skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Chrome, this will transform the entire web to look like that page. (It's very quick-and-dirty, so not everything works.)

1. Install the Stylebot extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbm...).

2. Click the "CSS" button added to the right of the omnibar.

3. Click "Options..."

4. Click "Styles" in the left sidebar.

5. Click the "Edit Global Stylesheet" button.

6. Enter the following:

@font-face {
font-family: GlassTTYVT220;
src: local("Glass TTY VT220") local("Glass TTY VT220 Medium") url(http://waltergr.com/misc/Glass_TTY_VT220.ttf) format("truetype");
}

* {
color: #e5b800;
background-color: #0a0600;
font-family: GlassTTYVT220;
font-size: 20px;
}

7. Click save.

8. Load / refresh a page.

9. Bask in the amber glow.

I didn't want to hotlink the font on someone else's server so I uploaded it to one of mine. You should probably put it on a server you own, which is accessible via SSH, and change http://waltergr.com/... to //yourserver.com/...

Here's a screenshot of the front page of HN: http://waltergr.com/misc/chrome-vt220-screenshot.png
On this note, this doesn't seem to be more powerful than CL:s optional typing, am I wrong?
Numba was just the fastest way to get it working. LLVM(py) is very low-level. C is still an option but Numba made interfacing with a no-brainer.
Didn't see a lot of practical advice. For example: they say there aren't really defenses against keyloggers but that is not true. One defense to protect a web password is to inject characters into the key logger that are ignored by the browser. One method of doing this is to click in the password text box, type one character of your password then click on the background of the page and type a bunch of gibberish then repeat. The keylogger will be filled with random gibberish instead of your password.
No rule is sacred, and your mileage will vary. For me, having a pull-request for the hotfix helps us run continuous integration tests, code-review, and ensure relevant people get notified automatically of the fix.
I work in a large educational institution, using PHP and MS SQL Server, and I can't convince the sysadmins to install PDO because the SQL Server PDO bindings have a big red EXPERIMENTAL sign on the page (http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-dblib.php). So I'm stuck using 'mssql_' functions, I'm afraid.
"Brain science" is ripe for debunking. Why do people still accept this humbug?
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2012/09/your-brain...
Ah come on. He does have a bit of a point. Sure youtube has videos. Excepting the page that actually plays a single video he does have a point. There's exactly one piece of somewhat moving interface in the entire site. Like in windows 3.1 (and they were hardly the first to do that). The rest is text and a grid of images. Even the most advanced websites are not much better. I mean I love how google has used moving gifs in the google.com/photos stuff to actually show something moving, but that's about as advanced as interfaces get. In some ways, including what can be done with interfaces, the web is only at the level desktop interfaces were at 10 years ago.

I think the author of the article wants to compare that to, say, the starcraft menu interface. Or windows desktop applications. Or, to a lesser extent, flash interfaces. This would be a good example. Can you imagine doing this in HTML ? http://demo.northkingdom.com/gettheglass/

And he does have a point. Recreating the starcraft interface in HTML5+CSS+Javascript is possible of course. In the same sense that you can write windows 95 in pure lambda calculus (frankly, I think the lambda calculus rewrite would be easier since there's translation tools).

I'm with the rest of the people here. Those fancy interfaces have little function, don't interact well with the rest of the world (e.g. search engines, content aggregators, ...), they're accessibility nightmares, ... But they're cool. But my opinion on them has exceptions : for some things, like games, that's more important than all those other things.
Depends on how you want to do it. I'd rebase on top of master before publishing, _and_ before merging it in (accepting PR).

Definitely be comfortable with rebase before you try this though.
Sorry, not yet. I hope to be able to make more information available soon.

The query language is very straightforward. More interestingly, this approach makes it easy to implement various algorithms for machine learning / data mining, at least compared to MapReduce.
HTML5 Super Mario Bros
Neither do I. Impressive. Never used Pinboard, but I'll take a look.

PS. And actually Bulgaria is the poorest, Romania does better.
An introduction to typed clojure (strangely missing from both the blog post and the IndieGoGo campaign):

http://www.clojure.net/2013/03/14/Typed-Clojure/
You forgot sword-play games, which could really benefit from a controller that hasn't hit market yet (see Clang and STEM).

All of these game genres exist on consoles, and all of them are most typically played with a game-pad. While specialist devices exist for most genres of games, the gamepad is the default generalist that plays them all. The steam controller promises to be a better generalist. Don't underestimate that.
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It's a significant fraction of total power draw when asleep.

So a device with 2GB should have a significantly smaller standby time than one with 1GB, right, given that, by your claims, it's a significant fraction. Only that isn't true at all, and straight comparisons between, for instance, the GS3 international (1GB) and the GS3 Snapdragon (2GB) shows absolutely no reduction in two-week+ standby time. Of course all else isn't the same (it never is), and there are other power profile changes between them, but it certainly isn't remotely significant of a power draw.

Because in the profile of a smartphone it is absolutely negligible. Your phone is always in radio contact with the cell tower, that absolutely dwarfing all other power consumers. When you turn it actively on, the screen and the CPU absolutely dominate power consumption. There is no case where memory on smartphones is remotely a significant power consumer.

The iPhone has 1GB because that maximizes Apple profits. Every justification are like the hilariously silly claims when the iPhone was 3.5" so many had to justify why 3.5" was the ultimate size and aspect ratio. And it'll immediately shift again once Apple adds 2GB and a 5" screen to the iPhone 6.
Apple offers 21st Century technology – with 19th Century ethics
"...When asked where it obtains its minerals, Apple, which has done so much to persuade us that it is deft, cool and responsive, looks arrogant, lumbering and unaccountable.

The question was straightforward: does Apple buy tin from Bangka Island? The wriggling is almost comical..."
Author here: Fortunately HN works even in the Finnish countryside. I am happy to answer any questions.
I'll take every down arrow, but it is nonsense that melange isn't sitting in the sub-zero realm as well. Their garbage post was factually wrong, added absolutely nothing to the discussion, and is the classic demonstration of a buyers' defense.
Samsung pays apple 1 billion sending 30 trucks full of 5 cent coins
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Real world such as seeing approaching trains or being in one isn't a problem - the sickness manifests only when the "seen reality" doesn't match "felt reality", i.e., when a display tries to fake reality. Reading in a car might be similar, yes - if you are feeling the movement change but you are so engrossed that your eyes tell that you don't seem to be moving. Games and movies would cause problems only if they're "too immersive" - small screens and unrealistic graphics wouldn't cause it, but a 3d screen all around you would.

My (completely unverified) opinion is that there is a solid evolutionary basis for this - I mean, if your vestibular system gives different movement perception than your visual system, then that usually (in older times 100% ?) is a common symptom of poisoning, probably caused by some psychoactive substance in something you ate, and vomiting is an appropriate built-in reaction to try to mitigate that poisoning.
Can anyone compare it to MKNetworkKit (https://github.com/MugunthKumar/MKNetworkKit/) ?

I have been using it for a few projects and it's been really helpful. Has the correct level of abstraction.
His name is in the man page (in the source, did you look there?).

Also if you read this whole thread before commenting, you would have seen the project's very recent announcement on the GNU mailing list.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2013-09/msg00014....

No, Stallman isn't trying to steal Juergen Sauermann's work.
She can either fix her workplace or get a new one. If she is as talented as you say she is, then she should take her talents elsewhere. Vote with your feet. I would not be so pessimistic to say that every environment would be like this (at least in the USA).
I'd prefer to deal with some hardware engineer's bugs, whose office is next door (considering it's the 1980's) to some brainfucked, overengineered API produced by a hypergiant software corporation today.
On writing interfaces well
Completely agree - very excited to have just sponsored Ambrose's project as Snowplow Analytics. As an industry we need to get much better at acknowledging and supporting the role the technology components "under us" in the stack play in our own products' success; Zed Shaw made this exact point talking about Mongrel in his Why I (A/L)GPL post.[1]

So direct sponsorship to developers doing innovative things is great - and Typed Clojure is really innovative, one of the things I'm most excited about at the moment (along with Mesos, Rust and Summingbird). We don't use a lot of Clojure at Snowplow yet - but we use some[2], and we will likely use a lot more with Typed Clojure, because optional typing is such a great fit for ETL work.

Keep up the great work Ambrose!

[1] http://zedshaw.com/essays/why_i_gpl.html
[2] https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/tree/master/2-collector...
Good title for a joke.
Idea of serious coding on templating engine can't be serious.
A Polish immigrant to America starts a one-man business while traveling (staying? working?) in Romania, gives it an Indian TLD, and moves back to America to work on it full-time. And only a short while ago I'd been reading his blog about Argentinian cuisine. 50 years ago, people would have found this mind-boggling. The Internet truly is global.
Government shutdown - what you need to know
Most keyloggers include the window title (and the really advanced ones take screenshots as well), so this countermeasure is easily defeated.
Dude. Thanks for this. First thing through my head when I saw this was retro font FTW.
Dependency Responsibility
I'd like to think he going after depression that leads to suicide.

Is euthanasia really suicide?
TDD is often praised for its documentation effect, vital for teams working on big projects with heavy moving pieces. But I've found TDD to be essential in projects in which I'm the main or sole coder. OftenI can't finish every piece of a project in a single day, so I'm switching context and code bases quite frequently. TDD has been the only way I can keep on task, knowing exactly where I left off by running the suite. It also not only forces me to write more modular code, but it abets the reuse of code because if a module works in one project, I can extract it and put it in the others and can use TDD to immediately see if that raises issues.

Even for side projects, TDD has been essential...it's so easy to let side projects die especially if you've forgotten where you left off. With some TDD, I can discipline myself to at least write a few tests today if I can't muster the energy to do real code for the project...and often that little push ends up with lots of code being written....just as you can go on a five mile run as soon as you motivate yourself to get off the couch
They absolutely aren't!
Mammals are Synapsids, reptiles and birds are Sauropsida.
They branched before most of brain development in both groups took place and since then we don't share ancestors.
I suggest also reading "GitHub Flow"[1] by Scott Chacon about this topic.

[1] http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html
I'm not dismissing WordPress's value. Rather, I'm dismissing those that dismiss PHP out-of-hand and their lists of reasons include WordPress.
Has a quantum computer solved the 'party problem'?
Sorry, maybe it wasn't clear, but the professional using PHP was the one walking away. =)
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Tell Facebook that. They are the ones talking about it still.

Also, your TL;DR is a flat out lie.
FP is quite useful, the fad I'm referring to is "let's make everything immutable" and "let's just use functions to structure our code." This ignores what FP is good at and how it doesn't really compete with OOP in terms of problem space: OOP is basically modelling based on how we think and talk about things (kingdom of nouns), FP works great for more abstract math-based concepts (kingdom of verbs). Immutability solves one problem (consistency) that has other real solutions as well (dependency propagation).

There is still a lot of work to do on objects to not make them suck, just like there is still a lot of work to do with functions. My ax-to-grind revolves around work on objects being neglected in favor of a fixation on functions.
Oh yeah, I got over that nausea very quickly. I do wanna check out the Oculus!
I once had a housemate that would occasionally watch me play doomlikes, but she couldn't do it for long as it gave her motion-sickness, particularly with strafing moves.
I remember some yeArs ago the "back to the future" attractio. In universal make some peopple sick. Ecaise the phisical movements didnt match perfectly the screen movements.
nil is explicit in Typed Clojure, and it's a goal to statically avoid misuses of nil.

This rough screencast describes on aspect to the approach http://vimeo.com/55280915
I agree ! I too can't afford it but would really love to play around with that data because i'm just beginning to learn about NLP and stuff. I too feel that shouldn't have been priced and not in a DVD!
Well, I'd say it's never better to "try to parse as much as you can" and when encountering such an error simply silently give out a nonsense answer.

It's the computer equivalent of a bozo worker who does something random everytime they don't know how to do their job, and then tries to hide any consequences while whistling innocently.
I believe it has to do with features like subtyping and method overloading which cause havok for global type inference. Found a paper here: http://ropas.snu.ac.kr/lib/dock/HoMi1995.ps
My first computer that was solely my own was a Compaq Portable III[0], better known as the Compaq Lunchbox. It was a 12 MHz 286 with a whopping 20MB hard drive. It had a gas plasma amber CGA screen (yes it was amber on amber) and a pretty good keyboard for a portable of that vintage. I didn't really use it portable, but it fit nicely on the folding TV tray I used as a desk.

It was an upgrade from using the C64 connected to the TV.

[0] http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/CompaqIIIportable.htm
Well all the best practices in the article, are ok, in 2006.

Nowadays there are many more treats, entry points (hint: browser setup and plugins), and more authentication methods than "passwords".

We have even evidences of major upstream compromises.

In resume: for me the article is a little bit short in scope.
This is meant for casual users. For power users, the advice would be "never use a computer again because you can trust NOTHING EVER".
The Science of Blow Jobs
In this case, you are probably just using classes to emulate namespaced functions [1], the use of 'class' is confusing to oop programmers, the code does not have classes, just the word class.

Like php code, php itself is often confusing and hard to decipher, currently I think it of it as a C dsl for web stuff that people mistake for a high level application framework.

Like C, many people learn basic syntax and functionality in school or as a side project. Unlike C, people believe that that their skillset is the one required to build a complex server side application combined with a web ui.

If you realize the mismatch and account for it, you can build great php websites. The problem arises when people assume they are getting a 'faster/cheaper' .Net/Java stack and start to hire programmers into that structure.

The net result is a clash between people that are using PHP as intended, and people that have been subjected to the misuse of the php.

1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5647598/cannot-import-use...
I'm not at all professionally qualified to answer that, but I would have to guess that it's the exact reverse of motion sickness. With motion sickness I common cause (or at least in me) is from reading in the car. In that scenario you are focused on something stationary while your senses all feel as though you are being propelled down the road. In this case you are focused on what honestly looks to me like a standard animation of a wormhole, while everything else is telling you that you are stationary.

The problem with this thought (thought of it while typing but too late to turn back) is that if focusing on something like a half second wormhole animation while sitting still makes you sick for the reason I suggested, then you probably wouldn't be able to do other basic things like watch television.

I'm not bashing Apple at all. Never said anything negative about them before, but I can say this. I've had an iPhone, an iPhone 3GS, an iPhone 4, and an iPhone 5. I've used iOS, 2.X.X, 3.X.X, 4X.X, 5.X.X, and 6.1. I have seen iOS7 but didn't install it. If 7.1 looks like 7, this will be my last iPhone.
There is a difference between subject to change and "useless." The numbers are still quite valid to use to compare to the numbers present just prior to the previous Apple refresh cycle, which obviously tells us that Android has been gaining ground.
Careful with disseminating information - there's a theory that if you provide a complete model for suicide that it will be emulated:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide
In-App Purchase Revenues to reach $36B (Gartner) w/ data and charts.
Until one day he is found out to be not credible on most things he blabbers about and it goes all over the press. Then people will just demonise everything he endorses.
Smoking addiction combines both chemical addiction and a very peculiar habit. It is hard to break both at the same time; so best practice for quitting is to first drop smoking as a habit (while not touching nicotine addiction, replacing it with another nicotine source) and only afterwards working on the actual stuff.
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This is my biggest gripe. PHP just does one thing. You can't really use it for much more then building web pages. Yes, you can use it for scripting but Ruby and Python are much better at this.

You have things like Rubymotion(to build iOS and Mac apps), which I'm really liking. Opal which translates Ruby to Javascript. You can build Android apps with Ruboto. You can run Ruby the JVM and call Java libraries. You can run Ruby on the .NET runtime(Iron Ruby). You have a really good Web framework called Rails. Most other PHP frameworks just copy Rails, so why not just use the source. You can build games for iOS using Joybox(library for Rubymotion).

So from a business prospective we chose Ruby because we can do pretty much everything in Ruby. We rarely have to use anything else. From command line applications, to web, to iOS, to Android, to reporting, etc.

PHP, well, you can output HTML, or JSON.
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After watching this particular video, it was clumsy, with lots of rough edges. It doesn't seem to have been written for a target audience, and contains a grab-bag of iffy factoids - which is not up to Fry's reputation of knowledgable, insightful commentary. At the very least, they could have moved the MBA out of frame.
>>> an old woman approached Duignan and said, “That’s not a movie, that’s a weapon against suicide.” <<<

It's amazing what a compelling movie can do. It's a delicate act, but when done correctly it encourages people to use their compassion and empathy as weapons for a cause. We're so attuned to human faces and voices that movies directly and emotionally engage us in ways that are far beyond mere paper.

My friend attempted to do something like this with homelessness. He actually found a camera, went out there, and just tried to talk to homeless people and helped them to get off the streets while chronicling their journey. Although it sounds simple and, well, uninteresting, what he captured on film ended up being a fascinating, compassionate look into this complex world. I really recommend it;

https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/but-for-the-grace-of-god/i...
OK.

But that you cannot defend yourself of NSA, until you're in an enemy country or something like, does not mean, that you cannot protect yourself against all the rest of the world.

Using a master password, implies the clipboard (on average). Does anybody trust desktop browsing over linux, assuming that clipboard usage on Xorg is in some way safe? it's convenient, but not safe.

If I try to tell best-practices to a user of mine, I try to group all my experience and knowledge, before compile to user slang.

Even if for casual users, short in scope (for my personal taste).

And maybe too many prose, a more direct style maybe better to stamp on the user mind a list of best practices.
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Hmm. Interesting. So there is absolutely no basis to a reptilian brain component thingie?
I, for one, do not believe these complaints at all. But, I cannot speak for others. I just don't feel that the field is large enough, and the exposure is long enough, to actually disorientate or to confuse one's equilibrium.
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UX Designer here.
In my first 4 or so years of web designing I found I did this often. Low contrast elements is they easy/lazy way out, you can clearly give things more importance just by giving the element greater contrast, but it's not good design.
In my case it was learning this. Learning to feel comfortable with every single element I was putting on the page, learning how to balance correctly contrasted objects, giving elements the right sizing and ultimately having confidence as a designer.
I'm racist for making fun of the embassy security chief because you do not like a Simpsons character. I do not know whether to laugh or cry.
What are your best practices?
0) Do not publish your best practices

1) ...

:-)

If you want a more serious response, at least, talk to the user about attacks that remains exposed, and keywords to the solution, if I resume too much.
I was very keen on using TDD to lay out the design and technical specification of a solution to be implemented by our team (8 developers total).

Unfortunately, because the project has tight deadlines (regulatory project), despite minimal requirement clarity the team needed to get going and in the end every developer ended up with just a rough guideline of how to implement the various components.

Does anybody have ideas for integrating TDD with an Agile approach and a team around this size?
I am not a Pinboard "user" but it is a great way to find stuff to read. The system has a very nice url system. For example:

https://pinboard.in/t:minimalism
Research: Android taking over the tablet market from iOS
Sets and relations are indeed the most richest metamodel but most of the time a dag (directly acyclic graph) is enough : object can be connected to many parents but it keeps most the hierarchical organisation, which is easier to model.
That is hardly relevant, using a stick as position input would give you, what, five units of movement on either axis?