skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you sign up with someones referral code then you get free credit (the amount varies depending on country, in England it's £10 at present) and the referrer gets credit too. Anyone with an Uber account can refer people, for example here is my link: http://uber.com/invite/ubercitricsquid

Alternatively you can just search "uber invite" on Twitter and you'll find any number of people hawking their own referral links. There was an article earlier in the year about someone who gained tens of thousands of dollars in Uber credit through taking advantage of the referral system: http://www.businessinsider.com/blake-jareds-50000-uber-credi...
A place to share which framework you use and why you use them? http://www.stackbus.com/
Doesn't matter whether the light is artificial or not. If the wavelength is about 470 nm (blue), it will suppress melatonin. There's been done many experiments/studies on this - here are a few:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11763987

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14962066

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20463367

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22850476

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19444752

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20652045
exactly, /r/romesweetrome comes to mind among many others
Here's a promo code for a free ride (helps me, too): SNIMH
In 2012 General Keith Alexander gave a keynote at DEF CON; basically a recruiting speech asking for white-hats to share with the government. Then, after Snowden, In 2013 Dark Tangent (DEF CON founder) asked feds to take a break. I believe he did last year as well.
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I don't judge. I don't even think about it. I just give whatever I can afford when asked. Sometimes it's $20+. Other times it is nothing.
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The i5 is fine for running multiple applications at once. The i7 adds hyperthreading, which allows each core to act like two virtual cores to run parallelized calculations more quickly, but in some cases it actually comes out slower than with hyperthreading turned off. The only way to know for sure is testing, but games are almost certainly not optimized for this.

For a gaming rig, I wouldn't bother.
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Coinbase joins Pinterest in doing right by employees. Will others?
Flip the plot and make it a heist movie.

Movie opens with Chinese cyber-ops lab, head honcho brings in McGuffin device, plugs it in. Cut to scenes in US of machines being compromised, data, leaking, cars stopping, TV broadcasts being controlled.

Our protagonist is shown, recognising the attack and taking action: she unplugs her computer and goes for a run past stranded trucks and cars.

Titles.

A few weeks later, media is still talking about the biggest attack on US computers. CIA meeting discusses that the Chinese head of cyber-ops is known to be attending Black Hat with the McGuffin (it never leaves him). CIA has a team on trying to hack him, but two deepthroats in the room talk to each other about their suspicion that one of the CIA team is a double-agent.

One Deep Troat, a high level agent from black-ops three letter agency approaches our protagonist, an independent pentester, a hippy wunderkind living in an RV in New Mexico. They ask her to take her team to Vegas, make the hack and identify the CIA mole.

They plan the hack, involving lots of physical as well as digital subterfuge. Then they go to Vegas, have scenes of being out of their element, then the hack begins and they mostly raise their game. The CIA team detects them, destroying their hopes of finding the mole, so they focus on the McGuffin.

At the last minute it turns out the Wunderkind's best friend on her team has also been turned as a spy, and gives her identity to the CIA mole and Chinese authorities. Wunderkind has to finish the hack alone, while being hunted down by both agents.

She does so, even managing to tag her former friend so he can be picked up by the authorities, as the Chinese leave him out to dry when they retreat. Movie ends with Wunderkind receiving an offer from black-ops to work for shadow 3-letter agency full time. She returns to her RV and shreds the offer letter.
Uber isn't Amazon. They aren't selling phones and tablets at cost (or at a loss) in an attempt to get customers. They aren't investing in things like AWS or acquiring companies.
I can't seem to find those excellent conversations.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9986429

Edit: Here it is. It didn't have stagefight in the title.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9954686
my server crashed haha !! I'm working on it to put it back up :)
> You can have opinions and attempt to have influence, but you have no flat out rights unless you are a decision maker at the corporation.

That simply isn't true, as evidenced by Digg. The users, as a whole, are the one thing of value Reddit has and Reddit inc. has very little control over them.
Those should have been 0 and 0.1 in his list. Agree with all 12 points. My little grain of sand: use all the tools available to avoid bugs: a good IDE and/or code linters/inspectors can work wonders on a codebase. I've seen people still programming with "just a text editor" (not Sublime, vi, emacs or any powerfull text editor, I'm talking little less than Notepad with syntax highlighting) telling you "it's just I don't like IDEs" when asked about it.
Yelp is fucked; they don't seem to have innovated in years and they've been riding on the whole reviews for restaurants for a while. Expanding into healthcare doesn't make sense unless they split it out as a separate web site or app; Yelp is for restaurant reviews, this only dilutes their brand.
How are you establishing that people are "just there to get pills"?
There are 160 issues labeled "Unfortunate."
Why? Because it's a common word and difficult to google? I refer you to Java, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Forth, and Lisp.
Ironically Googlers could not google the name before picking it for their new language.
>Google's own programming language is by far the worst language to search on Google.

I always found this somewhat ironic.

It seems that when a language is mistakenly given a unsearchable name (go & rust I'm looking at you) then searching with lang after works better (golang).

They should have just called it golang and been done with it.
Go++
This scales up to about 10-15 lines of code before it becomes impractical in most modern imperative languages. Functional languages due to their higher level constructs get better mileage out of the technique but there is still a small practical limit to the technique.

It also doesn't work if your team isn't co-located.
Link seems to be dead.
I was trying to keep things in the most general terms. A problem is certainly that you can hardly talk to the mob (I’ve tried that in some cases of cyberbullying, racism etc. on Reddit). You simply get downvoted and your comment gets buried.

It seems that there too few feedback loops in the Reddit community, possibly because it’s so easy to be ignorant online, and the popular ones are also of pretty low quality (SRS, subredditdrama, …). Those who can provide high quality feedback are too few and probably also don’t care enough.
Pretty sure they told the Wall Street Journal that they weren't profitable at these prices. No leaked documents required. https://twitter.com/NeilAnAlien/status/627873374505562112
This is actually mandatory for gTLDs:

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/errp-2013-02-28-en
Seems like a very interesting project.
A Week in SE Asia with the Prime Minister and UKTI
Because red is the color of blood.
They are investing in expanding and protecting market share. Clearly they are already far and away the dominant player internationally. They're spending wildly on things like driver guarantees, paying fines on behalf of drivers, lobbying etc. If they can spread Uber around the world and defeat regulatory challenges they can become profitable.
What mandatory insurance does Uber fail to provide?
Also using ractive here. Very happy with it.
Ah YTMND... what a sharp rise and steady fall

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=YTMND&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%...
And this | is not a pipe.
When they move into a new town, the prices seem to be really low to attract new users. I think during this initial phase they may actually end up paying for each ride to entice both drivers and passengers.
4 things that happened in PHP while you weren’t looking
>well, Iran wasn't going to too

The proposal by the Obama administration does not stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons. From a very, very optimistic perspective it may delay that by a few years. Iran will have nukes pointed at Tel Aviv sooner than later. Of course Israel is upset at the deal. Iran screams about starting a new Jewish Genocide daily. Israel has the moral right to defend itself and the Obama administration has throw it under the bus.

Diplomacy didn't stop Syria's nuclear program either. Israeli jet fighters did (Operation Orchard). When a nation has decided to get nuclear arms, only violence stops them.

Oh well, here come the downvotes from the anti-Israeli types.
With ICANN registrars, that is true.

DENIC, for example, (which operates seperately and has their own, incompatible WHOIS system), operates .de differently:

After your domain ran out, it will get "locked", all DNS settings will be locked they were before, and you get a letter or an SMS. The domain will stay locked for 2 weeks, during that you can enter the code from the SMS or letter on a website to move the domain to another registrar or delete the domain.

If you don’t react at all, after 2 weeks, the domain goes into TRANSIT. It still stays locked, but now you get actually billed for it, until you enter the code or delete the domain.

Essentially, with DENIC, the domain stays locked until you decide to delete it or move it to another registrar.

You can also disable the TRANSIT, in that case, if the domain runs out, after 2 weeks grace period of being locked it actually runs out.

Remember: Not all NICs operate like ICANN.
All of which were invented before search engines were of much importance.
> I'd say any bug is discoverable through testing

... given sufficient time. If I give you a routine which takes one second to execute, has four parameters, which each have a maximum of 100 options, you simply can't test it to the point where you can declare it as being bug free anywhere in the next three decades.

Of course, most of our routines have more than 100 possible inputs - many have an effectively infinite number of inputs.
I use plain vailla JS with some libraries I like for the functionality I need. I can easly replace any lib when something better or some new functionality that the old lib does not implement comes out:

- form2object for form serialization

- pnotify for notifications

- routie or page.js for routing

- jqplot for graphs

- jquery for dom manipulation and ajax calls

- moment.js for date math

- socket.io for websockets

- ejs for templating

- bootstrap for the layout

and not much more really.

1. Time needed for Learning the Framework (in Hours): A few months to learn JS really well

2. Overall Development Speed (0-3 Points, greater better): 2

3. Maintainability of the Code (0-3 Points, greater better): 3

4. Why did you choose that Framework?: I didn't want to be locked in to angular when react comes out, or be locked in to react when the next big thing comes out.
Sure he has a trademark. Its just not registered.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unregistered_trademark
> From this point of view, testing will show an absence of bugs - not categorically all bugs, but all bugs I care about.

You are assuming that all the possibly disastrous bugs are bugs you care about.

In reality, it's far more likely that several of the possibly disastrous bugs are bugs you cannot even think about, let alone care.
Apologies; I shouldn't have assumed everyone is familiar with Uber. They regularly run promotions to get new users; ordering free ice cream via the app, for example. In addition to that, they have a referral program whereby one customer refers a new customer, and they both get a free or discounted ride. My invite code is xqdr9 if you want to go for a spin.

Basically, they're spending up to about $50 for each pair of users engaging in that way. It's likely the users will eventually become loyal Uber customers, but Uber might not realize that return in the short-term. It's the cost of growing so quickly, and the money they've raised is essentially to fund this.
Actually this sounds kind of fun sans the whole someone will read your credit/debit card from 5 feet away. Buy a laptop on craigslist for $100, re-format, get some throw away email accounts and see if you can go about your somewhat normal daily life on the 'Net without getting stomped as you connect across potentially hostile and un-trusted networks. The challenging part would be verifying you got through the conferences ok without any intrusions or someone sniffing your passwords.
Gophiled? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
SGX is terrifying. Botnets are not the main problem. Windows (N+1) using SGX to make it hard/impossible to remove the spyware (and other junk)[1] is the problem. As an example, take a "trusted" environment[2] and add SGX as a way of keeping end users out of the TEE.

While it is still early, SGX may be a key battlefield in the War On General Purpose Computing.

[1] e.g. the stuff discussed recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9976298

[2] http://i.imgur.com/rjbzWyB.jpg
My guess is someone who doesn't believe in alternative medicine came along and gave you a downvote.

It's nothing to think too long on, people downvote for a multitude of reasons.

It has nothing to do with unacceptable social behavior, which, of course, you did not participate in.
Haha - 12px, light grey, right at the bottom of the page. Well done for following the letter of the courtesy law, Apple.
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They're trying to turn into infrastructure. Of course they're supposed to be burning through cash and I'm happy to help them heh.
It has been in Early Preview stage for 2 months, and now the public release date is revealed.
If the metric is Google-ability," then so are a lot of other languages:

C
D
Go
Julia
R
Rust

Google's gotten a lot better when it comes to searches for C++ (formerly always wrote 'cpp'), Go ('golang'), C#, etc. But when you combine a specific search and the language it's still ambiguous for a lot of these languages.

Forever the discord between branding and specificity.
It's also a board game.

http://senseis.xmp.net/?Go

But Google already knows that. The game has been played for more than 4000 years.
Further reading on this topic: https://www.quantopian.com/posts/front-running-s-and-p-500-i...
I see this argument a lot and I really don't get it.

In the context of JavaScript, Isomorphic means "runs on the client and server".

Here's an article from 2011 that uses the word in this way, and includes a definition: http://blog.nodejitsu.com/scaling-isomorphic-javascript-code...

The fact that isomorphic means something else in a different context seems irrelevant to me.

I did 5 mins of googling and found the following mathematical terms also have different meanings when used in a software engineering or computing context:

* integration
* kernel
* product
* scalar
* module
* function
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Considering this is 6 years old, I think the general rule is you have to actively work to protect your IP or you lose it. Unless this guy got some lawyers, I don't think there's much to be said here...
In Germany, if you transport passengers commercially, your normal insurance does not apply. As, if you operate a car, you have to have an insurance, you have to have a seperate insurance for the cases where you operate a car while transporting someone commercially.

UberPop did not provide those insurances, and instead said the drivers would have to pay them themselves. As that is not acceptable for the drivers, and Uber directly suggests the drivers to just drive without insurance, the courts ruled that Uber will be fined 240k€ for every business interaction its UberPop service does without providing this insurance.

Remember, not all taxi regulations in Europe are crazy, most actually make sense.
Still, it'll be far less worse than having the carriers take care of those up-//whats?//

However, Google is moving in the right direction IMHO: don't forget that there is this weird thing named "No-Disclosure", so hopefully, you'll get a patched Android even before the bug/flaw is unveiled.
Is there a paywall on this?
All the weirdness from Reddit seems to come from historically mixing the CEO role with the Community Manager role. There should be an entire department only dealing with on-site issues and that department should have absolute authority. Reddit grew from a 2 person company where everybody did everything, but did it actually grow up once it got bigger? Reddit has had a valley golden child touch since the beginning, so normal company growth patterns haven't always happened where would you expect in the lifecycle of a company because "lol reddit—we're differunt!"

Having the CEO be at the mercy of users in a multi-million-user fractured community is like having Tim Cook be the top level escalation for Apple tech support. Sure, the users may love it, but it's not sustainable for a company. Give the users an outlet for their rage and moderation problems, but don't touch the toxic waste personally.
I know teal from Windows 95's default desktop background colour :)

Although it must be pointed out that Windows 16-colour VGA teal is a different colour to Windows 256-colour VGA teal.
I don't know if any language lacks compound words. Your first example is shard with English: (River) Dart + mouth -> Dartmouth (also Plymouth), Dart + moor -> Dartmoor.
I wish this would happen in Ontario; I know a judge struck down a non-compete/non-solicit clause in one case but employers still stick that shit in.
...are equally expensive as normal taxis...

I've only used uber twice, but it was about half as much as a taxi would have been.
Supposing that the money collected from drives is able to pay for drivers, engineering and digital infrastructure, I'd guess that the big loss comes from the cost of growing to new cities.

Usually there is a international growth employee that comes to a city, establishing an office and looking for key hires such as marketing and operation analysts. At least in Brazil, they also spend a good amount of money hiring security for big events for preventing assaults from regular taxi drivers, lawyers and also paying the bills for when Uber cars are towed away by city law enforcers.

They are constantly issuing vouchers for free and discounted rides, as well as making promotional campaigns where they deliver ice cream or nail-care services for free.
I don't know if it's "fraud," but Netflix's "Recently Added," "Recently Released" etc categories are just plain cynical, at the least.
IANAL but if you agreed to their terms and uploaded something then you've relicensed it to them. This is the same as those misguided souls posting copyright notices under their Facebook messages.
Throw away account.

I live in South Africa where we have homeless people on almost every street corner. Because of this it is quite easy to be desensitized about the divide in wealth. It is also difficult knowing who to give money to as a lot of homeless people don't want help and will buy cheap alcohol and drugs so giving money can often enable something you really do not want. I also find it difficult to build any sort of relationship with someone homeless because they move around a lot, I've also spent a lot of time and money cleaning some people up, buying new clothes and organising job interviews for car guarding at shopping centres only to find out that I've been taken advantage of. Instead now days I give 5% of my salary to charities and NGO's who specialize in helping the needy.
Among other stuff, Let's Plays (basically an early version of what guys like TotalBiscuit or PewDiePie do on YouTube now) started on SA and got really popular across the Internet, leading to a huge influx of very different users that completely changed the character of the site.
What about motherboard support? I can't usually find any motherboard with ECC support that also has decent onboard sound...
Completely unnecessary side note: It's run by one of my old professors[1]! The whole physics department at Michigan Tech is a cool little diamond in the middle of the Upper Peninsula rough.

1: http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
How does this help the wider Android ecosystem or is Google pretty much saying it doesn't care about the non Nexus market ?

Google holds all the cards in solving Androids security patch problem. The fact that they haven't done anything about it says volumes.
I remember the whole debate over Go's naming very well.

There was even at some point a request to rename the language "Issue9" after this thread :)

I supposed it resurged now because of the migration from code.google.com to github.com.

See the original ticket here: https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9

I suppose comment 42 (you can't make that stuff up...) is the one that sparked the issue for renaming it "Issue 9".
“With the recent security issues, we have been rethinking the approach to getting security updates to our devices in a more timely manner. Since software is constantly exploited in new ways, developing a fast response process to deliver security patches to our devices is critical to keep them protected."

I don't think Mr Dong Jin Koh knows what "timely" and "fast" means. Then again, a month is better than months, except I don't think this changes too much if it took them a month to fix something they knew about. Nothing stops them from releasing a security patch in a fifth batch after discovery of a hole...
Here you go (10 days ago 122 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9956471
Exactly. And I would suggest avoiding 2 letter words as well :)
After months of agonizing, for my startup I settled on Ember.js for desktop apps, and Cordova + jQuery for tablet apps (we'll see if we need an actual framework, and if we'll want/need phone apps).

I chose Ember because its programming model feels like you're programming with classes, and in general, it's the most object-oriented of the top contenders (the others being React and Angular) and provides, in my opinion, the best way to organize your code.

Note: nothing significant has been built yet on the client-side (we are currently building the back-end with Django and Django Rest Framework). But having read documentation and done tutorials for Angular, Ember, and Knockout, plus courses for Backbone and Ember, I felt Ember, while requiring some initial commitment to learn, would give the best return on our investment.

The way the Ember project is managed also inspires confidence. "Stability without stagnation" means there won't be big, bad rewrites, or breaking changes introduced without enough of a heads up to facilitate a smooth migration to a newer version.

Edit: you mention isomorphic frameworks. One of the top contenders there is Meteor, but it currently gives you no choice but to use MongoDB, which rules it out for a lot of people.

Edit 2: fixed a typo.
Not my area of expertise, but I'd think "Go" would be very difficult to trademark given it's a generic term.
scraping is dirty, this is a much more legitimate approach
Is there a new c2 wiki where programmers hang out? I know we have HN, proggit (reddit/r/programming), and stackoverflow but where's the coder wiki where dilbert comics are posted every day? :P
16-year-old hacked a printer to make a cheaper way to detect heart disease