skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Amazon A Giant Ponzi Scheme Dressed In Drag?
Design process: don’t let extreme views grind you down
Young coined that term 'meritocracy' in satire; I feel it remains a ridiculous concept.

Who judges what is meritorious? The entrenched majority? Won't they tend to think along similar lines and discount dissenting opinions as lacking merit?

I suggest that there is no meritocracy in existence to begin with.
What exactly are you trying to store? Depending on what you are persisting, SQL may make perfect sense.
There are things HMDs are useful for besides recording/storing sense data. In fact, I would say, so many of them (and growing further with each new development), that a policy like this will eventually just become impossible to enforce--it would be like asking people to leave their phones at the door, or perhaps even their prescription glasses.

But, of course, this is still a problem that needs to be solved; never before have the barriers to recording everyone around you, unbeknownst to them, been so low. (Whereas before, only professionals--spies, reporters, hostage-negotiators, etc.--really bothered to go through all the schlep required.)

So, perhaps, in the future, a law will be passed requiring HMDs (and phones, actually--there's no reason they don't also count) to get a "privacy-zone" feature. Within range of any wi-fi AP emitting a "privacy-zone beacon", the HMD would be legally required to disable its recording features. This brings the barrier-of-entry back up to "have to jailbreak your HMD and override the restriction", which is similar to "buy a gizmo from a spy-store" in terms of difficulty, so I would say it's equitable.

Of course, then you could get police walking around emitting privacy-zone beacons, and other totalitarian effects.

The real underlying problem, causing things like that, is that completely technological systems are prone to social exploitation, because our own social mores aren't carried over into the technological domain. So, instead, we would want to rely partially on the technology, and partially on social enforcement.

A good balance might be: entering a privacy zone prompts you to disable your recording--a single "click" will do so, but you can ignore/cancel the request. Once you've complied, you can't re-enable recording until you leave the privacy zone. Also, the privacy-zone beacon will be aware of whether you've complied with the request. Thus, as the owner of a private establishment (e.g. a bar), you can simply activate your privacy-zone beacon and attenuate its range out to some distance beyond the perimeter of your building--and then have a bouncer who won't let people in until they see, among whatever other conditions--that they have assented to disabling recording.
Here are some good reasons for it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3756100/how-did-sql-becom...

In particular, you can read this book: http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=6323&page=159
I have never once seen this happen at any place I've worked. I counter your anecdotal evidence with my own anecdotal evidence and we all have to go away and get some real data!
GitHub is getting DDoSed again
Whilst I'm no expert in the field, I think the culture of veterinary science is significantly different. So different that it's not a useful analogy. Here are my reasons:

Vets need qualifications; there are very few vets who just kind of taught themselves by cutting up animals and experiementing with giving them different drugs. Whilst experience counts for a lot, I really don't see experienced vets looking at a new vets work and saying "Hur! Fuckin Noob!". Contrast this with the common perception amongst (some, by no means all) programmers that a degree really doesn't mean a lot when it comes to ability to actually solve problems, write good code, work well in a team etc etc.

Vets (often) work in small groups. Small groups foster much less secure mob mentalities and all the other gang characteristics that we see in large groups. In some companies, a programmer pen can hold fifty or more programmers.

(Many) vets work with people. They work ON animals, but the animal has an owner who is worried and needs to be dealt with as well. Vets have people skills and comport themselves as professionals. If my livelihood depended on the vet to properly examine my herd of cows, and the vet carried the attitude I see many programmers carry, I'd fire them on the spot and find someone else. Many programmers rarely have to actually work with customers, and that becomes more and more true the larger the programming team (which is exactly the kind of situation where unfortunate attitudes can take hold and/or immature behaviour run without being confronted).

There are more reasons; essentially, I'm saying that I believe this analogy is flawed and that any other such analogies need to be similarly examined for applicability. Just because one profession got its act together without special measures needing to be taken doesn't mean they all can.
All of these just sound spammy, but I'm more concerned with what happens when REAL companies start using "aging.beauty" as right now the "weird" TLDs are a big red flag to warn me that it's probably just some SEO junk and not what I'm really after.

Teeth whitening solutions, anyone?
Everybody and their sister is going to have their own extension and anybody who can afford one can still buy their own.

so I can get a .shop extension too after Google gets the one and only?
Relevant article ("The Google Glass feature no one is talking about"): http://creativegood.com/blog/the-google-glass-feature-no-one...
Looks awesome.

Curious if you are the developer? If so, did you pay your help (graphics, sound, etc) or were they volunteers?

If so, how much should one budget to hire people for that end?
I have been trying to get a grasp on your second point, but to this day, I still haven't been able to really come to terms with it.

Is there any total noobs guide to automated deployment? Everything I have seen to this day assumes some knowledge of sysops and the whole ecosystem of that specific deployment tool (e.g. like it assumes I knew what is a 'cookbook', or where to find them, etc). It would be great if there is a guide for people like me that doesn't assume any knowledge from the reader aside from development / basic local deployment.
Could you elaborate a little more, I am curious!
Google has the clout to make it happen by favoring the domains they want to control on search.

Others not so much.
Sorry! I messed up, I did mean to post an amazon link. Thanks for picking up where I'm slacking.
It doesn't matter actually. On average men are stronger and taller than women. But I'm pretty sure you met a woman taller than you at least once, and a woman trained in, say, 400 meter run can ridicule you any day on a track. Same for CS, if ever a scientific study shows that women are "genetically" less fitted for CS, it doesn't mean that you can't find a woman that performs better in the field.
I think employers are smart enough to get that.
More problematic are some disadvantages of hiring a woman like birth vacations. My country made I think a smart legal move by making such a vacations available to men as well, in order to make both genders equal in that respect.
I think the same applies to quite many new innovations on our field. They look interesting, because they make things simple. Things that used to be very complicated.

The problem is that in some cases there are reasons why the things are complicated. Quite often it is easy to dismiss these issues during the initial crush with the new technology. "Sure I can live without transactions, why would I need to enforce schema for my objects, who needs type information in language"

Once the initial crush is over, people start slowly adding features to make the shiny-new technology look more like the old stuff. Enforce JSON schema for Mongo, add lightweight type information for Javascript functions etc. Usually the thinking goes we are just adding these few good bits of structure from the Old Technology, surely we are not going to replicate the bloat and complexity.
You seem to be asking this question in a vacuum, which makes it impossible to address the costs and benefits of relational vs. alternative approaches with any context. What types of problem are you trying to solve? What alternatives to an RDBMS are you proposing to solve them with?

Having said that, I write transactional business applications (often dismissively referred to as "CRUD Apps), and in that context an RDBMS is a sensible default, but not for every part - so on Google App Engine for example I'm using CloudSQL for the business data, but Google's data store for the session data - because that has very different characteristics.

[1] I'm reading "SQL" as shorthand for relational, although the two are hardly synonymous.
All the examples you cite are relevant to an individual; they do not stop the gender as a whole exerting their voice in halls of power.

(You also end up mixing a lot of other weird demographic data in there that could be caused by existing entrenched gender roles, e.g. women on the whole tend to live longer because most militaries in the world don't have women soldiers!)

Women, as a gender, don't get as much of a say in how things are run as men. That's something that we all suffer for.
>" Just a matter of educating the people and if companies of this scale decide to do it, they certainly have the resources."

As others have pointed out, we've had things like "travel", "biz", "pro", "me", "mobi", etc for some time now. Not many legit sites operate under these, so I don't really think that these new ones have a big chance. Consumers are already confused about what "www" really is and there is a lot of bad / not-quite-correct / flat-wrong info about what "www" is if you ask even folks who self-identify as "tech savvy".

I sense a lot of consumer confusion coming up, a lot of malware / marketeers using these things, snakeoil SEO firms insisting on them, brands buying up tons because they're scared, and generally a bad time for domains.
I don't know what to expect if all those new TLDs start to catch on. Even today, with all these startups using TLDs such as .io, .ly, .it, etc, I have trouble remembering their exact domains.
June 4th, 1989, Tiananmen Square, Beijing. Parent was talking about Chinese youth inaction, which is not really the case historically; it's just the last beat down was kind of extreme.
I think one of the reasons why startups are hard in India is the people's 'willingness to pay' is pretty low. Everybody wants things to be better, but nobody is willing to pay for it.

Consider the case of flipkart. If flipkart, at some point of time decides to not provide free shipping, then people won't buy from flipkart. They are ready to go to some local shop and buy the same thing, grossly ignoring the time they spent in doing that.

Having gone through the campus hiring process, I saw none of the Indian companies investing in something like interviewstreet for their hiring process. Most of the Indian companies asked you to write code on paper or answer multiple choice questions. They are not ready to take into account the logistics that has to go in to have such a system which would have costed the same as using interviewstreet.

Hence most of the Indian companies are mostly incorporated in the US, and the engineering is done in India. When Indians realize to pay for something that is valuable, then there might be some change in the startup ecosystem here.
The following decade does add the amusing perspective that the "undervalued" shares were worthless a couple of years later. I wonder if they can dredge up documents finding that Goldman Sachs was aware that its grotesque undervaluation with respect to the market demand it was fuelling was simultaneously a grotesque overvaluation with respect to eToys' fundamentals. It would be funny if they tried to use "worried about the long term potential" as a defence.
I wonder how plausible it would be to have IRL space debris haulers, like the anime and how effective they would be at preventing the Kessler Syndrome from occouring.

I find the possibility of space plane destruction due to debris collision too terrifyingly realistic.

On a tangentially related note, I personally would suggest that one read the manga too.
After reading Amped from Daniel H. Wilson, this post seems to strike the same chord as the book. Almost freaky.
You Don't Know Aaron Swartz, But They Did
Bitbucket at it again.
Yup; let us know when ya'll are done with the ICANN shenanigans so we can start implementing P2P DNS more widely, start publishing worthy content on it to draw people to it, then take back what is rightfully ours:

The Internet.
This happened back in October a couple of days in a row. Who the heck is targeting Github and why? I wonder if these attacks are related to the Chinese hacking attacks that have been publicised lately?
Try fabric

It's a lightweight management tool, like writing a shell script in python, but easier and targeted towards system deployment, really

you only have to get around its unintuitive calling convention (not inside the script - it's the way you use the cmd line tool) but otherwise it's a breeze

Chef/Puppet are harder (as in, you really have to fit their paradigms)
Does Heroku add cookies to my hosted web app?
I'm seeing cookies on several of my Heroku hosted web apps.

Why are they there? Do you see them too?

> document.cookie

"__qca=P0-655933652-1360396453625; __utma=164893738.812724335.1360396454.1360402233.1360424700.3; __utmc=164893738; __utmz=164893738.1360396454.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none);"
Yes.

Edit: No, it's fine now. But for how long?
What did I say about women that you disagree with? If I said that men tend to be just the supplemental earners in a family it would be false. At least for the present time. I don't understand what you might find offensive about that - I didn't say that women are incapable of earning a lot of money, just that they often voluntarily choose to not do so.

And I don't think it is going to change, because women get pregnant and breast-feed their children, which impedes their flexibility in making money. Don't blame me (or society) for biology.

Edit: if you are at all interested, I started reading a book yesterday that sounds very promising - "Why Men Earn More" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000TE6BDW?ie=UTF8&camp... I only read the free kindle intro so far, but it is supposed to help both men and women to make better choices, and it explains the pay gap. The intro was already a very interesting read - it's short, and it's free, highly recommended.
That's a very nice idea, but you would still end up with: start_debug.sh, start_prod.sh, etc

It is a good idea nonetheless, so you can inject the variables needed from the outside
What U.S. developers can glean from Asia’s mobile apps market
think about them like really expensive .com's and this will be easier to swallow. you can't get google.com or sex.com because they are taken - but you can get any other .com that is available. or you can get on somebody elses domain for free like .blogspot.com .wordpress.com .tumblr.com etc.

there are a lot of reasons i don't like that ICANN is doing this but fear that these companies are going to employ abusive monopolistic tactics is not one of them. and i think ICANN is likely to just ignore such complaints, because they don't make any sense. this is the opposite of a monopoly and these companies would be dumb not to share the extensions.
i donno when is the last time u went to your campus...but now most of the companies hire interviewstreet for their hiring process..and few of them are Indian companies as well...
This is a pretty typical occurrence for a web service provider of their size. When is Github going to be able to not fail when targeted?
The (not so) funny thing is that this has been a very well known problem for... ever. I'm reading "The House Of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance" by Ron Chernow - highly recommended - and you can find the same mechanisms and scandals (with little variances) dating back at least to the 1920s.

Mixing trading and underwriting in the same firm is bound to create enormous conflicts of interest, no matter how tall the internal "Chinese walls" between departments are. This is imho definitely a place where strong regulations and strong checks are needed.
I use a version of that -- a single system variable identifying the environment and a series of conditional blocks for each environment in the settings.py file:

ENVIRONMENT = os.environ.get('ENVIRONMENT', None)

if not ENVIRONMENT in ('development', 'staging', 'production'):
raise Exception('You need to set ENVIRONMENT variable')

if ENVIRONMENT == 'development':
# ...
elif ENVIRONMENT == 'staging':
# ...
> So filming / taking pictures is already not allowed. It feels like publicity stunt, but nothing particularly weird, imho.

Google Glass is a new level of privacy violation. At least with a camera or phone one can see if someone is just playing a game or trying to record you. With Glass there is no visible difference.
Is it wrong that I blame IE for a lot of this? I feel like IE was a major factor in ramming the "DON'T INSTALL TOOLBARS / ACTIVEX ADD-ONS NOT NO WAY NOT NO HOW" knowledge down consumers' throats (and that still remains good advice).
The fun part is going to be when people start remotely hacking people wearing google glass.

It's going to be like a very early version of ghost-in-the-shell with external memory interfaces.
> It should be noted that computer synthesis (procedural or sampled) of keyboard-based is very convincing. They same cannot be said for any other instrument.

I agree that keyboard instruments are the most convincing, and certainly the easiest virtual instruments to play (since playing a digital piano is the same as playing an acoustic piano), but there are some pretty expressive and convincing virtual instruments out there:

Bass guitar (acoustic and electric): http://www.spectrasonics.net/products/trilian-audio.php

Drums: http://www.toontrack.com/products.asp?item=30

Acoustic guitar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q...

Electric guitar: http://www.vir2.com/instruments/electri6ity

Orchestra (perhaps not the best solo instruments, but pretty great results for a whole symphony): http://www.vsl.co.at/en/67/702/703/413.htm and http://www.soundsonline.com/Symphonic-Orchestra and http://www.garritan.com/products/personal-orchestra-4/

And, just to mention it, the best piano virtual instrument I've heard so far: http://www.synthogy.com/demos/grandpiano.html
How I ditched the security risks and lived without Java, Reader, and Flash
Being underwritten by a well known and respected bank will raise your brand on the financial market. At least if you're not a Google or Facebook...
Actually the motto many join IITs are to get a big job with big pay...they join there for that as a sole reason..even thgh many would want to do something new and innovative(as i being one of them), just the dreams of my parents or family repel them taking such task where there is a very less chance of success...IITians are grown for a sole reason..end up with big pay...but i see some change now a days...
Whether its wrong depends on the context and the motivations.

To put it another way, the ends justifies the means. And I think you'll find plenty who would disagree with that statement.
edit: his comment was edited after I typed mine and I'm too lazy to change it back and forth-

for $1 million plus in costs. You are confusing the extension with a domain name. The point is not to have ONE company own and control an extension (like .com) and all the domains in it. ICAAN should control them and then allow people and corps to register domains within that extension.
I am an experienced and self-proclaimed competent C programmer and I was surprised enough by the "static" feature which I already love -- that I immediately upvoted this, and I'm going to spread this information after testing that it is actually usable with the common tools we use.

Sure, the other stuff was either UB or less interesting to experienced C programmers, but I'm not sure why that should be a problem. If you already know all of these, then you're not the intended audience. You can comment from a more experienced position, or just move along.

Bragging about knowing all of those and even worse - claiming they are just silly UB, all in a condescending tone as dakimov did, is a very stupid thing to do.
Considering Google Glass aren't available for the forseeable future, to appear sincere you should start by being in a geographical location brimming with Google engineers. Google has a small but growing Kirkland presence, but it's not nearly the size of many companies in Seattle.
EA Apologizes For SimCity Disaster, Says It Was “Dumb”..
'Lucrative Work-for-Free Opportunity'
In the screenshot below it looks like you used SublimeText instead of Visual Studio. Does it have benefits for CPP dev ?

https://outland-live.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/media/downlo...
Twitter’s API keys and secrets for its official apps surface
So Haskell makes IO harder by making you learn which modules use lazy I/O and avoid them? I can agree with that. But I don't think that's what people generally try to say when they claim IO in Haskell is hard or bad. People think the IO/effect segregation in Haskell makes IO bad or hard, when it's in fact just the opposite.
Those look like google analytics cookies. Atleast on my website. blog.malloc64.com, if I disable the google analytics (by disabling javascript), I did not get any cookies installed. I think you have the google analytics tracker installed on the page.
Tl;dr do not try to create a Python sandbox it is not a good language for it.
Hm, I don't think it fits the pattern. The most reported Chinese hacking was about espionage, not bringing down websites. Most of the time, DDOS is either related to politics (newspapers, federal agencies etc.) or related to blackmailing (most likely in the case of GitHub.
This of course, does not mean that the hacker is NOT sitting in China. But she could be placed everywhere else just as likely.
Using Multiple PHP Versions (PHP-FPM & FastCGI) With ISPConfig 3 (Ubuntu 12.04)
I think this every time.
Nowadays it's so easy to execute a large scale ddos that it's just as likely to be an attention starved teenager as it is a group with an agenda. Github is big enough that it's on peoples radars as "that popular website lots of people rely on", the company I work for has websites smaller than Github and we're indiscriminately ddosed every couple of days.
Google May Open .Search, .App, .Blog And .Cloud gTLDs To The Public
I often have to wonder if the DDoS gods roll a dice and pick someone to screw each day. We have had many DDoS attacks and never once had any indication as to why.

A few days ago we had a 30 Gbit DDoS. Our server host just blackholed any IP that was touched by it. They kept moving it around to target different bits of our infrastructure (unlike previous attacks that just targeted our website).

We lost 6 servers, but thankfully not enough to take us fully offline though some customers would have experienced problems during that time.

If they had just been a bit more persistent we might have been in serious trouble.

At that level of DDoS your server host doesn't care about keeping you online. They want the traffic off their network.
Or get a Mac. No need to install 3rd party software.

Built in Preview and PDFKit handle PDF needs.

Run Safari with the iPad User Agent string and most websites figure out what to do without Flash.

Java can still be a stumbling block.
However there's nothing intrinsically wrong with the
maiden name question.

Asking users to enter their mother's maiden name, when you actually think they certainly shouldn't do that, then blaming your customers for having used their maiden name, seems like an odd way of doing it.

If mother's maiden name isn't a good enough security question, stop asking it! And we all know it isn't a good enough security question.