skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot about CSS is sad indeed. But this demo actually does a good job of explaining a common CSS hack.
Thanks for the great advice! I really want to get into Stanford :)
@phorese - thanks for the suggestions - great color info

For those who might be interested, I have updated things so that
* colors are a little brighter (not right yet, but maybe better for now)
* the list is always prepended to, not appended
this immediately helps convey the "velocity"; if you mouseover an element in the list, it should pause the insertions (although the counters keep going); when you mouse out, all the "backed up" events slide down. Might be some quirks on browsers with that, but not using anything fancy... this has not been tweaked to work well on mobile browsers yet either.

* there is an option to have it append to the list instead of prepend. Not sure this is needed at all, now that I think about it

There might be 503's sometimes. I don't think it's a quota issue, but just that googledrive can do that under load. I think http code 403 would mean a quota issue. Could be wrong, though. I removed an unnecessary 1MB(!) download that might help.
That appears to be an accident handling the output of an isotope manufacturing reactor, not anything involving a power reactor.

> I would argue that there needs to be a significant improvement before fission is publicly acceptable.

I would argue that fission is already held to a standard well above that of almost any human endeavor, even those with roughly similar risk profiles (compare almost any form of mining, or the shipping of hazardous cargo by rail)
> a language that makes clear, concise code impossible

Now you're simply overstating the case. Why?

This is a perfect example of my claim. There is this emotional component to the "Java boilerplate" argument that belies rationality. There is some other unstated reason advocates want Scala and are fitting the argument to that conclusion. Because it's cool? Big fish small pond syndrome?
DBpedia
My .com domain actually redirects to a .co.uk for the very reason that you mention :) And I made sure to host the site on servers in the UK as well!

Adobe has moved to a subscription based model, which makes the UsedSoft v Oracle ruling irrelevant. Microsoft may actually let you resell your used software, many companies do. In fact Adobe actually used to let you resell your used software so long as you didn't keep a copy of it.

The main companies that don't let you resell your used software are Valve (Steam), Apple (App Store), Google (Google Play) and Autodesk. I think that all of these companies are violating the UsedSoft v Oracle ruling by not allowing EU users to resell their apps, games and software, which is why I started halfpricedigital.com
Anyone see how to get the paper from that web site? I am missing it...?
I'm quite new to Node.js but I heard that it's really good. Does it really solve the need of server side scripting? I'm thinking of learning it if I can get good justification to.

I currently program in PHP for all my websites.

Any pointers and comments greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I don't know that polymer bills last any longer. Canada's old dollar bills used to last ~1 year [1], and polymer bills are said to last two to three times longer [2]. (I can't find a more precise estimate.) But US dollar bills are made of linen and last much longer, 56 months [3].

The high durability of US "paper" money is another reason that switching low denominations to coins makes no sense in the US.

[1] http://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2012/04/pm-loonie-report.pd... (page 6)
[2] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/government/polymer-to-replace-cott...
[3] http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-307
Haskell's ecosystem is far from all "wine and roses": my few experiences with cabal were not what I hoped to put it mildly, since 2010 I have a yearly yak shaving ritual called "try to install leksah" that only this year was successful, and last time I've tried to install the latest version of the Haskell platform on my Ubuntu box, had to build it form the source manually installing the profiling packages on one by one.
In no way it qualifies as "miles ahead of Scala"
Does anyone know if there is a good D3 example of something like noflo [1]? Most of the graphs D3 has are great for data visualization but not as helpful if you're trying to build a system for interaction between nodes that you don't want bouncing all over the place.

[1] - http://noflojs.org/dataflow-noflo/demo/
Awesome. I've only been playing with Clojure for a few months but IntelliJ IDEA has been my go-to IDE for a long time now so all of that time has been spent with La Clojure + Leiningen plugin and I've always felt that it was a little clunky (and that the Leiningen plugin was a bit of a 2nd class citizen). Hopefully a little TLC and a cohesive vision can yield something that's much nicer to work with. Looking forward to seeing where this project ends up.
According to wikipedia this company has 300 million users each paying some form of currency every month.

Is it that much to ask that a company that large performs a security audit quarterly?
I chose >= 0, it's fun to learn!
Please update old and buggy F5/BIG-IP firmware
> There will be so much opportunity for work later on in life

Absolutely. But the best programmers are the ones who never wanted to do it for the money anyhow (and got into it simply because it's interesting and enjoyable).

Moderation is key to everything. However...

You can have it all. Being passionate about something breathes life into all aspects of you and the people around you. It's a lot more fun to be talking to a date or a friend at a party who spends his/her time doing something passionately (even obsessively) than someone with no direction and moderate/little dedication. Some personalities are prone to doing things to excess. You see it with athletes, musicians, programmers, and others. Not that all people in those fields are like that, but it's better than devoting your energies to something objectively unhealthy, such as drinking or watching TV.

That said, do remember to eat well and sleep. And see the sun once in a while, and talk to people. Then get back to your hobby/passion/etc as time permits.
SimplyInsured is Hiring Hackers - Change Healthcare Forever
They don't have a subscription model on the iPhone and the first year is free on the other devices. Then you puncture the 30% the app store gets and you're left with a mid-low 8-digits revenue.
You mean like how the quarter says "QUARTER DOLLAR"? And how the nickel says "FIVE CENTS"?

("ONE DIME" is kind of dumb, I'll give you that.)
I think Perl 6, especially Rakudo is aiming for a production release couple of years from now.

Having said that it would be pointless to go simply rewrite existing Perl 5 code to Perl 6. A good deal of Perl 5 libraries will be ported to Perl 6. And then Perl 6 will be well suited for a lot of big projects.

Perl 6 has a very nice type system, packed with all the goodies of a enterprise object oriented language,it has powerful functional programming features, and with all that it stays true to its scripting roots.

The right way to look at it is, Perl 5 and 6 will co exist for much of their individual lifetimes.
I would've loved to be able to be given the opportunity like this. I live in Perth and apart from mining the IT industry is non-existant. There are no internship and mentoring program. I say grab the bull by the horns and do as much as you can.
I don't know any developers who like CSS. It's just a thing we have to do.
I don't see any ads in the Twitter app on Mac.
Data-driven fallacy
Not only are his works worth reading, he is endlessly quotable.
When in doubt, don't reinvent the wheel. If TLS covers your use case, use TLS.

Unfortunately, it appears that you are not at all doomed if you don't know security well. I say "unfortunately" because I'd rather have fewer secure products than the massive array of insecure products we enjoy today.
Its like a trade off. While OO interests you a lot, there are a good deal of people who like functional stuff. Some people like both(See scala popularity these days). Some people want all of that with strong scripting support.

The design of Perl 6 is to ensure you can incrementally evolve the language to be whatever the trends are at that time.
Endlessly.
The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty bans testing of any "nuclear" explosions. Doesn't matter if it's fission or fusion or both. (The United States has not ratified the CTBT, but generally abides by it.)

The Non-Proliferation Treaty bans the proliferation of any "nuclear" weapons. Again, doesn't matter if it's fission or fusion or both.
Did you seriously link to a Huffington Post article to criticize the bias of Fox News?

I can't defend Fox's practices, but the fact that you aren't railing against MSNBC as well makes me think you're far from an impartial observer. Fox News and MSNBC are two sides of the same ridiculous coin, but media bias only seems to bother you when it's coming from the right.
The best M↓ editor I've used is Haroo Pad[1]. I like it because you don't need to visit a webpage to use it which makes it ideal for offline idea dumps while you're on a plane for example.

[1] - http://pad.haroopress.com/
the NSAs only weakness exposed!
HTTP headers.
this will end the tyranny.

we finally got them by the balls with this one!
I had the same question too. The footnote #1 states that >"StackEdit is a free, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown, the Markdown library used by Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites."
I'm surprised that you're using Meteor for what would seem to be a single-user use-case. Meteor's strength seems to be multi-user real-time apps, but this looks more like a job for Angular/Ember plus an API backend.

I was looking toward Meteor for a similar project because of its handy client-server syncing capability, but decided not to use it because it didn't seem to suit the more traditional webpage model and the click-to-save-changes paradigm. But your site is making me reconsider this. I've been learning and implementing my site in Angular/Restangular, which involves me writing code to POST to/GET from my Rails backend. I'm aiming to let users add and remove nodes in a plan/document and rearrange their ordering - would that be easier to do in Meteor? I'd love to make use of Meteor's object syncing and other features. What's your experience been like? Did you try Angular or other JS MV* frameworks?

By the way, I love your site's design and iconography. If you built the whole service alone, I'd be very impressed.
Why? What makes you think their corporations cut fewer corners than Western ones? What makes you think their employees/scientists/etc. are inherently more infallible than Western ones?
Don't Eat the Shrimp
It wasn't "the Japanese" that didn't do it safely at Fukushima. It was GE, which is about as American as you get, along with Toshiba and Hitachi. Also it was the 1960s, which is the age of the technology deployed in these relative archaisms. See http://blog.rlucas.net/tech_and_market_reflections/fukushima...
Ha! I would protect cows from wolves if I got to milk and eat them daily. Lucky moo.
It's a cute idea, but you have 1/r^4 intensity scaling, which is prohibitive even at lunar distance. The lunar ranging experiments receive "one photon every few seconds" [1]. You could probably do better with bigger equipment, higher power, and perhaps an orbiting base station to skip the atmosphere, but the numbers are going to win before too long.

An active repeater would give you 1/r^2, though. For example, you could ping Voyager I for a 36-hour delay. However, that's likely not feasible at light-year distances, let alone the problem of getting the devices there. :)

[1] http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=605
Nobel Prize Medicine
Yes, but you have to pay for the power plant, and being just a bit over unity won't cover the expense of the next stage in the chain.

You have to be enough over unity to pay for another plant plus surplus to actually use. In which case you can just build a bunch of plants - you don't need to chain them. There are plenty of other power sources you can use to bootstart the power plants.

Even regular power plants need power to start them see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start
> Well, probably the biggest difference is npm

composer is PHP's version.

Not "frameworks".
Do you have a rainbow-parens mode? I've become overdependent on those in emacs.
Stopwatching.us
The revelations about the National Security Agency's surveillance apparatus, if true, represent a stunning abuse of our basic rights. We demand the U.S. Congress reveal the full extent of the NSA's spying programs.
We might as well mention JavaScript's hangups with using == instead of === if we're going to drag out PHP's.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/359494/does-it-matter-whi...
"...efforts to "fast track" the Utah project bypassed regular quality controls in design and construction." If the history of former USSR has any relevance to the present day USA -- and I suspect it does -- we will see more and more screwups like this one.
Sure do - Settings->Clojure->Rainbow Parens. You can't customise the colours right now, but that's coming in the next drop.
This must be a false report, because according to Eric Schmidt, Android is more secure than the iPhone. There cannot be 200 million vulnerable downloads.
I actually thought this article would be about the psychological impact of thinking about your time as money.

Personally, I've noticed that knowing and internalizing my hourly rate has decreased my enjoyment of life. When you contemplate the opportunity cost of even an hour with friends (>$100) it's hard to have much fun. Has anyone encountered research on this topic?
> get an arbitrary amount of energy out.

Not really. You have to build larger, or more, power plants. So you have to make enough extra energy to sell to pay for plants.
Obviously it's caused by freedom and liberty.
I saw a great presentation with this weird guy who runs his company based around the idea that all you need to succeed is gratitude and long-term planning. (Epic oversimplifying paraphrase.) Anyway, here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8ZFU4FoNvY

The TLDR is that ever since seeing this presentation, I've made it a rule to articulate my long-term and short-term goals daily, along with a list of things I'm grateful for. No stellar life-changing results to report, so far, at least not that I can think of, but as habits go, it's one I'm glad about.
The University of Sydney have continued research of polywell reactors. I'm not terribly across their progress but I try to read papers whenever they're released though I haven't read any of their 2013 papers. It seems the last few years (2010-2012 at least) have focused around minimising point- and line-cusp losses.

More reading here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell#University_of_Sydney
The 8th grader feels left out (me).

I'm at Ian.carroll@snapstudiodesign.com if you'd like to include me :)
They'll just drug him with truth serums.
Snowden docs revels that Canadian spy agency dissected Brazilian Energy Ministry
Google's Schmidt says Android more secure than the iPhone
I thought it was up to 4000 characters.
I've been told to just use NaCl (http://nacl.cr.yp.to/) and its related libraries in other languages. Apparently it "just works" for most basic crypto.

What's harder is systems security, which you can't just abstract away into a library.
And, as usual, he's quoted for what he did not quite say (but the meaning is accurate): http://www.chesterton.org/discover-chesterton/frequently-ask...
What happened to "be better"?
not only that... but it'll be better for finding your passion, for being better at what you do, for networking etc.
Set your goals such that their ends will be fulfilling to you. Do not set out with success as your end, else it is meaningless. If success only means to accomplish what you have set out to do, then set out to do something worthwhile, that in success you will have achieved something greater than success itself.
It's amazing that the culture can be so different. Going to college in a European country, I never did an internship. I barely even worked summer jobs, I did maybe one summer's worth of work spread out over a few years, just to get some money. Even college summers were spent LANing with friends, fishing, watching movies, swimming, traveling, reading, some recreational coding etc. Just enjoying the summer, not worrying about my future career. It was great. Honestly, even though I could've spent my summers doing internships, I think it would have been rather pointless. I was already working 110% during the school year and still learning basic math, science and related theory. Whatever work I would've put in would have been sub-par. And that time was great to unwind.

Imagine my astonishment when I first came to the US and kids in the first and second year of college were doing internships at Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Good on them I suppose, especially getting paid well to do it, but I can't see how it helps much. Seems mostly like a way for Google et al to fish for young talent before they graduate.

Anyway, being as excited about coding as this kid is, maybe this is the best way for him to use his time, but the culture difference is just amusing to me.
"Encrypting data: Use AES in CTR (Counter) mode, and append an HMAC."

Google search: "cryptography answers" :-)
Is not about writing the boilerplate, is about having to think at that level. In Java, you think "I loop through the Strings and if it starts with uppercase, I'll add it to a new collection (which I need to remember to intialize)", in Scala is more "filter the strings that starts with uppercase".
And even if the IDE can generate most of it, it still shows it to you to modify the template, and even if later hides it, it still in your code, in your diffs.
Besides, higher order functions are not the only thing, traits are an awesome tool for structuring separation of concerns, and java doesn't come closer.
Distributed system.
Man, this is a powerful teaching technique - I knew all this, but I don't think I really really understood it until just now. I hope more people start writing animated explanations for web stuff. Maybe someone could do one for CSS menu systems or side bar, sticky footer, type stuff. Or even the Bootstrap grid system.
Wow, what fantastic writing. I often find tech entrepreneurs and HN readers are too obsessed with success and wealth, often explaining away any accusations of greed by claiming it's their "passion" and talking in mystic terms of the tech revolution they're a part of.

The biggest thing I would call a "success" in my life is the joy I've received from good friends and family, and the experiences I've had with them. Things that take a long time to cultivate and over which I often have little control.
How to Import SQL Server Database
What Do You Love About Writing Code? We Ask, Software Engineers Answer
Interesting idea, and I agree there's a lot more we could do to better support the social causes on-site vs. just the general domain redirects. We created this all in a weekend at the #hack4good hackathon in SF, so what you're seeing now is just the beginning.
Coal causes about 100 times as much radiation as nuclear power:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#Coal
The original report have some leaked slides.
http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/10/ministerio-da...
Could very well be hardware- or driver-dependent, and obviously the switch or device on the other side of the cable has a say in it too. There's an awful lot of pluggable stuff in there to support everything in the market. Really this thing needs to say "I only measured 1.3Mpps between two 3.11 kernels on IVB boxes with RTL8168 devices connected via a Netlink blah blah blah switch" to have any diagnostic meaning.
You don't know the right developers.
Based on the FAQ the "online" label is gone!

How will this degree appear on my diploma and/or transcript?

The name "Online Master of Science" is an informal designation to help both Georgia Tech and prospective students distinguish the delivery method of the OMS program from our on-campus degree. The degree name in both cases is Master of Science in Computer Science.

EDIT: jophde posted the relevant link to the FAQ where I searched for this question.
I only took two crypto courses during my degree and these attacks were demonstrated as examples of simple things no one should get wrong. Its just plain embarrassing for these devs to screw this up.
Generally there is a reasonable limit on the number of billable hours you can have in a week and be productive. So once you hit that cap, for me is 45-50. Then you just don't have to put a price on the fun cause you've already maxed out your potential money for the week.
I find it strange that the icon used is so similar to StackOverflow's if this isn't an app built by the same people.
"… [something about the] Cray supercomputers that will reside there."

So, I was going to ask everyone to speculate on what kind of petaflop workloads NSA might use, but a quick scan of Cray's site shows that Cray has a Hadoop appliance product as well as an interesting "big data graph appliance" [1] that "discover[s] unknown and hidden relationships."

[1] http://www.cray.com/Products/BigData/Urika.aspx
The page they link to [1] mentions that you need to submit your GRE scores. However the page itself doesn't have any mention of the GRE being a requirement? Any idea what the actual stance on this is?

[1] - http://www.gradadmiss.gatech.edu/apply/index.php
Bertrand Russell once said that all work falls into one of two basic categories: moving objects on or near the surface of the Earth, and telling other people to do so.
"Backup generators have failed numerous tests, according to project documents,
and officials disagree about whether the cause is understood."

Backup generators are magical unicorns that sit around all day and night until lightning strikes your luck. Likewise, they need regular maintenance and 'idle runs' a few times a year at least to ensure that they will turn over.

Generators aren't store and forget machines, as we've learned a few years back. When Hurricane Sandy hit, we had an extra generator truck available just in case ours wouldn't kick in. This is a very real possibility with generators since, just like a vehicle that runs on fuel and needs oil, if it's not used, it will rot (so to speak) and likely won't start when you really, really, really need it.

I suspect a combination of the savage Utah Sun coupled with freezing temps at night have done these in. Plus, I wonder how long they were in storage and shipping before actually getting installed.

Now that's just the generators. The rest of this mess reads like a poorly thought out wouldn't it be awesome project some high ranking folks at No Such Agency envisaged and a bunch of contractors happily obliged... care be damned as long as profits were made.
Fair enough, but I'm asking about side projects.
They got $8 million in funding a couple of years back. One would hope that would be sufficient.
The IdeyaApp link is now fixed for my portfolio page... Sorry!
Frequency-shaped background noise generators