skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Children 3 clicks away from explicit material on YouTube
lore.com uses Flask for their product.
Please: it's some_other_crap.py.
noise: this is why sealed rubber/noise cancelling headphones were invented. Only needed occasionally, but when they are, they're a lifesaver.

(My personal favourite for these is on a crowded tube ride after a long day - they allow me to zone out and stay relaxed!).
RC4 has no known practicably exploitable weaknesses and is well supported, insofar the “ancient” is actually working in its favor.

That said, if you know as much as you do, you don’t need that article and can fine tune yourself. It’s for people who want a compatible and secure SSL setup – which it is.
I think there is a huge opportunity for Dell in the private cloud space. They may not innovate on technology, but they could certainly innovate with new business models using emerging technologies like OpenStack.
These are neat, but the last paragraph of that article sums it up.
I wanted to say that I'm really overwhelmed by the love you guys are giving Hacky. I actually thought it would be either ignored completely or bashed to the ground. ;) You rock!
Browser Awareness Day: Encouraging Users to Upgrade Their Browsers
I was just going to comment on that photo. Clever and meta. It reminds me of the homies that show the price tag on their apparel.
List of 32 free online programming courses (MOOCs) with feedback in Feb 2013
Here's a link to domain name generator covered by TC.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/need-a-new-name-for-your-we...

Startups start with some innovation, usefulness and gradually builds upon it.
I am typing this on my smartphone. Obviously I accept some risk as well. I suspect we would agree that our acceptance doesn't make it less of a risk. I don't think that my acceptance such risks makes the petition any less of a trivial distraction from the broader and more serious issue.

Oracle is not the poster child for spyware.
Fitting that the article should end with the "best tool for the job" defense. This argument seems to be used almost monotonically to justify poor language and design choices.

This move is bad for the GNOME project as it has the potential to knock the quality of new GNOME apps down to the quality of the average web app. They're robbing themselves of the benefits of native development and, due to their GNOME-specific APIs, not even getting portability in return.
More integration and more control over the "ecosystem". Standardisation of the development "platform".

Things that used not to belong in Gnome - it used to be a Desktop Environment with no more pretences than that.
Wow, that's fascinating. I'm completely surprised and impressed that you're going to revamp the home page. It's a bold, original and meaningful step. I'm sure you understand the depth of my acquiescence when I state that this -literally- superficial change will do a lot to upturn your institution's misanthropic history.

And, might I add, there's not a thing wrong with you in believing that the complications of your system are what's wrong with your company. I hope the brilliance of this initial step continues to shine on all the wonder in the long career of GoDaddy.com.

Finally, your website is great, but if you please, I need the app version.
What?! Is Amazon giving away money to people to spend on apps, to encourage developers? or it is just to kick start people buying the coins for actual money? or I missed the point?
Why? (serious question; I really don't understand why that would be important to you or anyone)
This clearly is a US embargo compliance

At this time, edX is holding certificates for learners
connected with Cuba, Iran, Syria and Sudan pending
confirmation that the issuance is in compliance with U.S.
embargoes.
Background image made it too hard to read page. Terrible design.
I don't know many six year olds that would have no issue with that description. ot's reply clears things up nicely, but again, I doubt to the simplicity which you are suggesting he needs.

Besides, I read sarcasm, not snark.
U.S. venture capital needs a reboot
One thing they mention in the video discussion of this article ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ue1pcNP6FQ ), which is not in the article, is that many investors are not able to get their money into the top tier VC funds. Yet these same investors have diversification strategies which compel them to slot a percentage of their capital toward venture capital. So many investors wind up giving that money to lower tier VC funds, many of which lose money.
A Tasty Slice of Geek History: PBS's "Silicon Valley" to Debut
| One society is a communist government, that will
| presumably accept anyone provided that they tow
| the party line

You do realize that if you fail to tow the party line your entire family gets sent to a concentration camp (even if they were all towing the party line), right?
I can see this killing a whole lot of time at work lol
Honestly, this is pretty much a "because we can" thing, other sibling replies to the contrary. It is cool and fun, and the resources dedicated to this are a pittance compared to, oh, say, the amount of computational resources applied to playing pretty 3D games.
One thing they mention in the video discussion of this article ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ue1pcNP6FQ ), which is not in the article, is that many investors are not able to get their money into the top tier VC funds. Yet these same investors have diversification needs which compels them to slot a percentage of their capital to VC. So many investors wind up giving the money to lower tier VC funds, many of which lose money.
Do offices actually have anything you could really call "training" for this sort of thing? The way I see it working is they come into the office one day, an IT guy swaps out their computer, and they flounder for a few days. One person figures out a few things and they become a crutch for everyone else a few more days until everyone has the new sequences of keys/buttons memorized (as that seems to be the common way of using computers). That's how the Office/Ribbon rollout seems to have worked anyway.

You lose productivity, which can be converted into dollars in the case of a business (not so easy with a non-profit generating government I think), but that's about it.
Correctly value your startup job offer
I don't like the patronising tone of your comment. However, I do want to encourage discourse. So if you're genuinely interested in helping people understand, try rephrasing your comment to not imply that five year olds should be conversant with linear algebra.

PS: Now that's a snarky tone. My original comment was merely lightly sarcastic.
I'm not a fan of the type of discourse that believes things are either black or white and can't imagine a shade of gray.
As a newly private company – now more firmly under the control of Mr. Dell

Can someone explain what, exactly, has been preventing the CEO and founder of the company from doing what he thinks is best. Is it just the threat of being fired (like Steve Jobs)? By the "board"? Will that threat disappear?
CSS has a mechanism for defining rules in such a way to abrogate the need for variables. I see far too many people using CSS classes to refer to one or only a handful of things, by a strict hierarchy of the layout of their page. In that case, you're almost always going to run into problems with extremely verbose CSS that repeats itself. But it's completely wrong, it's not how CSS is supposed to be done.

If you need a bunch of objects to, say, have the same background color, that's why you can chain selectors. Your common background color would then only be defined in one place.

CSS doesn't have to be complex to get complex results. I would call a CSS file any longer than 200 lines a bad code smell.

As for browser-specific rules, in my mind they just plain don't exist. Add in an intelligent reset rule-set at the beginning of the file (and no, not one that destroys the margin, padding, and display rules of every single element, but only resets things as needed) then you can easily make completely cross-browser UIs.
You said some insightful and interesting things there, but two things in particular are most striking: 1) You have no choice. 2) You don't know about new technologies. I sense a potential roadmap for you here! Start learning, build something to show people you've learned, and start looking. Whenever you feel trapped, you're becoming obsolete. Don't be a victim, be a conqueror.
I'd vote for replacing it with Mono.

Modern VM design, vastly superior flagship language, pretty solid on the side languages* too, better platform support (Thanks Xamarin!), and best yet it's Free. Like really Free, not Oracle-style "Here's the source code so you can maybe hack on our implementation a bit but if you try doing anything we don't like we'll sue your ass" 'free'.

* Not really a great Lisp for the platform yet, but I prefer F# to Scala. Much cleaner syntax, 'feels' more functional.
Way too fancy. Why not a single link with no animations or mouseover events?
High court rules online posts didn't defame doctor
The Untold Story Of How The Aeron Chair Was Born
I think the second they launch it on top of an ICBM the hatch will break open...
This is described as a "fighter plane" but I fail to see how you could attach any destructive payload on such a tiny plane. The wings are so small that anything attached underneath would severely impair airflow
To explain the Merger Arbitrage a little more with actual numbers. If you're a Dell shareholder today, you can sell the shares right now at $13.38. This is a $0.27 discount (2.0%) to the agreed upon buy-out price. The shareholders today are willing to give up that 2% in additional gain, because the risk to them is that the sale falls through, and the price of DELL will fall back to the pre-buyout price of around $9.97 (early January price). That would be a 25% loss. Giving up the potential for 2% in gains in exchange for eliminating the risk of 25% loss? A good investment for most average investors.

Why do the institutional investors make this bet - they have advantages that average investors don't. Leverage (they're making this bet with other people's money), options (limited downside risk), or the skeptic may even say, insider information.
TLDR.io of course http://tldr.io/tldrs/51112ad2de23f15658000035/read-smarter-n...
Interesting – Have you checked cheeaun's node-hnapi?

https://github.com/cheeaun/node-hnapi
What if I don't want to sell my shares for $13.65 but hang on to them? Can Silver Lake just set a $13.65 value and force me to sell at that value to them?!

(Assuming I had shares, which I don't.)
I think that's a fairly cynical response. Dell (Michael) is worth a huge amount. He has a very large stake and isn't doing this to milk his company. Whether he's successful or not is another question but it's certainly no cynical milking exercise. Now he can dig deep, not worry about earnings for the next 12 months, and tackle new opportunities.
I think my local starbucks might have a problem or two with me hauling in three 24" monitors.
4chan has a very similar dynamic vis-a-vis ephemerality and lowering social inhibitions. On 4chan nothing is saved (internally) and threads disappear minutes after people stop posting actively in them. This was the first thing I thought of when hearing (just now) about Snapchat: "Oh, it's like 4chan."
They seem to have missed the most important reason:

- Because we can raise it now at a good valuation and the future is uncertain
I think so, thanks. My maths skills are generally very poor indeed, but OTOH I have an MSc in Computer Science* so I should understand some of this sort of stuff.

I always feel like I'm missing detail, eg:

> every complex linear transformation

Is that "complex" important?

> line that gets mapped to itself

So a trivial example might be a 360 degree rotation? Or am I just way misunderstanding this stuff?

* and I do mean real CS, not software engineering.
Unless, of course, you're actually buying coffee and/or food periodically.
It must be pretty expensive to create these all as basically cruise missiles with a human for guidance.
It's a judgement call. Some people are wary that going nutty with conditionals in templates could result in littering bits of 'business logic' in them - they prefer to take an all-or-nothing stance and go for nothing.

Personally I like the sort of middle-ground approach that Handlebars [1] has, I'm fine with basic 'truthy/existence' type checks, but will avoid templating languages that allow 'any old code'.

I think this sort of discipline (picking a deliberately restrictive library) is probably more useful for teams than individuals (who are capable of limiting their own conditional crazy).

[1] http://handlebarsjs.com/
PBS documentary on the origins of Silicon Valley premieres tonight
You say you're pressed for time. Follow through an intro-to-Python tutorial. Then follow a simple Django tutorial. This doesn't really mean you know Python or Django but it gives you basic orientation and vocabulary.
Apologies, the normal trope on the internet is to be stupidly ignorant about American football as an excuse to insult it. "Lol handegg rules are so strange! Who would have thought Americans would like watching people stand about for hours!"
Check out the Django documentation on https://www.djangoproject.com/. The documentation is wonderful and very well written. I learned Django from reading that. As for Python, I'd suggest the Learn Python The Hard Way free ebook/exercises rather than CodeAcademy. There is also Dive Into Python. I am new to programming and used these resources to build some web apps in Python. You should learn enough from these to hire someone to do the work for you.
The Board prevents that, as well as American corporate law. The American corporation is a series of checks and balances - the Board checks the CEO. Dell is in a unique position because Michael Dell owns so much of the company, 14%. It would have been difficult, next to impossible, to dismiss him from the Board. However, it would not have been as difficult to dismiss him from the title of CEO.

Even private companies have a Board, so the same situation exists today. Likely just new people on the Board, along with Michael Dell.
A cruise missile milled out of plastic and missing components like the explosive payload and the rocket fuel...
Well it's not up to date, but it's not wrong either. It says "Largest known ... as of July 2012"
That's a business goal I can get behind. Or inside, I guess.
I don't think I've seen a more inaccurate headline stay on HN for so long.

JS isn't the sole app dev language and it won't ever be. It's the language they chose to prioritize resources for tooling, documentation, and evangelizing of the platform to new developers.

A better, more thoughtful explanation is at the developer's blog, which I hope the OP link is replaced with: http://treitter.livejournal.com/14871.html
It's a "walled garden" instead of just a prison camp, because it's not completely forceful but it's enough deterrent to keep control over the average user which is what moves the economy.

You can, theoretically, find apps outside of the "official" channels and install them. This is not what usually happens and this is not what's encouraged. The success and visibility of apps outside of these channels will always be limited at best, so de-facto they control what people run for the most part, and that's more than enough.

If you mean something different by "walled garden" then maybe we're discussing over semantics. Apple does go a step further though, if you mean that Apple's is the "only" walled garden.
5. They need to keep pushing tweets into my timeline that I always ignore.
I used to use GoDaddy until they charged me $25 simply because my WHOIS info was inaccurate. They could have emailed me to update it, but instead charged me the fee and THEN told me if I didn't fix it, they would cancel my domains. I immediately transferred all of my domains to Gandi.

I bet they would have tried to upsell me on private WHOIS service as well, even though Gandi offers it for free...
New POWER7+ PowerSystems less than $6k - huge price drop
Same here, they are great !
Complex is important. The eigenvectors for rotation by 90 degrees require complex numbers.
Balance, Variety and nine steps to improve your social posts
Putting an intermediary currency in between purchaser and product is always worse for the consumers.

1. There is the leftover phenomenon where you have currency leftover and you can't spend it anywhere else

2. Or everytime you need to make a purchase, you switch the exact amount out for your purchase which adds additional step of useless process
indeed, lolwut? where can you earn a 'risk-free yield' on anything? 6-month T-bills at 0.11%.

merger risk goes both ways, stockholders could ask for more money, balk at tendering shares in the deal, take it to court.
Why Pocket instead of Instapaper? I'm not sniping, I'm genuinely curious.
Implementing ARM Cortex-A7 in a 14nm Samsung FinFET Process
The whole point of simplified languages like Python is that it isn't digging -- the basics of the language are super-easy to learn, and GNOME's bindigs make it easy to hammer out simple apps in it without fuss. If this move was purely choosing a "lightweight" language, Javascript would have scarcely been considered purely by virtue of its boatload of gotchas.

As for code-reuse, most any web library you could care for has probably been done, better, locally. The only allure of Javascript libraries are that they can be utilized in the browser, and since GNOME JS code relies on GNOME-specific APIs you don't even get that benefit.

GTK already allows you to write cross-platform apps. Javascript isn't going to improve matters there.
Similar to the iTunes Gift Cards that have proven popular.
You can build a 'cruise missile' right now in your garage pretty easily, being able to print one shouldn't be any scarier than that.

The scary part is the warhead, and you don't just print that from a spool of plastic. If someone can make such a thing for a printed cruise missile and do mean stuff with it, they can surely stick it in the back of a pickup truck too.
Stylus also has a --watch flag and will rebuild on the fly.
I will buy you a drink and food if you make this happen.
Wrong again. There's tax implications that prevent him from just surrendering his shares in the company in exchange for a large equity position in a private company.
How to Hire the Right Type of VP Marketing
Okay, the Ubuntu thing is really out-of-hand at this point. It really is not that big of a deal. One terminal command and they're gone.

Seriously, Canonical is a company, and they have to pay their bills like the rest of us. The Amazon search isn't "spyware," it's nothing but an additional search lens, and you can turn it off.
Just so you know, they were quite open minded and were doing very well, until the US came in for the oil:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_AHJQiMxIw

Photo of women in 1979, before Islamic Revolution:

http://i47.tinypic.com/eagiv9.jpg
In practical terms what happens is that your clients need to have a real good mental model of what will block and what won't.

Also it turns out event driven programming is fine when you do it, but wait 'till you have curl handles and say mysql handles and blah 'andles and foo andles. Fork andles!

Threading sucks. Mixing event loops also really sucks.

The developer centric way of doing it (e.g. screw performance I just want it to be correct and look nice) is really to flip to message passing and separate "logical processes". That's our unfortunate state of the art.

EDIT: I didn't mention that I think all the userland threading libs I know of are crap. Which ones do you think are good? P.S I'm not going to be sarcastic or critical about it, I would really like to have portable, usable LWP in C or C++.
Not even that. The good old days are selective memory, it was not better 30 years ago. Period. We shouldn't concede to fantasy to make our own struggle seem more epic.
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Parts of Gnome Shell itself as well as Gnome Documents: http://treitter.livejournal.com/14871.html
So actually Dell is going to have much less control of the company than he has now. Shareholders are patsies and CEOs are the guys who effectively control the board. Now that the company goes private he's going to answer to his lenders, and these guys are tough.
Jony Ive hasn't been given too much power at Apple... because he's always had it
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There's one added benefit, but its not clear who this accreted to: reduced credit card fees. Having one large charge is generally more efficient than many small charges, and if the savings are used to reduce fees or increase developer percentage then this is a good thing.
Your submission history suggests that you are involved in the development of at least 2 of the 7 extensions. (buffer and tldr.io)

Are any of the other extensions your work?

It's disingenuous to pretend to impartially recommend products that you work on.
Thanks for the feedback.

1. In fact there are 391 US news videos and 727 world news videos. We are also evaluting the idea to break"World news" into several buckets like EU news, Asia news, etc.

2. Those websites laready loss the traffic to youtube, not us.
I'd imagine a guy who built a company into the size of Dell, and is personally the 41st richest man in the world, is tough as well.
I said they should rename it because iD is taken by the makers of a popular game called DooM. I have no opinion of the quality of the service but it looks good. I apologize for my snarky comment.
I first wondered they wouldn't just multiply all the prime numbers up to this new prime and then subtract one from it to get an even bigger prime number.

But then I realized that they're not searching for them in sequence. I guess it's a very sparse table of primes once you get up there in the magnitudes.
whiny and lacking perspective

Like everything else young people find persuasive? (That was whiny and hyperbolic, too, because young people like irony.)
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New Dyson tap dries your hands after you wash
IBM announces changes, including adding POWER7+ to entire PowerSystems line
The second: promote the coins so that people will continue and pay to use them.
lets do it! I'll go first:
How about a chat program based on sharing websites?
Or an email program without a subject line?
Thanks for your detailed reply.

It's a lot to digest. As I explained in another reply, my mathematics is very poor indeed.

> Likewise, think of the plane orthogonal to the axis of rotation, then points that are on that plane rotate, but they stay on that plane.

Why only the orthogonal plane, I don't see how any set of points behaves differently to any other. For example the stars could be said to rotate around the earth (I know, but pretend). They don't move in relation one another though. They only change relative to the earth. I think I'm grossly misunderstanding. Does 'rotation' have a special meaning in this context?

> 45-degree rotation for example has no invariant subspace

because you can rotate points on a line 45 degrees and the only one that stays the same is 0,0, which you call {0}?

So.. someone tried to prove that for n dimenional (odd?) spaces with n<=infinity, there is always some subspace which doesn't differ when you apply complex transformations to it? But was wrong.
> "It takes an open minded culture to achieve technological advancement. The brightest people may come from anywhere, from any background, sex, or sexual preference."

The US managed to become a superpower despite excluding half of their potential work force (see HN post re: IBM from yesterday) and suffering from rampant, systemic racism. The USSR became a superpower despite incredible repression

This announcement by Iran may look like a joke, but I don't think an enlightened, liberal society is a prerequisite for acquiring power.