skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the list of people registered already:
https://ctf.isis.poly.edu/competitors/

If you want to join, register here:
https://ctf.isis.poly.edu/register/
Sure it does. But not everywhere, and it shouldn't here either.
I'm impressed, there are some very good deals in there.
Agree, I've had numerous situations with a site I created that didn't have email verification where users reported problems logging back into their account.

The problem should be pretty obvious. They click the "I forgot my email" button so we generate a new password, send it to the email account they registered with and it bounces back. User emails, we try to do a search for it, find it and discover random slight misspellings such as .con.

With verification at least the user is aware that they didn't enter their email properly.

Additionally we send messages about rewards, ones that users would want to receive.
I don't make any assumptions about that 8% - I used the figure and the assumptions from the original article.

If you rent, and put the difference into a savings account, then using the assumptions from the article, you'll be able to buy a house outright in 20 years.

I think you're pretty much agreeing with that..?

I am of course assuming that interest rates (or other return on investment), house prices, inflation and salary increases are all sensible, going in the same direction at the same rate, or near enough.

If you put your money in a pure tracker (e.g. tracking the Dow Jones, FTSE 100, or similar index), then you'll probably be better off in the long term, perhaps able to buy outright in a little less time.
Allegory on bootstrapping
I looked into pneumatic actuators for this a while ago, the parts are pretty reasonable, the real cost would be the time it takes to build and integrate your own motion platform.
The website says "70000" companies trust your product, with a list of the companies! Is that true? 70k company users already? Or is this something else being counted here?
No governor wants to be pegged with "letting a flood of foreign terrorists" settle in their state.

I seem to recall there was a similar issue with Iraqi refugees during the last war. To get that to work you would have to expect far too many people to fall politically on their swords, and then the refugees have an almost impossible time actually assimilating because doubtless they'll be put onto some sort of watchlist as if they were a felon or pedophile, and employers would refuse to hire them, and no one would rent to them, and credit would be impossible to get, etc.

Although I agree we should at least be trying. We seem to have given up as a nation on even accepting the possibility of a productive solution that doesn't just involve having them all die then pretending like it never happened.
We provide much more than that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6405531
> - Steve Jobs, for Pixar and the early 00s turnaround at Apple.

I'm afraid the case for Steve Jobs is stronger than that. He founded Apple and made it successful. Then, while others drove it into the ground again, he made Pixar successful (not to mention minor success with NeXT), then turned Apple from a company in serious trouble, into the biggest company in the world.

By all accounts he was a tremendous jerk, but you can't argue with that level of success.
Abe Vigoda is still alive.
why are they still treated as if they are, shackled even when alone and watching television?

Because the government is stupid and evil and because treating the detainees fairly is politically impossible. Everytime an idiot congressman visits Gitmo and sees humane treatment, he can pitch a fit about how the administration is soft on terror. That helps him politically because most voters hear Gitmo and think 'Osama's best buddies'. That political constraint puts a ceiling on how well the Gitmo detainees can be treated.

This is obviously horribly immoral. That being said, I don't know how to fix that problem.

The real problem here is that most Americans, especially most red-state Americans, believe that Gitmo detainees are dangerous monsters rather than just a bunch of guest workers who were in the wrong place at the wrong time plus a few low-ranking fighters. If you fixed this problem, Gitmo would cease to be an issue because there'd be no political benefit to opposing humane treatment or settlement in the US.

Wouldn't it be much more cost-effective to provide some relocation assistance?

Sure. Where would you relocate them to? I mean, the government has been trying but most countries are not interested in taking these people, even though most of them have done precisely nothing wrong.

without exploring other options

I'd love better options. Can you suggest any?

Seriously, all the options I see suck and are unjust. If you have any suggestions I really, honestly, would love to hear them. But I haven't seen any yet.
I think you have something wrong with your browser -- I tried in both Firefox Nightly and Chrome Dev and I don't have this problem on two different computers.
Postgres. Get a book by Joe Celko (SQL for Smarties, for instance) and really learn relational databases. They're not going anywhere. Any job you take, you can bet there's a relational database back there somewhere. Postgres is free and will surprise you less than any other. If you're very good at SQL, you will write a lot less code in the middle tier to post-process data on the way out. You won't be hindered by a lack of OO understanding--in fact, it may benefit you since you won't face the O/R impedance mismatch. Once you're good at SQL you'll be a lot less worried about other things in the backend, and the declarative nature will help you reason better. It will pay dividends no matter what step you take after that.
> and search engines such as Google will be expected to do more, including fitting Chrome with systems to block infringing sites and divert users to official sources.

The day Google agrees to having their browser hijacked like that by others, is the day I stop using Chrome. Thankfully we live in a world where it's pretty easy to quit your browser if you really don't like something about it, and find it totally unacceptable.
OVirt takes aim at VMware vSphere with 3.3 release
That's a little different, though, as "unlimited flights in first class" is something that has lots of opportunities for abuse and it was only a matter of time before they 86'd it. It's harder to abuse something that has defined benefits, like 10 upgrades a year.

Meanwhile, for years, AA has offered lifetime Gold and Platinum frequent flyer status for those who have accumulated one and two million miles, respectively.

It used to be an unpublished thing, but as of recently AA started prominently displaying it as a benefit you can attain.
Really there is a brand called "Healthy Choice" that markets chocolate pudding.

It's only sort of the same thing...
> This runs the risk of a first-time user not understanding what this element does, but today’s experienced smartphone user is accustomed to try things out on first use.

And this was one of the things people criticised Android, lack of intuitivity.
Yeah that is the primary issue we encounter regarding logins. People often type .con .cim etc (mainly from our iOS or Android apps) and the end result is confusion.

Our support staff can normally find the email using a %like% type search and correct it for the user, but without verification these users invest time in an account that they ultimately can lose access to without our assistance (not a good experience).
Thanks. Don't forget to put that on the web site ;)
When talking about watercooled VWs, it refers to this jack: http://www.quickcashauto.com/How-To-Articles/images/Jack.jpg

The term seems to be used for all sorts of things.
Bob Loblaw lobs law bomb.
Don't use GIT (watch it...)
I like racket and I've always wanted an excuse to use it, but the development experience with go is very, very nice. Nice enough that I'm starting to reach for go where I would reach for ruby most days. The racket experience seemed pretty great, but go has me hooked. Fast compile, fast tests, fast startup, binary deploys. The whole go experience seems fast, clean, and sane.

Is there a great reason to use racket instead of go?
I met a retired guy during a trip in Peru who was travelling the world using airmiles acquired by signing up with free credit cards.

Credit card companies would offer a few hundred air miles when he signed up. He would then simply cancel the cards a month later. He said that often when he called to cancel cards, he would be offered additional air miles incentives to prevent him from cancelling. He would keep the card an additional month when that happened.
> A way to think about it is that iOS 7 gets closer to real world interaction. You don't press a button to sit in your chair, you just sit on it because you know how to do it.

You explanation is just the contrary, you press the + button because you have tried to push it without knowing what will do.
It hasn't been very fast or reliable the few times I tried it. I'd rather pay for a decent offering.
I'm a little confused. I was initially excited as I saw this to an alternative to Beanstalk. But instead appears to be from the makers of Beanstalk, but offers less functionality for twice the cost?
What's the calculation for the ratings? Also would be great if there are sorting options.

Otherwise this is really great!
Battery life is down across the board compared to iOS 6.

This worries me. If it's because of the background downloading then at least it has a benefit (and is disable-able), but if it's the extra GPU cycles for the UI then that's a real shame.
First off: Nice product that fills a real need, and nice design. Good work re-purposing what you've built with Beanstalk into it's own separate app.

My first impression of the price is that it's at least twice as much as it should be for only handling the deployment aspect of your project. You even state on the page that Beanstalk includes this PLUS hosting starting at $15 - nearly half of the price for starting tier for this deployment-only service. Additionally, services like Heroku and AWS Elastic Beanstalk that handle deployment+hosting are roughly the same price, give or take a few bucks. I guess it depends on your target market here with your pricing, but for the average developer, it's going to be too much.
You couldn't be more wrong. PHP and Ruby page generation times can easily exceed 1000ms if the programmer isn't careful. Nanoseconds is just rubbish. Even the fastest template engines typically take on the order of a few ms.
Confusing name. It's not a db engine built with javascript.
I would say the focus is more on the offenders' enlightened self interest. Not everyone is aware of the best course of action given a situation. That goes for both offenders and the people who have decided to perpetuate our punitive prison system.
Being as polite as possible I would say yes please. When I sign up for a service I may only intend to try it out with the potential of using it long term. So if my email address were incorrect, fixing it later would be something that mattered to me at that time.

Perhaps this is not ideal for the service provider because then they cannot spam me but as this article points out I would just mark those emails as spam or filter in a modern inbox anyway.
Adobe moves into hardware: Project Mighty ‘cloud pen’ and Project Napoleon ruler
> "generally dynamically typed"

I appreciate the "generally" word here. Racket and Chicken Scheme for instance, both provide statically type extensions.
In some kind of strange coincidence I read about this exact story last night on Quora [1]. Perhaps someone else did too :)

Anyway this is a fantastic story of a man gaming the system. In the Quora thread I've linked to there are some other fantastic examples. Particularly the ATM bug! I'd heard of that one before but just in case you hadn't...

Cash points have a feature whereby if you don't take the dispensed cash within a time limit, they take the money back, and re-credit your account. However some affected ATMs did not count the cash on the way back in. Now the exploit should be obvious - take the majority of the cash carefully and allow the ATM to swallow the rest. The cash you've taken is yours and the money you were supposed to get goes back into your account. No doubt it would be easy to track down customer's who had been involved in this exploit, but it's a fun story nevertheless.

[1] http://www.quora.com/Gaming-the-System/What-are-the-best-exa...
Dear Blackberry: Don't Be Stupid
Based on the phrasing, Beanstalk has 70,000 customers not dploy.io
Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2904425 (14 comments)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2598643 (LLVM: 29 comments)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4211480 (Nginx: 29 comments)
I was being sarcastic and pointing out how silly it is to make an app to just show a single slide deck.
I'm curious if you saw the video at the bottom of the article. There's a small clip of the sound the cars make. It certainly won't be as loud as the current engines, but I don't think they'll be making "no noise".
I Bought an Island, Larry Ellison edition
development environments? Though it might fall into file sync, its non trivial at the moment
> You don't press a button to sit in your chair, you just sit on it because you know how to do it.

A microwave oven might be a better example, since a chair is inert.

On a microwave one has to have discoverable controls. Imagine if everything was just flat with the fascia, looking no different in presentation to the maker's logo.

It might say 'Cooking power: 80%' with no indication of how to adjust. Apparently, though, if you press on the word 'power' repeatedly you can change it!

I don't think we'd accept that.
As some one who is not familiar with Go, that sounds like it supports his statement that the type system is confusing.
The old graphic was helpful to a first-time user to understand immediately what it signified, but after they learned that, the card became graphic noise.

This mindset is the antithesis of good usability. OP admits the old graphic worked because it's immediately understandable, then throws the baby out with the bathwater in pursuit of some concept of visual perfection that doesn't exist.
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This is the 1st review I've seen come to that conclusion and having used it since June I haven't noticed any reduction in battery life. I wouldn't get too worried.
I'm using Chrome 29.0.1547.66m on Win7 x64. I'll try it on my home computers tonight (one of which is running Ubuntu 13.04).
If you don't find value in the precise use of words to convey very specific ideas then yea it probably seems like nonsense to you. I assure you it's not, thinking clearly, and accurately conveying those ideas requires precise use of words or the ideas cannot be shared. It is quite constructive to draw such distinctions and agree on the definition of words before accurate communication is even possible.
Updated Facebook Open Graph Images
I like how on Hacker News, building an F-16 cockpit replica to control a text editor is merely "slightly" nerdy!
three sorting options: recent, popular, trending. What kind of sorting were you looking for?
good point. Clearly it also has its benefits!
Disturbing infographic on damage caused by malaria
I’ve been using the betas for months. I haven’t noticed any battery life decrease on iPhone or iPad.
It runs about as fast as a Core2 Duo 2.4GHz from 2010, which was used that year in the Mac Mini.

So, yeah, we're there.
My SAR group actually teaches a class where one of our stated upfront goals is to prevent people from having to be rescued. Depending on the area, the local SAR group might be too busy putting out fires to do similar (it takes a lot of planning and prep).
You're missing out, it's hilarious. Oh, and get adblock.
If you can do it virtually through the bank's API, then you might have a better shot than by exchanging pennies manually.

Here's a reference. No idea if some particular bank is vulnerable to it, but it's a fun read.

http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2012/01/is-your-online-bank-vu...
Does it tie in with a CI server? We don't deploy unless tests pass

Nice that you offer it free to open source!
Beta 1 had significantly reduced battery life. But, it has since been fixed. Since beta 3 or so, if there is a difference, I haven't noticed it.
I'm just wondering how my elderly parents would get used to it, after getting used to old iOS. Luckily it's not all that different.
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Your most likely going to have to restart some webserver at the very least modify symlinks to ensure a synchronized upgrade. Maybe you do support this but you have to actually explain what your service does.

Also the thing with the pricing is bullshit just put that on the front page don't make people wade through a signup form to get information about your service.

Also don't put a stupid tick next to the password box and then reject it for being too short.
These persons are often the most unwilling to accommodate other passengers on the plane and, frankly, strike me as more entitled.

So you can actually tell who on the plane got there through apparently undeserved scamming, versus the "legitimate" users? Are you sure about that?

As someone who doesn't game or optimize these sorts of promotions, I have absolutely zero issue with those who do. Honestly, good for them.
As crazy as it sounds, I too can see that as having a good probability of happening. I'm a C/C++ coder and I picked JS up from the book JavaScript the Good Parts and thought "Hey this is pretty neat actually".

But I think there are a lot of people like me who are more Java/C/C++/C# systems programmer type of people who haphazardly learned JS without _really_ learning it because the syntax looked all too familar. Kinda ignored JS as something HTML scripters play with and now we're in this situation where it's the "de facto" language of the web. I can't help but think there will always be this underlying hatred towards the language from this crowd because it's so bad in many respects and a recollection of how bad and slow it was in the 90's.
In general, I've found that users really are idiots when it comes to typing that in. One of the things my company does is organise events, sometimes free, sometimes paid for. Hundreds of people sign up. In order to be allowed entry, they will need to get an e-ticket (which is emailed to them a week in advance). My boss considers e-mail verification too much of a hassle. The result? Roughly 10% of the users mistype their own e-mail address (a similar percentage mistype their own name), usually with a single letter missing -- obvious typos.

This very problem accounts for the majority of support requests in case of those events (yes, more than 50% of all tickets is because the user entered incorrect information).
Yeh, battery life in the 1st couple of beta's is usually awful.
You don't have to register at lulu to order books - at least the print ones. Just ordered these two without creating an account and paying w/paypal.
One thing I'd add is don't be afraid to list non-technical work experience on your resume when you're looking for your first job. We all assume each entry level candidate with a CS degree has done the standard coursework and projects which can be evaluated in a technical interview. However, experience in unrelated fields, like waiting tables, is a differentiator in my mind since it tells me the candidate has already had a taste of the time and commitment responsibilities one has to take on when entering the working world.
As far as I understand, you're saying that high-speed interconnects are largely a waste of time? (and apparently that doing protein MD is a waste of time, but that's a scientific question that I'm going to disagree with you on). I can imagine that might be the case for some simulations, but how I do, for example, a parallel FFT without significant communication?

I personally see it more as there's a pretty limited set of computational problems which are low-communication, often requiring rather gross approximations, even with the "clever computer scientists" looking at the problem, and they're often not the problems scientists actually want to solve, and so dismissing supercomputing is rather ridiculous.
My issue with this is that the pit stops will be so long and variable (it's not mentioned in the article, but the driver must sprint 100m to switch cars, and a 6 point harness is non-trivial to buckle and tighten,) that it will nullify any sort of on-track advantage, which is the actual interesting part of racing.
iOS6 also had some battery life issues in the beginning. I'm guessing this will get tuned with subsequent bug fixes, especially as real-world usage data comes in.
I've been using http://www.deployhq.com/ and have been very happy with it – it's a steal at £6/month. (Not affiliated, just a happy customer.)
Just pointing out that those are two very large assumptions. It's just as likely that people are not as well read and will take things at face value.
...magical thinking to solve all problems.

The problems are created when some defense contractor's lobbyist floats some vile proposal and then makes it worth a few Pentagon staffers' time to implement it. The magical thinking is saved for the talking-head shows, when enough of the public notices the travesty. Then an ex-general or columnist or whoever must be sent around to argue the dubious proposition that stopping indefensible conduct is much more difficult than starting it. As if that were even an argument. When I fuck up, I experience the consequences. Why is that impossible for people in the federal government?

Hey, are military officers required to obey illegal orders?

Now I know you're trolling me. Anyway, Obama signed that law in 2011.
Power users have begrudgingly accepted the Win8 approach, switched back to Win7 or figured out how to plain disable the Metro stuff.

Average Joe users that I know (that just happened to buy new computers after Win8 came out) are going insane every day to this day about their "behated" Win8 experience.

If anything, Win8 has driven even more casual non-power users to Android tablets... rather than to WinRT, that is ;)
How to fake courage
Giant gobs of earwax tell a whale of a tale
Interesting information. College students often tend to ignore the "Explore" phase. It is very important to be strategic about your job search and spend enough time thinking about what direction one wants to go into. This make the job search (including the networking much more effective). Unfortunately too many of do not spend enough time thinking through our goals. It has to to be SMARTer than 'I want to work at Google'
Serving smaller GZIP'd web content
> I suspect most users copy/paste anyway.

Some forms disable the paste action in the second box to force you to type it again (to avoid copying an error).
I think you'd most quickly benefit from http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ or http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/

It sounds like you haven't really moved much beyond googling for code snippets to solve specific problems. Work through one of the above books so you pick up some vocabulary and get introduced to a range of concepts.

A lot of the other comments are overly ambitious with their suggestions. Start small and learn Ruby or Python. I recommend staying away from frameworks such as Rails because of the high overhead of required knowledge that won't really benefit you as a programmer in general.
How do you use face unlock while glancing at your phone from the corner of your eye?

I think it's these sorts of practical considerations that really make Apple products special. I feel like there is someone at Apple thinking through what happens when a dad carrying a baby gets a phone call. I don't feel like that's the case with say Samsung.
It lacks the issue tracking, though.
It made me laugh too, and I got the sarc, but I think it's the last bit which really killed the karma... And we're lauding this accomplishment? Or maybe add a </sarc> next time just to make it clear for everyone :)