skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is it amazing when you had to wait multiple days for them to available? That seems completely backwards to me. Why aren't they available immediately once the block is confirmed, ie. within less than half an hour?
I wish you well in this and I hope you pull it off, but I have to say that when I read things like;

>online hub that will make mucho money (business model is solid!) AND help millions of children & adults be happier

my bullshit detector just goes nuts.

I can see that you have actually raised capital and worked in the field so that helps with credibility but it all gets washed out, in my mind, by the earlier tenor of your claims.
Awesome work.

Would this be against the new TOS for Twitter where you aren't supposed to modify the bird?
If you are using an IDE like Eclipse or anything with auto code completion, syntax color-highlighting, and syntax error highlighting, get rid of that while coding up the exercises in the PDF.

Use Notepad++ or kwrite and disable those features, if your coding speed grinds to a halt under these conditions, good!

That's the point of the exercise, like trying to jog at 30 thousand feet, as you overcome the hindrance up there, and you come back down to normal level, you feel like you can leap over a car. Same with coding, you feel like you can code blindfolded. And your ability/productivity increases by an order of magnitude.
Ids are supposed to be unique but I don't think that browsers are supposed to assume that they are.
Money comes in, credentials go out. That's just another iteration of the education industry.
Even on OS X, it's a total waste of time to not use a VirtualBox that mimics your production machine.
The blocking technology (cleanfeed) was installed by most ISPs for the IWF blocking, once it was installed the industry took the ISPs to court to use it for blocking other things.
Good luck getting anything done for it.

The bug we found is affecting a lot of Swiss customers (I admit Switzerland isn't so big) and it took a month until I got a useful reply.

Now we have a bug number and were told that the issue should be fixed "early this year" and changes would be checked in in March. Whatever that means...

At least their employees were kind enough to reply to my eMail. But this company should really improve their error reporting.
I've been pretty happy with the PyCharm edition of IntelliJ (picked it up during that fire sale a few months back).
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In my case, even if I can access Netflix, etc, many people here don't know English well enough to be able to watch a movie.

Local volunteers offer free subtitles, done in their own time, but they're only synced to "pirated" copies.
FAQ says MacOS and Windows are fully supported + iOS and Android API support.

What are the plans for Linux down the line?
> Is it the owners responsibility to do something about that?

Reasonably, yes. But, when the volume of spam becomes too much to handle, what can a poor webmaster do?

I quite like that Google have altered their algorithm to penalise this SEO behaviour. Because it now puts the headache firmly on the website that paid SEO people to originally spam those links.

And I applaud and support the webmaster who requested payment for removing the link. The link was placed by a link spammer on behalf of their client, it's only right that that client, after benefitting from that tactic - risk free - now should pay for it to be removed.

Granted, there are negative SEO connotations to this, but factors like link-age can be used to spot who was link spamming before Penguin/Panda, and who is link spamming after.

I would be thoroughly impressed with an SEO agency who was practicing this now negative SEO tactic before links from spammy neighbourhoods were risk free. And thus benefitting by giving their competition a headache post Penguin and Panda.

I have no sympathy for companies that hired SEO agencies who link-spammed their website. They shouldn't have done it (ethic-deprived), and if they didn't know about it they should have known about it (abrogation of responsibility). If there was deceit involved, then the company can take it up with the SEO agency that created that deceit.

Yes, clean SEOers are doing a roaring trade trying to clean up these websites, but they must realise their client caused the initial damage by hiring bad SEOers, and they are not entitled to free link removals.
This sounds like it'd make a good blog post.
Getting paid is not the motivation for me, for a weekend project at least.

I actually want people to say "there is a relevant catchwords entry for this" like the case on xkcd.

Keyboard shortcuts will be cool, thanks.
I believe you're doing it right with the Linux VMs. That's how I roll and it makes me pretty indifferent to my host environment whether it's OS X or Win. Currently on OS X, but might be switching back to Windows. My dev process will likely remain unchanged...
it is the fault of those responsible with creating a regular backup procedure and/or a hotswap database server

and developping on the production database speaks volumes about the incompetency level of that company and of the "developer" in particular, afterall
This is the url for the feedback form. It redirects to a login page if you're not logged in.

https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/CreateFeedbackForm...
the only issue you're likely to run into with this approach is leaky abstractions (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm...) which will leak at least some implementation detail out of the container. This can be minimised though.
The given link is a crappy rehash of the original National Geographic article:

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/25/dinosaur-...
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I have also seen automated accounts being operated by bots similar to those twitter bots who follow you and unfollow you if you don't start following them within specified amount of time.

Example: https://github.com/gitlisted?tab=activity
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Bitcoin is currently indeed very risky to use as store of value as the market grows quite rapidly and the exchange rate fluctuates greatly. I expect that it will improve in the future and ultimately bitcoin will be better store of value then official currencies, because the savings will not lose the value ove years due to inflation.

But fortunately bitcoin has great use even today in its current state. It is great for sending or accepting money internationaly, quickly and without ridiculous transaction fees. This is something you can't do with official curencies and is IMO big part of the success bitcoin is experiencing.
That line blurs when you have homoiconic syntax, specially one with a programmable reader. Common Lisp uses the # for dispatch macro character, you can define your own literals, in whatever environment you want.

http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/6.2/ansicl/subsec...
Thanks for the reply and the links, I will check them out. :)
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Yes, to clarify, you have sandboxed access to filesystem, also access to usb, bluetooth, serial...
There's a heap in tenderloin and heading down 6th into soma, they get dragged into the shitty sweat shops and fence canned food for cash.
I'm pretty sure you need a licence to watch BBC iPlayer. 4OD perhaps not, but 4OD is covered in adverts.

edit: > http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/playing_tv_progs/...

I stand corrected! :)
Firefox 16 in Linux Mint isn't affected

http://i.imgur.com/xD17VZK.jpg
Just check if more than 3 subdomains are trying to allocate storage, and if they do request more than 4K size, request explicit permission to continue.
Thanks! I was hoping there weren't any good ones - it would have made my next hardware purchase decision easier. It might sound a bit ridiculous, but I really enjoy the workflow, automatic layout of windows and keyboard centricity offered by AwesomeWM.
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AFAIK, it's explicit policy not to close questions as dupes without linking to the original question
You seem to be under the impression that Google is against SEO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS75vhGO-kk

Consider reevaluating your views.
Speculation about Bitcoin's future
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I thought the same. If this is true (it finds <a> elements then looks for the id), I've been writing a lot of poor-performing selectors.

Edit: I found that it does work this way, and the reason is because browsers process content and apply CSS top to bottom as it renders, they do not first load all the content and then apply CSS rules.

From http://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/css-parent-selectors

If you have a rule like body div#content p { color: #003366; } then for every element—as it gets rendered to the page—it'll first ask if it's a paragraph element. If it is, it'll work its way up the DOM and ask if it's a div with an ID of content. If it finds what it's looking for, it'll continue its way up the DOM until it reaches the body.
It doesn't happen for .co.uk, it does happen for .nhs.uk (by design).

http://publicsuffix.org/ has the list that you use to distinguish
That bit certainly surprised me. It seems like a simple optimization to scan a selector for the most efficient parts and use that as your starting point (with ids being a no-brainer).

Obviously given the selector "div #foo a {}" (obviously a dumb selector, but...) it would be smarter to look for #foo and verify it was inside a div than get every div and search for a #foo. And by extension "div .foo a {}" (assuming .foo really is way more efficient than div, which again I find hard to believe given there's native support for getElementsByTagType).

It seems to me that the effectiveness of using classes probably stems from browsers optimizing against use cases like "OMG folks are using Dijit and hanging twelve classes off every div". There's no reason I can see why class selectors ought to be especially efficient, especially if -- say -- your markup has lots of classes and relatively few attributes (and isn't that more common these days?).

We should also probably differentiate between CSS selectors as affects page rendering and CSS selectors as affects grabbing a bag of nodes using jQuery $() or document.querySelectorAll().
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Why You Should Not Remove Dates from Your WordPress Blog Posts
Published date on blogs are the thing of the past. Last updated date is far more useful in my opinion.
I like games with harsh punishments - my favorite is hardcore mode in Diablo - death is permanent and when you die, you loose MONTHS of work, every item you have on you, every skill and level you have gained, everything. This really gets the adrenaline going when you're in a tight spot.
>If anything these ban's are endangering users making them more vulnerable to viruses, keyloggers and becoming a part of a bot net.

And hence reluctant to pirate if a legitimate option is available.
"To say that about webmasters, already victims of years of abusive SEO spamming"

I suspect this comment was aimed at webmasters not who were the victims of spam, but those that profited from it. It's those who run directory sites and article farms that would accept cash to add your link, and now that people want the links removed, they're double dipping. And these people are indeed scummy.
Let the switched network die its deserved death

It's costly, it's an awful use of resources, for no good benefit.

POTS is a huge ruby-goldberg device, it's almost laughable sometimes. All that so that the terminal can use 19 century tech (yep, not 20th century, 19th century)

Regulation shouldn't be about the technology details, it should be about the service provided.

Oh by the way, the US Postal Service is being driven to bankrupcy by regulation as well (I'm not saying all is bad though)
Better luck than me. I've 500BTC that I mined and gave up on. They'd be worth $26k if I hadn't decided to clean out my backup RAID.
Google Glass: 8000 Units to ship later this year
The media hype of Google Glass is on the rise. Sightings of Google employees wearing Google Glass are no longer unusual in Silicon Valley and at key trade events. Google has dialed up the public exposure of Google Glass without releasing much technical information. It appears, though, that Google is ramping up public awareness even more as it prepares to ship as many as 8,000 Google Glass units later this year. - See more at: http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/google-glass-lot-hype-little-information#sthash.M4cMzMrd.dpuf
Sorry for being a bit off topic, but "super-cooling liquid shaves" sounds like the intro to a Gillette commercial.
I don't know much about that project, other than the fact that it isn't mature yet. In my comments above, I didn't mean that Ruby _didn't_ have any libraries focused on scientific computing, just that they didn't have the community and tools for scientific computing that Python has.
If you buy and hold certainly. While bitcoin is pretty volatile, you can turn dollars into bitcoins and then transfer them or transfer them and turn them into dollars quickly enough that the risk is pretty small.

Sure, holding bitcoins is a risky proposition - like holding gold, or anything else of similar volatility.
Working with Selectors in jQuery
Ask HN: How to find help marketing an MVP to programmers? 
We're a small team of two programmers, and we've just launched our MVP (www.pushlayer.com, if you're interested). It's a service geared towards iOS developers, and we're looking for someone to help us out with the legwork of getting feedback to validate our concept.

We've been spreading the word ourselves, and tapping our own connections for feedback, but as our backlog grows, we'd love to get someone else involved to help us continue spreading the word.

Has anyone successfully found another person (even someone just helping out in their spare time) at this stage of their company? We're wary of any true "marketing" person, as we're really looking to reach out to fellow programmers.

Thanks for any and all advice!
Great tips, thank you. One tiny thing I -partly- disagree with:

"you absorb more info when you’re doodling than when you’re just listening"
I think this differs a lot per person. I find creative types tend to be bad at focussing on one thing, and can focus better if they are distracted by something they control like doodling. Personally I tend to think very linearly and once I'm distracted by something, that immediately means I'm not focussing anymore.
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I'm wondering about the graph on Gary's site: what type of business' fortune is linked this tightly to Google's rankings? Is it a particular category, or are there several categories of businesses that suffer from (or leverage) this? That's a pretty frightening situation to be in, IMO.
Someone should port it over to HTML using canvas, native video and lots of javascript.
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What a clusterfuck this situation is.
Your thought exercise of $1 million turning into $17.2 trillion via 5% over 200 years only works if none of the money (including any of the interest) is ever touched or spent. It is an unrealistic assumption that ignores the complexities of reality.

Here are their recent financial reports if you're interested: http://www.rothschild.com/about_rothschild/financial_reports...
Hackers Could Have Accessed Anyone’s Facebook Profile Thanks to Flaw
IP is a good thing, there will be changes made i'm sure to accomodate for innovation... kudos to AT&T
I never had reasons for animosity against CSS, but now I do.
Why Samsung Could Be Heading For A Fall
This time I regret clicking a link before reading the surrounding text. Maybe you want to replace "http:// with "hxxp://"?
There are a lot of "supposed to" rules in HTML and CSS that many people violate in practice, and browsers for the most part try to accomodate that if they can. Not surprised to hear that non-unique ids are permitted.
Time to move to Andrews and Arnold if you are in the UK:

http://aaisp.com/

They have an explicit no censorship policy:

http://aaisp.com/news-censorship.html

Not only that, they offer IPv6 and their connection isn't a total piece of shit! Rather glad I moved from O2 (Telefonica) who apply the censorship and horrible traffic shaping even though they say they didn't on my contract.
I was thinking about doing this. It's very do-able, there's nothing really complicated going on here. I wanted to do it for mobile devices, but this is going to be pretty resource heavy and I couldn't work out how to do the necessary processing in OpenGL ES...
Nice article.
There are no mountains in Finland, though.
What Intel giveth, CSS and javascript taketh away...
Odd word choice - 97% isn't really a shave.
Unity is inefficient with screen space - does he mean this serious?

And Unity is totally optimized for keyboard usage, the whole Dash concept is based on keyboard usage.

I liked the idea for the trackpad, reducing the clicking time to 0.
>rise in prise
>incentive to hoard it
>downfall

I don't see how these are compatible. Reminds me of "No one in New York drove. There was too much traffic."
Question I've been wondering. What happens to lost bitcoins? Say your hard drive dies and you didn't have a backup.

Are those coins out of circulation forever? Will this gradually decrease the supply of bitcoins?
It seems to be a deep-seated cultural phenomenon

http://youtu.be/vt0Y39eMvpI?t=47s (Monty Python)
I believe it has a default of 350MB but is user configurable.
Have you given any thought as to how you might grow later on, when you want to scale? I ask because this is a good opportunity for you to also test (“validate” as you put it) that part of your business concept.
ZaReason spoke out on this issue at FOSDEM (direct link to webm file):

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/fosdem/2013/maintracks/K.1.105/UEF...
If they paid to get listed there in the first place (paid link for the purpose of better rankings), then it's fair game to pay to remove the ranking disadvantage now. I call it an ethics tax.

Paid links were frowned on but not generally penalised. So sites took the risk they wouldn't get caught or penalised. Now they got penalised. So if it was okay to pay for a linkback, equally it should be okay to pay for the removal of a linkback.
The real issue here is that they are trying to teach a subject which is by itself already very abstract, with poor tools. C may be a fine language for doing low level work, but in this case low level is exactly what you should be striving to avoid.

I started programming at age 8 - and didn't know that it had a name. All I had was a Basic manual, then assumed that's how the computer was supposed to be used (no graphical interfaces at the time).

By age 11, I had moved from Basic to Turbo Pascal and was writing my own 'units' in Z80 Assembly.

However, despite several attempts, I could never grasp C for some reason, until university. And then it just clicked. It is as if some very important part of my brain was not ready yet for it.

I am not too fond of logo-like languages, except to teach the very young. I believe it is best to get them an environment which is already bootstrapped and ready to work, but that won't hold them back if they decide to do some exploring on their own, so it should be a 'real' language. But a simple one, such as Python or Lua.

The fact that they are starting out with C is borderline criminal and will backfire.
Agree with you, except on the use of "steal".

You steal when the owner lose the original. What happens in BitTorrent/FTP is copy.

More about in copy is not theft video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4
Haha I definitely spent a lot of time in and around the TL. I meant more from the perspective of every local and police officer telling me "avoid the TL, don't even walk through there".
Yes you can wipe the SSD and replace it with Ubuntu (or with some fiddling, Debian).

It's what Chrubuntu does, you can even choose to install to an SD card leaving the existing OS in place.

http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.co.uk/
I wouldn't at your stage, at such an early stage the founders need to be interacting with users, you'll lose too much (information) in communication overheads if you bring in someone to do it.
Good idea, more simply a dedicated google chrome profile can be used..
"Not every site that has had its url spammed across forums and in comment-spam did it themselves. The other side of black hat SEO is destroying competitors by triggering Google penalties against them."

That tactic (of spammy linking to your competitors) only became a viable one after Panda/Penguin. I doubt it was practiced by SEO agencies before those algorithm changes. So links added before that change are unlikely to be negative SEO.
I'm confused, or maybe The Register's article is. It states "boffins at Leeds University and British start-up Icetope have invented a super cooling liquid", but also refers to "Dunking servers in new magic liquid 3M Novec" and has no mention of phase change/evaporation.

Are we talking about a single liquid? Did 3M license the formula from Leeds Uni/Icetope?

I'll try to understand it better this evening
The font size is much too huge (and bold) for my standard displays. I prefer sites that use 100% font-size.

Can somebody shed light on the recent trend for huge font sizes? Not guesses and anecdotes but some research?
^ sorry to post a "+1" comment but, yeah. This.

Edit: As a matter of fact, assuming something on that post could link off to something substantial regarding it's subject, should that link even be allowed to stay here?
The thing about secure boot is that it is a GOOD idea done very badly indeed.

What was needed was for a trusted neutral party(or two) to be the owner of the root key, and for that organisation to hand out child keys (e.g. Microsoft, Open Source Initiative, Apple, etc) who could in turn generate child keys (all of which could be revoked). Essentially we need the "internet model" of key exchanges for this too.

I cannot understand who thought it was a good idea for Microsoft to be the only authorised party to generate keys. Even from Microsoft's perspective it is just asking to get anti-trust-ed again.
Perhaps. I don't have much of an opinion one way or the other on if it's moral to charge for something like that. But the Disavow Link Tool exists for a reason, and webmasters can use it to manually remove those bad links. Though they are encouraged to make an honest effort to contact webmasters first.
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> SEO is a misnomer.

As much as a misnomer as cat food. Try to think of it as Search Engine _Placement_ optimisation.
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Yes, selectors really match from right to left

Boris Zbarsky gives a good explanation of why here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5797014/why-do-browsers-m...
Google Wallet does not support Bitcoins, and I don't think they will support it anytime soon.

Google Wallet is just an easy way to manage your credit cards and, sometimes, pay using NFC.
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The Enduring Myth of the 'Free' Internet
The internet model of key exchanges sucks, and there is currently much wailing and gnashing of teeth over what to do about it. That's what linus is talking about here:

"They are almost certainly going to be more secure than depending on some crazy root of trust based on a big company, with key signing authorities that trust anybody with a credit card."

Not to mention this kind of thing: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476766

Also, when it comes to stuff this important, there is no such thing as a trusted neutral party.
The increased demand seems to be largely from current users rather than new users, as this chart shows:

http://blockchain.info/charts/n-unique-addresses
Can't you set any dispatch character you like using make-dispatch-macro-character ?