skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm interested in this kind of algorithm on principle, and analysis of successfully hurdled engineering problems are probably of interest to most readers of hacker news. Please elaborate!
600,000 Calls Later, Callin’ Oates’ Developers Share Their Code
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From the article:

But there is hope! PHP already landed a change (which
will ship with PHP 5.3.9) ...

As far as I can tell, this isn't being backported.

This is going to be bad. I've never had the privilege of using PHP 5.3 during work hours; everything has always been stuck on 5.1.6 and 5.2.x.

Predictions:

a) People are going to jump to 5.3 in a hurry, or

b) RedHat will release a backport for RHEL (and Centos will release the patch in six months).

Either way, I think this will go unpatched in a large number of systems until DoS attacks become so common that a) and b) will need to happen.
Announcing ql.io
How Digital Will Improve B2B Sales in 2012
Please adjust the kerning of the "Testimonials" heading on your site -- there's a ginormous space between the 'T' and the 'E'.
Here is a page with more details and explanations: http://thinklegend.com/commit
Isn't this more secure than having nothing?
There is a large additional cost to the wrongdoers in that they have to get close to you (even if they know your home address, how do they know you and your phone are home). Seems like a deterrent when you could be running credit card phishing sites for less work per victim.
And you would still get the intercepted text, the ones I get from my bank in Australia suggest if you didn't request the token to contact them immediately.
Every VC associate will be using this in a matter of weeks!
But why? You really believe he is making important scientific contributions NOW? I think it's more of sustained hype from his earlier contributions, plus a guy in a chair makes for a compelling media story.

That said, I'm all for social health and providing for the needing and handicapped, but that's regardless of if they are "worth it" or not.
My point is that it's all relative, and from Google's perspective, something bad will happen--people won't use their service. Telling your potential users to grow up and act like reasonable people is not going to be a successful strategy when your goal is getting literally everyone with an internet connection to use your service. Lots of people are not rational, reasonable or mature. Personally, I don't find dicks and gore to be disgusting. It's just absurd to me. Of course, I understand perfectly well that other people find it disgusting, just as I can understand that there are a lot of people in the U.S. that find the middle finger to be objectionable (hey, maybe they aren't even offended by it, maybe they just don't want to explain what that gesture means to their kid, who then runs around flipping off everyone at their school [true story, I did that when I was about 4 years old]).

Almost any business that is targeted at a mass audience understands this and governs their products accordingly. If you find their censorship to be prudish and ridiculous, you can boycott them and use the Fuck You Network. I suppose if enough people boycott G+ for being unreasonably prudish, maybe they'll change their position, but judging by past performance, it seems like the prudes win these fights. Social networks are not like content distributors like HBO, that can appeal to a relatively small niche and be successful, for G+ it's all or nothing.
This basically fits the idea of the hero's journey[0], an idea by Joseph Campbell. Joseph Campbell believes that many myths follow this hero's journey through 3 phases: departure, initiation and return. It's startling how many myths fit this almost perfectly.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth
Prototypes and The Law of the Conservation of Quality
I've made an update so that the two scripts are, in fact, different.
Programmers ineptitude combined with Rails conventions
This is by no means a way to bash on Rails. I actually like Rails and think it's great. I also think the conventions are great and everyone should follow them!
I am just using it as an example since I am familiar with it and it's strong on the (good) conventions... which I am using to exploit.

And calling the programmers inept might be a bit harsh, but their lack of knowledge combined with the conventions followed is what I am pointing out here.

I am not going to mention any names with this issue still open, but this was previously in Diaspora (hoped it's fixed by now). Seen it in soooo many places, it's not funny. Especially when they manage user data and payments.

It's a combination of both Rails convention/predictability and the programmers lack of knowledge.
What I am referring to is the rails CRUD controller conventions to make the controllers RESTFul.

Basically what I am talking about is authorization before CRUD:ing a Resource.
Now, I purposfully didn't say authentication, but authorization.
They do not check that the resource being "worked" on belongs to the authenticated user. However in most cases they do check that the user is authenticated. At least it's a start ;-)

In rails terms..
.
What they use is
@place = Place.find params[:id]
@place.destroy

What they should have done (I am sure there are better ways)
@place = current_user.places.find params[:id]
@place.destroy

So they are not authorizing that the user have access to the resource, just authenticating the user.

Basically, I can log in in my account (hell, any account). And CRUD other peoples stuff.
And since Rails is using jQuery as a default. Things become quite easy for us.
jQuery.post("/places/18494", {_method: "PUT", places: {title: "Slaughter house", id: "18494"}, id: 18494}, null, "script")
jQuery.post("/places/17760", {_method: "DELETE"}, null, "script")

I can easily check the javascript code and how forms are built in the html source to see how the parameters is built and the name of the attributes.

With the naming conventions following that, things become much easier than having to guess all resources and their actions or go through obfuscated javascript to find the destroy action if it was renamed into something else.

So.... authorize your users access for the resource, not just authenticate. And follow the conventions. Still.

On a side note. I am looking for a job.
I'd like the position of a Mobile & Tablet Product Manager - But I'm iOS developer myself, so I can basically estimate, build and to some extent design the things I request as product manager ;-). Can also code on the API (familiar with Sql, Redis and etc - Would prefer it as well).
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Tweets? At first that seemed like a little biased prediction set, but on the other hand people who have to make such an effort to communicate will want write few words. However, writing "Tweets" takes almost no effort at all, so it is interesting to consider.
In D&D style, I strike back with a Brad-Feld rebuttal:

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2011/12/top-10-reasons-top-1...
That's not nuclear.

Nuclear would be: you vote for SOPA you will be blacklisted from ever using google, gmail, facebook, twitter, aws. Your campaign, personal, and business websites will never appear in google searches. Your books will never be sold on amazon. You will never be allowed to have a google account, upload videos to youtube, or own an android device.

That is nuclear.
Also, many people have home theaters that provide a very nice movie-viewing experience. So whereas a family of four might go see a special, well-reviewed movie like "The Muppets" in the theater, they may wait to see "We Bought a Zoo" when it comes out on video.
Yes, so as to 1-up Gandi, Namecheap announced today that they'll be doubling it if they make it to $25k. That's what this post is about...
"Hipster Runoff", it's hilarious.
So many people around these parts bemoan the amount of influence corporations have in the legislative process. That being the case, how does one justify corporate muscle-flexing like this?
Thank you for doing something valuable for the world. I see too many people building trivial things and calling themselves innovators.
How I learned to be a better person from the open source community and my dog
This is the free software I use on my Mac. Which Software am I missing?
I'm a one man shop and I'm into 2 startups. I have no staff and until yesterday I didn't even have any techie friends that I could count on to even advise me or do me small favors or even network. I'm one year in and my first startup is growing tremendously. Now with my second one I'm in the same position as you - just starting it.

So yes, you can do just fine on your own. The question is should you? Employees cost money and should probably be out of the question until you see some traction. If you really need some help I would say either get a partner (someone who is in it with you whose income depends on his work just as much as yours. No fixed salary, he gets the same deal as you with some revenue sharing deal - that's one difference between an employee and a partner) or you outsource any work you can't do yourself or need quicker.

Other than that you really don't need a second person if you don't want one. I can tell you from experience that working solo can really suck. I just closed out my first year and I know that if I had a partner or some other support that I could have grown the business exponentially. Having other people around pushes you, motivates you, let's you blow off steam, destress, etc. it's always nice to have someone to bounce ideas off of. They can be very valuable and get you thinking in ways you wouldn't have before.

Flying solo is hard but there's no reason you can't. Having people to work with can be a valuable luxury but don't be fooled by what everyone says, flying solo is not a recipe for failure. Not even close.
Apple Envisions Face & Presence Detection Security for iOS Devices
To be fair, opportunistic locking is implemented in the API (you can pass a revision ID and the call fails if this is not the current version, or something like that).
I transferred the few domains that I have on GoDaddy today. After their strong support of SOPA, the recent "reversal" of position wasn't enough to sway me. I'm leaving two domains there that will expire soon, not to be renewed.

I did hit one snag. I have one domain I want to keep that expires within the next seven days. Apparently I can't transfer if that's the case. Any workaround to this that doesn't put money in GoDaddy's pocket?
7 Lessons from the Makers of the Dolphin Browser
Or even setting a callback URL for a file or folder that POSTs some JSON when the file changes. Simpler for everyone.
I've always wondered why movie theaters are showing ads, when you are charged to watch the movie. Aren't ads supposed to be an alternative to directly charging your customer?
Never forget your notes ever again.
Much like how in a certain television program, the Pontiac Fiero has a back seat.

You know, where the engine is.
Has been submitted more than 20 days ago.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3311771
Use of the Y Combinator in Ruby
Why I Won’t Turn Off My Gadgets on Planes
It's true that Puppet Labs is doing some serious marketing with their enterprise stuff. I do think their product is better. I have used both.
The "home office" concept always seemed like a luxury afforded by cheap space. Space is not cheap in New York City proper.
I'm curious about his disparagement of "noisy fanboys an girls". Is fanboy now just a generic term for someone we don't like?
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I agree there would be repercussions for YouTube and Google Music, I'll note that content providers have already pulled out of / are actively blocking Google TV, so Google has little to lose on that front. I'll also say that I think the consequences for YouTube are smaller than you think."Official" videos may be the most popular videos on YouTube on an individual basis, but I strongly suspect that, as a group, user-generated videos drive the majority of YouTube usage, even though very few user-generated videos are extremely popular individually.
The question they seem to be asking is not "Can I afford it" but rather "How much of a quality-of-life hit will I be taking".
The Alamo Drafthouse in Houston was a franchise location and not run by the same owners. In the past year or two, however, the parent company purchased the franchise locations outright and shut down the franchisee concept.

My guess is Houston will be looking up...
Electoral reform, redux
Facebook Timeline vs. Old Profiles: How People View Them Differently [STUDY]
Oh, I'm sure they are counting on incorrect inferences. You know, using the super-senior dev's $250k salary to mask the introductory salary of $30k and stuff like that...
"""that "x not in y" is worth having in a language when it's identical to "not x in y""""

It's not identical. Their effects are identical --which is a different thing.

With turing completeness you could do with even less, but that's not the point.

The point is: "x not in y" is more natural -- and Python is praised for it's ability to read like natural language/pseudocode (which it doesn't always achieve, but this is one case that it does).

We say: "if my tie is not in the suitcase, do something".

We don't say: "if not is my tie in the suitecase, do something" (except Yoda).
It's how the game is played until congress restricts or regulates such influence.

An analogy would be a voter refusing to vote because representatives are not representing the voter. Self-reinforcing view (or exiology).
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And call me unreasonable if you like, but if this thing passes, and they haven't gone nuclear (or some variation thereof), as far as I'm concerned, they are endorsing it.

There are a few times when you have to take a stand. This is one of them.

None of the airlines opposed the TSA like they should have, and I stopped flying american carriers as a result, except where there's literally no other option.

I won't have a problem ending all association with Google, Amazon, Facebook or Twitter.
tldr; Finland educational policy is driven mainly by ensuring equity to all, and is the primary factor in producing the excellent PISA results.

Executive summary:

- Focus on equity ("every child should have exactly the same opportunity to learn, regardless of family background, income, or geographic location"); all pupils get free school meals, easy access to health care, psychological counseling, and individualized student guidance.

- Lack of standardized testing (only exception is the National Matriculation Exam, which everyone takes at the end of a voluntary upper-secondary school, roughly the equivalent of American high school).

- Teachers are trained to assess children in classrooms using independent tests they create themselves.

- Periodic testing of a few sample groups across a range of different schools to track national progress.

- Lack of institutionalized accountability of teachers and administrators; if a teacher is bad, it is the principal's responsibility to notice and deal with it.

- Teachers and administrators are given prestige, decent pay, and a lot of responsibility; a master's degree is required to enter the profession.

- Finland is a relatively homogeneous country (<5% born in another country); however, PISA comparison with Norway suggests that educational policy "is probably more important to the success of a country's school system than the nation's size or ethnic makeup". ("Like Finland, Norway is small and not especially diverse overall, but unlike Finland it has taken an approach to education that is more American than Finnish.")

Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Finland : Finnish education system consists of: (1) daycare programs for babies and toddlers; (2) one-year "pre-school" (or kindergarten for six-year olds); (3) nine-year compulsory basic comprehensive school starting at age seven and ending at the age of sixteen; (4) post-compulsory secondary general academic and vocational education; (5) University and Polytechnical higher education; and adult (lifelong, continuing) education.
We're talking about Ruby. Of course it is based on start ups only. Nobody here is interested in Perl, it is clearly the dinosaur language.

Don't try too hard to correct them. ;)
Sure, Google can choose to do whatever they want, but those choices have consequences. This policy could have the effect of making people feel like they can't "be themselves" on G+, and cause a drop in participation. I'm not saying this particular incident would have that effect (MG Siegler appears to not actually care), but it could for other cases.
Other things that I noticed when I updated my Nexus S:

* Scrolling and transition animations are a bit smoother. Not quite iPhone smooth but almost.
* The tile based rendering for the browser is quite noticeable. While a page is rendering you'll see some tiles rendered at various resolutions or not at all and you can be waiting a while sometimes before the tile you want to read is rendered.
* The browser has a save for offline reading option.
* The browser allows many more 'open' tabs than it did previously
* The locked screen now lets you swipe right to unlock, or left to turn on the camera. This is great for fast access to the camera app.
* The locked screen also shows controls for pausing and skipping songs when the music app is running.
* Contacts that don't have an international prefix are no longer recognised. I was a bit confused when I started getting messages from unknown numbers before realising I had to update my contacts.
* I can no longer lock the screen when playing Angry Birds. When I unlock, the app has died (presumably run out of memory). I guess this is because ICS takes more memory.
* The task manager now has thumbnails and is a lot slower to load.

So overall I would agree there are some improvements, some changes and some new bugs. But I would recommend upgrading if only for the improved speed - I find it strange that Tom didn't mention that.
My girlfriend likes to wear this. . . Too sexy?
My girlfriend likes to wear a sexy clothes. . .
She always wears like this,
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sometimes I was a little hard to accept.
Should I permit??
At the Alamo Drafthouse in San Antonio, they play a slightly modified version of this before every movie I've seen -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo9v_GIuDBk

Definitely a good place to watch a movie, and I think Ebert is spot on.
We're talking about websites blacking out their own pages, or advocating that their customers call up their representatives.

Are you meaning to endorse congress restricting or regulating such influence?

I'd see that as a far worse threat than SOPA. (Maybe you don't disagree.)
So what would you do if you were Godaddy? I say it would have to come from Daddy himself. He would have to say something to the effect of: Obviously we have mistepped here and we are taking it as a wake-up call. We are here because of our customers and in the future we will do all we can to listen to them and defend their interests and rights. Later actually do that.
Even if you're right and Google et al can establish institutional partnerships that minimize the impact of SOPA on their current services and business (and, hence, their current bottom line)...

SOPA would dramatically (and negatively) reshape the environment in which new services and business are developed (by startups, individuals, teams within larger companies, etc.). In the long run, that will matter more for the bottom line than anything else.
Nuclear would also include Danica Patrick.
The thing to keep in mind is that SOPA, if I understand correctly, only applies to foreign entities. As it stands, FB won't be impacted substantially by the legislation.

That said, it'd be in their best interest to stop this now, because even if this doesn't impact them, slowly but surely the laws will be amended to apply to everyone.
I wonder if anyone has the ability to understand and use dropbox this way but isn't able to mount network shares. I feel like anyone who would use this would see it as worse than usual. Dropbox and it's clones are great, and it's good to see this convenience available to a more mainstream audience.

But as someone who has used sshfs for years to get seamless access to all my boxes from wherever I am I'm certainly not getting excited about some kind of crippled filesystem-over-http fad. It took mobile to remind people that the internet is good for more than just the web but I don't see that trend stopping (even if we do have to start calling software "native apps")

The web's great, but this everything-in-the-browser silliness means people are using crappier tools than they used to have. I find it annoying but practically it's just not a stable state of affairs because it's so easy to change.
My minimum viable product. What do you think?
http://refernote.com/
Just a note: SLS has about 50% more capacity than the Falcon 9 heavy. If you want to carry 70 tons to LEO in one haul, nothing else would do.
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the definition of open: "mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make"

>make install.

oh.
Ah yes, you're right. Now I see what mikegirouard meant.

In any case, I already transferred 20 of my domains from GoDaddy to Namecheap yesterday. I only have some domains at GoDaddy with ccTLDs that Namecheap doesn't support, but I turned the autorenewal off for those domains while I'm looking for an other registrar to transfer them to.
It will certainly turn more against SOPA supporters.

I'm still finding so many that are unaware about SOPA and upon understanding that it's far-reaching attempt to control the Internet, they're not SOPA opponents. However, the older generation doesn't quite get it until I mention restricting Radio stations (They were familiar with the Pirate Radio in past).
Actually it's the link farms and spammers who should be linking to GoDaddy rather than giving free pub to Namecheap. I can't link to every provider on the right side of this issue.
GoDaddy Tries to Discourage Domain Transfers
Holy fuck you Americans are well paid...

80k is a very respectable salary here in Sweden. Hell, I know plenty of programmer working for 40k a year. In the US it seems like the norm for recompense is 100k+. What gives?
All the domain registration thing aside, that's a blazing fast web design. Kudos to the developers!
Yeah, masklinn, you make a decent point in richer markets, but I think it's unlikely we'll see a $25, no-contract iPhone or iPad, while we've already seen (extremely crappy) Android devices that are remarkably close to that range. frankydp is right in that the free 2-year-contract iPhones are still quite expensive without a contract when we're talking about poorer nations.

Or perhaps I should hedge and say I think Android will get there first, and probably much before. Who knows whether Apple will decide to go after that segment or not in the long run (though it's not exactly their style).
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I don't see Bob Parsons doing that, at least not with any sort of sincerity.
Check my math, it's saying 33,000 out of "at least" 310,000 - so something like 10.6% of all downloads were on the Amazon Appstore right?