skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to provoke a flame war or to mean any offense by any chance. I'll go directly to the repo and play with the code if it's not written in Java. The code is quite clean and well readable but couldn't escape from Java noise.
That answers that!
While I'm not completely unsympathetic, that's what you get for relying too heavily in a third party for your core business needs. Honestly, if google alerts was accounting for 35%-45% of your content as you say, you're doing it wrong. Time to start doing your own legwork.
Which is functionally the same thing. A court making a stupid judgement would result in the entirety of SoftLayer losing the protection.

How many times have we gone "how the hell did that decision happen?" with a patent or legal case? Seems like it happens daily.
A Look into the Mars Rover Curiosity’s Ability to Cope
I get an syntax error when runing the script ind python commandline

Traceback <most recent call last>:
File "<stdin>" line 1, in <module>
"nameerror 'extract' is not defined"

i wrote in the script that my driveimage file is pionner.arc and is on drive F
and mpg should be saved in drive d:\pio

why the error?
I'm not in a position to hire anyone, but I thought I would mention that on google chrome your galleries act kind of oddly.

If I click on logos I can see the Leaf looking one, click next and it takes me to a check mark, click next and previous and it goes no where, just stuck on the check mark.
Wow, that's a really mealymouthed response, isn't it?
I'm not an expert on the law of the sea, but it would seem that after NASA abandoned these engines in the ocean 50 years ago, they would belong now to whoever could salvage them.
> When it was founded, in 1984, TED (which stands for “Technology, Entertainment, and Design”) brought together a few hundred people in a single annual conference in California. Today, TED is not just an organizer of private conferences; it’s a global phenomenon with $45 million in revenues.

So, whenever a forum grows beyond a certain limit, junk starts to creep in.

Not a surprise at all. I've seen this happening over and over and over again - newsgroups, mailing lists, forums, social media, etc.

Once the fat middle of the bell curve sneaks in, quality takes a necessary dive.
Back in January I got a new laptop, installed Arch on it, got it all nicely set up. And I decided it was high time to start playing with LXC because container virtualization seems extremely promising to me. Created an Ubuntu container, seemed to work fine, and then used lxc-destroy, which took some time.

It destroyed my entire file system. I have no clue how the hell it happened--it floors me that something like that would be possible--and I suspect it's probably simply the result of a newbie like myself somehow misusing userspace tools. But it was enough to turn me off of it for the time being.
I haven't looked at it in some decades, but Knuth's original TeX book was surprisingly readable and informative.
Seems GoPro issued a statement (see bottom of http://fstoppers.com/gopro-issuing-dmca-notices-for-use-of-g... ), but it still is a poor and stupid way to go about things.
See above... http://codepen.io/beeglebug/pen/ntLbv
The standard six confirmations takes an hour. Accepting zero-confirmation transactions from trusted peers is a nonstandard optimization.
Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards
Ask HN: What should be my hourly compensation? what is yours?
I've been working as freelance web designer/developer in an Asian country. I primarily get projects through referrals. My current clients have very low budgets. Since, small businesses here are not comfortable with variable (hourly) pricing. I've been doing fixed rate projects only.

I consider myself decent at front end design, front end coding and ruby on rails. I have few finished rails applications I've developed, which I haven't hosted because I don't have a server with good rails support.

Enough about my background. Now I get approached by people from countries like US for freelancing, after checking my github or stackoverflow profile.

Now, since I haven't worked on hourly rate basis, and I'm working for incredibly low price for clients here(recently finished an ecommerce website design and front end coding for $300). I don't know what should be my hourly compensation in respect to the work I deliver.

So, I seek you guys/gals help. What should be my hourly rate for doing rails work? and for doing front end coding?

If you are comfortable, please share your hourly compensation and some insights regarding this subject matter.

Thanks
It should be noted that by also storing a hash of your password in keypad-compatible format (if you're right about this) is that it significantly reduces the search space for a potential brute force attack. It also seems they don't allow special characters, which is a further reduction. I'm not sure that a robo-caller is the most efficient way to steal a bank password, but it is certainly possible.

Of course, the cynic in me says that they are storing an encrypted, as opposed to hashed version of your password. But one can hope!
This reminds me of the Eddie Izzard bit about Europe vs. America and how Americans will make a big deal about something restored to the way it was "over 50 years ago". GASP "Surely, no one was alive back then!"

"OMG this guy is 65 and still codes?". C'mon. There are a lot of older programmers out there. At least the ones who weren't bullied out by management or peer pressure or killed off by the health effects of sitting at your desk for 40 years.
it's also great for screening out recruiters :)
If Microsoft had a history of breaking things with .NET framework security patches, then yes, absolutely. That's what people are saying happens with Rails, isn't it?
Yep, that's been our experience so far. Believe it or not, but there are north of 100,000 observables on the CSS Playground page alone, so we had to really optimize things. It's still sluggish in some areas, though.
MailChimp concluded that social login wasn't worth it. Would be interesting to know how much of their demographic consists of "technical people"

https://blog.mailchimp.com/social-login-buttons-arent-worth-...
The article mentions it takes 10 minutes to do a release so if you have revert to an earlier version you could be looking at significant (for a payments processor) downtime. I presume you have a strategy for rolling back directly on the servers?
Hi :). This could be also possible to implement as a plugin to IDEA, I suppose. Maybe some day I will try to make something like this.
So I like how he ends with that bit on patents, when I did my presentation at the USPTO Silicon Valley roundtable event a month ago, a couple of the presenters made the case that absolutely nothing needs to change with software patents because computers should be treated the same as any other kind of machine, and so software should be considered the same as every other type of patent. The fact of the matter is this is simply not true, computer software cannot be equated to physical items, and barely equate to business flow and methods. With all the complexities, as well as the fact that to try out a new version of software happens in seconds where making a prototype of some machine or object takes days, weeks or months. It seemed they either didn't fully understand the difference, or they understand and do not want the system to change since it works greatly in their favor.

Anyone who has an opinion on patents, especially software patents, should be keeping up with the roundtable events. And, I'm not saying that because I went either, stuff is being talked about at these events that will either be ignored or shape the patent system in one way or another. In either case, it's in our best interest to stay involved in the process.

Edit: Spelling
In this particular case, yes, because GoPro's lawyer is apparently a moron who doesn't know the difference between trademark and copyright.

If they'd claimed a copyright infringement, though, the ISP has to act.
I'm an infantry veteran with three combat tours under my belt. Been there, done that.

The problem with these sort of fast-clot systems (Quick clot or quiclot or however you spell it) is that they inevitably damage the surrounding tissue and make recovery and healing difficult if not impossible without permanent damage. There's a reason they didn't want us to have any of these systems when we got back to the real world (though I kept a couple for myself). If we used them on civilians, we would probably be sued into oblivion for causing severe damage to the bleeder even if we saved their lives using it.

Just like the other medics here will probably tell you, if this isn't on a battlefield saving lives under fire, I don't trust it.
I looked at Persona for a project a friend of mine is doing, and I pretty much rejected from the start. Persona seems flawed in that it assumes email as identity.

I'm a developer on a e-commerce site, when we started out we assumed what Persona assumes, that email is a unique and stable identity. We found out the first day of production mode that this assumption is flawed. People changes email address all the time, it's at least as unstable as their home address, most peoples phone number is more stable.

As software developers we assumed that pretty much no one would ever change their email address, or that at least they wouldn't discard their old one. Regular people however do that. They do not care about their email address.

Is this something that the Persona team that given any thought. If so, what did you come up with?
I don't understand your first point. How can you have an app function without a users table?

The main issue as I see it is just the baggage that comes with a private company login. For instance, Facebook login raises questions about what Facebook will do with the login information, and also what the site will try to do with your Facebook data and permissions. Those questions will increasingly become a concern for everyone, but beyond that some people have opted completely out of Facebook because they find it actively harmful and so they are excluded a priori.

Persona is simply a login mechanism with the users interest in mind. People may take or it leave it, but it will be on its own merits rather than being overshadowed by needlessly related general concerns with a third-party product.
ProcessWire isn't just the best PHP CMS out there right now; I'd argue it's the best thing to happen to the CMS landscape in the last few years.

There are more powerful CMSes out there, to be sure, but the crazy thing is just how completely unprecedented PW's power is for its ease of use. It's easy like WordPress, yet it's scalable to enterprise sites with deep content taxonomies.

And it's elegant. Ironic for something built in PHP, I know, but working with its simple building blocks of templates and fields and its jQuery-like content selectors comes with a feeling of "why didn't someone do this a long time ago?"
In Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep he describes the role of the programmer-archaeologist, whose job is to sift through mountains of abstraction layers and black-box code modules written in dead languages thousands of years prior, determine their function, and stitch them together to perform a desired function.

In the prequel, A Deepness in the Sky, one of these modules, buried beneath said layers, contains a booby-trap set by an ancient civilization that only the protagonist knows about. I believe the Unix epoch is mentioned briefly.
The problem isn't fixing that in one application. It's determining which features are affected, how many of your enterprise's hundreds of internal apps are affected, and then putting together a plan to fix all of them. Often, no one has touched these apps for years, and the people who were familiar with them are long, long gone.

Even if it turns out that none of a company's applications need to be updated, the cost of determining that is far from zero. In larger companies it can be difficult to successfully make the argument for that cost.
Please talk a bit more about Amber. Easy to work with back end REST services? Easy to deploy?
The value of TED over youtube.com, or an academic seminar at any university is their quality of talks and rigorous selection process - or "elitism" if you wish.

I can believe that the top 1% of TEDx talks are better than the average TED talk. Maybe 10% are worth looking at once you have seen most of TED talks, the best online courses, the best Google TechTalks, etc on your area of interest.

But why are the rest of the 90% even there?

Having a few great talks doesn't matter, if there is no way to find them out of the mass of inanity on TEDx or elsewhere online.
I use google alerts. I'd pay (a little bit) for it, if I could keep the quality up.

That is to say, I'm not at fault for using a freely offered (and long standing) free service and it is worth noting when the quality of such a service starts to suffer.

Lastly, if you're doing it right, free is not "free of value" to the provider. Google, the search and information company could easily be gleaning something important from what people are using alerts for... and for what they click through on, etc. etc. and, as such, just because it's "free", it doesn't mean I'm not mindful (or entitled to the benefits) of the value I am providing.
blockchain.info shows confirmations as they happens in realtimes as well...
MongoHQ is down (offline maintenance)
Actually, you missed the point of my post.

I never meant to imply that one person understood the whole technology system (that's truly absurd), rather that each individual component was designed and implemented intentionally and it's likely that each niche in the industry had at least one person who truly understood it.

Now, take that paradigm and compare it to natural science: No one anywhere ever had any understanding of the system, and now we look at the end result of a constantly changing system and try to ascertain everything from how it works today to how it all began.

I apologize, I could have been more clear in my original post, sorry!
Yeah dealing with dates behind the API is a whole other level of crazy-making. Flawed implementations of zoneinfo are another frustration (I've spent lots of time in .NET so I'm aware of what you refer to).
For those who are finding it difficult to get a hello world up and running, see: http://plnkr.co/edit/gist:5206526?p=preview
My favorite one-sentence version of this, said by a comedian (whose name I forget): If you're left in the woods with nothing, how long before you can send an email?
Mezzanine lead developer here.

We'd been tracking Django 1.5 changes during the release candidates and were mostly compatibile with it up until its release. When it was released, a few issues cropped up - those were resolved within a day or two, so there was a brief period where it was incompatible with 1.5, but that's no longer true.

So it was incompatible with 1.5 for less than 48 hours. Latest version works fine against 1.5, enjoy :-)
As a UX engineer & designer, I think this looks great. I could imagine many non-engineers or non-designers using it. However, the right side seems to be too unintuitive even for me.
I say that rather than focusing on women's rights or men's rights, we as a society need to put more of an emphasis on equality overall, and making a concerted effort to eliminate sexism from both directions at the same time. In doing so it would help with the issue of the historically oppressed group B from rising to a point in which group A is now oppressed, as either a byproduct of the increase in rights or as revenge for their oppression. While men are oppressed in ways that many people fail to notice, and are expected to act in certain ways and exhibit "manliness", a men's rights movement is not the answer. What is needed is an individual rights movement, to allow everyone equal opportunity to do what they want and be who they are, so long as it does not infringe on anyone else's rights. When the focus is on gaining rights for a single group then typically that group will end up either above the other group(s) or it will remain lower, resulting in continued discontentment. If men fight for equal rights, while not equal they may still receive additional rights, but these may come at the cost of women not having these rights, and so the cycle repeats.
What's next, are they going to go out and get the news, television programming, and all other media outlets to stop the sexism? Why are they trying to ruin all conferences? Why does the court of public opinion not target those outlets?

Oh, because they can't get any traction. That's why.
That seems like a slow process if you're "oh shit, rollback, rollback, rollback!"
> The macbook air is just a small laptop.

Let's simplify:

The laptop is just a small computer. It has a form factor which conveniently houses the components of a full-sized desktop plus a mobile power supply, the engineering of which is largely due to CAD.
Thanks Nick! We're bootstrapping pretty hard right now, but always open to options. I'd love to get in touch with you - can you send me an email?
So we have a scammy grey market retailer advertising GoPro cameras using GoPro's official marketing material (mostly images). Perhaps GoPro sees this as brand damage and unleashes the DMCA, but using the wrong URL. Then the Internet misinterprets the attack as attempted censorship.
The important part:

“The letter that was posted next to the review on DigitalRev was not sent in response to the review. Obviously, we welcome editorial reviews of our products. This letter was sent because DigitalRev is not an authorized reseller of GoPro products and they were using images and had incorrect branding and representation of our product in their online commerce store. As part of our program – we ask merchants who are selling our product to use authorized images. That is why DigitalRev was contacted. But – our letter did not clearly communicate this and that is something we will correct.”
With few exceptions the quality of talks, for which I was drawn to TED in the first place, has been in free fall for years.

5 or 6 years ago almost every TED talk was a gem for anyone with a single engineer, science or technology fiber in his/her body.

Becoming more famous is what did them in. Needing to push out more talks on shorter and shorter intervals. Shifting more and more from spreading ideas (i.e. technology), to telling stories and making people feel better or worse. And more importantly promoting whatever product/service they are connected to.

It has become an event where people think they need to be, regardless of interest in actual topics. Something which is reflected in the generic nonsense which is their comments section.

Also, if you are a self proclaimed "thought leader" you are a douche bag.
In Vietnam, those students who have decent English skills and score high on English standard tests study most of their English outside school. They often took extra courses regularly and study in groups. The quality of English education in primary and secondary schools in Vietnam is much much worse.
was this planned? I didn't get an email
Am I making a mistake waiting on Ember-Data? I thought it was still in flux. The reason I have spent so much time recently with 1.0rc1 is that I finally expect Ember.js to be stable. I have just been using AJAx to manually fetch data as required.
It depends on your data, and how you are using it... Worst case, it should perform similar to SQL or slightly worse. If you can reliably shard your data, and don't need result sets larger than 16MB (not sure if they raised this in 2.4), you can do pretty well. Again, it depends on your data, structure and use.

In some cases a traditional RDBMS is a better call. In others, for mongo, having an additional collection with your indexed subset may be the best approach. It really does depend. I don't consider it best for all cases, but do consider MongoDB a really good fit for a lot of web based cases.
This is an argument for valuing a diversified portfolio over one that is not diversified. However, there is no reason to value the same plain vanilla X number of shares in of themselves differently just because they are held by different parties (you or the VCs).
We're seeing the same thing. Almost everyone decides to sign up with Facebook with email being a single click away.
I find false accusations, which in this case even lead to the accused loosing their jobs a serious hardship.
Consider our societies view of men that are nice to children, most immediately think "pedophile", instead of nice guy.
Just because we have to fight for true freedom of women, doesn't mean we shouldn't fight for the same when it comes to men. We need more men in social jobs, and we need a mens right movement to foster this, just as we need more women in IT.
The real thing we need though is a unified movement that fights against discrimination of any kind without a label of a particular gender, race, religion or ideology.
I'm getting the feeling that Angular has now become the Haskell of client-side frameworks.

i.e. the one you'll see shamelessly plugged under every single discussion about any other client-side framework as if it is some work of genius, even though lots of users tend to agree that it's just yet another take on the subject that some like better and some don't, with some very lacking and outdated documentation and a much stronger and opinionated take on things that is simply not everyone's cup of tea.

With all due respect to the fantastic project that is Angular, I just wish people would stop flashing it everywhere like it's going to solve world hunger and programmer distress or something...
Mezzanine contains a fabric installation that can take a vanilla ubuntu install, and have a production server up and running with Postgres, memcached, et al, in a single command:

http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/deployment.html#fabric

I believe this is actually easier than deploying Wordpress to production.
This is TEDx. I do not expect to be intellectually impressed, because I know what that tiny "x" means. On the other hand:

a) I was intrigued from the beginning regarding TED's decision to allow this kind of events. I was kindof expecting it will blow in their face, sooner or later.

b) I did find Powell's talk thoroughly entertaining.

Now, what about the infamous Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight? It overflown with neuroscience misconceptions and outdated, non-scientific metaphysics. Seeing it on TED was a genuine and huge intellectual disappointment.
I prefer logging in with Facebook or Twitter rather than having to remember yet another login. You can always revoke access later.
Highly likely because MailChimp is a BUSINESS site, not some consumer site. Normal people love to just click a button and see their facebook image and name saying, "Welcome back, John Doe!" - without any pesky emails or other junk.
I'd be worried to know you had any doubts.