skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, got upset as I usually get when I hear "Russians did something we do not fully understand. Simple: vodka must be involved!".

Zhukov couldn't drink Coke when others drink vodka. For one thing, vodka is not consumed from individual bottles; the same bottle is shared. Second, it is considered impolite to drink and do not offer it to the guest.

Zhukov may have had an idea of introducing Coke as a popular drink, but Stalin wouldn't allow it. Stalin knew that colour is not important; essence (and origin) is.
Well no, not really. My comment wasn't about free jazz, nor was it about meaning. I simply used a stereotype about free jazz as a tool with which to beat up the original comment.

Your interpretation is yours, and your choice to make a linkage between two usages of the word 'meaning' that weren't intended is also valid. I can't very well attack the original comment based on my reading of it and then ask you not to do the same to mine. That being said, my comment was structured like this:

1. Attention grabber: you're full of hot air.
2. This is why.
3. Here's a more mature way to think about pros, amateurs, and software.

I don't believe that the passing reference to a style of music has any real effect on the thrust of my argument.

I am slightly regretting picking on free jazz: its fans are, predictably, articulate. Perhaps I should have used Markov chain poetry instead of free jazz, then only the algorithms would be upset.
You may be the exception. I have yet to see a software shop where the documentation and test cases were all current.

You never know when status reporting can help... If done right. If 20 teams who each impact the final deadline all are 90% of the time on time, you'll still likely have a late project because that 10% adds up. And in most companies that 90% is lower. It helps to have quantifiable progress metrics to understand where the trouble lies. This might not be the type of status you're referring too though.
Oh yeah, and diabetes also?
No sales - no science? Looong way to go..
People get mugged for cell phones. (At least they used to, often, I'm not sure how common it is now.)

I can imagine someone getting mugged, perhaps violently, for their Glass or some future version glass.
Tread carefully friends, there's dogma here [1].

I obviously can't answer for the author, but in my own endeavors I've used social auth as a quick fix and said "eh, if it takes off I'll go back and do it right." Chances are the subsegment of his market without a social presence is small.

Authentication and marketing are big hairy problems, especially for people embarking upon small side projects. Social auth can help with both with remarkably small effort on the dev's part.

Edit: Also if you'd really like to give it a shot, having a twitter account doesn't require you to use said twitter account.

Edit 2: Changed tone - "whether you like it or not" is way too confrontational of a phrase to use there - I apologize if I sounded like I was attacking.

1: There seems to be a social auth holy war going on. Your comment was respectful, so please don't think I mean you when I say this, but there's too damn many people saying the equivalent of "OHHH you shitbag! I hate the Facebook/Twitter/other! Why would you force me to have that in order to have your service?" The truth is that it wasn't meant as a personal slight - your opinions just fell on the wrong side of an early-stage tradeoff.
Inside Butterfly Labs: The Challenges of Producing Bitcoin Mining Hardware
The worst spelling of all time as well. The sheer number of errors in that 'article' made my eyes bleed.
Dating a developer
Well, by reasonable context anything you can't leave lying around for a couple of decades and expect to work, or stick in a reasonably constant environment and expect to be around in a hundred years. HDDs, optical discs - that sort of thing, I'd consider to tend to be fairly fragile.

Anything that wouldn't be accessible to historians in the same sense that photographic stuff is basically.
Not particularly suprising, since he's spent over twenty years in constant communication with people, something that very few other technocrats can boast.
I think you are confusing one articulation of a motivation for socialism with what socialism is; when Marx used that slogan he wasn't explaining what socialism was, but what, in his view, it could enable once fully realized.

What socialism is is public ownership/control of the means of production.
Clojure/Datomic/Storm seams like a very powerful combo. Im exploring pedastel right now, that would be another 'next level'-tool.

It seams to me that both Datomic and Storm are kind of leaf behind the standard way of doing the same things. So does pedastel (I dont really know much about Storm but it seams that way).
Microsoft And Polar Almost Built A Killer Smart TV
Obama administration drowning in lawsuits filed over NSA surveillance
Not backing up wifi passwords would be a better tradeoff, especially as the default.
Because what we have now is called Developers Release. It may differs from the final release.
Given they need warrants for each interception it's pretty clear they aren't blanket bringing back all UK records,

They shouldn't be intercepting data without a warrant. They are intercepting everything and then deciding what they think is important or justified. That's illegal and needs to stop.
Agree, worrying to see what is basically a buzzfeed list on the frontpage of HN
The most surprising thing about this article is that Google did not see this coming. This attack vector is a very basic one considering the device, and QR codes have had security problems before. On the other hand the product is still in testing to catch issues just like this. We can hope that the final product is much more secure.
Not true. His account never got credited. Crediting assumes that his account balance actually changed, only the report that was created provided misinformation.

Data != information.
People are upset by biracial people in the commercial?
I think ordinary users are supposed to press the (physical) on/off button. That's really simple.
Are any of the original laptop's programming tools available for the tablet?
‘Sorry is not enough’: Bolivia demands EU find culprits behind aerial hijack
Security – More Than Just Kit
Geeksphone Peak+ To Be The World's First High-End Firefox Smartphone
btw not sure if anyone spotted it, but we came up with a high-tech solution for keeping out recruiter spam (god forbid this turns into the LRUG mailing list…). What do you reckon?

http://c.jon.gd/image/1u013o34073u
I hope so. I married (literally) into US-Russian relations and have family / own property in both nations.

Maybe it's time to find a neutral 3rd country?
How XMir and Mir fit together
It's just matter of personal preferences. I find it step backward. But maybe it's more aesthetic issue than UX. As I said - subjective opinion.
"One, Two, Three" is an hilarious comedy about the establishment of Coca Cola bottling plants in Europe--specifically in Western Germany, where of course hijinks ensue with East Germans.

The daughter of the Coke CEO visits, falls in love with, and marries a young "true believer" East German communist. When the CEO comes for a visit, they have to turn the communist into a proper American capitalist in 2 days.
AFNetworking is pretty spectacular on iOS. And RestKit (which uses AFNetworking) is nearly as nice as using Ion+Gson (steeper learning curve though, but great CoreData integration if you're into that).
It is a bit rubbish but not as bad as other APIs I've had to register for (API keys pending review/approval for several days). I just filled in the bare minimum of App name and google.com for the App URL. Where are you trying to ask questions? I've been using their support email address.
Wardrobe - A Minimal Blogging Application
As a communist who talks to other communists (admittedly mostly Maoists and 'Stalinists' (which is really a pejorative invented by Trots to demonise Actual Socialism ('Stalinists' are simply anti-revisionist Leninists)), I say that Marxists who apply more than a simple liberal analysis to the USSR would agree that it was in fact socialist.
I wrote a library to help you get there:

http://epona.karmanetics.com/
Maaaaan,
What is wrong with you?
I mean...
I'm Polish so please excuse me going straight to the point without English politeness :-)

I don't know the quality of your code and how fast you can build stuff, but to me your skillset looks exactly like a technical (co)founder.
The world is full of broke 30somethings who are yet to figure out what they want to do with their life (including me)

In a startup world it's you who defines the terms - If they don't want to hire you, you build your own startup or hire them.

I'm currently working on two projects and there is always room for more (smart/handy) people. Let's have a chat and talk about opportunities we have.
The classic Richard's Bicycle Book was part manual, part manifesto
I think you're taking this as much more ideological than it is. When someone honks their car's horn at you, it's not because they have taken time to construct a reasoned analysis of the legal status of your behaviour -- it's usually because you did something which they did not expect. In some sense this is 'always right' with cars: a lot of traffic safety rides on our ability to safely expect what others will do, so if your actions are unexpected they are often unsafe.

When TezzellEnt posted a new version of the link, he/she did so because that little referral token is a sort of egg on your shirt in precisely the same way; it's unexpected. It's not necessarily an "idea that making money is bad." Nobody has said anything like that (except you, to refute it, of course). Heck, part of why it's unclean has to do with domain separation: if the egg is on your fork, it is 'clean', but if it falls on your shirt then it magically becomes 'dirt'. The egg of course is chemically identical, but one of them appears in a domain where you don't expect it -- an otherwise blank shirt. Similarly rmrfrmrf's first complaint ("issues arise when the content you produce for this site is influenced by your desire to make money") is not a referendum on your contributions as a whole but a statement that "you're crossing two domains here, and if those domains cross too much then this site will not be a place which we enjoy frequenting."

Because I haven't actually engaged the ideological side yet I might as well do that too. You're not just "getting money from Amazon" but also being co-opted into "advertising for Amazon" -- and, as you say, you were bought in this way for only a few cents. What you think of as a strength -- that you only make a tiny amount off of it -- is in some sense actually a weakness. acjohnson55 put this above as being "thought of as a shill."
Due to what then?
Puppet SSL Explained
Life is A Mall Cartoon
I was agree with your analysis of the political system, but not so much with your analysis of the people. You give them both too much credit and not enough.

First, no one really cares that citizens can be targeted or tortured with no trial (in fact, many call for it as in the case of the Boston bomber). This is tragic, but true.

Second, as much as the rest of the world wants to pretend this isn't the case, the same attitudes are equally present in most of the rest of the western world, from the ethnocentrism (which is a much bigger problem pretty much everywhere else) to the militarism and acceptance of big brother (don't even get me started on the Brits who accept a government which literally puts cameras in their homes).

Edit: requested info on home surveillance:
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/115736/Sin-bins-for-wors...
I agree. Better headline would have read: "people think biracial commercials are controversial"
This is true if you make it a business. If you make it a cooperative non-profit, I think it makes a lot more sense. The rule of the land should be "for the members, by the members". I, being one of the members, want it for office space to do other things. It's important to still do those other things and not let management of the space take over.

Standing something up is always going to be hard, but given my experiences with cooperative workshops, it's worth the effort on its own.
Amusingly enough, my friend is upstairs in an interview busy getting hired RIGHT NOW. Alas! Too late!

Maybe next time, though? :)
In C you can write you run-time in any language that C can link to. Which is rather a lot of languages, and isn't tied to any particular compiler.
It's also an honest answer. We do have an on-call rotation for emergencies, which are very rare. If you're busy, pass it on to the next person on the list. I'd say our team spends about an hour a month total on these.
> a government which literally puts cameras in their homes

What?
Citrix edges VMware, Microsoft in comprehensive VDI face-off
Assertive overstatements are no substitute thought or analysis. I'm glad it was fun for you. It wasn't fun for me. More a case of "Why is this idiot wasting my time?"
I worked at a company ("Morada Corp") in the early 90s that did just that for ... RPG II!

We took the code from IBM minicomputers and compiled it into C on many, many platforms (back when there were a few more unices, as well as OS/2 and VAX/VMS kicking around).

I only did a little maintenance on the compiler front end checker, though. I mostly worked on some supplemental tokenizers/runtimes for data file browser language and a DB/form DDL.

Anyway, GCC made a nice target to hit a large number of systems. (alas, Borland C on DOS at the time tended to choke on larger generated subroutines, being 16 bit w/out "huge" pointer support and all)
Cool project... I always like the gratification of fake awards, but I'm not sure that yours are actually working... After completing the tutorial, I was informed that I had earned the "baby steps" badge... When going into my achievements however, it still has the `.unearned` class on that badge.
No I'm in a western province in Canada. Most government or publicly traded companies here have massive unions that represent the majority of the work force, including programmers.
I find Conemu[1] even better than Console2. It's very configurable, and I think it's actively developed.

[1]https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/
Bravo, sir... bravo!
EyeEm raised $6M to challenge Instagram
FOAAS - Fuck Off As A Service
The US did elect Obama, who prior to being president was crystal clear that he'd put the aggressive policies of the bush administration (both foreign and domestic) behind us. I think we did vote for a change of policy. Too bad obama either lied or has been coopted by "the system"
I think I recall there being some argument as to why this was unlikely, but I'm not able to produce it. Certainly, every female mosquito has two X chromosomes that have avoided being driven out by the Y, and choice of mate would factor into that, and so in the population of female mosquitoes I would tentatively expect there to be evolutionary pressure there...

There is obviously the question of whether it would be sufficient, in time - the figures around time-frame were surprisingly short - but that's not a solid guarantee. Even if it just produced a substantial collapse for a couple years, it might help substantially in fighting malaria, though.
I would also invest 100k-1mi in a company that's growing 10% month-to-month and had 10k+ paying users.

No companies in such position should need to raise that amount money. It's not completely useless, but: you can't hire talented developers with it, you could spend cash with office and 'stuff'... My point is, if you are profitable, raise 20mi, 10mi. 100k won't make much difference.

Maybe you want to work specifically with Ferriss, but the truth is, profitable startups are in high demand (because there are none) and they are the ones choosing partners.
The biggest thing from RSpec I've missed since switching from Ruby are the describe/it blocks. I felt like they helped you, as you were writing tests, compose sentences that, in the end, should be true about the system under test. It allowed you to abstract your thinking to a level that was more conducive to understanding the essence of the code/system. I'll agree with you on all the should/be stuff; TestUnit assertions work just fine.
LLVM IR is designed for machine, not human, it's too verbose, and requires SSA form. A normal person can't easily reason the logic in such verbose language. Plus people are more familiar with C.
Recommendation is about trust. Trust the data, not the math.
Dokku is cool, but its a small piece of a full PaaS platform like Heroku. It doesn't scale beyond a single "dyno"/machine or do multitenancy.
I've occasionally wondered what food would taste like if you could selectively (and temporarily) disable the sweet taste-buds on your tongue. Same with salt taste-buds.

Perhaps numbing your tongue would work? A dentist could do that, but you'd only want to numb the surface. Is white coke (the illegal kind) a topical anesthetic?
I like the idea a lot but when I go to the demo profile, I can highlight the redacted text with my mouse and see the person's name. Is that intentional??
Smartphones To Replace Your Car Dashboard
Wow, why am I not suprised that this takes place in the US?
Lawyer: Snowden Could Leave Moscow Airport Within A Week
Totally agree. The idea is to provide a centralized place for the crypto work to happen, which while perhaps quixotic is arguably better than 100 developers creating potentially broken cryptosystems independently. We've stayed abreast on the cryptocat issue - we're using SJCL which uses a derivative of the Fortuna PRNG http://bitwiseshiftleft.github.io/sjcl/doc/symbols/sjcl.rand...
It has been written down many times that p2p messaging on mobile devices does not really work (in Skype's case, the original p2p architecture used online devices as temporary supernodes, draining their battery, increasing their data usage).
I feel like you're right, but there has to be more in it for Russia. Obama gets "good" PR and silences Snowden - the best possible outcome. I don't see Putin settling for just good publicity. If Putin played hardball here he would still gain massively with South America and still get the benefits you mentioned
Otherwise what wouldn't work?
Glassfish 4 - Performance Tuning, Monitoring and Troubleshooting
Inspect element on it ;)
If my reading of patio11's business of software stance is accurate, I believe he'd say these irate emails are actually helpful signals to you that these people are not a market you want to bother serving! Because they have so little invested in understanding your product and making the most of it, they need to compensate with volume and vitriol. It's better to focus on people who more strongly need and want what you are selling and are willing to signal that with $$.
Advanced devices like a future version of Google Glass will be incredibly hard to re-use or sell once stolen. The devices are customized to the individual and the device will know when the owner is not wearing it.
Strange. Very strange.

When I tried it about a year ago, I had completely different results. I got something that looked exactly like Coca Cola without the carbon (so it didn't lose color), but it tasted very bitter and wasn't sweet at all (so it lost taste).

(Note: Coca Cola in here uses sugar, not high-fructose syrup like in US, so that might be it.)
I'm guessing Amazon would be liable if they sold non-conforming devices, no? The charger described in the article clearly didn't respect the rules. Or maybe it's different in the US.
GWT actually does this automatically, works very nicely:
http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuideCodeSplitting.h...
Yep, and notice where the ctrl is. I just mapped my caps lock to control a few days ago (mac os makes it super easy to do this), and I love it. I should have done it friggin ages ago.

I also started using the leader key (\) in vim, another thing long overdue. That's in an easy location on that old keyboard too.
If you hover your mouse over the name the title is "Give us some credit, we did think about this - this is a randomly generated name. Reload the page!"

I tried reloading and it was indeed a random name. Although, not sure why they did this, people could very easily be turned off from using this because they didn't see the hover text.
This is obviously an issue. Users are never going to read and verify every line of code that comes over the wire, so in the end it comes down to trust and vigilant sysadmins.
> Contrast this to PHP, where /e appears to be on by default and there's no mention of it whatsoever in the documentation, except in the change log to say it's deprecated in 5.5.

The preg_replace documentation says "Several PCRE modifiers are also available, including 'e' (PREG_REPLACE_EVAL), which is specific to this function" with a link to the PCRE modifiers page: http://de2.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.modifier.... This page has a bunch of warnings on the /e modifier :)

Generally putting user input into any regular expression function without running preg_quote over it first is a bad idea. Not just because of /e, but also various other issues, e.g. causing pathologically slow matches (DOS) or segfaults by deep recursion (DOS and maybe security relevant).
A personal statistics dashboard and API
I built this dashboard for the Chart.js Dashboard Challenge. You can vote for it here: http://cpo.st/1bmi7Yf and you can see the actual dashboard at the link above.
remind me again why you have skeptic in your name?
The Psychology of Color in Marketing and Branding
My concern wasn't price, my concern is what ages is the education software applicable too.

Now, as to the price point. Most here will spend that one fifty in two or three months on just their cell plan with data, or perhaps cable, the choices go on.

No consider than many parents buy their YOUNG children Nintendo or similar game devices, these XO tablets are not much more expensive than some and cheaper than others. So if you can trust your/a kid with a hundred dollar game machine then this is a no brainer.
Have you considered integrating with LinkedIn as well?

As a complete tangent I'm presently looking for jobs literally on the other side of the world, in a country where I know nobody (so I guess I'm not your target market?). The site used most often there is SEEK. On their own I doubt services like yours would integrate with SEEK or similar smaller international jobs sites. However I'd love to see some kind of social networking standard take off where once you've integrated with say LinkedIn, integrating with someone like SEEK would literally be as simple as swapping a couple of API keys. It'd be even better if the integration could be bidirectional. That is, SEEK could decide to integrate with HMF or vice-versa and whatever features would just "magically" show up on both sites so long as both approved the integration.

Shit, that's kind of like a meta-friend request. "Hey there! My social network wants to be friends with your social network!" Weird.
£100 worth of Moo business card giveaway
You can buy topical anaesthetic for mouth use from most pharmacies. Have a look at for example "oragel"

(http://www.orajel.com/)

There are "miracle berries" that make sour foods taste sweet.

It'd be fascinating to try something that took the sweet out of sodas. Someone posted a link to the OpenCola project in this thread. It's probably possible to make a batch with no, or much less, sugar than regular coke.
UK.gov: "We most definitely did not have access to that information, ever, but when we did it was perfectly legal."
Being PayPal, I'm surprised they didn't lock his account, or charge him abosrbant fees for the mistake. /end snark