skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it is politically sensitive, money may be the worst way to pursue it. If you cannot get grassroots support, probably better to leave well enough alone. But less ego gratifying, certainly. Feeding your ego is usually a really terrible reason to do something "political". Given your response, I would encourage you to spend some time wondering what your real goal and motive is.
http://applebrides.com/2012/06/28/how-to-instagram-your-wedd... This is to complicated.. I want an app and a login and a password that is numbers that we share with guests they all go into a profile it can be a hashtag but the app is an app.
It's amazing what you can accomplish while waiting for a Windows 7 install!
Safety (ability to cause harm) and reliability (potential to not meet requirements) thresholds are different animals.

I work in a regulated industry (medical) and I can assure you that I have never seen a Safety threshold that was in any way related to manufacturing or any other cost. The thresholds are always set according to how much harm can be caused and the likelihood of a harmful event.

Reliability, on the other hand, has tradeoffs relating to costs. However, in this case, an unreliable subsystem can have a clear safety impact, so its reliability directly feeds into the Hazard calculations. In other words, Safety concerns would dominate.

I hope that actually conveys what I'm trying to say. A bit rushed right now :-)
> Compiler speed is not some minor difference, it is absolutely massive. Build times of 30 seconds vs 2 seconds, and that is without counting the 10 seconds of cabal resolving dependencies

I simply did not play with Go to know the compilation speeds. I believe you that it is a massive difference, and it is indeed a major Go advantage.

> GHC does not come with command line docs.

The haddocks are available from the command line. So I don't know what this means. Hoogle is available from the command line.

> GHC links in C libs dynamically

Ah, I see. Did you try -optl-static? I haven't, but it might work.

> GHC has nothing like this.

There are tools to format Haskell code by certain conventions on hackage.
I'd love to talk with you about this design. I've been looking into a similar kind of build and I'm really curious to compare notes.
Simple helper function for JavaScript types
I'm not sensing a great deal of love for Meteor on this thread.
On the other hand, for the typical westerner, "does not look nice but it is functional" does not cut it for other products, either. Even power drills aren't purely sold on functionality.

I certainly have some aversion against Libre Office because it does not look nice.
David Einhorn, Apple, And The War Between Hedge Funds And Silicon Valley
> Thanks. I don't think these are so much incorrect assumptions so much as things we should change if the world changes.

Is that not the definition of an assumption? Something you rely on being true and not changing, and which if it does change, requires reaction?

These are incorrect assumptions. It's okay to have them, you don't have to be perfect, but don't redefine "assumption" because you're embarrassed.
I fail to see why older translations should be any worse. I mean this isn't great poetry, just very entertaining literature :)
Author here. I've put a demo here http://amoffat.github.com/bootstrap-application-wizard/ temporarily. The docs page is still DDosed, but should be back shortly.

EDIT>> docs are back http://www.panopta.com/2013/02/06/bootstrap-application-wiza...
perhaps it was phrased wrongly - certainly there are convincing studies that one gets happier (by whatever metrics) as one progresses through the decades.

However if we have happy as a spectrum, I contend people are placed by the end of childhood on a point on that spectrum - some lucky ones far to the right, others not. One can move up the spectrum, but not everyone ends up crowded to the right - we can easily imagine two people, one in left 2nd std dev, one in the right. THey both get happier as they get older, but the person on the far left of the bell curve just never gets to be as happy as the other was in their twenties.

I colloquially would say one is a happy person. The other not.
You mentioned the logistical, technical and financial problems involved. Was part of the problem that you simply lost interest in the project?
No questions, but hopefully the naysayers and trolls won't bother you this time around. I've certainly got to the point where I DGAF about other peoples opinions - at least people on the internet. Heck, I prefer Java for developing applications, but around here a large number of people would consider me an idiot for just thinking about Java, let alone actually using it.
It's nice to see someone actually trying to think through the issue and consider both sides. Don't feel like I've seen a whole lot of that thus far.
If my intent is not to get invested, I'm not going to use it. I look at it, I toy around with it, and I decide whether or not it is applicable to my needs. If it is, I'm going to use it, and the more I use it, the more dependent I become on it. I don't see how not using a service helps anyone on either side of the fence. If I don't 'depend on it' - therefore not use it - it definitely won't continue to exist, free or not.

From the outset, nothing about the site looked like it was going under; they'd recently redesigned, they were adding/changing features, my collections were clearly getting picked up somehow without my assistance, they were still sending their newsletters and highlighting users. There was no way of knowing until the email hit our inboxes that afternoon, just hours after I'd last submitted a link.
> Frankly even the "unbiased results" are mostly from advertisers

What do you mean? I wonder if we are talking about the same search engine.
For which queries? Can you please provide some data and examples and be constructive.

Of course if you search for "buy an ipad" I expected you to get web pages of people selling that thing, some of them will be ads, interesting...

Just to compare I searched for "insects in pleistocene", and guess what, no ads, zero, no sites from "advertisers" too. Ah, well there is an entry from google books, in 5th position, crap, I certainly didn't want to know that somebody wrote a book about that...

Btw, getting search results containing sites of people selling stuff (I guess that's what you mean by "advertisers in the unbiased results) is a proof that the search is unbiased.

Any kind of open and free search engine will give business the possibility to write sites that contain keywords that will eventually get to the search results and piss you off because "the internet is filled with crappy advertisement".

What are you criticizing ? The current search engine monopolist or "the capitalistic system" ?

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This article is about a borderline situation where the process of automatic scanning of your personal conversations is used to achieve a goal where you are the party that benefits the less.

Compare this with antspam scanning, which also has to analyze text of all your email, including all the training that you put in the system by actually reporting spam, or removing it from the spam folder.

You are grateful that somebody is filtering your spam. Of course the company offering the service also benefits from you, since it receives more conversions if it has an useful service which people love. But all in all, you have the feeling that it's you who benefit the most out of the deal, so have a machine parsing your email for that purpose doesn't bother you.
Cliff's notes:

Like pretty much everyone else in that space, I use all
the iOS devices and a mac osx desktop. And my company's app.

My nugget of wisdom: nerds don't get laid.
Yes, I have dealt with the insane deadlines firsthand many times in the past with this particular client.
Plus, it is funny.
Can someone explain what this means and why it's happening?
Have you guys considered open-sourcing the code and/or providing some detailed info on the architecture you've built?
No, I understand that. Here's the full context of the two sentences:

> During the 787 certification process, Boeing studied possible failures that could occur within the battery. Those assessments included the likelihood of particular types of failures occurring, as well as the effects they could have on the battery. In tests to validate these assessments, Boeing found no evidence of cell-to-cell propagation or fire, both of which occurred in the JAL event. The NTSB learned that as part of the risk assessment Boeing conducted during the certification process, it determined that the likelihood of a smoke emission event from a 787 battery would occur less than once in every 10 million flight hours.

So, to summarize, in the certification process, Boeing claimed:

a: no evidence of a fire.

b: a 10-million-hour estimate for a "smoke event".

My original question was merely from a statistical/technical perspective: how is this figure calculated if they have no evidence of the event they are supposed to measure? From my understanding, automobiles undergoing similar certification are tested under abnormally rigorous conditions, and the chances of those conditions happening are taken into account when calculating failure rates. But if Boeing claims it had no evidence of a fire happening at all, what is the reasoning behind the number? Is it just a convenient way to say probability=0?
Good question. Not at all. We were exhausted, but we love the project. I still hope that if we come across the right hire(s), we'll revive it. But I'm not going to spend a year of my life desperately hustling to hire (which still may not work) instead of working on the profitable product we already have.
Screen protector and naked otherwise. And if your phone manufacturer insists on a glass back as well, time to switch phones.
Except that Windows 8 did no tweaking, MS decided that tablets and phones need a new WinRT API and tried to make Win32 obsolete.
Microsoft getting squeezed between Chromebook and iPad
So does this mean that it is likely to be profitable to buy Apple stock now?
Am I the only one who on hearing investors and top enterpreneurs saying oh I love Uber sound like saying oh I am rich and love my Rolex? Sometimes the talk about comparing expensive limousines to taxis seems so absurd.
Yes, my thought is that the only people that would take this job for this price would be a smaller company than us, and if they take it, they will likely be crushed, or way under deliver.
The problem with these strategies is that most of the fonts being used are from places like FontDeck and TypeKit, and are paid for by the impression (or a monthly/annual license fee including X impressions). That means that the font requests are tracked (and requests have increased latency) and aren't cacheable. Actually purchasing the font for unlimited web use (something that's normally prohibited in the font's standard usage license) can be godawful expensive compared to the foundry's monthly plans, at least over the short term (1-2 years).
Graph: People at Similar-Sized Companies Pay Drastically Different 401(k) Fees
Yahoo (but not clear if ok for commercial, as opposed to hobby, app):

http://www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm
Apple Urged by Einhorn to Return More Cash to Investors
Zathura: Minimalist Vim-like PDF Viewer
darklajid Would love to discuss... Can you msg me at brett @ hall-inc.com or if you're on hall, https://hall.com/brett
On Wikileaks, Bitcoin, Copyleft - Three Critiques of Hacktivism
Checking if something has a 1 in 10m probability of failure, is the wrong idea. The question should be 'What if it does?' and that wasn't adequately answered here. There didn't seem to be any thermal isolation between cells, and a questionably risky type of Lithium-Ion chemistry.
Looks good. So you can store oauth on server, which should be safer. Is it possible for an oauth client to "suicide" on its permission? I'm thinking, in case a third-party service is comprised, they can just ask the oauth server to abandon their permission to avoid further loss for users.
Some shareholders want to sue Apple to force them to pay out more of Apple's cash to shareholders. This is a fairly legitimate claim, as companies are meant to pay out excess profits back to shareholders in the form of dividends/preference shares, and Apple is earning more money every quarter than they can use or are paying back. They are also sueing over a special term that allows Apple to create preference shares... not a big deal.

This press release states that Apple is making plans to pay out more cash to shareholders, and that the special term does not exclude the board of directors from doing other things with preference shares in addition.

Apple shares are likely to rise on this news in the short term, but may be a signal that Apple has no new healthy investments, and may lower share price in the long term. Nobody knows, share markets are volatile.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1713703...
The same logic should be applied to the inclusion of a Referer header in a request. If a page on foo.com is pulling down a .js from code.jquery.com, there should be no Referer sent.

Perhaps a more illustrative example is that this will deny Twitter, FB, Google and other embeddable widget factories any tracking and analytics information that leaks with every request for TweetThis, LikeThat and WhatNot buttons, fonts and scripts. There is absolutely no reason for them to be seeing this information.
US and Canada Border Crossing and Computer Privacy: What do I need to know?
Apple is sitting on somewhere close to $200,000,000,000 in _cash_ (or whatever equivalent billions of dollars are stored in). Seems Apple is getting sued by [a] stockholder(s) for hoarding cash to the tune of >$140/stock.
Thanks, I'm glad typing that wasn't just for myself.

In college, my major was math and biochem (with an eye toward computational biology or computational chemistry). So no, I haven't always been a developer, my interests were very wide: everything from systems biology to quantum mechanics. So wide that I ultimately dropped out at the start of my senior year, rather than choose some specialty for graduate school. I don't regret that, since at least I have a couple friends who did go on to different grad programs (physical chemistry, molecular biology) and I still appreciate the independence and freedom that comes with dropping out.

Anyway, I always wanted to be more of a big picture / theoretical guy and sort of poo-poohed programming. I thought it was more important to have deep understanding of mathematical formulas and creative theoretical research ideas (the passion). But I've come to appreciate that implementing such formulas/ideas as code (the skills) is much harder than I imagined (as is any type of coding), and also the best way to gain a deep understanding.

So that's how I came back to programming in the past few years, which I always treated rather casually growing up (started with some visual basic in my early teens).

How did you end up in banking support work? Maybe thought it was an avenue to wall street quant/HFT work (wild guess)? In Cal Newport's book he does say there are certain jobs where the best option is to leave, eg when there's little opportunity for growth and learning (building "career capital"). But his overall point is to stop chasing a passion by looking for an expected dream job right out of college. Instead, develop it over time by earning and leveraging/parlaying career capital. Going through the motions, gaining experience, and developing valuable skills through hard work. You should check it out (I finally found a pdf online only the other day), sounds like it will be worth your read.
Do you have what it takes to be a truffle pig?
lol probably! Does it not work right?
Refactoring towards "better" code
Ask HN: Your VPS provider? US or Ireland
My VPS has been dead for nearly 3 days now due to a bad disk and a DRP plan that failed.. Needless to say at my wits end.

Who are you using to host your VPS? Obviously only tell us about the providers who don't suck :)
Thank you for the clarification. I've humbly been schooled in the nature of opensource copyright law.

At any rate, I've started a petition to open up the source code and user-generated content to the public domain:

https://www.change.org/petitions/msnbc-open-source-the-every...

I was on the site nearly every day and poured hours of my life writing community posts, updating information, etc. This may not mean much to people outside of Chicago, but stuff like the epic debate between Eddie Carazana and Jim DeRogatis on the future of the Congress Theater, gone forever?

https://www.google.com/search?q=carazana+dirogatis+everybloc...

It's a part of history. And the fact that a media conglomerate erased it from the web with zero notice is, frankly, troubling.
Unrelated to this component, but the Monitoring Location step shows a limitation in the Chosen select library; the dropdown is attached inside the parent container.

I ran into the same issue and went with Select2. It's forked from Chosen and solves this positioning problem (and adds remote AJAX loading and other cool features).
http://ivaynberg.github.com/select2/
SpaceX software engineers are hosting a Reddit AMA tomorrow at 10AM PT.
I hope that in time we will be able to use other email accounts than Gmail.
The last time I was in SF, I found that using Uberx and Uber Taxi was only a dollar or two more than taking a cab.
No, it means it WAS likely to be profitable to buy Apple stock.

Now is too late.
Why would it be? It's no secret how much cash is represented by each share of stock.
I have had this discussion a few times and at least for me it's usually sticking to ridiculous TOS from the payment gateway and less in programming competency. If your gateway says you're not allowed to change anything in the input and the gateway does not accept spaces you can either break your contract or not allow spaces.
As far as I understand it, yes.

The basic idea is that any requests that do not originate from the domain will not send the cookies, preventing CSRF, clickjacking and the advanced CSRF discussed here yesterday (from stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/q/2669690/3287)
agreed. actually referrer is very bad thing for security. have a post on it too
Boeing and Lockheed are major players, and you're right about the rivalry, but they're not the only ones. ATK (the former Thiokol) is a major player in the Space Launch System project, and politically very well connected; there are also smaller fry like SpaceX and Orbital Sciences (makers of the Pegasus air-launched rocket, and the other commercial supplier for ISS cargo resupply).
How do I know a piece of software only does what it annouces?
I'm curious if you have ever expanded on your problem #2 claim: Google doesn't provide solutions for client-side clickjacking prevention in Chrome, because they have a competitive advantage in detecting it server-side.

Are there such protections in other browsers such as Firefox or IE? Were there proposals for Chromium that got shut down?
Looks great, although some of the styling (at least in the demo) seemed to clash with the Bootstrap theme.
no, it will create only new, already solved. u cannot make localstorage httponly. if attacker steals it - session is lost..
Per another thread of discussion, apparently the rules of the GPL do not apply to the licensor, only the licensee. If MSNBC accepted OSS community contributions to the Everyblock codebase, they might be in violation. But if it was a one-way offering, they can apparently still retain full rights. I imagine the initial Mozilla-Knight foundation grant makes this a bit more complex, but IANAL.
Ask HN: Do Parse's secret URLs provide reasonable security?
I am considering using Parse for a web/mobile app, and it appears that they use "secret urls" as the primary security measure for accessing parse files. Obviously this isn't SUPER secure, but it does seem to be a fairly common way to limit access to, say "private photos" (e.g. flickr does it). Would you consider this "commercially reasonable" attempt to protect private data?
Do you think bootstrappers should focus on smaller products (that are less complex)?
Interesting list. I've read most books in it. There's a bit too much listening to literary critics in there - e.g. Mieville is skilled writing, but it is not SF - not really.

Add in Neal Asher for the 2000s. Breakneck action space opera, wily AIs, disgusting wildlife, rarely a dull moment, Banks on speed.

Also, almost any Vance is bound to be enjoyable, after you acquire the taste (the P.G.Wodehouse of SF, not that it is comic, more of a sardonic tone).

And yeah, Lem, The Cyberiad, the non-existing-book reviews, whatever. Also, Pierre Boulle, amazingly unknown in spite of the movies (Les Jeux de l'esprit should be mandatory reading in some sophomoric circles.)
Indeed! The only thing that doesn't scale in my experience is people's sense of humor on Hacker News.
I wish to god they would make Calc work with Mondrian OLAP server.
Not just CSS3, but still very fun.
In a 100% rational market, all this excessive cash is accounted for in current stock price, and price of stock will drop as dividend is issued -- they most definitely will.
It's worse than Challenger. NASA isn't a publicly traded corporation, airlines didn't buy shuttles and people didn't buy tickets on the shuttle. If a 787 crashes due to a design or manufacturing flaw, Boeing stock price will fall significantly, and customer airlines will be very hesitant to order them.

A closer analogy would be the fallout to both McDonnell-Douglas and the FAA after a series of DC-10 crashes. These crashes doomed the company, and they were sold off to Boeing.
Can anyone here comment on what qualifies as cash?
British cubesat 'fully controlled by a Google Nexus during orbit' next month
hm.. "Do you want to expose your identity .. " dunno
> These are incorrect assumptions. It's okay to have them, you don't have to be perfect, but don't redefine "assumption" because you're embarrassed.

What is there to be embarrassed about? Seriously.
When a No means Yes
I didn't say that the website was fantastic. I merely said that it hasn't and won't prevent widespread usage and accessibility of LibreOffice.

Ironically, HN doesn't have the greatest web design, yet it is extremely usable, and very popular.

The way I see it, the LibreOffice devs are focussing on cleaning up the OpenOffice codebase, when they get the resources and time they can update the website.

I'll give you an example of where "clean design" causes lots of problems. Go to the Gnome website. They used to have a lot of documentation for developers. And I mean highly meaty tutorials, discussion papers, usability studies, etc. There is documentation now, but it's appallingly awful.

Did a clean design help Gnome? No. They cleaned it up all right - by removing anything of any use to anyone.
there is NoScript for FF. There is no noscript in chrome because of poor API. im pretty sure clearclick will not come up for a reason i told
stokanic, we started with adobe air which was a quick way to test our hypothesis early on that a desktop app would increase retention. We have since moved on to building native experience w xcode.
Incredible! Here is more info as to how the author did this: http://front-back.com/2013/01/animate-png-sprites-with-css3-...
Own the fucking product.
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How I Got 237 Beta Testers For My Startup In 24 Hours 
Wanted to share how I got a flood of new beta testers for my new startup, AdProof, in less than 24 hours.

How did you get beta testers?