skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the VP of Software Development at my company, and as long as what we open source isn't advantageous specifically to competitors or required significant resources to produce, it's all gravy.

So far, nothing has been vetoed. We use tons of NodeJS and PHP frameworks/libraries, so contributing and open-sourcing is part of why we enjoy our job so much :)
The grandparent post says:

"I recently went through the approval process to contribute to a project on my own time."

Which I took to mean he needed formal approval to contribute to some external open source project on his own time, completely outside of work and unrelated to his work project. Which is pretty bonkers.

Of course if you're pulling open source in to your projects it is wise to have that reviewed first, though I have to admit that at my current job I'm slightly annoyed at the formality of things like having to apply to get Apache 2.0 licensed code brought into our Android project when the Android SDK itself is under exactly the same license as the OSS project. However, I also understand that I have a far better understanding of the implications of various open source licenses than Joe Average programmer guy, so I "get it".
I have a question. I read on the bitcoin site that currently the transaction rate is limited (at 7tps). This seems like a good precaution, as otherwise someone could try to flood the network, but what enforces that limit? Is it that by and large miners use software with that limit, so transaction floods are ignored?
Water from the Colorado is mostly used for agriculture in Arizona. The Phoenix area has enough water from other sources to last for the next 100 years. Cities in TX, OK, California and even Atlanta are going to have more problems.
After looking at the code in more depth, I feel I should point out that it looks like `arguments.callee` is only the last-ditch fallback for generating a trace. I see baked-in support for Chrome, IE, FF, Safari, and Opera, and so unless your preferred browser is something else (or you want to target every possible browser) then you could change just a few lines to make it strict mode compliant.
I remember reading that Githubbers are into Techno (trance?), so that speaks to the kind of people you're likely to work with.

People with bad taste in music?
tldr; automated scripts attacking default wordpress username with weak password. Welcome to the internet.
No, but it certainly increases the possibility you might see a cat chasing a laser pointer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_exercising_a_cat
Twitter music app - will let you do lot of social discovery.
Native copy/paste typically requires a mouse. using tmux's copy-mode and pasting doesn't require a mouse an still stays inside panes.
I like this idea, but I've also seen situations where it's become 1 or 2 holdouts against a chorus of yesses, and then the ensuing resentment against them. And the holdouts had some very good points. I think it can work if the leader/manager is good at this kind of approach, but it can also lead to a lot of conflict as well.
Would be nice if it served this page with Content-Type: text/plain, so it wouldn't look like random garbage at first.
As a former developer of Bitcoinica, the most affected customer in the previous Linode incident at that time, I have to say that Linode's communication was extremely unresponsive. It took them 15 days to write a reply that is still full of ambiguity.

In the end they offered Bitcoinica one-year worth of services, which are basically nothing compared to the huge losses. I can expect 7 other customers to be treated similarly.

There were no details available at all. Not only they didn't follow up to the public, there's a shockingly lack of transparency to their affected customers as well.
What about SEO? It should be important for a forum. I found most of the smaller forums that i know with google search.
How curious. thanks.
"Best to have a stable currency with low inflation" grew out of hundreds of years of observations in the history of human production, prices, and mediums of exchange, and what conditions have traditionally leads to periods of peace and prosperity in a region, and what conditions have led to war, revolt, famine, etc.

In short, empirically, wages and prices are sticky. We assume it has something to do with humans being stubborn, but don't really know why. However, until our imminent replacement by the kind robots, currencies must move if people won't.
even if not, it'd be pretty sweet if there was an option to do so.
It could be that they are restricted from providing more details due to the nature of the issue?
It sounds like a cop-out and is, but if for instance it was under active investigation, and it was something big, they might be able to reset customer passwords while not identifying information to the attacker.

On the other hand, this type of action would give it away either way, so maybe even that excuse doesnt smell right.
I believe it's the Cube 3D printers which use their own 'cartridge' spool which happens to cost significantly more than the spools used by most hobyists. So I've heard.
This reminds me of how the British Navy forgot the cure to scurvy after 150 years. http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
AMQP is pretty much the current state of the art. Why would you want to move away from RabbitMQ?
A couple of days every three months. Plus 15 minutes a day to water my plants. (:
Depends on what type of news. After reading HN for the past 6 months, I feel much better in sync with the tech world than before. It has certainly helped get a sense of what's going on.

I've almost stopped reading regular news though, it rarely matters.
Well, they observed them for three years. There is probably something to it.
In my experience, exercise is more important than free time to prevent burnout.
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Last estimate I saw for a Columbia River to Los Angeles pipeline was $150G. Expensive, but not out of reach for the US government. And there's enough water there to take care of the southwest for a long time.

The nasty things will happen across national borders. Like, when things in California get tight, will Mexico continue to receive any of the Colorado? Or worse, what about the Upper Ganges Aquifer, already shrinking and used by both India and Pakistan.
I'm not so sure about that. A lot of people were amused by his comments, by many fewer were actually offended. He did suffer some setbacks, but nothing career-threatening.
HN strikes again! Cahced:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IAiep0K...
Next time he asks you to do something, drop trou and moon him. I guarantee that your relationship with the company will never be the same.
> We have a federal government to resolve conflicts between the states.

Water law is unfortunately mostly a state issue, and the federal government has been loathe to get involved in mediating water disputes.

> Once ownership is settled, it's pretty clear what rights an owner has over that water vs. a non-owner.

Coming up with a clear allocation of rights ("all water now belongs to Bob") doesn't mean its easy to come up with a good allocation of rights.

> The law being a mess is a common problem with the current government, again not so much about water, water is just becoming one of the many things it sucks at managing.

I didn't say the challenges were unsolvable, I said that the usual political infighting will get in the way of us solving them.

> What percent of the US GDP do you think the government would need in addition to what it already takes in so that over the next couple of decades it can create and maintain desalination and other technology to get rid of the scarcity issues?

That's an entirely theoretical question. We've hit such political gridlock that we can't even maintain the infrastructure we have, much less build new infrastructure.

> I don't see the connection from privatization --> slavery

Controlling a fundamental resource is a great way to enslave people.

> Speculating about what might be the definitive issue that people 50+ years from now look back on these previous and upcoming decades, there are a lot of things that seem more likely to be the issue than "water rights".

50 years really isn't that long (Lisp is 55 years old, UNIX is 43 years old). It's not like we can't even fathom what the world will look like 50 years from now--it won't look all that different from today. Sitting here now, knowing what we know, it's hard to think of any other issue that's going to be as pressing in the next 50 years. Especially considering that some of the other pressing issues (like climate change, alternative energy) are going to put pressures on freshwater resources first. We're not going to run out of oil in 50 years, we're not going to get hit by a meteoroid, etc, etc, but it's very possible that the Ogallala will dry up devastating American food production.
Wow, that's devotion. It's a huge platform, and the understanding that "even I can make that" is super-easy. I'm scared that it's Excel: it's such a crappy program, and wish it had a better language than VB.

Unrelated: Metronews aims at a very low grade-level.
It's frustrating when people suggest I can visualize and just don't know it. The way one thinks is the most first-personally obvious thing in the world, and I've been sore about the way I do it since I was in elementary school wanting to imagine strawberries to count with.

Despite the literature I never accuse visualizers of the reverse (ie that you only think you have mental images), but when I do challenge incredulous friends about their phenomenology some discover it's actually much less pictoral than they'd believed: eg, "imagine a tiger, how many stripes?" or "imagine an ant crawling across a checkered picnic table toward a jar of grape jelly, what color square is it on now? what about now?" or "imagine a 3x3 word matrix whose rows read 'too', 'aid', 'ole' -- read the column words straight off without sounding out or going letter by letter". Granted, others can do these with an ease that amazes me.

"Can you draw a stick human figure? Did it pop into your head when I mentioned stick human figure? There you go, you just visualized it."

Yes I can draw a stick figure. I'm not an idiot, and nothing pops into my head other than the sound of the word and some xkcd affect.

Meanwhile, it astounds me that a single picture can pop into your head: how do you know what position to put the stick figure in -- akimbo, Thinker? Imagine a flower -- ok, which, a rose or a marigold? Do you decide or does it just happen? How many different flowers can you visualize, and how quickly? Do they appear embedded in soil or just floating free? How many different varieties can you see at once? What prevents you from seeing more?

Re: dyslexia -- I drew this link too, as I have very mild dyslexia. My father is profoundly dyslexic but claims vivid imagery.
The BBC wrote a great piece on Thomas Wehr and Roger Ekirch last year... they also added some nice color commentary on artificial lighting in the 17th century and beyond:

The myth of the eight-hour sleep

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783
You can add HTTP basic auth to your wp-login.php and wp-admin/ paths, which will require that the user provide authentication before ever getting to pass data to those scripts. That can protect you against vulnerabilities in the software, but it won't protect you from bad passwords.
I quit my last job because:

* I was hired as a commodity, not a person, and treated as one.

* Management beyond my immediate supervisor had a fantasy about our working situation that colored their every decision, and no effort by front-line personnel could lead them to reality.

* My company had a failing business model, and thought they could squeeze the difference between expectation and reality out of the people doing the actual work that supported that model.

* Immediate supervisors thought loyalty meant not questioning.

* Evaluations were based on arbitrary criteria that had little to do with actual job success.

* My manager's response to pointing any of this out was "You should be grateful you have a job at all."

In a week I will be starting a new job at a small, but successful startup that appears to be the exact opposite of my previous job. I feel really sorry for the (quite talented) people who are still there, and I am grateful to that company for teaching me what kind of job not to take.
The PNW will secede before they let those evil Californians have any of their water: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_(independence_movement...
'Will it blend?'. One of the most successful campaigns that pops into my head. A blender, succeeding at social media. It's one of those products that you would never have thought of benefiting from social media, and yet it hit a homerun.
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I have to wonder whether _why is an intentional or unintentional PR prodigy.
It's up a lot more than 300% for the year.
Interesting. I didn't realize the IS-LM model (which is the relatively simple lens Krugman uses for 80% of the reasoning on his blog the past 3 or 4 years) was

(a) ideological,
(b) partisan, or
(c) a smokescreen.

I thought it was used to analyze the relationship between investment, interest rates, and economic production. It's been able to (for example), explain why inflation would be nowhere in sight in the face of government borrowing or quantitative easing given the current state of our economy.
Or why any finite currency (gold, bitcoin) would lead to rampant deflation and thus depression conditions.

Can you please elaborate as to why IS-LM the ideological ruse you claim it to be? Krugman may be a hack, but I start to believe the hacks who are continuously right most of the time, and ignore the ones who are often wrong. Just the empiricist in me.
Are you serious? Just because you're not Keynesian, it doesn't mean you do not believe in a central bank. Milton Friedman believed in a central bank.
How Higher Economic Value of Time Increases Feelings of Time Pressure [pdf]
It's probably just because they have a large number of customers, but our Linode credit card number was stolen two weeks ago.
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Ctrl+L is good because it's on the home row and typically used for uninteresting stuff anyway (like refreshing the terminal window).

My sequence to actually refresh the window is "Ctrl+L L"
First, my comment was facetiously poking fun at the idea of some benign first-world annoyance being evil.. lighten up eh?

Second, the argument about GMO (or any other high-tech way to increase farming yields) being a 'solution' to food supply shortages is thrown around a lot without any evidence.. nor, as far as I can see, any actual basis in fact.

The drive to increase yields is a drive to increase profit / hectare, which has only resulted in actually driving other farmers out of the business which reduces food production stability, and ultimately overall yield. In every objective measure, this process also produces inferior product.

Monsanto has been profiting from the large-scale destruction of many decades of careful seed adaptation in regional areas. They have driven seed sellers and savers out of business in order to monopolise the markets. They sue / threaten / cajole farmers into using their product or effectively run them out of business.

Third, if I spent billions creating a piece of software whose sole purpose was to replicate its source code and upload it randomly to surrounding networks (along with some by-product) and did this by only changing a couple of lines in an existing piece of open source code, so that no one could really tell the difference... and got pissed that people were using that code. Well, I would just be a bit of a dick now, wouldn't I.

Spending more money on something does not give you any more rights, just more risk.
how did you manage to make it look one way when you viewed it in your browser, and look different once you launched the app from the homescreen. Is there a script for that?
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I'm up after sleeping a few hours tonight and it feels great.
One guy's story of moving abroad to launch his web business.
Would this work for projects with a strong network effect ? Let say a new whatsapp (example).
I've been wanting to do this since I Asterisk-ized a 1975 Western Electric 500 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_500_telephone) I found at a garage sale.

I vividly remember the last time I used a payphone like this calling my then girlfriend (became fiance, became wife) outside a 7-11 in rural virginia before the turn of the century. Nostalgia by the bucketful.
I think Bitcoin is useful as an experiment in economics and monetary systems.

But the thinking is far from baked and opportunists are jumping on this so quickly that a lot of money is going to be lost, .com-style. Maybe not with Bitcoin, but perhaps with its successor. And a lot more money than the .com bust, because now we're not dealing with just "new economy" utopias, we're dealing with 100+ year ideological disagreements.

Just looking at the comments here, most people seem to have received their economic eduction from political rants and newspaper editorial pages rather than reading (and understanding) a few classics (Keynes, Marx, Minsky, Hayek, Schumpeter, or even Polanyi and Drucker).

This is not to say the profession of economics is noble or even has any real use to the modern world currently, given its problems. But we do have an economic system, and some people do seem to have a better empirical understanding of it than others. And I'm not seeing a lot of empiricism here - lots of emotion, angst, rebelliousness, armchair theorizing, and hope. That's a good way to start something, but it's not a great way for it to finish the way you want. Ask the Marxists.
Show HN: MiniHack - Practical Hacker News Client for iOS
Hi all,

This is my first iOS app, a Hacker News client for iOS with login support and many sharing options. (Universal App)

Features Highlight:

- Login to vote, flag, reply and view your profile page.

- Support almost all the pages including Home Page, Newest, Ask, Jobs, Active,
Classic, Best Stories, Best Comments (more coming).

- Share via Twitter, Facebook, Email, SMS.

- Read Later via Instapaper, Readability, Pocket.

- Bookmarking via Pinboard, Kippt, Delicious.

- Uncluttered reading with Readability Web Mobilizer.

- Gray out read stories.

- Smart Gestures

Currently not all the features of HN supported, but it's 1.0, and I will continue working on it and polish the hell of it. My goals is to make an full-featured HN client for iOS with some nice and powerful extension features and yet keep it simple and practical. (Hopefully I have the chance)

So I need your feedbacks and supports to keep making it better, any feedbacks appreciated.

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minihack-practical-hacker/id631108846?mt=8

Email: support+minihack@42mini.co

Twitter: http://twitter.com/minihackapp

Website: http://42mini.co/minihack
You may be interested in the work of Geert Hofstede, who attempted to map different cultures. He gave the USA a score of 62 on competitiveness over comfort, which he calls masculinity, and a score of 91 on individuality over cooperation.

http://geert-hofstede.com/united-states.html
Faranda's slogan should be: "Faranda. At the forefront of housing."
It seems apparent that it wouldn't - convincing all your friends to download some random app is one thing, convincing them to pay more than $2 is another.

Then again, app.net went with this model and a fairly high price and is moderately successful. (The combination of a target audience generally highly willing to pay money for internet things and a large amount of hype probably helped.)
Don't attribute it to me --- it didn't originate with me. It is probably a rephrased concept from Erich Fromm.
Hi all,

This is my first iOS app, a Hacker News client for iOS with login support and many sharing options. (Universal App)

Features Highlight:

- Login to vote, flag, reply and view your profile page.

- Support almost all the pages including Home Page, Newest, Ask, Jobs, Active,
Classic, Best Stories, Best Comments (more coming).

- Share via Twitter, Facebook, Email, SMS.

- Read Later via Instapaper, Readability, Pocket.

- Bookmarking via Pinboard, Kippt, Delicious.

- Uncluttered reading with Readability Web Mobilizer.

- Gray out read stories.

- Smart Gestures

Currently not all the features of HN supported, but it's 1.0, and I will continue working on it and polish the hell of it. My goals is to make an full-featured HN client for iOS with some nice and powerful extension features and yet keep it simple and practical. (Hopefully I have the chance)

So I need your feedbacks and supports to keep making it better, any feedbacks appreciated.

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minihack-practical-hacker/id...

Email: support+minihack@42mini.co

Twitter: http://twitter.com/minihackapp

Website: http://42mini.co/minihack
Remap your keys. Capslock makes for a very nice control key, cause really, that's the single most used modifier/power key that gets used aside from maybe shift. You can also remap the "lead-in" character.

I use ^j on both screen and tmux (tmux isn't on our prod servers). This frees up ^a in screen so ^a can send me to the beginning of a line, which is quite nice as I write a lot of long commands and it works in several different programs. It's just a really easy combo to hit that avoids chording or stretching your hands to do something like that constantly. My right hand does not hit the 'b' key for squat.

Honestly, a lot of stuff is configurable so that with some thought and planning (and knowledge and research) you can relieve a lot of weird movements with your hands.
This is really great - I'd love to have a similar diagram for data flow and components of the systems I work on. It might not benefit engineers very much but it'd be fantastic for clients or some of the less technical people in the company.

I wonder how hard (I'm thinking hard?) it would be to have a tool for something like this, making the layout easy and revealing more and more information as you zoom in.

Even better if it was live and updating with system metrics.
What data & algorithms teach us about the language news orgs use
I want to read HN this way :-|
Why not Powerpoint? Same access to VBA, but lets you use graphic assets. Powerpoint is basically equivalent to Flash, given VBA as the "ActionScript". I'm surprised there isn't more (satirically) done with it.
Exactly. Not disagreeing with the OP, but in it's purest sense "free marke"t assumes that these more sophisticated ones have just as much to lose as the unsophisticated (and therefore bear the same risk). This is the problem when you try to mix regulation with deregulation.
With adequate access to natural light, it's pretty hard to oversleep if you follow your body's natural schedule. As soon as light hits your (still closed) eyes, your brain scales back melotonin production and raises your body's temperature, which is what wakes you up. The opposite happens when the sun goes down and you aren't around artificial light.
That's an awesome diagram and quite a few servers (but latency kills the map-overlay experience, i think a static png or svg might have been better...) Interesting that servers are are either paired autoscaling over two AZs, or statically provisioned in three AZs - or am i mis-reading the diagram? Two entire mirrors for testing and staging must have become a pretty big cost.

For others outside the US confused about what the application actually does, and what the Narwhal in the testing/staging pictures refers to, this helped; http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/built-...