skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes you, among other things, a feminist.

1. You do not get to decide for me who and what I am or what I identify as. What the hell makes you think that you have the right and the might to tell me who I'm supposed to be?

You can say that--according to your definition of it--Christianity is about being kind to others. Ok. Whatever. That doesn't make me a Christian. And you definitely don't get the right to call me one. (I'm an atheist.)

2. It's funny you mention India. Feminists lobbied heavily (and successfully) for only one biological sex to be legally able to be booked for rape. Spoilers: it wasn't women.

I'll be the judge of that.

Wow, ego. Do you also tell trans people to go kill themselves?
On the other hand perhaps something could be done about Python so that we who are forced to develop Python on Windows stop being second-class citizens in the Python world?

ButI agree. VS is an awesome IDE and the more operating systems it would be available on the better.
Your anecdote illustrates where the anger and frustration around the topic comes from. What you describe is a form of harassment, possibly assault in contexts. I hear women use the term creepy not to describe behavior like that, usually it's about unwanted attention of a sexual nature by a low status or unattractive male.

I might not be tuned in to exactly how the phrase"creeper" is used, but I think it's used to turn the adjective to a noun. Which is even more upsetting and mean, as you assigning a whole, derogatory identity to someone based on actions which are almost always a small percentage of all their actions.

To not see this is being willfully obtuse.
This Startup allows blind people to see
"A little more time" is a bit of an understatement. The Pebbles started shipping Jan 31 this year. It's been a full six months and the final colors haven't shown up yet.

Not to mention the original timeline called for the watches to start shipping in Sep 2012.

I can appreciate that the folks at Pebble are doing their damndest, but there's no other way to cut it: this product has been extremely late across nearly all of its milestones.

To be fair, they're one of the few hardware Kickstarters to actually even ship something that closely resembles the original pitch. Their feedback to backers through the delays has also been noteworthy - though it's been disappointing that once Pebble hit the big-times the backers that are still hanging on have been left mostly out of the loop.
That's not what I remember. It was more about it having remotely-exploitable vulnerabilities without being uninstallable.
Think I know what you are talking about it, wikipedia says that oracle are developing it [2] but can't find solaris or any of their projects being hosted by them. Here's an opengrok of opensolaris being hosted by net bsd [1]

[1]http://nxr.netbsd.org/search?q=telnet&project=src-opensolari...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGrok
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Why not both?
http://www.viemu.com/

Get all the editing capabilities of Vim, but don't lose integrated debugging, code completion, code nav, type info popups, etc. that an IDE provides.
The other companies aren't really trying to compete with Steam per se, they just want to inject their own custom babysitter to analyze your computer and see if they're complying with their rules. When you open a game from Steam that's produced by one of these companies, it chains in its own loaders and achievements and stuff. It totally sucks, and it's a terrible end user experience.

It'll be exciting when the fogies in charge of these companies die out. They seem to have difficulty grasping the concept of computers and digital distribution.
Hacking is inevitable.
Ah, yes. Much shorter and more effective ;)
I answered a few of posts the in "Who's hiring?" thread, and found a startup that's been employing me since. It helped that I had a specific niche experience they we're interested in though.
I worked with an exponential distribution before at work. At first, it seemed like we could model them like gaussian because the part of the data we were interested in was "close enough" to a gaussian. We already wrote code that worked for our other data that was gaussian. As it turns out, I was wrong.

The thing that can't be easily seen in pictures is that exponential distributions move differently than gaussian distributions. When the variance increases for a gaussian, it flattens out. When the variance increases for an exponential, the whole thing spikes out to the right, and the area under the tail actually increases. It really screwed things up until I started treating it for what it really was.
The Hacker News welcome message

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

gives an overview of the community experiment here, summarizing the site guidelines.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

One of the guidelines is to prefer submitting original article titles:

"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

. . . .

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"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

The Hacker News FAQ

http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

gives some additional details about how Hacker News is administered. The welcome message distills the basic rules into a simple statement: "Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads."
I'm going to speak strongly against the prevailing view in the security community here: a forgot password email/username oracle is not an issue. Not in any way, shape, or form.

Why? Because if I go to register an account with a given email or username, it's going to tell me if that account is already registered! Unless you make multiple accounts with a given username/email possible (please, please don't do that), the forgot password oracle is a non-issue.

You lose absolutely nothing by saying "this email does not exist", and you gain a tremendous amount of user friendliness.
E-mail is crushing Facebook, Twitter for selling stuff online
Ecuador president: Snowden can’t leave Moscow airport without Russia’s OK
Vivek Sharma, CEO and Co-Founder of Movable Ink
If someone smirked at me for knowing PHP, I'd gladly walk away from the conversation. Knowing a programming language (actually, knowing anything) is a positive thing. PHP isn't glamorous but it is widely used, popular, and effective at solving a goal.

That being said, I was a Delphi developer for 5 years out of school. There's a random little used language for you. I spent a year teaching myself iOS, brushing up on my PHP and javascript. I then tweaked my resume depending on the job I was applying to, regarding the order I listed the languages. Get someone on the phone/interview and explain to them how great you are from there.

Of course, in your mid thirties you might have less freedom to take an entry level job.
They should definitely move this from their homepage. Right now it's the default download = BAD IDEA. Considering the font antialiasing problems and all the missing features, the should probably make it the default download around 16 or maybe even 17.

They're rushing it and it might hurt them badly. Reputation loss is hard to recover from :)
NimbusVid nimbusvid.com - Remote only (Based in Montreal)

NimbusVid is a new unfunded site that streams encrypted video from your Mega.co.nz cloud storage.

NimbusVid is looking for a full stack web developer in exchange for equity (no salary is being offered).

You should:

- Have very strong Javascript skills

- Have experience with a web framework (Rails, Flask, Django, Bottle, etc).

- Be good with git

- Regularly use Linux (Ubuntu). Be able to do basic administration and be proficient with the shell.

- Be self-directed with get-it-done attitude.

- Be able to work alone and with minimal oversight.

- Be compatible with a scrappy, low-resource environment.

Although not required please mention if you have experience with any of the following:

- Parsing or manipulating MP4 and WebM containers

- JS promise libraries (Q.js)

- Design skills

- HTML templating libraries (e.g. Jinja2)

- HTML5 video

- Any experience with video advertising.

- EC2, AWS.

- Make

- Deployment tools (ansible, salt stack).

- SQL (Postgres)

Applicants should submit relevant sample work products as links or attachments along with a short resume and a short introductory message describing how the position matches what you are looking for and how your skills and experience relate to the position being sought.

Applications without relevant sample work products will not be considered.

No salary. Equity only.

nimbusvid AT gmail DOT com
Never expected to run into anyone else from wc3c on HN. Salut!
So all of my photos, followers, comments... are just gone? This is terrible.
Cool idea. It would be nice if this was generic and hackable. For example, I have a mailing list, and it would be cool to see the # of users on the mailing list, or website subscribers, etc. It would need some type of API to go along with it, I'd purchase it, if the price was around ~100.

Branding, maybe just send along a pack of stickers, so if someone wants a facebook tracker, they just apply the facebook sticker, etc. Maybe just a template that people can print their own branding, etc. then you don't need to print anything on your end!
The jab at HURD seems unnecessary and potentially distracting.
If someone has a copy of the encrypted file on hardware they control then there's absolutely no way to prevent them from modifying the software/RAM to fool the decryption routines into using a fake timestamp/blockchain/whatever. You'd need tamper-proof hardware.
This isn't really a market that benefits from competition doing anything less than the same the same thing, though. Steam is acting as more of a dumb distributor than a publisher, and are an established player. All Ubisoft and EA have is their own titles. They're not going to attract indie players, and they're not going to attract other publishers' work if all they're trying to do is utilize their titles to garner users. In other words, they're not currently trying to be the next Steam, they just want to take a bite out of Steam.

If either of those companies wants to make a real effort at getting a distribution platform off the ground by competing with Steam on the developer side and the pricing side, then that's competition I'm willing to see. As it stands, they're simply trying to leverage their developers' work into membership.
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Sequel to the article incoming:

"OMG! I deleted my Facebook account two months ago, and my friends just told me that they wished me birthday on my timeline last night. OMG! Facebook, I trusted you! Why!? OMG!"

Seriously, I love the last sentence of the article: "That is why I may delete my Facebook account. And that is why you should too."

If Facebook will not delete the posts on the Timeline, why is the author still believing that deleting the account will genuinely delete the account? The data you disclosed to the social network is here to stay. The only way you can stop is to not give it more.
> Not all jobs are supposed to be able to support a family of 4 at a middle-class lifestyle on 40 hours a week.

This is the fundamental problem, it shouldn't be possible for any family of 4 to have difficult basic physical necessities, job or no job. However, in the current state of things some workers are so exploited that the only available work (if you can find any for your labor) pays at a minimum wage.

> What jobs are teenagers supposed to have?

Acquiring disposable income is really different from having to have steady work at a decent rate of pay in order to afford basics like food and shelter. Also, there are tremendous issues with young people and work and exploitation of labor in that age demographic.

> 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.

This is a deliberate slander, you are associating people who receive minimum wage (and are likely poor) with alcoholism. That kind of thing is a long running stereotype that undermines the value of low paid laborers or and workers.

Further, nobody is saying that all workers must have high pay, we would expect that pay levels have differences between types of work and types of workers. However, there should be a basic guarantee that people can access basic physical needs.
Right, as the OP said, there is no reasonable excuse to limit character intake to less than multiple hundreds. I agree that some limit is sensible just to ensure someone doesn't insert War and Peace (or base64-encoded binaries or whatever) as their password.
That's a pretty lousy, defeatist attitude to have.

"Girls, stop trying to be as good at math as boys -- you won't."

"Google, stop trying to do better than AltaVista/HotBot/Lycos/Excite -- you won't."

"Apple/Linux, stop trying to do better than Microsoft -- you won't."

"PlayStation/Xbox, stop trying to do better than Nintendo -- you won't."

"Tesla, stop trying to do better than Toyota -- you won't."

"Renewable energy companies, stop trying to do better than fossil fuels -- you won't."
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What is it you think an anchor is exactly? Mostly they are just a pretty face with a good voice who is sufficiently trained to read off a screen and not screw up. As a rule they tend not to be well-rounded intellectuals.
Frequently Used Linux Commands - A Real World Statistics
http://www.apple.com/uk/ is similar to the fixed version: http://imgur.com/rILJD18
Modern Tech Education Isn't Addressing An Important Audience
HN is released to the public as part of the Arc language. This github account is a big deal because the last version of Arc was released in August 2009 (http://arclanguage.com/item?id=10254).
Rails 4 on Heroku | Heroku Dev Center
This is not "bounce-back ability." It's more like "hit at an awkward angle at carom into left field" ability.
The Data Behind Why Persistence Pays Off in Blogging
How'd you work that out? .Net is the hook to get people to take powershell seriously.

But I'm no Microsoft developer.
Congratulations Jayant and Adam!
Been there seen that from the software side too.

However it really wasn't that big of a deal. We just re-did the thing in HTML and re-used most of their graphics. Hardly worthy of a "The No* Movement" title.

The part about "you stop talking about it, you stop challenging it" resonates with me. But isn't that the job of whoever's responsible for the website? Can we really blame a file format for that?

Let's all try to be a little bit flexible and try to let everyone use the tools they prefer.
Valve's game development servers were also hacked, and Half Life 2's source code was leaked before the game even launched.

No company is immune from hacking, the best anyone can hope for is secure hashing functions are in place and that financial and user account data are properly separated.
hm I read that thing when I joined, but I guess memory is a funny thing!

Thanks for the answer :)
Well, the case of Opera's Presto engine being forced to die in the past few years proved that the holy grail of everything being fine and dandy if browser engines and websites follow web standards is a big lie.

Opera is/was known for its standards support, .

Google Service Drops Support for Opera
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4195298

G+ doesn't support Opera... why?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2738099

Gmail sometimes shows "Gmail too slow? Switch to Chrome, a faster browser." for Opera uses and a similar message shows up on Youtube Google Docs.

Chrome and Firefox started their own take on HTML beta and experimental features and led to a race of broken standard support.
Too many standards are half baked, and are implemented by some browser makers in a half baked manner and are frequently rolled back in an incompatible way, HTML5 storage being just one example.

From "Judgment Day Arrives: Opera Implements the CSS3 Webkit Prefix" http://www.sitepoint.com/opera-css3-webkit-prefix/
"In February 2012, we reported the minutes of W3C meeting where Mozilla, Opera and Microsoft discussed implementing -webkit prefixes in non-webkit browsers. The reason: some developers use only webkit prefixes — their sites look good in some browsers, but broken in others even when they offer the same level of CSS3 support. The issue is especially prevalent on mobile browsers and many developers fail to look beyond their high-end Apple or Android devices."
"Opera analyzed stylesheets from 10,000 popular websites to determine which CSS values/properties would receive -webkit aliases:"

Final result? A browser engine known for speed, leanness and standards support killed, because it couldn't keep up with the big browsers' incompatible beta standard support, and the number of websites that go for the latest and greatest and don't care one bit about standards support over cool features.

Take a look at this HN thread about a broken Google site and you see a lot of people defending non-standard HTML because it works on their choice of browser. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4594913

These things are evidence of a currently broken web regardless of IE's involvement, with webkit being the new IE. And it actually explains how some of IE's features and bugs came about in the early 2000s resulted in pain for alternate browsers. Prime example of a great thing: XMLHTTPRequest was not part of a web standard.

Though Webkit is open source, I am a bit wary of Chrome's dominance as Google spends a ton of money to bundle it with everything and promote it at every chance over Firefox/Opera since they don't have to continue paying them hundreds of millions for being default and building a big moat for their search engine in the process against competing and future search engines.
Mobile app profitability isn't linear, or even close to linear - you're either rolling in the dough or you're not even making ramen money.

Discoverability is a huge problem, if you're not in a featuring, a top-X list, or something of the sort, your profitability is extremely limited. If there's no visibility on the App Store for you, you don't get fewer users, you get almost no users.

$2K sustaining revenue a month isn't impossible, but it's hard.
> If you buy certain instances you get can a better connection to EBS, and then you can allegedly buy better I/O for $

You actually buy provisioned IO. The throughput can be actually smaller in some scenarios than for non-provisioned IO, provided you: don't have neighbors or they are not noisy. And boy, is that provisioned IO expensive (we've bought quite a bit of EBS volumes).
Thanks for the link, weird the US site is different in that regard.
Favorite:

"St. Patrick of Armagh, deliver me from writing."
http://www.indeed.com/cmp/Ascension-Health-MSC/jobs/Senior-A...

"We respond to an ever-changing workplace by building a community of associates that are flexible, creative and innovative."
I got back to learning C so that I can make a space invaders watch face. I look forward to the satisfaction of wearing my accomplishment on my sleeve... eventually.
What if the diary is left open on the kitchen table, the "kitchen table" being the internet?
I dunno, I might just be cost prohibitive to port, and likely wouldn't run as well.
Well since I don't work for Instagram, I wouldn't be able to answer your question with 100% certainty. I would say...unfortunately you'd have to start fresh.

I'd recommend you create a new account. Search for your old name, if if you left it Public instead of a Private account. I would assume you'd pop up. If your old account, doesn't come up in the search engine results...then yes, consider all your images gone.
I think the point isn't to make your own apps, it's to become a freelance app-maker. After all, in a gold rush sell shovels. There's tons of room right now for mobile developers - the influx isn't nearly as big as you would think, and most of the new entrants are woefully incompetent.

If you're a legitimately good mobile dev (or can become one), there is lots of room for you in the scene right now, making plenty of money.
Firefox OS Hits The Stores With A €69 Smartphone And A Disruptive Strategy
I dont read it that way. There are more digital store fronts besides iTunes. Why didn't OP choose one of those? The idea is interesting but the way the OP is comparing it to iTunes makes me feel like this is a toy idea.
Vine is our new Super 8
What nonsense. On any given night in the US, there are more unoccupied residential spaces (homes, apartments, etc) than there are homeless people. The problem is entirely political and structural.
Somehow I don't think my mis-use of the word "slander" was the reason for the downvotes. It's an obvious "I disagree, fuck this person, downvoted" phenomenon.
This is a really cool use case - something that everyone can use in their everyday (or at least in their weekend) life. I am like you - who trusts "friends" opinion more than the critics before watching a movie.

Thanks for doing this and taking time to document the entire process. Looking forward to the next rev.
It has some features to deploy to a cluster as well: http://nixos.org/disnix/

And I find its 'nixos-rebuild build-vm' command quite handy to test changes.

On the other hand immutability of the OS image doesn't mean you can easily roll-back after an upgrade, especially if you've been running the new version for a while, because you might still have mutable state (see below).

Sure if you store all your configuration in Nix, then it is possible to rebuild the old configuration as it was, but your mutable state is not managed by Nix.

One such example is database files. You've upgraded to the new configuration, and perhaps even had a script to auto-upgrade from your old schema.
Now you want to go back: what should happen to the database? Should it be entirely rolled back (from backups) to an old snapshot? But then you loose all the new data.
Should you roll-back the schema change? Again what happens to the new data that doesn't fit the old schema?

Another example of mutable state is remote nodes that you depend on for a particular service. You can roll back your local machine to an old version, but will it still be able to talk to your new remote nodes?

It seems that the only way to handle this is to make sure you are always at least 1 major version backwards compatible, so you can freely upgrade/roll-back machine that are part of a cluster.
My old account is just a 404 now. :\
I don't think so. I think his claim was that the hardware phones home under the Motorola firmware, and that the EULA hadn't spelled that out clearly, and that Motorola had not been as forthright as they should or that they may even have been deceptive.
I'd like more information on how that works.

What happens when they age out? Do people advertise for jobs and say "only people under 21 can apply?"