skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
im starting from the premisse that at least people have a good educational level to understand whats happening.. it gets higher in satelites regions like new york, SF, LA, chicago, seattle, etc..

but you know, generalizations are pretty much questionable, what do we really know?! :)
That's great to hear, I already ordered the Jr. version http://www.amazon.com/Elenco-SC-100-Snap-Circuits-Jr/dp/B000...

I also just discovered ThinkFun toy company. I'm picked a few things from there http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=bl_sr_toys-and-games?_encoding=U...
I'm quite disappointed that this is the case. I don't expect a crazy parallax motion-sickness inducing css3 but I do expect decent markup.

I was disappointed when you said they used images.

I was more disappointed when I looked at the source and realised it's nested tables.

For shame, HN. For shame.
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6124306
Google Authenticator doesn't need network. Battery however is required of course.
Ive been using mod_wsgi for some time, and it has worked great, and I had kind of assumed it had superseded mod_python. Wonder what the benefit of bringing it back to life is.
The way things are going we may need those guns. The 2nd amendment was written to allow the people to defend themselves from the government.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. (Thomas Jefferson)
Congress eyes renewed push for legislation to rein in the NSA
This was a great read. One of the things we've done in the past is to modify the firmware of the drive to be able to give errors on command. The purpose was for testing RAID systems in real life scenarios. One can include a 'unit test' drive in a RAID array which will run through a series of known bad disk behaviours. From the simple like returning read failure, to the more complex like returning the wrong block or returning a block that has been silently corrupted (both things NetApp observed in the wild on 'real' drives), and my personal favourite acknowledging a write but not actually writing the data (nearly killed the Cisco relationship they had at the time)
Check out their home page - male headshots there seem ahem "different".
Depends on your definition of "entertainment," but you'll probably want to do your homework first, regardless:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/nyregion/26jury.html?_r=0
According to a friend of mine who is relatively knowledgeable about this law, it was originally intended to target enterprise companies that were essentially selling software for next to nothing and then charging like mad for the "installation and configuration" to avoid sales tax.

The wisdom of even that approach is debatable, but the actual language of the law is far from conveying that intent and is a total, indecipherable mess. No one has the remotest clue what is actually covered under the language of the law.

I'm part of a small software consultancy in MA, and we've now got 30 days to decide which of our customers this crazy language applies to, and which it doesn't. Is Django "pre-written" software? Does spinning up and customizing an instance count?

It's crazy town.
For me, the hard part about typing on a virtual keyboard is not hitting the keys, which are big enough on an iPad. It's switching to the non-standard keys like - or _, typing numbers, or even typing capital letters. Each of these requires one or more presses on a mode switch key, which changes all or most of the keys displayed, and then selecting the key to enter. Even for capital letters, you can't just press down Shift and then the key as you could on a normal keyboard. (You could rely on autocorrect if you need the capitalization at the start of a sentence, of course.)

Entering something like _ is especially poor because it requires two keypresses to get the keyboard into the right mode. So entering even a small bit of code on an iPad is painful if you use underscores in variable names.

Quite apart from the tactile feedback, I think mode switching is very disruptive to getting into the flow of typing -- "where did all my keys go?"
Comes fully loaded with NSA backdoor.
To be fair, there are many (if perhaps not a majority) of people with guns who are horrified at what the NSA is doing. And in all likelihood, their owning guns probably doesn't dissuade the NSA from spying on them further. But the mainstream narrative seems to have sadly moved on from discussing the excesses of the government.
It's not a sure fix though, there will be occasions where you can change the page length enough to hit the padding boundary.
Maybe, but if the pictures were male engineers, would you even blink or look twice?
There's a few more options if you watch this via the twitch url (pop out window etc).

http://www.twitch.tv/bethesda

Just be sure to close the chat window, because even briefly catching some of the twitch chat will lower your IQ (if not will to live).

Also, the VOD will be viewable from that link for those who miss it live.
It's actually a good question - I have a friend who is a technical recruiter, and she specializes in hiring entire departments from other companies. Her strategy is usually to offer a "leader" (quite often the manager, but sometimes the sr. technical player) who will take a role in convincing the others to come on board. Signing bonuses are usually around $200K-$500K depending on seniority, and vest (or the repayment portion disappears) after 2 years. The person responsible for convincing the others to come on board usually gets an additional $500K or so.

But, this is for departments of 6-10 people.

One reason why offering a higher salary is a non-starter, is that, in order to properly level those new employees, you end up having to pay all of your existing engineers more money as well. So, if you increase your existing engineers salary by $30K * 10,000 engineers, you just paid $300 million/year as opposed to paying a one time fee of $70mm.
The author of the code for section 215 of the Patriot act, Sensenbrenner, says it is being used totally beyond what he intended.

In this sense, it can be said to be executing arbitrary code, perhaps it can be said that the typical method of those in power is to look through the 10,000+ page laws, search for the weakest and most arbitrary provision, and exploit it to the fullest extent possible.

Of course, part of the reason for this is that no debugging was done - after receiving the law, the military went so far as to lie about how it was being used.
No plumbers don't charge sales tax on services; neither do doctors, lawyers, dentists, or landscapers. Sensible states tax things they want to discourage like gasoline use or smoking. They don't tax people trying work more.
Here's the difference: DF is Toady's baby, his life work. Toady has the idea for it, and he does not want anyone else working on the code. Minecraft started out very rough around the edges, and only started polishing it once it had already hit it big and he could hire other people.

With a one-developer game, you don't spend time polishing things. You bounce around different areas, adding things as you wish. Letting yourself get bogged down in polishing details that aren't exciting makes you start looking for other things to do, losing interest in the project altogether.
Nice Piece of Glass (Google Glass)
That looks pretty good! You have an interesting model of abstraction with the records, cats and magnitudes. For me, each data point is an Entry. Entries have a primary Metric/Action and many details, which may have a numerical amount associated with them. Free-form representations like yours and mine make logging data easy, but analyzing it can get pretty tricky.
Taxachusetts
It's not fair to your existing employees, so you would end up having to pay all of them more money as well. This gets very expensive very fast. Quite often cheaper just to acquihire and end up paying the engineers (Existing and new) $150K.
Can crowdfunding be considered social finance?
You mischaracterized my post. I've corrected you. The rest of the argument isn't interesting to me.
Hacking media bias.Do you care about other sides of a biased news?
> Yet we wouldn't bat an eye at a similar picture of a handsome male engineer.

Bingo.
Hey guys, just a quick comment about the colors on versus.com. #bfbfbf is your text, and #f4f4f4 is the background. Those colors are so close together that its nearly impossible to read without really straining the eyes. I'd recommend going with a darker color for your text to provide better contrast. Good luck!
Imagine how good it would be if two guys worked on it for 10 years straight, following their own vision and not compromising, making what they thought was cool and making a decent living the while. That's how good it is!
What’s Asseta (YC S13), A Used Equipment Marketplace, Doing In Y Combinator?
I salute companies which are quick to turn a negative, random event into positive publicity / users. We should all be on the lookout for ways to do this in our own businesses.
> encryption would probably allow tampered pages to be detected

Careful!

It can, but doesn't always. For example, eCryptfs currently doesn't protect against tampering; it uses Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode without a HMAC or other signature.

(I'm working with some colleagues to add Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) support to eCryptfs, which does provide some form of tamper-detection.)
That's a whole world of spying opportunities. A government could make secret deals with hard drive manufacturers. Perhaps not US government, but Taiwan government, if it makes you happier... (I'm from neither country)
Chrome Extension Converts any Website into 3D
Wrote this into Factor last year. It even has the orange color in the terminal!

https://github.com/slavapestov/factor/blob/master/extra/hack...

IN: scratchpad USE: hacker-news USE: io.streams.256color [ hacker-news. ] with-256color`

Hacker News

1. FBI pressures Internet providers to install surveillance software (news.cnet.com)
104 points by ojbyrne 2 hours ago | 32 comments

2. Hard drive hack provides root access, even after reinstall (spritesmods.com)
200 points by pd0wm 5 hours ago | 46 comments

..
Here, I made a crappy version with comments:
http://pastebin.com/Y9F1PYLM
I also removed the light background...because I like my terminal that way - feel free to edit it back in...
At some point, computer systems will be more like biologic systems - they will just carry a more or less permanent "flora" of parasites, that will have to be tolerated unless they become explicitly hostile.

Any sufficiently complex system will exhibit this trait sooner or later.
HTML5 window.onerror "error" parameter lands in Blink/Chromium
I know what you are getting at, but that recent SCOTUS decision didn't implicitly say that. However, it did make it clear that you can't talk with police (thus waiving your right), refuse to answer a question, and then answer other questions. In essence, it's not the police's job to figure out whether or not you're invoking your right.
I think the idea is a fairly reasonable one, taxing large enterprises for charging insane support/servicing fees. Their implementation of it sounds really crappy though.
You're missing his point. You could have all the guns in the world but that isn't going to change the fact that Americans don't care they are being monitored and spied on. Including the vast majority of ardent supporters of the 2nd amendment.
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Minecraft was developed by one person - Markus Persson (aka Notch), at least till 2011 when it already got insanely popular.
That's true of Hunch at eBay, though it should also be noted that the new homepage was originally spearheaded by Milo employees, an acquired startup that also is creating new products in eBay (read analyst day reports and look for "eBay Local" for hints).
I corrected your assertion of 'more plausible'. Feel free to carry on, we're splitting some fairly meaningless hairs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/rss + http://gwene.org/

EDIT: Though I suppose it would be cool if comments worked, too.
So, let's deliberately choose the worse outcome because... nope, I don't get it.
Its because some of the issues we are facing right now, that we should value even more the work of guys like RMS.

open software its not just about hackerism, education and freedom in the hacker sense of being able to understand things and how they work because they are open.. but also in the sense of transparency..
we effectivelly know what is running in our own machines..

open source its a pretty good weapon to achieve transparency.. and its something we need badly now.. (its not just about cryptography)
MA has so many make-work jobs who do absolutely nothing at least they could leave those of us trying to do something alone. I was talking to a guy who used to be a product designer for Brookstone, Polaroid and GM. He has an idea to create 100 simple products all manufactured within 100 miles of Boston.

http://www.onehundred.co

He thought he would reach out to some MA economic development organization and let them know what he was doing. They got back to him right away, I forget which exact agency, to let him know they would not be able to provide any help. He was kind of miffed because he hadn't asked for anything - but now he knew they would not be able to help no matter what he might need.

I tried to look up the agency he contacted and I found these agencies:

Commonwealth Corporation

MassDevelopment

Mass. Office of Housing and Economic Development

Mass. Office of Business Development

Mass. Business Development Center

Mass. Small Business Development Center

Mass. Export Center

Mass. Office of International Trade & Investment

MassVentures

Mass. Growth Capital Corporation

Mass. Technology Collaborative

Mass. Technology Transfer Center

Mass. Clean Energy Center

Mass. Life Sciences Center

Commonwealth Marketing Office

Don't worry about any waste or duplication - the Mass. Office of Performance Management & Oversight was created with the job of making sure all these groups are working together.

Each of these places has dozens if not hundreds of employees with titles I can't even parody:

Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director

Program Assistant to the Director

Director of Cluster Development

http://www.masstech.org/meet-masstech/our-team/meet-our-staf...

All of these people standing by ready to fire back an email that they really can't be of any help
jury of one's peers n. a guaranteed right of criminal defendants, in which "peer" means an "equal." This has been interpreted by courts to mean that the available jurors include a broad spectrum of the population, particularly of race, national origin and gender. Jury selection may include no process which excludes those of a particular race or intentionally narrows the spectrum of possible jurors. It does not mean that women are to be tried by women, Asians by Asians, or African Americans by African Americans.

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/jury+of+one's+...

But originally jury of ones peers was a right of (so called noble) Englishmen to be judged by other lords, and not by commoners. Sadly, it does not give intellectual people the right to be judged by others with above room temperature IQ (what is it they say, a jury consists of 12 people not smart enough to get out jury duty?).
Ah yes. It's obviously they who don't get it. All they've done is create and turn into a career their pet project. Obviously they should just listen to all those that want to radically change what the game is rather than iterate on the design they (and many others) enjoy and see where it leads.

There is a reason DF has inspired so many others (including the creator of minecraft), and it was't the graphics.
Yes, and then I'd consider arranging them on a grid, with predictable tab order, and then I'd consider remove distracting visual ornamentation, and then...

...we have a usable, familiar, industry-tested form of data entry. =D
At some level, yes, but LinkedIn hasn't been particularly welcoming of those sorts of employees in the past (presumably because it makes some of their other customers squeamish).

Plus, there's the issue of whether people are working in the industry willingly (likely not), whether they are subject to violence (probably), and how much of the money you paid they will actually get to keep (very little). (It has been argued that legalization and regulation would solve these issues, but I have no idea if that's true or not.)
And, as you say on your website doing "project and brand management, public relations, advertising campaigns, publishing and event management [...] mostly in the video games and computing industry" puts you in the position to determine who is an engineer and who isn't?

Or you are just in a mood to troll a little bit those of us who for a small fee deal with this mess that the web development is to protect others from horrors of doing it?
Which do you think is more likely, that they don't get it, or you don't get them?
Toss on your campy 3D-Goggles, the Anaglyphic chrome extension uses HTML-5 canvas to present a 3D representation of a website:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/anaglyphic/ljibdnh...

One of my coworkers built this during a hack-day, it works best on sites with deeply nested DOMs (like Hacker News, or Stack Overflow).
Great find, so this pretty much discredits their entire argument no? Ironically it makes them the sexists ones when they feel they need to use models rather then actual real life developers to sell their services.
It seems ridiculous to charge only one profession for providing service, and it sounds like software people just have the worst lobbyists and the worst public image (plumbers are the iconic symbol of the "little guy" small business).

Here in Ontario it's much simpler (but steeper) - the harmonized provincial/federal sales and service tax is 13% on everything. Sales, service, you don't have to give a crap. There's a short list of exemptions for groceries and medical stuff.

Our taxes are high, but straightforward.
mod_python was already considered borderline-obsolete by the time I started seriously working with Python, so I never did much with it and can't speak authoritatively to its particular capabilities, but one advantage some of the "mod_[language]"s had was being able to integrate closely with Apache in ways that otherwise required writing a C module. As I recall from an earlier life, mod_perl was especially powerful in this regard.

That said, I don't think I'd use any such server-specific modules today. I'm very fond of the model of something like Apache or nginx as a proxy in front of things like gunicorn or Go's net/http library.
Show HN : I have developed a robots.txt full text search engine.
As a sub project of my pet project DNSDigger.com i have developed a search engine that index robots.txt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard).
I actually don't know what poeple could use this for but i suspect poeple that are into SEO could use it and black/white-hat hackers(?).
What i need help with is VPS/$$ for spidering. And as i sit on a considereble index of domainnames (though DNSDigger.com 300m hosts) i thought that
if you want a TLD indexed sooner than later you could sponsor it with either VPS or Paypal. See it as a strange "kickstarter".
And if you think the "design" suck (which it does because there is a lot of things i suck at and design is one of them) you are free to submit anything better. I can put up a banner for your service a limited time.
I am adding new hosts/TLD all the time.

And if you have to ask what this is you will not have any use for it even if you did ;)
To be honest, it would seem spammy to anyone, not just in our "programmer culture".

But yes, it's sexist. Although to think of it, I often see pictures of ridiculously good looking male in adverts and often unconsciously think "there is no way this guy is an engineer/scientist/...".

I also wonder why advertiser always use good looking people. Personally I respond better to someone that looks friendly and accessible than to some models taking some fishy pose.
The difference between your correction and mine is that yours is a matter of opinion and mine one of fact; I did not, in fact, post the Facebook page story because I was certain it was correct, nor did its author write it because he thought it was correct.

The difference isn't meaningless; it's useful to spotlight point-scoring goalpost-moving when it occurs.
> a few months a year of writing base hits

This is going to be my plan for the next few years, assuming my first book[1] does well. It drops in 13 days!

[1]: https://www.petekeen.net/mastering-modern-payments
I was thinking it should be a chewed on apple core, but now I cannot unsee the oreos... so I vote cookie logo too!

Cool project
Smart Machines may replace even more occupations.
The First Manned Mission to Europa Is About to Start Crowd-Funding
To which civilized country are you referring? Can you please be specific, so we can actually do some research and see if the claim needs rebutting?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6093993
Why people think what they think and do what they do
> But I think we're talking past each other because you want to make a pedantic point.

I guess that's true.

The flavour of "code vs. data" discussion in this thread was one of representation formats. You could argue that when looking at works of art from past centuries one should immediately say "data!" [0]. But in case of JSON, a format suspiciously almost identical to Lisp in structure, one needs to be careful in saying "it's for data, not for code".

Actually, I'm not sure what kind of point I'm trying to make, as the more I think of it, the more examples of things that are borderline code/data come to my mind. Cooking recipes is the obvious candidate, but think about e.g. music notation - it clearly feels more like "code" than "data".

I feel that you could define a kind of difference between "code" and "data" other than in intent, something that could put bitmaps into the "data" category, and a typical function into "code" category, but I can't really articulate it. Maybe there's some mathematical way to describe it, but it's definitely a blurry criterion. But when we're discussing technology, I think it's harmful to pretend that there's a real difference. Between configuration files looking like half-baked Lisp listings and "declarative style" C++ that looks like datasets with superfluous curly braces, I think it's wrong to even try to draw a line.

[0] - there's a caveat though. "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler[1] discussess briefly how the task of a poet is to carefully chose words that evoke particular emotional reactions in readers. It very much sounds like scripting the emotional side of the human brain.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book
Vagrant for the uninformed: Headless interface to VirtualBox and VMWare VMs on OSX. Instancing is made a breeze.
Last year, my android phone was stolen and all I wanted was to remove the content or disable the phone remotely.

They claim it's possible in a control panel that lists all the android devices belong to you. But that control panel listed none of the devices I used. None of them.

When I contacted with Google, they never replied me.

I don't know the majority experience but each Google service works really buggy for me. The Youtube account I used for years were removed with all the content, I have two Google+ accounts that belong to same e-mail but I can't login to the first one, and almost all of the Google services except Gmail and Search is disabled for me. Yes, I enabled everything in the control panel.

I would never ever trust any Google service.
Oh my. Yahoo has lots of problems with execution, we shouldn't be surprised if due diligence is another example, especially when they think they're in the 11th hour.