skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very often the original article title assumes the reader is already familiar with a particular context, based on the fact he or she is already visiting the site it is hosted on. This of course does not apply to readers of Hacker News who see the article title totally out of context, surrounded by other articles.

I can see the value in editing titles that excessively call attention to themselves, include a comment by the poster, or inaccurately reflect the content, No one wants the front page of Hacker News to look like a page from Craigslist. The title should accurately describe the content of the article so readers can quickly decide whether to open it or move to the next one. The question asked by moderators should be whether the title fulfills this purpose, not whether it conforms to some bureaucratic guideline. Life is already too much distorted by slavish devotion to bureaucratic guidelines without bringing that mindset to Hacker News.
Judge Rules Samsung Did Not Willfully Infringe Apple's Patents
Actually, this particular one does a lot that pip doesn't do...

It manages dependencies that aren't python packages.

Furthermore, it allows multiple, side-by-side installations of said dependencies in a user's home directory. And it's cross platform.

None of the current solutions can do that... (Even including full-blown package managers, as they're effectively limited to a single platform.)

I'm not saying that pip is going anywhere, but they did have very good reasons for making yet another python package manager.
Ask HN: Let users wreak their own havoc?
Have you ever written a webapp where a more sophisticated end-user could basically edit the DOM and submit some invalid data?

I'm curious how far other developers go to prevent users from "wreaking their own havoc," as a friend of mine called it, as long as it doesn't pose any security threat.

For example, I'm writing an app that integrates with an API. I have a form where I take an API key. Based on that API key, there is a selection of entity IDs that they are supposed to choose from (pulled via the API).

Any non-malicious user wouldn't ever have a chance to enter invalid data. But a potentially malicious user might edit the DOM and enter an ID they don't have permission to access with the given API key.

Of course, the API permission checks won't allow for any future API calls, and the app basically won't work. I'm not for cutting corners, but I also don't want to replicate a bunch of validation checks client-side for users who are trying to game the system.

Thoughts?
funny how that happens...

/me tips his hat to capitalism
As a user I would feel more comfortable buying from a trusted source such as kickstarter because I feel like there is more of a guarantee of getting my money back if the project never gets off the ground
There were three themes they could choose from: vacations, real-time eduction, and meeting new people (more detail here: http://6.470.scripts.mit.edu/2013/competition/challenge).
CalDAV and CardDAV support for Windows Phone coming before the reprieve is over.
I wonder whether a simple post-downvote would be more effective than the existing flagging mechanism
Well there are a lot of unreasonable men, but most aren't as reasonable as Aaron.
For one thing, they should allow anyone who subscribes to develop, especially when it's still in an early-adopter phase and developing for this network is a hobby interest at best until it grows.

It's especially discouraging to developers who might play around with this because they have the time, but now the money, such as random kids.
Hollywood has a programming problem. Why not instead of math, they should talk about programming. Programming is essentially applied math.
Bonobos predisposed to show sensitivity to others
You would seem a lot more professional and trust worthy if you didn't have the word SHIT in your tagline.
It is amazing the ideas out there. A one time use URL... Why didn't I think of that! With the code open source, this should catch on.
OOP and EDP are not mutually exclusive, like someone has already said.
Usually they'll change submission titles to match the original article's title.

I actually prefer it this way. This way, HN is neutral - by presenting the article title as-is, they aren't asserting any opinions on the subject (usually).
Last week Eleanor Clift of Newsweek (put as much stock in her opinion as you wish, she almost always leans left) opined the Second Amendment applied much more to establishing militias to help put down rebellions in the early days of the U.S. (and I do know the threat of rebellion(s) then was quite high).

Personally, I'm not sure yet just how many people share this view that rebellion suppression was one of, if not the primary motivator for that language, but it does weigh on my mind as part of the overall debate, and factors into my weighing of how backward-looking AND forward-looking the amendment was/is.
After a bit of back and forth, here's a working one with a persistent image link and the proper proportions http://jsbin.com/amunug/17 :)
I wouldn't mind a short URL if I know where it's actually going. Also, if Twitter is a hint, it's very annoying :

https://twitter.com/eksith/statuses/273585529415680000
The new ssl pinning proposals work very similarly to ssh. When the user visits an https site with pinning enabled, the browser will remember the server's public key similar to ssh's known_hosts.

You're correct that this won't protect against a MITM during this first visit and will cause confusion if an attacker pins his fraudulent public key. However, I would argue that pinning provides a large net security gain in practice. The same model of vulnerable initial visit but secure subsequent visits is used in HSTS to prevent ssl stripping attacks.
This doesn't seem too bad to me. This message is straightforward, not nasty.
SF and Silicon Valley via the Google Bus
It's interesting, because while I agree with you that headlines like this come off as "fluffy link bait", I'm starting to think that Andrew does this (by design or not, not sure) because tit's the easiest piece of the interview to digest. These Mixergy interviews go way deeper than most I come across, and making a title about "getting over the reluctance of approaching potential users" would not be as attractive, although it's one of the best parts of the Q&A.
This reflects pretty poorly on a country and government which supposedly is trying to shift from a "get stuff out the ground and sell it" to a knowledge economy...
Ah, sorry, should have been more clear: I'm on 2.3.x
What's also funny is that the majority of commenters didn't read till the end...
So what happens when I try to read the email and your server is offline? I'm now stuck with the header that says "Important - Respond Immediately" without any way of getting the content
Because dumber people are using HN now ? Somehow they can make links to bitly but they cannot use the exact same "markup" to link to the direct url. Especially given that there is no markup for url per see, you just type it ...
All that about the pamphlet, not a big deal. But the payments at the end for accreditation? That seems to be a worse offense. Of course, if companies are only accepting applicants accredited by the ACS, they must be missing out on SOME people.
It was also possible in 2010 via the quick access feature in the power tools extension.

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/d0d33361-18e2-...
Ask HN: Does Book on Software Contracting exists?
Is there a paper book or ebook for learning how to do software contracting with all the details from strategies to find clients and legal matters. If you are a contractor how did you learn it ?
Er, no, they're asserting the opinion of the author of the article. That's not neutral at all.
That's the standard, but all those unused accounts still have vulnerable passwords, which is sub-optimal. (This might not matter for discussion forums or something like that, but consider something like your state's online tax site; something people only view once a year, but something that's very important to keep secure.)
"A placebo must match the drug's ... anticipated side effects" --- that's what he is saying too. Placebos are not inert as I had been assuming till date. And then comes the after story...
As much as I enjoyed the blog post, I enjoyed reading through the comments to see folks who offer their opinion without having even read to the bottom of what is a short post even more.
I agree! How about this one: http://i.imgur.com/QwuX5aA.png

Edit: I'm talking about 'awesomeness' of his comments, not 'nastyness', don't take it out of the context pls.
I prefer that the headlines be rewritten. If I want what you're describing, I'd go to reddit.
That' would use up a lot of words in the vocabulary :D
This probably does not need to be announced 'round these parts, but Project Euler is an incredible website. When I wanted to start programming I went out and bought a few books to learn Java. I got the general idea and I could make things happen but I didn't really know how I'd solve problems that weren't in the book. Enter Project Euler. I picked up Python and started working through the problems. As I went, I learned what questions I needed to ask and I got a real sense about how to attack a difficult problem. Sure my solutions were mostly brute force messes that I'd be embarrassed to show off today, but I was solving problems with a keyboard. The feeling of mental potency was incredible and it's what got me hooked on CS. As a bonus, sometimes I'd come up with the elegant solution on my own and it's an incredible feeling. Working for 3 hours to eventually independently re-dicsover Pascal's Triangle and combinatorics was a really enlightening experience.
I believe clean, understandable URLs also help search engines index content more appropriately (and supposedly helps rankings), but with the speed and opaqueness of exactly how indexing works I could be wrong these days.

Edit: I should have said "...of exactly how search algorithms work..."
They were more like DC8s (the 10 was an MD model), and you still haven't cone anything about Incident I.

The main problems with the Scientology flap were that the advertorial was not sufficiently distinguishable from the regular editorial content, and that they tried to keep comments (which should have been disabled altogether for the ad—who the hell opens an ad up to equal-time commentary???) seeming favorable or at least neutral. Poor planning and execution in both cases, but that doesn't necessarily carry over into the editorial (which is still generally good).
I did mention features of English which make it more condusive to being such an archetype (i.e. that computer languages immitate English). I don't think it is the only choice. I think in general that creole languages and their descendants (that includes English btw) have significant syntactic advantages in this regard. The issue is morphological simplicity.

This doesn't mean I am a fan of such languages from a natural language perspective, btw... I am just saying if I was choosing a language to build a computer language based on, I would not choose a language where imperative tenses of verbs might vary depending on number of addressees, for example....

As I think of it, it might be very interesting to look at computer language design based on other natural languages and see what other problems or opportunities come up. For example, I wonder about slot-based polysynthetic languages (like Algonquin). A computer language based on that would have to be fundamentally different from what we have now.
C++ is one.
I never knew the gems were not subjected to version control at all on the server. Can't they put everything into a git repository somewhere?
Nice try RIM :)
Notability was the best; though, I haven't had a chance to collaborate on notes with anybody.
I'm glad that you like it! And thanks for the feedback, I'll definitely be working on how to better hook users on the homepage.

I plan on having a mobile version of the app too, but as I'm still only one person working on the web app full-time, it might be a while before that future mobile app comes out. In the meantime, I hope your current app works out for you!
User-curated annotation of knowledge
No, "an YAML" is grammatically incorrect [0]. It's "a YAML".

What's more annoying: the odd (and wrong) belief that "An green apple" is grammatically correct. [1]

[0] http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1016/do-you-use-a...

[1] http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/152/when-should-i...
I wonder why MS did not make Win8 on ARM fully open to desktop apps like NT on Alpha was.
My impression of the history is that the 2nd appeared at a time of change in the USA. At the point it was written it was clearly an individual right. By the time it got ratified, in some states it was seen as an individual right, and in others it was seen as a right to organize militias.

The legal question about which way to interpret it in the courts was not settled until 2008. Now we have clear precedent saying that it is an individual right, and moreover one that thanks to the 14th restricts state and local government's ability to regulate. See http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us... for the text of that decision if you want to form your own opinions on what it now means.

(Note, I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, etc.)
Senators look to extend ban on Internet taxes
FWIW, I'm only using the term "nastygram" as a stock figure of speech. I didn't find the note I got from pg to be particularly nasty, although I did - and still do - disagree on this particular issue. shrug
so either I smoke weed..

or my body is a cocoon of truths being ripped apart by 'them'?

Well I know what i'm choosing.
The ecomom Family Remembers Jody Sherman
I think the main problem is you need the accreditation if you want to apply to immigrate. As I understand it even if you are from overseas and study at a Australian university you would still need to get the accreditation to apply for a visa.
That's the point. The article title should reflect the author's opinion, not the submitter's, nor HN's.
> It's seems to be like a promissory note of "well if the language conformed to some subset dialect like legalese that could be great."

I don't think it would be great if regular English did so. Natural languages can't do so. If you do that you kill the language. My point is simply that we expect English to be like that and it's good that it isn't, but we can still leverage people's understanding of the language to help people learn programming faster, and moreover when languages do not do this they have more trouble gaining traction.
I am a heavy office 2003 user. I tried Office 2007 and Office 2010. Neither lasted more than a week. The non-standard, non-intuitive and inflexible ribbon ruined Office. It has no redeeming value.

The only reason I can see for the change was marketing.
I think the ACS is irrelevant to most developers working in Australia. I've always had the impression its elitist and/or aimed at IT management.
I think the submission system may auto-change some titles. For instance, I submitted an article awhile back with the title something like "5 Reasons Technology is changing in 2013" and it posted as something like "Some Reasons Technology is changing in 2013."

Not really what you're referring to, but I thought it was interesting.
I think I like the fact that the admins edit titles, but I wish the original title were viewable somewhere in the UI, especially when it gets referenced in a comment.
Largely the same article as this previous one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5060690

The top thread in the comments are somewhat of a rebuttal/debunk: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5062415
Facebook's New Way To Share How You’re Feeling/Reading/Eating With Emoticons
Twitter could make their URLs contain the entire tweet and I would be thankful if they did so, but it doesn't really make sense for them :)
Not if I can help it. They're using the project I work on as their git layer: http://libgit2.github.com/
Doing the standard "guess the conclusion" game with the title, I assumed that it would pick on the devastating changes in Visio (the ERD has gone from the prior weak state to the now disastrous), or the "move stuff around, call it a day" tactic that has been the standard for every Office release. I did not expect it to harp about tablets.

I do not expect Office to work well on tablets, and that isn't a reasonable concern for every application to pander to. A rich mouse and keyboard interface does not carry over to a meat-sausage interface without a profound rethink of every aspect of the interface. We've already seen the worst-of-both-worlds approach with metro, and it simply needs to stop.

I get that people want rich apps on their tablets. But they should be different rich apps that start from the ground up built for this entirely different interface medium. Every desktop app should not be diluted to support tablets, and personally I think that has already been a detour on a backroad that Microsoft has found themselves on.
Facebook is a mobile company now. Are you?
Oh no kidding, water that cold is just something you have to experience.

I was trying to ford a river once, to retrieve a canoe I'd put into a logjam. Had two friends with me, holding one end of a long rope from shore while I had the other end looped under my shoulders.

Got maybe halfway across before the current was just to strong (and I was too exhausted) to keep my footing anymore - it's just unbelievable how quickly being submerged in cold water and fighting against the current like that sucks the energy out of you.

It was all I could do to keep my head above water and kick myself back to shore, I doubt I'd have been able to drag myself out of the river if I'd been by myself.

And that river (north fork of the Chena) wasn't even glacier fed, like a lot of rivers in Alaska are...
I'm was quite surprised (and happy) at the speed this fix came! I was mucking around with C for a few hours today and was elated to see your email! I thought that the original author would be long gone when I saw that the it was created in 2002.

Everything works as advertised now and I've amended the entry. Using your trie implementation cut my memory usage down from ~22gb to ~10gb. I just mapped hundreds of thousands of peptides. Thanks!
Do it right, and use proper validation on both the client-side and the server-side.
A lot of the descriptions of Ayahuasca are similar to mushrooms (everything depends on dosage of course!) Truly life-augmenting experiences.

As a 10 year pot smoker I stopped rather randomly about 4 months ago. I didn't do it for any reason besides respiratory health, and probably wouldn't have changed if I had a good vaporizer. It's fine not smoking but I drink more and find my mind moving away from the broad thinking pot encouraged. I'll probably find a way to balance it in in some way again in the future.

The likes of psychedelics, however, are framing or pivotal events in my life, generally done in the wilderness. My feelings are similar to Steve Jobs... they are incredibly powerful experiences and I yearn to share them with those I'm close with. I imagine I'll be having these experiences throughout my life.
I'm actually quite happy to see this too, I never have a problem with titles here like I do over at Reddit.
Accreditation is common in many industries in Australia, it's basically a huge racket. To legally do any wiring work at all it must be done by an accredited electrician, not merely inspected by one as in most countries. in fact most home improvements of any kind must be performed by an accredited tradesman. add to this the laws that state any home improvement must bring the entire house up to current building codes, it's a recipe for massive expenses that go straight into the pockets accredited tradesman.

This essentially prevents any person that owns older property from doing any upgrades, or major repairs at all, because the massive cost of upgrading the entire house at once is completely out of reach for most people. this leads to urban decay and property abandonment on a massive scale.

with the recent push by parties such as Apple, Microsoft, and Google to have registered developer programs complete with code signing, be very wary of industry wide pushes to introduce a similar thing for programmers. The IEEE has attempted to introduce the idea for years. you can be sure that soon after introduction laws forcing accreditation for many types of positions would shortly follow, as would subsequent rises in membership fees and requirements.

Not to mention the threat of only a certified developer being able to legally write code at all. this situation already exists in many engineering disciplines. with things like secure boot and locked bootloaders and signed code, it is almost a technical triviality.

want to know how general purpose computing will be killed? it will be via initiatives such as this.
haha, it's so great. i am chinese
WhatsApp: Redesign
Chinese Hackers Infiltrate New York Times Computers
EDIT: I made one of my typical decimal blunders - we are paying $0.0018 per megabyte. Big difference.
Exposure of UPnP and Rapid7 Whitepaper on Disabling It.
In a few weeks, "Don't buy Samsung laptops" is what I will remember from this.
New York Times Opens timeSpace Startup Incubator
Mega only knows the file name given, they don't know what is included. Google for "filetype:torrent + windows".
You're probably right but this was a side project we hacked together just to see if we could do it. My partner put it up there and I thought it was funny. We're not taking ourselves too seriously.
This is exactly what I'm wondering. Are there adults in the Ruby community?

The vulnerability itself is simply ridiculous:

https://github.com/tenderlove/psych/issues/119

The response from the Gem folks has betrayed a serious lack of experience.

Has Rails been such an insular and young community for so long that there are truly no qualified engineers around with experience in this level of professional software development?
The bill sounds like a reasonable idea.

I can see taxing purchases according to the sales tax rates of the buyer's state. There might even be a business niche among payment processors, providing geo-location (or customer-provided) tax lookups integrated into a shopping cart service. Paypal and Amazon probably already have preliminary designs sketched out.

Taxing access, however seems like it would take the growth of the Internet in the wrong direction. The bill would prevent this, if enacted.

Dare I say it? Good one, Washington!
The New SEO: Search Marketing Integration
What is the basis for helping Americans over others? I think having the biggest impact you can is the "noble" thing to do.
It seems to me this is one of the key functions of the organisation - to act as a pseudo governmental entity to asses qualification and experience claims relating to IT.

I believe it also exists to provide a framework around CPD (continuing professional development), but I'm not sure how relevant this is to our industry.
Service outage -> Stock down. Not surprised!
Moving from commodity based, bricks and mortar investment focus to an abstract, information industry innovating mindset is a huge paradigm shift for most Australians. It has unfortunately been popular mantra that banking, real-estate, commodities or finance-oriented (to fund commodity) business is the bread and butter for a happy, future-proof life and not easy to break. Many people have done well under that mantra, by island standards. To put it another way, as a country of very few people, those with the power to control the narrative can, and do so, in servicing that agenda. It's shameful. John Howard's pontifications of Australia 'punching above its weight' were a painful misrepresentation and yet many continue to buy into such impoverished thinking.