skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RIM shares rise on report of Lenovo takeover interest
https://github.com/PAntoine/look

There is many, many, many reasons this is bad. Just look at the command line.

PS: It also duplicates several unix CLI functions, just like the project in question.
I'm simply saying that at the moment, either of those would be more interesting than total ignorance.
Preference for youth in tech recruiting (aka ageism)
On #2, it's weird that those crimes seem to fall into minor violations (vehicle related, DUI at most) or sexual (cp, statutory rape, etc.).
It might have some stability issues (I haven't seen anything posted about it with Wine in over a year now though), but if one can get it running, I don't think it would perform that bad.

It would depend on if you wanted it to work with the dx11 graphics or dx9 option. Dx9 is all consoles get so it wouldn't be horrible. The game is also nowhere as graphically impressive as some other PC games (Witcher 2, original Crysis, Deus Ex). Lots of low res textures in it that were not improved when porting from the consoles.

Don't get me wrong, I love the game, but it's a console port at heart and has the side-effects that come from porting it without improving graphically really. It wasn't a game I played for the graphics though and not something to nitpick really.
Globe and Mail runs loony screed against "hackers"
I haven't made any source code public, probably a lot for these reasons. I'm been thinking lately about working on getting a QA management tool open sourced. I believe that the community will be better off if we continue to participate together as a community rather than withholding because we're afraid of getting our feelings hurt.
The most crucial thing that Make lacks is multiple outputs and precise control over execution. When you're debugging/developing a large and expensive workflow, you absolutely must have the ability to say things like:
- run only this step, I'm debugging it
- I've changed implementation of this step, re-build it and everything that depends on it
- build everything except this branch, it's expensive and I don't need to rebuild it that often (example: model training)

Other examples of intractable problems in Make would be timestamped dependency resolution between local and HDFS files. If Make can't look at HDFS, it can't say if the step needs to be built or not. I don't think you can fix it with external commands.

But generally, search for intractable problems is a futile one. Remember, everything you can code in Java, you can code in a Turing machine. :)
Does Morgan Missen have a thing for really really young guys?
Open source Django forum app
Mental Health Startups Are An Untapped Multi-Billion Dollar Industry
They probably could have made this with an Apogee Mic and nobody would have known the difference.

But now he can ebay all that hardware with a signature of authenticity or something and probably make 200% of their money back.

I don't know why more bands don't do that, resell value on good mics is pretty good. Use Kickstarter to buy some mics and preamps and sell them when you're done!
Russia used Julian calendar up to 1918. If that was a date marked in the original calendar, it wasn't 100 years ago "this week".
I assume that "rubbish" or "bullshit" refer to what the other person said, so when you expand that paraphrase it turns out like this:

"What you said is rubbish. I don't agree with you and here is a list of reasons why."

Now, can you tell me what value there is in the "What you said is rubbish" part? Let's go one step further: what do you lose by omitting that part?

Mind, I'm just as sick as the next guy of the whole "we must never be negative", politically correct thought police that has been taking politeness to unrecognizable and unreasonable extremes. Sometimes there are good reasons to be aggressive or less than polite, but "sometimes" is not the same as "always" or "most of the time" or "as often as I feel like it".
I've been wanting to make it headless for a while, just haven't gotten around to it yet.
"First, the CPI overestimates inflation by underestimating the value of improvements in product quality and variety"

As others have pointed out this is very debatable. Especially since CPI is corrected for that already. Also consider certain goods have gone down in quality due to being mass produced instead of hand tailored. "Fresh" produce are more available but often old and stale because they come from far away. Inflation is overestimated on these types of items.

"health benefits, pensions, paid leaves and the rest now amount to an average of almost 31% of total compensation for all civilian workers"

Health care is costlier, securing a pension is costlier (due to low investment returns), more paid leaves are probably due to both adults working in a family which is unsustainable in times of family crisis. This is related to:

"Third and most important, the average hourly wage is held down by the great increase of women and immigrants into the workforce over the past three decades"

So let me get this straight, previously a single income was enough to sustain a family of often 5 or more and now you need two incomes for a family of only 3 or 4 and this dude thinks that makes people feel richer?? Also consider that one reason people don't have 5 kids anymore is that they wouldn't be able to afford them and can't take care of them because both parents have to be working.

"spending by households on many of modern life's "basics" fell from 53% of disposable income in 1950 to 44% in 1970 to 32% today." Is that for median households or is this number skewed by including the super rich in the average? I'm suspicious that this isn't specified. Also this is a complex number with lots of caveats. For a single earner family (remember this used to be sufficient), is this still true?

"Before airlines were deregulated, for example, commercial jet travel was a luxury that ordinary Americans seldom enjoyed."

The fact that technology has made air travel's costs more in line with other forms of travel, doesn't make a person richer. Sure it gives that person more options, and some quality of life improvements if he or she chooses these options. However, if a median worker could afford only a few train tickets a year in 1980 he still can't afford many more train or plane tickets today with his dwindling salary.
People do not want to maintain that stuff. Your comparative advantage as a startup is not running your own firewall.

Nb: I am employed by a Barracuda competitor, but would probably still advise against trying to run things on your own.
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I'm not sure what you're doing (it certainly depends on what your legitimate email stream looks like), but for me, gmail's spam filters are still incredibly good, probably as close to perfect as I've ever seen.

It's impossible for such a thing to be 100% perfect, of course (even your own eyes will deceive you occasionally!), but gmail's filters are good enough that spam is not an issue for me any longer.
as opposed to letting someone who actually needs the financial aid money get access to it ? :/
Aleksey Vayner Has Died at 29
Oops. You are completely correct. I posted the timeline for the follow-up advisory! And it's too late to edit.
Hyperbolic much?
This doesn't apply as neither Steve Klabnik nor Corey Haines are anonymous.
Let me clear up the "basic decency" question for you; bad intentions should be "called out", skill level only needs to be commented on when someone is more less requiring that you to put with their skills. You should encourage people to higher skill levels only after they've asked for the help. Otherwise, they live in their world and if makes them happy, leave them there.

If someone is offering something to the world at large that you don't feel is a very skilled offering, you should shut the fuck up unless you want to seem like an asshole. The reason is both that they aren't hurting you in the least and that if you aren't interacting with them, your ability to judge their skills is going to be limited. Unless they're giving out poisoned candy or something, people who give should be congratulated.

If someone is somehow intentionally annoying, hurting, offending someone else, then it is entirely OK to tell them to stop. Bonuses for being clear and uninflammatory yourself, mandatory if you aren't an involved party.
Oops! This is the correct timeline (the other one is a followup advisory):

2012-11-29: Contacting vendor.

2012-11-29: Sending advisory and proof of concept exploit via encrypted channel.

2012-12-04: Vendor confirms receipt and provides BNSEC IDs.

2012-12-05: Requesting further coordination (conference call).

2012-12-13: Sending reminder regarding SEC Consult disclosure policy.

2012-12-15: Vendor responds - arranging conference call.

2012-12-18: Conference call: Addressing the risks the discovered vulnerabilities pose to customers and release schedule.

2013-01-14: Vendor sends listing of reported vulnerabilities and release schedule.

2013-01-21: Conference call - discussing implemented solutions.

2013-01-21: Vendor provides information about some questions which came up.

2013-01-22: Asking for definitive listing of affected appliances.

2013-01-23: Barracuda Networks releases alert & secdef

2013-01-24: SEC Consult releases coordinated security advisory.
AngelHack's Global Demo Day - $50k + Big A$$ Trophy
I've submitted it here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112777

That submission means no on else can submit it, but if you want to submit the proper URL then reply here to let me know and I'll delete my submission so you can submit it instead. Then you could delete this one and no one would ever know.

You'll need to be quick, though, before anyone replies. It's had one upvote already and I'd be reluctant to delete it if it gets many more - it looks like gaming the system.

Added in edit after 30 minutes: Too late - it's gained traction.
I seem to recall that Sergey Aleynikov was using something like this for his HFT.
This is why we don't program in English.
Congrats Mike and Fred!
Actually, this makes me think... I don't think I've ever given feedback on an open source project.

Maybe I, as someone horrified by Heather Arthur's story, have some sort of ethical obligation to provide constructive and helpful feedback to people. I'm not a great programmer, but I've been at this for long enough to have some useful opinions.

Open invitation for my fellow HN community members: point me at a repo and I'll try to say something actually helpful.
No Willy No Woman's Hour
"Men stand up for women" on Radio 4, whilst the BBC refuses to allow tech women on the programme to represent themselves
Maybe I'm an outsider, maybe I came from a different background, but I don't see how calling out bad code instantly becomes a type of snobbery. The author to me is leaning towards constructive criticism of code, which isn't what we all need from time to time? I don't mind, call out all the bad projects or bad code in my github repo
The lock-in is something the telco is selling you. If you don't want it, don't buy it. You can get an unlocked iPhone direct from Apple.
Idea: Hustler School
Non-technical people frequently approach me to build them an MVP. "Why should
I work with you?", I ask. "Because I'm a great hustler", they respond.

A lot of these people claim to have access to capital, connections,
tons of domain expertise, or whatever. Basically, there are a lot of great
hustlers in the making, but they don't have a track record and can't prove
that they are good hustlers.

I'd like to invert the typical "incubator" process. Applicants pay money,
buy into a company, get an MVP, and hustle.

First time hustlers, this is where I tell you to put your money where your
mouth is. Stop saying "if only i had product, i'd be an awesome hustler"

For $5,000, you get half of the company (an MVP), and operate as the CEO for
3 months. We will agree upon guidelines for success/failure metrics and if
you are the hustler you claim to be, you'll win big.

If you fail, you'll be forced to either recognize that you're not the hustler
you thought you were or explain how/why you failed.

New hustlers wildly underestimate the amount of effort it takes to get
traction, how much unglamorous grunt work there is, and don't have a good
idea of how to methodically test approaches to traction. Many new hustlers
are also often attracted to the glamour of startups but are pretty lazy when
it's not just sitting around and talking ideas.

The hustler's job is to take a mutually agreed upon idea (probably an MVP of my
choosing), and get traction.

The hustler pays $5k, gets a functioning MVP (that he/she agrees to work on),
options for 50% of the company, then hustles:

* write blog posts
* seo that sucker
* create landing pages
* cold call
* pass out flyers
* do logistics for our new food delivery service
* do dishes
* find an office space
* learn about a/b testing
* raise money

or any number of hustlery things.

The "fund" provides guidance on these things, points hustlers in the right direction,
but the responsibility is mostly on the hustler to move the needle.

The MVP is what you get, but obviously I'd like to protect my investment as well, so
if it's clear that further development is helpful or required, we'll do that as well.
The hustler, of course, will have to justify the development cost (You are the CEO
after all).

If you hit the agreed upon success metrics, then lets talk about building your idea.

The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is that if you're really half the hustler
you claim to be:

1. you'll end up with a substantial equity stake in a business I think is profitable
2. you'll have a track record
3. I'll probably be pretty excited about building YOUR product too, so you'll get that MVP you wanted!

Show me that you add value. It's not hard, but it's a lot of work.

Regarding a 5k buy in -- A lot of people will be turned off by this. That's ok. Most
of those "hustlers" will talk about ideas for the next year and get nothing done.

Any hustler that can't raise $5000 isn't much of a hustler at all.

I'll lose some great hustlers with that filter, but I'm willing to give that up for the
better signal to noise ratio.
...and of course even voicemail / SMS are not guaranteed to be seen anytime soon!

[If at all; I know plenty of people who simply never check their voicemail...]
Of course you will feel an emotional response when your code is criticized, and a considerate critic will try to minimize that. But you'd still be the one in the wrong.
Wow, that's a real twist.
Random Story:

Back in the days (I think somewhere in the 90s) GSM service in Germany was still relatively expensive, I remember my cousin brought back a SIM-Card from Finland and used it for over a year back home. Even including roaming prices it was still cheaper.
I agree with you: "rubbish" is the same as "bullshit". It's still saying "what you've said is worthless".

I don't have a problem with it, but it is the same semantics as what started this whole issue - though he does expand into a list of reasons (which isn't possible on twitter).
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>...decades down the String theory rabbit hole.

Where does string theory stand these days?

As a fascinated layman, strings always reminded me quite a bit of epicycles and I've had an impression that string theory had been falling out of favor for some time now.
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A lot of very talented and successful people are successful. Michael Jordan, Linus Torvalds, and Albert Einstein come to mind.

If Linus Torvalds applied to work at your company, would you turn him away?
And why it is so hard to write a good specification.
My stats knowledge is fairly rusty, so I got a bit lost midway through, but here's a side question I've been wondering about, especially given that the linked Miller article talks about the null hypothesis being that the two are equal: how does that null hypothesis fit into these tests? I.e., you have to choose a button, so does it even make sense when the hypothetical employee in that example at the start of the article says "we didn't get an answer"? A .18 p-value isn't great, but I imagine he'd still recommend the green one -- there's much less reason to think the other button was better.

Why not do a one-sided test where the null hypothesis is "A is at least as good as B" and the test hypothesis is "B is better than A"? It seems like you'd be gaining some more power to detect B being better, without losing much since A's safe to choose regardless of if they're about the same or if A's actually better?
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Are you saying you selected your software for the BSD lic, or just that the stuff you like happens to be BSD lic?
If there's any sign of degradation of the HN community, it's the rising frequency of these pointless whitehouse.gov petitions showing up on the front page.
Discomfort Zone: How to Master the Universe
What bullshit? This is about a company (Ribbonsoft) which released their code under a modified GPLv2 licence which removed the 'or later clause', thus making it a 'new' licence which is incompatible with any other GPL licences except GPLv2.

FSF has since created GPLv3, under which all their code is now released, for all GPLv2 licenced code out there which is using the FSF's original GPLv2 licence there is no problem since it has the 'or later' clause. The problem here is that Ribbonsoft removed the (or later) clause and thus making it incompatible with future GPL versions.

And what is this 'tough situation' they are in?
A (general purpose) migration tool written in bash.

https://github.com/zenoamaro/rash

Honestly, I planned to do much more work on it before showing it to someone, like tests (yes) and a real launch script, and then it would probably become less ridicolous. Or maybe not.

But even then, why not? I had fun building it, and I learned a lot. And if there's something in the world that I like, it's a fun toy.
I realize you wrote this quite some time ago, but I hope you're now aware that sh has range built-in.

% echo {13..24}
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
% echo {24..13}
24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13
> if someone can pull up a study showing that prison sentences don't have any deterrent effect over other forms of punishment then I'd accept I'm wrong...

Certainly:
http://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/e199912.htm

This is not some joe-schmoe study either, from the executive summary:
"Fifty studies dating from 1958 involving 336,052 offenders produced 325 correlations between recidivism and (a) length of time in prison and recidivism or (b) serving a prison sentence vs. receiving a community-based sanction."

In particular:
"The essential conclusions reached from this study were:

1. Prisons should not be used with the expectation of reducing criminal behaviour.

2. On the basis of the present results, excessive use of incarceration has enormous cost implications.

3. In order to determine who is being adversely affected by prison, it is incumbent upon prison officials to implement repeated, comprehensive assessments of offenders’ attitudes, values, and behaviours while incarcerated.

4. The primary justification of prison should be to incapacitate offenders (particularly, those of a chronic, higher risk nature) for reasonable periods and to exact retribution."

Summary points 1 and 4 are key: Prisons are not effective deterrence, but they are great tools for indirect retribution suffered by the victim(s).

Also in response to your last comment "I'd be somewhat shocked [..]": There are plenty of things that goes against simple human intuition--that's what science is for. Believe the facts, and disregard intuition.
It's trivially true that an unequal-but-growing economy is better than a more-equal-but-shrinking one. But that's neither here nor there. No-one's advocating radical changes. No-one's saying we should carve up the golden goose because eggs were being 'unfairly' distributed.

It's another hallmark of bad faith arguments to respond to a disagreement-in-degrees as if the other side were advocating extreme positions.

No-one's seizing the means of production here.
Have you ever seen a toddler outside a movie? All the automation in the world isn't sufficient to contain the hijinks of a determined two-year-old.

That said, I'm totally in favor of self-driving vehicles and wish they'd hurry up so I can get one. Containing that two-year-old is way easier when you don't have to concentrate on traffic at the same time!
That makes it genuine, certainly. Maybe even understandable. But does that mean it's valid?
Let he who has never been an asshole throw the first feces.
B2C businesses (like mobile carriers) that require customer contracts and/or other "lock in" tactics are destined to die through market disruption. "Lock in" is an artificial way to increase LTV of a customer. Market innovations that reduce cost of customer acquisition will displace these archaic business models.
If they had left in the 'or later' clause they could still use it under GPLv2, just not _limit_ it to GPLv2, which is what the 'third-party software vendor' decided to do.
You are definitely correct. My post was a little snarky and written way too quickly to get any real point across.

My real point is that, regardless of whether or not wage stagnation has occurred, the "middle class" is not in a good position. Median household income is $52,000. You can survive on that while raising 2 kids, paying rent or a mortgage, and paying for a car if you are smart about it. But you aren't very well positioned to get ahead and you certainly aren't in a position to have a couple of smartphones, premium cable tv on a big flat screen tv, with the newest computers, etc. like we are taught to aspire to.

Yes, there is more tech, better healthcare, etc., but your money goes a lot less far than it did when you could have a single worker earning enough to afford the "same" (relatively) overall quality of life. It's not a perfect comparison by any means, but saying wage stagnation doesn't exist and therefore we shouldn't care about it seems utterly bizarre when you look at what most of the nation has to live on.

I just can't wrap my head around how anyone can look at this article and especially that horrible infographic that the WSJ published and think anything except how out of touch and frankly stupid people are about the reality of our collective situation.
Drugs, I had a brief encounter with methamphetamine in my late teens that landed me a hefty sentence for selling small amounts to support my habit (12 year sentence, though between normal parole time and early release via prison boot camp for drug offenders I served about half that).
That's good.

Do you get to see unconscious[1] biases that cause women not to be hired; to be paid less than men for the same work; to be not promoted?

[1] At best.
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I'm guessing you are just a child or a troll. When you get older you'll realise all marriages and lives have their ups and downs.

If a 'cheating spouse' is the worse you have to deal with you'll have lived a lucky or short life.

Death of loved ones, marriage break ups, losing jobs is life. Get over it. It happens to all of us, this me, me, me mentality that we live in a hollywood movie and just because theses things happen to us it's a world event gets a bit tiring.
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Kids today have no idea what the web and Internet were like in the 90s. The GPL is vital to our freedoms.
I didn't know that, but it's great to learn I can get this functionality on any machine I want. Thanks for pointing it out!
While I'll admit that I was a bit embarrassed when I read your comment, I didn't think you intended to make me look foolish - nor do I really think I did look foolish, just uninformed.

My reply was merely a "mea culpa", and the note about removing the previous comment was more about removing inaccurate information than about saving face.
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