skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Live video feeds:

http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive/

http://www.myfoxboston.com/category/235888/fox-25-live-video...
[NSFW]

That's really disturbing...
Ask HN: What are the best "per language" Web sites?
If you want to learn "language X", you'll quickly find plenty of "learn X" sites out there. I'd love to compile a list of the best Web sites, podcasts, blogs, etc. for learning various languages. What do you recommend?
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I do not think anyone here is actually worried about their funds; as mentioned below, any reputable provider will have such charges promptly reversed. The problem is instead with their response to the situation.

Linode has addressed the breach, but assured customers nothing of value had been compromised. This infers two thoughts. One: they knew of the breach and lied, thereby unveiling a unforthcoming and dishonest nature. Or two: they did not properly investigative the severity of the issue, thereby suggesting incompetence. Both equally reprehensible.
To be fair the hacker didn't say the keys were stored on the same server as the credit card numbers, he said they were stored on the web server. It's most likely the database containing the CC numbers resides on a separate set of boxes than the web servers.
Just before noon PST it seems like.
Just like I can have application-specific passwords for my Google account, I wish I could have application-specific credit card numbers from my CC issuer.

If I had these, I would immediately cancel my Linode-specific CC# and reissue a new one. I would not have to worry that my other recurring bills will go unpaid, or spend hours dealing with tracking them down and changing them.
As for lower unemployment, you might have noticed that women also have lower employment. As a percentage of people who actually want jobs (employed+unemployed) rather than of the total population, the unemployment rate is basically the same between men and women.
>The only time a house makes sense is when raising kids.

It really depends where you live. Here in Pittsburgh you can buy a decent house for $150k. Meanwhile, rent in that same area is $1000 for something similar. In this case, even if there was zero appreciation, the amount you pay on interest, repairs, etc... is less then the amount you would have spent on rent, but everyone should take the time to make these calculations for themselves. There was no amount of math that made a 1,500 sqft house in Calfornia at $1 mil (during the boom) better then renting.

I should also mention the area I'm thinking of has high demand for rent, so your mobility isn't really limited as you'd be able to rent out at a profit almost immediately.
I felt the opposite. Are you ever too old to play with Lego? :-)
>Boston scanner: "EMS is reporting another device" in front of Mandarin Hotel

https://twitter.com/katz/status/323878815245946880
Thanks! Hopefully, we can change your mind one day. :)
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Ask HN: Moving to San Francisco?
I'm a developer living in a flyover state. I just quit my startup job and I am not happy living here any more. I've been developing software for as long as I can remember and my primary language is Python (I'm pretty damn good at ruby too). I have a strong portfolio of companies I've done contract work for, and I have previously been through a very well known incubator. Do you have any suggestions for:

1) Is it worth it to move to the bay area? Is there an up and coming area that I have totally missed out on?
2) Finding a company with smart people that is doing interesting work? I'm sick of writing a CRUD app from scratch that finds the best kitten barber in your local neighborhood.
3) Finding a place to live in San Francisco that won't bankrupt me?

Timescale on my move is a few months but I would be more than happy to fly out and work remotely until I pack my bags one last time.
2 ‘large explosions’at 2013 Boston Marathon
It does not mean anything until they decide you are not compliant and you need to prove you are compliant. (I've never had to but I'd appreciate insight from people who have)
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Please ignore this post...
"But those audits are notoriously superficial"

Will add that just having gone through an ICANN registrar audit (which by the way were specified and supposed to be done literally 10 or 12 years ago but never requested by ICANN) with a third party company hired (accounting firm) it's total compliance theater.

Add: "hired by ICANN after a bidding process". Same happened with data escrow which was just implemented a few years ago and is operated by Iron Mountain.
1 - build a large enough datacenter to constantly crawl the internet. build each morning.

2 - build something that does, maybe a remote controlled rocket

3 - we can start and work on that direction

4 - there are software that generates stories already

5 - same kind of software can be adapted to generate music, you could use machine learning to follow the same logic from the part we have to finish it

6 - you can start and do incremental updates each day

7 - Thats actually a nice idea to use computer vision to tts, someone could actually make this as an app to google glass

8 - not long ago circulated a story about the army developing something like this
Blinding combined with active outreach to get more people to submit to a CFP has helped several conferences improve their numbers. GoGaRuCo is the one that immediately comes to mind.
Dear small online ad businesses,

Forward your thanks to the intrusive ad networks, spammers and other cretin who've been treating users badly for the last few decades, attracting hostile attention to the advertising practices.

People woke up to the fact that they are in control of the content coming through their wires thanks to the versatility of the contemporary computers. There is no return.

You should embrace current realities of the market you so love to invoke for every other subject and start innovating and distrupting. Failing that, stick with the proven ad channels such as iDevices, other locked down devices, social stalking services, local tv and radio channels and papers.

You won't be missed.

Sincerely,
Internet users
horrible , is that blood floating around ?
In my mind, the author is the one pointing out the lack of industry data. Just because she doesn't provide it does not mean her core argument -- that quotas undermine the empowerment of women by devaluing their hard work and talent -- is invalid. It just means that, ultimately, we still need more data.
Wow those are some awesome lectures. Thanks!!
Also, NASA has been doing prototyping for this tech since 2007: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/sustainability-base/index....
"Don't worry, all the doors are locked."

"Where are the keys?"

"In the locks."
I spent relatively little time with VB (thank god). I had been messing with VBscript in powerpoint, then I abandoned VB for the C-flavor languages
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Right now I'm working in Go. I like it a lot.
I wish everyone should be safe.
true, infinite scrolling and footer do not work together, unless footer is position:fixed, which is often the case on mobile. Infinite scrolling is pretty much the norm on mobile and is increasingly popular on desktop, pinterest and twitter are examples.

I have found only a couple of libraries that attempt some of the techniques used by LinkedIn team. One is [infinity.js](http://airbnb.github.io/infinity/) by airbnb but it is specific to pinterest-style masonry layouts, and another is [swipeview.js](http://cubiq.org/swipeview) by Matteo Spinelli, the great guy who created iscroll.js. We are using swipeview in [Urbini](http://github.com/urbien/urbini) but it is not good enough, scrolling is terribly slow. It is possible that it is some problem in interaction between jquery mobile and swipeview, so we are investigating it, but anyway swipeview is not even close to what LinkedIn guys have created. I know Sencha guys have a similar technique, [Infinite List Component](www.sencha.com/blog/the-making-of-fastbook-an-html5-love-story) but we do not want to use Sencha as it has terrible cross-browser support compared to JQM.
He made a huge deal about trying to get the detainees legal trials in New York. It was a big political story for a number of weeks.

What would have had him do, specifically? He tried, it clearly wasn't happening. Maybe he should try again, but I can tell you the same exact thing would happen again. That would be your symbolic gesture.
They are supposed to say that they would never ever store the CC numbers this way. Otherwise their customers (like me) have really no better option than to block their cards, which is quite an inconvenience. This is exactly the trouble I was hoping to avoid by not using a cheap VPS hosting.
I never did follow up to see how DjangoCon 2013 turned out... looks like you're about right.

http://2013.djangocon.eu

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5036457

> Everybody can vote for DjangoCon 2013 presentations (Github required)
> The voting is deliberately anonymous at this first stage.
Reuters live-updating feed:
http://live.reuters.com/Event/Boston_Marathon_Explosion
Woah woah woah isn't this just transferring the contents of /dev/sda in the clear over the wire? Shouldn't you at least do this over SSH?
One way to look at percentages is as a quota. "20% of our speakers this year shall be women!" Right or wrong, a lot of people don't like this.

Another way is to use percentages as an indicator of how well your outreach is going. If you have, say, 5% women/minority/whatever speaking in the first year of your conference, that metric could act as a swift kick up the butt that you're not doing enough outreach, your CFP is poor, you're not promoting the CFP in a diverse way, etc. You work and improve, and then in year two you might notice you ended up at, say, 30%. Hurrah!

Both approaches involve percentages and measurements, yet the second is not an attempt at fulfilling a "quota" (even if there's a target % to reach) and should be more palatable to everyone while still ensuring efforts are made to increase diversity.
The social-proof side not only means you need to have jobs, but they have to be a certain "class" of jobs. Though you can invent them pretty well.

Here's a story from an acquaintance (don't know him that well, so may or may not be apocryphal, but it seems plausible). For a period of 2 years he worked at Home Depot to pay the bills, and did a bit of puttering around on tech side projects on the side. Not really any kind of business, just for fun mostly. So he listed that honestly: Home Depot was in the employment section, and a few side projects that had become releasable were listed under projects.

Later, he changed his resume. He removed Home Depot from the resume entirely, because he had gotten the impression that working a retail job while post-college-age carried a stigma, at least if you were looking for "professional" jobs rather than other retail jobs. To explain what he was doing in those two years, he grouped together those side projects as an "unsuccessful startup". Big improvement in responses.
She didn't say that the problem doesn't exist. Not only that, she proposed 6 solutions to the problem.
Thanks for the reply. As you mention, a day or two without being rented would definitely swing it more in the car owners favor. Perhaps the best idea is just to bring a car so ugly no one would rent it!
> I only read this news because it was posed here -- no email notification

There was an email notification a few days ago.
I have the same sentiments, new cc and might move off linode, who I have been with for 4 years.
FYI, I just learned from Linode support that accounts have both a default LISH password AND a default API key, which means that even if you've never set a LISH password or generated an API key before, you still should still go and reset them. This is not what I would consider expected or desirable behavior.
This individual is not the issue. Guantanamo Bay is the issue.

That facility is in use in order to circumvent the law in treatment of prisoners period. It was located in Cuba in order to not be on US soil, because the Bush administration thought that offshore abuse would be easier to get away with.

If you have been awake at all during the past 12 years you will have heard the news stories about prisoners being tortured/executed there.

Furthermore, you will have heard the news stories of many inmates there turning out to be completely innocent.

Finally, you will have heard of the "people sweeps" in Afghanistan and Pakistan in which local warlords sold off people arbitrarily as "terrorists" to US forces, who didn't know better (and didn't care).

These people have been bunged up in Guantanamo without a fair trail. A fair trial is the only way to determine if they actually are who you and the lying US military claim they are.

If the prisoners are "guilty" of being enemy soldiers, then yes they can rot in jail until the US withdraws from Afghanistan.

If they are innocent, they should be freed immediately and compensated.

If you can't fathom that the word of the US military (or any part of any government really) should not just be taken on trust, you should take a time-machine to Nazi Germany. You'll love it there.
https://twitter.com/letsrundotcom/status/323874395632328706/...

this looks really bad.
>I wish I could have application-specific credit card numbers from my CC issuer

Do some research on "virtual account numbers". I haven't used them myself, so I can't verify how well they work.
Nice :)

But no.
If we could run everything on "reason", yes, that would be great. I don't disagree, it would produce good results. The problem is, humans show time and time again they cannot be counted upon to act reasonably or rationally.

Suppose I were to argue that all our problems would go away if we had free energy. "Yes, of course" you might say. "That would solve many many problems. But we don't have free energy, and we probably never will." This is how I feel about your position.
No weird activity here (no declined transactions or anything)

Mine is not a CC or a debit card, it's a 'prepayed card' so liability is limited.

Still, I'm considering calling the lost/stolen line of the card.
North Korea, Al Qaeda, racists, or something else?

I honestly think anyone could claim responsibility but given the high explosives and the seemingly professional nature of the attack I'm guessing either NK, AQ, or a false-flag to start a war on the Korean peninsula.

edit: Nice downvotes? We cannot speculate who?
Either this, or a assignable CVV codes. Something like that would be awesome.
Or until they let other customers see all the data on VMs that you've shut down. Oh wait, that already happened: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/digitalocean/
I vote for link bait though I believe the author is authentic in her frustration. I like the suggestions at the end of her article.

To share a personal reflection, I just applied to speak at a conference in June. I submitted two ideas and I have many more I could share. I would love if the conference organizers were interested in diversity of viewpoints and gave me feedback that would allow my topic to be accepted. I think there is a nuance here between a handout and a handup.

It's the same experience I have applying to accelerators. I want to make it into the next YC class but I may not, not because of my race and gender but that I don't know the technique. Teach me to fish. I will be the captain of fishing.
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Does any one know of other VPS providers who are about as good as Linode in terms of quality and price but do not have a history of security issues ?
Looks like he took down his blog – a shame, since there were a lot of really good posts on it.
Hacker News, wherein I find further motivation to immediately get my off-site services off of Linode...
Boston Marathon Blasts Kill 2, Police Say
You should add a NSFW tag. Fuck... :(
if the raw video streams from all of the surrounding areas were provided to the internet as a collective, I would bet they could trace the source 10x faster than the police.
I browsed for years before ads were practical, and most of my traffic today goes to Wikipedia, HN, or Netflix. When did we take it as a given that NOTHING GOOD happens online without advertising?

Sure, people want to build a business using advertising, I don't want to stop them. But packets are fickle. Some people will ignore, block, or just never get your ad. You have to accept that as a cost of your model, not a flaw in the network. We shouldn't drop everything to support your model, because some of us are actually using this network for other things.

There's another assumption at play, that advertising networks simply can't operate without third party cookies (from previously unvisited domains). I'm sure we'll find, rather than simply leaving all those dollars and eyeballs on the table, someone will come up with something.
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c'mon, people have smartphones. companies like facebook, twitter, foursquare, etc know your location and should be able to push notifications alerting people to stay away/at home.

EDIT: Thanks for the downvotes guys, here I was trying to show a real need. I've been calling friends in NY/Boston the past 30min asking to see if they are OK + stay at home.
So because companies A through X are irresponsible with data, customers should regard that as acceptable and give company Y a free pass to do the same? I don't understand how a reasonable analysis of the situation can come to that conclusion.
I'm sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about.

Usually, what happens is, they spend the time looking for jobs they are qualified for and want, and don't get. Then they spend some of their time looking for jobs they are overqualified for as well, and usually don't get.

That's 6 months.

I've done it. I was unemployed for about a year; during that time I went on about a dozen interviews, did volunteer work, took courses etc. so as to have something to explain what I did during this blank period on my resume.

I learned much better multi-tasking skills during this period, and how to organize dozens of contacts, because if job x calls you and you've applied to 28 jobs in the last 10 days, you have to know immediately who they are and what they do as well as what you said to them in your customized application.

Personally, I'd like to see better integration between linkedin and my smartphone to facilitate this. Anyone working on that?

Applying to jobs is hard, not getting them is hard, and there's about 10% unemployment in the US for a reason. It's not just because 10% of people are lazy or incompetent and 90% are hardworking and good.
It's a very simple mathematical error - people compare the cost of a mortgage payment with the cost of a month's rent, failing to take into account that only a tiny fraction of the mortgage payment actually becomes equity.

If they actually sit down and work it out, most people are astonished at how much flexibility they sacrifice for that small slice of equity.
Visa have this (probably others too) that you can generate and either set a time or value limit on. Don't think you can set a monthly limit though unfortunately. They call it e-cards (in sweden at least).
For life balance I wouldn't try balancing work/school vs free time but in stead fun tasks vs tedious tasks. Perhaps you find your job to be fun and you don't mind working crazy hours, but other people hate their job and working too much makes them depressed. So you gotta find a balance between stuff you enjoy doing (it could include work, school, hobby or sport) and stuff you hate doing but still have to do (it could be cardiovascular exercise, your job, your taxes, cleaning your house, etc). Stuff you enjoy doing gives you energy and revives you. Stuff you hate doing drains you. Therefore you gotta balance these two in such a way to optimize your productivity and your health.
ur about to finish running a fucking marathon... you grew up in Kenya... trained your whole life... BOOM
Bank of America provides this [1], as does Citibank [2] and likely others.

Paypal at one time provided this service as well, but it doesn't seem to anymore [3]

1: https://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/accounts-cards/shopsaf...

2: https://www.citibank.com/us/cards/gen-content/messages/van/i...

3: https://www.paypal.com/va/webapps/mpp/security/general-freet...
You can grab one at radio shack if you don't want to wait for shipping.
Strangely enough, iPhones do have an ability to receive geographic-targeted alerts like this. I've seen them used for severe weather warnings.

They look like this — http://i.imgur.com/gWrDXFD.jpg
The author's assertion is simply that enforcing quotas does not empower women, and that instead it devalues the work and talent of the women who are ultimately represented at the conference. And I agree with her. Women shouldn't need quotas in order to be offered the same opportunities as their male counterparts.

Of course, percentages matter, and the fact that far fewer women are represented in a conference may be a symptom of something else, as opposed to a direct bias by the conference organizers. What we need is more of the underlying data. To start, I'd like to know how many women submitted technical talks to begin with.
The reason I left the games industry after 10 years (aged 31) was because there was a serious lack of professionalism with project delivery, which leads to ridiculous hours, and the pay really isn't worth it after a while.

As the consoles got more and more powerful, the pressure to deliver next-gen experiences just overwhelms the team. Quite often at the expense of delivering good gameplay.

I worked at a number of medium sized development houses, and the failure rate was probably 75%+. Some games wouldn't make it to market after 2 years+ development, some would make it to market but the publisher buried it (no real marketing). The most successful title I worked on was one for Nintendo, where the focus was on the gameplay (our producer was Shigeru Miyamoto). Even that title was massively late.

I was an engine and tools programmer and I believe the level of complexity of the systems being developed (to fit into consoles with very little power, slow memory etc.) was pretty high compared to development in most other fields. So the rewards should be there too.

However, I think the constant struggle that development houses have to keep their heads above water - due to the high failure rate of games - means that the rewards aren't competitive. So naturally you start looking elsewhere, especially if you have new found responsibilities in your life.

It's a shame really, because it's actually one of the most fun and creative fields to develop for (in my experience) - however it's just set up for burnout and disillusionment.

I left 7 years ago to form a healthcare software startup here in the UK and haven't looked back since.
Boston marathon start times 2013 EDT:

9:00 am Mobility Impaired

9:17 am Wheelchair Division

9:22 am Handcycles

9:32 am Elite Women

10:00 am Elite Men & Wave One

10:20 am Wave Two

10:40 am Wave Three

Explosion happened somewhere around (edit) noon PST, 3pm EDT. A little before. Elite women marathon times are in the 2:15 and slower range. Elite men are 2:05 and slower. Not sure about likely times for the earlier groups.
Fire Dept Live Feed: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/497/web
Except Linode didn't tell us that. Linode said it was a downstream customer's info that was compromised. Nothing about Linode itself.