skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really interesting. Nice find. Here's a very brief summary: Participants were shown a few words and then four different identifiers, one of which matched the words and three of which did not. The example in the paper is:

phrase: "full pathname"

identifiers: fill_pathname, full_mathname, full_pathnum, full_pathname

From the conclusions section:
"Although, no difference was found between identifier styles with
respect to accuracy, results indicate a significant improvement
in time and lower visual effort with the underscore style. The
interaction of Experience with Style indicates that novices
benefit twice as much with respect to time, with the underscore
style. This implies that with experience or training, the
performance difference between styles is reduced. These results
add to the findings of Binkley et al.’s study"

So, finding the correct identifier was just as likely regardless of style but the correct identifier was found faster if it was using underscores as opposed to camelCase.

I think the underscores acted as "whitespace" in this study which in my experience is the most important factor in how quickly you can visually parse code. However, from a subjective/aesthetic perspective, I still prefer using camelCase over underscores.
Like you say, "thousands of games, utilities, apps".

Even if half of their 3rd party developers left they would still have thousands of apps.
Questionable Usefulness on B-School - Reflections on a Summer in Silicon Valley
> it can lead to questionable forms of selective enforcement.

The alternative tends to lead to questionable enforcement, and it's debatable which is better.
Understanding CPU Steal Time - when should you be worried?
FireEye Botnet Blusters
The "thorium-powered-cars" were discussed previously. They are based in a totally different "unproved" technology. The main point about "thorium-powered-cars":

* It's not a nuclear reactor, it doesn't produce fission.

* It says that the thorium has a lot of potential energy, but it's not clear how to extract it. (A similar weight of potatoes has the same energy and at least it's easy to extract a part of it.)

* It mixes lasers and radioactive material. A lot of buzzwords but the explanation of the details is unintelligible.

I gave more details and direct quotes for the project in a previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2879955
Here's what I want: A link that I can click on that will add a google calendar event to notify me with the list of representatives to vote AGAINST when voting season comes. I'm pissed now, but like all americans, I'll probably forget about this come election.
Just before the order payment is being done, we crawl the URL of the product, we check for a product with the specified ID and validate that the price, name, any other properties have not been altered. If it has been altered, we reject the order. The URL in data-item-url must be on your site domain, so by example, if you change the data-item-url from snipcart.com/product to myapp.com/product, it will be considered as altered and the order will be rejected.
Scheduling a long-term contract
They're also great for backups.
I don't know about the product, but this site design is very pleasing to my eyes. Nice work.
Many implementations of democracy have this problem, most prominent example of course the US.
You would be correct:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Source :http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why Multi-Domain MDM Matters
Okay, how many more have you got?
We have a Refine Tool that allows for AND,OR,NOT filters. It's only available for paid users, but really allows you to push the limits and get the exact query you want. Thanks for the feedback!
Even if it can't do serious web hosting of any kind, that's 500GB of storage for $4/month. Great solution for offsite backups, bearing in mind of course that there's no redundancy.
Sounds like a cool idea. I think there are few other apps (at least on Android) that do a similar thing, and Zoodles is in this space as well.

It is definitely needed though. My daughter loves looking at videos of, say, kittens but you never know what she will stumble upon.
But wasn't there an issue with the random seeds (and them possibly being corrupted) even in Free Software?
Agreed. My post may have been more tautological than I'd hoped (in the absence of loss, a cavity is lossless). Thank you for the important reminder that in nature, there is no DC.

In the sense in which I'd understood the question "Cavity losses are often dominated by reflectivity losses at the mirrors: does an improved mirror make a big difference?", I think my reply is relevant.
Page from the UK site with full specs and prices in £ https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml
He is Indian. If you look back at other scandals, usually it's a person considered in a racial minority (Jerome Kerviel, Joseph Jett) that see jail time
I agree, that's why we tried to phrase it neutrally: "Does the NSA surveillance of US citizens concern you? " Yes/No/I don't know/No, I don't have anything to hide/No, it's necessary to keep us safe?"

It's not intended to produce a specific outcome, we want some genuinely good data :)

If you want to check it out and look at the results it's here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QBvTRxDQXmALhYqZMn7S3T_DBq8...
Yes, assume your reader has just woken up and has 20+ tabs open they're trying to speed-read through before they finish their bagel and coffee and rush off to work. They want the firehose, not Dostoyevsky.

Good rule of thumb for this kind of audience - invert your essay structure. Put the concluding paragraph first, then work backwards through the supporting paragraphs till you get to the original question.

That style is much more engaging than traditional, overused, boring form of "Intro para -> 3x supporting para -> conclusion". Instead make a strong/counterintuitive/nonobvious/etc unsupported assertion right off the bat, then work backwards to support it.

That initial assertion captures peoples attention much more effectively than a slow build up, b/c they then want to read on to find out if the author can actually support it, and are gratified when you do.
WWRPD?
Do people use 5.1 or 7.1 outside of TVs & home theaters much at all?
e = € but this it before taxes.
After taxes: 3.58€ 11.95€ and 23.91€ (= 31.61)
If I were in a different place in my life, I'd totally be applying to be a fellow for Code for America [1] (which is how/why this was built). They do incredibly awesome stuff for small governments around the US.

1. http://codeforamerica.org/
I would hope that an article from "Scientific" American would cite "scientific" studies which back such claims. As it stands, this article is more bro-science than real science, and it's a damn shame.
I'm not sure it actually is wasteful, though.

Social Security in the US is supposed to have minuscule overhead.

In Canada, even the government can't always be trusted to not give money to charity groups that are anti-gay -- individuals might find that a feature, not a bug, of the charity :P.

Knowing an accountant, I know that many charities put barely any of their income towards the actual charity (the legal minimum is 2%.. two percent!).

Breast cancer gets huge amounts of donations, while less glamourous, but more lethal cancers get much less.

I know that if I were to hit hard times, I'd rather have something not too personal, rather than feeling beholden to random people, nice and generous as they may be.

Plus, do we really want selfish people to keep the most money? :) Screw those people, give with the rest of us, with professionals deciding where the money goes, not random people's pet interests :P
Wow! I'm taken down my VMs this weekend.
>This is a game changer.

Completely agree. This is potentially an incredibly disruptive innovation. Provided third parties (TV Networks, Vimeo, etc.) write apps for this, I think it will radically change the way people watch TV.

No-one wants another box with another clumsy interface. They just want to watch what they see on their phone or laptop on a better screen.

Wow.
For beginners; Python lists
Info here:

http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml

http://www.ovh.it/server_dedicati/kimsufi.xml

So for UK, prices are in £ :)
Bed bugs - lawsuit by hotel as a result of bad review
We will add more informations about how our price validation works very soon. Also, we already suggest our customers to make sure their website is HTTPS also.
which time?
By the price of two coffees you get a server connected to internet.

When I started with this, the price of a server was the salary of an adult of medium class working during one year (and you got it without connection to internet, neither hosting facilities)...

I wish the price of technology at home (devices, connections, etc), could go down the same way for everybody.
BMW vs. Tesla: The race heats up with the i3
FYI, you're missing the congresspeople who abstained.
All this increased digital surveillance comes at a time when the US Post Office is under artificial financial pressure. Just last night the news reported a plan to eliminate direct delivery to the door in favor of some sort of community mail box facilities. Interesting coincidence that physical letters (whose contents are still protected by federal statute) are being discouraged while unprotected content is being collected.
I'm sure you're familiar, but for anyone else reading: CfA has other programs for folks that can't make a full-time dedication http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/
I'm curious, what's your ideal political arrangement? How do you propose we provide for transportation infrastructure, medical services, police, fire departments, etc? I'm not convinced that abolishment of the state is possible or even ideal, but I'm open to discussion.
They used to have unmetered bandwidth, so you could also use them for big transfer.
> It's not proper FOSS. Yes, you can read the source at some point later, but chances of someone that's not Google, Motorola, Samsung, or HTC having their commit actually show up in the upstream are slim to none.

The second sentence doesn't support the first. FOSS isn't about whether you can get your commit accepted, its about your freedom to modify the source and use and share your modifications.

FOSS and cathedral/bazaar development models are nearly orthogonal (they are logically orthogonal, though non-OSS bazaar is pretty rare and has some pragmatic difficulties.) Cathedral-style development model isn't "improper" FOSS.
Google Removed 100 Million “Pirate” Search Results This Year
Any bandwidth included? If not, how much is transfer?
I've run into some bad situations due to lowest bidder staff at conferences as well. One travel agency agreed to a bulk rate, then started charging everyone full price after the first 5 or so people. Meanwhile there were plane and visa deadlines and the like and they did this while they had visas in hand, preventing people from going elsewhere for travel and still making the trip.
That is a good idea. Yesterday in irc, we could only think of trying to get people to confront their local reps in their offices. I'll pass this along.

Edit: If anyone knows any place to programmatically get (r)election dates for districts, please tell us here: https://github.com/tfrce/DefundTheNSA/issues/14
Justin Amash almost beat the NSA. Next time, he might do it.
A police officer is essentially a community worker and I believe should have that mentality of serving the community. I don't really believe what the officer did was malicious or even all that inappropriate. I think the police officer is probably wrong in the views she is expressing, but I don't think it's wrong for her to call him in this situation or even help the restaurant owner and the former employee work out an issue.
Maybe we need a manufacturer to step up and make a line of computers that is open source and contains self auditing features such as checksums for all hardware. There has to be a way to do it. Some of the latest Kickstarter projects that are hardware based would be in a good position to try and pull that off.
Mapping Sterotypes
This extensive list is still updated regularly: https://github.com/jmcunningham/AngularJS-Learning
Watsi (YC W13) raises $1.2M first-of-its-kind 'philanthropic seed round'
100 mbit up until 3 TB, later 10 mbit cap.
Excellent, just what I was looking for. Thanks!
New MacBook Pro 2013 Haswell: Apple and Intel keep up the suspense
Reddit AMA: Mark Shuttleworth on UbuntuEdge
Arduino-Powered Stoplight for Continuous Integration Build Monitoring
It's that ultimately, the hiring decision is in the employer's hands. Candidates may end up paying even when there are no legitimate transactions to be had (employers are only speculatively browsing talent markets), but employers will pay because there is a burning need to fill their open position. Even if there is no talent immediately available, they can raise offered compensation until they create market demand for their open position.
I love the idea, but is one week a long enough time limit for anything substantial?
For the benefit of those of us who don't know much about Atom, could you explain what the limitations are of using Atom for webserving?
i think the issue is: 10% of the people are informed enough to realize what's going, and yes, some of them are acting. the majority of Americans don't know what's going on, and many of them don't care, which is sad.
Their download page indicates that 2.10 is the last stable version.

http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html
Yeah and currently a nominee on http://www.awwwards.com/best-websites/snipcart (this morning batch).
I wonder what price is shown to US, UK and French customers?

German customers have to pay €3.99 for KS2G. The German price should be 1 cent cheaper, and not 1 Euro more expensive, as French VAT is 19.6% while German VAT is 19%.

See http://www.ovh.de/dedicated_server/isgenug.xml if this is possible outside Germany. You can not see ovh.com inside Germany, as ovh.com is redirected to ovh.de.
But what about "post-sale"? I think there will always be customer demand for concierge-level of service. Some SaaS models do lend themselves to self-service, but others don't. Knowing that distinction is key.
Like with everything else than maybe virus outbreak, most changes takes time to affect entire community, economy or a country. Rome wasn't built in a day, so the Rome Empire didn't collapse in a day neither.

Take me as an example. I am 8 years in US, married to US citizen. Green Card holder now and couple years ago our plan was for me to become a US Citizen and us to raise our kids on US soil. Not anymore.

With all the outcoming gov scandals, with government forcing you to vaccine your kids, with you or your children going to jail for drawing a gun, for swat team breaking into your house because you are selling raw milk, for all this growing nonsense and my personal disgust with president that calls death of 4 us officials in Bengazi a "phony scandal", I am genuinely sick and disgusted of this to my deeper core. And here comes important part: so you say to me in response: if you don't like it, move out! And you are damn right!

We made this decision recently and right now my wife is learning my native language while I am shifting more towards doing more remote programming gigs. Surprisingly after I moved here from the country of communism, now it seems safer and more sane back in Europe than here! Europe has its problems of course, but honestly I believe Europe will deteriorate much slower than US. Here everything is on fast forward and yes examples like Manning or Snowden revelations and lack of echo makes it hard to believe anything will change for better in the future.

I believe I am not the only one who draw this conclusion lately. I also think that many smart people coming to this country to live "american dream" are also smart enough to realize the economical situation become so unstable that its better to "wait and see" back home.
To err is human, the ETTO principle
that's my first thought also. competitions that happen too often get diluted in perceived value. cool idea though
SELinux added to Android
It is a very slow CPU designed for power efficiency, not speed.

As such, it can be quite surprisingly slow, managing to limit a lot of loads that most devs take for granted these days.
It certainly does. A cryptographic system that does not is useless. In the most basic sense, if you can't trust anyone you can't know if you're talking to a man-in-the-middle pretending to be someone else. TLS provides a mechanism for converting trust in a CA to trust that you're talking to the right party (who presented the certificate). If someone has a cert you accept and he's not the party you want to talk to that's not really TLS's fault and there's actually very little you can do about that. There are practical considerations as well but from a theoretical perspective it's secure.
>Recently some governments tried to orchestrate a power grab of the internet via the ITU but the US vetoed it. I thought it would be better for the US govt. to have control rather than untrustworthy foreign govts. Recent developments have shattered even that impression.

Yes, this is the thing that worries me the most. It may very well be the beginning of the end of the "multi-stakeholder model" of internet governance. There's no one left with any kind of moral high ground to fight off these attempts.
How long did it take you to work through everything?
You can search stackoverflow, but not github for "symbolic operators"

http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[php]+%22%24%24%22

also, languages that need it have their own type signature based search (haskell, scala)

http://scalex.org/

http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/
That was essentially the premise of the top level post.
Right.. so his experience is either out of date, or as an MSFT employee.
He wouldn't even have to do it alone, there's tons of startups and events in the valley, particularly around Stanford, working on big significant medical problems. Coders are in short supply as well. If he wanted to code on a real life medical issue I could match him up with several doctors within a week.

But hey, it probably felt good for him to talk about what other people should do even if he doesn't do it himself.
I don't know what would have to happen for you to consider the response substantial. Would citizens need to be forming militias and actively marching in the streets? That's just not how people react anymore.

Tens of thousands of people called their congresspeople on a day's notice to express their support for the Amash Amendement. That amendment lost by only 12 votes. A large majority of people polled think that the NSA dragnet is infringing on privacy rights. I think that's pretty good for a notoriously apathetic populace. This issue is far from over.
Note traffic within the OVH network isn't counted.

For certain applications (which you may or may not know about) that's quite significant.
Quite the unnecessary rule I believe. 100 Mbps = 3.2TB in a month.
AWS Opsworks finally supports Chef 11 and custom AMIs
Marketing is analogous to high school
Thanks! And as always, anyone who wants to help create things like this can sign up at http://sina.is/task-force/

We particularly need some extra designers to help out, but the more the merrier.
Congrats to the Watsi.org team!
Yes it will. There is a huge scandal brooding in Germany about the Goverment Agencies sharing wiretaps etc. with US goverment, and high-ranking politicians not only seem to. have been informed but are even justifying actions like this in general. (Knowing that the EU is only as strong as its members, these revelations are really disconcerting to me even before I can see the extent of surveillance data shared)
Would a monthly competition work better do you think?
Ask HN: How to pull IP address from live streaming video on Youtube?
I am trying to create a live streaming show, but I would like to be able to switch to different live video stream from other youtube account. I did try to use WireCast, but it ask for IP address. I tried everything by using whois.is and other sites but seems those ip address do not work. Any ideas?
This is an opinion piece. I'm not qualified to say whether the claims and counter claims made in the piece are accurate or not. But be aware, since it's an opinion piece there are no linked references or research in it to backup the claims it makes.
There are several "personal marketing" or applicant-paid "career transition" services that are outright frauds, and Internet consumer complaint sites are full of stories of such rip-offs. Generally, if anyone asks for an up-front payment to find "unadvertized" jobs, run.
Thank you for everything, Eric!
(disclaimer: im a farmer)

GM food isnt toxic but GM food company lawyers are. the article mentions being sued as a result of cross-pollination in the intro and never speaks of it again, but thats the real GM crop threat.
Serious congratulations. The idea of separating overhead from donations is a important idea that needs to be emulated more in the charitable community.
Unfortunately I believe @northernmonkey and all OP's are talking about the "average American" and maybe the "average human". After all, in the US anyway, aren't we-the-people the government? That would make the MSM a mouthpiece for... the average American. I believe that is more or less true as sad as it is.

Aware and concerned tech-heads are trying to protect a drunken fool (the public) from a hungry bear (whoever it is that actually runs the intelligence networks). Either one is dangerous enough on its own, trying to save one from the other is like trying to settle a domestic dispute... not sure it can happen.

I don't have an answer, just an analysis.
College Professors Are About to Get Really Mad at President Obama
Yes, that's true, but there is a big difference between you being responsible for (not) handing over something that is in your possession and being unaware of a presumed safe channel being unsafe.
congrats watsi! you guys are my fave
I've got two nitpicks.

1. Know Your Company is, at minimum, a $2500 service. The amount of time you can spend with a given customer is huge, in that respect, because the customer support you're doing for that one customer is proportionally much more valuable. If I have a SaaS offering billing out at $20/mo., how much time can I feasibly spend with a customer (of which there are multitudes) before I have to think of ways to avoid timesinks?

2. The "manually adding people to a database" thing seems contrived. It's valuable because you learn the departments and the employees: so what's wrong with automating the excel/email uploads and having the script spit out an org chart and dossier to the printer? (That isn't a rhetorical question -- wouldn't a birds-eye view of an organization be more helpful?)

(Overall, I absolutely agree with Jason's point! But I think the argument is a bit more nuanced than the way he presents it.)
How well do screen readers for the blind and AngularJS play together?

I thought that JavaScript-based frameworks are often not very compatible with screen reading technologies, but have not investigated what advances have been made for the blind in this area.

http://stackoverflow.com/q/15318661/59087

http://juicystudio.com/article/making-ajax-work-with-screen-...
100 mbit unlimited bandwidth included since yesterday. Before that it was 5 TB per month.

EDIT: http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6713
Even in Oakland, I am way more worried about things like an earthquake, blackout, etc than a civil war, though.