skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn’t a particularly nuanced or balanced presentation of the outcomes of such a policy.

Any agricultural product with a long lag between planting and harvest ends up getting sucked into cycles of boom and bust, which are terribly destructive for all involved. The cycle goes like this:

Insufficient supply one year results in very high prices
Everyone and his grandmother decides to plant raisins
5 years pass
There’s a giant glut, and prices drop through the floor
All the raisin farmers decide to ditch such a shitty product
Repeat

This cycle absolutely wrecks agricultural economies which are dependent on one or a handful of key exports.
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I don't think you'll find many companies with the exposure (in terms of access to vulnerable Postgres installs) of Heroku, regardless of how seriously they take security. And I suspect most companies that use Postgres don't interact much with the authors/maintainers.

I don't think you're being very fair here, honestly. I doubt anyone with any kind of Postgres responsibility is intentionally leaving people exposed, or considers some users more privileged than others.
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They detect the images with clouds, then average the rest.
Its been going on for seven decades, must be a very elaborate and highly organized April Fools joke.

http://www.raisins.org
People will find plenty of ways to kill each other before the Earth's resources are exhausted. We have a billion year energy supply and raw materials are never lost, only converted from one form to more annoying forms.
What's so special? It just redirects to Bitbucket.
Interesting post. It'd also be interesting to see how Titan compares to Twitter's FlockDB.
this is quite cool, and it's good to see that github parks its own typos - I've seen far too many "What you need when you need it" landing pages from getting a letter wrong while typing a domain.
Quit being speciesist by making assumptions on the species in question.
I'm pretty sure this is a joke. But, I used to really do this.

I used to run Reliable Response who made Notification. It was basically an enterprise PagerDuty. Enterprise when SaaS was taking off...thus why I used to run Reliable Response. But, seriously, it supports an RSS feed of your recent alerts.
Jokingly told my boss "I quit" on April Fools, and I think I just got fired
Hey Rocky,

We, aka nGen Works, launched a service this year called QCat which manages all browser based testing. Clients can even sign up for a monthly service to proactively test as new browsers come out.

I'm sure there are other services, but ours is http://qcat.ngenworks.com.

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Amazon turns Cloud Drive into a Dropbox rival with file syncing
The more distant a man is from his quarry, the less compunction he feels. One bad consequence of this technology is that by permitting accuracy from a much longer range, it thereby further lowers barriers to homicidally bad behavior.
I think it's pretty easy to get an apartment. Show up at the open house, don't dress like a slob (even if you always dress like a slob, just don't), and carry enough cash to pay off the deposit and the first month. Since it's an internship, just bring enough cash to pay for the entire lease. If you don't have cash you'll need bank statements (local banks, so open your accounts several months in advance), paychecks (pain in the ass, right? you might have to couch-surf for the first few weeks), letters of employment, and a reference. But even with all that you'll have trouble convincing anyone to rent to you. Cash is better.
As a fellow Canadian Student it would be great if you could write a section on how to obtain a Visa to work for the summer in the Bay Area. Last summer I was offered an internship at a Y Combinator startup in the Palo Alto but had to turn it down due to Visa reasons.
Too many nested critiques of refutations of theories for a novice to make sense of that article.
Is there a better substitute for Applied you would recommend?
I like the comparison to sports. And, CSS/HTML and then Javascript etc, learning the fundamentals of those - is what EVERY Developer should have (or currently do). So, I'm with you on that one.
The problem lies with believing that you're entitled to a successful, non-threatened business model. The problem lies with believing that the law should be changed primarily to protect your business model.

Sorry, but just because something is "your" content doesn't mean you should be guaranteed to make money off of it, or control every aspect of it.

For example, if I set up a stand on a street corner that creates an amazing aromas, it would not suddenly become my right to charge passersby for smelling these aromas, even though they are "mine". Rather than trying to get the law changed to guarantee I make money, I should instead modify my business model to one that doesn't suck.
Go to bing.com and type Google then hit enter...
Looks like a little april fools joke from Microsoft :)
I find it very sad that in the 21st century Americans... still consume raisins. Gross.
Startup projects at bigger companies could be just as risky as a startup company. Where do you draw the line on requiring such a warning? It doesn't sound realistic to me.
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Both you and the dissenting judge seem to take issue with the complexity of the technical approach. That does not seem like a legal argument. I understand that if someone goes to great lengths to do something illegal, say hide their transactions and funds with multiple offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes, it can be a legal argument (it's proof of knowing and evading). But in this case, the goal is something legal: a consumer setting up a private antenna, connecting it to a private DVR and watching it over the internet. Aereo figured there would be a market demand, so they figured out a way to do it economically for a lot of people at the same time.

[In fact, I wonder if Aereo is patenting their antenna array and general setup. It's clearly a highly complex innovation.]

Actually, there is an exception to tresspassing: the complex dance involves getting certified as a pilot and using an airplane--and staying a certain level above ground. Here's another exception: some jurisdictions allow native populations access to land regardless of private ownership (though ancestry is less generalizable). Medical marijuana might be more similar: it's generally illegal, except for certain illness, so all of a sudden, a lot of people are getting diagnosed (with certain doctors and dispensaries gaining). My point is, all these models of interaction (real property, media copyright, and consumer rights) have loopholes of various degrees, or rather overlaps in what is allowed and what is gained (access vs. property rights, entertainment vs. commercials).

Essentially, the market is still maturing. The model of over-the-air TV with commercials is not the end-all-be-all of consumer entertainment. Other models are being developed at its expense, reshaping the legal and economical landscape as they go, and of course the established players user their clout to hang on as long as possible.

Actually, HBO is evolving. It was already cable-only in response to the shifting of these winds decades ago. Now it is releasing series (Game of Thrones) on its own terms. You see people who say "take my money, just let me download it." But having avoided the gray areas such as over-the-air broadcasting, it is in a position of power. It knows people want the series, that desire creates value, and it is in a position to reap that value. Sure there is torrenting, but from a copyright position, violaters are defintely in the wrong.

As a result, I wonder if this ruling will eventually lead to the end of over-the-air TV transmission. And in the short term, it wouldn't surprise me if Aereo's facility suddenly had very poor reception due to some antenna misalignments at their local transmitter.
$7k not-including-housing is only normal if you're a returning intern. Otherwise, it's for the top tier. Last summer, Google was $6667/month for undergrad SWE interns not including housing stipend. The stipend should be a one-time $3500 (last summer, many interns could choose corporate housing instead of the $3500 stipend).
Ask HN: Am I underpaid?
I'm currently living in SF and working at a fairly prolific late stage startup. I've got a Bachelor's of CS and am a Front End Engineer with roughly 5 years of engineering experience. The first half of those years was spent working full stack, and the last half working very closely with Backbone, jQuery, Require, and other modern JS frameworks. I've launched numerous very successful products, and consistently get nothing but positive remarks in annual reviews.

I make roughly 115k a year, which at first seemed like a ton after moving here from a relatively low COL area. Lately though, the combination of looking at my account balances after paying rent + seeing people talk about salaries on HN make me think that I am on the very low end of the pay scale. Combine that with the paltry amount of equity I have and the fact that my company gives absolutely zero bonuses, and it all leaves me thinking that there might be greener pastures in other companies in the Valley.

So what's your opinion HN: Are the people paid above the median the vocal minority, or should I reevaluate my situation for more fair compensation?
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"Some rich dude" probably is aware of many far more deserving recipients of his charity than a group of fresh-off-the-bus entrepreneurs who can't figure out how to live in Silicon Valley.

Now, if, say, "some rich dude" was to ask for equity in lieu of rent, then that could be potentially quite savvy (and lucrative). The downside from that approach is that you have to deal with all the usual landlord/tenant headaches, and added on to that, what to do if a longtime tenant decides to pick up a day job and stay at that day job.

One would also wonder if the cream of the crop in terms of entrepreneurs would even part with 0.1% of their equity in order to receive subsidized housing versus finding another way to make it happen. Would Zuck have taken this offer in 2004?

The way for this to happen (maybe) successfully would be for some non-local government (some city or state in middle America, or abroad) to purchase the property to house startup entrepreneurs with the understanding that 6-18 months in they relocate their operations back to the motherland. This should be enough time to get (or not get) initial funding, network, and traction opportunities that the valley offers and their town does not.
"He who controls the raisins controls Fresno"

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I differ from you in that I think it's fair to judge a book about cryptography for failing to establish the engineering principles required to use its concepts correctly; it would be like an algorithms book that recommended Bubble Sort, except worse because of the consequences of mistakes.

So, for instance, you can leave _Applied Cryptography_ thinking that it's reasonable to use RSA to encrypt sporadic small semantically-meaningful messages, or to deploy a block cipher in ECB mode, or to base a protocol on Diffie Hellman without a trust anchor to break ties for MITM, or to fail to authenticate your ciphertext... and that's just the stuff you notice when you constrain your attention to the mainstream topics in the book, which obviously spends a whole lot of time touring marginal algorithms and protocols without providing clear signals about their unsuitability for deployment.

Another way to look at it is that _Practical_ is a book that is fighting against developers building their own ad-hoc cryptosystems out of things like AES, and _Applied_ is a book that is fighting against developers building their own block ciphers. And if "not replacing AES" is the battle you're fighting, you're already totally screwed, I guess.

When I think about Schneier's contributions to the field, _Applied_ and _Practical_ don't count; they're books, not papers. I'm suggesting instead that you look at his cite record. There's significant stuff there! But it's virtually always as part of teams of otherwise well-established cryptography researchers, and it's clearly not of the same kind as say Joan Daemen or Daniel Bleichenbacher or Don Coppersmith or Philip Rogaway. And I don't mean that in a "Schneier's no Rogaway" sense!

† (or, at the time, IDEA and DES-EDE)
I think there's scope for including the scoring as part of the packaging, no "waste paper". My first inclination is a two part sleeve - but I'm assuming then it's a two player game, more players requires some ingenuity - the sleeves start at zero score and cover the lower numbers, moving towards the highest possible score at the centre as the sleeves meet and cover the whole container.

Perhaps a graduated stick, like a long cocktail stick/drink stirrer, for each player, you pull the stick across a line (eg from under the box) to indicate the score. Another way would be to have a stack of counters, like tiddlywinks, you could upsell different counter sets then (half marbles, cut stones, metal, different designs). Counters might work for tie-ins - planets of the Starfleet federation, planets named for houses of GoT or such. Or yes d10's as a sibling comment mentions.

Doesn't mean you couldn't have an app too, but then why not simulate the dice, etc., if you're going to need an app to play the game?
Github is registered through GoDaddy
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I met OAuth at the bar today...
Open letter to CitiBank on their horrible surveys
And then the mugger shows up the next day and gives you your money back.
Create a minitest spec/test dir and starter code on a new project.
_Practical Cryptography_, now _Cryptography Engineering_.
You sure that it's actually owned by GitHub?

github.com shows that it's registered through GoDaddy. hitgub.com is registered via namecheap, and has its contacts hidden.
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I did too. I looked for an issue I could handle[1], wrote a patch, improved it, added tests and got over the fact that the Django guy at Europython 2012 was too busy to answer my questions during the dedicated sprint.

I even followed the bug tracker triage docs and tried to find a reviewer only to get scolded for it[2]. Then I had to wait 20 days to get a response on the patch. It was a "wontfix" because documented bugs are actually features.

But now that there's a code of conduct all this has changed and I feel the urge to contribute again to Django /s

[1] https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18494

[2] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-developers/K95mZose...
Most pro-TDD articles I read take the perspective that people who don't agree with it just haven't tried it, or don't understand it enough yet, or things along those lines.

I'm curious to hear back from anyone who has bought into TDD full-bore and recognized all the benefits, but has instead decided to go back to test-last development (write the features, and then write tests purely for code coverage). If so, why?
I agree that he's an unusually good writer, particularly of technical content. In that sense it is not really fair to compare him to Raymond.
Is there an echo in here? 3 year old post.
I am by no means an expert, but can try to explain it. Circular orbits are a simplification used when there is no need for high accuracy, the math is much more simpler. The problem is that celestial bodies in the real world do not follow circular orbits, they move in orbits with an elliptical shape (not always!), following Kepler's Laws. If you want to predict the position of a planet into the future, this is the model you have to use. You should check the following links, if you are interested in the topic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keplers_laws_of_planetary_motio...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtons_law_of_universal_gravit...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_mechanics
It redirects to Github, here.
huh? redirects to github for me.

Though the initials hg make me hope it went to a mercurial host.
The psychology behind the LOLcat
Because the Canadian government actually said they lifted the idea from the Americans who's similar program has been stalled in congress for years due to infighting about immigration.
>the US DoA

USDA?
I cannot.scroll or.zoom the site on my android :(
"Absolutely no monopolies or cartels, unless, you know, we think its fun or directly benefit from it." - Politicians worldwide

It's interesting that people readily recognize the absurdity of this truth when it comes from some places, but insist that it's not only acceptable, but actually required, when it comes from other places. Note that this has become widespread in many parts of modern capitalist societies, and, by definition, ubiquitous in every single experiment we've had with communism and socialism.
Accountants have been utilising loopholes for decades. I would be surprised if the dissenting judge himself hasn't done so to reduce his tax bill.
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Inflation works because it keeps those too poor to have real assets on the gerbil wheel.

Quite to the contrary, it gets the proletarians out of debt!
For US accounts you need to be verified just to get any money into the system - at least through wire transfer or Dwolla ( the most popular methods)
Is it a television streaming service or a format shifting service? If you take the line that it is merely format shifting, then what stake does a copyright holder have in that argument?
So who's an alternative service provider now that WifiSLAM is effectively offline? An interesting thing about WifiSLAM is that they seemed to offer access to location of devices from the access point's perspective. This allowed for an external service to do Interesting Things without requiring an app to be running on any particular device. Any one know of a service that also does that?
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What's next in Social? Content Curation!
LTC has seen 200% growth over the last week, people are adopting it hoping it will be an equal competitor.

Other people are adopting it just in-case they're right.
Surely that would be encouraging the market ?!
You guys were just trolled.
Interesting about Colchinine[1]. Apparently the FDA does 3-year exclusive agreements with companies in exchange for conducting new clinical trials.

The idiotic thing here is that by raising the prices, it cost Medicare $49M more a year for apparently a ~$100M investment into research.

I don't know why the government wouldn't fund it directly in this case. Or in general, why they don't add a tax onto the drug in question and do the research themselves. It seems like an odd, public-damaging way to go about things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchicine#Marketing_exclusivit...
The UX of community in contested space
Responsible versus full disclosure is a debate rooted in problems far older than HN. At least we get to see security issues in the light these days!
This is why we have agricultural derivatives, e.g. forwards and options: to transfer food price volatility from lightly capitalised farmers to investors better able to absorb the risk. In fact, farming is the original raison d'être (raisin d'être? :D) for these derivatives.

"the notion that the government’s raisin-administrators ward off chaotic gyrations in prices far-fetched: walnut and citrus farmers, after all, have abandoned similar systems in recent years without any ill effects"

This issue has been studied extensively - "agricultural central banks" are a bad way to deal with a perishable commodity because they shift demand volatility onto the government's balance sheet and so dull the incentive for supply to adjust, or find ways to become more versatile.