skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poor James Carville. According to Wikipedia he was the one who coined that phrase. But Clinton gets credit for it, much like (IIRC) Edison got a lot of credit for the work of his minions.
In the Twitter OSX app, if I want to find an account, my method is:

Search icon
Paste in handle, "@accountname"
Receive list of people mentioning @accountname
Click on one of them to view the account

Pretty insane that it wouldn't just give me that account name first followed by similar account names.

Another classic thing is the autocomplete on account names when writing a tweet. It will show me (and prioritise!) accounts I've never heard of and more often than not the account I'm actually wanting is last in the list.
How Book Publishers Can Beat Amazon
Twitter just went from being an ubiquitous part of our everyday lives to some silly art project.

#wrongmove
Another link posted recently that's based on Racket - http://mbutterick.github.io/pollen/doc/
Does the tracking seem really wide to anyone else? It makes the tweets difficult to read and causes the words to blend together.
Me, being a dick (trying to make a point)... Does your mom give a shit about the so called user base?

I'm a customer. I don't give a shit about the 'user base'. I don't even know what that means. I need run a test on some mobile layouts from my desktop. All this other BS means nothing to me right now.

Why is this different from selling detergent in Target?
An offline version: https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson
What do you mean by 'inspired' here?

When looking at the chapel I see a large number of religious figures and imagery, so it seems odd to say that art depicting religious subjects, in a religious setting, sponsored by a religious patron was not inspired by Christianity.
ESPN likely didn't flinch because they charge a cost per subscriber of ~$5/mo (as part of your cable bill), whereas FOX is charging significantly less. So ESPN can afford it.

ESPN is the 800# gorilla when it comes to TV programming and just about every cable network is trying to emulate them.
I wish I could prepare, cook, eat, and clean a meal in the time it takes to create a shake, drink it, and wash out the cup.

Do tell, what's your secret?
When this first debuted, my grandfather (born in 1917) thought that they had a piece of nylon material that was connected between the first down markers on the sidelines. That's when you know a technology is good. It's so seamless that it never occurs to a layman that it might even be possible.
If you read the article it has absolutely nothing to do with global filters or film emulation.
The appropriate way to suggest changes to HN is the feature request link at the bottom of the page.
Ok since everyone here is too timid to call you out.
What do you mean by "White People?" You do know there are tons of Asian ethnicities and I'd imagine many of them would take offense at being lumped in with western "white people."
I can't agree 100% with everything in the article but the part about GLSL is spot on.
The 'top secret' stealth boats designed for Navy SEALs
That is pretty cool, thanks!
The languages aren't the problem. It's the ecosystem around them. The software that we use nowadays is highly complex, multifaceted and nested under tons of layers of abstraction.

There's only so much languages can do about this. Programming these days requires a lot of domain-specific knowledge like never before, if you intend on doing something larger than text adventure games.
I think what's especially dangerous about it, as a software developer, is that broken crypto runs identically to properly-implemented crypto. If one is in the mentality of rewriting a program until runs without crashing a few times, well, that seems sufficient to land a gig to code printer drivers, but falls short of the rigor I'd hope would go into implementing a secure system.

Nevertheless, at this moment there's a PHP programmer somewhere in the world writing new code that stores passwords hashed with one round of MD5.
before the internet computers were pretty much useless, except for things like visicalc and wordstar. Besides basic office duties they were useless in the home, except to geeks who didn't mind pecking out simple programs that were forgotten when the machine powered down (or often before!)

Then the models got speeds beyond 2400 baud and netcom and such sprang up and suddenly in the home computers did a little more. There was gopher and nntp and email and you could poke around in the shell accounts for hours of fun. Finally mosaic became nutscrape and the web exploded and suddenly everyone and everything had a "home page". Things looked touch and go for a while as AOL tried to ruin it, but they went poof with their time warner friends around the turn of the century and couldn't (like many companies, including excite) figure out if they were a media or tech company. Thankfully around that time windows was getting a proper tcpip stack and we didn't need to be nerds and figure out winsock settings anymore. Then, and not really until then, were computers viable for regular people at home (no excite pun intended.) there was games (ms flight sim for example) and proper word processing packages, even quark express for "DTP" and there was an embryonic web, bbs, the well, aol, yahoo, pointcast...
I build my own! And yes, UI is a big, big sales point for us... stay tuned :)
Not only was it a (blue) glowing puck, but it would also make a red-orange streak on screen when there was a slapshot (er... "one-timer").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoxTrax
Battlefield 3 went free
http://www.wimp.com/slickadd/
Agreed. I used it to do some API testing that required callbacks to my dev machine and was dumbfounded it was so easy. I kept looking for what I had to setup but the instructions just said "run this command".

So I gave it a try and bam... it worked. So amazingly easy.

I'd vote for anything that doesn't break that experience. I could see reasonable rate limiting, but that may not kick in unless a fishing link was getting a lot of traffic.

An amazing service.
There's also no way to search from the main page. I find myself typing "twitter.com/search" into my URL bar a lot.
Ada-based languages (such as SPARK) are still used in developing modern aviation systems.
Using an ISP DNS server is similar to the old telephone system where you talked to an "operator" in order to connect the call to someone. Rather than keeping track of peoples number yourself, this third-party will do it for you.

So, when is it that you do not want to call an operator to patch every call you make? Ask yourself this question, knowing that the operator keeps a list of every incoming and outgoing call. Know that they sometimes also lie and say that the party you are calling is not reachable, while in fact the operator simply refuses to connect you. Some operators will even send you to a telemarketer in order to monetize poorly stated questions.

On the positive side, it is faster. Asking your ISP for every DNS resolving does sometime give an increase speed by shaving a few milliseconds the first time you connect to a website. Depending on what you prioritize, that is either worth it, or not.
The article specifies OpenGL being deficient for high-performance gaming, not so much for other graphics computing tasks.
This looks cool and I'll take some time to read the docs in depth.

I wonder when Atwood's Law will kick in and we'll see more ambitious JavaScript-based tools like this (maybe with sweet.js macros to provide higher level constructs). JS already turns a document format into a program, but plain HTML+JS is not the best authoring format.
I'd recommend starting with WebGL. It's the same API minus the cruft. You can use it nearly anywhere.

Here's some tutorials I wrote to hopefully make it clear how things work

http://games.greggman.com/game/webgl-fundamentals/

Everything you learn there will be directly applicable to C OpenGL
+1 for this. A caution: don't just "join" a project: you have to do something in the project and be able to point at the actual code contribution you made.
Your gender-related analysis is a bit incomplete. You should state that you're only including records for which gender is specified.

- Overall, 20.4% of the records have an unknown or unspecified gender, for which the average grade is 84%.

- Every class has between 6-29% with unspecified genders. In four of the courses, there are more unknowns than the difference between male and females.

A more interesting analysis (to me) is completion and grade vs. engagement, which they're clearly trying to track by including data about student events. I'm not sure how to approach this. On first glance, it seems that for some courses, it's equally likely a student in the top 10% of engagement (going by # days student interacted with site), will have achieved either a spectacularly high or low grade.

Maybe it's time I take one of those Data Science courses, myself.
A week with Go
EFF: Join us on June 5th to Reset the Net
Twilio is how I learned about it. I needed to do development on their API that supported callbacks. There were three options:

a) Use ngrok and easily get an externally accessible tunnel to a web server running on my dev machine so I could test and make changes

b) Get sysadmin to setup some kind of port forwarding to my local machine or a reverse proxy to my local machine

c) Deploy test software (over and over and over) to a non-critical server and try to do the debugging there. Of course this would also need the database (or the ability to connect to the one on my dev machine).

b & c would have been messes. They would have taken a long time, involved all sorts of security issues, etc. Instead I fired up ngrok, did my testing, closed it back down and was all set. Perfect testing, direct connection just like prod would be (no reverse proxies or anything), ability to snoop the traffic easily with Wireshark, etc.

For development or showing a fun little project to some friends quickly it's an amazing tool.

Honestly, the possible 'evil' uses of it (like phishing) never occurred to me.
They recently had a multi-year restoration.

Before that it was almost completely black from soot and smoke.
Show HN: TV show that profiles cases of missing kids and works to solve them
Hey guys, please check out my aunt's Kickstarter project. I think this has the potential to be amazing and possibly save lives. More details on the page. Thanks
Interesting from a startup perspective is that they raised a lot of money first and then tried to figure out if they could implement the idea. This definitely is an idea where if it isn't being developed in a lab at a large corp or by government grant you would need to raise money for.
I'm not sure why this is not getting any comments, but it would be nice if the list had a little more curation(General topics, quality, etc).
I always thought it a neon lights in the actual football field.
It has been extensively restored: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_of_the_Sistine_Chap...
Shell Scripting support for Python
Show HN : My New Math Game in iOS 7
How San Francisco police catches bike thieves
As a user with an account, I also struggle with linking to tweets. The process right now is something like this:

1. See tweet in timeline, click the "expand" link in the lower left, or just some other blank spot in the tweet.
2. Hunt around until I see the non-obvious de-emphasized "details" link in light grey next to the date.
3. Click the "details" link and load the full page for the tweet.
4. Copy the link from the browser URL bar.

I don't know why they make it so hard and require me to load a whole other page and interrupt my timeline browsing flow. Annoyingly there's a "more" link on each tweet which I always end up checking anyway, and it doesn't have an option to copy a link to the tweet! You can "share via email" or "embed tweet" but neither of those gives you a useful URL you can just paste somewhere. The UI is a train wreck.
How did they actually get meetings with all of the Networks?
So in other words you got interested in Nest competition in the middle of Google-Nest acquisition negotiations?
I think OP was commenting on the irony that the reason given for no nudity on tv is a religious reason from the same religion that puts naked people in one of their most sacred places.
Taking Back Agile
Because they changed the font from one well-known and widely used font to another?
just mention that this site is competing with one of Google products/acquisitions.
It has been done [1]. Rule #2 of the audit project will solve the problem for future builds [2].

[1] https://madiba.encs.concordia.ca/~x_decarn/truecrypt-binarie...

[2] http://istruecryptauditedyet.com/
True, true. "By scratch" I erroneously meant "on top of TeX", my bad. I take that back.

On the other hand, I can't help but remark on the vague sense of missed opportunity in your project. I know for a fact that "authors who need everything TeX can do" are indeed interested in a streamlined TeX to web-book authoring library[1], precisely because of the lack of good HTML packages that stopped you from developing on it in the first place. An easy-to-use package like beamer but for outputting nice, responsive webbooks or articles on a whim would be a gigantic boon to the sciences.

[1] There are several TeX to HTML tools out there already, but the output quality isn't that great and in any case the well-known ones are not intended specifically for webbook authoring. There's also PubMed Central's PubReader, but for specially-tagged XML articles, not TeX. See: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/43847/why-havent-any-...
yea... whatever... I'm thinking you might get a discount if go with your agent.
Limiting the number of IP addresses that can access a free account seems entirely reasonable as does cycling the subdomains after a few hours and would surely cut down on the attractiveness to abusers.

BTW, paid ngrok customer here and I love the service - sorry you're having to deal with miscreants.
This is the same API (if one would like to call it that) that I used for Hacker News Anchor: http://hidden-bastion-5609.herokuapp.com
That article repeated itself no less than 3 times.
One thing I've learnt over the years is that, color is an extremely complex topic.
Bitcoin Mining Giant BitFury Announces $20Million Funding Round
Looks nice. Shame there's no Android version.
Your last statement is exactly what's always bothered me about your attitude, and how it contradicts directly with the sentence prior.

I'm not going to give you a break so long as you don't give folks who are trying to create things a break. Bad crypto gets people killed, but no crypto does too, and perhaps your elitist attitude (and it's not just you, it's the community at large) is why we have only TrueCrypt and nothing else.
It also gets you soundbyte statements like "chip in your head" when in fact it's a fairly mundane technology that need not necessarily be implanted to have the same effect. You could hand his system to anyone and we could all have this extra-sensory experience. The article is strongly written from with the perspective that this is exclusive.
There's nothing technically novel about this. It's also kind of offensive given the mass genocide committed in the name of religion. Hacker News turning to Christian News.
Using Instant web servers for quick front-end development
You talk as if they're the same.
I only found 3: "messagimg" instead of "messaging", "recentlty" instead of "recently", and "firmata" (I can't tell what that was supposed to be). Are there more?
Helvetica-fatigue. It's everywhere, that and Arial, Open Sans and a hundred other clones.

Gothic is a nice change. It's roomier. More easy going. I like it too.
Interesting. A shop I work for had to go with a really bad piece of software because alternatives only had monthly fees.
Pretty surprised someone would submit a tabloid article on HN.
Downloading All of Hacker News Posts and Comments
Fun fact, if you can build a NAND gate or a NOR gate, you can derive all other functions. This is called functional completeness.
Only it's not at all.
Honestly all of the new design changes at Twitter have been looking awful. I can only assume there is someone new in charge that is messing everything up.
Ask HN: What the best advice you have ever received?
Simple: share experiences and everybody in the community grows. (Personal, Professional or anything else that has made a significant impact on your life)
Very cool. Are you guys doing statistical filtering at all or is it strictly palette matching? Seems like your data inputs are specific enough that you are trying to get where you don't need much buffer on either side of the wavelength.
It's a bit dead now, but there is a great little Pascal derived language called Turing used in Ontario schools. It is shipped as this one exe which is a text editor as well as running the code with F1, and docs on F8-10.

It made it super simple to get stuff on the screen and start making a simple game. It made our high school programming classes awesome. There were no libraries by third parties or anything, but we could implement everything for a 2-D game ourselves and it was pretty great.
There was never any setup problems or pain like that, which was also awesome. Also a code-formatter was on F2, so everyone's code looked sane.
Using Gremlin and Neo4j to identify 18 vulnerabilities in the Linux Kernel
You can just click the date. Not obvious, I know.
The biggest genocides were committed by these atheist regimes -

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

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

Here's one excerpt, "Raised in the Georgian Orthodox faith, Stalin became an atheist. He followed the position that religion was an opiate that needed to be removed in order to construct the ideal communist society. His government promoted atheism through special atheistic education in schools, anti-religious propaganda, the anti-religious work of public institutions (Society of the Godless), discriminatory laws, and a terror campaign against religious believers. By the late 1930s, it had become dangerous to be publicly associated with religion.[97]"
These days it does, but I remember that when ClearType first came out it was mind-blowing. These days it's looking pretty shabby when compared to high density displays.
Yeah. After conveniently forgetting everything in court, his lobbyists now claim he owns everything out to the tides. He probably owns you and me as well.

http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2014/05/28/billionaire-claims-he...
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Very interesting, as you might imagine.

Actually, LaTeX was introduced in 1984, when the author began his thesis, and TeX had been out for years. But they did not yet seem to be widely known. I began my thesis a few years after Norvig, and I started with troff, which was still the standard, but had terrible output. Then someone told me about TeX, and I wrote my whole thesis in plain TeX, using a Mac Plus (that I still have and that still works).
Well, just to make the turtles-all-the-way-down point here, you're really arguing that patents should be disallowed period; the majority of all innovation is constituted of improvements to other people's work.
For any Malaysian readers out there, here's our version:

http://www.sinarproject.org/
What does it mean when Eric Schmidt says someone "should" have a right to do something, when his company works against it every day?
Hah! This brings back memories as in 1998 I had Professor Feldman as a CS freshman at GWU. And, you guessed it, we learned Ada as our first language.

The main thing I remember is that it was very annoying to be fixing indentation issues on a terminal text editor, although learning about packages was very cool. Irrationally, the indentation strictness annoys me in modern languages like Python, too :) that, and using := instead of = felt like a waste!
Conclusion does not follow from evidence.
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Is anybody else bothered by the amount of news this is causing?
A GitHub focus on a job site attracts employers who rely on that. I've always deliberately avoided GitHub, so job sites that give it focus aren't for me, because the employers are looking at different metrics than what I have.

Your reasoning makes sense, and it's perfectly fine to do it the way you are. I think people like me are just pointing out that this makes us self-exclude ourselves from the site, in case you wanted us.
A recent upgrade to the Discourse forum/comment system made the wordpress bridge fall over. It's now gotten back up and comment links are working again.
> So in software land, we have licenses which include patent protection clauses. Why haven't hardware hackers embraced similar practices?

Copyright is one of the three main types of intellectual property in the world-wide WIPO system. The other two are patents (hardware) and trademarks. Guess which one gets to trump copyright licensing and exist beyond copyright law?

This isn't an explicit answer, but related to your question: http://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/open-source-h...

My guess is that a lawyer (which I'm not) would tell you that the patent protection clauses you refer to only apply to the copyrightable material, and not the inventions themselves (even in software).
Only matters if some Nameoogle comes along and publicizes websites with name traslations joined in.
Sure it's fun to find $100, but why does this cause such a big commotion? I think it's the inherit bias our brains have towards 'free'. People who find they money fell like they got money for doing nothing, and get extra excitement from it.

I've seen the same kind of phenomena with fund-raisers. Friends of mine were willing to do long tedious tasks to raise money for good causes, when in all reality they could've just worked those hours, earned as much, and donated it.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictably_Irrational#The_Cost...
Reminds me of Comic Sans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creation_of_Adam#Anatomical...
Except the owners and/or shareholders are likely already wealthy (or will be from the obscene profit margin on this).
Is the card actually travelling through the back of the reader and making contact with something else inside the machine, like a USB port?
> Having such a volume of input tweets streamed in real-time, FSD seemed like an ideal use case for Storm framework which can scale up the work by adding more resources.

This is not coincidence - Twitter open-sourced Storm.
Isn't there some way they could have implemented tiered pricing? An $X00 Learning/Evaluation Edition and an $X,000 (or $X0,000) Professional Edition?
Really? This is probably something a few designers put together who weren't busy on other projects. Companies like Twitter employ a lot of people working on multiple goals simultaneously. As a shareholder you should rest assured that they're not prioritizing font choice above all other business matters.
That hardly obfuscates the fact that people WERE mass murdered in the name of religion.
This is a mistake. Taleb's title makes we see in context of Taleb's website. Taleb did not wrote the headline for HN's benefit. This is not Talebs website, so we need to compensate for the different context.
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Exercise for the reader: how might the representation Norvig uses for environments be changed if we assume all data is immutable? :)
The Android version is pretty far along and should be available later this year.