skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm fairly sure that the EU issued a directive and not regulation. The member state takes these directives and decide whether to (and how to) implement them into the statutory law of their country.

The rest of Europe looked at this directive and decided not to implement it 'ad pedem litterae'. You don't see any other countries with stupid little cookie notices plastered all over their websites.

The United Kingdom on the other hand, has a long history of misunderstanding the purpose of directives and implementing them without due consideration or manipulation.

Thus, the EU Cookie Law is misnamed. It is the UK Cookie Law.

It followed from the EU Directive 2002/58 on Privacy and Electronic Communications: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Privacy_and_Electr...

Directive... Directive... Directive...

Don't blame Brussels. Blame the UK government.

More on regulation and directives here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8160808.stm
The headaches are (probably) withdrawal symptoms from sugar. Also, make sure you crank up that water intake.
$20,000 for a fast algorithm for a simple math game
thecityswig is impressive. Any plans to expand outside of VA?
Thank you for providing me with this info.

Edit: This goes equally to the other responses to my comment.
I wish people would stop posting this stuff. The people who need Github already know, the people browsing HN probably don't need to know.
Reading this reminds me of a gripe I have; is it possible to use 2-factor authentication on gmail without a phone? You can print a list of OTPs but you can't enable it without also registering a phone number. Given how easy it is to intercept voice and SMS, that seems like a huge security hole.
Routers can get quite complicated.

At a first level, routers will cache information about what machines are on which port of the router. This enables them to not forward a packet to every port on the router (reducing network load). This is normally done using MAC Addresses.

On more expensive routers, the router can understand IGMP, or multicast and route based on multicast joins. This enables an optimization on simple broadcasts because not every machine on the network needs to see these packets, but multiple machines might want to.
I believe this will be likely. KPT FTW!
Unfortunately, this is in licensing infringement with the actual Helveticards (helveticards.ryanmyers.me). I have contacted the creator and informed him of the conflict.
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GitHub down for emergency database maintenance
Go Daddy: Network Issues, Not Hackers or DDoS, Caused Outage
Ok so I submitted this with the title "What are your tactics for landing page conversion? I'm trying novelty" hoping to get feedback on my approach and start a conversation around general tactics. Unfortunately someone with admin changed the title to "Zap: Payments for the universe".

This was also intended as an experiment to how an extremely sceptical audience would react to such a spartan page with a novel visual effect as a differentiator. Now the experiment has effectively been torpedoed by this change, and now looks super corny.

Hopefully this comment gets enough up votes to stay reasonably visible so the community know what is up.
Hey, at least he told you the idea. Most of the time when I get this email, the project is suuuuper secret and I'm just supposed to take the senders word on the awesomeness.
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I've been doing more or less the same thing for the past five months - I lost 15 pounds so far, and I'm down to between 11-14% bodyfat.

I do find paleo to be sustainable - I would make it a point to include nuts and multivitamins into your diet - that will make a lot of the negative things go away.

I would also recommend the book "Why we get fat" by Gary Taubes, he goes into the science of all of this.
... and we can't deploy our software.

Waiting for the green light ...
https://status.github.com/
I have been through this a lot with a music/art interactive platform I've been working on for the past year and a half or so. My gut take on this is that programmers have the same problem musicians have; although they may be in demand, they overestimate their ability to evaluate potential enterprises. (great players have about as much trouble evaluating whether a band is worth joining as A&R people did picking winners)

I started not only with an innovative and fun product idea which is fairly contained technically, but also very significant technical ability of my own (working professionally as everything from an SEO guy back in the day and a UI/UX guy for 10 years), niche expertise/perspective and very hard to get connections, marketing experience, a fairly coherent business strategy with potential customers expressing interest, and although I don't have a ton of funding I have never asked anyone to work for free or "just equity" ... ever.

And I still can't hire objective C developers. What's wrong with this picture?

Did I mention I live in a major US city. And I'm friendly and (usually) easygoing?

One conclusion is that I have an unrealistic view of what I'm offering, or that I am terrible at looking for people (probably both true) but another factor may be unexamined assumptions on the part of developers when they evaluate a potential opportunity. Perhaps they already "know" what a cofounder looks and talks like, without realizing their preconception exists. Perhaps they have a picture in their head already of what a "good" or "successful" product will be ... or perhaps they really want to be working on a idea of their own but are having trouble getting started, which creates semi-conscious ambivalence about working on the ideas of others. I don't know that any of this is true, but having spent my life around talented creative people of widely varying levels of "success" that's what occurs to me.

Just an outside perspective.
http://xkcd.com/303/
git pull takes longer than expected
Yes. I've known about the outage almost since its start. Lets get back to posting news.
This doesn't do anything to explain why it was out for so long. I guess I should expect this type of thing from GoDaddy though, they are mainly a consumer company.
How many "github is down" postings will there be?
So github appears to have gone down (as jgrahamc says - if only there were a way to continue working offline) and HN explodes with postings telling us so.

How many will there be? Any guesses? I've listed some in the comments.
You thought (some people think) it was where people went if they didn't make Oxbridge, but you didn't realise it was highly ranked? That makes little sense.
I'm very skeptical of the validity of this study.

The graph shows no riots at all between 2008 and 2012. E.g. there are no data points in the graph for the riots related to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons. They resulted in more than 100 deaths! [1]

In 2011, from the top of my head, there were riots in the UK, the Vancouver Stanley Cup riots in Canada [2], and anti-government riots in Thai.

In my country, Brazil, football hooliganism is rampant, there are at least a few riots a year.

In short, they must be using a very arbitrary definition of "riot", that just so happens to coincide with their theory.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoo...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Vancouver_Stanley_Cup_riot
For any finance-related company the most important thing is trust. Are you sure you can build it this way?
This one has the most comments:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505907

These less so:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505931

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505932

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505934

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505960

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505977

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4506010

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4506011

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4506135

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4506149

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4506169

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4506230

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4506318
Licensing infringement over what? A possible Helveticards trademark? (The designs don't look similar at all)
> So Anonymous0wn3r or whoever was just claiming responsibility for something they had no hand in?

Yeah, with a name/handle like Anonymous0wn3r they sound very trustworthy. If they claimed they had a hand in something, it must be true.
Famo.us will release JS library that makes HTML5 perform like native
They offered "well over" $1 billion, but yeah: good link.
IFA - World’s leading trade show for Consumer Electronics in Berlin
http://github.s3.amazonaws.com/misc/down.html
learn to code. see you in a few years.

did trump build a house brick by brick?

Demolition, architecture, plumbing, electrical work, heating, air conditioning, permits, labor, interior design, lumber, dry wall, 12 foot tall golden letters spelling your own last name--Trump's big edge is he knows the going rate for all of it. There are hundreds of details that go into turning a hunk of capital into a building; Donald Trump wins because he knows what all those details cost. And his competitors don't.

his competitors don't hire specialists who know that?
This is why we keep two git repos - one hosted on our own server that we deploy from, and one on Github that we use for collaboration.

Of course, we can't update some gems if github is down, but we can still deploy patches, and it's pretty trivial to host your own git repository.
Actually now your experiment will give you more clear data about reaction (conversion).
A legitimate argument? Do we really need to go through why domain squatting is bad? It's quite obvious, but alright then.

- You have a business idea.
- You come up with a great domain name for your company.
One that's relevant to what you're doing, and clever too!
- You go online hoping to buy that domain.
- You find out it's been taken by someone..
- .. but not for the purpose of actually *doing* something with it.

He's just holding it from you, hoping he can make you pay dearly for it.

Bottom line: the domain name that would be perfect for your new business should cost you something like ten dollars. You'd buy it, and happily continue getting shit done.

But now that the squatter has it, it costs you thousands of dollars, just because Fuck You.

That's Bad, mm'kay?
Running beta in production
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Slow Carb argues that you need some legumes to sustain a diet like this. Add some lentils or refried beans once in a while.
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Github Outage
Github just had a major outage (https://status.github.com/).

The problem is not so much that the source repositories are there, but projects have started using github as a major goto point for their wiki, discussions, and documentation.

This is probably a good example of a product which gets re-defined over time by its users.
Its all hear-say and even according to the link no formal offer was made so its highly unlikely any DD was done. Still a complete hand-wave at the possible value of Valve.
Aw I was hoping for some intricate CSS version of the backs of the cards.
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I'm pretty sure pagers have the same expectation of privacy as HAM radio. Which is to say very little.
At least in the US, there is no trademark over name Helveticards (http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/process/search/#heading-1)
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There's a tiny chance that I use some throwaway email just to see what's next, knowing your original title. Without knowing that, there's no chance - I simply ignore a meaningless and containing zero information page which asks for my email.

So this could be a test only if people wouldn't know that, so the title change did you some good.
The problem is not so much that the source repositories are there, but projects have started using github as a major goto point for their wiki, discussions, and documentation.

This is probably a good example of a product which gets re-defined over time by its users.
I learned a similar lesson working for RadioShack as a teen except with Sprint phones/service. After handling charges for upset customers I learned the ins and outs of Sprint's phone support and could basically get them to do whatever I wanted.

Needless to say I too carried a Sprint handset at the time.
The bias you are looking for here is survivorship bias. Minorities have to outperform their majority-peers or they don't get hired or promoted. So those that remain are disproportionately skilled.

But my concern is the narrative fallacy - we ascribe far more importance to narratives than they deserve. The way to defeat that is to fill our narratives with the future that we want rather than the future that we don't want.
Perhaps but those look like shit.
Who's to blame? Apple for creating such demand for a large launch within a short period of time, or Foxconn for accepting such demand?

I'll go with Foxconn - you shouldn't be accepting contracts from multiple vendors if you don't have the manpower.
The trouble is that normal operations are often indistinguishable from social engineering.

I have worked several places where I have been told by management that something needs fixed on a web server, but they can't remember any passwords, so could I call up their ISP and just get it sorted.

In these situations, I have never had to prove anything I couldn't have faked and I usually get asked to provide an email address so they can send me the details.

As this kind of behaviour seems very common, most everything seems to be wide open for social engineering. So given that everything isn't hacked all of the time, people in general must be both much nicer and much lazier than I had otherwise assumed.
It's also a little strange that Indiegogo only allows campaign contributors to post comments, something I learned when trying post a similar warning message to yours in the comments section.

Explains all the positive feedback though.
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What's the over-under?
I can't imagine it costs less than $1 million to bring this concept to reality with all these options. How much did Apple spend on development of the first iPhone?
The linked article fails to say who owns the result. This reflects badly on the article's originators, who don't seem to be aware of the intellectual property issues.

If the originators really expected a response, they would describe the problem to be solved, and the conditions of the contract, up front.

Experienced developers will recognize the omissions in the description and require full disclosure before proceeding.
"We have determined the service outage was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables."

I'm witholding any judgement on internal vs external involvement till this series of events is defined. (doubt it ever will be)
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I think he made a promise to close Guantanamo without thinking it through. Then he changed his mind.

The fact is, when Ron Paul (or someone like him) says he will close Guantanamo Bay, you know they will close it, by executive order if need be. Obama was content to make an attempt and either change his mind or give up. As such, I have either changed my mind about him or given up. Doesn't really matter which - intentions mean nothing in politics at this point.
Thanks for the pointer. From looking at that on my rMBP I see standbydelay set to 4200 seconds. Increasing it to 2 hours might actually work fairly well for me, as I'm not usually away from the computer for longer than that during the day.
I was mainly referring to the implication by omission that Blizzard had nefarious intent with its watermarking. Though, my comment was itself inflammatory; karma's a jerk.
Popular and successful are not the same thing.

I could go through and dispute his points one by one in traditional internet style but to do so would be to miss the fundamental difference in viewpoint. A piece of art can be considered aesthetically unsuccessful while still being a massive commercial hit.

The liberal hacker will generally consider Java (if not the JVM) a failure.

The conservative software developer will generally consider Java (and the JVM) massively successful.

See Yegge on the liberal/conservative distinction:
https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSKeg4v...

So if PG was considering the market success of this "stinker" then no, his prediction was clearly a failure. But if you consider the aesthetic success? Well, Java certainly isn't cool in certain circles.

Personally I like Java and consider it successful - but I don't think PG's article is prima facie a prophetic failure.
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505003
His "side effects" sound like symptoms of low caloric intake, not "removing dietary carbs". With more attention to his diet (yes, I mean counting calories) he could keep up this plan without the headaches/irritability/fatigue.

Also, without knowing other stats (height, age, etc), it's hard to judge if 19 pounds in three weeks is healthy. In general, no, but if he started at 5'5" and 280lb the weight was likely more of a risk than the diet.

These cutesy "rule diets" are a very poor way to manage your health. They're relatively easy to live by, but that's about the only good thing that can be said. There's nothing wrong with eating a low/no-carb diet, but you should educate yourself so you know you're being safe and how/when you'll see the results you want.
Find out how toxic your code is?
"did trump build a house brick by brick?"

He inherited billions of dollars and a career from his father, squandered through narcissism and bad business decisions into mere millions of dollars.
They're not that simple due to aggressive speed optimizations like caching frequently used routing information in hardware registers. If the cache gets corrupted due to electronic bogon flux, bad things happen. These events are rare (like once every billion operating hours) so you can imagine it's hard for the router vendors to find & fix them all.

It is a little sad that they didn't try rebooting the routers for so many hours.
I'm starting with Rails and this sounds like a great deal. The only problem is that I'm some 6500 miles away from SF. Anyhow, I like what you're doing and I wish you success.
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Apart from simultaneous banishment this from the front page. Net bad.
Interesting attempt to answer a closely-related question: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/07/insuffic...
It's almost like you're taking this seriously 8-)
Jupiter may have just saved Earth from a devastating impact event
I assume it's because they're owned by Gawker Media.
Seems like a more likely explanation is a hysteresis issue with the hardware lid sensor. It "opens" under vibration and allows the transient key events to be seen by whatever controller (my guess is that all this is preboot, so the CPU firmware isn't invoked) is listening for the wakeup events.

Basically, if the key sensors can be jiggled closed, the lid sensor can be jiggled open. And because these happen for the same reason at the same time, that's not a two-point failure mode; it's something you'd expect to happen.
I don't really want to be the Donald Trump of anything.
I wonder if the typical German necessity of a title (Germans LOVE titles) has any input on the "I'm a CEO" bit.
Are there any network admins that can explain why/how router tables become corrupted? Also, GoDaddy says that they now have protections in place to prevent this in the future. Any guesses as to what they might be?
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First thing I thought of too. Time for a pull request?
Why don't you use PayEx? /s
I think the introduction of lambdas will ease the pain with the first two. That is, we can add weak syntactic support for first-class iteration and list comprehensions -- both are monadic features, and though Java can't express a general monad, it can bolt the monadic features on as a design pattern. So none of it will be pretty, but it'll be better than the current situation.
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I'm not sure if this will be the best solution for the problem. But I do belive that in some point we'll have a sort of device like this one.

Must of us (pragmatic programmers, hackers, entrepreneurs) are always looking for resource efficiency, we're always looking for DRY. The way we manage our devices is broken, why do I need to install 4 times every single app in my ipad, android phone, PC and laptop? Why do I need 4 different processors, why do I need RAM distributed through all my devices?

I think this is a great idea, and we hackers would love it. But this solution may have some downsides though. I think there must be a single OS for both PC and Mobile, it just should change its interface, and I'm not sure if the power of my phone would be enough for a PC experience yet, anyways I hope this idea come to reality soon!
Based on a long history of working in datacenters I'd bet someone misconfigured something and later claimed it was "corrupted" to save their ass - happens all the time. It's just so simple to make very confusing and damaging mistakes in a complicated network.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that GoDaddy's corporate culture wouldn't respond well to someone admitting to a mistake this damaging.
With that I can agree. Ideas are worth nothing. Execution is what matters. And luck. Mostly luck.
Does this not work on the new MBPs? I use this too when travelling overland, lest you get abrasive marks on your screen over time. Its a great, simple preventive maintenance trick. That would suck. I would also hate to have turbulence on a flight set this of, and then have your battery dead when you unpack.
I wasnt really paying attention to the outage, but if it was indeed a routing issue, then you shouldnt have been able to reach any godaddy ip address. ICMP/traceroutes would have failed and showed the error.
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>>People Are The Key to Every Lock

Great section title. Here's my favorite bit of "social engineering". Using the term loosely, I know, but it still makes me laugh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94LL8J8WYT0
I don't trust Anonymous0wn3r but I distrust GoDaddy just the same. Of course those aren't the only two answers, it could have been external and not Anonymous0wn3r as well.
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Is it time for Senate hearings about hotspot neutrality?
I second that!

I think many people in the germany hacker community don't want to be associated with "those startup guys" because many of "those guys" lack technical understanding. Like you said, many business guys hire developers to build yet another ecommerce site.

We're a small Company (https://futurevps.de/) that offers custom Servers fully based in Germany (for data privacy reasons) and get much less media coverage than "ecommerce" companies. I think that nearly 99.9% of the german startup newssites cover ecommerce-ish businesses.
Nope, not a problem. It was meant as a statement of fact, not a judgement! :)
> So Anonymous0wn3r or whoever was just claiming responsibility for something they had no hand in?

Gee, why would an anonymous person on the internet lie?
I'm amazed it's still down, it was down yesterday. Best wishes to the github guys fixing it.

It seems like I need to expand my github-backup program with the ability to cache and later send issue reports to github. It's nice that I have a backup of all the issues of all the projects I'm likely to want to look at, but would be good to also be able to file bug reports.

It's a pity that distributed bug tracking has never fully taken off, despite some excellent tools like SD. Github is in such a good place to do something about that, as they have one of the most commonly used issue trackers, and are all about leveraging and making easy distributed version control.