skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point was that if any company should have awareness of what internal tools are pointing web servers at the outside world, should be capable of auditing its own security, should easily understand what that software is doing and how it should be secured, it should be Google, a company whose primary output is web software.
I used to like this question, until I interviewed a few people who hadn't worked with HTTP. Then it's unclear how to rate them. Since I'm not interviewing specifically for a web programmer I had to pick problems someone could work on without that kind of experience.
Is it just me? I think "Mary" and "marry" are the same, but "merry" is different... that isn't an option. I can't possibly be unique in this regard.
This would more accurately be called "White United States Dialect Map". I clicked through all of the videos from Mississippi, a state which is 37% black, and there is not a single video featuring a black person. From what I can tell there is no acknowledgement whatsoever of the fact that non-white people exist in America and speak distinct languages from white people.

I don't know if it's racist to make a map exclusively of white people's accents, but it's definitely racist to call it an American Dialect Map.

Also, the map seems only to cover the United States. America extends up to the Arctic and down to Cape Horn.

Edit: Just noticed the section "Classical Southern and African American Vernacular English". The author basically writes off Black language as "derived from Southern English", which is a cop out. And "African American" doesn't begin to cover the wide range of non-white people in the U.S. Many black people are not from Africa, and many people of color are not black.
It'll be available after 31st may:)
Fuck you PayPal
Future of Facebook: India and Brazil
Node.js MVC: Express.js + Derby Hello World Tutorial
That's kinda looks like what I have to type in to go to the end of a single line in Vim. ;-)
That's a general problem with chrome on windows rendering sites with custom fonts. It doesn't have directwrite, unlike Firefox and IE.
I'm in Seattle, and plenty of people around here use y'all. Well, or we're just being ironic. Or we find a second person (explicitly) plural pronoun useful on occasion.
Contrast $50/year for top quality video editing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5637389
Only thing I can think of is to pay maths teachers really well, which probably means increasing class-sizes, so is a no-go at least in the current political clime of the US.
The subscription model works for many, but I personally hate the idea of not owning my software. Especially when it's mission-critical software like Photoshop. It's the same reason I don't subscribe to all-you-can-eat music services and instead buy my albums one by one on Amazon. Yes I know it costs me more on average, but I like what I buy to be mine.

Also, does this make it much harder to pirate Adobe products since they require constant activation? If so, I'm not sure if that is a good idea. Photoshop has had a strangle hold on image editing because so many amateurs pirate it at home and then force their boss to buy it at work. It was rumored that Adobe recognized this and actually had no problem with the piracy, realizing that they could make up for it with the high sticker price that legit customers paid. Now that a 14 year old can't pirate PS to muck around with, he might find that other image editors fit his needs and never become a paying Adobe customer.
BitTorrent Sync Crosses One Petabyte Milestone
A mind map for vim
Most vulnerability scans inflate their findings with non-security stuff because it brings more business and false positives are always well received by management (less by those who actually has to evaluate the results technically). Better safe than sorry, they say. However, I have hard time seeing how it is a security vulnerability. Discovering IIS server is easy anyway, unless you take very special precautions which 99.999% of people never do, and any automated exploit tool that wanders on the site would do that discovery anyway, so would any focused attacker. So this specific thing is not nice, it looks unprofessional, it may annoy or scare the users that accidentally type a wrong thing, but I do not see how it's security related.
i think this is a wonderful addition to what airbnb offers!

i've used airbnb for a couple of years regularly and i know that if a host has verified identification it will help instill another layer of trust when booking a rental.
Some complex sites already look like a megalopolis with tons of skyscrapers.
BitTorrent sees Sync users share over 1PB of data less than two weeks
> It's virtually impossible to be manipulated to favor any particular person or interest group, simply because everyone gets it.

Well, you can raise or lower the stipend and associated taxes, to benefit those with low or high incomes, respectively (in the short term). Hopefully there's some amount that is both sufficiently optimal theoretically and sufficiently politically attractive that we can settle on a single policy for managing that, though...
After visiting Jumio I started looking for alternatives and just found http://www.miicard.com

A couple of minutes later I was reading about how to validate drivers license or how startssl does verification.

The only thing left is real physical verification, which probably doesn't scale well and can be prohibitive.

What is out there to verify identity? Am I missing something?
Projects Mighty & Napoleon: Adobe's Exploration in cloud-enabled hardware
Touch is very laggy on iPads. It's still eminently usable, and there's nothing better, so no one complains. But to an interaction expert like Ive, it must be really horrible - it certainly seems so to me.

In contrast, mouse-pointer movements are perceptually instant, and have been for many years.

Removing skeumorphism (and its heavy graphics) would help with this, as would the faster graphics, cpus and memory bandwidth in later iOS devices (there's surely a contribution to lag from the touch screen itself, but I don't know what it is).

So I hope this is what he's working towards. If it is, it will be something that everyone will love, without knowing beforehand that they needed it.
I fully understand why logging is disabled. What I am just pointing out is that the numbers that you see are probably not indicative of a framework's production performance. I realize that logging does add another variable to the mix but in my opinion, it is something worth knowing as it gives an idea of the actual performance of a framework. And on the contrary, I find that logging impacts performance noticeably depending on the implementation and granularity. I also think that cleaning up the logs on server shutdown should be fairly trivial. However, there are the cons you also listed that's quite a compelling argument for disabled logging.

As for sessions, I just used Yesod as an example but it applies to all frameworks and other "middleware" as well and this is something I am mixed on. Some platforms do not support any middleware at all so should these also be classified as "stripped" or "barebones" also? What I'm getting at is, is this really a fair comparison? From a glance on the benchmark page, it is not apparent which frameworks have which configuration or feature if you're not familiar with the framework itself and it can get really complicated. I think labeling the frameworks in terms of size is a huge step in the right direction but my belief is that more information is needed.
Right, the annual price you pay for Creative Cloud is comparable to buying Adobe’s upgrades in the past (a major release every 18 months). New users never have to ‘buy in’, so they save $1300 (Design Standard) to $2600 (Master Collection). Customers who bought the boxed versions don’t save as much. They get a discount of $240 to $360 in the first year.
> And admittedly, the questions I asked were so difficult that I seriously doubt I myself could've answered them when I first got hired.

Would you be willing to share any of the questions you asked? Your description here has piqued my curiosity.
The novelette "Manna: Two Visions of Humanity's Future" (from the HowStufWorks guy) is always what I think back to.

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

In the end, I'd like to live in Iain Banks' Culture, but I'm too cynical to believe that could ever happen.
I can't speak for the OP, but living in the boonies is great. It does ensure a long time between jobs, and the choices aren't as good. On the other hand, they tend to really value you since it's just as hard to get people to move to the middle of nowhere for a job as it is to find work out there. Scarcity works both ways.
Remember when those were the good options? :-)
"...there's nothing fake about the content of the message,..."

It has been almost 2 years since this story broke, so I think it is beneficial to read the original article and the HN comments that appeared at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603844

I think nhagen - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2604918 - summed up what is wrong with the emails best:

"I don't hate that they did this, but I hate that they tried to pretend they were anonymous women that happened to really like AirBnB. Why be so shady about it and instead why not just be honest?"

I think it is clear that AirBnB also understood that the Craigslist messages were not above board, based on the apology that Christopher Lukezic, their spokesman, sent to several news publications.

"We have since learned that some of these remote contract sales people were apparently aggressive with their outreach and may have used Craigslist to attract customers to our service who were not open to solicitation. This is not a tactic we condone or endorse, and it is our policy to forbid such actions."
Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) now supports S3 Server Side Encryption
IBM Created Google Glass in 2000 (video)
Grew up in NH, pulled off 94% Boston accent.

Thought that was kind of cool, even if I don't really drop my R's anymore.
Self investment
I love how they update every few weeks :)
I'm looking forward to each new version like a kid in a candy store.
NZ wants right to spy on citizens after Dotcom bungle
probably:

if (event.type === 'keypress') {
event.preventDefault();
doSomethingElse();
}
It refers to a blogpost from 2009 on the Matasano blog. I found a copy of it here (my apologies to tptacek I can't find it at matasano.com). http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/teaching/cs261-f12/misc/if.h...

The gist of it is that just having "256bit AES" tells nothing if it is properly implemented with a robust block mode, proper key generation and if it is signed.
You look up the course website at a decent university, and buy the same textbook they require students read, then read it yourself. Lecture notes and slides can typically be found the same way.

This is the book for this topic: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms
It seems a little weird to me to approach pricing models from a "which does the customer prefer?" angle. Tiers are just an arbitrary way for businesses to set higher prices without being as obvious about it, so of course non-enterprise customers are going to prefer usage-based pricing. Other things being equal, customers want to pay less.
You can try Krita and you can own it! :)
http://www.krita.org
Well I don't mind, in fact I personally disagree with this particular guideline. It was just a heads up :)
Ask HN: Quick Ways To Make Money As a Web Dev
My start up just failed and I spent all my money on trying to get it to work. I need to make some quick cash to make rent and pay my basic bills not to mention pay my credit cards down. I can program in PHP and Python along with knowing drupal, wordpress, and a few frontend frameworks like bootstrap.
Credit to my coworker Shane Riley for making this joke last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4640843
What is the judge's bias?
Genetics for Computer Scientists
Mercury has a new website
Doing something like the following would classify as a poor query in my book with a very simple query plan,

select * from table;
Yeah, I still have problems with OS X not switching to USB speakers easily, when that worked with PulseAudio.
If you give someone a basket of grenades and 5% of the time they hit friendlies, you'll probably take the basket away...
I prefer adb.
Same thing happened to me recently. I don't know what I would do if it happened to me 10 times, but I may find out soon enough.

Here were my reflections on it afterwards, perhaps they may help. http://darrenkopp.com/posts/2013/04/19/Post-mortem-of-my-fai...
The code is not really code, the comment is
Cyberskanking is a new breed of social terrorism. And now, Bob with the weather...
I think this is my favorite Star Trek reference in the decision.

page 10 line 21:
"Third, though Plaintiffs boldly probe the outskirts of law, the only enterprise they resemble is RICO. The federal agency eleven decks up is familiar with their prime directive and will gladly refit them for their next voyage."

I have never had more fun reading a decision from a judge. It is heartening as well as entertaining.
Could you maybe explain what it does at a high level and get them to maybe explain how they think it might work? It would probably be just as informative.
Using Sublime Text? Then you might want to check a new javascriptRefactorPlugin
Javascript Refactor provides true refactor methods like

Goto definition of a variable or function
Rename variable or function respecting its current scope
Introduce variable
Extract selected source to a new method

Try, Star, Fork at https://github.com/s-a/sublime-text-refactor
The future of CAD and 3D printing will arm citizens
Yuppies and Gentrification are antonims in my book. Does the author know what those words mean?
Sounds very logical. Thanks for your response.
Show HN: Droprx. Never hand-code a select box again.
Here's an interesting list of videos of people pronouncing a standard set of words: http://sitekreator.com/vaux/meme.html
Pretty sure there are a bunch of start-ups out there with non-technical founders looking for web devs to build out down and dirty mvps. Can't imagine you have to look too hard.
Ya, don't read the content.
We deal with psychos like this on a daily basis and it is the one reason I'd be more than happy to quit my 15 year stint as operator of an online community.

It is absolutely incredible, the kind of viciousness some people will direct at those they claim to once have loved.
You know I love Bitcoin, But I could still see this type of `post` being directed at Bitpay or Coinbase; given market fluctuations lately. It was pretty stable in 2012 but woosh...

I wish the speculators &amp; day traders left us alone.
Syria certainly does not have good relations with the US. Currently the White House is considering providing more, potentially lethal aid to Syrian rebels. The White House Press Secretary has stated it is "highly likely" that the Assad regime has used sarin nerve gas.

US relations with Sudan is not much better due to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.

[1] http://bigstory.ap.org/article/white-house-assad-likely-behi...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_the_W...
Yes, PayFail, please fuck yourself kindly.
Well yeah, except for the Google Alerts bit - Google Alerts seem to be all-but-dead these days. mention.net is a reasonable alternative - with a limited free offering and paid plans for more detailed/serious use.
People will be sad when they realize the barrels are not rifled. That means these are plastic zip guns.
This is why I went out of my way to find an alternative processor to Paypal for my most recent startup. Monthly fees were definitely higher but chances of this happening, much lower.
I'm not in the Valley and not sure how to get in contact with these people.
In half a year the Corporate Developer will still have a job because he knows how to build "apps that sorta work, very quickly" while the True Developer spent most of that time developing his own dialect of Lisp and his team never shipped a product.
It looks exactly like a writeup about patent trolling except it doesn't have anything at all to do with patents.
How Fast is the National Broadband Network? Broadband in Australia.
Here's the full report: http://www.defense.gov/pubs/2013_China_Report_FINAL.pdf
It's not hard to add a rifling to the model is it? It seems like they are prototyping, testing, and incrementing designs.
I turned my back on 'Modern Desktop Linux' a few years ago and haven't looked back since.

In my .profile I have:
# if logging into tty6 startx
if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) = /dev/tty6 ]; then
startx ;
fi

Then in my .xinitrc I have
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
eval $(gpg-agent --daemon)
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch awesome

My full desktop environment uses 116MB RAM at boot and everything works flawlessly.
I don't even know what a tree parser is, but how can anyone not be able to write a binary search algorithm?
It is a real pity that it takes such naked extortionist behaviour to get a judge angry. If you look back through for instance the SCO lawsuit there were several points where I thought something like this was going to happen but it never did. Judges in general are terribly patient with plaintiff misbehaviour.

That's probably a good thing but many a life has been ruined like that.
Against deceitful lawyers/plaintiffs. (I agree with you). When a federal judge allows it to visibly boil over into obviousness, as in this case, should indicate how lopsided of a case it really is.

Ignoring the Star Trek references, the judge established a large number of "findings of fact", where specific factual elements and legal repercussions were identified or quantified. This is a very compelling approach for appellate/higher courts, and should suggest the intent of resiliency in the language by the judge.
Wow, a new twist on "Paypal screws vendor" - this time on currency conversion.

You have to read the linked article to get the details. Mind it, it's not just crappy rates. The rate is different for the chargeback and for the original payment. Guess in whose favor the rates differ? Yup, good old Paypal never missing a chance to extract some money from you.
Your green username indicates you're new here, so a tip: Don't say "+1", but just upvote.
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Better than that, this version (I think) comes with the database performance improvements that made Golang go back to the tippy-top of the Techempower benchmarks.

Massive improvements were made. This is impactful and cool stuff. :)
Leaked memo says next-gen Xbox won't require constant Internet connection
Thanks for mentioning this, I've been developing a mac plugin (http://thimbleup.com) and didn't realize Acorn also had plugin support.
I personally have had a better experience working with companies outside of SV. Better pay, hours, and less stress. Plus gasp!, actual profits (which are important for long term contracts and or employment).
Always fun to watch a company kill off a huge chunk of its revenue stream for the sake of "stopping piracy". Idiotic.
Why is Fireworks so good for web design? What does it have that Photoshop doesn't?
Every time we add capacity, we max out again in a week or so.

We are 3 people total, servicing 120,000 customers. We could start wait listing new users into the service, but there are many of them who get value out of the product as it is, so it doesn't feel like the right solution.
Microsoft Confirms Windows Blue Update
yup, Adobe has been in the business of buying up competition for years. They aren't just going to give away a system that will take share away from their products.
HackerNews for iPhone out now
Love this bug! http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
HackerNews for iPhone is a new client for HackerNews, with readability integration, read-later services and social sharing.
At 69p (99 cents), it's less than your morning coffee, and you deserve that right?
Already Bought The Domain - LOL
By Whalf 7 are we talking about the Google Sydney Building (not the main one, the other one?)

I've been there a few times probed around Guest WiFi but never had the balls to do something like this.
Whalf 7 is in Australia
the output of a really good text summarization algorithm

Yes. And I value this aspect very much.

Often as not, I prefer the wikipedia page description over a (open source) project's self-description.
No, there's a number of small businesses that are doing CS plugins, including myself with http://thimbleup.com .

If anything this makes plugin development easier in the same way developing an iOS app is easier with nearly forced updates. When interviewing design shops, many of them stuck to an 'every other year' upgrade path, so many of them still used CS5 - which meant I also have to buy multiple revisions of CS to support/test everyone.

I'm a bit concerned personally though since this also kills the used market for Adobe products going forward (CS6 sells for only $700 if you look for just used licenses), although I'm hoping the reduced support costs of going cloud will make their products maybe cheaper in the long run.

My only possible concern would be the cloud-based plugins like layervault competing with Creative Cloud's features, but they could serve support for the non-Adobe crowd and support pixelmator/acorn users.
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That may or may not be true - they have open-sourced several large projects. Flex (http://www.adobe.com/products/flex.html), for example is a big software product that Adobe switched to open source in 2007.

From an article back then:

"Ward outlined the transition as having the following steps:

Today - Creation of Mailing List for Discussion
Summer 2007 - Public Bug Database and Daily Builds
Second Half 2007 - Flex 3 Released
December 2007 - Read Only SVN Access, Patches Welcome
2008 - Committers with Write Access, Creation of Possible Subprojects "

see: http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/04/flex-open-source

and: http://readwrite.com/2007/04/26/adobe_takes_fle
Touch on current devices is laggy because of inherent touch screen hardware restrictions. It has nothing to do with how much the CPU and GPU are utilized by the OS.

There's some research done on reducing the latency. For example Microsoft's work: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=160...
Microsoft Windows 8 U-turn
You can't tell if $350 is expensive or not if you have no idea of what you are getting for it. I wouldn't go to the conference even if it was free and 2 meters from home.

I need a basic idea of what's going on there, and the main advantages. Usually, I go to a conference to listen a little, and socialize as much as I can. Different kind of conferences, different people. I discover other people who have other crafts.

Well, maybe it's just me.
HN removes Google SPDY support
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The companies he's founded have done pretty darn well for shareholders though. Netscape was sold for $4Billion, and, on the last day of trading, was worth $10Billion. Not bad for a 5 year old company.

Loudcloud/Opsware (which was really managed more by Ben than Marc) started it's growth spurt _just_ as the entire dot com bust took place. Loudcloud Went public as the market was in freefall - it's amazing they even got it out. About 1/3 the company was sold to EDS, and another 1/2 was laid off - leaving only 100 or so employees to form the ashes of OPSW. I remember Marc's infamous "Sharp Left Turn" speech (this what before "pivot" became part of the common vernacular in the valley) before the company the next morning, when he rallied the troops around the idea of building a software company - where He and Ben basically executed an emergency maneuver, and converted the services/platform/hosting company into a Software Company. Sold for $1.6 Billion, all cash deal. Took eight years for that exit.

There aren't that many entrepreneurs who've had two $1B+ exits, so I would suggest your statement, "Marc has a terrible record as an entrepreneur..." - is flawed.
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"THE LORD GIVETH, THE LORD TAKETH AWAY..."

Previous discussion on supporting SPDY: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5660797