skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I absolutely disagree with this.

And I absolutely disagree with your disagreement.

> Community soccer, basketball, baseball, once or twice a week.

Nope. They can just play together. It doesn't have to be competitive sport. What if they say they wanted to run around in circles or play spaceship on the playground, or say help one of the dad in the yard or fix a car. Some might like to play chess or paint for example.

> It helps them learn to socialize

Just playing together with other kids and making up their own games is good enough to socialize. They could be kicking a ball half an hour then climbing trees the next. They don't have to necessarily compete with other teams to get that.

> makes them less likely to be bullied or outcasts at school because they will have a wider circle of friends

They are in the wrong school or adults are not doing their job if they are bullied because they don't play sports.

> Also like it or not, especially for men, sports is a common bonding activity even when you get into adult life.

Well I don't like it. I would rather discuss virtual machine implementations or sci fi novels. I don't give a shit about who plays in the superbowl or what hockey teams names are.

> If you can't at least talk about last Sunday's football games or play a game of pickup basketball after work, you are going to be excluded from a lot of networks.

I am doing pretty well for myself. I can talk about politics, linguistics, computers, some music, sci-fi, movies, there is plenty of other stuff. If talking about sports is what is going to exclude me, then please, exclude me. I don't want to be included in that group to begin with.
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Marketing has financial responsibility but engineers still develop and maintain it. And there is lots of cross collaboration with iTunes Store and Apple Online Store teams.

WWDR is all about evangelising the platform to a technical audience. Of course it belongs in marketing and not engineering i.e. it involves road shows, presentations, reach out activities etc. Not everyone that is technical are developers remember.
So what does senior management have to do with this? Just crap on any peon at MS who wants to engage with open source doesn't really hurt them.
"First of all, this does not affect iTunes customer accounts—this is a different system and all iTunes customer information is completely safe, Apple told me.

It’s also important to note that the hacker did not get access to any app code or even the servers where the app information was stored. The hacker also did not get access to any credit card information.

The only thing that the hacker could have gotten access to was the names, email addresses and mailing addresses of the developers. At this point, Apple doesn’t know if the hacker even managed to see that information. Worst case, that is all the information they would have seen, according to Apple."

http://www.loopinsight.com/2013/07/21/apple-comments-on-deve...
I used to run MSE ever since it was released. It really was lightweight and had great detection rates and was generally well liked by me and people at AV Comparatives. However, i saw a new report a few months back which basically showed MSE with the most False Positives and worst detection (or thereabouts).

I switched back to Avira (i swap between MSE, Avira, Avast and Kaspersky, when i have a license) and that was that. I have a pretty crappy laptop that's showing its age (lagging on most new websites, reaching 90C on Youtube etc) and even MSE runs at inexplicable times even though i changed the scan time from the options.
I lived in Yugoslavia and are saddened to see it being destroyed, but, now living in US, it will be 10 yrs, I see a lot of things that remind me of old Yugoslavia. Americans are especially defensive when you point out those things, unlike people in Yugoslavia which had less illusions, yet enjoyed and were also aware of all benefits. It was great country to live in, I don't think in US you can't enjoy a level of freedom and carelessness like it was possible in old Yugoslavia.

I think only Asian countries can be good examples of working hard and good work ethics. US is not, it is excellent example of a lot of other good things. If you don't think this is true, just look at Yahoo to name one.
> tl;dr - "Poverty is a more powerful influence on the outcome of inner-city children than gestational exposure to cocaine."

This is an interesting and almost 'common sense' observation about demographics. It is more difficult to thrive in a poor environment then it is to do badly out of a rich environment.

That's why we are obsessed about 'rags to riches' stories right?
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Agreed. Though times are different now, here's a great video about revolutionary 3D printers, from 1989:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpRDuJ5YgoQ
>it still hasn't arrived

Have you seen wolfram alpha in action?
Fantastic to hear... I'm interested to know what you meant by "being so stuck on myself"? I like to hear stories of how God has changed people!
Great post. As someone that is getting closer to the finish line of developing my first Rails app, I can definitely relate to this post. I'm definitely going to take the advice in the article and run with it.
I've worked on some of those systems. This isn't true.

Most of their web apps are WebObjects/Java apps. Sure some of them would be classed as legacy but it is hardly different from most other enterprise companies. And their systems are completely separate from each other e.g. iTunes, Apple Online Store, ID auth, Developer Portal.
>> and rebuilding our entire database.

maybe someone dropped or polluted the database after hacking it, so they need to rebuild the entire database from other sources?
Yugoslavia was a paternalist state since pre-Union times. Paternalism lasted in Poland less than 30 years, until the shortage economy kicked in and then the people's republic collapsed.

It can take longer than 1 generation to destroy a country's work ethic.

Work ethic is shaped by social and economic factors rather than some ethereal work culture independent of them. Social and economic systems do in fact shape culture to an important extent.
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> Plugging a usb stick into your computer could automatically install a virus.

Actually, AutoRun was turned off for external media as of Windows 7. CDs and DVDs will still do it, but only for read-only disks, not read-write ones.
>What I find slightly unnerving is that Apple didn't make this clearer.

Apple is not a startup. They were ranked 6th in Fortune 500 for 2013. They are going to be rehearsed, political, and vague with their descriptions. Were you actually expecting them to release a postmortem on their blog with a link to the GitHub repo with the fix?
Refer to GP for instructions.

You just wasted my time with your pointless comment. Well you didn't, I could have chosen to ignore it.
You seem to be missing the point. He is saying that the paintings have little intrinsic worth, but gain it from the external circumstance of being created by such a young artist. Your response that people buy the paintings therefore they have value is completely orthogonal, because that doesn't prove either way whether the value is intrinsic or extrinsic (and art is a market know for extrinsic value, such as a painting going up in price once the formerly unknown artist is discovered, etc).
V6 engines are typically smoother and produce more torque down low in the powerband, which is the range most people drive. So even though the peak capabilities are overkill, basically, an engine capable of 160mph is nicer to drive at 65mph than an engine capable of 85mph. As a result, they are desirable to many consumers. Tiny 4 cylinders are catching up, but that's the thing- it has always been a game of catchup for the 4 cylinder.

Oh, and further in defense of the V6- remember not everyone has the same needs as you. I have recently come to own a 4.0L V6. Ridiculous, right? Twice as many liters and twice as many cylinders as I ought to need. Except, at 12,000ft you've suddenly got a lot less engine. My old 2.2L H4 at-speed required pedal-to-the-metal to gain speed, and 4k+ RPM just to maintain speed.
My biggest issue is that after reading your homepage I still don't know what your app does.
It just turns off the auto-correct feature?
Thanks for sharing kapv89
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I have a diesel VW Golf BlueMotion 1.6 from 2011. Sticking to the motorway at 70mph (which is what I originally bought it for) it really burns less than 72mpg, it's fantastic; in the more prosaic stop/start city commute, it averages out around 50mpg. Still, I spend less than £1k in fuel per year, and it's quite a win.

I really, really wanted a hybrid, back then; but the price of a Prius in the UK was ridiculously high (haven't checked recently), and on long motorway trips it likely wouldn't have paid off.
As far as you know. Even the dumb malware writers don't write stuff that pops up floating skulls and "OwNEd by CyBeRKiLLeR" messages anymore. It's all about staying on the machine, and staying silent.

I hate this "I've been running without AV for ages, and I never saw any viruses" argument. Of course you didn't. Making you aware hasn't been the motive for a long, long time.

It's virtually impossible to run a Windows (or Linux, or Mac) installation with the usual suspects--Java, Flash, Adobe Reader, etc.--without being exposed to good old, non-targeted malware. Take into account that most of it is distributed from "good" sites, and "if I don't see it, it must mean there's nothing there" and "I never go to any risky sites" prove pretty silly.

I'm not saying that AV is the best solution, or even a good one--indeed it can even be what contains the vulnerabilities used to take over a machine--but there is a reason it exists. Let's not pretend that AV solves all ones problems, but let's also not pretend that it's completely ineffective. It's only ineffective if there really is no other (probable) way for things it detects to get through--which there is on most desktop operating systems unless you (manually) go to great lengths to isolate the different things you do. There are ways to make AV moot, but it rarely comes built-in or without user overhead/experience requirements. (Ironically, in Windows 8 anti-virus comes built-in.)
Sorry, I hit up Google Scholar trying to find it but had no luck. It's not my field of expertise, so I don't know the proper jargon to throw in to get the right search results.
Assembly gets my vote too. Its one of the lowest level languages you can learn and it gives you a more 'wholesome' appreciation of computing.

Don't expect the ability to create something useful in it though.
How to put this? Most CSS proponents seem to focus on "beauty" for individual elements and fairly simple data representation. It'd be useful to see more design aimed at representing LOTS of data in a way which retains uncluttered "good looks" without throwing away multiple navigation options.

People with large, rich databases -especially- need ideas on how to represent that data from many potential angles-of-view while maintaining clarity. 4 or 5 pretty boxes on a page with minimal text just don't suffice. Such ideas are vanishingly rare on most sites dedicated to CSS.
Haha, the plot of "Lost" is a great metaphor for studying philosophy.
I knew I should have just called it bind.

As a bonus, an actual implementation of curry: https://dpaste.de/qGWcq/
Representatives from both attended the KDE Akademy conference this year, a colloboration which by all accounts was a success for all involved. I wish I could have been there myself.
There are a number of activities other than competitive team sports for children that involve socializing in groups, staying active, and working toward a shared goal.

Children already experience far too much pressure to conform to expected norms of social interests, particularly gendered social interests. Parents ought not add to it by implicitly or explicitly telling them there's something wrong with them for their interest or lack thereof in sports.

As for the expectations of adult men, I cannot remember a situation in my adult life in which something like a simple joke along the lines of "baseball.. let's see, that's sports, right?" hasn't been enough to convey that I'm not interested without being hostile or disrespectful to others' passions.
Just because current detection schemes are outdated, and the monopolies are perhaps resting on their laurels, it does not mean the anti-virus age is over. I think it's a technological battle which will always be fought. There will always be attackers and defenders. There are already people experimenting with detection through artificial intelligence and the like. Imagine if that technology finally makes it (at this rate it is guaranteed), what would the next step? Wouldn't it be "nearly impossible" for attackers then? Yet nobody will write that the age of the Virus is over.
I, too, share this sentiment.

"The tendency for entropy to increase in isolated systems is expressed in the second law of thermodynamics — perhaps the most pessimistic and amoral formulation in all human thought."

— Gregory Hill and Kerry Thornley, Principia Discordia [1]

As I understand, over the centuries, the usual coping mechanism for existential dread has been belief. Religion is often cynically thought to be a means to control the masses, but I think its central purpose is serving as a mental safety valve. I've chosen to believe in the power of technological progress.

"Yes, we did it, we killed the dragon today. But damn, why did we start so late? This could have been done five, maybe ten years ago! Millions of people wouldn't have had to die."

— Nick Bostrom, The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant [2]

I believe it's our duty to conquer death and bring heaven to earth, by fixing aging and developing machine intelligence. [3] [4] Once this is done, there will be time to think about reversing entropy, or breaking out of the universe.

"THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER."

— Isaac Asimov, The Last Question [5]

[1] http://principiadiscordia.com/

[2] http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html

[3] http://www.sens.org/

[4] http://intelligence.org/

[5] http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
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NULLs are (NULL is?) the way they are in SQL (terrible) because SQL is, in fact, terrible. I never allow nullable columns in my tables, but have to deal with null semantics because of e.g. outer joins. It is to weep.
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Host Rails applications on DigitalOcean from scratch. (Nginx, PostgreSQL)
I agree, local storage shouldn't be used but not because it's accessible by the client, because all cookies are accessible client side too.
The problems he brings up already have flags that solve them (ie: "http only", "ssl only", etc.).

Is the writer just misinformed or am I missing something?
Hey, quick question: is there a way to make ngrok preserve the Hostname it passes to my local machine? E.g. we're using virtualhosts and I need the requests to hit my local host with the correct hostname.
The fact there's something rather than nothing. 'Nothing' - like absolute zero - is only a referential concept. Beware of introspective traps. Light, breezy and not trying too hard.
Wearable computers might use a new interactive “e-skin” made of plastic
I wrote a well liked comment earlier this month and decided to submit this brief article on HN. Hopefully it helps people set up their DigitalOcean boxes easily!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5906966
Why would you need a home 3d printer for that?
I believe every middle class home in the world will eventually have three printers; paper, plastic, and
extruded metal. The things they will produce:

1. Toys
2. Parts
3. jewelry molds, then jewelry.
4. medical devices(print out a catheter in the middle of the night.)
5. Eventually, electronics.
6. Once metal printers become better, and lower priced
the race will be on. We will read about the first mechanical watch printed on this site--then it will
be the first radio?
7. Physibles will be a go to site?
Seems like it's just your imagination: http://www.loopinsight.com/2013/07/21/apple-comments-on-deve...
Sounds like a lot of work. I don't trust LastPass et al., and really just need a single encrypted password file. My method doesn't provide a driver secure channel, but it is achievable today.

1) Buy a slim ipod touch
2) Jailbreak (unnecessary)
3) App CryptMe allows transfer of plaintext from your computer through iTunes, password unlock on the device, quick search (nice), and according to Firewall iP (Cydia program) doesn't connect to the internet (or you could just always keep wifi off).
Microsoft should hire Scott Forstall to run Windows
Actually the biomedical field is one of those areas where I think 3d printing makes a lot of sense. It's one field where basically every part is ideally a customized one-off. Though, I doubt anyone would buy a home 3d printer for this use-case.
Security Researcher Admits to Compromising Apple in Comment on TC
pasting comment here in case it gets deleted:

Hi there,

My name is ibrahim Balic, I am a security researcher. You can also search my name from Facebook's Whitehat List. I do private consulting for particular firms. Recently I have started doing research on Apple inc.

In total I have found 13 bugs and have reported through http://bugreport.apple.com. The bugs are all reported one by one and Apple was informed. I gave details to Apple as much as I can and I've also added screenshots.

One of those bugs have provided me access to users details etc. I immediately reported this to Apple. I have taken 73 users details (all apple inc workers only) and prove them as an example.

4 hours later from my final report Apple developer portal gas closed down and you know it still is. I have emailed and asked if I am putting them in any difficulty so that I can give a break to my research. I have not gotten any respond to this... I have been waiting since then for them to contact me, and today I'm reading news saying that they have been attacked and hacked. In some of the media news I watch/read that whether legal authorities were involved in its investigation of the hack. I'm not feeling very happy with what I read and a bit irritated, as I did not done this research to harm or damage. I didn't attempt to publish or have not shared this situation with anybody else. My aim was to report bugs and collect the datas for the porpoise of seeing how deep I can go within this scope. I have over 100.000+ users details and Apple is informed about this. I didn't attempt to get the datas first and report then, instead I have reported first.

I do not want my name to be in blacklist, please search on this situation. I'm keeping all the evidences, emails and images also I have the records of bugs that I made through Apple bug-report.

Watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q000_EOWy80&feature=youtu.be
One of the good things about markdown, and one of it's goals I guess, is that it looks like perfectly formatted, readable plaintext.

The shortcuts in quaint, with markers only at the beginning of words, logical operators etc, look very practical for typing, but make it more oriented towards technical writers or developers, and less suited for things like comments and similar general-purpose text inputs. It's somewhere in between Markdown and a template engine.
Diesel is also in no conceivable way a new technology, and from what I know it's rare established hundred-year-old technologies that have been used in consumer products for at least fifty years are given generous subsidies.
It doesn't look like they are using Douglas Crockford's JSON implementation, so using it for evil is probably OK.
> but in what other contexts do we tell people: the studies don't show harmful effects at low levels, but you shouldn't do it anyway because the studies haven't proven there aren't harmful effects at low levels.

A specific 'health and safety' context where this exact issue comes up is actually with ionizing radiation (such as from nuclear reactors).

Humans (like most animals) actually have a remarkable ability to overcome low levels of radiation damage, by means such as genetic repair, programmed apotosis (essentially ASSERT()s in your own genetic code), and even roving patrols by your immune system that catch pre-cancerous cells.

The problem is that it is difficult to determine whether there is a real low-dose threshold, below which people do not suffer appreciable increase in health risk from radiation. Also, whether that threshold depends on the person, depends on prior exposure, depends on type of dose received, a combination of the above, etc.

The evidence leans heavily to there being a threshold much higher than the levels of radiation we'd ever encounter in day-to-day life (and possibly even there being a beneficial effect to low levels of radiation).

But our radiation health physicists (and UN health organizations) have tended to take a very conservative view and simply recommend that people minimize radiation exposure, at least until there is enough evidence to make very clear what a safe threshold level is.
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You can't have it both ways. They were transparent. Complaining that it was 3 days after the incident is irrelevant since we don't know how much investigation was required for them to understand the problem.
> and over the next 4 years I would _loose_ the “Junior” prefix
I'm a huge Silex nerd because it comes with the very minimum needed to be a productive framework.

It implements a proper DIC, routing and quick ways to set up outside libraries (providers).

It comes with only what you need to get started, nothing you don't, but when you want to add more it doesn't get in your way.
I was involved with the RepRap community in 2008-2009. The expiring Stratasys patents for FDM (fused-deposition modeling, the squirt-out-hot-plastic approach used by the RepRap, MakerBot and its clones) were definitely a big deal in the community at that time. Adrian Bower, the creator of RepRap, didn't seem to care about them much but that was because he was never interested in making money off of the project anyway, just releasing its plans to the world. It would be hard to sue him for infringement. But other more commercially-minded people were definitely drawn to the opportunity afforded by the expiring patents.

On the other hand, I agree that only relatively recently has this become feasible to do on a shoestring budget. So there are a number of factors involved.
Good job NYTimes designing another high quality story site. This is what the coder community should have made instead of an exact clone of the last one that caused so much trouble.
wow if they're "overhauling" everything that means Apple knows that hackers got some or all developers' info so it's not just that they can't "rule it out" they just don't want to publicly announce it.
Haha, yes. This wasn't the new one at all. Badly titled article, although it did get me to read when I wouldn't have otherwise.
The two tasks aren't mutually exclusive. If you can only do one, then that's fine, there isn't anything wrong with that. But leadership has nothing to do with a title, so if you weren't leading before you took a leadership role, then of course you're going to struggle.
I'm not the author, just stumbled upon the website while searching for a a thorough tutorial on integrating Stripe and Rails. I agree that he should let us know the pricing ahead of time.
You don't even have to be an engineer for that to be true...
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