skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And although Code Reads will be entirely confidential, if any of the companies are interested in sharing theirs (perhaps to attract recruits) -- maybe I'll be able to post one or two up publicly."

Can you take a high-profile public project (like coffeescript or underscore/lodash or angularjs) and do a code read? (yes I'm aware that you are the man behind coffeescript and underscorejs but I'm sure you can find something in a code read)
dodgy popups that encourage you to "join Free as a Bronze member"
:/
The post speaks for itself - the snark is not required here.
Now this is hacker news!

Wonder why it doesn't get upvoted more, while we have 2 friggin SimCity posts on the frontpage :(
Patents are a necessary evil and a little bit addicting once you get your first taste. First to file simplifies a lot of the issues with prior art (ie the challenge of proving your idea was original), but I believe this system stifles small companies even further because of the costs associated with the patent system. We've made a decision to pursue key patents given how important some of these technologies are for our product, but I don't think that applies to most startups.

Here are some thoughts, cost overviews, and what to think about for a startup patent strategy: http://kylethered.tumblr.com/post/45273614239/good-rules-of-...
Learn to block Javascript selectively, for instance using NoScript you can block JS from Facebook unless you actually are on a facebook.com domain. This gets rid of the annoying social button functionality.
U.S. Would Retaliate Against Cyberattacks
paranoid? fb is pretty good about rewarding those who discover and report exploits
At the time the "service pack" was called Windows XP. Maybe they added it after XP came out, though.
The post says that that Facebook Sharing is opt-in:

By default, sharing will only happen on Netflix.

And the rest seems easily disabled as well:

You are in control of what gets shared. You can choose not
to share a specific title by clicking the “Don't Share
This” button in the player. You can also visit your
“Social Settings” in “Your Account” on Netflix.com to turn
on additional sharing to Facebook or stop sharing
altogether.
Wherein I rant a bit about the sorry state of cloud deployment.
This is a wonderful story. It should be presented to every young woman at an age when she's wondering what she wants to do with her life -- an age when many young women believe technical skill equals geekiness.

Hedy Lamarr combined many universally respected qualities -- beauty, intellect, inventiveness and the capacity to see her ideas though to completion. There are many similar stories (Grace Murray Hopper and Ada Lovelace come to mind), but Hedy Lamarr's passion to right the world's wrongs, and her ability to use science and technology in furtherance of those goals, deserves a special place in history.
Of course they did, they're on the SimCity / EA hate bandwagon for page views. There aren't really any surprises in the game if you had been even cursorily following the development the past few years/months.

They've learned the best way to get impressions is to act shocked and angry to mimic reddit.
Just and unjust distributions
Jaron Lanier Got Everything Wrong - ReadWrite trolling for hits
Show HN: Google Drive to Open Data... Easily
I didn't mean to say that Ruby was less complex than C, I meant to say that if you take out the magic it is comprehensable and one can be good at it quickly enough just like a straightforward language like C. I agree that learning design, etc. is the real key in any language, thanks for pointing that out, because that's what everyone should focus on.
This is the opposite of what I want (I just want to watch TV - it's sort of my antisocial indulgence). Three things I do want, though:

Get the shows my kids watch out of my suggestions. It's not that hard - there is already a kids section. Keep them separate.

Get better movies. I would be willing to double or tripple my fee to get more good movies and shows.

Live Sports - I'd pay a lot for this, considering it's really the only thing that keeps my Cable TV around.
It's a state machine without a direct transition from "question" to "answer" :)
This absolutely, best way to learn is to have a specific goal in mind. I got started with emacs because I was using an IDE called RStudio (http://www.rstudio.com/) which I really liked, and I wanted something similar for python but couldn't find anything to suit my needs. I set out to recreate the functionality of RStudio in emacs and have (largely) succeeded. It took a lot of mucking around but I really learned my way around the editor.
"in reality their pathfinding results in basically random behavior"

It's actually the opposite, sims always go to the nearest source for whatever it is they need despite traffic or congestion. Some randomness in picking a destination might actually solve the problem without requiring any particular intelligence.
In the Digital Era, Our Dictionaries Read Us
I'm utterly confused by ebay's move here. They have the brand exposure. If someone is looking for something and would find ebay acceptable, they would go to ebay directly. Someone who finds ebay unacceptable would not touch an ebay ad. Why would the company think ads would help at this stage?
FTFA:

> By default, sharing will only happen on Netflix.
I think there's a chance that the filmmakers' joke is on whoever commissioned it. Robotically saying 'code that matters' over and over, emphasized in absurd ways – sounds like they're making fun of the brief.
> Mozilla could build Firefox for iOS using the technologies available to other third party apps on iOS.

That's not true, Mozilla could build Firefox for iOS the way they want to, they just can't release it on the App Store. It's an imposed limitation, not a technical one.

As others have said, if you can compile WebKit with Emscripten you can build a WebKit-based browser for Firefox OS that gets 2x performance vs. native.
I spoke to Geoff a while ago about this and at the time I was dubious as well. However, the more thought I've given it, the more it makes sense to have a separate package manager for browser apps. The problem space is fundamentally different that that of npm. With the browser, you PM is inextricably linked to your build system. NPM was never designed with build considerations in mind.
Convenience. Portage is quite a waste of billable consulting hours. You do have to change the artwork though, because these backtrack/Kali distros and their slogans have rather silly/childish themes.
I'm going to assume he has the British keyboard which has a pound symbol rather than the hash (or... pound...) symbol.

http://parkernet.com/applepro/images/wireless-british.jpg
Short answer: yes.

Long answer: Sometimes. It's also one of the most frustrating things you can engage in. Up until the point where you have a 'eureka' moment, you feel like every step you've taken was through a tar pit. Pentesting is definitely full of pain; it's easy to imagine it's nothing but an adrenaline rush, since that's what people are inclined to discuss--but that's not the case at all.

Edit to answer the other half of the statement:
Pentesting is not dangerous. Malicious network activity (i.e. network activity which the target does not desire) is dangerous. There are lots of great resources (OffSec offers fantastic training, for example) on the topic, and there are gobs of free resources as well (CoreLan, interactive stuff like SmashTheStack's CTFs, DamnVulnerable Linux, etc.) for learning about the topic--tools, methods and such.
The thumbnail one drives me crazy. All I want to see is the original full size image, yet many sites make this incredibly difficult to do for now reason. Not really an HTML5 problem though, just a general image gallery problem.
>Here's the comment that I wrote for Stephen's blog, but which he did not publish:

From what I can see, he did publish it (yesterday), and responded to it as well. I don't see an easy way to link to it, so search for "By Tim O’Reilly. March 12th, 2013 at 1:22 pm" or just scroll down.
Official Blog Google - Update from the CEO - Larry Page
YES! This is what I wish for all the time, especially for the long-distance relationship. :-)
Not saying I think they're correct, but I would imagine they're targeting people who know about eBay, don't have an opinion regarding them one way or the other, and aren't going to take that extra step to check ebay.com for their next purchase.

As the article said, to "draw them in."
These seem somewhat moot points while there aren't any other implementations. (Which is what I find really odd about the whole "will it run other browsers" question.) It would be kind of premature to provide other vendor prefixes while it was impossible to test whether the app worked or not!

If someone steps up and wants to provide an alternate middle layer under Gaia, I really doubt Mozilla will stand in their way.
hi tim, it's not about taste, the "a perceived downward trend in the quality" is real. i own my career o'reilly. i have a cherished sortiment of 25 or more o'reilly books, some used and read so often that they more look like an original gutenberg bible than a computer book from the nineties/2000s. sadly i couldn't ad a new book to this collection for years.

for a very long time i believed that there was something like the O'Reilly (animal books) standard, that whenever one of your books is read front to cover you a) know more about the topic at hand than 99.9% the rest of the world and b) a deeper understanding of the topic.

while a) might still be true from time to time, b) is not true anymore -because the books are quite bad. and with bad i mean poorly edited (i.e.: the art of SEO, first edition and a lot more), completely un-structured (couchDB first edition), a scam (the one with the cow on the cover, it was the only book i ever did send back to amazon, just found it, it was the Data Source Handbook, 46 pages, 24 EUR, unbelievable poor "content") or just ... not a good book.

whereby i one stood in the computer book section, studied each oreilly book and decided what to learn this month, i now look into the other direction.

whereby i once recommended every dev-rookie every one of your book, i now point them to pragprog.

i believe you are a bussy man, but well, if you would from time to time pick up one of your books, read it front to cover and then ask yourself if this is really a book worth of having your name in front of it, this would already (probably) help a lot.
Even a copy and paste of the password would be useful, like 1Password does.
If you read that sentence in context, your questions are answered. Here are the previous two sentences for context.

The bigger problem was dealing with big traffic spikes. When a big spike in traffic came in, it created a domino effect that would take take down our entire cluster

Given the article to that point, it is clear what is happening. They are maintaining a steady state of X% (where X is above 50), then a big traffic spike comes along. That traffic load is not distributed equally (my guess is because requests are not created equal) and there is a hot spot. The hot spot fails, then increases the load on everything else. After this repeats a few times, there is insufficient capacity.

In other words at some steady state threshold above 50%, you wind up without sufficient capacity to handle traffic spikes. Nothing in this failure scenario is specific to Rails. It is a well-known failure mode for a cluster under load with a push based architecture (which http requests are).

The fact that you did not understand that description speaks poorly of your problem solving skills. Now they may well have been doing something trivial that is fixable to cause load to be less than it was. But you haven't convinced me that you're the person to be trusted to figure that out.
Thanks, I'm a bit tired and English isn't my native language. I've edited the post.
Could you explain a little bit more about how that works - you used words I don't understand :) It seems as though something as simple as a random selection when presented with intersections is better than the behaviour here. I guess there should just be a weight on the streets though, right?
It was built in Assembly though.
It's the mobile page - that graphic is meant for a small screen.
Just wtf does this code do? Is it supposed to fake page views on that cavadini.savedalyfield.com site in line 40?

Lines 4-8 make the whole stuff only match on people redirected to the hacked site by facebook, twitter and searches.
9-32 block out search engines, maybe to prevent stuff like Googlebot detecting the malware.
The LNr env variable set on 39 acts as a primitive switch jumptable for the "cases" in 42-161... which redirect the browser using HTTP 302 Temporary Redirect to various subelements on cavadini.savedalyfield.com.
Why Do Ecommerce Startups Come in Waves?
Update from the CEO
This actually would work. I think the general public either (a) doesn't know about this law at all or (b) doesn't think it will interfere with their daily activities. Getting other big organizations who value privacy would help solve both problems. I think that anyone who begins to understand the law will be opposed to it.
The lesson here is that fingerprint biometrics are not generally reliable, i.e., they assume the user will not volunteer their credentials to others. The same is true of passwords.

Cost notwithstanding, would retina biometrics be more reliable? Is there a cheap and reliable solution?
Who are these people that want the web to be some sort of sterile, perfectly conformist, UX's wet dream? Flash is still warm in its grave, and people are already blaming it for crimes that HTML5 hasn't even really made yet. Don't get me wrong, when the function of a website is to perform a task or convert users into paying customers then by all means streamline the crap out of it. The sites that do that well will succeed, the ones that create an unusable mess will fail, simples. But don't go around pointing fingers at everyone trying to make something innovate or different. Make no mistake, a lot of the well accepted web2.0/native app tactile/animated interface elements we take for granted now were birthed during the frenzied experimentation of the mid 2000s Flash era. I for one am occasionally delighted to visit a site with an off the wall animated interface, tiny fonts and crazy navigation. It's food for thought, sometimes inspiration. Yeah, maybe they got it horrible wrong, but its creative.

And besides, this guy is really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. 404 a "HTML5" problem? Auto-playing vidoes a "HTML5" problem? Low contrast colour schemes a "HTML5" problem? Has he even got the slightest clue what "HTML5" is as opposed to other HTML versions? All the examples in that article are just shit sites, nothing to do with "HTML5". Gimme a break, this is just link bait, what a joke.
Bangalore City Police Nabs Eve Teasers Over A Facebook Tip Off
Their advertising wasn't particularly targeted, either. If you typed "non-existent golden unicorn dung", they'd just put up an ad that said "find non-existent golden unicorn dung on Ebay". Anyone who looked at it would know that it wasn't pointing to a particular item and that is was just siphoning off traffic in hopes that you might find or sell something. This is pretty much one of the stupider ways to use Google's tech. It's not surprising that their ROI was dismal.
The people who currently care about retina-friendly graphics tend to be those who have long cared about carefully hand-tweaking every variant-scaled version of every graphic they produce.

But as hi-dpi concerns become more mainstream, I doubt there will as much overlap and we'll see a lot more naive scaling.
And many "lightboxes" suck on mobile.
I just tried it (setting up wordpress) and it was pretty seamless - it was done in 2 mins flat!

If you could do bundling of apps into one install - where I pick all the apps I am interested in, and it spins them up in one go, it would be really awesome!
New Alibaba CEO Unlikely to Change the Company's Course
It would be a lot more scary if the person committing the fraud were not also a doctor.
No. We are afraid that someone will read what we say and think that we represent them or are giving them legal advice. We have to be very careful about what we say we are doing and what we say we're not doing. If you go to your doctor and he says you need to have a mole removed, if you don't schedule an appointment to have the mole removed, it's your fault. With legal services, if I tell someone they need to file a patent or what not, if it's not really clear that I'm not doing it unless they engage me to, then they might have an argument that they thought I was taking that action.

So, on most legal blogs, you'll see something that says "I'm not the reader's lawyer."
Andy Rubin steps down as head of Android at Google
If you're the guy that builds agent-based models for fun, why not build an open-source citiy simulation engine? Grafting your simulator with an open-source tile-based graphics engine such as the one used in OpenTTD would make a lot of nerds very happy.
YaST vs yum/apt is technically a wrong dichotomy, since YaST (as a package manager) is just a graphical frontend to zypper, which is pretty much like yum and apt, just with its own syntax.

I know that many people dislike YaST, yet I have never understood why. The point is that you do not have to use YaST, you can edit every config in the normal way with your favourite text-editor, you can do everything via scripts, you can do everything headless etc.

YaST is a nice bonus, but openSUSE offers the same thing everybody else offers in terms of non-gui tools. Just from personal use patterns, I sometimes use YaST for convenience sake, the user editor is nice, and so is the bootloader-stuff. Can I do it differently? Sure, user{mod,add) etc. work just as well and might be preferential sometimes, the point is that both work.
SpaceX is probably protected against domestic copiers by trade secret law.
The Age of Context for Businesses
Disappointed at Google I/O. Are You?
Second year in a row! I was unable to purchase a ticket for Google IO. I'm just amazed that Google keeps getting this so horribly wrong. This year I am blogging it so google can make a better experience for the rest of us developers.
If two inventions are invented in isolation, then one is not derived from the other.
I actually set up a quick Heroku deploy to help identify when people are downloading our code and running it on a different domain than ours (just sends us an email). Most of the reckless folks stealing our stuff don't identify the little bit of JavaScript I've thrown in there, and we get a lot of these alerts. It also sends us the domain the code is running on. Of course, we aren't worried as much about localhost.

The JS also replaces the content on the page, and shows a "you shouldn't be doing this" kind of alert; we've had a TON of hits on this. It happens literally daily.

We have yet to file for DMCA takedown - good plan for those who are legit stealing.

However: I have a strong opinion on these things.

Specifically, if people are stealing your stuff, see what you can do to innovate past them. Ideas will always be stolen; edge and innovation can't be stolen.

Sometimes it's legit to call people out. Sometimes DMCA takedowns are needed. Sometimes, it's time to man up and beat the system. One step ahead, and all that jazz.
"There were no congestion problems like in SimCity 5 in older versions because cars didn't try to get from point A to point B."

That's not really true. Sim City 4 did have congestion problems and it did simulate Sims going from point A to B. It wasn't as granular as SC5 simulating individual cars, but it did simulate groups of Sims traveling to and from work. It was also infamously buggy (something the modding community spent a lot of effort fixing) but it still was better than what we have now.
How to hack your body language for better interviews
If you get a Roku, you can get live sports. You'd then have to pay for a season pass for each sport, but likely still cheaper than cable.
Thanks! You can do so with BitNami Cloud Hosting. It allows you to select OS, apps, server size, etc. It has a free tier, but you will need to enter your AWS credentials http://bitnami.org/cloud/product-tour
I agree with the people recommending the built-in tutorial (C-h t) and the official manual. Emacs' documentation is very good.

Also, the basics of Emacs haven't changed since forever so some of those dated resources you mention may be just fine.

Good luck! I hope you like it.
Current fingerprint readers have "live finger" detection, this won't work on newer equipment.
Silver Spring Networks IPO Has Red Flags
> Clever, dedicated, and somewhat masochistic players have found ways to "hack" the poor pathfinding behavior.

To be fair, this was also the case with SimCity 4's "always the shortest path, no matter how congested it is" pathfinding, until fans fixed that part.

I actually found that part kind of fun! I do think that the cycle of gaining deeper understanding about how the simulation works, then redesigning your cities to work around it is pretty fun in a general sense. Really, the only problem with 2013 is that a) redesigning your city around 2013's pathfinding issues makes you end up with dumb, intersectionless cities, which feels "cheap", and b) even in the extreme case, there's only so much you can do about some of the pathfinding issues.

Last night, I had 3 school busses going to the same 2 stops over and over again, ignoring the rest of the city. No wonder my city's children are such little hoodlums.

[EDIT] I originally intended this to be a reply to potatolicious' post. Whoops.
"never while it is being driven."

One reason to own a scan tool is to debug anti-lock brake sensors by driving around and noticing which wheel always reports zero... then replace that one sensor. This is far superior to random shotgun troubleshooting. Also while I had a thermostat problem I drove around quite awhile with my scan tool watching the thermostat misregulate my cooling system which is what led to failed readiness indicators because the engine never warmed up all the way only 99% of the way, etc etc. ODB-II is very old, like a college freshman, whereas this is a new iphone app. The equivalent for android, a program called Torque, is old. There are almost certainly HN posters younger than the standard ODB-II port. I bought a bluetooth ODB-II reader for my android/torque phone probably two years ago? It does apparently everything this new app does. My now antique orange physical scan tool appliance that cost me about $150 is about ten years old and obsolete, although it does still work. It is much tougher construction that my phone, which cost a lot more than $150...

One of the nicest Torque features is being able to reconfigure the gauge display. No point in being distracted by the oil pressure gauge when you're driving around if all you care about is a graph of the coolant temp vs time or peak coolant temp or whatever it was.
> to instruct Americans not to let neighbors free-ride on their Wi-Fi networks

This is such a weirdly negative framing. What's wrong with sharing? I've always left my wifi routers open and unsecured so my neighbors can use the bandwidth if they want.
My Site Redesign - What's better, And What Can I Improve?
I imagine FB requests that details of the vulnerability are kept private until they have informed the discoverer that they are happy for it to be published.
UK: Aaron Schwartz style prosecution was "undue pressure" and SAS man released