skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've misunderstood the post. There are jobs available to work on "big things" and there are jobs to work on "small things". Job advertising provides a really nice set of domain specific data to work out why people are more likely to work on the "small things" then the "big things". Jason's concluded that from the data they have available that they can see that people find geography to be more important to the job they choose then the satisfaction from working on the "big things".
You and guynamedloren clearly didn't read past the second heading. The point of the article is that geography is one important factor for why people don't work at jobs that matter.
For people who like ruby but think irb sucks, there's pry (http://pryrepl.org/), but it's still missing some features.
Looks like I'm finished work for the day! Time to go home
People use C/C++ like you ride on the streets and freeway - the sign says 65mph max, yet everyone else is on 70. Just don't go too much over it.

Laws are the be broken, and C/C++ is the wild west in this respect - cowboy programming is welcomed.

And I love it :)
Researchers Identify Molecular Switch Enabling Cells to Better Fight Disease
Sorry to steal your karma! I just saw this and got too excited
I've seen a lot about mapbox recently and I must say I'm very impressed, love the design of their websites in particular and of course their product seems to be pretty cool. Have any of you guys tried it? I might give it a go the next chance I get..
No, it won't, both their primary and secondary DNS are resolving it with SERVFAIL.

Pretty bad...
Dangit, I did that and discovered that I prefer Arial! I think it is (slightly) easier to read; it also seems more relaxed and fluid, less unnecessarily squared-up.
Stop giving them food and financial help. A difficult decision indeed, but what we are doing currently is giving just enough for the current regime to continue working forever as it is.

Should the population go poorer than they are currently, they may revolt on their own in an unprecedented scale. Or the regime will take progressive reforms to allow of bit of capitalism to pervase in their society and slowly change the economic landscape.
We discussed length preambles vs markers when we designed the FAST protocol 8 years ago. That time we made length preambles optional (there are two "modes"). The nature of the FAST encoding made it impractical to use markers even though it would have been entirely possible. This time around we decided to use length preambles. Blink focuses on encoding short messages, so streaming works well with preamble. We expect bit-level errors, disconnects etc. to be handled by a lower layer.
Rolf
This may be a confusion of terminology - I've always thought "Middle America" referred to middle-class, suburban America, as opposed to the Midwest in specific. If I've misused the word, my bad.

I grew up on various derivations of Wonder Bread on the West Coast, FWIW.

I've lived in a bunch of different places, and invariably good bread was only to be found in relatively wealthy areas. I suspect though, sanity in baking returns once you get rural enough.
For me, it much like how I treat my Inbox. Act on it - file it, store it, delete it - just do something with it. I've been able to keep a clean desktop (nothing on it) since 2005/2006.
In most endeavors you can divide people into roughly two camps – those who talk shit and those who bring the shit. You happen to be talking shit, in a domain that you (presumably) have no experience in. Add to that the angry, hyperbolic tone of the post, and the fact that you offer no suggestions whatsoever as to the marshaling of Internet tech resources towards something as unrelated to the skills of most Google employees as Diabetes research, and it's not hard to see why people would be dismissive.
What a worthless reply you posted.
Wouldn't it make more sense not to buy from Starbucks if you're going to take a stance and instead from another coffee shop rather than switch from one branch to another two blocks away... Sure, that particular branch will end up making one cup of coffee (or whatever) less than the 60th branch but effectively Starbucks ends scoring the same.

To be fair, a bad employee is not representive of a whole company and Starbucks probably shouldn't be punished as a whole but we "vote with our wallets" as they say and surely there must be a non-starbucks place nearby.
Geography is an insufficient answer. I didn't realize there was confusion or speculation, possibly even on the part of raganwald, over why most economic activity is useless: obviously capitalism doesn't primarily select for usefulness. The fact that somebody could read raganwald's "Why The Fuck?" post and think there was some answer other than "capitalism" is beyond me.
> Also, cell phones need fobs.

And, since they already have calendar functionality, there's every reason to look at one while running and yelling "I'm late! I'm late! For a very important date!" while going into a hole in the ground, by which I mean a subway.
They said "they believe, but cannot prove". That is inline with their "Can't know" lines in the past.

Just because the system doesn't allow them to identify sources , is not the same as saying sources are unidentifiable through any means... else the allegations against Bradley Manning would have never occurred.
Online activists and exemplary punishment
Ah, that perfectly explains it; sorry for failing to notice that variable. :( (I was actually quite prepared to be told "actually, there isn't much money in those things", and had thereby been in the interim researching the market size of things like "weight loss"; I've been quite shocked to find out that, globally, it is only about three times as large as the market for "smartphones".)
Mega hits 1M users after one day as Kim Dotcom officially launches the service
Strongest evidence yet to there being life on Mars
This is related to the recent "Why the Fuck?" thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5088815) and is something I wrote a couple of years ago
Nobody thinks a regular expression will prevent someone from signing up with an email that doesn't exist.

If you absolutely must have valid email addresses the only sure way is to make them confirm it with information from an email sent to the address.
superuser.com - DOWN

stackoverflow.com - DOWN

serverfault.com - UP

cdn.sstatic.net - DOWN

Purely a DNS issue

dig stackoverflow.com @ns3.serverfault.com # (authoritative DNS)

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> stackoverflow.com
@ns3.serverfault.com

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;stackoverflow.com.	IN	A

;; Query time: 400 msec
;; SERVER: 69.59.196.217#53(69.59.196.217)
I think he meant that not knowing the leaker's identity meant one can't construct/examine what someone's motives might be. He didn't say anything about (believing) a leaker's claims.
Down for me, oh well!
I use Ubuntu, and Window Maker (my preferred desktop environment) doesn't have a desktop in the way the default Windows shell does.
This is entirely plausible and I would like to see it come from Wikileaks itself. It's worth noting that Applebaum is of course not famous just for his association with Wikileaks, but many other projects before 2010.

Also, Twitter successfully fought the court order to seal the federal requests for Applebaum's twitter contacts. Was Aaron Swartz's name found among the named associates of Applebaum?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20027893-281.html
As far as I know, they get stock (as part of the investment), not salary. Most Series will probably include at least a lead investor on the board.
Hi Rafael! Assuming you're Venezuelan, you're the only one (beside myself) that I've seen in hacker news. I'd be interested in chatting about what you're doing and your view of Venezuela's situation. Please email me (find email in profile). Cheers!
ease of use. It is a much nicer syntax to use when authoring message specs. There are equivalent XML and JSON syntax variants for Blink schemas for those who'd prefer that.

Rolf
I dislike that OSX automatically saves screenshots to the desktop rather than the Pictures folder, but the line of thinking here makes a lot of sense: if you're going to use a file immediately, it should go straight to your desktop; your working area.
I think one obvious point is that the minds dedicated to increasing ad clickthrough generate the revenue needed for other great minds to embark on projects like self-driving cars, glass, and, you know, only indexing the entire internet.

Also, not everyone on the planet is interested in becoming a doctor. People have different interests. The ones who are not people who want to solve those problems, instead support the economy that allows people who are doctors to do their work and make scientific advances. To simplify, if we were all capable of working on these things, and we all did so, it wouldn't be any better because we'd all die from lack of food, because none of us are doing menial things like being farmers and cashiers.
Why the fuck does everyone always throw plastic beads in the air, drink tequila and eat catfish? Oh, wait, I'm on Bourbon St. in New Orleans.

Just saying it's easy to make generalizations based on the people, places and industries with which you're familiar. While I agree that too much emphasis is placed on ad-related tech careers, it's a cop out to say that engineers aren't finding important solutions, some of which improve the lives of people with disabilities. Other commenters mentioned Google Flu Trends and driverless cars, which are both great examples.
Hacker News was also briefly down a few minutes earlier: https://twitter.com/mattquiros/status/293220235702566913
I store stuff there, then periodically push it off elsewhere.
It seems likely that when sbp releases the contents of Aaron's hard disks on the web, we'll be able to read his correspondence with Julian, and perhaps see what other help he gave WikiLeaks.
The real irrational fears come from folks that see a cluttered desktop and worry that "all those files are slowing down my computer".
At the very least this seems like an incentive to get a bit more organized about files. I've been finding that my workspaces (namely stuff in Dropbox) have been getting messier and messier.
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Looks like their stack has finally...overflowed.
We're on it. We're having DNS problems.
I feel that Jolie O'Dell had a more eloquent rant on the same subject:

"However, more and more, I am royally pissed off that so many bright engineers, good entrepreneurs and capable venture capitalists are throwing resources into problems that no one really has. They’re creating “bread and circuses” in a digital format — apps that are wildly popular, infinitely entertaining, and exactly what people want.

The only problem is that they don’t really do anybody any good. They’re not doing what technology is intended to do: Solve problems."

http://blog.jolieodell.com/2010/10/07/bread-and-circuses-the...
But deferring the error means the implementation does not work equally well: it sacrifices safety. When a programmer tries to combine strings X and Y that are incompatible, it's because he misunderstands what X or Y actually represents. This misunderstanding is detected when X and Y are brought together, but that doesn't mean it can't also have corrupted upstream code that also uses X or Y, just not together. This upstream code never gets a chance to run if the downstream problem is detected at compile time. But, if you only catch the problem at run time, after the upstream code has already executed, that corrupted upstream code could have launched the missiles. Run time is too late.
That's only a fraction of the costs involved. For one, today’s diabetes patients are tomorrows alzheimer patients.
Is there anything we can do? I'm sure there is, I just don't know what. Ugh.

Not really, they are armed to the teeth. The West tried once as you mentioned and if we try again, Seoul will probably be leveled in minutes and untold millions might die in both sides. The West had much smaller countries to liberate and did jack.

When you are, by pure randomness, lucky enough to be living in a part of the world where these horrible acts are distant enough to barely register on the press radar, reading about these things do seem unfathomable, almost fake.

They are hundreds of millions that lived through them in Eastern Europe so it's not new. Maybe NK is a bit harsher but the same principle applies.
Yeah, seems like ns3.serverfault.com was SERVFAILing its own record, so now that it has timed out all serverfault domains are down.
My misunderstanding I suppose :)

Edit:

The bread gets better because when all you can afford is the materials to make bread and your time is cheap, it becomes worthwhile to optimize that process. (Sie poor)

If you don't have the surplus value to allocate to making bread, but your time is still too "valuable" to allocate towards making better bread, you eat crap bread. (Middle America)

If you have surplus value to slosh around, then fuck it. (Rich peeps)
I beleive Skytech should hire this bloke for a "and they lived happily ever after" story. It's essentially a win-win for Skytech.
I think the point is inflation increases the money supply, while debt remains the same. Individuals make more money with less buying power, but can pay off debt easier.
To be honest, if I want to work with files, I'll use a file manager -- a program ostensibly optimized to do such a task. I also heavily favor Gnome Shell, which doesn't display anything in the desktop folder by default.

When I'm working on Windows, very occasionally will I save to and work from the desktop, but honestly, I've found the Downloads folder on both operating systems has replaced that purpose. I basically now use Downloads as a temp folder/cache for stuff I'm immediately working on and/or plan to discard. This is also regardless of whether I've actually downloaded the file I'm working on, sometimes I'll put stuff in the Downloads folder from my SD card, save a file to it I eventually plan to delete, etc.

Downloads in my use case has replaced the Desktop and has almost sort of merged with the "recycle bin" metaphor, but with a little more permanency. I'm curious if anyone has a similar workflow as me.
Interesting - those fertilizers also caused the demographic explosion that let Germany leapfrog France in terms of population (from parity to a 60/40 advantage).

They also drew the war to an end. Germany didn't produce enough fertilizer and was dependent on imports, which England successfully reduced to a crawl via blockade. A prolonged inability to feed its citizens broke the will of the nation in a way that feeding men into machine guns never quite managed to do.
You are, but ignoring things and people never visiting would be worse.

Worse for the regime, yes. They need foreign currency and need to spalsh famous faces on TV "XX came to our wonderful country and was surprised at...". If you think that Erik Schmidt or his daughter know jack about NK and how life is because of their visit, I have a bridge...
Having just seen the Van gogh exhibit in Amsterdam, currently on display with lther important impressionists in the hermitage in Amsterdam, I appreciate this too- he started painting at 27
the license is essentially a statement that the Blink specification is and will be entirely free to use. There has been a lot of discussion re lock-in and we wanted to be clear about our intentions. Implementors are obviously free to choose their own license terms and we may find that some will prefer to use GPL or LGPL, rather than BSD for contributed code.
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What facebook is doing here is similar to back when the bigger search engines got in hot water for mixing ads into search results in various shady ways (recall Paid Inclusion programs about 10 years ago, see http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2004/07/64092 ). It did not benefit the user and generally created confusion and a poor user experience, driving many users to try Google for the first time (Google never had Paid Inclusion that I can recall).
Even aside from the fact that he was acting in good faith and did not cause any damage to persons or property (as acknowledged by the software vendor), the procedure used to expel him is woefully lacking. I sat on the highest student discipline tribunal at my (Canadian) university and an expulsion for non-academic reasons - which had to receive final approval from both the President and the Governing Council - would only be recommended in cases involving egregious and likely criminal misconduct and only after the courts had found merit to the allegation.

Furthermore, any student faced with potential expulsion would have been entitled to a series of quasi-judicial hearings and assistance in preparing their defence. To expel someone for non-academic reasons from a publicly-funded institution (which Dawson is) should not be taken lightly and surely never in a fashion where the accused is not permitted to present their case.
Shame on the faculty! Fire the faculty! I am sure this sort of thing wouldn't fly in France. Looks like Quebec is letting down the Fracophone team. Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité!
I would consider Iceland innovative, 81% of the country runs on renewable energy, making energy ubiquitous
More recently, he spoke at CES about the lack of ISP competition (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/vint-cerf-interne...). Hopefully this appointment will give him a chance to put internet infrastructure issues back on the table.
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Thanks.

> being an anonymous organization

It isn't. It has a very public and (quite deliberately) accountable director who has made several detailed statements about the purpose and goals of the organisation. Several of its staff are also well known but that's not the important point. Also, the statements themselves have a distinctly altruistic character and they stand, like a declaration from any group of people, independently from the personalities involved.

> but that's something we have to take on faith

As one would with an individual. What ulterior motive? I'm willing to accept that the organisation's actions have at times been questionable in terms of effect. But to say that its aims are not altruistic is a different kind of claim altogether.

> As for being benign ... Wikileaks' most famous alleged collaborator is in a military prison

I see; you're working with a definition of 'benign' as 'harmless' rather than 'doing good' or 'doing more good than harm'. So the test is whether anyone was harmed as an outcome of the work done. If you can't see the harm in Swartz's case I don't know what to say, especially when you mention Manning as a victim of leaking.

If we go by the second definition, 'doing more good than harm', which I think most would accept as being more reasonable, then I think the US government's statements about the harmlessness of Manning's leak[1] coupled with outcomes such as the Arab Spring shows (and this is a fairly low bar) that there is no stark contrast to be drawn.

> But they had necessarily different paths.

Whether Swartz was involved in Wikileaks work isn't really in question here. The question is whether there's a moral distinction between the different entities' goals and actions ('altruistic' and 'benign' being unavoidably value-laden terms).

I find it impossible to agree with you about that but I appreciate you taking the time to make the case.

[1] http://www.theweek.co.uk/us/wikileaks/43110/white-house-said...
F# scripting  for bigdata
Ask HN: Is CPAN all that good?
I keep looking into the language wars and I believe perl is a crappy language for many reasons and anytime anyone says that all the perl fanboys reply is "CPAN", is it really THAT impressive?
Sincere question though, I imagine the linking too the pre-req cs198 Standford course work, that even doing, e.g. Udacity intro to CS101, Learn Python the Hard Way may be too "light" of knowledge to sign up.

Should I try and gear up C++/burn through as much as possible of:
https://cs198.stanford.edu/cs106/
(I did some C++ in highschool YEARS ago, but was mostly a mIRC script kiddie).

In preparation for this course to be valuable to a non-coder (that's learning), like myself?
Maybe, but I hope Ahmed is more ambitious than to work for a company he condemned for "sloppy coding"...
Clearly the negative reputation Dawson CEGEP has should be applied to the administration, and not the students.

What a clusterfuck. Since when do CEGEPs expel students for running security checks?
I am typing this on a Toshiba Z935 that shipped with Windows 8. Wasn't a terrible pain to fix that (Quantal now), but if I had wanted to dual-boot, it did look like it would be more of a headache.
That was a humorous half-truth. The full truth is a lot more complex and rich with personal details that don't need to be shared with people on the Internet.

We could make up lots of good reasons for not moving though. My parents are sick and I need to be near them. My wife / girlfriend / boyfriend / life partner has a job / sick parents / other commitments where I am. The US won't let me into the country for any number of completely idiotic reasons even though I'm not a criminal (visas are hard). I have a personal objection to the TSA. The point is that for a lot of people moving very very far is legitimately either not an option, or not a very good one.

(the humorous half-truth stands though, at least the store bought stuff I've had when I've been over there. Bread should not taste like sugar...)
In recent months, they've made this available as "zinc" or something and it has been integrated with Maven.
There really needs to be legal protection for acts of white-hat hacking like this. Both protection from prosecution, and protection from reprisal. This kind of stuff isn't going to stop happening unless the act of finding and reporting a security vulnerability becomes legally protected behaviour.
I love the part of the story where the guy naively assumed that it would take his school less than two days to fix the vulnerability. In reality, would probably take them months.

How long did it take sony to fix their issues? Oh, right, it took someone to explose it publicly. Heh. It's unfortunate how broken some IT organizations are and that they would rather kill the messenger than fix things.
Good idea. Will update the page text to include this in our next revision.
What is your Python Budget
I found something like this at my school. The administration reacted similarly. But fortunately, I was taking djb's Unix Security Holes at the time, and a harshly-worded note from djb to the Computer Center folks ended up getting me a thank you.

Next semester, though, I refused to sign the new AUP (which included a clause allowing the computer center staff to seize any computer I was using, even at my off-campus home), and they kicked me out of school. (Actually what happened was they locked my course registration account, and wouldn't reinstate it until I signed the policy in their presence. I refused.)

(Sadly, I can't find the full-disclosure thread for this bug. I guess I posted it to my blog, which I deleted after being threatened by school administrators. Oh well. That was 9 years ago!)
Right, the idea is a survey course with links for depth. Many of these are areas you need to have at least some familiarity with at the inception of a new company, and they really aren't taught well (even at a survey level) within academia at the present time. This is a first step towards remedying that; hopefully more in-depth courses will follow.
FYI: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com

e.g http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/stackoverflow.com
sudo defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Full/Path/To/Folder