skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey there!

I'm basically using Amphetype... it's OSS written in Python.

You can feed it with text (like your favorite public domain novels in .txt, Sherlock Holmes is one of my favorites) and then it extracts lessons based on difficulty level.

Cheers & glad you liked it!
Terminal Cornucopia - Fashioning weapons behind airport security checkpoints.
Switching does have its benefits but I'm afraid it'll be a pain to deal with it switching the vim keys around.
I hope they do more "classes". Different trees for different kinds of devs.
That may be, but Putin is making a case against intervention while omitting his huge conflict of interest. He is making self-serving arguments under the guise of caring about lofty ideals that his own actions demonstrate he has no regard for.
So what if it doesn't do anything?
Steam has an offline mode, you could have enabled it on the laptop.
Russian superiority views are a relic of the empirical past. Every empire-forming nation has that same trait - us versus barbarians.

UK has this trait also and it is well illustrated in "Great Britain".

Russia might have been a great place to live, if it weren't for rampant corruption. It's sad, but on a personal level, I just can't take the risk of raising a family there or trying to do business. In US, entrepreneurship carriers financial and psychological risks, but in Russia it carriers very real physical harm risks, in addition to vastly greater financial risks.
I know of a non-YC company which did take money from Khosla and had a lot of good things to say about them, actually, but I wouldn't generalize from a single data point.
Well, the biggest surprise in the article for me is Putin invoking God. Never figured him for a religious man.
> This is a bad thing, not a good thing

You explain why it's not necessary for you, but you don't explain why you think it's a bad thing. Why is it bad that our computers are always on, never restarted, always connected?
To all those people who are complaining about stalking:

If the girl and the engineers have no complain about each other, who the fuck are you to decide?
No other laws in the way? Maybe he refers to his doubt about the evidence for the chemical weapons?
That's pretty dark. :(
I was thinking about covering that topic. It's not that painful, I didn't have any problems on using Vim with colemak with only one alteration:

inoremap lh <Esc>

Before I used k-j, but the position of those in Colemak is 'e-n'... so it's totally unusable.

I mean if you're typing 'entropy' it leaves insert mode, and you get mad :)

Didn't take me more than a week to get used to 'e-n'.
It's only hypocritical under the presumption that people care about income inequality simply on its own. But by and large, people care about income inequality for what it does to their communities, their political processes, etc. That rationale for caring about income inequality is entirely consistent with caring about it in the U.S. but not between the U.S. and other countries.
"Every computer emits a frequency that can be picked up by our equipment and that allows us to read it by locking on to it manually," a senior executive of the firm told the Independent.

"It's a bit hit and miss at the moment, but it can be done and the technology is improving all the time."

What???
This is not some magic behavior of pipelines. Rather, less (like many other terminal programs) is explicitly programmed to behave differently if the output is a terminal. Specifically, the less source code has this comment in it:

"/*

* Output is not a tty.

* Just copy the input file(s) to output.

*/"

grep does this to, which is why the color-coding control characters don't mess up other commands.
Are you talking about the Special Edition DLC? It's already out:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/239570/

Hopefully it will be included in the bundle as the week progresses.
There are some grammatical and capitalization errors, and numerous comma splices (stringing similar sentence fragments together in an effort to form a coherent statement). There was also usage of very short sentences in repeated succession.

Those are mostly stylistic issues but they're indicative of non-native grasp of the English language.

Furthermore it's clearly written by someone with enough capability to express themselves eloquently and succinctly, but as mentioned it's clearly non-native.
In a recent interview, here is how Putin characterized the difference between the American and Russian "soul". He brought up a quote by the main heroine from Gone with the Wind where she said "I can't imagine what it would be like to be hungry all the time". Putin then pointed out that something like this is a primary concern of an American soul (implying base concerns for physical comforts), while this wouldn't be a concern for the Russian soul, which allegedly is concerned with much more important spiritual matters.

It makes perfect sense. A Russian doesn't have to imagine what it's like to go hungry, he just knows from experience.
Thanks for pointing this out. There is a huge difference between two pools of H-1B labor
The problem with Pen computing is that it's too close to Mouse and Keyboard, so NEW user paradigms aren't developed or encouraged.... In short the entire story of MS Office on tablets.

Steve understood with the first iPhone WAY BACK that Touch was the way to go and people needed to be "reprogrammed" how to use it. Remember iPhone was only "Steve's way" for the first 18 months before only a few developers were invited to play too in a proto-App store. The whole path from iPhone to iPad was carefully mapped out with the next piece coming only when enough people agreed with "Steve's way". People still want iPad to be "just a pen based Mac" shows a large number of very important people don't get the subtle chane in HUMAN BEHAVIOR required to take the next step.
I do wonder if Russians, Arabs, Muslims, and so on feel the same way when Obama (Bush(s), Clinton, Blair, Cameron, etc) pontificates. The phrase "western hypocrisy" is not new.

What is ironic, is that oddly I prefer the unashamed way Russia acts, compared to the cover-ups and lies of the west. You know where you stand. We in the west are supposed to be better, but all we are better at really is PR. In Russia, people know what the deal is, and can deal with that one way or another. In the west people are just dismissed as silly tin foil hat people, and nothing gets done until a Snowden comes along and busts the bubble.
I use this for programs which otherwise output to pagers, when I'd rather have the output just in terminal scrollback. (And unlike the -1 option it's generic to all programs with terminal behaviors.)
New Photo Editing/Enhancement Tools In Google+
Am I going to have to write a flowchart for this similar to Inflection?
This should sound normal if live anywhere with a significant immigrant community, and if you do you probably just aren't listening.
I do the same thing with terminal tabs, is there a program out there that remembers the working directory and history of the terminal tabs that are open, then after closing reinstates it all when opened? This doesn't seem like it would be too hard to do.

Kind of like a tabbed browser that remembers history and open pages, but for terminals.
This is a misleading headline, since the article is referring to the security of old versions of Java. I guess "Outdated Software Contains Known Security Holes and Will Probably Never be Patched, Experts Say" is not as catchy of a title.

How is this news? The more popular a piece of software is, and the longer a specific version of it has been in use, the more bugs will be found and exploited. Duh?
Mobile user LTV improvement service
You seem to be misinformed as to >why< the US is trying to get involved in Syria. This is a good run down of the situation:

http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAskReddit/comments/1lw8yg/why_do...

Suffice to say, the welfare of the people of Syria is the last thing on Obama's mind. Let's take a look at how well the last place he got involved in is doing these days:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/special-repor...
> Words are better than fists.

This is truth - but not an absolute.

When someone is using their fists against you, no words are going to protect you. While I do believe our society resorts to violence too quickly, there is a time and a place for the use of force, and I fear that we're swinging too far in the other direction.
Keeping Up With the Slightly Richer Neighbors
> import calendar as usual

so good
Are people even able to audibly tell a difference? Like in an ABX test?
He did later explicitly state that they weren't bodily threats. Though really, I'm sure it's the "I'm going to look into his kids" bit that's the real motivation for the charge.
Top 5 Things You Should Never Do At Work
In Russia an anti-american sentiment is heavily associated with Putin, often the Russian opposition is quite supportive of America - the place that made the Internet and YouTube.
The very fact that 5.6MHz sampling rates are even a thing intended for human listening makes me doubt this lady's sanity.
I agree. I think this should be titled "Security alarmists (who have something to gain) issue another press release about an obvious problem"
Truer than you know -- one of the paragliding pilots I've known got into it after first doing kitesurfing (and he's probably not the only one).
This is nothing more than a political slap in the face on the international stage to the US. It is almost on par with mingling with internal affairs of the US.

The irony of Putin is doubtless there, and the words logical and true, but the greater truth is that this is just nothing more than tit for tat on the international stage. Hopefully it will work out and bloodshed will be prevented...
Supporting Steam itself helps DRM proliferation, so I don't use it at all. Indies which are on Steam usually find ways to be distributed outside it in a DRM free fashion (Humble Store, Desura, directly from developers and etc). It's mostly big budget games with Linux versions which appear on Steam lately or plan to appear there that are a problem. Since they are not sold anywhere else.

For example while Metro Last Light is going to be ported to Linux, it will be tied to Steam for no apparent reason (it doesn't strictly depend on any Steam lock-in features). I.e. it's the common urge for DRM that drives this.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2013/09/10/metro-...

Why I mentioned GOG - it's the only major distributor now who can seriously compete with Steam. And they have a clear DRM free stance unlike the later.
What if a company implemented this in their workplace?

They would have different classes for general positions in the company, and you could get a skill by passing a rigorous test. Each skill point would get you a raise. You get promotions or change roles based on your class specialization and level.

I know, I know, it'd be a disaster. But maybe there could be lower stakes at hand to encourage employees to learn new skills, like cashing in XP for little perks.
This a very well laid out essay; kudos to whoever actually wrote it.
The same can be said about the United States. Every nation has an agenda in the region.
My impression is that some of this has changed. The VCs I know are either domain experts or ex-engineers. Some are both. There also isn't a dearth of angel funding any more. Many angels are ex-entrepreneurs.

This doesn't solve some of the principal-agent problems, but it's not as dire as the dot-bomb bust.
Apologies for turning to semantics, but I think the confusion is over what "confidence in" means. I think you mean something closer to "respect for". I'm not sure I agree, but I'm not well enough informed to argue the point. Generally, having confidence in something means that you think there's a high probability it will deliver good results, for whatever value "good results" has in that context (e.g. having confidence in a sports team is believing that they'll win). The purpose of NIST isn't to try to do the right thing, or to be competent, or any of that; it's to create good technologic standards. If you're skeptical that they can do that effectively job effectively, regardless of why, then you're not confident in them.

To clarify all that, I'm not arguing your point as I now understand it; I'm just suggesting why you've found some opposition to it as you stated it.
I'm not saying put it in models I'm saying it's part of the Model of MVC. If you've got a class called FooBarService that takes a model and executes business logic on it, that FooBarService can still be part of the Model of MVC.

If, on the other hand, FooBarService has a handler for a MouseEvent - something that should be done in the Controller - and business logic in it too, now you're violating MVC because your Model and Controller aren't separated.

BTW, IMO to name something FooBarService or BazQuxService is a code smell. "Service" carries no significance. Same goes for "Manager" or "Logic" or whatever generic thing you end up using. Any code could be in there. I have to look inside it to see. It also gives you an excuse to make those file huge because anything could be in there. It's a violation of the Single Responsibility Principle.

Hah, yes, I'm a Java programmer.
Yes it looks like the nearest thing but doesn't seem to compare with OneNote usability from what I saw (had a co-worker who used it for everything).
Content aside, I love the idea of visualizing various skills and their relationships in this World of Warcraft - like style! Nicely done.

Khan Academy could be taking notes and inspiration to replace their current Knowledge Map:

https://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard

Perhaps this would be a little over the top with gamification, but it could be cute to have a character sheet for every student with their level, experience points, skills and talent specs listed out in tabs. It's fun to look at Online Education as being essentially an MMORPG.
Broken Job Ladders and the Great Recession
If one party is out to screw the other over, then lawyering might help some.. maybe.

But if you suspect this is the case, then in most cases the deal is going to be more trouble than it is worth.
Web scraping 101: pulling stories from Hacker News
>It seems obvious that they kept it secret because if Apple had been pushing out improvements to the ARM64 code generator for the past months, someone would have connected the dots and understood they were building an ARM64 device.

Existing high end mobile devices have on the order of 2GB of memory. It doesn't take a genius to work out that they're soon going to have 4GB or more and hit the ceiling of a 32-bit address space. Why bother keeping a secret something the entire market already knows is going to happen in short order?
If emotional intelligence can be taught (which it can't, because the concept is as bogus as those Baby Einstein videos that used to be so popular, but never mind), then smart people will be the ones to master it. Why? Because smart people are good at learning stuff.
>I think he'd do better to stay silent and let me come to this conclusion on my own instead of feeling dirty for having him agree with me.

I'd prefer if he didn't, silence is a cancer. If anything has been blatantly apparent in the last 20 or 30 years it's that the American people as a whole simply cannot form any correct conclusion about anything that actually matters.

Sure, they'll all ring in to vote on American Idol, but it's a tough sell to vote yes on gay marriage.

They'll make sure they hit 'like' on hundreds of Facebook posts in a day, but can't bring themselves to make an educated vote in an election (or even vote at all).

Nationalize healthcare and reform social security to help millions of your own countrymen from dying broke? Busy watching Gangnam Style.

Vote out corrupt congressman and other government officials who take massive payouts from lobbyists? Football's on, get out of the way.

The information age has quickly turned into the distraction age, and it's showing.
There's always management

This is my plan. Good management of technical assets is (in my eyes) absolutely essential to actually achieving anything noteworthy, so as an experienced, storied old guy you can still provide value. Maybe even more value than before.
Why Do Dedicated Game Consoles Exist?
It not doing anything isn't the point. The point is that it's technically valid code, but is still relevant to human interpretation.
Very well written article; can you gauge the convenience on switching to colemak instead of dvorak?
Well, he's answering @bmmayer1's question. It does not do anything, so it is safe to run on your computer.
On the one hand, the headline is quite true, but the story is filled with bigoted, idiotic stereotypes and ridiculous generalisations, written by someone who clearly has an axe to grind and little sense to offer anyone. Lame.
This is a way better counter than my comment.
The commenter isn't putting it down for that, just explaining he'd be surprised if it did anything let alone something mischievous.
I am super impressed with the slider to choose what money goes where. Very cool.
Ask HN: My funding only got around 0.3% revenue annually, is it bad?
Hi, I am from Hong Kong, all employee in Hong Kong have to join a MPF funding programming [1]. This year I got around 0.3% revenue(wow!). Do you think it is a joke for a government held funding program??

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Provident_Fund_(Hong_Kong)
And if it were bilateral, you might have a point. When it's one way...that's just nuts for us, not for the places american's may want to immigrate to.
I'm deeply interested in the NSA stories, although I'm becoming fatigued by the continuous stream.

Mostly I want to see meaty technical discussion of these stories, not political opinions. That fact that someone likes/dislikes NSA surveillance is uninteresting.

What fascinates me, for instance:

Which chips are backdoored? How is it done technically so that normal function isn't compromised? What protections are in place to stop a "fourth party" from exploiting the back door?

Isn't it amazing that none of these back doors came to light via the "geek community"? Maybe it's because the chips involved are relatively rare, only used in specialized crypto hardware.
Immortal's black metal classic "Call of the Wintermoon" makes much more sense translated to INTERCAL.
Who exactly is exposed to these flaws?

Anyone who has attempted to run an applet on any modern browser in the past 6 months will know it now involves a lot of work -- clicking through several dialogs and warnings even if you do have the latest version.

If you don't have the latest version, some browsers make it impossible, and others let you go ahead only after you acknowledge that you're putting your immortal soul in dire peril (or something along those lines).

Java on OS X will self-disable if you don't use it for a while, so then you have to figure out how to enable it, again, if you even figure out what has happened.

In Safari even when everything is enabled you see a gray box with small text saying something like "plugin disabled" in it. You have to click the small text (though it doesn't look like a link or button) to access the menu to enable it and continue.

I suppose they must be targeting corporate machines running XP and IE7 or something like that? I don't think most other people are succeeding in running legitimate Java applets, let alone anything that would be a security risk.
Oh man, imagine a poem like this that outputted something relevant to the theme of the poem. That'd be amazing.
Article without paywall:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-cau...
Great question,

Dvorak is awesome, but the 'great' thing about Colemak is that the symbols and numbers are unchanged (in contrast of Dvorak). So basically the learning curve from QWERTY, should be shorter, and simpler.

Another personal thought, is that at least most of programming languages where made with QWERTY in mind, so the symbol usage ([], {}, ; etc) in programming languages is influenced by that too. A symptom of that is many foreign guys using the American QWERTY layout to code.

Cheers :D
Obama and Putin are two figures standing at the front of a very long list of other players pushing behind them.

* Qatar wants to establish a pipeline between them and Turkey for natural gas, but Syria is between them.

* Turkey would partner with Qatar for transiting natural gas to Europe.

* Russia has a strangle-hold on the natural gas market in Europe, so Syria would prefer Qatar not send natural gas to Europe.

* Russia's only naval base in the Mediterranean is in Syria.

I won't go into the complex incestuous intertwining of geopolitical relationships, but the above points are pretty much what broke the camels back.
I liked his 2012 inaguration (coronation) when Putin strolled through a sea of cheering supporters in full regal pomp to simply switch spots with Medvedev.
Dotcom set to claim $6m
It is alarmist and misleading, but it is also something that will continue to detract a new user's view of the JVM as a platform, like startup time. This is more a PR battle than anything else.
Putin's arguments should be considered on their merits, regardless of his... history

I don't have a fancy French word to back me up, but I'm going to disagree. His arguments shouldn't be dismissed out of hand due to his history, but they deserve to come under extra scrutiny. The simplest reason being, as a politician, he is doubtless lying by omission about something, and as he is a politician whatever that something is undoubtedly changes the value equation of his arguments.

I think what I'm saying is given his status as a politician, as well as his history in relation to the subject, we have great cause to suspect him of telling half-truths, which must be evaluated before his arguments can truly be.
Doesn't the entire security council have to vote on it? Sure the 5 permanent members have veto power but is it just assumed that the wider council will vote in favor of it?
Steam works perfectly under OpenSUSE as well. You don't need Ubuntu at all.
Sure, it's valid to question his motives. But that doesn't change the fact that he's making a perfectly reasonable argument. And when we're deciding whether or not to go to war, the reasonable and valid argument should win--regardless of who's making it.
Not literally a poem, a beautiful code written in Perl:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=45213
(Camel Code)
And the United States (covertly) is heavily arming the other.
Tl;dr you are all ignorant morons so let me tell you what's going on? Honestly, what did your second paragraph accomplish other than to alienate your audience? I think there's a good chance you're right, but I'm too distracted by the irony of a self-exceptionalist panning a Russian exceptionalist panning American exceptionalism to take you seriously.
I use iTerm on Mac and it has a setting you can enable that remembers tabs and even opens new tabs to the current directory of your current tab. When I restart my computer, the tabs and command history for each are preserved, but the output display is lost.
Do people still run Java Applets now adays?
It's been 3 years since the release of bejeweled 3, and there is still no mobile version. The market was theirs for the taking, and they did nothing. Now they're losing it to Candy Crush. There's bejeweled blitz, but people want a full version of the game.
Yeah but GOG clearly said they do not want to support Linux distributions anyway, so I'm not sure what you are hoping for. I prefer supporting Steam which in turn helps more ports to Linux, rather than waiting for something that may never come from GOG.
Most sensible comment by far on this thread.
Ex-TSA worker arrested in connection with threats
>Who exactly is exposed to these flaws? Anyone who has attempted to run an applet on any modern browser in the past 6 months will know it now involves a lot of work -- clicking through several dialogs and warnings even if you do have the latest version.

Some hundrends of millions of people still running XP, Windows 2000 or Vista, with IE or Firefox?