skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have yet to see a case where bitching about Apple apps rejection policy effected change. I admit though I since I feel very little interest in developing for iOS platform in its current state, I don't watch the developments in this area closely - so maybe it did happen. Do you know such cases?
12-year-old boy admits to hacking government sites for Anonymous
It's not really about one being more secure than the other. They are both very secure. It's just good to have multiple layers of protection in case something goes wrong somewhere, whether it's caused by human error or something else.
That's the opposite of what those words mean. Profits are dollars that stay with the company. Dollars that leave the company are expenses, some other company's profits. I don't find redefining profit to mean its opposite enlightening here. They're spending cash now in hopes of future profits -- that seems clear enough in plain english.
Patents aside, I feel Twitter does not have much in terms of innovation.
A suggestion to Author: I signed-up yesterday. The UI and the way it works is okay, with one exception. I get 8 mails from loren@penflip.com. 8 e-mails? Seriously? Reduce the count, and send emails if someone subscribed to them(explicitly)
Try Elementary OS. The thing is a joy to use.
Epitech student here (42 is kind of a fork, the whole managing team is Epitech Alumni).
So far they copied everything from Epitech and it seems to work in the same way so:

1) Mentors should be available at 2 in the morning. Not that they have to (most of the time) it's just that you mostly interact with teaching assistants that still are in school working on their projects too, so they usually pull the same kind of hours than you.

2) You have really tight deadlines and a huge amount of project so it's not unusual to have to work 15 hours. But the whole thing is just about learning to manage crazy constraints, you deal with it the way you want. If you choose to work 15hours a day an manage to be efficient then great, but it's more about learning to be organize / be efficient.
I've been at a Hackathon for the last 15 hours and we've cobbled together a text message service that you can ask questions to and it responds in the style of Yoda.

It's imaginatively called "Ask Yoda"
Pretty useless, but pretty cool and hella fun to make :)
Technical hurdles have been overcome for the first human head transplant
I successfully converted several medical practices to Ubuntu last year. 60+ yr old docs who printed emails to leave on my desk. 18 yr old who save everything to the desktop. Better than expected.
Money not spent is money that isn't working for you, but instead is just sitting in reserve, at best accruing interest. Amazon is betting it can get a much higher return, and so far, has been right.
Pandas is great, nice write up.

One thing I do have a issue with in pandas is the type conversion on sparse data, i.e. a column with missing values.
It's a pity you can convert that to a float for example.
yes, we are invite only and tied to LV mobile numbers. Idea was that sms access would make it simpler for elder people, but turns out that its not. some people love it, esp in roaming, but most active use is still through mobile browsers. I'm rewriting this for simpler email based signups, to open international registrations, you can leave your email at http://this.is.osom.me to get invite soon
IMHO, It would be better to seperate two distinct things into two seperate articles. Your view in women in computing and intro to clojure.
My sister(a student) got a new windows laptop and it was full of viruses and unusable within 4 weeks. She used to use my ubuntu machine before her new one so she did the next logical thing...asked me to install ubuntu for her. She has never looked back since
Yes, that's all true if you go by the law - in reality most freelancers working and traveling do what I said and don't declare anything to the customs/host country. It is harder to do if you're employed by a relatively large company, though...
New media report suggests Obama knew NSA spied on Merkel
Right, but presumably, the company that spends all it's cash gets something in return for all this money, ideally of equal or greater value to said company than cash spent.

Management (jeff and co) elect to spend cash on bettering the position of the company, (and thus keeping the wealth within the company) opposed to just sending money to the owners (spreading the wealth to stock holders/entities external to the company)
Non v-neck option?

Cool concept. The video mentions musty smell persists after washing clothes. Wrong detergent choice or washing habits? I've never had that problem even after running 24KM in gym clothes.
At first, a summary of tweets from a security researcher investigating a virus that spreads using USB keys.
This is actually a really good point, and I'm glad you backed it up with concrete evidence.
You should be doing regular exercise anyway, but I think the greatest damage in lying all day is done to the small support muscles. These muscles (like your abs) are design for a constant level of moderate engagement, like walking, and sitting does engage these muscles to a moderate degree, particularly if you are sitting 'properly'.

As a comparison, I'm thinking of the difference between slouching in a chair vs. sitting up. If we mapped these on a scale of what is best for you, I'd say that lying down is probably better than slouching, but sitting up is going to be best.

These are just my thoughts, I'm not a doctor or physiotherapist.
vegnos (http://www.vegnos.com) -- A (Windows) desktop search engine (can also recover files in NTFS volumes).
Snakes’ heads and dragons’ tails
I wasn't aware of that service. So to some extent Amazon is doing to Craigslist and eBay what Craigslist and eBay did to the classifies and Nickel Ads?
> Each look is based off of heavy research around looks, textures and trends that are currently in.

Based off what, Hipster™ magazine?
I'd really like to understand this more too. More info!
A certain portion of profits will leave the company as taxes. Investing the money now means that amazon gets to use 100% of those dollars.
This is an example of policy devoid of cultural context. East Asian societies, and Korean societies specifically have a history of examination as the main way to move up in class. During many dynasties of the past, if you could do well enough on various exams, you could potentially go from being low-born to serving in the court of a king. It is in this context that the current system developed. Thus, a simple policy change will very likely not work. It's a cultural shift that needs to take place.
What is wrong with us in this sick, perverted, twisted, dying and rotting industry? If you encounter these problems, start applying to a new position. Don't deal with management; don't "educate" them. Don't fix the organization you've tricked yourself into joining. Just polish your resume and leave. It seems like we're an industry that defines Stockholm Syndrome.
I believe in Jeff's long term vision theory. He is even building a $42 million giant clock called the '10,000 Year Clock' atop the Mount Washington in Nevada. This is to portray his long term vision.

(I feel guilty to mention, but this reminds me something of the 1000 Year Reich sorts)
You are assuming I'm less informed because I don't agree with you. Also, the burden of proof doesn't fall on me as I'm just skeptic of your (plural) assertion without clear proof.
Semi-related fun fact: at least on American Airlines' Gogo service, in-flight wifi requires you to pay for each device separately and charges more for laptops than for mobile devices; but it just checks your MAC address and user agent, respectively. Have your laptop browser identify as a mobile to get the better price, or buy on your phone/tablet and then spoof its MAC address on your desktop to use both devices for the price of one.
Alabama suspends tickets for 20 student groups
Ubuntu seems horribly bloated, and the installation takes forever. Try Knoppix livecd, they have a pretty quick program to flash the installation to an external usb. Plus you can get all the latest debian packages.
More on my ongoing chase of #badBIOS malware.
I live here, and that sounds really unlikely to me. Where are you? Is there any subsidy involved?
DoerHub (http://www.doerhub.com) -- a place where all of the things you are working on can attract not just likes but also advice, collaborators, tools, tangible help, referrals and word-of-mouth. It's a humanized GitHub, because no code is involved and non-hackers can contribute in little or big ways to your tech or non-tech projects and initiatives.

Here is mine: http://doerhub.com/of/diana , showing the rest of the stuff I'm working on.
... so why was the picture taken in Mountain View?
> reporting both of those things is not moving the goalposts.

He made a prediction:

You don’t have to look hard to find many other observers with the same belief — that Android will succeed in the tablet market similarly to how it has succeeded in the phone market. Why the certainty, though? It’s certainly possible, I agree. A 20-1 unit sale lead over all Android tablets combined seems preposterous. But I don’t think it’s certain. It reminds me of the certainty that many observers had, circa 2002-2005, that the iPod could not maintain a 70 percent share of the music player market.

The fundamental difference I see between smartphones and tablets is that mobile phones were an existing and long-standing market prior to the iPhone. Apple’s stated goal in 2007 was to get 1 percent of the total mobile phone market by the end of 2008. Most people today still buy phones the same way they did in 2006: they go to their local mobile carrier store and buy whatever the sales staff there convinces them to buy. Over 100 million times, that’s been an Android phone. I see no sign, though, that phone carriers are having any more success selling tablets than they ever were selling anything other than phones. Remember carrier-subsidized netbooks?

I’m not trying to cherry-pick data. I’m simply observing, based on Apple’s sales data and Google’s activation data, that the tablet market doesn’t today look anything like the smartphone market ever did. The iPad didn’t enter the tablet market. It created the tablet market. The iPad’s role in the tablet market much more closely resembles the iPod’s role in the digital music player market a decade ago than it does the iPhone’s role in the 2008 phone market.

Or as Marco Arment wrote almost seven months ago, there still really is no “tablet” market — just an iPad market.
Out of all the articles I have read on the issue, this one most accurately sums up the views and opinions of the upper half of the organization. Nobody is scared. Nobody is feeling defensive. Nobody thinks the business as a whole is on the wrong path (although there are definitely a few ventures that some feel are in the wrong).

I don't have the most broad corporate employment history, but as far as it extends, I've met tons of people who feel like they could join a competitor to their own employer and win against them within a decade or so. I have never met a single person who worked at Amazon that has felt that way about competing against Amazon. Even if that competitor had the pocketbooks of Wal-Mart. To me, that speaks volumes about a business strategy.
You got this riled up over a stranger eating 6 meals a day?
I need to brag a little because I'm proud of my dad. He's 63 years old and can boot his Grub configuration to 14 different Linux distros last time I looked ( which was about 8 months ago ). Yes, he is technically inclined.
Strangly, this was the business model of cable companies for the longest time. They never turned a profit. When they expanded, they could use the increased income stream to go deeper into debt. The profits and extra capital went into more expansion. Eventually, they ran out of room to expand, and where are they now?

Someday, Amazon will need to face the brutal reality of profit.
It will take decades to reverse the trend. Everyone is scared these days. A lot of what we see are a consequence of being scared-- the government being scared of the populace, and the populace being scared of the government.
> He's describing the current situation in both cases, not making predictions..

He made a prediction:

You don’t have to look hard to find many other observers with the same belief — that Android will succeed in the tablet market similarly to how it has succeeded in the phone market. Why the certainty, though? It’s certainly possible, I agree. A 20-1 unit sale lead over all Android tablets combined seems preposterous. But I don’t think it’s certain. It reminds me of the certainty that many observers had, circa 2002-2005, that the iPod could not maintain a 70 percent share of the music player market.

The fundamental difference I see between smartphones and tablets is that mobile phones were an existing and long-standing market prior to the iPhone. Apple’s stated goal in 2007 was to get 1 percent of the total mobile phone market by the end of 2008. Most people today still buy phones the same way they did in 2006: they go to their local mobile carrier store and buy whatever the sales staff there convinces them to buy. Over 100 million times, that’s been an Android phone. I see no sign, though, that phone carriers are having any more success selling tablets than they ever were selling anything other than phones. Remember carrier-subsidized netbooks?

I’m not trying to cherry-pick data. I’m simply observing, based on Apple’s sales data and Google’s activation data, that the tablet market doesn’t today look anything like the smartphone market ever did. The iPad didn’t enter the tablet market. It created the tablet market. The iPad’s role in the tablet market much more closely resembles the iPod’s role in the digital music player market a decade ago than it does the iPhone’s role in the 2008 phone market.

Or as Marco Arment wrote almost seven months ago, there still really is no “tablet” market — just an iPad market.
Paul, 36 year old tech guy is pursuing his dream of being an Olympian
You're right. I'm sure it's no dumb luck Microsoft and Apple try to get their products into classrooms. Getting those young minds used to their designs and specific ways of doing things, setting them as lifetime customers. Who here doesn't have a handful of things they like simply because they have a childhood fondness of them?
Why Condom usage rate is so high in Hong Kong? (Part 2)
It's still a huge slap in the face to those who's been using Pages for anything even slightly complicated.

I'm an author. I wrote my books in Pages, loved it, and recommended it to everyone. I'm now very glad I didn't upgrade, because Pages 5 would make it impossible to format my books.

I'm the sort of guy who tells everyone he knows "buy a Mac!". I'm now hesitant, for the first time in a long while. I'm very concerned about iOS-ification. I bought this machine because I use it to do things.

This happened in 2011 with Final Cut Pro. Apple lost a lot of video editors, and my understanding is that their mindshare didn't bounce back.
This is the real reason. Excel.
There is simply no replacement for it.

If there was, the usage of Linux would double within days.
Seems like the other big story here might be that the Solicitor General probably knowingly committed perjury in front of the Supreme Court. It says in the article that he "discovered" this past June that defendants weren't notified and two paragraphs down it talks about how he stated in arguments in front of the Supreme Court a year earlier that defendants facing such evidence would be notified.
Microsoft is in trouble for other reasons, as well. Windows 8 and 8.1 suck. They just don't listen to anyone-- developers, enterprises, home-users, you name it.

"They'll shove a xyzw down your throat and you'll like it" has been their philosophy for quite some time-- be it .NET, Ribbon interface, Metro, etc.

They are quickly (erm slowly) becoming irrelevant, and it's mainly as a result of this practice.
So yes, as I said. :P

OTOH it is also somewhat fair to say that trying to stay close to upscale areas whilst not being in them can in quite some number of cases place you in slightly risky areas to live.

Being happy to commute can really help.
Coach Fitz's Management Theory
Why would you need to do that? Android tablets run flash?
I'd totally use this to respond to my co-workers emails. If you post it to github or somewhere send me a link please. :)
Nope, the German government actually considered that case closed - "no rights were violated" is an approximation of the statement they issued.

NOW this eloquent girl representing my home country changes her attitude and there's a big 'HOW COULD THEY' going around. Before that? Not so much.

So she's now (ignoring the gazillion other reasons) fueling gags about her finally realizing that she's part of 'the German people'. Sarcastic publications claim (in jest, of course) that Merkel is 'outraged to be treated like a common German'.

Bottom line: Crappy government, they didn't care a damn before and needed to be directly targeted to wake up.
As much as I cringe to say this, you can get into a pretty decent groove with Word as far as footnotes/endnotes go. I remember in College hating the knowledge that I was using Word but being able to fly through citations pretty quickly without losing my train of thought as I wrote.
"profit" and "money" are two very different things.

"profit" is how much you are making at the end of the year, this is to be reinvested if you are efficient (as you suggest is good, i agree)

"money" is the what is sitting in the bank, not being utilized.

Would you say that a company who is breaking even is utilizing their cash properly? no, they don't have any cash to utilize, therefore profit and cash are different things.
It's a pretty long-winded explanation of "the world ain't perfect". :P
Please don't caps like this, thanks.
I did. But I would like you to point out anything that I might have misconstrued or missed totally. Feel free to correct me.
Sounds like the Stasi are sure they've bought themselves a judge.
net income != taxable income
I like that too, seems cleaner

I don't like "Css" though. If it's an acronym it should either be all capitalized or all non-capitalized.
I doubt her anger is completely feigned.

Even if it were, the job of a politician in a democracy is to represent the interests of their people.

Anger here is better than not talking about it.
Anecdote: I've been running Debian Stable on a Macbook Air I bought in 2011 since then, it's been great (and doubly great since Wheezy, the support is basically 100%).
See elsewhere in this thread: No.

It would've been 'laudable' (really? Isn't the word we're going for 'expected' instead?) if she'd have reacted in any decent way after we learned about the general targeting of Germany and German citizens. At THAT point she was supposed to shout/complain/make a fuss.

Thing is - she really didn't. NOW, after learning that she, herself, was a target for some time, the situation changed. Which is crap, disgusting and just showing how detached that person is from (the tech community's) reality.

There's no reason to clap here.
backrecord.com - a tool for tracking opinions and predictions (opinions about what is going to happen in the future) of people in the public spotlight. Our goal is to help people form better opinions by providing easy access to the ideas in the first place alongside tools for assessing credibility. Our focus is very much on opinion, not news.

It's cool because I think it's an interesting and difficult problem and I don't know of anyone tackling it well. I still don't know how feasible it is to create an automated / crowd driven system that provides a measure of credibility that is reliable enough to be useful, but we are certainly giving it our best shot and I would love to use such a tool if it existed.

I also think it's cool because I think both our user credibility system and topic hierarchy concepts have aspects that are quite nice that I haven't seen elsewhere.

We are currently focused on finance because it is clear how to score predictions about things that trade in a market (though the problem is much trickier than you might first imagine). Also, it is clearly valuable if we can succeed, even in a small way which is the most likely outcome if we do. However, we are playing with features that have broader applicability as well.
Rationalizing Excess Of Courage Is Easier Than Rationalizing Excess Of Cowardice
#4 - The Unicorn - On The Media
An English version of the actual course curriculum is here:
http://pastebin.com/YjX1dgSD

They actually cover a lot: C, Java, Functional Programming, Kernel Programming, Iphone/Android Development, etc.

French version:
http://www.42.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/programme-42.pdf
I guess one thing Windows does well is pulling drivers from Windows Update. So if your network card is supported there is a good chance you'll get things working. Unfortunately not every network card you can throw at it will work out of the box.
So many awesome projects...

I made something to format the outbound links on a page into an expandable list that I think is kind of cool. It's probably way too early to be posting it since I just started it though but what the heck.

http://precis.gopagoda.com/?url=https://news.ycombinator.com...

(no one will be very impressed but I like it...)
Despite its flaws, calling the 12 step program a "dance" is pretty offensive. This coming from a someone who's father died of alcohol withdraw when I was young, and 4 immediate family members in the program.

*edit: Also, while your post was primarily about this pill and addiction surrounding it, I can assure you my father wasn't like "Jerry Garcia.(huge addiction, obese, and diabetic, etc)." In fact, he was in his mid-twenties, and an all-state wrestler and football player in high school, and very athletic after. Sometimes, it has nothing to do with your health, but the seizures which can come from withdraw and an inadequate and unequipped healthcare system.

To be frank, I find your post to be very insensitive and offensive to those who have been through situations like this.
I wanted to voice my concurrence with the sentiment ensconced in the rudeness you are probably being downvoted for: I am in my twenties, generally operate from the perspective of one who thinks he "has shit to do" (in fact I use that very phrase frequently to characterize my obligations and commitments), and don't see myself having time to learn a new tool, method, or technique every time I have a need to express myself, whether professionally or personally. I don't believe this attitude is uncommon and is probably worth taking into consideration by those who would persuade people like your brother and me to use new things. Such as node.js.
I've made a YouTube playlist of all of the videos. They're in chronological order following the agenda.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp2YsIKlDZm3wBt5ijB7X...
Cool idea! So many teachers "fork" course material already, but are limited by location, copyright, and inconvenience. The idea has huge potential; good luck!
Since everyone is just going to do it anyway, I'll start:

Boo, hiss

Now we can talk about something else.
What do you mean, nobody uses Linux? At my Uni, in CS you couldn't not use one *nix or another. All the classwork happened on some timeshares.
This is "news.ycombinator.com", not "www.reddit.com".

Far too many of these posts lately.
Thats nice!.. soon ubuntu mobile os will be out.. your dad will be happy to know that i guess :).
Free Software Foundation list of high priority projects
I haven't messed with light table recently, but even months ago, when I last fired it up, it was a way easier setup to jump into clojure than installing java, clojure, Leiningen, etc.

So I second this idea, especially if someone doesn't have CLI experience and just wants to get cracking at some code.