skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I'm a recruiter for a YC company and I would love to see a higher level of functionality with a jobs-specific area focused on all startups. We've gotten some of our most talented candidates and employees from HN.
No, I don't see what this adds, I only see how this can cause harm. Anyone who wants to learn more can wait until everyone's had a chance to patch their apps; they can also figure it out themselves.

All this does is allow people who want to do harm to not have to figure it out themselves.
Paypal “guilty until proven innocent” account freeze
Convergence is key to the future of mobile
Exactly...

When I used torque I was already doing some professional game development, the only thing worse than torque was gamestudio a7
My biggest problem with Trello is that they don't support multiple identities. I use it for work and have also created a personal account. What I would expect is a nice dropdown to switch identities (eg like you get with Google or Github). The mobile apps also only have one identity.

A work around is in theory to keep logging out and back in again as the different users, but this is extremely tedious and in my case completely impractical as I don't know my passwords (stored in a password manager).

On one of Joel's posts it was clear he used Trello for work and for personal activity, but didn't state how that was achieved.
European court rules against extraordinary rendition
AmazonBasics Bluetooth QWERTY Keyboard
Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE
The Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE final competition guidelines have been announced and team registration is officially open for the $10 million competition.
This isn't about languages; what the language gives the language can take away. This is about diligence, responsiveness, and transparency.

Rails will always have zero-day security issues; I'd hazard that all web apps of any notable size will. What matters most to me is how the core team and community respond on those three criteria above.

Lately the Rails team has been performing exceptionally.
As a New York City public school teacher, I am incredibly excited about Clever. When I started working at my current school, we had an "inquiry team", whose job it was to download spreadsheets from the myriad of different services and databases used by the Department of Education (as well as those adopted by my school in addition). The team would then go through the downloaded spreadsheets and try to make sense of the data by copying and pasting columns from one sheet to the other. The team consisted of about 5 teachers who spent hours of their own time doing this.

I wrote some database software that took a lot of the hurt out of the process. Pop in the data in CSV format and it crunches all of the numbers and connects all the dots. That said, the whole workflow is still a bit of a pain. Most of the data is locked up in silos lacking any sort of API, but sporting a user interface that compels a little piece of my soul to shrivel up every time I have to log in and download the CSVs. Additionally, I have to bother the school support staff because I don't even have access to some of the data. Each different data source requires me to write a different parser. In the mean time, I still have to plan lessons and teach kids.

I've kicked the tires on the Clever API and it's fantastic for my purposes. They've done some incredibly cool stuff to make it easy to access data I've previously struggled to get my hands on. I'm really excited about the work they're doing and super-excited for more partners to come on board and use their API. It's going to change the way we deal with student data and ultimately get quicker information out to our teachers so that they can make better instructional decisions for our students.
Is this because Yaml doesn't whitelist the classes for the objects that may be instantiated? They are allocated and then instance_variable_set'd so I'd be Very interested to learn how this poses a risk.
It's the difference between understanding and copy-pasting.
The downside of 'don't break APIs for minor version changes' means that you can't break APIs until the major version changes. ;)
Word to the wise -- open this link up in a new tab unless you like clicking back more than a dozen times
No! No. No.

Find what you need, and hire for talent...all else is smoke and noise!
Generate native multi-platform apps with C#
Valve partner Xi3’s 'Steam Box' codenamed Piston, early specs detailed at CES
Bit more technical detail here:

http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/334644/google-offers-...

"The entire network has a download speed of 150Mbps, and each location will have a download speeds of about 5Mbps to 10Mbps, to be shared among all users. The project has 29 antennas affixed to lamp posts, buildings and other locations scattered through the neighborhood. Wireless service provider Sky Packets set up the network, which is connected to the Internet through Verizon and Time Warner Cable"
When dropping out might be an advantage
The people saying that they have POC code for remote code exec aren't making it up.
It could be that people with somewhat flexible schedules end up going into work later or earlier on Monday than average, spreading out the traffic enough to keep it moving fast.

Also, it could be that there are people who don't normally work on Monday, which is actually fairly common in many service industries. Many restaurants are often closed on Mondays, for example.
Moving Forward With Climate Change
Cascade : analysis of the structures which underly sharing activity on the web
I think you are right; and every company is really the same in this regard.
It may be time we start introducing reverse traffic cameras. Ones that issue fines for not following a minimum speed in peak commute hours for the vehicle that is unquestionably the first in a pack responsible for the jam.

Proximity calculations, leading vehicle frequency, trailing vehicle average speed, etc., using existing technology already in place that can be leveraged and innovated on to accurately determine culprits.
I've created multiple boards. Right now I'm at three: one for my personal life, one for my public work life (i.e. shared with colleagues), and one for my private work life that has my own to-dos, lists, etc. Then you use the board dropdown similar to what you wanted for users.
From the Lips's perspective it is a contradiction. Something is either a function or a constant.

The logic is that this object could be called as a function and at the same time always evaluated to itself?

That means whenever you call it you always getting it back - this is behavior of a constant. But if you could call it with an argument, you will get back some value, different from whatever it is?

As long as maps are immutable, it will behave as a function - return the same value for the same argument.

OK, but, please, don't tell me that this isn't confusing.)
Same problem with the "What our clients are saying" bit on Chrome using Ubuntu
Brad Feld takes on one of the biggest entrepreneur challenges: Relationships
> I've always felt there was something bordering on the "sacred" about memories. They're as personal a thing as you can have. Being able to rewind and see everything that ever happened to me would take something away from that for me. As with many technologies, you'd gain something, but lose something precious too.

Ed: Do you own a video camera?

Renee Madison: No. Fred hates them.

Fred Madison: I like to remember things my own way.

Ed: What do you mean by that?

Fred Madison: How I remembered them. Not necessarily the way they happened.
Congress needs to allow "poor" people to become investors, that'd make Kickstarter 1000X more effective because you'd be able to purchase shares in these companies rather than merely being promised a one-time thing.
We have too many companies offering "free" products to demographics with very limited purchasing power... I'm glad I'm not in the boat of appeasing this fickle group.
Interference, surely.
E la Carte (www.elacarte.com) Palo Alto, CA - Full time

Now Hiring in Sales, Engineering (Python/Django/Javascript), & QA/IT
www.elacarte.com/jobs

We make software and tablets for the restaurant industry, and are a YC company. Our Presto tablets empower restaurant guests to browse the entire menu, place orders, play games, and pay their bill without having to wait. We have a small team making a huge impact on the restaurant industry, all while having fun in our Palo Alto house.
I get a lot of mileage out of the delegate pattern. We used visitor exactly once in our codebase, but it's pretty fantastic for that one place it's needed. We use observer extensively. More than other patterns that one strikes me as something the language should do for me.
I don't think it matters if it's high, I think what's more important is that it's comparable to other forms of funding. I'd rather see a few amazing non-traditional projects come to fruition and a high failure rate of funded projects than a high-success rate of mediocre and low-risk projects, though I suspect that's not a true dichotomy.
Password Reset Vulnerability Found in Facebook.com
But thats not how the security community works. Once this was posted literally every security team jumped on writing a PoC exploit and distributing it to customers. There will be point and click modules in Metasploit, IMPACT, and CANVAS by the end of the week at latest.
I use my power as a consumer to favor reasonably priced and less restricted media

That's me, in the post to which you replied, making the same point.

IF I know beforehand, I won't buy the game. But how do you find out that a single-player game doesn't work when its vendor's servers go down? By owning the game and finding out first-hand (it's not printed on the box). Have you ever tried to return a piece of opened software? If the defect isn't on the disc, exchanging it won't do any good.

You cannot appeal to a free market argument like caveat emptor once you've already acceded to a decidedly non-anarchistic world where the government grants and enforces copy and license rights. Consumers have positive rights too, like the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

You can be cavalier and abrasive as long as you're right; when you're not right, then you're just being an ass.
What your talking about is the JOBS act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpstart_Our_Business_Startups...), and it should be going into effect soon.
Ford Releases An SDK For Their Cars
Doom 3 BFG Ported to Linux, Fully Playable
just read your CV. WF, Singly, Cars.com, you must know the pain of payments, marketplaces, and APIs very well.

Email me at my HN handle @balancedpayments.com
At school, she was hoping that it wouldn't be too big of a deal, but even the principal knew about the video. He brought her to his office and called her mom.

So the principal was involved in the slut shaming? Some activist group needs to sue this principal to show the world that this isn't the correct approach to handle this type of situation. Her mother should not have been brought in.

The correct thing to do is to arrest the boy for creating and distributing child pornography and leaving the girl hell alone.
I've backed over 20 projects on Kickstarter & I check it daily for promising upcoming projects. I know of no other use of my money that delivers a better bang for the buck in terms of making a difference. I'm grateful it exists.
I just wish it would grow faster. Launch in more countries, accept other forms of payment, enlarge the scope of projects it accepts. It's such an amazing mechanism for raising money.
Or, what about using low power radio to communicate relatively short distances to other submersibles scattered upward toward the surface, forming a mesh network that eventually has an endpoint connected to the ship or satellite?
Isn't that approximately what Facebook makes per user, per year in advertising?
I have been thinking about getting into Clojure, but time is precious. It doesn't seem like there are that many jobs out there, but I could be wrong.

For those of you in the industry, why would I want to use Clojure? What would be a good project to try it on? A Web app? Why is it worth learning it?
Did you read the article? There is no single car that causes a jam. In fact according to previous research http://math.mit.edu/projects/traffic/ (see "Conclusions" at the bottom), even if all cars follow the same rules a jam can still occur. They can also occur in very simple situations like in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suugn-p5C1M
http://www.insinuator.net/2013/01/rails-yaml/

Some explanation why YAML user input is evil.

It works like this

1.9.3p327 :001 > id = YAML.load("--- !ruby/string:Arel::Nodes::SqlLiteral \"1 --\"\n") # if user input can contain arbitrary YAML
"1 --"

It looks like string, but it's not.

1.9.3p327 :002 > Keyword.where(:id => id).first
Keyword Load (0.3ms) SELECT `keywords`.* FROM `keywords` WHERE `keywords`.`id` = 1 -- LIMIT 1
It was certainly a big year for Kickstarter videogames, with Double Fine starting a major trend early in 2012 that just grew and grew.

I don't think it makes sense to consider "Kickstarter projects" as a whole when looking at success rate. Hardware projects are very different from software projects, which in turn are entirely unlike most tabletop RPG books which have been funded. The method of funding is the same, but the paths to completion are nothing alike.
Fair enough, there are plenty of organizations both inside and outside the government that have sane technology standards that contradict my cheap generalizations.
Would you care to give a description of it in the comments? I see it, but why is it any better than just using apple's music app? Does it link to cool things? Does it integrate with the music on my itunes? Knowing this might give people a better reason to actually purchase it, especially as your app store description is essentially non-existant.
You should still be spending the $10 to register the other domain.
AP is selling ads in their tweets, but Twitter doesn't mind
Beta-testers for JoinPublic (iPhone app) needed.
The article has nothing to say about needlessly slow drivers, just about traffic volume overall.
No idea, but they sure tolerate nudity and sexuality more. The original issue is more of a bullying one though...
I was curious about why Rails parses YAML nested inside XML to begin with. Turns out it was put in way back when so that ActiveRecord's from_xml/to_xml work as expected when a model contains serialized (ie. yaml) attributes.

Patch/issue from the old Rails issue tracker:

http://web.archive.org/web/20071218105822/http://dev.rubyonr...
Windows Media Player?

O_o
PublikDemand Gives Customers A Voice With Twilio
I started getting very slight headaches after staring at a computer all day, so I got Gunnars. The headaches are gone, and I continue to wear them every day. They're a little weird at first, but the brightness of the screen really gets to me now if I dont' wear them.
Nice that the author has read so many programming books so that creating an algorithm for reading such books is cost-effective.
Many commuters shouldn't have to be on the roads at all. Fiber is cheaper than freeways.
hugs += 1
U.S. Proposes New Minimum Sound Requirements for Electric Vehicles
Pretty sure it was there from the start, yes. People remember how revolutionary it was for the storage and UI, but making client access available for free was just as big of a deal at the time. I'd never use a service that didn't provide that, so it certainly was a big factor in getting me to use Gmail, and I imagine the same is true for a lot of others. Certainly seems to have worked out for them.
A speaker for the cloud
> mobile

I don't know. Mobile tends to be pretty hit driven - more than desktop. I'd say one should primary go web then desktop. Mobile is nice as an addon to your existing products but making a mobile product on its own is really hard and has a lot to do with luck.
Or he's a liar who was drawn to Belize ~because~ of the opportunity such corruption provides a person of his interests.
FedWires are almost instant... depending on your bank, receiving bank, etc.

For most B2B FedWires, it's pretty much instant. Yay Treasury.

The cutoffs do suck, however.

The US needs to catch up to the rest of the world with regards to banking. And also kill off checks.
"It was based on anonymized tracking of cars"

If it was anonymized, they could in theory release the data, right? However the article states "all the data gathered in the study will be kept confidential". Don't these 2 statements contradict each other? Why would they need to keep anonymous data confidential?
Negative temperature: Understanding what happens below absolute zero
Ah, the ubiquitous D engine. I used to clean out model rocket shops of those. Some of the things we put together with the powder from those were... er, fun.
since I don't consider myself to be anywhere near the top percentile, I felt that my programming chops might not be adequate enough to learn it.

See? The magic was within you all along.

:)

I wonder if the causation is confused, here. That is, you do not need to be a top percentile programmer to understand or use Lisp. You are -- or become -- a top percentile programmer because you've learned Lisp.

I don't know if the relationship is as direct as all that. But I do think that if you learn and internalize some of the lessons of Lisp, it will expose you to new ways of thinking about programming as well a programming problems, and this is correlated with being a good programmer.

One particular example: the close relationship between code and data in Lisp pulls aside the curtain a bit on some concepts which are more obscured in languages like Java or C++.
Thinly veiled, Snapchat is for sending nudes. In that sense I suppose it's more incentive to send photos, given the premise that the photos won't be seen by a third party.
I'll throw in on Gittip: https://www.gittip.com/tenderlove/

Would also be happy to give you a hug ;-)
agree, but it's a bit more than $10
Recruiting: Stanford BASES Startup Career Fair
I couldn't find any information on this.
Maybe you are thinking of this game that uses the Torque 3D engine?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/70755535/dead-state-the-...
>I found the clip on part to be less durable however, given that the bottom part came off after a week, though it is possible I received one that was defective and was just poorly glued on.

I had exactly the same happen, although it took about 3 weeks. About a week later, the device fell out of my pocket somewhere never to be seen again.

Apart from that, it's a great little device and I've bought a new one that still seems to be holding together at the moment.
"I think it's many teenage boys fantasy to be a spy, or to run a spy ring"

Not just!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mitty , appropriate for the topic.
This year's BASES Startup Career Fair is scheduled to take place at the Lawn behind the Gates Computer Science Building on the Stanford Campus. We had over 900 students attend this fair last year, making it a very successful recruiting and networking event for both companies and attendees.

A full table at the Career Fair entitles you to one six-foot table with a maximum of four representatives (a half table is maximum two reps). Both options include parking, free shuttle service from the venue to the parking and back, break-time snacks and refreshments, and access to post jobs on our entrepreneurship email newsletter, the BASES Digest, reaching over 5,000 people. You will also be given a complimentary copy of the Resume Booklet, which consists of an orderly collection of resumes of all Stanford students seeking jobs and internships.

When purchasing a table at the BASES Startup Career Fair you also have the option to register for the Startup 101 Career Fair simultaneously for a $50 discount on both fairs combined. The Startup 101 Career Fair is hosted with five other student groups and held in Tresidder Memorial Union on February 27th from 10am-4pm. If you would like to register separately for this fair and not the BASES Startup Career Fair please contact us at bases-external-relations-12-13@lists.stanford.edu for more information.

Shortly after registration you will receive a link to a survey to fill out with more information about your company and the types of students you are looking for, and closer to the date of the career fair you will receive an email with more information about the logistics of the day of the fair. We look forward to your participation in our upcoming career fair!
> by the end of the week at latest.

This is the key bit for me: Rubygems is literally straining with everyone being frantic to upgrade. Giving it a few days means that everyone can patch their apps.

I don't believe that everyone will listen to little old me, of course, but that doesn't mean I can't tell them I don't think it's a not-great thing to do.
Swiftype (YC W12) is hiring a DevOps Engineer
Most websites have terrible site search. Founded by the engineers who built Scribd’s search, Swiftype (http://swiftype.com) is fixing that by offering a dead-simple modern search for sites ranging from your sister’s Tumblr to Alexa Top 100 behemoths. We are a hosted service that powers a key feature on tens of thousands of websites, and as such, we place tremendous importance on the reliability and speed of our system. Swiftype’s usage is growing quickly, so
we're looking for DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers to help us scale quickly.

What we have:

A well–thought–out architecture consisting of redundant services communicating via simple APIs

Horizontally scalable infrastructure

An API and dashboard built with Rails 3, Rack, MongoDB, Redis and Lucene

A high performance crawler capable of spidering millions of pages per hour

Search analytics and results re-ordering

An intelligent page-content analysis system for parsing websites automatically

A lot of happy customers who become very sad if we have downtime

What we need to do:

Completely automate provisioning of new servers and search clusters

Scale our backend from thousands of requests/second to millions

Bulletproof failover across multiple datacenters

Improve our crawler performance and concurrency (Will it be JRuby, Go, Scala, Clojure or
something else? -- you’ll help decide)

Improve our monitoring and alert systems

Sound interesting? We want to hear from you. We are a small team (all engineers) and are looking for engineers with broad general knowledge but who prefer to focus on Ops and systems infrastructure.

As a small but well-funded company we can offer you a competitive salary and significant equity stake, health and dental benefits, and lunch as a team every day.

To apply, email jobs@swiftype.com. Please include whatever info you believe is relevant: resume, GitHub profile, code samples, links to personal projects, etc.
@AlexMuir I second this - Symfony2 has made huge strides forward for BDD. Here's an article that might help: http://docs.behat.org/cookbook/bdd_in_symfony2_with_behat_mi...
I saw this the other day and it was down. Now it's back up. Is this "legitimate"? The story ( http://www.diyphotography.net/download-adobe-cs2-for-free as best I can tell ) isn't clear.
Frictionless - Chrome extension that bypasses Facebook news apps
A new statup just launched that handles this situation quite well. http://thecanaryproject.com/

I was at a fireside chat for the launch with one of the founders. I like the app and it gives parents an amazing tool to combat teenage rebellion.
What's the cost for FedWire?
1. Keep this link bookmarked.

2. Pull it off next time someone starts with the 'test-replace-static-typing' argument.

3. WIN