skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true that the "command line" takes a surprisingly long to learn. I've definitely surpassed the 10,000 hour mark, and I'm STILL learning things. (People say that about Vim alone :) )

That's probably because it all superficially looks the same (sequences of characters), but there's are a lot of depth and functionality with many different concepts -- e.g. compilers (cross-compilers too), data compression, networking, storage and file systems, hardware devices, crypto, parallelism, data formats for every problem domain, several important little languages, several syntaxes for the same language (regexes, etc.).

But I think you basically have to learn it to become computer literate, and all computer science researchers should be computer literate.

Otherwise you can't "fend for yourself". If you are relying on your professor to set shit up for you, that's just lame and you will not be useful in many other contexts.

What's the alternative? I think it's "mouse bullshittery", which is even worse. For example, compiling software stuff on Unix can be hard. But I used to use Windows, and it's 10x harder. I remember the last experience I really had with Windows was installing Visual Studio to compile Python, and I hit some trivial but showstopping but in the CDs, and gave up in disgust. The workaround was to copy some DLL somewhere in your \system32 folder, and I'm like "really?"

I don't really use Macs for development either, because it's annoying to set up compilers. (It's 10x less annoying than Windows, but 10x more annoying than Linux).
I would love to hear something without having to compile anything.
> would unix be better if it were
> cwd.files.count?

How about

file:. count
?
I know it's kind of cynical, and I'm probably wrong, but I thought Obama won the Nobel peace prize because he wasn't George W. Bush.

It was more about the Nobel Committee sending a message to the US about the previous disastrous presidency than anything else. The way I remember the political mood at the time we could have elected a dead cat and half of the world would have been ecstatically happy.
Quickly find a phone repair shop near you
Where do you live? I just tried two routes in SF and it says "We don't have any fare data for your area just yet, check back soon!"
I'm not really sure what you're implying...

We need better enforcement? We try to do that by writing laws and issuing tickets. And, again, poor driving is still a problem.

How about we FORCE people to drive defensively? That sure sounds like what automated driving is trying to do.
No, if you ask it: finger jethro_tell it will work locally, if you ask it: finger jethro_tell@example.com, it will check to see if example.com is running a finger server on tcp/79 and will return the reply if example.com answers. Otherwise it will just time out.
Totally agree. UTF-8 is all over the world, yet we are living like in ASCII-only 90s. But since it's vim I'm not really surprised, it might be actually tricky to make something work there (however I don't know what really is the problem).
Ask HN: How would quantum computing change day to day programming?
I'm not sure I follow the analogy, if you want you can use iceweasel for a guaranteed DRM free experience and still use 99.9% of the web.
We are probably long overdue a relative price drop on all the products that have had substantial automation. Once enough businesses catch up the price competitions should restart -- for now it's just the first ones past the mark reaping larger benefits.
Always found that strange as well. I've always loved being a runner in Seattle because its generally cool, cloudy, and often light rain. To me that's the perfect weather for a run since it prevents you from overheating or dehydrating as quickly, and, in my experience, the sun tires you out much quicker. I've always been confused about the fact that you see by far the most people out running on a hot, sunny day. Every one of them seems to be sweating bullets.
Come on, I meant about communicating what kind of acceleration you'd experience. I rarely bump into sports car, but I've seen a lot of GSXR-class bikes.
I just added a "Rasta Lightning Round" with some images from last year's Cariou v. Prince case.
Probably not being obnoxious to their potential users.
Well, you can have Gerrit (or something similar), but this won't solve the main problem - your master branch will eventually get broken. Developers will push their because they CAN. Some of the code will pass code reviews and will be merged automatically. But sometimes (very often) they will commit and push directly to master. And you will get your build into "broken" state. And it will stay their for days.
Nah, I knew someone would be bound to ask though. Buddies from Turkey swear by this product as their email marketing solution. I could only provide one link, and I feel like everyone knows about MailChimp, and Campaign Monitor (Used by Apple etc), so I put in DirectIQ's URL to spark the discussion. Here's another one that's been known to be simple: MadMimi.com -- it was just bought by GoDaddy and has been known for it's UI, yet, MailChimp seems to trump all. It baffles me. Thoughts?
My money's on the squirrel.
I think it only iterates over the collection once.
The difficulty is in not thinking you're a loser just because the smartest people in Silicon Valley (some of your heros to be honest) have repeatedly looked you in the eye and thought to themselves "Nah."

Or in my case having one of the YC partners say "Oh, you guys are back? You're a shoo-in this time." only to be rejected again that day :-)

Here's a tip most people won't need: do not reply to the rejection email 30 seconds later with a petulant rant. It's not fair, it marks as an untouchable crazy person, and you'll regret it.

My company likely would have failed even with YC's help. I learned a lot in the two years working on that startup. I'm the kind of person that tends to learn things the hard way and I probably had to in this case.

Sorry, there's no triumphal story of my own yet. I'm still working on it! :-)
First world problems. So many people work long hours in NY that brunch is the only time to socialize for many. Long live brunch!
Interesting, but are you sure of that one? The only references to Jihadi training camps or schools look vague:

A key American aide of hate preacher Abu Hamza suggested setting up a terrorist training camp in the United States so British Muslims could learn to fire guns and practise warfare tactics

Ujaama drove nine hours from his home in Seattle to tiny Bly, Oregon, to check out a potential camp where he said the arid mountainous terrain was similar to parts of Afghanistan.

Other articles (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/19/abu-hamza-found...) are equally or more vague about whether this training camp actually existed or not. Politco.com explores this issue: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/the-terror-ca... Again, the article doesn't come right out and say "Here's the training camp".

I'm not sure it speaks for itself, I'm sorry.
A lot of people aren't out running to run as fast or as far as possible. They're just out to enjoy the weather.
So much thought was put into the design and yet nobody bothered to add an option on whether you want to see units in standard or american measures.

It's 2014, can't you people just detect I'm not american and put up normal Centigrade, km, kg, etc?
Pease and Widlar were two legendary engineers who ruled during the birth of the analog integrated circuit.

I heard an interesting story about Pease from someone who worked at National and knew him by sight. During the last great recession, around 2009?, my friend (another engineer) was using the services of California's state unemployment agency, when she saw the great Bob Pease walk into the EDD office to apply for unemployment. He had been laid off from National Semiconductor. The shock of this news spread throughout and a little later, National rehired Pease. But this event signaled to me that the sanctity of analog IC engineers had been pierced and no one was spared from the crushing recession. To me, it was the passing of an era, hardware engineering was losing it's prestige and dominance. Today, software has replaced hardware as the most vibrant and lucrative field in engineering. I can see that the brightest students are entering computer science, instead of going into electrical engineering.

I sometimes wonder who are today's engineers with as much influence as Widlar and Pease. Or if any engneers could be as dominant as those two in today's world where there are so many different technologies and directions in software.
In other words, I'm crowdsourcing to hear about the pros and cons of each service out there... :)
Unboxing: $150 Kano computer
Microsoft CEO Nadella's Remarks Add to Tech's Sexism Problem
Sourcegraph  dotGo
The article fails to mention exactly why the unveil should be seen as disappointing. I'd also expect a financial publication to understand the distinction between actual losses and theoretical ones. Elon has not lost $500M, his stock has just fluctuated, as stocks are apt to do. Lackluster article all around really.
Why gifted education doesn’t make sense
Morally bound? Ha. I once had debt collectors come after me while I was unemployed and living off savings and unemployment checks -- counting down the days until I would be homeless. The company in question attempting to collect the debt made over a billion in profits that year alone, while I owed them not even $200.

If anything, they were morally bound to forgive the debt in it's entirety. They could easily absorb the loss without even blinking, while the money owed meant the difference between being able to afford a few more weeks of food or begging for it.
Distance running isn't about power like cycling is.
History of PostgreSQL + PGConf NYC
Unity: King of the Web, Teacher of Children, Betrayer of Men
It looks awesome. But without following this project up close it's really hard for me to see what changed since 12-6 months ago when I saw the last video about the engine.

And what will the actual game be about? From the video I'm not sure if there is an actual plan yet.
Amazingly, I was at the asyncjs.com presentation on these and related topics by that author just yesterday! Excellent stuff.
*catabolism: the breakdown of complex molecules in living organisms to form simpler ones, together with the release of energy; destructive metabolism.

Incredible.
Ahh excellent - this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

From that discussion, it looks like Dropbox:

1. probably has lower costs than the published S3 rates

2. compresses and de-duplicates their data

3. oversells, so most people must not be using their full 1 TB.
John at the FDA could be the most rational drug policy wonk imaginable, but that's not going to help him during Congressional oversight hearings if lawmakers decide there is political capital to be made out of attacking him. For all its flaws, the FDA (like other agencies) has to follow rules of administrative process which are subject to challenge, and which aim to bring about iterative improvement. Legislative process is a lot more haphazard, and I'm not sure that the introduction of TV cameras has done anything to improve it.
Never been to a brunch in NYC, but Oakland has a ton of places offering a great brunch, and this article certainly isn't going to stop me from visiting them.
176-cores Power8 instances with a free 32$ trial from OVH
I find it pretty hard to believe that someone would maintain the level of fitness required to run a sub-2 hour marathon (a level which no recorded human has ever achieved despite devoting their lives to the sport) and not even track it.
During your 9-to-5, you should probably take a break/exercise every 50 minutes for 10 minutes
I'm not a runner, but I know many. Training for a marathon involves running fast, and it involves running far, but typically not at the same time. I don't know anyone who runs a marathon distance in order to train for a marathon, you save it for race day because it takes a lot out of you.

The article also talks about drafting and the role of 'pace bunnies' in setting a record. For those reasons, I don't think someone has gone out on a 42.2k run and broken the 2 hour mark.
These are great data, but I'm concerned that the methodology is fatally flawed. Do we have any real reason to believe that whatsthefare requests track closely to actual ride requests?
How is it different from freelance or elance websites?
Show HN: Minard's map of Napoleon's invasion of Russia
Sorry, this one just doesn't count. It's a transcript from Sean Hannity's Fox show. Even Hannity can't quite pin down whether there's a terror training camp or not:

HANNITY: You're saying without a doubt you can look in these cameras tonight and tell the American people that there are terrorist training camps on our soil, we're not doing anything about it, and they're planning, and they will hit America?

MAWYER: I would say without a doubt al Qaeda would love to have such compounds that range from 25 acres to 300 acres sitting on American soil in order to hide terrorists, hide weapons, and train future jihadists for the United States. It's shocking.

Mawyer's answer seems like a dodge to me. I even get the feeling from reading the transcript that Hannity didn't quite believe him.

To sum up, I'm pretty sure there were never any jihadi or training camps or schools in the USA. Your articles are vague at best.
Fitting web apis into a filesystem metaphor isn't always straightforward. For instance, it is common to POST into a container URI (which we represent as a directory) and have no control over the name or id of the object which is created. This is the case with Facebook posts.

echo "foo" > /facebook/me/posts

would imply overwriting the posts directory, which is not allowed (either on pigshell or on unix)

OTOH, asking the user to do a

echo foo >/facebook/me/posts/post-11oct2014

sets up the expectation that the post will be named that way, when it will most likely be a long numeric id. Thus, the trailing slash. Not perfect, but the best compromise I could think of.
10 battles raging for the hearts and minds of developers
A good rule of thumb is to assume that the temperature is going to feel 10 degrees (F) warmer when you're running or doing extended aerobic exercises outside.
Off Topic: Man! Reading this answer so makes me want to play those FlightSim games of the yesteryears like Apache Havoc, Commanche, Jane's F/A 18 Hornet etc etc. Does anyone have any suggestions for a modern Flight Sim game? Thanks!
Maybe signs of the future should also have a QR code next to them for the real speed, just in case someone modifies the painted one. If they mess with the QR code too, then it should give a warning or something.
I remember you used to see experts exchange or the like come up in search results and you could block it right there, in your search results without having to go to a separate page. Since they've hidden it, I honestly thought they'd removed the ability to block websites. Thanks for letting me know I just have to hunt for it.

I wonder why they removed that option from search results?
Don't give too much credit to Obama, please! He is no different than his predecessor in deeds, only in words. I have no doubts that he pressed Nobel Prize directly or indirectly not to give Snowden what he well-deserved. I can't believe there are fans of Obama in this community knowing what NSA under him did, is doing, and will continue to be doing! The drones, the militarization of the Police Force is also happening under him, so, he was elected on false promises, lied many times, and was recorded saying "I'm very good at killing people." without any sign of shame.
How do I find Wally with Python?
Does it also mean that when doing an API client library for stripe you have to handle all this complexity about versionning? Because if someone updates to the latest version of the library but still wants to use the old way of creating a charge (staying on the example where charge would now always be 1$) he would want to be able to do it without having to find an older version of the library that supported this API version.
Corvette Z06 can do 0-60 in ~3s for $80k
I think they should have cloned HTML tables and called it <layout> or something. It's certainly not perfect, but it would have been an easy way to solve a lot of problems.

I know it violates the strict separation of style and content, but how well has that actually worked out?

(This is me just being cranky -- I've done a bunch of typesetting resume's and such when I was younger -- so having tabs work like they used to on old typewriters, where you set them to a defined distance from the left, would have solved a bunch of problems, too.)
shared (share button'd) quora links add the parameter. copy-pasted hard-links don't.

quora defends the design by saying that it's their way of piping user-specific content.

I agree, it's super irritating and results in information being locked for those that don't know how to go around it.
How to quickly find out what influences risk of prostate cancer?
Isn't US at war already breaching the sovereignty of Syria by bombing its territory and training and supplying mercenaries with arms?
An inventory of Cocoa-compatible languages running on top of the ObjC runtime
Don't teach your kids VB. It's a dead end language. I don't think anyone should learn VB anymore and I doubt anyone is taught "well". There are classes in VB and modules. You can write functions and procedures. But something like python will serve you better into the future.

I took every computer course available to me through high school and graduating in the 90's that didn't give me much choice. The teachers were not that knowledgeable so I ended up doing Apple BASIC and QBASIC lessons out of books. Honestly didn't learn much.

I took a introduction to programming course in college which was in C. Most of the time I was fighting syntax errors to perform the most basic operations. I didn't learn much.

I eventually switched my major to computer science and took another 101 course, this time taught with C++. Still I fought segfaults and syntax but I actually learned the basics.

No moral to this story, just I wish I had python as a choice when I was learning.
I was at her presentation of this on Wednesday and it was great to get a peek at how Stripe does their API development, since what they've built has been really impressive.

Reading this (or watching the video) will be well worth your time.
This is what it was like when I first got on the Internet (around 1992); there was no web then, instead you FTPed everything and used resources like Gopher, Archie, and Veronica to find documents.

I find PigShell interesting from a historic point of view but think it also points to a flaw in how the web currently works, with far too much glue and eye candy, which is a direct result of the ad business model.
On iPods, iTunes, DRM, and Lock-in, in 2014, for Some Reason
I don't want to start a flame war but why are we using the phrase "ride-sharing"? If I share a ride with a collegue to work I will pay for petrol used. Any more, my Collegue is a taxi.

Peter Thiel made a similar point saying Google always claims to be in fierce competition with other "high technology companies" as opposed to being a monopoly search provider.

Language has great power ...
In Oregon the basic speed rule says that if you are going around a curve too fast to be able to stop for someone laying in the road, you are going too fast no matter what the signs say.
WOW. This is brilliant! This is going to kill Google Groups.
Google Drive document can be embedded as iframes. Wouldn't this solve this problem?

Here's a proof: http://www.cellmaster.com.au/example.html
That sounds like a great idea for a bookmarklet.
These hackers are developing apps to stop the spread of Ebola in West Africa
I don't know any numbers, but it seems as if Stack Exchange is far more popular, especially as an information database for employees and students.

Quora has the opportunity to do the same, but I think the specific stack exchange communities offer a better partition between topics. Quora does it's best to show you targetted questions/comments, whereas StackExchange sites just throw you wherever you showed up (which, if by search, is usually a better choice)

A good example : I once answered a fringe question about the Dalai Lama on Quora, now many of the questions i'm tasked with giving answers to are spiritual in nature, and of absolutely no interest to me. It's the same search bubble problem that YouTube/Google runs into occasionally. Things like that make me prefer more 'basic' sites like StackExchange networks.
Bottom line? Unity is an amazingly versatile piece of software whether you are building a prototype or a triple-A title. But it has a rather spotty history when it comes to new deployment platforms.

However, if Unity can deliver on their promises of WebGL, they will become the link between high-end game development and cross-platform HTML5 that edtech has been craving. Educational game developers will not need to commit to a single deployment platform, greatly reducing risk and expanding the potential market size. This could be a tremendous game changer and if the AngryBots demo is any indication, the future looks bright.

Kudos, Unity. I am officially back on board. Don’t break my heart.
"When French researchers analyzed the finishing times"
They even went through the trouble of converting the original data...
"Download Source" vs "Star/Fork/Issues/Pull Requests" at GitHub? Is it just me, but when I see a project not using GitHub/Bitbucket, its credibility drops drastically? Of course, there are others like Linux distros, GNU, etc., but we know and understand the motivation there.
You can find some more details about the game on the Kickstarter page (some good questions answered there in the updates section as well, with a link to the design doc), in the about section, or on the Steam Greenlight page (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=245148...)

As usual, video editing and marketing are my two worst skills, so I'm not very good at putting together all this stuff. :)
I don't know much about combat sims, but I have a blast with X-Plane. It's highly realistic and can practically scale to any performance computer. It has some combat-sim aspects, but I haven't played with that stuff enough to comment. Flying is tough enough for me without the weapons ;)
but it is about endurance. see EPO.
Am I supposed to feel sorry for someone that got caught exploiting online games?
Prediksi-skor-polandia-vs-jerman
Yes, but look ow much less text fits on screen. I mostly read at my desktop and I am sick to the back teeth of super-pretty scrolling websites that only use 1/3 - 1/2 of of my screen, and don't present a large volume of information at once. There's a reason we abandoned paper scrolls in favor of pages, they're a pain in the ass to navigate.

The web in 2014 is arguably a significant improvement on magazines, but I still find it a vastly inferior reading experience compared to a book.
I'm a corporate neckbeard. Probably the opposite of everyone here. And a lurker, so hello!

I work for a company that ignored the industry trends, we picked a winner with "Petzold style" win32 as you put it. We have a 800kloc 20 year old codebase for a LOB product that hasn't had to be rewritten four times due to the abstraction of the hour being changed. No VB, MFC, no ATL, no Winforms, no C#, no WPF, no ASP, barely any COM.

The biggest irony of all of our intentional ignorance of technological progress is that our software works 100% perfectly on Wine on OSX and Linux. It also compiles with GCC under mingw32 and works natively on ReactOS bar a few problems with the OS.

Do all these magical abstractions and platforms do you any good?

I'm less convinced every day.

You're right about mindshare though and as a vendor, that is what pays the bills.

Going to fire up textpad, nmake, windbg and write some code now...