skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Has anyone seen a dropoff in traffic today due to May Day?
Normally just a casual observer of HN, but today we've seen a fairly dramatic dropoff in traffic (circa 30%) and wondered if others had seen a similar fall which could explain that this maybe seasonal ?
If the value is an empty Array or Hash, you can use

@user.name.presence || "Not available"

rather than

@user.name.blank? ? "Not available" : @user.name
Philosophy of Frugal Living
Nothing grabs the attention of the average corporate IT worker like a certification program - be interesting to see if they can replicate the traction of the certification tracks offered by nearly every established enterprise IT company.
iCloud is a must for any note app. I definitely like putting something on my iPhone then checking my iPad/iMac later in the day to read/edit it later on a bigger screen. Congratulations on your app!
This is particularly exciting news:
OpenSMTPD 5.3: code is now considered stable and suitable for use in production.
How to improve my dashboard UI and add useful metrics?
I'm dealing with Big Data and I'm developing a beautiful and useful UI to display the most important info about used car industry in different markets. What do you think about the initial metrics? How about the colors? Any better idea for charts?
It's actually higher than that…Ross is wearing glasses right now, but he doesn't have them on in his picture.

We also have a new hire who isn't on the site yet who wears glasses.
+1. I think the same. People, esp. smart people judge their ideas as not so good, and won't even mention it. When you bring up McDonalds, the person suddenly thinks: Hey, I didn't know the bar was that low.
Microsoft’s ‘IllumiRoom’ tech extends games beyond your TV
How is that different than the Gateway pattern that he mentions in the logging example?

Lets say I was going to ship something building on what this article talks about. Instead of interacting directly with my shipping objects (Fedex, Usps, etc), I'd write a common interface for them (ShippingGateway). In addition Id need so sort of mapper for each shipping object that would translate my ShippingGateway calls to the respective object (FedexMapper etc).

My code would eventually look like:

shipping = new ShippingGateway(...)
estimate = shipping.estimate(address, 'fedex', ...)

and that should never have to change only the mappers and objects themselves would. What am I missing?
Can we start a Hacker News Scholarship Fund for her or something? I'm in for a couple hundred $...
I've been out of the "paying attention to unix stuff" world for a long time now, but back in the 2.8-3.8 times I followed openbsd related news very closely. It seemed in that time period that openbsd usage was growing rather quickly, and lots of people were talking about it. Having just come back now, it seems as though all that growth has vanished. The mailing lists are very quiet, undeadly is practically dead, nobody is talking about openbsd anymore at all. Is it just that people ran out of things to say, or did everyone leave for one reason or another?
That's interesting I assumed either baking soda and vinegar or soda and some mentos or the classic yet much more hazardous drain cleaner and aluminum foil. I assumed that with the "war on some drugs" and just being practical, that they were not talking about iodine and ammonia. And if it involved flame like the classic "flour dust in the air" emulation of a grain elevator having a bad day, they would have freaked out about possession of the lighter. And if it was the classic "just stuff some dry ice in a bottle and run" they wouldn't have talked about mixing stuff because its just one thing. Maybe the old alka-seltzer tablet in water trick. The point being that there's about 100 ways to make a mostly harmless little chemical firework. Add a thin layer of theater to pretend that folks don't know this and its not all over the internet and if we just pretend not to talk about it, it'll never happen, just like the same morons think works with respect to homosexuality, or premarital straight sex, or atheism, or any number of topics that some morons often don't like.

There's really two issues. The first is the hard core fascist way of thinking where anything not compulsory is forbidden and anything not forbidden is compulsory, so her mistake was doing anything on school grounds with even a minute quantity of creativity. School is the place where human spirit is intentionally by design ground down, turn them into uncreative uneducated automatons so they can appreciate tightening bolts on the factory assembly line for 12 hours a day. Oh wait that's been obsolete for decades. Oh well who cares there's money to be made doing it and metric goals to achieve and tests to teach to.

The second failure mode is its really pretty stupid, just generally speaking, to randomly mix stuff together, and randomly screwing around mixing stuff isn't chemistry, so lets be honest about what really happened, she read about how to blow stuff up in a fun mostly harmless manner and thought it would be fun to try at school, and it worked and was safe, but she got caught. Its mostly harmless so rather than convicting her of some kind of terrorism felony they showed some mercy (or the police properly and rightly told the school to F off) so her story is being rewritten with lots of randomness added. There may be some interaction with profound ignorance of chemistry on all sides of the story from the kid on up.
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I have a web app that is coded 90% (Python/Flask) by me but need serious help on designing the front end. I would like to work with a designer and code things together (I build the backend, you do the front end). I prefer designers who can code over developers who can design a little bit. Contact me at yc@treftsystems.com
This is bad. kids are supposed to experiment. If it goes bad, so what? The law seems to be too dumb here. Her intention is to not kill anyone or damage anything. Intention is to experiment something. Why would she be expelled and put in jail for that?
Feeding the animals antibiotics constantly also 'increases yield' because the animals grow larger. You think that the head of any agriculture company is going to sign off on something that decreases yield? We've got quarterly profits to think of! Think of the profits that we would lose! </sarcasm>
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So in your free market there is no copyright on software?
Any Tutorial？
Salted and Hash and Encrypted doesn't make any sense.

At least one major software security company recommends, as best practice, doing an scrypt of your user passwords, and then doing an encryption of that based on a key stored in your appserver (which you may not necessarily lose as easy as you lose your DB).

I'm not necessarily defending that practice -- I was not prepared for a debate when presented with it -- but Reputation.com could well have gotten advice from this company and followed it, and they would call it "Salted and Hashed and Encrypted" very honestly.
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3. Comfortable analyzing data

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I thought it was just Martin but apparently my lack of being able to quickly grok these articles extend to the contributors on his site. There has got to be a way to communicate the kernel of what he's saying without pedantic language, lots of acronyms, and way too abstract language.
Instacast for Mac public beta
With Netflix moving to HTML5, and Youtube already supporting HTML5, there's fewer reasons to even bother with Flash or Silverlight plugins.
Personally, I like the weight. Between the weight and the all-aluminum, it feels very sturdy, unlike many or all other Android phones. I was coming from an old HTC Evo I'd had for 2.5 years, and that thing weighed a lot more, so to me it was really light!

As for thickness, it technically is a bit on the thick side, but the back tapers towards the edges, which are quite thin. This curvature makes the phone feel much thinner than it is, and also makes it fit nicely in the hand.

If you get a chance to hold one, I think you'll see what I mean and why I for one don't consider these elements to be drawbacks.
I'snt software amoral?

The same routine that helps target a missile from a drone, could help target viruses more effectively, but someone has to make the choice to use it for that purpose.
I agree. The law cannot be applied word by word. If we start doing that each one of us is committing some crime every minute.
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If by "kill overnight" you mean "partially replace over the next few years", yeah maybe. But there will always be plenty of apps not on the Windows Store for various reasons.
Moon Landing Faked — Why People Believe in Conspiracy Theories
E-Sports League Mined Bitcoins with Subscribers' Computers
I know exactly the kind of mindset it takes to do 'experiments' like this: Clever, mischievous, inquisitive, questioning, maybe even a little defiant but not malicious. Never malicious. Authorities don't understand that knowledge and experience isn't inherently evil. If you want to prevent events like what happened in Boston, you can't do it through the policing and control of knowledge. It's impossible! I'm a girl like this girl, I had a perfect record in high school, but still (to this day!) enjoy learning about how the universe works through explosions and experiments and hands on demonstrations of half-formed understandings, because it's the best way to learn! Doing this kind of thing at school was probably a bad call. But hell, I made dry ice bombs in the football field with my physics club in 2001, and it was seriously the most fun I ever had on school property. I get this fear sometimes, a fear I call 'afraid-to-science', when I'm doing something really interesting but that could be potentially dangerous, I feel it even when I've taken all possible safety precautions, even when I know my rights, because we are all criminals sometimes if portrayed in the wrong light. If the powers-that-be decide to shine the wrong spotlight on you. Just like this girl is getting the full brunt of now...Anyway. I would also be interested in contributing to a defense fund for Kiera Wilmot. Always be learning, girl. Learning is the most worthwhile thing you can do, never stop.
How has competing with flash been regulated to impossibility?
Gandi.net
I have been in the IT market since 1995. With GANDI I had the worst experience ever. Their customer service does not exist. They are slow slow slow. They send you boiled answer and are not able to deal with easy problem. I am quite sad about that because I was very optimistic....
Notes are automatically stored in a database at /Users/{Your-username}/Library/Application Support/Lesen.lenote/lenote.sqlite.
I am working on the cloud feature:)
As has the age for working in the mines.
Any success stories from the persons who SEEK WORK here?
Why Investors Care About the Most Useless Slide in Your Pitch Deck...
Not sure if this is the reason but I think OS development was just much more exciting back then and more people were into it. Now people focus a lot more on the web. Some people left OpenBSD and forked it to make Bitrig, not sure how much that affected their development speed.
What's wrong with being for-profit? People need to put food on their tables after all.
I'm waiting to hear what she really mixed. If it was baking soda and vinegar this is ridiculous. If it was a strong acid and aluminum or bleach and ammonia, I could maybe understand this level of reaction.
Sure. But it gets some douche product manager his bonus for revenue/user acquisition which was the only goal in the scheme.
I read the article differently. The OP is suggesting failing faster by starting with an idea, any idea, just to get moving.

I've done something similar.

I was a new minted engineering manager. We had lotsa grumpy gate keepers. Domain experts who would withhold information, but happy to snipe later on.

So when it wasn't clear (to my immediate team) what to do, I'd add something really stupid, but plausible, to the requirements. Then claim the document was being sent to our dealer channel.

Oh boy! Then I'd get the feedback I needed.
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Ouch. Maybe now all our dishes and utensils can be small discs.

Made of pleather.
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No remote. Looking for more java developers in the field of: - distributed large scale crawling, content extraction, data analysis - web applications We crawl, analyze (extract article, author, date, theme, sentiment,...) and monitor websites (news, blogs, ...) for our clients. You can contact me directly under t.britz@trendiction.com
What iOS or Android apps have you built? Can't see any on your site.
Importance of context – takeaway from Dustin’s post
Insanely-high surface area materials exist, the best example I can think of is activated charcoal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_charcoal#Properties but batteries are using it too http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/nanotechno... "Solids" like you mention are aerogels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogel#Alumina and this new aerographite http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/133056-aerographite-six-t...
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Human nature.

People get burned when they assume honesty and find that counterparties are dishonest. It's harder to get burned if you go into business or other intellectual relationships without expecting honesty. And I think, push come to shove, many founders will do what is necessary (no matter how unscrupulous) to keep their startup alive or to ensure the big payday, even if it comes at the price of turning back on promises or contracts with customers

I recommend you read http://www.zerohedge.com/node/13972 (the Conflicts/"Full Disclosure" Policy for zerohedge.com) as I think it captures the point very well.
The Clojure Philosophy
It seems to be possible to use the Chrome PDF Viewer. This could be nice for LaTeX development.
Tools merely empower us to do better what we were already doing. The tool is never bad.

We should probably take clues from other professions. A scalpel is never bad, and cutting up a person can be ethically correct.

I haven't thought carefully about this, but it seems that intention is the most important factor, followed by actual outcome. (Eg doing bad things without intent isn't necessarily unethical behavior. But some bad actions are so gruesome that it is hard to forgive the lack of foresight. Recklessness you might call that)
Sensitive Army Database of U.S. Dams Compromised
Seems many people use simplenote, what's the differences between simplenote and evernote? I haven't used simplenote.
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seems that this DO NOT support Windows?
Privacy and security are very important, but if one is going to write a code of ethics for software, it should probably include something about not writing software that kills people (see, for example, Therac-25).
You could eat there all the time if you wanted. They do sell salads....
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Code Review: Worth the Time?
A recent discussion with co-workers led me to produce this screencast [1] to try and grok the Dependency Inversion Principle and Inversion of Control (IOC) in the realm of front-end code.

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU1JcPikdMs
IBM makes stop-motion film using atoms as pixels
It is text only, and there is a synchronization API
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Writer

Published 10 technical books
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LOL isn't funny anymore