skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think these conversations can be misleading. It's all about tools and frameworks. There was a small window in time where I spent writing mobile apps in JavaFX - and it was a nightmare. No support for different phone sizes or hardware. Now here I am using java to do the same thing on Android and it's a much smoother process. Android has great frameworks in place to solve the problems I had with JavaFX j2me mobile apps. Here is where some people jump to conclusions, "JavaFX is a bad language;" however, my struggles with mobile where not related to the language but rather the tools and frameworks.
To people who use Path - why do you use it over Facebook?
Also in meetings all day and all night.
Sounds very reasonable assumption.

House prices are fundamentally tied to the income of people living in the area. There can be ups and downs but eventually it all comes back to fundamentals. Labor's share of national income has been in steady decline in all OECD countries since mid 70s. Smaller part of GDP will be available to be spend to housing.
They actually break quite a bit of news, along with clogging the internet with blogspam. It's a pretty fascinating business model.
I seriously doubt it. That's like saying Michael Jordan is too expensive for the Bulls.
See that starts to sound pretty darn good.
one of the founders of WP Engine here - just wanted to thank you for your kind words.
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You don't need Java's built-in types when you are doing FP in Java. In fact, it is not really FP if you do. Java FP is faster than Clojure in everything.
Maybe depends on their title? Software engineer, yeah probably getting nibbled to pieces. Other job description, ymmv.
That is a really cool service. I can't help but notice, though, that the example on your front page sends bank credentials over http instead of https. Is that particularly wise?
Yeh like trading on the OTCbb
It seems like Dell plans on 15" Sputnik
>non-partisan

Simply being 'non-partisan' does not mean one isn't also highly ideological.

http://jacobinmag.com/2011/10/the-partisan-and-the-political...
Hosting is a pretty stressful and thankless industry. Your services can run flawless for years and your clients wont think twice about you, but as soon as the mail server crashes you are somehow evil and ruining their business.

You were smart to get out. I haven't yet.
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Wow... Nice one.

Does anybody know if it works with Mono?
Cool story to read. Always fun to see what kind of projects get in.
No, it works fine. If you are doing FP then things stay well organized no matter the language.
I highly doubt he's going to be asked to shape a story to fit someone political viewpoints.

That's not how these things work anymore. It is more of a case of funding "useful idiots." You find someone who has a viewpoint that aligns with your financial interests and then you fund their work to promote their viewpoint and your financial interests just tag along for the ride.

There are a lot of pundits and even elected politicians who appear to be nothing more than corporate shills, saying whatever gets them paid. But, for the most part, that's untrue. They genuinely believe in what they are saying, they aren't hypocrites they just have a viewpoint that is convenient for the people funding them.

With hundreds of millions of adults in the western world, there will always be some number of people who are reasonably eloquent, plausibly logical and authentically believe in nearly any philosophy.
> When asked whether the new organization would have a big video presence, Greenwald said it would be “very innovative — very, very innovative.”

I hope it's not too video oriented. I rarely consume journalism/news via video anymore unless it's real life footage of some incident.

Hopefully it's NYTimes style innovation, utilizing good modern web design.
How is that ridiculous? Why can't nginx or MongoDB monetize its strength?

10gen was a startup and MongoDB was built to make money.

You can keep a project "open source" while offering enterprise level of support. Look at Puppet, Chef and now Ansible.

The world needs business. Nginx is mature and actually deserve to run as a business. The developers are already consultant for a long time; they just want to monetize Nginx publicly, as a startup.

Are you afraid Nginx will become the next Microsoft Windows Server? I can't predict future but with 100% of faith I say nginx will be fine in the next several years.

I don't necessarily think free software == win.
Shouldn't someone on the V8 team watch Chromium's "Cr-Content-JavaScript" bugs, especially bugs with the word "performance" in the summary?
Looks like a tangled mess of a decision engine. Why would anyone want this? Surely, there are other solutions out there that are more mature? (nagios comes to mind but is a poor example)
MJ "leans in" pretty hard too. The recent story on Elon Musk tries very hard to be a hatchet job, and comes off badly because of the forced angle.
Very true. I'm currently happy using Webfaction but I just know it's a matter of time before I have to look for a new hosting company.
I do perceive an issue here. I just refuse to let - yet another - uncomfortable reality dictate the way I live.

I understand what is going on out there. I'm just not going to be a martyr.

Advertisers, go ahead and try to sell me something based on what you think I like.

It won't work on me. It's a hail mary play.

I guess what I'm really trying to say is I'm not in position to change anything so I suppose I can be thankful for the likes of Edward Snowden and companies that fight back far reaching government requests (Like AirBnb did recently) but I'm going to live my life and live it fully, challenging authority every step of the way hinging on the fact that I believe in the Bill of Rights.
The people backing him would be really going against the grain since Greenwald is pretty anti-establishment.

Snowden provided material to both Washington Post and the Guardian, but it was the Guardian that chose to really dive into it and milk it all the way -- Washington Post hesitated. A lot of people are hungry for Greenwald giving them more Snowden leaks, the backer probably understands this.

The understanding with Greenwald is he's not afraid to piss off people -- if he gets more leaks in his hands, he's going to let the public in on it. It's hard to imagine Bezos getting himself into this kind of public hot grounds, so I think it's highly unlikely that Bezos is behind this.

edit: small grammar fix; thanks cpeterso
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> We have two countries that tried to build them and in the end it is still 60s tried and true technology that puts man in space. Some of those reasons are price, some politics.

One country succeeded, and the other stopped being a country. In neither case did the idea fail.

> Another way to put it, if the idea is so complicated that nobody got it to be implemented properly and no country is actively working on a new design, I say there is something with the idea.

No, that's called learning from experience. There's nothing wrong with the idea. It's an idea still actively being explored by a variety of people as well, and the tech developed for the Shuttle programs lives on the SLS and Ares vehicles that NASA is replacing the Shuttle with.

> one can also say well hypothetically if NASA had an equivalent program to Soyuz maybe they would have had more money in the pocket to build an even bigger and better ISS, or ISS would have been there a lot sooner.

We can state with certainty that the ISS would have happened a lot LATER if all we had was Soyuz vehicles, if it would have happened at all. Soyuz lacks the capacity to build the ISS or to do space walk repairs. There's a reason Proton was used more than Soyuz was in the construction of the ISS. Soyuz is good for some things, building space stations, repairing satellites, or getting to the moon/mars are all not on that list.

Also you do realize the Shuttle wasn't the only NASA vehicle, right? NASA does have Soyuz-class vehicles, such as the Atlas or the Delta (Atlas-Centaur alone has more flights than the Shuttle)
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Vox media perhaps? Maybe they are looking to get into the hard news business.
Just to clarify: Any company which got open source model is awesome.

Just in that case transition may cause that they core product will not be evolving as fast as we would wish. Without digging depth, things like "Advanced load balancing" just in paid plan makes me anxious.
Some Lisp or Smalltalk guru steps in and says that they already did that in 80's in 7, 6, 5, 4, ...
I am using 4.2 branch on my retina pro from early 2013. What's the issue? Do you have issue with launch a desktop version of Ubuntu?

I normally launch server instance so I am fine. Just curious.
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Pretty impressive. Time to start porting debian into webbrowser :-)
> It's hard to imagine Bezos getting himself into this kind of publically hot grounds, so I think it's highly likely that Bezos is behind this.

Did you mean "highly unlikely"?
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http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/vmware/known-issues.html

So this is now the only issue left. If I remember correct there used to be multiple issues with VMWare + Vagrant. I just checked now and seems only one left. Correct?

I might actually switch to fusion + vagrant on my mac osx if the support is stable.
>if you have an important story involving powerful people you want to be told in the most impactful way

Do you not see that as implicitly representing a certain agenda? As a long-time reader of Greenwald's, I recognize a heavy anti-status quo bias inherent in his writing and his editorial choices. Just because you agree with him, doesn't mean he isn't biased.
Cool story. You should have given it a link bait title though - "I rejected YC twice... and still got in"
I'm on a DoD network and can't even access github.
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She's just not cisgender; she's trans. That doesn't make her less of a woman.

Children are trans too. It happens every time a doctor coercively assigns a baby's gender and ends up being wrong.

Either way, women are women, and this one is an inspiration.
According to their site, they are still hiring for five positions. Maybe it's just a massive cleansing?
It seems all conservatives are beginning to reference themselves as libertarians (partial or otherwise) these days.

Another word that will descend into ambiguity and quickly lose it's meaning ala "socialist". This happens rapidly these days as mainstream news adopts phrases.
I was wondering if he was a New Zealander, in Canterbury we have a very characterful foehn wind we call the nor'wester. Its associated arch of cloud is called the nor'west arch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor'west_arch

We're not exactly imaginative with names around here.
looks like a nice app, but the video being talked through by a kid describing her sister seems very strange to me. I'd love to hear from the video producer why they decided on this choice of narrative.
There wasn't much skill involved in breaking the Snowden stories. What made Greenwald different was that he was willing to break them and to offend the government.
Did Path destroy itself with questionable ethics[1] or is there really no way to compete with Facebook anymore?

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/07/path-uploads-your-iphones-a...
There are kindle specific features?

I think most people like the fact that even the Sunday edition is only $1 (that's why I buy it). It's very bare bones. Pretty much just text and sometimes a single image. Charts or images with text are usually unreadable.
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I don't think many people would consider their product poorly designed (as in, visual design) or poorly engineered.
What party is he partial to again? It certainly isn't the Republicans. And he supported a prospective Democratic Senator a few months ago.
Thanks for that. Ironically, I'm trying to collaborate with some folks, I'm DoD, and can't access the github site. And now, with the shutdown, I can't access NIST either (they are apparently closed for business except for a couple critical roles).
None of the people let go were software engineers.
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This doesn't seem to be quite the same effect as the entire body of the slinky is not contracting. So, it isn't just that the bottom and top are moving together as fast as the entire slinky is falling, causing the bottom to remain stationary, but that the entire bottom of the slinky is remaining stationary (not just slowed down, but exactly stationary), in its stretched state, until the top of the slinky reaches that point. I don't think you are giving the phenomenon enough credit.
Ask HN: 20 years old, received offer, no idea how to negotiate. Advice please.
Situation:
I am a 20 year old, and I was just sent a congratulations from Amazon about my interview, and we are going to call to discuss the details of the offer tomorrow.

Problem:
I have never had a job that had anything to do with salary, benefits, relocating, etc. I have no idea how I am supposed to interact in the negotiation, etc.

Anyone who has gone through this process a lot (as I am sure most of you have), please give me advice. Even better if you happen to be an Amazonian.
When has secret communication ever been as convenient as the non-secure methods? Dead-drops, circling letters in the newspaper, putting a flower pot on your balcony...
Which version of LLVM IR are we talking about here? Since LLVM's IR is intended to be used as a compiler IR and not an executable bytecode format, it changes in backwards-incompatible ways on a regular basis. Google's PNaCL solves this by snapshotting a particular version of LLVM and using a subset of the IR of that version of LLVM. Last I heard, if they ever needed to support newer versions of LLVM the plan was to create a completely new, incompatible version of the PNaCL bitcode from it.
Hmm, are you sure? The disturbance at the top of the cord has to travel downwards, and the speed at which it travels is the speed of sound in the cord itself. No matter what the mass at the bottom is, it can't "know" it's been let go of until the information propagates in the cord.
I've been hosting small sites on WebFaction <https://www.webfaction.com/>. I never had problems of downtime and the support has been reasonably responsive the couple of times I needed.
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I have a long list too. You need off-site backups because that day will come.

Funny, my first real host (he.net) is still in business. Maybe it's true you get what you pay for ;-)
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And that's a great policy.
I'm not highly knowledgeable in security, but the gist is if a block cipher uses the simplest mode of operation (ECB) each block is encrypted independently - good for sync bandwidth but from that the attacker can derive the structure of the file which will help to recover it or it can be used to check if known file in present in encrypted data(watermark attack [1]). More advanced block cipher modes "blend" to some extent blocks hiding file structure information (but if you change single bit a bunch (or all) of the blocks is changed). Also there are stream ciphers, which don't use blocks at all. If you change 1 bit stream cipher will change 1 bit in its output. The problem is it's insecure to use the same key twice with stream cyphers (reused key attack - [2])- e.g. if files with known text is encrypted (think English text, xml files, jpeg headers). Of course it can be overcome by using initialization vector ("seed" which is used with the key), but that IV should be different for each file and you should somehow save it to be able to decrypt it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermarking_attack
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_cipher_attack
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I think you're really overcomplicating this.

1. Since gravity acts on all points of the slinky equally, you can aggregate this by saying that gravity acts on the slinky's center of mass.

2. The slinky acts like a spring. Since it is being held stationary, the forces on the bottom part of the slinky equal out. There is a force of gravity going down which equals an upward spring force.

Therefore when it is dropped, the center of mass falls at g=9.8 m/s^2, while the bottom part initially experiences no net forces.

You can also show why the net forces on the bottom of the spring will remain 0 (0 = mg - F_spring) for a spring obeying Hooke's law (F = k*d), where d falls with gravity.
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Thanks for this, I am starting a small side business and this looks like a nice solution for what I need.
Who is that someone?

I didn't know releasing the facts, and not halting the story just because the IC asked him to was shaping the story to fit someone's political viewpoints.
Stories that appear to challenge the narrative that good programmers are just naturally talented tend to vanish.

Wait, is that the common narrative? Surely the only people who believe that are the elderly, who just can't shake the "child genius" idea of programmers they were fed in the seventies and eighties?
Nope its not! That's just our development endpoint and only used for testing purposes - nice find though :)
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Why can't it be subjective?
It can happen. Lots of little kids and teenagers sustain effort to play video games.

There is something to be said about being able to sustain effort over long periods of time (months, years) to master something, whose training includes things that are not pleasant. However, this is not something that formal education does very well. Ultimately, the person learning is the one who has to concentrate. Sticks and carrots do not necessarily goad someone into concentrating.
Shared hosting is really bad in general. If you happen to be grouped up with people that are constantly hitting their resource limits and/or the box is oversold it can be even worse.
I don't know. I have a tendency to get noticd merely for being different. I have genuine concerns about ordinary, nonsecret activities of mine taking notice. But that concern is mostly not relevant to the kind of intelligence being discussed here.

/pedant
It sounds a lot like a Brazilian version of the secure intranet (GSI) that the UK has rolled out for lower level stuff.

And from a security perspective (sorry linux fanbois and microsft haters) the choice of MTA/MUA isn't as important as the rest of the security.

Would be interesting if due to this that OSI and X.400 makes a comeback for more secure email - though presumably with all the security enhancement proposed for the later standards - hmm I wonder if you could use quantum networking with x.400/500
It appears to be a wrapper around a webservice that runs in process. So I assume the webservice is something like .NET and so they stuck with C# for the GUI bits.
I'd pay $60 easily, but not for news. I'd pay $60 to an organization that consistently topples corrupt power structures through investigative journalism. Heck I'd pay $60 per head that rolls.

I would expect the organization to uncover wrongdoing irrespective of political affiliation or national origin. I'd expect it to push extremely hard for transparency, forcing transparency where possible. Any news organization that leaves no rocks unturned where people can hide their weaseling is awesome in my book.

Basically, I'd pay very good money for an investigative news org with journalistic might equivalent to the military might of US Armed Forces.

People in politics, finance and all sorts of equivalently powerful organizations need to feel as naked and vulnerable from and information security perspective as we do after learning about myriad NSA surveillance programs.
You never had trouble but come back here in few years. WebFaction registered September 28, 2003. 10 years in business, not bad. But if you start recommending hosts there's going to be a list here 10 miles long.
Now can we use it to collaboratively fix Healthcare.gov?
I wonder which phone Techcrunch called.

They might have called his night phone this morning.
Does it perhaps depend on your Gatekeeper settings? which could explain the diverse experiences being reported.
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That is just polling essentially the same endpoint that renders the page.
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That's why I didn't call myself a libertarian, and instead said that I like parts of their ideology. Not sure what the problem is with that. If I do, I do, if I don't then I wouldn't have said it.

I don't really think I fall entirely into a particular category. Anyone who can subscribe 100% to a political affiliation is likely not giving it enough thought.

Almost all of the republicans I know are of the tea party variety, but then again I live in West Virginia. I'd likely be considered a socialist liberal by their standards. I do know a few Libertarians, but most of them have held those views for a long time.

The word socialist hasn't lost the meaning it has held since the cold war. Ultraconservatives use it as an insult for liberals, because they know they'd be ridiculed if they said what they really wanted and called them communists.
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Quite hard to reinvent an entire infrastructure (which I doubt is what they are doing)

If they are writing a brand new clean room new mail standard (plus all the ancillary bits directory non repudiation key handling the whole nine yards) - it will be amusing to watch the CF that results.
But only for things you've done. I don't care what your background is, it's not easy to get into Stanford, and anyone who gets in should be congratulated.
EDIS looks very interesting! Thanks for sharing.
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I saw this posted on HN once and thought it was great advice:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11ywklJAr0fwE_PO2SutQ3bsa...

N.B. I'm one year older than you, and the last time I got a job offer for a place I wanted to work at, I was too excited to use that advice.
> And this being SERPRO, they'll likely use cutting edge technologies such as MD5 and DES.

Hey, PBKDF1 uses md5. That only puts them a handful of years behind.
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So how are you different from Dwolla? Is it that you provide an API, while they provide an application?
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There is a very simple rule of thumb when it comes to hosting. If your site/business matters then never put it on shared hosting. It's always bad, overselling is what makes it possible to have those low prices. In terms of the noisy neighbor problem shared hosting is a ghetto.
I use wave (www.waveapps.com) for this and its been absolutely fantastic. absolutely fantastic. (yes it had to be said twice.
It totally is. What I probably didn't make clear is that our long term approach with Nickler had me doubting what success looked like, the path, and how we defined it. I had to stop making it a tangible thing to keep from going insane.

I think I probably blast this shit out to help manage the voices, and talk my way through it, thanks for reading!