skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't fully formed this thought (I apologize), but you made a great comment and I wanted to reply! (Thanks by the way, for your comment)

I'm going to go out on a limb and argue that, in high school, my group of non-conformists likely conformed more than the group of conformists we ranted against so much. Examples may help:

- I got into Joy Division in Grade 9. Suddenly, all my friends listened to Joy Division (and we even gave up on mohawks because Ian Curtis inspired us so much).

- Or, the beginning of grade 9, we were all obsessed with Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. But then, my friend Drew bought Shadowrun books. All of a sudden, we were all obsessed with Shadowrun (and cyberpunk in general). We were so obsessed that AD&D immediately went from the ranks of 'amazing system' to 'a stupid game for kids'.

- Bad Religion was playing in Edmonton. Suddenly, Bad Religion was our collective favourite band and we planned a crazy road trip to go see them play.

I don't totally understand the mechanism at play, but your comment brought all of this to mind. I suspect that since we were so socially outcast (because we all tried so hard not to conform), we felt that we couldn't lose what friends we had. Consequently, nobody rocked the boat about anything until University.

Oddly, we all drifted apart while we were in University. In retrospect, it looks like we only stayed together because we conformed so perfectly...

Thanks again for your comment - I love that I had these thoughts and I owe you for them!
Valuable target. Battle.net is the login system for Warcraft and Diablo, both games where player accounts have significant cash value. The gold and items in a serious Warcraft player's account are often worth well over $50 and are relatively easy to strip and sell on a black market. Diablo 3 has a legitimized real money auction house, only heightening the risks for Blizzard.
But that scenario -- searching only through GoDaddy (preferably HTTPS), and seeing that domain gone minutes later -- is not described in the comment I responded to. Nor in the parent linked article. Nor was it in the prior report this article mentions.

And yet, even if that did happen, GoDaddy gets millions of registrations per year, and many times that in lookups. So losing a domain minutes later is certain to happen many times per year for strictly innocent/coincidental reasons.

And some of the advice being given in these sorts of threads -- use DNS/whois lookups, use other random website services -- could be increasing the risk. (Those protocols are eavesdroppable, those services have less to risk than GoDaddy.)
http://jsperf.com/sizzle-1-7-2-vs-1-8
I wanted to thank you for your comments in defense of skinheads yesterday, but time got away from me (and I have a touch of ADHD). Thanks for jumping up in defense of a group I have a whole lot of respect for!
I agree. If nothing else its always refreshing to read a piece on HN written by someone with a command of language and writing. Sometimes it gets tiring reading bullet pointed articles about how to design an engaging landing page, or poorly written and thinly veiled link-bait blog posts meant to get free marketing ("Dear Mark Zuckerberg", or "If You're Doing X, You're Doing it Wrong").

I think there were two big points made by the author, and he argued them fairly well: be aware of how powerful language is, and if you're a "hacker" - which by definition is someone who thinks out if the box - look around once in a while and realize if you've become a member of just another Herd. Sure he made his points through pointed satire and ridicule, but i think we all benefit from laughing at ourselves once in a while.
Right...but not apartment listings (aap)

http://newyork.craigslist.org/aap/
http://newyork.craigslist.org/roo/
http://newyork.craigslist.org/sub/

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=...
Life insurance is not exclusive. You can take out a policy on yourself, and your employer can take one out on you, and you can buy one through your employer, all at the same time. In fact, Wal-Mart has been accused of surreptitiously taking out life insurance policies on its own employees without their knowledge. This allows them to claim and get a death benefit on some of their older, senior citizen employees. Clearly in that case, Wal-Mart being a policyholder had no impact on the employees having their own policies at the same time.

In this instance, Google is providing an additional benefit to its employees (benefits go to them) which doesn't preclude the employee from getting their own policy -- which they should, since they should never have a life insurance policy that is dependent on employment.

In fact, Google gets a good deal in doing so. When they insure their employees, they are doing so with a limited term (a 10 year payout instead of a one-time lump sum), and they are also getting the benefit of a group life insurance policy, which averages out the rates across the insureds rather than on a per-person basis, which would require each employee to endure a physical and a qualification check. Sounds like something other businesses might think of emulating.

I liken this more to a disability insurance benefit rather than something that is used to keep employees committed to the company.
As admirable as this is (they're basically giving employees a free, low hassle premium life insurance plan), I can't help but feel that this is a will calculated way to widen the gap between goog and startups. I imagine employee spouses have a huge reason now to talk their partners out of leaving their cushy job. 'If not for yourself then think of us...'
What loophole in the tax code makes that behaviour worthwhile?
No, BidKat doesn't work like that. He works with each buyer individually to come up with the price that they find fair and that meets the sellers price requirements.
I didn't read it that way, I thought it was hilarious…
How Discovery Happens
Surprises in advanced threat awareness survey
I think you may be confused.
Actually, Sometimes It Sucks To Work At Apple – Here's Why
Well there was also the many-years development of Copland that ultimately failed and precipitated the purchase of NeXT just to get a decent OS.

It's hard to say whether Copland was a rewrite or a refactoring, but what is indisputable is that the root architectural decisions of Mac OS were a dead-end.

They actually had to go beyond a rewrite to build something completely new and different, and then retrofit an emulator onto it to support the old system.
It's the daily mail. The correlation of its stories with reality is exactly 0.
He is Charlie Stross. He doesn't need a resumé.
BEST BUY TIPS: Laptop Charger
on the lookout for the best laptop charger for your system? Here’s a quick breakdown of tips to make the hunt easier!
Very cool ! Can't wait to test it !
Why exactly no C++ support ?
That's generally how we've set up our auctions since pictures look nicer on BidKat than on CL.
I thought iOS standards required an initial splash page? Or am I confusing this with a required loading page.
"The women have it tougher. Their business casual is neither business-minded nor all that casual, a confusing melange of sundresses and sensible slacks, gossamer sweaters tossed over spaghetti straps."

That seems weirdly sexist to me. I guess I really like working in tech because I can wear generally what I want, and often in the summer, that means sundresses, instead of a stifling business suit. And I guess I always assumed the tech world, particularly the start-up scene, wasn't judging me as less business-like because of it.

TLDR: yes, a lot of the startup world is full of shallow business-speak, but don't you dare insult my sundresses.
The United Nations and the Internet: It's Complicated
Mountain Lion Mail Perturbs Sending Behavior
True, and of course Amazon takes that into account when they set the terms of the affiliate program.
I'm less and less excited when I see new releases of jquery. I guess it's so widely used that you can't add cool stuff without messing with already existing code or pissing some people off.

TL & DR for the patch:
- some internal rewrite
- some small fixes
- smaller code size
Google is sitting a giant pile of cash, with few attractive places to park it. In that situation it makes a lot more sense to self insure. If that changes in the future they can always take out a reinsurance policy to cover the costs.
My understanding is that this is a separate legal issue. CL's complaint against PadMapper is for scraping, not with users reposting on PadLister.
You mean, half of the plutonium mass will be gone. It will be almost completely be replaced by other elements. Though I don't know how much energy they give off in radiation, or whether they are stable.
New Strikeforce Video: August 18 - Sarah Kaufman Vs. Ronda Rousey
We have the ability to select different monetary units for auctions and will be implementing that feature shortly. What do you mean that you didn't really get a bid?
Yes but who are we to say that the Netscape 4 codebase was refactorable? Maybe they would have lost momentum and simply died with nothing to show for it at all.
Lots of it won't, too.

I'd love to switch to Linux - but until Premiere, After Effects, and Photoshop all run as well on Linux as they do on Windows, I can't. (Not to mention various other bits and pieces of 3D software).
I find this deeply ironic.

I'm intensely curious how much responsibility for the current debacle can be attributed to Craig and how much can be attributed to Jim Buckmaster
Are Vertical Axis Turbines the Future of Offshore Wind Power?
I hoped it was funny. I also hoped it would take some of the fury off the bug reports from people who hadn't tried any of the betas or RCs and now are finding problems. Like this one that just arrived: http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/12232
TechStars Showcases 11 New Startups At Boulder Demo Day
This seems like a sneaky way to scare people from leaving google?

What, by making "working at Google" better than "not working at Google"?
> If the Surface tablet is a success — and with its design, specs, price point, and Microsoft’s marketing dollars, you have to assume it will be . . .

Do you now?
They've evolved a neural network (in this case, made of real neurons instead of computer simulation) which presumably emits certain signals when it does not detect the horizon in the correct position. It's impressive, but I don't think they were having it take off from an aircraft carrier and land at JFK.
Agreed. I had their Ergonomic keyboard from 2001 and clung on to it for grim death for 11 years, before eventually replacing it with ... their new ergonomic keyboard.
Thanks for the comments. I'm working on a book now. Also was invited to write a paper refuting the claim of living creatures in the Venera photos. Those features are explained by unusual pulse-position modulation system.
Software isolates the features that distinguish Paris from Prague
People have quite significantly more sophisticated control that that running on dinky little 8 bit micro controllers, see Ardupilot at https://store.diydrones.com/APM_2_5_Kit_p/br-ardupilotmega-0...
Pair programming is kind of team-by-team... ie: not every team is able to reap its rewards. So I understand if you've not had success with it. But I have worked on dozens of projects pairing, and I have seen the productivity gain. And that doesn't take in to account the gain is code quality or the developer training/learning that takes place.

As for TDD... if you think that testing doubles development effort then you're not doing it right, or more likely you've never done it at all. Ditto about TDD being incompatible with improving UX. That's just not true.
> Four years of being in the working world would have had them working in the kind of job one could get with a high school education and no experience.

Which is the exact same situation a college graduate who put nothing into their education will be in, just several years later. You can leverage your time in a post-secondary school to move immediately into a better job in the future, but it is not the default.

In the meantime, the high school graduate has taken an entry level job and applied their own educational pursuits to move up the ladder at work and after four years is taking on the same kinds of jobs that someone who worked hard in college is.

The moral is that learning takes time and effort. There are no shortcuts, but there is no clearly defined path either. I find it a little disturbing that this article thinks these people should be overnight successes after just one year. Let's revisit them in ten and see where they stand. I expect they will be doing just fine.
> They could have used @font-face and distributed the fonts with the page,

Bingo. These CSS[0] and JS[1] are in the quiz.

[0] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2891540/Fonts/fonts.css
[1] http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/js/multimedia/bundles/...
According to a few runs of this benchmark, a number of these tests are slower in 1.8, particularly selecting by class. That's rather off-putting. I hope it's just me.

Using Chrome 21.0.1180.57 on OSX.
For most applications you have to jump through hoops to get it to work, if at all.
I don't quite understand the 16 character password limit.
I guarantee you that I have a book I have loaned out more than once.. a couple times, in fact. Amazon only lets you lend it once, for up to a maximum of, what, 2 weeks?

In meatspace I can sell my book to a friend... or give it away.

Why is it that with ebooks some authors feel enititled to a sale for each and every person who wants to read their book? That is never how books worked in the past.

I thought all this information technology would liberate information, not restrict it to such an extent.

You say that a site allowing lenders to be matched to borrows would... what? You can only loan each book once.
And... their site is being crushed by the traffic.

EDIT: Finally loaded, and the site is a giant SWF file? Seriously?
As a developer, I would rather be solving my problem and writing the cool code than writing the auth system for the bazillionth time.

Also, something about schlep work and basing businesses on it that PG once said in an essay or another.
Nice Try, App.net
Isn't there a positioning system that it can use to track the router with accuracy? I'm not aware of any, but I'm sure it must exist.
Tasty Labs' product: human.io, a way to build easy mobile participation
From the desk of a WePay API employee:
1. We have a 24 hour approval process and we support rewards based crowdfunding companies; equity is wait and see

2. Numerous companies already use us so our api is battle tested and offers all standard features (all or nothing, real time charges, split payments...etc)

3. Smooth and quick onboarding process for fundraisers using an OAuth 2.0 flow. No disjointed flow or long application process for your fundraisers. They can accept payment directly in their WePay account.

4. No redirect on checkout. Pick from an iframe or tokenization. White label experience for your donors.

5. Our api was built for marketplace/platforms.
Anyone else have a bunch of pop-up ads when browsing there?
We've found that most users won't read much on a home page so we kept the copy short and focused on the video. We'll try and clean it up, but getting people to watch the video seems to be working out the best.
> except perhaps price

It's almost as if all computers were sufficiently powerful for 99% of use cases that that's the only thing most people care about...
Same here - no luck with Opera Mobile.
As the previous commenter said, please please pleeeeease don't UA sniff.
Crime and punishment discussions aside, are you serious about forbidding them to use their code? How would that work out? Who would get to decide? What if someone deploys a too powerful team of humans to do the same thing?
This lets you build tiny little microapps and distribute them to a mobile client. The code runs on your server, but the UI runs on the device. The events are gatewayed back and forth.

The ultimate vision is to make a way for passive audiences into active participants.

We combined things we love: Mobile, Mechanical Turk, MapReduce, and Twilio.
Felix Baumgartner's Free-fall From 120,000 Feet Pushed Back To October
For .com and .net names using the above method Verisign GRS has access to that info. There is nothing to prevent whois.verisign-grs.net (or the others they operate) from logging your request -or- from someone sniffing it by other means (it's plaintext after all).
Goldman Sachs is the extreme example of capitalism gone wrong.

I find it interesting this sort of thing is rarely, if ever, presented as government gone wrong. Not everything based on self-interest falls within capitalism. When someone steals, commits extortion, etc., no one considers it an "example of capitalism". And yet when the government engages in such at the behest of self-interested parties, "capitalism" gets the rap. Quite odd.
Speeding up SmugMug Search
You're selling a service that every competent web developer can build…

You say this as if it were a bad thing. I like outsourcing things that, in an emergency, I can easily replace.

What I hate is buying a service that has no competition (so I can't easily switch to a different vendor) and that would take hundreds of hours to duplicate (so I can't easily switch to my own implementation.)
Canadian hacker dupes Walmart to win Defcon prize
The vast majority (over 70%) of user accounts at my previous company were email and pass, even though Facebook was offered for each new account.
Most politicians don't really care that you hate politicians in general. For example, note that Congress's approval rating is in the low teens.

If a given politician gets valuable future support in exchange for making people think less of government or their fellow pols overall, then that's a win for them.
I'm concerned that this is happening so often that it is no longer raising eyebrows. It's becoming one of those "just how things work on the Internet, get used to it".
Point. I mistakenly assumed /aaa covered all of housing.

Looks like the same principle applies to a number of other subcategories. So while overview indices aren't spiderable, subindices are.
Tasty Labs' Newest Project: Human.io
This doesn't do a very good job of explaining the tax consequences, but: "Wal-Mart, which said it canceled its policies in early 2000 because it was losing money on the arrangement, says the program was intended to reduce its income taxes to help pay rising employee health care costs." -- http://news.tbo.com/news/metro/MGB5SEJVN3F.html
Either that or 2-factor authentication will catch on and stealing passwords won't be worth anything.
Pixelmator Adds Support for OS X Mountain Lion (and the new rMBP)
Dear Jordyn of 140stitches.com.

Thank you for your fashion advice! I'm one of the guys that organized the Perl 6 hackathon you so gracefully commented. I can inform you that we had absolutely no dress code requirements for this event, so your unsolicited advice is quite appreciated.

Obviously, failing to consider fashion issues when attending a Perl 6 hackathon was a mistake. We had no idea that more girls would show up to this hackathon - if we only had worn our best garments! I'm sure we'd all have Perl 6-hacking supergenius awesomely beautiful girlfriends had it not been for this single omission in our program.

You see, we've found out through several years of field testing, focus group sessions, long-form questionnaires and cross-section polls, that being "fashionable" has absolutely no effect on a practitioner's ability to write good software. If we only had known better!

We know now that we were mistaken. Thank you for enlightening us!

This is why I'd like to formally invite you to attend our next Perl 6 hackathon. I think it's reasonable that you get an opportunity to bring your expertise and garments to this venue, and show us all that your well-honed fashion sense can help us reach our (admittedly secondary) goal of bringing more girls to the Perl 6 community.

Thank you for your constructive critique, I'm looking forward to see your work at our next hackathon!

Kind regards,

- sjn (hackathon organizer)
Check again: 4680+2797 is 7477 and 4680/7477 is 62.591%, for CM, and 4703+2833 is 7536 and 4703/7536 is 62.407%, for Baskerville. The raw number of Baskerville agreements is higher than the raw number of CM, so its bar is higher, but that disparity is just what I'm complaining about (well, among other things).
An Incomplete Guide to Not Creeping
"Some data was illegally accessed, including a list of email addresses for global Battle.net users, outside of China. For players on North American servers (which generally includes players from North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia) the answer to the personal security question, and information relating to Mobile and Dial-In Authenticators were also accessed. Based on what we currently know, this information alone is NOT enough for anyone to gain access to Battle.net accounts."

The part where it says, "answer to the personal security question" were accessed should be EXTREMELY ALARMING. This combined with an email addresses is usually enough to get your password reset on lots of sites. I believe this will reset your password on Google (assuming you're not using 2 factor).
Google's policy is slightly better than 5x.

If you ignore the time value of money.

Google's policy is 5x your salary, but spread out over 10 years. Much better (for you, worse for google) to get the cash up front.
A trader losing his mind during the Flash Crash of 2010
Grounds for this claim?
> we require you to discontinue all use of IMDB in association with this script, and transfer imdbapi.com and imdbapi.net to IMDb, within 3 business days.

Wow.
I think that's usually the sign of a mature platform. Less super exciting features and better stability and reduction in code-size. It's better than the alternative or greater and greater bloat.
Just in case you missed it, another replier mentioned an additional package, VintageEx. I just gave it a try and all of a sudden all the things I was still missing from vim are in ST2!

I recommend giving that a shot, but I do completely understand your reluctance. You're right, the absences are jarring!
Yep. And it's all configurable.
Wouldn't it be more likely for the reverse to hold true? The razor-and-blades business model doesn't exactly apply here given the low level of technical sophistication required to print the calibration stickers. Constructing inkjet cartridges and machining modern razor blades are far more complex feats of engineering.

As the paper describes, the stickers can be applied "in any pattern so long as some tape is visible from every position that the device will move to". Thus, there is no need to align the stickers in a special pattern beforehand.

Anyone should be able to print similar calibration stickers on their own dime.
> I don't understand this? A tab is a tab?

How do you differentiate between tabs that the logger generates, and tabs inside log messages? You need to escape the tabs inside messages. This problem exists with any character delimited format (e.g. csv).
No, everything is not fair in business.

Commerce is one of the many mechanisms by which we collaborate in making a better world. If you have found a way to abuse that mechanism to enrich yourself at the expense of others, then you're an asshole.

That you can get away with something for a while does not make it right, and it does not make you less of an asshole. Indeed, I'd say that finding a new way to fuck people over, and therefore forcing the creation of a new regulatory apparatus that burdens us all, makes you more of an asshole.