skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article has literally zero substance and seems to be entirely circumstantial. A single interview with one Yugoslav about a single business. A ridiculous claims this has something to do with watching dynasty.

Unless of course you put a lot of stock in the "according to a recent survey" part.

I'm actually surprised how many people appear to be discussing this seriously, or why this was even submitted. Can anyone explain what is interesting about this?
You should almost always, for almost every test suite, do this with a mocking library.

That being said, I can think of some cases where this service would be really useful, such as one of tests on live systems for example.
I'm not sure about the UK but in the USA it is easy to write off trucks over 6000lbs as a business expense.
GNU/Linux yes, but in that scenario I'd expect to be able to run Android/Linux (FWIW I don't care about the naming argument, just disambiguating here) on new patriotic hardware...

Edit: maybe Windroid is the most likely of any of the wild cases above. :)
Whenever I see new 3D printers released or promoted, the main thing you see them model are functionally useless figurines and toys. I don't see a lot of people talking about practical applications. Although I can see its uses in rapid prototyping, which I do a fair bit of myself, I don't see a massive market on the horizon.
I don't understand it either. I didn't understand anything and I gave up after a few paragraphs. If we're dumb, we are at least not alone ;)
I just finished Norwegian Wood a couple weeks ago and loved it, and I loved The Wind-up Bird Chronicle as well, I'll have to check out South of the Border.
John Saddington on Entrepreneurship
SixUX Great blog for some UX inspiration
Ask HN: Did downvote requirement change again?
I noticed that I'm no longer able to downvote.

I'm a frequent reader of HN, though I don't comment often. Because of this, it took me a while to get to 200, which at the time was the requirement. It changed shortly after that to 500, and a year or so ago I got to 500 and got the ability to downvote again.

I don't really downvote that often, but this afternoon I saw a message that I thought warranted downvoting (in fact it was already shown in gray text) and proceeded to downvote it. I then saw that the down arrows were not showing for me anymore.

This is a new article (on the Front Page as of this writing) and I verified I was logged in, so my conclusion was that the downvote threshold changed again. What's the requirement now? Since when did it change? Is there a page which details these requirements?
10 Research-Backed Steps To Building A Great Team
The future of computing is design by contract and intentional programming. You define your goal, and that's about it. Most technicalities will be delegated to machines.

Most programmers will develop smart agents that will manipulate a decentralized and unique semantic data source. All of this is quite obvious.
FIAT, fix it again tomorrow. Fiats have a lousy reputation and this is deserved in my experience. Also Puntos are the car I see most often abandoned by the roadside
More open process could encourage adoption, ultimately improving IT project management across the industry. Organizations that have no experience with PMBOK or ITIL may not bother with it due to the expense and closed nature.

As I've been on projects with large schedule overruns, I am becoming more interested in the topic of project management to try to do better. However, ITIL and PMBOK seem way to heavy for what I need at a glance. My first approach is to simply look at following documented agile processes. What says that PMBOK and ITIL are the best options? In order to provide a FLOSS alternative, you'll need to build a community that really wants this stuff and can contribute the body of knowledge.
I think I just heard many system administrators collectively clutching their chests in pain.

If inexperienced devs and users could suddenly drop their pants at will, imagine the mayhem that would occur if experienced devs with malicious intent were set loose in that environment? You can't pretend they don't exist - in fact, it's better to assume everyone who's not you is out to utterly destroy your data ASAP. Some would argue don't even trust yourself.

Those firewalls, ids, utms and assumptions are pretty much the only thing protecting inexperienced users from themselves.
Hrm, kind of cool, I guess. It's less useful to me because I don't really write much in the way of Python.

Markdown has many intercompatible implementations in multiple languages; with the ability to put arbitrary Python code into a Quaint template, that gets harder.

Are you thinking about how to go beyond a .py.q to other languages? (e.g. .js.q)
From the article:

> Update: I've created a PR [pull request] for CoffeeScript. I've also just added the yieldfrom keyword...

Maybe this update happened after your comment?
I 100% agree you're paying for the signalling. But it's not an auction. Unless by auction you mean "the seller gets the government to pay upfront any price the seller chooses, and the government and buyer (student) get to work it out later as they see fit".
Ask HN: How good of a hacker do you have to be to be a technical co-founder?
Starting a startup is always daunting. But, as someone who will one day be a the technical co-founder of one, it's hard not to feel daunted by the enormity of the technical task that will be in front of me. Algorithms, database design, version control, deployment environments, design patterns, etc. The list goes on and on. And this isn't even touching on the non-technical aspects of a startup.

Is there any way of knowing if I should spend time shoring up my programming/algorithm skills versus trying to launch right away? How do I know I'm a good enough hacker to start a startup? Are there any good rule-of-thumb metrics for figuring this out, or is this case where you don't know until you actually try?
You're right. DES repeated thrice is better than DES. But I wonder why 3DES is not recommended for new systems? Hmmm....

You're wrong on the SIM as an MVP idea. I guess I'm not communicating clearly enough. What I mean is the computer ("phone") itself, of which the smart card subsystem (e.g. SIM card system) is a part, is of inferior quality. This is only my opinion.

I understand there are barriers to entry in place. But how does that relate to low quality, minimally viable products? I'll let you or someone else answer that.

Maybe we need to remove the barriers, lower the cost of entry and lower the complexity (simplify)? No, those sound like ignoble pursuits.
Uncanny Portraits Visualize The Power of Genetics
I recently launched http://www.ultrahook.com which is similar but focused on webhook tunneling only. It provides persistent hosnames and communicates over HTTP
$ curl -i http://mock.isssues.com/888
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 22:29:14 GMT
Status: 404 Not Found
X-Frame-Options: sameorigin
X-Xss-Protection: 1; mode=block
Content-Length: 9
Connection: keep-alive
I honestly think it's a very informative article, clearly SQL Server doesn't adhere to the standard (whichever one you choose) but I'm not aware of any RDBMS that does so I was curious as to whether there was one.

There's lots of amazing databases around, each has their own quirks and as the gp says it's generally difficult to drop in replacements due to those quirks. There's a few listed in the article for SQL Server I'm sure anyone could easily find where others deviate from the spec too. But anyway getting back to what you said:

> He is giving examples of violating the standard

That's absolutely true and it's something every other RDBMS does.
Does this work when compiling code to run on the browser?

If not, how could you modify the Coffeescript compiler to make that happen? (Preferably without requiring browser makers to make any changes.)
http://bellard.org/tcc/
I've been using them instead of localtunnel, and the experience is much nicer. I had a recent problem where localtunnel just flat out wouldn't work for me, so I didn't have a choice but to switch.
There are commercially available printers that do metal printing.

http://www.exone.com/materialization/what-is-digital-part-ma...
And consumer software is the only one that matters because..? In any case if your mom uses the interwebz, she has probably used Linux software, both free and money-making.
Broad Peak New Route: Iranian Climbers' Complicated Descent
Yes, two things conspire to seeing it multiple times; First new people join HN and think "Hmm, this would be interesting to that group" and post it, and second, some people who count karma say "Hmm, that got some good karma back <whenever> I'll post it again." There are some automated controls on the second case and not really any control on the first case.

Both cases provide interesting information, in the first case things that every new person posts are generally pretty widely interesting. In the second case it is interesting to see reputation manipulation through gaming. Some people see a "score" and are compelled to "win."
> If you don't have any friends with PGP keys, feel free to email me

This (everyone has to use it or it's pointless), Gmail, and other webmail clients are why PGP doesn't get used.

I read mail with 2 clients, Thunderbird at home, and Roundcube anywhere else. Roundcube doesn't support PGP.
So… Did everyone get the email saying they had an intrusion and they're rebuilding the system?
Just received following email- confirmed breach:

Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website. Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed. In the spirit of transparency, we want to inform you of the issue. We took the site down immediately on Thursday and have been working around the clock since then.

In order to prevent a security threat like this from happening again, we’re completely overhauling our developer systems, updating our server software, and rebuilding our entire database. We apologize for the significant inconvenience that our downtime has caused you and we expect to have the developer website up again soon.
Apple sent emails about outage of Dev Center
Apple Developer Website Update
Email from Apple

Apple Developer Website Update

Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website. Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed. In the spirit of transparency, we want to inform you of the issue. We took the site down immediately on Thursday and have been working around the clock since then.

In order to prevent a security threat like this from happening again, we’re completely overhauling our developer systems, updating our server software, and rebuilding our entire database. We apologize for the significant inconvenience that our downtime has caused you and we expect to have the developer website up again soon.
$ curl -i http://mock.isssues.com/fake/url
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: mohttp; nodename nor servname provided, or not known
Do learnpythonthehardway.org

Once you are through with that, come back and ask for more. :-)
Video - it appears to be the simpleVideo library, located at https://github.com/markupboy/simpleVideo .
That's not a problem of the philosophy, it's a problem of its implementation. And that is caused by the myriad people and entities to have been responsible for the chaotic evolution of the various parts that make up modern Unix systems.

Design by effectively nobody can be at least as bad as design by committee.

As others pointed out, Plan 9 is much closer to a proper realization of the everything is a file design philosophy. Unsurprising, since it was grown entirely within Bell Labs under the supervision of the original Unix team. It's unfortunate it hasn't reached a point of being ready for mass adoption.
Week #1: Choosing an idea, validating a market need and bridging focus
That was quite dull and for the large part spurious. Order by on an in clause, aggregating bits, multi column in clause, trim, ordering of nulls, using,.. All of these are of zero practical interest.

Also, all this talk of 'standards' is strange because there is no mention of what standard is being referred to.
I'm being served h264 encoded HTML5 video embeds:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/07/21/silk-ro...

The file size is 874k. If it were an animated gif of similar quality, the file size would be massive.
Check out Quipper:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.5485v1.pdf
Per the earlier discussion, that sounds waaaay to straight forward. Now I need to figure out if my phone is vulnerable.
Apple just released an update (developers should be getting it in their inbox) but still no ETA on when it'll be up. Very unfortunate for those of us waiting to release apps before August.
Thinking about it some more, I think the previously mentioned problem had only m unknown, n was known ahead of time.
More specifically, they're equivalent if you were going to freebase the cocaine. Freebasing powdered cocaine is possible, but its complicated and dangerous -- for instance Richard Pryor famously almost died from burns received while doing it:
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20076864,00....

Crack is basically freebasing in kit form.
Kind of like how OO was going to give us massive libraries of OTS software components with which we could just 'wire-up' programs?
This comment makes me want to come up with a 3D printing startup; you've practically distilled it to the koan of the "next important technology". I felt the same way (meaning, as you do about 3D printing) about MP3s.

The big problem I see with 3D printer products for the home is that they're very slow. Pushing aside the fact that they won't always be slow (because swinging too early for the market is no better than swinging too late; both result in strikes), this is problem that can be solved at a consumer level by retail, the same way we don't have offset printers and copy machines in our houses but all know where to find a Kinkos.

Bear in mind that most people will never design a 3D model; most people can't even draw, and 3D modeling is harder. But that doesn't matter, of course, because some people can't help but 3D model things and will publish those models to places like Thingiverse.
Apple Developer Website Update
Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website. Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed. In the spirit of transparency, we want to inform you of the issue. We took the site down immediately on Thursday and have been working around the clock since then.

In order to prevent a security threat like this from happening again, we’re completely overhauling our developer systems, updating our server software, and rebuilding our entire database. We apologize for the significant inconvenience that our downtime has caused you and we expect to have the developer website up again soon.
Yep, I can confirm I just got this as well.
But the updates that fix less serious issues are often pushed, because they get worked around in apps/whatever.

As for equivalence, gecko, among other things, has the drawing layer.

At least according to https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Architecture,
Gecko is using OpenGL ES 2.0 to do drawing.

This means it will be impacted by graphics driver bugs and issues, the same as Android is.

(Which is not surprising, since Gonk, the layer below it, started out as Android)

Look at it this way: anything that lives in Gonk will generally have exactly the same issues as Android does in terms of updates. There may be some pieces of it that are more generic than others (bluez, for example), but by and large, you will need to test on each phone model.

FWIW, the Gecko layer is essentially the same as Android's framework.

What functionality is provided by a high level layer differs a bit, but Android and Firefox OS are not as architecturally different as you seem to think.
Fiat produces quite reliable engines. Their multijet engines are unbeatable in the small gasoline engine class (1-1.2l). The JTD engines, while not Mercedes-quality, fare better than VW's TDIs.

Now, if you are talking about electrical wiring problems in their cars, I'll have to concede. It's the XXI century, and they still can't get wiring right.
I really liked this article. It's startling to someone as old as I am to realize that many Hacker News participants are too young to remember Yugoslavia as an intact country. In general, the transition from regimes in eastern Europe controlled by national Communist parties (whether part of the Warsaw Pact or not) to the current melange of national governments in a larger number of countries in that region is already a distant memory or unknown to many young people, while still remembered as an unimaginable future possibility to people my age.

On the subject of the first McDonald's restaurant in a country, my wife (who grew up in Taiwan) and I went (on my suggestion) to the opening day of the first McDonald's in Taiwan in early 1984. We waited in line outdoors at least an HOUR, and when we finally got into the restaurant, the workers inside all looked shocked at the number of customers still in line to order. People in Taiwan are used to working hard, but that was a level of intensity of desire for a particular restaurant's food that was baffling to the young new hires there. I think everyone in Taiwan who had ever been to any country with a McDonald's, both locals and expatriates, were there to see what a local McDonald's would look like.

After my newlywed wife had her first McDonald's hamburger, she asked her American husband why I went to the trouble of waiting in line so long for such indifferent food. That was sheer nostalgia on my part--by then I had been away from the United States for two years. Here in the United States, I can and do go two years at a time without eating a McDonald's hamburger, just because I can. But felt I had to have the hamburger in Taiwan at my first opportunity, just because I couldn't before. I think for a while that McDonald's store in Taipei had the worldwide record for highest weekly gross sales of any McDonald's location, eventually to be surpassed by the first-ever McDonald's in some other country. You can now get good service from diligent young workers in a McDonald's all over Taiwan.
> This (everyone has to use it or it's pointless)

First, "everyone" does not have to use PGP for signing to be worthwhile. And I'm not saying that everyone already does; I'm saying that we should start.

Furthermore,

> Gmail, and other webmail clients are why PGP doesn't get used.

Gmail presents inherent problems with privacy and data access from the get-go. It's not a coincidence that Gmail's web interface will never be compatible with PGP.

Fortunately, Gmail still allows IMAP access, which means that people who use clients like Thunderbird and Outlook (yes, Outlook) can use PGP with their Gmail-hosted email addresses.

Maybe you're not one of those people, but a large number of people on HN are.
Good approach, but how do you know you're not infected?
Apple: extended Developer Website outage due to security breach
Yeah, I'm in two minds as to whether I'll bother signing it.

It's mostly just sad, because I had so much enthusiasm for the library when I first found it which has now simply dissipated. Oh well.
Pissing contest mostly.
And also some thinks it help with erectile dysfunction.
I am the author. Plain .q is supposed to be language agnostic (and I'd say it's relatively featureful), whereas .py.q, .js.q, etc. would be used if you wanted to embed some other language (though there's only a Python implementation for the time being). That's the logic behind the naming scheme, anyway :)
Well based on the timing chain replacement alone, I'd agree but I've done 40k miles in it and that's been the only problem.

Some people don't get the luck I have out of a Doblo:

http://www.ausmotive.com/images/Fiat-van.jpg

:)
We have this in FAQ that if it goes on TV do not post it here.I, as a hacker, as a part of this community, am requesting for any kind of help that you may be able to get for these three young man. We Iranian users were desperately trying to raise awareness of media by tweeting with #IranianClimbers hash tag but it seems media is ignoring these 3 climbers. Do you know anyone that could help? please let us know. Thank you!
I just went to check on the dev center and got this e-mail:

Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website. Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed. In the spirit of transparency, we want to inform you of the issue. We took the site down immediately on Thursday and have been working around the clock since then.

In order to prevent a security threat like this from happening again, we’re completely overhauling our developer systems, updating our server software, and rebuilding our entire database. We apologize for the significant inconvenience that our downtime has caused you and we expect to have the developer website up again soon.
"In the spirit of transparency". Right, Apple.
The headline and the error are pretty priceless together. Not sure if this is performance art (I suspect not) but the message that you're going to have to deal with sudden bursts of traffic is a good one to learn earlier rather than later.
Apple Developer Portal Outage Email
These details are befuddling. "Personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed". It can't be accessed because it's somehow stored elsewhere, or it can't be accessed because of the encryption? That is, does the intruder currently own my encrypted data?

I'm also disappointed that it took them 72 hours to tell us anything, and that the update doesn't even have a timeline for when the site may be back. "Soon" is meaningless.
Apple: Extended Developer Website outage due to security breach
Uh, how does this "encryption" work?

For the website to show these details (and it does, in part, use these details in the interface) it must be able to decrypt these on the web applications side. Ergo the keys for decryption must also be on the server or derived from the users passwords, both of which make the use of encryption a fairly worthless venture.

ED: As another commenter mentioned in an earlier thread, lots of other AppleID facing applications are gone as well ( https://ecommerce.apple.com/ ), so it would be interesting to find out how far this all goes. The websites don't seem that far disconnected from the information in iCloud.
Apple explains Developer Center outage
It's no coincidence that all (ex-)paternalistic nanny States show this kind of problem.
Can it be related to the similar attack on the ubuntu forum? Maybe it was a single group of hackers targeting the servers in which they know a lot of developers have an account
Might be a good source for examples/inspiration:

http://www.redditdonate.com/browse/campaigns

That said, this was a special nonprofit project put out by Dwolla and Stripe, so I'm not sure if the "guest" checkout feature is available for us common folk. If that's the case, as t0 mentions, the transfer/verification process takes quite awhile.
It's only $3. I'm going to buy it even though I have no time to read the whole book. The author is a good writer and I love his blog... I only hope he will write a Clojure book one day!