skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was at CES last year, and the showing of the IE team was my favorite part of the trip. They were a bunch of younger guys who basically said "We know the guys who used to work here did some terrible things in our name. We're changing that, and we're here to tell you about it." They seemed like really cool dudes.

I even went over to the mall to try a Surface when they came out. Then, I realized Windows 8 is still Windows and walked out empty handed. The stuff MS is doing with Metro and touch is really interesting (as were tablet PCs before that), but I feel like they're still building on three decades of crufty sands. It's time for their System 9 -> OS X transition.
BTW, I wrote up how I use git commit/push hooks for deploying http://blog.markwatson.com/2013/06/automating-clojure-web-ap...
If women really aren't naturally more comfortable in settings that society has dictated to them, why were those positions dictated to them in the first place?

If men aren't naturally disposed to be stronger and more aggressive then how were they able to develop that position?

Just curious.
I like the concept. But where I work, our infrastructure is currently hosted on leased dedicated servers, where (last time I checked) OS reloads require manual intervention from the hosting provider and cost something. So I guess the burning down and rebuilding would have to be done on a layer above the base OS, e.g. Docker containers.
Announcing Firebase Support For Java and Android
In contrast, male performance was unaffected by using another person's name.

It's right there at the end of the second-to-last paragraph of the article.
We've build this device for local businesses such as little stores, shops, bars, restaurants...etc, it seems that the average number of fans of these types of fan pages is comprised between 0 and 99 999 fans.. Plus we are sure that Facebook pages with over 100 000 fans would prefer a custom version of Fliike.
After reading the title, I thought this was going to relate back to Google's involvement with the NSA spying program.

Think about it... what facebook user in their right mind would ditch facebook for google+ now?

They're both in bed with the NSA, and if that doesn't bother you (privacy concerns) you would probably never want to leave facebook in the first place.
The tree manager is beautiful. It's the much prettier interface I didn't want to have to build for my educational SMS-based text adventure. All it would need to be ideal for me would be:

* a way to assign 'expected words' in responses, with intelligent dictionary/thesaurus lookups to assist (so a free text response that asks 'where's the meat?' will be handled by the 'where's the beef?' path in the tree)

* a way to add nodes to the tree in real time as responses come in that don't have a valid mapping yet (so someone who attempts something completely bizarre like 'screw bear' can get a custom response)

* a simple way to handle game state, probably in another tree accessible in each node.
> In contrast, male performance was unaffected by using another person's name.

From the article.
You start with a model: usually a STL file. People make these themselves or download them from Thingiverse.

You then slice the file. This creates a gcode file, which is a set of instructions telling the machine how to move and when to print. Gcode instructions are semi-standardized across printers. Depending on your material and your printer, you often need to change the settings in the slicer to get gcode that will create a good print on your printer.

You can then use the gcode to print if you printer is connected to a computer. Or you can put it on an SD card and put that in the printer if it's standalone. Some printers (like MakerBots) require further processing of the gcode file into their own formats.
Clojure is probably one of my favorite language name ever; it's an homonym of an extremely important concept in the language, the 'j' in the name refers to the Java/JVM ecosystem and it's very easy to google for.
I've been able to make good utilization of Linode's multiple cores for our Sphinx server (http://sphinxsearch.com/)

In sphinx's config files, its super easy to split an index up into 4 parts, and then assign each partial index to one core.

Doing this, we find that all 4 cores are utilized nicely (>50%) almost all of the time. I feel like we're getting a really good value out of that machine.

AirBnB has a good writeup on this config: http://nerds.airbnb.com/how-we-improved-search-performance-b...
So does Firefox.

First image found on Google: http://www.techapna.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Restart-T...
I really don't get how this could be the case.

I built something similar to this for my startup; it didn't have a pretty UI we could let our marketing team use, but it also didn't cost nearly $0.10/text - it cost $0.01/text after we went into production, and was free while we were devving it.

I would charge a fixed rate per month for the pretty front-end; that's what startups/marketing teams/etc. would sub for. I'd then charge for the variable SMS cost at nearly what you can pay a Twilio/Tropo for them, and make it a unified, uncapped plan.
Have you tried powershell remoting ? It's close.
From the article: "Both distributions below have standard deviations of 1"

I thought fat tailed distributions don't have a variance. But apparently I'm using the term in a stricter sense than other people. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat-tailed_distribution#Definit... for details if you were wondering, too.
Proactive Web Application Security Measures
One of these jobs often rewards creativity. In the other creativity might get you fired or even jail time? (Have never seen job postings looking for creative accountants :-)
GET method should be Safe ( and Idempotent). The implementation is not respecting the RFC 2616.

The RFC says at the point 9.1.1 that: "Naturally, it is not possible to ensure that the server does not generate side-effects as a result of performing a GET request; in fact, some dynamic resources consider that a feature. The important distinction here is that the user did not request the effects, so therefore cannot be held accountable for them."
What other stuff also didn't add up is this:

Let’s see. NSA is the most awesome spying agency ever devised in this world. If you cross the street in Podunk, Anywhere, USA, to buy an ice cream soda, on a Tuesday afternoon in July, they know.

They know if you sit at the counter and drink that soda or take it and move to the only table in the store. They know if you lick the foam from the top of the glass with your tongue or pick the foam with your straw and then lick it.

They know if you keep the receipt for the soda or leave it on the counter.

They know whether you’re wearing shoes or sneakers. They know the brand of your underwear. They know your shaving cream, and precisely which container it came out of.

But this agency, with all its vast power and its dollars…

Can’t track one of its own, a man who came to work every day, a man who made up a story about needing treatment in Hong Kong for epilepsy and then skipped the country.

Just can’t find him.

Ed Snowden, NSA, and fairy tales a child could see through...

https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/ed-snowden-nsa...
"It's simply easier to ignite - that seems like a really bad reason to use it."

LOL that's what makes injector design and combustion instability less of a problem than for kero/LOX. Its not a bug, its a huge feature. Aside from hard starts being chemically impossible, screaming combustion modes are less likely. This means a more reliable and cheaper rocket because the ignition system that doesn't exist, can't fail, and the cooling system doesn't have to worry about screaming modes melting thru, and the injectors don't have to have weird performance robbing (heavy) acoustic baffles.

Well, these are all relative. You can still screw up the cooling system of a hypergolic nozzle or make it scream (think about it, a rocket engine is just a giant gigawatt class whistle, after all). Its just harder to screw up than nonhypergolic.

Finally from a chemical standpoint they're not environmentally stable toxins. Organomercury compounds, or tetraethyl lead, now those would be bad ideas to spray all over the environment. But UDMH and Nit Tet are "shelf stable" but not "environmentally stable". Oh they suck all right but they're going to "poison the land" for about a day, not a millenia or basically permanently. Both break down into completely harmless stuff. Of course before they breakdown, or if they end up breaking down in your liver, then not so good.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/eff-access-public-webs...

A link to the Craigslist vs. 3Taps spat in this article brought back memories. Craigslist had also threatened me with a C&D letter suggesting they'd use the CFAA to lock me up. I contacted the EFF who promptly told me to go screw...

I assumed that was because Craig is on the board of advisers and CL was a major sponsor. I'm glad to see they're finally helping someone against the giant internet bully that is CL.
If your comment goes to the top of this page, will it have a priming[0] effect on commenters to have more fruitful discussions?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)
Bring back embedding folders in folders in the bookmarks (Speed Dial) and it's a winner.
The other thing Amazon offers is investor confidence. I've worked with several clients who could save tons of money every month by going to Linode, DO, etc., but stay with Amazon (or Heroku) because they feel it reassures investors they are following "best practices." I can understand lots of reasons not to switch, e.g. just having higher priorities, but this reason seems particularly silly.
The "Mozilla" part of the user agent has been maintained for historical reasons, and could potentially break compatibility if removed. Originally it was used to detect frames. It may not be used in the majority of user agent sniffers these days, but I doubt Microsoft is interested in testing their luck removing it.

http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
Hardening and termination of gamma rays prior to lightning
Windows 8 may still be Windows, but WinRT is very much the System 9 -> OS X transition. Windows 8 supports both the old Win32 APIs and the new WinRT APIs.
I think it depends on if you wear a watch normally. I do and I've found that I use it most for doing things like getting texts while on the subway and not having to fish through my pocket to get out my phone.

Do I absolutely need my Pebble? Heck no. Does it make some things simpler? Yep.

To me, I funded a neat middle-step in wearable computing.
matthiasv, I don't know what your secret is, only 1 tab open in 1 window open at time, JS disabled, or what, but this is a very real issue. I have Firefox installed on all 4 of my machines, work desktop, home desktop, laptop, and a netbook. 2 of which are fresh installs. On all 4 when I visit multiple HTML5 heavy sites, FF's UI gets unresponsive. Chrome and newer versions of IE do not suffer from this, and I'm pretty sure it comes from FF running in a single process.

Chrome and IE have their issues too, like thrashing memory a lot sooner than FF, which is why FF is still the default browser on my laptop and netbook despite its unresponsive UI under heavy load.
I agree startup time is not a major concern, however it's super to have it. I guess all that speedup and memshrink ventures are starting to pay off.
what shopping?
Oh no, Bing Ads Coming to Windows 8.1 Smart Search
How Rackspace Supports Code For America Fellows
I was just about to post about that. I thought these things had a self-destruct to prevent them from inadvertently becoming an ICBM.
Ask HN: Before I recommend Squarespace is there anything I should know?
Among other things my company does content creation and often get asked to help add pages to a website to explain a product or service. I often have to send my content to my client’s webmaster to upload, resize, choose fonts orient the pictures etc which is not super efficient and adds layers of complexity. My clients are completely non-technical and I am not much better but these platforms make it so both my client and I can write new pages, move stuff around, add photos- it seems like a good solution. So I have started recommending my clients move to Squarespace or Virb etc.

This has really upset some web companies who have told my clients I am recommending an unreliable product. I don’t want to recommend something that isn’t right for my clients but most of them have very simple sites that don’t need a sophisticated CMS. I think that Squarespace is 10 times easier to use than Wordpress, Joomla, or a custom system but are there things I am not considering or something I should be careful about when recommending these options?
I found your conclusion a bit misleading and unfortunately a lot of people often comes to the same conclusion.

Indeed the CPU is limiting factor in your bench, and while you say you're comparing apples to apples, it's not true in my opinion.

Maybe I'm wrong but I never see these actors as really competing in the same market : of course if you're looking for the best CPU perfomance/price ratio AWS is one the worst choice. But that's not what you're paying for imo, as someone already mention you're paying for the programmatic access, the ecosystem, the auto-scaling ability, monitoring, etc.
Move to AWS if you need the "Elastic" part in EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute) or if you know what you're doing and what you're paying for.

Same for DO, what you're paying for is the SSD, they're advertising about it everywhere, so it's kind of obvious that a big part of what you'll pay for is the SSD.
Techempower invites SMEs and advocates of their language/platform to submit pull requests to improve any overlooked performance problems in the specific benchmarks.

You're more than welcome to help make laravel look better in these benchmarks. But unless you're running the PHP through HipHop, I doubt you're going to get anywhere near the statically-compiled platforms near the top.
I wasn't saying passwords and websites are the same (I'm not even sure what that means) but was pointing out that saying it's fine to throw random stuff at a webserver would mean that it's fine to repeatedly throw user/pass combinations at a webserver.
There was an article posted to Hacker News about the gender difference in learning yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5971356

It made clear that boys and girls are motivated by different factors when learning. So I have a problem when I read this article and the first line is:

"There's an unfounded gender stereotype that says women aren't as good at maths as men."

Someone may have taught this writer that opening up with something "controversial" makes for good prose, but I think it just undermines the purpose of the article. There are plenty of statistics that show that technical fields, including math, are heavily male-dominated. Why would someone post something in hacker news that basically implies that this history is not real?

This gender gap certainly may not be because of latent gender differences in potential math skill. But if on average, women tend to be less interested in math, they will reach their mathematical potential less often. And based on the article I linked above, there are at least statistical differences between the motives of male and female students.
Well, as a defendant you can waive your right to a jury trial, and many people do for this reason.
J.K. Rowling hinted at, and smashed it, pretty much hanging a lampshade off the point that "being a female sidekick of a male lead shouldn't mean automatically becoming his love interest".
It would be helpful if the author included the round-trip latency (even some simple pings) alongside the benchmark so we could judge how far the servers are from the client.

This will have a significant impact on the ab numbers (particularly as he's not using the -k option and therefore establishing a new TCP session for every request).
If you want to use a physical analogy, it would be more like I invite you into my home, then shoot you because you stepped in a spot that I didn't like.
I like how this was such a big issue when Microsoft did it, but nobody cares that there is a systemwide WebKit.framework on OS X that various applications use internally. I know there are some differences, but it's pretty much the same thing.
It seems that you and the Googlers have different ideas of what Google's main area of expertise is. It seems like you think it's "the web" — thus search, RSS, and I don't know what else you'd include — and they think it's "hacking", i.e. making things that were not previously known to be possible, e.g. a web search engine that automatically finds the useful sites, an email system with a hundred times as much storage as any other webmail system, a draggable and zoomable world map in a browser, gigabit fiber to the home, robot cars, a free-software smartphone, groupware that replaces chat and email, JavaScript that runs fast, balloon internet, scanning the books of the libraries of the world, an easy-to-use system for writing fault-tolerant massively-parallel programs, mass-market lifelogging, stuff like that.

I mean, they say their objective is "organizing the world's knowledge", but what's hanging up in the GooglePlex is SpaceShipOne, not a card catalog.
If they found a good way of incorporating RSS into Google+, that would certainly be an incentive to use Google+; but just adding RSS feeds to a circle in Google+, as this article suggests, would be terrible. Google+ (like Facebook and Twitter) works on a "forget by default" system, where, if you don't consciously make a choice to save an item for reading later, it gets lost off the bottom of the feed. Replacing Google Reader with that would be a bit like replacing a DVR with a system that broadcasts all your favourite TV shows at once.

I think if I wanted to disrupt social networking, I'd work on something like a DVR for social media shares (or, perhaps, a more socially-integrated service like Pocket), which allows you to specify certain content as content you don't want to miss.
I think that he is a person of great moral courage who has sacrificed any chance of a normal life for the forseeable future.

I have a theory that originally he did just start out aiming to bring public attention to an illegal/secret NSA wiretapping program. However, I believe that a combination of rhetoric against him by US politicians, and the anti-American influence of WikiLeaks has made changed the nature of his comments.
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Ubisoft hacked, account data compromised
Not all jobs are supposed to be able to support a family of 4 at a middle-class lifestyle on 40 hours a week.

What jobs are teenagers supposed to have? We need to have entry-level jobs for people who are just getting started in the labor market, whose labor isn't worth that much because they are still working on basic job skills, like showing up to work on time sober.

FYI: I don't think raising the minimum wage just a buck is going to have any significant downsides. We need to remember that there can be people whose labor isn't worth that new minimum wage, though.

There is something to be said about an employer having 3 $8-an-hour employees versus 2 $12-an-hour employees.
Mark explained it.

>Upon turning on the phone and registering it on the network you must agree to the EULA. The only difference between your phone and a MOTOBLUR device is that you don't have a user created login. A random login is created for you to optimize the setup experience. If you don't connect any social networking applications your phone doesn't connect with our servers.

It involves a hardware ID, and a profile that is created when the device is initially synced. It may also send a "firmware flash counter" but it wouldn't be necessary.
Portable conditionals in makefiles
Not really. AD is krb5 mutual auth backed by an LDAP datastore. LDAP is also used for storing various bits of other metadata. You can (with much pain and sadness) implement a AD-like system using MIT Kerberos5 and OpenLDAP (I've done it)

In fact, even saying that the LDAP portion is extended is a bit misleading. In fact, AD implements a fully compliant LDAP interface. It does lack the more common LDAP Schemas (though they can be installed if you wish), and relies on a schema that MS developed, but the LDAP server is not, itself, extended.
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Ignoring your jet setting nonsense, which is obviously not on the cards...

Fair process. Counties with nothing to hide....

Yes most countries might have a problem with it, when considered alone. But, if all countries knew that it equally applied to all, and that there is a fair process of sorting out what is reasonable to "blow" and what should happen, it could benefit all.

So, in this case, an independent review might separate out what is public interest and what it not, and what should happen to Snowden. It could benefit the US.

Such an organisation should be the place the whistle blower goes to, not runs to after the "damage" is done.

No, I don't have it all worked out. I am not a lawyer. Yes I can see how difficult it would be to get it right. However, that does not negate the idea and value of having a structure to do this with in. Of course it will never ever be perfect, but I say something is better than nothing. Whistle blowers could still do their own thing and take what ever risk the like. No UN organisation will stop that unstoppable freedom.
Using a VCS as your deployment strategy is The Wrong Way to do it.

I won't go into it in this comment because it's been beaten to death and you can find information about deployments everywhere; even the commenter on your blog post makes a better suggestion than your VCS deployment strategy.

Continuous integration, source/binary distributions, automated provisioning, sandboxing, versioning, etc...; it's all out there.
> I still don't forgive Microsoft for being absolutely massive tools in the past.

As a person who seems to defend Microsoft quite often on HN, I can't shake the feeling that if they get to first place in anything, they'll become massive tools once again.

I like seeing them as the underdog, it forces Microsoft to be kinder and more free, but I think innovation and progress would be seriously hindered (once again) if they grabbed the crown in a particular space.
Most statisticians have their own definition of fat-tailed, I like the definition you linked to (polynomial decay), but it is not universally accepted/known. These fat-tailed distributions will have a variance as long as they decay faster than x^(-3).
A good example of a fat-tailed distribution that does not have finite variance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution
There are some good reasons for this. For example, if Y is the sum of n independent and identically distributed random variables with the distribution of X, then the kurtosis of Y is 1/n times the kurtosis of X. This doesn't hold without subtracting 3.
Couple of corrections.

- Apple didn't license WebKit. Apple created WebKit, by forking Konqueror's engine.

- Chrome doesn't update without restarting. (Unless you mean restarting the machine, in which case, of course not! What kind of browser would require a machine reboot to... oh.)