skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Use a location rule in Nginx for wp-admin denying access to all and then allowing access only to a specified IP address (the machine hosting the proxy).

Alternatively, you can deny access to all on the public site (www.example.com/wp-admin -> 405) and create a separate sites which allows access to the admin (admin.example.com/wp-admin -> 200) with that separate site only listening on a private interface (and/or behind a firewall, etc). That's modestly more secure because IPs can be spoofed, but I was just worried about the "Script kiddie hits every /wp-admin in the world at once with a zero-day" than worried about someone trying to compromise my blog in particular.
PHP can scale, however i think what we've seen historically is that the programmers who have written most of the PHP apps out there don't know how to write a scalable app.
That's primarily based on a client-side database (a Bloom filter, to be exact). It only checks in with Google if the URL appears to be in the filter, which most aren't.
They're currently $300k over their goal. Amazing.

Can we get a Kickstarter project going for an open-engine, updated graphics, Grim Fandango?
An Interactive Map of American Migration
We are (ab)using git in some fun ways. Our designers use branches we setup with git flow to develop and manage assets. We deploy from develop and master branches to dev and production servers. We also use the github api to allow the dynamic loading of the assets from the head of any one of the branches for internal testing.

I've been pleasantly surprised how well the designers have taken to the workflow, and its great to take advantage of the flexibility of git especially when we don't have the time to roll our own backend to cover all those bases.
Yes, we are aware of that. We will update to the most recent less version this week, together with a couple of other changes. :)
Sure. I'm actually working on a bootstrap project which uses Gists and Node.js to spin up a scaling infrastructure: https://github.com/franklovecchio/yc-bootstrap. Instead of using CloudFormation, which I loathe, or Puppet/Chef (which have a learning curve and infrastructure for latter), I use standard bash libraries (see yc-bootstrap/gists/) and "extend" them to spin up instances -- see the README under "Gisting": (https://github.com/franklovecchio/yc-bootstrap/blob/master/R...). That example is what the user-data file would be.
The Dow gets to replace GM with another growth vehicle of the modern era. While you take a real beating on the shares, the Dow simply swaps in a new stock (typically one with brighter prospects that can recharge the lost value in the Dow).

You can't swap your dead GM shares for the shares in, say, John Deere when it's added to the index. Your money is gone.
Presentation Smells
As far as I'm aware, this is a completely different project from Psychonauts 2. I don't think Notch had any real significant involvement in this Kickstarter campaign.
It will load in comfortably under a second if you already have the 250kb header image cached. I losslessly compressed it but apparently WooThemes went for "pretty" over "lightweight" there. It wasn't worth enough for me to call in a designer to redo.
You don't have to be lucky with gold.

You could have bought in roughly 88 of the last 90 years and been perfectly well protected over time from the loss of value in the dollar.
The benefits of diversification -- higher return and lower risk -- is a better reason to invest in gold, even if it was true that gold holds its value for millenia, which probably isn't true.

The article is about "why stocks beat gold and bonds" not "why you should own only stocks and never own any gold or bonds".
I do the same thing for testing branches and continuous deployment on EC2! +1.
This is not a very useful response. If you enjoy the advantages of interpreted languages, accept the consequences. If you don't, well, good luck with websites implemented in compiled languages.
The building he had a flat in is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_San_Remo -- a rather exclusive place even as NYC goes and he eventually sold it to U2's Bono for $15 million.

Maybe being allowed to buy a flat in there and membership of the club are somehow connected (the club seems to be an exclusive, expensive invite-only gentlemens' club)
Global warming is a red herring here. No matter how hard food production gets, it will remain a value-creating activity as long as there are people (if you don't believe me, then stop eating).
An asset like gold behaves differently under bubble conditions than an asset like a tech stock, tulip, or house. The production of those things is price elastic, and rising prices cause rising production that ultimately crashes the bubble.

The number of new home sales at the top of the bubble was about 1.4 million/year vs. existing housing stock of over 70 million. That's less than a 2% increase per year, not counting the thousands of home that are demolished each year. Vast new production isn't required for a bubble.
The most likely explanations for a company like Google using whiteboard questions:

- These interviews are easy to give for someone without good interviewing skills, which is basically everyone.

- These interviews are relatively easy to score.

- Google acquires superstars through acquisition. If you need some competent rank-and-file (i.e. a "pool") to support the superstars, whiteboarding is maybe an okay way to weed out people who definitely won't rise to the occasion.

It's a little insulting, but their pay scale probably balances that out.
"In case they don't implement the feature identically, which allows browser makers to experiment and find the right way to do it."

Maybe the right thing to do here is make the prefix optional. That is, let webkit/gecko/ie/etc recognize -webkit/-moz/-ms/-etc prefixes just in case you need to invoke a rule differently for a special snowflake case, but let the non-prefixed rule work when a prefixed rule hasn't been specified.
The biggest scaling problem is Sal. IIRC he is the only one making the videos.
Well, there should be some setting in VS for what format the ide shouldnuse when saving the file. I have no idea hOw/where to configure this in VS but the exact problem you described above was mentioned to us by a couple of users and it was always because of VS and UTF8 with BOM.
You can complain about resource limitations on a free offering from a publicly traded company if you'd like. Or, if you'd like to be treated like an actual customer, you can become one, by paying for storage.
Same goes for being a lawyer and doctor. They look so cool on TV and then you see someone doing the "real" job and notice how much is must suck.
I'd be interested in trying to figure out just how much Google Search changed the Internet, and by extension the world. How different would the Internet look if we were all still using AltaVista? Certainly it would be difficult for quality content to find viewers, as everyone used to pad their articles with thousands of keywords to jack up their rankings. What else would be different?

Google's been a great boon for the Internet, but i'm curious just how much Search changed things, on its own.
> in an inflationary environment, stocks get murdered in real terms.

is there any evidence to back this up? is a logical reason why this would be true? i certainly can't think of any

> Gold does not go bankrupt, and it will not go to zero

yes, in this respect, stocks are riskier than gold. if minimizing investment risk is what you want, maybe you should buy gold, or maybe TIPS. however, most people also care about returns.

> There is a huge time management cost to stocks, most people simply do not have the time

this is an argument for ETFs, not an argument for gold
>Audi cars are nice, but ultimately nothing special.

I'm not quite sure why you picked BMW and Audi as examples. Everyone knows they're luxury and in the premium class. I'll give you the Ford GT, but as far as Mercedes goes, they're still viewed in the upper-class spectrum in the car world. The C class is currently the cheapest Mercedes and you're lucky to find one for less than $38k on a dealer's lot.
IANAJ, but can you elaborate? I would have said they were the same, given that the editorial section seems to contain explicit opinions from the newspaper staff vs. other sections which are, at least theoretically, unvarnished fact.
What parts of Wordpress do you find superior to alternatives?

I'm building yet another blogging platform (not quite) right now. It isn't going to be Wordpress, but it will be managed and won't cost you $200/mo. A carcycle, if you will.

To carry the analogy to its end: you seem to be only using the car to drive ten blocks to work. In other words, you only serve static content + comments. Which is why I'm curious what, specifically, compels you to stick with Wordpress even though there is an obvious cost (be it money or effort.)
Sadly appcelerator has decided to pull the plug on titanium desktop a few days ago. We are currently looking for an alternative to continue the work on simpless in the future but har no luck so far :(
Craig Silverstein is someone I've had the distinct pleasure of interacting with one several opportunities over the years. More important than being Google employee #1 is that he's THE Google open source person. He's always involved in Google Summer of Code and personally maintains a number of very cool open source projects on Google Code.

I wish him the best!
Sure, I can understand that.

My point is that most of the very best front-end developers I've met don't have CS degrees. So it seems unfair to penalize them for something they've never been exposed too. There are other ways to assess someones conceptual ability.
It's a bit unclear what you're asking - are you looking for historical examples where heightening the contradictions has actually led to a good resolution? Because I was definitely arguing against that. Or examples where it's made it worse? For the latter, the most event would probably be Nader.

Dramatic and successful reform has happened, of course. Look at Upton Sinclair, the Chicago meat-packers, and the rise of muckraker journalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckraker
So you believe global warming is going to end life as we know it. How does that change your investment strategy?
See, for example, the 2002 Angels.
I'm confused - I thought they were trying to get devs to standardize that, and that they also changed things in ICS?

The way it currently is (for me on Gingerbread) that some apps have the back button go back to the previous view, but some go to the homescreen. And if I (say) open a browser link in an app, the back button will take me back to the application. (That may also be app-specific, but I just tried it out with one app).

So what's different on the Nexus, and what part of that is ICS-specific changes (as opposed to things that app developers have to implement independently)?

(Apologies for the confusion, but I still haven't seen an ICS device, and I don't develop for Android, so my knowledge of this is fairly passive, as a consumer).
This is exactly why I hate it so much when people use gold as an investment instrument. Gold would be useful, except its price is high and its supply is low, because people purchase it with the sole intent of not doing anything with it.
cpr some image recognition & company info gathering(url/adrs/phone/...) uses Mturk, the rest is automated.
It is easy for anyone to prove gold is real with an acid test. And you don't go to the grocery store with $20K of gold be it coins or chips. At most you would be carrying around gold rings which are small, something everyone has handled and knows and have a "smallish" value.
I totally agree with you on those favors where the deliverable can have multiple buyers. I tend to think of most favors as being one-offs, however.
IBM seeks patent on judging programmers by commits
You already know a little bit of both, so why not just make the call yourself? I feel you already made up your mind and now you're seeking reinforcement. It's a technology trap and hurts your business. Good luck.
Movie recommendations and more via MapReduce and Scalding
Startup Workaway II: Thailand. 25 founders. 10 days. 1 kick-ass resort.
Nobody says you should use it instead of less.app. We simply made this tool because there was no easy solution available for windows to compile your less files.
Tell Groupon founders to stop sending you pole-dancing deals
That's the entire point.

Inflation has been substantial the past decade. Gold would have shielded you from it.

You buy gold for the protection it offers from the devaluation in the dollar (in this case), not because you think you're going to get rich from it.
Glancee: A Nice-Guy Ambient Social Location App For Normal People
Thanks for this suggestion. Post updated. +1
Transactions without Transactions
I'm actually quite shocked that game publishers aren't lining up to give Tim Schafer all the money he wants. But I don't really know what's going on in that industry.
> At least on Linux — default — wide build:

No, on your linux distribution it's setup with a wide build, the default compile option in the upstream package is narrow build on all platforms.
All of your points are valid, but I think you miss the main one, which Clarkson nailed: electric cars will go mainstream when they don't take three hours for a "quick" charge. They already have the range of gas-powered cars (~300 miles for the S), but once you hit that, you're stuck. It makes long-distance trips onerous, if not impossible.

Anyway, they're getting cheaper all the time, batteries are getting better, and when you can convincingly pitch the TCO as being less than a gas car, you'll start to see people jump on it. Infrastructure will follow from there.
Notch tweeted this and got them some attention. Oh, and he pledged $10,000 to this project. https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/167551424396394496
Paying someone like him a fee to choose stocks for you seems like a much better strategy to me.
http://web.archive.org/web/19991023010820/http://www.infowor...

This was around the time Internet traffic doubled in 100 days, a rate that outstripped any possible capacity buildout. Fortunately for the Internet, that rate of demand growth did not continue. http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/ar...
So it will include desktop support. That makes it much more interesting.
I recommend reading Atul Gawande's books:

The Checklist Manifesto
http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/d...

Better
http://www.amazon.com/Better-Surgeons-Performance-Atul-Gawan...

He's a New Yorker writer and practicing surgeon. His books contain lots of insight about ways that medicine could be vastly improved by innovation. Unfortunately, few techies are doctors.
Companies make mistakes. In the rush to develop great products decisions are made rather quickly. When your intentions are pure, the fact that you might be doing something wrong simply doesn't cross your mind.

Unfortunately, these things happen.

What you have to do now is look at how Path reacted. The second the article exposing their mistake was published Path became very open and honest. Above that they offered reassurance to their users, deleted the data (I never expected that), and pushed a feature to opt-in to sharing your private data.

In my opinion they couldn't have handled this any better. For that reason, I give Path all the trust and respect in the world.
Apple now worth more than Google and Microsoft combined
Microsoft details Windows 8 for ARM (WOA), will have Office 15 apps
There are actually more donation tiers, but they're not listed on that page because KS only goes up to $10,000. http://www.doublefine.com/news/comments/the_double_fine_adve...
How to get more followers on Instagram?
HAXLR8R: Like YC but in China, for hardware startups only
Excellent article, but I found this paragraph unclear:
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And that’s just how they run politics. If you want to create the future, the possibility of successfully navigating a patent minefield is approximately 3,720 to 1. And I noticed earlier, the electoral motivator has been damaged. It's impossible to go to political innovation speed.
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Doesn't backup my files on my SD card and sync with my other devices (Macbook, etc) like Dropbox does.
It's does not run on "highly optimized" C++ code, it uses C++ as an intermediary target before being complied to ASM. Which makes PHP just another compiled language that happens to work at FB's scale.
Only Servant-Led Institutions Will Survive
The Barista's Curse
Thirty years ago I smoked pot that I grew myself every day for a couple of years. I have been straight for twenty years, and what made me that way was the choice between dreaming of accomplishments, and the reality of actually accomplishing goals.

Pot is a distraction for someone in a startup. You might confront your brother and compel him to make a choice. I suppose that he must be separated from his friends and social situations in which he smokes pot. He should strengthen his character to derive pleasure more from his work.
I have started feeling indifferent to this topic.

How can you teach a seven year old to program? Kids of that age are hardly learning to add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers. How difficult would it be for a kid to grasp concept of function - in context of both math and programming.

Teaching kids how to program is not as easy and logical as it sounds. My opinion is to let a kid grasp and understand the basics - which are math, science and logic at an abstract level. Such a rush to throw everything at a kid is overkill IMHO.
Try impersonating the UA of a mobile device. This is where the competition nowadays happens.
Maybe you are right. Recently I've been playing with Node and some of my recent projects (they are on http://github.com/carlosedp ) are made with Node.

Also, every time I think about learning Rails deeper I think "damn, I already know how to do this on Node. Why bother..." but the industry wants Rails experience and every Rails developer I read loves it.

That's where the question came. Should I go with the current market or should I invest in a "promise" for the future?
The biggest one is the ecosystem. Can I get a WooThemes-caliber theme done for your CMS at 3 AM in the morning for $70 without talking to anyone? And will it work virtually instantly as soon as I drop it over? And will that play well with e.g. using the blog as a lightweight CMS, with custom menus, static pages, and whatnot in addition to the blog proper? And will that work with the plugin ecosystem when I want to do just-a-wee-bit-trickier things like the What Would Seth Godin Do prompt?
Check out Codea. In a few minutes I threw a rocketship sprite on there, mapped its position to CurrentTouch, and blew my son's mind.
He paid for it at the then-prevailing rate so that you'd be stuck holding dollars, which he would then immediately depreciate through inflationary measures.

Not that I'm a gold-bug, but, it was pretty rude.
I gotta say, the setup I'm using for WP doesn't seem like that much of a pain in the arse.

* Bog standard LAMP setup

* Wordpress

* Cloudflare (CDN, security, free)

* WebsiteDefender (monitors WP plugins and general security, free)

About the only cost out of pocket for me is the hosting that the system is running on, which is being used for a great many things besides my blog.

There probably is something to be said for $90 a month to have some of the headaches removed (which I'm sure increase with scale), but I'd be willing to bet finding a good mix of free services would get you most of the way there.
Hey, here's an idea, let's Eliminate Junk Websites:

I want to take a screen print of all the millions of websites that contribute to Internet pollution and advocate ideas that harm the economy.

So, you don't like to receive adverts in the mail. But somehow it's OK for you to send me your garbage emails and fill search engines with nonsense? Seriously!

Ok... Let's just shut down the economy and go home.

- let's make it illegal to send letters of all kinds (to save paper) and shut down the postal service

- let's ignore the waste of all the newsprint (actually faux direct mail) and ban newspapers from selling ... newspapers (no more Bay Guardian or S.F. Chronicle)

- let's make it illegal to buy groceries unless you pay for a bag made of recycled plastic (from China)

- let's force you to buy an electric car even though there are not enough powerplants to produce the electricity to charge the batteries in your car and iPhone (Yes!)

- let's stop printing paper notes (dollar bills) otherwise known as money

- let's make it illegal for any person or individual to send unsolicited email or twitter tweets due to excessive resource demands on server and client infrastructure

- let's add a surcharge to all bandwidth usage to reduce the burden to the electrical and communications infrastructure

- let's require software developers to be licensed annually or they cannot work; we need to monitor your activites to prevent sloppy and inefficient coding

Does it really matter if a website is designed well if the underlying idea is flawed?

I'm tired of seeing the herd of tech people jump on these band wagons without any independent thought, just BECAUSE you can write software and code.

Go ahead, keep adding friction to the economy and one day it will negatively impact your personal economy.

Tech
It's absolutely true that those things aren't exclusive, but as somebody who often uses two rare but capable user-agents (Lynx and the browser on an old Nokia S40), I can testify that in practice, a significant number of websites aren't being created with both in mind, and I think a significant number of designers don't really understand what the lowest common denominator really means.

It's very very easy to pay attention to only a handful of user agents, and from what I can see, right now that's trending towards 2-3 desktop browsers + "mobile" (which usually means "the iPhone and maybe one or two Android devices").
Google’s Motorola Mobility Bid Said Likely to Win U.S. Approval
> who wins more games, the team with the most homeruns or the team with the most hits?

Actually, it doesn't look like either is much more indicative than the other:

http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/team/_/stat/batting/sort/homeRu...

http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/team/_/stat/batting/sort/hits/o...

http://espn.go.com/mlb/standings
Ask HN: Wefunder has been invited to Washington DC. What should we ask?
Last week, we launched a petition (http://wefunder.com) to raise awareness about the Crowdfunding securities reform being debated in Congress. Thanks to HN and Reddit, after 2 days, over $4 million was pledged... causing Wefunder to be invited to Washington to talk to some of the lawmakers involved in the legislation.

On Friday, we're flying down to DC to meet with staff from all the players in the debate - two Senators (Brown, Merkley), the lead Congressman (McHenry), and the President's Office.

Some good points were raised in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3529045. What other concerns or questions can we bring up? We have a chance of influencing the legislation.

As an example, one question we plan to ask: High-growth startups obviously don't want 3000 investors on their cap table. Can the proposed funding intermediaries give a business one giant check, and manage a fund of small investors, one for each startup?
The benefit i see by using git-backed wiki is that your data is not locked into any database/site. In the end they are plain text files and no dependency on database (e.g. myql), and no dependency on git-hosting site. If you dont like github, you can host your wiki else were.
GPS air traffic system would be crippled by LightSquared, Congress is told
Wow, I've never even heard of kickstarter. This is a space I'll be looking at!
What kind of fun inflationary items? And please don't say gold or oil as it would be an extreme case of cherry picking commodities.