skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If You are a Woman, Your Work Is Irrelevant
The nice thing about memes though is it rarely has anything to do with the people in the photo, and more about what kind of universal message the photo can convey. I believe the scumbag steve guy discusses this since he went through a lot of emotions over his photo being so popular. Nobody who makes these memes is thinking of him personally, but rather of the character that can be extracted from the photo.
Unless they have a completely sterile, sealed container that is open only at certain altitudes to collect material in a filter, they will have nothing to stand on.

NASA had a satellite that was sent up to collect samples of debris along a particular orbital belt and worked like this. They were doing tests to see how much space junk had accumulated and would open one of the compartments for a fixed period of time, then re-seal it before switching to another.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/Pointer_Lock

:-) Developed at Seneca College in Toronto, Canada.
>You missed the part where Ubuntu was sending search requests to Amazon?

I don't think this is as bad as the other cases.
It is amazing to me how much press the NSA spying is getting and how little press the CFPB spying is getting. Read up on the CFPB- they are capturing detailed records on 80% of all credit card transactions for instance.
Ah yes, because that kind of thing never happens on HN...
Certainly would!
I thought your questions were fine and he gave some good advice. Good advice is rarer than rubies. Anyway, I was dying to find out - is it Bruce Lindstrom?
Into the Wildfire
I'm 26 and I hate open plan.

Well, I hate the way it is implemented. If you reduced the number of people on a floor, with more desk space and space around desks, I think it could be a MUCH more pleasant environment.

But with managers cramming so many people onto a floor it really grinds you down.

There must be a formula somewhere that calculates the "optimum" or "agreeable" workspace somewhere
Reddit is visited by tens of millions of people of virtually every demographic. Corralling them as "internet nerds" seems a bit like you're trying for some bullying yourself.

The post to which you're replying didn't even mention Reddit. Reddit is by no means the only place where a nerdy demographic (and I'll define 'nerdy demographic' as 18-25 that skew towards STEM education and exhibit above-average internet usage) tends to engage in destructive behavior, but they're certainly guilty of it.

A bunch of people said silly things, largely under the assumption that it was no consequence (that no one was hurt, etc)

The whole point of the article is the inherent falsity of the assumption that what you do online has diminished/no consequences.

People who are on the Internet tend to forget that literally everybody else is on the Internet too. Being a jackass isn't somehow excusable just because you don't know who you're being a jackass to (in fact, some would argue that it makes it worse.)
tough neighborhood, is all I can say http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/japan-sits...
>Tell that to my mother, who used her phone's built in FM radio daily until her retirement.

An older woman close on retirement is not exactly having her finger on the pulse of what's current, does she now?

I mean, I'm giving an example of a similar obsolete feature ("like not having a floppy disk drive an modern PCs") and your counter-argument is what a retiree does?

Might as well have replied "well, my grandfather rocks floppy disks on his 286 just fine".
Thank you for the heads up about ruby devs liking *nix tools and not ide's.

The fact of the matter is grep is a poor tool to try to find your step definitions. There are tools out there that are much better for such things, vim with http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2973, or an ide or <your favorite tool>.

You could make the claim that any abstraction is unnecessary if you see no value in it. It doesn't mean others will not find value in it.

Personally, I find it quite easy to understand and convey to non-devs the stories told through gherkin. That is part of the value prop for me.

If no one is reading them but the devs, I'd rather use something other than gherkin.
Dude, you should totally have a look at http://clara.io It is a perfect compliment to Artillery in that we are a web-based 3D content creation platform -- but we are distinctly not a game engine or a game editor. We would love to partner with you and I think there are a ton of opportunities.
Likely yes, but what of it? The argument from the Windows/Mac analogy is that iOS is probably headed for some level of niche status. It's not even that Apple is necessarily toast (though they certainly came near to it in '97). That Commodore got toasted even harder shouldn't invalidate that argument. (Commodore's trajectory was weird anyway. They were gone before Win95, and they were arguably killed as much by the XOR patent, the Atari-Commodore bloodletting, Sega and Nintendo or DOOM as by the IBM PC or Windows 3.1.) Maybe RIM is the new Commodore? ;)
Nowhere does it explain what "RTS" stands for.
Apple Now Allows Downloading Previous Versions of iOS Apps
SC2 is easy to hack and cheat. Blizzard rarely do ban waves. Oddly enough, with this type of game, no hacks are enough to let you beat those who are truly better than you (at least with starcraft!).

Kinda neat to be honest. Doesn't stop me yelling at map hackers tho ;)
The most amazing thing about this story is that he stayed true to himself. He continued to do his thing, went to the park, did some typin'. I think that is pretty awesome! Why do I think that? Because fuck everybody else. Hater's gunna hate.
Ask HN: What are some "hardcore" technologies with high learning potential?
I'm asking this as a general question, but for some background, I'm a mobile (iOS) and back- (Django,Node) and front-end developer. I'm looking for some hot, rising, and hardcore technology that has a lot to teach about CS and/or software development. I have interests in AI, but haven't done much work/research about it so far.
What if HackerNews was read to you every day?
I'd love all feedback and thoughts! But a heads up - I'll be testing out the idea with HackerNews soon.
Here is an example of this: http://www.ics.com/blog/combining-qt-widgets-and-qml-qwidget...
On Being Free by Frithjof Bergmann changed my perspective on what work should be for an individual in a society. It's not very analytically heavy and is definitely a great read. I also met him and what he is doing around the world is pretty amazing.

I still remember how he told me in 2005-06 that 3d printing is going to usher in a whole new idea of what work should actually be. I was a engineering student at the time, quite obsessed with the room-sized 3d printer and could not fathom exactly how that would happen. Well I guess it is starting to at least.

http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P00304
I think Javascript is too slow for 3d gaming.

If you look at this HTML5/WebGL minecraft engine, it stutters even without any other players or bots in the environment.

http://voxeljs.com/#gallery

Meanwhile Minecraft running in Java is smooth on even the slowest machines.

Benchmarks indicate that Javascript is 4x slower than Java.

http://j15r.com/blog/2013/07/05/Box2d_Addendum

The alternatives like ASM.js and PNACL are far from usable. ASM.js has no support for threads and PNACL is unlikely to be supported outside of Chrome. They also have no debugging support.
There are good corners of reddit
Promises proposal for ES6
Antisocial means activities that interfere with others or society. Lacking a desire to socialize is asocial, not antisocial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_behavior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asociality
Pinterest To Begin Experimenting With Promoted Pin Ads
I wonder what it smells like. Does it get happy or sad?
It's life, but it doesn't have DNA to test?
Pinterest to get ads
Creating Evernote on Ubuntu for smartphones
First computer with embedded Leap Motion
Esperanto: an easy-to-learn, politically neutral language
A friend and I cofounded another content curator also, we do tagging but in a different fashion: http://wintria.com

Nice article also, I don't think you guys take enough advantage of the article body though.
The music in that video was quite catchy. Anyone know what its name is?
Great, mind sending a message to ben@stopwatching.us with your contact info and zip code?
I think it's a different crackpot article, by the same authors.
So you're arguing that the PC market, in which they are unbelievably profitable is, er, not a mature market? How about MP3 music players, which is so mature it's withering and dying and yet is still basically an iPod market? I don't think you've quite thought that argument through very far.

And still with this 'lost them the desktop market'. If Apple's market defining desktop business, which dictate the shape of the computer market by denying the profitable high ground for $1,000+ systems to their competitors, count as losing then you and I have very different ideas of what that word means.

If the iPhone's sales numbers last year and the year before that were high enough to sustain a highly profitable premium business, then bearing in mind their sales are still skyrocketing I just don't see where the risk is. Why is having a minority market share in desktop PCs a problem for Apple? What harm has it done them? How has it hindered their ability to prosper over the last 15 years? If it's not been a problem for them in PCs, why should it be a problem for them in mobile? bear in mind that their minority stake in the mobile market is a region thing. In the single most valuable market, the US, they have more market share than Android.

> The iPhone 5C actually increases Apple's profit margin over the 5. ...

I know, I don't know what the Andorid camp are going to do about it. I mean how can they compete when.... oh... hold on a minute. You're saying that's a problems for _Apple_. Er. Ok.
> Every decision you make should be based on minimizing the number of times the radio powers up.

This is lunacy. Ok, lunacy is a bit strong. But I disagree with this and am throwing a "premature optimization" flag.

Modern phone batteries last plenty long, and the radio being on is nothing compared to the big bright screen.

/edit
Given the opportunity to chose, I know I would gladly sacrifice a few minutes per charge battery life for a better user experience, especially since my phone never gets below 20%.

Your users will be better served by you fixing bugs or adding features. Really, unless you're a huge team with a huge budget, there's other stuff to worry about in your app experience before "maximizing battery life" should be a responsibility you want to help the OS/device maker with.(If you're one of the lucky ones who has the time and money to do both, by all means, go nuts.)

Being conservative with resource usage is sound advice. Making battery usage the prime concern for most apps is overkill.

Games and other applications that you know users will have open for extended periods of time, and/or that are already eating up battery should give this issue some thought, everyone else, really, don't worry about it.
1 down, 1.6 million to go. High fives all around!
What does "catch-up" mean? Will they ever be as powerful as advanced as the hardcore cares are today (2013)? Yes, they will be. Will they catch-up to hardcore games of the future (2023?). No they won't.

But that's irrelevant. What matters more is if they will catch-up to being "good enough", and that is likely to happen.
The mechanism to get these particles there would both have to be very powerful and very not obvious.

The scientists don't say that these particles must be from space, it's just possible, or even very likely.
CA College: Student Can't Hand Out Copies Of Constitution On Constitution Day
Slightly misleading title. it should be:

"How one girl had a great mentor and worked her ass off to get into college"

Silicon valley didn't do shit, Felicia Curcuru should get a Big Sister credit and Ashana Davenport should get credit for taking advantage of a good opportunity.

If silicon valley really cared, they would open up offices in places like philly or detroit...
The Nexus devices are known to get timely updates.
Why You Don't “Fucking Love Science”
California finally legalizes Lyft, SideCar, and other rideshare app firms
Redis - https://github.com/antirez/redis

Edit: GitHub actually has a good list of trending repositories that you can filter by language. Most C projects seem to be libraries, but you might be able to glean something interesting - https://github.com/trending?l=c&since=monthly
Ask HN: Scrolling vs. paging – which do you prefer?
let's pretend that scrolling and paging are
mutually exclusive. (they're not, but pretend.)

which do you prefer, and why? what is it about
the other one which makes it undesirable to you?

please be as objective and specific as possible;
don't ignore any emotional issues (because they
are important as well), but don't dwell on them.
> The post to which you're replying didn't even mention Reddit.

Didn't this all kick off with a mean-spirited reaction to a photo on Reddit? The ancestor post hardly needs to mention Reddit explicitly...
> Presumably websockets are ok as it's more of a "push" model for the network than a "poll" model?

This is seems incorrect - as I understand it, a websocket holds open a TCP connection indefinitely, which would require the radio to stay in its active state as long as the websocket remained open.

See also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4456407/iphone-keep-webso...
Why you should attend a collegiate hackathon
If our aminoacids came from space, you would sort of expect them to be in "incoming" organisms also.

Bioinformatics might be able to bring further light into this problem. If they do find DNA/RNA then they can tell when terrestrial life and whatever this is parted ways. If this root can be pinpointed after known mutations from fossil records, then this must be terrestrial life.
As a product/program manager... I can tell you that writing RSpec tests are just as easy to write as Cucumber tests. And, with less overhead.
I grew up wearing "dorky" glasses, switched to vertically narrower frames, and now wear a pair of Warby Parker retro-ish glasses (http://bit.ly/1btLNTC for reference). So as someone who's been on both sides, I find your response pretty interesting.

I can understand your annoyance and you're certainly entitled to it. I suppose the first thing I did when I read your post is ask myself "Well, why do I wear these glasses?" The simple answer is that my girlfriend thought I should get new glasses, so we picked out a bunch from Warby Parker to try on and she liked these the best. But even though she picked them out, I was complicit in the choice; if she had picked out some sort of bizarrely-shaped polka-dotted frame, I'm pretty sure I would've vetoed that. So there was some part of me that said "hey, I kinda like how I look in these."

Now, does this mean I'm appropriating a look that was formerly a magnet for bullies? Maybe. But the key thing to remember when considering the relationship between ridicule and compliments is that both are equally arbitrary. There was no reason for people to mock you or me for our choice of glasses back then, just like there's no intrinsic reason that these same glasses should appear attractive 10 years later. That's just how fashion/culture works.

I think if someone personally harassed someone else for wearing "dorky" glasses, and then later decided to wear that same style of glasses to appear fashionable while continuing to deride people that don't share their taste in clothing, then yeah, that would seem pretty hypocritical.
Better title: Pretentious blowhard criticizes others.
The sqlite3 .import command does not handle quoted csv values.

"Doe, John", 1234 Pine St, Springfield

That would be imported as 4 fields, not 3.
Well, I'm a hardcore gamer and I think you're all wrong, no offense. I care for good games. Whether it's from the browser or native, as long as it's addictive and competitive I'll play it. Also, the thing about having a copy is a thing of the past. Think about Starcraft2 that you can download and already have the settings you used on a different computer. Or steam where you download the game and press play.

My personal concern with the browser is more about the freedom of game developers to tweak the app as they want. You're very vulnerable in a browser in term of how you can use the keyboards and how the client will receive what you're trying to show them. For instance, in starcraft2, you use "ctrl+1" to bind an army to the key "1". In chrome, ctrl+1 switches to the first tab. Some webapp uses hacks to go around that.. for instance, with Asana, you use the [tab] key, such as [tab]C to go to the comment section.

Everyone talks about performance issues.. but if the trend continue, it won't be a problem. But I'd agree that right now it's still hard performance-wise.

Maybe one way to solve these problems is to have a gamer browser. Could be based on V8 and even have the look&feel of Chrome, but small parts would be tweaked to make it gaming friendly. Maybe no plugin allowed, more resources dedicated to it, performance optimized for certain tasks, etc.
#Content means you're talking about content, and it's not just a word you used in passing. Similarly, #launches adds your tweet to the conversation people are having about launches, instead of making people sort through missile launches, some guy who launches into a story, and misspelled lunches to get to relevant tweets.
I hope you guys get something planned in the Atlanta area!
The Evolution of Internet Logos
I find it interesting how the word "hipster" has morphed in usage over the last five-or-so years. Originally, as far as I could tell, it had a specific meaning: "someone who prefers unknown bands just for their being unknown, and dislikes well-known bands just for their being well-known." This, obviously, is a person to not hold in high regard--their mannerism, after all, is entirely defined by contempt for the majority of humanity. ("As soon as everyone likes it, I hate it.")

Then an image and a lifestyle got attached to it--some mix of the effete New Yorker, the post-punk Seattlite, and the "urban woodsman" Portlander. And now it just refers to those things, and no longer really carries the requirement that the person so-labelled define themselves via contrarianism and contempt.

But language influences thought, people still remember the old meaning, and "slur it forward": seeing people who are hipsters-as-in-culture and assuming they're worthy of the same contempt given to hipsters-as-in-contemptuous-assholes.
By the time I reached the middle of the post, i had totally forgot how i got here. How i got to this page, this awesome piece of article. I totally forgot this was on the top of HN. Now that's the power of your storytelling. i just loved it. it felt like i was sitting beside you and you were telling me your story. Awesome storytelling abilities. Thumbs Up !
"The region lies on the "Ring of Fire" — an arc of earthquake and volcanic zones that stretches around the Pacific Rim. About 90 percent of the world's quakes occur in the region." --

Who had the brilliant idea to build a nuclear power plant there... :\
They should do sequencing and metagenomics on this alleged alien life.

Strands, sequences, twisting, separating, joining. Abathur would be pleased...

Honk if you played Heart of The Swarm...
wibki looks awesome thanks for replying
According to Rick Waldron (TC39 member) on twitter[1][2], this has just been elevated to a harmony proposal[3][4].

[1] https://twitter.com/rwaldron/status/380725837038759936

[2] https://twitter.com/rwaldron/status/380742382594953216

[3] http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:proposals

[4] https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2008-August/00...
Great article, made me explicitly aware of something I had at the back of mind as a web developer.

Another point that struck me is that when I briefly used Android more than a year ago, there was a nifty tool that showed which app drained what %-age of the battery. If I am having troubles with my battery life on Android, I am likely to uninstall (or not use) an app that consumes more than its fair share of the battery.

I haven't seen an equivalent statistics pane in iOS, I wonder whether Apple will introduce it at some point to encourage app developers to author more efficient apps.
Great list. Shameless self-plug: I wrote a tool similar to sample available on pip as subsample. It supports the approximate sample algorithm that yours does as well as reservoir sampling and an exact two-pass algorithm that runs in O(1) space.

Docs: https://github.com/paulgb/subsample
Trying hard to counter-PR the NSA partnership :)
I have not read the book, but I respectfully disagree teaching a testing methodology should err towards over-testing. Your testing process should intelligently focus on the areas that most benefit from it, such as business domain logic, avoiding the pitfall of trying to cover e.g. your entire UI codebase.

Over testing can be as bad as not testing at all.
Thanks, I haven't seen that yet. It does look promising. I was vaguely aware that work was happening on these features, but I wasn't aware of their current state.

Unfortunately it doesn't look like these are available yet in Python, as Python doesn't seem to have bindings for QtQuick 2.1, at least based on my googling. Hopefully that will come soon though!
Maybe a good mobile app can determine its optimization/ux strategy depending on what level the battery is currently at. I am not sure whether apps can query for battery levels though.
The Ultimate Guide to Running Online Competitions
More like it was bound to happen just about now, and a year after they purchased it.
I guess my argument is the Windows/Mac analogy was always false. The Mac was a machine that has kept trending upward in numbers sold for many, many years never starting with some dominant position to lose. The Mac never lost its market share to Windows because it didn't have it to lose. Beyond that, I really don't think any of the old thinking actually applies to the current cellphone market as the software exclusivity problems of the PC era are not really an issue these days. The whole environment has changed and the connections matter more. In other words, we are closer to cars than PCs since so much of what we do is actually standardized (text, call, web browse) like roads and gas.
Hipster goes back way further; hippie actually derives from it and not vice versa.

And it isn't a term that just completely died out in the 50s and was reborn in the aughts (e.g. in Seinfeld, Kramer gets called a "Hipster Doofus").
Contrast with the un-hashtagged version: https://twitter.com/search?q=content
So you want to rent a Lamborghini?  Try Hertz
Did the cate eat you Ruby code?
The post describes how to find the method definition in Ruby
That's a good question. Feature selection is a large field of research and is a bit too broad for me to summarize in an abbreviated fashion. I would look into "model selection", specifically into scores of models that weigh both complexity (the number of variables) and goodness of fit. A good score to look into first is the Bayesian information criterion (BIC) which is used, for instance, in model selection in neuroscience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_information_criterion

One thing you might want to try is cross-validation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-validation_%28statistics%...). Cross-validation should help you determine if your model is overfitting, as it will perform significantly better on its training set than on the left out data.
Damn, if I weren't going to be out of country on the 26th, I'd totally bring my camera and take pictures of this event.

...wait a minute!
"Mozart's the canonical example of somebody who didn't have to practice for years."

I'm assuming the parent was referring to information presented in the book Outliers, which provides a counter-argument to this