skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In your blog post:

Push notifications. They’re confusing. All the in-person communication is pushed, however room conversation is not unless you are @mentioned.
If you would like to make an announcement to 10 people, you have to mention them one by one manually.

You can use "@all" to mention everyone.
Anonymous takes down security firm's website, vows to fight on after arrests
Oh, and it follows you around on Chrome, regardless of the tab you switch to. So switching to HN, for example, brings along all of your mobile devices with you :-)
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Wow you have high opinion of midlevel, I would guess that a midlevel Java programmer does barly know what locking is for.
The A4 does use this technology, but Apple certainly did not invent it (though I wouldn't be surprised if they claimed so). It has been used in cell phones for years, and only recently others are starting to adopt it, and extend it to place two chips side by side on a Si substrate within a single package. The reasons are purely economical. In the past, much benefit can be had just by shrinking the transistor size. At the current feature sizes, though, physics is not helping anymore and there is very little benefit in terms of raw transistor and wire speeds, and power. So chip makers need to find more ways to extend Moore's law a few more years. FinFETs and stacked chips are just such ways.
Excellent points! You're quite right that there are a lot more things we could do to improve the high availability in the Stack Exchange environment. Unfortunately, I was hired well after the environment was designed so any suggested changes would need to not only pass the rigors of review by the team but also be able to handle the load that stackoverflow.com generates. Changing pieces at this point would be nontrivial and difficult to get approval on if it meant that we'd affect performance of our main property.

That being said, I'm 100% in agreement with you that the two options you supplied would be wonderful additions to our environment.
"Was there any financial bonus for the screeners to find the fake guns and bombs? For example, would a screener get $100 if they found one of these planted items?"

In about 5 seconds after such a bonus program was initiated, screeners would be offering kickbacks to the testers in return for being given advance notice of the test.
Neal Stephenson's Reamde also has a rather good discussion on real world money MMORPGs.
What is a "pure weinre"?
7 Unexpected Benefits of Being a Blogger
There was no lending but there is a strong correlation. The game creators decided to start giving away what was once worth time, effort, and money. That ultimately destroyed the OP's process. In a similar fashion, giving away money as a bank does with a loan, destroys the economy's process. This is done under many guises of course. Loans can actually help the economy, just as in OP's case, a free character given to someone who was a merchant would have helped the gameplay because more competition and production of goods would have resulted, but free characters for any and all destroyed the system.

tl:dr I believe that loans from banks should only be legal as investments into a business and loans to individuals (even for houses) should be financed from private companies so that the total risk to the economy is evenly dispersed.

EDIT: My apologies for the way-too-long scenario and explanation, but it seemed remarkably similar to the banking crisis (to me at least) and I thought it might make for an interesting discussion.
Coke is 95% water but you need 2.5 litres of water for 1 litre of coke? Perhaps I should give my degree back?
I really enjoyed this article, but the interesting thing to me is the need to rationalize why things like MMOs fade away. It seems like they have a natural life cycle. This guy didn't bring Star Wars Galaxies down. The developers adding New Game Experience (NGE) or the Combat Update (CU) didn't destroy the game. The world went on.

The game was released in 2001. In 2003 it had 400,000 subscribers. They released the controversial NGE/CU changes in 2005. It wasn't until 2009 that they shut down about half the servers. And they didn't shut down the game until a new Star Wars MMO was imminent.*

I can't image that most of the market for a Star Wars MMO hadn't tried it, maybe played it quite a bit, and then moved on in the space of 10 years. I understand the desire for things to last forever, but I don't know that most things will.

* Numbers to be taken with a grain of salt, they were culled from wikipedia.
My favourite example to give for this distinction is 'news' vs 'nntp'.

An 'nntp' URL specifies a specific message in a specific group on a specific server, hence it always has an authority part. It's also indicating to use the NNTP protocol to retrieve the message.

A 'news' URI, on the other hand, identifies a specific message by its message ID, and leaves it to the user agent to choose a protocol and server.

(The distinction isn't quite that clear cut, as 'news' URIs can specify a server, making them more like URLs, but I think it conveys the difference.)
"The endless parade of fragmentation discussions regarding Android all prove one thing..." All this proves is what an irrational fanboy you are. What does "winning a market" mean? Money made or numbers sold? Customer satisfaction? Ongoing revenue? As with all fanboys you concentrate on the figure you think is in your favour: market share (no mentions of which of which seem to include returns). Apple have the numbers that matter, revenue, profit, customer visibility (show me the queues of people waiting to get the latest - soon to be out-of-date - Android handset). As of right now to claim that Android is winning a market (remember markets exist to make money) is almost pathetically deluded.

I would suggest that for the most part people buy an iDevice because that is specifically what they want, and for the most part most people buy Android devices because the handsets are cheap or are being pushed by the salesman.

You also ignored the rest of his post which detailed other problems with Android and the Android ecosystem.
Perhaps the word 'limitations' might be more appropriate than 'weaknesses'?

A 'weakness' implies some kind of flaw, whereas a limitation is something the language wasn't specifically designed to do or specialise in.
I haven't had much problems with it, and have played it for quite awhile. It's crashed a couple of times, but never lost more than a couple of mins of gameplay. Definitely worth a couple of bucks.
IDE dependency? Perhaps, but that isn’t necessarily a bad
thing since that is representative of the tools they will
be using in the office.

Mine is perhaps an unpopular view.

I have come to believe that a decent programmer can and should be able to work well enough without an IDE. Presence of an IDE should be a sufficient condition not a necessary condition and I see so much of the latter.

IDEs are a crutch and there is a minimum level of "walking" that I expect from you without a crutch. If you have to reach for a crutch even for the simplest tasks you will earn my suspicion that you are not as comfortable as the other guy in more complicated operations. As for the claim that IDEs are a representative tool, it need not be true, more for a start up pushing the envelope. Who knows which new or non mainstream language/technology will be most suited for the job. There may not be any mature tooling available yet. I would want my co-hacker to be able to cope.

To give an example, there was this guy who claims he knows scala, but loathes working on a scala project because apparently there are no mature debugger for scala in eclipse. For him a eclipse plugin is a necessary condition.

I have seen too many programmers who program in the following mode - let me type something in the IDE. No errors detected ?, good. Let me test it on a few cases. Didn't work ? let me bump up the loop bound by one, no cookie ? let me decrement it by 2, didnt work, let me change the sign of this expression from positive to negative -...ad infinitum. I am more scared when such a code passes a few half assed test cases and the author cannot explain why the fix works.

I am not saying IDE are universally bad, quite the contrary. I advocate IDEs, but under two scenarios - (i) you are learning a new language (ii) you are an expert in that language. It is the overly populated middle ground, where it is used as a substitute for (a) thinking about your code or (b) knowing the language, that worries me.
It’s pistols at dawn for Gamification
MMO designers far too often create the need and people like the guy from the story naturally arise to fill it. This is usually done by having items to be purchased from NPCs for absurd values. Examples are pets, mounts, movement speed, costumes, and the like. Designers reason that not every one will need or what them but fail to take into account human emotions like greed, envy, and fear. These drive competitiveness for many a player and item sellers provide a simple and effective means to remedy it.

The costs of these items or services in game helps to establish the value of what is traded among players, either directly or through an auction house.
It wasn't clear to me whether the OP made "almost 6 figures" a month or a year?
Slightly tangental but I believe one of the online poker playing websites (Absolute Poker) was accused of having a rogue insider who would fix tournaments.

http://www.freakonomics.com/2007/10/17/the-absolute-poker-ch...

I realize it's not the same but it's in the same vein: engineers with an upper hand beating the in-game economy.
a lot more information here https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SplitSettings

I typically use this set up:

- settings.py contains global settings that aren't effected by deployment level.

- at the bottom of that file you have

try:
from settings_local import *
except:
pass

- in settings_local.py you have your deployment level dependent settings

- then just git ignore settings_local.py
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Those three 'A's
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Where "Spam" comes from
It looks like this was discussed a few years ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859336

That discussion is worth reading, but any new insights will have to go here, because that submission is old enough to have the discussion closed.
Just write complete sentences if you're doing your password remembering, they will easily fit all requirements and are quite easy to remember.

You only have to worry about character limits and no spaces requirements that some sites have (which are a billion times more annoying to me than requiring certain types of characters).

Dumb examples:

The cat in the hat.

The cow goes moo.

My favorite number is 3.
And just like sed -i, perl -i supports adding a backup extension. Also you can get awk-like perl by using -a, for example:

perl -nale 'print $F[1]' # note fields start at 0 unless you change $[

You can also make grep, but it's a bit long

perl -ne 'print if /foo/'
I like Django quite a bit, but it boggles the mind how many developer hours have been spent solving the same basic setup problem over and over again.
I think you're missing an 's' there:

https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SplitSettings
The common things you'd want to do in Graphite will be easy, more complex things requires knowledge which isn't in the docs, but easily found if you're willing to invest the time in searching and reading code.
Of course everyone would like great documentation; however some open source projects may not have the time for everything -- and that's ok, because its all free and full of love.
Graphite is a great engineering achievement, and an awesome tool to have. Give it a try, even though it lacks documentation at this stage.
Ahh, yes, I misunderstood that. That would be tricky to circumvent.
And still used for Youtube: http://code.google.com/p/vitess/
A good question. I have and have read about a dozen books on natural language processing, but I am hoping to get a more solid foundation.

I find the lectures interesting. I went to school at UCSB and mostly my teachers were very good, but I expect the "best of the best" from Stanford.

I enjoyed writing the first homework assignment late last night. I thought that it was an easy problem, but the more I worked on it the better results I got.

I am also taking the Probabilistic Graphical Models class because I don't have much experience in that area - that is fresh and new material for me.
And yet for some reason gamers complain that games of 2012 are too expensive. $60 of 2012USD really isn't that much compared to $50 of 1992USD. Add in the fact that you can get some excellent an amazing games on mobile platforms now for a dollar, and gaming is cheaper than ever.
I think weakness is appropriate. For example, I love Python. But I only use it for automating system tasks and data post-processing. It just doesn't perform well enough for me to use it as part of the infrastructure in a high-performance system. I do consider that a flaw; it is a weakness. It is also a limitation, but when given a choice between synonyms, I prefer the stronger one.
If you have to use an IDE to program, you're not programming in the language, you're programming the IDE.

There are many times I have to log into remote systems and all I have are nano or vi. Not even emacs. If I have IDE-dependancy, I'm up a creek without a paddle.
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I'm just downloading it now. Looks great! Can this be used to track usage and send it data back to the server without drawing any visuals?
By that I mean installing the "weinre" tool locally (or using debug.phonegap.com) and connecting your hybrid app or website yourself by including the script tag in your html.
There are many, many unpatched vulnerabilities on Motorola Milestone XT720 (and many others). Google doesn't even release security patches for old releases (until recently)--their opinion seems to be that all manufacturers should update to Gingerbread or whatever the latest OS happens to be. Google finally seems to have pulled their heads out of the sand or stopped humming with their fingers in their ears recently and made security point release for Froyo a few weeks ago that backported some security fixes that had been in Gingerbread for a long time, though.
Actually, there's a major shift in the industry (to "free to play") that companies have been making. Basically, the company provides an in-game item shop where players can use real money to buy in-game items. These shops accomplish pretty much what this guy was doing, but keep the money in the company purse, and circumvent many of his limitations: there's no need to farm the game when you make the game, and you can sell items which farmers could never obtain.

In almost all cases, it has meant a higher amount of revenue, either for brand-new games or for games which transition to the F2P model or an in-between hybrid model. It looks like, generally, big-name MMORPGs are still starting out with a subscription model, but most games at other tiers are launching free-to-play with an item shop. Lots of long-running MMOs are transitioning to a hybrid model to add revenue to a product from which little is expected but also little is being spent on (just enough money to keep the servers running and keep a slow flow of updates).

I think it would be much harder these days for a player to make money by through farming, except for with the old guard of MMORPGs which still don't have an item shop. I could be wrong, I am not looking at these economies closely so I don't know if the farmers are actually able to provide items / prices competitive with the developrs.
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I like the idea of multiplayer, but I'm not sure how interesting would it be for cities to interact... sounds a bit too forced IMHO.

But then I had a crazy idea. Could we have a sim-city + transport tycoon in one massively-multiplayer game where people choose which variant they want to control? I'd pay lots of money for the possibility to play that. Imagine the situation where you actually have to look profitable to other players for them to invest in further development of your city by providing their services...
Yes, but then it's just a matter of waiting for another program that does something like this and doesn't honour TMP. Better to just encrypt /tmp.
> "chip stacking obviously works in synergy with Intel’s 3D FinFETs — though curiously there is no sign of TSV on Intel’s roadmap"

Wouldn't chip stacking exacerbate heat dissipation issues? It seems to me that desktop chips would stand to gain far less from this approach, so why should it be surprising that Intel isn't rushing into it?
To me, a perfect interview would be:

"Here's a coding challenge, go home, write the code to solve this, come back tomorrow and tell me three things:
- How you did it, - Why you pick this solution, - How it could be improved"

by doing this I could see how he writes code, if he's just a google copy&paster, and what's his skills in algorithm optimization etc...and specially, how he/she thinks.

Quite frankly I don't care if someone doesn't know what Polymorphism is right from his head. I didn't knew what polymorphism was until a few months ago, and yet I was applying the same principles in a lot places in my code. That's the downside of being a self-taught you don't get to know a lot of theory, but on my work I know I'm doing it right. (Also because polymorphism is a very abstract thing to be honest....)

In a nutshell, get developers who can show you their code and can it explain it, don't rely on theory, you are not hiring a college professor.
Creating Metro Style Icons with Metro Studio
ShellJS: A port of Unix shell commands to Node.js
Some economics of pay-what-you-want pricing
I am really excited about this game.
C# is one of the most interesting languages, really. It's been developing really fast, and along with F#, it shows that MS is really putting an effort into programming language progress. However, my main concern with C# is not the language, but the libraries/ecosystem. It's so tightly bound to Windows that it hurts. There are no good cross-platform implementations, poor IDE support, and I'm pretty concerned developing for a runtime that might go away...

Now, if only MS would open-source their implementation, most of these arguments would become void.
This is fascinating, but I'm not really clear on what role the electron microscope played. Did it just allow them to see where they needed to modify the chips to allow them to dump their ROM?
A Zuckerberg like is the ultimate launch strategy
I am currently in SF at the Game Developer Conference, and I have been using Unity w/an iOS license for the last year for a side-project. The timing is great for us, since we are just now working on re-deploying our project to Android for testing.

If you have ever considered doing any type of game development, I would strongly encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity.

Unity has allowed me to be immensely productive working relatively few hours a week. Being able to prototype up a game idea in a few hours and experience that on your mobile device is hugely powerful.
French Looking to Regulate Connected TV
OP here.

At Mozilla's PDF.js project we have a large Makefile responsible for everything from custom-bundling our .js files to building our Firefox addon extension and firing up a localhost server.

ShellJS is part of our effort to minimize our dependencies, particularly on Unix commands so as to offer homogenous support to our Windows users. It should also be of use to folks who want to do traditional shell scripting on multiple platforms using JavaScript and a familiar syntax - no need to learn another library. All commands are synchronous, including exec().

We're looking for early adopters and contributors who can help us mature the code. Thanks!
Never Threaten Your Users
Email forms are a turnoff. In the back of my mind, it feels like the message will most likely end up in some black hole.
Uhm, awesome. Love it.
Bones of the Book
Then the testers should be given a financial incentive to get the items through.
Ask HN: Does anyone still use Lamer News, the HN alternative?
Just wondering if anyone still checks Lamer News.
http://www.lamernews.com
Is anyone able to compare and contrast this with the UDK which seems to be a similar license (free until you make six figures)?
You just have to read about Gary McKinnon "hacking". The guy himself said that he is no wizard or anything similar but that a lot of the US government computers he got in had a blank password for the administrator...
This is allowed to happen precisely because advertisers have been conditioned on 30-odd years of broadcast TV advertising, back when that was the only mass-media game in town. The strategy on broadcast TV, whether in its heyday or even now, was essentially the shotgun approach: fire a shotgun into a crowded area, and hope to hit a small percentage of your targets (metaphorically speaking, of course!).

Web-based advertising can, potentially, allow for a much more sophisticated and surgical approach. But advertisers aren't used to thinking surgically. They still want their shotgun. (They call the shotgun "reach," or use terms like "GRPs" to attempt to quantify reach). That's why broad, sloppy metrics like total video views, or total pageviews, or total clicks, still appeal to advertisers. They're still working from the mental model that you need to fire a big spray of shot, and that you apply some sort of fractional discount to the total number of people you fired at, and that fraction is who you managed to get. It's a dumb, top-down, unsophisticated approach to advertising -- but it persists, and so long as it does, there will remain a healthy market for "viral" services.
If you want to someone to do lint, why not just run lint and save on an expensive hire?

Code reviews are there to find problems with the code that are not found by trivial static verifiers and/or IDEs. This requires a level of understanding of the language and experience in reading (instead of writing) code, but has nothing to do with regurgitating keyword definitions.

Better in that case to just give a code fragment and make them spot the (algorithmic, logic, security, not spelling) errors.
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He also said that in airports, a full scan also scans the sides of the person, in which case the video producer would not have gotten through. So... how often is a "Full" scan done?
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You might be right. What is surprising though is that an airport that's under such security threat like Ben Gurion airport hasn't been breached in a very long time (I think the last major problem was in the 70's). Now you're going to say that most airports are in that situation. Yes, but Ben Gurion is not any airport, and I think I don't need to explain why it is under much more pressure than most airports in the world.

Now assuming that you are 100% right, and that Israeli's security protocol is as much as a mascarade as the TSA's. Then I still believe that they put up a much much cheaper mascarade than the TSA, and that useless for useless, you might want to consider the cheapest.

That was just an aside though, I'm still convinced that their security thing is not just a mascarade.
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except ImportError:

right? ;)
How Insignificant is IE these days?