skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So glad to see this book mentioned. The follow-up, Turning Pro, which is effectively the second half of the same book, is also golden.
If you were to look at SmartOS and Smart Data Center, you'd realize that it does have ALL of those components. The place I feel SDC and SmartOS fall short (of DCOS) is in application deployment/orchestration which I think is huge for devs who've had to manage VMs in the cloud.

Another win for DCOS is that it can run anywhere while SmartOS only runs on baremetal. SmartOS does come with some nice goodies like the Manta object storage platform and Manatee, a Postgres replication and failover platform. Application orchestration would make it a contender IMHO.
I find the new website to be downright slow, too. If I go to https://www.google.com/maps/ I have to wait too long to load. I can generally get going a lot faster using the older interface (https://www.google.com/maps/mm?authuser=0&hl=en).

But, sometimes I just go to Bing because I know it will load fast and I can scroll around super fast, too. Scrolling around in Google maps is always slow. It's like they are loading way too much stuff. All the 3D buildings...useless.
If it was flagrant and damages are obviously there I could see it prosecuted as grand theft or trafficking in stolen goods. Could also fall under computer fraud and abuse act or wire fraud statutes depending on what he did. But IANAL.

It's also possible that he did other things to gather or sell secrets that are criminal-- wiretapping, theft of private communications, entering offices when people aren't there, etc.
I tend to think that the average fiction book is less interesting that the average non-fiction book, but that the best fiction books are much, much better than the best non-fiction ones (and teach you more, and deeper things).

This one is up there with the very best. It is exquisitely well written (John Williams was a literature professor, directing a creative writing program), and despite the plainness of the plot(or maybe because of it?) it offers a remarkable view of what gives meaning to life (IMHO of course. Your millage may vary).
I teach high school math and science. I had a group of students do a mini-project around the question, "Is there anything bigger than infinity?" The core of the project was students watching this numberphile video [0], and recreating his reasoning on their own.

That project helped them reason about higher-level math in a way they never thought themselves capable. The idea of "magic" never came up, but they certainly spoke about their sense of wonder at higher-level math. I really appreciate the way he presents mathematical concepts.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elvOZm0d4H0
Atlas Shrugged - by Ayn Rand
Use English to specify your problem, before you turn anything into code or ask anyone for input on the solution. As you need to write javascript for the page directly, why not use nodejs or use local-storage at the client. Depends on what you want to achieve, really, the question is vague.
What would Crockford do? [2012]
For me it's the opposite. Having a loophole to turn it off is a dealbreaker for me.
The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 criminalized the misappropriation of trade secrets:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Espionage_Act_of_1996
Android Studio 1.0 released
The invoice got lost by The Ministry of Information when the Department of Works switched half of the tubes back to Imperial again, so someone needs to submit the appropriate forms to Information Retrieval who will then have to take it up with Information Adjustment to request a new invoice with The Ministry of Information before the next budget trimester, or a fortnight before if they wish to transfer the issuance fee for the new invoice onto the new invoice.
So the IRS should document (for public consumption) the exact algorithm it uses to decide which filings get extra scrutiny? Doesn't that open the door to quite a bit of abuse? (i.e. tax fraudsters being able to match just the precise set of conditions to not be audited).
Codemirror is a great piece of software - I use it for yipgo.com. Only problem is poor mobile support.
On the one hand, R (http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/index.html) is sadly gone. However, this might be interesting to your question:

From http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/duffs-device.html:

"Somewhere I have a note from dmr [the R in K&R] certifying that all the compilers that he believes in accept it."

So at least at some point Duff showed Ritchie something in C that Ritchie hadn't seen or considered before, long after C had been invented.
I think Apple gets the short end of the stick in these deals. The company that provides that mapping data usually has ridiculous restrictions on what you can/can't do to the data (even possibly disallowing your own patches), and Apple takes all the heat from users.
You're right. We nearly always add a comment saying "Comments moved to X" in the duplicate thread, but neglected to this time. Sorry for the confusion.

The current way of merging threads is low-tech. We like to do things manually for a while, to get a sense of how best to automate them later. Eventually, though, merging threads will probably be a fully-baked feature of the site, because many users have asked for it.
Is the data gathered from crowdsourced smartphones? If it is then the precision is shit. Waze has been continuously unimpressive in dense urban environments. It can sometimes take 15 minutes to go two blocks through two lights. And neither Waze nor Google Maps correctly show that.

Using the GPS drains battery and there are huge privacy concerns. It's not an easy thing to do right. But I think it can be done.
Uber banned in Delhi over taxi driver 'rape'
Authorities in the Indian capital,
Delhi, have banned international taxi-
booking service Uber after a driver
allegedly raped a female passenger.
Curiosity Rover Finds Clues to How Water Helped Shape Martian Landscape
Indie Languages– Interview with Timothy Baldridge, Pixie’s Language Creator
The game industry grew up in the 80's where the only suitable language to write games on was Assembly and everything computer was completely different, even between revisions.

Basic, C and Pascal were the Python and Ruby back then.

So porting studios appeared, specializing in porting the games to specific platforms. The porting industry came to life.

Fast forward 30 years, you still need to write quite hardware specific code if you wish to squeeze out every possible ms out of the machine, which opens the door for all kinds of shortcuts.

This of course only matters when doing AAA games.
...ignores the society that doesn't condemn rape; the courts that don't convict rapists; and the police who don't arrest rapists... ignores the fact that...gun ownership is not guaranteed.

You got me. If I didn't ignore those things I probably would have written this:

"Which do you think will reduce rape right now?...change the culture?"

"Getting the police to do their job would be great. How do you do it?"

"...a Beretta in every purse is the only real solution, but it's also a solution that the government will never support. Only rich people and jewelry stores deserve to be protected by guns."

You are saying that women who don't carry guns are to blame for being raped...Did you realise that when you wrote it?

I didn't realize I was sending secret messages that can only be decoded by you, no.
When I was young and experimentally idealistic I felt the same way. Thinking of myself as a world citizne, I phoned up the local branch of the UN and asked how I get a UN passport. The very aptient lady on the other end explained that governments hate people without citizenship because they think they might get stuck owing them something, and that UN passports were only issued to refugees who had lost everything, and even then the main function was not to admit them to places, but to have a document that could be associated with an exit date to ensure some transited out of a country.

I still think citizenship ought to be something you choose but in reality it is usually something that happens to you, based on where you emerged into the world and what citizenship your parents hold. This is not going to change for the foreseeable future.
This is what I thought about posting. I've read a lot of books this year (45 books totaling 22,000 pages), the most important being: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Silent Spring, The Feminine Mystique, The Grapes of Wrath, The Price of Inequality, The Happiness Hypothesis.

But, out of all that (which I had to go look up on my Goodreads), HPMOR is what came to mind, both an engaging story, thought provoking ideas, and a lot of pages to work with :).
Almost all of the news published on April 1st is garbage.
Not sure why a fact would be be downvoted?
I'll see you and raise you a © .

Which in my book is c, the speed of light in a vacuum, 299792458 m/s, a mere 9 digits, but inscribed in a circle using Steinhaus–Moser notation[1] is equivalent to a number so mindbogglingly big that I'm not even going to attempt to calculate its measure.[2]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinhaus%E2%80%93Moser_notatio...

[2]: Not that it makes any sense to perform this operation on c, but I think that use of © in this way is much more interesting than its current usage.
>the app keeps closing during navigation

I've had a similar issue occur several times in the past month. The app doesn't close, it just stops providing navigation instructions. The worst part is that it fails silently, and it seems to be related to poor cell service. It was a little scary when I realized what had happened, as I was driving on icy roads in an unfamiliar area at night. A notification that navigation has stopped would have saved me time and headache.

I'm also not a fan of how it changes your route without telling you. I intentionally selected a routed that took major highways, but after stopping for gas the app changed my route to a shorter (by distance) trip that was on small, poorly maintained roads through rural areas (with very poor cell coverage). When combined with the navigation silently failing in poor cell coverage, this has made for a very poor user experience.
Videogame Pioneer Ralph Baer Dies
Apparently, Ocado did indeed finally turn a profit this year:

http://www.theguardian.com/business/marketforceslive/2014/ju...

A pity to see even they're running so lean on the profit margins - I've found them to offer the best organised process for actually getting the groceries inside, where all the crates are staged first, then the bags unhooked and hefted inside, taking very little time at all, versus the loose bags or even completely loose items of the other supermarket delivery operations.
"Thinking Fast and Slow", was definitely the most impacting book for me last year. Highly recommended.
I read a good part of this a few years ago, but stopped reading. Interesting read to understand Caesar, but after finishing about half the book I felt like I was not getting anything more out of it.
Fantastic book. If you are an introvert (and many here likely are) you should really consider this book an investment in understanding yourself. I can't count the number of times I was nodding my head in agreement, thinking I had been the only one to feel a certain way.
I'm hearing the same thing on the ground - US citizenship is highly prized but people are still dropping it like a hot potato because of this.

The article is wrong in that:

>We are the only country (except, arguably, Eritrea) that taxes all of its citizens on worldwide income

Nope. South Africa does this too...the rules are very forgiving though so it tends to be OK anyway despite it being technically "world-wide income".
Talking Point: The Time Is Right for a Nintendo Phone
That is really intermittent for me. When I first started using Google now, I got them. These days, it only shows destinations I frequently travel to.
Holiday 2014: Lowe's Canada Winter Wish List Sweepstakes
This has been available on Android for a while:

Firefox: www.foxtophone.com

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-chrome-to-p...
It's also a little confusing because there are sets which do not have a well-defined natural density among the integers, like:

leastpow2 x = head $ dropWhile (\k -> 2*k <= x) $ map (2^) [0..]
p k = k < 3 * (leastpow2 k `div` 2)
limitless = [k | k <- [0..], k == 0 || p k]

which oscillates between attaining 1/2 and then 2/3 for its partial densities.
I'm more impressed that she makes almost as much as the highest paid NCAA coach[1].

[1] http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/
>Every article on Uber that I can remember reading feels like a negative hit piece..... Something like: "pay-up or the hits will keep coming".

If every article is negative so as to extort money then that's quite a grand conspiracy amongst the worlds journalists going on. Maybe the simpler explanation is their just not liking companies behaving like dicks?
This seems unsurprising, given the game industry's notorious reputation for developer burnout. The developers don't know how to write good code because by the time they've learned they've burned out and left the industry. They're then replaced by clueless young people, and the cycle repeats.
NPM dependencies are a very robust method for ensuring that a module has what it needs to function "out of the box". What else are you looking for here?
Using your argument you can say that the only industries that exist are the service industry and the product industry.
Is my startup idea solving a real need out there?
howdy,

I recently launched a website this past spring (www.gradfly.co) to narrow the gap between hardware and software developers. It's a pivot from another concept we were working on. I'm trying to see whether there's truly a need for this before I invest more time and money into it.

In a nutshell, it's a repository and QA forum for hardware projects like Github and Stack Overflow are for code. It would be a site where professional and enthusiast developers (both hardware and software) come together to collaborate and become part of a "crowd-instructing" community. You'd find resources, talent, and example projects to help with products or concepts you're trying to design.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be awesome.

Thanks!
Especially when being a college president generally already includes use of a mansion and a ton of free food and travel, so the college president can pretty much bank their entire salary.
I'm a huge Murakami fan. Did not had the chance to read it. I'll now.
I love Dungeon World with all my heart. I'm a newbie GM as well, and it's the first game I ever ran (like a year and a half ago).

I love the philosophical approach it takes to the game --a rules-light, minimal-prep collaboration between the GM and the players. One of the core principles for the GM is "Ask questions, use the answers", which is wonderful to me. In a couple different games I ran of DW, we started with just the player's character choices, and the questions I decided to ask, and got rolling from there.

For anyone interested--the rules are free on their website, and there's a thriving G+ community, "Dungeon World Tavern" (can't link it at work) with very creative people. Also, the "Indigo Galleon" adventure, from the DW website, is my favorite, and a good place to start. It was the first thing I GM'd, and I'll be running it for a third time next Wednesday.

If anyone's looking at it and has questions, let me know --I love seeing people get into this game (or pen-and-paper RPGs in general).
I really enjoyed Ulysses also. The book has a reputation for being a little opaque, but I read it lightly (i.e., just enjoyed the words going by and didn't worry if I didn't understand everything).
With both libraries MIT licensed, there could easily be movement of code from io.js to node.js once the team at Joyent were satisfied that the code has been done correctly.

I fail to see how there can be controversy over forking MIT licensed software.
I actually wrote that wording for LLVM, so i'm happy to explain the discrepancy.

Basically, we messed up when we changed the runtime license (I said MIT license when I meant zlib license, which only requires reproduction of notices in the source code), and had to issue a policy statement on the license to make people happy.
It is not accurate, legally, in its description of the MIT license. Effectively, by this statement, we are giving permission to not reproduce the notice, even though the license would actually require it.

You don't have to take my word for it though, ask any other open source lawyer whether MIT requires notice reproduction for binaries.

:)

I would urge Rust not to make the same mistake.
(This mistake is currently being fixed in a few other "new" languages, in fact)
Rumor has it the public transportation in India is kinds unsafe too.
Yep, it is a common situation in the U.S.
I can't imagine the amount of ambiguity that comes up in every day conversation when the name of your project/division is "here". Do you have internal language that's used to avoid such ambiguity?
No. Long time (6+ years)DoTA player, I can't see this type of game working without a mouse and a keyboard. I've tried FPS's and MMO's on tablets and they are always dissatisfying, I doubt this would be any better.
It can be a April Fools video and still be correct. Basically it's a moot video because you can use the same logic to prove that any digit has the same properties or converse property (that three exists almost NO where because the probability of a number doesn't have three is P(n)=1-1/10^n and as n->∞ P(n)->0
> feel increasingly archaic as time goes on?

It really depends on where you are born.As an american,you can move almost freely across the world.That's not the case if you're born in some god forsaken place in Africa for instance.Being born in the "right place" is definitely a privilege.Trust me.

> but there seems to be a growing trend to simply follow the wealth--whether it be money, standard of living, etc.

It has always been that way.There's nothing new about that.People have been moving where there are better opportunities for centuries.
E.g. here:

http://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?t=44832&page=16

It seems to occur only using the web-installer, which is the one you're offically prompted at by the creators of JDownloader.

Well, I removed JDownloader and manually fixed the start page and search engines of firefox to remove the sweet-page stuff, but somehow my firefox is still screwed.

Questionable decision by the maker of JDownloader. I can't imagine that the money he gets for this is worth the damaged reputation.

Edit: I just ran an adware scanner. Besides the Sweet Page stuff, WindowsManagerProtect and Hold Page was installed. Several Registry Entries and Firefox setting were infected. Unbelievable ...
This article shows that Waze's method of crowd sourcing maps is the right way to go. Waze is able to have realtime detailed information about every street, building, directions, etc. including all the details that were discussed in the article + much more (e.g. future road changes), and most importantly it does that in a fraction of the cost.
Now it seems that the 1.3B that Google paid for it is probably a bargain
As a green card holder, you are already taxed as a US permanent resident (ie: in the exact same way as a US citizen, regardless of where you live). If your bank knows and hasn't forced you to close your account, they're probably OK with having you. If they don't know, well, use your best judgment.
If you're fascinated by maps and digital cartography and haven't done so yet, do check out OpenStreetMap! It's competitive to Bing, HERE, etc. but everything is open, and the data is yours to play with.

There are projects based on OSM for routing, geo search, map editing, etc. that are also free. Definitely a lot of room for both programmers and non-programmers to contribute.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page
> and the fact that titles+urls i submit -- don't get upvoted or flagged -- is not due to an overzealous gatekeeper but because they fall through the cracks. no one sees them.

Other people's submissions are getting upvoted or flagged, so its probably not that no one is seeing yours (though there are potential timing issues that might make that the case), its probably just that no one is either interested in or objecting to them.

> and perhaps it is time that yc updated their submission form so that the content can be more nuanced (classified) and say, if i, for example, want to look at breaking news in an emergent field like cryptocurrencies i click on that page, the way that i can look at the jobs or show sections.

I think YC specifically does not want to be maintaining something like Reddit that covers everything under the sun, and limiting the classification breadth and depth is a tool to encourage that.

> if that is not feasible, do you think the hn community will continue to fracture with new hn clones being set up

I think new discussion forums, including ones that are generally similar to HN and target some segment of the same audience, or going to continue to get set up no matter what HN does. And that's a good thing.
In theory KR is a TD game. In practice though most of TD games is such a crap that Kingdom Rush pretty much sits in its own category. They should have no problem whatsoever getting to the top spot on Steam.
Well said. Very similar situation to my own.
> A few exceptions about my move: * Father-in-law was Vice President, of the country at the time (I left before he became president)

Hahaha, come on man, I'm pretty sure that if you're part of the ruling social class of any given country your life is defeinitely going to be much more enjoyable than if you aren't.
It's a deprecated format that was essentially Microsoft's first experiment at an XML based format in the Office XP/Office 2003 days... whether it will continue to be supported in future versions is anybody's guess, given that the successor format OOXML is much more widely adopted.
Eaten Alive Guy Wasn't Eaten Alive After All
americanframe will print and frame for decent prices.. twitter/fb generally has discounts/promos as well.
The Chronicle of Higher Ed has a more detailed story
http://chronicle.com/article/Behind-RPIs-Highly-Paid/150441/

Of interest:

"Most of the former top-level administrators at RPI who spoke with The Chronicle would do so only on the condition of anonymity, saying they still feared retaliation from Ms. Jackson because of her broad influence not only in higher education but also in politics and business. "
Getting a London black cab license is about as difficult.
I like the Kingdom Rush games a lot, and wish Ironhide Games nothing but further success.

That being said, this letter is cloying. A letter where you tell someone you care about that you don't have it in you to be with them isn't a love letter, it's a "Dear John" letter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_John_letter). For the recipient, those two types of letter are very different!

It would have been 100% fine to just say "look, it would take a huge effort to bring Origins to PC, and we don't have the money or the energy for that." There's no need to dress it up in shiny happy "we love PC!" platitudes.
This is pretty funny honestly. I bet that if you asked /r/programming to impersonate HN you would get a similar thread.

Node.js is basically a curse word on proggit.
citizenship seems more of a formality

Hardly a formality for citizens of countries that aren't any fun to live in and aren't easy to leave. Ask a Syrian or a North Korean if citizenship is a formality.
Indeed, there are quite a few similar examples. Remember CUSeeMe, an early VoIP app? Now all but forgotten outside the HN crowd, and yet Skype managed quite well several years later.

One could argue the Newton falls into that category, coming simply too early for pervasive (sometimes) high speed cellular data, where Palm/Handspring and RIM fared so well - even if transiently - later on.