skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you'll find I work on full scale enterprise systems with lifetimes of 4 years - 30 years. It's about understanding the code you have now, and you can do that by looking through it.
I guess there's probably lots of various standards for "frivolous", but it's not like they were just firing off quick forum replies.
Does it cope with unlikes and the counter having to decrement?
st.nyc - The homepage for the hot-garbage and urine smell of the big apple!
Factor.io might be a good fit for you. I am the co-founder/CEO and I hate self promoting, but in this case I think that we can help. We provide a way for you to create workflows like the one you described. It's kind of like IFTTT/Zapier for Dev/DevOps. But we support running numerous actions, custom code for new extensions, and more complex operations. Still in private beta, but would love to help out and get you to test it out. Shoot me an email maciej@factor.io.
same stuff , doesnt work ...
Thanks for the feedback. The highlight is a good idea and I've created an issue for the suggestion [1]. I'll try to get that added in time for the next round.

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/35...
For such a young language, I'm really surprised by the performance of Go there. Quite awesome.
Are you talking about the UI controls or the browser?iexplore.exe could be deleted at any time. Ofcource because explorer.exe also could handle URLs you could technically still browse via it. (Though I'm pretty sure that by default only URLs in the local/trusted zone were allowed)

And then I believe the help component also relied on the rendering engine. Although the hcp:// vulnerabilities were in the protocol handler (helpctr.exe) and the ms-help:// vulnerabilities were also in the protocol handler which allowed the attacker to bypass ASLR/DEP.
Is there any way to add the release notes via a git commit? This is very nice, but it introduces further dependence on GitHub if something like that isn't possible. I suppose as long as there's API access someone could / will write an exporter, though. Anyway, great stuff either way!
When people work in a the tech field, they assume a large percentage of people are power users, because they probably don't get out enough.

Every non-technical person I know has a Gmail account, they sure don't know what reader is.
> extending it in a way that distorted its meaning entirely to shoe-horn it back into your preferred view

That's just nonsense. It's normal, in an intellectual debate, to say, "Doesn't your position equate to X?" and get a response. That's what I was doing. People can distinguish between that, and actually intentionally misrepresenting someone else's position to make them look bad or "win" the argument.

I restated the issue in simple terms, and I don't see why you didn't just respond to that directly. Again: I think the public has a right to determine how public property is disposed of. I guess you don't? Because writing messages badmouthing a business day after day on the local sidewalk is a public disturbance of public property (the sidewalk). I don't think this has anything whatsoever to do with free speech. It's a property issue.

> You further suggested that there ought to be some kind of litmus test for who deserves First Amendment protections.

I explicitly said the opposite of that in my very first comment on the issue.
> Despite Kickstarter's protestations, hardware kickstarters have been de facto preorders.

I hear this all the time, but from day one on KickStarter, it's made it clear what it was about (and this was before the Pebble KS). So, I keep hearing this, but I can't find any sympathy for the backers that complain about it.

> This section is still routinely glossed over,

I imagine most of it is glossed over by the backers. =)
Whew. Yeah, I thought I was going crazy.
How do you think hashing functions work?
DNI James Clapper Admits He Lied To Congress About NSA Surveillance
Story from: http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/what-the-n-s-...
Who actually paid money directly to Google for this service? If your answer is 'not me', then I find it tough to complain.
Reddit: Rally to Restore Your Rights on July 4th
I like this. Thanks for sharing! Starred at GH.
True, HTML Help definitely relies on the IE rendering engine. And yea particularly in IE6 I don't think iexplore.exe itself does very much.
Why you think your phone is vibrating when it is not
> But why was the non-standard way even an option?

People tend to have their own ideas on how things should be done. They should definitely be heard too. There is nothing wrong with questioning or doing things differently than current standards dictate as long as you have open, honest discussions.
"Flights from Turkey not supported" are you kidding me? I'm guessing they didn't integrate the ITA stuff yet.
>The "goalposts" haven't "moved".

>Emscripten isn't currently production-grade software, and it still just compiles down to JavaScript.

took you two sentences to contradict yourself and move the goalposts again. Nowhere were we talking about "production grade".

> I hope you understand that either of those options is still a case of using JavaScript. Are you seriously disputing that?

That's a strawman fallacy. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
Pentagon wanted searchable database of people’s lives in 2003
Well, This is a nice thought ... for a retard
This sounds like the death of SourceForge. (I know, you could argue that it's already dead, and also argue that it's very much alive)
I'm using

cat /dev/urandom |base64 |head -c20 && echo
Just use something open-source - you'll get the Awesome [1] edition on any kind of chip.

I never understood why some people prefer to buy licensed stuff from Oracle or Microsoft. Do you like pain?

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/oh-you-wanted-aweso...
I cannot believe we are doing this again. Just because Palantir was asked by Aaron Barr to use their technology against Greenwald does not mean that they did. Palantir later confirmed that their technology didn't even have the ability to do what Aaron Barr was asking.

This is the second smear against Palantir in three days that cites an email without even showing the email to give you some context. They also don't link to Palantirs response to these claims.

Please approach this with some level of skepticism.
Seriously .. FreeBSD is only used by two types of people gays and downs babies
Yeah, it's really surprising that a server with 8 cores is rocking a server with 1 / 2 running apache. This could all be explained by latency.

I'd much rather see a two or three synthetic benchmarks around harddrive throughput/latency, memory throughput/latency and CPU.
I as a German feel bad about this as well. I would have loved to see Snowden protected by 'us' from the US...
Aside from the fact that the solar tree was debunked (as someone else pointed out), Stanford students doing something with a high speed camera is somehow less heartwarming than a 13 y.o. kid doing it for a science project.
Wooo suck it .la and .sfc! #1! #1! #1!
It would be majestic if it weren't so absurd. Who's written anything worthy of that treatment? I think this is why literate programming interests me. Almost none of the code written today is worthy of being a real cultural artifact, or even a family heirloom.
Perception and Understanding of Social Annotations in Web Search
Ever thought of making a crowd sourced extension that would target these kinds of accounts? A select few people would have the privilege to tag these accounts, and everyone else using the extension would be able to see the tagged acounts.
st.nyc - Santa's homepage.
+1 - I would LOVE this feature.
$700 million and 2 years later, and flight search is still slower than the first random site I picked (dohop.com).

In the meantime I'm left wondering just how much global travel information now finds itself in the hands of the US feds as a result of the purchase.
When Privacy Jumped The Shark
Really? Because I'm not.
I was actually just checking it out for myself.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpollcppsp/

https://github.com/xaxaxa/workspace/

Seems to be a C++ framework with dynamics in the form of C++ code using an ASP style for embedding into the resource.
Agreed, sadly.
I do not want to complain about scrum. When i first read about it, i found the whole idea very inspiring.

When introduced in a former company, i really, really started to feel bad about my daily job.

It basically began as an idea. To fill our desperate need to keep the company breathing with a method. Because the company never really had stop growing over the past 10 years. We felt, development has become slow, a lot of technical debt has been built up. We had the money to hire more people, but didnt really know, how to bring them alive. Something that felt natural, when we were not so many. Long story, many reasons, blabla.

But i ended up being totally separated from the product. Something that i pictured living and breathing in my head. Now i had to report. Now i had to do a stand up. Now i had to measure. Now i had to make reviews. Etc etc...i started to feel less and less responsible for the product.

Maybe i have become tired of it. I can not really judge. All i know is, one variable was scrum.

You know, when you program and someone shows you something and you make wow, thats exactly what i need. It takes work away from me, i can automate, etc etc. All what scrum has given us, that we have talked more with each other.

One aspect that i sometimes mention to others too, by doing reviews and showing others, what i did, that all of the sudden i have to give away knowledge for free to people, who dont give a rats ass to browse the source code or read the manuals. So i kind of felt cheated in that way too. Did not know, that i will ever feel this way, because usually it always felt like a giving and taking.

Well, so is life. :-)
I missed your later reply in that other thread. If the node.js implementation is caching results from the database, it should be modified to not do so. The original implementation did not, but it has seen several updates from node.js SMEs. Can you point to what makes you suspect that it is caching? The requirements do not allow for caching [1]. Future test types (perhaps in Round 7) will allow for caching, but none of the present test types allow for it.

[1] http://tewebdev.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=code
> Yes, the same applies for you calling everyone who doesn't share your view a "shill".

Check out your Argumentum Ad Hominem! [1]

> "shill"

> shill

> "shill"

are you quoting me when you say "shill"? where did I use that word? If I didn't use it, doesn't that make this a Strawman Fallacy? [2]

>I humbly request you to change your mindset from the pre-2000 slashdot era

Perfect example of Association Fallacy [3].

> grow up

followed by an Appeal to emotion! nice! [4]

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilt_by_association

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion
"Oh, good point on the surname. Don't know how I managed to miss that."

Don't feel bad. You were not the only one.
Not quite. The amount of new experience in that trip is so much that if you perceived it at your normal rate in your daily life, it would seem like it took a lot longer. It's like filming something with a high-speed camera and then later playing it back on your TV at slower speed. Things didn't go slower during the actual filming but when the recording is played, you have more information.
> "I imagine most of it is glossed over by the backers. =)"

I disagree heavily. There's never any honesty in this section - the thought that maybe, just maybe, this project can't be delivered at all, is never brought up.

This section is the Kickstarter equivalent of "what's your greatest weakness", where project owners do their best to downplay actual risks or not mention them at all. It's the place where you admit to your most softball, most mitigable risk and leave everything else behind the curtain.

If there were any honesty in this section at all, "none of us have manufactured anything before" would be top, in bold, in many of them.

> "but from day one on KickStarter, it's made it clear what it was about"

Who's making it clear though? It's obvious that Kickstarter themselves would rather be a funding machine than a preorder machine - but look at hardware kickstarters. Project owners routinely position their campaigns as presales or preorders, not simple crowdfunding.

The difference is more stark if you look at arts category kickstarters, where the reward tiers, as well as the language used, is much more obviously "support us and get a gift in return". Hardware kickstarters are, almost without fail, "come buy this thing".

In the hardware category at least, project owners have an opposing conflict of interest with Kickstarter.
Conclusion

Well, Amazon just sucks.
Yes, but experience shows it's FB's interest that you share as much of your data as possible. It's not going to change, publicizing your data is its whole business.
I don't consider it a secret who my friends are, not even most of my conversations. But there is a difference between that, and the industrialized scooping up of it, the storing and correlating it forever... me, today, is not what worries me; Dr. Strangelove is.

Imagine spooks following you all day, each day, and every time after you talked with someone, they walk up to them and ask what the conversation was about. Imagine dozens of spooks per individual, each of them constantly taking notes on paper that does not perish. This is the society we live in, the society that we built while sleepwalking. Even the spooks aren't aware of what they're doing, not really.
"a consultant hired to build an in-house CRM wouldn't pitch "Our CRM is going to be easy to use", they'd pitch "Your sales team will close more deals in less time when using our tool."

Sadly, we product people often get hung up on the feature set of our product. No matter how many times we repeat "Features do not sell software. Benefits sell software.", we often revert to implementation details when pressed for why customers should care about our apps. And when we start thinking in terms of benefits, we pick bad, non-specific, frilly benefits, like "Easy to use" and "Sleekly designed." Does anyone ever try to sell software as being hard to use and clunky?"
"

- patio11
I came into a shop that does a lot of .NET development over a year ago, and I swear I came into the experience hoping to learn what made lots of people say exactly what you've said.

6 months into it, I all but stopped caring, and overall, I felt like it actually created problems for me. But I'd like to understand what problems others feel it solved for them.
Hold on a minute. e-paper and LCD are two very different technologies. You could possibly charge them for misleading. Is it bistable?
Elixir has some good things about it (hygienic macros, protocols, and so on) but the syntax is not enough by itself to make us switch. "Ugh, Erlang syntax sucks" is a refrain heard around the Internet, but it has not hindered us from getting good engineers who are happy to develop with it. I daresay that the syntax is the least of your problems when learning Erlang; the message-passing concurrency and fault-tolerance models, and functional style are more difficult to understand. Those problems don't go away when you use Elixir instead.

If you want something Scheme-like on the Erlang runtime, there's LFE (Lisp-Flavored Erlang): https://github.com/rvirding/lfe
To be fair to Amazon the author should have spun up 100 instances, benchmarked them, and used the fastest one. This is a best practice for AWS.
Starting With Desire And The Desire To Start
The article claims that releases are structured around git tags. A git tag can be accompanied by a message which is shown on the releases page. In that sense, it doesn't depend on Github.
Yes, those and the accounts that come in attempting to shut down criticism and discussion on other topics where their is clearly a national narrative the MSM is trying to push.
Why I’m addicted to Rando, a different kind of photo sharing app
Agree - would be awesome if the release notes were stored as part of the git repo, and editable from anywhere.
Pingdom should probably not be in "Group Chat" category.
They're "launching" the TLD before their application has even been approved?!

EDIT: My mistake, their site just doesn't mention the approval. Confirmed in replies.
There are a number of TCLs (usually job control shells similar to JCL/DCL/etc.) but for some reason they never get called "tickle" the way Tcl does.
You're assuming that productivity gains are something like normally distributed while income gains have (obviously) not been. But I'm not sure that's true.

Look at the composition of the top 1% of earners. The Times as always has a helpful infographic:

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/newsgraphics/2012/0115-...

Huge chunks (certainly an overwhelming majority!) aren't managers or CEOs in a position to "capture" the value from the productivity of their underlings. In fact, it seems like your best bet is to be a doctor with his own practice. His productivity (or at least the market value of his services) has skyrocketed as medical science has improved, and indeed he has captured much of those gains. Ditto for, say, a Google engineer today vs. a DEC engineer of 30 years ago.

Also, a bunch of the profit from those productivity gains has surely made its way into equity prices and dividends. Nobody needs negotiating leverage to access those, just savings and investment. And indeed, workers today wisely take a larger % of their earnings in benefits like stock options and 401(k) matches, not wages.
The Exaggerated Benefits of Electric Cars
Just as we should approach Palantir itself with a great deal of skepticism... A company that profits from violence and war really can't be expected to be terribly trustworthy. I realize this community loves the idea of Palantir and many people probably know people who are involved. But why should Palantir get a free pass to go about their business with excessive secrecy in an area that features massive abuse without the additional scrutiny that must accompany such behavior?
If you don't mind, I would be curious to know how many signed up? Want to know the traction level of such a concept.
I usually use ITA Matrix > Expedia (which uses the engine, I think) > Orbitz (if it has more segments than Expedia can handle — this also uses ITA's engine).

For low-cost/budget flights around Southeast Asia, I just use Skyscanner.
You misunderstand. I think there probably is some bias against women going into mathematics. When someone say "let us take this as true for the purpose of argument", it does not mean that it isn't really true. It means simply that in this post, we're not going to analyze the possibility of whether that is true or not, we're just going to assume it.

There's also a class of people who are so smart they see sexism uniformly everywhere, even where it isn't. You're being a jerk, not proving how wonderfully not sexist you are. Refusing to even consider the possibility that someone isn't sexist is itself a form of discrimination, and I reject your attempt to pigeonhole me in an effort to make yourself look holier-than-thou.

I'm also not going to fall into the trap of endlessly justifying myself, so go ahead, have the last word.
Obama, at the very least, personally authorized http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15121879

Bush 2 I think is clear, c.f. iraq and afghanistan, other targeted interventions

Clinton: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/clinton-orders-ai... as well as kosovo, mogadishu, and other interventions

Bush 1 and the invasion of Iraq, part one, as well as other more targeted actions

Reagan: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/15/ne...

Carter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis

Ford, not counting the Vietnam War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayaguez_incident

LBJ and Nixon both obviously one can count the Vietnam war.
There are some really good perl coders that are not working with perl because its hard to get a perl job.
This situation happens in brasil.
Consider telecomute =)
What's the name for this style of background? I've been looking for how to do it, but I have no idea what to even search for. I'm undecided as to whether it's nice or distracting and want to play with it a bit.
When you release it, if it is good, I will curse your name (hah) when I try to google for information and get back 10,000,000 near misses.
Moto X the 'first smartphone you can design yourself' by Motorola !
Hey, this is Scott Rosenberg, who wrote this piece 15 years ago. Glad to see this piece unearthed again! I'm a journalist, not a tech investor. Never owned a cent of Google (except maybe through index funds in my IRA). More interested in writing about technology than in making money with it.
"The code does not execute properly. Try to figure out why."

I guess the challenge is to build a working version of their site for them?
Wow! We had no idea someone would be posting about us on HN today. We were not prepared. The site has been scaled up and it should working now.

UPDATE:

I was a bit hasty with my original comment. There was a regression bug that was still causing the landing page to be broken. A fix has been deployed and things should be working now.
I keep seeing Sentry for exception tracking pop up all over the place these days. I'm using Airbrake now and the experience has been so-so (my main complaint is the slow interface). Is it worth the switch?
$450 per unit and they couldn't design it to run on a battery? #fail
Guys, please be aware that this is indeed for Booking.com. This company treats its developers like dogs.

Please read the links below before applying to the company

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5803798

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5923178

http://blogs.perl.org/users/bookingemployee/2012/03/truth-ab...

Can the moderator please stop recruiters from posting on this forum.
You could start migrating to Scala, which is simple with a Java-based stack. Scala is sufficiently hip at the moment to attract programming enthusiasts.
Here's a link to the live listing: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/job-senior-web-engineer-1917...
Is it going to be run like NYC itself? What is the likelihood that a registration of occupy.nyc or biggulp.nyc will be successful?
If someone helps you you help them. Maybe Europe wasnt glad to be told the USA was spying on them.
Hipmunk.com...Pricegraph FTW.
I'm surprised at your result - Google Flights was effectively instant on the routes I tried, while on those same routes dohop.com had a progress bar that took over ten seconds to complete.
Why should I (or anyone else) spend 5 minutes (or about 1/50 of my free time today) figuring out what someone's product does? I don't care about every web app. Most of them are entirely useless to me. The likelihood is, this one is as well.

Is it really, actually, sad that everyone who clicks a link on Hacker News doesn't spend 5 minutes watching a video to figure out what a web app even does? I think we should celebrate the fact that most people live busy lives doing things that matter to them.

If you force your potential customers to do research to figure out what you do you're going to lose most of the people who may actually use your service but couldn't figure out what you do in the 20 seconds they devoted to your site. It's the lowest of the low hanging fruit.
Your script executor is still super busted. "Unknown error" for days.
you wouldn't want to do this straight out of EC2, but once you add S3=>CloudFront to the mix it's much less bad. Only thing you want to be serving from your EC2 boxes and load balancer is gzipped HTML/CSS/JS (could even do CSS/JS on S3/CF if you wanted).
Well, the 16-core version is. The 64-core version (which is what they did the benchmarking on) is significantly more expensive.