skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were to leave my car unlocked in a high-crime neighborhood, my insurance may turn me down, but I still would not be liable for any crimes the thieves committed while using my car.

Then again, it's just an analogy, which holds little sway in a court of law.
It looks like Travis has a "pro" edition coming, but the link goes to a placeholder page ATM

http://about.travis-ci.org/docs/user/travis-pro/
NFL teams do not compete in a business sense. They are part of a coordinated league. There are even exemptions to antitrust law for some sports leagues (MLB at least).
For the life of me I can't tell if this is satire or not.

On the assumption it's not (and apologies otherwise): The universally acknowledged downside of "frameworks" (vs. "toolboxes") is the "weight" of unused software that they bring along for the ride. So to argue that a framework is good only if you add enough junk on top (!) of it just seems like a joke.
Tindie is one of the few websites I've seen on HN that actually got me excited. Great idea, great execution. Best of luck!
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Please don't link io9 for scientific articles -- their science journalism is generally subpar, often barely more than crudely summarizing abstracts in Nature or Science.

In this case they cite the wrong primary author -- attributing the work to Matt Wilson instead of Daniel Bendor. While Matt Wilson is the sponsoring author (ie providing the facilities and general supervision), this is Dr. Bendor's experiment and he is entirely uncredited here.
"they took advantage of a rigged deck"

I think that a "rigged deck" assume someone knowingly did something. In this case, from the story, this was an accident and not intentional.

Of course even if the deck was rigged (say someone at the manufacturer turned off the shuffle process) while it would be defacto rigged I'm not sure it would be dejure rigged because there was no connection between the gamblers and the person doing the rigging.
I'm waiting for the movies.
I love Travis as well and use it on a lot of open-source projects I'm a contributor to, but I've been using CircleCI for private repos so far and really love what they do. I'd absolutely recommend checking it out: https://circleci.com/

It'll be interesting to see how the hosted CI market takes off - I thought CloudBees was going after it for awhile, but it seems they haven't pushed too hard, while there have been a lot of new entrants over the past year. Good time to be a developer, that's for sure.
That's what I was going to say: it's not a mortal danger but we should not ignore the fact that plenty of people have committed suicide after the battling depression brought on by a failed/failing business.
The direction of light is "photoshop" :)
I have to look that up.

Cheers.
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Deferring to a body that knows far more about these topics than either you or I is hardly an authority fallacy. The FDA will be aware of the animal models and birth defect studies, and I trust in them to adequately regulate pesticide use in response--and they will regulate infinitely more accurately and thoroughly than I would if I were left to literally analyzing scientific studies to find what I should and shouldn't buy at the supermarket.

Similarly, most people haven't read Einstein's paper on general relativity, but it's prudent to still take stock in GR because the physics community has read the research and come to a conclusion. I also don't think that there's "no evidence" of pesticide harm--there definitely is evidence that the pesticide levels that we consume are harmful. It just isn't sufficient evidence to be significant enough that we should assume it to be true that we need to eat organic. Every field has fringe studies that provide evidence for unique claims; the claims just don't become meaningful until that evidence becomes piled up enough to be significant. In this case, the evidence against pesticide residue levels being harmful is insignificant as judged by the FDA, and the evidence of pesticide levels being safe is judged significant.
I had it up there for a while, however it cuts down on pageviews. I think people will see the price and not try to click the link to learn more about it & the value/ why it is that price.
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+1

The Super Myth of Keynes as a Great Stock Market Investor: http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2012/03/super-myth-of-k...

He was 83% long going into the downturn that resulted in the 1929 crash (p. 21)So how could Keynes be a great investor with such a bad performance? Because Keynes, the evil bastard, along with Bernard Baruch, talked FDR into confiscating the gold owned by all Americans. He then loaded up his portfolio with gold mining stocks and then urged FDR to prop up the price of gold.

...

Bottom line, as far as I'm concerned, Keynes was a terrible investor, as shown by his pre-gold mining stock losses. The only time he made real money in the markets was when he traded on inside information about FDR's plan to drive the gold price up, and loaded up on gold mining stocks. Got that? The man who called gold a "barbarous relic" in his 1924 book, Monetary Reform, had 66% of his portfolio in gold mining stocks in the 1930s.
How did the table allow the betting limit to be exceeded? Why didn't they stop it right at the time, and only wait until they lost to decide to retroactively enforce their own rules?

Apparently the pit boss knew something was up but didn't stop the game. Which squarely puts the fault in the casino. The casino could easily have closed that table.
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>It's about our culture directing people away from the jobs that best suit them.

I'm confused with what you mean by this.

>It's a problem that should be fixed for everyone.

So because it's not being fixed for someone, it shouldn't be fixed for anyone?
I liked them better before they were cool.
Worst kept secret ever.
The casino was not required to keep the table running.

It's not illegal to count cards but the casino can tell you to leave, and it you don't you are then trespassing.
Why Linux Will Never Suffer From Viruses Like Windows
An explanation of how some people make money with a botnet and AdSense
I'm confused about the reason a block can't exist in both S3 and Glacier at the same time, if the deduplication code decides that block is needed in a new archive.

Why couldn't you simply have a rule that each file is either S3 or Glacier, and S3 lists-of-blocks can only reference other S3 blocks, while Glacier lists of blocks can only reference other Glacier blocks?

In the worst case, where every block was in both archives, this would only increase costs by 10% if Glacier costs a tenth what S3 costs.
It was only a debacle if you're a predatory investment banker. For Facebook, it was a smashing success: they raised lots of money and gave away not so much equity.
No, the role of a CFO is NOT to manage the investment portfolios of stockholders.

I own FB shares. I think the company will figure out a killer revenue model like Google did. But I don't blame FB for the temporary loss in stock value and it's NOT their job to make the stock price go up. Their job is to make revenue and profits, and I want them to focus on that.
Thanks- yeah that is part of the gamble. Timing is never something people know until you are in it.
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I love the idea & growth of SpinGo!
The problem is that the car dealership would indeed be required to honor the misprinted price tag if it was discovered after they completed the sale. This situation is like, a car dealership misprints the price tags; the salespeople spend hours selling cars; and then the dealership turns around and sues the people who bought cars and drove away. It's not going to be a winner.

(N.B., no analogy is really going to help us too much here, because the outcome will depend on the specifics of state law regarding malfunctioning gambling machines and any agreements made by those particular gamblers to get into that particular casino. So anyone who tells you they have any idea what will happen is either a gambling law expert or making it up. I just thought the car dealership thing was an interesting example.)
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Right. If they didn't care about weight they'd have used zip ties and braiding.
The article claims way more than the paper does.

It's pretty widely accepted that during sleep, the hippocampus replays patterns of activation that were produced during the day. In this case, that means that the rats are essentially traversing the maze in their sleep.

However, this is _not_ dreaming. The neural replay activity is seen in humans and animals alike, but it doesn't correspond to the subjective experience of dreaming in humans, AFAIK.
On the top of my todo.. should be out in the next 24 hours
So client side frameworks suck because he's sick of the false battles portrayed in the development community? I don't follow.
Slick Microsoft art student rebranding exercise
thanks much appreciated!
It was an issue widely covered in the press, or at least widely covered enough that I remember people joking about it in monologues. Obama wanted to keep his blackberry and other gadgets in opposition to what the Secret Service wanted. They finally compromised with security-enhanced versions of the devices such as his so-called "Blackberry One" a pun off of Air Force One.

Though I didn't hear anything about securing it when he got an iPad, I did see photos in the news of him carrying one. I would assume it would be equally vetted and locked down.
Is nothing to do with being tough. You might as well ban stuff like Dilbert references as well if you get so upset at comedy that references stereotypes of engineers.

[edit] I was also not being backhanded in the first place. You are allowed to include jokes in complements and you do not have to show some sort of undue reverence for people whose work you appreciate when you point out that you like what they do.
This would be really easy extension to create with the bookmarks API:

http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/bookmarks.html

You should give it a shot!

Edit: It wouldn't be able to do the 'until i hover over it' bit. If that's important to you.
'John Doe' Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order After 6 Years (2010)
I have no idea what you are on about with the clock. It's a deformed clock? Wat?
"that the IPO benefited them first and foremost."

But also important (and I'm not sure this is realistically possible but I will throw it out there) is to take into account the negative consequences of the stock tanking and creating strong negative publicity against facebook (which it certainly has) which could create a longer term problem. Along the lines of "pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered".

In other words had the stock been priced more reasonably is it possible that it might have not headed down but headed up? And has the fact that it has headed down creating damage that goes beyond the obvious (time will tell and possibly a lesson will be learned).
Huh? Don't they underwrite it by putting out a standing offer to buy at the prospectus price? In the case of a "pop" this costs them nothing (and indeed they make money if anyone takes them up on it, since they can turn around and sell at the market price); it's when it doesn't pop that the bank's in trouble.
Writing a bitter rant on your personal website and posting it on HN yourself = "growth hacking"
The server is really slow, is this being run an an FBI laptop? (asking for people to upload their UDID)
The origin of this 10x meme was (if I remember correctly) measuring productivity on a single task. It is not inconcievable that the difference between the worst and the best is 10x on a single task, especially for students. This doesn't tell us what the difference between the average and the worst/best, which would be more interesting. Also, it doesn't tell us if the best developer is consistenty 10x faster, or the worst performing developer just made a mistake with this particular task.

If you compare a developer solving his first task in an unfamiliar language/platform/framework, you will easily see this magnitude of difference compared to a developer with deep experience. But this difference will not stay consistent.
What happens when you decide that you don't want that new archive to be in S3 any more and tell Tarsnap to migrate it over to Glacier?
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Samsung lawyers are watching that with attention, waiting for the word LTE to come up.

http://www.droid-life.com/2012/08/30/samsung-if-apple-releas...
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> How did the table allow the betting limit to be exceeded?

ahem:

by passing money to fellow gamblers in order to place bets in excess of posted betting limits.

They posted a bet, and also gave some of their money to another player to post another bet, effectively circumventing the betting limits on individual players. That's not necessarily an obvious behavior. 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?
They are releasing iPhone 5. The branding is iPhone 5. Not the version number.
Incoherent venting. Flagged.
Obligatory repeat of the same conversation from a couple weeks ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4427974
Or just really great timing.
Case 1 seems to be that the siren accidentally went off. The board still showed 4 matches instead of the 5 needed.

Case 3, as joezydeco pointed out, gave out more money than was possible as printed on the machine.

I'm sure there are thousands of cases of jackpots not being given out for bugs, so I tend to think they should assume responsibility for the bugs that aren't in their favor, and pay out the maximum as printed on the machine.
Famous last words. The virus/trojan equation is very simple -- once the advantages outweigh the drawbacks, the attacks will begin.

The linked article goes to great lengths to overlook the simple relationship between profit and loss.

By the way -- there are plenty of Linux viruses and worms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware#Viruses
It's interesting that the courses are on-site in contrast to 37S pro-remote working stance.

I definitely agree with the point their are limitations to learning on your own. (books vs. instructor)

But I'm a 100% remote worker and wonder how much better I could be learning from / with my colleagues in person vs. online chat.

I know that being in a real-life tech community is a huge asset over not, but personally I wonder how much better I could be if I were able to live in The Valley, Chicago, Austin...
I'm of the mind that if Fb's numbers trend up, the price will trend up; if their numbers don't trend up, it won't matter how much they bribed the market with IPO "pop".

$10Bn buys a lot of knob-turning time to get the numbers up.
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One million Apple device IDs with personal information allegedly stolen
The difference is that in one you're pulling the metaphorical trigger on yourself and in the other someone else is.
My favorite quote from The Diamond Age is relevant:

> You know, when I was a young man, hypocrisy was deemed the worst of vices,” Finkle-McGraw said. “It was all because of moral relativism. You see, in that sort of a climate, you are not allowed to criticise others-after all, if there is no absolute right and wrong, then what grounds is there for criticism? … Now, this led to a good deal of general frustration, for people are naturally censorious and love nothing better than to criticise others’ shortcomings. And so it was that they seized on hypocrisy and elevated it from a ubiquitous peccadillo into the monarch of all vices. For, you see, even if there is no right and wrong, you can find grounds to criticise another person by contrasting what he has espoused with what he has actually done. In this case, you are not making any judgment whatsoever as to the correctness of his views or the morality of his behaviour-you are merely pointing out that he has said one thing and done another. Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy.
The difference in framework "weight" is mostly about an opinionated view regarding how the non-framework part of your final application will and/or should look like. Backbone is assuming that this will look quite differently, depending on your personal style and the needs of the application. Other frameworks differ.

It is quite likely that the final LOC for lots of frameworks will look the same, assuming both framework and app developer are on the same professional level. Opinions differ on how much of that code is reasonable to put in the framework itself (and I bet a lot of that is stemming from differences on how professional/good your average app developer is).
>"If a person saying "we need to make things easy for women who want to do STEM jobs because of an imbalance in the numbers of men and women in these roles" but doesn't agree this is true for things like childcare or nursing then there is a question to answer as to why they don't think the imbalance is important in the later case."

You're dancing dangerously close to a straw man argument here. Nobody has taken a position either way on childcare or nursing.

>"It's not being snarky it's questioning whether the parent is interested in equality of opportunity or discrimination in favour of women. That's an important question in my view."

It's an important question in everyone's view. My point is that it's rarely a valid point that $A should not be addressed because $B is also a problem; especially when $B is a rhetorical fringe case.

When I get in these discussions, invariably someone tries to boil it down to the following false dichotomy: Helping/encouraging/assisting $GROUP_A is discriminating/violating/hurting $GROUP_B. This is never necessarily the case.
Another reason, which I decided deserved to be written up as a separate blog post, is the surprising nature of the "data retrieval" component of Glacier's pricing model:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4475319
One way around this is to store that number in iCloud. Then you can always get it back no matter the device.
I agree, but at the same time, the naming will resonate quite well for people searching this sort of "result", even if they are technically different. Good spot though :)
This may or may not be useful for your users, but my company (Twilio) is providing free conference calls for FF drafts up until the NFL season starts. Just an FYI:

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It’s time to stop ignoring the expanding API galaxy
That seems a bit like saying that eating a pie is dangerous because stabbing yourself with the fork can severely wound you. It's true, but since you aren't obligated to stab yourself with a fork when you eat pie, it seems odd to conflate the two. It's a bad decision all on its own.
I have always assumed this feature was consciously omitted from HN in order to encourage more thoughtful conversation. Since I can't skip conversations, I read them and sometimes hold my tongue rather than commenting with the first thing that comes to mind.
Yes, the title is link bait.

However, it was written by the author of a popular JS framework. It should really be titled "There is no Best client-side framework".

It's a good point he made, and one that anyone new to the client-side framework market should learn sooner, rather than later.
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I used to be like your friend.

The important shift for me was developing a little humility and learning how to train at my own pace.

When I started running, I would try to go as fast as I thought I should be going. Which meant as fast as other people were going, or as fast as my high expectations for improvement told me I should be going. It was hard, it hurt a lot, and it wasn't fun at all.

Eventually I learned to pay attention to my actual (rather than desired) fitness level, what my recent training history actually looked like, and how my body was responding. That hurt a little, but was also very pleasurable once I got going, and the pleasure more than counterbalanced the pain. I also learned to distinguish different sorts of pain. For me the first mile is never very pleasant, but I know it's all getting-warmed-up pain. That's different that the you're-training-too-hard-and-its-time-to-stop pain.

For those looking to make a similar shift, I strongly recommend finding some external structure that tells you how much to train. E.g., Hal Higdon's beginner guide: http://halhigdon.com/training/50933/5K-Novice-Training-Progr...

Then, don't be arrogant about it. Don't say, "Hey, I want to run a race sooner, so I'll just skip 4 weeks ahead." If you are going to err, err on the side of gentleness. Start with week 1, and if that seems hard, just do week 1 again until it seems right. You are trying to develop a lifetime habit, so you have a lifetime to get this right.

Also, get a heart rate monitor. Set it to beep if you your heart rate gets too high. Ideally, get one that records data, so you can understand your workouts in context. If you are looking mainly forward, it's easy to get impatient. But if you have actual data showing what you ran the last month, it's easier to say, "Oh, I can see the improvement, so I'll try to do a little better next week."
Oh, neat!

I think there is an aspect which I didn't mention of "Who do you trust with your code?" and GitHub has done well to earn the trust of lots of great companies, but I can certainly see IT managers getting a bit ancy at adding another point of confidentiality failure by looping in Travis as well.
The question "how many users do you have" is impossible to answer, as all I can ever demonstrate is "X users used Cydia in the last Y period". As for your second question, the information I have for your average Cydia user (one that is not actively paying me money, in which case I obviously have tons of information) is purposely highly limited: I certainly do not have, for example, the "names" of devices that was included in these dumps from AntiSec (which often discloses the name of the user), or any of the other personal details that are claimed to be in the original file.
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Ah, many thanks, that's a much nicer system. No need to trust anything. Have you considered submitting it?
The CFO's goal is to make the _existing_ shareholders money, not (hypothetical) future shareholders. As of the IPO it was in the interest of the existing shareholders that the company get as high a valuation as possible.

If the CFO deliberately acted to benefit future shareholders at the expense of current shareholders he'd have violated his fiduciary duties.