skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Satire, I think. Sadly, the idea that SEO has killed the art of artsy headline writing is pretty prevalent in the media industry, in which traditional j-school courses have classes devoted to copy-writing/headlines, and in which "Headless body found in topless bar" is the gold standard.

That is a pretty good headline, and one that doesn't need to be optimized (unless the body belonged to someone relatively famous), or the stripper bar was owned by a city councilmember. But the point of SEO is to make content accessible in the long-tail...A headline celebrating the home team finally winning the Super Bowl, "YES! FINALLY!", has some poetic power but its impact is in its context and display...that is, 160-pt font across the top with huge celebratory photos.

But "YES! FINALLY!" doesn't tell you anything about the story when viewed a week later in a search engine or archive results. It's strange that newspapers, which pride themselves on being the official recordkeepers of history, often have such a dim view of the importance of SEO...which really, when done with non-black-hat intentions, is reader-optimized text.

Edit: one more point...many news editors who hate on SEO still seem to be unaware that you can do a SEO headline in the meta tags while preserving the pithy headline for he we page display...so it's not even really a dilemma between art and business, just technical ignorance.
Interview w/Bill Scott author Designing Web Interfaces/Sr. Dir UI Eng at PayPal
In a similar model, I just commit hotfixes on the master branch. What is the negative implication of this? If I had a branch for them, those would just be merged back immediately with one commit anyway.
It is fairly straightforward to compile nginx against the latest ssl tarball, rather than the extreme option of distro upgrade (which as pointed out is no good for Centos / RHEL) for the cipher support.
AmEx has a unique "no questions asked" chargeback policy. That's why people use AmEx cards despite that their interchange fees are higher, they aren't accepted everywhere, and they're harder to qualify for.
Exactly. When I first saw Imgur, my immediate reaction was "nice site, but this guy is going to bankrupt himself in a few months - look at the horrible ways other image-sharers have to abuse their users to stay profitable". I didn't think it was sustainable.

Shows what I know.
Even if all of the AES state is kept in cache, the data to be encrypted would still have to be copied from ram or disk, right?
Quotes do not require the plus sign as a placeholder for space, unless I'm missing something.
I often use quotes to search for specific Linux error messages with great success; any hit that isn't a direct match gets shafted.
That's how Audible is doing it now, however it wasn't always this way. For reference, see http://darkpatterns.org/library/forced_continuity/.
Subtle (cost and cultural) benefits of supporting remote workers
Anyway, the server that has that config isn't my blog, it's forgott.com :)
#1 and #2 is exactly why you should rebase with --no-ff as the OP states. You get clean history plus a nice empty merge commit to refer to.
Exactly that. I mean, PandoDaily is funded by the same kind of investors so they have a huge incentive to not rock the boat. TechCrunch does little other than copy and paste press releases. Take the TC article[1] - it's one and only mention is this:

"This model has seen some controversy around how transparent charging is, but JustFab has stuck to its guns in this area."

OK, no need to investigate then! Bravo journalism.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/justfab-has-raised-another-...
Secure, on shared hosting eh?
UN report says with 95% certainty that climate change is caused by humans
Which is what history proves happens all of the time, and is the reason that we don't have any labour laws, right?
Javascript Y Combinator
Now I know I never need to go for Matrix Partners for anything, knowing they have people like this person working there.
6 Ways Entrepreneurs Lie To Themselves
Barilla doesn't like LGBT gay people: who cares?
They actually package both 1.4.x and 1.5.x:

http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html#stable

http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html#mainline
Bank Of America has SafeShop for their cards.

https://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/accounts-cards/shopsaf...
If people pull from a random github branch I think it is their problem.

They should pull only from what you declare as public branches with stable history.

I keep on github only the master branch and publish the feature branch only when it is ready. After the maintainer merges the feature branch, I delete it from github.
Thanks for clearing it up. However, I'm still not sure on what my donations would be used for at this stage (I guess you could say a lack of transparency) but I wish you the best of luck and hope you get enough backers to make this work.

Could be something of REAL benefit to the world, which is more than most HN stories can say.
Debug register access is not necessarily as optimized as access to (e.g.) L1 cache.
Not really... I've seen a demonstration where a Truecrypt (or something similar) encrypted laptop is stolen. The machine is locked, but still powered on (very reasonable. You locked your machine and left your desk). This basically means that the AES key is in RAM.

The attacker/thief cools down the RAM with liquid nitrogen (to slow the discharge), inserts a bootable CD with a special tool to dump physical RAM on bootup, and quickly cycles the laptop battery (causing a cold boot).

Since the RAM is not zeroed on bootup, the "old" bits stay pretty much as they were (thanks to the cooling).

IIRC this allowed an attacker recovery of the key with a very high probability of success.
For ecommerce sites, customers would hardly care to see the status of my servers. They would just go to competitors.

It would make sense for SaaS sites for the black swan event -- the whole network infrastructure/rack cage going down. I can see how $5 per month would be justified for SaaS to be notified of a network blowout event.

Can this service host selenium scripts that walks a browser through several key pages of a site and monitor the page load/response time ? I would pay more for that.
Debug registers are only accessible in Ring 0. I haven't looked at the implementation described, but I'd be surprised if it isn't a kernel module or something equivalent.
yeah but you can have an encrypted disk, encrypted ram, not so much.
There is no application, it is a kernel patch.
I stopped reading when he said "TIOBE"; nothing invalidates an opinion on programming languages more clearly. There should be a law like Godwin's you can freely yell on the internet every time you see it, resulting in general agreement to doing so.
Creating posts with a huge photo that takes 3/4 of a 27" iMac screen is a new trend? Not sure if that is part of a Mezzanine theme, but curious to hear the opinion of others.
I agree that having a PPA isn't the best thing in the world, but this one is very stable(I'm using it for quite some time). Anyway, I will update the post to use the official repo, since it's really a better option. Thanks :)
Question: Would you be opposed to a pop-up window which, when the user clicks the pink checkout button, comes onto the screen specifically explaining the subscription program?

I have no doubt it would hugely reduce JustFab's profits.

Dark patterns are bullshit, and your defense of this company is a classic case of cognitive dissonance at work. You don't consider yourself a bad person, so when confronted with obvious evidence of a company you invested in being a scamming piece of shit, you try to find a way to make the company not a scamming piece of shit. In your mind, this may be true. But the rest of us aren't sharing in your delusion.

The world is full of rich people with compromised morals. Please don't be one of them.
>What you really need is reddit for adults, a site with an entirely different culture that leaves the memes and unfunny jokes behind in favor of encouraging actual conversation on any given topic.

It isn't just the under18's that post memes you know.
I think it is interesting to see how an investors in such activities tried to justify themselves.
Clearly We Have a Problem
Forgott.com is hosted @ linode. Our blog runs on Dreamhost.
I thought this was going to be about all the sites on Tumblr that read like the copy was finalized on a napkin, make you hunt for tiny navigation arrows, and yet end up being full of some pretty cool stuff that shows up in Google results.

Edit: It's still kind of a cool idea anyway. I recently contacted a guy about his Perl-driven site to ask him how the plumbing worked, just because it looked like it was still going strong based on code that was written in 1995 and maintained to this day. There's something cool and comforting about seeing sites that aren't powered by Node or Wintersmith or some other zippy new thing--especially if they have become really popular for some reason or another.
The thing that riles me is that this exact thing turned up on HN 1 year back [1] (and hit the front page), but nothing has changed since then. They continue to screw people.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4592778
And remember, my fellow entrepreneurs: if an investor is ok with cheating customers, there's no reason to think they will have a problem cheating you.
I get the same feeling from iOS 7 that I did from using the first versions of OS X after using NeXTSTEP / OpenStep, so much of the cool stuff and details were missing. I still miss the menus and the Digital Librarian among other things.

Its like in the big rush, they just left things undone or looking like crud (the new icons for example).
Whatever. I just can't argue with a person that believes an ad is the same as a built-in functionality. I can't understand what kind of logic and thinking is going in your head, really.
The BBB sells its A ratings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo8kfV9kONw

Watch the video.
But a Credit Union debit card has just the same weaknesses as a Wells Fargo one.
I can confirm that Bank of America is great about this on the debit side (though I have started using a credit card for online purchases). BoA gave me my money back instantly, stopped charges from the vendor and went off to investigate.
5 Smart PR Moves to Recruit the Best Engineering Team
They broke it on OS X too. Now you can delete the media you downloaded, but cannot delete the entry. Makes for a very cluttered "Did I watch that" interface.
In addition to the other responses (i.e. 'rebase -i'), there's also the shortcut of passing the '--squash' option to the final 'merge' command. This, unlike the standard 'merge' does not create a commit but instead applies all the commits from the merged branch into your working tree. You can then review the changes and create the commit yourself.
Proto-hipster?
This even serves as a part of the moat around a successful company. AirBnB spamming craigslist comes to mind as an example of this.
So if I understand this right, this is a cloud-based for-sale version of Testswarm run primarily on IE instances, but with no Operating system information?

I like the idea of using a cloud-based version of testswarm, but without the OS information per browser instance, particularly for IE, its not even worthwhile for that.
Global Warming Slowdown Seen as Emissions Rise to Record
> But the point of SEO is to make content accessible in the long-tail

It shouldn't be the job of editors to second guess search engines. A search engine that doesn't give you my article about the home team winning the superbowl because I titled it "YES! FINALLY!" is a poor search engine (all other things being equal).

The point is that content is compromised by the all-too-widespread practice of making sure our content is accessible to machines first, and humans second.

If the home team win the superbowl, I want to say "YES! FINALLY!" without fear of losing audience.

In today's internet, I have to say "Home team win Superbowl 2013 sports news football usa teams stats"
Be Afraid of NSA Spying
All government data, excluding true national security issues and PI data, should be open and free by default. You shouldn't have to file a FOIA request for anything (in the US), it should be publicly accessible.
http://skimhn.com
While everything you say is true, it would seem paranoid in many cases. I don't know how many neighborhood electronics fencers have liquid nitrogen laying around or the computer savvy to pull this kind of stuff.

If someone is after me who is using this methodology then I have seriously pissed off the wrong people. While you could argue that it's only paranoia if the object of preparation is not possible, I would say that you're at least one leg over the fence into paranoia-land if you're prepping against a cold-boot and don't have any nation state or corporate espionage level enemies.
Great! Another game company that makes insane amounts of cash with addictive flash-in-the-pan games files for IPO. Fast-forward 3 years, and we have another Zynga on our hands: a company that has no sustainable way of making money. Relying on short-lived hits does not translate well into a public company (in my opinion). I hate companies like that.
Thanks for reminding me: done. I saw that one earlier when I was looking for places to <del>plug</del><ins>advise people about</ins> rust-http, but at that time I only had an HTTP server. Then when I implemented the client I forgot to add an answer there.
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There's a service available called Account Updater that provides merchants with updated credit card numbers. It's intended to be a convenience for both merchants and consumers.

http://usa.visa.com/merchants/products-services/processing-s...
Are you kidding me? I don't even see a price for the subscription fee anywhere on that page. When you buy something, you expect to see a price when you checkout your shopping cart. Do you buy groceries and pay for things that don't show up on the register too?

People are conditioned to get enrolled in things like loyalty/rewards clubs that give points for purchases. No big deal. That's what this looks like if you happen to notice the block in the upper right corner. Most people ignore what's in that area anyways. You're full of shit.

You should lose your job for being unable to find a better investment for your clients' funds than a scam website.
I have been getting a few spam DMs from a couple people I was following. Both were very inactive, and I only got spam from them after they were completely inactive for a couple months.
OpenBSD will get you halfway there, it at least encrypts (if you switch it on) the virtual memory.
We leave the feature branch on the remote repo indefinitely, but we really don't need to do so. The diff between the feature branch's squashed commit and the previous commit of the project usually tells us everything we need to know when a problem crops up. We keep the feature branches "just in case", but in practice they're never used once the branch has been merged into production.
Not to mention the scummy nature of how they entice users to pay to play, such as 'insert coin to continue playing' mechanism after you fail a board a few times.

Also offensive is the use of sound in these games to ratchet up excitement like a slot machine.
Space Shuttle Discovery Flight Deck Panorama
> You need clean commits on the history to be able to understand the code later on.

Really? That seems like an extraordinarily obtuse way to understand code. I would think comments directly the source files would be more useful. Commit history shows how they arrived at that result and that's what I would rather see there.
Hackers use Internet Explorer zero-day exploit to target Japanese users
Is that an m4b file (the "official" way), or just a collection of mp3's shoved together to form a book ("Part of a compilation")? The former has been broken (especially on iPad) since iOS 5, and the latter has many issues but at least you "can" see how many chapters there are, and select them.

See, for example, these support thread with hundreds of comments: https://discussions.apple.com/message/16397272#16397272

The sad thing is that they don't give 3rd parties access to m4b metadata (chapter name, length and cover), and they themselves have broken their Music.app's ability to parse them. So nobody else can fix this mess.
Obviously it is not neighborhood electronics fencers we're addressing here.
I made the very first imgur upload plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/imgur-uploade...
I like to think it helped imgur growing bigger. Too bad this was the time reddit gold was not a thing yet.
Just How Much of Musical History Has Been Lost to History?
Reminds me of old home computers, where the RAM was slow enough to discharge that you didn't need to bother to cool down anything: Flicking the power quickly enough on a C64 would often leave most of the memory intact.
Will Linus Torvalds apologize for giving Nvidia the finger?
Yeah, that doesn't mean a thing.
Worse yet, they picked up another round of venture capital. Which makes you wonder how they manage to lose so much money if they are basically scamming people to the tune of 96M per year (200K x $40 x 12). Maybe the customers are not the only ones being scammed. One can hope...
Have you heard of Medium, here are some links
I am a new HackerNews user but I assure you I am real. Like many of my new friends who also found out about HackerNews in the past month, we have all been loving and enjoying some Medium links. IN MY OPINION it is the best place for enlightened moments captured into articles on the web.

here are my favorites:
https://medium.com/on-startups/792e8f478067
https://medium.com/better-humans/13445a5ccdf7
https://medium.com/what-the-world-looks-like/817d69bc01f4
>> Assuming they don't go bankrupt, they will eventually pay you and satisfy the judgment.

Let's be honest, though. It's 80% certain that they're going to go bankrupt. They're clearly not building a company to last. Your best hope would be to get your money back before bankrupcy proceedings start.
We use StatusPage for our app, and it's been great. On the surface, it may look like something that easily be replicated by a simple blog or Tumblr account, but that's definitely not the case.

They seamlessly integrate the status history as well as letting us easily post to Twitter when there is a problem. They also provide a feed and reliable infrastructure separate from our own that integrates with monitoring tools.

When your app is offline, it's a huge relief to be able to easily update Twitter and have a central location for clear status information without having to go to Twitter and Tumblr or wherever and tie everything together.

It's certainly not cheap, but compared to building, hosting, and maintaining an equivalent service, it's a great deal. Some of their more advanced features, like allowing customers to sign up for text alerts are great as well if you need it.

The service is way more than just a hosted Tumblr account, and I'd definitely recommend them if you're looking for something like this.
Because it isn't obvious that you're entering into a subscription. That's sort of the whole point of this class action lawsuit.
Google now allows you to flush cache for a domain on their public DNS (8.8.8.8)
The image you posted is way more informative than this one: http://i.imgur.com/ctMDiCJ.png

Which one is most recent?

Frankly I don't see the difference between a company that tricks people into expensive recurring charges and a scam.
But why should I, as a non-American, have access to that same data? Or this documents made free in the OP?
Here's another good one.

http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/
Understanding DMA Malware (which accesses the RAM & NIC w/o the main CPU) [pdf]
I keep on thinking what to say about this, the only thing that keeps on coming to mind is WTF.
Engine Yard brings Java into the fold
Let me tell you a little secret: Apache has these things called logs that can "reveal" the IP address of another computer. And so can the evil hacker tool 'netstat'.

Do you trust this service or not? Don't trifle around with stupid shit like this.
That doesn't work because if someone reads the best research available on the subject and comes to a different conclusion then people with agendas start the mocking and name-calling in an effort to shut them up.
I have questions about this. Can anyone help?

How do they know the water is everywhere? How do they know it's not just in the one place they dug and nowhere else?

Why hasn't the water evaporated? Isn't Mars almost a vacuum?

Why didn't the water evaporate from the soil after being dug up but before being put in the oven?

Could there be large underground frozen aquifers?
Why do you care about the history of dead-end experiments polluting the history of the specific final features being implemented and incorporated into the mainline?
It's global, too. Here's the announcement https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/public-dns-announce/O_...

Quite a big deal, actually. I have run into problems with outdated zones on some of Google's servers a few times lately.
The problem I see with this is that the market is too narrow. Most small to medium size webapps wouldn't care. There aren't enough big ones and those you can't charge too much. I'm sure it's a useful service, but will it be profitable?
LN2 is cheap. If undergrads can make LN2 ice cream, they can use it for cracking too.
It resolves a missing link in the history of life, not evolution. The latter term is often used to mean the former, but I think that's a bad idea. It's confusing to people without a good understanding of the distinction.

Evolution, the scientific theory of how life changes over time, does not depend on the fossil record for its validity. It's trivially easy to study with living animals; thousands of undergraduates do it every semester with fruit flies.
Ask HN: Proper Way of Load Testing and Good Tools?
Hi,

Which load testing tools do you suggest for web application performance and capacity measuring. What is the best practices or proper way of doing load testing? Could you please share your experience? Thanks.
Yeah... on their own these slides aren't the clearest. More useful for people who've read at least some of the other urbit doc. But that's what you get when you put a linkbait title on some non-linkbait slides...
Would You Use This Service?
I don't know the Rust type system well enough (nor the internal representation of strings), but if strings allow you to reference sub-strings without re-allocating, then you only have one contiguous section in memory for headers that you can "point" to for the values (maybe this is too C-like to be possible in Rust). My recommendation (feel free to ignore it) would be something that supports typed headers as well as arbitrary string headers, because the ability to fall-back to strings will make your library usable in a much broader sense.
Discover card has something similar also:

https://www.discover.com/credit-cards/member-benefits/securi...
Why it's probably safer if your pilot is asleep than awake
Yes, and I have a feeling that in a few hours, when the general internet is made aware of this, they, too, are going to go the website under the lens of >themselves< getting defrauded and the S will really H T F.

Thisgonebegood.gif
Where is the Web1T dataset? Would you not consider it useful for Machine Learning?
Cats Are Dicks - Answer that Annoying Interview Question
Actually this is speaking to two different issues.

Nginx is indeed one of the easiest programs to compile, very light and fast to build.

Building the newest openssl from scratch for centos into an rpm is quite a workout. I had to read two guides and still had to play with it a bit to get everything just right. Oh and pro-tip from a big "duh" moment - don't try to remove old openssl on a SSH connection. It doesn't just run from memory, when it goes away, so does your connection to the server.
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