skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really seems like you're trying to insinuate that because press bias and bad reporting exist in the world, then somehow this rollout hasn't been a complete failure - despite the tidal wave of press coverage exhaustively demonstrating what a fiasco it's been. I understand this one source could have ulterior motives (although from the news reports I've seen, there have been congressional and HHS sources echoing it), but the notion that the press is basically conspiring to torpedo Obamacare strains credulity.

Even if there were several orders of magnitude more signups then are being reported, the numbers would still be a disaster, so I'm genuinely not sure what your point is.
None of the 6 or 7 watering zones I have are attached to a hose. It is all underground with valves and what not. That you linked to isn't really going to work with most underground sprinkler systems... which I am going to suspect account for more than 1% of the cases. I've used those types on one off watering zones and they do work. But I don't think that covers 99% of the watering people do.
IE seems right, Chrome seems wrong
There's nothing of substance in his response. When asked what's worse or more ambiguous about CoffeeScript, his answers are:

1) That people who don't know CoffeeScript have to use CoffeeScript when they encounter CoffeeScript.

2) He thinks require might have been implemented differently, though he thinks that maybe that might have been changed, but "I don't really use it so I don't really know."
You can also use these first few projects as pieces for your portfolio. On top of that, building up buffer income and a client pipeline are good ideas.
It's a very nice program and can only lead to good things, but the relatively modest rewards aren't exactly likely to bring openssh 0days into the light :)
Reminds me of the story of Snapper lawnmowers and Walmart: http://www.fastcompany.com/54763/man-who-said-no-wal-mart
Porting to your infrastructure is not a simple task if you're using AWS services beyond EC2 (DynamoDB, SQS, etc.).

And I don't mean this as a criticism of AWS. We're happy users and have no plans to move off. Just don't underestimate the cost of moving.
For me it's this: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...

My first real job was programming Java and I have a bit of nostalgia for it, but having to do anonymous inner classes for a simple callback is kind of annoying.
What's really cool about this, is that it looks like it applies to more than just security fixes i.e. Qualifying submissions - Any patch that has a demonstrable, significant, and proactive impact on the security of one of the in-scope projects will be considered for a reward. Examples include:

Improvements to privilege separation,
Memory allocator hardening,
Cleanups of integer arithmetics,
Systematic fixes for various types of race conditions,
Elimination of error-prone design patterns or library calls.

Reactive patches that merely address a single, previously discovered vulnerability will typically not be eligible for rewards. [1]

[1] https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/patch-rewards/
Seriously? Running a service cost money. Yes they likely have a markup, but the point is you can't get everything for free. How slow would match making be if it was entirely p2p with no Msft central servers?

On an entirely subjective note, I think xbox lives game recording will be baller!
Thin margins are a sign of an efficient free market. Any long lasting large margin is a sign of a market failure.

Maybe Amazon is just really good at that free market thing.

I agree though that it's starting to be time they get a more viable competitor. I'm sure, however, that when they decide to actually try and make a profit instead of just grabbing market share, competitors will pop up. In the mean time, while they continue to operate at zero profits, basically as a charity to consumers, this is a win for efficient free markets and consumers (read everyone) in general.
What an unbelievably shitty website.

Here's a link to the video. Had to youtube it because that site kept on causing my browser to crash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TkmZxRTQWk
I'd add to that is that there is certainly no agreement on what to do about the effects of climate change. In particular I rarely if ever see a comparison between the costs of adjusting to a warmer climate (e.g. relocating low-lying communities if you think the sea level will rise) vs. the costs of radically changing our energy systems (production & usage).
I had to trim my OP to fit the 2000 character limit (which, per my text editor's statistics, appears to be mis-measured at least against the text as input).

I'm a long time Gmail user. This prompt was new, this morning. It appears to be part of Google's relentless drive to push everyone to "one account" where all their personal data -- including bookmarks, etc. -- is synchronized to / stored on their servers.

Google: I don't appreciate this "resistance is futile" approach. Knock it off, please!

AND, please provide some clear links to full descriptions of what is going on particularly with respect to these settings, on your Account Settings pages. Thanks.
Who do you think is funding those scientists? Maybe Alternative Energy Companies and Governments that can make extra tax from people by pleading they just doing it for the climate.

Make sense now?
If I could find a 12" or 13" Android laptop with a nice screen, good keyboard, no fan, and decent specs I'd use it as my primary machine. Debian kit+console+a decent editor is all I need for work, and for play Android has more and better apps than Ubuntu or any other Linux distro.

It's about time manufecturers started producing them.
Meh, I will guess that is the usual suspects: like XML libraries, anything JEE, ORM, ... Those are the things for which Java provide an API (sometimes a default implementation) and you chose your implementation between competing ones.

The result is a mess of factories of generator of creator. Also, over the years best practice have evolved, meaning you get a variety of such mechanism in the JDK itself. With a single vendor, DotNet avoid a lot of that shit.

Then there is a huge variety of OSS libraries that integrate with each other. So you get another layer of pattern on top of the JDK. OSS libraries are extremely popular in java, much more than in the DotNet world, so that contribute to the sentiment.

Another usual suspect is a fashionable "Spring hate" or "Hibernate hate", ... Dependency injection, ORM and other patterns became mainstream on java and are very often used.

Even less hated "pattern" like mocking and unit testing started there too. A lot of projects still use older style less modern implementation of those.

EDIT: Also a lot of libraries are mature and implement the entirety of the specification they provide support for. Since java is mainly used for enterprise application, the most google-able libraries to solve problem X is generally the enterprisy one. For example if you search how to serialise to and from XML, you end up with Jaxb as the preferred solutions. You will not hear as much about XStream which is a more limited but much more straightforward approach.
Where's Dart? it's my most liked language at the moment.
If You Can Smell This, You May Not Have Alzheimer's
The Architecture of Autism
Excuse my imprecision; I should've said 'undeniable', although no doubt that would've invited more caviling than what I did say.
Pop-science journalists sure do love comparing things to barely-related things from pop culture. I rather doubt that the TALOS suit (great name, by the way) will be able to fly, shoot lasers, and survive in vacuum; and this is one of the less ridiculous comparisons.
Fitbit Force fitness and sleep tracking watch officially announced
That can also lead to a hell of a lot of analysis paralysis, however.

I know because I share your approach. Having worked with a great many legacy / inherited systems, most with little or no documentation, and rarely with much in the way of contact with the system designer, it's a bit of an occupational hazard.

Sometimes you've just got to blow down the fences to see what happens. Sometimes it's nothing, sometimes it's the end of the world.

Fortunately, in technology, resurrecting fences is generally fairly straightforward, but not always.

That said, the worst fences are the ones you take down without realizing they were there ... which turn out to be critical.
After using CoffeeScript for a few months I find JavaScript harder to read. Of course something foreign to you is going to be harder to read.
I'm not sure where the idea originated that readability scales, but &c., &c.
Turning a powerful SQL database engine into an object storage emulator is just sad.

Now that I can agree with, but I would consider that to be a (subtly, perhaps) different position than:

"ORMs are inherently stupid".

IF you have the option of choosing a native object store for persisting objects, then - by all means - choose it. But in cases where an RDBMS is the data store of choice for whatever reason, and you still have to store your objects there one way or another, I'd prefer using an ORM like Hibernate over hand-rolling all the low-level SQL/JDBC code to marshall objects back and forth between the DB.
I like the post, and it showed me some services that I didn't know about.

What advantage does Amazon's Route 53 have over Cloudflare? I've been using Cloudflare for all my DNS and CDN needs so I'm curious what Route 53 would have to offer.
My rationale for why the world should disable Java
The Future of Microsoft – Part 1
I love that the Max reward is $3133.7 dollars. Made me chuckle.
How about SSL?
Any more info on TurboJS? Is it open source or proprietary? I'm guessing proprietary to set you guys apart. Site is pretty fast and slick. I enjoy both Hammer and Anvil. Plan on building support into the apps for Forge?
Certainly in the EU. I am not sure about the Walmart situation though, since something similar is tolerated here (Germany) with the supermarket oligopoly.

Given their size, you can be certain that Amazon is being watched. It's possible they are already running afoul of the rules:

http://ec.europa.eu/competition/consumers/abuse_en.html

Probably "depriving smaller competitors of customers by selling at artificially low prices they can't compete with", since they offer insanely cheap shipping.
I get that it is verbose but I kind of like that. It makes reading code less ambiguous. I understand that is just preference though.

As for your import example you can totally do that:

> import java.util.Collections; Collections.sort(someList);

You just have to make use of static methods. I do understand though that a lot of the standard library is not designed like this so your point is taken.
Is that a real problem? People have been gaming like that for about 20 years...
How will the drones handle bad weather if they're continuously operational? They're not really quick so they can't outrun all kinds of weather.
Gitsync: a daemon for automatic syncing of git repos on a local network
Can somebody who disliked Python please tell me their reasons for doing so?
"deniers"

Really? You do realize that word is usually used in the phrase "holocaust deniers" and was purposely appropriated by AGW followers to discredit anyone that doesn't subscribe their beliefs.

Now that is propaganda at its finest.
Not included in the poll is MUMPS. I had a job right out of college that required me to write all of my code in it. It was pretty much the worst thing ever.
VBA in MS Access has On Error Goto.
Unfortunately, most of these polls don't really talk about the context. I don't think I've ever been as unhappy as a developer (in terms of the tools) as when I was required to use Spring, Hibernate, Eclipse, and so forth to do web development. There was absolutely no reason we couldn't be using Rails or Django for our needs - this was a top down management situation, and I'm sure my political frustrations contributed to my unhappiness.

However, a recent coursera course on Data Structures and Algorithms used Java, and I really didn't mind it at all. I'd even say I found it reasonably pleasant to use Java.
> I don’t give a hoot about the native command line tools, except for needing SSH to be present WHICH WINDOWS SCREWS UP AS WELL.

Yes, that's true, and as usual, but there's always BitVise: http://www.bitvise.com , which, in spite of the impression created by the Website, has a free version that works very well.

I mention this because I have always required SSH access to any OS that I respected and expected to make use of, but until recently the Windows offerings were pretty terrible.

I have no connection with BitVise except having successfully used their SSH product.
Stripe card validation passed w/ iOS, failed in Rails
As a follow up to my recent post about weird cc verifications, Stripe returns a token when I pass a card with a valid number but invalid CVC & zip code. I checked "require CVC & zip code authentication" in the account settings in the dashboard.

I will receive an error from Stripe in my iOS app if I pass an invalid card number but a token if I have a valid card + valid CVC.

When I charge the card, Stripe errors on the server.

How do I authenticate the card immediately, without charging it? (This is critical to the business logic)

[1]SO post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19301798/stripe-card-authentication-passed-from-iphone-failed-on-server
Valid.

The rant format definitely tends to cause its own problems.

I think it's all our job now to take (parts of) his points and apply them to support and help pages of projects. That's probably most effective way to trigger change in general behaviour.
So this looks pretty cool, and their marketing department already coined the term "atmospheric orbit", but their aircraft currently looks like vaporware. All of their videos are pre-rendered and the short clip in the article is too [0] small to be the aircraft they are trying to sell.

It also raises some flags when their quotes are from Senators and their "social proof" logos aren't customers they are supplies of the components they are using.

0 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If8MODnvjhw
Not me. But I've never searched the Pirate Bay.
JSIL - .NET bytecode to JS compiler
Historically the console hardware itself has typically been a loss leader, at least towards the beginning of its life cycle. Most of the profit has typically come from the sale of games. So, supporting legacy games increases the cost of a product that has little or no margin, while simultaneously reducing demand for a higher margin product.
Fair enough. I don't actually have a settled opinion on the matter. I was, however, pretty sure the author was being misrepresented as being against Kickstarter-style donations, and wanted to clarify.
very quickly became outdated, then ;)
Isn't your source already public if all you do is host static pages?
We use this tool at Scoutzie all the time and we love it. It's a great addition to email. Very often, when say sharing technical insights or design-related links, or even interesting Ted talks among our team, putting those things on email does not make sense, since it just creates clutter. Putting those links on Hipchat also doesn't work, since they are lost and forgotten within 20 minutes. But with https://sendtoinc.com , that problem is solved! We've all installed their desktop proxy and everyone knows where to look for new stuff. We all get to see what's been shared, but we do it on our own schedule and without impacting our productivity. Love it. Give it a try.
I'll never get ChromeOS. An Os where you cant install anything is useless. Want to use webapps? use a browser,at least on Android I can develop "native apps",run background processes. Tell me what can do ChromeOS that Android cant do? All google services are on Android.
Whats wrong with putty?
US created 90% of world's new millionaires
> add its certificate to your trust stores

I wouldn't install a company CA certificate on my Mac. It would theoretically allow the company to intercept all my SSL connections. I'd rather validate SSL certs for all the intranet servers manually.
Geminabox is simple until you want to run with a lot (500+) of gems. And then index-building is horrible - it basically never finishes.

The complexity comes in mirroring the right set of other people's gems, which match the exact combined set of all versions used in all your various projects.

There is not a good "pass-through" gem server that just automatically mirrors what it is asked for from RubyGems. There really, really should be.
http://www.playescapegoat.com/

I thought this was a pretty cute little example game.
There's quite a few small companies and individuals out there making money flying drones for productions. I worked on a large production for an American car co. that used drones for product flyovers late last year (this was on a multi-million dollar shoot that could have easily afforded a crane or chopper). It's so comparatively cheap and easy. They will transform not only the low to mid range, they'll be used extensively on high end as well. The logistics favor a drone over hiring a helicopter or a huge crane on most occasions (although they won't work for everything).
It turns out they are actually big problems. You can't dream them away. What would have actually happened is Microsoft would have had a customer revolt on their hands and not sold any Xbox One consoles -- I think they have enough problems without manufacturing one for no good reason.
I don't have the source handy, but I recall they said that that something like 99% of direct prime fee goes to paying for the video content.

Where they make there money is in the shift in purchasing habits. Prime users spend something like eight times as much money as non prime users. They make their money back because of the large increase of purchase. Overall, the net something like $3/year/prime user.
IE 10+. Damn. I still have some customers using IE7.
Yes, it is comendable that Ladar took a stand. That does not change the fact that Lavabit did not provide its users with the kind of security that people claim. If Ladar had been less principled, then what?

We need people who will take stands, but we also need systems that are inherently hard to wiretap.
This concept was considered as early as 1933 in the excellent and influential novel When Worlds Collide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Worlds_Collide), which I highly recommend as well as the sequel After Worlds Collide where they have all sorts of fun on Bronson Beta. Skip the movie, the books are of course more dated but much better.
The site is down due to Lavabit's decision. GoDaddy pulling it's certificate is just a PR move. GoDaddy supported SOPA, which is very much in line with what NSA demanded of Lavabit.
I have FTTC with ipv6 from http://aa.net.uk/
By a strange coincidence, yesterday a link to this article appeared on the same Hacker News page as this.

http://www.gwern.net/Drug%20heuristics?2

The argument there is that - in healthy people - not much can be done to improve intelligence, and speculates on reasons why. The qualification suggests that experience working with autistic children is not relevant to the general population.

That this link has been voted up to the front page and the other hasn't perhaps says more about the optimism of the community than the respective merits of the two positions.
Nice. It would be cool to add a third column ordered by the ratio of likes/dislikes.
when it comes to large, complex, distributed, long-living projects, java is the best choice. sure, I can build a quick prototype using python, php, node, ruby, its hard to rely on them when the project becomes large, distributed, complex etc.

IMHO its the only language that allows to create great server side programes, awesome desktop GUI applications, mobile applications or embedded applications. All in one language.
That's not a feature.

Edit to say that it could be a feature, if a number of vcs options were supported, along with non-vcs things like GridFTP and OPeNDAP, etc.
Browser tabs?
Why US government IT fails so hard, so often
The fight is more important than the outcome, in some ways. It will be interesting to see how they play the PR/legal/international angles to get at least decent results in NY.
Just yesterday, my colleagues were describing having Stockholm syndrome with Java. Went something like: "It's really easy to make fun of, but the more you use it, the more you start to feel bad for it."
My house is Alpha Sigma Phi and we're pretty strongly against hazing. But each chapter of every fraternity at any school has its own personality. Do you know anyone in any of the fraternities on your campus? Talk to them and see what they think about Greek life.

I think most fraternities at most schools do rush for both fall and spring semesters, though of course the particulars will vary.
So you were running on the starter databases? Slick.
I agree. If you judge a book by what you get out of it rather than what the author's ideas and motivations are you'll probably enjoy your reading a lot more.
Callbacks would be sweet, but for someone who never really used them till I got heavy into javascript I don't really ever think to use them right away. Also callbacks are mostly for asynchronous stuff which you can get away without using in java a lot of the time (I think, that's really the only time I use them at least).
The only thing I feel strongly about is hating COBOL.

Seriously, kill it with fire.
I feel like I do, personally, but more power to you if others feel otherwise.
Bullshit does drive thinking people away. The assorted levels of BS I've seen did convince me to be far more skeptical of climate change. I assigned a high probability to the AGW hypothesis when I started grad school, but was well below 95% confident when I graduated, and have become even more skeptical since then.

Bits of shadiness that have pushed me away:

- When I started reading papers on climate simulation (I was also solving wave equations numerically), I started seeing wildly unjustified assumptions in climate modelling papers. In spite of the obvious flaws, the models are portrayed as highly accurate rather than merely the best than can be done on current hardware [1]. This reduced my confidence by a bit.

- Odd claims about the validity of the models. GCM models + economic analysis suggests that the cheapest method of mitigating climate change is geoengineering (specifically, using human engineered pinatubo-style forcings). Yet geoengineering is dismissed as wildly unpredictable. Either GCM is an effective model, or it's not. If not, we have no counterfactual to compare to the historical record.

- Climategate. That's not how science is done. Yet rather than cleaning house, double checking everything and forcing the perpetrators out in disgrace, everyone rallied around them. That feels more like politics than science.

This paper is just using models and getting headlines. It's not a big deal. But throwing nonsense at people in an effort to get them to accept your claims is a bad idea, particularly when the primary argument is an argument from authority.

[1] Making unrealistic assumptions and doing the best you can is just a part of science. I object only to portraying toy models as the real world.
The idea would be to have something with a bit more sophistication. Associating contacts on multiple platforms into one thread. Reply to people on multiple platforms from one location. Having a conversation trail with each person on multiple media.