skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sole developer on my project, but I run something like this (looking forward to see if it scales to multiple developers).

- master (deployed/live version)
- develop (next version)
- feature/* (feature branch)
- feature/*/* (optional sub-branches for big features)
- fix/* (bugfix branch, may be off master if urgent)
yeah, but that gives us really very little to go off of, seeing as this was her "first date" right?

months later or weeks later, where are they?
Built: reddit, hipmunk, breadpig

Wrote: 2 books

Invested: in dozens of companies

Advised: hundreds of founders as a partner in YC

Alexis is an investor in 42Floors. Easily one of the nicest, most supportive, most helpful investors/peers/role models I've ever come across. And yes, he's an activist! So he self-promotes. Explicitly for the cause of an open internet. And I'm so incredibly grateful that he promotes a cause I care so much about, but over which I have so little influence.
Can you elaborate on why pausing on sending is particularly tricky when sending a multi-byte length header compared to say pauses on any other part of the payload?
I think this is completely wrong approach. We as a community should stop giving G/YT our traffic if their stuff does not please us instead of making an effort to give them more traffic.
I don't think reddit got lucky because even after becoming mega successful, it's still almost impossible to spam the site. And their "hot" algorithm is an amazing way to always provide fresh content (unless you spend hours on the site). Their luck did come though, from Digg's failure. I forget the number, but they almost doubled their page views the week after Digg's infamous update.
It is just youtube embedded plays. The whole thing will not work if a video has disabled embedding.
What about IPsec?
Looks like a copy of Ultimaker's cura(which is opensource) combined with a copy of thingiverse integrated in the same program.

This is what MS does best, copying someone else idea that already works, and putting money onto it.

It seems that MS is going to put some hundred millions into this as they realized this is the future.
It's really not difficult at all to be completely vegan. And whether it's worth it or not depends on your reasons for adopting a plant-based diet. Of course if it's for health reasons, it really doesn't matter if you get some animal products from time to time.

I've been doing it for 8 years without any flexibility. It's just silly to pretend that it's not feasible.
Nah. If you only get stuff from Apple it absolutely does not.

iTunes is only required if you want to add your own music.
On my recent trip, I wanted to watch some YouTube videos in the air but there wasn't WiFi on my flight. I found an app called MxTube for iPad and it blew my mind how much cleaner, faster, and more intuitive it was than the REAL YouTube app. Added benefit - You can cache videos for offline playback. I happily paid the $1.99 pro upgrade to support the developer.
Jeremy Hammond helped uncover TrapWire, possibly the most cutting edge surveillance system currently exposed to the public.

http://rt.com/usa/stratfor-trapwire-abraxas-wikileaks-313/
Please have a look at gender readers of Anand Tech (last I checked site with zero sex content): http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/anandtech.com

There are just no women reading it. So you might consider the possibility, that maybe - just maybe, women are just not into this stuff. And that women publishers are savvy enough to know what their readers want covered.
My experience tutoring at university would beg to differ. Perhaps irremediably bad is not the right word, but as a tutor of ~30 first year students you find yourself almost having to give up on half the class.
Sensors Developed For Football Lead The Way To The "Transparent Player"
Which is all well and good until a three letter agency compromises the issuing CA, which in turn leads to a false sense of security.
Jeremy Hammond: FBI directed my attacks on foreign government sites
There's a lot of certainty and knee-jerk moralizing on display here (hacker in trouble! He deserves our unhesitating support!), but there's shockingly little justification to accompany strong sentiment. Put another way: what's with the mob mentality, HN? This place is normally better than that.

He did a significant amount of damage to a legitimate business. Some people seem to hate STRATFOR, without articulating any reasoning for feeling that way, other than using certain triggers for up votes, "government," "CIA," "evil," etc.

The files posted to Wikileaks largely showed them to be a surprisingly competent private forecasting company. The outcry over telling an attractive intelligence collector to use her looks as a means by which to get people to be more pliable? Welcome to the real world. Sex sells, and it also buys.

Many subscriber's identities were stolen in the process. My personal information was leaked, and it was difficult and costly to deal with. Some will never be able to fully undo the damage personally done to them by Jeremy Hammond. I'm not sure how his actions bettered the world, or even sought to.

Activism is valid, and a discussion of hacktivism as a form of civil disobedience that can effect necessary change, would be welcome.

A guy who selected a target while being almost completely ignorant of the work they do, a guy who, rather than going to some effort to minimize collateral damage, actually worked to inflict as much collateral damage as possible, is not a hacktivist, but a criminal, and a pretty inconsiderate criminal, at that. Doing harm for the sake of ego isn't hacktivism, it's mayhem.

I'm OK with people like that being segmented from civil society, no matter how just the cause he thought it would further. If a guy walked around keying cars in the parking lot because he wanted to achieve world peace, I'd respect his desire to achieve world peace, but also want him prevented from doing so again until he demonstrated some understanding and therefore the necessarily resultant remorse.

I subscribe to STRATFOR's informative, insightful, and apolitical news service, and think most people who wax lyrical about how evil they are probably don't, or they'd realize they tend to write things like "Germany's Problematic Trade Surplus," or "Colombia's River Revitalization Plan."

A hacktivist picked a bad target and sought maximum collateral damage of innocents. People like that need to demonstrate that they understand why that's incompatible with living in a civilized society before they get to sit at the big kid's table again.

I'll get down voted for this, but if Jeremy Hammond still thinks the same way when his 10 years are up, he will have been released too soon. Sometimes prison is about rehab and reform, sometimes it's about damage control.
One of the best benefits is confining the style to the stylesheet so it can be swapped out allowing per customer skinning of the app.
Captcha test ‘cracked’ by US firm Vicarious
> It's absolutely ridiculous to take 10 years off someones life for doing good.

I don't think stealing my CC number was "doing good."
The Story Of Muammar Gaddafi
Uber’s go-to-market product incorporated a distributed brute-force attack against one of the Traveling Salesman’s cousin problems – they’re a tech for that reason alone.
Not a chance. Seceding from the US is right out. The last time anyone tried to do that, it did not go so well for them.

Even if we consider the somewhat simpler (or at least marginally less impossible) problem of seceding from California while remaining part of the Union, they'd to get California's permission first. I strongly doubt that California would ever be convinced to give up such a large portion of its tax base.
Some helpful starting points:

Learn about the Unix Way: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?UnixWay

Learn about crufty neckbeard stuff: http://doc.cat-v.org/programming/

(cat-v has all kinds of interesting things)

Learn C: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/

No, really, learn C: http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Language-2nd-Edition/dp/...

Learn about networking with sockets: http://www.beej.us/guide/bgnet/

(it's in C, but the principles are in other language bindings as well)

Devops/sysadminning is mostly just damned superstition and voodoo and hard-fought experience...that said, consult notes from others: http://users.cis.fiu.edu/~tho01/psg/

~

If you want more hands-on experience, setup a VPS and make something: http://feross.org/how-to-setup-your-linode/

If you find stuff in there you don't understand, ask your devs for help.
I'll take that into account. I'm glad you like it though :)
I'm always fascinated by suggestions that one solution to unethical working conditions is to eliminate the jobs entirely.
Hacker News Nation is Live
I'm a little bit skeptical of paying for the opportunity to do "real work for real" companies. It sounds a lot like an unpaid internship (except worse).
I take your point, but can making more money possibly mean anything to Ballmer?

Isn't it more about what Gates said (basically meaning and Microsoft being Gates' and Ballmer's big project)?
New Candidate For Most Surreal Email I Have Ever Written
Show HN: The best of YouTube and Vimeo in one place.
You could also say no, but Von Trapp's is a damn good option too unless you get a bocce ball through the screen ;)
Hmm, interesting. I get sidebar ads occasionally, but I've never noticed the other ones - maybe I just tune them out when I see them. (I use ghostery, but disabled it temporarily for testing this out.)
Hmm, if that was me (as the server programmer) I'd return a purposely different checksum[1] in the error message and then (internally) flag anything that was then submitted with that 'incorrect' checksum.

What you do with these flagged entries is up to you:-

a) Delete the scores after an hour or so (giving the chance for the user to check things)

b) Only display those scores to the user that logged in

c) Flag the entire account as 'cheat' and ban it after a few dodgy submissions

etc...

1. i.e. expected hash is hash(real_salt+data), supposed expected hash (returned to client in error message) is hash(cheat_salt+data). You obviously never return the real expected hash.
This should be more well known. I just enabled it and don't plan on ever looking back.
Absolutely. GCs have been improving a lot over recent years, and there's lots of software that's written in C++ that doesn't have to be.

You can write D without any GC at all, though: you lose a lot of the standard library at present, but I've done it. It's not possible, in my understanding, to turn the GC off in Go.
Oops, that should have read:

Udacity:Coursera::Harvard:Community College.

That's embarrassing.
This is not necessarily true. I don't know about DBC, but I do know that other coding programs offer paid client projects.

Source: I'm in a coding bootcamp working on a paid client project.
Agreed. I have a number of clients who are subscribers. They made better business decisions by virtue of reading the output of a group of talented forecasters.

These weren't businesses looking to crush people who voted a certain way, these were businesses who may have had a supplier in Japan and wanted more rational, reasoned coverage of Fukushima than most everyone else was providing. Or, companies that employ Latin American immigrants and wanted a more nuanced view of the future than the standard "instant voting blocs good!/evil brown people bad!" narrative.
That would be on the devkit most likely.
Fair enough. I guess you agree with the other point then.
The article is about a bounty program, and the comment is about how likely these programs are to actually pay out.
On the surface, perhaps. But as far as I know, Microsoft 8.1 is the only operating system with a standard 3D Printer API defined.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn26313...

Microsoft may not have any innovation in the end-product (its not like any of us expect MS Paint to be "innovative"), but the OS-perspective, they are years ahead of both Mac and Linux. Of course, a de-facto 3d Printing API may eventually be developed for *nix systems, but Microsoft's standardization upon a 3d Printing API puts them far ahead of the curve on this one.

--------------

For other tidbits of OS Innovation, Transactional Filesystems (yeah, its deprecated, but word on the street is that next-generation ReFS is going to support it), User-mode Schedulers, WebSocket supported in the BSD Socket layer, and more.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb96...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd62...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh43...

Microsoft's main product is the Windows OS, and they seem to continue to innovate in this sector. Adding 3D Printing support to the OS is only a good thing!
Yes but does it have internet access?
Microsoft is putting large amounts of money into celebrating this kind of behavior. Why on earth should that be ignored?
I know you're just clarifying it and not necessarily advocating it, but just want to state that it's a pretty lousy justification. For example:

(1) Mike Smith pays taxes to the powers that be, and therefore works 3-4 months out of the year for the powers that be; (2) The powers that be are bad; Therefore (3) murdering Mike hurts bad people.
They can filter the parts library, but if Little Johnny heard of something at school and made his own design, I don't see how the system can prevent that short of a parental lockout / corporate approval system where every printed part must be approved before printing. Even then, the most determined hacker-kids will figure out how to subvert that system.
No problem. It's important to take your time and build it up slowly. After awhile, you'll realize you've put away good money and have made some substantial gains. If you're lucky, you'll collect a few 10 baggers and maybe even a 100 bagger in your lifetime. Couple that with a good product and/or a good job and you'll be pretty secure.
Python modules you should know
On OSX FF with cookies disabled, page loads blank.

I used to fiddle cookie settings to test if that made a difference, now I just move on.

Mayhaps I am fanatical, but you don't get to use my disk without a good reason - you've got to give me value for me to open the door.
> So, a guy use his computer to show us some nasty things the government is doing with our money: 10 years

Including stealing people's CCs.
This is really exciting! For those not familiar, 180s (edit: as previously published[2]) is a phenomenal amount of time at room temperature and it seems they've beaten that now too. I was just looking for this recently in another comment thread[1] too when talking about the really cool things you can do when you have access to ultra-pure silicon-28 (which has been made as a result of something that sounds quite boring–making a more accurate standard for the kg–and is now having some exciting side benefits). Direct link to paper is here[2]; I think it's open access.

I was lucky enough to see a talk by one of the authors recently and was left very impressed. Quantum computing is probably the 'sexiest' application of ultra-pure silicon-28 but there are so many others besides, including being able to use ultra-fine optical transitions to identify defect complexes within the silicon (arrangements of impurity atoms that can influence the properties of silicon-based devices). If I remember rightly, there were several defects that had been misidentified for years based on entirely reasonable Occam's-razor like reasoning that have now been correctly identified thanks to this work.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6617183

[2] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6086/1280.full.pdf
I am not aware of anything that the stock Apple music app requires iTunes for.
Atom splitting in my kitchen was a hobby, man tells Swedish police
That's really a separate issue though.

Yes, we also need to tackle the crazy mess of certificate authorities and their monopoly on trust from browsers, but that doesn't mean encryption is not worthwhile.
I got more insight from this article as to the type of person Ballmer is than anything else I have read about him. Good read.
And yet the Facebook app stays in sync?
I TA'd Intro to Computer Science (Java Programming) at UCSC for 2 years and I would emphatically disagree with you. The whole time I was tutoring (groups and one on one) I never met anyone who I thought couldn't learn to program. It was 100% a function of time. Some people certainly got it quicker, but I never met anyone who couldn't get it at all given they put in the time. I probably worked with over 200 students indirectly and 50 one on one and I never felt I had to 'give up' on any of them. In fact it was one of the most enjoyable and rewarding jobs I've had.
Having a good mental model of your programming environment

This also does a lot to cut down on cargo cult programming [1] which in my experience is much more prevalent than I would like. Having a solid understanding of the environment you're working with makes it much harder to blindly follow the examples of others, because it's much easier to determine whether or not all/part/any of their example applies to your situation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming
wow. I consider this sentence overkill. and sadly he is not the only victim of extreme sentencing:
https://www.aclu.org/living-death-sentenced-die-behind-bars-...
So which one of your start-ups is one of the top 100 websites in the world?
This is true, but it sounds as though this is just because your clients are facilitating this kind of behavior in their clients by not scheduling the meeting for a time when the material can be prepared without people working in their family time.

Presumably they do this because they expect to be able to lean on you when the work needs to be done.
Or just where you aren't gouged by the cost of living. California is really nice and all, but Dallas isn't that bad and it's much cheaper to live here.
It's difficult in that you can't go out to a normal dinner without being really careful about what you eat. For instance, if you go to a normal restaurant (not one catering to vegans) and order a salad and ask for no cheese, but they bring you a salad that has cheese, or has croutons that are obviously all buttered up, or something else. Now you have to send it back and wait for them to make you a new one. For a lot of people that's fine. They're happy to get exactly what they want and to wait for it. For me it's not worth the effort, concern, stress or whatever. I just eat the salad.

So yeah, if you aren't bothered by interrogating every waiter at every restaurant you ever go to and returning food regularly, sure...it's not hard to be vegan. I'd rather live mostly vegan and not sweat the small stuff.
Until you want to watch a playlist or a channel without choosing each video each time.

Feather Beta doesn't work with the "Play all" links or playlists in general.
> On a long enough timeline, HTML wins

As a developer never ever take any technology for granted, ever.

> I can't look at at an in-browser demo of Epic Citadel

I have a pretty decent laptop , this demo wont run on any browser. The performances are just not here , they are nowhere near native even on desktop.
Exactly. This is why I started using Foundation primarily in the first place. I tried staying on the bootstrap-sass bandwagon, but Foundation won me over entirely by letting me overwrite Sass variables to retheme.
You obviously is a swat to swat bugs in your software!
The mob mentality that surfaces here whenever a so-called "hacktivist" actually has to do jail time for something they knew full well was a crime when they did it, is just astounding.

Just wanted to say that as a fellow subscriber who also had the royal inconvenience of having my email/password/CC leaked, you're spot-on. Spend enough time reading their analysis and even The Economist starts to feel like People Magazine.

And the format of: Summary / What Happened / Historical Background / Restated Summary should be made standard journalistic procedure.
I'm seeing a therapist right now. I'm not chemically depressed or have any disorder, other than being raised by completely psycho, narcissist parents. But I got through that fine. The only reason for my depression is that I don't have a way out right now. Once I find something to work on and enjoy, all the 'depression' will go.
Congratulations, you just discovered "growth hacking"!
FYI, big_red_text is presentational (specifies size and color, while saying nothing about what the role or purpose of the text is) while alert is semantic (describes the content, says nothing about presentation).
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/youtube-cente... is useful, especially fixing buffering and quality.
In high-end servers they blow the competition away on price. I did a comparison recently and they came out over 4x cheaper than Rackspace for two 256GB of RAM servers + heavy bandwidth.
Yes, they are problematic. Cipher suites are typically tied to a particular key algorithm. Microsoft does support the DHE key exchange, but only in combination with DSA keys (DSS in the cipher suite string). There are a couple of problems with that. First, if you do use DSA keys, you don't get to use any RSA suites[1], which are much better supported. Just as an illustration Chrome supports only one DSA suite. Second, virtually no one uses DSA keys today for SSL. So, all the advice you will find is about RSA keys. Third, and worst, Microsoft does not actually support DSA keys stronger than 1024 bits, and you can't use 1024-bit keys because they're considered too weak.

I am sure there is a reason, but Microsoft never supported the DHE and RSA combination, which was the only way to achieve Forward Secrecy before ECDHE became widely supported.

[1] Actually, some web servers support multiple keys/certificates. With Apache, for example, you could have an SSL site with RSA, DSA, and ECDSA keys if you wanted. I think nginx is adding this capability too. But IIS does not support it.
Not to mention the ads shown next to original content created by youtube creators earn them a living.
I would use tubalr more often, but whenever I need it, I can't remember what it is called. I've liked you on Facebook, so my usual way of finding it is by going there and finding you amongst my likes.

In other words, you should try to come further up on google searches for "youtube music".
> "A twenty-year tracking study of 3,000 high school students demonstrated that only children have higher IQs than their peers with one sibling -- in fact, "there are marked negative effects on IQ of increasing sib size."

I didn't see any mention of household income in the NYT article. I'm interested to know if the researchers factored in household income because from what I've read, people with higher incomes tend to have higher IQs and fewer children, and intelligence is heritable.
>its pretty awesome, but it solves a problem for a small subset of people. Same with Coin. I highly doubt YC would have taken on coin if they didn't have a large market to go after.

Not to quibble, but you have some contradictions lurking in there. On one hand, you're saying that, like Uber, Coin solves a problem for a small subset of people. OTOH, you're saying that they are addressing a big market.

It's an important distinction if you're making the argument that the parent's personal need for the service doesn't matter. That is, if this is supposed to be a mass-market product, then "random" people (including the parent and others on HN) opining about their need for it is much more relevant than in the case of a niche product that is intended for a small audience.