skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like they haven't updated Chrome to the new API as the benchmarks here still show it as significantly slower: http://octane-benchmark.googlecode.com/svn/latest/index.html

I agree about the Android market, but at least there are alternative sources like f-droid which usually have a selection of better apps.

I tried 'vnc viewer' and 'vnc client', neither of which worked too well. There are probably better ones if I would've kept looking
Ahem, meaning "manipulate crontab entries in a vfs" and not "store files in cron".
I was considering going freelance myself and these are questions I also considered. I hope someone with experience replies and we can turn this into a very useful post.
Ask HN: I am a copy/paste programmer, is that bad?
I wouldn't be able to write a simple HTML page from scratch. Google (more specifically Stackoverflow) is a vital part of my IDE! I've always sucked at remembering stuff but in compensation I got logical and analytical skills. I do not blindly paste the code, I do read it and see if it fits, but I would certainly have a bad time if not code references where around while coding. So, am I a bad programmer? Or is this way of programming more common than I think?
What is more amazing is the NFL is a non-profit organization and is exempt from paying taxes.
Might be naive, but it feels to me like this type of propoganda from the various militaries and TLA's should be illegal.

I wonder if that's where Google were going with their real name policy... if you can link stuff back to a real person, they're less likely to be a shill. Maybe being generous there.
"I've been looking to get into web development" - One of my friends from a similar background described web development as the fusion of many tools and languages. Guess he was right.

If you're planning to dive in, learn stuff sequentially. You have a grasp of PHP? Cool, since you're just getting getting started, why don't you brush up your HTML/CSS and basic designing skills? The best way to start is : Codecademy, without even thinking twice signup, go directly to the Web Designing Page and start the tutorial. You don't need to complete the whole Course, drop it when you think you have learnt enough. Enough for basic understanding.

There, you got hold of the frontend part, in the same way learn Javascript. Make things. Make stupid things. Doesn't matter if it doesn't have any functionality, you'll learn from the errors, warnings, etc. When you're stuck, google. StackOverflow is huge, and if your problem doesn't exist there, you're probably doing it wrong.

After this phase, I started out with PHP(Later switched to Python/Flask). Why PHP? Because it just worked out of the box. Go ahead, if it doesn't work for you, find another language. BUT if you directly pounce on a framework's documentation page, then you'll end up knowing nothing serious about web development. The frameworks are for developers who have already went through the hard-coding part, and want something to boost the development. Go for Laravel maybe, but only once you're sure about PHP. Again, Codecademy's gonna be helpful here. PHP course looks promising.

While you're at it, you'll learn about MySQL, how to use it, how to use it with your language, you'll learn about other database technologies, NoSQL, and while reading the pros and cons you'll find out if you have actually learnt it the right way.
Check out an extension called OneTab. You will LOVE it!
Steam Inventory Automation for Chrome
> You can add them when you're actually facing a bug that you don't know the cause of.

EDIT: Sorry, mostly rewrote this comment. Apologies if anyone responded during that time.

Sure, but then you're just reacting to bugs. Wouldn't you like to preemptively prevent bugs? I think this is why you might like to use a C++ compiler rather than an interpreter?

Just reacting is sort of like "what you don't know won't kill you". But the thing is that it might end up killing you (figuratively, not as in avionics). Personally, I think it's part of due diligence as a consultant. Anything this will reduce our chances of making an error before runtime is worth it -- up to a point. Does auto-adding "override" exceed the cutoff point? I don't think so.

Btw, how do you know that these potential problems aren't causing (small per day, but large over time) monetary damage? If you have end-to-end metrics, then you're probably fine, but it can be very hard to judge if bugs are actually causing you damage.

(I'm going on a huge assumption here, namely that this tool -- which I'm not familiar with -- is actually semantics-preserving -- which is an extremely hard problem in C++.)
it looks pretty enterprise ready
If it was automatically handled, why would the author mention it specifically?

And if you have to go to the "very thorough OpenBSD documentation" just to configure basic desktop setup, then no, it doesn't "just work". You shouldn't need to go to documentation to set things like timezone or user/pass, so why is documentation mentioned for a "just works" install?
Who cares about Super Bowl anyway. Stopped watching this pointless commercialized spectacle years ago.
That's normal don't let the online video tutorials fool you. They have it on another screen or a paper to make you think they are super genius by typing long snippets of code without even a typo.
The Israeli military has been doing this for a while:

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/...

http://www.fastcompany.com/3003305/inside-israeli-militarys-...
That's a pretty cool story you got there :)

clang-format is actually my favourite out of the two. I never had a real use case for clang-modernize (I did try it once though; just to see the magic happen). clang-format however impresses me pretty much every day. It doesn't really do anything Go's "fmt" command can't do, but it just looks so much more impressive given C++'s complex syntax.
Should have asked the poor dude about Node and JavaScript's suitability on the server-side. Can't help but cringe every time I see the latest abuse.
WCOSS (Tide & Gyre): IBM iDataPlex/Intel Sandy Bridge/Linux

208 trillion calculations/sec; 10,048 processing cores; 2,590 trillion bytes of storage

[xref: http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/GFS/doc.php#comopesys]
No sunlight in the images? For starters, here is a n image of the sun:
http://kurtmunger.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures...
Numenta's primary goal is not solving practical problems (such as those typical in ML field) - it's understanding how neocortex processes information. They believe that once they understand enough, they will be able to build a system that works like a brain (and then it will be able to solve any problems that a brain can solve).
Obviously, this is work in progress. They might have a breakthrough in two years, or in two decades, but the point is that not many others are trying to do that at all (definitely no one in ML field).
I propose a law of esoteric langauges:

If there exists, in popular culture, a character with a comically limited vocabulary (e.g. Groot, The Librarian in Discworld) then there shall be a Brainfuck variant based on its vocabulary. (In our example, Grootlang and Ook)
I'm reasonably sure that the comment is either made by troll or someone suffering from mania.
That's a bit misleading. Each of the teams are a for-profit enterprise and pay taxes on the huge amount of money they bring in.
I posted this a long time ago, feels relevant:

https://archive.org/details/CC501_hypercard

It's a Conputer Chronicles episode on HyperCard with creator Bill Atkinson.

What's striking is how ordinary people (the used-car salesman for instance) actually _programmed_ their machines to solve a real-world problem.

This is such a drastically different paradigm then today, where even the savvy are more often consumers than producers, when it comes to computing.

Anyway, HyperCard was amazing.
The article says they set new distance and duration records, at 7000 miles and 137 hrs respectively, but the Breitling Orbiter 3 did a 25000 mile track in over 19 days in 1999.

So what's the right scope for this record? Their end-points are farther apart than the Breitling guys, who essentially went the long way from Switzerland to Egypt, is that the deal? Is there a similar qualifier for duration?
Interesting: Never heard of 'split-complex numbers' before. Thanks for letting me know :)
It really looks good.

As kamphey said, you can make use of twitter to get users on board, given it's a place where you'll find people actually interested in blanqd.

Friends : Just make some of your friends use it and see if they push it forward to others or not. That's a great way to start, and also validate if it will work that way or not.

Product Hunt, HN, others: Either you go to blogs directly, or you make them notice you on these websites. Have you posted it on ProductHunt yet? If not, do it and see what people have to say about it.
Side note: Dropcam would be awesome if you could save video to LAN over WiFi, but they insist on cloud.

Lots of people buy them thinking you can connect them up as standard IP cameras only to realise you've got to give up your privacy to do do.

Nice looking hardware all the same.
This one[1] in the same vein is pretty amazing, too.

[1]: http://www.kongregate.com/games/CosmicMaher/after-years-in-d...
Indeed, automatic (and largely implicit) use of SIMD and OpenMP by the compiler is very very good with F90 compared to almost all other widely used languages.
Infinite Noise true random number generator
Motivation != bullshitting yourself.

Motivations is a feeling of a dissonance, of a lack of quality. It is a feel of abused "artistic sense".

Read some classic about Motorcycle Maintenance.)

btw, "artistic sense" works the same way as "hard-wired empathy" does - via evolved "machinery" in a brain.
Is this new to anyone? I have been using bit-bucket for writing a book for a couple of months. I figured this is pretty common. The Markdown language is great for writing technical material.
Go, John, don't stop.
Ask HN: Are Riot (League of Legends) and ISPs Violating Net Neutrality?
See here: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/help-support/0hVNFnPH-na-server-roadmap-update-pops-peering-and-the-north-bridge

Some people are saying they aren't, and maybe I don't know enough about the subject, but it seems like it to me.
Pick a client that seems trustworthy or comes via a friend recommendation. Ask for 1/4 or 1/2 the money up front. Don't worry about copyright, and often clients themselves will have standard contracts they use.

If you are concerned with the complexity, start out using a platform like oDesk which will take care of much of the payment and legal risk. Be sure to bill hourly not fixed amount.

I've written and signed many contracts, but ultimately for casual contracting it's most important to just find people you trust to work for/with.
Clicky: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/help-support/0hVNF...
I agree that the issue about hoarding is true. In my context, I'm actually thinking about more of a personal system that happens to have journal as part of it (and to do list, and personal knowledge etc.). Partly a reason why I think the spare machine is not a good idea (processing data on it would be a hassle), and why paper doesn't work.
No, it's not misleading. "The National Football League takes in more than $9.5 billion per year and is exempt from Federal taxes." source
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomwatson/2014/01/30/the-real-su...

Update: Keep down-voting all you want. The Forbes article is weak in classifying all of the NFL as one entity. The below link gives a good overview of the structure of the NFL and it's tax exceptions. I'm glad I read it. That said the NFL still shouldn't be a non-profit organization.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/01/nfl-tax-exem...
You could try and stop leaks like this by having an email system that makes slightly different tweaks to the textual content, so every version is slightly different. Then after the leak you can copy the text and it gives you back the leaker.
i am Groot

(i.e. +1 for the effort)
It was a pure helium balloon, no burner. The Breitling was a hybrid:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozi%C3%A8re_balloon
I would think "We are Groot" would be better as the command to accept one byte of input.
Not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice.

I'm fairly sure it's called a limited liability clause. They are literally everywhere. Ski resorts, adventure parks, paintball facilities, and even pools. There are many ways these are worded. Keep an eye out anytime you partake in a service/activity where there is a whiff of danger.

Edit: In terms of asset protection (losing houses and retirement) an LLC, GmbH, or Pty. Ltd. will limit loses to assets owned by the company.

Again talk to a lawyer.
Ooo, thanks for the tip on Manjaro. I'm an Arch addict, give me the pure stuff. But I've been looking for a good alternative to Ubuntu Desktop for introducing Linux to newer users. Steam pre-packaged would be a plus for that demographic :)

IMO, if someone doesn't like the design philosophy because it strays too far from Arch, why do they care? It's not actually Arch Linux. It doesn't affect them. That's the beauty of a fork.
Relying as breadcrumbs for when I need to reference.
_ => boom
Even though I got a laugh out of it, I propose we change the definition of esoteric programming languages to require more creativity from their designer than reimplementing brainfuck with different tokens for the operators.
Yes!

Adding to this, try not to reinvent the wheel. If you're trying to code something which is already there and open-sourced, go for it; include it in the project and work on it.

Ask for 1/2 of the fixed amount / working hours upfront. This will ensure that your client is actually interested and won't easily dump the project.
Here's a really interesting read about the trials of upgrading to WCOSS: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/...
What the hell, I scrolled down and got a football article instead. What kind of insane new design thing is that?
This article links to an older Ars article, which links to Wendy Seltzer's blog, which appears to be offline.

Here's the referenced blog post:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140331144544/http://wendy.selt....

And here's an archive of the entire series of events:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708110042/http://wendy.selt...
If you don't have wired networking configured, fw_update(1) won't be able to fetch firmware on first boot, in that case it needs to be run manually.

The timezone and a default user can be created during installation, however yes, it is perfectly acceptable to expect that a user is capable of reading documentation.
a large number of Americans seem to think the same. It's easy to seem the best if you keep your views parochial enough.
Dear journalists who are covering this story. (1) get the actual contract. Does it back up what this artist is claiming? (2) Find out the name of the Google employee who was telling the artist these things, corroborate the testimony of the artist and determine whether the employee was a high-level executive or lawyer within Google, or if they were just a customer service representative who had no authority to be giving legal advice to a customer on behalf of the company.

With all due respect this article does not go into any specific detail of what real evidence exists to back up this story.
> I specifically point out that the desktop metaphor was created for use cases that are very different from how we use computers nowadays. Desktops are not problematic because they're old, but because what we use desktop PCs for has changed a lot.

Are you referring to the "launching applications and managing files are two different things" part?

Another explanation for the move to applications like iTunes that manage files outside the file manager could be that Microsoft's particular file manager is just terrible and unusable. (As is Apple's modern incarnation of the Finder, in mostly the same way – see Siracusa's explanation[1] for details.)

In OS/2's Workplace Shell, applications and files were just two among many of the kinds of objects you could manipulate. For instance, you could drag a document to a printer to print it, or to the shredder to delete it. You could drag template objects to create new files. You could drag colors to windows to assign that color to the window. (Some of these things are possible in Windows as well, but it's not emphasized and doesn't work as well.)

In BeOS, the Tracker, thanks to its support for arbitrary file metadata, could integrate with a mail or music application and allow you to manage its object hierarchy exactly the same way you managed your other files.

So, in my opinion, the old interface was just a half-assed implementation of a basically good idea. The new idea is to give up, throwing away the simplicity and flexibility of the old design, and reimplement file management in every application.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2003/04/finder/
But now, you can fight your government WITH entertainment.
Rome would've found this brilliant.

But try telling the plebs that the revolution won't be a twitter hashtag. They won't listen.
No, it's still by computer. But some of them I can do by hand but that's only a few so far.
P.s. am not trying to start an argument. Just letting you know the norm in comments here. Remember that all commenters are human beings. Don't assume the worst if there's a charitable interpretation of comments. Cheers!
So no, I wouldn't like to preemptively prevent bugs, at least for any substantial cost or risk. At least not in my line of work, which usually focuses on exploratory or risky new features where some tolerance for bugs is allowed. As 37signals says, you can't save time, you can only do less. Every effort you make in a code change is a sunk cost (and often leads to more sunk costs, if follow-on changes are necessary), so you should only do it if it gets you something.

FWIW, the tool is semantics-preserving, and I actually like it (and the general suite of clang refactoring tools) a lot. My point isn't for or against the tool, it's about the general philosophy of maintenance changes. You should use it if you have already decided you're going to switch to C++11, and value style consistency across your team. Or if you are actively having a problem with code maintenance and new features are becoming hard to add - this was the situation that Google was in when we developed the tool. Or because your developers will be happier if they get to use C++11 and don't have to do the conversion work themselves. You should not use it because you read about it on the Internet, or because it's the new hotness.
>making it possible to actually download the PDF

The journal they published in, Physical Review X, is a newer open-access journal from APS (along the same lines as PLOS ONE or Nature Scientific Reports). I think it's great but not everyone agrees. To read more on the debate around the open-access phenomenon look at http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2013/10/04/open-access-is-not-the-... and http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full
Which method are you referring to when you said "I used to keep a diary this way"? An air gap computer?
I've never really understood why Groot stopped being able to say more than his name - he could talk just fine until 2008 or so:

http://13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/acstarlo...

(On the other hand, the fully-talking character was a bit of a jerk, so perhaps it's better this way.)
I refuse to use this unless it has a javascript compiler.
A great man by the name of Einstein said something to the effect of: "Never try to remember anything you can easily look up in a book." (paraphrasing here). I don't think I've ever met a programmer that codes complicated programs by memory alone.
Honestly this is great. I just played through Super Metroid and I felt so strongly about how we need a new Metroid that is 2D and has the same aesthetic. There is no comparison to how clean and slick and original that game feels.
So now social media is a platform for the continuation of war by other means?[0] This feels like a slippery slope
potentially leading to a morass of misinformation and
confusion, not only among the putative enemy but for all
readers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz
The NFL is an industry association; it exists to further the health and welfare of its industry (American football). Furthermore, the NFL doesn't take in revenue at all; it runs at an operating loss. Instead, NFL Ventures (which is a for-profit corporation) collects all monies related to the league and passes that money along--less a (taxed) retained cushion--to the teams and the teams' ownership, which are likewise taxed as per normal for-profit entities.

So, yes, your claim is misleading and your defense of it worse.
I was living in a motorhome, about 200 square feet, and traveling full-time. I held onto it for about a year, in the motorhome, but it just didn't make sense. I couldn't play it without being on the grid (too power hungry for the batteries), and had to move it every time I brought the slide in...and it was heavy as hell to be moving it around all the time. I sold it for a fair price, and once I settled into a fixed house again, I picked up another Marshall (a JCM 2000, this time, which is admittedly not in the same league as a six knob 800, but it's not a bad amp, at all). And, I have the little Vox, which is a great little amp. I play the Vox far more often than the Marshall, in fact.

I have owned a lot of classic gear over the years and have sold most of it. I view it as borrowing it from the universe rather than "owning it". If I buy it used, and I sell it for what I paid for it, or more, I find I have a healthier relationship with my things (I'm in charge, not the things). When moving into the motorhome, I sold a lot of great stuff. Antique furniture (my mom is an antique dealer, so my house was nicely furnished), synthesizers and guitars and amps, etc. The cost of keeping it was the cost of storing it, which would have added up to far more than its value over four years.

Anyway, these days, I have a good big amp (the JCM2000), a good little amp (the Vox AC4V), a good acoustic guitar (Gibson J45), a good electric guitar (Schecter from when Schecter made really good guitars by hand in California), a good bass (G&L L2000), and a good drum set (Roland TD4S). That's my minimum for musical happiness, and I try not to keep anything else, even if I acquire stuff temporarily to play with it.
Sorry about my keyboard there. first sentence should be 'So is there a desktop capable of being secure enough for OpenBSD?'
So let's get this straight: The author takes a single critique of Danish culture. Then asserts that this demonstrates that Danes can't be all that happy, and therefore concludes the Danes really just have low expectations.

Then the author notes that low Gini coefficients tend to be considered a good thing for happiness. But the author decides that actually low Gini coefficients (combined with Denmark's shocking ethnic homogeneity) are actually a bad thing, so Danes have even less excuse to be happy.