skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the major game-changing breakthroughs result from tinkering. Feynman was already cited above; he attributes his Nobel-winning work to a silly question motivated by watching plates wobble in the cafeteria, or some such thing.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=2698
Ah, but links can work in the opposite direction. Hosting a project on GitHub can drive traffic to your personal site. To give two data points: GitHub is by far the biggest source of referrals for my personal site, and it's the second-biggest source of referrals for Floobits. Even from a purely selfish point of view, hosting on GitHub is worthwhile. People don't find out about Ag[1] because they know about me. They find out about me because they know about Ag. The incoming visitors far outweigh the exits.

There are many altruistic reasons for using GitHub. Users are far more likely to be comfortable with GitHub's UI than your own site's. It's much easier to contribute to a GitHub project than one hosted elsewhere. Many interactions (such as submitting issues) are standardized across projects.

Hosting on GitHub really does benefit everyone.

1. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
I'm too late. It's 403 now.

> You don't have permission to access /wp-content/extras/bph-publications/CompLang-1986-04-Hayes-Forth.pdf on this server.

The site shows.
People's "property".
Motivated by the same, a couple of days ago I went to the trouble of downloading rust and building Mozilla Servo. Unfortunately, if my build is anything to go by, it won't even render most pages yet, so that practical alternative path is presently closed.
> It's really unusual though to have a seed ratio of 1 by the time a torrent has finished downloading.

If you are streaming, you will very likely be downloading faster than you can play the file (people who download slower won't be streaming). So you will be seeding a lot longer.
Managers are awesome / managers are cool when they’re part of your team
Hate to go on a tangent but I can't believe jwz still hasn't updated his site to a more reader friendly color scheme.
The Wages Of Men
> Come back to me after 30-50 years of research for that type of GM product.

The roundup ready trait has been available to consumers for 18 years[1] now. Do you mean we need 30-50 more years of research, 48-68 total, or do you mean we only need 12-32 more years of research? (We'll ignore any research done before releasing the product to the public)

Also, while I understand your point, it seems funny to still call something that has been around for eighteen years, and already released a version 2.0, a beta product. Imagine if we treated software lifecycles like that.

[1] http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/pages/roundup-ready-patent...
In this thread: a bunch of people who know nothing about computers spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

The reality is: Windows boots fine with Secure Boot disabled. Linux boots fine from UEFI; the Debian installer sets everything up perfectly.
We will have 100 mentors (at least that is our goal) to help beginners and many tech talks
This looks awesome. One thing I'd like to see not only high school hackathons talk about but hackathons in general is encouraging non-coder participants. This seems to focus on "come here to code" or "come here to learn how to code", which don't get me wrong is completely awesome but there are plenty of other opportunities for non-coders to participate. Most notably people interested in design and business.
Seems he's talking exclusively about SXSW Music, whereas most people in our community probably think of SXSW Interactive (the techie-er of the three annual SXSW events) when they hear "SXSW".
Nintendo recently remade The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker for the Wii U, upgrading models and textures, and improving the lighting model in a bunch of ways. They even went as far as tweaking sections of the game that were met with widespread criticism at release, streamlining some of the more tedious aspects.

That's based on a GameCube game though, and many of the games on that platform hold up pretty well today. Games from the N64 era however don't fare so well and would probably require a lot more work.
Is this http://awesomescreenshot.com/00f2i1es53 a bug? The "t" doesn't have same bottomlime. Screenshot was taken on firefox. It's pretty jarring imho.
Disingenuous. What happens when you need to restart your server because of some extreme necessary security patch?

How do you manage backups?

Since it's running on java, you probably don't want to expose this server to the internet unless you actively want to maintain updates to JDK versions. So now you're on the hook for that.

Self-hosting is never "simple".
You might not care about free software, but all System76 laptops use proprietary firmware for their Intel wireless cards. The laptops from ThinkPenguin do not.

If you're going to support "Linux-friendly" computing, you should also support free software. If not, you might as well just get a Dell XPS Developer Edition or Asus Zenbook and slap Ubuntu on it.
Once upon a time green on black was all some of us had, 24/7.

Somehow we coped.
But why forge a centralized ring of power in the first place? Even completely above-reproach independent bodies can still be co-opted by subpoenas and the like. And the mere existence of that possibility for control is blood in the water for governments.
You shouldn't put so much faith into our system.

Your theoretical model for how the system works falls short of reality. If you truly think the law is applied equally among all, you need to do some serious research. The powerful among us don't have to obey the laws like everyone else. Finally, it isn't the powerless among us writing or influencing those who do write the laws.
Everyone who's already screwed themselves with domains by proxy is in for a new world of hurt.
It is an interesting project but they have stated numerous times there are no plans to release it as an actual product.
For those of you on Windows, Bonobo[1] is a good alternative.

[1] http://bonobogitserver.com/
I do not believe the GP was trying to be misleading. That's what calling it disingenuous means.

You think it is a bad idea or something.
Ah man... it says it was already used because I checked it on my phone. :-(
This is apparently so the physical mail spammers can send me more physical mail along the lines of "This is the Domain Registry of America! Pay us $1000 to keep your domain!"

Uh, no. Where's the FTC when I need it...
but his wife doesn't work there apparently.
God, I hate that "link expired" stuff. I wrote you a pretty long response and failed to save it in exchange buffer. It was covering every language you mentioned (except Java, which also is pretty horrible), but as I'm not willing to reproduce it, so let's concentrate on what bothers me: Haskell.

So, the essential. If Haskell is "better" than someting else, then, by definition, it's easier to write good software in it. I wrote about my personal experience in the lost reply, but it doesn't really matter. The question is, why people who believe that Haskell is better for writing browsers won't prove it themself? By doing, I mean. I haven't seen a popular (lets take it as quality measure) browser, P2P client, feature-full messaging client/service or image editing app written in Haskell. Only pandoc, Xmonad, Yi and countless links to haskell.org success-story page, which isn't working app. Actually, it's true for any language, but nothing is mentioned as often as Haskell.
As a remote worker, I don't commute. Therefore, I'm presently negotiating the purchase of hundreds of hectares of 50-year regenerated native forest in northern New Zealand. Price is <$1000/hectare, which is not expensive in western terms. However, my wife refuses to live there for the moment on account of the relative isolation - it's about 3.5 hours to Auckland. Because it needs a dwelling, I've been researching building over the last few years and have come to the conclusion that I'd like to try straw bale. As long as you keep it dry, you get all the high r-value (insulation) benefits of a passivhaus without being limited to modernist finishings, mass-produced truck-hauled materials and straight lines. Plus, it's surprisingly more fire and earthquake proof than pretty much anything else.
Being next to one of the main tourist attractions of the city has probably helped. All of those damned pigeons...
Thank you so much for posting this. Sent this to my brother who is in high school. I wish this stuff was around when I was in high school.
I think our main focus here is to promote CS high school education. There are definitely hackathons for people interested in design and business, but ours is mostly for people interested in programming.
Exactly my experience. When SXSWi moved to spread-out venues, it was suddenly impossible to go from, say, the Convention Center to the Sheraton between sessions, and forget about the hotel south of the lake. That signaled to me that it was too big, but they kept making it bigger.
I don't know why you would pour so much time and advertising (twitch videos) into CnD bait.
We're planning one of our next Startup Weekends to be high-school students only. We've had some student participate in the past and it has been great.
The site owner thinks he is being DDOS'ed: http://bit-player.org/2014/net-pests/
I would say that MHacks (run by U of M) did a spectacular job with that and from chatting with some other organizers it sounded like this is becoming more prevalent at a lot of the college hackathons (like PennApps, etc.)
I suspect the nature of the founder's wife is that the founder and his partner decided that a female was the best person to handle the omitted original issue.

Since the wife may have been there when it was just three guys, the non-employee boundary might not be there as with other staff partners. She probably thought she was helping.
IRST systems are actually quite long ranged for detection, it's identification that is more problematic. F-14D IRST systems were quite good at long range detection, and those were much older legacy systems with nothing like today's technology.
So HBO 'Girls' is using an offensive term for young women and trying to... reclaim it?
This looks awesome. HS Hackathons ftw!
Making something new that customers like and pay for with a minimal amount of resources?
It isn't the purpose of the contract, that's a complete non-sequitur.
It's interesting to see a game made using the BGE, considering how rarely you ever see it in the real world. I guess for 3D platformers like this, it works very well.
>Your theoretical model for how the system works falls short of reality. If you truly think the law is applied equally among all, you need to do some serious research.

Actually, the laws in the US are pretty evenly enforced. It's as close as you're going to get in the real world.

>Finally, it isn't the powerless among us writing or influencing those who do write the laws.

Everyone gets to vote. Granted, we can't all make large campaign contributions, but ultimately the vote is what actually matters.
Ada is too complex. It might be acceptable if you are talking about small group of specialists that always produce nice code, but large open-source project in Ada… Well, I'm not sure it's better than C++.
Gett | NYC's Black Car App
basically an old fart says "it isn't cool anymore". Well, man, if you haven't still got the message - we're just not cool anymore, as young as we feel ourselves. Signed by a fellow old fart (of Gen X like jwz).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DecimalSeparator.svg

It's actually pretty interestingly split, world-wide.
I think Marco is trying to game or troll HN?
ttps://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/445294785772142593

Regardless, this was a good post; presumably those 18% of users that visit his site are on Retina MacBooks? h
FWIW- My thoughts are similar on SXSW interactive. I have been going for several years, always finding that there was some amount of serendipity to putting so many nerds and vc-types in a very small space (see PG's essay on SV: http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html). This year I found it too chaotic. It's a nightmare to get in anywhere or know what's going on, even if you are "VIP." I had the good fortune to be on several groupme groups which helped though - people can tell you what's hot at a given time. There aught to be an app...

This year I found less interesting people and more corporate schtick. sxsw is so mainstream that Jimmy Kimmel hosted his late night show from sxsw this year. 5 years ago startups were actually using sxsw as successful launching pads, now it's Cottonelle vs. Charmin (actually 2 products that had expensive booths at sxsw this year).

That being said, I'll probably still go next year because I love Austin and many of my friends go.

It's similar to burning man though - every year people complain that it's jumped the shark because it got too corporate, and every year more people go.
I really love this scene from The West Wing where Charlie is interviewing for a job at the White House:

SAM
Charlie, are you gonna come to work early, stay late, do your job efficiently and discretely?

CHARLIE
As I was saying to Mr. Lyman--

SAM
Thank you. What more do you need to know?
The middle guys are dominating Australia's startup scene
I think it's class based more than anything, but it's more complex than assigning a single cause.

Mexico City, for example, has plenty of malls, and a decent number of immigrants are from other countries in Central and South America, all places that have malls in the cities.

From the immigrant laborers I've talked to, they mostly seem to come from small towns and village in their home countries and remit as much money as they can back home. On top of that, they usually command lower pay than the domestic laborers in the same market, so this leaves them with very little in the way of spending money. They also work relentless hours, 7 days a week. So their life is basically wake, work, sleep with stops for meals 3 times a day.

There are more than just workers though, the women who come tend to end up in lower-end service jobs, house cleaners, cheap day care etc. And some of them have kids who are right now, very young and not in the job market (meaning no disposable income).

Both groups are well serviced by their local Mercado Latino and Walmart in terms of most needs and their children, if they've brought them here, are usually too young to want to shop at stylish mall shops.

If you look at the kinds of places that service the community, they aren't high-end restaurants and retail shops offering comforts from home. It's cheap fast food, pupusa shops, check cashing, cheap phone calls home etc. A visit to local pawn shops in and around Manassas will reveal shelf after shelf full of tools laborers have sold as they head back home after the housing bust, and are usually in shopping centers full of Spanish language shops. It's very much a temporary laborer blue collar demographic.

I suspect this will change. Folks I know who came here during the early parts of the Salvadoran Civil War now have kids old enough to care about such things and are generally well integrated, educated and affluent.
This title is more than a little ridiculous.

It's rather annoying to have to click on the link to have literally any context for what the post is about. Great for driving up pageviews, but that's beyond even HuffPo/Gawker levels of linkbait.

It's even worse than "Worse"[0] - even after reading the post, the word "And" has next to no descriptive power, except perhaps in a vague metaphorical sense ("I added some code, so it's the old code and the new one").

EDIT: Looks like this is the author's idea of "trolling": https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/445375836343271424

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7405846
Sailogy Snags $1.15M To Expand Its Yacht Chartering Marketplace
Just think of them as issuing a negative amount of new stock.
With the Vuze torrent client right click on the file, select "Set Priority" and select "Numeric...".

Next, right click on the file, select "Media Server" and select "Copy Stream URL to Clipboard".

Now open VLC Media Player, select "Media", select "Open Network Stream", paste in the URL and click "Play".

The cool thing about Vuze is that you can use a SOCKS5 proxy and/or restrict traffic to a virtual NIC if you have a VPN. This way even if you turn your VPN off (to play games etc.) you won't be exposed to the swarm.

If you use XBMC you can install the XBMCTorrent add-on which has an interface similar to Popcorn Time. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736

XBMC is cool because you can use the Android app Yatse to control XBMC. If you have two boxes running XBMC (i.e. in your living room and bedroom) you can use Yatse to resume playback on the other box with the push of a button!

Unfortunately, XBMCTorrent and Popcorn Time don't support SOCKS5 proxies or restricting traffic on specific NICs. Therefore you'll want to set up an internet kill switch on your box as a fail safe.
Here's another example, using Ansible and a few simple roles from Ansible Galaxy: https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-vagrant-examples/tree...

Give Vagrant + Ansible about 15 minutes, and you'll have a nice little local GitLab server running. Modify the Ansible playbook slightly, to point it at a VM on Digital Ocean or elsewhere, and you'll have a nice little hosted copy of something like GitHub.

I run an instance of GitLab on a Digital Ocean droplet, and back it up to a cheap RamNode VPS; all my GitHub repos are pulled daily to repos on the GitLab server (for backup purposes—I use the GitHub repos primarily), and I also use this GitLab server as a central repo to which I push changes for my sites/services, and pull from on production servers.

There are many good reasons to put certain repositories on GitHub, and there are some good reasons to host some repositories yourself (or to just have one local working copy, with a backup).
The linked server is dead, but is basically a wrapper for a youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM9ADXfvnVo
SXSW is a music festival. Music is the reason everyone is there.
Deadly Issues That No One Ever Told You About Sitting
Sorry, but I couldn't stay in this site for more than 10 seconds.. My eyes hurt..
You do have to realize the difference between hula hooping and making out. Hula hooping isn't even a slightly sexual act. Furthermore, objectification is a huge issue in the lesbian community, so in both the hula hooping and making out scenario, gawking is not okay and contributes to an already sexist power structure.
>> Would you prefer a citation be added, eg, 'newborn female infants stare at faces more often than male newborn infants'?

> Do you have a source stating that females raised in the same environment as males exhibited a higher level of social complexity? '?

Yes, I have a source stating precisely that newborn female infants stare at faces more often than male newborn infants (Baron Cohen at Cambridge):

http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x1xv47_BrainwashingInNor...
Sounds like the trend, starting on day 3, is quite clear. It's not surprising, donations usually don't work.
5 More Unexpected Ways to Work Smarter, Not Harder
office politics is a shelter for incompetence.
Yes, and it's nothing new, you can do the same using Debian and then select the most appropriate version of ruby with update-alternatives... RVM and rbenv do something different, they allow you to _run_ different version of ruby for different apps. The fact that you can use them to set the default ruby for your system* is a quite handy side effect.

* And even then, you don't set the default ruby for the entire system, you set it for your own sessions.
<sarcasm>
What do you have a kitchen for? You can microwave TV dinners all you want. If you want to make your own recipe, say because you want to be healthy, or don't like the flavor of TV dinners, you can just make a simulated Real Recipe out of pieces of TV dinners. It's almost as good.

Just let someone else more qualified than you, or well maybe not more qualified, but more in charge than you, decide what you should eat. Selecting a restaurant or frozen dinner has only gotten easier and easier over the decades. But wanting to be a cook? What for?

And why do you need a camera? People should be able to sell you pictures of whatever you want a picture of. There should be enough pictures of everyone on Facebook already. Or, if you really insist on having a picture of something or someone that a Big Corporation doesn't have, just get out some crayons and sketch them. Buying crayons and coloring books has only gotten easier and easier over the decades. But why take your own pictures, what for?

And what do you need musical instruments for? Want to be a musician? Just download some songs that have already been written and play them in a different order on your DRM-closed player. Or, if you really insist on having your own choice in music, just call a radio station and request something. Calling and requesting songs has only gotten easier and easier over the decades. But wanting to make your own music or start your own band? What for?

And that address bar on your web browser? Just go to yahoo.com, and click all the links there. They already know what's good for you. If you really insist on having your own, post to a social network. Starting a web page on Facebook/google has only gotten easier and easier over the decades.

But wanting to go to whatever websites you want - or make your own websites? What for?
</sarcasm>
Compiler for Ruby on the JVM
How did buy-backs figure in that?
The important advancements in the recent modern world haven't really been scientific in the traditional sense of "scientific advancement." The advancements of the last decade are more like engineering than pure scientific discovery. Under that definition, Linux certainly qualifies, because it's a major feat of engineering regardless of its roots in Unix.

Would you mind giving your thoughts on http://paulgraham.com/america.html ? Specifically, point #7:

If there are any laws regulating businesses, you can assume larval startups will break most of them, because they don't know what the laws are and don't have time to find out.

For example, many startups in America begin in places where it's not really legal to run a business. Hewlett-Packard, Apple, and Google were all run out of garages. Many more startups, including ours, were initially run out of apartments. If the laws against such things were actually enforced, most startups wouldn't happen.

That could be a problem in fussier countries. If Hewlett and Packard tried running an electronics company out of their garage in Switzerland, the old lady next door would report them to the municipal authorities.

The reason I responded the way I did is because you seem to be arguing for a docile population, which to anyone who has studied history is a recipe for disaster.
Whilst a interesting move I would suggest offering donations via alternative means, PAYPAL, postal cheque even being two that spring to mind. Have a donate button that links to the options. Then you will get a better feel of how the donation model works instead of limiting to bitcoins. Which in some countries would be illegal I believe. Not sure what the geographic distrabution of bitcoins is, or if that information is mineable in any way beyond maybe memberlists from mining pools.
I still feel that way, but I'm more concerned about lock-in than control. I can deal with losing an issue tracker, but at least I'm not going to lose the GitHub repo; I've my own fully-independent copy.

The other advantage of using multiple servers, some private, is that it becomes OK to just push to GitHub when you're "done", because for better or worse, pushing something to GitHub that anybody else uses is de facto publishing it.
There's a way. I will find it. The content is worth not having ads.
By the way, are there some ideas when Rust can become more or less production-ready?