skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you please explain why you define your .gif image as "not a tree"? You have hierarchically nested directories (folders) with a clear indication of which parent a nested group is connected with, which to me exactly fits my definition of a "tree" (hierarchically nested elements, each element having a single parent node).

Also, could you post a link to an image showing what you define as a "proper tree view"?
It's disheartening to see the intense division on this subject on Hacker News. It leads me to believe the issue gridlock will continue, and the only plausible solution (legalization) will continue to be a fantasy. And as a consequence millions will continue to be jailed, tens of thousands will continue to die and the cartels will continue to grow stronger.

Small prediction: the US Government won't legalize drug use and production until the cartels are so powerful the Feds can no longer even partially contain the drug trade. Within a decade the cartels will be powerful enough to directly threaten the US President. I think that'll just about do the trick.
Well, I use "evil" as Bible describes it; that is all sins are equal, so is all evil-doing.
l = [1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34] <--- this is the list of fibonacci numbers. The probability of a user being on the track of once every l[7] is higher than the probability of the user being on track for once every l[0].

Users change tracks on a monthly basis. So if you're on a once every 21 day email cycle for June, you might be on a once every 8 day email cycle for July, although the probability is high that you will stay on the once every 21 day cycle
Or more interesting. I have a small number of friends and an even smaller number that I allow to see updates from. And even then, I rarely do more than scroll to wherever I left off last time or lose interest before I even get there.

I have the same reaction as you do most days. Oh well, sure glad I checked that! (not). Google+ is actually the opposite. There is such a tech focus from the people I follow that there are demo videos, technical papers, etc that I want to read but don't. Certainly not this, I'm happy because other people are, nonsense.
Not to mention cancelling the Courier research, for what looked like a very interesting device.
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A salt may not have been enough to protect the passwords : if it is not complex enough, the presence of common passwords like "password" or "123456" make a brute-force attack on the salt itself possible in some case. I have performed a benchmark on that point in particular, and was able to retrieve a salt in five days, without strong optimization. A bit long to give all the numbers and code here, so the ref is http://gouigoux.com/blog/?p=46
This really is a great phrase. Obviously the same phenomenon occurred with the term Web 2.0.
There has to be a better strategy. When I was a teen I would put the wrong age in sites so I could see content that I otherwise wouldn't be able to. That is what teens will do now. The CEO needs to come up with alternatives or they have not solved the problem. And may lead to accidental statutory rapes which would obviously not be good either.
WordPress: PHP-Nuke for the new generation.
What about the first time the user connects, how would they be assured that the fingerprint really is the site's and not a man in the middle?

Honest question, myself being pretty new to cryptography.
with postal tracking nowadays, even snail mail is making me a feedback junkie. I mean, who hasn't been repeatedly pressing F5 on a mail tracking page?
Never play an ace when a two will do.
Stop taking your users’ love for granted.
My gut feeling tells me there's a 10x difference in productivity in almost any field of work.
Because vesting periods are usually four years and he joined Facebook three years ago, he's giving up at most 1/4 of his stock related compensation. Because Taylor joined Facebook through an acquisition, it's possible that his vesting is shorter than four years.

He probably has restricted stock units and common stock with a buyback provision. As far as I know, Facebook stopped granting options before Taylor joined Facebook.
I'm shocked that this isn't a parody; considering your service, choice of color, and even your URL are already a blatant ripoff of Dropbox.

Shameless indeed...
As a programmer that suffers from RSI-related wrist issues at only 26, all I can think of when I see all of these workspaces is "how on earth are all of these people still able to move their hands?" Most, if not all of them look like they're trying to stick it to ergonomics.

I'm secretly just jealous, of course.
Next most profitable thing is prostitution. IMHO, we should let strangers ^k your girl for free to drop street prices.
Japanese proverb: "With the fall of one leaf we know that autumn has come to the world."

Interpretation: More departures coming soon.
How about all the stress that comes from dealing with the stock market on a periodic basis?
Agreed, while he generally posts with the best of intentions, I can see him easily incriminating himself unintentionally with a haphazard response.

The charity idea was brilliant though.
I think this is slightly different from the article you link.

Here in the UK in my business account I have to login with my password and then get a token from a small gadget that authenticates my debit card (I enter the pin and it gives me a unique code that I enter in the banks' web page).

Then, when I am in, if I want to do a transfer money to another account I need to use that gadget in a different way and enter a few more details after authenticating again and at the end it gives me yet another unique number to conclude the transaction(s).

The article you link to applies to online and offline payments (not transfers) using a POS when paying with a chip and pin card. Although I guess that the same principle might apply to money transfer this has not been demonstrated yet. It certainly is better than the previous version where all yo had to do was reenter your password. It is a bit annoying though.
In theory, you could do an out-of-band comparison.

In practice, you'd generally accept that the first one you receive is valid, and then watch for deviations from there.

This is the way SSH works, for instance.
Exactly. In the US.
This is the kind of news I am interested in.
There's open source and there's Open Source. It's always been a fuzzy term, hence the move towards Free Software.

In the strictest, most literal sense, yes, the source is publicly available and readable by default.
Surprising JavaScript rendering benchmark
When you look at open and portable software for personal sites, as people in the Indie Web community do, WordPress is an obvious frontrunner. Facebook and WordPress started in very different places, but because they've expanded to provide a lot of tools for establishing an online presence, there is certainly some overlap. For instance, some businesses use their Facebook page as a blog.

By the way if you like running your own site and can make it to Portland at the end of the month, consider going to http://indiewebcamp.com/
I have a HP ZR24w that I've been super-happy with. I had some trouble with the stand and HP overnighted me a new one for free.

I recall it getting good reviews on AnandTech although I can't seem to find the link now.
“A catapult,” he repeated. “We’ve got the best fence money can buy, and they counter us with a 2,500-year-old technology.”
Ryan,

Nice design. Just signed up for beta invite. Do you mind sharing your tech stack used for front-end and backend?
I see the Jetpack plugin as a way for Automattic to get their tendrils into your self hosted blog.

Installing the plugin integrates your blog in such a way that if you remove the plugin or otherwise detach your blog from wordpress.com a large portion of your data, such as all of your comments, is gone.
It's very easy to find if a monitor can rotate: It will say "pivot" in its features. No-one adds such a functionality and fails to mention it to potential customers.

You might also notice, I have recommended not buying a TN a monitor, but suggested IPS or PVA.
You need to actively fight against unethical behavior if you want to help prevent it from becoming the norm, and that's everyone's responsibility.
I don't see how this is different from saying "The World Wide Web is the open source rival to Facebook".

It's true. There isn't anything about Facebook you can't do with your own website. Facebook just centralizes it and makes it easier on the digitally challenged. It's the Geocities of the 21st century. And it too shall eventually crumble, while the Web continues on.

Make it easy to host, set up, administer and link websites and you will have defeated Facebook. Unfortunately, that's easier said than done. People have been trying for 20 years.
The pendulum does always swing away from a walled garden. The author makes a compelling case for Wordpress as a distributed and open potential social platform.

Love to hear what Matt thinks about it.
Apple charges $199 (54% more) for battery replacement on Retina MacBook Pro
I really hope they don't remove this. This is the only reason I pay them instead of Google Drive.
Breivik trial: Sitting alone and playing games not normal
It doesn't really work quite as you suggest; it's just that

a &! b == a & !b

where !b is true if b is nil or false, and false otherwise.

& works as a bitwise AND for numbers, and a logical AND for boolean values. You can't mix the two, but as long as a is a boolean, you'll get some kind of result out of the calculation:

true &! true # => false
true &! false # => true
true &! 0 # => false
0 &! 0 # => TypeError: can't convert false into Integer
Thanks - I'd rather not go into details about the backend stack publicly given the nature of the app -- requires intense paranoia about security, but hit me up on Twitter. @Budgetable
America has more drug driven crime than anywhere else on earth, by far. The source of the destruction (crime + violence) of our inner cities is purely drug based. Before the drug revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, our inner cities were livable.

A quick examination of the FBI's data on African-American crime proves that out. We put four million black men in prison every decade due to drug related criminal activity, and have nearly two million black men in prison at any given time. The lifestyle of said criminals is always tied to illegal drugs (there's no other profit source powerful enough to drive that kind of crime wave).
Anatomy of an E3 Press Conference
Not if he negotiated properly coming in, which I suspect he did given this quote: “I had always been upfront with Mark that I eventually wanted to do another start-up.” If he was upfront, then that means before he came on board. He probably negotiated a condition that if he stayed through the IPO that xyz would happen (vesting, whatever else). He carried out his end of the deal, therefore xyz happend. Everybody wins (except those who bought FB on the IPO (or on one of its first 12 days as a public company).
"Is Betteridge's Law of Headlines generally correct?"
Who is in a position to follow Amazon's lead? The list of hardware manufacturer's is pretty short: Sony. Given the existence of a Games Hub focused on Xbox Live, even that seems somewhat problematic.

The second thing I see is that the idea of a media consumption device is somewhat antithetical to Microsoft's culture of treating computing devices as computing devices. Going to the roots of the Courier concept, it was about productivity not entertainment and Microsoft traditionally pushed productivity applications down onto mobile devices as a matter of course - I wouldn't be surprised to see Office on any tablet they provide.

Finally, one of the Metro red threads is that devices are occasionally connected, not permanently connected to the cloud like Chromium.
Targeting Windows XP with C++ in Visual Studio 2012
I use it in the same way too.
I believe Bret entered facebook via the acquisition of FriendFeed and any millions hes making out of Facebook likely came via that and any golden parachute he had (which I'm sure he hit considering he's been there 3 years)

Also a lot of C level execs work on different vesting schedule and get allocated shares as bonuses. The whole point being this question is largely moot on a lot of levels any stock left on the table is probably a very small portion of what he was bound to make on the IPO via a standard option vesting.
CBS to adapt Zynga game 'Draw Something' for TV
They'll become illegal when Obama wills it. SOPA/PIPA/CISPA don't matter now that Congress is irrelevant.
Its called pictionary and they've done that already
I have an HP zr2740w (27", 2560x1440), just under $700. Nice screen, but it's pretty bare-bones. No HDMI or analog inputs (just displayport and DVI-D); no OSD (seriously - none!) and a pretty cheap stand. Overall, the extras in the Dell are probably worth the additional cost.

If you want really cheap, LG has some 23" (1920x1080) IPS panels for right around $200.
I cannot access the forum. It seems he has blocked the forum. This really puts me off. I find C-scripts really cool and the performance are really fast. I do not think there is a better server to run C-based web sites
Most whiteboards are just the stuff you get from Home Depot (called melanine) with a frame, unless you get the super expensive ones that are made of metal or glass. I've used a 4'x8' one from Home Depot for years and it only cost me $12. Works awesome, haven't had any issues or ghosting
Life vs. Startup Life
Shameless plug for my new Mac App:

EdgeCase: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/edgecase/id513826860?mt=12

The app inserts cursor-bounding hard edges between your shared screen edges. Cross only when you want to via several shortcuts.

I made it because multiple monitors make OS X hotcorners impossible for me to hit. (Fitts' Law, infinite width, etc.)

Workspace / multiple-monitor junkies in this topic: sound useful? Have any other multiple-monitor nits I could fix?
In Peopleware, they also observed that some programmers did not themselves appear to produce much, but their presence on a team made others more productive. They were not managers, they were not leads, they just helped the team work better together, in some fashion, "managing" out or across rather than up or down.

I will jump the shark and speculate that these gel-members tend to be female more often than male, and the gelling-like effect comes from how their presence and patterns of behavior influence the group dynamic. I will further speculate that the dearth of women in development incurs a hidden cost to productivity, since statistically, fewer teams will have women, and consequently, the incidence of gel-members will be lower, and teams more fragmented.

I think there is a business opportunity here somewhere, or maybe it has already been realized in places, but the players have not been eager to trumpet their results.
Hmm, you do have a point. It seems that Malaysian and Indian law are what we need to know here, since that's where the two parties are based.
Yes, they will.

http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/communit...

From:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/03/21/scaling-to-dif...
If you host an html file with a relative img tag in the public folder it will just work. If you do it with the get link method, you'd have to get a link for each resource. Public folder is really helpful for hosting sites that are in development that you want to share with your clients.
The Secret of a Successful Programming Language? A Really Great Beard
That is why a good programmer needs to be around good business people

Partnering with a business person for my next venture is something I'd like to try, but it's not exactly clear where you find a good business person who wants to partner up. The business people I am in contact with are already busy with their own things.

Unlike a programer who might be presently doing the 9-5 corporate job, it seems like a good business person will always be busy doing their own businesses, as that is what business people do.

I have been mulling over something in particular as of late, but I presently don't have much interest in building it if I'm also going to be responsible for selling it. A partner seems like it would be a good fit.
That hasn't stopped anyone before.
Arduino based satellite on Kickstarter with spectrometer 
The project appears to be setup by employees of "NASA Ames Research Center working on alternative methods of public outreach for space science" which sounds pretty authentic.

Discover magazine is putting up a $1500 prize to the best application designed to run on this project.

Finally this project also announces a company producing an arduino spectrometer shield, which may be more exciting than the satellite.
Re. your first paragraph, here is a counter-example: go to another town where they don't know you, purely to obtain your coke; problem solved.

Besides, haven't you heard the saying: "Always know your dealer"?
Huh, that's odd. I live in Sunnyvale and have had very little trouble with Comcast connectivity for most of the last several years. There was one period of time when I was seeing frequent (> daily) connection loss, but that was cured by a cable modem upgrade.
This is a limitation of the device, not the format.

No it's not. The kindle works fine for programming books, I'm currently reading Bjarne's "The C++ Programing Language" on my kindle, on PDF actually. The book itself lies on my bookshelf but why would I bother to open it?

The PDF isn't tailored for the kindle but it has wide enough margins so that when you crop it it works quite well on the kindle. The kindle is not the limitation nor the problem.

The problem is rather the crippled format that you get in a fullsize PDF. What exactly are you going to read it on? Print it out? (seriously?). On your monitor? Not really... On your tablet? You're joking right, reading a book on a glossy LCD?

Having a book as a PDF is quite useless for other than using it as a reference.

Now I don't know about any potential issues with epub/mobi, and honestly I couldn't care less in this case. The site mentioned (and still does) that an ePub will be available and if so I kind of expected an ePub version of it, in my eyes that was an incentive to take the course.

If that isn't going to happen an ~A5 PDF will work great too, since there actually exist devices that you can read it on comfortably.

And I kind of have a hard time to see why the book, as it is portrayed in the HTML-version wouldn't be able to work as an epub - but OK, if that's the case (or if epub truly is just a mess) that's surely not the case for a portable-device-friendly-PDF.

Also, it really cracks me up to see someone talk about broken formats and in the same post make an argument for PDF.
Hey Bret, fix the Friendfeed password recovery!
It absolutely IS a crappy deal, but it's the only deal you're going to get unless you're willing to consider an alternative product.

You can always stick the cheap ram in your clunky Dell laptop.
Having worked there - yes the culture of keeping confidentiality was incredibly strong. We shared learnings but not details, and everything shared would be disguised.
Even today, 11 years later, you won't catch me saying former client names.
Who Made That Soy-Sauce Dispenser?
I think people on HN tend to forget that most people dont care about the technical requirements etc. The reason people use facebook because its usage is clear and defined for what its build.

You go on Facebook to check in with your friends, see photos, chat/message. You just dont do it with a blog.

It's like saying you could use paper towels as toilet paper. There is probably some overlap in functionality, but people clearly associate types of products with their specific use case
Maintaining flow
Pure Python Operation System
Python OS Project (POP) created with idea to make a pure python OS. POP based on linux kernel (currently 2.6.32) and GNU userland utilities.
»"The pendulum does always swing away from a walled garden"

I sympathise with the sentiment expressed but must point out that there is no market force that prefers un-established open products to established walled gardens save for a fraction of hackers' tastes and preferences. Most people don't care, for rationally self-interested reasons, whether the product they use is open or closed as much as whether it works or not.
Q: How long until VPNs become illegal?

A: No.

Doesn't really fit.
Really, then don't buy it and opt for a machine you can upgrade. I agree, having the freedom to upgrade is nice, if you feel you'll need to. And doing it on your own, and saving money is nice. From a warranty and support perspective - not letting people tinker with it makes it a LOT easier.
I always assumed that this was a tactic to get around spam filters.
Sad but true. TV producers are the best at recycling.
But there is an old greek proverb (Aristotle actually) that says "One swallow does not a summer make".

What am I to make of this? I don't know who to trust anymore.
It's a great punishment. Fines don't hurt the rich. They can afford to pay. Taking away their dignity, now that creates real deterrence.
Sad but true.

State retention/replication is among the biggest hassles of my multiple computing environments.

OTOH, it's also a pretty persuasive argument to leave work at work at the end of the day.
Not too much surprise there... but what is overall the most surprising is in fact that Netflix is still supporting an external API.
The Netflix Developer forum API has been overall totally abandoned by Netflix development team. I can not recall any recent answers from Netflix there and most posts in the forums are SPAM.

So it's surprising to see Netflix still talking about public external API.
No, I am not referring to chip-and-pin, but to two-factor authentication when doing online banking. Chip-and-pin has nothing to do with two-factor authentication and is solely for when the user is present. Two-factor authentication is primarily used when the user is not physically present.

For example, my UK bank makes an automated call to me whenever I am sending money to a new recipient, where I have to confirm that yes, I want to send money to that person or institution.

To send money from my German bank account, I use a special external device (TAN generator) where I sign off on the details of the transaction itself.
I read it more as Wordpress does Diaspora better than Diaspora than it as a serious competitor (without the open qualifier) to Facebook.
For many models, the Apple supported number and the real number is different. Usually it happens when the machine supports an odd amount of RAM (like 3GB or 6GB) that would require some wasted RAM if you wanted exact pairing.

With the MBPs sold in 2008, all of them support 6GB even though Apple claims only 4GB. Go ahead and try it. If it doesn't work I'll pay for your RAM upgrade.
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The irony that HM is simply repurposing of HN content is not lost on many.
The main open source alternative to Facebook is Friendica. It has more features than Diaspora, encrypted communications, emphasis upon decentralization and you can install it easily on a LAMP stack. You don't have to settle for being data mined and sold by Mr Zuckerberg, or owned by the Communications Data Act.
This is great. CPU is higher than native, but not too bad (especially considering it's an initial release).

I was getting 10% each on Chrome and a Chrome Renderer process. I paused to switch over to Cog to check its CPU usage, then switched back and it was hovering around 6%. For comparison, Cog spiked to 15% for a second then settled in at around 1%.

I'm on a 2010 Core 2 Duo MacBook Air.
Employers disarm their employees right to complain by providing them services for free? What an awful situation.