skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no difference unless you frequently hire the people you've put at the back of the line because of their lack of GitHub presence.

"I hired the other guy because I screened out the non-GitHubbers" and "I hired the other guy because I gave preference to active GitHubbers" -- I don't see the distinction.
glad to see love for tmux. I've been a user for 3+ years.
Thank you nicm.
This has always been Bitcoin's ultimate end. Anonymity (a mandatory requirement of money) is a much harder security property than simply not implementing a name field.
Oh please nobody said hit your head against a wall repeatedly. Deliberative practice.
How much do characters on the Simpsons like each other?
Maybe others are able to give a more objective analysis, assuming your claims are true you enter the debate with significant bias.
A lot of people would argue that it shouldnt happen in the case of the gambinos either and that RICO is an overreach
I have always wondered about this. Given the kind of stuff available in these stores I think it is nearly impossible to scan all those items for security.
That is an interesting narrative. Microsoft didn't "lose" anything, they have made billions over the last decade. So you have a profitable company bringing in billions of dollars that is pretty much qualifies as "doing a good job."

So when people talk about the 'lost billions' they create a hypothetical Microsoft, the one of today which made billions of dollars but also dominated in new markets and made billions more. There is absolutely no evidence that Microsoft could have done both, regardless of who was at the helm. It would have been epic, but it isn't clear that it was possible.

So this article was Ballmer's take on his reign, he's not going to say "I didn't capture the smartphone market" he is going to remember that he made a lot of money off enterprises for his employees and his shareholders. I would happy to be that successful.

Google has never made serious money off their hardware products or operating system products, Apple has never made serious money off their operating system products or their network products, and Microsoft has never made significant money on either network products or hardware products. All three have a space where they are really good, all three are so so in the other two spaces. Why is Ballmer presented as an idiot and Page and Cook not?
> but the OS-perspective, they are years ahead of both Mac and Linux

Thanks, I needed a laugh.
We do this as well. I'd recommend setting it up for all new projects as quickly as possible to avoid having sensitive configurations in your repository history.

For my personal projects, it enables me to host my projects on public github repos, including configuration files, which was traditionally a pain point.
EMV cards had been distributed to customers since the late 90s.

I would guess the banks had been rolling out EMV capable ATMs well before 2003. Retail level EMV may have taken two years from trial to liability swith. Infrastructure changes would have pre-dated that by years.

I know EMV cards had been distributed to customers since the late 90s because I used to use mine for testing while I developed the software I wrote that ran several of the retailer systems in that Northampton trial :)
If you could go to jail for threatening people on IRC then the internet would be vacated
Yes, very true, but this is in part because silicon is simply understood so well now. Trust me when I say we could do just as exciting things and more besides with other materials if we just understood them half as well!

To illustrate what I mean, consider the fact that the Czochralski process [1] exists and that it means you can get huge, pure, relatively defect-free ingots of silicon (see [2]). With new materials, we're happy just to grow a few microns of the stuff, let alone something like that.

So you're right, silicon really is very incredible :) but we've reached the point now that the new innovations are in part possible by sheer momentum alone, like the billions of dollars of investment you mention. The big challenge is to develop new materials that initially (possibly for decades or more) are inferior to silicon but might ultimately unseat it. The only problem is that no one really knows what that material will be in advance. A lot of people right now are gambling on graphene, and from the amount of investment alone something interesting should come from it, but who knows if there's something else better out there just waiting for the attention it needs.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czochralski_process
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monokristalines_Silizium_f...
Had my own car for the trips, but have used cabs for convenience in Chicago and NY. I usually pay cabs in cash though (probably because I never think of cabs as accepting cards, thinking by my country's norms).
It's sickening to see so many people claiming Hammond "did a good thing" and "didn't harm any person". Something I expected from reddit, but not HN.
I think both of you slightly misunderstood each other. You meant the people already in the room, he thought you said new people who entered.
Any chance they could get you for downloading copyrighted emails without a license?
> Attacking civilian targets is wrong regardless of which side is doing it.

What about a single civilian in a civilian building filled with a company of soldiers? In the law of armed conflict this kind of thing is called "perfidy" and brings no protection.
The idea definitely hits upon one of the great challenges of our generation (preferring digital experiences over the physical). It's a busy space - so I'm curious how you're differentiating your product.

I would definitely give it a go if I owned an Android device. As it's a rather unconventional approach to go Android first (at least in the U.S.) my guess is that your team was predisposed to Android development? Also, does the iOS counterpart have an ETA? A blog post about your Android store experience would be informative. Either way I respect putting all the wood behind a single arrow for your users -- keep it up!
At first, I thought this was just the FBI trying to whip up a moral panic about HACKERS! because the "Terrorists!" thing is beginning to wear thin with both lawmakers and the public. The FBI has lured a few too many obviously clueless into totally fake "bomb plots" to be credible on that issue.

But my first impression was wrong: this is just major cluelessness on the FBI's part. And it's not the first time. Google for "virtual casefile" to see other computer-related messes the FBI has made.
1/3 in a domestic (U.S.) index fund, 1/3 in an international index fund, 1/3 in CDs, money market funds, savings bonds, or T-notes. Rebalance once a year. Spend no additional time thinking about any of this.
Why Hulu, Audible, and others paid thousands to attend a bootcamp demo day
That zip file contained 5,000 stolen credit card numbers, along with CVVs and ID info.
I don't think they have a path for this. Getting the bank to hand over the keys needed will be next to impossible.
I avoided clicking this link at first as I was expecting to groan at the shmoozy BS inside. I was pleasantly surprised to find a concrete technique that I can easily remember and apply. Thanks.
What Would I Say
Yeoman Generator for Node with Mocha tests
SaaS Analytics For Stripe
This is all very interesting and impressive, but why doesn't anyone talk about how much pollution and environmental damage this is causing? It's terrifying to think about how much fossil fuel will be burned to keep these resources running. How many servers and cables they will be throwing away every year. How much packaging trash is being generated by Amazon every day. Do these inconvenient by-products simply disappear? No, they show up in your landfills, and in your oceans, and they get "exported" (dumped) in China and Africa.

The only metrics people are looking at is revenue, profits, growth, bandwidth and storage. But how about we start measuring pollution, waste, and environmental destruction for every company, right alongside the traditional metrics?

It's great when the stock price doubles. But does anyone think about the fact that this probably also means the amount of plastic trash in our oceans, and poisonous gas in our atmosphere doubles?
It's just business. Conflict is extremely profitable. Unfortunately, 164 people is a drop in a bucket in an ocean.
I don't think explicit "reviews of reviewers" is necessary, with enough data you can compute a trustworthiness score based on how their past reviews match up against other reviewers, or an Amazon style "Was this review helpful?" poll (which I suppose is a review of reviewers).

I assume this is how Yelp and others do it.
YMMV.

There's no argument that it can or can't be done, only that the time and cost to implement is equal to or greater than implementing N native apps. Wouldn't mind a contradictory citation for apps that have taken the plunge and found it to be worthwhile, and that the write-once-run-anywhere promise was fulfilled to their satisfaction.

You'll notice that the Windows Phone Netflix app certainly isn't using the same approach as the iOS and Android counterparts, and the iOS/Android versions use a non-trivial amount of native UI components for their respective platforms.
Recommendations are actually nice, but the problem on YT is how they are based on the current video and my personal browsing history at the same time. I think in earlier days they were just based on the current video and this made much more sense to me.
Who Made That Washington Redskins Logo?
I use Ctrl-o as my key bind for tmux. Maybe Ctrl-\ is a better choice for me, since Ctrl-o conflict with something that I does not always using.
You're right, I was looking at the cipher, I think. SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5
True; this seems a bit silly at first glance, but imagine how much money a YouTube-like site could save if videos were converted in the user's browser before upload, rather than by the server.
https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?relid=402#searchresult

Subject: Re: GOOGLE & Iran internal use only - pls do not forward

GOOGLE is getting WH and State Dept. support & air cover. In reality,
they are doing things the CIA cannot do. But, I agree with you. He's
going to get himself kidnapped or killed. Might be the best thing to
happen to expose GOOGLE's covert role in foaming up-risings, to be
blunt. The US Govt can then disavow knowledge and GOOGLE is left
holding the shit bag.
Ugh... if a HN title ever needed a change (the current one is "Woman Facing $3,500 Fine For Posting Online Review"), it's this one.

Jen Palmer is not facing a $3,500 fine any more than I'm "facing" the threat of being struck by a meteor on my birthday. She'll pay this horrible company a dime the day Eskimos need to worry about tigers, and I actually can think of a good analogy.

This title seems intended to gin up outrage where there should be none. To be sure, I'm outraged at this company's terrible ethics. But in this case our legal system actually works. News at nine.
EASTL on github, pulled out of the ea gpl projects: https://github.com/paulhodge/EASTL
The Greatest Salesman In The World
Correction:
hipmink (advisor)
breadpig... and that's notable?
reddit, what was it by the time he left? It took off long after he left.

Investor, yes indeed.
Agreed, I will be crazy if I use ctrl-a. Also it conflict with start of line of default bash settings
There are a whole lot of people who will never migrate away from traditional desktops and laptops, nor away from Windows and Office. The prices of those products could be raised substantially before these is any price sensitivity, because the direct product pricing is a small part of the lifecycle expense of those "seats."

Microsoft has a lot of time and a lot of money to help figure out what comes next for them. Though the money can be kind of a curse. It enabled them to overspend on projects until they became permanent unkillable money losers.

Mostly they need to get rid of dogmas and let their people rip and make something that isn't Windows, and has no Windows legacy tail to drag around (I did not say no migration path or protocol-level compatibility).
Money, startups, fame
He left reddit in 2009 FYI http://images.nethosting.com/reddit-timeline.jpg
Not quite right. He said he wouldn't have gone after Stratfor specifically had he not been pointed out to it by Sabu. He never said (nor, AFAICT, implied) he wouldn't have hacked some other website he thought was relevant to Anonymous's aims. This is just one example from the linked article of Hammond being disingenuous.

As far as over prosecuted, that's only really possible if they're throwing a book at him that contains charges he didn't really commit (e.g. how Russia initially charged the Arctic Greenpeace protestors with "piracy" even after Putin acknowledged it wasn't piracy). I don't see that in this case.

He ran afoul of an overly severe law, that much is true. But what happened isn't so much that the government ramped up the charges, as that the government didn't tamp them down like they might for other computer hackers who seem more innocent. But I don't know what Hammond expected here either. If you're going to commit a series of crimes specifically to piss off The Man then you shouldn't be surprised when the judge seems to forget how to be lenient.
Microsoft infographic encouraging working while on vacation
Knock on some wood pronto, lest you get struck by a meteor on your birthday :(
While that book has it's pacing flaws I really enjoyed it. When he calls up "Langley Contracting" for "five extreme prejudice deletions" and is asked "Please indicate level of precision required from the following five options: surgical, accurate, scattershot, blanket, atrocity" I decided it was a winner. Morgan's site has a great quote that the movie option for this book was never exercised because “no-one’s going to want to play an action hero this morally compromised”.

I guess if StratFor is acquired by an investment bank you would basically have a Shorn Associates type firm.
Holy damn. Here is one interview of her (Reva Bhalla): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc1gJOPCipY And at the end she is linking the attack to Al Qaeda. I think this is why they are giving her kudos, for planting the seed. This is nefarious on so many levels. This means India directly comes under pressure to respond back to Pakistan, and then respond to allegations that Al Qaeda is expanding in India. It is ironic that it was one of the CIA double agent, with links to terrorist organization LeT, who conducted recce of the sites before attacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Headley

India was under so much pressure to go to war at that time. Experts were gunning for surgical strikes. Imagine the pressure on bureaucrats, especially when both countries have nuclear arsenal.

Why does education/intelligence/morality not cull the inner devil of some?
That email thread has been public for quite a long time now and the subject of some conspiracy theories. Unfortunately, the rest of that email chain fizzles out, suggesting that it was just an opinionated off-the-cuff remark, not the result of any serious analysis. Maybe there is more in today's drop, but as of yesterday there wasn't anything particularly damning regarding that google employee.
"but Foundation won me over entirely by letting me overwrite Sass variables to retheme."

Can you elaborate on this? Is this not possible with LESS?
MIT Media Lab: Dynamic Shape Display
This makes me sick to the stomach.

I was in India when the Mumbai carnage took place. My classmate from IIT was killed the same day at the very same spot [1].

And here we have this class of a bitch thinking of making a "lot of money" off a probable war ['caged match' look at the audacity!]. No wonder they say karma is broken all over the place. On another story these same corrupt assholes have abused their power to send a whistle blower to jail and serve a 10 years term [2].

Nice going, keep it up newage SS!

[1] http://www.iitfoundation.org/?p=200

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6740652
Doesn't work too well with multiple monitors. My other screens give away my computers true non-brokenness
This company made $3M in 4 days as part of the Bitcoin gold rush
Fraction Explorer
The argument that only the well-to-do contribute to OSS is bullshit, although I haven't looked at the data. Perhaps on a global scale, but within the gamut of rich and poor in North America, my own anecdata on the matter is just the opposite.

Github-as-the-new-resume is galling for plenty of other reasons.
> I'm sure I could understand learn the rules given some time, but now that I've played around with D and Nimrod, I'm wondering why I should. I can get excellent performance without using pointers, yet I can access a pointer if I absolutely need one.

Because they let you avoid garbage collection and data races while remaining safe.

If you're just starting to use each language, then having just one, globally garbage collected type, will seem to make everything simpler. And benchmarks of numerics will show that hey, it doesn't seem to matter what your memory story is. But in my experience those who have struggled with garbage collection pauses or data races come to appreciate the ability to declare the ownership semantics at a fine-grained level. Large, production-quality, performance-critical software in Java, for example, very frequently starts running into issues with the garbage collector. And I don't think I need to go into the headaches of sorting out data races.

Last I looked, Nimrod in particular loses all memory safety once you share objects between threads. (I hear this is changing though; I'm interested to see what they come up with.) Go loses some memory safety around maps and slices if GOMAXPROCS>1. D remains memory safe in @safe code, but at the cost of concurrent, stop-the-world garbage collection. None of these languages offer support for avoiding data races at compile time. Those decisions have real costs (as well as benefits; they're all tradeoffs).

It's very easy to brush off features like safe manual memory management with "I don't need that feature in some other language, why would I need it here?" But everything you've posted has not indicated any understanding of why Rust has smart pointers. If you think GC, data races, or safety are not worth solving at a language level (which, to be clear, is a position that reasonable people can take!) then argue that instead of handwaving around pointer type complexity. I don't mind if you like Go/Nimrod/D better than Rust—they're all fine languages and I have great respect for their creators—but be informed with your criticisms.

> But it's clear that Nimrod can reach ballpark C++/Rust/Go speeds, even without GC specifically turned off, based on both my own usage and this benchmark:

This is a perfect example of how single benchmarks can be misleading. First of all, that benchmark was found to be mostly testing the performance of the random number generator, which is cryptographically secure by default in Rust and not in other languages. Second, that benchmark probably never even triggers the GC in any of the languages. It's totally numeric-bound. Try a benchmark of arena allocation, for example. Or compare max pause times.
If dilution is a significant factor and you are sitting on a cash pile you can't possibly spend fast enough, then that's a problem with an obvious solution going unsolved.
> Talking about "Anonymous, the group" is like talking about "Kilroy, the GI."

I wonder how many people here are even going to get that reference...
(In response to some of these comments)

Concise, semantic markup results in:

* less complexity
* easier maintenance
* greater portability

For one example, what happens when you want to use another grid framework instead of bootstrap's? With non-semantic markup, you have to go through and strip out all those bootstrap classes on everything. On the other hand, if you use concise, semantic HTML and Sass (or LESS, if you don't mind totally abusing at-rule syntax), all you have to do is swap out the grid mixins (or, in the case of the approach in the OP, @extends) and related styles, often with no changes to the markup. Same with any other component you might want to swap out, such as form styles.

What happens when 3 years from now someone inherits your mess of HTML with presentational styles for a framework that's years old and no longer relevant? In addition to updating the styles, they also have the pleasure of spending hours or longer stripping out your outdated, framework-specific presentational classes and ids.

What happens when you HTML needs to be consumed in an unknown, unpredictable context? Content organizations are still dealing with the fallout of having inflexible HTML and CSS that can't easily be adapted for mobile.
Brilliant!

Could someone make a short montage of all the weapons firing/being detonated? Slow internet and a lack of weapon descriptions make for quite the frustrating evening.
You're missing the point.

The value judgement for using a web rendering engine on your _closed_ system barely touches on "cross platform" benefits. The primary concern is whether or not the rendering engine saves you time and effort.

People seem to forget that browser engines are fantastic at a wide variety of tasks:

* Best in class UI layouting.

* A great scripting engine.

* Very performant rendering pipelines (for what they're doing).

* Easy extension points when integrating with your native layer (e.g. exposing your own 'native' JS objects).

* Fantastic dev tools.

* Etc.

Browser engines are a _platform_. Why reinvent the wheel?
Precisely. Earned his money in the private sector and impacting public sector in huge way.

Imagine how much progress he could've made if he started pushing this idea as a mid-level bureaucrat.
"In an effort to ensure fair and honest public feedback ... this sales contract prohibits you from taking any action that negatively impacts KlearGear.com"

That's some great doublespeak right there.
IANAL, but copyright violations almost always have to do with distribution rather than downloads. They get P2P users on the technicality that to download, you also end up uploading.
> Can you elaborate on this? Is this not possible with LESS?

It's definitely possible. I overwrite Bootstrap's colors/borders/buttons with LESS. LESS and SASS are, functionally, extremely similar.
You think tech has it bad? Try banking: http://hoh.rollcall.com/somebody-spot-janet-yellen-some-new-...
Yeah, I don't look at Anonymous nearly the same way you do. I think of Anonymous as an idea or a principle rather than an actual group. I see no reason why anonymity cannot have a place in activism.
A similar project, that also supports live video http://bublcam.com
Imagine if Apple spent billions on boondoggles that made it such that instead of having $150B in their bank account, they only had $100B or $50B - because that's what's evident - MSFT might have double it's current cash ($80B) [1] if it had executed well on those new key ventures.

Is it any less a managerial failure to repeatedly fail to execute like this than it is to push a company from profitable to unprofitable (or run it into bankruptcy)?

And that's ignoring the cultural morass that failed policies like stacked ranking promote - that could likely have poisoned Microsoft's productivity well.
The Everlasting Autodidact (1989)
Android in CSS
Correct, he copied and pasted a link (posted by someone else) to a zip file from one chat room to another chat room, that contained 5000 cc's.

And is now facing "12 federal charges relating to identity theft and fraud" for doing so.
That's not true! People who died in these five star hotels and their conference rooms were top notch entrepreneurs, executives AND ordinary people of India [1]. So 164 people who died is not just a drop in the ocean as you would like to believe here.

[1] http://www.indianexpress.com/news/yes-bank-chairman-ashok-ka...