skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well maybe there's room for mass action along these lines.

If, some ISP, say, "Bombcast", decides to throttle some website, say "Slacker News" as part of an extortion plan, can't we have every other content-providing internet service - be it Wikipedia, reddit, AirBnB, Facebook, maybe even google, if they're on this side of the fight - throttle all of Bombcast's customers right back.

Suddenly half of Bombcast's customers find their favourite sites moving at unacceptable speeds, with a black border around the edges and an annoying black popup window telling them exactly why their website access is being throttled, and recommending they switch to some less heinous ISP instead. Naturally, hit the FCC, any part of the US legislature that voted against Net Neutrality and so forth into the bargain. Force customers to choose between the faceless drones who laid the cable to their door ten years ago and send them a bill every month, or the guys who provide all the shiny internet stuffs that they enjoy for more or less free.

Might some sort of content provider's union be quite powerful? Because of who they are, they have a head start at winning hearts and minds so they'd have leeway when it comes to taking action that might alienate their public.
I think its reasonable to refer to the reference implementation of Python (CPython) as just "Python". The compilation to bytecode is an intermediate step because Python specifies a virtual machine. The language is definitely interpreted though. Its completely accurate to call Python an interpreted language. There's no version of Python that I know of (including PyPy) that ever produces compiled machine executable binaries prior to runtime.
I love PDF.js. I built a site recently that uses embedded PDF.js to display PDFs while making it very difficult to print/copy-paste/download these documents. It is super fast, works across all modern browsers, and supports useful PDF features like bookmarks, annotations, and table of contents. It's also pretty easy to customize and theme.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm currently trying to figure out ways to make the engine much smarter in the way it collects data.
Just want to thank you for this comment. I've been wrestling in my mind with trying to define the differences between great jobs and not so great jobs I have had, since 'obvious' things like salary/hours/perks/equipment/thing-i'm-working-on have proven to not be a useful correlation. The closest I had come to is "I want to work on companies bottom line, which means I want to work in a company where the bottom line is the software they make" rather than "the bottom line is getting contacts, the software being made is a side effect of that". Your explanation (and the answer in that stack exchange question) captures my thoughts much more clearly.
Mysterious aircraft filmed blitzing Taliban base
Doesn't work great on Firefox for Android, despite claims to the contrary. It looks great for desktop, though.
I mean, maybe I'm confused, but this sounds like they closed one method (among others) that could potentially be used to create a backdoor by, I guess, a carrier or OEM.

There's no evidence that anyone's phone was open to remote exploit at any time.
Finance could definitely be interesting. Please do put us in contact if there's possible of a match. Thanks!
Just looking at these first few comments, it seems like there are a lot of smart people who can see that this trite sound bite has problems.

Don't miss the forest for the trees. Widespread scientific illiteracy has many people feeling that decades of scientific research resulting in consensus establishes only an opinion that is just as valid as the opinion of any uninformed person who cares to speak up in dissent.

Yes, his statement is over-reaching and generalized, but the message is still meaningful.

Here's an article that gives some more detail about this phenomenon:
http://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17/the-death-of-expertise/
Nowhere in the article is the cost of "acquiring" a user, or CPA mentioned. This article is speaking in regards to the total cost of "signing up an enrollee". That is a fairly broad term, and could use some clarification for it to be of any real use.
Innovator of Cyptography Technology Wins ACM Dissertation Award
Taser equips London's cops with on-body cameras
I can understand when you say that $1500 x 300+ is a great amount they are investing at the cost of running their firm. While this is very important, we should not overlook the way the entire process is conducted (at least this is what I gather from the OP's post and personally believe too).
Your 'try me out' section is cut in half, with a need to scroll down, on a large laptop screen.

Having that footer be a fixed overlay may be fine on giant desktop monitor, but the website is pretty terrible on a smaller one.

edit: I stand corrected. It stays awful no matter what the screen size...
No, I want to search the bookmarking site pinboard.in for bookmarks from the HN domain. Make sense?
not in Python 3, where range() replaces xrange()
Thoughts on software piracy
Interesting; I didn't realize LXQt was the next-gen LXDE vs. just being a fork/sibling.

I'm currently using Lubuntu which is Ubuntu+LXDE but then with Xmonad as a window manager and really enjoying it.
That presumes that the people he was reporting to could actually understand what the hell he was going on about. The reason QA in games is so bloody awful is because none of them have a goddamn clue, they won't pay for people who do have a clue and they're not going to bother learning on their own.
have you tried the Scratchpad tool in Firefox (Shift-F4)? It's made for editing and executing as much JavaScript as you want.
Amazon adds Sunday delivery to 15 more cities
That's a partnership statement, not an acquisition.
MuPDF doesn't solve the same problem, so it doesn't really matter whether MuPDF is faster.
DockerCon Agenda
You're right, I fixed it.
GE is not acquiring Box, they signed a large contract with them. http://recode.net/2014/05/08/after-ipo-delay-box-gets-a-jolt...
So who's buying the IPO? Seems much better investment than SV companies with little or no profit.

I wonder how it will affect YHOO -- Probably worth buying Jan 2015 $40 calls since Yahoo owns 24% stake, maybe even short AMZN on day of IPO.
The problem is that america is almost a monopoly, no other country really has these problems[0]

[0] http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/observations-inte...
...or just use JAX-RS, which is simple, standardised, and has good implementations (such as RESTEasy and Jersey).
It is less stupid and tasteless than the experiments being performed on humans in Oklahoma at the moment.
by 'every violation' do you mean 'any violation', 'no violation', 'blue violation'...

by 'every violation' do you mean 'every observance', 'every miss-fire', 'every monkey'...

you see, apart from the law of non-contradiction language is impossible.
The decision you all made is very logical because it doesn't make sense if all of you leave your business for pitching to a fund. I am not saying that the pitching part is not important but you are already running your company for 2 years and all of your leaving your office for such a long time would make your business suffer in some way.
interesting, haven't written in python 3 yet
Motorola Solutions employee here (MSI bought RhoMobile three years ago).

RhoMobile is a platform that deliver on building a native application using web technology. A lot of the idea are borrowed from Ruby on Rails in the Framework (MVC framework done in Ruby with a simple ORM on top of SQLite).

* Updating the app without user intervention?
covered[1]

* Common set of API available in JS and Ruby?
yes [2]

* Offline capability, local data and a synchronization server based on a NoSQL DB?
of course. How can you leave without a NoSQL DB? :-) [3]

By the way, did I mention that RhoMobile won 2010 Fukuoka Ruby Award Grand Prize? [4]

You can take a look on Launchpad, MSI developer website [5]

[1] http://docs.rhomobile.com/en/4.1.0/guide/app_upgrade

[2] http://docs.rhomobile.com/en/4.1.0/guide/apisummary

[3] http://docs.rhomobile.com/en/4.1.0/rhoconnect/introduction

[4] http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rhomobile-rhodes-sma...

[5] https://developer.motorolasolutions.com/community/rhomobile-...
This is an excellent list. I've been coming at it a slightly different way and trying to figure out what the three semeseters of "computer science" would look like in at the high school level. The thought being that some amount of understanding of computers has become essential to everyday life.
300 GB of ram, is going to cost ~ $3000/month.

Reading 300GB from an SSD is going to be way too slow. It will take minutes per search. In a simple test on linode, the SSD seems to read at about 1GB/s.

Their pricing seems like a bargain to me.
His algorithm rates this article as bad.

That is very funny.
I do not see how, given that the money they used were federal. While in terms of entire country that is certainly suboptimal, it is hard to imagine how on a state level getting a grant and using it to generate local business could be bad.
I see what you mean, but I don't quite agree. argonaut seems to be refering to relevance to CS ("even those doing CS heavy work"), not just the things that CS grads end up doing (which probably is more likely to be software engineering than CS). And when it comes to logic, discrete math et. al., the relevance of it refered to the relevance to CS, not to enterprise programming, web programming, or whatever it is that CS grads end up doing.

I wouldn't really say that to argue for having courses that are mostly relevant for CS in a CS course is to argue for vocational training - it would be more like arguing for a more specialized (to CS) education, as opposed to a more broad education (CS plus other things that might not be directly relevant or transferable to CS).
Ok now do Craigslist.
As someone not versed in nontraditional logics, can you give an entry-level statement or thought experiment that violates the principle of non-contradiction without leaving everything provable?
Not without the forall!
It may be $20, but it's a fair bit more robust (and, subjectively, better designed).

Some additional features include code generation (handy for this crufty-type code... especially in Objective-C) and dynamic values (you can pull values out of prior requests to craft more dynamic requests).
If it's a coordinated effort it will resonate. It's risky, but the best way to bring attention to the issue. In the long-run, it would cost less than allowing Comcast and others to practice legal extortion.
This looks much better than its counterparts so far!

I couldn't figure out how to remove a URL from a selection of text.

It would be awesome to see an example of how to let the user upload an image.
It's very intersting how St. Dionysius' quote is remarkably similar to Dogen Zenji's Fukanzazengi, the universal recommendations for Zen:

"Therefore, put aside the intellectual practice of investigating words and chasing phrases, and learn to take the backward step that turns the light and shines it inward. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will manifest. If you want to realize such, get to work on such right now."

"Do not judge true or false. Give up the operations of mind, intellect, and consciousness; stop measuring with thoughts, ideas, and views. Have no designs on becoming a Buddha. How could that be limited to sitting or lying down?"
Java - "run anywhere" (supposedly)

Docker - "The Linux Container Engine"

Think you've got your answer there.
Amazing how big of a company they are. This list is missing http://www.1688.com/ and http://www.alibaba.com/ which are B2B wholesaling.
Summary of Takeaways from EMC World: Growth, The 3rd Platform and the Federation
Because "content is king" is a load of malarkey. Not having Netflix on Comcast causes damage to both Netflix and Comcast, but it causes less damage to Comcast because their customers have no viable alternatives whereas Netflix customers do, and the damage to Comcast is offset by the gains made when Netflix customers use Comcast's video services instead of Netflix.
Box Lands Massive General Electric Deal
Best public transit app for London; I use it every day.
First life with ‘alien’ DNA
Top VCs tell FCC that Net Neutrality is essential for startups
Things that correlate
Maybe people need to come up with a better business model for websites than "Put up some 'content' and sell ads next to it."

Sell a product or service.
Motivating Agents Through Competition
There are three things to remember when embracing and utilizing competition on your call room floor.
From my experience, the only time I've heard it nowadays is from people who were taught how to code by people who haven't coded since at least the 80s and never went on to develop the skill either professionally or as a hobby. So, yes, very much a historical relic!
I agree that you can model a multi-valued logic system on a universal Turing machine but you are wrong to think that doing this is the same as mapping to classical logic. TMs do not intrinsically follow the rules of classical logic, rather, they obey classical logic (when they do) because they have instructions written into their head. Similarly, the marks on the tape do not intrinsically represent two-valued logic even if there are only two kinds of marks on the tape. This has nothing to do with succinctness or making Turing Machines better and everything to do with 'what do the marks represent?' and 'what is the best way to reason with the marks?' which are definitely interesting questions in my book.
Yes, I think so. Although when discussing euthanasia the distinction is probably made because if involuntary euthanasia were legal there would likely be a list of specific reasons you can do it (therefore drawing a distinction between involuntary euthanasia and murder).
First living thing with "alien" DNA created in the lab
Unless its Python 3.x.

Though, really, even there, while the list comprehension works, its kind of an awkward construction to use that instead of:

numbers = list(range(10))
C++ is still a very big step forward compared to Fortran, Algol or Ada.
Interesting, a lot of people that are really into CI point to the Java ecosystem as the best example of how to do it. People make the artifact of other language build pipelines a .deb or something similar to have basically the same artifact as a .jar/.war
Wow, dearth does NOT mean what I though it does. Anyways, I meant to say "lots", which is the complete opposite of dearth.

Thanks for being confused :)
> "Java application servers are dead" and since there's no alternative to Java application servers here's a solution I cooked up myself.

The alternative are servlet containers, like Jetty or Tomcat. Jetty for example is very popular and really good and can be easily embedded inside an app for single JAR deployments, which is an awesome way to deploy an app btw.
For a frat hazing, they could simply rent a ride at a centrifuge intended for the training of astronauts and fighter pilots. It's designed to apply the same g forces for the same amount of time, obviating the need to build a 500m high theme park ride ;)
I love it. If the govt can shut itself down like last year then the people should be able deny them services.
I agree that this would make a lot of sense. Unless I misunderstood the OP, Neocities seems to be advocating for specifically throttling the FCC, not consumers in general. What you are describing seems to be more along the lines of Brad Feld's post[1] from the other day.

[1] http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2014/05/dear-internet-lets-d...
I really enjoy Gradle. I have done significant work with Ant, Maven, and a host of tool chains in the C/C++ world. Gradle seems to have the cleanest DSL. Not every single thing under the sun is supported (Maven seems to be the most comprehensive tool I have used), but Gradle is nice to work with.
I love this article. Despite the multitudes of news sources telling us about how commerce is now global and business is no longer tied to a place and the internet is changing the world, there is still an ocean of enterprises of which we US-based-or-english-speaking technologists are ignorant.

Take a moment to think about this: Alibaba is a huge company, growing in an absolutely enormous market, providing a pile of services, and most American technologists know nothing about it. Expand this thinking to countries: there are markets that are only just beginning to enjoy the degree of technological luxury the US and Europe enjoys. Who will serve them? These are people just like us, they have needs and desires much like ours. Who will satisfy them?

If you're an entrepreneur, there are millions if not billions of people who are on the cusp of becoming your target market, and the dominant technological discourse and journalistic coverage gives you no insight into the market they occupy. Not the languages they speak, not the companies who would be your competitors, not the cultural differences that would make selling difficult. Nothing.

I hope this article opens peoples' eyes to the fact that the US-based-or-english-speaking countries are soon going to be a relatively small portion of the world. We need news sources like this to practice the globalization sermon they all preach.
Seth Godin on How To Stop Being a Freelancer and Start Being an Entrepreneur
When you are both a freelancer and an entrepreneur, you end up hiring the cheapest person possible to do the work.

Who is the cheapest person to hire? You Are!

If you want to build a company that is larger than yourself and become an entrepreneur...

Never Hire Yourself To Do Something Someone Else Can Do.

Every Single Thing That Someone Else Can Do, YOU MUST HIRE SOMEONE ELSE TO DO IT.

At first you may be frustrated knowing you could do a better job, but you will quickly realize you can raise your prices, than you can start hiring better talent. Eventually it snowballs into a big organization.

I know I struggle with this and have the mentality that I should do everything that I can do and only outsource the work I can't do.

Seems like that is why I am stuck as more of a freelancer and less of an entrepreneur.<p>Do you agree with Seth Godin? (he said this today at Authority Intensive, Copybloggers first content marketing conference.
The problem with this plan is that Bombcast couldn't care less. They have a monopoly so what are their customers going to do? Switch to a non-existent ISP? And thanks to the death of Net Neutrality Bombcast can even go as far as to say "Hey Netflix, see this competitor of ours? Your rate just went up 250% if their customers are allowed on your site." (and for those thinking this would run afoul of anti-trust regulations you are 100% correct and I would LOVE to live in a universe where the government cared enough to do something about it, but I just can't believe that that would actually happen).

ISPs have proven time and time again that they can't be bothered to care about their customers. So while I would like to see your idea come to fruition the only people who really lose are the customers. The ISP doesn't care, the FCC doesn't care, the rest of the government doesn't care, even the people don't care enough to do anything substantial.
> The key to making programs fast is to make them do practically nothing.

Great quote from that referenced post.
LXDE is a lot faster than any of those, at least on my dev machine. I would recommend you give it a try. The difference was noticeable with Eclipse+Jumpshot+a full compilation of my project (a surprisingly common trio of things that I do).
Firefox Sync’s New Security Model
That is one of the most depressing things I've ever read.
CityMapper has the most hilarious release notes I've ever read. I love getting an app updated - not because of the (awesome) new stuff they keep adding - but because I'm guaranteed a cracking read. It's interesting how writing in such a human voice builds positivity towards the app - I do think it's part of why I rate it so highly. It makes you want for a feature where you can find where the dev team are to have a pint with them...
Ionic Beta 4: Our Biggest Update Yet
That's exactly my point. I don't think just throttling the FCC employees is the best approach to taking a stance on net neutrality, regardless of the size of the 'key player'. I would argue that throttling consumers (with explanation) would be more effective.
When The VC Asks: About Your Hiring Plan
I know a few companies for whom this is their businesses model. They hire the top tier CS talent from local universities and use them to build products for clients at hourly rates many multiples of their actual cost to the company. This opportunity exists all over the place because there are a lot of skilled programmers graduating from places that big companies' recruiters just don't look.
But these aren't clever or particular ways of doing things. You're using Bootstrap's css classes to do exactly what they're designed to do.
I flagged the submission before reading this response. I clicked the link from my feed reader (which is how I consume HN). I was expecting some insightful commentary on the data collected, but was instead dumped on a lead generation form. In the consumer expectation context, I was "offened".

If this is your general marketing tact, I'd consider revising it a bit. The text of a link sets an expectation for users. When they click through, the degree to which the content matches that expectation will set the tone for the rest of the interaction. The feeling of being "duped" in to clicking is amongst the worst that a user can feel.

Please understand that I'm not making an indictment of the character of your marketing. I anticipate your gut reaction will be "we didn't intend that". No one intends to offend customers, but sometimes it happens.
I absolutely agree with you. Medical progress depends on sharing information between service providers and those researches, etc that can produce actionable results from such data.

I'm trying to give the (necessary) counterpoint: small scale stewards or medical data (often) tend to take an approach of handling patient data centered on cutting costs. Having worked in both the financial and medical industries, I can attest firsthand how there is a (frighteningly widespread) disregard for privacy information.
Snapchat Settles Charges with FTC That It Deceived Users
That's technically true, but I still think it's reasonable to casually refer to Python as "interpreted," since it conveys useful ideas, although those ideas are more accurately conveyed with different phrasing.

That said, for more precise discussions, what you pointed out is valid and important. One of the early questions I ask in a programming interview is to explain some high-level differences between two languages they're familiar with, which is often Java and Python. One of the common responses I get is that Java compiles to bytecode which is executed by a VM, while Python is interpreted. Of course, I point out that CPython is also compiled to bytecode and executed by a VM.
...for which the _evidence_ is overwhelming...

Do you think that Tyson is using the word "science" in contrast to other disciplines that respect the notions of fact, observation, and evidence?

I figured he was using it in contrast to competing epistemologies that do not, like faith.
Depending on what you mean by "prettier," that would kind of defeat the purpose of LXDE.
Somewhere in La Jolla, Peter Schultz is asking why he's not getting credit for having done this... years ago.
The reality is that tap events won't work correctly until you actively fix them, and almost all of them can be fixed (including ghost clicks). Fastclick.js does help here a bit, but it's not perfect. We did a ton of work on our end to have a comprehensive tap solution (though some of it is specific to Ionic projects), but could be useful for inspiration for your own project: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic/blob/master/js/utils/tap.j...
Results of HN poll: Half think bootcamp grads as good as fresh CS Majors