skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
United States Senate has been hacked by Lulz Security
Remember, these are only the most dangerous cars that passed all the DOT safety requirements and (presumably) were maintained and passed inspection. It's easy enough to make a more dangerous car, but it's hard to be legal about it.
Why blame anyone? I'm an MBA and on a startup and working in consulting concurrently... I believe entrepreneurship can't really be taught. You can improve your general business skills but drive and passion Are intrinsic and can't be manufactured. Many mbas (most?) are incredibly motivated. They just don't want to start a company. Nothing wrong with that.
Joke or not, I have to point out that just because someone's screen resolution is 2560x1600 doesn't mean they have their browser that huge. Personally, my browser is never wider than 1100px. I do usually go as tall as the screen, but on a small laptop...
Much - not all - of this boils down to the simple rule of being real with someone. Don't flood them with niceties, if you want to be nice and have something you want to say... say it. If you have to THINK too hard about what you want to say, then perhaps you shouldn't say anything.

Honestly, I wish this would be applied in everyday conversation more often, it would give people practice. I loathe small talk and would rather say nothing than talk about the weather.
It's not a student's fault if their high school is arbitrarily bad. You can sometimes tell that a student is smart and their high school sucked. Such students tend to get even smarter than you thought they were once they get to college.
for the record this is still a release candidate and it crashes when adding a pydev project.
I was describing it in order to explain the general idea; not to explain the exact algorithm. The wikipedia article does a better job at that than I could do, but since he asked the question after the link to the wikipedia article I assumed that what he wanted was a simple explanation of what the difference is between just SHA(password) and PBKDF(password).
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This is an aussie company traded on the aussie exchange as AVH and in the US pink sheets as AVMXF. Their quarterly report shows just under $1mil in revenues with substantial losses.

They do not yet have FDA approval in the US but is conducting clinical trials. If they're smart, they'll sell their tech to a larger US firm for distribution.
VC per capita, Europe: $7, U.S.: $72, Israel: $144.
Comparing the two, I'm inclined to go with coincidence.
GPS Maker Garmin Buys Navigon
Wimbledon in 3D
It's obvious for some (like me and my family) and not for others, but it doesn't matter: spreading the word like you did is what counts.

No one should live on expected future reward.
Nations are literally and figuratively large families. For example, roughly 25% of the USA populace claim descent from the Pilgrims[1] - a small group of ~100 people.

Nationalism is simply having pride in your family. To "stamp out" pride in your nation means that you have to "stamp out" pride in your family. The family is the basis of Western Civilization[2], and if you destroy the family, you get a lot of very bad and unwanted things as a consequence (like mass welfare and a halt to scientific progress).

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/25/us/not-quite-your-ancestor...
[2]http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/marriage/mf0060.ht...
Perhaps, but "kinda bubbly" is many degrees of separation from the kind of "bubbly" that was going on in 1999. So calling this "another tech bubble" is disingenuous because, frankly, it just doesn't compare in degree of irrationality.
Search by Image & Voice on desktop + Instant Pages
Race to the Top or Race to the Bottom
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The centaur shoots an arrow of flame. The arrow hits you.
You die...
Xom says:"I guess I need a new plaything now."
From QAs: it won't perform face recognition
It's not a bubble because there's only a handful of companies which are trading at values which I would consider to be excessive for the underlying business.

Netflix, Salesforce, Tesla, LinkedIn, and potentially Facebook/GroupOn.

Almost every other technology company is trading at lower then average P/E values, including for the first time in a long time, Google and Apple.

So is a handful of potentially over-valued companies reasons to call out a bubble? I'd say no, at any given time there will be absurdly valued companies trading on any given stock exchange, that probably hasn't changed in the entire history of the NYSE.
Hackers do everything they do for fun. If it's not fun, it's not worth doing. It's important to note that fun things can be hard and very challenging, be it a grueling mountain bike ride or taking an idea all the way to a multi-billion dollar acquisition. Talking about how difficult something was is good for show, but hackers are often a lot more likely to dwell on how fun their journey was and all the awesome things they saw and learned.
Organize Your Features by Activity, Not Models
Perhaps the most irritating aspect of the phrase "everything happens for a reason" is that it is a truism from a scientific point of view. Of course, everything happens for a reason. But the phrase is usually meant to imply that a higher power has a reason for causing events, and that there is a reason in a cosmic sense for events to happen, as if they were part of a larger plan designed specifically for you, the victim.
Steampunk laptops and keyboards - pretty rad
"It's growing up" sounds like "it's turning into java"

Now I know it's not that bad but I can see a future where instead of just having the rails book, you have books for every new thing and option possible and the section looks like the Java section where Struts, Spring, and even Scala/Clojure all make the idea of switching to to rails seem far more daunting than it needs to be.
Conan's Dartmouth Commencement Speech
After sending it to you easily visible on a postcard, delivered by the originator handing it to somebody who happens to be heading in the same direction as your mailbox and who will do the same until it reaches said mailbox.
Everyone is different. Take the advice just as things to think about.

I know people who have been through hardship and they actually tell people to hang around, to just talk, say anything. They prefer people say something to not saying anything at all.
Actually I'd say facebook is nothing like Apple or Google, which is why it's vulnerable. While both Apple and Google benefit from some network effects, both of 'em have a huge technical lead over the competition in their areas of expertise. Facebook, though, is all about network effects, so they're much more susceptible to being overtaken by the next big thing.
Nasty Fears Keeping You on the Hamster Wheel
I am not quite sure why these links keep getting posted - it is pretty well known by now that exercise is good for you in a number of ways, what those ways are, etc.

And no, you are not going to convince me to exercise before some routine is invented that:

Takes no time at all (literally: 0 Seconds, not "really quick if you are already in great shape")
Doesn't make me sweat

Personally I am holding out for the pill that will give the same effects to my body as exercise does (it is all just chemicals, anyway).
Free To Play Games Have Arrived on Steam
Right or wrong, I'm looking forward to whatever fills the spot that Rails left behind. It was a pleasure to work with a few years back and I miss that.

If you've seen something that fits the bill, please pass it on.
This is interesting, but s/mime is the proper way to encrypt and/or sign emails.

I am not sure though, if it is possible to create a multipart message using JavaScript in gmail.
I'm curious (genuine question): we know that if we dropped the Earth into the Sun, the climate would change substantially. And yet this is a prediction about gross properties of a chaotic system that no one would dispute.

How does your point of view account for this prediction from physics versus predictions of greater CO2 concentrations causing an increased greenhouse effect, which also derives from physics? Is it simply the margins of error for different parameters?
This looks awesome. Quick question, what happens when I do not look at the page in respect to ad impressions?
Talkwheel: A New Way to Do Online Chats
We have had a cheap money policy for way too long now, decades literally. It is not just US, but also the fast growing developing countries, who all tend to keep interest rates very low.

We've also had bubble after bubble, after bubble.

Is tech 2.0 a bubble?

1. Even if it is, it's not nearly as big or stupid as .com 1.0 was.

2. Oil, gold, a bunch of other stuff, too much money is chasing things to buy. Is it a bubble of just an early pre-view of what inflation will do to EVERYTHING?

3. Some prices certainly do seem extremely speculative, LinkedIn being a prime example, obviously they are worth something, but are they worth THAT much?

I think we're in a tech maturing period, that is to say, that if valuations of a bunch of tech companies suddenly collapse, other tech companies won't be affected. When tech stops being identical to all other tech, the market has reached a sort of maturity.

But yeah all markets are acting screwy right now, between a likely default of Greece and who know else, and 0 or even negative interest rates in the US, Japan, and the EU.... yeah, we live in strange times.
So as he basically says, we are probably close to the start of a bubble (the mania phase).
How students in Indian colleges are taught programming
Anyone know how this compares or differs to Reia, another attempt at Ruby-like syntax on Erlang?
Phenona acquired by ActiveState
Dygraph.js - interactive charts for dense time series datasets
If you had a working (and secure) crypto on the client side you could use a webmail provider and still be secure.

I can imagine an extension for Chrome or Firefox that will not be updated without my knowledge and has been peer reviewed like gnupg.
Reeder for Mac's HTML5 Homepage
Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade
>We need the people who can advance the field to get the training to do that- and the people who just want to create the next great company should be able to learn those skills.

The people in the second group should be going to business school or starting their own startup. Either would give them more benefit than a CS degree. A CS degree, even if it's "development" focused, won't give them the skills necessary to deal with management or the business side of things. Ideally, it should give the student the technical and theory background to be effective at any coding job they take. Personal skills are better taught on-the-job or in non-class related, side projects.

I honestly disagree that there should be a separate track. A good developer should have a solid theory background. It should at least cover data structures, computer architecture, discrete math, and algorithm design and analysis. OS design should also be covered, because that takes everything else and combines it into a real-world application. Good developers are aware of all of that, even self-taught ones. In other words, a "software development" degree really requires a superset of what the current good CS curriculums have, because it also includes software engineering paradigms and team project skills.

The real problem with programming degrees is that the industry, as a whole, is still very young. It doesn't have a standard set of best practices to draw on, especially compared to traditional engineering disciplines. I graduated from UIUC in 2007, and the SE course there focused primarily on extreme programming and RUP. Agile wasn't covered at all(and is basically impossible to do in a college environment). So while it was a good course to take for team project experience, the actual topics covered weren't that useful. The other problem is that every development group has a different set of practices, and these almost never actually match the ones taught in school. So while a school might teach a certain set of development practices, the ones that the students actually use might be completely different.
Though I'm pretty optimistic about the possibility for algorithmic user interface design (or at least quantitative evaluation), I've yet to see any conclusive studies on the matter. Anybody got any hard info on this?
From the wikipedia page:

"Although dietary modification may reduce the discomfort of a person with the disease, ulcerative colitis is not thought to be caused by dietary factors."

Lets go through the three points listed:

> Lactose intolerance

This is common in people with colitis (I have this).

Not drinking milk makes the lactose intolerance symptoms go away (nasuea/vomitting) that but does not reduce the actual colitis symptoms, just the lactose intolerance symptoms.

> Patients with abdominal cramping or diarrhea should avoid fresh fruit, etc"

This is recommended during bad spouts to reduce the extremity. Eating these foods does not cause or make a colitis flare ups go away. It makes makes one of the symptoms slightly easier to deal with.

> The Specific Carbohydrate Diet has been promoted as helping with the symptoms of various auto-immune and gastrointestinal problems

"Following the death of Dr Haas in 1964, there have been no controlled studies published of the SCD related to IBD." The last study being in 1928.

I've also spoken to two nutritionists and three doctors who have spent their careers studying IBD and they reiterated that food is not a significant factor in treating colitis.
Sinatra I guess. You can choose the orm and templating language you want- which sort of just turns it back into rails.

Still working in Sinatra does give you that fun feeling of old Rails.
Lulzsec Hacks U.S. Senate
>then load Facebook and observe how fast it feels

Considering the scale of the problem, you're right--it's impressively responsive. But I'd still hesitate to call it fast--on almost every visit, I'll have pictures that won't load, "like" tooltips that perpetually display "Loading..." instead of "John Doe liked this", newsfeed loading problems, etcetera. It could definitely be much faster.
Note to entrepreneurs: Your idea is not special
I really want this to work, but it seems too good to be true, which bring my Dubious Dave side to the front:

Sources: Avita Medical, Wikipedia, New South Wales Dept. of Health

Image credits: Avita Medical

If it's actually been successful at treating "thousands of patients in Canada, the UK, France, Germany, and Australia (among many other countries)", why is New South Wales the only potentially medically-reliable / non-conflicted source? Why do all of the source links go to top level pages instead of specific data?

I really hope that it's real and that they get the approvals, though.
I don't think this is a good thing. I built a few rails apps and currently we are doing our startup in rails and java and depressingly enough Java is actually nicer for me. He's talking about well documented gems; which ones? I haven't seen much of those; it's usually 'go read the source code'. And all those 'great OO practices' where suddenly some class is behaving totally different because you installed a plugin is GREAT when it works. When it doesn't you are debugging yourself silly through all that meta programming crap. And having (as in, stuff stops working) to change your code through minor versions? That's not growing up, that's just crazy behavior.
Google announces Instant Pages
I dunno about that. User's email server is slow and maybe they can't log in for 20 minutes? Aggressive spam filtering effectively locks you out?
Slightly OT, but does anyone know of any CL conferences in the US? Google has failed me so far.
I liked being able to think of an idea, sketch out a schema and have it up in (admittedly ugly) webpages in a matter of minutes...and on almost any machine in just the time it took to download the package (no crazy dependencies, etc.).

The fact that you could then evolve this into something production-ready (arguably), well that was just icing on the cake!
Though interestingly, your bank isn't generally required to repay you for losses in your safe deposit box unless it arises from their negligence.
In your mind, please change "someone who is sick" to "someone who is sick or struggling"
When to use CDNs (Content Delivery Network)?
In most colleges in India, the instructor writes code on the blackboard (entire programs) that the students blindly copy into their notebooks. Then, they memorize these programs before the exam and reproduce them verbatim.

The sad part is students who really learn programming end up being penalized because their solution in the exam will differ from what was originally written on the blackboard (most faculty members are incompetent and therefore have no way of knowing whether a student's answer is correct or not unless it matches that supplied in some sort of an answer key).

The linked document is a scanned notebook from a student in one of the (supposedly) best colleges in South India. One look at that document will tell you volumes about what is wrong with CS education in India.
I think the 'diving in and figuring stuff out' approach is very empowering as well. The traditional 'hang ups' are pointers and recursion. I am curious what you mean that recursion is a natural way of thinking. Can you expand on that?

(I found that recursion made sense to me as well, but that seems like selection bias. When I try to explain it I emphasize thinking that the problem is already solved. This chunk is "somebody else's problem" even if it happens to be yours later. Ignoring the problem and breaking it down. Mixed success so far)
The only thing different between the "mail order age" and the internet age is the relative amount of commerce occuring via the latter.

You're absolutely right that the main difference is the astronomical difference in scale, but you're ignoring the fact that internet sales are entirely on-demand, whereas mail order sales still require a physical catalog to order from. This may not sound like a significant difference, but the instant-on internet fundamentally altered the way the public buys the majority of its goods in a way that mail order businesses never could. This is what I meant when I said that the government didn't change its laws to reflect the reality of the internet, and it's why Quill v. North Dakota isn't a great example of today's reality.

Personally, I think the problem is a simple one to solve by doing what Illinois (where I live) did this past year with its tax form -- basically, you had two options: you could either a) calculate what you actually paid in sales taxes via receipts and whatnot, or b) divide your income by some small percentage, and choose the higher of either that number or $50. (Or something like that.) The kicker was this instruction -- Do not leave this blank. (The irony, of course, is that Illinois passed an "Amazon tax" law of its own earlier this year.) Since no one wants to be audited, I'm sure the rate of compliance was pretty high.
Exactly, make sure the only copies of the wallets with your money are on non-networked, non-running hardware, preferably just straight up storage media, and secure it physically. You can make it as secure as you can possibly make anything. Hell, you could even get it insured.
Since you can't manufacture bitcoins, I think guaranteeing interest would be difficult at best
C++ clear winner in Google language tests
I think you're overblowing his point a little, and attacking a straw man. I don't think he's talking about not-using-refrigerators/storing-passwords-in-plain-text type of insecurity, just worrying less about loopholes that are non-critical and unlikely to be exploited anyway until you have lots of users. He did say "within reason".
How does bcrypt stack up against PBKDF2?
It actually should. Probably put FBI out of business too.
Rethinking design, applying the API mindset to the physical world
Just out of curiosity, what have you done in your life to make you so against exercise?
I want to see this number for just Silicon Valley.
The 350z is bought by the racer types. Another thing you'll notice is the really high occurance of salvage title sports cars on craigslist. I want a WRX wagon for my next car, and a solid 50% of the used WRX sedans I see on craigslist are salvage titled. I bet the numbers are the same or higher for the 350z!
From the article:

"Now that you know how ReCell works and all the promise it holds, here’s the bad news: it’s currently not FDA-approved for use in the US! The website of Avita Medical claims that FDA approval is pending, but it’s not clear why it hasn’t been approved yet. Having been used successfully on thousands of patients in Canada, the UK, France, Germany, and Australia (among many other countries) should help convince the FDA that this is a proven and worthwhile medical advancement."

If I had a serious disfiguring burn right now, I would want the freedom to choose for myself whether or not this is something I want to try. The principle is: it's my life, not some committee's. The responsibility for deciding what I do with my own body is ultimately mine.

Our laws should reflect this fact.
They're changes that continue Rails' evolution by identifying pain points and presenting a default solution to them, one that can be opted out of if desired

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You're thinking "Why can't they just opt out of this and let us have our fun" and we're thinking "why are they forcing this on everybody".

Its kind of how you get a windows box and it has all this crap on it by default ... you can go uninstall or turn stuff off, but its fricking annoying as heck.

Some things should be the way things are done in rails, bundler, the new ActiveRecord queries. yes

Some of this other stuff, not so much ... you should have to explicitly turn it on not turn it off, and then if we're seeing wide adoption then we can make it part of the core.

What is wrong with that approach?

one that can be opted out of if desired. This is not new for Rails, but it seems like every time we turn around, people are acting surprised.

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Don't make people opt out of stuff especially on things that might not be so core to rails ... Opting out is annoying ... its much better to go "Wow, I didn't know that was there" than "crap ... I have to turn this stuff off now". It gets on people's nerves, the fact that you're not seeing that despite confessing that people complain each time it happens suggests a certain amount of tone deafness.

I could be wrong, but I think its worth re-evaluating.
You're letting your smartassitude get in the way of things. By demographics, gp is talking about things like age, gender, region, etc. If Nissan 350Z owners skew heavily towards irresponsible, twentysomething males pulling 140 on the nearest freeway, then it's not really fair to equate crash statistics (even if normalized) with a characteristic inherent to the vehicle itself. I could build a car of of paper mache and duct tape, but if I only sell it to grandmothers who drive to the store once a month it would barely even show up on this graph. All of which is to stay: the sole purpose of an infographic is to mask nuances in complex data. Draw conclusions from them at your own peril.