skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? Literally, how could this be? I think they must be counting every dependency twice.
He's overseeing the bidding process for contractors for projects that he will supervise; he doesn't personally benefit from the outcome of the selection (i.e., he doesn't own stock in companies that are bidding or anything like that), so I'm not sure how it would be a conflict.

So no, I don't think so.
Looking at the list of incentives, I see that it starts off with paying for a meal. I've always thought that the societal expectation that (1) men should ask women out on a date and (2) because they made the invitation they are responsible for picking up the bill is just a form of low-rent prostitution.

I've only dated women who were willing to go dutch and I'm glad that society has been moving away from that norm because it belittles women, particularly the ones who don't recognize it as such, because it says you are valued simply for being female (like 50% of the population) rather than valued for what makes you uniquely you.
Apply MVP $ QR codes for painting = #techgiants art project
You're looking at it the wrong way. This Bender features detachable locomotors.
Considering today's October 22 iPad announcement came 364 days after last year's October 23 iPad announcement, I'm going to guess Nokia's announcement wasn't a contributing factor for Apple's scheduling.
in my experience contrarianism and seeking fame and attention cause as much bias as lobbying.

I particularly trust the FDA because there is no clear direction that lobbying would bias them in. All industries want their food to be called "healthy", and all of these industries are fairly organized or centralized. So I don't see any reason to think the FDA is biased toward a particular food or industry.
"Whoa this transaction is way bigger than normal. So is this one. And this one."

People ignore repetitive things, but they usually notice when it changes. They can tell you that it's shaped different or explain how it sounds different from normal.

If this system made dissimilar transactions look very similar to the monitor, then it is to blame, not the idea of having a monitor at all.
It was good enough for the New York Times though?
It looks like you're designing a user interface. Would you like some help with that?
Yes there is: http://www.sencha.com/products/animator/
MacPorts isn't really ready yet.
Because it only shouldn't be regulated between consenting adults. And those are surprisingly rare in the sex industry.

I used to think the same way, and then started reading the studies. It turns out that legalized sex work increases trafficking [1], and most prostitutes actually do not consent to their work, even in countries where it is legal [2].

I'm not sure what the solution to the issue is. I am fairly certain that restrictive immigration policies give traffickers an excellent choke hold for their victims, though.

[1] http://www.heart-intl.net/HEART/081004/natasha_trade.pdf

[2] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J189v02n03_03#.Um...
that last bit seems a little extreme without limiting conditions. can you imagine legal civil contracts where the penalty for violating it in some fashion is death?
If you're in or around Phoenix, there's Co-hoots in downtown. If you're in the East Valley near Phoenix check out Heatsync Lab's open-to-the public hours and their Code + Coffee times.
Note that the average life expectancy in the US is 78.6 years old. 79 minus 65 is 14 years. So in two years, we can expect that 2/14ths of the population over 65 will have died, or ~14% of that population. A 14% increase in the population over 65 in favor of legalization in two years does not conflict with the notion that this is a demographic issue.
Good catch, I'll update this soon.
Do you recall anything of the 1990's? IE 6? Embrace, extend, and extinguish? The Halloween documents? Microsoft's conviction of anticompetitive business practices left unpunished when the Bush administration took over? The decades of terrible products?
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I know the esteemed New York Times made the half-billion-lines of code assertion, but if you read the actual article, this claim is buried at the bottom. And this is the context:

> According to one specialist, the Web site contains about 500 million lines of software code. By comparison, a large bank’s computer system is typically about one-fifth that size.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/21/us/insurance-site-seen-nee...

So "one specialist" figured it out? So who is this unnamed software-whisperer that the Times reporter picked out? It could be anyone from Linus Torvalds to an SEO expert, or maybe some doofus consultant who's an expert at getting gov't contracts and delivering terrible systems (on second thought, that person probably would know best).

If you consider the other articles written about this, which claim that contractors only started work anywhere from 7 to 12 months from now...how is it even physically possible to write 500 million lines of code?

OK, yes, you can do it with copying-pasting, which clearly was part of the problem (lorem ipsum makes a few appearances in the production JavaScript)...but who knows what that number actually includes? Just actual source code? Comments? If the system includes, technically, some distro of Linux, is that counted?

Speaking of the Linux distro, here's an article from 2008, referring to a study that found that Fedora 9 had roughly 200 million lines of source code, and was equivalent to about $10.8 billion worth of dev work:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/sites/main/files/publications...

So hey, if we're treating lines of code as fungible quantities, it sounds like the Feds got quite the deal! (except for the part of it not quite being reliable)
Not to detract from the creativity here, but the id attribute specifies its element's unique identifier[1]. Strictly speaking, this should never happen:

<div id="b7">
<div id="b71">
<div id="b71">
<div id="b71">
<div id="b71">
...

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-html51-20130528/dom.html#the-id...
Thanks for being so open to an off-the-wall suggestion. You're welcome to contact me any time if I can help.
When I was trying to get into the developer game (I'm self-taught with no degree so couldn't follow the normal progression) the biggest market in my hometown was (and still is) for .NET developers.

So, I joined a .NET user group, I installed VS, I started learning.

Problem was, MS was churning out the "next great thing" faster than I could learn the last great thing. While I was getting my head around WinForms, WPF came out. I started using WPF, then Silverlight arrived, which was like WPF, just a subset of it, and therefore different enough to be problematic.

But that wasn't too bad. It was the 'blessed' data layer stuff that threw me. When I started it was DataSets etc. Then it was LINQ-to-SQL, then it was very much not LINQ-to-SQL, but instead was Entity Framework.

As a newbie who was trying to make myself marketable, it felt like a bit of a hamster wheel, but then through the user group, I met .NET pros who felt exactly the same way.

And at the end of the day, the greatest irony was that when I finally broke into the market, it was a Java-based developer role on the basis of my JavaScript. So all my years of frantically spinning the .NET wheel was for naught.

I still do love F# though.

In hindsight, the thing that strikes me about .NET development is that most businesses using it really want the whole stack to be from one provider whom they trust - and as a result, third party alternatives never really get a look-in if an MS or MS blessed technology such as JSON.net (http://james.newtonking.com/json) can do the same job.

That is a massive sweeping generalisation of course, and only applicable to the limits of my experience in a small city in a small country.
EBay to Acquire London Startup Shutl
What happens when you do that without the --nointeraction flag? Presumably, it explains what it's going to do, and prompts for elevation?
High school student found youngest, most complete crested dinosaur fossil
A lot of the neat features used in demo's like this (although I haven't checked this ones code specifically yet) often rely on prefixed features and the like; it's more for showing what could be, rather than what is per se.
It's disheartening to think they actually took that statement and printed it without verification. This simple chart illustrates how foolish that was.
The main reason I hate Microsoft is because of all the time I had to waste getting websites to display correctly in their browser. And the fact that I know they made it incompatible on purpose.
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I know you're joking - but seriously, I think this is it. I don't think it's "page permutation", but probably more like the number of page template lines of code. i.e. all the HTML templates + the embedded jsp/php/asp/whateverp embedded. Lots of people (technical management or marketers) likely think of HTML as "code" and thus it's included in the count.

I also think that the 500mm lines of code was likely floated to sound impressive - turns out, of course, this shows how messed up this project really is.
62 million KLOC = 62,000 million lines of code. I'm calling bullshit on that.
One Question to Rule Them All
I really hope Apple can make these products: iMac Air, iPad Pro & Macbook air Retina.

Sent from iphone air pro.
One time I read an article pointing out that more men tend to be hired for their potential, while more women are hired for their experience. Not 100%, but as a tendency.

Might be worth a gut check if we're looking for "future perfect people" who are both men and women.
If Greg is a real person, he's in great shape job-wise. There's incredible demand for .NET developers right now. Not so much in the West Coast startup world, but nearly everywhere in the corporate world.
You take an hour of your time.

It's a great review. Every page is not the same length, and some you can skim over if you're not interested.
That can still be a demographic effect. The people over 65 today are not the same people who were over 65 two years ago.

The correct way to control these statistics is by birth-year cohort, not age.
"Asics? There will be a flood of new coins."

Whoever made that argument has a fundamental misunderstanding of the pre-defined rate of Bitcoin production.
My coworkers and I in SF went to a coffee shop / workspace subsidized by a megabank today. Odd vibe, but everyone's nice and the coffee's cheap, so...

We saw a few people using Dells and other Windows laptops. No one hated on them, but they definitely drew odd looks - not of aggression, but of confusion. At worst, people would dismiss you as a banker who got lost and ended up in a tech neighborhood. You just don't see anyone here in startup-friendly places using Windows.
>The very recent imposition of the Metro/Windows 8 interface on a widely unwilling public is prima facie evidence of MS' continuing abuse of it's particular monopoly.

How is that in any way an evidence for abuse of monopoly? I have Windows 7 on my laptop and have no immediate plans to upgrade it to Windows 8. Unless they force it through automatic updates or cancel my Win 7 license, there is clearly no abuse. You can still vote with your wallet.. you know?

>A huge number of Windows users woke up without a Start Button.

Huh?
I had fun freaking out my not-so-tech-savvy-but-exceedingly-paranoid (tin foil paranoid) uncle: He bet me $50 I couldn't crack his WiFi password. He let me use his iMac that was already connected.

I hopped onto the Admin page for the router. Had a password, which make sense. I submitted a test password, and there was no page-refresh or network activity... hm. Must be just in the Javascript...

Sure enough, it was obfuscated, but the password was in the damned HTML and easy enough to find. I got $50, and the priceless look of horror on my uncle's face.

I then explained to him that physical access to a computer usually equals "Game Over" ;)
Obviously I can't speak for other people, but since you asked:

I'm an OS X user, and before that I was a Linux/Unix user. I'm not really familiar with Microsoft products (especially recent ones). When some cool new tech gets announced, I'm interested by default.

I have nothing against hearing about stuff from "foreign ecosystems", on the contrary. I was an active member on Channel 9 back in the Scobleizer days, and I loved hearing about the interesting things you guys had been working on.

I didn't catch the Nokia article today, but chances are it wouldn't have caught my eye even if it had been among the top ten on the front page. First, it's not actually interesting on a technical level. Second, a lot of us here on HN speculated what MS was doing when you positioned that trojan CEO at Nokia, and then of course it turned out to be true. Not that there is anything wrong with it per se, but I don't see how that dishonest-yet-obvious takeover puts MS in a position to offer anything interesting that it couldn't offer before. The Nokia name accomplishes very little in this case.

It's true that there can be some group hate on HN, however I don't see a lot of it projected at MS - at least not beyond the usual background noise. We as a community are way more hostile towards certain programming languages and startups. Sure, every Apple thread, every MS thread, every time something from 37signals comes up, there are disgruntled people. But enough to single out MS hatred specifically? I don't think so. Disinterest is the more likely culprit.
> I’ve also made bad calls on future perfect people in the past. I saw potential that never materialized. It’s an art more than a science. I just hope I continue to get better at it.

I think his point was just to remind everyone how they should keep in mind the growth potential of people they hire, not to share actual information.
My issue with Keychain is that unlocking it once keeps it unlocked, and my sessions on my iMac last forever (I rarely turn it off or log off)

Any ideas on the best way of tackling that? Perhaps I'm using it incorrectly?
What’s the Difference between Aviator and Chromium / Google Chrome? https://blog.whitehatsec.com/whats-the-difference-between-av...
If someone does a bad job on a campaign, he gets fired and replaced with someone that can do the job better. Campaigns run on a limited budget - they don't have all the money in the world. They have a well defined goal and strict timeline.

Pretty much the opposite of a government project.
This is good news. Congrats to Coinbase guys.

If you are new to Bitcoin apps, you may want to check out Gliph. [1]

The app lets you view your Coinbase, Blockchain.info or BIPS bitcoin wallet and send Bitcoin to people easily.

[1] https://gli.ph/ (I work on Gliph.)
Microsoft was/is a horrible company who abused it's monopoly position to crush other companies. They tried to co-opt the internet by having major sites only work in Internet Explorer. Most of the older tech crowd remembers them for this.
> It's syntactically and culturally different.

Most people seem to think it's not syntactically very different: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/179492/f-changes-to-ocaml
I may be splitting hairs here, but I'm fairly sure it's a bit more than just the kernel. Fastboot, and ADB function identically. The partition/imaging layout is identical, so much so that I was easily able to run CWM Recovery on my ZTE Open. On top of that the build processes are very similiar and a large number of repos that appear to be forks of AOSP are included. Perhaps there's another name for this shared part, but I just figured all a good part of the native base was borrowed from Android.

If I made it sound like Firefox OS was just a fancy application launcher, that was not my intent.
I've known people who made the same decision for many of the same reasons, and the universal experience I've heard was "it was all nice until we had to scale, and then it got expensive quickly". If your stack works for you, great! That's the important part! But if your traffic and income scaled by a factor of 100, would you be turning a profit or desperately looking for financing? You're the only one who can answer that, and it's something to consider.
I think you are describing things from the point of view of the aware, tech-savy user. The average user buys stuff and things happen.

People bought laptops and the laptops weren't what they were expecting. There's a lot they could have done in the abstract. There's a lot less they were capable of doing in reality.
And just a few days back Arthur Sulzberger was saying if there was one thing he could do differently in the past, it would be to "hire more engineers".

http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/10/the-newsonomics-of-little-d...
I believe that when you buy things from the Microsoft Store, one fulfilment option is an Akamai "peer download", which uses BitTorrent internally. This was something I used a few years ago, so I'm not sure if it's changed since then.
I love my Lenovo T430. The build quality is far beyond most other laptops that I have come in contact with. Running Ubuntu 13.10 on my Samsung 840 SSD and running Windows 8.1 on the HD that came with it for when I need to use Visual Studio.
Question: I have Cable internet here in Aus (100mb/10mb) and I like my connection, but we have to use Telstra's silly modem, and they refused to activate any other one on the network.

So, lets assume I don't trust this AP and Modem to be secure (fair enough assumption in my opinion) -- the best way would be to perhaps build my own Wireless AP running pfsense, on a BeagleBone Black or similar?

Cable -> Telstra Modem w/out Wireless -> pfsense AP -> Network

Would that be the most secure way to handle that situation?
He makes some excellent points—that self-employed or start-up CEOs do have many stakeholders.

That said, the second sentence in this statement is false:

"First, if you have investors, you are working for them. They are providing the capital for your business and you have a fiduciary responsibility to return their investment with profit."

Yes, you have a responsibility to investors to do everything reasonable to give them a return on investment, but the type of investment may or may not create a fiduciary relationship. And it's important not to be glib about what fiduciary duties actually are and when they arise.
my father said that during the 60s and 70s he was sure that it'd only be a few years till pot was legalized...yet here we are...
Intellisense for anything other than JS has worked far better and more consistently than IntelliJ or Eclipse. Setting up a project in Eclipse often seems like pulling teeth (with respect to tomcat, jake, etc). Most options in VS are available via the GUI or easier to install extensions.

I mostly use WebStorm, while having pretty shitty intellisense for JS itself, is a much better experience for node.js development. Second would probably be MS's Web Matrix, and I'm disappointed that MS chose not to include the, imho (with an addon) much better support for node.js into VS.

I'll say that for C# development, I really like ASP.Net MVC, I've used classic ASP in the past (both JScript and VBScript) and also used VB.Net with ASP.Net. I've used PHP in the past (hate it with a passion), as well as a dabble of Ruby (like some aspects, not as much with others). I'm warming up to CoffeeScript, and have also done a bit of Python (desktop UI) and currently toying with Go.

I'm not really tethered to MS by any means, I'm pushing for moving away from what little MS tech we're using in the product I work on. That said, VS is pretty damned good, and on a whole, I haven't used better.
Which is frankly normal and good. I wouldn't be surprised that Apple has been playing with this type of feature (as a module) for this amount of time as well. In Linux, a feature doesn't (normally) get promoted into the kernel until it's had some time to soak in user space for awhile.
remind me of CSS 3D teapot.

http://yow.eventer.com/yow-2012-1012/the-story-of-the-teapot...
You make some good points.

Thinking a little more about the situation, consider that the majority of startups fail. I would not be surprised, if one were to take a look at the success rates of internal projects in large companies, to learn that those are fairly low as well. So if the private sector is more efficient than the public sector in IT, the differences are probably more subtle than one would at first think. In both cases you have lots of capital being spent on projects that won't come to fruition. Perhaps the incentives in the private sector are a little better aligned towards a successful outcome.
C# is practically unusable without Visual Studio.

Why?
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WebKit? ALAC?

On top of that, Apple's done more than any other single player (except perhaps Adobe!) to move the industry away from Flash, to open alternatives.

No, they don't always follow standards or always have open implementations, but their garden is arguably quite a bit less walled than the one in Redmond. Which makes your point a little confusing, at best.

Also related: http://www.apple.com/opensource/
HTML5 Developer Conference - Day 1
$2-3k while a lot would probably be in my range for this quality plus feature set. But I tend to find with these "perfect furniture" situations with no prices that the actual price is usually stupid high.

Comparison to this for me is the Emperor 1510. A workstation chair that I've had my eye on. I contacted the manufacturers who not only provided me with the price but also the shipping to the door price and the build specs so I could figure out if it fit in my condos utility lift.
For a project that claims to be "Spreading the word to correct basic assumptions regarding goodput and good buffering on the laptop, home gateway, core routers and servers", there is remarkably little info I can actually find on the bufferbloat.net web site. I even clicked the Help link, only to discover it's a link to the redmine documentations. Thanks.
No, copyleft does not fundamentally depends on strong copyright law. That is just an implementation detail. It would work just as well--better, actually--if it was enshrined in actual law. In fact, I understand this is what the movement actually wants; unfortunately,a law like this is unlikely to get through the legislative process. Happily, we can use some "legal judo" to turn copyright onto itself, creating an opt-in system to remove copyright using existing laws.

In short: copyleft only depends on copyright because it has to, and it only has to because it's a minority position. Actual GPL supporters would be perfectly happy if the equivalent of the gpl was law and normal copyright did not exist.
TFA is an example of how to improve the quality of about any newspaper or magazine article: ignore the first and last sentence (or at worst paragraph.) Here, they both repeat that “money does grow on tree”, where the rest of the article describes how the gold is not grown by the tree, but extracted from the soil, thus contradicting the moronic introduction and conclusion.
Let us also not forget the fact that microsoft uses their patent portfolio to extort money from android OEMs...
Innovation Isn't Dead At Apple—But Excitement Is
'This is Armenian Radio; our listeners asked us: "We are told that Communism is already seen at the horizon, when the state will wither away." Then, what is a horizon?”

We’re answering: “Horizon is an imaginary line which moves away each time you approach it.”'
I've just uninstalled every port I have on 10.6.8. I was going to upgrade but you're making me hesitate...
Since pfsense won't run on a beaglebone, that's a non starter. I also have my doubts as to a beaglebone's ability to reliably push 100mb of traffic.
Mono is completely installed by default on older versions of Ubuntu (8-11). The runtime with some development tools is installed in 12 and 13. You can get it on any version since 8 with apt-get.

$ sudo apt-get mono-complete
$ echo "using System; static class Entry { static void Main() { Console.WriteLine(\"Hello World\"); }}" > hello.cs
$ mono-csc hello.cs
$ ./hello.exe
Hello World