skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a general rule on Stack Exchange that something isn't worth reading unless the deletionists are having a cow about it.

Come on guys, we need to save valuable and expensive disk space for those oh so precious "http://lmgtfy.com/" questions.

You can find on topic high detail accurate cited analysis of technical questions everywhere else on the internet (insert sarcasm); stack exchange is not for that; its for people who are somehow smart enough to use SE but not smart enough to use google.

And that's the value of this HN article; SE has made itself irrelevant, so when a valuable gem floats by in its sewer, unless someone points the gem out, no one will ever see it again.

Its too bad, the tech behind SE, and some of its ideas, and obviously the subject matter, could obviously create a better site than SE.
I've had some friends swear by cold showers for this. Personally, I'm not determined enough!
This type of infrastructure is not insta win for many(most.. ?) of businesses. Even if the price will be low and the power consumption will make a difference, still there will be HUGE cost of rewriting software.

Not all businesses need to write scalable software, because their current technology stack is just good enough and will always fit to one beefy machine, but on the other hand it will never fit on one ARM server module.

ps. hardware is cheap, while engineering work isn't
The focus on the failure of the website is actually mainly being pushed by Democrats and liberal US media organizations. The reality is that enrollment figures have been staggeringly low, and the program at this time appears to be headed to fall far short of the 7 million enrollees it needs to be financially viable. They can choose to either have stories about how Americans appear to be roundly rejecting the program itself, or they can talk about website failures. This being Obama's signature piece of legislation, Democrats and most of the left-leaning media have chosen to focus on the website issues while praying that Americans somehow come around and start signing up. There was actually a recent Associated Press article saying that the low enrollment numbers "only show the vast number of Americans eagerly waiting to sign up". Other, similar nonsense has been published extensively by left-leaning media hoping to spur public interest in signing up.

As for the language/line count, I don't know what language it is but this 500 million number had to have been picked out of thin air. Perhaps they counted the number of lines of actual code and multiplied it by the number of servers it is running on.
Hung windows, ghost windows and taskbar buttons rearrangement
Hey cool, I never knew there was bg to go with fg.

Ctrl Z is stop/suspend, unless the application has handling for that signal (e.g. lftp)

Now off to learn about disown, dtatch and nohup
New HTTP request/response Java DSL
ReXSL Web Development Framework released a new version 0.10 of its HTTP request/response DSL. Its fluent interface enables HTTP requesting and response processing in one call. Check this out: http://www.rexsl.com/rexsl-test/example-request.html
FYI (re: consumer Atom) Intel have just started taking Atom seriously again, after majorly neglecting it for the previous 5 years. The current Silvermont/Bay Trail is twice as fast as the last, bringing C2D+ performance (eg 2010 MBA) with tablet thermals and battery life. It will now be on Intel's primary process too, so the days of Atom universally sucking are over (thanks ARM).
Any particular reason for linking to a primer on C++ pointers, instead of C pointers?

It's rare that you'll need to use pointers that much in C++ (compared to C where they're definitive and essential), and type casting is stricter in C++.

I also laughed a little at the Joel Spolsky bit. But overall, sound advice. It beats most of the empty fluff that the "learn to code" movement is producing.
Ask HN: What do Microsoft employees think about the new Scroogled campaign?
See http://www.scroogled.com/
Yes, that makes sense. And first gen; the current ones for sale in shops are still the first gen? The laptops I see brand new in shops, and they are not netbooks, are unusable to me. Whatever you do beyond opening 1 single window breaks it completely (under Windows anyway). Maybe those are older, I don't know, but I think they are not first gen?

I hope that'll change as you say because I love the price ;)
haha this is great, the banter around here has been about how this could help fundamentalist mormons be able to have sex with all of their wives in their various houses at the same time. For publicity it would be great to have popular stars like James Deen using the robots to reach out to hundreds/thousands of his fans, or even shoot it in the same room -- have a line up of partners that he can interact with all simultaneously. It works the other way too, a woman could please many men at the same time -- imagine an escort able to line up one hundred 50$ handjobs for the same Wednesday afternoon and she's done working for the month.
I'm not making much sense of that comment.
I decided to uninstall because of this. It's a dealbreaker.
I know I'm going to get downvoted to hell but...

Are these the beginnings of a new silicone valley?
This should be blatantly obvious, but thank you for pointing it out. I think that many people are blind to social expectations, taboos and their social context.

I think Paul Graham's essay about mental fashions is a great summary of this type of mental stretching, but most people fall far from the philosophic ideal of being able to see society's unwritten rules from a distance.

http://paulgraham.com/say.html
Because this is the HN crowd, I would also suggest local Hackerspaces, trivia nights, poetry slams and even a Society for Creative Anachronism.

On the more extroverted side, there's always Toastmasters and debate clubs.
Offtopic; Can you point me to a laptop with that? I use a 2010 MBA all the time and if I could get something for the price of an atom with that performance...
Gosh. If I could laugh I would have been doubled over. Does the author really think that Apple put this much thought into not letting certain journalists into new coverage. This is pretty much a thought of a conspiracy theorist, Apple surely doesn't think about communist conspiracies from the 1940s, they merely think you're either a bad journalist or one who is consistently unfair. The detail in which the linked article puts forth is ridiculous. It's over-analysis at it's most laughable.
One of the linked articles http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/02/16/apple-public-relation... suggests he's on the team, or at least was last year.
Six Tests Of Love
Tries to compare Apple's behaviour to McCarthyism. Hilarious really, the kind of paranoid, whining nonsense that is only taken seriously by witless Apple haters, the sort that downvoted you without comment, presumably.
FriXion complies with all lawful requests and makes a pro-active effort to review and respond to all reports of policy violations. While we're not responsible for what people get up to with robots on their own time (who cares if a highschool kid uses it to masturbate alone in his room with the internet off), using our platform to break the law is never ok.
http://gitorious.org
> I’m using Linux shell on daily basis, but I often forgot some useful command or shell tip.

I hate to be overly pedantic, but what shell would that be? There is no such thing as the Linux shell.
We have gone from women not having the freedom to work to women not having the freedom to not work.
Spend a $1 billion of your early bitcoins disrupting Bitcoin or spend $1 billion to buy bitcoins today and disrupt it. Either way costs the same doesn't it?
Is this a problem? If you write articles saying that you don't like me, I probably won't send you any free stuff or invite you round to my house. They're a consumer electronics and software company, not a government department. If they don't want to talk to you or send you any free stuff, that's up to them and I'm 100% fine with that.

Why do you need to visit them or get free equipment from them to write articles anyway? Wait for it to be released to the public like everyone else.
I think that number includes the LOC of every system they interact with, and every library they use... I recall reading there were over 850 "major" libraries used and it interacted with hundreds of other systems which had to be customized (state and local).

Just adding in boost and using like 1 function from it adds 25M lines of "code" (dumbly counted including comments and such).
Better in the dark: Mushroom LED lamps
These LED-powered mushroom lamps allow you to bring a corner of a magical forest right to your desk. They’re lovingly handmade from glass and found wood by Yukio Takano. The mushrooms are actually based on real species and if not for the little red plastic on/off dial, I could easily be fooled into thinking they were the real-deal.
Is there a JVM for these?
No. Also there is no 64 bit ARM hardware available to anyone (if you ignore the extremely locked-down iPhone 5S). I have used a bunch of ARM servers, but unfortunately I'm under NDA.

However there is interesting hackable ARM hardware around. I would recommend looking at the CubieTruck, Mele A1000G Quad (make sure it's the "Quad" variant), and possibly the ODROID-XU. I write about these and others on my blog (https://rwmj.wordpress.com/)
Every time I read or hear about the dystopian futures laid out by Huxley, Orwell and in fact, many others, I can't help but think of the future imagined by Banks. In the Culture, people are free to do pretty much whatever they want, which eventually brings crime within the Culture to a near-zero. Even the most atrocious crimes, albeit rare, are punished (if ever) by a slap on the wrist. What I find particularly interesting about this is that Culture people being free to do whatever they want, whenever they want, they in fact end up in a state of lassitude and ultimately, a form of self-servitude and meaninglessness (hence the expansion of the Culture and so on).

This shares Huxley's view of servitude through content, but it brings the interesting point of whether the Culture could be qualified as a Dystopia or a Utopia. It's funny to see that the majority of Culture people (as written by Banks) think of the Culture as the closest thing to a Utopia, yet Banks himself has pointed out on a number of occasions that he would not like living in such a society. It also brings up the question of whether a Utopia is really defined by (at least near-) complete freedom, or by individual comfort.

I very much enjoy my freedom (or whatever it is I think I have) and I do have a tendency to reject (or rather circumvent) authority, but the more I think about it the more I realize this view isn't shared by everybody. A lot of people don't want to have to make decisions, question things and whatnot, their comfort lies in the absence of having to do so, a view I can understand (though do not share). I don't know if it's right, or wrong, and I'm certainly not in a place to decide for others, but it does show the subjectivity and flimsiness of the concepts of u/dys-topian societies.
He must have an incredible personality, to be able to approach people predisposed to hate him and win them over every time... not many people could or would do that.
Roominate: A Building Toy for Girls
Absolutely. People like Daryl Davis should make those with the modern "everything is sexist and racist"/social justice warrior mentality ashamed.
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>> "If wasn’t on Apple’s “blacklist” already, this post would surely get me on it. It’s totally worth it."

Really? You make money writing about Apple and you think it would be worth it to intentionally piss them off and get blacklisted? I can understand writing a bad article about a bad product and getting blacklisted because you don't want to lie in a review but a conspiracy piece that also mentions how the Chinese government jails journalists makes you look worse than Apple. If I was in charge of giving out invites to journalists at Apple I'd exclude you, not because you wrote something negative, but because you wrote something really over the top and pretty crazy.
[I work at Sugru]

Yup, it lasts 2.5 times longer in the fridge!
Try Unitarian Universalism. They accept atheists, Wicca, Christians, etc. and do not try to convert theist beliefs. They are much more about living softly and helping others.
The line count (wildly inaccurate or not) for "healthcare.gov" includes all of the actual insurance exchanges and related infrastructure as well, not just the actual website healthcare.gov. They should have labelled it differently.
Its overall a very good post, although WRT response #9 and #22 of his answer its surprising no one mentions the venn diagram-like effect where its very easy for (real) CS types to solve problems using regex and e-NFAs and all that higher level stuff and the point of the class is teaching how to convert from one form to another. Also its really easy for EE types to implement any DFA using a vast pile of flipflops and logic gates of various types in a simple scalable algorithmic-ish way that doesn't really exist (at least as a simple algo) for converting e-NFAs into NAND gates or whatever. That intersection of those two areas is where the assemblers, interpreters, compilers, disassemblers, and their close buddies all live.

So this whole e-NFA / NFA / DFA / regex topic is at least one provably complete way you can translate from 'ls *.html' into a whole bunch of gates and FFs in hardware.

There are of course usually ways a smart-ish human can make a faster less general more specific hardware implementation. But its real handy for language designers etc to know that based on CS theory its impossible to write a regex that can't, eventually, be turned into operating hardware.

Now you can add features to regex until you screw that up, if you try hard enough, but I can't think of any good examples at this time. And not all added features screw it up either, some pretty obvious syntactic sugar homomorphisms don't do anything other than make regexes easier for humans to write and understand.
Latest update: developer behind the hit KHANAAS turns down a 3 billion offer. Says service is worth so much more. "We're shooting for a galaxy far, far away. No, seriously, we'll be exploring Star Wars memes next. Selling out at this point would just be crazyyyyyyyyyyy."
If you're worried about finger impressions, dip your fingers in soapy water before moulding.
From what I recall hearing, the initial demand for ARM "micro-servers" has been from big, um, Facebook-ish operations for whom cost is king rather than smaller, enterprisey places where versatility and manageability are higher priorities. That would seem to fit with the limited availability.
The GoldieBlox lyrics complain about stereotypes regarding what girls want. Specifically they mention buying pink items. Then I go to the GoldieBlox website and the toys are pink and purple. They feature cute animals including a dolphin ballerina. Seems a bit hypocritical to me.
The DSM ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manu... ) was created by the psychiatric profession and psychiatry is quite different than the field of psychology. Disclaimer: I have a B.S. in psychology (and a B.S. in Computer Engineering) so I'm probably biased.

But I do agree the DSM is useless. I think psychiatry is a reductionist framework that tries to mechanize everything about a person, treating them like a engineering problem. But it is only useful in limited circumstances, much less than it claims, and from that follows all the controversy around anti-depressants, the overuse of powerful psychiatric drugs in children, etc.

To use a bad analogy, thinking everything can be viewed through a psychiatric framework is like trying to debug software errors by analyzing each of the individual chips of the motherboard. People are a lot more complex than that, and so psychology is the more appropriate framework to handle this fuzziness. Psychiatry is only useful when the person's biology is definitely out of spec and most people's aren't.
If you like the story, Jane's talk at 99U is also worth a watch:

http://vimeo.com/72040407
As far as I know, (@everyone, Do correct me if i am wrong ) most of those are stocks left overs or 1st gen design with smaller node. Which basically means they still sucks. And without an SSD ( I/O bottleneck ) those laptop will suck even more. Since the PC industry has absolutely zero care on user experience they dont want to put a costly SSD into a Atom Notebook.

And Why would anyone want one when a Celeron or Pentium is only $20 bucks more expensive but perform a lot faster still?
Why today's elite chess players are probably better than their predecessors
Put your money where your mouth is. Openly run a mixer. Openly advertise that you are the person who operates it.

If you're right and I'm wrong, it'll be a lucrative business and you'll probably quickly dominate the mixer industry, as it'd be very easy for you to get press and build name recognition. You could do it as a very part-time job.

If I'm right and you're wrong, you'll be in prison.
I had some initial hopes. Didn't really get into using Kinect much. I was most excited about the weight loss possibilities of the old Dance Dance Revolution game (back in the old days). I also bought a wiifit back in the day that never got much use.

One idea a friend tried that worked somewhat was playing normal video games while on an exercise bicycle. The two ideas I am currently trying to pursue is walk on a treadmill playing programming lectures and playing squash. The first one is working out really well since my workout room has wifi and the treadmill has a place to hold my iPad.
To the best of my knowledge, the Dalai Lama has never written blogs calling for the hanging of the corpses of Ed Kennedy et al. for the "genocidal and traitourous" act of abolishing race-specific quotas on immigration (ironically, a nation which "Sarah Maid of Albion" doesn't even live in) or participate vicariously in the fantasy of shooting back people with "I am George Zimmerman" memes in the manner of "Unamusement Park's" series of posts celebrating the murder of Trayvon Martin.
Want to make apps for Glass? Google opens Mirror API to all developers
Even better would be to not use dd, it isn't intended for testing/benchmarking write speeds, and use http://www.iozone.org/
I'm guessing the kind of people who would become patent trolls are unlikely to be deterred significantly by seeing their names in print. I don't think they're particularly proud of their reputation to begin with if they resort to this way of making money.
Please someone build a "(X-As-A-Service)-As-A-Service" so the metaness can kill any future jokes about "As-A-Service". Some are funny (I loved the /dev/null, it was clever) but this one is just further and further declining an idea to everything without trying to be funny or clever.
I don't think your being overly pedantic. The differences between sh/bash/csh/tcsh/ksh/zsh alone are enough to make your head spin.
It looks like this was using D3? How long would something like this take to make?
The article they got the figure from also states the typical bank's software is 100 million lines of code. I'm going to guess someone was off by a magnitude or two. And to claim it would take 5 million lines to fix it...
The big reason is that different languages do different things well, and new languages try to capture the good traits of other languages or language families. Maybe you like the JVM and the surplus of packages that are available for it, but you hate writing Java code and want a Lisp-like language instead: that's how you get Clojure. Or maybe you like C and its syntax and native performance, but you want the type-safety, memory-safety, and support for concurrency that modern languages offer: you've got Rust. Or maybe you just love Ruby's syntax and idioms but want the performace of machine code: that's the motivation behind Crystal, which is a newer, less popular language.

It's all about the transmission of ideas. "I'm going to take traits A and B from language X, and traits C and D from language Y, all while avoiding traits E and F from language Z." You try to isolate the good ideas from languages and suppress the bad ones -- but your new language is sure to have some bad ideas of its own, so somebody's bound to reinterpret it later if your language gets sufficiently popular. There's no language that's perfect for every single use-case, and there never will be, so this will probably continue on forever.
Philly becomes the first city to ban 3D gun printing
This headline is ridiculous. It's not a case of "Here is my patch" and eleven months later "okay it's accepted" as the headline implies.
Thanks for the docjar link. Is there a way I can see a syntax highlighted version of this?
I speak french and this is the correct use.

It's not really french though, more like french words that are used and are now part of the english language.

Raison d'être just means 'why is it there'.
Swiss salary cap fails at ballot box
Number 5 is right where I'm at right now. I'm still really new and have spent my time learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I've recently embarked down the Erlang path. The frameworks aren't nearly as developed as Rails and I've realized I have no idea what the hell REALLY happens on the server side. My current goal is to write a server and my own framework. I have no illusion that either will ever be used for production. But I know I'll never get to where I want to be as a programmer if I don't understand what's going on back there.

By the way, nice to see a post from you. It seems like it's been awhile.
There are other test which measure psychopathic tendencies, although they don't necessarily label "psychopathy" as that which they measure, for example some are "amorality" questionnaires (where amorality is roughly defined as a profound lack of regard for other people's feelings and well being etc.). Some are quite successful in discriminating various types of prison populations (that is, it doesn't just say "this person is severely lacking empathy", but it shows there are various types of psychopathic/anti-social trait clusters, and this reflects on real life behavioral history of individuals). I'm speaking from a strictly academic research background with this and a lot of time has passed since I looked into it so I'm not sure if the tests I'm talking about got any clinical use among non-prison population. However, a lot of this can be gleaned from good general purpose personality questionnaires.
Anyone who appreciates Brave New World and 1984 should really take a look at Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel, We.

It was the first book banned after the Russian revolution and according to Orwell it was his inspiration for 1984. I found it a lot more amusing and poetic than 1984 however.
And the 'z' flag is unnecessary; gnu tar is smart enough to figure that out on its own.
Biggest lesson after my 29 years of programming is the difference between the best solution, and a successful solution. I.e. getting familiar with system patterns (architecture) that work for your chosen stack/area of interest.

There are a million resources for specifics, like doing a server redirect or creating a jump list for Windows Phone, but precious little on the end-to-end implementation semantics of, say, a smartphone app that syncs content to a server that scales out and up. Also, adding security, monitoring hooks, and exception and configuration management. The realisation that open standards are far, far more important than open source.

Similarly, the web is full of people telling you to use Mongo, but again hardly anything about being able to reference indexes in a document, or that partition tolerance and availability come at the expense of consistency.

Get these things right and suddenly even using GOTOs, or the differences between closed and open source, become non-issues because if your solution works, and is successful, any ciritics of such semantics can go to hell.
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