skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I'm going to the Berkshire annual meeting this year. It might be my only chance to see him in person.
Korma or Hyperion?
Far be it from me to defend Monsanto, though. They're a horrible, horrible corporation.
Zombie Code Apocalypse: I would love to help you identify what it is that caused that problem. I don't suspect that it is an issue with Ember itself, though note that the Ember resolver will load code when you store it in `App.Foo(Controller|View|Route|...)` if that code is "needed" (say, by visiting the Foo route). So, unless you commented out the entire declaration it is entirely possible for that code to execute.

Spontaneously Changing Values: What was the key that you were trying to set? On what type of object (Route, View, Controller, etc.)? There are indeed some special values and it might be something that Ember can warn you of in the console as well as be documented. I'll be glad to make some documentation changes that make this issue easier to catch if you can provide me reproduction.

Godlike Refactoring: I work on a team with a widely distributed level of skills. One of my favorite features of Ember (which both has and will continue to save me hundreds of hours) is the fact that even if you make a mess of something you can generally come back and clean it up one piece at a time. My metaphorical description of this is that "all of the crap is in nice neat little piles instead of spread on the walls."

JavaScript.next: In the next/current version of JS both of these warts should be possible to resolve using Modules and Object.defineProperties(). I firmly believe that your complaints are not centered around Ember (which I honestly believe is insulating you from the worst of it) but instead from flaws in a language that was literally designed and built in an incredibly short time (my recollection is "a week" but I can't find a source).

(Edited for clarity based upon mixonic's reply.)
Your iPhone Has a Secret Undo Button
Normalize.css 3.0.0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Raid_on_Armando_Diaz
Smart TVs, Refrigerators Used in Internet-of-Things Cyberattack
Oracle Reports Exploits Disclosure
I was more thinking of 2010's Buffett as a 60's Batman Penguin character.
I completely agree. I took one semester of Java then one semester of C when I was first learning to code. I think that extra semester of C gave me a significant advantage over some of the other programmers in my next school because I had a much better understanding of what was going on under the Java straight-jacket.
Android Leads In Vulnerabilities Thanks To Apps
I think one of the harder problems would be verifying that the render results from a distributed system are correct, and then Pixar would be a centralized entity doling out coin for correct output. Unless there's some decentralized way I'm blissfully missing.
"Unlike regular movies you do not watch porn with friends and family."

One hopes. ;)
Hacking Your Phone and the Internet of Things
McAfee Mobile Security: Now Available for iOS Devices
It's interesting how much such an utterly irrelevant thing annoys me. There's really no reason why accidentally making a number increase by one should matter, but I suppose it's the fact that the site is falsely representing it as a deliberate action by me.
addthis/stream-lib is pretty awesome, we use it also for its stream summary implementation and has been amazing for identifying things like which partitions are updated or read the most
Run Chrome Apps on mobile using Apache Cordova
The Problem With Social
You jest, but I'd be rather intrigued by aftermarket carbon farings for wheels or to hide brakes from the wind.
I worked at a company that did away with all the free snacks in the break room and put an end to the Friday beer cart. People were pissed. But we all got over it. It is possible to make those changes.
Woha, does this really qualify as journalism? It seems more like the author has been been holding a grudge and urgently needed to spew out all the things he doesn't like about Scandinavia. This coupled with a few backing quotes from natives. The short "description" of Iceland really tells the tale.

This kind of slanted view would present any country in a bad light.
Writing Interactive Web Applications with Web Actors
How Next Big Sound Tracks Trillion Songs, Using Version Control for Hadoop Data
Did Google Just Nerf Guest Posting?
Judging by the heatmap, it appears the author isn't familiar with Vim's c verb.

It works just like d, except it puts you in insert mode after you've completed your command.

For example, to replace the text within a set of quotation marks with You don't like Vim?, move your cursor on or within those quotation marks and use:

ci"You don't like Vim?<esc>

To replace the text up to (but not including) the next exclamation point with I would never drink orange juice, use:

ct!I would never drink orange juice<esc>

EDIT: Gah. He explicitly mentioned his use of cib. I'll leave this here in case it helps anyone.
What if people started a Pixar road, where drugs and guns would be sold for Pixar coins? Pixar would have no control over that what so ever. I don't know about the technical part however, it could probably be possible.
This article is deeply flawed.

> Why, asks one expert, does everybody think the Nordic region is a utopia?

Is this a satire? Expert of what exactly? According to his profile at the Guardian :

"Michael Booth is a freelance journalist and author of several books including Sushi and Beyond: One Family's Remarkable Journey Through the Greatest Food Nation on Earth."

Oh, well in that case...

On a less cheeky note, it's obvious that any claims of 'Utopia' (anywhere) are misguided - it's just hero worship in another form. That said - it's perfectly rational to examine positive aspects of another society without either deifying or demonizing it.

This article does no one any favors with its weird mixture of opinion and hyperbole.
Why does the copy drive you away from it? Serious question since I didn't think one way or the other about it.
The lesson here is... The US should discover a really, really, really large amount of oil?

I mean, I don't take Booth's takedown of the Nordic countries very seriously, but the reason that Norway is in such great shape financially is that they have an enormous amount of oil that they sell. It's not exactly a reproducible strategy for nation-building.
Rendering a movie is not suitable as a proof of work function. It's probably very difficult to design a mathematical framework to verify that you really rendered the movie and not just send garbage back in exchange for coins.

At the moment most Coins use either one or multiple hashing functions¹ or prime chains² as proof of work system³.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primecoin#Proof-of-work_system

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-work_system
Nope, got a tweet from @epaga: https://twitter.com/epaga/status/428182592895328256

I did see this article, I just didn't read the comments. No idea that this would be here had it not been for that tweet.
Medium expects you have a Twitter account.
"Open" for use but not for inspection / modification / sharing… It's like all sorts of SaaS: it's a lock-in, a jail, that is open for you to enter. Ok, that's a bit harsh. But still, we've got lots of good tools like this, we don't need another proprietary thing. It looks nice though, would be useful if it were fully FLOSS.
Jailbreak detection seems kind of weird. I guess I could understand why a corporation would want it on phones they give to an employee, but how frequently does an individual accidentally or unintentionally have their phone Jailbroken? Doesn't seem all that likely.
Would it only be possible to exchange from the US?
Yes, vectors is one of those cases where stack allocation has a significant advantage. This will hopefully be resolved (along with cache related issues) when value types are introduced, hopefully in Java 9.
That's not what is normally meant by "multiprocessing" - multiprocessing is when your application forks multiple processes of itself in order to get some concurrency/parallelism, and those forked processes should monitor their parent and exit immediately when the parent disappears.
In terms of performance? None, assuming a well-written compiler. Depending on dialect you run into other issues though, such as the array size being part of the type signature, which is definitely not nice. The lack of adequate tooling and portability is another issue. Not strictly a problem of the language itself, but a problem you end up facing if you write low-level code in Pascal.

Don't get me wrong, I wrote low-level code in Pascal, too. It's nice and I probably wouldn't grumble too much if I had to do it again, but there's a bunch of stuff that comes in the same package with using something other than a language widely considered adequate for systems programming.
I've been wanting to get an Oculus for a while now -- but I've held off because I have had the suspicion that a new model might be around the corner -- is this the case, or should I just put in a request for a dev kit?
Oh thank god! Before this, I had nowhere to post all my brilliant thoughts except medium, blogger, wordpress, posthaven, quora, facebook, google+, livejournal and myspace.
They are also open sourcing the chassis management system that they use for these systems.

They open sourced the hyper-v drivers for linux and freebsd and got them integrated into the kernel.

Asp.Net is completely open source and hosted on GitHub.

Here's a list of open source projects that they have started or contributed to on platforms/languages like Java, Node.js, PHP, and Ruby...

http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/directory.aspx

They open source quite a bit of software...
Apple wins 'iPen' patent for a smarter stylus
Because it's a class to learn programming, not a new text editor.
Tumblr Terms and Privacy Policy diff
That's idiotic.
And your experience of living in the communism is where exactly?
Instead of svbtle, they should have named it pretentiovs.
Introducing Resource Blueprint
Focus on business logic of Web API, model resource's semantic states and transitions.

Full specification at https://github.com/apiaryio/api-blueprint/tree/resource-blueprint
I agree in part, but I think you're overlooking a big tradeoff here. Printing with plastic filaments gives you a fairly weak piece, but leaves open the door for a lot of post-printing finishes (surface smoothing, using the piece as a positive image to invest, melt out, and cast as metal, etc). You give up a lot of those opportunities printing CF strands, so this printer really does need to be able to produce pretty strong parts to have a competitive advantage big enough to offset those tradeoffs. It definitely does not have to achieve traditional carbon fiber strength to be worthwhile, but it needs to be considerable.
I can't help but think having growth rates that high over a thirty year period would be awesome for a business.
You could check http://www.charitynavigator.org/ to see what ratio of the money goes to programs vs. admin costs and funding costs. The navigator has many entries for United Way as it seems each region has its own organisation.
Where did those discussions lead? "EmberJS merges with ReactJS" seems like a pretty exciting headline.
The Human Search for Meaning
Apart from what you said, I miss information about pricing, at least I didn't find any.

I assume that this will be a Freemium product and I also think that the "pro" version will have some features that I would sooner or later need, at least that's my experience with other platforms I tested.

One example being Google's App engine, which turned out to be rather expensive compared to competitors and didn't justify that for me. Investing a lot of hours in a platform that you don't end up using is not that satisfying.
Nothing at all. What do think you're missing?
Ultimately, it's not for us to decide. Things like these are always decided by economic viability and lobbying.

It's really hard to create an outrage strong enough that people will just stop buying it, and go to a competitor. But this is the only message big corporations understand.
The issue is that JavaScript is being given a larger load to carry than it was designed to hold. We need to upgrade to using Ruby with Meteor-esque frameworks, and fast.
The community is really awesome. For example peoples opinions on todays price drop is that it's great because more people can buy DOGE!
Sprint.ly and Quickleft merger
Good design is a fleeting, abstract concept that has more to do with correlation than anything else: Correlate something with good content and the design seems good by association. When it becomes common, though, it is ready for displacement.

This is true of virtually every "good design" over the years. At the beginning people almost always thought it was superior in some way.
I don't know about that! In fact, that was the only useful thing in the feature list I saw.

Remember, jailbreak is just another word for rootkit. Not all of them are designed with the device owner in mind. They've been installable via javascript on web sites before, who knows if someone's exploited your mobile safari sessions silently?
These guys are doing it:

http://biglook360.com/
Please do people a favour and either format this as code or add more linebreaks, at the moment it makes stuff rather uncomfortable to read (until one clicks ‘Fit to Width’).
why not a 2 part blog - accept scanned or mailed in documents. Scan it in and post as blog. Now you will be truly anonymous.
The second dev kit isn't coming out for a little while yet, from all reports.

I'd get one now if you're wanting to develop for it, but if you're just wanting to experience it, you might as well hold off. The second DK will probably be significantly better than the first, and there'll be more cool stuff to try by then too.
Definitely very biased and highly inaccurate in several places. I particularly reacted to these negative statements regarding Norway:

"..in September the rightwing, anti-Islamist Progress party – of which Breivik had been an active member for many years – won 16.3% of the vote in the general election, enough to elevate it into coalition government for the first time in its history."

This is absolute fear-mongering and demonizing of a respected political party (disclaimer: I voted for them about 10 years ago).

It's correct that Fremskrittspartiet has been calling on stricter immigration laws, and it's correct that it's negative towards islamic fundamentalism and extremism (as are most of the other parties).

It's also correct that they've had party members with slightly more extreme opinions than what is considered mainstream. Internal problems can be attributed to almost any political party.

Although the article is right about many other aspects of Scandinavia, I felt that this had to be pointed out.
That's why understanding when variable assignment gives you a reference vs. a copy is absolutely crucial to working with object-oriented languages.
Need a Project Idea? Scratch Your Own Itch
I have tried ember and angular. And finally settled with ractivejs.org
I agree, but isn't this an HN problem too, with upvotes? (If it's possible to un-up or down vote a story or comment on HN, please someone tell me how!)
I figure everyone's gone over Svtble's theme before, but... it's absolutely horrible. Grey (#4d4d4d) on bright white is painful to read.
I've actually wondered some of this myself. I think the answer is that it's some combination of both inherent complexity in UI code AND problems that you get with weak and/or dynamic languages. In any case, we're probably going to switch all of our front-end code to Haskell, so I should be able to make a comparison at some point in the future.
Open Computer Summit livesteam
6 cuidados básicos que você deve ter com seu aparelho de HDTV
A wikipedia page? Really?

Is TIL next?
For keeping local copies, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozilla-archi... is a good add-on that improves Firefox's save functionality. I use it very frequently: ctrl-s, Enter, and I get an .mht of the page I'm reading.

For remote copies, https://archive.org/ can be instructed to keep a copy of a page, e.g.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://news.ycombinator.com/ to check for copies

https://web.archive.org/save/https://news.ycombinator.com/ to record a copy

These bookmarklets can be used to go from your current page to /web/ or /save/:

javascript:(function(){window.open('https://web.archive.org/web/*/'+(''+window.location));})();

javascript:(function(){window.open('https://web.archive.org/save/'+(''+window.location));})();

Unfortunately, this won't work on sites that robots.txt-block Internet Archive, and existing archives may be made inaccessible by a future robots.txt block.

http://archive.is/ is another useful site that executes all of the JavaScript and captures the post-JS-execution DOM.
Funny talk on this subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj4vXMRenFo
Don't forget Obtvse! [0]

[0] https://github.com/natew/obtvse2
Show HN: Coverity in the Cloud
Who Simon Tatham? I've been a fan ever since I modified the PuTTY code to work in an embedded system. I did not realize he was at ARM these days, gives me hope.
Wow, that's obnoxious. Just leaving your mouse over the "button" is enough to activate it.
Storm Over Saturn | DiscoverMagazine.com
I got "invited" to svbtle a year and a half ago, and I have ever since used and quit it. I hated (and still do) the fact that somebody else had absolute control over what my blog looked like, and what changes I made.

Nothing so intriguing about it, really.

Edit: Also, the sign up page itself has a confusing user interface.
Today's secret ingredient: {random block of code}
Considering the scale of funding the NSA and other government agencies enjoy, I think that any focus on "cyber warfare" is going to lead to a "weakening of systems". But this is inevitable when you give state actors a monopoly on extralegal means. Like you said, the onus should be on a robust system of legal and regulatory restraints on this power, which is what the Snowden leaks and others have shown we definitely lack.
Judging from his discussion of cib in the Data Acquisition section, it seems like he's familiar with it.
"To the moon" isn't exclusive to Dogecoin. The phrase was used in the Bitcoin community before.
Oh don't get me wrong. I'm not saying it's a bad thing that there's programs you can write where you don't need to care about performance. I am saying that they aren't really that interesting to me.

All of the things you suggest seem to me to have important performance requirements, maybe not as hard as micro-optimized, but still they are there.

The few examples I can think of where the performance of code of popular products is not up to scratch - it's from users complaining - and a better performing product would have a competitive advantage.

I don't think that people who go after delivering the better performing software should be derided as being dullards pursuing something less interesting.
The US holds ~$250 trillion in total assets in its economy.

Household wealth alone is now ~$80 trillion per the latest Fed numbers.

That private wealth is what the US Government's liabilities actually rest against. Whether we're talking using inflation to pay the bills, in which case what's actually happening is existing dollar denominated assets are being eaten to pay the bills, or direct taxation is used.

Apple alone is sitting on $142 billion in cash. Norway's sovereign fund, which is the big reference point, is ~$800 billion. I can probably put together a list of 50 US companies that together have that much cash (not total assets, just cash).

http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/Current/

http://www.businessinsider.com/america-is-not-drowning-in-de...

http://rutledgecapital.com/2009/05/24/total-assets-of-the-us...
Put another way, these are invariants; e.g. make sure that a faster implementation gives the same result as a reference implementation.
This is a cutesy little throw away column, not a precise analysis of the pros and cons of living in Scandinavia. It's silly.
It feels to me that they did build this for a certain type of person. One who likes writing without distractions. One who likes to brainstorm. One who appreciates simplicity.

I assume that the initial product was built around the "seasoned and experienced authors" who initially populated the site. And the founder, Dustin Curtis.

It seems that this was built for a very small group of people. But like many products that start out with a small number of people who love it... this could also be appreciated and used by others.

I am not a serious writer, but I hate writing in square spaces ui because its distracting. I might not have been able to articulate this because I'm not a serious writer - But in hind sight I realize that I usually write in word and then paste into squarespace. Svbtle eliminates this process - it makes writing simpler.

So yes. Built for a specific sub set. But with features that everyone can appreciate.
ggvG$"zy can be replaced with ggVG"zy

Visual line mode is often very convenient.

Also, kana's text-object-entire plugin may come in handy here (many of her text-object plugins are very useful).
Dead Rising 3 Co op
Yes! Is there anyone in the industrial farming industry that's actually pursuing industrial scale polyculture technology?

Monoculture is not nature and is not just not how plants evolved to grow. We can continue to force it as we have been but that obviously isn't working all that well.
Functional Geekery: Epiode 3 – Fogus
You should still "launch" your product
It makes it easier for me to carry on conversations while also doing other things on my phone. If I'm reading something, and someone responds to a message, I can quickly pop open the chat window and respond, then close it and go back to what I was doing. I find that more convenient than going back to the home screen and launching an app from there or the (rather slow) app switching process.

Yes, sometimes it does get in the way of what I'm doing, and in those cases I just swipe the chat head down to the bottom of the screen and it goes away. And considering turning it off is one of the options in the first page of the settings, I'm not really understanding why it would make you furious or think this is user-hostile. Overall it's a pretty unimportant change that is easy to disable if you don't like it.
Fin: Make Your Palm A Gesture Interface
Yes, hot-air balloons. Sign me up.
Ember's approach to watching for changes is pretty different. Also, the Ember view layer refactor codenamed HTMLbars has yielded some extremely promising (though admittedly early/premature) performance improvements that often outperform the React equivalent. So we're open to the idea and we have much we can learn from each other but we're not going to merge in React if we can do a better job :)
New York Vying With California to Write Bitcoin Rules
Sure it's possible. But, given that he hadn't commented or submitted on HN in 20+ days 'til now, it just seemed unlikely that he's currently actively delving into submissions/comments to the extent that he'd catch this so quickly.

So, I just found it not so much an "Aha! Busted!" moment, as much as it was noteworthy.
This guy should definitely start using caps lock as control.
Knew the writing was on the wall since I got an invite a couple of weeks ago :P