skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A paywall will do it. Thats where most of the users currently in see the value. They will probably change their current goals and become a svbtle equivalent in 140 chars. Elitist networks are in and one can easily see why. Yes, shameless speculation here.
Rather than mindlessly quoting Krugman's newspaper column, you should go learn the basics of Keynesian economics. Keynesian economics claims that companies don't hire workers because their real wages are too high (due to sticky nominal wages and insufficient inflation).

Since you seem to have an aversion to reading anyone besides Krugman, why not go read his textbook?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1429218290/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
WS-Security compared to "plain old" SSL
That may be true .. but why has http://www.trapwire.com/management.html been taken offline?

Cache available here:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0pAfaMR...
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Which man-page exactly?

The fun part about .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, /etc/bash*, /etc/profile etc. is that their semantics vary wildly between linux-distros. Not even Ubuntu and Debian agree here.

You never quite know where, when and if .bashrc is sourced by the distro-templates. A .bash_profile that unconditionally sources .bashrc will work fine on one distro, on the next you will see it run multiple times, on yet another you run into an infinite recursion.

His approach is the correct one and you'll find a similar script in just about any sizable, heterogenous deployment.
Backup/archive, where uploading data is frequent and downloading it is only very occasionally required.
Correlated: Discover surprising correlations
Yeah, english isn't my primary language and I haven't spoken it in a long time so sorry if I can't make my point across :)

I'm not ashamed for being wrong. If that'd be the case I would have been ashamed my whole life heh.

When I said consistency I was referring to low-error rate in the signal. I should have said that but couldn't find the correct word for it.

Efficiency meant efficiency in the bandwidth usage.

So in that sense, there's always a tradeoff between efficiency (use 100% of the bandwidth to transmit real data) and consistency (make sure that 100% of the sent data is error-free)

Now, when I first wrote my comment. I had the feeling that communication was very basic commands. like a 2 bit integer for movement direction (00 up, 01 down, 10 left, 11right). So if you'd use such a scheme to communicate instruction to the rover, there would be an obvious overhead (encoding 2 bit into 4, 10, etc).

But now that I really think about it, instruction sent to the rover are probably very complex, which increase entropy, which in the end, made my first assumption wrong, is this clear? I hope it is ;) If not, I can rephrase !
I was wondering what kind of security they have on the upgrade system. Presumably the software packages are signed. No hacker on Earth wouldn't like to be able to say they'd cracked a system on Mars.

But then I thought, "Who actually has the hardware to broadcast to Mars in the first place?".
The worst offenders to me are those that begin with a direct greeting ("Hi Jakob,") and are written by a specific person (in a personal tone and signed off by name). Am I supposed to believe that this was genuine (and not autogenerated)? That seems insulting to me.
I find this position really strange as though Facebook is some addiction that you can only beat through cold turkey.

Why not just turn off the notifications and use it as a glorified address book ?
Basic, ASM (6510), VB, Java, PHP, Javascript, C# and several dialects of SQL. With occasional forays into Ruby, Python and C.

I'm not had formal training in Mathematics beyond High School, though I've worked my way though introductory texts to Calculus (single variable), Linear Algebra and Discrete Mathematics (thanks in a large part to reading Yegge's rants and being inspired to learn by the exceptionally smart people on HN - really, I now wish I'd pursued Mathematics further, was in the top 5% at high school but didn't enjoy it).
TrapWire: The CIA-Connected Global Suspicious Activity Surveillance System
I am mostly agree with you, but:

>>Or compare the maturity of alternative JVM languages
I will not list Scala, Clojure and IronRuby, but IronPython is very mature.
And: F#.

F# in my opinion is more mature than Scala.
LendInk taken down by asshole indie authors
I'd be a little careful with that accusation. I think there are other groups that exist that would like you to believe that the US Government is behind these attacks. I am inclined to believe that the Feds are not the ones behind the attacks because the utility of doing so legitimizes Wikileaks and draws more attention to them.
>if demand increases but producers don't need to hire people to produce more, employment does not increase.

If fishes rode bicycles... but they don't.

Productivity growth doesn't change that much year over year:

http://www.bls.gov/lpc/prodybar.htm

And recessions are generally times of low change, since it doesn't make sense to invest in labor-saving technology when labor is cheap.

> production need not be correlated with employment.

In a speculative robot-filled future, that could be true. On Earth in 2012, if you want something done, you hire a human to do it.
Did you read the emails WL posted? At least one of the mirrors linked to in the article is up. I read through them all (there's about 8 of them). It seems TripWire has some kind of RSS feed viewer, and most of the emails are about how StratFor can get relevant articles into that RSS feed equivalent so that they can in turn sell ad space to big contractors like Lockheed Martin.

The emails are incredibly mundane, nothing even hinting at super secret conspiracy stuff in them at all.
It depends on context. If you are aware of your own fallibility python is a far more conservative choice than C++. Coding is difficult and the most limiting factor is your own ability. Imagine asking some students to build a Mars rover in 6 months with no experience. It would be far more conservative to use Arduino than ask them to start rolling C code. You are liberal because you are crazy enough to try and build a Mars rover in six months with no experience.
You know what, part of pilots in China(not all indeed) come from families that aren't rich, or countryside(so they are really not rich), or just didn't get good grades in school. So become a commercial aviation pilot means family finance would really change, and enroll in the military is another backup solution when taking exam and going university is not a good choice.
Slightly off topic, but the dollar shave club splash video is brilliant.
I don't like Obama on almost anything he supports, but I hope the Republican party gets 100% crazy this election with all the crazies they have in their party, and then I hope Obama beats them, so hopefully they learn that for the next election they need a change in strategy, and to avoid supporting the very corrupt and insane ones from inside the party.
It would be very cool if there was a similar graph for the entire boot process: from grub to init to rc.d/systemd to login to bash.
Weibo, China’s Twitter, Abuzz with Sentiment Over Liu Xiang’s Olympic Fail
There is an up to date, official mirror running on Tor as a hidden service that is still online here:

http://isax7s5yooqgelbr.onion/

I say it is "official", because the wikileaks Twitter stream mentioned it here: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/233859958767226880

If you don't have Tor installed at the moment, it is trivial to install it nowadays. Just install the browser bundle from here https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html and you'll be viewing the Wikileaks hidden service in a couple of minutes from now.
Steve Jobs offered Samsung Apple's crown jewels for $250M
Not hard to produce - the most difficult bit is finding someone, anyone, who actually has the information!
I'm very confused by the idea that OOP would be considered somehow more "algebraic". Functional programming seems way more algebraic to me. I mean, writing Haskell seems about as algebraic as programming gets even without using monads or other such very-high-level abstractions. Also, odd where he puts emacs/vi compared to where he puts programming languages, considering that emacs uses Lisp. (FWIW, I prefer algebra, and I tend to eat corn in patches.)
Yegge's discourse wasn't technical, and therefore shouldn't be countered. Your opinion of his value is subjective. And that pretty much demonstrates the validity of Yegge's "discourse" - writing software is a technical undertaking, but is performed by people. Who are social, and political.
SCOtutor iOS Apps - The Current Situation
Freebie: Notifications
The biggest problem with app.net right now is its diversity.

The 40 members shown in the App.Net community section when I went to the Join page are ALL 20-40 year old, white males. Not a single female or non-white.
Seven Tricks Your Mind Plays on You (and How to Fight Back)
The Most Important Parts of HTML5
RMS is only concerned about the freedom of software on computers. He does not care as much about the freedom of object designs and artistic works.
By spiral do the mathematicians mean helix?
Ask HN:  Would Single Payer be Good for Startups?
I've seen discussion of this point in the comments many times. I myself wonder about the anecdote of the person who can't join a startup or form a startup because they depend on their health insurance (kids, family, chronic diseases like diabetes, for example). I'm not sure how often this situation occurs, but I have heard people of all stripes say something to the effect of "I'd start a business if I could have healthcare for me or my family" or "If you're going to start a business, I hope your spouse has a good healthcare policy." I can't help but feel this is a big issue, but I don't know how big the impact of lack of healthcare portability is in the US.

So my question to HN is two-fold: Is lack of healthcare for those starting a business (or joining a bootstrap-py startup) a real inhibitor to innovation and access to good talent in startups? Secondly, would single payer be a good model to alleviate these negative effects? If not, what do you think might be a good compromise in this direction, granted it is a real problem?
Multitasking [Dilbert]
9200 miles is not very much in space. That's like 0.006% of the distance between Earth and Mars.
That was beautifully written. Thanks!
Humans are sheep. They follow each other. People see a crowd and go to see what's going on.

You can test it. Create a small crowd in any high street, stand back and what it grow.
Can't speak for the OP but here are a few differences between learning electronics vs. programming:

1. With programming you can download open source code that does whatever it is you want near enough instantaneously. Electronics projects come to a halt if you don't have the right parts on hand (which btw makes electronics a good hobby for just dipping in whatever free time you can steal).

2. There's a great deal more learning material available for free online for learning programming than there is for electronics.

3. With enough reading you can put together a web application or software 'in production'. Designing + printing PCBs and soldering on surface mount components with a reflow oven is obviously not a requirement for hobby electronics, but something I'd like to be able to do eventually. Getting the knowledge/skill/equipment together to do this will probably take at least a year (whereas you can go to any web host you like and have a website up and running in about 30 minutes).

4. If you mess something up while programming, you just kill the process and try again. If you make an error when putting together electronic components, you run the risk of letting the blowing them up and letting the magic smoke out. Aside from the safety issue, this is a real PITA if you're short on parts!

5. Debugging is relatively hard. While with programming you can output parts of the state of your program, analysing the state of a circuit requires working a multimetre and possibly an oscilloscope. This difficulty could be more due to my inexperience with electronics though.

EDIT: added...

6. Getting together the right equipment (soldering iron, breadboards, safety glasses, pliers etc) takes time if you're not sure what you're going to need up front. Sames goes for building up a stock of often used parts.
This subject has been gnawing at me as well for the past month; mind sharing more information about what your application is? My startup revolves around the best option or options as well.

Check-by-mail is being considered as an option (there are a few providers that automate the process).

There's also the technical possibility of using unlinked credits by a credit card processing gateway (user submits credit card # but instead of getting charged the money goes on their card), though so far they (gateway providers) have been very uncooperative about permitting large amounts of the behavior.

Some banks will allow direct ACH's but usually charge a fee per transaction that might make it prohibitive. I wouldn't be surprised if some banks charged less than others.

In any case, my startup is nearing launch and I'd relish the opportunity to meet people trying to solve similar problems.
This link is to a site that is explicitly listing the authors that misunderstood what LendInk was about and lobied for it to be taken down. The lack of research and understanding is saddening, but all too common. Get outraged, find your pitchfork, go after someone.

Anyway, here are other items on HN about this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4356769

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4361889 <- Comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4360626 <- Comments
That is quite a savings. The Chinese-assembled boards can have a defect rate of up to 50% and still be competitive with the original price (ignoring time lost and extra shipping charges).
If "sometimes the app can take advantage of a constraint" is an argument here, you should be against all usage of pipes.
I keep hearing this with no direct proof.

Most of the proof I've seen involves companies not paying a ton of taxes because of their gigantic losses the previous year.
Is there a no noise version of this. Trying to read it on mobile device is near impossible (hangover and screaming kid - unrelated - not helping)
Why did someone even decide that the program (the shell executable) needed to behave differently depending on "login" vs. "interactive"? If I'm executing a remote command (e.g. via ssh) I expect it to be working in the same environment that I'd be working in interactively. Maybe I need some environment variable to tell my script what "mode" we're in so that it can make some decision, but the shell not providing the same environment (aside from interactive vs. non-interactive behavior) bugs the hell out of me.
NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Installing Smarts for Driving
Good point, I've forgotten about that.
I think the word you are looking for is a moderate.

And good luck with that in this century.

What really makes me sad is that 40-45% of the country is happily going to vote for R+R just to try to punish their neighbors. It's a vicious mindset. Thank you for thinking above that.
See the discussion in this other thread:
http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4368242
Hey! I am doing something very similar with PageKite (http://pagekite.net/), although the server does not run in a browser.

I've decided to try to get authors of similar tools together on a mailing list to discuss whether we can agree on a common protocol so our clients/servers (connectors/relays, backends/frontends) can be interoperable. Join us: http://mailman.klaki.net/mailman/listinfo/revprotun
I can't believe this. Just 2 or so weeks ago I set about writing exactly something like this in Haskell [1]. It's by no means complete or even working at this point, but basically what I had in mind was something like:

yls | yfilter 'mdate = yesterday && permissions.oread = true' | yformat -ls

Every tool emits or consumes "typed" JSON (i.e. JSON data with an additional JSON schema). Why typed? Because then the meaning of things like mdate = yesterday can be inferred from the type of mdate and mean different things depending on whether mdate is a string or a date. In the case of a date, the expression mdate = yesterday can automatically be rewritten to mdate >= 201208110000 && mdate < 201208120000 etc. In the case of a string we do string comparison. In the case of a bool we emit an error if the compared-to value isn't either true or false, etc.

Basically, I wanted to build a couple of standard tools inspired by the FP world, like filter, sort, map, fold (reduce) and have an universal tool for outputting formatted data in whatever form is desired - be it JSON, csv files, text files or custom formats. Every tool would support an -f parameter, which means that its output is automatically piped through the format tool, so that something like

yls -fls

is functionally equivalent to

yls | yformat -ls

which would output the JSON data from yls in the traditional ls way on a unix system.

yls | yformat -csv

would output csv data. Some more examples:

yls | yfold '+ size' 0

prints out the combined size of all files in the current directory.

yls | ymap 'name = name + .jpg' | ymv

would append .jpg to all files in the current directory.

ycontacts | yfilter -fcsv 'name = *John*'

would print out all Google contacts containing John in their name as a csv file.

yps | yfilter 'name = java*' | yeval 'kill name'

would kill all processes whose names start with 'java'.

The cool thing about this is that this approach conserves one of the main selling points of FP: composability. I.e. you can throw something like yfold '+ size' 0 in a shell script and then write:

yls | size.sh

This way people would be able to build an ever growing toolbelt of abstracted functionality specifically tailored to their way of doing things, without losing composability.

[1] https://github.com/pkamenarsky/ytools
I'm sure you didn't mean it as such, but that's actually kinda funny; no, Silicon Valley did not get its name from the manufacture of Silicon from sand. Most of the sand that is sourced to make your microchips and solar cells comes from quartz mines and sand pits in Appalachia; Alabama, SE Ohio, and West Virginia are probably the top producers. Silicon Valley imports wafers and has historically had very little to do with how those wafers got made.

In fact, according to the foreman at one of said plants I talked to, they use pieces of quartzite that are more like pebbles than sand; no point in crushing it further I guess.

The function of the carbon is not just to create the heat but also to give the oxygen some way to remove itself. In fact, I believe the oxygen would still rather bond to silicon than carbon but the carbon is able to pull enough physically away as gas to make the reaction work. The resultant gas is mostly CO, carbon monoxide, which somehow becomes CO2 after the plant's done with it.
You can use

systemctl dot

It shows the dependency graph of your unit files.
Up in Sweden they have DTN's for reindeer farmers. A helicopter which brings food supplies acts as the data transfer relay.

DTN book for anyone interested in the area.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1596930632
Previous missions had problems with that one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_rover#Sol_18_.28January_...
1. Faster Javascript Engines

2. WebSockets

3. Binary Data Types (Typed Arrays and Blobs)

4. Web Audio API

5. Canvas 2D Context

6. CSS3 and WOFF

7. Local Storage, Offline Applications and the File APIs

8. Web Workers

9. SVG 1.1/2.0

10. WebGL

11. All the Rest
Web development tools and services
In low-bandwidth environments, the pipeline is like this:

1) plain data initial stream.

2) compress it.

3) encrypt it or/and sign it.

4) add error-checking or even error-correction information.

The reason you do encryption (3) after compression (2) is because you don't want encryption to affect the compression rate of the initial stream.

If you were to do it in the reverse order (first encryption and then compression) then yes, the resulting message could be bigger.
Indeed - that was the whole idea. But may be I'm becoming old fashioned ;-)

Also, if something like this gets implemented by a few (or even a single) high profile site being someones 'password buddy' will probably quickly become an accepted, may be even honorable, thing.
A must-read on the water tunnel project underneath NY is David Grann's article for the New Yorker 'City of Water'[1]. Mind-blowing engineering project, especially the two old tunnels and their inability to repair them. It is one of the most read and most requested stories in the recent history of the New Yorker.

The article was syndicated in his book, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, which is worth a read[2].

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/09/01/030901fa_fact_gr...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/The-Devil-Sherlock-Holmes-Obsession/dp...
Thanks for your feedback ;-)

* I'm not sure what you mean with being REST...

* I thought that a secret key part of the query string (together with the usage of HTTPS) is simpler. But, I might be more a question of personal preference, meaning that we should provide different way to authenticate ;-) I will put this on our to-do list.

* I fully agree, my mistake, I will check this!

* That makes sense... I personally have a preference for the underscores, we will discuss that at Eligible.

* Idem.

* To be fully honest, it has been an internal debate: "use or not use array" ;-) I personally wanted to use them... so, thanks for your feedback ;-)

* That makes sense... we will discuss that at Eligible.

* Usually, when I design a grammar, I always want to have the UOM next to any number! BUT, in this case, I did not pay enough attention to it... This Eligibility story is - according to my current knowledge - a US and only a US story.

* You are right! Following other comments, we might soon provide a public test API key that will return a predefined anonymized JSON answer so developers can hack the API straight away ;-)

* I can tell you that our JSON structure is already quite different from the flat raw X12 271 format. But, we might have lost a bit our track to make it as simple as possible to consume... Any suggestion is welcome ;-)

Thanks again for your feedback, please wait to get a full JSON instance - via updated documentation and/or the test API key - and carry on with such constructive feedback.
Patents a priority for startups
Thanks - looks interesting. Not installed on my system - I'll have to go investigate that in my copious free time.
Indeed - that is exactly what went wrong in the case of our unfortunate Wired reporter.

Also, there's a big chance of course that if someone has lost the password to a services he uses more or less regularly, he'll also not be able to remember the password of a service (the secondary mail account) he uses almost never ...
I eat it this way too, but everything in the article about spirals fits me well (even the C++ template metaprogramming).
Apparently Mickey and Donald are algebraists :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMD1fTQGego&feature=playe...
I have two words for you: Joe Biden, http://youtu.be/4_VJrmOBikU
It should be noted this is for systems that use Systemd, which as far as I'm aware of, is only Fedora at this stage.
FYI for those interested by a simpler alternative, we have Err our python bot.

http://gbin.github.com/err/

Plugins can be install straight from independent public git repos, configured from the chat, with a graphic test console, integrated help system, ...

Writing your own plugins is also a piece of cake https://github.com/gbin/err/wiki/plugin-dev
One Year of Symfony2 - Looking Back
That's not true. So in the case of `ps`, there is a known limit to the number of processes, and it is fairly small, so the performance hit is limited.

As another example in this context, if the original data source is gzip'd, it's faster to gunzip and then pipe rather than integrating the gzip logic into the app itself.