skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feedly now ironically requires Google+ authentication
Here's the deal. As an employee with boots on the ground, you're usually the first to see this sort of stuff coming a hundred miles away. Why anybody would put up with this BS is completely beyond me. If you can get a job at Yahoo, I'm pretty sure you shouldn't have any problem getting another well paying job.

I was in a pretty large corporation and they started doing this and a ton of their top developers started leaving in droves. I'm talking 10 a week, and not entry level guys. We're talking senior BA's, developers and engineers when it was at its worst. They had a turn over rate in the 90% range. After 6 months of not being able to do anything because they were in a constant training mode, a bunch of directors and middle managers got axed and they took a different approach. It takes a lot to move the needle, but when it does, it will make a difference.
IM SO CONFUSED
Very interesting. Thanks for the insight!
I'm having the reverse experience. I moved from embedded C++ to writing desktop apps.

At my former job, Bjarne's C++ coding standard was required reading.

Here, anything goes. The last programmer actually convinced the team the reason his code gave different mathematical results each time it was run was because "floating point math is stochastic".
I have used this iPhone app while programming on the trans-siberian express:

https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/stackstash-stackoverflow-off...

It works but the experience is terrible. I'd be happy to throw money at a better app, in case anyone here is bored... :)
I've actually been using redis pubsub, which is fine for my needs and dead simple.
Great idea, also listed at http://stockphotos.io/resources/photo-editor/
Wouldn't this encourage cross-department collaboration? My logic goes like this: Collaborating makes one succeed. But, you don't want your team to succeed, because then you might be laid off. But, people on other teams aren't in competition with you. So, if you collaborate with them, you can really kick the ass of that jerk next to you that you used to be friends with.

I'm joking...mostly.
Yes, and there are certainly cache-timing attacks between processes (and even VMs) on the same physical hardware. That said, if you're disciplined enough to avoid all its awfulness, C is one of the least-bad languages for writing crypto; other things that compile directly to native code and offer C-spirited APIs for allocation and the like might be better. Having no allocation API that doesn't zero returned buffers is somewhat correlated with being high-enough level that it's a more-bad language to write crypto in.

In other words, there may not be a good language, but some languages (or runtimes, really) are certainly worse than others.
Their mirrors system is working very well. It's very easy to distribute big files (like ISO images) through Sourceforge's mirrors. No wonder that Adobe's leaked users database was (or still is) being distributed using Sourceforge mirrors.
cool for kids i guess? but growed ups should be making desktops!!

it's totally easy. the only step that can not be described as screwing/un-screwing/plugging-in is when you have to put the thermal paste on the processor. & heat efficiency of modern parts is so good that cooling otherwise isn't really an issue anymore -- i have an i7 running with a single case fan.

i did it a few months ago, built a BLAZING computer with multiple hard drives for ~$900
The article made a similar comment.
I live out in western Kanagawa, and won't be up in Tokyo for a bit.

I'll actually be in SF from the 12th though, you can get my email from my profile and contact me if our schedules overlap!
Even if I died, I would die running
ClojureScript 101
It's a dialect of LISP that's compiled down to Python AST IICR.

Here's more information: http://docs.hylang.org/en/latest/tutorial.html
I totally second this...

I took the Toronto to Vancouver train in 1984, and although I understand the details of that route have changed quite a bit since, it was a wonderful experience.

95% of the trip is through wilderness, with occasional stops in small cities that seem to just spring up in the middle of nowhere (Winnipeg...). Once past Thunder Bay, the train suddenly empties out a bit, so it doesn't feel crowded, and spending all day reading, in comfortable seats, with wilderness streaming by the huge window next to you is just wonderful. I found the other passengers quite interesting—I shared my four-seat "section" with a forestry student off to work in a lumbercamp for the summer, and learned a lot of interesting stuff about Canada, and forests... :]—and the vibe was very amiable and quiet. People were friendly, but there was a distinct lack of "chatterers" and most people seemed content to do their own thing most of the time.

Because the trip took five days, and there was basically no demand on my time, it felt incredibly unrushed, and combined with constant low-level "passive" distraction in the form of scenery, the wonderful light, and the soothing motion and sounds of rail travel, it left me feeling both incredibly relaxed and oddly energetic.

Extreme long-distance train travel is generally way underrated, I think; obviously it's not ideal if you're in a hurry, but if you have a few days, it's often a treat. Although the Canadian trip was the best, I've also traveled by train from Seattle to Boston, and it was a great trip too, for many of the same reasons (Amtrak long-distance seats are just amazingly huge and comfortable though).
Convention for older articles is to include the year in the title, could you update this?
AMD has been working on it with their APUs... That's why it's in the PS4 now.
When it comes to employee ratings, absolute vs. relative is a red herring. Both lead to adverse outcomes. With the more common absolute ratings, managers have an incentive to rate everyone highly, so people who work for honest managers get screwed. With relative ratings, the weakest members of the strongest teams get screwed. Rating employees just doesn't work unless the departments are also rated. If you know the relative strength of each department then you can adjust the ratings of its members accordingly. There's still a serious question of what you do with that information, but at least then it won't be totally distorted by the differences between teams and managers.
Autobiography of one of the first female "computers"
Shameless plug... Betty is my great-aunt, but an absolutely amazing woman who was at the forefront of pioneering the idea of "computers." Knowing her was a treat. She never hesitated to share her mind and was rooted in her midwestern heritage. Unfortunately, I didn't have the chance to talk "tech" with her. She was focused on connecting with her family...her roots. Her legacy will live on...
Anecdotally, I also heard today that synthetic sapphire/ruby gems have become difficult for jewelers to source. Maybe someone (Apple?) is already soaking up higher purity raw materials for sapphire production.
I started looking into it for iOS and making a test app to see what it looked like.

Then I read in the integration instructions:
You will also need to add the SystemConfiguration and CoreTelephony frameworks, and libz.dylib library...

From: https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/analytics/documentation/ios...

Why would they need the CoreTelephony framework? No other analytics providers I've used (Flurry, Localytics) require this framework.

More information about the CoreTelephony framework:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Networ...
Logrunner seems very useful, will try it out.

With a powered USB drive it would be a nice setup!

But I feel that Drydock and arkOS CONNECT do not fit your model. Setting up central backup and a VPN for your Pi is essentially just another service. The point of this was to get rid of the middleman, yet you conveniently introduce yourself as one?
Eh, the key part that was misleading wasn't "discovered", it was "entirely new". It was not entirely new. It was not even vaguely new. It was old.
They very well may have been free, I'm not sure. That same general sort of machine though at least.
GCM is one of the authenticated-encryption modes, which means that in addition to encrypting the data, it also generates an authentication tag. It is somewhat like using a plain-encryption mode like CTR or CBC and also using a MAC like HMAC, but a single algorithm, so there's less complexity. Other authenticated-encryption block cipher modes include OCB and EAX.

(Most of these are actually "authenticated encryption with associated data", which also let you add some cleartext data to the authentication tag without encrypting it.)

I believe GCM support is new as of OpenSSL 1.0.
SpareBits: Someone please make this.
I've "giving" this idea away because I'd really love to see it done, but I'm just not in a position to pursue it myself at the moment.

Here it goes:

- Rid the world of the costly process of managing spare change by collecting physical coins and exchanging them for bitcoins at a 5% convenience charge.

- Release a mobile application with a "collector" mode and a "releaser" mode.

- Collectors pick up the change and they get to keep it for themselves.

- Collectors must maintain their own balance of bitcoins (or any currency really) so that they can actually send the payment to the receiver from their own account.

- Collectors are motivated to do this because they earn 2% of the convenience fee for each transaction.
That sounds like a great idea. I've tried programming on a trans-siberian train ride, but it was SO HARD to get any exercise at all - feels unhealthy. Plus you end up thinking about food a lot (missing good food, mostly).
I read original article also, but...
...I've never wanted to be on a cruise so much before.

When I finish my living abroad, I think I will try it. It would cost me around the same to get a cheap hostel.
Nameless: A Graph-based programming language
This has been a toy project of mine for a while. You can play with the examples in the browser-based IDE here:

Factorial function: http://nickretallack.com/visual_language/#/ace0c51e4ee3f9d7483ec10780d1ed43
Move a box around: http://nickretallack.com/visual_language/#/f2983238d90bd3e0aede71aeec767ce1

What you see right now is an ugly prototype that doesn't allow you to share your code or work on a touch device yet, but I figure it will be pretty awesome when you can do those things.

Btw, this isn't a copycat of NoFloJS. I started working on this in 2011, long before I'd heard of them. I was surprised at their success on Kickstarter, which makes me think perhaps there is interest in this sort of programming after all.

Criticism is welcome.
Actually MtGox (japanese company) owned 400,000 BTC back in 2011. I would be surprised if their bitcoin-worth has decreased since then.
Kolab.org 3.1 released with File-Cloud & plenty of iRony
I totally understand the impression. But the goal with arkOS is to help people securely self-host with as much stability as possible. Since self-hosting is a complex and occasionally troublesome thing, some people may need help in getting properly connected. So the only reason we consider hosting those services is to help with these ends. If someone needs the services in order to self-host, I think it is better that they use them, rather than not being able to self-host at all. Any services will be 100% optional and up to the end user.
At this point, I'm not even sure how my identity is split up on Google's servers between my original Google account, my Google Plus account, and my legacy YouTube account. Sometimes I feel like I'm logged into three different things at once. And now I can't even use my original username as my Google Plus URL? Does that mean that my legacy YouTube account is no longer active? Or has it been merged with my Google Plus profile without my consent, despite consistently clicking on "no thanks" every time the window popped up?

This sort of quagmire causes me to unconsciously stop using the services causing it. Already, I've found myself much less interested in liking and favoriting YouTube videos.
Not bad. Could be a very useful tool to teach Python programmers Lisp, although I don't think Python benefits much from converting its syntax to sexprs.
Library procastination
Notwithstanding the error, the properties described seem like they might be useful in some contexts, eg the low freezing point.
Growth Hacks for Event Planners
It took me a while to figure out which Amazon service is called Jungle...
I also find that articles with many upvotes and few comments tend to be the better ones. Some further speculation from several years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2386658
Gplus.<mydomain>.com I fixed this problem a while ago.
Yeah, this was a bit of wishful thinking. I would delete this post if I could. Turns out they just lifted the number of uploads http://shawnblanc.net/2013/11/apple-lifts-the-ceiling-on-pho...
Someone enlighten me: when the Surface speaks for itself what does it say?
The state of affairs really is unfortunate. I think we can all attest to SourceForge having played a wonderful roll in the open software industry at one point. But how can anybody, no matter how loyal, support what it has become?

Define your company values early.
The page before the teaser: https://web.archive.org/web/20130820041047/http://kano.me/
This is like 100 times faster in Chromium than in Firefox (on Linux). Any idea why? Is JS in FF really that much slower?
Why the case for Bitcoin at $340 is not that crazy after all
>So employees with limited power and authority over their little domain, are going to act in their own interests by as you say hiring people like themselves, by creating a culture that matches their values and keeps outsiders at bay, and by ousting anything that threatens the status quo.

The thing you are missing is that while I may benefit when /other people/ discriminate in favor of my group, as an individual? I actually lose out if I discriminate based on irrelevant factors.

(Now, if there was some kind of enforcement of this clan altruism; if I stopped getting the in-group benefits because I refused to place the interests of the group before my own interests, then it'd be different. But I haven't seen any cases, at least in my career, where that sort of defection is punished.)

Now, there are all sorts of emotional/cultural reasons to discriminate against outsiders, if you have a strong group identity, but it's certainly not in your financial best interest.

Trade unions don't have a significantly better history with discrimination than management does. This problem goes far beyond monetary self-interest.
IIRC (please let me know if I'm wrong) not everything is disabled through the GUI.
Wait, people still use Google+?
Ask HN: What do you think of Reddit's user supported monetization.
So Reddit has really been pushing it's "Reddit Gold" membership thing lately which is mostly a vanity membership with the explicit purpose of "keeping the servers running with support from the community".

They have a little progress bar that resets each day giving users a visual way to see how much support Reddit needs and how much Reddit gold the users bought that day to help towards the progress.

I've been paying attention to this for a couple weeks now, and it seems to be working out really well for them. For example, today they hit 169% of their daily goal...which is awesome to see! The users are voluntarily paying for the site; something that in our ad-driven-and-supported-services world seems to be a crazy notion.

What do you all think about this? Can any Reddit devs or employees chime in? Has anyone tried anything similar to this before?
> But what are the books that you do still find brilliant?

With every Vonnegut novel I re-read, I discover something new, more insightful, more brilliant and more compelling than I was able to grasp the last time I read it. This is true for just about every Vonnegut book I've bothered to re-read.

The same holds true for Mark Twain (so far). I recently re-read Tom Sawyer, which I only re-read after realizing that I couldn't really remember anything from my first reading of it. Phenomenal.

There are more, I'm sure, but I'd have to give it thought. The only non-print thing I can think of that is as compelling is "Primer", which is a must-watch movie, but I don't know why I'm mentioning it here, except to remark that it takes more than a single viewing to digest the entire film.
I like the new search bar a lot. it appears to be searching within the pages themselves. so all pages are already in memory ?

http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.directive:ngRepeat

I search "ng-val"...
I find the opposite case: I prefer articles that have a parity between upvotes and comments. To me, an upvote is a drive-by action, where a comment indicates real engagement. If an article has tons of upvotes, but not many comments, it means most people aren't really paying close attention to it, they're just thumbs-upping geek cred or something.
RE: "You can't just cut out the free product part and magically retain the paid part, as this example does with Everpix."

False. I did it, and it worked fine.

http://cashboardapp.com/blog/2013/05/01/freelancer-plan-anno...

Now, do you actually have data, or are you just filling up the comment box with words?
I see this as a persistent issue that seems to surface every few months. I think Google's fiber network permits running servers for 'non-commercial' use which is whole other can of worms entirely. Does anyone know of any sort of legal movement/petitioning going on currently to try and get ISPs to allow home servers?
Agree. I am sure Yahoo has some cruft at the lower levels, but I would imagine that the real problems are in middle management, where many of the worst are the most adept at playing the game with the higher ups after years of practice. I really do not know of any great ways of solving this, but I have seen the problem many times in companies of similar size.
In the 1 day i have had it, my observation is that battery seems to be an issue... as an anecdote: at 90% charge, it shows the following "3h 51m 9s on battery". And in the breakdown allocation, it shows "Screen" as taking 61% of the total. [This is with just the default settings the phone came with.]
Well, I just figured out that these "blogs" (edit: blogger.com blogs) at least provide rss -- doesn't really work in w3m (it downloads the xml, rather than doing som magic and try to render it) -- but at least for me this "design" is far superior to the bloated javascript mess that they try to get you to use:

http://blog.angularjs.org/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
What is cool about this is how much of technology required for all little tiny parts of modern devices. Who knew a camera lens is made up of Sapphire? I wonder how many elements from periodic tables would be checked off when making an iPhone. Just thinking about this, there were probably 100s of innovations just to mine and purify and machine sapphire in past 100s of years so that in 2000s we can finally produce acceptable quality tiny camera lens. Same thing goes for Gorilla glass, motion sensors and so on. I would probably bet that if we needed to make a document that describes every technology required to make an iPhone starting from how to make a fire so that a caveman can follow it by the line and produce an iPhone, it would probably a 100 million pages.
This is also a problem with FileZilla. Sourceforge pushing adware? I never thought I would see the day - totally absurd!

https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=30240
The change has been rolled back: you can now go to http://cloud.feedly.com and login using the old Google Authentication mechanism
Yeah man, my comment was kind of negative, but its definitely worth trying to see what people think. I think you need to work on your market sizing though. If you had talked to a few people about it, they should have caught it.
A+ for presentation
Ah. Well there goes the idea I had in which they charged for it everywhere except DC (which would have been hilarious).
"Kano is the first computer that anyone can make."

That's a bit of a stretch even for a marketing slogan.
Except when you opt out you DO NOT go through a metal detector. The last 10 times I have opted out, no metal detector screening.
I don't think it's really a budget issue. The type of 3d modeling & animation software that is necessary to create character spritesheets can be had at pretty commodity prices (sub-$200).

Personally, I would never try to do this kind of work by hand in 2D (not a talented-enough draftsman). But the grandparent is right...even in my clumsy hands, I can do a decent job working in 3D. It's just an easier workflow.

Now, style-wise, nice hand-drawn 2D animation is in a class of its own. If indie studios are sticking with 2D, I'd suggest it's frequently more a matter of style than price.
Oldest air in the world may be trapped deep in the Antarctic ice sheet
Symfony2 Memcache Session Locking
Brambling: Datomic Schema Migration library/toolkit for Clojure
Yeah, I've found a few bugs like this myself where the memory in question happened to be NULL, until some unrelated change elsewhere in the toolchain meant that it wasn't anymore.
Cruises can be a real bargain for sure.

Plus the boat takes you around to different ports. There are "at sea" days and days when you arrive somewhere, get off the ship, walk around, return that evening.

Personally it can be tiring and a typical cruise might have 4 days where you arrive in different places and 3 days when you are just sailing. Some people would like to be in a different place every day. Some people prefer more at sea days. But no big deal it's still nice (you don't have to get off the ship but you sort of feel you should or you would miss something).

The only added expense would be for liquor typically on some cruise lines and almost always what is known as "shore excursions". Like if you wanted to snorkle, rent a jetski or something like that.

As long as the weather is good and the cruise line isn't bottom end it's a good experience I've found.

The inside cabins are the cheapest it gets more expensive if you want a veranda (balcony) or ourside (with a porthole) but the inside cabins are ok.

After all you don't spend much time in the cabin you are on the ship at the pool or the rock climbing wall etc and you get to take advantage of the same things that anyone can. Other added expenses might be internet access or if you want to eat in a fancy restaurant one night (you don't have to the "regular" food is quite good. And it's always available (you can get food at any hour and it's typically free at least on any cruise I have been on).

Since you had no idea you might want to take a cruise, blog about it, and maybe you can figure out a way to help the cruise lines with marketing toward the age group that has never cruised. (I'm serious about that it could be a business opportunity..)
Sapphire is often used for windows/viewports on pressure chambers. At least in that capacity, it functions much better than regular glass.
> So you'll agree that there IS a problem IF the left wing is pushing towards BI

I didn't say anything that resembles that, no.

> reducing administration (or state) footprint is more libertarian than anything.

"Left wing" and "libertarian" are not opposed, and improving efficiency in achieiving left wing policy goals is not at all a view point incompatible with the left wing.

Heck, improving efficiency of government isn't incompatible with left or right wing, or libertarian or even authoritarian philosophies. Even authoritarian conservatives would probably prefer that, to the extent that liberal goals are going to be addressed by government at all, they ought to be addressed by the least wasteful means possible (if only so as to maximize resources available for authoritarian approaches to conservative goals.)