skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like the ecosystem is fairly small. Another thing that is off-putting (unless I'm missing something) is that OPAM packages have no online docs per default, something that is standard with Haskell packages, for instance, and is definitely a big help.
A Closer Look at Piwik: A Google Analytics Alternative
It's nothing wrong with demand side economics in this situation. The problem is that the current policy only make capital available to those who already have more than they know what to do with, such as banks and big investors. The middle class who usually drives demand are still struggling to pay of the mortgage of the house they bought during the bubble.
It might be simpler to just use a regular SMTP server and procmail or equivalent to deliver to Inbox, with fallback to local mailbox on failure to deliver, which Inbox could then sync. No need to reinvent the wheel here.
"They cannot yet realize their dreams of taking over the world."

Sums it up I think.
I suppose in the American context with high costs of attending law school it's not very attractive.

But I'd like to argue for going to law school in other countries where you don't incur massive debt:

Engineers not only don't understand law at all, they actively avoid getting clued in.

The sheer stupidness in knowing on the one hand that societal processes cannot work like a dumb flowchart, and on the other hand still arguing for stupid flowcharts and simple decisions in every societal context is mind-blowing.

That is pretty much all of us.

If you can get a solid foundation in law, you are on your best way to carve out a very rewarding niche, both financially and personally.

Remember what 'tptacek always says: you're not making money knowing a tool. You're making money knowing a client's context and needs.
Are you sure? My Mac has "Ask websites not to track me" set to off and my iOS devices have "Do Not Track" set to off, too. I don't believe I changed them.
Ask HN: Anyone remember article about funny Windows compatibility workaround?
I have this vague memory of reading a humorous blog post by some Windows developer about a workaround he implemented because some Adobe Photoshop program used an API method incorrectly or something.<p>This API was rewritten and Photoshop no longer worked. He had to write some code in the API specific for Photoshop in order for it to work. All I can remember is that it involved Photoshop, and something to do with font rendering.<p>Does anyone remember this article? It would be nice to see if this developer is still writing. I think he also wrote something about the reason why some Pinball game didn't get ported to Windows 64-bit.
> creating orbital magma cannons that can target any part of the world

Mind giving the gist on how that's done?

Isn't Little Big Planet Turing complete?
Well when you have mandatory presence at tutorials you tend to count them :)
Listen to this. When I relocated in 2000 the company paid for the move (I never saw a bill) and put me and my family in a furnished corporate apartment for 3 months. We had a successful exit and I've since worked with that CEO 2 more times (no more successes, alas).
He also spoke quite extensively of the evils of the military industrial complex (I believe he coined the term)
this is very useful nikhil !
thanks a ton !
--ashish
Pro-Social Game Design – making games that are good for those that play them
Twitter rolls out new app install and engagement ads » Orange949
I'm not thrilled about this company or my order - fair warning below for others who ordered a lens from them.

tl;dr - the site may have autogenerated an account for you with a weak password if you told it to check out as guest.

First - they didn't have an exact lens match, so I tried ordering two sets of close-to-recommended lenses. My lenses arrived today (10 days after my order, which is probably pretty decent) but I only got one of each, not two sets. OK, this was probably my screw-up, but I definitely knew what I needed and remember trying to tweak quantities on my order to get this right. This is probably my screwup but part of me wishes that it wasn't so easy to screwup online retail (yes, by the customer) like this.

But my bigger worry is this! Now that I've got two individual, unpaired lenses, tonight I'm going back to place a new order. I didn't create an account with my original order so I'm checking out again and choosing the "don't create an account" option again when the site tells me I have an account. That's weird because I definitely know I didn't choose to create an account. But I can't check out in without signing in, so I try using the password generation routine I've been using for years. That doesn't work, so I ask it to email me my password and the email I receive tells me my password is "optics".

1) For obvious reasons, it's really, really, really bad to send a username and password together in an email (my username happened to be my email, but the body of the message makes this explicit, too)
2) I definitely did not create that account or with that password - this seems to have generated one "for" me
3) In doing so, it used a really insecure password and I suspect that same default password is in place for other accounts that have been generated automatically and without consent on the site.

I don't really mean to come slam these guys and their site - it seems like a bit of a mom & pop shop for some specialized equipment - but others who've placed an order here should beware.
The link in the story to the book was broken, but this one works: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo1032722...
> I work with email currently, and one of the core mantras we have is that nobody should be able to read the email of someone who uses our service.

Sounds wonderful. Where do you work?
Header-only libraries have several advantages (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Header-only). Most-notably, they are dead-simple to include with a project, as opposed to having to separately build and link to a shared-library.
Thank you for that link. I finally understood why Guido added the colon before an indented block (second paragraph). It's not needed by the parser, it's only to make it easy for programmers to understand that a block is about to start. Actually: "after early user testing without the colon, it was discovered that the meaning of the indentation was unclear to beginners". So it's aimed to beginner programmers. That's why Guido inflicted that useless and silly looking colon to all of us. How about making it optional in future?
A few points that will likely get lost in the noise here:

1. It is weird to take the top graduate schools and ask about what they teach to undergrads. I'd rather see this done with the best national universities list - http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/... - as the basis for this study since that's where the top undergraduate students will end up.

2. I'd rather see trends than raw numbers - the fact that python has grown quickly over the last decade in terms of adoption is more interesting than it being "the top," to me.

3. It is sad that Java still has such a stronghold both in terms of being the intro language and being on the College Board curriculum. It is not the right language for beginners, or, really, anyone.

4. While I didn't take "CS1" in college (thanks AP exam) - I did take CS2 or whatever, and it was taught in scheme with SICP. Scheme was the great equalizer in that it was unlike any language anyone in the class had ever seen and that syntax no longer mattered - only concepts did. I hope it continues to keep its place in second-level courses.

5. It is unfortunate that garbage collected languages are extremely highly represented on this list - memory management may be unpleasant, but acknowledging that we are programming on limited-resource devices should be acknowledged early and often. Forcing students to experience this first hand seems that it serves both the purpose of teaching them abstraction (isn't this garbage collector great!) while maintaining a respect for the fact that resources (cpu, memory, power, network, disk, etc.) aren't free.
The Mistake Smart People Make: Being In Motion vs. Taking Action
My question was slightly different - would the helping the group of people taking CS0 be less important if that group was comprised entirely of asian males?

I couldn't tell if the sentence was meant to support your main argument ("we should help group X because lots of non-asian minorities") or if it was merely a curiosity that was irrelevant to the main argument ("ooh look, lots of non-asian minorities, statistically unlikely therefore interesting").
Costco removing D’Souza’s ‘America’ from shelves
Does anyone know how these things compare with the trusty old Russian Proton rocket (family). The only thing I can find, is that the proton can supposedly do 20000 kg to LEO, but I don't know at what cost. I'm guessing the problem is that they don't scale far enough down?

[edit: Also it looks like the Russian Luna probes/satellites from the 50s and 60s had a payload of around 360(?) kg -- but perhaps whatever lanuch vehicle/method was used hasn't been brought up to date?]
The notion that Taylor Swift is not an artist is demonstrably absurd. She may be an artist whose art is overoptimized for commercial success, but that is irrelevant.

Let's talk semantics. Who is an artist?

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts, and/or demonstrating an art. -Wiki
Comparing my experience in higher education to the constant litany of negative literature on education sends up red flags. I typically write off books/articles in this genre as fear mongering.

I've not read this particular book, but a lot like it. The typical pattern is that engineering majors don't see order-of-magnitude in writing and "critical thinking", and humanities students don't see order-to-magnitude improvements in science and math.

But then the author averages everything together and concludes no body's learning much. Go figure.

Getting a lot of value out of college isn't hard. Attend a state school or reputable private college (read: typically for-profits and online programs are a waste of money; mileage may vary). Once there, major in math, a science, or a core humanity (the latter typically doubled with education or another "practical" major). Meet people and have a good time, but make sure you're spending 30-40 hrs/wk on course work.
> If you think your accusation has merit, see me in court.

This makes me think you are not talking about lightweight social rules at private institution.
You might want to edit all your very sure posts about how this is an american thing, seeing as you've been corrected now. Being that it's what you base most of your argument on you might as well just delete them entirely.
(Obviously not legal advice. Not a lawyer qualified in that jurisdiction. General discussion.)

Ex parte literally means "without notice". It's what you use when it's an emergency - there's no time to explain! - or if you served the other party they'd cover something up or do something nasty (say, a domestic violence case, or child abduction).

It is, shall we say, not a good match for a dispute like this. This round is over now (judge is already declaring it moot, although I don't know why, did they just let a temporary order expire? There's not a lot readable on the docket yet).

Importantly, No-IP now may have a clear shot at a pretty vicious countersuit, because what MS requested in their TRO (which has not been continued ahead of the hearing on... Thursday? I can't read US dates well...) caused them, and their customers and the internet at large, damages - serious, huge, actual reputational damages with people moving away from their service which thrives on high uptime and reliability. They had no opportunity to answer the case against them - the action MS requested the court make against them was unilateral, which is... unusual.

MS will probably try to climb down in the most graceful manner they can, and settle out of court. However, No-IP will not want to accept a token settlement for MS destroying their business: on the face of it, they have a very strong case and I doubt MS will be able to offer enough to compensate their ire, so we'll probably see a countersuit instead, and - speculation - it'll probably not go well for MS at all, unless they have hard evidence that No-IP were actively complicit in abusive activity, which seems to have been what they (mis?)represented to the court in their TRO application (but we're missing that particular piece of the jigsaw, because it was sealed; and again, it shouldn't have been sealed). If MS had that, however, I speculate they wouldn't have dropped the TRO ahead of the hearing, and that prospect, shall we say, seems unlikely overall compared to the prospect of them making a huge mistake.

Huge company attacking small business - that's a powerful angle. They might even be competitors of No-IP, thanks to Azure (and the gimped version they used to host these domains clearly couldn't hold a candle to No-IP, because all the domains were down). If I ate popcorn, I'd be getting a bag, but don't expect Thursday to be fireworks. I actually expect it to be de-listed as moot and the action dropped until No-IP countersue, and they could take their time on that - in fact, they might want statistics of how many of their customers jumped ship on having their domains down for several days at MS's whim. And they might want another jurisdiction, 'cause I gather jurisdiction shopping is a thing over there?

MS might've got lucky with the judge. They're not necessarily going to keep being lucky.
Two questions:

1. Have you tried full screen in 10.9? Seems to have improved things a bit, though it's definitely a work in progress.

2. Which SSH client do you use? I'm considering getting a Surface 3 Pro, but the lack of a proper terminal like Terminal.app or Gnome Terminal makes me skittish. PuTTY is...okay. (The alternative would be to get a 13" rMBP to replace the one I'm returning to my soon-former employer this week.)
Paul McCartney 'Early Days'
Haskell numeric types: quick reference
Maybe not if you think that a rich local culture can be vanished because of the globalization effects of the internet..

I think people need to get well educated and prepared to know what they have of real value, so they can cope with the globalization effect more smoothly

Without a good care, this can do more damage than good.. and do the same thing as the conquistadors from the middle ages did with the culture of the natives.. pratically vanishing milenar cultures and wisdom from earth..

Imagine now if every place on earth was like San Francisco, London or Sao Paulo.. how would we run, if we want some peace for instance.. or meet people with different point of views.. if suddenly you wakeup and decide to become a fisherman in a quiet and beautiful beach somewhere
Didn't Musk say that he's thinking about using methane-powered rockets on Mars in the long term, because one can get the fuel there to take off? Maybe this company is, or in the end will become, a side-project for SpaceX to speed up their plans of going to the Mars and back?
If the Internet only consisted of such resources, it would remain a geek's toy and ignored by the vast majority of the population, who would simply continue to watch TV. I'm far from a fan of Steve Jobs, but this quote from an interview is spot-on:

“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a
conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But
when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks
are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far
more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot
the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really
in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.”

And the same happens with the Web. Though, I'm not saying a different society is impossible, but you'd need to change the people before changing the internet.
The default string type is terrible, the default file input output introduces space leaks and has terrible performance. The default numerical hierachy, (Num a) in particular, is nothing mathematicians tend to study (it would be much more sensible to define Ring a, for example). It overemphasizes lists and instead of attempting to define polymorphic functions that give access to a wide range of containers, pollutes the global name space with list specific functions, even though lists are rarely the right choice.
Is it just me or did the video look sharper through the sapphire?
“Ironwood” is a name used for a whole bunch of different unrelated tree species.

I believe lignum vitae is just about the densest commercially available wood. Definitely sinks.
Microsoft to discontinue mapping services MapPoint and Streets and Trips
They should add to their site that they will not, in any circumstance, ever sell out to anyone. Ever.
I stared at that for 10 minutes trying to find the spreadsheet. I assume there is a spreadsheet backing it? You should actually show people the spreadsheet - just seeing an API description without demonstrating that it runs off a simple spreadsheet almost kind of defeats the whole purpose of the service!
(argh can't reply to replies) -- @yummyfajitas -- no i don't think it would be fundamentally different, since the mission would still be to bring out the most of people's natural potential and interest in a subject, to kindle a spark that might have otherwise been unlit due to lack of early exposure.

[Edit: I'm not eloquent enough to make a convincing case at 2:20am, but I don't think that extra sentence was merely a curious non-sequitur, even if it could be cut without modifying the point of that paragraph. I can list out tons of points/counterpoints in my head ("what about redheaded people with thin left eyebrows? why not mention them? would that be a non-sequitur? what about the historical and socioeconomic implications behind this demographic group and its relationship to technological access? ..."), but I don't have enough expertise to give this topic a proper treatment. So I'll leave this thread by recommending the following two books:

http://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Computing-Jane-Mar...

http://www.amazon.com/Stuck-Shallow-End-Education-Computing/...

]
Create a floor filled with hatches on a very high z level that covers your embark. Link all hatches to levers in a control room of doom somewhere. Pump magma up from the magma sea. Laugh manically when you flood the surface with magma :) (and destroy your FPS...)

Not sure about LBP as I haven't played it. I was hoping wikipedia would have a list of Turing-complete games but I can't find one.
reading software design principles book is just one thing, most important thing is find a good way to practice what you learned from book, I suggest you following a open software project, or create your own, when your project become bigger, you will face more challenge, and you will learn more.
:) just for your reference, fix me if you have better idea
Another enjoyable read by the folks at Ars Technica:Ten hours with the most inscrutable video game of all time

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/02/dwarf-fortress-ten-hou...
An excellent response here:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/andrewlilico/100027585/...
PrankDomains – a hijacking open DNS server for pranking your friends
It seems you're not reading what I (or anyone else) wrote.

I never mentioned syntax. I mentioned a DSL. Using a DSL is about much more than syntax, it is about expressing verifiable behavior tests in a ubiquitous language. I said nothing about any specific syntax of external or internal DSL, heck people contort FitNesse to fit BDD for whatever reason.

I have been on Ward's wiki since 1998, this isn't exactly new. It's also not for everyone.
The points were a few:

- Why doesn't Ikea make this available in more places where shipping heavy standing desks is not reasonable (ie., Canada from the US)

- As bulky as the Ikea standing desk looks, I could see it being used in a lot of offices in North America just because it was easily accessible

For me, I discovered the uplift shortly after posting too -- it looks like a great deal and great table. Glad to hear you are liking it too. I'm presently speccing one out!
Terence does such a great job explaining and teaching. It is very easy to forgot how everything we hack actually gets executed. We live in a high level world which wouldn't be possible without a bunch of smart people who figure these details out for us.
Standdesk.io has a motorized desk for the same amount too -- I'm interested in an electric desk.

Still, if Ikea sold standing desks, I wonder if they'd get mainstream quicker.
I don't think they're "doing pretty much everything right" but, then again, I'm not getting paid to say so.
Is it just me, or does it feel just a tiny bit ridiculous to see Twitter proposed as being on a CV? GitHub, sure, but Twitter? Shouldn't we just add our WoW accounts and maybe our old ICQ numbers too?

For people interested in standardized CV, by the way: http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/en/documents/curriculum-vi...

This site details some stuff about working with Europass: http://interop.europass.cedefop.europa.eu/

I'm surprised they didn't go for interoperability with what's already out there.
I didn't know that, it's too bad :)
If you don't want to wait a week or more to download the blockchain within the bitcoin program, there is a torrent to bootstrap the blockchain for new installations, last updated in April:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145386.0

That will get you up to April, then bitcoin the software will sync the remaining blocks up to the latest.
When it comes to designing large scale business systems, I read Application Architecture Guide. I read every chapter many times and then eventually got enlightenment.

Here is the detail description and PDF book http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff650706.aspx

It is targeted towards .NET developers but equally good for JVM, NodeJS etc.
Does something like the rights auctions your linked to exist for books?
If you're referring to me, I'm Canadian, and pay the same insane prices to bring things here. I mentioned NA because I could at least conceive picking one up when near the US when visiting Vancouver :)
Who did the calculation? I'd be keen to see the breakdown.

My rough estimates put the cost of JPY50k/month to the adult population at somewhere around USD 700 billion/year and JPY170k/month at USD2,400 billion, or around 47% of Japan's GDP. Total social security spending is currently in the order of USD300 billion.

Given that the Japan Government currently spends (excluding interest costs) around USD230 billion more than it earns in revenue each year, such a proposal would be extremely difficult to implement.

For reference, in 2014 the Japan Government has:

- Outstanding debt of ~USD12,100 billion

- Annual revenue of ~USD691 billion

- Annual spending of ~USD921 billion.
> I think the comment created worthwhile conversation.

I see two conversations here. One is about users feeling betrayed by acquisitions and whether that could be mitigated contractually. That conversation didn't require abusiveness to be created. The other conversation is about who is being a fuckwad, and hardly counts as "worthwhile". Unfortunately, it is what such rudeness leads to, and it only gets worse.

Keep in mind that we're not talking about rudeness in general. We're talking about its effect on the already precarious balance of a particular optionally-anonymous internet forum. The argument here isn't ethical so much as empirical.
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