skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who don't know, Monty is the creator of the Vorbis audio codec. If there's somebody that can create a competitive free video codec, it's him.
I mean for example an online game. To run it, I would need to have a computer over which I have control and which runs the game. That computer would be the server. If it goes down, the game will be down. How does that fit in this system?

EDIT: or web banking!
I totally, absolutely agree. Once you give up exercise, it goes downhill fast: mentally, spiritually, and of course, physically.

The morning is the best time to take care of the body. I am a cyclist and I love nothing more than to wake up early (well, somewhat early) and getting in an hour-of-power before breakfast, coffee, and work. I start the day off right and by the end of the day, I feel naturally tired instead of run down (there is a difference).
With MacOS 10.9? That sounds pretty awful, really. Apple has shown little indication of going remotely as far as Microsoft on trying to merge desktop and tablet interfaces.
How many of these were first time founders?
Hmmmmm, my understanding of OT is that you have to implement that on Server.....

Only the server has understanding of the most current states of the dataset and can try to sync up with multiple client at the same time.
maybe XHTML was the right way at first place , just saying.

It very probably was. The path we're going down with HTML5 and "modern" browser technologies is taking a muddled clusterfuck of a mess, and making it even more muddled and even more of a clusterfuck. It'll work, but only through heroic effort and sacrifice.

I feel like we're painting ourselves into a corner with the web these days, and actually reducing choice and flexibility on the web. One thing that is clear, is that we've lost sight of the distinction between a document and an application, and have managed to turn a pretty good hypertext platform into a Dr. Frankentein's Monster that combines hypertext browsing and a poor man's X-server in eldritch and grotesque ways.
> transmission control chip had fried
> $15 before insurance

Was this outside of warranty? Because I've paid _hundreds_ for transmission control modules of all sorts: Dodge, FORD, Honda.

The "chips" they would be referencing are likely surface-mount not socket-mount on anything much newer than 1995. (I think my 1993 EEC-IV has a socket mount for the main processor but I haven't had it apart in ages.)

There is no way a brand new TCM is $15 before insurance; and I just don't see what "chip" they would be replacing that costs $15.

Gotta love Honda transmissions though; they've has had their fair share of rather interesting transmission reliability issues. My personal favorite comes from the Acura TL.[0]

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acura_TL#2000

"...as the third clutch pack wore, particles blocked off oil passages and prevented the transmission from shifting or holding gears normally. The transmission would slip, fail to shift, or suddenly downshift and make the car come to a screeching halt, even at freeway speeds..."
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The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself. --Mary Schmich

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-schmich-su...
The open spaces where we played are cruelly lost to today's children
There seems to be some misguided or misinformed people in here. Or maybe people that just want to bend reality to fit their own. We have some people arguing that Glass is safer than traditional dash mounted GPS because with Glass you don't have to look away from the road like with a dash mounted GPS. But then you have other people arguing that it is safe because it doesn't block your view... it is in the upper right corner and you have to consciously look at it. I've never worn Glass... but my gut tells me that both of those arguments can't be right at the same time. Can they?
Adobe's security breach undermines their new Creative Cloud licensing model, because Creative Cloud requires an ongoing trust in Adobe in order to continue functioning. A boxed software (or one-off download) model is transactional, requiring less trust. (One can, at least, firewall boxed software to limit potential damage.) Since Creative Cloud is subscription-based, one has to maintain an account with Adobe to keep the software working.

As someone dithering about transitioning from Creative Suite to Creative Cloud, receiving Adobe's letter was a slap in the face.

Given that the breach not only included accounts and credit cards, but also source code, I believe it's reasonable to speculate about potential exploits, including exploits in the Creative Cloud deployment mechanism. Going a little further into paranoia, I wonder if running Creative Cloud is potentially equivalent to running a trojan delivery system. I.e., how do we know Adobe's servers are now secure? Adobe is being cagey about the extent of the breach; the breach may have included internal Adobe credentials that can only be solved by a system-wide nuke-and-pave.

I really want to buy Adobe's new software, but they're making it extremely difficult for me.
Yeah, pointers are double size, but the majority of RAM for iOS apps is used by images and other resources. These do not grow in size.

Most apps are not using tens of megabytes for pointer based graph-structures etc. or code.

They are however using loads of megabytes for image data, offscreen buffers, etc.

So I doubt that 64-bit changes much.
Duplicate submission. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6637480
In practice, compartmentalizing sections of a page into declarative chunks of JS and HTML actually helps keep things really organized. When each link in a nested directive chain is completely independent of one another, it makes refactoring a problematic area much simpler. And of course all of this makes unit and functional testing much simpler.
fancy map. WTF did chattanooga do to piss off santa clause?!
Seems easier to save $300-$800 than the cost of a house or car.
Why Disruptive Change Points to a New Humanism in Banking
turntable.fm
Battery Manufacturing Defect in iPhone 5S
Set up a route beforehand. If for some reason you have to fiddle with GPS and it's distracting, then do what people did before GPS was around: pull over and figure out your bearings.

EDIT: I don't want to come off as anti-tech in cars. I definitely believe that tech can enhance road safety, although I'm more looking forward to driverless cars. I do think that Glass is more distracting than normal GPS devices because Glass has the capability to do so much more than GPS. I don't totally trust people to only use the GPS function in Glass.
GoCardless (YC S11) is looking for software developers in London
We are looking for a back-end software developer to join our team to help build out systems & handle user growth. You'll have the opportunity to contribute to different areas of the code-base and choose which projects interest you.

ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS, YOU WILL BE:

- Working on systems to intelligently identity-check and risk-assess new customers and merchants. As we grow, this is likely to include a significant machine learning element.

- Building and maintaining client libraries for our API in a number of different languages. These include the usual suspects like PHP, Ruby, Python, .Net, Java etc, and extend to newer (and often experimental) libraries in languages like Go and Clojure.
- Building out internal services to communicate with international banking systems on a programmatic level. Since many of these will be built from scratch, you'll have the opportunity to shape the projects from the beginning.

YOU SHOULD APPLY IF YOU:

- Are proficient in at least one dynamically-typed, object-oriented language (e.g. Ruby, Python), and have significant experience with a modern web framework, such as Rails or Django.

- Have an awareness of the full web stack. You live and breathe HTTP, feel comfortable optimising SQL queries, and have at least a basic understanding of JavaScript.

- Demand that code be well-tested, and believe that tests are a helpful tool in driving design, not merely a tedious afterthought.

YOU'D BE A PARTICULARLY GOOD FIT IF YOU:

- Have built and scaled web services to perform while serving hundreds of thousands of users.

- Are excited by the world of technology startups. You're a self-starter looking for responsibility and a place you can make an impact.

- Feel comfortable in the UNIX world: you grep, sed, and awk your way through text files, and have experienced the joy of writing SysVinit scripts.

- Are familiar with any of the following: Redis, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, Chef.

We have roles for experienced & more junior developers - the salary is extremely competitive and will depend on experience & ability. Stock options will form part of the compensation package.

To apply, email maria@gocardless.com
Quidditch?
There's a part of me that feels like the web has gone too far in the direction of overly concentrating power into the hands of the browser vendors.

I would love to see somebody fork Firefox or Chromium and create a browser that:

a. does implement all the relevant web standards ( like MathML, SVG, etc., etc.)

b. is more responsive to the community than current Firefox or Chrome

c. can serve as a testbed for experimenting with new web based technologies.

Sadly, a lot of that is what Mozilla purported to be waaaaayyyy back in the early days (I'm talking 1998 or so), but at some point they (Mozilla) decided that competing with IE for market-share was the #1 priority.

Of course part of the problem is that browsers are big, complicated, difficult projects, and it takes a lot of resources to maintain and build one. So I'm not too optimistic about seeing this mythical "more community driven browser" emerge anytime soon. sigh

All of that said, I'd love to see some experimentation around actually making a sharp distinction between documents and applications and some mechanisms for "handing off" application "stuff" to something other than the browser where the goal is to remote out the UI to an app. JNLP was a good start on that, but Sun's failure to deliver something like the Consumer JRE about 7 years sooner, and then the rash of JRE security bugs, more or less killed that as a viable possibility. But something like JNLP, not tied to Java, and with fast startup times and without the security bugs, could be very interesting.

I just wish I had time to experiment with this myself, but sadly I'm too heads down grinding on other things. :-(
A P2P CDN without Amazon (or any corporation or government) able to control it? It may not be technically revolutionary, but stopping the concentration of power could reduce the threat of the Internet becoming the tool of fascism.

That would be revolutionary. ymmv
Bought this and about a week later ended back with Mail.app.

Airmail has some nice features, a really slick UI, etc but it bugged out with my Gmail account enough for me to not want to tolerate it.
What a great article. I loved the Chinese idiom too (or whatever you call those four-character things). It's funny, I was watching a video on this today: http://www.wimp.com/getfit/

That made me feel a bit more realistic about life. :-)
* I can tell you we just switched from AT&T to T-Mobile and it’s been flawless.*

That's because you haven't actually had to start using T-Mobile's horrendous service. When I tried to do this (admittedly a couple years ago) they told me with a straight face, after I had gone through all the effort of changing "You can't use data on your smartphone because you didn't get it from us." Why would I have changed over if I couldn't use data!?!? (It would have been edge or something ridiculous as well, as only people on certain contracts could use 3g!)
also, 20-somethings won't complain when you work them to death
for the records:
http://i.imgur.com/BgTCyVy.png?1
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Common sense dictates that if you can't afford a $800 phone, you shouldn't buy one, doesn't it?

Consumers have forgotten.
> In most of political theory, the spectrum breaks down roughly into two huge types of political party

I've never, in the course of getting a degree in Political Science and studying it independently thereafter, run into this "theory" anywhere but on libertarian (and usually, specifically, Libertarian Party) propaganda leaflets and sites.

It certainly does not represent "most of political theory" when it comes to "types of political party".
is there any reason people don't do this:

127.0.0.1 mail.google.com gmail.com news.ycombinator.com [etc]

Does Mac not handle it or something?
An Inside Look at Science Exchange (YC S11)
Here is a novel solution.

make stack
water = 0
for n in columns
while stack not empty and n > stack top
water += min(stack bottom, n) - stack top
pop stack
stack push n
Launch SettleIt.org
Huh? This is pretty normal, I think. When a service has downtime because AWS was having a bad day, say, they normally declare that...
Nothing saps your energy like mulling over past mistakes/mis-steps/shouldas-couldas. We all have more of these as we get older, but if you do your best to let go of them you'll free yourself up quote a bit.

Easier said than done, but I speak from experience.
Downsides of peer-to-peer (speaking in general):

* No golden reference for content.

* Updates are slower / content may not be fresh

* Peers may not be online at the same time that you are online.
MMAFighting: Gunnar Nelson survives car wreck
1. Be a fucking good open source developer. I already do maintain some awesome projects, but I want to go crazy about it.

2. Develop cool stuff in clojure

3. Get a high score in TOEFL/TOEIC

4. Start learning french

5. Get a raise

6. Marry my GF.

7. Move to a bigger place

8. Have some degree of success with my current stock investments

9. Get shredded(almost 2 years in the gym for now)

10. By the end of the year plan to move abroad or start running my own company.
I'd like to see the addition of one feature: a correlation to national holidays. Maybe just have something point out when it's a nation holiday in U.S., China, Russia, etc... I think it would be interesting to be able to visualize that.
I've gotten buzz cuts since I was little. I used to do it for simplicity. Now I do it because I think it looks better. Some people tell me I look younger than I am (29), so that's a nice byproduct.
imaginary screen readers?

Yes, there are solutions for MathML for accessibility.
Yes, just keep going!

I started programming relatively late (at age 26), after becoming unemployed during the recession, for a govt agency in a small town in Florida. But now, at my current age of 30, I have a very lucrative job working for a major movie studio in LA as a software engineer. I have a lot of ambition at 30 than I ever did at 20 and that has been motivated by my failures. I might of missed my "startup years" and hacker culture in general but I'm definitely on track for big things. I hope to soon finally settle down and raise a family as well.
Agreed. Nothing to see here. DDoS attacks are a given constant now. Just look at the history below the map.
It randomly triggers and brings sites down. At least my experience with it on a few forums I frequent. All 3 of them switched after a month or so.
Finally, I can run JRuby on my node server!
There's an add-on for that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock/
Just a toy implementation[1], if someone is wondering.

[1]The basic .class file attribute parsers are located in libs/classfile, while a simple bytecode interpreter can be found in jvm.js. It doesn't load a real runtime library (classpath, apache harmony,openjdk,etc...) but it partially implements a few java.* classes in pure javascript under libs/java.
It seems that Mozilla is in a position of doing what is right for pushing the Web forward for end users and doing what is right for the open Web. It's nice to see them choose on the side of end users but I doubt Mozilla will stop looking for a more open alternative.
Could you explain how it bugged out with the Gmail account? I just decide to give it a try
Yeah, I don't think they had to compromise this much. Using the H.264 decoder on the host OS was good enough.
We've fixed it now, sorry about that!
When I go to the adobe website and try to login, it tells me that I need to reset my password. Well that's great but it tells me this no matter what password I enter. Last time I logged into the adobe website was probably a year ago so I have absolutely no idea what services I need to change my password for so I need to change them all. Thanks Adobe!
Well it has looked worse than that before, it is just a slow news day, hence some of the stuff on the front page.

The problem with that map is it only shows source and destination, not the route, which would also be saturated and affecting traffic.
Clever and simple. I like it. There are all sorts of serious uses for this, some scary, some exciting. Here's a silly one: I saw a large group of people playing a game of Quiddich in Central Park earlier in the summer. A smaller, faster version of this would make a great snitch(sp?) for them.
I've used T-Mobile for over 13 years. Can you tell me what this horrendous service is? Its worked fine for me in Chicago, Tampa, Miami, Key West, New York, San Francisco, LA, and last but not least, on the playa at Burning Man (in the middle of the desert).
While annoying for users who we're using the credentials they provided for other things (which they really shouldn't have been doing anyway, and hopefully MongoHQ makes it clear that they shouldn't) this really seems like about the only thing they could safely do under the circumstances.
Category Theory is Type Theory
No one except Microsoft accepted that reasoning during the IE6 -era, so why should that be acceptable now?
Intel to start manufacturing ARM chips
It's not "don't ask, don't tell," it's "don't ask, don't care."

My agreement with Monty's assessment depends upon the definition of the "codec market". The people who write the checks to pay the royalties know the costs very well. The people who pay indirectly don't care, because the costs are low enough that they don't register any pain for them. Arguably, what has been reached is an optimal economic balance.

When incorporating footnote 1, it appears that he's talking more about the selective enforcement that MPEG LA engages in, which I could see being more of a don't ask, don't tell scenario, but I'm not sure the limited number of licenses are proof that companies don't know about their licensing issues. It's just proof that MPEG LA selectively enforces the licensing requirements; a fact that is pretty well known amongst those who are in the affected markets.

The arguments in support of an open web, with open audio & video codecs, are (under current circumstances) principle-based arguments. It is notoriously difficult to get people to take action over principled issues unless there is some practical impact that they can feel directly. Mozilla made an attempt at this by digging in their feet on the H.264 inclusion issue. Unfortunately, that stand didn't really affect end-users, because website authors worked around the issue (e.g., Flash video players).

If open web proponents want to advance their agenda, they need to be more strategic. They need to identify and execute on plans that increase end-user exposure to MPEG LA licensing restrictions in a way that has a practical impact on them.

If that's not possible, then you're left with a principled disagreement only. If that's the case, then we have to fall back to the rationalization presented in Carl Sagan's "Dragon in My Garage" argument. If there is no practical difference between open and closed video codecs, then there is no difference at all. The principle disagreement is as incorporeal as Carl's dragon.
Author here, would really like to get some feedback about how I can make this better for the zurb foundation / ruby community. If you have any resources about creating Rake build scripts for static site resources (outside of Asset Pipeline / Sprockets) I would love to hear about them.
You think so? It doesn't have a content problem (there's infinite music).

I posited that Turntable.fm failed for other reasons: http://ryanhoover.me/post/45420658844/what-killed-turntable-...
When you say, "WTF is happening," are you asking if there is some new and unique DDOS situation underway? I couldn't tell if that was the case (or if this is a pretty typical daily graph) just by looking at the linked site.
Mike Rogers: You Can't Have Your Privacy Violated If You Don't Know About It
BSIMM-V Examines Software Security Practices of 270,000 Developers
Which is one reason that Google Fiber is so interesting to me. People, even technical people, tend to see it as overkill, but a fat, symmetrical pipe into every house could be a huge game-changer.
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Adobe: Hacker attack much bigger than previously disclosed
Danger exists in more places than just in front of you. A proper driving education taught me to scan my whole surroundings while driving... not lock eyes with the road in front and never blink. I am not looking directly in front of me 100% of the time. I am looking front, left, right, behind, at instruments... and repeat (not exactly with any particular cadence). My eyes are always moving. Glancing at the speedo is such a minor part of it. Even with a full-on HUD, I'd still be looking left, right and behind.

EDIT: when I say "looking behind" I mean the rear view mirror. I don't physically turn my head around to look behind me. That would not be comfortable.
A junior level position for a skilled worker usually requires at least an undergraduate degree, which is four years of training. If you aren't getting a CS degree, you're still perfectly eligible to get a position, but that doesn't mean you get to skip the training. The tech you need to learn for a junior position can easily be learned in an equivalent four years, and if you're committed you can probably learn it in a year or less. That's a hell of a lot better than the situation for other skilled workers.

If you want real advice for getting an entry-level position, it's actually quite simple. Step one: build things. This will help you develop the necessary skills to contribute to a team. Step two: tell people about them. The majority of job openings are filled through referrals and networking; sending in resumes to job postings online is a very inefficient use of your time.
Yep, but today we had HN, BitBucket, StackOverflow, CircleCI, Buffer and others all down...
Ha, why not. I'll send you an email.
Anyone know what this map is implemented in?
Reasons that Rexx Still Matters [2011]
Apple TV doesn't suit their needs? Sit down on couch, take phone out of pocket, Air Play to TV. Do they watch videos a lot away from the room where the TV is located?

(I don't have an Apple TV, so maybe Air Play is not as convenient as I have been led to believe.)
Ask HN: Comments on today's testimony by Sec. Sebelius (HHS) before Congress?
I used to have crewcuts as a kid, then went longer on top in my 20's, and now I just go for grade 0.5 all over.

It looks better and saves so much time..
That's not quite true. Garbage Collector isn't a developer's magical ticket to write careless memory hogs. Android devices have a per app (process really) limit of how much heap memory they can consume. It can be anything in between 32MB to 256MB depending on the device. So developers still have to be very careful to not consume any more memory than absolutely necessary so that their app continues to work on as many devices as possible. Besides frequent GC will pause the app and ruin the experience - so there's that to worry about too.
42 now, but I think I started at around your age.
IBM Wants to Start Making Artificial Brains
Who cares. You can buy a botnet to use and shoot down small websites, like HN BB SO CCI and Buffer.

Or you can build one yourself easily. The only difference is someone picked targets that people on HN use instead of the regular targets.