skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> long-term economic and military decline of areas like the Middle East

It put in motion the long-term decline of the Venetian Republic, as well, which made most of its money trading with the middle east. Interestingly enough, this also led the Venetians to focus a bit more on their land conquests in northern Italy, so there are some areas that received more attention at that point: swamps drained, villas built, and so on, which made sense, with trade drying up. My wife comes from a town that really came into being in the 1600's, which, for Italy, is fairly late, all things considered. Prior to that the area was a malarial swamp that was not of much interest to people.
Like mamma always said, "well you're certainly not going to get it if you don't ask for it".
Theoretically, you're correct. In practice, you look at a company like Amazon (where I work) and our software, while mostly it is written in Java and other high level languages, there are many bits and pieces written in C and C++, and even the high-level bits are likely to fail spectacularly if you try to run them on anything other than a close relative of the Linux distribution they were built for. This is just a fact of software development. Write-once run-everywhere is a virtual myth.

Unless of course you're talking about building a single Linux virtual machine image and deploying it to thousands of servers. That actually works phenomenally. Doesn't work as well with Apple's software. Or Microsoft's for that matter (though this is largely a question of licensing cost.)
>>This study did not include pre-term crack babies.
>It is entirely reasonable to select only full-term babies for the study.

Premature babies account for between 1/5 and 1/4 of all births to crack using mothers. If you decide to ignore those in your study because you want to study something specific then you should make it very, very clear. And anyone reporting on it should make it clear as well. It is like studying coal miners, but only the ones that work in the preparation plant on the surface.

>>Crack or cocaine is very, very bad for development.
>Did you read the article? They concluded after a long and careful study that poverty had a much bigger effect than cocaine use.

Yes. For this particularly culled population.

>Did you know that the NY Times and others recently recanted much of their sensationalist reporting of the "Crack Epidemic"

I don't know how that is relevant. I am basing my position on personal experience working with these kids.

>No, it isn't. It means that people are reading and thinking instead of reacting to headlines and summaries.

Frankly, just the opposite. Many, many people in this thread, including yourself, are reacting to this particular headline and summary.

>>That means the broader population reading this article is likely to do the same thing.
>What's your basis for that assumption?

Induction. It may be unfounded, but if relatively smart people make a bad leap of logic it is not unreasonable to imagine that less intelligent people will make the same mistake.

>efforts to reduce infant mortality and morbidity, and developmental defects in early childhood by combating drug-use were misguided; and going forward those efforts should be focused on learning about and mitigating whatever the effects of impoverishment are.

>efforts to reduce infant mortality and morbidity, and developmental defects in early childhood by combating drug-use were misguided;

No, they weren't. Cocaine use does lead to disabled children, statistically speaking. Many of whom are premature. This was a study has no information on the amount of cocaine used throughout pregnancy, only that the mothers and children tested positive at the time of full-term birth.

All we can conclude from this study is that poverty is worse for kids than cocaine exposure near the time of full-term birth. It has no information for the 1/4 to 1/5 of the kids that are born to people that test positive for cocaine that are born prematurely and tend to have much more severe health and developmental problems. Not to mention the ones that don't make it to birth at all.
I agree about checkered past -- I'd be upset if someone rented to a tenant, did a background check after movein, and then evicted for historical behavior. Most of this is covered by housing law already -- you probably couldn't evict someone who was already a tenant because you found out he had been evicted 3 years ago for murdering his landlord or less implausible stuff.

I'm talking about present things, though -- if someone is actively subletting your property or using it as a hotel, or actively using it to run a drug retail business, etc. Knowing current restraining orders could be useful for security (although arguably the tenant should report those if it's a multi-unit complex) -- there's less of an argument for that. There probably would be for things like the sex offender list, though.
You're new here. Pro tip: only useful comments which contribute to the discussion get up-voted.
> SSL is as save as the CA list used by the browser is. It really doesn't matter which CA you actually choose then.

Which is why a _comprehensive_ history of when, how, and why CA root certs were added to various browsers, and the politicking behind it, would be quite illuminating.

Recall it was only around 2000 when the US relaxed export restrictions somewhat on cryptographic software. [1] So given that sensitive fact, the policy, and architecture of systems such as browser security should be questioned, especially because a select few are making essentially free money selling green address bars.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_size#Symmetric_algorithm_ke...
Given that iOS users worldwide are less than 1/3 of Android users, ignoring Gingerbread would still leave you with roughly double the userbase...

I completely agree with all your other points though. :)
I think so too. If you look back a couple of years, this kind of things (even if not as severe) happened several times. I actually blogged about it (when their DNS was messed up):

http://www.clingmarks.com/apple-please-be-serious-about-itc/...
http://www.clingmarks.com/ios-vs-android-mobile-dev-platform...
3 mics.
And I'm in the car.
An email list, and a hierarchy of committers through whom changes bubble up will help a lot more than any number of project managers - list(s) can set priorities, explain rationales and keep everyone informed. And committer hierarchies work really well for splitting teams up along code lines

Yes ex-developers promoted into positions in that committeer
Hierarchy will do less development and more "steering". But they know that - as do editors at newspapers. Junio Hamano even writes interesting notes on it. But again only a fool hires an illiterate for that position. And only a fool creates a seperate parallel organisation to keep an eye on / communicate with, the software teams. Once upon a time there were few developers and software was a strategic project to reduce costs. Now it is everywhere - like literacy, it infects everything with outsized leverage.
And you cannot maintain two parallel organisations - one that does the business and one that then goes off and imements it. It's insanity.

Again I like to use the newspaper analogy - it makes it clear where we need to go. It is probably true that project managers are needed for an organisation that is illiterate at the board level, in the sales force and in the marketing dept.

But companies like GitHub are not showing us how to overlay old illiterate management styles on company with mostly developers - They are showing how to run a company when everyone in it can read and write.

Honestly I do not know how companies prior to printing press organised themselves - but I bet it was different after literacy was widespread - and I bet the old companies did not survive the new
Why did you make an android rant on a thread about Apple's (obviously) hacked together website?

if you don't like android, that's fine, but it's a total digression from the thread.
It'd be nice to state the intention of the question or elaborate it a little.

Also, add "Ask HN:" in the beginning please.
Eating their own dogfood? No, I don't think so.

http://phabricator.org/
The added features of email metadata can be achieved without the added complexities of adding metadata to all email, with a simple NLP solution. Gmail already does this with date recognition and google calendar integration, as well as the new email 'categories.' It'll be cool to see it expand so any application can take advantage of it (i.e. key management software and joining a new website).
cool. Thanks.
> It's a hypothesis that might be worth investigating,

I don't disagree with that and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that such a study already exists.

>I would be surprised if there was no effect observed.

There are a lot of things that can cause premature labor. My personal opinion is that it is just as likely to be some stress otherwise related to their environment, or even stress related to the process of obtaining illegal drugs.
This is a great theory, but one of the reasons Android does this is because it is necessary for what users want: better performance, or fixes for GL driver bugs that apps need to work, or whatever.

I can't see why Gecko/Gaia won't have the same problem, looking at the architecture docs.
I've heard this basic idea from all kinds of really successful businesspeople. This idea that there's some minimal level of buy-in (10%, or whatever) that you can just take for granted. It comes up most often when someone is challenging the premise of their idea. "Well if we only get X% it'll still be a win" etc.
Maybe because Intel+Mobile isn't cool enough these days? Or it's Intel's first large field test and they don't want to risk bad publicity just in case...
Look guys, this author just falls in love with his own analogies and leaves reality far behind. The Jefersonian Middle Class (as he calls them) isn't made up of a bunch of Groupon-client failures. They don't survive on business that has been aggregated by swarming platforms like Groupon and Living Social. Small businesses are built on relationships, consistent delivery of value, and return customers. The author seems to understand that there are business that don't give a shit about Groupon ... but I can't understand we he treats them like rare special birds. I don't know who he is, but maybe he is an academic, or some sort of isolated professional that doesn't have much experience or contact with small businesses. People don't abandon their usual vendors, partners, and suppliers for some Groupon deal that they know isn't sustainable. Also, people don't abandon the local cafe, diner, restaurant, and bar, because they occasionally use a Groupon deal. These swarming platforms might be a problem for non-performers or those that don't deliver a good product or service, but for those that do, businesses isn't like the horror story the author describes. This is the case of a bullshit story, well written, and designed to climb the Hacker News ranking ... while having absolutely no relation to reality. A lot of fancy analogies ... and absolutely no substance. This guy clearly wants to coin some term that gets picked up by the press and by the community, so he can have some fame as the guy who coined "The Locust Economy" or some shit like that.
their site makes it sounds like bgp is rerouting, but i'm still down
A utility that allows you to create a GUI window from the command line

See PowerShell with ShowUI, on Windows.

http://huddledmasses.org/showui-tutorial-walkthrough/
I think hondje's comment was intended to be sarcastic, for the rest see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hat_(computer_security)
A good way to reduce the population is get rid of stagnant water. Anything that can collect water and is just lying around uncovered is a mosquito farm.
So far this week I've watched Network Solutions get hosed down, Apple stay down, saw Ubuntu mention their forum user base has been exposed, my normally reliable internet connection has flaked out several times, and DigitalOcean has gone titsup for the moment because of a peering issue. It makes me wonder. It's my hope its not the new normal.
right, but we don't have multiple people all confirming GMail password resets while GMail just so conveniently happens to be down.
Can't wait to use this as anti-LinkedIn-recruiter ammo.
Gmail will actually recognize Schema.org markup in your email as well
Never underestimate the willingness of some minority of people to pay for the most ridiculous things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock
I usually simply explain to them the cost of living differential between where I live and SF/NYC, and then they balk at what that means in actual dollars. 175% raise? Don't mind if I do.
This isn't your problem, but HTTPS-Everywhere reproducibly breaks the page for me on Firefox with the default ruleset containing nytimes.com. Once disabled, the images load fine.
netcat solves this.
Thank god. IMO the "Snow fall" article was the best thing I've seen come out of journalism in many years.
While true, that doesn't mean that it's always a good idea to ask.
$1 Million base, 10%/yr guaranteed perf bonus, whatever hours I want, AND 10% equity as first employee. Sold. I'll take that job too.
> DNS servers do not talk to each other using this format.

Right. I'm talking about all the formats.
A nice documentary about my former country. Created by Pan Am to entice tourists to visit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B6eBAuhvEY&feature=youtube_...
I've found one problem with that syntax: people use variables named "from" quite a lot in code already (including all over the coffeescript source)
I thought we were talking about SIM cards.

Can I upload software to my SIM card? No.

Most phones accept some type of SIM card, while not all phones have a means of user-controlled offline external storage (microSD, etc.).

Why can't the user access a SIM card? Why can't she look at the software stored on a SIM card?

The SIM card slot is pretty much off-limits to the user. Yet the user owns the phone.

This is like buying a computer that has a special card slot owned by a single company or a consortium of companies that produce special cards only for their own use. The user is effectively denied access to the slot.
Ubuntu forums has subforums for all over the world. Your phone/SMS thing needs to work for every country.
It would be nice if the author provided some sample chapters so we could find out a bit more about the content and writing style before buying the book. Yes, I see there's a money-back guarantee, but I'd rather not provide my personal details to the publisher just to look at a few pages of a book I may not be interested in reading.
Because in areas with high poverty but low-cocaine use rates the pre-term birth rate rises (from 3.9% to 4.9%) but not as much as among crack-cocaine users (17%-29%).
And yet, I can't see this being developed into something regular; I mean, artfully done as this is, eventually they're going to want to make money.
We're having the same problem at work with the same ad unit HTML/CSS shared across iOS and android phones and tablets. My laptop looks like an octopus with various devices tethered to the computer, there's not enough hardware to share, and it slows iteration as well.
Wired: Giant Robot Storms San Diego Comic Con 2013
Moving forward and developing an idea that no one wants is definitely a problem. Testing is a decent way to rectify this problem. However, I think that the underlying problem is that people are coming up with bad ideas in the first place. No amount of testing and iterating is going to save someone who is incapable of putting themselves inside the minds of the consumers and knowing in a big pictures sense what it is that they want.

And even if testing does lead you to better understanding of your consumers, that doesn't change the fact that it isn't always proper. It's a case by case basis. Sometimes you are confident that you know what they want, and testing would take time away from other things. You seem to be arguing that in the aggregate, it would be useful if people of certain "humilities" tested more. That's probably true, but my two points are:
1) they'd be better off solving the underlying problem of their abilities to know what people want. (this is a good starting point for learning - http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html)
2) you shouldn't make decisions based on the aggregate population. you have more information, and you can decide whether or not testing is appropriate based on your personal situation.
Four mics, three cameras. Shouldn't this be a poll?
What annual Windows reinstall? As far as I'm concerned, that's a thing from a decade ago. I haven't done a Windows reinstall (or even had a virus scanner) in years without any hitches.
people also aren't going to decide 'gee, i'm going to go to x store and pay more for something' anymore then they'll go to BB to buy their apple product of choice.
That soviet train tracking system looks beautiful. Wouldn't mind that on the wall of my office.
By connecting something to the port you disable the internal mic. Just use a torn cable, or a headphone with missing or broken speakers.
What's most intriguing is how/when Nest will move beyond thermostats. Most of the appliances in our homes are still lacking "good design" (how many buttons does your microwave have again?)

It's also interesting to put Nest in the context of "Build Something People Want." Very few average consumers asked for a nicer thermostat, and there was little prior evidence that one would do that much better in the marketplace, but Nest seems to be doing quite well.
Even if a site used openid and stored no passwords it could still be a target. People want to put spammy links to their spam sites to increase caboodle rankings. You could send a private message on the forum to every forum user, a good percentage will click on it. You've now got lots of Ubuntu forums users to open an arbitrary url, that can be used to spring board mote hacking.
I'm most looking forward to typing my program requirements into the STACK-OVERFLOW-PARSING-INTERPRETING-COMPILING-MACHINE, and it gobbling up all the nuggets of information together into a fully-formed program.

That's part of the future.
Well, with security forces, of course. I'm also pretty sure that, outside of required stops for customs offices, these trains will just keep on going. And third, that crime and hijacking isn't actually as big a risk or common happening as people may think.
They are back up for me now.

I have not been at all happy with the support I get from DO.

I think they only employ BOFHs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell)
If you are now sampling this kind of technology, have a look at ESI (edge side includes), and have a look at varnish cache. You'll be pleasantly surprised.
Why you should pre-launch your startup idea
Wow, the presentation of the photos really made an impression on me -- it's just like Harry Potter. It's amazing that even after almost 10 years of YouTube, having video presented to you in a slightly different way can give you a feeling that you're experiencing the future.
But premature crack-babies have health problems beyond being merely premature.
Ask HN: What startups use Dwolla for payments?
I'm looking into Dwolla for a payments solution for my startup. I'd like to see it in action. What startup use Dwolla for payments?
A glass of wine a day, normal home glass rather than a pub glass, may be more than the UK recommended allowance for a female.
There are usually two microphones in laptop, plug in one disables the other. I should say two down, more to go.
Huh, for some reason the gifs don't play back Chromium for me (within Ubuntu, at least) but do work from Firefox.
1. My mobile phone. Due to my habit of bodging desktops together out of whatever parts I happen to have lying around, the machine I'm currently working on doesn't actually have a microphone connected. Or, for that matter, case screws.

My webcam is disconnected thanks to an abortive attempt to couple it to a mini-projector to hack up a projected keyboard.
Agree, seems a bit disingenuous, my Pingdom is showing 28 minutes of downtime and growing.

http://pingdom.commando.io/894360
"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."

- Anatole France, Le Lys Rouge [The Red Lily] (1894), ch. 7
I don't believe they have massive, unrecoverable data loss. Think about that: If they are so retarded that they dont have backup then Apple is really doomed. Really. But I think they have good IT... I think they detected serious security breach (which might be related to some incompetence but security is very very hard).
I work at Facebook. We use Facebook groups heavily for company announcements, discussions, funny posts, help and support, feedback and feedback requests, etc. We use Phabricator for code reviews and other software engineering tasks.

Of course, not everyone uses Phabricator (because not everyone is an engineer or programmer), but I haven't seen anyone not use Facebook. Even the culinary team (for Facebook's cafes) has a few popular Facebook groups.
It's not so hard to regulate. You can have AirBNB handing over their list of renters to the country's authorities in order to tax the renters.

But you should be adamant that you're going to tax them not close them, otherwise it won't work.
I'm not concerned about things looking bad on my resume. I'm confident in my skills and what I achieved so far at work and on my own before then.

I'm just wondering if there's a minimum industry experience that the majority of employers use as a cutoff line, much like having a degree. 2 years, 3 years, 5 years? That kind of thing.

I think delaying a startup to meet this criteria, provided it's not too far away, would be a smart and responsible decision.
Curious, name a specific instance when transparency caused more harm then good?
Whoops... spoke too soon... DOWN again!
High-End Smartphone Boom Ending as Price Drop Hits Apple
I wish I became of this earlier as well! Great point. Somewhere in high school I lost touch with this, and it took a lot of effort in my twenties to consciously realize this & bring it to my life.
This is what is displayed on the top of the website in an alert:

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Peering Outage in SFO1
Sun Jul 21 19:15:00 2013

Upon further investigation is also appears nlayer might have a larger problem on the west coast. We have taken the circuit out of service and have a ticket opened with them to investigate.
Sun Jul 21 19:50:34 2013

We saw some brief outages for one of our peers in SFO1.

While BGP converged on the backbones to reroute the inbound traffic from nlayer to our other peers, you might have experienced a short outage. This is standard bgp behavior and how the internet reroutes around outages.

Sun Jul 21 19:20:01 2013

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It's not clear to me whether this is telling me that there was an outage or that there is an outage. Regardless, my servers are inaccessible.
NSA chief leaks info on data sharing tech: It's SharePoint
Holy crap, who decided that light grey on white was a good color scheme for the timestamps? I know it's just a trendy design blunder but when I've nothing else to do but sit here and refresh the status page it feels like insult added to injury.
Drm-free
This kind of presentation would work perfectly for magazines like National Geographic.
How Goldman Made $5 Billion By Manipulating Aluminum Inventories
This site taught me the presentation / content separation in an easy manner. Thankful.
And... back up.

I know summer is all about Roller Coasters, hot dogs and whatnot but I did not expect to be riding a virtual roller coaster today!
I really hope you're right and the Dev Center returns without explanation, but with neon icons and a "flat" design. The backlash would help Apple to adjust its priorities again. (Services over fashion)
I'm back up.
Well, they've certainly been trying to make it more than an HPF. Which is understandable- I bet there are big bucks to be made if one of the vendors starts reliably blocking even sophisticated exploits.