skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why aren't they selling off the campaigns, users, or other assets? Just a complete shutdown?
Show HN: My weekend hack: Zeittracker.
Worked on this last weekend. Allows me to track time for clients. Figured out it may be useful for others as well. Feedback appreciated - any features I should add?
How about we look at some actual numbers:

Harvard economist George Borjas, himself a refugee from Cuba in his youth, explained the basic mechanics of this in his 1999 book Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy (Princeton University Press, Princeton).

Overall, immigrants, including illegal aliens, modestly increase the Gross Domestic Product [GDP], by several hundred billion dollars per year (against a GDP of about 15,000 billion dollars), but most of the increased output goes to the immigrants themselves.

However, the economic presence of all those immigrants does boost the aggregate income of the native-born population by a few tens of billion dollars—relatively a very small amount if we estimate, consistently, that the natives' aggregate income would be 14,700 billion dollars if the immigrants weren't here at all.

However again, that small immigration-driven boost in natives' aggregate income encompasses redistribution among us natives from labor to capital amounting to something like $200 billion per year, because the presence of immigrants lowers wages for labor.

http://www.vdare.com/posts/immigration-and-inequality-1
There's also Gavin And Stacy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AZxRBMECQU (I can't believe I didn't think of this sooner!)

For the non-English readers, the two girls are Welsh, the two boys are from (if I recall correctly) south Essex (a suburb north of London).
This is likely about Twitter getting creepy. Every online advertising company is worried about the growth of the mobile environment, because it's harder to do all of the tracking that they're used to on those platforms. There are no cookies that follow you across apps.

The cookie equivalent in the mobile world is the SDK. Rather than scattering your "like"/"tweet"/"follow" buttons all over the web to track users' movements, you embed your SDK into everyone's apps to do the same thing.

If you are currently a Crashlytics customer, think about how much information is being transmitted to Crashlytics from your app, and what Twitter is going to be able to do with that now.
Rdio, Spotify, iTunes… all written using html web views and none of them are fast by any stretch of the imagination.
Since they appear to search some set of available online job listing sites, its clearly a change in the mix of listings at those sites -- but it doesn't even necessarily mean a change in relative number of tech jobs to other jobs available (much less a tech crash). Simply a burst in non-tech jobs being more widely posted to different job sites (or new job sites that are non-tech oriented being added to indeed.com's database) would produce this effect.
The war in Iraq was not won since nobody knows what the goal was.
The JSON parser backend changed between 3.0 and 3.1, and that's what the vulnerability was in.
What a beautiful blog post. I think too often we lament the anonymity of the internet without understanding that there are some serious upsides, too.

It's almost like a social Turing test: A good person is someone you identify as such based purely on messages written on slips of paper and passed under a door.
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Rails does this already -

bundle update (if gem version is set with ~>)

You could easily automate this (cap,puppet,chef) if you have a lot of installs. If you genuinely don't want to test updates, you could run it on a schedule.

What it doesn't do, and can't do, is guarantee that security updates will never break your app, but they do quite a good job of isolating them, you do have to do some testing. There is possibly an argument for lts releases which receive few new features and focus on bugs, but what you're complaining about here are really the complexities of running multiple web apps/servers, not something a framework can really help with.

I don't think you have to worry about this update if you have already updated tho latest anyway (which you should have done if on 3.2.x).
It's probably a good idea to subscribe to rails-security.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/rubyonrai...

I probably wouldn't allow a production app to update itself without human intervention.
Urban Heat May Warm Faraway Places
own3d has not been paying streamers for a few months[0], and there was recently a public backlash against them.

[0] http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=393...
clearly they are deriving value from connecting and sharing with their friends and family.

Which they would be doing anyway if FB didn't exist. FB to them is convenience, nothing more. Many of them probably think that FB is "the Internet", just as many AOL users thought that in the 90's. They are only "connected" inside the walled garden; they have no idea of all the things that are outside it.
This is a ridiculously hard issue to discuss, especially with anyone who identifies with a group they feel has been victimized. Which can stretch to almost anyone these days.

The only thing I wanted to add here is that the article & subsequent discussion seems to be about whether or not it's acceptable for men/women/other to be judged based on anything except their competence. I think that's what can make this topic tricky - because companies, in my (admittedly limited) experience don't just hire based on competence.

Most people would think it was acceptable not to hire someone because they didn't "fit" with the company's culture. Maybe they were a jerk, maybe they were hugely arrogant, maybe they didn't shower, maybe they showed up in a three-piece suit to your shorts and flip-flops interview, whatever it is. So really this whole discussion ought to be about what things are acceptable to discriminate against to determine "fit" and what things aren't.

Which I think requires taking a look at what it means to assess someone for "fit" - because I can see how easy it is for "attractiveness" to be a part of that definition. So should it not be? What should - and on what grounds? I think the discussion becomes subjective quite quickly...which is what makes it all so hard to discuss.
Technically ray tracing refers to both eye-based versus light-based ray tracing. Eye based is most often used because it tends to be faster excluding some minor effects like caustics that are easier to generate from the light source. Though complex scenes may benefit from bidirectional path tracing, which is a combination of both.
Cohesion and Big ActiveRecord Models
This is the worst possible option and I strongly recommend you minimize your dependencies on your OS package manager; if possible, build your web server from source too.

You need to be prepared at all times to deploy workarounds to newly disclosed security problems. Package managers can and do delay fixes to accommodate the lowest common denominator of users. You cannot run a high profile application and be at the mercy of whoever is administrating your OS package manager.
Fighters Intercept Airliner After Report of Sleepy Terrorist
Witness Ross Noble's stupendous sunderland accent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nHg6hDiRQQ

Sunderland is about an hour away from newcastle.

EDIT: Oh gosh and there are some amazing clips from a local radio phone in show in norwich here: https://soundcloud.com/voices-of-norfolk/sets/radio-norfolk-...

This lady is particularly endearing: https://soundcloud.com/voices-of-norfolk/nancy?in=voices-of-...

Here's a recording of market traders in london with cockney accents, and some jamaican I think: https://soundcloud.com/london-sound-survey/brick-lane-market...

That soundcloud account is full of field recordings taken in london, lots have distinctive voices in them: https://soundcloud.com/london-sound-survey/wembley-cheapjack...
They used a different json parser in 3.1. The switch to the different json parser wasn't because of this vulnerability.
Times of India interviews Jason Comely of Rejection Therapy
I tried out Adbrite last year for an ad placement at footer of one of my websites because I couldn't put any more Adsense on the page, it wasn't too bad but it was nothing compared to how much Adsense generated. It was still better than Clicksor and Bidvertiser. The thing I didn't like with Adbrite was that they had too many "spammy" advertisements.

http://i.imgur.com/ZvN347V.png
Let's talk about Graphite
Advice to a PhD student
This sounds really familiar. Like... someone else did this same thing about three or four years ago, based on the same sort of need. Am I just imagining things, or is this an old post?

Edit: wow, I managed to find it. It was right here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2222522
The same can be said of a whole bunch of people, from black hat SEO guys to arms dealers and from social gaming psychologists to the guy in his ice cream truck.

That has nothing to do with how one rates the impact of their business on society and our lives.
As long as you're using a reasonably good deploy script (capistrano, moonshine, Heroku, etc) you shouldn't have to worry about updating gems on your server.

Most deploy scripts will look at your Gemfile.lock and update if necessary during the deploy (or just run bundle install every time, which won't give you a locked version error if your Gemfile.lock matches your Gemfile).
SELECT * can be very bad, Postgres 9...
But that would increase prices for programming work to the point where some projects simply would not make financial sense. So there would less projects and therefore less non-programming jobs associated with those projects.
We're not short of people who want to work at Stripe, we're short of the bandwidth to identify the best ones.

And so we focus on those we know to be good. Some of them live outside the US; some grew up outside the US and now live here; some are US natural-born US citizens. We're performing a BFS of our personal networks. Sometimes, visas get in the way.
Commenting on Aaron Swartz's Death
Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?
Your own suggestion overlooks the unintended consequences of what happens right now.

Right now the people become slaves of the companies they work for because their immigration status is tied to their companies.

You think its the option between not getting exploited and getting exploited by the university, but in reality its the option between getting exploited by the companies which sponsor work visa vs getting exploited by the university.

Finally, why can't you leave the choice on the people themselves, you're helping the immigrants in anyway by not allowing corporations or universities to be able to hire them easily.
Nah, their first bug is - gaming on PC is still alive and kicking.
Bret Victor: Drawing Dynamic Visualizations seminar
A second, follow-up point: If car makers have worked so long on driverless technology and made so little progress, what is Google doing better? I've seen the driverless cars in action, they work very well (though I elected not to leap in front of one).
What NoSQL database is vulnerable to this flaw?
While I don't think cheaper precision milling will ever build an environment where making a watch is a whole lot easier, I do think it's already driving an environment where building a mid-volume independent mechanical watch company is much cheaper.

I don't think we'll see individuals CNCing movements they download online anytime in the near future, especially due to the skill and practice required to simply assemble a movement even once it's designed and machined.

However, the falling price of commercial-scale high-precision CNC is already causing changes in the industry. Comparatively small brands like NOMOS are able to bring manufacturing in-house without raising their cost to hand-machined levels - a move which can be attributed directly to cheaper precision milling.

Swatch's ability to phase-out ETA ébauche sales and the growing popularity of Asian clone-movements as well as Sellita's production ramp-up can be attributed directly to cheaper precision milling as well.

I suspect that horological innovation will increase in the next few years as smaller companies are able to manufacture interesting movements at scale without charging the hand-made costs that independent watchmakers and haute horology brands have demanded in the past, and the ETA phase-out leads manufacturers to consider in-house production over ébauche purchase.
Facebook Chat is just their private server of an open protocol (XMPP). Unless the client specifically prevents you from doing so, you should be able to use your own server just like you can with e.g. Pidgin.
No regret. I tried out AdBrite once and when I wanted to cash out the $130 I had earned back when I was a student, they told me they couldn't pay me out because they hadn't received the money yet, and that was that. Nothing I could do. This was 6 months after the pageviews in question ran, so it's not like they didn't have time.
YAML (or JSON) parser bugs are not related to convention over configuration.

You are free to dislike Rails design, but you can't blame it for some vanilla parser bug.

Parsers are fertile ground for bugs, because they are by definition exposed to arbitrary input.
VMware to cut 900 jobs
I disagree. A preprocessor doesn't
1) transform the entire document
2) doesn't fully parse the input document
that is exactly why the c family on languages has such difficulty with modules: they are hacked on with a preprocessor and aren't part of the language.
Proof-of-Concept exploit: https://gist.github.com/4660248
Open Source owes you everything and nothing
Anecdotal, but in my experience smart girls are uglier and cute girls are stupider.

This is verified by comparing 2 groups: nightclub girls and science research nerd girls.

As a group the nerd girls are uglier on average, because there are several severely plain nerd girls, though an individual nerd girl may be very attractive.

As a group the disco girls are stupider on average, because there are several severely ditzy disco girls, though an individual disco girl may have brains.

I believe the reason for this is that it takes effort to make yourself attractive, just as it takes effort to make yourself smart, so there is a trade off.
I think it's fantastic that you're here, freelancing and making money. Under the age of 14, though, I think US companies could potentially get into legal trouble hiring you. Under the age of 18 there are laws regarding maximum hours and what hours you can work (so not to interfere with school, etc).

I would agree that you should be paid based on your skill, though, not age.
Or indeed, height/attractiveness could be (almost certainly are) correlated with self-confidence and assertiveness. Which is obviously something of a chicken/egg thing.
Thanks!

Adding backticks to the code spans is set in my CSS: http://mwunsch.tumblr.com/post/15836468477/espresso-tutti-co...

It was a stylistic choice to show off the markdown itself.
Aaron Swartz Memorial at the Internet Archive [video]
I was nodding my head until about half way through.

Thinking that I could apply this logic to client side storage was fine until he proposed that persistance would be automatically handled by Backbone's ajax.

At that point, backbone gives you less flexibility for more code. No thanks.
Checkout the lengthy write-up for the original vulnerability.
http://ronin-ruby.github.com/blog/2013/01/09/rails-pocs.html
Widely used, not yet.. but meet http://concurrencykit.org/
It wasn't just Nintendo guns. I remember that all toy guns switched to ridiculous colors some time around 1988. If I recall correctly, it was a new safety law; the police didn't want to accidentally shoot some kid playing with a toy gun.
I feel compelled to include a link to Roy Baumeister's "Is There Anything Good About Men?": http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm. It is possible that there are fewer women in the upper echelons of business because evolutionarily women didn't have to take as many risks as men in order to reproduce. So men are biologically programmed to take risks, and either spectacularly succeed or spectacularly fail. Hence there are more male CEOs, but there are also more male homeless, for example.
Well, I have some unfortunate news for you: to my knowledge, not one single Facebook Chat app allows this. There is no market. It is beyond wishful thinking to expect Ubuntu to turn this around.
I do the same sort of queries but just use the search keywords feature of Firefox - so that's surely even faster as DDG isn't acting as intermediary to interpret the search request and redirect.

That said I think the competition DDG has provided the other search providers has been a benefit to me.
I contribute to the documentation [1] for the Fluentd oss project [2].

I'm not sure how general my situation is, but in my case, a few friends were starting a company [3] and they had open sourced their log collector. Their initial team didn't have the writing skills / bandwidth to maintain great documentation [4], so they looked in their circle of friends to find a few people (including myself) with strong writing skills and a decent technical background (I work full time elsewhere).

The current workflow has developers writing the core / original documentation, which is then edited by more writing-centric people like myself (I edit heavily!).

One thing that might help, is to add the writer-friend as a committer to the project, even though he only writes documentation (this is the case for me). I think it helps with the obvious motivation issues, and also sends a message to the project at large that the project leadership deems documentation to be just as (or nearly as) important as the code itself!

[1] https://github.com/fluent/fluentd-docs

[2] http://fluentd.org/

[3] http://www.treasure-data.com/

[4] The CEO used to work for RedHat, which apparently treats documentation as a vital piece of their product. I remember him saying, "the documentation really is the face of a technical company".
There is a flaw in your methodology. You are comparing a group of preselected smart girls with a group of preselected pretty girls. Neither is a representative sample of the population.
It's pretty hard to find an Android phone running only free software.
Betaworks 2012 Annual Shareholder Letter
You are correct, it's frame based, not scan-line based, I was thinking of the super scope.
They're very big on polish and claiming to be awesome, but it's all smoke and mirrors and gamesmanship.

Drill down on a crash for example: https://d1f4seebrc9wq7.cloudfront.net/blog/wp-content/upload...

All the information provided at the top is done with great attention to beautifully rendered icons, and it's all totally useless for diagnosing a crash report.

This is supposed to be a development tool, not an advertisement.
Cary Grant was born British and lived in England until he was 16.
>They were also well connected enough to get an early version in front of Jack Dorsey

I wrote a post about this phenomenon here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5049409. I call it the "magical introduction" in my post, I quote:

"....all the media exposure and growth opportunities that naturally follow all as a result of a magical 'introduction.'"

Sadly, "magical introductions" often get in the way of the best products rising to the top, or even having a fair shot to begin in a lot of cases. Vine is a perfect example where a product was acquired by Twitter before even launching, but as a result when Vine launches it is instantly dubbed the "Instagram of Video" in every news outlet. See the Google News search result for Instagram of Video.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws...
Ask Freeman Dyson, he might surprise you.

[1] http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2151

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html?pa...
Go The Fuck Home
Yes. It's trivial to defeat. Proprietor reports that he can't keep them on the shelf.

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2011/01/12/airport-scanner-blo...
You can use go where you use python, ruby and maybe some of the things that get done on c++.
But not being C friendly , and with a GC.. for the things people still use C and C++ these days.. probably even if you want to use Go, you wont be able to..

If the guys from plan9 just get the Ken Thompson C compiler from plan9 and changed that C just a little bit, taking care that a plain C header could be added to that code the same way we could do with C++

only then, it would be possible to "just use Go"
(plan9 C can be used with gcc using "fplan9-extensions")
I don't mind it so much when British English speakers take out the 'r' in words. What bugs the hell out of me is when they add the 'r' in places where it doesn't belong. Why they do this, I have no idear.
Of course to test the theory the attractiveness should be judged based on their appearance at about age 22 and the judgement made by men 5-15 years older who were making the hiring judgements at the time.
Google have some instant answer style results now (eg search "barack obama"). I'm not sure if they're a result of DDG's work on "instant answer" but it looked that way from where I'm sitting. Just general industry development though I'd guess.
Point 4. is a bit ranty... who's brainwashing themselves? Western People? Who dey? Western People == FoxNews? You kinda lose the point on that one alone...

It's a simplification to say that the renaissance started in Muslim Spain. The understanding of it being an Italian-led phenomenon is consistent with the fact that its height was certainly in the Italian city-states. But the renaissance was a process of re-discovering learning as Byzantium fell and the knowledge accumulated by the Roman empire drifted back to the West. Much of that knowledge trickled back via Muslim lands because that was the geopolitical reality of the time.
I'd forgotten how random Ross Noble is.

> Sunderland is about an hour away from newcastle.

Not even that. Newcastle and Middlesbrough are about an hour apart (just down the A19); Sunderland is less than half the distance away.
For the same reason their are so many blog-posts about Apple and converting people to using mac or iOS.

Many people (myself included) believe that the native platforms (iOS, Android, WP, and others that are coming) lead to technology complications in the long-run. The walled gardens wind up being bad for consumers if they want to switch platforms, and needing to write apps for multiple platforms is more challenging than tweaking a web app for the different browsers.

I believe native has it's place, but I also believe that 90% of native apps use and require no native capabilities.

I remember when we moved from installed software to the most important tasks being web-based, and that was very good. Instant updates, try without installing, no installation times, users didn't even need to know that something changed, etc. etc.

I believe we've taken a step backward with the native app stores, and if it weren't for marketing hype, most people wouldn't care about apps, and in fact many people don't really understand the difference. I also believe they don't need to know. A users shouldn't need to consider if they are installing an app, or using a web app. What is the method of providing the service to the user with the least overhead for you and them. What is the best experience. Does the difference between native speed outstrip the convenience of web delivery?
"I don't think we'll see individuals CNCing movements they download online anytime in the near future, especially due to the skill and practice required to simply assemble a movement even once it's designed and machined."

This was precisely my point, i thought the OP drastically underestimated the skill and knowledge required to understand how a watch works, modify it and put together the new improved DIY version. However it seems that the OP thinks personalizing a watchface makes you a watchmaker.