skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LinkedIn's New Way to Kill Itself
So I keep getting LinkedIn invites from people whose name I only barely recognize. I check out their profile and see they definitely are in the tech space, and I might like to know them, except I'm not sure who they are. I'd like to send them a message to ask how they know me, but of course I can't without upgrading to Premium. I'd like to accept them and then send them a message, but if it turns out I don't want to be associated with them, I can't EVER remove them from my network. So what do I do instead? I just Ignore EVERY SINGLE REQUEST I GET unless I remember the person clearly and thoroughly.

It's a great way for LinkedIn to not create connections for people, don't you think?
This is a book that blew my mind [The Little Schemer]
It's a poor substitute, but consider contributing to Mathics, an open-source Mathematica implementation written in Python. I believe it is integrated with Sage. https://github.com/poeschko/Mathics (I imagine it would also run on the Raspberry Pi).

There is likely a lot left to be done in the core language, but encourage folks to start with v1 of the language: http://reference.wolfram.com/legacy/v1/

Once the core of the language is working, implementing things like simplification and integration become much easier: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Arefer...

It seems unlikely that such a movement would grow to be the size of Mathematica or the Wolfram language, but then again Linux and Wikipedia also seemed unlikely at the time.
The talk of 'rights' are muddying the issue. A 'right' necessarily entails responsibilities onto other entities. These responsibilities must be agreed upon beforehand for a 'right' to be said to exist. I know, it is common for discussions of natural rights as in collective responsibility that exists outside of any agreed upon framework. But careful examination of such a claim reveals it to be impotent. I have no reason to acknowledge your right to the sole use of 1M acres of land unless there was some mutually agreed upon framework beforehand. Once we reach the level of mutual agreement (and some enforcement clause) we have just invented government.

The only 'natural right' I agree with is the right to life and non-interference. Everything else requires an agreed upon framework and thus are purely by decree.
We need to give more love to symbol search - most are fine, but the query analyzer doesn't do well with all combinations. We'll add that one to the bug list.

Glad someone found the 404 page, at least. ;-)
The Awkward Squad:IO,Concurrency, and Exceptions in Haskell
Foundation 5 Released
And Thom Yorke. Which doesn't stop them from telling me "You haven't listened to much Thom Yorke recently, want to now?".
Why don't you donate/crowdfund and sew that tear?
TypeScript also uses node.
I think this is a great idea. I'd add that the idea of the mandatory hours in the open plan be sold rather than enforced.

A second point. There is a design challenge here too. How much open is too open? How many cubicles is too closed?
Python, yes. IPython, I'm not sure the extent which it's used.
This is a pretty old paper, but it covers a lot of ground in how Haskell deals with the "sticky" parts of programming. SPJ is also a master pedagogue , and this is probably the best explanation of many of these topics out there.
We'll see if we can amp it up a bit.
Google Spanks Microsoft’s Recent Scroogled Antics
You are free to keep on doing UNIX System V style of work.
The Yahoo attempted takeover springs to mind (mentioned already), and the accusations of copying search results,

http://googleblog.blogspot.com.au/2011/02/microsofts-bing-us...
ConEmu (https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/) + Quake Mode = Awesome :)
Not godgiven, but RMS philosophy...
Well that should have been obvious, thanks!
Connecting LoopBack to Data on Rackspace: MongoDB with ObjectRocket
A Nation of Assholes: Obamacare Shows How Americans Are Becoming Jerks
The Trojans could--just set the wood horse aflame.
I don't think the argument was about the misc. time it takes to do things. It takes time to commute, it takes time to shower, it even takes time to eat.

The issue is that you're working for a prospective company while not being compensated for it.
Each slide should have an address yes but I don't think everything should push do your history stack.

That Git cheat sheet page the was on HN a few days ago. Every time you changed the command it pushed onto your history. I want to click back to HN not back and forth between 2 commands I switched across 6 times.

I was going to comment then but I don't think the site was using push state it is actually browser behaviour.
As well as it did for WinRar I suppose.
What web development is to an outsider
I've got a couple friends that do this and highly recommend it. You can appreciate life much more when you are deliberately choosing what you want to do each year than when you fall into a pattern and just let it carry you along.
Thanks. I think the "on the Raspberry Pi" part of the statement in that post is significant, though. I doubt they will feel fine if someone wrote a clone of the Mathematica kernel and copied over the notebooks from this release, to be run on, say, a desktop PC.
It isn't 'trolling' if you are actually using the patents in your products. You don't have to agree with the lawsuit, but please quit diluting the term.
Reducing the contact time of a bouncing drop
Hear What Happened At Boston's Symphony Hall After JFK's Assassination
THIS. ConEmu + Scoop (http://scoop.sh) has made using Windows much much much more productive for me.
Ask HN: does exists something like github for translations?
I need to translate 100-200 strings to localize an iOS app and I was searching for some online service where you can post your strings and let people "pull request" translations, free or paid. Can you help?
Take a look at asciidocs, really a great solution.
Am I really the only one that feels like "hey, advertise me in public for a win" are cool for your Tumblr but bad when you're looking for devs to experiment on your platform?

Ask me for a repo with a project mapped out and then I'm game.
I happily pay $9 bucks a month for spotify. It's one bill I'm not bummed out to pay each month. I get at least that much value out of it - probably more.

Love that they're gettin' after it.
Chrome has pause on exceptions (look under the Sources tab). Firefox/Firebug might too.
BitBet Stole ~$7,000 in bitcoin from me (10 BTC)
No, it's not. It's more like someone trying to sell you on the idea of a patriotic youth league and then... well, you know.
You know what else gets tossed out of these debates by Apple patent defenders? The fact that Samsung is continuing to have success in invaliding the patents they are being sued for:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/20/samsung-looks-to-h...
$ python -m pdb manage.py test
(Pdb) break mymodule/myfile.py:42
(Pdb) c

The above should work for tests if I understand correctly, though I haven't checked yet. This solves most of my current debugging problems, and if I'm reading correctly that would solve yours too?

I wonder if you could also use it with runfcgi or any of the other manage commands? I personally use nginx+gunicorn, but for testing production I could switch it to runfcgi or similar really quick.

To be honest though, I don't find myself ever debugging production.
> The post was not meant to be anti-lawyer in any way. I know much of the commentary around law firms turns out that way.

FWIW, I don't think you come across this way at all. Also, I think there is value to your product from the point of view of lawyers as well. At large law firms, realization hovers around 85% (i.e. they collect $0.85 for every dollar billed). Clients who are better informed about what they're getting billed for and who have more trust in their bills are probably less likely to just arbitrarily not pay part of it.
When did he say that? I couldn't find a source.
a write-up here:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/droplets-break-a-theoreti...

looking for full text somewhere...
I feel sorry for Samsung. I don't know how anyone can buy an Apple product without feeling ashamed anymore.

Yes, Samsung made products that looked kind of similar to Apple ones. Big whoop. Competition over litigation, I say.
> The reason for making the open space mandatory is so that people actually go there.

Doesn't that tell you something? Why force people to work in a less productive way?
It is very simple (at least for cocos2d games) using apportable (http://www.apportable.com/).
We at MakeGamesWithUs have done that with multiple games in our portfolio.
With New Debit Card, Google Admits Digital Isn't Everything
MMAFighting: Judges to be put in submissions?
A Practical Guide to Organising a Successful (Dev) Meetup
These cases look fairly cut-and-dried. The one thing that makes me wonder is the international angle, neither defendant is located in the US.

Seems like the real prize is setting a precedent to be used in other cases. It would seem recovering monetary awards from international parties may be quite difficult or impossible.
Ask HN: would doing freelance work on the side be a conflict of interest?
I've been wanting to get into freelancing for a few years, but I don't have the savings I would need to jump into it full-time. Because of that, I'm thinking about trying to take on a single project at a time that I could do on the side.

My concern is that I'm currently working at a development contracting company that creates products for third party companies. Basically, the same type of thing that I'd be trying to do on the side.

I'm afraid that this would be seen as a conflict of interest, and I'm looking for outside input to see if I'm right in thinking that, or if there's a way that I could still approach freelancing while still maintaining my current position. The only thing in my favor that might make this not be seen as a conflict is that the company I work for won't do projects below a certain dollar value, which I would definitely do freelancing on my own.

Still a conflict of interest? Any way to get started while keeping my job? Thanks!
They're not though. The author worked for Twitter when he released the first version of Bootstrap, but Twitter never actually used it in production. Twitter doesn't promote it anymore either; BS3 got moved to twbs/bootstrap on GitHub, and the new marketing site doesn't call it Twitter Bootstrap anymore.

ZURB doesn't have a huge consumer product, but they're a pretty big name in design, and they have half a dozen people who regularly work on Foundation/Foundation support.
I dropped Spotify in favor of Google Music because I could upload additional content I've purchased elsewhere and have it integrate in tightly with my playlists.

Spotify doe
Yeah, I try and do what I can to help artists I like. Unfortunately (and bizarrely) I think most people couldn't care less about the artist once they have the music.
i agree, i find that history modification on slide changes is a huge anti-pattern. aggravates me every single time.

i think a good compromise is to use the left/right keys for onpage slide nav, but leave the browser history alone.
I wouldn't mind if more projects did this to be honest.
How can you be taken seriously when you post such illogical dribble ?

To imply that US judges have been 'bought off' by Apple or by the US government is a huge claim to make that deserves substantiation.
It's not necessarily about how it looks; it's about default choices. If there aren't many people working there already, people are unlikely to join them.
I think you have misunderstood things.

There are two different ways of listening to Spotify on an iOS device

a) iPod sync, like you mention - only your local mp3 files

b) via the Spotify client, online or offline. see e.g. http://blog.laptopmag.com/people-follow-spotify
Here's another library to help debugging: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/globexc. It tells the Python interpreter to write a detailed trace file (including contents of variables) if there is an unhandled exception. It's less powerful than a proper debugger but the trace file is always there after a crash which can be very convenient.
Phew! At least not a Google+ / Facebook profile linking. I am so happy MS (at least) did not join the social war.
Unfortunately on yesterday's episode Gina and Kevin announced that next week will be their last In Beta, and someone else is taking over the show. Curious who it'll be, but definitely won't be the same.
QED... as in, "I've demonstrated what I wanted to say, regardless of what the original claim was."

OP was talking about fearing the 'gift' because it might be a ploy to get you data-locked into Wolfram's cloud suite, or some other kind of bait-and-switch. As in, there might be unforeseen consequences of embracing this offering. I don't think there was any implication that we might not be able to uninstall Mathematica. I think it's an apt analogy.
If apple doesn't acknowledge loses from foreign courts, why should Samsung?
I agree that this method is much better, and for some reason reminds me of the tooling vs programming languages discussion I was in the other day.

I guess it's because that is an example of ad-hoc (which typically misses a lot of edge conditions) tooling created to make up for language (or in this case tooling) inadequacies.
In which AOL takes another step towards replacing their "writers" with random SEO.
From linked articles it has ~6mm in revenue already. Clean that up, optimize and then spread out.
I don't feel ashamed at all. The iPhone is literally a better and more pleasant phone to use/develop for in my opinion. That's why I buy it, and probably will continue to buy it.

A lot of companies sue over dumb shit - Samsung included. That's the nature of the corporate battleground. I really don't care as long as they aren't suing end users for things that I do with a phone (which includes pretty much every thing you can do with a phone).
Why do you need to be told the quality of their music? Does it matter what the bit-rate is as long as you can't hear the difference?

If it sounds bad, switch. If it sounds good enough, stay.
I don't know about real music lovers and underground people, artsy whatever you can be with music, but as a normal music person, listening to music at work, on the public transportation and at home, I just love spotify, and it's one of the rare product I pay for;

It makes it so easy to share playlists with friends, find music (almost everything) and discover new things, it seems perfect for the normal person who listens to music.

I'm glad they raised that and hope they'll do good use of it :)
Video Trailers Debut On The App Store With ‘Clumsy Ninja’
Why would stackoverflow delete a question that had answers and 6k views?
This morning I decided to see how helpful the stackoverflow community would be. I posted a simple but odd question, "How to type curly braces?"

And the replies and comments surprised in the positive sense of the word. People made a real effort to answer this seemingly trivial question. And other people seemed to like it as well since after a couple of hours the question had almost 6000 views.

And then some moderator decided to remove the question. Which struck me as strange. Why do you think stackoverflow removed my question and do you think it is right?

Screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17317042/ruby%20on%20rails%20%20%20Can%20somebody%20tell%20me%20how%20to%20type%20curly%20braces%20%20%20%20Stack%20Overflow.png

Original question (not sure this still works):http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20116301/can-somebody-tell-me-how-to-type-curly-braces
Spotify routinely loses licensing and rips music out of my playlists.

Case in point: They lost several artists on "The Great Gatsby" soundtrack less than a week after it was released. It was just gone one day as if it never existed.

I moved to Google Music so that I knew when I needed to buy a song to add it to a playlist or I could simply purchase from Amazon and upload it. Playlists stay intact, and I don't have to worry about a transfer after the fact if I reformat or switch phones.

Spotify had a shot.
I agree that "hot" companies have their own localized demand, but I don't think that's reflective of the majority of companies in the tech field who are now being encouraged to imitate these top-tech players hiring practices.
Can I donate to support the case?
Except not really. This isn't actually "final" in any way shape or form. USPTO reexaminations have to pass preponderance (aka, better than 50%) which is a terribly low bar and the Federal Circuit has a higher standard required. Apple can still amend and clarify claims to reinstate the patent.
Just like Python tools for VS it probably won't work with VS express, but it probably will work with the freely available VS shell (that is just the bare Visual Studio IDE without any existing language support in it). So you can get the whole package for free, but obviously only this node.js plugin will be open source.
You obviously haven't read the Galaxy S1 design docs then.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/102317767/Samsung-Relative-Evaluat...
Because the moderators on SO are insane. They've ruined a once great website.
> if it turns out I don't want to be associated with them, I can't EVER remove them from my network

http://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/49
I used to pair the words simple and game in the same sentences, as well. Mostly when I would be brainstorming game ideas and then trying to pitch the ideas to my friends. That is, until I got into game dev and learned that even the simplest of game concepts are still very complex bits of code. I mostly write 3D games, but even 2D games are complex in relation to your average CRUD-based web app, or single form GUI app, etc. So, 10000 lines of code you think is a large amount of code for a game? It's really not.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/million...
Print statements allow me to not only create my own breakpoints, but to add additional conditions, timers, resource monitors, etc. to see how my program is actually performing.
The patent wasn't invalidated.

>The Patent Office has been re-examining the claims of the '915 patent, and Apple recently responded to the agency's questions. However, in the document filed by the Patent Office on Wednesday, the group said that it "respectfully disagrees" with Apple's claims about the technology and that Apple's arguments "are not persuasive."

>The Patent Office comments don't invalidate the '915 patent but mean that Apple will have to provide more information and argue for the validity of the patent.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57613191-37/samsung-asks-j...

Other patents have been reaffirmed on reexamination.

http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/10/us-patent-office-confirme...
I'm pretty sure it's 192kbps.
I've never known where to focus my efforts for the free stuff.

Should I work on Mathics, Sympy, Maxima, or Axiom? Or is Sage itself growing its own routines?
Windows icon, Apple icon, no GNU or Linux icon.

Also, the license doesn't seem to be a free culture license. Lame.
Kanye West Said Zappos Sells “Shit Product”; This Is Their Awesome Response
Ooops -- just saw this! My mistake!
The profiling will only get better. Right now it profiles everything, but it could potentially be scoped down to "just my code." Plus, it's a sampling profiler as it is so you will need to push some real traffic to work hot spots (as opposed to just browse and click around) in order to get results.

What's cool about it, IMHO (I wrote the post above) is that it takes the V8 profiling stuff and feeds it into the VS visualizer...as it should.
SpriteKit is new to iOS7 right ? If he started in June 2012 it wouldn't have been an option.

I have the same 'issue' with a game I'm developing.
And now fixed in Debian: http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs/main/n/ngin...
Happily using Datomic at work, released a Datomic migration library based on that work recently. (https://github.com/bitemyapp/brambling/)

If you have any questions about pros/cons, what it's like to use, operational constraints/tradeoffs, please ask.
> The clear convention in JavaScript is camelCase, why switch away from it?

Citation?
Also, Google Music works a hell of a lot better on Android and Linux than Spotify ever did... I just wish you could keep Google from crapping free tracks all over your library.
I've had success with: http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home
Hey this is unrelated to the topic but I was wondering why you put undersocres between "it really bothers". I have seen a few people do this on hack news and I am unsure of the meaning.
Rspec Karma (or How rspec ruined my day)
Am I the only one that noticed the article that AOL declined to comment on is by a company they own?... I find that rather humorous. AOL owns TechCrunch according to TechCrunch themselves.
UI/UX for the best corporate travel solution (YC W14)
Are you passionate about designing a product that people LOVE using? Are you a designer who’s entrepreneurial at heart and loves working in fast paced environments? Do you want to be an early employee at a well-funded startup where you can make a huge difference to product direction?

Role description
We are a YC W14 startup looking for a talented UI designer to help us visualize the future of business travel. Our experiential service is supported through a uniquely simple user interface. You must have developed an aesthetic taste that is distinctive and admired. You are ready to grow your skills within a world-class team of engineers & product managers.

An online portfolio is required to apply.

Responsibilities
Concept and implement the visual language of our landing page.

Develop pixel perfect Photoshop comps

Create and advance site-wide style guides

Storyboard/prototype UX experiences

Present at weekly product meetings

Requirements
A diverse portfolio that exhibits excellent use of typography, color, imagery, and graphic elements

Knowledge of front end markup: HTML/CSS/JQuery/other

Strong sketching skills

Image compression best practices

Full knowledge of Adobe CS

Information design skills

You've unpackaged at least one Apple product

BFA/MFA or equivalent industry experience

Bonus Skills

Ability to measure pixels by eye

Experience in user testing and background knowledge in
usability

Icon design

Experience designing for mobile devices (optional)

Benefits

Stock options

Apple Equipment

Competitive Salaries

Medical, dental & vision insurance

Beverage-stocked Kitchen
What bugs me more is the zillions of e-mails you get from the LinkedIn groups.
I feel sorry for Samsung's competitors. And that includes all the other industries Samsung executes the same "innovation by duplication" approach.

Not everyone Samsung copies is a huge multinational:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24023430
I think that perhaps a large portion of Bitcoin nodes are "dormant," i.e. offline until the owner feels like updating in order to make a transaction.
I don't understand Chrome apps. They require installation and only work on Chrome, so they come with none of the benefits of the web. They are slower and uglier than native Windows/Mac/Linux apps. What's the point?
If pg was talking about this, it feels like an over statement to me since it feels like it's the exact same idea as "close friends" on facebook, which creates a notification anytime one of them does something.

What am I missing?
My only problem with Zurb is that ridiculous mascot that represents it. What is that sky-blue creature? Hipster yeti?
What are you currently reading?
"There has to be a saner way to write javascript"
Human Javascript by Henrik Joreteg
http://humanjavascript.com

"The way you solve complex problems is by not solving the complex problems. Instead, you break them down into smaller, simpler, solvable problems."
Weather Underground now lets you report conditions like Waze reports traffic
That's specifically suggested in the guidelines: "If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead."

(http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html - linked at the footer of every page)