skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The myth of America's missing software engineers
Ugh, after reading all the comments here I wonder how a mere-mortal programmer gets multi-threaded, network programming done right. It's not clear to me if there is a clear winner between Go and Scala/JVM. Are the majority of programs out there crappy, memory-hogging and non-performant?

EDIT: Any good references out there? Thanks!
Haha, the note about removing <blink> tag is enclosed in <blink></blink>.
An oldie but a goodie from John Maynard Keynes: “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”

I'm more interested in what exactly changed his mind than I am in the fact that his mind has changed.
First of all, sentience of beings is not a necessary condition for the simulation to be borderline unethical. No other species on our planet is sentient, yet many people don't consider hurting these for fun to be moral.

I was joking of course, the joke being that ability to recognize itself in the mirror is a common test of self-awareness used by biologists. And Sims can (sort of) do that.

But! You mention "simple tricks", and it reminded me of Dan Dennett lecture on "Magic and Consciousness": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jBUtKYRxnA

His point is exactly that maybe the consciousness is just a collection of "simple tricks", which, to us, give the illusion they are not so simple.
> Putting random data in the server response will only slow down the attack.

Yes, that's what I mentioned in my post. However, the way I understand "Randomizing secrets per request", it means sending new, random secrets with every request (i.e. generating a new CSRF token for every request).
You're missing a few zeroes ;)
If I Could Only Offer one Tip for the Future, Bitcoin would be it.
Ask HN: Maybe stupid, but how do you reread the comments section?
So you want to reread an interesting comments section at point t1 in time (when there are n1 comments) but already read the whole section at point t0 in time (containing n0 comments), t0 < t1, n0 < n1.

... obviously you don't want to reread ALL the old comments?
"Encryption must be optional to allow HTTP 2.0 to meet certain scenarios and regulations."

Wait - regulations? They're not saying what I think they're saying, are they? Do they mean they should build it in such a way that is wiretappable by the NSA? I know they've made similar statements about Skype's new architecture.

Also, I disagree that encryption shouldn't be mandatory. At this point it should be. I understand it will cause some bumps in the road, but the sooner we can get from a small percentage of the web traffic being encrypted, to close to 100 percent, the better. If that means enforcing something like this Steve Jobs-style, so be it.
You could build a bike with no gyroscopic effects, slightly negative rake AND the steering column center of mass at the same height as the rest of the bike. So you could cancel out and test the influence of the last effect.
And the leading Java logging framework is...
Speaking from DC here, the tone of many working for the administration or on Capitol Hill in general is "daggone traitor!" It amounts to a company line that many seem to toe effortlessly: There is a strong culture of sheltering the administration which has brought a great deal of money and opportunity to this town, particularly for impressionable young people. This is why I find the editor's IP address to be sadly predictable.
OpenX.org compromised and downloads injected with a backdoor
Merged Convictions Slash Decades Off Manning's Possible Sentence
I love firefox too. But for me it always starts slowing down half way through the day (about the same time as I do). Maybe its firebug? This has happened on windows and mac. Restarting it makes it work better, like myself after lunch.

Its still my favorite browser though.
> We still have due process.

Which has been ignored at times in the (recent) past, so why assume it is going to be applied now?
Computer Game Helps Therapists Chat to Adolescents With Mental Health Problems
Yeah, regular staffers and congressmen probably don't have the technical skills needed to edit a Wiki page.
Where does the extra battery life come from? The CPU? Graphics? Better RAM? Better wifi/BT? Software improvements in the OS and apps to use power more efficiently? Lower power screen?

Battery life is affected by such a multitude of components that it's hard to extrapolate savings in one component to the battery life of the complete device.
We can worry about that when they figure out how to make milk in the lab.
Industrial meat production is a pretty brutal affair. It's not quite clear what it might mean for something to be good or bad for a species, but I'd think that having a large population suffering constantly under shockingly inhumane conditions would fall on the bad side.
Current pages says

Snowden's leaks have been a subject of great controversy. Some have referred to Snowden as a hero, whistleblower or even a dissident,[9] while others have described him as a traitor.
'Impossible' material Upsalite created by Swedish Scientists
>kindle reviews are far more influencial than the Book Review section of WaPo.

They're not. It's hard to get your book reviewed by an actual periodical of note. Everybody has Kindle reviews. Kindle reviews can either seal the deal on a sale or stop a sale at the last second. You probably would have never read the Kindle reviews or even heard of the book if it hadn't been reviewed by someone with an editorial policy.
>We still have due process.

Not all of us...

http://aje.me/10QK303
> You know what I will pay for?

That's a damn good question, and should be asked more often.

Our regional newspaper kept annoying me for several years with sales calls after we cancelled their subscription. Finally one of their sales reps asked what was wrong about the paper and what would it take for me to pay for it. My response: "I won't pay for reprinted, two days old glorified gossip. Give me news reporting that can go counter to the paper's official line, with depth and bredth comparable to that of Salon or Guardian."

This was nearly three years ago. They haven't called since.
If you look at the history of the IP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/72.79.14...), there are a few other minor edits, here is one:

"Are usually as dumb as brandon's and that is REAL dumb"

This was added to to the Bichon page, the rest of the edits are similarly juvenile
Disabling javascript would have prevented the exploit. The Tor browser bundle contains NoScript, but has it set to allow javascript by default. I think this is because it makes it more accessible to non-technical users.

Before this issue they even advised _not_ to disable javascript, since that would make you stand out more amongst Tor users.
How Government Killed the Medical Profession
It feels like OSX will be on Mavericks before the Lion scroll bars are supported in Firefox.

I've been using Safari a lot lately. Only thing I'm not crazy about is the inspector. It's easily the worst of all the browsers, but at least they are fixing that in the next update.
I think you accidentally the exchange rate
This statement has already been proven false. What it should read is:"people won't pay for tabloid news on the web. Print will be dead."
I loved iBatis the moment I used it (some 8 years ago or so). And yet I always felt like a black sheep because I liked working in SQL and also liked my "ORM" to be a simple translation engine for results into a data structure that can then be used by Java.

So I was happy to see this author come to the conclusion that iBatis is A Good Thing, but I do wonder if we are still black sheep in a flock of Hibernate/JPA enthusiasts.
The damn beast doesn't even heat up when yes > /dev/null
Well, if efficiency is the endgoal here, than bean cultivation seems way more logical answere to beef alternatives than fake meat. You basically take the the food you would otherwice feed your cows, stew it together with some saffran and beet juice (the same colorants as for the fake meat) and you have your economy-burger.

No intermediate step which takes 10 times the space of a traditional meat-farm, no anti-biotics, fat-free and no need for any living, breathing animal slughtering.

Honestly I cant find a single logical reason why this artificial-meat buisness is a good idea except for "just because we can"
That is a secret, remember? He claims that he could have wiretapped the President, the NSA claims that is not true but has not been forthcoming about what procedures or technical limitations were in place to stop him. Like everything else surrounding the Snowden leak there is a great deal of secrecy here.
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Just out of curiosity, why Safari?
Forums Are Dead, Long Live Forums
Apple will give you $10 to trade in your fake & possibly deadly iPhone charger
The Very Real Impact of the Apple Developer Portal Downtime
What did you expect from TechCrunch? I'm not even sure you can call the garbage on that site journalism.
That might explain '/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts', most modern Cisco routers now have 'no ip directed-broadcast' enabled by default, at least for the past 4-5 years, blocking this at the router level.
The mobile version seems to have the old version of the banner. The desktop version says: "(First offered to release channel users on August 6, 2013)"
Agree. As a sysadmin, outages of major services are interesting and IMO newsworthy, even at 5m.
The network monitor addition to the developer tools is a welcome change. Now I won't have to switch into chrome for that.
Dr Younas, the founder of Grameen Bank is a larger-than-life figure in Bangladesh, and a nobel prize winner. His social business empire is now so big, that the government is fearing a scenario where Dr Younas takes part in politics and drives all others out. This is a real possibility they can't ignore, and so the government is trying its best to fabricate stories and discredit this guy.
as long as you don't step on one barefoot
An Apple history nerd's take on the JOBS movie.
Novice? I'm sorry, but whether I'm a novice has absolutely nothing to do with this.

What I'm proposing is that you just don't show our passwords, all in one window, in plain text. I agree that this won't solve the problem, but would be a good first step. And I don't see how that would be dangerous.

Alternatively, Chrome should make this more obvious so that users don't make assumptions about its security.

How on earth can I convince you that many, many, many people are surprised and concerned about this? Can I direct them to you on Twitter?
I like how I can use it from my iphone safari. What mobile framework did you use (if any) to make this? / especially the upload image part?
I think the idea is that they just so happened to at a point in their workflow when they needed GitHub to be up. For some reason, wakeless needed to know the results of the CI server. There aren't many such points for people, but if you have a large enough sample of people, some of them will be at such points at any given moment of time.
Scopes (Part 2 of the AngularJS - from beginner to expert in 7 steps series)
Sorting out Sorting: Understanding Sorting Algorithms
You overestimate the quality of most of them.
The example of Herbert and Dorothy Vogel shows that that's not true if you're willing to work at it: http://mentalfloss.com/article/48844/how-working-class-coupl...
It's funny to read those release feature announcements while running on Aurora channel which is on 24.0a2 right now, and 25 in a few days.
No, because that's a screenprint, not a painting.

Snark aside, I would think there are fairly stringent quality controls on making sure that everything listed (and priced!) as an original actually is. Amazon's not going to mess around with their reputation when people are shelling out five (or six, or seven, or...) figures for Warhols.
Nice one ! Had some issues to correctly save the background as well as the new drawings when uploading in my personal app
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Justice Department wants to control iTunes store
No, it's a chaotic system that is quasistable for an average of 11 years at a time before it flips to the opposite orientation with respect to the spin axis. The Earth's magnetic field, generated by currents in the liquid outer core, is a similar magnetohydrodynamic system that has no apparent periodicity.
Tsk, had it in my cart and was about to place my order but it wasn't eligible for Prime 2nd day shipping =(.
A lot of them are bread for milk too... (Whether they're having fun is another question, the ones that are allowed to graze outside probably are, the ones that never see the light of day probably aren't).
If he's got anything unique that could help further the effort to make space travel viable, it'd be nice to see it at least licensed. Armadillo did a lot of work on various launch strategies.
Pressi up for auction at Flippa, last hour
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To go all-in with your pawns so you can king your checkers?

The article was just a contentless fluff-piece with a link-bait title.
Any feedback would be very much appreciated!
Because that economy-burger you talk about will not taste like meat. Artificial-meat will, sooner or later.
If you look at tls's comment history it looks like he's a troll/flamer, best not to feed him. I'm surprised his account hasn't been hellbanned yet.
I'm not 100% I understand but I find that the greasemonkey script "Hacker News Threadify" makes reading and re-reading comments much better:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/110317
Was that with or without a tip?
All the abstractions you build will eventually go over x86 bytecode instructions. And those aren't pretty, let me tell you.

The truth is that there is nothing important wrong with Java, and everything important wrong with Java programmers, which casues people like you to say things like that.
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Emscripten:  You've Got C In My JavaScript
If we stop doing evil, important solar processes will stop, leading to the collapse of the sun.
Phone, Kindle, iPad, doesn't matter much to Amazon. The point is, you aren't going to pay $12/month for the Post. You could, but you won't. Instead, you're going to start paying $79 a year for Prime, which'll get you access to the Post on any device you want. And also instant video, so you can drop netflix. And free fast shipping. And that will make it so easy to buy other things from Amazon that you will. Often.

1-click was brilliant, but that's just one part of their overall strategy to remove absolutely every obstacle they can that might possibly come between your intention to buy and the action of doing so.
I think the OP means EMR/EHR software. Wikipedia has a pretty comprehensive list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_healthcare_...

I am in the health IT space and VistA (http://www.ehealth.va.gov/VistA.asp) is likely the most widely used in terms of patients stored. I hear http://www.open-emr.org/ is the most developer friendly.
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UC will open its research to the public -- for free
Yeah, that made for some strange reading having gladly eaten Quorn stuff over a long time. I'm not really grasping the 'controversial' distinction between fungus and mushroom either.

It is interesting to see how a new market will react to the stuff though, I mean there's surely no shortage of veggie brands in the states?
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The Reddit visualization I'd most like to see is one of votes/comments over time on highly partisan (not necessarily political) topics. When I was using Reddit I perceived distinct "tides" in those cases.

Comments would swing up and down by double and triple digits as early burying/back-patting is overcome by more moderate opinions as the post rises in exposure. Likewise, having a post linked on other large forums would result in new waves of like-minded moderation.
There's a VERY fine line between helping a client through a bind, and being abused by an individual with a tight budget.

The former may stay with you for life. The latter will use you until you say no.

It is very rare that it's a large company who needs the largesse of a small entrepreneur to stay in business, though.

I see this in treatment of individuals as well as costs. Many clients assume they can bully and abuse consultants. "We're your biggest account, so please work the next few weekends and we'll help you get the next project." You can't earn a trusted relationship without a first project, and the slippery slope starts.

The key for any small business is actively screening your prospects. It's hard to turn away any business, but if you screen for "How is this person to do business with" it can save aggravation along the way.
How do they measure it? There was nothing in the article about how this is observed?
1) only to make sure we are on the same page. Now I see - we have different understanding of "session".

>Not all sites use sessions (some for performance reasons, others for privacy reasons);

what kind of site doesn't use sessions? To track a user you need a cookie right?

2) Frameworks != sites.
As I used to think, only framework is responsible for CSRF protection, hence I extrapolated. I sent it to security@ as soon as I found this email. I am trying to not proclaim anything but some websites from http://www.djangosites.org/ are vulnerable.
I have to admit before the whole PRISM story I didn't think much about Richard Stallman and thought he's too extreme or delusional. After PRISM however I realised he was right all this time and I was just too stupid and blind to see it. I'm going to read more of his notes. Very few people have what it takes and are willing to pay the huge and continuous cost of rejecting proprietary software/technology. But he has been standing by his principals for a lifetime and I respect him for that.
Anti-Social Tendencies of Entrepreneurs Demonstrated
Which Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post?
Bezos must have still been playing checkers when he bought into Living Social. :)
Agreed, this just pollutes the eco-system around. If someone needs to know and gets impacted - they can check the status page themselves. Wasted 5 mins reading it!!
The request has to be issued by the attacker from the victim's browser. If the attacker can do that, why is he unable to read the response to that request?

Edit: I think I can see a scenario where a third-party website does these requests via an <iframe> or an <img>. I'm not sure there's a way to do POST quite as easily.
The earth pin is needed to open the covers of the other two holes.
Well, it depends on which poker game you're playing and the table texture of your game.
The actual Tor Security advisory.
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2013-Aug...
I also use Safari on a daily basis, with Chrome when testing web apps.

- iClouds tab sync

- quite fast

- two-finger swipe for back/forward with nice "cover" effect

- scrolling is silky smooth*

- iCloud keychain*

* available on Mavericks. Scrolling was good enough earlier, but on Mavericks its butter smooth.
bitbucket is vulnerable > django has a problem

if it's not enough:

some websites from http://www.djangosites.org/ are vulnerable > django has a problem
A complete waste for $250,000. Lab meat? Why? Why would any one want to buy artificial, lab processed meat? Why do people insist on complicating food? Our supermarkets all already filled with things that can be barely classified as "food" and now we have this.
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I'm with you on self-documenting code, but what about user documentation, and documentation of APIs?

Now I'm not saying the current model in for-fee software is right. I just wonder, "If it's this hard when you're paying people to do it, how about when you're not?"

I hope to be proven wrong! :-) My company has a great tech write, but I live in fear of the day when someone buys one of his screenplays and he doesn't need us anymore...
One could argue that when talking about security, it's always about making things harder to breech, not a full proof protection..

I'm not sure how adding 32 bytes of "good randomness" would help.. because the size might be very similar since the randomness might not get properly reduced. And thus, the slight variation in size will still be very relevant.

However, adding between 1 and 32 bytes of randomness might be a pretty good counter! I.e. If you request the page with the "guess letter A", and then request again the same page with the same "guess letter A" and you get +/- 32bytes of different encrypted stuff, it's very hard to assume something was better compressed.

The cool thing about that is that it's fairly trivial to do with most implementation of CSRF. Thoughts?
Is a partial workaround really better than a guaranteed workaround.
I could've written this myself. I love Firefox and I used it for years but at some point it became rather unusable and after it forgot which tabs I had pinned as app tabs for the fifth or so time (because I had to kill a completely unresponsive Firefox, this happened often) I was angry enough to actually give Chrome a try. It is SO much more responsive, even just the UI. I've kept Firefox up-to-date but I don't want to keep switching back and forth so I haven't made a switch back. I hope I'll get to, though.

This is all on a Windows 7 machine though, rather than OSX.
home schooling (which tends to also be religion centered).

Please look up home school resources in your area.

I can pretty much guarantee that you have at least two: one that is explicitly religious, one that is explicitly secular.

Lots of people have gotten fed up with their public schools for secular reasons.
> You have to believe some things you are told.

That depends on the source. If the source has proven to be wrong, dishonest or malicious more often than not, it would strike me as wise to believe nothing from that source until I can verify it for myself.
Humanity has never -- with the exception of extreme cases, historical or modern -- eaten as much meat as the western man does now [1]. The only reason we eat as much meat as we do, I think, is out of marketing. The perceived need for more meat is therefor to saturate the marked.

The problem arising from growing meat consumption include, pollution, maldistribution of food, animal suffering, wasting of land and resources, wasting of water, etc.

[1] I suppose I need a reference for this claim, but think in terms of economy and you'll find that no other culture can afford this much land and resorces to go under meat-farming other than current western cultures

--edit--

I forgot about humans living in extreme environments that live (by necesity) almost exclusively on meat, like the inuits in Greenland, before major western influence. It doesn't change the fact that the majority of all culteres do, and have in the past, eaten but a porportion of the meat that the average westerners eat today.
How does he not even have a picture of the "Anaconda"? OK, here's a paper about it:

http://bicycle.tudelft.nl/bmd2010/CDProceedingsBMD2010/paper...
Wasn't this the release that was suppose to disable third-party cookies by default? What happend?
Specifications of the planned solar-powered Ubuntu laptop