skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(A, B, C) Who's to say they don't already do those things, but the US intelligence operatives got the jump on them and compromised the channel ahead of schedule? It's a game of cat-and-mouse, and that happens sometimes. Which, if the claims are true, makes that channel all the more valuable to the US because you don't get a leg up like that all the time.

(D) I'm still entirely unconvinced they give a rat's %$# about liberties. Seems much more likely they want us out of their territory more than anything else.
Are you saying:

1. This tool can't produce cross-browser output

2. This tool includes some rendering engine-specific markup to solve cross-platform issues.

1 is unlikely and 2 is benign.
Is there any way to be sure that "al quaeda" is anything more than an imaginary bogey-man trumped up by the State department as a pretext for wars?

I mean, clearly there are various parties doing bombings, etc. in the middle east, and other things attributed to the supposed organization. But for the existence of such an organization as described - is there any evidence, or only corporate media parroting what they're told by the US government and its allies?
Ads with animations are more profitable because more people click on them. Since flash is dying, they want an alternative that runs anywhere, so they can display interactive ads anywhere and profit more.
A train ride recorded with a handheld 3-D scanner
NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show
It doesn't matter if it's NVidia's fault or the WiFi chipset manufacturer's fault that Linux doesn't work well out of box on OPs computer. I've had similar experiences with Linux, and all I cared about was that I didn't want to spend several hours figuring out why some graphics problem prevented my laptop from booting, or why I couldn't connect to WiFi.

Accusing OP of "accidental selective memory" when he points out that his computer freezes frequently running Linux doesn't help. Problems like this make Linux unusable compared to Windows for new-to-Linux users who are willing to try it out. That makes it a Linux problem, which Linux needs to figure out how to solve- whether that be improving their poor relationships with WiFi manufacturers or improving drivers.
Where do you see yourself in the parable of the three stonecutters? http://straighttogo.com/stonecutters/

It's not just a job for you; you never wanted it to be just a job.

It looks like you have found the cathedral in your job.
Is anybody else having trouble opening this link ?

(i am trying from bangalore, india, behind an enterprise nat.
i am unable to open any github or facebook.com page,
the page loads partially & never completely finishes loading)
It looks like this is based on the Ninja Authoring Tool which is an open source project, but also Google would have gotten as part of their acquisition of Motorola Mobility.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/ninja-...

https://github.com/mikestowe/ninja
I disagree. Growth hacking is not tactics, it's a different way to think about marketing and it completely doesn't take away the focus on building a remarkable product. The book Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer begins with the importance of PMF and marketing getting embedded in Product Development.

I do agree however that the '101 tactics to growthack' are mostly B.S. and take away from the way to think about it.
In my experience almost any level of assholery is tolerated if the person is a good performer, or has made themselves indispensable.

"Cultural fit", when it isn't an excuse for various kinds of discrimination, seems to be more of an issue with stuff that's not so easy to quantify. If there's a guy who likes going off on long expeditions into learning new tools, and the rest of the team are PHP meat-and-potatoes guys. Or if you have a place where cultish worship of the CEO is the norm, and one person don't exhibit any outward signs.

And the definition of "asshole" behavior can even vary. In one job I worked at, replacing someone's code with your own that works better made you a hero, and it was incumbent on the other person to have no ego about it. In another job, that was tantamount to insubordination, and not respecting the blood, sweat and tears that had been spent before you got there. (Full disclosure: I did the former behavior at the latter place. It wasn't the only reason things didn't work out, but it was a factor.)
I think its more like Microsoft Expression Design. It even looks similar.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3618...
I totally agree with you that there's nothing wrong with it. But which is correct is exactly what's up for discussion.
It's missing SQLException, one of the more gloriously broken bits in Java. Everything that you might ever do with a database, no matter what it is, throws SQLException.

I suppose you could just consider SQLException a superclass of all other exceptions. Any exception can be cast to SQLException to insure that there's no useful information in it.
> the damage that Mr. Snowden’s revelations have done

This is of course all Snowden's fault.
What's your alternative explanation for the carefully-planned world-wide bombing etc attempts? Grassroots?

Maybe it isn't called what we are told it is called, maybe it isn't led by who we are told it is led by, but I see no reason in particular to believe there isn't an underground organization here.
Makes sense! Didn't think of that.
Microsoft have always been followers, not leaders. The Internet was just a curiosity, of interest mainly to academics before the early 90s.
Write a local program to send an email at a random interval? I don't use IFTTT but surely it has some sort of email integration.
The problem is that "developing each to the point that the merits and flaws of its underlying design concept is evident" is software engineering. It takes a substantial amount of work to get to that point, including usually having actual customers bang on the product. If you develop 3 independent solutions to the point where the flaws on each of them are apparent, by definition you will throw away 2/3 of your work.

I don't think that's necessarily a bad situation - hell, the bulk of my work is prototyping, and I throw away probably 90% of it. I just don't think this is unique to design, and I think that software engineering differs in that you usually need to proceed farther to see the flaws in your design. Science is a more apt metaphor - the scientists I know easily throw away 99% of their lifetime output, because the point of science is to prove yourself wrong as quickly as possible.
I love that style too actually - and always prefer it when I can. Sometimes, you just need parameters.

But more and more I'm writing apps with no backend (Stretchr makes it easy to do so) in just HTML5 and JavaScript... and serving pages like that tends to be more difficult.

I use a simple web server (like Thru http://github.com/stretchr/thru) that doesn't do any routing or path parsing etc.
That's the purpose of my startup :); we've been making an HTML5 animation tool for OS X for the last two years:

http://tumult.com/hype/
Eve Online might qualify.
Any idea of how this compares to purl.js ? https://github.com/allmarkedup/purl
I think that was one of the big drivers of source maps in the first place (along with dart and coffescript). They now have a pretty good implementations, but it's still not complete.

The traditional way of debugging GWT is in eclipse as java emulating javascript emulating java. This actually worked surprisingly well most of the time, but sometimes you did have to step through the compiled code in the browser. Luckily there was a "pretty" compile option.
email, file transfers, netnews (usenet). X-Windows and Andrew started mid-1980s. AFS relied on DNS to figure out where cellservers were. Gopher started 1989-1990. ftp was in wide use. There was a lot of activity on the Internet well before the web started. Tiny compared to today of course.
Yeah, but the same argument was true of captchas. Once they caught on, it wasn't long before bots adapted.
I learned to program on the ZX Spectrum. Ahhh, memories...
The "unresolved" column for USA appears to be in Wichita Kansas, or around that area.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=web+designer

Edit: The down votes are warranted, but I would wager that there at least a few people who will take the 'I need a web designer; search for same; well maybe I'll try this' path. That's all.
You're whooshing.

You don't want to use "long long" because that's not necessarily 64-bits. You want to use int64_t which guarantees it is 64-bits.

And then, the correct format specifier for that is PRIi64, and not "%ld" or "%lld" which will break in different platforms.
Analyzing billions of log lines in seconds, How our support team uses Impala.
All of your profit in this scenario comes from the market going up, not D going down. That's not a short (or synthetic short) position.
Hey Cheng!

Just wanted to say we are subscribed here at the office and it's a great way to catch up with HN on bus commutes -- the quality of curated articles as well as the "packaging" is top notch; keep up the great work
Startups now a days are just a cheap(ish) way to conduct R&D for big corps.

Just invest a little money around town with your big-corp buddies and then bid for the best products that come out of it. All other startup losers can continue eating their ramen until they age out of the "system" (ie grow up and get a family) and go to work for said Big Corp, Inc. until "retirement" (the day before you die).

But yeah, I'm being cynical too.
There's the repl, and then there's nREPL. I do like ghci, but I can't execute arbitrary chunks of Haskell directly from Vim.
From File > New if you select a blank HTML file, you get an empty HTML file with no Ad specific JavaScript.
The Seven Types of Freemium Models
awesome! one suggestion: anyway to make this a RSS feed as well?
Hmmm... I didn't think of that. I was trying to keep number of combinations low.
Blackstone Group: U.S. is "in the middle of an epic credit bubble"
App Store Pricing: Worth at Least as Much as a Cup of Coffee
Yeah.

Imagine the existence of a guy called Madar Mevinson, who runs a company Mavabit... that publicly shuts down over privacy concerns, but then reopens in triumph after a court battle... but little did we know, Madar was a government operative the whole time! (Or a non-state-actor criminal. Or just a creepy stalker. Whatever.)

And, because this is the internet, I'll mention that I am absolutely not suggesting that these things are true of Mr Levinson and Lavabit. But it's a bad security model to trust the ethics of a stranger, and from what I understand of Lavabit, that's required here. Maybe I misunderstood Lavabit?

PS: even so, 'mad props' to Mr Levinson, for taking a brave and productive stand
The question you should ask yourself is who you trust more. If it's the NSA then there's no basis for donating. Lavabit was trusted by many, I will trust them in this effort.
> see if I could recommend it to my designer friends, but no Linux support

You know professional designers who only work with Linux? I don’t.
I agree if everything in your app follows a perfectly restful pattern, but what about if you want to capture application state that does not belong in a database. For example, what if you have an online store that has many different filters to narrow down selections. And you want to share this url with someone.

How would this be done using a RESTful url path? You have to use url params. If so, this seems to be a nice solution if your using a lot of params.
We will do better
Yes, we ultimately felt it was a fool's errand, especially because we're a startup with limited resources so we need to focus on the right problems. When we launched version 1.0 long ago it seemed like this wasn't necessary for a "minimum viable product" considering we're targeting graphic designers who might not have as much coding experience anyways.

There hasn't been much that's swayed us otherwise -- I think it was the right call.
Reminds me of trick from the Commodore BASIC days, where you could use "?" as a replacement for "PRINT" to save a whopping 4 bytes. Seems silly now, but back then it made all the difference.
I hurt my head trying to figure out the subtext for why this story was told by "senior intelligence officials" to the NYT at this moment. Is it trying to change the story line from Snowden to something else?
Ok then maybe it's just a matter of taste. I like the parser approach more:

import Text.ParserCombinators.ReadP -- or the parser lib of your choice

import Data.Char

...

macP = count 16 (satisfy isHexDigit)
Open-Sourcing Rearview: Real-Time Monitoring with Graphite
As one of of the team members that built this, I can try to answer any questions that you guys might have.
... I do like the 'routing all paths to one page' idea though.
Neat. I'd seen the one lurking in the back of Coffee Bar for a few months now, and was wondering what it was about.

Interesting that Google has chosen not to brand the boxes, though -- they look just like they did in YC!
Not if you remember who is in charge from the android ecosystem now.. there's certainly a fusion movement between Android and Chromium OS happening..

So its easy to think of some HTML app ecosystem showing up in android, without switching off the current Dalvik ecosystem..
"I was a middle manager at a start-up in Minneapolis..."

Can you legitimately call a company a "start-up" once it's grown to the point that it has middle management?
Pro tip: wait to do the assassination missions until after you've completed the main storyline. That way you can invest the players' ~25 million in the stocks you are directly affecting and make bank.

You supposedly can also game the market by investing in competing companies (like Cluckin Bell and Burger Shot) and just destroying a bunch of the opposite companies. Then after the drop, reinvest in the opposite as they equalize and come back (or just keep going back and forth). Haven't tried this yet, though.
Grassroots sounds plausible, given how Occupy occurred with hardly any planning or organization.
The app I've been developing may help you with your procrastination, and light that fire that you need.

It merges two ideas. One is that you need to get things done on your to-do list. This is incredibly hard for us procrastinators. So, similar to a personal trainer you would have at the gym to help you exercise, I created a virtual personal trainer to help you work on your to-do list. He prompts you with what you need to do, and then you do it.

The second idea is that you need to feed your craving for interesting and inspiring web content. To help with this craving, the virtual personal trainer allows you to see productive and beneficial web content as a sort of break from your current work session. You get to gain knowledge while procrastinating. I call the idea "to procrastigain".

You can check out the demo at http://procrastigain.com/. Let me know if it is useful to you at all, or if you can think of anything that would make it better for you.
Is there any way to be sure that North Dakota exists?
It sounds like Macaw will (eventually) come to Windows:

https://twitter.com/macawco/statuses/378215232512208896
Ocean warming and acidification deliver double blow to coral reefs
I would suggest adding a bower and composer package file, it's so nice to pull in a library like and just start using it without the additional tooling.
My preference would be the clean, hierarchical view but there are a few filter-type scenarios where the order isn't known ahead of time or matter at all. For example a user might want to view a/b then append c/d (a/b/c/d) or vice versa (c/d/a/b). It is possible to make this with clean url but it seems like a bit more work since you might need more logic as far as parsing and routing.

Edit: pretty cool how all the sibling comments are along the same lines :)
I was waiting for the introduction to finish, to finally read in details what happened with "Sue"; how she ended costing money...

But turns out the introduction was the entire text.
look at the code it produces. It makes MS FrontPage look clean and elegant.
SEC insider trading trial against Mark Cuban set to begin - Yahoo Finance
Nice. I'm a big fan of little to no backend as well. I've done a similar simple web server in Node.js which does nothing but check to see if a static file exists to serve the request. If so it serves that static file. If not then it serves the index.html page. The index.html page then has Backbone logic to parse the URL and serve a proper view based on what the URL is. It matches up nicely with the REST style URL's and you still don't need a heavy backend to do routing that way.
Why go through JavaScript at all? Why no write what you need in Lua?
Architects to Relocate Entire City Two Miles Over
You are absolutely right, I forgot the '.'.
Yes, nothing increases profits like dead workers.

As a matter of fact, yes. The easiest, simplest, cheapest way to increase profits is to cut wages while encouraging uncontrolled reproduction and forcing self-sufficient populations into the labor market. That gives you an abundance of labor power so large that you can pay them sub-living wages and not run out of workers when they drop dead.

It especially helps if you can finely calibrate things so that they drop dead slowly, particularly after having children. A worker who drops dead of a heart attack or snaps their neck somewhere in the range 40-55 is optimal: they've reproduced sufficiently to replace themselves in your labor force, but they didn't get old enough to be owed a pension.

The way to keep them alive that long while paying a sub-living wage is a simple little thing called Food Stamps. The government makes up (most of) the difference between the wages you pay and the actual cost of staying alive. You thus reap profits that are effectively subsidized by taxpayers while still being able to claim that you're an independent company operating in the free market.

And you know what the best part is? After a few years or decades of this, you can turn around to the government and complain about how much public debt they've got and how high their taxes are! You can then set province against province or nation against nation to compete to subsidize you the most, all the while maintaining your self-image as a heroic free-market ubermensch.

Externalities are so useful, aren't they?
I'm having a mid-career crisis much like OP and the notion of freelancing is enticing. Can you tell me more about how it is more fulfilling, lees frustrating and how you find quality gigs?
I always wonder how important people can take so long to understand so obvious stuff like that.
> This problem might not be taken seriously after the Y2K debacle.

I wish people would stop saying things like that. I was one of many programmers who spent some overtime over the course of about a year on fixing code in 1998-9. I was just the junior programmer at the time; the head guy in the department had some nearly sleepless nights around then.

I can promise you that in one East Bay school district, nobody would've gotten their paychecks, report cards would not have worked, DNS would have stopped working for the entire school network, and finance & budget would have had some really crazy errors in the output -- those are the systems I still remember requiring the most attention.

Y2K was a "debacle" because a bunch of people busted their asses fixing old code.

It feels a lot like pulling two consecutive all-nighters as an engineer on a project, to bring the project up to its deadline on-time and under-budget, only to have your department manager the next morning stroll in, well-rested, coffee cup in hand, and say, "See? Told you it was no big deal."
IKEA To Sell Solar Panels In UK
Yeah, the product positioning here is awful; it's like someone just went through the marketing copy at the last minute to strip out its ad-centricity. My very cynical guess is that it went like this:

#1 Wait, couldn't the ad designer you've been working so hard on actually be used by anyone to just make web pages?

#2 Well...I mean I guess so, but it wouldn't--

#1 Awesome! It's really a Google Web Designer! This can be a much bigger PR splash than just a nice tool for making ads! Gotta think outside the box. Generalize.

#2 OK, but the actual goal here is to make it easier to create ads, and the product's completely designed around--

#1 BAM! Name changed! Two minutes to create a whole new product. That MBA has paid for itself in spades!
I haven't played the game. If the game's premise is that there's a one-of-a-kind rampage going on that's causing all sorts of mayhem that couldn't have been predicted, then I agree that buying shares in an insurance company would be a bad idea.

But if the game's premise is that the mayhem is normal within the world, then insurance would be stupid expensive. But, assuming the market can bear those prices, insurance would be a good business to be in.
If you choose to ignore the "various parties" calling themselves Al-Qaeda and doing things in the name of Al-Qaeda then what possible proof could convince you? Everything could just as well be ever more intricate layers of American fabrication.
I think the entire point of the article is that damaging leaks happen all the time. It's just that when the leaker is someone low on the org. chart, it's a "danger to national security." When the leaker is someone near the top of the org. chart, it's "politics as usual", or "public relations".
Please close your <p>.</p>
I've written UnitTests for EJBs today. No Spring bloatware needed.
Occupy was simple. Go sit in a park and paint signs. That's easy to do grassroots.
A French Entrepreneur Tries Telecommuting From a Desert Island
Even if you filled the position with a different employee, the other guy may or may not be better. Unless he is talking about making the mistake of hiring someone who is not needed at all in the company and the position was wrongly created in the first place.
Is your startup struggling with PR? Some tips on leveraging press.
I think this looks like a great tool. I can almost imagine this being built 100% for ads, and then someone higher up at Google saying "Wow, this thing is so powerful it could build websites" and then it morphed into this existence. Just pure speculation but it's a little weird to call it Google Web Designer when everything else puts ads front-and-center.
Cool stuff. That's some gnarly JPEG around the coasts, though.
Is there a better way? I like the Jobularity
approach [...] using video introductions,
profiles of their interests and talents,
and--most importantly--a ranking system that
is more data driven than most recruiting
tools.

Sounds good if you're in a recruiting market where there's a glut of talent so good candidates will be eager to jump through hoops like making a video introduction. But I'm not sure how well it would work in a market with a shortage of talent.
Here is how I would do it:

Assuming you were searching for computers with the following filters:

Manufacturer: Apple
Type: Laptop

You could represent that as:

http://mystore.com/electronics/computers/manufacturer/apple/type/laptop

If you make your routing code (on either the frontend or the backend) robust enough then you will be able to support any number of filters in any order.
growing the customer/user base will always be the #1 problem startups face.

Revenue is something other than #1?
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> The web site for NORDUNet, nordu.net, is the oldest active domain name. It was registered on January 1, 1985.
Thankfully, AdBlock and friends can also target DOM elements for hiding or outright elimination.
Pretty much exactly this-- advanced stuff only express-able in Bitmap format (such as photos, complex patterns, blending modes, etc) cannot be represented in SVG. That is, unless you use a Bitmap embedded in the SVG, but then what's the point? It's just simpler to use a bitmap format right now.
At least they are already flat pack.