skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it has more to do with the prison-syndrome of being forced into a social situation with people you don't like--much like we do to children in schools--than it does to this concept of paying-forward nastiness applied to them. Programmers are a diverse group of people, they aren't all nerds who got picked on in school.
Assume for a moment that JS crypto is insecure. If you use a web client with JS crypto to bootstrap acceptance, then the majority of your clients will end up using JS crypto. If the majority of the clients on the 'network' are insecure, then what's really the point?
The Frameless Geodesic Dome I currently live in
When they were expecting me, interaction was great. It's definitely unnerving some of them as more of our remote team is taking them for a spin.
Thanks for your comments. I apologize and will stop posting links on topics I thought were relevant to Blib. We tried to submit Blib on "show hn", but that did not fly (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6272213). Its hard to advertise/show/market/demo when one is on a shoe-string budget, or a better way to put it is: We haven't learnt that art as coders.
In case of rotary phones it was much easier to put zero at the end. The old phones used pulses to dial numbers - one pulse meant one, two pulses - two, and so on. Ten pulses meant zero. If they wanted to put zero at the beginning, the dialing mechanism would need to be much more complex.
I don't think it's fair to marginalize the work that the Docker community has put in to it so far by saying another tool is doing all of the hard work. You could go down the stack and always say that about technology. That's what makes it so powerful.

I also would not categorize Docker as a 'little wrapper' around LXC. Sure, Docker uses LXC as a default container provider but it could have just as well have been raw cgroups/network namespaces, libvirt, openvz, or any other abstraction that suits the core abstractions of Docker.
How to Find Out Whether You're a Good Cultural Fit at Any Company
Well, it's kickstarter so we're deferring some decisions until it closes, and leaving room to listen to our backers.

I know you probably meant to snark, but to take your question seriously, the question we have is: do we open up our working prototype, or write a reference impl from scratch in a language more useful to our community.
I think it's just incredibly inconvenient to get from the tenderloin to the ritzy areas of SF by public transit. You pretty much need a car or car service.
Ah! A Link! Well after some review of the information on that Wikipedia article it is clear that all income pilot programs have only been administered to a minor degree in third world countries.

The ideas of administering this system on a LARGE SCALE in a 'well-developed' country such as the US would probably bring many of the problems Friedrich Hayek theorizes it would.

From Wikipedia:

"It is obvious that for a long time to come it will be wholly impossible to secure an adequate and uniform minimum standard for all human beings everywhere, or at least that the wealthier countries would not be content to secure for their citizens no higher standards than can be secured for all men. But to confine to the citizens of particular countries provisions for a minimum standard higher than that universally applied makes it a privilege and necessitates certain limitations on the free movement of men across frontiers... we must face the fact that we here encounter a limit to the universal application of those liberal principles of policy which the existing facts of the present world make unavoidable."

In other words people would flock from all over the world in DROVES to secure a spot in the unconditional free money system.
It's really odd to me that the traditional keyboard 10-key entry pad hasn't switched to the phone number layout. If the phone layout is more efficient and less error prone, why didn't keyboards start with the phone layout and not the calculator layout?
> You appear to have chosen to create a 5 month gap in your work history. Can you imagine how this looks to an employer? I instantly think of someone who is lazy and is only willing to put the work in to find a job when they absolutely have to. It makes me think you'll wait until the last minute for everything.

That is poor judgement on your part. Your advice is crippling. If one is stuck in a dead-end job, then fun-employment for the purpose of self-improvement or side-projects makes plenty of sense -- as long as one can economically support themselves. You think employer XYZ gives a shit if there is a 6-month unemployed window if my GitHub productivity was "rock star" level with amazing side-projects to show? If the employer doesn't hire me, then that saves me the trouble from working for a stale company.

Who knows how many entrepreneurs wouldn't be where they are today if they took your advice and continued wasting their precious time away at Initech and TPS reports.
I didn't post this. But feel free to make unsubstantiated ad hominem attacks, because: the internet. :)
Can you fix up the screenshot on Slant for me? It's not rendering properly on my computer.
Oh my gosh that logo is unbelievably distracting! Especially when opening a page that "does ____ in real time" -- I spent way longer than I should have thinking "what is this logo doing and what does it have to do with the rest of the page ..."

Once I got over that, very cool site :)
Look into xlrd3/xlwt3. They're free and platform independent, not as smooth interfacing as DataNitro though.
This browser is a web security joke.

1. Unless you prefix URLs with http or https, you are relying on Opera and/or Google's algorithms to point you to the correct page. Some might say that's a feature, except...

2. You cannot see the URL of recommended pages before you select them or while you are browsing them.

3. There no indication whether you accessed a page via HTTP or HTTPS.

This browser teaches users to ignore security. It assumes that no one ever enters a typo, that Google's search results can never be gamed, and that any anti-phishing functionality they have included (one would hope) is fully up to date.

All the respect that I had for Opera as a company just vanished.
I think it works very well. I can read it with no effort at all at 8pt!
If you're looking for an invoicing tool that is completely integrated with your accounting check out Wave.

www.waveapps.com/invoicing

It is surprisingly free invoicing tool that also accepts credit card payments (powered by Stripe). Wave provides a full featured small business eco-system that you will also likely enjoy.
I feel like its too little too late though. This is just my observation as someone who worked at a .Net shop for 3 years, and recently moved to a Java/Python house.
To me, Consolas is the only programming font that looks natural, as if it isn't even monospace.
If my schedule permits it period, I drive. I've driven 4 days in a row rather than fly (my schedule was unusually loose then), though I have also flown rather than drive 6 hours (my schedule was unusually tight then).

Treated like cattle is exactly the right way of putting it. I would rather be inconvenienced on my terms.
Eh, this font could use a little TLC on some of the glyphs. However, it is easily readable and looks fine at 10 pt.
Dock+ mini-review
I don't think the article is trying to claim that elevation magically has a causal impact on crime rates. It just shows that there is a correlation and claims nothing more. The point is that there IS some underlying root cause (or an extreme coincidence) and that is an interesting point in and of itself.
According to this article,

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/siri-two-years/

Apple keeps Siri voice recordings for two years. It appears from recently published patents that the Authentec sensor depends on an external CPU to perform hashing operations on the biometric signature. This suggests that a raw image of fingerprints is at least available to the iPhone's processor and could be transmitted back to a data centre for storage.
With all new ALL CAPS MENUS! YAY!
It's interesting that this article has garnered so much interest on hacker news. Automation, streamlining, and outsourcing appears to have worked its way "up" to the STEM fields. The technical minded may soon received a taste of what the factory labor received in the eighties.

http://www.vdare.com/print/17686

Perhaps in another decade lawyers will face the chopping block, and thereafter the politicians who outsourced their nation.
Haha, point taken. I should really disable that on all sub-pages...
I'd like to do a similar thing but controlling external shutters via an internal temperature or light sensor. The sensor part is trivial (pi, arduino, simple circuit, etc) but the tricky part for me is the motor controlled shutters. If anyone has a source on a set of shutters that can be motor controlled I would be most grateful!

It's because I have a house with an upstairs room that faces the sun in the afternoon, and closing the internal blinds helps but is not nearly as effective as external blinds, if there were any. However, since the room is not anywhere near reachable, my only option would be to have a hand-crank that goes through the wall. Ugh. Electronics to the rescue!
Touch Goes Digital: Electronic Recording and Replay of Human Touch Demonstrated
Second that. This is what a professionally design font for programmers look like.

I am going to design "a washing machine by programmer for programmers" and hope it doesn't explode into someone's face when it's plugged into an electrical outlet.
That certainly didn't help, but if your DB was large enough where vacuuming mattered, you probably found a cron solution. The other place I saw MySQL win was in single access benchmarks that were scattered across the Web. Postgres would win in concurrent scenarios pretty handily, but people were glued to those serial benchmarks.
Agree, I yield. It's gone now.
What about adjusting for the greater probability that a given area is residential the higher the elevation? Perhaps more crime occurs outside residential areas. Just speculating here.
Mendelson's is incredible, I always try to visit when visiting family in Ohio. I've never seen a other store like it
One may, but that wouldn't be "nice", which is what I was talking about. Being able to critique something without being rude is certainly important for professionals, though.
"A great disservice"? Lighten up, this was a hackathon project, not a doctoral thesis. And the code is there for anyone to build upon using other factors.
layperson cite for finicky placebos: http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/are-placebos-really-s...
I don't know where you get this sexist notion that women are delicate flowers who can't handle criticism, disagreement, or personality conflict in the workplace.
Google Refuses to Remove The Pirate Bay Homepage
TechCrunch Hackathon's Sexism & Masturbation Scandal
> If the community knew just how fast the Windows team was iterating on this new release cycle, I think they might be a lot more sympathetic to this situation.

You could open source it, so the community could help.
Not the way I think about it, but maybe you could: You earn dollar, then you spend a portion, someone else earns some of that, then spends a portion of that, this continues. So $6,500,000 is not that unreasonable with that and inflation in mind.
I assume that the complaint was not "no one should ever read the Austrians" but rather that it's not appropriate introduction to economics.

One may think that string theory is sound, but still think it unwise to introduce someone to physics starting with string theory.

"Individuals should make their own judgment about the persuasiveness of Austrian arguments"

I agree with this, but it seems wiser to do so once you have some basic knowledge of more mainstream economics so that you can critically compare the two schools of thought.
> I find that someone who doesn't work well with emotions is typically bad at reasoning too, because the arguments they make end up expressing their feelings in obtuse ways.

This is an interesting explanation. Do you think that people bad at understanding their emotions are less aware or mindful of their unconscious biases?
Found Poetry From Years of Tech Conference Sexism
Mantis CI - Mobile Application(s) for Travis CI
>it is how updatable views work in MSSQL

Not exactly. The updated columns may only unambiguously reference one table, but you can execute an update on a view which references multiple tables.
Happy Birthday Dennis Ritchie
There's a .tgz of all the variants and formats on the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/proggyfonts/
How to Decode the Universe Using an Antarctic IceCube
I am not at all afraid of having a plane hijacked, but if I choose to fly it is a dead certainty that the TSA will invade my privacy, violate my rights, and waste my time. I would rather deny them the opportunity by driving.
a lot of people not only software developer are jerks.
But i have a tip for you:
If you can ignore them!
If you can just don't listen,speak or do anything with them.
if you must listen to them get a job somewhere else!

Life is to short to spend it with jerks!
> Frankly, I'm sick of people jumping on the "open-source" bandwagon and diverting resources from those who truly deserve it

Is there a list of deserving people that gets curated by someone? I think that those who deserve are those that get support because what is being advertised is what people will pay for if they want it.

On the same note as those who truly deserve it I think that there are so many ideas and open source is not about a list of people but about whatever you want or need. Pushing back on new ideas is not necessarily the right thing to do. Vote with your money; support if you like something and walk away if you don't.
It's not like they didn't release it because they were stubborn or whatever. They didn't release for a reason - it wasn't ready. But because of bad press so far they will release it anyway - not fully ready, and hope that not being fully really won't give them even more bad press.
How the cult of shareholder value wrecked American business
Show HN: Tiny productivity apps that run from your URL bar
* power is held by private individuals (lords) or organizations (noble families, the church, and I guess in modern times - corporations) that accrue it by amassing money and/or other forms of influence. These power bases form alliances that suit them, with the implicit goal of maintaining their power and withholding it from others*

Government is the best tool they've found to help them do this.
It's also sales; basically putting information in a way that's consumable not just to techies that are knee deep into work, but both non-techies and former techies who are now managers.
It it all JavaScript I'm looking at?

(I'm only ~halfway through the JS course on CodeCademy and don't know much else programming related).
Peak Oil Perspective
I'm not sure what you mean, could you clarify/expand on your comment?
As decentralized as WordPress. The project is open source.
Tesla Superchargers Come to Europe
I don't even know how to respond to this: "the endpoints might be compromised, so why bother making the crypto secure"? That's the idea?

Browser JS is a uniquely terrible vector for delivering crypto to end users. Use something different.
It's there, just not out in the open.

1. Go to a web page
2. Click the "tabs" button in the bottom right corner
3. Press the "i" icon on the tab
4. Press the security circle for even more info
There is no barrier to what software will run on your nexus device. For example, I could put android, or Ubuntu on my Nexus 4. Doesn't that meet all your requirements? The hardware is even sold near cost, by a well-known manufacturer.
Glad you're getting value out of it but to me it seems slightly creepy and not very useful. I clicked on the link to the product and their video is even creepier.
i feel like this is a good argument if you could show some evidence that another font designer put any thought beyond mere aesthetics in thaer decision making.

What i would like to see from someone like you, that criticises the work on display, in this instance, would be:

-what font do you currently use?
-what evidence do you have that it was 'designed by a font designer'?
-what evidence do you have that such and such designer made decisions that are more accurate than the ones made here and for what reasons?
-is there a write up by said designer that describes those decisions and possible alternatives and reasons for doing one while avoiding another? .. this is my issue with the post, i feel it is too sparse on self addressed argument ..
I wouldn't say the comparison was meaningless. The blood toll of Entebbe and Landshut was less, but the public impact was enormous.

One must keep the public mood in the back of one's head - this was in 1977, there was a series of attacks by the Red Army Faction, which everyone had thought was dead, and then, just as now, there was the discussion about dragnet surveillance and civil liberties, there was even discussion about the aims of the RAF, perhaps they even had a point.

The keyword is "Deutscher Herbst".
Based on this sheet, it looks like they decided on the layout we use but wanted testing to back it up.
The process of getting a visa is a complicated beurocratic mess, it's not that simple as you are saying.

Both L1 and L2 visas are linked to your blanket petition. Petition is another document, issued by USCIS for 1 year. You can't get a visa, which expiration date is longer than your petition expiration date. My petition was approved in August 2012, but I received it in fact only in spring (after more than 6 months). And then, when I received it, it took several more months to make final preparations for the movement, so we were able to get a visa for her only in June (which expired in August according to petition expiration) and moved to the U.S. right away after that.

And again, petition has been extended already, but I only received it in August, even though it has been extended since April.

And there's no consulate in Belarus. You have to go to Russia to pass interview and stay there in a hotel for about a week to wait for your passport to be returned.
> If your device or browser is compromised, you have bigger problems than someone subtly modifying your js runtime.

It is trivial to compromise the browser context of the page. In the case of a browser bug another tab can interact badly with the current tab. In the case of a MITM attack on (sadly quite possible given the potential adversary) the attacker can modify the JS in flight to the browser. In the case of an externally loaded resource embedded on the page that resource may modify the execution of your crypto. There are also CSFR, XSS and other JS vulnerabilities to account for.

Javascript is a hopelessly bad place to do crypto. Consider doing an signed browser extension that does this on the desktop and native apps on the phone. I would also suggest a native app on the desktop as well. People seem to really like them for twitter.
Buses could be significantly improved if you weren't crammed in with a bunch of people, generally one toilet, insufficient leg room, generally no wifi and no electricity, fairly little luggage.... I suspect self-driving EVs would have a bit more luxury ^_^
George Zimmerman Arrested After an Altercation Involving a Gun
JS Api Directory Help
I just started making an API directory for Javascript (similar to the one for Python on the homepage right now), but I need some input.

Currently, I'm focused just on those with SDK-like functionality (e.g., the ones where there is a library or code to leverage), but the more I think about it, the more I feel like I should also just add in service with REST endpoints, perhaps delineated in some way.

Also, just the very nature of JS libs is so different from Python, in that a 'library' can be a Node module, jQuery plugin, backend, frontend, etc., etc.

Thoughts?
Clickable link - http://jsapi.me/
They looked at her passport and a marriage stamp in that passport.
0 is 10 pulses on a rotary dial. 0 is not really a number technically is it, more of a digit?
Summary: Britain has too much debt, interest rates will raise, causing financial and social collapse. You will lose everything. Panic! But if you subscribe to MoneyWeek you will survive.

This is fear mongering. Without dealing with the issue of who Britain own debt to, and their agenda this says nothing.

Sigh, why did I spend so much time watching this junk...
Except that RTM != GA
The more I read about the Oculus Rift, the more I want to try one.

When the first generation of a technology looks this good, it really makes you excited for the 2nd and 3rd generation.
How do you "make it on the same repo and then submit a pull request" without either (a) having write access to that repo or (b) forking?

This is one way in which 'git send-email' is lighter weight and more convenient, provided all involved know how to use it.
Looks ok, but how is this better than Consolas or Anonymous Pro fonts?

Here's a screenshot of my Vim using Anonymous Pro:

https://github.com/alanhamlett/Alan-vimrc#screenshot
I think you're conflating being a software developer and being a power user.
This font will make engineer-types happy, because it's been made in methods that engineers understand and like. Reminds me of Soylent- we don't need to listen to experts in that field, because this is a person I can relate to just going ahead and doing it.

I'm not saying this guy should stop- quite the opposite, please explore, have fun with this, learn. It's the most wonderful thing a person can do.

I don't want to criticize him for trying, I want to criticize us for loving it. Yes, myself included.

We're falling for the same trap that is used in those ads about how a stay at home mom came up with a new skin treatment. People want to believe that they are brilliant, that they are right. When they see someone just like them going against the grain, they want to believe that person is correct.

So the next time you see a post that says "Made by an ENGINEER" and it isn't something an engineer normally makes, do a quick "%s/engineer/stay at home mom/g".
EVERY ONE I need your honest opinion
Hello hackers, I would like to get your honest opinion with regards to my final project from Stanford online course!! Thnaks in advance.

So here it is!!
http://fast-basin-9051.herokuapp.com

Honest opinion please and where can I improve upon
I need to get good grade on this one.
An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Academia
It's a fair corrective, but don't forget Knuth -- a programmer who learned a lot about typography and designed quite a few good fonts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern). Arguably his fonts aren't the most "well designed", but they have their own Knuthific charm, and they're very legible.
Potrero Hill might be the exception.
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The letter l on it's own at small font sizes resembles the number 1 in other fonts too closely. In fact, my default sans font (DejaVu Sans) has the 1 shaped just like the Inconsolata l. I'm sure it's something you get used to but I personally prefer the style used in DejaVu Sans Mono or Ubuntu Mono, where the l shape can't be mistaken for anything else.
You're not making an attempt to understand the conversation, just being pedantic. He said he was keeping his money in bitcoins to make it so that his money was harder to seize. Yes, he is spending dollars, but the savings is in bitcoins.
I like the look of this--not necessarily for my daily coding font (Source Code Pro, lately, but Consolas works in a pinch) though it would definitely help for any presentation that needs to display code.

It just looks like a good presentation font to me, with how clean it is at the larger sizes. Might be my love of 8-bit gaming readable fonts, though.
"Pool.com. If ever there was a "service" who viewed users as "zombies", they are it."

What is your specific complaint against Pool.com ?