skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also found this article interesting as well. It shows them arranged in a server configuration.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/12/2702994/xi3-modular-comput...
Sorry about this grumbling old man comment. I was bored and tired and I was meaning to delete it, but it has replies and stuff now so it seems a bit too sneaky. Something about HN brings out the angry jerk in me sometimes. My bad, though.
Content farms vs attribution: death of the anonymous content slave?
I don't really care; if we were writing the law we'd figure out a reasonable but inevitably imperfect policy for each question. The point isn't to get every possible situation right. It's to come up with the best-bang-for-your-social-buck heuristic.
Get out of Daily Deals and into the Priesthood
This article:

http://www.polygon.com/2013/1/7/3849284/piston-valve-steam-b...

claims that it's based on the $999 X7A, so perhaps still higher than a $600 price point.

It's mostly speculation at this point, though. Very entertaining. What's the basis for your $600 price point, btw? It would be great to see a graph of console prices to try and get close to the expected price.
> I also don't even use Blogger

You don't have to. Link to your Plus account and do a simple authorization step on Plus and your face shows up in search results and everywhere else. I'm experiencing this benefit with custom software I wrote simply because I have a link to my Plus profile on my site.
It looks absolutely beautiful. It seems like it's going to be really expensive compared to regular consoles though.
It makes me a little bit sea-sick, watching the transitions slide around each other.

I don't need a long blog post, but my eyes can jump from paragraph to paragraph much faster than (apparently reveal.js's?) slidey animation thing.
RSVP required: The code that drives the Mars Curiosity rover
It is open source, they want the rights to the name that the project was run under transfered to the company now that the employee that was running the project (effectively on their behalf if his salaried time was given over to the product) has left. It doesn't seem really that it is too unrealistic an expectation and should have been thought out in advance really.
2 Pi: Rhymes And Radii
"UC's in this gray area of offering neither free courses nor conventionally high-priced (undergraduate) degree programs online."

That's their problem. Their competition isn't so much Coursera and Udacity as it is University Of Phoenix. It's going to be hard to get people to sign up for random classes at $1400 each, but put it in a whole online degree program and sure UC can beat the for-profits. If they can't, then some people need to be fired.
Congrats to the Chartboost team!
> all new platforms and technologies are first used by geeks

Including social networks? I highly doubt that.

> Also, I believe the past tense of +1 is +1'd

Which just proves my point, because "I plus oned that" is even more difficult to say and type. The word 'one' has no fluid way of being written or spoken as a verb. Plus one'd? +1-ed? Plus 1'd?

And yes, telling someone to 'like' something is far less awkard. Like is already a verb.
Learning by Teaching, an Interview with Jeffrey Carl Faden of Lab Zero
I'm waiting for blackberry to come around and do the same!
Addicts may be the most rational economic actors of all: each $10 can be a really, really big deal to an addict, and he will find the most efficient way, within his limited capabilities, to get it, whether that is smurfing, farming WoW, stealing copper pipe, etc.
This article is from last March. Perhaps it would have been more appropriate to post a follow up article?
I didn't start with the idea. It came out of a conversation with a friend last week.

My goal for the post series is to create a web app and be transparent about the process. So finding an idea and validating it matches that goal perfectly.
Hacker uses cat to deliver virus clues to Japanese police
I remember when I was little, hearing that they had no real recorded evidence of the giant squid. It immediately created this massive sense of excitement and wonder as to what else could be swimming around in the ocean.

I still to this day am in absolute fascination of random pictures that show up of creatures from places like the Mariana Trench. It just boggles my tiny brain that so much biological diversity exists.

Here's a few that popped up on Reddit the other day --
http://imgur.com/a/xkfSv

"And lo on the seventh day, God slammed a bunch of shit He wasn't finished with down at the bottom of a trench and hoped that nobody would notice."
I agree with you and I always wondered why the internals team hadn't done this themselves and just left the original functions as warty aliases for backwards compatibility.
Meet Amancio Ortega: The third-richest man in the world
The Koblenz Network Collection
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How many active ones?
Just a bit of googling:

http://www.idigitaltimes.com/articles/14297/20130107/xbox-72...

They mention $500-$700 for the Xbox 720 and $650-$800 for the PS3. As you say, it's all speculation at this point.
Wat kan je zelf doen tegen jeukende huid en huiduitslag
Ah, didn't realize you were a Fog Creek employee yourself :)
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"Hey, go `like' my status update," is less awkward?"

Yes. Yes, it is.

Not that I think that's Google's problem here, but yeah, "like" is much more natural than "plussed".
I too have been doing some work with meta-programming in PHP (specifically working on a typed language that cross-compiles). PHP isn't completely object oriented...even new functions for password stuff in 5.5 are added as stateless global functions w/ params. At this point, it's not worth it to change the language significantly...everyone knows the mistakes made and they just move on.

As for your project, it's neat. Runtime parsing and handling of docblock annotations can be a tad heavy and cumbersome. Some kind of pre-compiler might be nice. Also, toss your stuff on composer/packagist and you might find https://github.com/phpDocumentor/ReflectionDocBlock helpful too.
Entering Switzerland: "What are you doing here? How long are you staying?" (5 minutes tops)

Entering France: takes my passport, opens it, stamps it, no questions asked

Entering UK: tons of grilling, return ticket, etc, etc

That's with a non EU passport.
legislation that limits interest rates charged by payday loan shops

If the government were a payday loan shop and gouging thousands of independent companies everyday, your analogy would hold water. Till then, this is merely a straw-man argument.
http://status.fogcreek.com/2012/10/diesel-bucket-brigade-mai...
I came in to work and was shocked that Trello was offline since I use it as my todo list in work. Then I read the stories as to why and was again shocked when it was only offline for a day or so. Fog Creek are awesome.
Where is the Apple office?
Expositores
I got to see some intel test boards at one point. They tend to put the max number of ports possible during development to make sure the CPU and bus all behave properly. Adding ports after being in dev is really error prone. Removing ports tend to be easier.
Looks like an awesome tool for the little things that nobody bothers to memorize -- very cool!
They had the smart idea of buying up cheap wireless spectrum right next to GPS that's only licensed for low-power satellite transmissions and using it to run a high-powered terrestrial 4G network, hence the geek appeal. It didn't work for fairly inevitable technical reasons: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/02/why-lightsquared-... (If anything that article's more sympathetic to Lightsquared than they deserve - it's not clear it's even physically possible to build GPS receivers that wouldn't be affected.)
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Your comment doesn't seem "in fairness" at all.

Can you tell me which language is impervious to SQL vulnerabilities? Is there some magic language out there that cleans all external input for you? Pick a language, any language, and you will just about always find that GET and POST variables aren't cleaned for you and rightly so! The language should be a tool to let you do whatever you want and leave it up to the programmer to clean input. Now, if you want to talk about frameworks that's a different story.

You picked one site with one tutorial and based off that have basically proclaimed PHP to be an insecure language. For every tutorial that skips over security or has some mistake or vulnerability there are others out there that don't. The one you chose is in PHP but you can find tutorials in any language with the same flaws.

We all get it by now. PHP is lame and it's cool to bash it. It has a history of being crappy. Fine, we know. But PHP in past couple of years has begun to address those flaws and has come a long way. Now that it's starting to get better people seem to want to cheer for it to fail. No matter how uncool it is it's still incredibly popular even among people here on HN. It's just that they don't like to talk about it out loud because of the stigma it now has among the language snobs.

I mean, come on man. Was this really in fairness or just another cheap and easy shot. An opportunity to pile on.

And to address the quote you mention... the web may still have a lot of those old and awful tutorials but that doesn't mean the community hasn't learned. More recent tutorials and information you find online is much better and the community is far more cognizant of PHPs vulnerabilities and are now using best practices far more frequently. It's always fun to bash PHP but let's just give credit where credit is due. It has taken enough steps in the right direction for it to be worthy of people taking notice.

EDIT:

Also, the tutorial site you linked to is actually quite good. Tutorials are tutorials, not technical manuals. So when you want to show someone how to, for example, take GET or POST input and manipulate it somehow you want to focus on that and not explain every little thing like all the ways your GET or POST array can kill you via XSS or SQL injection. You might mention in passing that you'd better clean your input but unless the article is about sanitizing and escaping inputs itself I don't see why it has an obligation to go into that much depth.
nooooooo!
I wonder how large the power brick will be compared to the size of the console.
Except that's still traceable. It makes it a pain in the ass, sure, but any point where you need to deal with an exchange to get money out is a point where you lose your anonymity. So it's fair to say "Bitcoin can be anonymous IF you have a way to get bitcoins without exchanging dollars for bitcoins, and IF you're only exchanging said BTC for non-physical goods that don't need to be shipped somewhere", but that's about it.
I'd respectfully suggest that what you actually need is a java-based performant web server, whether that's NIO or a threadpool and accept loop.
> Can you tell me which language is impervious to SQL vulnerabilities?

That's not the point. The point is that PHP tutorials/books/best practice guidelines repeatedly and consistently do this sort of thing.

Even "PHP: The Good Parts" spent most of the chapter on SQL without mentioning security until the very last part, where they sort of waved their hands at it.
"I do know a strategy that would have made it succeed because, when I was at Google, I proposed it."

and

"it [was] an enormous missed opportunity"

are not the same thing.
France tells Internet service provider to end ads block
I stole Drew Houston's idea for ideas by carrying a little notebook around to write down things that annoy me; has lead to the beginning of several little projects.
No, it's quite true. Some of the Prescott model Pentium 4's released in '05 supported x64, but the Yonah Core processors released in '06 didn't. That's mostly because Yonah was only intended to be a mobile chip. When it ended up being better in many ways than the Pentium 4 Intel quickly released the 64-bit Core 2 as a successor to both.
I knew what to expect when I turned my Galaxy S3 for the first time and saw the AT&T logo pop up. (Let's not get into the bloatware installed)
That's the post that convinced me to sign up for Trello! I was looking for it to post it, heh. I've been using it for... I guess about 6 months or so... maybe longer, in any case I seem to have the Blue Starfish of being in the first 500 000 users.
Contrast is the root of attention.

Anything can be used to contrast. They chose a picture of a laptop. It's not your standard MacBook Air on a Crate & Barrel table a la ÜberConference.

I think it was smart.

Also, side note: I think it's interesting that we have shifted to default choice as Mac in these images. If you don't show a Mac product, then you're not pumping your brand the right way. That's an interesting observation.
There's one simple solution for that: A hosted version.

Too bad they don't provide that.

I wonder how many versions of FogBugz they will still release as hosted version before they only offer it hosted.
Does anyone know if this is different from the free wifi they provide in their home town of Mountain View? It's so elusive. Always shows a strong signal but is rarely usable.
In N. Korea, Google's Schmidt gets glimpse of Net
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I don't know of any single, relevant Ruby or Python tutorial that does not insist on the importance of using a DB API for secure insertion of data.
Huh. I've been using the older Torque (still 3d, but no shaders) on Linux for years. Anyone know how different these are?
Why keep them in your brain when StackOverflow memorizes it for you?
Fat-Free Framework V3
Is this new version any good?
Xi3 shows Steam Box Piston - CES 2013 HD
Don't pay for good work and then change it: the story behind Wi-Fi
Judging the whole of PHP and its community on the basis of one very poor tutorial is very unfair to PHP and its community. There is a lot of good PHP code out there and successful applications which don't/rarely suffer these kind of exploits (at least no more so than other apps written in other languages).

I'm fairly sure crap tutorials and SQL injections are possible in every language.
ImgPage - upload 25 MB photos to S3 and Cloud Files via email
"Real" List Comprehensions in 24 Lines of Lisp
or why having an extensible reader matters.
Very nice, I'm going to use this. Thanks!
I don't see that happening, partially because it would be very un-Valve-like, and partially because it would be stupid.

Valve, in the past, has pushed for more hardware to be able to play its games, not less. Sure, it started out on Windows, but it's made a very respectable delivery platform for the Mac, and now they're on their way to Linux. Saying, "the only way to play our game is on this one specific piece of hardware you have to buy from us" would go against quite a bit of what they've been doing over the past 5 years.

Also, it would be stupid. The people who are drooling over the possibility of HL3 are PC gamers. People who invest cash in gaming rigs, who probably like building their own computers. Saying, "Want HL3? Now you have to buy our hardware!" would be more or less giving their fans the middle finger.

I expect the Steam Box will be hardware, and possibly a customized Linux distribution. And I expect that if you want to "build your own" Steam Box, you'll be able to.
PHP is getting better and better. I really love this language.
The Next Web is not mainstream media last time I checked...
The problem still remains when you want to aggregate or split funds.

Imagine you receive small payments in 100 different addresses and then want to buy a new computer. If you create a single transaction with all those addresses as inputs, you make a big trace of a single owner of all of them.

I myself not worried about that at all - if you have to hide your stuff from someone, then the problem is not in the hiding techniques, but in the threat. Today the biggest threat is the govt, not some thieves whom you don't want to tell when you go to vacation.
A better way for hackers to promote themselves
BBC News website editor: Five key digital journalism skills
CES 2013: Samsung beats Apple with super-smart voice-controlled TV [video]
Another thing to consider about Mac gaming: since iMacs and MacBooks are essentially un-upgradable and they're not particularly designed for gaming in mind, they tend to age faster than a similarly-priced self-built tower PC (at least for gaming.)

I don't think that's going to be an issue for Linux enthusiasts, but it will be an issue for this "magic grapefruit" they're talking about.
Multiple-Monitor Productivity: Fact or Fiction?
CES 2013: Mozilla previews upcoming Firefox OS mobile software [video]
You guys are fantastic. You documentation is clear. The fact that you all live on the IRC channels makes obtaining information and help super simple.
A few months ago I became unsatisfied with the existing ways that a programmer had available to show their work and accomplishments online. The resume sites out there use the old fashioned resume format of bulleted lists and text descriptions. Our projects should be promoted in a more visual way to give them more credit.

Mycelial is geared towards promoting your hobbies alongside your work, not just the past positions you've held.

I would love to get feedback on this app!
2012 was an amazing year, here's a summary
Hangouts is quite convenient, and I've noticed it's catching on with both regular people and I've also seen sites using it more and more for podcasts or interviews and whatnot.

What I'd hope they improve is being able to watch live in 720p (or at least being able to record it as that for now), but that might not happen until they switch to the VP9 codec, if Google feels such 5-10 people Hangouts in 720p would use way too much bandwidth for that to be worth it. But I do hope they switch to it as fast as possible.

I also hope they can work on making focusing when switching to another person much faster, and imperceptible, unless that's something they can't fix because it depends on everyone's cameras, and upgrading their cameras to something that focuses faster.
I know the ocean is huge, but why don't we (or are we?) send hundreds of micro-robot vehicles down?

> After around 100 missions, during which they spent 400 hours in the cramped submarine, the three-man crew tracked the creature from a spot some 15 kilometres (nine miles) east of Chichi island in the north Pacific.

Because that sounds sub-optimal. Do you really need humans for tracking?
Personally I think the future is cell radios in everything, not a hodge podge of free WiFi networks.
+1 to numbering the incognito sessions. Sometimes I need to simulate two user accounts polling some web service, or perhaps simulate a chat-like environment. Point is: I need two separate cookie jars. I've accomplished this using profiles, or by using my incognito window for "user A" and a profile window for "user B." However, there's less overhead with incognito windows and for development scenarios (which are inherently ad-hoc and temporary), overhead sometimes makes all the difference.
Still if Clojure has higher growth than Scala in people knowing it, but lower growth than Scala in companies wanting to hire people knowing it, then sadly I still have to disagree. Is my logic completely flawed?
This is probably the most correct response. It still bothers me that because GET can't take bulk parameters I either have to use a PUT or spool many GETs (which still isn't as fast as one GET)
You seem not to have read the linked article, which is about one of the CM developers dumping work on one of the GS3 (there are a bunch of different phones labeled with the same name) devices because of unsolvable problems and poor support from Samsung.

Seriously: Buy. A. Nexus. Phone. Almost everything else is going to bite you.
According to the source code (https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi/blob/master/howdoi/howdoi.p...), the answers come from Stack Overflow, searched using Google site search. Howdoi scrapes and prints the first code block in the top answer, or the full text of the top answer if it contains no code block.
A new wordpress.com reader?
Can take a while over a slow mobile connection
Security is important, and I can't say your concern over it is unfounded. But it seems like its coming from PHPs reputation and not PHP as it stands today.

In the edit to my comment above I touched on this. In short, when you instruct someone on how to do something you put the focus on the task and not the peripheral stuff. You may mention it in passing but to explicitly go over certain things may not be the right thing to do. I can totally see any book or tutorial showing people how to do certain things without mentioning security or kind of glossing over them. That's because you want to make sure a person gets the concept first. Once a person gets how to work with GET/POST or do anything else for that matter, you can then explicitly go over security, mention where to look for vulnerabilities, where to use the security techniques etc.

I learned a touch of Ruby and I'm getting decent with Python right now and pretty much everything I've read either completely skipped security or mentioned it in passing. At a certain point security is introduced and by that point I understood the language enough to know where to apply it in the previous examples from whatever I read. I've also been reading a copy of "Javascript: The Good Parts" and it does much the same thing where you get comfortable with the concepts and security comes later.

I think that because of PHPs history of security problems people are extra sensitive to any PHP code they read online and are almost looking for any way to jump up and say "that's not secure!!". PHP deserves that because of how it used to be but things have and are still changing very much.
Awesome. I shoot a lot of photos in RAW and want to either keep in that format or high-res jpeg, its nice that this works with large files.
SplFixedArray tends to use about 30% less memory overalll, based on some tests I did about a year ago with PHP 5.3
Yes, I was trying to say that developing Trello is still really fun, even as it's getting bigger - we are starting to see some minor scaling challenges, but it's still a great time.

But we do use Trello to manage Trello, with a public dev board (https://trello.com/dev) and also internal boards to track things that are not yet public or that are too granular to expose externally.

Uservoice has a neat and somewhat complex setup: http://www.uservoice.com/blog/founders/trello-google-docs-pr...

And there are a bunch of good articles about how people are using Trello; searching for 'How I use Trello' turns up a lot of ideas. That being said, it's not going to fit everybody every time.
I think whether or not passengers in a car pulled over for "driving in an HOV lane with suspected unlicensed passengers" are required to produce valid drivers licenses on demand is pretty important.
Interesting they left 'Portal' off of Valves most noted games.
"The Xi3 splits the core computer functions into three separate, replaceable components--one for the processor, one for external communications and one for video and power management."

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/220782#
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We don't share your information with recruiters, that's part of the proposition as we are a conduit to companies that you decide who to share your information with.

We match jobs to your goals AND to your relevant experience, if we didn't collect information about who you are we couldn't accurately do our part.
8m squid caught on film in natural habitat
Yes, "like" is much less awkward because it actually makes sense to say "I like your picture" and doesn't make sense to say "I plus one your picture". On your second point, I don't think Facebook was filled with geeks, it was filled with all sorts of college students.
And 'like' will probably still be used, even on G+, making the whole 'how do you pronounce +1' really irrelevant.
It may be, in the most darwinian sense. In the same sense that warlords justify genocides.