skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, I'll say this unequivocally: from a world-wide perspective, United State is far ahead of rest of the world (including many other liberal democracies) in terms of value put on civil liberties.

I think you are categorically misinformed on this matter. I urge to look into the human rights legislations that have been enacted in many Latin American countries to see real progress in that area (and I say this as a person who opposes a large number of measures such governments have been taking).
Sloppy[1] is a really old tool that does this. For iOS development specifically, I've been told of Network Link Conditioner[2], and supposedly, Fiddler[3] and Charles[4] both includes some of this functionality.

1. http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/

2. http://mattgemmell.com/2011/07/25/network-link-conditioner-i...

3. http://fiddler2.com/

4. http://www.charlesproxy.com/
“Palo Alto Stories” – James Franco uses Indiegogo to Fund New Films
Ask HN: What do designers you work with use to provide assets to you?
I run a small interactive shop in Minneapolis (TEN7.com) and we work with designers all the time. We've required them to provide layered Photoshop files to us so that we can create the designs, both in Desktop and Mobile. It's worked great. We've never encountered a designer for whom this is an issue.

We're now working with someone who has basically accused us of being out of touch, saying that "Most designers I know do not think of Photoshop as a "design" program. A lot that I talk to prefer to do layouts in indesign and then present pdf files with multiple layout versions to clients." Basically, she's designed everything in InDesign, used that to show mocks to our mutual client, and then she recreates them in PSD for "the developers".

As far as I am concerned, this is idiotic. Just use Photoshop to begin with, and you're done.

What I really want to know is whether I'm the crazy one? So, community poll... what do the designers you work with provide to you? Photoshop? InDesign? Fireworks? Illustrator? Something else? HELP!
You only trigger the alert on 1% of page loads, otherwise they fix it quickly. ;D
'3D printing is a gimmick,' says Foxconn boss
I think there is a problem with "Type of Parameters Definition" for Javascript.

Followed by space
def add(a:Int, b:Int) = a + b
Using space in before/after
def add(a:Int, b:Int) = a + b
No space
def add(a:Int, b:Int) = a + b

I'm not seeing any difference between those three.
Ask HN: What are good things about PRISM?
With all the news about PRISM and it's obvious darker side towards privacy and freedom, I thought we should ask what some good things are about it. How does it help, if at all? How will it affect the future in a positive way? Since it is here, are there any ways we can look on it in a good light? Thank you.
Options:
I can at least entertain the argument about being pro-bank, and pro-totalitarian; but tptacek has gone too far in believing that anti-humans should have rights!

Where does it end? If you recognize anti-human's rights, then they'll want to get anti-human married, and what happens if an anti-human wants to marry a human? A catastrophic release of kinetic energy, that's what.

We need to avoid this slippery slope! It's Protons and Electrons, not AntiProtons and Positrons! (I'll be Kickstarting bumper stickers for the cause later this week).
Very cool idea. Right now I'm using autossh to keep a reverse ssh tunnel open. It works reliably, but the performance is awful.

Great work!
Do you have a reference handy for your statement "radio is super-effective at advertising higher-revenue-generating products..."?

I don't necessarily doubt it is more effective for certain things, like local events (although Pandora could move that direction I suppose). I'm just wondering why radio would be so much more effective. Is it because they have so many more ads per hour of play, and radio "personalities" to shill local stuff?
Drew Houston On Dropbox’s Early Days
Django is a great framework, but it has always struck me as Python's answer to Ruby-on-Rails. Very structured.

Flask is literally a 5-minute ad hoc content management system with all the power to take on massive tasks. The "micro-framework" label is an understatement.

I also think Armin's style is quite elegant and I've learned a lot more about the language just from reading Flask source.
>When you marry, you covenant to society that you will make yourself compatible with your spouse, even when it's difficult to do so, as long as these terms do not breach a handful of fundamental contractual obligations implied by the marital covenant.

Maybe you are thinking of your covenant with god? See, though, that's a different thing from a civil marriage. In the eyes of the law, it's a partnership, and one that can be dissolved for 'irreconcilable differences'

Personally, I think this is the problem with calling civil marriage 'marriage' - It means an entirely different thing to various religions. (and different religions have different rules, too. A marriage under Muslim religious rules is rather different than one under Christian religious rules... hell, which denomination of Christianity or Islam can make a pretty big difference in the rules, too.)
UK spy agencies get $154mn bonus amid sweeping cuts
The problem is that a lot of "tab-lovers" mean "pressing tab" which, in most editors will insert spaces.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html
Well if the NSA were to reveal what flags they look at when making a determination that data is definitely from an American, then it is that much easier for people to evade surveillance by passing their communications as those of an American.

Security by obscurity is a ridiculous idea in that context. Those "evil terrorists" could just switch to 3rd grader "spy" codes and hide the info on postcards sent from metro areas around the world. This whole idea that "the enemy" are complete brainless goons that are "winning" because they found out that the NSA scans the web for keywords like "bomb" and "new york" is just a cruel joke.
VSMpy: a bare bones implementation of a Vector Space Model classifier in Python
"because the demand for cognitive skills associated with higher education, after rising sharply until 2000, has since been in decline."

how about..

because the quality of a degree has been falling for decades and it is now widely known outside of government and very large corporations that the skills people have are valuable but the skills a college claims a given person has are fairly unlikely to track reality or to be real world valuable.

Said the federal land grant college graduate!
What would the jury have to prove beyond a doubt, that he did it, not if it's morally acceptable, right?

If that's the case, it will come down to plea bargaining. Disappointing. Too bad it didn't rain away the evidence (even though it was caught on camera).
ActiveRecord Connections: A High Level Overview
Oh, I absolutely agree (as does the original article) that a hard-working bright student from a middle class household who wants to go to a state school cannot do so from working hard, as you and I did, from age 15 through college, at the kinds of jobs that such students would hold (I worked in a resturant; that's the kind of job I meant). I agree with the article, and I assume with you, that it is wrong that such a thing is not possible today.
$10 says they don't, though - it wouldn't be that hard to find a jury of property-rights hawks in San Diego.

I'm not that hot on jury nullifaction, since it has the potential to systematically disenfranchise victims. Of course there's also the questions of victimless crimes, but like any good fence-sitter I can make an argument for the existence of a collective injury.
With this support embedded into the OS, now the NSA can get a direct report whenever you print a 3D gun part! Yay!

/I kid, they won't be real-time reports... Just batches.
Oh! I didn't know about Jacked. Will take a gander. Thanks.

I'm so careful about the Carmack/Romero comparison for Me/Steve precisely because things go so spectacularly bad for Romero...and I'm no Carmack.
For the confused, you can translate the title as:

"Removing Speculative Locks in Varnish Cache"
I don't remember what RTG stands for, but I'm pretty sure they mean adding radioactive bits to the battery.
You may be surprised, but iPhone 5, or even more, Galaxy S4 are capable of much more than that crap. Like the full 3D with bump mapping, environment mapping and dynamic lighting.

The main problem is iOS 7 does not invoke a desire to copy it.

Whereas various items of the old iPhone's UI can be found all over the web. That UI style is so routinely copied nobody even notices. Some things from the iPhone have even become some sort of a standard.
Indeed, I'd be curious as well to hear about why someone should use Django. I initially started using Flask because it is the lightest framework I could find in terms of dependencies, boilerplate, and mental-modeling. Additionally, it had EXCELLENT documentation for everything, from the super newbie (me) to the more seasoned expert.

Since then I've yet to run into a case where I want a lot more than what Flask offers. However, If there's something better that I just don't know about, I'd love to hear about it!
It's a bit smarter still than that though. Brute force still covers the whole space. GAs are far closer to a hill climbing search which I don't think qualifies as anything near a brute force search.
> OK, I don't know anything about US laws, but I really don't understand it. How can a judge forbid mentioning constitution or amendments in court?

It seems to me that what happened is that the argument (which is one of law, not of fact) has already been made in court prior to the trial. The judge has rejected it, and prohibited it from being raised in the trial (and thus, to the jury) as it is immaterial to the questions of fact the jury is to decide.

Of course, if there is a conviction, the judge's rejection of the argument can be challenged as legal error on appeal.
That's what the jury would decide, yes (it's up to the prosecutor to prove it, but I know what you meant). It's quite possible that it'll go to trial, he'll be convicted and get some nominal sentence like community service, then the moral/legal question will be the subject of an appeal.
Great article, but the best take away for me.. Alembic, awesome! I'd just started to write something myself (poorly)
> I'm curious what use-cases you see as Django having an advantage in?

My primary use case involves having a webapp that actually works
This bug shows us, how bad their software really is and that all the PHP crap on their frontend can access every data from every users. If they have had a "middleware" between frontend and database, such kind of bugs weren't possible.

Anyone remember the bug as everyone had access to private photos of Marc Zuckerberg?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8938725/Faceb...

Same auth-bypass shit.
For a man of such strong opinions, you seem to have a poor grasp of Stallman's philosophy. He's against SaaS, and would refuse to use a hosted service. He doesn't object to charging a fee for software. The user must merely be free to use it after the purchase. Yes, people are ready to sacrifice some freedom in return for convenience. That in itself does not prove him wrong. Cellphones are tracking devices. The "cloud" does allow for wholesale surveillance. In light of recent revelations, his warnings seem to be more prescient than ever.
Laurent himself replied to that blog post saying the bug was resolved in RM v1.20. What's the difference between RM-3 and what that post describes? They read very similar to me.
Apple's Decline and the Opportunity it Provides
Windows phone metro doesn't include a physics engine. The motions are all tweened.

Windows phone metro includes no depth at all, it truly is flat and 2D spatial.

Dynamics?
Sorry but ..

"$0.02 cents"? Do you mean "$0.02", or "2 cents" or two hundredths of one cent, or something else?

Is this Verizon writing? ( http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-... )
Hmm, I suspect that the comparison is relative, whereas many of your comments are absolute. E.g. Quality engineers are certainly hard to find, but are good javascript developers _harder_ or _easier_ to find than iOS developers? I don't really know, but I suspect that good javascript developers are easier to find. Also, I think web-development tools are pretty on par to xcode.
Actually, in a naive implementation it is very computationally intensive, especially with large convolution cores (like on iOS 7 where it appears huge) and high resolutions.

Even optimized implementations on GPU are still computationally intensive compared to alpha blending.
Off topic and sorry for asking in this forum (but I'm guessing others might also be interested).

What ever happened with the colo rates re: "Feb 1, 2013" as detailed on this page:

http://prgmr.com/san-jose-co-location.html

Did they raise you on this or were you able to renegotiate favorably? (A post on this would be nice. Would like to know the business details as I'm sure others would if you'd like to share).
Ember is supposed to be an opinionated, high level framework built on low level apis. Not sure what the point was in this article.
It should be trivially easy to look at the Graveyard, and find products that Google cancelled, where someone else later produced a competing product - for pay - that has attracted comparable users.

http://pinterest.com/googlegraveyard/google-graveyard/

People say they would buy things, all the time.
downvote me all you guys want. People in the tech community consistently conflate performing artists (bands and stars you recognize) with composers (songwriters, the people creating the intellectual property, and who are most screwed by the modern economy)

a song isn't an advertisement for ANYTHING for the songwriter. It is the entirety of the songwriter's creation. The songwriter does not make a living from t-shirts, ticket sales, endorsements, or hosting a reality TV show.

http://blog.startmysong.com/2010/01/02/songwriting-how-much-...
Dang it, I'd been looking for something just like this very recently, and my Google-fu had failed me.

Man I wish I'd been able to find this.
Just going to throw this out there but I think it would be really cool if they DID include a Ramadan doodle...

I'm a Christian and I think it's cool when I see a religious and non-Christian theme. It helps to make me more aware of other religions and their holidays. You may think that's strange for a Christian, but it isn't actually. Just strange for the ones you hear from in the media.
Backwards Compatibility Is For Suckers
I have some anecdotal evidence to suggest otherwise, but that's somewhat irrelevant. Perhaps electrical engineering was a bad choice. A business degree then? Used to be a good path into middle and upper management, is now a requirement for stable office work (or so it seems to me).
I don't think we're actually disagreeing. I'm not saying that the average iPhone user has remarked "Core Graphics is great! It makes my phone so responsive and fast!". I'd be very surprised if any lay iOS user has ever said that ;)

But the idea is the level of interactivity and the UX around iPhone would have been impossible without the platform Apple first built for OSX.

Many other manufacturers at the time had UX ambitions like Apple, but were held back by their own platforms. This infamous video comparing the concept renders of the Nokia N97 vs. what shipped really demonstrates this:

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

It's not that Apple didn't innovate on the UX, they sure as hell did, but rather that they bought themselves a huge lead on the competition by having, for all practical purposes, the only platform around that could even do something like that.
Cómo crear un blog personal: su marca en Internet
We must be able to expect that critical flaws in our toolchains will be fixed promptly

At some point, Borland disabused me of the notion that serious toolchain providers fixed their critical flaws promptly... or at all.
I've used both Flask and Django more or less extensively: generally I like to start out in Flask and move to Django if necessary, as opposed to the other way around.

The three big things I think Django has over Flask:

- ORM

- Django-admin

- A stronger ecosystem

(But of course, none of these are entirely absent from Flask -- its not as if its particularly difficult to plug in SQLAlchemy, and I believe there's a Flask-admin package nowadays.)

My general advice is that if you feel like the thing you're developing is going to turn into a CRUD app, use Django.
heh. slow down turbo. nobody's arguing that the execution on the iphone wasn't completely awesome.

that being said, i find it funny that you flippantly discard the number of phones with better specs in one breath, and then acknowledge them in the next. (despite them having shitty implementations)

i am totally entertained picturing you as a slavering apple fanboy raging at a hacker news thread. makes me giggle.

m3mnoch.

p.s. btw, using your number and a gsma.com estimated 500 new phone models per year, 5% of them that "have those specs" amounts to 25 phone models that had better specs than the iphone. just sayin'.
If memory serves, JSC does not have typed arrays. The developer of Impact had to add them manually.
A Guide to Facebook's Photo Cropping 'Wild West'
Mine too. If I had found this back when I was learning Lua, I'm certain I'd have bookmarked it and referred to it regularly. I just hope beginners don't absorb the coding style too much >:)
An old plumber, the price waltz, and the problem with charging per hour.
I have never used objective C, although I use C quite a bit. Javascript is much higher level than C, thus you can code more faster with less bugs in javascript. Of course it all depends on if you need low-level performance.
A Popular Myth About Running Injuries
Friendship is a symetric relationship.

It could be the data that X email is/was friends with Y is data relevant to Y and thus retained even if X deletes all of his/her info.
the internet is made for porn ♫♫♫
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bQo05WkHyc
Hooking Windows SQL Server
I just can't construct the damn square in 8 steps : I always need at least 9...
"The fundamental problem with BC is that it relies on the concept that code will be correct when it's written." -- Really? I thought it only means that the _interface_ is correct when introduced. Not even that. It means that the interface is supported for a while.
if you blur an MxM area with a NxN kernel you have approximately MxMxNxN multiply adds. That can add up to a lot especially on a retina display. You are right that it is simple mathematically though :)
Got the same thing.
Can anyone tell me how are HTML5 "extensions" different to or better than "plugins" (eg Flash, QuickTime, Silverlight)? Has the line between open browser / specification and proprietary plugins just been shifted over a bit?
It's implying that one should start using "gay" as a superlative instead of as a derogatory statement.
There are four entirely different credentials.

Pain to remember, but it's definitely secure.
I don't see much value in an analysis that ignores operational costs.
No one's arguing they should pay a larger share - just that they shouldn't pay less than they are currently paying.
Indeed. Pay to play, every singe time things are played they want you to pay, and be in control. What is missing often from these discussions is that a lot of bands and musicians could deal direct with a service like Spotify. But that would cut the record companies out of the loop and hey are fighting this tooth and claw. So they essentially have a cartel controlling Spotify and making sure the pressure is on for the rest of the industry. It will be interesting to see them end up in the middle, making millions as they have manoeuvred themselves into controlling something hat could hav been an efficient market with few middlemen.
Women often consume different erotica, which is less video/hardcore based. Romance/erotic romance novels seems to be a growing market.

I do think more women avoid porn/erotica due to this 'disgust' towards porn in society.

Any remaining gap, I would assume is genuinely due to women having a lower libido.
Some good ideas in this blog post: http://karenx.com/blog/how-to-become-a-designer-without-goin... (I'm not the author of the post)
Cool idea. I would love to see more languages and conventions added. I will say the background image at the top (the code with the focus explosion effect) gives me a headache though. The site looks better without the image.
Looks like there was a 2-day window between when the reveal post was made vs when Facebook fixed it.
All taste is "all in your head"; it's definitionally subjective.
That only works between entities in different countries, though they can use the strategy to dodge liabilities.
Well the problem for a start is the idea that there are only a fixed number of job openings available. My experience is that this is not really true.

In e.g. security consulting, we certainly hire good people wherever we can find and afford them. Being reductive for a minute, each consultant is essentially a cab with a little taxi meter over their their head, and more cabs = more money, up to the limit of available work (which no-one in the industry is anywhere near hitting).

I hear a similar story from my brother who is a plumber.
Just what I was looking for! Excellent!

One thing I noticed, when I signed in with Github, your site didn't use my primary email address.
Installed.

Don't like it at all. The apps screen is a disaster and it's clunkier than Windows 8 was originally.

Not impressed and rather annoyed that I wasted another evening.
I was thinking the same thing. Not necessarily was easy as counting spaces...
Apple's store does the same stuff and takes a 30% cut. They aren't directly comparable, but they are charging the 30% for similar services (streaming/downloading, platform support, browsing/discovery, and they add payment and distribution on top of that...)
"Multiplying-in-columns" is quite out of fashion. A 'grid' or 'boxes' method is surely now taught to/used by a majority of students in the UK. Long multiplication is not considered best practice and many students don't see it.

This is thankfully for the better, as weaker students are better able to follow the method and stronger students can extend more intuitively to general distributive methods (making mental arithmetic more convenient).

In my opinion, this makes the 12 times table even more irrelevant.

Links:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/maths/number/multi...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11258175
My coffee intake regularly creeps to the level of having a headache on withdrawal. Personally, my approach is this:

a) Never drink coffee on Saturdays. The routine change makes it easy to skip coffee one day.

b) If a coffee free Saturday induces a headache, skip coffee for a couple of days.

This is, for me, enough to lower the volume of coffee I drink, thus maintaining an acceptable level (by acceptable I don't mean healthy, I probably still consume way too much caffeine; I mean controllable)
This is exactly how I'm feeling now. I've been prototyping and loving it, but I almost don't even want to try releasing an application if the support burden is going to be that high...

Now it's like, well, why not just use Objective-C? I sort of just wish I had my $200 back.
Great read...saved to our Inc bookmark store :)
I don't think there's any direct connection. I highly doubt that those who decided to put this rainbow on google.com for pride month were thinking about that issue. But certainly those of us working in search quality weren't happy to learn about our algorithm synonymizing "gayest" to "worst". It's a tricky problem to solve algorithmically, though, if you think about it. It seems harder to identify such cases than, say, Googlebombs, which were addressed in 2007:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/01/quick-wor...