skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s new in Node.js this week? (New releases, performance plus new buffer API)
73yo programmer faces prison for pot
The Peace in Patience For Tech Companies
I agree with the sentiment of your comment, and especially like your last two sentences. Maybe I'm just expanding on your last sentence.

I have to object to "20 line function into one line of maps / filters / reduces". I don't know what the 20-line function looks like, but I find use of classic higher order functions instead of loops makes code drastically quicker to read accurately.

As with human language, a larger vocabulary can be used in an "overly smartypants" way, but it can also be used to more quickly and robustly convey information between people (or to your future self).
Thanks for sharing your story. Looks like your position in the AppStore search results are rising nicely too. And fortunately they are all high volume keywords...
http://www.straply.com/app/apple/bytesize/7-minute-workout
We've met ;) http://vimeo.com/63270428

Sorry, when I said "met", I meant like I see regulars and there is a niche group of people who only hang out with each other. I've met quite a few people at the events, but only a few who would I recognize if I saw again.
It's all just 0's and 1's buddy.
I thought he meant "story" as a catchall for anything marketing related.
Please Disrupt Passwords
He also got hold of a list with 10 000 persons with protected identity which later was published on the web. Not very nice.

http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/svartholm-warg-domd-till-fa...
VR Sex and the End of Sex Leading Technology
Bitcoin is a tad more fungible than HN Karma, but I appreciate the point.

I think you're being facetious, but I do appreciate the point.
Great idea and project. Questions:
a) Is the database loosely coupled to query language implementation?
b) In my biased opinion RethinkDB has a much better query language. Is there a way to implement RethinkDB's query semantics and how much work is involved?
c) Underscore.js has a ton of collection manipulation functions. How easy is it to use it from within NeDB?
d) How easy/difficult is it to run NeDB as a lightweight RESTful server, in its own Node process?
The point I'm trying to make is that having surveillance in place gives them the power of effectively building such camps later.
Any plans to open-source the implementation (minus secret keys and other sensitive credentials, of course), so others can set up their own virtual notaries, to defend against a single point of failure?
Obligatory xkcd link: http://xkcd.com/552/

(I have this one on a t-shirt.)
thank you, its was really interesting and sad movie
The pesky problem of freezing thin servers
PSR-0 is widely adopted by anything relevant in the PHP ecosystem. Sure, those style guides might not be pitch-perfect but it is time for PHP to step it up and get some uniformity in their codebase. _At least_ adopting PSR-0 would have been a great step towards that.

Uncertain why I am getting downvoted for this (top parent) it is my personal opinion and just because you think otherwise isn't a valid reason.
Your first sentence is totally unnecessary and detracts from the discussion.
A comment based entirely on speculation. Do you know for a fact that most people on Mt Gox don't already have another account elsewhere or can't figure out how to create one?
Top 5 Finance Careers In Today's Economic Times
Reminds me of a beefed-up version of this similar project: https://github.com/chjj/node-tiny
Asking a favor, short survey
Miles Rose here from SiliconAlley.com. We aren't developers and we don't build anything. We monetize it. We create customers for your ideas and products. This survey is to help us solve your problems. Thank you for your time.
I'm slightly confused, he made his app free on June 15/16, and two days later he's got a tonne of reviews from users stating this application has helped them lose weight, and sounds like they've been using it a while. If the surge in downloads happened just two days ago, those reviews all sound very fishy.
why is mysql query bad? as someone who knows sql, I've always loathed over abstracted mechanisms for db calls.

its also been a while since I've done web dev.
I agree, I really hope he posts the stats after this post.
You're confusing "provable security" with "effective privacy", and they aren't the same thing.

Having uncontrolled supernodes certainly does "help you", as it means Skype can't see the traffic without some other exploit to get it. Verbal communication is normally "insecure" and subject to eavesdropping, but if I have the conversation on a boat in the ocean I can be relatively certain that no one else is going to hear it.
> you can easily move your Bitcoins out

As long as they don't run out of bitcoins (I'm not claiming they've been spending their depositors' bitcoins, just pointing out that it's a theoretical risk.)
Absolutely, the anonymisation method is an important consideration. You can probably safely drop most user-specific data, like any tracking you've done. Unless the dev is building functionality that actually depends on that data, such as data-mining, they're unlikely to need it.

I'll make another argument in favour of production dumps though. It gives developers a proper feel to how a website functions. For UI-oriented developers like myself, having just enough data to allow the website to function on a technical level, isn't enough. Your search code is going to feel very different with 20 million products vs a few dozen dummy products.
>In particular: updating. If a single app controls the whole VM, you can drastically improve the likelihood that a single update mechanism will work properly. You can even automate it.

This is interesting. I mean, if you can get it to work. I'm bringing up the point and click admin tools, though, because that's the best comparison I can come up with that actually exists that I've seen.

The thing of it is, I think that most things do eventually break. (I mean, like the kids in this thread talking about how easy an 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' is - it works great most of the time, then it breaks something horribly.)

There are things you can do to reduce the chance of that breakage, but eh, at some point you have to login and fix the goddamn thing.

Not that this breaks your model; I mean, if you are distributing, say, a blogging application; my dad is paying you $5/month and giving you login credentials on a standard VM of some type, he installs using the kernel/script you gave him, and the system uses your repos to upgrade nightly. If something does break horribly, you can login and fix it.

I still think that model is easier if you include the VM in that $5/month, and you run that VM on something you control.
So what's the proper way to monetize an opportunity like this?
RailsBridge México: Women learning Ruby on Rails
interesting......tent.io seems pretty cool. Have you used it before?
That's a really bad example, given the interstate commerce clause. Pelosi was laughing it off because damn near everybody, including the majority-conservative supreme court, agrees that regulating healthcare is regulation of interstate commerce, just like 1000s of other things that the federal government does which don't happen to be hot political footballs at the moment.

Conversely, most people that I've talked to agree that the NSA listening is very much not constitutional as per the 4th amendment. Even if you think it's constitutional, you have to do a lot of weasel wording about the definition of 'search and seizure'.
There's different kinds of management positions other than software development management. HN is notorious for forgetting that.
Are you going to pay for the developer to do that? It's just lucky that Steam is supporting Linux at all nowadays.
Antirez responded to the original article citing that Sentinel, which was used for this test, was never designed to accomplish what was tested. So the Redis portion of that article is rather misleading: http://antirez.com/news/55
The Get-Rid-Of-Crap-Every-Month Club
From your link:

"Colloidal silver preparations primarily deliver inactive metallic silver, rather than the active microbicidal silver ion."

From TFA:

"Collins and his team found that silver — in the form of dissolved ions — attacks bacterial cells"
Cookie Forcing protection made easy
If you're a hiring manager who uses these things, you should know that I (try) to train/prepare my students to answer them. I do think there is some utility in watching how people approach an unconventional problem, but don't be too impressed with people that can solve them easily, compared to those who don't do well the first time they see them. I see a huge improvement in the quality of answers of most students, once students know it is a gag and once they've been shown how to estimate things. Most students are constrained by having been in a learning environment that provides them with well-defined boundaries within which to form their answers. IMO failing to perform well with these problems is not always a failing of the student as much as it is their educators.
"in a perfect world" is an English phrase. It means, in this context, "if this worked perfectly".

It is not a statement about the world in general.
I suppose you've talked to support about this? What's their excuse?
FunScript - F# to JavaScript with type providers
Are you sure you know what website you're on? Have you forgotten you have identifying personal information in your profile? What do you anticipate future employers' reactions being to discovering you are a proud troll? Do you really think they'll want to work with you, or have your name associated with their company?
Should we do more to incentivize open source?
LinkedIn has posted a statement pointing over to "the company that manages our domain" - http://linkd.in/12XMvpu
Large list of Gartner reports
Introducing a brand new way to share everything
How To Create Different Versions of Software Documentation From The Same Source
Dropping Out
I believe the Congress of Soviets was an indirectly elected representative legislative body elected by the local Soviets.
Admit it, Michael Hastings' Death is Weird and Scary

No it isn't.

Car engines separate from crashed vehicles fairly regularly. [1]

Car fires are not uncommon. There were 306,800 vehicle fires per year from 2002 - 2005. Of these, almost 10,000 were the result of a collision, and the collision-started fires are responsible for almost 60% of the deaths from vehicle fire. Also, young males are the most likely to have vehicle fires. [2]

While Hastings was a good journalist, he also had previously crashed a car while drunk, he had admitted to a drinking / addiction problem, and he had admitted that he had smoked crack cocaine.

A person with admitted drinking / drug problems was driving his Mercedes at a high rate of speed in Hollywood at 4am, and people are wondering if his accident was a CIA hit? Save it for Alex Jones.

[1] - https://www.google.com/search?q=car+crash+%22engine+ejected%...

[2] - http://www.nfpa.org/assets/files/pdf/research/vehiclefires08...
At least part of the answer is to use antibiotics less, and to do more to ensure that when they are used, the full course is used.
Walmart is hiring only temps at many stores
There is a fundamental problem with opening up so-called anonymized data: usually the best, highest detail data can't be properly anonymized. Take fitbit data. You'd think that would safely be anonymous. But all I have to do is tweet a few times about my progress and I bet you can identify me. I might not have minded tweeting that I reached 1000 steps today. But now that innocuous tweet links all my "anonymous" data submitted to the commons directly me.

Most people don't realize how easy it is to use scraps of public info to identify people in data sets (the canonical example is here: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/your-secrets-live...).

For research to be bioethically sound, people have to be able to give informed consent. Most people are ill equipped to get their heads around these ideas enough to actually be informed. I see this all the time with DNA data. Even exceptionally bright researchers can delude themselves into thinking that DNA sequence data isn't identifiable because you'd "need some other DNA linked to the person to identify them". As if that's going to be a problem in another few years.

I agree in principle it would be great to have vast troves of data to mine. I'm just not sure how to square that with existing laws and regulations.
Tile: The world's largest lost and found
Update for Network Solutions Customers Experiencing Website Issues
I wonder how long it will take to burn one cd on a typical desktop computer.
Yes, quite possibly, if there is sufficient interest.
Could sum this up with Steve Martin's quote from the Charlie Rose show:

Nobody ever takes note of [my advice], because it's not
the answer they wanted to hear. What they want to hear
is "Here's how you get an agent, here's how you write
a script,"... but I always say,

"Be so good they can't ignore you."
This just sounds like a paranoid rant. If you have a problem with it, either don't visit the site or block the analytics. The reason they are using it is pretty obvious, like everyone else that builds digital services, they want to look at how it gets used. It is a non issue, that's not pretending, it's just putting on a rational hat and taking off the silly rhetoric of paranoia.

Personally, as someone who left the UK in the 90's for silicon valley, I'm blown away that the UK government has even heard of the internet, let alone built a decent digital service.
Suddenly FaceTime voice seems like a killer product.
The machines detailed (where they had storage at all) were primarily using paper tape and audio cassette anyway. Floppy controllers for S-100 machines were still a few years in the future.
Are we thinking of the same "Monopoly" question? The one where you ask them to sketch out how they would program the game Monopoly? Because that's a lot more like an estimation question than a single-insight brain-teaser.
Consultancies and spy chiefs: Hiring digital 007s
But what if by walking faster you improve the common factor? What if it's just that gait speed is a symptom of poor heath, but by attempting to walk faster (maybe even by going for more walks) you actually improve your health?
Thanks for that.
But any ideas on websites that review iPad interfaces?
Something like http://www.lovelyui.com/ but iPad specific
I definitely respect you and your self-starting attitude. It's definitely true that school is expensive and impractical for some people's life's situation. The only thing I take issue with is that the experience can be compensated for in a period of 1-6 months.

As you indicate correctly, there are other ways to become a designer outside of design school. In either case, however, it takes a lifetime of dedication and hard work. Reading a few books and designing a few websites is a good first step but it does not a designer make.
What happened to innovation?
This doesn't prevent your server/CA being compromised like an encryption scheme like PGP would.
Myrrix 1.0.0 released
FFS, the original title, something like "Mt. Gox suspends U.S. Dollar Withdrawls for two weeks", was FINE.

"Statement Regarding Temporary Hiatus on U.S. Dollar Withdrawals" makes NO SENSE out of context.

Mods: Please STOP rewriting titles to match the page! You're NOT doing it right!
How to listen to your customers - using Rails and Javascript
Why would you expect a C project to use a PHP style guide?
Awesome! I've been looking for a project like this for a small app and have been exploring things like EJDB and UnqLite, among others. I'll definitely be checking this out. Thanks.
What about the interception of the email as it travels through the ISPs? Won't the NSA still grab a copy as it's sent? I thought that was the whole idea of PRISM.
not sure how to calculate this with percents

true positives
.90 * .04 = 0.036
false positives
.10 * .96 = 0.096

total positives
0.132

positives that are true positives
0.036 / 0.132 = 0.2727...

i had to think about the calculation as i was doing it wasnt automatic even though it was just multiplication, but I think the difficulty is more to do with the fact that you have to use some relative of bayesian probability not really the fact that you had to deal with percentages
Apple Wants to Pull Orphion Music App Over Touch APIs
Restore The Fourth - Nationwide Protests against NSA Spy Program
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures...”

Find a Protest in Your Area and help Secure YOUR Privacy

Spread the word. It's started. #RESTORETHEFOURTH
True, the point is that many people writing these stories cannot really tell (or care) about the difference. "Big data" is a sexy definition, so they go with it regardless of wheter it's actually relevant.

Most of the people here do, so these comments are really preaching in the wrong place...
To be fair, that is an optional extension and not bundled into PHP by default.
A behind the curtain peek at MLB Advanced Media's data-troves
That makes sense. I guess the system would have to be very much about informed consent or filter through data that makes it too easy to trace down to individuals?

Nice ARS link.
Latest target in the war on drugs: Google autocomplete
The NSA leak is troubling, yes. It is NOT comparable to the horrors of communist authoritarianism - where 20 million people were killed, starved, or simply disappeared. To me, this seems like a cheap shock tactic more common on stations like Fox News where the labels "nazi" or "socialist" are thrown around without thought. These words have deep historical roots and deep meaning, and to use them in situations where it isn't appropriate is trivializing. A government can be intrusive and overstep its bounds without earning the label of 'Stasi'. We can have a conversation about the power and role of government in this country without drawing these hyperbolic and historically inaccurate parallels.
Thing is, a lot of people doesn't care about all those things, and for them, being able to get a website out quickly and easily is the most important thing. In most cases, websites aren't super well engineered software. Most of them doesn't do much other than taking data out and render them as HTML. Given a decent PHP framework (or heck, even WordPress), almost everything is done for you.

Software is just a mean to an end, and well, most of the time. Not all websites needs a super well engineered language to build. Not all "programmers" get to work on exciting problems that make them fill pages of their notebook and think for hours for a few lines of code.
If all the articles saying we're close to making something 1000x more effective, faster, better etc. were true I would probably be writing this comment while driving a solar powered flying car to my home on a moon base.

Really wish it was true.
Here's an autopsy of my foray into this domain - http://swapped.cc/certtime

My takeaway is that this is a variation of an insurance business - you have to sell people on needing protection for times when sh#t hits the fan. It's an unpleasant topic and very few would ever want to concern themselves with it, at least voluntarily. So making something like VirtualNotary work is pretty much exclusively a sales and distribution problem. The technical side is easy.
>(if you're interviewing at Google, you should know it's 1e8-1e9)

Why? Is the interview a trivia exam like in college?
I think you made the point beautifully when you said "can get the basics down in a few weeks to a month". The key word here is "basics". A professional level of skill goes beyond basics. As a web designer, one can get the basics down of CSS, for example in just a day's workshop at a conference. That said, to be of any real value as a professional, you really need more insight than what a basic understanding gives you.

As for your comment about wanting back-end people refusing to do front-end work - actually, I myself do not have a problem with this. I believe people should do what motivates them at work and not get strong armed into doing things that fall outside of their professional interests. There is a limit to this of course, but in this case, there are definitely front-end people who will do the job better and take it as their career passion.
I haven't gone through your blog, but if you have a post on how you become a freelancer, I'd be interested. It seems exciting and I like the idea of having complete control over my schedule.
I think Microsoft's change has actually made me more likely to purchase the PS4. Before, the differentiating features of the Xbox One (sharing, cloud availability, possibly lower new-game pricing) were enabled by the DRM. Now, the Xbox One is just a more expensive, less powerful PS4 with a management scheme identical to the 360. Meh.
All black one? now an all white one? didn't belong to them.
Quick back of the envelope:
1 of these ~= 1333CDs or 212DVDs
The increase from a CD to a DVD was by a factor of ~6.26.
This is 33.8 times that factor of increase.. but no word on the speed of reading/writing in this article.. which I assume will be slow.
This prevents production of more resistant strains, but we already have resistant strains out there. (Also, @pearjuice seemed to indirectly imply that the ability to improve our existing antibiotics was a bad thing)
Almost all of that account's karma comes from articles rather than comments:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=by%3ALigh...

vs

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=by%3AL...

The user has posted only one comments in the last 21 days and the highest rated comment ever had only 8 points.
How is it almost impossible? What, other than voluntary procedures, is standing in the way?
Was the accounting error that you got paid some % of your retail price for each free download?
Hmm, every new framework nowadays seems to be based on Symfony2 which appears to be kind of slow.

Is there any small (relatively new) PHP framework that isn't based on Symfony2?
My personal pet peeve... A huuuuuuuuge banner image pushes the article text below the fold on my 13" rMBP on default display settings in a maximized (by height and width, grr OSX) Chrome window.

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/fFqt2ud

Maybe I'm a bit irrational about this, I know scrolling isn't hard, but I came to read your text, dammit.

Edit:

Also, seriously... HUGE thanks for asking!

Edit 2:

Scrolling down I'm noticing that your image height is actually bigger than the height of the viewport (minus the height of your top bar). Even if you disagree with the idea that the image shouldn't push the text below the fold, I hope you agree that the image should at least fit my viewport.
Indeed. "enn eee dee bee" (or "any dee bee") was mine.
> Luckily, everyone with deposits in Mt.Gox can convert them to bitcoins and send them to some other address.

If you have US dollars on Mt.Gox, and no one can take US dollars out of Mt.Gox now and there is very low confidence that this will change in the future, its going to be very hard to find anyone give up any other currency or virtual currency for US dollars -- whether you want bitcoins, yen, slips of latinum, or triganic pu, no one is going to give you them for dollars on Mt.Gox if dollars deposited on Mt.Gox are trapped.
If you hypothetically had a successful side project, that can probably be parlayed into "I could do something like this for you, where it will be substantially more effective because it will take advantage of the X, Y, and Z advantages your business has that mine didn't."

This.

If you have a side project that's bringing in, say, $5000/year, and you do a few things to it such that it's now bringing in $5250/year, you've boosted revenue by 5%.

Now, go find a prospective client with a business bringing in $5MM/year, and explain to them how what you will do for them has the potential to increase revenue by $250k/year. Sure, it might not scale 1:1, but boosting it by even $100k/year should justify paying you, oh, $50k for the engagement.