skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I learned about the cover? Method, so that's a big plus for a typical Saturday...but I'm confused as to why include? for ranges doesn't just act as an alias for cover?

I can't think of a Range that is not meant to be continuous...I would test out some cases right now if my computer weren't grinding away at a database insertion process...

edit: OK, tried it out....as I suspected, Ranges that consists of Strings will have different behavior:

[16] pry(main)> ('aa'..'zz').include?('c')
=> false
[17] pry(main)> ('aa'..'zz').cover?('c')
=> true
[18] pry(main)> ('aa'..'zz').include?('cc')
=> true
[19] pry(main)> ('aa'..'zz').cover?('cc')
=> true
[20] pry(main)> ('aa'..'zz').cover?('cccccc')
Why is the anti-western film black-listed on HN?
The link is to a full version of the anti-western propaganda film on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NMr2VrhmFI.
> How long do you think that cable companies are going to be putting these

Well, as long as they are "free" and subsidized by bills. People like free, and cable companies usually give out the ancient hot DRM DVRs for free with subscriptions. I don't see people lining up to replace their DVR with an xbox (which isn't an actual replacement, it has no coax in or tv tuner).

> Why have 3 pieces of hardware when you can have one

Xbox doesn't have DOCSIS either. You can't put a cable modem in it. You maybe can use it as a router, but you can use anything with a land line ethernet plug as a router, or you could get a hotspot as a router.

> you can see a future where home automation is centered around your central console

I see this, but xbox one is so locked down, expensive, and it uses gamepads, not tv remotes. I don't see people keeping the xbone on as a media sync server, when you could buy a router with attached storage for a quarter the price.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy#Environmental_benef...

Insects are far more efficient than livestock. Also, you can feed them things that humans can't eat (like rice stalks and husks) so they can be an environmental net win.
Eclipse Kepler was released just few weeks ago.

http://eclipse.org/kepler/

In my opinion development is not stalled at all, and if you check the 'plugins' section of the release

http://eclipse.org/kepler/projects.php

there are a lot of related projects to Eclipse and all of them are in active development. Not to mention that there are a lot of other plugins that are not a part of the 'standard release' and Eclipse based IDE's like Spring Tool Suite - that are active as well.

And if someone points out that there are some bugs that are reported years ago and they are not still resolved, that means only that Eclipse needs more manpower to focus on that as well, not that the development is stalled, the guys are pushing on new things and some stuff can get lower priority.
> the most serious charge against the 25-year-old Army Private, one that carries a term of life in prison: "aiding and abetting the enemy". The government's theory is that because the documents Manning leaked were interesting to Osama bin Laden, he aided the enemy by disclosing them. Harvard Law Professor Yochai Benkler explained in the New Republic in March why this theory poses such a profound threat to basic press freedoms as it essentially converts all leaks, no matter the intent, into a form of treason.

That this is considered his main crime for which he could spend his life in jail should be extremely scary to all of us.
I've been surprised at how well the new tab system has been working. How could you make a filter that would sort on the broad criteria of "promotions" and "social"?
Sounds like it might be a sit-down-for-coffee styled chat, as opposed to anything formal.
I'm surprised that a screenshot counts as evidence. I guess it probably goes along with testimony about how it was obtained?
The way this is going, Linux will end up as a single process operating system, that will do everything at web scale. All outputs in glorious binary format.

Funny, the crowd got distracted over Gnone3, Unity or Mir, or the latest worry of the day, yet never saw the big threat in their camp.

Linux isn't done until the text processor won't run.
Make sure to install and activate php-apc (or some other accelerator).

While I don't have an RPi myself, a colleague of mine had his ownCloud instance go from dog slow to usable with that simple change.
I know the audience you speak of won't do this, but Steam big picture mode does solve that problem. Plug pc into tv via hdmi, get a bluetooth adapter or just use a corded 360 or ps3 gamepad, play games. You can even do that with a gamer grade laptop which also happens to be portable, albeit expensive.

I see a full-os media server box plugged into the tv that can act as router, sync server, tv dvr, game console, and with miracast etc provide displays all over a home, but I don't think xbone is sophisticated enough to do it. Does it even support non-xbox gamepad input?
Looking over the comments on HN, people seem to be focused on the current popularity of Twitter Bootstrap and Flat Design, but the original article posed a more general question across decades of web development. Just counting the last few design cycles, we've seen (1) web 2.0 rounded corners and gradients, then (2) iOS-inspired skeuomorphism and now (3) flat design.

People redesign websites to avoid looking "dated" and copying what's currently popular is the quickest way to achieve the look of "newness". The same is true for a new website built from scratch. Nothing is preventing someone in 2013 from designing a web 2.0 website except for the fear that it will make them look old. And if you're a business, you don't want to lose customers because your competition has a more modern looking site. As a result, everyone moves together as a pack in the same direction until someone else comes out in front and changes the direction of the pack. This is how culture has operated for thousands of years. Twitter Bootstrap is not the reason why everything looks the same.
This is an easy and thus superficial bit of insight to add. A more reliable truism would be that "unnecessary magic is bad", but that brings us no closer to evaluating Rails. Ultimately, you have to be able to point to specific magical behaviors and make a case for what makes them gratuitous.
Because I hate paying bills, its a huge pain in the ass and I wanted to make it suck less
how about Ruby with less magic? http://rubyluwak.com/
I was hoping you were referring to the wire-format for DNS, in which the keys (the domain/host names) are stored using a unique compression scheme (which in my experience is rather hard to enode and you have to be careful when decoding to detect loops). But no, you are talking about BIND zone files, which I don't find all that complex.
I used a 4.5.x version and at first it seemed like a good replacement for DropBox but the syncing doesn't seem up to par with Dropbox. Every now and then owncloud syncs hundreds of megabytes of data for unexplainable reasons, even worse it would create duplicates. Maybe because I jump around between many virtual machines, windows, mac and linux. The syncing gets confused. I never lost any data though.
It was not closed. It was deleted. Will was a diamond mod at the time he did it. After posting this message I voted to undelete which is probably why it was just closed by the time you got to it.

But doesn't that illustrate the problem enough? You don't see the history, mod's actions are unknown now. I agree that it can be closed according to the current rules. I was talking only about the deletion.
I use linux mint cinnamon. It is a bit cleaner and lighter than unity.

You might also like xubuntu or linux mint xfce. They use the lighter weight desktop environments xfce.
> Having to create a separate account on N services with the same credentials is simpler than having a unified account?

I said it wasn't complicated, that's not the same thing as saying it's simpler.

What's simpler is going to depend to a high degree on your use of the system.

For instance, I do some work with disadvantaged people - charity/volunteer stuff - and some of the people who haven't touched a computer before cannot understand that the government won't be able to track them through their Universal Jobmatch accounts if they use other websites that don't use that sign on. For them, it probably is simpler to have one log on.

Taking myself as another example though, I'm obviously going to find it more complicated to manage alternate identities, that have to at least passingly sound real, to ensure my privacy than I did just not having my real name online at all and reusing some of the assorted user-names I used on other sites while using different email addresses to stop it all getting tied together.

It's a trade off - at least from a user perspective - what are you optimising for?

As I see it, you gain some small ease of understanding for people who have just never used a computer before, (and increase the penalty when they mess up and leave themselves signed in on a public computer, which they do .) And you get some small benefit if you want to change your email address across all the service (though how often does that happen - and how many services do you really use?) However, you make it more difficult for people to remain anonymous.

There's also the fact that a similar thing could have been done without tying everything through G+. Which of course they're not going to do because they want to force you to use it.

We're talking about marginal gains, in return for making things much harder for those of us who don't want our names floating about associated with all we do.

(That and I question whether it's a good idea to make people have one sign in for so many things anyway. Nanny-state-me is like 'That's a terrible idea, the only thing worse than a crap password is the same crap password for everything.' )
Can you provide a link to a study that shows UK cancer outcomes exceeding those of US outcomes in populations under 65?
Can't access the site either, but I've just found this post on Google+ https://plus.google.com/103751102959761372959/posts/We8fexT5...
Early stage startups & detailed (financial / KPI) models
This is great! I love tools that help you understand tough concepts in a simple, no setup way. We'll definitely include this in our curricula at http://www.thinkful.com/

Would love to talk about other ways to work together as well – drop me a line: darrell@thinkful.com
First, what makes you think your 'Space' format has "no syntax" ? What do you think keywords and whitespace are? You've just replaced 'A' with 'ip', and presumably 'CNAME' with 'address' (which is actually much less descriptive). You've also added a keyword to specify the TTL of individual records, rather than an optional positional parameter.

More importantly, semantics are always more involved than syntax. By the time you understand how DNS works (which will take one basically an afternoon of playing), the few idiosyncrasies of zone file syntax are trivial. Each line is pretty much a textual description of the records that are sent over the wire, with a little punctuation and directives to set defaults for the file.

PS if you're looking to do anything programmatic, install PowerDNS instead - it can use a database for your zone info.
Well, I'm glad "The Korean" didn't resort to a simple "Sorry, you've missed the point" response like he did towards other commenters. But I really like Gladwell's response.

FYI: Here is Gladwell's response to "The Korean"'s response to Gladwell:

http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-thoughts-on-gladwe...

I actually find "The Korean's" posts on these matters to be pretty irritating. Culture is a collection of ideas, and like all ideas, they can be bad sometimes, and regardless they are all subject to criticism. While he claims to understand this, he seems hellbent on showing that such negative cultural outliers (if and when they exist), will have "negligible" effect (which he doesn't seem to realize is a totally arbitrary claim; how did he arrive at "negligible" vs, I don't know, any other quantifiable amount). The fact is, the effects can't be measured, but a case showing non-negligible effects can still be made.
People who go to Ivy League schools typically have wealthier parents and/or families who can fund their education. Subsequently this can likely carry over to their receiving support while they start a new company, not to mention the connections gained from attending such prestigious schools.

Granted that this does not apply to every case and there are true bootstrapping stories out there, but the fact of the matter is that wealth generates wealth and capitalism is the trademark of the startup industry. It has very little to do with the actual education in the end.
If you just thought it were Ireland, Wales And Scotland that have an often uneasy relationship with England, you'd be surprised to learn who else bows to the English Crown.

(And yes Scotland has an upcoming referendum in 2014 on the issue of independence from the UK.[1] This is widely believed to be a losing proposition.)

Commonwealth Realm
Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu

Crown dependencies:
Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Man

British Overseas Territories:
Akrotiri and Dhekelia, Anguilla, Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory,
British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands,
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands,
Turks and Caicos Islands

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_independence_referendu...
Racism is the belief that some people or cultures are inherently inferior.

I think it should be obviously clear that all cultures have their weak and strong points, and sometimes cultures should change and fix these problems. This is true for corporate cultures and cultures of whole nations.
Actually, the Garbage First (G1) garbage collector was created by Sun not Oracle/JRockit. It did get production ready under Oracle with jdk 1.7.0_04.
I was going to write that this was a failing of the Ruby documentation. But actually, it's pretty well documented if you take the time to read it (http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.0/Range.html).

There's absolutely no need to go hitchhiking in the C source in this case.
Manchester has improved dramatically since the Thatcher years but they still have a ton of cash issues.
It's amazing the level of nostalgia produced by looking at some of the old designs, like Orchid Beauty[0] and Under the Sea[1].

[0] http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/211/211.css
[1] http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/213/213.css
Reddit - Why the Front Page of the Internet Is Still Losing Money
Macbook Air Update Fixes Wi-Fi and Screen Flicker
I vastly prefer magic, so long as it works.
I like it, especially this section http://regex101.com/community/ with commonly used regular expressions submitted by other users. Being able to vote a solution is also nice. Well done overall!
Sucks on mobile. Needs a responsive design.
I guess you could setup Sphinx to index your code :) "If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing!"

http://sphinxsearch.com/
May be we should just have islands? Why so many names? it is confusing.
> I think Windows taking over the world from 1995 to 2008 has absurdly destroyed lot of hacker interest in computing devices.

I'm 32, so not really falling into your description when it comes to age, but if it weren't for Linux I wouldn't be here today writing code for a living. I was around your age and I was almost illiterate when it came to programming (but very good at maths and all), until I installed a Mandrake Linux distribution on my PC and then discovered Python.

Like you said, even having access to a decent computer terminal can make a huge difference, the difference between just typing "python" and having access to its REPL and on the other hand struggling to set and export some crazy PATHs in DOS (and to this day I'm sure I discovered Copy/Paste into the DOS terminal by mistake).

It's good that Bill Gates does the things he does now and I understand why people would look up to him, but we should also think of the huge opportunity costs that Microsoft's policies imposed on the rest of the world.
Offit left out information on why he started to advocate vitamins in the first place. He was diagnosed with Bright's Disease. One cause of Bright's disease is a lack of Vitamin D. Taking vitamins was the right course of action in his specific case. He most likely wanted to share his success with others, which is probably why he started advocating vitamins. It's unfortunate that he pushed vitamins as a cure as far as he did. It would be interesting to learn why he took the stance he did from people who knew him personally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright's_disease

Another good example of misleading information is the last sentence: "In 1994, Linus Pauling died of prostate cancer."

He left out the part where he was 93 at the time of his death (1901-1994). Both the incidence and mortality rate for those over 80 are very high.

http://www.medinfographics.com/cancer-statistics/prostate-ca...

p.s. I do agree with the author in that I do believe taking Vitamins is largely unnecessary if you are eating a healthy diet w/lots of vegetables, legumes and fruit. :)
Right, but the point stands - if someone is with hiring authority at a company responds to your job search, you have not yet been disqualified.

So if it was clear on his resume/communication that he had less than 2 years experience, the "we require 2 years" is an excuse, not the real reason.

If the recruiter knew he lacked the experience, and if the experience was a hard, unyielding barrier, then the recruiter would not even bother.
I really like the idea; definitely could have used this in several of my projects over the years. It'd be cool if there were more use cases to give a better picture of what all is possible with the scraping service. That's what drew me into IFTTT when I first visited their website. The example of getting the title tag from the website wasn't that exciting :) . And any chances of a trial period?? I'd be more willing to pay after seeing a functioning implementation in my website/app.
why is it forbidden if someone can take a helicopter tour? Looks like its a private island.
Could be a new kind of meta-ddos. Announce a site has been hacked on Reddit/HN, and the news about the hack becomes the hack. :D
There is an even more interesting (damning?) article - "Dont Take Your Vitamins".
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/dont-take-y...

Two years later the same journal published another study on vitamin supplements. In it, 18,000 people who were at an increased risk of lung cancer because of asbestos exposure or smoking received a combination of vitamin A and beta carotene, or a placebo. Investigators stopped the study when they found that the risk of death from lung cancer for those who took the vitamins was 46 percent higher.
`cover?` uses the comparison operators to check if the value is within the range. `include?`, on the other hand, will behave like `cover?` only if the range values are "numeric". If they aren't, it will iterate through the range to see if it contains the value. This is possible because range values are required to implement the `succ` method which gives the next value.
Ubuntu is splitting logind from systemd with no help from the systemd maintainers, because some gnome projects have started requiring logind. That effort is spent undoing Lennart's work swallowing most of the consolekit code base into systemd. The systemd maintainers won't accept patches that make logind a separate project again.
You could do this with grep or ack or ag:

grep bar -A 5 -B 5 files... | grep foo

-A n prints n lines following the match (bar) and -B n prints n lines before the match.
The 19th century photographs of children you see are, as a general rule, the children of people wealthy enough to afford photographs of their children.

The effect of this is two-fold; firstly, you're seeing a small segment of society, and secondly, because having a photograph taken is special, you're not seeing everyday clothing.
"Because it is cool to hate Microsoft" is a personal attack by itself.
Oh wow. Good to have CSSZG back. How could I forget about you... \o/
Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandy Metz is $16.99 until midnight.
Ranges are always continuous, but `cover?` uses the comparison operators, while `include?` iterates over the items in the range in some cases. `include?` is practical in cases where you don't want to implement the comparison operators.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6076608
Misleading title. Sometimes it would do you really good to take certain kind of vitamin(s). However, the 'supplement' class doesn't include just vitamins. It seems articles that attempt to debunk 'myths' are getting quite popular, in disfavor of real science/research. This one is mostly one-sided and doesn't show much effort at all in at least gathering some counter-arguments. Also, metastudies such as the ones enumerated in this piece can sometimes be flawed by the very methodology they were constructed. Journalistic sensationalism.
> Gladwell is very clear that the corporation Korean Air had terrible pilots an terrible piloting procedures, not that Koreans were terrible pilots

I may have misunderstood the 2 posts. But I sort of understood that Gladwell was arguing that Korean cultural aspects, including the nature of the language, play(ed) a vital role in the airplane accidents.

And if that is the case, you could say that he is arguing that Koreans are bad pilots (Of course he is excluding Koreans who don't subscribe to the culture; but is that such a huge number?)

I probably completely misunderstood his original argument.
Fatigue is a non-specific symptom and is not necessarily chronic (fatigue is only classed as chronic after 4 months -- according to the article you linked).

Nobody was laughing about it or mocking: we were discussing medical ethics quite seriously, and the medical value of placebo.

As I understood, the GP only applied this to situations where by-the-book they would have to send people away unmedicated and dissatisfied.

Although you might reasonably disagree with their methods, the GP felt quite strongly about it: believing that showing care in such a simple, non-harmful way early led to fewer chronic cases.
Why can't charges be specific and limited to the actual crime of 'unauthorized disclosure of classified information'. As a coder, this bothers me. Intuitively this reeks of slippery slope.
I'm talking about the whole kit and kaboodle. All of the formats.

I'm pretty much of the opinion that almost all of these formats are no longer needed optimizations.
What tptacek, rdouble and james_madison said is accurate.

Also I don't consider most acquisitions all that interesting, but I would have been interested in reading about the Nigerian startup scene (if there is such a scene).