skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the bump service itself can be the MITM. And it's not clear to me that MITM is really the biggest threat out there - seems like endpoint security is the weak link these days.
Welcome to the real world, Google
I assume there're execution limits to avoid while(true) {}. Can't seem to find information on that though.
I have zero balance. If this were a scooter I'd be in.
Git Review and Merge Like a Boss
Except to perform the "Power Nap" tasks in Mountain Lion. Maybe there's a connection?
Yes. From what I have read youtube is run like a different company
"I Don't Know"
BTW, my demo site is running in my bedroom on a slow ARM5-based debian box over my terribly slow DSL. If things get slow, that's why.

The web server itself is a homemade http server I wrote in go and jokingly called "nging". Doing a lot of SSI and transfer compression can be a bit much for that machine, but it got easier than maintaining my nginx config on upgrades.

I happened to have DB logs up and some some queries that weren't me and traced it back here. Good morning, HN.
Yes, each request is limited to a few seconds. We should make that more clear in the documentation - thanks for the feedback.
Two-Thirds of WordPress, Drupal and Joomla Sites Are Out-of-Date
This is an excellent point and one you should send to Stripe if you haven't already.
American Airlines pilots begin using Apple's iPad during all phases of flight
Disclosure: I have never "ridden" a skateboard.

Wouldn't it be very different braking by yourself than being slowed down by anything on the road? You control exactly the speed and brake force you apply to the board so you can balance/react. I see the guys in the video doing pretty well.

Physics of a table attached to a car using a rope are very different from this.
There is this nice empty plot of land without a house on it. I should be able to pay next to nothing for it because nobody is using it. Forget everyone else who might have been interested in the past. Forget the current owner who bought it legitimately. I deserve it because I want it and don't want to pay a fair market price for it.
Here's the thing though, if you want to set up some sort of system for living your life, there can't be any finite goal to the system because if you reach that goal, what then? It's a more important requirement to continue the system itself.
It seems to make sense. Looks similar to the way Windows Azure Mobile Services lets you run JavaScript code on the server.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2012/08/28/announcing...
Dietitian is the word you're looking for.

As to why the skepticism: the most successful sciences have immediate feedback mechanisms to tell you when you're doing something right. Changing diet and food, however, is slow in effect, hard to monitor, and differs a lot from person to person. Some things are obviously bad--drinking a lot of coke, for instance, and not purposely eating after you're full--but beyond that most things appear to have worked decently for someone at one point or another. So the people in the know have stuck with one set of beliefs for awhile (heavily pushed by the government, which in turn has pretty much acted at the dictates of certain agricultural powers) while alternatives work as often as the party line.
Total Recall Becoming a reality
For what it's worth, my intention is to overcome some of those issues that you mention. First, I assume you're talking about accidental pollution of the global scope (by omitting 'var'), which can be avoided: see CoffeeScript. Also, I have some ideas to improve the 'scope mess', as well as prototypes.
I don't see the huge issue here. There's no real private information given by this, it's just character name and realm.
Don't get too clever or creative with your home page copy
It's scary that something like this does (and no doubt will) happen. As the saying goes: always follow the money.

What other companies do this?
No sarcasm intended, but how can you justify paying $65/mo for something like Chargify? Does it offer some value that I'm not seeing on their site?
IonMonkey lands in mozilla-central
I actually thought this was going to be a link to a card game that teaches people CSS!

(Which is a pretty nifty idea, if I do say so myself!)
That statement has really no foundation and maybe the founders of FoundationDB should read a introduction to distributed database book, for example "Principles of Distributed Database Systems" by Özsu and Valduriez.
Luckily there are still smaller independent internet service providers out there. A mass switch from Comcast after people discover they are being spied on might wake them up.
Donald Trump is a legend in his own mind.

Yes, the legend has it that he knows the cost of everything. He could walk into a hotel under construction, and would know the cost of the faucet used in the bathroom sink, and would have a sense that it could be gotten $1 per unit cheaper with tougher negotiating skills. Knowing the true cost of things is a great asset in negotiation with suppliers.

But lets me honest. His success as a real-estate mogul is spotty. The casino company that bears his name (Trump Entertainment Resorts) has filed bankruptcy 3 times, and only owns 10% of the company currently and it's run by other people - mostly for the use of his name.

It seems the smartest thing he did was try to tie his name with luxury in the mind of the consumer. He does TV shows to reinforce his reputation as a ruthless businessman. He puts his name on every building he can - Trump this, Trump that. He's some type of marketing genius, not the king of real estate.

The second smartest thing he did was aggressively try to buy even undesirable property in Manhattan on the belief that even the port-lands would some day become places people would want to live. While everyone was focused on downtown, he was looking at the cheaper edges with a big vision of what it can become.

So what is the lesson for startups? While everyone is fighting over what they think is hot now (social! location! photos! online tv!), try and find what will logically be hot next and work there. And put your name on everything. A better lesson than "know the price of everything".
Quantum uncertainty not all in the measurement
These seem like good improvements, although I'm still not really clear on the benefits of using Stripe's recurring billing system rather than building your own. Given that you still have to send out your own emails and handle adjustments to the plans, it seems like basically the same amount of work either way.

I built my own recurring billing system using Stripe about 9 months ago because I need the per-seat pricing. It was incredibly easy, it gave me access to functionality that Stripe will probably never offer, and it allows me to plug in other payment providers if I ever need to.
Google Scholar Updates: Making New Connections - Google Scholar Blog
GOW seems to be more focused on a userland environment, whereas mingw is focused on enabling developers to link against unix libraries in a windows environment. Sure there's msggrep, and msgfilter as userland in mingw, but GOW gives you direct access to 'ls', 'gfind', 'grep', etc, and doesn't care a fig about giving access to libz.
I'm just glad this isn't in any way related to the awful new movie. God that was bad.
Sounds cool, but even a 95% efficient 2kW brushless motor would be dissipating 100W of heat. Not easy to dump in a small package. I've never tried building a skateboard but I've built quite a few mobile robots (and a few battlebots). Wish they had a bit more detail on the tech.
Agreed, it's not meant to be a universal replacement for standard web development, but as useful option where appropriate.

Thanks for your kind words.
Yes, MS tries to hook schools early on. But no one stops teachers and school stuff from rejecting MS offers and going with Linux. And it does happen in different places.
The #1 reason to buy it is if you want a 15" MacBook Pro with an SSD that's larger than 128GB and want to pay as little as possible for it.

At the moment, the 2.3 GHz "Retina" MBP is $2199 with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD (bare-minimum specs)

A "non-retina" 15" MBP with bare-minimum specs (4GB RAM, 2.3 GHz processor) but with the same 256GB SSD is $2299.

At the other end of the spectrum, a 2.7GHz "retina" with 16GB of RAM and the 768GB SSD is $3299. A worse "non-retina" laptop (only 8GB of RAM, since that's all Apple will let you put in those, and only 512GB SSD for the same reason) is $3349.

Oh, and for the non-retina machine I assumed you get the cheaper 1440x900 screen. Of course the "retina" machine can be easily run at 1680x1050 if desired.

If you don't want/need the SSD, the numbers look quite different, of course.

That said, I'm not sure what you think is "unsupported" by Office and VirtualBox. They won't run at 2880x1800, but they'll run no worse than they would on a 1440x900 15" mbp.
Your confirmation of my sanity is appreciated :-)
I'm not sure why you reacted this way. You're the creator, and the designs are wildly different. There's no licensing infringement with you because you aren't Linotype, and this project is not for profit.

I'm sure you're a nice enough guy in the real world, but you certainly came off badly here.
It's awesome that you are able to get attentions from those top-level companies like those. I did take a look at the curriculum and you do in fact have some data structure/algorithm classes.

It would you be nice if you can provide us with candidates' interview experiences and outcome -- just to provide a roadmap for future candidates
And that's all too frequently how successful studios are rewarded in the post-2000s mega-conglomo AAA game industry: shuttered up and their "resources" (programmers, designers, etc.) distributed to polish turds on the parent company's other big projects.
I first saw the arbitrary billing intervals and then realized they still don't do what I need (weekly billing).
Hacking Mat Honan
Lithium ion batteries do overheat and burst into flames. However, it's generally due to faulty charge controllers pumping too much current through the cells. It won't be caused by having the laptop power on in a backpack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixIOEPnsgbI
No joke. Cyber security's a constant game of 25 steps forward and 122 steps back.
Why developers are allergic to job opportunities
Ask HN: DSL plans in Australia (Brisbane area)
Hi

I am trying to help my sister get a decent speed DSL near Brisbane, Australia. All the plans she has found are data limited and speed capped at 256kb/s, many are wireless.

I am hoping someone here is familiar with the local scene in QLD 4213) and can suggest a provider that has decent speeds (enough for streaming movies, Facetime etc)

Thanks!
If this page is any indication of the actual app, I'm actually looking forward to paying for it.
Well of course it's this. If not you'd be buying 100$ at 1100$ !

Not much of a bargain... ;)
I disagree.

A program like this would be like Knewton online for GMAT training. They charge $500 per program and can't begin to charge $10k. The other point is that these programs are set up to find great people, teach them to code and then hook them up with a company looking for great people who can code (go figure).

The company that is going to win will set up courses like this in multiple cities, SF, NYC, Chicaco, etc. and build an online component.

I look forward to seeing what companies the alumni work for and project they build.
New IDE that offers "Bret Victor" style realtime interactive coding... with C++
You'll tend to see similar effects for other medical issues, particularly cancer, in which the US notoriously outperforms many of the European countries that outrank it on life expectancy.

FWIW, I looked into this using the tables on http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/all-cancer... - not just the all cancers table, but also the separate tables for different types of cancer. The implication of what you write - that the US has better medical healthcare - didn't seem to stand out. Rather, it looked like different European countries have markedly different death rates from different cancers. Things like diet, lifestyle, prevalence of smoking, etc. seem like a better explanation for the variance. France has especially low heart disease deaths, for example, but slightly higher cancer deaths than the US. Etc.

And of course we all die of something, so I would expect cancer deaths to be higher in a country with a higher life expectancy even if the medical success in treatment was higher. Third world countries generally do not have high deaths from cancer.
Very true. Most of the hate for java is actually because of the frameworks. But Play framework has made java web application development fun again. Also I find static typing very useful for large projects. Even though I go to python for small programs (file handling, quick database insert), I still go to java for large projects. What I miss in java is the succinctness of python(like list comprehension). But I still don't want to loose static typing. I thought scala was the answer. But I was not impressed when I tried it.
I'm sorry. I couldn't read your comment. My hammer and chisel can't render that text properly. Not everyone has a computer you know! Please provide proper support.
You may mean homicide rather than suicide: the US doesn't seem especially high in this ranking of suicide deaths -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra... -- below many other rich or large countries, and not far from culturally/developmentally similar countries (like Canada/NZ/UK). The US does stick out among its usual developmental peers on the homicide rates -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona... -- doubling or tripling our English-speaking or western-European peers.

Usually the way I hear this statistical point made is that the US leads the world in life expectancy when accidental injuries and violent crime are omitted. (Usually the point is deployed to caution people against making quick conclusions about US diet or medical care quality from national life expectancies, as for example here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2011/11/23/the-myth-of-amer...)
How GoDaddy Took Us Down and What We're Doing About It
Show HN: Android Bootstrap - A bootstrapping template/generator for Android Apps
Vimeo Tailgate - a simple way to watch your logs
Maybe you should set up some sort of subcontracting scheme - that the students wouldn't have to pay taxes on the 12.5% that they pay to you.
Benchmark’s Matt Cohler: No New Investments In 2012
It has fewer keywords than almost any other language, and the overwhelming majority of its library is written in pure Java.

It has warts, like the way closures are broken, and the lack of map-literals, some native syntax map stuff would be nice too. Functional programming with lambdas, etc is in fact possible (and awesome, passing around Callables through java's excellent concurrency libraries is quite elegant once you get past the ugly syntax).

Most importantly, it's IMO one of the best languages for team projects, the verbosity that people lament turns into a huge asset when you're reading other people's code. The interface system they have isn't quite as good as Go's but it allows really powerful abstractions as long as you don't go down blind alleys of implementation inheritance from your OO 101 freshman year.

That said, the JVM aside, Go seems to address all of its sweet spots a little bit better. Their only lack is some sort of generics and I'm pretty sure that they've delayed implementing it precisely because of Java's ugly edge cases in generic usage.

And if you're talking about EJB or any other enterprise monstrosity, sure, that sucks and is the exact opposite of 'clean and beautiful'. Or performant or any other positive adjective.
I think this could be improved by not using any classes on the spans and instead in the stylesheet using nth element rules to define each card?

It would reduce the html weight. Just plain spans or divs.

I guess it would be a problem for older browsers http://caniuse.com/css-sel3 darn IE always holding us back.
Announcing the Etsy Security Bug Bounty Program
Your personal brand: what's it worth to a business?
How useful would this be to a non-software engineer with significant self-taught programming experience? I have programmed (mainly Python & Java, no Ruby/Rails and little web experience) for several years within the context of biomedical engineering and could probably teach myself the material, but this would provide some external discipline and, more importantly, make finding a job much easier (my resume and some other links are on my profile page, if anyone would like to hire me).
So it looks like Glyph Lefkowitz's "extremist" opinion on software ethics http://glyf.livejournal.com/46589.html was completely right. When a program does something the user doesn't want, the programmer is in the wrong. Programmer is to user as lawyer is to client. We need a recognized and binding way for programmers to submit to this code of ethics.
One reason nefarious people would use this is to gain verified account name information. Get enough of those and there are bound to be some passwords that are easily brute forced.

Furthermore as the article states blizzard could use this to track private servers.
Interesting blog post. I enjoy reading the personal stories of people that land great gigs with great start ups, but ultimately battle whether to work with a great start up or go out and do their own thing. Would love to hear more of these type of stories and how people decide what to do...
I loves me some Derby (and Racer), but it's not ready for production use until it supports server-side authentication logic. (Supposedly it's on the way.)
Just took a quick look at the Habitualist site. Not sure if it's intentional or not, but I found it a bit off-putting that you can't tell how much the plans are before you sign up.
... what?

Sugars are a type of carbohydrate.
All-Optical Nanowire Switch Promises “Consumer Photonics” in the Future
Git push to do pull + push consecutively
Legally barred from using the internet
Just about to say the same thing. Very cute, I'm impressed.
Just last week there was another Hacker News post that prompted me to look up some of the articles by demographer James W. Vaupel, one of the leading scholars on the demography of aging and how to adjust for time trends in life expectancy. His article

"Biodemography of human ageing" Nature. 2010 Mar 25;464(7288):536-42. doi:10.1038/nature08984

http://www.demographic-challenge.com/files/downloads/2eb51e2...

covers most of the essential issues. His striking finding is "Humans are living longer than ever before. In fact, newborn children in high-income countries can expect to live to more than 100 years. Starting in the mid-1800s, human longevity has increased dramatically and life expectancy is increasing by an average of six hours a day."

http://www.prb.org/Journalists/Webcasts/2010/humanlongevity....

Meanwhile, a person at any given age can look up period life tables for what the blog post author of the post submitted here correctly describes as a MINIMUM life expectancy at that person's current age.

http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html

(The links shown are for United States data, but data like these are available for most developed countries.)

It is also possible to find life expectancy formulas adjusted for personal health status and lifestyle.

http://www.msrs.state.mn.us/info/Age_Cal.htmls

(Minnesota data)

http://www.bupa.com.au/health-and-wellness/tools-and-apps/to...

(Australia data)

The link posted last week

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-w...

gives good data on trends in causes of death from 1960 to the present in the United States and in OECD countries as a whole. It showed that life expectancy at birth, at age 40, at age 60, at age 65, and at age 80 have all increased during the years shown on the chart.
I would love to read that. Having a strong sandbox as a tool makes all kinds of interest things possible.

p.s. My last name is Lackner. Glad to meet someone else with the unfortunate Lack- prefix.
Among other things -- Kalvin and I started a nonprofit while in college that funded 800+ microfinance loans to developing world entrepreneurs and Randy was a hacker at Scribd (YC S06).

I think beyond that, they really appreciated how well we worked and functioned together as a unit (having been roommates and friends before YC), with differing but complementary skill sets and personalities.
Magic: the Gathering is Turing Complete
In late 2009, I had an idea to create a service that would allow game developers to run JavaScript on the server to drive multiplayer games.

I worked on it for about 6 months and then Apple released Game Center. It was pretty clear that my service would be eclipsed by Game Center so I threw in the towel on it.

At the time, I was targeting Node.js on the server and wrote a fledgling sand-boxing tool called Jefe [1].

I'm using Parse in my current app (Lexatron [2]) and I'm loving it. I'm looking forward to see what I can run on the server side.

Full circle!

[1] https://github.com/fictorial/jefe

[2] http://fictorial.com/lexatron/
I'm not sure, but the difference in sugar is the main thing (sugar raises insulin which signals cells to store fat, very roughly speaking)
One of the reasons that I really like the Groovy language as an alternative to Java is that it's features often save you typing (for example getters/setters on a POJO) but still allow you to get in and override the default behavior. So it increase productivity, and reduces pain without reducing the expressiveness.
You make it sound like this is official government policy or a law, but it's just an agreement between some private companies.

Not just any private companies. These are agreements between private companies whose size and influence gives them a unique position of control over peoples' lives; such a partnership, negotiated with the involvement of the white house, might as well be official government policy or law.
Change the name. The double negative is confusing, and the word "neglect" reminds me of toddlers crying because they haven't been fed or dogs whimpering in a hot car. It sounds like a non-profit trying to guilt me into donating money to stop human trafficking. There are so many negative connotations you'll activate in people's minds before they read that it's an app to "proactively provide stellar support".

It's cute with Less Accounting, because obviously accounting is necessary and you could never get rid of it all (or want to). But it's not cute with neglect. Neglect is not a business necessity, and "Less Neglect" just reminds me of all the neglect your app probably won't address.

The name is a downer.

"Neglect is a passive form of abuse in which a perpetrator is responsible to provide care for a victim who is unable to care for himself or herself, but fails to provide adequate care." ~Wikipedia
Regarding the issue of Dev Bootcamp and international students, I live and work in London England and I'm in the Fall cohort. So I can categorically confirm that they do accept international students.
Just wanted to clear that point up.
Google: We Didn't Know You Could Patent Round Corners
Yes, it is clearly inspired by OSX, yet you wouldn't mistake the two. If you look at the details (shading, borders, highlights, buttons) it has a different set of standards, some things are closer to KDE's Plasma than Aqua.
Thanks for point that out -- I probably would have just assumed it was legal. Would be helpful to see a breakdown of all states it's illegal in under the Legality section of the Kickstarter. Seems like a great way to get around while traveling so I'd want to make sure it's useable in most states (or at least the ones you frequent most).
I don't think the hype this piece of news got was due to the way it works but mostly because its restricted towards Apple users. It's not newsworthy by itself but because it's part of the Apple/Google war, bloggers gave it far more importance than in should've got in the first place.