skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am surprised Google keeps this "everyone pile in" approach - it seems hundreds or thousands of Google-evangelists are guaranteed a bad experience (apart from not getting a ticket).

A simple 72 hour pre-registration period where everyone can leisurely sign up, and a random allocation of tickets out of the hat, seems to be both fair, and lead to a experience for everyone where servers don't melt and 500 errors dont get presented to people who for the next year will be recommending to their clients / employers whether to use GAE or Google Wallet.

Why piss off your core supporters?
Why Classic A/B Testing Fails
Ostensibly they are, if they are the root of EA's issues. I don't complain about the servers being down because I don't play games that require servers' constant attention like that. If they were any other than 'social multiplayer' then they would be a real-time strategy game, and oddly while those games tend to sink or swim on the balance, playability, and fun of their multiplayer side, I too generally prefer to play single player on those games as well as I would tend to get my ass handed to me by Koreans.

I would rather play Starcraft today than buy SC2. OK so that is stretching, but I haven't tried the new StarCraft, and it's mostly because of this DRM situation.
Google i/o fail.  Again
Isn't this question essentially the same as "does <device> support other operating systems?", since the rendering engine is built into the system as the underlying graphics toolkit.

(Presumably there is nothing stopping someone implementing a browser in a HTML5 canvas, and Mozilla certainly wouldn't "ban" such an app.)
Ah yes, being lectured by a 'consultancy' that provides little insight and much web annoyance in their own views.
I guess the social buttons are a little bit like ads on Google: we don't use them, we don't know anybody who uses them, but they are somehow used.
SimCity’s Sims Don’t Seem That Smart After All
Newspapers had Flash websites?
Sill, the embedded arm rest controls must be the most frustrating and antiquated "solution" to this problem. Put a touch pad on the armrest with a retractable cover, or something — anything but the idiotic circa 80s atari controller on the retractible vacuum cleaner cord!
Car firmware that controls all the servos, the camera and interfaces with the iPad over the WiFi is done in ... drumroll ... node.js.

[1] http://www.g0l.ru/blog/n3688/
I tend to google to re-discover things I already have bookmarked. It usually takes more effort to look for the bookmark.
I'm all for paying more in the interest of environmental protection, but again: is there a viable alternative?

Is reversing the democratization of international travel, which I would argue has been, proportionally, much more of a force for good economically and socially than it has been an instrument of environmental destruction, really the best answer we've got?
Don't take this the wrong way, but why would I want you to review my code? I would consider adding a few "achievements" like:

* I've worked on JS for x years.

* I've written client-side JS for x companies.

Anyway, you get the idea.
The GNU Emacs Manual is pretty comprehensive (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/ind...)

One of the things about Emacs I've discovered over the years is that you never finish learning it. It's so extensive. That's how I ended up reinventing this wheel: http://blog.jgc.org/2013/03/automatic-bookmarking-locations-...
Ugh, yes. I'm not usually the grammar nazi, but it's hard to focus on the point of the post when there's stuff like this: "Not seeing the project as a whole is a common cause of fails." The word you're looking for is failure. It's only two more keystrokes.
From what I've been reading, it sounds like Google Wallet was really the weak link in the chain. A significant number of reports from people who were lucky enough to grab a slot indicated 5xx errors and other difficulties with the payment processing stage. If that hadn't been an issue, I think the sellout would have been reached a lot sooner.
It's still a copyright violation; the DMCA, as mentioned above, is (iirc) more related to sharing of copyrighted materials on websites that host user-generated content (such as copyrighted videos on youtube or copyrighted visuals or code on github). The DMCA doesn't apply or need to be mentioned here, as the pre-DMCA copyright laws already cover this.
Ask HN: How far can you take a telecommute career?
I've been doing telecommute and/or freelance for about 4 years now. When I think of the future, I feel like a career via telecommute has a ceiling. Do you think a career based on telecommuting can continue to grow like a typical in house career?
On the other hand, most of this rogues' gallery is digital agencies or sites made by digital agencies. Sadly, those businesses market to unsophisticated customers on the basis of flash and dazzle, and usually any attempt at user advocacy is met with requests for flash and dazzle. The target audience of this kind of site is not the end user who visits the site; it's the manager who signs off on the invoice. Those managers very seldom have long-term engagement growth as an evaluation metric.
Google Seen Passing Apple in Tablets as iPad Loses Ground
Yes...1st thing I looked at..but as a developer I do not really like it.
WordCamp Chicago 2013 date set June 28th, 29th and 30th
The Veronica Mars Movie Project on Kickstarter
I was extremely frustrated that, while I had been "reserved" a ticket, the payment repeatedly timed out and I was kicked back to the "we're looking for tickets" page.

Oh well, I guess that's what happens when hundreds of thousands of people are DDoSing a page.
The suggestion "Containerize the airline industry" is wrong on so many levels. First of all every air port in the world would have to install new equipment. That would take money and time. Secondly every airline would have to buy new planes. Thirdly it ignores the reality that container ships are bot like airplanes. Airplanes have ventilation, electronics and structural requirements that ships don't have.
Yeah, that's what I had in mind. So if you POST this to a particular URL, I can probably do something - Send a text to my phone or send myself an E-mail, etc..

Edit: And please ignore the other comments asking you to stop with the profanity, etc. Clearly, those people aren't your target audience, but we are. If anyone feels offended, I think it's fair they don't use your service at all, than complain about it...
Idea is floated for a start-up colony anchored in the Pacific Ocean
jooglers - johannesburg

wooglers - warsaw

booglers - berlin

fooglers - frankfurt

I feel like Alan Davis
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5304977 ;)
Personally I'd rather look at their "bad" example sites than this crap. "Share", "SIGNUP NOW", "GET A FREE EBOOK" Bullshit they have plastered everywhere. How do they get the nerve to talk about UX?

If you live in a glass house...
Brazil’s Richest Family Forging $13 Billion Niobium Dream
"Hidden navigation on http://orangesprocket.com/ is a design decision."
Auto-playing midi music is also a design decision.

I agree, calling it html5 is a bit off, but the complaints are justified.
Ah, yes, the infamous "trend" list that only shows one example per anti-pattern and it's some random never-before-seen website where clearly they couldn't afford a better designer. Outside of the whole part where HTML5 has nothing to do with any of these, nor are they "comebacks".

Trends I'm waiting to be over: people without a clue about the web writing about the web and people who upvote articles without reading them.
Got that right. But not just celebrities... also people in places who you otherwise would not have a direct channel to.
Olark (YC S09) is hiring for Customer Service in Ann Arbor, MI
As well as the online streaming, I highly recommend going to a I/O Extended event, if one's happening near you (Google will publish a page listing them all nearer the time). Last year the London event was over at Google's co-working space, and as well as streaming some of the sessions, they brought along sample hardware, t-shirts (if that's your thing), and a lot of good networking opportunities.
The less offensive form of this kind of hotlinking prevention is to provide a small-sized image with the URL of the website it was taken from, or a hotlinking notification, not pr0n unless you want to offend unsuspecting visitors. The person that hotlinks an image for usage as a forum avatar won't even realize it most of the times because his browser cache kicks in.
Done. I went to do it last night, but I couldn't remember my github password.
The thing you must realize is that those previous systems didn't solve the problem Bitcoin solves. It's not quite obvious - I read the Bitcoin paper when it had pretty much just come out, didn't recognize the actual problem it was solving, and ignored it as yet another "contradictory-caveat" system (eg. paper title: "Anonymous Offline Payments!!@" ... later section: "identity escrow, merchant accounts, only offline for honest parties, etc"). It sucks that there's finally a widespread digital currency and it's non-anonymous, but that's not the problem Satoshi actually solved.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4979732
Just tell the gun lobby that if any of the Gun Shops keep an online database of their customers that's subject to the law. No need to worry about a national gun registry, the GOV gets it for free. Get the NRA involved and ALL OF CONGRESS will run screaming about how this goes against the 2nd Amendment.
Thank you for posting this. I both always wondered what I was thinking about such sites, and also had problems capturing the mindset of the audience when I wanted to make sites like this!
I had this as well, but the payment was ultimately declined.
And now my transaction shows up as cancelled by Google. Fuck you Google, fuck you Google Wallet.
The point of a university used to be being the highest pinnacle of thought. A place where people could have everything not related to intellectual pursuit taken care of so they could devote themselves to the pursuit of greater knowledge.

Sounds good on paper, but I'd question if that was ever actually true in reality anyway.

Now that seems to be replaced by a corporate campus

And? Is research less valuable because it's done by a corporation? Look at how much basic research IBM sponsors and how much Bell Labs and others have sponsored in the past. If anything, I would go the opposite direction and lament the decline in corporate spending on fundamental research. I'd like to see more academics go into the business world.

"Startups are the new graduate school" - can't remember where I heard that quote, but I think there's something to it.
This may sound cliche but I also thought of a similar concept when reading the post, with the added aspect of reviewing someone's review for 'karma' points. Self-policing, so to speak.
The "browser" in Firefox OS is just another window. Since the whole OS is a browser, they don't have separate code for the browser app.

If you want another browser, you just have to write it up in HTML + JS, like every other app on the device.
I just used eBay for the first time! you can rank products based on price+shipping, or just price. found it very useful
Hint: google his name. His target audience already knows who he is.
Teardown finds Pebble smart watch unrepairable but built to last
Wouldn't it be 518,400 monthly unique users? You're dividing 5,184,000 page views by 10 page views per unique, right?

That's quite an audience to build, and I think that's where a lot of effort goes. It can take a long to time to create and establish a brand and experience that people rely on and trust.
Maximum Consumerism
20th Century Death
No, they have a data dump of app information for every app. I believe it's an enormous XML file. My friend runs an app information/aggregation site and uses it.
The Missing Man Page for ifconfig
"Lame popups" - interesting how this is mentioned mere seconds after I dismiss a lame popup.

God, how I hate those things
How about the absolute "use our other stuff" bar at the bottom of their page which shrinks the viewable page content?
I happen to agree, but in Europe, that's not 100% true: artists have some "moral rights" as to how and when their work is exhibited.

Even in the USA, even though the legal underpinnings don't recognize a "moral basis", legislation for the last 30-odd years seems to lean towards an "ideas as property" basis. I realize I'm conflating patent with copyright here, but so does the idea of "Intellectual Property". Why else would we grant a nearly everlasting monopoly (via copyright, again) other than to reward a Sacred, Difficult Act of Creation?
If some catastrophic problem is discovered where there's a practical attack on block ciphers as used in the TLS ciphersuites, with no clever spec-compatible mitigation techniques, it would be nice to have a stream cipher in TLS (and implemented in the major TLS libraries) that isn't known to be problematic like RC4 is.

How long would it take to fix TLS implementations for high security applications in that scenario? And what would be the probable response? I think Salsa20 has a good chance of being the "fix"; maybe it wouldn't have to go through a truncated RFC process, and the major stakeholders would simply agree to add it to their TLS implementations and ship, but even then it would take significant time to implement and review.

You and others complain about the hodgepodge of ciphersuites in TLS.[1] South Korea gets their obscure block cipher into TLS, and yet the only stream cipher currently in TLS is known to be flawed and hasn't been ripped out and replaced?

Curve25519 was an afterthought before I looked and noticed 3 brainpool curves seem to be on track for inclusion, but Curve25519's parameters are more cautiously selected than the curves already in TLS implementations (secp256r1 for instance being the closest equivalent, and a common default curve for ECDH).

[1] I can see that the design-TLS-by-committee strategy doesn't seem to be working optimally. Someone credible ought to step up and demand a return to sanity. TLS 1.2 is barely even supported yet in practice, and yet there are 32 AES TLS 1.2 ciphersuites (by openssl 1.0.1e's count, and more that it hasn't implemented), 16 of which are RSA-based?! To take one example, TLS 1.2 RSA ciphersuites that use plain DH... what are they for? The parameters in TLS-enabled applications are traditionally hardcoded for 1024 bit DH, which decreases the security of sites using 2048+ bit rsa keys... and who uses 2048+ bit DH in practice? It's slow, and ECDH is the obvious choice. Then there are lots of less popular ciphersuites (most not even supported by openssl or nss), and as far as I can tell, that's driven by software and hardware companies who want a particular ciphersuite for their commercial products and want it in the official TLS spec, even though that does no good because major TLS libraries will not support obscure ciphersuites.
Don't think this is relevant for HN, but my girlfriend will love this. Thanks for sharing.
Is pen testing as fun as it seems like it'd be? I want to get into it but seems like a dangerous pool to jump into on your own.
This one was submitted by the author.
Four people from my team were able to get to the Wallet stage after 1-3 cycles of waiting for a ticket, but the purchase failed to convert to registration for all of them. For one, the CC charge went through but the redirect to the registration form didn't happen. For two of them, they were able to get to the payment phase again and successfully converted into registered purchases. I suffered a number of 500 errors and long waits, but at about 7:35 PDT I was able to get a ticket and pay+register painlessly (Wallet processed the payment nearly instantly).

What a mess, but hey, all but one of the people from my team who tried to get a ticket were able to. #Winning?
yes !

I looked at the join thing at the bottom and actually felt it slip out of my mind into the bin of stuff to ignore on the web.
Is the Middle East The Next Big Market For Cloud Computing?
Emacs tutorial itself is a nice start for you.
"Images Used for Text," "Contrast Fail," "Mystery Meat Icons," "Missing Pages," and "Tiny Fonts" all have nothing to do with JS or CSS3, it's simply a very poorly named article.
Honestly, even with a more comfortable in-air experience and a streamlined check-in and check-out process, the fact is that air travel will always involve being crammed inside an airtight container with a few hundred other people coping with boredom, cramped muscles, and screaming babies.

For me the best thing solution is to avoid it all.

I'm not saying "stop flying" I'm saying: knock me unconscious until I reach my destination! Then I don't have to worry about the annoying passenger next to me, the crappy food, the primitive climate control, the foggy, greasy screen on the buggy entertainment system, the harassed and overworked flight attendants, that smell coming out of the washroom, whether my overhead luggage is getting crushed by the massive duty free bag someone jammed on top of it, etc. etc. etc.

Bring on the hibernation chambers!
I just wanted to add that in modern browsers you can bookmark with 0 mouse clicks. Just CTRL+D it.

In Firefox it additionally focuses the "Tags" field which I find awesome. I was skeptical initially towards tags, but it's much easier to tag stuff with a brain dump of keywords coming to my mind, than to nicely put it into some hierarchical structure. The latter never worked for me.

The challenge is to manage synonymous tags in one's mind. I frequently tag something with e.g. javascript-foo tag and some other thing with foo-javascript. But you can easily move it later in the Library (CTRL-SHIFT-B).

Firefox handles search using the URL, the title stored, the tags, so with a mixture of all those in your location bar, it's super easy to find things. CTRL-L to focus the location bar and here you go.
>You're double-counting "wasted office time" and "coworker interruptions", which leaves commuting.

Not really. Even if I had double-counted them, that would live both ONE of them AND commuting.

Working at home you have far fewer interruptions (mostly through IM and email) not BS meetings, people breaking your concentration and such.

>It's not like software developers are poor.

Sure, but it's also not like they all work in the US, or have a > $30.000 annual salary.
It's a quasi-random lottery. If the client-side code is similar to last year's, then the Javascript on the holding page polls the server at random intervals for an "available" ticket, which are released at random intervals and/or as orders fail to go through (e.g. payment times out, etc).
Some apple keyboards have # printed, I'm surprised they don't all have it.
"I'm pretty sure this outcome is exactly what Google wants. [...] Why else would they continue to give away such great swag at an event with such high demand?"

I agree. Giving away equipment worth more than the ticket price doesn't attract the right crowd.

Apple has similar problems (lots of devs who want to come, but not enough space or manpower) but it at least seems to put in an effort to filter out the developers who don't need access to Apple engineers. It doesn't give away equipment, ticket price was raised to $1600, tickets are personalized and are non-transferrable, and the presentations are put online for free soon after WWDC ends. Despite all that, last year's WWDC was sold out in under 2 hours.
Sounds kind of like what Microsoft said when they were first "integrating" IE into the system.
Creating Custom TimeZoneInfo with Daylight Saving Time Transitions
>the rendering engine is built into the system as the underlying graphics toolkit.

As far as I know Windows RT supports developing apps in Javascript/CSS so it sounds like Trident is pretty built in to Windows RT. That has not stopped Mozilla calling for the ability to bring Firefox to Windows RT [1].

>(Presumably there is nothing stopping someone implementing a browser in a HTML5 canvas, and Mozilla certainly wouldn't "ban" such an app.)

There is nothing stopping Mozilla doing that for iOS but they (rightly) want to be able to release a browser that has decent performance.

[1] http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/05/09/windows-on-arm-users...
The world’s capitals according to Google
And everyone thinks they're getting a glass for $900
Are you referring to this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5425...

I found this article as a link from the first result of: telegraph MP expense scandal "public relations" training (I added the quotes because lots of articles about MPs seemed to have "public" in them without mentioning "public relations").
A Puzzle around Swapping Colored Balls
Editors should help the user to remap their keyboard keys.. We as users should move the symbols we need so that they are easier to type. For programming I've moved all of \{}[]() to the home row (with alt gr). Just one option of many but it demonstrates the concept..
Q&A with Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Donkey Kong
The comment to which I responded seemed to take the view that spending a bunch of money on discovering or inventing something should more-or-less be automatically rewarded with at least a portion of the "intellectual property" rights. That's the concept I wanted to rebut.

I don't have facts at hand, but I imagine that like any other thing (starting a business, writing a book, creating an App) 99.9% of patents result in no monetary gain whatsoever. But if we're going to go all in on the property aspects of patents, then I think that morally and ethically, we have to give an independent inventor a share of the property. Anything else just looks arbitrary, and leads to disrespect of patents, "intellectual property" and The Law in general.
That's mostly Stack Overflow, not Exchange. If a Stack Exchange is appropriate for discussion, they're fine with it.
Fun fact: the one on the left, everything but the top part is a pictograph of a shell, which was used for a kind of status symbol or possibly something roughly equating our modern money in many early societies. When Marco Polo arrived here in southwest China in the Yuan Dynasty (ie. just post Mongol-invasion), shells were still in widespread use. In fact, Chinese literary records document special requests to the emperor to except the region from the national law requiring use of imperial money by the provincial governor they placed in the region, who was an Uzbek and son of the then-king of Bokhara who had ridden with the Mongol horde to take China. One of his father's later successors was one of the Prokudin-Gorskii images (first colour images in the region), over here: http://pratyeka.org/prokudin-gorskii/the-emir-of-bukhara-191...
Is it a product yet (which is sort of a pertinent question when you start talking about some definitions of support)?

The intent seems to be to document the OS abstraction layer and have the capability to launch applications that do not depend on the browser layer:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...
How is "just make sense for the time" different from "that obvious"?
The actual version numbers:

2000: NT 5.0
XP: NT 5.1
Vista: NT 6.0
7: NT 6.1
8: NT 6.2
Slate.co looks like it could evolve into a viable contender in this space. I have a few qualms about the way questions are structured, but the site is pretty and nice enough.
Geocities view-sourcing. Thanks for taking me back.
Oracle buys private-cloud pioneer Nimbula
As someone who is nowhere near skilled enough to do any such things, I am so impressed with these types of posts, very interesting stuff. I can also appreciate that you directly reported these vulnerabilities to FB.
That says nothing about wether Sam ever got paid $1000 per hour or not.

Judging by a post on his blog* I doubt that his was very lucrative for him.

* http://soff.es/changes
Non-mobile version: http://blog.netflix.com/2013/03/introducing-netflix-social.h...
Works fine, except when on an unexpected collision course with a child and a garbage collector (or JIT) kicked in.