skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number of application based on block chain is booming, its significance as a technology goes way beyond monetary.
I use multiple monitors for having my editor on one screen and having on the other screen:

1. My database design for reference

2. A web browser for when I google how to do a particular thing

3. Specifications for the project I'm working on

4. Example code from other things I have written in the past

These things make me a more productive programmer. I don't see a legitimate reason as to why multiple monitors wouldn't make someone more productive but let me know what I'm missing!
>> the Coca-Cola commercial you see on TV probably doesn't make a single person get up out of his chair, go grab his car keys, and drive to the store and buy a Coke.

>> Yet, over time, get exposed to enough of those ads, and when it's time to buy, your hand instinctively goes for the one your brain is bombarded with ads for all day.

I don't really think that has anything to do with it. At work we having both Coke and Pepsi vending machines. Most people prefer the taste of one or the other, to the point where if a place only serves Coke and they prefer Pepsi, they won't order it. Not unlike beer in America (Bud Light vs Miller Lite, etc)

Soft drink choices come down to availability most of the time. Chances are if you are at an event such as a sports game or concert, they've already made the choice for you. Same goes for a restaurant, McDonald's has Coke and Taco Bell has Pepsi.
Yeah, from the way it was written it seemed to me that he was actually there, taking gps measurements. So I was thinking 'why doesn't he just ask somebody there' until I was a few paragraphs in.
The title is a bit "baity"/misleading. They were only advertising for Facebook "likes" - not clickthrus etc.

It should probably read, "We stopped advertising for likes on Facebook". To which we'd probably just nod or shrug.
Shorter lines are easier to read. Long uneven lines are hard to read. This is why all newspapers use multi-column pages with advanced layout algorithms to make the lines as even as possible.

I also don't think being able to fit a "lot of action" on each line is an advantage at all because code like that is hard to follow, debug and refactor. If you instead split it up over multiple lines it becomes easy to see what the common parts are and refactor them into new functions.

There is also a lot of people with poor eyesight who uses large fonts and would have to horizontal scroll (big pita) 120 char wide lines.
I'm not fond of broken commits in a public timeline, and often my local commits are broken - they are snapshots of development milestones that make sense to me, but have no business being made public in the persisted timeline of a package.

I see this a lot in public timelines:

Commit A - splendid new feature
Commit B - oops, missed a semicolon
Commit C - typo
Commit D - addressing code review
Commit E - typo

That 5 commits for one new feature, and the commit I want to build from has a commit message which has nothing to do with the feature in question.

Rebasing that to a single commit takes little effort or time, and makes the timeline clear. On top of that, if you are using a code review tool which persists changes you may already have history of commit C which is probably the only other relevant commit you'd care to be able to find in the future.
I up-voted your response; hopefully it helps. As you pointed out, I don't think the issue here is the relationship between college football and professional football although nearly every other response was about the game.

More importantly: why is this university distancing itself from a study by one of its professors and why is this professor getting death threats for doing her job.
This is going to be interesting to watch. I wish him well.
So you find areas that are missing, then what? Fly somebody there to check out the street names? Remote sensing is a big field, of course they know about naive cross-check techniques like this, the question is what do you do when you find error. And the answer is: you focus on improving the thing that are most relevant to your business first, and war-torn African countries are rather low on that list.
This is really nicely done. I love the simplicity of the interface with the feature set. Do you have any docs on usage? Example - Dates for events?
Google begins to merge Google+, Gmail contacts
That is not argument for further 1000x multiplication. By definition, an asset in a speculative bubble has experienced rapid growth in its past. That doesn't mean that such growth will continue into the future.
I want to thank you for a good introduction to rust and can't wait to read the 0.9 updated version.
Only happen in United States
Nope, only free. Paid version looks nice too.
Someone in the linked comments talks about adding multiple other cities near this one.
>"locked by NullUserException"

I was hoping that were a joke :(
"This sounds suspiciously like modern context being retrofitted to an ancient story"

You do realize that the NSA spent most of the cold war trying to keep good cryptography out of civilian and foreign hands, right? The day after Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman published their paper, government agents showed up and put police tape around their lab. Also, this:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/nsa_backdoors...

And this:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/950403/archive_01...
Do you have some overview like which ones are the most promising, etc.?
Lenovo ThinkVision Pro2840m looks like IPS, there are even videos which shows good angles.

Personally I only care about viewing angles, so cheaper technology such as e-IPS would be just fine.
Today you have to spend money to get any of your posts shown on Facebook. I estimate that 2 percent of my audience ever see a post without paying to promote it.

If you don't pay for it, posts have to be "engaging," which is why link bait titles from BuzzFeed and Business insider always make it onto my news feed, but not posts from cool projects that I care about.
I tried the hardest puzzle on the Internet and failed
Do you want "noise-cancelling headphones" or do you want "isolation headphones"? There is a difference. Isolation phones like the Beyer Dynamic DT770s or the Sennheiser HD380s are phenomonal sounding. They are basically studio headphones used to play tracks to the musicians while they record but they don't bleed sound out or in (so the mics don't pick up the click/backing track from the headphones and, instead, just pick up what the musician is singing/playing).
Journal goes after authors posting papers on personal websites
Ruby 2 is almost dropin replacement for Ruby 1.9.3. so upgrading should be easy & backwards compatible with following exceptions

Incompatibility
There are five notable incompatibilities we know of:

The default encoding for ruby scripts is now UTF-8 [#6679]. Some people report that it affects existing programs, such as some benchmark programs becoming very slow [ruby-dev:46547].

Iconv was removed, which had already been deprecated when M17N was introduced in ruby 1.9. Use String#encode, etc. instead.

There is ABI breakage [ruby-core:48984]. We think that normal users can/should just reinstall extension libraries. You should be aware: DO NOT COPY .so OR .bundle FILES FROM 1.9.

#lines, #chars, #codepoints, #bytes now returns an Array instead of an Enumerator [#6670]. This change allows you to avoid the common idiom "lines.to_a". Use #each_line, etc. to get an Enumerator.

Object#inspect does always return a string like #<ClassName:0x…> instead of delegating to #to_s. [#2152]

NEWS: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/24/ruby-2-0-0-p0-is-released/

I would encourage you to try out ruby2 today, you will be surprised how easy the upgrading process is. Plus, your app will run 20% faster due to performance improvements
I don't understand. There are many "odd" facts (by which I assume you mean "improbable"?), but I see no compelling reason to alter them.

For example, suppose there was no one on a banknote with a last name starting with a letter from N-Z. The population of people with such last names might also be 50% of the UK. Would this situation also require changing?

(Incidentally, I find it less than odd, because I'm choosing a more accurate reference class. The notable enough to be put on a banknote population of the UK is probably far less than 50% female - for example, Thatcher is the only female PM. Scientists like Newton/Darwin go on money, but there are no females of their caliber.)
Woman spends $30K converting her house into Starship Enterprise
I can't wait to see this being exploited by advertisements.

I'm already seeing this really bad trend of ads redirecting to the app store which makes the page that did it completely unreadable (going back to safari shows an empty page) and now there's the prospect of the phone vibrating to the blinking of the various ads wanting my attention?

If this goes on like this, I'll really need an adblocker on my phone.
Introduction to HTML5 Desktop Apps With Node-Webkit
Google Play Services are not part of Android. It's a program written for Android. Android is what you find at http://source.android.com/.

Grandparent mentioned companies like Amazon or Ouya: These companies use Android, but they do not license Google Apps and they therefore do not have Google Play Services on their systems.

Shipping propritary applications with open source software is common and does not make the open source project any less open source.
Former mouthpiece of apartheid is one of the most successful tech investors
Show HN: Reconnecting Websockets (Javascript)
Ask HN: What do you think about Holacracy?
With companies like Medium and Zappos trying to adopt this type of organization structure (http://holacracy.org/), I'm curious to know what the HN community thinks about this approach.
I'm not so sure, at least on the beer front. I grew up in St. Louis, home of Budweiser. Everything in the city is named after one of the members or former members of the city, and just about every event in the city is sponsored by Anheuser-Busch (owner of Budweiser). I have since left the city, but if I'm looking for cheap, crappy beer that's available at any bar, I reach for a Bud-something-or-other.
If bitcoin goes really mainstream why wouldn't litecoin and others go mainstream too? There is a finite supply of bitcoins but a potentially infinite supply of alternative crypto currencies to meet whatever demand is created by the cryptocurrency idea going mainstream. There is no need for a single currency like bitcoin to dominate and grow unbounded.
I think the vibrate would catch people who aren't really looking at their phone and the x% of people who don't know how to really use their phone.
Or which Datamapper issues we are talking about? I see datamapper has not seen an update in a year, but It should be fairly trivial to fix whatever incompatibilities are because of 2.1.
As a late 2013 Macbook user, I'm trying to grasp the point of this question. I could see asking in a poll, for example. Or I can understand you telling us what you do, that you are searching for a new laptop, and then asking what we do + use so that you could find people who do the same things as you and see what they use. But to just ask "Which MacBook do you use for development?" - it just seems like you left a lot on the table. Development is a very broad term. I might "develop" an HTML-only website, for example, and just write a little JS here and there. I pull up fiddler/etc and that's it. But I "develop". If I give you my Macbook specs, that doesn't help you if you are a more rigorous dev.
You can't do this on a phone however as far as I know. The vibrate API is build for mobile devices.
It's easy, just disable plugins!

oh wait...
Exact same story here. Free £25 voucher for facebook advertising. Targeted a very specific niche in the London region. Got a few likes, the vast majority (more than 98%) were people way outside the demographic I targeted and it had zero impact on my click-throughs.
The OP is a GP herself who is disclosing the full information and detail whilst additionally providing an FAQ answering such questions.

I would trust the advice of the GP and medical profession over the marketing leaflet from the government.
There's one point I do not understand. After running this, you always need the ip of the victim to remote login, correct? or there's something I missed?
Getting started with JBoss Fuse
Well, those are still usually settled.
Purported iPhone 6 metal frame leaked, points to a large screen
Announcing Python 3.0. Support for Python 2.X will end on January 1, 2114 :P

Ok that was a silly joke, but seriously this is a good change and 2.1 is awesome. Keep moving Ruby forward!
Ross Anderson, writing in 1994:

"Indeed, my spies inform me that there was a terrific row between the NATO signals agencies in the mid 1980's over whether GSM encryption should be strong or not. The Germans said it should be, as they shared a long border with the Evil Empire; but the other countries didn't feel this way. and the algorithm as now fielded is a French design."

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/uk.telecom/TkdCaytoeU4...
Not entirely sure that he operates at the theoretical top of his intellectual capacity.

He has definitely produced great work despite his condition, but for us average joes - I can definitely state that since I started to hit the gym and began to lose weight my thinking is much faster, and my brain endurance increased a lot.
Not only programmers.

ASIC designers. Analogue electronics engineers. Traders. Quantitative analysts. Anyone whose work involves big complicated things that it's difficult to hold all of in one's head: a large piece of software, the design of a power station, the results of a finite element analysis.

For almost any sort of heavy brain-work, having more pixels makes for more productivity. So for almost any sort of well-paid heavy brain-work, employers should be falling over themselves to provide lots of pixels. It is a longstanding mystery to me why so many aren't.
It doesn't really require a knowledge of ruby, so you might want to have a look.

From the FAQ on the front page:

Do I have to know Ruby?

Really, I love alliteration: the only thing the 'for Rubyists' really means is that I assume you don't know about pointers, concurrency, or similar things. That's okay, you've never had to think about them before! I explain this stuff in extra depth. If you program in another dynamically typed language, you'll be just fine. If you program in another systems language, you'll be more than fine.
You know a game is awesome when you can tip a cow
As well as the money-spinner leagues, are there amateur (that's possibly not quite the right word for it, but the big college teams are clearly professional in all but name) leagues of the same sport for students who really are there to study and just want to play some inter-collegiate sports as well?
Subversion could do it with sparse-checkouts, but there is a huge gap in capability between it and P4 :- http://paulhammant.com/2014/01/06/googlers-subset-their-trun...
It's a pretty weak article, if they wanted to drive traffic to their site why were they focusing on getting likes rather than CTR ?

Doing internal FB advertising only really makes sense if you have a strong FB presence (i.e. Facebook game or if you push lots of sharable content via your FB page).
Does this automatically work with all bitcoin accepters? Or do they have to option / decide if they want to accept it?
Thanks for offering! I'd suggest that you make a post to the mailing list for maximum visibility:

https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev

HN comments and IRC chats tend to get lost in the shuffle without always attracting the attention of the devs.
I think the percentage of people browsing the Web while not looking at their phone is pretty low. I'm also not sure how the vibration would convince people who don't know how to use their phone. I would suspect this group would require less effort to manipulate.
>The fact that tax havens like Monaco, Bahamas, Switzerland, etc still thrive prove that this is not the case.

Those tax heavens heavily benefit existing companies and rich individuals, that's why they are not affected -- they don't release alternative currencies threatening establishd states and the almighty dollar (and still, the IRS for example pushed them to give US citizens banking records and such).

>It might be worth considering that bitcoin has already multiplied in value by 1000 times several times, from $0.001 to $1 to $1,000.

A, like the tulips. A sure thing to wait for the $1,000,000 then. After all growth is unbounded...
You have to reboot the computer, so no account is logged in when the attack is done.
> I really do not have the ability to understand this.

Sure you do. There is nothing in the universe more important than money. Simply get past your belief that the American university system is about anything noble and realize it is just another money making scheme.

The education part is just a cover to keep the illusion alive. If you focus you can learn there, but you simply need to realize your worth to the school is as a paying fan. If you want it to be anything else, you're on your own to figure that out.
I don't understand this statement. A phone is a mobile device.
Click the "Trunk Based Development" category. This article is in a series that has spanned a decade.
>AFAIK, there isn't a single store in the United States that will let you buy anything with gold. There's several places that'll let you buy stuff with bitcoin.

Yes, until they are regulated.

Besides, there are far more places and people that will deal with you in gold directly, than with bitcoin.
Here's the older post about riot.js: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6653024
There's also the possibility that uptake was insignificant enough to be indistinguishable from organic growth.
That's the very mindset on the onset of every bubble.
I often use "There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."
Ask HN: I'm building one HTML5 game per week, need feedback
Hello,

As a developer and a gamer I always wanted to make games, but I never actually did it. To change that I threw myself a public challenge: build a new game every week in html5 using Phaser (a javascript framework).

The games are quite simple for now, but that's because I'm still learning. Let me know if you have any feedback on the games or the website.

Link: www.lessmilk.com

Thanks!
Google “Ranking Factors” Correlation Study Explained
Yes, you can still rebase to one commit in a Trunk model. Git-Svn and Perforce's Git-Fusion allow you to knock yourself out with DVCS (squash, local-branches) before you dcommit / push back to the canonical repo.
Target confirms names, phone numbers, mail and email addresses breached
> It might be worth considering that bitcoin has already multiplied in value by 1000 times several times, from $0.001 to $1 to $1,000.

That doesn't make another 1000x multiplication more likely. Quite the contrary.
The impact of marriage in the wealth of male vs female economists
Since A$ contains an F, it seems like a reasonable assumption that it was expected in the output.
I'm curious what you're getting at with 'progressive system' statement.

I was just pointing out the absolute division of the numbers for both seem like a similar, if ultimately meaningless, metric.

I won't profess to be an economist and/or understand the intricate differences between the US and NO government taxing/budgeting/accounting, so any enlightenment is welcome.
This Asus ProArt series is also incredible.
nope, just that layout. 6 really comes into play when doing web development. These days I'm usually running with 2 or 3 external monitors, as I don't have as many things to keep track off. Having virtual desktops hides the kind of peripheral vision thing I like having, plus I have to think in terms of "hidden" things, which I usually tend to forget about anyway.
Clickable: http://www.lessmilk.com
Android 4.4.2 KitKat Test firmware for Galaxy S4 I9505 Leaked
Virtualbox runs just fine on Windows, and it's not difficult to set up a linux VM either.
...unless they have everything in their CV listed on a job specification sent from a lead developer then they won't be passed through to them to review the CV...

Your job as a recruiter is to overcome that pretty basic obstacle. If the person you're dealing with is a HR paper pusher with no clue about tech then it's your job to convince them that the CV is something the lead dev would be interested in.

One of the downsides to what we do is that a small minority of recruiters manage to get most of us a bad name, which is a shame.

I'd argue it's the majority that give the industry a bad name and a minority that are doing things right.
OpenStack: A Community Torn Apart – Freedland, Bias and Scoble
I certainly don't. Who argues for slow innovation, that's dumb really. Argue for minimal breaking changes. Python got into trouble because it introduced a huge swath of breaking changes, and not enough sugar to coax people to 3. Ruby has it's problems, but the 1.93 to 2.0 transition was not one of them.
And, on mobile Firefox, there's no way to see the permissions of a page. Certainly no that I can see of FF for Android.
With many (most?) cable companies now encrypting even "basic" channels, you need to use their box to watch anything. At that point, you don't need a tuner, unless you're actually receiving over-the-air broadcast TV.
That's ok, you make me feel better for when my account gets to almost 7 years old =)
He is not right either... 15 is 0xF. 16 is 0x10.
A TCP packet walks into a bar, and says to the barman "Hello, I'd like a beer."

The barman replies "Hello, you'd like a beer?"

"Yes," replies the TCP packet, "I'd like a beer."

I'd tell you my UDP packet joke, but I'm not sure you'd get it.
I myself am never going to argue for Mainline - http://paulhammant.com/2013/12/04/what_is_your_branching_mod...
If you consider for a moment how governments mishandle regular currencies you'd realize that there is no country of any size (other than possibly Sealand) whose bureaucracy would be able to cope.

In other words, nobody will risk their career to push for it even if they thought it was a good idea.
Can't wait for Adblock for IOS.

[However we get less annoying ads because safari don't play flash. Advertisers are obviously moving to different kind of ads adapted to mobile. Anyway it's reasonable to dread for the time that they'll catch up with the desktop ones.]
Average Page Weights Increase by 32% in 2013
It's true that we don't have a research paper per se for the multiparty protocol, but we do have a specification document [1] as well as implementations in Objective-C, Java and JavaScript. The specification, as well as the implementations, have received both professional audits (from cryptographers) as well as community audits. The reason we don't have a research paper published is simply because we're working on one right now — a redesign of the multiparty protocol based on OTR. We have cryptographers on board from various Canadian universities and are organizing an internal forum to get them to collaborate on this. We expect publishable results by June 2014.

Regarding OTR, we actually switched to that 16 months ago — it's not exactly like we recently wisened up.

[1] https://github.com/cryptocat/cryptocat/wiki/Multiparty-Proto...