skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks cool but the sandboxed interpreter fails to run in my instance of Chrome (v25 on Mac OS X):

>Error: java.lang.NullPointerException
np.LibRuntime.b_assign(LibRuntime.java:214)
sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor10.invoke(Unknown Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
np.LibRuntime.execute(LibRuntime.java:104)
np.CoreBuiltin.execute(CoreBuiltin.java:85)
np.ClastExp.invoke(ClastExp.java:32)
np.ClastExp.run(ClastExp.java:45)
np.ClastExp.invoke(ClastExp.java:21)
np.ClastExp.run(ClastExp.java:45)
np.ClastModule.run(ClastModule.java:29)
np.Interpreter.run(Interpreter.java:120)

etc...
Me too! There are a bunch of people I'd love to drag into the company from DC. But we're sticking with NYC, Chicago, and Mountain View. Always happy to relocate people! :)
Why does he have to compete with you? What if his goal isn't to work a 9-5, making a middling salary like most programmers? (hint: he never stated what his actual goals are). You do not need to be a smug programmer to make something that turns into a multi-million dollar business.
~~Jesus, as much of a cancer as the banks.~~

Edit:

If the law schools are needing to open firms to place their students - then Lawyers better damn well start costing a HELL of a lot less.

Edit 2:

Ok - RTFA - this seems actually GOOD!

However, let me ask this: we already have "public defenders" who are cheap/free -- yet the quality of results from them is very low (for the defendants).

What will be the comparison quality of service these noob lawyers provide as compared to the public defenders? Will it be mid-grade rather than poor?
The tutorial examples seem to work. Could you post the code you're executing?

Thanks for letting me know!
Agreed, but I wouldn't necessarily restrict it to the southern countries.

Everyone across the entire Eurozone now knows that their bank deposits can be confiscated without warning.

If I were a bank teller, I think I'd call in sick tomorrow. It's not going to be pretty.
I'm 35 and still think my best is still ahead of me, don't compare yourself to others, compare yourself to yourself.
No, but "So You Want To Be A ..." is a reference to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_Glory:_So_You_Want_to...
I've been a security consultant for ~13 years or so (predominantly application focused), and I'd say that all other things being equal, a good portion of it is web apps.

That's mostly just an artifact of the fact that so much software over the past ten years is web-based. I'd say maybe 80% of the client work I've done has been web-based (with maybe 10-15% non-web application, and the remainder network stuff).

But it's not the same everywhere. I would posit that one of the differentiators is the size of the company (i.e.: bigger security firms probably do more web-based stuff than more boutique places, mostly due to the clients that big firms service).

At the last place I worked, I ran a 10-person consulting division, and it was maybe 50/50 web app/non web-app testing. We were eventually acquired by a giant telco (two actually), and fast-forward a couple years, and the now 200-person consulting division is mostly doing PCI-related web-app testing (I have since left, although I think I stayed longer than I should have).

The larger the company, the larger your clients (generally), and the less agility of your sales process (ie: sales people tend to have a much easier time selling web application testing, as there is a huge number of clients who need it, and it's easy to put together statements of work around it).

So my advice, if you're interested in the more interesting types of security work, is to look for a small-to-medium-sized place. Actually, regardless of the type of security work you're interested in, I'd recommend a smaller firm. I've worked at enough of both to think that there's a certain size (either of head count or revenue) where you start to do less interesting work.
Show HN: I just open sourced Muxamp, a streaming media playlist in Node.js
Hey HN! I've been working on Muxamp for over a year now, and I decided that there's no point in keeping the source closed. (I never planned on making money from it.) I've learned a lot since I started, and I hope others can benefit from its release--and perhaps teach me a thing or two as well :)
> the overall capabilities and prospects of mankind remain substantially the same

I disagree. Advancement is directly related to how many minds we can free up to work on intellectual pursuits. Even before Moore's law, publications and rate of invention largely tracked with size of population (minus the portion preoccupied with agriculture).

Going to Mars involves calibrating some rockets and making a sustainable habitat for long periods of time. Hard problems, to be sure, but there's nothing about that trip we would do without thoroughly testing it first on Earth. We mostly know how to send projectiles throughout the solar system, and we mostly know that long term stays in space suck, and we mostly know that robots and telescopes pay back orders of magnitude more in scientific discoveries than equivalent manned missions for the cost. (ie, manned missions have the mirrors on the moon and tang, hubble and curiosity have contributed far more to space science...)
I always wonder though what if Jean-Louis Gassée and his BeOS won the deal (instead of Jobs and NeXT) in late 90's, what kind of Apple computer would have become? No doubt he is very capable, though I wouldn't bet on him myself.
Given the inevitable public backlash, looks like they're already back-peddling, or worse, just making things up as they go along.

"The Cypriot government on Sunday discussed with lenders the possibility of changing the levy to 3.0 percent for deposits below 100,000 euros, and to 12.5 percent for above that sum, a source close to the consultations told Reuters on condition of anonymity."

"According to a draft copy of legislation, failing to pay up would be a criminal offence liable to three years in jail or a 50,000 euro fine."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/17/us-cyprus-parliame...
I've never followed Keith much, but it's a bit surprising to see him come out so critically following his awkward departure from Square. Undoubtedly a great businessman (PayPal, etc.), but I think this was totally uncalled for, especially in public context. What really irks me is that he keeps it going and defends it.

I've never been a huge fan of Foursquare, but as a founder, I know my limits in criticizing others' ventures and ideas. My company is my baby. Publicly humiliating someone's hard work is something I think most founders would definitely take personally, so I can relate to Dennis' reaction. This definitely got way more publicity than was necessary, but I think it brings up an interesting reference point in providing feedback and criticism on ideas/businesses.
Both the required resources and lots of freedom does seem like a good recipe for innovation. Your historical examples make sense and I can think of many more. However when it comes to government sponsored research I need a little more convincing. Certainly there are good anecdotes and at $3B a year DARPA way be great relative value compared to DOE or NIH.

Thanks for pointing me to Tim Wu - very interesting analysis.
what is the purpose of those cards? and what did that person send to those social sites? a card? is it a greeting card?
Hey HN! I've been working on Muxamp for over a year now, and I decided that there's no point in keeping the source closed. (I never planned on making money from it.) I've learned a lot since I started, and I hope others can benefit from its release--and perhaps teach me a thing or two as well :)
You mean what's more invasive than being groped and having an image of my genitals taken when I fly? I think that's overt enough and more than mere inconvenience.

Also not sure how you discount being exposed to dangerous radiation as not "overtly invasive". I certainly don't see that as a different question.

But, I actually wasn't focused on airport security as much as the spirit of your response. This idea that we have to meet everything the bad guys do with "more security", which does equal less freedom, rights, and privacy. The PATRIOT Act, of course comes to mind.

Though, it certainly applies to the airport scenario too. Bad guys put a bomb in a shoe? We all take off our shoes now. Bomb in the underwear? We move to backscatter machines that image what's underneath. Where does it stop? It's crazy, and it's a product of the same general reactionary thinking that brought us the "plenty of real problems" you referenced.
Facebook Backs Away Quietly From Its CISPA Support
I find Python's online documentation to be fantastic. It's probably the best online documentation I use. I'm really curious what about it you find lacking.
Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out
Usually the enterprise sales process will include a confidentiality agreement which includes the sale price, discounts, etc for that customer. Usually this is enough for most transactions.
I'm 96% sure you missed the point of my post.
A 3D Printed Spaceship On The Scale Of A Human Hair? Hello Nanoscribe 3D Printer
"You do realize that I quoted numbers for the last 10 years?"

No, you didn't. You compared two isolated data points.

If you look at the actual graph of the last ten years, the Euro has been both considerably higher and considerably lower against the dollar over that period.
I've done the same thing, I've customised holmans dotfiles and just replaced the content with my preferences. I really like the rake mechanism for symlinking. Simple and convenient.
Don't remind me. I loved Be and the BeOS.
This is fascinating. It's true that physical metaphors play a key role in getting people to embrace emerging technology.

Two obvious examples are the "desktop" and the "slideshow." One is based on the metaphor of a physical desktop. The other is based on a slide projector. You can put a "file" in the "trash" and know that you're getting rid of it, for instance, without knowing anything about the machine's filesystem.

The problem is when the purpose and power of a technology are at odds with the original metaphor on which it's based. For example, comparing presentation software to a slide projector helped people understand how to use it, but do humans really think in terms of slides? Before PowerPoint, a lot of great orators moved fluidly through their presentations, pacing through the audience and engaging the crowd.

I think that many people embrace and stick with metaphors because they're comfortable, even when they're not necessarily the most efficient or useful. Maybe we could deliver more effective presentations by not fragmenting our ideas into slides. Maybe we could treat our data more responsibly by not believing that it exists in a cushy, omnipotent cloud.
No need for it to be an issue though. Generating an Atom feed is dirt simple. I wrote my own Jekyll template to do it:

https://gist.github.com/graue/5184195

The only Jekyll-specific stuff is the first three lines and the `{{ .. }}` and `{% .. %}` templating code.

(For those who don't know, Atom is the better, cleaner replacement for RSS, supported by virtually all RSS readers. I like to promote RSS since people know what that means, but when I go and actually implement it, I spell RSS "Atom".)
BEDMAS (what I was taught in school) really throws some confusion in there concerning PEMDAS. Heh. We've started using PEMA in NZ to lessen confusion. I assume they go on to explain where division / subtraction went.
Your logical fallacy is: Ad Hominem. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem
I have been coding CoffeeScript for a while and slowly got rid of it's parentheses down to doing `do someFunction`. When I learned about Clojure and got excited to learn it (but haven't yet), I also gradually shifted my aesthetics to using (someFunction param1, param2) in CoffeScript every time that was needed for making it unambiguous (e.g. chained function calls), and now I consider someFunction(param) a most hideous invocation. But (fn x y) is even nicer. I have noticed you allow for optional commas when invoking multiple parameters.

Overall I love your syntax decisions, maybe I'm partial for liking lispy-ness and lambda syntax, but still it's refreshing to see someone experimenting beyond all the C-ness that pervades us. I feel like there's a dash of Rust and a sprinkle of Haskell too. Nice work! And if you keep development I might actually consider using this for a project or two in the future.
I've only skimmed it so far, but the docs seem excellent for a mere 5-weekend project. That is perhaps the thing that impresses me most.
Nine Dangerous Things You Were Taught in School (2012)
That would only apply if he said that the conclusion was wrong because of who the author is. But he merely suggested laughing, which is not a fallacy at all.
This is hilarious. Dotfiles have been around for decades, and now that all those hipster web devs are getting to use the console, now it's when all kinds of projects related to dotfiles are starting to appear.

Come on guys.
"The more he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take a look at this table http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/08/americas-f... to see how income is distributed in the US between the states. New Mexico has received over two-and-a-half times its 2009 GDP more in federal spending than it has sent in taxes over a twenty year period. The equivalent for Europe would be akin to Greece getting over $760 billion. Yeah, Europe has to work on its "union" aspect a bit.
Show HN: Alfred Workflow to manage Pow.
What is worse for the EU and Cyprus: default on its sovereign debt or default on bank deposits insurance?

I would think the latter because potential EU wide bank runs and reduction of foreign investments.
Mozart's Musikalisches Würfelspiel in Python/Abjad
wooosh

--

It's 9, you've added some invisible brackets in there.

6 / 2 * (1 + 2)

6 / 2 * 3

3 * 3

9
I basically always had the doc/html editor open alongside the IDE. It helped to document things as I went along. I'm not 100% sure I completely succeeded in keeping the two in sync, however. Since I always planned to Show HN, that motivated me to make it as nice as possible. There is also a programming buddy who had a semi-watchful eye on it.
The UK isn't on the Euro, so they won't be impacted directly. Panics have a way of spreading, though.
I don't understand this question. What was the alternative? As people keep pointing out, Cypriot banks are overwhelmingly funded by their depositors. You can't just go after the bondholders in this case. And "do nothing" would have been worse, possibly by an order of magnitude, for depositors.
>Since when do you not get subsidized? Are you in the billionaires club and have you're own private roads, planes, police, etc? Even if you do, I think I'm still subsidizing you unless you live as a hermit.

Bullshit. I pay more money out than I receive in services because sparsely populated areas receive more services than they pay for. Your argument is just pure sophistry.

>Honestly, "chosen lifestyle," how quaint of you. You act as if people that live in rural areas are living some posh lifestyle of choice. That's just completely ridiculous.

That's what I'm arguing, yeah, though you're doing your best to warp the point. "Posh" is misdirection. There are lots of advantages to living in rural areas. The air is cleaner. Housing is cheaper. Less stress. There's not much traffic. Hell, a lot of the disadvantages have disappeared recently, since the internet brings entertainment and shopping choices that people used to have to go to the city for.

But this isn't China where you have to get a permit to move to the city. Living in a rural area is a choice, and I just don't see why people who make that choice shouldn't pay their own way.
Phil Schiller needs to shut up about Android. "Desperate" doesn't come close to describing what he's sounded like in the last week alone.
Asking Roosh V: What legacy has feminism left for men?
My research shows that businesses, such as restaurants, are mostly focusing on social networks for their online presence. Reasons are obvious: direct interaction with regional client base, targeted advertising, free business page with photo gallery, and comments/likes, and other minor stuff. I do t see how services like these can compete with that. Due to how they always end up having social widgets integrated into it. For $10 a month (which is $120/year), the owner can simply buy targeted advertising and get real tangible results.
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> But he merely suggested laughing, which is not a fallacy

Scorning criticism because "they, of all people..." is textbook ad-hominem. Maybe there's irony there too, but they doesn't seem at first glance what philwelch intended.
Not trying to be a pedant here, but it's not generally true that stock holders lose money if a company goes bust. Lots of publicly listed companies file for Chapter 11 or some form of bankruptcy protection to tide over cash flow problems. The comparison is not quite right although your point is clear.
A Brief History of Psychopharmacology
Shell Scripting with KDE Dialogs
I killed one of these CIA fuckers once. 1999. Smacked him with my car. awful his knee twisted and his head smack my windshield and broke it.

Nothing happened.

I could kill the next CIA agent I see. They fuck with me at the store. NJothing would happen.

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\WEALTH.TXT

ted
among the inferior ranks of people, as the wages of productive labour.
Secondly, a great part of the revenue, arising from both the rent of
land and the profits of stock, is annually distributed among the
same rank, in the wages and maintenance of menial servants, and other
unproductive labourers. Thirdly, some part of the profits of stock
belongs to the same rank, as a revenue arising from the employment of
their small capitals. The amount of the profits annually made by small
shopkeepers, tra

----

There was a bicyclist. I came real close to taking him out too.

People gotta die and maybe something will change. Doubt it.

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\PLATO.TXT

the captives at the pyre;
of all this I cannot believe that he was guilty, any more than I can
allow our citizens to believe that he, the wise Cheiron's pupil,
the son of a goddess and of Peleus who was the gentlest of men
and third in descent from Zeus, was so disordered in his wits as to
be at one time the slave of two seemingly inconsistent passions,
meanness, not untainted by avarice, combined with overweening
contempt of gods and men.

You are quite right, he replied.

And let us equally r

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fuckers harasse me and castrated me.
torture.

Countless fake executions. Generally altering reality. UFOs and shit.

Fucken humilated me at Graphic Technology.

"Copywrite Xerox"

For a person who never plagarized, this was torture.

I hate vegas. Casinos and shit./. CIA moved my parents here.

Hate this city.

Phoenix has evil mental health, won't go back.

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\WEALTH.TXT

al market, and a greater in producing those lit for the other
markets, where those consumable goods for which there is a demand in
Great Britain are to be had, it would have been more for the advantage
of England. To procure both the gold which it wants for its own use, and
the consumable goods, would, in this way, employ a much smaller capital
than at present. There would be a spare capital, therefore, to be
employed for other purposes, in exciting an additional quantity of
industry, and in raising

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Kill some english. That'll work. Whole bunch.
Within the individual restaurants, the Cheesecake Factory hires people who consider themselves "cooks", not "chefs". "Chefs" would not/could not work there, except possibly in the corporate kitchens, developing restaurants. It's tougher for health care chains, especially when dealing with those who consider themselves "specialists" after years of specialized training. And what about the demi-gods also known as surgeons?
So what are you good at? Programming and what else?
How about a large button labelled start.
Wait wait, so this chick finds something that she thinks is inappropriate, takes a picture of the "offenders," and puts it on Twitter? Even if the comment in question was derogatory towards women in the first place (it wasn't, unless sex and big dicks are automagically offensive to women), how are people OK with that?

BTW, this quote is gold:

> As an advocate for digital equality, my actions today at #pycon made me feel like Joan of Arc, minus the visions
> I have noticed you allow for optional commas when invoking multiple parameters.

Yes, but they're thrown away by the lexer. I'm actually still on the fence about some of these details.

> And if you keep development I might actually consider using this for a project or two in the future.

That's great to hear, thanks! There is still a TON of bugfixing and fleshing-out of the runtime library to do, but when it's ready I'll be doing a project with it as well. Gotta see how it all holds up under pressure!
>Too much of this page is spent on navigation and link lists. It's the landing page, but we don't need to link to every single sub-section of the site.

aaaand the disagreement begins. I like debian.org's website /because/ it's a portal to the entire site.
That video/site is farking broken. I have tried to watch the vid 3 times - and it pauses, doesn't load or restarts from the beginning.

GRRRRR.
"The problem isn't the price — $10 for a good turkey dinner might not be such a bad deal — but that you're being charged in the first place. It changes the relationship. For the veterans, the Red Cross went from being a little like Mom, to being the corner store."

Pretty much sums up why that is.
Three Months to Scale NewsBlur
Some web stacks are highly concurrent too (we're running one on Heroku). On a concurrent stack, it doesn't matter if one request takes longer because it does not prevent other requests from completing, so random routing is optimal.

Leastconns routing falls flat in many cases, such as long polling/streaming/websockets, which count as a connection but barely take any resources. In the case where you would have a load balancer that did leastconns, the servers with many long poll requests would end up underloaded(ie. doing nothing) while the ones with few requests would end up serving most of the application.
That's what I thought too when I saw the name. No idea http://tortoisesvn.net/stefan_kueng.html
You seem to have a health issue that you should look into. Being an entrepreneur is stressing and is not for everybody. Don't do it unless you are confident in your ability to deal with it. It's not worth it becanse entrepreneurship is quite shitty in real life. Lots of work and stress for a small chance of return.

Now, realize that your success is mostly luck. So, work a normal schedule, plan your work week, and just hope for the best, but don't count on it.

Quitting a business because its too hard is nothing to be ashamed of. I have done it myself and am better off. Don't worry about things. You can always try another business.
Remember, you're not their user, you're their product. Ad companies are the real customers.