skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another facet is that, despite the waste, a lot of people are strongly motivated by competition to do better. Look at how Mir has spurred Wayland to get its act in gear - or how Gnome tried fixing Gnome 3 when Unity happened, or clang vs gcc, or how Go + Rust / Ruby + Python / Java + C# are competitive in the language space, or how Backbone competes with Angular.

All over the open source space, there are almost always two opposing forces in each camp, sometimes more, but whenever the competition dries up (VLC?) innovation slows down. VLC has become extremely refined as a media player, and I ask nothing more from it, but it hasn't tried any real radical UI departures or UX shifts and its mobile version is still slow on the uptake. I imagine if it had a media player competitor it would improve faster.

So the duplicated effort, although a "waste" of time, seems to drive developers to work harder, which produces better products in the end.
Very nice. Four years ago I was creating physical generative paintings: GA's that would produce physical painted works. http://carlos.ag/painter.html
Finally! Conclusive proof that the moon landings were faked! It can be done on a computer!

edit: clearly sarcasm. I wonder, they've gone all the way till the Eagle has landed, why not go further and include Neil Armstrong's small step for man recording?
Pretty cool. Looks similar to what I did before creating http://GeoKone.NET. I was doodling with triangles, circles, lines and trying to figure out what numbers would represent if they were geometry.

This led to me developing GeoKone.NET, an interactive Sacred Geometry Generator. Check it out if you want to Create Some Recursive Geometry, it's pretty flexible in the things you can do with it :)

http://GeoKone.NET

Some examples of what people are doing with this tool:

http://indigineous.tumblr.com
http://lgo900.wordpress.com

Check it out if you are interested in playing around with recursive geometry! :)
Over the years, I constantly remind my manager, clients, an colleagues to bring me in much sooner than they think they need to. When that happens, the problem definitions are much easier and the resulting solution works. Obvious, when you think about it. The analogy I use is that if we were constructing houses, then my role is both architect and builder.
> Nothing proves that DCRI wanted to delete public or notable information.

Why the hoopla then?
Because I get a thrill when I see people star my projects or even comment on how it can be improved.

I also believe that writing open source software is a fantastic way to land more jobs as it proves to your employer that:

1. You can release software.

2. You can write clean code (your wrote clean code, right?)

3. You can use a DCVS like Git or Mercurial.

Where's the downside?
Solar planes are cool, but they’re not the future of flight
Spending time with FUD and bile arguing against open source projects, now that's a waste of time. Complaining about licenses and inefficiencies is also a waste of time when it's done by people who are not directly involved in development.

Compare that with exploring different paradigms and priorities (such as Postgres and Mysql who happen to have very different philosophies), which is absolutely OK in my book. Nobody wants a monoculture. Except malicious bystanders who first and foremost like to make this into some kind of faction warfare.

I don't really have a stake in this fake database conflict, but why is it that Postgres always seems to attract these kinds of people whereas Mysql users seem to be content doing their thing mostly in silence and without the vitriole?
Obviously, this is an error that needs to be rectified. However, the way that the article regards Facebook's actions is an abject misrepresentation. He states that Facebook is "stealing" from him, when, in fact, no conscious theft took place. In all likelihood, this was simply a bug.

Moreover, he asserts that, given Facebook's actions (or lack thereof) regarding his account, Facebook is "about people's money." First, this assertion is itself pretty nebulous. Moreover, it implies that Facebook is willingly shirking their users and advertising customers for the sake of profit, evidence of which has yet to be seen. From everything that has been presented, it can be reasonably assumed that they simply made a mistake with these charges, and that no malicious intent was involved.

It's unfortunate that Facebook made an error that cost someone money, but this article is clearly perverting the story and making undefended, specious assertions to provoke outrage or drive pageviews.
It's not necessarily a danger to not release a sequel immediately if they've got other things to work on. People will still buy Half-Life 3 in a few years time - similarly Blizzard have had ten-year-plus gaps between Starcraft - Starcraft 2 and Diablo 2 - Diablo 3, which hasn't seemed to do them any harm.

That's distinct from not working on something simply because it's "boring" or "too hard".
Cool. The other thing to check out is The Book of the New Sun, which is his masterpiece. A very deft and literary subversion of the fantasy genre (though it's really SF).
In fact, that's perhaps the best mode of action now: to propagate the article in all other languages.
The modern equivalent of a Linksys WRT54GL is the ASUS RT-N16. It runs OpenWrt, DD-WRT, and Tomato variants really well, does 802.11n (only one frequency) and has plenty of memory and flash storage for extra hacking. The ASUS RT-N66U is frequently advised if you want 5GHz 802.11n as well.

The other router mentioned in this article, the Linksys EA2700, doesn't seem compatible with third party firmware. And apparently the Cisco firmware is buggy, no surprise there. It is an awfully cheap Dual-Band 802.11n router, but if you can't put working software on it it's useless.

I don't understand why some major router manufacturer doesn't just sell routers pre-installed with Tomato. It's easy to use, stable, and works way better than any crap the router companies cobble together. Flashing new firmware on a stock ASUS router is too complex for ordinary consumers.
> It also probably won't have enough memory to operate [...] the webinterface.

It does have enough memory for the web interface - at least for the one in KAMIKAZE (8.09.2, r18961), the version mine is running.
Past release data points to Instapaper 5 update
Hacking Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk with apache, S3 and NewRelic: AWS: PAAS
URL Design (2010)
Show HN: Parametrek product search
I can imagine them banning his account as a 'standard response' to chargebacks. It might not be the end of the world for a personal account but potentially quite annoying for a business with an existing FB presence.
Ask HN: which math fields do you use more as a Software Engineer?
So, in CS school we learn a lot of topics like Analytic Geometry, Linear Algebra, Calculus, etc.

Please tell what fields you use more and also tell which field of Software you work with.
This has been my side project for the past month-ish. The concept was spawned by a friend's observation that most online stores looked the same, and that perhaps they were climbing towards a mere local optima. I hacked together a prototype in a weekend.

It languished for some time. Then Hmexx came along with his HN Proposition. I threw the basic idea at him and it was turned down. While the pitch was not enough to convince him, it was enough to convince me. Thanks, Hmexx. Parametrek would not have shipped without your encouragement.
Whether open source is a use-case or an ideology really depends on the
requirements of the individual or organization. Some work in a world
where security auditing of all source code is required, or source code
is required to maintain compatibility, but of course, others are free
from these restrictions and are willing to closed source binaries.

If you're under no requirement restrictions, then calling the insistence
on open source code an ideology or preference is entirely fair.

If your only goal is to just play as many different games as possible,
then using linux is a bad choice from the start, and you're obviously
intending on running closed source code, so requirements and preferences
make no difference to you.

If you hope to run as much open source as possible, then buying hardware
from friendly vendors is your best bet. Your choices for both modern and
supported graphics hardware with open source support are pretty much
limited to Intel and AMD/ATI.
YouTube lowers base resolution to 144p
The trouble with the WRT54G series (and most of these little routers) is that they have ~200MHz CPUs and ~16MB of RAM. This is, incidentally, why they often crash when you open a lot of simultaneous connections -- memory exhaustion.

I find that if you're interested in experimenting with a Linux router, old PCs are a much better choice. You can get a PowerPC G3 or G4 or a late model Pentium III for practically zero money (if not literally zero money out of a trash heap) and PCI NICs for secondary interfaces are similarly inexpensive. For only slightly more money the G4 Mac Mini is an excellent choice for a wireless router. Then you have a processor that is several times faster and can put arbitrarily much memory and storage in it to suit your needs and then put your favorite Linux router distribution (or Debian) on it and have at it.
Because every time I see that I've changed something to LibreOffice via gerrit, even if it's just a comment translation or spelling error fix, I know that I've contributed to something that will help someone else.

Not to mention reading through code is interesting. Especially when you have a chance to change it to make it better.
Is there something like a paper version of "tar" that will print a directory of files in a format that can be scanned, preserving file structure etc?
> to ask for him to resign

Actually, they ask for him to resign as a wikipedia administrator as long as he remains the president of wikimedia France (not the other way round).
The mathematics I use most is basic arithmetic, when doing one-off data processing runs. Mostly used in estimating how long things will take to run (e.g. it took 20 minutes on this sample of one thousandth of the data, how long will it take for the full dataset?), or estimating storage requirements.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it evil - death happened due a miscalculation, it was not intentional. I think intent matters if we call something evil.
Aza Raskin's "Algorithm Ink" project is pretty easy browser-based tool to work with. http://azarask.in/projects/algorithm-ink/#f9ed4e9b and http://azarask.in/projects/algorithm-ink/#e8ff0b8c for example. Click the "edit" button at the top to see how it's done.
Bitcoin exchange: Greedy traders to blame for DDoS attack
Have you tried the chocolatey package?
Peer-proxy - Local HTTP webservice proxy behind NAT/FW
Proxy web service or website from peer.

Features

Support proxy to local/home http server, behind firewall/nat
Partial support proxy to remote website, behind firewall/nat
Support Websocket
Secure end-to-end connections
Token-based authentication for user's ip
Support rewrite location header in 301/302 redirection response
Support rewrite href in text/html response
It's possible to get insurance against almost everything, the question is how much are you willing to pay?
Right. The article clearly states that we are spraying crops that bees pollinate with pesticides that are known to kill them, but people are still acting like it's a mystery.
Having looked at the post, doesn't he really mean don't buy "these models" of Linksys? Or are all models open to certain vulnerabilities?
One hates to be a pedant, but that's not strictly true. 501(c)(3) charities are also incorporated as are a whole range of government sponsored enterprises, local governments, and other organisations that are not about making profits.
Unfortunately, that doesn't really help normal customers because they can't be bothered with doing stuff like flashing an alternative firmware
To quote myself[0]:

> We do know that Clothianidin caused the bee deaths in Baden-Württemberg (Germany) in 2008[1], which led to a ban for corn seeds[2].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5465306 (me, last week)

[1] http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news264587 (press release by Julius Kühn institute, German)

[2] http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/maispflschmv/BJNR502300009... (neonicotinoid ban for corn seeds, German)
Nothing proves, but everything points to the DCRI.

They are like the big child standing with a lollipop in their hand next to the screaming baby.
Can Computers Replace Teachers?
Facebook is a publicly traded company. Of course they are all about the money - welcome to America.
Oh, I don't know, there's something neat about building something with so many layers of complexity given such tight constraints. "Making every bit count" I guess. Similar to it being impressive that Pi and Following were made with such small budgets (and casts).

I'm not sure what "exceptionally challenging" means exactly, but Lucas Arts was doing something very different from what their contemporaries were doing, and their games still stand as classics twenty years later compared to the much larger budgets and fewer constraints of today.
He's indeed overreacting. Apparently that works though, because it made it to the front page.
- recognition

- credibility
[Personal bookmark] some nice WebFonts
Gen-Y Should Thank Gen-X For Social Media Today
I disagree. They just found the most simple way how to delete that article.
I would love to have a 3d printer but they are really expensive. I only skim read the article but another issue for me would be compatibility. Which types of CAD software can be used for a certain printer? Or is it as easy/hard as setting up a regular printer?
"In all likelihood, this was simply a bug."

I never understood this mentality. "This was simply a bug" is acceptable for noneconomic trivial situations, but as soon as money changes hands the issues become serious. Contracts were signed, and its possible (I haven't seen the FB contracts) that terms were violate. And I'm pretty sure the courts won't care if it was "simply a bug" if FB doesn't refund the money.
Here is the cached version of the article
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hnvaMcj...
A bug can cost someone money, yes. And it happens to the best of us. But having no way to get a refund (or even to get a response about whether they'll refund) certainly calls for outrage.
H1B only requires a sponsor who guarantees a position, so you don't need to be a student, only that you have a bachelor degree or the equivalent work experience (which presupposes at least 12 years of active employment). A very complex process, but it's possible.
Fitness and strength training are extremely important for everyone.
Does "one" hate to be a pedant, or you specifically?
It was restored 22 hours after deletion.

5 avril 2013 à 09:16 Inisheer (discuter | contributions) a restauré la page Station hertzienne militaire de Pierre sur Haute (30 versions restaurées : suppression précipitée)

4 avril 2013 à 11:02 Remi Mathis (discuter | contributions) a supprimé la page Station hertzienne militaire de Pierre sur Haute (Article qui contient des informations classifiées, qui contrevient à l'article 413-11 du code pénal)
I never quite understand people that get upset when somebody writes a post like this. In the post he says he's tried to rectify the problem by contacting Facebook directly - and he's been ignored. So why not publish something publicly as another means of exposing the problem in a way that might get the resolution he hopes for?

From what I can tell - he didn't submit this story here. He didn't title his blog post with the same title used on HackerNews. He just related his personal experience with their latest marketing campaign about Facebook putting people first.

[edit]: The original title used on HN was: "Facebook is all about people. All about people's money." This has since been changed.
How much should they take from him before he's allowed to be upset?
You should learn to use Maven. Also, try to follow great Java projects on GitHub and learn with their maintainers how to write great Java code.

Also, as the JVM has been flourishing for the past 5 years, I'd also recommend you to learn some of the more popular JVM-based languages. That'd be Scala and Clojure.
OK, I was not clear. Nothing proves that the data was public or notable.
I'm not saying that what occurred was not bad, merely that it was not necessarily malicious and did not constitute theft.
I'm really excited about Rust's performance here, considering how young the compiler and its runtime are. It has to get much faster but that seems likely to be possible.
Arrest first, ask for your creditors to give you a break second.
Mantri.js is a new JavaScript Dependency System
"so that it is now handling 420,000 trades per month and $121m in monthly trade volume."

This is scary. I still don't trust my money in something so unregulated. It's like the entire stock exchange being based on one single company, with none of the insider trading rules or regulations.
The rationalization of a weak man?
To build a common strong knowledge. The thought that people are solving a problem I've already solved disturbs me. It's also true vice versa.
$10,000/m for a 3 bedroom? You can get a 3 bedroom in the city for much less than that. It might not be the most desirable neighborhood or the biggest apt but let's be realistic. If you don't have a lot of money you're not going to spend $10k on an apt.
I think the OP is on to a pretty big theme. Most of our lives we're taught to solve problems, not to find them. The idea of an exam is that you're given a bunch of problems to solve. Most people describing themselves would (or would like to) score themselves highly on the ability to solve problems.

In an environment where everyone is smart and driven (such as SV), being a good problem solver is just not enough. Being good at finding and articulating valuable problems is much harder, and I would bet that more startups/founders fail at this. Part of this is because, most people are never trained, and never think to ask what makes a valuable problem.
I honestly haven't the foggiest idea, sorry. The company only told us the bare minimum because they were trying to contain the damage.
I have a friend who wrote a open source library that is very popular. It is a testing framework that is very well known from within the Python community. This guy was a coworker of mine a few years ago. When he sent a resume to the company, they pretty much hired him on the spot because of the fact that he was the author of [famous open source project]. He didn't go through any interview process, at least not in the tedious FizzBuzz / "what are your biggest strengths and biggest weaknesses" sense.

Thats why I do open source. Hopefully one day I'll get lucky and one of my projects will catch on and become very popular. When that happens, I have guaranteed employment pretty much for the rest of my life. Although, only like 1% of all open source developers are lucky enough to have a project with enough "cred" to be in that position. It mostly has to do with luck. There are tons of popular projects that suck (PHP), and tons of projects that are amazingly written, but not popular.
Quick Backgrounder on North Korea Crisis
You might be shocked by the power bill for running one of those older beasts 24/7.
Preemptive: "I'm not trying to make news, this is just a question."
Not defending the idiotic actions of the DCRI here, but try looking at it from a non-American perspective.

American organizations appear to bend over backward to be of service to American intelligence interests around the world, but tend to act arrogantly if approached by local authorities over local matters, to the extend of openly violating the law of the country they're operating in.

For all we know (I'm neither a lawyer nor French), French law requires the whole publication to be taken down immediately pending further procedure. In that case it's not surprise that something designated a matter of national security gets escalated fast.

Wikipedia's blunt refusal has probably pissed the French of more than the actual content of the article.
It did not work. The article was quickly reinstated by another user and the whole thing backfired.
"From what I can tell - he didn't submit this story here"

The user that submitted the article is "ibrahimcesar" and the contact address in the post is "email@ibrahimcesar.com", so there's a nonzero chance the author submitted the story here.
The article clearly states that the stuff kills bees. No one argues that. So, rather than debate for two years exactly how many bees are killed by these pesticides, why not all agree that there is a serious die off issue that doesn't need to be exacerbated and ban the stuff. If bees completely rebound, then great. If not, then there's one less thing making the problem worse.

This is purely an economic issue for the companies involved. The first pesticide of this type was registered with the EPA in 1994, with others registered as recently as 2003, and several others still undergoing review. So, these are all relatively recent to market and our food production is not dependent upon their use. Those arguments are simply a red herring. The chemical companies are interested in recouping their research investment and protecting this relatively new market.

Nothing wrong with that goal on its face, but the question is, at what cost?
Thank you.
It seems that I installed another version of nginx. With the apt-get install it worked perfectly.
I replaced the whole conf. file.
yes it does. VK migrates "gracefully" and Like/friend/comment buttons work w/o JS.

I'm sure you know that most of the Rails forms will work w/o JS as well.
Yes -- that's true -- I'm trying to solve a problem that I have.
I learn a lot from reading code of other people who are smarter than you. Also, very frequently Open Source tools are better than their equivalent proprietary ones. Also, it can give you fame and fortune, there's an immense number of people who has benefited from advocating and using Open Source software.

Also, great (and many) companies are always looking for developers of specific Open Source projects like OpenGL, OpenCV, Rails, Django, and many others.
Neuroscientist Worries That Facebook Home Will Change Our Brains
I'd go to San Diego. The weather is much nicer there.
Interesting HTML5 image editor similar to Adobe Photoshop
Two things.

1) A clip from Moneyball: http://youtu.be/HiB9L3dG-Aw

2) I remember from a book about someone marketing in Japan. They were trying to sell a rice cooker that could also cook other foods. They couldn't understand why this convenience wouldn't sell. It seemed to solve a "problem." In many consumer interviews, a passing comment revealed the new problem they had actually created. Housewives feared that the taste of other foods would creep into the rice and ruin it. They stopped selling the cooker.
I picked up this XPS 13 last month and have been quite happy with it (the differences between the 1080p screen and this are amazing, clarity-wise, but also more expensive than I could afford).

I loaded Ubuntu 13 on it, and it's running quite well. I was going to choose 12.04 LTS, but after reading that Dell's Sputnik changes were also rolled into 13 (prior, they were separate), it just made more sense to go that route. Has been great ever since.