skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying they're lying, but certain things like timing are under their control. I also wonder how much leeway they have for the amount of the writedown. Certainly the numbers need justification but you can always tilt the evidence to support your desired outcome.
The Five Senses as a Rorschach Test
Sarcastic review of different photography niches.
I have (nearly) nothing against drugs, especially those seemingly harmless. Still, reading articles like this I'm always reminded of this Blade Runner quote: "The light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long".

Let's hope this is not the case.
Thanks! I didn't know about that site before and it looks like they have many contributors. I considered doing a bookmarklet like they do but I figured that I would need a critical number of people before it could be realistic to use.

In the meantime, I created a list[1] of popular stories from Reddit news sources. Each story links to a special hybrid page that allows you to write a summary on top while you read the story below.

[1] http://skimthat.com/unsummarized

edit: clarification
Actually more like MeeGo Harmattan + BB10. Love the interface.
I use zip cars a lot and never had a problem as well.
Agree, one letter variables are only justified in fortran
The Mannequins Will Be Watching You
Javascript RabbitMQ Simulator Demo [video]
What I've been trying to argue for (and it seems like people don't "get it", so maybe I'll have to implement it myself) is moving more control over styling to server-side code. Rather than having your server say "this element is a menu" and your CSS say "menus look like this", cut out the middleman; with the server-side code having direct control over the styling it becomes trivial to implement what this site is talking about.
> "l" and "1" don't look alike

They look quite similar in this form submission field. (I'm using Chromium on Ubuntu.)

> Do you avoid using the number 1 for the same reason

Of course not. If you never use ell's, then anything that looks like it might be an ell is actually a one. The fact that these two characters look similar doesn't mean you can't use either of them; rather, you have to pick which one you'll allow yourself to use, and don't use the other one.

Note that I only forgo using the token "l", not the character. So with my convetion, it's fine to call a variable "lock", or to use required names like the keyword "yield" or the "__call__" class method.
you do realize this is the ministry of defense, right? they have budget and need. a clear cut case for better security needs than almost anyone. and they also have a history of saying "damn the usability" in the pursuit of their security goals.

some open source projects have better security, it seems, than the MOD. wtf? talk about an asymmetric world.
No, one of the earlier reports showed how the rootkit detects reads of /etc/rc.local and feeds you a file that looks like it doesn't contain the rootkit loading insmod calls.
pretty good review from the "other" side
I like this a lot actually. I use bustaname.com because it's pretty simple. bustaname also does a quick check for me if it's available or not.

I have this site bookmarked.
I left a reply.
Tweeting for investors - Lifting of the ban on general solicitation
Very similar to Godel's incompleteness theorem, or perhaps an application of it.
Who's Really to Blame in HP's $8.8-Billion Meltdown?
Really, though, what's the difference between this and guessing a password? Are ICCIDs secret?
I noticed you are opting for pshycological pricing for your app. Personally, I feel it looks better to just go with round numbers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing
Oh man I have had many horrible experience with missing IKEA parts bags (you know the plastic bag with the bolts).
Make sure the bag is always taped on before leaving the store :)
A big reason things like side skirts and vacuum cars were banned was that those technologies were very good at making downforce, until you hit a bump or curb big enough to break the "seal" between the car and ground. Then most of your downforce went away in an instant. Not a very safe thing.

Yes most of the regulation changes in the last 20 years have been focused on taking away downforce b/c without constraints the engineers could design cars that would corner with such force the drivers would be on the verge of blacking out.

The other focus is to try and make passing easier. When you depend on downforce for grip and you get right behind another car, in their air wake, your downforce goes down b/c not as much air is going over the wings. Your grip goes down and you can't pass that car.
For mobile enterprise applications, perfect is the enemy of done
Color app tragedy: How to become "mice nuts"
Charm shutting down because of unfixable kernel panics with Rails on Ubuntu
Would love to see a "top stories from last week" feature. Imagine I'm on vacation, or I've just been too busy to keep up with current events but would like to catch up.

This is nicely done. I'll be giving it a shot as a tab that never closes.
Phew, thanks for this. Now I can sleep at night again.
San Francisco Approves 220-Square-Foot ‘Micro-Apartments’
Why does the cost of basic legal documents need to be zero, even for startups?"
"I sympathize with anyone who feels too busy making a living to have time to read."

Yes, being too busy is one reason for wanting summarized news but it's not the only reason.

Often, news stories are created for search engine consumption, not human consumption. You find long articles full of repetitive information and bloviating. A good summary can cut out everything but the basic facts of the story so you're up to date on the news without having to consume all the fluff.

Of course, liking summarized news doesn't mean you can't take the time to read an in-depth article or a book. In fact, you probably have more time to do that since you saved time with the TLDR version of the news.
The problem with a Lean Startup: the Minimum Viable Product.
Currently, moving to London isn't possible for me, I've been with my girlfriend for 3 years now and I have to take that in to account when relocating is considered.

That aside, I agree with a lot of what you've said, I'm currently feeling pretty shitty about my job and actively seeking work elsewhere (and being interviewed, etc).

Out of curiosity, why do you propose a relocation to London?
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There's life everywhere... we just haven't found it yet.
adding http://tldr.it as a generic approach.
And I who entered this business because I liked to deal with computers, rather than humans.

How do I avoid becoming a writer, while still being able to have a job as a software developer?
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Drones are not expensive at all (you can buy one for $300), and will only get cheaper.
As someone who thinks Wickard was a gross expansion of power, that doesn't mean that it applies in CFAA cases.

(Also, this year's PPACA ruling detoothed the commerce clause's power. How much it did that is to be determined.)
Yes, sorry about that, that's true. I forgot that for a few minutes when reading up on the actual percentages (regarding the state tax).

However the regular income tax is still around 30% and while regular employees don't see the employment tax (arbetsgivaravgifter) i'd still say it's an income tax because it's based on your income and not on how much you work or when you work.
No, the first paragraph of a news article is designed to give the reader just enough information to get the gist of the article, but tease the reader into continuing to read along.

On web sites, the goal is to get the user to click the "more" or "details" link to get the whole article and thus display more ads.

The reality is that most of the "good stuff" for a news article could be summarized in a paragraph that would satisfy 90% of the need to read the full article - but that would defeat the business model of most sites/media dispensing news.

I like the idea of this site.
One of my favorite F1 blogs as well. Best of luck & a speedy recovery Craig!
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Caveat: Not speaking against you (the developers of this) or the work you put into it, but instead against the notion behind this trend of summarizing the news: Why?

That's a curious "Why", not a crotchety "Why". Lots of people are talking about browser extensions that summarize the news or are linking to other sources that do this; is the state of journalism so that a summary is better than what media outlets produce because of excessive filler (redundancy department all hands alert), or because we don't like reading anymore?
'The Hobbit' at 48fps: Frame Rates Explained
Pfft. On being a developer FTFY
Orin Kerr has an excellent paper on the state of the law in this area that I'm too lazy too Google right now. But while the courts have occasionally ruled that "access" is "any access," other courts have realized how stupid this is and have moved away from that strict meaning.

"Protected computer" is explicitly defined.
I wonder how many users Charm had and I wonder how many would have been needed to make porting the code from Rails to something like Java worth it.
Thank you all for registering for the Private Beta. We will be getting in touch with you all shortly. In the meanwhile we'd love to have an open discussion here.

What are your frustration with files?
Thanks for your advice and information - personally, I agree with a lot of the points you've made.

The problem is that at the time I took my job, I didn't have much choice, I was in a shitty position, no job, no money, no home, etc. and I took the fist position which came along.

I wish I had been in a better position and been able to better evaluate my current workplace, but in my bosses defence, I am the first (out of family) employee for this oompany, my boss is new to the world of being a boss too and he is unsure of when and where to show his authority.

As for moving elsewhere, I am currently in the process of applying for other jobs and hoping one of them come through.

I should state that I actually like my boss, he's a good person and is as new to being an employer as I am to being a commercial programmer.

I would like a more professional and tactful environment in my next position but I don't in any way blame my boss for how I feel, in fact I have a lot of respect for him.
i like it, guys! neat! i share the concern about sustainability if humans drive it, but beyond that well done.

i do a sector (infosec) specific site for myself and a handful of friends using twitter to seed links and libots to summarize, works like a champ and has been running solidly and automatically for over 3 years. could be easy to retarget. python, mysql, libots powers it, think delicious+twitter.
11 Badass Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
It is (AFAIK) more of a military-specific term, and means being disciplined rather than fired. I believe it stems from a "breach of discipline".
Short variable names are fine if the variable exists for a short time (eg: if the variable lives more than 5 lines of scope then use a longer variable name).

But don't use single character variable names. We've all gotten in the habit of using i,j,k as loop variables, but ii,jj,kk are absolutely a better choice for the simple reason that you can use any text editors' search function to find "ii" without any false matches, but "i" will have you searching all over the place.

TL;DR - using "ii" instead of "i" makes it easier to maintain code.
I don't even believe RT when they're reporting on Russian repression. The last RT article I saw suggested that Obama might use a domestic deployment of the US military to enforce his new secret cybercrime law. I can't see what this particular subject has to do with HN, but even if I could, I wouldn't want to be "learning" about it from RT.

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A friend of mine was a transmission/gearbox designer for F1 cars. It was fascinating to hear about the things going on behind the scenes.

Most teams have components built by a handful of specialized external engineering companies. Some things are dealt with internally, but the lower order teams don't have the budgets to deal with much of the technology in-house. Ferrari is the exception and they do almost everything themselves (this might have changed because this was nearly 10 years ago).

The lower order teams get called "pit dodgers" (behind their backs). External companies know that statistically these teams don't finish so many races, and the attention to detail in the design and finish for these teams is much less than those premium teams receive.

It is sadly a vicious circle. Statistically, they will have worse drivers, who are more likely to crash or damage the cars early in the race, so often the cars in the lower order teams don't have the required staying power for the entire race.

I found it interesting to know that F1 cars have reverse gear, simply in accordance with regulations. It doesn't always work that well however, and I believe on one occasion its inclusion was overlooked.
Disclaimer: I don't have a copy of the rootkit to experiment with; all of this is pure speculation.

My guess is you could detect the rootkit by booting to a known-clean system -- for example a distro install CD -- and checking the contents of rc.local by mounting the questionable system's fs.

This examination could probably be performed without downtime by taking an LVM snapshot and downloading it to a known-clean machine. The rootkit could fake the contents of the LVM snapshot as well, but it seems like this would be much harder for the rootkit authors and they probably didn't bother.

You might also be able to disable it by modifying your startup scripts to ignore rc.local (perhaps you could put a replacement in a non-standard location if you need the functionality).
"Streaming online would require use of [the] Microsoft Silverlight plug-in, which would pressure people to use proprietary software," explained Andrew Chin

just for the record, that statement is absolutely incorrect. you can offer streams and watch streams just fine with free and open-source software. for example with ogg theora or webm.
You have two main assets in your hands to generate $2000+ quickly – web & mobile development.

Seriously, I started making money online at 14 with $0 and I remember thinking then if I could make $100 online that would be amazing – I made it within 3 days of my decision to start making money online through forum boosting (there’s a load of forum posts where you can see me winning “forum boosting contracts” etc).

Since you need $2000 now there are loads of options available to you to do it, taking advantage of your Web & Mobile development skills and I’ll suggest a couple of the methods I have used over the years to make money online in a short period of time.

- Create FREE Wordpress Themes & sell the “sponsored” links in the footer = $75 – 150/theme.

Sell 3 slots on each design for: $20-25/each

Sell the “designer” slot by for: $30-50/each

Offer the whole theme for: $100-150

Then submit the theme to 100-150 free theme places (you could even pay someone on fiverr to do it)

- Sell Wordpress Themes on ThemesForest

$30 – 50/each

- Sell Wordpress Plugins

- Code PSD/HTML etc

Offer your services for $30-100/page & charge $50-100 extra to code to Wordpress etc.

- Write an eBook report

Write a report on some aspect to making money online etc & sell it for $7-10 on Webmaster Forums.

- Write a Larger eBook. Sell it on Warrior Forum.

Write a 10-20 page eBook then sell it on Warrior Forum as a WSO.

- Write Articles

500/word articles at $6-8/each.

- Bid for Web Development/Mobile Development on Freelance Sites

Take small tasks which are easy to do & take a short period of time - $100-200 projects.

- Create Mobile Sites

Charge $100-500 for making existing website owners a simple mobile version of their site.

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There are a load more methods which I have done and what you can do too but, there are some methods you implement to make money online quickly with no capital outlay. I know because these are some of the methods I have used over the years to make money online.
wow. I can't count the number of times I've thought about doing something similar. looks like I don't need to now.
>Perhaps we can have a sweded version of NYC in the US?

Minneapolis? The "super nice" midwest basically has it's roots in Sweden.
Intelligent Human Computer Interaction
Guessing they meant the conference only uses Silverlight for streaming.
The term "Customer Development" is really only one highly specific methodology for understanding your users' reactions to an existing product. It's an awkward phrase, and kind of a backwards approach to innovation (try starting with identifying an actual user problem that needs solving, not just throwing technology against the wall to see if it sticks). Depending on where you are in the development process, there are a number of ways for you to understand your users' upfront needs and how they are interacting with or want to interact with your product/category. Feel free to reach out if you're looking for actual guidance on understanding why and how people use your product. http://uxhours.com/
One of the reasons the Android emulator is slow, it's because it has to emulate an arm chip to x86 instructions. So if I'm running an arm pc as my main dev pc... Would the emulator run magically fast? Like unicorns, rainbows and such?
Its tradition and a feeling of invulnerability until something really bad happens. Sometimes even after the fall things aren't done. IndyCar was working on a safer car before Las Vegas 2011, but I am not sure they have got the total message themselves or really in a financial position to change what they need changed.

NASCAR changed everything after their tragedy and hasn't had a driver death since. The next car after the COT is safe yet and all the tracks have safer barriers. I get the feeling that the restrictor plate racing is going to be the next big set of changes (funny, given that the plate was to keep the speeds down to make those tracks safe).
I'm still completely baffled that Dojo doesn't seem to get as much love as it should.
Did they test other linux distros?
This seems like a bit of a cop out?
Why not try a new kernel or separate stack like Fedora for example?
In Soviet Russia, state protests you!
I always had thought it was TooLazy;Didn'tRead....I guess TooLong also works.
Every single transaction in Bitcoin is tracked and published. Why do people think this is even remotely close to anonymous?
No, that analogy suggests that there was someone actively paying attention, who should have noticed something awry, but was instead granting permission without thinking. In this case, they just left an unsecured program running; it was a passive mistake. Just like leaving a door unlocked and someone comes in and goes through your papers. The door being unlocked does not mean that someone gave permission for you to go through it.

> In my opinion the crime isn't in requesting or obtaining that information, it's in the way that he handled that information afterwards.

I think that the fact that he requested a hundred thousand records probably didn't work in his favor. If he had requested just a dozen or so, to confirm that the problem existed, it would have been one thing; once he hit thousands, it makes you wonder if he had ulterior motives. Past the first dozen or so, there was nothing left to prove about the security flaw.

> Instead he sold/handed over that information to Gawker, which is where he went wrong in my opinion, because he took another organisation's information and decided to put that information on the market against their will or consent.

Yes, this was the biggest mistake. And I don't remember the source, but I recall that someone mentioned that he had considered selling the information as well, before deciding to just give it to Gawker.

Of course, in some ways I don't blame him for not going to AT&T first; there have been researchers who have discovered flaws, and disclosed them to the company, only to have the company accuse them of criminal acts for having even tested for the flaw in the first place. That kind of behavior creates a catch-22, and a very chilling effect on security research.
The problem is that if you're moving fast against a cool surface, friction does more to make you hot than conduction does to make you cool. Furthermore even if the gas was room temperature, the air touching the car has just been compressed by a shock wave. Rapidly compressing gas makes it become very, very hot. Because of both effects, the car is going to be permanently exposed to very hot gas.

But I'm sure Elon has thought about that aspect and it is solvable.
Yeah, I hear they are trying to change the engines to a 4-cylinder these days too. That would be really unfortunate, and would probably sound awful.

I went to the Indy 500 this year, I heard in years past their noise rivals F1. But this year they downsized their engines, and the cars there were not impressive/loud. It would have been downright disappointing if I wouldn't have been so.."well hydrated" with beer. I really hope that doesn't happen to F1
My guess is they would have to make a version of the SDK for ARM, and they haven't yet. But they may soon enough as these ARM chips get closer to PC-like performance, and more people buy ARM machines.
Matt was the smartest freelancer I ever hired
"We can't let you protest about cover-ups in the system, there are no cover-ups, what are you talking about?!"
They do, for systems which require greater security.
High-voltage fences promise to zap would-be copper thieves
Run "nsd -kill" from your notes dir. ZapNotes is very 2005.
I think so. does the blame totally belong to Ubuntu?

This is the first time I read a case like this
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Another good example of an automated attempt to summarize the news that'll never work.

Here's why: Let's assume we have the perfect algorithm that knows exactly which sentences to pick for a good summary. You'll still end up with a summary that's horribly out of context and difficult to read.

Try it yourself. Assume your brain is the perfect algorithm and pick the most important sentences for a summary. Then try to read just the sentences that you picked without rewriting it into a coherent paragraph. More than likely, it'll be an out of context confusing block of text.

Algorithms will never solve the summarizing process unless they are teamed up with a rewriting engine that could build coherent paragraphs.
Does this make sense? They don't mention trying to get support from Engine Yard on hosting their app on Rails without kernel panics, or trying a managed solution such as Heroku, or trying other OSs other than Ubuntu such as CentOS or something from Joyent. Just trying with the best possible syadmin they could hire and "Rails Core members".

Anyway, kudos for not submitting their users to a service they're not confident they would be able to provide with adequate quality and better luck next time!
People are short of time and want to feel they've skimmed enough news to feel up to date to catch cultural references, bluff their way through a discussion, or notice things 'on the radar' that might be directly relevant to them.

Reading full form journalism is great but if you had to do it for 100 news stories a day, your day is gone. And, right or wrong, many people want to get a breadth of information and then focus on a few parts of it, rather than solely consume a deep amount of information.

Newspapers used to fulfil this role quite well. You could "scan" a paper in 20 minutes and feel reasonably up to date. But "scanning" online is somewhat trickier because of the format. So these services seem to try and bridge that gap of offering you a ton of headlines and summaries all in one place.