skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dammit - I thought I had decoded gibberish for 5 minutes there ! COuld not work out what I had done wrong.

when you say 20 seconds did you reach for a bash command ? interested knowing which.
I wonder what GoPro would think of a positive review from a retailer who didn't use approved images and branding.
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The advice I've always heard is that names should have four primary attributes:

1. easy to pronounce

2. easy to spell

3. easy to remember

4. memorable

To that list, I'd add:

5. Don't have obvious negative connotations (eg, sounding like a sexual perversion or a cough medicine)
Aren't most of the people logging into Mailchimp online marketers? Maybe "technical" is the wrong word, but their customers are all in the tech business somehow or another. I think that qualifies.
Quantum Computing since Democritus
Don't people go to jail for things like that?
Rihanna sex video event scam spreads on Facebook
> * Their wild pile of oddly-named functions are being deprecated and moved into well-designed classes.

> * Better templating options are being promoted.

Highly debatable. Ever made an admin page? There's a laughable number of callbacks required just for a single input.
Fair enough. That's sort of what I meant by "be willing to compromise". From my perspective it's so rare to find people who are truly "good at" something they don't enjoy that I'm not really sure I find the distinction meaningful.
I believe it depending on the images used in the article. Everything I know about GoPro leads me to believe that they are just as controlling about their marketing as Red Bull is.
I'm pretty old myself, started coding with Commodore Pet, 16Kb of memory, C-casette for mass memory. Cost something like $1000 at a time.

You can still do somewhat impressive things yourself because the tools have gotten so much better. One thing I've been stringing along the years is a sokobon puzzle game called Robo-E. I've now implemented it in Java ME (originally for Nokia J2ME phones with 64Kb of memory), then in Javascript + C++ for symbian and Meego, now in Objective-C + C++ for iOS. The iOS version is 17Mb, compared to 48Kb of the original J2ME version, so it is over 300 times bigger just because tools, and hardware has gotten so much more capable.

Modelling tools, programming tools, everything is just so much more capable of nowadays.

Sorry for rambling, I guess I'm getting old :)
"How does it feel to be fired?"

Wow. I hope you said something along the lines of "Well, since it means I no longer have to work with assholes like you, it feels pretty fucking good."
Certainly iTunes U drove a lot of interest in iOS dev.
Isn't that the biggest sign at the amount of influence Apple has had? Technology is important, but without practical applications, it's useless. I could have a revolutionary nuclear reactor inside my laptop capable of powering a small country, but if I can't do anything with it, there's no point to all that tech. Apple has heavily influenced how technology is used, which in turn, has influenced how the core technology itself evolves.
The theme replaced jQuery bundled with WordPress with some external version (eg. Google hosted or otherwise) and did it so on both the admin and front end. That's usually the cause of those sort of issues. 3.4 -> 3.5 brought up a lot of JS compatibility.

Look in the theme's directory for `wp_deregister_script` and see if anything was deregistered and re-registered (`wp_register_script`).

> Wordpress hasn't adequately documented which APIs are stable and not

If it's it in a major release, it's stable. When you buy any piece of software you're relying on its author knowing "the right thing to do (tm)". The author of the commercial theme thought it was okay to replace some bit of core javascript and din't bother to check on it. Or they didn't bother to be specific about it -- only do custom JS stuff on their theme's options page or on the front end. It's easy to do that, but you have to know how to do it (it's not documented in the Codex).
Yes, Gears of War is "central to our lives and to society's development."

The vast majority of the content protected by DRM is morally indistinguishable from acts at a strip club--pure, base, entertainment. And I don't see many people calling for those to be free, even though it costs a strip club owner nothing to let extra people look in through the window (i.e. zero marginal cost of reproduction).
All right. Thanks for this. Best of luck with your talk. I was nervous the last time I gave one and my audience was much smaller than yours will be. ;)
I've not seen the video, but I am always eager to hear about research that opens new perspectives to Maths, even when it's wrong. It may serve as an inspiration or is a waste of time, but that's the cost of advancements in science.

If you know links to papers or theories of other people that are worth looking into, let me know. I can't tell if the theories of Mr. Powell have any merit or foundation. But I'll find out myself after seeing the longish video.

Benoît B. Mandelbrot, Ken Ono and Srinivasa Ramanujan's theories put new perspectives into our understanding of Maths that goes way beyond what most people understand. Even those advanced in Maths have difficulties grasping it.

This is my opinion, but I think the research of these and other important people reveals a Fractal nature in Maths and Physics. What's missing is the link to Chemisry and Biology.
There are relations to fractals and all nature sciences we don't know about.

Yes, I've actually read the books and papers from these people. Yes there were a lot of parts I had trouble understanding, but ideas are easy to grasp, their Mathematical proof is not.
It doesn't, but fortunately it only burns as much electricity as makes sense given the size of the bitcoin infrastructure which depends on how the market prices the bitcoin infrastructure. Bitcoin only needs to replace a small amount of inefficiency (in the grand scheme of the global financial market) to be worth it.

If you avoid drinking the kool-aid you don't regard bitcoin as a replacement for current methods of exchange. It only really serves one of the three functions of money very well.
JRuby is growing stronger and so is Rubinius. As those implementations grow and mature, they'll get faster because they offer solutions in terms of runtime that piggyback on technologies that are getting better and faster at optimizing the bytecode produced (JVM, LLVM in that case).

I do think Ruby will get faster eventually. Maybe not to the point that Ruby suddenly becomes "fast" of course, but by a margin that can make a difference. This is only my opinion (backed by some benchmarks in -for now- particular circumstances) of course, but I'm hopeful that the situation will improve.
Call for Updates to Copyright Law
Online retailers can only use "authorised images" to advertise GoPro products? That is more than a little sketchy. They cannot use their own original photographs that they have taken and own the copyright to?

Plus why does someone have to be an authorised retailer to sell a product? Once GoPro sells it to a wholesaler it literally isn't their stuff any more (first sale doctrine), now there are certain laws protecting GoPro from things like counterfeiting or trademark violations (basically still just counterfeiting) but that doesn't apply here (since they're selling the original product).

Does this also mean that if someone buys a GoPro and decides to sell it on eBay second hand GoPro are going to try and have it taken down? Haven't the courts found that that is unlawful (there was a big Oracle case about it I believe[1])?

In general GoPro just took a huge nosedive in terms of my opinion of them. Their statement actually lowers my opinion more than the original DMCA notice did.

[1]http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120703/11345519566/eu-cou...
github: jrsmith
I love how every single journalist have lost it.

remember when i used to work for a huge newspaper, the Ombudsmen opening op-ed column talked about the journalists never leaving the newsroom anymore, just sitting there regurgitating news from the TV or the internet. and maybe making a couple phone calls.
All he did is "discover" a generator of the group of units of the integers modulo 9, namely, 2. Mod 9, the powers of 2 are 2, 4, 8, 7, 5, 1. The remaining three numbers modulo 9 he joins in a triangle.

This is all.
Ember: Baby Steps
I doubt users really care about what type of login they use. Instead, users are starting to associate social logins with spammy bullshit, federated identity marketed shitfest of Web 3.0, built on the SAML/HTML5-based Intelectual Property and right forfeiture platform.
If ethically raised meat did not have a strict shelf life, could cross many borders, and fundamentally different regulatory areas, could be displayed as a status symbol to reinforce the perceived value of all meat, I would say the same thing about it too.
To ease out some of the pains James writes about, I created a bare Wordpress repo that is designed to separate content, media and wordpress' own files so it works better with git, git submodules and deployment with ie. capistrano.

https://github.com/ErikFontanel/Wordpress-Corpse

please fork and adjust it to your own likings!
I don't think any kind of careerist conspiracy is required to arrive at a culture of over-classification.

The habits of anyone working in any kind of role involving information security are so utterly obvious that they barely require discussion.

You make sure your office environment is secured, don't leave papers on your desk. Don't duplicate information more than necessary. Full disk encrypt everything. Never email documents without encryption. Don't use USB sticks without encryption. Know who you're talking to on the phone. Don't ever talk about incidents, jobs or the specifics of what you do.

Now think about people who reflexively do all this stuff and consider: a) how strong the urge to classify by default is and b) how much more work it takes to be 100% sure a document is safe for release.
It makes me sad that HN reinforces the fact that women have a hard time participating in s/tech conferences/tech forums/g

PyCon was 20% female this year which was a remarkable milestone. Along with this milestone came an amplification of why it was so hard for PyCon to reach that milestone.

This was not an isolated issue; Titus' post provides a good summary of the general harassment women faced at PyCon http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/pycon-2013-and-codes-of-conduct....

And, yeah, blame your employer for making a poor judgement call on this. If I were you I wouldn't want to work for a place that fires people over Internet drama anyway.
A facebook "only" login is the key here. Given a choice many people rather create a new login or not use facebook.
The client is New York based. BTW do you mean $250/hr for fixed projects?
haha hey I wrote this reply on their forum. I had no idea it topped out HN. sucks that they froze it. wanna give this comment upvotes so my karma goes above 0?

my intention was never to cause a shit storm. I just banged out a thread on their forum and fell asleep. I just wanted an ember quick start tutorial. and I eventually got linked to one. i'm still going to try out ember later with it.

it's poopy that the thread got froze with so many people having the same problem. i had no idea it was such a major pain point for the library. my only advice would be that sarcastic tones are usually the most helpful, if they're not insulting.
Most people using WordPress are not developers. So naming conventions that might make sense to you don't apply to the average user.

It's called "wp-content" because that's where all personal, custom stuff goes--all your photos, plugins, etc. (Not including your MySQL data.) When you upgrade WordPress (which wasn't always automatic) your "content" is left untouched--because you want your own stuff apart from the rest of the application. The other directories, more or less, are owned by the core developers and Automattic.

Since 2004 when I started blogging, I've watched WordPress add so many bells and whistles. It's the opposite of what made it appealing in the first place, an elegant "poem" of an application. Now with so many developers working on it, it tries to be all things to all people.

What's interesting to me, to see websites outgrow WordPress. Sometimes your content expands such that WordPress can't deal with it. WordPress is a one-size-fits-all solution and that's ultimately limiting. At that point you can contact someone like me to create a custom application from scratch that just does what you want--not 1000 extra things you don't want, yet preserving your URLs for SEO, etc.
The entitlement culture in the tech industry is mind boggling. One day we may look back and wonder how we ever had it so good. Perhaps we'll even envy the person paid $1 per day to suck the gold off our old circuit boards.
wow, that's rad! I should watch that video definately then at some later point :D haha
The Most Important Thing My Dad Ever Told Me By Sallie Krawcheck
github: ayosec
Surprisingly companies are finally realizing this. Like companies really thought people would not care to give away all their 'social' unneeded information for some random x or y service.
I have to admit I chuckled when I saw that one of the authors is @vandelay :)

Seinfeld reference or just the name of the author?

This is an invaluable resource for people interested in client-side apps, thank you very much for packaging all this knowledge in a convenient and easy-to-browse gift bag guys.
http://02varvara.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/01-how-about-no...
I expect more and more to be locked down. Not so much because of desire by companies to lock their product (although that is a motivator), but media sensationalism and politicians need to look like leaders while expending no effort. I look at the case of the startup uploading all the addresses found in the contacts of an iPhone and the reaction to that. I did not see one article asking if someone's Outlook for Windows contacts had ever been uploaded. It was a stupid move for the startup, but given the history of PCs, it seems like something post-PC product managers would overlook. People seem to want to share everything, but have control over privacy. Adding to that, I am sure a push to make absolutely sure security measures (remote wipe, find my phone) cannot be disabled by a thief. All this gets us secure, locked devices, because it is easier than having your C-level executive be lectured to by some member of Congress's committee.

So, I would expect to see less and less of people in the industry who got into like me with and Atari 400. There are certainly no modern day version of the C64, Sinclair Z80, or TI-99/4a (no, Raspberry Pi isn't even close).

iOS provides great software to start every career but the one that makes it sing.
Persona's about page says that you can use multiple email addresses with a single account.

"Within Persona, your identity is your email address. You can use as many email addresses as you want, but you still only need one password.". - https://login.persona.org/about
Central Banking Doubts Are Fueling Bitcoins Rise
Nah I just googled for an online base64 decoder, then for a hex decoder.
Looks like it doesn't detect that page because it got submitted without the trailing slash, and the page forcefully redirects to the slashed URL. However, that's easy to correct for, and I've updated the extension to check for both versions of such a URL. Thanks for trying it out and finding this bug! If you're still using the extension, it should auto-update soon.

Re: the little side tab could tell me implicitly that someone else submitted a story I stumble upon

That's exactly what the extension should do; if any webpage you are looking at has ever been submitted to HN, the orange tab will pop out.
An API for retrieving info about higher education institutions
My Simple View of Testing for Software Developers
"sometimes discouraging culture of dickitude is acceptable and encouraged"

Being honest, I believe that you're being a lot more severe than the person to whom you're responding. He made no personal accusations, he didn't talk about people's nature, whose job what is, the demeanor of other communities, et cetera.

It was not, in short, a complaining post.

What he did was document the steps he went through, why he thought the way the library was presented wasn't accurate, and said "may I please have XYZ." He didn't talk about ego or pretense, he didn't talk about his dating situation, he didn't talk about his food schedule.

He said "could I get a quick start guide please?"

Look how you've responded.

With respect, sir, he isn't the problem here.
" Google products they never paid for"

I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment (bitching about free services feels like entitlement), but Google presents an interesting challenge here because the free services die without even trying or offering a paid version. I wonder what would happen if, instead of just axing services, google started charging.
That site is very good at Q&A, but UX wise it's terrible. It's as if they've only ever tested it with their own devs, and never done any real hallway or external usability testing.

I've tried to participate in their "meta" site, but the pedantic and condescending tone there is even worse than it is on the main sites.
The guys on a few cycling forums aren't buying it either. This will hurt GoPro if they don't deal with it swiftly and in a positive way.
The Techonomy Spring 2013 Report
If Angular doesn't float your boat, that's fine. For those wondering if this is true, it's not. Views in Angular can interrogate their controller for model data, and they can fire events into the controller. The controller doesn't know about the view (or even if it is hooked up to a DOM instead of a test runner). You can reuse a view with a different controller (provided, of course, the controller supports the same operations). I don't believe that this level of coupling is harmful. In fact I think it separates these concerns nicely.

The view is written in HTML, you declare the bindings with moustache-style templates or with attributes. Some people get really hung up on this, but the declarative UI is not Turing complete, so it's not really like embedding PHP at all.

By the way, I like Backbone too, and I use Underscore everywhere. Congratulations to all involved on reaching an important milestone and creating tons of value for everybody.
The essayist is simply pointing out that the whole "hackers and painters" nonsense is just that, nonsense. There's absolutely nothing "paintery" about pg's programming, or anyone else's.
You didn't answer either of my questions. I'm not shooting anyone, I'm just trying to figure out where you're coming from.
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I find it hard to believe that there are too many guys above 65 and coding that aren't Fellows or academics.

Not that I believe that they are in anyway incapable, I'm just thinking once you get to 65 or thereabouts, you're probably looking to retire.
Since you clearly know a lot on this subject, what are your thoughts on this related Darpa funded project: http://www.healthline.com/health-news/darpa-wound-stasis-foa...
No, I didn't miss it. It just is a meaningless statement and does nothing to further the conversation.
For the same reason that three hundred million people are not on the street protesting each and every day as our governments runs us into the ground through bullshit wars, inaction on important matters (patents, guns, waste, corruption, etc.).

Few people are willing to step out of crowd behavior and stick their heads out.

On the subject of wasting personal money, well, for me it's a matter of moral or ethical nature. A billionaire has a responsibility to do good. That's my own moral standing. And I say this as a Libertarian. Picking up junk from the ocean floor is bullshit. It's no different than filling a garage full of every exotic car in production. Senseless.
I'm really glad Rob stuck with it and is starting to grok Ember. I promise it's worth it!
Well he would be sentenced to thousands of years in jail not made to serve them all against nature and death. When someone is given several consecutive life sentences no one goes looking for them when they are reborn!
In the book, all time is measured in seconds since the epoch, because days and years have no meaning for an interstellar civilization. But the programmer-archaeologists believe the Unix epoch is when humans first landed on Earth's moon. :)
I'm still looking for the article where the NSA card 20 pizzas.
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Google is one of the top tech companies, so it's expected that it will receive attention and criticism. Whether or not the services are paid for seems irrelevant when Google's business model depends on most of their services being used for free.
I hate to ruin the conspiracy party but I do not work for the government.
They already released a statement saying it was on purpose. They don't seem to think it was wrong.
Ask HN: How do you deal with doubts and worries?
Hello!

Quick question really, would be interested to hear the answers. Currently doubting my startup for a variety of reasons including competitors already in the market and worries about monetising.

My venture is HouseQuest (www.housequest.co.uk) which aim to make finding a student property easy. Scratches an itch of mine.
If we're already at the "Oh shit" stage, then we might be happy sacrificing test coverage to go back to known-good code, in which case we would run our fabric `deploy` task and have our rollback completed in ~30 seconds. The idea behind this process is that we never have "oh shit" moments like that :)

(Please see my other response to a similar question, as well)
I have trouble combining these two sentences:

> I do not resent him having money or having fun with it.

and

> Pulling up junk from the ocean bottom? Nah, that's bullshit.

What if he enjoys pulling junk up from the bottom of the ocean?Is it still bullshit if he's just doing it for fun?

And, really, he's doing the future people a favour in reducing the number of future 'Antithykera mechanisms' to baffle future archeologists.
Even worse is that many times you can't delete your account, or if you can, it's just a soft-delete -- and now that site has your email address (at a minimum), and sometimes may have much more information about you.

Call me paranoid, but I think "deleting" your account has the potential to actually do more harm than good, since in doing so you are voiding any agreements or terms that you had previously agreed to, including those that promise not to sell or otherwise abuse your info.
I dont think it was. I actually was working on it as it started acting up. Wrote them an email, they said "some issues with UI," and a few minutes later it was down.
"HTML 1.0" was the particular standard I had in mind. I guess I'm too used to coding multiplatform Javascript, but "end[ing] up having to support 20 edge cases to use this 'universal', 'standardized' thing" sounds like success in my books--in that you now have a (painfully) interoperating ecosystem, where before you had none. And it all gradually gets smoothed out as the spec evolves over the years, until you can't really tell the difference from a BDUF spec.
github: doda
I think this is mostly to do with cookies not working cross domains (for obvious reasons).
The settings API [0] is really bad. That said, you can still use parts of it without the `add_settings_field` and `add_settings_section` bits.

Or you can build reasonably powerful abstractions over top of it that let you get a lot of stuff done quickly.

The power of the settings API is users can go in and remove fields. This plugin I installed has a field I don't want to show to my client? Let's just remove it. And we can do that without editing the plugins files directly and keep it safe for upgrading.

0. http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_API
The news still goes crazy over it. When Google started charging for heavy use of the Maps API, people claimed Google was performing Microsoft-esque anti-competitive tactics.