skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Price discovery in markets, and economic boom-bust cycles are a societal/tech problem going back hundreds if not thousands of years. HFT is only part of the solution (or should be), and I don't think its silly. And even if it were, sometimes there's just no getting around the silly/thorny issues (makefiles anyone?) before you work on the important stuff directly.
PlayStation4 will cost 2,000 dollars in Brazil
We can keep FPTP without the pathologies of plurality voting with something like Approval or Condorcet voting.
This looks very interesting. I've been reviewing a number of the Git clients (SmartGit, SourceTree, etc.) It appears that this client integrates features and context that help one use Git. But I am not clear on how it improves on Git itself. What are the strengths of Tower beyond those features that are provided through SmartGit?
1 Simple Way We Boosted Team Morale
Would you mind sharing a bit more info on how to accomplish these?

1. This is probably a matter of running gpedit.msc (IIRC) and then enable disable lock screen somewhere.

2. This might be an option in inetcpl.cpl, perhaps under Advanced?

3. Task bar properties? Not sure if the "boot to desktop" option sits there, though.

4. That's probably using Windows Setup, so appwiz.cpl and select "enable/disable features" or something like that.

Asking because people often resort to me for their Windows problems even though I don't run it myself.
NSA: National Insecurity
> It sounds like they're doing more than simply determining ones suitability for entry.

Did you honestly think that's all they are doing?

They can do anything they want, for as long as they want.
The "turing test" of comments.... If I can distinguish whether the comment was written by a human or generated by some auto-documenting software then the comment may be useful; if I cannot tell whether it was written by a human or auto-generated then it is useless.
Common Core rejected by Manchester, New Hampshire
Visual Studio allows you to debug TypeScript directly with source maps if you install the free plugin: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3479...
GTK3 has a very small adoption rate for cross-desktop/OS applications. Except for the gnome DE (which I'm not using), on my system the only two applications using GTK3 are wireshark and lightdm. Heck, even GIMP on Debian is still using GTK2.

QT4+ is faster than GTK3, the API is superior in almost every respect, has better cross-platform OS support. It should be telling to every user how some basic widgets like the file-open dialog in GTK3 has actually regressed in every respect compared to GTK2, and many others actually behave worse from the user's point of view (which should be the #1 priority of any widget system, even before the API).

I used to prefer GTK for the footprint (and mind you, I was always aiming at pure X11 development), but not anymore.
Hi nchuhoai, that's a fair concern, but for what it's worth, I've found the opposite happens. Several users have actually emailed me to thank me for bringing their family closer together.

StoryWorth brings up questions you don't typically ask. The next time you talk on the phone, instead of talking about what happened last week, you end up talking about your parents' high-school, or what they were like at your age.

I mean, ideally we'd all take the time to sit down with our parents and a voice recorder, but that rarely happens. If StoryWorth can get you started down that path, then next time you see them in person, you'll have some really interesting things to talk about.

[stylistic edit]
Sounds like you guys were sent to a rather drastic test we're running right now. I prefer more content too, but the video is currently in the lead.
Moving a block of code within a file is just a delete+insert as well. I don't think git differentiates between moving something within a file and moving it between files the way other systems do, but as far as I know there aren't any systems that actually understand and track refactorings rather than tracking diffs.
The old stuff is fun, but I've gotta recommend the newer efforts for really high quality text adventure. The current interactive fiction subculture is doing some pretty keen stuff, both novel and retro-flavored.

I think Emily Short's list of recommended IF (http://emshort.wordpress.com/how-to-play/reading-if/) is very good since it breaks up games by category. Nick Monfort also has some good recommendations (http://nickm.com/if/rec.html).

Personally, if you're looking for the old time feel, I would recommend:

Anchorhead (big, Cthulhoid, genuinely chilling in places): http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=op0uw1gn1tjqmjt7
Christminster (puzzle-oriented, very tough): http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=fq26p07f48ckfror
Curses (puzzle-oriented, great setting, time travel): http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=plvzam05bmz3enh8

How to play these: http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/FAQ#How_can_I_download_and_p...
Easy entry point: http://pr-if.org/play/
You got that right. It's a battle with my inner monster.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6391701
I'm going to say this again: Exchanges should be put on a stepped clock. I'd suggest a one minute interval. Orders pile up during that interval, and then they're processed in random order. If things start to go really, State-concerning hinky, then authorities "pull the plug" before the next interval is up.

Anything less, to my mind, serves point-shaving and profiteers, rather than real investment.

Then, all the "gearheads" can go back to doing useful science. And maybe getting paid decent wages and benefits for doing so.

/grump
So women really just prefer to not work, take care of the kids and the house. And they're totally comfortable with generally being poorer and less powerful.

Ya right.

Really disappointing to see pg link to this.
Fantastic series of articles. I like that you included strategies you've used and actually uploaded documents for the public to see. Keeping it real is the only way to go.

I'm tired of articles written by someone hard working, trying to abstract all their efforts into a certain few points relevant to really their own situation only. The most you get out of these is an ooh or ahh. These types of articles are unintentionally predatory to wannabe entrepreneurs, which in reality, only serve to boost your revenue and traffic.

I want to hear specific conversations you've had, email exchanges, social strategies you've used, things you've read that have literally changed your life and perspective. Give us a peek into your mind and how it works. Not one off points you thought of on an evening and decided to make a blog post. Spend a month, two months, three months, a half year gathering data, and make a post full of integrity with defined goals in mind. Outline a path you took, tell us where you went wrong and why.

Looking forward to more in this series.

OP what do you recommend as reading material? Any books/authors that helped you?
I used to work at a company where the IT department would clip the speaker wires on all new systems. It always pays to have good copywriting on your website and text bubbles in the videos, in case potential customers work in a cube farm.
"Using paintbrushes heavily in your painting can make you a better painter like few other habits can."

Still seems to work.
Bit worried my experience will also be voted down...

...but I had 2 kids (12 and 14) who also got new laptops and also hated windows 8. No, they didn't do a PR thing for Apple (ah, the vote down?), they wanted Windows 7 back. The daughter stopped using the laptop in favor of a tablet, which in its self is interesting, and boy asked for a Win 7 desk top for the following birthday, which he got. The two Win 8 laptops are currently sitting under my desk gathering dust as I type.

In retrospect I asked them both why, and both said it was essentially that Win 8 is an OS for a tablet, not a laptop or desktop. On a tablet, fine, other wise, not frustrating and close to unuseable.

Later on, I had to rush out and immediately buy a new PC for me. I had zero choice and had to buy a Win8 PC. I nearly cried. I hated it, and couldn't get my head round how I could have several application running, switch, and all that. It was like everything is locked in to full screen, and so on. The one single thing that saved it, was installing the classic menu thing, which I could configure to make Win 8 have a start menu, boot to desk top and remove the hotspot things. Now Win 8 runs like Win7, Vista, etc, Im fairly happy with it. The only problem for me now is that nagging feeling that a load of un-necessary Metro stuff is chugging int he back ground.

Lastly, No1 son (20) had to get a new laptop, and was again stuck with Win8. The classic menu thing has saved his day too. Shame I didnt know about it at the time for the other two.

No3 son (16), is due a new PC, and he was essentially refusing anything with win8, and was prepared to go second hand to avoid it. Now he knows he can get round metro in various ways, he's much happier about the idea of a Win8 machine.

Over all though, the one thing I want to know is why on earth a UI so obviously designed for a touch screen is being forced on laptop and desk top users which mice and keyboards and not touch screens. I have not used Win8 on a touch screen tablet, but I imagine it might work well. Now, Im quite happy with Win 8 as long as I get straight to the desktop, have a start menu as it vaguely was before, and can completely avoid metro. Win8 is fine, its just having this tablet UI forced on to my PC I have areal issues with.

Oh, never found a way for my 2nd screen to work with the metro thing either.

Lets hope my experience is somehow valid enough not to be voted down.
Sounds neat! An easy-to-use (API) proxy would be a killer feature.
The Elements of Typographic Style is what I'd recommend.

Also, A Type Primer is quite good. :)
I know a decent number of people (often with college degrees) who've moved to Arizona because they could afford to get by working at Best Buy or Target or similar, but couldn't at their previous locations in New York, California, and similar.

I think for the average person (who, let's remind, is probably part of a household making $50k or less per year) cost of living (and particularly housing) is what matters more than taxes or wages.
Actually, there are 37 countries on the VWP. Quite a few outside the EU.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/without/without_1990.html
Serve is also very similar: http://get-serve.com/
I didn't think this sounded very far outside of current conventional wisdom.
I don't really see the benefit over using something that does background compilation e.g. CodeKit.

Also it seems a little silly/wasteful to use this in a production environment, which I may be mistaken about but the last paragraph seems to be instructions for deploying a site on top of this.
the vandals who spray directly over it because it is a banksy are just butt hurt idiots, but it is interesting to see the cacophony of graffitti that springs up around his work, almost as if taggers think, "oh we can paint here".

no imaination in tagging, never has been never will be. its the equivalent of a dog pissing on a lamppost.
This happens in London too, although usually it takes a little longer. Banky's "residence" in New York is clearly not being as appreciated by the local street artists as he was intending.
What a great story, thanks for sharing it.
Fatal Sales Mistakes
>If he wanted them to be permanent, he would have put them in a museum or something.

He's already done that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkUbYBo5xgs

Unless that was what you were obliquely referring to. In which case, sorry.
Okay, that I can agree with. I just think it is misleading to say they are based on change lists since changelists can be derived but are not actually stored. (And in the case of git at least, the changes you derive may not be changes that a human made, per se (in other words, those changes are the output of rebase.))
I actually want to commend Microsoft here for releasing an open-source (and permissively-licensed!) compiler that doesn't run exclusively on its own proprietary platform.

The language itself seems like a winner as well. Its conservative design makes it the perennial dark horse of the compiled-to-JS language family, but that's also what makes it most attractive to me. It's a thin-enough skin over the underlying language that you get the familiar Javascript syntax (as per Dart) while also retaining the ability to understand the generated code (as per Coffeescript). It's also got well-defined corporate backing, which in a professional environment gives me more peace of mind than recommending Coffeescript (does jashkenas get paid to do this?), Clojurescript, or Elm (I'm somewhat concerned about Dart here as well, at least until Google starts using it in production). These properties mean that I'd happily recommend TypeScript for client-side enterprise software development (but only once the compiler hits 1.0, of course).
a warning for people using Anthy or other IME's : 13.10 replaces some stuff in the keyboard mechanisms, and the dash eats up a lot more keyboard shortcuts (I can't even get Alt+Shift to work! Alt+Shift!). It's frustrating, I somehow got two random keybindings to work and somehow activated ibus (not in the conventional fashion, which no longer works), but I don't know what I did so can't document it.

Frustrating how they can break such an important thing (keyboards)
You really carry a Wave everywhere? I love mine, but it's so heavy.
It reduces the friction in every single financial transaction. There used to be considerably more people making markets, at first yelling at each other across the pit, then manually clicking on the screens, now automated out of existence. Machines not just doing the same job mind you, but doing it much better and faster (and without sleeping, toilet breaks, emotions). So the better consistency/efficiency means these firms can quote tighter and tighter spreads in a price war, which they do. Never has so little money been leeched from the markets by middle men (less money extracted, but concentrated in fewer hands perhaps...). An enormous benefit to society. A benefit that compounds along the supply line.

The reason you hear so much about HFT is because the traditional firms it is displacing want you to.
Yes that's the crux of it
this brings a smile to Knuth's face
>Then again, I was pleasantly surprised we don't have that in this thread (yet).

By any chance, do you have "show dead" turned off? Because you are missing out.
At least walls are finally alive. We're being wall-painting cave-dwellers again. And that's a good thing, especially when NYC has become such a controlled environment.
Qt 5.2 also adds Windows, Mac, and Android extras (platform-specific things for a native feel) [1]. For example, on Windows you can set the task bar progress, and on OS X you can use some native components, such as the toolbar. The OS X documentation is poor, but there is a GitHub repo/mirror for it [2]

[1] http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2013/09/30/qt-5-2-alpha-availa...
[2] https://github.com/qtproject/qtmacextras
Yeah by GPs logic I suppose I am also a "paid shill."

You know why I'm not on Reddit supporting Windows 8 any more? Windows 8 works for me -- it works _fantastically._

I'm a little preoccupied with enjoying my computer; I see no reason to surround myself with a stream of negativity about an OS that has worked flawlessly for me.
Are there tweaks to completely get rid of metro? Will upgrading mess up things like classic start menu?

I don't want to transition to a UI which, IMHO, is completely inappropriate for a normal desktop with a mouse and keyboard.
It was pretty oblique :) I mean, there's a difference between those and the ones he puts on the street. It's not like he expects the street art to be treated well.
Probably all of us agree that being forced to comment everything will lead to some bad/useless comments. But the examples you showed were simply bad comments. Just because there are bad coders out there who don't care about the quality of their comments for whatever reason, isn't a reason to avoid comments. I'd treat anyone who wrote that first sample comment in a similar way I'd treat a programmer who writes unreadable code; that is, probably take the time to teach them some good commenting practices.

Many of the reasons that speak against commenting apply to good variable names, too. Maybe someone will come later and change the way the variable is used but won't change the name. It doesn't mean we should avoid descriptive variable names, though.

Also, with comments, as with any form of communication, the audience is the key. Let's say I'm a senior programmer somewhere and I'm writing comments. Often the train of thought seems to be "well, using this variable name/adding this comment clears it up for me". But that's usually not nearly enough for junior coders who are new to the codebase, and who are often the target audience. They'll probably still go "wtf" after reading a comment aimed at a senior programmer with an understanding of the codebase and a programming experience to match.

In addition, the obvious point to make is also that code is good at answering how, not why.

This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, I guess since I've met relatively many coders who claim that good code should comment itself and ditched commenting altogether. Their code has usually ranged from above average to downright awful, and has, on average, been rather unreadable.
The Pawn, Guild of Thieves and Knight Orc were pretty fun to play... Of course the classic Zork Series and other Infocom games.
Amnesty urges Iran to spare hanging survivor's life
The Story of My Desk
You can tell easily that none of this was done by "local street artists." It's an example of the difference between vandalism and art.
Need IE support please
One of the most interesting comments during the Q and A was Aaron recommended people don't be blinded by resumes (paraphrasing) "Just because people work at google, they might have 10k people there, doesn't mean they all [google employees\ are qualified or a good fit to join an early stage start up"
Ooops, you're right :) But those are dead for a reason, I wouldn't include them when judging a thread anyway.
Unfortunately street art is not respected by graffiti artists. Especially from an outsider of the city.
Your reality is strange.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.ht...

EDIT:

I would question the downvote, considering my post is just a link I grabbed from the first google search on 'deficit spending by year', but then I realized that cognitive dissonance is a harsh mistress. I won't judge if you lash out with your mouse. Aaand I just broke my own rule about replying to downvotes...
I had the same gut reaction. It feels like the person who knows their significant other's personal assistant better than the SO themselves.
I don't get it -- was that supposed to be satire?

Either way, such claptrap
Our first video is intense and hilarious, what do you think?
I don't think it's banksy who's complaining in this post (if he is elsewhere, ignore this comment). If anything I imagine he either (depending if you like him or not) relishes in the publicity, or enjoys watching the behaviour and opinions his work produces.
Fair enough - I'm not saying no video, but maybe have a "Read more" link underneath the "Learn More" or something? Just a thought for the next A/B test.
Perhaps you may have some anecdotes; however, there has been study of this.

Income in areas of high housing costs more than offsets those costs, so that the net result is ($income - $housing) is higher

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2011/12/us-cities-w...
The reason Python people don't go into a C++ thread is because the C++ people will take care of themselves, getting into bitter trench warfare over wether X feature was a good idea, a great idea, or the worst idea ever.

PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl and C# have a lot of overlap in terms of what they do, but the overlap between C++ and Python is way smaller. C#, C++ and Java have much more in common.

There are some things that C++ is very good at, where the alternative is usually C, something most would prefer to avoid.

There's nothing that PHP is very good at that Python, Ruby, Perl or C# can't do nearly as well. That's why it attracts so much criticism.
Certainly the string library, of all places, should be using secure code.

I'm sure there are sooo many people running Linux on pre-OSX Mac harddrives formatted with HFS that could be hacked with a buffer overflow.

Are you seriously arguing that buffer overflows in the kernel are not a big deal?
Interesting that this is called "vandalism" and not "art".
Is the "Like" Button Becoming a Constitutionally Protected Activity?
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Is Schneier any good at auditing code? He has a big name but that's not my question.
Really clever how it resizes itself when using an iPad 2.
IIRC I didn't finding any easy way of making xmodmap settings persist over reboot, so I just took had a script that runs "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" run at startup.

(Of course then I switched to xfce on my laptop, which seems to run its own xmodmap command after its run startup scripts or something which overrides them, which is kinda annoying, haven't found a nice way to get around that).
There are many decisions that need to be made around climate change. Is it worth the cost (financial, lifestyle, environmental) to mitigate it by reducing energy consumption and therefore reducing growth? How much warming is acceptable? Is geo-engineering a reasonably option? Should the countries that created the existing CO^2 bear the majority of the income costs?

These are reasonably questions to be asked by those who will be affected by the change, i.e. everyone. However this debate can only happen when there's an acknowledgement that climate change is happening. Sadly there appears to be a politically influential group who deny the science out of fear of a potential outcome.

(Not implying that I agree with the article, just that exploring these questions is a good thing)
Just an FYI: Untangle's (UTM) web filter blocks your site by default under pornography.
Spear Phishing Attack Here’s Why You Might Be At Risk.
In a pithy sentence: People are self-medicating for a reason.

I love how so many "well-meaning" people continue to often, apparently quite wilfully and in correspondence with their own perceived self-interest, turn a blind eye to those reasons.
Tell Michaelangelo that he can only carve stone with a sewing needle and he may a sculpt you something nice, but I doubt it would be David.
Someone here cited my words from the post on this point:

``The playback "device" maker category includes vendors of plugins available cross-browser via NPAPI, of course really just Flash and Silverlight these days. It looks likely to include OS/browser vendors who purvey non-standardized CDMs available under cover of EME only to certain select OS/browser combinations -- possibly only each its own OS and browser!''

There are other issues, but this alone makes EME worse than NPAPI, a cross-browser standard. EME does not specify the API to the CDM (the new plugin).

I hope it's now clear how EME is worse, absent a cross-browser CDM spec and available CDMs for all browsers. No one should assume any of those absent conditions will arise. Not only is there not yet any evidence, we have evidence to the contrary.

/be
Of course it will. Javascript and images are standards, and you can turn them off. Why would this be different?