skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This made me look twice, as I work for (Team) Treehouse. Coincidentally, the last company I worked for was called Avatar International, so the company in the article "Treehouse Avatar Technologies" made me do an extra double take.
No. Having a nice family, nice holidays, and not being stressed do not require money. Furthermore, your counterexample of a tiny apartment and cheap food don't actually contrast your definition of the good life. You can have a nice family, nice holidays, and not be stressed while living in a tiny apartment and eating cheap food. A lot of people do so every day, all around the world.
Leadwerks brings native 3D game development to Linux
Here's a question:

I noticed that in the last step, she separated the words Mail and Chimp with a space. Given that this article is kind of about subtleties making a difference, does that introduce confusion as to whether the company is Mail Chimp or MailChimp? When I look at the text portions of the page, I see it referred to both ways (ex: in the page title and left sidebar). On the MailChimp site itself, it's without the space. So, I assume that's correct.

So, could the logo confuse the branding? Or is it unimportant?
At the end of the day, the software business is exactly that - a business. Great business people can turn mediocre ideas into successes, while bad business people can turn great ideas into disaster. Very few independent developers are good business people. Either enlist the help of a great business person to roll out your projects, or drop the independent projects and spend that time doing consulting or other things that will get you paid. Creating independent projects without strong business talent behind them will almost always be an incredibly disappointing experience.
JavaScript Code Editors and IDE for Developers
One way that blacks and minorities were discriminated against in the US is via mandatory literacy tests[1] before they would be allowed to vote. Blacks and poor people were treated that way because it was expected that they would vote a certain way.

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/06/28/voting_right...
Reading Hilarious Amazon Reviews Never Ever Gets Old
While we work on trying to get Ghostery to play nice, you can try out the main app at http://memn.io/app.html
Thanks this is a really great idea. I'm going to try this out.
Thanks, I'll try to figure out what's going on.
We use weighted A records for this purpose. We basically have two weighted A records, one pointing to the load balancer and the other one to the static maintenance site on S3. When we want to switch sites, we just flip their weights (they are always 1 and 0), hence enforcing 100% redirection. It's not a perfect system but it works and DNS propagation is usually done within 15 minutes (haven't tried modifying the TTLs). Haven't been able to come up with anything simpler than this.
Language indexes: PHP is on the rise... or is it?
Hulu Owners Call Off Sale, Instead Pledging to Invest to Take On Rivals
Alexis Ohanian, Reddit Co-Founder, Talks SOPA/PIPA And Internet Freedom
Unfortunately, the vast majority of HR departments (even the 'best') aren't doing this at all.

My company, Mighty Spring (https://www.mightyspring.com), is doing exactly this on a larger scale: we're a marketplace that connects people and employers, but the employers see anonymized versions of each candidate's data/career history.

They request to interview candidates on the platform based on these anonymous profiles. Should the candidate accept, we reveal contact information to both parties and help schedule the interview.

While we're still fairly early stage, we're aiming to expose bias at different points in the hiring process using this approach, and at the very least help employers understand their own biases. Acceptance is the first step to a solution, no?
> However, this alone is never a valid reason to discount their criticisms of US actions.

No, but it's a valid reason to discount Snowden's positive characterization of those criticisms. It can be the case that both things are true: 1) Russia is correct in criticizing American action, regardless of its own actions; 2) Snowden is wrong to chalk it up to Russia's "standing up against the abuse of the powerless" instead of political grandstanding and deflection.
Craigslist is hiring javascript developers
I'm not sure what you mean by sign in link on the sing in page or sign up being "hidden". Could you elaborate?
Jesus, solitary confinement is not "widely held to be a form of torture." That's totally absurd and makes the term meaningless.
Do you own the SERPs.com domain name?
Mobile phone prices per minute for non-unlimited plans have been going up ever since the Sprint/Nextel merger and thanks to this will continue to do so.
Barrier to entry. Zabbix is "enterprise" out its ass.

Graphite, statsd, collectd are small simple systems that you can have mostly figured out in a few minutes. Meanwhile Zabbix's website makes it seem like the sole reason for that project to exist is to sell consulting and training gigs.

Datadog seems like it might be slightly better, but I haven't spent much time looking at it.
I have a pair of on-ear Bose headphones that I bought when I didn't know any better. In hind sight they don't sound great.

BUT, they are the most comfortable on-ears I have ever owned and possibly the most durable headphones I've owned. The model was recently updated, and I think the changes are improvements.

In that light, if you want a really comfortable, quite durable pair of portables, They are a reasonable choice.
> how can he be sure that there isn't other legal theory secretly approved by secret court that would allow to subject him to simulated death (or something even more devilish) without leaving any evidence on his body?

Because there is no such "secret court?" As a civilian Snowden cannot be tried in a military tribunal, and the only "secret court" that exists is FISC which is only empowered to grant warrants.

As a practical matter, people a lot more disliked by the state than Edward Snowden get tried in regular U.S. District Courts.
You got me thinking about how python differs from lisp in this respect, and the subtle way that a functional API has helped this specific situation.

While lisp suffers from the same "definition is execution" gotcha, the effects are far rarer in practice because () is immutable and interned while [] is mutable and usually generated afresh each time it's executed.

$ python
>>> [] is []
False

$ sbcl
* (eq () ())
t

Since [] is mutable, appends of [] can do superficially 'the right thing'.

>>> a = []
>>> a.append(4)
>>> a
[4]

* (setq a ())
* (nconc a '(34))
(34)
* a
()

But there's a reason lisp does seemingly the wrong thing. According to the spec, nconc skips empty arguments (http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_ncon...) Reading between the lines, I'm assuming this makes sense from a perspective in lisp where we communicate even with 'destructive' operations through their return value. This is more apparent when you consider nreverse:

* (setq a '(1 2 3 4))
* (nreverse a)
(4 3 2 1)
* a
(1)

Destructive operations can reuse their input, but they're not required to maintain bindings. There is no precise equivalent of python's .reverse(). Instead, a common idiom is:

* (setq a (nreverse a))

It seems like a weird design decision, but one upshot of it besides encouraging a more functional style is that this optional-arg gotcha loses a lot of its power in lisps. It's very rare to define a default param of a non-empty list, and empty lists can't be modified without assigning to them.
New method ‘starves’ cancer cells to death
The best CSS joke in the world.
@michellelaralin: I just came up with the best CSS joke in the world.
@wyclin: Even better than #titanic { float: none; } ?
@michellelaralin: Yes. Are you ready for it?
@wyclin: What is it?
@michellelaralin: .tampon { overflow: hidden }
@wyclin: =____=...
True tinfoils don't use propietary software.
It is perhaps more correct to say "when the function is instantiated". Functions in python aren't exactly "defined". Functions are objects same as everything else. The "def" keyword is how you call the constructor for a function object. The kwarg default values are evaluated once at object construction time and saved.

The "def" statement may construct different distinct function objects from a single definition. Each distinct function object has different default value objects, but each function object reuses its own default value objects each time it's called.

Consider this:

def outer_fn():
def inner_fn(foo={}):
# The id() function returns an internal
# object identifier. Different objects
# have different ids.
print id(foo)
return inner_fn

inner_fn_1 = outer_fn()
inner_fn_2 = outer_fn()
inner_fn_1()
inner_fn_1()
inner_fn_2()
inner_fn_2()
That rap was accurate. Better sound through marketing and douche-baggery IP / anti-competitive behavior.

Bose implementations used cheap parts and cut corners, but charged premium prices by being the original MonsterCable. Bose stifled competition and innovation with pre-existing art IP. He also dicked people around with trademark because he was an asshat.

He was only one step better than a patent-troll in terms of his effects on the industry (because he actually did deliver a product). Fuck him and his Beats by Dre bullshit sucker-identifying crap.

Bose was drowning start-ups in the bathtub, let alone badgering any real competition. It's an affront to HN for his death to be atop the list without him being pilloried as a pariah.
You could just use a pickup truck.
So why not standardize on the Bootstrap conventions and release it as a Bootstrap compatible theme?

EDIT: apparently it does https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6036247
It's not a widely held belief, but I found this article convincing. Yes, a leftist rag.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_...

I think most people don't think it's torture simply because they don't really know what it's like, haven't experienced it, can't readily imagine why it would be painful, etc.
Single page link:

http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=13188...

For those of use who would prefer to read the article whole, instead of chopped up into six arbitrary pieces.
Yes, you're right, I did mean embedded DSL.
Licensed taxi drivers in Los Angeles facing heavy competition from Lyft
Good podcast. If anyone wants to know more about Rafl this is a good video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbZ3zDzDnrw
It likely depends on the country; for all practical purpose, it is illegal to ask this question in Canada.
On chrome/linux the tops of the almost all text has shaved off, no matter the zoom level. http://imgur.com/cOWUTkM
Hey, that's awesome! Your design reminds me of "hoodwink'd", which was "underground" in the sense that you had to edit your DNS settings for "hoodwink'd" to work. http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2006/01/hoodwinkd.html

Your site URL hashing system is also pretty close how Goggles works, only instead of notes, you get to draw MS paint-like scribbles. http://goggles.sneakygcr.net

Each website is uniquely keyed by a hash of the URL, so Goggles doesn't know the website's URL even if there is a hit. (It does send the page title to the server though because popular sites go on a leaderboard; i'm not so sure about that decision though since it can leak some privacy...)

Browsers are doing a much better job at protecting/restricting bookmarklets than extensions and I wish more of these kinds of notetaking apps/tricks use bookmarklets instead. For example, I just now discovered that Chrome will prevent Goggles from working on certain HTTPS sites like hacker news because it loads javascript from an http:// URL, which is a great design decision from the Chrome team.
Where Car Is King, Smartphones May Cut Traffic
SVM comes from a theory called Vapnik–Chervonenkis dimension which talks about ways to balance best learner performance against likelihood of actually achieving that theoretical optimum. It's very nice theory.

The nonlinear stuff is called the "kernel trick" and is essentially a recognition that an SVM's operation is depends on the data exclusively through measurements of how far apart the n^2 data points are from one another. Once you realize that you can twist the definitions around so as to insert whatever kind of non-linear notion of "distance" you like. Many ML algorithms can be augmented by the kernel trick.

Finally, SVM's geometry allows you to think of it as a relatively nice optimization problem. Compare this to many other ML algorithms which have only heuristic optimization methods. It makes the algorithm surprisingly fast.
The fact that the US doesn't recognize Snowden as a whistleblower doesn't prove persecution or anything at all. He broke the law. He and others may not like it or agree and they don't have to but its still clear he broke the law. What has Snowden told us that we didn't alreay know since 2006? He gave us classified documents and the names and operations of classified programs. Programs we already knew about but just didn't know the name of or how they worked. Hell, even with what he did give us we still don't actually know how they work. But we sure as hell always knew our calls and Internet activity were being monitored.

I'm not a fan of what the NSA is doing but I don't think Snowden is even remotely close to a hero either. Did you know you can take that position? That there's a difference between ones position on NSA spying and whether Snowden is a whistleblower? I'm of the opinion that Snowden and the NSA are criminals.
Perhaps less important for war machines (particularly giant ones): the world that we have built for ourselves is built for bipeds. (ADA required renovations notwithstanding)
Being a sound engineer doesn't mean you have good ears or produce good work, etc. It means someone is paying you to do a job. I post on HN because I'm a founder. I've founded 3 companies. None of which lasted more than 2 years. I use BIC ballpoint pens. Their clear plastic never failed me.
One thing that will prevent people from switching to this (from Bootstrap, or similar) is the lack of navbar search form. Besides that, very beautiful. The tag edit is a nice addition to most front-end frameworks.
His quote is damn near the definition of "objectification".
Presumably, yes. With a bit more meditation on this thread, I think my general conclusion then is that while culture can shape behavior, it's possible that things like weather can shape culture.

And, to bring it all home, this feels like the topic of a Gladwell Book (or at least a chapter)
The problem with the gaming industry is that developers make too much
Doesn't adding dollars to the economy (through payment rather than loan) increase the ability to repay loans of those paid, those paid by those paid, etc, and thus their corresponding creditworthiness? Also, if people have money to spend, companies will borrow to service their needs. It's not about the ability of the banks to loan the money out (which is part of why QE isn't very meaningful).
Can't unsee. The new p shape does make it less readable.
Strings are not intended to act as comments. Docstrings are intended to act as docstrings. If you need inline comments beyond what is in your docstrings, there is no reason not to use Python's comment character as designed.
Cancer and Dementia mutually protective
Instead of anti-trust laws* that are enforced some decades, not others, I'd rather just see market share affect tax rates.

Maybe for every 1% of the market you control, we add another .1% to your rate?

Not really sure what the right equation is, and measuring market share would be contentious...

The current system isn't without its problems though.

* UPDATE: Well, collusion would have to still be illegal, this doesn't really cover everything.
Theoretically, for constrained cases yes.

On the other hand, the typical Ruby ORM defines methods that corresponds to the current columns of tables in the database it is told to connect to. That fancy AST parsing tool won't be able to do anything in that case without being able to connect to your database and issue queries...

You might consider this "hacked together" but those kinds of api's is a major part of the draw of Ruby for a lot of people.
Top comment on the page Honestly I don't care if the government wants to vacuum up all this info, and they are using it for legitimate investigations and trustworthy people have access to it. My only concern is with the people who have access to this information and intend to do harm with it. Case in point - Snowden.

Is there some decent management tool that would allow tracking/commenting on popular news-websites? This is something where I would approve of a voting ring system.
This is also a link in the show notes.
Do you mean composability, or just having to use another line?
Few things I would like to add. BOSE products are actually overpriced. If there would be an overpricing scale then those will be a lot more overprices than Apple products which are themselves very much overpriced.

If I take the sound quality and compare with other brands like it becomes even more pronounced.

Having said that, the design aesthetic BOSE brought into its products long time ago is considered hip and innovation toady.
The History of Philosophy … Without Any Gaps
When Verizon was served with a FISA request for all their customer's meta data, each day for 3 months, that counted as one order.

That means Verizon might have "only" received 4 FISA orders a year.
Can the LHC solve the dark matter mystery?
The obvious solution here is to just spend so much on the best available audio gear that you can no longer afford to fly.
That's sufficient when the code is flawless and you never have to look at it. I.e. pretty much never.

The rest of the time it is still a huge benefit to be able to easily navigate the source. And frankly, a lot of the time the source is a more concise source of truth than decently written documentation.
check out http://help.dukgo.com/customer/portal/articles/215622
Are you discriminated against? If you're a white male (like me), this is too funny!
Facebook builds a tool to manage data on both facilities and servers
Yahoo in talks to acquire Jawbone?
Just joking (or am I)?
Indeed. Let's not forget that Bose sued Consumer Reports in 1971 for publishing a review that described a Bose system as one that "tended to wander about the room" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Reports#Bose
I'm with you on this -- the headings render pretty thin on my tablet: http://imgur.com/FUtdjmD

Despite this, I'm totally in love with the framework -- it feels like all the good things of Bootstrap and Foundation all in one. Definitely keeping an eye on this.
> Some set of hiring managers assumed a mother with kids would likely focus more on family then career.

In the present times, some set of managers would assume it for ANY woman of childbearing age. And if a woman doesn't have kids, she's assumed to get pregnant and go on maternity leave.
Ditto on Chrome (29 dev) on OS X 10.6.8 -- double scrollbars.

Yay, yet another fixed-black-top-nav CSS framework! With major bugs!
I cant help but say that the P, is almost read as a Y, I think the opening of the Y tail, helps suggest that this is a cursive y. The spacing is widened, and places the p further out. Maybe pulling the lower gap between m and p in, reducing the spacing, and keeping the open loop.
Signs you are not agile
Big Cables Plan for One Infrastructure to Rule Us All
The source and a readme to set up your own instance of Crowdhoster is at http://github.com/Crowdtilt/Crowdhoster.

Feel free to email lebel@crowdtilt.com if you need any help setting it up!
Spoken like someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. I worked at the Stanford Bose store for a year. On many occasions we'd let customers bring in other products and put them side by side with Bose. Bose won every time. This was especially true for the Wave Radio and SoundDock. It was also an outdoor mall so if the door to the store was open, which it almost always was, there was a ton of background noise. Didn't matter. Bose always won.

Bose is completely overpriced. As is Apple, Monster and a ton of other "high end" electronic brands. But there is no better audio equipment for the average person than Bose. For a home theater or headphones or bedside radio, Bose wins every time....if you're willing to pay. And like I said, I worked in the store, A LOT of people are willing to pay for that quality.
Indeed, hypothetically, if a tiny game developer had gotten such a letter, they would probably be asking their friendly lawyer to find a moment to advise them, rather than saying anything publicly. I suspect a great many such extortion letters have been sent; let's hope they sent so many that the combined defense will be enough.
It shows at #2 for me. I think it might not do as well as TheHackerNews because (a) PG doesn't worry about SEO and (b) not much in the way of backlinks.

BTW -- No one is buying ads on that link either. Might be fun to just do a minimal buy.
Wow... the implication that a white and black stove somehow mirror racism in anyway is laughable. It assumes that the only difference is color. It's disrespectful to the hundreds of years of institutional racism, denigration, and the current state of racial affairs in general.
My name is Amar too. A sad day for innovators named Amar. Shine On buddy, thank you for the contributions to audio technology that has enriched millions of lives. :)
This attitude reeks of white privilege, although I used to have an opinion similar to it. I recommend spending some time here:

http://racismschool.tumblr.com/post/16976192868/white-privil...
It's been that way as long as I can remember, though I could be misremembering. It's mentioned in the Dropbox help [1].

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/help/13/en
Those don't inspire the same kind of awe as when the train wreck is professionally made.
If this is motivated by a business need: Buy a subscription to Wistia for the next ~13 years, and/or Wistia plus your choice of blogging service.

If this is primarily not about video hosting but instead about getting you programming practice, this would be an exceptionally difficult first coding project due to the video and UX angles. A better first project would be building a basic blog, on which you could e.g. embed Wistia to do the heavy lifting on the video end of things.
where the hell is it? I re-opened the page 3 times to try and locate it and even came back here to try and find it.
There's a difference between "caring about sound quality" and "audiophile 0.001% improvement". The first priority of pro audio is mechanical stuff and reliability, then sufficient coverage with adequate quality, then it becomes a tradeoff of budget (and hassle) vs. improvements in audio quality. I don't think anyone would really have a problem with "normal mid-range (~$500-1000?) home system quality sound" at a sports stadium as an upper bound of quality, which is hard to achieve for every seat.

(the other funny thing about the pro group is we all had sennheiser or beyerdynamic or grado headphones at our desks, and mostly stuff like Martin Logan/Paradigm/PSB/NHT/Magnepan or (for me, since I was a poor college student) a reuse (mit dumpster-diving equivalent) Klipsch La Scala from the 1970s setup at home.)

Bose Aviation headsets also rock; I like the Dave Clark for the military standardness but the Bose were the first ANC I think.
but... but...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6029098
Since this is entirely devoid of any discernible facts, it's a little disturbing that this has made it to the front page of HN. When did random assertions become unquestioned truth?

This feels a lot like a sensationalized modern day witch hunt, "Burn the misoginists! Burn the sexists!"

Also, for whatever it's worth, never have I heard "Kim" considered anything but a woman's name.