skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And it can be obvious who the authors are in a field you are following closely; which, ideally, you should be if you are reviewing papers in that field. That's why I said "formally".
Find a good PHP bcrypt library and you'll be ahead of 90% of web sites with your password security. bcrypt is the current Rails best practice password hashing solution.

Stripe is good, as you'll never see credit card numbers, so you'll have no security issues to deal with in that area
Corporate Meeting Phrase Generator
> We don't want any form of sex with children to be legal (and I hope no-one's really suggesting this)

Children should be able to have sex with other children legally. Though I don't know how you could transfer that legality to porn.

Look at sexting. Kids can be charged with child pornography simply for having naked pictures of themselves, or their girlfriend/boyfriend, on their phone.

I figure if I'm underage, I should still be able to take pictures and possess pornography featuring myself. And if I so desire, why shouldn't I be able to sell that picture and make money?

I'm not necessarily advocating all this, it's just food for thought.
We experienced the same - our toddler gets an episode of Wonder Pets every day after she comes home from day care. When my wife drove her home that day she got her all excited to watch it, and she was singing the theme song the whole way, only for my wife to get home and select the show (still displayed in our recently viewed list) just to get hit with an error message. Had to research some to find out what had happened. We were actually lucky that we already had a Prime account and found the shows there the next day when we read online what was happening.

Really bad user experience and communication, combined with a very passionate target viewer for those shows who doesn't understand license negotiations.
An invisible voxelized-representation of polygonal scene geometry is used there for approximating global illumination of visibly rendered polygonal geometry.

Hence, it's not a realtime "voxel engine" as far as visual rendering goes.
maybe there is something to borrow from this situation. if you have tasks a,b,c to accomplish for client z, and they don't bug you at all, you might (having the same issue with focus) piss away the days on other things, avoiding tasks a,b,c. You suddenly have laser focus when client z starts pinging you (email, skype, voicemail) about wrapping it up, seeing something etc.. I know, I've been there. It all works out, but there are times when we all need someone to hold out feet to the fire to get things done / ramp up productivity.
Thanks, happy to hear that you like it. We do have a business model and multiple possible revenue streams. The most obvious one being freemium. We're in beta right now, so it made sense for us to keep it free during beta. We will be rolling out pricing as soon as we leave beta.

It'll always be free for individuals, but we'll have paid versions for larger teams and companies.
That's still gameable by spreading out the likes or votes over multiple accounts
You are aware that words have various meanings, right? This guy is not talking about an experiment in the formal, scientific sense of the word. Also, you are incorrect about whether this is the crux of the article. As you can clearly see from how much time is spent on each part, this is merely a happy side effect to what was a personal development for him.

> My personal opinion is that fashion is a gigantic waste of time. In any and all venues.

I'm not sure what you mean by waste of time. Do you mean it in the sense of, "Not something I would prefer to do?" Or do you mean it in the sense of, "Ineffective for all purposes?" One of these two meanings is demonstrably false.

> While I'm not a fan, Steve Jobs had a great outlook on this, and is well known by his jeans-and-turtleneck look.

I think Ryan Gosling's character in Crazy, Stupid, Love had a great outlook on Steve Jobs' outlook on fashion. "Hold on, are you the billionaire owner of Apple Computer? No? Then you've got no right to wear New Balance sneakers, ever." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZwjcpEEkPs
I'm pretty sure their disagreement is with the exceptional nature that you pointed out.
Because it is taken as axiomatic in some strains of Conservatism (Reactionary, really, but they're pleased to refer to themselves as 'Conservative') that spending tax money on anything other than the military, the police, and the privately-owned jails is unconstitutional. Because having another tax-paid F-22 is not Socialism, somehow.
"This is the standard in most disciplines."

Any citation for this? I'm curious, because in physics, although this is often suggested, it has not been generally adopted.
Perhaps, I wrote that as much for myself as for my interpretation of Bret's work. That said, I don't think anything I've read in the last 5 years has impacted me as much as Papert's Mindstorms, which I believe is a strong influencer of Bret's work. Papert here is not teaching children because of pedagogy but instead because he believes, as I do, that children and true experts see the world in the same way.

So that's really what I meant when I highlighted teaching children. Not changing school curricula (and I mean, who pretends today that schools are really in it to teach children anyway?) but instead connecting with minds like children sometimes are before they become afraid to learn.
We have one on https://demo.ducksboard.com/ too :)
If you can't use convert Bitcoin to other currencies it can die.

It's the Little Bighorn strategy.
Cars was in production about 10-12 years ago. Maybe you're thinking Cars 2?
People who bury dead animals interact with owners of that animals; I only interact with colleagues and I can't imagine them caring what I wear.
Well said. In my experience, standups were short and covered a lot of ground. Problems were rapidly back-and-forthed. If you didn't have a standup, people would get annoyed because they needed to jaw with the group on something. It was a small, diverse team (one hardware guy, one firmware, two web, two support, a smattering of others) and that may have contributed to the need to cover ground quickly, but the idea that the daily meeting is by default a waste of time is laughable.

Trying to convey a lot of the things we encountered in text would have taken a lot more than 2 min/day, unless you were satisfied with rubbish and unilluminating two-liners. Sure, some days would go by with everyone saying 'going fine, nothing here', in which case we lost all of two to three minutes - around the same time as this magical email that apparently covers the more complex stuff.
“The idea that authors can’t make money is bullshit. And no, you don’t have to be famous or have a huge online following.”

Says the author with the huge online following.

Edit: I kid, I kid.
Doesn't need to be updates for the sake of updates. There are open pull requests and issues.
I have friends and relatives running businesses in China, and I've seen the strange way that corruption makes them more economically free, in important ways, than business owners in the US. These freedoms aren't measurable by ordinary means, but they are very real.

It's difficult to know for sure, but my impression is that the number of regulations on businesses are about the same in China and the US. The difference is that, while Americans have to spend their days doing paperwork to comply with all of the regulations, the Chinese can sweep most of them out of their path by making a single payment to their local, corrupt Communist official. Best of all, no paperwork is involved!

The reduction in economic friction of letting business owners just spend their time running the business for profits instead of for regulatory compliance is enormous, and it's available for a quick "tax" payment.

As the business grows, they need to move up the Communist Party food chain and pay bigger guys more money. The bigger guys then order their subordinates to stay out of the way of the business. I've been driven down long stretches of beautiful, almost empty highway in China in a black luxury car at 150 km/h (~93mph), passing dozens of police cars along the way, and been assured that they (the cops) wouldn't bother us, because "they know who we are". That required regional authority, not local.

Of course, part of this "freedom" is the agreement to not do the unforgivable: criticize the government. Your bribes cover most issues but can't cover that one. Fortunately, that's not an issue for most businesses, because they don't make money by criticizing the government.

It's amazing how much more economic value a business can create if it gets to spend all of its time doing business instead of doing paperwork. It's also scary how easy it is for those to pay the bribes to harm those who don't (pollution, dangerous working conditions, etc.) Eliminating all regulation would be a bad idea, but there should be some measurement of how much friction loss is caused by government regulation.

Some regulations (enforced, of course) are generally helpful to an economy. Some are harmful to everyone except the regulators (worth money and power to them). The Chinese corruption way is the wrong way to go, but I'd like to see our regulators having to live within a "regulatory budget", which prevented them from adding regulatory friction every time they saw an opportunity.
You might try a compressed filesystem using ZFS.
AFAIK, there is no law regarding "consuming" CP. There are laws regarding distributing, possessing, acquiring, etc.

But it's been a while since I've read http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2252A ; feel free to prove me wrong.
> I choose to spend my time working on solutions to big problems, rather than working on what shirt to wear tomorrow.

It worries me that so many hackers use the delusion of "solving big problems" to justify their often self-destructive lifestyles.
The Metaphor of Disruptive Innovation
I still want one of those tail-coats though.. and an opera scarf. Just because they look awesome. :-)
phpass?
https://github.com/rchouinard/phpass
Snail mail? I haven't seen this as part of the reviewing process in decades. What field and country are you talking about?
It's illegal to watch snuff films? Does this include things like news reports about elevators in China and rice cookers in Boston?
A few weeks ago after Bret gave the talk at MIT Media lab, he tweeted...

"An MIT prof after my talk: "It's as if you showed us how to climb Everest, and then at the end you say, 'We need to go to the moon'" (https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/321830848196390912).
For sure, and I've done similar myself in the past, but let's be real here--they actually have app/DB separation in those cases. They're definitely not running on Google App Engine, where it's much more likely that they're getting data through an exploit in your app than by getting ahold of the database.

For the 99% case, 'pepper's are illusory security.

And you should still be using bcrypt. (Or PKBDF2, or scrypt, whatever. Just not something where a "pepper" actually ends up mattering.)
This looks interesting. Is there--or will there be--any kind of integration with GitHub, SourceForge, et al?
Nothing. They use the word "artisan" which makes me think it's made for hipsters rather than programmers. Almost everything is static, libraries are named like "Illuminate" and "Elloquent", it's as if an art student has worked out how to write static classes.
It would be nice if I didn't have to set up _another_ repo. Integrating with GitHub or BitBucket would be preferred (be backed by, not just import). That said, I wouldn't actually use it since GitHub lets you edit individual files through the UI. Just an observation. The rest looks nice though.
How Hydrogen Can Save America [2003]
"The approach seems to be that transient patrols, haphazardly driving around and visiting villages in giant bomb proof robot trucks, is a substitute for thousands of years old strategies of taking, holding and controlling territory."

I suspect it wouldn't be that hard to get the Army to take and hold territory in Afghanistan, because that's the kind of thing that armies naturally do and they're good at. We've been un-training the Army in that respect, because we don't want the territory. We've always had one foot out the door.

It must be plainly obvious if you happen to be there that Afghanistan is not a good piece of real estate to invest in. The impression I get is like of a blighted neighborhood, perhaps like something you might find in the poorest part of the US, say, somewhere in the rust belt or the deep south. The comparison only goes so deep. But my point being that there are areas here at home that we can't save from decaying and becoming havens for criminals. Even if there was some price for which Afghanistan could be saved (gentrified?), it smells to us like a bad business deal and we have no intention of getting too deeply involved, not to the point that we can't get back out.

It's been obvious for a while that the Afghanistan mission hasn't been going well and it's equally obvious that, in spite of all that we have spent and done, we haven't literally exhausted everything we could try if we really, I mean really, wanted to. I've tried to imagine this scenario, where failure is truly not an option -- what might we try, then?

The biggest problem looks to be the economy, which looks like it's based on dead-ends like subsistence farming, and on criminal enterprise, like opium cultivation and trafficking in sex slaves. The most valuable resource Afghanistan has to offer foreigners, at present, is being a lawless no-man's land where crime goes unpunished. Afghanistan seems to hold little to reward investors, or any kind of business. In the failure-is-not-an-option case, the best strategy may be to basically create a welfare state and start sending out checks. A well-run welfare state apparatus would create a lot of good will and loyalty very fast, and start to free people from the survival-level concerns that drive them to ally with the Taliban. The bureaucracy involved would get people interacting with government and start to create a favorable impression of what government is, as well as provide jobs. Welfare checks could allow some people to get away from manual labor long enough to acquire education, and start to lay the groundwork for a self-sustaining economy. A direct infusion of money would provide the incentive to individuals to take our side and abandon the Taliban, which up till now has been missing. Of course, we'd also have to convince people of our intention to stay for the long term, but I have a feeling Afghans would be less inclined to doubt it if we actually started sending out checks.

I'm not saying this would ever happen, or even that I'm advocating for it. In the hypothetical scenario where nothing was off the table, it's my best guess as to what could work.
> Basically, all the really nice stuff you get in Bootstrap and Foundation but without any of the styling

Step 1. Include bootstrap.js

Step 2. Don't include bootstrap.css
I guarantee they are working on it. I don't use the word guarantee loosely, either.
Younger Than The Xbox 360
Scary breaking change though. Something that was called automatically before isn't anymore. I personally would have opted for a safer alternative to implement this breaking change. I guess it's a little detail in the grand scheme of ember thing, but for the poor developers who will have RC4 on prod, there could be some very sneaky bugs.

That being said, happy to see ember getting closer to 1.0 Final, it's a beautifully designed framework.
But if someone copies that behaviour would they get the same benefits?

Some correlated traits:
* mimicking. A critical skill, which is poorly encouraged as a general skill, and as adults we often have habits or beliefs that interfere with it.
* perseverance and repetition
* exploring/using different ways of learning and working out what are effective means of learning and ignoring invalid common techniques.
* Avoiding book learning and rule based learning.

My belief is: look at how a baby or child manages to do it, try to do what they do, and avoid using any parts of the brain they don't use when learning. Not to say I am fluent in another language, just to say what I see in successful second language speakers, and how I try to begin learning (I mostly lack perseverance and repetition!)
lots of fuddy duds (i.e., high salaried decision makers) get their fingers into the website design process, CCing staff lawyers etc. Which doesn't mean the result is garbage - it can really reflect the company (highly technical, arcane, complex, professional, etc.), which may be effective if that speaks to their clients/customers (also fuddy duds).
Implement the fucntionality of Gnucash around your inventory system, and voila, you have a complete ERP. And now you can offer us something.
Agreed. Of course, I also chimed in early on #164.

Compression (well, lack of) is probably the thing that'll cause me to migrate off MongoDB one of these days.
Thanks for sharing your story and post-mortem. I enjoyed it a lot.

This line jumped out at me:

> Sidenote: Judging by my AdWords clicks, Inventory Management is very popular in India

Was this meant to suggest click fraud was occurring, or was it legitimate interest? Or is it one of those "email me my final project plz" phenomena? (http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/plz-email-me-teh-codez.aspx)
I would never discourage you from such a pursuit. I would also love to see someone pull off a full cloak and mantle outside of Game of Thrones. I doubt I will live to see that day, but it would be incredible.
Social fitness site, Strava, restricts API availability
I just gave my resignation notice about an hour ago (no joke).
Whatever you decide to do, best of luck!
Hmm...interesting. I don't know if this will work, but you could try storing your MongoDB database on a compressed ZFS partition. Since MongoDB uses mmap, this would have the nice side-effect of your working set remaining uncompressed, and only being compressed when written to or read from disk.
Hacking Java Bytecode for Programmers (Part 3)
I don't care about your ideology. I want good software.
Simplicity matters or why I still love BackboneJS
Thanks for the links.

I tend to use link relations for APIs; I hadn't realised that the HTML5 spec linked to a different registry.
Did you even read his response? This is built on Backbone, as was AirBnB's rendr. There's a valid debate to be had about how and when to start something new vs. customize or work with existing tools, but you're not having that debate. And the fact that you'd say it to their face doesn't mean it isn't name calling.
ROLL IT: A Chrome Experiment
I think the problem here is that your just not good at marketing. I read your entire post, you mentioned that you were pivoting yet you failed to capture my attention or interests by not expanding on what the idea was. You also concluded your post without giving me an option to signup for your emails, I thought the post was done so I stopped reading at the thanks for reading section, which I didn't read. Only going back I saw that there was a signup box all the way at the bottom - if you want me to signup for your emails, make it easy for me to do so, don't make me hunt. Good read regardless.
Fwiw it installs beautifully on Debian-based systems using the Debian Alternatives system:

https://github.com/byrongibson/scripts/tree/master/install/h...

This lets you install multiple versions, of both Platform and standalone GHC, and swap the active one with a single command. Those scripts are for a prior version, but works the same, just update the versions.
"Every reviewer that I've met does plagiarism detection on their own."

I don't think it's a bad idea, but it never occurred to me to do this. If you're familiar with the field in which you are reviewing papers, you'll know if something is not new, in which case it is rejected, quite aside from the possibility of the author having lifted some actual text.
No, you'd do account sharing across the services. Oversell like cheap webhosts do based on the fact that people vastly under-utilize services. You could probably negotiate a cheaper rate from the providers as well since you'd be presumably paying for hundreds of accounts.

Why should I pay for all the services when I'm only using one at a time? If I'm watching Arrested Development on Netflix, someone else can watch Dora on the Amazon account.
The naming conventions are a bit pretentious, sure but it's being all static is apparently not so clear cut: https://tutsplus.com/lesson/when-they-say-laravel-shouldnt-u...
Use Google Now to send text messages, e-mail 
During Google I/O Google announced some improvements to its Google Now service. One of those improvements — as we have already covered — was the ability to create reminders within the app. One other feature we haven’t discussed yet is the ability to send a text message or e-mail using Google Now.
No offence taken. That's perfectly understandable.

There are quite a few advantages to cloud based solutions, a major one being "simplicity", by that I mean that they're easy to setup and manage (zero hassle for beginners).
The article reminded me of a quote by Heinlein I recently came across:

'Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naïve, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty," "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to use them. No matter how "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.'
Great Story -- I think great entrepreneurs know that continuously collecting good people make companies great, and for that quality of character and genuine desire to be a part of something often trumps what the CV shows.
Show HN: Leaving jQuery behind with Backbone.Native
PiJS - embedded Raspberry Pi apps, in JavaScript
Windows 7, 8, Firefox OS, Firefox for Android are working as we speak on release.

gstreamer is working on Linux and Mac, but not built by default _yet_, it should be ready in a couple weeks or something.

We decided to release the support for mp3/h264 as we implemented them, rather than waiting for all the platforms to have the support.

Supporting Android and Firefox OS, then Windows (in that order) is a simple matter of prioritization and human resources. Most of our users use Windows, so it kind of made sense to have released support for Windows first.

I can point you to builds of Firefox for Linux/Mac with gstreamer enabled if you want to test something and don't want to compile it yourself, username at mozilla dot com.
Personally I suspect the disconnect centers around utility. Beautiful architecture can be beautifully functional too. Good weather is pretty, and also comfortable. Greenery is pretty, and cleans the air.

Semi-formal and formal wear are practically the antithesis of functional and comfortable.

Personally, I have been making an effort to dress up a step or two, but I have to balance this against carrying more changes of clothes for my various activities outside of work.
Most states (30 as of 2010) have "age gap" or "Romeo and Juliet" provisions in their statutory rape laws specifically to deal with such circumstances. Generally speaking, teens who are within a few years of age of each other are not committing a crime.

See http://www.crimevictimsinstitute.org/documents/Adolescent_Be... , which has an extensive list of state-by-state laws.