skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't matter whether its a non-profit or for-profit, charity or business, or whether pg personally benefits from Watsi flourishing.

He's using the events in Boston as a way to promote a service that has nothing to do with the horror occurring in Boston.

I'm not saying Watsi isn't great -- it is. But this isn't the time or place to call attention to Watsi. It's tasteless and rude.
"Just to be clear, that 7% is after inflation. The historical performance of the stock market is closer to 10-11% pre-inflation."

Can you link to something backing this claim up? I was thinking the wise/old 7% saying is in nominal, not real, dollars.
Probably not, but then why say anything at all? The omission is conspicuous.
Boston Police says they have no idea where NY Post is getting it's information from.
A Whiff of Dark Matter on the ISS
Am I the only one who is more confused about why there are compiled java classes and AMI BIOS updates in the www directory than about the hacking itself?
Did anyone else get a 404 when they went to this page?
> I know no one in Boston and can’t do anything about it, I’m just going to check back tomorrow when we know more rather than working myself up looking for the latest like I usually would.

To the best of my ability, I'll do the same.

There's nothing we can currently do. The news for the next 24 hours will be nothing but the newscasters making assumptions, bad connections, and conjecture. The rest of the time will be filled with interviews from people "on the ground." We'll gain nothing from watching it.

I feel like the smallest, tiniest "fuck you" I can muster to the person who did this is to spend this time working on something to make a slice of society marginally better, rather than spending the night passively absorbing all the negativity and sorrow he/she has caused.
the two do not mean the same thing though. the former means the person is not dead, while your version means the person is not harmed. in google's version, the person might have lost a limb or was injured, but still alive. this is not "fine". it's better to be clear about what the information that the message carries in this situation IMO.
Not every attempt to address security and terrorism can be deemed "rights-contracting." The other stuff in AEDPA doesn't contract any rights, just addresses particular kinds of crimes. The only thing that arguably contracts rights are the habeas portion, and that's more appropriately seen as improving habeas procedures rather than contracting rights.
Terrorists are exploiting our freedoms so security may make you wait for your latte...oh look those people died hope I don't have to wait.
This report was later retracted I think.
"[R]andom acts of benevolence are a good reaction to random acts of violence."

I find some kind of beauty in that. It might just be the phrase "random acts of benevolence", which I've never seen before, but I intensely respect this position.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/323914172528197632
"mall" meant walkway or promenade for a long long time. It's only very recently that "mall" became short-hand for "Shopping Mall".
What is the name of your library? Or where do you post news?
Obama about to go live to speak on this: http://www.whitehouse.gov/live
Presumably they are going to require proprietary native code running in the browser? If pure open source could actually play the streams then the DRM is pointless.
Good physical health. Seriously.

I've had troubles with this (some injuries), and -- anecdotally -- the correspondence is direct and very significant.
I think it depends on the conference, but my general impression is that mere mortals cannot expect to get speaker spots. In most cases, the organizers or at least the community in general want well-known speakers. There is no way random people are allowed to just walk up there and present. That's probably for the best, since as an organizer you want to have some kind of quality control. I do suspect that's part of the gender ratio problem though.

When I started to do open source development, I tried to speak at several OS conferences. In most cases I didn't hear back, but once they told me in no uncertain terms that they didn't tolerate "no-name" speakers (even though the signup page implied everyone was welcome).
>At the 2012 American Academy of Nursing Conference, the expert panels were roughly 100% female. Is this prima facie evidence that one of the most important qualifications was being a woman?

I think we'll have to agree to disagree, because yes, I easily read that as prima facie evidence that one of the most important qualifications is being a woman. I think it's a great example of the filter being set upstream - men face hurdles when trying to become a nurse, and face bizarre challenges when practicing as a nurse (although I believe they are still favored for promotions and prestigious placing).
I have similar experience in an an auto-parts manufacturing setting, where they had tried (and failed) to develop an automated system for their defect testing. However, since the area was "visual defects" and not functional defects (this certain component was in a very eyeball-attracting part of the vehicle cockpit), it was discovered that humans are far more capable than this kind of affair than computer vision at this time.
Which indeed is why the implementations aren't going to be open source. The last I saw of the design, the intention was to put the entirety of decryption, decode, and display into a binary browser plugin and the HTML5 parts were only the bare minimum needed to push encrypted data to said plugin.
Adobe Will Contribute To Google’s Blink Browser Engine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_%28Java%29#Final_methods
We can't propose effective solutions to the conference imbalance until we accurately identify the source. Your post assumes that the problem is with the function being used to evaluate speakers. That's far from certain. An arguably much likelier explanation is that, due to the huge gender imbalance in computing, the percentage of female applicants to speak at a conference is much lower than 20%. Therefore, the percentage of qualified applicants who are female is presumably much lower than 20%.

Let's assume for the sake of this line of reasoning that the function for evaluating a speaker's ability is accurate. If you are looking to invite ten speakers to your conference and there is only one woman among the top ten speakers, it would make perfect sense if you only invited one woman. That makes you good at your job, not sexist.

Now how do we go about changing this? Well, one approach is what you're suggesting--affirmative action. There are certainly pros and cons to introducing such a minimum quota, but I find the article's assessment that the cons seem to substantially outweigh the pros to be very persuasive. Inviting inferior speakers in an effort to increase the representation of a specific group at a conference is problematic for two main reasons: (1) it results in a conference that is expected to be worse quality and (2) it deprives women who actually are evaluated to be in the top ten speakers from knowing, and from having other people know, that their value to the conference came from their speaking ability rather than their second X chromosome. Additional ways in which the quota approach is problematic are that (3) it discriminates against the many other groups that are under-represented at tech conferences, as well as the oft-debated argument that (4) inviting a worse female speaker over a better male speaker is unfair for the man.

If we suppose the quota system does more harm than good, what alternatives do we have? That's the million dollar question! The only answer I've got is to focus our efforts on addressing the sources of women's under-representation in computing in general, such as encouraging female students to study computer science, getting schools to examine whether their classroom environment discourages female students from pursuing CS, and help software companies identify whether their workplace atmosphere discourages women and what steps they can take to address that. Forcing conferences to invite more women or businesses to hire more women is a highly problematic and very short-term hack. Identifying and fixing the structural barriers to women in computing is a highly difficult but very long-term solution.
Maybe not on the desktop, but there are plenty of people using it as a media center OS. Enough that someone went to the trouble of rolling a custom Wine distribution to get Silverlight + Firefox accessing Netflix.

At this point it's just kind of silly to exclude Linux, especially when all the heavy lifting is already done; Chrome OS _is_ Linux, and I believe the Roku devices are Linux-based as well.

The reasons Netflix might have to exclude Linux are not unique to Netflix, but somehow Amazon and Hulu - both Flash-based, of course - manage to support these customers.
I did it, not worth the worrying. But then again I only bill two things to this CC, one of which is annual.
> I would absolutely without a second's doubt invent fictitious employment and get a friend to back up any reference check and I wouldn't feel the least bit bad about it.

There's many managers who'll employ you if they suspect it's a lie so they'll have something against you if they want to get rid of you quickly later on. So the trick is to make up a lie that'll fool the HR filters but not the sociopath managers who'll employ you to be their bitch.
The DRM doesn't happen in the browser, it happens either in the OS or on a hardware component. Encrypted Media Extension just provides a way to communication with the DRM component. It's up to the web page to choose what type of DRM they accept. Expect most to require DRM on the hardware.

This means "premium" video is going to be fragmented. Big companies like Apple, Samsung, Microsoft will get it, open source operating systems and DIY devices will not.
Tannerite ignition is dependent on the impact of a high speed projectile. How would a terrorist with a rifle get a clean shot of the explosive through the crowd? I think it is unlikely that Tannerite was used.
Had one of these guys at my previous employer. We called him the Jedi Master and regarded him with the utmost respect and awe.

The guy could build anything from the scrappiest and unexpected of parts and appliances.
DRM isn't in html specs. This is just a standardized interface to a vendor-supplied DRM component.
Terrorism is not one thing, or even very well defined. The ANC were terrorists, the American revolutionaries were terrorists, and the Haganah were terrorists. Is it so black and white?
Ask HN: Anyone ever do remote work from another country?
Hey,

So my girlfriend and I are planning on moving to Germany or France for a while (maybe a year?), and I'm not sure if I'll be able to find any programming jobs over there. Anyone ever take a US job and work remotely from another country? What were your experiences? How did it work out? How do taxes work out? Please let me know, especially if it was freelance.

I'm a US citizen, but I'm interested in your experiences even if you're not a national.
I'm probably different (my own startup), but the only things which would make me M&A exit would be:

1) Chance to work on a dramatically more interesting problem (I'd probably jump ship in 15 minutes to do seriously credible human Mars settlement, or space cannon/ram accelerator for a $1/MB LEO sat constellation, or a viable way to deploy blinded ecash globally, or a US Senate seat or SCOTUS appointment, or "Commander, ISAF" so I could effect the complete withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan within 6 months...)

2) A more effective way to deploy my product/service to more users (i.e. if Apple wanted us to turn the OSX and iOS network infrastructure into the most secure/performant/reliable way for businesses and groups to network)

More money generally wouldn't be enough; even just "go work for an immediate pre-IPO company where you're likely to get a $3mm payout if things go well, plus a $200k/yr salary" if #1 or #2 weren't met. SpaceX is really the only place which meets #1 and viable pre-IPO in the next year I think.
When terrible things happen to people I can't help...
Just lost a lot of respect. Not what I would expect from you.
You have clearly never been to the Microsoft campus. There's trees and green everywhere, and parking, for the most part, is in a parking building or underneath the buildings. There's actually very little overground non-enclosed parking.

Hell, even the photo itself doesn't have that much exposed concrete apart from the buildings themselves. You can clearly see that there's a lot of greenery surrounding buildings.
What surprises me about this is that Microsoft is actually going to support Silverlight through 10/12/2021.
Yeah, and while we're at it god forbid someone name a language after a colloquialism for a popular brewed and caffeinated drink. Or the island the beans for said drink sometimes come from. Or a snake that sometimes lives on that island...

If I told my parents I worked in Ruby all day they'd think I started a career in precious gem mining, who cares? "Those who know what it is will know..." are exactly 100% of the people that care about Matz's Ruby Interpreter and therefore this article.
Paradox. You need speaking experience to speak, but you can't speak unless you have speaking experience.
Yes, your HaikuOS box won't be able to watch Netflix, unfortunately.
I notice a mix of OS X and Windows style cursors. Presumably it's actually detecting your OS.
I can't comprehend why you're arguing that these complex "upstream" cultural issues should force me to evaluate conference papers on any other grounds other than their technical merit -- something that would be the to the detriment of speakers, attendees, our industry, and my own sense of ethics and fairness to others.
You bring up very good points, thanks.

I contacted Linode support and they've said in clear terms that they have no evidence that payment information of customers was accessed. I initially signed up for Linode because my friends spoke highly of the tech people working at Linode. Right now amidst all the commotions it's ryan's words (some anonymous dude who joined #linode/irc.oftc.net) vs. an established company's. I'm just going to now stop worrying and get back to my work.

On an interesting note, the big target who actually incurred identifiable damage was seclists.org: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2013/q2/3
The problem more lies with Linode not properly dealing with a disclosed ColdFusion vulnerability: http://breenmachine.blogspot.com/2013/03/cool-coldfusion-pos...
I tended to do API-centric functional testing (does it spew JSON with the structure and data I expect?), and found it to be a time-saver in that it was faster to write a test and re-run it to check output than to manually use the web app or make the calls myself.

However if the test exceeded this cost/benefit metric where it wasn't really helping me get the feature written, out the window it went.

Helped when I went to refactor/fix fairly major chunks of the backend as all those tests from back when I did initial development were still there. It wasn't really "test first" because I didn't know what to test for until the basics of the API endpoint were in place.

This was Python if it matters (default unittest2). I do mostly Clojure when I have the choice lately.

It's not even really a matter of "does it need tested?", although you should be asking that question and building up the coverage for the critical bits.

For me it was a question of, "is this going to save me time/sanity?"

I advocated tests to the other engineers at my startup only when they were experiencing regressions/repeat bugs. I left them alone about the lack of test discipline otherwise.

My Clojure code tends to "just work" (after I'm done experiencing insanity and disconnection from reality in my REPL) to the degree that I mostly write tests when I'm making a library or touching somebody else's Git repo.

This is all fitting though. I use Clojure instead of Haskell precisely because I'm impatient, lazy, etc. Would kill for a "quickcheck" for Clojure though.

This whole debate has a whiff of excluded middle (we have 3 UND ONLY 3 TESTS <---> TDD ALL THE TIME!), not to speak of people not mentioning how tests can simply...save time sometimes.
Why Lady Gaga Isn’t Ditching the CD
Person walking on roof of a building near the site of the incident at the time of explosions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQJsyqAOofg
... "Bel-Red" is the road separating Bellevue and Redmond. That's why it exists.
Wii U version of Injustice: Gods Among Us delayed
It should be noted that multiple studies indicated that terrorists don't have a bigger share of psychopaths than the general population. Average people can convince themselves and/or be convinced to maim and kill if they believe their cause is just.

This does not in any way mean we should excuse them, any more than I would let a rabid dog attack me just because I recognize it can't be expected to follow ethical behavior.
10+ "rules" for writing video game reviews
Boston cellular networks have been shut down to prevent remote bomb detonations according to an update on the OP news article.
I'm impressed by the speed of software engineering at Google, do they pre-design these systems for such events ?

that was pretty quick indeed.
Green card.
I've often thought that a company could recruit really great people by restricting the work week to three days and paying a proportionately lower salary.
I think in the short term Chrome will be a prereq to watch Netflix (fallback to Silverlight in other browsers). In the long term DRM requirements are going to change and hardware-level DRM is going to be mandatory. Speculation.
The IRA had structure, with ranks. They had a political wing. They had funding and training and available weapons. They had PR and issued coded warnings and press releases.

Compare that to the London Nail Bomber (who killed three, and maimed many more) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copeland) who operated alone and got no funding from others.
Agreed, we're headed for Wall-E world pretty quickly. The problem of business models that require planned obsolescence is a huge part of this problem.

My work boots will last 5-6 years, but my running shoes only last 12 mo. tops.

A disposables oriented society is inherently unsustainable.
Also relevant, check out the decline in Detroit at present:

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Detropia/70229260?locale=e...

Watched this weekend and it is available for streaming. Pretty scary to think this sort of decline could hit any major city.

Why has this been downvoted?
I don't think this is entirely accurate. I used to live in Seattle, and my parents currently live in Redmond (about a mile from Microsoft), but virtually all of the people I know in that area have nothing to do with Microsoft. It's dominant to be sure, but not absolutely everyone is affiliated with them.

Plus it's not all that remote. It is a typically boring suburb with tract houses and squat apartment buildings punctuated by strip malls, but it is only 20-40 minutes from downtown Seattle (I've done the trip many many times). I think living in Seattle and commuting to Microsoft via the 545 is a reasonable commute. I used to do something similar when I lived in Green Lake and worked in Kirkland.

But don't get me wrong, I agree that locating a major company there instead of Seattle, or at least Bellevue, is a mistake. I just don't think calling it a remote company town is a fair characterization.
While free parking is appealing for many users, it’s definitely not for many others because unlike Airbnb, the value of their possession (in this case, their car) is variable while the compensation (free parking and $10/day rented out) is fixed in the sense that it is pre-determined.

With Airbnb, the compensation is variable and is set based on the owner's perceived value (which factors in the 'emotional piece of mind’ too among other things). It’s essentially a market based approach, and to get a wider acceptance from the supply-side, that’s what FlightCar needs to incorporate while preserving simplicity.

As an optimist, I believe the creases will get ironed out eventually. It’s not going to be easy (never is) and it might take some time, but it will happen. Here’s a structure that comes to my mind:

Tier 1 – Free parking and $10 for every day the car is rented out (like they have now)

Tier 2 – Pay $X per day to park and Receive $Y for every day the car is rented out, where X is the market rate which in SFO’s case is $18 and Y is the daily rental-price you name.
Simple Facebook Hack
Check who is looking you up on Facebook.

- Login to Facebook.com
- "view source"
- Ctrl-f. search "InitialChatFriendsList" (Hit enter until you come across a long list of numbers)
- Copy the first one and paste it after facebook.com e.g: facebook.com/123456

This is the person who has viewed your profile the most, second number is second most, and so on...
Don't feed the trolls. It is best to ignore such hateful comments so as not to encourage them.
Yes, Person Finder is being used since 2010 and since then it has been reused for couple of times. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Person_Finder
The majority of CC names have "Virtual CC numbers" which is precisely this - You generate a new number, which links to your account, but can only be used for the merchant you specify.
This has existed before today. Check out the home page: http://google.org/personfinder/global/home.html
Don't worry, US lawmakers will be "open for business" to prevent the outsourcing of waste - and we'll keep piling on the waste right here in the USA... just in "garbage towns" and the like.

Quite dystopic.
Your experience with "Enterprise Architects"? 
Today was my first time interacting with an Enterprise Architect. He entirely lived up to the negative EA stereotypes. At my work we deal with another company regularly. They are fairly large but nothing they do is complex. It's just a few web sites, some eCommerce, and some corp. infrastructure.

We need a web service method to verify that a username and password were valid or not. This resulted in a meeting with their newly appointed EA. He told us it would take a week, or a week and a half to get it done, because he had to talk to the developers "make a design, and make sure things done more formally, because these guys typically just start coding, we need them to have a more methodical process." This would take me 30-45 minutes from start to deploy.

I picture this guy going off to his developers and having a design and architecture meeting to plan out this single method. I'm picturing a UML diagram. Oh shit, you also made a diagram about how this is going to use a 3-tiered architecture!? Good one, buddy! You really put Visio through its paces today!

This is not banking, or something that needs compliance checks. The database already exists, the accounts are already there, the passwords are already hashed, and no data is being created or modified. We just want them to tell us if the combo passed in is valid.

After 4+ years of the projects being run by him they are still stuck in this world where they don't even have the basics done, no automated tests, no automated builds. The offshore dev's log into the development environment's web server. You know why? Because Visual Studio is installed there, and they all do development from that machine. There are many different copies of the main web project there, and only one person knows which one is the "real" one. It's definitely not one of the ones that have "real version" as part of the folder name. I tried all of those.

Any similar experiences? Any advice on dealing with this type of architect?
I like the practicalness of the advice. It might actually lead to some good in this world.

It's times like this when people stop to think about other human beings and might actually act on something. Unfortunately during normal times we are really bad at that.