skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi eykanal! The target audience of this site are people just like you. On Coding Style Guide (CSG) you can help other developers (maybe new in PHP) with your expertise. So maybe the next time you have to work on a new project with a new team with members from different backgrounds, you can just go to CSG and take what is useful for your project. That's my vision of CSG. It's just a collection of good quality content. One knows it is good quality, because the best ones have the best rating.
Pretty good work. Didn't like it at first but then ended up playing it for a few minutes, even though I wasn't in the mood for playing games.
I noticed one thing though, I looked into the code (it's neat and tidy!) and the game logic (updates) was built into the render function that gets called with requestAnimationFrame. Might be a problem on devices that aren't refreshing @60 hertz because the game runs as fast as the user's monitor.
On a technical sidenote, 65226 people were in the study. Who wants to bet that the count was limited by the number of rows that fit in an old excel spreadsheet?
If the data is partition-able, a main-memory database should be able to deliver aggregates in realtime without much pain. If you're writing to disk at 1M tx/sec though, yeah could perhaps be a minor bottleneck. I'm not quite sure what this has to do with SQL though.

Of course writing a specific datastructure will outperform a general solution - that goes without saying. No HA/persistence makes it even easier. And if the datastructure is simple enough, then writing and maintaining the code yourself may pay off.
Of course, I should have thought about it that way.
You mean like using data attributes? Or like a polymer or angular directive? Not sure specifying responsive option sets would be easier.
Well, open standards do not mean open data. The U.S. government also prefers open standards and open source for example. Open standards and open source means that they aren't stuck with vendor lock-in. If a vendor supplies them with proprietary tooling and then the vendor goes away, they're sunk.

In other words, just because the NSA builds and uses Accumulo, doesn't mean they've been good actors with what it does.
Totally off topic, but what's the name of the song in the video? :)
The case for profanity in print
From metrics, seems users use web@snipek.com more than other functions of this project, so I just made snipek.com/web the front page (snipek.com) last night ...
Off the cuff, cars cost 10x as much and aren't obsoleted by better cars that drive 3x as fast after two years...
It's one of the things we are working on by making the UIKit layer is optional. There is a library called BridgeKit that makes dealing with Java <->Objc easy without JNI so making code go back and forth is trivial. We are also building a version of the platform that even trims off Obj-C as a better NDK for C++ developers that want to target Android from Xcode.
Singapore and Korea top OECD's first PISA problem-solving test
The study says they used UK Department of Health definitions of portion sizes, which are 80g / portion for fruits and vegetables. [1]

[1] http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/5ADAY/Pages/Portionsizes.aspx
The Fragmentation Of The Wearable Glove Ecosystem
I'm a college student who is studying finance and computer science right now. Naturally, startups are extremely interesting to me. Your level of transparency helped me better understand fundraising, equity structures, and how to think of financial operations. A refreshing and inspiring post for someone in my shoes - thank you!
So WebSockets (TCP) isn't good enough for real-time (twitch) games?

Edit: One would think you would need client/server prediction in both scenarios - to deal with latency inherent in a network transmission.
Yeah sounds like a perfect way for Square to latch onto an already-popular platform and ride the wave.

It just makes sense. You're already emailing the other person, why not also send money too? You're already reading your email, why not checkout today's news?

I'm interested to see where email goes. Maybe it'll become a hub for all your internet activities.
Backbones and most ISPs are gonna route IP packets regardless of content. Until you hit a NAT or firewall and everything that's not UDP or TCP gets dropped.
The repair policy and other services. Same argument goes for leasing a car vs financing a car.
"60 Minutes" admits it manipulated the sound in its Tesla segment
I'm working on an angular directive
Was it ever in doubt that the USA is the best place to start a business? You have an English-speaking domestic market that accounts for 30% of the planet's GDP, huge talent pools, easy access to capital, a culture that encourages entrepreneurship, significantly above-average rule of law, strong corporate veils, and a mostly tolerable tax burden. It ain't perfect, but you can't do better anywhere else in this solar system.
The actual study, rather than the headline, is about all-cause chance of dying at any point in time. So you aren't increasing any.

Your chance of dying eventually of some cause is unaffected, and remains at 1.00.
The devil will be in the details. The Apple lease program to me isn't interesting because a) the minimum lease term is 24 months and b) the minimum order is $3,000.

If I have an option to subscribe on 6-12 month terms and upgrade my machine on each release cycle, that'd be really interesting.
What other information is it leaking?
"it is the javascript object notation."

Except it's not, which is part of the reason this sub thread started. JSON encoded numbers are not IEEE754 floats either. And JSONP is purely a convenient hack around browser security issues only, again it has noting to do with JSON as a format.

You can argue the specifics,, but you miss the point that the claim that "JSON is JavaScript" is false and leads to tricky edge cases when the assumption breaks down.
The users of Stack Oveflow aren't the customers. The users are the product.
I know what you mean, but I can't blame people for having other obligations or interests outside of programming. I went to a public high school here in NYC and have good friends who had to work their way through college, some of them even had siblings to support.

Knowing about git, tdd and etc is important but it's not something that can't be taught. It's as simple as pairing them with experienced engineers and pointing them to a few relevant books.
GT is #2 on the public schools list, and just outside of the top 10 overall. GT also blows the roof off of the scale when it's measured by percentage ROI instead of raw dollars.

http://www.thewire.com/national/2014/03/these-are-the-school...
Likely that the use case for this app includes it being plugged in/charging.
Is there no way to mute it?
Depends. While I haven't studied mechanical engineering myself, a lot of my friends who have, seem to have spent a lot of their time learning to use steam tables and working with lathes (something I personally would love to do, btw) instead of racking their brains to solve problems in physics/math.

Personally, I think everyone should learn at least the basics of modern Algebra (not high school stuff, but: groups, semigroups etc.), Topology etc. (Note that I did not get an education in either Physics or Math, but am jealous of those who did)
Less sympathetic than I was hoping for but copacetic. Could they have nipped this in the bud with a faster response? Perhaps. However having dealt with reports like this, I cannot recall a decent interaction with a reporter.
"You’ll find that user enumeration is possible on Facebook, Google, Dropbox, and nearly every other major internet site."

I love this. Look these silly free social sites do it, so it must be ok. Anyone know if BofA or WellsFargo allow user enumeration?
Totally agree! There are some experiences I'd personally experience alone. That's why I chose against making Bit of News social.

Reading is, and has always been, an individual activity. Just you and the words. The rise of social media just cluttered our attention span, sharing this and sharing that. Reading is enjoyable when you're completely focused!
> "Maybe the problem is that it'd fill up with so much spam from local businesses that it'd be useless."

I think that the problem of spam, in this case, is a problem of search technology, presentation, and identity.

Ideally small business owners should be able to write entire tomes about their shops without degrading user experience. That spam would be available to those who want to read it, and not presented to those who do not. Deletion or culling of spam would therefore be unnecessary.
You dont own your data
If I had to guess, probably because you could get equivalent performance cheaper with standard servers. Plus, there's a good chance that your distributed solution could fit on a single server, removing the overhead.
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Firefox comes out as gay, new Mozilla CEO resigns
In the early days of odnoklassniki and VKontakte there was a joke in Russia that KGB invented them as better version of its secret files on people. Now it does not look like a joke anymore.
Many mail relays, especially spam appliances like Barracuda, will always give an 250 OK to the email address provided to prevent exactly this trick. They then toss as spam or bounce once they get the message.
I'm not sure if it was Stackoverflow or another site, but he was there as well. I tried my damnedest to delete him, but he wouldn't go away :(
Deus Ex 3 was the last AAA title I bought, and that was because I considered it a work of art, on the strength of Deus Ex 1 being art. These days, I mostly just look at what's on Kickstarter and kicking in a few bucks. I have not paid much attention to AAA games. Well, that and I no longer have a Windows gaming rig, so that is also a big part of it.

I'm not so sure that what FB is doing will mean that power is being taken away. My friend and I had discussed this. His original theory was that it was a "vanity buy", something Zuckerberg wanted because it looks like a good trophy on his shelf. We talked about it more and came up with some key indicators on whether that is what is happening or not. The most important one is whether John Caramack sticks around for more than six months after the merger. Based on what we both know, and what I have read in the John & John history of id, if FB sells out, it's likely that Caramack won't stick around for long.

A day later, we saw the article with Abrash joining Oculus. That kind of confirmed it for us. Instead of people leaving, there were more people joining up.

It's early days yet, and it remains to be seen whether FB will let Oculus have free reign or not. Early indicators, despite the fear among gamers and game devs, seems to point to Oculus being able to do a lot more with the technology now. I am not sure how that stacks up with the open nature of the hardware -- we'll see. If FB is indeed looking at this as the next generation of social networking, they might try to seed the hardware into the mainstream by keeping it open and available, and focus instead on creating experiences for the platform.

In the meantime, I'm hoping more people try to sell FB stocks so I can pick it up at a discount. Speaking of monetizing.
Which is why people need to put their Unscubscribe buttons in large at the top of their emails too, not just in tiny script at the bottom. :)
hahahahahaha wow, you really need to catch a clue. I can't wait to work for you :)
I use a vibrating alarm clock. It's a regular alarm with a wire going to a bed shaker (a 3/4" high disk with a vibrating mechanism inside - much like the ones in game controllers). The shaker is located between the mattress and box spring under my head.

Sometimes it startles me awake, which is an unpleasant feeling, but it works for me all the time. And, given that we have a foam mattress, the buzzing is absorbed enough for my wife to easily sleep through it.
Was it ever in doubt that the USA is the best place to start a business?

America is no. 14 on the list of best countries to start a business in. http://www.forbes.com/best-countries-for-business/list/
You're completely right, there is no sense in pointing out what kinds of comments detract from readability and anyone writing about that is a smug jerk.

All sarcasm aside, there's nothing wrong in getting your thoughts together in comments before you actually write code. What the author objects to -- and I agree with that objection wholeheartedly -- is leaving those comments in your code once you're done coding.

Other comments describe and discuss the dangers and downsides of leaving the "what" and "how" comments, so I won't go there. Instead, I'd like to propose a habit to establish when writing code: when you're done coding, remove all the "what" and "how" comments and try to read the code. If you can leave it overnight before trying to read it, even better. If it still looks easy to understand without those comments, then there's a chance it might be good enough for other people. Otherwise, do whatever you can to make it more understandable -- break it up into smaller methods with descriptive names, for example.

The point I'm trying to make is that there are two kinds of WTFs I get when I'm trying to read code: the "why the hell did they do this" WTF and the "what the hell does this do" WTF. The former is the kind of WTF you have to solve with comments, because no amount of comments is going to explain why you've done things this way, whereas the latter should be solved by writing more readable code.
If you're looking for some more entertainment, I recommend a read on the forums today: http://forums.xkcd.com/
Last time a politician was worried about non-zero probabilities, the U.S. invaded Iraq. I mean, if changing the probability someone's home gets broken into is our standard of practice nowadays there's a lot of companies which will have to close down today.
Clinkle finally launches
And NAT traversal only works if you focus on broken NAT implementations. If you have a "secure" NAT like a firewall may implement, then there is no such thing as workable NAT traversal.
So say some journalists. The results speak for themselves.

Edit: In case it wasn't apparent, my "ever any doubt" question was rhetorical hyperbole. Any statement, no matter how self-evident, will have some people contradicting it.

Edit2: See mtrimpe's comment below; Forbes is probably optimizing for small business in their analysis instead of startups with potential for high scalability.
Maybe I didn't specify clearly, but it's targeted toward young professional women. So that's around ages 17-29. Checkout their latest issue[1]. It's heavily editorialized and obviously appeal to a very specific audience. Not my cup of tea but a lot of people enjoy it.

http://www.theskimm.com/2014/03/31/skimm-for-april-1st-2
Yes it's possible. I did this a few years ago as a learning project, and the relevant lua scripts can be seen here: https://gist.github.com/dbro/9920666.

... but I wouldn't claim that it's done efficiently. From the comments in the code's tests:

# some results based on running speed tests on a lightweight netbook:
# standard error = 0.01, 10kb of registers
# < 1 ms per init()
# < 1 ms per update()
# < 1 ms per count() for single set
# ~30 ms per set for count() of union of sets
Its a human thing more than a business thing. We believe in the principles that we are taught about when growing up, either by society or the media.
April fools! Take a quick look on the history tab:

>> Tony Stevenson made changes - Today 16: Comment	[ Pfft! Happy April's fool!

>> For immediate release: Apache Subversion votes to rename itself Apache Irony, creates a black hole and disappears. ]
All tweets are from today. How does that prove anything?
UDP has error checking in the form of a checksum. It's one of the few guarantees UDP has: your datagram either arrives complete, or not at all. TCP also has no real security to speak of, either.
First thought of April fools. Now I think this might actually be useful as a data mining application.
That many downvotes is a bit harsh. Methinks he's referring to the fact that most "music" produced on 8-bit devices in the 1980s had the musical value of an overture for solo kazoo.
Hey, if people want news in their email, your service seems great. I just think email is a weird platform for it, you know? Email is where I go to exchange electronic mail with other people - it's asynchronous electronic mail. For alerts, news, and time-sensitive stuff there are a lot more platforms or on-demand stuff (like going to a news website, or in my case just glancing at a news overlay i have on my desktop).

Don't get me wrong - people who want to use email this way deserve the most customizable and yet straightforward way of getting it and this looks useful for that. I just think email as a platform in this case is a one-forward-two-back thing.
Yes, or sleep to elapse a time that's longer than needed to queue up the async message, say half a second, before returning the message to the browser.
I work on dating sites, some of them a bit risqué.

On the password reset form, there's a big difference between saying "That email does not exist in our system"/"Emailed password reset instructions" vs "If that account is registered, we will email you instructions".
US now requires rearview cameras in ALL new cars starting from 2018
It's real because of the Twitter account?
Use PwdHash, it only improves the situation. [1] Even a bad password like "123456" turns into "rY9RHtJZ" (for HN). Turning computers off seems weird, but if that computer's got your ssh keys or your cached passwords, off is safest.

[1] https://www.pwdhash.com/

> don't use HostMonster or Godaddy

http://internetshitlist.org is free for the taking :)
Data scientists need their own GitHub.
They separated it into text (20GB) and media (200GB).

But wiki is VERY wastefull when it comes to media. 2MB SVG file to represent 3 atoms worth of molecule? yep thats wikipedia for you.
I have had just as much stuff pedantically closed on programmers.stackexchange.
The Most Wanted Student In America – Wanted in a good way
The joke's on them if they're not switching to something sane.
Sure. Though given the explosion of other devices following the Rift kickstarter -- the omnidirectional treadmill, a new generation of the SixSense STEM system, the use of differential vibrator to simulate contact with a sword ... there's a lot of interest in getting this to work out.

I'd be happy with just something where I can cover my entire peripheral vision :-D At one point, I had thought about getting three big LCD monitors to play Bioshock, just so I can get that immersion.
Hi, Ryan here - We've moved over to hackerone.com/coinbase, and emailed everyone at the whitehat@ address about the transition. We'll be getting in touch for the details and will get an autoresponder up on whitehat@. We don't view missed reports as a good thing, we'll do better and have already made improvements.
Introducing wearable Hadoop technology
Rate limiting

Do we have to spell it out to them?
Doesn't Mercurial handle large binary diffs better?
Children's Pen Pal Service Launches, Allowing Children
This Press Release explores the launch of a children's pen pal service, which allows children to write to fictional characters. The idea is to help children with their early development (reading and writing skills) while offering companionship in the wake of life's many challenges and joys.
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The Facebook account was registered last June. Would have to be quite the elaborate April's Fool joke.
Thank you so much! I was actually thinking of going to a couple of classes in media, arts, finance, etc because that would be something new, it would keep me hooked and it would also keep people around me happy because, in their vision I'm going to college. Thanks a lot for this, great point of view!
(OP here) I wholeheartedly agree. Obviously you can't run around firing people willy-nilly. Once you realize that that's really your only recourse, and that it has to be a bastion of last resort, you can focus your time on the real meat of your job: hiring and inspiring.
You're missing the feedback loop. Marketers will keep trying stuff until they find something we pay attention to. And they will destroy its specialness in the process.
Can anyone give a real-life example where this visual tool would be useful? Not that I dont believe in scraping (we do it too: https://github.com/brandicted/scrapy-webdriver). I know Google has a similar tool called Data Highlighter (in Google Webmaster Tools) which is used by non-technical webmasters to tell Google bot where to find the structured data in the page source of a website. It makes sense at Google's scale however I fail to see in which other cases this would be useful considering the drawbacks: some pages may have a different structure, javascript not always properly loaded, etc. Therefor requiring the intervention of a technical person...
You failed to validate your claim that Physics and Math majors are better than Engineers at Critical thinking (to some degree where that makes them more valuable to companies).

Further, the entry level physics & math classes at my school were the exact same classes that physic & math majors took. This clearly isn't universal, but you can't make a generalized statement that entry level physics & math classes are harder/better than they are for engineers. Physics 1,2,3 is Physics 1,2,3 (101,102,103 in uni numbers)

I could insert some snark comment about if they were truly better at critical thinking, they would have pursued a degree that was more easily marketable, but that's besides the point.

Engineers have skillsets that are in high demand, and that's why they're valuable degrees.

Is critical thinking a part of that, probably. Is it as valuable from a Math/Physics major? We'll just let the market decide.
Parallax effect using motion detection
How to make a great software engineer resume
As someone who's deaf (not Deaf) thank you for making it. Sadly, the vibration the iPhone makes isn't strong enough for me but this is an awesome idea and I hope you succeed with it!
Pollfish has a better way for apps to make money – and it’s not more ads
Not to be too pedantic, but email isn't part of "the web". Historically the social aspects of the internet were elsewhere email, IRC, Usenet, etc. The Web was mostly(only?) a network of documents.
This probably differs from school-to-school. At my school most engineering majors had senior projects or capstone classes in which you had to apply the things you learned to produce working products.
Thank you! I see you there!
That what "Not Constructive" is about : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6062876.

It seems they finally have a website !
For email you should check out Toutapp, which has worked out really well for us.

GA is what we use for our site though
ClickBank hires known scammers to help you "gain financial freedom"
I don't know if that's quite true. I think in a script in the bottom is fine, as thats where people expect it to be. If its a simple, one-click thing, then its fine. I think adding big unsubscribe buttons at the top is just noise and obstructive to people that are actually reading your emails. Sure there are people that will just mark your email as spam or filter it to the trash, but I don't know how much of a difference the location of the unsubscribe button will make to them because I suspect they likely aren't even opening your emails to begin with.
For those who don't know what VKontakte is (I didn't), it is the biggest social network after Facebook with "over 100 million active users" according to vk.com, which they own.

More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VK_(social_network)