skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps they are using it as a 'secret weapon' and not talking about it?

Wouldn't surprise me.
PR is different from Marketing; PR, as I understand it, is meant for when people already know who you are and Marketing is meant for when people don't. In early stages, this is basically indistinguishable, so Marketing handles it.
Please note: their "source" is an article titled "Is not joining Facebook a sign you're a psychopath?[1] Some employers and psychologists say[2] staying away from social media is 'suspicious'" in the Daily Mail[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Weasel#Unsupported_a...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
Before the discussion goes too far, do keep in mind that the author of the article runs a school/e-Learning company that teaches Web Development to its students.

It is, definitely, in their best interest to have their graduates being hired by popular startups.

The content of the article seems to argue with that goal in mind. Whether the content is true or not, it is yet to be proven: I have not seen a modern statistical data of every single argument in both the article and the discussion here in HN.

Especially when it comes to "10x more productive engineer" since in our field, we haven't done a good job measuring anything at all except some data of failed software projects and how bad workers negatively influence the company (just like any other sector...).
Assuming, like you, that by "the 1% movement" we're talking about Occupy, then it should be pointed out that it was birthed by Adbusters. 4Chan had nothing to do with it, except in a very peripheral sense that could also be claimed by hundreds of other sites/groups/organizations.
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Well, if you're talking about employee #1, then yeah, I think you need experience. But my point is to get into the mold of hiring people that can grow into roles, as early in the process as you can. I also tend to think that a good team should have a mix of people with different levels of skill and experience.
The futures visualizer sounds awesome! Do other languages have parallel-debugging tools like that?
I consider Facebook to be an unethical company, and I do not wish to provide them with advertising revenue. "Maintaining" an account with Facebook provides them with analytics data and advertising revenue from me that they would not otherwise have. I seriously doubt that I'm the only person who chooses to refrain from some online services for this reason, and I don't feel I have suffered any negative repercussions from making this choice.
You know that "Racket" is the former "PLT Scheme", right? Some boutique consultants use it, notably Untyped: http://untyped.com/
Why doesn't it surprise you?
Yes, definitely blame Apple, no doubt about it. I'm still a little shocked that the last 4 cc digits constitutes 'security'. An easy alternative - which I think they already have - is the whole two security questions thing. I would feel much better - as a customer - if they used those.

This type of thing is going to happen more and more and the fact that remote wipe of all the devices happened totally negates any advantages of using cloud services. I mean, what's the point of having everything backed up remotely if

a) the backup is not current
b) the same remote servers can wipe your devices at any time

In addition, it's possible the remote backups could be removed as well (although not sure about that for iCloud) and in that case, you might as well not back anything up and have a hard drive die (at least that could be recovered I suppose).

Apple needs to jump out in front of this asap and announce a policy change in regards to security in order to put people at ease. I'm glad this is making waves and I think there needs to be more noise about it in order to get them to change.
In my experience with a nonprofit, on whose board I serve, this is exactly the case with PayPal. Even if you're very upfront before you send people to PayPal that yes, they can pay with a credit card, once they arrive at PayPal they get confused. I've even had PayPal show me a popup ad for a PayPal branded Mastercard when I was trying to checkout somewhere. Their UI isn't "branded" like the site that the customer was just on so that's confusing in and of itself. In addition, paying with credit card on a PayPal checkout page isn't the main action - you have to search for it. Combine all of those elements and you get a much lower conversion rate.
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That's what the last three paragraphs of the post are: suggestions for solutions to the problem.
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Last year, someone from Naughty Dog gave a talk at CUFP about using Racket: http://cufp.org/conference/sessions/2011/functional-mzscheme...
We're not talking about making generic innovations in your products similar to the iPhone. We're talking specific non-innovative features: white handset on a green background icon, for example. A dock using the same color scheme. Identical curves, with a chrome border on a black case. A home button on the center bottom.

Many consumers buy the iPhone "because it's iPhone" - they can't even tell you half of its innovations. So you left out d, which is what Samsung did:

d) Build a device that usurps the panache of the iPhone
Yes because the Chinese Yuan has less buying power than the USD. Why is that? Because the Chinese government says so that's why.
Can you imagine how much fun it would be to hang out at the venue from "Hackers" (1995), but in real life? With a giant Wipeout game and stuff?!

Yep, I've spent a lot of time fantasizing about opening a place like that. I wish I had the money to do it. :-(

I've also been dreaming about opening a "hacker friendly" bar of some sort. A proper pub, with good food and beer, but designed to cater to hackers, cypherpunks, techno-anarchists, gamers, cyberpunks, crypto-anarchists, and geek/hacker types of all sorts.
And what about other social networks. This is favoritism at best, and prejudiced at worst.

I use twitter, so wouldn't that substitute the social network need (that we didn't need 20 years ago but now determines our mental health...)?
Correct. If the writer had only watched the NASA broadcast he would have heard it right from the horse's mouth. Because of the low temps at night, the power requirements to heat up the rover and devices would not make it worthwhile. In addition, the total output of the generator and batteries on a particular day is not enough for it to run continuously for the entire day.

Another interesting point brought up was that the rover was tested to 3x life but not to failure. It's certainly possible for it to run for many years longer than the stated life.
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> those are not arcades, they are bars and nightclubs that happen to have retro games spread throughout.

No, these are definitely arcades that happen to serve adult beverages. I've only been to a few such places, so my experience is anecdotal, but the games are not 'spread throughout', they are packed into every square inch of available space. (with drink holders!)

Dave and Busters or some similar establishment probably qualifies as what you are describing, but I've never been so can't really say.

> But the arcades started dying when somebody had the silly idea that people wanted to play cockpit games or big interactive games for more than double the price.

You're right about the industry killing itself though, and it happened exactly how you say. The folks running the companies saw $ and forgot their core audience. Arcades were about putting your quarter up next and then schooling some cocky punk in Tekken, not paying $5 for an interactive single player movie where you can sort-of shoot some barrels or dinosaurs.

Anyway, these new places aren't for kids, they're for people like me (us?) who grew up with arcades but now love beer. And it's great!
I have the opposite problem. I play and play and experiment but rarely get to doing real stuff. I try to go very deep with my understanding before doing anything serious and through this usually discover how actually complex whatever I study is. And this complexity throws me off. The tool that I am studying becomes a subject of study itself.
The app-specific passwords are a feature and if you prefer the extra security over being able to use apps that don't support 2-factor, then you can choose not to use them, and get the full security benefits of 2-factor. It's just that, short of expecting every single third-party client app to implement 2-factor authentication or not allowing access to any that don't, there's no alternative to the app-specific passwords.

They are strictly better than using a single password for everything though, in that they are unique and strong (due to being automatically generated and 16 characters long), and easily revocable.
> And that number 3 is why this crisis is never going away. Yes, never.

It'll go away when there is a huge financial and fiscal integration of the Eurozone (with a finance ministry, and large, integrated taxes). This, of course, looks right now like a pipe dream. But as the only way out, it may become true anyway.
(The couple of 19-year-olds) told him “I honestly didn’t have any heat towards you before this. i just liked your username like I said before.”

"No heat towards you" -> But I will wipe your laptop. :/
I would add to that: Web developers, please implement two factor auth for your own apps as well. It takes minutes, literally, to add support for the Google Authenticator to your own app. I made a demo a while back inside of an hour. http://dendory.net/twofactors
> "But nowadays, everyone is on Facebook — well, nearly everyone. As the Daily Mail points out, two notable abstainers are James Holmes and Anders Behring Breivik."

This is a lie. Anders Behring Breivik had a Facebook account that he used to gather 1000 email addresses who he sent his 'manifesto' [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik#.27Manif...
Why is this at the top of HN? Just because its from marco? There is nothing new in the article. Can a moderator please change the title to the actual tile of the post "Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to Mat Honan’s Hacking"? The current title is just linkbait for people that thought it was a general discussion about apple's weaknesses from marco.
Sadly, I can :)

Just a few years ago I looked at my receipt from a local Dairy Queen and it had all but the last four digits printed on it. I complained to the guy behind the counter, who didn't see the problem.

I assume most new POS systems nowadays don't even have the option to print anything but the last four, but there are still some out there in the wild which do. Which is why I still shred all my receipts.
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Depends. 50k hits in 3 hours is 5 hits a second. I could serve more than 10 hits a second on the first web server I ever set up, in 1994, on an SGI Indigo 2 with maybe a 250MHz CPU and 256 megabytes of RAM, using NCSA httpd, which spawned a new process for every hit. Under IRIX. While I was using it as a workstation. Also, doing a reverse DNS lookup for every hit for the access log.

My current home page, http://canonical.org/~kragen/, benchmarks at 4000 requests per second with ab on localhost. That's roughly a thousand times the load you were under. This is not because our server is a thousand times faster than yours. (It's a dual-core 2.4GHz Celeron, running Apache.) This is because your server is doing a thousand times as much work as it needs to in order to serve that page.
"Why learn how people behave when you can teach them how to behave?"

Short answer: because that rarely works. Like how it would be nice if we could be living right now in one of those pure, good-in-theory idealistic societies...

We have a few ways of influencing behavior and preferences, but in many ways it's a black box, and it's usually much more productive to ask "how can I profit from helping people do what they want to do?" than "how can I make people do what I want them to do?"
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It's also interesting that for Amex cards, that part of the card number is very structured. The middle two of the last four are almost always 00 or 01 since it is just incremented for reissued cards.
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Seems insincere to me, really. Unless they're the only candidate and you know you want to hire them and it's meant to start some kind of dialogue or relationship. Otherwise, it's just awkward because it's not as if you can tell them anything until you make a decision. And yes, there's the added "every interview advice column" tells you to do this.

It might have mattered back in the days of hand-typed letters and I'm sure some stickler curmudgeons still want to see it as some rite of passage/hazing thing.
I disagree, those are not arcades, they are bars and nightclubs that happen to have retro games spread throughout.

Not all of them. From TFA:

But the recent boom in arcade openings isn't just among places that use games as an excuse to serve alcohol. "Our intention was more to be a resource for young people in the community," said Jeromy Darling, who opened ZAP arcade in the Minneapolis suburb of Jordan as a way to keep the town's young people occupied. "There's really nothing for youth there. There's a water tower, a lake, a creek... it's small. That was really our intention when we opened, to be a safe resource for kids, to offer something in the community that was just sort of cheap fun."

I'm not taking my kids to a nightclub to play arcade games but one or two they mention would be worthy. Although it is nice to see interest in having arcade machines in some form so maybe it'll kick off interest in proper arcades.

Yeah, sounds like there are already some family friendly ones... hopefully more will emerge.
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As a side note to the article, it's interesting to contrast the author's RoR school ( http://flatironschool.com/ ) where the goal is to get people from zero to junior level with that of Hacker School ( https://www.hackerschool.com/ ) that wants to take people from average to "ninja-rockstar" level (or at least a better engineer). I don't think that the goal of having more junior level engineers out there is a bad one, but in terms of what the market is currently looking for, I see the advantages of a program like Hacker School in the social proof of being one of the "ninja-rockstars."

I also personally agree with having one strong senior engineering being more advantageous to an early stage startup than a handful of junior ones (but not just from the programming side of things). A good senior engineer is easily worth double the salary of a junior one if they can provide both overall technical direction as well as general team direction and mentorship. Otherwise, a team composed and lead by only junior level people can quickly feel like the inmates are running the asylum for any one you're trying to bring in (junior or senior). The examples given in the article are all of places that have a strong, established tech team. If you're early stage and don't have a strong foundation to build your tech team on top of, getting three junior engineers for the price of one good senior one might not be the deal you think it is.
Not only in the US actually, it is used in Germany and France too, at least.
I use 2FA, but it's an absolutely frustrating experience. Most apps just don't support it. Google Music Manager requires a trip to accounts.google.com for a new App Specific Password every time I restart my computer, whereas Swiftkey just loses its ability to offer suggestions until I manually re-authenticate, which takes several minutes every time it happens, while I wait for an SMS and switch between apps.
> Why is this at the top of HN?

Because people voted it up
No, when I went to you website. Some script appears to be busy-looping as Firebug started complaining about a script taking too much time to execute. Telling it to cancel the script didn't help, the FF simply froze.
It's not "creative" to think of this. Sarah Palin's email was "hacked" by someone who looked up her security questions in Google.
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Sorry, but I have to disagree. WW1 was rather one of the many causes that made social-security not working after WW2. The other big one being, well, WW2.

However, changing the financial scheme of social security away from a capital-backed one towards a "generational accounting" one IS what makes it not working today (unless the working population keeps it's proportional size in relation to the retirees).
It is also used by Y Combinator (Hacker News is programmed in Arc and the Arc language runs on mzscheme, which is Racket's core).
I don't think you really understand what user experience design is. Good design doesn't automatically mean stripping out features. There is a delicate balance between simplicity, complexity, achieving business goals and user needs that all designers must strive for.

And yes, this is an infomercial.
The trollface is from a 4chan comic. The creator posted it to DeviantART too, but it's not really "from" there.
http://whynne.deviantart.com/art/Comic-Trolls-98357844

There are a few similar comic artists. Notably 3-Angled-Blue, who drew some amazing MS Paint comics that are slowly being made into rage comic templates.
I'm not surprised. Nikes are totally badass sneakers.
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Well, If he had a backup (either remote or local) it wouldn't have mattered. It would mean a few hours spent with Time Machine, but he wouldn't lose his data. And a remote backup should not be "removable".

Also, don't ever expect Apple to do anything ASAP. Even if the whole world shouts at them, they won't say anything. They take their time to (hopefully) think this through.
I totally agree with this. I have to be careful where I use app-specific passwords. Currently, I only trust the keychain on my Apple devices, and would never store one of these passwords in plaintext.
Not true. In Scheme you could implement an O(1) lookup for user types plus a cascade for built-in types. The number of built-in types is small and constant, so it should not impose much overhead.
OK, but it should be asking your for an authenticator code instead. It uses this bizarre "normal password + app specific password" requirement that isn't used anywhere else.
Heck, I get scanned in some restaurants these days for 30RMB meals. :)
Too, the whole puerile "ninja badass" nomenclature is a social signalling device that will turn off many excellent hackers. Stop it immediately.
heres the wikipedia page on how it all works...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_modification
Id Software has been an inspiring example here, open-sourcing several historically significant game engines. https://github.com/id-Software/

However, they typically don't include the full game data; you
have to use them with data from the free trial versions or contributed by the public mod community (something else Id really helped foster). Does anyone know if this is necessary for them to retain rights to the IP?
There is a trend in UX towards products so simple (by cutting features) that any user can immediately instantly pick it up without a learning curve.

It's what prompted Don Norman to write the article around 2007 titled "Simplicity is not the Answer" - http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/simplicity_is_not_th.html (quoted in the blog post) and a book "Living with Complexity" - http://www.jnd.org/books/living-with-complexity.html
I think you making the assumption that the only people that would gamble are addicts.. Or that gambling causes gambling addiction. Theres nothing to suggest either.

Plenty of people drink, most arent alcoholics.
Plenty of people take precription drugs, most arent addictded to them.

I think this is a move to capture an area of a market thats been growing, despite being shunned. Better still if its more sociably acceptable, we can only hope that those who do develop addictions feel as though they are able to seek help without fear of suffering social punishment due to the stigma associated
It really shouldn't be a problem. In my teenage years I could memorize a 16-digit number from seeing it once; I can't be the only one. If credit card security depends on keeping the big number printed on the front secret then it's doomed to failure.
It's more than a little likely that they already have your number. They have your email address, and chances are that more than a few of your friends have a contact in their google contacts that has that same address alongside your phone number. You could argue that they can't be certain, but aggregated across however many of your friends have those same details stored for you they can make some pretty safe assumptions.
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I haven't used Powershell at all. Would've been far better for MSFT to have adopted bash and provided windows-specific utilities where absolutely necessary.

DOS / cmd.exe, last I checked, didn't have true pipes, true shell expansion, or true readline capabilities (unless it's now GPLd, which I very much doubt). It does have some history and tab completion (though that last works weirdly IMO).

By shell expansion: expansion of wildcard globs by the shell, and not by specific utilities. Piping -- I forget the specifics, but it's always seemed hit or miss, mostly miss. Readline: see readline(3).
Doesn't Boost.Spirit [1] allow adding syntax and operators at runtime? (Seriously asking; have never used Spirit)

[1] http://boost-spirit.com/home/
I agree that my comment was a bit harsh, but that's not what I said. I said that if he wanted exceptions he shouldn't have used C.

As for the alternatives, well return values never killed anyone, did they? You can use gotos to simplify the control flow within the functions. Other than that, there really isn't much to explain.

I don't like longjmp because I never expect them in C. I never think "hey, the control flow might jump to some point 20 stack frames above at any moment when I enter this library". And then I use mutexes. Cue the drama. You can't even protect yourself from the stack unwinding with handler-case or try ... catch/except.