skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I say post the code. That would really light the fire under Virgin's ass.

Any person nefarious enough to perform the attack is probably smart enough to figure it out anyway.
They are probably keeping it in a cookie for expediency.
> doSomething (->
> 'hello'), 1

> Indentation is significant in CoffeeScript, just like it is in Python. Just having a parenthesis shouldn't change that.

The point, I think, is that the example above should be an error instead of compiling into something you wouldn't expect.

Here's a syntax I've seen a lot:

doSomething ->
'hello'
, 1

or even

doSomething ->
'hello'
,
1

That style is also handy to construct a long list of object literals.

> This is called destructuring assignment,

I think destructuring assignment is something else entirely. http://coffeescript.org/#destructuring

> its probably better to use isnt instead of !=, although rather than !=, you would want !==

'!=' is equivalent to 'isnt'. And '!==' is not CoffeeScript at all.
They extend the screen, what a surprise!
Ask HN: How do I get italic text?
Hi, I've seen a lot of people having italic text when quoting someone, how do I write italic text here on HN?

Thanks.
Hardware is dead long back, long live hardware
Really, Comic Sans to promote your website authoring tool, really?
Maybe they should stop focusing on value prop and brand. Instead focusing on services decent enough that you can host an image of your logo instead of having to ask Facebook.
Right. As the top post also points out. There's no way to distinguish incoming UDP traffic as "spoofed".

My question is does anyone filter UDP egress based on source IP? Is there guidance somewhere that tells admins to do this?

Let me put it another way: If it was a workable solution to get admins to do this - to filter outgoing UDP based on source IP, then why are people trying to get network admins to change their DNS server settings as a way to reduce the possibility of DNS-based DDOS? That seems like a far more difficult task given that there hundreds of thousands of open resolvers and most admins understand working with firewall rulesets better than DNS configuration.
Well, there is a FAQ, y'know. "What kind of formatting can you use in comments?

http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc "
what is python specifically used for?
just web development, or programming?
thanks, for the useful links.
right , i want to continue and going into moblile app development.
Thanks for posting this! Great write-up. I'm seriously impressed by the proposition of XOXO. (Completely scalable concept too - it would be a perfect fit for my home town of Sydney, Australia).
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Oh, sorry, didn't see any link to an FAQ, well, thanks.
irony: n. ...

I see we also have different definitions of slap, slime, empathy, and manipulative.
My team consists of four people, two of which are remote, spread across three adjacent timezones. We find that a regular three-way conference call is sufficient. This arrangement has worked well for three years.

The idea of using Skype has surfaced once or twice but we've gotten by without it. I doubt we'll ever need it.

As for advice…

* I would suggest everyone place their call from a suitably quiet room. Someone doing dishes, making tea, or wrestling with a dog is extremely distracting.

* Hold the standup meeting on time and don't delay more than five minutes. If you don't, you're effectively chaining people to their phones for an indefinite amount of time.

* Two or more people in a room together should remember to speak to the phone and not each other. It's amazing how much of a statement or conversation can be lost over the phone when co-located people use gestures and glances to communicate.
After that it's more like PTSD.
>The S4 will see some external changes but retain its popular rectangular shape with rounded corner concept.

Sounds like not only are they not worried of the patent suits but they are going to thumb their nose at them too.
Actually, a friend bought a S2 a few weeks back. It still works brilliantly!
You didn't get the memo? Comic Sans is ironically cool now. It was the memo with subject line: geocities is the new Tumblr.
What kind of startup can afford $350-$800/hour lawyers?
As mentioned in the article, they dropped all packets that looked like responses from DNS resolvers. All client applications hosted in cloudfare shouldn't normally receive responses from DNS resolvers.
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Did you read the part above where I wrote this:

It is an irrefutable fact of Special Relativity that if you can transmit any
information from point A to point B faster than light would travel from point
A to point B in a vacuum, then there are inertial frames of reference in which
the information arrived at point B BEFORE it left point A.

Is there a reason why I can write this irrefutable fact a dozen times and people continue to ignore it like it was never stated?

Look, I understand that people want perpetual motion machines. And I understand that people want the Earth to be the center of the universe. And I understand the fact that people want one plus one to equal three. But these things aren't going to happen.

With FTL, you have to pick two out of these three: FTL, Relativity, causality.

It is not a fact of science that you have to pick two out of the three. It is a fact of LOGIC.

Unless you've found a way to transcend the laws of logic, then we have to live within this constraint. So, if you want to have FTL, you either have to give up causality or Special Relativity. Is it conceivable that Special Relativity is wrong? Sure it's conceivable. Is it likely? NOT ON YOUR LIFE. And if you're willing to give up on Special Relativity, when why are we designing space ships based on General Relativity??? When Special Relativity goes out the window, so does GR!

So, are we going to give up on causality instead? Well, who am I to say yes or no. But if we decide that it's okay to give up on causality, then we have to bite the bullet and decide that we're okay with us being in a universe that is really, really strange. E.g., one that will thwart you somehow one way or another in any attempt you might make to transmit certain kinds of information, etc. One that might be perfectly okay with letting you visit your past self, and yet will suddenly give you a case of laryngitis if you try to tell your past self which stocks to buy. Who knows how weird it could get!

Re your space ship being in a vacuum or not: (1) It's still in a vacuum, and (2) it doesn't matter. What matters is if you can use it to transmit information from say Earth to Mars at a speed faster than a laser beam or radio signal would make it from Earth to Mars.

Re galaxies moving away from us at FTL speeds: (1) Yes, galaxies that are very far from us do move away from us at FTL speeds. Can you use this fact to transmit information between two points (e.g. two planets) at FTL speeds? No you cannot! Special Relativity says nothing at all about space itself moving at FTL speeds. It only puts constraints on information traveling from one point to another point at FTL speeds.

Go read the irrefutable fact at the top of this post again. Read it over and over again until you understand it. I can't keep repeating it over and over again for it only to fall on willfully deaf ears.
This is the best telling of the history I've read so far:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1845592
And the boss isn't a security professional (or even a software engineer, half the time) so he doesn't care. In fact, there's commonly an entire culture all the way up the ladder where nobody gives a shit about security, so terrible holes stay wide open for years.
Relevant: Author's job is handing out the money

http://bhorowitz.com/about/
> This doesn't bother me at all. Mostly because this feature comes from Ruby and so I'm already used to it

This and that are completely orthogonal though, I've been using Python for 8 years and Ruby for 6 so I'm used to implicit scoping. Doesn't mean I like it, or find it a good idea to use it in new languages (I don't).

And the issue is actually bigger in coffeescript than in ruby and python both, interestingly because (through javascript) coffeescript's scoping is much more regular than Python's or Ruby's.

The only language in which I don't know implicit scoping to be an issue is Erlang, because it uses bind-once and immutable structure semantics.

> also because it takes away the nasty surprise that JavaScript gives you if you leave 'var' out.

That can trivially be fixed by linting, or using strict mode. That's really no argument.
Fadia is a piece of joke.
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I was reading a 2chan thread earlier today about video game related sites with absurd amounts of detailed research about the game (ROM level information, random number table information, etc), and a surprising number of them were on geocities.
And windows update have balloon tooltips and an icon to inform me that an update is available... I update chrome and windows the exact same way. I get informed of an update and when I'm ready I let it proceed (yet I have no control over when chrome downloads an update).
Interesting for me is the regional Yahoo (au.yahoo.com) is destined to receive zero benefit from Marissa's reign.

One thing I like about Google is they do have regional variants, but they're all pretty much the same.

Yahoo varies WIDELY with all the weird partnership deals they have struck with local companies over the years.
If may be strange because of the asymmetry but I'd actually prefer `if` to be come first all the time and `unless` to come last all the time - precisely because `unless` reads like it's for exceptional circumstances:

value = cache[key]
if value?
return value

return file.readContents() unless not file.exists()
The counter-example is Steve Jobs: http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2209

(who used a Thinkpad for perhaps 12-18 months after returning to apple)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4536506
Interesting that he bought the batteries "in china" (his scare quotes), I'm wondering if they are off market copies? Having built high current battle bot battery boxes I get really really twitchy around "good deal" battery packs. That said, its amazing how 'off the shelf' this tech is becoming. Hats off to this guy for taking the challenge.
Seems like the guy who wrote this "article" is in Chicago viewing startups there and ran out of ideas to write about.

Or as others have pointed out, people will click on links with their current city mentioned. I am sure it would have evoked the same reaction from people in LA if they overlaid Santa Monica/Venice Beach over SOMA.
5 inches seems to be pushing it a bit. I think that the S3 is already at the upper limit for a phone. The 5.3 inches of the galaxy note is way too big for an ordinary phone in my opinion. My 4.65" Galaxy Nexus is a nice size, but I don't want it any bigger.

Perhaps they can reduce the size of the bezel to counteract the greater distance you will need to reach.
"Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." – Henry Spencer
That's incredible how much a lawyer's hourly rate is. A senior partner >$1000/hour? It's amazing how expensive risk reduction services are that, in my mind, equate to a blame shifting strategy.
The main problem isn't a design problem, it's a problem of the developers being incompetent. Accessing network resources on the main thread is a massive beginner mistake.

Though pre-loading the card with cached data while the real data is being fetched is absolutely the best solution and experience.
Link to the faq is at the bottom of this page, just above the search box.
"Wide open" is factually incorrect if they still require you to guess the pin.

Why didn't the author also mention that since there's no e-mail address associated with new prepaid accounts you can specify any e-mail you want the first time you try to sign into the website? Seems like an easier exploit to me.

Their network ACLs and support web apps are also swiss cheese. I wouldn't really rely on a VM account for security.
an app that analyzes someone's voice and tells you whether they're lying or not. Doesn't actually have to work, but use some mombo-jumbo scientific language to give it an air of legitimacy.
Or at least update your style guide so the logo is "Yahoo!" but when in text it's ok to say "Yahoo".

Copywriting rule number one: If you have to use an exclamation point, you need to reword the sentence.

"He's fast, strong and can jump!" vs "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound."
If you want a ring that shimmers brightly with color, is unique from stone to stone, and actually has value, try opal.

The only downside is that it's not as tough as diamond, so you have to take some care not to damage it, although this can be mitigated by the way it's mounted in the ring.
Ah, okey, thanks.
God speed Samsung.
Awesome and creative but how is it useful???...people already going crazy out there..
Don't the Galaxy and the iPhone have a very similar product life cycle (one device each year)?
'completely ruined' is a bit over the top, but ya, agree with your main point.
wow downvotes. let me elaborate. if you use apple's IP, they will sue you out of existence.
If you actually create your own item and share with friends over the internet, there won't be such trolls available then. :P
Running NextStep
This is absurd. The tax increases may well have been in response to favorable economic conditions, in other words, an effect, not a cause.

I'm certainly not saying that's the only explanation, only that we don't know. But the article argues that the cause -- tax increases -- produced the effect -- economic growth. It is equally likely that the relationship is reversed.

This is what prevents economics from being a science, and why widespread science illiteracy makes us all fools.
If you're a Hacker News user who wants an Android phone, you probably shouldn't be buying anything that isn't Nexus-branded. The Galaxy Nexus is great, but there's usually a new Nexus each winter.
Traditionally, editors and subs write the titles. Many online news sites ape the model that preceded them in the print world (except for the part about employing editors with a talent for actual editing).
Just read through the whole thread on the s2000 forum, I'm an auto enthusiast but I was more interested in how this kid knows how to do all of this more than I am interested in the car. 16 years old and you know how to retrofit an s2000 with a custom electric motor and build CAD models of it!?
Did you read the article? Thompson argues exactly what you're saying.

"Does this story prove that raising taxes helps GDP? No. Does it prove that cutting taxes hurts GDP? No.

But it does suggest that there is a lot more to an economy than taxes, and that slashing taxes is not a guaranteed way to accelerate economic growth."
> "I think this point is very important even in the RDBMS side."

This is true. After all you can't extract an audit trail from a deleted record. Simply in terms of information management it often makes sense to represent this as separate info.

> "There are cases, even with relational datastores that would preform better if the dataset was built to the query."

The big problem with doing it that way is that you are screwed as soon as requirements change. I recently blogged about not-1NF designs in PostgreSQL (nested data structures for subset constraints), and the lesson I took away was that you really don't want to have your select queries hitting the same tables you maintain for inserts. You want your queries hitting a normalized data structure even if the data comes in as something different.
These cars offer excellent balance, handling and braking from the factory. I'm guessing all of those may suffer after gaining that much weight.

I had an '05 S2000. I wish I still had it, wonderful car.
If it's your first business and you're strapped for cash you can often get free legal advice (in Austria that would be from the Wirtschaftskammer - the ministry of commerce).

Worth checking out which small-business programs your local government provide- a lot of them do, especially for "clean industries" like software.
Yes, there are parts of the universe traveling away from us at faster than the speed of light. In fact, it's quite likely that the universe is infinitely big and an infinitely large part of it is traveling away from us at faster than the speed of light.

This fact, however, does not allow information to be transmitted between two points in space at faster than the speed of light. That's the important constraint here. Causality is only violated when you transmit INFORMATION between TWO POINTS at faster than the speed of light.
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>>So why do I have to buy my future fiance a diamond to experience that moment? Why not give her a piece of coal? It's the same element/material, just in a different, albeit less attractive, form.

Try gifting her a piece of coal and watch.

Really why should you wear a suit? Or why should you wear a watch? Or why should you dine a good restaurant?

There are a few emotions attached to a few things. Like for example Roses.
> Are there more Windows exploits and vulnerabilities knows and documented because of the larger user base or because it is less 'secure' than Linux/OS-X?

Yes.

You may think this to be a flip answer, but it isn't. Both factors play a part. Windows is notoriously insecure because of how it evolved (at the hands of so many people over so many years, with different priorities and skill levels), but it is the primary target of hackers (a) because it is full of gaping holes, and (b) because of its large installed base.
I would not consider a 62 pages spec possible to "keep in your head", let alone easily.

The "The Smalltalk Language" section of the last ANSI Smalltalk draft is a more reasonable 28 pages.
Really?
https://twitter.com/instagram
https://twitter.com/facebook
http://www.facebook.com/yahoo
https://twitter.com/yahoo
Etc.

Keep in mind that if Marissa had posted this to Flickr, we wouldn't even be discussing this. The last thing you want from a CEO at Yahoo! is for them to suffer from the head-in-the-sand delusion that Yahoo's services "are" the internet.
Indian media has given him too much hype ...
I agree. BTW, the most lucid description of when to use relational vs non-relational models is not all that new. You can read it here:

http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/Informix/www.informix.com/i...

In this model, there is virtually no difference between the complex data/no query db's of the paper then and NoSQL today in terms of use case. Interesting that a one-time executive of Informix was able to present such a long-lasting discussion of db technologies.....
Easy way to convert/import videos to Nokia Lumia 920
<a href="http://www.smartphonecom.com/smartphone-tips/how-to-convert-videosmovies-with-nokia-lumia-920-video-converter.html"><strong>Nokia Lumia 920 Movies/Videos Converter</strong></a> is a handy video converter for Mac that convert movies/videos to Lumia 920 playable format.
DB9 Serial connector actually.
> This is a large part of the reason why Python limits lambdas to a single line...

Python doesn't limit lambdas to a single line, but to a single expression. That is a rather different constraint.
I definitely prefer Google Docs for presentation creating and non-reference heavy word processing, but I find spreadsheets is where Google Docs comes up short compared to Microsoft's product.
GAHH. For pure, unbridled pain, watch this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=a... (a little TV snippet with Ankit Fadia). This man repulses every tiny little fiber of me. From the video (referring to makers of anti-virus software) - "They create the virus, they infect your computer... this is a well known fact within the security community"

Also, his technical expertise extends as far as advising people to install anti-virus and anti-spyware software to protect themselves. Brilliant.
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> Indentation is significant in CoffeeScript, just like it is in Python. Just having a parenthesis shouldn't change that.

Er... in Python, having a parenthesis does change that, within parens Python uses continuation lines which are not subject to the same restrictions as free-floating code.
Go is an excellent contrast. Not only is the syntax spartan, but--especially if you include the built-in formatter gofmt--it has a fascist insistence on a uniform coding style. I don't agree with all its stylistic decisions, but I'd rather live with them and have consistency than run into corner cases and gotchas.
Letting Employees Call the Corporate Philanthropy Shots
Hunt launched after Halliburton loses radioactive rod in Texas desert
I have used CS on 3 projects and Scala in 2 projects. For me, both CS and Scala have terrible readability. Scala is more worse, I'll need at least 3x to read it than write it. Obviously, YMMV (tm)
I don't think they're mutually exclusive - in the sense that they're not focusing on value prop at the expense of services. (Just speculating here - I don't work for Yahoo, but have a background in corporate strategy). There's obviously a lot of fixes to be made and synergies to be found, but to achieve change of this magnitude first and foremost you need to reinvigorate culture - so I believe they're setting positive foundations.
I didn't mean to say "Python does it, so CoffeeScript is not a problem", but rather that both can suffer from too much indentation. CoffeeScript is a little more prone, given the callback-heavy nature of JavaScript, but similar treatment of surrounding whitespace is helpful in maintaining clarity. (Basic example: I find Python's standard of four-space indentation helps CoffeeScript readability, and prefer it over the popular two-space indentation.) And in both cases, excessive indentation is a useful signal.

Readability is very subjective and depends on the user's knowledge of the language, as well as personal style, or 'accent', if you will. Code written with, for example, leading commas in dictionaries instead of trailing commas just looks bizarre to me and is a little harder to read, to me, even though I like to do something similar and stack colons.
I don't think it's one or the other. Removing the trademark from these logos is low-hanging fruit - an easy way for Marissa to signal that deeper change is afoot, and to assure employees that she "gets it".
Here's what I learnt in law school:

Do you have a legal question? See a lawyer.

A few hundred dollars now versus an uncapped downside later? You're basically crazy if you don't.

Your lawyer and accountant are to your business what a doctor and a dentist are to your body. You see them regularly, they give you specialist advice and they can save you serious trouble if you take their advice. These individuals see more permutations of business in a week than you will see in a year.

So stop double guessing whether your company will need a lawyer. You will. You just might not understand it yet. Lawyers and accountants are part of the cost of being in business. It's not their responsibility to be cheap. It's your responsibility to produce enough value for your customers that a profit gets made somewhere in the mix.

Like the article says, shop around. I'm the middle of getting a patent drafted. I picked my lawyer[1] based on the fact that he had a computer science degree and industry experience. You can do the same. Ask. Inquire.

And remember, lawyers are like drug dealers: the first taste is usually free. Go meet them. If you don't like them, see someone else. It's business, after all, not your personal life.

[1] http://www.ghfip.com.au/ws/principal-attorneys/index.jsp#Tho...
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