skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure about plg's reason, but I will avoid ever creating a plus account due to their strange policies for name verification. I'm not sure if it was improved lately or not, but many accounts were suspended previously when names didn't look English as far as I remember. Mine's definitely not an English one and it contains some non-ascii characters. Avoiding services which require plus accounts is much easier than dealing with potential account suspension.
I find eating to be necessary. YMMV.
Yeah, ctrl-f for python gave a disappointing 0 results. I've been forced to use Aptana since Netbeans 7 and it's not much fun, despite the pep-8 support.
Number 3, absolutely. That's true in the UK too. In fact, if AI consulted the patient, it would catch a lot of things which doctors miss, simply by asking enough pertinent questions.

When I have challenged doctors about this, they tend to say "Ah, but you're focused on data, we focus on diagnosing the patient", which is basically gibberish.
I think the argument goes like this:

1. There's a crash (cause unspecified)

2. The Fed creates money to smooth things out

3. This new money eventually gets things going, but it comes at a price: the way it gets things going isn't sustainable

4. Once people (traders/investors/general public) realize it is/was unsustainable, they begin to unwind everything

5. This unwinding is a new crash (cause specified)

6. The Fed creates money to smooth things out

7. Rinse and repeat
It's funny to me that the MPAA has the time and resources for a code review on 3rd party code but still has yet to build an app that allows me to pay for streaming their content.
Growth is non-existent...

Growth is the same as it was before the recession (about 2.5%).

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/GDPC1

Efficiency improvements have resulted in more overall production.
Put half a pound of crickets in food processor. Two teaspoons starch (for binding). Add 4 small sliced green chili peppers, some grated ginger, 2-3 thinly shredded kaffir lime leaves, lemon grass, teaspoon of fish sauce (for the msg!). Form into patties, deep fry until golden brown.

I think i had something like that from a food stall in Thailand, not far from Cambodian border O_o
Except the order wasn't to build a filter, full stop. It was to build a filter if isohunt wants to continue operating in the US.
Try a CTRL+R refresh. That should work. (Cloudflare can be very annoying sometimes, even after clearing the cache manually)
I really hope it will workout for them. Africa in general is very innovative in surprising areas such as mobile payments.
Solaris is still doing well, last version (11.1) was released last year.

I don't do Solaris projects since 2001, besides tweaking at home every now and then, but I would guess:

- ZFS

- containers

- DTrace

- The usual commercial UNIX stuff that is still being brought into Linux and BSD distributions, in terms of security and high availability

- Maintenance contracts (Oracle changed them though)

All the code that is using Solaris specific APIs, because like all standards, POSIX only covers partially what each UNIX system offers.
Bay Area Tech Wages Are The Nation’s Highest At $123K...
If you view source on the page you can see a link to the song. It's being played from an invisible embedded youtube player, so you can get the link from there.
Can you expand on what they outsource? Do they outsource any of their development?
Um, password re-use is well-known to be a Bad Thing, especially if you're using the same password for gmail as for some seedy site you were curious about. It increases your security attack surface.
Death in China Stirs Anger Over Urban Rule Enforcers
Now I'm not colorblind but I do know the girl in that first picture isn't wearing pink and OHMYGODTHATSABOY...
Github's Code for Workplace Happiness
Here is a backup screenshot I took of the page, in case ubuntuforums is taken down and you want to see what the fuss was all about.

http://imgur.com/hUX3f1F
It is interesting that some social conservatives (or maybe just non-liberals?) care about consciously enforcing gender roles through clothing. This would seem to imply that they are similar in their beliefs with feminists when it comes to the nature/nurture question: that gender is enforced through culture. But this is usually thought of as a very liberal idea (or whatever I should call it).

Pink as an effeminate color has always seemed kind of arbitrary to me. I just can't see how a color would have a specific gender.
The man's escape strategy described in the post was discovered in 1952 by Besicovitch. It has a kind of discontinuity because, quoting the post, "There are 2 perpendicular paths. Choose the one closest to the center, or if the two paths are equally close, then either one is fine." In simple terms, the man will eventually make a wrong turn (with probability 1) unless he can instantaneously measure distances with perfect accuracy.

Surprisingly, for every continuous man strategy, there is a continuous lion strategy that can catch the man by time T where T is the disc radius divided by the lion's speed.

Restricting to continuous strategies in some other lion-man games actually leads to other paradoxes such as both lion and man having a "winning" strategy. The shallow resolution of the paradox is that two such winning strategy cannot actually be played against each other.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2524

The deeper resolution is that even continuous strategies can be unphysical if they allow for information to travel at infinite speed (e.g., if the man is modelled as knowing the lion's current speed and velocity, special relativity notwithstanding). I'm not aware a proof in the literature, but presumably continuity of strategies plus an information speed limit will avoid the above paradoxes. (Continuous-time game theory is still very immature compared to discrete-time game theory.)
Contact Form 7 on Dreamhost is Broken: Here’s How to Fix It
Vitamin D enrichment is required for most milk in the USA, and according to wikipedia virtually all first world countries have a similar law.
It'd be cool to see these sorts of new search tools integrate into the git ecosystem. I wonder how much faster 'git ack' would be than just straight-up ack -- in other words, could ack benefit from any of git's working tree and delta-based optimizations / awareness?
> “This is in fact a metaphor for today’s China, where the state is seizing property everywhere through a variety of means,” Mr. Li wrote. “Businessmen lose their enterprises and are thrown into prison; an anonymous vendor loses his watermelons. Sometimes it’s the urban management officers that seize the property. Sometimes it’s the court, or the bank, or the unpredictable policies.”

Not much different from the US, iow.
So long as you're not poor, health care in the US is good. If you live in a major city and are diligent about who takes care of you, it is great.

I've had three MRIs. All were scheduled the same day they were prescribed. I've routinely scheduled appointments with renown specialists and waited less than 2 days to get in. My double hernia surgery was performed by the same guy who treats the Chicago Bears. My old chiropractor/kinesiologist used to be Andre Agassi's.

To clarify: "not poor" != "rich". At the time of these expenses, I was making a good salary, but nothing unattainable by HN definitions.

However, if you're on Medicaid... you. are. fucked.
Roadmap for fixing Python packaging
s/b "How Forensic Linguistics Confirmed a Leak about Rowling"
Thanks for keeping things in perspective.
Accept Monthly Payments Online for the Price of a Netflix Subscription
For more recreational math, I tend to watch Numberphile:
https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile

There's also a more-recently launched Computerphile, which has some interesting vids, as well: https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile
The all eggs in one basket approach exposes you to equal risks online, the minute that account's compromised they've got everything, and worse risks in the case that you leave yourself logged in somewhere.
While boys and girls wore "dresses" till about age 6 or 7, till they were breached[1], they carried gender markers --at least in the upper classes. The clothes were not interchanged. The styles were different and people of the time would be able to identify the gender.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeching_(boys)
I'm sure I'm not alone - this site really inspired me to first get into web design and development. Great to see it alive and contributions as imaginative as ever.
Crickets are one of the worst insects to breed. It's hard to keep a stable colony, they smell awful, make noise, and constantly jump out and escape.

I breed Guyana roaches to feed my pet tarantulas. They are hardy and easy to breed, plus they don't smell or make noise and they can't climb walls. They give live birth and don't infest homes. I keep them in a large storage bin with a screen lid filled with egg crates, and feed them fresh fruit and dry cat food once a week. I live in a small apartment and guests don't even know they're there unless I point them out.
Reading this I thought: how does one authenticate a pid or uid in a daemon? I am assuming Unix domain sockets, which don't provide you with the caller's pid or uid.

Doing some googling I found there are indeed nonportable interfaces for this. First I found getpeerucred which is a Sun thing. Then I found Linux has a SO_PEERCRED socket option. [Edit: and there seems to exist getpeereid and LOCAL_CRED on some BSDs]

Still seems like a weird or otherwise shaky thing to me. It feels like it breaks the abstraction of a socket.
Ask HN: what's driven you to do startup?
What's driven you to do startup? What's in it for you?
For me it was the ability to work from anywhere and be financially free. Yours?
Regarding PID/UID/GID logging: if it has to use a Linux-specific feature to be less broken in that regard, then I'm all for it. In my opinion, authentication is such an important security feature that other Unices should just implement similar mechanisms (or, preferably, the same mechanism). Right now I've only seen the BSD people complaining that systemd uses Linux-specific features, but doing nothing to solve the problem.

Regarding central logging: indeed, that is a problem. Has Lennart ever spoken about this issue?
This reminds me of Sun's Java Ring which could run Java on its own internal Java Virtual Machine. It worked through contact rather than wirelessly. It was given away for free to all attendees of the 1997 JavaWorld conference and I remember being very excited about it at the time. Maybe, like Oracle's 1996 Network Computer thin client, we're finally ready for this technology.

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/javaring-wearable-computer/
http://javaring.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/advantages-of-using-j...

"When an iButton detects any intrusion, it erases its private keys leading to zeroization. With it zeroization capability and the private key, Java Ring is one of the least counterfeitable devices."
I could minimize some of the fields, but the larger point I should have made is that when I was typing the regex the first time, I was looking at the cheat sheet. The workflow I found myself fall into was:

1. Enter the test string.

2. Look at the cheat sheet and type into the regex field.

3. Look at the matches and test field to see if it was correct.

4. If incorrect, look at the explanation.

5. Go back to (2)

So for me, the default layout didn't handle my step (2) very well. I'm not saying that's the workflow you should optimize the UX for, but it's what mine was.
One uses a loop and one doesn't? Not sure if there's so much to get out of this post.
which begs the question ... why do I need a G+ account?

It's not like I am asking google to implement some ability that has previously been not implemented... rather google has decided to eliminate a little piece of choice ... or freedom ... or whatever you want to call it ... for their users. Why? Because it's better for them.

Which brings one back to something that has been posted many many times ... you are not the customer, you are the product. As long as you're OK with that, go for it... but my bet is that the vast majority of google's users have little concept of the issue of customer vs product.

I'm just a little sad to see google take another step towards being a faceboob instead of taking one step away from them.
He said "less newsworthy", not "not newsworthy".
I'm not arguing there aren't exceptions, and maybe I should rephrase the time period - I'm talking about kids who never had DOS. They started their computing experiences on GUIs in Windows 95. I started on dos at around 2 - 3, and I know my personal interest in computing was heavily developed by the need to use a dos terminal for a few years. I know my younger brother, his peers, and pretty much everyone else I grew up with (not many 2 - 3 year olds played on a computer, but I liked playing Wolfenstein at that age) don't know what a terminal is, what code looks like, how to do terminal piping or navigate with terminal commands. Because they never saw it.

I'm also not arguing there aren't exceptions, but my older cousin grew up on the c64 and spent ages 5 - 10 basically hacking on that thing. Tremendous growth experience in his eventual CS education. It went from upper middle class families owning a tinker box for their 5 - 15 year olds to upper middle class families signing kids up for facebook and cell phones before they hit 10.

> Being online and having so easy access to so much information, entertainment, communication etc has generally made people more impatient and less willing to really commit to the kind of single minded focus that is needed to get into and really develop programming knowledge.

I think they are easily distracted. I know I was, I went from scripting nwscript persistent worlds at 12 in NwN to playing wow all the time. I learned some lua there, and tweaked some addons, but I was effectively stuck on my programming experience from 13 - 18, though that was mostly because MMOs were a great escapism from horrible public education settings, and I liked turning my brain off at the time since I never really had a reason to turn it on.

But as soon as I hit my senior year of high school I got my act in gear, mostly because I was tech-savvy from my earliest affiliations with computers, and against what Microsoft wanted me to do with my devices (hacking them). I set up dual boot Ubuntu, learned Python / Java, got my BS, and I've only gone down the rabbit hole since then. I've been soldering recently, run Arch, use terminals all the time, I recently did a cmos reset over 3.3v current on a router.

But that required a spark that only really came from my most developmental years having to interact with computers as tinker boxes rather than colorful graphical click squares, and few of my peers got that experience.
My alias is my .bash_history :).

I grant that these other tools are great, but I like using the standard utilities because, among other things, once you learn 'find' and 'xargs' you can piece together all kinds of other commands and you don't have to remember a tool-specific syntax (at least for the 'find' and 'xargs' parts).
Personal attacks? really?
Ask HN: How to monetize a young demographic
I have a web property that has the following monthly stats:

Unique Visitors: 30k
Pageviews: 110k
Avg Duration: 1:34
Mailing list: 4k

My niche is Marine Corps promotion information and the like. I generate barely enough income from advertising to cover my aws bill, which is tiny. I do know alot about my users though. Primary demographic is male 19-25. They access my site 50% from their mobiles and 40% from government computers on bases. The access from government computers will severely limit ads from any provider due to the militaries IE7 settings and network blocks/filters.

I have tried targeted affiliates, adult, and many other advertising vehicles, to no avail.

What am I doing wrong?

Does the demographic have exceedingly good ad blindness?

Any recommendations would be appreciated.

www.killfoot.com
I too was inspired by CSS Zen Garden years ago. It looks just as beautiful now as it did then.
(Storage=none is streaming things through the journal, which I have no use for)

Apache2 and Nginx are modular. Let me tell you the story of a small web application.

Once upon a time, requests were hitting an Apache server, dispatched to mod_python, and an embedded interpreter was keeping itself warm running Python code to answer the requests.

As the site grew, and the state of the art evolved, a programmer wrapped the application in a wsgi container, and gave it to a mod_wsgi container so that it would run at its own pace.

One day, the programmer brought home an nginx server it had found freezing in the tundra, and gave it a job serving static content in front of Apache. Nginx brought his uwsgi friend and they took turns running the site, nginx serving images and scripts, uwsgi replacing mod_wsgi.

This is what a competitive space looks like. Apache has competing modules, there are http servers and wsgi servers, some of them embedded, some of them external, http servers can collaborate or replace each other when a better thing comes along.

You don't see an http server deciding it will be the sole http server on the system, swallowing a wsgi server and waging war to all others.
We'll nobody programmed in general since computing was so new. The industry is just significantly larger now. The trend though I think is that computing has gotten huge but actually developing that computing hasn't grown at all in the youth group, just the consumption of that computing. You lose a lot of tinker-ability when you move to GUIs and especially when you don't distribute developer tools or learning resources.

I mean, think of the generation growing on iphones. How would they ever get exposure to programming or tinkering on a device like that?
If there's only one thing I've learnt from trying different languages out: the less magic, the better.
I am so happy CZG has been relaunched and updated.

This site was my inspiration for a senior project in an independent study class on web design where I surprised and completely redesigned my teacher's website while only changing the CSS file, and the original site was not designed well –- at all.
He means that it's not newsworthy to include that the founder is Nigerian in the headline. The big news is that Apple acquired HopStop.
Help: Integrate Google Calendar, gmail, and hangout into my site
Hi,

I'm building a site for a community. Through this, I wish to offer Calendar, mail, and video chat to features to members. For this, I'm looking at integrating Google calendar, gmail, and hangout through a single sign-on feature.

How is this possible? Do Google allows customisation by putting my branding?

devehere
Relax, bro. He just means that the US-based founder's country of origin is not that significant to this audience, since many American startups have been founded by immigrants from all over the world. This came up because the title of this submission emphasised the founder's country of origin, which in turn is because the post was originally written for a Nigerian audience, for whom the founder's country of origin IS newsworthy.
I don't know about this. Google glass and Android, while not stellar platforms for the tinker, have been open enough to allow FOSS to trickle in around the cracks, leading to things like Cyanogenmod or the 4 FOSS phone platforms (tizen / sailfish / ubuntu phone / firefox os). I think those will keep open platforms for general computing a thing, even when businesses desperately want people using locked down platforms accessing cloud storage and server side applications to maximize their influence.
> If you want an anonymous Google account, simply create one

I did. I had to sign up with a "backup" email address though, for which I entered my primary email address. Now, whenever Gmail users send an email to my primary email address, they see the bogus name that I created the anonymous Google account with. Crap.

And Youtube, please stop asking me to use my "real" name. Is it that hard to remember my preferences?
I'm certainly not one to dismiss someone's hobby project; if it's a thing that is fun to work on, more power to you. You might even get a really useful result out of tinkering with it!

I'm having a hard time imagining anything that's simpler than this p-code parser for a simple BIND-style zone file:

if syntax error is encountered, abort with error
read host
read ttl
optionally read class
read type
load expected rdata format for type
read rdata
if record read was duplicate data, abort with error

Things get slightly more complicated when you add in $KEYWORDS, but not all that much.

Anyway, if you can find a format that's an order-of-magnitude easier to work with than this, my hat's off to you. (If I were the sort of person that regularly found these sorts of things, I'd own an apartment building, rather than renting space in one. ;) )
ubuntuforums.org timing out as of now but are we sure this is a malicious attack and not simply downtime?

If it is an attack, it just means a time bandit for the admins I suppose...
It's not that Gmail is a shutdown risk - that's deranged yes, it's Gmail IMAP people are worried about.
The response by Malcolm Gladwell is very thoughtful. The key point is that when the airline company Korean Air (which had already had to change its name after an earlier pilot error disaster) went into problem-solving mode, the airline itself identified changing cockpit communication culture as a step in solving its pilot error crash problem. Whatever else you can say about an airline company owned and based in Korea, you wouldn't expect it to have an inherent prejudice against Korean culture.

It was thoughtful of the blog author to quote Gladwell's reply in full (as it appears he did). Gladwell is easy enough to misunderstand that I have had occasion to mention this on Hacker News before. Gladwell is a professional writer, and he does quite a lot of research on unfamiliar subjects that promise to include interesting story angles. In the subjects that I research for my own writing, I have more often than not discovered that Gladwell does a better than average job of finding and citing good sources. He originates few new scientific hypotheses himself, but he writes interesting and thought-provoking stories about leading scientists in disciplines facing tough problems. Any reader of a Malcolm Gladwell book (as I know, from being a reader of the book Outliers ) can check the sources, and decide from there what other sources to check and what other ideas to play with. Gladwell doesn't purport to write textbooks, but I give him a lot of credit for finding interesting scholarly sources that haven't had enough attention in the popular literature. He is equaled by very few authors as a story-teller who can tie ideas together in a thought-provoking assembly.

Gladwell has said in an interview by a journalist that he writes to try out ideas:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122671211614230261.html

"Q: Do you worry that you extrapolate too much from too little?

"A: No. It's better to err on the side of over-extrapolation. These books are playful in the sense that they regard ideas as things to experiment with. I'm happy if somebody reads my books and reaches a conclusion that is different from mine, as long as the ideas in the book cause them to think. You have to be willing to put pressure on theories, to push the envelope. That's the fun part, the exciting part. If you are writing an intellectual adventure story, why play it safe? I'm not out to convert people. I want to inspire and provoke them."
Anyone know of a tool like ack/ag which also lets me search for a term in proximity to another?" For example, find <foo> within 5 lines of <bar>"