skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a really strange way of looking at things, in my opinion. There are things in life that you just have to trust implicitly. I'm not saying someone else's code falls in that category but just because it is open source and you can supposedly discover any caveats or security risks on your own does not make that task truly reasonable. I'm not in a position where I can read through all of the source code for MySQL, Apache, Passengers, Rails, Ruby, etc in order to make sure that someone hasn't made a mistake. To be honest, I'm not sure that I would recognize an error like this by just reading the code.

What do you do with proprietary/closed source software? What do you do with hardware that is just as capable of poorly implementing security? What about poor decisions that really only become apparent after a security hole is discovered?
Amendment One and Adzerk
I just filled out a referral for a brilliant UX designer that's looking to move into non-profit, but your jobs page is returning server errors upon submit.

I sent the info separately to the email address on your site, but I thought you'd want to know about the server error.
What's the advantage of implementing map/filter as property accessors of a wrapper object instead of just doing:

NSArray* map(id<NSFastEnumeration> enumerable, id(^)(id object) block);

?

Obviously, you'd still want to have a prefix of some sort for namespacing.
I fully agree with that sentiment, and I apologize if my comment was in anyway taking away from the article, I do support it, but I think for my own self as a result, I'll make a more noticeable attempt to upvote those that I like.

I often find I'll read a post, enjoy it, but feel my upvote is not really necessary. In that way, I feel innovation and "putting yourself out there" should be rewarded more by myself anyway.
140kg of uranium was enriched to 20% isotope purity for ostensible use in a medical isotope reactor. That's a civilian purpose.

Weaponized uranium requires 85% isotope purity.
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It's OK to suspend incredulity for entertainment. I enjoy watching Star Trek even if I cringe when I imagine how implausible it is.
The "cold" distinction is that there are no open hostilities. There are hostilities wrapped in plausible deniability, and found through proxy wars (Korea, Vietnam, etc).
I'm not terribly familiar with the Rails feature in question, but it seems to me that GET/POST params should never be interpreted automatically. Parsing a param into any other type than a string should be explicit.
Dud, Flood, & Bud.

Duds are hardware that goes bad, like a disk drive, network adapter, NAS, or server. There are an infinite number of ways and combinations things can break in a moderate sized IT shop. How much money / effort are you willing to spend to make sure your weekend isn't ruined by a failed drive?

Floods are catastrophic events, not limited to acts of God. Your datacenter goes bankrupt and drops offline, not letting you access your servers. Fire sprinklers go off in your server room. Do you have a recent copy of your data somewhere else?

Bud is an accident-prone user. He accidentally deleted some files... the accounting files... three weeks ago. Or he downloaded a virus which has slowly been corrupting files on the fileserver. Or Bud's a sysadmin who ran a script meant for the dev server on the production database. How can we get that data back in place quickly before the yelling and firing begins?

There are more possible scenarios (hackers, thieves, auditors, the FBI), but if you're thinking about Dud, Flood, & Bud, you're in better shape than most people are.
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Tidemark is building a cloud-based business analytics system, which is way more interesting than it might sound.

We've had a particularly difficult time finding good UI developers. Our UI is web-based but we initially focused on the iPad as our primary platform. Now we're generalizing the UI for laptop and desktop use. We're using Sencha Touch for iPad and Ext-4 for the other platforms, and most of our client code is in CoffeeScript. We're really pushing the frameworks beyond what they were intended to do, so we're looking for people who know really know the ins and outs of developing rich UIs with JavaScript/CoffeeScript, the HTML DOM, and CSS.

If this sounds interesting, my email is on my profile page.
I'd divide the front page in four sections: hot, new, ask, show, with 20 posts each.

It's time for a fresh new look.
Annoying UI really . I hate the open close thingies, can't quite see the diff between one and the next inside, the I is either too big or ugly, and the fat grey bar in the bottom is ugly as well, prolly needs some rounding or whatever.

I know pale UI's are all the rage but you might want to consider a bit more color still - not very good at UIs myself it just felt really really grey.
Fair point. I'd be thankful if you could mention a few of them.

Thanks :)
Remember when we had to wait almost a year for a film to be available on VHS? For some strange reason, I clearly remember the first time I was wowed at how fast a movie made it to dvd. It was some movie with Lucy Lue that came out in like October and was on dvd by December.

Found it
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308208/
That's pretty cool. It's been a fantasy of mine to control the mouse cursor with my eyes.
No. Several countries & it's not entirely straightforward telling which.
Everywhere I've ever worked has been perfectly fine with my open source contributions, and never asked for a copyright assignment (to be fair, nor have they offered one: this is the kind of thing DannyBee finds untidy and unsafe). This madness is an affliction of large companies, and in particular their legal departments. And, given the small sample size I have of "large tech companies", Google isn't much better than the norm here.

Basically, demanding copyright assignment in exchange for "simple appropval process" seems like a poor bargain to me. It's not at all unreasonable to expect that employees be allowed to keep their own IP, and to argue otherwise is IMHO dangerous to open source.
Exactly, take the problem / solution, reduce it to 5 words tops and it'll make a standard short intro that people think is cool these days.

From what I can gather it's about a platform to make readable content more accessible, more dynamic, in an attempt to provide a nice reading/learning experience much like wikipedia clicking for half an hour, but on more serious topics and in a friendlier fashion that allows you to easily go back to the article/topic you were reading one thought step before.

That's still too long, but summarizing the idea made it way more appealing to me so it might be a direction.
I pay for public domain works all the time, often because the formatting is better or it's a specific translation I'm interested in.
Although a Billion quid government IT project which was then abandoned 5years later without ever delivering anything would probably be noticed.
This is a great idea and your descriptions and illustrations are hilarious.

A couple things - on the subscription form you might need to provide some details about what countries you can ship to (The "State", "Zipcode", and lack of a "Country" input box implies that it's only for U.S. addresses but it should be explicit).

I was also unclear on whether subscribers would be charged for shipping costs (is it included? or extra? If it's in addition to the $11/mo, can you provide rates?).
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I think you are both right as long as it is a matter of "usually" instead of "always". I am very loose about upvoting a show me post. Still, sometimes the poster should have gone through a round of showing friends and doing improvements before bringing it here. In other words "show me" posts are easy for me to upvote, regular stories need to be really good.
I'm the author of the OP and think you may have (understandably) missed the point. The headline is "Feynman's Clock" and how he thought through the stopped clock is the example of his always logical mind.

But considering I kind of went on at length about what he did immediately after, then I can see your interpretation. But to answer your point, I don't pass judgment or approval of Feynman, just showing how his "distant" persona does not capture the entirety of his emotion and thought.
I rarely use that "log in with Facebook" thing... and I pretty much never use it if I don't know what I'm getting for it.
sometimes the truth hurts people's feelings! If they spend 10 or 20 hours making something and it's total shit, don't tell them! If you tell them it's not good, they might fix it! Make sure you tell everyone everything they make is good, so that they never can never recognize when they're on the wrong track. Surely there can be no drawbacks to engaging in a positive-only, harmonious love-fest, free of criticism and negative sentiment.
There was an article about this recently, rise of weird socks in the Valley, hah found it: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/fashion/in-silicon-valley-...

I think it would be good to put a link to this and similar news items on your home page. Fashion trends are mostly stampedes, many people would buy your socks if they know people from FB and Twitter are wearing them, i.e. it's a new trend.

It has links to your competitors but I think the trend validation is worth it.
Coding style and undoing indentation hell
you can use http://www.myezapp.com/pub/help/hackernews.ws to build custom tools. one example/test case that collects Show HN stories are at http://testblog1-myblog.blogspot.com/

disclaimer: i build the site and appreciate any feedbacks.
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He passes the beer test.
Same here. Having a click-to-enlarge option and serving the same picture is bad design.
Judging from the front page, you've converted a few people haha. I was sad to see my Show HN project fall off the new page after just four votes a few months ago, so I'm sure a lot of people appreciate this.
About 100,000 years ago, the entire subspecies of Homo sapiens sapiens -- all of our ancestors -- consisted of about 2,000 to 5,000 individuals living around the Rift Valley in Kenya. What if they had built museums of their art, culture, and science, parks, gardens, temples, and libraries that had been preserved ever since? What if all of life had also originated there and spread out since then, and the ecosystem there was by far the oldest in existence?

I don't doubt there might be many of our descendants who think or know little of the Earth, but I think there would also be various causes for enduring interest among many.
No shit sherlock.

That's not what he's doing, he's exposing blocks as properties because he couldn't wrap his head around indentation which is the wrong motivation. Maybe read the source before condescending next time.
Perhaps other things worry him and I don't think you should assume they are the ones you mentioned.

Your comment struck me as snarky and unfair and I have downvoted it and upvoted its parent.
Propaganda is, by definition, information sponsored by government. It's when people get brainwashed via taxpayer money. I'm not a government official, contractor, and not affiliated in any way.

I fail to see how can I do any harm to the programming community (and the world at large) just by explaining GPL/LGPL difference, or strong/weak copyleft difference.

Discussion is beneficial for all parties: now you know that static linking of LGPL library into solely distributed binary EXE file is impossible, now I agree that GPL can't expand itself from DLL to EXE if DLL is packaged and installed separately and makes sense on its own (used by other applications), now you know that GPL will expand itself from DLL to EXE if they are in single downloadable/installable package, and now I know that we should bundle our proprietary code in the next product with FreeBSD kernel, not Linux. How open, public discussion can do any harm to anyone?

Yes I'm not FSF/GNU/RMS/copyleft zealot, so what?
Also: make the buttons actual... buttons in the HTML sense; not links.
Halo Vert.x
There isn't really so much functionality added over the grounded work http://syntensity.com/static/espeak.html , is there? (Except some nicer web interface.)
It's a big change, for sure. I'm currently exploring other options for distributing the next version of my ebook software, because there's basically no way to make it sandbox-compliant. Among other things, it needs to call Amazon's Kindlegen tool to convert its "native format" (epub) to Kindle format, and it also allows the users to set their own preferred external HTML editor and image editor. Launching external programs from within the sandbox is disallowed (at least by my interpretation and experiments). You can include multiple binaries in the signed app bundle, but you can't launch third-party tools. Unless things have changed recently, or I overlooked it, there's no entitlement for that.
I doubt that the average android/ios user even attempt that gesture. Is what Im saying.

I feel that doing all of the touch gestures with a mouse is a bit much, especially pull down from top to close.

I still havent seen a better solution to multitasking/app management than webos.
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>>and their development of Nuclear weapons is thus in violation of international law.

What development of nuclear weapons? They have not developed anything.
I tried to grok Kettle, but at some point it seemed easier to just program a solution and this has worked well for what we're doing.

I think if you're doing something simple that you're going to have to repeat a lot, and possibly train others to do, then rolling your own makes sense. If you're dealing with a lot of variance in terms of the format, volume, and schema of the data you're transforming then a generalized ETL tool might make more sense.

We're mostly transforming CSV, to facilitate migrations to our product (Qubit Toolkit: an open source information management used predominantly by archivists and written in PHP), so I've been developing a CSV-specific utility class for our needs with the idea of possibly making it into a generalized CSV transformation tool (where non-programmers can use something like XML or YAML to define transformations):

https://github.com/mcantelon/qubit-csv-transform
> Waiting one week is not a big deal.

It is when the show in question is Game of Thrones, a story which revolves greatly around plot twists which could easily be spoiled if you're forced to wait longer than others to watch it. I already find I have to carefully moderate my online activity on a Monday before I can watch Game of Thrones in the UK, and we only have to wait one day!
It's not that hard. Just contract with TV networks to put various language subtitles on shows ahead of time, and make them available for worldwide purchase/streaming the instant they air. People will pay good money for that, and you're cutting out the cappers and fansubbers. Pirating TV shows is not particularly easy or convenient compared to a nice streaming video service.

The ship has sailed for staggered releases in any sense. Once something is shown to the public, it can be safely assumed that the whole internet has access to it. Might as well try to get some money out of it.
I started Hacker Newsletter (http://hackernewsletter.com) about two years ago for a similar reason. I wanted to highlight "Show HN" posts more and collect them each week. I still do that, but found that I have to be more picky these days as there are more projects than ever and a lot of them seem half-baked.

I would also add, don't be too harsh when criticizing someone's new project. It seems to happen way too often. Bringing up problems is great, but do it in a way that will help the creator.
Hard-copies endure. Digital, not so much. Checkout Jordan Mechner's recent archaeological expedition to retrieve some source code of his from 25 years ago (Prince of Persia). It was nearly lost, and that is only 25 years!

The digital world is ephemeral.
A more recent blog post wouldn't hurt. I bought. Make an affiliate program!!
I disagree with most of this post and here's why: this site needs to connect with the type of people that are looking for socks of the month. I'd assume those people are more the whimsical type and that's exactly what this front page is.

Still, I would agree that something cooler should happen when you click on a particular sock -- maybe a funny video?

Keep it up, it looks great!
This is basically a reskin of Facebook. "Log in with Facebook" is actually necessary for this app to do anything.
But remember that War and Peace was not originally written in English, and the quality of translation matters a great deal. With Russian literature especially, the quality of translation varies widely, and some of the best translations into English are still copyrighted. A bad translation might faithfully reproduce the text's literal meaning but badly mangle the literary elegance that made the book so acclaimed in the first place. I'd rather pay $14 for a good translation than spend 1100 pages regretting being cheap.
Also, mentioning this works only in the US would be a good thing too. While people can deduce it from that the adress contains State and not Country, it would be better to spell it explicitly so we don't get our hopes up needlessly.
I read a pretty interesting article, in Delta's Sky mag of all places, about GrooveShark and similar services. Companies that are successfully flourishing in spite of piracy seem to have a common thread among them; they view piracy as the competition.

They ask the 'right' questions such as "what is it that sucks about piracy", and "how do we make our service fill that hole?" Similarly, the question Valve asked (and answered brilliantly) was "how do we make our service more convenient than piracy?"

I found it to be an interesting contrast to these old media behemoths that view piracy as something wholly different than user experience/convenience. The customers want fast access to content. Piracy is currently the only way to achieve that with a lot of the media owned by these aging corporations.
It's impossible to get the content to Australia so quickly, which is why the fans are already getting the content to Australia so quickly. Got it.
Advice to a CS Grad: Ego vs. Pride in Programming
I suggests everyone read these whitepapers on dashboard design.

http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/Whitepapers/Dashboard...
http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/Whitepapers/Common_Pi...

The author also has written a great book on dashboard design.

Operations dashboards are essential for any (tech?) company.

Business dashboards are another beast all together.
38 Studios' Downfall: The Gamasutra Report
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He mentioned that people generally can't be in there longer than 45 minutes. I would love to test that theory. Give me a desk, a laptop, and let me get to work.

The most interesting thing would be whether or not my tinnitus is going to drive me insane or not :P
Blog links are broken in the footer.
I have to wait to watch it too. I just avoid TV websites and have never been spoiled. It's a legitimate concern though and it sucks when it happens.
Hands on with Windows 8 Release Preview
i have to agree with all the other comments about buy now buttons (get them out of that image. Add some down by the text, make them FREAKING OBVIOUS ) and making pricing more obvious.

Personally I like my socks to be white and come in bags with other socks, which probably explains why I think spending $11 a month for a single pair of socks is insane, but I'm obviously not the target market.
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Our multimedia analytics team is looking for an all-around good hacker, good with C and C++. Knowledge of OpenCV, machine learning, and computer vision is a plus but is not necessary. The responsibilities range from designing and implementing prototypes on Linux to quickly throwing together a web server and a Android client for a demo.

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New Garbage Collector
Great idea... bookmarked! Great how you include the # votes and comments on each one.
This should be part of the front page or I'll soon forget about it.
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Good job there are no Windows machines used for any critical infrastructure in our country then.
Yeah, but you have to consider they'd also say this even if a double-agent was used.
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I love the artwork :)

A way to sign up to get informed by e-mail when shipment outside the US becomes available would be awesome.