skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Planning ahead is not difficult. Planning ahead accurately is very difficult. And adjusting your plans to take new information into account is even more difficult.

China's economic central planning has worked so well to date because they have had larger, more successful economies to plan against--the U.S. and Europe. They have focused on exports, infrastructure, and exfiltration of intellectual property, in the hope of creating the foundation for a strong domestic economy.

Whether it will work remains to be seen. The 20th century clearly taught the world that central planning cannot maintain a consistently strong domestic economy; innovation happens too slowly. China's greatest challenge will be the transition to a more open and permissive society that is capable of bootstrapping its own innovations. This could be a very difficult transition for them culturally. Central planners very rarely give up their control and power peacefully.
Yes, at least you would get timely updates making your money and personal data more secure. Not a big deal at all. No sir.
4. Competition
5. General maliciousness (wohoo I managed to annoy so many people)
No, I'd say it's a 4xx error. Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes

Usually, 5xx means that the client could retry the request at a later time, and have it succeed. 4xx means the client should expect the request to fail forever unless something is changed.

Some HTTP clients (not browsers, but other things) take advantage of this by showing the user an error dialog on a 4xx error, but just retry at a later time on a 5xx error.
>I mean, sooner or later they would get caught, the news would spread like a wildfire, that would really be great PR for the attacked.

That's nowhere near certain.
If you're hiring someone to do SEO, they need to not only implement SEO tactics (like you say, URL's, title tags, robots, GWT, etc.), but also create a surrounding SEO program/strategy.

Doing things like keyword research, selecting keywords to target audience segments, measuring the effectiveness of the targeting, etc. is all part of what an SEO should be doing. You're not simply optimizing SERP rankings as much as possible. A good SEO should be able to bring in results and measure that their plan that brings in 10k visitors and results in $10k in revenue is superior to the plan that brings in 100k visitors but only 5k in revenue.

For these reasons, I think it's completely unjust to call SEO work beyond tactical implementation "snake oil". Sure, there are less-than-honest people calling themselves "SEO Specialists/Strategists/Ninjas/Whatever", but if I'm a company hiring an SEO, I expect MEASURED business results in return and scrupulous and honest contractors, employees, and agencies should be able to deliver that.
Fox News was quick to point out it was hacked, though. Hacking! Cyberwar! Cyberterrorism! Fear!
Of course from a risk-management perspective, the likelihood of a long term outage is statistically low enough to not justify the expenditure for setting up and maintaining alternative systems (other than simply having repos backed up.) It's the anti-TSA approach. The TSA spends billions and hassles everyone despite the relative rareness of air-travel attacks. But, the severity of a potential attack weighed against the expenditure has led politicians to believe that the cost is worth it.

The Heroku/AWS outages a few years back had far more of an impact, yet Heroku still (to my knowledge) relies exclusively on AWS-East, because presumably the risk-profile doesn't exceed the threshold to justify the expenditures required to mitigate the risk.

I just wish the attackers would be considerate enough to share the schedule for these attacks ahead of time, so I can plan a longer lunch. The rudeness of these attackers is unparalleled. I'm inclined to write them a strongly worded letter suggesting same.
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I just read the Method section of this study and it seems really slanted to produce a correlation.

It asks 5 questions daily, 4 were about how well the participant felt and the last one was a direct question asking how long the user was on Facebook. It was also advertised as a "Facebook study" which is completely ridiculous.

A more condemning study would ask those first 4 questions then ask a handful of questions like "how long were you on twitter?" Or "how long did you watch TV" or "how long did you exercise today?".

And it shouldn't be advertised as a Facebook study.
Waves as sinusoids can physically (or electrically or mathematically) cancel each other out. Look up constructive and destructive interference.
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n.b. we were talking about DIRECT DEBIT (which is something else entirely from debit cards).
You basically allow a company to directly withdraw money from your bank account (assuming sufficient funds on the account)
Shared authorship, even.
Side question: with $12M of equipment, wouldn't it make sense to have an independent limiter of some kind to prevent damage? Is there something about this equipment that makes that greater than $12M in difficulty? Because relying on having no bugs just so your hardware isn't destroyed seems like a bad idea...
So who did it? NSA with Chinese proxies?
> Really nice in theory, but in practice, some thugs will always organize to control the masses.

AKA "Government".

Anarchy is about order without a state. Not chaos. It will take work, and probably incremental evolution rather than revolution, to get to that state. The goal is to become more free. Living under the boot of oppression -- whether from the government itself or a mafia-like criminal gang -- is not freedom.
I've given this some thought...

Team Fortress 2 is another game where there are no obvious female avatars. But before we call "Valve" completely sexist, they were also the publishers behind Portal / Portal 2, which arguably was mostly composed of a female cast. The main character and the villain are obviously females.

For a reverse example, there is the indie-hit series "Touhou", which is famously composed of a 100% female cast of characters.

I wouldn't call these games "blatantly" sexist however, perhaps because I've played them and enjoy them. I guess its a more complicated than I first assumed.
Congrats to Brett and team! Demo's awesome, very excited to see where this is headed.
But once you have a legacy system, getting the modern tools in there can be a real pain.

Instant snowflake, just add expensive and archaic enterprise middleware.
> Engineering degree in what?

Software engineering.
The right tool for the right workload...

If you only need five servers on the net, VPS' make sense (cheap, easy to spin new ones, etc...).

If you need 10, physicals (aka dedicated), might make sense. They're cheaper per Ghz, but take longer and need more skills to bring online.

Nees more? Colo might make sense.

Also, as you expand to physicals and colo, using some of the other options for specific needs might make sense.
I think he is more referring to the portability of content within Wordpress. If I am using a platform to manage content, I'd like to think that I could easily port that content wherever I want.
I don't know of any popular ones that are exactly aligned, but these are some I frequent:

r/technology

r/futurology

r/cyberpunk

r/programming

r/futurism
So you believe that the Soviet Union was never a super power and that all of the historic hegemons were not either, okay.
For those who are missing wildcards:

Wildcards are not possible when going from a restricted input to a finite automaton. However, if you aren't using say ø, just make your input to frak "fooøbar" then add your wildcard to the generated regex.

I agree the output could be more compact, and collapse certain conventional characters (\n, \t and the like). The tool itself has all the power one should need.
If you are good at both you are the rare exception. After a decade I have yet to meet somebody who can design well and code well.
> And why does he have a roll of toilet paper under his monitor?

For use as facial tissues.
Is it cheap? If I was hypothetically an app company with many customers I could easily have a thousand private repos.

When I checked github (I tried to check again now but their site is down) it would cost something like $1,500 bucks...It seems like I would be getting gouged.
Why did Google stand up boldly to China but meekly capitulate here in the U.S.? I thought Sergei Brin took this stuff to heart.
How often are (production) mobile apps using these types of BaaS providers rather than being custom-backed? Is this a tool mostly used for test/toy apps?
Is this really necessary? How about 456 - unavailable because someone spilled coffee on our backend server? Or 467 - unavailable because garden gnomes invaded our offices?
It is not true that anyone can create a blog of Forbes.com. Their bloggers are all approved by the Forbes editorial staff, and the blog will be killed if it fails to meet standards for timeliness and quality.
You may want to reread the comment. It's more than being able to commit and pull via the command line.
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That may be true for you & me, but probably not relevant to the millions of PEBKAC internet users out there, who can't even tell IE from FF.
>Then Lincoln came along.

If only our public schools taught kids the real meaning of the war of northern aggression.
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Ask HN: How difficult is it to setup a tech co-op based on a private cloud?
Based on a number of concerns (privacy, longevity and abrupt cancellation of service), a few tech-savvy friends and I have thought about forming a tech co-op. Initially it would be focused on email services, but could branch out into other hosting. What might be some of the difficulties attempting this on widely-distributed commodity hardware? How big should a co-op get before privacy again becomes a concern? Would a legal contract among participants be required? I understand the motivation for it, but feel it immediately adds a layer of bureaucracy that puts a damper on the initiative. This is probably something, once tested and planned out, that can be replicated by others. Figure it might be worth a good discussion.
(I work at Stripe)

For a more detailed cost comparison with PayPal:

Stripe's pricing starts at 2.4% + £0.20 per transaction + VAT. Stripe charges 2% for foreign conversions (i.e. charging in EUR, when you want to be paid out in GBP).

PayPal's pricing starts at 3.4% + £0.20 per transaction. In addition to their published rate, you'll also pay:

* £20 per month if you want to design and host your own checkout pages.

* If you process in other currencies other than your local currency, PayPal will charge you a fee of 2.5% above the wholesale exchange rate (https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/cross-border-and-conve...).

* If you receive payments from customers outside of the UK, PayPal will charge you a fee of anywhere from 0.4% to 1.5% (https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/cross-border-and-conve...).

* If your customers pay with American Express, PayPal will charge you a fee of 3.5%.

* If you issue a refund, you will pay a fixed fee portion of the original transaction fee.
I actually needed something exactly like this yesterday, and was having issues getting Bookstrap's modal to do what I wanted. Thanks!
> And why does he have a roll of toilet paper under his monitor?

To deal with crappy code?
Is this somehow the official definition or are you just being sarcastic?
> Writing markup absolutely is part of design

So you'd expect a designer to be able to write concise mark-up that works on all required browsers, works well on modern mobile devices and writes clean code?

If so, I'd like to meet someone that fits this description.

For the gist of my argument, please read through my other comments on this.

Your argument about workplace is very loaded towards your argument. Agencies are very specialised work places, but you talk about it as if it's a negative thing. Surely, it is essential for such companies to specialise because agencies are expected to work across a wide range of clients, and to have the experience to handle the full digital process?

I've worked in a startup before, a non-technical startup, and even they had the sense to hire a good designer to handle a redesign.

I'm "insistent" that a designer should design because that's their job title. I've never stated that a designer should never touch HTML, only that a designer shouldn't be expected to write HTML to the same level of quality as a front-end developer.

> The site you are writing this on was created by the author of Hackers and Painters after all :)

And how many designers would be happy to put this design on their portfolio?
A relevant book here is "Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television," excerpt here: http://thenewinquiry.com/features/why-we-love-sociopaths/
No, the proposed method can't check if it's a part of the password, it can check if it's a part of a password/something the person has ever known. All alphanumerics would be included naturally.

The reason for PIN's is that if your pin is '8243', then that number will provoke a "recognition" response much different than, say, '8244' which (to you) is just a random number with no specific associations.
If you care about this, you will focus on the physical layer. Once that is owned, you are a tenant.

You may also focus on the meaning and privileges -- and responsibilities -- of our current "ownership". However, that is invariable a social endeavour; worthwhile, but also subject to the desires -- and inattention -- of others. It presents sometimes great convenience, but no guarantees.
Curious considering my comment yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6214917
> Dev Ops: I wish this had a more job-title-y feeling to it. As it stands it sounds like what you would call the whole team of people with this job.

That is what we call a whole team of people at my company. Most of the people on the team have the title Build Engineer or Automation Engineer, along with a few System Administrators.
I don't think it's an official definition but it's how I interpret it, and probably how others do as well.
> The vast majority of sites don't get constantly hammered by attackers looking for a way in

I find that hard to believe really.

Even just my residential connections honeypot is stuffed with people trying to do obscenely stupid things. There's people installing botnet clients, trying to find databases, you name it. I get a connect every couple of hours, and there's absolutely nothing else interesting about the IP address other than the single open port. Funnily enough, most of them fall into the "Chinese hacker" stereotype, about 90% of the connections I've logged geolocate there.

I can't imagine what a large companies SSH logs must look like.
This is an incredible application, very cool. Hope all iOS developers begin working together to make the iOS app space more powerful than ever. Are you guys planning to expand to the Android space? -- It is just as fragmented when it comes to inter app file sharing. Wish you guys the best!
Good Companies are Storytellers, Great Companies are Storydoers
There really wasn't one company that made flat design trendy. Microsoft wanted to use web technologies as part of their main OS and flat design was already popular. Microsoft went with the flow like everyone else and they didn't set any trends.
"A hundred billion a year spent on fraudulent security theater."

I definitely think there's a pork angle to all this.
Well, yeah, an in-memory database company is going to be underwhelmed by EC2. Their RAM pricing isn't competitive. The Amazon sweet spot tends more towards storage and internal I/O bandwidth.

The article completely ignores this point, but if you're comparing a cloud offering to colo or building a datacenter, the extent to which the cloud system corresponds to the nature of your workload is critical. Cloud gives you one sort of flexibility (size-over-time and provisioning) and takes away another (physical architecture design).
That doesn't really answer his question. Why would somebody want to inconvenience developers?
Like most other job titles involving the web, I think "Product Manager" can mean different things to different companies.

Coming from the traditional marketing definition of the role, a product manager is typically the "CEO" of the product and is in charge of aligning the product with the market.

In tech, particularly with smaller companies and startups, the need to wear many hats, and the unique issues with project management in relation to software development, has often times seen the product manager also take on project management duties. This may be a mistake or may be a requirement, depending on the resources of the company, but I largely agree with the structure of having both a product manager and a program manager and not blending the two.
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> Presumably you are referring to the former Sun Microsystems.

Yes, that's one of the ironies -- Sun Microsystems argued that my use of the phrase "Sun Computer" directly interfered with their legitimate commercial interest. And, based on the search engine rankings, they were right.
I'm trying to wrap my head around your idea of "restarting" a vesting period. Do you mean that all unvested shares are reset to a 4-year vesting period after a round of funding?

I'm probably just confused. Would you mind elaborating?
I bet you could scramble it through a translation tool. Though it's probably not the best idea to feed Google your secret messages, there's probably a local solution.
Partly, assuming Canada wants to use them mainly for protecting their own airspace.

However, I'm not certain the Gripen have enough range - at least not until Gripen NG comes around. That may change that equation.
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I thought this was worth sharing. Interesting to see the layout of coworking spaces in NYC.
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Isn't this what filepicker.io turned into?
Definitely! Let us know which apps you'd like us to work with.

Android has been a discussion for us - it has Intents, so at least there is a baseline for doing inter-app communication, but it's still not as good as it could be.
lobste.rs seems like a good alternative, but you need a referral from a member to get in. Still worth browsing in read-only mode but it lacks any real discussions. [The sum of the comment count for all front-page articles on there is 15, though most of the links are less than a day old and the oldest is 4 days.]
One thing I have noticed that when I've been only doing development for an extended period of time, my design skills go out the window and it takes a while to bring myself back to a level where I consider myself "good" again. The reverse is also true.

With that, perhaps because of the hostile environment for designer/developers we've created in industry, you are always interacting with people who come from an environment that only fostered one side of their skills? And given that you are hard lined on the separation in your own workplace, you're not going to see them grow in the other direction either.

Where I work, we've actually been encouraging the designers to learn how to program (not just simple markup stuff) and the results have been quite promising. It's really just a matter of practice, I am convinced.
So the next wave of Wearable Computing will be exploited over the network..
Snarky comments about distributed version control aside, the bigger problem is the ecosystems which revolve around GitHub. Two which are immediately screwing my day up are Composer and Homebrew. Currently, both are totally dependent on GitHub.
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We like to say expanded, but yes: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/15/inks-new-mobile-framework-l...
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Mostly conjecture. There are people who talk about it, but they're independents who are usually tarred as "conspiracy nuts."

Example: http://www.madcowprod.com/

It's not the way the media portrays them that causes me to be skeptical, but the fact that they're so small and independent. Investigation is hard, and good investigative journalism with proper vetting of all sources costs a lot of money. It is very easy to be misled by misinformation or by kooks with an agenda. On the flip side, a good way to keep something quiet from investigative journalists is to spread a lot of phony BS, wait, and then point out that it's phony in order to discredit them.

For example, Daniel Hopsicker of the above link believed and perpetuated the "Mohammed Atta's American Girlfriend" story. I strongly suspect this story was BS and that he was misled by a stripper with psychological issues.

But he does have some good and verifiable information on the intersection between drugs and high-level corruption, and he did uncover some links to the 9/11 highjackers that point to similar corruption. His work on drug planes and their ownership is very interesting, and those kinds of things are easier for an independent to vet.
> some thugs will always organize to control the masses

So the solution is to preemptively install an organization of thugs to control the masses?

I don't think your assessment of human nature is fair. At some point in history, having a king was an improvement upon existing social conditions. Going from constantly warring tribal society to one united under a king meant safety and relative prosperity and was in fact a social gain, though we tend to think of kings only in a negative context at this point. The autocrat pilferers.

However, we inevitable evolved past the need for kings. With wider spread literacy, trade, communication, etc… individuals became more capable of guiding their own society, thus democracy emerged. Your average 6th century peasant had as much use for voting as they would've for string theory.

I'm not saying we're there yet, but to say there's never to be a time when we evolve past the need to make decisions for our societies via government, even a "democratic" one, is foolish, I think.

One day I think we will look back on democracy as we do upon kings now.
Complex .ssh/config? Using Chef/Puppet? Break them into small logical chunks.
Application interoperability is a big problem in the iOS ecosystem. This looks like a great solution - I'm surprised Apple hasn't released something like this with native OS support.
Maybe a developer killed their parents?
So it's slightly similar to Prince Rupert's Drops, where part of the drop is extremely strong but if the weaker part is broken the whole thing explodes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert's_Drop
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No wonder. Do they have a status page that tells if it's up/down? What services are impacted?
"My comments were not aimed at the Therac team, but at humanity in general."

:)
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Well, android is soooo fragmented, between os versions and their api that its a bit embarrassing. I am sure once you guys kill in the iOS space, Android will be an easy conquest. Congrats again!
* Rich Hickey on Datomic, CAP and ACID [1]
* Exploiting Loopholes in CAP (Michael Nygard of Relevance) [2]
* How to beat the CAP theorem (by Nathan Marz of Twitter) [3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5093037
[2] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Loopholes-CAP
[3] http://nathanmarz.com/blog/how-to-beat-the-cap-theorem.html
OK, if it is some sort of aggressive automated system, I can at least understand it. At least its not necessarily a human political or ideological thing, to a point.

If that is the case, then my request would be that its toned down, because to my eyes, it at least looks suspicious.