skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm telling you that singling out conservatives for being hypocrites while ignoring your "side" for being hypocrites is a form of modern tribalism. In other words, you're part of the problem of gridlock because you're too busy playing a gotcha game. This comes from spending too much time on blogs and forums specific to your team. Both sides do it, and I don't understand how one could consider themselves a member of either one and pretend that they know they chose correctly.

Liberal Democrats are hypocrites because they spent eight years bashing George W. Bush for his expanding surveillance state--and Obama specifically spoke out against it during his candidacy--yet many of those same liberal Democrats spend their time in Washington defending the current administration's policies. They hated Bush's wars and detainment policies yet say nothing about Obama's continuation of them, the drone strikes, and the general warmongering. This administration has been one long series of broken promises and defensive Democrats. Watching Nancy Pelosi attempt to differentiate between Obama's security state and Bush's security state was mind-boggling.

If you're going to respond that liberals are opposed to all this and don't consider Obama a true liberal because of it, conservatives did the same regarding George W. Bush when his poll numbers went down too. Every time there's a problem, the person in office suddenly doesn't represent you anymore, and you distance yourselves.

Bloating the spectrum of government power refers to desensitization to the growing power the government has to collect information on citizens for its own purposes, from the healthcare database to monitoring phone calls.

I can tell which "side" you're on just from the seething way you talk about the other team. If you took a step back and looked objectively, you'd see that you both come off the same way to independents and have the same transgressions and hypocrisies.
Roy Castillo: How I Exposed your Primary Facebook Email Address (worth $4500)
Huh - so 5% of mobile browsing time dedicated to news sites isn't worth optimizing for - but the 4% of desktop web browsing time that is dedicated to news sites (same link) leads you to believe you should optimize (only) the desktop web experience?

I guess I just don't follow your logic.

Ignore mobile if you like. But good luck with that. Mobile users will find an experience that is optimized for them.
I've learned that lesson as well. As much as web frameworks try to make the database interchangeable past a certain point it becomes amazingly difficult to switch.
"for the vast majority of people, the "reason for living" is simply that the alternative, death, is petrifying."

Perhaps I'm unusually happy, but my reason is to have the most fun, which pretty strongly implies helping those around me have fun, while being focused on long term. Some sociocultural rules from the other side of the planet three thousand years ago are interesting and all that, but don't float my boat or fit my needs.
Good article. Another one that I find counter intuitive is that the sum of an empty set returns null which goes against set theory (states it should return 0) but apparently this is by design
To appropriate a quote from Adventure Time: Man, your view of the universe is pretty bleak.
That would be a good defence if he were talking about leaving out optional parts.

He is giving examples of violating the standard.
Don't forget the fall of the Mongol empire, and then of the successor states. It was only really during the Mongol age that the land-based high-volume trade could exist along the routes of the Silk Road.
Not to mention CoffeeScript and Backbone.
SQL server by default creates tablespaces with non ANSI SQL NULL behaviour. Exlicitly specifying ANSI SQL compatibility when creating tablespace makes it "to do the right thing"

Edit: was doing it many years ago so forgot the details (or they changed :), so just checked - it is "alter database" that can switch various "ansi_null" default settings into ON from default OFF
Time for Bitcoin to fund a war
> I would wager more money is made via Linux than iOS by a fairly large margin.

Without a doubt. IBM, Google, Amazon, and many, many others are deep in the Linux eco-system. Pretty much all supercomputing is done on Linux, and all the boring cloud/infrastructure/scientific stuff is done on Linux.
It's interesting that you mention Mr. Hamano since I was thinking about how Git or Linux works while writing my comment. I think we both agree that having someone who steers the ship is then fine, call it PM, higher-ups in the commit hierarchy, etc. The Linux kernel has people like like GregKH or even Linus who I'd call PMs, their main jobs are communication and reviews, not writing code. You don't need a parallel organization for this but you need to create some structure to support a big number of people working in different projects under the same umbrella.

I think your comments are targeted more towards having someone "illiterate" steering the ship and that is a whole different thing that's not mentioned anywhere in the article. I won't argue anything in this regard since I think it's really dependent on the person and not the abstract role, but it seems (judging from the other comments in the thread) that most people have been burned by people with no knowledge giving direct orders on how to proceed.
Microsoft must stick with Windows RT, analysts say
Recently i reinstalled Windows 7 on my gaming PC. It was only a week or 2 into my usage when i realised i forgot to install antivirus software. I don't even think i need it anymore.

I use Sandboxie for any potentially dodgy programs. I use Adblock (Chrome) so the chances of being infected by a rogue ad provider is reduced. I keep tabs on my incoming and outgoing network traffic using SMSniff (for curiosity) and i use Malwarebytes for the occasional scan to see if anything slipped by. I used to hear people facetiously saying "Common Sense" was the best antivirus, but i think they were right. As long as you stay away from dodgy files and sites (such as cracks and keygens from P2P groups) and sandbox any programs you don't trust much, you should be fine.
Bankrupt shmankrupt. Detroit's Tech Scene's Never Been Better
Well this is the motivation I needed to sort out my lazy password handling.

I've just gone through everything and changed to unique passwords stored in KeyPassX.
Why is this question getting up voted and why is it relevant?
It's not that simple. To read more about the economy there visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Socialist_Federa...
I appreciated the keyboard shortcuts to jump through the pictures. Loved the attention to detail here.
So, just out of curiosity, which other RDBMS doesn't violate the standard?
And they can keep the streets safe with Robocop.

But seriously, why would Google do this, when they can work with a small municipality without crushing debts that will sell out simply for the jobs that Google would bring?
It's not that bad.

And if you're really concerned, you can just use the JVM.
That's the difference between a musician and a DJ
Partners (carriers, or whoever supports the phone, e.g. geeksphone) provides the updates, in all cases I have seen so far (Spain and Poland are the only places that have launched AFAIK). Anyone can root their phone and install the latest of course (assuming this is legal where you live and not breaking the terms of contracts you agreed to etc)

I have a geeksphone and they provide a nightly channel, or I can root the phone and install my own image - I use a T-Mobile pre-paid SIM, but could switch to any carrier the hardware supports, who will let me use their network. If you buy hardware under contract or some other conditions from a carrier, I imagine things will be different. I am not a lawyer (if it's not obvious already), I work for Mozilla but don't work with partners or have any special knowledge of this :)

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, in order to use trademarks like Firefox OS and logos etc. you must meet Mozilla's terms. I don't know if these agreements are public or just between Mozilla and their partner, all I can find from a quick search is https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/partners/
I wish! I hate my PC's bios. So many superfluous timeouts, so much waiting around (clearly braindead programming that doesn't do hardware well). A stupid text based config interface. Nothing about the BIOS is good.
The other Detroits: Six ways 'shrinking' cities try to survive
Ask HN: Debt Collection as a Service?
Let's say that we have a web service called NUCO where you can login and upload a spreadsheet of your debtors or add them manually and you click on "collect debt" button. NUCO then builds a profile of the debtor based on their social media profiles, etc and determines the best channel and the best tone of contact. So for example, if we have a C level executive who seems to be paying all of his other bills on time we would take a moderate, very respectful (almost apologetic tone) however, if we send a collections message to someone who clicks on the link and reviews his debt but does noting, system would increase intensity and "seriousness" of the tone in the email messages/phone calls.

Some context:

Since NUCO is not doing collections itself but is instead giving automated tools to do collections to the creditor - nuco is not bound by the same rules and regulations placed on the collection agencies.

NUCO would take a cut on a sliding scale, based on the age of the debt. If a freelancer or a contractor submits a debt that is "only" 15 days overdue, NUCO would take a small cut (say 5%) however, more overdue the debt is, NUCO would take larger cut (say, 15% for a 90 days old debt).

There would be an API that would also allow people to automatically send someone to NUCO for collections if, for example, debt is over X days old.

Being a smart crowd, what is HN crowd's 2 cents on this?
Where's our version of "The Mother of all Demos" ?

Bret Victor, who has been inspired[1] by Doug Engelbart, has showcased plenty of innovations on his presentations/writtings:

* Magic Ink[2]

* Stop Drawing Dead Fish[3]

* Drawing Dynamic Visualizations[4]

* Media for Thinking the Unthinkable[5]

* LearnableProgramming[6]

* Inventing on Principle[7]

[1] http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/

[2] http://worrydream.com/#!/MagicInk

[3] http://vimeo.com/64895205

[4] Drawing Dynamic Visualizations

[5] http://vimeo.com/67076984

[6] http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/

[7] http://vimeo.com/36579366
Peter Watts, especially Blindsight, although Starfish is also good. He's the rare writer who combines hard and soft SF in one; keep plowing through the first thirds to halves of his novels, which are confusing but worth the payoff.

I also read Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 not long ago and didn't dislike it, exactly, and yet felt bored even in the midst of exciting reversals and shocking events in the context of the world.
I didn't claim it was economically optimal, only that it gets good mileage.
To me neither patents nor price (of the printers) are actually holding back. I just can't search for "$product print spare part $frob" on the web and get relevant results.

I fear nothing will change because a) there will never be relevant b) _standardised_ results and file formats (use with any consumer printer) c) DRMed results not any cheaper than the "real" thing. Or anu combination of those.
Btw, this post is about a month old, but posting again because it seems highly relevant in light of the bankruptcy filing.
Amulyte (YC S13) - Emergency Response Device. Reimagined.
The Marxists Who Explained the Nazis to Washington
Burdened By Legacy Platforms, GM Fights Off The Kits
Here's a talk I gave on the topic: http://vimeo.com/32507674 and here are the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/olegp/js-everywhere-2011

Feel free to message me on Twitter (@olegpodsechin) and I'd be happy to answer any questions you have.
The phone lines at AirBnB customer service are always very responsive when I ring through. Not having to hand money over to the host , but rather go through a third party also makes more sense because if an issue does arise the money isn't lost.
Through a combination of direct ownership and mutual funds, I own thousands of dollars of Apple stock, and would be materially harmed by a major drop in its price. I also own numerous Macs and iOS devices, and am indirectly harmed by Mac and iOS developers being unable to access code and information important to their work. The company I work for may also be harmed by this, as we engage in some iOS development (though I'm not directly involved in that these days).

I find the explanation of massive, unrecoverable data loss plausible, and your insinuation inane.
That is the 2nd edition of my book. Except for 4 new chapters in the 3rd edition, the 2nd edition is similar.
I won't even start with my thoughts on the collection business but I will point out you're trying to disrupt a market which is traditionally controlled by criminals. I'd watch out if I were you.
It's interesting seeing all of the random things that North American companies do around the world that we (in general) have no idea about.
Hey, I got a better idea. Let's give each socket a "human-friendly" name. Translating back and forth to the underlying numerical representation should be easy enough.[1]

Heck, we could even create a centralized system for managing our new namespace. OMG, maybe we could charge people money for the names? Yes! We're rich!

And the result: Hundreds of millions of "parked" domains serving up cheap advertising. Simply brilliant!

1. See Hobbit's comments in netcat source code for a differing opinion.

I often wish that people like djb or Hobbit (=low tolerance for nonsense) had designed the systems that we are now stuck with.

Though they are only applications, netcat and ucpsi have aged well and remain a pleasure to use.
I'm in the UK and I've have a couple of vehicles, both European and both diesel. Not VW! They are great. I wouldn't buy anything else. Fuel here is expensive so it's a good idea to keep it simple.

I had a 2006 Citroen C3 diesel. Even with the air con on full whack, I could get 64mpg out of it on an average ~60mph journey. In London traffic, I got 52mpg out of it.

I now have a 2006 Fiat Doblo 1.3 diesel van/people carrier. This is a much larger vehicle but it's genuinely hard not to get at least 46mpg out of it with 5 people and a load of crap in it. On my own, 58mpg.

The latter had a timing chain replaced for around £500 but apart from consumables, no problems in several years.

I really don't get it when I see someone in a Dodge Ram (suddenly become popular in the UK?!?) hammering it up the motorways with no load or passengers.
Why not? The NYT, through embracing digitization, has been able to maintain one of the largest subscriber bases in post-Internet newspapers. An increasing proportion of their revenue is coming from subscriptions instead of advertising - if they can develop the right tools, they can pump these out with relatively low cost.
I thought it was pretty tastefully done. It could certainly be abused as an effect, but overall I think this is what 'newspapers' are going to look like in the decades to come.
I find it interesting how quickly you jumped to the conclusion that "socialism" is to blame.
I've never used Anti Virus software. Turns out there is a really simple solution.

Don't install viruses.
> full year internship during the summer

...summer or full year?

> advice on finding one

I interned at a startup last year right after high school. I found them during an alumni career fair. The founders went to my high school, which is a magnet school.

I'm working for a different startup this summer. I found them through HN on a "Who's hiring?" thread!

> what to look for

Find one you're interested in.

> does the area of my undergraduate matter if I have the technical skills to make up for it?

I'm a rising 2nd year undergraduate math student. I'm not even in the engineering school at my university. I'd say the answer is "no," but your mileage may vary :).

If you have any specific questions, my email address is on my profile. Good luck!
I Graduated High School.  Now What?
we don't have pipes. We have exceptions.
I always wonder why these big V6 engines are still so common in the US. I'm driving a 2 liter diesel in a BMW X3 (a heavy car, 4wd, automatic) and still get 34 mpg. The 2 liter engine is plenty powerful for this big car. Too powerful maybe, looking at the speeding tickets I got with this car since I have it.

A modern 3 liter TDI is crazy powerful. I really see no practical use case for those engines, other than engaging in speeding contests between Audi's, BMW's and Mercedeses in the leftmost lane of the autobahn. And since there is no autobahn in the US, why do they buy them? I think for normal cars, 1.6 - 2.0 liter 4 cylinder is enough.
The aggregation aspect of the thought experiment was just to frame things. I'm not a proponent of making decisions based on the aggregate. A TL;DR version of what I wrote might be "Learn to do it right before you do it well."

Developing enough empathy for consumers is definitely necessary, but also really difficult to do. Design thinking is the best approach to solving that problem I've encountered so far, but testing is still a huge component.

This reminds me of an awesome series of posts on how to run a 5-day design sprint that came out of Google Venture's design team: http://www.designstaff.org/articles/product-design-sprint-20...
The concentration or severity of existential depression in gifted children is well documented if not well known.

Where is there any evidence WHATEVER that the severity of existential depression is any different for gifted people than it is for anybody else? I know Jim Webb, and I'm pickled in the writings of the gifted education movement. (I'll be spending the following two weeks presenting parent seminars on gifted education at Epsilon Camp 2013, so I keep up with all the latest literature on this subject.) I think "existential depression" is a euphemism used for "depression" among some but fortunately not all families who have gifted children--nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else.

Yes, it is crucial to help people who feel depressed, and I applaud anyone on HN who does so when depression comes up in submitted stories or comment threads from time to time. But I see utterly no evidence in the professional literature on depression that the manifestation of depression is much different in gifted people from its manifestation in all other human beings. Everyone who experiences depression needs to feel connected with fellow human beings who show compassion.
It's funny how you mention polymorphism in malware. Just recently I came across a modified version of a stock exploit kit which was serving Zeus with each signature being unique. I didn't look into it too much be it seems like there were several thousand precompiled version of the executable on the server and each unique copy was only being loaded for a few hosts to evade anti-virus detection.

There is even open source software that helps evade Antiviruses. If anybody's interested in further reading, I would definitely recommend:

[1]https://www.veil-evasion.com/tutorial-veil-payload-developme...

[2]http://blog.webroot.com/2013/02/22/diy-malware-cryptor-as-a-...

[3]https://www.christophertruncer.com/veil-a-payload-generator-...

[4]https://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=15173
so we have highly skilled technical practitioners, intimately familiar with the codebase, such as that found in the "commit hierarchy" of Linux/git.

i cannot equate them with PRoject/product/programme managers, especially not with the overriding focus on planned dates.

We have a industrial management system based on the physical needs of large scale factory style production. And it is ignoring the management styles of the creAtive industries - where there is always a commit hierarchy and this not in it are ignored or supply finan e
Ubuntu Forum breached
Insanely fast logging performance using Log4j 2
In general I find it wiser to realize that we only give other people our time; they never take it.

It is very hard to take someone's time without their permission.

Now give me back the time I spent responding to you.
I won't lie, I was hoping this would be an analytical look at a flaw in cookies, the tasty treat.
Not to mention d3.
Where did you get 10.9? Is it stable?
The anti-virus industry has always been a bit of a con. It is probably hard for people who habitually use Windows to understand since their AV software has probably saved them a lot of times but it is actually a really hit and miss way to filter things and it gives a false sense of security with a big performance hit. In the Windows world it has been necessary but not sufficient for a very long time and people get confused about what you mean when you say this and push back. Proper security practices involve minimising your installed software, only installing from trusted sources, using signed software where supported or checksumming it otherwise, running apps in sandboxes, isolating machines you need to protect, monitoring your systems behaviour and a lot more.
MIT President Reif defends motion to delay FOIA release
I couldn't understand the article. Can someone summarize the new ideas?
It's the same as saying that NoSQL will undermine old and good Relational DB's.
Copyright extension is the foulest of all of such fosterers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
I think we're starting to see a shift away from the areas that OOP is traditionally comfortable with.

Increasingly, modern system design tends to place an emphasis on bare, immutable data, whereas OO tends to work with encapsulated, mutable state. If the only thing you're using objects for is namespacing and polymorphism, then there's not much point to designing software within the OO paradigm.
There's also https://forwardhq.com/ which has some nice features
It's a lot less poetic if you consider that it wasn't "trust" that brought our placentas into being but a mutated retrovirus.

More power to this guy if he helps people feel better about themselves and the world but he should refrain from entering public debates about "genetic engineering and economics" while presenting himself as somebody enlightened, knowledgeable or even adequately informed.

It is unfair to judge him solely from this article without having read his books but what can be gathered from it and a cursory search suggests that his interest in modern science consists exclusively of surfing the current zeitgeist without actually being interested in science, or even the philosophy of science.

If he indeed is "at the forefront of European intellectual life" it would be a pretty sad testament to the dismal state of contemporary philosophy.
Has anyone tried http://www.mailvelope.com/ for using PGP in Gmail or other hosted email providers? I'm curious how it works.
You linked to a very insightful blog post.

I guess the TL:DR is that it's tough to get rich in the mobile app market unless you have enough users to make ads profitable.
Or the people eating the pills are the health-conscious ones who don't actually need them since they're already eating healthy. Ironic.
I came up with most of these ideas independently. If you look at them, you'll realize that most share the same patterns, and actually are similar ideas.

I'm currently working on something that superficially looks like #4, but includes at least 20% (potentially more) of these ideas (or make them obsolete).

Most of them are trivial, and I'm sure much of us didn't get anything new from this list. Heck, I could come up with 50 more just like that (but maybe not that related to programming).
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