skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like I'm looking at MySpace circa 2006.
After finally being convinced that this isn't a joke, I had a horrible revelation:

If Trello came with all of that by default, I would pay just as much to make it go away.
Play Framework Is Bad
Great work StrongLoop!
Music site chatbot wins AI Loebner contest
All the things to like about iOS 7's APIs
What a trip: Timothy Leary's files go public in NY
> "I find this funny. IOS 7 is the same as IOS 6 except for a few re-arrangements of features and a new look."

As someone who's spent the last 2 months porting code from iOS6 to iOS7, I disagree. The API changes (documented or otherwise...) are large enough that this really was more of a port than it was a simple update.

It may look like simple rearrangement (I disagree with that assessment, but whatever), but under the hood a great deal has changed.
I'm curious, how did you determine that the problem is iOS 7, as opposed to your hardware – or, perhaps, the need for your hardware's power management needing to be reset/recalibrated?

I only ask because I recall reading some complaints during the beta cycle that were resolved in some way without changing the specific version of the pre-release they were running.
arp: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=arp&sektion=8

arp -a gives you a list of other connected devices on the network with their IP and mac address. For a paid-for hotspot this usually means devices that have paid for access and are active.

the ifconfig command changes your mac address into one of the chosen above; the AP thinks you're one of the earlier connected devices and gives you access to the internet.
A new app which can summarize all locations you have visited on Facebook
My friend have invented the very good app which can summarize all location you have visited before. You can also find your status, album and photos in your location.

Please have a look

http://facebookmap.tk/
The one I've personally benchmarked is an unreleased application by a group of people I know, however it's very far along and (IMO) could be released today. The iPad 3 performs more poorly compared to the other platforms across several metrics.
IOS App Store Ratings Change
I have nothing against grandmothers, but I think of Windows as an OS designed for grandmothers. Everything has to be 'easy enough for one's grandmother'. There is nothing wrong with that. But I am, just a bit, beyond that level. I find it cripplingly limiting.

Windows has become so simplified that it does nothing easily...unless all you do is play solitaire and read web pages.

This is true of most MS applications. They are all project based. Two clicks and you have a working project. It is great for a MS sales demo. But when you have a real world task and it needs to move beyond a MS project template....look out.

I much prefer process tools. They do very little for you. There are no two click projects. You have to know what the process pieces do. The advantage is that they will connect in an infinite number of ways but this requires sufficient knowledge. The perfect example is the Linux command line (|).

An example: In the 90s I had a MS universal subscription that included support. It was a great deal. I needed to create a web frontend to a database. Two clicks...working. Nice. Then I noticed that data was stale. Newly inserted data in the database did not appear in my application wo restarting it. I could not figure it out. I called support. A MS engineer helped me. He was great, an expert. It took him a man-week to fix this!

I recently did something similar - a TCP server using Python and MySQL. It took a little longer to get anything to work. But I did not need an 'expert' to meet the last requirement.
The tone and quality of the HN front page and comments is cyclical.

Some of the larger cycles tend to correlate to YC's calendar - e.g. around application deadlines and demo days.

Currently, YC and its immediate community are not working toward a major deadline. I suspect this means that they are spending more time shaping HN's discourse than in recent weeks.
Why We Bought That Island
You're comparing me to the authors of the work? My misunderstanding then, I thought you were comparing my take to that of other commenters.

"try to be specific"

I did post specifics, include a link to an example of the issues with supersymmetry as a physical model.

"explain yourself better"

If you can identify what you didn't understand, I'd be happy to explain it further. I stand by my comment - it doesn't contain anything non-factual that can't be supported with references, although when it comes to silly metaphysical claims about the universe arising from pure geometry, those references are going to be to philosophy texts, not science texts. Which hints at the problem with the claim in the first place.
Maximizing-runway-can-minimize-success
Does "Science" Make You Moral?
Is this some analytics project of an intern or something. So strange, almost looks like a parody.

Oh well Trello is awesome that cannot be stressed enough :)
It sounds like this just reinvents the "process". We already have virtualisation of processes; that's what OSes do already.

So this just sounds like a minimal Linux.

What am I missing?
"Let's see where Microsoft is vs where Apple is in 3 years. Apple has 0 innovation going on. OS X and IOS are stale as anything. They are riding on earlier success and eventually will fizzle out."

-puma1
This is interesting, but I wonder what the real world application of this change would be. According to Linus, the Intel RdRand is only used as one of many sources of entropy in /dev/random. So even if it were compromised it wouldn't have a large impact on security.

Source: http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/linus-torvalds-remove-...
The researcher rubs me the wrong way for a few reasons:

1. 15 days for a major company not nearly enough to remedy this issue.

2. The activity log reads like a ransom timeline. This isn't some l33t hacker exploit it's simple session hijack and mac spoof. You're not owed anything for finding this.

Anyone that tries this could tread carefully. If you get caught (chances are slim), it wouldn't be hard to convince a jury that you're hacking an airborne plane's network.

<fun hearted bit of sarcasm>
Did you know a bathroom lock is woefully insecure!?! Time to hold the government ransom about this exploit and collect my millions. If they don't pay, I'll post it on the internet.
</sarcasm>
In my experience it's very rare to get any sort of real job security these days.

Whilst working in the financial industry throughout 2008-2010 I saw many of my colleagues let go for no reason other than that they were told to reduce head count. Many of them had worked there for 10 years.

Unless you're working for a government organisation or similar there is every chance that you will be let go at any time with your minimum notice period.
Gust Launches New York City Startup Contest
http://web.archive.org/web/20100723133654/http://illuminati....
TwilioCon Keynote livestream
> the kernel is what compiled the compiler

That's not what a kernel does...
is this the basic idea, give trello a bunch of money and what you get in return is some cheesy-ass backgrounds and clip-art?
Perhaps the two go hand in hand. I say evidence suggests that is not only plausible but perhaps common.

Something is indeed wrong. We tolerate servers responding to trivial requests in hundreds of milliseconds (sometimes even greater than 1,000 milliseconds!)

Here is an off-the-cuff--not cherry picked--screen grab from Firebug [1] showing 342ms of waiting for the server to respond to a relatively trivial request of listing summary information about approximately 20 entities that are presumably stored as rows in a database table from a popular web site. This type of delay is my chief complaint about a site that I am otherwise very fond of. Until this first response is delivered, the user is just plain waiting. Static assets should also arrive quickly, but I am more forgiving of them arriving gradually to decorate the page.

Yes, it's certainly possible the database server is the origin of this pain. And web developers should profile their applications to gain insight. Unfortunately, as I mentioned above, many profilers incorrectly conflate ORM or platform database driver time with genuine database time. Given what we have seen from frameworks and platforms making database queries and processing responses through ORMs, I know that MySQL (and other data platforms) on decent hardware can respond to tens of thousands of such trivial queries per second. Meanwhile, some application stacks reach reduced responsiveness and worsened user experience well before the database's CPU and disk register more than a blip.

[1] http://imgur.com/OXyhFbO
This is cool but I think the project would benefit from a feature comparison to CoffeeScript, which is the first thing that comes to mind when seeing this.

CoffeeScript is very Ruby-like, but not quite...The big difference, among others, is significant whitespace.

One Ruby feature that I was expecting to be in this was Ruby Enumerable objects. CoffeeScript has nice iterators like this:

ages = for child, age of yearsOld
"#{child} is #{age}"

But not like Ruby:

ages = yearsOld.map{|child, age| "#{child} is #{age}" }
From the blog post:

“What does Trello Gold mean for Business Class?” Nothing. They work totally independently. Trello Gold is for individuals and Business Class is for organizations.

https://trello.com/business-class
Reading the project website (http://redscript.org/), I got overly annoyed by:

- the non-monospace font

- the separation of RedScript and the compiled JS bit by the use of multiple spaces
I mean in the more traditional forum sense. That layout still doesn't make me feel like I know anybody, and it's missing the crapshoot banter/offtopic forums.
What the usual or accepted cost of a support contract for custom software?
An Insider’s View of Mobile-First Design: Don’t Make These Mistakes
>Benefits can almost always be compensated for with more money. 401(k), heath, dental, paid time off -- all of these things are just another form of compensation.

The thing is that some of these are worth much more than their transformation into a raw dollar value. As someone who has just recently transitioned from primarily self-employed to primarily corporately employed, the ability to take a day of PTO at basically any time has been amazing and no amount of raw dollars can compensate for that ability (except as these dollars are deployed to arrange affairs such that others can assume your responsiblities at the drop of a hat, but this takes more than raw dollars). I can also say that health insurance is worth more than its face value -- health insurance is an admission ticket into the doctor; if you have an insurance policy, they'll give you everything you want and treat you well, and if you don't, they'll demand large sums of cash on an almost-daily basis to continue to provide for your medical needs. If you have an astronomical amount of money maybe this isn't a concern, but most people not making double-digit millions per annum are going to find it difficult to cope with self-pay rules for any significant medical work.

>If you're able to stash enough of a buffer to cover you during that period, then you have just established security.

Security doesn't really work this way either. As an employee, you have an implicit sense of perpetual security. As long as you continue to provide the base value you were hired to provide, you will, in general, continue to collect your paycheck indefinitely. Getting paid in perpetuity is MUCH more secure and less stressful than watching your six months' worth of saved money tick down, especially if major or unexpected expenses occur.

Though I did well consulting full-time for the last five years or so, my wife and I were always worried when it came time to make big purchases and would often opt not to do so, since we'd never know for certain when our next chunk of money would come in. Since I've switched to employment by a corporate entity, we've felt much more comfortable making these necessary purchases and have been trying to clear our backlog of major stuff needed (appliances, vehicles, etc.).

It's more than just money. There's a peace of mind and freedom from stress that comes with corporate employment that can't necessarily be mapped onto an [attainable] dollar value.

Everyone wants to cross the chasm to independent wealth, but they don't understand that the process of doing so can be extremely onerous and stressful. As for me, I haven't given up yet, but it's not a pleasant experience.
Gore has 9,000+ employees, does $2B+ in revenue and has no formal management.
How about custom label colors?
It's important to ask yourself what you would do if you could AirDrop from your iOS device to an OS X device. Even though under the covers iOS and OS X work on files, iOS is sandboxed where OS X isn't, i.e. if you can't get to it via USB, you couldn't get to it via AirDrop anyway.

With that said, it would be useful to have some of the iTunes/iPhoto functionality for wireless(AirDrop) a la carte file transfer, but most people will just use iTunes wifi sync to get this effect.
poolpool. I get what your saying, but exactly what are you saying? Data sharing between apps between IOS and Android?
Ive and Cook are just riding on concept from Jobs, there is nothing new here. If any other hardware vendor put out phones with this level of "same old" they would be burned for it. In the future people will look back at this Apple craze and laugh. Apple put out the iphone 5, with a new case and blogs are reviewing it! Are you kidding me? IOS 7 is the same damn OS as 6! Airdrop is nothing new feature wise. Almost every other feature has been out on other OSes for a long time. Apple struck gold in 2007.. and they been re-regurgitating since. Scared to wipe the slate because there will never be another Steve and they will never hit another winner like the initial iphone. But it's tired now. IOS 7 was supposed to be something different, and bottom line it's the same OS that consumes more battery and more resources. Whatever additional battery life they added to the iphone 5s hardware is cancelled out by the new requirements.
This must be a joke.
Something like this is nice, and might appeal to people that want a simple, reasonably 1:1 compilation comparison between the language and the underlying JS implementation.

However, I personally am FAR more excited about something like http://opalrb.org which essentially provides a Ruby runtime in JS and lets you run complex code with real Ruby syntax and runtime library features.

I have been extensively testing Opal with just about everything I can throw at it and am constantly blown away by just how much it feels like I'm really running Ruby code client-side. Incredibly powerful stuff that would be a PITA to write in Javascript is a breeze with Opal. Browser compatibility doesn't seem to be an issue (IE 8, older Android, etc. all working).

Sorry, I know I sound like a fanboy now, and I swear I have no connection to the Opal devs (didn't even know about the project until last week), but since I've really really wanted for some time now to skip the "CoffeeScript" phase altogether and wait until I can write genuine Ruby front-end code that compiles to JS, I am super excited.

Good luck to RedScript though, that's also an interested project and, again, might appeal to people (not me) who want something extremely lightweight.
I'd actually be interested to see if there is a prevalence to use one gender over another for imaginary people. Not sure what it would mean, but it'd be interesting. Even more interesting if there was comparable data for people in other industries.
bump. Again not a fanboy, just stating the blatant obvious. At least Microsoft tries and puts out something completely new.
Georgia Tech begins accepting applications Oct 7th for MOOC program
You probably know this already, this comment is just for those who don't.

If you are trembling before public speaking is probably adrenalin. It is hard in the first minutes. But it is good for you, it makes you more alert, smarter and better overall. It is just difficult at the beginning, but once you start talking, it fades away and you will feel better. Keep that in mind.
How can MAC spoofing be stopped?

All the counter-measures I can think of seriously degrade the experience. I can think of approaches that work for HTTP, for example, but I can't see how you would allow e.g. SSH while preventing MAC spoofing.
Sure. There are exceptions to every rule.

Web application performance will have its exceptional cases. But in general, I find Java web application when modestly-well architected, will respond in low tens of milliseconds--and in many cases single-digits--to the vast majority of their routes. A PHP developer would need to be nearly superhuman to accomplish the same level of performance.
Google Is Launching A Company That Hopes To Cure Death
Are you running the GM seed or the beta? What hardware?
There is some value in having employees and colleagues available in the same physical space within the same general timespan. I understand why entities don't want you to just "pack up and go home" whenever you get bored. Part of the reason they pay you is so that you'll be there when you're needed, within the pre-agreed timeframes. "ROWE" is all well and good, but it's not mutually exclusive with a work environment that expects, in general, to be able to swing by your desk during the day and talk to you.
Why We're Not Hyping Our Launch
> "It looks to me like the lack of support for the 3GS will create a split in adoption of the OS"

Sure, but having seen the 3GS usage numbers on my own app (which, granted, is hardly a gold standard of representative demographics), I think this will be a rounding error. Despite Apple selling the devices until relatively recently, there are actually very few out in the wild. A developer can now effectively develop for iPhone 4 as their baseline.

Granted, you might have uniqueness in your demographic that will skew 3GS usage higher than the general population.

> "This also means that we have to be backwards compatible with yet another version of the OS. In code, this is where Macros come in."

Ah, but you can't use macros, since a single binary will have to work on all devices - there aren't multiple binaries built with multiple flags. What you will have is a lot of runtime checks against either the OS version or specific featuresets.

Be prepared to write a whole lot of if ([obj respondsToSelector@selector(...)])

The worst part about this isn't just supporting new features - that part's easy since you can simply test for the presence of necessary bits, mostly with respondsToSelector. The worst part are the undocumented behavior changes in UI components that will break between iOS6 and 7. For example, it looks like there are large implementation changes in UITableView and UITableViewCells. This means you must necessarily test against the version string and branch from that. Annoying at best, code-quality-destroyer at worst.
Obviously Slashdot. It isn't quite as huge as it once was, but it's still thriving and has some great headlines (though the quality of comments has been stuck in Eternal September for a while now).

Then again if you're looking for message boards, I don't really participate in any, so I can't help you there.
Time interviews Larry Page about new venture to extend human life
TCP doesn't care. IP and Ethernet care a lot.

Layer2 attacks like this aren't clever, and can be very difficult to prevent because of the nature of communication at that layer.

In a corporate/campus/hardline environment, there are plenty of reasonable mitigation strategies. (802.1x &c).

For a shared hotspot, this type of behavior is just anti-social.
Orbital Sciences' new cargo ship blasts off for space station
> In an e-mail, Paar stressed that no hardware trojans have ever been found circulating in the real world and that the techniques devised in the paper are mere proofs of concept.

No need to get all worried about this type of hack. First of all, it is just an idea, not something actually found. Secondly, the hack would be all too easy to detect: run rdrand 2^31 + x times and see if x is a repeated sequence.
If so that's great. But to the user who is looking at this OS, what do they know about this?
It is discoveries like this one that always makes me wish I had pursued physics or mathematics back in college. There are so many things in Nature yet to be discovered! Imagine all of the mysteries that await us in the future. Take, for example, the theoretical graviton particle. What will happen once it is finally "discovered"?

Thanks for the article; It is articles like this that make me want to go back to school and major in physics or mathematics.
What an article. I think the legacy of Guantanamo will haunt America forever.
Uh ok... so if you don't take their email address... how do they reset their password when they (inevitably) forget it? Or do you mean they can put in whatever email they want and you'll accept it? Because if it's the latter, then you've just allowed them to cause you to spam whoever they feel like.

You have to verify email addresses. There's no other way to recover passwords. And if your users value their specific account, then they need to be able to get into that account, even if they forget their password.
Stackdriver (AWS monitoring) raises $10M series B round
Wonder if this company is part of the reason for deciding to shutter Google Health? People might've been mighty upset if Google took their health records and then opened a website like this. Not saying that they still didn't benefit from the information dump
> Ah yes, well that solves the mystery, doesn't it. The universe arose out of pure geometry.

That was a serious hypothesis before this. Heard about Tegmark's level IV multiverse? It's the idea that every mathematical structure just "exists", like "poof magic", and the simpler ones would, like, have greater weight. Kind of a literal interpretation of Occam's Razor, really. A corrolary is, the simpler the laws of physics are, the more probable the above hypothesis is. And suddenly we learn that the true laws of physics might be much simpler than we anticipated? This is huge.

Or not.

The idea of a timeless universe, where our subjective notion of time just arise from its structure has been around for quite some… time.

Likewise, Occam's Razor itself suggests that the true laws of physics are simpler than we think. Plus, current human laws of physics are either false or incomplete. I fully expect future physics to be further simplified. Claims of massive simplification are therefore not that surprising.

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That said, I agree with your specific objections (the "work in progress" warnings).
> you need processes and experienced people in place to fairly manage their performance, help them into contributing more effectively

That is only true if you hire folks that aren't self-motivated, driven and talented.