skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finally. Though it is the very least that the establishment could do given how Turing was treated.
Recreating movie scenes with a baby and scrap cardboard
I found this heartening. I've recently transitioned from Mechanical Engineering to Web Dev and am beginning to interview. Just had my first interview, and I feel like everything discussed made me better.
And they haven't tweeted his blog post even though he added the HTML! Terrible!
> "Alan Turing, the second world war codebreaker who took his own life after undergoing chemical castration following a conviction for homosexual activity, has been granted a posthumous royal pardon 59 years after his death."

I don't understand, I thought what was needed was "royal apologies". WTH.
Thanks for the feedback, we sure need a FAQ page and a more detailed description on how Yoozon works. Will create them ASAP.
As per your questions, we will support PHP files on the beta version, but Python and Ruby are on our roadmap.
URL to non-redacted version?
Goal Setting vs. Time Boxing: Why One Sucks
tbh and not trying to defend them here but $1M is quite a bit, it make people thinks you know...
Better accountability than normal cab companies.

Recently a (one of many) Swedish cab company had one of their more islamic drivers throw out a gay couple. Nothing has happened. No one got fired, no head rolled, nothing on Twitter.

Now imagine if a Uber driver did that....
Here's the list of top usernames for anyone trying to figure out who's who:

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
The post is from 2009.
Somewhere between better than nothing and nothing.
pretty sure her office is around Santa Monica blvd. and Sepulveda IIRC, should anyone want to do protest more physically.
I have recommended RapGenius. I have not recommended any other site.
..and 13 minutes later. [1]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6957463
Wait... this guy is trying to defend the usefulness of math with fibonacci numbers ? I wish him luck with that.

There are elements of math all over computer programming. I like the blog of Jake Vanderplas - an astrophysicist at U Washington - who liberally mixes Python and mathematics as applied to his field. jakevdp.github.io/blog/

I just got interested in image processing - one of the branches our bloggers says is specialized. The image processing textbooks use fourier analysis and convolutions to get information out of images. This is probably how instagram works.

Functional programming is another area that using mathematics - in this case category - to build an alternative to object oriented programming. To the train eye tutorials like http://twitter.github.io/scala_school/ and books like http://homotopytypetheory.org/book/ have something in common.

Mathematics looks irrelevant to coding because mathematicians are not using programming.
Math requires thinking very hard about the algorithms they are using. This is time one could spend coding or drinking with friends.
Well it is a hack, in the sense that it is the 1990 idea of hacking your Google rank. Nowadays, all this hack will accomplish is getting them downranked or banned altogether.
A lot of the recent jailbreaks seem to depend on symlink shenanigans. I wonder why Apple can't simply remove symlink support from iOS' filesystem driver? Is there anything in iOS or the appstore apps that depend on it?
Whoa! Was not expecting that so quickly...
I'm aware of the original articles point, my post was of the form "even when you account for X, their analysis is still valid". And neither did I mean to imply that people actually get maintenance done exactly on schedule.

A more relevant question would be how much dead weight loss this bias results in. I'm guessing not that much.
Yeah. Core Animation[1] is hardware accelerated too, which makes things nice and slick. Having standardised animations is also good because it ties the the GUIs from different apps together nicely.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Animation
Anyone want to explain the significance of their chosen boundaries to a non-Californian?
He just responded, "We're investing this now."
RSA's 'Denial' Over $10m From NSA To Promote Broken Crypto Not Really A Denial
The manner in which the document was written makes its authenticity strike me as highly surprising.
> There was a post a bit back (which you might be referencing) about almost this exact situation, except it was about black hat SEO dramatically backfiring. Specifically, businesses were asking bloggers and news sites to delete spam comments that linked back to the sites.

I believe that would be this great write up on the current situation: http://www.theawl.com/2013/12/the-new-spammer-panic
Incomplete list of things that most certainly won't happen: this.
This will amount to exactly nothing.
Yesware is an interesting option. Try it out. Haven't touched boomerang or followup.cc since discovering it.

There is that privacy/security issue though. I always look at web based email as being inherently insecure anyway.
I think what he argues against is a third culture, where the focus is on implementation of an algorithm in the code, rather than on the algorithm itself -- and generally, the algorithm is what matters more. Just a couple months ago I've seen some code that spent most of the time traversing the entire (large) data structure and counting elements satisfying certain conditions, while 5 minutes of looking at the actual math was all that was needed to see that the count was a simple function of known quantities.

But, his valid point is indeed obscured by a lot of crap and strawmen :(
Well,

It would comforting to think that all bullshit of NSA just comes because the "War On Terror" gave them a free pass and as that fades, things will get back to normal.

Sorry, it is more like "entrenched interests are entrenched". Should the War On Terror(TM) rhetoric seem to fade, our fearless will put their think tanks to work and find an appropriately deceptive other trick.

The point where the horse left was pretty at the point the CIA was created. As soon as convince people that "there are thing that in this democracy we have to able to hide from, the democratic public", you have a point of leverage you can push harder and harder and harder till you have all the coconuts in the watering hole. And that's pretty how thing all now.

Could this change? Not without more than a little "surgery".
Code != computer science
Ubuntu's Addiction to Dual-Booting
Instapaper-style footnotes plugin for jQuery
This is just an attempt to get attention. States can't just decide to split themselves into multiple states, it requires federal legislation.

The only state that can split itself up is Texas, which was part of the agreement to bring the Republic of Texas into the union.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_divisionism
> Adaptative search does not look like a marketplace, it looks like a search engine. There is a marketplace icon that launches the marketplace app which has a experience similar to other app stores.

The reviewer was probably right to be confused as it isn't clear from basic descriptions of the OS exactly how it works. Instead, there is buzzword fluff (HTML5! HTML5!) and marketing jargon about the 'web'. I am very technical and I still am not clear about how firefox os applications work. Are there additional APIs available to applications from the marketplace? Are applications downloaded by the launcher or does every application act like a web link, or is there a combination of the two?
> focus on growth, take VC money, and you'll get the conversion rate sorted out when you're bigger.

Not in the lean-startup movement!
> California elects republicans statewide all the time.

Well, California has an unusually large number of separately elected Statewide officers, but for the big three statewide offices (Governor and the two US Senators), "all the time" would be something of an exaggeration. In the last 19 years, Arnold Schwarzenegger's reelection as Governor is the only time a Republican has been elected to one of those big-3 statewide offices in a normal election.

> Arnold Schwarzenegger,

Arnold Schwarzenegger was first elected in a recall election which uses different procedures (an open plurality election with no primary to filter the field, with a side-by-side majority vote on the same ballot for actually recalling the incumbent -- more people voted for the incumbent Democrat to be retained than voted for the Republican Schwarzenegger to replace him.)

> Pete Wilson

Pete Wilson -- the last Republican elected Senator from or Governor of California, was last elected Governor 19 years ago. The political landscape has changed a bit since then.

> a Senator can win too.

Pete Wilson did it the last time 25 years ago. Sure, the Republicans could run a candidate that could win, but they haven't shown much propensity to do so.
when I said "minimal time" I meant "minimal time per unit of skill increase." sorry this wasn't clear. the whole point is if your goal is to improve your skills as a programmer you should be optimizing your time to learn things that provide the largest skill increase per unit time.

as far as your first point goes, I agree that some type of random walk part is important to breaking out of local maxima. you can look to social cues for what might be a good thing to start learning about that is outside of your comfort zone. generally speaking since software is eating the world a good litmus test for me is if the domain seems to be amenable to automation and is also not as far along the curve as more "easy" domains to dive into like the latest newfangled way to build a web based CRUD app.
It does? How? I'm running KeePassX. Is that what you're using?
I'm sure he's excited.
Not sure about that. Breaking it down, I think that all six areas would go Democrat - the Republican bastions of San Diego, Inland Empire, Central Valley, and Greater SLO are all jerrymandered into the larger Democratic areas of LA, Sacramento, and Santa Barabara.

Silicon Valley: Strong Democrat

West California (Santa Barabara, right?): Medium/Light Dem

Jefferson (Humbolt?): Strong Dem

South California: Strong Dem

Central California: Medium Dem (because of Sacto)

North California: Solid Dem (?)
To spike a gun seems to be a rare event. Gun crews could spike a gun to prevent it being turned on their own forces, but it meant they could not reuse it either when the cavalry left (which usually meant your whole army was running away)

Cavalry were supposed to carry such equipment but it seems it was rare they did, and rarer they got down off a horse in the middle of a firefight.

So it's (from a minor bit of googling) looking like a tactic more honoured in the breach than the observance. Anyone else?

An interesting HN-like back and forth on this subject is below:
http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=233539

Oh and it's driving a steel wedge into the touch hole so the cannon cannot be fired - not, as seems to be implied on this amazingly tangential thread, driven into ridiculously hardened cannon walls.
Don't be too concerned by the "Royal" nature of the pardon. In the UK the legislative system is in theory dependent on the Royal prerogative (i.e all laws derive from the will of the head of state, currently Queen Elizabeth II). In practice that is not so, as Her Majesty does not personally deliberate on legislative matters.

However, as a journalistic device, describing the decision as "Royal" conveys the journalists and editors feelings as to the importance and sincerity of the pardon.
Banks Mostly Avoid Providing Bitcoin Services
Twitter's ARPU is less than half of Facebook's
I'm a founder of PiCloud. If you reach out to me at ken AT picloud.com I can go over your use case with you and help you figure out your options.
it would be great if you could provide an update about it later on.

thanks for taking care about this.
>Most of us have been saying this for years (and some in defense of the Napster model, for better or for worse), and it still seems like a no-brainer to me. As one poster here pointed out, if artists treat the music experience as a service instead of product (and, to expand on that, give the music away for free), I would be interested to see the impact.

Drake/OVO did this with Abel Tesfaye (The Weeknd). His first three albums -- House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence -- were all released for free, over the internet.

To say that he's been a success in the R&B world would be an understatement.
Is this against policy?
spare us the ad hominem
I've had Uber drivers say not to bother using the app at LAX. They need to get a separate permit from airport officials to pick up the passenger, so it's at minimum a ~30 minute ordeal to arrange pick-up.

Uber isn't right for every use-case; especially pick-ups from regulated areas where taxi stands are already prevalent.
Many parts of the internal system depend on it. Here's a run of `find / -type l` on a jailbroken iPhone 5: https://gist.github.com/innoying/8cd04821e17b3f67aa4b

A few of those are created by the jailbreak but most are core parts of the system.
It reminds me what we as technologists need to remember and what we older brother, sisters, father, mother and uncle and aunt needs to remember: spend more time playing toys with kids :) and more toys gifts or creative gifts than computer games.
grr. this has nothing to do with haskell.
yes thank you, it was an Adam Curtis - cheers
If one were to adopt the position that it is the responsibility of business to prevent fraud

Well, it is the responsibility of HSBC to prevent criminal fraud by HSBC, which is one of the charges they plead guilty to in their plea bargain.
vinkelhake, you seem to be dead (for no discernible reason).
> South California="Strong Democrat"

This is not true. Orange County and San Diego County can go Republican and drag LA County with it.

> North California: Solid Dem (?)

There are plenty of libertarians here as well.

> West California (Santa Barabara, right?): Medium/Light Dem

They call this "Central Coast". It's moderate.
The landing page looks pretty awful at extremely narrow browser widths like 1280 pixels or 960 pixels.
It will be very interesting to see how and when this outreach will turn into a show of territorial solidarity. It will happen sooner or later! In fact, looking at the rate at which they are now discovering exoplanets, and probably will soon find some intelligent life too, I am curious how this outreach would become the zone that is under the protection or stewardship of planet earth. Or someone else's if that be the case.
A 'Mistletoe Drone' Descends On San Francisco [video]
"Implement ALL the algoirthms" sounds like a requirement drafted by somebody enamoured of the standard rather than by somebody looking at what they were actually going to use.

"Our product is compatible with all of <impressive sounding standard>" may, indeed, have been worth the money to the customer even if the value was marketing rather than technoloogy
I yield to no HN'er in cultlike adoration of Steve Albini and read "The Problem With Music" 20 years ago in a tfile collection that included his European touring notes with Big Black and the bit about sleeping with PJ Harvey. I'll add that Steve Albini is almost as big a message board dork as we are; you can hunt down his comments on the Electric Audio forum (Electric Audio being his Chicago studio), where Dave Grohl also apparently has commented. It's sort of like an HN where Albini is the Paul Graham. Also, his old food blog is pretty great.

Also, I like Big Black a lot, and even listen to Shellac every once in awhile, and while he'd probably piss all over these selections as boring college rawk, Surfer Rosa and Rid Of Me are two of my favorite albums, in large part because of what he did to both those bands in recording them.

However: I think Albini is extremely biased in his take on the music industry.

First, he's a punk artist and a purist and not inclined to look favorably on mainstream music of any sort (I especially highly recommend the longrunning thread on his forum where his users tried to sell him on hip hop; it features capsule reviews of something like 100 different famous hip hop tracks. Spoiler: Albini wins, hip-hop loses.).

Second, he got screwed over by label management multiple times, most notably during the production of In Utero, where he was scapegoated for Nirvana's own artistic decisions and (unfounded, as it turns out) concerns that the band couldn't possibly live up to the hype from Nevermind. He does. not. like. the kinds of people who work for labels.

Third, he worked almost exclusively with the kinds of musicians who do not end up making a living creating music. This was especially true when he wrote "The Problem With Music". Albini's take on the music scene makes perfect sense if you assume that, with the possible exception of a small collection of engineers and other support professionals, nobody is going to make any money producing music. Albini's favorite band, The Jesus Lizard, is/was headed up by someone who had to leave music to become a lawyer.

But I look at things like the Mega scam, or, for that matter, Youtube and Facebook, and see giant corporations who had no hand whatsoever in creating music of any sort, who couldn't give a rotten god damn about music, and who nevertheless manage to extract tens of millions of dollars from the efforts of people who dedicate big parts of their life creating it.

I find myself unwilling to accept the idea that "it's all the labels fault" and "well people should just sell t-shirts" (and, as it turns out but isn't popular to say, sleep in the back of a dirty van) as a defense for tech companies trying to exploit music.

If you want to start a music startup on the Internet, do at least what the labels did: fund a couple acts and wait for one of them to break out and become a huge success.
Remove the requirement for IE10 to be installed first prior to VS 2013
"If it's 20 seconds, then that's a case of me getting screwed for a minor convenience priced unreasonably."

Wow, you must be REALLY fun to stand behind in line at the coffee shop. "WADDYA MEAN $3 FOR THIS COFFEE? I COULD HAVE MADE IT FOR 10 CENTS! WHY ARE YOU SCREWING ME?"

For reference, "getting screwed" would be what was happening if surge pricing was applied when you got out of the cab without your knowledge - not a advertised-up-front price that you don't agree with.
This was inspired by the post about Google Docs dropping IE9 support. Also see the fixes in Update 1 RC for IE9 support: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2911573
High Schools Not Meeting STEM Demand
I realize this is drifting off topic, and I could well believe the current Rakudo implementation doesn't actually save the memory (I could believe it does, I just don't know) but P6, for any method, including sort:

my $a = [2,1]; say $a.sort; say $a # 1 2 2 1
my $a = [2,1]; say $a.=sort; say $a # 1 2 1 2

This riffs off the general op= syntax:

my $a = 1; say $a + 1; say $a # 2 1
my $a = 1; say $a += 1; say $a # 2 2
How ironic, coming the same week as LGBT education sites are blocked by British "porn" filters.

The best pardon to someone who is dead would be to stop doing similar misdeeds to those who are living.
good point and taken. thank you.
IS this the real matt cutts????!

what happens if someone is caught manipulating the SERP like this? Does google automatically ban this practice? Why wasn't this caught before? They are backed by $15 million dollars I can't believe they'd resort to this.
Nutrition science is highly contested; for every report or paper that claims one thing, another will completely refute it.
I like that RapGenius had the chutzpah to allow that post exposing their scheme -- a scheme unlikely to be smiled upon by Google -- to participate in that very same scheme.

Except, have they actually tweeted the post as they promissed? Sadly, it does not appear so, it would somehow be especially pleasing if they then tweeted out a link to the post exposing their scheme.
Interactive dialect map
> I'm not sure that's relevant.

If your intent is to raise the hassle and expense of owning lawnmowers, then the effect of so doing on gardening and lawn care is entirely irrelevant. If your intent is to reduce the extent to which gardening and lawn care take place, it's entirely relevant. In such ambiguities originate the suspicions of the pro-lawnmower faction.

As regards the rest, I think you've got cause and effect mixed up; it seems to me not so much that the "gun debate", and similar "debates", polarize American society, as that what we call American society, and in particular the politics of the United States, revolve around a conflict between two fundamentally irreconcilable perspectives on -- well, on everything, more or less. A century and a half ago, this conflict erupted into open warfare, which concluded in a decisive victory for one of the two factions; while neither side has taken up arms in any meaningful way since, the conflict itself remains unresolved, and has simmered under the surface ever since.

On the other hand, the side which won that war I mentioned has done a sterling job of consolidating its gains and pushing to expand them, to the extent that it would be all but impossible for their opponents to pull off an upset by any conceivable means -- and God be thanked for that! It's the only thing which stands between our comfortable lives here in the United States, and chaos.

So, on the whole, I'm satisfied. Of course, I'd be happier still if I thought the winning side had a program with a snowball's chance of actually working when implemented on a platform of some three hundred million or so human beings, but I figure that, by dint of careful neglect of my health, I can more or less ensure that I won't be around to see anything worse than, at most, the initial stages of the collapse which I expect, in the fullness of time, will arrive. Sure, I could be wrong about that, but I don't think I am -- and, in the meantime, there's Calvados, and good fellowship among friends, and even a few programming languages to work in which aren't as terrible as the rest, and who can say fairer than that?
First step to knighthood?
Unless Firefox OS is going to add additional APIs that make essentially make web applications proprietary I'm not sure what your point is. The problems with HTML5 development for mobile applications are well known and are the result of an impedance mismatch between the document model and the native controls that the user expects to use on the platform. Simply trying to replicate a native application rapidly introduces complexity which isn't helped by the generally slow performance of DOM interactions with javascript on slower mobile platforms.

Do you think that every vendor purposely downgrades the mobile experience(even vendors like samsung which don't have a reason to favor native vs. web apps)? It doesn't make sense to blame mobile safari, chrome, and ie mobile when google, apple and Microsoft put a lot of resources into their development.
Don't imagine he cares about the money.
Would you like to expand upon that?
aaargh - I thought this was a news site. I had simply assumed that this was yet another and different criminal activity by a bank. Whereas I had already gotten upset by this story a year ago.
Nope, US Marine.
Guess he can't let Bezos and his dorky drones get all the media attention.
A statement on one or the other of the linked pages (I don't recall if it was your blog post or the deck) referenced a sort of "leveling up" from voluntary curator-user to (for want of a better term) verified "tastemaker." That seemed, to me, to imply a certain granularity of user classes. You may want to clean up that language if that's not the case.
Interesting research that seems directionally true, but I wonder if this overstates the case. The sample set is people who are willing to download an Android app and share data with Stanford researchers. Those people likely have more info online than the average person.