skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The LGPL doesn't work that way. You can't fork WebKit and keep your changes closed unless you don't distribute your browser to anyone. Now, you could use webkit along with (for example) a closed Javascript runtime, but that really has nothing to do with WebKit itself.
> Really? You can't beat the security of hosting servers in your basement with a top-tier datacenter with armed guards, mantraps, insurance, fire suppression, redundant power and internet, etc.?

Yes, a data center has armed guards. Those armed guards are not loyal to you and they are not observable to you.

If you are a startup with a trade secret written in code that is incredibly valuable and absolutely can not get out, self hosting gives you a kind of physical security that is hard to get running your code on rented machines.

I am not saying that this is my case, but I could see a case where it would apply.

Lets say you have developed extremely profitable algo trading strategies. If they are the kind of strategies where millisecond execution is paramount, of course you have to co-locate.

If your strategy is not under that kind of time constraint I would want my algos on machines only I could access.
Many, if not most, universities in the US offer something like this, from what I've seen. The one issue though, is that "non affiliated" users don't always get the same kinds of access as students / professors, at least in terms of accessing things from off-campus.

So, if you, for example, went and paid the UNC-CH library your $25.00 fee for a "borrower's card"[1], you don't get the ability to access all the various digital databases and what-not from your home, but you can drive down to the library, use the computer there, and access basically everything anyone else can. Or you can go down and ask the reference librarian to hunt down a paper for you and get you a paper copy.

On a semi-related note... I'm not sure what other states and jurisdictions have something like this, but here in NC we have something called "NC Live"[2], which is a portal that provides access to all sorts of online digital resources (including many which would otherwise be fairly expensive) to anyone with a library card from pretty much any county/city library in the whole state.

[1]: http://www.lib.unc.edu/circ/borrowers.html

[2]: http://www.nclive.org
I'd be very interested to know the percentage of people asked this who responded by explaining a project that directly related to the job they are applying for, and those that explain something from their everyday life.

I wonder which would be more effective. Passion in the topic of choice is without a doubt key.
Are you implying Presto is multi-threaded?
Good question and I've argued this case myself from the other angle to figure this out as well. Sadly I don't have an answer, just working at it.

The best bridge I've got so far is that testing is a stop gap between here and wherever we want to get. (I assume the end goal is education over just simple literacy.)

Testing has 2 negative aspects to it

1) Its analogous to the effect nicotine or other habit forming drug/medicine has on its subject/user. After a while they have more than just an alleviating effect, the subject is itself altered to depend and operate under the influence of the chemical.

2) For any sufficiently complex task, tests create narrow fields of focus and reduce creativity and mastery. A movement towards the letter of the law, but not the spirit. If you want non educational examples, take everything from CEO performance, to tax evasion, to behavior in video games. It makes an argument for indirect measurement of outcomes.

At the core of the issue is that absolute terribleness of testing to actually measure anything other than itself, and how there is only a small range of measurable tests that can be conducted which are also applicable at mass scales.

Now I can't see ways to ameliorate or reduce these effects. One attempt has been to 'improve tests' - what with more complex tests and so on. All I've seen it do is create a push for more rote learning and often creates a side effect of whimsical marking.

I'm definitely, not going to argue that we should find a new or improved test. That would be as hand-wavy as saying "testing/measurables will solve it".

I suspect the answer will lie here, and at the intersection of what Panos learned with his cheating scandal. Likely a move towards more peer/group oriented work, which has a real world test which needs to be performed. Which of course would require teachers to have more time to work with and test the final result.

I'll respond and see if I can flesh the idea a bit later. Thoughts?
The Security Quickstart Screencast is superb, thanks!
Sure, just borrow against your future Kickstarter campaign.
A couple of notes, based on my prior experience with online proofreading services, some of which were pretty decent if a bit expensive. All of them lacked the following -

1. A way to communicate with the editor. To say "Thanks", for example.

2. A way to retain the same editor for future requests. Some editors are much better than others and an ability to go back to the same person is very useful.
Interesting. Would love to read more about it at some point.
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Sure, my use-case is that I have a few toy side-project apps. Serious enough that I'll drop $15 for a .com domain and could part with $5 for a nice favicon, but not enough that I really care enough to spend $50 (since they don't make revenue).
I imagine that being able to carefully control the purity, dosage and the environment will go a long way. It is unfortunate that it is impossible to get illegal drugs of known purity, concentration, and quality.
Because in this case it is open? I'm not for having a single implementation but I wouldn't complain if every single browser used the same engine. It still won't be ideal but this by default removes any incompatibilities (assuming the same branch of code is used--a potential problem that will crop up).
What if the person is very poor and doesn't have 50k to put up for a lawsuit? Should no plaintiff ever be able to sue someone for more than 5% of the plaintiff's total net worth?

The real issue is that since corporations don't have the same responsibilities as real people, they shouldn't have the same rights.
15" retina sports a default res of 1440x900
How Instagram’s co-founder, Mike Krieger, killed my startup
It really isn't enough to be governed by a strong moral compass: that sense of morality must be assisted by the wisdom to avoid situations that will corrupt it.

I don't think he was governed by a "strong moral compass" in the first place. "Don't plagiarize" is a pretty simple rule to follow; not being able to follow it does not indicate a strong moral compass with a lack of wisdom; it indicates a weak moral compass to begin with.

My suspicion is that those in the media who are really piling on, are doing so at least partially to avoid hearing what's being said.

This may well be true; I think many people in the media do the same things Lehrer did, they just haven't been caught yet. But that doesn't give me any more sympathy for Lehrer; it gives me less sympathy for the media in general.
Hell don't look at IE, look at Windows, Windows guys had to rewrite a CORRECT implementation of logic check if SimCity was running and turn of a special flag to run the old version of allocator.

http://ianmurdock.com/platforms/on-the-importance-of-backwar...

Now multiply that story for every badly written WebKit site that relies on some backward ass crazy bug that no maintainer sees fit to fix.
The example code made me smile

function f ($a, $k)

var_dump($hit);
> It seems like the grandparent poster really should rent part of a co-located rack instead.

For my use I need the fastest CPU + ram + IO I can get for as little as possible. The network does not need to be the best because this is not serving user requests.

I do not want to take the time to make my code run in parallel. An Intel Core i7 3770k with SSDs is the cheapest scaling I can get.

I use the same machine as a workstation for coding.

This setup saves me $180 a month at the cheapest dedicated host I could find + I have a blazing fast work station.
Here it is presented as a question used by Referly. But for historical accuracy; weren't early Google interviews famous for using this question years ago?
I read that, but why? I've never been part of the magical world of academia, and don't understand why watermark removal is something that's important.
It is absolutely possible to get illegal drugs of known purity, concentration, and quality.
Slightly OT but related to the Cloudflare business/enterprise offering: They "guarantee" 100% uptime, does anyone know details of this? Obviously there is no way to actually guarantee such a thing, but what kind of compensation do I get when they do have downtime? I can't seem to find it mentioned anywhere.

"Service Level Agreement (SLA) - 100% uptime

Industry standard SLAs often feature 99.999% uptime, also known as the five 9s. At five 9’s your website could be offline for as long as 5 minutes and 26 seconds each year. All CloudFlare Business and Enterprise plans offer guaranteed 100% uptime because we know that anything less than 100% is an impediment to your organization’s success."
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This is not only tablets. Every recent hardware is made to not be repairable.
They don't say "this is to avoid a bad trip" but the article clearly explains how. EDIT: Actually, they do say "to avoid bad trips." I missed it the first time but noticed the description of the environments. Yup, it pays to actually read the article.
"On mobile. Mobile isn't everything."
And.. mobile is not nothing. mobile is huge.
As someone who's been in the web/cms space for a while, I personally think it's a mistake to attack a general feature (mobile, one-page, etc.) first. I get that YC goes after "ambitious startups" but I much prefer going after an industry/niche first (photographers, restaurants, lawyers).

Photographers care most about their images/galleries. Restaurants need menus. Real estate agents need listings. All of them need different types of forms.

The trap with going general first is you'll either have to (a) build a "kitchen sink" product with features for everyone or (b) have a product that many industries don't want to use because it doesn't have NICHE FEATURE X.

When you go industry first, it's easier to get traction and recommendations. It's easier and cheaper to advertise to your audience. You can guerrilla market yourself at trade shows and find "industry rockstars" to champion you. You can totally dominate that industry and have a nice "lifestyle business" or simply use it as the first pin in a bowling pin strategy [1]. For example, we're pretty deep into the photography space and now we're taking one product and going after Architects.

Obviously Weebly and Squarespace have had success being general-purpose. So, now you're basically competing with them + wordpress with your main advantage being "mobile first and responsive". You say your format is suitable for small-businesses. I'm sorry, but in my experience that's not enough to get people to switch.

We've designed/sold/deployed/hosted websites for a few thousand wedding/portrait photographers plus almost the same amount of high-end commercial photographers. Don't take this the wrong way (your designs are beautiful) but I can't see any of my clients jumping ship to a product like this. (FWIW, most clients we lose go to WordPress or just go out of business).

[1] http://cdixon.org/2010/08/21/the-bowling-pin-strategy/
(Quick preface: this is not about the design technique, which is fine, but rather using icons like this on the web, or as favicons.)

I'm going to buck the trend here and just say: designing 16x16 icons for software should be dead (except as hobby/art, like for pixellated-style video games, etc.).

When the future is going towards retina displays, fluidly zoomable interfaces, and whatnot, this is a huge step backwards.

If you have an interface with 16x16 icons that are necessary to understand, then they should be dead simple -- arrows, circles, stars and whatnot. Not monstrosities like the GitHub icons [1] where they try to pack icons on top of icons in a tiny space. Icons next to text should have no more complexity than the letterforms themselves -- the letterforms have been chosen to be a legible size that doesn't strain your eyes, and icons should never go beyond that. And they should be icon fonts/etc, so they look good on retina/zoomed.

On the other hand, there are 16x16 icons that serve purely as illustrations -- application and document-type icons, for example, or list view in the OSX Finder. In this case, it's pointless to aim for clear distinctions, because there just isn't enough space, and it's too small anyways. A scaled-down version of the normal icon is fine, even if it's a little blurry or whatever. Just seeing a vaguely familiar orange and blue ball next to the text "Firefox" is fine -- nobody ever uses (or should use) 16x16 icons of this nature without a label next to them. Plus, again, with retina/web zooming, all the work to design a "special" 16x16 icon is for naught.

The Hacker News favicon is a great example of a good icon design -- easily recognizable, scalable, not too busy, no special treatment needed.

The frog in this example, with all the other icons at the end, is exactly the kind of thing that should never be used as a favicon, or anywhere on the web, really. They look fine when enlarged (like the Nintendo, with its tiny resolution blown up on a TV), but are terrible on modern screens. The favicon of the page itself, while apparently a bird, looks just as much like a school bus driving into a lake, or a piece of abstract art, when I see it in my browser tab.

[1] https://github.com/styleguide/css/7.0
Not to be taken internally: analyzing the chemistry of data
A Monoculture by itself has a very bad property.

It's easy to use and misuse on a large scale. What runs same everywhere is great for app and crackers alike.

Its size make it a valid target of all kinds of dubious organization to target. And not just target exploits existing, but introducing new exploits into the source.
Previous discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4613413
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I heard about this questions while working at Microsoft in 1998, before Google existed. I am sure someone was asking it even before Microsoft existed.
I just tried to replace a hard drive in a mac mini, now it's in the shop getting the fan I broke replaced heh.
The researchers deserve serious props for undertaking this research in this climate, and whoever approved their study proposals for doing so. The positive effects of halucinogens on depressed, dying, & addicted people have been "known" for quite some time but not rigorously tested. Hopefully this is as positive a sign as it seems.

EDIT: Here's an example - a meta-analysis in the Journal of Psychopharmacology shows that LSD seems to have a hugely beneficial effect on alcoholism http://www.nature.com/news/lsd-helps-to-treat-alcoholism-1.1...
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If someone is willing to plagiarize, I have a hard time seeing how any set of "standard operating procedures" is going to help that person to refrain from plagiarizing in the future.
Indeed, but it requires knowledge, experience, and trust... each of which can be difficult to obtain in themselves.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but I don't see anybody making that argument in this thread.
The actual text of the EO: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/12/execut...
Lessons Learned From Raising a $400K Angel Round
great article on how to get angel investing and that first $50,000 to $100,000, can help you build your business.
Google Search for Android updated with Google Now widget, Fandango movie passes
There are mistakes, then there are breaches of ethics, and then there are breaches of ethics so severe that you don't get a second chance. (You embezzle money, you don't get a second chance at handling finances for a living.)

I wish Lehrer luck in whatever career he chooses to switch to in the future.
Per the discussion I linked, Google used it; it was also used before that by Microsoft and Novell.
Dr. Hyde, is that you?!
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I find it exceedingly hard to fill my 85mbit connection without using some kind of synthetic bandwidth test. Obviously it's easy to do if you're aggregating enough people's usage (like at an office) but for a single user it's tough. Single stream downloads rarely if ever get that high, my nntp provider seems to not be able to do it even with 20 connections but that could be the fault of the nas thats decoding the binaries. Pretty much the only time one task fills it is when im dumping from my colo that doesn't have a bunch of other streams to fair share with.

It's not even that easy to get 1gb traffic to flow over the lan, though of course its pretty easy to get 70%-80% or so. To get sustained gigabit it pretty much has to be an ssd or array on both sides. And this is from the perspective of someone that runs three 3x1gb port channel bonds at home between a multi-tier san and a few virtualization hosts.

I could upgrade my home internet from 85 to 150 or 300 but i have no desire to - it'd pretty much be impossible to tell the difference 99% of the time.

Will this always be the case? Nope. 10 years ago it was hard to push 100mbit datacenter to datacenter. As computers & io speeds catch up and content targets higher speeds something like 1gb at the home will become much more useful.

But I sure wouldn't move to kansas city just get 1gb right now.
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You could argue that the IETF has become everything the ISO working groups used to be, and that 'rough consensus and running code' is long gone.

I seem to flip flop back and forth on this, personally. Some days the standards process seems bright and cheery, at other times, I fear Apple/Google/Microsoft are running the show.
The Nexus tablets are much easier to repair.
MIT creates LED that cools its surrounding environment
Well, what about your side projects? I mean, if you have a side project, it is kind of a hobby, right?
I still dream of a day when I will be able to drink something with water and never ever need to eat anything again.
I hate having to eat. I hate the taste of 90% of things. And I often think about how much time I lose eating.

And the worst thing in the world is when I need to have lunch with someone else.
I like first class functions. I get hung up on the trash example in this essay though. To show the commonality of verbs in a person's general understanding Yegge says 'get the garbage bag from under the sink'. WTF (Who the fuck) 'gets' the garbage? I do. 'I' is implied. I get the garbage from under the sink. Or perhaps 'Steve' gets the garbage from under the sink. These are nouns (or pronouns, whatever).

If anything, verbs do nothing without a noun to do them, and nouns need verbs to do anything. So perhaps we should just acknowledge the value of traits, objects, and functions and move on. Forgive me (but correct me first) if I have missed something massive here... I'm trying to drink as much as Steve is alleged to while writing this comment.
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Well, Chinese brand tablets usually at least aren't held together by an adhesive. You can see a teardown of one here: http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/33614-window-n90-dual-core-i.... Use a password from BugMeNot if you aren't registered.
"And I'm one of the lucky ones. We use a foreign bank for the vast majority of our assets, and keep only a small amount in Chase for bills and such."

Section 319 of the USA PATRIOT Act specifically allow for the seizure of any money in Interbank Accounts held in the U.S... You may not be safe.

18 USC § 981(k) is the specific part of the U.S. Code that deals with this.

I knew that spending two years reading about the Patriot Act and writing it up on Wikipedia would be useful one day...
UPDATE: The site is now down. Probably too much load and MySQL service has been shut down
Pixelapse (YC W12): GitHub-Style Sharing and Version Control For Design Projects
VA Medical Appointment Scheduling Contest – $9M in prizes
What is Nuuton? Why invent a proprietary robots.txt feature instead of the (common but non-standard) "Crawl-delay:"?
As much as I would like to see a patent troll smashed, I think that a company asserting rights that are challenge-able in a court is not racketeering.

Greedy, despicable and morally bankrupt, yes.
That's right, it's been a while. "pro" was the C preprocessor, "plus" was the gawdhawful CLI.

Thanks for the tip on rlwrap, in case I have to use that thing again. I'm assuming it provides GNU readline support on top of the base tool.
I like the analogy, actually. There's nothing wrong with a field of work that allows so much creativity. Both involve people working creatively and interactively, which are good ingredients for cultures to flourish. If one were to somehow remove what made our field like fashion, I wonder if there'd be any passion left.
That's pretty 'cool'
Now if only Microsoft would do the same with Internet Explorer!
Blogging has always been questioned and critqued by trained journalists. We should be questioning anything self-published that appears to be journalism.

For reference, this is the original article that Michael Moynihan wrote:
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/107779/jon...

Q/A with Michael Moynihan:
http://observer.com/2012/07/michael-c-moynihan-jonah-lehrer-...
In a mono-culture you have no predators thus no evolution.
Rather than repeat myself, I'll just link to the comment I made about the rules that relate to civil forfeiture and Interbank Accounts for non-U.S. financial institutions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5215598

Beware!
This looks like a fantastic service for game developers (indeed, one of their examples is multiplayer Tetris). Building backend infrastructure to facilitate realtime communication and features like leaderboards, and making them scale when the game becomes a hit, is difficult. Anything that lets game designers get back to developing the gameplay itself is hugely beneficial. For certain types of games it'll probably make more sense to use a dedicated service like Photon Cloud [1] that focuses solely on realtime multiplayer, but for simpler web games, Firebase looks promising.

[1] http://cloud.exitgames.com
What's preventing non-technical employees from jumping aboard on IRC? There's a web client and desktop clients are fairly simple to set up.

The big advantage I see to IRC is how long it's been around. Plenty of clients and setups catering to IRC. And it's not going away anytime soon. Perhaps it's getting a little long in the tooth, as posed by moe at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2069810
Reddit is that way gentlemen 8===>
Valve reportedly fires more employees as part of 'great cleansing'