skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the advice. I understand your grass is greener comment, it's the reason I have held off for this long. But I'm finally sick of it and want to try out one of the open source alternatives (plus I am keeping my Windows 7 machine as a backup).
With the sound on, it sounds as if it is marketed for 14-year-olds. Are military presentations actually like this? Makes me think we need more women in those positions.
"Don't most people voluntarily buy a new copy of Office with each PC anyway?"

Not true at all. For compatibility reasons, it's sometimes easier to keep an older version than to get the newest version (as an example, excel 2008 for mac dropped VBA support but it was brought back in 2011)
Yes, it's kind of related, though, isn't it?
I'm gonna be attending. It should be fun :P.
Google says Account hacking down 99.7% over last 2 years
Exactly. Emblem.js is for people who love Haml / Slim / Jade and want to use that style of templating with Handlebars.js
What's really hard for new frameworks to overcome is the huge community that Bootstrap has created, checkout the big badass list of Bootstrap resources:

http://www.bootstraphero.com/the-big-badass-list-of-twitter-...
Hard to prove they are lazy but they certainly put very little effort into actually understanding or explaining the current state of online eduction.

Would it be lazy not to be familiar with articles on the subject published in your own paper?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/education/edlife/massive-o...
Wacom's stuff has been the gold standard for ages. A portable Wacom with the display behind the drawing area would be perfect.
>That a handful of almonds has the same calories as a certain amount of Captain Crunch is irrelevant.

No, it really is relevant. It actually does matter. Your fad diet is not magical, just like every other fad diet was not magical.

>The latter will quickly convert to glucose in your body

This is irrelevant. There is no evidence at all to suggest "insulin spikes" (which are actually minor and totally normal) are a problem at all. And they occur when you consume any food, not just carbs.

>will make a huge difference in your satiety levels

For some people. As much as it pains true believers to hear it, many people do not lose weight on low carb diets. The only way the diet works is by making you feel full so you consume fewer calories. Many people feel very hungry without carbs, and can eat massive quantities of fat without feeling full. Those people gain weight on low carb diets.
I really wish this post got more attention. Really important stuff.
I live by Linus, want me to walk over there and let him know?
Not a single shot fired during $50M diamond heist in Brussels
Culture Fit
If they ape the Windows 8 snap view completely, it won't work in portrait.

It will be interesting how they deal with installing phone apps on the tablet. They might just allow carte blanche or might require a developer to opt in to avoid issues with phone specific apps being unusable on the tablet.
Why is it targeted to kids? I was weirded out when it asked for my parent's email address.
It's pretty scary to imagine what a bad guy could do with backdoor access to the iCloud or iMessage services, too. Remote control and wipe any iOS or mac device, steal device backups, intercept txts...
Yeah putting the serious effort in isn't a problem, my love of all things computing attests to that. Spent the weekend installing arch and tweaking the hell out of it for no reason other than I found it the most fun I'd had in months.

I've looked into Codecademy for HTMl5+CSS+Javascript + Jquery and http://eloquentjavascript.net/index.html

I'm just afraid that I'll be looked down on with nothing but knowledge and lack of degrees I've always been told no degree = no job by parents / family / friends etc.

As for the companies that aren't sexy, honestly I couldn't care less what kind of company I worked for or for what salary at this point all I want is the practical experience to have something on my CV to say hey look I did this !
If you want an OS which runs on hardware and allows you to drive bash with a keyboard, you could get a laptop and run any flavor of Linux on it.
U.S. companies do receive significant support from their government, typically in the form of FBI support for the investigation and mitigation of intrusions.

The really sophisticated stuff is on the military side, which is a black box. But who is to say that the NSA or DOD is not actively engaged in trying to analyze or degrade the capabilities of Chinese APTs? It's possible someone in the NSA is reading the Mandiant report right now thinking "not bad, they got almost half of what we know."

The recent Obama executive order should help get more of such info into the hands of companies.
Your startup is a long race – plan accordingly
Wow. I wish I had this exact setup. I have never been good at configuring Vim and the SPF-13 VIM distro is wonky.

Would save me from buying Sublime
2013 Trends in Metadata
I still don't understand the hate HTC gets for Sense, it is mostly great and an improvement over stock Android. Also HTC provide new Android versions nowadays in reasonable time. Android and the "derivatives" are evolving quickly, make sure you are not judging on outdated facts.
Unix was designed? You wish. The very early parts of Unix were designed, but pretty much everything after that was bolted on under the banner of "worse is better".

Read about the currently decades old POSIX TTY subsystem to see how bad it is: http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/

ioctls and fcntl? Quick hacks to make things work. Fcntl lock files? Insane semantics that were quickly hacked on. Etc etc.
Exactly. And CISPA gets marketed as "SOPA warmed over" by activists eager to build their email lists.
What is with KDE and its angry rearguard actions? Let them make better partnerships if they want their product to be promoted, it isn't necessary to spend so much time downing other people's efforts.
with your cursor on a filename that is a legitimate relative path, you can just press 'gf' to open the file from command mode. there is also a mirrored command of '^xf' in insert mode. slightly different work flow...

^o and ^i get used a lot in conjunction with 'gf', and are also pretty handy in general.
"no real use video"

Here's a hands-on video of the phone version: http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/2/3828266/ubuntu-phone-os-han...
Two reasons.

- The other modernized nations you speak of are all running deficits, with the exception of small countries with tremendous natural resource wealth (e.g. Scandinavia) and Germany (which has a tremendous manufacturing sector that I don't fully understand.) That said, the US also is running huge deficits, but a lot of that is due to a ridiculously disproportionate military budget.

- Again, the profitability that comes to drug and device companies from the US market largely subsidizes the cost of these goods in other countries. Cut off the profitability in the US, and the costs for drugs and devices go up in every other market.

I would love to see a way for the US to be able to provide full healthcare coverage to all its citizens, but as someone with a graduate degree in healthcare economics who has studied the problem in depth, I just don't see it.

That said, we shouldn't be turning away the uninsured that need basic healthcare. We have to figure out a way to provide that coverage in a more efficient way than the ER.
Is the data available to perform this clustering? Like with BitCoin, are all SR transactions recorded for posterity and accessible to every market participant?
Most of them get the fingers pointed at China (PLA or otherwise) or Russian Mafia.
BizSpark (free for startups) includes Office
Isn't the NHS in the process of being gutted? In fact, the current health secretary believes the NHS is irrelevant and wants it dismantled completely.

http://www.bengoldacre.net/?p=45
I have the HTC One X (International Version) apart for the horrible thing that is HTC Sense 4 (apart from the camera improvements and certain dialer improvements), I've been able to root and load custom ROMS on my phone without any issues.

HTC even set up a site to make it easy to unlock the bootloader here: http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader
Yes, it’s strange. My idea here is: for distances both things are typical: meters and kilometers. Every day we need to handle both unites. It would be impractical to give longer distances in meters (“Hey Jeff, it’s still around 100000000000000000 picometers to your home, will be there in roughly 4200000000000 nanoseconds…”).

But even huge distances on Earth can be measured in km, and we don’t need megameters.

With calories however for all practical purposes we have a number range in which it is okay to use kcal. So here people just forgot that the k actually has a meaning. It makes not much sense to go down to the level of cal.
I'm very curious too, I wonder why this "waterhole" has not been publicly revealed yet? It would make it easier for others to identify whether they were exposed, and take the necessary actions to secure their workstations.
I find your reaction odd. Like, I'm sure Nathan would be willing to refund the money you didn't actually spend to read this article that you found to be such a ripoff that it's equivalent to a $100 apple.
True. My point, however, was that the author was highlighting the fact that this particular patient did not contribute much to the financial pool from which he was now drawing.
There is no requirement besides money? Seems like there should be some other act which law enforcement would not want to perform, but which a legitimate seller would.
Maybe send 0.00000001 Satoshis
What has always bothered me is AWS comes up with a service which is half cooked and doesnt answer the true requirement of the application. I have used almost all of AWS offering in different contexts and every time, when we really needed the action, it failed miserably.

I believe, AWS should concentrate on its core offering and that of being a awesome IaaS. It needs to fix it severe and long downtimes and many such core issues, unpredictable network performances, etc
1. I believe that was addressed in the video. These are very short range devices that can be recharged by solar energy or by sitting on power lines.

2. See the video.

3. You might be able to deny access to buildings with mosquito nets but you're not going to stop close range surveillance, painting targets and other uses. Mosquito nets themselves would be relatively trivial to dismantle with a swarm of these (you'd only need to land one with explosives on the net).
Nobody will ever be convicted for some package, so much is clear. But thats not the point. That package is enough to get a judge to sign off on a search warrant. And in my country, there is no "fruit of the poisonous tree" principle - even if the search is found to be unlawful afterwards, the majority of findings are admissible.
Is this production ready / feature complete ? Can I go about replacing my complex handlebars templates?

A note on current limitations would be awesome.
Can you install cinnamon on ubuntu? Or do you have to migrate to Mint?
How could you possibly know?
Exactly. And the new site will learn the mistakes committed by the old site.
Stop being defensive. He has a point. Python docs can be frustrating. Too many times, docs lead with examples instead of a simple list of functions or methods accompanied by examples. It's true the function/method descriptions are often incomplete; some argument description are only hints, exceptions thrown are rarely stated, etc.

He's wrong about getting questions answered. Don't know about the Python community, but the StackOverflow community (and elsewhere) more than makes up for it. It's very rare that I haven't gotten a good answer to a question in the first one or two google responses. Where the author went wrong is trying to outsmart google by directing the query to a particular set of documents, instead of just asking, e.g., 'python length of array'.
That doesn't mean it isn't a fad. And to be accurate, no it didn't actually happened. The cows you are eating did not exist. Neither did any of the fruits or vegetables. Almost everything you eat is much more modern than the grains you eat. Humans have been consuming grains for at least 100,000 years. There is no evidence to support the notion that grains are bad for us in any way.
Man this looks great my transformer prime is getting kinda slow let me find the download li--- oh.

Well nevermind then. Back to work.
Great visualization!

It's mind blowing that these suppliers represent over a million people within Apple's supply chain: http://www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/labor-and-human-...
I use python's Tornado webserver directly on the network. Don't know if it's the best idea, but seems to work fine for my purposes.
I too agree. Developing for the web is painful, as already stated the only thing I like about it as a developer is the zero deploy.
I am taking two classes at the moment and the only option the college offers for them is to take them online. (One is supposed to be a hybrid but only in theory.) What I have found is that the workload in one of these online classes actually compares to one of my MBA grad school classes. Many times the assignments do not have adequate instruction provided from the text in order to complete them. For these reasons, I have been left me really desiring that this was a traditional class with a real instructor and instruction provided in the classroom. There is something to be said for classroom interaction for sure. It would at least have been nice to have been given an option to take the class in an actual classroom setting. This way I could actually be taught the content rather than left trying to figure it out by with a learning lab instructor or by myself.
Is there any documentation on usage?
It is not an alternative to a handlebars dependency, but it does mean you can write templates without writing any handlebars code. So it is an alternative to writing Handlebars templates, but not an alternative to using them.
Now that Nginx supports WebSockets, Phusion Passenger can start supporting WebSockets as well and allowing all hosted apps access to it. Node.js support is experimental, and there are plans to support PHP and other languages as well.
If you are running Java in your browser, you were exposed. There, done. The internet is a nasty place, get used it.
I'm really excited to watch this come to further fruition. Alex gave a great quick demo at the last NY Ember.js meetup and I was really impressed. I'm a big fan of Handlebars but really appreciate the cleaner syntax.
Honestly like I said in another reply, I don't mind the well paid part at all.

In all honesty, Money is the last thing on my mind when it comes to becoming a developer, I literally have no interest in attaining wealth. As long as I have my basics and a roof over my head with internet I'm actually quite happy.

So I'm pretty much willing to start from the bottom and work my way up to whatever I can get, I have little interest in being paid well in the next five years so to speak.

What I do have more interest in is gaining good experience and practical skills that I can use and a good working environemnt.

I think as for the bottom end, honestly I just was looking at Javascript as a way into the industry. It's far from my preference of something to learn, Honestly I'd much rather spend time learning Python or Java but I need a way in.
Apple Confirms Malware Attack, Releasing Updated Malware Removal Tool
There's also cdist which is python and shell-script based - does not even need python on the target machine, only ssh and a posix shell.

check it out: http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cdist/

disclaimer: I work with the author, but not actually on the cdist codebase (not enough to brag about, anyway)
Great job Ducksboard team, looks fabulous. Have you looked into using Connect vs asking for credentials?
Based in New York, owner of the startup, have two employees that are in a similar position (under 26, covered under parents' insurance) and we are trying to decide whether it makes sense to individually continue an extra year using COBRA or just dive into a group plan now.
How is the reliability of it? This professor had a data loss issue with the last version: https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z135fbjhswilyzfui23...

Owning software is much less important to me than keeping my creative works safe.

I personally haven't used it in a few years. I do some writing in Google Docs, but have begun to do more writing in .txt file programs. They are lightweight and it's a format that will be around for a long time to come. Byword on OS X is just awesome btw.

On Linux or Windows, Google Docs and plain text editors. On a Chromebook, Google Docs works pretty well. I do wish there was s prettier version of Docs just for writing text ala Byword.
The only thing I ran in the terminal after install was my script that apt-gets all the software I like. No drivers, no macfanctl, just a straight install. Media keys work, etc.
So let's say I'm not except when I'm forced to use Safari for some pages in the iOS dev center?
Post-9/11 "counter-terrorism" has been almost entirely a pretext under which to develop domestic counter-insurgence. Future political instability is likely due to a number of factors and they may be preparing to maintain federal power in the face of this.
"Soy de Mayaguez!!!", and a programmer (living in Orlando).

I stumbled with this HN entry and it warmed my heart just to visit the link to find the word "Mayaguez" in the announcement page.

Keep up the good work!
>A basic text on biochemistry will educate you more than this "expert"

No, it will confirm what he said and that you are mistaken. You should try opening one and skimming through it before believing it will always support your assertions, regardless of their lack of factual basis.
WSJ: Google developing plans to launch retail stores in the US
Shared infrastructure, use of same non-public backdoor, same tactics taken once on the box, same watering hole used, hop point includes connections from both Facebook and Apple...

Come on man. Read the Mandiant report on APT1 if you want to get schooled on how to tie groups of hackers together over different campaigns.
fyi - for people using ember with rails: https://github.com/alexspeller/emblem-rails
I think only the kookiest diets ignore this basic principle. The problem is that most people can't just rationally decide "oh I'll just eat less" or "I'll just eat lower-calorie foods" or "I'll just exercise a lot more and ignore the hunger that comes with it". Well, you can decide that for a variable-length but generally short amount of time, and then billions of years of evolution kick in and hormones make you want to eat more, and eat all kinds of stuff your rational mind tells you is probably a bad idea, but maybe just this once.

Dieting is about tricking that system in one of various ways. Different things work for different people. For some people, no tricks are required but you can't just assume it's that easy for everyone.
Just found this app and I love it!
I just found this text snippet app, and I think it is great.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5246146
The problem with Celebrities is that they have multiple homes and travel so much that you still can't confirm they live there at the moment.
Funnily enough, whenever virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper cause problems for exactly the reasons stated in the article I do give the internet a try.

Whenever I stumble across a new problem and google for it there is a huge wealth of information about what's causing it and what the workarounds are. That's great news for me, but not so great for your bullshit 99.99% figure. A rather large number of people have run into the same problems, a huge number if you assume that most of them don't post about it since someone already has.

Also funny is that there are now decades of experience with shell tools and programs, much more than there is with python, nevermind virtualenv. Perhaps they have best practices for a reason?
Mosquitoes are an apt analogy: however, I don't think the analogy is to the detriment of legitimate fear of these.

Mosquitoes have not only overcome those technical obstacles, but thrived as a species. They even manage to kill millions of people a year, inadvertently. Obviously you can't sweep everything difficult about utilizing these bug-drones under the rug as just questions of implementation, but it's pretty clear that they're not inherently unfeasible.
The Student Body, for Sale
Criminal groups are generally referred to by Mandiant as "CDT" for "Card Data Theft."

The overwhelming majority of APT groups that actively target private corporations, individuals, the media and Mandiant's commercial customers are in China.
Ubuntu design guidelines: http://design.ubuntu.com/apps
I agree that HTML5 is not pretty and not ideal. A large part of the HTML5 trend (for apps) is that most apps have moved to the cloud. This means that the front end is not overly complex. For a world where software is moving to the cloud, HTML5 fits the bill. Again, not pretty but works.

Why would I want to write a cloud service front end 3 times - in Obj-C ,Java, C#, HTML5 itself (firefoxos). There's no value.
High-Tech Innovations: From Lab to the Marketplace with SBIRs
Bash script I wrote sometime back to download playlists from 8tracks. Works even with their new API changes.
>I eat more calories than before judging by the amounts of meat/butter/nuts that I eat.

So, judging by guessing. That is not how you judge. Measure your food and see how many calories you actually consume. It is fewer.

>An interesting article backing the low-carb high-fat diets that has links to the matching double blind studies

Which confirm that the people who successfully lose weight on low carb diets do so by caloric reduction. Might want to pay attention when posting sources that contradict you.
Queuing and Batching on the Client and the Server
>> Your remark applies to any storage device, including batteries. So it's not an issue that sets supercapacitors apart.

> That is correct and is my point.

No, your point was that supercapacitors discharge faster than batteries because of leakage. But that's not true -- it depends on which insulating material is selected, and that hasn't been decided yet.

Here is what you said: "They aren't magic. They have a relatively high self-discharge (or leakage depending on how you measure it) compared to say Li-ion/NiMh cells which means basically they piss capacity away slowly."

It's false. So I said so. Any questions?
Next Twitter account hacked: This time, it's Jeep
It really fits into place if you're coming from one of those libraries. I only wish I could enable percent-sign indicators for HTML tags! (%h1 vs h1)
I have a Scorpio Blue that parked its heads incessantly until I deployed a utility to force better ACPI settings.

Not write endurance, per se. But you only get to park the heads so many times, on average...
I remember when SSD's first started hitting the market years ago, everyone's utmost concern was about wear leveling.

As it turns out, if you ship a drive with buggy firmware and it refuses to be recognized after the 50th cold boot, write leveling ends up not being so important.
but those problems were just talked about, not solved. This is the US government we're talking about, so I bet they will never get far, and by the time they have something operational, you'll be able to but something 10x better on Amazon.