skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original piece may have been a 'very casual editorial' but that didn't stop readers from tearing apart Parker in response (both here and all over twitter). I was very disappointed when I read the original piece and assumed that its presence in The Atlantic meant it had credibility. Even more disappointed that it appears they didn't even fact-check with him before publishing...
Funny, that's about when I cancelled my Chase card. When they asked why I told them an internet company I do business with had been compromised. I have a monthly charge from Linode on the card.
I'm from Dallas, and love SLC (an avid outdoors-man). Why have the financial types you've run into said they've moved? Curious
Khosla Ventures Founder Emphasizes Need for Health Tech
I think that an analogy that we can use is that for making the machine that makes the products, a team of engineers is required, the products can be physical goods, a scalable webapp, a game, a library that then we can use that to make some other machine that can make others stuff.

I think that we already made that advancement in our industry its just that we are making lots of new products that require lots of engineers to make the machine that makes the products.

About the issue of the molding process, even intel with a fpu bug has problems and not just only software has issues whit errors early in the process
Well there's Facebook.
My first iOS game - PYXL, the story of the little pixel that could
Im very happy to announce that after several months of procrastination, I have finally released my first iOS game! Developed in my spare time after work, this was a project I took on in an effort to sharpen up my programming skills after years of neglect, but eventually it turned into a project with a life of its own.

Full of thumb bending action packed gameplay, PYXL is the story of a baby pixel, born to the land of screens. Just like thousands of other tiny little pixels, he dreamed to one day grow up to be a real life pixel, displaying magic and amazingness.

Its available now for 99c on the appstore - So buy it, share it with your friends, and please rate it!
I was hoping that too, but I knew it would be about Euler's identity, since to people with only incidental exposure to the concepts that underly it it seems (justifiably) inscrutable and mysterious, thus its general popularity. It's funny that cultivating the mathematician's refusal to assign meaning to results can completely change which results you find fascinating.
+1 ""Software engineering has not yet gone through a true manufacturing disruption."" I keep expecting this to happen: the disruption. How much more productive is an engineer using something like Meteor compared to an equally talented engineer several years ago for building web apps where users interact (data wise) in some way. Same comment for Rails, even better IDEs, PAAS providers, libraries, etc.

When I started programming in 1973, my boss (who had a PhD in computer science) said that there was a factor of 100 difference in the productivity of different programmers he had worked with.

Even if this differential productivity remains, as tooling gets better I have to wonder how many software engineers will be needed in 20 years if all programmers become much more efficient?
http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/122900-how-the-... - one page version.
Probably you misunderstand example.

> They will quickly jump to conclusion that you are probably a neo-nazi, but maybe you was like that black guy that made a KKK documentary (I forgot the name, I saw in school many years ago, a teacher showed us) and interacted a lot with them.

It does not means that you would be black, it means only that you would be making KKK documentary like that black guy.
I'm curious, what do you mean by "generating a single tag"?
A ‘Vesper’ is a cocktail drink that was introduced in Ian Fleming’s novel ‘Casino Royale’. John Gruber is a fan of the James Bond stories and of high alcoholic beverages. I don’t see how the name has anything to do with note-taking, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesper_(cocktail)
Read Machine Man this year: very effective, really chilling.
Linode stored the encrypted credit card numbers in our [linode's] database ... we have no evidence decrypted credit card numbers were obtained. [1] To me, this implies that the attackers did indeed get the encrypted data. This would be a mighty juicy target to focus your decryption efforts on! In my mind, it was only a matter of time. Regardless of whether OP's story holds water.. get your card re-issued if this applies to you!

[1] https://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/
Did you read the article? His response? That is what they did. At least 2.5 million of it went to conservation initiatives.
Ebay sale at its finest: Parking Ticket which I cannot afford
Impressed by Square Stand check out last night
Last night I was at an ice cream shop and they had this square checkout with stand. https://squareup.com/stand I was shocked at how easy the check out was from adding a tip to signing the receipt. This really is the future of registers! The video: http://vimeo.com/63784924 doesn't show adding a tip but all in all a very nice experience from a consumer perspective. It'll be a good day once these become more main stream.

I love to see tech products that just make life easier!
>If you're 20, generalize.

As in, try to learn a bit from everything?
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That sounds awesome. I've dreamed of a context-aware, natural language programming language:

Change value of potatoes to 10. (potatoes = 10).

Make potatoes equal 10. (potatoes = 10).

Give every person at the dinner table a potato. (for x = 0; x < dinnerTable.count; x++ {dinnerTable[x].potatoes += 1})

Etcetera.
Somehow we don't believe you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
Peace & quiet, on-demand
I am James Altucher, founder of 20 companies (17 of which failed). AMA.
The buyer didn't lose. They got lemonade, which is what they wanted. Everyone wins here.
yes, received mine this morning as well.
How can we believe that when there is that previous NSA guy who stated that he wrote the algo's that allow this spying to occur?

His name is Binny:

http://publicintelligence.net/nsa-spies-on-email/
I personally like to keep my bug and issue tracking, along with ToDos with my repository, like on Bitbucket, so that it is all well compartmentalized together. If the app would be able to synchronize with these online repos tracking systems, then I could see myself using this app. The synchronization is important as I have multiple systems that I use for development (desktop and laptop), and would want the issues automatically updated on both.
well woudl you take what the FSB says on face value? I sure the FSB told MI5 that Litvinenko was a "wacko nutjob"
The only criterion is if you want this. Age does not matter. You will be in classes/labs with much younger people. If you don't care about that (or if you like that) then go for it.

What field are you considering?
By using a credit card you immediately have a debt whether you like it or not.

Credit cards are only debt if you treat them like debt. I use the shit out of mine, but pay the full balance pretty much every month. There's a lot of convenience, I'm fully protected from fraudulent activity, and I have a stupid amount of points/miles/whatever for free (or at least cheap) travel, to boot — I flew to .au a couple years ago for free on that basis, for example.
Don't expect one
https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/pci_dss_glossary_v... seems to list Blowfish as an approved standard as far as the PCI standards group is concerned.
> There's an insurmountable amount of technical debt that nobody wants to acknowledge.

That is the impossible issue. By refusing to acknowledge the fundamental technical debt, ALL other conversations are entirely pointless.

You end up trying to come up with backchannel misleading ways to solve the real issue... "maybe if I just say we need more tests" ... "maybe if I recommend a new architecture, which will force a rewrite" ... etc.

The problem with all these things is that if they aren't validated and required by the technical debt (which is unacknowledged), you just seem crazy!

I have now had to deal with crippling technical debt twice, and I think it is maybe the most toxic issue I have ever seen, made worse when there is an emotional connection or overvaluing of that code.

At a certain point, if you have too much technical debt... I think you just have to declare bankruptcy on it and start over, doing your best to reuse the bits that are worth it.
Every great company has been built the same way: bit by bit
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Blogspam, go here for the original.

http://deedy.quora.com/Hacking-into-the-Indian-Education-Sys...

That has all the real graphs. They make it really obvious that the test must not be scored on a continuous spectrum, but is chunked into increments of more than one point. But there are also some curious bimodal effects that could indicate tampering at significant levels like 90%.
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The idea that location and possession does not matter is romanticized. The idea that your gmail drafts are private even though they are easily visible in plain text to Google is perhaps not romantic, but at the very least technologically confused. By that reasoning, your Facebook profile is "private." More to the point, the 4th amendment is not a blanket protection on "anything that you think is private." It's a protection against police invading the sanctity of your home and physical person. "Privacy" as some people think of it today, the idea that information might be considered private despite its being shared with numerous people, was not a developed concept at the time the 4th amendment was written.
First, consider building it as a SaaS web app rather than a desktop app. I don't want to be tied to my desktop with it! I want to be able to see things from my phone, other computers, etc.

More importantly, what does this offer me that I can't get elsewhere, for free? There are a zillion bug tracking apps already. You need to offer something I can't get elsewhere.

Don't think too much about price, or about making it inexpensive in order to get more customers. I value my personal time at $100/hour, so if an app can save me just one hour, it's worth $100. But it has to not only be worth an hour, it has to be worth an hour above my alternatives.
Can you define 'completely temporary?' A chef paid to create a once in a life time meal for something like this is honing their craft. An Ice Sculptor is probably creating their masterwork. The biologists he used may have never had a chance to work on conserving an area this large.

An architect builds houses that the wind will erode away over the next 500 years.

How permanent does something need to be to make the creation of it worthwhile?
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"stored the public and private keys in the same directory"

People keep harping on that, but as phrased that's not a problem. Wherever you have your private key, there's no reason not to also have your public key. The issue is if the private key was living somewhere inappropriate.

Consider that "public and private keys in the same directory" is exactly what happens when you run ssh-keygen on any of the typical setups; failing to then remove the public key is not any kind of a security threat.
2 questions:

1) Why wouldn't you go to grad school now?

2) In 30 years, would you regret taking a break in your career for a few years, or would you regret not going?

IMHO, it all depends on your goals really. It doesn't matter if you are unemployed, working at a restaurant, an engineer, or a millionaire CEO, the sun still rises each day and it is up to you to build the experiences, relationships, and, ultimately, memories that will make you the happiest you can be.
I've heard that Ritalin (ab)use is widespread in academia.
While we are on the topic, the whole "Godwin" shit drives me batty. Yes, I get that "You won't let me go to the dance with Timmy? You are Hitler!" is not cool, but for the most part in mature discussion that is not what is happening right before somebody starts hysterically screaming "GODWIN!"

If history is to be considered important, it is because we think we can learn from it. However our ability to do so is cut short if we reject any allusion to history in which magnitude and severity are mismatched.

For example: If you kick a small village of several dozen in Africa out of their homes to make room for a pipeline, that is not equivalent to the 'Trail of Tears', but there sure as hell are valid comparisons to be made nevertheless. However the overly enthusiastic "Godwinists" would have us believe any comparison between the two would be uncalled for.
It looks good but damn so difficult to install. it doesn't appear in appstore!
That was from last month.
RSS is as dead as XML. I mean, what latest XML posts have you seen recently.

Meanwhile, in reality - RSS and XML are part of the internet fabric, invisible but essential to the function of numerous very high profile services.
"But I noted three significant shortcomings:

1. Syncing"
Photos of Famous Landmarks While They Were Still Under Construction
The federal constitution naturally only concerns itself with defining the structure and powers of the federal government. The "blanket mistrust of government" that you describe was indeed quite present, and is very much evident in the way the powers of the federal government are constrained and circumscribed by its charter.

Of course the federal constitution doesn't limit the power of already extant state governments; it's not the constitution of any individual state. Each state has its own constitution which charters, and constrains, the powers of the relevant state government, mostly in accordance with the very same "blanket mistrust of government".

There was no "unlimited power of state governments" at all; every state in the union had its own written constitution well before the federal constitution came into existence. Most of them are even more restrictive of power, and more vigorous in asserting protections of individual rights, than even the federal constitution is.
True, but it was planned in the nineties to go up by much more than that, and it could have increased faster than storage technology increased in density.
I've tested close to a dozen providers, mostly found via http://www.cloudorado.com/ or http://serverbear.com/, and there are many who can match or exceed both Linode and Digital Ocean (who seem to be all over every story here that even touches on VPSes) according to every possible criterion. Personally I went with Host Virtual when I left Linode (shortly after having left Rackspace), but the choice was largely dictated by physical location. Another day it might have been Ramnode. There are others too. The real point is that it's just not hard to find a better VPS host. It's a crowded space.
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Yet? One of the things I've learned by reading Danchev and other blogs on the scourge of credit card fraud is that 'carders' seem to have waaaaaay more cards than they need so the turnaround time between having it be made public and having it used can be quite long. So far for me every time one of my cards has been compromised there was a small charge that went through before the bigger charges came in. And my bank has been pretty good about effectively freezing things as soon as that small charge hits.

Given all the big data stuff on my 'work' cards (like gas card which is only used to buy fuel) it should be instantly obvious if a charge is bogus coming from a non-gas station. But I digress.

I wish someone would set up a 'whitelist only' type credit card where I could first do a small test charge, then I could authorize that source with my bank, and then their regular charges would go through. But if the number was compromised any attempt to use it anywhere that I hadn't pre-approved would be rejected.
Off-topic: Can you contact me (email in profile) as I am trying to rebuild my portfolio of work from scratch (as I've been out of the tech world for a decade) and rather than put up files on github scratching my itches, I have been trying to find non-profits or charities to re-do their websites (for free). My skills are very rusty, but I am pushing ahead to get up to speed with the modern tech world. (I programmed in the 80s and 90s everything from AI to geocities, but spent the last 15 years living life and trying different things)
> All that effort could have been spent on something with lasting value.

How much of the money we spend day-to-day actually fits this criteria?

I buy food that I pass a day later, I watch TV that benefits nobody, and I type on a keyboard to make software, that, while valued by others, isn't exactly art or anything (like the bridge in Sean Parker's wedding, it is useful for a time, and will eventually be discarded when it is no longer wanted).
I would really like to see the Docker provider for Vagrant happen. Vagrant is so easy to manage, and it would make Chef/Puppet provisioning easy. It also makes cross-platform and EC2/DigitalOcean deployment easy with their respective providers. (i.e. you can deploy an image to EC2 that then runs Docker containers)

I'm not sure it will, it seems stalled.

https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/404
Bilderberg fighting our corner? Or just feeding conspiracy theorists...
I believe you only get that streamlined activation if you call from the number they have on file for you, which makes it more secure than it seems.
Former FCC Chairman: Let’s Test an Emergency Ad Hoc Network in Boston
For those who think Linear B irrelevant to Hacker News except as trivia, as a non-technical person at a software company, I was casually consulted by a member of the W3C CSS3 group on arcane writing systems. One of the questions was "Do Aegean numerals and Linear B symbols need to rotate?" My response was "I'm uncertain off hand, but let me check my linear B book at home." Never thought I'd say something like that at a SW company. In any event, I did check my books, and neither Aegean numerals nor the somewhat related Linear B needed to rotate.

Oh, and if you are frustrated by the fact that you can't rotate cuneiform in CSS3, that's my fault.
Wondering how much these kinds of sentiment analyses add to the stuff that's already out there...
Vesper means evening or evening prayer
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It's no more about sexism than it is about book reviews.
Lack of features is a feature for some people. I really prefer when products start with a limited, polished set of features.
I think it's not that software engineering has not yet gone through a true manufacturing disruption, it's that each new disruption increases the scope of problems that software can be applied to rather than reducing the skill it takes to create it.

The invention of compilers was a huge watershed moment for programming. All the manual labor you had to do, keeping track of memory layouts and registers and stack frames, was handled automatically for you. Yet the result is not that programming became easier - it's that programs became more complex. A journeyman programmer today can write Tetris in a few hours, while it took how many months for the original? But modern games are things like Starcraft 2 and Halo, not Tetris and Space Invaders.

Same with databases. It used to be that you had to think in terms of bytes in sectors on a disk. Now we have filesystems and databases and query languages to abstract that all away from us. But that doesn't mean programming the systems becomes easier, it means that the volume and variety of data stored increases.

It used to be that domains like speech recognition, natural language processing, text mining, computer vision, OCR, etc. were completely off-limits for computational approaches. Now we have standard libraries for them, and standardized tools for generating those standard libraries. But that just means the tools get applied to progressively more problems, not that solving those problems becomes easier.

I think this is what Marc Andreesen meant when he said that "Software is eating the world". There will eventually come a time when no more software engineers will be needed, when they have automated themselves out of a job. But that time will come when everything we do is computerized, when every aspect of modern life is ruled by algorithms and data. Until then, advances in technology just mean computation can be applied to more and more problem domains.
You would have preferred that they waited until tomorrow?
Any time soon?

Even if the other two decides to do it Gruber might threaten to jump off a bridge!
I actually think that the current trend of "chasing eyeballs" is really valuable on its own terms.

Anyone who wants to start a business to support themselves, or their family will ultimately need customers, and as we continue to move away from the post-war era of people working principally for large companies which make things towards a services economy, a lot of people will need to find ways to communicate with their potential customers.

Lowering the cost of acquiring customers makes it much, much easier to start a new business, and to make it successful. Products and platforms that do so are generating real value on human terms.

My wife, for instance, is a photographer whose business is driven almost entirely by word of mouth, and twitter and facebook are both important components of enabling her network to share her work with potential clients. It would be enormously more expensive and difficult for her to run her business via traditional advertising, and would probably preclude her from running her own photography business.

tl;dr Chasing eyeballs makes small businesses easier to start and that's a real, human good.
That's true. At the very least a browser extension would be doable in a weekend.
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This is pretty unconstitional, but there's a problem with the constitution and the government.

Thwarting the constitution is pretty simple if you have enough willing (or unwilling but coercible) participants in government. We have three co-equal branches of government. If two branches collude to thwart the constitution, they will always succeed because they can override the third branch. And of course if all three branches collude (as is arguably the case in the last 12 years), the constitution goes down without a fight.
Given this administrations record with leakers, brave is an understatement.
The federal constitution isn't merely there to define the boundaries between state and federal jurisdiction; it's there to define the structure and powers of the federal government itself.

You're trying to argue that the federal government merely usurped powers that the state governments already had, and this is scarcely true. No state ever had unlimited regulatory authority, and no state ever had anything approaching "nearly unlimited police powers"; state constitutions are typically more explicit in restraining the exercise of power than even the federal constitution.
The economy is, thankfully, not a zero sum game. The profits the Pennsylvania Railroad 'took' from the Erie Canal shipper also allowed a cheaper and more flexible transport of goods for, say, a steel manufacturer in Pittsburg or a salt producer in Syracuse. The bulk of the IT industry is dedicated to making old processes more efficient, and therefore 'taking' profits from some middleman.

The HFT's profits do come from a large mutual fund, but then that large mutual fund can lower it's risk because it can quickly move from one position to another because it can expect a HFT to buy whatever it is selling. Risk has a price (ask an insurance company) and reducing it adds value to the economy.

Perhaps HFT was very lucrative for a while, but competition has naturally squeezed the margins out, but the markets has all the benefits of having HFT around.