skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, I'm all for getting rid of black magics such as extract() and compact().
The "sky high heels" might invite more attention, but the patronizing comments part make me wonder whether it was the right kind of attention.

"99dresses was squarely focused on trading cheaper fast fashion (fast fashion is really hard to re-sell for cash)" I wonder how much demand exists for cheap secondhand clothes which go out of style quickly. Isn't it the point of this type of clothing that people can buy it new for not much money, and not worry that that it often doesn't hold up well? The clothes themselves are probably mass produced in third world countries for next to nothing. This seems like a very vertical online thrift store.

Does the world need another online thrift store?
Home sales finally improve after a deadlock
That sucks. Whilst we're able to do most work during the 9-5, there's the odd time I'll come in at 5 or the IT manager works a Saturday because we have to take down key infrastructure to work on it.

If your working environment is good, it's pretty easy to just say "I'll take tomorrow off and come in to do it on Saturday" without feeling like you're getting taken advantage of.
I have a Nest in the UK, they launched a few months back.
I had to do the same thing from NameTerrific but got my migration code from the top-level.

The worst part is that I was "in contact" with the owner via Twitter, and he assured me that he would totally look into things at some point in the near future..
I don't really care what format the cargo files use (that's just an inconsequential bikeshed as far as I'm concerned) but in your example "comment" is really not a comment. I would expect to be able to put free-form comments anywhere I want and have them thrown away by the parser.

Your solution works fine for docstrings, but comments and docstrings are not the same thing (although many languages that don't support docstrings in the syntax hack them together using comments, admittedly).

But beyond that, what's the argument for switching to json? Is there some kind of intercompatibility with npm/Node.js to be gained?
Google I/O 2014 Preview
Right now there are a lot of people who are just starting out and don't know any better.

You've changed circles, you no longer work at places which hire such people, but they are just as prevalent as they were when you were starting out, you just don't mix in those circles any more.
Yeah, why use some format that no one knows, and is harder to parse by other tools?
I haven't been following the development of this package manager, but previous attempts at making a package manager for Rust have failed. Is this package manager supported officially now? I really hope it will stick around.
What is the cost of losing?
Show HN: Parrot Hunt – Not quite like Duck Hunt
Yes, the developers are actually domain experts being paid by Mozilla. The release of this website also coincided with the move of the source repository into the rust-lang organisation: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo .
"Fail fast, fail early, fail often!” they all chant, trying to put a positive spin on the most excruciating pain any founder could experience."

Is it just an impression, or did she get this sentence the wrong way?

The whole point of this saying is to make you realize that failure should actually not be such a big deal. Failure isn't an dead end, it's a step forward on the difficult path of entrepreneurship. Therefore, saying things like "I couldn’t fail. This was my baby, and if it was going to fail it would be over my dead body." can only lead you, indeed, to excruciating pain in case of failure.

Resilience is an excellent quality, and I think the only way to give your best and surpass yourself is by facing real challenges, but please remember that you cannot in any way resume 4 years of ultra rich/challenging experience with the two words "I failed". Jeez, just having survived 4 years in her very first startup experience is already a success.

I sympathize with her pain; I just find it sad that she doesn't seem to realize the incredible experience and skills she gained from this adventure. Those years were absolutely not wasted; the chances of success for her next startup are incomparably higher than for her previous one, and I wish her all the best for the future.

Edit: A startup is first a human adventure. After it "failed", ask yourself the right questions:
- Did I learn something? Do I know better?
- Am I a different person? A better person?
- Did I help some people in any way?
- Did my social skills improve? Did my network grow?
- What about my legal/technical/managerial/whatever-ial knowledge?

If you can answer "yes" to any of these questions, than this adventure wasn't a failure at all. :)
We went the other way and have approval to give course credit from the state of Vermont. And are in the process of getting accreditation.
I was assuming a home that never warmed up to ambient, but just partly, and a multi-stage A/C. (But forgot to say that in my message.)

Without those assumptions your analysis is correct, and a setback thermostat seems to always be a win for A/C.
stop complaining and start a Rome Ruby meetup group. I did that couple of months ago with Ruby Zagreb meetup group. Europe, and especially eastern Europe needs more meetup groups!
Extension methods – An introduction (C#)
Once notified! I never disagreed with that, I fully agree with it.

End-to-end cryptography should be the standard.
>and Android is just a vehicle for them to deliver ads, folks

They are dealing with that 'problem' by steadily de-opensourcing all of the components. You don't use the email app, you use gmail. You don't use the camera any more, you use "google camera". You don't even use the keyboard any more, you use "google keyboard". A lot of the new android functionality is piled into 'google play services'.

I don't think the day is that far off where the 'next' version of android will be all closed source, and if you want all of those closed source apps that you depend on to continue working, you'll need to install it.

At that point they can start charging fees for android's use.
Microsoft to release Android-powered Nokia X2 handset
Works best with Google-Chrome or FireFox. Browser needs to support WebGL.
OWASP's list:

1 Injection (SQL, LDAP, &c)

2 AuthN (login, sessions)

3 XSS

4 AuthZ ("forced browsing", direct object references)

5 Insecure defaults

6 Lack of encryption (CC#'s, passwords)

7 Clientside access control only

8 CSRF

9 Known vulnerabilities (nginx, openssl, &c)

10 Insecure redirects

A better list for 2014:

1. AuthZ

2. XSS and backend/DOM sanitization

3. CSRF

4. Insecure cryptography (password resets, session cookies, SSO)

5. SQLI / database injection

6. Mass assignment

7. Application/API security mismatch

8. Insecure password storage

9. SSL/TLS hygiene (secure flag, HSTS, &c)

10. Insecure redirects

If you're looking for great security findings, I think it's more productive to list the 10 most dangerous features rather than 10 specific bug classes, because security flaws have a long tail, and the "thickness" of the tail doesn't correlate with severity. A good list of 10 deadly features:

1. Password reset

2. Administrative features (in-band and as sidecar applications)

3. User-exposed templates (incl. things like Markdown)

4. File upload/download

5. "Advanced search"

6. "Thick client" analogues (Websockets, plugins, Chrome extensions, &c)

7. Single sign-on (also things like OAuth)

8. Email gateways

9. Account data import/export

10. Gateways to other APIs (roughly, anything that requires your application to itself make HTTP requests to other applications)

This isn't an argument against these features; just, this is where most Matasano people would look first if they were in a race to find the first gameover of a pentest.
Lit – Open Source Rails Internationalization web interface
Yes, I also think that the future of backend development is micro services communicating over defined HTTP API endpoints or other message protocols.

If you look closely, rendering presentation layer on the server side and then sending it to the client is a hack and we've been doing it for a long time. It's time for changes.
I keep getting "[Error] connection to server lost. Please reload the page." constantly. Could be because of a traffic spike.
The less you think about the process that updates the official list, the happier you'll be. The OWASP Top 10 concept is useful to communicate an abstract idea (that there's a core bunch of security flaws you can and should test an application for), but less useful in the specifics.
Why Do Gamers Undervalue Video Games so much?
Same situation here - I think it has happened once or twice ever for simple traffic violations; most action has been when they actually run someone down on the pavement or crash into the side of a car after running a red light.
But the nice thing is - using a storage solution where you don't pay for what you don't use.
Yes, might be, suddenly there were rather much traffic. But what browser/OS do you use?
Some might say you were on the wrong side of history.. If they even knew where the line got to. I doubt anybody has seen it in the past 5 years, so who is to say?
Embrace, extend, ...

But seriously: I'm very curious to see where this goes. Perhaps a way of running Android apps on Win phones? That would be a tremendous boost.
Origami Trisection of an angle
This is not true. It might seem that way because of how long it takes your house to warm up. There is no momentum or stiction with heat transfer. When the inside of your house is warmer than the outside you are losing some amount of heat to the outside proportional to the difference. Any heat you add to maintain that difference when you are not home is wasted. As long as you can tolerate a stone cold house when you return, your best efficiency is to just turn the heat off. This is assuming you have an on-off heating system, someone mentioned a throttling system is more efficient at a low flame rate so that made it better to leave the heat on low all the time. I am skeptical of that claim but don't have enough information
Good point, and was most recently used in the PHP community with the introduction of 'goto' about 5 years ago. "If you don't like it, don't use it" is pretty naive, because more often than not, I'm not using my own code, but someone else's (via inherited code, libraries, etc). Code is written once and maintained for years. I've noticed a trend over the years whereby certain types of developers (ab)use new features in a language when first introduced, then move on to other projects, leaving their "my first time with feature X" code behind for someone else to deal with for years to come. Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's a nightmare.

The GOTO thing in PHP has almost been a non-issue all around, but highlighted the "don't use it if you don't like it" argument's flaws.
I have roughly similar problems; for instance, I could walk more by taking public transportation instead of driving, but that would add overhead disproportionate to the benefit (I'd lose about 1.5 hours out of every day, and a huge amount of schedule flexibility).

But: can you do things like park further away from work?

When I lived in Ann Arbor, I was walking distance from the office. I really miss looking forward to that walk (listening to music and clearing my head for an hour a day), and I was definitely healthier then than I am now.
actually, google is pretty far ahead of this. trying searching allinurl:c99.php, most of the returns are actually about the script.
Unfortunately that doesn't work.

I live in Slovenia, where it takes at a minimum 30 hrs of driving with instructor (but usually around 40) until he lets you take the test.

Additionally young drivers need(i think its mandatory now, used to only be recomended) to go to school for safe driving (slippery road etc.).

And jet most foreigners from USA, who come here say we are one of the worst drivers they have seen. (guess they haven't been to south of Italy or Turkey)

We used to have high accident rate. The only thing that helped is expensive ticekts.
Its easy to get 500+ EUR ticekt if you are not careful.
Does anyone have a sense of how accurate the M7 step counter is on the iPhone 5S? Is there a point in having a Fitbit if you basically always carry a 5S around with you?

I've been watching the step counter on the phone over my trip to the UK and I'm surprised how motivating it is.
I liked this article a lot. The art of approaching a business opportunity. Jake approached him like he would a potential buyer of his products. Don't force a sale on someone, get them to want your product first and eventually have them begging you for it. Very clever.
This is good news. a better alternate to conventional techniques
This sounds very interesting. Please make a blog post about this if time permits. We seriously lack good resources about micro services when it comes to Ruby.
Hell has officially frozen over.

Seriously though. This is great news, good to see that Microsoft is opening themselves up. Whether or not this is because of the new leadership, it's definitely the step in the right direction for Microsoft.
This is an interesting blog. A very good idea in my opinion
A good initiative taken as well as a strong idea built for the people who have the poor financials issues. Cheers
Look at WGU. It's quasi-public and last I checked tuition was $6000 a year flat rate. It's designed to solve the affordability and access issues faced in states like Montana by leveraging technology and distance learning...essentially it's a modern approach to the teacher's college.
Although it still seems safer in spite of that
Could you link to a case where that has happened? Even in a similar industry?
While I am certainly biased (CA) I can point out that a number of MBA graduates I have dealt with certainly weren't on the same level(In Business terms) as the CA's I have. Of course there are exceptions to any rule but I would argue that seeing as becoming a CA in South Africa is very difficult (7 years all in) it means something to actually have achieved it. Achieving the "same" qualification in many other commonwealth countries takes between 4 to 5 years.

You make a valid point though in terms of our business standing but I would argue that it is not entirely without merit. I attended a road show by UCT's Graduate School of Business once. I asked them their figures in terms of earning potential after graduating with an MBA and quickly realised that it wasn't any higher than that which I could earn as a CA. In many cases it was lower.

Saying that it is no coincidence that South African Business have a lack of flair is subjective to say the least. I would also like to point out that the JSE has out-performed it's international peers in dollar terms over the last few decades. This was certainly affected to some degree by these boring and unimaginative bean counters you so easily deride.
Because we have to put up with morons
Very interesting article, but I do take exception to this sentence

"Vladimir was a confirmed homophobe, and his gay brother was a constant source of shame, confusion and regret to him."

It's a typical projection of moral standards of our age onto another. Someone is not a 'x-phobe' if they reflect the mores of the day (or simply don't share our views on the subject).
Earlier Nokia X handsets did actually run Android too, so this move isn't that much unexpected.
They could get Android apps working on Windows Phone OS, rather than this. Microsoft is useless these days.
He does have some critique of the institutions which have received accreditation: ...even though some terrible schools and programs are accredited by the respected accrediting agencies...

There are different levels of approval and accreditation in the US, and as a layperson the distinction might be unclear. Due to this lack of transparency means some agencies might be seen to be doing a better job that others.

My experience with the education board in Vermont was very good. And although it wasn't exceptionally hard to get approval to give course credit, which is what you can get if you don't yet have all the prerequisites for a full degree program, it was certainly not a rubber stamp.
PopVote hit with Hong Kong's largest DDoS attack
Nokia. The fact that Nokia belongs to Microsoft is immaterial here. It's a Nokia phone.
New CV building websites aimes to help you create a beautiful CV
The ORM part, largely due to the repository pattern, is very similar to my earlier attempt - Datamappify - https://github.com/fredwu/datamappify

Given time, effort and popularity, I could see Lotus::Model to become the de facto alternative to ActiveRecord, overtaking the ROM (Ruby Object Mapper, previously known as DataMapper) project. :)
This has even fewer apps than WP8, let alone the "real" Android. I don't see why anyone would want this.
'Most sophisticated DDoS' ever strikes Hong Kong democracy poll
Are the "8 spaces" just for participants in the Q&A?
Ie: can I just watch without signing up and 'participating'?
You're not alone. YAML or similars are the right formats for these things, not JSON. Less clutter, comments separated from data, easier to read (by humans).
Nokia doesn't belong to Microsoft. Nokia's phone division belongs to Microsoft. I imagine the actual Nokia company will begin selling Android phones in a couple of years again, too, so you can't call these "Nokia phones". They are Microsoft phones now.
Microsoft is probably used just for the added effect of juxtaposition with Android in the title.
You are pretty much describing the Firefox architecture. We are invoking Firefox UI code from scratchpad all the time when prototyping things. Some parts of the UI do not use standard Web APIs (e.g. XUL and XBL), as there are different opinions on how the web platform should evolve to fulfill those needs, but if you include all the experimental technologies to this web kernel, we are already there.
It is sad that this actually needs to be law and it is not something very obvious to everyone especially the teachers teaching our kids.

Oh humanity... you still are very primitive.
I've had trouble navigating the page with the scrollbar being hidden.
Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000
Your argument has merit, but my point is you are overblowing the importance of trackpad. I would rather have the trackpad that is as capable as MBA on SP3, but I am willing to compromise there given other aspects of SP3 as well as, at least in my case as a programmer I used touch to compensate for some shortcomings of trackpad.

No this absolutely is not a pissing contest.
I disagree. I think hardship is a valuable experience that everyone should endure.

1) You only really get to know yourself when you find yourself eating rice for the hundredth time in a row, and live on the floor of an abandoned building.

2) "never again" is one hell of a motivator

3) you gain the knowledge that all these things, all this crap we fill our lives with, is totally unnecessary

4) empathy. Live below the bottom rung for a while and you'll understand far more keenly what poverty is like. The idea of being in that situation and not having the skills, knowledge or gumption to not bootstrap out, or not having the vision to realise you already have, is terrifying.
Look at the pseudo-win-phone interface on that X2. It looks what it is: an imitation of another phone.. also it's blatantly confusing for users who will now see what appears to be a windows phone interface but be unable to use windows phone apps. Odd strategy.
I don't have an issue with Microsoft releasing an android phone.

My issue is that this phone has 1gb ram and front facing camera for the price of Lumia 520. I'll need to fork out at least twice that amount to get the equivalent hardware spec in windows phone.
Rails has http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Streamin... which I never used. It seems that Lotus::Live isn't ready yet. I can't find any docs for it so I don't know how they compare. Could you point me to an URL. Thanks.
I think they had to change the design for the UK (compared with the US model), but it was more to do with the electricity supply than the boiler design.
>But if Newberg and his colleagues are correct, such experiences are not proof of being touched by a supreme being, but mere blips in brain chemistry.

Is there any human experience, real or not, that can't be described as "mere blips in brain chemistry". Everything we experience is going to have a neural correlate. To a Buddhist this is an affirmation that what they experience is qualitatively unique as they claim. To an atheist this affirmation that it's all just chemistry. What both are doing is re-affirming their own preconceived notions and beliefs. That's not taking a more "critical eye of events".
As I said, the submission was provocative (but not of low quality) and the discussion was good. I think these kind of more controversial topics can potentially resolve false beliefs all kind of sorts or give at least some food for thought.
So basically us non-religious folk should meditate and actively participate in community groups in order to be healthier and live a longer life. That's reasonable.
This is not the sort of game I'd normally play (not a massive strategy or sandbox games person) but I was very impressed with the campaign they've put together.

They've got a playable demo, a lot of media acclaim already, and an active community. Anyone interested in putting together a kickstarter campaign for a game should take note.
As for the 10 deadly features: I can imagine the most, but can't comprehend what you mean with 5. "Advanced Search".

With 7., doe you object that generally or do you find the implementations being faulty? In heterogeneous corporation environments, this is on the very top of the wish list, if not number one.
This is a good starting point. One thing I'd add is the need to consider the effects of table locks during changes. It's a nasty surprise when you've tested your multi-stage process in dev, only to find during production updates that a long running select is blocking, or that your change causes request to queue until you exceed connection limits.
This confusing is indeed real. Just last week, a friend told me that he wanted to get a windows phone. It turns out he thought the predecessor of this phone was a windows phone.
Most smart homes are actually "manage remotely" homes. I would really love to have a home that's actually smart. Few things that comes to my mind:

* Recognise the pattern the inhabitants are at home. Turn the heating/ AC on/off accordingly.

Smart lighting. Turn off lights automatically when I watch the movie channel. Don't go all bright when I wake up for a pee in the middle of the night. Learn the pattern of me waking up and turn the lights on accordingly.

Watch my fridge. Nag me when I stocks run low. Better yet, prepare me a shopping list.
Words aren't projections. His brother was a homophobe because his attitudes towards his brother were homophobic.
What about putting it behind https and use basic http auth? If it's only for you you can always have a self signed certificate.
std::function is usually implemented using subtype polymorphism internally.
I agree that there is a remarkable difference between the quality of driving in Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and say United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Scandinavian countries and so on.

But I suspect that your average Romanian or Slovenian driver would have a hard time passing a Dutch license test.

Quality of the education is just as important as quantity and should be paired with suitably stringent examinations.

Expensive tickets are just a way for rich assholes to do whatever they want to because they can afford it. (There are interesting schemes where the tickets get progressively more expensive as you earn more, those are more effective).