skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Configuration as a Service
Configuration As A Service (CAAS) is a simple service that lets users manage their application configuration variables without coding. Rather than waiting hours/days for site code updates, CAAS lets you launch new configuration variables with just a few clicks. Why? You’ll enjoy faster, tighter control over your application. To start using CAAS, just paste a snippet inside the head tags. The snippet will load your configuration variables ready to be used.

Would you see yourself using it?
BlueOak Server: An Express-Based, Swagger-Embracing, Server Runtime with Node.js
Using CFFI for embedding
When we first deployed our policy there was no support for reporting in browsers. I think that Firefox still lacks support and chrome only added support recently (I'd have to double check, or I'm sure Scott knows).
It was also the name I choose for a similar app https://github.com/garnieretienne/paperless
If you don't want to buy a document scanner, just use your mobile phone for this.

I personally use Scanbot for this, it automatically recognizes, crops and OCRs documents (on the device) and stores them as PDF with the extracted text in the location of your choosing. Works well enough.
Amongst immigrant families, yes. It's different with groups that have been here several generations.
ESR is the bomb.
This looks like a blog post. "Show HN" is intended for original work that can be "tried out".

Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Ask HN: What is your favorite forum?
Hello,

I am wondering what are your favorite forums for sharing and discussing work/hobby staff.
I have to agree that Yahoo trying to force everyone into a single login for every application killed opportunities to innovate. Every time I go back to Flickr it just looks so ossified that it can't move or progress at all. And that's sad because I have friends of mine on Second Life that still use Flickr (SL clients have Flickr integration for screen shots) and they're very good at playing with SL to make fantastic shots.

Ultimately, Yahoo is a company from another time that's long gone. Perhaps it's time for it to be laid to rest for all involved. Just a thought.
Regarding "AFAIK you could get serious burns [2][3] even when antenna was not powered any more", does it mean I can get "free" electricity from "thin air"? Did someone try this already?
There is more than one way to skin a cat. Somehow, the heat problem needs to be solved.

Perhaps what would help is to store energy locally, like our brain. Each cell has its own store of ATP, so a constant feed of ionic current is not needed.
That version of Ubuntu looks very, very old.
ian: We have legacy software that barely survived the upgrade to Windows 7, so we are not going to go to Windows 10 or Linux.

ninja: I agree there is a market for what I seek. I would gladly pay a nominal subscription for such a service.

Does anyone know of such a service?
Gin: A Global History covers it some, though that's not the main topic of the book. http://www.amazon.com/Gin-Global-History-Reaktion-Edible/dp/...
I seriously has to look closely... I thought it was an RC toy until you could see the driver !
Agreed, and the solution is painfully obvious: Show the item once in the feed and just let me know that "DJ Joe Doe, Awesome Records, [guy who is in my network] and 27 other people reposted this."

Come to think about it, isn't that how most other social feeds handle this problem?
BUSINESS RESTRUCTURING PROPOSAL-REASONS WHY GOODWILL TORONTO ISN'T ALWAYS ENOUGH
I don't say this about many start ups, but sound cloud has created an amazing experience and interface for publishing sound. I don't know how defendable it is, but they are one of those start ups that definitely needs more capital before they build out their revenue streams. And I think they are going to get it.
I think you've misinterpreted this

From your link: "This accounting principle assumes that, a company will continue to exist long enough to carry out its objectives and commitments and will not liquidate in the foreseeable future."
I think Yahoo's YQL[1] can do that.

A query like:

SELECT title, link, pubDate FROM rss
WHERE url IN (
'http://feed1',
'http://feed2',
'http://feed3'
) | SORT(field="pubDate", descending="true");

should do the job.

[1] https://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/
Sorry to hear that.

It's not about being elite. I know a ton of guys in the bodybuilding community, and they basically say "if I don't think I'm going to WIN, I'm not even going to start."

So now it's been three years since they've stepped on the stage. That's a ton of wasted time for a "bodybuilder".

I don't get that way of thinking.

When I compete in sports, I compete to have fun, make friends, and compete to NOT GET LAST PLACE. This isn't my passion, it's my fun man-outlet. Let the maniacs have first place.
OT(?): reverse(Lanai) // todo: see if copying XXX cpu is OK
Pagoda Box: A One-Year Review
And end-to-end encryption ban is a ban on data and computing security.

It also conflicts with a large number of existing laws and regulations which either explicitly or effectively require end to end encryption of cert a in communications, such as HIPAA, so there should be some argument as to why all of those are no longer needed if we are to even begin to consider such a ban.
Twitter is a public company now, not a high-growth company. It's quite fair to criticize Twitter, or Zynga, for selling to the public at an inflated price based on hype -- after which their respective stock prices have languished. Keep in mind that there has been plenty of criticism of twitter from the very beginning, all while they went from being worth zero to $20 billion. The point is, criticizing a high-growth, privately-backed company like SoundCloud for losing money only makes sense if you want to criticize the entire model of venture-backed entrepreneurship.
As long as there are yaks to shave.
Have you read all the comments below the answer about how broken 65001 is?
Kind of ironic (Firefox): http://i.imgur.com/p6RDBb4.png

This is also keeping the CSS from loading. (Chrome, however, displays beautifully.)
When the first sentence has "but the its" in it, I gave up on even trying to read the article.
They probably work on things that help bring in more paying customers. UI tweaks isn't among those things. I'm betting they have a whole analytics team, for example.
I've never heard of it, but as the other reply mentions, it's possible.

If you are near an AM station, you can make a radio with just a earphone(now called ear bud?), a diode, and a piece of wire.

You will pick up all nearby stations, but one will likely be stronger/closer than the rest, so you would hear that one.

A slight improvement of that is the 'crystal radio' that adds the ability to tune to a certain station. [1]

It is common for people living near AM stations to hear the radio signal induced into their house/business wiring. It's a common problem with landline telephones near these stations, you can hear the radio in the phone while you're trying to use it. Intercom systems are also vulnerable.

You've probably also heard this from time to time when someone with an illegal CB amplifier uses their radio near a business with an intercom system. It will typically briefly bleed into the intercom system, with everyone looking around trying to figure out where that noise came from.
This may be common only in the south, I'm not sure how prolific CB radios are throughout the country.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio
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I guess the question is why you need them to know. I can think of a million other legitimate medical reasons that I'd never put in an email to my team. Why is this any different?

Also, you should consider that if everyone gets away with being consistently vague, you set a team standard that says people can stay home whenever they feel bad, for whatever reason, and it becomes harder for the company to legally crack down on someone who's doing it for emotional or psychological reasons.
How would you get into the locked cockpit?
As a heavy user (but not uploader) I remain almost entirely unmonetised (for better and for worse). I'm fed almost no ads either on the web or app, and there is no premium plan for listening.
Banks don't keep original paper checks any more, just a scanned copy. Fax is good enough for contracts and other legal paperwork. I was pretty sure that scanned documents are legally equivalant to originals. Is this not true?
Hola VPN is really bad for privacy as it allows them to track which sites you go to. I'm guessing you're trying to mitigate that with Privacy Badger? That won't work as you are routed through them anyway.

one of the sources: http://adios-hola.org/
Augmented it with a bit of Ruby in order to find the "SUFeedURL", which if using the `http` protocol, means that an application is vulnerable.

https://gist.github.com/ajb/876107d0edc0f2c11779
Im using YNAB - You Need A Budget. I can honestly say its changed my life. I would definitely recommend signing up for their 9 day email course. Ive been using it for about 5 months now and its made a huge difference to my life.
Banned Twitter Auto-Follow Application in Node.js
Since nobody has mentioned it yet, Andreas Antonopoulos' book, "Mastering Bitcoin," is quite good.

You can build the ePub from source:

https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook

Or get it from oreilly:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032281.do
In this case you would just need to compile to know it's broken.
Are you familiar with http://www.nature.com/news/leading-mathematician-launches-ar...
"The Russians Make The Best Truck In The Universe For $50K"
I bet author have not ever owned Russian car.
The report makes it clear that while the company had “adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the forseeable future,” SoundCloud was heavily reliant on “further capital investment” to continue operating in 2015.

What's the difference between "operational existence" and "continue operating" here?
benchmark setting for Lua https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/tree/mast...
Only if you count sudden cancer as a superpower.

That said, GP's point is that unless there are radioactive substances flying in the air / otherwise contaminating the store next door, things bought there should be safe. They'll be irradiated (affected by radiation), but not radioactive themselves. Contrary to popular opinion, getting irradiated doesn't cause you to become radioactive.
Sadly, this article seems like a twisted joke. Nearly every single non-"modern world" human with working legs speaks\spoke multiple languages, since in every direction you can find another potentially highly varied society living there. Primates have immense curiosity, and we generally like to socialize, even beyond our own familiar communities (innately at least). This inherently puts us among diverse environments, speakers, and interesting cultures (barring any violent opposition to free movement).

What would language skills have anything to do with this non-existent "executive system" anyway? (tfa mentions someone's guess about picking which language to use in any given moment.. something I've only ever seen novices and newcomers struggle with briefly, and only in conversation, not at all with internal dialogue.) I only resort to language when I need high level processing; and then having many angles of analysis can help enormously. When I need to focus on something, I do it as I envisioned or practiced and with kinaesthetic feedback (what other way is there?); language and other analytical tools inherently go another direction than working with my material environment. Fundamentally, these psychologists' messy model of language's relationship to localized brain functions in top-down systems falls flat on its face with this "executive function" concept mixing focus and inhibitory control with (yet another overly broad concept) "problem solving", which they then hold up as a sacrificial cost to something great.
Take a picture with your stock camera, or use an app that willcrop, apply OCR and convert your image to a document format? The former lacks features without relying on another program. The latter is only good for people who infrequently need something scanned. Most people can probably get by using a phone app, but this is for people with lots of paper documents.
I have a friend in Kansas who runs a store and is learning some Spanish. It seems to be helpful with communicating with some of her customers.

It's been a few years since I last visited the US, but I remember being surprised at the number of Spanish billboards I saw and stores with signs saying "Se habla Español" across the states I visited.
This matches everything I've read from Mac developers – the App Store would be a great idea except for the arbitrary impediments to having a viable business.

Michael Tsai had a good roundup of just how widespread that trend's becoming and how it's driven by only a few issues like the inability to do paid upgrades and the slow review process:

http://mjtsai.com/blog/2015/12/01/sketch-leaving-the-mac-app...

I really wish the Mac App Store was more like Yum/APT where you have a single update mechanism with baked-in mandatory security but otherwise leave publishing up to the actual developers. If Apple wants to have a curated store with reviews, etc. that's fine but it's just not viable as the only option for every class of application.
Indeed, the threat comes when the sandwich is radioactive - and even then, it depends on the personality of the person consuming it. Will he use his newfound powers for good or ill?
How many of those children pushed into learning a second language actually learn it to the point of fluency? In my experience, that number is nearly zero. For every student who attains fluency from school, there are dozens who don't.

I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly how they selected people in the various studies referenced in the article, but the lack of any reference to native versus non-native languages indicates to me that they're looking at people who speak multiple languages natively. Many of the referenced studies are about young children, who simply wouldn't have had time to learn a language to fluency in school.
You've missed a negation.
Yeah, it's more like an overgrown quad than a road-legal car.
Especially when it comes to feminist topics, I don't think it's possible to be so over the top as to be obviously sarcasm.

See Poe's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
#StillYourOpera
NSFW if you scroll far enough on the actual stupid hackathon website. Oops.
thanks i will try it out
The job requirements for this are prime: http://justinkan.com/job-post-media-relations-and-snap-god

> Why on Earth you’d want to show up at some guy’s house every morning to do this

> Any relevant experience you have any how any experience could be relevant for something this inane

Definitely made me smile, good way to start the day.
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Every single time. Some company is having business troubles so let's gripe about their UI.
Only a few of your examples require the original paper at hand. Having them scanned and searchable makes your life a lot easier.
Nutanix Validates Two Crucial Deployment Scenarios with VMware NSX
Black Hole Hunter
Amazon Buries Zombie Apocalypse Clause in Terms of Service
I believe gp meant multiple laser interferometers, not multiple gravitational-wave-emitting events.
Because they don't do crypto properly. Some friends of mine broke Snapchat quite badly a few years ago (one of them goes through HN, so he might read this). The tl;dr is that you shouldn't trust any aspect of your security to proprietary services. Especially ones that don't do crypto properly.
Google is set to launch their own mobile HTML replacement (AMP[1]) where ad blocking may be difficult or impossible. Allowing ad blocking apps on the Play Store would encourage publishers to switch to AMP.

[1] http://adage.com/article/digital/google-amp-launch-looms-sea...
Don't throw around the word "toxic" unless you are sure it is the case that the behavior in question is toxic -- and not that you are simply allergic.

Eric wasn't shitting on Linus. He was damning with high praise -- telling him that he was so damned smart, eventually it would bite him in the ass unless he adopted practices that normal programmers needed just to manage. Were I to receive such a message I would feel simultaneously chuffed and challenged.

Anyway, Linus could take it -- he's certainly dished out worse.

Tumblrina culture has made it taboo to actually criticize anyone with stern words -- unless you are calling them out for perceived racism, sexism, or some other breach of political orthodoxy.
WW3 WATCH HIM THAT BABY MAY BE CHRISTIAN
AFAIK, depends on the country and legislation. In Ireland (and Spain) I've had to produce originals where the signature was clearly hand-written (they looked for pen pressure points, for example).

I've even had kafkaesque situations where I was asked for the original of a document that was only available online. In those cases I had to present a printed copy of the document and a signed document (from the bank in this case) saying that they didn't send hard copies/originals.
Mockingbird, an anti-adblockers plugin
New report contends mandatory crypto backdoors would be futile
What I fear about HPKP is how easy it is to kill domain. You have to lose your keys once and it's lost domain for your users, because it's really hard for users to circumvent that protection. It's better to have a really good understanding of what's going on and have good key backups before you configure it.
There's some additional irony in that apps can be sandboxed even when distributed outside the App Store, and many of these apps could function fine within the sandbox... except for Sparkle, which needs more access!

And there's no particular reason everything in the App Store must be sandboxed. It used to not be required, then Apple changed the rules. Sandboxing helps with security, but for this particular question of a vulnerable app updater, simply using the App Store's update mechanism would suffice to make it safe, even for non-sandboxed apps.
I think I was there. Can't remember though. The issue is that Snapchat has gotten more stringent about image formats and things (remember when bad crypto could cause the app to crash?).
Here is a great link from today. "JavaScript fatigue fatigue" http://www.2ality.com/2016/02/js-fatigue-fatigue.html

> Don’t try to know everything – it’s impossible in modern web development.
For anyone who doesn't know, telegrams are still around. Email is a lot cheaper and does basically the same thing, but if you want to spend $30 on having an email hand-delivered, you can.

I sent one back in 1997ish, basically to impress a girl who liked quirky things. Of course, it had to be written in the correct style. It seemed to work - we dated for 3 years after that.
You're right. When we found out the potential for this we removed all the checks and our apps are effectively free to download. We only make money through in-app purchases and advertising. it would be a piss-poor user experience if the app would suddenly crash upon launch because some certificate expired.
PEP 0515 – Underscores in Numeric Literals
I think this will be a very interesting question even if she ultimately wins as she's certainly had a tough time given her resources.

Personally, I don't believe people are building direct immunity. I think they are updating their self image to avoid cognitive dissonance which leads to identity confusions, like the shocking number of people I meet who seem to think they are in all sorts of long tails when they seem quite average.

As such, I do think quantitative based analytics will eventually win out. But not in terms of direct targeting ads to the correct voter. I think broadcast (or pseudo broadcast) ads are essential and the sophistication will be in analyzing the social affects and trying to do this in smaller tests without "using them up". I.e. eliciting bad defenses from an opponents supporters on twitter is far more powerful than randomly bringing up points privately to the independents you are after. In the first case, we are all forced to cement an argument if only to clarify why we think someone is an idiot.
> It's freakishly brilliant at every level.

Is user interface a level? Because it's just freakish at that, not brilliant.
From what I understand, it doesn't really matter because the laser light acts as a coherent wave, so it doesn't really bounce off of individual atoms, per se. As long as the mirrors are flat, all that matters is the relative distance between the mirrors.
I don't know, I avoided them entirely except for a bit of change I kept as a souvenir.

One of the biggest surprises: Walking up to an ATM and withdrawing US cash with no fees at all. Not even the bullshit "you're not a member of our bank, so we'll charge you an extra dollar".
How many of these services will have to shut down before it's user's will start supporting them? Please give me the option of paying money, and making sure you will be in business for the next few years.
How to Build Top-Notch Container Delivery Pipelines with Docker, Rkt, Et Al
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting Is Going Online
Bitter Pill for Erdogan: Russia Leaves Turkey a Helpless Spectator in Syria
Decrepit dinosaur scavanges putrescent mammal corpse?
But that doesn't answer the question of what all these people do! I wouldn't have thought they'd be more than 20 people max. Surely they don't have many developers, or we wouldn't see all these remarks here about how they have not updated their site in years. So what's everyone in such a "bloated corporation-like structure" doing? Filling out TPS reports and sending them to each other to get stamped?

I've worked in a place that built and shipped 3 or 4 product lines: actual physical hardware with software, and did it with fewer than 50 people, most of them on the manufacturing line.
The vast majority of mainstream AES implementations don't take advantage of the hardware (yet).
I used to live in Fort Collins, Colorado, a couple of miles from the antenna for WWV, the broadcast time standard from the National Bureau of Standards (that'll date me, it's called NIST now).

Electronics was one of my hobbies. Most of the noise in my circuits was that damned time signal. I could pick it up with just about any length of wire and anything that would act as a diode. A transistor. A pin on a chip -- I had a DRAM coughing up "At the tone, the time will be..." once.

At least I usually knew what time it was.
I'm with you on a few of those. For insurance purposes you only need to worry about documenting items that are unusually valuable. School records (e.g. report cards, etc) I don't keep, and have never needed. A major home improvement expense I would probably keep, though capital gains on a primary home sale are generally exempt up to $250,000(?).

But I was really more thinking about everyday utility bills, other statements and invoices -- I just trash all that stuff as soon as it's paid. I have better things to do than organize papers that I will never look at again.
What implementation partners and system integrators can learn from Slack and Hipchat
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Emailed you. Contact info is on my profile nonetheless. Happy to help.
This was my thought as well. I had a roommate in college that was a mechanic and engineer. He LOVED these cars, but said, "Fuck all if they're not the hardest car to get to parts for and they're right expensive as shit."

The only upside is their engines are incredibly reliable.
There's an added issue with this kind of solutions, in most cases you still need to keep the original.

Isn't the solution just banker's boxes in the attic to house the originals? I've never quite thought of that as an issue. Every quarter or so I move a stack of papers from the home office into a box I'll probably never have to retrieve anything from.