skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TrustEgg Founder - If TrustEgg were to fail, the accounts would be transferred to a different Trust Co in coordination with the State Division of Financial institutions.
A Cheat Sheet For Getting Your App Featured On Top Blogs
I think it was tongue in cheek as in a copy of DropBox.

Maybe?
On the other hand, if I asked an applicant what they did to get it and the applicant demonstrated that they'd single-handedly implemented a complete, working C++ 11 compiler, I'd hire them on the spot.
What's the point of all this complexity? Since the system already has and uses SSH, why not do it in one line?

# ssh hostname "echo 'use db; show tables' | mysql -p(password)"

Or, for a remote, interactive MySQL session that prompts for a password:

# ssh -t hostname mysql -p

The linked content is overkill.
Jaywalking - stepping off the curb and into the crosswalk when the red hand is flashing is jaywalking. Everyone does it though.
Russian e-commerce market reached $10.4 billions (PwC) 
The Russian e-commerce market has grown three-fold between 2008 and 2012, from $ 3.5 billion to $ 10.4 billion as reported by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
> I have zero confidence in apps with no "about us".

If you look at the code, in the FB Open Graph meta data the admin (fb:admins" content="643356033") is https://www.facebook.com/643356033 / Karl Tiedemann. On Twitter (@soapko) "Chief UX Designer for Barracuda Networks and http://Copy.com . Designer of The Perfect Heist boardgame."

Maybe that helps.
You're employees of https://www.barracudanetworks.com/ , you're funded by them?
On the related note: Wolfram announced a few days ago Estonia becoming their first CBM country for computerbasedmath.org to rewrite key years of school probability and statistics from scratch:
http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/02/11/announcement-our-first-cb...
I would probably use it if it worked for sure with Newegg as well.
Really ? That is not what the installation guide says:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/webnotes/install/index....
Estonia: Our First CBM Country
I wonder what it cost to buy copy.com
Almost bearable in MobileSafari on my iPhone. Almost... well, I guess the limiting factors are mostly under Apple's control, not pdf.js's.
Maths rebels look to reform Estonian education
> It came off much more casual and dashed-off to me.

Yes, but both can be true at once. :)
Measure the disk occupancy trade off of the new ext4 FS inline data feature
B'Vulcan' leads Pluto moon name vote
Pando (tree) - 80,000 year old tree
Java is like a truck, Rails like a bicycle. Rails cannot turn into Java because it lacks the capabilities to turn into Java.
" as easy as sending a text file. "

Without being snarky, why would you say a text file here? The only use case for 'sending a text file' that I can think of is a programmer sharing a .vimrc, or similar executable text file. The 99% case for someone who wants to share some plain text, even the .vimrc case, is to paste it in the email. This analogy feels very odd. How about 'as easy as sending a pdf' or word doc, or 'a single photo', or any kind of file that normal people ever attach to their emails? (Possible assumption on my part - when you say 'send a file' I think 'email to them'. If you want me to think of 'make the file available for sharing', say 'share').
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It's FoxIt, not Acrobat.
Other Countries Court Skilled Immigrants Frustrated by U.S. Visa Laws
I wish there was a web community for shutins like myself who would like to no longer be shutins. It's definitely not Grouper - sorry, "ending loneliness" doesn't mean finding a girlfriend and being judged on your tagged Facebook photos (as someone who is actually lonely, I have no photos tagged, and I assume that's why Grouper never admitted me. You have to be unlonely to join Grouper, in reality.). The only people I've really been able to relate to are other loners but they're hard to find obviously. My biggest fear, which is confirmed time and time again, is that my awkwardness and general boringness scares people off. It'd be nice if I could meet someone who, with fair certainty, would not be like that to me.

> They form relationships with other people only if they believe they will not be rejected. Loss and rejection are so painful that these people will choose to be lonely rather than risk trying to connect with others.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000940.htm
Can you put some words up there about how safe my data would be?

Because it looks like the site is based on twitter bootstrap, my mind has immediately led me to think you're doing the storage etc on a bootstrap budget. Potentially leaving it all up to S3.

Seems this wont be the case as you are part of Barracuda Networks, can you put some more words up there to help ease my (and other users') concerns?
I think you're right. We just put in a new Barracuda Backup server this week and I noticed that, along with the usual file restore functions, it presents us with an option to share files to a Copy account.
This is one of the funniest things I've ever read here! Nicely done.

(can't upvote)
There is a pretty big gap between 'no-nonsense' and 'insulting'. This is clearly in the insulting category.

He's been given an opportunity, if he sees any bread in it he should take it, if not politely refuse. Just so the next time there is an opportunity he's still on the 'call' list.

I can see 0 upside to acting like this, and I'm known as pretty direct myself. I'd never insult a government official - in writing, no less - unless it served a purpose and I can't find any purpose here, just insults for insults sake and direct proof of acting on incorrect information. Keep in mind that France has a huge domestic tire manufacturer that negates pretty much everything mr. Titan says here. If he's not happy with the factory operation, it's equipment or its workforce then it's time to either negotiate or to bow out with some grace.

Shooting yourself in the foot like this is not the way business is done, especially not in France where they value propriety in business as much as anywhere else on the planet. Sure there may be insurmountable downsides but given an opportunity you can simply say 'pass', no need to spit the person giving you the opportunity in the face.
But legalese is plain English. It's verbose in order to eliminate ambiguity and double meanings, not to be complex for complexity's sake.
Tech Companies Treat Their Interns Well, And Some Are Already Hiring
That has nothing to do with anything. If you're just having a dick measuring contest, Google has contributed a ton to the open source community. Google also provides nearly 100% of funding for Mozilla.
As a tech guy in his forties, I find these arguments hilarious - especially when my own generation had the same things said about television ("They won't know personal contact or relationships!") , video games...every new thing is the end of human society as we know it.

Until it isn't.

I mean, honestly, stop being so myopic. There were people who decried the STEAM ENGINE. There were people - sometimes, legitimate journalists and "thought leaders" who would write articles and essays about ELECTRICITY. And RADIO. And the PHONE. And the TELEGRAPH.

And when the telegraph began to become obsolete, there was wailing and and gnashing of teeth. When the 'horseless carraige' was introduced, there were op-ed pieces written stating it was a sad state that America might not use horsepower in the future.

Yeah, society is going to change. It's always changing. People adapt. Some things we lose, some things we gain. It's only "the way it should be" to you because it's the world you know.
Well things like that are no fun. However much of the popularity and skill required to play Starcraft is not in because it is such a greatly designed game. Most of the challenge come from the point that the development team has found creative solutions around its limitations and that leaves a lot of opportunities to exploit and hack its shortcomings.

Supreme Commander for instance has much better user interface and unit control mechanisms. This makes it much more of a macro game, since micro managing units is not necessary to the same degree. And indeed some people really like micro managing stuff and for the others it serves as an excuse to why they suck at the game.

Although I love Starcraft 2 I think its UI is horrible in comparison to what else is out there. However it is an essential part of the game and it gives it character.
There's really something fundamentally different about these new trends, and I think it's important to try to put a finger on it, rather than blame technology generally. Part of the smartphone/Facebook/Instragram addiction is cheap escapism, filling the same role as TV does to many. But it's also the social addiction - the need to know what other people are doing, and "be part of it", and the narcissistic look-at-me.

I see Glass as especially concerning given Google's marketing, which is clearly intended to feed into these social (and other) addictions. The New York Times just published an extraordinary article[1] about the way the US food industry knowingly manipulated consumers into eating extremely unhealthy foods which were engineered by our finest minds, using advanced mathematical models, to perfectly induce and maintain craving. They were explicitly compared to Big Tobacco, as being complicit in the damage they have caused.

I look at the parallels in the way the tech industry is using modern pysch/neuro research and explicitly engineering products designed to manipulate humans' social monkey-brains into craving more-more-more, getting dopamine hits every time someone clicks "like". This is not the sort of future we want to build.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary...
Right, it is still totally open-loop.
GitHub Coders: This is your new invoicing solution
Google Glass Sightseeing trips
Yup, I saw that on the first pass. So you have the ability to refactor, but you are basically guaranteeing that you will need to if your app grows beyond the couple of pages/api's size.

Additionally, there's another thing that importd side-steps: now there is no more settings.py. While I understand why, there is a reason for it to exist: configuration and code do not always mix. Sometimes you need a dev key and a prod key; sometimes you need different IP addresses set in different config files and you cannot autodiscover them (e.g.: they are not addresses from the same box). Having a better settings.py would go a long way towards solving this as compared to eliminating it altogether.
But that's implied in a contract. If it becomes something you didn't (objectively) intend to agree on, it's not a contract anyways.
That whole theory ignores the fact that the most productive parts of Germany are historically Catholic.
Related: django-mini, a command-line tool for running Django management commands without a full settings.py.

https://github.com/davidwtbuxton/django-mini

I wrote it to make it easier to run tests for plug-able Django apps.
What happened to hydrogen cars? I was expecting them to come out on top, but it seems electric charging stations are growing much faster than hydrogen refill stations.
Cartoon about Hackers
A quote: "Star Trek fans have something to rejoice in: "Vulcan" is the leading contender in a vote to name two of Pluto's recently discovered moons."

Nice name, but its standing in the contest isn't necessarily because of its connection with Star Trek. There was a Vulcan before Gene Roddenberry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(mythology)
Nope, I've done it quite a few times--you can bootstrap it from your vimrc like so:

if !isdirectory(expand(root, 1).'/vundle')
exec '!git clone '.src.' '.shellescape(root, 1).'/vundle'
endif
All your inputs are via wires. Some of them are short wires, and made of meat. But you have no direct senses.
Of the 15 or so different states I've been to, this is what I've observed. Of course I can't say that there is no black swan, but seems unlikely. At least there's a tendency towards no sensors, and again, with the traffic volumes it might not make sense to have them in most US cities.
Nice article. Good balance between tech details & understandability.

Never really noticed path finding issues (well no more than other games)...except that one time I attempted a massive zerg rush. If you've got enough of them the pathfinding algo craps itself and sends them into the enemy base +- individually. So much for rushing...
The project aims to build not just the tokenizer, but a complete compiler and standard library. None of GCC, Clang, Microsoft or Intel can provide a complete, bug free C++11 implementation. If you hang out in freenode's ##c++, you'll see people finding new corner cases every day. It's reasonable to consider this project impossible for an individual.
(Upvoting you just to move your comment above jpxxx's blithering stupidity.)

I can't tell from your comment if you think I'm the author, but just FYI, I'm not.

> I'll still shout "Find professional help" if that's what it'll take for that person. And that's the case here.

OK, here's the thing, and it's really the only point I care to try to make here: telling someone to find professional help is not helpful. In fact, it's probably harmful, because it's the number one, most predictable piece of advice anybody can expect to get. So, being told over and over again to "find professional help" -- a task which is dramatically more difficult than the effort required to write those three words -- just makes people want to talk about their problems openly even less. i.e., "I'd talk about it, but they'll just tell me to find professional help, I really don't need to hear that again."

It's also harmful in that it's another kind of a dismissal. Surely you can see that "find professional help" could be interpreted as another way of saying, "Go away, I can't help you"? "Go find someone else and pay them to listen to you." -- I'm sure this isn't what you or anyone else means to say, but this is what it sounds like to someone with depression.
Auto Transport Compton, California - Shipanycar
The Future of Wikidata
Thanks. Fixed them. Anything else amiss?
Hey
hey new here i am a noob
Sometimes legalese is intentionally constructed to create ambiguity and double meanings.
I've done it myself for my home servers. Tends to get strange looks, I can only imagine what buying in the scale BackBlaze did caused for reactions :p
I played Warcraft 3 and the same trick was used to surround a hero with ghouls. Since ghouls are also the unit that gathers lumber for the Undead Race, they enter a no-collision state when you right click on a tree.
This behavior was patched because it was too strong. You would just click on a tree behind the enemy hero and all your ghouls would pass through all the other units (footmen for example) and they could surround the hero and kill him. Once you kill the hero in Warcraft 3, there's no point fighting anymore :P
Over 17 years (example taken from elsewhere in the thread) that works out to 14.1% of the total amount assuming the total amount is paid out when the beneficiary of the trust reaches the age of majority.
Come on, Gene Wilder.
White House announces new strategy to fight theft of intellectual property
As others have stated, I wish there was a bit more information about the service on the page. I use Dropbox and GDrive, but I'm not particularly fond of either of them. Aside from a slight price difference, what makes Copy stand out?

For example, I have a 1Password file that I would like to share amongst my team for all service related passwords. Keeping this in sync with all of our devices is a serious pain, and often results in certain members owning it (usually me) and thus having all of the responsibility.

It doesn't have to be 1Password. I have tried other apps like Keepass with similar results (and web-based versions, I do not like -- security etc.).

I realize that this is hard. Version control, multiple access to the same files and associated updates but it would really be a killer feature.
We have a unique set of technical challenges. We care about availability and durability to extremes that most others don't have to, and as a result we often end up having to build systems in novel ways. Fraud requires defending against active, motivated attackers. Building product requires figuring out the best possible way for it to work and then making it exist in the world. All of these are problems which you can't solve by simply throwing more people at them -- you need to hire the best people you can find.
The letter refers to working for three hours, not an official three-hour day. It's probably hyperbole.
I've mostly worked on the server side of things for the last few years but last year I decided to dip into mobile. I felt disappointed after trying MonoDevelop as I found a lot of the things I had really appreciated in server development missing or inadequate. Things like a proper package manager and easy integration with CI servers. I just got NuGet to work last month, after trying it infrequently over a couple of months. xbuild, I never got to work properly, sure I was able to run unit tests inside MonoDevelop but my expectations were a bit higher.

Meanwhile, over in Javaville, I can do just about anything Android related my heart desires with Maven and even CocoaPods in its infancy was a better experience than NuGet. Just my 2 cents.
White House to announce sanctions against countries waging cyberattacks
You might be. Think of it in this way: the more you write, the more ideas are offered for your audience to interpret - and misinterpret. Shorter writing can be clearer, if written well.
Strongspace at http://www.strongspace.com/

Interestingly they use ZFS on FreeBSD I believe.
Simplifying Windows Monitoring
Good stuff here:

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/pf/12/set-up-a-trust-fu...

And here:

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/retirement/11/ensuring-...

And yet more here:

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/pf/07/trustee-responsib...
I've been using Play every since 2.0 came out and I'm a huge fan. It's just fun to work with.
RepublicWireless: Going after Giant US telecoms
The technology part is easy. Google Now already does all of this basically.
Are adsense bans forever? Are they tied to an identity or a credit card?
Firefox: HTTPS and response code 407
It's more about using previously tested blocks of language. Here's a good example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalaya_clause

Or the drafter may not be a very good writer! It's easy to fall back on legalese instead of taking the time to make something concise (see the article/video).
It sounds like you're replying more to feed your ego as an expert advisor full of "tough love," rather than to actually help OP. There's no better way to steel a depressed person's resolve to stay depressed than to criticize him further and to not listen to him. You're telling him exactly that ("TL;DR"), that he is not worth listening to.
Reading this, an earlier article on DC's laws being copyrighted by a private firm (link below) and Aaron Swartz's FBI file make me think how inaccessible our government really is. Not only is it hard to even find the relevant laws or even worse court decisions once you read them they are often incomprehensible.

Can't the government afford to put this on the web in an easily usable form? Perhaps annotated with at least their own interpretation of the meaning. Don't they need this to function?

Could there be some sort of open-source effort by lawyers to solve this problem?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5251797
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5247730
The benefits aren't worth it if I can't wear it without feeling like a tool.
I added in a note, I think this is the multi-year result of not having a old, grey-haired standards committee around creating APIs. I made fun of Sun and Oracle for doing things like this for years, but after futzing around with Rails frameworks, integration, and edge-cases. I think I would have preferred to have people sitting around a conference call saying things like, "Hey Devise people, your authentication approach looks like a good standard, why don't we formalize it so we can make this stuff easier to integrate."

I know this makes me sound old. I own that.
The way I'd define it in terms of engineering schools:

A-Tier: International reputation for engineering

B-Tier: The school is known internationally (or nationally in the U.S.) but not specifically for engineering

If you're at a B-Tier school you'll probably notice a lot of your professors did their PhD at an A-Tier school.

I say this with the caveat that obviously all manners of university ranking are highly contentious, fluid, and usually say more about the ranker than the ranked.
It's sounds great, both technically and commercially. It's a shame the web site doesn't give the effect you just did in a few sentences.
Yeah and Android is full of ads! /s
Here's the article I wrote: http://tomoconnor.eu/blogish/how-i-broke-aws-opsworks/
> Because the project was always two months from launch it was inconceivable that there was enough time to re-engineer the terrain engine to make path-finding easier, so the path-finding code just had to be made to work.

Really enjoyed this part of the article. When you have an infinitely long two-month period, you still can't complete a task that requires three months.
Why developers have side projects
It would seem that sensors would be most useful with lower traffic volumes, and synchronization better for rush hour. Perhaps using each system at different times of the day would be theoretically optimal.

Or why not incorporate sensor information into the synchronization, and continuously plan the best light cycles for any given situation?
I think the point is, other systems have now emerged that can reasonably claim to represent the cutting edge of simplicity and ease. Rails held that distinction for several years, it was the reference point people used to criticize or praise other systems. But Rails is no longer the clear leader in ease of use or sophistication of 3rd party libraries. In response to Rails, lots of new languages and frameworks emerged, all of which offer a lot of new ideas about what the cutting edge is in 2013.
Apple Application Loader server down?
Apple Application Loader server down?
>Nothing that 5 year old iPhone can't do with albeit more convenience.

Lol. Google Now (the tech powering Glass, effectively) still does stuff that current iPhones don't do.
My bank uses a security module written in Java. I had to switch from Google Chrome to Firefox because Java 7 for Mac doesn't have a compatible version for Chrome.

Mysteries from Oracle.
Unfortunately, because Estonia derives almost all of their electrical power from coal, this is a wasteful setback for the environment.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/estonia/electricity-producti...
The Rise of the Mirror Internet or Darknet
It must be a shame to have such little will power.
The Code of Hammurabi was not the corpus of babylonian law, it was a record of some case law.
Hi Sir,

Thanks for spelling out the truth. For those who are young and impressionable, listen to this man. Let me paraphrase his two points,

1) Being a nice person will not only earn you any affection you crave but the opposite, contempt for being an agreeable person.

2) Professional help is an oxymoron. Psychiatrists waste money and time.

In my humble opinion, fundamental human problems involve three things, social class, money and sex. Sanitized into our civilized world, it means "pursuing your passion," "entrepreneurship," and "being a good citizen." Shrinks will not grant you any of those things. You have to do the dirty work yourself.
The hover design, while nice, doesn't work well on tablets.
"RefineryCMS, Devise, Omniauth, Carrierwave, Unicorn, Rack Rewrite, Fog, New Relic, Foreman, AMQP, and Honeybadger, not to mention the extra magic that Heroku gems throw into the mix (backups and other fun)."

Just going through all those names makes me tired. Its like framework names are to software as band names are to bands.