skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I've never seen a McDonald's close down."

Fewer people will see one close down than you might expect; the ones that close down are the ones that not enough people go to, so only small numbers of people see it close down - if lots of people were there to see it close, it wouldn't be closing.
It's definitely my intention to. At the moment it's a bit of a hodge-podge, but it's definitely on my to-do list to release it as a properly packaged (and tested) rubygem.
I agree, the big hype is paying off for them because many people looking into their code for free just to show how wrong they are but at the end they can fix these and then the criticism will not be true anymore. After the community "fixed" their front-end code they should open source the back-end too so they can get feedback on that too. After that the only thing that users should trust is that they will not alter the fixed codes.
Depression is not sadness.
I FUCKING HATE FACEBOOK AND THEIR WORLD-OBLITERATING WEBSITE. PLEASE MAKE IT STOP.
That's a pain. Here in Europe I've got a cheap voice/data plan for 6$/mth; if/when I start hitting the 2gig cap then I can switch to 10$/month for unlimited. I do have to pay full price for the phone(s), though.

You really need to get some functioning market competition in USA telecommunications, it seems nonexistant.
This might be of interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7pkyDUX5uM&feature=yout...

Theo de Raadt(OpenBSD founder) explain the importance of "Release Engineering".
Not really valid, a steak is already dead and no longer suffering.

An animal that's been raped still feels pain
You have every right to not consume any food at all.
Clark Benson
They sound like 5 year olds.
What I got from this is that the code is intended to be set up so you don't have to trust the CDN, however due to an error in the way it's coded, it turns out you do have to trust the CDN. Given that CDNs are reasonably trustworthy in the absence of government intervention, I expect that Mega will fix this before there are any exploits.

It's good work by fail0verflow, but as long as Mega addresses it soon, I don't think it's a big deal. In fact, it's a good test case for how seriously they take this kind of problem.
Mobile Web vs. Mobile App debate is OVER
> I know the perfect way to gain 100% employment outlaw all farming machines, but you can see the flaws in that solution.

The capitalist system requires a reserve army of labor so 100% employment cannot coexist with the capitalist mode of production. The only reason outlawing farming machines could allow for 100% unemployment is that it would replace the capitalist mode of production with the foraging mode of production.

> True the people that put up the money and took the risk of engineering innovative ways of doing things better see the largest benefits.

The people that receive the most benefits are the capitalists who control the means of production. Our most talented engineers are being exploited by the capitalists, so they aren't the ones receiving the benefits of production. Some capitalists might just so happen to be engineers but that is not the basis of their social relationship to the means of production.

> The "working class" needs to realize that the nature of work is changing and the assembly line education we were all feed is not going to cut it in a fast pace economy we are living in today.

With this statement you are taking the elitist position that us workers need to be told what we need to "realize" and that we deserve to suffer because what we are doing "is not going to cut it." Workers are in this precarious position entirely because the capitalist class has undeserved control over the means of production. The workers should take control of the means of production and use it to satisfy human needs rather then profit. With communal ownership of the means of production, automation technology will benefit the entire race rather then a minority of greedy capitalists.
Governo italiano boccia gli studenti Erasmus in politica
Not the OP but it should be (and generally /is/) illegal to be cruel to animals even if you're going to end up eating them. Pain is much more morally questionable than death; I'd vastly rather simply cease being alive than have some horrible suffering inflicted on me.

That we don't seem to care about enforcing those laws is one thing but simply saying "cruelty is illegal and rape is cruelty" doesn't sound inherently incompatible with eating meat.
Now take a step back and think why someone would make a video at all.

So people copy that behaviour, right?
A Liter of Light (Simple solar lighting for poor communities)
Right, but in McDonalds case, the parent company isn't the one operating the franchises most of the time, and the franchises are almost always small companies privately held.

So you don't get an accurate look at how the average McDonalds franchise operates.

Other businesses have their earnings obscured by different sources of retail, or inexact expense breakdown.
"Is there a way to post this on digg" -2007
Dat shit cray.
I don't have any experience with the US system, but I've heard similar things. In fact, when I started reading this article I assume the author was talking about the US system, so I was quite surprised to see it was in the UK system that she was referring too!
A Tumblr from the International Space Station
If the distros continue to have their "app store" feel, where you get apps from distro maintainers as a trusted provider, then vaildating the barest amount of security and usability for programs uploaded to their archives would be even more of a chore. It would also tax bandwidth and drive space, FWIW.

Windows got/gets away with it because they provide the OS and a few apps, and says, "go to download.com for all your needs!".
This is nothing new: In the 20's Ulysses, considered by some to be the greatest novel in the English language, was banned for obscenity in both the US and the UK for decades. As long as people keep getting offended, people will keep banning things. It sucks and it's wrong, but let's not forget that the past was not some golden age where everything went without question.
Chart me a path from the privacy settings dialog in the header to changing the visibility of individual "likes", such that the average user can prepare to hide from random strangers when Open Graph Search goes public.

I dare you.
I don't know if the thread starter is just trolling, joking, or just a time traveler.

Update: Seen this on Reddit. http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?13608-Help-on...
13 years this time! I think he's a troll.
The proposal is to keep LTS releases - but lose the interim releases. I assume after an LTS release you'd be given an option "upgrade" to the next LTS testing branch which give you updates until it that LTS is released.
ES6: My Favorite Parts
Quitting Facebook is really not that big of a deal. You won't become a social pariah, an outcast or loose all your friends because you cancel a website account.
While I completely agree that we can't stop progress and automation, our economy is built on the fact that most people work and make money. Unless we move towards socialism for the basic needs like food and shelter (which I personally am ok with), we're looking at a huge population of unemployed starving angry idiots, very very soon.
i feel the same way about Celery.
Well, in Germany, Belgium, Denmark and Sweden you can [1].
Germany even has a pressure group for it: Zoophile Engagement for Tolerance and Information - ZETA. (I think they could give NAMBLA a run for their money as "worst membership to put on your CV".)

They're taking the idea of "a nation of animal lovers" rather too literally.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20523950
Actually, it's not implemented yet!
It appears the book glossed over what actually happened. Jobs worked with a number of alternative medicine con artists, to no result, obviously. Obsessing doesn't work when the methodology is wrong, and alternative medicine is the wrong methodology for treating serious medical problems.
I'm not sure if they were being intentionally vague on how the deduplication works, or just bad at writing, or writing for an incompetent audience. It didn't seem clear based on what they said how it works.
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To clarify I think moving towards the Windows approach is precisely what Linux needs. It rightly shifts responsibility away from the distro to the app maintainer. This is not incompatible with the central-sourced model like "apt-get install x"; there could be some central list of non-core packages plus 3rd-party download links that is hosted on a Canonical server. App developers would push their updated app information to that list, and everyone using the OS benefits without having to wait 6 months for Canonical to curate the next edition of their clockwork galaxy.

I'm just spitballing here but the point is that theoretically we could still have something apt-get-ish and not rely on Canonical as the curator.
What zxcdw said. :-) Also, my previous post has typo, should read "IMHO FB is not currently an appropriate platform"... damn what a bad typo,.

The thing is, Facebook could be better by allowing members to invite outside data to flow into their feeds from chosen sources, and providing more freedom with data-exchange in general. Enforced segregation is costly.
There's so much potential in this industry, when making burgers, pizza and cocktails are done to a high standard with machines, ordering is done on terminals, it could drive the costs down for social venues in the cities and leave human staff to focus purely on customer service.
The whole article is written about how the author wishes productivity to be, but doesn't go into analysis on how the world actualy works, and why.

These are completely unrelated things.

Wishful thinking won't make every wannabe programmer able to create every product. For a real life example, google for the articles on people failing fizzbuzz-test when applying for programming jobs. The distillation is used to separate "non-programming sheep from programming goats".
> The only difference is some of the tech companies have realized that happy employees are good employees.

I wonder if it's even that positive, or they've just realized that, in the current Valley employment climate where many people have alternative employment options, happy employees are the only not-quitting employees.
I've seen Quizno's and Subway sandwich shops close and Wimpy restaurants but never a McDonald's, KFC or Burger King.

I've seen plenty new ones open but never a closure.

This is in Glasgow, Scotland.
Wow, the pessimism.

I did my PhD and now have a tenure-track position. I can relate to all the obstacles described in the post (except for discrimination - at least in my country, if you want to find racist/sexist/homophobic employers, you'd better go to the private sector, not academia). And it's good for people considering a PhD to know that it's not a bed of roses. It does require working long hours for little or no pay, with unclear goals and little feedback. It is a lonely pursuit, requiring you to make an effort to keep your social life.

But what about the thrill of discovering new things? Of treading new territory that no one has seen before? What about the moment where, after thinking about a problem for hours or days or weeks, the pieces click together and you say "I got it"? What about the pride of getting accepted at a top-tier international conference/journal (depends on your field) and getting feedback directly from the most prestigious researchers in your field? What about the satisfaction of seeing your papers cited by other people that are using your research and finding it helpful? What about the pleasure of going to bed every night knowing that you are working to further human knowledge, rather than to further the profit of some corporation that often may do more harm than good?

For me, those rewards of working in research are much more important than the disadvantages pointed out in the post. Sorry if this sounds a bit condescending, but I suspect that the author of the post just didn't have enough vocation for research, or she wouldn't have such a negative opinion.
Actually, Germany has recently (2012-12-14) changed the animal protection law to sex with animals illegal.
Parents can disable Safari (and other browsers all have 17+ rating).
I don't know whether it's the forum owner messing around with people by changing the times or this guy is legitimate. Either way, this is hilarious.
Agree completely if the goal was to provide encrypted storage. However, as noted in other comments, this isn't actually the goal. The goal is to create a plausible legal defense against legal threats from the RIAA and similar.

If the encryption is done on the server side, Mega can legally be required to make a log of all copyrighted works uploaded to their servers and be liable for distribution. If the file is encrypted before it is uploaded, then Mega cannot physically store a log of copyrighted works. This is pretty major as take-down requests can then only be sent for a single upload. The most that could be done is for a court to publicly order Mega to cease and desist, at which point everyone can move on with no legal liability.

This is a piracy platform, not a genuine secure storage. It's fairly clever.

Sidenote regarding comment below:

I live in Africa, I'm not sure who I trust less out of my bank, the police, or Mega. Probably not Mega!
A lot less impressive when you know how its done.

The bottom reply and the original message aren't from the same person. Hijacking accounts on phpBB and vBulletin is easy because of all the security holes and forum admins not updating.

If you want to troll people for lols, you find an old posted message that wasn't followed up, hijack that account and then reply.
Maybe the fact SOME programmers even work the Zetas. Unless, that is, you don't consider "copyright piracy" worse than drug trafficing the way the Zetas do...
Catmull and Lasseter are the main geniuses behind Pixar. Jobs came in later and provided a lot of money to keep the dream alive (which shouldn't be underestimated) and apparently did some amazing negotiation with Disney but the initial spark of genius came from those two (and many other talented people they worked with).
I don't think eating live cows is legal. Once they are dead I suppose you can legally do anything you fancy (apart from producing some some sort of bio-hazard or disturbance in the neighborhood).
Falling Games
Change the title OR the text.
This was an interesting article about the cool things he did.
Steve Jobs was involved in this work but this is NOT what this article is about.
Although I disagree with the verdict, I couldn't help but snicker at this part:

> "The jurors in the trial, as is the case with all obscenity trials, had to sit through Isaac's films to determine if they merited any artistic value."
Is this really a debate we want to have on Hacker News?
Just a small warning about starring things: unstarring items by pressing 'y' from the Starred list (including bulk unstarring) is one of the operations in GMail that doesn't have an 'Undo'. So a key sequence like 'gs*ay' will remove lovingly-placed stars from a lot of email with no way (that I can find) or reversing the operation. So don't do that.
In a particular way that happens to solve the problem at hand.
EU-wide mega-Leveson 'needed' to silence Press, bloggers
Why do you think it has been hijacked?
I went to UW, one of the toughest public universities in the states. Depending on the class, our grades were almost exclusively determined by finals, but some classes (like physics) had mandatory labs and homework, which you did but they didn't help you very much (they could definitely hurt you) since the classes were heavily curved anyways (i.e. dog eat dog). Physics was also a big weed out class for engineering like Chemistry was for pre-med; 30+% of the class was expected to fail, and many more probably actually failed!

I actually found in-major comp sci courses to be EASIER than the pelim courses I took before I got into the department.

To be honest, I've heard that UK universities were easy, even Cambridge/Oxford, compared to some of the tougher US universities. But I really have no clue!
Darpa shells out $194m for 'phase 6' of STARnet chip project
Could just take debian/ubuntu, remove all library dependencies from all packages and recompile them statically i guess. Not really sure if it's worth it. There's nothing stopping you from running something like debian stable and then manually downloading and installing things like Firefox, which is exactly what you would do on windows.
There is no judgement on this case yet. As far as I know people are still considered inocent until they are judged guilty. And that is without going into all the shit that went on during the Megaupload story.
PlusNet Tests IP Address-Sharing As IPv6 Fails To Take Off
The Ultimate UX Design of: the Sign-Up Form - Designmodo
A typical sign-up form contains a couple of form fields (it seems like the most popular number nowadays is 3: e-mail, password and a peculiar “repeat password”) and a button.
Well, the store has a search bar that returns web-apps of any category. But these web-apps are meant to be installed. Some web-apps will be the same as navigating to a mobile version of a site, but many web-apps are developed to work offline.
Because this is a civil suit so the DoJ has no jurisdiction over it.
2. Do not use priority inbox...
3. Do not use push notifications for incoming mail on your phone.

I do both of these, but I have my phone set to only notify on priority inbox and I only use priority inbox for family.
Big Data about to bottom out, says Gartner
We just added GitHub to our Firewall Unblocker for Hola, but we don't know if it's working. Can you check it out and report to me? Just install from Hola.org our Windows client > hover over the Hola tray icon and click Hola Unblocker. On this page choose GitHub from the Firewall Unblocker, and let me know at steve@hola.org Thanks! If it works, start telling your friends! BTW Hola is totally free! Thanks!
One wonders at what Tim Cook regards his true purpose with the "magic wand of CEO"?
This is almost entirely CEO-misdirection.

At any stage CEOs / founders throw their weight around in a mosh pit of entrepreneurialism. If someone they bounce into falls over or steps back, they know they are onto a winner and push harder. Get thrown back and they bounce randomly in another direction.

This sort of threat is common - it is useless to imagine it might be a potential partnership, there is no gain in it for Apple, it is just pushing in a mosh pit - push back then concentrate on making great products - the only thing that counts in the pit.
Yes I do but when I joined facebook I didn't realize they would create a super search engine to easily sort and categorize all of their users' data for more efficient targeted advertising. They sell likes, they have my friends sponsor ads they've never sponsored, they used 5 of my friends pictures to try to manipulate me into not deleting my account. We aren't their main customer but are there just to be targeted. Sounds like we are being used.

This graph search is just the last straw. It is terrifying the repercussions this search engine could have, and I believe this blog post shows some great examples.
Just like reading a mystery book :)
It is my understanding that artificial insemination is a very common procedure in modern livestock farming, and therefore one could argue that livestock farming for human consumption already encompasses rape at industrial scale.
Facebook Is Recycling Your Likes To Promote Stories You've Never Seen
If the DOJ takes it over it can easily be a "non-civil" suit. It is "civil" because the tech members decided to file a case. Even if the tech members did not file the case - the DOJ (or any other appropriate organization) should have picked it up to champion fair employment policies. You don't always require a common man to be the plaintiff. The government (or any other appropriate organization) can themselves be the plaintiff just like the Swartz case. This clearly highlights the inconsistencies in the legal system.
This appears to be the first actual vulnerability in Mega.

Of course you still need to be able to MITM a 1024-bit SSL connection to make use of it.
Fry machines exist already, but the big point is that it makes sense to robotize as soon as you replace a whole staff position. If you have devices that can replace the whole "kitchen backoffice" and only have the front cashiers/servers, then it makes sense to do that. If some critical task (burgers or fries) requires the kitchen guy to stand there - then it's not useful to automate the rest, since savings are minimal.
Looking for somewhere to go that hasn't been photographed and u/loaded to the net?

Try the north east central parts of Western Australia:
http://confluence.org/region.php?id=90

This scenic spot:
http://confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=-21&lon=126
is only 443 meters from the Canning Stock Route and surrounded by confluence points that haven't been photo logged.

(Warning: attempting to visit these locations w/out proper preparation and experience can easily result in death)
Somewhat related:

One thing that's always somewhat of a surprise to me is that as genius as a marketer as he was, Steve Jobs wasn't terribly eloquent. It's something I first noticed when watching his Stanford speech years ago and continued to pick up on throughut his various keynote addresses and leaked emails like the one in the linked document. His sentence structure was typically one-dimensional and vocabulary simple, which is probably why he was such an effective salesman -- he was easy to understand.

Being a strong, effective leader usually conjures up images of people who are prolific writers and great orators, or Bill Clinton-type masters of persuasion, but Steve wasn't any of that.
Question: How can I display data tables more creatively?
I am building a user admin. Typically to display information to users, I would use a datatable, but I'm looking to do something a little more visual.

Pinterest is an example of something I am trying to do. I would display high-level info and then they would click on the image and show more details.

So I have see this masonary presentation of Pinterest. Are there some other forms of visualizations like this? I see Pinterest and Mashable have a similar look. I was wondering how other companies are presenting similar ideas with different looks-and-feels. I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thank you
Oh, my Android apps are not as good as my iPhone apps, but they have about 70% of the functionality, and cost the lowest price you can set in the Android store, whereas the iPhone apps go for about $4 to $5.
By 25 days of profile reading, I think you mean 2 days of writing a scraper and 10 days of tuning it? The rest being spent letting it run, reading hacker news, reddit, and your friends' facebook updates.
To be clear -- neither of these vulnerabilities is likely to cause much damage in the wild for anyone who has installed the new version.

Applets don't run anymore unless you explicitly click through to authorize them.

If you aren't expecting your game to run, etc., you click "no".

I'm disappointed about all this (particularly since it's on its way to destroying my side business, which relies on applets), but I'm also frustrated by the reporting -- Java applets are still more secure than ActiveX used to be, right? There's a sandbox, and now applets won't even run at all without explicit permission from the user.

That's pretty close to "don't go to shady websites and install software they offer you" at this point.
Text Blur effect with CSS and JQuery