skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why you're blaming SOA there. Atlassian apps are standalone instances so, assuming your former employer self-hosts, it has more to do with your own server and network performance.

In fact GitHub is most likely closer to SOA architecture than Confluence is.
I hope that this will at least light a fire under the asses of Rails devs everywhere, and get them to adopt HTTPS. Nothing is safe against Firesheep without HTTPS. All of these issues would be solved with HTTPS.

Also, doesn't cryptographically signing (or fully encrypting, in Rails 4) the cookie just add more time to processing than using a database? I always assumed cryptography is slower than IO
Well, a lot of people are part of a botnet but few can spot that. I am always told that ISP is always being attacked.
A number of benchmarks have an "off-screen" mode with fixed-resolution rendering specifically to avoid native resolution artefacts. That provides both the absolute hardware power in comparison to other devices and the device's "feeling", how its hardware meshes together (aka if it has enough power to drive its own screen). The second one is arguably the more important one wrt user experience and the ability to actually use the device.

GLBenchmark has both onscreen and offscreen modes, and Anandtech posts both every time.
There is a graphic layer that is "persistent". It's for beginner graphics.

Fucken BBC is in denial on God. They think I'm destroying it. Ba ha! God endorses it. I make the rules for the industry.
I agree with the points about FPS games. I played a couple of the demos without any nausea and then tried HL2 and my stomach was almost instantly in my throat. On reflection, there was something about the first two demos that made the difference, I think. In one, you're underwater in a pod, which means even though you're in first-person, there remains the concept that it's not you moving, but the pod, and you therefore have a relatively static near-plane environment which moves subtly, whilst the 'outside world' moves more freely. In the second demo, a sky-diving simulator, you're free falling, so there's very little rotation involved.
the tax figures quoted are nonsense. They are for council tax - paying to have your bins collected, and in London only the subsidy for the tube and busses - not all the taxes you have to pay for living in the UK.

If you rent the property, your rent income would be subject to income tax which is a % of the income (depends on the total income, but for large enough values will be 40%.)

Additionally, when you buy or sell a house, you must pay "stamp duty", which is a percentage of the sale value, and for a £30m house would be 7%, or £2.1m [1].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/stamp-duty-land-tax-rates
I don't want to be mean, but isn't Croydon a generally undesirable area?
Very interesting! The more I know about scandinavian countries, there more impressed I am.
> Just as famine in the modern world is a political problem rather than primarily an agricultural one

i m not sure if this is true - i read conflicting accounts. Some say that enough food stuffs are produced in the world to feed the entire world population and its a "distribution" problem, while others claim that arable land is either slowly decreasing, at least, isn't increasing, and will lead to food shortages sooner or later (sooner rather than later given bad climate).
No evidence at all? The guy didn't even offer her a chance to negotiate - a chance he did give another (male) founder. While it's true that this is not definitive evidence for gender bias, it is at least suggestive. I'm wondering what type of evidence you would accept, because you know, it's quite rare (although not unheard of!) for men to openly come out and say that they discriminate against women.

Bearing that in mind, pretty much every proxy that can be measured indicates that there is a gender bias. Think about it - what sort of thing could you look at that would indicate a glass-ceiling? Lower access to higher level jobs compared to numbers at entry level? Check. Lower negotiated salaries? Check. Sexist comments made in public places? Check.

Our world looks suspiciously similar to what we would expect the world to look like if there was a deep gender bias.
What do you mean? Rails support running over HTTPS. Or are you suggesting that Rails never run over HTTP only?
I completely agree, and I like the way you phrase this: It can break it, but not make it.
I really like this. Had a quick play with the hosted demo before the Application Error started appearing. Going to install it on a server myself tonight. It would be great if there were more 'offline' activities. I see you plan on adding RunKeeper. I'd also like to see Nike+ and other wearable trackers (FitBit, Withings scale etc.). I noticed a minor bug in the hosted version, so I filed an issue.
/sarcasm/ Come on! All people are equal! /sarcasm/
The police can't request data. Only public attorneys, and even then, only under direct surveillance by a judge. When the first phase of the investigation ends, the ISP may inform the customer. Public attorneys must inform the investigated individual.
"My solution is moving further South (Surrey) near a good train line which gets you into Victoria/London Bridge in 30 mins." The sum of your rental and travel expenditure will probably stay constant though? Train fares are quite hight.
Define the Job, Before Defining the Person – A Commonsense Idea for Hiring
Is it loss of confidence in the currency that causes hyper-inflation? or that (high) inflation causes the loss of confidence, leading to a downward spiral?
Why Social Media is Not Valued by CEOs
Over the years I've come to the conclusion that "science" is all about the customs designed to defeat the brain's imperfections. (It's pretty impressive that we can build such a reliable system on top of a such an unreliable system.)

One important conclusion is that scientists are not more believable than other people. "You should believe me because I am a scientist" is not acceptable answer. That scientist is still a meat-bag, just like you. The entire field of science is built up so we can trust the results of science despite it being done by meat-bags, not because we have created high priests that are more believable.
How is it racist to point out that out - what next being called racist for pointing out that BME people that get stopped and searched more than whites?

The guardians own articles on property make a point of highlighting "good" schools when they cover an area?

Parents good intentions can often go out of the window when it comes to their children - I recall my mum commenting that if we had stayed in Birmingham she woudl have tried to get me into King Edward VII via family connections.

King Edward VII being the top selective school in the UK
Building a Docker-based MySQL Server
How about this one?

http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm

The relevant chapter is III.H.64: "An aspect of Microsoft's pricing behavior that, while not tending to prove monopoly power, is consistent with it is the fact that the firm charges different OEMs different prices for Windows, depending on the degree to which the individual OEMs comply with Microsoft's wishes. "

EDIT: Replaced the link to the final version in stead of a proposal, added the quote

EDIT2: Duh, I totally missed your point. Yes, they have resorted to also that tactics lately. Just a few high-profile cases.

- Microsoft sues Barnes & Noble over patents - http://mashable.com/2011/03/21/microsoft-sues-barnes-noble/

- Microsoft sues Salesforce - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20005306-56.html

- Microsoft sues Motorola - http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20101001/1356...

IMHO especially the B&N case is telling. A very sad story.
Registrars Who Shut Down Websites [for] London Police Violated ICANN Policy
According to _Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall_ he came up with the idea of using stencils when he was hiding from the police and saw stencilled letters sprayed on the bottom of a truck.
What feature would we need in Android by default, to make meshnets a lot more possible? Like some sort of auto-connection to whatever Wi-Fi is close to you.

I'm hoping that once the carriers themselves start to push users to use wi-fi for offloading from their network, the more Android and iOS and others will have features to make that easy, and the closer meshnets will be to reality.
Using a server based session storage is simple as long as your whole app lives in one datacenter and all frontend hosts can reach said server. Once you have app servers in multiple datacenters (e.g. for geo loadbalancing) and want to provide a seamless login no matter which server the user ends up on server based session storage just gets a lot harder. (Apart from having to handle a massive write load which used to cause major pain with mysql, myisam and database based session storage, but these times are luckily over).
I'm suggesting that site operators need to use HTTPS. It doesn't matter if you use Rails, PHP, Node.js, whatever. USE HTTPS. NEVER USE HTTP.

It's as simple as that. Never assume that anything transmitted over HTTP is safe, because that assumption will come back to bite you.
Fair enough, I've replaced it with a static icon.

http://pythonhosted.org/pulsar/index.html
Actually a lot of the more expensive property is owned via trusts which avoids stamp duty.

And if you are renting out you set up a company to do this and pay your self mostly via dividends
I agree, but:

1. I wanted to make sure I am not just throwing an idea in the wind

2. The problem with couchsurfing now is mainly the poor website experience. I know this does not depend on the tech stack, but it's good to keep this in mind

As "features", I think those of couchsurfing are OK to start. Later on I think few things could be added:

1. jobs on the style of WWOOF and Work Away

2. Reviews, itineraries. Like I have an entire kayak itinerary for 2 rivers and I could put it in there or like where you can rent a kayak for a long trip, etc.

3. Guides. Like free tour guides, city walks, etc.
Why do Indian devs feel compelled to blame their parents, families, wives, society for everything?

Come on guys, this is 2013 and not 2005. There are tons of product startups in Delhi/Bangalore/Pune/Chennai. If you don't find one that works for you, start one on your own.

Sure India isn't the US or Israel. But neither is it the India of 10 years back. Carpe diem!
God Invented Economists To Make Astrologers Look Good
When you take money away from someone who was saving to build a factory, so his factory is not built, then the factory doesn't produce anything, so wealth is lost.

Moving money around disruptively (via inflation or other methods) makes it harder to do economic planning and successfully do large wealth creating projects. So it does mess up wealth creation.

You say you agree with my points but you are disagreeing. Hopefully this clarifies.

A major cause of inflation is printing money.

Fractional reserve banking is basically the same thing as loans. It increases the amount of money that exists only if you ignore the amount of debt that exists. If you subtract people's debt when considering how much money they have, like you should, then nothing actually happens to the money supply.

(In practice, banking is complicated by factors like FDIC insurance. But the basic idea of borrowing money then loaning out the borrowed money, while it does come with some issues, doesn't cause inflation because loaning neither creates nor consumes money, it balances out (unless you selectively ignore half of what's happening))
Yes, no evidence at all in this anecdote. There could have been any number of reasons why the guy decided to back out of the job at that stage, including the one he gave. Assuming it was due to sexism is just a wild guess. The fact that he negotiated with the male founder could be explained by any of the other factors involved, like the better job title offered, the increased salary offered, or the (given) reason that the author just didn't inspire confidence in the hire.

It's not at all suggestive of gender bias. Just because something happens to a woman, does not indicate in any way that the thing happened to her because she's a woman (unless it's something that couldn't have happened to a man).

I completely agree that there is evidence that the glass ceiling exists, and there is ample evidence of a strong gender bias in society at large that is amplified in certain industries. If you re-read my original comment I didn't dispute that. All I'm saying is that her anecdote is not evidence that she was hitting the glass ceiling.
Their website doesn't seem to mention prices for accountants. If I was a bookkeeper wanting to manage the accounts of say 10 clients, how much would Xero charge me?
Redis is an ideal data store for this kind of thing, will be doubly so once we have Redis Cluster.

But still, if your frontend hosts can't reach your database, you have far bigger problems than your sessions not working.
I see your point and it is a good one!

Most people that step out into the road in front of me on my commute are doing the 'ipod shuffle', distracted by text or talking about what they are going to have for dinner. So it isn't as if they are distracted by anything really significant and in some way that is where the danger is - an assumption they can multi-task whilst crossing the road. If they were interrupted by someone calling to say they had won the lottery etc. then they probably would stop in their tracks and not attempt to cross the road there and then.

When I found the wallet the other day I did think whether anyone had seen me and I did think about whether there was CCTV and whether I could get caught had I just taken the money. However I quickly decided that I was going to try and return the wallet. I made a few paces up the road before turning back and going to the corner shop to see if they recognised the guy in the travelcard photo. I was distracted, no question about it, and, had I needed to have crossed a road then I might not have had my wits about me.

So, what would have happened had I decided to take the money? Rather than think about whether I had been seen I would have had to actually check every bit of street furniture for CCTV and every window overlooking me. I would have had to surreptitiously put the wallet in a pocket and gone through the thought process of where I was to dispose of it etc. Maybe, as a result, I would have been extra careful on the road.

However, I believe that cheating/stealing/doing wrong poses an abnormal and detrimental strain to thinking. By analogy, one of my Scrabble playing friends has this habit of cheating. He is a journalist with a considerable vocabulary, with pride to match. Therefore he has to win. However, the rest of us know that he sometimes does things with the letters bag and sometimes we choose to turn a blind eye. The added strain of cheating and not getting caught affects his game meaning that he puts himself at a competitive disadvantage. He can have a rack full of 'Q's and 'Z's and miss a seven letter triple word score word like 'quizzed' because he is more focused on trying to get a 'U' from the bag when there is a perfectly good one on the board already.

To conclude, it is the element of deceit.
I think he means getting devs who deploy Rails apps to start using HTTPS for their app, rather than there being a deficiency in the framework.
The Ball-of-Mud Transition, or how software gets complex
> It's also destructive because it discourages savings and capital accumulation, which are important to wealth creation.

However, it encourages investment, which in a modern capitalist economy is far more important to wealth creation.
Its easy to poke holes in any applied methodology. I could suggest the time of day wasn't consistent across groups, the seating position might introduce bias etc. But you have to start an investigation somewhere, and I think their methodology was a reasonable balance of practicality.

The work is tantalising evidence for something else going on. Which certainly warrents follow up work. Even if it was just the people were bored and not paying attention to ads, it still has consequences for the cinema business model.
Everybody is always under attack. The internet is falling to pieces because of botnets, and people forming clans for protection (by which I mean CloudFlare, they're forming CloudFlare)
You didn't answer my question - what evidence would you accept?
Maybe to remind the engineers here that "making tons of money" is not the only approach in life? I find this article interesting, related and thoughtful. One of these rare counterexamples to the popular culture.
Poor author wouldn't have heard of HN if this post had not made it here. :P
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2013
It's an anecdote, not a court case. The author and her coach made their best guess based on their judgement of the situation. Obviously they are both privy to a lot of information that isn't in the article (and would be extremely hard to express). The author got to experience conversations with the person in question, and so probably had a lot of information that was expressed through manner and tone. The coach knew the author well, and knew the author's abilities and was in a position to make a qualified judgement over what the problem was. Also, of course, the coach was aware of cultural differences that are mentioned but not detailed (for obvious reasons) in the article.

The story does not strongly point to the problem being her not her gender. The guy in question did something extraordinary (pulling out of an accepted job offer) without being able to give much justification besides vaguely disliking her. If she was incompetent or had a poor personal manner then that is exactly something you would expect the man in question, her colleagues and her coach to bring up.

You can interpret this story in two ways:

a) The man had a non-sexist reason for disliking the author so much he backed out of an accepted job offer, but he was unable or unwilling to express that reason specifically, even though he was willing to tell her that she was the problem. The author is incompetent or unlikable, her colleagues are too incompetent to notice or say anything and the author's coach is so incompetent that she just spouts feminist paranoia instead of actually being helpful.

b) The author, the coach and the author's colleagues are all reasonably professional and competent, the man in question is from a culture where older men don't tend to like being under the authority of young women and this made him increasingly uncomfortable over time. He backed out of the job because of this feeling of discomfort, but was unwilling to give that as his reason because he knew it would be seen as unprofessional.

I believe that your choice of which of these to believe indicates that YOU are sexist.
Look at the trend for "real" (not nominal) salaries over the past decades, and you'll get your answer for how destructive inflation can be for the lower and middle class. Since the dollar has been dramatically devalued over the past few decades, while the nominal salaries have barely increased, that means people today are making a lot less money than their parents or grandparents used to make, and you can see an article about that every other week, because it's true, and inflation is the main reason for it.

Yes, in the end, companies are at fault for not increasing the salaries with inflation, too, but inflation is what enabled them to leave them as it is, because most people don't really keep track of inflation, and don't know when their salaries should increase and by how much according to the inflation. So the companies play this "trick" on them, by keeping salaries the same or increase them by much less than the inflation rate.
Growth = increase in wealth quantity.

It seems reasonable to state that on a finite planet an infinite increase in wealth quantity is impossible.
Backdoor found in D-Link Routers
welp, there's no profit in reading this.
You're describing syndicalism; it's not true that it was never implemented by the communists. The Soviet Union had a very serious go at it, allowing the artel as an economic unit (essentially a kind of co-op), and allowing people to freely sell products of their own labor. Within months, this led to a renewed stratification of society, the emergence of a nouveau rich class, and something approaching a return to capitalism (some people's labor is more profitable than others'). In the case of the Soviet Union, this led to a crackdown on the labor market. They also made attempts to organize along trade union lines instead - which reduces the stratification problem somewhat since a trade is not a single economic unit - but having the electricians and the mechanics within a factory report to different management was not practicable. The USSR came to its system of government-run conglomerates because it was the only way they found to combine socialism with getting at least something done; it was not their initial intention to have everything run by the government, if only because the didn't really want the management burden.

In other cases, the evolution towards capitalism just ran its course. Israel stumbled into syndicalism by default - its labor unions and cooperatives predate the state. In virtually all cases, the cooperatives did not grant new members the same rights as the founding members. E.g. the bus cooperative - which started out as a free association of owner-drivers - now relies on hired labor for most of the actual driving, with wages the same as any other driving job in the capitalist free market. The final stop for this kind of developments is in the unionized ports, where they have full union members making tens of thousands of dollars a month for sinecure jobs, with a lot of the gruntwork being done by minimum-wage hired labor with no rights. It's nice to talk about how "the workers" will not vote for this or that, but when it comes to voting members - of anything - voting themselves more rights than the people asking to join, they have, they did, and they will vote for that.
I'm slightly afraid to learn C++ after being told so many horror stories. But for the low low price of free? Count me in.
Alas, I'm sure there are ways around it. This is mostly why I'd classify any time money went from a "company" into a personal bank account as "income" and tax all that at one rate - dividends, salary, rent, all one income. The one thing I'd allow to be exempt would be pensions contributions - which you will pay tax on later when you draw them out again anyway.

I wish politicians could see past all the separate groups of voters they can bribe with exceptions and tax credits and just implement something simple and cheap to administer - more money for public services, less faff.
Best comeback to a patronising response ever!
Can't something like Airbnb already fill this role? I don't know much about couchsurfing in all honesty.
Is it really necessary to always broadcast Github being down? They have a perfectly good status page for this express purpose.
This is a pretty devastating critique. Everyone here should read it before taking this study seriously.
So allow those foreign investors to invest in condos for resale. Better yet, allow both - then both local real estate speculators and housing consumers can have a supply which will meet their demand.
It's not a court case, but she's trying to make a serious assertion (gender discrimination against her leading to serious career implications), and if that's to be taken seriously she needs to present the evidence to support it.

My choice of which to believe is based on the fact that the article presents some evidence that the first scenario is true:

1. The hire actually gave the reason as not feeling comfortable with her competence.
2. She claims to have been feeling unhappy with her own performance for a while and on shaky ground at the company.
3. The rest of the team accepted her suggestion and reasoning that it was her and that someone else should try to get the guy back.

The only evidence presented for the second scenario is the guess that her coach makes.