skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Number 5, "don't believe the hype," reminds me of this interview with the creator of Pinboard...

> The Pinboard about page says: "There is absolutely nothing interesting about the Pinboard architecture or implementation; I consider that a feature!"

> Can you explain why you think that's a feature?

> I believe that relying on very basic and well-understood technologies at the architectural level forces you to save all your cleverness and new ideas for the actual app, where it can make a difference to users.

> I think many developers (myself included) are easily seduced by new technology and are willing to burn a lot of time rigging it together just for the joy of tinkering. So nowadays we see a lot of fairly uninteresting web apps with very technically sweet implementations. In designing Pinboard, I tried to steer clear of this temptation by picking very familiar, vanilla tools wherever possible so I would have no excuse for architectural wank.

http://readwrite.com/2011/02/10/pinboard-creator-maciej-cegl...
1. Close tab/window.

2. Use Page Visibility API[0] to throttle app.

I'm frankly just unclear on why so many of us are answering the question "What works...?" when clearly the question is "Which do you PREFER?"

[0]: http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3351
That's a thought. I'm interested in new mechanical configurations of components, and how to hide/embed them into the board in interesting new ways.
Is it the default now for individual entries on blogger.com blogs to be displayed as lightboxes, or is this just an unusual option this one user chose?
I think it is because of the Blogger's "Dynamic Views" template your blog uses. Maybe another (more classic) template would be better for cross-device compatibility.
Humans are a long, long way off from being able to do enough damage to the Moon to affect Earth's weather.
Why are software development estimates regularly off by a factor of 2-3?
Does Washington want a strong tech industry? Our own Senator Feinstein regularly votes against the interests of Silicon Valley. I see a Washington with lots of enthusiasm for Military and Oil/Gas, but not much for Technology.
In most cases I've come across (signals processing) a trivial Python (NumPy) implementation was much faster than a trivial Julia implementation, because of the vector syntax. This, IMHO, is the Achilles heel of the Julia language.

Generally speaking, any language for numerical computing must feature vector syntax. Most numerical algorithms work on arrays (vectors, matrices, and so on) and can be easily translated into a language which supports vector notation: MATLAB, Fortran, and Python (NumPy).

Asking people, in 2013, to explicitly write loops in numerical code is a definite step backwards.
Not a query cache so much as a document cache. I'm actually implementing a query cache in Redis which is, imo, the greatest tool on earth :P

To be honest the decision to use mongo as a document cache was made before I realized the scope of our data needs. Mongo was the quickest/easiest solution at the time (early 2012). If I could do this over again, and we actually will be in the next 6 months, I'd either set it up in PostgreSQL/json, or throw everything in a wide column store.
Would just like to add to this answer that, as of Android 4.4, the WebView is based off of Chromium, enabling you to perform remote debugging with your chrome web developer tools (basically everything you can do on a website you can now do on a WebView).

I'd still pick native any day. Control > ease.
OF COURSE. That does not mean I want to give ALL that to ANOTHER third party.
Using nuclear weapons in any situation is morally unjustifiable, and frankly nearly always a war crime (since they are too large to avoid civilians).

This was utterly irresponsible, and from the sounds of it in direct violation of presidential orders. Isn't disobeying orders in the military quite a big thing?
I will test that, although I'd normally expect this brand name service's back-end to handle this stuff gracefully.
In italy you'll find a mocha pot in every house. Any expert in coffee could tell me the difference in taste if you'd use the mocha (using hot water under pressure) or the drip method?
Give it some time, we will get there sooner or later.
New Windows XP Zero-Day Under Attack
The primary concern is fragility, not in truth-space. Scientists have ethical responsibilities and pretending that this isn't true is probably how NSA mathematicians justify their work.
I'm confused on this question. If someone asks you, "Between a BMW that needs repair (without a sunroof) and a functional Dodge Saturn (with a sunroof), which will you prefer?" you don't answer "Well, the Dodge Saturn, because work tomorrow morning."

The question is not asking "What works?", but you're all giving that kind of answer. Is it possible to ask indeed what this question is asking? Can we detach the "I need to launch YESTERDAY!" attitude from these types of questions?

[MOAR EDIT:] Add in the qualification to the BMW/Saturn analogy that you're planning a road trip.

[EDIT:] To emphasize, the question asks, "Which will you prefer..." rather than "Which do you prefer..." It seems like the OP is trying to sideline the "functionality of today" question, which frankly given the rapid rate of growth[0] and adoption altogether[1], "what works today", "APIs available today" is largely negligible.

[0]: http://www.w3.org/wiki/Closing_the_gap_with_native

[1]: http://www.w3.org/2013/11/w3c-highlights/
This really depends... if you are building a consumer app, native is probably better given that you typically need access to device features...but for business apps, with few exceptions I say HTML5 hands down.
It'll always be harder. I can walk into an exchange place with cash, walk out with cash. I do not need identification, I do not need a computer, an account, anything other than cash in hand.

Unless you can convert Bitcoin into a physical item, it will always be harder.
But the fact remains that your argument against Cowen is merely and simply an appeal to authority.

The intellectually honest comment to have made in the first place would have been "Certain economic theorists assert that Cowen [has no credibility|is an idiot|whatever they assert]".

That might have been a useful start to a discussion. Or not. Who knows. YMMV.

As it is, the comment is nothing more than gainsaying based on information you are either unwilling or incapable of summarizing and sharing.

It's really not much better than "Cowen's an idiot, neeyah".

In the interests of full disclosure, I know next to nothing about the OP and the topics discussed between the OP and this comment.

Sadly, I don't need to in order to comment usefully on your comments, so empty of content they were. Nothing personal, eh?
> She made suspicious transactions on Ebay with the username “obolles,” which was also the handle she used for her Tormail account.
A script that gets the current permissions for every file/dir and emits a chmod command for each one is pretty handy.
Interesting how these posts about something being down are mostly wrong.

Let's not post them here.
Fantastic idea! Love all three authors.
It would be interesting to see some statistics on their performance. Depth can be just as important as the breadth.
I don't think most people in the US think unionism is destructive, but most people in the US believe that unions (as given legal protections, etc.) have become political entities (versus economic entities) that look out for the union and not for the worker. I believe this is not far from the truth - have you seen what the headquarters of the AFL-CIO (2 blocks from the capitol) looks like? It's really quite shameful.
> Yes i know F1 visa is study visa. But after studying in US its easy to get job and H1 there.

Again, you are not being clear here. Let me ask you a few questions (which are more really a thought exercise for yourself). Why do you think working as possibly a software engineer in a startup is different in San Francisco than in country X? What do you expect to get out of working as opposed to founding one? How do you think the latter is going to work out as a person on a visa?

> Is there any other way via which i can shift to SF directly ?

Are you a permanent resident or can you become a permanent resident really fast? In which case, yeah walk in, set up shop and try your luck.
Anyone know how the Android app compatibility works? Is it a fork of Google code? Can Jolla be shipped by Android OEMs or will they be banned by Google for violating the secret terms of the OHA like Acer was?
Then you will probably enjoy this exchange:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/406211326282055681
That's what I meant by the "world" -- the adversary, not everyone on the street. How could they be sure that NATO leadership knew though. Feed it to a double agent?
You cannot add additional restrictions to GPLed works, they are void.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#NoMilitary
Are there any plans to self-host the Go compiler in Go itself? Rust is self-hosted in Rust (originally bootstrapped by a Rust compiler written in OCaml). I've found a couple Go compilers written in Go that bind to LLVM backends, but they are just prototypes.

The Go developers make a big deal about compilation speed. Wouldn't Go's goroutines have some interesting possibilities for parallelizing compilation?
You are very kind. If you need an outside opinion, don't hesitate to ask. You'll find my contact information on my website: http://jasoncomely.com
You're right, just tested. "n" gets it. I probably get to "ne" or "new" before realizing it. :(
Google’s Growing Patent Stockpile
The police probably watch too much bad Hollywood movies.
Ask HN: Do you use N + Enter to access Hacker News?
Do you find yourself (sometimes) mindlessly opening a new tab and pressing N + Enter just to see what's new?
Slingshot: Enhanced try and throw for Clojure
Do you work there or know someone who does? If so, can you get them to make that explicit in their documentation?
How do you come to this conclusion?

This is rubbish.
https://gist.github.com/krallja/7710464
Call-Log App Aims to Reverse-Engineer NSA Surveillance
Maaize… ohhhh.
Thanks for open sourcing it. It'd be neat to replicate this idea for other sites I might frequent. I'm already having enough trouble trying to stay away from HN on the browser. Heh.
It displayed as the default "Microsoft Word" layout when I first viewed it (after enabling Javascript), but then, when I used the "back" keyboard shortcut to try and come back here, the page re-displayed in a lightbox. Fun.
How is the one child policy pointless?

Isn't the point to keep population growth in check? Hasn't it worked?
This is cool, but I like Michael Ossmann's better.

http://ossmann.blogspot.com/2011/02/throwing-star-lan-tap.ht...

PCB board for a LAN tap. Definitely one of the coolest business cards I've received- particularly at a hacker con.
Is not an android fork, is derived from maemo/meego, and includes a compatibility layer very much like the BB10 one to sideload android apps.
Military and Oil/Gas combined has a bigger tech industry than Silicon Valley.
forget policy. Do what's right - pay your workers fair wages, talk about it, and spread the word. This is far more than what most policy wonks themselves do. Eg: http://www.propublica.org/article/nation-institute-to-pay-in...
A lot of people drive GM cars to work, universities and shops. Your argument is similar to saying that without GM every one of them would be jobless, uneducated and could buy nothing. I.e. you conflating the possibility of doing something via a service with the service being the only outlet for doing that.

Internet of the 90s created a lot of possibilities that simply didn't exist before. Services of the 2000s mostly centralized and commercialized already existing trends. Of all the brands in your list, I would say Skype is the only one that profoundly changed something.

Also, I still stand by my statement that if the things I named disappeared tomorrow, the world would move on unscathed.
Mushrooms Create Their Own Breeze
I don't read lesswrong, but this article is worthy on its own merits. No memetic hazards are lurking in that particular article :-)
Aeropress rocks. Really.

My morning cup goes like this:

* Lightly roasted beans

* Hario mini for grinding, with click number five

* Grind 14 grams of coffee and mix it with 230 grams of water

* Let it brew for 3.5-4 minutes

All of this with the inverse method. Easy, quite fast and a really cheap way of getting an excellent cup of coffee. All my equipment was around 50 euros and the most expensive part is to get proper and fresh beans.
The author (me) doesn't usually consider the TSA when designing PCBs ;) (Happy to tell everyone who are concerned that the author's YC application was not accepted so this particular design won't be a problem.)
I never understood the logic around "no one hires during holidays". My own brother spouts this crap and I got him hired to a job in December.

In more than 80% of my jobs over ~15 years, I was hired in November/December/January. Each time I started the process in November/December.

Their loss is my gain.

Edit: A couple of jobs back, my first day on the job was also the day of the company Christmas party. Nobody really told me about dress code and I wore a suit, which made me stick out for being overdressed. This was fantastically to my advantage and I met a ton of people on my first day and made very good impressions. Food for thought.
This scene somehow reminds me of one of my favorite old DOS games -- Civilization I. Ａ lot of you may share the same good memory. In the game a number (up to six) of civilizations/nations compete, you control one while the computer AI takes care of the rest. The game would end should one of the two goals achieved:

1. One civilization/nation conquered/destroyed all others

2. One civilization/nation managed to assembly a spaceship and launched it to fly to the closest Solaris -- Alpha Centauri

The first goal seems easy and tempting to follow, but turns out very difficult. In the end, to win the wars over those nations that often have huge cities (20plus) and perfectly armed with numerous tanks and battleships, you often resort to nukes to take them over. In more difficult levels such as deity level, it's very likely your populous cities get nuked. After a short while, I started focusing on building spaceships instead and had a few wins and felt better that way.

In retrospect, it may reflect the believing of the designer Sid Mier's, whom I totally agree with and respect for. Following the same spirit, we as human beings might as well put our inner conflicts aside and target the space instead.
Show HN: Mashing up Hacker News headlines with Upworthy, Buzzfeed, and TMZ
I am reminded of this fascinating TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_ca...
Imagine you are going on a hike to the top of a mountain. Countless paths exist between you and your destination. Most of these are dead ends. Every dead end forces you to backtrack, sometimes all the way to the beginning.

Software is a lot like that.
We're doing this sale until midnight of December 2.
Former commercial roaster here.

"Fresh" has to be qualified. Beens are going to be gassing CO2 for ~3-4 days after roasting, and ideally during this period you won't be consuming them. If they're bagged at a roaster immediately after roasting (after cooling, naturally) in bags w/ 1 way valves though, the gassing will displace oxygen, and the C02 will be a protective barrier against oxidation. Oxygen alone is the killer of coffee. Oxidation is hastened by heat and light, which is why people are encouraged to store coffee (and oil, wine, etc) in cool, dark places.

I _have_ roasted at home (frying pan), and while the experience was a treat (I encourage anybody who has any interest to go for it!), the results are nowhere near what a decent commercial roaster produces. I haven't used an air-popper for roasting, nor Alpin (?) or other more sophisticated roasters.

To be honest my fantasy setup would be some Jabez Burns sample roasters[1], but I'm not there yet...

[1] http://www.cafeimports.com/photos/images/lab/espresso_tastin...
That is both hilarious and brilliant. The bin/false source code made me laugh out loud.
Yes, I know that, but does the compatibility layer include Google code? Also my question about Android OEMs still stands. Blackberry is not a Android OEM so they are free to ship such phones and Google cannot stop them.

See for more details http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/15/google-wants-better-compa...
Pick up the famous Moscow-Washington hotline and simply tell them.
TC: Machine Learning Capability
Show HN: JazzUI: Not your average prototypes. rapid angularjs + jade + lesscss
How many of those 300 million rural Chinese who are going to migrate to cities are already migrant workers? About 50% of rural Chinese (i.e. most working age rural Chinese) already spend 2-12 months working in cities.
I think you have some misconceptions about the GPL.

"You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this License." (GPL v3 section 10)

"If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term." (GPL v3 section 7)

"You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein." (GPL v2 section 6)
I stole the awesome headline generator made by gamegoblin yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6815282) and added mashups and built-in voting. (And Bootstrap!)

Some examples:

- Your Grandma Might Have Lied About Having CS Degree

- Stop validating Email Addresses With Your Mediocre Action Movie

- My Latte Is Worth More Than The Entire Life Experience CAUGHT On Film In Under 4 Minutes Or Less

- Google+ Can Now Legally Marry

- The Most Meaningful Moments In Ryan Gosling’s 33 Years On A Corporate programmer Salary
Capitalism is not a model to allocate scarce resources, although there is good reason to believe it is more efficient than socialism. It is a system to allocate rivalrous resources in a system that uses a minimum of political involvement. Why is an economic allocation preferable to a political allocation? Because in order to use your economic power, you have to give it away (or at least, offer to give it away). This is not true for political allocation: cronies enrich each other often without giving away anything; popularity can snowball as people join bandwagons... So political allocation is a more dangerous system for creating haves- and have-nots, widening the gap between the chosen and the left behind, than economic allocation.
I just can't believe this made it to the front page of hacker news... oh well, Black Friday.
Show HN: Reddit /r/python in your system tray
NSA is hurting:
US citizens
US economy
US confidence
US foreign relations
US privacy
US law
US

This isn't their government, it's ours. Take it back please.

1 person can make a difference.
We are in this together.
it's also one of the Old Big Money sectors. along with Banking/WallStreet. other tech, speaking in obviously broad strokes, is newer/younger money.
> International anger over the National Security Agency’s Internet surveillance is hurting global sales by American technology companies and setting back U.S. efforts to promote Internet freedom.

Of course yea... because now we all know that the US (government)actively promotes 'freedom'. God the MSM really sucks these days.
Interview with William Binney NSA whistleblower. Calls 'hackers' to audit NSA.
Commercialization isn't killing the internet. Monopolization is.

At the end of the day, I look at the way that entrepreneurs like those on HN are able to exploit the Internet. With a laughably small investment in infrastructure and connectivity, a lone developer can spin up the "next big thing" in the cloud.

So sure, the structure of the Internet has changed and in SOME ways it may look like some major consolidation has happened. But in other ways, the diversity of connectivity options has exploded which more than balances out some corporate consolidation in the ISP space.
No ... it hasn't worked. Well, it works a little, but other strategies (propaganda, all kinds of readily available birth control) work better. Economic growth works the best.

If you look at a graph of China's fertility rate (http://coolgeography.co.uk/Side%20bar%20Pages/Buttons/Index%...), you can't even see the once child policy. Hint - it's after the really big drop. Fertility rates were trending down to about 2.0. Instead, they went down a little bit more (to about 1.8). A slight reduction in fertility rates isn't really worth all the problems it causes.

It probably knocked the population down a bit, but on the flip-side there's tens of millions of poor angry young men with no families and nothing to lose. Which isn't great if you want a "harmonious society".
The Linux kernel has within it a lot of namespace facilities mostly meant to support os-level virtualization. Because of how these are constructed, however, you can construct a system that is only partially virtualized. For instance, you can run your binary that has an isolated file system and process space, but does not use a virtualized network interface (or vice versa).
No because I disabled the awful auto-complete in Firefox. This place is the first drop-down entry for "n" though.
20 million guys will not find a bride. What are we living for?
You're definitely not "too late" to make the switch, as long as you're ok with staying in school a few more years. I would say definitely jump over to CS, get to know some professors and their research interests. College can be invaluable for making those connections and experiencing cutting-edge research.
source: I'm currently a cs undergrad doing some awesome machine learning research :)
> If you went ahead and assumed that people are really just cleverly projected computer algorithms (androids perhaps?), your predictions concerning their behavior probably wouldn't be far off.

Fixed that for you.
Fairly trivial - leak it and wait until one of the Soviet spies in the US Government hears about it.
This is the motherfucking website.
it's like stallman wrote this http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
Daniel and Matt Harrison, can't really get better quality than this! ALL PYTHONISTA BUY.

I own them all haha so can't avail of the bundle myself, but go do it!

Another book by Matt which I really love is the one on python decorators - check it out (although not in this bundle, totally worth it)!
Kept waiting for the punchline where the friend has moved to Las Vegas and a total replan is required.