skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm doing this now!

I've got a linode box running arch. I configured it with all my dev needs. I'm currently in university and I spend a good amount of time at school, bouncing between labs and then also working from home.

Right now the process is simply:

ssh me@mydomain.com
tmux attach

Up comes a familiar |- split console with vim running in a window, a terminal at the root of whatever project I'm working on and the server output of that project below it. If I have to leave suddenly, Ctrl+A+D and walk away. It'll be there when you log in next time.

It also has huge advantages if you're working remotely with teams or just want to launch stuff. I have nginx already configured and running. When I need to launch a new project:

1) Go to the Linode DNS Manager and setup a new subdomain

2) Go to /srv/http and git clone my project

3) Edit my nginx.conf, reboot nginx and done.

Some stuff worth checking out:

* https://github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles

* http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/04/ctags-taglist-vi-vim-edi...

Edit: formatting
Radiation concentrated in one place (such as with xrays) is a lot more harmful than general radiation.
Ruby's Mail Gem extension to 'deliver' emails as DRAFT
Commodore Computer Founder Jack Tramiel Dies at 83
I don't think Facebook believes they'll make more money buying Instagram (I'd be will to bet that on a P&L basis the NYT will make more/lose less than Instagram over the next 5 years). I think that they believe their enterprise value will decrease less and this is a defensive acquisition. They probably saw that $100B valuation vulnerable to dropping to $75B (completely made up numbers, just for the purpose of example) if user growth or photo sharing (or some other blech social metric) dropped off in the lock-up period. Spending $1B to preserve $25B of 'value' is an easy call.

Let other people say what they will about the fact that such a easy to reproduce and young startup caused them to drop $1B defensively...
Good documentation? I'm interested.
the rails documentation branch at #1? apache maven? i think their algorithm needs a bit more tuning
I think VCs are looking to provide bigger returns than this.
Market cap is a commonly used method to measure the company's worth, as determined by the market. If everyone agreed that NYT was in fact worth 1.5B, its market cap would have been 1.5B.

Also, there are many companies that have negative EV based on that formula, yet are still functioning businesses.
Ever been inside an actual castle? The lord's family was lucky if they had one or two private rooms. Most castles are tiny compared to their presentation in the media.

Aside from things like 18th-century manor houses - a tiny proportion of any country's population, and absolutely stuffed with working-class servants - the lack of motorized transit meant that upper-class neighbourhoods were usually right in the centre of the city, within walking distance of the poorer areas. You really just have to look at NYC or London to see that. 19th century mansions are not that far from the historically poor areas. And even those people who did own manor houses usually had a townhouse. It wasn't until trains, subways, and automobiles arrived in the mid-20th century that commuting between the business centre and exclusive suburbs became possible.
Half a million days?
Asynchronous & Non-Blocking Scala: A look at Netty and NIO
The emulators got less votes because it was more of the same exact thing ("someone implemented DCPU-16"). This is news because a big name has taken notice of DCPU-16, going so far as to officially support it. It's a different flavor.
New View of Depression: An Ailment of the Entire Body
> In the top 9 most awesome Open Source projects in the world 6 out of 9 are ruby projects

Why did you pick the top 9?
The 15" Pro has an option for a higher res screen at least; I'm typing this on one with a 1680x1050 screen. I guess you have to pay more for it; one more place where they could potentially simplify the options with a bit less price segmentation.
It's pronounced Chi-dy.
Parts of the SF financial district are still pretty deserted after around 5/6 PM.
Now this is still a controversial topic [5], but my point this kind of explanation seems much stronger and more on-the-mark, than such flaccid ideas like 'americans are getting fat because they don't walk to school anymore'.

I interpreted the article's point is that people avoid any form of physical activity at all cost. One example being driving a child to the end of a driveway instead of letting them walk. If physical activity is essential to maintaining one's health, it seems this sort of decision making would be detrimental to one's health.

I don't see why this is such an awful stance to take.
It's just that the people who disagree generally aren't really programmars, they're designers turned quasi-web-developers. The community does them a disservice by pointing them at a giant pile of crap and saying "Go use this. You'll be fine."
Wow, this is really cool. I've been working on something similar for a little while now but it isn't nearly as developed or interesting. The only issue I have is the pricing model, which is fair but takes a little bit away from the product for me (monthly fees– cut the cloud and I'd put $100 down just to use the software however I want).
I didn't read it that way, I thought something more like "ch-eye-t". I don't have any idea what it means though.

But, that still doesn't mean that I like the logo. Could you put this logo on a shirt? How difficult would it be to get that background silk screened? Company logos have more uses than just being displayed on a website.

Plus, with this for a logo, I'm fairly certain that I wouldn't like the surrounding design.
It's even worse than that. The $1 billion is largely in stocks from what I understand and parts of it are vested. This means that the stocks don't actually move from one place to another slowly over time. Further, this is not actually money. It's based on what people think the value of Facebook's stock is. That value can go up or it can go down.

Personally, I think the current state of valuing user data so highly is insanity. I suspect that this purchase will later be used as a prime example of another bubble, but this time a marketing bubble rather than a tech bubble.
>defined business model with profits

I think a startup with no business model tops a "defined" business model with rapidly declining profits
Lakes and Oceans to Scale
My bank's branch in my neighborhood only has a drive-through ATM... and a sign disallowing pedestrians from using it. (A lot of drive-through places have such signs... liability, insurance, etc.) It's annoying. Of course, pedestrians walk up to the drive-through ATM all the time, anyway.

(By the way, I lived in Starkville in my college years, and also had some strange looks as a pedestrian...)
He'd be dead before he gets to a 112 operator. The local crooks have a very low tolerance for bold heroic stuff like that.

Also, the local 911 equivalent is sometimes simply swamped with calls so its better to get the message out there & have someone else phone it in.

Sadly more & more reliance is being placed on stuff like this (community patrols, private security, gated communities etc) because the police simply isn't coping.

Glad that it worked out fine in this case.
Confirmed: Intuit Acquires AisleBuyer
Remote root hole in Samba
Cable Rates Continue Rise: Not Sustainable For Mainstream Viewers
I'd like to see it with better UK support. My location near Clapham Junction in London scores an 93, but honestly that's a little low because this is the most insanely walkable place I can imagine. There are probably 300 shops within a quarter-mile radius, I'm two blocks from full on department stores, and there's even a Whole Foods three blocks away which is closer than I ever was to one living in Minneapolis, Santa Fe, and Mountain View (3 of the granolaiest places in America). Bus routes, I dunno, 30+? Rail links, no idea, but there are 18 platforms! Parks? 500 acres within walking distance.
I agree with everything you've said, but most especially: "Use it or not. I don't care."
The thing is we need to stop advising people to use it in the first place. That's what we're advocating.

That is, we're not telling people to stop after they've gone into McDonalds, we're decrying the fact that so-called health experts are telling people that McDonalds is actually just fine for you. That's a better analogy.
She got a ride to the end of the driveway? Probably because she has a double-header soccer match that night.

Someone athletic enough to play in a double-header soccer match wouldn't bat an eye at walking 100 feet down a driveway. As someone who played many sports in my earlier years, this line of reasoning seems completely off the mark.
Annoyingly, the Java 2012 update REMOVED the -uninstall option from Java, so you have to rm it and clean up the installhistory plist manually if you want to uninstall Java from Lion
We didn't pick them, it's the result of the sum of its contributors' DevScore. And we calculate the DevScore taking into account your contributions, the reputation of your projects and the reputation of the people you work with.
Simple jQuery template plugin
You should take a look at our service: http://connex.io

Our value proposition is quite close to Everyme's original one.

Let me know what you think!
New challenge - clone the Turbo Pascal IDE and get it to run on the processor.
The killer app for getting the elderly online and using computers/tablets/smartphones has been Skype, in my experience. Specifically, video chat. It's revolutionised communication with family who live far away. I suppose these days FaceTime would be equally appropriate. From there it's a slippery slope for most of them. The retired in my partner's and my family now spend more time playing video games than those of us in our 20s. (they simply have more time to spare)

I could see them picking up on something like this if they could overcome the trust barrier. Most 50+s I know don't trust Facebook and don't have an account there (I don't trust them either, but I'm in the minority in my age group).
Unfortunately in some cases a zipcode is in fact not enough, as it's possible for a zipcode to spread across multiple towns. However, if you have a full 9 digit zipcode then you can in fact always determine. However, even if you can't always determine this information exactly, a zipcode should be enough to pre-populate these fields for you most of the time, and in those rare cases which they don't a choice can be presented of only those qualifying choices.

The USPS has a pretty decent API that should allow this relatively easily.
Just as a note, I know that for e-commerce shopping cart forms, we specifically force users to enter their address information and zip code.

No matter what you think, users aren't paying attention to what they enter in the forms. Forcing them to enter their address and zipcode allows you to do a cross check to make sure they entered everything correctly.

You may find it annoying, but when it prevents people from ordering items to the wrong address, it's a pretty useful extra field.
Kubuntu to be Sponsored by Blue Systems
I don’t understand why people don’t just use email for this. A few months I set up a mailing list for our family at fiesta.cc (easy private mailing lists) and we’ve all been using it a lot.
This is a nice photo gallery, but as a history of supercomputers its pretty shallow.
This is so true. Although I'm not sure it's entirely about density--I think part of it is just that you're so alone as a pedestrian. At least if you're walking around my hometown, you might be the only one on the sidewalks, barring neighborhood kids hopscotching around or whatever, for 2 miles, even though there are homes and businesses everywhere. The psychological effect of being such an outlier is really noticeable.
Ruby Off Rails, Part 1: your first Ruby web app using Sinatra and Heroku
Gmail cannot filter email addresses starting with exclamation mark
> Bank of America doesn’t allow passwords over 20 characters, disallowing correcthorsebatterystaple. Passwords can contain some symbols, but not & or !, disallowing the other two passwords

Can anyone elaborate why "&" or "!" wouldn't be allowed?
I'm working on a multicycle implementation that I will be able to push to a FPGA. There's no way I'll be able to get the same cycle timing as the specs indicate however. 3 cycles for a divide is very, very generous for such a simple CPU, I'll probably either end up implementing a shift and subtract algorithm (will take more than 3 cycles), or using huge look up tables (probably too big fit in a single blockRAM as well...) to try and achieve it.
On the other hand, SHR and SHL are trivial to do in hardware via a barrel shifter, but he assigned 2 cycles for them.

The [next word + register] instruction is also a bit annoying to deal with in the given time tables and a simple register file design, though I haven't thought about the design of that too much.
I am going to go out on a limb and say this article has little to no content. I am surprised that it has 69 points despite being very light on content.

More over, the comments here are mostly tangential to the article (except in the sense that they involve the word tmux).

Am I totally wrong? Can everyone else see into this article where I can't?
Exactly. I don't actually agree that low barrier to entry is a good thing. Languages should be easy for people who've learned them, not necessarily easy for newbies.

That's the real idea with the principle of least surprise. It shouldn't surprise experts. But programming is hard. It's modeling real world processes in the abstract. That's hard. It isn't going to be simple for people who don't know how to program.
Thanks! I will be looking into this more. I'm aware of the 9digit zipcodes. I'll look into the USPS API. Also, I'll address the other comment below. That might answer some questions.
Tried to enter an email address with a '+' sign in it: "Email address is invalid".

No it's not.
Nodetime - API level Performance Profiler for Node.js
Professional Rug Cleaning Industry Put To Shame Over Green Tech
Thou shalt not report odds ratios
A Cardboard Arcade made by a 9-year old boy
Totally agree! The jQuery plugin that I started working on will actually just populate those fields in the form so they can be changed after the fact.

Feel free to contribute! https://github.com/daspecster/ziptastic-jquery-plugin
>“We don’t know the antivirus group inside Apple.”

What antivirus group...
Did anyone else's Chrome throw a malware warning for arstechnica.com?
How Apple can size up the iPhone screen gracefully
Lots of people were saying that YouTube could be monetized, especially by Google, because Google needed content, which YouTube had, Google wanted to get into the booming video landscape and Google had massive bandwidth, which YouTube desperately needed. The only issue was how fast Google would clean up all of the copyright infringement and how it would affect YouTube.
To make explicit the design problem: the "not found" sentinel is automatically converted to a valid index. That's dangerous.
CoffeeScript 1.3.0 is out
Ruling makes sense. Your employer should not be able to threaten you with jail time for viewing YouTube videos.
HPD generally gives no fucks, sorry about that. :(

Maybe it was one of the little townships that still refuses to integrate into the ever-expanding maw of Houston (think West U area)?
The demo at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/209/zxcvbn/test/index.html shows what's happening behind the scenes.

The one usability problem I see is users complaining that zxcvbn is calling their 'secure' password they use on everything insecure. :-)
Facebook and photo-sharing: Instariches
Hoppit Launches The World's First Ambience Search Engine For Restaurants
If you have billions to (over)spend, what does it say when you are terrified of tiny competitors who have shown no ability to compete with you, no revenue model and no long term ability to monetize in place?
I once had a similar issue with a Silverlight program I wrote. In my case I ended up adding worker threads to handle data processing with an event to signal when it was done processing and followed up that tweak by consolidating my SOAP requests as much as I could (ironically making it even faster helped fix it). Timing issues can be rather tricky sometimes but the upshot is that if your going to have a problem, running too quickly isn't a bad one to have to deal with.
Launch HN - Overnight Buses Travel Magazine for the iPad
Hello HN,
I've been here a while but this is my first HN launch. I'm pretty excited to move beyond the ideas stage for the first time in my life.

Our app is a free iPad only travel magazine featuring long-form travel essays and personal narratives. Basically, something to read and relax with when you're looking to really fall into a story about a place. My favorite article is the story about Rwanda, but please check it out and let me know what you think.

The direct app store link is: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/overnight-buses-magazine/id493329039?ls=1&mt=8

Our website is www.overnightbuses.com, if you want to check us out later.

Thanks to everyone who checks us out. If you're interested in the backend stuff, our app is based on the open source framework Baker. http://bakerframework.com/

Sincerely,
Tom
I can back you up on this. I also worked at corporate as a contracter on the dotcom team and it was a total circus. After outsourcing the work for their website for so many years, the entire site was a disaster. Not to mention the "business" side was running on waterfall while our team was trying to do agile. Worse? Mangers on both sides knew it and did nothing about it - this was just considered "normal" there.

I pulled the plug after only 8 months - it was crazy what was going on there. Afterwards, a few of my friends who also did short stints there were amazed I lasted that long.
There are exceptions. Recording in public is allowed in some cases. It mainly depends on the number of people who are recorded at the same time. If this number is high enough the restrictions become more relaxed.

And please note that I am only describing the situation in Germany without judging the situation. :-)
I don't know whether to agree with your second sentence or not. It looks like reasonable suspicion is required, but it also sounds like individual states' stop-and-identify laws are varied and vague.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_and_identify_statutes
> Everyme uses your phone’s address book for sharing, and if people don’t have Everyme accounts, they can still see and post content through email and text messages

This is actually a really cool way of solving your initial social network chicken and egg problem as well. When someone is regularly getting content from your app by text or email, they are eventually going to think of signing up for the service to make managing all that content easier.
You made an either-or proposition. Either you're secure or you're not. The responder nailed it correctly: the issue is not "secure/insecure". His example showed that it's a measure of utility. How much effort expended by Apple and its users is worth the probable reduction in botnets on that platform and their consequent damage? Because botnets are historically so rare on MacOS (9 or X) the utility equation has always been very much in the don't-worry-about-it category. Not so for (for example Windows).

Will this equation change significantly with the new botnet? I think it's unlikely, but I dunno. Regardless, all-or-nothing seems to be the wrong perspective from which to examine this problem.
Chrome’s WebRTC roadmap
This seems like a great step forward, but it's still a bunch of ad-hoc rules. While the ruleset is definitely well-put-together and fairly comprehensive, it still doesn't seem like the most accurate measure.

It seems like password strength basically boils down to:

1) imagine the space of all possible passwords

2) put them in order from most to least likely (123456 would be at the top, some giant 64 character random monster at the bottom)

3a) if you're malicious, use this list to begin cracking

3b) if you're securing something, use this list to measure strength

An ideal password strength measurer would simply return the approximate rank of your password.
The one usability problem I see is users complaining that zxcvbn is calling their 'secure' password they use on everything insecure.

Good.
On Communication
Palo Alto, CA (FULL-TIME, INTERN, H1B welcome)

Fellow engineers! We are hiring at Bloomboard!
http://www.bloomboard.com/
http://www.bloomboard.com/careers/

We are a small startup currently working out of the AOL building on Page Mill. We just won within our division at South by Southwest (http://tiny.cc/0mckcw) and recently had an article written about us in the Wall Street Journal (http://tiny.cc/ulckcw).

We are writing software that is having a direct impact on K12 education throughout America. Our hope is that our product will increase the effectiveness of the teacher evaluation process as well provide a large marketplace of tools and training for schools throughout the Country.

Right now we are small but we are growing very fast. We are only hiring top-tier engineers that have a passion for what they are doing and would like to see their efforts help something that really matters.

We are currently building LAMP applications but we are open to hiring smart people that run the gammat. If you know how to program, you know UX/design, you excel in mobile or you are a mad mathematician and want to get some IP under your belt, drop me a line!

Bryce

Send any questions, comments or resumes my way.
bryce@bloomboard.com
Senior Engineer, Bloomboard
Ah, so dcpu is cool now because somebody cool says its cool. Just seems like bandwagon/fanboyism to me. Call me a dcpu hipster :)

btw, awesome work w/ mappum on the js emulator stuff. you guys update w/ impressive speed.
FaceBook is only worth 100b on paper. It's not worth close to that. The reason this is absolutely a bubble is because you have one paper tiger buying another paper tiger with virtual paper.

This is no different than the real estate cycle in L.A. or South Florida a few years ago, when people would buy and sell condos based on market potential multiple times before the condo was even finished. It all works until someone down the line tries to cash in. It will work for FaceBook and Goldman Sachs, but a whole lot of consumer investors are going to get AOL'd in the long run.
Hmm, the monthly fees are simply to pay for the costs of Twilio. The project will be completely Open Sourced at the end, if I end up raising the money.

I'm also trying to raise money to get this into the hands of people in the developing world as quickly as possible. Each donation level pays my Twilio costs for a certain number of people.

My goal is 10,000 people in developing countries using my beta within 3 months.

Thanks for the encouragement, though!
I'm actually very curious as to how I can better my communication skills. Know some tips? Tell me! I'd love to learn more.
I see it, though. Not quite to that exaggerated level, but not entirely hyperbolic either. It's not a matter of "they cant't do it," but "they don't have to do it." Not if an alternative is offered (and they like being with grandma anyway).
For folks that are curious, we wanted to get these changes out the door -- strict mode syntax errors being a big one -- so that source maps can be the focus of the next release (probably 1.4.0).
A not-very-great but traditional way to avoid some kinds of security holes is to sanitize your input by blacklisting anything that could be a shell/scripting/SQL metacharacter. Seems restrictions like that are still pretty common, either because it's actually still needed for security (alarming if true at BoA), or because it's now a sort of cargo-cult thing.