skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not familiar with the controversy besides what you posted, but my take away is that icon dev has some talent. The bookcase D is clever and well done, at least at that size.
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "drink to forget"!
I'm grateful to the TextMate delays and the high pricing of Sublime Text for making me decide that Vim would be a better investment in time and effort. I can't expect Sublime to be around in ten years, so why should I bother making the effort?
>Snowden wants to remain at large before trial and choose where it would take place... Edward Snowden also would like prosecutors not to file a so-called gag order, which bans information or any comments from being made public, Lonnie Snowden said.

I don't understand. His father is just making this stuff up?
Using the new Windows 8.1 3D Printing API? You're gonna have a bad time.
You can however toggle this, so that they're always visible.

Put `"fade_fold_buttons": false` in to your user settings.
Not a fan of dealer commercials either.
Still, I don't think it's that much money. I bought TextMate, then moved to phpStorm (this one was almost 100€, they had a sale not too long ago) and I also got Coda 2.

I buy a lot of software, if a tool is useful it's going to pay for itself in no time.

I'm in Spain.
> No, it's very much the case, EVEN on high end devices. And there have been posts from Android engineers on the issue, blaming various stuff, from the stop the world GC to the drawing thread scheduling. Here's one:

You're still just being ignorant. This was a post by a former Software Engineer in Test Android intern who didn't know what he was talking about, hence why he was corrected multiple times all over the internet. In your own link he mentions that he was wrong but leaving the thread up for posterity! It's like you only post things you assume support your pre-determined world view without even reading them. Quote from Andrew on that post:

> BEFORE READING: A LOT OF MY ANALYSIS OF ANDROID PERFORMANCE IS WRONG, HOWEVER I AM LEAVING THIS POST UP BECAUSE OF MY COMMENTARY ON THE ISSUE.

So yes, I think at this point you're just trolling. I have addressed your points - performance is an issue on low end devices, not on high end devices. This is not unexpected. There are lots of battery packs for iPhones, that doesn't mean iPhones have relatively shit battery life, it just means there is a market for extending that battery.
I'm British and mildly pro European, I think for all the stuff that gets written about the EU, for the jokes the countries tell about each other, we have many more things that unite us than divide.

What I can't argue with though, is that there is definitely a perceived democratic deficit in the EU. I won't argue about whether it is real or not, it doesn't matter, what does is a lot of Europeans (not just the British) don't like EU bureaucracy.
I live nearby and it will be very interesting to see what this does to local rents and house prices.
I was hoping someone far more talented than me would write a browser plugin that would encrypt everything I type in a TEXTAREA with GPG, and then prompt me for a list of friends I'd like to have read that text.

Everything, from Facebook to Gmail, would be encrypted that way. And I would be in control of the list of people that could read that text.
There is some historical browser usage share data from a variety of sources at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Hi...

StatCounter's desktop and mobile stats show a consistent decline from 26.49% in June 2011 to 16.86% in May 2003.

StatCounter's desktop stats show a peak of 32.21% in November 2009 down to 19.76% last month.

The Clicky stats are similar, showing a peak of 33.43% in December 2009, down to 21.19% in May 2013.

And then there's W3Counter's data, which shows peaks of 32.3% between December 2009 and March 2010, down to 19.2% in May 2013.

Wikimedia's data, although not as recently updated, shows a peak of 30.96% in February 2010, down to 19.11% in October 2012.

The numbers you cite are quite different from these other sources, which are all relatively consistent, which in turn makes me suspicious of yours.

I think we have indeed seen Firefox go from approximately 30% share at the end of 2009 and beginning of 2010 down to less than 20% today. That's a pretty significant drop in just 3.5 years.

As for my negatively, like I said, the Mozilla crew has earned it. I know many others share this opinion, as well. The numbers above support that very strongly.

We were quite happy with Firefox up until Firefox 4. Before then, the focus was on usability, and providing a good browser. Since then, however, the priorities have clearly shifted, and the resulting product has declined in quality and usability quite severely. It's a bad situation, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. Some people speak out, others just move to a different browser.
"They must have switched this thing on today - all my Google searches now return pictures of cats that are both dead and alive."

--best comment for days in that linked article, lol
a) I wasn't attacking you. An ad-hominem attack in this case would be, "Javert is an idiot, therefore this viewpoint is wrong." I don't believe that you're an idiot. On the contrary, I believe that you are probably a smart person who has had a particular set of experiences.

b) The statement was made to draw attention to what I perceive as weakness in your argument.

c) Notwithstanding the points made by others in the comments below, it should be said that I completely understand how and why people are objectivists. If, as I proposed, all (or even most (or even a significant number of)) objectivists had been born underprivileged, I think that I might be more inclined to agree with it.

d)
> If you want to see what happens to an economic sector as the government becomes more invasive, look at the finance sector, which is the most controlled sector in the US, or look at the "federal telecom bureaus" (AT&T, Time Warner and Verizon).

In the finance sector, people broke the rules or rushed to fill in spaces where the rules were rolled back. Then things went really bad.

In the telecoms, they are breaking the rules but not being held accountable by the government.

In both cases, the fact that they are not following the rules is the actual problem. I'm not sure how this supports your claim.
To give you the tools to do your job? I think perhaps you should start looking for a position elsewhere. Bristol does have other employment opportunities.
Thanks for the bug report. I'll fix it soon :)
Except cassandara is a columnar data store and has absolutely nothing in common with couchdb (or tiedot) other than it stores and retrieves data.
While reading this, I could not stop thinking about an ostrich burying its head.
Show HN - AnyCloud let's you organize all the photos of your connected life
And once again, YCombinator shows its love affair with anything related to Edward Snowden.

Are we just going to pretend that this forum is not tech related anymore? This stuff is barely even news, and has reached "gossip" levels. There is literally nothing of relevance to be said in this article.
DRM is already on the web, and has been for at least 15 years.
Indeed. Thanks for the report! I'll fix it soon.

Edit: fixed
Good find, thanks. I thought I had heard it before but a web search came up empty for me.
Thanks. I built a very flexible scraper underneath. JS/DOM docs are coming soon.
What do you mean by Moldovan?
Not sure what your point is, apart from not being able to afford it.

Then again, not sure why, if you're really employed as a developer, your company isn't paying for your development tools. DId you have to buy your own laptop?
With that sentence you are either a rather prodigious 6 year old or a grammatically challenged adult.
According to wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor> :

>The bus factor is the total number of key developers who would need to be incapacitated (as by getting hit by a bus/truck) to send the project into such disarray that it would not be able to proceed.

So, higher is better ? I was wondering too the other day and settled on "augmenting the bus factor", in a good way.
Because they have a vested interest in improving your productivity?
What is even worse is that the next president - who taught constitutional law for more than a decade - cannot see the problem with his government spying on everybody.
5 ways Google glass will make us Trashumans
For someone who surrounded himself with lawyers who thought it was legal to crush children's testicles to extract information during enhanced interrogation [1], I find this particularly upsetting.

[1] http://www.revcom.us/a/026/torture-victims-confront-advocate...
Software developers in the US tend to be paid much more than anywhere else in the world, and often don't realise this.

In the UK, a salaried senior software developer would typically make £45-60K before tax (currently around $70-90K US). Working for someone else as an employee, you'd expect to reach that level after maybe 5-8 years, but then stick there for the rest of your career. Obviously the rates can be higher with special circumstances and they are somewhat higher if you're working in London, but anything close to what is normal in the US would be a rare exception in the UK (and most other places outside the US).
This is why transparency is essential to the processes of government. Without it, the powers that be can increase their authority unchecked. Concerns over national security should come second to whether or not government is truly acting in the best interests of the public. There are tradeoffs for security, but privacy should not be the price we pay to remain "free."
Why is a video stream featuring a movie different from a video stream featuring a TV show?
Microsoft's mobile strategy: Where Android, iOS and Windows 8.1 fit in
It's free verse, from the living, beating heart of the Internet. All those support tickets have developed a special kind of pathos:

How long before any meaningful development.
Until mandatory functional requirements to developers.
But across the country in the spotlight in the notebook.
The show was shot.
you just downvoted me because games dont have 99.999% (in the sense of the word) uptime, which is not what i meant anyway... The thing is, crashes are not acceptable and so measures need to be taken, which is what Carmacks original quote is referring to.
Same here. Firefox + Win8 and it stays at 2.5% to 3%.
Maybe donate and buy cryptome's DVD this year
I started using Linux on a machine with a 386 and 4 megs (yes, megs) of ram. Emacs was, I must admit, a bit slow on it, so I used jed until I got a better computer.
Well it looks like the EU is dead wrong in this case and wants to force Germany to spy on its own citizens.
I'm reading over the source with my coffee this morning. I'll pseudo-CR it if I see mistakes (commented on a typo already). Hope you don't mind! I'm interested to see how you are doing this because I'm playing with my own toy key-value store on the week-ends [1].

In [2], wondering why you make GOMAXPROCS=2*Cpu by default?

[1]: https://github.com/aybabtme/dskvs/blob/proto/

[2]: https://github.com/HouzuoGuo/tiedot/blob/master/src/loveonea...
(Edited for confusingness.) Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic_quantum_computation under the paragraph "In practice..."

It's possible that such a computer will solve some interesting problems quickly, but no one even knows if an adiabatic quantum system is capable of solving the same problems as a "real" quantum computer.
> I would say yes, the web is large imagined as being an open, free, compatible, interoperable etc.

The web you imagine has not existed for a long time, if it even ever existed. HTTP has from a very early stage, for instance, supported restricting access to resources to authenticated users, so that people could put non-open, non-free, non-shared things on the web.
Or a non-native English speaker?
If Google takes its statistical corpus from online, then I think the SMT still makes sense.
Is there a place to suggest additional sources? Its quite the list, but there are a few more that I would use if you provided them.
Proper project management/find in files(project)/ctrlp is way slower.

Still, can't switch away from VIM :(
If everyone involved with Sublime disappeared tomorrow, Sublime would still work -- and likely continue to be usable for at least a few years.

I don't understand what the concern is here.

As you say, developers marry their editors. I certainly would be frustrated if Sublime were abandoned tomorrow, but I'd still rather use it today over any other editor.
Yup. GPU pipelines are another very common example, with the notable difference that pretty much every GPU programmer will optimise for the render pipeline, which is not the case for the CPU.
_Everybody here_ lives in a first world country. /s
Backbone and associations
Blackberry Reports a Surprise Quarterly Loss, and Forecasts Another
Huxley v. Orwell
hence the whistleblowers
Note: YCombinator != HackerNews readers (I do agree that there's not much substance to this article).
It's pretty much the poor countries that want to join. The rich countries like Switzerland are out and want to stay out.
When and how to fire a non-productive engineer?
I agree this is not really news but if you do want to read this story it's better to read the source at NBC which has a little more information and the actual interview, http://www.today.com/news/edward-snowdens-father-my-son-not-...
How to Use Instagram Video Right
The only thing holding me back from upgrading is the next version of Stino: https://github.com/Robot-Will/Stino

Current version is ST2-only.
It's interesting to me how Norwegian is one of the top 25 strangest languages in the world on that list, but Danish and Swedish isn't. Maybe it was on the lower end of the top 25.
I already have all the children I can comfortably support, and we plan on ADAPTING ;)
Typeplate 1.1.0
Common misconceptions in Python
Wow, this would be worth a Tory vote!
That's right, it's still Bush's fault.

We're in Obama's 2nd term, this is getting old.
The only other state is formally unclassifying them.
What if hackers ran Washington?
Washington D.C. and state capitals nation-wide have been run by mostly lawyers since, well, the beginning.

This NSA thing, SOPA, drones etc got me thinking.

What would the US and world look like if hackers ran the White House?
That works if you are doing consulting on your own but not for full time employees.
> "brutal behaviour" is dramatising it,

“If you so much as make a sound or come off of that wall again, I promise you’re going to get it when we get home."

Call that whatever the fuck you want.. if you don't see anything wrong with that, you might be the weakest link.

> Busybody judgements are rarely helpful

The blog author at least was present in the situation they're talking about. That's a hell of a lot more than anything you're arguing from, that "people in general" are nice to their kids and whatnot.

> they make it so parents find it harder to discipline their children in public through fear of misinterpretations from people like you

People like me? And why should someone else not discipline you in public? What kind of special ownership do you think you have over your kids? None other than correcting their mistakes, and protecting them. Anybody can and should do that to anybody, no?

> we have a generation that do not have respect and discipline.

Right. Says the generation too busy stuffing their faces and shining boots to even know themselves, much less their children. You don't teach respect by punishment, but by example. And authority is not automatically justified either, you get that by actually having a clue; punishment doesn't help here at all. It just helps to raise more people with issues who then seek to impart them on others. Well, at least I now know why this rubbed you the wrong way.

Believe it or not, I've never seen anyone getting a bad look or given anyone one for simply being firm with their child. There is a difference. We say stop being dicks, others respond "you're asking us to be rollovers". It's bullshit, plain and simple.
Can somebody explain me: How's that not censorship?
Surprise? To who?
UK Government Announces New Intellectual Property Crime Unit
I assume snail mail metadata (from, to, date, weight, form factor) can and is collected, with modern USPS equipment.
> if a parent can enhance her child's school results by buying her the best arithmetic implant from Texas Neuro-Instruments,

Judging by the prices of graphing calculators, an implant like that would only be affordable by millionaires :)
The comment in question has been edited. It originally started with something like "Downvote me to hell but I couldn't hate this more." Of course, you only have my word for that.
A couple of things come to mind.

1. Sublime Text 2 (and also Textmate 1.5) are STILL good editors. And they will continue to be good editors for the foreseeable future. Just like Vim and Emacs. You don't need a newer version every year. Even though Vim and Emacs DO release newer versions, I have no idea what is in the new releases. Why? Because Emacs 22 and Vim 6.3 do well enough. Textmate 1.5 does well enough. Sublime Text 2 does just fine.

2. I get the bus factor ideal, but it doesn't always turn out that way. Sure it's a chance, but look at the Jack Slocum, ExtJS situation. He was a one man show. He was a machine that could output beautiful amazing work. Then he actually let Sench Labs take over. He seemed to disappear for a time. They had a few stumbles. Now he's back. Same could happen. The same could happen for Sublime.

Overall. I don't see it as a hinderance. Watch Railscasts or Peepcode. They don't seem to have a problem using a 5 year old editor. Heck, I still use a table saw from 1982.
$1 Million in Bitcoin for Romney Tax Records - Man Charged with Extortion
NSA leakers shouldn’t use Priceline to book travel
What "already existent payment processing APIs" do you think Stripe was a "copy" of? Because as somebody who actually takes a lot of money in CC payments online, I can tell you: Stripe changed everything.
Good lord, could this actually happen?
The Guardian can still publish, is why.

The government telling people in its employ that they can't read the publication is a different matter from the government telling people they're not allowed to publish.
It's a sticky question how much Congress can restrain the President when executing his war powers. Obviously such an action is morally abhorrent, but some might argue that so is dropping an atomic bomb among a civilian population. Could Congress, had it been so inclined, have passed a law to prevent Truman from doing so? I don't know the answer, and I'm not sure you do either.

Who we elect President matters. This is one reason why.
And this is why America needs a Constitutional Court...

While avoiding broaching the interminable debate on whether or not they're, you know, actually doing their jobs, I thought that was the very definition of SCOTUS.

EDIT: I'm avoiding that debate because ISTM that one's position thereon is most likely a function of their politics, and not of whether or not the sitting justices — let alone the institution, itself — are an adequate implementation of the thing they were intended to be by Article III.
The Father of Civilization
The Oatmeal: Why I believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable
>I'm not all that sure it is unconstitutional

And you know who the perfect people to decide that would be? Judges. In a court of law. Since that's one of their main job functions.
Snowden, Surveillance and the Secret State
What is a "real" quantum computer and how does D-Wave's machine differ? (I have a basic understand of quantum mechanics, but I feel woefully out of my depth when reading comparisons on this subject)
Reminds me of: http://ruby-docs.com/
Enterprises Are Building Many Apps and we Need Multi-App Development Frameworks
A waste to who? It's the editor of choice for a large number of people. It provides value to developers. In turn, the people who spend all day building it (I assume from a comment above) get paid to do so. Do you want to work for free?
Actually, this example makes Euclid even more of a logician. Recall that Euclid stated his Fifth Postulate (where his postulates really mean axioms). Geometers for thousands of years afterward, guided by intuition, attempted to prove that in fact the Fifth Postulate could be proved from the other axioms. But by the 19th century, it was actually clear that Euclid was correct to include the postulate; had he not included the postulate, his geometry would not convey what he wanted to convey. Euclid in this way was fundamentally a logician! He realized that he needed the Fifth Postulate to prove facts about a geometry he imagine (e.g. angles in a triangle sum to two right angles), and included as an axiom something that others intuited must be derivable from the others.

But as Poincare mentions, we can also see that Euclid DID have much "intuition" in his works. In modern days, we do not consider Euclid's Elements a rigorous work of logic, mainly because his definitions are not rigorous definitions; he says a point is "that which has no part." Hilbert remedied Euclidean geometry in the 20th century, with a work that has some undefined objects (points and lines) and precisely defines the rest. He needs something like 24 axioms, as opposed to Euclid's 5.

It's interesting to see where Euclid's logic breaks down. Look at his very first proof - the construction of an equilateral triangle. He constructs two circles and looks at their intersection. How do we know we can build the circles to intersect? He draws us a picture and it seems obvious :).

But in Hilbert's Euclidean geometry, we need what I think of as a really nasty axiom in order to ensure the circles intersect: "Axiom of completeness. To a system of points, straight lines, and planes, it is impossible to add other elements in such a manner that the system thus generalized shall form a new geometry obeying all of the five groups of axioms. In other words, the elements of geometry form a system which is not susceptible of extension, if we regard the five groups of axioms as valid."
If you want people to adopt your theme, you probably want to devote less time to "font awesome" and more to getting critical design basics like white space and proportions right:

http://ge.tt/81a0lTk/v/0?c
I used to think that, too, but Clojure is not dynamically typed in the same way Ruby, Python, Javascript or Groovy are. The most important difference, from a maintainability point of view, is dynamic dispatch. All those other languages can call any method on any object. If the object has that method - it runs; if not - something else happens. But other than comparing method names, you have no way of knowing whether method foo in object A is indeed an override of method foo in object B, or whether it does something else altogether.

Clojure is entirely different. When you write (f x) you know exactly how f is going to dispatch by looking what f is in f's namespace: either it is a simple function, a protocol method implemented by x (just like interfaces in Java) with the protocol defined in f's namespace, or a multimethod in f's namespace.

So in Clojure, you don't have dynamic dispatch at all other than Java-like polymorphism or multimethods whose implementations are confined to a single namespace.
Security stereotypes
IT people really aren't forcing business people to use technology any more than Craftsman is forcing carpenters to use circular saws.
If secret information winds up on a computer you have to file a bunch of paperwork and have the computer either scrubbed or converted to only accessing secrets. So despite the leaked information being in the public record they still treat it as secret information. Yes it's stupid but those are the rules. By not allowing access to the newspaper site containing the "secrets" they can avoid these issues.

Why a secret leaked to the public and available to all is still treated as a secret is confusing.