skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's awesome! I always get confused about my color scheme. Going to use this for my every project.
Young boy defaces ancient Egyptian sculpture, world cries out for manner.
I love it! I install it on every Mac I lay my hands on.
There is a big difference between doing something because you like it and doing something because your survival depends on it.

I wouldn't want to take such a risk when I'm 60.
Many people are not paid for their time (wages). Instead they're paid a fixed rate (a salary).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salary#United_States
omg, I can create noisy posts, too.
Financially, though, the fair comparison is whether the capital invested in a house generates more rental income (from yourself) than what the capital would make in equity, after accounting for property taxes, insurance, and upkeep.

Most calculations I see suggest it's pretty much a toss up at that point, and which you choose should depend on factors like preference for mobility or stability.
I hate Javascript. Sorry if this offended anyone. I think it was good for its limited use case during the early Web 1.0 - Web 2.0 era.

So therefore I dont like asm.js either. I much prefer LLVM or PNaCI. But that is in an ideal world. In real world i would have to agree asm.js seems the way forward. Even with asm.js being a shortcut, it would still take many years for it to gain enough traction and improvement to be really useful as an universal compiler target. Much like what is currently happening now with JVM. Except almost everyone already has a JS Engine Installed, no need to download a Java Runtime.

That way everyone can really use what ever languages that love or they want. With Everything2js.

I hope the future evolution of Javascript will take performance as a consideration. Such as SIMD etc.

May the day of languages independent web come faster.
He can't be elected for a third term under the Constitution as currently written.
> Wordpress scales fine, but it dosent do it magically its self out of the box

10 years, still no file cache shipping with the mainline. That solves 90% of the problem for 90% of sites.
At first, I was a little bit thrown off by the mechanic of changing the color by moving your mouse. But then I realized its brilliance: it lets you compare different color schemes ridiculously fast. Very handy.

A bit of feedback: it seems that there is only two dimensions of changing the base color, corresponding with the two dimensions in which you can move your mouse. I can also see by the text overlay that saturation is locked in at 50%. It'd be nice if we had control over saturation. Maybe with a slider?
The market has already priced those known tax benefits in, though, in setting the price of the house.
Assuming he's a public school teacher, he's very unlikely to be fired over this, or anything.
> The survey is part of measuring how students meet the social-emotional learning standards set by the state.

What are "social-emotional learning standards"??
Never blame on malice what can be blamed on incompetence.

In this case my capacity for outrage is exhausted. I've been through too many permutations of this particular type of outrage that this is in line with my expectations.

And yes, if the survey is as described, the teacher should be commended. Not punished. But that's out of my hands, though if someone gives me someone to email, I will do so.
Wasn't there a guard or someone in charge to stop him scrawling his name? It should take long enough to notice scrawling something that large.
Would it make sense for cities to forgive the back taxes and liens to encourage new growth, or have they borrowed against the money owed to the point that forgiving it would bankrupt the city?
Melon head band tracks your focus over time
Mmmm.... I mean, it would, I guess, but I wouldn't recommend using both unless you can show a marked speed improvement over just using pgbouncer. A real connection is (probably) better than persistent connections, so you probably only need the one.

Now, I've not benchmarked this, so it's just a guess. Further, the specific performance characteristics will depend on your specific setup -- particularly upon where you have pgbouncer running -- so the only real answer is to benchmark and see.

New Relic does a good job showing time spent connecting to the db, fwiw, so you may want to give that a try.
I think they have the same author.
Yup, we made a mistake. You could help by submitting a patch to fix it, or you could just choose to be a jerk and give some random person shit for making a mistake.

Your choice.
3px of padding makes all the difference in the world
At least in discussions on Western websites, the outrage always has an underlying racism permeating it. None of these people really have any right to be upset; they didn't care about the artifact, they've probably never been to a museum, let alone done anything to help preserve these sorts of things. That, coupled with all sorts of Chinese stereotypes and slurs that happen to pop up in this outrage, makes me think it's less about an ancient artifact and more about getting their weekly fill of hating a faceless "other." You don't see the same hate for all of the American tourists who write their names on the Great Wall[0] or the Colosseum.[1]

Seriously, what do they want from him now? What sort of responsibility do they want him to take, years after it happened? Beat him, as the top comment on NBC News (and many other sites) suggested? Ridiculous. Pay restitution to the Egyptian government? I'm sure neither one of these governments care enough to waste time over such a trivial matter as graffiti, and it's not like China is a stranger to people messing with ancient pieces of their society.

So, really, most of the people "outraged" have acted more disgracefully than that child.

[0]: http://i.imgur.com/rNsPC6V.jpg

[1]: http://www.hotsr.com/content/uploads/pictures/2013/01/Italy-...
You've never been to burningman, have you? People spend hundreds/thousands of hours individually or in small groups for stuff that they expend in a week. They go to the extent of learning to weld, do carpentry, etc., and actually pushed some tech innovation for things like EL wire.
Would love to see PyPI or Crate.io list dependencies or provide a way to view them before I download a package...
This is great. I see myself spending hours here in the future.
Maybe broadcast tools (like craigslist) and reputation tools (like social networks) make it a lot easier for people to spontaneously organize shared living situations. This makes it so easy to join or form 4-5 person cells to share a house that it takes out the demand for a larger and more formal commune. Maybe.
I kept it simple. A longer description
is that with modern technology we don't
really have to occupy, run, or have
a big presence in the place to know
what's going on. And when we do see
something that is a threat to the US,
we can stop it without 100,000 troops
in the country. For the show you mentioned,
never saw any such thing!
I've never used elance as a freelancer and I have no idea of the dynamics involved trying to find clients - though I'd imagine it's brutal. My advice was geared completely toward finding the best developers and not vice versa.

Indeed, game theory dictates that if everybody did what I suggested the bad devs would eventually figure it out and it would no longer work.
This is supercool.

Here's a question: I'd love to take my print copy of Albers' color theory stuff and record some of the color codes, maybe just by eyeballing the screen and then the page. What's a good way to calibrate my monitor so what I'm seeing is close to universally "correct"?
He scrawled his name in Chinese, didn't he? It'd be rather pointless to avoid.
Nice. It's a similar interface to what hailpixel (Devin Hunt) built:

http://color.hailpixel.com/
You made it a semantic debate.

"Don't use crypto." - you
"That's terrible advice, we need crypto for x,y,z"
"I don't really mean don't use crypto"
"You just said that!"
"You're just talking semantics."
> None of these people really have any right to be upset; they didn't care about the artifact, they've probably never been to a museum, let alone done anything to help preserve these sorts of things.

Would you say the same of everyone who was horrified by the dynamiting of the Buddhas of Bamiyan?

I find your concept of "'right' to be upset" to be rather suspect.
It bears repeating: if you haven't read his graphic novel Logicomix, stop what you're doing and get it. Right now.
I still could not get my head around, what happens when Coinbase are hacked and i have no way to trace back the money i lose.
The teacher should be in hot water for teaching the 5th amendment incorrectly. From the text of the amendment: "No person shall be... compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself..."

The 5th amendment gives people the right to refuse to testify, as a witness, in a way that might incriminate oneself. Relatedly, it excludes self-incriminating statements in certain circumstances from evidence in criminal cases. While the 5th amendment has been interpreted to apply to many different proceedings (not just criminal cases, as in the text of the amendment), there must be some sort of proceeding of a disciplinary nature.

If the survey results were not shared with the police or intended to be used in a criminal case, it's quite likely not the case that the 5th amendment was implicated at all.
If you can't compete on price, you better be a genius marketer or have some sort of wild value add. Ask yourself from the perspective of your customers, why would someone choose you over other options? If your price is more, why would the choose to pay your price?
Interesting fact: the sculpture is full of graffiti. However, the Chinese characters are easier to spot
blueseed would be more reasonable now :) although at sea you'd have much harsher environmental conditions, so construction would be more difficult and expensive, vs. on land.
http://qz.com/88334/china-is-starting-to-get-embarrassed-abo...
This is AWESOME. My personal website looks like this[1] and I've wasted insane amount of time to get the color scheme right. I still think it's terrible, but I went with the scheme I was most comfortable with. This website will help me a lot to decide (plus it has 5 different palettes/stripes, just like my website) on the perfect color scheme. Thank you so much for your work (assuming OP is the creator of the website).

[1]http://cl.ly/image/1C413p040J0R
Well said; thank you. I suppose it's a confirmation bias: the most immediately noticeable spam is that with poor grammar, thus it's most easily identified with spam.

I've been exposed to what bank fraud and phishing scams can be like, and the craft is really amazing.
The punchline:

> The list contained 16,449 passwords converted into hashes using the MD5 cryptographic hash function.

Edit: I'm removing all my snarky nitpicking. This is a good article. Yes, the MD5 case they present is a poor case, but it's really about demonstrating the tactics of attack selection, rather than teaching someone how to make crack-resistant password schemes.
I find this wholly embarrassing as someone who is ethnically Chinese. This is not an isolated incident. I have personally witnessed domestic and international Chinese tourists behaving poorly, impolitely and without any consideration for the artifacts and other tourists. As an example -- whilst visiting the Ming tombs in Beijing, Ding Ling, to be specific, a couple let their child behind the cordoned off area to sit on the emperor's throne. This was a priceless 800 year old artifact and when I gently remarked upon this to them, it fell on deaf ears. Most warning signs are patently ignored -- examples such as smokers on the great wall, photographers in Buddhist Temples, screaming children in museums are just par for the course.

You have no idea how depressing it is to see the Great Wall of China littered with cigarette butts, or witnessing a small child defecating in the corner of the Forbidden City with the full blessing of its parent.

I would even go so far as to say that most people don't think the "rules" apply to them. This is true not just in tourism, but in everyday life. Any visitor to China will tell you stories of smokers in the pristine bathrooms of Beijing Capital Airport, or the subways, and people spitting on the street, jaywalking, or queue jumping.

Some personal pet peeves of mine include -- people getting on to subway cars before allowing passengers to get off, smoking in clearly designated non-smoking areas, littering anywhere and everywhere, line cutting, pushing and shoving others, blasting music from ipads on planes, and driving in the emergency lane on freeways.

This poor behaviour has only recently gained international attention because Chinese people have become more affluent and started travelling outside of China. However, prosperity doesn't correlate with class. Unless the Chinese government take drastic steps to cure this problem at home first -- the crass perception of its people will only perpetuate in the west as more and more start to travel internationally. Perhaps a system like Singapore where violations are fined severely might work -- provided it's implemented across the board everywhere.

Signed -- an embarrassed Chinese Canadian.
You need one of these http://spyder.datacolor.com/display-calibration/
It was not the text of some laws. It was engineering standards incorporated into certain building codes. The laws were like: "buildings shall follow ASME x.y.z" (to use a software analogy, it would be like requiring something to conform to POSIX, a standard the text of which is not freely published).
Just a datapoint that I (as a healthy young adult) live on 18k. It's a comfortable life in a beautiful neighborhood near UC Berkeley. You could do better if you moved into an oakland apartment or bart-enabled suburb.
I was thinking stuff in the 300-500 square foot range, which is far more feasible. Converted containers or other modular elements. Mobile homes/trailers at the low end. The idea would be to have private cheap/transit stuff and a few professional/serious buildings (like older converted farmhouses).

I can certainly build a shed, even from lumber, and pretty much anyone moderately competent could.
Because "human" defaces ancient Egyptian sculpture, prompts online outrage...

...doesn't sound the same.
Some context http://www.sftu.org/ellis.html
Yes It would be nice, but there is just to many options on how to do the caching and this all depends on the hosting environment.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Object_Cache#P...

On the other hand, as of my understanding Drupal does page caching to DB by default (straight out of the box?) and seems super quick.
I wish it worked on the iPad. I tried it and couldn't figure out how to use it until I read the comments here about using a mouse. Sounds like it would be easy enough to catch the touch events instead of the mouse.
There are probably ways for "wallet providers" to retrofit much of the problems with base bitcoin, including the ones you mention.
I'm just going to quote your metaphor again.

>"After watching Batman Begins every night for 4 months straight, I got a bit bored with it".

> Watch a new movie.

But my problem isn't with Batman Begins. My problem is I don't want to watch a movie every night. I don't want to. Do you get that part? I understand you really like movies, and you enjoy setting up this whole system so you can watch a movie every night and not have it take up your whole day, but I don't like movies as much as you do. Most movies I find pretty dumb. It's boring to sit through the same movie over and over again, and picking out a new movie takes time I'd rather spend doing something I enjoy. I like a good film on the weekend if it's something that really engages me, or if I've got friends over, but otherwise it just seems like a needless time sink.

Why do I need to watch a movie? Why is my only other option to watch static? Why do I need to watch anything?

To dereference, if it is not necessary for my survival[0], why do I need to cook? I know that I can if I want to. And I do, sometimes. Why on earth should I when I don't want to?

[0] Disclaimed because I'm bearish on Soylent-- I don't have that much faith in the USDA. But I think something like it should exist, and I'd jump on it in a heartbeat if it worked.
Maybe the original design had the even padding but facebook A/B tested it and found that people are more likely to read the comments below if there is less padding on the bottom?

While I agree that is visually looks more balanced, it takes more than my opinion to decide that facebook made a design mistake.
Unfair Trade: “Free” Apps that target children under scrutiny
> I guess if there's a time for someone to learn the hard way when to keep private info private, high school is better than later.

Does that include crimes against minors?
It must be a really quiet day for this to make the front page! I can't believe I just wasted time reading that.
Comparing various negotiating styles: Jewish, Japanese and American (2010)
The outrage has an underlying racism? From what I read, the outrage isn't from the West; it's from other Chinese.
4 Key Strategies To a Successful Healthcare Crowdfunding Campaign
Some days, I hate JS too. But hate leads to the dark side. It is what it is. Might as well hate endosymbionts who power our cells for being ugly.

We're all over performance, including SIMD. Multiple approaches but definitely up for the Dart-like direct approach. Talking to John McCutchan of Google about lining up JS on this front so Dart2JS has a complete target.

/be
Yes, yes, the famous hosting environment argument. It comes up whenever the WP team just don't want to do work on the actual guts of the system as opposed to tickbox features.

When they added autoupdate, that had large host environment implications. Import/export has host environment implications. It goes on and on.

There's no technical reason they can't have a simple page cache in mainline that turns itself off when there's no write access.
Are You As Busy As You Think?
I know what you're saying. But my metaphor was a response to being sick of cooking the same meal each night. Hence also the metaphor with static (let's say it's 5 seconds of static vs Batman every night, to forestall the next re-re-rehash).
I'm interested to see if this gets changed or if it becomes an inside joke at Facebook.
> * Storing passwords. You can't store them in plaintext.

Why not. Just write upfront on the signup form, "we don't hash or protect your passwords in any way. Do not reuse passwords from other sites. Create a unique password and retrieve it using a password manager."

Password hashing is a losing battle:

* the users who aren't educated enough to use unique passwords are the same ones who will always use a really weak one anyway, and those will always be crackable

* salting is nearly pointless. the GPU killed the rainbow table, the "bad passwords" keyspace is small enough it's easy enough to recompute, and in most hacks I've seen, the database has been compromised together with the source code so the salt is never really secret.

* the first advice after a hack is still always going to be "change your passwords".
Now, if we could get them to feature NFL games :P
And I do feel the same about many of the counter arguments I'm seeing about why Soylent is preferable over a healthy, well balanced diet. I really don't even see cooking vs. not cooking as the most salient topic relative to the potential benefits of Soylent.

To me, what's most interesting is Soylent as a marketing challenge. If people can indeed by optimally nourished by something that is more convenient and cheaper than fast food, then it's bound to become more successful and ubiquitous in the long run. It is, at the very least, the same premise of Chipotle's business: offering something conventionally agreed to as healthy food in a convenient manner at roughly the same cost as other fast food franchises. The ideal outcomes are similar too: healthier people are in a much better position to positively contribute to society.

Do you think that, given the buttload of nutrients we'll need to be prosperously healthy, a complete food product can be engineered? Perhaps the real question is can it be complete and cheap at the same time...

I'm not knowledgeable about nutrition, but if I can directly fund an effort to develop the perfect food, I will. (And have)
I would most certainly say the same to a bunch of anonymous, self-righteous Westerners crying for retribution in between parrotting disgusting stereotypes. But I'm not sure how you could think a child tourist scrawling his name on a statue is equivalent to a hateful organization completely destroying a monument.
George Packer’s Silicon Valley myopia
http://predictionbook.com/ ?
Government and police are already logging the net. If you think you have any privacy online you haven't been paying enough attention.
Google: If governments want us to pay more taxes, they should change tax laws
This is a botnet being ran, at least in part, by hacking group HTP.

ryan is one of its lead members. Other evidence is the fact that "starfall.cu.cc" is one domain being used to grab this script: http://starfall.cu.cc/chips.txt

Starfall is another one of their members.

They're the people who breached Linode, MIT, nmap, and a few other places recently. See: http://www.exploit-db.com/papers/25306/

I'm surprised no one's thought of mass exploiting all those RoR servers months ago, unless those have all been there for months.
I suspect this sort of thinking, which places tremendous pressure on youth, is one of the reasons young people are consistently more unhappy than older people. (1)

I don't spend as much time on work as I did when I was younger, but I get a lot more done. I have also learned a few things about how to motivate myself (eg, delayed gratification)

If you're trying to live a good life, your best bet is probably not to focus entirely on making a lot of money, but to find what makes you happy. As a physician, you get to meet old people. Now that I know some old investment bankers, I don't envy the ones who focused on making tons of money. They can't climb the stairs to their ocean view bedrooms, they can't fit into their British sports cars and they never have time to drive them. Managing the paperwork of their assets becomes their full time job.

My dad is a 68-year-old engineer, he seems happy, and making more than ever as a consultant. The fact that he likes restoring hot rods works well when the money guys find out and they can exchange pictures of Shelbys.

Best advice for growing old: buy a one-story house. You can get to your bedroom and your kitchen.

(1) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/health/research/01happy.ht...
I've noticed Facebook has been doing a lot of AB testing on me lately. [Example: My Graph Search bar is now White-on-Blue instead of Blue-on-Blue. Also, the sidebar with birthday notifications used to display Friend Requests that told you who Friend Requested you; now it's gone.]

This spacing behavior is likely also a part of that. It just happened to me very, very recently, and there used to be sufficient padding in that UI location.
If you're running Rails, then it's Rails that's vulnerable.
Look at the comments on this random NBC News article. Then imagine them on every single article[0] about this story. The reddit thread[1] reached 3500 comments, and the top comments are all in the same vein: cries for punishment, stories about how awful Chinese tourists are, stories about how awful Chinese people in general are, etc.

[0]: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws...

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1f2l3x/a_chinese_kid_ca...
I don't think it makes any difference.
There's a multitude of factors all of which I encounter in the agency space on a daily basis:

1. Organizational intelligence and outlook on the web.

2. Who owns the site(s) IT vs Marketing and whom is a stakeholder.

3. Budgets.

4. Who builds it...outside thinking can produce great things but are often hindered significantly by 1-3.

1 & 2 are the biggest factors.