skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. From the consumer-centric perspective, if Google's solution is "good enough" it will halt their search. However, if there is a better solution needed, they will continue to look to the results below the search. Providing value-add on top of what Google's auto-reply gives you is how a site can differentiate itself.
Never knew it, thanks!
You don't know how many times I struggled with getting good result, because I was searching for something in English and Google keep redirecting me to my country's edition (and thus searching on webpages from my country/with my language).
Family ditches computers, lives like it's 1986
I'm fairly sure Full Metal Jacket wasn't either, it was filmed in the UK.
Study Investigates Soldiers' Attachment to Robots
Then why does he say "teach your girlfriend" rather than teach your partner, or teach your friend, or teach someone? If the fact that it is his girlfriend is just his situation, why suggest that I teach my girlfriend in the title?
I think it's easy to underestimate or fail to appreciate the huge number of people who learned to use computers by rote. I have more than one relation who uses GMail by first typing "gmail" in the Google search bar. For them, just moving the send button would at least cause a hiccup in their workflow. Any UI optimization is a show-stopper.
That looks like a Linux-specific rendering issue - it certainly looks nothing like that for me.

Not that I'm saying that it's OK for them to ignore the problem, but the issue you're seeing is not experienced by almost all users.
Subscribe to the MOSIG mailing list and the Forskningsavd. mailing list and you would have gotten the last announcement for a hackerspace around Värnhem.

So that makes Kontrapunkt, Bageriet at Volframsgatan, Fabriken at Stapelbäddsparken and this 4th near Värnhem.

Of course, I believe there aren't enough nerds for 4 hackspaces but it's still pretty cool. :)
Rainyday.js
Liquid Fuel, from the Sun
This totally freaked me out.

I clicked the link to be opened in a new tab - and continued what I was doing.

I heard that beeping sound, and was completely baffled where it was coming from (didn't sound like it was coming from the speakers).

You should have seen me picking up papers on my desk listening to them. I listened to every potential port on my phone to see if it was giving off this sound.

I felt like I was going crazy while I was doing it, but I just couldn't figure out the source of the sound. Thinking back, if a camera was in my office, that woulda been hella funny to watch.
Awesome selfies from Grand Theft Auto V
Mactype: Change the font rasterization on Windows to that of iOS
Show us the numbers.

I'd expect an order of magnitude slower for most of string and number operations.
Why is it "teach your girlfriend"? Why does he presume that his audience has a girlfriend who needs to be taught, rather than a boyfriend? You can't say "well he has a girlfriend so he wrote it like that" because he's not talking about him in the title, he's talking about you - he's presuming you have a girlfriend who needs to be taught, and that's sexist. I don't think it's the crime of the century, but I do think less of the guy.
waking up to anaal nathrakh everyday would probably put me into depression after two weeks.
[disclaimer: I am the author of this post]

Bout time we wrote this up on our blog. Check out the Vine that we created for this. Should resonate with a lot of folks here.
With the whole privacy matter, it might not be so hard for me to switch :-)
Automating Complex Workflows with Grunt Custom Tasks
Collection of Posters for your Hackspace
Dictionaries are descriptive, not proscriptive. It is possible for something to be correct, and dictionaries to have simply not caught up (or for it to be correct within a subculture the dictionaries do not cover). I agree with you that the former is not the case for "of" in place of "'ve", nor the latter in any subculture I am familiar with although that could certainly be my own lack of exposure. Regardless, it is worth knowing that many people will see it as an error and likely judge you for it.
What browser version are you using?
Maximum appears to be one day. Yet this works anyway:

https://www.google.nl/?q=timer+for+23+hr+120+min+59+secs#q=t...
Someday in the future children will be taught in history class how in the 21st century people though the universe was flat. And they will laugh.
What's an Agile Retrospective and Why Would You Do It?
It's worth reading the school's response before you let the Crowdist media whip you into a hive-mind:

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/education/duquesne-...
iPhone 5S fingerprint sensor 'hacked' within days of launch
Same for IP addresses and http://www.whatismyip.com/
"Ballooning" Spiders Use Electrostatic Forces to Generate Lift
What I hate most about the new UI is the "Show trimmed content" feature. I have to click those three little dots every single time I reply to an email and they are awfully close to the send button. Gmail has tons of settings for everything, but I can't find a way to turn this completely useless and annoying feature off.

I think the broader trend behind this kind of stubbornness is a move toward opinionated software. The problem with opinionated software is that even in the best case it is more specialized for the needs of one particular group of users. It is not flexible enough to cater to different workflows.

I guess what this means is that consumer software and software for professionals is going to diverge again after converging for many years.
To add to it there is a lack of career counselling. One really does not know about many of the career options out there when he/she is in Class 10, when he/she has to make a choice.
How Does it Feel to Make the Front Page of Hacker News?
If she wasn't paying payroll taxes, that would be the fault of the employer who is supposed to deduct them, and where she had worked for 25 years, no? There is no minimum income you have to pay it on as far as I am aware.
Sorry for the shameless bump, but I thought some might find it interesting. I have had this idea in mind for over a year, and as a matter of fact myself and a couple of folks from Stanford have just started implementing it and we would certainly welcome any Python/JS devs who would like to contribute. It's a gevent/websocket-based Python backend with a shiny-like reactive computing engine with planned support for pandas as the primary data format; and an AngularJS-based frontend which allows for some crazy reactive/lazy evaluation not only on server side, but in the browser as well. Graphics-wise, we intend to create wrappers for matplotlib (which is pretty straightforward) along with some cool JS libraries like NVD3, Vega, sigma.js and other. The public repo will be on github in the next few weeks or so, please ping me on twitter @aldanor if interested.
I don't know of any specifically-swedish sites, but in general the tigsource forums may be what you're looking for.
Twitter Tweet Button URL randomly resolves to a .torrent file
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6400088
I don't want email to be chat. I want it to weighty formal statements that are worth of archive like my mail. Email is serious stuff.

We have plenty of chat an other collaboration tools for your vision of email.
This is great, to bad I left PHP for Python a year or so ago. I'll keep an eye on this though!
What language(s) did you move on to?
...and a 23-year old Swedish gamer, "pewdiepie", is more popular than Jesus^h^h^h^h^h^h Beatles

http://www.tubefilter.com/2013/08/15/its-official-pewdiepie-...
Their project is called Bokeh and it's available publicly on GitHub. There are some cool ideas there, however I wouldn't call it lightweight and it is a certain bit messy. We are currently starting to implement a somewhat similar JS/Python web framework with AngularJS on the client side, see my comment above :)
Lies, damned lies, and statistics
Search Engine For UI Elements
Step Away From the Phone
I see this a lot in LabVIEW projects (using it for things in which it is cumbersome). I think it is a symptom of the "golden hammer syndrome". LabVIEW is really, really efficient for some things and people become highly proficient at it. Unfortunately, those same folks are apt to use it for things in which it is ill-advised like text-parsing.

I like to think of graphical programming languages as DSL's: when they're aimed at the right problem, they're like a hot knife through butter compared to a general purpose tool. But when you start using DSL's for things in which they are not intended you end up with nightmarishly obscure codebases.
How to interview engineers as a startup
This has not been my experience.

Installing a mail client, debugging weird IMAP/POP/SMTP issues that come up from time-to-time - not fun.

My mom already knows (for some definition of 'knows') how to use a web browser to view web pages. Using it for email is much easier.

Also, it's easy for me to login into her account and see what happened when she said her mail didn't go through or whatever.
They're publishing the encrypted ciphertext, which is the plaintext message xor OTP (aka the key). The encrypted ciphertext would be the user id's of all recent retweets.

The receiving party would have to know the OTP to decrypt the message.
That calculator icon looks suspiciously like it could be a rip-off of the iOS 7 calculator icon. That said, looks like a wonderful project. I'm always struggling with the best way to access a headless Raspberry Pi. If something like this were a little cheaper it'd be great.

The tablet + ethernet port combo is a great idea... Are there any Android tablets that take high speed ethernet port adapters, making them suitable as servers?
Web Crawling Software or Web Crawling Service
According to the adverts by Apple they specifically select certain points on the finger print and analayze then permit access. If such a technology is broken then I would assume their encryption on the A7 chip where the fingerprint is stored also can be broken.

If lots of people do not use passwords on their phones for the sake of comfort then it is not anyones fault that their phones are logged into or information stolen. Information is stolen because the user is lazy to secure the device.

When Apple says one can use finger print to do transactions then I have to assume that the transaction cannot be done by anyone other than me and by any other means through the phone.
By the way, I know a number of Swedish gaming companies are looking for engineers - if anyone is interested. http://swedishstartupspace.com/jobs/
Ask HN: Copyright lawyer advice needed: Is this .jar file under the GPL?
I need a lawyer who can answer whether the following is true: If the author uploads a .jar file with .class files in it to a GPL v2 Sourceforge project's file section, then by this act the .jar file and its contents get released under the GPL v2 under USA law, even if the author claims that this software was never intended to be and thus it never became GPLed. I'm ready to give more details during a 1-hour consultation session over chat or voice call. My budget for this consultation is 400 USD. Your private, non-lawyer opinions are also welcome, but to get my problem solved, I need professional advice with a high confidence (preferably based on past lawsuits) that the court would rule the same way.
Why would you do this for numbers?

How is

$number = new Number(6.9);
echo $number->ceiling() // 7
->max(array(5, 9, 49.1)) // 49.1
->floor() // 49
->sqrt() // Value
->value(); // Get raw value rather than string

better than writing it in actual functions?

sqrt(
floor(
max(
5, 9, 49.1, ceil(6.9)
)
)
)
Maybe Later Today
I wonder if it's easier for them to analyze and mine data from ten small emails vs. one large one.
Early adopters aren't typical users, but they're the ones that took Altavista places, then Firefox, Google, Chrome, etc.
Thanks for the tip. Would be interested in stats. It's such a timesink to evaluate any of this new stuff. There's clearly a market for a tomshardware.com equivalent for frameworks and software stacks.
I'm not saying it's easy to send three probes to the edge of the solar system, but how come measuring the angles is hard? (Granted you cannot do it with the Voyager probes).

Also does anyone know what total interior angles you'd have to measure, ie. would be it ~179° or ~179.99999999°?
sounds like they have cornered the online stopwatch market...

All joking aside it must be really hard work to keep your ranking at #1 when competitors (and google) can easily replicate your functionality.
LA and SF are not representative of all of the US. A professional in flyover country is going to have a lifestyle more like the Mexican professional you describe than the American one in the expensive coastal cities, except that the flyover country American will need a car.

I'm looking for a rental right now. For $800 I would expect a three bedroom house (with free parking, of course), not a small shared apartment.
Yeah, that infallible data-driven juggernaut is the image you want to project outside.

But in reality the people whose promotions and bonuses are riding on a successful launch of the redesign are also the ones cherry-picking the metrics of success. It doesn't matter if it's universally hated and actively drives people to use IMAP clients. There will be some bullshit statistic that'll go up. Hell, most metrics are going up anyway for a service like GMail, and it's not like this is being A/B tested.
I like the new Gmail. It's more organized and I waste no time to read important mails. I think e-mail marketers won't like it.
My biggest gripe is trying to extract the email address of other people on the To or CC list of an email. It's excruciatingly hard.
A 20+ year old with Google at his disposal, has 0 reasons to complain when it education and knowledge these days

WRONG

Totally

Where would a 20 year old learn about a driver code written 15 years back , with no documents?
This job would feed him
And it is hard.
All valid points.

I guess a lot depends on other aspects of your project. For example, if you are looking at distributing frequently, and rsync is an option, then bandwidth concerns are effectively nullified. Likewise, disk space diffs for a few installs on a base filesystem are not big and thus not really expensive to keep. But I agree with you.

One aspect is crypto: signing a tarball is easier than a bunch of files.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRPDO63rI1E

The Truman Show reality. Truman learns there is something very wrong with reality. They tell him to get a job. He says, "fuck-off".

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\QUIX.TXT

our Casildea de Vandalia in beauty; and in
addition to this you must promise, if you should survive this encounter
and fall, to go to the city of El Toboso and present yourself before her
on my behalf, that she deal with you according to her good pleasure; and
if she leaves you free to do yours, you are in like manner to return and
seek me out (for the trail of my mighty deeds will serve you as a guide
to lead you to where I may be), and tell me what may have passed between
you and her-conditions wh
I decline to use FB or Google for authentication, for what it may be worth.
Nice writeup, I especially appreciate the focus on testing. End product looks really slick. You might want to add a screenshot and a link to the blog post in the GitHub repo that you posted.

One thing that I think could be improved is the layout of your code. Right now you have a single controller that handles everything. For example, selecting a shirt color should be a directive, and so should the quantity picker. Then use the $scope.$emit and $scope.$on to hook events together. This way, if I make a better color picker (although yours is pretty stylish), I can swap out yours for mine so long as I emit the same events as yours.

This would also make it easier to add new directives - for example, maybe I could choose a decal on the front and back of shirts, or jersey numbers or something. So I think that the controllers in this case should be pretty minimal, and just provide a scope to tie the various directives together.

Anyway, just a thought. Thanks for sharing this and the included GitHub repo.
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Thats a brilliant set of ideas!! Yes i miss software that just used to work. Back a couple of years back i was a big fan of dimdim.
Actually i used to complain about it a lot. And today when i dont have an option, i wish i had dimdim back :)
Consistently Underperform
Maybe it's just me, but I feel there is a trend that it is absolutely necessary to "fuck with" something that already works for the sake of [insert rationalization here]. It's like changing the semantics of how Unix pipes work. Don't do it. Go build something new. Leave the shit that already works Good Enough (tm) alone.
The sad thing is that the article is correct; that is HIGH for an adjunct salary. When I finished my postdoc I applied to a few adjunct positions. The salary would have been $2100/class, which, after factoring in the time needed for preparing for the class, traveling, lecturing, being available for office hours, grading, etc, would have come out to well below minumum wage. No thank you very much.
Give Yourself 5 Stars? Online, It Might Cost You
Yahoo found in 2010: 98%+, depending on country

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9478737/browser-statistic...
Some good points, but they make an assumption that you already know where those consumers hang out. Easier said than done identifying them.
Whoa. It really is the old compose.

Does that exist for Firefox?

Wow it does exist for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/restore-your-gmail-...

Will examine the source.
Someone on Reddit did the honours:

http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1my5cv/introducing_syng...
"CCC" actually stands for "Coffee, coffee & coffee".
I think its ugly?
I've noticed that is doesn't work if you aren't connected with your google account.
not bad, but where getContent();

how about boxed objects?
> This explanation doesn't seem to make sense... impose CPU quotas on the users

CPU quotas don't help.

Take for example a VAX 11/780. 1 MIPS, 32bit architecture and only a few MB RAM (2MB -8MB). Additionally used virtual memory.

A single Macsyma running on top of Maclisp on such a computer could use all the memory and more. A garbage collection would touch all memory and swap everything else out. This swapping would make the machine completely crawl. The resources CPU and main memory would all be used by a single process. Limiting the CPU for the Lisp process does not help. The Lisp process would be slow, the machine I/O would be slow. Most programs would wait for I/O.

The minicomputers (PDPs and later) were too expensive and optimized for timesharing - not for running Lisp images which were larger than main memory.

> If running Lisp more cheaply was really the goal, they wouldn't have given these machines high resolution bitmapped displays, which were very expensive at the time.

That's even more expensive. Now you have an expensive bitmap display hooked up to an extremely expensive minicomputer. Btw., that was experimented with before the Lisp Machines appeared - Interlisp was running in such a combination.
Tesco launches 7 inch Hudl tablet
Ruby Tips Part 3
I didn't know that. That's one piece of technology that has made a considerable impact on modern gaming.
Nobody gets Google search results, For "segfault in driver.c written by rahul rai in 1985"

But, they get good enough help on writing device drivers and troubleshooting them. That is all you need, and you have to take it from there.

There is nothing like copy-paste if your are solving a new problem. You have to incrementally work your way to a solution.

If you think that is not possible for a person, they must rethink and chose a different profession instead.
For the record:

Merkel personally assured Obama that she would refuse Snowden, in case he applied for asylum in Germany.

Makes it pretty clear what the world can (not) expect from Germany.
I think converting numbers to objects and back is ugly.

And insanely inefficient. For this particular example it must be orders of magnitude slower.
All the sub average users I've talked to about the Gmail changes dislike what they've done. I don't believe for a second that the changes they've made are positive for the so called masses. Just my opinion.
Is that a throw away account ?

But anyways, because some other person who happens to be a man and is in a relation with a person that happens to be a woman may feel like teaching her some basic programming and a title that ports this situation to a possible reader elicits a stronger connection. That and "How a humam should teach another human partner how to program" would be very daft.
"Anybody's son will do" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222730/ This documentary explains in great detail the nature of military basic training and its psychological component. It's on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DShDaJXK5qo
I used to love Gmail because I thought it was fast, reliable, secure and had a great UI. Now I kinda hate the UI, it's not quite as fast as it once was, and I don't feel like it is a good place to store my email.

However, what all the posts about Gmail fail to do is point to a substitute. I need a web-based mail client which can provide mailboxes with my own domain, fetch mail from outside boxes and send through them, and filter and order my mail according to a set of rules I define. Also, it should not be hosted in the US or by a US based company, and should have at least a decent UI.

I would love to pay for such an alternative but, alas, I doesn't seem to exist today
This is something different than just being redirected to a different domain. I already have it set up so google.com/ncr is my main google page

It doesn't work on .com for me, it doesn't work on .dk (I'm from denmark). Doesn't work on .nl which someone reported worked for him. It's weird

Also tried it in both firefox and chrome.

And someone else mentioned it didn't work for him without a google account, I've tried both logged in and logged out
I've never really understood the incessant need to replicate idioms from other languages on top of the already existing idioms in PHP.
Then there are those of us at the opposite end of the age spectrum... I hated the look of iOS 7. Very hard on aging eyes. Replaced the wallpaper with a custom photo with my favorite background color for my text editor. Still can't find a way to get the high contrast, dark keypad back. Grrr. (expletive deleted), Apple - not everything needs to look like an hipster toy...
All good points. I guess in response the only two things I would add are: (1) If snapshots are for backup (most frequent use case? I guess so!) then LVM2 can do it for you without an exotic FS already. Sure, you may have to preallocate. But it's generic (not filesystem-linked), so if you're an infrastructure provider it future proofs your backup implementation. Sometimes that's worth a lot more due to engineering and testing cycles. (2) You probably can shrink snapshot backing storage if you remove them, for example after the snapshot is complete and the data has been subsequently copied elsewhere to long term storage (cheaper/slower/remoter/more geographically dispersed disks?). You can make a new one next time you need it. That said, people who are that short on disk space are few and far between these days... it's cheap.
getContent() is a magic method.

How would I go about adding boxed objects in PHP?
Nice!

We did a real time raytracer with 2 spheres where you could move around one with C and a cluster of DEC Alphas 20 years ago, funny to see this on my laptop in Javascript (!) now.