skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who didn't play one of the glory sports (football/basketball/baseball) in high school (I played water polo and swim team), I understand the lack of accolades. Our swim team was undefeated, had won our district, and many of us were on to state and our district trophy was used a prop for what the basketball team was going after - but had not yet won. Earlier in the fall the football coach at the same school mocked my (successful) water polo team because the sport was perceived as not as 'manly' as football.

As for cost, the article mentions that the school that shutdown sports was paying $1300 per football player - which just means they have poor accountants. At my high school almost all athletic costs were covered by student sports passes and event tickets. The problem is in the South where 'football is life' and they pay huge salaries for winning coaches and cathedral stadiums. Yet the South is the location of some of the worst school districts.
The unsafe language argument of the first paragraph doesn't hold. You can design you API such that handles are copied by value, and opaquely contain pointer. Usually the handle IS the pointer, but it doesn't have to be this way. When you do this, you are able to perform exactly the same kinds of memory operations that a virtual machine would perform.
I just don't agree with your statement "If you're really good with C++ you'll figure out most other languages fairly easily".

As I was trying to illustrate there are a wide range of language features available in other languages that C++ does not have anything remotely like.

It takes a long time to learn C++ not because the concepts are particularly hard, but because the implementation of the language is rather messy and the code you produce can easily do crazy things not apparent on the surface.
Sure there is. You find out whether you're compliant when OCR moves to the resolution phase of your enforcement action.
> having decided to have all four of my children involved in competitive, organized team sports through local "travel" soccer programs

There's a reason that "soccer mom" has become synonymous with out of touch, privileged, upper-middle-class, stay at home mothers. Being able to afford this shit, especially for four separate children, puts you well to the right side of the socioeconomic bell curve. If these things are important to your children, aren't they equally important, if not more so, to the children of a single mom working for minimum wage that have no other way of gaining access to sports outside of the public school system?
Lost all credibility (in my mind) when it pointed to w3schools
ports - `cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix && make install` compiles postfix from source, as an example. It allows you tremendous and easy control over compile time options. No hunting down just the right package for the features you need. No waiting for some long lost maintainer to update their package. Everything is compiled against the libraries you have installed.

pkg_add - Installs a binary package that someone else compiled directly from the port. Fast and easy. These may lag behind a little bit behind bleeding edge, and you don't get to choose compile-time options. You can (mostly) mix and match software installed from pkg_add and ports.

pkgng - is the new binary package management system. It is pretty great, but still teething a bit. PC-BSD is offering the most up to date pkgng style package repository was twice-monthly updates. You have to set your system up as old style package (still default) or the new pgkng, and you can't mix and match different package types.

portmaster - is a software upgrade tool, and I think the most popular at this time. It just uses the ports tree (or optionally packages) to do the magic.

portupgrade - the former favorite, works much like portmaster to upgrade software (and perform other tricks) on top of the ports/packages system.

poudriere - Another ports upgrade tool. It has many fans. Harder for Americans to spell.

At this time, I would recommend using ports to install things, and portmaster for upgrades. Keep your eye on pkgng as the package repositories come up to speed and the supporting tools (portmaster, etc) mature their support for the new format.
Except the web is much more than V8.
As a Canadian, I'm more angry about the proposed human rights violations in Quebec.

This "charter of values" is blatantly racist.

http://www.nosvaleurs.gouv.qc.ca/en/propositions/3
Command & Conquer is being built on Frostbite. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer_(2013_video...
Correction: Don't have a credit card bill to begin with.

Let the excuses and reasons for them fly, think whatever...fact is they are not necessary. While some smaller percentage of people can be responsible, for many it just invites problems. Don't get one in the first place.
You don't have to feed them society-approved dog food. Some people live on dumpster-diving; it's much easier to imagine a dog owner helping the dog do that. In an area with the right kind of restaurants, this would take about ten minutes of effort once a day.
Good stuff! Commenting so I don't forget about it.
The Intelligence Tests That Explained My 'F's
Isn't it a bit silly to blame Excel for a user's typing 20,000 instead of 10,000? Computers can't magically come up with the right answer from wrong input. You could argue that there should have been error handling or data validation, but most custom software doesn't do that either.
You're comparing apples and oranges though- Ubuntu is a distribution that attempts to be a complete desktop OS, and FreeBSD is a single project that provides the kernel plus the required low-level userland of an OS.

Complaining that FreeBSD has strict licensing requirements is like complaining that the Linux kernel has strict licensing requirements- they don't, they just have project-wide standards for licensing. Ubuntu (or Linux distros in general, or PC-BSD for that matter) is less of a project and more of a collection of components from different sources, so by definition it's not going to attempt to impose its own licensing requirements on those third parties.

Think of it like this: if the Linux kernel project evolved in a different way, such that the project as managed by Linus wasn't just the kernel but also the required low-level userland (libc, /bin/ls, etc.), then you'd end up with something that closely resembles FreeBSD. No one would use this hypothetical "Linux kernel plus low-level userland" project by itself, they would install it and then install whatever else they wanted from other sources on top of it. There would still be all sorts of distros that made it easy to do this. Ubuntu would still exist, except structurally it would more closely resemble the relationship between PC-BSD and FreeBSD.
There are two kinds of damages in a lawsuit, punitive and compensatory. Compensatory damages compensate for the actual wrong that was done and any corrective action needed (i.e. additional surgeries, physical therapy, lost wages, etc). Punitive damages are put in place as a punishment and to hopefully ensure that doctors/engineers/professionals are take more precaution when conducting their business.

It is my understanding that the 250K cap is on punitive damages only (at least in most states). I'm sorry that your wife was wronged and 250K does sound low to me, but the cap is there in general to prevent a runaway jury from awarding outlandish sums ($10-100 million) to punish a single person, because ultimately society in general pays that $10-100 million in the form of more expensive goods and services.
conspiratards.
But then the next question is, why does the geek tribe pick on the hipster tribe as nastily as it does? I don't see the same amount of _personal_ hatred against bankers, or people who do sports to the extreme. Weren't hipsters the least likely to pick on geeks (me)? Is that why they're now at the bottom of the pecking order? I don't see how a difference in values alone explains it.
> Free market proponents always claim righting wrongs is done by suing, how would more free market yield less suits exactly?

While free market proponents tend to claim that lawsuits are the place to correct wrongs, the things they tend to favor abolishing are the laws that provide the basis for lawsuits against particular wrongs; fewer bases on which lawsuits can be sustained can reasonably be expected to lead to fewer lawsuits.

> What would the mechanism for righting wrongs become, smashing people's heads in?

For wide classes of things that are widely considered "wrong" now and for which self-styled "free market" proponents would abolish the legal remedies, yes, extra-legal remedies would be the only remedies available.
I don't personally have a problem with software patents in principle. You've come up with a brilliant idea, you spent time and money to implement it, and you want to make sure you receive the credit for it

If only there were a different form of intellectual property, one that grants a limited monopoly over the embodiment of a creative work rather than legal ownership of the idea behind it. Oh, wait. There is. It's called "copyright." And it's (more than) strong enough for the job.
I also have hopes for http://www.muoptics.com/ too!
This provides some insight into what the elites that are in athletic conferences are doing recruiting and admissions-wise (and the U of Chicago, MIT and Caltech, I think they emphasize ultimate frisbee as highly as football!)

http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/ivy-academic-i...
Many, because doing so would infringe on some patent.
For example your product might not work without rounded corners. (For example sell-rolling phone, not that I can think of a use for it, but still you get the idea.)
Definitely agree with you about keeping clutter to a min due to overwhelming. This may be stretch but maybe just another pane appearing on the right third of the screen when you click a box labeled 'Connecting It All' and just providing links to other resources the demonstrate how to connect the technologies highlighted.
To be fair, this typically doesn't happen for the tennis players, track athletes, swimmers, etc. Most of the time the teams that are aggrandized, like for football, basketball, and sometimes baseball, are the ones what get the free pass.
In what world is Al Franken "far left"?
Sorry about that :( we'll look into it
Java. If you did not write a EJB, a servlet ,used hibernate , and lost yourself with spring IOC, you are not a real developper ( sarcasm ).
And because someone paid them to care about tort reform.
Erlang R16B02
Tables in 2007+ makes naming certain sorts of data a lot easier.
Seconding categories, though I'm not sure they should be columns. Maybe sections like "Styling" with a one sentence explanation of what they are, and then the boxes below that.
The only way a person could possibly think that Republicans truly believe in the "free market" is if you only ever pay attention to what they say and never to what they do.
When the FSF says a license is GPL-compatible, what they mean is, "You can legally combine software under this license with software under the GPL to produce a new combined product, provided that new product is distributed under the GPL."

Assuming that FreeBSD's maintainers want to keep their code under the BSD license, they'll be wanting something more permissive than the FSF's "heads I win tails you lose" version of compatibility.
Us Canadians aren't too prone to getting angry about politics, though we certainly should shine more light about the issue, and maybe take away Steven Harper's majority if they don't respect our wishes.

At least we have a (mostly) functional political system, with viable 3rd parties, better representation, etc... Harper has to call elections by 2015 I believe, and it wouldn't be a stretch for an NDP-Bloc-Green coalition to form a government...

Steven Harper is my MP, maybe I'll send him an email.

Edit - also seems as though current polls show a slim lead for the Liberals...
> I don't personally have a problem with software patents in principle. You've come up with a brilliant idea, you spent time and money to implement it, and you want to make sure you receive the credit for it. I get that.

That's certainly one principle. But literally implemented "principles" are often toxic when it comes to public policy. I largely think that's due to a failure to think through the effects on the entire system. The principle is emotionally appealing, but ends up having undesired or even disastrous primary- and/or side- effects in the real world.

In the patent case, we have a Mexican Standoff[1] in that virtually every player is vulnerable (violates one or more patents knowingly or unknowingly) and the only defense is stockpiling more armaments (patents) and shooters (legal staff). The risks and barriers to entry to small players are high. And that doesn't account for the actions of parasitic agencies like patent trolls.

That said, things are largely more open now in practice. The level of interchange of ideas and code is far, far greater now than ever before. That culture didn't die or go away -- it exploded right along with the rest of computing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_standoff
Not bad for an extremely competitive sector, but it needs to regains its coolness, and get more attention from its end users.
It would be nice to hear a little bit more about how the FOMC results get into the electronic news feed. If anything, it seems more fair to release the news simultaneously in NY and Chicago so that traders in NY couldn't pick-off market makers in Chicago and vice versa.
Generally ABAWDS between 18 and 50 who do not have any dependent children can get SNAP benefits only for 3 months in a 36-month period if they do not work or participate in a workfare or employment and training program other than job search. This requirement is waived in some locations.

With some exceptions, able-bodied adults between 16 and 60 must register for work, accept suitable employment, and take part in an employment and training program to which they are referred by the local office. Failure to comply with these requirements can result in disqualification from the Program.

It's only for 3 months in a 36-month period.
Why is ColdFusion always the ugly red-headed stepchild? I realize that the amount of people using it in comparison to PHP is very low, but it still exists! Can we get some love?
Because nothing makes a hiring process more fair and accurate than changing the rules for each candidate.
Automatically Add Loading Bars to Your Website
Awesome! I'd be great if the title of each language was a link to the language's home page (if applicable) rather than having a <a>Home</a> in every box.
What do you think is an example of FreeBSD bloat?
Your source is over 10 years old. I wonder how things have changed since then with the improvement of online shopping.
Because "free market capitalism" is mostly using "free market" (in this context, the concept of minimally regulated markets with correction for actual unlicensed harm through legal action based on specific harms) more as a rhetorical device for selling "capitalism" (the organization of the economic system to favor holders of capital) than as a real end in itself.
One of the many reasons I never fly to/from the US, and avoid ever passing through.
Mouthwatering Food Startups
Thanks, I misread the date in the presentation.

I started a year after that time.
As the maintainer of the PiMAME distro, Thanks! If you have any questions we have an active forum at http://pimame.org

-Shea
Just right now happen to help old $work with their 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD station, not touched since 2005 .. amazing technology, love it!. Still working, and while compiling ancient stuff from ports tree, am writing this comment from Konqueror 3.3.2 from 2004 . Thank you FreeBSD people!
>>Wait what? Thats even worse for privacy. So incognito mode is a bust I guess? I thought with all the NSA revelations, we should be working against such tracking methods not towards it!

Duh! Google has their agenda and that's collecting as much info as possible to better monetize you and your grandma. I know you don't believe their crap about empowering you or your privacy. They are essentially a for-profit NSA.
This is great! Thanks! As a beginner, figuring out what to learn, as opposed to how to learn, is a struggle. This provides a pretty great roadmap and explains how things fit together.

As for feedback, you could potentially add:
-Hartl tutorial to the rails section
-Udacity to the python section.
No offense to America, but the modern University predates the US founding in 1776 by some 500 years.

Secondly, are you suggesting that there the set (clever, assholes) is a null set?
I've read Instructables and such for modding it with potentiometers to give control feedback on the movement, hooking it up to an Arduino for control, things like that. I haven't personally seen a version of this for the Pi, but the interesting part is getting it talking to a CPU controller at all, and it ought to be a pretty short leap from an Arduino to a Pi.

It's definitely not plug and play if you want to do anything interesting with it, though.
Let's also note that even though "=>" contains fewer characters than "function", it is arguably more difficult to type, since it requires a jump to the top row of keys for "=", and the shift key for ">".
Apple’s iOS 7 includes a surprise: the next generation of the internet
I've watched people and how they actually react to people on the streets. I've watched myself. When aversion arises, I have seen this reaction.

Does everyone on HN have this aversion? No. I can't even see your faces, hear your voice. But everyone has some kind of aversion. There is often something vile lurking within the depths of people's hearts. It's ugly. I wrote that to give you the reader, a sense of empathy for the people who turn away in disgust from another human being, and believe me, I've seen that kind of reaction in person.

I've seen it in people walking down the street being solicited by the homeless. I've seen it in mothers and fathers turning away from their children. I've seen it in politicians, and activists. I've seen it all sorts of ordinary people.

I don't know if you react that way. You might. You might not. You might even react this way, and don't even know it.

The only way to be truly respectful is not to hide this, but to bring this ugliness out into the open, to really look at it, and to accept that you have these feelings -- whatever those feelings are -- arising from you. Who knows? You might find the deeper root causes for those feelings.
This article is written for someone who already understands the old issue that this is fixing (there's nothing wrong with writing it like that). But for someone like me that doesn't understand when you need to use this `bind()` stuff and the context your function is in (if I'm even saying that correctly), what can I read to get a better understanding of what's going on here?

In other words, what do I need to read before I can understand this article?
I've always thought the simple coding interview questions was like asking a chef to prepare a very simple meal; they should be able to do it without any problem. Though it's apparent that coders, like chefs, can choke on even these simple tasks. You only need to watch the "skills tests" on "Masterchef: The Professionals" to see a dozen professional cooks fail to fry schnitzel or fillet a fish. The same chefs go on the create some fantastic dishes in less stressful challenges.
Terrifying question: had this thing detonated, would the powers that be - with only a few minutes to decide whether to defend the homeland while they still could - have realized it was an aircraft accident and not a hostile surprise attack? I think you know the answer.
Franken was a big supporter of SOPA/PIPA when all that was going on. He may be good in some aspects, but I'd hardly call him "one of the good guys".
For Rails, the article "What is Ruby on Rails?"

http://railsapps.github.io/what-is-ruby-rails.html

It's getting a lot of praise as a good starting point for beginners. (BTW I wrote it)
The problem with low latency trading is it adds liquidity when you don't need it aka when things are stable...

Why do you believe a narrow spread is unneeded when the market is stable?

...and removes it when you do aka the market is crashing.

Selling liquidity is an extremely high-profit activity during periods of high volatility.

HFT no longer provides liquidity when the risk of broken trades is high.

Also, from an information theory perspective high frequency trading can't aid price discovery...

Simply false. See here for an explanation.

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology2.html
(2011) Domain registration caution when making questionable web services.
What's the difference between this and a cookie?

This not-quite-a-cookie wouldn't be suppressed by the technical mechanisms springing up to suppress cookies.
> Why is it that I was able to live on part-time minimum wage ($10/hr) that covered rent (rented a room for $500), food ($100 a month and I ate like a king, never ate outside, always home cooked), and my drinking? I was living fine.

Were you supporting a family at the time? If not, you might consider the possibility that what was a living income for you might not be sufficient for everyone else.
The author seems to think people aren't very familiar with electrical switches. But normal people are frequently only one switch away from likely death. Like if you turn off your electric lawnmower and reach inside. It's recommended to have a fail-safe, but switches don't spontaneously turn on at even 1 in a billion and most people don't write breathless articles about the one time they were only one switch away from death 50 years ago.
DNSSEC patches for DJB's tinydns
In the current US political climate, where implementing a Republican health care plan gets you branded a "socialist", obviously.
That is an EXCELLENT idea. If you can make the pull on github that would be even better!

https://github.com/JonHMChan/bento/blob/gh-pages/
I may be stupid, but how do I issue a pull request for a gist?
Ethics (good or bad) are not enough alone to make a particular action viable. Usually you need a community of people who are prepared to believe that a particular action is "good". At that point social pressure is enough to push people down a path regardless of the actual benefits or costs. This can be hugely beneficial (charitable donation) or very very bad. I don't think you can get the good without the bad. A lot of good human behavior would be lost of people only acted on logic.
"A piece of code in C is applied math, but a mechanism with cranks and pulleys is not?"

Software patents is not even about code. Almost nobody that patents software makes code public accessible. With a patent you are supposed to make public the plans, in exchange of the monopoly.

The idea of patents was that anybody could replicate the work reading the plans, so society advances when the author of the original work dies.

With software patents the code is not there, so it becomes monopolies for abstract ideas, the more abstract the better.
Wordpress is plug and play on almost any webhost out there (some even have installers for it). Ghost is node.js which is barely supported by webhosting companies (you will most likely need a VPS or some specific node.js HaaS, at least).

How will this not be a huge barrier to achieve the same traction Wordpress has?
> Really? Fucking hell.. With every month that goes by, I am less and less inclined to travel to, or do business in, the US..

The insinuation being that the US is the only country doing this?

I hate this sort of thing as much as the next guy, but let's not pretend the US is the only country engaging in this behavior. We can certainly expect better, but don't blind yourself to the obvious. Based on recent events, maybe you shouldn't be traveling anywhere, period.