skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the announcement: The SproutCore team is very pleased to announce the final release of SproutCore version 1.10.0. This version is the fastest, most feature-rich and most stable version of SproutCore to-date and includes several new additions and improvements to make development with SproutCore even better and to make SproutCore apps that much more impressive.
Will be using this to browse design shots from now on. It's a much better interface than having to click through pages on Dribbble.
Even more important: Most of those very real health problems that drugs cause the user are actually not caused by the drug itself but rather by impurities added by the dealer, dirty needles, less-than-ideal sanitary conditions etc. Those can all be tackled if drugs are not illegal.
Interesting. http://linux.die.net/man/2/sync says

On Linux, sync is guaranteed only to schedule the dirty blocks for
According to the standard specification (e.g., POSIX.1-2001), sync()
schedules the writes, but may return before the actual writing is done.

However, since version 1.3.20 Linux does actually wait. (This still
does not guarantee data integrity: modern disks have large caches.)

So it seems like the sleep(2) is there to give the disk enough time to write the cache data.
No, you give somebody 500 million because you have no other choice. He owns those shares.
I am very surprised he remained in the US. I would have thought he'd take his BTC and run off to live with McAfee in Belize.
Small images are often confusing, see http://www.reddit.com/r/misleadingthumbnails/
rent: http://boulder.craigslist.org/apa/

It is sunny most of the time maybe even more than Florida. It is not humid either. When the sun is out in winter, it feels warm even if it is 30 degrees. It is very cold if there is a winter storm, but the snow melts almost immediately and it is back to feeling warm during the day. Summers are very pleasant.

And unlike the Midwest (where I grew up), it is warmer overall in the winter and there is stuff to do.
I agree that the U.S. should stop doing that, but the U.S. doesn't do that very much to begin with. See: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/lists/top-10-marijuana-m....

While I agree that the Drug War should be ended, I think people overstate how much of an impact that would have on our prison population. There are a lot of people in prison on drug charges because drug distribution is a core business of America's gangs. The drug war is at least in part a proxy war on gangs. Legalization would hurt the gangs, but it's not as if all those people would suddenly go straight. There's 1.4 million gang members in the U.S. The gangs would continue to operate, and if drugs were off the table, the gangs would go into some other business and end up in prison for some other reason.
> I just don't understand why anyone would want to either start a business in the US, or do business with the US.

Here are some companies you could ask:

Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Google, HP, Facebook, Cisco.

Here are some others:

http://yclist.com/

It could well be - I would even suspect it myself - that the US is an imperfect country. And yet it seems to have a few companies who are able to do business there notwithstanding the harsh conditions.
Itertools in Golang
That is exactly the effect described by the GP: People appreciate you trying to speak French and help you out in whatever way they can, in this case by switching to English. The point is for you to give a decent first impression by doing some work and at least attempting to communicate in French rather than expecting them to speak English from the start.
What's the value of reading books like this? Seems like a gossip rag. We look down at people who read celebrity tabloids but this is no different just because the drama happens inside an office.
Did you read the article?

The entire point is to set flogging up as a demonstration of just how extreme an option prison is (most of us has a visceral reaction to the idea of flogging - a punishment we tend to associate with backwards dictatorships; yet the article writer assumes most of us would choose flogging rather than prison).

The third paragraph explicitly states the purpose is to be provocative.

The last two explicitly points out that if one were to take the suggestion seriously, then it would serve as a stark demonstration of just how insane the current system is:

" The lash, which metes out punishment without falsely promising betterment, is an unequivocal expression of society’s condemnation. For better and for worse, flogging would air the dirty laundry of race and punishment in America in a way that prisons—which, by their very design, are removed from society—can never do. To highlight an injustice is in no way to condone it. Quite the opposite.

Without a radical defense of flogging, changes to our current defective system of justice are hard to imagine. The glacial pace of reform promises only the most minor adjustments to the massive machinery of incarceration. Bringing back the lash is one way to destroy it—if not completely, then at least for the millions of Americans for whom the punishment of prison is far, far worse than the crime they have committed. Yes, flogging may seem brutal and retrograde, but only because we are in mass denial about the greater brutality of our supposedly civilized and progressive prisons. "
If yourserver.com is connecting to friendsserver.com on port 25... there is some metadata. I mean if three-letter-agencies are monitoring the internet they'll figure out what just happened.
I've seen them smack dab in the middle of boston.com "The Big Picture". You basically can't look at more than a few of the photos without answering a google survey question. For me, looking at this page now asks me who my auto insurance provider is with: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/10/broken_lives_of_fuk...
Flipkart doesn't have Amazon's reputation for customer service... and shows no interest in improving it either.

I've been stung twice by inaccurate specs on their website before I decided to keep away permanently:
1. A phone which I kept.
2. An LCD which I returned.

... And they always err on the the side which makes the product look better.

They do not fix the descriptions of when complained about, and they delete reviews which point inaccuracies in the product description.

They're a terrible brand, and I hope they fail.

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edit:

A couple of examples:

1. http://www.flipkart.com/dell-inspiron-14z-5423-ultrabook-2nd...

Dell Inspiration 14z "Ultrabook"... No SSD or msata.

2. http://www.flipkart.com/laptops/pr?p%5B%5D=facets.processor%...

Apple laptops are better than the others: 2nd generation Intel processor, but they have Intel HD Graphics 4000.

Don't get me wrong. A few typos are fine.

The problem is that with Flipkart this is normal and they don't clean it up.
Employees != engineers.

They probably have twice as many people in marketing and sales as they do in R&D or IT.
How To Design An Alarm That Makes Millions
Researchers Develop Multi-Touch Sensor That Can Be Cut
I don't have access to an Arch system to test, so: are you sure it's systemd that's doing that? It seems more likely to me that it would be from /etc/skel/, but I could be wrong...
Fixing hangs in ASP.NET web apps
What next? Cut the hand for the thieves and the feet if they try to run away?

The solution precognised here is still in the same register of reaction vs prevention. Maybe those convicted and send to jail/prison could have had the social/psychological support to prevent their unruly behaviour that got them there in the first place?

Or did someone pointed out the 'unbearable' financial cost of preventive action, without considering the social and psychological impact on individuals and communities alike?

Anyway, how's that technology news?
Am I the only person who was sure this post was going to mock excessive use of acronyms?
Well said. The US prison complex is hopelessly broken and the absurdity of flogging criminals only underscores that.
They sort of have to - if they hand over user data, it will be a huge blow to their current and future business.
Mobile Developers: Recommendations on handling app support?
We are about to release our first android app, and along with that our first support desk. We are using ZenDesk for email and chat support. The big question is - how many support requests do you typically see in a month? (assume a large number of installs).

I'm trying to figure out if I need to hire someone. I'm not sure people contact support anymore for support, but I don't have any data to back that up.
When reading the title, I assumed this was talking about job interviews, a much different type of interview. How do these ideas apply to job interviews? Is it a good idea for an interviewer in a job interview to encourage interviewees to say I don't know, and should you be more ok with saying I don't know and then elaborating in a job interview?
I spilled some coffee on some light coloured trousers on the way to the London office. The stain was centered right in my lap and I couldn't really go around like that all day, so I stopped and bought some cheap trousers at Gap to sort me out.

Pro-tip: Telling your local UK colleagues that you were running late because you stained your pants and needed to get new pants, and then offering to show people the stained pants is going to lead to some awkward moments.
I would say, JSON over MQTT makes much more sense.

MQTT (http://mqtt.org/) is certainly not as popular as XMPP but much more simpler.
Yeah, that. I assume their rebranding is incomplete.
This is a nice try. I would like to see some incremental improvements in mail. For example in the header we could display a rating of how secure the mail is. Based use of TLS, etc. If client programs displayed this it would encourage infrastructure improvements.
Isn't McAfee back in the US?
In LA the trash get's collected at 5am, it feels as though i have the trash cans next to me that's how loud it is. To top this off, they building an off ramp nearby, so i wake up at 1am but i can hear this drilling in the distance very faint, it doesn't disturb me, but i can hear it. I started thinking about those people living right there, how the hell are they sleeping, these guys are drilling 1am in the morning!
Have you talked to anyone about your product? Have you gotten any feedback about it? Do you believe it stands a reasonable chance of success if you devoted your full(er) attention to it? Getting feedback and product/market fit validation is relatively inexpensive. On the other hand, dropping everything to work on an unvalidated product can be quite costly.

I would recommend seeking out as much feedback as possible -- not just from friends & family, but from people on the street, people in your hypothetical target market, Show/Ask HN posts, meetups, etc. Look before you leap. While you can never fully mitigate the risk of starting your own business, you can certainly get your ducks in a row before jumping completely into it.

Maybe the product you want to build will never get built unless you devote 50%, 60%, or even 100% of your time to it. That's fair. But before you do that, prove the concept. Nothing is more heartbreaking that dropping a secure, comfortable job to leap into a project you haven't rigorously vetted and tested. Trust me; I've done that before. It didn't end well, and it set me back at least a couple of years.

One should never have to make a "cold turkey" move. Nothing about it should be cold. If you're giving up a good job to pursue something else, you owe it to yourself to make sure that something else might be viable. Instead of spending your 3-5% nights-and-weekends time building small chunks of the product, use that time to test the concept and the market.
Apple Withdraws Android Support to Newly Acquired HopStop
One would hope that the completion of sync() would mean the data is written out, except I recently read this horror[1] on HN:

Unfortunately, most consumer-grade mass storage devices lie about syncing. Disk drives will report that content is safely on persistent media as soon as it reaches the track buffer and before actually being written to oxide. This makes the disk drives seem to operate faster (which is vitally important to the manufacturer so that they can show good benchmark numbers in trade magazines). And in fairness, the lie normally causes no harm, as long as there is no power loss or hard reset prior to the track buffer actually being written to oxide. But if a power loss or hard reset does occur, and if that results in content that was written after a sync reaching oxide while content written before the sync is still in a track buffer, then database corruption can occur.

… part of me hopes there's a very special hell for the people making disks where the OS can never be sure if the data is safe or not.

[1]: http://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html
Samsung unveils phone with curved screen
http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/how

Why is that "take the tour" button so messed up?
I can't say what is is about your comment or the article, but something about the combination gives off the vibe that this is an astroturfing effort to promote Google Comsumer Surveys.
Now, yes. But Dread Pirate Roberts should have fled as soon as the first Congressman said "why can't we shut down Silk Road?"
I see how this would happen with users in London, and I even see france, and come to think of it I can see rjmetrics's underpants!
'Gestapo Tactics' Meet Seniors at Yellowstone
Capo3: Reverse Engineering Rock and Roll
Transferring data using your speaker & microphone on iOS
Here's What Happened To Twitter Co-Founder Noah Glass After He Was Kicked Out
That's what options are and there are pricing models that take into account high volatility accordingly. I call them 'insurance' because that's how I see them after learning and working with them. They are simply a transfer of risk from one party to another; the buyer of the option is selling their risk, the seller is taking it on for a period of time with certain conditions. The 'option' part is whether they are exercised, just like when you buy fire insurance (a risk you don't want to have) and your house doesn't burn down, the insurance seller is ahead and your risk as the buyer is reduced or eliminated. There is also the problem of determining how much risk the option seller can take on and handle before falling over when they have to pay up, but I'm sure there's also options available to mitigate that risk as well; it's turtles all the way down.
Nice benefits. At what point in market share does that all get taken away? Surely the whole population cant go on the bus lanes.
Don't use too many aliases, a dozen generic ones should do it, learn to use reverse history search (usually mapped to Ctrl-r) instead.

Once you get used to it, your brain just triggers this combination whenever the command is more complex than let's say `ls -al`. This means you have to change some habits like to `tail` your logs with absolute paths, so you don't need to `cd` into the folder first, etc.
Europeans are always upset that the first country to market with new products is the US, but if they spent even half the time they spend complaining about America to actually build something useful they would be much better off.
I do believe there is one more thing that a record label can bring to an artist: marketing.

There's a gigantic amount of music produced every day, and only a limited time for listening, so filtering is a real issue, and labels do help there.

Record labels are labels, and in some genres of music, labels are a really good way to filter the signal from the noise for listeners. I do not believe this entitles them to keep a big part of the money generated by the sales of music, but it is clear that even if your music is on iTunes, Google Play, or any other service, if no one hears about it, it will just sleep there.

Therefore, to me, the next step in the elimination of the need of record labels would be an efficient music discovery service, where you could be sure that if your tunes are good, no matter the lack of promotion, they'll fall in the relevant ears. There is Pandora and the likes, but I don't think we're quite there yet (hype will probably always be a very strong thing). I have good hopes though.
I think you are assuming those 2000 are all software engineers, which they definitely are not.

The S1 filing says:

As of June 30, 2013, we had approximately 2,000 employees, an increase of over 1,800 employees since January 1, 2010. We intend to continue to make substantial investments to expand our operations, research and development, sales and marketing and general and administrative organizations, as well as our international operations.
IBM wants to use big data to predict heart disease long before it strikes
My high school had something of a dress code that you had to be clean shaven and hair can't be past your shoulders. It was in no way a masculine thing, it was more of a uniform sort of thing (schools making rules for the sake of making rules).

I had been given a razor on more than one occasion to shave in the morning, but never got into real trouble. I think the author is overstating this.
To be fair, as a non-US citizen I think it's fair for the US government to ask you what exactly you plan to do in their country.
Thanks. Think I prefer to keep my editor and git actions separate but appreciate the reply.
The Way We Work Is Soul-Sucking, But Social Networks Are Not the Fix
Author here, this is using free Microsoft tools only. Was a big hit in our troubleshooting course, so we figured we release it for public benefit.
Good tidbit in the conclusion:
"Hackathons are an amazing resource for kick-starting new ideas and proving out concepts. However, they should never be used to circumvent due diligence on big business decisions."
I don't misuse apps.. although I do misuse APIs, if you catch my drift :)
The US does not have a particularly high proportion of first-generation immigrants compared to some European countries. There are also other countries that have more poverty (in the absolute sense at least), yet less crime and less incarceration.

Poverty is also something that society can do something about; if you say that the problem is that America has created a large underclass, then that's the problem you want to solve. Flogging won't reduce the size of that underclass; it can only subdue it.
Is there anything preventing the AG from subpoenaing strictly the records of people who actually fit the bill of what they're looking for?

According to the WSJ[1] the investigation is looking strictly at "people who might be trying to skirt New York's laws by renting out multiple units or obtaining their primary residence through Airbnb for extended periods"

It seems like this can be accomplished without a whole-hog dump of every NYC-area landlord. Why not have AirBnb dump this data, with a neutral third party auditing?

One thing that doesn't smell right though:

> "Airbnb has about 15,000 hosts—or people who share their living space—spread out among New York City's five boroughs, with 87% of them renting out the homes that they live in."

I call shenanigans on this. I've done searches throughout NYC as a curiosity exercise last time this topic came up. "Whole apartment" listings vastly outnumber "room in apartment" or "shared room" listings. The notion that the vast majority of Airbnb landlords are present, or renting out parts of their existing homes, does not seem to bear out in reality.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230444140457912...
I was surprised account duplication wasn't mentioned as a disadvantage. If a user taps the wrong button on their tablet, then they can end up with one or more duplicate accounts if the e-mails are different.

I currently have an e-mail confirmation screen that makes it clear a new account is about to be created. I seem to remember Stack Overflow getting me to click a button too. It adds no real burden to new (non-Twitter) users.

I'm still wondering about the best way to handle this in Rails though. Passing the OAuth hash data through a second request to confirm the e-mail doesn't feel quite right to me, even if I make an OAuth service object to clean up the code and some policies to standardise the hash.
Quickly, damon_c! To Kickstarter!
It is great, however when doing a Git Status, the shortcuts are not compatible with VI-input mode since they are vi-commands (i,C etc), could you make it possible to use cmd+shortcut?
Something like Larrabee?
I can verify this [1]. The management team does not have a sense of humor.

[1] I am cofounder and COO
It's still a reason to disprefer the form that was given. I don't see any reason to prefer the cat version over yours, except habits, though. That said, there's only weak reason to avoid the cat.
Gitmo: the reviews are in.
> In any case, these problems arise because prisons prefer to treat prisoners as animals, rather than work on rehab.

Yet you suggest, as a solution, to treat them even more so: Subject them to full surveillance like at a zoo, and chemically castrate them.
In theory, they certainly should be. However in practice that's not always the case. What significant innovations has Blackberry brought to market in the past three years (the timeframe this list covers)? Offhand I can't think of any.

I haven't delved into the list's methodology, but at a glance it appears to basically be a count of in-house patents, which is a reasonable approximation of the amount of innovation a company produces multiplied by the number of patent lawyers on its payroll. If the second variable is large enough, the first one need not be that significant...
> Why does it matter that he might not have missed an "opportunity" to be a billionaire?

Because Forbes is a magazine that is published by billionaires, for billionaires.
Kind of defeats the point - how do you know you're downloading the private key you scanned?

While someone might have their business cards replaced, it's a lot easier just to send a different key to someone.
The kernel hasn't always been tracked in git though. How would we know something wasn't added before the source was imported into git?
Resetting styles using ‘all: unset’ in Firefox 27
Yes, that is exactly the point he's trying to make.
going by the "receiving money when people die" thing, I'd say its anything your relatives give to you. I'm sure in a biological science context people mean only genetic/biochemical things (biochemical - e.g. heroin addiction), but my point is that it's difficult to separate out the truly biological ones from the learned ones in most cases.
Why no Harold Scheraga? Seriously...
OPSEC for hackers [video]
If I had the money I'd set up a small yearly prize for "quickest boot on an RPi". Have some rules for what is or isn't allowed, and maybe different categories (IE, "anything goes" for people who want to overclock the hardware) but concentrating on having a usable system when you finish timing.

The boot to a desktop in 5 seconds on an EEE PC 701 is still impressive.

Noodling through the author's site it's pretty interesting to see what they did to cut times, and they're honest about this just being about boot time.

Does anyone else do this kind of optimization, or does it carry too much risk or cost?
lucidity as the fastest path to clarity ?
Hmm, what else happened in 1945? Oh yeah, nuclear bombs.
Purely anecdotal of course but I always set the scene for interviewee's that "I don't know" is a completely acceptable answer. If the question could be attempted with an educated guess then "I don't know" is perfectly fine as long as an educated guess is then attempted.

If you only get "I don't know" with no attempt at a guess or explanation for why they don't know then you may have issues.
Ah, wonderfully divided by a common language!!!! :)

"Fanny" is a great cause of transatlantic fun too. And if you are a Brit in the US, never ever say, "Im diving out for a fag". You're gonna get some odd looks.
Well, I suppose this is a decent start... ;-)
Aha! I didn't know about this. You're awesome!