skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same way you create any secure login system: Require long-ish complex passwords (numbers, upper, lower, and symbols, 8+ characters). Store those passwords only as slow-to-generate hashes (bcrypt or the like) with a per-user salt. Run everything over HTTPS. Make sure your password reset system doesn't have some trivial bypass or information leak.

If possible, two factor authentication is preferable (whether via hardware dongle or smartphone app, a la' blizzard's authenticator), but that adds a ton of overhead.
Teenager dies after playing Diablo III for 40 hours without food
This is fascinating, especially whether the hole was created from a top impact or from the bottom such as volcanic eruption.

On another note, why are we discovering this just now? I was under the amateur impression that the entire surface of Mars was scanned and imaged by NASA at some point. But again, I may have interpreted that incorrectly.
This is a pretty sweet demo. It worked well for me in Chrome, smooth and responsive.

I have an underlying worry about the significance of HTML5 when it comes to gaming. Since it's all JS and CSS, how are developers going to protect their work? Isn't it going to be very easy for me to simply steal all your code and resources? It's one thing if this is just Snake, it's another if this is something more significant.
There are two things at play here:

First, it is far easier to reply to an existing conversation than it is to start a conversation. Expanding on or contradicting an existing idea is easier than having an original idea.

The second is that you are more likely to notice a conversation that has multiple replies so it appears most topics take that form. This is a form of survivorship bias, in that you rarely see the topics that don't start the threads.

While I'm sure there are some responses of this nature that are true linkbait, I think the vast majority are not. Most of them are just people wanting to give their opinion, especially if they think somebody else is wrong.
The origin of the iPad
RHEL sales are a profit center for RH, especially given that its targeted for enterprise deployments. The cost of the OS isn't the most significant factor in deploying.
Then why mess with Oracle to begin with?

There are so many mature linux distros to choose from and plenty have trustworthy, battle-tested, commercial support-options if that's what you need.

I can't come up with a plausible reason why anyone would even consider Oracle.
How dangerous? I think it all depends on how well the average drive can ride in a straight line. Having a bike with a larger slant in the front fork (Wikipedia calls them roadster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadster_(bicycle), but does not realize that 'keeps a straight line easier' is one of its most important assets) helps tremendously there.

For examples of 'safe' use of a mobile phone while cycling, see http://www.ski-epic.com/amsterdam_bicycles/
Well, they previously talked about water on mars
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050401.html
Actually, because it is circular the chance of it being a meteorite is slim. This is because the ejecta of a meteor crater is related to the angle at which the meteor hits, the more oblique the angle, the more oval the crater. A circular crater would suggest a perpendicular collision. That would suggest a very slow or very fast meteor, the latter would have caused a bigger crater. The third challenge with the meteor hypothesis is that the 'hole' suggests a cavern, and the cavern would have undergone a lot of compressive stress when struck. One would have to figure out how the meteor went through the top of the cavern without collapsing it (the shock wave from the impact would have pushed all along the top).

So its not impossible that it was a meteorite but it is improbable.
I've been following this program for a while and even got to meet Kimberly at O'Reilly Fluent earlier in the year.. her enthusiasm is infectious! As important as her work is to the girls, though, I particularly hope she inspires other adults to take on this mentoring role so that everywhere can have its equivalent.

Things like this are springing up all over. For example, here in the UK, Code Club has been founded by two women to create and support after-school programming clubs: http://codeclub.org.uk/
a great javascript framework. Well worth checking out if you haven't already done so.
Are you racist or sexist or both? Tongue-in-cheek but I don't understand your problem.
Ask the guy who apparently wrote that Oracle page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wdaher
You forgot the obligatory "9 reasons why your time is worth nothing." link-bait headline.
Listia (YC S09) Opens A Rewards Store For Giving Away Old Stuff
I've donated to EFF before, but as a Canadian is there an equivalent org that I can support here too?
"They'll naturally find people similar to them and make it easier to relate to their peers."

Relatability is the key thing. You're spot on here.
One of the links goes to an earlier APOD from 2007 of other holes in Mars: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070528.html
(This question is a bit difficult for me to phrase, so pardon me if this sentence is awkward) Can you give me an example of how this plugin architecture saved you from an awkward happenstance? For instance, what did this level of abstraction actually buy you in specific? What did you vary (for lack of a better term) that the consumer didn't have to worry about, as opposed to if you had built it in a traditional tightly coupled manner?

I am trying to understand how this abstraction comes into play in day to day work as apps are put together.

Thanks again for your insightful reply
It is possible to have another tool become ubiquitous (and in this case, it really would be for the best to have another tool become ubiquitous). In order to do that, though, you have to have a better tool, so this is a great start to making that happen.
This is very interesting.

I think it's also worth pointing out that the data tends to show that the use of personal bankruptcy to game the system is actually very low.

I find that when the subject is brought up in a political context, this distinction is often not made.

Here is a great lecture from Elizabeth Warren on the subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A
A coworker recently pointed us to yet another one of these, Dev HTTP Client, which has worked really well for us.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aejoelaoggembcahag...
Oracle is funny.

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/oracle-nosql-da...
For Stack Overflow users, can I remind you not to down vote the person asking the question – down votes are for poor quality questions (i.e. "How do I fix it" with no code and no description), not just questions from new people who are trying to get things to work!
Fluid: A UI Prototyping Tool
I'm not a historian, but my understanding is that within the context of the Nazi's rise to power, they were actually a right wing party.
(cofounder of Leanpub, here)

Thanks for the great post, Aaron. Lots of food for thought.

First, Aaron is really our ideal author: he has an audience, has some content that would make a great book and he values his time (i.e. he knows it's a bad idea to create a book generation workflow and setup a website to sell the book). Oh, and he's a good writer :).

What stood out for me is this line:

My original plan was to deal with all the rendering myself, set up an
online storefront somewhere, and make it available that way. I wasn’t
crazy about that plan, but it seemed like that’s how most of the
self-published authors I’d read in the past handled it.
Then I stumbled across Leanpub.

It pains me deeply that Aaron didn't know about Leanpub. It should be the first thing that crosses the mind of anyone on HN who thinks about publishing.

I think I'll finish up this feature I'm working on (which is awesome and our authors have been asking for it forever, don't get me wrong, but doesn't solve the problem of people not hearing about us) and then stick the marketing hat on my head with crazy-glue.
I'm from Vancouver Island(right near seattle) and bike through the winter. It really isn't that bad when it's raining, wear a jacket. The only days I don't bike are snow days(because they don't do snow removal very well here) and then I take the bus.
How not to react to your audience
This is such an important initiative! Several teens that were in my Media course (focused on Minority Women in Technology) are attending the Atlanta Session.
The kingpins won't stop running their empires just because drugs stopped being profitable. They will just switch to whatever else violent and illegal they can turn a profit from. Kidnapping, assassination, prostitution, slavery and blackmailing comes to mind.
What has happened to Solaris?
How about a single pixel of your favourite colour? It might be a bit bland but I'd like to see them screw that one up.
"Why should a bicyclist be required to wear a yellow helmet & jacket to be called "good"? Certainly reasonable road conduct should be demanded from all road users, but first from automobile drivers, who cause the vast majority of injuries & deaths on the streets."

1. First of all, it is mandatory in my country.

2. Wether the accident is the biker's fault or the car driver's fault or anything else you are way better wearing a protective helmet if you fall off your bike. Head trauma is not something to be dismissed on the basis that wearing an helmet isn't mandatory or - gasp - fashionnable.

3. Regarding the yellow jacket: without it most bicylists are simply invisible in night traffic. In broad daylight there are easier to see and thus one can be more cautious around them. Remember that cyclists are "weak" road users.

4.
> Why should a bicyclist be required to wear a yellow helmet & jacket to be called "good"? Certainly reasonable road conduct should be demanded from all road users, but first from automobile drivers, who cause the vast majority of injuries & deaths on the streets.

Wearing a helmet and yellow jacket are really good signs that the biker knows what he is doing. Especially in a country (mine) where it is mandatory. Especially in a country (mine) where car culture is overtly agressive towards cyclists.

There is absolutely no reason not to wear protective gear when riding a bike (especially in a city).

Even if there were no cars on the road.

edit: removed personnal rant
Minneapolis was very lucky: they inherited a large number of extremely high quality freight rail right-of-ways as the industry moved out of the city center. These are perfect for conversion in to bike paths: few hills, and routed to minimize grade crossings (and hence traffic lights). I wish they were everywhere, but building bike routes of this quality in other cities will be much harder.

Denmark seems to have built the "superhighway" from scratch, which is pretty cool. It also seems to have only cost $1.5 million. Since the average freeway costs about $1 million per mile, WHY DON'T WE HAVE MORE BIKEWAYS!?

sorry, lost my composure there.
Doesn't work at all in Opera (12.00, Win7) or IE 9. Console is full of javascript errors.
-MooTools is undefined in mootools-more.min.js (line 13)
-Class is undefined in Preloader.min.js (line 11)
-Uncaught exception: ReferenceError: Security error: attempted to read protected variable in jquery.js (line 3)
Uhh, you know RHEL costs money too? A lot of money.
Sounds like the classic bait and switch. Down the road there surely will be more interesting features (virtualization comes to mind) that can unfortunately not be supported in the free version of Oracle linux. But hey, special deal, just $999/yr and you won't have to migrate to a different distro for that one feature!

Plus included with the price you get our awesome support-plan which you never call, but when you do it will only take weeks before they return a canned response designed to make you buy more products instead of actually solving your problem!

Personally I don't regret sticking with deb-based distros. They have problems of their own, but at least none of this extortion-bullshit.
Sam Hacker News's reaction is one thing, Reddit's will be a whole other ball game. They HATE FB login over there.
What is the battery life going to be like? I grudgingly installed Windows 7 on my (Lenovo) laptop after using Unix exclusively for 15 years simply because the battery lasts twice as long on Windows.

For what it's worth, I bought a Dell Inspiron Mini 10v with Ubuntu Hardy preinstalled 2.5 years ago. It didn't suspend/resume properly and video out was flaky. It died after two years of use (with strange electrical problems). I don't think I'll buy a Dell in the future.
There was. It's called YouTube.
As Greg Brown sang, "time ain't money when all you got is time."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-xWWFNJFJQ
Also, for the record, in Europe Paypal is a registered bank (unlike in the US where from what I understand its status is more fuzzier)
Perhaps this feature or one like it could be incorporated in to a future colony by sealing up the hole and artificially stabilizing the interior structure? I know similar ideas have been floated in the past for the conversion of lunar lava tubes into habitable space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_lava_tube
I think the selective memory comes in when people claim that there weren't a huge number of people that thought and proclaimed loudly that the evidence was bunk at the time. It's the same type of historical retcon that happens when people say that no one could see the housing bubble coming, and that everyone during slavery/segregation thought black people were inferior, so no one should be judged terrible for it because they were "of their time."

The television was always sure that the war was necessary, that Powell's speech was coherent, and that the government always knows best because it has access to secret sources that it can't reveal and our best interests at heart. Of course, the television is also in the arms business.
The Good The Bad And The Ugly - My 6 months as angel investor
The goal of these types of programs is to change cultures. If under-representation isn't caused by biology, then it's caused by culture. If the programs didn't target people within the cultures they're trying to change, they wouldn't succeed. They'd be full of the people who are already likely to be interested in programming, which isn't a problem in itself, but isn't the goal of the programs.
And yet, nobody complains when cars come bundled with tires and steering wheels.
disclaimer: I am part of the WebKit team at RIM.

RIM does seem to have a marketing problem as it seems most Blackberry users have only ever used the old built in house Java based browser. This is due to the fact that WebKit has only been on the newer devices and you can still get older devices so users that used to have a Blackberry, but have had an iphone for X years probably only experienced the Java browser. If someone gets a modern Blackberry from their IT department the WebKit browser that it comes with is good and can hold its own.
> Static friction? It probably would float for some time in air if it wasn't touching something and there is no breeze.

No. The atoms of carbon are still heavier than air, and no type of structure can alter that.

However it can be blown by a breeze and stay up that way - same way a cloud, which is heavier than air, stays up due to wind.
Bear in mind that a requirement like that may actually kill more people through dissuading people from the exercise a bike provides.
I deploy a simple project of mine using a horrible PHP script I wrote: https://github.etsycorp.com/gist/391780

My site is just static files, but it wouldn't actually be that much more complicated if it wasn't. The only thing I'd really need to add would be a line that runs database migrations. You can google "PHP database migrations" to find a handful of libraries that do this, or honestly just make a dummy rails project, and use theirs: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/migrations.html.

Note that the script I wrote is for a site of mine that gets literally zero traffic (although I'm hoping to get more to it eventually.) If it was something more important, I would probably start moving in the direction of Chef or Capistrano, which are more structured, and have things like error-handling.

Regarding stuff you don't want pushed to the site, it sounds like you need to fix your directory structure. It should be something like this:

project/
..app/
....controller.php
....database.php [etc]
..public/
....index.php
....images/
......some_img.jpeg
....css/
......styles.css

and then the only directory that should be accessible from the internets is project/public. You deploy the project dir, and serve the site from project/public (so if I go to project.com/index.php, that corresponds to project/public/index.php on the file system.)

If you have multiple apps in one repo, you would just have them under project1, project2, then follow the same structure. If you have stuff that doesn't get deployed, it could sit alongside project in a different directory that you don't deploy.

For your requires and so on, you should be using relative paths, so that shouldn't be a problem. If you're not using relative paths, you're crazy and you should fix that. (First the being crazy part, then the relative paths part. You should also use an autoloader, so that you're not really manually requiring stuff that much.
Making it mandatory will have likely killed more people than leaving it optional - just be aware of that.
vi /etc/hosts

0.0.0.0 facebook.com
0.0.0.0 reddit.com
0.0.0.0 news.ycombinator.com

wq!
> It does point out a blurry line between substance and structure.

It's not new.

What is the density of a boat? The density of the boat as a whole is lower than water - so it floats.

But if you could only the materials it's made of they are all heavier.

So you have to know what you are describing.
Likely the selection dialog was bootstrapped into new Windows Activation, whereas the Service Pack upgraded existing IE components; which are present on the system regardless of which program is registered to handle hyper links.

Overall, I am wondering why the EU is picking on HTTP/HTML support alone and not requiring Microsoft to offer choices on alternate desktop shells, file systems, etc...
People can do this but nobody does it
She has never known a moment without pain. At eight, her leg was crushed in an avalanche and had to be crudely amputated in the field. At twenty-two, she was disowned by her family. When she was five months pregnant with her daughter, the baby's father left for good, never to be seen again.
"for humans" seems to have no better meaning than "for the OS X sensibility".

In other words: this is a style change rather than a productivity gain. And the superiority of the style is not obvious - unless you just HATE the style of existing tools and need to be set apart.

Most humans don't operate the command line or write scripts to begin with. Those who do, usually can handle wget "http://foo/bar. It took me all of a few seconds to start using wget and all of 10 minutes to have access to fancier features. (But the truth is that a certain level of complexity really just wants a script rather than ad hoc commands).

So here is a new tool, and it looks nice. But it doesn't at all relieve me from having to learn syntax and conventions - I still have to go to a doc/manpage and read that same kind of technical prose. So the only effective difference is that now I am using different punctuation, like @filename and -b. But the use of this "@" character is not really consistent with anything else.

So the tool is fine and I am sure people will use it but the competitive advantage is incredibly thin and the project smacks of NIH.

If curl and wget are not for humans then what are they for? People who do not have that magical design sensibility. Lame code-monkeys without vision, who are not creative and different. Soulless agents of the man.

This emphasis on branding over substance irks me quite a bit.
And then the follow up "Studies show time is worth less for women than men."
Google Shaman Explains Mysteries of ‘Compute Engine’
Set small goals and mentally affirm your own awesomeness at their successful completion.

Evaluate the path you are on: distraction is often a manifestation of doubt.

Don't chase whatever idea comes to mind until that mind proves that it can get it's shit together and finish something. Finishing things is no holy grail, but it can teach you the structure and methodology to bring your big ideas to fruition.
This isn't an Oracle product. It is a Red Hat product repackaged by Oracle.
Your Words Are Your Own Product - submit articles
As long as we're noticing how you guys sold out, I'd like to bring up the Ksplice blog.

It used to have some really interesting stuff on there, but after the move to Oracle, the interesting posts disappeared.

I'm talking specifically about 'Coffee shop internet access'. Man that was a cool post and it taught my brother and I a LOT. Then it disappeared, along with most mirrors of it. I was able to find one left, here:
http://www.getoto.net/noise/2011/01/18/coffee-shop-internet-...

after around a full 60 minutes of searching-- and it doesn't have the images from the original.

I emailed you guys, and J was kind enough to send me the text of the post, but again no images. She said she hoped the coffee shop post would make it to the oracle blog, but this was about 6 months ago so I don't think that'll happen. Anyway, I hope you're able to do good at Oracle, and I hope that you're still trying to, and I hope that you don't get taken advantage of.
Brand New iPhone UITabBar Interface Designs
Since they refer to it as a "mockup", I assumed these had no actual hardware and were just tests of size, form factor, weight, etc.

If it had any hardware, it'd be easiest to just reuse existing stuff - basically an official Modbook[0], only with a capacitive instead of resistive touchscreen.

[0] http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/modbook
We've also launched a redesign of the website (now live at http://enyojs.com/. Like Enyo 2.0, it's cross-platform, responsive, and definitely open for criticism.

If you have any suggestions on how we can make the website or the framework better, please let us know!

Nota Bene: Both the carousel on the homepage and the interactive tutorial on the about page are using Enyo 2.0. The total time spent on both elements was around 2 days. Once you get into the mindset, Enyo really is a pleasure to work with.
Exactly my thought. When Dell launched it's survey, devs were screaming for 4:3 high dpi screen. Basically that survey was useless.
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Apple Must Publish Notice Samsung Didn’t Copy IPad In U.K.
Here more details:
http://www.daveakerman.com/?p=592

Really interesting!
I think it's also worth noting that Risk of bankruptcy enables similar accounting games even for healthy company's. Basically a bank that's leveraged 10x might as well leverage 50x because the upside keeps increasing linearly with more debt but the downside is practically fixed.
My analogy is to show that extradition for breaking the law of country A while being in country B is completely ridiculous.

We're all breaking the laws of countries we're not in this very second.

Maybe before the internet it was easier and made more sense. Now it's completely insane.
I guess no one told him about the Steam Summer Sale
"What I'd like (and I suspect many other developers would too) is a nice laptop that I can install Linux on, and have it Just Work."

Well, the first thing I want is for it to just work. Sleep/Wake should just work. The trackpad should just work. Etc. Oh, and it should all work well.

After that I would love to be able to install some other version of linux and have it just work, but having a Dell version that just works is a big improvement over things not just working.