skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps he's empathic enough to realize what it's like to have few choices, then have a well-meaning but paternalistic social reformer swoop in and take some of those choices away, pat you on the head, and drive off back to his nice neighborhood.
Forgot about that. Was on the windows 95 CD somewhere. Remember watching it at work on a new Compaq DeskPro after complaining that they ripped the task bar off RISCOS.

Didn't work on NT4 which i had at the time :(
Glad to hear that! Definitely let me know if there's anything specific you'd like me to cover.

Also, assuming this goes through, I'll announce it on HN. If you want me to ping you directly pls send me your Twitter handle or email. You can post it here or email me at [username]@gmail.com.
Works great but the site design needs some work. Am I supposed to see three rows of big purple icons at the top of the home page? I tried multiple browsers, looks a bit awkward and takes up half of my screen.
Are we talking about walter white?
Nice, but looking at the paperclip rails example I really didn't understand where to look. The only file visible was the application controller, and the application wouldn't run because the migrations hadn't been executed.
What is the cut off for using pseudonyms on obtaining a warrant?

I assumed bitcointalk had a small member base when "altoid" joined. A quick look at their tables show 3,694 total new registered users through January 2011.

"altoid" registered on shroomery on January 27th 2011 and the "altoid" who revealed his name publicly registered on bitcointalk on January 29th 2011.
That is why generational collectors are so good. It is not common to have huge blocks of memory than also happen to be short lived, and if you do have such a design, you can probably refactor it (or just not use garbage collection there, which any production-grade programming environment should allow by some means).
He did mention somewhere that he is not the first.
Because you're a law enforcement officer, and it's the law?

Sure, it's a dumb law, but if you choose a career as a LEO you're not signing up to decide what the laws are. That's the legislature's job. Your job is to enforce the dumb ones along with the smart ones.

It's like the scene at the end of The Untouchables, after we've watched Eliot Ness throw everything he has into fighting bootleggers for two hours. Someone runs up to him waving a newspaper announcing that Prohibition has been repealed and asks him what he's going to do now. And he looks at the paper and replies "I'm going to have a drink."
Print ads don't have to be physically peeled off the page in order to read the content underneath. They don't cause the pages to fall out of the magazine when you flip them out of the way. They don't cramp the content into a postage-stamp sized corner of the page. They don't inline ads every third paragraph. The ads themselves don't roll around on the page or blink.

There's ads in the print magazine, but they're in a format that doesn't run into absolute conflict with the content.
It's just an intuition, but solving problems as a job might make you see every issue or bad situation as something to solve.

Not that it's wrong, but the focus slightly shifts from what the people are feeling to how the problem could or should be solved, and we might take less time or emotional resource to empathize. The situation itself can also be seen less as a tragedy than some sad transitory state waiting to be solved, and we'd be less sorry for someone if somewhere we think it might be just temporary.

I'd too would love to find studies or evidence about this subject.

Edit:
A report on the study tomgrunner linked in the sibling comment
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-10/cwru-era10301...
Hi, which browser are you using?
The Google searches give a hint at DPR's identity. They don't give you the location of the actual Silk Road server.

Obviously there's lots of ways that guessing DPR's identity might allow someone with the FBI's resources to unmask the Silk Road server, though I don't know enough to know whether the forum post on its own would be considered sufficient evidence for a warrant to bug all of Ross Ulbricht's online activities. A lot of the more damning evidence for Ross Ulbricht as DPR (IP logs, the connection to the counterfeit documents, hostname of his personal machine, etc) seems to come from forensics on the captured server image. Analysis of Tor traffic doesn't seem like an implausible hypothesis, especially because that's a capability we'd be expecting the FBI/NSA to be developing anyway.
Google's IOS hackathon.
Of course, but the time you've decided to hit the close button you've been exposed to all of the ads and esquire has gotten exactly what they want out of you. Hell, if their lucky you try to go back to the site and wait to zoom in and get to see all of the ads a second time!
This was a short post, but it was a good reading list.

I'm always in a strange spot with these posts, because I don't so much disagree as take a completely different angle. Any discussion of the relative scarcity of women in science needs to consider the risks of a career in science.

I wish Phil Greenspun's infamous "women in science" article were a little less caustic, because it really does provide a pretty remarkable explanation about why women in particular, but people in general, might want to avoid science as a career.

http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science

A less provocative but very data-driven study by the RAND institute found that the American aversion to science careers (at the PhD level) is rational and market driven.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP241.html

The whole thing is very complicated. A career as a research scientist is very different from trying to start a tech company, so we're talking about a very wide range of issues.

I also want to make it clear that "science is a terrible career" doesn't mean we shouldn't worry about the scarcity of women. It's one thing to claim sour grapes for yourself, it's another thing entirely to tell someone else not to worry because the grapes are sour.

However, I do think the general context is meaningful - that any discussion of women in science need to include the possibility that science is a poor career choice compared to other options available to highly intelligent, academically motivated, hard working people, men and women.
I'm old. I know that there was no postgresql 4. The first release of postgresql was 6, and what I said was accurate as of the release of version 6, in 1997 or 1998.
Creator talks about Scala Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
We'll see :) Remember, Rutgers hackers only earn 1 attendance point for hacking at HackRU since it's at their home school, but other schools will get 2 points. Every hack is gonna count.
For browsers not offering anything comparable to Safari's reader mode, and also for sites whose markup it fails to recognize, I find invaluable the Squarefree "zap" bookmarklet[1], which forces black-on-white and also removes almost any sort of annoyance that gets past Adblock Plus.

I don't know what moves jwz to stick with green on black (yes, very retro chic, but we have colors now! Use them!), but his content (writing, whatever) I find at least occasionally of some value; without this bookmarklet, the nearly instantaneous headache would entirely prevent me reading what he has to say.

[1] https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html
Where I am, its on Verizon's network.
Good job for Ed and Bradly that the evil government arn't libertarian then
Request invite didn't go thru- Chrome 31.
Not sure if its because of my firewall settings.
There was some discussion yesterday on the validity of this contest.

"
No, this is not a phishing scheme. We are hosting a hackathon to give you an opportunity to join fellow hackers build a photo viewing app. The hackathon will take place on Sat, Oct 26th on Google's Mountain View campus.
(...)
On behalf of the Google Industry Programs Events team
"
You don't need a VPN, pretty much any server running postgresql is also running sshd.
Way back when in 2006 I attended this talk as a budding sw engineer

http://www.dfjug.org.br/Merson06_JavaOne.pdf

Two questions asked to the speaker afterwards still resonate with me to this day (below are my notes)

Q1: How much should you document?

This question came up after the session, and he said you should document as much as necessary for your stakeholder. Documenting any more would be overkill.

Q2: Question the value of your artifacts.

What this guy also said was to question the value your artifacts are doing. If no one is reading the artifacts, then something is wrong with this picture.
This shows, if nothing else, that realpolitik is the guiding governance philosophy.
> It's basically a 'content store' that provides a supposedly nice interface for people to create all sorts of content and then it exposes that content back to you via an API that you can use in other places such as a CMS.

So, essentially, it's a database with a shiny frontend?
I admittedly don't have any evidence of this, but I suspect that "lets become as big and rich as possible" is usually high on the list of priorities for cartels and mobs already, for plenty of other reasons.
Isn't this what Plural Sight does? For 20$ a MONTH?

I've used Plural Sight videos and their supporting code download for learing C#, Design Patterns, Algorithms, Interviewing Questions, Android programming, the complete works.

(Disclaimer: I have no relation with Plural Sight or their employees. Just think their products are awesome, and let you learn at your own pace, and have everything that this pair programming site seems to offer, for a fraction of the cost.)
I have before, but I shouldn't have to. CM can be pretty janky at times, particularly with the GPS. If I'm shelling out this much for a "flagship device", I shouldn't have to flash a custom ROM to stay up to date. I just want it to work and expect to get my updates like a Nexus device does.
The FBI press releases might be PR. Agents' actions (not just FBI, but local police to federal) from personal and other experience (where there's no publicity) seem to indicate a lot of them simply get off on the power.

The intimidation is also used in personal confrontation to try to get the suspect to drop their rights and not wait for a lawyer or stay silent. That's why they love busting in with guns and telling you how much they know and how you better not "piss them off".
I'll only make one point (out of the many) regarding my own experience from having worked at both large corp and startups:

- Big Tech Companies have way more money to fund new projects. If they do back a project up, they give it proper resources. Big companies are however more stringent about which projects they back, and the risk has to be as minimum as can be. Business sense most often trumps vision.

- Startups are very free-form. There might not be money floating around but organic (as in self-thought-out, grown, and nurtured) projects are encouraged and rewarded.
Thanks for reporting this. We'll take a look!
Correct, or use their SDK to enhance your existing app with the ability to accept payments.
Would love to learn more about campaign tracking and best practices for utm_values - e.g. Do you break out social or roll it up for utm_medium
What does the article have to do with design? It deals with usability and UX.

On the off-chance that you disagree, why do you think only designers can test the UX of a site?
Would blocking all US IP ranges be sufficient even though it is served over TOR. Seems like that would meet the same bullshit requirement the NSA is using when it retains all traffic from outside the country.
Yah great. And maybe the annoying popup ads are an homage to Peter Max. The irony of reading this rant in green text on a black background is still inescapable.
100% cpu utilization bug with CSS animations on Chrome
Except you can't scroll far enough to close it.
Not fish per se, but we sure as hell are descended from underwater dwellers.
But that then implies that they are, at varying levels, evil.

Or it implies they have motivations perhaps not understood, which was the OP's point.

Hanlon's Razor doesn't say that if something isn't caused by stupidity or incompetence then it must be malice.
Easy to follow buffer overflow tutorial
Look at the snippet you posted and ask yourself if that could possibly by unbiased writing.
Looks like what I wanted is already here. I think I can now learn Postgres on a Chromebook which just has a web browser. (I had created a free database on heroku previously.)

https://teampostgresql.herokuapp.com
good to know, thanks bro
plugin.expose_full_path does nothing and about:plugins always shows the full url nowadays.
Like I need another reason to just say home.
That's an interesting article. I enjoyed it. Ahh usenet, the good ol days.
I assume that you could also use glassfish
Soon your Facebook credentials will log you into Wi-Fi networks
That's a very strong statement. Without a more detailed and eloquent defense, I'll have a hard time taking you seriously.
"Not to mention that big fish make for splashier prosecutions and faster promotions."

You hit the nail on the head there. Nabbing the "Dread Pirate Roberts" is definitely a career making move for any moderately ambitious investigator or district attorney.
I often wish websites would abstain from doing a mobile-optimized version. The many ways of messing it up:

1. Redirecting to the mobile page after the desktop page loads, taking up to ten seconds before i can start reading the content

2. Using some clever swiping / panning mechanic that relies on javascript animation. Yeah, let's build the heaviest ui on the slowest platform, great thinking there.

3. Preventing panning side-to-side and then having content too wide for the page (got this today on arstechnica, cutting off the bars on a benchmark graphic)

4. Asking me to install an app via a popup. On a content-driven site this is never, ever, ok. No site visitor likes this, and it doesn't bring in revenue. It is indefensible.

5. Presenting less content on mobile and offering no clear path back to the full content. Dell does this, i couldn't find out hardware details of their laptops from my ipad. No details, no purchase.

Ofcourse, there are cases where a little attention to mobile goes a long way. My phone operator redesigned their flash-driven website with html5 ... where the primary navigation are dropdown menus triggered by hovering and half the content doesn't load on a mobile device.
Iranian cyber warfare commander shot dead in suspected assassination
Saying "Children aren't born smart" is equivalent to saying "Intelligence is determined entirely by one's environment"

No it isn't. Think of a young mind as putty. When born, it's just a blob of putty. Children aren't born intelligent. As the child grows, the environment shapes the putty. Some children have different putty than other kids- maybe a little more, a little less, a little firmer, a little more plastic.

Thus, intelligence is determined both by what you have to start with, and your environment. You don't have to be born with intelligence, to be born possessing the raw materials to create great intelligence.

It's not like Usain Bolt was born the fastest runner in the world. He became fast, partly thanks to what he had to work with, and partly thanks to his environment. That's the point here.
There is a difference, I think, between "I find green on black to be hard on my eyes" and "I can't read the content because it is obscured by ads and popovers."
Well, all of Meteor is under a MIT license, so if we think we're going to "monetize that codebase" we're pretty stupid :) I'm not a lawyer but I think that under the MIT license there's basically nothing that we can do with the code that you can't do too. Our actual plan is to sell operational tools for larger companies that have mission-critical Meteor apps in production.

The incredible amount of work that we've put into JavaScript build tools over the last two years has all been with the aim of creating a radically easier, faster developer experience, because we know that that's incredibly powerful marketing for the rest of our crazy ideas. In other words, we did it because we thought that the UX of the existing JavaScript tooling was just too janky. Seriously, try Meteor for yourself and see what you think -- maybe you think our work sucks and that we wasted our time, but if so, I wish you would just tell me that (I would genuinely love to know) instead of reading ulterior motives into what was a labor of love and a ton of hard work.

Of course there are many rough edges and it's not done (that's why it's not 1.0 yet) but from people that have actually used it for a while, we actually get the opposite feedback, which is that they want us to go much further down this path, and that's why we continue to slave away at what is by far the least fun part of building a framework.
Sampling Twitter Using Declarative Streams
SOAP is RPC. It's fundamentally different. REST is not completely undone just because you want validation. Without a schema or DDL, you're still validating but you're doing it in code.
so to be clear, you're soliciting applications, including on HN. People are spending their time to create cover letter / resume / send an email. And you can't be arsed to reply to that email. Got it.
To clarify, our free cloud version is a complete product. The only difference between it and the paid plans is the number of simultaneous connections and the organization, team, and audit management features.
I just wish that news sites would approach the "get users to spend more time on the site" problem by improving their content so I will read the whole article and want to read another rather than by making it a time consuming process to even start reading.
It's funny, i so rarely browse reddit, but i somehow happened upon this story this week - i guess it came up in some kind of mega "what are you most ashamed of" thread or somesuch. Ultimately it was as GP described; a redditor researched one of 'gone wild' big 'stars', poured through her history ,ultimately found another reddit account of a selfie shot that had the same background as the 'gone wild' shot so concluded they were the same or friends, researched back that history and ultimately found her real identity.
I've tried in Chrome and IE9, looks the same either way for me:

http://i.imgur.com/EXI0kdY.png
right BH?

What? If you imply those are my initials, I'm sorry to say you're mistaken.
> I am sure the author is an intelligent guy who knows his stuff

jwz is a programmer. If you don't know the initials jwz, you should do some research.

On a side note, his site doesn't take away from he facts he presented.
So, What's CardFlight's revenue model? Looks like a useful service.
Swift is a pretty cool guy.. keep up the good work.
Duetto (C++ for the Web) available for download: limited public beta
Nacho Doritos - I don't even know why they make other chips anymore.
I'd like to see their source for that!

"[He] sleep[s] with the fishes" is the canonical form of the idiom, whose presence in the common vernacular originates with its use in Puzo's "The Godfather"; in my entire life as a native US English speaker, I have never once heard "swim with the fishes" used with anything remotely resembling the same meaning. (It doesn't even make sense! Dead things don't swim; they can't, because they're dead.)
Not familiar with Plural Sight, but our service connects customers with tech experts over video and screen sharing for hours at a time. The AirPair experts range from senior software engineers with specialty in certain tech (Rails, JavaScript, .NET, Oracle, etc, etc) who are also great mentors to thought leaders in their domains (e.g., core AngularJS committers).

These experts help customers ramp up on new tech and solve complex problems via pair programming and real time help.

Let us know if you have any other questions.

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AirPair co-founder
I'm actually very excited about this as an education tool where you can actually learn by coding.
I think by now the situation has come to a point where nobody believes a word of denials coming from any US company when it comes to surveillance and user data. Anybody would just assume they're denying it because NSA tells them to do so and they don't have a choice. Understandably, big companies don't like feeling like ventriloquist's puppets. Maybe they should spend some of those lobbying dollars on putting collar, leash and muzzle on NSA.
> Attacking low paying jobs satisfies our moral outrage, but it doesn't actually help those wrote are left with nothing.

Yes it does, the minimum wage goes hand in hand with the social safety net. Banning low wage jobs pushes those with no better choice into the safety net which is better than letting them try and work 90 hour weeks at jobs that don't pay a living wage. This frees up their time to actually do something about the problem rather than being stuck just trying to feed yourself while you work yourself to the bone.
I'd need to use a profiler to be sure, but the first thing I'd try is to replace the printf call for each pixel with an fwrite.
Thanks. We're really sorry to hear about this! Definitely not how the site should look, can you try it in Firefox?
Oh, no doubt that there were terribly done WSDL mechanisms out there. Probably most of them. However, many of the mature choices now have a fairly reliable "generate a client off of this wsdl" to get a generic api you can hit from your language of choice. I recall using python and such was actually mostly as expected.

Compared with most "RESTful" services, which require me personally figuring out everything and home growing every portion. Heaven help you if someone makes a change breaking something you had already done.
Direct link: http://runnable.com/
I love this site! Like someone mentioned on TC, it's a Stack Overflow meets JSFiddle, SqlFiddle, GitHub etc.

Would be interesting to see how they handle COMPLEX snippets / codebase like Web APIs, Delegates, events etc.
How does this compare to OpenID? Seems similar except with the premise that a user is their own identity provider, which is a QR-code-reading app on their smartphone.

I like!
Ugly personal site != nonfunctional commercial site.
Service looks cool and appears to be a bit like Contentful, which was announced as public beta a couple weeks ago.

Curious... what are the search engine marketing/optimization implications of these JS-driven sites?

Since it appears that pages are, for the most part, created on the fly via JS, it seems that Google/Yahoo/etc wouldn't be able to crawl the content required to place you in the SERPs.

I suppose you could failover to rendering a page with all of the content but now you're maintaining two 'views' for every page.

I know it's not specific to this particular service but I'm curious nonetheless.