skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really cool! However, I would be remiss to not mention that I would love for Github to focus more on Git. I have been using git for about two years, but I am far, far, far from being a git ninja. I suspect that I am not alone based on what I see at stackoverflow with questions tagged "git."

What if they spent their time improving:
1. Github Pulls - Have you seen the hoops one needs to jump through to submit a single-commit pull request? One needs to be extra careful about the workflow.

2. Let me determine the Project/Repo language - How many repos do you have that are labeled Javascript when its really a Python, Ruby or something else Project? Not critical, but seems really silly that I have to wade into the src to determine something like base lang.

3. Make git, itself, more intuitive - Surely if they can add the crazy cool features they've added, making the management of git repos DEAD simple should be a priority. Look at the questions tagged with "git" on stackoverflow and see how many you could devine an answer from using github.

4. Git fast forward - Could github provide an way to see what is going to happen to a repo when issuing git commands? All these cool visualizations online and we have to experiment with git locally seems a bit odd.

Free idea; Gitfiddle. See what your crazy ass commands will do to your repo before you spend the next 4 hours figuring out why you didn't want to do that.

Ie. Find the merge base between your branch and master: ‘git merge-base master yourbranch’
Assuming you’ve already committed your changes, rebased your commit onto the merge base, then create a new branch:
git rebase –onto <basecommit> HEAD~1 HEAD
git checkout -b my-new-branch
Checkout your ruggedisation branch, and remove the commit you just rebased: ‘git reset –hard HEAD~1′
Merge your new branch back into ruggedisation: ‘git merge my-new-branch’
Checkout master (‘git checkout master’), merge your new branch in (‘git merge my-new-branch’), and check it works when merged, then remove the merge (‘git reset –hard HEAD~1′).
Push your new branch (‘git push origin my-new-branch’) and log a pull request.

the above from: http://steveko.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/10-things-i-hate-abo...
But why would you need an outdated version with possible security issues?
They aren't crowdfunding with the intent of verifying the safety of their product. They are just crowdfunding to make ample amount of product to start the cycle of selling. The fact that they already have anticipated shipping dates shows that verifying the use of this product from a health standpoint is secondary to their goals.

Why soylent has intrigued me since this first started out. The way they are going about everything makes it feel so much like snake oil...
I got the previous images the last time this site came up. Using Hyper-V that comes with Win 8 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/07/bringing-hyper... to run them. Works a treat. VMWare workstation is also very good though.
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I find the concept of patenting new biological entities rather scary and dangerous. They should not be patentable. Patent system is easily abused for many things unrelated to encouraging innovation. Therefore there is nothing reasonable in allowing these patents just because it takes time and effort to come up with synthesis method.
"A good hacker is wasted in public service."

Absolutely wrong. I take issue with this statement. A few points to the contrary:

1. Is it that you consider any non-profit pursuit beneath a competent hacker? What about open source projects and all the work that has been released under various public licences, literally as a "public service"?

2. Is it that you think for profit organizations are more influential and beneficial than non-profits? Tesla Motors and Nanosolar are still businesses at their heart; their markets happen to be environmental. A non-profit is literally devoted to public service first. As such, they have different priorities.

3. Is it that you think every competent hacker has every skill necessary to start Tesla or Nanosolar? Does every hacker that founds a startup succeed? Or is it still the case that most startups fail miserably? Do you think every hacker has this utopian skillset and can do whatever they want to impact the world?

Some hackers are incredibly efficient and merely competent. Some hackers are not so efficient but are incredibly skilled. Some are both. Not everyone can be Elon Musk, and Elon Musk wouldn't be well suited to working in a non-profit. But it's not fair to say that every hacker is above public service. That's elitist.
No. I'm sorry I can't be who you want me to be. You'll just have to find someone else to argue with.
I understand this completely. But moves like this is why you see Internet Explorer 6 still in the wild. Because C-levels can be confident that Microsoft will continue to provide baseline support, security patches, and forever. My boss didn't even get annoyed, he just said 'too funny' and reminded me of when he was telling me to just build on IE7 baseline.

6 Months in the Enterprise world is a barely time enough to sneeze... Anyways I am fine, its a lesson learned.
While that is all true, none of it is a justification for using the word god as a synonym for self evident when it's obvious your audience isn't only the believers; it's simply an absurdly poor choice of words if the intent is communication to the widest audience. Saying rights come from god does not communicate the idea that rights are self evident well to anyone but a believer.
A top secret program that the President of the United States has made extensive public remarks about:

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/06/07/transcript-what-oba...

De facto de-classification.
LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx
LinuxVirtualBox.part2.rar
LinuxVirtualBox.part3.rar
LinuxVirtualBox.part4.rar
LinuxVirtualBox.part5.rar

Why? Why the proprietary rar format? I mean, is there any reason to actually use rar over even "only" xz nowadays or for big downloads, zpaq (lrzip is probably not mainstream enough I guess)? And 1000 megabyte parts? Why?
Are we ignoring the billions of dollars represented by major corporations who were anti-SOPA?
Kind of a janky hardware experience compared to something like a Mac, but where system76 shines is that they'll let you load up on RAM and HD at retail cost, instead of extorting an extra $50-$100 for each upgrade.

What matters a lot in a laptop, that the indies and low-rent mainstream PC manufactures fail at is:

* heat management and fan nose.

* keyboard feel and trackpad feel

* durability to minor bumps and shakes

* display color-fidelity and brightness and contrast

* light-sensitive display auto-brightness

* backlit keyboards.

* battery life.

I'd like to know how system76 machines fare in these regards.
I think my problem is that compared to many hackers, I think that technical solutions that hackers might be able to provide are rarely the proper solutions.

What are the major problems today? Hunger? Overpopulation and access to family planning? Sanitation? Malaria, and other diseases? LGBT rights?

Are any of these things really suffering for lack of hackers proposing technical solutions?
Why did Bluray loose? I love Bluray. And I buy them too...
Is it possible to enforce such a system? Wouldn't people naturally create and gravitate towards markets where they can trade in real-time?
I was going to say something about PGP signature but obviously not going to fit in 140 characters. G+ Though.
Dynamics CRM? If so don't install IE10 as they don't play nice.
This was annoying. Thankfully you run the .sfx file and it stitches all the rars into a single vm. I too would love to know the reasoning.
Ask HN: What's your opinion of programmers who develop HFT algorithms?
I've been working for a small prop shop for about a year now developing HFT algorithms. At first it was interesting and exciting, especially since I just sort of fell into the role. I'm not a particularly money driven person but I would be lying if I said the prospect of earning huge bonuses didn't draw me in. But after a year of developing these things I'm kind of bored of it and looking for other options. Perhaps something more "meaningful". At the end of the day I don't feel like I'm adding any value to the world.

One thing that I've noticed is that HFT is a very polarizing issue. I've met people who think HFT is outright evil and tantamount to stealing. I've also met people who think HFT is a necessary, even noble, activity in the market since it provides liquidity and reduces the bid/ask spread. Quite a few people on Hacker News fall into the former category, but even those who have no qualms with HFT directly think less of programmers who work in the industry since it seems to be a waste of intelligence.

What's your opinion of programmers who develop HFT algorithms?
This is the opposite, this is just showing the c levels they were right all along, build on microsoft, 'no one every got fired for buying microsoft', because they will support their shit forever. I think i can get a supported visual fox pro environment if i want.
Why not just put it on a sliding scale? One dollar per nanosecond or something.

I'm not sure if I'm joking or not.
Six months in enterprise is not reasonable.
Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap
On draw.io we produce PDFs of diagrams both client and server side. It's not at all hard to do it client-side. The point you really wanted to make was that a server would be required to echo the PDF back to the user.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/megaupload-case-g...

Meanwhile, Dotcom's head of security, Wayne Phillip Tempero, is facing firearms charges for providing Dotcom with the semi-automatic shotgun which was found in Dotcom's safe room when police cut their way in during his arrest. Tempero said that the gun had been purchased under a valid New Zealand license, and Davidson told the court that the saferoom and gun were for the safety of Dotcom's family.

But yes, the safe was apparently open. I did try to find if Wayne Tempero case of gun possession was concluded, but I can't find any news article about it.
Does anyone else feel like there should be a different procedure when the court isn't an expert on the fields in question that our brought up to them? I'm not even sure how to standardize that. Just that I feel like there is an issue how scientific rulings are made.
This is great -- it's about time they made these available for VirtualBox etc too, and on a proper, user-friendly page. (Previously they were just for VirtualPC, and required a bit of tricky configuration to get working in VirtualBox at least.)
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Add on top of that the PRISM program only costs $20m/year. There is just no way a massive nationwide clandestine fiber tap collecting data from companies moving petabytes a day between datacenters can cost a mere $20m/year.

The thing that is most frustrating about this leak is we only get 4 slides out of a 41 slide deck, and are left to fill the gaps with paranoid worst-case assumptions. And the Internet is a great echo chamber of paranoid assumptions.
> Interesting contrast to the patenting of crop genes by Monsanto: their crop cross-pollinates with yours, and now they own the seeds of your crop!

no court has ever ruled this.
My father, whom after having some terrible lymph-node cancer about 15 years ago, finally couldn't eat. Due to scar tissue he was breathing in more food than he was eating so now he taking what is more close to Soylent called Jevity through a stomach tube.

http://www.abbottstore.com/therapeutic-nutrition/jevity+reg/...

Comes in many varieties of being calorie dense, and can work out to almost 50 cents a day at 1200 cal diet.
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Two big tweaks can speedup UNION. Use UNION ALL where possible, and push conditions inside the subqueries. Tune smarter.
Although they come from Microsoft, I don't feel enormously comfortable doing this:

chmod +x LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx; ./LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx
Most people do a lot more stuff "in the cloud", 20 years ago desktop software was used a lot more.
And why bother splitting up large files when most clients can resume partial HTTP requests?
I was always impressed that Microsoft let you use Windows in a virtual machine on another platform at all (not all their competitors do). But then I realised that it made business sense for them.
Tell him you can't expect a company to put together a car with out using wheels, an engine, a chasis, etc etc. or that using classes in programming languages are basically you plagiarizing yourself ;) ( unless your coding in binary your basically using someone else's work )
> Free idea; Gitfiddle. See what your crazy ass commands will do to your repo before you spend the next 4 hours figuring out why you didn't want to do that.

It's really hard to screw things up that badly with git, you can nearly always go back using $ git reflog and $ git reset --hard .
Especially because they're not downloaded over HTTPS...
Or you could just write an email to yourself and wait for the government to respond.
What if things don’t work out for you?
We're not talking about being filing clerk #4325 in the bowels of the Veterans Affairs administration. There are many parts of the government where a good hacker could have a major impact.
I figured as since most people don't type in Title Case.
Thanks! The paper will be (tentatively) presented in October. We certainly want to have a release by then.

Open-source software from our lab (Graphviz being the best-known example) is usually EPL; we don't really have much saying on the matter. At the same time, the backend is a completely self-contained HTTP server, so I think you can isolate it from the rest of your stack without license implications. IANAL, obviously.
My parents are on FB, LinkedIn, and tumblr. If they show up on Reddit, I'm quitting the internet.
Media, administration deal with conflicts
Apple's Eddy Cue testimony ebook pricing case
Yeah... more or less :P
(btw I'm Italian too)
Not wrong, but still dishonest, and deliberately so. The denials all focused on "direct access" to their servers and what is allowed/required by law.
I think looking at the economics of things is likely to give you a clearer picture, rather than feudal society.
BMC Service Desk. I also worked for a company that used Siebel. With Siebel, I could actually get that to work with IE6 under Wine, but it would peg one of the CPU cores at 100%.
Well, we also don't know if PRISM is piggybacking on another, possibly far more expensive system (the hypothetical hardware could already be in place, and under the budget of another far more expensive program).

Really, we just don't know. We don't know anything, except that it sure seems that something is going on. The documents are not getting the same treatment as the fabricated documents of a raving lunatic anonymous coward on Slashdot.

It seems fairly prudent to assume the worse case scenario, better safe than sorry, but it is important to not confuse that assumption with knowledge.
Indeed, they're matching AWS' prices for IaaS, at least on pay-as-you-go. For reserved instances there seems to be a difference.
He means disc growth is stagnant with all future growth apparently going to streaming.
Will you challenge us to find quotes from major figures of American history referring to the nation as a democracy?
And one by one those who go into public service sell out and fail to change anything. They become corrupted cogs in a corrupted machine.

Changing policy from the inside does not happen. Been there, done that, walked away from it.

I've seen up close how these so-called ideologists start behaving once they get any kind of power or influence. They are not the ones that affect change, they are just the next generation of those who maintain the status quo. They're not even just part of the problem, they are the problem.
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i think he's referring to the fact that disc-based delivery of content is quickly becoming obsolete.
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And your comment reminded of something similar with Coke. At some point they decided that they weren't competing with other soda manufacturers but for "share of stomach" and started going in that direction by going on an acquisition spree.
Fire when ready, but spare my hat
Office has changed dramatically since then. The ribbon, while a superficial change, apparently has a huge impact on discoverability of Office features and usage. There's now an online version of the applications, and integration with Skydrive/SharePoint. There are tons of smaller additions that are very useful, too (e.g. Flash Fill in Excel, multi-monitor support in PowerPoint, etc.).
They don't. Just like a police officer doesn't need you to tell him how fast you were going (hint: he knows). It just works sometimes, which is a lot easier than going through the normal process, and worth a shot.

The NSA officer didn't hang up the phone and think "How dare he refuse to cooperate, it's the law!". Instead she thought "darn, that didn't work" and then called the next phone number on her list...
Chrome Frame will still work after January, just it won't be updated anymore. I assume that means you can still rely on it for your product, no?
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Wrote a stylus function that automatically applies the right properties to achieve this effect:

fake-truncate(num)
fill(num)
buf = ''
for index in 1..num
buf += '_ '

position: relative
overflow: hidden

&:before
content: fill(num)
visibility: hidden
display: block

._content
position: absolute
top: 0
bottom: 0
left: 0
right: 0
Red Alert 1 amazingly cheesy ? Really ?

Frank Klepacki - "Mechanical Man" (C&C 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap6QaDBZJwM

C&C 1 tracks had vocals unit they figured out it conflicted with the announcer.
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Check out gordon hempton: http://soundtracker.com/
He makes fantastic binaural nature recordings. The advantage of binaural recordings is that they have an amazing feeling of "space" so that you forget that you are wearing headphones and that you aren't sitting in a forest. I've made some of my own as well. https://soundcloud.com/moultano
While I can appreciate what you are saying, it's unfortunate that by saying so you're also contributing to the noise that hackers aren't already doing these things, which they are.
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Seems like a perfect case for distributing with bit-torrent, but I suppose I should not be surprised that they aren't.
Original statement, for anyone curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwiUVUJmGjs&t=6m42s
Putin defends the U.S. on spying programs, drones and Occupy Wall Street
You can still buy a horse and buggy too. Does that make it the ideal option for transportation on the interstate?
To my mind the "training" excuse for the use of force here is more appalling even that the accusations that they were doing the FBI's bidding.

Fire departments generally don't set fire to some guy's house for training purposes.
I think probably for every language, every development team needs to have agreements not to do certain things. The probability of a developer doing something unexpected increases exponentially with the number of developers and the amount of code.

It only takes one, but here are a few thousand to start with: https://github.com/search?l=Ruby&q=%22class+Integer%22&ref=a...

Do your projects use any Gems that are pulling in any of this code?

Could they change to do so in the future?

Most importantly: how much effort is it for you to definitively answer this question?

Our task is that of proving a negative (which as we all know is very difficult). Namely that there is no other code that is relying upon the behavior that you are changing. When there are reasonably well-defined interfaces between components it dramatically reduces the possibility space for implicit dependencies and interactions. So this is a slam-dunk case where tools can make our job much easier.

Without tools, we're basically reduced to "verbal lore" and "honor system". Programmers have to rely upon the shared understanding and behavior of other humans in order to reason about their own code.
If the goal of SEO is to manipulate a site's position in search engine rankings, I don't care what color the hat is. I don't want the site's owner to be able to do that. I want the results of my searches to be based on their relevance to my query, and not on the degree to which the people who stand to profit from my attention to their sites have manipulated the system.

The ultimate search engine would be ungameable, and SEO would be a waste of time because it would accomplish nothing. To the degree that SEO works at all, it is a bad thing.
Thanks for the tip, and working on it. Wordpress (paid version) doesn't allow links to several sites (iTunes, Amazon) which is the major issue.
> I can't delete cookies on my iPad

Hmm. I do it all the time.
I think you should work with the Meteor folks to bring RethinkDB support to Meteor. There's a huge opportunity there.
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Which competitors don't? The only competitor that comes to mind is Apple and they don't block this either -- though I believe they were the last holdout. Nor does Google, in any capacity, with Android or ChromeOS.

Edit: I am dead wrong. Apple only permits the virtualization of OS X on Apple hardware, per the EULA. It does not permit the virtualization of OS X on non-Apple hardware.

http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/OSX1082.pdf
This seems more like Google is retiring support for users of old Microsoft products... considering they're offering both a newer browser, and a newer option for running web sites that requires an old browser... you're only boxed out if you insist on continuing to run an old IE, rather than the newer options available from either company. How often does Microsoft create products to support other companies' legacy users?
Technically, it should be insider trading? Acting on information that has not reached the market?
which one? I know of those on trinidad&tobago, but they came by will.
How web-savvy are you?
That actually would be really interesting, because you're essentially creating an auction on the value of information. It does you no good to get the news a nanosecond after your competitor, because in these markets (with large amounts of leverage available) they've already bought up all the affected securities and arbitraged out the difference. So it behooves you to bid up to your expected profit from having that information, in an attempt to get the information first. The transaction price gives you the dollar value of the information to the highest bidder.
Looks like someone from Microsoft has some old warez scene habits.
Yes, unsurprising considering how much traders pay to get their servers co-located in exchanges' data centres. This is orders of magnitude more time. But should they have been more open about it?
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Not really fair. The author makes it sound like if you don't make it big, you become an abject failure. What if a startup becomes a small, but sustainable business?
Ten years ago I spent a semester essentially learning UML and it's components. We got a lot of practice designing classes and using the CASE tools to generate code from them.

Since I graduated I've only ever run into a shop that uses UML once. They paid for Enterprise Architect and I was impressed at how useful the idea of UML is for documenting and architecting software.

I feel the big trend has moved towards spending effort around requirements definition and clarification thanks to Agile. By the time that's done it feels to me that creating UML artifacts is doing double-work when you could be coding instead. There's also inconsistent tooling and its associated monetary expenses.
Shooting at a St. Louis incubator