skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
related:

http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-lesser-known-but-useful-U...

http://www.quora.com/Linux/What-are-some-time-saving-tips-th...

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-useful-swiss-army-kni...
They do that stuff because it doesn't really cost money, and because if they don't, they will always have empty tables. It's as simple as telling the existing staff to go do it.

The good website you are describing probably costs at least $5k, which is more than they have to spend. It also means they have to find someone that can do the work, tell them what they want, pay them, manage them, and evaluate the output. It's time consuming and expensive.
It's not inherently bad. It's a trade-off between security and convenience. Believe it or not, most of the time, business managers are far more concerned about the user experience and the convenience of use rather than information security.

It's not black and white. It's a decision with trade-offs either way.
Yeah, I didn’t get that bit. But then I don’t get why some vegetarians eat fish either.
The Motorola RAZR (and probably similar phones) have serious exploits and backdoors.

See: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html
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Cool! :)
I want this when being on holiday in various bigger cities. In the evening then I can check where I had actually random-walked around that day.
Here's a fairly recent article: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=inside-the-...

I'm a lot more enthused by the thought of petri-dish-grown steak than mealworm.
Still a 33% failure rate. And oh, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vf8N6GpdM
Wow, I didn't know that! I think all of the .csv parsing code I wrote in the last years will break on this... thanks!
Here's a link to the original instead of blog spam:

http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/6851
Websites are never finished, only abandoned
The hypothesis that social unrest is primarily the result of withdrawal of social programs, rather than simply their absence, should mean that we fail to see riots when the social programs didn't exit in the first place. But there are plenty of examples of riots predating a strong social safety net; for example, the Haymarket riots in the United States.

I don't see any historical evidence for the claim that stability typically accompanies lack of social programs.
The weak economy is hitting Americans where they spend a lot of their free time: at the TV set.

While the economy might be the trigger that drives people over the edge to unsubscribe, I actually believe that a large number of them was disenfranchised with TV programming before that. When it comes to entertainment, we have exactly three categories: reality TV, sports events, and series that are designed to be huge blockbusters.

Personally, my biggest beef with this is the series part (I don't watch reality TV or sports at all), because we're only ever seeing the most dumbed-down shit that is designed from the ground up for marketability. Only rarely does that procedure produce a great show, and when it does, it's by pure accident. As a result, we get fiction programming where Warehouse 13 is considered "edgy sci-fi TV", when it fact it is neither edgy nor scifi at all.
That's fantastic. I've been meaning to get into WebGL (perhaps make some sort of tech demo game with it). I've held off because of performance issues (also, I admit, I'm not too excited about dealing with shaders).

I think I should stop procrastinating now and actually do something with it. This is very exciting!
pstree prints out a tree of all the running processes, arranged by who spawned who.
Learning a new syntax is not the same as actually learning the idioms (pythonic?) that are considered good practice. And after that you'll get into the field of infrastructure around that language. I guess if you've never heard of Python and the company is looking for a decent programmer to help in a (making something up as I type) medium sized Django application then you end up with

- you don't know Python at all

- if you learn it (might be very fast to learn to read it, fast to get into the basics) you're still missing out a lot (Maybe they use IronPython. Or Pypy. You need to learn the eco system: virtualenv et al?)

- even if you mastered that, you still don't know the basic technology they are using (in my sample: Django)

Compare that to a guy that used Python for a couple years. That one only needs to get into your code base and can start working right away.
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Cloud for your business. Yes? No?
They're still working on it. Here's the first page of a New Yorker article:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_...
Great story and a good example of why having the right team is critical.

Creative problem solving is a difficult thing to cultivate since it requires both insight (e.g the ePrize legal guy) and also the courage to actually voice it. Many environments do a great job of inadvertently crushing the latter.
Two very good business stories on unconventional thinking, both forced by a lack of proper preparation and due diligence.

It doesn't distract from the OP's point - don't restrict yourself to only the obvious options you have in front of you - but at the same time, think about how much opportunity could have been created by applying to innovation the thought that went into fixing two million-dollar mistakes.
Correlation is not causation. I am British.

The austerity cuts haven't started yet. They may cause unrest later. They can't cause unrest before it.

reasons for UK problems:

1. Economy is crap.

2. Inequality. Public education is crap. Lower classes are as anti-intellectual as any red state American.

3. Multiculturalism. Between new immigrants and old ones. Young and old. Muslim and non-Muslim. Black and white. Taxpayer class, benefits class. These cultures are totally ghettoised from each other.

4. Rioting is fun. Herd behaviour. Media coverage - monkey see monkey do. Monkey sees little social sanction.

5. Britain is not a democracy. First past the post is the most stable oligarchy for a political class short of dictatorship. 3 parties fight only for a few thousand swing voters.
Even if you discounted MeeGo as a no-go (no pun intended) as I did before playing with the N9, Android would make more sense - they already had Linux kernels running well on their hardware and had them for ages. Building Android on top of that would be trivial. And quick.

Nokia could also be the only Android phone maker that would be completely imune to lawsuits by any other phone maker. And from Microsoft ("It's a shame you are suing us, you know. It would be horrible if we decided to sue all your WinMo 6 and 7 OEMs").
There was a story a while back about one of the founders and/or creators of Tesla, and how he was pushed out and mistreated by Tesla management. Although we all like to root for Tesla, for me that story casts the company in a different light.
I've had locusts. They're pretty good, especially panfried, but unfortunately people seem to be having trouble importing them into the US:

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/san_fran...

I don't think they can ever completely replace beef or pork, but the article was pretty dead on when they described them as something crunchy that could be added to fried rice or whatever.
Seems like a general WebGL issue -- I've seen most WebGL examples hang up or freeze on integrated graphics / Intel graphics but they always run absolutely smoothly on "full-blown" gamer-like GPUs (nVidia etc.) Unless your nVidia is on a MacBook but running Linux instead of OSX und thus odd drivers.
That's all well and good, but removing their Clients page and the Google cache of it is pretty damning. Why cover your tracks if it was all above board?

I don't think it really matters in this case whether it was sincere or not, but I guess people don't like to feel like they've been played.
> It really helps if you are just doing one thing. For example, Ruby on Rails development. Or iOS development. Or Wordpress plugin developer. This makes it a lot easier for people to remember you. When you do “everything” people will not immediately think of you when they have a specific problem.

Is there any way to market multiple skills and still succeed as a freelancer?

E.g., web development (RoR and Django), graphic design, and music production.

("A man can do all things if he will", can't he? Or are we technically unable to have such diverse skill set?)
Congrats. As someone who is currently mid way through developing my first iOS app (although I've done plenty for clients) I've definitely found how hard it is to launch your own product. The beginning idea and excitement phase is great, but seeing it through to the end is hard. Right now I'm in the trenches, looking forward to coming out the other side!
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I'm not sure how it's counter-intuitive, though. Maybe my intuition just works differently from most folks, but it seems self-evident that there's some point at which a larger string of characters from a smaller alphabet has more entropy than a smaller string from a larger alphabet. It's relatively simple combinatorics that doesn't need a sophisticated analysis to demonstrate.

What bothers me is that so many people's intuition is wrong, which leads to ridiculous policies. I'd have much more respect for a policy that tells me "our minimum password length is 20 characters" than for the more usual policy that states "our minimum password length is 8 characters, and for security reasons passwords must contain at least one capital letter, one number and one special character, and no characters can repeat, and this must be different from your last 18 passwords, and this password will expire in 30 days..."
Shaders are fun! Looks a bit like "scary c++" at first but not too steep a learning-curve actually. No header files, pointers and the likes. Just a couple of maths functions and maths types (vec3, float etc). Pixel shaders return a "color" vector, vertex shaders a vertex "position" and "that's about it".
Even Disney, world's largest media company, can't build a Web business
I applied to a London based digital agency. In return they sent me a 10-page document (!) asking me stuff like what were my previous three addresses ?

It was like filling up a visa application.
Remember when the mydoom worm took down google for a bit due to widespread and distributed searches for itself/targets? I wonder if database resources are infinite?
I'd guess that unrest is inevitable when a country gets a debt problem whichever way you deal with it. The current unrest in London and other UK cities may be the result of austerity and what happened in Greece recently certainly is.

However, the alternative (inflation) would have the same effect. See 1920's Germany/Austria for example - 'When Money Dies' by Adam Fergusson is the book on this.
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In my experience simple, domain-specific CAPTCHAs work pretty well. They don't even need to include a frustrating image with hard-to-parse words. Just ask commenters a somewhat randomized question that any visitor to the site would be able to answer easily. It can be really, really simple - like for example asking them to enter the abbreviation for something:

> Whats the abbreviation commonly used for the Hypertext Transfer Protocol?

This weeds out bots (because they generally don't bother with site-specific stuff) and many trolls (because they are either to stupid or to lazy to go through this process).
We already eat bugs.

You should see what's allowed to get into the ingredients by the FDA in food processing plants.
nice timelines
> I wouldn't mind at all moving away from having to eat cattle.

Who's forcing you to eat cattle?
From what I've been told, yes, but I could be utterly wrong.
Well, plants are living things too ;)

There are a couple of reasons why some vegetarions (pescetarians) eat fish and not other meat. The main one is health, since it is really difficult to get a healthy and varied diet, with enough protein and fat, through eating just plants. A lot of people also don't believe that fish suffers as much as other animals.
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congratz.you should provide an option to save compass direction as well.
Lots of restaurants have cash flow issues or aren't even making a profit even in the best of times. This would be a seriously risky move for a web agency in many cases and I would strongly advise against doing it unless you can afford to not get paid at all.
WordPress add TinyMCE editor to post/page title input field
What monad would you use them for? I've never seen a really good use case.
ExtJS has one major disadvantage - documentation is also done in ExtJS so it is not indexed by google and it's difficult to search for.
Interesting, though only Debian support for the clients at the moment. I will begin porting that over to RPM based systems later on tonight. Starting with CentOS.
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Wageningen, that's down the road from where I live! I wonder if I could get a free sample...
Cable cutting numbers are so low as to be almost unmeasurable.

So why are Hulu and Netflix hamstrung by content creators as a threat to revenue again?
watch is rather handy:

# watch packet counters
watch ifconfig

# watch tcp connections
watch netstat -plan

# watch the load average
watch uptime

# watch directory contents
watch ls -l
> many, but not all, OS X apps

I rest my case
It's not just the "underclass" that benefits, BTW.

The "overclass" (continuing with your phrasing) is also dependent on various forms of social welfare. Most recently through socialized business losses and corporate bailouts (qv: TBTF, zombie banks, federal discount window rates), on complex tax policies (qv: "double irish", etc), on expenditures on "nation building" and "police actions" and related distortions, and indirectly through qualitative easing and depressed exchange rates and policies that can move jobs and capital offshore.

And that's before you get to discussions around the mortgage deductions and other forms of social welfare, which are aimed at homeowners and particularly at the rates that banks can charge.

Or at whether or not there will be any number of prosecutions for securities fraud, or investors in failed entities getting their hair cut, or around that national candidates can measure campaign contributions in the multi-millions or now billions of dollars, or any increase in market transparency or the effects of HFT on the market. (This is probably the most pernicious form of social welfare, as a crooked system leaches out the money; business continues, but a lack of trust costs everybody.)

And while I doubt that these "overclass" social programs will see particular cuts, this largesse can also lead to social unrest. (Though usually not among the recipients of this largesse.)

Is there a simple answer? No. But a discussion of "underclass" and "social welfare programs" without a corresponding discussion of "overclass" and "corporate welfare programs" and related is playing directly into the divisive political kabuki, and not likely working toward a solution.
Depends on the definition of the term vegetarian. You can go with the "no meat, but fish and bugs allowed" definiton?

I wonder why do we, as humans, consider eating bugs strange, and why haven't they evolved as a regular part of the modern human diet? Is it only for historical reasons, social, or is it something physical or biological?
> However, the alternative (inflation) would have the same effect.

I don't think this is necessarily true. Pre-euro, Greece devalued the drachma several times in order to manage its debts and trade balance (by around 15% each time in 1983, 1985, and 1998), but it didn't lead to rioting in the streets.
Well, I guess it depends on what particular mindset. I do not eat meat, because I think that most animals that are commonly eaten are sentient, and I believe intentionally killing sentient animals is wrong.

The question of course is, what animals are sentient. I don't know. But I find it plausible that, say worms, are not really sentient. And from that perspective it's pretty ok to eat worms. Since I do not know where to draw the line, I play safe and avoid meat, but others would choose differently.

Some of my friends are also vegetarians, not because they think killing animals is wrong, but because they believe animal farming has a negative impact on the environment. If insect farming does not have the same impact, it could be a reason for them to consider eating insects.
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I like the idea of making it using light sensitive paint.
haha me too. Both are good additions.
Exact same setup and experience for me.
sorry to bother you sir but could you tell me what that is called and maybe where i find out more about it?
Anonymous posted to twitter concerning OpFacebook. The three posts that (I think) are relevant:

#OpFacebook is being organised by some Anons. This does not necessarily mean that all of #Anonymous agrees with it.

We prefer to face the real power and not to face to the same medias that we use as tools. #OpFacebook #Anonymous

REMEMBER THIS ARTICLE: "Are Hacker Attacks Government Operation To Push Internet Censorship Laws?"

The last one doesn't specifically mention FB, but it does seem that that sort of event - where the MSM attributes X to anon when anon isn't behind X - is beginning to worry them.
Show HN: lean dashboard to organize bookmarks, tasks and notes
Some time ago I was searching for a way to store my personal bookmarks, tasks and notes in a clean dashboard like layout accessible from anywhere.

Since I couldn't find anything suitable I've started developing a small side project: http://trackpanel.net

The layout is inspired by http://hackurls.com

The idea is that when you place an often used link in a specific visual spot you might find it faster later on. The way you can move things around gives you the freedom to create your own workflows.

It works quite wel for me, not just for bookmarks but also as a task management & central link page for small projects.

I have no idea if this would also work for other people: what do you guys think: does this have potential?

Direct demo link: http://trackpanel.net/demo
strip the signature then? (os x devtools include a command line tool that can do that)
I always use Linux as my desktop - never touched a Mac except for when I use my brother's mbp and I only use windows for gaming. (though to be fair I am considering finally venturing into mac-land and getting a mbp for myself).
The idea of a "hacker" and a "uniform" don't really seem to fit together.

edit: and actually, I think the whole "uniform" mentality is exactly the way that apple wants people to see its products, whereas that kind of thinking makes Linux users' skin crawl (at least this linux user's - coming on HN is making it harder and harder to make myself buy that mbp...)
The comment thread under that looks super fishy as well. All positive comments, on the internet? Yeah right. And most of them are well written? Maybe my bs detector is set too high, but I smell shenanigans.
Friend of mine came back from Defcon complaining of some of the exact same symptoms as those listed by coderman and said he'd be DBANning his phone later.
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darklajid,

of course you are right: someone who knows Python well may be better than someone who doesn't.

But if you look at the recruiters experience, who finds only two qualified applications, then I say: find a good programmer among the applicants who really wants to get into Python and you will get someone who comes to speed very quickly.

You might even find someone who is enthusiastic about his new job, instead of someone who does the same thing since 1996, who is good at what he does, but a bit bored too.

These recruiters always think in their own minds cage: according to them, you start something once, and do it for the rest of your life, because nobody will let you do something different. Most software developers are much too smart for that cage only.
The article claims a correlation between withdrawal of social programs, not a hard and fast rule. Pointing out a single data point which goes against the trend does not invalidate the statistical claims.
Several years back I was on a job where the boss wanted to allow virtually any user-provided HTML/CSS/JS in a content area, while preventing redirects.

No implementation ever happened of course, but my first thought was, what would happen if we did a "<script>delete(window.location);</script>" near the top of the template?

Answer: nothing. But what would the implications be if browsers allowed it?
This seems to weaken the captcha for bots, since a simple Google search for (for instance) 'do you know we are going' completes the sentence. No need to defeat the obsfucated OCR test.

If the goal is to keep out some idiots (since these tests will admit 33-50% of idiots who can at least complete the OCR test but answer the question randomly) but permit moderately sophisticated bots, mission accomplished.

Providing more context to the captcha solution in general strikes me as helping the bots, even if it confounds idiots.
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So disgusting. There are millions of vegeterian options available. But as usual, get science involved and people make it more complicated.
4 out of 5 of your points could be summarized as "bourgeoisie oppression." When this happens in the Middle East the media calls it "the Arab Spring," but when it happens in an ostensibly Western democracy it's "random acts of violence without cause."

At least, that's how Fox News was portraying it this morning.
And my internet cost has skyrocketed because of it (mostly because there's no competition).
FWIW his account is over a year old (though not very active).

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jonathanstark
That's interesting. I guess it depends on the scale of the inflation. Germany printed money to pay their war reparations with and when it got to the hyper-inflation stage everybody was screwed.

Inflation in relatively small amounts is only going to really hurt savers so I guess if the population distribution is skewed towards more people with debt than with savings (isn't it always!) then a government might be able to use it to reduce the likelyhood and scale of unrest.
If cable networks and MSOs were smart, they'd start developing their own "Netflix" style operation. Build MSO-specific web apps that make it easy to do two things: 1.) Watch live network streams as if I had a box hooked up to my TV and 2.) Give users access to a VOD library (just like Netflix) for each network. There are PLENTY of downsides but unfortunately, these companies need to realize that the old model doesn't work and is only going to continue to die off. Want to keep your subscribers? Move to the web. Now. Worry about the details later.
No way, you tell them you're attacking on Thursday night/Friday morning at midnight. Then do a headfake, a completely impotent showing, but keep at it for at least three hours. Then let it fall apart as users drift off.

Then, around eight am, when the US gets to work, and anyone at Facebook who took you seriously is sleeping in after the late night? Then. That's when you pull out the big guns.

I wonder which hour of the day is their busiest... That would be my true target time.