skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
oh yes of course they can set-up 2-factor authentication themselves, but it's not supported ''out-of-the-box'' is it?

This is what I mean: http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-explains-why-outlookcom...

With Google Apps you just turn it on... and can force users to use it.
I live in South Africa. We are one of the countries with a huge RIM following, you can find a black berry device on every street corner.
Students get class-wide 'A's by boycotting test, solving Prisoner's Dilemma
Using Kickstarter as your MVP
Fake US Identities
Today's politics and laws are about emotion. A group has an emotional crisis so a law must be written to address it. Most bad things in life are already illegal, but there seems to be the desire to add more laws to address that specific thing that bothers that specific group. Even though it is already covered by a number of other laws. Politicians take advantage of this with the typical "we must do something!" or "we must do this for the 'whatever'" (typically children) rhetoric that addresses the emotion but tosses out all logic. It's similar to the perpetual war concept by always pointing over the border at "the enemy".

The problem is that your average person doesn't know enough of what's going on in the world and probably cannot do so anyway, that's the point of a representative government. That's another thing that politician's take advantage of, a person's willingness to believe whatever an "expert" states. Of course it's illegal to carry a firearm onto a plane, except for certain situations (police and so forth), but when someone of authority says that laws that prevent plastic guns from going on planes are expiring the average people assume the politician means that it will suddenly be legal to do so. That's not necessarily true, there are several other laws to prevent such a thing from happening. But the authority figure in his rhetoric chooses not to mention that.

As for almost all gun ban laws in place or have ever been proposed, if you take a hard look, do nothing in terms of preventing any other laws from being broken. Most mass shootings happen in areas where it is known the likelihood of another gun being on the premises is low because the law makes it a "gun-free zone". Gun ban laws tend to lean towards banning guns based on cosmetic features, not the actual functionality of the weapons involved.
>I did not think that the films were worse then before, is just that I'd seen so many films that no new films felt original.

I think it's both. One wearies of a film's efforts to tell a story (compared to a book and an active imagination), given certain limitations in the medium, but the filmmaking process is getting much worse as time passes -- there's the temptation to blow stuff up for two hours (the Michael Bay approach) instead of tell a story. Also flimmakers know high-quality films can't find an audience -- old-style films that respect the intelligence of the viewers end up in art houses and late-night TV.

To a first approximation, modern filmmaking is a bunch of business-school graduates getting together and trying to create a "new" film that's as much as possible like the last film that attracted a large audience. They do all they can to include elements that worked before, they're extremely risk-averse, and their cynicism about their audience is boundless (and largely justified).

Meanwhile, films like "Juno" and other first-rate films get a modest audience, but at high risk -- most courageous films like "Juno" fail, so the risks are high in producing a remarkable film that people also watch.

People need to realize that filmmaking is primarily a business, not an art form. When a modern film is justly described as art, that's an accident, not part of the original plan.
Also, GCC -O3 is prone to removing too much code and reordering it, causing memory barrier issues and the like.

Whoah, that's what __sync_synchronize() and volatile are for. If you're trying to write order-dependent multithreaded code without those, the bug's in your code, not in compiler flag juju.
Ansible is moving at a pretty good clip too.

We do strongly encourage squash commits so I wouldn't go by counts alone, but pick what tool you like to use most and that best fits your needs, and your style, and what you want to do with it.
I'm working on a project where the CTO of this huge company is criticizing the lack of code I'm writing. Doesn't matter the fact that my code meets every criteria. No functionality is being left out. But, he wants more code. It has been very difficult for me to deal with this, because its the first time I have ever faced such idiocy.
> "train the users" is for me a 30 year mantra that no one out side of geekdom wants to hear

Perhaps a better approach to "training the users" might be for the University to actively attempt to phish its own users on a regular basis.

Those who fall for the phishing could be contacted directly, or have email access limited for some period of time (for example, a reduced sending rate limit).

Making self-phishing a regular occurrence (say, weekly) would train users to recognise and ignore it.
Farmer's patent fight With Monsanto.
You're looking at the problem from only one perspective: injury. It is true that this system offers no protection from injury for occupants of the automobile, but any time you strike someone or something, there's the additional matter of liability.

If a system like this is widely available, and it proves effective, then there will it will provide the benefit of reduced injury. Reduced injury means lower medical bills for the injured and lower settlement payouts.

Insurance premiums are tightly modeled. Lower risk and incident costs mean lower rates. That's one potential benefit to the purchaser.

You also have to consider regulation. Humans are poor judges of risk. There was a time not too long ago when consumers would choose "cheap" over "safe" if given a choice. I don't mean to say that consumers would walk in to a dealership and say, "Give me the cheapest car you have, safety be damned!" I mean to say that car manufacturers would say, "Oh yeah, of course it's safe," and consumers would take their claims at face value. That proved to be a poor choice.

Enter government regulation. At some point, it became clear that automakers and consumers weren't going to make cars sufficiently safe on their own. The first steps in safety were things like mandatory fitment of seat belts, then compulsory wearing. Airbags followed, then ABS.

Now we're seeing an increase in regulations related to pedestrian safety. There are already some pretty significant laws on the books in the EU related to pedestrian safety. Car and Driver, of course, takes the perspective of how this effects automobile design:

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/taking-the-hit-how-pede...

Volvo has a pretty long history of pioneering safety systems that are later made compulsory by legislation. I suspect we may be seeing the same thing here.
I don't think you have become stupider. Maybe more in need of the mindless relaxation that a predictable yet entertaining film can provide. I'd think if it had been depression, but there would certainly be other signs then film watching habits, right?

I don't even bother watching about 95% percent of the films available, just because they are so predictable, but predictability isn't everything. If you've watched a Lord of the Rings or Star Wars film more than once, it wasn't because you were wondering how it would end. I think unexpected plot twists are a relatively minor tool in the filmmaker's bag, compared with great acting, great storytelling, wonderful cinematography, etc.

Could it be that when you were vegetating in front of the TV, you were slightly depressed or indulging in some kind of escapism? Then you latched on to something exciting to spend your time on that erased your need for dodging reality? And now the raw peak of that excitement has faded a bit, leaving you some time and mental energy to enjoy the subset of films that are good, even when predictable. Could that be it?
I'd love to see some 'advanced polymers' that can handle the stress of a caliber greater than .22LR(which is what Defense Distributed tested with), while simultaneously being printed with the precision necessary from a printer costing <$10k.

It's also worth pointing out you can already buy all of the components necessary to assemble your own firearm, all without a serial number. I think the deeper issue here is, as another comment pointed out, there are entrenched interests promoting this hysteria to garner public sentiment for regulation by making the scary applications glaringly obvious and overshadowing the beneficial implications of the technology.
Verisign "dongles" can come on smartphones of all types, and on many operating systems. I even believe they have browser plugins, meaning even linux would be supported. That is, if you think two-factor is necessary for university systems.

As far as email, there are several things to consider: One, that I would think it a rarity for a student, or even a teacher! to need to send a single email to more than a handful of /external/ email addresses at a time. Put an email firewall in place between your internal and external systems, and have IT security monitor that system for peaks in traffic. Single users sending outbound mail a lot. Obviously, there should be a spam filter going in AND out.

And yes, spam email does trickle in sometimes, and from different SMTP servers, but from the bit I've dealt with them, there are definite patterns that a person can pick up on when they're watching for it.
How about catapults, like an aircraft carrier, instead of inductive chargers? You get all your kinetic energy to road speed plus you can regeneratively charge to the limits of tire/road traction. You get the energy for at least two stops and all you need is a little someplace on the bottom of the car for the hook to engage. I'll bet intersections are more efficient too when the intersection can fire off the waiting traffic in short order.

You'll need a little faith that the intersection software won't launch you into cross traffic or pedestrians. And I'll bet you don't need red light cameras anymore once there is the threat of having a Prius launched into your driver's side door at 30mph.
..."all you would need to do is find and place the employees."

If it were that easy do you think everyone would do it? He should join a firm and learn the business. there's more to it than what appears on the surface.
In my opinion it is a computer architecture that has a memory model, not Java or C++.

Unfortunately that opinion is by definition incompatible with portable computer languages.
Interior airbags are mandated by regulation, you don't actually have a choice about it oftentimes - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbag#Regulatory_specification...

Plenty of people value the lives of others very lowly - or, really, they just don't think about it. How often do you see people speed, run red lights, tailgate, etc? I don't think that I've ever taken a journey without seeing at least some of these behaviours. That doesn't make those drivers psychopaths! Just distracted, pressed for time or worrying about something else. In the same way, not fitting this system doesn't make you a bad person...maybe you just don't have the $500 (or however much it costs) to fit it as an optional extra.

Just to be clear - I don't think this is a bad system. I'm curious how to go about marketing it to the average driver who is economically-minded. Does it have to be regulation, can it be insurance premiums, or is there some other mechanism to encourage uptake?
What I would like to see is an html/css/js framework like bootstrap or groundwork that is completely generic, with no styling at all; just a wireframe that lays everything out as it should. Then provide the ability to customize the look either manually or by some gui on the web. Otherwise you get a raft of "bootstrap" sites out there that all look the same unless a front-end dev goes through the painstaking process of overriding the default styles of the framework.
It looks comparable to me... I hadn't seen bouncy before though, so I'll have to check it out if I run into any problems with node-http-proxy.

I agree, having the power to write your proxy code in javascript is really nice, especially compared to having to struggle with getting some infrastructure's DSL to work for you (e.g. nginx, varnish's).
This is really neat stuff. I do not understand though why LING is not open-source already. If you are sincere in your claims for intentions of making it so, why would you wait until it is "mature" before doing so? Wouldn't it mature a lot faster if more people picked it up and tried to use it, submitted defects and even patches?
Care to elaborate? I think that's more of a judgement call than any sort of fact. I have to assume what you're talking about (which makes me wonder why this is the top comment) is the screenshots within the post. That could go either way. For a second I was engrossed by them and almost thought I was looking at the actual page but it's not so bad that it warrants being called a confused mess. The images were necessary to get the point across and things were separated enough so you knew what you were looking at. Nathan has a unique design style that both his blog and the ConvertKit landing page share elements of which is why I can see people getting a little confused but in the end, it's just a blog post, dude. And it's well designed on top of that. Not everything on the internet is perfectly suited to your tastes, lay off.
Spotting a phishing form only seems like "basic instruction" to you because you're highly computer-literate. It's not; it involves understanding at least some of DNS and the difference between hosts, domains and TLDs, URLs, HTTPS, and not to mention certificates and their validity.

In your analogy, it's like saying "people shouldn't be allowed to use cars unless they can verify the hydraulic pressure in the master brake cylinder"

Which is wrong: manufacturers should (and did) install brakes warning lights. And we need to come up with better warnings for users. Blaming them for these sorts of problems is unacceptable.
HTC announces new flagship HTC One with Ultrapixel camera
Tom's Planner http://www.tomsplanner.com for the Planning & Project Management category
This is not copywriting, this is landing page design (from the POV of a designer, and not marketer). I'm also wary of this data, because he does not include testing.
The way you design a landing page is very different from this one when you incorporate testing from the start.

Edit:

If you want to see a really good landing page, go and visit posthaven's page (http://posthaven.com I think). Its just perfect. You actually feel the need to pay this people money.
But any normal person wouldn't want to hurt others if it's easily avoidable?
Funny to see how frequently the word "grid" is sprinkled into that blog post. Now we use "cloud" the same way. It illustrates how silly the industry gets about using/abusing whatever the latest buzzword is.

Larry Ellison, of all people, nails it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FacYAI6DY0
About a year ago I came to Haker News to ask for guidance on how to market a new service I was creating. At that time, LinksWeaver was its name but now, it changed.

I received some feedback and now, as we have a little over 1,000 subscribers, I took time to write how we actually achieved this. Without spending money and without a finished product.

It is a very long read on my personal blog. Maybe it will be useful to someone who has the same questions I had back then.

Have a great day,

Nico
So? They still can make you gain weight:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_calorie
The online courses I took at Jr. college were mostly horrible, which is why I took as many of them as I could.

A class with "discussion credit", multiple choice quizzes, and one-size-fits all writing assignments, is pretty much junk. At my Jr. college, these classes were the most likely to be made into online courses. As such, a student was insane if they were required to take a course like this and didn't elect for the online version, because a physical class only wasted even more of your time.

A physical course had extra value for students who lived on the pass/fail line. They get a chance to display their problems to the teacher, who may feel bad and give them extensions on their busy work. Sympathy was harder to garner online, which is probably why online courses saw higher failure rates.
Oh, I'm plentifully aware of the possibility of the possibility of regulation (see other comments). I guess, having debated this back and forth up and down the thread, my underlying question is: are there mechanisms other than insurance reductions and regulation to encourage the uptake of such a system?
It's just as likely to disengage when you reverse.
Could be for the personal pleasure of knowing that you drive a car that is safer for others. I think it's quite similar to people who drive hybrids because they pollute less.
The Kindness of Strangers (2003)
Draw in the air with a 3D printing pen
The Facebook-McAfee Lockout
It's not orthogonal vs. crazy x86-y instruction sets, it's in-order vs. superscalar processing. The compiler knows the intimate details about each architecture's pipeline latency to a degree that most programmers don't.
I appreciate the depth and detail of this, thank you for posting it. However, I think it would be more effective if broken up into steps by section/facet of the landing page, rather than a giant description of "Round Two".

Of course, when it comes to editorial content, the sections/facets/headlines aren't entirely orthogonal...changing the content of one headline means you might rearrange a lot of other content. However, I think this makes it even more useful to break things down by iteration of each facet: e.g. Hero-headline v1.0, Hero-headline v2.0, etc., and show (briefly) how that impacts the other decisions you make down the page.

Of course, this is a lot more work, both in writing and in production, to put out.
I wonder if Google could offer special services at these stores beyond just retailed goods. What if they brought in a high capacity fiber line for every store? Bring in all your photos and videos and they can upload them in minutes for you. Wouldn't make for a bad wifi lounge either.
You probably overdid it on watching movies and TV before, and just got sick of it. Then after you took a break, you were able to enjoy them more.
True, but for example carbon nanotubes are also just "form of carbon" and they are great for lot of uses, but have about the same effect on human bodies as Asbestos, [1] so asking about this is legimitate.

You're right that Graphene is ok, though.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube#Toxicity
The article seems to unfairly groups multiple types of online courses together. Many of community college online courses that students withdraw from or fail are very different than the Stanford courses one could take on Coursera. Also, the article mentions students wasting money on these courses, but doesn't mention the possibility that some of the students who failed the online courses would have enrolled and failed in offline courses and wasted substantially more money. Perhaps the reason the completion numbers are lower online is that it offers students who are unsure of their ability to commit a low cost trial run? These are all questions I'd like an article like this to investigate.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=empty+calorie
Why virtualization is a feature and VMware will lose
New Facebook business model?
I've heard the argumentation that in developing countries the rate of death per kilometer driven or some such is currently the same as it was earlier in developed countries, despite better safety features in newer cars in developing countries. And that it's in part a cultural issue...

I don't necessarily agree that it's everything but it's still interesting.
Sure, but people are only limitedly altruistic (see the tragedy of the commons). If this system was free, then it should undoubtedly receive a huge uptake. But it's not free! So is there a way to encourage uptake without compulsion? Reduced insurance premiums could be one way. Are there others? Reduced car tax on vehicles with pedestrian-safety features installed?
Asmjs - a low-level subset of JavaScript
The loftiest towers rise from the ground
Bas de vries is launching his startup carchoice at our event in Amsterdam on Friday. Bas is 16 and this is his first public launch and he deserves all of our help.

It takes alot of guts to stand up in-front of a large group of people and get them to join in the moment of launching your first business. We are proud to help him in any way we can and this is why we do http://Pitch.rs .

Help each other not ourselves.
The second point of this editorial highlights what is wrong with higher education in the U.S.:

>>Second, courses delivered solely online may be fine for highly skilled, highly motivated people, but they are inappropriate for struggling students who make up a significant portion of college enrollment and who need close contact with instructors to succeed.<<

A college education, at the very least, once signified that a graduate had the wherewithal to actually stick with something for four years and finish it. This included figuring out how to pay for those four years, figuring out how to live on your own and provide for yourself, and actually putting in the work to pass the required classes. A degree was a signifier of at least basic competence and dependability. At the very least, any college graduate you hired in 1980 was likely to be a decent employee.

But then we, as a society, decided that a college degree was an end in itself. We looked around and saw that most middle class people had college degrees, so obviously if we wanted to grow the middle class, we just needed more college graduates. And so we turned college into high school, part deux.

Now, a B.A. signifies little more than a willingness to borrow silly amounts of money and have instructors and administrators hold your hand through the entire process.

If those signing up for online classes are “struggling” or failing to even participate in those online classes, is that person really going to be a productive, high-skilled employee? I think the answer is pretty clearly no. So why do we continue to pretend that person needs a college degree?
No pricing at all on the website is fishy for anyone who wants to use the free plan?
Careful with words. They actually point to real objects.
Gives me the idea to make an infinite scrolling HN aggregate.
Ding-dong, Hotmail's dead: All accounts switching to Outlook.com by summer
As others have said, I think you're selling peace of mind to the purchaser. Buying a Hybrid doesn't actually help you personally (the gas savings numbers tend to be iffy at most), but it does help the environment an ever so slight amount. But what you're selling really is a sense that you're helping the world (which in includes other people) in some way. And I think the relative success of hybrids shows that there is a market for that type of selling.
This begs the question. IS there trouble with online learning or online students? Certainly there are factors that would cause someone to enroll in an online class outside of the fact that "it is online".

Anecdotally, when I think back to my learning experience, I found that I had to be very self-motivated to learn in online classes and also take professors to task being available. This actually mirrored my experience with huge (100+ students) lecture hall style classes.