skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone tried to request the manual/technical documents for a UConnect so you could flash your console and tinker with it?

Customer service told me tampering in any way would void the warranty on my entire vehicle.........

Needless to say I they didn't send me a copy of the manual.
To truly be enterprise it needs a Maven build and JavaDocs.
You do, the car is yours.

But you also own obligations to pay back a loan and interest to a bank.

Technically you have a credit and debit sheet, a new asset plus a new liability.
The most beautiful games in history, hands down.
>"But to make the argument that something is "bad" you really have to know what management had in mind for it."

What they hand in mind is irrelevant to me. All I care about is the outcome. Saying Microsoft bought aQuantive with the hopes to cure cancer in their mind doesn't justify a $6BB write down. It would still be bad.
If you want to get technical, accessing the records in the first place is the crime. All the rest is just demonstrating the intent and the public interest in prosecuting him.
Anyone using Rails 4.0 in production?
That would be babel fish. Though this certainly wouldn't be the first time Google misspelled something.
> * holding conversations with people who have intermittent network connections (mobile phone users)

I didn’t really try that, but it is usually the responsibility of the remote user’s server to check whether the user is online. Shouldn’t be a problem.

> * sending/receiving files

Works perfectly fine.

> * multi user chat

Works even finer than fine.

What clients and servers did you use?
(Just for comparison) HP 600GB 15K SAS drives are $700 (direct from HP, which is marked up a bit). So even at that price, it's about $1.17/GB. So ya, SSD is definitely still around 8x the price.

[1] http://h30094.www3.hp.com/product/sku/10238268/mfg_partno/VM...
Thanks, it's now working. These are the needed packages to make it run on my minimal install:

sudo apt-get install libxslt1-dev libxml2-dev python-libxml2 python-libxslt1 build-essential python-dev

On to testing now :)
"Show HN: enterprise techno startup"
I'm not American, so it's not really for me to bother them. Also it's not really false, is it?

"Other aspects of naturopathic medicine, like healthy nutrition, have been shown..."

Perfectly true information. Just irrelevant because those are aspects of mainstream medicine too.

--edit-- but were I american and had medical credentials to my name, yes I absolutely would be writing to them to protest the existence of that page in its entirety. As it stands I'm just a British skeptic.
Python Software Foundation Reaches Settlement, Ends Trademark Dispute
I don't subscribe to the view that the Supreme Court has to allow laws dramatically outside the constitution to stand; I said there exists such a school of thought with some influential members, whether I agree or not. The SC can't enact laws, that's what Congress does.

The Executive branch enforces the laws, per article II section 3 of the Constutition. The Judicial branch adjudicates disputes, it does not enforce anything.

The SC is the final arbiter of constitutionality - as Justice Robert Jackson said, it's not final because it's the SC, it's the SC because it's final.
How smart people, warm cookies and SXSW made me stay in the US
Oh, it's shared...
Try http://careers.stackoverflow.com, there are many opportunities there from many different countries, many of them offering rellocation
Want to see this kind of stuff done entirely seriously? Search for solutions to the "Thoughtworks rover" problem. When you see a class for each direction you might be heading, you know you're on the right track.
Its a tough call, but I will say that it is not clear who the bully is in this situation.

If the comments were made directly at someone, I am sure all will agree that this is grounds for consequences.

However is it really a "safe space" if people are shamed publicly for what someone finds offensive BEFORE the matter is brought up to STAFF? I mean the two dudes in the photo may have grounds to say that they are the ones being harassed.
has nobody else noticed that the default list always sorts with the same algorithm? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14761032/infinite-recursi...
Using Tailbone to talk to App Engine with JavaScript
We do not have a backup of the Internet
Here are a few more:

Write a post about how to get on HN's front page.

Write a post about how you got on HN's front page and how your traffic increased as a result.

Write a post about how you failed to get on the front page, despite your best efforts.

For comments, try saying "OK, now you can downvote me".

For comments with negative votes, say "what's with the downvotes?"
What would JavaScript bring that Lua does not?
Just like a good showman would, Linode will be saving their RAM announcement for last. Network, CPU, disk again (maybe?), anything else (new services/options/load balancing/etc), and finally, memory.
Basecamp is currently using beta1.
And there are bound to be some who are politically agnostic/independent, as well as those who identify as liberal but, for the right price, would do the work. Actually, I can't believe that all the conservatives in Silicon Valley are closeted.
While more efficient templating sounds like a good thing and is clearly a pain point, I'm not convinced Wikimedia is really thinking this one through.

1. Every page is now a "real" program. Will separation of code and content result from this? The article hints that structured data is on the way, but I have a hard time imagining the average contributor will restrain themselves given this awesome new power. Instead I foresee bigger and badder messes.

2. Does this get us any closer to a parseable format for Wikipedia content? This is the world's knowledge. The fact that it's currently trapped in an ad hoc, PHP-inspired template "language" (there is no formal grammar for it, it's whatever some PHP code accepts as input) should be very concerning.

3. Why Lua? Javascript seemed like the obvious choice. Rendering templates server-side at Wikipedia's scale sounds incredibly challenging; it boggles the mind really. Surely most page views are from js-enabled browsers -- why not offload all that rendering to the client?
I think the idea is if TPM is enabled, the ROM bootstrap code only gives control to a signed trusted bootloader, which only gives control to a signed trusted kernel, which carefully prevents untrusted code from making requests to the TPM hardware. Like DRM, it's Game Over when the first vulnerability in this trusted code is found, though it'll continue to inconvenience legitimate users (because vendors have little incentive to ensure the machine is practically usable with TPM disabled or trusted signers according to the user).
run it a few more times, that's the only one it finds.
why I am getting downvoted? because I'm not agreeing with the flock? I provided constructive feedback
I hadn't seen multitrackDSP/dead fish/nile previously. Guess they're not released(?). Nice overview.
The Lua index from 1 complaint is becoming the new Python whitespace gripe.
Since an auto-loan is secured by the vehicle, your lender can and does put conditions on your use of the vehicle. E.g. they may require you to carry full collision & comprehensive insurance on the vehicle even if your state doesn't require it. In this situation, the lender is your carrier, and attaches a different set of conditions.
Show HN: jQuery-TourBus - a web app tour plugin (weekend project)
The current default auto-correct for the Samsung Galaxy S2 is highly annoying as it actually omits some of the alternatives and you can't switch between languages anymore.

It just pisses me off immensely.
If I am not mistaken, only the website you click on after searching will know the search term, so how does using a VPN protect you from this? For example, if I search for Yahoo and click on the Yahoo.com result, this rogue website(assuming Yahoo is not it) won't be able to access that search keyword from my IP.
His comrade got 12-15mo, so I think there was little chance of weev getting less (and probably 24mo was the most likely). I predicted 3y before his last little bit of trolling.
Aaand I just heard the death knell of H. sapiens domination of the planet.
Blocked IP address?
For some reasons my posts are not seen by anyone anymore, even if I create a new account. Is there any way to be heard by HN community?
# That inspired me to have a bit of my own fun. Here's my awful Python take on it.

[(n, (lambda x: ("fizz" if x % 3 == 0 else "") + ("buzz" if x % 5 == 0 else ""))(n)) for n in range(1,51)]
It's hard to pinpoint one thing. They're just much more usable and don't make you fight against it. It just gets out of your way. That's great UX design right there. Just measure the amount of key strokes, clicks, time and overall actions needed to do one thing in Chrome and the same in Firefox. You'll be amazed.
I have no trouble believing that weev did those things and worse, and it is probably criminal behavior, and if so it should be punished. But that has nothing to do with what the gov't. has just done. Just as defense atty's want sympathetic defendants, prosecutors are happy to exploit the unsympathetic response that most people have to learning about weev's behavior. If we let them do it to weev, we are inviting them to do it to anyone, including yourself. The gov't has just expanded its power to jail people for what ought to never have been chargeable, and given that power to companies like AT&T. As it stands now, any company with the means to do so can use the state to jail you under similar circumstances. Even if you are a nice guy who saves stranded kittens from trees.
Not really the same. TDD just give you the requirements for implementation. The intention of what I said is to given those requirements find a set of solutions. PG's idea is more ambitious, since is more like a set of plugins attached to the compiler so it could perform very high level optimizations (like finding an iterative solution given a recursive process)
It's environmental, largely driven by a) the need for cost certainty, and thus the susceptibility of non-technical management to the allure of the Bag Of Magic Beans sales pattern (see also: the fungibility of skilled work fallacy); and b) the need for risk abatement in large organizations.

I've always found it most useful to think of this sort of garbage as an effort to hedge against terrible communication. Sure, it's likely to be a load of blood sweat and tears spent on useless tangential silliness; but one time in a hundred, the plastering of abstraction over ill-definied abstraction will allow a team to anticipate one step ahead in the chain of ever-shifting requirements, and thus, earn back a few hours and a tiny shred of dignity.

Nobody really likes this crap. But the life of the mean programmer is a grim one, indeed. Ultimately, the problem is that nobody really knows how to write software.
That's cool, although I wouldn't rely on the Google map draw tools. It's cool to learn and have personal projects, but advertising yet another data collection tool without a clear idea for where the data is going or if it's even usable seems counter-productive to me, since we have a project like OSM.
referring to the US President as head of the executive branch of government.
That's the role of the executive branch, and President Obama is the head of the executive branch. It's weird to see it phrased that way, but it's not incorrect.
Unless you regularly updated and worked on the latest 2.0 beta this is news ;). You have a complete list of images here http://pharo.gforge.inria.fr/ci/image/20/ including release dates.

During the beta update process it might happen that one or another update fails. Usually that should not happen though.
Perhaps we should make a site who's terms of service explicitly bars use by members of congress. Once some member of congress goes to the site, we try to get them put in jail, at which point they'll change the law.
Because normal people just put some appropriate clothes on and get on with their day. This is not a real problem. I could be very wrong, I have my man blinders on.
OK, I freely admit I'm an old fart, and I know full well that language changes, culture changes, and I'm part of the past, but please ...

Can we get the title changed?

I don't know if you're simply not a native English speaker and don't appreciate the intensity of the word you've used, or if you are a native English speaker, and in your culture this is the norm, but in my culture this is genuinely offensive.

And I know there'll be a storm of protest, but I'm just telling you that for me it is deeply unpleasant to find such things in my reading.
Well I would argue the customers should decide what's too expensive. It really depends on your use case, for some people even $8/GB might be worth it. Linode can at least have some offering, even if it involves waiting lists.

It might not be a profit center on its own, but it could land them customers who otherwise would have to skip them.

I would take this further and argue that consumer grade SSD's shouldn't be discarded out of hand either for similar reasons.
Show HN: ChopChopJS - A JS puzzle game (weekend project)
I like it. Have been looking for an alternative to Reddit for general discussions, so far HN has been my inadequate replacement.
The number one perk for version control is... version control, there are always mistakes made or some fix that ends up breaking everything and if you don't have version control this becomes a giant pain in the ass but with it you just switch to or look at an older version and problem solved.

The added team working enhancements are always secondary to version control and if someone can't see the benefit of this it is going to be hard to argue.
Ask HN: Why bother expanding?
I recently read that Andrew Mason of Groupon was forced (I presume he was forced) to step down of the company that he created. Same went for Steve Jobs first time around at Apple.

I don't understand why an individual, who pours his heart and soul into a startup/company and who sees that company flourish and make really great profits which affords that individual to have the life he or she wants to live, then bothers trying to expand? Why do they not stick at what they are good at, what made their business/product great? Is it greed? Or does a company have to expand to survive?

I run a small site. The reason I run it is because one day I would love nothing more than to work full time on it and be my own boss. If my small site made me enough money to live a fun life and to be able to do the things I would want to do then I can't imagine any situation where I would want to take my small site and expand it into an area that I didn't understand, feel comfortable with or introduce people into it that I did not know. What's the point?

I am not trying to be obtuse and I hope I am not being ignorant. I just don't understand why people would risk what they have (like Andrew Mason). So he earns an extra $x million, what could he do with that that he couldn't do with his existing fortune?
I'm seeing this post.
I rebooted and confirmed; indeed the older L5520 is still the processor being used on my particular linode:

<snip>

processor : 7
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 26
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5520 @ 2.27GHz
stepping : 5
microcode : 0x11
cpu MHz : 2266.746
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8

</snip>
Github's analytics probably says something else.
I think they thought it through, but there are still issues:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5347430
Good idea, but I don't think it is possible for a private citizen to bring a prosecution. You could report it as a crime to the local police / FBI, but then they would probably file charges against you for wasting their time.
The story regarding the Japanese volunteer sounds interesting. I hope we get to hear more about that.
on a southwest flight and any website I visit that is not under https, has dozens of add on advertisements... makes me wish more of the web was secured... visiting the site above for security patches and seeing the hashes for those released files, reminds me that because that site isn't https someone could modify those hashes... tried downloading the files and southwest modified the binaries corrupting them... anyways good to see security releases being pushed out just wish we had better security on the delivery...
SEEKING FREELANCER, remote is ok
you are:

a Ruby on Rails expert

Preferably have shipped apps with multiple login states (eg user and admin)

Have shipped responsive (ideally twitter bootstrap) apps with strong front end experience optimized for mobile
Must be broken. I can't find the "Haskell" magnet.
Don't forget the YouTube audio comment preview.
It doesn't seem to me like an issue at all.

Referral data has been available since the beginning of Google. You get the referrer, extract the search terms of the URL and link it to the visiting IP.

This doesn't show up if you're using HTTPS search. The URL is encrypted and the terms can't be extracted IIRC.

So, the only problem is a tracker (which I never heard of) giving out that referral data. And it's publicized by a site who ends up promoting its VPN (and not mentioning the HTTPS solution).
I use Netbeans[1] and Eclipse all the time, and I don't write Java code like that. Then again, I write GUI's by hand in swing, so .... there is that.

[1] edited from Netflix. I use Netflix all the time, too!
It was written in ASP. We can't assume anything!
Yes, I'm aware.

That doesn't mean "put ads in product" automagically converts to "sustainable profit/loss".
YES. Thank you for saying this. Some of the async code that I maintain uses Twisted and some of it uses Eventlet, and the difference between them is night and day. The code using Eventlet is so much cleaner, so much easier to maintain, and (oddly enough) so much less magical than the Twisted stuff. This was written by the same people, and they're all really good programmers, so the obvious confounding variables are not an issue here. Eventlet and Gevent are just so much better.

Worried about monkey-patching? Then only monkey-patch the parts you need to be asynchronous. Worried about magic that you don't understand? Have a look at the code; the magic is actually pretty straightforward after you've paid a little attention to the man behind the curtain.

If you're interested in async stuff for Python, I urge you to have a look at Eventlet or Gevent.
Sane is in the eye of the beholder.. gevent looks nice, but I'd be very diffident when it comes to actually supporting it in production. It monkey patches the standard library and messes with CPython internals to achieve what it does, infinitely increasing the chance it will conflict with some other piece of code (for example, that bizarre ancient internal propriety library you're using that started life in Fortran, etc)

In the case of async I'm glad to see a from scratch implementation for the standard library. It's a weird area that necessitates some constructions that there is no really standard Python style for. You only need to look at Twisted and e.g. its method chaining to realize this stuff would need a thorough sanity rework before it ever became standard anyway.

Also, most other implementations take the approach of building their own little world. This is definitely true of Twisted. You write code for Twisted, not for Python. Gevent at least doesn't suffer from this.
That python code made me cringe. decorators, parsing, compiling and evals? You win.
Great stuff! Me and a pen-tester friend may use this to build online scanning tools. We were going to use phantom, but this should be easier.
Everyone is waiting for RAM and Linode knows its customer better - hope they make it soon.. people will come in hordes to Linode then from amazon..disk performance is not so good with Amazon - linode should have known betterm with SSD they could have had a bigger impact then they currently are..
As for SSDs,it should be their in another 6 months..as linode believes in quality over just providing the damn thing.. see what they did in Network Routers and Cores..
This seems to be implemented in a single programming language without any dependencies on legacy systems. A truly enterprise-grade system talks to PL/SQL stored procedures. Or it would, if the DBAs had written the stored procedures. But they haven't responded to your ticket request yet. And when they do, it will be with a mostly irrelevant question delaying actual work for another week. by which time their manager will be offsite at OracleWorld and won't be able to approve the changes.
Edge case city, there are perhaps a handful of people in the world without a dot in their domain, but yes, technically correct.

The thing is, for every legitimate bob@ai there are millions of erroneous bob@gmail mistakes that would slip through. At the very least a warning should be presented.
> So if all carriers provide only locked phones there may not be enough devices on the market.

Except you can buy directly from the phone manufacturer: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Nexus_4_8GB?id..., http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone

Your argument basically amounts to: "if the carriers did have a monopoly on phones, then there would be a problem."
Want an internship at a startup? Offer something
Not to defend the indefensible, but why not make a couple of discussion points...

If you have a huge application and a high staff turnover you want to minimise the amount of information in your developers' heads. Strictly architected code can do this to some extent, and can go some way to reducing need for that other 'enterprise bane' - documentation. This is less of a problem in a startup type environment were you can find out about a particular piece of code by walking over to the kid that wrote it and having a chat.

Code generation (mentioned elsewhere on the thread) is another example of something that is less necessary in a small environment. Matching an enum to the contents of a database table or whatever can be done by convention to begin with, but it's less practical if your development team is spread across three timezones. Better to invest the time in letting computers do the work.
CircuitLab (YC W13) Has 70K Users/Month For Its Electronics Design Tool
This is an exciting exchange for me because all joking aside I had this idea in the past and believe it should be a more active area of research.

Why Forth?

I doubt it is possible to solve "serious" problems with this approach but there is a whole class of work that is solved by mediocre programmers with copy pasting. We strive to automate other jobs, why not these? :)

We should come up with some sort of Turing like test for this. Like some small simple Wordpress job.
But you haven't paid for it. You've typically paid for about 1/3 of it, and agreed to a contract which specifies a 2-year payment schedule for rest as part of your phone bill.