skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Allow me to take this opportunity to address something related to a minor point from the article:

>To me an app is a small bit of code for an iPhone to do something cute. Are we going to call the massive SAP suite an "app?"

Lately I've been hearing many people complain about "serious" desktop applications being called "apps". Do you think this is a valid complaint? (Myself, I'm not sure; I won't disclose my reasoning right now so as not to skew the conversation from the start.)
To be different from the other comments, here are different examples:

You could use a password card[1]. Just print an keept it on a safe place (your wallet :-D).

or

Get a long and complex Password you can remember (there are lots of techniques to create and remember a passwort). After that add a site-specific phrase to your password. For example: [YourLongAndComplexPasswort]H4ck3rn3w$
As you can see, H4ck3rn3w$ is the site-specific phrase for the hacknews-website.

[1] http://www.passwordcard.org
>You can't even resize the window past 80 characters.

Or, you can change your defaults...

Right click the top bar > Defaults
Window Size > Width > 'What ever you want'

Oh, and use powershell if you want more.
Those are merely features of the IDE. The compiler used for actual building is configurable per project.
If I am getting threatened by random loonies yes - just as if I had worked for one of my previous employers in NI I would have been very careful about who I talked to and which places I went.

one of my mates is married to a DA in the USA and has had to "cheek his guns just in case some one tried to make the threat good.

Don't assume that all us Brits are fluffy little things who will have a fit of palpitations when fire arms are mentioned
Cool! Let everyone know you're a tool in less than 5 seconds!
That's unrelated to my point. I'm not talking about science or religion. I'm saying that everyone holds some unprovable views about how society works best, and they cast their votes based on these ideals, whether they're religious or not.
Yes, remote workers do actually work. A response to Fastcompany's post.
You could also use Font Awesome for something similar: http://jsfiddle.net/sv8Lm/
I don't know how I would respond to this. If I had a family, I would be completely terrified for the safety of my kids. I guess when it comes to family its hard to not be irrational. Anyway, I guess I would stay calm and call the cops, and unfortunately think about moving.
I think it's terrible as well. I have 2 21" monitors and I need to look for my apps in the bottom left corner of one monitor using tiny icons. It could be improved greatly, and still be in Desktop mode. Yes, the terminal is terrible as well. And the new Powershell can't be easily resized either.
I thought exactly the same thing. I just looked it up on Zillow to check out the lot size, and noticed that it still had photos from the last time it was sold (in 2010). They may have done the same thing, and confused the rather overwrought decorating sensibilities of the previous owner with the Google developer.
I'm surprised the two stone lions guarding the door didn't scare them away.
I have a similar (not auto-scaling) project also named Dynosaur from over two years ago. https://github.com/stevegraham/dynosaur
we're all a massive statistical experiment. in every stage of every thing.
This is getting to be a bit absurd. I understand and can sympathize with the plight of folks who feel that they are becoming economically marginalized in the region, because in many ways it is really happening. But public badgering of mid to low-level folks is not a way to gain a lot of support.

It's like damaging the lobby of a Bank of America or smashing the windows of a McDonalds -- all it does is ruin the day for the poor middle to low income folks who run the branch and does nothing to the folks who you aim to target.
And yet you do exactly that.
He wasn't talking about verbal conscientious objection. See his reply to the other person who replied to his comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7099573
Pinball at least was some ridiculous hand-crafted assembly written for fun by a dev I'm sure I remember reading that on here or Reddit.

I can't find that source on my horribly censored network I'm afraid.
1. Yeah WinFS would be nice but it seems to be out of reach still from a development point of view. Perhaps if it were a totally new file system and not having to maintain some kind of backwards compatibility with NTFS? Who knows I am not a file system developer but I do know Microsoft put some serious development work into WinFS back in the pre-Vista days and it was just too difficult.

2. God yes! Why the hell did they get rid of the connection center they had in Vista and 7 and turn it into a god damn side bar thing!?! Networking is painful on 8.

3. I miss the games too. It is bullshit that Microsoft made them ad-based Modern apps.

4. It is depressing to see how far things went backwards with these shitty fullscreen apps in Windows 8. They are nice on a tablet yes but on a desktop or laptop?! Horrible.

5. My biggest issue with the start screen is that they removed features that were present in the start menu. If the start screen were a full replacement to the start menu it wouldn't be such of an issue but how it is at the moment isn't nice for anything other than just launching an application. I don't agree with the ribbon comments. I find the ribbon to be fantastic and always have. I love Office with the ribbon and hate having to use LibreOffice with all the options lost in menus and sub-menus. The ribbon makes so much more sense and is far more user friendly and is one of the best UI features to come from Microsoft in years.
>"Its debugger front-end is tied to lldb's idiosyncratic interface. It's not something that you can just easily replace with non-Apple compilers."

What I going to say might not be true any more, since the last time I worked on Xcode was roughly two years ago. But by then I worked as a mobile game developer and at the studio we happily compiled in both GCC and LLVM. Actually we preferred to use gcc and gdb since LLVM debugger was very buggy at that time.

This is how you could install gcc to work with XCode 4.3

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9353444/how-to-use-instal...

And I wouldn't call LLVM/Clang an Apple's compiler, since it is contributed by people from Google too.
They just announced their financials, which is probably why it has been dropping.

Of course, the financials matched the projections, but the stock market is funny.
A quick search gave me this list: http://www.infosecinstitute.com/blog/2005/12/fuzzers-ultimat... is there a notable fuzzer missing? It's a pretty long list, does anyone know which of these tools are really worth checking out?
What, no "I'm not on LiveJournal/MySpace/Friendster/your local BBS" icons?
It's a classic form of slacktivist protest.
Still better then telling everyone that you do own a TV.
Yeah, it is not possible to please every person.

MP3 has native HTML5 audio support on web browsers (Chrome, FF, IE, Safari) for Windows XP and up, modern Macs, and any modern Droid, iOS, or Windows Phone sold in the last 5 years.

It makes MP3 the broadest supported format out there.
Huh. It's clearly a huge number, but AirWatch just raised a $200MM Series A (+$25MM add-on) last year on a $1B valuation, and everyone was talking about them going public. I wonder how happy the investors are with the 50% return on a 12 month investment?

(And doesn't it show just how insane VC funding is, when you realize that some of the investors may actually be disappointed?)
What is needed I think is some sort of visual design tool, maybe not full WYSIWYG which respects and understands template languages rather than bulldozing everything.
Cyber Streetwise: How not to build a website
Great, thanks. I got the compiler built with single threaded make, but it never hurts to have parallel make working properly.
Microsoft is trying to push Powershell as a replacement for venerable old cmd, but it's not really a good one - Powershell is an attempt to bolt OOP onto the shell language and interop with the .NET framework.

The problem is that it's horribly confusing to work with - the syntax is bizarrely inconsistent as you switch back and forth between "commandlets" and .NET methods, and the part of the power of plain text is that it's self-documenting and forces simplicity of API. Powershell allows full OOP, which doesn't map well to the need for things to be simple when doing command-line scripts. Also, the Powershell interface lacks the various tools you'd expect from an OOP IDE that let you learn about the objects/methods/whatever.

I do like the absense of the start menu. To me, the big failing of Win8 wasn't replacing the start menu with a fullscreen pseudo-desktop, it was the schizophrenic relationship between the fullscreen pseudo-desktop and the "classic" apps, as well as the bizarre "charms" things and the lack of a conventional taskbar when using fullscreen apps.

Desktops and larger notebooks have enough real-estate on the screen for an always-visible task-switcher, and the "Charms" thing is too touch-oriented.
Open-Source Remote Desktop via HTTP
We have been using LogMeIn for while, but have been taken 'hostage' twice now with sudden price/packages changes.
Does anyone know of good a Remote Desktop via HTTP solution which is open-source. It could be a set of tools/libs/code, not necessarily a finished product.
good job! I like the simplistic and elegant interface. Like what other commenters said, it would be great if it can serve files directly instead of having to upload through the web app.

BTW, why did you name it Lychee?
"This is the kind of code you might write for a bet rather than put on a production website."
It's a bit off-topic, but you can actually make the window larger than 80 characters if you want. You cannot expand it beyond the maximum amount of characters horizontally but you can increase that to anything you want; it's not limited to 80, really. :)

More on-topic: I don't quite hate the Windows 7 start menu, but it could be made better. Unfortunately, Microsoft chose not to improve on a good concept and, in my opinion, ruin things with their new interace. It is one of the main reasons I don't want to switch to Windows 8.
I've been a Linux user at home for a long time now, though, it's thankfully only my work laptop that I need to have Windows on. I have a game computer that has Windows XP and will probably be upgraded to Windows 8 but I couldn't really care less about the interface there: I just want to start games on that machine, nothing else.
Just as a note, the http://xkcd.com/936/ password scheme has issues. See the discussion in the comments here: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/09/recent_develo...
Strange, because I am able to play native HTML5 MP3 audio on other sites just fine.
My son and I have been working on our hobby site http://CutRateGamer.com for the last two years. We both love PC games and were always on the lookout for great deals.

The site started out as a simple blog, but, being a lazy programmer, manually looking for deals got old quick; so I decided to automate as much as I possibly could. We are at the point were the site almost runs itself.

It has been a great excuse to try out new technology, keep my skills sharp, learn marketing, teach my son programming and what goes into running a website.

Good stuff.
When Google was preparing to launch Streetview in Germany, there was a big media hoo-ha about it and they reacted by givng property owners the opportunity to have their house blurred; wealth has nothing to do with it, except that the wealthy are more likely to own the property they live in and pay attention to stuff like this.
This is a good example of what the liberal democratic movement should be about: policing corporations. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and the rest of them will never end their reprehensible behavior from lawsuits or other slaps on the wrists. Until there is a boot-on-ground movement to obstruct these corporations and their employees they will continue to act without consequence using their hoards of capital.
Quentin Tarantino drops Hateful Eight project after 'leak'
It seems more like a management or usability problem, but currently we have availability problem.
It's less complicated than what I'm reading here.

* Use a passphrase of at least five random words.[1]

* Keep that passphrases secret.[2]

* Use a password manager like 1Password or Keepass to generate and manage all other passwords.[3]

[1]: Good passwords have high entropy and are easy to remember. For that reason, passphrases are preferred to passwords.

[2]: It's ok to write down your passphrase, but keep it somewhere safe -- like your wallet.

[3]: Password managers prevent password reuse and make life easier. Sync passwords across devices.

for more: http://bdd.io/security , with linked justifications.
The "miserable counter-productive "ribbon" interface on Microsoft Word" was the result of a lot of actual user testing. I could understand people disliking it just because it was new, but it's been years now... How long does it take people to realize a better interface is more productive?

Edit: oh I just noticed it's Dvorak. Never mind.
Aren't they all kind of inspired by the original Perl implementation? I use the Ruby one for testing.

Something kind of similar and worth thinking about is this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCheck
Better to just add facebook to your hosts file
I am glad to see i am not the only one that finds tons of small methods / functions, with no obvious path through them makes code difficult to read.
Toshiba bought OCZ's SSD business
This is just anti-competitive warfare and plain patent-trolling.

Apple scored 1 billion playing the trolling game last time, for a list over-scroll effect and rounded corners no less.

How much will it get this? Two billion? Who knows, but last time around they clearly got enough to buy another judge.

Utterly disgusting.
yes and there was a huge fuss when they put the BT logo on the car park passes.
Opposite day?
> AppleScript was officially conceived in 1989 as a research project by the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) at Apple Computer and was code-named “Family Farm.” The research team was led by Larry Tesler and included Mike Farr, Mitchell Gass, Mike Gough, Jed Harris, Al Hoffman, Ruben Kleiman, Edmund Lai, and Frank Ludolph.

Some of those knew Lisp. The Advanced Technology Group led by Tesler used Macintosh Common Lisp in many application prototypes and research projects. There was an 'AppleScript on Steroids' written in MCL called Sk8Script by them.
Who are the smallball teams today, then? The Pirates? The Giants?
Converting PSDs to HTML/CSS has been my job for the past ten years. The "PSD that client has already approved" is part of the problem, because what's been approved is a picture of the website which may be very close to reality under some circumstances, but not necessarily what's going to be rendered on an ancient corporate workstation with IE7 which, by coincidence, is what the client uses to test the website.

Now the workflow slowly evolves and Photoshop mock-ups are still part of it, but what the client accepts is the visual style, mood, UX, content strategy etc. The design team provides style guides, graphical assets, some key components. The UX team may provide a clickable prototype or just sketches of individual pages. Front-end devs build HTML/CSS components, then individual page templates which are usually integrated with server-side logic and filled with content. Everyone can be involved at any stage so it's not a typical waterfall process, rather combining the expertise of different professionals to deliver the best product.
Woah! So sorry to be treading on your namespace! I did a google search for the 'Dynosaur' and didn't get any hits if I recall. We will put our heads together and come up for a new name for our project later today.

No offense intended: you picked a cool name!
An incredible 2001 iPod review predicted the iPods impact on computing
Yes, the idea of writing straightforward code is critical. If you can do it in less lines, even at expense of speed or space, you benefit many-fold. Its easier to understand, read, explain to someone else, remember, debug, compile. The slowest processor in the system is the wetware between your ears. Funny we rarely talk of optimizing for speed or space in that engine!
Just read the PDF, and it's an interesting and reasonable perspective on tech. Probably sounds blasphemous to an audience excited about investments/acquisitions of $15M, $30M and $1.54 billion (from HN's current front page), but I think techies are due for a reasonable backlash for their usual servility to power, by people concerned about their society.
I work at the VC that invested in AirWatch last year. We're happy with the investment given that it was a relatively quick and clean exit given our typical 3-5+ year exit timeline.
Those FBI stings are a pretty good example, though I would say that it's more textbook entrapment than thoughtcrime. It seems that they are selecting more for the ability to be manipulated over their ideological positions.

As far as hate-crime goes, the notion behind increased punishment there is that the victims include an entire terrorized community, not just the direct victim. If I throw some trash on some guy's lawn, there's one victim (the guy). If I burn a cross on some guy's lawn, there are multiple victims (the other black families in the neighborhood). It's an important distinction.
Great quote from the article: "But then it hit me. Code is not literature and we are not readers. Rather, interesting pieces of code are specimens and we are naturalists. So instead of trying to pick out a piece of code and reading it and then discussing it like a bunch of Comp Lit. grad students, I think a better model is for one of us to play the role of a 19th century naturalist returning from a trip to some exotic island to present to the local scientific society a discussion of the crazy beetles they found: 'Look at the antenna on this monster! They look incredibly ungainly but the male of the species can use these to kill small frogs in whose carcass the females lay their eggs.'"
For the record, I don't agree with you about contraception. I'm all for building wells in Africa and setting bins of free condoms right next to them.

But people started talking about force, and the only force I can see in this case is the IRS (or the equivalent).

I'm frankly dismayed that HN seems so opposed to conscientious objection in this case. I presume it's an irrational prejudice against different (or maybe particular?) ethical worldviews.
The packets didn't actually go to that house, did they? They just went to servers registered/associated with entities that claim that house as their address, right?
Does IE support SVG already?
It makes it clear to users that they're not just failing to find your facebook contact link, there's not one there for them to find.
I can come up with lots of reasons for why carrying a concealed weapon is more likely to be harmful than beneficial in these circumstances.

But why is it a bad idea to carry a weapon in SF? Are people stopped and frisked? Are there metal detectors everywhere? Are there pickpockets all over the place that will steal your weapon and use it against you?
The amount of batteries included with this library is impressive.
Can someone help me understand what effect would be had if Google did exactly what these people wanted and uprooted to elsewhere? I feel like that would cause a way bigger problem than it would solve, but my intuition doesn't have a solid basis.
I would like to add that the German distrust of government is fundamentally different to what I've come to know about the American distrust of government. We are very careful to give the government power that might be used to control the populace and further a totalitarian regime. But otherwise we have a strong government with a robust public health care system, free education (including great public universities) and reasonably good unemployment insurance. Some of that is eroding away unfortunately, but by an large Germans have a much more positive attitude regarding government organization and regulation than Americans.
It'll be a loopback on their Adastral Park -> Colchester –> Basildon –> BT Tower link.

See http://indico.uknof.org.uk/getFile.py/access?contribId=2&res...
This makes me want to get my Mass Disturbance on.
Does this make sense tactically?

Consequence 1: Protesters believe they are marked for the gulags, and must go "all the way".

Option 2: Don't tell the protesters, but mark them for the gulags. Round them up at night when they are less likely to mount a response.
You're on the right track :)
I know that code. Mine was a serial protocol with a maze of flags and conditions.

I drew a table on a large sheet of paper, and recopied the code as a state machine. When I was done, it was clear where the problem lay: the state machine was woefully incomplete.

I rewrote the thing AS a state machine with all state-event pairs handled. Voila! It worked. Had to go back and diddle with some events (better way to handle parity error during checksum calculation etc) but at least I could find exactly the place in the code to do that.
Best reply to a Pull Request ever?
IMHO, frameworks such as Bootstrap would fit your definition of WYSIWYG pretty well.
This seems to make things visual only, with no alternative text for others.
http://openbts.org/
That's "mediocre" at best. This should be The One Password To Rule Them All, the only one you'd actually need to remember (or be completely locked out of the password archive if you forget!). So: using a pass_phrase_ would definitely be good, but it would need to be a good deal longer. I'd suggest at least eight to ten words. (Note that this is The Key to all your other passwords - it needs to be both strong AND memorable; no point in compromising one for the other.)
"Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he's nothing to lose." (The Wheel of Time)

The reddit thread has a lot of good comments actually: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1vtpa8/dear_subsc...
I think they could avoid the Start Menu. What do you want from the start menu? The ability to launch and search for programs. Launch is on the Metro screen now - that's covered. A full-screen start menu like the Metro desktop is fine - the start-menu kept growing absurdly anyways.

I think Metro could be made to work if you made sure it was operable with a mouse - that is, no auto-hiding, no gestures. Give me a single, consistent always-visible taskbar instead of schizophrenia and that "charms" crap, and on-screen always-visible buttons to launch an app-search-bar or to hit up the

I can see the logic of moving away from the old days of letting windows overlap (including the start-menu) - this served no purpose. Why would I want to partially obscure another window? But having more than one window visible at once isn't optional. Give me the means to slice up the desktop like the old Photoshop cut tool.

The Metro UI could be adapted to play nice with the desktop, but they have to admit that it's a desktop and desktops have different needs from touchschreens. Unifying this mess isn't out-of-reach if they are willing to compromise on unifying all the details.
so Googlers should take things into their own hands and take "action direct" against those harassing them.
Graphene - A 21st Century Wonder Discovery
Yes, check out CONTRIBUTING.md in the root of the Docker project.
Ms Office, really. Take that away and businesses will move to other OSes. Everybody is tired of the constant poor quality of Microsoft products.
Benchmartian - Simplistic javascript benchmarking via benchmark.js with CLI.