skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's something along the lines of "an effective security mechanism implies safety; if there is no safety then it follows that no effective security mechanism is in place"
Seems to me that the standards became more arbitrary than rigorous.
An interesting bit of evidence that resident concerns are a common motivation: in upscale buildings, which have the funds to pay for it, the crackdown on AirBnB is in even more full swing, through "free-market policing". Some condo associations actually have employees regularly scouring AirBnB ads in their area and looking at the photos to find rentals that look like units in their building (it's often not hard to spot, if you know a building well). Then the owner is identified and sent a "stop doing that" letter, and/or sued for violating their contract.
I could be wrong but I got the impression he bought it outright and not with a mortgage. But even so, if his mortgage was a traditional 30/yr fixed loan, his monthly payment would ridiculously low. And then he is free to massively over-pay his mortgage payment each month... which is going to pay it off in about the same 4 years he mentions in his write-up.
As a Canadian I'd argue that this is a cultural trait that can easily be adopted by other countries. It is also a cultural trait we Canadians are rapidly losing. The reason Canadian universities produces these types of grads is because our universities are much more accessible to our citizens. It reflects our practical outlook on social programs like education, health care, and transit. Go on the TTC subway during the day and you'll find suits going to work on Bay St., kids going to U of T, and Tim Horton cashiers too. Get sick and you'll often have access to the same doctors that wealthy people do (though this has more to do with your geographic location... it's better to be in a big city).

You don't have to have a certain surname to get into Waterloo. You'd be much better off just scoring well on the Fermat Contest. When nobody gives a shit what you have, and it's what you do that gets you places, you tend to be more modest. We have a long list of financial tools to make school happen for students that have the talent and will to go. We also have a fairly strong set of public school systems that get students to university's door. Again, these schools are accessible.

One of the sadder things about Google's founder success is that more parents want to emulate this success for their kids by keeping them away from Canada's otherwise pretty good public school system. It will quickly deteriorate if more parents pick up on this trend to send their kids to private or Montessori schools.
The launcher already was an app, right?
Actually not anymore. They recently updated the defaults, imho for the better. /r/atheism is off the default list, too.
> "They should just use the system titlebars and not do their own stupid things."

This is a personal insult.
Delta and JetBlue now allow electronics during takeoff and landing
There was also an old version of the Lockitron. My understanding is that the old one was a deadbolt replacement while the new one goes over an existing deadbolt lock. They still sell the Lockitron Access (https://lockitron.com/store/buzzer) which works with electronic locks. It is possible that he has one of those.
SEEKING WORK - Mexico / Remote 3+ years of experience in web development.

What I can create/work with:

- Wordpress themes and plugins

- Drupal 7

- Responsive websites

- CSS3 / HTML5 compliance

- Offline web applications

- Javascript frameworks (jQuery, Underscore)

What I'm working with right now:

- Angular.js

Success stories:

I've worked with brands such as Bimbo, Marinela (http://www.marinelausa.com), Procter & Gamble, Johnsons Baby and Campbell's.

Email: aurelio at beluga.io
It's good to see Slate standing up for its competitors.
I use OpenBSD in a development environment. The environment happens to be offline, so the win for OpenBSD here is that it is very easy to work with in places where you don't have internet access. The entire system comes on CDs that you can carry around, and you can easily work offline with a local copy of the package repository when you need to install something. The included man pages are excellent, and are all you really need to consult when configuring the system. I find it is generally more productive to consult the man pages than search the internet when trying to do something.

Aside from being easy to work with when you don't have internet, the other upsides are the small footprint and light resource requirements, built in VMWare support, transparent and simple configuration and system initialization, and overall Just Works factor. The package repository has the things I generally want, and it's easy for me to set up my preferred development environment (xmonad, vim, firefox). As far as actually doing development, it's much like on any other *nix (xterm, vim, ruby, python, etc.).

If you're an OS geek, I don't see why you wouldn't want to have a look. I don't know if you'll prefer it over Gentoo, but you may be pleasantly surprised by the functionality and simplicity of the system. I find it a bit of a breath of fresh air when I get to it after time spent on Linux or OS X.
I think you're confusing Reddit with a site called "Hacker News".
Well, it was very fast and stable. For the last few KDE major releases plasma-desktop has been segfaulting on a regular basis for me. I looked up the backtrace a few versions back and found a bugreport where a lot of people were experiencing the same issue; the developers confirmed it and reckoned that it was probably a bug in some new Qt functionality they'd moved to that they couldn't do much about.
If you need a side by side comparison for MongoDb and Cloudant, you can find it here:

http://vschart.com/compare/cloudant/vs/mongodb
Not as of a few months ago. It was removed from default for... obvious... reasons.
I spent some years working at an email-specific agency. They sent more than 5 billion emails during that time for some very big clients, and we did most of the data analysis. They also did a lot of usability testing.

I can tell you that on just about every metric - brand recall, clickthrough rates, ROI, unsubscribes - HTML outperformed plain text. There were exceptions, both in terms of types of campaign and types of sender - say, if your list includes lots of Hacker News readers.

We found, for example, that including just one image will increase open rates by more than 50% but I can't find it now. Another article on the same topic is here - http://www.alchemyworx.com/alchemy_worx/2009/newsletter/issu....
I thought the same. For redis there's Kue, which looks a lot more feature complete.

https://github.com/learnboost/kue
This is perfect. Thanks.
Why The Hell Does Your Drink Cost So Much?
it's mostly tons of bug fixes and unnoticeable improvements.
Not only has r/politics not been a default for a while now (at least a couple months, I think), it wouldn't matter if it was -- default subs are still not managed by the Reddit admins. How a sub is run obviously can influence which ones are chosen as defaults, but being a default doesn't itself change anything.
Could someone explain the difference between "incertitude" and plain-old "uncertainty"?
So it's not even Recaptcha? Sounds interesting.
I just set it, but can someone tell me what it does? :)
The logic of the 4.0.0 way was better as the conceptual order of operation was correct. I don't have legacy app that needs major modification though.

Do you know off the top of your head if reorder will behave as order does in 4.0.0 (including nested scopes and associations)?

[Edit: It doesn't look like reorder does the job as it just drops existing orderings so you can't have a sequence of such calls. Don't think I like the reversion better to fix the API and the applications at migration to Rails 4 rather than persist the mistake.]
Infecting the bootloader has been a known technique for a while though (google "bootkits") - long before UEFI, actually. They are the whole reason behind Microsoft pushing for SecureBoot. This is not new, nor what badBIOS is supposedly about.
I already know how to code. What do I code that will make me money? It's not like a person can just code anything at all and get paid by the line.

Getting a programming job is nice in theory until nobody will hire you. Programming freelance is a nice idea in theory until people on Odesk take your work and disappear. Bootstrapping a startup is a nice idea until you realize you don't have a good idea for one.

I'm ill, got fired from a tech support job I loved because of it, and have tried several times to support myself with coding from home. If I didn't have a loving wife who works hard to provide barely enough to pay rent and have decent health insurance, I might be homeless now. If I didn't have a home or own my own computer I would have even less of a chance.

There's a disconnect between the imagined reality where skill and effort instant translates into wealth and the actual reality where luck or the generosity of others is required.
This post comes off kind of douchey. Sympathies evaporated once you started mentioning slavery. Factory workers in South East Asia might have a slightly different opinion on what constitutes slavery.

You could've had some fun with the challenge. E.g. Write a piece of code that draws a massive middle finger on the screen. That would've been a cooler response!

Here's how I responded to a small company that was trying to make me jump through (unnecessary) hoops:
http://www.andrewdyster.com/how-to-fill-out-selection-criter...

(These guys were a small 3-4 man operation, not a mega corp. My way of telling them to stop acting like dicks.)
The loopback interface is localhost only; it doesn't see any packets coming from or going to any other host.
Does HN do this for certain source that have been flagged too many times, or otherwise considered low-quality?
This is already being done, there are stories about a driver starting with his own car and building up a fleet of drivers/vehicles.
> There were over 25 million Ubuntu users at last count

And Ubuntu and Unity are still a bug ridden mess. I know it's about money and manpower and it's hard to fix sometimes complicated bugs but I've switched to KDE recently just because of the annoying bugs in 13.10.

Some examples:

- No Menu on Eclipse Kepler (it's only the most used FOSS IDE) - there is a workaround on askubuntu through.

- While moving a lot of files with nautilus my system starts grinding - turns out gvsd-metadata occopius 4GB memory and one cpu core. Nautilus uses 1GB memory and and another CPU core.

- indicator-application uses 100% CPU randomly

- Firefox colors are pale after switching windows

- Random artifacts on GUI elements while working with the system for a longer time.

- Drag and Drop does not work reliably.

- Switching Windows and Workspaces does not work reliable.

- I can start Firefox in Lightdm without beeing logged in. Just add an event then Evolution starts up. Let's you also happily sends Mail through the lightdm user.

- Without Evolution adding an event does nothing. Just does not work.

- etc.pp

KDE exhibits none of these problems so far.
Hard to ask anything specific without using it, but are you also targeting UI designers who create complex web-applications? If so, what are some of the features that will make their lives easier? Sorry for the vague question... I think this will be great for general web page layouts, but maybe a video showing complex form designs and layouts would seal the deal for me.
Not my own bug, but a bug that happened in some other studio, retold by one of our ex-producers:

Basically the bug was in the Nintendo GameBoy, where it only happens if you press two buttons (left and right, or up and down) at the same time. Now you can't do that normally, since the controller won't allow it. But if you are hard-core QA (as the guy which this producer told me about it) - he ripped the controller, and manually wired some stuff - so he'll get LEFT and RIGHT pressed down at the same time, and only then the game would crash...

But then as we say sometimes here, for such things - it might get the... WNF (Will-not-fix).
I just commented and have pretty much the same opinion that you do. I've often wondered if this practical opinion on has anything to do with Canadians having to shovel the snow. Hear me out...

In the U.S., there are dramatic weather and natural disasters that bring communities together. Floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earth quakes. We don't have these extremes. But what we lack for in extreme weather, we make up for in volume. In Canada, we just have snow that has to get shovelled often. That means waking up a few times a week in your neighbourhood to shovel snow and side walks. Folks that don't do it are shamed and pressured into doing it. But even if they hold out, somebody just shovels the damn snow, because we're all the better for it. There is nothing more annoying than walking 90 m down a perfectly shovelled sidewalk and then having to walk 5 m along icy packed snow because some jerk refused to pitch in.

With snow, when everybody pitches in their share of effort, entire cities can function. That has a profound impact on how you see government programs. "If I pitch in my bit, and everybody pitches in theirs, our health care/education/transit system can be pretty good". Moreover, when you actually see cities dig out from underneath snow, you debunk the myth that people are lazy. Most people, and a vast majority at that, pitch in and get things going. Again, this contributes a great deal toward our mindset on social programs.
I'd probably be more likely to blame the hardware or compiler if my work was programming new hardware or custom compilers!

I think the situation is that if you're quick to blame others for a problem which turns out to be your own mistake - it has a tendency to really piss off co-workers. Experienced programmers learn to challenge their own code first as a habit out of consideration for others on their team. It's embarrassing to swear up and down that there is a hardware/compiler/whatever problem, only to have a bunch of people look into it and find a mistake that you made.
If we were all out of productive things to do, that might make some sense. I just have never seen that happen.

There's always something that needs cleaning, infrastructure that needs upgrading, things that people need to learn.
Nah, that site is just a circle-jerk for self important silicon valley startup types. "How I made a million dollars with my idiotic website idea and you absolutely will also!"
Mechanical Turk is Insecure
The article is very light on details what sort of user-visible impact this change will have. I don't really care if homescreen is defined in GoogleHome.apk or GoogleSearch.apk, I care about how the homescreen is functionally merged with search.
I appreciate that he's had success, and what he's accomplished is nothing short of impressive. But to say that there are only a handful of people who can figure it out is sheer hubris.
He probably lives in an area that is less touristy.
I started my first match. The page were I'm taken keeps saying the match is running and hasn't finished yet. I don't see what could take so much, but it's ok. The problem is that if robot A is fighting against B, in A's profile it'll say it's lost against B, and in B's profile it'll say it's lost against A.
This is happening with all the robots in the warehouse, ("I", which is my robot, and the other two, who are fighting with each other).
What do you code?

That awesome looks um.. awesome. Never come across it before. I have an old netbook here that has a broken trackpad. I might be tempted to give it a go with that.
I encourage people to learn about ITP port and JTAG debuggers for processors. It is easy to verify all of this with ITP debugger in no time. I am surprised nobody did it. It is amateurish at least for a 15 years of experience. I'd expect a researcher like that to know about hardware ITP port. How do you think BIOS or UEFI firmware are developed and debugged? The cost of the debugger is 20k USD and you hook directly into the CPU bus and see everything from SMM mode transitions to cache events. Complete transparency without the sci-fi claims anymore and crap publicity.

EDIT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-target_probe
adv0r it is taking a long time to load because you are hell banned.
That means that Google will have information on its server covering all phone calls I make, and at what time. That is way beyond what is acceptable, for me.
turning everyone into coders will not change the world. it's akin to a theoretical physicist insisting that 99.999% of the population wallow in ignorance about the universe because their understanding is much too shallow.

i read a lot about discoveries in theoretical physics and even though i couldnt discern a gluon from a top quark in a Feynman diagram, i have very rough concept of what's involved without doing any math or solving formulas. the same applies to every technical subject on the planet. programming/IT is an extremely deep field that has no bottom, much like genetics, biology, etc.

more doctors and research Ph.Ds have a larger potential to change the world than additional programmers; putting coding on some pedestal is quite inappropriate. to me, biochemists perform the same "magic" as you speak of.

if you don't pursue coding out of deep interest for the art, you wont change the world either. you may write a basic web page or blog for yourself and hack together some VBA excel macros, but that's about it. i don't think anyone comes out of Codecademy ready to write the next Crysis game or a Google, FB or Amazon infrastructure.
The site-wide ban was for gaming the system and buying votes, not "low-quality journalism". That was the admins telling content sites to fuck off and stop hiring voting rings to cheat reddit. This is the mods of /r/politics (ostensibly) trying to increase quality on their sub.
??? If there's no effective insecticide, how do you think we're killing them? The various -methrin-based compounds are generally pretty effective, though occasionally resistant subpopulations crop up.
Being able to post a reply is a solution to a one-off or occasional bad review having an unfairly negative impact. If a large percentage of the reviews are bad, the best solution is probably to solve whatever problems are causing the bad reviews.
Yesterday, it was offline most of the day for me.
I daresay you'd be better off writing a C extension to Ruby than you would bolting a Node app onto a Rails codebase.
Admins and members of subreddit tend to have a slightly confused idea about what a subreddit it supposed to be. On one hand, the fundamental idea is clearly that the quality of articles is determined by the aggregate of users' votes. On the other hand, many people still appeal to some individual or objective measure of "quality," and insist that admin moderation is necessary to maintain this level of quality.
As Android adds more features, more of Android is implemented in Java. Pretty much all of Google Play Services is implemented in Java.

That means Android can rely less on the fact that graphics and the guts of many UI widgets are native code under a thin layer of Java. Android was always a "Java OS" but it has become more so since Android 3. So ART is important to keeping Android quick.

Still, your mileage may vary. Unless you are doing significant computation in your app, a synthetic benchmark will vastly over-emphasize the impact of a better JIT.
I'm sure there are lots of reasons, but here's one: if you don't differentiate between hotel zoning and residential zoning in a tourist-heavy city, the rental and hotel markets would start to merge together. This means in both pricing and in who your neighbors are.

I'm not arguing for or against the laws, but I think it's clear why many residents of such a city would decide to use legal force to prevent that.
> The reason Firefox has to install a service is because
> it's not possible to install updates cleanly in any
> other fashion on UAC-enabled Windows.

Ah ha! Now you're speaking my language! That I understand perfectly!

It makes sense that Windows UAC has forced bad decision making. Windows, in general, is just a hideous, mutated mess nowadays.

Anyway, it's essentially a correct decision to never marry a browser to device drivers or hardware. The websites that count won't dare crash browsers due to hardware requirements. The browsers that count will fail gracefully, and tell the user that their settings are not compliant with the requirements of the page they are trying to view, before they ever crash. However one wishes to communicate the nature of highly specific user options, and then adapt to the long fragmented tail of hardware conditions, is beyond the scope of a "NORMAL" web browser (no-true-scotsman).

When requirements become that unforgiving, you've entered the realm of the highly specialized plug-in, or custom client-server software. It's cool that Firefox is brave enough to wade into those territories, and still deliver awesomeness, but the core necessities of the web browser should never be sacrificed, for fluff and sugar-coated eye candy.

I'm really not worried about the idea that "The Web" is changing. The sites that matter will always work with the bare minimum, with little more than HTTP GET and HTTP POST, even with JavaScript disabled.

The rest is just cruft.
This is absurd.

What is the work-around/alternative? Well written post.
I was wondering if there would be any answers about this. Without that feature, it's a one way tool: all changes must be made here, the compiled product can't be usefully edited.

I imagine it would be pretty challenging to parse an existing website into something usable, but it would definitely make the tool a lot more useful (not to say it won't still be useful to lots of people).
Going to netflix.com after installing this is the shit.
How state lotteries deliberately exploit people's dreams
It's worth noting that /r/politics is only the 13th biggest subreddit, by number of submissions. It's a relative drop in the water.

http://i.imgur.com/9FLPgsW.png
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjPFdCURhZvddGQ...
They did that for one of the migratory groups in Europe (Irish Travelers, Roma...don't remember which one it was). The result was that the houses were found abandoned, but with the copper wire stripped out.
Yes, Nokia is the only company that gives me hardware envy. I've been wanting to run Android on one of those gorgeous Lumias for a long time. I've never felt like running Android on an iPhone.

Maybe if they reach 10%+ someone will take the trouble of hacking Android into one of their phones.
If it's LLVM, that pretty much opens the door for running Native Client apps on Android, and possibly even merging Android with ChromeOS, right?
Fireworks used to be the bomb about 10 years ago when it was Macromedia that sold it. You used to be able to make animated gifs with it when Photoshop couldn't.
I know people are prone to take such remarks personally, but it's directed at the action, not the person. "You did something stupid" is not "You are stupid".
glad you like it! paradox of choice all the way, the time constraint helps people expend more energy over a short period of time
Please try out the tiling window managers. Awesome, i3 or Xmonad are all great work environments. The learning curve is maybe a bit tough, but when you get over it, you just can't go back.
Don't move to Vancouver, Canada. We are right up in in unaffordability, just like London, NY, Hong Kong, SF, Zurich etc.
Seems kind of similar to Max, from Netflix themselves: http://blog.netflix.com/2013/06/let-max-be-your-netflix-guid...

Although I really only watch on my TV and not my computer, I like the concept and it seems well implemented. Cracking the nut of figuring out what to watch is a tough one, that's for sure. Good luck!