skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the addition of Chris Bosh! After coding being hard, in general, I believe that our industry's biggest challenge is it becoming "sexy" or having role models that a vast amount of people can connect with!
Why isn't HTML/CSS or Python taught in high schools around the country? If I saw a similar video when I was in school I would have started way earlier
Eligible is doing an Awesome job making the insurance information available to providers almost instantly. We will use it in our up coming application.

But when I plug in the numbers in "Try it here " section on this page https://www.eligibleapi.com/rest-api-v1/plan-all

It says unauthorized api. Is that to just construct the api call ? I do see the results in the next tab "Sandox" where you have sample responses. A little more documentation would really help.

Anyway you guys have created an amazing service !!
So this guy basically told me he's great anyway. Despite external feedback telling him to turn down his arrogance. And ending with "haters gonna hate" (+ oscar wilde pic). Jerk moar HN.
At conferences, especially security conferences, I tend to ask if anyone ever heard of a Debian base installation being hacked if it has auto-updates or is manually updated once a week. So far, my count is 0 and when asking self-proclaimed hackers, they also tend to agree that Deiban stable installation is very secure. The installation I got from 1999 is still running, and the count of breakins are 0. to add on that, it has no firewalls. I kind of wonder what happened that caused your server to be hacked. Insecure password?

As for using a previous owned spammer domain, I strongly question that logic. Black lists tend to be both conservative and done by copy-pasting. A blocked domain abcd will not block abc or abcde. If the block lits do not see mails from abcd within a month or so, they also tend to remove them to clear up space. This time frame is also way below common domain name expire dates.

Regarding reverse lookup, I assume that 30 team startup bought a company network contract from the ISP. Such deals should include support and static IP, which mean reverse lookup is a single email away from being done. Co-location contract might be different, but I wouldn't know.
Show HN: My pinboard-backed link blog
I recently re-jiggered my blog to use pinboard as it's CMS. A cron job runs once every 15 minutes and generates a static HTML file of my most recent 15 posts. Yes it is fairly limited in what it can do, but it's a great simple way to make what I already do on pinboard into a link blog.
I <3 Danielle, this is awesome!
Haha, no. You are conflating two things (tell vs ask - ie unrestricted flirting vs social SYN, SYN ACK, ACK). The former can be good, but has massive externalities when allowed at (for example) tech conferences, or any are where you want a 'safe space', whereas the latter is fairly safe, and is not what is usually under discussion. This is a classic coordination problem, which has been solved by game theory. You see, there are actually places that people go to in order to flirt, where that is the primary (or a specific secondary) purpose; singles bars, mixers, dance clubs - there can even be spaces for this kind of stuff inside of other spaces where it would be otherwise inappropriate, for example 'work mixers', or 'geek mixers' at tech conferences. Unrestricted flirting in those locations does not have serious negative externalities, and so is not harassment.

So, the solution is to seriously restrict flirting at tech conferences as a form of harassment, but allow SYN, SYN ACK, ACK exchanges, and have people who want to flirt go to singles bars or 'geek mixer' events.

Can you understand this?
It does make me wonder about the comments that people have made in that the effort was designed to "shed dead weight," I really don't see why those people couldn't be directly relieved of their duties?

I'm not against companies having a preference for work-in-the-office (I prefer doing it myself), but it seems awfully dramatic vs. slowly reducing the number of people working from home.
> we're way past the point where folks have traditionally said "Django starts to constraint you". We've found that to be untrue. We love the templating, the ORM

Well, that means you are not past that point. First you learn to love your tools, then you learn to hate them, and it's ok.

It's not really that hard to reach the point where the orm pisses you off (examples: https://speakerdeck.com/alex/why-i-hate-the-django-orm by core dev, there is a talk somewhere on pyvideo.org), especially if you have actually written some complex sql queries in your life.
A video standard essentially defines a set of methods for compressing video - it's up to the encoding applications to decide how to apply those methods and where. Basically, the smarter decisions the encoder can make, the higher quality results it will produce. This is why all H.264 encoders are not created equal.

As an example of "techniques" that can be applied to compressing videos, one of the reasons why x264 is considered the best H.264 encoder out there is due to its advanced psychovisual optimizations - these are basically methods that will increase the perceived visual quality for human viewers, but decreases the quality in the eyes of metrics like PSNR and SSIM.
So far, so awesome (former Facebook engineer's experiences going independent)
I'm a bit surprised there's no discussion yet about PGP/GnuPG (GPG). If we all encrypted our mails would this be such a big deal? No. Is client-side encryption difficult? Not really. I think there's a big market for a desktop email app that does PGP/GPG really well and does so with other people.
I've found that most claims of extreme video or image compression don't hold up under scrutiny. There's just too much research that has to go into it and so many tradeoffs to consider.

However, I know of one program that does in fact meet its claims: DLI Image Compression (https://sites.google.com/site/dlimagecomp/)

It only compresses images, and it is extremely slow at it too. But apparently it's better than anything out there. Dark Shikari (x264 developer) says [1]:

> I’ve seen that one before; iirc, last I tested it, it was competitive with x264 and even beat it significantly at times. Given that it was adapted for insanely high compression times, of course, this is not very surprising. Still rather impressive.

[1] http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/541
I read a book many years ago which suggested people have a unique pattern of energy available for different types of activities and they function best when they figure out how to get enough of each thing in their life but not too much. If you need more social outlet, you can try to get that outside of work. You can also do volunteer work to get "meaning" into your life.

If you are dead set on changing jobs or careers to resolve this, I recommend you get a copy of "What color is your parachute?" and do some informational interviews. As a teen, I considered becoming a physical therapist. Then I interviewed one. It was not what I had envisioned. I am so glad I figured that out before getting the education necessary to get the job instead of after.

We seem to generally do a poor job of helping people figure out what a job is really all about and how to find a good fit careerwise. Some people seem to just get lucky or try a lot of things until they stumble into something good.

You could also watch "Beyond Rangoon" and wonder what you really are looking for in terms of meaning. Then go hurl yourself headlong into meaning.
I, For One: AGI and the Thermodynamic theory of life
Yes, I'm in a similar situation and see the same reactions. People have a very irrational concept of post-secondary schooling. In many cases it's a very personal thing for them. Many've grown up thinking they'd be the first-in-family college graduate, holding that as a life goal, and listening to their parents and grandparents complain about how they never had the same opportunities as the college grads. Others have grown up with the expectation that they'll keep in the family tradition of graduates and not bring shame by failing to graduate. They've paid dozens of thousands of dollars for a degree. They've invested four years or more of their life, and all of that is epitomized in the "degree", when they're pat on the back and told they're a real grown-up now. And many seriously take this whole process to heart, and the less real value in a career, the worse this degree snobbery gets. They feel their degree has given them everything (and honestly it probably has, since their personal commercial value is often negligible). It almost becomes an idol to them. It is, therefore, considered a heresy if you speak evil of that system, and heretics are not well received.

Because of all this social programming, there are few who will admit that modern undergraduate programs, and often their graduate counterparts, are a horrendously inefficient, slow bureaucracy that provides a form of pseudo-independence for developing adults, cater classes to the lowest common denominator in order to pass more students, and occasionally have desirable network-building properties. But that's the reality.

We tie up adult identity in degrees very, very closely in our culture. Someone who never graduated college (or worse, high school) is automatically considered lower class by many. It is considered an essential of both personal and professional development in the white-collar world. Their whole lives people are told, "Go to college so you can get a good job." Is it any wonder those who've "paid their dues" and gone through these motions feel entitled to employment, even if they have no commercially viable skillset (and, this is critical to understand: most don't)? It's becoming a large social issue, but no one is willing to admit the real causes.
And why would you (I assume you're from the US) nuke, bomb or invade Iran?
I see you guys are charging students a monthly fee for "unlimited help" from the tutors, but I can't find any info on your site about how much the tutors will be making from that income stream for the value they're providing to your site and the students. Can you elaborate?
SQL for pandas DataFrames
Apple probably isn’t cracking down on native app cookie tracking — yet
Top 50 Mobile Advertising Platforms in 2013
Michael, aside from the interesting link blog, your nyu.edu links in the design section are dead. Otherwise, all is working well in Chrome64 25.0.1364.97.
Meet Dow's Gluten-Replacement: Wood.
The starting salary is higher for someone with a bachelors degree in Computer Science then a Masters degree in Computer Science in the US (I'm trying to find the book). In fact it holds true for several degrees. The reasoning is that most employers prefer for someone to have real world experience over studying to receive a Master's degree.

I'm not really sure how how German Bsc. degrees are viewed by employers in the US. I have a strong belief that you would probably be better off getting a job now, in comparison to paying for school and delaying getting a job.
This. Sure, St. Regis Bora Bora can Google each guest to build an individual profile, but that's because staying there starts at $1000/night. Your neighborhood Motel 6? Not so much.
Salt Sugar Fat: Q&A With Author Michael Moss
Does anyone have a suggestion as to the K&R of managing finances?
I agree that the time-based view will be important, as the answers do change over time. One way to approach is to show votes in last 12 months, instead of all votes ever. Side benefit of this is that it encourages users to stay active and engaged with the site (to maintain and update their views as they evolve).
I use Pyramid for Python-based web applications. None of the features you've mentioned are specific to Django.

1. What is "a decent app ecosystem"? We call these "libraries" elsewhere.

2. Pyramid same. (and, as someone whose attempted to build apps with both, I find Pyramid's much clearer)

3. This is ORM specific, not framework specific. SQLAlchemy has sqlalchemy-migrate or Alembic.
What are you talking about?

You've clearly never seen the google ones.

It's a GIGANTIC POPUP full of Click here! Join now! Follow ME! (Or like today, a new full page of Do Not Want: "Never miss another post
Get notifications whenever important people in your life share something new on Google+" <-- how about you just let me into the site ok? Come on...)

Facebook is spammy, but G+ is just beyond a joke.
Even more fun is when you stay in a hotel in China and are identified as being with a tech conference, work in technology or science, or are at all government or defense related.

It's like a super low budget, technology enabled version of cold war spycraft. Leave a bait laptop in your room, with some markings on screws or other panels, or a hidden video recorder somewhere, and you're likely to see hotel staff come in, Encase dump the drive, and potentially either do on-site surgery (CMOS BIOS reset) or take it away for hardware tampering (apparently to the level of hardware component swaps...).
>What I am describing in my first sentence is an aspect of U.S. law in general. If you can cite precedent that disagrees with my second sentence, I'd be very interested to read it.

How about the DMCA prohibition on circumvention of DRM in light of the process set out in 17 U.S.C. 1201(a)(1)(C) regarding the Librarian of Congress exempting DMCA circumvention from criminal liability in specific circumstances. The very existence of the latter admits a violation of your second sentence, because if the law did not prohibit such things in the general case then there could never be anything to request an exemption for. And the possibility of an exemption being granted doesn't disprove the point because any act falling into your category when the "code" is DRM remains prohibited unless an explicit exemption is both applied for and granted, and then renewed every three years. The exemption for jailbreaking phones that recently expired provides a concrete example of that not happening.

>All law is fuzzy because human concepts of morality and right and wrong are fuzzy. That is why we rely on human judges and juries to interpret them.

This is a popular refrain used in response to engineering types who naively expect the law to be so fully specified that it can be subject to mathematical analysis or proved to be internally consistent, etc. And it's true that for pragmatic and practical reasons we can't have laws that are perfectly clear and utterly unambiguous. But that doesn't mean we can't have laws that are more clear and less ambiguous, especially where the starting point is something as overly broad and unclear as the CFAA.
I don't intend offense. I'm just suggesting an explanation for why you may feel Django is not problematic. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I've met many-a-programmer fairly early in their careers who praise things like Cake, Rails, or Django, but in my experience at least, as they mature, they prefer less invasive solutions.
A master's degree can help you get more interesting work.

If you ever want to migrate to a country with a 'points' based immigration scheme (Australia, NZ, Canada) you get more points for having a master's.
They have had lots of security problems, but yes it is successful. It's also slow and outdated. I have not built anything that size, but I'm also not the second most valuable company on Earth. My point was simply that other companies are better at the web than Apple is and that shouldn't be the case considering their resources and the importance.
This is a great website! :D I've been able to explore it some and I look forward to finding out more about it. :)
The most inspiring of all programming videos would be this one by Bret Victor. The talk is called 'Inventing on principle' and changed my perception of how I think about and create software forever

http://vimeo.com/36579366
Considering how old K&R is and who its intended audience was, how about The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith?
PM as in Project or Product Manager? (there is definitely some overlap though)

I look for a couple things, and ask questions that help evaluate their:

1) Technical background

2) Product instincts & creativity

3) How they've earned leadership

4) Ability to channel multiple points-of-view

5) Ship-ability
Just for sake of argument, is there any reason you don't block GETs to your Python script?
Five Great Jokes About Engineers
Talk about Trusted Platforms, how do I add the FDA's signing cert to my immune system?
And yet, the 'agrarians' (developers of anything digital) will only increase in number. Whereas after consolidation of farms, there are barely any farmers left.
So you think people should be prosecuted for something they might do?
But they're killing it in favor of Tizen, their next-gen OS, which will be going head to head with Android.
Weird how you had JavaScript support but no process killing. I imagine you must have used DOS. What browser? Arachne didn't have JavaScript support...
All we need is for LeBron and KD to take a summer class in JS or python and tweet about it. Maybe they can do some tasks like analyze their own stats.
Actually I've seen very similar things happen in practise. "Horror scenarios" happen all the time.

Look, you can sing the "works for me!" song all you like. The fact is, you are years out of date and this is very bad practise.

You will:

- have trouble even installing a compatible environment from scratch

- have trouble searching for information on issues you encounter

- have trouble hiring anyone good to work with your decidedly legacy code

With a fast moving platform like rails, you allow yourself to fall years behind the mainstream to your sorrow. It's like keeping backups. Yeah, you're fine without them, until the "horror scenario".
Using the new race based Computers & software
"Learn to Make Webpages - W3Schools"

WAT
Ah well. It looks like I'm just invisible to you then. Sorry for bothering.

Good luck with the blog
Really not a fan of this terminology, popularized by DHH/37S. The term "opinionated design" is basically an excuse to make a rigid, unadaptable behemoth, because it's easier to just say "if you don't like it, you don't have to use it" than to address some of the problems. There is a balance, of course, and you can't spend all your time abstracting out to support the most transformative, irregular use case, but something like mixing ORMs or templating languages is actually a great example. Look at Pyramid v. Django/the others. A web framework should simply be about piping your program's I/O to the web. Templating and ORM shouldn't even be in scope. Having reasonable defaults is fine, but claiming it's OK to tightly couple your general-use web framework with user-facing unrelated libraries as hard dependencies (i.e., forcing users to use a certain ORM/templater) because it's "opinionated design" is silly. It's simply bad design.
Thank you very much for the polite feedback. This is my first submission and I was expecting worse. I fixed the issue you pointed out.
I've used pretty much all of the major python frameworks in a professional capacity, and have also dipped toes into the RoR world as well as the various php frameworks. Django isn't "the one true way" - I've been known to reach for Tornado often - but it certainly works (ORM, templates, middleware included) for the majority of projects I've undertaken, and I've had success advising others to adopt it.

Also strange to hear that Django has a unique style of MVC, it seems pretty standard to me (and from what I see a lot of new frameworks are aping it).
Most of the replies here are a great example of a filter bubble. Living in San Francisco or New York you just assume everyone has a credit card.

Not so.

A quarter of US households are unbanked or underbanked and primarily rely upon cash for payments.

That's why Walmart introduced shop online and pay in person. Only 15% of Walmart's in-store customers pay via card, from surveys they found that two-thirds of their online customers would prefer to pay in cash.
As bpierre said @-moz-document rule, which I just discovered has actually been unprefixed since Fx6.

Here's the MDN page detailing it and the various functions:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/@document
Thanks for this. It's some pretty insightful stuff.

I'm not in a place where I can make changes right away, but I'll trim back the measure and fiddle with the line height until I find something I'm comfortable with.

I'm not sure about the contrast though. Getting that one right is tough. My first attempt was a burn-your-retinas-out white that was so bright it almost hurt to read. Perhaps I've dialed it down too far.
Oh... yay? Now I know I'm not alone! It happens quite frequently.
We should also encourage HCI and usability design sensibilities as a technical vocation kids can pursue if optimizing sorting algorithms and the like isn't for them. Making things easier to use, why things are a pleasure to use and why things aren't is a stimulating field that is very applicable to a computerized future.
How EdX Plans to Earn, and Share, Revenue From Free Online Courses
: gets me date_diff
; gets me ssh2_auth_none
" gets me date_offset_get

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% continues to validate for '@keyframes' whereas < shows date_offset_get but << shows 'no results.'

also I would have expected results from $_ but no joy?

It's odd, nice but odd. Unfortunately I get better results as it is just from google.
One of mankind's greatest insights in the past few thousand years was the idea of not seeing all phenomena as caused by human motives, jealousies of gods, etc.
I like this because instead of saying "everyone must code" it says "everyone should have the opportunity to learn to code".

There are always going to be those that are not interested in coding. Forcing anyone to learn something they aren't interested in is just a waste of everyone's time.

If you give kids the resources they need to get started and a good environment to experiment in they will take care of the rest.
I don't think they're as bad as they used to be, but still far from the first place I'd send someone seeking help.
What's the difference between Code.org and Codecademy.com ? Are they trying to achieve the same thing but in a different perspective? It looks like a lot more celebrities are on Code.org making it an enticing place to be.
Over 1,000 days without a trial: Bradley Manning
If anyone enjoyed minecraft but doesn't play anymore, I've been trying out feed the beast this year and found it reinvigorated minecraft for me.

A couple of questions for Minefold:

1) How does the hourly pricing scheme work with things like chunkloaders?

2) Where are the servers located? I'm from Sydney so if it's not in Australia it's unlikely I'm going to move off my mac mini if they have to be hosted offshore.

EDIT: Clarifications.
Why Silicon Valley Is the Next Detroit
I used Minefold the other day and their trial experience was excellent. Even if you're just playing single player, having a server for a complicated mod pack like FTB is perfect, because you're offloading a lot of the world generation and various 'chunks' that you might want to keep loaded to a separate machine, freeing up the CPU to render your local environment.

I also recommend Direwolf20's excellent Let's Play series, where he's currently playing one of the FTB mod packs (curated by him): http://www.youtube.com/direwolf20
The Shortest Answer Is Doing The Thing
Thanks! Feel free to ask me any questions. Happy to respond.
I propose a law to ban unlicensed aerial photography by the government. Government entities shall announce, in public record, any flight intended to collect aerial photographs, before such flight is undertaken. The reason for the flight shall be declared in simple English, and all photographs shall become part of the public record.

I trust (and know) the people in my neighborhood more than I trust the Ministry of Truth.