skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's fairly vague. I'm not sure what clear distinction you are trying to draw between the 2nd and 4th Amendments.

The distinction is that the 4th amendment limits government power to intrude on our lives by forcing them to clear a certain burden of proof before seizing our property and information. Without that freedom, they could basically take what they pleased when they pleased.

There is no equivalent situation for the 2nd amendment. Without gun rights, we lose nothing that isn't related to guns. Government's power remains the same with our without the 2nd amendment, other than the ability to regulate guns.

I believe I have carefully evaluated whether my reaction is emotional. Frankly, I'm a bit offended that you just assume I'm probably taking an emotional position here, and don't think that will make for a productive discussion.

I think I'm turning the burden of proof around simply because the reasons against gun rights seem fairly obvious to me. Guns are tools built to kill, with no other use. They have very little in the way of useful legitimate uses. (Sport etc. are not useful, although neither are they bad.) Self defense is the one exception, but it's not clear that guns are particularly useful for self defense, let alone that their utility for self defense outweighs the potential benefits of stricter controls on them.

If you disagree, that's fine. I welcome the discussion. But please refrain from any insinuation that you're the only one thinking rationally here.
30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Days: Paul Mundt
To add insult to working like a dog, most companies now say "they don't track vacation" and paint it as an incentive trying to imply employees can take as much vacation as they want. The reality is because of peer pressure no one takes a vacation. I for one stay as far away as possible from such companies.
I was at a couple of Cocoaheads meetings (http://cocoaheads.at), nice people there, but I am too busy lately...
The monopoly lies in the fact that municipalities need not provide a franchise to more than one cable operator (such as TWC). In some municipalities you can switch Internet service from, say, cable to telephone-based service (such as U-Verse) but in many others this is not a realistic option.
Scott Thompson, Ex-CEO of Yahoo, gets a new job as the CEO of ShopRunner .
+1 for ShiftIt. Even if there is a "native" MacOS way to do it, the tiling abilities on your fingertips are priceless
Microsoft Exchange 2013 features detailed
Last I tried the two I'm certain I'd have said that, but I'm willing to give it another go. It's been quite some time since I had either one (these days I mostly drink scotch or rye). I certainly wouldn't put JD black above the EW single barrel.
And JQuery 1.9 will still support all the browsers the current core does, with the same API and features of 2.0. 1.9 will just be "heavier"
To be precise, HonestDNS uses Anycast routing to situate the same IP at multiple places around the globe, letting BGP and least cost path routing send users to their best location. The DNS protocol works particularly well for this.
That's an interesting point, and one I hadn't thought of. I'd argue that it probably depends on the nature of the event and what you're looking to get out of it. (e.g. if you're coming to a hackathon without a team, it's probably in your best interest to make your name public).

We'll definitely consider an opt-in box for the next go-around.
X-Ray scans your Android device for unpatched vulnerabilities
About 5 - 10 years ago, the status quo was to have developers be part of the business side of news orgs, that is, controlled by the ad people...not necessarily a bad thing, but a situation wholly different than what is being discussed in the OP, where hackers are helping to advance the news product and reportage.

I'm having trouble thinking of other professions in which developers work inside the "prized" group of the organization -- in this case, editorial -- rather than as contractors or part of the IT group. Maybe programmers in the certain sectors of the financial industry?
Creative works such as music and writing have a similar scalability, but it can be more difficult to demonstrate value and it's nearly impossible to sell subscriptions to a single story or song.
You're quite correct -- any "trivial" tutorial example will always be better off written without an external dependency. But we're not using libraries to help make writing 10 lines of jQuery easier -- we're using libraries to help write JavaScript applications. The idea is that Backbone will end up helping your write far fewer lines of JS in your real-world app, because instead of having to manually:

updateTitle: function(id, title) {
var doc = window.myApp.documents[id];
$('.document-' + id + ' .title').text(title);
if (localStorageAdapter.get(".doc-" + id)) {
localStorageAdapter.set("document", ".doc-" + id, "title", title);
}
var details = $(".document- " + id + " .details");
if (details.length) {
details.find(".doc-title").text(title);
}
... and so on, and so forth ...
}

You have a convenient way to manipulate your data and have your UI react:

Documents.get(id).set({title: "Don Quixote"});

... at least, that's the hope.
You can also very easily split your code into multiple files. That itself would give you more maintainability. A common breakdown is models, view, controllers and maybe some boilerplate app.js or app.coffee files.
It seems a bit weird to make the game free because of high piracy rates. For some books (including one of my own), high piracy rates correlate well with more sales. I wonder if it's different for games.
Just a tip - If you use OSX, you could either use the Reader feature in Safari (or Clearly in Chrome) or even better just hit ctrl+option+command+8 to get into high contrast.
A [cofounder] is a subset of [founder].

On the other hand if he has removed references to other cofounders then that's a different matter.
I think if they stopped tracking the type of person who would pay $5 for Facebook, the value of their data set would be gutted.
Instagram vs. Pinterest
My memory is that Apple announced a "desire" to do more manufacturing in the US. Google announced an actual product that will be built there. Not really the same thing. Someone correct me if Apple is actually sourcing anything other than semiconductors from the US for a planned product.

The whole "where is it built" thing is dumb, though. But still, if you're going to take afront, this doesn't seem like the right spot.
Given the frequency at which I anticipate communications from HN regarding my account, the email in my profile is sent to the catchall, i.e. it's a lower priority than the public one.

To put it another way, if PG emails me directly using the private address, I'll see it eventually. But I will probably see anything sent to the public address more quickly...though again probably not right away.

Just as I don't see security on HN as high importance, for me, emails related to it are not treated as time critical. However, separating them out from my normal inbox makes anything coming from HN stand out.
I'm currently berlin based, but worked all around germany from bavaria in munich, stuttgart, karlsruhe and cologne. I worked for all kinds of companies that revolve around web stuff, been the tech lead of a top 25 ranked web-development shop and had anything from tiny via government jobs to enterprise-class customers. However, I didn't do short-term jobs with changing coworkers, so I guess it's a bit about how well you know your coworkers and how much trust you have in them. It might draw a tongue-in-cheek kind of remark, but not a serious question of my professional abilities.

I'm more curious about the fact that people could obviously be afraid that this might be a firing offense - and I can't think of a single place where this could be possibly used to construct a case.
My purchases only qualify for the quota needed to trigger interest payment on my checking account if I choose "credit." Also, merchants are charged differently depending on the choice. So it's a useful question.
X-Ray author here, happy to answer any questions folks have!
Russian hacker Borodin says it’s game over for iOS exploit, focusing on Mac
You should read "The Millionaire Next Door." (http://www.thomasjstanley.com/pub-books/1/The_Millionaire_Ne...) There is whole chapter on why you don't buy new cars. Mostly because they lose a ton of value as soon as you drive them off the lot.

Most millionaires in the US drive American-made cars that are 2 - 5 years old.

EDIT: It's actually not "most millionaires" -- only 20%: http://www.thomasjstanley.com/blog-articles/395/Millionaire_...
I like their blunt feel. If people don't like something, they will say so. Loudly. I find that a good thing. Plus, in my experience, they are not so bad. The number of rational and moderate people is quite higher than, for example, in newspaper websites comments.

On even moderately successful videos, they accumulate really too fast, though. They quickly become impossible to follow.
Interestingly, just last year, Steve Jobs told Obama "Those jobs aren't coming back".

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and...
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Yet more wild-eyed, open source zealotry.

No it isn't. I didn't say that F/OSS is universally better than closed source, or anything crazy. I said that F/OSS has one specific advantage over closed-source, proprietary software, and that relates to the ability for a different group to continue development of a project that would otherwise be abandonware. Are you going to argue that this isn't the case?

No GUI-based F/OSS product has ever achieved the level of polish and usability of things like Sparrow because the people working on open source projects only want to do coding, they don't care about design, bug detection, documentation or, God forbid, user interfaces.

That's debatable, but it also has nothing to do with what I said. Yes, F/OSS has a reputation for being weaker on the UI/UX/design front, no one is contesting that, so far as I can see.
Surprisingly, its such a pain point that a company would spend $50,000 - 150,000 for a single installation.
How do people track piracy anyways? I've heard it's pretty bad on iOS too (and a common reason to jailbreak) but it doesn't get much press since there are enough buyers.
Yes on the contrast. RR does a dark-on-beige scheme on its rendered pages by default. I use MoonReader+ as a eBook reader on Android, it does similarly.

There was some research in the 1970s or 1980s about maximum readability for paper texts which arrived at similar conclusions. A dark brown text on matte cream paper tested best. I've read several books printed in this format, and found it quite readable. Though paper still beats screen for readability (but not grepping).
It could've been a long exposition shot with a mechanism that directed light to different parts of the film throughout the day.
Let's take your 4x ROI over 30 years at face value. This produces a 4.73% CAGR (smoothed annualised return). The 30-year Treasury presently yields 2.55% [1].

This leaves 2.18% of the investment to deal with power volatility - one has to account for the risk of electricity rates plunging below one's assumed power rate (reducing the return). Power is a volatile commodity, though without numbers it is impossible to place whether there is more upside than down and at what threshold a hedge ought to be placed.

The investment is thus rational only if we ignore the liquidity characteristics of the investment and assume low interest rates and low to moderate power volatility (or upside on power rates). Given that I can produce liquid, AA-rated securities yielding over 5% for 30-years [2] it seems comparatively irrational. Look, I even found one issued by a power company [3] so you don't get mad if power rates sky-rocket because of all the high-cost renewable energy we stuff onto the grid :).

Note that irrational isn't necessarily bad - I love my Roomba despite retaining a housekeeper. But we should know that we are indulging in an irrationality, e.g. the self-perception of eco-friendliness, versus making an informed investment.

[1] http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/in...

[2] http://reports.finance.yahoo.com/z1?b=1&cpl=-1.000000...

[3] http://reports.finance.yahoo.com/z2?ce=581544714553183571795...
I gave up commenting on YouTube at that point where Google forced me to auto login with my Gmail account. It is already bad enough that they can trace my viewing behavior. But I can see their side of the story. YouTube is holding a massive marketshare in the online video segment and they might have no problem with a few percent less comments when at the same time the overall quality of the comments might rise.
Thus why software engineers often get a degree

Or is it because people learn early on in school that there is "no other way"?

I recently met with a banker to discuss a mortgage. We talked about what I did and discussed my education. I proudly stated that I was self-taught. When we opened up the financials, she almost fell out of her chair in amazement that someone could make that much without a degree and proceeded to call me a genius.

I'm not a genius. In fact, I ended up being self-taught because I wasn't smart enough to enter into college in the first place; rejected from every single one I applied to. Most people think like the aforementioned banker though, with the idea that only a super genius can learn without a teacher. The result is that most people aren't even willing to try to learn on their own.
You don't have to log in to see this post though.
Yes this is the case. He's now claiming that he was the originator for the idea which is far from the truth.
I've been seeing a lot of reflector attacks in the past couple of weeks, where the attacker sends a relatively small query for a valid domain that will return a large reply. The trick is that they spoof the source IP, so the DNS reply goes to the victim.

I ended up hacking something together to firewall any IPs which sent more than 1000 requests in a short period of time.
I'm just pointing out an inaccuracy, not making a claim to Apple's greater virtue: the article asserts Apple is being influenced in May by something announced in June (unless one is to assume Apple got an insider tip).
On top of dependency injection out of the box Spring offers a lot more, like: Transaction Management, an MVC framework, JDCB templates, ...
My teenage years were intensely productive. I had the right mix of mentors, synergy with my circle of tech friends and the limitless opportunity to create for the sake of creation. As most people get older the ability to do this goes away with having to pay bills. Living at home is one of the best times of your life to create.

My advice for you as an advisor is this: Teach him how to channel his energy and not be all over the place. Learning to be effective, disciplined and focused, on however many interests is critical. This one ability will serve him for the rest of his life if he can master it under your guidance. If you like, harness his energy into a particular direction for the odd project and let him chart his course otherwise.

This is for your son.

How to be in any situation:

- Learn to be a self-directed individual. Looking to others to be taught is not the path of a developer.

- Learn to be a self-study. Everything he will ever learn will always become obsolete. Years ago, some language and framework was hot, to be replaced by a new one today, and tomorrow.

- Don't fit in. The greatest gift of geekdom is being comfortable being unique and seperate, even from other geeks. Don't fall for the entreporn of fitting in, you resisted it all through out school, why give in to followers?

- Open: Give something 5 minutes to sink in before judging. Don't become a religious fanatic about your tools to fit in. Users don't give a hoot about what you code in, only if you can build something that solves their problem well. This is the single most mind closing thing you can probably do when you're young, forget about older.

- Become an insanely curious individual. Try to understand how people deal with information in their lives in any place. You'll get faster.

- Learn to focus your curiosity to have a start, and end point. This year, I made a goal of taking every little project I hacked on and simply launching it to it's own domain. It's been refreshing, only for $9/year per domain.

- Learn the difference between being a creator and a consumer. Playing games is consuming someone's world and can have it's value as long as it's not greater than the time you're spending creating.

What is worth doing at that age:

- Build for the sake of building.

- Experiment for the sake of experimenting.

- Explore your curiosity. Find new interests to explore and try to connect them.

- Don't prematurely optimize. Run as far, and fast as you can from any developer who talks about doing things perfectly but does not launch anything, ever, themselves because their projects are never done or ready to release.

- Learn the difference between building something that interests only you and helps others solve the problems they have.

- Release prodigiously. I still have code from the late 90's when I was 17 that's running just fine on the web. It's not pretty but the tens of thousands of hits on it remind me to fight confusing activity with results.
Re-Engineering Education For Digital Learners
Instead of relying on a few pings, run the test for yourself: http://code.google.com/p/namebench/

The Google DNS team built the tool above, and it allows you to test your current setup against a number of DNS vendors + allows you to share the data, etc.
> I think that the only thing were quibbling about is what a "minor drawback" is to each one of us.

I agree. But that's always the case with security and I think in this case you can easily fix the drawback with a clear messaging such as "This is what you entered: (replay form data). You should receive a confirmation email within (x) minute. If you don't make sure the email you entered is correct." You'll need that message anyways to catch those users that enter a completely false email address anyways.
The game had, and still had, in-app purchases. Which makes me a little suspicious this is just a publicity stunt.
Do You Back Up Your DNS Records?
What kills YouTube comments is the same thing that kills Ars comments, along with pretty much every blog ever; there's no threading and no peer moderation or ranking. No one wants to sort through a river of random comments.
I'm starting to incubate my next company and don't want to have to explain to investors why one of my cofounders is calling himself a founder when I'm still labeling myself a cofounder. Additionally, he's phrasing his work profile/resumes etc to indicate that he was the originator for the idea of the company.
This was the main reason I wrote Agility.js - I too thought Backbone was too verbose (although these days CoffeeScript makes it more succinct, but still not as compact as Agility, as Backbone doesn't have any built-in model-view bindings).

I wanted to keep the same compactness of jQuery's semantics in an MVC framework so that everything from Hello World to complex apps would be more succinct.

For the interested:

http://agilityjs.com
Do you mind sharing the script / code to accomplish that? (some gist somewhere) I'm seeing a lot of these sort of things on our servers too..
Agree.

I'm surprised at the amount of comments here that reflect this data as if it's gospel and whether it's fair to interpret anything from it at all. We can't even vet and recreate the methodology of, as you said "limited movies", and see if it's correct for what it does say.

Not to mention the fact that prior to 1929 there is not more than 9 posters of data being analyzed.

Printing has changed also. Number of color, type of press, computerization all would contribute to difference in what designers would do (the analysis did mention this) but as mentioned the data was limited.
I just looked at http://www.instadesk-app.com and noticed that you forgot to add

class="teaser-imag-container"

to two of your slider image containers. That causes the padding to be off and the images overlay the text.
Just thought I'd tell you.
Don't want investors in my next company to ask why one of my cofounders gets to designate himself the founder while I'm labeling myself a cofounder.
Former Yahoo chief Scott Thompson appointed new CEO of ShopRunner
Pretty simple. You look at how many people are hitting your analytics server vs the reported downloads by Google. That percentage is your piracy rate.
Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange should promote good questions instead of closing or deleting questions.

we don't have a good designated place for deleted "too fun" questions to live

Make a good designated place for deleted "too fun" questions to live! StackOverflowOverflow.
ZEVO ZFS on OS X project now part of GreenBytes
Sounds like you're better off elsewhere.

Although strangely, you use words like "countersigned job description" as if a job description is a legally binding contract. I think that it's reasonable and expected that the job you do does not always match word-for-word with the job description you had when were hired. Things change, and it's good to be flexible. You might have to learn a new programming language on the job, install some software, design some icons, and other programming-related tasks that were not technically in your job description.

But that doesn't extend to answering the main switchboard, getting the front door for people, and cleaning up coffee cups after a meeting.

You're right to say, "I'm a programmer not a receptionist". Good for you. But I would be less supportive if you said, "I am a programmer not a DBA" when asked to create a new index.

Good luck to you.
> Google needs to get its act together with the Play Store

How is this Google's fault? I would guess that the pirated copies are all side-loaded from somewhere other than the Google Play Store. Software piracy happens. DRM solutions can mitigate some piracy (certainly not all, and likely won't increase sales, either).
Machine learning for the impatient: algorithms tuning algorithms
Surely if the robots are replacing people then they're not really creating jobs, just taking jobs away from the Chinese.
Sure there will be some people manning the robots, but isn't the whole point of using robots to cut down on the human workforce?

Even the robots aren't created in USA - some are Kuka robots from Germany.
Just ran it on my Nexus S with 4.1 and everything is patched. Currious to see how the HTC / Samsung's that are not Nexus devices fare.
The real reason for this isn't to improve comment quality; it's so they can store information on you more effectively and then sell it to the government. Facebook has a leg up on this because of how it started, but Google wants to level the playing field more and more.
There are very few clunky bits in Alien or Blade Runner. It is amazing how well they hold up.
Looking for feedback
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You're still doing it wrong. Look at the last line of my code snippet.

The code you've used will encode to hex bytes in UTF-8, but then you turn that into a string with the platform default character set, which may not be compatible (eg: any double-byte encoding). Use the method that Hex provides. If you really need to you can do new String(bytes, hex.getCharEncoding()), but it's needless complexity.