skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I rent cars a lot when I have to travel, and I've grown to hate anything "touch" in a car. Several manufacturers have adopted touch-based controls, even outside of a touch screen. For example, I had a Toyota Avalon rental a couple of months ago, and I was constantly, accidentally pressing buttons because I brushed them with my hand. When a car is in motion, it's hard to steady your hand. With touch controls, I find that I have to plant a finger somewhere as an "anchor", then engage the touch inputs with another digit. What a horrible mode of interaction.
Got it and thanks, makes sense. For low-volume, seems like proper comparison would've been Mandrill, but your guys' feature set seems to be richer.
Cool to see this posted here, I know one of the guys working on it. It would be nice if they provided some compiled/preconfigured images for VirtualBox or VMware to play with though.
It's hell deciphering how many .gov sites gov't DDoS'd or defaced for shutdown
"Interns are just as important as full time" in what sense exactly? Of course interns have a level of importance, but I think your overestimating some things here. If you were a senior level engineer, you may be more likely to get a personalized response. If you interview to be the CTO of Red Hat, I'm guessing you would not get an automated email response when you are not chosen.

Let's not kid ourselves that there is not a hierarchy of importance. It's based on merit and contribution (or potential contribution in the case of an applicant), and it's a bit naive to think that applicants for internships will always be given the same level of respect as experienced professionals.
Abe fiddles while Fukushima leaks
Dribbble Is Not For Product Designers (but that's okay)
Razer ships every product at a loss, laughs all the way to the bank
Scams or not, I - as a potential reader - don't care. I read my morning news through Flipboard, and if you deliberately pull your content out, then you don't exist on my radar. It's nothing personal against you. It's just that I have finite time to discover and enjoy content, and Flipboard helps me do that. There isn't enough time in my day for me to want to do that myself.
> The only software compatibility layer is for PS1 titles

THere was a partial software emulation for european PS3s as stated by wikipedia.

> the hardware architecture of the new consoles is completely different from the older generation

I knew for the PowerPC vs x86 this is what I mentioned rosetta. For the GPU I thought they were both using DirectX.
My quick Google search at that moment didn't turn the last news story I read directly on the issue you mention. The story I found just now

http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1217811/...

isn't the same story either, but it is familiar to persons who follow news from China that the concentration of wealth at the top of the ruling party clique is very extreme--and unknown in its full extent, for lack of a free press.
Sounds like a new Malcom Gladwell. :-)
If a client came to us and said "hey, we have a project for you. You just have to build it and we can split whatever profit you make off of it", you can guess where we'd tell them to go. It's very different from basic business risk.
Investigative journalism is so wrong.
I had a manager that would repeatedly use this type of remark. We had this particular application that on one could touch without breaking something. It was always a mess. He would often remark "I wrote the whole thing over a weekend, why can't you guys make a tiny little change without breaking it?" One day I finally got fed up with him and replied "Because it's the quality of work you'd expect from an entire application written over a weekend."
When did we start?
A nit: This isn't plausible deniability, but rather CYA (cover your ass).

Plausible Deniability: Delegation of tasks and lack of records of communications letting the actual responsible party deny knowledge of the "insubordinate" or "rogue" underlings.

CYA: A process to change the process to define the process for tracking changes to the process, with 20 signatures or more required at each step of the process, digital forms filled out in triplicate. Or, making proper recordings of communications with underlings so when they screw up you can point out that they didn't act according to your direction, and that they failed to report issues back up the chain.
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Same problem here with Firefox 27 (Nightly).
I agree that crypto is no doubt the best way to go. However, it seems clear that in the case they do not get what they want initially, the next step is, "Okay, we'll just take it all."

God bless the USA...
Great series. One thing I'm missing though, but it could just be me, is that being the CTO in my experience is often a lonely job.

Everyone else is focused on either business or tech. You're usually the only one that sees both. There's nobody to spar with on the whole picture, you have to make decisions with far reaching consequences on your own.
That's sort of senselessly hateful. Anything in particular you didn't like about the article?
Haha - I was reading through this whole thread and didn't expect that. Glad you like it.
The DOM is accessible through a dynamic, so you can directly manipulate it from your .NET language of choice.
My Thinkpad T430s let me change the memory to that of my choosing, add an mSATA stick of my choosing, change hard drives of my choosing, has an extra mini-pci slot, expresscard slot, supports Linux well, replace the DVD drive with another battery, and has a superb online manual that lets me (or anyone else) make any repairs or updates.

At the end of the day it is my machine to do with as I please. Apple's stuff not so much.
Where Can the Middle Class Buy a Home?
Probably when they stop buying half of downtown Seattle real estate.
You give good reasons why someone might want to buy the Zenbook over the Air and then ask why anyone would want to?
That really depends on the company. I see a lot of instances (in SV) where the executive team mostly cares about the technology and product and tunes the business side accordingly.
Personally, I suspect that modern management practices for large scale projects are more inefficient than ad-hoc practices of the day.
All it will take is one UAV crashing into some people, resulting in horrific injuries, and the UAV will be banned, or more heavily regulated.

These UAV are not toys, and have a high potential to cause grave injuries.
I also noticed the prototype in the video doesn't have solar panels on it.
Large organizations need homogeneous computer systems, so it stands to reason that centralized configuration management would be a perfect fit.

So why hasn't the likes of puppet and chef caught on? Genuinely curious.
I'm confused by your comment. "Segment tuning" isn't a feature, it's a process. One only did it for performance gains. That one would have to do it for performance gains is a result of the fact that code segments were loaded in 64 KB chunks. It's another instance of trying to take advantage of spatial locality to achieve better performance.
She quit for 1 week and this made a popular publication? I've read at least a dozen instances of people quitting for longer here on HN and personally quit for 1 month before eventually deleting my account.
Using The Dec Alpha As A Programmable Micro-engine (1994)
Are you sure about it? SSL certificate looks valid. I double check it from here, it also says certificate is valid: https://sslcheck.globalsign.com/en_US/sslcheck?host=www.mavi...
I hate this about myself. =P
The title of this submission: "Microsoft pays $100K bounty to hacker"

The title of the article: "Microsoft Corp pays US$100K bounty to hacking expert who uncovered Windows bug that could have been used to launch remote attacks"

To me, this level of editorializing approaches arbitrarily close to lying.
From this Woz quote it was pretty common:

"I wrote all my code on paper in hexadecimal. I couldn't afford an assembler to translate my programs into hexadecimal bytes, I did it myself. Even my BASIC interpreter is all hand written. I'd type 4K into the Apple I and ][ in about an hour. I, and many others too I think, could sit down and start typing hexadecimal in for a SMALL program to solve something that occured or something that somebody else wanted. I'd do this all the time for demos. I certainly don't remember which hexadecimal codes are which 6502 instructions any longer, but it was a part of life back then."
It looks nice and I wish you luck with it. A couple of tips (or nitpicks) regarding wget-gpg:

> filename=$(echo "$1" | sed 's/\// /g' | awk '{ print $4 }')

1. You could remove the sed, if you change the field separator:

$(echo "$1" | awk 'BEGIN {FS="/"} {print $5}'

(this might be better for file names with spaces in them; though, if I understand your use case, this will never happen, but you might need to deal with space-to-%20 in wsend-gpg and then %20-to-space in wget-gpg...)

2. Or you could just replace this with:

filename=$(basename "$1")

> filenamed=$(echo "$filename" | sed 's/.gpg//')

3. The problem that this cuts the first occurrence of .gpg in the file name, so nitpick.gpg.nitpick.gpg will become nitpick.nitpick.gpg instead of nitpick.gpg.nitpick

To remove this substring from the end of the string, you can probably replace the pattern with a greedy one or just use:

filenamed=${filename%.gpg}

EDIT: previous related discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6083884

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6158719

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6179424

I like your persistence and glad you finally made it to the front page. Good luck.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in D:\Hosting\11890415\html\email.php on line 7
The selected articles section design leads me to believe you can click a link to read them but I can't see any links to click.

What is the purpose of including these 3-5 word blurbs if you can't actually read them?

When selling a non fiction book sample chapters and a table of contents are almost a must.

EDIT odd it seems like "look insde" is now working for this book. It wasn't the first time I clicked.

Book ordered!!
You sir, bring no value to the site as a reader, and offer justification for their move away from Flipboard.

What if someone invented a slick, uniform UX for free mobile apps and repackaged them for easy consumption? Would you jump at the chance to have your apps featured? What if your free apps were ad supported?
Language Oriented Programming - Novelty or Useful?
I have to say, I always take the criticisms of Gladwell very seriously. I read his first three books several years ago and have constantly felt like a sucker over the years as his detractors have grown louder.

And yet I find his responses very convincing, especially this one and the response to the Ask A Korean! article. I don't know, maybe I'm just easily swayed or maybe it speaks more about how persuasive Gladwell is.
While I applaud the effort, why on earth would anyone write a numerical library in obj-c? AFAIK, there aren't any platforms that support obj-c but not C/C++.

I need stuff like this from time to time, but I wouldn't restrict my portability like this unless I really had to.
IOS Developers wanted to write articles, interested?
UNIX is my IDE. perl5 is my VM. CPAN is my language.

ref: http://shadow.cat/blog/matt-s-trout/but-i-cant-use-cpan/ | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=968757

NB. Though I think someone else earlier (Audrey Tang perhaps?) made a similar quote (something like CPAN is my syntax?)
On Being a Little Person
Worth mentioning that the Freakonomics guys (Donohue and Levitt) work tying abortion law to crime reduction was debunked. There was a bug in the regression analysis code, "coding errors" (as in typos while copying data tables from print sources), and flat out statistical errors (most egregious was their use of total arrests instead of arrests per capita).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Impact_of_Legalized_Abortio...
You are true, it was our one day hack for that contest. It's weird how things have evolved in three years
I created popurls (aka the mother of aggregators) in 2005 (acquired 2010) and within those years I've had exactly three requests from publishers who wanted to be removed from the site – compared to a few thousand who wanted to be included, i.e. aggregated. Go figure.
Great case studies! AirBnB and Instagram made smart moves with cross-posting. Why make users choose, when they don’t have to? Even better, they improved the experience of the other platform using their interface (ex. uploading Facebook photos works great, but Instagram adds a lot to the experience). As a bonus, you get free PR on both platforms! Everybody wins with those kinds of growth hacks.
It wasn't a parable about older family members being clueless when it comes to tech. People really can't imagine how a "new computer system" can cost 3 years and $90m to build, and are genuinely outraged, because it is so far removed from what they expect to be a normal or fair amount for a piece of software.

You pay a dollar for an app, $40 for a Sims game, maybe a few hundred for an OS and office suite, maybe $1500 for a fancy laptop. Sure you can imagine a 'website' might cost a few thousand, but _tens_of_millions_ ?? Surely, that is a disgraceful waste, right there.
Call a random member of congress and yell at them
I think the point of the story wasn't proper attribution, it was a way for Gates to prod people to work faster.
XNA/MonoGame are not yet ported to TypeScript (and I guess never will). Also the idea is to avoid having to look at JS at all (for obviou reasons) by using a language that is generally better.
I was surprised not to see "every Swedish metal band's logo for the past 20 years": http://i.imgur.com/8SSyUkz.jpg
Isn't that (with the exception of "Android") what Chromebooks are?

Actually, I wonder how much effort it would take to get Android userland running on top of ChromeOS. Naively, you could just write a JVM-equivalent for Dalvik (providing the same runtime services to native code.) Or you could just apply a static transformation to the Dalvik executable to turn native syscalls into calls to PPAPI, and call the result an NaCl binary.
I think they just wanted to consistently handle the port, rather than exclude it when it is the default. I can understand wanting to be consistent, but their implementation even goes against the W3 specs: http://www.w3.org/TR/url/#url-decomposition-idl-attributes
I'm really trying to get my options. I'm in NC and I think they're limited. I'd like to get the official word from the horse's mouth, so to speak, and I can't get in.
I don't think segment tuning is the kind of "feature" your lesson needs as an example. Segment tuning is just a link-time optimization phase. The people doing manual segment tuning were just producing an ordered list of the already-written functions, to be used as input for the linker. These days, it would be implemented as a completely automated process using profile-guided optimization. It's not something that you can do early in the project and get it over with, because any time you do anything to change the call graph of your code base or the size of a compiled function, you need to re-tune.
They weren't selected from the smartest, that's a myth. Sure they didn't recruit imbeciles, but any average man with determination and a penchant for servitude could become a KGB officer.
Multi-Point Directions, Available in the New Google Maps
I've never understood why consoles continue to use P2P for multiplayer games (okay I lie, there is obviously a economical advantage), especially when customers are paying for a online gaming service. Just from a technical standpoint it is full of problems:

- You are using a consumer connection for one of the most challenging types of communication. It is very latency sensitive, does not play nice at all with dropped packets and makes heavy use of your upstream connection which is typically weak on consumer connections.

- Consoles are typically about extracting the greatest amount of performance you can from the hardware yet you are also trying to host a multiplayer game. I've run a few gaming servers for some PC games (Arma 2, Source, Minecraft, etc.) and they can be very, very taxing and can require some serious hardware when you start looking at large number of players.

- Not everyone who owns a console is some technical expert. While there are technologies designed to alleviate the problem, e.g UPnP, it places a requirement on the consumer that is not really required.

- Host has an advantage. Almost zero latency and can abuse the fact they are hosting the game by using things like a lag switch.
Sure. But when the amount is small/trivial, you simply give credit to to the finder or you send them a t-shirt, you may then be tempted to find alternatives to get a cash incentive.
It is probably not intentional. Had it been intentional:

Microsoft pays US$100K to hacking expert to launch remote attacks
> I understand that Agile is becoming required for some federal work, but I'll bet you a thousand bucks this kind of "Agile" isn't going to be the kind that the rest of us use.

Agile can't be mandated; you can mandate methodologies (e.g., Scrum), but by the very act of mandating a methodology you are not agile. Agile is a culture, and it is a culture of flexibility in methodology with focus on the goal.

And its a culture that is very much contrary to the entrenched culture of most large bureaucracies, government or private (and, in government, often in tension with binding mandates where the authority to make changes to the mandate is very distant from the locus at which one would normally expect efforts to adopt development approaches.)
You actually went into the dev tools? You could have just used Reader in Safari and been done with it. Another option is to just view source and read that. (Only kidding.. I found it a bit distracting as well.)
The reason it fails is because of articles like this disincentivizing the talent they need from being interested in working for either a) .gov/.mil or b) government contractors. Additionally, the contracting process being divorced from the project execution weighs heavily.
Back in the 90s, I worked at several ISPs, and let me say that NNTP required more infrastructure than SMTP. First, you need to arrange for NNTP feeds. Then you needed disk space. Tons and tons of disk space, because most of the people using Usenet wanted the alt.binaries.* groups. Skimp out on those, and there was a sizable number of customers who would go elsewhere. Then you needed to configure your expiration policies (posts in alt.binaries.* expire after 24 hours; the rest of Usenet expires in two weeks, that type of stuff).

Then there was the software that supported NNTP---all requiring arcane black arts to keep running smoothly. As much as I loved Usenet back in the day, administrating Usenet (or NNTP) was something I loathed. The server side stuff was just horrible.
PressureNET 4 released
Apple reportedly cutting iPhone 5C production in half
He had the fastest algorithm for pancake sorting for a long time. Not the coolest thing, but still pretty impressive and not just can code.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9223678...
I am very partial to saltarelle. It supports c# 5.0 constructs like async, c# 2.0 constructs like generics, and everything in between. It has a full suite of tests and relatively active. I have a lot of full projects implemented in it from 60fps canvas games to just normal sites. If anyone is interested in seeing some stuff, or just chatting about it, let me know.
Are you sure there's no value to adding uncommitted readers on the margins of a site's readership? It might not be valuable to everyone, but Flipboard encourages social media integration, and I would think having more people discussing your content on social media (even if those readers have limited direct monetization value themselves) would be preferable to having those people discussing a competitor's content.

Am I wrong about this?
I asked for a t-shirt, I got a job
Great animals. It is spectacular seeing them flying in big groups. They are also very useful for controlling mosquitoes.
Tell HN: October Elixir London Meetup
Hi all!

At last we have the first informal Elixir meetup in London. If you are in town on the 24th of October, and free around 7pm, you are welcome to join :)

http://attending.io/events/elixir-lang-london-meetup
That sounds, bizarrely, like the correct behavior when the default port is used would be to have a trailing ":", i.e. "clef.io:"
Do you know why that is? It looks clear from multiple sources that people must be switching from Chrome/FF to IE.
dewd, did you read anything? "most criticism of PHP is out of ignorance" nope, I suggested that many of the people who "hate php" on this site (i.e. where this poll is taking place) haven't used it. If you want to claim it's not popular to bash PHP on this site, talk to me when your head is back in the sunshine.

"Linking to you whining about people disliking PHP does not support your claim." What are you even talking about? I don't link to any of my own whining. I linked to 1) me, CRITIQUING some poorly written PHP to show that I'm not just some clueless PHP fanboy 2) someone in this very thread explicitly confirming my suspicion- they are downvoting PHP w/o ever having used it even one time, but because, quote, "I read an article" and 3) several examples of vapid, worthless comments bashing PHP for no reason other than to say "PHP sux high five!!" These are evidence of the trend towards mindless PHP hate on HN that you seem... not to recognize.

If you want to criticize PHP, by all means, criticize it! Talk about a feature you don't like or a bad experience you had, but "fuck php amirite??" circle jerk is pointless & stems from the cool-bros-hate-php culture, not from an informed position. If you're informed about why php sucks, share your information! If you have nothing to share, why clutter up the thread everyone will "phpsuxlol" bullshit?

"I am countering your baseless claim with a baseless claim of my own" ok....
How to ditch Microsoft and join a great startup
Makes you think, doesn't it: MonoGame+XNA => Windows, Web, iOS, Mac OS, Android, Linux, PS3/4, XBOX.
It's super low on content and void of anything all that interesting. It's like Salon is capitalizing on this book being published to get some hits. It's not the worst I've seen of this but it's not worth the click.

Salon is usually known for doing better than that, but I guess they have to make the easy money where they can.
Alex Haro (CTO / Life360) here. Very excited to be a part of this series. Happy to help any way I can. alex@life360.com
I'm confused that none of them expressed fear of being the target of a serious DDoS attack. Is it regarded as such a black swan event that it's not even in the radar?
Tips For Naming Your Online Business
APC recalls surge protectors due to fire hazard
I'd also add changes (improvements, in my opinion) in labor and safety laws. I suppose that falls under "[changes in] the relationship between government and business" but I think it's worth calling out specifically.
Excellent read. I love the graphs that detail what dribbble is made up of.
Derivative with respect to what? Time, so we can get money/time as the output? Differentiating a population percentage -> wealth with respect to time doesn't sound particularly informative.
Please don't confuse "evolutionary biologists" with "evolutionary psychologists."
Yes, please! Post some links to samples. How easy is it to port an existing XNA/MonoGame project?
Even though I agree that UPnP is a solution for a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place, I wonder how secure that kind of P2P communication will be. I guess people will still need/want residential firewalls and automatic ways to bypass them.
So, I wanted a good ranking of these, so I wrote a quick script in Python to download and rank them.

https://gist.github.com/TJSomething/6924624