skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He wasn't anything close to poverty either.
Karma is a tool to promote social cohesiveness in a group. By allowing peers to reward and punish others, it provides a "majority rules" code of conduct that is as fluid as the whim of the mob.

This is good for building a sense of community where in-person interaction is infeasible, but it also brings with it the bad qualities (group think, punishment of new ideas that contradict the norm, cliques, personality cults, etc).

The good news is that there are oddballs in every group who ignore the social rules (karma) and present ideas that are novel (but perhaps unpalatable) to the group despite the meting out of punishments (which are ignored). They are the antibodies that fight off the cancerous growth of tribalism.
Awesome app! Already loving it! As others, I would gladly pay for it!

A tip for the Chrome Extension: A majority of the times I have wanted to push a link (the default) I want to push the page I am on. I suggest that you prefill the "Link title" and "Link URL" field, if possible!
yeah, i thought to my self, "hmm, technology review seems like it's going to be (1) biased towards geeks and (2) not know that much about civil liberties".

BUT then I thought about this quarter's Index on Censorship. which is also about free speech online - http://indexoncensorship.org/Magazine/digital-frontiers/ - so perhaps there is something in it...
Hi, I can't test it in chrome as WebGL isn't supported.

Firefox graphics: http://pastebin.com/XVdypYVq

Relevant error messages: http://pastebin.com/PvKVwWFi (These are repeated. I missed them the first time round because they were actually warnings rather than errors.

Hardware: http://pastebin.com/x7Jh025T
Lucky Thirteen: Breaking the TLS and DTLS Record Protocols
Post on implementing the (rather complex) fix: http://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/02/04/luckythirteen.html
And in so doing they would have lost the hearts and minds of the town's inhabitants, even if they can be temporarily controlled by force. When people from other towns hear of what is happening they'll be better prepared and fight harder. And don't forget every soldier came from Somewhere, USA. They're not going to be happy to see the military turned on their town. They may either stand down or sabotage the effort. Moreover the military is comprised of human beings, who have a conscience. Many or most would resist attacking their fellow countrymen with anything more than small arms fire, if that.

Besides, the military would be overwhelmed by every town revolting all at once. There's something to be said for strength in numbers.
Our tutor in my first year uni course taught us to put sensitive information into a folder outside the web path, and use relative paths to include the files where needed. There is absolutely zero reason these sensitive files should be accessible via URL.
Our society is clearly in a process of evolution, from feudalism, to an oligarchy, and soon these kind of actions will bring up a real democracy.

Thanks in big part to technology, it is no longer possible for a powerful elite to keep the rest uninformed and uneducated.
"Shut up."

(Addressed to the participants of my internal conversations..)
While this is bad of course, you also would have to allow network access to your mysql from remote ips.

Which if allowed is even more stupid.

If you run mysql only locally then do skip-networking and if you have to have networking restrict the ips it's allowed from.

If they can use the mysql password locally, well then you have far bigger problems with security than mysql and exposed php configuration files.
Lobbying against the MPAA would not be cheap and would take many years to be successful, years that Netflix doesn't have.
How did that work out for Waco?
What is mvp, really?
So you're saying that every time I find a STEP file written in an invalid fashion, I should convene an ISO 10303 committee and wait for years to find out how everyone should handle it? That's doubly insane, because it would take many bugs that can be fixed in a day and make my customers suffer from them for years, while at the same time requiring me to modify my program to handle every bug found by every STEP software vendor or cease to be conforming.
Opscode Rewrites Chef, Ditches Ruby/CouchDB for Erlang/PostgresSQL
What version of chrome are you using?

Google Chrome – WebGL has been enabled on all platforms that have a capable graphics card with updated drivers since version 9.[14] Google Chrome 13.0 and newer versions use Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) to control all WebGL cross-domain textures.[15]

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL
Yamato Global - EU Clear Glencore-Xstrata Merger.
Ask HN: Anybody interested in obtaining jqueryin.com?
I've had the domain since 2009 and used it as my stomping grounds for technical blog posting. I no longer blog on the domain and it's going to waste so I figured I'd put it up for auction on Flippa. I'd love to see it go to someone that can show it some love; namely an HNer.
What is up with that resolution?!
Link(s):

http://www.jqueryin.com

https://flippa.com/2877708-established-pr3-web-development-b...
The same factories will produce different quality items depending on the design and how much they get paid.

Not an anecdote for once...

One of our clients is a large insurer who have just dumped HP due to reliability problems. They have approximately 3000 laptops in the field. The were all HP business line (EliteBook and ProBook)

Their failure rate in a year was nearly 25% for HP kit.

Moving to Lenovo, they've got a 4% failure rate now.

Now for anecdotes: I've owned two HP workstations (one PA-RISC and one Intel) and both blew up spectacularly, one HP laptop (about 10 years ago - an OmniBook) and it blew up. They stick dynamite in the damn things.
Tikili-li! Tikili-li!
Previous discussion (less ideologic hyperbole):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4683804

Draft text:

http://stjornlagarad.is/other_files/stjornlagarad/Frumvarp-e...

Interesting excerpts:

(14) "All are free to have their opinions and convictions and shall have the right to express their thoughts. Censorship and other comparable impediments to the freedom of opinion must never be enacted into law. Limits on the expression of opinion may, however, be stipulated by law to protect children, security, health, the rights or reputation of others, as necessary in a democratic society."

(18) "All shall be free to pursue their religion, individually or in association with others, publicly or privately. The freedom to pursue religion or personal convictions shall only be limited by law as necessary in a democratic society."

(20) "No one may be obligated to be a member of an association. Such obligation may be imposed by law if it proves necessary for an association to perform its lawful role due to the public interest or the rights of others."
Hello Ben,

I've sent an email to careers@site5.com and got an auto-responder telling me to apply using http://www.site5.com/about/careers - but there is no Rails position there. How can I apply?

Thanks, Dirceu
Lessons We Learned from Our Biggest UX and Design Mistakes
I'm disappointed to find so few details about the algorithms they're programmed with. Past public installations I've seen like this are visualization of input to ponder. This just seems like random blinkenlights. Doesn't give me much to ponder when I'm taking in the artwork.
The paywall is a good point. The current NYT model (pay after N articles, easy to circumvent) is a model I could live with in exchange to high-quality content. The problem is do I really want to pay for 5 different papers?

Great example. I used to think of paywalls a good thing (in exchange for less ad bullshit), but now it seems a bit dangerous.
A new framework for scaling a startup: Platform Thinking
iCab Mobile had to remove the YouTube download function with the latest update:

Apple rejected the update. The reason was not the bugfix, they rejected the App because of a feature that was available for years in iCab Mobile and which is also available in hundreds of other Apps in the AppStore. They rejected the App because it is able to download videos from YouTube so you can watch the videos offline.
Or that battery life. Who wants a Chromebook that lasts 4 hours on a charge according to the manufacturer!

My two year old HP dm1z has comparable performance, twice the memory, the same resolution in an 11" display, 9 hours of real world battery life, and runs a full OS. Is this progress?
JavaScript regular expressions test and debug
Dump the steps needed of regex engine to find matching substring or fail. Shows the backtracking and handle the catastrophic expressions with appropriate debug output.
Interesting security concern. It might be added that if one has several backup files, and has MultiviewsMatch enabled, the files aren't actually readable but get run instead. This is because multiple backups get numbered after a dot, while single backups and crashed files do not.
As you can see from the photo of the bones in the ground, kings look no different than peasants when they're eaten by the earth. Still, the hard working people of the UK are happy to sponsor their "princes" and their Vegas expenses.
Oh hey, just like our DoD over in the US. I've heard that this is because once you get approved as a supplier, you have monopsony power. Anyone with experience in procurement know if this is actually the case?
Your post pretty much echoes what I could say about my time at Super User - I made it to about 13K before realising I was expected to play by JA's rules or shut up - so I 'quit' about 14 months ago.
20 Tech Companies That Pay Interns Boatloads Of Money
Sorting data in parallel CPU vs GPU
It's just the state of things today. Speaking the truth is borderline criminal these days, people prefer to live in an imaginary bubble.
According to ancestry.com, and yes it has my relatives going back that far, I am a descendant of Richard III. Wonder how many others are here.
Single-page variant: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-20-richest-interns-in-tec...
HP warranties and support are just as bad for corporate customers. It's easier to just buy parts from Misco and fix it yourself most of the time. That goes for everything from desktops to high end servers. Sony service stinks as well.

Lenovo have been ok for corporate support from experience - they bend over backwards for us although we occasionally get a bad rep which needs threatening a bit :)

As for HP's other products, their calculators are a bit crappy (made by chinese outfit Kinpo), their printers are shit I agree and their best line of kit (test gear), they spun off to Agilent so the HP brand wouldn't take them down.
No matter how big a splash you make in this world whether you're Corey Feldman, Frankie Muniz, Justin Bieber or a talking teddy bear, eventually, nobody gives a shit. - a quote from 'Ted' the movie...
I used to use a bookmarklet to sort my queue by star ratings. seems to still work, despite the lag in updates:

http://badsegue.org/archives/2005/05/26/netflix-queue-manage...
I'm in complete agreement with you: if they just spent a little time up front writing clear, concise emails, it would save a lot of trouble down the line. As it is, though, they don't, so hacks like that act as a sort of triage for the problem.

I've tried, without success, the `ignore until clear' tactic, but it tends to result in me getting the blame for not replying.
too soon buddy!
Java 6 now end of life: time to move to 7
Actually, watchlater is older than Spool...
Better than democracy, where a majority can impose rules on a few, it would be better we had a strict laws that could be learned by 5 year old in under 5 minutes, like, "thou shall not impose your will or arm another".

And then have groups of people that just get together to grow and/or share on some ideals.

github > democracy > republic.
$25 Raspberry Pi Model A now for sale in Europe
Lending club experiment four months later
I read once where Bill Gates predicted that eventually people would buy software and that the hardware would be free. I can't remember where I read it ('Business at the Speed of Light', maybe?) but it stuck with me as just, well, ridiculous.

Anyway, the fact that he says "As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share." kind of makes me wonder how he ever ended up with that thought I mentioned at the start.

And I know it sounds crazy that he would ever think that: that's why it stuck with me I guess.
It's also because those savings are not obvious for most of the people. It's temporal discounting plus a concrete reward now vs. a fuzzy reward later.
well... however sad this might be... it is the truth... there has been a lot of stories on Aaron and I think now some people are sort of getting tired of hearing about him all the time...
Did Samsung steal the cool factor from Apple?
An intelligent and sensible analysis of some tough situations that crop up every day. We need more article like this.
Simplify your tech life
So much wrong with your comment.

"wishing posts like these would just publicly out the perpetrator instead of referring to them anonymously" Bad idea - What if wrong person made public? What if someone was set up? You will have retarded lynch mob running for blood. Example - woman accused young man of rape, police proved he was innocent, lynch mob kills man "because law dodging scum like him should just die".

"public shaming" - bad things must be known publicly, but public shaming is just retarded. Problem with it is, even if you are innocent, you have no defense against public shaming.

"like when a spouse kicks out a cheating partner" - unless that cheating partner is a woman, then it's man that is guilty and should be beaten up for kicking her out of home.

"On the other hand, public shaming at any level _seems_ childish to me, but I can't point out why. Additionally, if someone makes false claims, they can do serious damage very easily." - oh look, in everything you wrote, there is two sentences that makes sense.
Right, got it. That was a small error in the auto update on addPoint check, index off by 1: https://github.com/pyalot/webgl-heatmap/commit/8d04627cba4a3...

Example/blog post is updated. Let me know if that fixes the issue for you.
Overplotting is common, and "you" (generic internet guy who posted a graph on his blog, not you personally) probably don't even know how to spot it.

Secondly, the data you throw away is usually just sampling noise. Most of the time the interesting object is the underlying probability distribution - individual points are only useful to infer that.

In the cases where individual data points are actually of interest (e.g. http://cl.ly/GvnM ), go ahead and use them. But they are terrible default choice.
Previous submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5155539 (220 points, 2 days ago, 183 comments)
'Quora: Don't Be Good'
You can always try to append "/phpMyAdmin" to the root url, you'd be surprised how often that works.
I've heard about it, but mostly it's just not as interesting story. Modern mainstream media loves a bit of chaos, some struggle and bloodshed, it sells well for them however people very calmly going about things the right way and being decent human beings. Well, not so much a seller.

However, it probably wouldn't work anywhere with a significantly larger population size. Too many people with their own ideas causes things to fracture along ideological lines, rather than aiming for a common cause.
I once criticized Sarah on twitter while agreeing with Robert Hoekman when he wrote a blog post about another person in the UX speaking circuit who did not have a huge amount of work behind them to back up the fact that they are up in front of people, teaching them.

I since regretted my comments on Sarah's success. I believe I apologized on twitter (after being called out). I was embarrassed, but have not contacted her since, I just see her on rosters for speaking at various conferences.

Now, when I read this post of hers my heart sank. Not only because it is utterly sickening someone could do this to another person, but that at one stage I was unkind to her online.

What if she suspected me because of my remarks 2 years ago? What if she called my name out as a suspect. My web development career and reputation would be shattered. Now what if someone decides to play detective and look through twitter history and sees my comments and accuse me publicly. Ruined.

Its not that public shaming is childish, its that that such accusations have huge ramifications if false. It's "better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer"[0]

This does not mean I hope the person/people involved are not held accountable, it just needs to be handled outside a public internet witch hunt.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstones_formulation

edit: grammar
Yes! Next time you visit the Frick collection in New York City (you really should) think about the bloody repression of the Homestead strike [0].

I really think that the likes of Gates, Frick, Carnegie, Rockefeller or the more recent Jim Simons. Should have been taxed at a much much steeper rate, just like Buffett proposed [1], instead of waiting for their kindness of heart.

By replacing philanthropy with taxation we get the democratic process to choose what is the best way to spend this money, instead of their however enlightened agenda.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Steel_Strike

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffett_Rule
I feel the same as this guy. I despise being forced to download an app when I already have Chrome installed and know that the website contains all the content I went and in a familiar layout.

I'm also getting fed up of being asked if I want to install Tapatalk every time I visit a popular forum.
This really bad for the developer as he is on his blog apologizing for the loss of a feature. Apparently it is only disabled for YouTube, whose ToS Apple has to respect. Guess I won't be upgrading cause it is so useful to download on wifi rather than burn mobile data. Also videos disappear never to be seen again.
I think the article is better than the title. Paraphrased, I think it's arguing something like: There is a subset of geeks who are interested in civil liberties, and have been active on the subject lately. Here is some information about them.

I do think it's probably a minority; for every EFF activist geek, there's another geek working on surveillance technology for a government contractor, and a third who thinks the main issue facing the technology sector is rampant piracy that needs to be cracked down on.
Coming up next in Afghanistan: giant fly swatters.
Does the same sentiment hold for a heterogenous set of databases? e.g. Microsoft SQL Server <-> WebSQL
I know so many people that simply refuse to see an alternative point of view. The only recourse I've personally ever had in a discussion with these people is to simply remind them that other people have their lives to live the way they see fit and then ask why is it anyone's business how they live it?
I don't know , but that sounds a lot like the decmocratic process and not revolution. In america we have done all of those thiogs over the years, with the one aside that we have always managed to pay our debts, and we haven't mothballed the _entire_ constitution all in one go.
Sounds cute, but imposing one's will is a necessary (defining?) component of living organisms. Rocks and minerals don't impose will.

Also, github is a commercial company. Can you elaborate on what you mean by ">"? The relation between a group of people sharing ideals and a republic vs. democracy is not clear to me.
I agree 100%. But I would rephrase it slightly:

- Failing to deliver news to your website (for whatever reason): Just a failure, as in, you failed, period.

- News App: not a substitute for doing your job (delivering news to your website), nice for people who want it, don't force it on anybody else.
Are you using the new Android version? The app is not perfect but it's pretty good.

When I buy the ticket it takes maybe 10 seconds after I entered my password to process the payment (using my postcard account) and then I get the QR code ticket immediatly. Isn't this QR code a valid ticket?

It might be that the payment is yet not confirmed but I never had any issue when controlled...
Just love how well this community can argument their opinions. "Oh someone said something bad about woman, must be asshole!" No, that was good observation and should be up voted.
Stare Fear Down
"EOM is pretty superfluous, though -- it's clear from the fact that there's no more text that I've reached the end of the message."

Originally the idea was to put EOM at the end of the subject line when the whole message fit in the subject. That way you didn't have to 'open' the email. Never made much sense to me, since the process of 'opening' an email doesn't cost more than the effort to select the subject, but maybe it depends on the email client - I can see how one on a 800x600 screen may use an email client that shows the message list in one screen, and the body in another.
1stly, there were comments about the app itself: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5163365

2ndly, if an app is boasting about redesigning the way we use email, yet gets the fundamentals of the way we use a webpage completely wrong, then I think criticisms are justified. After all, it's not like this website isn't being used to show case the developers skills.
Twitter Hacked – 250,000 Accounts Compromised
I believe if I were to take this offer, the risk/reward would have to be higher, in addition to knowing about partial bonuses and how pass/fail/partial allocation is figured(discretionary vs calculated). So in this example to take a 20K salary hit, the bonus would have to be at least 40K. If you hit it only ever other year, it evens out.
Putting "thou" in the law isn't a good start. Aside from being faux biblical it implies the rule is written in older language which might no longer mean what it seems to mean today.

The big difference between Code Napoleon and Common Law legal systems is the system of precedent. In Sweden you can read and understand the rules, in the US what's important is how the laws have been interpreted by the courts in past "similar" cases.
so you have these rights but the govenment can over rule it for "public interest" or "as necessary in a democratic society"

I am sure that the Chinese leaders would say that the labour camps are "as necessary in a democratic society"

Oh and that old chestnut its for the children
Just a digest of the previous block makes it into the next. Every client must have the entire block chain - every transaction ever made.
Implementing fixes for the Lucky Thirteen attack on TLS CBC
artificial monopolies

That's where you'll get disagreements; your reasoning doesn't apply if the exclusive access and use of land isn't considered an artificial monopoly. Particularly, 'artificial' is usually defined as something man-made, yet property rights are extremely common among other animals as well, even if they haven't developed a moral framework to justify them.
Please, tell me, how would comments look if someone did the same thing, but for the guy?
The sight of a bunch of guys rushing to fight sexism (often without even understanding what sexism is) and solve women's issues for them is amusing.
This is not to say, that there are no problems. But the biggest problem I see is a knee-jerk reaction to anything involving gender or race. Sometimes assholes are just assholes and couldn't care less if their victim is women or black person, or whatever. The bunch of self proclaimed righteous knights however fails to see that and then everything becomes sexims and/or rasism thus diluting real problems.
Impossible by definition. Any adult can find scores of loopholes in anything that is codified in a way so simple that a 5 year old can learn it in under 5 minutes. If your law is riddled with loopholes, then it can't be "strict" for any definition of the word.
Dropbox: the lie sold to every startup