skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pinterest CEO, Ben Silbermann share his xeperience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JLc2PYyCa0
Mattermark Weekly #3 - Stack Ranking Startup Verticals, Publishing Isn't Dead
I've really nothing more to say about the NSA at this point. I'd just like to give a shout out to Vice for being one of the most vital and relevant news organizations of the modern era. Whenever people say journalism is dead, I just point them to a Vice article. They make me proud to have a journo background.
I wonder if he meant running literally or figuratively.
Getting your startup listed, noticed.
Article about; AngelList? Crunchbase? Google+??? Of all the sites to maintain a profile of your startup - which ones are worth it, which ones will just spam you?
Got about 30 guys here using Haskell. More in other centers.
After looking over the changelog and doing a little research: it seems like this Turbolinks thing is now default-on for Rails 4.

This screws up the normal .ready() stuff, right? Has this bitten anyone yet?
Self-Burying Robot Could Be Hiding in Your Backyard Right Now
I'd figure that it's more due to differing opinions on things like Test::Unit vs Rspec, Haml vs Erb etc than your publisher. Still, not a good excuse to go unrecognized. RW3 was excellent, and I'm sure 4 is as well. Best of luck.
> .99c would cut the trip down to ~30years.

Surely you forgot to take into account that increasing the speed shortens the trip as well as dilating time?

Travelling at 0.99c would take 22 years to reach that from an observer's point of view, which would be 3 years for the people on board
No; no liquid water at the surface.

http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST101/habzone.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar_habitable_zone

EDIT: to be more precise, the conditions aren't right for there to be liquid water at the surface.
There are times when I want to whip out a quick set of labels, sign or business card... My options are in Linux to work it together with libreoffice or inkscape (a bit more time finding fonts and elements as well as layout/alignment.) or fire up the Mac and use Print Shop there - you know that program still lists for 50-80 bucks (at least the Mac versions)!?!

I figure a lot of the patents have/will soon expire for the technology Print Shop Deluxe which most of what's out there is still based on, came out in 1993.
My situation as well. There are some beautiful, and often little known, business models/ideas out there. Sometimes in industries which few have interest in. I focus on long term, sustainable, profitable business models. But they must scale. It works out well.

Mind telling us more? Sounds interesting :)

OP: Good luck on the book!

Thanks!
US Reaches 1 Million Bitcoin Downloads, Chinese Interest Fades Dramatically
Soldiers everywhere are drooling over the idea of never getting soaked again.
Having said which, I'm confused by the lack of a closing ?>. Maybe PHP's parser lets you get away with that though.

It's completely optional.
I have a great product, have quite a few people that use it, and would kill to have $250k in venture money to take it to the next level. I'm just in Alabama - and that's why $250k seems like such a high number for a napkin idea (I can't tell you how many napkin ideas I have). $250k is a TON of money if you don't need to hire anybody.
> it's going to take another year before plugins start requiring it anyways.

If anyone has gems that don't work with 4 yet, please let me know. Most of them at least have a branch going, but I'm always curious, and am willing to help out to upgrade things.
They certainly seem less beholden to whomever the mainstream media is trying not to upset.
Hacking Java Bytecode for Programmers (Part4)
Last thing I heard was that the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup and that a red panda lost from the Washington DC zoo was found safe in DC...
You'd Never Expect NSFW Graffiti Like This On Google's Bathroom Walls
Why Snowden's passport being revoked doesn't make it invalid outside US
It meshes perfectly with every iffy organisation in history.

They present themselves as harmless and benign, offering re-assurance and smiles, while being from questionable to insanely violent with some unpleasant agenda behind those smiles. Initially deal with a mafia, and it all smiles and pasta. Behind the scenes, its a different story.

So yeah, the NSA and he government are trying to present a Church of England tea and cakes at the afternoon garden party type of image. Of course they are. Meanwhile the people questioning this setup are trying to present an image people need to be worried about. The media then just present these extremes, and the citizens are expected to pick a side. As both sides become increasingly extreme, the issues loses credibility and gets swept aside by the next big news splash. while the relatively few people who actually care eventually disperse wonder what the hell just happened. This is the exact same pattern we see on almost every issue. Where is Occupy now?

This issue's only real relevance is as another example of the broken bond between those who govern and the people. And Im not sure there ever was any such bond. Lets face is, the government is basically the formalization of the rule and maintenance of the powerful over the population. There was a balance, they did used to realism they had to keep us broadly happy, in order to keep their power in place. But I think now, they are so arrogantly confident in their manipulations that they no longer care.

Heh, its like the old saying: No matter who you vote for, the government always get in.
If you want to learn Rails, you should choose a project that will teach you Rails. If all you're going to do with it is serve up JSON, then you're not really going to learn anything and will needlessly overcomplicate your app. Just use something like Sinatra in this case, Sinatra will get out of your way and allow you to focus on the front-end.

Using Angular with Rails is definitely a Good Thing(TM), but you really need a large enough project to justify, something both front- and back-end heavy. My current project is large enough to benefit from both, but unfortunately, I chose jQuery and Sinatra. Feeling the pain, for sure.
The graphs they were posting should have been 'delivered' not just 'shipped'. Shipping really means delivered to backers. So backers made retail ship possible but will get their consoles well after.

I am within the first #15000 and in the US and still have yet to receive. I had to contact them when they said everything was shipped 100%. Granted at least they acknowledged it in the last update but it does suck.
Node/Ember/Parse (Neptune) app w/ Facebook login
This looks interesting - although having never really considered using A/B testing on native apps before I did spend a few minutes looking around the site for examples of things to track. Maybe you could show an example project on the site showing what was changed and how that affected sales, etc.?
> By this time I had added in for-pay features to the free product to augment advertising and was making well over $1000 per day. I started plugging some of this into advertising to accelerate the growth but most of it was being distributed to me as the only shareholder. Things were going peachy until the servers crashed again.

What was stopping you from hiring a couple full-time devs (and devops) at this point? And going full-time yourself? It didn't sound like you need VC / angel investment at this point. It sounds like you had enough money to self-sustain.
Not all public key cyphers are based on the difficulty of factorizing huge primes. Quantum computing only solves a small subset of problems we have, but it doesn't solve NP.

AES-256 takes 2^256 guesses to break by brute force and by using Grover's quantum algorithm that's only improved to 2^128. It is something, but I can bet that AES-256 will at some point become insufficient due to Moore's law, not due to quantum computing - a theory that has originated in the 1980-1981 and that has yet to yield actual machines that we can use. And of course, Moore's law also works in our favour, since with more power and specialized chips, we'll be able to use bigger keys that aren't likely to be breakable by Moore's law or Quantum computing in the next century or even millennium.

As long as we cannot reduce NP problems to P, then virtually unbreakable cryptography is possible. Also, cryptography as a (mathematical) field is pretty new.
So, what's the significance? Even if true, he can still be "someone who turned because of what he saw to be unjust practices," he just purposely went a bit deeper to get better evidence.

Can you only be a whistleblower if the evidence serendipitously falls into your lap? Is it less ethical to make a conscious choice to pursue it further? Sure, you're not exactly acting in good faith toward your employer, but only because you believe they are not acting in good faith toward the American people.

I suppose it could turn out that he had some personal axe to grind and got a bit delusional in putting together a conspiracy theory. This news could lend credence to that interpretation, but I find it less likely based on what we know.
Whatever - I am not a USA citizen - so they keep my communications anyway.
The OP wasn't saying, 'this bug isn't a big deal.' He's saying, 'the bug fix shouldn't break existing programs.' Because people, like you, designed around this. Few people, if any, designed their apps to rely on the value in the loop not changing - that's why this 'breaking fix' should break almost no programs.
IIRC it's the way to switch between tabs
I didn't know the team at SCB was that big! You guys should come to some of the London Haskell meetups! In fact I think one of your guys is doing a talk soon right?
Apptimize is far better than anything currently available!
Jim Weirich deriving the Y combinator in Ruby (2012)
If you have any cool stories about those places to go along with the pictures, post them to backspaces and I'll make sure they get seen. I build the app with a friend.
Fine, scratch the last part.
I got XBMC running on mine but it crashes every time I add my network drive with my videos. Right now my Raspberry Pi is a better XBMC server
Erm, the issue here is that defining the "right" type of VC funding as the type of VC funding that is "right" is a bit of a tautology...
If you like programming and have an aptitude for it, you have a gift. Not everyone can be a builder, and those of us who are derive great satisfaction and joy from it. Do not be afraid of programming or math. They will challenge you, but you can move at your own pace. There has never been a better time to learn these, with all the educational resources out there on the web and YouTube.

If programming/building things make you happy, then hack away! Everyone deserves to be happy. If other's judge you, it's their loss.

As for the practical realities of finding work and dealing with race/gender/etc, there are options there too. You can start with simple self-projects, little vanity websites or apps, to build your repertoire. You could leverage these as experience to do work online, rent-a-coder or craigslist gigs. If you want to get a 9-to-5, say that you took some time off to work on personal projects or do some consulting, and point to anything notable you've built.

If you get stuck trying to build something or grow a consultancy, ask here or on one of the StackExchange sites. Lots of people willing to help.
There is very little that is 'magical' about a lisp-like language (in terms of the bastardized vision of 'magic' popularized by blessed hashes, operator overloading, and dynamically constructed objects in various scripting languages). There are few concepts required to understand it:

(function arg arg) ; is the default form

And every form is passed to eval, which calls apply, which calls eval... until you get to a fully expanded form and the final call to eval.

(map #'my-func '(1 2 3 4)) ; might eval to
(lambda () (my-func 1) (my-func 2) ...) ; which when passed to apply might result in
(list 1 4 9 16) ; which eval's to itself, a list object... 'list being a primitive

I just describe a theoretical evaluator (#'map is probably not implemented this way in most lisps). You can implement eval/apply in terms of a register machine if that makes you happy. Just read SICP for a good, basic description of one.

I appreciate what the Algol-derivative languages have done and what they're useful for; but there are a large class of programming problems where telling the compiler how to solve your problem for you is far more efficient than manipulating the machine with primitives. It all boils down to that eventually and lisp-like languages simply take you to higher levels of abstractions with consistent semantics.
They probably just haven't gotten something on him yet. Or perhaps he is the sort that says "Do your worst!" and ignores them, so they don't bother. Both are probably a rarity in government.
When I found out they were shipping DHL I just assumed it would take 3 weeks from when it got my shipping notice and it did. Any time I've ever had something shipped via DHL it's taken a tremendous amount of time to ship, their tracking codes often fail to work, and things often just plain fail.

My worst experience was when one time I ordered a Lego set from the main Lego site as a gift and it shipped via DHL. It was nearly a week before I got a tracking number. Then it turned out it was shipping (supposedly) from someplace random like Cyprus or Moldova and was still sitting there. Eventually it moved to New York over the course of a couple weeks where it showed no signs of moving. Needless to say I contacted Lego and they just canceled and refunded my order with a brief apology, no questions asked. I had assumed they'd try to figure out what was up and get my order to me somehow, but nope. Oh? Some random DHL shipping thing? It's just a loss and let's move on. And this from Lego, a large, well-respected international brand.

I think Ouya has a problem - their updates and such are too much marketing speak and fake community, not enough authenticity and real engagement.

But I'm also willing to believe that any time DHL is in use, it's basically a given that there will be problems.
This is a fork of an awesome repo I found last week called Neptune by bwship. It included a TON of stuff out of the box, including user register/sign-in/forgot password functionality. I added Facebook login (and Twitter soon) to make it a perfect starting point for future projects.
> Why would you expect tidal lock in the cases of these three planets with their sun?

Mercury have a nearly tidal lock (A Mercury day takes two Mercury years!).
This planets are more near to his star that Mercury, so the tidal forces are more stronger. Give time and these planets will be tidal locked to his star (and they had at least a billon years). The question is if They are now locked.
So...what have people's experience been in trying to have fat-client-like speed with TurboLinks? Not necessarily with Rails 4.0, but in general? I imagine for some Rails users, the decision is not just whether to go from 2.x/3.x to 4, but whether to go to Sinatra + Backbone/Angular/Ember/etc
That was the original value proposition made by Linus when he first create Git. This was largely out of necessity because it all happened over a very few short days in the panic of losing BitKeeper support for the Kernel.

However it is no longer true. Git is very much a SCM and is being developed as an independent tool, not just as a platform for tool development.
There's a huge difference between keeping tabs on suspects and spying on everything that everyone does.
I would never participate in automatic torrenting; I am pretty discerning about what I watch.

Additionally, RSS feeds just seem pointless to me; I visit web sites when I want to consume information from them. I dislike the idea of turning my computer into a television.
I'm more of a Yii guy, but I'm in the same boat as you. I'm proud to work with php every day, despite the online hate.

5.3 was the big break, 5.4 gave us $this in closures, and 5.5 fixed the age old password hashing issues while dropping generators in my lap.

Exciting times :)
> (1) it's a lisp. This is 2013, compilers can deal with +-*/, I don't need to.

I don't understand what you mean here, the lack of infix operators in Lisp? You make it sound like prefix notation is inferior. But given how Lispers usually sell it as the best thing since sliced bread, such reactions don't surprise me.

Anyway, you're right. It really seems like C-style syntax has won, and deviating from that is certainly a barrier of adoption. Clojure has been remarkably successful despite this, but I really don't see it becoming the next Java.
> I guess they could be the big anonymous donor, although I always assumed that was Apple.

NSA? DHS?
"The Rails 3 Way" certainly wasn't excellent, it was clearly a rushed update of the original "The Rails Way", it uses a lot of old practices all over the place and the stuff new in Rails 3 is just added as an afterthought.
Please don't just post a link like this. Apparently I'm expected to run it in chrome and see that do is 10x slower than the other two options.

But I ran it in firefox and got completely different results, namely the for loop handling hundreds of millions of items per second, and the loops with .shift() being handled literally and going at the speed of sludge (it reports 0.25 items per second).
My excitement about Clojure led me to core.logic, which led me to kanren, which led me to Prolog. Am I doing it wrong?
Because the EU treats the USA as a 'safe harbor': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Safe_Harbor_Priva...
Staying on Earth is also a one way trip then.
CarrierWave appears to support Rails 4; the rest are not doing anything special other than making jquery js acripts available in the asset pipline without manually installing them, so shouldn't cause any issues.

You'll have a bit of work to do to migrate to strong parameters, but you can always add the protected_attributes gem back to re-enable support for attr_accessible.

I'd suggest checking out the Rails 4 migration RailsCast.
I was careful to make sure I chose projects where there would be nothing to deliver except bits.
"...“Cut out that pesky client that generates 80% of your revenue, they’re a distraction on the road to executing $OUR_BIG_VISION”..."

"...I can't help but ask, what did you expect?..."

I can't help but ask what the VC was thinking???

Serious question. I know we don't know all of the details, but this seems, on the face of it, a very bad idea. I would assume there must have been much better methods of handling that client than to cut them loose. A new free tier to generate growth maybe??? Or a tier on the high end which would serve to satisfy that client???

I just don't understand why "paying customer" and "high growth" have to be mutually exclusive??? They are not mutually exclusive in any other industry I work with. Not in the restaurant industry... see Chipotle. Not in the shoe industry... at least women's shoes. Not even bike components... SRAM. Even in industries that are notoriously difficult... like porn... growth and paying customers can coexist.

I mean if "$OUR_BIG_VISION" has no room for customers who pay you gobs of money? I don't know what to think of that.
Official Announcement: http://www.joyent.com/blog/hello-manta-bringing-unix-to-big-...
Actually, it's WORSE.

1 light year = 9.454 x 10^15 meters
22 light years = 2.080 x 10^17 meters
SF to Paris, round trip = 1.877 x 10^7 meters
Number of trips = 1.108 x 10^10

In layman's terms, it's about 11 billion trips!

Here's another way to get a sense of scale. The earth rotates the sun at an orbit with semi-major axis of about 150 million kilometers. Using some data you can determine that the orbit of Earth is about 9.398 x 10^11 meters in circumference. Divide the distance to the star by this number to get 2.213 x 10^5 years. That is, it takes the Earth about 220 thousand years to go this distance around the sun.
Sorry about that--I actually just created a new folder and moved into it before running the command, I probably should've mentioned that to prevent the issue you ran into.
Everything you need to know about Solid State Drives
"Startups are about growth."

Indeed... in his essay, "Startup = Growth", PG wrote:

"A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit." The only essential thing is growth. Everything else we associate with startups follows from growth.

If you want to start one it's important to understand that. Startups are so hard that you can't be pointed off to the side and hope to succeed. You have to know that growth is what you're after. The good news is, if you get growth, everything else tends to fall into place. Which means you can use growth like a compass to make almost every decision you face." [1]

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
Kittens are gigantic, compared to protozoa. That doesn't mean we should describe kittens as cute, fuzzy, and gigantic. I would be ok with "only 22 lightyears away." But "nearby"? Most people have a hard time grasping the size of our galaxy. "Nearby" does not help promote a good understanding of the discovery IMHO.
Probably more effective than the remote working conversations I'm having these days.
It sounds like it's just going to be a database of boilerplate / sample / template legal docs that people can contribute to. I guess their point is that small firms can pool their resources, just like a big firm is just a group of lawyers sharing their resources. A big firm would have a big bank of forms that other lawyers can utilize to save time.

However, as a small firm I can signup with a form building product from Westlaw and have highly detailed, quality forms available, knowing they are kept up to date with relevant changes in the law, and I get a form building component that asks me questions and replicates data to save time and make things easy. The cost for a product like this for one user access to a group of practice area forms is around $160/month.

As for curated Q&A... I'm not sure what that means but it sounds like skilled practitioners will share their expertise in practice quides. There are already plenty of these out there though. Pretty much every practice area has a practice manual that has processed the law into digestible, practical text. Yes, you have to pay, but if you really having paying clients you shouldn't be trying to skimp on $200/mo for access.

If I have invested hours of my time into building a custom legal document for a client, I'm not going to share that with other lawyers for free, either.
Linode/AWS coupouns
> jsperf test cases like this don't produce valid results.

I once went to a meetup presentation where the presenter was a supposed JS performance expert. His presentation was based on JS perf results, and Chrome was consistently showing 749.8M ops per second for complex side-effect free js code.

The only thing I learned from the presentation was that Chrome is good optimizing out code that does nothing, and the presenter's laptop ran at 2.25 Ghz.
I think the point is the while loop runs faster in Chrome. But the for loop is inefficiently written; it checks the array length every time. Change it to `for(var len = items.length; j<len; ++j)` and it's faster again. tl;dr - badly written for loops are slow.
To decrypt after-the-handshake bytes I think you're right, they would need a leaf private key.

However, they absolutely can mount a MITM with the CA root.

EDIT: Further, if they can compel a master key then they can also compel a copy of all the private keys the CA generates.
Not this crap again.
ter·ror·ism : The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.
Our organization often comes up with its own secondary metrics based on user data (not just CTR or usage). Is this possible when using Apptimize?