skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will not recommend Hostgator at the moment, even though I used to recommend them for years.

I was using HG for probably 7 years or so. But I believe they recently got acquired by EIG[1]. I'm not saying there's a connection, but I've experienced several incidents that made me change my mind.

At some point I was moved to new servers. The migration process was very sketchy. HG did not send notification emails about the migration on time, which meant once the migration took place, I had to try to figure out which DNS changes to make (were not provided), whilst the service was effectively down.

Afterwards they've had a rather major issue with their email servers, which got blacklisted as a result of a large amount of spam being sent from compromised Joomla apps[2]. This resulted in many forwarded emails to bounce and (my) customers being both aware of the forwarding (which wasn't always desirable for me), and that their emails bounced. The Hostgator response to this incident was painfully slow and they did not seem to appreciate the gravity of the effect on their customers.

I already had shared hosting services running with webfaction, so I moved most of it away to them. For more heavy-weight hosting, where I need more control, I use Linode and AWS.

[1]http://www.shoutmeloud.com/hostgator-sold-endurance-enduranc...
[2]http://blog.hostgator.com/2013/08/23/global-blacklisting-res...
Awesome Chaplin.js http://chaplinjs.org/ app btw
Or Psmith.
I like it. But, what am I going to use it for this time?
I think the pace of the course is too fast for the beginner. For beginners, trying Codecademy or Treehouse might be better.
The registration process is a pain. The captcha image is not visible and the acptcha audio sounds like a signal from another world.
Last month's cryptopary had a really diverse, really excellent turnout. These will continue to happen every 3rd Sunday. Bring a friend, share the knowledge :)
if you link your mobile phone number
I feel your pain for legacy systems. Mine is just one shared hosting server for clients I've had for years - clients whose sites still require PHP 5.2 and break if it's upgraded.

Short of ditching them I haven't figured out what to do. I'd hate to be a shared hosting company where thousands of sites break when the server software is upgraded (not to mention Wordpress installs getting hacked every day...)
For me it was the texture; I've tried chocolate covered crickets and they were like nothing I've ever ate before.

I have no problem with eating insects as long as the finished product doesn't leave insect grits in my teeth for hours after a meal.
A point about spoofed email, Square always seems to ask the sender for a confirmation whether the email was spoofed or not. I tested this by sending it legitimately and through an unauthorized email server.

The only thing that was concerning was when I sent a spoofed email, the receiver was able to know the sender name (cash account name) – "ABC is about to send you cash". Very minor but it allows anyone to find out your name provided they know your email address.
I agree with you and think this is the correct answer.
It doesn't accept British Pounds yet :(
Surreal frozen bubbles in Canadian lake
That's a mail people have been receiving for 15+ years from PayPal.
This is a very interesting comment but I feel the need to point out that your comparing the Irish population to mosquitoes could be perceived as a bit harsh!

Not to mention that if you actually manage to reduce the mosquito population by 20 to 25% (as the Great Famine did in ireland) I'm sure you'll see an impact on the following years.
Looks nice. I think collection price and track price might be reversed on the example site, though. Track price for one was 11.99, where the collection was 0.99.
"it nukes the browser's standard right click contextual menu for opening links in new tabs and windows, copying urls, etc when clicking on messages."

That is incorrect. It only appears to work for the message list (where the browser context menu is not necessary anyhow) but in the message itself the right click works as usual.
Agile Retrospectives with Lego
Too late for the game, but the new UI is sleek.

Some front-end libraries i found:

- chapin.js

- backbone.js

- handlebars.js

- lodash

- moment.js

- r.js

- store.js

- mousetrap
What do you mean by them having made more money than me?

As far as I can see, they have to sell Path for more than $41.2M before they make more money than $0 and that´s gonna be a tough one. I'm currently a bit above that number. ;)
The Various Ways to build Wordpress Mobile Site
Reminds me of a similar gmail feature http://www.google.co.uk/wallet/send-money/
he hasn't given all the documents to guardian. only greenwald and poitras have them.
Maybe. I'm not saying that the attitude I described is universal, but I feel like in China you get a certain respect for being successful.

I feel it used to be the same in the US at some point in time. Getting rich was seen as a reward since you provided a good solution to consumers and therefore you could gain from the overall value you provided to society.

On HN, I'm not sure what is the trend, since you see people saying that "profit is evil" and stuff in that line of thought, as well as folks cheering for SpaceX, Tesla Motors' CEO Elon Musk who is getting very rich through the process of what he does - and it does not seem to bother many people in these kind of situations.
The article already indicates (in USD figures) that a cockroach farm generates in the low tens of thousands of USD per year.
Thanks, my goal is to focus mainly in Front-end development but maybe someday I will try Ruby
Yet another example that improving the algorithm (almost) always beats bruteforcing :)
That should be called murder and he should be in jail.

Fsck him and his company.
It's good to hear from you Matt, I've had Bytemark/BigV recommended to me half a dozen times, as well as seeing you sponsoring conferences since ~2007.

I guess your life is made easier than many of the hosting companies by not offering shared hosting, and (from the impression I've got) generally working with larger clients. So none of those issues of upgrading PHP and finding clients' sites stop working, or having 1000 hacked and exploited Wordpress-hosting accounts to deal with each morning. If you encounter them, how do you mitigate those two scenarios?

DSVR brings back memories - I used them in 2002-2003? They had such a reputation... and then just disappeared off the radar!
> I've tried chocolate covered crickets and they were like nothing I've ever ate before.

Can you describe what it was like ?

By the way, I wonder if there are people who feel the same level of disgust when eating shrimps. Shrimps are not insects per se, but it's not very far from that either, and most people consider them to be a delicacy and have no problem eating them...

Related XKCD : http://xkcd.com/1268/
Red Bull Stratos POV
Sony Electronics launches 36.4 megapixel camera for pros
It's more like the new "imagine a beowulf cluster of these" meme, a comment generic enough that can fit most stories while contributing nothing to the discussion.

They could have settled for "I, for one, welcome our new NSA overlords".
It might not be relevant to your life but it is food for thought for anyone who visits a doctor and feels that their expertise is not being taken seriously.
The specific phrase is or isn't easily crackable, that's as debatable as anything. It's not relevant to what I've been saying at all. What's not debatable is the fact that this dude "taught it to his wife" in a multi-month span. That's pants on head stupid. Combine that with "basically a wife", and the dehumanization/patronization was enough to piss me off, cryptographic overkill aside. Maybe that's just me. Whatever.

But let's pretend we're talking about complication for a moment (a much more interesting conversation to all of us anyway), and then let's realize that this very sentence probably would take about a minute to memorize, and would be completely uncrackable.

You're forgetting password cracking 101 - it gets a lot harder, even if the word/phrase only gets a little longer, or a little different. Sly dogs instead of lazy dogs, a hand in the bush is worth two in the bird, sally smells sea shores by the she shell, every fine boy does good; what do you want from me? You'd never crack any of those, and we both know it. Why? You'd never try them. You just wouldn't. Show me the algorithm that'd come up with, "No champions, play like excuses!" Only 32 characters, should be trivial. Right?
I don't see how it is related, sprezzatura means something completely different.
Okay, than show me. Show me the algorithm that'd crack the password I just came up with.
That's not true. Given a dictionary of 2048 words that the attacker has complete knowledge about, picking any 4 random words will always give you 44 bits of entropy.

2048^4 = 17592186044416
2^44 = 17592186044416
Fourier analysis for non-scientists
There is new technology called 'Context Menus' designed to solve this problem, but is yet to be implemented in any browser. The idea being web apps can augment menu options to the existing browser menu.

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
Which bank are you with? Having had accounts with 4 major banks here (Kiwibank, ANZ, Westpac, ASB), I can confirm that you are allowed passwords more than 8 characters.
Also, several of them offer a second protection level for logging in.
But won't the total time of transfer be higher if there is an additional hop? I understand that the time before being able to confirm the transfer to the user is slower, but then the photo wouldn't be immediately available to the user (it still needs to go from CF to S3). How is that useful?
I hadn't heard of the app before now, but I'm not finding much sympathy for users of a system built on the premise that they should not have access to data on their own device.

Anyway, a clarification of the headline: not only 'unopened' snaps, but also those that have not yet been opened by all nominated recipients. So if a law enforcement agent can have themselves invited into a Snapchat circle they can take advantage of that fact to persist the image on the server until it is legally demanded.
Years ago, Delicious used to have the killer feature. Nowadays, Google's Chrome Sync and Pocket adequately keep my bookmarks alive.
Oracle Still Hates Open Source Software
If you disable Javascript you have to accept that not all websites will work. If you disable Flash then not ALL video sites will playback video. It's not rocket science, apparently hipsters think it's cool to disable Javascript and moan that they cannot browse the web. Grow up
Except when people create phrases like that they aren't choosing random words from a dictionary, they're most likely choosing words from their own vocabulary which will be significantly less than 100k words. Additionally the distribution is not uniform, reducing entropy even further.
CF can keep connections to the origin open, which saves several long round-trip times in TCP/SSL handshakes. Conceivably, the CF-to-S3 network might also be better than the you-to-S3 network.
Harshness is definitely not intended. I was hoping to evoke people's direct lived experience of (1) killing lots and lots of mosquitoes, and then (2) failing to notice any impact at all on the prevalence of mosquitoes. Unfortunately, choosing something with a reproductive cycle that humans can have gut-feeling level experience with restricted my analogical options to, um, "undesirables". The point I'm trying to make is that they're both living systems, and living systems of all types grow incredibly quickly.

Look at this another way: over the last 50 years, the population of Ireland grew by 50%. Over the 50 years before that, it grew by negative three percent. And the famine happened 50 years before that. It seems very difficult to explain the 1911-1961 performance in terms of the famine.

> Not to mention that if you actually manage to reduce the mosquito population by 20 to 25% (as the Great Famine did in ireland) I'm sure you'll see an impact on the following years.

I honestly wouldn't expect that impact to last more than two years, if that. But that's a guess. (Consider again: in 50 years (roughly 2 human generations), Ireland's population grew 50%. If the mosquito generation length is one year, then at the same rate they could recover fully from losing 33% of their population in... two years. But insects generally follow a strategy of laying many, many more eggs than the environment can ever support as adults, so I'd kind of expect the effects to wash out in a single generation.)
First and foremost, you can now place a single CloudFront distribution in front of your site, including the dynamic or interactive portions that make use of HTML forms or accept user data in some other way. You no longer have to create and manage multiple distributions or domain names in order to accept POST or PUT requests.

Second, your users can now benefit from accelerated content uploads. After you enable the additional HTTP methods for your application's distribution, PUT and POST operations will be sent to the origin (e.g. Amazon S3) via the CloudFront edge location, improving efficiency, reducing latency, and allowing the application to benefit from the monitored, persistent connections that CloudFront maintains from the edge locations to the origin servers.

So you get to save on having to configure and serve multiple domain names (which isn't all that hard), but you have to add logic to your server side code and user exposed uploading UX to check and display to the user if content is finished being uploaded by the user to cloudfront and by cloudfront to the origin/backing store before using/processing/displaying it.
Like the front page article that he's leaving The Guardian as an employee?
Have been really impressed with the consistent positive things I hear about Bytemark.

Seems like you have a lot of good karma and should get more HN exposure if you ask me.
Maybe, but maybe not.

The dotcom did get some things right. The internet is a big deal. There are land grab markets. They got timing and lots of other details wrong.
Maybe they will need to have a freemium offering long term to avoid too balance this if they start hitting millions of active users. It should be easy enough to get $5 pm from big users.

They are playing for a big market(s) here. Very big. If bthey are paying to build their name and userbase, it could make good business sense.

We know a lot more hese days. Our instincts are better. We are not cming up with a valuation based on a multiplier of hits. A user of a financial service has a realistically high value.
A great and inspiring article; who wouldn't like to feel special by getting some attention from the companies you do business with... it's a great and relatively inexpensive way to make a big impact.
Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming
Agreed, I have no motivation to create a new account just to see what they've done with it now. I used Delicious for many years, but they just seemed to completely lose direction. All I wanted was a simple bookmarking tool and Pinboard is perfect in that respect.
What would it be like if a planet just barely missed colliding with the Earth?
Apple cuts 5C orders due to weak demand
http://www.chessgames.com/~AylerKupp?kpage=35

Crackers are using phrases from literature and the bible. Trawling the rest of the internet is not far behind.
In that case, the feds already have it ...
Cloudflare is returning SSL errors, also affects DigitalOcean
I work on Shumway, and we would love to get more complex Flash games running. Would you and your company like to help our team get these games running? Performance is a hit or miss, sometimes we can be really fast, sometimes really slow, it all depends on either:

1. We haven't implemented some feature well enough.
2. We can't implement a feature in JavaScript/HTML5 and we have to emulate it in a very slow way. In these cases, we can either improve the Web Platform to support these features natively, or work with various game developers to avoid using them.
Why is yardc's post [dead]?
Sounds great, just bought it (on Amazon, for my Kindle, with one click).

For another great read about a would-be Amazon that didn't turn out quite the same way, and an entertaining look into the internet business environment at the turn of the millenium, I recommend Dot Bomb by J. David Kuo.
Brain Implants Can Detect Mathematical Thinking
Ted has it right. Consumers with comprimised credit pay for the benefits given to consumers that the CC companies see as more desirable. I'm not one who believes in not taking a bite at the apple when everybody else is.
Fascinating:

... China ... the first party-approved science fiction and
fantasy convention in Chinese history. And at one point I
took a top official aside and asked him Why? SF had been
disapproved of for a long time. What had changed?

It's simple, he told me. The Chinese were brilliant at making
things if other people brought them the plans. But they did not
innovate and they did not invent. They did not imagine. So they
sent a delegation to the US, to Apple, to Microsoft, to Google,
and they asked the people there who were inventing the future
about themselves. And they found that all of them had read
science fiction when they were boys or girls.

Just an anecdote, of course, but this would be a wonderful "proper" study - to look at the correlation between early SF readers, and "makers" versus "workers".

Correlation doesn't imply causation, etc, etc, but it does suggest an interesting and intriguing possibility.
Based on data Wednesday at 1AM Mountain Time

Actionscript	21.22%

Ada	109.92%

Assembly	247.81%

C	700.00%

C++	69.75%

C#	241.94%

Clojure	363.72%

Cobol	6.38%

CoffeeScript	81.26%

ColdFusion	6.09%

D	162.59%

Delphi	64.06%

Erlang	332.28%

Forth	219.63%

Fortran	48.24%

Go	308.56%

Groovy	45.58%

Haskell	391.49%

Java	46.51%

JavaScript	159.88%

Lisp	435.29%

Lua	526.32%

Objective-C	71.76%

OCaml	268.64%

PHP	30.28%

Pascal	106.33%

Perl	66.31%

Python	636.01%

R	122.91%

Rexx	43.48%

Ruby	162.21%

Rust	376.99%

Scala	161.52%

Scheme	525.41%

Shell	126.68%

Smalltalk	239.60%

SQL	254.29%

Tcl	56.31%

Visual Basic	12.26%

Other	155.56%

F#	270.00%
There is an interesting story (that probably is just a myth) of how potatoes were introduced in Greece.

The then head of state, Kapodistrias:

"Having ordered a shipment of potatoes, at first he ordered that they be offered to anyone interested. However the potatoes were met with indifference by the population and the whole scheme seemed to be failing. Therefore Kapodistrias, knowing of the contemporary Greek attitudes, ordered that the whole shipment of potatoes be unloaded in public display on the docks of Nafplion, and placed with severe-looking guards guarding it. Soon, rumours circulated that for the potatoes to be so well guarded they had to be of great importance. People would gather to look at the so-important potatoes and soon some tried to steal them. The guards had been ordered in advance to turn a blind eye to such behaviour, and soon the potatoes had all been "stolen" and Kapodistrias' plan to introduce them to Greece had succeeded."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannis_Kapodistrias#Administra... (2nd paragraph)
Financial Services Firms Leveraging Big Data - Infographic
Delicious was _awful_ for a while - slow, clunky, intermittent service.

But since the redesign it's all been working incredibly smoothly for me. I'm happier with it than I've ever been.
I don't think one should judge humanity based on comments on the internet. The people behind those comments would respond (and debate) much differently in real life, when they get direct feedback (verbal and/or nonverbal) for the opinions they unfilteredly and impulsively spout onto the interwebz.
See also: https://twitter.com/search?q=digital%20ocean&src=typd&f=real...
It sounds too much like Wasabi for my taste :-/
Shumway runs in every browser, including IE. The extension however is Firefox-only, but it should be easy to make it run in Safari or Chrome. We're just not familiar enough with those code bases to do it ourselves. It involves some intimate knowledge about how to intercept Flash player initialization.
Wow thats really impressive . well done
Rackspace instances, no issues.

Rackspace cloud sites, terribly unpredictable performance with frequently obscene (20s+) latency, then categoric denial of actual measured issues for months... followed by begrudging admission, a swap of networking hardware, and a respite for a few months... until it all starts again. This pattern is much too frequent in their forums. I suspect they assume the customer's code is always at fault, so won't really look into their network layers unless coerced. A real shame.
Power Line Falls Down In Front of Gas Station (Taken From iPhone 5s  120fps)
People at the gas station were running inside and appending off. Craziness.<p>I hate the smell of electrical fires!
Looked at differently, though, the third-is-right adage is wrong. More typically version 4 crosses the good enough threshold -- Windows 95 as the fourth from 1.0 and XP as the fourth from Windows NT 3.51, for example. By that reckoning, Windows 9 promises much, as v. 4 from Vista.

Windows XP is version 5.1 of Windows NT. I think it is really dumb to try to see "laws" in product versions.
Has it been acquired by microsoft ? (sarcasm)

@user downvoter and (max-iq: 12) {
Wow ! In my humble opinion this site may have lost its
identity and brand, if I'm not mistaken !
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It's great to see an example that actually produces a full running app. There are lots of little things involved in making an app that get missed if you just talk about directives and scope.

Will be interesting to see how easy it is to get the same project working on mobile, hopefully with minimal changes :)
> I'm not finding much sympathy for users of a system built on the premise that they should not have access to data on their own device

One of the more out-of-touch HN comments I've seen in a while. And that's saying a lot!

Look at it this way: the person sending the snapchat owns the "data", and is just granting the recipient permission to watch it for ~10 seconds.
Remembering people's bank account details is a nightmare though. I sometimes need to pay friends or family back for a meal or whatever, but going through the rigamarole of requesting their bank account details and then logging onto internet banking, going to the payment screen, putting their details in (making sure you don't mistype a digit in their bank account number) and then hoping you did everything OK is just a fundamentally broken UI.

The Barclay's "pingIt" system is a step in the right direction, I think all banks should adopt a similar system. Paypal "gifting" is a good alternative to this but not everyone has a paypal account
Dissect, lexical and syntactical analysis written in pure PHP.
Very weird approach by one of the most recognized and respected venture firms in the industry.

Other than connecting people to unique content, I don't really get what's going with the whole redesign and HackerNews-esque feel.
The NSA back door to NIST
Video backgrounds Flickr
Please consider that this project started internal only, so there may be sensitive information in the full history.
Huh. I can't remember the last time I didn't get either one key, or the second key was a valet key. That's _quite_ a nitpick.
UK banks do the same, they just charge their fees to people who go overdrawn instead.

There's no such thing as "free banking" in the UK
Looks like it's US only?
ZIP code??

Residents of 48 US states have the ability to send and receive Square Cash. Currently, you'll be limited to receiving Square Cash if you live in the following two states..
Ok, full disclosure: I work for Gandi. We realize that motto is something you can't say on the radio, but it's so true, we just have to say it. We are a small, tough, smart company, the kind we want to work for. We do offer a full API for resellers, so you could white-box the solution if you wanted.