skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm used to pricing for commercial embedded tools, which is rarely this straightforward or inexpensive. I'm not saying that's a good thing, but that's why I found this "cheap". Of course, I can't really speak to its value without having evaluated it. The "only" qualifier presumed it's a comprehensive, commercially-supported static analysis tool that I would find valuable, but the call for actual users' opinions was my first step in testing this presumption. I'm installing it now.
I agree with the coat of paint comment but if we have learned anything about government agencies or large corporations being hacked in the past it is that their Internet security practices can sometimes be painfully bad.

@Below and HBGary was a IT security firm after all...
In the case of the Nexus One, the power button is a huge weak point. Mine hasn't worked in 5 months.
I think that the problem there was posterous didn't communicate this to their users.

Reddit does a fantastic job of communicating with the users; if they explained what was happening, I think the users would be fine with it.
While most of the time people overvalue secrecy, if you're entering a market where a competitor could quickly move in on your target market and make your entrance more difficult there are definite reasons for keeping quiet.Also if your launch strategy hinges on a unified PR campaign you need to keep everything below the radar.
My first reflex was to write a comment mentioning that essay and then I found this. Wish I could upvote you more...
Works for me.

It puts me on edge that these idiots would pick such media-friendly targets to strafe with their clueless bandwidth wastage; not looking forward to the next round of "cyber security" laws one bit.

"Hey dad, tell me just one more time about how when you were a kid you used to be able to make TCP connections freely and without the connection first being authorized by the NSA." "Go to sleep, son."
Are there truly this many servers out there that are so horrendously behind on updates that they can be picked off like this?
PopBooth: A Real Photo Booth powered by your iPhone/iPad
What's the app? Got a link?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem
This is epic. Load tracks at the bottom
Off topic, sorry, but not sure where I'd ask this.

I posted this news 15 minutes before this submission.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2659263

Can someone explain to this newbie why mine disappeared so quickly, but this stayed? I don't have a problem at all, I just wish to understand the system thanks.
Several reviews have the 10.1 with subpar battery life.
It takes a lot of guts and time and effort to make any sort of app and launch it, so bravo!

That was sincere, but so is this: It's not going to get sustained downloads. It doesn't look like a good enough game. I don't even have the slightest urge to download it.

So here's your marketing strategy:
0) Play your own game for an hour straight
1) Hassle your personal friends and family to download it and play it for 15 minutes (we'll be easier on them)
2) Ask for and listen attentively to their feedback
3) Use the knowledge you gained in steps 0-2 to make a better game
4) Repeat
well one reason would be OP linked to an article, you linked to a site that doesnt load...
Comcast already rakes in cash from consumers who usually have the "choice" between ATT with awful DSL service, or Comcast with awful cable modem service that is at least fast most of the time.

ATT: 1.5mbit in most locations and costs $20-$40/month not including phone line.

Comcast: costs $50-$200/month but you can get 6-100mbit in lots of locations.

To anyone who is going to try to play the "free market; let's see some competition!" card:

It's pretty impossible to do in this industry since ATT and Comcast OWN THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT CONNECTS TO HOUSING. You really think that every city is going to let you either dig up miles of road or put up new lines on their poles? You'd even have to pay ATT/Comcast if you went the "running new lines" route.

The residential ISP business is ABSOLUTELY an oligopoly, and you'd need billions in funding to even have a chance at breaking into the market.

I hope Comcast dies a fiery death and I'm really glad to see Netflix killing them at their own game. VOD / cable boxes have been AWFUL with software that never gets updated even though they can do OTA updates and UIs that look like stuff the airlines used in the early 90s.

UX? What's that....

EDIT:

TL;DR Comcast isn't going to change much any time soon because they already make $50-$300/month in most cases...they have no motivation to change.

If netflix gets more popular, they'll just lower their bandwidth caps more to make you indirectly pay them for netflix.
Where can I sign up for your cable TV plan? Mine is filled with adverts from various law firms soliciting their services for anything from personal injuries to social security disability to asbestos-related diseases, various pharmaceutical-related claims, and a dozen other things. Yeah in the end the client is the one making the claim, but the lawyers are the ones who talked them into it.
My account is about 8 months old with 9 public repos. Maybe the guys over there are tweaking this as we speak but it let me in.
Bill Gates on Pharmaceuticals: The System Isn’t Working
BTW, the next transit is in June 2012, and it's likely the last opportunity any of us living today will get to see it: http://www.transitofvenus.org/june2012/where-to-be
Well we wouldn't want to be seen as wasteful would we?
I just happened to be looking at my Twitter feed the very moment they posted, and clicked the link immediately. No go.

Would this effect happen so quick? I guess they do have a lot of followers, but I'd hope that even if all of them did what I did they could survive that amount of hits?
Anyone else had the strange experience when you wake in the middle of a night AND there is a power outage?

No blinking leds, no street lights: takes a few seconds to understand what is going on.
Down from here as well.
It's got a few important uses. Recruiting, public relations, etc. And then, there's the loss of face in having it down.
Ah :-) So I should have used the text option then?

A broken link gets it immediately marked down? Makes sense.
In most non-casual games it's all about maximizing how many commands you can issue. WoW (and SC2) have interfaces for which a large part of the interaction is only efficient at all with the mouse. If you then depend on the mouse for other things, you've created a bottleneck.

All good WoW players bind all their skills to keys rather than clicking them because if they didn't do that they couldn't use that skill while running, or while selecting a new target. It's not about the cost (or lack thereof) of mode-switching between keyboard/mouse, or the cost (or lack thereof) of consciously manipulating the UI -- it's purely about being able to walk and chew gum at the same time.
I know, I just didn't want to look up the quote, so I was vague.
Anonymous disposable online cellphone.
(your own phone #, send/receive texts, voicemails etc)
I'm a Doctrine user as well, and I've been using it for years now. But I still stand by what I said. Mostly it's a result of finding that regardless of the ORM being used, knowing SQL is still required for anything serious (or, not knowing SQL can hurt).
Chrome on Ubuntu on the Cr48 is more usable the ChromeOS on the Cr48. IMHE. Also, reviewing your link: the specs don't seem much different, except maybe a shiny case and a better trackpad.
> You might claim that you don’t use an ORM in your code, but in effect you are just implementing your own idea of an ORM. If you are just peppering queries around your model then it might be a very lightweight ORM, but the fact is you are still Mapping Objects to Relations and vice-versa.

Well said. If you don't use an ORM and you don't write SQL queries in your model methods, you're likely practicing poor OO design.
I wish the laptop market was having this amount of innovation.
Not knowing if your eyes are open or closed is very strange. I experienced that once while splunking.

We sat in a cavern for a while with all of our flashlights off. At first you expect your eyes to start adjusting, then you realize that they aren't going to and you start to think that they're closed. After a while you quit caring what state they're in as it doesn't do any good. It's a very peaceful, almost serene feeling to (temporarily) have the information feed from major sensory organs cut off like that.
China is Planting Digital Bombs Throughout the U.S. Power Grid
It's probably still an asshole thing to do, but let's at least understand that if he offends you, it's because of something you've chosen to identify with.

Offending people for who they were born -- e.g. ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation -- is wrong and should be marginalized. Saying something that belittles or contradicts the particular explanation you use for understanding how the world works is a) probably unavoidable, and b) elective.

Moreover, "Christ on a stick" only makes sense because Christians have made a concerted effort over the centuries to ensure that when on thinks of American culture, Christian themes will be conjured. Thus, abusing those references while uttering profanities is expected and completely sensible, as long as one is being profane -- it's what comes immediately to mind.
Lies, damned lies, and linkbaits.

Sensationalist title: "Reddit more than doubles its engineering staff!!1!"

Actual event: Reddit hires three new programmers.
What on earth is their plan?
The CIA should be relatively secure: they are an intelligence agency, after all. Breaching a intelligence agency's website will cause the agency to lose more face than a Senator does after his or her website is hacked.
Which post "wins" is pretty random, I wouldn't waste any time trying to figure out why. This isn't Digg where certain users get a million upvotes.
More like the release of the app store caused massive growth for apple

http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...

Comparing the two it's obvious to see Nintendo ran into the same trouble apple did, followed by apple creating an entire new market segment for itself to grow into. Nintendo on the other hand has reached market saturation and is trying to up-sell DS owners into a new model. I find your analysis lacking.

And yes, obviously now that Apple is selling games Nintendo sees them as a competitor.
perhaps they were DDOSing it and brought it to a crawl, then all the other visitors streaming in would certainly give it the final blow
Oh right, I find that usually the comments in the more obsecure subreddits are good. But yes, reddit comments that are silly/stupid will get upvoted.

That is one of the reasons I love HN. Silly stuff is ignored and downvoted.
Feels like the former. Were it the latter, they would have probably defaced the page or announced that they'd stolen some data, etc.
3D Like Box for Facebook
How to make a Nice Looking 3D Like Box for your website, using 3D CSS transforms
This article really should get some sort of award for most incoherent graphical data. What in the living blue blazes is "correlation lagged by six years"? The data all go up, the prediction turns sharply downward. That's right, we're all going to be slim...tomorrow.
Android was also a non-factor for it's first year in the marketplace. People that are writing WP7 off based on 2-3 quarters are crazy.

And no I'm not saying it will grow like Android did from Q4 09 to Q4 10 but they'll be probably be pushing RIM for 3rd place this time next year.
An API to Turn Any Web Content into an Android app
The Jester, greyhat patriot who hacked Talibans' websites and forced Wikileaks to change their hosting, is now going after LulzSec. This is a lot more entertaining than TV: https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r
Acme uses three-button mouse for copy/cut/paste, selecting text, searching, following hyperlinks and executing commands. It has `steep learning curve', steeper than VIM anyway to become comfortable, but pays off handsomly in the end.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)

Usage for cut/paste: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2658527
The other thing to keep in mind is that cia.gov is probably not made to handle lots of traffic, since I cant imagine them having a massive day-to-day userbase.. hence I assume it would be rather easy to get them choked up with traffic
> A broken link gets it immediately marked down? Makes sense.

If we can't open the site, we scratch our heads and move on. On the other hand, if we can open the site, we scratch our heads and say: "Yeah right! The site isn't down! No upvote for you!"
DDOS most likely, lulzsec has being doing a lot of ddos lately so that's the most probable scenario.
When Mom and Pop work in a corporate office.
Fair enough. How about using FB Connect for login as a means of holding people accountable for their complaints?
This doesn't have to do with security updates. This is most likely a simple ddos/flooding attack and there are not many things you can do against them.
To generate lulz.
It's useless, too many stupid or plain WTF rules, like

1) "Don't use IDs in selectors"

2) Most "Overqualified Elements"

3) "Broken box model: using height with padding"
No free iPod touches this year for .edu Apple customers
No, it means opposite. Patterns are "the right way to do things". So, the term anti-pattern means "not the right way to do things".
Why do you need the rights to update any of those?
The mention of fear-driven coding strikes me as possibly more important than the process and architecture discussion. The whole concept that your emotions drive the focus of the code you write seems very true to me.

As a beginner and student coder, fear struck me a _lot_. I read a lot of the literature, I saw all the "don't do this" guides and blog posts, and so I was always concerned and hesitant about whether the code I wrote would be a good foundation for whatever came next - never mind the fact that my projects were so often left unfinished.

I also wanted to work mostly in high level languages(TI-BASIC, Python, etc.) while wrangling as much graphics performance as possible out of them - before I had my full featureset in place - which led me to micro-optimize those languages past the point of maintainability, with inlining and caching tricks all over the place. All of this was a result of fear of the classes of bugs one gets by working with the lower-level abstractions - even though I understood pointers and memory management competently enough.

In the end, I've only gotten over these hangups by trying all the methods and seeing which ones slow me down or lead to meltdowns in practice. A lot of it turns out to be domain-specific - so e.g. I could tell you right now that doing string manipulation in C is likely to cause tons of pain, and writing the core loops of a 3D renderer in Python will make it unbearably slow. But there are all sorts of problems where I have no real answer, and will have to resort to failing fast to wrap my head around the problem.
This is the thing, though, I guess... we don't really know who is in these exclusive communities until we are in them, too, right?

Sometimes I wonder if I'm missing out on something awesome, other times I'm very "meh" about the whole thing.
I've seen plenty of folks threaten to do the same with HN, since it isn't exclusive enough for them anymore, either. Both sites will do fine, I think.
7 dollars for life, but it looks like you have to pay some sort of per message price a la this line...
"JUNE SPECIAL: 100 more free SMS credits, Login & go here!"
Thanks all for taking the time to clear that up for me.
not surprised by python itself, since it is a beast of a language on all fronts (web develpment, cross platform guis, games, scientifc computing, etc etc..), and on all os (windows is a first class citizen, one of the reasons for its massive success).

django on the other hand is not there yet, compared to rails.
HA! Yes zStack was it. I only know now because I just received an invite to zStack (now called Parse) - then I returned here to see if I could still tell the OP about it, I guess they already know ;)
He's just a troll/internet tough guy having verbal warfare via Twitter and IRC.
I made this a year ago and still use it everyday.
Extension in that they are "smooth", but physically, they are separate pieces of hardware (the light intensity of each can be set independently for instance).
I think you're missing my point on the performance side; yes an ORM layer can help you identify slow queries, but it's pretty much the database query plan that will tell you why it's slow. Is it doing a full table scan instead of using an index? Is it applying joins in a sub-optimal order? Are the statistics just off, which causes it to use a bad query plan? At that point you're already in SQL/DBA land, but now you have to map that knowledge back to the ORM layer to fix things.

My experience with type-safe query layers is that they tend to be incomplete; they simply don't let you generate the full range of SQL queries because you're restricted by the language's type system. That said, I'm not particularly familiar with squeryl (and Scala's type system is certainly more expressive than most statically-typed languages), so I can't say what it's limitations are, I can only make general statements.

Anyway, I think it's fair to say it's difficult to talk about ORM generally due to the differences between frameworks and approaches. So I'll try to phrase things more clearly, and say that I think the author's original intent, and the part I agree with, is the fundamental premise that ORM abstractions are inherently leaky and that performance needs often result in a desire to go around the ORM framework to handle something more natively in SQL. Some ORM frameworks embrace those limitations, and allow you to use them when you want to and to work around them when you don't; other frameworks fight that limitation and attempt to swallow the world such that you never have to leave the ORM framework, and those frameworks tend to be the ones that become frustrating to work with.

So if I were to attempt to charitably read the original post, I'd say that perhaps saying it's an "antipattern" is taking it too far, but saying that it's a fundamentally flawed, leaky abstraction is totally accurate, and that recognizing that it's fundamentally leaky means that you, as a developer, should probably take that into account in your application design and your library selection, and that there are some techniques that might help you to do that.
Of course it's brilliant, it just delegates the sorting to the scheduler. The OP on 4chan is ready for a PHB position at a large corporation.
I voted your application just incase this still hasn't been resolved.
Proposed class action filed against Groupon
Maybe the CIA lost its raison d'etre with Bin Laden's demise, and decided to Cuil things off.
I tried using my github account. Forrst didn't seem to recognize it... ? My application is here: http://forrst.com/i/5cW github here: https://github.com/organizations/batchblue

Thanks!
I haven't forgotten it. I've actually mentioned it several times in HN threads on the subject, suggesting that the only sane way forward for Microsoft in the mobile market is to hit the enterprise market extremely hard and take the place of Blackberry (which has only just recently lost the crown in the business world).

Apple has never known how to provide for the enterprise effectively. Hell, it was several months before iPhones could be locked, for crying out loud, which is one of the big reasons adoption was extremely slow in the enterprise...at least at the companies I know who allowed employees to choose their own phone, but disallowed iPhone (Google among them). And, Google and the Android makers haven't really tried to tackle the enterprise market in any notable way, though the openness of the platform allows bigger businesses to do what they need to do, regardless of vendor support...which is pretty powerful, too.

If IT guys are choosing, I'd be surprised if they don't choose Open Source stuff more often than something from MS. But, I have biases from my own days as an IT guy.
This is a great example of the use case for QR codes linking to a mobile-optimized website. If I had an offline business, I'd definitely consider paperlinks.
One of my favorites sites, the CIA World Fact Book[1], is also down.

[1]https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
"... well, probably never look at them. It's the act of writing the summary that's useful."

Very true. I'd say that writing out by hand works best, as opposed to typing it though.
Salt Lake Real Estate
I've never worked for a bank, or any company that held sensitive information. I've only worked for companies that sold products to be used internally. Grains of salt are on the table to your left.

What this looks like, in the context of all the other serious recent breaches like Sony and the IMF, and from the point of view of someone who's never had to fight this particular battle but knows a little code, is that these corps deployed online apps in the early days when this wasn't a major part of their corporate face. Practices and points of view evolved from an initial environment where there just wasn't as much motivation for criminals to crack apps, because there wouldn't be that much of a market for what they stole. So corps could get away with deploying almost anything, relying on both security through obscurity and security through rarity (breaches were rare due to low profit). People in corporate offices that even knew their corps had these apps would be rare because the prestige of managing these people and apps would be low.

The apps we have today would then be direct descendants of the old insecure apps, and in many cases would be built directly on those old apps. Layers of mud, and you can't change the inside layers because old mud is brittle.

And now the corps are going up against, not people who are merely exploring or looking for bragging rights, but people working for criminal enterprises that, while not having the global scope of banks, are large enough and focused enough to directly challenge the technical power of the banks. And the banks are working with old, dry mud.

Again, grains of salt, but I suspect I'm in the right salt mine.
Really? Xerxes seems impressing to me. Not that I know too much about it, but you're not exactly convincing.

Xerxes: http://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/time-to-speak-up-p...
Samsung also makes cars: http://www.autoblog.com/2011/06/14/renault-samsung-previews-...
I think some people get so caught up in putting data to graphs that they don't stop to consider the meaningfulness of the information or the usability of the graph.
I'm surprised they're not offering even a lesser iPod (iPod Nano, for example) instead. While the the gift card makes sense, since it could get a student comfortable with purchasing through iTunes, I think something that doesn't have a firm dollar amount attached to it would have worked better. iPods are useful; you can listen to music, watch stuff, and so on... $100 by itself feels like a bribe.
The social skills were key. Without them I wouldn't have recognized the negativity of my old friends or the positivity of my new friends. Before that I couldn't even recognize the bad state my friends were putting me in. Also, they enabled me to conciously make a good impression on my new friends.

I read How to Win Friends and Influence People, I read Introvert Advantage, both of which were informative. But mostly I watched a lot of videos by Lance Mason. He has a background as an engineer, so he was able to express social concepts in a way that made a lot of sense to me.
What grade did you get in geometry?
No, I'm wrong. I have a friend who uses F15 and who I saw using Chromium. But it apparently was installed manually.
Love what you fucking do
Yes, that does.

Having thought it over more, i agree that it is trivializing of the crucifixion. However this probably isn't the best venue for ruminating on the notions of Christian symbolism & semiotics.

Suffice it to say, i will retire the phrase.
Very odd, we'll take a look.