skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Often the problem being solved by this sort of thing isn't directly about making it easier to work with a language, but making it easier to hire developers. The hiring pool for developers who are very good with PHP is much much larger than a lot of other languages simply by virtue of it being an easy language to get started with.

This is also why Facebook has spent so much time and effort on things like HHVM and Hack.
Yes it's disappointing to see the focus on "bad" speech rather than on violence, because it makes the goals of Western government authorities a little too obvious. If they actually wanted to discourage sectarian violence, they'd be happy to have an easily searchable online resource to which the goatfuckers voluntarily post useful information like techniques, PII, etc.

Authorities' current efforts seem to be more of an attempt to sweep this stuff under the rug. If all this is hidden from the general public, we might be less inclined to scrutinize their bullshit. For all the money and human rights they've consumed here, and the hundreds of thousands killed over there, their various strategies seem to have made the alleged problem worse in every respect. That seems like something we should talk about?
You're right, except for the first point. The value of not having to return to a base or ship to refuel cannot be passed up as a small point. It's a game changer. Being able to establish FOB and project from there changes everything in irregular warfare.

I hadn't heard about the Raider costing $30 million eventually, but that's ridiculous, if it turns out to be correct. However, $30 million is still less than half that of the AH-64D.

The one thing I'll add to your criticisms is that the Raider (badly) needs more armament (perhaps another 7-shot Hydra 70 pod).
Argument: The government should be required to use open source software
But how many investigators are actual feds? There are literally hundreds, thousands even, of US police agencies. Most any one of those can setup a few computers and start looking for online crime. This guy could be from a local department of five officers, not an unusual situation in the US.
I've honestly never seen the point of vlogs. YouTube is an audiovisual medium, and I'm only interested in watching a video if it has content that absolutely needs to be aural and/or visual. For example, Let's Plays and music videos. Both of them make for great YouTube videos.

But if you're just a talking head, I'm not interested. I'd rather read a blog post. I read faster than people talk, and I honestly don't have the patience to sit there and listen when I can read the same words in a written essay in half the time.
> Most (many?) APIs, whether or not their authors call them REST, are single URL APIs that you throw JSON/YAML/whatever at. If the caller is going to get back a serialized status message (["Not found"]), then the HTTP request was successful, and it should return 200.

Having spent three years of my life writing tooling to deal with such a vendor's API, I would really, really prefer that people avoid this anti-pattern. REST is a really nice idea, and it works out tremendously well in practice. RPC-over-HTTP is not such a nice idea, and it works out rather painfully in practice.

As an aside, the mere fact that the message is serialised doesn't mean that HTTP and rest are inapplicable: HTML, XML, JSON, YAML, protobufs, s-expressions &c. are all just different forms of serialisation which can be applied to data. The RESTful way to indicate Not Found is to return a 404 status code, with a body which is useful to the client in some way. A human being might accept plain text or HTML; a programmatic client might accept a JSON or protobuf response, and probably doesn't even need one for a 404.
Since the end of the shuttles in 2011 only four US astronauts go into orbit a year. Basically NASA has two of six astronauts on the space state, for an average of six month terms.
While the ISS was being constructed as many as 20 astronauts went into space a year, for about a week.
In this Forbes article, and in http://www.cnet.com/news/paul-allen-gates-ballmer-tried-to-r... Allen doesn't come off very well. I'm not sure if that's accurate.
The issue of distinguishing high-quality execs from low-quality ones is one of the points mentioned in the Jacquart & Armstrong paper that I think the article was referencing[1].

1. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/0...
Did you read my comment?

You will have no GA cookie from any of my sites, I am not recording client identifying things or capabilities. It is a server-side push of GA and avoids all client-side interactions.

It is merely, "A page has been viewed, this one: /foo/bar?bash".

There's nothing in there that is tracking you. I'm not even embracing the session management aspect.

I get to use the tool that is best-in-class, in a way that lacks capability to track you.
What? When is someone going to sue Apple? Why would anyone even create a browser on iOS with all the restrictions?
> He could write in his free time. “I get sick with fear that I’m a bluff, that I’m actually no damned good,” he confessed.

Vonnegut clearly suffered from Impostor Syndrome.
You are correct. Google Play just added this feature as well.
Yep. I used this a few times back when I did App Store development. (Though it still takes a few hours to show up for everyone, at least as of a few years ago.)
The irony for me is that I am mostly invisible to Google Analytics, and thus the companies that rely on GA, because I mostly browse with JavaScript disabled. (When I need JavaScript, I usually crank up an incognito instance of Chrome and close it immediately when done, so I'm mostly anonymous to GA even then.)

When they go "old fashioned" and datamine their web server logs, they uncloak me. :-/
I'm doing my part. I'm moving to DuckDuckGo for searching more and more. It's a process. Google does have better results. For work I still rely on Google, for private stuff I use https://duckduckgo.com/

And for the sake of ducks, I'm eating less meat as well. No more chicken - too much antibiotics, and as little meat as possible, only when it's worth it, so great taste and good quality.
Going 100% solar makes little sense.

Something like power generation capacity, of peak load, for
30% solar, 30% wind, 30% natural gas, 30% hydro, 30% nuclear and 30% compressed air storage. Note it goes over 100% so that parts of it can be offline and peak demand can be still supplied.

The only fossil fuel, natural gas, would only be fired when electricity price was very high, like it is operated in many places already today. It is suitable for this use as the investment cost is low and the reaction time is short.
Tor is still mostly funded by US govt, why would they publicly harass you with contributing?

Only advice if you fear any backlash is to contribute Anonymously. Using Tor and a unique nickname.
http://snowplowanalytics.com/ is worth considering if you have larger volumes of traffic
Cord cutters will not be Sports Fans for the vast majority. Some will pay for online service but MOST are not able to watch sports.

As cord cutters increase the sports fans will decrease.

The money can only go up if the prices continue to go up to attend the games or watch live.

Personally I watch basketball and more and more esports have been more my focus. I don't watch football, baseball nor hockey which I did when I was younger.
Do you use pass-phrases with your per-host keys? I wanted to do this, but was unable to make it manageable. ssh-agent will only try so many keys before moving on.
Almost a haiku but not sure as memorable.
Since you already know how to use GDB and you're familiar with Assembly, Now i don't know how much Assembly you know, but you need to know how programs execute in memory, (stack , heap , syscalls.....), and once you have that clear in your mind, try to draw a map of thoughts about the logic of execution of this binary (it will be pretty simple, since it's generally small programs), look for the points and weaknesses in the logic that you might attack, one tool i use frequently is [0]peda, also using some visual gdb extension would be really helpful for you instead of checking and looking every time on how registers change values, sometimes a little knowledge about how compilers work and the OS you're working on will be really helpful although the binaries are independent in most cases, but extra knowledge is always useful.
[0]https://github.com/longld/peda
Company Selling Pre-Fab Hobbit Hole Homes That Can Be Assembled in Three Days
A Survey on Reactive Programming
Self hosted analytics is still centralizing behavioral data on the users. It's not really any better from a privacy standpoint than GA.
Kudos for this!!

it's interesting that still there's meta, probably leftover

<meta name="google-site-verification" content="pPH9-SNGQ9Ne6q-h4StA3twBSknzvtP9kfEB88Qwl0w">

EDIT: wow, thanks for your answers guys!! so nice to see Cunningham's law in action ;)
Interesting article.

I can't remember who said it, but humans tend to over-estimate change in the long term, and under-estimate change in the short term.

It will be interesting to see what changes do occur in this time frame.
Marketplace Tech had a segment on this concept yesterday. The issues of ensuring privacy, HIPPA compliance, and record keeping definitely need to be considered (US perspective). Hooking up dumping such communications to EMRs in securely acceptable fashion would be a nice middleman service.

http://www.marketplace.org/2015/12/07/tech/why-texting-dilem...
>state grants like NIH

The PhD's, researchers, and managers at Federal organizations make salaries that would classy them as "rich" in this scenario. Just because something is publicly funded doesn't mean its thrifty, efficient, or "for the people." If anything, considering what we know of how governments all over the world work, its more than likely public research and programs are wasteful and corrupt compared to private equivalents.
Absolutely! Although that said not all of them store creds in dot files by default...
The Go standard library HTTP client (net/http) changes POST/PUT redirects to GET[1] and it's super annoying.

EDIT: Here's the rationale (from [2]):

"I think the underlying principle of the matter is that if the client is going to resend the POST request body data, then RFC 2616 wants clients to get the user's consent. The trouble is that most client implementations did not resend the POST data when following 301 or 302 redirects. So the principle of getting user consent doesn't really apply.

RFC 7231 (HTTP/1.1 June 2014) changes this. It ratifies the common behavior of 301 and 302 (to not re-POST), and in doing so it leaves it up to the client to determine when it is safe to automatically redirect."

1. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/http/client...

2. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9348#issuecomment-867903...
OMG this guy is trying so hard to be the ultimate contrarian!
The issues with the Olympics are a bit different. Cities and countries are looking at the costs and realize that, for the most part, there's no way for them to recoup the money they'd have to spend on the infrastructure. Plus, at least in Norway, people were really unhappy with the demands of the IOC - among other things, there were silly demands such as a cocktail reception with the king, and a bunch of other perks that don't sit well with people.
تور کیش در هتل ستاره طلایی- ۱۸ تا ۲۱ آذر
Alt Rock Goes Mario with London's Finest, the Microdance
ESPN already tried this when the writing was on the wall almost a decade ago. ESPN360/ESPN3/WatchESPN/whatever they call it now can only be watched if your ISP pays ESPN royalties for every subscriber on a take it or leave it basis. Time Warner called their bluff and only bundles it with your connection if you also buy basic cable.

You still "pay for ESPN" in the sense that TWC prices low-end internet-only packages to be uncompetitive with cable+internet bundles, but if you opt for the internet-only package TWC keeps the money. This works out great for TWC but not so much for ESPN or sports fans used to subsidy.
The "two word" thing is a joke, but your two points are pretty good. The combination of "maintained by decently large organization" and "non-evil" is probably unique in this space.
I'm not sure. PHP7 is pretty new so package maintainers may not have had a chance to put binary releases together. You may need to compile it yourself from https://github.com/nikic/php-ast.
The evidence for metformin to slightly slow aging is not robust. It's nowhere near as good as that for rapamycin, for example. Aspirin and ibuprofen have arguably similar results in short-lived species. Which is a good argument against getting interested or excited by those results. As a general rule things that extend life by 30% in mice, worms, flies, etc, have negligible results on human life span; these short-lived species have highly plastic life spans, and we do not in comparison. Messing around with drugs in this very simplistic way is not the path to rejuvenation and radical life extension. The best data is for calorie restriction and growth hormone receptor loss of function mutations, since we have human populations for both of those, and I can tell you that they aren't living much longer than the rest of us.

For the all over the map and not all that impressive nature of metformin data, take a look at the table in this open access paper:

http://impactaging.com/papers/v4/n5/full/100455.html

The reason why metformin is getting attention now is because a coalition of researchers are using it as the narrow end of the wedge to change the FDA position on treatment of aging, which is currently that aging is not a medical condition and thus no-one is permitted to treat it. They cannot possibly expect meaningful results on aging, but that's not the point; the point is to run a trial with something that the FDA cannot object to on other grounds because it has been used for decades and is already approved for other uses. Thus the FDA accepts a trial to slow aging, and the door is open to all the methods that might actually have some meaningful effect in the future.

http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/09/feature-man-who-w...
You can also try https://search.disconnect.me.
Why all this moral outrage? Isn't a lot of art basically bullshit? Just take a look at modern art paintings and how much they sell for.

Probably everybody would be laughing about this guy if he wasn't making big bucks. The problem is in the art market where millions can be made by just selling overhyped garbage.

Can anyone seriously make the point that a picture of a smiling woman is worth 1 billion?
"Printing Press":"Nation State"::"Internet":"Post-Nation State"

I get it, I've read McLuhan as well, but it's our duty as responsible members of society to work to smooth this transition.

Disruption is fine for toothpaste and frozen pizza but tends to be really disastrous for government.
I get that a photograph can qualify as having it's own copyright. But what he's done here is take a screenshot on iOS. Surely screenshots don't qualify as photographs.
Assuming at least some users are going to write down their passwords, I wonder if it would be appropriate to show them more secure ways to do that. Unfortunately, my "better" way is to stuff the sticky note in my wallet.

If I could find a device (w/ touch or keyboard for input) that fit into my pocket and has no wireless capabilities, then I would probably use that as a password manager.
All YouTube and TED speakers are intolerably condensecnding? What an absurdly obnoxious statement. The irony burns.
Apple’s new $99 iPhone battery case doesn’t measure up
Ask HN: Upvote vs. Click
I'm curious about upvotes vs clicks a link submission receives.

NH have this data?
>not because sports fans are stupid, but because intelligent people are capable of enjoying more than just sports

So it's not that sports fans are stupid. It's just that non-stupid people aren't so interested in sports. Got it.

There has been and still is something of a shunning of sports among the "intelligentsia". There have been studies about it, and how people who wish to be perceived as smart tend to avoid the things viewed as common. That still continues but I think it's reducing in frequency at least with respect to sports.

I work with a lot of really smart people. A big chunk of them are invested in sports and discuss games at work, wear jerseys on Friday, etc.

Also, if the average person is really interested in sports, then generally rising IQ wouldn't change the number of people interested in sports. The number of average people is still the same when everyone's IQ rises.
It's OK. I'm an engineer. I can make computers do interesting stuff by using both terminals and a soldering iron.
http://imgur.com/wSiyECY
Its nowhere near as centralized as Google Analytics though - at least if you're self hosting that data is confined to the silo which is your own analytics, rather than Google being able to aggregate that with their behaviour on every other site they visit as well.
2 counterpoints:

* Would you hire somebody who wasn't able to learn a new language in a reasonable amount of time?

* Would you let somebody who just started with PHP (by virtue of it being an easy language to start with) work on your backend?
Announcing the First Alpha Release of TiDB
The telling quote from the entire article on how the antibacterial of last resort is now ineffective:

"The bulk of the 12,000 tonnes of colistin fed to livestock yearly around the world is used in China, say Liu and colleagues, which would favour the evolution of mcr-1."

Average human weight? 80 kg. High end dose for a human per day? 5 mg/kg. Let's make all humans fat to add to the weight. 100 kg. So half a gram per human per day. Does this mean we used 24 billion grams per year on livestock?? ~65 million grams per day???

This means the livestock industry is using 131.5 million people days of the antibiotic each day.

And you say the bacteria are now resistant to it? Who'd could've possibly predicted that?
After months of hard work, we are excited to announce the alpha release of TiDB. With this milestone, TiDB becomes an ACID compliant distributed RDBMS.

TL;DR:

1. Use HBase with a cross-row transaction layer as underlying KV storage.

2. MySQL protocol server is ready.

3. Asynchronous schema update.
"Whomever you think is to blame for the sorry state of Web browsing, content blockers have a kind of ratcheting effect: Once you turn one on, chances are you won't see the kind of high-quality ads that might convince you to turn it off again. It also involves the risk that you'll miss whatever advertisers or publishers come up with to make the Web better again.", said no one ever.
More closely, as the 2000 Internet bubble. At this time it was possible to make a startup only with an idea, no business plan and no strategic plan needed. Present the idea and you get the money.
By being Bill Gates's Harvard buddy.
CodeLobster PHP Edition – Free PHP IDE
The other thing is that google analytics is on many adblockers lists, precisely for that reason. As adblockers are getting widespread, the analytics is going blind.
Ha, no. I don't think that at all. I've watched many videos of them flying / vertical take-off. That's why I refer to my comments on the matter as "hyperbolic". When I say "half-way kidding" I'm referring to the costs primarily; as in, I have doubts that the quantities of money being dumped into the program are going completely to the F-35, and I argue that, perhaps, some (a lot?) of it is being funneled in secret to top secret projects. To state that this definitely isn't happening would be silly, since we wouldn't find out for many years, and to state that it's probably not happening seems a little silly, considering the level of cost overruns we're talking about, and considering the fed closed F-22 but now leaves F-35 open, despite gross cost overruns and lobbying by the rest of the military–industrial complex.
Lots of cord cutters are buying antennas specifically for live sports. That's what I did.
Small generators are not punitively expensive.

It's anyway going to be an awful long time before North America stops burning fuel for winter heat.

I guess something like $500 a year is not a welcome new bill, but that would be the cost for replacing a house sized generator at a pretty short interval. If the duty cycle is low and maintenance is effective I would expect the cost to be lower than that.
If they got caught doing that, both VISA and Mastercard will essentially ban them. At least if it is an insecure as you make it sound and they haven't met PCI DSS.

So instead of storing known gotcha cards in these databases, a likely better solution would be to discontinue the use of these databases.

Most major retailers don't store credit card numbers. The full information never leaves the terminal, and is discarded when the transaction is complete.

PS - Thanks for "Not downvoting" but why would you anyway? Nothing I said contradicts anything you've said. I said large retailers aren't storing CC information. Are you claiming they do? If so, name names.
The scenario is as follows: ESPN is the reason people buy cable. Without it cable is dead. Cable companies MUST have ESPN so ESPN has an enormous amount of leverage and use it to extract as much cash as possible. In this case cable providers are just the middlemen; either they say no to ESPN and lose all their subscribers, or raise the rates to untenable levels slowly and eventually lose all their subscribers while making a boat load of cash on the way. They unsurprisingly chose option B.
Essentially. Backups and updates are much more hands-on with Windows than with Linux. There exists bad software for both Windows and Linux, but there are more (seemingly..) awful applications running on Windows systems: ancient apps that are still being updated several times a year (no package manager to help), the deprecated databases those applications use...

There are good configuration management tools for both systems, and both systems are good at what they do. Just seems there's more awful things running on your average Windows server.
That is for webmaster tools, not analytics.
My dad played a lot of Classic Empire back in the day. I gravitated more towards a similar game that I think was called Conquest, where the turns auto-advanced (felt like an RTS) and infantry could cross bodies of water themselves by turning into boats. Wish I could find that one again, I've never found it on any of the 'old games' lists.
IIRC that meta tag is also used for verification for Google Webmaster Tools
It took us only a few weeks to write our home-brew
analytics package. Nothing super fancy yet now we have
an internal dashboard that shows the entire company much
of what we used analytics for anyway - and with some
nice integration with some of our other systems too.

I never quite grasp how the above isn't just a matter of intuition to anyone working in the tech sector. Google Analytics thrives on developers' laziness in my opinion.

And to echo other posters: SpiderOak deserve thanks. If I find myself with any need for a service like theirs, I know I'll be looking at them.
Not if you are an astronaut ;-)
It's somewhat disabled if the editor on the page has focus.
Still does. Apple continues to completely fail at any sort of distributed system. It amazes me that Google is able to index the entire web so quickly that I can post a comment on a random web site and have it show up in search results two minutes later, while Apple takes hours and hours for something to show up in their store after you push a button on their own control panel.
Fox has been kicking CNN etc.'s asses in a commercial sense for decades now. We'd be fools to think that hasn't affected the other networks' reporting. We'd also be fools to think that Fox and MSNBCSBCNC operate from different ends of a spectrum. It's all USA all the time, on both networks. For an alternative try RT or Al Jazeera.