skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a few articles mention Florida in the same way like
"Oh Florida". What is it about Florida that people are referring to?
I understand but this is less than "nothing."

Yes you remove the human element and change some betting rules but at its core video poker is a simulation of physical poker. The parent doesn't have much of a point other than being overly hyperbolic to discount the reality that there is certainly an argument that this was a bug and hack since the exploit sits clearly outside the realm of the game of poker.
How much do you think he should charge? In a world of $8/mo Netflix, people make some pretty harsh value comparisons on services.
Spree Commerce is perhaps the best ecommerce option on Rails. There are a few others like ror-e, piggyback which are not that mature or in continuous development. You could use Spree as a rails engine on top your site or combine with cms like refinery or radiant.

You could just choose to use only shopping cart feature of spree commerce with your existing site.
Yeah, imagine how paranoid we'd be if someone had used dynamite to blow up an entire school building full of kids. :(

Oh, wait, someone did, in 1927, and nobody launched a generalized war on sanity as a result.

There must be something else different.
It has saved me ~two dollars so far, namely on this:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:45262
I've experienced similar, but only when working hourly from home. I guess I feel responsible for distractions in my own house, but when I'm in the office I have no second thoughts about billing for the time where I did my best in the environment provided.
Most of the biggest ones have been working for a while, or have a branch where they're working in support.

I think this is one of the biggest advantages of Travis' uptake in the Ruby world, actually: it's really easy to test your gem against Rails master and put it in allow_failures, which means you can know if your gem is compatible, and occasionally show when a new commit introduces an incompatibility.

If you find any gems that don't work, please ping me and I'll investigate and send PRs; this is one of the advantages of my employer (Jumpstart Lab) paying for OSS work. The whole Ruby world wins. :)
Even if nobody manages to identify him (and probably nobody will), this says nothing about what a resourceful organization (such as an intelligence agency or a criminal organization) can do.
Argh, beat me to it
landing page works for me
Just noticed this, what's up?
Back up now. It appears to have been down for about 3-5 minutes.
I think Tom is messing with you on that one.

Full disclosure: ex-Matasano here, and die-hard lisp dude.

If somebody writes it, they will figure out how to rip it apart. Bank on it.
At OpenWatch ( https://openwatch.net ) we are trying to solve this very problem from the open-source hacker perspective. Our original pitch was that we would operate on a "freemium" model: offer our journalism tools for free to everyone so they can contribute to the commons, but charge money if you wanted to make your investigations "closed source", similar in a way to GitHub.

Our hypothesis / current pitch is that people will pay money (either directly, or on a voluntary subscription basis) to support journalists and the causes they believe in. We are also a collaborative muckraking platform that allows people to get directly involved in the stories they care about by contributing verifiable phone calls, emails, or other primary source material through the platform.

We only launched the beta version about a month ago, and are changing like crazy every day, but would love to position ourselves to become somewhat like the GitHub for Journalism in this new age of media. Since all of our content is CC-BY and we stress the importance of the availability of a story's "source code" in the form of primary source documents, we are hoping that in the future people will ask to see a journalist's "OpenWatch Profile" in the same way they ask for a programmer's "GitHub Profile" today.
Looks like its back, isitdownrightnow.com shows 57min of downtime
Why Young Americans Should Work Overseas
And right here we see why BSD mindshare is a fraction of Linux mindshare: managing to outperform Linux in the "arrogant, condescending nerd" factor.
Noir is deprecated, use vanilla ring + libnoir or Luminus.
This sums up why most open source GUI's look like a widget library vomited on the screen, don't try getting involved unless you know how to code.
http://github.com/bitemyapp/neubite/

There's a CMS, for starters.
pastebin doesn't work over tor, most of the exit nodes appear to be blocked.
They're providing a premium account the the affected users.
I think that journalism ( in the sense of newspapers) is largely doomed. For the general purpose "where did a bomb go off?" news, one site per country is enough, so the biggest site will simply win ( and can sustain itself on an ad model). For more in depth reporting, I do not see a way to beat hobbyist or semi-professional blogs, since there is simply no way how a journalist can beat a specialist. Especially if the specialist is working for free. [1]
Above of this, I think there is a market for long form journalism, which can be sold by ebooks. ( And probably these ebook sales require a quality blog as advertisement.)

So I think that a lot of journalists will need a new job, since their old one was generated by the trouble of moving paper around. And I think the future of journalism will be very few news portals, who produce baseline chatter, plus a lot of much more specialized sites in addition to a few aggregators. Unfortunately this is a construction which is easily swamped by PR bullshit. So an editorial board, which publishes curated links, may actually be worth something.

[1] This does not mean that an average blog is a good source, it means that the best blog will always beat an average newspaper article. A random tech journalist can simply not beat Bruce Schneier in anything crypto related.
Thanks, just need the server version for now. Linux + IPTables + chroot can be a bit of a tangle I can't always get to work.

Wasn't sure until recently if I could use OpenJDK with the framework I'm using, but it seems to be compatible, so am starting to look at Free/OpenBSD + OpenJDK for it.

Tmux, ssh, and vim are good enough for the server side IDE, so as long as vim is in the repo's, should be gtg. :)
This would benefit the open source community a whole lot more if it weren't made for a proprietary OS.
You can export your Astrid data to a zip file here:

https://astrid.com/home/export

As for alternatives, Google Keep is pretty great for your basic todo needs:

https://drive.google.com/keep/
If it's lopsided, on average it's lopsided in the opposite direction: companies have massively more leverage than the average employee, and the damage to employees for no-justification layoffs is much larger, on average, than the damage to employers for no-justification resignations. Think of it from Google's perspective: if someone turns down a Google offer, even at the last minute, Google hardly cares. But if Google rescinds an offer at the last minute, it is a pretty big deal for the opposite party.

Between a startup and a prospective employee, things are more on a level of parity.
Yes, I have one. It's the Dreambox: a fully-automated 3D printing vending machine that is on campus at U.C. Berkeley.
Eric Brewer on Why Banks are BASE, Not ACID – Availability Is Revenue
BTW you can see the remnants of the code that supported this feature for popups still in use for things like HTTP Basic Auth dialogs: http://www.pagetutor.com/keeper/http_authentication/index.ht...

The feature went through several iterations. Originally, popups were just shown with their requested size anywhere within the browser window. The idea was that a page could only damage itself by opening popups and not interfere with your window manager state.

This was deemed ineffective (sites knowingly do stuff to themselves like this all the time - e.g. overlay divs), so we auto-positioned them at the bottom right and hoped you figure out that their titlebars were stacked down there and would drag them up.

Then we made them detach immediately when you clicked them.

Then we got the feedback evmar mentions and we just did the boring thing. Personally I find it less discoverable now (and am constantly missing popups) but non-user-gesture generated popups seem relatively rare on the web these days compared to more annoying stuff.
The difference is that tinfoil and draino is really dangerous.
I think this would be very daunting to accomplish at that price point. Still very interesting.
This kind of shit happens when you have a totally politicized legal system from police chiefs to prosecutors to judges - being elected or political appointees makes everyone a politician. There is no sense in this nonsense - just as there isn't with so many other cases like for example Aaron Swartz - but they're easy outs for all of the politically motivated folks all the way up the food chain. Later in life when the felony conviction comes back to bite her it will do her no use to say "it was a plea bargain I avoid jail time and the crime was not even anything serious anyway just an over prosecuted misunderstanding" no-one will give a shit and will give the system the benefit of the doubt.
Will.i.am pays some tribute to "geek" culture [video]
Show HN: An operating manual for your home?
Wunderlist is a good alternative. I'm a fan - syncs easily and well, you can create grouped lists if you want, star important items. Or just go super simple. Either way, it's pretty sweet.

https://www.wunderlist.com/
I've tried many of them, and they of them cause major breakage on lots of sites.
Yup, I have a RepRap MendelMax v1.5.

Enamored as a child by Lego, I broke all early problems down to things that could be solved/built with Lego. In order to build 'real stuff', I knew I needed to learn to weld aluminum and mill things. I read about million dollar 3/5/X-axis CNC machines in the early 90s and tried numerous times to build something 'good enough'.

Many failed CNC projects later, I found RepRap and it's filled a particular need. One that doesn't fill the garage/loft/apartment with a faint taste of aluminum in the air.
The web, in one form or another would have happened regardless. Intellect is limited by the speed of networking brains.
I ended up working at a call center as a temporary job, and was given a lot of responsibilities during a major transition to another location; they gave me a monthly bonus on top of the hourly pay (I'm a salaried analyst now). The company I work for would have immediately fired me for going either way with hours, and if my boss knew, they'd probably have fired him as well (huge violation of company policy. Not saying that makes you a terrible person or anything. Just relating how it can be complicated.

I also did a few business trips while I was hourly, which started out odd, but really didn't end up being that bad. I was basically filling in for my supervisor and the management structure seemed to think the return value was worth a pretty decent chunk of overtime logged.

The bonus thing was weird, because I was basically half-salaried and half hourly. Anyone else have experience with that? My income was relatively stable as long as I stayed in the 35 - 45 hour range, and even a bit outside of that, but past that I could pretty substantially alter it. I also had a really good relationship with my boss, so like any other job, if I had started working 15 hours a week they would have had a problem. My work quality and production were solid, though, and I felt secure in the position. Interesting period of time.
My personal experience when I tried to clump things together is that I lost track of what columns were where. My eyes scan vertically really fast. And once I was used to it for large queries, well, what works for large queries works for small as well if you're used to it.

Honestly I don't think about formatting that much anymore, as I've started storing most of my statements as "metrics" which can be easily repurposed for use in another script. Each metric contains the name of the metric, the columns added, the metric source (usually a table, but can also be a select stmt), the possible join conditions, extra SQL like where, group by, qualify, and any indices. When I want to use that metric in another script, I can do so by specifying the metric name, the table or select statement I'd like append the metric's columns to, and my join conditions. It works great for simple to moderately complex queries, and provides you a good starting point for really complex queries. Plus, it auto-formats everything how I like it. I also use comments to explain what the statement is doing, so someone theoretically should be able to get a pretty good idea of whats going just by reading that.

I do something different that you might like to borrow. If you're working in a database with real tmp tables (PostgreSQL, MySQL and MS SQL all do, Oracle does not) you can control execution plans for complex queries by creating a series of tmp tables in order, adding indexes if you want, then joining them down the chain. I initially did this for performance reasons, but quickly found that I could easily reuse the logic to create specific tmp tables in different places, and that a series of tmp tables was much more readable than complex subqueries.

You may wonder why I specifically dissed Oracle, after all they claim to have tmp tables. They do..but all tmp table definitions are in a global namespace that requires special permissions to write to, and are shared across all database handles. All of the other databases that I named allow you to create/destroy them on the fly without special permissions. And do not have an issue if two database handles want to use the same tmp table name with different definitions.

This opens you up for all sorts of nasty interaction problems. And increases the cognitive overhead of the technique to the point where it becomes not worthwhile.
Customers with a low cost of electricity and a hot GPU could have used it to offset the cost of their subscription. They would not have needed to learn anything about Bitcoin or manage their own financial account.
This space is evolving very quickly - it's not perfect by any stretch, but you can actually order metal parts from Shapeways[1], and there was a story recently about NASA "3D-printing" rocket parts using nickel alloy[2].

1. http://www.shapeways.com/materials
2. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/140084-nasa-3d-prints-roc...
> Your "A-game" is your best, not the best in the world....

Hmm, that doesn't jibe with the idea of not rewarding mere effort, which is how I read it as well; we reward results, and "punish" lack of results. This isn't necessarily a bad thing; applicants know what they are getting into and can self select out if they don't feel up to it.
> Today it's more where things are marketed than where they are invented, and the major activity seems to be trying to get people to click ads.

It's where the money is. More deals get done on Sand Hill Road than anywhere else. But, it was never where things got invented. The transistor was invented in New Jersey and Shockley set up shop in silicon valley because land was so cheap.
Indeed, "soon" is taking a little longer than expected:

http://lwn.net/Articles/238655/

As far as I can tell, those forecasts have almost always come from outside the project. I don't recall Chris Mason ever saying that it's right around the corner.

In fact, searching for "soon" on the Btrfs wiki produces 0 results.

It's still a very active project, but there's still a lot of work to be done.
Media. Back then news spread slowly.
Florida has a reputation for having a large number of news articles where a member of the public has done something both criminal and remarkably stupid (e.g. the fellow who took pictures of his children sitting on a beached dugong and posted them online), or where government officials of done something egregiously petty and/or stupid (e.g. this case).

See also:

Florida Man, the world's worst superhero: https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan

The 'Florida' tag on Fark: http://www.fark.com/topic/florida
Google API infrastructure outage yesterday
If you were the government or a big company with a reputation would you call up 1 guy and say "you've got a few weeks and 120/hr, make a site and well run it in our data enter"?

Think of all the things that can go wrong! Security, PII, etc.
If Yes, What software are you using....I mostly use Rhino 3D.
No, the paranoia and cocooning has been building much longer than that. After the wild period of 1960-1989, the pendulum has swung the other way and America is reliving the straight-laced 1950s.
Paul Graham wrote a post about ideas he'd like to see: http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html.

My advice is to get out and about in your community, and find real problems. Then make something which solves (part of) that. Even better if it's a problem for you. It can be hard to stick with a project if you aren't using it yourself.

Here's another great blog post, with a checklist to go through when an idea starts to form: http://rowansimpson.com/2011/10/23/from-idea-to-impact/
You'd have to think that something like google.com is the most valuable page.
How many companies are acquihired a year? Dozens? Hundreds? Thousands?

Half a million new businesses are started every year in the US (with actual employees, not self-employed working from home).

Most small businesses stay that way.
A Way to Share BitTorrent Syncs
Well, I see you've fixed the bug then.
I worked for a newspaper group from 2001-2008 trying to convince them to reinvent themselves and veer off the suicide course they had chosen.

They have to stop trying to be "portals" in the crap late-90s meaning (which reflects their legacy model, especially AP-affiliated era) and start differentiating.

If you're a local paper, stop wasting newsprint on regurgitating what everyone already saw on a website, television, or heard on a radio while you were still busy laying the pages out. Stop stroking your vanity opining in editorials about things for which you have no special knowledge and demonstrate that the only reason your opinion is more "valuable" than the reader's is that you buy ink in barrels.

If your content is valuable to readers and actually has lasting value, they'll still buy it in print. They'll also buy it as a pushed product to whatever device they prefer. If it's valuable to other content outlets, they'll pay for it as well. Drop your AP affiliation (a rent-seeker that makes government look amateur in comparison) and actually sell to aggregation or re-print customers instead of paying AP for the privilege of sniping your content for resharing and offering you nothing of significance to your readership.

Unfortunately every news group I encountered in those 7 years were too hide-bound to "how we used to make money", and the vast majority were inbred from top to bottom. Run a multi-million dollar news group? Well obviously you started as a cub reporter and have a journalism degree, which of course makes you imminently more qualified to see into future markets than some outsider who isn't a journalist.

The industry has signed up for a suicide pact, and only after they succeed in that will new and viable players rise up to fill the real demand for relevant news.
AWS Architect Gives A Class On Cloud Building 101
How I shutdown my Raspberry Pi
I wouldn't look at it that way. Perhaps it shows that you were able to verify the candidate's technical chops, but it also shows that you didn't do a good job assessing the candidate's motivations and career goals.

If you're hiring your third employee, it's probably safe for me to assume that your company is relatively young. Google, obviously, is a big, established company.

While you almost certainly cannot compete with Google compensation-wise, there are plenty of things startups like yours can offer that a big company like Google simply cannot. Playing up these intangibles, and identifying candidates who are truly interested in those intangibles, is something you can't afford not to do with early hires.

Put simply: you need to look for candidates who are excited about becoming Employee #3 at a young company, not candidates who are excited about getting a great job at any company.
I'm super interested in the (obvious) potential of 3D printing - you can get a pretty decent one for ~$400 nowadays. I'm not sure how much use I would get out of it personally at the moment other than printing random things when I'm drunk, but I'm still going to get one.
Bloomberg publishes CEO-to-employee-pay chart
List_of_Hacker_Spaces
Why I quit working at a startup
iPad app please. I want to embed an iPad in kitchen somewhere that will just tell me what to eat every day.

Edit: Even better if you can told me when I have the opportunity to do mass prep on appropriate things.
First totally blind person to get a Masters degree in Engineering
The payout to the users would be greater or the payout from the company to the lawyers would be greater? The latter I agree, the former, I doubt given the paltry amounts that most class actions suits return.
"the company considered" has a quite wide range of possible interpretations. It could mean anything from "a few developers bullshitted about it in the lunch room", through to "the board oversaw prototype development and approved a pilot deployment to measure public response" - which are _clearly_ very different scenarios. Unfortunately, while it's easy to distinguish those two meanings at a large company, as you try to distinguish the intent at smaller and smaller companies, the differences become much harder to judge - in the degenerate case of a two-person company, "two dev's bullshitting" and "board oversight and approval" are exactly the same thing...
Interesting.

I prefer the "programming as magick" metaphor, and would say I have a playful mood regarding programming, but I still like static typing. Having said that, I love higher-order functions and macros as well.

Defining it as a continuum feels like I should be either on one end, or somewhere inbetween on the various traits, but I have rather strong attachment to some traits from each side.

I think you're right that a lot of the traits you mention tend to be clustered together in programmers though.
Just wait until WebCL is widely deployed and any webpage could use your GPU to mine bitcoins!
"Wonder if it has to do with her skin color."

While I can't know the internal motivations of those involved, I would observe that neither the race nor the gender issues are necessary, in the Occam's Razor sense of the term [1]. The student suspended for chewing his poptart into a gun was a 7-year-old white boy. The student suspended for discussing shooting a Hello Kitty bubble gun was a 5-year-old white girl. Zero tolerance stupidity has been doled out across the board with no apparent regard for, well, anything, like sanity, let alone race or gender lines.

The 1995 Valedictorian of my high school lit off the hydrogen in the hydrolysis experiment, because, you know, it was there. Good thing he didn't pull that stunt today. Though I imagine that experiment has probably been long removed for creating dangerous quantities of explosives in the classroom.

[1] As a reminder, Occam's Razor is a heuristic, not a proof. Perhaps racism or sexism is involved, the lack of necessity is not a disproof of their presence, but the Razor suggests that aspect be cut away from your dominant hypothesis, pending future evidence requiring them in the explanation.
1 unit, sitting on a roof trying to guess what its hearing? Not very interesting. Even less so with only a RasPi's worth of processing power behind it.

Hundreds of these, distributed on lots of rooftops and networked together tracking flying things around by their sound, backed up by some heavy duty servers doing the processing... that would be interesting.
Monty started MariaDB pretty much as soon as he left Sun, long before the Oracle acquisition, but shortly after he started criticizing the release of mysql 5.1 under Sun, which was widely regarded as botched.