skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get where you're coming from. And I get the logic of your argument. But history has also shown us, time and again, that when you give one or more people power they will abuse it, even if intentions were originally good (you need only to look at your nearest government to find abuse of power). Also one person's definition of negative is often not the same as another's (and when you have 350 million people with different opinions, you are certain to have disagreement). The big question is, who gets to make the decision about who's definition of "bad" is right? Who has the authority to tell me I can't have salt, or drink more than 16oz of soda, or own pistol magazines with a capacity of more than 7 rounds with which to defend my life, or profit from property I own? When I have committed no crime, who has the right to compel me to do these things? In my opinion, it's a massive overreach, plain and simple.

Another question you should be asking yourself is: who stands to profit financially from this decision? That will almost invariably lead you to the reason why the decision was made.
Let's say 50c per soda. Even if everyone drinks 6 sodas a day you're looking at an increase of $900/year/employee. Call it $100k/year for an engineer and you're talking less than 1%. And that's 6 sodas a day, every day. I bet even with free sodas you average maybe 2 a day.
Zeppelin, the Inbox for Business Data, Launches New Mobile Version Product
> A quality of a great leader.

That or exaggeration.
If every household (instead of buying a factory product) is pouring homemade whey down the sink, it's not "in small amounts." It's simply distributing the source of the pollution.
If I'm not mistaken the conversion of Talk to Hangouts last week dropped this feature, and it's only now rolling back out as part of Hangouts.
Twitter Adds Two-Factor Authentication but Still No Silver Bullet
> "Developers are going to have a great time this generation thanks to how similar the hardware is (identical in many cases)."

Sure the hardware will be similar, but what use is that if the APIs to access the hardware are totally different? I think the odds of Sony using DirectX in their SDK are pretty slim.
Teens Talk More About Economics, but No Better Informed
Fixing Small Talk By Asking Better Questions
My favorite Xbox game for years has been Castle Crashers which I assume is an indie game. Will indie games previously purchased on Xbox Live run on Xbox One?
Seconded. I used to be a sysadmin in one of the Big-4. They had custom MS Office Plugins for accounting, wordprocessing and presentations (usually branding-related)

It might be difficult to sell to them though, as those machines are locked down tight and the accountants can install nothing without IT intervention. IT is usually controlled by a central group that runs IT for everyone (as in, all the member countries), so it's gonna be difficult to get an exception for your product, as they have internal tools developed that fit in with their other custom Audit Workflow Applications.

So avoid Big 4, but try selling to 'average accountants' as endersshadow says, who might work in a less locked-down environment.
It's really an set of tools for lxc. Create "images", boot them, and have a sandboxed execute environment for some service(s). There are repositories with services pre installed. You can get a service running with a command like:

docker run -h myhost -t repo/redis-image redis-server

That creates a container based on the repo/redis-image image, and runs the command "redis-server" once it boots (less than a second on my machine).
Amazon proposes a colossal biospherelike Seattle campus
Honest question - why is this news? (And why was it also news yesterday?)
Ask HN: Hang out this weekend in SF?
I'm going to be in San Francisco for a job interview, wondering if there is anything cool and / or startup related going on that I could go to, or if anyone just wants to chill.
Does anyone know how effective high-altitude wind energy might be for producing energy at scale?
Dear god don't compare the Xbox to Google TV. No. Google TV was shit slow at launch and that was enough to kill it, imo.
Whenever anyone emails iant@segment.io, their question doesn’t actually go to my personal inbox, it goes into our Help Scout account, so they are guaranteed a much faster response time!

Interrogative: What happens when say, a tech is assigned to an internal project requiring email communication with a vendor? Here's a relevant example:

In 2011 I was hired as into a role that was half Jr. Project Manager, half Help Desk team lead (my door read "Support Operations Lead"). While I assisted when the load got heavy in daily HD work, more often I was working on getting new solutions into our support flow; implemented a new ticketing system, rolled out a backup solution, and handled the IT purchasing for the entire organization (this was a huge commerce firm of about 600 at the time. Daunting, but it got done).

All of these tasks required constant communication with vendors, who had my personal email address to send purchase orders and invoices to. Do those need to go into the support bin? I'd wager not.

How does HelpScout differentiate between the two?
Netflix plans to double its original content output next year
Yes, if you are set to graduate from a top law firm and have a good GPA you'll get hired before you even take the bar.
Trhtrsh, you have been hellbanned as of this [‡] comment. I'm not really sure why; HN might have changed their algorithm for banning, or you might have been banned for a bad submission.

[‡]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5687245
I am a first-year CS student looking to build a very small personal project. I could definitely use a mentor, if you are interested. You haven't listed your email but mine is in my profile, feel free to drop me a line.

and if not try http://www.weekendhacker.net/. It launched about a year ago with the same idea and format as Analog. It grew quickly and was fairly successful for a while. It has been quiet lately, the creator mentioned going through some personal stuff, but the most recent mailing was May 4 and it looked great and sounded promising. Good luck finding a project.
Does Flagged E-Consultancy Link Indicate Where Penguin is Going?
This is also a sad truth. Until hacking is not illegal, we will see people like Aaronsw die and people like Weev in jail.
That's still a very small concentration, because it's distributed.

Acid whey is not a pollutant. It's something you don't want high concentrations of, but low concentrations can be literally harmless. And it doesn't build up over time.

Not everything is a tragedy of the commons.
Show HN: An Open Source Number Game
Why Pick on Weev? Why Grey Hackers Need Protection
Free weev!
I don't think finance software is typically very polished.
Deadlines are the enemy of quality code and finance has some of the hardest deadlines.
citi is decent. their backend looks like it was developed in the 70's, but it works
Somewhat offtopic, but since you mentioned anodizing titanium, it reminded me of an example - anodized titanium chopsticks:

http://tistix.com/cart3/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=...
"TSLA rose on the news despite diluting shareholders is because coupled with the announcement, Elon Musk mentions that he will personally put an additional 100mil into the secondary offer"

Dilution doesn't care who does the diluting - a share issued to Elon Musk dilutes as much as a share issued to TIAA-CREF. Regarding the double down, I do not believe Elon Musk's commitment to Tesla was in doubt previously. Its effects were probably limited to the marketing of the issue.

More critical is: (a) TSLA maturing to where it can issue debt (albeit, of the convertible type), (b) its extrication from a volatile political situation, and, (c) its new liquidity buffer. I do not think it is appropriate to characterise it as a "PR ploy". As you mentioned, they are still unit loss-making - that those losses need to be financed is more than superficial.
An App Platform for Dumb Phones
Startup America's New Partnership
Startup America Partnership is joining forces with Startup Weekend. The new entity, based in Seattle, will be known as Up Global. It is being funded by the Case Foundation, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Coca-Cola Co., among others. Its website is expected to go live this week.
One would think that .gif would inherit the hard G of its parent.

Japhics just doesn't sound right.
Good point. It's not quite as intuitive as I'd like, but it only took me a couple of minutes to add a "Primary NAICS Code" field. Thanks for pointing that out.
Because it's a mystery involving a pseudonymous entity who might have engineered himself a fortune, which he can't cash in on without revealing his identity? Is the community being drawn into a long game at the benefit of a government or corporation? Is Satoshi someone we would otherwise know, or an otherwise unknown cypherpunk who wanted to undermine traditional economics, and whose idea just took off? Why keep his identity a secret? What's his agenda? What happens when we know?

I mean come on... this is practically a William Gibson novel already.
My understanding based on reading their materials, is that it is very similar to conventional wind power. "High altitude" here refers to around 600m, which disappointed me because I thought it would be an army of devices flying autonomously in the stratosphere, (I kept reading to figure out how they got the power back to earth, at which point I found out they were tethered, and not flying in the stratosphere).

So they should be very similar to wind power, except that they are tethered, rather than a turbine on a tower.

I think the main issue is how much space they use on the ground, i.e. how much space around the tether point needs to be kept clear.

EDIT: apparently even wind at 600m is better at ground level.

Furthermore, the system is not really a "turbine sitting on a wing". The wing is the turbine blade. It moves in a circle, and the propellers on the wing draw the power from it's motion. It's really an amazing idea that, the kind of thing I wish I had thought of. I think this page has the most interesting information.

http://www.makanipower.com/why-airborne-wind/
> I believe its illegal (can-spam) to email someone if you harvested their email programmatically

Nope. You can email pretty much anyone in America, regardless of how you acquired the address (and provided you meet various other requirements about headers and content). The biggest criticism against CAN-SPAM is that it could be viewed as a license for every business to spam the planet exactly once (after that you have to start worrying about opt-outs).

Edit: Oops, now I'm not so sure... see below.
Upping Your Type Game
There was nothing to keep them from going through a controlled bankruptcy at the start of it.
Cologne cathedral was also rather easy to identify. But all those rural roads prove to be hard.
Why is so much of it non-fat?! The 2% milk fat Greek yogurt is so much richer, adds a trivial number of calories, and requires almost no sugar to taste "good".
How about some context? What is the Snow Fall experience? Never heard of it. I don't like these zero context web pages.

To save the rest of HN some Googling...

http://gigaom.com/2013/05/10/how-the-new-york-times-can-figh...

Now get off of my lawn...
Jack Welch called it the corporate immune system. Once you've been hurt, you tend to over-bureaucratize the response to ensure that it never happens again. I think it has to do with the fact that human psychology tends to over-value possible negative outcomes vs. possible positive outcomes, as well as a certain amount of future discounting, plus social signaling to show the problem is being taken seriously: you put a stop to the very visible, very current, negative event with little regard for a possible, future, positive loss due to bureaucratic build-up.

It's irrational, but so is most management in practice.
Startup America Partnership is joining forces with Startup Weekend. The new entity, based in Seattle, will be known as Up Global. It is being funded by the Case Foundation, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Coca-Cola Co., among others. Its website is expected to go live this week.
"You can only get credit for each multiple of 7 once…"

That carries across games; should it?

(Using Chrome 26.0.1410.65)

EDIT: I looked at the source; you do not reset sumslist.
Yeah, that puzzled me too. The PR couldn't be worth that much, could it? How could the interest possibly be more expensive than the stock dilution?

Unless they just don't like having debt outstanding which seems understandable... though with debt that cheap...
The age hardly matters, language works fast. And this is not some relative mispronouncing it, this is millions of people using a pronunciation that makes more sense etymologically.
If Edgar Allan Poe wrote JavaScript
Ask HN: Why Aren't More Companies Starting Apprenticeship Programs?
We've all seen the complaints around lack of good development talent. Lack of developers is usually due to the companies strict hiring standards.

Why aren't more of these companies bringing on developers and then developing them into the employees that they want? Is it due to most company cultures not accommodating this sort of thing?
Not sure about the compnay, but there are many meetups happen every single day. You might wanna check that out and register yourself..you will get to meet lot of awesome people and FREE FOOD!!!
also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5747418
quicksort, shellsort, then implement it for parametric type.
I thought that was a service for selling files. How does the pricing work out if they can be free?

Edit: I found some of the old text, it's apparently dual-nature. You can make backups that you/friends download for free. You can also have files for sale that people pay to download. No way to have permanent public hosting.
The gross margin is 17%, but I was surprised to learn that includes ZEV credits.

From 10Q:
>During the first quarter of 2013, we recognized $67.9 million in ZEV sales, which contributed to our gross margin.

http://ir.teslamotors.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-13-...
Oh, they had stock warrants? That explains it. Trading the low-interest debt for stock wouldn't make any sense otherwise.
It's these type of posts that make it to the top of a thread that make me not want to check into HN.

Can't we celebrate a company, that was called out as a bad stimulus target during the presidential debates actually paying back all their loans ahead of time? If there was one place I hoped I could go to celebrate an innovative company's success, it would be HN.

I take particular issue with, "Make no mistake, this is as much a PR ploy by Tesla to pump up their offering."

Paying back $450mm in loans isn't just a "ploy" - it's actually raising the money and sending it back to the taxpayers. And, at the same time, doing something innovative and forward looking - building electric cars - which, (look at Fisker) - is NOT a slam dunk, even with green credits.

I, for one, am applauding Tesla today. We can do that without saying that they will be successful in everything, and in the future. But today they are.
Thank you for pointing that out. No it should be on a game by game basis. It should be fixed now.
>The modern web is a much better platform for the book/newspaper-like functionality that the early web was used for than the early web was

Really? Do you ever select a few words on a web page, then Ctrl-C it? You did not notice over the last 10 years as browsers have gotten more complex that you now have to use a lot more trial and error to get the words you wanted? How just a tiny movement of the mouse while dragging can have drastic effects on the selection? How text far away or in a different column sometimes gets selected for difficult-to-fathom reasons?

Never noticed how on Safari if the text is next to an image or in a title, it sometimes takes Safari a really long time to transfer the text to the clipboard, sometimes with beachballing involved?

Ever use Ctrl-F to search a web page? Never noticed how "mystery hits" are a lot more frequent than they were 10 years ago? (Where the search stops at some place where there is no visible occurance of the string you searched for.) Never noticed how Ctrl-F is not smart enough to make sure that the hit it is showing you is not obscured by one of those elements that respond to scrolling by remaining at a fixed position relative to the window?

Never noticed how even though links have a relatively short half life, hardly anyone bothers to make a local copy of the pages they have bookmarked because it is such a hard technical problem to write code that makes a local copy of all the "assets" that might be referenced by a page? (Contrast with Usenet, which, for all of its faults, made it easy to make a local copy of an article or a thread of articles.)

Never tried to bookmark a page or send someone a link to a page and notice that you cannot because it is one of those web sites where every "page" has the same URL?
Let me guess... that designer was... you? :):):)

Congrats on the launch - will be neat to see what this turns into.
What is this? The only thing that changed was the title.
I think you just wasted $12 bucks on a domain and peoples time.
> Most large public services you use (Skype, Exchange, likely Gmail, etc) have backdoors.

Google gave up Paula Broadwell's joint Gmail account with David Petraeus to the FBI after receiving a subpoena. Gmail isn't secure unless you log in through Tor, compose your message on a separate editor (to avoid autosaving of plaintext) and then copy and paste a PGP encrypted message before you send it.

Now, you might think that this is a ridiculous and impractical thing to do, especially if you are not guilty of any crimes. But Paula Broadwell wasn't guilty of any crimes (or at least wasn't charged with any crimes) before Google happily violated her privacy by giving away her information without a warrant.
These guys deserve support for a new way to learn language!
If it was purely a cost of bandwidth issue they could easily limit the size of downloads. Most projects on Google Code only need to offer downloads of a few MB in size to fulfil the basic need. It's really hard to imagine that being a significant cost to Google, and the convenience of having downloads integrated into the service is huge.
Any boss that's going to quibble semantics with programmers deserves what he gets.
Soldering 101 for the Guy From Marketing
The CAN-SPAM Act has specific prohibitions (and extra harsh sentencing guidelines) for spamming harvested (or "dictionary attack") e-mails. Even if you meet all the other requirements to legally send unsolicited commercial e-mail, harvesting the addresses makes it illegal.

https://www.projecthoneypot.org/law_of_harvesting.php

http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0723041/canspam.pdf
Some people run thriving startups based on whey.
http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=2964...
As a kitesurfer and investor in renewable energy (solar) I really love this company. The founder is one of the pioneers of kitesurfing and was the chief designer for Naish kites when the industry was just starting out. He realized that you didn't need a tower and giant blades to generate power from wind. Neat. Would be great if someday they have a system that can propel boats.
Cool idea - but how is it being paid for? By the looks of things, it's using Twilio - but that'll get expensive if this becomes popular.
Lead Web Engineer - PagerDuty San Francisco
Lead Web Engineer

PagerDuty is revolutionizing the way companies think about Software Operations. A 25 person startup with great revenues and backing from Andreessen Horowitz and other leading VCs, the Web Engineering Team at PagerDuty is a dedicated group that writes features for the customer facing PagerDuty webapp. We design, develop and maintain the APIs that power the website and the variety of applications our customers have built on top of us. We also build a lot of cool frontends using those APIs using modern front end web technologies like Backbone.js and Coffeescript.

PagerDuty is looking for a heavyweight Web engineer who really understands the Web -- both the technologies that back it and the engineers and designers who work on it. We want someone who values elegant code, cares about creating beautiful user experiences and loves working on challenging problems who will inspire their peers to explore their personal boundaries and drive their careers forward in exciting ways.

Responsibilities

You will get your hands dirty (keeping the codebase clean) as you help pitch-in to produce new features for the product, while also providing technical leadership whenever possible. You enjoy coding and you want to continue to create, yet you also understand that you should delegate tasks to someone if they can do them 80% as well as you can.
You will interact with your direct reports regularly (1-on-1's are a must!) and mentor them in their professional development.

You will run and participate in design meetings, design reviews, technical planning meetings and help to co-ordinate cross-team dependencies to facilitate the work of your team.
You will help onboard, train and mentor junior engineers and new hires.

Requirements

You have 5+ years of development experience building tried, tested and true software for the web. You've been around the block a few times and know where all the potholes are.
You possess a mastery of at least one modern Web programming language like Ruby, PHP, Perl or Python.
You are truly a full-stack developer, so you know Javascript.
You have experience with Agile software practices.

Please apply with your resume and a brief intro letter to jobs@pagerduty.com We look forward to hearing from you!
This Xbox One Supercut Tells It Like It Is
Not really; you can just set a cookie that indicates that the device is trusted for 2FA. It's no more damaging than a session cookie if hijacked, can be protected by TLS, and doesn't require any special server state.

On first login:

Login sends credentials, no cookie. Provider verifies credentials, doesn't have 2FA verification, sends 2FA challenge. Upon completion of challenge, provider sets session cookie + 2FA cookie.

On logout, the session cookie is destroyed, but the 2FA cookie is not.

On successive logins:

Login sends credentials + 2FA cookie -> provider verifies credentials, verifies 2FA cookie + timestamp, grants a session cookie.

This way, you can gain the power of 2FA (someone stealing my credentials won't be able to log into my account) without the hassle of it (people using stolen credentials won't be logging in on my own computer, so I can trust this computer to bypass challenges for 30 days), and you don't have to add any server state that is aware of any particular computer, save for some value which is tied to the cookie. For bonus points, the server maintains a list of 2FA cookie tokens, and allows them to be revoked, so if my laptop is stolen, I can log in on my desktop, revoke my laptop 2FA cookie, and the 2FA bypass won't work from it anymore. Slightly more work, nothing really significantly difficult, but substantial increase in usability without any real sacrifice of security.
Do you have any idea what it takes to (securely) bring up a new domain at that scale?

Hint: Take a look at the Subject Alt Names on some of the Google SSL certs sometime.
Because something else happened to SourceForge instead.
Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web
I'm not suggesting that we rip out the existing multitasking ability in OS X. Just the option to freeze SOME apps when I switch away from them, and unfreeze them when I switch back. I can already do this with "killall -STOP Safari" and "killall -CONT Safari". The only thing Apple needs to do is to make it automatic.