skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> PubSubHubbub evolved and is now able to work with any kind of data (not just RSS or Atom), opening the door to a JSON based syndication format.

It is not made clear why this is desirable. The author makes no case for why a JSON-based system would be any better than the current XML system. Perhaps the implied "eww XML", but XML is the standard.
To the compiler, it shouldn't care where a label exists. If you're telling it to go to label L:, execution will jump there. GCC appears to look out for the programmer and always prints an error (and I don't see an option to shut it off). Oracle Studio compiles it with no issue and the above statement returns 1.
React v0.4 released
Talking to parents and talking to someone over email are totally different things. In email, you need a way to express emotion and this is Linus' way
Didn't Lex and Yacc pretty much use C as an intermediate language?
They might not be dischargeable in bankruptcy, but a recent article I came across mentioned that a huge percentage of outstanding loans are technically in default. Those are loans that are way behind in payments.
When first starting out many years (decades?!?) ago, I experienced what could best be called "reverse agism". Guys in their 40s-50s were concerned about hiring a 23-25 year old "wet-behind-the-ears" high-energy "kid" who might make them look bad. And there weren't many twenty-somethings around

Funny thing is, now that I'm in that 45-50 range, things have inverted. Now I rarely see someone above 40 or 45, unless it's management or infrastructure. It's all people in their late 20s, early 30s.
I stumbled upon Feross Aboukhadijeh, and I think he mentioned HN on Twitter or something. It was in a negative context, as in, "Stop constantly checking Hacker News and actually do stuff," and I now understand why. Glad I found it, though!
The standard way for a surgeon to detect if he has removed a tumor is a frozen section. This would appear to vastly improve upon the current tools available and perhaps allow for more successful surgeries. It is nice to see metabolomics being applied in a clinical setting.
I first read it as Medium and was very confused for a second.
Has Twitter changed the way we respond to asteroid threats?
Ask HN: What do you look for in a VPN service?
I'm starting a VPN service and wanted to see what the HN market looks for in VPN services. Do you have any common problems/gripes? Anything that VPN services do NOT offer that you wish they did?
Strong USD / Bitcoin Correlation To Be Tested Following Bernanke’s Testimony
Not to minimize the overall message, to be fair, those students would probably would complain about a ethnic Chinese English teacher.
Also, instead of typing the array manually, I could have just used python's `range` operator. I'll fix that too.
I live in China and there is indeed still some racism towards black and even asian people. A black English teacher in China will have a much lower salary then a white person for example (though this is also true of English teachers who are asian). As crazy as it sounds, schools will often prefer to hire a white teacher who is not a native speaker to a black/asian teacher who is a native speaker.
> But an object of 1Kg today would still be 1Kg in 1000 years since everything gained mass

Yes, but a 1m rule will get longer if everything gained mass, won't it? (I mean, the meter will get shorter, and the atoms should get bigger, even after compensating for the change on meter. Is there something I'm missing?)
Are these feature plans documented somewhere? Private networks, in the spirit of EC2 security groups or VPCs, would help simplify many distributed computing scenarios where securing services with passwords isn't an option.
It's not really about generic "move fast and break things" posturing either, though, is it?

Maybe adding some examples, anecdotes or evidence would help, but if the point of this article is to convince me that mojotech has "real" company culture then just saying that ping pong tables are dumb and bolding the word WINNING isn't going to do it.

I think the HubSpot slide is a great example of actually implementing culture/values, but everything else in the article seems pretty boilerplate.
19 here. I began reading a few of pg's most popular essays when I was 17 then found out about Y Combinator and just dug around a little. Now I'm here.
Another consideration is it all depends upon where you're located--geographically, company-wise, and technology area. At least in my observation.

Infrastructure tends to have less ageism than development/software engineering. Large corporations relatively less than start-ups (agism in corps is usually tied to/masked by salary level; "it's about cutting costs"). Midwest/rural areas less than large metros and "hip locations" (due mainly to smaller pools of potential employees).
hack being the URL and blurb all in one not a weird link
More details on our blog: http://blog.meldium.com/home/2013/7/17/meldium-raises-1mm-to...

Thanks to all the early adopters on HN who helped us get off the ground!
Hmm, it's linked to and talked about in a large number of technical blogs and social media. If a young person is interested in programming these days, he or she has probably heard about Hacker News.
At what age would you say you were smartest

Right now (3 days shy of 40).

if you have noticed any fluctuation? I hear you mental power peaks at about 22 and begins to decline after 26, but that's pretty depressing, and I don't want to believe it, so if you have experience to counter or confirm this, please share.

I don't really buy it. Subjectively I don't feel anything that makes me feel less smart or less capable than when I was 22. And given the huge advantage in accumulated knowledge and experience I have now, I feel FAR more capable than my 22 year old self, or my 30 year old self, or even my 35 year old self.

Does your wisdom and experience outweigh any mental decline in real-life situations?

I would say "yes". If my cognitive abilities have declined at all, I think the increase in knowledge and experience far more than compensates for that.

How does age affect creativity?

I think I'm more creative right now than at any other stage of my life.
McKinsey on Big Data Analytics: The #1 Key to US Economic Growth?
How does getting people to voluntarily sign up to receive emails about a topic that interests them compare AT ALL to buying scraped emails?
Because there are no non-flagship Apple phones.
This curve will probably have good correlation to the penetration of personal computers and the Internet when people are teenagers. The .com boom in the early 2000's (edit- ~'97-'00) brought a lot of new people into the industry and that's going to be reflected (those people are now in their early thirties) and the people in their 20's are those that got exposed to technology as a result of the .com boom.
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All this proves is that you can write ugly C and GCC has some crocks in it.

These problems are all optional.
I'm two month older since the last age poll.
The idea isn't "how you cross a stream: swim across the stream". Read all the instructions, and you see at the end:

... those unable to swim are safely passed over.

Knowing how to swim was not a universal skill, much like knowing how to read or write.
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The good thing is that software isn't math or music. In those fields you might peak at 26.

Software is mathematical but it also requires a lot of judgement and experience. Consider that Guido van Rossum didn't even START working on Python (most popular language on HN) until age 35.

From what I can see 30's and 40's is a sweet spot for a lot of programmers. It seems like a lot of startup founders are young, but I think a lot of the guys actually making systems work have been around the block a few more times.
As a dude from Europe, I'm used to hearing Americans complain about their student debt.

Then I recently read that some American government programs give out student loans at rates of up to 9%. Even though I'm not in any way affected, this makes my blood boil.

If you are from the US, want a decent education, don't qualify for a scholarship and probably won't get into MIT anyway, please consider going abroad for your studies. In many countries over here you pay your living expenses, a relatively small fee (<200€ per semester) and that is it.

Granted, you'll have to spend some time learning a weird language and you will most likely get some sort of culture shock, but in the end, you can get a decent education here without ruining yourself.

Here are some links:

http://studieren.de/checklist-germany.0.html
http://www.studyinpoland.pl/en/index.php/education-in-poland...
I like your app so far but I input https://news.ycombinator.com/ and it's not able to locate an RSS feed (Just says "Loading"). I input https://news.ycombinator.com/rss and it works.
They don't all agree.
Lightning is also trivial to defend against. The only hard part is education and awareness. A person who knows how to avoid lightning and wants to avoid it will easily reduce their chances of being struck by a huge amount. Reducing kidnapping is much harder.
Could be organized that way to prevent the sand and small stones from clogging the spigot.
Just out of morbid curiosity, if you knew he was "well respected around here", what in the world were you hoping to accomplish by insulting him in your comment?
I just slapped it into Xcode and compiled using LLVM 4.2 (-std=gnu99), and it works fine. Using Xcode's LLVM GCC 4.2 setting (-std=gnu99 by default), it chokes.

Conclusion: I kind of lost interest at this point. :-) I don't quickly know how to get it to compile using GCC, though.
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Destination burningman (good for long programming mixes)

Above and beyond(good for long programming mixes)

Charlie Rose

60 minutes

Fast lane daily

Startup for the rest of us
Unsene is comical.

http://unsene.com/blog/2013/06/15/is-most-encryption-broken/...

"4096-bit XAES", and 2048 bit RSA.
Top 20 Things you know now that you wish you knew at age 20
I think item (3) is the key here. When investing in RealCrowd, you are choosing a single property in which to invest.

In REITs, you are investing in a management team which will use your money to trade in and out of many different properties.

The "manager" of the RealCrowd LLC's has one job, to maintain and manage a singe piece of property and the business structure.

The manager of a REIT is also responsible for choosing when, how, and where to invest the money in the found. This additional responsibility is the "whim" in which they are referring.

As you said, one is not better than the other. You may be better able to deploy a small amount of capital into a limited number of deals. Or, a professional manager managing millions or billions of dollars may be better able to find profitable real estate investment.

Options are almost always good.
Damn, 31 today. Can't click the most popular 26-30 option anymore.
What do you mean? /feed?version=1

That's a bad idea if you cache RSS in an xml file, i.e /rss.xml. It would make it more complex if you had to handle query parameters. The parser should just check for the version attribute on the rss node; <rss version="2.0">. Or, even better, it could just check for the availability of server nodes such as "<cloud>".

Or did you mean something completely different?
When I first set up my Drive account it wasn't the U.S. government I was worried about, it was Google itself. That's why I put all of the files I wanted to sync in an encrypted image (which you can create with Disk Utility on Mac OS X) and then uploaded the image. Also, to avoid re-uploading the whole shebang (which is more than a GB) I use a sparse bundle disk image which means that if I modify a single file only a small portion of the image will be re-synced with Drive.
Add some Scala sugar to your Lucene
Do you also know all the undefined and unspecified use cases of the standard?

http://de.slideshare.net/olvemaudal/deep-c
That is really parent dependent. My mother took it really hard when I eventually moved out of the house and when I moved out of the same city.
"Doctor, it hurts when I do this."

"Then don't do that."
Well, I would like it to work without 3rd party software. I want assurances in privacy and anonymity. If this service is based in the US, this mean NOT keeping much in the way of logs or records. I want assurances from a crypto expert that your service is secure. It also NEEDS to have perfect forward secrecy enabled from the start to "prevent intercept and decrypt later" attacks. Bandwidth caps are annoying but probably necessary - mine currently is ~$20 / month and 50gb cap. Accepting btc is a plus.
Strong privacy policy?
Well most of the firmware is written by an Asian company, doesn't put it outside the realm of possibility.
The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previously Revealed
I'm really excited about this release; I've contributed a couple of significant pieces of code to it and as you can see in the changelog, there are quite a few framework improvements in this release.

If you're interested, I wrote up a post about my first experiences (first Reactions?) about a month ago:

http://benalpert.com/2013/06/09/using-react-to-speed-up-khan...

React is awesome. :) Proud to be a contributor.
JSON is smaller and easier to parse in JavaScript. Aside from that, there are no real advantages IMO.
Optimism, sincerity, creativity, etc are great.

But what about my organization? The colors should inspire or remind the customer of fear, secrecy and power (not their power, our power).
Big Data Hits Real Life
4K UltraHD media player runs Android 4.2 on Tegra 4
I read an article about Y Combinator when I was around 10 years old and have been following it ever since. I started actively reading Hacker News at 15 or 16. (Made an account when I was 16).
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Fair enough; it's not really benign, only in comparison to all the other data google stores and aggregates regarding its customers (imagine a map of Google Now data)
If the numbers are true (which I doubt), then the majority is on their 20s... well, that explains a few things.
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Show HN: WhineOneOne - complaints about anything and everything
Sometimes you have a complaint, but you just don't have anyone to whine too.

Bonus: You can even read other people's complaints to make you feel better about your day ;)
> Android: slurping phone numbers, texting behind the scenes on your behalf, etc...

Debatable. If you install something like Permissions Explorer you can see which apps access your contacts and/or texts. It's generally a small list. And the Google sync features can be disabled.
Can you briefly explain what actually is React? I read the first blog post by the Facebook team and then the website but still couldn't figure out what's the purpose/use cases.
Until 2010, and still on the guaranteed debt outstanding since 2010, if someone defaulted the government would pay it off. This would not discharge the debt, it would just become a debt owed to the government.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-is-federally-gua...
Just like how non-Chinese expats in Hong Kong get higher salaries and packages including housing allowance, whereas oversea born Chinese are treated as locals despite being expats.
Trust me, anyone who perpetuates ageism is somewhat misled. A diversity in the ages of employees is probably the ideal situation, because I can think of advantages/disadvantages the presence of a certain each age group brings to a team. On the other hand, if you find yourself losing energy/physical fitness and your abilities, its your prerogative to remedy that.
Simulating slow or laggy network connections in OS X
Cincinnati startups making a splash
The Decline and Fall of the Book Cover
Agree. I do like the general idea behind Mir. Canonical is at least trying to get the the "Linux-desktop" thing happening. If that means re-inventing the wheel, then go ahead. If they hit home with this, it will benefit us all Linux users.
Ah, the good old "people are stupid" saying.

http://dreamcafe.com/2013/06/18/people-are-stupid/
Any plans for template inheritance (e.g. swig)?
In a lot of iOS 7 icon redesigns, the designers keep each icon's detail small and centered in its respective tile. They're more gracious with the negative space. In my mind it feels like they're a little too frugal with the illustrations that give each icon its personality.
Not sure this would work with any ASP.NET app other than the ones using Razor engine since <% and <%= are reserved words for outputting data.
But is it really terrorism at this point?

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. History is written by the victors.

Language designed to engender support for one opinion or another; propaganda. That's all this crap is.
> Carrier subsidized model should be ended to bring down consumer telecommunication costs. It only benefits the carriers.

In the US at least, everyone has to get on LTE before that becomes a reality. Sprint and Verizon 3G and older handsets can't speak the same language, I don't think. AT&T and T-Mobile both use GSM based systems so phone calls are possible using a handset form the other carrier, but their 3G frequencies are different - so you're hosed on mobile data. So, there's a de-facto lock into a carrier with your device even if there isn't one in the contract. (And $600 for a new device just for a different carrier is a hard sell, in a world where subsidies are gone.)

It's happening though. The problem is that companies like HTC charge the same price Apple does for the iPhone for what is a lower quality of product, in my experience. Once again, personal experience, but the number of hardware problems I've had within the walled garden of Apple are few compared to those in my Android days. And those that I've had have been fixed quickly by an Apple store representative, whereas with HTC or Verizon it was a multiple week ordeal.

That's something that makes the product itself even more valuable to me.
Do sites like mashable, techcrunch promote paid posts?
Over the past few days I have seen the following post http://goo.gl/dJjo9 retweeted/reshared a number of times by mashable, normally they just share a post once on their facebook page. Also, if you look at the number of shares/likes the post has recieved is far higher than what they usually get. It is actually 44k for this article compared to 5-6k for a site average.
Is it possible that mashable got paid for this article and hence they are promoting it ?
Selling an on-premise "Enterprise PaaS" is one of the ways Red Hat is monetizing OpenShift.

https://www.openshift.com/products/enterprise
There was a link to here on /r/programming. What really got me hooked wasn't all of the articles about startups, etc., but an interesting Wikipedia article. I forget what it was, but it was in the same vein as "White Coke" on the front page now. In the comments of posts like that it's evident that some people think they don't belong on HN, but to me they are reminders that there is really cool and interesting stuff out there that I have no idea even exists. At least getting rid of them would keep the kids out, or it would have me.
I don't think Ed has kids, which is partially why his quality of life is so high.
+1 on the fact CF installation is tough! They recently releases a suite of scripts to help installing it on AWS. Forget about installing it manually on Open Stack (talking from experience). I can only hope Flynn gets the easy install right, so people will be able to try it out.

CF is actually very plugable as well - there is a well defined internal API, which you could just add components that listens/publishes to - however, I don't think its encouraged, neither have I seen a single example of it.
Show HN: I'm a single founder. Please review my bootstrapped startup
Prosecutor From Hell: Angela Corey...
Wow, so I finally registered for HN, just to be able to comment on this one. And man, I'm feeling old at 33.

I've having been developing professionally since 18. I took a weird route, spending one year at uni (17), then working full time, and getting my degrees at night before it was fashionable to do so. In ~15 years, I've had the gamut - developer to multi-geo team manager, with ownership of 9 datacenters. I vastly prefer software.

I'll echo edw519 there - quality of life increases dramatically once you get out of your 20's. The longer you're in it and learning, the more value you have. You've seen more, been around, and pick up new things faster - because they look like combinations of things you've seen before. Curve balls no longer freak you out, they're exciting.

tl;dr Getting older is actually awesome.
Technically, I think the instructions come from the Boy Scouts, so the "send a boy across the river" is not that odd.
Does google data mine Drive? I always thought the monetary incentive was through the cloud storage tiers.
On what are you basing this on? I know very knowledgeable marketers use them and I can guarantee you that if they were not performing they would have removed them.
Well, if people over hear heard something like the KGB can spy on people who use Russian tech company products, people would avoid them even if it isn't necessarily true. Supposedly, the encryption iOS implements is supposed to be NSA proof. But public perception and consumer confidence in a product is everything. Reddit talks about it as much if not more so then Hacker News on the common front page reddits and I've seen quite a bit of griping about it from non-techie friends on FB.

I think its very likely the contractual disagreement, but I'd be very interested to know if sales for US-based technology products have fallen since recent revelations came to light.
I turn 40 in a few months. And time is going by faster as I get older.