skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the Drupal community needs to get a really solid grip on what Drupal is (CMS) and how it compares to alternatives, and make sure they aren't leading people astray. There's this attitude that Drupal is some end-all solution to any web problem, when simply put, it's just a collection of many solutions to even greater (and growing) number of problems surrounding content.

If you want to capitalize on Drupal, your project needs to be well inside that problem set and you should have a tier of users that can and will learn arcane rituals and minutiae such as which of the five modules for X doesn't suck -- people who are going to be more productive doing so than if you were to have them writing code. These shouldn't be developers, these should be that class of person that is content to spend months complicating together a single spreadsheet, it's that same kind of work.

I've been doing Drupal full time for several years and I often say that if you're working on a Drupal project and you're in a code editor, you're probably doing something wrong. Most of the time, either there's a module for whatever you're doing, or you shouldn't have used Drupal.

Drupal agencies seem to sell Drupal as if it were bespoke development: hourly rates, design from scratch and lofty goals -- until it gets handed to a site builder "developer" who weeps because module X doesn't have support for module Y yet and fixing that properly exceeds the budget and their own skill set.

The Drupal service industry has to realize that Drupal and contrib is an IKEA and they should seek to serve clients as interior decorators do, not as carpenters - although I suspect it won't be quite as lucrative for them under that model, as well as many egos in the way.

Actual developers do exist in the ecosystem, but their time is best spent increasing the breadth and quality of the catalog of solutions for site builders, not cleaning up messes and creating endless one-off cludges on an over-promised project.

I've not yet had my conviction broken that there is a market for CMS, but whether Drupal is a suitable implementation of CMS, whether agencies can sell CMS properly, and whether I want to do this anymore are big questions for me right now.
Gotta make it seem scary somehow.
Loevinger's 9 stages of ego development
What is the connection between a PHP developer and an atheist or a believer ?
I remembered the comic but but I hadn't seen the actual game, hell tetris that is, he was right, it is hell. http://www.swfme.com/view/1046212
Punishment for what?
You may or may not be old enough to remember "instant breakfast" [1] but it was a "week 2" meal in my dorm in college, meaning if your stipend/outside income was limited to a bi-weekly paycheck you could "get by" if some of last few meals in week 2 were just instant breakfast. Rice/beans/tortillas were a better choice but had more prep time.

That said, it's an interesting question on the market for food products the broader desirability for a product like Soylent. As a minimalist I'm intrigued, as a foodie I'm appalled :-) But could it put a dent in the McFranchises of the world? Perhaps. Could it, or a similarly engineered product provide the missing nutrition for at risk populations? If so what prevents it? (I'm watching for similar ideas to appear on the market if this gets any more press than it has)

I note however that 'feeding the poor' with a product like this might not get the reception an engineer/scientist might expect. As others have mentioned there are some cultural stereotypes built up around food and meals which are not well supported by an engineered food product that is designed merely to be nutritious.

[1] http://caloriecount.about.com/tag/food/instantbreakfast
>It's a nice resolution that doesn't require switching into and out of "retina" mode.

I use an OS that fortunately isn't encumbered with those problems. I use a 2560x1440 monitor, a 2560x1440 tablet, and a 720p phone, the fact that a 14" screen is inferior to all of those is embarrassing. It does make a difference, especially when I'm considering switching from my MBA (which already has a higher density than the X1 in question) to an XPS 13 that has a full HD (1080p) display.

I can assure you, I would love more than anything else to buy the Touchpad X1. I don't like Dell's quality or customer service. The EFI implementation on Macs is piss-poor and their firmware doesn't support USB3 (you have to boot OS X/Ubuntu and have the drivers kick in). My first "real" laptop was a Thinkpad before they stopped making Thinkpads. But frankly, the screen is a deal break. The screen on my T61P was the worst screen I've ever owned, and I'm not buying another until it's competitive with the equivalent competition.

I'm sadly well aware that many other laptop manufacturers skimp on displays, but both Acer and ASUS offer full HD laptops that are in the same spec/dimension/price range.
What no one, the bitcoin community included, anticipates is hundreds and thousands of competing cryptocurrencies around the world.

For time eternal, government has risen among traders to enforce commercial rules.

Currency is like electrical current. It flows and the total currency system--all users--seeks equilibrium on it's own. When you've got currency you have to fend against spouses, family, friends, external competitors, the state, lawyers and nature itself to maintain your position.
Cards Against Humanity is irrelevant to the issue. Also it's not about being puritanical and easily offended.

Being a male geek/dork/nerd/outcast in school doesn't excuse behavior that causes a hostile, sexualized, or otherwise unwelcoming environment. I, a female geek, was an outcast too and participated in many of the activities you mention, yet I came out mature.

You claim that male engineers (which you referred to as neckbeards) just need to be told that their behavior isn't OK and that everything will work out fine. You know what, I've tried that approach many, many times and it always backfires. The first reaction is quite similar to what you have above. Blame the person for being oversensitive and blowing things out of proportion. Then other defensive reactions ranging from yelling to ostracizing the female from the group follow. Rarely, after lots of back and forth emails and other draining communications (where I have to do tons of research in order to educate them about male privilege and other concepts), the issue is resolved. This successful resolution has happened maybe three times in my career.

Guys, if you are faced with a complaint that something was sexist, not cool, etc., please, don't let your first reaction be the defensive reaction we see all the time. Take time, think it over, ask for more information so that you can understand her position. You might just find an opportunity to grow as a person.
I basically see advantages for the seller (lower fees, fraud protection), but none for the buyer (seller-side fraud potential, no cash-back).

Therefore, why would I, a buyer use this vs a credit card?
Forking and Dongle Jokes Don't Belong At Tech Conferences
If you have a digital scale and some time to read supplement labels, even the measuring/mixing doesn't seem that bad.

The whey protein and olive oil you can get anywhere. The maltodextrin means picking up a giant bag from a brewery supply store once every few months.

I'm coming up with two scoops of protein, eight scoops of carbs, and a third cup of oil, and a bit under half a gallon of water. After that it's just a teaspoon of salt and a few supplements/multi-vitamins and you're set for the day.

He mentioned earlier that it takes about five minutes to prepare the next day's batch, and he doesn't need refrigeration or much in the way of kitchen utensils. That's a fairly tight upper bound on complexity.
This could be a very effective means for developing a new problem solving app. For example: You are having some Javascript template errors. Just load your template and check for all potential solutions on SO and pump out the corrected template. Possibilities are endless. Way to guys. Very impressed.
It's not the end-user who's likely to be doing money laundering, although that might happen any how.

Here's a sketch of how it might work, an entity with a large amount of USD in bank accounts in the US, that wishes to move the money elsewhere without triggering SARs pays USD for prepaid wireless service which they use to provision prepaid wireless cards, which loudly advertise that they can be funded using BTC. Millions of people who are locked out of the "real" economy in one way or another start using BTC to buy wireless minutes, or electricity, or nights in capsule motels; whatever fungible commodity the prepaid service provider can get a good deal on. Those BTC are perhaps transferred back into TND, ISK, CHF or some other local currency, or kept as an offshore BTC fund.

Connoisseurs of global financial crime will recognize that this is basically a souped up internet speed version of the Peso Exchange that doesn't rely on shipping goods to overseas locations.

Now if a player with enough legitimate cover were to run this playbook, they could do it as a branded card and basically own the public perception of prepaid card good for all kinds of things that can get paid for by the internet...

Not to say that there aren't issues with this model, and this is not a game one could get into with less than 30 Million USD in liquid assets. But there are a surprisingly large number of organisations that could field both the front businesses and the free cash flow to run this. And a slightly smaller number that could do it in a way that wouldn't wind up with their executive team on the Interpol watchlists.
Adding some spices and binders can also be a wonderful addition depending on your tastes.

http://www.makebetterfood.com/recipes/stove-top-burgers/
Journalists accurately report the actual sentences given to convicts.

My whole point is that such data are missing from this article, despite their relevance.

The tactic works because of human psychology. Being in an interrogation room is terrifying, and people have a natural instinct to try to get out as soon as possible.

I've been in one. I found it annoying rather than terrifying, but that's obviously not the case for many other people. For all its flaws, sitting people down and asking them uncomfortable questions is one of the better techniques we have for solving crimes, and I find it vastly preferable to the use of things like truth serums or lie detectors.
I've had the T20, the T30, the T41, the T60p, and the X200. The build quality has just been going down. I have a T60 with a busted fan with no screen, think anti-tablet, as a server right now. The X200 had to be sent in for repairs a few times, luckily under warranty, while the T41 keeps going (others have been retired). And before the service was incredible, now it just seems to take longer and longer (well, as of 2 years ago as far as I know).

In 2011, I was shopping for a new laptop and wanted to get something with an SSD, but the X-series was more expensive than an MBA. After a tirade about Apple, I finally gave in despite reservations about no trackpoint and durability. I just don't treat my hardware very well. Regarding durability, I've had this thing protect me while I got clipped by a truck, dropped it off a motorcycle, and had it fall several times. A few dents, but it keeps on going. And the trackpoint, well, I've just learned to live without. C'est la vie. The keyboard works, gotten used to it.

I'm still waiting for something better than the MBA that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Carbon for $1200 + the honor of having to recompile kernels to get less battery life than other OS's just doesn't cut it anymore. This new one ain't it either.

Loyalty is misguided nowadays. They don't build them like they used to.
What would be wrong with shorting ATT and smearing them in the media for having shit security? Why wouldn't you talk about that?

The list was never made public.

I doubt they were joking when discussing selling the list, or spearphishing, or spamming it, or pastebinning it. Turns out, though, that that would have been harmful to innocent people - which is why it was not done.

There was no crime here. ATT said as much before the indictment.
Kind of reminds me back in the day where you could flash your Ati X800 card (12 pipelines) to upgrade it to 16 pipelines of the X800 XT model. (http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/100). This decision corresponds with the quote in the top comment."It is far cheaper to make one very good chip for the highest market, and modify it slightly for lower end markets..."
If Rust doesn't allow pointer arithmetic and conjuring up a pointer using '&' like in C, it doesn't make me feel there is anything special here.
"except they don't deliver on Saturday"

Neither will the US, probably, soon (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/02/06/171264853/rep...). I don't think that includes packages though, which is all I care about. One less day of junk mail is fine with me. Although I guess that just means more crap on Monday.
Hahaha, those are the choices you give me?
I am not going to debate this any further, you've made up your mind.

"near-mythical" huh? Good to know.
I agree, but I don't think I'm going to change my mind about it :-)
Could you share the name of the online tool you used? Thanks
> it's a symptom of insufficient competitive pressure

Exactly. That's as if fast food chain just before serving food to customer added ingredient that would made food taste worse (and or be less healthy) in order to be able to sell you same food without this ingredient at premium price.

We don't see such behavior because in fast food industry we have heavy competition. Not so much in GPU market where two companies have most of the market and entry barriers are high.
Wot?

What talking ad?
ATT said in court that this data was published (by ATT).
Unlike Ruby devs we don't need to pray to God every time we deploy our code?
I think it's incredible how some people enjoy getting screwed over. I have a friend that actually thinks it's a good thing that iPhones break easily.
This service is amazing. I've been using the pilot for about 6 months and it's the best thing they've done. Get an email or SMS about a package and a code, rock up, punch your name and the code, the locker pops open and you get your package!
Ask HN: What software do you use to monitor your servers?
I want to setup a monitoring solution whose overall purpose is to be able to fix server problems. What tool do you guys find best for doing this?

I've been leaning towards Nagios, because it has the notifications set up and has a few plug ins, but it still doesnt feel like it is all there, especially when it comes to performance metrics.
I still don't see how "large dongle" is sexist.

I'm glad you take the time to re-educate those around you. It's probably the hardest thing to do, but ultimately the best way forward for everyone. Maybe I'm overly optimistic on the ability of education though.

What I find really suspect is her feeling like and calling herself a hero. Her reference to herself as "Joan of Arc". Also going public immediately.

I have been, more than once in my previous career, in a situation where a female engineer was actually in a real, abusive situation. I handled these situations "by the book". At one point I was asked by HR if I wanted to know the outcome. Of course I said "NO, but please let me know when she is doing better." I can't imagine feeling like a "hero". These were absolutely terrible experiences for me. I never sought out back slapping. I did seek out re-assurance from my father (also one of these god-awful male engineer chauvinistic pigs), and he was supportive. I can't even imagine going public with something like this. Something just strikes me as completely wrong.

And if you're going to complain about offensive public comments, don't post publicly offensive pictures with racial overtones. Sorry, it is relevant. It demonstrates a double standard.
Serial to Network Proxy (ser2net)
When it refers to crippling a chip that has already passed QA, it's a symptom of insufficient competitive pressure.

I don't know, as I'm familiar with it early in the development of a process node they sell every top-bin-SKU they can make, and as the process matures they just have too many top-bin parts. I can only guess your argument is that in a competitive market they would start dropping the price of the top-bin SKU to move them, but that reduces the overall profit of the venture which may drive them to increase initial pricing, if profit margins are thin enough.

Basically what I'd argue is that the pricing is the symptom, not the down-binning. Down-binning exists to maintain & stabilize SKU distinction and pricing, as yields change over the life of a product.
Maybe the configuration is a little different too.

If the professional counterpart is actually worse for gaming, perhaps its because the resources are allocated to supporting multiple displays instead? In that case, is it reasonable to consider this crippling the device?
Tadpole used the same IBM device without the IBM controller (and its patent licenses). 5 man months of an excellent sw dev on an h8 uC.
Show HN: HelpHub, phone tutoring platform (Clarity.fm for students)
Great job, some of the best docs I've seen in a while.
I think the aspect of this is that it's trying to recreate the 1950's versions, which most of us have probably never eaten. It frowns upon and insults modern McDonald's food several times throughout the text.
I like how only science is used here for the arguments. Mind blowing documentary.
a slightly modified form

More like a TL;DR version of it :-)

The full quote from John Philpot Curran is:

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.

The new (shortened) "version" is somewhat more pithy, and far more easy to distribute. So maybe someone other that Curran deserves some of the credit.

I wrote "unknown" as the quote is often mis/attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but the evidence is not strong here.
Aren't System76's laptops all just re-branded Clevo machines?
tptacek: Thanks for the call-out in this thread! To continue our (I think) polite disagreement from before, I think your description is accurate in specifics but doesn't address the broader privacy and surveillance landscape. Remember the debate five years ago over retroactive immunity for the telecommunications companies that opened their networks to the NSA in violation of the law?

By overriding every federal and state law on the books -- the wildcard approach -- CISPA encourages this kind of broad data hoovering for cybersecurity purposes. Defenders of CISPA claim "cybersecurity" purposes is narrowly defined; reasonable people may disagree. And I have yet to hear a good reason why a wildcard approach is necessary, when even CRS raises questions about unintended consequences.

Also the recent EO accomplishes a lot in terms of info-sharing, and it's worth reading:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/12/execut...

That said, I agree that some advocacy groups may overstate the privacy concerns about CISPA. I think the charitable interpretation is that they're overly eager or misinformed, not that they're trying to profit off of misinformation. People do this sort of advocacy work out of their hearts, not because they're trying to get rich.* I extend the same charitable explanation to CISPA's drafters.

* That's why people become entrepreneurs and try to get into YC! :)

edit: FAQ link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57422693-281/how-cispa-wou...
He didn't release the info publically.

The emails were never distributed except to Gawker, who did not publish them - just a redacted screenshot of a few dozen of the .mil and .gov ones with the username and second level domain part blacked out.
Case study: Get notified when your website is suspended or domain expired
Except MUCH more reliable.
I am sure this isn't their first time round the block either when it comes to pulling appart schemes to transfer wealth in something other than dollars.
FYI most reputable Bitcoin exchanges are compliant with "anti-money laundering" regulations ("AML") and require valid identification on record for anyone making transactions of significant size. You'd have to use a shady online btc brokerage or exchange the btc in local cash-based deals if you want to circumvent the international AML laws.
I don't even know if they'd bother to do this due to the handful of people who are actually going to buy the gaming card to make it into a pro card.

Most people who are probably doing this are hobbyists at best. Most professionals would probably just have their company buying the cards anyway, and this hack won't at all change that.

Actually, it being a hardware hack rather than a software hack makes it even less appealing even for small shops to try. "You want to take that new $400 video card that we just bought you and do /what/ to it?" vs. "ooh, it's just a software upgrade" (even though both have the very real chance of bricking the card in inexperienced hands).
The card game didn't have the same audience as the comments made. Also you are making assumptions about how she plays the game and what she would find funny.
I work for a company that invests heavily into drupal and I'd highly recommend jekyll. Way better solution to almost all CMS use-cases. Sure some content producers might initially balk at actually having to actually check in their changes to source control but with static site generators you get a ridiculously fast, unbreakable, and scalable site as well as better change management, the possibility for real editing tools, no databases to worry about, and so much more.
Notice that it's a free* service.

* conditions apply - see Little's Law.

Interesting, because, on a marginal basis, it probably saves Australia Post delivery costs, making this another example of the security/convenience trade-off.

Normally, you want the convenience of home delivery - but this allows you to trade that for security.
I completely agree with your sentiment. My impression is they're releasing more models, redesigned like this, in the near future; we can only hope they'll have a high-res option.

I really don't mind paying $200 extra for a great screen.

> 2560x1440 tablet

If that's the nexus 10 you're referring to, it's actually 2560×1600 :)
This is indeed an awesome list of amazing stories, as chosen by Kevin and his crowd-sourcing friends.

KK's a friend of Byliner, and all of the pieces from this list are also on Byliner.com, although organized by writer, for convenience. Thus, if you like a specific story, you can easily do a deep dive into that writer's full body of work, which often includes dozens more great stories. (Think of it as a Github or Dribble page for that writer.) And if you read a full-text story as a subscriber, the author actually splits all subscription revenue generated by their story. It's an exciting model, and we have more than two hundred of the world's best writers on our network already, selling 1M+ stories directly to their readers. You can explore some of our writers here:

https://www.byliner.com/writers/popular

Amy Tan, Margaret Atwood, Jon Krakauer, Ann Patchett, Nick Hornby, Chuck Palahniuk, Sebastian Junger, and more.
That's funny how we feel about things:

FastFood monopolist adding too much salt to its cheapest food products so it can sell less salty versions of same products at premium prices ... seems severely pathological.

Hardware monopolist crippling cheapest products so it can sell non-crippled ones at premium prices ... sort of ambiguous. Legit market strategy or conning customers?

Graphic design software make selling crippled versions of their software cheaper so it can sell fully featured version at premium price. Totally legit.

What's the difference?