skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You never set a standard based on a worst case scenario. Just because 30% of 12 yr old kids (btw I made that number up) are swearing left right and center does not seem logical to not protect the other 70% from swearing.
> Yes, in Europe we're mostly treated like adults.

Mostly. But in many European countries, instead of fines you'll face jail-time if you broadcast words that have been deemed unacceptable by the government. For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#Germany

While in the US, adults are expected to recognize and counter those obnoxious and hurtful words with rejection, education and civil discourse.
Ahhh looked at the HTML and inferred from there but it should be a little more obvious?
If there's a feature you know isn't working ("apply with twitter"), why have it up there in the first place? At least, please have it so that clicking on it leaves my form fields intact. I know I spent only 20 seconds filling it out but that was annoying.
Making your own biodiesel is completely viable. Until the tipping point where there are too many people making their own biodiesel, and you find yourself competing with everyone else for access to oil/raw material
I wonder if game publishers/developers seek or accept external funding to back up a specific project?

From what I understand there are, for example, ways to invest in a motion picture, so it's not a big stretch to assume the same can be done with a game project.
Yikes, that's a long list.
Has anyone made a text editor optimized for poetic verse?

It'd automatically highlight syllable counts (and alternate the coloring of syllable-letter-groups within words). It'd indicate with bolding, underline, or other annotation stressed syllables. (Simple heuristics would get a lot right, and authors could correct the mistakes.) It could help with rhymes and near-rhymes. (I know there are already a lot of tools for this.)

Would make a nice web app.
China will certainly won't start a war against the US. There is actually a joke in China saying that if US wants to delay any high level government meetings they can just ask the US schools to have a mandatory parents meeting. And then many of those who in control of China will just fly over because they care about their children as much as other ordinary parents if not more.

And the US will certainly won't start the war either, because you can hardly find someone else who keep lending you money almost unconditionally.
So did anyone else think this referred to something involving CoffeeScript and Twitter Bootstrap?
Great read, thanks for the link. A lot of interesting game and low-memory design decisions going on there.
I'm not sure I completely understand you, but I think the original author was referring to: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PortKnocking
I think a lot of the communication problems come from your name. coffee is the short name of a programming language. And bootstrap programs are things used to start something. It sounds like a programming thing, even though it isn't.
Weekend project: List of $5 DRM-free comedy specials
I'm sorry, DRM is not like a musician coming to your house and monitoring you. That is where you lose me and probably most people. I also disagree with the idea that protecting content you create is unethical. If I own a store, and put a lock on the door, it is not unethical because I am assuming that someone might try to break in and take stuff. That is roughly what you are saying. Or you know how most pharmacies and grocery stores keep some things behind a locked display? I do not find that to be unethical, yet by your logic we should.

I'm a customer, and I don't find DRM insulting to me. I see it as content creators attempting to find a way to continue getting paid for content they create in this new world. I think it is pointless, but that is very different from what you are saying.

I see absolutely no harm in adding the ability to use DRM in html5 video. It has absolutely no affect on the rest of the open web. There is still the ability to put non-DRMed content on the web. If you truly believed that customers would reject DRM, and you seem to think so, then you shouldn't have a problem with giving people the choice and letting consumers vote with their feet.
Why not explain it just like this on your landing page? I got the general idea (after finding the landing page) fairly quickly but can't hurt to spell it out I think.

Nice idea by the way, I guess it's a lot like Verbling except in the real world rather than on video chat.
How about just a large For Sale with an 800 number? If the property is under an approach to a busy airport. The audience being, of course, all those bored folks in window seats with electronics turned off below 10,000 feet.

Design your sign. Slice your image into two or three horizontal stripes. Then email your slices to one of those vinyl banner sign companies, to be printed on 8' x 50' strips.
"As we all know security through obscurity only buys you time..."

No. Your definition of "security through obscurity" is totally wrong, so your sentence makes zero sense.

If I say: "This server uses port-knocking, you must on three ports between 1..65535 in the correct order before you can attempt to login using SSH on an unknown port"

There is absolutely zero security through obscurity here.

Just as there's zero security through obscurity when someone says: "I've got a server with SSH on port 22 open, you need a login/password to get in". Attackers do not know the login/password but that is still certainly not "security through obscurity".

Just as attackers do not know which three-ports knocking sequence they should use to log in. All they know is that they'll first need to try to find the correct port-knocking sequence amongst the 65536 exp 3 possibilities before being able to try to find the SSH port and then try to force the login/password.

Just as using a random SSH port is certainly not "security through obscurity".

Security through obscurity is when there's a design or an implementation detail that is obscured. Like when a snake-oil vendors creates a "one-password to store them all" website and doesn't say how it's doing the storing / encryption / authentication / etc.

That is security through obscurity.

Saying: "You need to know the secret root password to login" or "You need to know the secret port-knocking sequence before the SSH port shall allow" is not, has never been and shall never be "security through obscurity".
My thoughts exactly. OASIS!
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Differential equations has its uses within specific fields.

If you want to do anything involving control systems or robotics it would be good to have a background that includes differential equations.

Anything related to kinematics usually involves differential equations as well.

As for compsci outside of controls and robotics you see diff eq a lot less.
I agree with this - thanks a lot for the feedback.

We're going through the flow and experimenting with a lot of type choices, and your point about the tone really rings with me. I expect to put ChunkFive on the bench soon, to be replaced by something with a little less angst, though I expect it to still be a slab-serif. As far as Abril Display (what we're using for headings on these featured startup pages) is currently used, we could improve. I think the actual use of ligatures helps give a bowtie look, but it's not necessarily what we're looking to do. The tone of the brand going forward will be key for that decision. IMO Abril Text, being used for the body copy, is a good typeface for long format reading. Though however I try to justify it, we've got some serious typeface gloat happening, and we'll start to see them tightening up over the next few releases.

Thanks again, much appreciated thoughts.
I once reported password exposure via browser caching in the login form of one of those "too big to fail" banks. (I called it in.)

I never heard anything back, but a month or so later, it was fixed.

I'm glad it was some years ago. These days, I think I'd fear that their legal team would seek to have me criminally charged and/or bankrupted, regardless. (Don't look at the password caching; that's "hacking".)

I guess you did a good thing. In this day and age, though, I almost wish they were named, as such behavior represents an extreme form of negligence. (I am not advising you to reveal them, though. See, for example, my previous paragraph.)
Hi, it boils down in fact to something very simple: we message you matching you up for real world coffees with other CoffeeStrappers who are compatible with you on the basis of your spoken and practice languages, your location, your gender, your age, and your interests, when you both are available. The rest of the infrastructure is only accessory, and its function is to making this match possible, accurate, and safe.
danielweber is probably right. It's fashionable to hate on MongoDB now. There have been many, many articles detailing people having issues with it. Anything from losing data due to not keeping the set in RAM to "unsafe" defaults.

Typically the hate comes from people being unprepared and not researching their database options enough before making choices. IMO the fact that it's so easy to get up and running with Mongo actually works against it because it seems like the database "just works" until you start needing something from it.

Ex[1]: Foursquare took their Mongo instances to bare metal recently, keeping everything else on EC2. Most people starting with Mongo aren't thinking "at some point I'll migrate my database servers to our new datacenter to run on bare metal".

That said, the recent MongoSV didn't instill much confidence in the platform. You could overhear the frustration of 10Gen's event sponsors all day. Personally, I'm trying to move to distributed, masterless systems so Riak fits in very nicely. Yokozuna is also promising as a riak-solr type deal[2] and Riak Core can be used as a framework for creating distributed systems.

[1] http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongodb-foursquare-cloud-...

[2] https://github.com/rzezeski/yokozuna
Some help with your English (my mother's an English teacher, I've been a professional writer, and I live in the UK):

"We help you learn foreign languages by setting up one-to-one meetings with native speakers of languages you'd like to learn."
It's a smart idea; 10 years * 3 story arcs, 30 world events. They only need to invest for the first year or two. They can create the rest, like WoW has been doing.

As for subscription-based, we'll see micro transactions, or expansion packs.

Social features could be fun. I'm sure we'll see a cow-clicker mechanic.

I'd also bet that they'll have random world events, and user-triggered world events. Outside of the 10 year arc.

Not so all-in, but it's interesting to see a gaming company switching to long term bets. To me this means once the battleship is up and running, bungie/activision will have the freedom to produce more games.

Also I'm sure they've had some nice input from Blizzard, statistics, code and all.
Dho. Sorry about that. We built CoffeeStrap in 4 weeks and we do not have tested extensively everything. Totally our mistake!
I think it's actually a matter of having better CAD tools. When we get to the point that an entire billion-transistor CPU can be laid out automatically given only the VHDL for the instruction set (or something -- I'm not enough of a chip designer to know exsctly what's involved), then it will be much easier to experiment with new architectures.
It seems like a cool idea. I can see it turning into a dating service... The language barriers can make things sexier ;)
Github - "Experiencing Problems"
Are you talking about Penn and Teller's Desert Bus? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_%26_Tellers_Smoke_and_Mirr...
> I'm sorry, DRM is not like a musician coming to your house and monitoring you. That is where you lose me and probably most people.

Oh really? Should I remind you of this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

>I also disagree with the idea that protecting content you create is unethical. If I own a store, and put a lock on the door, it is not unethical because I am assuming that someone might try to break in and take stuff.

Your analogy is wrong. People buying content is analogous to going to the store, buying something and bringing it home. Protecting the store is all fine with me - it's analogous to creating authentication, allowing only registered users to buy and so on. DRM goes much further than that. If you want to use the store analogy, it would mean that after buying a product, the store sends their police bot with you, which comes to your house and watches what you do, preventing you from potential illegal activity. I find it completely unethical and unacceptable practice. Another analogy would be placing a police camera right in your house, for the sake of preventing situations when you decide to do something illegal. Do you think it's acceptable?

DRM is running on your computer, in your house on your device in your private network. It's a closed black box which you suddenly are supposed to trust? Why so? One shouldn't trust it, especially given the history of abusing these things. Trust always depends on mutuality. DRM means they don't trust you by default assuming you are going to use the content illegally. Why after that you suddenly are supposed to trust them? They should be treated in the same fashion and not trusted by default!

We disagree on the core principle here. You don't consider DRM unethical, so you don't see a problem to put it in the HTML standard. I consider the whole approach unethical and therefore putting it in the standard as unacceptable.

However I brought several arguments why it's pointless even according to your view. One of them - it's a dying trend which is impractical altogether (i.e. it achieves no useful purpose and on the contrary only degrades usability and ignores the issues of fair use and accessibility). Therefore making it a standard is wrong, since it means promoting dying pointless trends on the Web.
Microsoft Pushes Hard To Convert Users to Subscriptions With Office 2013
Just so happens this hits #1 on HN just as GitHub has a major service outage... https://status.github.com/
Developer confidence wont mean a thing if the market thinks your work is bunk.
A Beer-dispensing arcade game
This is roughly true. There's a movement struggling for prominence to perform serious criticism, but it's been in the academic sphere rather than the consumer sphere... so no one makes any significant amount of money doing it.

It's basically a vicious cycle.
AND IT'S BACK!
Well, can someone explain what this is about in the meantime?
Got it working after some refreshing. Getting errors while trying to make it work locally, though.

The read-only demo is at http://eligible-demo.herokuapp.com/.

Not that I understand what this is supposed to be about, though.
Excellent, I see.

So you are saying that if I had 10x the data, then the Saturday opening rate and the Sunday response rate could've been completely different?
weeee github is back up!
Avatar's budget, to take a not-too-random example, was $237 million. You're looking at probably about half that for a videogame, which is insane.

Err.. That's not insane at all.

Video game revenue has long outstripped movie revenue[1, 2009]. To pick a non-random example, it too 24 hours for Halo 4 to bring in $220M revenue (as opposed to 17 days for Avatar)[2]

Halo 4 cost around $40M to produce[2]

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/sep/27/v...

[2] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732443980457811...
Google login didn't work for me. The page says that I've logged but nothing happens.
No Turkish?
Good luck
If it's totally a fantasy, it can be anything they want. The moment reality barges in, suddenly there's cold hard math to be done.
Sailthru does this in addition to lots of other things.
The Tower of David
The whole hi/low ports as security was always bogus. From day one. Ask those who implemented it from that era, and they will now agree. If someone had a shell account on a machine, they could have 'root'. If they had root, they can bind low ports (and anything else). The fact that Linux still requires a root user to bind a listener to a <1024 port was just the Linux guys being conservative. They wanted adoption, not someone saying 'Linux is insecure because they let non root bind to low ports'. They now have adoption, and quite a bit of legacy decisions still in there.

I used to fume about 15 years ago. These days, I'm much more zen about this. (or trying to be zen).

Also, I welcome posts like this. I've come to understand that what was once understood by many, may not be when you add 10 or 5 years. For example, the recent HN post from dadgum.com about C's most powerful operator being 'switch'. This is well known. However, maybe there are 17 or 15 year olds who lurk HN. In order for them to learn, they should be exposed to that knowledge.

So, while we are trying to help one another, here is some advice. One really good way to run sshd securely is to use a different operating system other than Linux. This isn't because Linux is bad, it is just that certain decisions were made that will not change. People might extrapolate what I just said too far. Let me illustrate this as a conversation for entertainment.

world says: 'drudru just said don't run linux anywhere'

drudru says: 'Nope. What I'm saying is if you need high security, yet open to the world, sshd install, don't run it on Linux. Run it on an OS and config designed for security. You can still use Linux and other OSs for other things.'

world says: 'Ok, if I do that, how do I ssh to my Linux hosts?'

drudru says: 'Since your sshd host is running not on Linux and it is secure, you can use it to login to your other hosts. You should run it on a static IP address. Then you will only allow ssh in to all your other hosts from that known secure IP and host key. You can have multiple jump machine/static IPs, say 2 on different networks for redundancy.'

world says: 'I've heard OpenBSD was secure. I don't want to learn OpenBSD, FreeBSD, etc.'

drudru says: 'You should just run on Heroku or something equivalent. It will allow you to outsource the entire problem.'

world says: 'I cannot run my Hadoop,Cassandra, etc. on XYZ cloud platform.'

drudru says: 'I am pretty sure you can. There are a lot of new solutions out there if you get a moment to search.'

ALTERNATE ENDING

world asks: 'Can I run sshd on Windows securely?'

drudru says: 'You should just run on Heroku or something equivalent. It will allow you to outsource the entire problem.'

RING RING

drudru says: 'hey, good luck with that. gotta go.'
Which major label did they sign to? Their song "Jimmy Iovine" is a pretty scathing indictment of major labels.

"We’ll give you a hundred thousand dollar.
After your album comes out we’ll need back that money that you borrowed.
So it’s really like a loan, a loan? Come on, no.
We're a team, 360 degrees, we will reach your goals!
We’ll get a third of the merch that you sell out on the road.
Along with a third of the money you make when you’re out doing your shows.
Manager gets 20, booking agent gets 10,
so shit, after taxes you and Ryan have 7% to split.
That’s not bad, I’ve seen a lot worse, No one will give you a better offer than us.

"I replied I appreciate the offer, thought that this is what I wanted.
Rather be a starving artist than succeed at getting fucked."
"We have always seen litigation as a last resort, and we work hard to avoid lawsuits," a Google spokesperson said, according to a report by The Register. "But BT has brought several meritless patent claims against Google and our customers - and they've also been arming patent trolls. When faced with these kind of actions, we will defend ourselves."
> Is it an unmemorable, weird name?

Another way of putting that is "unique"—and unique names are very valuable, both classically for establishing identity, but even more so these days: You want google searches for your name to end up on your site, not giving vague "everything on the internet" results.

Of course the real reason here is that Rakuten is an enormous steamroller in Japan (basically: Japan's version of Amazon), and if they're going to consolidate, they're hardly going to change the familiar name that's accompanied their success, especially not for some vague generic term.

[Recently I've happened to read various stories on "inc.com" and they've all been absolutely idiotic. Does anybody actually read this site?!]
Windows Blue Confirmed by Microsoft Job Postings
Feel free to post details on any errors. Issues page on github is probably the best place, once it's back up.
Happiness seemed appropriate there to me. It's an emotion, which necessarily makes it hard to define. Happiness usually seems like some static combination of relationships, hobbies and work. This balance can change, though. It's mostly a slow and gradual process, so we don't notice.

Monitoring "happiness" means keeping a long term barometer on your mood, looking for trends. It's the first sign of unaligned goals and actions, before you can be aware of which particular one is not to your liking.

That's my own take that I've adapted from something Steve Jobs described in a Stanford commencement speech:

"I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."
How about being a bit more supportive and air this concern in a more supportive manner? It's not like it's rocket science to figure out what is their main url, right?
Sure. There's a difference between assigning causes and assigning blame. But assuming that human error is the root of failure is a useful lie.

http://chester.id.au/2012/04/09/review-drift-into-failure/
What the hell are those gender symbols?
I chose the one that looked like it didn't have fallopian tubes. Also anticipated a male-first bias and that confirmed the selection. But wow, how about something more common?
One of the features of real-estate development is that a lot of research tends to be done anonymously to avoid tipping one's hand. In addition, many tracts of interest are not near airports, etc.
I would agree if we talked about a small/medium sized studio.
But with ~350 employees love is not in there anymore.

Its all about the ROI at the end and it has to be as high as possible. Probably the pitch for this game was something like "its like COD and Halo just BIGGER !!". To get a budget this size approved.

Everyone is fighting an uphill battle against WoW and my guess is an indie studio will take the crown in the foreseeable future.
Another 'X written in Y' post. Awesome.

I think I'll save myself the wasted time and just use X from the get-go.
No, I'm addressing what you're saying. You tried to say that regenerative braking produced a net advantage, but this is not possible. Here's the source of your error:

> More stop and go with normal braking: -50% efficiency

Wrong value. Apart from the fact that the number is invented, because each stop turns all the car's kinetic energy into heat, the number should be -100%. Either that or perform a full analysis, with a listing of all the factors.

After you recover 20% of the energy with regenerative braking, you end up with -80% instead of -100%.
I really really have no idea what this thing is about. Can someone explain please?
This is a perfect description.
A lot of real-estate sits for years. Weekly photos aren't really necessary.