skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, NASA uses formal methods to exhaustively test every possible state the system could enter during execution. This type of testing can cost several hundred dollars per line of code. And it still doesn't prove that the code is 100% bug free because the absence of bugs is not empirically provable.

But on the other hand, as others have pointed out, browsers are now an important enough application platform that they probably should be tested to a similar standard as an OS kernel is.

Personally, having been warned time and time again over the years that IE is one of the least secure browsers available, I just won't use it anymore (except for work-related purposes in a corporate environment where I'm forced to use IE). IE's reputation is terrible for a reason, and I think we're seeing that the buggier, more popular/entrenched system that burns its users over and over again will eventually fall out of favor.

Certainly there's something in between the extremes of Microsoft and NASA in terms of testing and debugging standards.
I found this comment interesting, too:

http://unicornfree.com/2012/4-years-into-our-saas-why-bootst...
There's a bit of Rails terminology that you'll need to understand in order to grok what's going on here. Rails has two distinct commands: generate and scaffold. Generators create files with very basic contents. The scaffold command generates files with contents that fit a "typical" use case. Scaffolds aren't used much once you know what you're doing.
Hadn't seen this before, interesting. Learn something new every day =)
Either this person is a complete moron, or one of the greatest trolls GitHub has seen in a long time.
I would think twice before buying coastline property in Dubai. Large parts of Dubai's beaches are man-made and may last a lot shorter than that 100 years you consider safe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_(archipelago)#Project...)

Also, a house that is known to last only 100 years will be harder to sell in 50 years time, so forget about the pension investment benefit of buying such a house (yes, that should affect current house prices, but I think humans in general do not understand long time horizons that well)

Back to the subject proper: Dubai is gambling that they can become a Vegas and keep making money that way. That bet may pay out, but it is not a bet I would make. Problem is that there is no middle way here. Sure, if their income will be half what they expect it to be, they can kick foreigners out to keep the $/capita at decent levels, but what would they do with all those houses than? Demolish? Huge loss of money. Keep around? Even larger loss because of maintenance costs. Turn into a ghost town? That might become a tourist attraction.

Also, Vegas has survived so long by consuming the water from the Colorado river, but that is not sustainable. I expect huge problems in Vegas within 20 years. Dubai starts in the 'no water' position. But hey, I am not an economist, so don't take my word for it.
Censorship: Google images safesearch is MANDATORY for US IP's
Good time to donate to the EFF (3x effect)
stdbrouw, here's your link :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_dishonesty#Academic_di...

The following is for anyone who hasn't heard of wikipedia:

Wikipedia is often a good place to begin research. It can often provide a set of words that you can use to look for scholarly works that can provide "good, non-anecdotal data".

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

This article features words like: Plagiarism, fabrication, deception, cheating, bribery, sabotage, professorial sabotage, and personation. These may help you in your search for "good, non-anecdotal evidence".

Wikipedia also provides links to "good, non-anecdotal evidence" from time to time, and calls these links "references". These references can often be accessed online, but sometimes require you to access a physical book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_dishonesty#References

The things that you read in wikipedia are not necessarily the truth. Wikipedia has information and mis-information on many topics.
I remember looking into a similar problem once and seeing something like:

rendered "foo" 2ms
rendered "foo" 2ms
rendered "foo" 1ms
rendered "foo" 4ms
rendered "foo" 175ms
rendered "foo" 2ms

Assuming a really simple partial (and no swapping or run queue), that looks suspiciously like a GC problem.
The app store does not allow GPL'd apps.
I completely agree, and really wonder about their algorithms in general (there's a reason I keep my news feed sorted by most recent, rather than top stories). It completely missed my trip to South America over the summer, yet very prominently featured a random photo taken of me at the office yesterday.
I would like to hear your thoughts on the cost of living and how it affects business quality?

I think 'obscene' is the perfect word when talking about the cost of rent in SF. It's the number one factor in making me consider moving away from the area.
…focus my efforts on areas with the lowest ratio of editors to value of the content…

This sounds quite interesting. Do you do this by rough intuitive feel, or is there any quantitative/analytical data from Wikipedia that can be used to prioritize attention this way? (For example: a list of places where the imbalance between readers/inbound-Google-referrals and content/active-editors is greatest?)
So sad to see the triviality that constitute the majority of our searches.
The idea is very interesting. But would it be possible to open this is a new tab instead?
I was just creating something like this for my project. This is great!!
Happy to be supporting this project at http://customer.io . A lot of folks who use other tools want it to be easier to send the same information to everyone. Thanks guys for helping us all play nicer together.
btw, my name is mauro too :P
GIT Fuck It: Deletes all the stupid shit. Return to clean repo.
This is a very clever idea. Nice work! I wonder if anyone translates the idea to something like an intranet or something like that for a company. It could be a pretty neat idea if everyone in your company uses Chrome!
Well first, I'll quote myself:

> I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm saying it's so far from likely that being near-immortal due to bio-enhancements is almost certainly more practical. Or you can develop some "scanning ray gun" which does the same thing without killing you first, I suppose.

Seriously, I see near-immortality due to bio-engineering to be way more likely in the remote future (next few hundred years) than uploading your brain. Similarly, I see strong, general AI to be way more likely.

I'll even say that I see full, human brain simulations to be way more likely than the ability to upload your own into the net.

I'm all for being hopeful and optimistic, but sometimes physics is just not on your side.
I thought that sounded a little far fetched, since I had thought that K-Pop was popular in Japan, but in looking for sources for that I mostly just found articles like this: http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/08/27/territory-tens... http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/15/gangnam-style-is-japan-i...

I think you may be right.
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The problem with the unused articles is slightly subtler than "it will use up our hard disk space!"

A friend of mine recently created a Wikipedia article for one of her own economic theories. She is not an economist, and as far as I know has never studied economics. The theory is loosely based on the work of one economist, but the sources she listed included her own blog, that economist's work, and newspaper articles--not articles about "the XYZ Theory," but articles about events she believes are relevant to her theory. But the end result was a reasonably well-written article, with plenty of linked citations (which would appear relevant to anyone not paying close attention), about a theory that does not exist. And because the article got so little traffic, she was the only one editing it.

The thing is, when she linked to that article from her blog and social media profiles, and from other tangentially related Wikipedia articles, suddenly that theory seemed to have some validity that it hadn't had before. And googling "XYZ Theory," which would have gotten 0 results the day before, now got a handful of results. All of them were related to that article or her blog, of course, but someone casually searching for information might just click through to the Wiki article without noticing.

The point is, articles about non-notable topics aren't just irrelevant. They're of much lower average quality than the rest of Wikipedia because they have much less traffic and many fewer potential editors knowledgable about the topic. They're more likely to have factual inaccuracies, more likely to be biased, more likely to just suck. And it'd dramatically reduce the confidence one could have in any Wikipedia article about anything one hadn't heard of before, because you might be its first viewer.
Here's an introductory video (10 mins) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2vzotsvvkw a longer video http://thoriumremix.com/2011/ (the surrounding links are worth exploring) and a summary http://cybercemetery.unt.edu/archive/brc/20120621060336/http... The important point to get is that the excitement is not just "thorium" (as the title of the thread suggests) but the reactor as well.
SAMSUNG AGAIN TOUTS ITS PHONES’ ABILITY TO SHARE SEX VIDEOS
This seems awesome to me as well but I don't want to sign up without learning more. Who are the teachers? How does it work? Does it cost anything? etc.

Really cool concept, I think.
The thing I find odd is that I've followed Luke for some years and he's remarkably well read on these topics and assuredly know of the complications with this stance. I find his Scientific Narrative argument (Science has solved other problems, why should X be the last to fall?) problematic but he seems to lean heavily on it.
I didn't present a "list of horrors". A parade of horribles is a debate tactic where an opponent of an idea extrapolates it as far as possible and presents a set of luridly bad outcomes that will result from it. It's considered a cheap argument and given the name ("parade of horribles") because of the subtext that the horribles are actually unlikely; that anyone can take any argument, extrapolate it to an absurd extreme, and come up with a series of bad things that won't in fact happen.

Unfortunately for that rebuttal to my comment, AfDs on Wikipedia are archived:

Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/#{ YEAR }_#{ MONTH }_#{ DAY }

For instance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...

You will, perusing these pages at random, discover a couple things:

* There are a LOT of terrible articles submitted to Wikipedia every day

* The examples I provided upthread are representative of what Wikipedia actually deals with.

* An astounding amount of effort goes into diligently handling those articles on a case-by-case basis.

A few months ago, another "deletionism" freakout on HN happened when a famous SEO expert's friend found her article deleted, and the SEO expert wrote an angry blog post. In discussing the incident on HN, two things emerged: first, the erstwhile WP subject was not in fact notable, and second, in handling the AfD for the article, before any media attention had landed on that particular debate --- that is, while that AfD was just another routine debate --- a Wikipedia volunteer actually took the time to look up the library circulation numbers for a book the subject had ostensibly published.
I know. AS3, save for some 'interesting' design decision, isn't that bad. The problem is that the trend is for more dynamic, loosely-typed languages. If Haxe went with a Ruby-like syntax originally, and placed less emphasis on Flash compilation - it probably would have become more popular.

Again, Haxe doesn't have as much traction as others, not because it's bad, but because it isn't fashionable. At least that's the only reason I can come up with why it hasn't resonated.
Who reviews Linux kernel commits?
Get The Current Post Type In WordPress
Tidal Labs is hiring a PHP developer
Unvalidated Redirect in Google (or How Google Sent Me To Bing)
I'd agree that we don't want all of that stuff, but there's something very wrong with the filtering process when niche historical material gets purged while every Buffy the Vampire Slayer character and episode has a detailed article.
SafeSearch made mandatory for Image Search from Google.com
Author here. Co-location sounds nice, if you or one of your employees is always near the datacenter. This alone is reason enough for me not to consider it.

For $100 I could get a Xeon E3-1245 with 32GB ECC Ram, 2x 3TB HDs from Hetzner. One year later? Better system, same price. Upgrade costs? One to two days of work migrating.

I believe co-location has its place but not if we are talking about "only" $100 and pretty simple needs. There is always a time factor that outweighs its gains.

"Hostage situations" and incompetent personal is something, I believe, that is hard to compare. Everyone near your system, no matter what or where, can cause problems.

What if they refuse to hand out your server till all payment problems are solved? Maybe this depends on the country but getting the server if they refuse to hand it out will likely consume more time than just paying whatever they want. Also if you planned for this situation with some EC2 instances just switching the domain over and settling the dispute should be doable.
Marking a magazine with a date in the future simply increases its shelf life. As for the year-end reviews, I assume people like to look back at a year toward the end and set goals for the new year at the start. Jan 2013, people don't care much for 2012 anymore.
Google Analytics has a new api currently in beta that is also called analytics.js. This will be confusing.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
It's ironic that HN can simultaneously abhor[1] and applaud[this] progressive invasions of privacy on the internet.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4907609
You haven't actually engaged my argument. My argument is that judgement calls about which articles not to host on Wikipedia are one a small number of driving forces that make the project actually work. You've responded to that by equating judgement calls about not hosting articles with a guy punching people outside a McDonalds. You'll be upvoted for that, because it's good, funny writing, but there's nothing intellectually honest about the point you've made.
Zynga Releasing Elite Slots: A Casino Game with RPG Elements
A fellow Mauro :)

Yes, the original fallback idea was to just have the extension icon and when you click on it opens a new tab, but I wanted to give it a shot in the popup html because it's a more streamlined experience for the user, and it helps keep the entire thing focused and simple. After trying it out I just really liked the whole experience so went with that.
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While there are still many reasons to use Facebook, the list shrinks every day. The question is not IF you are going to quit Facebook, but WHEN. So why not today? Here are some practical reasons why I’m quitting.

* It’s not for free. It never was. We used to pay with personal information that they used for “improved” advertising. But now we also need to pay with actual money to reach our contacts. If you don’t pay, you won’t even reach half of your followers. Some people have claimed as few as 15%.

* If someone subscribes to you, there’s a big risk that they won’t see your posts. Either because of some mysterious Facebook selection, or because you don’t pay, or because people can’t bother to sift through the spam, or because people just don’t care anymore.

* You can’t trust the statistics. What does it mean that there are 1 billion accounts on Facebook? Who knows what it means to have “1999 followers” or that “1543 people saw this” or “37 people talk about this”. Or if you are an advertiser – how can you know that actual people (and not bots) have clicked your ad? Well, you can’t. You just have to take Facebook’s word for it. And why would you do a thing like that?

* You can’t rely on Facebook. They introduce features that can have huge consequences to people and organizations – without even a warning. And if there is a reason to shut down your content, because of algorithms or complaints or legal battles – they will do it. And you can’t complain to customer service, because you are probably not a customer.

* Facebook will disappear fast after its peak. Unlike other companies that try to control both platform and distribution (Apple, Google, Amazon, etc), Facebook relies too much on its users. The main reason for people to use it, is “my friends use it”. When they start to leave it, Facebook will disappear as fast as it arrived. Time to prepare!

(Instead of Facebook I will be here. Tonight there will be a live streamed gig to celebrate, starting at 19.00 CET)
We can still improve this by caching across CDNs.
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Actually there are no human teachers, the lessons are interactive and automated much like Codecademy. You're shown a few notes at a time and then as you play, the software detects each note and gives you feedback. There's also a virtual guitar mode so you can try it out without a guitar (it does require a signup though, at least for now).
I actually did the opposite. Owned a house in Chicago. Sold the house, moved to SF, bought a house in the suburbs, and now take the BART to twitter everyday. Rents are obscene if you want to live in SF proper...as you start moving out to the south Bay or better yet, East Bay, they drop quite dramatically. If you are willing to live in Concord or Pittsburg, you can easily find a 1K/mo rent. Even in Pleasant Hill I was able to land a 1.5K, and Walnut Creek & thereabouts will still be below 2K. Ofcourse you spend 45 minutes on the BART...but hey, there's a reason machine learning textbooks are 800+ pages....:) I have learnt so much in the past 3 months, & all the credit goes to BART.
Why? The content about those articles is verifiable, any given Buffy episode is clearly notable compared to, say, the "Fourlokotini" article that was submitted to Wikipedia in November 2010, and nobody is gaming Wikipedia to get Buffy content to the top of Google SERPs. What difference does it make if writeups of Buffy articles occupies one article or dozens?
Yikes! Thanks for the heads up. I use the backtick in a lightweight markup language that I'm making but felt uneasy about that choice. Now I have impetus to change it.
There is no way "iPhone" or "iPhone 5 is not on that list.

http://cl.ly/image/0u0R2r12402a (http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=iphone%2C%20iphone5%2...)

http://cl.ly/image/2l2I1b3G4328 (http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=iphone%205%2C%20Galax...)

It's not even close. Note 2, Surface, Lumia 920, iPad 4 and iPad mini are 2 month old on the market.

iPhone 5 it's been rumored and re-rumored for months before releasing it, then with all the problems attached to the iPhone 5 release, Apple Maps, record sales, or whatever... people must have searched for it quite a lot (as Google Trends data suggest)

ps. Also, "Lana del Ray" ('Rey' is the correct) (sic, performing artists)? These lists doesn't seem quite right.
So you're going w/ B) A subtle entreaty to focus the brunt of America's educational efforts on specific ethnic subgroups...

Unless you can demonstrate that this is cost effective, I'm certainly not.

And yes, I do generally posit that most educational interventions are ineffective. If you disagree, please point to one which can reliably and scalably increase the score of any group by an amount proportional to the black/white (or white/asian) gap.
Those statistics are meaningless when a big chunk of the world is a darknet. Our client has 3,000 windows 2000/ie6 workstations still. None of these ever see the world wide web.

The numbers are entirely irrelevant. 28% of our client base is on ie6.

My point is that it shouldn't be an issue to start with.
A Mini-Nile River Found on Saturn's Moon Titan
How many Chats do people actually handle at the same time?
Does anyone know how much less waste Thorium produces when used compared to Uranium? Both this article and Peter Thiel's linked article say "less", but neither are exact.
Is that for the new Universal Analytics?
No, but the identification relies on a cookie placed on the 3rd-party site (leadlander.com). With that domain blocked, there would not longer be a way to identify the user across different sites, which is a key element of this thing working.
I think that largely depends on who's maintaining the official repo.

See what happened when oh-my-zsh got careless in testing pull requests: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/pull/1395/files#L1... everyone who got the update (tons of people, as it's self-updating) had their $HOME screwed up, basically breaking the entire shell.

Point being that trust only goes so far here: proper code reviews are what stop these problems.
Yeah, I'm disappointed. I was expecting the article to be about some new vector display.
This is what Wikipedia actually says about citing journal articles:

Where available, academic and peer-reviewed publications are usually
the most reliable sources, such as in history, medicine, and
science. But they are not the only reliable sources in such areas. You
may also use material from reliable non-academic sources, particularly
if it appears in respected mainstream publications. Other reliable
sources include university-level textbooks, books published by
respected publishing houses, magazines, journals, and mainstream
newspapers. You may also use electronic media, subject to the same
criteria. See details in Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources and
Wikipedia:Search engine test.

Their policy appears to be the opposite of the one you suggested they had.
As a Linode user, I would really appreciate any specific comments you can make about security issues you have observed.
Indeed, its 7.9" @ 4:3 vs 7" @ 16:10 - android bar. World of difference.
>You don't currently have enough posts to see your 2012 year in review.

Refreshingly empty. I use Facebook as a last resort to contact friends and was pleased to see they didn't drag anyone else's year-in-review into mine.
Hi

Who is your audience? It's not that clear from my first visits.
Irrational (impotent) rage is really the right terminology.
Perhaps you could use phase cancellation to eliminate the original 50Hz hum.
> He also mentions that there is no way to see what your next bill will be in AWS. They offer an 'Account Activity' link, that shows you current charges in the current month. That can be helpful when testing things.

Good to know, thank you. I was not sure about this feature and after asking one of the sales engineers on the AWS event they told me that this is just not possible, especially if you want some details.
Exploring a New Way of Planning and Executing Hackathons
Yes this is also known as Universal Analytics and has several new features more processing on the server rather than on client side and less cookies. It's pretty awesome by the way.
U.S. Senator McCaskill threatens legislation on airplane electronic device rules
Linode also offers native IPv6 support, and they will route you a /64 on request.
Do you really see all that many paid PHP components? I've run across very few. Most of PHP's quality code tends to be wrapped up in frameworks, and anyone new to programming or PHP in general has the unfortunate task of dealing with something like WordPress or mediocre/outdated tutorials without much guidance.
It looks like someone else built this almost 3 months ago: https://github.com/nmanousos/pounddwolla
It's not quite apples to apples, Google Analytics prohibits associating personal information with web analytics information.
John McAfee deported to the USA
mmm, I still see the SafeSearch option, I can disable and get more "explicit" results though.