skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also an interesting note on vegans:

"One surprising finding, Dr. Hazen said, was how a long-term diet that includes meat affected the amount of TMAO-producing bacteria in the gut and thus magnified the risk. In the study, when longtime meat-eaters consumed an eight-ounce steak and a carnitine supplement, their bacteria and TMAO levels rose considerably. But when a vegan ate the same combination, he showed no increase in TMAO or bacterial change.

'Vegans basically lose their ability to digest carnitine,' said Dr. Hazen."
He's probably referring to the Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel. If I recall he spent quite a bit of time in jail in Canada for publishing his stuff, although I'm not sure his convictions stuck on appeal.

After Zundel was finally deported to Germany (he was never a Canadian citizen), the Germans locked him up pretty promptly.
"If this doesn’t seem like a big deal to you, just imagine pushing $1,000,000 into your life insurance company. And then they take that million and invest it in a hedge fund that is producing 20% returns per year." (Table of 10 years of gains.)

Do hedge funds really return 20%? For 10 years?
How to find your authentic style
1.1 / 3 yrs. I guess that's what I get for taking a fun job instead of a high paying one.
Pattern-matching regular expressions in Scheme using derivatives
I don't think you could crash the ISS into New York. I don't even think that's possible. It doesn't have the engines necessary to get back to the surface.
I need something like this for my phone. Nice work Geoffrey and Alex!
"Trade only happens if its mutually beneficial for BOTH parties"

That is not true. People often trade out of need, and a lot of time, desperation. It is not mutually beneficial. That notion is so wrong I am not sure how to begin refuting it.
I thought it said 8 and 10 for some reason. Maybe it was inappropriate for the 4 year old.
The argument here is that then it should be pretty easy to find a person it is impacting, and then it's no longer a facial challenge, but an as-applied one.
Eagerly awaiting the moment someone at CNN finds out about Metasploit. I'd like to think of it as a kind of "Dark Firefox".
GitHub Pages migrating to a new, more secure domain
Kind of. Democracies are often driven by entrenched interests. This is especially true in the US, with their non-compulsory voting. If your livelihood depends on producing meat, you have an incentive to learn who supports it, and bother to actually vote. If you just think the meat industry is kind of icky, you won't bother informing yourself, and may not even bother voting. It doesn't help that politicians will go out of their way to communicated to these entrenched interests, but not try to tell regular voters what they are actually up to.
NuoDB's First Experience: Google Compute Engine - 1.8 Million Transactions/sec
...wow
> However, quite simply, porn is not inherently evil. (If you refute that, you’re engulfed by the Victorian-era hyperbole of the sinful and tasteless expressions of sexuality.)

Anyone over 25 has witnessed the vulgarizing affect increasingly pervasive pornography has had on culture. I don't see what Victorians have to do with anything.
One of my favorite tweets is by Ed Felten:

"If n > 2, then a^n + b^n does not equal c^n. I have discovered a truly marvellous proof of this, which this tweet is too small to contain."[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/edfelten/statuses/1806515554
Yes and this is my point. If the exchange rate doubles while the volume remains the same (say 100k BTC per day), then the economy is effectively increasing. It means people are spending twice the USD despite merchants halving their BTC prices (they generally index their BTC prices depending on the exchange rate).
Goodbye cookieless IP-based metrics.
Server Side debugging in Chrome Console
> (And if you don't understand why, you're clearly an unpersuasive writer.)

I don't think you dialed this part up to 11 properly to follow the given form.
This article is a little bit one sided. So what if most side projects never succeed? You can always learn a lot by attempting to do a large scale project yourself. Most real-life projects are large scale legacy projects that you are simply thrown into. Most likely you don't even care about them nor you can make any sort of decisions.

By doing side projects you are being creative. You learn new stuff. You actually care about your project. You also have to do everything yourself, including planning. Where else would you get such experience?

And the net result is that you learn new stuff in your side projects, something your employer gets for free. Your passion will pay off, eventually. It is nearsighted to assume that just because you "waste" time on side projects you are hurting you employer.

You hurt them more by simply not caring enough about the technology nor the project.
The safety assumption isn't exactly a given. The statistics cited represent passenger miles, not events. The formula is basically (passengers * trip miles)/deaths

Comparing automobile-related fatalities is challenging.

The standard comparisons given do not distinguish between passenger deaths and automobile-related deaths. 15-20% of all auto-related deaths are pedestrians and bicyclists. It also doesn't differentiate between trip types. Is there a difference between 24 hours driving from NYC to Miami via I-95 and 24 hours of driving within NYC? The published statistics do not speak to that.

I would conjecture if you were able to compare the relative dangers of inter-city interstate/freeway driving to a similar flight (including getting to/from the airport), you'd find that the safety gap was far narrower.
As an owner what do you think of the car? Do you regret being an early adopter and would you recommend waiting?

I'm gambling that they're eventually going to release one within my price range in the next five years. This financing program would make getting into a Tesla doable but I am not a big fan of leasing.
Berkeley researchers authenticate your identity with just your brainwaves
Yes, Ad hominem. Good call.
"Shodan searchers have found control systems for a water park, a gas station, a hotel wine cooler and a crematorium. Cybersecurity researchers have even located command and control systems for nuclear power plants and a particle-accelerating cyclotron by using Shodan."

How can there be any conceivable reason to connect these systems to the internet? Do they WANT an attack right out of a technothriller novel or the latest James Bond film?
Clayton Christensen Talks Venture Capital, Crowd Funding...
This is a link that requires an e-mail address to proceed to the actual content. IOW it's either spam or its moral equivalent.
tl;dr:, he got poached.
There would be debris hitting the Earth. It's too big to completely burn I think.
If you're working with PHP professionally, you probably have enough privilege in the world to be able to spare the few afternoons it'll take you to learn a real programming language and stop having to suffer such amateur-hour bullshit day-in, day-out.

Seriously, spend a weekend learning Python or Ruby. Your life will improve vastly.

Using a shiny and expensive IDE to make hacking PHP suck less is like buying a huge box of band-aids as the solution to the problem of your carving knife continually cutting you open.
And it should be noted that most frequent flyers have, since 9/11, severely moderated their personalities WHEN ONBOARD THE FLIGHT. I had routinely seen passengers chastising flight attendants and even arguing with them prior to 9/11. After? Pilots and flight attendants have clearly formed a "pact" where the pilots are used (willingly and unwillingly) to "get square" with passengers. As a result passengers have become meek as sheep onboard. And I would anecdotally opine that the ground agents are getting more abuse than before, because of this and other capacity-related issues.

Classic fascism at work here. These thugs think they can get away with anything after 9/11.
mhm sorry as i don't know so much about this, but how is this different from google?

meaning that with a specific search in google i can find for example all kinds of cameras or systems one shouldn't find, e.g.:

-) http://preview.tinyurl.com/34959u

Maybe Shodan "focuses" on that, but they can't possible index more of those things than Google already has...

Can you find one single thing over Shodan you can't with a specific Google search? (maybe you find such things more easily with Shodan...)

EDIT: More information on Shodan:

-) Defcon Presentation [pdf]

https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-18/dc-18-presentations/...

-) Secanalysis.com

http://secanalysis.com/a-brief-analysis-of-shodan/

JoshuaRedmond beneath also provided interesting links
The Unix Family Tree
Yet another article full of FUD and speculation. If this, if that, maybe this, maybe that. Seriously, please. Someone reform the media industry for me. Are there any startups here doing this?

Back to the article. WebKit won't allow hooking in random JS engines. Allowing this slows things down because many DOM access optimizations can be achieved by assuming a specific engine. This is totally reasonable thing. People who are complaining don't contribute to the project at all and are just armchair critics.

Same goes for this web developer who is complaining on webkit-dev. He is an arm chair critic. Apple is talking about removing a feature that no one is stepping up to maintain. CSS variables is not a _standard_ and not close to being a standard and that is the key. If it was, Apple won't be removing it.

I don't know whats worse - armchair critics or media creating whole articles based on speculation and armchair critics.
> Now my alias is ignored, my scripts are broken and I might destroy my working copy or kill my cat by using it without knowing it now means something else.

Your scripts should not rely on aliases you have in your config. Scripts are intended to be used by different people.
I am doing this right now and I am not sure how my users perceive it, as I had no responses so far.

Would you mind share how you phrased your email? I think the copy is the key to how users perceive it.
1. Include it in the terms of service.

2. Depends on the product. If you sell anything that is considered to be hush, then don't. [personal massagers, married dating circles, etc.]

3. In general, people don't mind hearing from you. Though don't email them weekly, unless they subscribed to a weekly newsletter. Once every 3 weeks has proved to be a good start for me.

4. Make the emails personal, and answer them. The aim is to talk to people, not sell them something outright.

5. Resist the temptation to upsell. Why? People will then think that you are just emailing them to squeeze more money out of them. Having an email address like so: sales@startup.com, makes things easy. If anyone has an interest in buying, just tell them that someone from the sales department will contact them. Then send an email from that address and continue the dialogue.
It would be if there was some divorce
DataSift is killing it, as is HootSuite, though I wouldn't consider them a startup now.
HTTPS is not rigid and costly for a single connection. It's rigid and costly because it prevents simple options for caching like sharing google hosted jquery. You can still use a CDN, but then you have more complexity in managing your certificates and pay 1/3 more (Cloudfront pricing).

HTTPS is manageable where needed for security. Sleazy ISPs are making it necessary even where security is not a concern -- for example, viewing Apple's homepage.
I'm not quite sure of the question, but in most cases I suspect people sign them away. It's worth trying to negotiate over, however.

FWIW, Apress's contract - which you can see at http://www.apress.com/files/Apress_Contract.pdf - is clear in that the author retains copyright other than on things they paid to produce (such as the index, cover, and certain artwork).
What To Ask Candidates In Job Interviews (Without Being Insulting)
The goats weren't artificially inseminated. They were each studded, birthed a single kid each. I have 2 of them still, and the others were given away to other farmers (before my time). I am however considering starting a beef cattle operation and we'll have to deal with those issues soon. I think the solution is quality dual-purpose breeds (which is the solution for chickens) so that males can be eaten rather than destroyed.

I don't know about you personally, but many people I have encountered who abhor the idea of eating meat have based their values on the state of the existing factory farming system- which is fine, opt out if you have to. But when given a choice to do it properly, it needs to be understood that it IS possible.
One of the many reasons not to rebase code that's been pushed already.
I initially thought it'd work, but actually, this protection can be circumvented. See the updated version of http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste.
WGA is really easy to bypass, that isn't an issue. And you can bet that 90% pirates won't use IE6, they're somewhat tech savvy.
Society is worse off if Blackstone's Ratio is not followed. The harm caused by a criminal act is not equivalent to the harm caused by a wrongful conviction: the former is unambiguously illegitimate whereas the latter is legitimate and supported by the government in the name of the people. Society has many ways of mitigating the effects of crime: we have insurance, victim support groups, etc. But if you're wrongly convicted, you have nothing. After all, you're a "criminal" not a victim and that's how you'll always be remembered.

The exact number of guilty people in the ratio doesn't matter. No one can agree on it, and it's impossible to quantify the harm anyways. It's really more about the idea of fair trials and the presumption of innocence, which is a handbrake against tyranny. It's a warning that the fear of letting guilty people go must not be used to justify diminishing the presumption of innocence. This is why Blackstone's Ratio was supported by people like Benjamin Franklin and John Adams whereas a "reverse" Blackstone's Ratio (better to let X innocent people suffer than let one guilty person escape) was embraced by such delightful people as Otto von Bismarck, Feliks Dzerzhinsky (founder of the Soviet secret police), and Pol Pot.
That could be explained by rampant speculation.
How banks (don't) work
Many embedded systems run Linux and are frequently attached to the netword for remote control. The root passwords aren't usually changed on these Linux boxes, so they are a wide open security hole.

Many companies pay attention to this sort of thing and make an effort to isolate these kind of devices to the local intranet. For every company that is it good about it, there are probably 10 that aren't even aware of the issue.
Not only the US. The EU has been following the same shady path.

There's even a good documentary made to throw some light at this subject.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2279313/
yes, but for one thing

a) no one cares
b) it is not a hard limit, actually

and, maybe, a) has something to do with b)
There is currently 11M+ coins in circulation, but the site shows 10,994,200. It seems to lag a few days behind. Hardly "real time".
Ideas don't get old, like fruit left on the counter. They're still with us because they are still good.
Man, I found that game to be _very_ bad for my nerves in the 90s.
Ah, it's too long since I used hg. Thought it only picks up deletes.
Consumer Reports for Startups
This isn't even close to how Ember's router works. The whole point of controllers in Ember is to preserve client state (including between routes).
Yeah, about a third of the way through "Git Koans" I got the strong suspicion that the author was a Mercurial fan. It had potential and started out kind of amusing, but definitely felt like a bullied kid's fantasy near the end. Shame, too, as many of the author's other posts seem very well written and insightful. Eh, nobody's perfect.
My bad, didn't realize I was logged in and it required authentication. Nothing more to it.
Google "Monsanto Protection Act" or "farmer assurance provision"

for the 2011 law Google

"Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA)" or "Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act"
No, it's still not an issue. Check out the table for 256 bit numbers in the article you linked. To get a 0.1% probability of even a single collision, you need to generate 1.5e37 hashes. At 10 TH/s, that would take 3e17 years. 10 million times longer than the age of the universe.
Here's an example of something that I do not believe would work in modern browsers:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms970405.aspx

If your entire application was created like that then you are talking about a significant overhaul.
Hardware manufacturers should ship their devices with a piece of paper printed with a unique UID and password. Not "admin/1234".

The owner would have the ability to change these at will, and resets would revert to the original UID/pw combination.

Lost your piece of paper? Send the device back. No more trivial hacks.
Women With High Math and Verbal Skills Less Likely to Choose Science Careers
It's not indefensible, it's radical. IMHO almost all productive enterprise should be 100% transparent. Good luck convincing the world of that. But most rational analysis of capitalism will get you to that conclusion.
Additional question: when did users first alert you to the hack?
Crazy idea, if you don't know what you're talking about, shut the hell up.
Visual Web Scrapper
Is Modafinil The Limitless Brain-Enhancing Drug?
There are certainly more reasons. Perhaps the biggest one is cachet.

Despite cachet being poo-pooed by many self published authors, writing a book that's published by a major publishment still carries a lot of weight with things like immigration authorities (I've known people whose authorship for major publishers helped them get O-1s into the US) and university admissions (particularly for mature students). These things are not "ego" but practical considerations for meeting requirements in certain areas of life (at least, it's no more "ego" than getting a degree is).

Another reason is skill. It's like how everyone could fix their own car or build their own house. While it's theoretically possible, some people seem to lack certain skills that are necessary to produce a good, high quality book and they're not necessarily easy to learn (although they could be outsourced if you self published, but then there's a money argument.) I could build my own house but it'd be crap unless I outsourced most of the work because I have no practical ability whatsoever.
> "People are rightfully angry about the exploitation of socioeconomically-trapped laborers, but — again — abstaining from consumption is a naive gimmick when the relatively small volume of collective abstinence can’t make a dent in the overall picture."

"Well it would've happened anyways" is an incredibly poor justification of doing anything.

Removing oneself as a source of a problem, while unlikely to turn the world upside down, is anything but a naive gimmick.

While I have nothing against porn, it's frustrating that the author is resorting to the same demonization of hypothetical villains that is frequently directed at porn itself. Anyone who doesn't agree fully with his stance is participating in a naive gimmick, or a Victorian-era sex-Nazi.

The portrayal here of people's concerns re: porn are treated with the same oversimplifications that is frequently directed at pornography.
Doug Engelbart's mother of all demos (1968):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

This is the talk that, according to Wikipedia, included the first public demonstration of the following technologies: the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor. Pretty good for one talk!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
I enjoyed the Crockford on Javascript talks. Even if you're not interested in JS, the first talk is about the history of computing/programming languages and is quite interesting.

http://yuiblog.com/crockford/
The worst part is that a lot of the side projects end up being another attempt at the next social network or a new project management app. Here’s a quick tip: there are plenty of those already. If you do want to start a company, work on building a real business, not a side idea that’s hoping to be the next Twitter/Facebook/Instagram combination or a better version of Basecamp.

This is true of full-fledged, VC-backed, "startups". (The author seems to delineate between "startups" and side-projects as if the latter weren't real - by this logic, PlanScope and Bingo Card Creator aren't real projects)
The whole point of steganography is to not leave any markers. But yes, in theory they could scan them on upload but I'm not exactly sure what their prerogative to do so would be (unless the extension turns out to be used for terrorism that is). And plus, with that many photos to process the low false positive rate is going yo cause them huge problems.
Or - She saved a country from economic collapse and restored the UK to a position of being one of the world's most powerful voices.

The UK was as Greece is today in 1979. Hell there were three months of strikes by miners employed by the government in an unsustainable, unprofitable industry BEFORE she even took office.

And people still bitch that their kids didn't get free milk at school for lunch.
Context

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Master Git and a novice API developer stood together in a crowded office.

"I am trying to merge two massive XML files," explained the API developer, "and I am getting many tedious conflicts. You must have a strategy for making the lines match up in a human-readable manner. What is my best option?"

"Patience," said Master Git, turning away from the monitor.

"But I have been manually resolving for hours!" protested the API developer. "My mergetool ought to be able to imply context and match lines properly!"

Master Git sighed and left the room without a word. Hours later, he returned to find the office empty and silent. Only the API developer remained, his head bowed in defeat before the monitor.

"git merge --strategy-option=patience," whispered Master Git.

Upon hearing the same word in explicit context, the novice was enlightened.
I dont think there will be a big crash , just a very slow death , like for any Empire that ever existed.
The question was not how to just get the current branch, thought, right? As pointed out already, `git branch` does that.

The question was how to do it programmatically, and there are multiple ways to do it. You might still call that user interface, but it's that's a stretch; fancy shell magic like branch-in-prompt is typically write-once.
Following these heavy handed approaches to whistle-blowers and undercover reporting, then Acorn should be protected from terrorists using some 'intent to harm' argument. You see how insane this all becomes. I hope these legislations are challenged, tossed out, and in the meantime circumnavigated to reveal the barbaric treatment that occurs.
Apologies, this is what I get for not drinking coffee before commenting. You're completely right about keeping state when it comes to models.

What I don't see - and again, I have not dived very deeply into the router; I'm going off the documentation here - is how to keep views during the transition. In my app, the router has to re-render all views when changing between routes. This isn't a huge deal, as it's a very lightweight application. Still, Backbone offers much more flexibility when it comes to views.