skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bash uses .inputrc which configures readline, so if it's not actually using libreadline, it's emulating it pretty well.
Steam is based on Valve's own custom UI Engine, the same one used by most of their games.
Ctrl+b is the standard key combo for tmux, which is why that was mentioned in the article in the first place.
sometimes it's good to go where the customers are
" Running a single database in a production environment is totally unacceptable"

What hyperbole. I've been running mysql in production for over 15 years over almost a hundred projects, almost always on a single server without any replication. Never had any issues with it.
Shame I can't down vote yet.
Quotes about Linux
I think we're in violent agreement. I think people have been building stuff in Python/Ruby, and are seeing some of the drawbacks, and realize they're bigger than they thought.
paywall? #fail
Mining can be seen as a different way to buy BTC and thus it's independent of future price. If your cost to mine 1 BTC is less than the current price you should mine, otherwise don't.
A Packed 36 Hours in Berlin
Yeah it's kind of unneccesary, I just wanted to see how fast I could get it :)
For FarmVille we sent the actions back to the server and then validated against game state there. It's the only real way to protect against cheating. However, if I were building the game again today, I'd just do what King does and have the client manage the state. It turns out that the set of people that would do this and the set of users that would convert into paying users has very little overlap. The overhead of managing state on the server is that you'd have to write your game logic twice (once in your client-side language and once server-side, though with a scripting language you may be able to avoid this). Second, we benchmarked this approach and found that you can handle 10x the number of players with the same hardware by not doing any server-side logic/validation and just having the server be a dumb pipe to store player state.

Here's a talk I gave on the FarmVille approach:
http://www.slideshare.net/amittmahajan/rapidly-building-farm...

and one on the king approach that we're using at my current company:
http://www.slideshare.net/amittmahajan/gdc-2013-ditching-the...
I am a firm believer that neither party is a judge who makes a good manager. All they want is someone who makes a good party member.
Regarding "If you don't trust your payment provider to not execute insider attacks, you shouldn't use them" - the trust is partly supported by a long list of things that a payment provider must do to reduce insider attack risks. This includes an obvious requirement that their contact person can't access or know the user's passwords.

So yes, if they're demonstrating that they can't be trusted to do even the basic precautions for preventing insider attacks, you shouldn't use them. Period.
Forceps also have the risk of injuring the baby in other ways. Part of Sylvester Stallone's face is paralyzed because of forceps used during his delivery.
I hope this is a watershed moment for government IT. There have been bigger government IT failures before (IRS modernization - 12 years, $3.7 billion) but never before has a government IT project failure jeopardized the success of a major policy initiative and had negative consequences for millions of Americans.

I hope this is finally the kick in the pants that the government needs to fixing the fundamentally broken parts of the government IT procurement process.
Absolutely: there are many programs which _were_ being written in C++ which didn't necessarily have to, and Go does have a place there. What I mean is that where C++ is a _requirement_, not a preference, Go won't make inroads.
If it could get around youtube's annoying DASH and buffer the entire video while paused I would use it!
This is so good! Hoping YouTube takes a clue or two
I have quite a bit of experience with at least a couple of the same Oracle products that are in the middle of this fiasco. Competent technical people or not, the products being implemented here have a reasonably well known track record (amongst their users) of just plain not working.
1 minute longer than the theoretical maximum period for which you can sustain an artificial wormhole
>Also important to remember is the fact that Anonymous didn't just leak the e-mails, but stole a bunch of credit card numbers and made $700k worth of charges.

You know full well what "Anonymous" is, and attempting to attribute everything bad that's ever happened on the internet to every defendant that ever gets grouped in with "Anonymous" is ridiculous.
> Sorry, are you saying that it's the effort for you to build a native Android app, a native iOS app, a native Windows Phone app, and a mobile web app combined add up to more than the effort it takes to make a single web app and get it to run well on Phonegap on multiple platforms?

Actually, depending on the level of quality you need, yes.
A very basic form based app can be better served by a phone gap app, and be of better general quality.

But the case where you won't be helped by a cross platform solution are numerous. It is obvious if you heavily need performance or rely on a lot of native API where you want very fine grained control (you might even not want feature parity between platforms, if some platform give better tools than an others), or use native third party libraries.

But even in cases where you require near pixel perfect layouts for a wide range of devices, or have unusual set of rules to position or move your elements, handle device rotation in non standard ways. In these cases you might be better off doing native apps as many times as you need to.
It seems extremely wasteful, but dealing with hacks on top of hacks in a single HTML+CSS+js codebase relying on an extra abstraction layer enclosing wildly different platforms is a hell in itself.

edit: spelling
Isn't the rating system supposed to solve this problem?

Unless people intentionally griefed by creating new low-rating accounts to cheat at.
http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta
Even more interesting, because Twitter (TWTR) was on Google Finance the night BEFORE the IPO!
My statement was a bit to hasty, I admit that. Resting control of your rights back from the government in the US is probably fraught with a lot less peril than doing so in Russia (i.e. Pussy Riot).

As a US citizen, I am dismayed at the situation, and like other posters here, my sentiment towards government has shifted greatly over the last six months. As a US citizen, I don't know what the solution is other than radical transparency in government and citizens as a whole having violent disdain for apathy in the political process.
I love it. With all the horrible and bloated changes they have been making, I thought there would be an opportunity to create simpler version of or alternate of YouTube. I guess you are still using YouTube contents so they can block you if they wish.

I still think there is an opportunity to create an alternate video sharing site that's good enough.

Good job, though! I will be using your site instead of youtube as long as your site is live.
Lots of discussion from two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6724292
Have you read the polygon PS4 review? The review absolutely gushes bout how responsive the PS4 interface is, in general.

http://www.polygon.com/a/ps4-review
This highlights something i don't understand about non-relational DBs. Is there an actual use case for a database with multiple tables of unrelated data or is it a complexity trade-off thing?
You points don't speak to the statement. Browser vendors are FREE to integrate it. Whether they will because of the technical costs is a totally separate statement and quandary.
What do you mean "guarantee that enrollment stats are good"?
This /is/ Oracle we're talking about here, so those aren't odds I'd bet on, personally.
Okay then, imagine the slave runs away, thus breaking the law, and the penalty is being captured, returned, and perhaps beaten or otherwise punished.

Also, I've seen a couple of people claim that Hammond seems surprised, but in the article it is very clear and explicit that he expected this to happen.
The Kim Kardashian of Silicon Valley.

People whose job is to be seen more than to, you know, build something.
> It is wrong to act as if you somehow should be looked at differently by the law because you had a "legitimate political cause."

Like morally wrong? If you think the law is bad, what is morally wrong about breaking it and saying "I understand the law, but I don't think I should be punished for this act"? That's what civil disobedience is. I can understand if you think it's stupid, or if you think the justice system should ignore those people, but I don't understand what morally wrong about it.
You have to put username/repo
like jquery/jquery
or ys/chekku
Well it seems like a significant majority of people may not understand what crowdsourcing and a minority not even know what reddit is just got a chance to hear about it.

Even people I know who are in Engineering programs do not know what reddit is and generally how Internet technology could benefit them.

I don't know if you are from SV, but it seems like someone is stuck in a classic SV bubble.

Besides you never hear about the work people in tech do especially on Colbert and Daily Show. I have watched these shows religiously for many years and the only thing on peoples minds are Healthcare(US) and Rob Ford(I'm from Toronto ;).
And https://youtube.com/tv
What happens to the kingdom once the "good king" passes away...

Edit: I was angling more at the fact that Amazon has been very dominant, and that's not going away soon. So if it starts getting bad, it's not like there will be something just as good overnight. Look at how long it took to erode MS's dominance from the 90's.
5 things to know before buying a hybrid camera
That's important. My older son had severe jaundice due in part to the hematoma caused by use of a vacuum extractor during a difficult birth.
The less energy you use to lift the weight, the more time it takes to move that weight; if it takes you 10 times as long to generate the energy as it does to use it, then you're going to need massive generation capacity to get anything appreciable happening in a reasonable time frame.
With CAs, or without CAs?
Jealous much? I've seen his sex tape and it makes Kim's look PG13.
I'll trade you "Government" for "a(ny) massive organization". It has been my experience that this sort of incompetence is not restricted to the public sector.
That's a great advice. I would say, in this day and age, if you are starting to learn then learn it correct. Learn a JS framework like Angular and build your client as purely browser based and learn another framework such Ruby-on-Rails or Laravel or CodeIgniter to just serve JSON data for your JS client. I think that's the route to go as your data feeds can be leveraged on many different mobile clients as well.
Not really....
Securing application configuration, while still getting shit done
You don't understand. The actual group of Anonymous are going harm and activists are looking up at this group of people and they are attributing themselves when they want to do something like DoDS some company web service. Anonymous are justifying their hacking and cracking by saying their targets have done the unjust. Why are they doing the unjust; as if Anonymous has the power to rule what is right and wrong, and acting as if they are an underground judge.

I honestly don't appreciate Anonymous. If you want to be an activist, show your face and your identity. The world doesn't need an incubator of batman.
As always, I love sites that strip down YouTube. YouTube houses tons of great content; however, they seem to be making their consumers pretty unhappy. Check out http://www.tubalr.com it's my app and focuses on YouTube's music content.

Grats on hitting the front page and I hope you can retain users, its the hardest part about websites like this.
YouTube only shows ads in the video right? Looks like those are still being shown.
Maybe a first step into getting some type of vm into the browser that is performant and allows multiple languages to run against it like the JVM?
There is more US IPO activity going on right now than makes the headlines. You really have to subscribe to an IPO specific news source or blog.

Take this with a grain of salt, I haven't read the S-1 and I don't know much about Zulily.

However, they have shown up as a top US display advertisers going back a year or more. Groupon was in the same spot, buying up massive quantities of inventory to fuel their growth. Before buying in take a close look at how much of their growth is purchased, along with the retention of those purchased users.

Other recent IPOs, like Retailmenot, have even deeper issues (almost complete dependency on free traffic from Google for trademark company names.)
Yes, most of my actual data is just streams of inputs, that I only once-in-a-while-occasionally want to do some sort of MapReduce on. Most of the time, I just want my individual streams, and then pipe them around - and that is it. (Great for realtime systems, aka Node apps).
'retina' is a layer at the back of the eyeball that contains cells sensitive to light. What you have are unoptimized high-resolution screenshots.
Ask HN: Sydney or Melbourne for Australian tech/startups?
As a former resident of Melbourne (I'm American), I'm inclined to view Melbourne as the city with more of a hacker/creative/startup feel to it, but Sydney has the money, and it seems like the new crop of angel programs are in Sydney. In addition, Australia's recent tech success stories (Atlassian, Freelancer) are based in Sydney. In my eyes, Sydney does not seem like the place I'd want to do a startup (high costs, logistics, climate).

In the past I have been a critic of the Australian entrepreneurial and tech culture, or lack thereof, and the government policies that discourage entrepreneurship and encourage working for a salary at a large corporation and investing in housing. However, I sense the tides are changing quickly, and that young people will perhaps pursue more tech entrepreneurship.

What are your thoughts?
Sass can generate source maps too. :)
Of course since phonegap is just an hybrid app container. Someone had to write that java and objective-c code for you.
Reddit just seems like one of those projects that got really lucky. Digg was making its users upset, slashdot was too nerdy, and metafilter too hard to get into due to $5 cost. Early reddit was kind of a mess too. Congrats on his success, but its always odd to hear people give advice or talk about their projects when there's a large element of luck involved.

To be fair, this may be true of all successful projects.
anyone know what kind of files this thing can export to?
Private Bitcoin Foundation Discussions On Blacklisting, more
That's completely different. Netflix had to work across low-end devices like Roku boxes, SmartTVs and Blu-ray players with very limited embedded CPUs and memory counted in the dozens of megabytes. Sony only need this to run on a latest-gen game console with an 8-core x86 CPU, 3 GB of RAM and a screaming GPU. Netflix never had the option of using WebGL.
I hope it includes a NSFW filter in the parts library. There are things little Johnny should not be able to print.
There's also Google's own version of trimmed down youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta

After enabling that I've never looked back. No comments and loads way faster.
We do have a handful of remote engineers and QA folks - typically, they're employees who started on-site and then moved elsewhere, and they do visit the office fairly regularly (with frequency depending on distance) - but it is something the company is open to, though I think we prefer to hire people who can work on-site. Also, anecdotal evidence, as I don't know much about our hiring policies, I think one of my teammates is on an H1B and our legal dept has helped him navigate that.
It's refreshing to see Ballmer's attitude towards Microsoft: he's willing to do whatever's in the best interests of the company, even if he personally would prefer to stay around longer (and make more money in so doing). How many professional CEOs can you say the same of? How many people who worked their way up the rungs of leadership would voluntarily step aside, thinking they weren't the right person for the job?
39 minutes? Hmm, still not good enough for long-term backup of your qubits :)
Simply awesome, in an instant I remembered all of the reasons I used to like youtube.
More like the fundamental attribution error.

Finding bad code is easy. Finding people who are irremediably bad programmers is not that easy. The most you will find is people who are still learning, or have some specific bad habit.
Twitter ditches swipeable interface
Interesting! I like the idea with the chat
San Francisco turns into Gotham City for Batkid
Not calling you wrong, but it looks like there were concerns about the competence of the contractors[0]. It was certainly paired with bad management, though.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/11/15/245399...
Paypal is a terrible company.

I wish I could recommend a competitor, but all the fee structures are the same generally 3% + .30:

wepay https://www.wepay.com/fees
google https://checkout.google.com/seller/fees.html
stripe https://stripe.com/us/pricing

I'm not sure how Dwolla does it for $.10: https://www.dwolla.com/fees
Hardly. That's like saying Peter Thiel's job is to sit back and lazily give people money rather than build something. They both have incredible success under their belt and choose to provide value in new ways. All book tours are shameless self promotion so you should expect that.
Who are Drupal's competitors and what do they do particularly well?
Koen Serneels: Oracle Please Stop Shipping Ask.com Toolbar
Nope - they run homepage banners, sidebar ads and occasionally full-page adverts (that hijack the background). It's surreal browsing without Adblock occasionally.
Images are an possible attack vector, so I would expect some level of processing (and therefore, storage) to be necessary to make this secure.

Of course I got an explicit picture, but thankfully the animated gif did not load. Conversation was good and it wasn't A/V like CR so that was actually nice.

The random stumbling upon another person is a great thing to have to emulate the randomness of meeting someone IRL.
For some use cases that would matter, but for a lot of C++ use-cases, no GC isn't really fundamental. Large codebases increasingly use the "C++ GC", aka RAII with std::shared_ptr, as the de-facto-standard way of managing memory. For those kinds of applications, how D's GC compares then just becomes a matter of performance tradeoffs between different GC implementations, not a matter of GC vs. no-GC.
Woman Facing $3,500 Fine For Posting Online Review
Does this get around the issue of local ISPs caching the content and then causing the video download to be extremely slow?

I've heard there's a way get your browser to always connect directly to YouTube's servers, but I could never get it to work.
The difficulty is climbing at an incredible rate because (a) lots of ASIC miners are coming on-line, and (b) a lot more people have started mining.

At some point very soon, mining Bitcoin will become unprofitable overall simply because an essentially fixed number of output Bitcoins are being divided across a larger and larger number of miners.

The only way to mine profitably will be figuring out how to mine both more efficiently and significantly more quickly than the general mining population.

Essentially if you are newly investing in Bitcoin now, you need to believe that (a) the mining solution that you're buying into will be at least an order of magnitude faster than the current generation products, or (b) Bitcoin will increase in value so much that even a small number of Bitcoins will be very valuable.

If this is just another Bitcoin ASIC, it's seems a very risky investment.
Javascript - Cascaded split for more than one separator?
The whole point of civil disobedience as a form of protest is to suffer the legal consequences of a law in order to demonstrate its injustice.

If Jeremy Hammond had hacked Stratfor for the express purpose if getting arrested, in order to demonstrate the injustice of computer crime law, your comment would be right on. But that's not what he did, or why he did it.
Humanizing the Web
Java 8, Lambda Expressions and the Psychology of the Masters of the Universe
The problem with every visual programming language that I've ever tried is not that it's aimed at novices and I'm afraid of being labelled that way. It's that there's a whole wealth of tools for dealing with text based programming that just can't be used with visual programming languages without a huge amount of effort (if at all). Visual programming languages don't work well with revision control; they usually don't have diffing and merging tools. They don't work well with grep.

They tend to have a fairly low information density on the screen. When looking at a simple program that all fits on a single screen, that's fine. But when working with an actually real world code base, when I don't understand exactly what it's doing, I need to be able to see as much on screen as possible at once to keep it all in context, while browsing through to figure out how all of the pieces link together. All of the empty space taken up in a visual language makes it a lot harder to get as much information on the screen at a time.

And the programs can frequently be quite hard to follow. Tracing all of the wires between different nodes, figuring out what's stacked on what.

There's a reason that despite the very obvious circuit diagrams you could represent electronics with, hardware engineers for integrated circuits don't use a visual tool for laying out their hardware, they use Verilog or VHDL, only compiling it down to the actual netlist and laying it out at the very end.

I have never seen a visual programming language that I would say could scale to anything beyond a few basic demos, which could just as easily be accomplished in a page of code.
You shouldn't confuse legitimacy and legality.

>"Swartz may have had a "legitimate political cause" but he sullied it (in my opinion) with illegal activities."

In this case, the law was part of the problem. Aaron broke the law, but that doesn't necessarily mean his actions weren't for a legitimate cause, nor does it mean that they weren't justified.

> "It is wrong to act as if you somehow should be looked at differently by the law because you had a "legitimate political cause."

And what if you think the law is wrong? What about civil disobedience? Sometimes it's right to break the law, and sometimes it's worth the risk of punishment to break the law. Whether it was wise is another question entirely.

In my personal view, what Aaron did was unwise, but not wrong; and what Hammond and his associates did were both unwise and wrong.
And lets not forget it is based in the 2006 release of Unreal Engine.

So in 2013, WebGL offers a 2006's 3D GPU performance.
It looks like bash does use readline, though it's not dynamically linked with it (at least on my system). Kind of seems like bash and readline are intertwined more than I thought; the git repo for bash has a distribution of readline included in it.
I've built something a little bit more fleshed out, actually... How about a site that lets you search and watch videos at the same time. And also does Vimeo. And lets you save them to personal collections. Here you go.
http://huzzaz.com/search
Didn't you hear that Javascript is now faster than C?
We're particularly excited to have students do real work for real companies, which isn't really possible at Dev Bootcamp. If you're only 3 weeks into Rails, you can't do much useful work, but 3 weeks into sales training, you can do lots of helpful lead generation and learn in the process.