skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can already get this experience as I walk through Little Italy, when restaurateurs try to lure me in with "specials". Unfortunately, the loudest most assertive people are the ones usually offering the worst meal for my money. Yelp's use of crowd sourcing and aggregation was the solution, not the problem.

There will have to be an algorithm that decides whose voice should be heard, in which case, maybe they can use a reputation system to make sure I'm not being gamed.
My God, are you going to type all of that or will you need a script to do it for you. Watch out for those touch-screen thingies people are touting around.
Is there any guarantee that the machine isn't simply reading your hand and then occasionally letting you win to keep the payout at ~80%?
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Majority Of Americans Want Better Privacy Protection Online
I wasn't aware of extrahop so I will have to look into that. We currently use Solarwinds Orion which is where status gets some of its data.

We have definitely outgrown Orion, and a lot of stuff in Orion is very rough, sloppy, and not well integrated.

We don't really like the idea of cloud hosted monitoring (which is a lot of what more modern monitoring systems are). Alternatives also seem very expensive.

So if we are going to make a investment (cash or labor) I would rather we get a system that fulfills all of our needs (fit) and share it with everyone.
I thoroughly agree that there is a difference between hacky code and shit code. I've seen far too much code which isn't even attempting to solve the right problem, but is so buggy that its myriad problems compound to make it sometimes appear that the original problem is solved. Things which takes weeks to understand, and only went unnoticed due to an extraordinary unlikely coincidence of errors at all levels of the stack which Rube Goldberg would be proud of.
> Typically, it is fairly clear what the purpose of malware is, such as banking, clickfraud, ransomware or fake anti-virus malware. In this case however it is a bit more difficult.

I think the article answers its own question the paragraph previous:

> While some bots continue to operate using the standard HTTP connectivity, some versions of the malware use a peer-to-peer network to communicate (KAD based).

Tor and Kademlia are both rather complex systems. To use one or the other, but not both, in different versions of your botnet, would suggest to me that this is a botnet creator split-testing the effectiveness and scalability of different command-and-control technologies.
I "solved" that problem by having two repositories: dotfiles
& dotfiles-private.

The public repository has .bashrc, etc in it. The private repository has ~/.mutt/work-muttrc, etc in it.
Most likely not. If the bots were to suddenly turn into nodes, then there is a good chance that a large percentage of users could have their anonymity compromised.

Tor anonymity relies on the fact it is difficult to tie in where you entered the system, and where you exited the system. If someone where to control a large amount of nodes, they could (in theory) tie a large amount identities together. But this requires a large amount of entry and exit nodes.
I entered it because I'm moving to an unspecified state soon. So if they want to think I'm in Indiana, let them.
Physically processing that would be too expensive. The crowdfunding site would have to take a massive percetage/flat fee.
I keep reading complaints about not being able to get someone on the phone, but the only two times I've had issues I've had someone on the phone in minutes and it was dealt with right away.

We do a fairly large volume through PayPal, so perhaps they have better service for larger accounts?
If I can open a project and refactor some piece of code to be 1/10th of it's former size, while making it both more readable and more efficient without changing what it does than it's shit. In such cases I honestly don't care how good the original coder was supposed to be or what excuses he has. And yes, if I write code that can be optimized that way, I will be the first to admit that it's shit.
Cool. Anyone know a mobile safe list of these kind of CSS3 animations?
I push it to a local git repo that has the same perms as my account and .ssh directory. But, I agree. You need to be careful.
Indeed, I came across a last_day_of_the_month SQL implementation today that I showed my colleague who's instinct was that it was shit, but upon closer inspection, it seems quite clever.
I think the security checker from Sensio labs is the best approach to this. You can upload your composer file, which is really the list of packages you use and they'll check it against the known reports for various Symfony modules. It's got both the API and its own module with a CLI tool, so you can easily integrate it into monitoring. https://security.sensiolabs.org/

I really wish other projects had something like that (rubygems, pypi, etc.)
Making Hardware Less Hard
> I think crowdfunding would be a lot less popular if people actually understand it wasn't just a pre-sale. Because most people are not just donating.

Exactly. In a world where caveat emptor doesn't apply for consumer purchases, this is a mild case of fraud. Naturally, PayPal is extremely wary.
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I hae something like this in my ~/.bashrc file:

for i in ~/.bash.d/* ~/.local.bash.d/; do
test -e $i && source $i
done

Which functionally does what you want, loading everything from a directory. Though it doesn't do version-testing, or actual concatenation.
I am super excited about getting my board. Not because its some amazing piece of kit ( GPU's are currently better), but I think their architecture will be awesome if they can scale it up.
One of the design goals with the Model S was to fit Elon's whole family: there are rear-facing seats in the back that fit an extra two people.
It's funny at the same time paypal still let extorsion websites use its services: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6328480
Dash Robotics Developing Indestructible Biomimetic Roachbots for Everyone
Kubuntu 13.10 Beta 1 is available for download
Classic is pg's solution to the "Endless September" problem.

Classic hn only counts front-page upvotes from users who have been around for awhile. I don't know what awhile is. Longer than me.
For me it was when they kept changing the rules (in 2005) just to ensure that Schumacher lost. Haven't looked back since. I hear they can't even refuel these days (the horror!)
As it says at the bottom of the article, it's unreleased until they can make it more generic.
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I think the idea of an anti-spying super-PAC is interesting. One of the priorities I feel is informing people of just how dangerous these arguably illegal spying activities are. Funny thing is the super-PAC would probably end up airing commercials against both candidates.
I am from India my friend .
I too quit in NG+, but mostly because I was tired of pulling my hair out. I've heard lots of people say that NG+ is easier... until four kings.
I agree. Even the default distro that the BeagleBone comes with (Angstrom linux) has Node preloaded onto it, out of the box. And the power that thing offers for $45 seems almost impossible to beat.
None of this is open sourced yet. Nick is investing a lot of time to get what we currently call "status" ready to open source.

Part of the reason for the open position linked to in the post ( http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/39983/developer-site-r... ) is to make it so we have more manpower to get this stuff open sourced.
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If you're not on Google+, you can delete that.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/55759?hl=en
I know there's deep hate for java around here, but here's another relevant link. (You could probably shoehorn in scala or clojure as well) This is a direct tutorial for doing deep learning.

http://nlp.stanford.edu/courses/NAACL2013/

Take a look at a recent homework assignment they had to do with Named Entity Recognition and Deep Learning:
http://nlp.stanford.edu/~socherr/pa4_ner.pdf

It's good to see neural networks being leveraged as they are. Conditional Random Fields have been dominant for sequence based classifiers for a while. We've been needing to push the envelope a bit further.
Were you implying that my criticism of Mayer was akin to saying she should have stayed in the kitchen or were you suggesting we should cut her some slack because no doubt some asshole somewhere has said sexist shit like that?

For what it's worth Straw-man Steven Jobs --- the mascot of Apple and God design --- is said to have obsessed over details when telling people their designs were shit and needed to be redone. As far as I am aware, the Steve Jobs of legend didn't actually sit down and do design work himself.

Micro management is a style and I agree one weekend work session isn't enough to say she is a micro manager, but her blog post is certainly enough to say she micro managed the logo design and people will extrapolate (especially since she was criticism for micro-managment while at Google). Unless of course the story that the logo was designed primarily over a weekend isn't true and/or she wasn't as involved as she said she was. I don't think those are likely or better alternatives.
IPad 5 And iPad Mini 2 Likely Arriving In Q4 2013
Once upon a time, I'm sure you couldn't get very far in a gasoline-powered car because there weren't many gas stations. Also, Elon is already trying the battery swap idea:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/22/tesla-motor...
Imagine how long of a wait you'll have if there's a line.

If you're the only electric car in town it's not a big deal, but if you have to wait for 3 other cars to fill up...
Has there been any news about running Erlang on one? I remembered seeing blog posts about it, but when I went back and looked, both were "coming soon" posts with no code.

I'm one of the backers, and honestly have no idea how I'll use the thing, but Erlang support would at least be cool to play with.
Here's your chance to email the NSA review panel
Boticca.com Raises $4MM for international expansion
I don't like Dziuba's harshness sometimes, but I agree with this sentiment. Code doesn't care about your feelings, and you shouldn't either. Just write good stuff that works, and if it's not good, don't blunt the message. If you think code and programmers should respect your feelings, you'll get slow code with many bugs, and few people willing to do anything about it in order not to hurt other people's feelings.

Straight up honesty is the best medicine when it comes to software. If you have a problem with this kind of honesty, find something else to do.
Even weedwackers have electronic ignition these days. That is why they are so easy to start. You don't have to fight the the preset advance.
It does not depend on hard-coded rules. It learns various probabilities for sentence structures. The result is much more flexible than a formal grammar.
I just entered my info. The have my birthday wrong, think I am married and have a kid. They also got my credit card types wrong (should be the easiest thing to collect too), and were way off on my purchasing behavior. This is not that scary.
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> So what exactly is the point you are trying to make here other than that you are the smartest guy?

He took the one thing he could make an easy, pedantic point about and posted it. It's easier to do that and get free karma that actually be mindful. It's low hanging fruit. Just like I could find errors in his comment that would serve no purpose.

At issue is, while his point might be technically correct, it serves nothing other than to encourage "Me too" replies. This happens frequently on HN. I encourage you to down vote such posts.
But short code isn't necessarily a garrant for good code. I went through a teenage phase where I would strive to write the shortest code possible.

It's cringe worthy, and working my back into it seems scarce impossible. If you drew out the program logic, it'd look like an Eldridge terror. It just isn't good code.

But yes, if you're writing War and Peace in order to parse XML, it's unlikely you're writing good code.
It is a problem if programmers cannot give a reason why the code is shit. But most of the time they give reason, the reason is not good enough. However, I still think it is necessary to say "this is shit code".
Thousands of unauthorized searches of US citizens without acknowledgement or apology is not illegal activity worthy of investigating?

We are going to have to differ here.
Kitkat on my galaxy s3 already http://instagram.com/p/d4bLIvG8rO/
I agree that it can win, but so can pros and they make mistakes everyday. But I'm saying that a mistake-free strategy cannot be found without some kind of mathematical breakthrough. Unlike say chess, where clear pathways to a checkmate can be calculated using mathematics, no matter how the opponent plays. It's impossible to do that, right now, using computers, when the opponents are human and unpredictable and don't always follow the optimum strategy. Also poker is an information-sparse environment where you can't always win with a certain strategy because you simply don't have enough information, such as the other player's hole cards.
Lubuntu 13.10 Beta 1 Replaces Chromium with Firefox
Actually that is very surprising relative to average VC return. Is there a way to break down the PE category?
They bear risk if the merchant has just registered a new account, and that's the only PayPal transaction for the foreseeable future. How should they go recovering the chargebacks if your company has already filed bankruptcy?

If you transact $30M/yr, it's a totally different situation. When PayPal shifts the chargebacks/fines on you, they KNOW that at any given time you will be processing enough money through them that they can seize part of it in case you are not paying the fines.
So your proposal is to replace the entire education system with the principle that children need to become adults? What is there to converse about? We're not at all talking about educational policy here, we're talking about your childhood problems - only you're confusing the subject matter.

History has been going in the exact opposite direction - we treat more and more adults as children, with extended schooling, cushy jobs removed from front-line business concerns, etc. I'm sure you've benefitted from all this. The reason that you felt that you could opt out of school is not that you were ready to be an adult, but rather because over time environments outside of school have become more school-like and conducive to ongoing mental development, as opposed to grueling hard work.

But this isn't remotely close to universally true for most people in the world or even in the US or in the western world. For many people, not having to go to school means dealing with abusive parents for longer, being forced into manual labor, being continously tempted by criminal life, drug trade and prostitution. You have a privileged background and skills that are extremely valuable in the real world - this isn't true of many people and school is their only chance. Universal education serves to stigmatize those forces that attempt to take advantage of children by enforcing the norm that children are not adults and should be in school. Is this not ideal for every single person? Of course. Is English the perfect language for everyone born in the US? For obvious reasons, real world laws and real world social norms aren't going to be perfectly nuanced and flexible to be ideal in every single possible case.
Aren't all your emails going to them anyway?
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Sometimes I receive payment for one task and I need to pay for a service or product with another credit card. Say I have $1500 paypal credit from one of my businesses, and want to pay a $500 charge from a certain credit card. I am not able to do that without first withdrawing the money. It's beyond annoying, just let me pay with the funding source I want.
I don't know whether code verbosity is a measure of shit (indeed, that is one of those arguable points where one guy likes the single line ultra-functional version, and the other likes the same split into 20 lines).

I'm not disagreeing on the notion that there is some shit code in the world. Of course there is. But if anyone thinks that all or most code is shit, it often says more about the speaker. And I don't mean this as a personal attack on anyone, as it is possible that someone is in particularly dire code straights, but by and large the people who I've known who think all code is shit tend to be of questionable talent.

I have a friend who is constantly regaling the horrors they meet on the roadways because, in their opinion, everyone is a shit driver. Only it's my friend who is the shit driver, and their reactionary, panicked driving technique puts them in such constant peril that they can only imagine that everyone else is to blame.
Pick Scala if:

-You think a fusion of OO and functional programming is the way of the future
-Runtime tooling and advanced instrumentation support matter to you
-You like having first-class IDE support
-You want to work for the likes of Twitter/Foursquare/LinkedIn/Amazon
-Having tons of mature Java libraries available matters to you.
-You don't mind investing time to learn the language

Pick Go if:

-Memory footprint matter to you (and you don't want to pick C)
-Startup time matters to you (and you don't want to pick C)
-You don't want to spend much time learning the language
-You like C-style error handling and aren't expecting something as expressive as a python or a ruby.
-You don't mind limited IDE support
-You want every post of yours to be voted up on HN regardless of content
'Also included in the list: "all of the lights" (yes, spaces are allowed on many sites), "i hate hackers," "allineedislove," "ilovemySister31," "iloveyousomuch," "Philippians4:13," "Philippians4:6-7," and "qeadzcwrsfxv1331." "gonefishing1125" was another password Steube saw appear on his computer screen. Seconds after it was cracked, he noted, "You won't ever find it using brute force."'

If you won't ever find "gonefishing1125" using brute force, how on earth did they find "qeadzcwrstxv1331"?
Memes disgust me
FluentMigrator and ASP.NET
"Brogrammer" is ill-defined. It's silly to blame something on an ill-defined concept.

http://gizmodo.com/5910824/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-brogram...
> Funny thing is the super-PAC would probably end up airing commercials against both candidates.

That's not how politics works. You have to give candidates a reason to listen to you. If you attack both sides equally, you give up any leverage you have.
The major online poker sites would already have a corpus of billions of hands played by successful and unsuccessful players.
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my first instinct is to laugh this off because its talking about web developers... obviously all of the code is shit because its not hand optimised assembler!

not sure why i hold onto this 20 years out of date mentality..
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That wouldn't be the best use of the funds, I think. Better would be to throw the super-PAC's weight behind supporting anyone who would take up the cause. Similar to how other organizations do it. The NRA, or the beef farmers' groups, for instance.
How long ago did you switch back, because recently this seems to happen less and less. If you're smart and pick a laptop which has proven linux compatibility it really doesn't happen anymore.

I remember 5 years ago getting speakers to mute on my laptop when I plugged headphones in was impossible but I haven't seen a similar problem in my last few laptops.
True, but that still means you require some decent priors about the text that someone reading it might have. People generally have an idea of what the person who wrote it might be like, what sort of things to disregard, and so on. My point was that learning the "structure" of the language is not enough. I don't know exactly how this program works though, so it might be decent at that, I haven't read up on it enough.
I agree. People need to realise the market that this guy was targeting - it is average Joe on the streets, not the HN nerdy types. I know a fair amount engines and how they work, I still think it's very informative. The guy is a self taught graphic designer that judging by his portfolio works mainly with Photoshop. Instead of some people complaining about "it should be tech X or tech Y", maybe reach out to the guy and try to work with him.

I'd like to see one on airplane and jet engines next :)
Sorry, but it sounds like you are a troll.

I'd be happy to give details if you don't know (or don't care to see) what I'm talking about. But based on the upvotes to my comment and very similar complaints in other comments to this article, many people agree with me.
Python for Systems Administrators
After realizing that I am actually using the same python code different times and loosing time searching for the code that I have previously written or actually Google`ing it, I have decided to collect all the "Juicy" python code that I have just to be able to consult it.

At this time I will need your comments on what would be the best system for showing the codes on github.

Just think that I am (we are) systems admins and do not always use any programming ide. I spend %99 of my time in the command shell.

On the other hand it is open to your contributions. I`d really appreciate some great input from the experienced ones.

Best.
As a coder the best compliment I've ever gotten was from a consultant. It was basically something like, "Hey, you're the [my initials] that wrote a big chunk of [system]? I can really tell the parts you wrote from the rest, it's so much easier to follow and understand." I had written the original code for that project solo and then it was passed on to another team for maintenance. That, to me, is the best thing a fellow coder can say, that my code was easy for them to maintain.

Conversely, I've seen code written in Java where instead of using objects the original coders used hashmaps with key/value pairs for fields. Sometimes they used some public static strings or an enumeration for the keys but often times they're just randomly hard coded throughout the program with string literals for field keys.

In another system I've worked on the coders did not understand objects/collections at all. So rather than having an array of type Person you had the Persons object that looked like this:

Persons {
String[] first_name;
String[] last_name;
String[] address;
}

While it's true that good vs bad code is somewhat subjective... code like the examples I provided above is pretty horrible by the standards of all but the worst coders.
Kitware is smart. They make cool stuff.

Other companies that are trying to make cool stuff may be too busy stepping on their ties to understand how to get the bureaucracy out of the way so that the creative people can make stuff of actual value.
> "stop taking risks" and "design by committee",

Those are both fuck ups. So, I respectfully disagree that "stop fucking up" leads to those ever and suggest you don't understand what fucking up entails.
Charging electric cars is free at the stations where Elon Musk is using solar canopies:

http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger
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People have built huge rainbow tables of MD5 hashes.

I don't really keep up with that game (like WoW, it seems like a fun game, but only if you are willing to put in a lot of your time), but I think the current limit is somewhere around 8 or 9 characters if you are pulling from all printables, meaning that "H.*W8Jz&r3" with MD5 is probably not breakable right now.

Take off two characters, or wait 3 years, and it probably will be.
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