skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Node.js is too opinionated about how to do things that it could ever replace anything on the server-side of things, be it PHP, Python, Ruby, Lua, whatever. Their "event-driven, non-blocking I/O" experiment should be entirely optional, and for the afficionados only. Do you know of any other scripting engine that imposes that kind of experiments on its users?
I would be entirely ok with replacing mod_php or su_php with mod_js or su_js, but I am really not interested in joining their callback hell.
I wonder if there may be a streak of good news to this policy change. If Adobe make their CS software effectively unavailable to most individuals and small companies then there should be even more incentive and resources available for usability design and features of the (free and open) alternatives.
Skills?

"I call myself an “ideas” guy — like many aspiring entrepreneurs I’ve met. " [1]

Oh.

[1]: http://www.adamngreenwald.com/1/post/2013/05/the-trials-and-...

[#@&!]: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=agreenwald24

...

" Why wouldn't I just get a loan? I could, but I don't want to. " [2]

Glad to see you're invested. I'll just put up my money instead- I mean hell, after all I've got enough to lose some, right?

[2]: http://www.investinadam.com/your-questions-answered.html
To be fair to pg, I feel like this was the obvious conclusion (that an anonymous user posting via tor would redact)
In West Coast terms, he does. His family had money before he did.
two steps: once to create the video; twice to mux the audio in. ffmpeg can do both, possibly in one step, but start here.
An Apology For Idlers
I'm working at a global mega corp still on office 2003. To upgrade 140k employees to a system and actually make it work takes years. Making tech decisions that align with corporate release schedules is an unbearable thing. You will always be years out of date because of the need to formally meet the requirements of 10s of thousands of business groups
I have trouble imagining the reading experience. You read it, then it updates when you're not reading it, and... what? The RSS for it reactivates, but it's still non-recent. Or we bookmark it to remind ourselves to check bank now and again? It's not quite like a subscription... seems like it's a lot of mental load to check back during those times when it hasn't been updated (scroll scroll scroll... oh drat, it ended at the same point as last time)
Github - Find more exploits, together
https://github.com/search?p=1&q=extension%3Aphp+mysql_query+%24_GET&ref=searchresults&type=Code

https://github.com/search?q=fwrite+extension%3Aphp+%24_REQUEST&type=Code&ref=searchresults
If you can't afford £50 a month for a software license. I doubt your ability as a "freelancer" or business owner. That is a very small price to pay for software which is your bread and butter.
Poll Everywhere (YC08) Looking for a DevOps Engineer
On the "Random Thought": The GIF doesn't need to be animated. A GIF is made of multiple frames and each frame contains multiple image blocks. Each image block has its own coördinates and color table. You should be to use multiple image blocks in one frame (GCE block) to get one frame with 24-bit color.

For historical reasons most browsers don't respect a frame delay of 0 (computers used to be slow enough that even a 0 delay was good enough for animation; as they got faster browsers added extra delays to make old animations work correctly), but I think some renderers will correctly treat it as one frame (at least http://slbkbs.org/jsgif/ does! It has other problems with tricky GIFs, though -- the disposal method code is broken, for one).

Of course, you should just use PNG.
I don't hate Republicans who are not either completely hypocritical or spineless before the social conservatives and tea party idiocy.
I don't know much about this, but you might not want to have your e-mail address so easily formatted for a bot, right? You might get a lot of spam soon?
It's all about incentives. Most major news organisations are private, for-profit entities. Profit is the primary incentive.

What turns a profit? High-brow commentary written by proper journalists, that only a small subset of your readership will fully understand and appreciate, or photos of the latest Hollywood B-list celebrity doing something embarrassing, churned out en masse by pseudo-journalists whose only qualification is being able to plagiarise content without being detected, generating far more page views and ad revenue?
we're told right from childhood that drugs that put you on a high are not acceptable

Drug education has progressed decades since I've had it, but it was never in terms of a "high." The distinction was that drugs given to you by someone other than a doctor are bad.
Otherwise, this is a killer job :) Keep up this awesome project!
> WaitForMultipleObjects as a kind of super-select to wait on anything

Except for the 64 handle limit, which makes it largely useless for anything that involves server applications where the number of handles grows with the number of clients. So then you'd spawn "worker" threads, each handling just 64 handles. And that's exactly where your code starts to go sour - you are forced to add fluff the sole purpose of which is to work around API limitations. What good is the super-select if I need cruft to actually use it in the app?

And don't get me started on the clusterfuck of the API that is IOCP.

> Yes, Windows gets a lot wrong, but it gets a lot right.

Oh, no, it doesn't.

Specifically, what Windows does not get is that it's other developers that are using its services and APIs, not just MSSQL team that can peek at the source code and cook up a magic combination of function arguments that does not return undocumented 0x8Fuck0ff. I have coded extensively for both Linux and Windows, including drivers and various kernel components, and while Windows may get things right at the conceptual level, using what they end up implemented as is an inferior and painful experience.
Each asynchronous function has its synchronous counterpart, so you may choose the best option, each has its advantages.
In my opinion, apart from the execution, there is a major problem with the concept. Why should I want to bother hashing my passwords, and then having to remember the password+that it was hashed with md5/sha1??

There are apps such as LastPass that pretty much solve the password management deal altogether, by choosing, storing and retrieving strong passwords.

IMHO, first of all, more thought needs to be put into the use case.

At any event, good luck and hope you'll find the path to succeed with your app(s).
I wouldn't worry about it. While I used to obfuscate my email address when posting it, I haven't in years, because:

1) gmail (and most other email providers) is really good at filtering spam out

2) spammers are much more likely to just buy email address databases in bulk than scrape the web for them these days and if you have an email address you use with any websites your email is probably already present in these databases.
How to backup your MySQL database from Terminal.
This Tutorial shows how to backup and import old MySQL database backups from a terminal. It also shows how you can use gzip with mysqldump.
And you did put at least the same amount of effort as to write this comment to report the bug to pypy devs and/or library devs right?
What?

http://i.imgur.com/S0e14ml.png
Chartio certainly isn't the only company guilty of this.

Take Splunk, a $4 billion dollar (in market cap) machine log analytics service. They rolled out a new service called DB connect which allows you to integrate database analytics with their platform. Their implementation of DB connect is equally intrusive. However, I can still see these services being useful for visualizing operations that are less critical.
RTFA. The reason that they made the decision to follow process was because they chose to apply the same procedures to everything to avoid picking and choosing which items were exempt.
I've used oDesk as well and although I feel the feature is useful it also feels very invasive. Not knowing what it will capture (looking up something on SO, checking email, writing code) has caused me to have to delete a 10 minute time slice on multiple occasions just to avoid sharing a picture of my email index or similar.
Powershell is so damn good and is probably so because it was not improvement of cmd. Give credit where it is due.
Google Geocode encoutering issues?
Exemple : 169, 11th Street, San Francisco, CA

It returns back 11h Avenue... Did tou encounter other issues or I'm the alone with the only address having a bug?
Looks like it could be good but the author needs to check his/her markup on a mobile. Looks terrible on my iPhone.
You will always have more than one process running, if only for the kernel threads handling filesystems, networking etc., so you can only get that if you have at the very least two CPUs. And even then you usually have more processes than CPUs and the ‘application’ split up in various processes that in turn require scheduling by the kernel.
Seriously, if you're careful enough, that could be a good thing.
There's nothing I want to buy that a few million won't cover.
The problems with the NT kernel are nothing new. When I suggested for Windows to use a BSD kernel to overcome its current limitations, I got lots of disagreement. Microsoft developers seem to be happy with the current state and have no vision of a totally new architecture.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2841934
Is that article written by Mochizuki? Can you make sense of it?
Not yet. Aerospace firms providing fasteners have a huge number of customers and it's a competitive industry. They also have clients in countries that have no Internet access to speak of.
Really impressive. Very creative and quite polished.
GPU sound synthesis
> That's definitely not true. What if you were planning on filtering after the join? You may find yourself pulling millions of records. The bandwidth alone would bring you down. I work with MongoDB, and once in awhile I really miss joins. You can't emulate joins in any reasonable amount of time in Mongo.

I agree that joins should be done by mongo (as a feature, similar to RethinkDB), but they can get you in trouble when you convert your collection from local-to-joined-one into sharded-into-multiple-servers. You'd then gain huge network load that can potentially bring your system down.

If you decided that data in some particular collection is potentially huge -- just don't use joins on it (unless REALLY once in a while).
First Public Working Draft of Encrypted Media Extension
Grandparent is deleted, but maybe on-topic:

Making a whole post to say "+1" on a website that has built-in upvoting functionality probably sends a few people over the edge.
There's an example of a true-colour GIF on this page:

http://phil.ipal.org/tc.html
i tried to go back a word with control-w and it killed the tab :(
Please tell me it was written in 2002.
Thanks for pointing that example out! I should have searched when I wrote about it, but it just tangentially dawned on me that true-colour GIFs were possible as I was writing the article.
I really like it, great design job.
You might already have thoughts in this direction but I would think about how to benefit from having a lot of devs and designers at the same place, posting blog posts and projects (the first thing that comes to mind is some sort of feeds). Good luck!
The author is actually a Physicist who invented time machine in 2003.
White text on a white background should be fixed. Perhaps detect automatically or allow for user customization.

Example: http://hoverboard.io/kristopher
They put it in quotes because its their company strap line. It's at the footer of every one of their pages: "giving a @&$#!! since 19xx (some year I don't recall)
I always wondered if there's efficient GIF compress trick for Cinemagraphs. Looks like GCE is promising.
I work in the BI / analytics space, with a fair amount of what's called "big data". The security of something like cloud IO is typically not too much of a concern on the kind of projects I work on: more often than not, our clients deploy dedicated analytics databases. Perhaps I'm biased as we tend to work from the outside, but I'd be surprised to find many sysadmins allowing chart IO to connect to the production DB. The ETL process for analytics databases tends to either obscure user data or aggregate it to an impersonal level of detail.

I'm more concerned about the more enterprise-y products aggressively advertising 'enterprise' security features like Active Directory integration, smoothing over their total lack of transparency in vulnerabilities and bugs.
This is really the worst bit of writing I've ever seen reach the front page - in terms of factual content, technical insight and writing style.
You see your own points, not others'.
Just out of curiosity - did you A/B test direct debits vs CC? If you haven't I'd strongly recommend giving it a whirl.

I did it with one client and credit cards came out way ahead on conversions (this was for a B2B app) - as in low double digits better.
One could write a whole essay on the inability of this $4bn company to fix the most basic bugs in their product. I'd love to see evidence of people actually usefully using the features like this that Splunk provides.
A brazen gang of cyber criminals, who stole $45 million
I'm just waiting for WebP to take over the world.
Also, perhaps it was not obvious, but is there a way to change my password?
Pretty sure that was the question being asked. He wanted to know if/how mikeroher knew he hadn't been downvoted.
Dave McClure’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
And what is in your opinion better then WPF?
I'm always found it difficult to read and impossible to debug.

It's useful, sure, but nice? I'm not convinced.

How about an empty recycle bin command? Why, certainly, you can do that:

$Shell = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application
$RecBin = $Shell.Namespace(0xA)
$RecBin.Items() | %{Remove-Item $_.Path -Recurse -Confirm:$false}

Teh F33243ck. Readable much? I sure hope your powershell scripts come with comments; the one's we've inherited sure didn't and they're black magic.
I'm not yet 40, just 35 with 2 kids. I don't agree with any bit of what you wrote.
1. As many people noted - experience is NOT obsolete. The same few concepts re-occur in every software language. You need to learn new APIs and new syntax, but that's total non-sense for good experienced people.

2. People with children have a better understanding of what responsibility is.

3. People with children usually spend less time on dating and going to bars :)

4. We tend to be more time efficient
In Denmark we have "denmarks Radio" which is basically a state owned tv, web and radio media outlet whose purpose it is to educate the populace. This changes the incentives, because the income is from the state whose goal is to have educated and smart voters, not to make money on headlines. I believe the BBC works in a similar fashion, and it shows in their news coverage.
Slightly ironic: doesn't work well with the Vimperator add-on + Firefox, as Vimperator is going to consume the keystrokes (especially the most used ones such as hjkl).

Great idea though (once you turn off Vimperator) :) !
Save the lecturing, you can do this in virtually any OS.
How the BBC implement responsive images
Thank you for you advice. But could you elaborate about the technical insight? The author has also made Advanced Explorer, a JavaScript + Node.js version of a file manager previously written in Java, so he has some knowledge on the topic.
According to Wikipedia, "Node.js was created by Ryan Dahl starting in 2009". Node is a part of the equation.
First of all, awesome concept. This might just force me to stop using nano all the time.

I'm curious though as to why the developer chose to limit the license to 6 months when charging a flat ~$5 per month might be easier to sell?
Do they bite?
It's been kicked up a notch, though. It used to be Cold Fusion.
Same here with Chrome's Vimium. Once the URL is excluded, it works fine.
why isn't the government doing more ?
Yeh, subscription seems silly. Might be an attempt for corporate users training staff regularly.
> So while normal health-conscious person cares about her/his health(eats well, sleeps well, takes necessary prescribed medications, etc), she/he isn't anxious about it.

That assumes that a normal health-conscious person is.. healthy already. If you're overweight, or a heavy smoker, or maybe you have something wrong with you from headaches to cancer, surely there are plenty of reasons to worry about your health without it being a sign of depression?
Your system is leaking data. The day you found out Bob is a beard groomer.
"It is difficult to avoid the impression that a miracle confronts us here, quite comparable in its striking nature to the miracle that the human mind can string a thousand arguments together without getting itself into contradictions, or to the two miracles of laws of nature and of the human mind's capacity to divine them."
-Eugene Wigner

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html
Doh, I was wondering why I could only move in 'insert' mode. Guess I was entering Vimiums insert mode rather than the game.
> Logically, it follows that there would be measurable degredation in society over time, as long as workers keep procreating.

What? New workers enter the workforce.
I always wondered if there's efficient GIF compress trick for Cinemagraphs
There is this simple thing linguists do not get: real language is much harder than linguistics.

Real life phenomena tend to be more complex than the equations "describing them". Imagine if instead of equations you have Linguistics...
Just put it in my website footer [0]. Flattr is very flexible. You can use various methods with more or less or no JavaScript. Also you can link stuff like Github, so starring a repo leads to flattr compensation.

[0] http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles.html
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That's because they don't have nice, human readable COM (and WMI) wrappers. I don't think they had time to implement them - they kept adding more and more from v1 to v2 and v3.

Every time you have Win32 spilling over in Powershell, it looks like crap (0xA).
Modern media? This is at least as old as 1928. Take Edward Bernays (the "father of modern PR" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bernays), whose book "Propaganda" said things like: "There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes. Nor, what is still more important, the extent to which our thoughts and habits are modified by authorities."

And: "For this reason there is an increasing tendency to concentrate the functions of propaganda in the hands of the propaganda specialist. This specialist is more and more assuming a distinct place and function in our national life."

Does awareness immunize you? "Undoubtedly the public is becoming aware of the methods which are being used to mold its opinions and habits. If the public is better informed about the processes of its own life, it will be so much the more receptive to reasonable appeals to its own interests. No matter how sophisticated, how cynical the public may become about publicity methods, it must respond to the basic appeals, because it will always need food, crave amusement, long for beauty, respond to leadership.

"If the public becomes more intelligent in its commercial demands, commercial firms will meet the new standards. If it becomes weary of the old methods used to persuade it to accept a given idea or commodity, its leaders will present their appeals more intelligently."

A terribly amusing read, from a pre-computing programmer of people. (http://www.whale.to/b/bernays.pdf) When guys like Ryan Holiday talk about the "modern media", they're stirring nostalgia for lost days of yore — which didn't exist. At least not in the timeframe they seem to imply.

[Disclaimer: I'm only halfway through the video before writing this. I'll be embarrassed if he delves into the 20th century history in the latter half. And keep in mind that "Propaganda" had a more neutral connotation then. Later, it got associated with the Nazis, who were actually inspired by the success of US propaganda.]
Good luck in your search for a news service with the rigorous quality that you demand.
Wikipedia tells me that Windows NT was started in 1988 and shipped in 1993, while Linux's first release was in 1991, giving them approximately the same age. Furthermore, NT shipped with UCS-2 support, not UTF-16, as UTF-16 did not exist until 1996. UTF-16 was a migration that they completed in Windows 2000. UTF-8 was first presented in 1993 and is, therefore, older than UTF-16.

With all of these facts being true (I hope), today things are such that the Windows world mostly (but not completely -- they sometimes assume two-byte characters) correctly implements UTF-16, while the Linux world correctly implements UTF-8.
Hahaha… Vim adventures again.

People, if you are curious about Vim, just run the command below if you are on any UNIX-y machine:

$ vimtutor

That's really all you need. If you don't have Vim installed, just install it and run vimtutor anyway.

Once you have got the basics right, no bullshit payware game or online drillings or online interactive tutorials will help you improve your skills. Only your accumulated experience, curiosity and willingness to learn will.
Not sure if it's notable, but I like hpodder, a command-line podcast client. It happens to be written by one of the author of RWH.
You'll need to wait a while longer, then, I think. GIF really should have died a long time ago. It's technologically inferior and lives in only the smallest image niche of the web, animation.

WebP should win over GIF. It's smaller, can be either lossy or lossless, supports full transparency, has animation, ... except for the fact that almost all GIF usage is (a) "clipart", (b) forums/comments/emails or (c) raw links (i.e. Imgur).

When I say clipart, I meant that most GIF image use would be people using GIFs made by other people. The Internet has a large treasure trove of GIFs that people will re-use from here to eternity. I doubt anyone will ever bother to convert the GIF to WebP.

Even if they did, if your browser doesn't natively support WebP[1] then you need a Javascript shim. Most people won't know what a shim is or won't be allowed to arbitrarily inject JS into the forum/comment/email. With raw image links, it's obviously not possibly to add a JS shim either.

I hate to say, but I think we're going to be stuck with GIF for a while longer...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP#Support
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