a very good question, but this being HN, you won't find too much publicity on it. If you are interested, here's one guy who works on that spectrum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Polak

HTH :)
It appears to me that both

System.Fundamentals.Firmware.FirmwareSupportsUSBDevices
System.Fundamentals.Firmware.FirmwareSupportsBootingFromDVDDevice

are required for Windows Logo Certification for both Windows 7 and 8: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/jj1...

Doesn't that directly contradict the hypothetical scenario presented in the article? Additionally, there's Windows 8 hardware out there already. Can the author provide no examples of this happening in real life?
Admittedly, it might not coincide with the ostensible subject matter of HN (other than it being tangentially related to statistical analysis and the technology sector), but evidently, a nontrivial number of people see value in reading it. The entire point of HN is that is to organically select superior content. Differentiation and evaluation shouldn't happen before posting, it should happen afterwards and be conducted by the community.

The whole point of HN is that nothing has to be strictly topical. Everyone is free to throw whatever the fuck they want into it, and the readership will identify and promote the best content.
If you are dealing with boulders and dirt on your way to work, then you should find a different path, or consider ride-sharing etc... But I believe you can still ride in style.
What You Can Learn From The Human Hand
How does one move into urban planning from being a techie?

I ask only because I want to solve social issues with tech.
Tiger Global Pays $50M for Stake in WordPress Maker Automattic
Alcohol vaporizes very quickly in these cases. Meaning it is VERY hard to bake a cake a significant amount of alcohol in it.

But having alcohol in there at all does change the taste. So it's a great tool for bakers to make more varied goods.
The first link is to a DOD report. What part of..well, anything, suggests the US isn't taking cyber seriously?
The Mountain View library is actually one of MV's best-kept secrets. They just got a 3D printer for public use, and are having an open house to demo it next month. They also host "Maker Days", which are free workshops to learn how to make stuff. I went to one a few weeks ago and we made talking sock puppets with soft circuits. It was cool, but I'd guess that the average attendee was well above retirement age.
http://www.ij.org/policing-for-profit-the-abuse-of-civil-ass...

Whenever you see a press conference when a bunch of police agencies are crowing about a big bust, the brass are all there to accept credit, and their agencies portion of the take.
How to Set Up Git Completion and Repo State on OS X
Using the word 'perfectionist' is just as badly fitting for something as subjective as the decision about whether to center vertically or to have the padding on top twice as big as the padding on bottom.
Dude, that's clean and elegant. Roughly how much work went into that? I'd love to snag a copy of it if you're willing to open source it.
She's your girlfriend so she wouldn't think twice about taking advantage of you. Sounds like you're running a tight operation over there.
> My apologies for changing the subject, but do you have any evidence at all that Google has ever "voluntarily hand[ed] over [anyone's] e-mails", or was that just a random slur?

I didn't say they did. I said: "the federal government [has asked] Google to voluntarily hand over your e-mails." I referenced Google because of: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/13753-gov-t-requests-google-....
The reflections on Buzz's helmet in Toy Story (the original) looked raytraced to me, although it might have been very well faked.

I usec renderman in the mid 90s and it allowed selective raytracing per shader.

Certaingly the guts at cgsociety think there was raytracing in both Toy Story and A Bug's Life.

http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/index.php/t-60329.html
Readability is not subjective. You answered a question with a non sequitur.
It's the Republicans that want a small government and the Democrats that want a police state. It's just hard to remember that when all the non-crazy politicians are Democrats and the Republicans spend 90% of their time starting wars and arguing about whether it should be mandatory to say "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Flickr's Redesign is a Series of Evolutionary Changes
Code coverage tools are available. Porting software to other platforms is just one crude, but very effective way of testing different code paths, some you can't even see (unless you are in the habit of stopping at each compile stage and checking things such as the compiler's assembler output . . . ).
...or to put it another way: "Lets see if this shit sticks"
If you want to put your Bitcoins in a paper wallet, check out Armory instead. No third parties needed.
What happens in Vegas, ends in Texas.
This is why I'm really disappointed in how Google kinda half-assed the Google TV thing. I want to see somebody get out in front of Microsoft with this... the Ouya is too focused on gaming, and the various TV-stick android devices are too small-potatoes. I want to see somebody like LG or Samsung notice this gap and make a nice set-top Android device... copy the PS Move interface so the user has a nice mouse-pointer/game-controller and a camera pointed at them for Skype. Just make the whole device a little set-top camera looking thing.
The story of a New York scam artist
Dear Mods: This time you've edited the title to something other than the post title. Can you clarify what the rule is? Should the title be informative, or the title of the post?
Sorry, I was wrong. I did not read the comment closely nor was I familiar with the CS definition. Thank you for the information.
Flag arguments are ugly
Perhaps the only exception is for specific setters that
directly set the value of an object property (flag?)
itself. But I have to agree that flags implicitly mean
that the method is probably doing too much (e.g. there is
no Command Query Separation).

Can someone elaborate on this (I'm not sure what he means by 'flag argument') ?
"Responsive": the latest tells-you-nothing buzzword that people throw around to pretend that they're "cutting-edge."
>> I disagree. You can spin this many ways.

You've answered him, as well as yourself... It depends on the frame of reference in approaching this... If you take a hovering big picture view, what you say is all good, but in reality, on a individual/micro level, 95% of this "search on the net" business is all about "finding deals", and assorted mindless tivia. :)

Someone argues (more convincingly than I can ;) ) that more choice and more information is not necessarily better http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_choice
Although, in fairness, complaining about the lack of backwards compatibility has been with us since the SNES. I remember every single console generation brought a predictable chorus of "What?! You mean I'm not going to be able to play other systems' games on this new system? What kind of racket are these guys running?"
From System.Fundamentals.Firmware.FirmwareSupportsUSBDevices:

The USB controller and USB devices must be fully enumerated when:
* Anything other than the Windows Boot Manager is at the top of the system boot order.
* A boot next variable has been set to boot to something other than the Windows Boot Manager.
* On a system where the Windows Boot Manager is at the top of the list, an error case has been hit, such that the firmware fails over from the Windows Boot Manager to the next item in the list.
* Resuming from hibernate, if the system was hibernated when booted from USB.
* Firmware Setup is accessed.

ie, it's not required for most normal boots on systems that already have Windows installed. System.Fundamentals.Firmware.FirmwareSupportsBootingFromDVDDevice merely states that the system must support booting from DVD, not that it must attempt to by default. And yes, I've observed this behaviour on real hardware.
I've been wondering along the same lines, though my situation's a little different. I'm employed full time at a software company, and I'm about 70-80% of the way through my bachelor degree. I've discussed it with a couple of people in the company who are in higher positions than I am, and they've both said that it's good to have it, just for the sake of having it. Managers (or HR) use it as a checkbox - a quick way of filtering out applicants. I was told the following by my manager yesterday: "If I'm looking at you and someone with the same skills, but he has a bachelor degree, I'm going to hire him. He's proven that he can stick with it, and he gets the checkbox ticked."
I was going to comment on how only 5% of the class sees a permanent future in the finance industry while 20% of the class sees a long term career in health/medicine, and how it reflects the perceived attractiveness of the various industries as our population ages and finance is increasingly bound up by legislation.

But then I saw this:

39 percent of respondents said they sought some form of mental health care during their time at Harvard.

A culture and society that coerces its most potent individuals to develop depression and other mental issues is one that we cannot by any means be proud of. While I technically didn't seek mental health care during my college years, I should have by all means. During those four years, one friend visibly broke down and took a leave of absence for a year. Another committed suicide using cyanide from her lab. I can't imagine things are any better at my alma mater both compared to my years of attendance and compared to Harvard today.

I really wish I could even have hope that things are getting better.
if I make up my own mind to consider another in a position of power, why is that "not right"

It's "not right" in the sense that, by giving another person the power to decide what's "good" for you, you're giving up an important part of your human potential. As I said, I get that it's human nature to do this: evolution has hard-wired this behavior pattern into our brains. Most of our closest evolutionary relatives form dominance hierarchies, which is what "considering another in a position of power" means: you're putting them above you in the hierarchy.

But we humans have the ability to consider abstractions, like a concept of "good" over and above basic survival and subsistence, that other species do not. (At least, we have no evidence that they do, and considerable evidence that they do not.) But "good" is something somewhat different for each individual; no two people have exactly the same concept of "good" (though there is obviously a lot of overlap). If you let someone else decide what's "good" for you, you're giving up the part that's unique to you, because no one else can really know what that is. Only you can really figure out how best to use the unique combination of human qualities that you have, but to do that you have to decide for yourself what your "good" is; you have to refuse to put anyone else in a position of power.

Btw, this is, of course, not original with me, though I've put it in my own words above. It's the basic idea of the Enlightenment; it's the basic idea behind the Declaration of Independence ("life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" means not letting anyone else tell you what "happiness" means for you).
Yes. USB init won't happen until the Windows kernel starts.
I'm aware you can do that with native git, of course - but that leaves the original pull request on github appearing "unapplied", doesn't it?

I meant that it would be useful to add a function for that workflow in the github UI.
"True Republicans" tend to have their base in a smaller government and more protection against governmental intrusion. This being the biggest Republican state fits perfectly, especially in a political atmosphere that is railing against the current administration's recent transgressions in the area of personal privacy (i.e. AP snooping).
These are the people being groomed to make decisions that affect our world? Terrifying.
I'd like Japanese subtitles for Japanese movies. Maybe that way I'd learn to read too.
I don't see why these pictures are all terrifying. I'm amazed and impressed by many of them.
I should probably have used "definitely unconstitutional" since I was talking about the constitutional aspect, but in any case the Wiretap Act does not protect e-mail older than 180 days: https://www.cdt.org/issue/wiretap-ecpa.