skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a) Silicon Valley doesn't have "its own senators"

b) Why should internet retailers get special privileges? Complexity sucks but that's life, and the law does require states to simplify the collection process.
Portland has "food truck pods" on the edges of downtown parking lots, as well as in parking lots throughout the city. They have an incredible diversity of cheap food, and the businesses are obviously low-overhead (often in trailers instead of trucks) and generally seem to be staffed by their proprietors. Here's a random blog post with pictures:
http://blog.chowmenow.com/join-the-pod-y/
It seems like a great way for a city to take an ugly downtown parking lot and make it a pedestrian draw.

New York City doesn't really have surface parking lots anywhere with a lot of foot traffic, so that isn't really an applicable solution here.
Just be aware- if you try to print any of these it'll look awful.
What is going on in your repo to cause this? I've never seen it freeze my Emacs.
After graduation you get the title of EIT (Engineer In Training). After about 4-5 years of professional work you can submit to become a P.Eng. (Professional Engineer) after which you can be called an 'Engineer' at real Engineering companies.

Anywhere else doesn't care and will call the guy taking out the garbage a Sanitation Engineer if they feel like it.
I did not say these stories form a conspiracy nor is it a public relations campaign. I merely saw the similarities of "The Submarine" essay and the increased frequency of stories about "cybersecurity" in various news outlets.

From Paul Graham's essay, "PR is not dishonest. Not quite. In fact, the reason the best PR firms are so effective is precisely that they aren't dishonest. They give reporters genuinely valuable information."[1]

There's nothing wrong with someone benefiting from a story, but, maybe, there's more to a story than what's on the surface...

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I graduated from UofT in 2011, and they still offered iron as an option.
The natural slant on IRC is away from intelligent discourse and toward a cross between texting and one-line jokes with friends.

What? I could name 20 channels of the top of my head this is not true for.
Looking at the hash found in the query HTP ran, 9gag's name.com password was "harry1" at the time of the exploit. It also tells us name.com stores the passwords as unsalted MySQL 4.1 PASSWORD() hashes...
No, it seems like it's still up, though for some reason on place 81. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5667466
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It's a nice way to say "we tried to trademark-troll by asking small-scale hackathlon organizers for 2500 EUR and got our ass whipped by the community".
There is a bunch of holes in CF like this. Look at their bug/security fix list for Coldfusion (Pretty much any version), and half of the security fixes are targeted to CFIDE based vulnerabilities. Any CF admin worth their salt disallows access to CFIDE as a matter of course.
I could care less about the correct use of "beg the question".
The placeholder app that comes with the stack is TodoMVC [1] and the one used to demonstrate git deploy setup after that is Telescope [2].

[1] https://github.com/addyosmani/todomvc
[2] https://github.com/SachaG/Telescope
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Nice article, I thoroughly enjoyed it. How about some insight into what compromises you had to make when choosing web over native?
People still need privacy. Businesses need to keep their strategies, market research, trade secrets, etc. secret to remain competitive. The police need to keep secret the identities of undercover agents, planned evidence gathering, etc. In many places, homosexuals must keep their relationships and desires secret, or else become social outcasts (or worse).

For all the talk about how privacy is dead, the reality is that normal adults have secrets and would be very angry if those secrets were revealed.
Why the Internet of Everything Could Mean Fewer Cars
(Stackful.io developer here)

Yes, thanks to the websocket support that landed in recent Nginx releases.
For a while I thought no one would get the point - thank you for responding! I guess the majority of the HN crowd aren't interested in this sort of thing unless it's pointed out specifically.
> Unless it's becoming a problem, I think anyone would ignore increased latency because they have ten other work tasks to deal with.

You'd be surprised once you start working with larger, higher-traffic infrastructures. If our average external DNS query rises 200ms, my phone goes off. There's more slack on p99, but it's also monitored.

All of the timings for the various parts of a request to the system that I administer are instrumented from a small libcurl app running in multiple ASNs remotely, because Pingdom and other services do not provide the resolution that we need. They are then rendered on a stacked graph that always lives on my third monitor, and any significant deviation averaged out over five minutes catches my eye.

I know it sounds like overkill, but it's crucial at scale.
Still, a very rare event requiring a precise alignment of the star system that gets more improbable and more rare the further out a planet is. And I imagine we need 2-3 data points of transitions at least to exclude false positives - that simply doesn't happen within a reasonable time (e.g. Neptune has an orbital period of 165 years).
To me an email like that doesn't tell me they are more interested to 'engage'

When it's an email like the one from this blog I actually do feel that they are looking to engage — even though I know the email itself wasn't sent personally.

I like the invitation to reply — I've done that several times with a random question or thought about the product / service. Knowing that the person on the other end expects and welcomes those kinds of random emails is helpful. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't send it — and I expect many others feel the same way, which is why these types of emails are seeing a lot of success.
The digital truths traditional publishers don't want to hear
I'll toss a dollar in the reward jar. Pass it around!
Having dedicated hardware for sound mixing is always a good idea. This is especially noticeable when the CPU is under heavy load like when games are running.

Take a look on Windows:

Windows XP: hardware mixing

Windows 7: change to software mixing which cause serious latency problem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iujDVsg_2xY

Windows 8: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr.../br259116.aspx they realize their mistake and go back to hardware mixing again

The only way I was able to solve the cracking and latency issues on my Linux box was to replace ALSA with OSS. Recently some newer software is causing issues again and I might have to give ALSA another shot. Things would be so much better if the Linux kernel just adopted OSS4
I code all day. I don't have a whiteboard, I don't use a whiteboard. I can expect whiteboard-questions but that doesn't help anything. Am I supposed to practice them? Why can't you be happy just giving me a laptop, or a pad and paper, or something I'm used to?
And how many of those close-to-the-sun planets exclude the existence of earth-like planets a bit further out?

Maybe if they're Jupiter-sized, then they would make some orbits further out unstable, but if they're smaller...

The system can be different than ours but still just as habitable, or even more so.
Nope: the government is not a 'person' in that sense because it has a special role in society, which has been given by society and needs to be controled by society.

The government is not 'one' in 'everyone'.
"in UK there's no such connotation"

That is a real shame given the UK's fantastic history of engineering. Still, I guess it was something that an engineer came out second in the BBC's poll of the Top 100 Britons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel
I have never answered this type of email. Why? Because at this stage, I don't know your product, and I don't want you to annoy me (you may not think it's annoying, but really, it is).

That being said, I sent spontaneous feedback emails exactly twice:

- The first was to the guy who wrote the 'learn you a Haskell for great good' free online tutorial (now book, website is still free). I just wrote to let him know that his tutorial was awesome and that it was the only tutorial I'd read that made sense of monads.

- The second was to Hipmunk. Again, after using Hipmunk for the third time or so, and having such a great and painless experience, I sent an email saying how much I appreciate the service, and thanking them for keeping it free (although I'd gladly pay for it).

I guess you could say that neither my emails contained feedback. In both cases, I felt that it would be a shame if these people stopped doing what they're doing, thinking that nobody cares (I know, Hipmunk is not gonna go away, but well, I guess was just not rational)so I just wanted to let them know that I found there work remarkable.

What I'm trying to say is that the best way to get feedback from users without pissing them off is simply to do something that they really really like, and that they want to you to keep improving.
What We Learned About Open Source By Building Our Accelerator On Github
A lot of jewellers would also be happy to make one if you can't get them through a university. Iron isn't so hard to work with.
Alabama.

You are right, its used for alcoholic beverages and non alcoholic beverages so context is key. Ive never encountered a problem with any confusion. Usually when its used, its clear whether alcohol is meant.

Alcohol:
"Were going out for drinks"
"We have a few drinks with dinner"

Non-Alcohol (Coke/Pop/Soda)
"We got some drinks at the gas station on the way over"
"Will you get me a drink while you are in the kitchen?"
"We have drinks in the fridge"

I think most people that use it would answer "Coke" if asked because thats what southerners are supposed to say, but informally "drink" gets used quite often.
Please think about what a source is. This isn't reddit.
It varies from state to state in the US.
A Pagerank of 5 is possible
I figured out how to move my pagerank upward, here's what I learned that works.
Yes, and it's designed to detect Earth-sized planets as well as larger gas giants.
While it's a big assumption that this is down to observational bias, at least there is some theoretical support for that statement. The further out a planet is, the less likely it becomes we can observe a transition event (which also becomes extremely rare).

Now that only our system's configuration - as special or as common as it may be - is amenable to complex life is completely unrelated and unfounded.
Think of the children...
The linked article strikes me as pretty misguided. Here's the issue: PayPal's goal is to profit by providing a mechanism for different parties to pay each other. Its goal is not to make a profit by acting as a bank. There are various upsides to both PayPal and their customers if PayPal acts "bankish" in some ways, but that is not their purpose.

PayPal is not "dodging" regulations by not acting as a bank anymore than I am; neither of us are banks.
It's funny how things change...

Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Isaac McPherson (13 Aug. 1813) [ http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.... ]

"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
As a Manhattan resident and worker, I feel the trucks are really annoying. They are large and block the landscape and the food doesn't appear to be appealing.

Instead of the huge annoying trucks, I prefer to see that smaller carts which in most cases can serve the same food as the trucks. I would like to see higher quality food on the carts (and the trucks).
Fruit stands in NYC are really nice as well...
Yes, but they quoted both Steve Vogt and Mike Brown, who have devoted most of their careers to planet-finding. And both of them said that our solar system seems unusual. Since they are well aware of the biased sample issue, I would bet there is more to it than this.

For instance, maybe they are able to model the effect of the bias, at least for some range of planetary masses, and the bias is not enough to explain the frequency-vs-mass curve they are getting. Or maybe their use of multiple techniques allows them to characterize the bias.

This excerpt from their recent paper on an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone of a nearby M-class star gives an indication of where they're going with this work:

"Using the relations given by Charbonneau et al. (2007), the reported candidates have non-negligible probabilities of transiting in front of the star (∼2.7%, 1.1%, and 0.6% for planets b, c, and d, respectively). [...] With the new generation of optical and infrared spectrographs, many nearby M dwarfs will be eﬃciently surveyed for low mass planets. If the detection rate holds, very soon now we may have a real chance of searching for spectroscopic signatures of water and life on one of these worlds."

In other words, detect a bunch of candidates, watch for transits, and use spectroscopic information to detect water.
I think the ability to explain the meaning of an inscription on the ring could serve as proof that it was earned. Going with the example that was given, if you can explain the meaning and significance of a fixed point combinator, there should be no question about your worth as a computer scientist.
Not from the get-go. You usually have to click on the unsubscribe link in the first piece of spam they send you.
I think your onto something.

As a passive job seeker, I think this is something I've used to filter out companies. Ones that want to hire someone yesterday are more likely to suffer from poor planning and may only care about short term results.

I'd rather have someone who may take 2-3 months to get up to speed, and then spend years with me returning that investment more than a simple mercenary that will be with me a year or two and then move on.
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I'm a big fan of Codewars (http://www.codewars.com/). I'm not sure if I'd consider it Kata though.
What are some common gotchas I should be wary of if I want to try out Go? I haven't touched the language since I first heard about it, due to an issue that has been left unfixed for almost three years.

https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=909

Here is a C# example of what I'm looking for:

LINQ brings brevity and clarity to complicated collection operations. However, if you rely on it in performance-critical applications, then you will find that it causes enough garbage collection overhead to slow your app to a crawl.
I had no idea that:

"Or maybe it got ejected — astronomers are finding emigrant planets, lonely orbs that wander the universe with no star, just drifting. Maybe one of those used to live here."

There are planets not orbiting stars? I searched Google for "emigrant planets" and the npr article is the number 1 result for that. I think he invented the term. What are these called if I wanted to find more information about them?
I kinda get where you are coming from. I'm guessing you like the idea of sticking it to the man, as it were. Well, yeah, I like that too, I tend to lean to wards what these guys do, when it suits, but as ever, the problem is with intention and trust. Do you really trust them 100% to only look? The same people who do that could raid my current account, and none of us can be sure they wont. Or, sell on details to raise funds for their "great" works, or cynically line their pockets. We just don't know.

I think quite a number of people tread this fine line between approving of sort of Robin Hood types and criminals. And that can change given the target. So, "fantastic" if they embarrass the FBI, not so comfortable if its our bank.
Just thought I'd share this.

11.65 percent of Steam owners used Windows 8 in April

http://www.neowin.net/news/1165-percent-of-steam-owners-used...
Cluster de Virtualização KVm ensina a criar Data Center
Com 16 horas de duração, presencial, o treinamento aborda os seguintes tópicos:

· Introdução à virtualização
· Instalando o virtualization manager
· Instalando o Virtualization Hypervisor
· Criando o Data Center, Clusters e Storage Domains
· Instalando virtual servers
· Instalando virtual desktops
· Trabalhando com snapshots de vms
· Trabalhando com templates de vms
· Configurando o Cluster KVM e migrando vms entre os hosts

De acordo com Marcos Sungaila e a Tempo Real Eventos, futuramente este mesmo treinamento também deverá ser ministrado no formato online (atualmente ele é oferecido apenas nos formatos presencial e In company)

Mais Informações: http://www.temporealeventos.com.br/?area=269-cluster-de-virtualizacao-com-kvm-aprenda-a-montar-na-pratica-com-marcos-sungaila-savant-presencial-em-sao-paulo-tempo-real-eventos
Outros treinamentos da área de infraestrutura: http://www.temporealeventos.com.br/?area=1-Infraestrutura-de-Servicos-de-TI-treinamentos-praticos-mao-na-massa-&tipo=1&id=3272
Is there something like this for Software developers? We make the world go round and round; shouldn't we also have something this beautiful?
I think sampling bias is definitely the most likely reason we haven't seen any solar systems like ours, but...

Even with sampling bias, we could still be seeing something legitimately weird. We expect to detect some certain number of exo-planets with a certain range of characteristics with our current technology. We don't think this set of exo-planets is necessarily representative of the average exo-planet in the galaxy, because of the limits of our technology, but we expect to look at X stars, and see Y planets, which look about like Z (where Z is probably Jupiter-sized planets orbiting at Jupiter-like distances). We might also expect to see a few weird planets, where the solar systems are aberrations or we just got lucky and detected something better than we'd expect with our technology.

But what this article seems to be saying (maybe a little poorly) is that the set of planets observed is not the subset of planets we expected to observe. We expected (say) to look at 100,000 stars, see 100 normal Jupiters, fail to see 9,900 other normal Jupiters that were there but we didn't detect, and see 1 aberration, like an Earth-like planet we accidentally detected or a hot Jupiter representing a weirdly captured wandering planet. Instead, we saw 1000 aberrations, hot Jupiters. More than we expected to see based on how we thought solar systems formed.

Just because the unexpected thing is actually extremely easy to detect once you're looking at the universe in the right way doesn't make it any less unexpected. Even if we eventually find millions more solar systems that look like ours than ones with hot Jupiters, we might still have to figure out why there are so many more hot Jupiters than we expected.
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The Pending Coffee
I learned mercurial first, because it seemed much simpler.

I'd like to convert myself to git though.
One request:

"-webkit-text-size-adjust: none".

Please be careful with this. I actually need to zoom the site in to read it comfortably and I can't. http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201011/beware_of_-webk...
Couldn't the techniques we are using be biasing the results? Maybe solar systems like ours are simply harder to detect.
It would also be a good candidate for the Great Filter - the hidden factor that has stopped the development of all the other intelligent civilisations that would otherwise be out there. That would mean this is good news - we'd rather the Great Filter lies in our past (because that means we've already survived it) than in our future.
I literally cringed while visiting blackstartup.com, otherwise known as "Kickstarter for the black community"

For two reasons:
1) A crowdfunding site, (by default), requires as large of a crowd as possible to give each project the best opportunity to get funded. Creating a niche site ostensibly based on race discourages the other 90% of the US population from participating, thus inherently undermining the site's usefulness.

2) The site suffers from poor design and doesn't appear to be well thought-out. I spent 5 mins on Themeforest and found 5 themes that are blowing away the template the founders used for blackstartup.com.

If the site was going to be done in the name of "blackness" perhaps us blacks should bond together to form some sort of Black UX/UI Commission to properly vet these types of sites so that they don't act as such a poor representative of us as blacks as a whole. Clearly I jest, but this type of divisiveness and exclusionary mentality is the exact reason why minorities, (and specifically blacks), find themselves on the outside looking in when it comes to the tech/startup community.
It's not so much the grill smell as it is the grill smoke. A lot of kebab stands in NYC cover half the intersection in a thick haze. It's mouth-watering when you're hungry, and annoying when you're not.

Personally I don't care that the trucks emit smells, but if they're injecting so much smoke into the atmosphere that I can barely see, that's no longer cool.
That's what I meant actually :)
1) stop promoting your own domain, and especially 2) stop posting duplicates. You linked to this exact same story 28 days ago.
Maybe we should switch off our smartphones first? Who cares about OCRing number plates if you can track an individual's EVERY move using his mobile phone data?
I decided to use this title and never change it again: 'Programmer'. No more 'Rails Engineer', or 'Symfony2 Architect', or 'Clojure whatever'.
US financial regulator: We could regulate Bitcoin “if we wanted”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_planet
How a quest on Quora kicked writer's block: The story and tips
While you're in there, there's a conflict in the content of the tutorial, at the end of the URLs section: http://django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/quickstart.html
I request that you not co-opt the word "hacker". you aren't a hacker. you're a marketer.
"Every web site I sign up to these days, I'm 100% certain that from that point forward I will now be spammed by them on a regular basis. It's a simple fact of the modern web now and I despise it. But when those emails look like this one, I hate them even more. Why? Because a normal form spam mail is easy to recognize. I can hit the spam button in under a second. "

It's not spam. Don't sign up for the site if you don't want to get emails from them. Or, be courteous and use their unsubscribe link.

You signed up for their site to get their service/product/whatever, and their terms state someplace that you'll get emails from them. That's part of doing business with them.

Let me repeat, just to be clear.

"IT'S NOT SPAM".

Unless, of course, you're one of those whose definition of spam is "any email I don't want".