skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I loved MCM2 (motocross madness 2) - I played that game on MSN Gaming Zone for over a year. Now that I think about it, I built my first website and had my first experience programming because I wanted to make a site for my team, named SOAR - MCM2 got me into programming and also prompted my first use of Photoshop to make custom rider skins for my mates!
4 Myths About User Experience — And How to Bust Them
This is generally good advice, but I'd like to discuss #6 (double billing during travel) and #9 (overbilling on assignments). Both are highly unethical practices. I can't imagine that they're all that common, if only because in this day and age of electronic billing and sophisticated clients, it's so easy to get caught doing something like that.

As for #4 and #7, as a client you can probably get concessions given that it's a buyer's market for legal services right now.[1] But generally, I think those practices are legit. The cost of training is baked into the price of every product you buy, and legal services is no different. With regards to #7 specifically, that tends to be a situation where the junior lawyer who doesn't say anything on the call will be the one doing whatever work comes out of the call. It will cost you more money in the long run if he or she isn't on the call and has to get a download after the fact.

A better approach is to communicate via e-mail when possible and communicate directly with the associate doing your work unless the partner needs to be involved. This is kind of related to #2 and #10. Where I used to work, mid-level and senior associates would handle the day-to-day communications with the client for securities offerings or credit agreements worth tens of millions of dollars. If you retain a large firm where an associate will be doing most of the work on your matters, then find a team where the partner in charge is good at delegating the day-to-day stuff so you don't have to incur his higher rates for that sort of thing. Alternatively, depending on your needs, you might find a small outfit or even a solo practitioner who will be doing most of the work on your matter himself or herself, and doesn't need to deal with the inherent overhead of delegation.

[1] Given that, it might just be easier to skip the nitpicking and ask for a 10% discount on the final bill.

PS: What do people here thing about fixed fee arrangements? I'm not sure how they should be structured for a startup, but that would avoid a lot of the silliness inherent in billing. At the end of the day, there is a price to legal services based on supply and demand. Whether you charge for law students or raise the top line fee or give an across-the-board discount is ultimately cosmetic.
Precision gene editing paves way for transgenic monkeys
When I hear about weight loss programs or tips, I am reminded of my uncle. For the duration of my youth, he weighed around 300 pounds. Then one day in college my siblings and I visited him and noticed that he was substantially thinner, maybe weighing around 190 pounds. We asked how he lost all of the weight, and he said,

"I went to the doctor and he told me that if I didn't lose weight I would die before my 60th birthday. That scared the shit out of me so I started eating less and waking up early and walking a few miles every day. "

If adding 10-15 years to your life isn't motivation enough to lose weight, then I can't imagine anything that could be.
I'm pretty sure it was written just so they had an excuse to use that title.
So, it a place to learn?

Floating schools?

I'm a bit confused here.
Politics, nothing -- someone who can read a review such as the one Mrs. Bezos wrote, and not once question his assumption that a 13-year-old wrote it, has extremely sloppy habits of thinking at the very least.
Fasting occasionally under supervision may have benefits, but it is nothing compared to maintaining a healthy balanced diet combined with exercise. If you really want to take care of yourself, do it every day - don't just save it for a fitness binge like this. Check out something like the anticancer book by the late Dr. David Servan-Schreiber or try out any diet high in veggies and low in processed foods, focussing on occasional high quality meats, eggs and fish. You will be a better hacker for it.
why would distilled water be that much worse?

Not what I meant: I'd wonder the same thing about tap water. The question is isotonic vs. low-salt; distilled just takes it to its extreme.

(When I found out about hyponatremia the hard way, it was with tap water.)
In terms of Ruby, I'm saying that partly because of the omekase-nature of Rails, and also partly because Ruby doesn't have the same level of libraries for some of the tasks I mentioned. It seems like for all intents and purposes, the possibility space in terms of what you would want to use Ruby for is smaller, with the sweet spot being CRUD sites.

In terms of the downsides of Python: speed, lack of tail recursion and real threading, many libraries outdated, lack of some features of other modern languages, etc.
Ask HN: Big data on countries
What's the best way to find big data on economic performance of countries?
Circus is Python 3 compatible if people are looking for an alternative to supervisor.

There's always the option of just using Upstart or systemd as well.
uhm, ok? How does that help me, if I want my site to rank higher for a particular term?
How Google is killing our experience of the web and how we can avoid it
AngularJS Tutorial: Learn to Rapidly Build Real-time Web Apps with Firebase
Yes, there is a virtual keyboard in the unlock screen.
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late. - Reid Hoffman
Pretty realistic. I can speak from my own experience: a lot of people used it to produce professional documents. I use it to write books, it is (was) a wonderful alternative to Microsoft Word.

The new version removed at least six mission critical features, so I didn't upgrade. I could not have written my book in Pages if I was starting out with the new version. Style management, in particular, is crucial.
Keyboard shortcuts for styles are mentioned as a feature coming in the next 6 months.
At the very least they should seriously limit to privileges they are requesting. Why do you need to be able to post as me, view my password(?!?!?) and update my profile?
i'm not saying that they wouldn't pursue expansionism. A half-billion years ago they could have had a thriving colony on our planet. And, as you said, there is a plenty of time to change their mind, literally, and bodies, so planet surface existence isn't a key anymore, or at least it isn't a big deal to let go the planet which has potential for development of new civilization. We're just so low on the development ladder, that we're a national park, designated wilderness, off-limit for the ones who can reach us.
The best and maybe the only approach for drugs like Heroin or Crack is (IMHO) the Swiss one:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-12-19/swiss-drug-addicts-giv...
It's actually called "ringing" and can easily be explained by the fact that you convolved with a box-function in the frequency space (ideal low pass), which will transform into a sinc function in the local space.

http://www.thefouriertransform.com/pairs/box.php
Just because Git branches are lightweight doesn't mean they MUST be lightweight and thrown away. In your use-case, the `gui` branch ref would point at the merge commit, so you could simply ask for it by name. Being an old branch, however, you could then move the branch into an 'attic' or a different namespace than the active branches so it doesn't come up every time you `git branch`. That sort of flexibility to move branches around when needed was what made me question Mercurial's approach to forever-branches in the first place.
I've personally found Opera's Fastmail & Zoho Mail to be pretty good.

During the start of the whole NSA/Prism spying thing, many people mentioned that those were two they were switching to.
I think you were kind of hand-wavy, but that's just how it has to be for this kind of article. If you're trying to explain this stuff to a general audience, you can't just jump right into talking about nyquist limits and stuff.

But maybe you could allude to the fact that there's more going on.

Anyways, I liked the article.
Wow they really can't win can they.

"Unsettling" if they communicate. "Intransigent" if they don't.
From the comments this sounds like an interesting tool, but I don't have a twitter so I guess I can't try it out?
I'm a recent user of Presto and Hive at Facebook after being here coming up to three years. I've been using them primarily to understand ways in which we might be sending people's traffic to non-optimal locations, or non-optimal paths between our CDN and the source content, or to help with understanding current and extrapolating future capacity needs on our CDN (total requests, changes in cache hit object/byte rates, &c.)
No. Precious metals have intrinsic value. Fiat money does not. The fact USD is legal tender makes it legal tender but that's it. It does not give it intrinsic value. (Or, pedantically, the paper the USD is printed on has some intrinsic value, about $100/ton.)

"Fiat money, such as paper dollars, is money without intrinsic value: It would be worthless if it were not used as money." -- from Principles of Economics, Volume 1, http://books.google.com/books?id=oRgQ2goeFzwC&pg=PA659&q=fia...

I don't mean to be rude, but I am always surprised by discussions about money. They reveal that people have no idea what money is and what gives it value.
Well if you run Aero in windows 7, that adds 3 frame of latency for example. In my testing, I don't think the decoode->canvas->present is much of an issue, but others might be more sensitive. Of course that last step is also browser specific. Firefox 19+ to me seems the smoothest, but Chrome 26+ an Opera 16+ give very good results too.
You might also check out this site (like HN, but more focused in this area):

http://lifestyle.io/
Must be just you but I can understand a Southerner or someone from New York or Boston, UK/AUS/NZ/Canada any day of the week compared to Tarun I talked to this morning. I am talking about business conversations not people using slang or localized words/sayings.
US Government agencies using "dirt" to smear and/or blackmail populist political figures is a historic fact.
Rehab and rehab drugs are already built into the prison industrial complex (in the U.S.).

But there is no incentive to "cure" people. A new therapy/drug just needs to appear effective long enough for the industry to come up with the next wave of therapies and drugs.

The real cure for rampant drug use is better schools and a move away from the growing gap between the haves and have nots. Fix that and you'll notice a change in one generation.

And the way to fix those things is by repairing a failed democracy so that public funds can be used for the good of the public instead of funneled into private hands.

And the way to repair a failed democracy is through a healthy media, dissent, active citizens willing to disrupt the status quo.
You are listing the items in the "This application WILL NOT BE ABLE TO" section. Obviously, no application gets to view your Twitter password...

The actual app requests read access to your timeline and followers list.
From the National Security Agency Act of 1959 [1]:

Sec. 15. (a) No person may, except with the written permission
of the Director of the National Security Agency, knowingly use the
words 'National Security Agency', the initials 'NSA', the seal of
the National Security Agency, or any colorable imitation of such
words, initials, or seal in connection with any merchandise,
impersonation, solicitation, or commercial activity in a manner
reasonably calculated to convey the impression that such use is
approved, endorsed, or authorized by the National Security Agency.

Up to the Supreme Court whether or not it's in accord with the First Amendment. Either way, using the word 'squash' to describe a cease-and-desist letter strikes me as a bit inflammatory.

[1]: http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/nsaact1959.htm
> The fire is not believed to have caused major disruption to the website. No data were stored at the San Francisco site.

Yay!

EDIT: Also glad no one was injured.
What's your opinion on the influence wielded by the prison guards' union in California? I'm led to believe it's disproportionately active in crime-and-punishment politics, but haven't seen much solid data.
Alpha release of Oracle MySQL Connector/Python http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/ actually works with Django 1.5+ and Python3. But you will be on the bleeding edge if you put it in production.
Slightly off-topic perhaps?

I will say that for me, breaking the carb addiction was key to weight loss and feeling better.

You can go keto-only or some other diet or a fast, but being able to go through a period of time with a low amount of carbs, and then realizing how crappy I felt after a typical high-carb meal, really helped me stick to a lower-carb diet.

But can I also add, "only in America" would you have a place where you pay exorbitant amounts to drink only water and you stay there.

However did monks and gurus manage without it?
I don't actually know - what I mean is, it's a basic CRUD app without much special sauce.
I imagine that they could use it to track how many cats walk across peoples keyboards daily, and what peak "cat walking on keyboard" hours are. I'd be more than mildly interested in the results.
One Prediction For How Microsoft Saves Itself
I would love it if Google published an official answer to the perennial client question: "Why can't you get my site to the top of the SERPs for [insert competitive keywords here]?"

My answer is usually along these lines: "Your site is competing for placement with many other professionally-built sites. If I'm doing my job properly, and so are the other web developers, none of us is or should be entitled to top placement. Also, placement depends heavily on factors that are solely in your control as the site owner, such as the quality of the content."

But when web devs say this, clients sometimes think we're just trying to shirk responsibility. So I would be really happy if I could point them to an official statement from Gogole that conveys roughly the same message.
You might want to add Apache Tez to the list as well. Series of posts on Tez: http://hortonworks.com/hadoop/tez/
Auto-translating User Submitted Content Using Google Translate API and PHP
Unfortunately. Arduino-ification means that shields continue in the world of non-standard header pitch size. And as you pointed out this is once again just making a terrible "standard."
From where you are to where you want to go
Didn't knew where the central office was until a few weeks ago, here is a nicely done documentary that shows what's inside the former church that now hosts the internet archive: http://vimeo.com/groups/17441/videos/59207751
They've started to crop up around all the gas stations and most of the chain stores around here. You can usually find one in any given Walmart, although they mainly seem to be targeting the gas stations currently.

I do wonder at what point the overhead of stocking the machines exceeds the income earned by having one conveniently located to pretty much anyone. Can they afford to keep them stocked with all the latest videos when they have one at every gas station and Walmart in a state?

On a related note we recently tried out the new redbox streaming app on the PS3. It was not a... smooth... experience. Errors galore, images failing to load, and actually getting the video you bought to play is pretty much a roll of the dice. I think their servers were woefully unprepared for the load they were subjected to.
Concerning sampling and aliasing, you might find this video series from xipf interesting: http://www.xiph.org/video/
Ahh, I see - I thought it was about being able to move my EMR jobs to other providers. Running on EC2 without the EMR charge would be nice, and assuming that there's no special casing for spot requests for EMR (I don't know of any, the spot instance requests show up like normal ones) then it may be well able to get me that many instances.

Thanks for the tip!
Titles should correspond to different things. But the lack of an enforced standard makes them meaningless. The actual practice in the workplace will have you doing the same thing. The practice of creation.

It will mess up the count if creators are divided by nonstandard titles.
Awesome, thank you. I think that the cloudpebble.net template for SDK2 needs to be updated. I created this thing like 15 minutes ago: now build errors, from a newly created project, with the pebble_.\.h files replaced with pebble.h are:

../src/main.c:6:1: note: #pragma message:

*** PBL_APP_INFO has been replaced with appinfo.json
Try updating your project with `pebble convert-project`
Visit our developer guides to learn more about appinfo.json:
http://developer.getpebble.com/2/guides/creating-pebble-watchapps.html

../src/main.c:10:0: error: ignoring #pragma GCC error [-Werror=unknown-pragmas]
../src/main.c:15:18: error: unknown type name 'AppContextRef'
../src/main.c: In function 'pbl_main':
../src/main.c:24:3: error: unknown type name 'PebbleAppHandlers'
../src/main.c:25:5: error: field name not in record or union initializer
../src/main.c:25:5: error: (near initialization for 'handlers')
../src/main.c:25:22: error: 'handle_init' undeclared (first use in this function)
../src/main.c:25:22: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
../src/main.c:27:3: error: too many arguments to function 'app_event_loop'
What command line stuff would they need to do? I've built a couple reasonably complex projects using Django, and I don't remember spending much time at all on the command line.

I think I had a one line batch file to start the server, but that's it. Subversion integrates directly into the filesystem with tortoisesvn and even Git has good tools these days.

I can't imagine a designer needing to touch the command line at all.
You can leave bad feedback, and take it to the dispute center to force the seller to defend themselves to the SR admins.

This is more recourse than you have in practice against a grocery store if they refuse to give you a refund - what are you going to do, sue them?
yes so why in the world is my parent calling it a major design flaw? it's the norm! Sure, it's not perfect. Sure, a better option is to encrypt it yourself, and send it to the server. but as discussed endlessly in the comments here, it can NOT be done on web-mail currently (not securely atleast). So the common authentication mechanism is that you tell the server your password. Well you have to tell it to SOMEONE to show that you know it. So how is "transmitting your password" a flaw?

The only other authentication mechanism i can think of is that your password is somehow used to generate a key-pair. The server encrpyts a session password with ur public key and sends to you. You decrypt with your private key and enter it. Hmm.... not a bad idea
http://silkroad6ownowfk.onion/
Geography of Top-Level Domain names
> But I do wish there was more on embedded, enterprise, real time and game development.

I guess that is everyone's bias towards the home turf. I wish there would be more biotechnology, chemical technology, etc.

But I must admit that I am greatly surprised how many of those folks can be found here. The diversity, culture and competence of the HN community is really something.
Bleeding money due to frequent cache invalidations, or traffic?
As described in my post above, the police don't initially know who the seller is. But the whole point is to find out by working backwards from the package the police receive.
A lot of people on Hacker News forget that they're on the forefront of technology. DVDs remain widely used, even now. I doubt they'll last too much longer, but your experience as a adopter of new tech is not universal.

I've shocked some people in my social circle when I mention my macbook air has no DVD drive. They still use them. And my Dad goes to the local video store to watch movies on his TV. It will be a long while before he switches to an option that lets him watch Netflix on his TV screen, and he won't watch movies on a computer.
>I don't see the Silk Roads of the world making much difference with regard to the drug war.

It has symbolic value I think. While I don't feel particularly anarchistic, I think a solid dose of a rebellious streak in society is good. Just to keep the government on its toes. A counterforce to governments tendency to do NSA scandal type stuff if you will.
Get yourself a proper country.
Does it have tilde yet? http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3017371&cid=4083522...
Why was this downvoted? Are these guides not good?
Here's a picture of what's left of the office: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYZUtBdCUAAW6ey.jpg:large and another https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYZzCHYCAAA-WGA.jpg:large These are apparently from @hollyquan of KCBS News.

Edit: originally said "building" but it was just one of the offices in the building.
Kickstarter: The Two Dollar Bill Documentary
I said what I would expect. You can't tell someone what is bad if you can't say what would be the good side of it.
TextBlob – Finding Sentiments in Text
Auditory masking is more than that. The psychoacoustic model used for MP3s will discard some frequencies during others, like you said, but it will also discard "information" proceeding and following an acoustic event.

While not a perfect analog, it is similar to how vision works. If you are in a bright room and the lights go out, it takes you a little time to readjust to the darker room before you can see things again. While your irises were adjusting, the chair and take were still there, and light reflecting from those objects were still reaching your eyes, but you were unable to see them. It works the other way too. If you are still in that dark room and the lights come on, it will take your eyes a little time to readjust, less time then it took your eyes to adjust to the dark, but still your eyes are effectively discarding that information.

The psychoacoustic model in MP3s is even more bizarre. It turns out that some frequencies, when heard BEFORE another frequency, your brain will throw that first frequency away. It is unintuitive, but that has been proven in laboratory settings. Knowing how the majority of humans discard the same auditory information under different conditions, MP3s are compressed by throwing away the same information that the brain would normally discard. The Fourier transform is a significant part, but it isn't the whole story.
What You’re Really “Missing Out On” at YC
If your into software and you don't know a out fourior transform, your not into software. this is something programmers without math will discover, along with Pythagorean theorem and basic trig. Otherwise, you are an over-hyped semantic duck-taper.
I have already been embarrassed a couple times lol
Sounds completely unobtainable. Lifestyle at least sounds like a choice that a person could make, and have control over.
Kaspersky: “We detect and remediate any malware attack,” even by NSA
You've clearly been watching too much tv. Most people don't buy drugs from random dudes in sketch alley. They get them from a dealer a friend knows. This peer network will have a stronger safety record. A dealer would never risk selling something that's unsafe, as sales would dry up within days of hearing about a bad incident.
I tested it with my girlfriends twitter count and it said she was Male. Maybe I am missing something @_@
I would add that a lot of employers (and I suppose that also VCs, but I haven't had the experience first hand) love to try to make you think you're Batman, in order to trick you into long hours.
Rick Falkvinge: Privacy And Transparency Are Not Mutually Exclusive
I would throw in the prison workers' unions as 'monied interests' even if their members are public employees. At least in California, they are a huge lobby, and always push for longer prison sentences in legislation.