skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, OK, I'll bite...

"<?=date('Y-m-d')?> -- Won't work on half of webservers."

You're referring to shorttags, and how evil they are. Firstly, PHP 5.4 enshrines this echo shortcut usage, and they'll always be on from now on. <?=$something;?> will always work from 5.4 on.

Secondly, "half"? Where the hell are these mythical 50% of web servers that actively disable short tags? I've been working with PHP since 1996, have worked on hundreds of projects on dozens of hosts - shared and dedicated - over those years, and have come across this once, on a server managed by someone who compiled everything by hand (not just PHP, but everything) and felt turning short tags off was "optimal" because he'd read it somewhere. He wasn't a PHP dev, just had read 'short tags are bad'.

I don't doubt that some admins and hosts do turn off short tags. It is no where close to 50% of servers out in the wild though. 5% perhaps? Even that, in my view, would be a huge stretch.
I wonder how often these types of collisions auctually occur.
Intel's 910-series of PCI Express SSDs imminent
Going through the examples now. This is blowing my mind. Excellent job guys!!!
But how can you work on your side projects that employers expect you to have done if you're not sober 24/7?
The average user would just click "Yes, please" without reading it (I'm even doing that myself from time to time).

This is happening most of the times anyway. There is no way to see from the installer screen, why an app requests a certain permission. One example: most launcher replacements require the CALL_PHONE permission, which comes with a big warning. This is technically required if you want to place a contact shortcut on your desktop.

A better, security-wise, solution would have been to ask on-demand, when the app actually performs a permissions-requiring action, like it is done in J2ME. I suppose this was not done in Android either for software patent or for convenience reasons. Or maybe it would have gone against the usability of ad networks if you could deny the virtual Golf app access to GPS and internet...
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Someone should do this with the itunes affiliate API and let people make money as well.

I'm doubtful this will take over the current YouTube/SoundCloud/Grooveshark embeds.
Yeah, but if you want to do a DDOS attack you can just use one of the already configured tools out there that will bombard the server with as many requests as possible. A few chained ajax requests are never going to replicate that sort of load.
What's the most popular monitor size nowadays? 20"?
>We do not share your personal information with people or services you don't want.

Clearly that's incorrect, because the complainer didn't want you to have his personal information.

Also the statement "We may use your Personal Information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate in any manner permitted under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence" clearly gives you the right to sell his personal information to anyone.
I didn't notice anything being on Java now (coming from western Sumatra only a few days ago).

Btw, how is this Hackernews?
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Such keywords should be designed to decrease typing and reduce collisions in prefixes of other keywords. (Also in the context of code completion.)
"...(*excluding mobile)"

Why exclude mobile?
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I'd assume it's so we can know how to target desktop oriented sites.
Am I the only one who doesn't understand what this is about? The site doesn't give me much information.
I live in Indonesia, and there was Tsunami, about 30 minutes ago, as reported by local news TV. Two Tsunamis even, one 80 cm and another 60cm. My familly still feels many earthquakes after the first one, untill now. I live in Java, so I can't really feel the quake, but all my family's in North Sumatra, almost point-blank from the quake.
Unfortunately you can't forget about the L2 cache. I love Radix sorting it's just so fast and elegant except it's not vary cache friendly so it can be rather slow when you least expect it.
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This already exists in Australia and has for years. It's as simple as getting a police report done and ringing your phone company to get the IMEI blocked.
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BuildYourVPS suffers massive data loss
You are receiving this email because you have a VPS hosted through TOCICI's BuildYourVPS services.

We encountered a data loss issue on the storage array hosting your VPS environment, details of which follows.

Your VPS was previously hosted from a hardware RAID based data storage array which encountered a firmware level fault earlier today. Our server vendor (IBM) had apparently not seen this particular bug prior to today, which has led to hours of non-stop troubleshooting and diagnostics throughout today (tracked at: http://status.tocici.com ).

The effects of this issue are an inability to access any data stored on the inaccessible array: despite advanced troubleshooting alongside IBM engineers, we remain unable to access any data previously stored within your VPS.

IBM is continuing to work with us, including a rapid shipment of replacement equipment, and in-depth root-cause evaluation assistance and support. Although in the meantime, in order to re-establish your VPS environment as quickly as possible, we have re-designated your VPS's host node; defining one of our existing standby nodes. You should see a new VPS build email soon.

We share your frustration over this issue, especially with the sudden loss of multiple drives in a high-quality vendor's hardware based RAID...an incident that in nearly 20 years of doing business, we have never seen before. We are continuing to explore options, and we will keep you updated regarding any positive developments.

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I'd guess 15" laptop.
I thought the whole selling point of Android is that it is not tightly controlled.
I know you're probably saying this to be controversial, but why should Beijing be #2? Are there any studies (even in Chinese) that back this statement up?
Or the junior partner of a gov't coalition that actually gets things done.

How's Spain more predictable? I am sure they could use some Pirates too.
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>If I enter my real name somewhere, I'm probably fine with providing my phone and post address, too.

Aye. But when I enter my email adress somewhere, I don't necessarily feel comfortable giving them my real name + phone number
I would assume 13-15" (laptop).
We already have it in the rest of the world - in Australia since the beginning of last decade. I'm confused why it has taken this long for the United States to implement.
It all depends on the target market - for example if you are making a site for gamers, you should look at the Steam HW survey, where 1920x1080 is used by 25% of people. 1366x768 is a distant second with 15%. Source: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability
OK so it's basically the same as on Facebook then. Not very exciting...
Amazing stuff! Would 'add pyjamas' (pyjs.org) be possible in future for those of us who prefer to generate their Javascript from Python?
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That's a 3.4 earthquake ... that type of earthquake happens all the time so I would think the chances aren't so bad :)
Fuck I just wrote a juge text but the link expired and I lost it.

Heres the short version:

Generally I agree and I would like to see that too.

About PP:

1. Basic Income (BGE) is a very liberal socal policy(something I could see Friedman or Hayek support). It rases the amount of GDP on the government side but takes away a lot of the controll and bureaucracy that is there now.

2. The want to take away alot of state power too, specially in police and military. Think about what massiv change there drug policy would make.

3. The are the only ones that I could ever see attacking finance. Because (a) the are young (b) not infiltrated by lobbiests (yet) (c) currage to trie something diffrent (think out of the box) (d) efficent use of tools and communication (work on the buget like a opensource project would be something worth trying)

Rather have liberal statist with a social side then conservativ statist with love for police (CUD) or hardcore statist like (SPD).
No, in fact people are already building tools like this especially special interest groups. I imagine it could be quite lucrative to sell a framework that does this. Though I'd note IANAL. Thus this isn't legal advice.

That said, such a tool isn't unethical. Setting aside the fact it's also legal as best i can tell (which you seemed not to know) you should consider the following:

If something, generally speaking, is not unethical, and indeed adds value to the world without causing meaningful harm to anyone, should you avoid doing it merely because the government could disapprove?
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Which is basically what they are...
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This was my first concern too. I didn't have time to study the documentation, but I hope it is easy to integrate custom solutions both around and on top of the magic whenever it's necessary.
Yeah, sorry I was unclear. In this case I was trying to get it working on a VPS.

The local stuff was indeed nice and simple.
Strange, for me Spotify just starts and the music begins toplay.
Map of those who reported that they felt it: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/c00090...
I read that as a statement of arrogance. We are not überprogrammers able to delve down to all levels of the system.

When was the last time an Excel macro developer needed to know semiconductor physics in order to debug a fault lying in the silicon layer?

When has a Ruby on Rails programmer ever needed to know quantum electrodynamics to track down a hard disk error?

Abstractly you may consider that knowledge to be useful, but concretely, there's a reason people specialize - each of those domains takes years to gain competence, and there's a good probabilistic argument against everyone being "able to jump to level N - 1" all the way down.
Stealing is legal in US? That's some news.
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Tremor was even felt here in uphills of Sri Lanka.(Nuwara Eliya)
Switching Gears is Grinding Gears
I received this email at 3:26, my VPS was wiped out. They built new ones, and luckily I only had a hobby project static site sitting there.

This is pure speculation but I feel like BuildYourVPS is running too many VMs on their servers. SSH has always felt sluggish. This is one of the downsides to a cheap host.

I'd highly recommend prgmr.com (run by a fellow HNer), I've never had an issue with their VPSes at all.
Well I had serious concern for my desktop. Games are on an extra computer, and the OS tends to be Linux (preferred) or OS X (grudgingly). Most people's desktops are in fact completely overrun by malware, too. Just look at your relatives computers the next holiday.
If you didn't say anything wrong, you have nothing to fear, citizen.
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Richard Gear's character in 'Pretty Woman' made a living out of just that; the sum of the values of the parts of some companies is more than its market value (Price to Book < 1).

(Then he fell in love with a red-headed hooker and decided not to break up a ship building company, and help manage the company to build more ships instead.)
I'm not surprised. Only the "high end" laptops have a resolution that's not 1366x768 in Romania.

I used to have a 14" Dell with a 1600×1200 resolution back in 2008. But in 2012 you really have to pay extra for something like that.

15.6 inch and 1366x768 is just incredible considering the 4 inch iPhone is 960x640 nowadays.
Yes, it is, isn't it?

Without sarcasm: Why would it help to make tampering with the IMEI illegal, when the illegality of stealing in the first place doesn't solve the problem?
Chips as mini Internets
I've been getting this for a while:

> Uh oh!

> Sorry, there was an error connecting to the Bump service. Please try again later.
These sites are the tech equivalent of the newstand tabloids or Hello magazine. They package themselves in such as way as to give themselves a veneer of respectability but they're somewhere between fluff and gossip at best, out and out product placement or PR at worst.

There's no difference between the articles they write and the thinly disguised endorsements for a particular moisturiser brand you get in women's magazines written by someone who has just come back from an all expenses paid spa day sponsored by a cosmetics manufacturer.

We should stop referring to people who write and work for these sites as journalists and start referring to them as public relations people because really that's what they are.
Ars, Tech Review, and Wired (birdman hoax aside) are very relevant tech publications that cover trends that everyone who works in technology should be aware of.

Like many people here, I get most tech headlines via Hacker News. Sometimes I use Twitter. I used to be a big Techmeme fan, but I've noticed A) the best stories on TM tend to show up on HN first and B) most other TM content is the commodity Apple/FB/gadget news and blog theater that I am trying to get away from.
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well the 13 inch macbook pro is the most popular apple laptop and netbooks/ultrabooks seem more popular than 17 inch behemoths so I guess somewhere around 13 inches is right
I vote pirate, but I don't believe in direct democracy for the very reasons you state. Also I see it as a job of politicians to free me from having to do politics myself.

I vote for them because of other things, like transparency and freedom of the web. Unfortunately there never is a political party that satisfies everyone's needs to a 100%. Maybe some kind of new system could be invented to fix that, though.
I've been looking for hands-free (and preferably silent) ways to control my laptop for the same reason as the OP: When I'm holding our sleeping baby, I don't want to risk disturbing him by typing/mousing or by issuing voice commands.

This, as the OP says, is a pretty basic approach -- but it's a start. It's probably best used for longer passages, where the amount of text in the viewport is pretty consistent.

What I'm really looking forward to is when eye-tracking apps get good enough and cheap enough that a browser will automatically scroll based on your eye movements. Add in a couple of other commands -- maybe wink to click, cross your eyes to switch tabs -- and you could do some decent browsing.

Then you'd just need a lip-reading app so you can mouth words and have them converted to text!
I can't upvote this enough. When I saw the screencast, I said "Good,we are looking for that". But I want to know how this work, and how I can hack the core. At some point of building my app, I'll need finer degree of control.
I think it might be "Dynamic Decoupling Protocol"
could it be because they're using scala ?
Screen utility
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> 5. Do you believe I am a racist for having asked the previous four questions?

Can you change the title to the original? If HN is going to have any sane discussion on this (unlikely, but incredibly unlikely given the current title's priming effects), it needs to be changed. Though I guess I wouldn't mind seeing it flagged to oblivion.
It seems to be by US standards every state that collects taxes is socialist. After all, that means the government decides what to spend part of your money on. Why is it more socialist to spend the money on healthcare than on a new motorway?
The mind can only take in a window of information of a certain maximum width. Abstracting away the lower levels is crucial in order to free the attention for the higher level questions.

Software is solving much more difficult problems than ever before thanks to this evolution to higher abstractions.
Only problem is that half of the world is going to see "Sorry this service is not available" message unlike embedding something on youtube which available almost every where.
The meaning of ad-hominem is easy enough to lookup. Both your examples are ad-hom, one is less relevant than the other. In neither case are you addressing his argument rather attacking the speaker's motives or character. "How old are you?" is both snarky and ad-hom, moreover the questioner knew he was being snarky.
It is a big deal, but no so big that we are on a slippery slope. There are many things that could happen to combat it.

Employees or prospective employees agree to give up said passwords only if hiring manager/company gives them their social media account passwords. I.E - If I have nothing to hide, you have nothing to hide. You know employer an employee can never be to sure who they are working for ...

An entire side industry might spring up entirely geared toward managing and tracking who sees what on your social networks or, social networks might respond by letting you set up two logins - one for safe log in that only you know and one for compromised login that you give to an employer when they compromise you.

I hope that long before the states need to pass more laws like this that employees or prospective employees would publicly avoid business/government agencies asking for social media logins. "I really wanted that great job at Great Company, but it has asked me for my social media logins and stated that it would hold the things I did as a teenager against me."

The public perception that it is wrong to ask an employee/prospective employee is very strong and the more negative marketing associated to an employer gets around that will not only keep other employees away but it will chip away the confidence existing employees have that they work for a good employer.
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It plays in the background if you have Spotify and a browser which supports CORS.
Should be worth mentioning, that the German Ministry of Justice is held by the Alde/Fdp party. Her strong stand on civil liberties is more or less the only thing keeping Germany from implementing the European telecommunications data retention act.
You actually need a Facebook account to use Spotify. Not very exciting at all.
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Joel Spolsky coined a term for this type of problem. The "leaky abstraction". See here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm...
So besides the temporary discount, what does this offer that's significantly different from AWS? For example the pricing and naming scheme of HP Cloud Compute and EC2 are more or less identical, and the machine specs are on average the same (one vendor's instance has more RAM, one has more disk, etc.).
That's because you have to have Spotify installed for this to work.
$ host garry.posterous.com
Host garry.posterous.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Lucky, you :)

I get to see only "Sorry, we're not available where you are."
I think you use the term socialism wrong. Socialism means the workplace is owned by workers in some fashon. What you talk about are Statist policys. They are often confused because what people often mean when they say Socialism/Communism is State Socialism USSR style.

I agree that we need to throw away this rules and lot of burocracy. I think the BGK is a nice system if you want to have a social system and a pension system without giving the government real controll of the people (Gov. part of GDP would rise but the controll would be a lot less).

Taxation needs to be simpler, the current system is all about spezial intresst. Its a difficuled field but there are many ideas.
Cool logon method.

An insecure login method does not a cool one make.
I don't think being scored in school and game scores are that much alike.

In games, a bad score can be re-tried usually as many times as it takes for you to be satisfied with it. You're not at a loss as long as you take the time to re-do them until a good score is earned. On the other, in school, usually, your bad score sticks. That's it for you. Better luck next time or you might fail the entire year. Retrying in school takes an entire year of your life, you have to re-do even the things that you got right. It's quite punitive. That's without mentioning social aspects of it (peer view, self-esteem, etc).

Also, there's a big difference between scores and game reward system. Game rewards (nowadays) are designed for addiction. Rewards begin plenty and often, then are made scarcer and occasional. Not any school system can beat that behavioral craving.
working upvote's. never work for me when logged in (firefox 11 if that helps, and firebug shows no ajax request)
In their FAQ, they mention wanting to keep the changes people make open for now, which is why they chose the GPL. If that's the case and they're not pursuing a dual license business strategy, I'd suggest that the Mozilla Public License 2.0 is a better choice. It's very explicit that the files that come in the distribution are the ones for which derivative works need to be under the same license.

If dual license is what they really want, I'm not particularly interested at this stage.
It, sadly, does on my install of Chrome (18.0.1025.113 beta) - Linux 32 bit.
I like this much more than the vulgar title.
Upvote, I really enjoy The Kernel and it's been a recent discovery in part thanks to The Verge linking through to them. First new subscription in my reader for a long, long time.
What I find funny about the drug testing policy is how easy it is to circumvent and the side industry that exists to provide the tools needed to circumvent it.

I could see the same thing happening if employers started requiring social media credentials. An new kind of social network would have an easy differentiator - "Come to our new social network, along with everything else, you can trust us because we give you two logins: a secure login that you keep for yourself and a compromised login that you give to the government and your employer."
Not to totally change the subject, but that's why I'm kind of more excited about the 0x10c game than Raspberry Pi.

RPi claims it will get kids interested in programming again, but in the end it's just a supercheap Linux box. I think you'll see more kids want to make their spaceship do something really cool and really efficiently on the virtual in-game CPU. The instruction set is small and tight and very easy to learn. I know everyone wants to build compilers for every language under the sun for DCPU, but just like in game programming the tighest code will win.

Just throwing that idea out there.
Well, I guess if you (unwittingly?) buy a stolen phone, the feds would want IMEI tampering to be illegal?

I assume there's lots of bulk IMEI tampering done by fences, too.
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It's actually not a lie! Both features were legal: they shared App Store or iTunes links to the relevant app or song. This disappointed those users wanting to share the actual app or song and thus weren't used very frequently :)
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