skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if Kickstarter pivots (purposefully or not) to support brand name / BigCo projects, that'll just open up a market for someone else to come in as Kickstarter Classic.
Congrats, you have been GrowthHacked™!
Alas, the information needed to vote intelligently is hard to come by in today's America.
Interesting...but seems to require DNSSEC, which is presumably why it hasn't been implemented (because DNSSEC hasn't been widely implemented).
If you really cared about your teen with low self esteem, you would buy them a round at the bar.

Why don't you love them?
A x64 CPU will take a single instruction to operate on a both a 64-bit and 32-bit integer, and the CPU registers are all 64-bit, so in that context you are right that it doesn't matter that much between the datatypes.

However, the physical size of the integer as stored in the CPU cache, RAM, and HDD is still going to be 2x as big for a 64-bit integer. In a hypothetical worst case, you are cutting your CPU cache and memory bandwidth in half, which is tragic.

Additionally, while most physical servers are x64, the OS, server software, and virtualization layer is still often 32-bit -- maybe for legacy, maybe for performance, maybe for a lot of reasons. Upgrading that whole stack up to 64-bits just for the luxury of having default 64-bit integers seems misguided.
Most poems in the world don't rhyme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming#History This one uses a repeated structure instead of repeated sounds.
What exactly wasn't believable about it before? Linode confirmed that someone cracked into their system on their blog, which I consider as being confirmation enough for everything.
The whole point of the article was to question the validity of the diagnosis of mental illness, which you completely ignore when you blithely add the disclaimer that "these folks" refers only to people who are mentally ill.
Title is somewhat misleading "CocoaConf Alt 2013 Canceled due to conflict with Apple" (and different from what was posted), this isn't a direct conflict between CocoaConf and Apple, it's a hotel conflict booking issue.
[Edit - 3 minutes later, someone fixed it. :-)]

"All was well until we got an email from the Intercontinental San Francisco, saying that they had determined that our event was in conflict with Apple and that due to their contract with Apple, we couldn’t use the space."

This is very common for hotels hosting conventions - they will never host a second convention that appears to be similar to the primary, and CocoaConf was naive to believe otherwise.

With that said, Apple had an opportunity to win some decent karma by helping out this overflow conference and waiving their contract rights with the Hotel they are booked with. They clearly can't handle the primary volume themselves.

I guess, from a business perspective, they would rather not dilute their conference, even if it means that several thousand people won't get an opportunity to go one.
Maybe, but remember that it's not just the money for Pwn2Own; it's also that the Pwn2Own contest uses prestige targets. It's probably not quite true that nobody cares if you find a Wordpress vulnerability, but it's certainly nothing resembling weaponizing a Chrome vulnerability.
What was happening to the Native Americans at this time?
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Wow, blaming the user? That's low. Just like in customer service where the customer is always right, in web development the user is always right. It's not the users fault they didn't see some text, it's YOUR fault.
More generally, I think that learning about the relational model (which, in practice, probably means learning to use SQL, even though SQL is in many ways far from ideal) of data is fundamentally mind-opening in how you understand and deal with data and makes you a better programmer in general, even when you aren't interacting with an external relational database.
It would be very, very useful if only it worked with regular expressions. Or if you could run it against F# functions.
This is going to be a bad post because I'm not where I can look up and provide links to the supporting material, but from what I recall the cleansing of eggs also had to with different egg distribution models between the US and UK.
This is just not true. There's lots of people who run their personal sites quite happily using just WP core and one of the bundled themes.

I agree that the quality of community-contributed themes and plugins is all over the map, and I fight with clients constantly to try and keep them from installing plugins on a whim for exactly that reason. (It's amazing how many people grab plugins to do stuff that WP can actually do itself, just in a way that isn't immediately obvious to the user.) But it's not impossible to run a site on just WP core.
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That's great, but all it means is that you just weren't in the crosshairs, not that you were actually secure. Automating updates is a wonderful way to open up an attack vector, as well - for example, a little while back, attackers got into the Wordpress SVN repo and back-doored a bunch of popular plugins[1]. Anyone performing "regular updates" without proper auditing would have installed malicious code that opened them up to full-scale breach.

[1] http://wordpress.org/news/2011/06/passwords-reset/
The problem is that security is not a feature. It can not be simply added at some point if software was not designed with security in mind.

For example, if authorization code is spread all over the code base and mixed with business logic no patching will make this secure, at some point problems will emerge again.

I'm not saying WordPress is not secure, because I don't know its architecture. But the argument that after few critical vulnerabilities had been fixed no more were discovered does not convince me. A better argument would be to actually explain the WordPress architecture and why it is a good base for a secure system.

For example Ruby Rack architecture is in my opinion a wise design from a security perspective, because it allows to nicely isolate security critical pieces from business logic.
sockets.io?
aspen.io?

Just off the top of my head.
Linode confirmed they were cracked, but the HTP write-up in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5667027 included a lot of additional details, much of it hard to confirm.

FBI moles, compromise of a fairly large registrar, etc.
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Indeed. I certainly wish those numbers were true!
How is this different from Boxen (http://boxen.github.com/)? You have exactly copied the central idead around it and made a blog post.
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I'm pretty sure, as it is now, corporations that have shareholders are obligated to be unethical.

You're right in that being unethical is the best way to get ahead in the game, and it might be a good idea to make it so that's not the case.

That said, the US of A is an adversarial society.
Crane lofting of final pod for completed anonymous intercontinental missle stack:

[] Tor p2p anonymity

[] Bitcoin: wallet blockchain verification and QR codes/smartphone for street trade

[] Prepaid anonymous debit cards

and...

[]:

"...through Google BufferBox, Google has plans to place secure boxes in convenient locations throughout a city to which you can have parcels shipped to for easy pickup. They just launched their first location in San Francisco, with many more likely to come."

Elon can't be happy about this.
Did you not get the email? I'm a Name.com customer too and I didn't get this email.
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In fairness, speaking as a British person, we do fucking go on about EU regulations. Or at least the media like to kick up a fuss.
>I didn’t have to do it but I thought oh well, I guess I’ll do it and see what happens.

The guy whining in the blog post exactly opted in.
I did the same thing but it doesn't really matter. It's on the frontage which I'm sure was his goal. I'd say mission accomplished.
OnTrac recently "lost" a 75 llb package of mine while on the truck out for delivery, and took several days to admit it was missing, and only then after about a dozen calls and emails. There's not a doubt in my mind it was either stolen (most likely) or the delivery person simply didn't want to lift the box and kicked it out the back of the truck. Amazon had to eat the cost of replacing it, and I subsequently required that they use FedEx or UPS (which they did).

OnTrac will sink Amazon Prime.
so add a trigger to your tables. How is an ORM getting in the way of that?
this is actually a pretty cogent argument. how do you apply this logic to other systems and software?

for example, we know that running an old version of OSX is not too bad. But if you're still running 10.4 instead of 10.4.3, you're in for some trouble.

when there is a security patch to a specifc X.Y release OSX or Windows, (like X.Y.Z) it's not secure to leave that running. the same would apply to any other piece of software (like WordPress), no?
Yes, this is my point exactly. Except much more succinctly stated :-D

In WP's defense, though, it is not the only blog/CMS product that works this way -- the vast majority I've used require some kind of user or admin interaction to apply updates, mostly to avoid people complaining if an update should break something. And WP's update process is much easier and friendlier to non-technical users than most are.

But in practice that turns out not to matter much, because no matter how easy making that intervention is, some percentage of users are going to skip it. The only way to get around that is to not require the interaction at all. That may risk breaking some stuff, but I'd rather work in an ecosystem where everybody's secure and poorly written extensions break occasionally than one in which poorly written extensions never break at the cost of security.
I would rather you show me the message up front.

(I am the original poster.)
Carving exceptions for oneself I think is very common and may not be obvious to the person doing it.

My wife hates when people talk on their phone while driving, to the point of screaming obscenities at them. Yet, if her phone rings while she's driving, she often answers it. If I point out the discrepancy, she dismisses it, as her call is "important" or "short" or she's "still watching the road".

I suspect I do the same thing, although (like my wife and her phone) I don't realize that I'm judging others for behavior I myself engage in.
I like that it flips the usual look of bootstrap. Colors and sharp flats instead of grays and depth/shadows. It's not immediately obvious this is a bootstrap layout like with most.
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Please, god, it's "populace", not "populous"
No, no, not at all.

We're both "high trust" societies. Compare to the Chinese stereotype/archetype of not trusting someone outside the family to run part of the business, which helped to kill Wang in the US and abroad outside of the PRC tends to limit firms to simple types like trading companies.

I agree, we are in many ways very different, many of them fundamental, but many fundamental are similar enough.
Or you can just edit within the shared directory between your local machine and the environment.
> Clearly has never used Amazon Canada.

Funny, I came here to say something more serious to this extent. The degree of American-centricity in this thread is astonishing (or perhaps I'm just used to Reddit). Outside of the US – to my understanding, anywhere outside of the US, not just Canada – Amazon is next to useless. The product selection is abysmal and shipping options are terrible. Maybe the article has some points with regards to the American marketplace, but on an international level, Amazon has a long way to go.

(Yes, I realize some Amazon.com retailers do ship to Canada. To those who are about to suggest this to me, I ask: have you ever tried it? In most cases, the shipping costs more than the item in question, and depending on how it ships – something I don't seem to have any control over, although maybe that's just a case of me not knowing how to use Amazon – it either ships UPS and I get dinged with insane “duty” fees, or it ships USPS and I don't see the item for a month.)
No, you're deliberately misunderstanding her. Here's a screenshot of the page in question: http://cl.ly/image/2V302C3j290B

I can see how it'd be easy to miss the fact that this will send an email, although it's stated unambiguously, at the top of the page, and underlined. And it's definitely opt-in. I have to select folks.
Huge YMMV on this one, obviously. I don't feel particularly moved to believe that you can know whether or not you're having more fun than someone else and "getting more memories" out of an occasion because you forgo the chore of taking photos.
The point of sourcing your statements is to give the listener enough context to judge for themselves what your credibility is. It's not a layperson's responsibility to shut up, only to avoid misrepresenting themselves as an expert. It's the listener's responsibility to judge the credibility of those they listen to.

(Besides, my read of the comment that started this was that it's quite tongue-in-cheek. He was basically saying "Don't trust this any more than any other comment you read on the Internet.")
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I just bought Spectrum and I'm really impressed. I've always wanted a tool like this.
I guess I just didn't see a reason for HTP to lie about it, especially with several smaller pieces out there confirming large portions of it.

I suppose I don't understand why it's necessary to know if HTP was being 100% honest when the big details have been confirmed.
I'm not sure that's the only difference, though.
Yeah, and people custom designed screens for each resolution. It was a different world. You could never take a 640x480 VGA game and play it in 320x200.
I'm not saying I think that the headline is wrong about what the path is, just that it is overstated as a description of the content of the email it links to. I haven't really been following WI all that closely, but my impression of the state of the project matches yours.
SDN and OpenFlow are great if you're a company full of programmers like Facebook and Google are. They approach everything as a software problem. For many (most?) other companies the network is just something that has to work and not a core part of their business. You need to be able to hire a network engineer that can come in cold, with a bunch of vendor certifications on their CV, and understand your network. Most places don't want to hire a programmer to sit around and code up new spanning tree algorithms for their network. They just want to plug servers in and have it work. The people that are interested in SDN are running into the limits of what OSPF/BGP/MPLS can do and are going to work around it but many places don't run networks that complex in the first place.

I think there are a lot of gains to be made from changing the industry though, for the first time the hardware is becoming a commodity made by Broadcom and Intel (Fulcrum) just like servers. In the past you bought Ciscos or Junipers to get the custom ASICs that made the thing work, those days are coming to and end. But I wouldn't count the big companies out just yet, they have a massive head start writing software and have huge service organisations and a whole industry full of engineers that have paid to get certified on their hardware and aren't going to want to see the value of that education fall to zero. The winners are going to be the hardware companies that really are software companies at heart - Juniper and Arista are the best examples. Cisco has always loved its hardware and been way behind on software development.
I'm sure she understands. Here's a screenshot of the page in question, since nobody here can be arsed to actually check facts: http://cl.ly/image/2V302C3j290B
This reminds me of "Why is there tele-marketing when everyone hates telemarketers and getting calls at 7pm when you are sitting down to dinner?" Because it worked! It was profitable. Now, interestingly we then hit a tipping point where there was enough outrage (US) that a "Donotcall" list was created - very effectively. How long till there is a "Donotemail" equivalent? The industry is arguably not policing itself well enough. I'm really glad the CEO showed up her to defend his/her company but "Hey guy didn't pay enough attention so what are ya going to do?" is too cavalier. Imagine if social services had to check all email addresses given out like this against a central list to see if they were on the "no social offers no matter what"
Not sure this is being used the way you expected / planned, but it's still pretty cool. :-)
_You're_ doing it for a valid reason that makes sense to you

_They're_ doing it because they're pricks and trying to get as many eyes as possible.

That's normally what I see happen.
I'm sure it's a link because more people would choose not to send it if they actually saw it first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_urvjCXg6c
Right, but that's not all 64 million of them. Or even a large fraction of them (provided that number's the self-hosted installs).
This is AWESOME! Good job rriepe.
It's already been said, but if a woman or elderly person wanted to attack me with a stick, I'm pretty confident I could disarm them. If it were a gun, I would run. This is a great equaliser and in the context of me being a potential threat by trespassing into their property, I have no arguments with people owning and using a gun.

Where things get murky is those defending themselves aren't always resonable. There are countless other cases where the "victim" steps over bounds within the UK, and presumably elsewhere, and whilst I don't really support protecting criminals, I don't entirely the idea that you can murder someone for stepping on your lawn, stealing from you, or any other reason besides you feeling that you or others are going to come into direct harm.

Personally I think the US has some very strange rules with regards to guns, standing your ground and protecting your property, but we are obviously largely divided on what constitutes resonable force, which is why I don't exactly endorse guns ownership.
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But I want my endorsements for "Poetry Readings" and "Spoken Word Speed Training" to count just as much as my "Leadership" endorsements....
haha thanks! I can't say I didnt expect some "porn star" style requests
> If someone doesn't read the line "this will send a message" there isn't much we can do about that.

Oh that is totally untrue. There is something fairly obvious you could do: Don't attack people with viral tools in the first place.

Anything that intentionally adds overhead to the other person, without adding value to them, is an attack. How many people can you possibly think would want to advertise your service for you - and need your words to do it? You think if people really want to share your product they're going to develop a sudden writing difficulty?

You know as well as I that people don't read everything - we have finite attention, we do things in a hurry. And you exploit that as an attack vector for your nasty advertising stuff.

You're acting against the other party's interests from the off and you want to what?... Make it seem okay somehow? I suppose strictly speaking it's better if it's the way you say it is than some other way - but it's like saying: "Well, strictly speaking, I only murdered three children. Not the ten everyone said I did."
This is pretty fun, I just posted a random want, I dont know where this is going but it seems promising.
Boom. That right there pretty much ended any defense the CEO had. HN has countless submissions focusing on site layout/design/user interaction/click rate/etc

If you wanted the user to be able to see the message or cared that they did, you would have made it more obvious what was going on here.
Thank you! I was about to do the same thing myself to get rid of all of bootstrap's gradients.
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Would love to get some feedback! Created the engine from scratch with a few libraries:

http://fireswingstudios.com/2013/05/tech-behind-go-make-it-rain
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Ask HN: Have you ever cold called someone?
I know a lot of tech people are kind of shy. There are some people who are super connected, but these people usually have no problems cold calling or just going up to random people and just starting a conversation. How can you go from the coder with limited social skills to being able to randomly call someone up or meet someone and make a sale or at least hold a conversation without out becoming awkward?

Has anyone done called someone you wanted to meet? What are some tips? When you have no direct connections to your target market how would you go about getting them?

I hear the saying "If you aren't networking you are not working." And I feel cold calling would be ultimate form of networking as it really pushes you outside your comfort zone. I hate the term networking. I would rather just think meeting people and making friends, but maybe they are different.
You can use ORDER BY in connection with TOP n, for example if you want to use the result of a subquery as a column:

SELECT
user_name,
(SELECT TOP 1 last_action FROM actions WHERE actions.user_id=users.user_id ORDER BY action_timestamp)
FROM
users

(TOP is T-SQLs version of LIMIT)

Also, thanks for making me aware of CROSS APPLY, haven't seen that before!
I don't recall any web browsers scaling images or other UI elements based on that, though. Everything assumed 72 or 96 DPI (depending on Mac or Windows), or just showed images at a 1:1 pixel ratio.

The widespread idea of actually serving different images to devices with different DPIs is fairly new.
Pretty much, yeah. Any software that is exposed to the public Internet needs to be kept up to date. If it's not, it's not secure. That means either someone has to update it, or it has to update itself.

The world has been moving slowly away from manual updates to automated ones for some time now. Windows Update used to be much more oriented towards manually reviewing and applying updates than it is today. Chrome famously updates itself completely silently, and Firefox is moving in that direction. Consumer-oriented products are all headed that way, because it's the only way to keep them secure when their "administrator" is a non-technical user.

WP is kind of unique in that it's a type of software (a content management system) that usually is only installed and administered by people with some technical experience, but the ease of installing WP has attracted a huge number of people without that experience to use it. So my argument would be that as WordPress has essentially become a consumer product, it should behave like one.
So do you believe that if you take a random sample of (eg) Google engineers, and a random sample of all software engineers, there will be no difference in ability between the two groups? Or do you think there would be a difference but attributable to something else than their hiring practices?
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Even this comment and others are getting downvoted. What the hell… I think I'm going to call it a day here.
I got the email an hour ago.
What you are saying "and let you see the message" appears to contradict what the OP is saying. "I don’t remember being asked to approve the wording–because if I had been asked, I most certainly would not have approved the wording."

Perhaps you could post some screen shots of exactly what someone would see and apparently what someone missed?

While it seems possible that someone missed a checked box it doesn't seem possible that someone missed particular wording which is what you imply happens by "let you see the message." Can you clarify this with screen shots? (I'm just noting how people are taking you to task over this and I'd like to see exactly what someone has seen.)
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