skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big shame - had had a few chats with them, seemed like honest decent guys.
Also if you want something to pull your ear when you're fudging things up, use the Bullet gem.

Literally, just add this initializer in your development.rb

config.after_initialize do
Bullet.enable = true
Bullet.alert = true
Bullet.bullet_logger = true
Bullet.console = true
Bullet.growl = true
Bullet.xmpp = { :account => 'bullets_account@jabber.org',
:password => 'bullets_password_for_jabber',
:receiver => 'your_account@jabber.org',
:show_online_status => true }
Bullet.rails_logger = true
Bullet.airbrake = true
end

https://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet

>The Bullet gem is designed to help you increase your application's performance by reducing the number of queries it makes. It will watch your queries while you develop your application and notify you when you should add eager loading (N+1 queries), when you're using eager loading that isn't necessary and when you should use counter cache.
Yup. I have a cousin whose initials are RLC3.
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Who's to say that some of the tech developed to mine bitcoins won't find other applications. Or perhaps the expertise developed by people trying to optimize bitcoin mining, or bitcoin commerce infrastructure could end up helping them change the world in other ways.

I'm totally not saying the two are equivalent, but look at the non-obvious ways that NASA has helped all of us: http://www.wtfnasa.com/
> unless you are willing to concede that any document format is code

Because it is. Data vs. code distinction is arbitrary. The following sequence of characters:

"echo 'foobar';"

can be interpreted as describing a string, a series of tokens, a piece of code, a piece of music or a small icon, whatever interpretation you choose.
Why not just sell the technology and IP to another company that wants to make use of it?
Bitcoin concept disrupts the banking industry and effectively deprecates it. I'd like to see a similar decentralized system in application to SSL certificates, where anyone can establish secure connection without paying fees to 3rd party CAs.
It is mostly because of the ecosystem, due of the proprietary nature of the .NET Framework not many are willing to put in their personal time to build libraries and other supporting software around it which results in the lack of any real community.

Most startups today are well connected with some community or other and to them .NET is mostly invisible. On the other hand if a person from an enterprise builds a startup and if they have a .NET background that is when they try to get into bizspark.
"The original problem Rockmelt was supposed to solve was having to go to a bunch of different sites to manage all your online social activity."

Thanks, so they needed 40mill to develop and test a value hypothesis. This was very expensive but Yahoo's $65mill covers the cost so at least everyone comes out on decent ground.
Google Play edition HTC One Android 4.3 kernel source released
Many of the "how would this work" theories on this thread assume it's using microcode or some weird instruction sequence to trigger something. That's extremely bad design if that's the case.

A much better way to do that would be an entirely independent CPU that has a copy of the bus, and can tristate it (so that when needed, it can feed the CPU any code/data it needs instead of main memory). If you do that, you don't have to run code on the target machine - you just have to make it see some data - e.g. by sending an email to that machine; no need for user interaction or code. You might even use public key infrastructure to make it impossible to tell which data it needs to see to activate.

And best of all -- only one layout guy needs to be any wiser, not the opcode people. Such an additional CPU, depending on complexity, might fit in a couple of thousands of transistors (the 8080, a general purpose 8-bit CPU that ran CPM, was all of 4500 transistors - virtually invisible in today's modern 1-2 billion chips).
it's funny that something like this existed in CFML for a while now (CFTRACE), yet CFML is looked down upon. its cool though to see this functionality in another programming language.
I had a Philosophy of Ethics course during my C.S. undergrad that was actually taught by a former member of the Michigan House of Representatives. He would discuss the kind of things he had to make decisions on during his time there, regarding the different points of view he had to take into account from an ethics perspective, and then have an open dialog with the class to discuss the different facets of the subject. Was a very interesting class that gave some interesting perspective.
Sweden isn't alone in this; even Japan has issues with forced/false confessions.

I look forward to a day when confessions, and all eyewitness testimony for that matter, are inadmissible without corroborating, strong, forensic evidence in the courts of any modern democracy. They're all ripe for abuse.

We never admit eyewitness testimony (of which confessions are a variant) in science, why is it allowed in justice systems? If something happened, there should be evidence to that fact. The end!
Alexander could have worn business or business casual attire to this event, but he chose wear official military garb to a non-military event in order to cloak his arguments with official authority.

As I've argued elsewhere, the amount of political authority "Emperor Alexander" has managed to accumulate, and the unquestioning treatment he has received in congress and elsewhere, are signs of weakening in the republican system.
You're possibly over harsh here, "social" today doesn't mean the same thing, and itsn't in the same position it was, 5 years ago.

Hmmm, before I'd invest in this I'd like to see research on how many people are seriously engaged in more than 1 and more than 2 social networks. And I'd seriously wonder if that changed for the better in 5 years.
Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (August 2013)
+1 to DDG for this.
I don't know how reliable Google Trends are but:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=rockmelt#q=rockmelt&c...

They couldn't have paid too much for such a downward trend.
"Data is not code"

Lisp programmers disagree.
Same here. I get around this by never mentioning my first name unless I'm in a situation where it's legally required, like at a doctor's office or the DMV. That groups down to a small number of cases:

1. If they're working for me, like at the doctor's office, I ask them to please call me by my middle name. They're generally respectful about it and are used to dealing with nicknames and other aliases anyway.

2. In the DMV and other situations, I just grit my teeth and answer by my first name. It's not worth the hassle of explaining and they don't care anyway.

3. If I'm being hired, I fill out my paperwork "officially" and give it to HR, with the explanation that I go by my middle name for all legal purposes.

4. Banks are kind of weird because they perform official government functions, but they're still ultimately working for me. I've only had one bank flat-out refuse to put my middle name on my debit card and checks, and I explained to the branch manager why I was walking out the door before we'd finished opening my account.
Having never been in this situation, what stops a developer from signing and doing almost no work for Y! while they ride out their contract? I feel like if they get fired they could just claim that Y! didn't want to pay them, so they fired them instead.
So one of the things interviewees mentioned is that there was a difference between "micro moments" and "full blown work".

Writing a paper is full blown work that they know they cant do on a mobile device. But they expected a lot of the micro-moments to work.
Oh, come on. Bush went into office to starve the beast from day 1, and that's what we were all talking about when he rammed is stupid tax cuts through congress. That's what was going on when Senators were flipping from R to D until he was distracted by 9/11.
It's certainly possible that it works that way, but my hunch is that it doesn't, and that what's going on with a project like a self-driving car is as much about assembling good training data and tuning the constants to get the desired behavior as it is about inventing the algorithms. If they are at the point of having actual cars driving on actual roads then the theoretical work must have been finished long ago, and what they are actually doing is not some patentable new idea, but the down-to-earth engineering work of making it useful under as broad a range of real-world conditions as possible.

It has certainly never been true, in my experience, that the actual software development is the easy part, regardless of the quality of the spec. A spec detailed enough to make the software development easy would, itself, be a piece of software; it is precisely that process of reducing the idea to all of its details and harmonizing all of its competing constraints that is the work of software development.

I have no background in machine vision, navigation, or the like, but I have done some embedded software development, and one of my projects was a wearable device which did sensor fusion, data logging, networking, etc. It was a relatively small project, and the core algorithms were basically obvious as soon as we knew what the product was supposed to do, but it still took almost two years to implement it all, test it, see what real world data looked like, tune our constants, and run more tests, etc. There were many practical tasks involving power consumption, peripheral management, network communication, debugging, manufacturing tests, and the like which contained absolutely no new ideas but still had to be implemented in order for the product to succeed.

There may have been a patentable invention in there somewhere, but who would ever license it? Anyone trying to solve the same problem would come up with something similar, and they'd still have 18-24 months of expensive development work to do getting a product designed and ready for market. If we'd patented that hypothetical idea, we'd have contributed nothing to the public sphere; the only value in such a patent would be to make it more difficult for someone else to follow in our footsteps, which is exactly the opposite of the reason the patent system was established in the first place!
There are no links to comments, because you should never read the comments.

wait, what? There are some great comments around here.
My best friend in elementary school had the misfortune of a hyphenated last name that was exactly sixteen characters long. The systems at the school evidently limited you to fifteen characters, because I saw her name printed in a lot of places without the final character.
Their US datacenter is in Florida.

EDIT: My info is out of date. Their Florida datacenter has become the backup, with the primary being Equinix in Ashburn, Virginia:

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/01/14/its-o...
By VPN startups, they mean initiation of a VPN session. Specifically, this means they can grab the credentials at the beginning of a PPTP VPN session, and then decrypt it. PPTP has been known to be vulnerable to this sort of attack for some time.
It's more easily reversible.
That's because HN uses an image tag to do the nesting and apparently elinks ignores the width property on image tags.
HFCS is largely used because of the corn lobby. The market price of sugar is 17 cents per pound. The price of one of these facial products ranges from $10 to $50, and they're typically about 8 oz, so about 5 cents if it were 50% sugar. Cost is not a significant factor. The total manufacturing cost of the beads including the equipment, testing, and branding probably makes them equivalent to sugar, or perhaps more expensive.
Sorry, but people who are skeptical of state justifications for militarism are by definition less of a threat to peace than those who support imperialist policies.
This year's speech made me think what it might have been like to listen to visionaries in the past give a talk out in the middle of a town's square.

It was like the room was dead silent (not even random people coughing or opening bags of snacks) for 3 hours while one of the smartest game devs talked about various topics.
Why startups rarely change the world
But is that really a "sign this or be dismissed" threat? It seems more like a "Company X is dismissing you. We (Company Y) are offering you a job. Would you like to accept?" type of situation. Which is a lot better than a "Company X is dismissing you. We (Company Y) are not interested in you either. Good day." type of situation.
It's a silly "choice;" employees shouldn't be treated with handcuffs. You should be offering them a clear incentive to NOT leave with the cash.

Unfortunately, a lot of developers going to work for a startup have a starry-eyed perspective that the 80hr week is going to pay itself back in droves and without the golden handcuffs. Then reality sets in; the seller doesn't necessarily think much about his employee's outlook -- "dude, you get to work for Yahoo!!!!"

Employees of startups need to be reminded to not take cuts, because the buyout should be gravy; it will likely never come or come with a heavy ball-n-chain.
Ask HN:  How to decide between ovh/hetzner and AWS?
I am currently using AWS for my dev/QA but I hope to go live very soon. AWS makes everything almost effortless but I am not afraid of diving in when needed. I am wrestling with the idea of going with ovh as I get more bang for the buck. I have a monthly budget of approximately US$500 per month. What factors besides throughput of bare metal and low prices should I consider ?
Another favourite past-time of Western-privileged-folks: waxing poetic about subject matter they have no acquaintance with outside of internet articles and forum comments.

Regardless of contrasts with "more serious" psychological or physical illness, ADHD is debilitating without treatment and destroys the suffer's quality of life.
This isn't true, there's lots of legitimate ways to bring in passive income if you know the right niches to explore. Look at this screenshot of my Adsense earnings for last month, where I brought in over $13,500!

"Learn the tricks to uncovering the top undiscovered niches for making a fortune! Click here to buy the e-book. Special offer for warriors!"
*Will be switching to HTTPS...

I just went to wikipedia and the implementation is not live yet.
> ...back then people weren't bashing the U.S. educational system for the fact that poor Irish immigrants weren't doing well in school...

Back then it was okay to bash them for just "being Irish" and there wasn't much of an education system to criticize.

The demographic challenges the US faces are not unlike those in Spain, Britain, France, or any country that's had to absorb a portion of its colonial population.

The US seems to favor hyper-segregation, where you have schools that are 99% black and others that are 99% white. Integrated schools, by and large, simply don't exist.
The posting says: "We’re very sorry about this incident. We take security seriously and are addressing the incident as our top priority."
JavaScript and Source Maps in a Django App
Right? It's a forum, not a link aggregator. Comments are the entire point.
For Yankees, Little Bang for Their Buck
Installing linux on a hard drive never sounded impressive before.
> In even the worst codebase there will be nuggets of usefulness that will accelerate the process. Isolated parts of the system that you've perfected. Exchange message decoders for example (ITCH, FIX/FAST, etc.). This is especially true when you, the genius who will be starting from scratch, has worked on it for a few years. I assume he was doing something useful in his time at Goldman.

The new system was going to be written in a different language than what Goldman uses.
I don't think Marissa intends the work conditions to be this bad.
So can someone explain what Rockmelt is? I haven't used it since the private beta in 2010, and thought they abandoned their facebook integrated browser.
Algorithm Puzzle: Minimum Point in a Rotated Sorted Array
"--Mailbox's exit to Dropbox"

This article puts into perspective why this could be a potentially huge strategic play.

If you can convince people to use MailBox as their client, saving every attachment to DropBox by default, and continuing to push for DropBox integration in other iOS apps, DropBox could become the unofficial file system of iOS and the solution to the "complex workflows" cited in the article.
Because he hopes to be able to return to it one day. I don't think he's in it for the advancement of science or the industry, but rather for the kicks of it. It's his hobby.
Probability Puzzle: Expected Number of Expression Evaluations
Your categories (being the US census categories) are, of course, US-centric so cannot be directly compared to other countries. That is, in the Swedish context, why should Swedes and Iraqis both be categorized as "white" while Chileans are in their own category of "Hispanic or Latino"?

For some hard numbers, "15% of the [Swedish] population was born abroad, 5% of the population was born in Sweden to two parents born abroad, and another 7% was born in Sweden to one parent born abroad. Resulting in 27% of the Swedish population being of at least partly foreign descent." (Wikipedia for Immigration_to_Sweden#Current_population_of_immigrants_and_their_descendants . That also shows the complete breakdown, with Iraq, Bosnia, former Yugoslavia, and Iran in positions #2-5, after Finland.)

Compare that to the US: "According to the Census Bureau's 2009 American Community Survey, the US immigrant population was 38,517,234, or 12.5 percent of the total US population." (http://www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?ID=8... )

12.5% for the US is less than 15% for Sweden.

It's hard to compare the Swedish immigration numbers to the ones in the link you gave, which talks about ethnicity in San Francisco, because the Swedish government tracks nationality, not ethnicity.

It's also difficult to compare San Francisco, which has a higher than average diversity in the US, with all of Sweden. For example, in Botkyrka Municipality near Stockholm nearly half the population has at least one parent born in another country, and that rises to 65% in one of its neighborhoods; a neighborhood where 26% of the neighborhood is a foreign national.

By comparison, that number is 30% (instead of 26%) for the SF Bay Area. However, even then it's not a good comparison because I picked a single neighborhood of 82k people in Sweden, against the Bay Area, which has a population of 7.15 million. The entirety of Sweden is only 9.5 million people.

So yes, you can easily say that San Francisco is a very culturally diverse city. No one disagrees with you.

However, purplelobster's point was that Sweden currently, and over the last two decades, takes in a lot of refugees on a per-capita basis, and even more than the US does - a fact which is not in dispute.
I don't think you understand how this works.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6139927
This is a celebration of programmers' ability to generate unmaintainable code by exploiting implementation dependencies. People get fired for pulling this horseshit every day!
I was thinking of the exact same idea. He/she has to do this!
If you want bots and some real people to follow you who are trying the same. Join twiends.com it's a follower exchange and you get 10 credits per day for visiting the site which equals 5 twitter followers. If you want to play ugly actually use the exchange and few weeks later some mass unfollow tool. This is pretty damn ugly way to get followers and I know it because I did it almost two years ago and in a month gained around 10k followers, afterwards I stopped doing it and the follower count has slowly been degrading.

Though if you want actual followers who discuss with you. Follow those tags and reply on their tweets. Some might actually enjoy that you replied to them even though you are not following them and start following you.
Ikea's New Catalog Magically Transforms Into Furniture
The only reason there's bad neighborhoods is because people have stopped caring, and the only reason they've stopped caring is because they're powerless to change anything.

There are some instances in places like Detroit where neighbors have banded together to fight off thugs, gangs, and dealers, and it seems to be working a lot better than relying on the erratic or indifferent response of local police forces.

The solution isn't military schools, it's people taking the initiative and asserting themselves, having a direct hand in reshaping their neighbourhood.
aaah Ok. Its easy to buy something but hard the switching effort and learning effort is higher so retention is lower. Interesting.
that's not really true, T-Mobile blocks tethering by sniffing HTTP user agent strings too. So if you are tethering to a tablet, then it will work fine. It won't if you are tethering to a laptop (you can spoof the UA string but you will end up receiving all mobile websites on your laptop - which kind of sucks and kills productivity).
Caveat: I've had about 2 secs to skim the proposal.

Looks interesting. JSON Patch was new to me, and potentially very useful for work we're doing right now in Myna.

However there seems to be the assumption there is one client and one server. This isn't going to cut it if you want to do the fast or the reliable, in which case you want multiple data centre deployment, or if the client has device(s) that they might operate offline.

In this case you have eventually consistent data, so you need some way to merge it, and this normally means you need some versioning scheme. I'm most of the way through this paper which seems to offer the best solution to CRDTs (a way of handing eventually consistent data) I've read so far:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3207

Monoids for ever!
> The US seems to favor hyper-segregation, where you have schools that are 99% black and others that are 99% white.

The segregation of US schools is largely a product of the segregation of the US population more generally.
Is your B2B startup New Enterprise or Old Enterprise?
Yes, I understand that "code is data". This does not mean that data, in general, is code; unless you are willing to make the words completely meaningless. "Code" requires some notion of an execution platform/environment, which does not exist for arbitrary data. Here is a string: "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". Or how about "\u0000\u0000". That is not code, as generally understood.
This is hilarious! The Constitution? Paper constitutions aren't worth the paper they are printed on. They are an Americanism. Before the American paper Constitution, constitutions were exactly what the word signified - the structure of a ruling system. And a Constitution always becomes a small-c constitution even apart from the amendment process. Notice the actual result of the New Deal legislation. The rise the administrative state. Agencies that make, execute and judge on rules. Legislative bills that are shells for bureaucrats to fill (Dodd-Frank, PPACA, etc). NONE of these things are authorized by the "Constitution."
Please note that I haven't opined on whether I think this development is positive or negative. I do think that is a secondary matter to the importance that smart people such as the HN audience _understand_ the real structure (small-c constitution) of America is only tenuously related to the big-C Constitution.

Okay downvote away gentlemen!
As Andreessen says, “Computing is going to vanish into panes of glass. In the future you’re going to just assume that every pane of glass is a touch computer and it’s connected to broadband. If it’s not active, you’ll assume it’s broken.” And he’s betting that when we reach this world of panes, we’ll be accessing the web via RockMelt."
If confessions were rendered inadmissible, what of Guilty pleas? They're a foundation of the western justice system