skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Find Your Personal Legend, The Alchemist & Entrepreneurs
Toyota fires IT contractor, but forgets to change passwords..
Please ... tell me you are joking.

Edit: I don't disbelieve you just, wow, that is amazingly bad.
Originally I thought I didn't like him, but in actuality he's a fantastic doctor and a nice deviation from the Tennant/Edelsson mix. I found the writing in the last season of the show to be abysmal, though. Didn't feel like Doctor Who at all.
All of the pages just come up with "Not Found" for me
The only advice on HTML in e-mail should be: don't!
WePay Targets PayPal Where It Hurts With Easy Payment Buttons
To get a consistent view across multiple queries you just use the SERIALIZABLE isolation level. In PostgreSQL REPEATABLE READ also works, but the standard does not guarantee this (the standard allows for ghost reads since it assume you use locking rather than MVCC snapshots to implement REPEATABLE READ).

The ability to query any historical view of the data is indeed not there in PostgreSQL in any simple or reliable way. That is an advantage of Datomic, but I do not see why it would be impossible to implement in a "traditional database".
How does it shift the supply curve? The food is getting bought from farmers anyways, for cash, they don't give a damn about if it is going to be sold to people in shops, distributed for free, or stolen.
Though I like the analogy used here, I think this whole "ideas" versus "execution" debate is rather silly.

Though obviously worthless unless executed, a truly great idea is worth a lot. The point is that there are not that many truly great ideas around.

A valuable patent is an example of something that is a great idea. The most valuable patent, for the anti-cholesterol drug Lipitor, generated $105 billion in revenues.

http://www.pellegrinoandassociates.com/most-valuable-patent-...
I concur with [3]. This was also a front page article on reddit which is probably a better suited place for such discussions
Exactly what I thought. An app will potentially already have your whole social graph by the time you get to change those settings.
3D Cross-Platform 3rd Person Shooter - To Intel x86 Android
Using Eclipse databinding with Felix
Can't reply to mryan, but I'd just checked this before coming back to HN & indeed, google-authenticator doesn't make any network connections when invoked & it generates the QR-code locally.

So don't hit that URL if you don't want Google to know your 2-factor auth data!
I might add that WW2 bombs are found every week somewhere in Germany. They're dug up when old buildings are demolished, when rails are repaired, sometimes children find them while playing in the woods. I don't understand the technology behind bomb disposal and consider it a small miracle that rarely anything ever happens. In fact, bomb defusings are so routine that they don't usually make it the national news.

(This one is noteworthy only because it had to be actually detonated, and in the process caused quite a bit of damage.)
Moreover if you use cat, it can be easily replaced with e.g. zcat to do whatever you want with gzipped files.
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 [Draft]
Password Encryption -- Short Answer: Don't.
May be a bit off topic. But I do notice that those people who are not tech-savvy or totally computer illiterate tend to use the term 'coder' a lot to refer to us who can program. Is there a subtle difference in meaning between a 'coder' and a 'programmer'? Or is just myself being a bit over-sensitive?
Changes from SVG 1.1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-SVG2-20120828/changes.html
Performance Test: Groovy 2.0 vs. Java
The essential difficulty in programming is not to do with syntax. That's just the first thing an "outsider" sees that makes it seem unapproachable. The programming-for-the-rest-of-us thing has been tried more than a few times. Outside of specialized domains, I don't think it has ever gone anywhere.
Harvard creates cyborg flesh that’s half man, half machine
That's a cheap shot. The medical and science articles in wikipedia that I've read in areas where I have expertise are remarkably good. Why not use a powerful, free and fast resource, as long as you're cognizant of its limitations?
MongoDB 2.2.0 Released
If we use this website to "remix" Brazzers can we get the Libyans to take their domain away
Yes, in fact some apps post to your timeline immediately with a message encouraging your friends to add the app.
Any particular URLs? Does http://www.haxx.ly/h/28 as an example?
Pretty nice but you should really get a mechanical keyboard, that's the real coding sound http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWPH7FAUfUY
The model of consistency envisioned by Datomic is one in which consistency normally available only within a transaction is available outside of any transactions, and without any central authority. Consistent views can be reconstituted the next hour, day or week. Consistent points in time can be efficiently communicated to other processes. Nothing about MVCC gives you any of that. MVCC is an implementation detail that reduces coordination overhead in transactional systems. I used MVCC in the implementation of Clojure's STM. While you might imagine it being simple to flip a bit on an MVCC system and get point-in-time support, it is a) not efficient to do so, and b) still a coordinated transactional system.

The differences I am pointing out, and the notion of place I discuss, are not about the implementation details in the small (e.g. whether or not a db is MVCC or updates its btree nodes in place) but the model in the large. If you 'update' someone's email is the old email gone? Must you be inside a transaction to see something consistent? Is the system oriented around preserving information (the facts of events that have happened), or is the system oriented around maintaining a single logical value of a model?

The fact is with PostgreSQL et al, if you 'update' someone's email the old one is gone, and you can only get consistency within a transaction. It is a system oriented around maintaining a single logical value of a model. And there's nothing wrong with that - it's a great system with a lot of utility. But it isn't otherwise just because you say it could be.

Also, you seem to be reacting as if I (or someone) has claimed that Datomic is revolutionary. I have never made such claims. Nothing is truly novel, everything has been tried before, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants.

I'm sorry my talk didn't convey to you my principal points, and am happy to clarify.
Burst out laughing when I clicked "Angry dev". Nice.
You're right SeaMicro did Atom and Xeon. Calxeda isn't owned by AMD though. I'd swear AMD bought an ARM based company, and I thought it was SeaMicro. Must have been their Fusion announcement stuff that I remember.
Better quality of the video (Original, CC): http://vimeo.com/48399328
Why request the kitchen sink on startup? For example, if I have an app that posts on my wall when I perform certain actions inside the app, why not check and ask for that permission at that point? As a user the cause-effect will be clear since I've just performed an action that requires post.

The only benefit I see of the all-at-startup solution is that it provides one single "interruption" to the user. But the list of things an app might do can be large, even though it only may need to do some of them rarely. So if I see a big long scary list I'm more likely to just cancel out.
It says sed has basic stream editing capabilities. Basic. This guy should check, sed has very complex and powerful editing capabilities.
There is a company out here that called me several days ago in regards to their service. I will summarize their business model.

They charge by the ticket and complexity of the issue. I.e. If they open a ticket for application support it starts at $10.00 per ticket. If the ticket takes over 2-hours to complete it increases to $20.00. If it goes over 6-hours then it increases to $25.00. At 12-hours it is $40.00. If the ticket isn't resolved in 12-hours they bite the bullet and have to figure it out.

For backup/maintenance/monitoring they create and implement a system that automates all this. They spend 10 hours a week updating/monitoring on their low-level package which costs $50.00. If you want to upgrade to premium support meaning they work on yours and only yours for those 10-hours then they charge 100% of the fee.

They also allow you to buy hours in bulk and then transfer the hours over billing cycles. So you can buy 100 hours of application support. This would let you set it at any level free of charge.

Their pricing is a little hard to understand so I don't recommend it but then again on a pay-per-use basis I guess it is the only way.

They also charge by the level of the ticket. They have Low, Medium, High, and Urgent. If you decide your ticket is low priority you pay the rates I discussed above. If you escalate each level increases your support ticket costs by 25%. The Urgent level is an increase of 50%.

So for application support general ticket, $10.00. Update it to Urgent would cost $23.50. ((($10.00 * 1.25) * 1.25) * 1.5)
MongoDB 2.2 Delivers Improved Analytics and Faster Performance
Giving people what they want - to combat piracy! An innovative strategy.
The social graph is not secret. Apps don't need to ask any permission to get it. https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=197943902130
ugh.. HTML mail.. If this makes it easier for people to write good looking (or bad) HTML mail, then it's a broken objective. Plain text mail please!
Release notes: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/release-notes/2.2/
Great work Nicolas and team!
Well, luckily I wouldn't hurt a fly, so none of your type have been harmed :).
Wow, reading this makes me wonder if a great deal of family doctors can be replaced by an expert system that can be assisted by a remote doctor in a centralized way. I call it 'Doctor in demand'
Is it social engineering by Sabu that lead to all the arrests?
Anybody can sue anybody for anything. The question is, do you have grounds to sue that won't get you laughed out of court.

Patents are supposed to cover implementations of inventions. Mere combination of existing ideas is not supposed to be covered. Watson and Siri (and Google Voice Search) combine voice recognition, natural language processing, and some sort of inference engine, but it's unlikely that any of them are using exactly the same techniques for all the parts.
I don't understand your perspective. He had an experience and painted what he experienced into a self-portrait. "Associating [...] styles" with drugs isn't the same thing. He sees what he sees and he paints it.

I read you as accusing him of insinuating something like "Picasso is Xanax" which isn't the case.

In short, he's neither implying nor creating this association, he's simply putting what he sees on canvas.
That's it $() works. thanks.
Fun little example #trollface: http://www.haxx.ly/h/2f
How many lines of code do i have?
The Myth of the Corporate Wife
I don't think the audience for this exists. People with a mind capable of programming are also capable of learning syntax, especially since there are so many languages now with lightweight syntax. I fear these attempts shall remain confined to educational toys for kids, which are really cool, but I don't see them used widely in schools.
oauth2 permissions are not agile at all. there is no 'one time token' for some action or 'allow it for 1 day only'. If you allowed 'wall' - it's forever.
I disagree, I haven't had a single bad experience with PHP in years of use, maybe I'm just lucky or too close minded, but having used python, perl and ruby for programming too, I actually prefer PHP.
also see https://code.google.com/p/memory-measurer/
How Communication And Industries Have Been Disrupted By Digital
Product Manager - Strategic or Not?
Great article. Amazing how out in the open Romney's hypocrisy is. I really do think that he's the ideal cipher for the right.
You'd probably be sued for damage to clothing and emotional stress.
Agree, "Angry dev coding" could easily be "Working with XML".
SEC Guidance on Cyber-Disclosure Becomes Rule for Google
cat /dev/random > /dev/dsp

Not necessarily the most pleasant sound. [Linux only AFAIK]
The cellular+GPS is a commercial product:

http://www.spybike-gps.com/products-gps-localization/top-cap...
Tesla was really started by a small company called AC propulsion. They made the prototype roadster. Elon and Martin both approached AC separately to take the car to Mass Market but they wern't interested, so Elon and Martin teamed up. Elon financed the company and Martin ran it. However in 2008, after a series of massive mistakes, Elon had to recap the company with every penny he had and Martin was fired.

Lesson is. Corporate history is a lot like hotdogs. They have equal claim co-founder status.
Do old unexploded bombs ever just go off on their own, or do they always need a trigger? (Moving them, etc.)
Show HN: We released an improved version of our free web app security scanner
Awesome release,

notes summary:

• Aggregation Framework to fix some map-reduce woes.

• TTL Collections

• DB Level Locking (A step in the right direction)

• Better yielding on page faults

• Tag aware sharding (HELL YES)

• Better Read Prefs

• Indexes now handled by mongodump/mongorestore

• mongooplog replay is awesome for getting point in time backups

• Shell now has full unicode, multiline command history, $EDITOR support (all from change to linenoise.c
"THE role model for basically all viral methods on Facebook platform"

Creative ways to be greedy, and creativity, are worlds apart... they might even be in different universes.
I think that exploring alternative ways of creating programs is an excellent worthwhile activity. But while it might "open up" programming as discipline for _some_ people that would otherwise not do it, it doesn't follow that "everyone" will be able to program.

LabVIEW is an example of a visual programming language that has been around for 20+ years. It is very popular in manufacturing test and laboratory applications. It was supposed to make certain kinds of programming accessible to non-programmers. Did it do that? To some extent, yes. However to do anything even remotely large or complex with it you're still stuck with the same old problems of software development that the general public sucks at. The best LabVIEW "programmers" _are_ "programmers".
Polyglot Conference
I think these are all Opera quirks. It is saying there are unhandled exceptions when all the ones it identified are inside a try/catch. It looks the -o- warnings are coming from the internal feature detects that we use in jQuery 1.8, we really can't avoid those without browser sniffing.
Isn't this a fertile ground for exploits? Session hijacking comes first to mind.
I don't see it. It just opened Obama's facebook page for me.
Datomic allows one to get a consistent basis for multiple queries, separated by arbitrary amounts of time, outside of any transactions. Having to group queries motivated and conducted by different parts of your system into a single transaction in order to get a consistent basis is a source of coupling.
"Angry dev coding" is "Arguing on the internet"
The foreman's 'insight' is a complete logical fallacy, and I would also bet he has no concept of what a cross-compiler does, just as an ancillary point.
Scaling Deep Learning - Jeff Dean (video)
Because since everyone can hold a pencil or paint brush, everyone can be an artist!

That's obviously true, but the emphasis must still be on the "can". There's nothing stopping you, but there never was. The difficulty in programming is not writing words, it's understanding what the machine can do and how you can use that to do what people want to get done.
comm is another very useful command
15 years in prison for a simple SQL injection and publishing of data?

What else gets you 15 years in the UK?
- Repeated rape of same victim over a course of time or rape involving multiple victims : 15 years custody
- Rape accompanied by abduction: 11 - 17 years
- Murder if aged 18 or over at date of offence: minimum term of 15 years

Right. Leaking data is punishable at the same level as rape and murder. Great country.
I dig the terminology they use. Layer is a great term. Also loved the distinct lack of chrome around layers. The invisible interface is still the future.
FHA loans require 3.5%, and a typical conventional loan requires 5%. There are also housing programs in some areas that will help with a down payment. For example, the House Charlotte program recently contributed $7500 towards a home for a friend of mine.

20% is only required if you don't want to pay private mortgage insurance.
you might want to go on webhosting talk forum and search there. that is where i found these people.
It's a UNIX system! I know this!
It's not that simple anymore... In modern CPUs, NOPs are discarded by the decoding units so they never occupy the exeuction units. If decoding BW is not saturated (and most often, it's not), NOPs are indeed "free".
The Power of Replication – Bem's Psi Research
This is a very middle-class idea, if you don't mind me saying. Most of the bikes we had growing up were cobbled together from bits of other old bikes, and the method of stopping was to use the arch of your foot in the space at the back where the brakes should be.

It wore out one shoe faster then the other, but you could do cool skids.
I think you lost that battle like 15 years ago
That's what I figured as well. But was just looking at the bare minimum. glad to see they are a profitable and young business.
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 406 (Not Acceptable) http://www.haxx.ly/counter/58?referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haxx...
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token <

On HN Redesign http://www.haxx.ly/h/1m And so, doesn't work for me.
They used to do this in D.C. , but the problem was engraving into your new bike will void the frame warranty. The police used to use this registration as a way to stop any bike messenger and check if your bike was registered. If it wasn't they impounded it and you had to pay a fine to get it back, usually $5.
Thanks for taking the time to elaborate, very interesting. I wonder if the sql db vendors or open source projects will take the next step to make querying against a transaction ID possible given the underlying implementation details bring it pretty close.

I also see Rich has made some interesting points elsewhere in this thread about consistent views being available outside of transactions and without need for coordination (within datomic) - seems more appropriate to comment directly there though.

Overall I think it's important to understand these nuances, and not view datomic as some revolutionary leap, even if I am excited about the project. I appreciate your insight into the power already within sql db engines.
I'm a programmer. I started learning syntax as a kid. I write code all the time. I adapt to new language concepts and syntax. I can use vim effectively. I can tolerate an IDE.

I still cannot get ideas out of my head and into the computer as fast as I "need" to. I believe something graphical, visual, or the like is going the right direction. I want graphical touch programming (not typing syntax) for organizing logic into programs but I need the power to manipulate details.

To me, it's not a question of ability to learn syntax, it's about speed- how fast can I get this great new idea into an app? I believe ultimately it will be by manipulating objects on a touchscreen or in some 3D holographic thing.
Yes, but at the first point where the user performed an action relevant to their desires, you have requested the associated permission. The connection is clear in their mind and the app's request for that permission makes sense.
Perhaps people see "coder" as a larger term encompassing programmers (where "program" would be an application), scripters (things like javascript, php, python) and maybe hackers? I'm not sure.
I don't get errors, but none of the sites actually look any different to their original state for me...
My experience with MongoDB hasn't been the most pleasant in a write-heavy environment. Until they fix the write lock properly, MongoDB is pretty much useless for many high throughput applications in my opinion...

The new DB level locking introduced in this release is a joke. There's not much difference between that and the old global write lock unless you split your database in dozens of smaller ones. What a pain. I wish they'd just stop pretending and addressed the issue properly once and for all.

I really want to like and use MongoDB because the way data is represented and how it can be queried is awesome.
Regardless of the actual content, I applaud the "storytelling" way of presenting content. With a flow of examples that tie into each other the reader is given background context and can say to him/herself "I've had that problem before!", as I found myself doing.
The actual code for that haxxly doesn't do anything (well - it attempts to load jquery and sets the font tag to arial). Check out http://www.haxx.ly/h/28 for a quick example.

The 406 is the view counter just reporting you've viewed the page. The script error was an error on that particular haxxly.
It is really good. I switched to it late last night, from one of the "premium" themes. I still need to tweak/optimize a bit (particularly the sidebar), but I'm really happy so far.

There are a lot of little details I keep finding which were a big improvement for me (author pages in particular).
Why would they cater to you when they can cater to people with lesser expectations and freer, larger-in-aggregate wallets?

Is that a serious question? If so: because at some point a larger, but highly competitive market promises much less profit than a smaller one that is completely untapped.
Psychology of webpreneurship.
We hear a lot of spam content reading, "Make money online" and so. But what are some easy ways of making money online, in a legitimate way? This is important for Student run startups who want to fund themselves to existence. Can one make money online easily?

What are some services that allow one to make money with ease?