skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like cryptocurrency brings an incentive to finally take computer security seriously for consumer grade software and hardware. It is the first time something is really at stake apart for intangible qualities such as "privacy" and "intellectual property". It is an interesting and unexpected(?) second-order effect of cryptocurrency.
FYI: 15 days, not minutes.
I just tried the app and I have to say it is impressive! Please tell us more about the way you built this!

EDIT: Me stupid: http://www.scrambledapp.com/articles/for-developers/
Steve, does it really matter? Even if a super-talented developer only stays with you for say 6-12 months surely they would deliver enough value in that time to not make it a huge concern? Also, let's flip the question on its head, if a company can't hold on to talented, entrepreneurial staff, is it indicative of a problem with the staff or with the company? What's the common denominator here?

What is better? Being fortunate enough to have a super smart person come on board, deliver a large amount of value, and then leave after a short period; or a less talented developer delivering lower quality work, at a lower velocity over a longer period?

I'm not sure talented but flighty people are a problem. Once they're in the door, it's the company's job to make sure their staff are happy and want to stay rather than moan about it.
The best way to get almost any job is to knowing someone who already works there.
It is old advice, but it is probably the best, it is easier to get your foot in the door when they already have someone to vouch for you.
In other words, while you are working on that startup, dont forget to keep in touch with people and look for new friends in your field of interest, it will go a long way.
While I think you have a valid point, I think it's also useful to separate copyright (which is fundamentally an economic tool, hence the "limited" duration) from other reasons to restrict copying or redistributing material by law, such as protecting privacy rights, trade secrets, genuine national security concerns, etc. Assuming copyright law is the correct tool to guard against these other things, and against the kind of misrepresentation you're talking about, seems to muddy the waters and thus to dilute reasonable but distinct arguments in favour of either copyright or the other protections.
I would be interested to hear more detail on this as well. Keeping in mind we are talking about taxation on the municipal level, doesn't it make sense that a tiny, not-so-special town will have difficulty getting away with higher taxes?

You say "it was nothing like what I knew from Norway." Does that mean in Norway you can have one crappy town charging 20% municipal taxes next to another crappy town charging only 10% municipal taxes, and this will have no effect on which town people want to live in?

I am not too familiar with the exact dynamics of the game, but I would think that as your SimCity becomes more awesome, higher taxes can be levied because people want to live there for other reasons. Is this not the case? I hope these social economists weren't just arguing, "taxes are high in Oslo, and there is no shortage of people who want to live there!"
Right now the leading open source new media publishing projects are driven by PHP communities. It's easy to see why, with a well-established and vibrant ecosystem, the PHP community is strong. But, it comes with its limitations, and recently other technologies have taken the lead on innovation.[1]

Which limitations are that? I'm curious as to who their user is here. My grandmother or my friend who is a developer? For my grandmother, Wordpress suits perfectly. For my developer, Jekyll.

I feel like this is solving a non-problem here. The UI looks great, but then why not just stick it on top of the Wordpress admin?

[1] - http://blog.tryghost.org/
I suspect it is to do with the stitching of various images together. As the Earth is in the way if you try to take a picture of the universe from one point, they would have had to stitch multiple images together taken from either side of the Earth. You sometimes get a similar effect when you stitch together spherical photos and then rotate the view to a slightly odd angle relative to the original shots.
Slightly relevant.. in an introductory C ourse at my university, we had to write a program that would tell us which version of the standard was used by the compiler. I can't think of a solution now but I'm sure it was based on different comment syntax.
Pretty much all damage to copyright at this point is good, if only for setting the precedent that copyright is something that you can damage.
The photographer holds the copyright, not the people depicted in the photos (except when they're the same person, obviously), so that wouldn't help a lot. Not to mention all the pictures that don't have anyone in them, of course.
In Berlin we have two open ops positions ;-)

" but it took companies a long time to make a decision"

Yes, a lot of companies get that wrong, sometimes we do too. But we strive to have interviews as fast as possible and make decisions within a week, most often the same day as we do not consider it fair letting people wait on a decision (and it rarely gets better with time).
Why More Is Not Always Better (Jason Friend in Inc.)
There may be some kind of relationship, but it's almost certainly not a linear one. I don't think I could summarize the research on the subject (there is a lot, and it's not my area), but it seems to strongly depend on the business, stickiness of various quantities, the specific tax rates, and other factors.

Part of the problem is that economies are basically nonlinear dynamical systems, and nonlinear systems tend to have lots of strange feedback loops and attractors, where varying some inputs rarely has a simple (or often, even predictable) effect on system dynamics. An analogy might be fluid flow: high-level generalizations you might make about fluid flow are typically right only in specific flow regimes, and wrong in others (due to effects such as switching between laminar and turbulent flow). For example, if you can assume flow is always laminar, then increasing the pressure-drop across a length of pipe increases the flow rate. But increasing the pressure-drop can also induce turbulence, which may decrease the flow rate. I think most macroeconomic generalizations that assume things like "lower taxes are better for business" ignore system-dynamic effects like regime-switching.

The main point, though, is that SimCity just posits a very simple relationship, rather than attempting to build a realistic model of the economy grounded in scientifically valid empirical data. This can have some propagandistic effects of basically defining a certain causal relationship as true, which may or may not be true in reality, but happens in the game's virtual world as defined. In practice, SimCity probably just did that for ease of coding and playing. An incredibly complex city simulation where your actions had unpredictable, very indirect effects, and random chance or exogenous factors or just hard-to-explain stuff overrode your policy decisions on a regular basis, might not be very fun to play, compared to an ultra-simplified world with predictable rules. But it's interesting to think of rhetorical effects as well.
I know. Nothing wrong with that approach, but being teased to try a demo and getting redirected to a fundraiser instead is a bit weird.
Ask HN: What documentary films inspired you the most?
> On those echo that support options, there's generally no support of a -- to mark the end of options (zsh and possibly others support - for that though), so for instance, it's difficult to output "-n" in many shells.

It's good to know (while the key takeaway lesson is "use printf"):

# bash
$ echo -n
$ echo -- -n
-- -n
$ echo - -n
- -n

# zsh
$ echo -n
$ echo -- -n
-- -n
$ echo - -n
-n
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Difference between generics in C#, Java and C++
Sorry, we don't allow usage of that endpoint in any other contexts than the Tweet Button. If the counts are important to display on your site, you'll either need to use the official Tweet Button or count the tweets yourself using the Streaming API and provide your own counts.

https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/5653
Zelda: A Link to the CSS
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We wrote an article to explain how we did it. You can read it here : http://www.scrambledapp.com/articles/for-developers/
Turning Off Email Notifications
lmao, linus is a web dev ninja? is this a joke? comparing a web developer to a kernel/systems level programmer is like comparing a donkey to a unicorn. stop trying to promote your little certificate mill, or at least be a bit more subtle about it.
The simplicity and markdown support reminds me a lot of http://throwww.com/ which is very impressive.
Or have an enterprise that allows workers to devote some part of their daily duty to support/build it...
Retail moves in cycles over how easy to make returns.

They make returns easy, and their customers are happy, but so are scam artists, ranging from people who "bought" the TV for the super bowl or the dress for the party and now are returning it, to people who bought the item somewhere else and are trying to return it to your store where they insist they bought it.

So then stores start making returns harder, dissatisfying the scam artists and their real customers. And then someone starts the cycle again, thinking they have a better handle on it.
Great stuff! Beautiful flat design and the app runs very smoothly :)
Agreed. Seems a bit disingenuous to espouse the virtues of 'open source community' and putting yourself at the other end of the spectrum with 'evil' Facebook, then actually engaging in hat passing. Not dissing your efforts or your product (looks cool), but leave the colorful, evocative terms like 'open source' to the side next time and be honest about your marketing exercise intentions.
The prosecution would have to show that the defendant could have found that image at the time they searched and that they were negligent (ie not diligent) in the search they performed.

For example a diligent search could be considered to be using a specific service, Tineye say, but another similar service was the only one that had the image. Do you have to use all services to be diligent? That would be great for the service providers as they could charge a lot and the court would be enforcing the use.

How would the prosecution demonstrate that image was available to you? On Google search is personalised - do I need to check all the results returned or just the first 100? Google's dates are notoriously unreliable too; they're certainly not at the level of accuracy needed for a court conviction.

Then there's DMCA ... couldn't you use the DMCA to have the images taken down, then when a prosecutor checks later they won't find them? Or at least they're down long enough that you can get a search notarised in which the images are absent.
I agree, but at least they made that issue slightly useful by including a phone.
So is a "Bihari", in most parts of India. I am from Bihar, India. That's why I said it: to emphasize on the classifications we have created and abide by. It's less derogatory than a "chamar" or a "musahar" or a "dom". I am sure there are terms even lower than these.
moot, founder of 4chan has made it very clear in the past "No, we will never implement a captcha."

It wasn't until the social virus was released on 4chan that uploaded itself, along with any random file it happens to find in Documents or other sensitive areas publicly, that the captchas were put in place.

This evolved to the point where they started selling 4chan as a service without a captcha (I'm actually all for that).

Sometimes there is just no way around the problem.
Intuit.

" By 1985 the company was struggling to stay afloat. Three employees left when Cook and Proulx became unable to pay salaries. The other four, still believing in their product, kept working for six months without any pay." http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/intuit-inc-...
Is your power supply ready for Haswell?
Do you think that it does a roundtrip to the server to get the preview or is it all done in JS?
The first thing I noticed is that this would be the first OSX release to be named after something other than a great cat. Instead, they seem to be going for alcoholic beverages now.

Why do I find this darkly hilarious?
In the academic field 'how exactly' a BCI is going to work is very well defined and there are only a limited number of basic types.

It's the representation of BCI in the media which is a joke. The actual science behind EEG based BCI is not that complex that the average person couldn't understand them. The disconnect between reality and peoples conception is similar to the way AI is represented, compared to what it is.
Older Is Wiser: Study Shows Software Developers’ Skills Improve Over Time
Clearly, this is marketing at it's best.
The Myth of America's Tech Talent Shortage
Giving away premium services is great. This guy is totally missing the point in a very long winded way.
I'm trying to say that they are linked through an underlying cause. Pornel says it much better than me in his comment though.

Jon's closing email is also quite telling:

Dear All,

It is with a heavy heart that I send this message. Next week will be my last
at Opera. It has become clear that The Board, Management and I do not share
the same values and we do not have the same opinions on how to keep evolving
Opera. As a result I have come to an agreement with the Board to end my time
at Opera. I feel the Board and Management is more quarterly focused than me.
I have always worked to build the company for the future. I believe the
foundation we have is very solid to build further upon.

I do believe strongly in Opera as a company, and in all of you working here.
Our products actually make a difference for a lot of people in the world, and
I wish you all the best of luck moving forward. I will be following the
company closely and rooting for you all.

Yours truly, Jon.
Thanks. I did not know about the $0 trick :)
Trond Werner Hansen is not a non-profit. In fact, he's not even a corporation.

As a side note, 80% of features in Mozilla were first done in Opera. I even remember a Firebird (as it was called back in the day, before version 1.0) fan or zealot badmouthing Opera and its tabs as being a ridiculous and unnecessary feature. After just four months, that feature was copied. It seems that crowd has not changed even a little.

The only good thing in Mozilla is the OSS license. The only reason they have market share is the OSS license.
Consider even the NFL is non profit, non profit hardly means anything.
Agreed. It seems that the trajectory from 2.0 to 3.0 was much, much slower than the one from 3.0 to 4.0 (at least judging by data points so far).

Anyone know of any reason for this?
Big data will revolutionize learning
How to destroy a university
6-12 months is plenty of time for a talented dev to have a big impact but I'd much rather hire them on a contract basis than a permanent basis in that circumstance.

Regardless of how adept a company is at retaining their best talent, you will never be able to compete with the appeal of running your own business and being your own boss.
I am not sure I like this trend of people kickstarting things that they actually dont need money for.

For example, these guys are web developers and designers, what could possibly stop them from building it and putting on the web? Hardly the 25K pounds they are asking for.

I think the product is awesome, but I dont understand what you need the money for especially if they are boasting Open Source and not for profit.
It seems to me that opponents of 'Free Market' stuff their fingers into their ears and begin to hum very loudly when they are told that people can organize and contribute to a common goal without being forced to do it.
If and IsNull - T-SQL Step by Step Course - Lesson 13
They order from Applebee's secret menu, which is centered around obscure cuts of locally raised meats that are prepared slowly using sous-vide and finished with pan-searing.
This has a ton of potential. I can't wait to see this kind of thing take off.
Stanley Kubrick: A life in pictures

Man on Wire

Most stuff by Herzog

Transcendent Man - Ray Kurzweill

Die Hard (just kidding)
Ask HN: Who built XMLHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1999?
The person (or persons) deserve a medal.

All I can find is it was built for Outlook Web Access. Nothing more. No names, no nothing.

Who's idea was it, and who built it?

Anyone know?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/123475/who-first-created-or-popularized-the-original-xmlhttprequest-msxml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest
Toggle Xdebug stack-traces when debugging PHP programming
Brain debugger.

I honed mine early enough that the most I need from a program is a few Sprintf statements just to give the brain debugger some context when the application is dealing with external data or data transformation.

I personally find it hard to turn off the brain debugger and rely on software. Originally this was because you'd very much be used to the debugger being wrong. As in, "Ah, but in this case the debugger thinks X but Y is the case", and later just because the brain debugger had become so effective that not using it seemed like a lot of hard work for little extra gain.

How other programmers visualise or handle code in their brain, and how they put together new functionality in their head, is deeply fascinating. Even if you have self-awareness enough to grasp the basics of how you do it, you can be reasonably sure that each of us does it slightly differently.
Web apps are starting to get more and more impressive recently. I've started using Forecast.io as my main weather app and I honestly can't tell it's not native. This is the first good game I've seen though, but it's encouraging.

Anyone know why web apps are getting so good lately? Hardware power, browser optimisations, or what? Looks like there's a bright future ahead anyway.
This will compile to different things depending on whether you are using a C or a C++ compiler. Worse, it may compile to different things depending on which standard you compile to. If you don't want you colleagues to hate you, you should probably use:

#ifdef DEBUG
testCode();
#else
productionCode();
#endif

Or, better yet, if it really is test code then write a test.
Most things cost money, especially time.
Found it difficult to follow once "today" got down to 1px in size. Shows us just how insignificant we are compared to time itself.
I haven't used Glass yet, but I do know I don't want drivers of cars or motorcycles using them on the road while they're supposed to be driving:

http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/28/living-with-glass-day-fou...

This has the potential to be a huge safety problem.
Yeah, it really helps with maintaining flow while also showing you things you never knew about. OK, sometimes the last part really screws up flow when you see dwim-finish-my-work in the completions list.
"Of those 90% or more who pirate the game, it's probably less than 10% who can be persuaded to actually buy it."

True, and also one had even heard of this thing yet, which is a big reason why the major distro was all pirate. Some of these folks who pirate grab any and everything new to try. There's also a large population who refuse to purchase anything that's not on Steam. I'd like to see the numbers on this with current users in a few months once the Steam version comes out.

This is a good marketing ploy though, and a unique solution considering the content of the game. I'm guessing they will sell a lot of copies due to this publicity. I've never heard of it before this, but it looks like an improved version of Game Dev Story, which I really enjoyed on mobile.
All it implies is that they get a free private repo. Github's premium service. The free stuff is still free. No one should be insulted.
The Canadian Way: A new focus on customer experience
JReply - The jQuery Mobile IDE in the Cloud
Well if you give your product away under a liberal license like MIT, then you either need a lot of subscribers to your paid hosting plan or you have a problem.

Therefore, I like the trend of kickstarting open source project:

- the initial phase where you have to work hard and yet don't have a lot to show gets funded

- you are forced to think about it in terms of a product to attract backers

- there's less incentive to pivot the hosted platform into a user-tracking and data mining outfit later.
I wrote a blog post that covers the essential softer questions every applicant should ask their potential employer during an interview if it helps: http://hackerjobs.co.uk/blog/2012/5/16/assessing-a-company-q...
nice 'syntax highlighting' ;)
Having FUD in the name didn't help either.
My fault. I scimmed it twice, but did not see the part about it being rechargable via usb.

But there are still many types of rechargable batteries that don't require special disposal. I wouldn't assume too much about this.
The SSID doesn't matter. Changing it will not help.
I dont buy games with DRM and I make a point of buying ones without it (for instance on GOG).. My rational is that if the games publisher doesn't trust me then I dont trust them!
I also make games and I personally dont mind about piracy.. Its free advertising imo
Which brings up the question of who is going to do gender validation, and how?
In the current economy there is very little risk for a startup employee - if the company flounders you will land on your feet.

In a poorer economy you will see people fleeing startups and going towards big companies like Microsoft precisely because the risk profile has changed.
Software which can talk like human being and then act accordingly
It's interesting that getting people to cooperate to improve the commons is so hard, given the obvious and stark benefits to everyone in doing so.

The only solution that has ever actually worked is for government to step in, tax, regulate, and build infrastructure. I'm not aware of any case in all of history where anything else has been effective.

I think this presents a real problem for libertarian theorists. The ball's in their court-- come up with an alternative mechanism and demonstrate it. Otherwise stop arguing against similar efforts over here to create public transit, common health care, etc.
Why Should I be Frugal, When I’m So Rich?
Try trilldy.com
Can we get any details about the tech used to build this?
You're 100% right. In the US, the problems are about handling the days where the top 5% of storm waterflow overwhelms the system.

Another thing to think about is that many sewer systems were built before big suburban buildouts, and typically the original urban areas are located near rivers or the ocean... so the suburban systems often connect to the older urban infrastructure.

Many of the changes in development patterns in the last 50-75 years have increased stormwater flows. Roads, shopping centers and other landscape features are either impermeable or are designed to divert water "away". And... there are fewer wetlands or other areas to absorb the water, so you're hammering these systems with massive amounts of water that were really rare 100 years ago.

"Fixing" things in the US is tough depending on the location. Many places are implementing strategies to reduce peak storm waterflow, like mandating swales or ponds for big sprawl-ly development projects and building big stormwater tanks/basins under roadways in more densely developed areas.
I think Sim City only is concerned with municipal rates.

Well, in Ireland if you don't earn "too much" (less than +/- 32k€ per year) your (governmental) tax rate is 20%
What about trilldy.com?
The author suggest the manager interface may have been used to get access to the servers. He saw a password reset mail he didn't asked for. So he suspect that there is a security weakness in the manager. Lets wait OVH manager explanation before calling back into question OVH's security.
Two nasty hacks:

echo -e '\x2d\x6e'
echo '' -n