skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got it 8 months ago but noticed the problem into the fifth month. Intend to have it sent in for repair when I can make time to part with it.

I bought 2 Macbook airs together, both have the same issue.
CSDN is a tech forum/news site, kinda like Techcrunch. It has been around for quite a few years. This github like thingi seems like a joint effort between CSDN and Tencent, whose open source projects (currently six of them) can be found at https://code.csdn.net/Tencent.

Traditionally, China doesn't have a strong open source culture and Github was being blocked every now and then. Hopefully a Github clone backed by big players can change that.
While the design looks nice, what does this offer that GitHub's editing functionality[1] does not?

[1]: https://help.github.com/articles/editing-files
And then they start throttling anything that isn't to a whitelisted destination.

Which they are now allowed to do.
I used to work on the business side of the house. In the classifieds department of one of the first acquisitions of what became Newscorp -- that formidable journal of record, the NT News.

Journalists irked me. Dangerous people. Arrogant. Flighty. Prone to exploiting social norms of disclosure to get a story. Always in a rush to do the minimum possible to hit the quota by deadline.

And essential to the functioning of a free and open society. Like lawyers, we hate them, but we'd be in deep trouble without them.

We already have the Andressen model of "News". It's called long copy marketing, and it's really annoying. No substantial positive public externalities come from it. Oh, and I guess gossip sites too. A critical bulwark of the yeomanry, gossip sites.
Eh-eh, do better
Here's how long you spent binge-watching your favorite TV show – Vox
I enjoyed the experience of being able to have context and additional information as I read the piece. People read in different ways (I stop and marinate on each paragraph), and being able to explore a bit made the story all the better.
And there's yet another company that's spelled differently, but one could argue is phonetically identical to your URL: http://www.ca.com/us/content/integration/nolio.aspx
This comment overstates the current power of Julia's parallel programming model — as of now Julia has no real tools for shared-memory parallelism and probably will not for another few versions or so. For distributed memory Julia is great, but please do not use Julia if you are being hindered by the GIL.

(NB I say this as a big Julia evangelist. it has a lot of potential but is not really there yet on a number of things, this being one of them.)
Cubase Projact Aviel Shahaf – Fly Ludovico Einaudi
http://youtu.be/eK-Bz7u7TuE
Eh, I'd much rather live in a nice flat than a house. And I guess it might be nice to actually own one eventually, I actually prefer renting. Much less of a hassle.
So to recap:

1) If we define f(x)=x^x^x^... as the limit of the sequence x, x^x, x^x^x, ... then f(sqrt(2))=2, not 4, and in fact there's no such x that f(x)=4.

2) If we instead "solve" the equation y=x^x^x... by dubious manipulations with infinite expressions, we get x=y^(1/y), so y=2 and y=4 both lead to x=sqrt(2).

When playing with infinite expressions, you must always keep in mind how they're defined in terms of limits. If you learn to do that, many puzzles with infinity will stop bothering you forever, like Zeno's paradox, 0.999...=1, etc.
I believe that's kind of a fallback position, that now that they've lost the battle against computers, 2nd-best is to try to figure out what to do with them.

At least as of a few years ago there was an active campaign to discourage the use of computers and especially the internet in haredi communities: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/rabbis-r.... According to that article, the Vizhnitzer Hasidim even threatened to expel any children whose homes had an internet connection at all from attending the community's schools. And there were some high profile stunts where rabbis smashed smartphones and similar.

But now it does seem that they're moving towards being okay with computers as long as they don't include unrestricted internet access: http://forward.com/articles/184099/kosher-smart-phone-arrive...
Flipping burgers is a dead end job, programming is well paid compared to most jobs.
I wonder if the translation bots could make an app, and repeatedly change its description and translate it.
Are you a us citizen or on a work visa? Genuinely curious?
>Paying subscription fees to social networks is a business model not very likely to succeed.

Two things:

1) I think in our present day western consumerist world if a comfortable technologist says "I would pay for that" it doesn't literally mean that - it just means "I value it".

2) Regardless, I stand by my previous comment in the other thread - that I would not pay for Twitter. Why? Because I am already paying for it. Twitter gets value from me. My time on Twitter is a form of labour for the company. It's a two way exchange, I benefit from using it - and I like it. I even see advertisements on Twitter. My eyes and clicks are a form of revenue generation for Twitter. I would not pay for Twitter because I am already paying for it.

Remember the saying "if you are getting it for free, you are the product"?
I wonder what sort of technologies are popular in China. Heard rumors that there was a thriving golang community there, but that's literally the extent of my knowledge.
The one with the random salt is keyfp(), the fixed one is getpassword().
See https://twitter.com/solardiz/status/462442039687512065
The high dev salaries there make the Bay Area even more of a dead end than it would otherwise be for the people who are stuck in service jobs for life, such as making food when the devs eat out.
Serious security flaw in OAuth, OpenID discovered
Netflix has 28TB of Flash storage in a 1U box (e3-12xxv2, 125w system power usage) with 40Gbit/s of Network capacity, which gets fully saturated. They run BSD, and Nginx, I believe. This would double their density.
GMT vs UTC time
I think Github team may learn something from the Chinese (and I recall this is true in many Eastern Asian) community. Portal is essential in many popular Chinese websites. People like reading columns and discover things from headlines and visual columns.

Imagine Github offers a way for organizaitons to publish news! So instead of me going to blog.mozilla.org or blog.github.com to find out what's going on, I can just subscribe to an organization, get a newsfeed of their latest releases and announcement, and highlight commits (ex: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/59) !

I don't have time to implement this as an idea, but I think Github has that resource to implement it.
Git is distributed, but obviously you're going to have a canonical repository somewhere (git.kernel.org, for instance). Decentralization doesn't mean getting rid of a canonical place where approved patches end up, and you really aren't going to see canonical repositories disappear, we have them for a good reason.

However, there is something to be said about mirroring canonical repositories for accessibility.
For God's sake fix that collision detection. I try to stab someone and someone tries to stab me, we are going through each other and standing on top of each other and still stabbing, and nothing happens.

Edit: It is so frustrating. I stand at exactly (pixel-perfect) the same height as someone else. I stab him so that my knife ends directly in the middle of the other player. It does nothing. I try again, this time going to the right a bit (so move to the right, then look to the left so that I stab towards him). This time the knife ends around where his sprite begins. At the same time he does one stab and I die. Why do I die and never someone else? Is this lag or something and has he stabbed me ten seconds ago? Is anyone getting scores of over 1 or 2?
"The D in GitHub stands for Distributed"
I don't really think there is anything special. I don't actually grow up in China as a programmer but when I was a kid PHP was a big thing due to the popularity of BBS like phpBB and Chinese's Discuz!. You can find Python, Java, C++, and .NET just like in America. Though I find (based on limited experience) Ruby is not a very popular language in China.

edit: here is a list from 2012: http://www.ithome.com/html/it/25225.htm

chart 1, 2, 3: Shenzhen, Shahai, Bejing

chart 4, 5, 6: worldwide, US, India

Since many Chinese projects are system-level and scientific. Plus there is a huge gaming industry in China.
Who would be the counter-party in that bet? If someone said, "I'll bet you a hundred thousand dollars that I won't blow up that lighthouse", I'd say, "No thanks.", since the outcome of the bet is entirely in the hands of the person making it.

Not to mention the fact that the objection still holds true to the extent that information is revealed. If you say the lighthouse is going to be destroyed in 2015, the police can still give the lighthouse additional security measures in advance of 2015, if not at the specific time. The less information you reveal, the less money you'll make from the market (since you're only trading on part of your private information).

Additionally, while there's nothing stopping a distributed system from allowing death contracts to pay out in the event of a murder or forbidding death contracts in general, it's quite possible that the participants in a market could develop social norms which prevent this from happening (e.g. everyone votes "void" when a dead person is murdered, or everyone votes "void" on all death contracts). I'm not saying I'd rely on it, but I think in mature markets of this nature, you'd actually see some of that behavior.
Principal software engineers, fellows, and most of the related titles don't write code, in my experience.
Couldn't agree more... Do we really need to grant read and write access to all repos? Sucks if GH's scoping is that coarse.
I have a NAS with 3TB of RAID storage. When iCloud automatic backup complains that my phone is running low, I download the camera roll to there.

If I'm making a home movie, I'll just copy the files to the SDD temporarily. I have 30GB+ free most of the time.
Sweeping iOS 7-style changes said to be coming for OS X 10.10
GitCafe is more like a straight up clone of GitHub: https://gitcafe.com/?locale=zh-CN
It's always been economics. EUV already works. E-beam lithography already works. Carbon nanotube transistors already work. III-V transistors already work. It's just that none of these technologies work as cheaply as double patterned silicon.
Ask HN: Who is more valuable- Top tier Engineer or top tier bus. guy?
I ask this as not a simple question but knowing that the utility of an incremental engineer vs. one extra bd guy varies at different points within the company's business cycle.

I just want to start a convo as to when people have experienced scenarios where the other side (if bd than engineer; if engineer than bd) became extremely valuable in the success of a startup.
You can only stab from behind, so that might explain the trouble you're having.
When the server went down, I was running around with my hair on fire trying to fix it and other bugs that cropped up. Inevitably I ended up introducing even more bugs in the process. Everything is working relatively smoothly right now, and I'm keeping an eye on things.
Never open TVTropes.
I think your argument is avoiding the real issues. One problem is that the simplification of setting y = x^y introduces new solutions that are not solutions to the original equation. While any solution of the original must also satisfy y = x^y, the reverse is not true.

Even worse, the OP's algebraic manipulations assume there exists a solution to the equation. It's not logically sound to assume something exists and use that fact to prove that it exists.
This is exactly me -- ~2TB of 3TB storage full, similar content to you. The difference is that I store all that stuff on a RAIDed NAS device and stream it over wifi when I need it.

I don't back it up, but it is RAIDed with 1-disk fault tolerance, and that's pretty much good enough for me. I mostly only ever add new content to the NAS or read existing ones, so I'm not worried about versioning.

Best of both worlds imo.
Compile Time TDD Coverage with Idris
I solved that problem by not using Firefox. (And this is not intended to be snarky - Firefox was my preference, but under near-identical conditions, Firefox exhibited this problem while Safari did not.)
>Also, it is very difficult to go from becoming IT manager to
IT director or higher, especially in bigger companies.

This is so much true.

>Opportunity to become VP, or even director is not all that common.

Completely agree. You hit nail on the head.
They should rename it the Fletch-Kincaid score.

[During a proctological exam]
Fletch: You using the whole fist, Doc?
Oh, that might explain. Let me try.

Edit: yes that's it
This is a red herring.
It is also a very well thought out language, that took from Java's history many of the mistakes it made, learned from them, and avoided them.
A very biased article - the only facts emphasized are the ones that support the Samsung is an IP thief narrative.
The writer critiques 'a narrow Southern society' that goes in for intermarriage. It is who who generalized this to an attack on 'White culture.'

Inbreeding exists in many cultures. It's just that we're familiar with our own cultural referents (American in this case), whereas we're not as familiar with the sub-populations of other nations or ethnic groups that might be known for it.

For example, there's a large city in Saudi Arabia called Dammam where first-cousin marriages are unusually common for reasons which have to do with tribal history [1]. It's quite possible that people in other parts of Saudi Arabia make jokes or critiques of people from that city, but they would be lost on anyone who hasn't studied the subject.

1. http://www.as.wvu.edu/~kgarbutt/QuantGen/Gen535_2_2004/Inbre...

As for complaining about how poorly white culture and communities are treated by the mainstream media, get back to me when the comment pages of most news sites are no longer awash with the toxic rantings of racist idiots.
Prose is made by Development Seed (the company behind the healtcare.gov frontend, IIRC).

There are screenshots here: http://developmentseed.org/blog/2012/june/25/prose-a-content...

Prose is an open source node.js app, and can be self-hosted: https://github.com/prose/prose
I chose the word "addiction" pretty specifically - does it enrich the user's life? Uber does. (And you probably don't have a desire to use Uber for hours every day).

Social gaming (someone mentioned below) does, to a point, and then it's engineered to go way, way beyond that point.

It's complicated of course - and there's a spectrum - but I think a bad sign is if your architecture is intended to hack the reward systems of your customers.
Well if you observe the tower power is an injective function then that just fixes everything :)
It seems like there is no advantage to being stealthy -- sure, a stabbing action gives you away as a real player, but it also allows you to move faster than hidden players who, seeing you revealed, might try to distance themselves from you.
It is not security in its own right, but it can add to other security measures. Think camouflage.
The company I work is around for 40+ years now. There are some folks as "Programmer Analyst", "Software Engineer", "Sr. Engineer" for 20+ years now.
I have asked many of them why you didn't move up the ladder and report to someone junior ( or H1B in his early 30's). Most of the time answer I got it, they love what they do. They love having opportunity to program , provide logical + thoughtful solutions.
Of course, when new management comes in and there are times to make decision to layoff, these people become victim due to range of salary they have reached, age, skillset. This is very unfortunate but true.
I would not completely write off what author is saying but I believe it depends on individual prospective. Of course, money is important factor but if you are getting a job 8 am to 5pm + raising your family/kids comfortably + spending time with family and yet have good balance when you retire then being programmer is quite good deal actually.
Problems:

You are almost invulnerable running around constantly attacking and when someone decides to kill you in this mode it is very random who dies, usually best connection wins. This could be easily fixed not by improving the lag, but by improving the gameplay.

I think you shouldn't be able to attack again until the reveled mode ends. Otherwise, once revealed, the game become run and attack.
Not only do Orthodox Jews have computers, they apparently have enough of them to sell me my last 5 laptops and desktops. (source B&H Photo)
I would like to see an Emerson Moog (being a synth-newb, I wouldn't know what to do with it tho

http://www.moogmusic.com/news/moog-music-announces-new-emers...
Tracking our SSL configuration
It definitely isn't that coarse: https://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#scopes
It would be interesting if you could give some arguments for your positions. Why is STM not the way? Why, if IronPython is as good as you say it is, doesn't it see greater adoption or why don't other implementations use its strategies for removing the GIL? Wikipedia says that IronPython scores worse on PyStone benchmarks compared to CPython, and it's likely that this is a consequence of IronPython's fine-grained locking which is required in the absence of a GIL.

As for interfacing with C, like I said, Cython really makes this a lot easier than the approaches you mention.
You mention IronPython as not having a GIL, but then IronPython doesn't allow easy interfacing with C code, e.g., it's not compatible with numpy ...
Another relevant chart from this very site: https://code.csdn.net/explore/projects
No it’s not, you can make an app that have access only to your public info, and/or public repos, etc.
Has anyone had a good experience licensing to and/or working with Samsung? Any good experiences that turned bad?
I like this type of game, reminds me of Spy Party. Suggestion: don't allow the characters to walk through each other. If a player tries to stab you and fails, the fight just becomes walking through each other and trying to turn around fast enough to stab the other guy in the back, which isn't really fun or strategic.
Hmmm. Why not MacVim: https://code.google.com/p/macvim/ ?
One of Fallout's fathers returns to the wasteland
Despite the marketing stuff below, it's interesting to see the big players in each space partnering, the 2 communities have intersected for a while now:

http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/solutions/partne...

http://www.microway.com/hpc-tech-tips/hadoop-isnt-just-for-w...

http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/solutions/partne...

http://inside-bigdata.com/2012/10/16/bringing-hadoop-to-hpc-...

http://hortonworks.com/partner/sgi/
Whether this is an engineering, safety, political or scientific principle is not really important for my point. I used the word scientific principle because I first learned of it in a science textbook in a chapter discussing side effects of pesticdies, but obviously it spans multiple disciplines.

It is in constant use, although there are probably places in the world where it is given more attention than others. The United States is absolutely not the world's bastion of the careful and incremental application of new knowledge, this may be why it is unfamiliar to you.

A prominent historical example would be the reluctance to use the first nuclear bombs before establishing a consensus on whether such an explosion could ignite the atmosphere. Contemporary examples would be e.g. the care taken when using a new, promising drug prior to rigorous animal and human testing or the reluctance to use new useful chemicals and materials (e.g. nanoparticles) everywhere due to the possibility of long-term health effects like cancer risk.
No; self-promotion, self-branding, etc.
Ask HN: How much time you spend on digital devices ( PC + tablet + phone)? 
How do you keep off from getting tired ? What you do for relaxation ?
simple explantation: machine learning.

the public google translate tool is trained on data from the internet (and google books), and its intended use is for translating stuff that you found online (on the open web)

google play store translation are trained on data from ... tada ... google play store (and probably editorial translations), it's intended use is for translating descriptions on the play store.

using the play store translation logic on other texts will probably lead to inferior results.

not working for google, just my 2 speculative cents
Which reading would you recommend?
Completely agreed. In most cases we are the product.

1) I'd like to note that I am replying to the initial authors comment: "I would love the option to pay to ensure Twitter’s continued existence in a usable form".
This seems different. Adblock's stated purpose was to block ads. They directly compromise this purpose by allowing companies to pay to be able to show adds. Privacy Badger's stated purpose is privacy. There is no direct contradiction in allowing third party domains to be unblocked if they are not going to violate privacy. The only question here is how strongly to we believe they will honer the DNT.
Because Bitbucket's own search ought to have more insight into searching its content (but apparently not).
An independent check on government and power? Where and when has this happened? I know this is the story journolists (sic) tell themselves, but for all of its adoption of a neutral speaking-truth-to-power self-description, the modern practice of reporting is pretty much in lock-step with (one could almost say 'produces and reproduces') the establishment.
Oooo, very nice!
Could you tell me how this differs from githubs own markdown editor. I played with this for a bit but I failed to notice anything.
Noty.io – Share social media content on your own website
This looks like it's a plugin to macvim; or at least a fork of it.
Ok, thank you for answering.
A business person. You can have the best tech in the world, but still not have a business. You can have no tech person, and still have a good business.
"Programming against an abstraction of a reliable machine" is just plain old separation of concerns. This is good engineering practice. You don't worry about low level failures in high level code, and you shouldn't introduce more high level failure modes than are necessary. Addressing failures in the appropriate layer is perfectly apt. If ECC is insufficient then revise ECC. Declaring the approach to be a fundamentally flawed is to challenge one of the pillars of good engineering.
Ask HN: can you review my idea, please?
Hi, I want to have some feedbacks and advice about my idea before to jump onto it.
Here it is, able to get good offers from your local hairdressers business matching only your request.

Ex: a user submit a request(style, location, avaibility...).

The hairdressers get the request and make an offers.
So the user gets offers matching his need and availability at good price and can choose the most suitable. Saves money and time.

For the hairdresser to fulfill his planning. Gains customers and automates bookings.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Yes, they are concurrent but not parallel.
The Difference Engine
So how does that figure into all the individual pieces of land that people own? Is my land not part of the larger eco-system of the planet? I'd argue it is, and I take pretty darn good care of it. Are we somehow saying that we can't extrapolate this to a larger scale?

For further reading, you might find this interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox