skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, the really remarkable thing about this graphic is that it doesn't even support the headline: the number of false positives is a minority of total positives in the given example: 45 / 125 = 36%
Not to be contrarian or anything, but why isn't Pamela Fox mentioned in the title? Seems odd that she's the only omission from the photos on the front page.
Yeah I have a hard time reconciling the title with the button in the middle of my screen:

Add to cart - AU$299.00

I clicked it and now I have a Nexus 4 in my cart.
Constitutions are wonderful things, and they can help set the tone of a nation. Yet, everything comes down to the people: the rulers and the public. As long as the rulers behave decently, things work well. When they don't, things fall apart. The Soviet Union had the most democratic constitution ever — and it meant nothing. The people "in charge" in the US have decided to behave like swine, on everything from ignoring swathes of the Bill of Rights to not talking to each other about policy. No amount of Constitutional rewriting will help with that.

To use an analogy near and dear to the HN readership: you can use the best language, framework, and source control system, but that won't help if you have incompetent programmers who do not communicate.
Thanks for the suggestions. robots.txt should now be blocking the /db/, which has all saved content, and a link has been added to the DMCA page on every generated page (putting it at the bottom would be obscure since the pages can get so long).

I'm not planning on copying any of the actual HN content, and don't present copy at all if it is on news.yc. At some point I'll hook into the API to grab comments/points every so often to update into the index pages and probably allow voting from the pages.
How are robots beating my CAPTCHAs?
If she has not been doing something interesting, that line of research does not get cited, dies out, and does not get funding.

Could you explain how this verifies results? Citation (alone) isn't verification. And its safe to say followers and funding correlate with one another, at least statistically.
"The more I read Joel Spolsky, the more I realize how wrong he is."

You're lucky you've just read him. I've used his software. In fact, I've written software to integrate one of the most popular revision control systems with his software - I think Fog Creek may be pretending git does not exist.

How did this integration work? Same as all the others, update of data via GET request, tut tut :)
Thanks for the feedback.

I think it's debatable actually - while intersecting the list with another does give you less bias, it also reduces the sample size immensely (as happened in the 2011 analysis I linked to), so there are trade offs in both directions.

I'm not claiming that I know exactly how many accounts reuse passwords - I am suggesting that, based on my estimate, it is more than half.

The evidence (that I've linked to) supports this. There are other studies which show upto 60% of password reuse:
http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/07/what-do-sony-and-yahoo-have-...

If you can produce a better estimate please go ahead.
Ah that would explain no feedback as of yet. Shoot. Hopefully you'll get some Canadian based clients soon.
I do not believe that is well established.
How Taken Should Have Ended [Tropic Thunder meets Taken]
Looks like lot of huge, beautiful places for hanging out, and one chaotic, cramped place to actually do work.
Agreed. Try getting funding for verifying a paper's results. If you can't publish results, it'll be a hard time convincing anyone that your work is worthwhile.
Good question. When I tried to post this initially, her name was in it. But the length of the title was too long. I figured that I would just keep the creators of programming languages/libraries/frameworks since this is a site about that.
The Library of Congress Map Collections
States are already half way there at eliminating the electoral college with the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
IMO what is damaging to society is that there is no PR to science, so the press takes things that are not yet fully understood or verified by the academic community and publishes it as confirmed (studies say, confirm, etc.)

Groundbreaking results give much more press than their rebuttal, for example, see neutrinos faster than light or that arsenic consuming bacteria both of which were later dismissed in academic circles, but did not enjoyed the same treatment from the media.
Right or not isn't the point. It's painful to read because it's a grown man that writes like a 10 year old that learned a couple of dirty words.

I cringe in embarrassment on his behalf: http://zedshaw.com/#/fuck
That date happens to be the date of DST transition in Brazil and Brazil is one of about 10 or so countries that transition at midnight rather than some later time such as 2am. Because of that, and due to how ES5's timezone logic works, the time winds up resetting backwards an hour, putting the Date object in the day before.

The other countries that do this are Chile, Paraguay, Cuba, Greenland, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank, and Gaza Strip. (I think I got them all..)
I believe only one of the listed people are the creators of languages (Rails is a framework, jQuery is a library).
Yes, I know they're priced the same. However, you'll notice that the 8GB 5 is difficult to purchase. Why pay a substantial sum (a 17% price increase!) for a "benefit" you'll never notice?

You can get the best price-per-unit-weight on rice by buying tons of the stuff, but very few consumers are willing to do that. We prefer to buy in pounds for various reasons.

"Lower quality, lower price" is an incredibly time-honored and effective philosophy -- of buying things and of selling them.

And if you want to consider the recent pricing (I tend to agree that the 4s were priced to move, so it's not a great comparison)? The 4 is a clear winner. There is no way I'd voluntarily pay $350 for a new nexus 5 instead of $200 for a new nexus 4.
Yea this guy really trivializes the fact that GM got a $50 billion dollar loan on incredibly favorable terms from the USG when the banking industry was reeling. No matter how brilliant his plan was it would have all amounted to nothing had they not gotten that money, so congress/the Obama administration (and even the Bush administration) can take all the credit they want.
The obvious success metric that springs to my mind is whether the outcome was positive for the United States in comparison to our best estimate of what would have happened if GM had ceased as a going concern because the government hadn't given them that money "to play with."
Yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-tempered_tuning#Europe
I have a Comp. Sci background but worked mostly as a sysadmin (bash, voip, firewalls and whatnot) on low level back end stuff...

I'm currently not hands deep into code either, but I'd love to be able to understand and catch up on a full stack, mostly the web part, for which I didn't invest much time till now!
So anything web server and above feel strangely like another world even though I've always been around them and can configure a web server without any problem, I just never dealt with the whole session management, programming etc in that context.

I've also done some projects in javascript, though without frameworks up till now.

Node.js sounds fun but my understanding was that it's not quite ready as a CMS, like Drupal?
I might actually just start with Node though as I can stick to 1 language and concentrate on small real time projects.
I've had a bad feeling about rails many years ago that might also explain a few things... ;-)
Cheers.
Orson Scott Card's Game
Just edited that.
You aren't missing anything. Pretty typical distribution.
No need to be nitpicky about it, he probably meant that...
I understand your point (and just to be pedantic, only one of them actually created a language), but this is not a site about "that", it's a site about tech and while Pamela Fox has not created a popular lang/framework (not that I know at least), she has contributed a lot in many other aspects, specially when trying to educate people around tech, one example of that is her involvement in the girldevelopit chapter in SF.
The most recent update I can find from them (May 2012) said that they still have 4-day workweeks half the year, May-October: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3186-workplace-experiments-a-...

Have they gotten rid of it entirely since then?
> What the hell, Forbes?

It's not Forbes, at least not the Forbes anyone would have expected anything decent from.

Whenever you see a Forbes url like forbes.com/sites/USERNAME/blah... you are just reading some guys blog on forbes.com

I don't know that there is really any resembling research and an editor at Forbes any more.
read up on the Pythagorean comma and also equal temprament . the chromatic scale is a very neat system for ordering the mathematical complexity to cover just about all the major relating 'fractions' of each note and relate these to each other.

its a European thing really which has since been adapted onto many cultures with traditionally different tuning systems. the main area of the world where other systems remain is the Indian subcontinent which has more complex and 'microtonal' scales.

in the 20th century Harry Partch was a leading light on microtonal music - this basically requires the creating of his own instruments. many of his most important work was based on trying to understand ancient Greek scales and tuning.

personally I believe that 'microtonal' music stands to make a big comeback as computers (on which more and more music is made nowadays) will make this easier than traditional orchestras.
Nobody reads Forbes. Jay Alix is not widely known now and will return to obscurity within his life time, you have funny ideas about legacy.
Your check is wrong because '(2 * len) + 1' will (just barely) overflow if len is on the upper end of the checked range. However, if it works incorrectly even when len is not, I'd call that a compiler bug. Note that newer versions of GCC seem to be fine.
How is Django Debug Toolbar not on that list?

If you are doing anything more than a simple CRUD, and heck, even if that's all, you should at least peek at how many queries are happening in views and how page render timing is broken down.

https://github.com/django-debug-toolbar/django-debug-toolbar
Administration: If possible, can we please have the title manually edited to include everyone?

Thanks.
Ah, yes, you are right that they still have it around. The first time they did it, they were hoping that it would work year-round and they had to get rid of that idea. I'm glad they are able to make it work periodically, though.
I bought three PDFs and they were normal PDF files with no DRM. High quality, nicely typeset. They work in Evince with no problem. One of them was Low Tech Hacking, which is a fun book that talks about lock picking, social engineering, WiFi exploits, and more.
Sunrise App Security Breach: iCloud data possibly compromised.
Neat interview question.
1 Thing Schools Can Learn From Pornography
That also seems to use linear interpolation, giving signatures the 'wiggly' digital look.
Except, that's not true - the Angular TodoMVC code is smaller and more expressive, and Angular's JS is actually smaller than Riot + jQuery.

I get what you're trying to do here but please don't resort to misleading statements to prove your point. This community sees right through it and every time you say things like this, you lose credibility.
Especially funny when the page with the logic to decide whether or not to park your drive head is in swap.... on that hard drive.
Totally agree. Wish I could edit the title.
This is actually what I'm doing for my undergrad senior thesis right now. It's in theory-heavy CS, but there are some results that are based on some moderately difficult math, and experimental evidence of those results, which I'm independently verifying. So, it seems to apply. It's not the most exciting thing to be doing in the field, but it's more interesting than most of my other classes, and can be used for later work.
This is hardly the only circumstance, but as a concise and personal (as opposed to commercial) example:

Something over 10 years ago, I ordered DSL from them. It was my only high speed option at that time. Actually, to be fair, it was I think at that time Ameritech, which subsequently fairly quickly got sucked into SBC, which is what AT&T really is, now. (SBC bought the "shell" of AT&T some years back, that included perhaps principally the name and branding. All of the old AT&T "substance" had long since been hollowed out.)

Placing the order took less than 10 minutes. The call was answered, by a live customer service rep, within a minute.

Accomplishing the installation took three half-day appointments (they wouldn't provide a narrower window). They simply blew off the first two.

The third appointment resulted in bare connections hanging on the side of my building. The third party contractor they sent reused some old, old wires someone had left hanging there and didn't even bother to wrap the splices.

(Fortunately, my downstairs neighbor was friends with a real, honest to goodness union lineman for the voice side of their operations, who was over visiting subsequently and cleaned things up a bit as a personal favor to my neighbor.)

Their network was for shit. tracert would show requesting bouncing through sometimes over a dozen of their servers before even making it out onto the wider Net. And it got to the point of going down at least once a week.

One time, I spent a half hour or so on the phone just talking with and calming down one of their contracted "service" reps, who was so frustrated that she was quitting her job the following week and going back to Maine. She was nice, and straightforward, and with a good sense of humor, so I didn't mind taking the time.

She told me that, in her contract position, all she could do was file a ticket. She couldn't even examine the status of an already-filed ticket. Even for them, the subsequent repair process was a black box.

I guess I should add that a call for service (e.g. those weekly network dropouts, for example) took, at a guestimate, on average about 30 minutes to get out of queue and reach a person. During this time, sales calls (calling the number to order service) continued to be answered almost immediately. Priorities could hardly be clearer.

Add to this the 700+ million in tax breaks and subsidies that SBC (now AT&T) received in return for committing to universal high speed Internet access in this state. Whereupon, they turned around and immediately deployed and hired lawyers and lobbyists to get them out of their half of the deal while keeping the incentives.

Their lawsuits and lobbying against any and all attempts of municipalities to deploy their own networks, most often only after AT&T has refused to provide said service themselves.

On and on...

Anything that keeps them from growing further? I'm all for it.
depends what you mean by 'semitones'. for instance, much of the worlds traditional music is based on pentatonic scales which have notes which are near (but not exactly on) the semitones of an equal tempered scale. generally the differences to the corresponding chromatic notes provide more consonance, not dissonance.

'microtones' is a funny word because it covers both consonant and dissonant sounds. there's some inherited cultural background to what is perceived as consonant too. a sitar may sound odd to us, and is 'microtonal' but that doesn't mean it is not musically consonant (notes are related in simple fractions)
> Anytime you've rebased but already pushed you would need to do so.

And that's also unreasonable. Pushed history should be treated as immutable. If you broke the build, push a revert commit, fix the issue, and resubmit. And then fix your tooling to recognize rollbacks.
Exactly - with the proliferation of Grunt in most modern webapp builds, it is incredibly simple to pre-compile your templates in your production builds. In fact, it's so fast (and I get useful stacktraces when my tpls have errors) that I started precompiling templates in development, too.

I find the bottleneck is 99% the browser's HTML parser and 1% the actual templating library.

If somebody had any tips on how to bring down the "Parse HTML" time spent in the Chrome inspector (see Timeline), I would be interested to know. Tips other than, of course, "parse less HTML".
Fun but I wish it just presented a list of words closest to farthest, re-ordering as necessary. I would fly with something like that.

I can type much faster than the game would let me but I couldn't read the things I wanted to type. Also had trouble with it starting the wrong words.
Berlin's pink pipes: What are they?
> As a consultant with expertise in restructurings and turnarounds, I had completed a half-dozen assignments at GM over the years.

If he did that many restructurings at GM, something was seriously wrong with their fundamentals. The question is: Did those things change after the bankruptcy? I would hope that GM isn't still on the same path -- so far as their product offerings, they don't seem to be flailing around as much as they used to.
"What the hell, Forbes? Good god, if GM hadn't existed, nothing would have changed. Ford or Chrysler or AMC or whoever would have filled their shoes. Big deal."

That's a very ignorant statement.

General Motors and Alfred Sloan had a massive impact on the way that organizations were designed and managed for over 50 years - they were the first to ever systematically design and execute a managed, decentralized organization of that magnitude.

Peter Drucker's 1946 classic "Concept of the Corporation" was the first major study of a large corporation (GM) and a deep analysis of the implications that the new "society of organizations" would have on our culture, politics, and lives. Sloan's "My Years at General Motors" in 1964 was a management treatise that was blueprint through at least the early 80s.

Others would have filled their shoes, but history would be tremendously different.
Nosier or Noisier?
GM produces poor quality vehicles and had poor management. They deserved to die but did not.
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I used VSee on a project a couple of years ago: http://vsee.com/api
Sales on HN, right before my eyes.

Well wadyaknow
Wow app is always a tricky proposition.
Exactly. People who can work at coffee shops find it natural and relaxing to work in an open office but I never work at coffee shops because its noisy,distracting and i don't drink coffee :)
> Was there anything about how bondholders were robbed to pay off the union?

I'm genuinely confused as to how this went unchallenged. Even if the bankruptcy of G.M. resulted in pennies on the dollar, those pennies still belonged to the share and debt holders, rather than their being arbitrarily wiped out by the government in order to benefit the union.

Were there/Are there any lawsuits to address this?
Apache Curator is a Top Level Project
It is dangerous... but how often do people verify gpg signatures or less secure yet, sha1 hashes of the download tarballs?

The curl piped into a shell is a bit tooo close to the edge for me.
I don't use the same password on other sites, but do use the same email (not the one on my HN profile) in a lot of other places.

I'm still not "less angry" at Adobe. Probably irrationally so, since data leaks can happen to anyone, but just the idea that my info is in a downloadable archive somewhere for any Joe Shmuck to pickup is driving me up the wall.
It's also possible that he only used a simple password for sites that don't matter - like Adobe - but used a stronger password for his e-mail, bank, etc.
Noisier - Sorry. That's the trouble with spell check. You still need an editor to proof read you work.
I must have mistaken your contrasting academic and ideological as an implicit preference to the academic over the ideological, I did that simply because I presumed that you were against the ideological.

While I concede the point on not doing it in an extralegal means, I was wrong technically, I have a hard time reading the points in the articles and seeing how the foundational elements, such as a balance of powers, are preserved in what's put forward. From extending presidents and vice-presidents beyond their terms into 'guardians' seems to presuppose that such wasn't thought of by the founders, or that the solution they gave us (in this case the SCOTUS) isn't working.

So my issue is that the items that are being proposed are, in many instances, aimed at compromising key, and functioning, and often best of class, principles.

Again I put forward the item at the end where it mentions the example of the Articles of Confederation being completely scrapped. We are under some illusion that humanity has changed more than it really has. Much of the core components of the Constitution have not become irrelevant.

Even the point in the article where it mentions that the US has the least generic constitution, as if that were indicative of efficacy or the optimal. Certainly there's room for improvement, but to change the fundamentals, and in such sweeping ways, is really not advisable.
> But comparing phone to phone with the same memory, isn't the Nexus 5 a much better deal?

This is getting repetitive, but why would you do that? There are no lifetime achievement awards for buying the most price-efficient phone, even if it costs you $750,000 ("but think of all the features you get!"). Compare the minimum price of $300 to the minimum price of $350. There's been a substantial increase.

The Nexus S was $400 (in some model, likely the cheapest). The 4 was a welcome signal of attention to price. This is going in the wrong direction.
I've had a number of front page and even #1 posts, and the only conclusion I've come to is that Hacker News is amazing for getting stuff launched, but there is a small subset of the userbase that has problems with people creating things that others find interesting.

Some comments feel angry. It's the one or two that make a big deal about something that really, truly doesn't matter. I don't think it's that they aren't intelligent, but they lack taste. They don't understand what people want, only what they want. And since we are all nerds here, we know that sometimes what we want is really kind of stubborn and short sighted. It's the ones with taste that can ultimately see through that, though.

I don't take it personally anymore. I did at first, until I realized the above.
> No decent password manager will expose your passwords to a third party.

Unless you are verifying the source and compiling yourself, your password manager IS a third party.

> FWIW, I use "pass", which is a short bash script that's a thin wrapper around gpg. If you can't trust that, I'm not sure how you can use a computer.

Sure, I probably trust GPG and the devs behind it. But unless you are downloading from them directly and verifying binaries, or building yourself from their source (and comparing source), you aren't really just trusting them, you're trusting the people that are distributing GPG to you. If the provider is a well respected linux distro, I probably trust it, but it's quite a bit less trust than the GPG devs themselves get. There's a lot more hands involved there and many more places for someone to inject some nefarious code, or just plain screw up[1].

I guess the real point is that "decent" in "decent password manager", or any security product for that matter, has higher bar than in many other industries, but this many not be common knowledge.

Edit: For that matter, I guess the only reason I trust GPG at all is that enough decentralized volunteers will look at it that coercing them all into keeping silent (or silencing them in another manner) about any backdoor they find is probably impossible (or at least requires enough effort as to make it unfeasible).

[1]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number...
It's astonishing that the devs won't fix this.