skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that not everyone is a quinoa farmer or farms mainly quinoa. For example, here in Brazil we have a similar problem with Açai - if you are not an Açai farmer (fisherman, farm something else, etc) then the rising Açai prices are very bad.
this is rank hypocrisy. The NSA is simply using what "security researchers" have been talking about at Defcon for years. One lone hacker gets into a telecom's system and he makes a name for himself (or herself). A government agency does it and everyone gets on their sanctimonious high horse when all the NSA is doing is taking hacking to its next logical step, government weaponization of hacking. .
They make a good point: DEF CON has not given "concrete" reason for why they banned the feds. They merely allude to "recent revelations".

I am not necessarily opposed to the idea of banning people for bad behavior, but DEF CON should spell out a concrete policy, apply it to everyone, and be specific about the offending actions.
I get my facts from South Park ;)

EDIT: Like I said, all religion is pretty whacky to me. Mormons have the heavy burden of both whacky + young faith. That said, I love and appreciate that Mormons don't murder over cartoons, so way to go! If I had a book, you'd be OK in it! Of course, those FLDS are terrifying... I did read Under the Banner of Heaven a while back, so I'm getting more than just South Park.
That is one thing Microsoft has always done do well.

The multiple products they offer have always provided high levels of seamless integration.
Huh, if you don't mind me asking, which video card? I've used linux+nvidia pretty exclusively for work and never seen anything near as bad on linux (I do run higher-end cards than the average PC, though).

On OS X, on the other hand...
I setup unRaid for my wife's photography business. Haven't had to deal with an HD failure yet though so I can't vouch for it. Might be worth looking into yourself though for a cheap backup solution.

http://lime-technology.com/
I guess it was meant to read like math.

I think Haskell has the same problem as Lisp. Since you can abstract lots and lots of things away, there are tons of codebase specific abstractions that developers must keep on their heads before they can start coding.

That said, the Haskell situation is better than Lisp's, because it has a big set of "default" abstractions that become part of the language, reducing the number of codebase specific ones.
I wrote up a whole post on how I use Evernote and IFTTT. My favorite is the monthly screenshots of my Last.FM listening history.

http://aaronfrancis.com/blog/2013/2/26/how-i-use-evernote-an...
As of a few years ago the federal government has started a "trusted foundry" project to sign on and create new domestic fabs. I don't know where it's at, but the intention has been stated.
Drive More Conversions With Mad-Lib Style Forms
It's a very odd phrase to stick at the end there. To make sense of it I think you have to link the end to the start:

We will allocate resources ... with maximum return to shareholders

You have to imagine the meeting where they discussed this and someone thought that this sentence was going to sound to investors like a giant money pit. So in true committee style, they voted for a camel and stuck this odd phrase on the end to satisfy that person.
Introducing the Houdini Engine
As could be posted at the top of just about every HN article this is highly situational.

If you are in a prototyping, web advertising, etc etc business - sure, your probably just feeding your employer new business strategies to make everyone money. The business is typically fine with experimenting with new ideas hoping to uncover a new money machine - obviously Google's business model is a great fit for this and they seemingly encourage it.

If your doing what Ill call "real engineering" (to ruffle some feathers) on large intricate system this could be a very bad idea. Perhaps you even think your doing the right thing but if you're working within a highly technical environment with many participants you are just going to look immature.

In other words, imagine if everyone at Boeing adopted this strategy as individuals - I think we'd all be opting for taking the Greyhound bus.
It's pretty clear when an article has been flagged off the frontpage intentionally on hnrankings.info and in my experience every link of the type also "just happened" to be anti-google, pro-ms or pro-apple.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIvd3zzu4Y

I can't think of a single time where I closed or did not close a deal on the basis of business cards, as a freelancer. Whether they were nice or I forgot them at home.
I'm talking about a new players point of view, and even for a veteran of DotA coming to LoL, he doesn't know the champions so he would have to learn them. And I think the method of changing the default champions every week is a good way to do that. Just my 2 cents.
Is it joke time? You do know that 90% of the LoL pro's were Dota 1 pro's right? May want to look up your facts before making bullshit up.
I understand the rationale, but in my experience knowing some SQL didn't help me understand LINQ at all. It was only after picking up some functional experience elsewhere and coming back to C# much later that LINQ made sense to me. I'd be really curious to see how the SQLesque naming's worked for others, but it was a bit of a miss for me personally.
Please provide evidence that Satoshi exists.
They won't reply to this, because it's rumored around 6000 games to unlock them, since they keep coming out with new ones.
Are these still on the old Marvell Armada SoC? I'm still running a Dreamplug as a gateway/mini server and it's hamstrung by everything running over USB.
From all accounts their Office 365 and Azure platforms are doing well.

The say more than 50% of the Fortune 500 are now using Azure:

http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-azure-now-used-by-over-50...

These are fairly radical changes as they are getting off the desktop platform amd moving straight into the cloud.
Because a huge number of people suffer from malnutrition, and a nutritionally dense plant which provides a complete protein, is special.
1. lonely at the top, do not count on anyone but yourself to solve all issues
2. Profit and cash flow, look it takes cash to make the company last. In order to do that you need to monitor your profit.
3. Not a fairy tale, you will get your share of sleepless nights and empty stomachs from all of the worries about how to run the company.
4. Time, it is crucial in the business, because you need all of the time that you need to complete the work in the month. water and electricity bills and salary will NOT stop for you if time goes by.
5. Better have enough cash reserve to want to make this company work, often times people give up easily or run out of cash. You cannot run a company on hope, you need cash.
Although we combine with internal scoring and manual review, as stated; If I was using MaxMind exclusively I'd consider 5.0 to 7.5 a good indicator of a possible fraudulent order.

This is based on their current riskScore system[1] (changing on January 1st, 2014) and 10 as an instant failure without review. Most orders will generate a non-0 score, however.

Another great tactic for preventing fraud is to never indicate an order has failed or a card hasn't been charged ('ghosting'), this is a tactic used heavily by Google for AdWords and other paid services.

Giving a clear indication of failure allows "carders" a way to easily figure out your detection algorithms by placing orders until one gets through, and share that information with others who will attempt to victimize your checkout process.

[1] http://www.maxmind.com/en/ccfd_formula
"The Constitution is not a suicide pact" is a quote from Abraham Lincoln, as the civil war really was an existential threat to the union itself.

Similarly, the cold war was clearly an existential threat to the union itself, the most obvious example being the hundreds of nuclear ICBM's in Cuba.

Terrorism of the Boston Marathon sort is now an unfortunate reality, but is in no way comparable to these two events, and I simply don't see how it poses any existential threat to the union at all.

It's important to put things into perspective by understanding the threats we have faced in the past, and all that has been sacrificed to bring us the freedom we have now, so that we don't throw it away due to overreacting.
Look for Steve Conklin's comment (posted around the same time).
Words of Wisdom from young serial entrepreneur Alex Jeffery
This isn't an optimization. He turned a O(n) algorithm into a O(n^2) one.
I had the Sheeva, and I now have the Dreamplug. I wish someone would bring one of these to market with USB3 and still have the dual-GigE's.
Exact Percentages and Prime Factors
Focus and memory isn't enough, is the takeaway from this article.

You have to teach people good study habits, habits they won't necessarily have if they have ADHD/ADD. That focus is great, but only if properly targeted towards the tasks that need to be accomplished and the material that needs to be learned.
Say what? I've always followed that course of action, and so far - knock on wood - I have not been fired for it. And that spans about 25 years.

If what you believe in and what the company believes in are not aligned, you realize that usually well before there's any talk of firing. Just go look for a new job that is more aligned with what you believe in.
Have you ever tried to modify a router? If someone hasn't already done it for OpenWRT, it's very very difficult - and that's even if the vendor will release usable sources.

The "Plug"-class devices are a little bit more open and easier to develop for, but Marvell are still a bit silly with some of their stuff (libertas Wifi/BT)
Was I the only person who thought "Did the NSA really need Microsoft's assistance?"?
The Guardian (citing a May 2012 Nielsen.com [2]) reported that Facebook is #1 (by a wide margin - almost 3x the closest competitor) as measured by the time users spend on the site.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jun/22/website-...

[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AuZLaKQQs5xpdGd...
I have seen your links to hnrankings.info and cannot say that they make it clear flagging is the cause (much less organized flagging). Your (and others) assertions are too strong for the data that you have.

With hnrankings.info I believe you could establish a trend (so far I have only seen specific handpicked examples, not a trend. A trend is probably there, but nobody that I have seen has bothered to do the legwork to uncover it.), but there is not enough there to say that (as many have claimed) there are non-organic rings of flaggers targetting pro-Microsoft articles.
I assume you meant the OpenSSL PRNG seed? (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number...)
Microsoft has always wanted to become its competitors. The reference to devices sounds to me like they would rather be Apple or Sony. Services probably signifies their wish to be Amazon or some other company that makes its entire living on the internet. Just because there is no real competition in the PC OS and productivity software markets doesn't mean there's nothing there worth hanging on to. They don't sound very interested in the industry they created and still dominate. Whoever they would rather be, there's a good chance their fate is tied up with software, for better or worse, so it benefits them nothing to prematurely write it off for dead. Expending so much energy in coveting what Apple and Google have leads to missteps like Metro.
Most likely. Couple that with uPNP and a dynamic DNS and it's web accessible. The PogoPlug does it too (and yes, these seem to all be built off the same/similar SoCs)
I did, but I don't think I got the same impression of what was being said as you did.
Because it is gluten free which is trendy (I'm not saying there aren't people who do have heath problems with gluten) and it itself is trendy.
We the People don't take kindly to our elected and appointed Public Servants openly lying to us with impunity about programs which are most definitely against the spirit and intent of the Bill of Rights.

There's no comparison between some "lone hacker" and our own government entities.

The idea that we should accept what the NSA et al have been doing in our name simply because it might be the next logical step is preposterous!

The next logical step is extermination camps, and the parallels between our current IC & that of Nazi Germany are too numerous to ignore.

That our government wastes so much on these spy programs while simultaneously neglecting our own people is unforgivable.

Hypocrisy has no place in our government, but that's exactly what we have now.
Find A Fucking Domain
Which is just a way of saying "we don't require you to do what you can't do." A truly good service would take advantage of that by ensuring they themselves have no access to the communications.
9 Pittsburgh Startups That Could Be the Next Instagram
If they didn't 'want to make this a "political" move', why exactly did they write a public blog entry about it expounding their point of view?
Would you ship them if you could make money by simply using them yourself? I'm a bit skeptical of this whole situation.
Firefox OS will advance very little if it flops because it has crappy apps because Mozilla refused to admit pragmatism.

I do not know if this will actually happen or if such pragmatism is actually required, but developers' needs are far from irrelevant.
There are worse things than being fired. You could be routed to a series of useless assignments, or worse, actively destructive ones. Then you wind up having to fire yourself for your own sanity.

Of course, this all assumes you have sufficient privilege to be able to carry it off. There's a reason it's called FU money.
I'm sure we can look forward to a Linux Mint phone pretty soon ;)

On a more serious note... People who say, "Linux, therefore it can be hacked to your liking" really don't understand the public at large or aren't empathetic. I mean if you have the complete source (we're talking, no proprietary binaries as well), as Stallman would say, you can pay someone else to change the thing for you, but how many people would really invest the time and effort to that?

We would need an army of people like this :
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1047633/one-writes-...

... willing to invest time & energy and have a passion for doing things because they should be done so those who can't or, for various reasons, won't will still benefit.

I can count on one hand, the number of strangers I've met that come close.
There is already sign-up opened for new Kinect for Windows:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindowsdev/newdevkit...
Why Did You Have to Change Everything?
NSA Attacks West Point! Relax, It's a Cyberwar Game (2008)
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/schizophrenic

What can I say, the informal usage of the word irritates me.

I'm sure if he said that companies are kind of gay, and then proceeded to list a bunch of qualities that had nothing to do with homosexuality but rather the informal usage of the term (as we all know all too well from high school), it would be a problem. Same thing.
> Firefox OS will advance very little if it flops because it has crappy apps because Mozilla refused to admit pragmatism.

Sure, but it will advance nothing that is in Mozilla's purpose if it has native apps rather than apps built with web technologies. Can a phone OS survive with just web technologies and not native apps? I think so, even though it won't do everything some people would like, and even though we're some ways off from the point that it is likely to be a strong competitor to the major players in that field.

The arguments that Firefox OS can't survive seem very similar to the ones that ChromeOS couldn't.
I didn't take it that he was referring to making your own choices on every technical decision - but rather about ethical decisions.
Some thoughts:

1. Get a better hero photo. The JPEG artifacts were the very first thing that caught my eye, even before I fully processed what the photo was of. The photo is also too close-up. It's a caprese salad, but because it's so close to the black beads of liquid, that context is lost. Consumers of balsamic use it in context, not alone. The context is lost in this photo.

2. Tune up spacing, padding, margins, line spacing. Some need to be tighter, some more spacious. Right now things look unbalanced.

3. Get a clearer brand logo. The logo is blurry and badly compressed.

4. Keep all elements in your carousel the same height. Right now, the video pushes content down.

5. Messaging on the carousel moves around too much.

6. Consider not even using a carousel. Single photo; single call to action.

7. Use a web font. Right now, everything is using Arial on my Windows PC.

8. Use properly-sized images. On http://www.balsamicsauce.com/pages/balsamic-glaze some images are being scaled in the browser.

9. Use JPGs for photos, not PNGs. PNGs should be use for the logo graphic and iconography.

10. Simplify the scripting on the page. Pet peeve: the site loads scripts from what appear to be a dozen third-party domains.

I'm no expert, though, so take all of my advice for what it is: just some random ideas from a total stranger.
Do any "black hats" have direct access to fiber optic cables on the same scale as the NSA?
So, You Wanna Host Your Middleman Blog on Heroku
They're your bitcoins. You can do whatever you want with them, unlike fiat.
Our proposal to chart.js contest using last.fm
made in just few hours. this is our participation in chartjs contest (http://chartjs.challengepost.com/).

still having bugs, only works on chrome, ff and safari but its ok for now :)

thanks!

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github.com/jnettome
That might be true for 10.7 to 10.8, but 10.6 to 10.8 is a bigger gap. It's all that you listed (and most users would gain more than that) plus ASLR, TRIM support, resizing windows from any edge, AirDrop, improved Finder, much better multi-touch support, the recovery partition, etc.

I was reluctant to upgrade from 10.6 to 10.7 because I really disliked the changes to Spaces/Expose, but even last year it was becoming more and more common to see apps dropping support for 10.6. With Mavericks around the corner, 10.7 will start seeing the same treatment soon. At $20 to upgrade, it's more than worth it.
Which is great, as long as you're able to tolerate gluten. I know two people with Celiac disease, and quinoa is a godsend to them.
Gotcha. I misread. He misspoke. And yes, life is still good :-)
At this point, an "improved" design would have to mean algorithmic improvements to a hardware SHA algorithm (i.e. not likely).

Improvements that you can actually count on would be die shrinks, but these will provide returns in accordance with the tail end of Moore's law. Compared to the multiple-order-of-magnitude improvements from the CPU -> GPU/FPGA -> ASIC jumps, these improvements likely won't even be worth writing home about.
I thought that was a feature for 'Ubuntu for Android' (a different product). I could be wrong, but I don't see that feature available under the 'Ubuntu Phone' list of features.
> I use Coinbase because they don't support payment systems that cater to criminals.

Banks are little more than fronts for criminal activity.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/04/big-banks-and-drug-mo...
Then buy an iPhone.
Sure, but I assumed oijaf888 was talking about marginal rates on income, which affect whether you want your marginal dollar to be salary or investment income. If we start talking about overall rates, there is no plausible way at all to claim that "most people" pay an overall Federal rate higher than 15%.
Buy a bike and a tent and start traveling
Crowd steps up to fund 'NSA-proof' app
This is the same xmission as in http://maddox.xmission.com/ a wonderful tribute to the first amendment.
Shipping kills it.

Sell it on Amazon etc. Tell people where they can buy it.
"I do the Right Thing for Google and the world"

I think it pertains to technical or ethical or anything else. The risk is that what you think is the right thing may be the right thing for one person but the wrong thing for another - in fact Id say most decisions fall under this umbrella.
Here are some great tactics that will help increase conversion... just published this actually.

How Mad Libs Help Conversion:

http://blog.sweetiq.com/2013/07/drive-more-conversions-with-...
Transportation in our mountains doesn't have to be worse than theirs, just bad enough to prevent our farmers from farming the areas. One of the reasons Japan has so much cool electronics is that a successful manufacturing run their is much smaller. A product could sell one tenth what it does in the US and still be seen as a success, but the the US one a failure.
Oh, man, love me some pedantry. Could be the most productive of all engineering attributes. (Followed by sarcasm T_T.)
If people choose their spouses freely, what is dating for?
Thanks for the ideas and the recipes. I'll admit that my experience has been off the Whole Foods food bar (and a few other places). It wasn't tasty enough to try at home, so I never bothered. Enough folks here tell me I'm crazy that I'll give it a go at preparing it myself.

For the next episode of "Ask HN: food preparation", how about a way to make tempeh edible? That I have tried at home enough times that I gave up. :-)
I never eat something in the refrigerator after three days there.
Released: https://github.com/rainforestapp/Docker-Terminal
Not to mention that all the drugs in the world can't make a kid care about completing the scutwork some schools dish out.
This is a variant of "it's easier to get forgiveness than permission", but with a more positive bent. Getting all the right permissions from everyone can be a monumental task, but just going ahead and doing things, then waiting to be corrected as needs be... gets more done.
Its the challenge of the argument in the large vs the argument in the small. Specifically not everyone has taste.

I have met people who follow this mantra and have been fired repeatedly, I know folks like the one in the parent who have operated this way their entire career and have been quite successful at it.

Think of it as the "Don't try this at home" admonition. They say that because not everyone will understand both the risks and the implication of the risks, not because as reasonably cautious and intelligent person could not pull off exactly the same stunt "at home."

As with all things, if you find yourself getting fired a lot for doing the "right thing" in your estimation, then its time to take a look at your compass.
He said stock. Salt is not needed, and there are plenty of decent ways to make a great vegetable stock without it.

That said, it's not clear why you'd regard adding a little salt as bad unless you had a serious medical condition prohibiting it. I get that you'd want to avoid the absurd amounts a lot of prepared foods include, just for taste.
That's pretty good. In a few more years digital resolution might be comparable to film.
You should also submit your question to

http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/

and

http://www.reddit.com/r/entrepreneur
Okay, but he also believes that the income tax is unconstitutional. If he's able to get social security to go away it's likely he'd also eliminate the income tax. Losing social security AND the income tax would likely be a net win for middle aged working folk like my parents.

If two people are making a combined $120k/year their tax burden is around $27k. With 10-15 years to go til retirement that's another $270-$405k in gross savings, neglecting any ability to earn interest (which right now is effectively 0%).

I don't know what the social security pay-out rates are these days but $300k today versus a decreasing probability of future benefit payments from the SSA seems like a reasonable risk to take, given the choice. Not that we'll ever have the choice, mind you.
Relationship oriented website vs content oriented website