skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP uses RedHat as some kind of shining example.

I don't know that I'd call them a "shining" example, and I definitely would not say RH are perfect. They are, however, the best example I could think off at first blush (and second blush, as far as that goes) of a successful for-profit that seems to embody the hacker ethic.

There's something else: I read about another startup dying today. They just ran out of cash. I really really hate to see great software and great ideas just die because the creators couldn't figure out how to sustain them. Well guess what, you sustain those ideas by turning them into a profitable business. Profitable companies are a great way to keep your idea alive and available for customers.

That's a great way of looking at it, and pretty close to my own view. That's why I want Fogbeam Labs to one day be a large, profitable, influential business... not just to make a lot of money, but so we'll have the resources to do the things we want to do, and so we can do our part to support hackers and open access to knowledge and technology.
It was pretty easy, and exactly how tansey describes. The hardest part was that listening to lectures alone was not sufficient to do the homeworks. You needed outside resources that gave better and fuller explanations of the concepts. I think it was around 1-3 hours of work a week, compared to Algorithms which could easily take up 10 hours.
It's worth noting that security/safety and convenience are almost always in opposition.

There are probably cultural trends as to where different groups make the trade-off (I've never dug into it), but the principle is the same everywhere.

You could put all of your money and attention into guarding your stuff, if you so chose, and guarantee that the work required to defeat your security was far greater than any potential benefit. Never take your car out of its concrete bunker.

Or you can ignore security in favor of convenience -- always leave your car key in the ignition, and thus never be locked out accidentally, never fumble to find your keys in a large bag, never drop your keys in a snowbank....

But obviously most people try to fall just on the side of "safe enough that no one will steal my car", depending on how high they perceive that risk.

For a car keypad entry -- if trying all of the possible combinations would take 20 minutes, that's probably not any less secure than driving a slightly older car with a fairly-easily pickable lock, and in return you will never accidentally lock your keys in the car again.

I don't think I'd go for the keypad lock on a new car, but I have locked my keys in my car twice in my life, and it's really annoying.

One of those times there was a three-year-old in a carseat, inside the locked car... fortunately it was the loaner, sitting in the parking lot at the mechanics (where my normal car was being repaired).

The first time it happened I was driving an old car, and I was at the grocery store... so I went back in, bought a screwdriver & coathanger, and broke into my own car in about a minute. In that security context, having a keypad would have been convenient without adding anything to the security risk whatsoever....
I like what i see ! Looks a tad bit inspired from earlier version of tryruby.org, i hope they add the functionality .
Their (especially true for TC) coverage seems to be focused mainly on investment rounds and exits. It is very unlikely that a random startup would get coverage, if you have no prior exit history, and you are bootstrapping.

That gives me an idea - who wants to launch an anti-TC, dark horse-type service with me? Focus on bootstrapped businesses.
Why ECMA? Sounds more like something for w3c or whatwg.
The lawyers and accountants were doing overtime, those are all billable hours.

But to make the argument that something is "bad" you really have to know what management had in mind for it. If their goal was go "make it go away" then what looks like "bad" on the outside can be "good" on the inside. If their goal was to get a team to build something they didn't yet have a team that could build, it might also be "good" in a way you and I couldn't see.
Offtopic: I can't really read those articles form New York Times and Washington Post. They have 1% of substance over 99% of bouillon of words. Maybe I'm alone here, but I just want articles to say what's going on in one sentence at the beginning and then maybe explain why is this happening and what are possible repercussions. But these kinds of texts are an insult to any thinking individual who values his time.
I've updated it. I went backwards from the compressed version, and missed it completely. Thanks.
I like everything except for the search bar: The search icon is off, and the button is too high.

Also the «socialize» dropdown on that bar doesn't look that good.
But as soon as you leave you are free to do whatever you want, and the current employer also benefits greatly from the knowledge you gained at your previous jobs (which might be a large part of the reason they hired you in the first place). They shouldn't be able to claim ownership to the knowledge that's in your head.
I got sent to paypal with scripts enabled using the same configuration. Without scripts, it obviously doesn't work.
It looks OK but if one is going to hire top notch agencies and spend a decent bit of money, I don't see why the design should look this dated and cluttered. Too many navbars and buttons everywhere and tons of gradients and rounded corners are emphasizing almost everything on the page. Isn't this kind of gradient-heavy stuff dated to 5-10 years ago?
Firefox 21 (Aurora), I got sent to PayPal - just realized that I had NoScript on, though. Allowed scripts for bilaw.al, tried again, and I got sent to the dummy page.

I got sent to the dummy page on Opera 12.13 and Chrome 25. Just updated to Opera 12.14 and I still got sent to the dummy page. Running Windows 7.
I'm also using Chrome 25, and it's not sending me to PayPal. Is there any particular extensions that is causing it to send you to PayPal?
right click open in new tab takes you to the original link. So this must be done in session or something and the alt-open in next tab take the plain link URL?
That sounds good to me. In the last day I have moved my blog and primary email service away from Google to my own servers: a little more of a hassle, but it seemed like a good thing to do.
Ironically, it's probably at least as useless for third-party trackers.

Here [advertiser], here's statistics that could correlate to a user, or to a group of users at a conference, or to a group of random people at a coffee shop or some disjoint group of people sharing wifi at an apartment complex. Sorta defeats the point of tracking.
Well, a single customer might be enough to cover the costs, and the second would bring profit.
You had problems learning because you didn't like how Python's web site was styled?
Internet Bad Neighborhoods
I suggest to add a slice example in the first page since it quickly makes obvious how Python can help you in writing less code.

It would be interesting to do A/B testing with different code snippets.
Hacker News should fix its RSS
Hacker News should fix its RSS.

In Google Reader, the comment link shows up which you can click to get to the HN site. However, on several other RSS readers, the comment link is not necessarily visible which causes the click to go to the original source.
did you click or ctrl / cmd click?
Many, many people are.

It might not seem like it when you work entirely with computers but it just isn't that big a part of what most people do day to day. A computer is a tool, no different than a hammer in most peoples jobs. They read their email, browse some websites and do what ever specific thing in whatever specific application their jobs tell them to. They don't need to know anything about what the computer is doing and they don't care to know. Cars make more of an impact of peoples lives than their computers do but we don't have someone constantly saying how we need to make everyone a mechanic. Eating is more important to life but we don't have a movement to make everyone a chef.

Knowledge of how a computer works or how you make it do something someone else hasn't written an app for is just not at the same level that reading, writing and arithmetic are. Step back from what you do all day and actually watch what people do. Knowledge of why stuff happens on the devices they use just isn't that important. They know what button to hit and that's all they need to know to be productive in what they are doing.
My Slides from IBM Pulse 2013: DevOps for Mobile Apps
W3C only do web standards: HTML, XML, CSS, XSL, etc. According to ECMA International, they maintain JS. But I'm not sure, each browser does it's own thing.
If this is art, and "Art is Open Source", then I want to see some damn source code. Either that or something to reassure me that this isn't somebody co-opting positive terms like "art" and "open source" to add an air of legitimacy to what looks a lot like a very seedy act of passive mass blackmail.
Dropbox is a privately held company. I'm not going to second-guess it's investors or management. Besides, tech journalism has been this way since the beginning. When I read Zeigler or Mossberg I know I'm getting. I've always used the contrarian writings of John C. Dvorak as a balance. Does anyone really think the 750,000 people are going to keep using Mailbox because Zeigler or Arrington say they should, or even know who these two are?
Nobody here is "introducing" the ternary operator or && for "and," they are standard punctuation in the world of programming. I agree that, in general, it misses the point of readability to say "just learn the terms first," but in this case I think one could certainly argue that the punctuation is more readable than the words, by making better use of word-vs-symbol cues to make the structure of the expression clear.

Finally, drop the idea that your view is "objective" and there aren't different opinions on readability.
No J/K navigation :(

(That is pretty much the first thing I check for in google reader replacements)
You can probably google your phone number and avoid paying the 10E

Of course, people were idiots to post their phone number in a porn site in the first place. Like the "Oh, ok, they need my CC number but only for checking I'm not a minor"
I am a machine learning researcher working on game theory problems, so I suppose it's possible. I've never actually had any classes in game theory, so I took the Coursera one to have a firmer background on the subject. I actually learned a ton about things I wasn't aware of, but the mathematics were all very very basic. If you can solve a linear equation (e.g. 2 equations and 2 unknowns), you can ace this class.

Many (most?) of the videos did not even have any checkpoints. The class was only 7 weeks so there was not much of an endurance challenge either. It was also really well taught and I learned a lot without needing to pause and rewind, making 2x a breeze. They give a lot of concrete examples and walk through everything multiple times.
Looks nice, but my first thought when I looked at the code example:

1 >>> l = ['spam', 'ham', 314, 23]

was "wait, how are they assigning a list to the number 1? How is that possible? Oh... that's an l". (Not a fan of that. I'm half blind (figuratively) so these things confuse me.)
maybe they want to be taken to court, and that's part of the performance? i like art, but i don't understand postmodernism
I'm thinking that in 10 or 20 years time nobody will care - because we'll all be equally guilty.

That, or nobody will run for office anyway, just purchase it.
The code is at: https://github.com/edX/XBlock
I guess I graduated from a decent college and I live in the capital. Most of my peers are pretty good at English especially writing and reading. Our listening/speaking suck big time though. We have foreign language classes since grade 3: English, French or Russian (not common). The courses focus on grammar. I have heard that our grammar may be better than those of native speakers (no confusion between "your" and "you're" for example).

About myself: I just read HN, join English communities like Reddit, Quora. I try to travel but nothing much.

Regarding OP, his experience is just an exception. There are many other good or bad things in our system. And if you ask me, I will say the education in the U.S. is superior tbh.
"I might move the "Python is a programming language..." bit higher up the page."

If you look at the site with a text browser like lynx then this is even more important. Lots of menus and other things that assume you know what's going on, then finally on the next page break or two an explanation. Make that all but topmost.

(And y'all ought to view your sites with a text browser once in awhile, it will give you a rough idea of the experience of people using browsers for visual and other impairments.)
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Extortion. How lame.
I've been watching this whole "tracking" thing, along with now this latest twist. I avoided writing this reaction the other day, but now:

If you have to hound me to sell me your product, you've already failed.

I realize this doesn't reflect the reality of the world, and perhaps myself -- were I to reflect in a fully informed fashion upon myself. But it is my considered, "rational" reaction and approach to the situation.

Make a quality product that is useful to me, and I'll seek you out. Otherwise, fuck off. You and your business model can crawl off into a dark corner and die, please.

Oh, is that a bit harsh? You deserve no better, you "business" (ueber alles) absolutists.
Samsung S4 official video[video]
agree, funny thing in most python books they always say do not use l as a variable name
I use this trick to mask email addresses in mailto: links, i.e. something like:

<a onClick="this.href=
['mailto',[['john','doe'].join('.'),
['gmail','com'].join('.')].join('@')].join(':')"
href=#click-to-email>

I don't know how good my solution is in protecting from spammers' scrapers but I'd be happy to hear about any alternatives.
Interesting feature!
Please add github issue for it.
ابراج اليوم- ابراج يوم الاثنين 2013/3/18 حظك ليوم الاثنين 2013/3/18
Great examples. I almost mentioned Novell in my post, given their stewardshp of SuSE, but I haven't been paying a lot of attention to them lately, and wasn't sure if they'd been up to any weird shenanigans.

Canonical and Codeweavers and id are good examples as well. I should have thought of them.

IBM is an interesting case also. They certainly aren't a "pure play" F/OSS company the way Red Hat is, but IBM do contribute a lot to the F/OSS world, and they make a lot of knowledge available for free. But they also patent a LOT of stuff and pump out a ton of proprietary software. I'm on the fence about them.
The trouble is they're working with a very limited UI.

Lockout after X attempts (as another comment mentioned) is a terrible idea, because that makes it a simple DoS mechanism.

But forcing a delay, for example, is tricky -- how do you notify the user that they're in a delay period? Or when the delay period has ended and they can try again after a mis-key?

There don't even seem to be LEDs to work with....
If they keys light up, that's easier (e.g., flash the key lights for 10 seconds if they enter a wrong code before they can start over).
Before I turned off noscript, I was very confused about how bilawal came into possession of paypal.com.

It took me a few seconds before I realized how stupid that entire line of thought was.
Love the design and architecture, and really love the success stories. I remember struggling to sell a dated financial enterprise company on the benefits of Python, and those case studies would have really helped.
I'm pretty sure that is tax evasion. Just like you aren't allowed to use heating oil or kerosene for driving on public roads.
For €1000 I would have expected them to include at least one kitten in a bottle.
The owner seems to be based in EU; so the local data protection laws, at minimum, would require removing user personal info (phone info) at their request, free of charge (not the $1000).

And if I recall correctly, they might even be required to prove that they have opt-in permission from the actual users for storing&processing their personal info (phone numbers) even if they obtain it from a third party such as other websites; they obviously don't have this so they can face fines for improper treatment of personal data.
I agree. I am taking or rather I intermittently go and read course stuff from MIT's Learning Creative Learning course. You learn so much.
I thought this was sensationalist the last time it came up, and I still do.

This is an attack which targets people who are carefully checking the link URL before clicking, but who then ignore the actual content of their URL bar. That has to be a pretty limited group, right? And this is far from the only way to spoof a link in JavaScript, so to really make this impossible would mean disabling swaths of functionality used widely across the web, i.e. not gonna happen.[0]

And it's counterproductive. Since the birth of the web we've been trying to drill into people's skulls not to trust anything except what it says in your URL bar after "https:". We need to avoid anything that would give users any other impression.

That said, there is a useful message here, not "this is a problem with JavaScript" but "this is another reason you must personally validate the domain name before entering any personal information."

[0] On a large scale, that is. Obviously some people here are comfortable with disabling swaths of JavaScript across the web.
Sheryl Sandberg: Don't Hate Her Because She's Successful
1000 euros to erase one's number from the db and you're trying to claim this isn't blackmail? For all we know they likely violated robots.txt, TOS, and probably at least a few laws already in collecting the data. I agree with the other poster, if this is open source art, release the source. That way, people can confirm and run this on their own.

Blackmail isn't art and no amount of bullshit 'art' talk is going to make it so.
One of the best ways to reform the current financial system. All traders will complain. Some professors will say it will grind the financial world to a halt. However, if the trading does not have any underlying meaning with respect to what something is "worth", what's the point? It should be some representation of underlying value. Non-transparent derivative products that do not have any intrinsic value or of which their value is incredibly hard to grasp, can just not be the way to go. But yeah, I'm an engineer, so perhaps I'm thinking too mechanical about the entire thing.
That's definitely one take on it. But I feel like something has changed at Google over the past few years. At one time they seemed to really balance the whole "be a profitable public company" thing with "be hacker friendly" pretty well. Lately they seem to be displaying more typical "big, greedy, evil corporation" behavior.

Or at least it seems that way to me.
you kidding right? while we have real world problems (URL detections, cookies etc check homakov.blogspot.com) you ask w3c to do what? To deny redirecting to other websites and changing href after click? I can tell you more horror JS tricks, but they are not fixed yet.
This is nice, and I can see the files, but I have no download option. There's a "Copy" in safari but where the heck can I save these to?

EDIT:
okay, figured it out. This app can do it: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mymedia-download-manager/id3...

You don't even need Cydia!
I guess DARPA is pretty ridiculous too, right? What have they ever come up with, what with their tax money grab and all?

In all seriousness, you're not helping. At all. Clearly R&D is doing well, but battery and other component prices are too high, while oil consumption has huge externalities that no one is ever forced to pay for. So yes, we're going to tax oil and pour the money into electrification of transportation. Get over it.
From AOS homepage

"Art is Open Source, is an international informal network exploring the mutation of human beings with the wide and ubiquitous accessibility and availability of digital technologies and networks."

What the chuff has this to do with Open Source? This trashy commercial nonsense weakens the branding.
By doing right-click and "Open link in new tab", there's no actual onclick event, as what you're actually doing is opening the original link in a new tab. Therefore, his href replacing code wouldn't get executed.
$700 Billion for banks. $2 Billion to convert all cars to electric. Something smells fishy here.
Megadvdrip.eu - mega indexer
there is also megadvdrip.eu , a mega indexer
$700 billion to invade and control foreign countries, "offense" spending. $2 billion to reduce our reliance on oil sounds legit. I bet the military spends more than $2 billion annually on oil themselves.
While this should probably be fixed as prescribed by the author, it's relatively easy for a no-goodnik to accomplish the same goal without touch the href:

$("a").click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
document.location="http://evilsite.paypa1.com";
});

In either case, a right-click to open or copy/paste sidesteps, though that's just a kludge.
No one buys these paintings. The whole point is the extortion link to remove you from the database. The paintings are just dressup to make an extortion site look like not an extortion site.

Extortion.
Do I hear a kickstarter coming? ;-)

Holler if you need somebody to make some music. Heavily into making ambient stuff right now anyways...
Isn't this what omniscient debugging is? http://www.lambdacs.com/debugger/

Great quote from that page, "The ODB is as close to a silver bullet as you can get. Why don't people use it?"
I wanna call shenanigans _because_ it goes to paypal ...
I eagerly awaiting your blog post when you discover preventDefault()
There are plenty of non-specific resources for stressed people. These non-specific resources would probably prefer dealing with people whose issues are not due to loss of their privileged status. And this is no different from other resources that are specific to less "privileged" circumstances. . .alcoholism, drug addiction, rape, abuse, etc.
Ask HN: Does your app need Quickbooks integration?
I'm looking into integration my web app with Quickbooks and it's a huge pain. I'm seeing if there's a need to make this easier. Anyone in the same situation?
Best line:
"After all, just like they say at Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram and all the other social networks whenever they sell your profile hundreds of times each day: It's only business!"
Yeah, please use a slightly longer variable name.
$2 billion represents about 10,000 man-years of effort by scientists and engineers. That's a lot if it is focussed well.
It's worse than that because the PEP 8 sytle guide specifically mentions to avoid using l as a name!

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#names-to-avoid
HealthTap in process or raising substantial Series B; sees 7.5M uniques/month
Even at a mere three cents that's unfair to a working class person buying their first stock for their IRA vs. a billionaire who does multiple transactions. Also while it may be just three cents today it will rise over time. And not for nothing this is also a good way to offshore even more financial sector jobs which really does impact places like New York City.
Yes! The whole point is listed in the About section:

"After all, just like they say at Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram and all the other social networks whenever they sell your profile hundreds of times each day: It's only business!"
Why is this using a map when the result is just being thrown away? Imagine how left out forEach feels :(.

Also: the afterglow is caused by the main loop filling the entire canvas with a black rect with very low opacity. The result is that after so many frames, everything but the actively drawing characters are much darker. Increase the opacity if you want to reduce the length of the effect.