skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cyber security scenario according to WebSense - Hacking News
You're right the examples don't really tell a story, thanks for the feedback.

We need to work to clarify the message a little, because we're in the situation where we're simultaneously targeting IT departments and developers who would benefit from removing the burden of ad-hoc reports, but also their end-users who want the data. I'll give that some thought.
JsPyConf 2013: Modern Web Technologies Conference, Istanbul, Turkey
Wow! JsPyConf will be one of the coolest conferences in Turkey! And it's free! :)

Detailed information:
Lanyrd: http://lanyrd.com/2013/jspyconf/
Registration: http://jspyconf.eventbrite.com/
you do get the client IP, but it comes as a request header: x-forwarded-for
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/Devel...
Implementing a comfortable (multi step) import process in Ruby on Rails
We have a lot of our own technology, but talk to WordNet, OpenNLP and the like in places.
Yup, we're on the JVM but I've heard nothing but good things about NLTK (and have been envious of some of the things it makes easy).
Up until a few years back, I was long term unemployed. 2-3 years or so, it was pretty grating, but I tried to make the best of it, learning new skills, practicing and playing a shitload of WoW. The latter part wasn't exactly helpful, to be honest. I'd been through numerous government training and employment schemes but coupled with my depression and my lacking recent employment history, not many people were willing to take me on.

I had spent a lot of this time approaching local design agencies and web dev studios (of which there are a lot in my area) for internships and the like, rarely ever met with a response, let alone a "thank you, but no," so I kept plodding away.

Eventually, someone responded to my enquiry, a small design agency with a few fairly big clients, they offered me an unpaid internship working 3 or so days a week to build up some experience. As much as I came to learn they were exploiting me (I was there well over a year, eventually working for minimum wage), I still do owe them a hell of a lot. Getting back into the swing of things, doing something that I loved gave me my confidence back, I learned to trust my skills and that I am good at what I do.

From that point on, literally every changed in my life. I came off the anti-depressants, found a new girlfriend, got a new house and now have a new job making decent money for a company I really enjoy. As much as I may bitch and moan about how that agency took the piss so much with me, the chance that they took on me turned my life around.
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I agree. Something like what IHackerNews does with Viewtext.org - the text from the article is here: http://viewtext.org/article?url=http://www.trevormkay.com/th...
"how fast they type"

Personally, I think that is an extremely silly metric to base a recruitment decision on.
How To Start Your Own Hedge Fund
> is an API that just translates natural language to, say, SQL useful enough for you to pay for?

Yes, that's definitely the sweet spot. Surely just the schema with a sprinkling of documentation ought to be enough information.
[SURVEY] Do you ask for a penetration test when deploying an application?
For a talk I'm preparing for Railsberry 2013, I need to know if people ask (either a freelance or an internal application security specialist) for a web application penetration test when deploying a new web application or a new important feature.

I created a survey on surveymonkey:
http://it.surveymonkey.com/MySurvey_Responses.aspx?sm=3CoKrIbdErrULaKVpmoUz9MM49m1csdbPL23HmoRVhU%3d

What do you think about it?
Are there any well-known purveyors? I've been thinking of developing components to sell recently and was looking for some examples of what's already on the market to compare and contrast.
More details about Canonicals decision for Mir and against Wayland
Great to see i3 mentioned there. i3 was the first tiling window manager I used. I got involved in the development pretty early, I am still using it and try to help where I can (even though I don't write code for it)
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Are we looking at the same results? I dont see crunchbang even listed for servers (which woudnt make any sense, cause its just debian). I do see RHEL (the expensive version" as well as CentOS (the "gratis" version) in the list.

Just the name Red Hat, isnt a distrobution. Its the name of a company. Fedora, RHEL and CentOS are.
Indeed. They are pointers. You just cannot do pointer arithmetic on them.

In declaration the '' goes on the left though. In general Go's syntax inverts the declaration w.r.t C/C++:

a int vs int a
b *int vs int* b

type X int vs typedef int X

NOTE: you can do unsafe pointer arithmetic using the "unsafe" package.
You can convert any pointer to a unsafe.Pointer and then you can convert it to a uintptr.

There are also library functions designed to work with that, for example atomic.AddUintptr that atomically adds an offset to a pointer.

Although not intended as general use, it can be useful in low level library code. Otherwise you can do pretty much everything using slices.
Yup, Wolfram are a scary competitor, EasyAsk too. In my head, we're targeting the lower-end of the market - potentially smaller data models, no consultancy face-time. We'll see how realistic that turns out to be.
I only object to what appeared to be magic. Now that I know there will be a setup it seems practical and useful. This is a great idea for exploring data, I hope you are wildly successful.
Thanks, nice application. Love the color scheme.
It says Python 2.7 is needed. Does it work with 3.x?
Speech Recognition in 1920s: Radio Rex – The first speech recognition machine?
Destroyed Russian satellite highlights space junk threat
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Sorry about the free hosting. Never expected to be on Hacker News :P

I've moved to better hosting, for the moment the temp URL to the article is: http://cp27.stablehost.com/~trevormk/thoughts2013.html#ADN
Are you saying women and men are equally likely to be attracted to a company by free whiskey shots?

Because, unless you are, the comment was NOT stereotypical.
The HN effect , make sure you can handle the load before submitting you news( if it is yours ofcourse ).
It's curious the MIT article tries to downplay the role of Wickramasinghe behind this research finding. NC Wickramasinghe may be a brilliant scientist, but any news regarding possible extra-terrestrial life-form and his name appearing together instantly raises alarm bells all over the place.
Wickramasinghe is the von Däniken of astrobiology.
The VM hosting this page is struggling a bit, apologies. If anyone's interested, I'd love it if you filled out the survey here:

https://docs.google.com/a/hotwoofy.com/forms/d/1ixCUouKsq1Q4...
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Wasn't me who submitted. But here is the temp URL until hosting sorts itself out http://cp27.stablehost.com/~trevormk/thoughts2013.html#ADN
That's one thing I miss from most, if not all, journalism: Cited sources for the claims in the article. Mind you, academia produces a lot of crap, but at least you can usually verify whether it's crap or not by following the sources. Articles in newspapers and magazines usually don't tell where they got the data and in online publications they often don't even put up useful links.
In this presentation, Les Hazlewood - Stormpath CTO and Apache Shiro PMC Chair - will share all of the golden nuggets learned while designing, implementing and supporting JSON-based REST APIs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WXYw4J4QOU
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In fact, it has such example. The code that compares the phrases from Humpty Dumpty is that attempt. I was comparing similar strings without going full throttle with a more complex setup like the ones in search engines.
Thanks; that was thoughtful. What about Wikipedia's sign-up process? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
>Me: profanity

Thanks, now my screen is full of coffee^^
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> Regarding the antibiotics, it's not completely clear why giving them to animals makes them bigger

From the 'Germs Are Us' article:

"In August, Ilseung Cho, of the New York University School of Medicine, published a study showing that antibiotics eradicated bacteria, commonly found in the digestive system of mice, that help the animals metabolize calories efficiently; without the microbes, the mice absorbed more calories from the same amount of food and rapidly became obese."

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/22/121022fa_fact_...
Well it depends on how the code is written. But compatibility is partial anyway you should use 2.7.

http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3
Searching for techniques in a changing world (localStorage messaging followup)
I think I misread the graph "What Linux distro do you primarily use on your non-server computers?" which shows a legend of:

* Non-server users

* Server users
Cool. I believe this works on the same principle that employee stock options does. Empowerment.

In another situation, it is also generally good practice to let employees know you think highly of their work. Most people will try to live up to this expectation even though it might not necessary be true.
Facebook 'Likes' give your secrets away
The key is to understand your users. If you're making a CRM aimed at businesses, they will already get the concept of a CRM so you just need to convey how yours is better. If you're making a ground breaking piece of software in a new field you're going to have to educate your users on how it solves their problems.
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> After the rebellions died down, more moderate reformers, such as the political partners Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, gained credibility as an alternative voice to the radicals. They proved to be influential when the British government sent Lord Durham, a prominent British reformer

(from that article)

It was not the violence that lead to change, but diplomacy... unless I'm missing something.

Regardless, it doesn't counter my point, unless you want to point out the revolutionary wars Australia and New Zealand had...
Adobe had internal ports of the Flash plugin for iOS. Ironically, Apple assisted Adobe in the early porting work. However, Apple assigned the work to an "intern" and the code returned to Adobe was such crap that it didn't even compile. Coincidence or diversionary tactic by Apple? Suspicious Adobe people called this "Project Boomerang".
Summer internship for teenagers?
do any companies provide summer internships for teenagers ?
It is ever-changing, but until recently Google has been cutting out the really obvious, flagrant abuses of the system.

Last year, Google annihilated directories, blog comments and article directories, as well as punishing unnatural-looking link profiles (lots of links from low PR sites, for instance).

They're continuing to refine and expand on this, including certain forms of blog posts in their devaluation net, but more importantly the industry is still catching up.

There are still people out there writing and selling long-form articles, there are still people charging companies to place their links on directories. There is a lag as companies and "SEOs" who are out of the loop fail to realise that their activities are no longer resulting in increased traffic - and then after that lag the SEO's business will collapse.

Many voices in the SEO community are looking at a new paradigm - "no hat" and "true black hat" for want of a better term. The "no hat" spirit is, crudely and generally, "If this wouldn't be useful if SEO wasn't a thing, I shouldn't do it." In other words, good SEO comes as a side effect of good implementation, site design, CRO, social media, content, etc. The "true black hat" meanwhile engages in criminal activities, fraud, hijacks websites and generally takes things on that are inCREDibly risky in an effort to turn a quick buck and disappear.

The old grey and black hats, and to an extent even the white hats, aren't squeaky clean enough for Google any more. At the same time, the loopholes they're trying to exploit are already known and closed (or closing rapidly). So this year, I think this type of SEO will fade away, possibly completely.

I believe that it's possible I'm completely wrong, of course.
Grateful for your kindness, e1ven and cjbprime. I'll write you email soon.

I understand cjbprime's concern which is reasonable. Using it for bypassing blocking while not privacy can be the 1st step. anyway there must be somebody does the beta test :-)
You can use Server-Sent Events (HTTP-compatible server->client websocket).
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Yeah... However, Mike Judge gave us the cult classic "Office Space". Also Beavis & Butt-Head.
Sure, they fired a lot of employees, but I wasn't exactly talking about the branch managers or salaried analysts when I said bankers. The Lehman Brothers executives still paid themselves $100M three days before the bankrupcy, and the others weren't exactly on ramen noodles either.
Generally in "HTML5", these interactions are only allowed during user-triggered clipboard events e.g. the developer can intercept a "paste" event and grab data from the clipboard (in order to try and get it under a different format or somesuch).
Work Hard Not To Succeed, But So That if You Do Fail, You Have no Excuses Peft
Yes. Its fairly common. It helps if you have something you can point to to display your technical ability or aptitude, but my company regularly has internships for a half dozen students.
So you're misreading Ars's clear statement in the most contorded way possible and thus Ars posts a "linkbait headline"?
These Taxidermied Lego Insects Are Creepy Cool
Google Details Glass Mirror API At SXSW
We have this thing in Australia called work for the dole http://deewr.gov.au/work-dole , basically a watered down version of what was suggested. It has had quite a few changes over the years and has been hugely politically unpopular, but in my post uni bumming around days, I was drafted into one of these programs, and it was really fantastic. Everyone whinged (as we will) but everyone enjoyed themselves and got satisfaction from actually doing something societally useful. I've never experienced anything quite like it in a government, commercial or non-profit environment. The camaraderie, the weird mix of people, the kooky old retired navy guy who ran the program - so much gold.
I agree, that it's hard to do, but it did seem like it would solve some of the above problems.
This doesn't seem like a big deal. Outside of Windows RT, Flash on the desktop (including the Windows 8 desktop) has been unrestricted the whole time. So this only affects Windows RT users and people using the formerly-called-Metro version of IE. I don't think there are many of those, so other than the symbolism of the "future of Windows" moving back towards Flash, I don't see how this has much impact.
Who took a chance on you?

No one.

Perfect SAT scores. Great grades. Most creative in class. Most encouraged in class. Rejected by every college but one.

After graduating college, rejected by every prospective employer except Denny's.

Taught myself to program and gave it away until someone hired me.

Ten time employee who quit every company because someone got promoted over me even though I did 3X the work.

Beat the pavement but couldn't find customers until I wrote the software first, then they purchased.

When friends & family saw how much money I made, they all wanted in on it until they saw the sacrifice I expected from them, then every one backed out.

Rejected by Alphalab because "no one would buy" what I had already sold many times. Rejected by Ycombinator because they didn't think anyone would buy what I had already sold many times. Rejected by Incubate Miami because they wanted to see a business with a product and customers first. (Then why would I need you guys? I thought the whole point of these programs was to find otherwise unavailable opportunities by giving prospective founders a break from their other responsibilities to be able to focus on just building.)

Rejected by prospective cofounders who didn't want to make the same sacrifices I have made.

After being underestimated by the cool kids, teachers, girls, family members, employers, and strangers for being an ugly skinny nerd my whole life, I thought it would be different in the tech world, but it's not. It's still a beauty contest based primarily of superficial subjective perceptions. People are still often too lazy or unable to dig below the surface to find the reality.

Please don't misunderstand. I'm not bitter. I'm glad...

I wouldn't be half the builder I am now if someone would have given me a break along the way.

So I just keep on building and loving it.
Boston Cab Dispatch queues up to sue Uber
Anyone can rent botnets; no technical skills required.
even international ?
Worldwide usage of mobile data traffic and it's SMS impact
Or you can take natural law thinkers like Grotius - in essence, their thinking derived from religion thus: you are owned by God -> you cannot kill yourself -> in times of hardship (an in extremis condition) you must take what you need in order to live. Very interesting, as he also defined property in terms of his religious beliefs...

I guess what I'm getting at is either you have the people breaking into the grain stores (in Grotius' day, anyway) or you provide some means of subsistence.
That's a fine observation, but unless it can be fixed in the aggregate it's still part of the intractability of the problem.

Or (more directly), you're not offering a solution, you're making a complaint.
Unfortunately there are still a lot of bindings and third party libraries that need python2. Recently I've been playing with python-alsaaudio and python-cwiid on linux, and they both seem to be require python 2.

It seems like it's not going to go away any time soon. I'd be surprised if most new work was even being done in python 3, even though it's been out for almost 5 years now.
Nice try, not going to point specific fingers at certain environments out of risk getting flamed.
Static File Shootout: Apache RewriteRules vs. Flask « Mozilla Web Development
Things a text editor must do
If you have some time, I'd recommend this podcast with Dalton Caldwell laying out his vision for App.net:

http://www.muleradio.net/newdisruptors/13/

For more, Zeldman has a similar discussion with Caldwell:

http://5by5.tv/bigwebshow/84
Why is it a waste of time? There are plenty of good solutions now like Hipache.
Have you ever stopped to consider why no one gives you a break? If so, what did you conclude?

(This is a serious question, not a snipe).
gReader updated on Google Play (New UI)
Hey everyone, just wanted to let you all know that gReader updated this morning. it's a pretty big update!

Resources
gReader: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noinnion.android.greader.reader

gReader Pro: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noinnion.android.greader.readerpro
This is a bad way because you loose semantic of file separation. Better way is MHT, but it was supported only in IE and Opera.
Debian takes the super stable approach, which means packages aren't always at the latest version. Ubuntu favours more frequent updates.

I like Debian for servers but I'd probably go with Ubuntu or Mint for desktops if I ran a linux desktop.
Everything you've described is pretty stupid. I hope nobody is working on the next Google killer or yeah another Facebook alternative. All the big names were purely by accident and luck. Tell this to the graveyard of all the smart ideas that never took off because the market didn't need them.
Apple, Amazon get patents to offer "used" digital goods
Consider a productized, installable version.
You're an idiot, I'm talking about the accessibility of a data entry portal. There's no reason to not make it work in sub optimal conditions if ANY (not just your main) of your user base are likely to be in those conditions.

This has very little to do with data protection laws. I'm not talking about making your data secure, using ssl, redundancy in your database etc. These are all requirements but this is not what I'm talking about.

Simple accessibility in sub-optimal conditions. Stop trying make your small minded opinions the focus of this. Do you even own a passport?
All very good alternatives of course.
Six things people want to see in Samsung’s Galaxy S IV
Most pools pay out as soon as the block is mined, or at most one or two blocks later, and pay for any blocks that are later reorganized out of the chain from their own pockets. I fully expect to see several pools fail and take some or all of their miner's funds with them as a result of this incident.
I'd upvote it if it was interested and they talked about how they did it (and it didn't involve LOIC).

Which is to say the blog post about it probably wouldn't be worth reading :)
Depends on the interface. An item in the wrench menu saying "run page in background" would be easy enough for anyone.
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Had this sort of stuff on offer at a (very) large corporate I worked for as well. I never heard of anyone using them, but I guess someone must have made something off the deal.

That said, $LARGECORP were very savvy about their finances, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if the external 'perk' provider got a small cut when they sent business to the movies or restaurants or wherever, and $LARGECORP actually took money for giving the perk provider access to their employee base.

Maybe someone with the knowledge can jump in, does the coupon provider (AnyPerk) get a cut of the discounted purchases?
Ubuntu is at least interesting because of they're efforts in patching kernel and other stuff to work with hardware properly.
Absolutely sell/license the portable component. Doesn't have to be a consultancy thing (although it might have to be in the beginning). Either as a library or as a standalone server like Solr. 99.99% of data in the world that this is relevant for (sales/revenue numbers, finance etc) is locked away and you are never, ever, going to get access to it on servers you control.
That's the exact contrary.

What didn't scale was the server-side.
The client-side is just fine.

As for the idea of a browser VM, it is a world we live in. Welcome to the wonders of Java applets.
Raising the cost to employers will just encourage them to adopt even more automation.
I know this is Chapter 3, and hence jumping into the middle of the book, but lots of people here will have enough knowledge and experience to start from here and check up on unfamiliar terms. You may find you need to backtrack a little, but it seems to me this is a good place to start.
I think strictly speaking, _|_ isn't a contradiction, it's an absurdity. (x, x -> _|_) is a contradiction.
I think this scenario is worse because in theory the transactions aren't going to get copied over from the 0.8 chain to the 0.7 chain until the 0.7 chain overtakes the 0.8 one. The two versions aren't database-compatible, so anyone who follows the advice and manually downgrades to get on the right chain is going to lose all the transactions from the previous chain whether they want to or not.
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Interesting stuff. I would really like to see a breakdown of the "Other" category for "What is your favorite Linux graphical environment?".
Do Linux based spiders and crawlers count? If so, has that skewed the results in a meaningful way?
Yeah, that's a decent option. We'll already have the problem of supporting software in the customer's environment, so it's not really a huge leap to imagine a fully local version or an appliance.
How many billions of dollars (in opportunity costs) has Google spent advertising Chrome on their google.com home page? How can Mozilla compete on that playing field?
What is Latent Semantic Indexing?
Poor IT skills hurt youth job chances
Why were you looking for traces of Erlang in this story?
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