skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, replacing components in an iPhone is relatively straightforward (if a bit fiddly). The home button on my iPhone 4 went completely (apparently a common issue): I bought a new one including tools for <$5 on Amazon and, following detailed instructions online, had replaced it in about an hour.

Looking on Amazon, you could buy a replacement battery+tools for about the same price.
Umm... Doesn't this add an EXTRA step for login? Why do "users love it" then?

I assume the "seamless" part you mention here means that no extra window etc etc... except that after i click login, it's now going to wait for me to pull out my cellphone? What if it isn't around? What if i lose it or I am out of battery?

I mean from a geek's point of view, sure it's pretty darn cool (ps: I am a geek too!) But from a general user perspective, is it really that much more useful?
Looks beautiful and simple.
Go to f6s.com
I see what you mean, but you miss an important point.

Reversible transactions must be reversed by a human intermediary. An insurance company, a financial institution, someone who you must trust this way or another. In addition to obvious value (that you described), this also creates all sorts of issues we all know about: fraud, regulatory hassle, spying, freezing of accounts etc.

Bitcoin as a protocol (or any alternative money-moving protocol for that matter) itself cannot reverse anything. It's just a protocol. Anyone can set up their own BitcoinPayPal and mediate Bitcoin transactions and reverse them as they like.

The value of Bitcoin is that you can opt in insured reversible transactions based on trust if you want to. But that's not necessary. USD is limited precisely because you have no other way to move it across the internet without trusting intermediaries that might reverse the transaction. Bitcoin simply gives you all possibilities, USD gives you less.

There's nothing impossible in having eBay to act as an escrow for BTC transactions just like with USD. But the power of BTC is that you can ultimately own it, while USD must be always stored in someone else's hands.
They still have a large stake in GloFo, but you're right. It's been the trend for a while.
Kate in 4.11
If you refer to the "how" page, you'll see that they use noindex and nofollow, a robots.txt to discourage crawling, and a blank 403 to any crawler ignoring the robot.txt

http://www.donotlink.com/dnl-how
Citation and Attribution of Digital Products
At its core the product itself is pretty weak. Its recommendations boil down to linking in and out of various profiles, updating descriptions and adding photos...

As a case study this is a lovely bit of UX, CRO and digital marketing though.
I never liked the "cloud" from the start. To me it was simply dumb terminals all over again, which had the potential to shift everything to a server which was not mine. Security was an issue, but also it meant being reliant on the connection and service being up and running. In my experience, web sites were down more often than my desk top. And that's just on a personal level. Why a business would do such a thing was even more beyond me. Personal or business owned clouds for limited scope use, fine. But handing all that control over to a 3rd parts, over the net, in a foreign country? I see the marketed advantages, useful as a throwaway extra, but over all? No way.
I noticed the 'do things that don't scale' actions like delivering a trophy with cookies to the 10k user or writing personalized emails to every new customer.
Its not just a prep issue (and yes, there are only a handful of CS Education programs in the US) but a state certification and curriculum issue. Education in the US is a State/local funded and regulated (only like 10% of public school funding is from the Federal Government). Teaching requirements for CS vary wildly from state to state, but in most places CS courses actually fall in the Business dept.

The course most likely used VB because that is what the district mandated.
Serious activists are prepared for the possibility of arrest. This involves having the proper phone numbers memorized, not carrying anything of value while protesting, and knowing what to say to law enforcement.

This tool would be of negative value to them, as it would only hurt their position if it was found in a search. Getting arrested, on the other hand, can prove to be beneficial, as the event can be set inside a narrative of police excess, driving public sympathy to their cause.
Its seamless for two factor authentication, not regular logins.
The only solution is to read source code and look for anything suspicious. Linus's Law states that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow

Well. It's probably easier to break into your home, put an eavesdropping device and get your keys. I think it's important to audit code but let's be realistic, you won't defeat an agency that has you on your radar because you use "open source software".

And by the way, Linus Law doesn't make any sense, simply because some bugs cannot be seen just by looking at the source code and also because the bandwidth between eyeballs that don't belong to the same brain is extremely limited.
That information is already in many, many places. In particular, if you have a passport or drivers license it's already available to the government.
You create a new account :) we built the application to use dropbox datastore so you can access to your data from anywhere
And Kate for KDE 4.12 has already several features in the pipe:
- http://kate-editor.org/2013/09/06/kate-vim-progress/
- http://kate-editor.org/2013/09/09/multi-line-text-editing-in...
What Star Wars Taught Me About Business Development
Gustave, the Killer Croc
The problem in and of itself is a valid problem that can be worked on. By lots of small, manageable efforts we can make the world a better place. Abstracting problems away - making them more generalised - only turns manageable problems into philosophical debates.

Btw, you need to get away from the habit of directly attacking the author and focus instead on attacking the argument.
Growth Hacking Strategy: Does I need one?
No, but the NSA might care about your movements, who you know, who you deal with, and so on.

Remember that video that was posted of a Lawyer given a talk to law students about never speaking to policemen? Remember how innocent things can be completely twisted and used against you?

Yeah, I'd worry about the NSA snooping in my calendar.
very cool approach to solving an old problem.

The problem is that I can take my gf / friend's phone during dinner put it next to my tablet and check their bank account. What are your thoughts on that?
Easy to test. Someone needs to make an FPS mod in which players are moving in electric wheelchairs or something similar.
I do not know if the Crime Doesn't Climb usage was against the ToS.

They could have possibly made all their requests within the rate limit imposed by Google. I'm unsure, however, if their usage of the data was allowed: "The Elevation API may only be used in conjunction with displaying results on a Google map; using elevation data without displaying a map for which elevation data was requested is prohibited." [1]

That said, I certainly think it's reasonable to want Google to allow paid access to their API at a rate between their current free offering and their prohibitively expensive offering for personal and small business usage.

[1] https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/elevation/#...
I personally think just QR codes are equally easy. Like random number from server -> computer -> phone -> server which would be same as two factor authentication but in opposite direction.
We spend the fourth most per pupil of any country in the world:
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-education-spending-compare...
Money is not the answer - in fact some of the states that spend the most, have the worst results.
> Why a business would do such a thing was even more beyond me.

Mostly the same reason they rely on third party infrastructure like electricity and plumbing: economics.
Iterating on Unique Value Proposition – CloudFire Case-Study
9.3beta2
Grey Apocalypse
It's probably easier to break into your home, put an eavesdropping device and get your keys.

If they were only targeting one person, maybe. But getting a back door added to a piece of widely-used software is much easier than bugging the homes of everybody who uses that software.
The public university I attended was not much better. Tuition + Room and Board was 24k a year and rising. At the same time, an incredible amount of new university buildings are being built.
The only solution to bitcoin transactions is either trust-based (no strangers involved) or irreversible cash-based payments for bitcoins, possibly supported by trusted escrow service in the middle.
Um. How could he ever be certain of that?
I understand the point about software, but what about hardware? If the NSA is corrupting software, then it must be corrupting chips too. How can chips be verified NSA spy free?

In principle, an analagous "Linus's Law" exists for open-sourced hardware. So if you have the code/design for chips, that could be verified as well.
As a counterpoint, I can distinguish a very bad chess player from a good one without seeing a single game he/she has played. Just looking at his/her behavior and countenance in front of the board is enough.

As an extreme example, you probably have seen a (very bad) player put his finger on the piece he wants to move, than keep it there and look around on the board, verifying that he will not immediately lose his piece when he complete his intended move. A better player will have made a final decision on his play before his arm starts to move.

A much more subtle example: better players place their pieces more accurately in the center of their square, particularly in blitz games.

Now I don't claim to distinguish a 2400 elo player from a 2500 elo. But a 1500 from a 1800 elo? Sure.
Ask your neighbours. Madness, I know.
Obviously I use the term "abuse" facetiously. However, no one buys the memiore about the individual that coasted into prosperity with the love and support of everyone around them.

> Not everyone wants to get to the "top"
sure, but how about you let them make that decision rather than taking the liberty of handicapping them in advance.

>They certainly sound better than environments full of mental/emotional abuse. Why can't we create abuse-free environments in the real world, too?

Sure but they will need to compete against the environments filled with vicious, agogi-bred cutthroats who are there by choice.
There's no way I would trust a security product that uses an undisclosed authentication method. It could be doing something that's easy to spoof.

Security is a hard problem and one that benefits from having a lot of people try to tear it apart.
I've been a programmer/analyst for 17 years, and I have never experienced anything like what's being discussed by these women. I am older than they are (I'm a Gen-Xer), but still.

I've worked in web development shops, and I currently work for a regional grocery store chain, but most of my time was spent working for companies that own an internet backbone doing statistical reporting for the web. I can assure you, those places were heavily male and heavily geeky. No one ever suggests that I should be getting them coffee, much less making them a sandwich.

If anything, the younger, nerdier guys find me a little intimidating.

I wonder if some of the women in question are simply getting their ass handed to them in a code review and they think it's sexism. It's the opposite, actually. That's equal treatment!
Torvalds' response to whether RdRand could be compromised in the Linux kernel
I do not know where this op-ed piece was intended for, but I think you should have written it anyway, stating just this feeling of yours. There was/is/will be so much media frenzy about this, every article (even if you think you really had nothing useful to say, which you actually do), op-ed or not, that does not resolve to sensationalists headlines is just really helpful.
I don't see what the NSA revelations have to do with this line of reasoning.

How do we know you're not (and have not been) selling tarsnap data to a corporation or non-US intelligence agency? This has always been a possibility and it has roughly equal probability to you being an NSA agent even after the Snowden leaks.
Apple stock movement: A short history lesson
Next time you might want to look up who Walter Bright is before jumping to the conclusion that you know more about compilers than he does (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright)
What land is this put on? Did you buy it or is it a friend's? Maybe I missed that part, I didn't read the whole article closely; it's kind of an important question because it may change your project price from $2,100 to $302,100 depending on your location.

A search for "toilet" "bathroom" and "poop" yielded no results however, as did searches for "kitchen" "cook" "stove" and "range." Assuming OP eats food (hackers still do that, no?) and poops, it seems there is more to this living arrangement than is described in this article.

I don't know the situation but put a gun to my head and force me to speculate and I'll say "This guy is living on a friend's land & relying on the resources in his friend's house." There's no shame in that but it's disingenuous to sweep it under the rug and pretend your abode is an "alternative" to a house when it in fact relies on a house.
There are a lot of places the "cloud" can be zero-knowledge for payloads in storage, email, and real time communications, but most services are not set up that way, and they would have to charge a subscription fee to replace their ad revenue.

It is possible to make cloud services where trust is not needed. It remains to be seen if cloud services will have to change to remain in business.
An Interactive Course on Gauging the Strength of Evidence
Good. See you there !
tinyurl and other shorteners generally use a 301 redirect, which often does pass 'link juice'.

nofollow is usually under the control of the webmaster. Which may or may not be the same as the content creator.

Think forums and blog comments, as poster you generally have no control if nofollow is added to links. Usually it should be, but no garentee.

Also think of sites like twitter, facebook and g+, again you can't ensure that nofollow is added. Similally when that content is then copied or syndicated. You can usually hope that the copier will perserve the link itself, but they may or may not choose to 'nofollow' the copied link.

And lastly, 'bad' bots, may well ignore the nofollow anyway. It would have to be broken/clever bot to get the destiniation from donotlink
I'm in the same boat. In the hospital, on the day of my birth my mother looked at me and said "college". Needless to say I did not do the proper cost/benefit analysis at the age of 17. I'm hoping my debt gets forgiven after 25 years. Being 80 years old and making student loan payments does not sound fun.
Oh wow, let me add to the group and say thanks. Teenaged mr_luc turned into a programmer mostly because of late-90's game engines, and I'm probably not alone. Everyone who wanted to be a programmer and was interested in game development probably remembers Genesis3d.

There's something magical, as a young programmer, about compiling an open-source 3d engine and walking around in the demo.

Although in my case I never did more than compile Genesis and tweak a few variables in the physics code before recompiling. (I ended up learning from the Torque Game Engine and its forebears, because they had a scripting language and sprawling outdoor terrains with multiplayer).
I would argue that raising a happy/healthy/balanced child is an accomplishment. Its been done by many before me, but it is by no means easy.
Is it Security that People Love or something that "Security People" Love? A comma somewhere would help.
You boot from a Live-CD.
But then maybe someone has put a logger in your keyboard. Or doing powerline monitoring. Or watching you with infrared camera. And so on...
hmm, this is what i get:
event.returnValue is deprecated. Please use the standard event.preventDefault() instead.

And thats about it.....
How To Protect Your Investments Against Market Volatility
I like this font; it's pretty nice for small font sizes (a little like terminus).
I have a Samsung ARM Chromebook and I use it all the time. Way more than I thought I'd use it. I bought it as a testing platform for Gate One (https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne) but I end up using it most when, "someone on the Internet is wrong." (haha).

So I'll be chilling out in my Lay-Z-Boy with my family watching a kids movie (that we've watched like six times), surfing the web on my phone and lo and behold someone will say something that needs an old fashioned Internet whomping--with references, snide remarks, and lots of puns. The type of thing for which a phone (software) keyboard isn't suited. As in, "I cannot let this person's false statement go unchallenged!"

So I dash to the office ("Honey, where's my super suit?") and I have a choice to make: Un-cable and remove my nicely-mounted (on a cool swiveling arm!) dual-SSD Acer S5 laptop and haul it back to the living room (you know, so I can share the experience with my family =) or I could grab the Chromebook which is conveniently located near the door and has only a single, tiny power connector.

In less than 60 seconds (maybe 30 if I don't grab a drink on the way back!) I will be back in my Lay-Z-Boy, furiously typing away on the Chromebook. Saving the world from the ignorant, shills, and Microsoft fanboys.
She went off on some tangent about comments on an article she wrote - what the hell does that have to do with her daughter's computer programming class?

This was a rant about the mother's issues directed at a seemingly innocent teacher.

This article disgusted me.
I'm interested in what types of homes were being tried in Haiti. Can you share a link or any info?
Not very friendly (well - that's relative), but it's pretty clear and provides a code reference that any developer can understand and check.
"[...] using our proprietary technology [...]"

Ok. How do I get out of this site?
It's great to see there are Microsoft developers who care and who try to reach out.

I've abandoned Microsoft platforms a long time ago, but several dear friends of mine work there. We started playing jokes calling each other (me with free and open-source and them with Microsoft-centric stuff) the "dark side of the force" but we settled down on "the other side of the force".
It would be the plot of Idiocracy playing out in front of our eyes.
Site is down. That was fast.
It is surprisingly hard to obtain a consistent font rendering across OSX, Windows and Linux. I had to play with the weight of the fonts, but also the font size (on Windows, my font is 3pt smaller than on OSX...). Irritating, especially when you actually synchronize your configuration files.
So, you're saying that women need special treatment as the more delicately nurtured sex? I completely disagree. The tech environment is what it is, and I don't want to be treated differently than my male co-workers.

Also, I've never seen anything resembling a "grotesque pastiche of misogyny and bullying" in my 17 years of working as a programmer or systems analyst.
Belief in credentialism doesn't magically result in talent.

Thought experiment. 1K have talent, another 1K are promising, and another 1K are basically non-productive.

If you have a 3K student body and chop away 1K, you'd like to think that that 1K leaving are those with the least talent, so they'll never be able to compete with the superior upper 2/3.

Also if you assume a constant income of R+D money, all separation really means is spending a larger fraction of that limited money on fixed costs (great, now we need two $10M/yr CEOs and two $5M/yr CFOs and two labs and two HR depts and two... etc etc) Much like a divorce usually doesn't in total result in an aggregate higher standard of living once the same total income now has to support two households instead of one.
IE8/9 crash with CSS only
Attention: this link can crash your IE!

See an explanation here: http://www.hackerspace-bamberg.de/Benutzer:Schinken/CSS-IE-Crash

Maybe someone can change the URL for this entry... looks like i can't ;)
Can the Makefile (or whatever VS currently uses in its place) make sure it doesn't build (and maybe blows up) when the option isn't set?
"A house of a certain niceness is (everything else equal) going to cost the same amount of money per month whether the interest rate is 1% or 15%. A $1500/mo mortgage buys you $250k of house at 4% but only $150k of house at 9% and only $95k of house at 15% like in the early 80s."

That doesn't make sense. In the short term, we can hold the housing stock and income as fixed, and as the interest rate varies, the amount of capital available to buy homes varies as does the price. That isn't to say it is the primary effect -- income, net household formation and the housing stock are the other main determinants -- but the level of interest rates is important.
In the company where I work, everything but the IDE is in cloud...

We use Google Apps, Trello, Wave (for accounting), Corona SDK (that builds in Corona cloud servers), Google Drive (previously was Dropbox), Google Docs (we never used any office here, MS, Libre, or anything else), and so on...

I am personally against it, but the CEO decided it that way because he did not wanted to bother about IT infrastructure, we are not big enough yet to bother about it, cloud stuff make things much easier.
I seriously considered it -- I even started trying to write a "there's nothing new here, the NSA has always been spying on us" editorial -- but I just couldn't make it work.
> The only communication between LulzSec and WikiLeaks was between an FBI informant on their end and an FBI informant on our end, both trying to entrap each other to incriminate both groups further, and likely both oblivious to the fact that the other was working for the same organization.

I've often wondered how often this happens when law enforcement are trying to catch child pornographers and such.
It's got to be something like that. Either that, or he's living on public land somewhere -- and if so, he's probably in violation of at least a few laws, and is in danger of getting kicked out (or even arrested) if found. Alternatively, he owns some land and simply built this dome on it instead of a traditional house. The latter shows a remarkable amount of self-discipline, restraint, and delightful eccentricity, but it hides what is probably a major cost, i.e., the land itself.

Don't get me wrong; I found the article really cool. Really cool. Inspiring, in a way. And major props to the author for hacking this all together. But I agree: there's a side of this story not being discussed, and it's a pretty important side. Implying that someone can live on little more than $2,100 in building materials seems like a bit of a stretch, and I'm curious to know how much of one.
Carbonite IPO'ed as a pure subscription based and (if you generate your own keys) zero-knowledge service.
This is really awesome, considering my current (first ever) graphics engine which just uses standard polygon rasterization can't even render a few rotating cubes without starting to break a sweat. And you've got billions of everything! You say the grass is green-space. Do you mean that you just generate the grass as a texture and blit it to a framebuffer or something equivalent? (i.e.: it's never "real" geometry on the GPU).

Do you generate your visuals by rendering a fullscreen quad and having shaders do all the work is there actual polygon work involved?

Just curious, nice work!

EDIT: drat, it seems I missed a few comments, you already answered most of my questions. So feel free to disregard them. I'm leaving the comment to show that I really like the things you've done with the engine, it looks fantastic (and $deity knows how much fun it can be to work on something like that)