skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking about one time, single shot backups, but encrypted wtih tarsnap. No dedup. After all, storage is cheap and this is supposed to be zuper worst case scenario stuff, so maybe I don't want to go to the trouble of reconstructing the backup. I want to know it's there. But my interest is only theoretical.
Ask PG: Which of S12 batch started as a no-idea?
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This is a duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4469424 (already >= 120 comments).
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Any reason you wouldn't use StackOverflow tag volume/activity as a signal?
Obama’s iPad UDID Was Among Those Leaked By AntiSec?
I downvoted you, not because I disagree with your or think you are wrong, but because you didn't read the article and your reply is entirely offtopic.

They are hiring industrial designers and allude to working on replacements for peripherals like the keyboard and the mouse.
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Maybe you're thinking way too hard about this.
They're suing both the card manufacturer and the gamblers.
I've been saying this for a while. Facebook and Zuck made out great on the IPO. They got everything they wanted out of it. The people who lost were the speculative buyers who thought the stock was actually worth that much and the underwriters who lost money propping up the stock price on the IPO day sell-off.
He always had high ideas about chastity but seldom followed them. In my mind Franklin has always embodied "Do as I say, not as I do"--almost in a mischievous or humorous way. I think he did learn from his actions, but not in the same way we usually think of someone "learning" from their actions. He always knew the right answers but preferred to have a little fun.
I don't disagree here. But I don't think we're talking about the same thing. There are statisticians who are great at analysis...when the data is well formatted and granular. These same statisticians are less attune to how you collect and disseminate that data in different ways (a different "way" could be: how do I automate spam Craigslist subsections at relative intervals related to the frequency of postings in each particular subsections, and, of course, make this spam not look like spam?)

In the science and medicine field, there are obviously many brilliant, technical minds. Yet not all of them can properly code, which limits the domain of their work when it comes to efficiency and scope.
I'm going to go with venting since it would have made sense to actually show the screen his was using for his presentation. Instead, it was completely ignored during the course of the rant.
Apple Schedules Special Event For September 12
Sociability, care, empathy and compassion can all fall under the vague heading "benefit."
There is not much in the way of 'elements' on Mars. If you look closely the cables are encased in something, but static electricity and dust storms are the largest problems and fairly easy to deal with.
For what it's worth, I totally buy the Agile part. By the time I left my last company we were releasing circa 5x/day. We got there bit by bit, and often through applying "if it hurts, do it more".

Indeed, I learned the principle first professionally, and it was only later that I realized how many areas of my life it applied to.
One would not expect it to be at the average, because this information is going to have come from some popular app, and there will be high correlation between "people who have never used even a single app: they just wanted a phone" and "people who have never considered jailbreaking: they just wanted a phone"; this is even more the case once you consider that it might not be an app that "virtually everyone has": it might be an app that is either correlated with skill (you are slightly more likely to have the app, even controlling for people who have apps at all, if you are the kind of person who really cares) or negatively correlated with age (you are more likely to have the app if you are younger, which correlates better with the demographic of people who jailbreak).
Consider the difference between knowing exactly which library to use to solve a particular problem vs. believing that you need to write new code to do it. That can easily account for a 10x productivity difference.
I'm waiting for Apple to invite all it's friends to an event and then just provide a nice party. "You're our friends and we wanted to treat you well" would be a nice sentiment and the perfect way to confuse people who try to predict what they'll do next.
Yes, I saw that. The limit generally applies per seat or per bet. A reference that this applies to a physical body of meat would be awesome.

And if the casino didn't know the decks were rigged, why would they close the table and risk angering a bunch of high rollers?

To not have to pay out lots of money if something is wrong. But I guess they could just wait to see if the players don't end up giving it all back in the end.
> identify the traitor that did give your information to the FBI

Interesting use of the word "traitor" to mean "person who cooperates with the Government".
I don't see how abducting people the next day isn't a criminal offence. But I also don't see anyone caring. Weird.
> Well, once you open the doors to investors and banks, they become your lifeblood.

Not if your CEO has the controlling interest.

In theory, Zuck can let the stock drop to near zero, and then take the company private by buying outstanding shares for pennies per share.

And there's nothing the bozos with common stock can do about it.

> Not exactly a win is it?

It's a huge win, because that $50B has nothing to do with the company coffers, and has everything to do with the suckers who bought the common without serious voting rights.
They raised $3 million per employee. They have plenty of ability to offer the very best kind of compensation - cold, hard cash.
The parallel to Google is deceiving; as phrased by Mark, some reader may think that Google had a similar IPO crash. Not true. The referenced article and Google's repricing is from Feb 2009, when GOOG (then already a mature stock) had lost lots of value due to the global market crash a few months before. Completely unrelated cases.
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Try again! It is going to be the announcement of 5 new lawsuits against Samsung which will be left as a shadow of its former self.
I'll have to try that. How does it compare to the Netbook Remix of old?
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I wouldn't recommend a heavy framework that tries to magicfy everything for you, that kind of framework is really not to my taste. ie emberjs. But backbone itself is very light, you can probably read the entire source in under 30 minutes. Nobody is telling you to pack some huge framework on top of backbone, but depending on the complexity of your application Backbone might just not do enough.

Something like https://github.com/marionettejs/backbone.marionette is just another toolbox where you can pick and choose the tools you need.

This is why I really like backbone, because you have the option of going big or small on the libraries you're using depending on your needs, and each individual component is small and easy to understand.
What do you think about http://news.ycommentator.com ? It does some HN-enhancement (shows top comments on the front page), but using a server to do all the processing instead of a client script.

I built it a few months ago. If there was any interest, I could expand it to include collapsible comments.
Facebook's CEO had a nearly unprecedented amount of
control over the company.

Is that a bad thing?

I was under the impression that Larry and Sergey did the same thing with Google. As I remember they always retained more than 50% of voting rights, and now there's a new special class of stock issued to shareholders with no voting rights.

Thing is, shareholders can be irrational, especially with companies that are working on the cutting edge, because shareholders are more interested in short-term gains. E.g. Shareholders and Wall Street were thrilled when Dell was outsourcing their core competencies to Asus, which in the end screwed them over. Dell is now just a shadow of what it used to be, with no bright future ahead.

Of course, if you view that as a warning sign, then simply don't buy. But there are other factors at play here. Do you trust the company? Do you trust the CEO? Do you understand the risks? If not, then maybe you shouldn't own stock in the first place.
"Samsung, start your photocopiers."
Probably not responsible but it should be enough to get a warrant to search your computer for further evidence.
I'm not sure what to make of this article.

I think we can all get behind the idea that the ongoing "which framework is better" debate is often pretty ridiculous. Different frameworks are clearly better suited for different tasks.

But I can't really get behind the author's stance that it is wrong for people to have preferences (even strong ones) about which javascript frameworks they like to use.

For one, while every framework likely has different strengths, that isn't the same thing as all frameworks actually being good. It is very possible that an intelligent person with great intentions could write a framework that simply falls short of other frameworks in so many important regards that you can't really consider it "good". It is also possible that a framework will have such a niche use that most people would not benefit from using it.

Additionally, while not every project has the same sorts of requirements that could be satisfied with a single javascript framework, most are. Most apps that are being built in the startup community these days are basically little more than user interfaces to some REST api. Some may take it a step further and go "realtime" by using web sockets, but the application doesn't differ significantly from a REST based equivalent. If multiple frameworks set out to solve common problems, then I don't think it is ridiculous at all to compare them and maintain a preference.

One way or another, I think we can all agree that the title "Client-Side Frameworks Suck" is total link-bait that does not adequately describe the article itself. To be fair though, I did not watch his talk, so it is very possible that this title better describes the contents of the talk itself.
Thats Detroit proper (do not move to downtown Detroit or Flint :) but the cities around Detroit are good, and I don't know much about the schools there but it's worth looking into.

Oakland County has some of the richest cities in the US (a lot of old money) so you can easily find a nice city around Detroit that will be cheap and still very protected.
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I guess you will wait for a long time then, I don't see it happening anytime soon.

For that kind of philosophy to appear, it would mean Apple is losing market shares and needs a new strategy to attract developers and users.
Amazon attacks NetFlix
Does the Starter League plan to expand beyond the Ruby stack at any point? Python...etc?
Oracle Releases "Out-of-Cycle" Security Patch for Java 7
HTC schedules Windows Phone 8 announcement for September 19th
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From the linked article:

They scraped about 99% of the successfully funded but were only able to scrape 82% of the unsuccessfully funded projects.

If they could find info on >80% of unfunded projects, that is either some really incompetent cover up work or there isn't a cover up.

Though I have to agree something is off if they believe 100% of the projects that have funded have gone off successfully, and that they have no contingency plan for their largest source of liability. Even if it is just PR liability, a few high profile cases of fraud could ruin them.
There is a joke that casinos have a saying for people who come up with systems to beat the house: "Welcome."
I think my favorite part is the ASCII art from 1798:
http://books.google.com/books?id=uboNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA36#v=...

(Yes, ASCII wasn't around in 1798.)
> Is that a bad thing?

Nope. The article does explain this. None of the bullet points are meant as criticism.
A Filmmaker's Advice For Startups and Entrepreneurs
Agreed, we've been using https://railsonfire.com/ for our private repos - good to see the competition heating up in the space.
Socialcam launches an API
Perhaps there's a cross-cultural interpretation associated with sock drawers that I'm missing

I do hope so. As then there is a chance that we might find out what it is and then everything might just make sense. Otherwise I'm just going to paraphrase Keynes and assume that internets can remain irrational a lot longer than I can stay sober.
Note that this is from two years ago. This is not "breaking news".

He also did an AMA on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fjfby/iama_director_of...
Or you can use media fragments, I think...
Reloading is no issue when you have few frontends or backends. But when you have a lot of front- or backends, the configuration file will be huge, and reloading will take some time. If you need to reload every few seconds, this might even cause downtime. But I guess our workload is not the usual implementation of HAProxy...
Does anyone here know the tax situation on these RSUs that facebook gives?

If people do it through an 83(b) election, aren't these RSUs supposed to be taxed as cash at the second of grant? (but if forfeited, that tax is lost?) - That would be horrible.

If people don't do a 83(b), then it is taxed at vesting - so it's just equivalent to a cash bonus at exercise (and taxed the same) - but if that's the case, how has anyone ever thought it was anything other than a cash bonus (determined at bonus time by a constant C*company value for some C, which appears in your employment contract, but is otherwise arbitrary and can be changed arbitrarily at any point before grant by the company)
Puritanism influences everyone. But Franklin was no puritan, and to assume that the beliefs of puritans were the basis for his tips on chastity adds no real insight to this discussion. Anyone can easily identify ideals in our present and past that seem adverse to liberal sexuality and cry "Puritan!"--but this discounts the brilliance of people like Franklin. He had a high level view of the different ideals in his culture and often addressed them with a tongue-in-cheek or satirical tone.
Thank God, seems like it'll be called iPhone 5 instead of "the new iPhone".
None of this matters if the market expects significant growth in profits. FB's customer growth rate can be zero, but still command a price premium based on expected future profit growth. Given Facebook's broad customer base, and perceived untapped revenue opportunities, it seems believable.

Many people bought into the idea that Facebook had yet to scratch the surface with revenue opportunities. Obviously, the market has not shared this view.
So, I don't see the that link on the new page for /r/sports:

http://www.reddit.com/r/sports/new/

Does Reddit filter things out?
Is vox.io a Skype alternate?
How do you modify the UDID? Does it depend on the model?
Cool picture. It looks to me like most of those long-running cable bundles are secured with black plastic zip ties--ironic given the text of the article.
District police embrace concept of preventing crime through design
Was looking at The Starter League's class work and I really love their Rails for Designers course outline. Does anyone know a meetup, online course or real course like it?

ref: http://starterleague.com/rfd
I really like the structure of this, very readable and a great intro. I have some confusion on http://www.golang-book.com/6

It says:

Go also provides a shorter syntax for creating arrays:

x := [5]float64{ 98, 93, 77, 82, 83 }

We no longer need to specify the type because Go can figure it out. Sometimes arrays like this can get too long to fit on one line, so Go allows you to break it up like this:

However the type is specified as `float64`
Facebook researching a "want" button
It's fairly common for people to buy high value antiques for a tiny fraction of their actual value at flee-markets etc. However, the seller does not get to say, 'my bad sale is void'.

EX: Value ~6,000$ sale price 14$.

http://cleveland.cbslocal.com/2012/03/31/man-finds-picasso-o...
I served in the US Navy for six years, spending three of those as a submarine officer. Even though I've never seen a shot fired, I've been in some hairy situations.

Steve's message is the same thing that I took from my experiences, and why my (non-Navy) colleagues always cite me as being "calm in the center of a storm". No matter how crazy or insane things get at work, I know there's no chance that if I screw up that 100+ people would die. It absolutely puts perspective on problems. :)
Oulipo - constrained writing techniques
I wonder if one could combine a webcam and a projector for a "doodling" application? The rectangle of the bright white screen could be used for calibration. The software would look for a particular shade of red or green within that rectangle, and re-project at that spot.
The hidden strictnesses (triggering per-day costs even when you are below what is described as a per-month allowance) make me think of "glacier pricing" where glacier is a common noun instead of a proper noun. I.e. 90% of the costs being hidden below the water.
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I can not build it in Fedora (both 12 and 16). Ubuntu is fine.

"include/proto/proto_http.h" defined "error_message", this is in conflict with the "error_message" already defined in "et/com_err.h", which is included by "krb5/krb5.h", which itself is included by "openssl/kssl.h", which included by "openssl/ssl.h"

Where do I submit a bug report? Couldn't find the link on haproxy site.
Harvard Students Fighting Allegations of Cheating on Exam
But I can't really get behind the author's stance that it is wrong for people to have preferences (even strong ones) about which javascript frameworks they like to use.

Exactly. As a developer, I can appreciate that every framework has different strengths and that you should use the tool appropriate for the task, but the fact of the matter is that I have work that needs to get done now and if I spend all my time choosing the perfect tool, I won't ship anything. I have a toolbelt stocked with the tools I like best. I wouldn't want to stifle the discussions on which one's "best," though, because they can be really informative for those looking to add a new tool to their stack.
Pain is like a compiler warning. 99% of the time it's telling you that something is wrong, and so you should only ignore it if you're 100% positive that you know what you're doing and the warning is a false positive.

The Jane and Joan example is a case in point. Rather than "merging often" to take small pain now rather than big pain later, they should be taking a step back and looking at WHY there's pain. They could, for example, choose to stagger their work (work on stories involving unrelated files as much as possible) such that they're not stepping all over each other all the time. Are nicer messages REALLY that important RIGHT NOW? Couldn't Jane just work on the purchase system instead on this sprint and do messages later and save everyone a lot of pain?

Pain exists for a reason. Don't ignore it. And for the love of Pete, don't just blindly push through it!
How ants have used the Internet's TCP algorithms for ages
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The reason tech companies rely heavily on stock-based incentives is to align the interests of the employee with the shareholder. You want the group to have a shared fate. Cold, hard cash, while attractive to people who haven't yet joined, doesn't align interests as well as stock does.
he means the type of the individual elements. Each element is of type float64, not int.
link to Socialcam developer site: http://socialcam.com/developers
Marco Arment thinks that the All Clear ID app is responsible for this leak: http://www.marco.org/2012/09/04/fbi-udid-leak

Can anyone who can confirm they're on the list confirm that was one of their apps?