skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blanket releasing classified diplomatic info so everyones' good pals in the governments of China, Russia, Iran, etc gain strategic insight is also pretty absurd.

Say what you want about Snowden's actions, but at least he seems to be pretty responsible about his disclosures and has a purpose to expose a particular practice.

Manning's blanket leaks provided no new major revelations- the fact that US diplomats have & collect secrets is not a major revelation.
Why not simply use a neutral descriptor instead of a gendered one?

Because English doesn't really have gender-neutral, singular pronouns? You're down to artificial sounding language full of "one" and "they" and "their" or using invented pronouns that aren't in widespread use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-specific_and_gender-neut...
Nice template, looks like an opinionated one . I see you have used ".env" file. I read somewhere when opensourcing apps its better to have all the env variables in .env, instead of using gem like https://github.com/laserlemon/figaro.

Also there is rails_composer https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-composer/ with many options to select css framework, servers, testing tools.
1. Get involved with open source software.

2. DO something with your skill

3. Be well mannered.

4. Be very careful what you put on the Internet. When I was young, I barely put my real first/last name anywhere, and the word 'avatar' meant 'cool picture of something I like, because there is no way I would put a picture of my face on the internet'.
NumPy is a full MAT-LAB for Python, not a simple drop-in statistics library. It has to depend on LINPACK because writing a full linear algebra library that performs well is damn hard and takes several researcher-years. Most serious scientific computing libraries and utilities depend on it, including Julia I think. There is certainly room for simpler libraries for people not seriously into numeric computations, as the document linked well indicates.
Python micro web-framework and asynchronous networking library, Python 3.x
Because they don't check spam.
His point is that people will own an ebook reader or a tablet. If they own an ebook reader and they turn it on, 100% of their time will be reading a book. If they own a tablet and turn it on they have lots of options, maybe only 10% of the time they will read an ebook.

The argument hinges on the idea that people pick up tablets only so many hours of the day and then decide what to do. I think it's flimsy because using a tablet is a different act than wanting to read a book.
Event-based technology stack. You could try using Erlang but it can be harder to find developers. Easier to use something like Mongrel2 as the webserver with Python multiprocessing backend to leverage the UNIX/Linux process model. Or to use something like Akka on the JVM along with spray.io. Or use Clojure, again on the JVM.

But remember, one of the benefits of using event-based design is that you can write your event processors in different languages if it makes sense. Don't block off that possibility; in other words look at how you can use messaging technologies like ZeroMQ and AMQP rather than something like JMS which locks you in.
numpy has all sorts of awful C bindings which make it less than versatile in environments where you want pure Python. It's great from a performance point of view, but horrible for compatibility.

Google App Engine used to suffer because of this (more specifically, it still only restricts your runtime to pure Python, but now you can import numpy at least). I believe the PyPy folks have also had their own set of struggles with numpy compatibility, although I'm not sure what the state of that is at present.

In any case, I think these compatibility concerns alone make a strong argument for including simple Statistics tooling into the standard library.
Both for my study and side job I work on NLP with python.

Sorry, but I think this thing is very much overrated by the HN crowd. There are many such libraries and this one adds exactly nothing. I also don't see how this is easier to use than, lets say, Pattern.

Try and add new functionality. One new functionality could be to use an ontology to calculate the distance between two words. Then you can do other cool things with that and place it in your module.
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There's a certain downside to mimicking the OS X design that you may not be taken full account of, which is that for people who have used OS X, your designs look like a not-quite-perfected copy. It's a sort of uncanny valley thing that manifests itself likewise in the common discussion of whether something feels "native", or whether you should use the OS-provided UI elements vs. re-invent the wheel when writing an app. For instance QT apps on OS X.

It's better to either do an exact copy or to be different enough that you don't invite comparison, otherwise what you've come up with will always look like an inferior copy of the original. At least until the user has spent enough time with it that it becomes the new default. But don't forget that user acquisition is just as important as long-term usability.
You could also be in the military and college via an officer training program like ROTC or the Navy variant.
It's not a terrible idea to support the absolute basics like mean & variance, but anything beyond that (particularly things like models or tests) is not a good idea for a standard library. Once you hit even something simple like a linear regression you have issues of how to represent missing or discrete variables, handling colinearity, or whether to do online or batch modes which can give different results. Tests in particular are fraught because if you're going to make them available for general consumption they need a good explanation of when they're appropriate, which is basically a semester course in statistics and well out of scope for standard library docs.

Basically, the idea of "batteries included" should also mean that if something looks like you can put a D-cell in there, you're unlikely to blow your arm off.
In the end, it's artist's perception that matters. It's like a test suite for a program, which ensures that the end result works regardless of how well you write code (ignoring the maintenance and readability problems for a moment here). Whichever way you come up with a sound, it's your ear that will or will not allow it to pass through.

Some particular creative tactics can help, though—by providing more diverse, unexpected input, and/or optimizing for quicker iteration (allowing to test more variations in less time). Tuning your guitar differently, or using generative methods, as in the original post, are two examples.
Who would want to quit drinking coffee? Can anyone give me some negative health outcomes of drinking coffee? Other than the coffee breath which is awful.
Vala is, all in all, fantastic. The way I describe it to people is "it feels like C# but runs at C speed", and that's pretty much accurate. The only issues we have are binding bugs and Vala bugs, both of which are harder and harder to find these days. And when you do find one, the development community is very active and you can find the help you need.

For concurrency, I have personally written async vala code (which has some excellent support, including closures), but there is full thread support via GObject. The thread safety stuff is the same as the underlying library, and lots of work goes into GLib/GTK+ to make them thread safe where appropriate.

Yes, targeting Qt with Vala would a real problem. That's why we have absolutely no plans to move to Qt :) Not that it hasn't been brought up -- I remember some very vocal discussions in IRC a few years back when a few developers (mostly who have since moved on, interestingly) tried to convince us to jump ship and go to Qt. It was a lot more feasible back then too, since we were still pretty early in the Luna cycle. But the insurrection was ultimately quelled with practical concerns and majority mindshare :)
I have to agree with JungleGymSam - the title does imply that there is something special about the bike because people assume that it's a 'bike capable of 80mph' under normal conditions. I guess people do not expect that it was achieved with the help of a drafting vehicle because than there would be absolutely nothing newsworthy about it, at least to people who know something about cycling. Anyone who has the experience of riding in peloton at 50 km/h without even pedaling knows that aerodynamic drag is everything - any racing bike is capable of 80mph with the help of a drafting vehicle.
Smartphone-monitoring bins in London track places of work, past behavior
You can mix them.

%p Here is a Haml paragraph with a <strong>bold</strong> word.
elementary OS is based on Ubuntu. The apps mostly are written in-house specifically for elementary OS, and are developed on Launchpad and published as Debian/Ubuntu packages available through the official Ubuntu repositories and elementary's PPAs.
Agree.

This article is just ridiculous.
FunFact: half of the revenue from the app stores go to the top 25 developers.

http://www.canalys.com/newsroom/top-25-us-developers-account...
For videos that focus more on emacs itself check out this chap's youtube videos. He also has a decent haskell collection too.
GitHub doesn't come close to providing what we currently get from Launchpad: http://launchpad.net/elementary.

To name a few things, translation support, integration with the ubuntu bug tracker, PPA management, blueprinting system, and much more powerful bug triaging.
Games can't be emphasized enough. Grim Fandango and Escape from Monkey Island in the late 90's were the first known corporate games that used Lua. After word got out at GDC, the entire industry started using Lua. Big profile hits like World of Warcraft and Angry Birds make Lua sound like something new in the video game industry, but Lua was already de-facto standard. If you buy a game today, there is a greater chance that it uses Lua than it not.
> and more traditional Chinese medicinal use), get pu-erh. http://theteaspot.com/about-tea.html

Oh man I found it by accident, someone brought it in to work because someone else gave it to them and they hated. I tried and really liked it. But I also liked pickled and fermented things usually. I liked tea before but pu-erh is just its own category.

The other favorite is matcha. You get the tea leaves with the tea extract together.
Alternatively...

Recognize that you will never be happy in a relationship until you are happy with yourself. There is plenty of time to fall in love, seize the opportunity while you are young to explore and don't let yourself be tied down to a town/province/country.

My first serious relationship didn't come along till I was 24...by that point I had lived in 3 countries, visited dozens more and had hundreds of exciting opportunities (both in work and outside of work).

I know who I am outside of a relationship and I know that is a very attractive quality in myself and others.

"Going to a school program that has more men than women is a colossal failure of the kind of intelligence that actually matters."

Oh please! Going to a school program based on anything other than the quality of schooling program is a colossal failure of the kind of intelligence that matters. Schools have more than one department. Do what you love to do and make friends (of all kinds) from all over the school (Humanities, Hard Sciences, Maths, Soft Sciences..) - Life does not end with the classroom door.
You don't have to install it in order to use it.

bash <(curl record.showterm.io)

Records everything in that terminal until you exit, then gives you a URL to share.
Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia) just adopted and rolled out Lua for its scripting language for MediaWiki end users.
Are you sure they'll allow you to leave the country in this case? They have no-fly list and border control after all.
I appreciate the input. All I can really say is that you have to remember elementary is not a business. We don't have investors. We don't aim for market share or target X number of users by X date. Fundamentally, we build what we think is best, and if other people find it valuable too, they use it. So far, it's worked.

So "user acquisition" isn't really a concern for us, though frankly, I believe it should be. And until it is, I guess we really can't complain about the flak we get for being "copycats".

And for what it's worth, I am an active user of both OS X and elementary OS and Switchboard feels 105% native on elementary OS. They each feel right in their native environment. Then again, I'm about as biased as possible (though I'd like to imagine my views are somewhat normative ;)).
Don't forget Angry Birds (among literally thousands of others).
Age brings wisdom. Timidity, too. But age brings perspective. If older entrepreneurs are more cautious it’s because life’s experiences have taught them to be so.

I am so fucking tired of this old meme, that I think I'm going to vomit if I hear it again. SOME older entrepreneurs may, indeed, be "more cautious" or "timid" or whatever. But there is absolutely nothing about being an older entrepreneur that mandates such a thing. Furthermore, there is a countervailing factor which rarely gets mentioned: older entrepreneurs are just as likely to be more desperate to succeed, and hence not at all cautious or timid, because they are literally running out of time.

Speaking from personal experience: when I was 20, I could afford to lollygag and take my time and be patient and buy into the "good things come to those who wait" bullshit. Now I'm 40 and, last time I checked, I ain't getting any younger. If I'm going to make my dreams happen, I can't afford to do anything less than give 101%... Timidity, caution? Fuck that, ain't nobody got time for that here.

More than at any point in my life, I'm looking at this startup thing as a full-contact sport, and coming in with an attitude that I'm going to do whatever it takes to win. These are desperate times, and no cards are off the table, and we will fire every arrow in our quiver here... it's "do or die" time, ya know? But my 20 year old self lacked that sense of perspective.

Now I don't claim to be a "representative sample" in any formal statistical sense, obviously. But if I feel this way, I'm pretty sure there are other older folks who do as well, at least in the general sense.
I don't know if the tritone in the ring grandparent comment mentions is a melodic (2 notes in sequence) or harmonic interval (2 notes at the same time). In any case here is how a tritone interval sounds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u9laoGPB_o#t=0m25s
It's not like Objective-C, which returns a nil value when sending a message to nil. Lua, on the other hand, throws an error when attempting to index nil.
Sure, quite possible over time; only talking about now. There'll probably be some consolidation of the Android handset market, or at least rough spec convergence, and Gingerbread will certainly fade out.

(Spekaing of Gingerbread, I kind of wonder if Google should show some more charts at http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html -- show share as a percent of download volume as well as device count. Because I bet those old and very-low-end phones on 2.3 are less actively used than their sheer numbers suggest. That is, I bet devs are safer ignoring Gingerbread than it looks ike.)
I've noticed this as well - and as a female co-founder of a hardware startup, I have to admit I really love it. Rarely do you find the female tense being used to describe tech related news. It's a subtle thing, yet it makes a world of difference to me when I read it.
function curry(f,x)
return function(...)
return f(x, ...)
end
end

function reduce(f,t,r)
r = r or t[1]
for i=2,#t do
r = f(r,t[i])
end
return r
end

addf = function(a,b) return a+b end

sum = curry(reduce, addf)

t = {"1", "2", "12"}

print(reduce(addf, t)) -- 15

print(sum(t)) -- 15

res = 0
for i=1,#t do
res = res + t[i]
end
print(res) -- 15

res = 0
for k,v in ipairs(t) do
res = res + v
end
print(res) -- 15
This is the third time in a short while I've seen (not random) people say RC4 is broken, so I went and looked it up, and I'm glad I did -- I guess you're referring to this:

http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/

I wasn't aware of these weaknesses in RC4 - I thought most of the "RC4 is broken"-comments were WEP fallout/hyperbole -- I guess it really wasn't!

On a side note - shouldn't RC4 in TLS be even more vulnerable to CRIME than block ciphers?
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As you already might know, they're the interesting ones; since most of their code is in Python, Github marks it as a Python project.
Ooh...blind religious belief...the source of many a down vote.
You sound like me a year ago. I quit a toxic job without anything else lined up (though I had a couple years of savings to live off). I worked on open-source stuff and little side projects for about six months, but I began floundering.

I wound up at https://www.hackerschool.com/ in February, and it was exactly what I needed. Most other students were in weird transitional phases of life as well. Check it out if you start struggling by yourself. I got a new job through them, so everything fell into place in the end.

Enjoy your sabbatical, and good luck!
TPP vs the subset sum problem
Excellent demonstration of the TPP Principle. SOLID, CleanCode, Blog Post
It may not be as much fun as you're used to with ping times of 2-5 minutes...
Wonder how much piracy could be influencing these numbers.
It is a bit nice to not be limited by any particular OO system. I don't get much use out of this, since my current class.lua is about 14 lines and doesn't do inheritance, but it would be easy to add in the future. It's probably a bit easier for people with js experience to get used to OO in Lua. Coming from js, most of the language just seems like a copy with more expressive power and fewer mistakes.
I never got past initial investigation of kahlua and luaj. However, they were appealing because I had a large server application based in Java that utilized spawning off other processes to help map/reduce data. We had written Lua scripts to do these helper tasks. But because of the Java, it was very expensive to spawn off other tasks, because they also needed to be wrapped in Java and starting a new Java instance ate a lot of memory and had a slow start up.

The idea was to use kahlua or luaj to do the same helper tasks within the main process so other Java instances wouldn't have to be spawned.

But for Android, plain old C based Lua works great with the NDK. There is also LuaJava and JNLua which can cross the native/Java bridge.
I'm not sure about that. I spent >$1500 on Android phones, but less than $10 on apps. There are a lot of free/ad app equivalents for the paid apps - I did not need to buy anything. The only paid app I am regularly using is JuiceSSH for the port forwarding feature.
You can use EncFS [1] (Linux, FreeBSD, OSX) instead. This is far more efficient. I'm using it with Dropbox and it was fairly easy to set up and works well.

You can make things even easier by using Gnome EncFS Manager [2] (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch) to automate mounting encrypted drives or folders. The GUI is simple and intuitive.

Basically, any directory or drive you can write to can be mounted as an encrypted container of individual files.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncFS
[2]http://www.libertyzero.com/GEncfsM/
Thanks for the detailed reply. I'm glad to hear that my assumption was wrong and there was a careful investigation. I will take you at your word that it was an agonizing design problem, and that you have thought much harder about the problem than I have, so I will leave it alone.

Incidentally, I did notice the nice little "importing wallpapers" progress bar after clicking on the Desktop icon. Kudos for that.

(And while I have your attention, I also noticed inconsistencies in 'and' vs '&', e.g. "Time & Date" vs "Mouse and Touchpad".)

I meant "senseless" to apply specifically to the choice of Magic Mouse as the icon. The Magic Mouse is a good icon for OS X, because it looks like the mouse that comes with a Mac. But most ElementaryOS users will use a mouse that looks very different, and may not even recognize that icon as a mouse (where's the buttons, the scroll wheel?) The Magic Mouse is indeed pretty, but its use as an icon only makes sense on Mac OSes, just like a rectangular game controller icon would only make sense on the Wii.
I can't find this one, but there are similar papers floating around.

Social Bias in Online Product Ratings: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis: http://misrc.umn.edu/wise/papers/4b-2.pdf

Social Bias in Online Product Ratings: http://www.econ.sdu.edu.cn/advance/uploadfile/20120409081915...
Ask HN: An alternative to Uservoice and other feedback systems
Does anyone have a recommendation for something like Uservoice?

Almost all of my visitors (and the site itself) are in EU space, and some of them have voiced concerns over SaaS hosted in the US. It would be nice if it allowed submissions and voting without registration or login <and/or was self hosted>.
There are plenty of Django project templates:

https://github.com/rdegges/django-skel

https://github.com/twoscoops/django-twoscoops-project

https://github.com/amarsahinovic/django-project-template (my version, feedback welcome)
Here's one that draws pretty much the opposite conclusion of the study in OP's article. It focused on stock message boards, which might not be quite the same.

http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5130/

I should note that I'm pretty close to the author. She'd be happy to answer questions I imagine.
A couple of things:

* The side-swipe at Apple in the video for doing "one thing well" is a misleading statement. Apple build computers that do a lot of things, not just to enjoy music.

* The sly dig at Apple product videos at the beginning gets more and more ironic as the video slowly transforms into the Apple product video style towards the end.

* And the side-swipe is just poor form considering the OS does look OSX-inspired. I know this is an old argument about eOS but it's worth mentioning when the sly digs in the video bring it up.

I only intend this criticism as constructive because I know you guys are on to a great thing here, I just don't think you need the hints towards other OS's to put yourselves ahead of the game, you are better than that!

Further points:

* I commend you guys for the hard work you have put into this OS. Elementary was my distro of choice when I was a Linux user, it's fast, beautiful and task orientated, so keep up the good work

* It's fantastic to see the base install apps conforming to a visual style whereas on other distros the theming can look quite disjointed.