skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blip.tv shuts down Rick Hickey's Clojure channel
Bitcoin Has Infected Reddit
Do you think the govt will ever give permission for unmanned self driving cars? I doubt that...I as an engineer can understand that it may be safe...But how would one convince the govt?
Mr. President, Build This Death Star
This is why I always stare down people who make jokes at work. I'm not getting paid to laugh, I'm here to slave my life away for someone else... brevity be damned!
A fine essay, except that it ignores that the "workaday" programmer actually hates high degrees of abstraction and ignores it.

No, seriously.

We're taught in mainstream programming languages to temper our desire for abstraction with mechanical sympathy; being careful not to build too high a tower of abstraction lest our CPU god grows angry and knocks us down to earth with miserable runspeeds. Even if your algorithm is right, failing to fit in cache or having too many memory fetches can increase your code runtime by multiple orders of magnitude from where an optimal, machine-aware piece of code should be.

And the languages that do try to bring more abstraction to the table are ironically dismissed as "too academic" or "too strange" or "not practical" by most people in the industry.
Yet another app that's too big to fit on my Galaxy Ace.
Startups don't have to realize that they need to start monetizing right away.

Companies that buy startups need to realize that if they buy a startup that has only free users who aren't looking at ads, they might not be buying what they think they're buying. Because those millions of users have all been trained to expect to enjoy the service for free. So when you buy a company for its user base, you need to consider that free users are not worth what paying/ad-viewing users are worth, and if you try to charge or show them ads without creating more value for them in return, many of them might leave.

If companies that buy startups realize this, then the startups themselves will start monetizing right away, because it will be the only way to get acquired.
I get a blank page for https://mixpanel.com/education/ in latest Safari on latest Mountain Lion.
http://cl.ly/image/420A1Q363s0C

Hopefully, someone from Mixpanel is here and can fix that. (Working for me in Chrome.)

The Issues panel says, "Type Issue: 'undefined' is not an object (evaluating 'mp.office_hours.bootstrap')"
You can also check out the `figaro` gem which provides some pretty handy functionality.
Fork the end of the world
This is extremely useful. A TON of people learn Rails from tutorials and never hear about issues like this. Then they go and push to GitHub and expose their login information for something secure. It took me too long to figure this out, thankfully nobody really looks at my Rails projects on GitHub (I hope).
Video does not play in IE9 (Vista SP2).

And playback is kind of buggy at first in Chrome, though that could be a youtube issue.
Especially considered if you are logged into Github, you can't even seen the front page.
I like that they present solutions that let you load ENV vars from YAML, sort of like a best of both worlds. Maintaining ENV Shell across multiple servers is even harder so YAML works well.
GadgetTrak Tracks Stolen Macbook From Kansas to Mexico....and Back
Seems like a complicated way to turn two factor off while leaking information to yet another 3rd party.
> But the demand for lawyers is completely cultural.

I don't think that's the case. People think that the U.S. has a lot of lawyers because we're a "litigious society" but I've never seen evidence suggesting that Americans are more likely to sue than other sorts of people.

I think the demand for lawyers is more structural than anything else, and there are a lot of dimensions to this. First, the amount of conflict rises proportionally with the number of interactions between people. This means larger societies have more (superlinearly more) conflict than smaller ones, more active economies have more conflict than less active ones, and heterogenous societies have more conflict than homogenous ones.

Second, different countries use different mechanisms to accomplish the same tasks. The U.S. is at one extreme--we use private litigation to handle things like employer/employee disputes that might in other countries be handled by a complaint to some sort of board. Litigation is, by design, the way to challenge most government action. In the regulatory regime, we skimp on government enforcement of things like financial or enviromental laws, and write in "citizen suit provisions" to allow private enforcement.

Third, the demand for lawyers depends on the structure of the economy. An economy based on financial services, which can result in expensive and complex disputes, needs many more lawyers than one based on agriculture.

Fourth, the number of lawyers in a country isn't directly proportional to the amount of conflict within the country itself. A country that hosts numerous multi-national corporations will have many lawyers working on disputes that actually arise in other countries. Moreover, a country with a sophisticated legal system will be asked to resolve disputes that only have a tenuous connection to the country. The U.S. is also a net exporter of legal services, in conjunction with its export of financial services. American firms do work for Brazilian companies doing IPOs in Brazilian markets. The reverse is never true.

An example of an (industrialized) country that has 1/10 as many lawyers per capita as the US is Finland. Can you compare the US with Finland? The US has 133 Fortune Global 500 companies, Finland has 1. The US has 9 cities as large or larger than Finland. The U.S. is extremely heterogenous. Finland is extremely homogenous. The US has to alter its laws to limit the number of foreign cases coming into New York City's courts (a city 4x as large as Finland). An American (or sometimes UK) firm is involved in some way in nearly every major IPO that happens in one of the world's large financial markets. How many Finnish firms are involved in American IPO's? Etc.
Interesting, but I'd want to see the costs adjusted for inflation. Of course inflation means things cost 'more', but we get paid more as well.
> Apple was unwilling to negotiate with Google because they are upset over Android. Apple could certainly have improved its existing Maps app if they were willing to play ball with Google.

You speak like you have authoritative information on the negotiations between Apple and Google on maps. Your comment could be taken seriously if you backed it up with sources, instead of dressing up your personal opinion to sound like a fact.
It looks like a Google creation. Nothing wrong with that. I would expect Google to know a thing or two about funnels.

Best of all is the big button -- I know what to do!
I was looking at Authy, thinking may it could be part of a solution to a problem I was looking to solve for a customer, but this comment right here shows that you and or your company has absolutely no idea what you are doing with crypto and or how to implement it securely and safely.

:-(
I'd echo the other people's suggestions here to go for family therapy. If the resentment is not yet too strong between the two of you, you can reach an agreement.

Not only that but if you get divorced, you are fucked alimony and child support wise. Or if you had a prenup, at least child support wise.

So it is in your best interest emotionally and financially to not let this sit for too much longer. Go to the family therapist yourself first to get a few ideas on where to go from there.
Do you have much Windows XP traffic? From memory, we saw evidence of XP using 86400sec (1 day) TTLs if you tried publishing TTLs lower than 300. (This was back in '08, so perhaps things have changed since. I'm still seeing ~30% WinXP in some of my Google Analytics accounts...)
Can you go into a bit more detail on the difference between these two types of conversion?

I suppose view-through conversion might be clicking on ad, user goes to site, completes purchase and then some kind of callback gets fired. On the other hand, Google analytics one would be user completes purchase, GA looks at which referrer came last and registers that as the source of conversion?
For a lot of people I know who've gone to law school, I'm not sure it's entirely a delusion. I think the situation is that they find themselves a couple years out of college and still unable to put their BAs in a Humanities field (another area for which supply has greatly outpaced demand) to use. So they're already saddled with a debt they can't really service, and they've already got the B word in their heads. And along comes a really attractive proposition: If you double down on it by going back to school, you catch an immediate break because you get to immediately stop paying your student loans, and wont have to start again until after you've graduated. And sure, after that you'll have even more debt, but there's also a decent (maybe not great, but decent) chance that your new degree will let you land a sweet job that lets you pay them off much more easily and have plenty of money to spare. And even if you only land an OK job, hopefully it'll still be enough to keep your loans covered. . . and if it isn't, hey, no harm no foul. You're already thinking about the B word right now, so even if it turns out you can't handle all the new debt you've taken on it's not like you'll be any worse off than you are now.

Posed that way, I'm not sure what the students are doing is terribly irrational or delusional. What's crazy is the irrational credit system that enables/encourages this kind of thing to happen.
It's not just a question of changes in demand, your also replacing people that leave the profession.
Geocities made it easy for anyone to publish to the web. Probably others too but it is the most prominent example I guess.

Yes, this is not what the linked article is about. But it is a counter-point to your "it was too hard for random people back then" saying.
I'll take a $1.6 Billion exit 'failure' any day.
View through conversions are conversions that take place after a visitor has just viewed an ad and not necessarily clicked on the ad. In the case of traditional display, the ad may not have even been visible on the screen it was just served somewhere on the page.

Google Analytics conversions are last touch click through conversions, where all marketing touches compete and the last that occured gets 100% of the credit.
I like how there is a nice catch-22 there ... I may need access to my OTP to gain access to 1, yet I need access to 1 to get access to my OTP.
By "real terms" I just meant that it's inflation-adjusted (in constant 2010 dollars).

I agree lower enrollment is a possibility if there were both decreased state funding and no increase in loan availability. Not sure, though. Would need some information on supply and demand of UC enrollment slots, and what kind of marginal impact loan availability has.

One hypothesis is that it might just result in a wealthier student population with lower average grades. That scenario would happen if there currently exist students who didn't have good enough grades to make it into a UC, but whose parents would have paid cash out of pocket to attend, if their sons/daughters were able to get in. Those potential customers/students who are willing and able to pay, but are currently being turned away, might pick up the opened slots, if any materialized. I don't know how many such students exist, though.

Another approach could have been for the UC system to lower enrollment on its side, so they could educate fewer students at lower tuition, given the same amount of state funding. But California law doesn't currently permit them to do that: the UC system is required to open admissions slots equal to at least 12.5% of in-state graduating seniors.
Congratulations on releasing this. I think you meant to say sftp instead of ftp.
Where do you find these risk-free instruments that yield 5%?
Saul Bass Poster Sketches for Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’
Yea I'm not saying Breitbart was murdered lol. I'm just saying, if we're going to talk about governments murdering inconvenient people, a case could be made for it and we shouldn't put it past our own government to do so.

In any case this is tertiary to the original point that the situation is a mess, regardless of whether the NDAA has anything to do with it.
"Apple fanbois like Steko continue to come out of the woodwork any time Apple gets criticized, ready to defend them no matter what decision they've made."

Me in this thread, 30 min before your post:

"This can only bring more and more focus onto iOS's most glaring weakness: the lack of contracts/intents/services. If the next version of iOS doesn't have it I think you will see jailbreaking go mainstream."

...

"fanbois like Steko"

Christ, what an asshole.
A urine powered generator invented
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I factory reset my iPhone when I got it unlocked, and synced it with iTunes. I had it make a backup before doing so off course, after this iTunes told me it was unlocked, and restored the backup. My tokens continued to exist within the Google Authenticator app, and I was able to log-in/out of gmail without issues.
Nonsense? How is that different than a regulatory takings?
Restoring locally from an iTunes account will (at least, the two times that I have done so it worked flawlessly)
The End of the World, as told by Instagram's #endoftheworld #december21 Photos
> this literally makes my blood boil

Unlikely unless you're the Human Torch.
>>I don't think that's the case. People think that the U.S. has a lot of lawyers because we're a "litigious society" but I've never seen evidence suggesting that Americans are more likely to sue than other sorts of people.

USA: 5805 Suits per 100k people (cf. next highest - UK/England @ 3681 per 100k) - [1]

[1] http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/papers/pdf/R...
"ref 1 dates back to 2007"

And?

"ref 2 is an isolated 'bug report' which no one else seems to corroborate"

It's one link to a report of a well-known, real problem. Apple Mail botched IMAP semantics just as the Finder botched file copying semantics. Both problems are reliably absent from real, mature software. And even in the one link I provide, several users are reporting disappearing messages. I would call that "corroborated", wouldn't you?

"ref 3 seems to be written by you"

It was, so you can be sure it's true.
It works without issues for me when doing it locally using iTunes, not sure what would be different about iCloud based backups ...
Ask HN: I can help you with a X-Mas break project
Full stack web engineer here [SQL/MySQL]+[C#/PHP]+[JS/CSS]

I'm willing to put around 20hrs/w for the next 3 weeks into an interesting project.

I have 5 years of corporate experience but now I want to build an online reputation, because all of my work is behind my employers' firewalls.

If you are interested post your idea, it could be a proof of concept web application or similar. I will release the code under a GPL or MIT license after I'm done.
When I first saw this, I thought, "Oh good, finally Automattic has something to compete with Page.ly, WP Engine, and Synthesis (i.e. managed WordPress hosting)."

But then I read their prices. The other guys all have managed WP hosting plans starting at under $30/month.

Maybe Automattic is playing the old game "If we charge crazy high prices, the Enterprise customers will think we're better, thinking, 'you get what you pay for.' The other guys will look like cheap crap."

Their scheme will probably work. Automattic has a lot of cred. Red Hat and Acquia play the same game. It sounds like a good business, if you can get into it!

(Disclaimer: I have my personal website on wordpress.com service [the free version]. I'm also doing a trial with Synthesis.)
Geocities was OK if you wanted a basic, ugly and completely static website. Our expectations are a little higher nowadays.
> No, it's that Business Insider writes trolly headlines.

BI was the child of Henry Blodget, barred from the securities industry for the famous POS memo. That should tell you everything you need to know.
Having them rely on an industry group to take pity on their case and come to their defense is not a good long term solution. The only way this will change is if large companies (Google/Apple/MS/Amazon) decide it's in their best interest to put lobby money behind patent reform.
If an asteroid were going to hit the Earth, whose job is it? No one's, yet.
You don't access the token from multiple devices, just one(your phone).

Google's secret keys are weak but Authy's ones are 256 bits.

And finally, Daniel was wrong about the key derivation, we are actually using PBKDF2. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Yes. Just like with a physical RSA hardware token ...
Well, I want google mapping data but without the ads and without it asking me to log in ever.

I would also like YouTube with no ads. I just don't use the Google YouTube app anymore.

I'm all for Apple trying to keep device ad free.
that's why I have moved to lobste.rs ;)

PS: this news is also there [1] ;)

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/gliqo6/new_github_homepage
I'm trying, unsuccessfully, to find how Google is to blame for the shortcomings of pre-iOS6 maps. Google didn't develop it. Google didn't poorly integrate it with the OS. So yes, absolutely, "If Apple doesn't build it's own [new and still shitty] Maps, we still have the old shittier maps app[, thanks to Apple,] though right?" Even STILL, there is no integration point for Google -- anyone that has bested Apple's offering(s) -- to integrate with the user's device. Only one party can change this involvement, everyone else is waiting with baited breath.

Apple should absolutely be scolded for what they sold to their users. Maps are one of, if not the most, important feature of a smartphone. Can you return your phone over it? They failed. Google is offering their's for "free."

Google couldn't be persuaded (or allowed) to commit code to native iOS? They couldn't be bought? I fail to see how they had the option to power anything, when they are willing to offer a superior solution for FREE!
Yep. And just going by Google analytics tracking is a rough way to assess marketing channels, agreed.

The ubiquity of Google Analytics and thus, ubiquity of "last touch" conversion tracking, has really helped Google make the case for Adwords. If someone sees an ad from a display advertising company, retarteted or otherwise, it's not uncommon for them to head to Google to look up more information about that product or service. If they then sign up or convert, the advertiser will see Google analytics listed as the sole source of the conversion. This is great for Google and less great for everyone else higher up in the funnel.
LimitState:GEO 3.0
"how poorly GitHub handles memory and where it stores all of the files"

Can you explain why you mean by this?
Dear god....this has always been a point of confusion for me, in that if you look up best practices, you'll find a multitude of contradictory advice. Well, I guess all solutions could be equally safe and sound...but it was still confusing and something almost never covered in beginner how-tos. I'm glad I'm not the only one who was always mildly confused.
Looks like they could get a lot of improvement in their render times too if they eliminate all that overdraw in the app.

The news feed is mostly light red (3x overdraw):
http://ara.sh/private/facebook_news_feed_overdraw.png

The side bar is simple enough that it shouldn't be overdrawn 2x (green) all over either:
http://ara.sh/private/facebook_sidebar_overdraw.png

Compare this to the Google+ feed view which has significantly less overdraw (and scrolls a lot better):
http://ara.sh/private/google_plus_news_feed_overdraw.png
how did you send cross domain request?
That by itself doesn't mean much. E.g. two multi-national companies have a dispute, it'll almost certainly get filed in the U.S. instead of somewhere else. That doesn't mean Americans are more likely to sue.
Seattle to deploy Gigabit fiber network
It's somewhat cultural, but vary common. The problem is it breaks some of the basic assumptions of heath insurance. Japan can drive down costs and add some basic rationing and get a high quality healthcare system, but because the US has so many separate entities involved none of which want to say no to the patent you get a highly expensive and dysfunctional system that also denies basic healthcare.
I hate code-writing puzzles during interviews. I don't use them at all. Why? Precisely because of methods such as this one where someone might memorize or learn a bunch of patterns to common puzzles going around. They come in and ace the interview test. Does it really tell you anything about the person other than they can train themselves like an intelligent monkey to produce the correct output given an input?

My preference, by far, is to spend time discussing ideas and approaches to solving problems. I don't want to see code. I want to see into his/her brain. How do you think? How do you slice and dice a problem to try to get to core? How good are you at intuitively choosing a good data representation? Do you bring-up alternative approaches to optimize for size vs. raw speed or other parameters? What questions do you ask?

Anyhow, whether the person can actually write two lines of code or not can be ascertained by looking at prior work (if available). The most interesting aspects of a programmer --the real reasons you might not want to let him(her) get away-- have nothing whatsoever to do with how quickly they can write a bunch of loops or if they have memorized five sorting algorithms. Nah, the real value is in how they think. That's what you want to hire them for.

EDIT: Some of the best, most creative and versatile programmers I have known could not write code without a set of reference books next to them. Why? Because they don't have encyclopedic knowledge of the various languages they might use. They'd excel at dissecting data to reveal structure and representation and then choosing a good approach to solve the problem but more often than not had to have a library of various CS and language books around them to support their work. My point is that these people would have failed interview puzzles yet they contributed to and sometimes single-handedly drove projects that generated millions of dollars for the companies that employed them.
I love this hack. We're using it a lot at our company.

exemple:

if ENV["NO_REDIS_CACHE"]
config.cache_store = :null_store
else
config.cache_store = :redis_store
end
How long we will live - and how well?
Submitted tarbackup(linux) to BetaPunch and got a hilarious review.
I think Facebook knew exactly what they were buying: a hedge against disruption by the strongest startup in the fastest growing area of relevance to Facebook, mobile photos.

I also don't think Facebook gives a shit about a lot of hand-wringing hipsters. They've been creating bad press with their decisions for years, I hardly think this little impotent uprising will ruffle their feathers.
Gigabit Seattle
State Secrets Front and Center in Dragnet Surveillance Case
This is just tuition.
"Jailbreaking will never go mainstream"

My understanding is that it's already mainstream for carriers to jailbreak phones for customers in many countries.
Parental Anecdote: The first three months with a newborn are rather horrid. At age six months, get start to become cute and they begin to interact, so it becomes more rewarding. By the first year, they sleep through the night and they're a lot of fun.
After age two, kids are no longer a liability. They are tremendous asset to a family - they're fun-loving, curious, joyful, and keep you on your toes.