skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why attack DNS? BGP is more vulnerable and receives less scrutiny (remember Pakistan bringing youtube down for the entire world via a misconfigured censorship attempt?). Go look at the references from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_hijacking for some horror stories.
I don't want to be a killjoy but this seems like a wasteful novelty. Are the tweets at least printed on recycled paper?
I don't mean to imply they are the same.

I'm reflecting on how the same "agile experts that sell/sold their services" quickly abandoned selling that and moved onto selling "craftsmanship" once their Agile well dried up.

cough Bob Martin cough
cough Object Mentor cough
Confessions of a Dartmouth Frat Boy
Why not just write all of it in Go?
Somebody cared about this question?AMAZING!!!
IE 10 touch and iOS won't work with Flash anyway, so I would hope social game developers are at least looking at HTML5 for their next projects.

I sometimes wonder why their isn't a cross platform "game browser"? It seems one of the cross platform game engines could do a much better job than flash. Adoption is a problem, but people seem to be able to download a lot of apps these days.
Congratulations.

Um, can one get their video out of socialcam yet? When last I tried it, it was a trap. Videos were uploaded, removed (iirc) from my device, and there was no way to get them back.
I'm sorry, but your logic here is just terrible. Your argument is that "I don't want an iPad" and "The iPad isn't a full computer" implies that "Nobody needs/wants LaTeX on an iPad". This doesn't logically follow and is instead a self-centered presumption that because you don't want something, nobody else does.

They want LaTeX on their iPads, I would like LaTeX on my iPad, and I have met other people who also want LaTeX on their iPads. When I'm taking notes, LaTeX works well for me (I'm not claiming for everyone) when I need to type up equations. I use my iPad with a bluetooth keyboard to take notes (the iPad's battery life (amongst other things) makes it very attractive for this application). I'd like to be able to render my equations to make sure I didn't make a transcription error.
last nail in the coffin.

I do wonder if this will affect haxe though.
I agree in part, but that's a little unfair. Many of those people coming in actually like the field. I don't care about the clock-punchers; it's the ones who really like programming that I am rooting for here.

I also think the nature of the work has changed a lot. When my dad started programming, most code didn't really have a user interface. At least not one more complicated than a fan-fold printout for the CFO. These days, a lot of code has direct human implications, both for individual users and for society at large. Programming is also a much more collaborative activity than it used to be. E.g., github.

I got into computers because I like hiding in my basement. But those days are fading. It may indeed have been a semi-aspie ghetto in the past, but that's not the future.
You say "techniques of effective collaboration", I say "talking to people". If you need guidelines for that, that's cool.

The thing that suggests to me that you and I wouldn't work well together is that you make broad value judgements based on twisted interpretation and extrapolation of these comment threads.
Yeah man, I get that. I said that I'm at a small-a agile shop and it's working well for us.

That doesn't change the fact that the only time I've seen the phrase 'cowboy programmer' used, it's as a preemptively ad hominem argument that anything besides Capital A Agile As Written On Stone Tablets can't possibly work. And if it does, it's cause they're cowboys.

As a counterpoint, demanding something is deployed every 2 weeks, whether it's a 1-week task or a 3-week task, leads to plenty of cowboyism right within the process.
OK, technically OpenGLES2 is the open-standard that the open-web-standard WebGL is based on. Still a big step in the right direction compared to Stage3D. Moving from ES2 to a C++ interface to WebGL would not be a huge pain at this point if someone pushed for it.

That's how Mozilla /can/ help NaCl become a relevant standard for the web. It's still evolving rapidly! That could be a good thing because it's far too complex and cpu-specific /now/. With Moz's participation, that evolution could be directed to something standardizable. It's a lot of work, but it's better than sitting back and watching Adobe take over without asking for anyone's support.

Right now, Alchemy runs at 40% of native speed. They are targeting 80% at public launch. We'll see how that goes... Meanwhile, I've dug deep into the performance of JS and I've been happy when I can get deeply-optimized JS to reach 10% speed compared to deeply-optimized native.
How quickly will the toilet rolls be shipped? Would it be in time for April Fool's?
What's your source for the first claim? I've never heard it before - Wikipedia cites[0] a 2006 investigation that found 2,205 allegations, 262 of which were substantiated. The FBI collected[1] 92,455 allegations of forcible rape - i.e. excluding other kinds of rape - in the same year - even if just 1% of those were proved, that's still nearly an order of magnitude disparity.

(Please don't take my comment as dismissing your other points - sexism hurts men and women. I'm just curious about that specific claim.)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_rape_in_the_United_States
[1] http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/offenses/violent_crime/forcible_rape.html
Burnout is caused by resentment
Yeah, that is actually a pretty awesome bit of engineering. I would never have thought of this, and it is exceptionally clever in some exciting hacker way.
Death to the Space Infidels [2009]
The there's a certain fear of ISPs implementing work-arounds articulated in the article. I'm not surprised - the IP addresses in question can't ever be reliably reused if some ISPs set up special routes for them. And they will do exactly that if they suddenly get a flood of complaints about "the internet not working".
> down-vote the heretic

> "forbidden thought"

> I don't care about "thought crimes".

Bad news: you're not the brave thinker that you seem to think you are (in fact your "forbidden thought" is probably more common than the alternative that we're presenting!).

People aren't disagreeing with you because they think it's morally wrong to think the way you do, they disagree because they think you're wrong.
Yeah, I don't understand why Blogger now requires javascript to read any blog. The content is just static HTML most of the time! Why are they pushing so hard to hide the content if you have javascript disabled?
The idea is to not always say "we'll do it later". "Later" works fine as long as the various decision-makers involved can be talked into doing it later. If their answer is always "if it works, don't touch it," then they are the target audience for that old saw.
More so, even.
Well, I'd say it's because of legal issues. A couple of months ago I was investigating QR codes.

Other than the fact most (if not up to 80%) of people either don't know what a QR code is or how to 'read' it.

It's a pretty clever design, at its core is encoding binary data to an image (largest is about 512KB if I remember correctly).

Liability comes into play when you consider that it's possible to encode a virus or other malicious code into QR readable format which people can willy-nilly scan into their phones.
I guess that would be how ITWorld treats HN.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=bdking

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bdking
How To Be More Creative (Or Why Tom Cruise Makes An Awesome Spock)
What would be the automated testing tool in this case?
The fact that it's called the "talk back bot" automatically puts the author in the victim's chair. To think that a TWSS joke in a chat room not directed at you personally is offensive to you smells of deep irrational insecurity to me. A suspicion supported by the project name. I know women who wouldn't like that joke directed at them, and I don't direct it at them, and I know some who drop more twss jokes than I do. If you overhear someone on street say one though and your first reaction is to be offended to the point of writing a bot that spews quotes of famous women in the chat room, that seems pathological to me.
True. And yes, please keep thinking of alternatives to brute force. :)

I recently read a fascinating book called "Miles from Nowhere" which described life in the least populated counties in the U.S. One recurring theme is that counties with almost no one living in them are subject to being taken over by groups with their own agenda. For example, a county with only 150 people in it might be the target of a group of libertarians. 800 libertarians may agree to move there to set up a libertarian government. The point the book made was that virtually uninhabited is very different than uninhabited, and that there are still people there who have wishes, dreams and rights of their own.

So what you are describing is actually an act of force. Overtaking Nauru for your own purposes is a unilateral destruction of someone's home. Imagine for some odd reason the entire population of China decided to buy out and relocate to your city and turn it into a Chinese culture and economy. You may have nothing against the Chinese or Chinese culture, but you may wish to simply keep your home city as is.

Democracy is often thought of as peaceful, but it can often be a vehicle for the majority to disregard the legitimate needs of the minority.
Depends on who you're talking about here. Bob Martin one of the craftsmanship people, is very sincere in his desire to make the field better. I'm not sure about who's cropped up lately, though.

Also, it's very, very rare for somebody to make a mint on a software book. I've talked with a number of authors, and their universal view is that writing code pays much better than writing a book. You do it because you have something to say, not because you want to get rich.
I think maintenance costs / downtime is also a big factor. With robots most failures simply reduce throughput but with conveyor belts you risk shutting down sections of the warehouse when something breaks or needs to be repaired. On the other hand you can order a few extra robots and swap then out for maintenance.

As to energy costs, moving a shelf a at most 1/2 mile at low speeds on a level floor using electric motors probably uses less energy than you might think. Don't forget human pickers are say 150lb people walking up and down the same isles and they use about 150-200W to do so. The shelves weigh more (up to 1,000 lb), but you can a turn off most of the lights and electric motors are more efficient than walking. Assuming it's 400W a robot that's around 4 cents an hour per robot or something like 300$ a year.
How would that even work? How would they charge a share of revenue for the use of the runtime? From both technical and legal sides?

I actually think it would be a huge hassle for development; it would cost more than those 9%: increased cost of development, less skilled developers, disasters when the complicated scheme doesn't work, sales ping-pong expensive in both time and money.

I think would especially hurt overseas developers (think Asia).

Over the net, any process that requires approval from both sides (a contract perhaps) goes hundred times slower than process that doesn't (the current distribution of flash player and tooling doesn't). Increasing the distance, in form of borders, cultural difference and raw miles, slows it down even more. And certainly Adobe would hurt their potential partners by understanding their business poorly and trying to apply the same set of expectations worldwide.

It seriously would not fly. Bye bye flash.
> But have you seen Bollywood movies? Have you known the Indian audience they cater to?

0. By a twisted quirk of fate( ie. being an Indian by birth), I happen to be addicted to Bollywood movies. I average 4 per month & have been doing so for atleast 2 decades now.

1. The guy is supposed to make a quadcopter fly in order to graduate. He is unable to. The Dean says he'll flunk if he doesn't make it fly. The guy looks at the wall in his dorm which says "loser" ( or was it "rebel" )in giant letters. The hero makes the copter fly. There's a tiny camera on the copter. The camera transmits aerial footage to a wintel laptop. As the copter soars, the laptop shows the guy hanging from a ceiling fan in his dorm .....impressively manipulative, yeah ? I think we call that camp out here. It was so in-your-face, manufactured outrage...

2. In reality, that quadcopter was built by Ashish Bhatt, a smart EE engineer out of IIT Bombay. He sells those at his startup IdeaForge (http://www.ideaforge.co.in/web/products )

3. Suicides on Indian campuses is a legitimate issue. Back when I was a student, there were 2 suicides in my campus, both because the student in question flunked some engineering/math course. The number of student suicides is disproportionately large ( http://www.google.com/search?q=suicide+IIT ). There were quite a few seminars on suicide prevention after that film.

4. Strictly speaking, it was a movie by-the-numbers...lets insert a suicide here, lets talk about pencils in outer space there, kind of thing. otoh the audience/critics were completely awed by it & made it the biggest film ever out of Bollywood.
Awesome tips. We're guilt of sitting with 2-3 feet of each other. About 20 people in 1800 sq. ft.

We'll go keyboard cleaning! The ventilation and water are top notch, and everyone exercise pretty regularly.

Thanks for the help!
Face transplant man Richard Norris has 'life restored'
We have one that comes in once a month! Maybe we'll increase the frequency. :)
Good call. Everyone loves working here, so I think if anything it's just too much work.
I haven't tried to find a cached/mirrored copy of their original sales/pricing page, but from what I remember they explicitly refused 'customer equipment', claiming security risks. The cost included a setup fee which essentially purchased you a brand new rack server already on site. I can't recall what their policy on cancellation was, but I think it was either 'we'll return the whole machine to you' or 'we'll destroy it on your behalf'.

Having new machines shipped out also seems like a better proposition from a risk perspective, since hardware isn't cheap, but it's a whole lot less than some irreplaceable customer hardware, software, or data.
If the data contained on your servers is bothersome enough to the US, then their military will simply bomb your tiny state out of existence, which is made even simpler if there is no one around to stand up for you. I've had this idea, both in the form of a small country, like yours, and in the form of a large ship, forever sailing the world's oceans, never docking anywhere, but both are easy targets. Far up in space or deep down in the ocean are likely the only good scenarios, and neither of those is cheap or easy.
Security researchers kill Kelihos again after Bitcoin crime spree
Microsoft: entertainment overtakes multiplayer gaming on Xbox
All videos taken on the Socialcam iPhone app are saved to your camera roll. Also you can save Socialcam videos to Dropbox :)
Why Microsoft, not Apple, will dominate television streaming.
> The stereotypes of men as rapists and child molesters

Whoa. It's obvious when you say it, but I've never even thought about it before-- I can't think of a single joke about that. Lots of jokes about rapists and child molesters, of course, but none about "men" who are implicitly the above. Can you think of any examples at all?

Coming up with a few examples that actually hit (white, cis) men where it hurts could be a nice silver bullet against the "it's just a joke" dodge.
There are some idioms in Lua that you might recognize from Python or Ruby. I have seen this one in Perl and the Bourne shell, as well.

ffi = ffi or require("ffi")

If the ffi expression evaluates to something that is not nil, we keep the previous value of ffi. The assignment becomes a no-op.

If it evaluates to a nil, we initialize it by calling require().
Steve Jobs reportedly disliked "Siri" name
> Come to think of it, men are also under a lot of pressure in bed, so such jokes are just as in/appropriate as jokes about women in bed.

You're assuming that just because it's the same subject it has the same implications to both genders. There is no basis for making that assumption. Take, for example, the statement "X is a slut." Does that have the same implication for both genders? No. Because of our societal attitudes, it has much graver implications for a woman than for a man. Now, consider the statement "X acts kind of rapey." Does that have the same implications for both gender? Again, no. A woman can shrug that off easily. A man, meanwhile, would be legitimately upset about that statement.
Windows Phone has built-in QR scanning capability. It was integrated into the OS as part of the last major update (7.5/Mango).

It's a feature of 'Bing Vision' which allows scanning of QR Codes, Microsoft Tags, Standard Barcodes, and Text. This is built-in to the general Bing (Search) feature of the OS and is avaliable on all Windows Phone devices.
Looking back at 20 years of email attachments with creator Nathaniel Borenstein
It's a pleasure. Best of luck to you (and the rest of your startup)
RQ: Simple job queues for Python
Are you sure showing title bars isn't allowed? Almost all screenshots on Wikipedia include them, even for open source software. e.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Firefox11.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Winscp_screenshot.png
HP C7978A is a Complete Compatible Universal LTO Cleaning Cartridge 
LTO idea from the commencement was to make a technology based on open standards that would offer all users with massive presentation and cost payback with an option of numerous vendors while still uphold the highest point of data veracity. The HP LTO cleaning tape, ultrum format generation 1 Universal cleaning cartridge is just another expression of the LTO programs pledge to that idea there is no need for diverse cleaning cartridge for each Ultrium format drive when one cleaning cartridge get heed of it all.
It's more likely that the author's first language is not English, than a child wrote it.

Based on the recent Wikileaks and previous reporting on the Anons, it seems a good portion are not Americans.
$35 for four rolls of @horse_ebooks is... extremely tempting.
Impressive. And now I'm wondering if a Minecraft inside Minecraft would actually be realizable. As 8bit CPUs have already been made (altough with unknown architecture), it is a bit less crazy to imagine running linux with a java stack on it. It will be hellish slow and you probably need some sort of "hardware" graphic acceleration. And a lot more memory than the current versions. But hey, running Minecraft in Minecraft would be pure brainmelting awesomeness!

Maybe some sort of Hardware Description Language to Minecraft compiler would be useful.
> Strictly speaking, it was a movie by-the-numbers

I wasn't trying to say this movie has amazing merit; just that it served its purpose in an industry and to an audience where it isn't very easy to do so.
The iPen Is Finally Here
Marissa Mayer Almost Stopped Google's Second-Biggest Business From Being Born
I wonder if we will ever reach the point where doctors will be able to transplant your brain to a new body.
Statistical Learning in Clojure
Can a privately launched satellite in orbit be considered free from control from any one nation? Would my satellite be sovereign territory?

Might this be an idea for the future of DNS and highly-independent web hosting in some form? No cooling problems for shure!

Of course, there's the minor issue of a connection to the wired internet...

I want a .orbital TLD!

Forget the "cloud" how about "space"?

Hmmmm, isn't there a prominent web entrepreneur who's building a rocket company?
I really like the way techmeme handles this, basically you can get a snapshot of how the front page looked like at any given time.

Makes it more easy to find things you read a few days ago but didn't bother bookmarking and then later you realize you have to find it again. "Hmm, i read about it monday morning"...click click BANG! everything there just the way you remember it.

On most other news sites i can usually not find old articles even after 15 minutes of searching with both google and the internal search.
I cannot think of a better way for this group to hurt their cause and garner the animosity of much of the world. It seems to endlessly repeat throughout history- groups with an axe to grind (whether in power or rebelling against it) use blunt force to try and further their cause. They're either too lazy or not competent enough to use a scalpel so they blow up the patient to get rid of a tumor. After the majority of the populace then turns against them, they're either shocked or self-righteously indignant that everyone else doesn't "get it". It never ends.
Their Trojan Horse is working out. I wish them all the success in the world, if only to coax Apple into making the iTV.
Excellent: I need an excuse to clean out the garage.
These crazy projects are the most fun. As Richard Feynman notoriously said: "What I cannot create, I do not understand".

shameless plug below:

Last year, inspired by Bellard's jslinux, I too wrote an emulator that can run Linux on the browser. Only I was lazy and emulated the vastly easier LatticeMico32 processor.

Anyways, the result was very intellectually satisfying.

After writing the interpreter, I went ahead and wrote a version that generates Javascript code on the fly (and captures up to 3 backwards jumps to the same block), for massive speed ups.

Anyways, it doesn't serve any purposes, but boy was it fun...

The code is at:
https://github.com/ubercomp/jslm32/

And there's a demo running on:
http://www.ubercomp.com/jslm32/src/

BEWARE: It only works well on Chrome (takes download time + 10s to boot on my machine).

If anyone is interested in this stuff, just ask and I'll write a post describing what I did to take boot time from 2.5 minutes to 10 seconds.
I guess I'll work from home then...
I try to emphasize the agile principles. I think there is a lot of wisdom there. The most important: "Continuous attention to technical excellence
and good design enhances agility"
In case anyone is wondering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
Pretty sure someone just uploaded a video to YouTube with a title along the lines of, "Message to The World".

IIRC, the "operation" was disavowed by all of the twitter accounts associated with the more 'mainstream' anons.
Looks great Michael! This is really coming along nicely. I can think of several organizations that would be able to put this to use right away. Regarding the key/password input, I think that most large AWS customers (e.g. Raveld's target market) would be savvy enough to be able to easily create some throwaway IAM keys to submit for the report.
No disagreement here on the fact that flash sites should die a horrible death.

Regardless, many flash developers have been clamoring for true 3D rendering in flash for a long time, and hack it together with libraries like Paper Vision. Perhaps I missed something, but the article seems to suggest that these features will indeed be available in the browser plugin, and thus usable on flash sites.
Also it seriously would not work:
Take google street view. It obviously does want the advanced 3D rendering. But what do they have to pay Adobe?
Street view itself displays no ads (does it?) but it boosts the Maps which do generate revenue, but they also boost Search which generates a lot of money. What would that 9% be calculated from? Would there be a long ping pong session between Adobe sales and the customer? How long before the customer (google in this case) decides SCREW YOU GUYS, I'M GOING HOME?

Now, imagine it's not google but some local player (think DAUM)
Adobe would naturally react to their queries as if they were some indigenous people calling. They would for no second care what's they up to. They'll cite some entirely unrealistic demands and then lose their mail; it would not end up good.