skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd also call it a "mindset". The younger generation are far more network focused. I developed a product that doesn't work/share online ... To protect privacy. But, I seem to be a lone wolf in that mindset.
Most of these popular technologies utilize online capability.
I'm not saying this as a statement of frustration, just a recognition. I deplore the facebooks and other data-mining tools so much that I would never develop a system that was engineered to invasively profile you - it reminds me of an anal probe. Most of my over 40 colleagues are like-minded (at least about privacy). This is a big advantage for the younger generation who see and think very differently.
As a developer who has working on and in the browser platform for a long time, I totally agree that the irony of stories like this is thick.

On the other hand, watching browser technology evolve from whatever IE6 was into the sole interface presentation layer for top tier operating systems has been fascinating. Browsers may have failed to bring us a "one true platform" by themselves, but the technologies involved are quickly reaching ubiquity.
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Searching through 150 million e-mail addresses within milliseconds.
So a lot of Adobe data was leaked: 10GB, about 150 million records. And some people have written search engines to check if your e-mail address was somewhere in all this data. But those search engines are slow. I search through 150 million e-mail addresses in less than 50ms... ON A RASPBERRY PI! Check it out!
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To be fair, this generally happens with age anyway. We slowly come to the realization that idealism is often a mask for arrogance and a false-confidence borne of insecurity. As we mature, we not only see the failings of our former naive selves, but the folly of such idealism in and of itself. The opposite of idealism is not cynicism, but realism.
There's nothing wrong with increasing your efficiency in responding to that call.

We need to distinguish between the technological and the social. Increasing your ability to work in more times and more places is great! It means that if you really need it, you can use it instead of just being screwed.

Socially, we need to realize that this incredible ability needs to only be used when truly necessary. Dumbing down the technology to not support it is not the answer.
Militarised Volcano Police?
Why would it be spam? It's definitely not.
So a lot of Adobe data was leaked: 10GB, about 150 million records. And some people have written search engines to check if your e-mail address was somewhere in all this data. But those search engines are slow. I search through 150 million e-mail addresses in less than 50ms... ON A RASPBERRY PI! Check it out!
I'll take every opportunity to just praise you good sir, and gush over your wonderful book. Because it is indeed a wonderful book. It sits happily on my shelf.
As long as using wget can lead to a conviction for hacking, it might not be the best idea to admit such a hack publicly...

But luckily in the EU the European court for human rights should stop such stupidity in its tracks.
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"...attracted the attention of Osama Bedier, the former head of Google Wallet, who’s an investor in Coin. Bedier spent years attempting to make Wallet the NFC payments standard of future phones, but Google abandoned his work to pivot the product into yet another PayPal competitor. "[Bedier] sees scale at Coin … where he didn’t see scale in current solutions," a company spokesperson said on Bedier’s behalf. And for what it’s worth, Parashar says he hopes to develop a way to let users activate Coin (or disable the "lost" feature) even when a phone’s not around."

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/14/5103820/coin-electronic-c...
It's classic, but boring, PR spin.
Education’s Ongoing Problem With Boys 
With over three-fourths of teachers being female, it’s no wonder that the education system seems to favor girls. Boys are twice as likely to be suspended from school for such things as pretending to be cops and robbers. Schoolyard roughhousing and fights that used to result in phone calls to parents now end up in exclusion from school – sometimes permanently, sometimes with juvenile criminal records. In a female dominated system, boys are at a disadvantage for being boys.

Three times as many boys as girls receive special education services for perceived disabilities, yet the scores on standardized tests by age 16 give the edge to boys. New tools for teaching that engage boys in learning need to be included in teacher lesson plans. A lesson plan format that include online tools for teaching like Artifacts Teach, which uses objects to inspire curiosity and authentic inquiry, can bring boys back into the fold. Adding some competition to a lesson plan template, or adding lesson plans that include open-ended questions with no clear answers would better engage boys.
Just the opposite.
TechCrunch now has a mention of the IPO:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/15/zulily-shares-pop-82-above-...
You have to hit the "pin" icon on the playlist, I believe.
Ask HN: Can you make real money in crypto-currency mining?
Hi HN,

I was wondering if anyone of you is actively mining for BTC/LTC or anything else, and if someone is really able to turn a profit out of it, or if it's just a hobby thing.

Thanks really much! Really looking forward to your comments
That makes perfect sense, WebKit is the most embeddable of open source browser engines. You can embed Gecko and Blink as well but WebKit seems to care the most about embeddability and customizability.
I've worked on a few flash games in my free time. Ultimately since the game code resides in the client, it will always be feasible to cheat. That, of course, doesn't mean you can't deter some.

One of the things that kept people from snooping around was encryption. All communication went to 1 vaguely named endpoint with 1 parameter, which was a an encrypted list of the parameters and the action to take. This will deter some, but not others.

At the start of a game, the client had to contact the server for a key. This changed each time you played. Any score submission required this key - if it was wrong I ignored it. Only 1 score submission per key.

Note that you have other useful information now: you know how long they were in game to get their score. I flagged scores that were abnormally high for the time it took to get them. I would then review them, and based upon their score history hellban them - they could still play, but no-one saw their high scores except themselves.

If Candy Crush did something similar, they would likely catch you. You wouldn't even know until you gloated and your friends said they can't see your score. Some people who got hellbanned would contact me, and I'd give them a free pass.

Of course you could cheat and get a normal score in a normal timeframe, but I didn't care as much about that.

Beyond trying to thwart cheating, I'm a big fan of cheating in games myself. It's part of why I enjoy eve online so much, because they encourage the usage of 3rd party tools more than any other game I've played.

The most extensive thing I've programmed for cheating is probably a custom MUD client to facilitate multiplay. The clients report to eachother information they know. All clients keep the state of the group and the things I'm fighting. They also keep track of which client can do what, so I can type into any client that I want to heal someone and the program will figure out which client is able to do that, and tell it to do so.
You don't actually know any of this as fact, do you?
For viewers outside the US using Chrome, Media Hint (https://mediahint.com/install_chrome.html).
The issue with the PS3's UI is that it's seen a marked increase in complexity since the initial release, coupled with less resource access. As it stands the PS3's XMB has access to about 80mb of RAM, the rest is reserved for games. Also everything I've heard about the PS4 makes it sound like the UI is incredibly fast and responsive.
sorry stock Apple music app
> Not really.

Apparently not.

When people are referring to using Github as your CV, they aren't talking about Github pages. They are talking about the repositories and the code. Github pages are another thing entirely, and not what is being discussed here.

> but github [pages] whould make a fantastic site for a portfolio.

No one would argue that github pages would make for an easy to use hosting provider for a portfolio site. No one is suggesting that.
I have a saying "It's on-call, not beck-and-call".
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> Governments never give up power once you let them have it

This is a universal truth.
Schneier talk at the IETF Vancouver meeting on NSA and surveillance.
Same on FF 28, also Linux.
This has been litigated in the form of garage door openers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chamberlain_Group,_Inc._v._....

In general, a network protocol is going to be viewed as functional not expressive and thus not copyrightable.
Majority* of people I know that use credits cards and pay minimum required amount are not dumb people. If anything they do not have a choice. Living from payday to payday will do that to you. Unexpected event? Time to pull out that credit card. It sounds so easy to just bunker down and break the cycle, but then whammy unexpected event.

* I might be biased in terms of people I know.
You're not the first. You may enjoy looking up the story of Dr. Thomas Sowell. Right out of college (which included studying under Milton Friedman) he was a self identified Marxist. He went to work in a federal bureaucracy and soon completely changed course, becoming one of the most well known conservative/libertarian advocates for the last 40 years.
How can I locally cancel all the changes made in a commit?
This should no longer be true. Chrome v31 (http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/11/stable-chan...) added SCTP support for reliable DataChannels and allowing compatibility with Firefox.
On a machine with the sort of power that the PS4 has, how does "running a browser" need to be equal to "non-responsive UI?"
Yep, those retina images don't look too hot on Chrome/Macbook Air/OSX 10.9: http://i.imgur.com/bzwF86C.png
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> doesn't teach you anything other...

You're not even trying. Why even get out of bed in the morning?
Wait, why doesn't performance matter on the desktop? What happens when you hit the PS4 button (or whatever it is) in a game to bring up the UI overlay? What happens when you're in the desktop itself, panning around? What happens when you install updates? Do we have to sit through flickering screens as update after update is installed?!

Interface performance is really fucking important, and I sure hope people like Sony and Microsoft care when it comes to their consoles.

People like EA and the notoriously terrible Battlefield* interfaces obviously do not care. (The original Battlefield 1942 would switch from your native resolution and refresh rate and color depth and put the screen in 800x600 16bit 60hz every single time you hit the escape button.)
EDIT: Never mind. I don't see any point in this conversation. Have a good weekend.
Here you go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p32bxlX7w6o
I think the days of independent mining are over. Used to be you could mine several hundred BTC/month with a nice multi GPU setup. If you held on to those BTC then it would have been very profitable.

But as difficulty increases it requires more and more specialized hardware for less output. It is to the point now where you cannot expect to make money mining unless you are willing to invest millions in equipment and facilities.
I've seen a lot of talk about how far Mono has gone in recent times but not much in writing. Do you have anything about the progress that was made? Blog posts, announcements, anecdotal evedence? I'm looking for stuff to show to the team so we could consider expanding our C# development to linux too.
Yeah, that's exactly what it is. I have even more so of an aversion if I am not that active in the community.
or event better , use a framework with an asset pipeline that does that for you ... like express or rails ...
I really enjoy getting to "peak behind the curtain" of embedded systems and other such appliances, especially games consoles. They've always held a certain mystique. Sometimes a beautiful, glossy UI running on top of a well thought out, logical and high performance system can be just as exciting as the games they were designed to deliver.

(At least to someone stuck doing LoB/ERP work and CMS development.)
Not to forget, in Steam you can't open new tabs which is extremely annoying.
I don't think it's because it's MS, but the history of MS proves them to be the perfect company to promote a campaign like this. It's like a bank advertising that compounding interest will get you more money if you don't give any to charity. It's advertising a distasteful lifestyle.
They also invented the 'sea of mediocrity' effect.
Awesome job guys. Using Kato in our company and we love it.
I agree the term is far too broadly applied, but Fascism is not synonymous with Mussolini. The Wikipedia page you link to also categorizes Nazism is one kind of fascism.
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One advantage of shared libraries is that applications that link against them benefit from bugfixes when the system updater updates the library. (Well, it might also cause regressions, obviously.)
> Google has been steadily moving away from "Go is a C++ replacement" (because it's not) and toward "Go is a Python/Ruby replacement." (which fits it _much_ better)

I don't see that Go is particularly good general replacement for C++ or Python/Ruby, it seems more of a good tool for the place where Python or Ruby's performance characteristics and less well developed support for concurrency/parallelism make them unattractive, but at the same time the relative heaviness and complexity of C++ makes it unattractive, and so neither seems to be the right choice.
Not everyone uses their device as a work tether.

I could certainly use a map/camera/note taking device on any trip, no matter how minimalist. As she wrote, the point of the trip was not to suffer.
I've used tmux so much in the past... so much that the only thing that my OS would do is run tmux ;-) So I've decided to use a different window manager: StumpWM. So, in a nutshell, all my window manager is now a big tmux - and I run browsers fullscreen in some screens. That's the best coding setup I've ever had.
Oracle is huge. It has 17 Senior/Executive Vice Presidents[1] and a lot more "normal" vice presidents[2]. Looks like[3] Tom Budnar is [one of the] VP at "North America Technology & Government Consulting".

[1] http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/executives/index.ht...

[2] http://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?orig=TSEO_SN&company=oracl...

[3] https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/oregonhix/meetings/transc...
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It's not that "almost everyone would benefit".

If we magically switched a perfect/lowfriction payment model, merchants would benefit, and consumers would benefit, but in ways invisible to them; while losing smaller visible benefits - so they wouldn't "see any benefit".

On the other hand, all the infrastructure partners - i.e., anyone who actually can change the system, would lose out on this lucrative rent from the transaction fees.

The only way to change that is by force from above - EU SEPA legislation is in the right direction, but IMHO not enough.
From what I've read, google is using Go to replace many of their C++ systems. While it may have been developed independently, I still consider this enough rationale to be a "C++ replacement". Of course, C++ currently occupies so many different roles, that the term "C++ replacement" is not very specific. I appreciate your point though, it has many more properties in common with python/ruby.
Nice. Two suggestions:

1. You could likely have auto-generated the callback stuff so you wouldn't have had to have it written out in each function.

2. You could have written the parameters and return values and equations in a Object for each function and auto-generated the inline docs and the i-prefixed functions. This would have gotten rid of more duplication that is present.
Just saw that this was commented as spam. Well, I wrote that post in hopes that others who want to break away from their desk jobs and start telecommuting could learn from my own experience.

Why did you think it was spam?
The product is named "Office365" after all. It is paving the way for that future in a not too subtle way...
Internet architects propose encrypting all the world's web traffic
If they start selling infant size porkpie hats, you'll know I'm right. Getting the skinny jeans over the diapers is going to be a challenge though.
Big companies are famous for being not-nimble and not investing in "small" niches that won't move their bottom line. So if you can find a niche that BigCo won't be able to move into for years (or won't even want to), then you can have a solid business.
Not just OSX, it's sloppy on Windows too. I'm not sure what UI Toolkit they're using, but they should do a complete overhaul.
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I'm just counter nitpicking at this point which isn't much better.

> That native delivers a superior UI doesn't mean it delivers a superior UX.

Sure, it doesn't necessitate a superior UX, but it certainly has an effect on UX. Here 'programminggeek' has tried building apps using native and using web technologies and has found that, for him at least, native provides a better UX. Are you saying thats not possible? That the choice between native and web is absolutely not a UX one but a UI one?
I've said more than my fair share of retarded things on IRC. But I don't commit violence, nor do I go out and recruit people to commit violence on my behalf.

Hammond was dangerous because he would manipulate people into following his anarchist leanings toward more "direct action", as he liked to put it. He wasn't just some troll on IRC. He committed crimes, over and over, and incited others to do the same. The stratfor and other hacks were just his bravado getting away from him, and people are safer now that he's in jail.

The only thing that bothers me now is what kind of shit he's going to concoct to lash out at everyone and everything he hates once he's released.
Just noticed all four certs in the chain on https://www.microsoft.com use SHA1. The root cert, "Baltimore CyberTrust Root", expires in 2025. Will root CAs also have to be replaced by 2016?

The relative urgency around this cutoff comes off as panick-y to me. They never seemed to bother updating roots or add SNI support for older, still supported OSes like WinXP.
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ctrl-\ here, too.

The guy introduced me to screen recommended it. His words were "if you're an emacs guy, having this mapped to ctrl-a is going to drive you crazy"
"...if you use my software and DSL." There is no technical information in the post.
You can set readline's editing mode to vi so that anything that uses readline will then have vi-style bindings. Very useful, particularly when combined with rlwrap for those few programs that don't have readline support.

Zsh doesn't use readline (it has it's own line editor) but it can be set to vi-style input too. (Actually, at least on my system, bash doesn't seem to be linked with libreadline.. I'm not sure if it is actually using readline or not)
We use a combination of tmux and mumble to get multiple remote-working coders all looking at one screen. It's very useful, even if we sometimes type over each other. It's also great when somebody has to give a demo but only the guy 3 states away can really get things configured properly--just fire up a shared tmux session!
You would think that the "A-team" would have already been on such a high-profile and time-sensitive project from the beginning, but who knows.

No matter how you feel about Obamacare I think it's had an effect I certainly never would have predicted: At this point it's become kind of an indictment of the software industry, whether deserved or undeserved. It seems like every news story ends up insinuating that devs are incompetent.
You appear to have invented some other post to respond to, mine said nothing about ctrl+b.
what is the solution? I have dropbox blocked at my work.
Let me be clear, that I didn't create Portify. I am just a user.

Also, the last time I checked it wouldn't build with certain versions of node.js. I got it working with node-v0.8.1.
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I'm deeply, deeply suspicious of the accuracy and stability of something like this--that said, bloody good job!
Do you have any reference on that? And do you know one of those multi-million dollar mining companies?
Someone never read Brooks.
My money is on the technical people being perfectly competent but the business stakeholders fighting over turf and the systems architecture being what suffers. This is already guaranteed given the number of moving parts involved, but with a government project requiring partnership with private business (the actual insurance companies .. or heck, even Medicaid), it has to be much, much worse than normal.

I can just picture in my head a developer requesting an RESTful API for simple data interchange and the current owner of the legacy system they're asking about being 1) clueless, 2) hamstrung, or 3) actively impeding progress. Repeat this song and dance ad infinitum over the course of the project and you end up with a complex system designed to work in the specific use case of the conference room pilot prior to go-live ... but which will fail everything else.
Thanks for the suggestions! I couldn't figure out a way to auto-generate the callbacks, but I'll keep that in mind next time! I'll definitely work on the second solution you proposed, I think that would actually reduce the duplications.
01 - Found it a bit confusing as to which link I should click first. Add fuel to your business? Let's get started?

Current - Interesting idea but I found it difficult to mouseover a particular portfolio site due to the small hitbox for each covered one. Also don't like how the navigation seems crammed in an odd spot.

02 - This one isn't bad but I didn't like the home page. Not sure if it was just broken in my browser or if I was supposed to see just one sentence until I clicked on it.

04 - By far my favorite. Although I wish the navigation was at the top instead of the bottom.
Well, he was definitely anti-Semitic. I'd say that at least in the strictest sense he was a Nazi apologist, as he was also a holocaust denier (standard "it's all exaggerated" rhetoric). I don't think he bought into the politics of the Nazis, but I would be a little surprised if he was actually aware of that sort of thing in the first place...
Sounds like you are complaining about a person who didn't shower. Gross sure, but the natural human condition.

The fact she no carried no luggage doesn't seem to be the problem.
If you want the technical stuff (there hardly is any), just look at the commit, it is less than a 100LOC.

https://github.com/amark/mongous/commit/fd7c0dfd920ef0cadade...
Games frequently have terrible UIs that have clearly had far more effort put into making them look good than being usable, especially for things not part of the actual game play.
I would say it a little differently. If you buy ASICs you are going to lose money; buying millions of dollars worth of ASICs just means you are going to lose even more. There is money in making ASICs and either selling them or mining with them (due to the very low cost basis).