skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
rubbish it is possible but require a simple majority vote in both the state legislators and congress
I like http://toolbox.mxhero.com, It's free for unlimited messages and also does interesting things with attachments and a few other features I find useful. They also have an open source version http://sourceforge.net/projects/mxhero/?source=navbar
Not exactly genius.
Oh god, Onswipe again. Has anyone who puts it on their website tried to use it from a phone or tablet?
Yes, wow. To go further, there is something deeply troubling about the parent's line of reasoning: that the tip of its spear is that Turing could have helped computing more, and not that the law was heinous in its treatment of humanity. The priorities required to even think of a point like that baffle me.
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Lots of complaining on here, but I was glad to see it.

The government certainly didn't have to. It doesn't have to pardon everyone convicted of a crime that is no longer a crime.

It was a good thing to do for a good man, and I commend them.
Goal setting: write a good comment.

Time boxing: write comment in 5 minutes (3 minutes for research/thinking up a comment, 2 minutes for writing).

I would argue that neither approach is optimal. Making up good goals is super hard. Pure time boxing, while great for managing time, is not that great at getting things done.

However, consider this mixed approach:

1. Write out a broad goal and start with an hour of exploratory testing. Come up with some short goals with deadlines.

2. Work on short term goals, time box them if necessary.

3. Take some time to review accomplished goals and time it took. With that information, review how accomplished short term goals helped you along the way of a broad goal. Adjust timelines accordingly.

4. Rinse and repeat.
The article seems quite confusing on a number of fronts.

Architects of buildings don't actually use waterfall for a start - they continually adapt and improvise (in response to things like variable materials supply, soil conditions, weather, unexpected archeological finds etc.)

The UCD practitioner as outlined here is a type of, or proxy for, a product manager, which would fit in very well with any agile process.

The insight about unionisation is interesting, but the fact that agile turns out to share some subset of traits with unions doesn't really say much about agile - as nobody designed agile as a form of unionisation by the backdoor. It could be entirely coincidental and irrelevant or it might reveal something about aspects of unions being an emergent property of labour. (We certainly see unions appear across many industries in most nations.)

The point about lean and agile seems misconceived to me. Agile is essentially about preserving your options for change by reducing batch sizes and thereby improving flow of business value delivered. Scrum is just one form of agile, which reduces the epic cycles of waterfall from 6+ months to 1-4 weeks. More lean-focussed approaches like Kanban just take that further to a granularity of individual features. In fact you will have much more measuring and chartism under Scrum. A major lean argument is that optimal program velocity is achieved by continuous flow, even where it means that some individual items move at a slower pace - much like traffic control. This is precisely not an inhumane 'whip the horses harder' PM approach. It is also easier to visualise without needing to constantly measure an refine - bottlenecks should be self-evident from a kanban board for example.

Design thinking isn't something I'd say was at odds with agile at all, but in my experience is considered part of the wider movement away from 'throw over the wall' approaches (along with devops and lean UX). It's fundamental to lean startup for example.

And Taylorism is misapplied by many people to software development. In one way you can comfortably separate conception from execution with software. You could call them design and production line. The commonly made mistake is to think of coding as a production line activity rather than one of design. In fact the process of software development is one of automation generally - just as a high level of standardisation allows you to have robots building cars, a high level of software design allows you to automate execution. Where you have shoddy design, you end up with an inefficient process with humans doing production line work - that's a failure of industrialisation and Taylorism, not an example of it. This is in fact why software projects that attempt to separate design from technical implementation always run into huge problems. The technical implementation isn't a separate thing but is the actual design (and UCD here is closer to discovering the goals than defining implementation).
no love for us Linux folks, rabble!
The State of Jefferson in the Draper proposal only includes parts of California, despite its naming inspiration.
I would suggest to not put the algorithm into a main function as it is done in your sort but instead in a separate one with a proper signature.
LOL, 1980 repeal. The Stonewall riots were in NYC in 1969 and after that the cops stopped busting up gay hookup spots. That's why NYC was a center for AIDS. I'm not saying gay bars should be illegal, but denying the causality is wishful thinking.

Watch "Midnight Cowboy" (1969) and "Cruising" (1980) to get a glimpse into how AIDS came to be.
no this is about over regulation massive corruption and complete lack of any in sac or southern to address the real issues facing the people here, its about lack of representation and those who wish to free themselves from the out of control government, liberals = ignore corruption because they worship the institutions of government .
The Jefferson State lives here. http://youtu.be/MMnRZXz51WE
With a quarterly income of $587 million in Q2 of 2012, isn't 10 million dollars "chump change" for EMC? Perhaps it's more of a lubricant for the larger picture of deals and pressures.
How does this violate ToS?
I like the look of this language every time I see it mentioned, but I'm too afraid to be running daemons on mono. Would love to see the JVM backend progress.
Upton Sinclair: It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it

You aren't blind. Now what are you going to do about it?
TV anchors’ bitcoin gift certificates stolen while on air
You're very spot on here. I wrote a post a year ago on RapGenius and their SEO: http://moz.com/blog/how-i-would-do-seo-for-rap-genius
I'm 100% Mikko knows this and he is just being sarcastic.
The House (and I) agree with you. I believe the hope is that this pardon of a well-known & loved figure in the UK will raise awareness in order to force the government to nullify all convictions resulting from this law.

Sixteen thousand of those men are still alive ... they can all now apply to have their convictions disregarded. I tried to amend it to extend this disregard posthumously to the 49,000 men similarly convicted but now dead...

The Government did not agree with us. They pointed out that, among other things, it would not always be possible in very old cases to know when sexual activity was non-consensual or under age. I think that the Government were wrong then and I think that they are wrong now.

Many of us—including the noble Lord, Lord Sharkey, I think—regard this Bill as in some sense a second- best or interim option, in that we would have preferred a measure that offered the same comfort and recompense to the families and admirers of any of the many thousands of other individuals, now deceased, who were convicted under the same law. Still, we are where we are, and in Turing’s case the facts and his character are well documented. I would hazard a guess that others whose family members were victims of the same obsolete law and cruel sentence would, albeit as second best, welcome a gesture towards an especially prominent but symbolically representative individual.
> The only state that can split itself up is Texas

As your link indicates, a more accurate telling is "The only state that some proponents argue can split itself up is Texas".
I suggest you participate in online programming competitions. For me it was more helpful than just read books.
I wish Etoile had taken off...
Existing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6957423
You can add any web page to the home screen as a launchable icon (the "adaptive app search" lets you search through curated ones), which is basically a standalone chromeless browser.

Open Web Apps can be packaged and served via the Marketplace (or downloaded directly), and have access to new platform APIs (via javascript), that are being standardized: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps
There is a handful of websites showing algorithm implementations and they are on edu sites. Unless you plan to write the algorithm in multiple popular algorithms...
Canonical gives developers a preview of a dual-booting Ubuntu & Android
I stumbled on the link you just provided some time back and found it to be by far the most comprehensive overview of all the niceties that we will soon be having on Java 8.

Kudos to whoever wrote it up!
A shortage for everybody is more fair than a shortage just for those who aren't able to pay.
Video: a cute fairy tale from space
Firefox OS is adding new platform APIs and developing them into web standards: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Reference#Firefox_O...
It's the basis of encapsulation, which is on that list.
An open source code editor for the web - brackets
Adobe open sourced an editor for web
Hmm ...complete Sarcasm fail on my part then.
Getting harder and harder to tell.
Wriggling worm is breakthrough for artificial life
I tried all 3 and settled on http://toolbox.mxhero.com. I like that they also have an open source version: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mxhero/?
except that there is NO discontinuity at the 115K mark nor any X5K mark.
Yeah, a CS degree isn't suuuper-helpful for organizing a coherent program around a snazzy framework for the latest web technologies. It's for when you need to do something like, oh, "figure out how to upgrade the work-management system so you can move from coarse-grained lock system to a finer-grained lock system with zero downtime." Then you think back to your old courses covering Parallelism and the like, and plan it out.
It's pretty obvious that the 'client' was indeed the NSA. They say they can't reveal who the client is because of the NDA. If the client was NOT the NSA they could simply say so. But they didn't...
https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm
HAHA, C# copied Java in many ways, now Java is following suit. Good for them.
> For C, all you need is simple arithmetic.

I would say C and its standard library. For example, you have to convert an element of argv that contains only the numerical characters from a char[] to an int. This requires a knowledge of power series in order to perform this confidently. If you have access to stdlib.h, all you do is use strtol() or one of its little brothers.
I think there are two types of commentators on this issue. Those who've been involved in negotiating agreements like this and those who haven't. Those who have can see how something like this happens. Those who haven't cannot believe how something like this could happen. It's important to remember/realize that no one, outside a handful of folks, understood what the NSA was up to until the last 12 months. Heck, at one point not too far back it was probably prestigious to mention you worked closely with the NSA on developing your technology. Help you impress a few corporate execs and close some deals.
I use KeePassDroi d (annoying text break) on Android, KeePassX on Mac and Linux but the Windows KeePass doesn't read the same file type as the others, unless I'm missing something? I want to use the same database file for all three OSesess.
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The problem is that your initial comment is a rephrasing of an often repeated cliche that "guns don't kill people, people do". This then leads to a giant discussion of what is really meant by this. We start comparing guns to forks, saying that "forks can kill people! Should we outlaw forks?!" Someone then points out that forks have other uses, while guns have only one use.

The problem is that a whole lot of breath is wasted on this straw man argument just to get to where we were before: that guns are a very effective tool for killing humans and nothing else.

Personally, I am as you may have guessed for outlawing nearly all gun ownership. Outside of muzzle loaded hunting muskets nobody, not even the police should carry guns. The second amendment does not, as I read it, apply the way that the NRA interprets it, and even if it did, I would argue that it is in the 21st century a terrible idea. The original intent, defending against a tyrannical government, no longer applies as the government can now simply use a drone and a hellfire missile to take out any rebel force. And guns do more harm than good on US soil just as surely as CO2 does for global warming. I do not believe that any amount of education would prevent tragedies like Sandy Hook, and the NRA will not allow anyone to impose any type of compulsory background checks, etc. the solution it seems is to eliminate the single point of failure of this system: the guns. Australia did this and their mass shootings have decreased to zero or nearly zero since.
Lol, Java.
This is what v8 should have been: http://vibed.org

Edit: look at the code.
Uber's justification for surge pricing is that the waits for cabs would be unacceptably long without it. If it's cutting hours off what the wait time would be without surge pricing, then that claim is correct. If it's a 20-second difference then a reasonable person would disagree.
Is it the NSA just doesn't want to profile for terrorists? It would seem to me, that would be much more successful than trying to monitor every single person in the country.

And yeah, if they actually did profiling, they would've gotten the Ft. Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, Richard Reid, and the Boston Bombers. Instead of focusing on the obvious, the NSA chose to try and monitor every single citizen. Not effective at all and it allowed at least four terrorist attacks to take place on American soil.
Red cross (in the US) doesn't want blood donations from people who lived in Europe for long enough. Because they have HIV? No.

You got something wrong with correlation and causation there in several ways.
wreegab was not objecting to the "royal", but to it being a pardon instead of an apology.
You place yourself in the position of attempting to quantify morality. I can only wish you the best of good fortune in so doing, and recommend that, should you succeed, you lose no time in applying for what would surely be a more thoroughly earned Nobel Peace Prize than any before or since.
>federal authorities will have to buy more chairs for the Senate floor

Oh the irony of this statement...
One problem with time boxing is that it isn't the actual terminal goal - when trying to be self-motivate, there would be an extra level of abstraction between effort and reward, as you'd now be self-motivating to timebox, rather than to do anything inherently useful.

Besides, it fails the "too good to be true" heuristic. If it actually persistently improved productivity in a meaningful manner, you'd expect it to have been better adopted widely by now.
That is what Taxi Magic and bunch of other companies are doing.
This seems like a good business idea, but it would likely be fairly messy and hard to provide a uniformly good user experience. But I'm guessing that a lot of cab companies would pay for this software dispatch service, if you just sent them customers (perhaps according to bids they set?)
Your first assertion is highly subjective, but compared to all the other mobile phone players I'd say it's laughable.

Your second is demonstrably false - both the Mozilla Foundation and its wholly-owned Corporation have awesome boards of directors, and from my experience (having worked and volunteered for Mozilla for many years) the leadership is extraordinarily sensitive to outside advice and criticism from people outside the organization as well as inside.

Mobile has incredibly high barriers to entry, and breaking into it is not easy nor simple, and is not going to happen overnight. However, moving mobile away from locked-in native platforms and onto open standards is a laudable goal in my opinion, as is making inexpensive, capable devices for the next billion people who are coming online.
About f*cking time, but is it enough? No, but hopefully we won't need to worry about things like this in the future. Progress is progress and I'll take it.
The general consumer doesn't know a damn thing about private keys.
"it's not fashion sense when you're wearing shades indoors"

You had better believe that there is room in fashion for clothing without utility.

utmost disrespect."

Being able to be offended by somebody wearing sunglasses is a problem you are going to have to work on. The inability to tolerate the existence of those who are unlike you is a personal failing.
I like to think the answer would have been "both": Lisp for power and elegance, and Fortran for speed.
"Blank is about blank" statements have no real meaning; you'll rarely find them in use outside politics, where they enjoy extreme popularity due to the difficulty of their conversational negation.
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"Mastery" by Robert Greene was good. It actually works better as an audio book as it's wrapped in narratives of people who went on to do extraordinary things. Hence listening lends better to it than than reading.

I read "Effective Javascript" which is good.

Other than that just a bunch of scattered tuts and pieces all over the place.
Customers rarely care what we code or computer science in
If Snowden Returned to US, Whistleblower Evidence Would Likely Be Inadmissible
Hate for the sake of hate? You've clearly got issues.
>Whether or not it should be acceptable (aside: I'd agree it shouldn't), no one (few) was complaining until very recently.

That's also a flawed argument. So what? Awareness has to built up for complaining to happen first -- and sometimes it doesn't even build up that much. Sometimes the complaining only happens after much damage has been done.

The existence or not of complaints against something doesn't justify it. People didn't complaint about slavery much back in the day either.
The infinite tape of justice winds slowly, but grinds exceedingly fine.
How does a famous startup, with such blue chip backing, make such an obvious mistake? Doesn't everyone with even basic SEO knowledge understand this is against Google policies?
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I literally make an ass out of myself half the time. Feel free to join in. You're not alone.
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I think the idea behind having the government compete wasn't that it was a fair competition, it was just a way to spend the least amount of money.

If the government is able to do something internally for $500m, and the disadvantaged private sector is going to cost $750m, then let the government do it themselves. (On the government's books, this is a net win.) If the government costs it at $500m, but a private company can do it for $400m... Why let the government do it? Contract it out and save money.
That is an excellent summary, thanks for the link.
north of sac is not blue at all
http://wordpress.org/plugins/really-static/

It's old enough and well tested for me but you may differ.
Fair enough, you have a point there. Steam locomotives are awesome to this day.
> Treehouse CEO Ryan Carson declares “A computer science degree is a rip off…I know because I have one.” Perhaps his CS degree was from a college which didn’t have a very good program or maybe his focus has been web development where you rarely need computer science.

According to wikipedia:

> In 2000, he graduated from Colorado State University with a Computer Science degree

I suspect, like with most fields, that the school definitely matters (and that he may not have arrived at the same conclusion had he attended a school with a better CS program)
Look, I think sunglasses indoors are a silly thing, but then I probably think the same thing about a lot of fashion.

But then, as my wife says, I have terrible dress sense...lol.

It's fashion - you don't need to get it (and I certainly don't). It's a subjective thing, so to each their own.

And to go on about how they're "douchenozzles" (is that even a word?), or their "boorish debauchery" sounds like you're just looking to be offended.

It doesn't harm you directly how these guy dress, or how Justin Bieber dresses, or does his hair, so I don't see the point of working myself into a sweat over it.
Have you considered contributing to LiteratePrograms[0] (or such) instead?

This is great practice, and I encourage you to go for it, but for those interested in looking at algorithms implementations, or looking to cut their teeth and contribute implementations, I'd encourage you to look at already existing algorithm repositories.

[0]http://en.literateprograms.org/LiteratePrograms:Welcome
Scumbag Hacker News: Admires spies only after they're dead.
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.

I suspect you'd agree: much proposed gun regulation is a knee-jerk in reaction to fear. Its consequences to society aren't well thought out.

As regards the rest, I think you've got cause and effect mixed up

Regardless of how it all got started, people talking at each other is now a part of a self-perpetuating cycle.
>NSA is a intelligence agency: spying on foreigners seems to me like it'd be their objective, regardless of the revelations...

And the objective of the KKK was to spread fear on certain parts of the population. That doesn't make it OK. Objectives, even obvious ones, can be shitty too.

Also, spying on elect foreigners, doing targeted work to get intelligence data on terrorism etc is one thing. Spying on almost everybody on the world, and especially targetting politicians, allies, officials involved in trade deals, etc, is not what it should be doing. The German chancellor is not bloody Osama, and helping some major corporation get a stronghold in some country is not about "national security".
Whether you recognize it or not, you face a choice between: a) keeping your name on said repo, and b) substantially higher growth rate. When people do things for free, they don't do it so someone else can put their name on it. (It's irrelevant whether this was your "intention" -- I'm not saying, I'm just saying.)
I've just come across this write-up by the evasion team, I'm not sure how to interpret it:

http://evasi0n.com/l.html
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Pyramid Raider, Winner of the 2013 Eyegaze Eye Tracking Application of the Year Award is the first of its kind. Using both an eye tracker in conjunction with EEG technology the player navigates the maze using only their eyes. The experience is adapted to the players mental state. The more stressed the player becomes the harder the maze is to navigate.