skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> -1 For Google for creating what is the biggest threat to content providers by enabling easy-to-use DDOS attacks across the entire interwebs.

Wanna help make the web better? Stop using Google and use a competitor like DuckDuckGo.com. Google has too much power, too much control.
well, that's fair. do you think it works for "parallel chains", i.e. more than one major 'project' or 'initiative' you're trying to get ahead in?

to extend your example, a chain in the morning before work and a completely different project/chain after getting home from work?
One of the best interviews I've seen with Ayn Rand, in her own words if anybody cares to read:

http://ellensplace.net/ar_pboy.html
A classic, "Let's Build a Compiler," by Jack Crenshaw:

http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

edit: BTW, https://www.coursera.org/course/compilers just started...
We've built a robust platform that will allow the HN community (and others) to make investments together exactly as you're desribing. I spoke to Sam Altman about this a few weeks ago at lunch. We're less than a month from launching so if you'd like to talk to me directly about this please feel free to email me with my username <at> gmail and we can talk further.
Finally! Hope they fix network problems with VMWARE!
> Now they just go semi-transparent and can't be clicked

I'm running 10.10 and it's the same as you describe. Which I think is the right way to do it, for anything that pops up unexpectedly.

Thunderbird (and others) doe notifications the way you describe, but I don't think ubuntu (or any other distribution, or even osx for that matter) ever let you click directly on the system-wide notifications.
The act removes restrictions on advertising of securities. It's specifically designed to get amateur investors to put money into small startup companies.

Hence, there will be large amounts of advertising aimed at encouraging the mass population to put money into risky investments that the mass population (seeing Instagram/Facebook/etc) think will make them rich beyond their wildest dreams.

Historically, this does not end well.
This is pretty common. In many cases they are strictly the hands and eyes of the technician. I know a large company 300+ where their IT guy was there only to call someone who knew more.

I'm also familiar with a situation at many smaller banks where their IT person is the youngest of the VPs. Of course they use external IT services and audits, but for day to day IT problems you go to the VP of whatever first.
Insecure websites to be named/shamed by "Trustworthy Internet Movement"
Why We Sign Contracts
Awesome link thank you!
UK's Digital Economy Act anti-piracy measures delayed
> The problem is that firewalling is difficult for the same reason that NAT is difficult.

The problems you exemplify are not ipv4 or ipv6 problems, they are purely firewall problems. As you state in the article, people conflate NAT and firewall, but I fear you are too slightly mixing them in a way in your article (at least that's how it reads). NAT-PMP and UPnP are tools that do two things:

- setup port forwarding for knowing where to NAT incoming packets
- setup firewall not to drop incoming WAN packets on that port

Incredibly enough, drop the NAT part, and the firewall part works just fine. Only for IPv6 it will be:

- setup firewall not to drop incoming WAN packets on that port and for that destination

which is just awesome since there will be no port conflict possible, and no port scarcity on the router. It would be downright trivial to extend NAT-PMP/UPnP IGD daemons (if that's not done already) to support that case, and I don't know the details but the protocols themselves might not even need to be modified, as the simple fact of communicating over IPv4/IPv6 might just be sufficient to gather all the required informations.

EDIT: actually the NAT-PMP draft[0] makes mention of IPv6

EDIT: a quick search for UPnP IGD IPv6 leads to a presentation[1] about IGD:2, which includes IPv6 gateway firewall control.

[0] http://files.dns-sd.org/draft-cheshire-nat-pmp.txt

[1] http://www.upnp.org/resources/documents/UPnPIGD2vsIGD1d10032...
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Is there something torrent-comparable for "apt-get upgrade"?
He is just sharing what worked for him. Any diet where you consume fewer calories will allow you to lose weight, it is just a question of choosing one you will stick with.

You absolutely don't need to do the paleo/keto nonsense at all. I eat meat twice a week and barely eat any dairy (just a little cheese once in a while). I eat pasta, white rice and potatoes all the time. I've lost 68 pounds so far as of this morning. No matter how much people want to pretend there is magic involved, or point to hilariously bad books like Taubes' junk, it really does come down to "burn more calories than you consume".

I can't tolerate low carb diets, I feel hungry and tired all the time and end up going nuts after a couple weeks and breaking down and eating a ton of pasta. So I didn't go low-fat or low-carb, I just eat reasonable portions, make sure the food I eat is always satisfying, and exercise. I find it much easier for me to increase the calories I am burning than to decrease the calories I am consuming too far.

And contrary to what spking says, it is not hard at all to get enough protein as a vegetarian. You only need ~55g a day, which I get easily on days where I don't eat meat. On meat days I end up around 90g. If you are doing heavy lifting you'll need maybe 20g a day more than average, and if you do endurance sports you could need up to double the average. But if you aren't doing either of those things, you should easily get enough protein without making any special effort or using supplements.
I've been using Gnome3 (on Fedora) with 2 monitors for a while now, and it works perfectly.
Downvoted. Twilight frost is an awesome background though.

You should add more info like "Hey, a little OT, but here's how the process works. Etc" to avoid down votes for lack of contribution.
1.4Ghz Exynos Quad-core processor for the Samsung Galaxy S3
I think you are missing the grandparent's point. It is easy(-ish) to get some structured data and turn it into sentence format.

Unless you have structured data that represents all human experience someone present at an event could muster (smell, sound, emotional feeling...) I don't see how a robot could replace it.
These are beautiful. Have you made more?
This may get a down voted because I'm new to commenting, but I figured adding a comment was better than starting a "Show HN" thread.

My buddy and I created a web/iPhone app that is great for people trying to get fit but struggle doing it because they can't find the motivation. So for those who are motivated by Ryan's story and are looking for additional tools, maybe give it a try.

http://1upfit.com allows you to compete against friends in simple workout challenges. Pushups, pull-ups, running, swimming, etc. We are actually in beta testing right now for tracking a weight loss challenge similar to what Ryan did above. (We both recently completed a slow carb diet, which is very similar.)

Training by yourself or changing dietary habits by yourself can be hard and sometimes you don't have the people around to properly motivate you. My brother is an Ironman but lives in Colorado (I'm in Portland) so it's hard to say "Hey let's go for a run". By using the app though, I can see every time he runs and it motivates me to go out and do it too, for fear of losing a competition to my brother.
Google: Behind the Numbers - Infographic
> Dear Python, Why Are You So Ugly?

Well, once upon a time Python had a beautiful documentation website with lovely illustrations and cute stories. But then the fairy princess elf who made it threw a hissy-fit, disappeared from the Internet and took all their content offline with them, without telling anyone why.

Ever since then we've been recycling Monty Python jokes, because hopefully John Cleese is above that sort of thing.
How Employers Measure Passion in Software Engineering Candidates
When you say Bush Administration, I think you mean Clinton's 1995 and 1999 modifications to the Community Reinvestment Act.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act
Show HN: Do "How to" or "Why to" articles make it to the front page more often?
Odd. No mention of natural gas? In the U.S., the most common plastic (polyethylene) is made from natural gas.
This is a fantastic method. I wrote an iPhone app around this concept: http://thinklegend.com/commit

One of my current commitments is to write 1000 words each day.
I signed up for a marathon right before founding a startup last summer. Having a training plan and something to train for was great because it forced me to stop working and exercise on a routine basis. The running itself was great stress relief, gave me "big picture" think time and actually made me more productive when I worked.
Even better: Why not build on and extend the work that SASS/LESS have already started?
What a terrible article. Aesthetics are not the core of design.
>I just found myself browsing and clicking around to re-read particular chapters all the time, that I could only reach via an unintuitive sequence of 2 or 3 clicks.

It's true that the main documentation link doesn't have everything. If you want everything you need to go to https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/contents/
Without plastics, I'd probably be dead right now. So, at least for my personal case, it's a worthwhile trade-off.
Rails grew up in the design community (led by 37 Signals) so the current situation makes sense. I'm not sure it's that bad but there is probably room for improvement. Some may even appreciate the sparer aesthetics in the Python world.

The one I think wish is that Sphinx had a better design. There's something attractive about its simplicity but I have the hardest time navigating around.
Good design is a signal. If the people behind a product took the time to make something look good it's likely that they sweated the other details too.

Especially when two products are close to functionally interchangeable, like Ruby and Python, design can be decisive. Engineers chronically underestimate the importance of design and marketing.
The proprietary drivers have worked OK for me, but I've had issues with playing video. I just couldn't get smooth framerates. The radeon driver was worse in that aspect. I swapped in two nvidia cards and video looked much better. It should be fine for general use and I'm still trying to make the ATI setup work. I don't need 3D, just video.

I have a 5870 eyefinity 6 that has 6 display ports, but those are no longer made and expensive (and overkill).

I found a $60 Radeon HD 6450 card made by Sapphire on Newegg (N82E16814102960) that has two dvi and one displayport, that should work for three monitors. There are other options as well of course, just make sure the cards are advertised as supporting eyefinity and they have at least one displayport adapter. I've had success with an Accel active displayport to DVI adapters.
I'm surprised they left out concatenating your javascript files into as few files as you can without breaking caching. The concept is the same as using sprite sheets, with similar gains if you are using many different scripts.
Interesting concept. If you don't mind, some comments on your site/service:

1. The slides on the main page aren't showing up for me in FF or Chrome.

2. You're targeting avid readers, and are trying to save them time, but you're pushing video how-to's? Text + screen shots, please! (Or maybe A/B testing will prove me wrong)

3. Why are all the images of articles tilted and in such small font? I want to see how well your service works for me, and what's better than reading an article it's analyzed?

4. Your how-to for RSS scares me a bit. It goes by so fast, and I have to copy-paste URLs? I have to find RSS URLs that as this article mentions, are getting increasingly hard to find? I'm already subscribed via Google Reader. I could copy the URL from the 'Details and Statistics' of a feed, but why can't you use their API to bulk import my feeds (competitors to Reader do this). I'm not sure if you could automagically rewrite Reader subscription URLs once scraped, but it seems like the easiest option to me (as long as you have an intermediate page where I can exempt certain feeds.

5. Is there any way I can see the results of your bookmarklet on a few actual articles before signing up? Even if it's just a mirror of some popular articles with the highlighting precomputed, as long as it's the whole article. I feel like you have a lot of work to do to convince someone that they're not going to miss some crucial bit of information by ignoring what you don't highlight.

7. Why do I need to remember another username? Is this a 'social' service? You already have my email!

8. It doesn't seem to work with Readability

9. Why do you need to track me with cookies? You already have me running javascript on every page I use the bookmarklet on...but I appreciate being told about them

10. How are you going to make money?

(just used the bookmarklet on this Wired article[1] currently on the front page of HN. Very surreal. And I'm not sure if I got the main point of the article or not...)

[1] http://m.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/can-an-algorithm-write-...
If replying to a comment with "Upvoted" is unproductive, what's more productive about saying "Downvoted"?
Why Instagram is A Cautionary Tale for Young Entrepreneurs
That OP is cherrypicking is obvious, but his web shop example is particularly brazen.

Google for 'django consulting' also turns up on first page:

http://www.comfychairconsulting.com/

http://tivix.com/

http://www.caktusgroup.com/
HSS could be compiled into CSS.

LESS stays LESS until it's compiled by a javascript shiv into CSS.

If you're going to build out a browser plugin, you're going to have to plug into the built-in styling system to translate your HSS into CSS or some internal representation of CSS. Unless you write your own browser from scratch, they are all built internally to support CSS and will require drastic internal change (beyond what a plugin can do) to natively support something like HSS without translating to CSS.
Canadian startup talk: Waterloo's next 5 years
"Following the fall of the NKVD head, Nikolai Yezhov, the new chief Lavrenti Beria chose to retry Korolev on reduced charges in 1939, but by that time Korolev was on his way from prison to a gulag camp in the far east of Siberia, where he spent several months in a gold mine in the Kolyma area before word reached him of his retrial. Towards the end of 1939 he was sent back to Moscow, but he had already sustained injuries and had lost most of his teeth due to the labor camp's brutal conditions"

And I thought my life was hard!
Man offers to legally change name for a ticket to Apple's WWDC
The World's Longest Invoice
As a ruby developer I may not be that well qualified to ask about this but can you give me an example where you've had this difficulty? It would be good to know in case there's some low-hanging fruit in documentation that would make new ruby/rails developers lives easier.

I tend to have a very easy time finding the documentation I need, in both ruby and rails. Sometimes that means a google search, but if I want more fine-grained implementation details, I normally crack open the gem in question with `bundle open` and read the source. I know that a lot people from a Java background for example prefer code-completion in their IDE's to reading source, but it seems to be the most comfortable way to find what you're looking for, in ruby at least.
Yep, pretty much this. I do exactly the same thing with the fajita.

You pretty much can keep making the same meals, you just get rid of the filler stuff. The essence for me was to just stop eating so much bread, potatoes, rice or pasta. Before I would graze all day, switching to low carb got rid of my need to eat all the time almost overnight.
I have to disagree with you there. Some optimization steps significantly hamper development and should be saved until near the end of the project. For example, JS minification is very fast and easy, but it makes debugging much more difficult.

And you shouldn't compile things into CSS sprites until you are fairly settled on what images you'll be using. If the look and feel of your site is still in flux, you're wasting time by making sprites.
And economists and engineers say we should be using oil for transport?
Or if you have the connections, contact one of the Vetted and get the attackers at the origin. Well that's according to http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_est...
In theory, perhaps. In reality this is not feasible because the hardware guys would never go for it. The mere existence of an IPv4 header extension causes a packet to be kicked out of the hardware fast path (or dropped entirely) by all the router implementations that I know.
Cool idea!

Just as an FYI: I went to check out your app and your website says it's a buck but it's listed for $2.99.

May want to update that :)
Impressive and must have taken a lot of work.
TwinView also doesn't support rotating one of the screens, which is a show stoppper for me.
They should be charged with harassment and physical assault of a child.
When one option is overwhelmingly technically superior to another you can afford to ignore design, marketing and human psychology. Python and Ruby are close enough to interchangeable for web work that these other factors can be critical.

Personally I'm really tired of hearing programmers dismiss the importance of aesthetics and branding. They can easily have more impact than all those technical details you spend so much time sweating over. Like it or not, humans are not cooly rational decision makers.
Some minor nitpicks first:

1. Blogofile is a de facto abandoned project. The project's inherent bugginess is a testament to the fact that the author had more important priorities to address than the design of the site.

2. Comparing Google's App Engine with Heroku is absurd and seems like a sign that the number of data points is so small that comparisons don't make much sense in the first place.

I agree that Python sites look hideous - and have often wondered whether someone should make an alternative style sheet - but I have a feeling the Python community's problem is not that of design, but legacy. As bland as Django's and Python's documentation looks, Pythonistas have come to learn where things are and how they work.

I don't know if migrating the websites of Django and Python to something new would be a good idea, especially when it comes to preserving links for directing to dead ends.

I'd rather that someone did a CSS userstyle than to see the sites get redesigned, because I think it would break more than it improves. If the CSS and HTML could be improved without any changes to URLs, then that would be even better, of course. We can't pretend the changes aren't retroactive.

Maybe someone could do a fork of the sites and apply the changes they want?

As someone said, maybe the Python people just decided to spend their time writing good documentation instead of creating a good-looking front-end? There are only so many people and resources to go around, especially in one-man projects like Blogofile. As chance would have it, I actually use Blogofile over all the alternatives, meagre design or not. Maybe I share sensibilities with the Blogofile and Python guys that don't translate to good-looking websites?
Part of the problem with software is that there's so much of it. You don't just have the stuff running on routers, you've got your customer management system, logging + auditing, DNS etc.

There's no point in an ISP offering IPv6 if its routers support it but their back office management software doesn't.
As a follow-up I ran into the exact same issue as above. I think the language-matching is really a must for an app like this to ensure users have a good experience their first time.
To stay fit I would look into a team or group sport. Unless you want to do body building or competitive weight lifting, you're going from rapidly improving to maintaining your fitness. Sports are so much more multifaceted, that you'll see improvement and reaching goals over a long time.
Maybe the IT guy recognizes the name Linux, but not Ubuntu?
Skipping cardio certainly won't turn you into a body builder nor make you look "big"... It takes significantly more than just lifting weights, 90% is your diet, caloric intake and macronutrient composition, which together play the biggest role here.

Compare two genetically similar individuals, both lift weights 3x / week, one regularly consumes a 1000 caloric surplus, and the other consumes their daily caloric requirement. The outcome will be quite different.

If you play sports that last more than about 30 seconds, they can provide you with the adequate amounts of cardio you seek. If you play competitively, adding cardio may be a good idea.

Cardio is for health and endurance, if you want to run marathons or cycle, then yes, you should include more cardio. Otherwise, weightlifting adequately stresses your heart. Go deadlift 300lbs and tell me your heart isn't going nuts.

If you want to get in shape, regular exercise with an emphasis on weight lifting and proper nutrition will get you where you'd like to go.

At rest, muscle burns significantly more calories than fat, you don't need to cake on lean muscle to benefit from this, either. You only exercise for an hour or so, I'd rather work to build something in that hour that burns calories for the other 23.

Now with all that said, I personally try to do both, my cardio comes in the form of Squash on days I do not lift weights. I despise the treadmill zombie.
The real potential for this is funding for non-tech startups. Tech can get funded (right now) but trying to get funding for a corner deli is next-to-impossible.
This is true, I'm really more likely to put my credit card in a website that looks awesome than in one that doesn't. It immediately gives you some sense of trust.

Disclaimer: you should't base your credit card use only on design!
Thanks. My flickr account is http://www.flickr.com/photos/phil-jackson/ but the more recent photos are of my son so you might want to page a couple of times.
Overkill.
My netbook is running Lubuntu 11.10. It was previously running Ubuntu 10.x Netbook Edition and Ubuntu 10.04. They work. (I like Gentoo too, but I don't want to do much compiling on a netbook.)

Most GUI programs aren't designed to use in 1024x600. For example, it's hard to actually read email in Thunderbird because there isn't much room for text after subtracting pixels for window decorations, menu bar, toolbar, header bar, and status bar. I think a netbook would benefit from a tiling window manager, but I haven't got around to installing one yet.
True, mea culpa. I meant to talk about do-release-upgrade. It's been so long I'm a little confused with the terminology :)

Seamless release upgrade is crucial if you want to have a high frequency (6 month) release cycle. Glad to see they made progress with this.
The astounding number of devs asking "who cares?" sums up one of my biggest pet peeves. Would you buy a car that had a modern engine but a chassis and interior from 1983? Maybe if you wanted to save a few bucks - but your friends would still tease you for owning an old clunker.

True, Python is a beautiful language that's stayed modern in the face of the evolving web, and I've come across many Python sites that do look really slick. But if the face of the Python community tends to lean towards the look and feel of 1997 Geocities pages, where are new developers going to flock? If you care about your community you should foster it by showcasing the fact that Python more than keeps pace with the modern web instead of subconsciously suggesting to budding programmers that your language is stuck in the 90's.

Also, PHP community, I'm speaking to you as well. Your PHP homepage, pecl, and pear sites (although easy enough to navigate) are in desperate need of a modern design.