skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Youtube has had many issues lately that should affect its popularity, from legitimate content disappearing because of some (non-)copyright holders having tools to "delete first, ask later", to issues with Google harrassing users to do things of no benefit to them. I am also getting "this video is currently not available" messages frequently because I don't have a browser with H.264 (which Google was supposed to drop in favour of free alternatives? Go convert uploaded video then...). Youtube has reached a dangerous annoyance level, seems like a good time for competitors to grow.
Structure: Add some basic structure to your client-side JavaScript
As someone who grew up in a country where "communism" isn't a swear word, I had to laugh when I hovered over the link and saw the full URL for the article in my status bar.

Definitely not clicking it.
Rational gun laws will be fought tooth and nail by the NRA, in an election year that will be a non-starter.

Instead they'll find some way to circumscribe the rights of non gun-owners, that will be ineffective, but will play well in Republican states.
Given It Up
Ownership is -- remains -- a social contract. Push it too far, and society will break the contract. Put simply, you'll no longer be seen to be acting in society's interest, which is about where your ownership -- absent the ability to muster brute force -- ends.
Pairing and Joy of working at ThoughtWorks
Netflix names former Warner exec its permanent CMO
Show HN: HTML5 Canvas diagramming, a quiet beta release of our library, GoJS
I'm actually totally unimpressed by that picture. To me the word and even the logo are known. You probably can't get around on the internet without ever seeing it. Yes, I know what porn is and yes, I know it exists on the internet. And yes, we do agree that work is absolutely not a place to actually watch porn if you have a shred of decency left.
However, seeing this screenshot on a screen of a coworker would not trigger the "oh, he's watching porn" reflex for me [1]. That seems to be different for a lot of people which kinda makes me curious of "why is that so and what's the trigger." So I gather from your response that it's mainly the logo since it's well recognizable (a good brand logo :)

[1] For me the "it's interesting and educating" trumps "there's naked women in suggestive poses" any time.
I really doubt it'll do much.

It will stop perhaps the very worst 5%

But the comments are so awful that skimming 5% is nothing.

Adam Buxton (who used to work with Joe Cornish) has a show about music videos in which he mocks youtube comments. It's pretty good.
This thread has gotten me thinking about how PG might approach security. The existence of https on the site is a starting point.

It allows anyone who is serious about a secure channel to create one while not advertising the fact that some people might find security necessary on a "news" site. Yes, it's security by obscurity, which of course shouldn't be used as the primary method but it probably reduces the attractive nuisance.

But if PG was going to code something up, he wouldn't advertise the fact, nor his approach. It would instead be along the lines of "Lisp as a secret weapon."

And it certainly wouldn't be something based on "industry best practices."
The Story of Steve Jobs: An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale?
The US already has plenty of manufacturing, we make more stuff in the US right now than we ever have in the past. The thing is that we just use robots instead of people to do most of it - and 3D printing will only tend to continue this trend.
This reminds me of the time where Blizzard wanted to do something similar for their forums as people would troll often. From what I remember, there was a huge backlash. They seem to be trying to take a safer approach by suggesting you do it versus forcing you. I wonder if they had that incident in the back of their mind when taking this approach.

For those interested:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/101916-Blizzard-Fo...
Curious which age group you'd assign to which category.

Personally, I was in the "this job is awesome" camp before I turned 30, as well as before I turned 40, and still am.
That puts the onus on the user to immediately log in after receiving the temporary password. Until they do (which could be months later), they have their password to the site stored in email. The DoS issue that was mentioned in the next paragraph is also a pretty good reason to use a reset link instead.
Quite possibly the worst comparison I've ever seen. You're taking a country that not only has an incredibly low crime rate (they had 5 homicides in the entire country in 2009) and only has a population around 5 million. By comparison, Chicago has close to 3 million people just in the city.

To try and compare our reaction to terrorism and how the Norwegians reacted to their recent mass killing is completely absurd.
Obat Tradisional Stroke
Obat tradisional stroke=>> Penyakit stroke sudah umum terjadi di masyarakat, bahkan hampir di setiap keluarga selalu saja ada salah satu anggota keluarga yang terkena Stroke. Stroke bukan lagi sekedar penyakit orang tua, orang yang masih mudapun sekarang sudah banyak yang terserang penyakit ini. Meski memang penyakit ini didominasi orang tua, tetapi sudah ada beberapa fakta yang menunjukkan bahwa banyak orang mati muda karena terserang stroke. Tapi tenang, kini telah hadir obat tradisional stroke yang cepat, tepat, aman, dan tanpa menimbulkan efek samping untuk menyembuhkan stroke yaitu obat tradisional Ace Maxs.

Obat Ace Maxs adalah satu-satunya obat Tradisional stroke yang paling mujarab dan sangat berkhasiat. Sudah banyak testimoni yang membuktikan bahwa Ace Maxs cepat sekali dalam mengobati penyakit stroke, baik kategori stroke ringan maupun stroke berat. ACE MAXS adalah obat tradisional yang terbuat dari perpaduan kulit manggis dan daun sirsak. Kandungan kulit manggis dan daun sirsak sebagai bahan utama Ace Maxs memiliki khasiat masing-masing yang luar biasa. Kulit mangggis kaya akan antioksidan, antikanker, antiaging dan antibakteri, sedangkan daun sirsak memiliki khasiat 10.000 kali lebih baik di bandingkan dengan kemoterapi. Karena Daun sirsak mampu menghancurkan semua sel-sel jahat yang ada pada tubuh kita tanpa mengganggu atau sel-sel baik lainnya. Bekerja melancarkan peredaran darah dan mengelastiskan pembuluh darah di arteri. Melancarkan peredaran darah yang tersumbat dan pada akhirnya menyembuhkan penyakit stroke. Sungguh obat Tradisional yang brilliant.
Untuk cara pemesanan anda dapat memesannya kepada kami melalui sms dengan format :

OM: Jumlah Pesanan : Nama : Alamat Pengiriman: No. Hp / Telepon
kirim ke 085.221.330.085

Contoh Pemesanan:
OM: 2 botol : Susi : Jl. Pataruman No 41 Rt/Rw 07/07 kec. Tawang Kel. Empangsari, Tasikmalaya Jawa Barat: 085.221.330.085
This game was widely attacked for being paid yet almost requiring the user to pay for in-game items, after they had paid. Personally, I think this is just a publicity stunt. Most games like this are free but supported by in-app purchases.
works in bash too, enable it with shopt -s globstar.
Hint: they didn't attack a random [oil-rich] country, nor did they subject their citizen to naked or carcinogenic scanners, which at the time didn't seem like a patriotic thing to do by American standards.
SSL is an "industry best practice."

Therefore, I doubt that PG would rely on it as a primary means of preventing mischief on HN.
I seem to remember hearing some argument about why it is hard to bring manufacturing back to the US, and it had to do with the supply chain in China being vastly shorter. I'm not sure how robotics would address that. Thoughts?
It's good to know that you, single-handedly, have decided that no crime was committed based on an incomplete knowledge of all of the facts of the case.

There is a reason we have criminal trials: it is to allow for the exposition of all of the facts of the case, not just the ones selectively released by the prosecution or defense.

And, based on my reading of the facts currently available, it sounds like Assange may have been guilty of rape by fraud, if he misled either of the women about why he was not using protection.

As to your final, comment: even a cursory glance at the news will suggest how ridiculously untrue it is. Laws, even those that have been on the books without issue for decades, are regularly challenged by defendants in the U.S. The trial court then holds a hearing on the law itself. Only after the challenge to the law has been resolved does the case proceed to trial on the substantive issues.
Hm, this sounds like a really bad idea. I've worked the Facebook and Twitter APIs. They aren't that difficult to integrate, and there's definitely no need to roll your own (just look for 'SDKs' or 'language bindings' on their websites.)

So you'll set a limitation on who can use your software based on a perceived limitation that doesn't actually exist. I'd think twice before committing to that.
WSJ mangles history to argue government didn't launch the Internet
Democratizing the Cloud - Here Comes Native OpenStack Support for Juju
If anyone can quickly point me at the CM9 kernel source, I can verify whether or not this is actually patched.

The vulnerability is looking checking to see if the mem_write() function is functional (where the vulnerability was present), which was removed/disabled by upstream AOSP.
And when the next crazy guy brings in gallons of gas and lights people on fire?

Edit: I don't particularly like guns, but non-representative, singular incidents to change policy seems like a very poor way to start debates or come to proper conclusions.
Do you kindly mind only leaking the information on Friday?

Thanks from all us who spend our weekdays living in hotels.
I have yet to find anything that works as well in the areas I prefer Sparrow for—namely, ease of rapidly labeling and archiving messages. I use a number of labels for just about every message, to organize messages from/regarding each particular client, etc., or all my order receipts, or web service registration notifications. As such, Sparrow's contextual menu-based labeling made this really easy, and the ability to Archive and Label is something I haven't seen any other desktop client do, which is really unfortunate, because it saves a lot of time when going through a long list of email. Additionally, it's one of the few desktop clients which separates the concepts of archiving and deleting (going through Mail.app, it's very annoying to do actual deleting, and you have to delete it multiple times to get a message really gone).

Postbox is the closest I've found, but it doesn't get all the above correct in the way I prefer, and which Sparrow implemented well. I've bought a license for it regardless, in the hope that I can perhaps get used to it when Sparrow ends up dying down the road, but… I'd prefer a few refinements to the labeling and archiving process.
Mom Hacks Into School Computer, Changes Her Kids' Grades
I surf using Chrome for the latest and most secure Flash. I like being up to date and secure. On YouTube Flash crashes in about 50% of trying to load the videos. Really annoying. And even more annoying is that if I disable Flash altogether there are quite a few videos on YouTube that can't be played.

I'm beginning to see the bundling of Flash as a negative thing, it only prolongs the life of that hell-hole called Flash.
Thanks a lot! Fixed it right away :)
This is not an attempt to argue with your feature list. Bash clearly doesn't do some of those. But I just noticed the for one-liners you mentioned. I do that in bash alot actually. This is just fyi for anyone reading, not trying to argue with your feature list.

for f in *.py; do wc -l $f; done

also, you can do something like

for f in `find project_name`; do wc -l $f; done t work on the output of another command.

Cheers!
From what I understand, the hackathon itself was advertised from the start as "50 men/50 women". When 50 men signed up, they stopped accepting male applicants.

So they did find 50 women that wanted to attend a hackathon, but they did it by leaving the door open for women to attend when otherwise the entire hackathon would have filled up with men. Not mentioning that approach in their blog post seems ... disingenuous.
Seems to me like they are doing something right.
Have you considered contacting the blog owner, rather than posting here?
If you ask me, the legendary reputation of trolling on Youtube comments is largely a relic of the past - you still have trolls, to some extent, but nowadays most videos' comments are closer to the trolls' comments on more mainstream subreddits, whereas before they seemed more like the fringes of 4chan.

I don't like this change. If you look at the top two comments on most videos (the two highest-rated comments), they tend to be funny at best, and lame-but-harmless jokes at worst. Not the crown jewel of the Internet by any means, but they've developed a culture of their own, and I dislike the idea of disrupting that with seemingly no reason (other than to create a "unified" identity).
Next generation iPhone to feature 19 pin dock connector:Reuters
Random question: His former employer [..], sold the intellectual property behind Brocious’s hack to the locksmith training company the Locksmith Institute (LSI) for $20,000 last year.

Are these guys "buying up" security flaws in locks similar to others who sell these kinds of things for software?
Gzip will take care of the duplication bloat issue.

In general, this is a process best curated manually, with a maximum on converted file sizes and hand-picking images that are "must-haves" for the initial page load.
That's not how interpol notices ("red notices") work. They are simply notices used for requesting the arrest of criminal suspects by members of Interpol.

Syria is not a member of Interpol, nor is he currently detained by any member of Interpol. The same was true of Gaddafi. Consequently, no Red Notice would be issued for either of them.

Note also that Julian Assange's crime is not just sexual assault. His crime also consists of attempting to flee to avoid arrest. Flight will trigger an interpol notice regardless of the underlying crime.
Regardless of which hotel you're in and what locks they use, always use the physical security mechanisms provides, e.g. door chains. Deadbolts are engaged by the lock mechanism and will be retracted by, say, maintenance key cards.

While this definitely opens up new bad things, the message is the same: don't trust the software, trust the physical. Then again, after doing this for a few years, I may be a bit on the paranoid side.
I don't understand your argument for solar panels being unsustainable and not green enough. I'd like an explanation for that ...

Last I heard is that solar panel price is quickly approaching raw materials costs and thus it will ultimately be cheaper than coal in most regions of the planet. And doesn't the price reflect what resources are being used in manufacturing the product? If it's cheaper to make and results in equal power output, isn't it a better solution then?
How about this:

if database.contains(email) or md5sum(secretSalt + email).startsWith('4'):
print "An email has been sent to this address with further instructions"
else:
print "Sorry, this address does not exist in our database"

Now one in 16 (pseudo-randomly selected) emails will appear to be in the database, whether or not it is really there.

The attacker will still see the "confirmation" when they enter the victim's email address, but they cannot know if it was really in the database or if it was one of those random false positives.
a. It was domestic terrorism. Compare it to American reaction to domestic terrorism before 9/11 and we may start to have some actual merit in the comparison. There was no "War on terror" on the same scale after the Oklahoma City bombing (1995).

b. There's a very different social reaction to domestic terrorism ("there's something rotten in us, we can fix this from the inside") and terrorism from the outside ("we're being attacked, we need to protect ourselves from those people"). Sure, even in domestic terrorism there's a social mindset of differentiation (i.e. "us v.s. them perpetrators") but not to the same extent.

c. One year strikes me as too soon to assess anything and to pat on anyone's back.

d. One could argue the US can't afford what Norway can afford, whether it's because of size, number of enemies, etc. Yes, one could counter-argue those same American policies perpetuate some of these reasons (i.e. number of enemies), but please keep it mind when doing such a comparison.
Unless the desire to communicate with other intelligences is a uniquely human/mammalian trait.
Don't know what they're doing, quite honestly. Though I should mention that they didn't buy it from us, they got a non-exclusive license to use the technology. Just wanted to clarify.
> I suspect that a 36 hour week is a better rule. :-)

According to a lot of sources, including Tom DeMarco's PeopleWare, 35 hours a week is the only sustainable pace for intellectual work. Plus or minus a few hours, maybe.

But that was about stable companies. I'm not sure that startups are trying to be sustainable.

Arguably a startup is really exploring a space of possibilities, searching for a profitable niche. So probably delivering crappy code that delivers three features is better than producing one solid thing. I've been on the cleanup crew for a couple of acquired startups, as well as products that were developed in 20% time at large corporations and grew into larger teams. My impression is that code quality barely mattered to their initial success. So I'm not sure what the optimum workload in a YC-style startup should be.

Also, we have to modify DeMarco et al's advice for a team composed of two or three twentysomethings. It seems likely that their stamina is going to be well above average and their knowledge and experience is going to be well below. So perhaps they are playing their cards right to bet on stamina.
Implementing a rotational leadership program in the mold of GE, Nielsen, Abbot Labs, et al was definitely a great accomplishment for Mayer. I would hesitate, however, to call this a "secret weapon." She would be wise to implement a similar program at Yahoo, but implying that significant APMs would follow her from Google out of 'den mother' loyalty is ridiculous.
It's regional. I've had excellent and awful service from the USPS, UPS, and Fedex.
Anthrax has hit Glasgow: the story of a desperate hunt for its source
Hipmunk Launches Its First Paid Product, Hipmunk Business Class
I think this can also be used as monitoring & notification for other services as well in cluster & not just Redis instances !!
Hacker admits that Apple fixed the iOS in-app purchase issue
Neat, hitting the up-arrow did what I expected it to do.
>Christ, you act like you're doing someone a favor running this tool that was built to help you save time.

CPU time is super expensive where I live.

>Let me guess, you're the guy who bitches when the WiFi is down on the airplane.

Incessantly.
>Eventually, it was also upgraded to a "Red Notice". To put it into context, a red notice for such a trivial charge with a previously willful and responsive person is unusual.

A "Red Notice" is just an Interpol request for a member country to issue an arrest warrant for a person wanted in another member country, with the expectation that the person will be extradited to the country seeking the arrest. (Interpol does not have the power to issue arrest warrants on its own.)
There have been no changes to the law to increase the powers of the police and security services, terrorism legislation remains the same and there have been no special provisions made for the trial of suspected terrorists.

A white lie, I'm afraid. Lex Breivik [1] has changed the laws so that regional security departments have a lot more power, in fact more power than what prisons have as of today.

[1]: http://www.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=no&...
I think the idea is to rig both cases to return after the set timeout to make them undistinguishable (so both to return after 5.0 in your example). Of course the timeout has to be set above the worst case timing for a valid login
I'm not confusing anything. Yes, technically you're right: Only if I send them commercial emails I need their explicit consent. However, pretty much any email a commercial service sends may treated as a commercial email by a court - even the reminder "you signed up here". There's a whole bunch of special cases where that doesn't hold, however, if you're ever planning on sending emails you're making your companies lawyer sleep better if you have double opt-in.

There's other reasons to use double opt in. I register for your service with no double opt in and I have a typo in my email address. I then log out and forget about it. I just lost my account. Double opt-in prevents that. Think of a forum where you can register with an email address and make public statements - if said forum has no double opt in and you register with my address and slander someone I'd take that forum to court since they neglected to prevent that. I might not win, but the forum would be drawn in the fight.

I know that most corporate lawyers I've worked with get twitchy if you propose removing double opt in - even in cases where it's technically not required. I guess lawyers are more the "play it safe" kind of people.

I agree with you that double opt in is not the silver bullet that magically fixes everything, but as I said - we're deep in trade-off territory here.

I also dispute the point that you get zero emails about leaking the information that someone is registered. I have worked on projects where that information was absolutely privileged and it was of utmost importance that no info about who's registered could be leaked.
It's FAR more expensive to produce in the US, Usually between 2x-4x. I do prototyping in the US and the companies that I use also do small-medium production runs. You can find them in the Manufacturing thread I wrote.
BioSoles know you're you within three steps, deter shoe bandits
Another thing to compare - the death toll caused by Breivig meant that his actions caused 50% more deaths per capita than the 9/11 attacks.
Are you an employee or an employer? If the former, how did you get your current job? If the latter; how did you find your last hire?
Please explain. I love the USPS. It's cheap and fast. IMHO. YMMV.

People literally ship gold through the US Mail: it's that secure.
What could possibly go wrong? http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/05/software-exec-c...
http://stats.pingdom.com/qqps0x9eb0at/195711 indicates the outage on NS1 was 26 minutes. It's still a long time and we're pulling the trigger on some changes (read: capital investments) to stop it from happening in the future.
While I agree with you, there is interesting data about effectiveness of these things coming from Israel:

Back in 2000, Israel had a series of suicide bombing attacks, which resulted (among other things) in a law requiring every mall, restaurant, cafe, theatre, office buildings and many other businesses to have a full time security guard who will check every person coming in with a metal detector.

There were a lot of cries about how useless and what a waste of money that was (as, of course, the cost was shifted to the customers). However, it turned out to be a deterrent in a strange way:

There were several cases of suicide bombing later that year, in which the bomber saw the guard, and decided to go to an unguarded place (most establishments observed this law, but not all). In one case, there was no visible unguarded place, so the bomber blew themselves up in the middle of a busy crosswalk.

I think the bottom line is that these measures did not change the overall outcome, which was just as tragic, but they did manage to shift the locations of the events.