skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I don't think he was saying "cut and paste this exact code into your codebase" but rather that it is possible to write safeguards such as this... in this case, perhaps checking whether an account has already been billed this month, or whether there is already a transaction pending, or...

We can't prevent every mistake but we can make sure the same one doesn't happen again.
In case anyone reading this doesn't already know about them, there are options for getting computers designed to work with Linux. I've heard good things about System 76, and Dell now offer a developer-oriented laptop with Ubuntu.

These options probably aren't yet as polished as Macs, but if you want convenience and still care about an open source OS, give them your support. They won't get better without demand from people like us.
Extra irony that it happened in Panama since we arrested their head of state.
@extend itself is awesome and you should use it extensively, especially when using a framework. For instance, if you're using Bootstrap, when version 3 rolls around and removes a ton of old class names, you won't have to hunt through all your view code to replace classes. You can look through your SASS files and just update @extend's where appropriate.

I highly recommend looking at Object Oriented CSS and Ian Storm Taylor's great post on combining it with SASS: http://ianstormtaylor.com/oocss-plus-sass-is-the-best-way-to...

Using SASS placeholders and @extend'ing your framework's classes are a great way to reduce code duplication and complexity. I recently redid our entire frontend using these techniques and it reduced our SASS code by about 30-40%, got rid of plenty of gnarly nested classes, and made it drastically easier to start adding new features.
I wonder if the composite material the 787 is made of didn't increase the risk that a fire like that spread, though. It seems incredibly unlikely that this is the first time that part took fire.
It goes both ways. I wrote a chunk of code for reactos years ago that got pulled into wine, had some fixes done by other folks in wine and then those fixes pushed back to reactos. Both are audacious, with different goals but extremely similar work along both paths.
I thought HN automatically de-duped articles.
Oh, please. These pensions are impossible now, but that's because of decades of underinvestment and out-of-control health care costs.

Also, the workers didn't promise themselves anything. They made a deal with their employers. The employers didn't have to agree to anything. They did, and those deals should be honored.
We've seen one Twitch fan pay $2889.51 to MaximusBlack to be the top donator of the month, ridiculous stuff
Oh no.
No no no.

It was built on the auto cartel, which robbed consumers all across the country to keep the Grosse Point estates of the automobile executives well appointed and manicured.
> The thing is "good" and "bad" question are relative to the person who read.

In the strictest sense, I suppose this is correct. However, the funny thing about language is that it's designed to be perceived in the same way by as many people as possible. That's the entire point of language. We elect moderators to exercise their judgement with regards to how a question will be perceived by most people, and I'd say they aren't usually wrong.
Legal is a subset of Constitutional, since a purported law saying permitting something prohibited by the Constitution is no law.

There's also a fairly decent foundation in the case law (indeed, its part of the reason FISA was passed to constrain foreign intelligence surveillance) that warrantless surveillance authorized by the executive for foreign intelligence purposes (including surveillance of Americans for that purpose) is Constitutional and legal in the absence of Congressional action.

A bigger problem that conflating "legal" with "Constitutional" is conflating either with "desirable". Just because the laws under the Constitution, or the Constitution itself, allows something doesn't mean that it is good to do.
>How does this case differ from Snowden's situation?

One case is an individual whistleblowing (at the very least in his mind) against his own government, and he is now on the run.

The other case is a foreign government operating agents performing activity that is illegal in that country and throughout the world.

Seem very different to me.

The closet parallel I can think of is the Rainbow Warrior bombing/murder case in New Zealand, where French agents performed the bombing. The result was detention of the spies, some diplomatic shenanigans and eventually a negotiated/arbitrated solution that even involved visa-free access for New Zealanders to France.
MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File
Is there reason to think that banks are major unhedged bondholders who will actually take losses?
I believe PZ Myers offers the definitive verdict.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/11/20/aaargh-physici...
Sockit-to-me: A synchonous socket API for node.js
Why do this? Generally money is more efficient than barter.
Duck Duck Go with !hn appended
You think I'm "fighting for a free, open OS" just because I'm on the same site as you? (The same site that looked like http://hhn.domador.net/2011/10/05/23/ after Steve Jobs died?)
Yes, I've been thinking about getting one specifically for that purpose: a cheap way to play NES/SNES/GBA/etc. games on my TV (I'd imagine that a Ouya filled with such games would be a great present to a niece/nephew whose family can't afford to pay for modern consoles + games).
The Ouya also has Towerfall, which is apparently a fantastic game.

Comparing it to PS3/Xbox/Wii U is missing the point.
tl;dr linux + most laptops = subpar

I spent years using Linux on the desktop. I wrote software for it, was active in the community, and was an active core contributor to well-known distribution. I love Linux desktops.

Yet I stopped using them when I got my Macbook Air (before you flame me for using that machine, Linus himself uses one [0]). It's an absolutely phenomenal machine for my use.

Sadly, however, running Linux on it is a majorly sub-par experience. Touchpad drivers are awful (as is software which can support it), battery life is abysmal, and overall it's a pain in the ass. This is coming from someone who happily spent days configuring Gentoo and Exherbo[1] on his desktop just for fun.

True, I could invest in a laptop which is known to play nice with Linux, but frankly, there exists no machine on the market today which can compete with the Macbook Air for my use (ultra-portability, durability, extreme battery life, great screen and solid performance).

In short, I "succumb" because the portable hardware is the best. Plain and simple.

[0] http://www.cultofmac.com/162823/linux-creator-linus-torvalds...
[1] http://www.exherbo.org/
I do mostly platform-independent C++ stuff, using Mac OS for my day-to-day work. No web development. I am unfamiliar with homebrew. What sort of troubles have you heard about?
One reason why, is because the number of individuals, accounts, or devices for which information was requested under each authority is a red herring.

If I get to run a quarry on the Gmail servers, scanning through every personal email to find a subset of say 100 people, the statistic that Google want to publish will state that only a 100 peoples account was violated. In truth however, all customers was violated to create the list of the 100 people which account contents got sent over.

Second, Microsoft or Twitter do gain privilege by cooperate with governments. They become less likely a target for lawsuits directed at violations of competition laws. they also get a easier time lobbying politicians for lower taxes if they at the same time are helping out with spying at the local population.
I'm with Steve Jobs. Google's motto is total bullshit
amazing, the lack of medium grid was what I was recently forced to hack myself, now I'll just upgrade. the form validator is great too. keep up the excelent work.
I've used both Bootstrap and Foundation extensively, though for my recent work I've been gravitating towards Foundation much more. It's an amazing framework (Bootstrap too :) ), and the new form validation plugin is a great bonus addition.
First, the author is talking about startups, not companies which might have reason to lay off thousands of workers or whole teams.

Second, in a startup, it's probably worth getting an employee to sign a separation agreement even if they were terminated for cause. Part of that separation agreement will include a release of claims, making it impossible for the former employee to return after the fact and dispute the cause of his termination.

This makes it possible to say "There are no former employees who might come out of the woodwork a sue us for wrongful termination.", e.g., while fundraising.
Can you really call municipal bankruptcy a nationwide phenomenon? You have: Jefferson County, Alabama that got mixed up in some interest rate swaps they had no business getting involved with; a couple of cities in California that got punished especially badly when home prices collapsed; and now Detroit which has been suffering from an ever shrinking tax base. I don't think you can really look at it and say there's a trend.
My badge doesn't work :(
A smartphone isn't worth anything until you sell it.
Glad to see other companies sharing their experiences with iterating quickly on pricing. Marketing really isn't that different than code.
I first noticed his inability to center or stretch the background image.
"VideoLAN revealed some very exciting news today: VLC for iOS will be back in Apple’s App Store by tomorrow (July 19). The company tells TNW the app will be available for free worldwide"

The original iOS port was made by Applidium; is this still Applidium, or a separate VideoLan initiative?
Yes. The package management is excellent via Brew (similar to archlinux's system).

The "trouble" comes from getting the core OS to behave and play nice with the hardware. That is rarely an issue with Apple's platform, speaking from personal comparative experience.

Also, Apple's SDK for their own platforms is the currently the best around, bar none.
I thought it made the dates look even less "fishy".
It's hard to imagine the stereotypical tech startup caring about any of those measures very much. I mean, cost of office space? I don't get the impression that VC-funded "IPO or bust" startups care about that at all.
> sleeping without any clothes on

I've heard that wearing damp socks with a fan running helps cool you down. Also wearing a damp t-shirt helps. Sounds a bit unpleasant to me, but who knows.
Could you post the numbers that lead you to believe that most or all of the specific people here have unjust or unreasonable pensions? Because I'm pretty sure those numbers don't exist.
Ask HN: Why use lxc/Docker/Puppet?
What are the actual use cases for these things? I have a raspberri pi which I use as a testing environment for applications I'm developing, and I generally worry about setup once, and then never again...

Though I understand the low level benefits and lightness over traditional virtualization, I just don't know what I would even use this for, concretely.

At this point, the only use case I can imagine is during the development of an app (let's say a Flask app), deploying something like Docker to create a container for an apache + redis + *sql + flask environment preloaded with the app that will start running immediately and give me a network address at which I can look at changes/test the webapp.

I don't see how much more beneficial this is compared to doing some setup on the rpi, and just updating the files stored therein and managing the server from over SSH
> Does anyone know how this works in general?

Here are obligatory Wikipedia links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack

> It seems like an invitation to severe cybersquatting to allow someone to register e.g. goógle.com.

First, you're a couple years late on this.

Second, registries that enable IDN generally formulate anti-spoofing rules. It is unlikely that an entity that is not Google and does not control google.pl would be able to register goógle.pl.

Third, any truly sensitive content should be behind HTTPS anyway.

Fourth, most of the world uses non-ASCII scripts and generally speaking couldn't give a damn about problems the scripts give the small minority stuck with ASCII in the 1980s ;)
Shameless plug: I wrote a blog-post detailing how to do exactly that using Wineskin:

http://marzzbar.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/how-to-play-classic...

Not sure how the improved driver for Mac makes this better or worse.
Password1 may be the most used password in Congress
Are you trying to ruin my tinfoil hat business?

I'm sure there is a conspiracy theory that explains both.
The 2 Reasons You Don't Have the Profits and Work/Life Balance You Desire
Bionic is a glibc derivative?
Ahh, that must be it. Strange they'd cap it at 2.2B instead of their actual MAX_INT equivalent.
Mine still crashes XBMC, but once that's fixed I'll be happy with it.
Isn't Mac these days a UNIX-like OS on x86? What happens if you just move a Mac binary to a Linux machine (with all its dependencies) and try to run it?

I'm assuming it'll break, but what difference between the two OS's makes it break?
Almost. HN only does exact matching, so if the duplicate article varies even slightly, it would not be detected. Variations include query params at the end of a URL such as &utm_medium=...

An automatically detected article will upvote the original article.
Reformat your hard drive and install Linux Mint.
Bah. It was in Indianapolis for the reasons I mentioned in my post - pandering and terror. That you now cite it as a reason to worry about Indianapolis is rather circular. As to your citing science fiction, I'd like to remind you that Close Encounters of the Third Kind took place in Indiana as well - should I be watching the skies?

This discussion contains all the political "partisanship" it needs, son. Get over yourself before you presume to tell me what I need to learn.
JSDecimal: A JavaScript implementation of decimal type
Detroit files largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history
I am one of those people who left the Bay Area because of the high cost of starting and maintaining a business there. I am now in Denver/Boulder area. The Bay Area is definitely one of the most expensive places to have a business which is especially tricky when you don't have revenue like most startups. For example, rent for housing has increased dramatically over the last 5 years to point where people with decent jobs need housing assistance. As a business, you need to raise salaries so your employees can keep their standard of living. And employee salaries are the largest expense for software companies.

What I think keeps it going is the fact that a lot of rich people live there now and are willing to invest in companies. That investment allows the company to pay its bills while it is building its product. However even with investment, the money still goes quicker than if you were somewhere else. In essence, it looks like an angel investment bubble to me. The question is, will the bubble burst and when?
Tin-foil: Airbus sabotage!
Have you met Richard? What you're saying is so far off the mark it's not even offensive, it's just funny. :D

I think he's just making an effective argument. If Richard's position is "you should always pay severance" and he wants to convince everyone of that, he needs to beat the other side's best argument. That best argument is something like "Capital is scarce in a startup and this employee was fired because they were incompetent. You're telling me that some of that capital should go towards paying a severance for someone I regret hiring in the first place?"

He's trying to convince everyone, not just "most people" who "have empathy for the people they fire." Those folks don't need much convincing, if any, and even they might have a hard time paying severance when they fire someone who made their blood boil.

If you ought to pay severance in the worst scenario imaginable then you ought to pay severance in every scenario. Case closed.
That cancer is predominantly not "just" a mutagenic defect but that it more specifically recruits developmental controls and make them go go awry is relatively new in biology, but not revolutionary.
A separate 787 out of Boston has been turned around, possible fuel pump issue -

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/07/18/ja...

When it rains it pours.
Q: What is Elon Musk's favorite movie?

A: Planes, Trains and Automobiles!
Digg Updates Reader
Reading that title, I couldn’t help being reminded of http://xkcd.com/793
Xnomad: xmonad window management for OS X
Question for Wine aficionados: has anyone tried using Visual Studio on Wine? Thanks.
I have never tried this. Grabs sound as well?
75% are written by me with major contributions by https://twitter.com/gpinigin and some improvements by Applidium :)

So, it's a VideoLAN initiative.
Yes, things are pretty bad: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/16/detroit-dire-but-privat...
I voted this article up primarily based on the reputation of GitHub.

The page looks really cute, but it seems to be completely lacking in useful information. All I can tell is Hubot is something that can run some kinds of scripts for backend automation.
Even as a credit analyst, I agree that you can't really feel sorry for the bondholders here. If you want to lend in any market, you need to assume the risk that the debtor goes bankrupt. Pensioners are a different story though.

However it's absolutely not true that "a lot of money in the US is being lent with the assumption that creditors will always be bailed out by the state or federal government", at least not a large amount relative to the total bond market size. Rates are low now, yes, but that's because the Treasury rates are so low, not because of some implicit government backing of credit that is making assets less risky. In fact, spreads (bond yield - treasury yield) are near historical norms.
To quote Mercedes car commercial:

>Perception is always reality
My assertion is that you should provide severance in all cases. I chose to attack the most contentious case (poor performance) where one might think not to provide it to prove that point.
LivingSocial closes its New York office space and its local events division
My issue is that they continued to tell people that they could be trusted. If you are being forced to do something, fine, but don't keep on telling others that you can be trusted.

Microsoft is an even worse offender here, with their recent marketing campaigns slamming Google for privacy while they themselves were apparently being 'forced' to disrespect their users privacy.

Don't claim something that you know that you cannot provide, even if you want to provide it.
The problem with de-duping is that there's usually no chance of sustaining discussion on a duplicate that was submitted more than perhaps a week ago, which could be the reason why PG hasn't implemented fuzzy de-duping yet.
Well, it is already pretty convenient in one direction (between SF and the east bay). Beyond that, it'll never happen, because Marin and the peninsula are full of NIMBYs.
Tech giants named in PRISM want to see an NSA “transparency report”
Five years of free stories from Tor
Your javascript on that page pegs my CPU up to 100% - I'm on a MacBook on Chrome.
This is exactly right. SF could embrace the notion that it was going to be the Manhattan of the West Coast and that would really change both the economics and the whole feel of the bay area. (it would actually be larger than San Jose in terms of population) Or not, SF politics (like many California cities) are pretty dysfunctional.
How Houston became the Fake Breast Capital of the World.
> 1)

Conceded.

> 2) "Now systemd's syslog compat is seen as unnecessary overhead"

I can't believe rsyslog compat won't suffer, well-meaning reassurances from a third-party can't trump the documented attitudes of core developers who aren't bound by them.

> 3) The trend, what you perceive about the slippery slope of things

I've illustrated a lot, I could easily find more.

I do in fact believe Lennart et al are developing and promoting a system (distinct from the Linux ecosystem) that they consider genuinely superior. It's what being an open-source developer is all about. It doesn't mean they aren't engaging in some ends-justifies-the-means politicking on the way to world domination. I'm fed up with the latter, and with having the bad forced with the good.
My assertion is that you should provide severance in all cases. I chose to attack the most contentious case (poor performance) where one might think not to provide it to prove that point.

I didn't mean this to imply that it's a regular issue I have to deal with :)

PS Priority #1 post any firing is a careful review of the hiring process that got you there.
OSX lets me get more stuff done than Linux (or FreeBSD, which is what I used to use) while maintaining the ability to freely develop programs in a simple *nix environment. Apple has yet to sue anyone other than blatant and uninspired copyists, so I just don't care about the issues you feel so strongly about.

My enthusiasm for Free Software died years ago thanks to the ridiculous amounts of CADT (http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html) in the Free GUIs. Constant change without benefit is just not interesting to me.

Meanwhile, Apple has been advancing in really important ways that are not being sufficiently imitated by Windows and Linux: user-friendly backup; removal of the mental model where "file on disk" is somehow different than "file in editor"; unlimited file versioning; a sweet app store; mandatory code-signing.
For some reason, it's difficult for me to keep working on something after a point, if I don't know what it'll be called. I think I spent a good 3 weeks looking for names and domains last time, and I couldn't get anything else done, it was nerve-wracking. I think having a name you like is good psychologically, makes it feel more real.
How to go from zero to revenue in under five weeks without building a product
According to the article they are simply comparing gene expression from cancer cells to ancient lifeforms, which would directly support the theory.

Seems reasonable to me.
Homebrew is the best way I've found, but it's on 1.4 at the moment.
BSD tools instead of GNU that behave differently and old compiler versions.

And generally incompatibilities that need to be ironed out, but I'm glad to be mistaken.
The fusion itself is (afaik) essentially a solved problem. The trick is extracting net energy from it, since you use a lot in generating the plasma, massive magnetic fields to keep it contained, etc.

But if you just cared about the byproducts, I think that's a much easier problem.

Probably still 10 years though :)
VLC is free (both as in beer and in speech) and will always be :)

However, you can donate to our non-profit organization, which e.g. paid the iPad I used for development, as well as a whole lot of other things around VLC and further VideoLAN projects.
He's not talking about Leslie (as far as I know): there is another.
I only read the link above, but to me (MSc in biology) it totally sounds like a legitimate theory, I can easily see how it makes testable predictions. It may turn out to be wrong, but IMHO it's worth some testing.
There was even password and smith .
Yes, I think Project Glass has been pretty clear about this being a first run device. That's why the participants are referred to as "Explorers". The point is to start mapping out use cases and fine tuning the UX.

Source: My wife is getting her Glass in a few weeks.
Can't help but feel Ouya's sitting in a niche that someone's going to snap up in 6 months or so like the iPad did to the ill-fated crunchPad/JooJoo. Be it the steam box or someone else.

Perfectly good market, fantastic vision, just not quite polished enough and with not enough money behind it to get over the technical hurdles & polish to win over the consumers (obviously excluding the drama with the crunchpad at the end, which didn't help).