skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm looking for a good way to get latitude and longitude for a given piece of news. Does anybody know how to do that?
Jack Dorsey: “A Founder Is Not A Job, It’s A Role”
Paul Irish, Addy Osmani et al., sounds like a lot of win.
I was fairly laid off. From what they told me, it wasn't anything performance related. It was a good organization/startup, but I'm guessing they were having some financial issues. I'm just going to start applying to new places ASAP. It was just my first job out of college, and it was out of the blue.

I'm definitely considering some freelance work. I've never dealt with odesk or anything right now.
Fun sidenote, the sunglass industry doesn't actually copy anyone else... they literally OWN the entire industry themselves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica

Secret monopolies ftw. (LensCrafters' doctors have you buy designer glasses you need. Vertical integration gone wrong.)
That makes it even worse. This whole "X is not copying Apple" is getting ridiculous at HN...
There is a slight difference though, you should still be able to tell distinctly at a distance this is an HP vs. a Mac. Having a high resolution display built into an all-in-one body makes sense to copy, but using the same color scheme regardless of materials with the same shapes makes it look like a copy of an iMac.
The Clojure community just recently put its full weight behind nREPL. You can run nREPL from Leiningen outside of a project directory, much like IRB. To be honest, I've never noticed the JVM startup time...

But there is another way! Clojure inherits the concepts of SLIME/SWANK from the world of LISP. Essentially, since functions (not objects) are the top-level constructs in Clojure, you can redefine functions at any time while your program is running, and everything will "magically" start using the new definition.

So, the typical way one develops in Clojure is to start a SWANK or nREPL server, then load their program files into this server. At that point, you can run any single function or if you're writing a web app, for example, you can run the function that starts the web server, hit a URL, edit a function, re-evaluate, reload the web site and immediately see the results.

ClojureScript One is one example of how this can be taken advantage of. You can see a demo of it here: http://vimeo.com/35153207
I'm glad someone brought this up! I've been concerned about this for years!
I think you should take this opportunity to learn how to farm bees.
Ah, exploratory data analysis to the rescue! Those "experts" can only use confirmatory tools.
This is still somewhat consistent with Anonymous' story....

The chain of events could have been:

1. Blue Toad either gets hacked, or gives their data to the FBI or someone else.

2. Somehow this data ends up on an FBI agent's laptop.

3. Anonymous breaches the laptop and gets the data.

4. Anonymous sees all the UDIDs and mistakenly thinks, "Apple and the FBI must be in cahoots!", and publishes it.
If the two photos of Graham come from the same source image, then it looks like the microphone on the first image (http://5.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/paul-graham.j...) was airbrushed out (http://venturebeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/pg-lowball.jp...). (Unless a microphone was airbrushed in for the first image.) Just thought that was curious, in addition to the desaturation...
The author got me started on Heroku at a Hackathon. He knows his stuff and is good at answering questions. Glad to see him published!
Or the result of A/B testing when the new "feature" resulted in a 100% decrease in the number of people who unsubscribed from the newsletter.
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Marco doesn't develop a Mac app.
Beware that "walrus" may not be that easy to pronounce by a foreigner :)
Awesome, this is much more manageable for my brain.
[T]hey're called Google Glasses, [...] they're an iPhone you can wear on your face.

If I were Sergey Brin, I would be throwing a chair through the wall!
Agreed, whole-heartedly.
Please make the 'Copy Link' button the biggest primary looking thing on the page. Like 48px big big.
WACOM tablets http://www.wacom.com/en/products/bamboo.aspx
It's a necessary motto.
Hasn't google already talked a bit about this ? They build (and possibly buy some) switches that's OpenFlow enabled, so they can among other things control the forwarding of many switches from a central control plane. e.g. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/going-with-the-...
Does google maps do the fanning out of many POIs in a circle automatically or did you have to do that yourself?
Congrats to you guys. Loving the dead simple process and clean UI design. I will definitely put in an order for the support of hacker's spirit.

Btw, how do you plan to do marketing on this? (Besides posting it on Hacker News - which probably brought you a ton of traffic already)
A September 11th Catastrophe You've Probably Never Heard About
From the horse's mouth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
Ah, I've been building something like this for my own use in static sites. I use Django templating with variables loaded from a config file, thinking about supporting some sort of database for more complex sites. Also planning on compiling (less), combining and minifying css/js files automatically on file changes. Like a jekyll of my own on steroids. It's a cool little side project to have that you can add bits and bytes to when you need them.
Investment in auditions is cheaper than a bad hire.
Paul Elliot and Marian Phelan of Hashrocket talk to IT World about the return on investment of 1 week auditions over traditional interviews.
I am not disputing that HP made it to look like a Mac. I am only saying that this happens in literally every industry, yet we don't see headlines because some pair of Walmart imported sunglasses look like Oakleys.
> He clearly has a vested interest in the Apple eco-system and by proxy, the success of Apple and making them look good.

Except he was doing it long before anyone knew who he was and was willing to sponsor him for it. It's not like he suddenly became an Apple shill because he saw money in it, he was already an Apple fan and judged their decisions in that light even before his posts made the rounds on places like HN.
The absurdity of your comment made me laugh.
This is assuming that you believe that Anonymous got a hold of an FBI agent's laptop
You are missing my point completely.
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Today's playlist was great. I'll be checking this a lot.
HTML/JS frontend calls simple node server that does nothing but call a stored procedure like

spc_handle_request(req_headers, req_body, http_method, ...)

stored procedure does simple routing and does something like

insert into table (a, b, c) values (to_json(req_body).a, to_json(req_body).b, to_json(req_body).c);

or

to_json(select * from emp);

Time to implement simple crud app: 10 minutes.
page not found yo
For me the killer line was Redford collecting his fee for a coporate white hat job:

Redford (flirting) - Well, its a living !
Pretty Secretary (Looks at cheque) - Not a very good one.

Said everything - and fair put me off the idea of copying what otherwise seemed a really cool job :-)
So, if I program in a non-functional language, I must be a B-rated programmer? Wow... I thought I'd seen hubris :), but this tops everything.
If you have your own cert, wouldn't it be best to ignore expiration (and decide based on risk whether or not to implement revocation)? Unless you are saying to add the cert to the device/computer's list of trusted certs, which doesn't seem necessary to me.

All of Google's pinned certs are certainly evidence that this is a reasonable approach (I haven't looked at their expirations), though now it's kind of weird since it can't be MitM'd even to debug -- no one knows what is being shipped off to Google by Chrome anymore without reverse engineering binaries.
So everything "converges" to Apple designs because it is the end all designs of everything ... Or so say the anti Apple crowd in here and Samsung and other copycats. Disappointed with HP in this shameless look a like product.
Any particular ccTLDs you are referring to? None of these points align with my (European) experience.
"If your dad couldn't tell the difference, maybe he needs new glasses? Or perhaps the money for an iMac was wasted on him and he could have gone with a cheaper (plastic instead of aluminium) PC."
Yes, because the reason people pay "more" for Apple hardware is only because of the looks. It wouldn't take new glasses to see the difference between Windows 8 and OSX.
That's just a peculiarity of wireshark, it displays both DHCP and BOOTP as BOOTP in the oneline view. The packets are likely DHCP
alljoyn.org does something similar. P2P connection over lan though.
Work down the list and reach out to some folks.

https://jobs.github.com/positions?description=ruby+on+rails&...
You must run with an interesting crowd! :-D
I agree with David's sentiment and I have been doing this for years... except that I have been consistently told by other developers that I am doing the wrong thing. One of the issues in our industry is that there are no right answers, everyone seems to be correct and the biggest, loudest person in the room wins the debate. Obviously, moderation is key for anything, but it'd be nice to have a good, clear set of rules to live by (that won't change in 10 years).

For me, clear and concise method names have always help me understand code that I'm reading, as well as understand a stack trace.
First of all, I don't expect a raise of 15% annually. 5-10% would do, if it does happen every year (assuming they like my work). Second, you forgot the inflation.

$50K -> 200K growth in 10 years is possible, there's nothing extraordinary about it, but currently the only way to do it is to switch jobs.
I wonder if an enterprising naval architect somehow obtained the plans for a US or German WWI or WWII sub. The diesel/battery technology is the same, and without weapons systems, using today's technology for nav, etc. the task is really only one of hull fabrication.
Please take a look at the video review of Horn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50IMDgndk9k) - this is on iPhone 5 and is playable on your HDTV. This is the Tegra 3 equivalent of the same game - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTuerMfDCk0

Desktop quality gaming is already here on your mobile. Yes, I do understand that it is not Crysis quality, but it is a superb indicator of where its heading.

It was not my intention to devolve this discussion in this direction. My excitement stems from Valve's innovative new keyboard that reduces dependence on a keyboard paradigm as well as its recent leanings towards Linux ( ~ Android).
Apple Vs Braun : copy or inspiration ?
If you don't mind doing some of the work yourself, Silent PC Review [1] has a lot of information on building computers with low noise profiles. I had an a GPU a few years ago (GeForce 8600) with a passive heatsink that performed better than the stock blower did, without sounding like a jet engine.

It won't save you any money, but quiet gaming PCs are doable if you're willing to invest a bit more time.

[1] http://www.silentpcreview.com/
Great post, I can definitely relate to the DGF Principle. Though I'm wondering if there are times when it is better to be indirect?
Matt always has a great perspective on these things. At one of his talks I attended he commented on the difference between the 'security' business and the 'intelligence' business and noted that they both depended heavily on obfuscation and misdirection. Prior to that I had never really connected them in that way, but in hindsight it seemed amazingly obvious. Interesting times indeed.
Legal responsibility? Probably not. Ethical responsibility? I think so. Think about if, say, Conde Nast got hacked and login information was leaked from all of their servers. What would I expect from Ars Technica, Wired, Reddit, etc? A link to a Conde Nast page with one unified statement, closing with something like "We at Ars and Conde Nast apologize...", "We at Wired and Conde Nast..." etc.

Even if Blue Toad wants to be invisible to end users, it's gone a little beyond that. Legally they only have to follow the fairly open-ended PII laws that are in place (I believe California is the only state to require they notify users of a breech), but ethically I believe their responsibility falls a little beyond that line.
What? You can't just dismiss coroutines as not "meaningful concurrency". Given that every major language outside of C and Fortran has a native implementation, I'd call that pretty useful, and pretty meaningful.

> Concurrency is by definition, non-determinism.

The fact is that you are wrong: coroutines are a form of deterministic concurrency. They're also very useful.
> "Honk Kong"?

It's where Harpo Marx lives.
Is there any type of preview or table of contents available? It would be nice to get a better feel for the contents and style of the book.
Love it, I forwarded it to our QA and support team. One problem seems to be since the url bar is automatically updated (redirect?) with the current results people ended up bookmarking it instead of the just "aboutmybrowser.com" so they saw FF come up as a result in IE and such when opening in other browser.
Maybe you need a refresher on what constitutes a constructive comment.
Using the 26 letters from the NATO alphabet might be easier, it's made to be intelligible for non-English speakers over a radio connection with static.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
So if Apple uses brushed aluminium design, and brushed aluminium is better, nobody else should use it?
My guess is somewhat blander.

1. Anon breaches laptop, finds UDIDs.

2. Anon tells other anons he got the UDIDs from a laptop.

3. Other anons tell more anons it was a government laptop.

4. Release group writes "FBI laptop" in their pastebin.

(5. ??? --> 6. Profit!)

The heterogeneity and disorder in Anonymous (at least it was like this back in the day) means that the chain from leaker to releaser -- usually passing through several people and IRC channels -- plays out a bit like a game of telephone. This serves to protect the leakers, but it can mess with some of the details.
I like that you included photos of the printed t-shirts, also I like that you're using a printer with no web presence so we can't go straight to the supplier, hah.

A cute idea that might help people to spread their shirts: If someone creates a shirt (let's say I'm miley cyrus and I make one for my fans, "I <3 @mileycyrus") and it gets x (5?) sales they get a free copy of the t-shirt. That would give users an incentive to share their creation with their Facebook friends and Twitter followers.

The way you described the t-shirts makes them sound quite appealing so I figure I'll order one, no idea what to put on it though... :( maybe "I just wanted a t-shirt".

oh also I assume "handmade in London" refers to the business; but with t-shirts it would read as if you're saying the t-shirts are handmade in London, which isn't true.
The thought is that legal suppliers of drugs should be able to undercut illegal suppliers. The illegal suppliers are in a high-risk / high-reward business. The prices are high because the risk is high.
We have a good deal of evidence that our selection process is better than random. We know it's at least internally consistent, in the sense that startups that are ranked higher in the application phase are more likely to make it past the interview phase. And we also in turn have (a necessarily small amount of) evidence that the startups that turn out to be big winners do the best in the interview phase.
What's interesting is that HP also has the all-in-one Z1 workstations[1] that have a more interesting design than the iMac. What's especially nice about them is that it's designed so that components can be replaced.

[1] http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/workstations/z1_fe...
NameCheap resells domain-validated (basically, email the webmaster) Comodo PositiveSSL for $50/5 years.

http://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/comodo/positivessl...
Take a vacation. Use the time to introspect.

I have no idea where you are right now, but I read pretty much that a software developer with Rails/Ruby skills is pretty in hot demand in a lot of start-ups as of the moment.

Good luck.
Take a look at this one
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4500970
hopefully it fares better than wave - good luck!
Matt Blaze is probably the most important computer scientist at the intersection of security & privacy; look at the relatively recent work his group did on wiretaps for a good example of why. He's not a grandstander.
What reason is there to believe their story over literally anything else? Maybe George Bush stole all the UDIDs and sent them to Anonymous! Maybe the devices developed sentience and released their UDIDs to the public at will, claiming to be Anonymous the whole time! Come on.
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Yes they have talked about things from a software perspective but very little from a hardware/systems perspective. I keep hoping the Open Compute project comes out with a switch design.
Anonymous stole Apple UDIDs from BlueToad, not the FBI
Another point to add to this is that as far as I know, the Kindle Browser still hasn't made it past "experimental" state, and has been in development since the Kindle 3 (I think), without anything being changed or added.

Switching to Android seems more likely than pouring money into home-grown apps.
BlueToad said they were able to confirm several of their own devices in the dataset which they go on to use as evidence that the dataset is their own. If antisec took this database from BlueToad why would they not trim out the BlueToad devices that could help confirm that this leak didn't come from the FBI? They trimmed out 11 million rows but left in the 19 used by the developer itself?
Are you guys considering foing something similar for selling properties? It's a standard in a lot of EU countries to sell the houses without the agents etc. I've always been really surprised this model does not apply in UK.
Good starting point, but that won't get him trillions of combinations.
Just FYI, this is already half-true:

"With PostgreSQL 9.2, query results can be returned as JSON data types."

It also supports the PL/V8 stored procedure format, which is Javascript http://code.google.com/p/plv8js/wiki/PLV8

It's very, very close.
block.v += a * frameRate;
block.x += block.v * frameRate;

"If you use Euler then you are a bloody idiot"
http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/integration-basics/

Based on own experience if you replace euler with RK4 you can multiply your timestep with 10x and still get more accurate results. Once you start adding constraints this is a must or your constraints will disassemble almost instantly with euler, while rk4 barely requires any after-adjustment to keep the constraints intact.

http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/fix-your-timestep/ would also be a nice improvement to the simulations.
I recently read the book: "Trust Me, I'm Lying" which talks about how these types of blog posts. Now it's so obvious when I see this kind of stuff.

Here's the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Trust-Me-Lying-Confessions-Manipulator...
I strongly disagree. These are aesthetic design choices, and are not fundamental to the evolution of personal computers. HP clearly copied the design of the iMac.

Note : copying does not necessarily == morally reprehensible. However, facts are facts.
So no one else can create a minimalist style keyboard without being accused of copying Apple?
It looks like the root of the problem is that their DNS servers are unresponsive or offline. Web sites and mail whose DNS is hosted on GoDaddy appear to look "down" because they cannot resolve.

Good push for anyone to switch to DNSMadeEasy or Amazon Route53 if you're currently caught in this.

Update: It appears Anonymous is behind this https://twitter.com/AnonOpsLegion/status/245218636187443200
updated link:
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/09/a-septem...
That seems a reasonable estimate, but it means up to half are dishonest misunderstandings, which is quite a lot if you think about it.
well shit, you got fired, so now of course you should apply to other places, but that's pretty much a no brainer. I think what you really looking for is some advice on how to cope.

When you're unemployed, you find yourself with a lot of freetime, and hence, a lot of time to waste. If you have the financial means and are physically capable start traveling. between now and october is one of the peak seasons for cheap airline tickets to just about anywhere, if you don't know where to go, hover over to http://www.reddit.com/r/earthporn (SFW btw, not that you have one now, haha, j/ks) and start browsing. Get some friends (or just go by yourself) and just go. My favorite is Zion National Park. I find that under the starlit sky, without lights or cell reception I find it relaxing and then you'll be able to think about why you got laid off, what you liked or didn't like about your previous job and what you could have possibly done in the past to prevent yourself from getting fired.

The most important thing is to just keep moving, rewrite your resume, watch some comedies, reconnect with your family and friends and possibly, make new ones, make a schedule and pack it with so many things to do that you're tired each and every night starting from today. I could go on, but I hope you get it. The second most important thing to do is to not get angry and take it out on your friends and family, what happened to you is truly unfortunate, but getting mad doesn't really help anyone.

So peace out, and I hope to see you in the future at another job kicking ass at what you do best.

btw, unemployment benefits are okay, but b/c the economy is bad, plan for the long-term, like cancelling your monthly bills, aka netflix (you don't got time for that shit anyways), etc.
Neither MIT OCW or Khan Academy offer a structured introduction to Statistics. Are there any comparable online courses that are better?

Side note: The course is on MIT OCW, but it's simply notes and exams.

Edit: It looks like Coursera recently launched a course: https://www.coursera.org/course/stats1
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Who would have thought going backwards to HTML would be so great? 
Who would have thought going backwards to HTML would be so great?
Or the 2% is the data added/removed from their database since the break in.