skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thing is, I don't necessarily buy the original authors assertion. It's just that there are lots of other things that could easily have an effect, such as investor mood, government spending tie-ins like growing debt (or debt ratio) and inflation, diversion of investor money from things with higher growth potential into things that have immediate profits, like Xe...

None of those necessarily have a great deal to do with troop strength, but they do all seem to correlate with (some) wars.
This is true.

And while, the SSA situation was catastrophic, this is now fixed, I believe (even comments).

The ordered and linked chapter in MKV is still not resolved... Patches are welcome.
[Edit: The comment I replied to here originally had very different content about threading and scoring. I don't know what it is now, so I've removed the reply.]
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Just curious -- is there anything in particular that stood out? Other than the inherent troubles with implementing crypto, was there anything theoretically questionable with any of the talk's content?
Is there anything around on the HN site architecture? A quickly google didn't turn up anything specific.
Should managers think they are going to sneakily hire new, inexperienced people for high salaries and not catch flak from long time employees?
Do banks have a benefit in upgrading? It will cost them a lot of money and at the end of the day it's not their money thats being stolen. If it was their money the upgrade would already have happend long ago. I know. I'm a pessimist.
Reddit solves this by hiding poorly ranked comments.
That would be the first instance of an ajaxy thing on HN I believe.
I don't know how reddit works exactly, but I notice that they generally have a few "hidden" comments in the tree.

I assume this is to prevent this phenomenon. If your comment is significantly worse than the rest of an active thread, it shouldn't be prominently displayed.
Thanks Kiriappeee!
More appropriate questions include: Should I pay more for ability to learn? Should I pay more for already knowing how to do what I need done?

Some people start out eager to learn, but lose it. And others become learning machines. Pay more for the latter, regardless of their age.
The upvote/downvote on comments and stories uses ajax i believe.
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I'd rather they look over the architecture and possible changes to the codebase instead of resorting to charging the users.
That's a bit bizarre to comment when the primary company that developed Chrome is known for keeping tabs on users' browsing history.
Review my 'cause' project (causerific.com)
I have built a platform that lets people indicate a cause they need help with and find potential donors/backers. In this case, I added a location feature because not everyone is in a position to donate money to a cause they really want to help with, but they are willing to help in other ways.

My inspiration for this project came when traveling across the country last year and stumbled on this orphanage in Michigan that needed help building a playground for their kids. No one knew of their plight since they are such a small organization and couldn't raise the money for it. I didn't have the money either, but my friends and I were willing to physically build the play ground for them. I think with 'causes' these days, people want to help, but not everyone can help financially. Some people are able to donate 'hours' of physical labor or even specific expertise...and that's what I am trying to achieve here.

Would appreciate feedback as to how to make the platform better achieve its goals. Thanks!
Share HN: How many visits did X send you?
I'm getting ready to launch an app, and I'm interested in hearing how many visits (first day and over time) you got by having your site on the front page of various services like HN, Reddit, Digg, Lifehacker etc. How about any unexpected sites that sent you a ton of traffic, or sites you expected to get a ton from and didn't get much?
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Good to see something on the road. I'm looking forward to seeing if this is disruptive technology.

I inhabit some car blogs from time to time. I can't believe the amount of vitriol directed at Tesla. The first all new American manufacturer in years, working on new tech, constructing within the country, and they get blasted for it. It genuinely baffles me.
So if we see it tomorrow, it went supernova in ~1371 AD.
funny this guy has more sites like this
http://reasonstumblrwentdown.com/
Autobots, autobots, autobots!!! you love it cause it's a rip off of your favorite cartoon!
There's a certain irony to this video that only becomes apparent..... about 3 minutes in :)
You're absolutely right, I stand corrected.
You could check out KMail, it's fast and the most complete replacement.

Other options include Evolution (even slower than TBird), mutt, sup, claws, and alpine.

Or you could be like everyone else, and just use gmail.
Thankfully, I don't use Facebook as some kind of guaranteed-delivery broadcast medium.
Well actually it was much worse then that, the most jr member of the team was making 30% more then the lead as a FTE. When that comes to light it is a big problem, its the kind of thing that makes the team quit if it goes bad. As was said elsewhere contractor makes sense here, the skill will not be scarce in 6 months so buy it for 6 months at a premium.
And P&G sold much more rolls of toilet paper. You can totally compare sales of products priced three times apart.
There should at least be a feature within our profile settings to disable this.
Ahem, "The study found that some 70 percent of contributors are unpaid, but that the majority of commits comes from paid participants." I'm not sure what basis you used to decide that only developers employed at the top five companies count as paid developers.
Butterfly Media is also ripping off the popular Scribus layout/publishing program too. The company is reselling Scribus as "Desktop Publishing Studio" (link). They aren't just taking the programs and reselling it, but even their screenshots shown on the Amazon product page are ripped.

Silly phoronix.

Scribus Copyright 2001-2008 Franz Schmid and rest of the members of the Scribus Team. [...] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Brush up on the GPL there lads. You're perfectly welcome to sell a copy of a GPL program as long as you otherwise comply with the license.

Perhaps next phoronix will break the story of Redhat charging money for the Linux kernel.
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Not quite. That filters out the bad ones, but the underlying problem still remains: people reply to highly-ranked comments with something only tangentially related, or not related at all, in order to put it in front of a wider audience.

People then upvote it even though it isn't related because it might be insightful.
I very much hope pg doesn't do this; I find it very annoying.
I don't understand it either, people seem to have an irrational hatred towards them. The company has been doing really cool things and the roadster is an awesome car (I know somebody who has one). It's quite possible that Tesla influenced the Nissan Leaf or Chevy volt, but even if they didn't they're doing the right thing. Pushing technology forward in an area where it's been stagnant for a while, getting attention and attempting to change things. I would've thought this type of thing would be embraced rather than discarded.
I can't speak towards either too directly (as I've only used each briefly), but in my experience the concepts of Backbone are a stronger conclusion derived from the same problem that likely sparked AngularJS.

AngularJS essentially has you put a bit of logic into your HTML via parameterization. While I understand where the logic for this type of design seems useful (I've developed similar patterns on my own volition), the model driven pattern Backbone uses offers greater flexibility. For a basic reason, separation of view and data. I also find the nativity of Backbone appealing; Javascript and HTML as they were intended.

On the other hand, in my experience the benefits of parameterization include very easy "out of the box" behavior, which seems to be the more likely (perhaps targeted) use case for AngularJS.
You're right, how embarrassing. I read too quickly while doing something else and understood he had just turned the site to paid after two months.
You mean, besides recommending CTR but not telling his audience about nonce collisions and counter wraps?

I can find things to disagree with on many of these slides (avoiding NSA suite B crypto in favor of RSA-2048, using RSA-2048 directly, avoiding AE cipher modes in favor of hand-hacking your own encrypt-then-HMAC scheme). But Colin is the professional cryptographer here; all I have to go on is the crypto flaws we find in other people's real-world systems, and the simple steps I see people could have taken to avoid having them even without knowing about them.
They are still in the process of "hoping" to have "details" on the "status". In other words, no updates just yet.
John Gabriel's Greater Internet Dickwad Theory. :(
Ask HN: Are image maps a thing of the past in modern/Web 2.0 design?
Maybe it's because I'm a bit of a web noob, but I find myself believing that I need to use them in a particular site design. Are there better ways to do this? By better, I mean easier workflow, with any advantage to the end user? If image maps are so legacy, and still supported, what are reasons not to use them?
The 'hidden' comments are based on a per-user threshold. My brief Reddit experience improved significantly when I raised said threshold.
I guess if the Facebook thing is true, it means that they find the market for really talented engineers very tight right now so instead or making bets on the best comsci talent in the hope that they can quickly get them up to speed on writing good production code.
yes/no: it uses simple assignations to (new Image()).src.
You (and certainly I) wish to have the amount of traffic [1] Tumblr has, to put it simple, this is an awesome problem to have :-)

With that being said, they didn't take it lightly:

"know that this is absolutely unacceptable to our team, and unacceptable for a platform determined to be the best place in the world for your creative expression" [2]

I mean, what else can they say? Refund the customer's money? They've already done that.

[1] http://www.quantcast.com/profile/trafficGraph?wunit=wtpub%3A...

[2] http://staff.tumblr.com/post/2127872280/downtime
>The advent of the computer should have been enough.

The advent of the computer revolutionised the accounting profession. Gone are the thousands of accounting clerks who used to laboriously update ledger books and sum up figures. Accountants are not bookkeeepers.

> By modelling a company as a complex information network, the in- and out-flows of each part of the business will act as signals and semaphores revealing reckless spending, potential embezzlement, or unsuccessful ventures. Collecting information allows for an empirical, scientific approach to management, based on actual performance, and backed up by numbers.

This is what accountants do. But the world is filled with ambiguity and unusual corner cases. Accountants organise all the monetary relationships of a business into a hierarchy, and like any hierarchy, it has annoying things that could fit into one of several places.

Part of accounting is to identify these anomalies as they emerge (and given the indefinite complexity of the economic world, they emerge constantly) and to come to a consensus on them. This is the source of the GAAP and IASB standards. This is necessary so that accountants can communicate information to each other in an honest, comparable fashion.

It is a profound and common mistake of software types to say: "that's stupid. That's simple. I could reinvent that, 100x better, in a weekend!"

Well good luck with that. (Sometimes they're right. But rarely).

> Unfortunately, the landscape of publicly-available accounting software is rather poor.

This may be true down the bottom of the foodchain, but accounting software gets profoundly sophisticated as you move up to larger and larger organisations.

Like lawyers, we in software engineering are smugly certain that ours is the hardest of professions, ourselves the brightest of the professionals. Self-serving, chauvinistic tosh. We could use a bit more modesty. Refer to the Tao of Programming.
The whole concept is actually really impressive. It really shows shows how much more is possible if we just think outside the box.

Regardless, I'm incredibly excited after seeing this. We actually have one of these on reserve. :D
My prediction: An entire industry of downloadable, DRM'd car sounds spurred on by regulation requiring cars to emit a constant sound above a certain volume.

Luckily, I plan to be the one to license the Jetson's sound and sell it for millions!
Bihari Govt raises its game with Android Phones on the Road
http://www.arclanguage.org -> install -> arc3.0.tar/news.arc.
Of all the features we need on HN, this is not one of them.
This is more of a question for Stack Overflow. At the very least, it's not deprecated in the spec at all.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3528746/are-image-maps-ma...
While I am proud of this, I am actually jealous that our own Australian govt is pathetically behind when it comes to (mobile) technology!
It's harder to see whether someone has already made the same point that you want to make, so it could lead to redundant commentary. I often do a quick keyword search of the page to see if someone has already made a related comment. With pagination, you can't easily do that.
Actually ruby 1.8.7 is required to install ruby 1.9.2. Rails doesn't need 1.8.7 and works fine with just ruby 1.9.2 installed.

ruby - Ruby itself is prerequisite in order to build Ruby 1.9. It can be 1.8.

source: http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/wiki/ruby/DeveloperHowto#label-...
Clickable: http://www.causerific.com
Much conventional wisdom about programs written by volunteers is wrong
Maybe the problem is not the college, but the slacker kids who skim by with the bare minimum effort.

I'm always amused when the kids who used to tease me for taking college seriously post Facebook statuses like, "omg y cant i get a job?!?!"
Wonder if there will be solutions to us appartmenters. Like an easy to access/pop out battery that can be charged and carried back into the car (oh yea the battery is gigantic) maybe some local fuel stations with the tech some dudes developed to charge the battery in 10 minutes? I mean 100 miles range can probably run me a week using the car but I gotta charge.
People might just think you're a rich Pennzoil executive.
> You mean, besides recommending CTR but not telling his audience about nonce collisions and counter wraps?

Oooh low blow! Point taken, but I think he did a pretty good job for 55 minutes. If someone decides to hand-roll AES-CTR, I'd say it's their job to go through all the literature (academic and otherwise), implement their own version and look at least a few open source implementations for differences, reconcile those difference (academic literature helps here), and then put their code up for review or audit. Perhaps even run several implementations through the same inputs and keys and compare outputs. Whether this actually gets done is of course a different issue.

So if I understand correctly, your objection to hand-rolling encrypt-then-HMAC is that it's rarely done correctly (not a theoretical objection)?
If you want a bare-bones ARM, the BeagleBoard is probably the best choice. What I'd really like is a good-quality ARM netbook with Free firmware and BIOS. The Lemote netbook seems to be well-built according to reviews.
Georges response should have been "i quit. now, what will you pay for an experienced lead developer who also happens to know your current system inside and out. Because i've recently become available."
Yes, thanks Colin, Tarsnap really is gold on today's "cloud era".
If they can't convince their current customers that (whatever) is the way of the future, then I'd argue they are NOT competent. Any fool can be a yes-man and keep doing what the previous guy did because "it always worked before".
You're assuming that the condition of "if" is necessarily a boolean.

Indeed. Conditional branching generally needs a boolean value - do we go down this path or not?

It's not clear that it is. It looks more like "is the value not an element of [None, 0, 0.0, False, {objects of 0 length}]" and a couple of others.

Right, and any of those things, when converted to a boolean are... False. The things that don't convert to True.

I don't know how the language itself is constructed, but it would surprise me if the code for bool() and if-statements were logically separated. Can you imagine the havoc that would ensue from, say, bool(None) returning False, but if None: causing the branch to execute?
The biggest thing that jumped out at me was his response, when confronted by his team lead. This manager totally waffled on the issue, than continued to waffle, using language that just screams (to me) "you're getting screwed and I don't have the balls to be honest with you about what's going on." Managers like that, I have a really hard time trusting.
The Cloud, SaaS, source code escrow, and the Affero GPL
Ask HN: Remote pairing, can it be done well?
Does anyone here do remote pairing well? If so what do you use (os/application/external tools/etc.) Brownie points to those who use an editor with some sort of collaboration tool.
Everyone should be using AutoPagerize[1] (a Sarari extension) by now, or at least something similar. It makes your life a lot easier on most websites, one of which is now HN.

[1] - http://autopagerize.net/
As the creator of this site, I agree. It's all intended in good fun.
I've lent my name to it!
Couldn't people take advantage of this by only commenting on high-karma comments, regardless of whether or not it's relevant to the parent-comment, but instead just piggy-backing to stay on the first page?
So, if you want to communicate about type systems, your communication will contain less misunderstanding if you simply omit the words "strong" and "weak".

Point taken.
There's a reason why venture capitalists and angel investors exist. No bank wants to loan money (without a personal guarantee) to a company that has a 30%+ chance of going out of business within the year.

Your best bet is to build up traction on a project and get an investor or fund it on revenues. Loans are not a realistic option.
You mean, besides recommending CTR but not telling his audience about nonce collisions and counter wraps?

Didn't I say "and make sure your nonces are unique"? I remember taking it out of a slide because it wouldn't fit but I was pretty sure that I still said it.

As for counter wraps, that really is a non-issue. Nobody here is ever going to send over 2^68 bytes of data in a single session.
Same app, different path. (I couldn't decide on the morning that I whipped this up.)
If Samsung release full source to their Eclair port, the community would be happy to forward-port the drivers to Froyo. But without source they can't.
What say thee?
But is there really a problem with modern accounting systems?
I did answer this before but the internet appears to eaten the comment. I'll be more brief this time.

>Doesn't this end up being the usual privatize the profit, socialize the risk scheme?

In short, there's very few locations which don't have advantages of a greater public pool of funds to assist in disaster.

You might say this but I'll counter by saying that all residents of San Francisco are privatising the benefits of living in such a nice city, while greater California and the USA are socialising their risk of living in an earthquake prone area. The same goes for tornado country, or most of florida with Hurricanes, or wherever, really.

So while you can probably argue the technical merits of such a statement it quickly can be applied to just about anyone, anywhere, and starts to look absurd.

I would object if people living in flood zones were automatically provided with government funds to rebuild. While the government might donate money to the general cause of rebuilding (much of which goes to hardship funding) they don't directly underwrite private property. So the person with the most risk is the one living next to the river. As long as they don't expect or are promised help, then you're not socialising the risk. If people volunteer help after the fact, that's a different thing.
I have been using Sammy.js (http://code.quirkey.com/sammy/) for a few weeks now, and I have to say that it really accomplishes "Complex Web Apps Made Simple" but in a flexible way. There are many template engines out there, from Haml to Jade, it really depends on what you are looking for. The nice thing about Sammy.js is that you can use many of the template engines available, or even include your own as a plugin. I personally am looking into ejs since I prefer to write my HTML.
I'm uncomfortable with how easily correlations are taken as causations. Will longer assignments 'teach' better? Or, is it that the students who are more willing to learn are also more willing to do longer assignments?
I actually asked a similar question over on reddit, http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/f1d6g/databindin... . I'd love to hear more people's thoughts.
Not all of those programs are released under GPL:

Orbit's license explicitly forbids selling it and/or its parts: http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/terms.php
Worst HN feature. Please revert.
You "respect the guy", then throw out "comic book guy"? You think you're being funny. I'm guessing you're in the minority.
On Facebook, go "like" a company or a TV show or something. Now you have ads in your news feed.
My take was that Angular and Knockout are really about databinding, while Backbone is more of a solid MVC pattern.
Maybe car enthusiasts are more concerned with the testosterone of cars than the tech (all the techy sounding talk comparing component performance is really just a red herring). If the tech can make the engine louder and the car faster, that's hot. Tesla is not offering that exactly.
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This is obviously not a universal formula, but I started out with "Practical Common LISP"; and then went on to SICP, translating the Scheme code into CL code as I went along. I then followed this by "On LISP".

For someone who does not know programming at all, I'd recommend SICP first. The text is dense, no doubt there; but, IMHO, not dense enough to deter reading.

Of course, I'm more of a "learn-it-the-hard-way" person; mileage may differ for more easygoing people.
Two of the most productive, and accurate, and quick -- while accurate -- fellows I worked with were getting into their 40's. Our boss was a bit younger, but stood well apart from his peers in capability (and pleasantness).

My impression from this: It's the person, not the age.

EDIT: I've had the opportunity to work with some plenty smart women, too. (I realized the prevalence of the masculine in the above.) Again, several were "older". Same conclusion.
TMux + Vim will give you a lot of flexibility for editing code while pairing. If you don't need the video features of Skype, you can also try Mumble for chatting.
Seeing as that one's not even open source I'm still gonna go with that article could use some fact checking.
Do You Like What You Do, Or Love It?
I'm not your Comrade dude.