skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good luck with that! (seriously)

Many times bullies are well protected and are practically untouchable. For example they could be from minority, and any sort of complain makes anyone automatically racist.

To win over administration one has to become victim himself. For example it is generally acceptable to bully nerds. So one has to be diagnosed with mild autism or social anxiety, before he can even hope for any sympathy. So now the bullies are consuming even free time outside work/school and destroy remaining self a steam.

And winning price is usually low, and does not even cover expenses and lost time. Bully may get short holiday, but usually returns to same position.
Dagger: super lightweight DI framework for Java and Android
Thanks for the free book, looking forward to reading it! If you want to get the cover fixed cheap you can always check out Fiverr. I've had a few book covers done on there and they come out quite professional most of the time.
Good luck with it!
Find an API-for example, a public transit related API-and build a GAE app with a python back end that fetches real time arrival times and displays them.
Google has been around since the beginning.
Merry Christmas in timelapse from MILAN
The disappearance of 1 lyrics site(albeit a good one) from the face of Earth doesn't even come closing to putting a deny into Google's search quality. There are a million other sites out there. RapGenius is the one that has lost, not Google
> I'll accept for the sake of argument that it shouldn't be possible for a person to monetize his or her work in perpetuity -- so then why the hell should it be allowable for an unrelated third party to do so?

Ok, fair question. I didn't claim a person, be it first or third party, shouldn't be able to monetize anything; I said they don't deserve it, not that they can't do it. I'm disputing the sense of entitlement displayed by the use of the word deserve. No one, whether the creator nor the third party, is entitled to consumers money.
This is interesting and helpful (provided that the fuzzing does not have some language bias), I would like to see more languages in that list though - for example, Go (it should do very well).
Are you saying that songwriters deserve to be paid whenever I simply want to know what the lyrics of a song are? That doesn't make any sense to me.
Where did I say or imply this?
>> The Reserve Bank has mentioned that it has been looking at the developments relating to certain electronic records claimed to be “Decentralised Digital Currency” or “Virtual Currency” (VCs), such as, Bitcoins, litecoins, bbqcoins,
dogecoins etc., their usage or trading in the country and the various media reports in this regard.

Dogecoins? Seriously? They are thinking the dogecoin parody is real?

I am wondering if the people behind this study knew what they were doing or if they just "googled" it.
Sorry that is against the rules
I like seeing people offering solutions against mass surveillance.

What I want to suggest is that you drop the requests you send to 3rd party services like Google. If somebody makes money off of collecting as much data about us as they can, it's Google, Facebook, etc. So, letting them track your users is a contradiction.
Wow! This is unfortunate because that person has now been primed for that gift. If it's a fairly obscure product that it was possible they hadn't heard of, then they may not be as surprised upon receiving it, and either way if they are able to remember they saw it while you were browsing facebook, they may be less convinced of the genuineness of the gift, thinking you just clicked on whatever ad jumped out at you rather than using your creativity to select something.
my first instinct is to hate these guys, probably because I feel they are just doing an act. But going beyond my initial kneejerk reaction, I do have to admit they are doing something different (as far as their "act" goes). Game changers almost never go with the flow, so whether you hate them or love them, at least they're not following the crowds.
I mean, it's a coin just like any other...
30 days.
I press play and get "You are using 'incognito mode' in your browser. Please open a normal browser window to view 4oD". Amazing.
I think I can understand what you mean about worrying about the lack of emphasis of functional programming in Julia, in the sense that it certainly isn't emphasized explicitly, but I wonder if your concern is more specific than that? In Julia functions are first class objects and can dispatch on subtypes of Function. There are several immutable types available. There seems to be a convention (at least within the standard library) of adding ! postfix to indicate function as having side effects. You have projects like JUMP (https://jump.readthedocs.org/en/latest/jump.html), which explicit revolve around declarative programming DSLs. All these things together suggest to me that Julia is supportive of functional programming. But I am only slowly wading into Julia, so I am mostly speaking from a theoretical perspective. Perhaps you can clue me in?
Okay, but, it is time to fix those unconventional navigation items up there.

Come on, it's been 71 days already. Can we fix them already?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6550469

I could fire up a vim and fix them if I were the developer. The time it took them to add the color changes would be better off for something long past due.
> If I'd had imdb as a keyword for IMDb search, I'd go to the IMDb's search results and would have to click on the result. With feeling lucky search I end up on the entry directly.

Right, that's why I, if I were a frequent IMDb user, would have 'imdb' set up to do an I'm Feeling Lucky search with "site:imdb.com" suffixed to whatever I'd entered. Pretty much the same as suffixing 'imdb', but the "site:" syntax ensures that only IMDb results actually show up.

> Same goes for Wikipedia and a few others.

I actually find Wikipedia to be very good about sending me directly to the page of interest, without having to click through from a search results page. I use Wikipedia for movie info (rather than IMDb), and it works very well.
Even worse, if it's an obscure product that suits their taste, there's a chance they could decide to order it after seeing that ad!
Don't be so dramatic. Governments around the world shut it down because kids kept getting horrific internal injuries from them. Note that it's not their fault that irresponsible people let children play with them, but there was a greater good served.
I see. I'd suggest that one would need to be as selective and fortunate in finding Unicorn self employment as outside employment that fits the bill.

Also, whether one feels a position/endeavor meets unicorn status depends on personal tastes. For me, working for myself is just as important as what I'm doing and compensation. I also value being in charge of and learning the full stack, from sysadmin work to database and server side work to client side programming. It would be very rare to find such diverse work and responsibilities working for the sort of employer author considers his ideal.
I'm surprised at how useful your four ideas were. Nicely done. Dumb question, but how hard was Do Something? I would figure whatever integration you would need would take a lot longer than 1/4 of a weekend.
What I want to suggest is that you drop the requests you send to 3rd party services like Google. If somebody makes money off of collecting as much data about us as they can, it's Google, Facebook, etc. So, letting them track your users is a contradiction.

What are you referring to? There's no Google tracking code on the site. The only analytics is Mint (which is local to the server).
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[...] to create what’s often the best search result.

Poor them, they created the best lyrics site in the world, they deserve to be the first search result! /sarcasm
> But how do you _know_ that your list of unspent outputs is correct?

Because you calculated it. For full security you need to witness the entire block chain, but as soon as you've validated a block and processed its transactions into the unspent transaction output set, you can throw it away. You know the UTXO set is valid because you trust your past self to have calculated it correctly (and if you negate that assumption then you quickly end up not able to trust anything at all).

This isn't even considering UTXO commitment schemes which let you retrieve from the network UTXO data with SPV level of security, or to validate from the genesis block while storing nothing, not even the UTXO set.

FWIW, "full node" is usually taken as shorthand for "fully validating node" which doesn't necessarily require storage of block chain data, whereas "archive node" indicates a node that does keep full block chain history.
Its a feature, don't try to file it as a bug.

"Payments by VCs, such as Bitcoins, take place on a peer-to-peer basis without an authorised central agency which regulates such payments. As such, there is no established framework for recourse to customer problems / disputes / charge backs etc."

And stopping payments is not the right way to address customer problems.
So, the best lyric site by a mile no longer shows up in ordinary Google lyric searches. As a music fanatic, searching lyrics is something I do all day long every day, by the way - and when I search lyrics in Google, I really want to go to rap genius. Anyway, supposedly this degradation of Google had to happen to make a public example, and most of us are ok with it because the founders of RG are known to be kind of jerky and unprofessional, and we loves professionalism cause the more we love it, the more it makes us look professional.

Just checking I'm still on the right planet. Yup, I definitely am.
Utilização de Elementos Finitos em Engenharia Geotécnica
I'd say something that uses a USB connector but violates the standard is an example of non-standard. A Lightning plug that doesn't work according to spec might also be non-standard.

Lightning is probably standardized by some reasonable definition of "standardized." It's proprietary, it's not an open standard, but it's a standard.

All this is splitting hairs. The criticism against lightning doesn't depend on the distinction non-standard v. not-an-open-standard.
I never said a thing about not taking risks or having fun but those are my choices. I'd rather not be forced to die from some sort of disease, or just old age completely outside of my control.
I prefer to configure in code because that way I can reason about it in the normal way I reason about code, or I can use code to solve problems in the usual way. E.g. I can "find usages" on a constructor and expect to find where the object is constructed. If there's some common aspect to the construction of several different objects, I can factor that out into a helper method, the same way I would with any other piece of code.
Give them the credit for trying to resolve a problem. Are you telling me if you run a business you would never this kind of mistake?

It is a good idea to explain why they did it and what they were thinking, instead of just say "damn I screwed up." I rather hear people explain to me why they did it and they now think they screw up. It is part of resolution.

If you don't care about explanation (or excuse if you think that's the right erm), well, fine.
Picocontainer is good if you just want something that will do DI and nothing else, and stay out of your way apart from that.
Functional constructs shared by Groovy, Scala, and Clojure and their benefits
Nailed it.

The only other thing that I would want to add: consulting can be a path towards this too, as you get to pitch the work you'd like to do for the client. (That is, real consulting, not contracting on a technology).
Wiring objects together and configuring applications are tangentially related. Both can be done in Spring config, both can be done without Spring config, both can be done at compile or runtime.

Dependency glue (wiring) in runtime config helps keep objects decoupled, makes test writing easier, and eliminates any dependency on a specific IOC framework. Whether or not the wiring config comes boxed with the code or not is a completely different concern.
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This is all well and good for seasoned programmers who know what the snippet that has just been inserted does, but this is going to reduce code quality (lots of copypasta) and I have huge issue with the fact that StackOverflow answers often provide an explanation of the code, which this plugin obviously strips away. Perhaps come up with a way to add the explanation from SO as a comment to the inserted code snippet?
If you laminate the cards, you can write scores directly on them with dry-erase marker.
Oxford research questions aspect of Darwin theory
I really did not mean to come off as blaming the victim. Instead I'm promoting stopping things at the first onset. So in the context of "mutual respect" what that means is that if someone is treating you in a way you don't approve, you let them know right then and there you don't stand for it.
Agreed.

99% of profitable iOS apps do little to no promotion. Instead, they're found via search or on the top lists.

Better to try a bunch of things, as you say, and then invest your time into improving whichever is already working best.

This is exactly what I did with my Spanish Bible apps.
why do we need a windows clone?
PornGate: What could a determined small ISP do?
> The only reason it isn't fair is that the site disappears from Google for the BRAND term e.g. [rap genius].

So if instead of being rapgenius.com, they had shelled out big bucks for the domain lyrics.com, they would continue to rank for searches for "lyrics"? Our would someone at Google make a subjective decision about what terms are unique enough to their brand for them to not be penalized for?

Either of these seem much less fair to me than the status quo that all spammers get penalized for all search terms.
As a little guy with a patent (team & I created a new & superior wireless audio technology - superior to BlueTooth Audio, Apple's Airplay & others) I'm with you!

We'd love to connect with some friendly people out west to help us, but not sure how to make that happen? It's not like we haven't tried - we spent a good deal of our savings to demo out in the Valley this past year.

Since we work full time jobs and are in our late 30s it seems harder then ever to find partners/those who can help. Though we will continue to work hard and further innovate with the goal/hopes in mind of finding help and or after a long road/fight be rewarded for our work.
>what did companies do before there was Google?

They didn't.
Dogecoin is as "real" as Bitcoin, or USD for that matter.
They're aren't currently monetizing their site at all, no ads, so how will it cost them millions?
The VC's already know that the founders are a bunch of fruitcakes. I think they'll be right back where they left off after the penalty is lifted, probably in 30 days.
When the same thing happens to other small websites than those websites are literally destroyed, no 30 day penalties, banned for life. Shut down your website and start again.
Rap Genius - Spammy SEO Strategy
The fight over the Doves: A legendary typeface gets a second life
12 Days of Techmas
Please stop posting links to file locations. Announcements or changelogs would be more useful! If I would like to download it, I'll just use package manager. Personally, I just want to read what's new.
What is Nxt?
You could use offensive, as is commonly done. Some ban offensive speech etc.

I incidentally disagree with you completely. The blame is rightly on the victim. What offends is usually personal, vague and often illogical. It's not reasonable to hold anyone responsible for doing perceived offensive things (provided they don't actually do anything otherwise illegal; I shouldn't have to point this out but I'll hedge).
The main reason that India is concerned about this is it's ability to tax foreign income of resident Indians. If bitcoin or other VCs allow people to earn money overseas and then get paid in a complete "cash only" fashion it could sidestep income tax.
Are you saying writers of books deserve to be paid whenever I simply want to know what their book says?
Claiming to hire only 'A' players is probably much more important for successful hiring than actually doing it. It seems to be en vogue suddenly to claim to have only the best people. Is that really such a sought-after attribute of companies for people who are looking into new tech jobs?
That's a really good point. Every few months I try to adapt to using DDG as my primary search, but I always find myself throwing a !g into my searches, which kind of defeats the purpose. I'm curious, for what kind of searches do you find DDG's own search results to be good enough (or better) than Google's? What kind of searches make you bang to Google?
Doves for purchase on Typesec here, £40:
http://typespec.co.uk/doves-type/
If the savings from the reuse are high, this is a trade-off worth making. If the savings are low – it is not.

Cost-benefit uber alles! All of these things -- features, functions, frameworks, objects, patterns -- must pay rent!
In that example they should still rank for "lyrics.com" which would be the BRAND term.

Google actually have done an EMD update to devalue sites trying to rank for generics using a generic domain.

As you can see using Google Adword Keyword Planner[1] for all locations in English the average searches are:

Lyrics - 1.2M avg. searches/month

Lyrics.com - 110k avg. searches/month

[1] https://adwords.google.com/ko/KeywordPlanner/
12/25/2013

And the greatest gift of all was to be schadenfreude.

For people who act like arrogant jerks were punished severely that day.
You seem to have a lot of experience with this kind of stuff.

Could you possibly give me a tldr on this story?

I recall the exposé talking about how they were trading twitter links for keyword link building. Yet I'm having a hard time working up the requisite outrage.

It's not spam - the people linking back aren't being coerced (i.e. spam comments), and the content it's being linked from is legit (i.e. not a crappy link-farm site void of content).

Is the reason that this is Bad(tm) because the link back is not "organic"? It strikes me as being identical to say, paying every a thousand bloggers writing about Bieber to link to RG - except that last example is impossible to detect. They exchanged a small ad for twitter inbound traffic.

Is there just a blanket ban on trying to divine how the algorithm works? It's a commonly accepted practice to pay other people to promote or write about your product/service/brand.
Almost every app I've ever done has consisted of retrieving JSON data from some endpoint, parsing it, and throwing it up on a table view. So at this point, using AFNetworking, I can hook up to an API with no effort at all. That was actually the easiest part of the app. The difficult parts were the app related stuff - the transitions, loading, location services, categories, in app purchase, etc.
cryptocat sucks, plain and simple.
Movies are a great supplementary source to actual ESL-type classes. It's difficult for language classes to teach turns of phrases, idioms, regional dialects, etc. Movies with subtitles are great -- Even better if you can find movies that offer subtitle files in both English and Italian. VLC can take multiple subtitle files and let you toggle pretty easily between the two languages.

(Set up hotkeys to toggle subtitle files, to go back 15 or 30 seconds. Space bar pauses.)
This is a very powerful idea - just unearthed an old post for you: http://evhead.com/2008/09/processizer.html
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These Whistleblowers Think the NSA is Blackmailing Obama and Congress
Also, services like Bitrated are providing decrebtralized consumer production.
Not only that, as you might guess, Duck Duck Go has !rg.
Maybe it is where you are, but here in the UK, saying Happy Holidays sounds really awful, and Happy (or Merry) Christmas is standard.
It's not playing for me. Most news sites seem heavily dependant on loads of 3rd party javascript that gets blocked by Ghostery, so I loaded up an incognito window, same thing, just spins forever at the loading screen.

EDIT: Found a mirror on a not-shit site http://vimeo.com/82666985
You’re immortal in the multiverse.
I did some minor whois snooping into templos.org; I seem to remember something about Sunnyvale, CA. I live in the Bay Area...
MS Office runs on Linux since I can remember.
This has been a cool resource, but its comparisons of tasks can be profoundly misleading to novices...not intentionally, just because novices don't know how to really judge things. Take, for example, its section on Web scraping:

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Web_scraping

First of all, web scraping is a complex task. Not just at the low-level code, but conceptually...web scraping means different things to different people and this shows up quite frequently even in HN discussions.

In any case, the Rosetta example does kind of the right thing by limiting it to a very simple operation...but even the operation itself is misleading (parsing HTML with regexes?). And even in this idealized operation, you have very different opinions on what it entails. The Ruby one looks correct to me, and it looks very concise compared to other languages, but only because, unlike the CoffeeScript example, there is no error handling.

The real problem is that when you're a beginner, you have no concept of how programming is best done in small steps...Web scraping is simply a chaining of much smaller steps, such as string manipulation, parsing, options setting, etc. It's not a "feature" of a language, yet if you were to make a judgment on Rosetta (and who else but a beginner would really use Rosetta to compare languages by webscraping), you're going to have an unhelpful perception of programming languages and programming in general.

That said, it's a great resource when the task is low-level and well-defined. But what that actually means obviously differs for people and languages. Hence, opinionated frameworks and the like
You can still search rapgenius by using keyword site:rapgenius.com feature
'Private cloud' may not have access from everywhere and may refer to mutualised resources across teams and individuals but not necessarily unknown third parties.

I'm pretty sure that for any given definition I could give you a counterexample or two that's had the label slapped on it :)

(Unless it's "has a network connection")
When I was in your position I took a leap of faith and went for Backbone.JS, I am not sorry for that decision as it has worked wonders for me. However I would like you think the following before choosing your arsenal(MV* framework):

1. It should be easy to understand.
2. It should have good community support(because you will run into errors and problems).

A lot of these frameworks have become very mature with the time and community effort so you will never be alone and stuck at a place with no clue. Start with a framework whose workflow is easy for you to understand, remember the goal here is to organize your javascript code into manageable bits. Pick one from http://yeoman.io/community-generators.html it will help you quickly get started.
You're wrong. Saying that music/lyrics has no market value is just as stupid as saying that just because I personally don't want to pay for a Mercedes Benz means it has no value, and I can take one freely.

Clearly SOME people are willing to pay for the right to use lyrics, ie. singers, record labels, etc. Just because a single individual, ex. rapgenius, doesn't want to pay for the music/lyrics, which they legally are obliged to do, doesn't mean that music/lyrics have no market value. There is a market value which has been established, and which people pay for. It just means that if they don't pay for the lyrics, they are stealing it.
So DRM is considered ethical, as opposed to malware?

That's a low ethical standard to adhere to.