skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Old-school Java programmers are familiar with JAR hell during deployments with simple, naïve classloaders that just pick the first JAR with the desired class in it and don't provide versioned separation and ignore manifest files. The legacy solution is to write your own classloader and to use facades to get the correct class dependencies loaded more or less. JARs with correctly written manifests help but a lot of the Java convention system is not well adhered to even with widespread tool support. It's solved in modern app container based deployments of Java webapps at least.
> centuries' worth of hacker legends about the lost treasure of the Dread Pirate Roberts

It is amazing to think that in a few hundreds years, quite possibly, bitcoin/a bitcoin derivative could be the "global" currency, and this wallet could actually be a lost treasure among people. Sometimes it's easy to think we're just in the here and now, but we are making history, we're in the future's past.
> you pay only for what you use

This is only half of the equation. The other half is what are the costs of the things you do use. E.g. costs of exceptions, virtual calls, dynamic linking, dynamic memory allocation, concurrency, etc. Java is like an all-inclusive offer - you get more at a higher cost, probably with something you don't need, but often it is cheaper than to buy every service one by one.
So he square rooted 2, then multiplied by square root of 2 on that second calculator and got a rational number. Uh... Must be missing something, but given the calculator has only so many digits it stores - how did that happen?!
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I'm not a bit coin user, but that appears to be an attack on a "remote management" password for the client (it's about "RPC" or "remote procedure call" authentication), not for the wallet.

Wallets use a cryptographic key derivation function, this is against a plain text and configurable password. This would only be an issue if the wallet was loaded into the old version of the software at the time they attacked.
One of the things I see with Java today, how difficult things have gotten with the language. Its next impossible to deal with any large Java project without an IDE. The verbosity of the code is mind boggling. Often method calls are 4 - 6 layers deep, which in itself makes is very difficult to remember or even implement even if you read the documentation well.

The resulting code is massive walls of text. 90% of that is machine generated through eclipse. This is an indication that the language idioms are unable to support the current complexities in application programming trends. And you have to interplay with them heavily to squeeze out usable programming logic.

That doesn't end there. Perl is older than Java, yet despite that I see Perl can support a lot of idioms far far better than Java can with its bulky frameworks.

Its just that the language is beginning to show its age.

The only reason to use Java these days is basically availability of super low cost devs, Legacy code, tooling etc. Basically for reasons as with any tool that has an advantage with age.
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This article makes it sound like all of DPR's bitcoins are in one wallet. If 5% of all bitcoins were being funneled into one bitcoin wallet couldn't people have discovered that wallet by analyzing all BTC transactions?
The author asks whether legacy is better measured by tangible accomplishment or lasting influence?

IMO one large tangible accomplishment can lead to lasting notoriety. If you stack multiple accomplishments together, a lasting influence starts to build.

If Steve Jobs only built the Apple II, then that would be it. But he was able to continuously string together a series of accomplishments (even amongst some spectacular failures).
Depends how certain your guilt is, and how stiff the sentencing is.
Rich hasn't been directly involved, aside from providing encouragement.

Almost all the design/implementation work was done via Typed Racket anyway. I stole a lot of it and spent most of the time on Clojure-specific problems.
I have been disabled since 2002. When you are disabled it is hard to find work. I am in the USA. I have spent most of my time getting healthier so I can do some work from home stuff.

I run a blog and thought I might post some advice for people who are disabled and working at home, but I haven't found much that works yet to earn a good amount of money.

I am trying to write ebooks, and do some side-projects. I haven't gotten any VC funding and nobody wants to meet with me because I am stuck at home most of the time.

I think this would make a great hacker news topic, but every time I submit something about being disabled or mentally ill and trying to do a startup or work from home, someone flags it and it gets downvoted.

The Software Consulting market in the USA is really bad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhLV7jydPJ8

Joe Stack flew a plane into a building and my friend Mike Crawford went to talk on CNN why the Software Consulting field is so bad. I assume it is the same in the UK where you do the work and don't get paid and then get hit with a heavy tax on income you earned but didn't get paid on.

My only advice is don't low-ball or put out a low wage, because people in third world nations do that, and you will get junk clients who do rubbish like not pay you or pay a fraction of what they owe you. Make sure your wage is high enough to support your rent of your flat or whatever and you use a proxy service or something to make sure the money is paid to you. Don't be afraid to turn down stuff when clients have a bad rating. There are a lot of scammers out there.

Learn anything: http://noexcuselist.com/

Get a Github account: https://github.com/

Make a website: http://www.greatdox.com/howto/shittywebsite.html

That is my howto article where I show you how to use FOSS tools to find a low-rent web host and make a 'shitty website' to get started out, so you can make a better one later as you improve.

If you learn Linux: http://greatdox.com/wordpress1/2013/10/03/6-web-frameworks-t...

There are 6 web frameworks that can help you make your websites if you can learn how they work.

Good luck!
I find stress to be a strange response though. Annoyance would be a more "expected" response. Stress is something I wouldn't expect because I associate stress with more of a "fight or flight" situation.

It's something I find interesting.

I also don't understand the point of going out and not participating, or fully participating. If I have someone in front of me, I find I owe them my full attention, anything else is rude. I also am finding it highly strange that it seems difficult for anyone just to sit quietly by themselves without anything to do for 10 minutes, I think its a product of our "always plugged in" lifestyle.
This goes beyond chassis intrusion, though - the servers are set up to freak out if anyone even opens the cage to look at them.
WHMCS SQL Injection Vulnerability in the Wild
If you've been coding for 5 years, you should be able to write FizzBuzz on a board (or in this case actually on a computer) without the use of Google.

I agree that whtieboard interviews aren't good indicators of programming ability, and we employ other methods of figuring that out.

But the first test is to write a loop that prints the numbers 1 through 100 in your language of choice.

If you can't do that, you haven't been coding for 5 years.

And of course good programmers use Google. That's not the point.
Oh, absolutely, but even the Java language is quite fine. Even new languages like Go and Dart are essentially modified forms of Java, and Java 8 is a welcome improvements.

Those programmers who like the Java gradual-improvement philosophy and find Java 8 lacking, should try Kotlin.

Others who want a truly beautiful, elegant and modern language, should try Clojure (and for those who like Haskell but find it too easy, or prefer a truly complicated language with a lot of power but no coherent philosophy whatsoever other than a collection of lots-and-lots of haphazard features – there's Scala ;)).
Google would be defined as google.com (or the appropriate geo-specific domain) since this map is specifically for websites, not companies owning the most popular products .

As for what would happen if they did group by company? I'm guessing that Google would be #1 pretty much everywhere, save maybe Russia and China.
It's not an exaggeration. They can't do FizzBuzz. I would expect at least that without the use of Google.
The expected value of security software is how much money it saves via actually securing stuff and earning customer trust.
While you make a solid point, I will point out that the newest, hottest technology can make a difference, as in this very case. Silk Road was something new, and different from anything one could do with a telegraph or telephone. For the first time in history, (a part of) cyberspace was a effectivly a independent country, effectivly a country of it's own, not bound by any lawmakers whatsoever. It was true anarchy, the kind libertarians dream of, and it worked. The medium of the internet allowed it to run in that fashion, and still be a civil place. For the first time ever, Hobbes was wrong. In the state of nature as it is on the internet life is not nasty, brutish, and short. No one died in horrible fighting and murder on Silk Road, unlike in unregulated areas in real life. (Such as real-world drug dealers.)
Anyone looked at the code and see how this works? When you publish does it generate html or does it do it for each GET?
Interesting post, and I think very true. My takeaway: If you want quality {employees,contractors}, you have to pay them well. Other takeaway: Blaming others for failure is easier than introspection.
The Free Tools That Let You Hack Your Whole Life
Definitely not. I ask FizzBuzz. It starts with writing a loop to print out 1 through 100 in their language of choice. They can't even do that.
I strongly agree with you. It is not clear to me how a billionaire like Larry Page is being forced into anything. It is not conceivable that he personally would be jailed if Google were to defy the US government.

It would be interesting to see what would actually happen if one of the big American internet companies just said the truth. "We have received 35 NSL's and we gave them your data."

What would actually happen? Would their stock go up or down? Would they gain or lose customers? Would anyone be prosecuted and jailed?
This is so damn disgusting!

But it also reveals, and people should realize how much of our society is actually a facade. This is not liberty or freedom, for you to do with with your apartment or home how you wish. Next thing you know the government is going to subpoena Craigslist to hunt down sales taxes for the banged up table you sold?

This is subversion, perversion, and corruption of public resources and policy to ensure private profits and gains because corporations really don't compete in America, they simply rig a system that makes is look like competition. Our economy is fraud, just like that Western Town at Disney World is a fraud.

Next up, you have to have a tracking device in your car to make sure you pay your taxes for being a DD and they buy your food and soda in exchange.
How is DuckDuckGo doing?
> The best comparison is by analogy in that a raw bratwurst will provide you with a tiny delta better nutrition than a cooked bratwurst.

I don't think this is strictly true, it's more complicated than that. You increase the bioavailability of many of the nutrients (especially proteins) by cooking, but lose some of the vitamins which are heat sensitive.
Hotel Wi-Fi Sucks: Create Your Own Hotspot Using the Room's Ethernet Connection
How can the FBI "seize" his wallet as if it were a safe? Isn't the point of Bitcoin that it is digital, hence he would be able to access it if he could get to a computer? Or is there a way to physically control the wallet so that it can't be accessed elsewhere?
This seems to come up a lot, and I agree that age discrimination is an issue. However, there are some obvious reasons for it outside of the the "we think older people are stupid" line. Younger people will often be willing to work more, for less pay, in more marginal conditions. (Witness the discussion a while back about whether ping pong tables and catered food was a perk or a red flag)

Young people have a greater percent of their experience on the most modern platforms and are unlikely to "write FORTRAN in any language" (JS, Ruby, etc).

We've also discussed how homogeneity is valuable to an early startup. Having everyone be culturally similar may allow faster pivoting and interpersonal comprehension.

Finally, tech startups today are largely focused on the "exit": it's not about building and maintaining a product in the long term. Older employees have the planning, analysis, and maintenance experience to establish a product vision for the next decade. But the startup founder (by and large) doesn't want to think of a product over a decade; it's all about MVP, pivots, and fast exits.

Not that any of that is bad, it just doesn't fit well with the average older employee.

I'll admit when hiring I have a little bit of the opposite bias. Very young employees can sometimes be too aggressive about "what is this legacy garbage? we should rewrite it all in RoR and JS". Hey man, we're still maintaining COBOL apps here, slow your roll. It's all about long term planning and maintenance for us.
I'm not making up this persons argument. I'm just offering an alternative explanations. Granted, I rant a little about how us net-citizens often regard obeying rules as optional rather than obligatory, but that's more because that's the common counter-argument to "hey, they're prosecuted because they broke laws.".

I strongly doubt that the parents theory applies for a couple of reasons:

* The donation is the 4th largest, but still only 1.58%. That's a bit - but there are more donations in the same ballpark. The largest donation is just shy of tenfold that amount. We're talking 40k USD here. It might move the AG a little in the desired direction, but I doubt "vastly more likely" applies here.

* The company donating isn't even in the same market. AirBnB and Glenwood Real Estate Corp. are not competitors.

* AirBnB is having the same troubles in other cities. NY is just further ahead in the hardball game.

* This has been unfolding for quite a while. I'm rather surprised it took so long.

All in all, I think your and the OPs conspiracy theory doesn't apply here. I think it's just a standard case of a startup trying to revolutionize a market that they've deemed "ripe for disruption" and on the way bulldozering their way over laws and regulations. And now they've just hit a wall that won't budge so easily. The sad part of the affair is that most of the fallout will hit the AirBnB hosts who are legally on the hook, but that's something both sides, AirBnB and the AG have willingly taken into account.
Completely agree. AirBnB de facto bribes you to not leave negative ratings. Last cancellation I had was from a no-show host, who left me without a place to stay in Canary Wharf in London, had to shell out AirBnb price + $100 for a last minute replacement, minus the 3 hours I spent waiting for the host (she was mysteriously in Russia instead of London). Host wouldn't give me my money back unless I promised not to give a bad rating. AirBnB offered me a $50 credit for my next stay. W00t.

Guess what? That no show host still has perfect ratings...
Sorry, I am not into sacrifice and pain. Please continue developing energy technologies so that I can live in a house with lights and running water, and have a car that can get me and my family around.
Show HN: Selenium Grid in Docker
Over.js - Elegant function overloading in JavaScript
over.js formalizes the way we write overloaded functions, so there's no more chunky switch cases and argument.length checks inside every function. What do you guys think?
It is called Common Lisp
Hey, this is the author of the post at The Atlantic. I thought I had linked to the research; it was totally my bad that in fact I hadn’t. It should be fixed now (or in the next 3 min, when our server refreshes).

EDIT: To be clear, too, I try to make it a policy to link to the original research in my articles, even if (alas) that research is sometimes behind a pay- or journalwall. It was an accident, and my fault, that it wasn’t first linked to here.
I personally use the maven-shade-plugin for this because it has built-in support for handling special resource files like licenses, service definitions, and manifest entries.
This is awful. What does the list of out-of-context statistics about entrepreneurship have to do with hiring tech workers? Who is the "Tech Industry" and how are "they" going to deal with an ageism problem defined by the article as simply statistically skewing young?
I get that, but if you really think this has ANYTHING to do with enforcement of safety and health standards then you are living in a dream. If that was their primary concern then the nasty cesspool "hotels" would not exist. Even big, corporate chain hotels are usually nasty and disgusting.

This is ALL about collecting taxes and ensuring private profits in clear and simple form of corruption out of incompetence and fear of actually having to compete. Maybe prices need to come down or service needs to improve so I may want to stay at a hotel that can provide what an AirBnB can't?

Imagine that. American companies actually having to compete instead of rigging systems that ensure "success".
A former client of mine considered Juce for a cross-platform project several years ago. It seems to be popular in the the audio programming segment. The biggest drawback is the lack of native look-and-feel; Juce apps don't "feel" native, and that's usually enough to keep it an also-ran for most use cases.

I don't really see the big advantage for these cross-plaform GUI frameworks, anyway. Trying to force a standard interface across diverse platforms means coming up with odd idioms or patterns to achieve a kind of artificial homogeneity. Better to concentrate effort on making the business logic cross-platform, IMO.
> I think the real test of a developers skill is to ask them to code something for you.

That's exactly what we do. I say "please get on your computer and write a loop to print the numbers 1 through 100 in your language of choice" and they fail to do it.
Chrome 30 breaks Google Maps embeds
Pasted a URI, hit return, got "Processing...", then nothing further happened.

The console (Firebug on FF25) shows the following error:

422 Unprocessable Entity
{"error":"Could not get any feed"}
Meldium -- https://www.meldium.com/
I own a vacation rental and list on AirBnB. AirBnB should pay the taxes. AirBnB is not a simple directory of houses/apartments/tents for rent. They are a "reseller" or maybe "re-renter" of houses/apartments/... For example you may charge $100 a night but AirBnB sells your property for like $125 a night. Is the host supposed to pay taxes on the whole $125? Really the guest is not even renting from the host. The guest is renting from AirBnB. The guest pays AirBnb not the host. When a guest pays AirBnb keeps the money until the guest arrives and pay you at their discretion. If there is a problem and the host wants some of the guest security deposit. The host has to ask AirBnb for it and AirBnb determines how much the host gets. A host can't even email the guest or get their phone number until AirBnb allows. As a host you are a supplier to AirBnb and suppliers in general do not have to deal with taxes. If you buy a coke from a gas station, the gas station is responsible for paying local taxes Not The Coca-Cola Company.
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The laws were (presumably) debated before they were passed. So it's not premature to enforce those laws today. It's not shooting first and asking questions later. It's more like asking questions, having a vote on whether we can shoot, and then shooting.

We may not like the exact formulation of those laws. We may consider them overly broad or intrusive. We may feel they should have distinguished between abusive profiteers and average, well-intentioned citizens who only rarely rent out their apartments. These are reasonable positions, and I can see their merit. We probably should have that debate. And amendments to the existing laws probably should be given a fair shot in the legislature.

But until then, it's entirely appropriate to enforce the laws that were duly passed many years ago. One could argue that the government should exercise some discretion, and enforce the laws only against those operators who are actually causing a problem. Well, according to the unnamed source in the government, that's exactly what they're doing. You may choose to believe that source or not. But until we hear about the government coming down hard on a legit, small-time user, I'm prepared to give the government the benefit of the doubt on this one.
Sure. Are financial decisions being made for the plankton by popularized mass media stories instead of analysis of current and historical conditions? Looking at the business cycle and rational buy/sell times, does the possible plankton consistently lag the real world cycle in some cases over 90 degrees? Another analysis is plankton is really small compared to the whales so you can assume a really small player is plankton, although there are the occasional other small animals. Pretty much the mass media sets up bagholders. So if a hypothetical plankton is nodding their head along with the infotainment financial channel newsreader, they're probably plankton. If someone says they made their decision because of Graham and Dodd they're probably not plankton, but if they "blame" Cramer and Kudlow they're total plankton. If they "blame" Middleton probably not plankton but its not entirely settled. If they're nodding their head along with a really apparently smart commissioned salesperson aka "financial advisor" its a plankton-ish indication. Found zerohedge in their web browser history, probably not plankton; found financial advice from hollywood actor twitter feed, probably plankton.

Harry Browne's passive investment strategies continue to make money over the long term. Don't have to have a passive permanent portfolio strategy implemented, but not even knowing such a concept exists is plankton-ish.

Make decisions based on delta value, not plankton, make decisions based on delta price, plankton.