skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting to see the similarities with this situation and the one bitly faced a few months back: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/29/bitly-update-user-reaction/

It seems like the response will be quite different, which will make this comparison a lot more interesting.
Researchers find Megaupload shutdown hurt box office revenues
There are plenty of articles about sex toys in techcrunch. Why would you not see this one?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/27/boink-box/

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/29/speaking-of-sex-toys-with-e...

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/24/long-distance-lovers-rejoic...
It's an incredible stretch to extrapolate from WinRT and suggest that x86 Windows will disable running arbitrary executables anytime in the foreseeable future. Surely no one actually believes that Microsoft is planning to turn away the huge mass of customers currently doing that with Enterprise apps, random Shareware, etc in Windows 7/8 any time soon.

We aren't going to agree about the ad. I literally never saw it in Minesweeper until I went looking for it today, and it's clearly a generic CPM based display ad instead of something invasive based on your activity. Focusing on these nearly-hidden ads in ancillary apps seems like the pinnacle of bikeshedding to me.

edit: Not to say that your opinion is wrong or mine is better. I just can't get on board with all of the fuss I've been seeing lately about these ads. Having been using Windows 8 as my primary desktop OS for about a year, I never see the ads. I have to hunt for them to even verify that they're still there when another blog post pops up about them.
FYI - this is a day late but this is exactly what I decided to do. Moment of zen in the shower when I realized "yes, I need to learn rails and this would be a great opportunity to get better, but I also need to ship the product so why am I reinventing the wheel?"

Shopify is fantastic so far. Still getting my Rails chops dirty playing with webhooks and some post-order processing, so it's not all lost :)

Thanks!
"Penis" seems like a very high probability spam term. You don't often see spam promising to increase the size of your vagina.
There's a lot of talk about this subject as if the practicioners of coding long past the point of optimal productivity have a choice not to code when you are at that point. I don't think most of us actually have a choice - it is often a case of ship or lose customer x. Promises are made that can't be kept by humane working hours. Things break days before a huge demo. Someone gets sick. You are in an arms race with a well-funded competitor.

Something I would like the programming world to discuss is that it isn't the best coded product that wins - technical quality rarely matters. Usually, the first product to market wins, or the programmer who kicks out the most features as long as the features works. Shipping isn't just a feature. It is the only code quality metric that matters to anyone who isn't a coder. It also is easier to ask forgiveness for refactoring after the ship date than it is to ask for permission to push the date back. All-nighters are ingrained in the practice of programming for a living. The code may not always be robust or elegant, but in most cases what matters is that it works and gets done faster than the others guys' high quality code job.
only if the cost of supporting <noscript> is less than the benefit, which for a lot of sites it probably isn't. The people who turn off javascript are in the extreme minority
I wonder if someone could hack the cobra libre[1], cause it's really disappointing :)

1 http://www.amazon.com/Cobra-Libre-Massager-Vibrating-Stimula...
Anyone want to fund my kickstarter for a vibrating fleshlight that runs nodejs?
The man in 2012 making less in inflation-adjusted hourly wages than his father did 40 years ago can not buy more with his wages.

This is true. But the figures you cite adjust for Chained CPI, not inflation. Chained CPI is not the same thing as inflation because the basket of goods does not remain constant.

Any purported inflation metric which doesn't come with a starting date is flawed. In fact, people today spend far less of their income on food, clothes, etc as they did 40 years ago.
Not to mention 3D modeling. She 3D printed the part with the sonar attached on top of the battery.
The comments in his blog post seem to confirm the posts accuracy.
Actually there is a native ZFS port for linux: http://zfsonlinux.org/

The license doesn't allow to distribute a binary build of it, but you can build your own rpm and deb packages and install it to your own servers.

(According to their FAQ: "In a nutshell [...] This means that a single derived work of the Linux kernel and ZFS cannot be legally distributed."

Honestly, besides some quick tests I don't have any experience to judge how stable it is, but definitely better than the fragile fuse setup you are mentioning.

Anyone has more experience with it?
I cannot express how much I admire this post. This is how I think women should address gender equality: not by antagonizing men, but through sound and assertive work like this.
http://www.dartlang.org/support/faq.html#future-for-GWT

"Dart and GWT both share the goal of enabling structured web programming. In fact, many of the same engineers who brought you GWT are working on Dart. We view Dart as an ambitious evolution of GWT's mission to make web apps better for end users, and we're optimistic about its potential. As Dart evolves and becomes ready for prime time, we anticipate working closely with the GWT developer community to explore Dart."

"Meanwhile, rest assured that GWT will continue to be a productive and reliable way to build the most ambitious web apps—and even games like Angry Birds. Key projects within Google rely on GWT every day, and we plan to continue improving (and open-sourcing) GWT based on their real-world needs."

I personally don't care what it's called, or even the language, as long as it builds on the strong foundation that has been laid with GWT.
This is an Onion-like parody site. Funny article, but fake.
That's a menu with choices of which game mode you want to play (keep in mind it's nearly 5,000px wide and you only see part of the left edge at first), not a pointless interstitial ad type experience. Similar to opening most modern games I think?

If you click/tap one of the tiles for the classic game modes, like "easy", you see a brief loading screen with nothing but a Minesweeper flag icon, and then go straight to the game and there are no ads on that next screen.
Asians are just as impatient - I am not sure what your frame of reference is. I am no expert but lived and worked in Asia for 3 yrs.

When things are properly organized here lines work fine.

This is an interesting subject for me. I am mildly agorophobic and happen to live in the most densely populated part of the US.

For the weeks after the recent East Coast hurricane, the NY Waterways (NYC ferry) has done a great job of managing brutally long commute lines. NJ Transit does not. As a result I am paying double what I would for the bus or subway.

Trader Joe's (in NYC) does a great job of managing lines that snake though the entire store. On Saturday morning shopping runs the end of the line is literally right inside the door. Yet I have never seen a fight on line...

Last year I went to a football game (Dallas @ NYJets on 9/11). I do not go to games often. The whole queueing up was horrible experience. Crowded on 'cattle car' trains to get to the station which then pour out into a crossing for a highway like ring road around the stadium.

Security with guns and dogs all around and no clear directions about where to go. It put me in a terrible frame of mind. I felt like something rotten could happen at any moment... And this was only a crowed of 75 - 80 thousand people.

Nothing actually happened, I had a minor freakout and got over it. But I deeply hated the experience.

That night I felt like an animal (and payed over $200- per ticket for the privledge ).

So no tomjen3 I do not think those people look like sheep. They look human.
Females are generally supply side, males demand side in traditional sex economics. Rejection of same through toys is therefore empowering to women and degrading to men. Thus labelled "weird."
What are your thoughts re: LBFGS vs HF as applied to FF networks? I've been using HF for RNNs and have been having very good results, but I haven't yet tried it on FF networks and wonder if I'd see a benefit compared to SGD with the bells and whistles or even something like LBFGS.
That is the effect I'd expect to see (yay more cb). People don't want to take a chance with a small indie film unless they know it's good and with MU down, there's no word-of-mouth information to tell them it is. But they still want to go see a movie. The effect being that they bank on something sure - a well-promoted and known movie. In effect blockbusters with huge marketing get a boost, because smaller films' marketing gets nipped.
I've not been to south america, but I spent a fair amount of time in south east asia. Different part of the world but similar practices and yes the basic details of his story checkout. Police do setup roadblocks on random days on random roads in order to "check things". In Cambodia and Thailand a favourite was to check that you had the "correct helmet" a law recently being passed that meant you had to wear a helmet when riding a moto (most traffic especially in cambodia is by motorbike). That's the one I personally ran into.

About planting drugs, I can believe this as well. Remember we're talking relatively remote places where few foreigners are likely to go, this tactic is another part of the "negotiation".

So yes, this all sounds pretty plausible to me.
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Please don't. You do not have experience... Therefore you're misrepresenting yourself and wasting the time of other team members who will expect you to know what you're doing.

If you don't know what you're doing, you introduce risk into a project by getting reqs wrong, not being able to engage all the correct stakeholders, not having a methodology for carrying out analysis and getting to the real issues, etc.

Given that most BA jobs involve gathering reqs for IT change/dev projects, get involved with that first.. Writing reqs catalogues and getting experience talking to different stakeholders outside of IT.

Try and get involved with writing business cases (the business part of a BA), and find a senior BA to talk to, in order to find out what value you need to deliver.
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Not to be too pointed, but that attitude is socialized, largely by people who make statements like "It would be weird if it were for men." Also, I think that there is less of an imbalance than you would believe. As we know, people are quite good at saying one thing in public and doing another in private. Especially when it comes to sex.
Pandering a bit too hard to @shit_hn_says ;)
I don't know about South America but I grew up in Africa and South Asia. The general principles for interacting with people in power outlined here (name dropping , money exchanges) are plausible and would work (Obviously, with significant cultural differences).

( My personal experience has been more mundane and mostly in the realm of evading Cops who flag you for traffic offenses. )
I think its rather lucrative and a secure way to make big bucks. If you can memorize and work hard you can succeed. In many fields you need talent, especially to reach the 200k level.

See
http://chronicle.com/article/Medical-School-Applications/129... Medical-School Applications Hit Record High Despite Worries Over Federal Spending
- Open file viewer

- Select 'Large Icon' view

- Maximise Window

Where's the revolution? Unless it's to take choice away from those of us that don't feel the urge to maximise every damn thing and use the PC like a tablet.
I think the biggest drawback is the lack of a ranking score. Almost every random internet player has been absolutely clueless about the rules of the game, not to mention the tactics. From a quick look at the GameKit docs, that seems to be a limitation of using (only) GameCenter to find players.
I sympathize with that point, but there's more to it than "what about teh menz?"

The question is this: is this doing well on HN because HN is full of progressive-minded feminists upvoting a neat DIY project on its merits, or is it doing well on HN because it serves as fodder for the nerd-girl fantasies of a primarily male readership?

I really think this is an important point that often gets missed on male dominated social news sites. Readers are quick to pat themselves on the back for the community's mature lack of slut-shaming, while neglecting to realize that an entirely different form of sexism and woman-objectification is taking place.
certainly being taken seriously with companies like http://madeinspace.us/ and news like http://www.wired.com/design/2012/11/3d-printed-nasa-rockets/
This will not help you if a si8te storing your secret answer in plain text is hacked (most likely setup if a phone call can reset your password). Then the attacker will have your secret answer for every site you use.
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similar stories from Russia:

http://nytimes.com/2010/07/28/world/europe/28russia.html?pag...

http://guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-cables-rus...
Google has a well documented history of it being next to impossible to talk to a real person unless you have an $X0,000 hardware search appliance or similar. As an individual, if you're not internet famous, you're taking your business into your hands using Google for critical services like these.

That said, not everyone looks at the level of support provided before they choose a service. So, if you get blindsided with this type of thing, you do a quick search to see if it'll get resolved quickly, realise it won't, change your MX records and learn your lesson / plan for a migration out of the service if/when you get your account back. Just like with any problem of this nature.

Usually it's just worth paying for something more expensive (and often less featured) for which you know that there's someone you can call when the service goes down in the middle of the night or you get locked out for some random reason.

edit: I'm really only being overly harsh because the guy who wrote the article is the CEO of a cyber risk management and security company, and should know better.
I don't know what level your looking for or if you want certification but here are two i've been eyeballing for some time now and both are expensive
http://www.cbtnuggets.com/it-training-videos/series/linx_rea...
or
http://www.oreillyschool.com/courses/sysadmin3/
both are online
I didn't know about the account PIN either. Here's how to find yours: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6...
It's not that different, as Comiket is first and foremost a marketplace. The popular publishing circles sell out quickly, so people are motivated to line up early in order to get what they want.

Their FAQ mentions that if you come on the first train, you'll have to wait for 5 hours, but if you come at the opening time of 10:00, you only have to wait approximately one hour. The fact that people are willing to spend those extra 4 hours to get in early seems to indicate that it provides an advantage to be one of the first.

Incidentally, they expressly prohibit waiting in line overnight. I bet plenty of people would do so if they could.
I don't think it's hard for men, frankly - I think it's a bit too easy for women. Our culture has really become too carefree about showing off sex toys - but only for women, it seems. Compare the mental image of a woman accidentally dropping a dildo or a vibrator out of her purse, and that of a man dropping a rubber vagina out of his bag.

But there's a problem beyond the double standard. It's like public nudity: it sounds cool when you're a hormone-addled teenager, but then you realize that most people's bodies aren't a nice sight at all. That's why I'm thankful for common decency, and why I'm concerned about all the public dildo-waving: in most cases, I don't want to see your filthy body, and I certainly don't want to picture you having sex.

Of course, I have no problem with this blog post - but the "openness" that's bothering some of these posters does have the potential to impinge on my rights of peaceful enjoyment of our public meatspace.
There are so many things you might run into that I don't know how a course could possibly cover more than the very basics (using Bash, basic commands, etc.)

Miguel has a good blog post on learning Linux.

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Sep-06.html

Another great resource is to pick up a Linode VPS and go through the library.

http://library.linode.com/

I owe a lot of my start in Linux to the Slicehost articles but Slicehost is going away as it gets eaten by Rackspace.

Skip the courses, they are a waste of time.
Remember that compiler benchmarks are useful only for telling you how long it takes to compile.[1]

When you cross architectures the effort of compiling can change radically. It doesn't end up telling you anything meaningful about the platform.

[1] which can be the most important metric to you.
Life truly is hard for us men in tech.
In this case, here are the clues she used to reverse-engineer the wireless protocol:

1. The specs for the radio chip are easily available, so she could identify the actual packets from looking at the voltages on four wires.

2. Each packet had two identical bytes that went up when she turned the remote up, and down when she turned it down.

3. There were some bytes which were always constant, and didn't seem to do anything.

From there, the code ended up being fairly simple:

https://github.com/scanlime/arduino-lelo-remote/blob/master/...

On power-up, it sends an initialization sequence, copied from the trace from the original remote. This has a bunch of settings that you can look up in the manual. Then for each packet, it sends a start sequence (essentially, "finish sending anything queued, and stand by"), puts a packet into the transmit queue (packet = 0x0100a5[power][power]00000005, where power is the power level byte), and then tells the radio to transmit.

And then of course you can debug this by comparing the traces it generates to the traces from the original remote.
Inventing an industry?

Hardly. There are plenty of hackers who have been working in this space for quite some time. The field is called "teledildonics".
Cool hack! And maybe I don't read enough, but I thought it was especially interesting since it was one of the first builds where I saw someone create a custom circuit AND a custom enclosure using a 3D printer.

Though it involves a sex toy, I think the build was straightforward, technical, and decidedly un-sexy. I don't know where the feather ruffling is coming from besides the discussion of the link's title.
An oddly misquoted title... The actual title is: "Apple’s Maps mess and BMW give boost to transit app Embark"

I.e., Apple maps helped Embark by sucking, whereas the HN title makes it sound very different.

[The BMW involvement is pretty creepy, though Embark tries to spin it as a positive...]
Seriously. I'm thinking of finally going and getting a 3D printer based on her blog. Lots of cool hacks and prints in there.
I can't wait for easily and cheaply 3d-printed electronics. Just the thought of buying the parts and plastic stuff, putting them in a machine, and letting it work, building a complete device.

I can dream.
He disclaims against that in the end. He lol'ed, even.
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The story's title is different, but I guess it doesn't fit on HN?
If practicing is his love, then why doesn't he go back into private practice instead of retiring and take 'love of the job' as partial payment? It's not like he wouldn't be able to live very comfortably on the proceeds of his life's work to date, something that a great deal of other 'love of the job' workers couldn't do.
Well, this is not very reassuring: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6...

Nope, no "PIN" for me under "Support". Worse,

> "Please note that for your security, your Customer PIN will be updated periodically.

So even if I find it now and write it down, there's a chance that I still won't be able to access support at some point down the road if/when I need it.
I'm amused this is the top story.
This whole discussion (post was written by my friend) and my personal experience says to be very cautious about dependencies on any service provider. A simple smart hack would be to auto forward 100% of emails to a different account just for backup, then have the domain registered at a non-google DNS so a fast change to an MX record could be made.
Oh, I know. But good luck with this particular sea change.

And yes, certain demographics turn the equation on its head. As expected of economics.
> I think one of the messages here is to take note of any support codes (account #'s or PINs in this case) and store them outside of the service that requires them.

These codes "will be updated periodically", so there's no guarantee you'll have the correct one if/when you need it.
Good luck with that! Question: How do you go about classifying the sentiment - are you doing anything interesting or?
To be accurate Belize is in Central America/North America not South America. And I'm not sure you can group different countries together and assume their situations are similar.
I have this, but a 20 minute nap or a walk to 7/11 usually fixes it. What happens to anyone in this thread when they try that?
I'm not sure the nature of the illness, but 56 is below the mean.

I really want to encourage those around him to not simply write him off but to bombard him with nutrition. (Eliminate gluten, nitrates+nitrites/deli meat, eliminate bottled and and packaged oils/mayo/salad dressing/pan-or-deep-fried anything, and supplement heavily with potent multivitamins.) Don't just stick to the hospital's saline drip, jello-shooters, and anemic chicken; just don't write him off.

Like others here, I am grateful for his pioneering work (like many, I've crawled the specs with a comb) and, for what it's worth, I want to express my thanks.
Sex in the future. It's going to be weird.
A lot of times with a no sleep weekend hackathon or a launch or something I can work a long time on the tough parts first, clearing up all the technical risk in a design with little test screens/pages/activities for example, and then the next day running on no sleep I'm still OK for testing on a dozen different phones/emulators/browsers and making forms return nice looking error messages and making all the buttons on the site look consistent, etc.. Basically you just have to delegate to your stupid hour self the lousy slog work. :)
In Japan, sales of adult diapers exceed those for babies
I spent 9 months backpacking from Guatemala to Buenos Aires. There are thousands of people who do this sort of thing every year, and you'll meet lots of expats. In fact, until you hit Colombia, you probably can get by without knowing much Spanish. Personally, I would just skip this article, buy the Lonely Planet and live a little. Some places that I'd recommend seeing:

http://wikitravel.org/en/Antigua_Guatemala

http://wikitravel.org/en/San_Juan_del_Sur

http://wikitravel.org/en/Tayrona_National_Park

http://wikitravel.org/en/Cusco -- You hang out here when going to Machu Picchu

If I were going today, I'd probably stop in Santiago a see what's going on with StartUp Chile: http://startupchile.org/
I actually understand the passage as such that the effect is significant for the negative impact on the subset of movies shown on less than 500 screens but the overall effect on all movies is not significant.

Without access to the whole paper it is hard to tell though.
Have you considered joining some relevant mailing lists? Alternatively, you can ask stuff on Stack Overflow.

In terms of more general learning, I suspect that much of it is very domain specific. Are you on a LAMP stack?