skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand your point, and I agree that cooperation, friendliness, humility, etc. are all extremely important skills in any engineer or developer, but I think there is some value in looking at the two things distinctly (technical and social).

As a counterexample to yours, what if someone is very friendly, witty, and amicable, but is severely lacking in technical skills? Perhas they are not even remotely pulling their weight in projects, resulting in friendly coworkers essentially doing their work for them and covering for them? In such a case you'll want to know that their technical skills are below what they should be.
It paid off for our founding fathers.

I have too much respect for you, Marc, to think you're doing anything other than joking but it's still disappointing and not really funny.

Remember all the people in Germany during WWII (*sorry for the tired analogy) who could have spoken up and didn't. I guess they did the right thing. They certainly wouldn't want to commit treason -- it doesn't pay.
Batman is an amazingly great epitome of libertarian paradox.
Why is that? After all, he knew that he was blowing out some serious secrets, and he did take the necessary steps to protect himself from direct retaliation at the time, and was advised on how to do so as well. It would not make much sense that he would have somehow "forgot" about protecting his financial assets.
At least he is free.
Funding isn't too hard to get for tools like this. It works differently from the standard start-up model, but have a look at, for example, where the Sunlight Foundation gets its money: http://sunlightfoundation.com/about/funding/

Google is even funding interesting projects in this area too (e.g. https://techpresident.com/news/23379/googleorg-offers-fundin...)
Biggest startup event in Northern Europe and Russia [live stream]
I use KeePass. It's great. I looked at LastPass but I didn't like that it is "Browser Based". I know it is supposed to be working "offline" but somehow I felt safer using KeePass where I can use the programs own UI, make sure the exe doesn't "phone home" and where I can directly see the encrpted db file and do with that as I please.

At first I worried about what would happen should the db file get corrupted somehow. But then I set up the backup tools with which I can keep as many backups in as many places as I want, so unless the db file gets corrupted in all places, I think I will be fine.
But then there's the difference between capacity to pay and willingness to pay.

If I had this huge debt, I might be willing to borrow a little from friends to get rid of it, so I might only have $800 (+$200 from friend). The creditor realises I can pay $1000, so tries to sell it for $1500. Suddenly I'm stuck again.

Also, it could turn out that I could pay $1000, but I won't. There's also a collection cost (hire a guy at minimum wage to stand outside the guy's house for a day costs something).So the $1000 might end up not being worth anything at all.
Yeah you are right. There is no doubt that revealing the truth is a disobedient act and must be severely punished in order to restore peace and public blindness. Now watch TV and go to sleep and feed the economy, will ya?
doesn't mean he can somehow wave his hands and claim "but but but but, I've designed this system such that you will be able to also read other peoples emails whom you've not subpoenaed. That is against my mission statement!".

Sure it does. If the police want to do something that impacts a very large number of innocent bystanders they need to have a higher level of accountability than if they just want to target one specific individual. For example it is unreasonable to search every house in a neighborhood in order to arrest one guy who owns a house there.
Too bad they only presented tech companies. It would be interested to compare Apple vs Shell or BP, just to get an idea of the differences.
Steve Jobs once called Andy Rubin a ‘big arrogant f***’
Scientist developing a body suit that can 'read emotions'
How the world changed...
The PostgreSQL documentation. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/index.html

The introduction tutorial is concise but more than sufficient.

The reference guide is well written, laid-out and covers everything you need:
the database server, its configuration and tools, the SQL language, its operators, data types and grammar, the built-in procedural languages, the low-level client library, and all the database internals (system tables, data file formats, network protocol, query optimiser, indexes, etc).
In fact it got new features in MySql 5.6.
That theory certainly played out after World War I. After seeing that ridiculously high cost of life, war was prevented for generations.. It wasn't until 200 years later that World War II happened.

Sorry rounding error.. I meant 20 years later and World War II was far worse than WWI..

As far as 'wealthy aggressors' who do you mean? Certainly not the ultra wealthy Serbs and Croats, you couldn't possibility mean the wealthy Al Queda groups or the fabulously wealthy Taliban groups. Or Hebollah.. The Ba'ath party was wealthy, so maybe you mean them?

Certainly you must be referring to those aggressors right?
Well there is

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/p...

and

https://src.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src/ppapi/c/extensions...

I haven't looked deeply, but both seem to allow for access outside the sandbox. Maybe a chromium committer could give more detail on the safety of the dev interfaces. They are blocked from public usage for a reason though.
It's a one way market where the purchasers are replaced (from the debt collectors to the actual owners)

Before: I owe $20k, the bank sells my loan to a debt collector for $1k. He expects to collect 10%, ends up extracting $2k from you. $1k for the bank, $1k for the loan collector, -$2k for you.

After: I owe $20k, the bank wants to get rid of my loan for $1k. I buy it (because my grandma just died and I had the cash) . Bank and I are better off, loan collector gets nothing.

OR bank tries to get rid of the loan, trues to sell it to me for $1k, if that doesn't work they go to the loan collectors. Loan collector buys it, and works out a more fluid payment scheme to try and get back $2k very slowly from me.

If the loan collector can't offer a better service, I don't see their value to society anyways. Apart from subsidizing loans for people by being willing to be the guy who psychologically tortures people in bad situations (who most likely don't know about debt collection laws in place to stop this). In the end we kill off a disgusting system.
Right because if we ban it nobody will use it. Great idea!
>hash(salt|pwd) -> no rainbow table because of salt. The attacker can use a dictionary attack.

I'm having trouble understanding this. So what does the attacker do? He captured the encrypted passwords and he got all the salts.

What does he do now? Instead of generating a "normal" table by doing hash(<anyPWcomboThereIs>), he is now doing has(salt|<anyPWComboThereIs>)

Is that right? So basically, all that the salt does is to prolong the cracking. Say I had 10 users, so I would have 10 salts in my db. Without the salts, the attacker would have "just" had to calculate the hash(anyPWcomboThereIs) table. But now, he would have to do this 10 times because there are 10 different salts which could have been used to create the encrypted password.

Is that right?
Banning land mines didn't help much either. People will use whatever they please to kill each other. Biological and chemical weapons are not used not because they are banned but because they suck as military tool anyway and nukes aren't really economical, all things considered, against anything else but nukes. Countries that treat armies seriously (much less of those than 50 or 100 years ago) are stockpiled sufficiently with all banned weaponary.

Personally I'm all for killer robots. I don't trust humanity of invading army any more than I trust autonomous war machine software. At least terminator won't kill my kids or rape my wife because it's bored.
Whatever the intent of Rap Genius, at the end of the day, if they're using material that somebody else has the publishing rights to without asking permission, then they need to pay or take it down. Simple as that.
Wow. We are closer to future than I thought.
Thanks for the link!
Glitchy photos of Death Valley
You forgot the part where $20k in unpaid bills wouldn't transform into $20k in unpaid taxes. Scale is important
How can they? Do any other animals have a concept of clothing?
Well the order was somewhat unexpected. Surprised about IBM, HP and Dell.
Make means income or revenue?
The US has even bent the Swiss banks to their will. I think that "not under US influence" isn't a synonym for "outside of the US."

Withdrawing large amounts of cash, or transferring money to (e.g.) the Bank Melli Iran would have presumably raised red flags.
Poor Man's ESI parser
@alex_c is right: the recorded iteration of the song is one licence, and the music and lyrics (covered by the publishing licence) is another. If Rap Genius haven't licensed the music and lyrics, then it's no different legally to filesharing mp3s.
The mereor permalink didn't work for me, but it's in the list of articles further down the page.
yes, that is an odd contradiction between the paragraph and the title.
Except that the following things exist:

-Your credit rating could make it impossible for you to get a loan

- The bank isn't obligated to give you a million dollar loan

- If you buy a house with it, they could repossess the house

I don't see why we should consider banks with bad decision making in this.
Your Words. They do not make sense and you are quoting things I did not write despite what you “believe”.
Revenue, it says so at the top.
Yes but getting Bitcoin exchange that you can withdraw money from in foreign currency is trickier.
Tons of cats with WookMark.js
This could be a nice example about how to use WookMark.js in a website.
Not all of them, and I was asking is there some progress in this area.
I wonder if I'll see a factory-less society and how it will look like.
I will continue to be like that until software development takes quality seriously and be accountable for defects, like in other industries.
All those solutions to a problem that shouldn't have existed in the first place, aka carriers not giving a crap about their users, and not being able to deploy updates on time.

They are trying to solve political issues with technics. This may lead to interesting new technologies, but somehow i doubt that it will solve the issue completely one day.
Can someone explain how this represents the US attorneys "doubling down"?
Even if NTP had been working properly, you would not have clocks synchronised at the level of individual ticks - only to the level of time intervals. If two updates happened at roughly the same time, and fell into the same time interval, there would be no way to tell which one happened before the other. A paper by Cilia et al on timing of composite events in distributed event-based systems using NTP deals with this issue.
I was expecting to see the big GOOGLE on this list but could not see it?
Somehow this page misses twitter...
Making sure the password hashing mechanism is secure would be a good starting point...
There is something about humans striving for some ultimate goal? Living in horrible poverty, still having children, dooming them to that same poverty/disease/misery cycle? Or giving them a choice to rise up and get rich? What makes one to reproduce and doom they spawn into same cycle again and again? If thee was able to play all his life without worry for forced work to eat, would he be so keen on reproducing again and again?

Poverty fuels rich people? Most likely in some cases. Having layer of fear between these two. Either fear/like/hate other and experience themselves thanks to other.

Some play life seriously, some not so, one with serious face will try hang onto ledge for as long as he can, nailing others to the ledge so they won't fall off too. Success is achieved, people don't fall off, but nails in palm makes it no pleasure also.
Yep. South is much happier with postgrSQL as it can do schema changes in a transaction and roll them back if there's a problem.

MySQL will just leave you with a half completed schema change which you'll have to fix by hand.
Maybe it was not only for scalability, but also for reliability or embracing the Do the Right Thing thing?

From my experience with PostgreSQL and MySQL, it is a bit like the difference between python and php, one is a great work of craftmanship that is reliable, predictible, coherent, enjoyable to work with and minimise the wtf/mn rate (which is the best quality measure in software), while the other is a bunch of hacks knit together to make it work asap and its wtf/mn is skyscraping.
To what end? Looking at revenue in isolation is mostly pointless. The presented companies have vastly different businesses with different revenue flows.

Shell, by the way, is $14,800/second. These numbers are public and trivially discoverable.
It is 10 years in the making. The speed with which EU is doing politics makes continental drift looks like a game of billiard.
What’s an Active User worth?
http://chai.it.usyd.edu.au/Projects/Personis

Project Description

Personis supports an accretion/resolution approach to reasoning about people, places and devices. It was designed to support user control of both the information held about them and the way that it is used.

also https://github.com/jbu/personis
The weird effects of urban design UX done wrong
An square in Alicante (Spain) causes dizziness and epilectic seizures to pedestrians

Google Translate: http://t.co/LlFJfIvrrs
Original Spanish: http://www.diarioinformacion.com/alicante/2013/11/12/plaza-marea/1436400.html
It is doubtful that your second point really stands against what I wrote. After all, retirement funds add at least one layer of indirection between the person who ultimately owns something (in this case, the person saving for retirement) and the economic decisions being made.

That is, retirement funds dilute responsibility.

If you wanted to analyse this whole issue seriously, you'd have to consider two separate effects: (a) private retirement funds as the normative default creates a glut of capital and (b) private retirement funds allocate their money with rather little personal involvement and responsibility. [1]

As to the first point, things are more clear-cut. Yes, in a direct distribution system your pension depends on the future state of the economy. But so does your pension if you have retirement savings! After all, where does the growth of X% that you speak of come from?

Ultimately, no matter what the system, your pension has to come from somewhere. The fact that this somewhere is obscured by a retirement funds system is not a point in its favour - quite the opposite, actually. Transparent systems are always preferable.

[1] Yes, fund managers often are paid somewhat in relation to the success of the fund. Two problems with this: This incentive tends to focus on the short term, which is opposed to the interests of the future pensioners, and fund managers have more of an incentive to increase their volume rather than increase the quality with which they manage that volume (just like real estate brokers, with a nod to Freakonomics).
I'd second this. I've pretty much fallen in love with the official docs over the last few months. They remind me of perldoc in terms of clarity and general quality.

The mailing lists also seem to carry a lot of good material.
I would add compare it with energy-related industries private or public. Each of Shell, Exxon, Sinopec and China national petroleum earn 3 times as much as Apple. 6/10 biggest companies by income are in oil/gas, and privately owned companies are a fraction of the industry size...
If the donors know it's for Snowden, the courts would as well.
InFORM, a Dynamic Shape Display that can render 3D content physically
As a US citizen the answer is always 'yes' even if you lived on the moon.
Maybe it's being kept in case the returned function executes an eval statement which needs the closure ;)
Whops, no, that was actually Standard ML:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1784
I was wondering whether you could elaborate what you meant by modern standards. Just in terms of security?
That's a different thing.

Can a phone be tracked while off - or can you install malware that prevents your phone from turning off while misleading the user to believe that it worked?

The latter is a lot easier to believe and what you talk about. The discussion above/the post you answered is about the former.
Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6717672
This is pretty much the only important question
Just because you "can" do something, doesn't mean it is or should be "legal" to do it.
I'm surprised about Foxconn
It's there between Amazon and Dell.
Google is there. Just before Amazon if memory serves me correctly.
It's there: http://www.happier.co.uk/infogram/amount-top-companies-earn-...
China Unveils Space Station Research Plans
The project website is http://simhacks.github.io/ - and it looks like you can still purchase all the necessary equipment!
I did some JavaCard development on a project probably ten years ago - and the highlight was meeting the "Head of SIM" at a major network, being told how many times a day everyone's SIM card 'crashes'.
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Working code is way better than broken code. And there's the aphorism of "If you're not embarrassed by your initial release, you're launching too late." I say release now; if nothing else, it should drive you to improve what you've got.
>>Have you used a graph database to good effect? Which one, and for what?<<

I played around with several. But project never got off the ground due to layoffs that killed projects.

I know lots of people who have implemented graph stores with great success. One example:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/04/sports_dynami...

Another is a multibillion dollar retailer (not sure if it's public so I'll leave the name out) uses stardog to good effect. LOTS more out there.

>>We paired on setting up Neo4j, the only open-source graph database we could find with a working Python API, but found it fiddly and hard to get help.<<

The Graph Stores do seem to play better with Java. Neo's getting a lot of ink these days but they are far from the only game in town.

>>Facebook themselves use MySQL[1], so between that and my own first/second-hand experience, I'd call it far from obvious that a graph database is the most appropriate way to store social information.<<

They aren't using MySQL the traditional way. They undoubtedly would have made different choices had they started when Disapora did. And they also use TAO, a homegrown graph store of sorts, FYI:

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2213957

It is sitting on top of MySQL at some level, as this is where objects are stored as "source of ultimate truth".

IIR the quote correctly when I invited couple FB DBAs (pre-Mark Callaghan) to speak at a meetup, "I don't think there's a single join in the facebook codebase". That might have been a slight exaggeration, but MySQL at Facebook is not because their recent needs are for a relational db.
I was a bit surprised to see FoxConn there with such a big revenue.
How about we break the whole world into false dichotomies.

What's more important, saving children or commenting on HN? Choice made (Commenting on HN), you wrote that comment, rather than saved a child.

What's more important, curing cancer, or eating something? Choice made (eating something)... why didn't you cure cancer instead!?
Microsoft Is Using a Logo Similar to Canonical's Ubuntu on Its Website
On that note I'm intrigued as to why the 'retyped' version is a .docx
The View From Saturn
Don't get me wrong, I love what Gates is doing. I do believe that while technology has given us so much, it comes with incredible costs.

> How far away do these women live? we wondered. Who’s watching their children while they’re away?

I was born and raised in Zimbabwe (where the bush/wilderness is very similar to that of Kenya) and this specific quote really shows the good and the bad of technology and innovation. Those women walk miles to get water; technology can now use pipes or boreholes to bring water closer to people - giving them a slightly easier life. However, Bill fails to mention how these women approach this hardship - having come across many of these people during my hikes in youth I can testify that they are singing and laughing for the entire duration of those daily ordeals. You simply won't find a person with that attitude towards hardship in the first world/technology world. Their lives are hard, but they are happy. Our lives are easy, but the first world is struggling with depression[1]. Us people in the first world need to stop making the mistake of assuming that a hard life is an unhappy one. Bring these people water, bring them food, bring them vaccines - but don't destroy one of the last bastions of happiness on the planet with the internet and laziness.

As for their children and who is looking after them: they are looking after each other, playing in the dirt and in the sun, making their own toys out of sticks, old tires and coat hanger wire [2][3]. What are your children doing? Sitting on an iPad? Their parents don't have to worry about psychopaths or kidnappers - that is a first world problem in a very real way.

I'm a saying that what Bill is doing is wrong? No: he is making a very real and very positive difference in these people's lives. What I am saying is that us people in the first world need to stop assuming that technology solves problems. The reality is that technology replaces problems with other problems.

[1]: http://www.inquisitr.com/129438/depression-rates-higher-in-w...
[2]: http://www.bsmarkham.com/mission/Africa/Apr%2005/huffs/18%20...
[3]: http://www.losviajeros.net/fotos/africa/sudafrica/k_lesotho0...
We dumped on Java applets because they ran isolated in rectangles on the window and took ages to start and then proceeded to slow our machines to a crawl, and most of what it was used for was mundane stuff that could be done without Java, or that we didn't want.

The ultimate indictment of just how bad a fit java applets was is exactly that people shunned it despite the horrible alternatives.
I have to wonder why are they trying to build an homegrown ERP system. Inventory location is a solved problem, readily available as Free Software.
Unconditional payment will probably have the highest impact on open source development, either through the government as a basic income or through the people like gittip: https://www.gittip.com/
Will the Apple TV App be updated, too, or is it completely separate from the other implementations?
What's crazy is that if you form a company and borrow a million USD, no one is surprised if you go bankrupt and not pay anything back -- and you get to keep your personal assets (excepting what was invested in the company) -- while if you borrow 10.000, with interest, you might lose your home.
Sounds like another go-around at 1990s (& early 2000s) concept search -- Excite, Northern Light, etc.

And it sounds really close to what I was trying at Elucidate.
everything is from foxconn these days...
LIFX shipping its bulbs after taking Kickstarter by storm
Lets put this into concrete examples. Let say there is a kid who want to learn physics, and I got study software that the child needs. However, the license agreement say I can't. The child could maybe, in theory, reconstruct the necessary experiments or read about them in the library.

Or let say that a cab driver see a child who missed the buss back home. However, the cab drivers contract says he is not allowed to pick up passages who can't pay. Without the drive back home, the child need to walk several miles.

This is what people call moral dilemmas. To help a child, or to follow the contract.