skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I've swiped right even 20% of the time. Wonder if you can extract the stats from the iOS backup files...
Bitcask – yet another fast key/value store [pdf]
A bunch of really awesome new shell commands
That was just a bit too much for me. Bionic people would still be using condoms - that is just common sense.

Also, will women still be getting pregnant in vivo? Because if so, then 'because bioengineering' wouldn't be sufficient protection from the hollow mutant zombie babies that would be produced (as a side effect of all the _bioengineering_)
Emphatic agreement. Autoprefixer is really very good. If you're not using it yet, you should look into it.
If you actually look at the details, these terms aren't used in the same context as we might imagine. If there was a way to filter out useless projects, this would get interesting.
I like this analogy, I find myself falling into a similar pattern. Particularly when I can't understand something because I lack the understanding of its mathematical basis for example. I put it aside and have found myself returning to those papers once other things I have coincidentally read allow me to have a better understanding.
I use it to install MySQL with some non default values. I'm not that good with bash and install scripts and expect was the only way around some issues I was having.

secure_mysql_script=$(expect -c '
spawn sudo mysql_secure_installation
expect "Enter current password for root (enter for none):"
send "\r"
expect "Change the root password?"
send "n\r"
expect "Remove anonymous users?"
send "y\r"
expect "Disallow root login remotely?"
send "y\r"
expect "Remove test database and access to it?"
send "y\r"
expect "Reload privilege tables now?"
send "y\r"
expect eof
')
echo "$secure_mysql_script"
How we increased engagement by 932%
I can't actually find how they calculated the quote "Look to Japan to see the start of this growing trend: over 25 percent of young men and 45 percent of young woman say they are no longer interested in sex,"

Here is the link to the survey, can anyone else point it out for me
http://www.ipss.go.jp/site-ad/index_english/Survey-e.asp
The application != the landing page.

The landing page is to attract and interest new users who are not yet using the application.

Therefore the landing page should be accessible to the widest variety of users, with the widest variety of setups.

The landing page can also indicate somewhere that the app itself requires javascript, such that users are warned they need to turn javascript on if they choose to use the application.

But the landing page should never, itself, require javascript to be readable/useful as an advertisement for the application.
You are wrong. The "corporations" of Estado Novo were not commercial corporations like Monsanto, or P&G.

The corporations in corporatism are understood to be representatives of the broad professional groups.

There was an assembly - Câmara Corporativa - that was a representative and consultive body that had no decision power but that the National Assembly - the legislative body - had to consult for all the laws that they'd propose.

It was actually a good idea in my opinion. It's a much more transparent way of having the economical, social, syndical, etc "interest groups" or "corporations" participate in the political decision process. A lot better than US style lobbying, as it was completely public and not dependent on money. Besides, that way, there would always be technical and real-world advice for every law passed.

From wikipedia:

Corporatism (also known as corporativism[1]) is the socio-political organization of a society by major interest groups, or corporate groups, such as agricultural, business, ethnic, labour, military, patronage, or scientific affiliations, on the basis of common interests

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

EDIT: added reference to Wikipedia.
>> Can...
> Yes!

The terms and conditions apply to copying, distribution and modification, wherein you can do what the fuck you want to.

So the WTFPL states that the copy, the distribution or the modification are subject to whatever you want to do to them. Therefore you can relicense or possibly† transfer copyright of your copy. The original is still owned by the author and is still licensed under the WTFPL. Yes, those are the same bits, even possibly traceable to the same origin. Only their Color changed[0].

† barring lawful statements that mandate copyright transfer to be explicit.

[0]: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
> Not to mention many of the people on welfare.

Woah, slow down tiger :)

More seriously, please elaborate. Or maybe I am just a bleeding heart.
How do I feel? Horribly.

Not even just the semantic perspective, but from the mess it is afterwards. Mixins is a good way, but I prefer the different semantics that OOCSS can add to CSS. Pragmatic semantics.
debugging performance issues: https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2014/05/10/debugging-...
There's plenty of work for C devs!

https://github.com/search?q=todo&type=Code&ref=searchresults
Steve jobs (who stole it from Picasso, who took it from ?) said "Picasso had a saying -- 'good artists copy; great artists steal' -- and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."

This was later "clarified" by Bud Tribble: "If you take something and make it your own ... it's your design and that is the dividing line between copying and stealing."

My history teacher in high school had a simple challenge to get an A for the entire year, skipping all tests and quizzes, and free pass to sleep during class: "Give me a 100% unique idea"

Obviously everyone tried and everyone failed. There are no unique ideas, only innovations upon existing and past work of others.

So I find it odd anyone would downvote you for the truth!
Thank you! I'm impressed with the serie of blog posts the Mirage team posted lately – really informative and inspiring. I think this kind of system design articles are really valuable to actually learn how to use the language in the wild.

Another good example of a very good software design reading I've fuond is the OCamlgraph's paper[1], which demonstrates the strength of the ML's module system in a not trivial situation.

[1]: http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/ftp/publis/ocamlgraph.ps
Seconded. Their blog is one I hold up to potential clients as an example of a well-done B2C blog. Then I explain the strategy and planning that goes on behind it.

Potential clients look baffled that a blog could be so much work :)
I don't even know what is Colbert, can someone explain? For me it is the name of a great man of power under Louis XIV or something like that.
Much too late to edit. I should have said "...assign, pass to a function..."
Redefining the Yurbi UX
It looks like it displays time in 10-minute increments, so you ought to be able to get solar time to the nearest five or six minutes, provided you aim it accurately.

Note that solar time will differ from UTC depending on where you are in your timezone.
I totally agree. The problem is not links to line numbers, that I found really useful, the problem is that these links must have a commit context otherwise they become unreliable.
Yes of course, but it's a bit unfair to dismiss a survey you have not read on the basis of it being 'only' over 9000 people out of 120M, when that same amount in a properly set up investigation would be more than enough to make significant claims about a population of 300M.

We can of course theorize about whether or not all classes where properly represented, and of course we can't immediately regard the results as absolute truth, but the fact is that this was a serious survey and should be treated as such until review has shown otherwise.
Not all of them generally have their own local storage. But as you do with the foursquare APIs, it can definitely be done with other API providers. But thanks.
No, their goal is to make lots of money with boring IT consultancy so they can plow it back into stock buybacks and other financial engineering tricks.
ProTip: Hit the y key on any GitHub page with source code.

It'll instantly expand the URL to its canonical form, e.g.

https://github.com/sass/libsass/blob/master/parser.cpp#L29-L...

to

https://github.com/sass/libsass/blob/fca1f75a14fe5336c7b1a4b...

which stays valid indefinitely (unless the commit is deleted from the repo).

P.S. Hit the ? key for more keyboard awesomeness. :)
I wonder where he gets that from. Due to the equation of time, the difference can be up to about 15 minutes. But maybe he compensates for that already in some way? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time (This is of course ignoring things like Summer Time.)
Why do I get the impression that this guy was really, really, really lucky? Certainly more lucky than I'd imagine him being if he did a similar thing in the USA next to some FBI/CIA buildings.
This is like saying that using a heater will cool you down, because eventually we'll run out of gas. The article may have a point in one of many possible future realities, but not in the one we currently live in.
fun? meta-programming?
How to Hack Someone’s Account? Ask Them for the Password
"They’ve also found that the models tend to become more accurate the more data they consume. That may be the next big goal for Google: building AI models that are based on billions of data points, not just millions. "

I'm not versed in machine learning, but it looks to me that any model whose output quality is dependent on the quantity of data it ingests is deeply flawed. There's no doubt a bigger number of samples will make the predictions more accurate, but isn't the challenge to develop a system that is as accurate as possible regardless of the number of data points its fed, like the human brain?
I don't see why not, although limiting factors will be brightness and diffraction limiting how hard the edge of the shadow sweeping across the ends of your optical fibers can be and also how small the fibers themselves can be.
But that misses the other side of the argument, a fix for them is a fix for everyone and improvements to core are free improvements for everyone.
Well if you see the Q's on the workplace stack overflow about some of the "horrific" employment practices from India the H1B rules might seem liberal.
How about 'for now' :D
Siri, Google Now, and Cortana: The new age of virtual assistants
WOW. Appreciate the way it is build.

But, So screwed up on IE10.
Show HN: Is country X in its office hours (9am to 5pm)?
It's just a weird statement to make either way.

- Just because you say you are not interested in sex, does not mean you aren't having sex or having lots of it.

- "They are no longer interested", when were they? when was anybody?

- Do they mean completely uninterested? Or just less of a priority?

All statistics aside, what does it even mean to not be interested in sex? Not chasing sex? Pure abstinence? No casual sex?
Everything you need to know about the FAFSA
Stephen Colbert is a popular comedian on US television. His character is a parody of right-wing commentators like Bill O'Reilly.

If you haven't seen him before, check out some of his clips on youtube, you won't regret it :)

Edit: Unless you have something else important to do today, or for that matter this week...
Bitcoin pool GHash.io commits to 40% hashrate limit after its 51% breach
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/accounting_insolvency.as...

A situation where the value of a company's liabilities exceeds its assets. Accounting insolvency looks only at the firm's balance sheet, deeming a company "insolvent on the books" when its net worth appears negative.
There is a bias because there is more C code. The number of repositories doesn't equal to the quantity of code and if you search for general things that are used in both languages frequently then there is always more C results, for example:

https://github.com/search?p=1&q=if+&ref=searchresults&type=C...

https://github.com/search?p=1&q=return+&ref=searchresults&ty...
It's the "evaporative cooling" of groups.
BP corporate network (interactive)
Which requires you to touch the screen, causing unwanted motion during filming.
I really don't know who buys Wired... despite it being a quality publication on the whole it seems far too dumbed down for real geeks and too niche for the layman. I imagine it ends up on the reception table of lots of startups and desgin agencies who want to some glossy 'we do technology' badge.
A work around is to pass a foreign function into your asm.js module to do allocations for you, but then you have to either implement your own GC, do reference counting, or just come up with some hand rolled lifetime management.

I'm also interested in how asm.js could be improved in this regard without moving away from its existing barebones model. Would love to hear ideas.

I think the first thing we will see is shared array buffers between workers because games really need that.
Rights are legal, so they represent minimum viable behaviors. Value in a society is embodied in behavior that goes beyond this. It's the difference between an organization where people are really working toward a goal like quality, or if they are lawyering the rules.
Google Earth aerial images now available for Maps for Business
How come everyone here believes without question the statement in the original article that "the engineers who designed the GPS system included these relativistic effects when they designed and deployed the system." The author gives no evidence for this claim. In fact the research was classified and he cannot offer evidence even if he tried. See references in this comment http://science1.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/if-newton-were-to-c... which says that "Nevertheless, in practice, neglect of relativity does not now contribute measurably to the GPS error budget, as the OCS software is currently configured. (p.194)" cited in this source GPS AND RELATIVITY: AN ENGINEERING OVERVIEW Henry F. Fliegel and Raymond S. DiEsposti http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ptti/1996/Vol%2028_16.pdf

I am always amazed how normally skeptical people suspend their skepticism and believe anything a physicist or a learned doctor writes. I would be grateful if you can supply a real evidence that without GR GPS will not work.
Is there a reasonable use case for linking to line-numbers on branch/tag on github? If not, it might be good UX to remove that option. i.e. only honour such links to immutable urls.

Further, even if you're looking at a mutable reference (like master), the line number links could/should be to the underlying immutable url (based on the commit).

If there is a marginal use case for linking to line numbers of mutable refs, perhaps it should be the non-default case, discoverable by keyboard shortcut like this...
This page seemed really slow on mobile. I thought it was just me but...

http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=h...
She's recently come from Gambia, remember, where the cultural values around birth control and family size are very, very different from in your culture. There are cultures where women are shamed, punished, or outcast for "failure to conceive."

I have not heard anyone mention yet that federal aid programs do incentivize having kids, lots of kids. Any compassionate ideas for fixing that?
I would correct 'Nertherlands' or make it 'Nerdylands' altogether. ;)
Airbnb changes their design, meanwhile craiglist
I see this type of thinking as the road to procrastination.

If you see each task as a large do or die task that needs sacrifice and extended concentration to complete otherwise there is no point even starting it... you don't start it.

That said, I do agree with this type of thinking and believe many other people do too which is why procrastination is such a widespread problem! My broader take is that you need gears and know when to change up/down. Sometimes you are going up hill and sometimes downhill. Sometimes you need to brake and sometimes steering is more important than speed. Ahhh car metaphores...
I bet you could design a lighted tunnel that moths from the street would happily follow straight into the chicken coop! There might need to be some trickery involved, as I think tend to fly around the light and not directly at it.
Okay, I looked into it more.

So Techcrunch references the quote below from the Guardian.

"Look to Japan to see the start of this growing trend: over 25 percent of young men and 45 percent of young woman say they are no longer interested in sex."

The Guardian makes this quote;

"The number of single people has reached a record high. A survey in 2011 found that 61% of unmarried men and 49% of women aged 18-34 were not in any kind of romantic relationship, a rise of almost 10% from five years earlier"

and references the formal study that is linked in the top comment and the one I also linked.

http://www.ipss.go.jp/site-ad/index_english/Survey-e.asp

But this quote that Techcrunch took from the Guardian;

" A survey earlier this year by the Japan Family Planning Association (JFPA) found that 45% of women aged 16-24 "were not interested in or despised sexual contact". More than a quarter of men felt the same way."

... is linked to another study. Well they don't actually link to the study, just to the homepage of the people who did.

http://www.jfpa.or.jp/

Which has in the website title, "Every Child a Wanted Child", which isn't quite likely to be as unbiased as the official census linked above.

Now I'm trying to track down the actual study which hasn't been referenced by either Techcrunch or The Guardian which has the major quote they are selling their articles with.

Edit: Huffington Post ran a similar article with the same reference, they linked to this article as the source

http://www.medindia.net/news/Government-Says-Young-Japanese-...

That article also does not have a reference to the survey.
Indeed.

I'll believe many things will change as cultures shift and fashions come and go but the idea young people are no longer interested in sex would fall into the category of extraordinary claims thus requiring extraordinary evidence.

Cordelia: So does looking at guns really make girls wanna have sex? That's scary.

Xander: Yeah, I guess.

Cordelia: Well, does looking at guns make you wanna have sex?

Xander: I'm 17. Looking at linoleum makes me wanna have sex.

[from Buffy the Vampire Slayer obv.]

I don't think that conversation will ever not ring true.
Bug report: all cities appear as black text on a white background, regardless of the local time. Safari on iOS.
Why Samsung Buying SmartThings Should Have Us Worried
As someone who has managed many people, I believe this is a personality type. I've seen many programmers who make consistent, daily progress. In my experience that is the most common type. I've also seen a good number of people as described in the article. And there was one programmer that worked for me that took it to an extreme. She would do nothing for a week and a half and then do two weeks of work in a day or two.

I think it is important to find what works to motivate you on a personal level. Sounds like OP made a step in that direction but may be over applying the advice to other people.
Swift Arrays in Beta 3 (Hooray)
No-wait data centers
Until you have reached a very large subset of all available information, more data allows you to make better predictions. Period. That is as true for machine learning as it is of the human brain.

You often want your models to also perform well when you have fewer data points. Those are two separate - if in effect related - design goals.
Ask HN: App developers, did you hire a graphic designer?
For those of you developed a mobile application and released it, did you hire a graphic designer? If not, were you able to make an aesthetically pleasing UI without one? I am working on a side project and would possibly like to release the app, but am not sure if it is necessary to hire a graphic designer or not. I guess this can apply to web apps as well
Science Can Be Funny
Looks like a great tool - now I wish I had the storage to test it on...
A friend once said of "The 7 habits of highly effective people" that the first habit was not wasting time reading self help books.

In a similar vein I suspect one of the key behaviors driving productivity might be not spending much time writing about productivity on the internet.

Irony of posting this understood obv, but then I make no claims to productivity, quite the opposite.
This is a very good point, and something that was also touched on in http://www.saurik.com/id/20 recently.
How many developers say their software users are Idiots
People may not be homo economicus, but in general I believe them to be mostly rational actors who know what their own best interest is. When you exclude the drugged out parents that other posters have mentioned, and focus on the parents in this story who are generally trying to take care of their kids; I expect they are making mostly rational decisions about how they value their time and resources [e.g., it is worth the extra money to save time and go to a grocery store, because they won't actually be starving].

This goes back to changing the definition of what you're trying to fight from "hunger" to "food insecurity". If these people were truly "hungry" vs. "food insecure", I expect they would make markedly different choices to ensure their children weren't actually hungry.

The children, also being maybe not rational actors, but not stupid; would also make different choices. If the boy were starving he probably wouldn't have skipped the free breakfast to hold out for chicken nuggets, tater tots, and hot dogs.
Why doesn't matter pass right through other matter if atoms are 99% empty space?
North Texas citizens organize to monitor police with video cameras
Hah! Duck Hunt. Good times
An illustrated guide to the worst viruses in computer history
I think they [0] are getting Streisand'd [1] pretty badly

[0] https://plus.google.com/116041780482133327447/about?gl=uk&hl...
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Here’s why your ISP rep is yelling at you when you try to cancel service
No I didn't hire a graphic designer but I wouldn't say my apps were a commercial success either although it has achieved 4.5* average rating in the App Store.

As to whether the app[0] or the website[1] is aesthetically pleasing you be the judge of that. I went for a very bare simple look using the standard controls.

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/app/fast-lists-checklists-for/id481...

[1] http://human-friendly.com/
I was wondering why they delayed this. Android version is on store for a while.
Fair enough. If there is a bias towards C I would guess it was more due to the situations in which C gets used, than C itself. Talking to a friend who has to try and get the same C/C++ codebase to compile for 6 different platforms (consoles) has been an eye opening experience. That kind of environment is like a slightly warm petri dish for ugly hacks.
This is an awesome work, really. The design style reminds me a lot of Eric Jordan's style (2advanced Studios) [0]. Not really a new style, but nice to see that Interaction Design with open technologies (HTML/JS/CSS) is arriving "there", where (believe or not) Flash was 10 years ago...

I've been waiting for this moment for years. Hopefully this will set a new trend.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANng1oTO2Zk
"Fix ugly hack to at least be consistent with itself", haha, this is brilliant.