skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of truth in what you write - but ... there is a legitimate concern that even in a "democratic society" the "security" apparatus can be used to maintain the party in power.

think about watergate - it was a spying scandal, back when you had to physically collect the information. knowing what the opposition is thinking or doing is valuable information. discrediting critics and supporters of your opponent is political blocking and tackling 101. any government tools available for this purpose protect the incumbent.

bill clinton recently said one of the main scandals is that snowden was able to access top secret clearance so easily, and get access to so much sensitive information. "a world with no security, and no privacy." good line. hard to believe this won't bleed over to the election process.
So people are also refusing to use the PS4 camera, their cell phones, any laptop with a webcam, any tablet, the Moto X with its always-on microphone, etc? Because they could be used to infringe on privacy?

It's about risk management. What's the potential harm, what's the likelihood of that harm, and what would be the impact if this were to be used maliciously? It sounds to me like people are rejecting this because a) Microsoft and b) rumors and speculation.
Those iPhone apps for cat picture sharing are valued at over a billion dollars by the marketplace, so it's kind of hard for developers to ignore. Truthfully, most of us in the field of biomedical informatics would have much more lucrative careers applying our scientific skills to figuring out how to get more people to click on advertisements.

It's unfortunate because as I see it, most scientific software is universally awful. It suffers from poor usability, poor maintainability, poor stability. Whole swaths of software are abandoned because they were someone's PhD thesis and that person has since moved on. Another commenter here is right: version control, bug tracking, testing, etc... are all luxuries that are seldom employed.

Shameless plug: If you're a hacker and interested in this stuff and want to help, we're always looking for contributors for our open source biomedical data discovery framework: http://harvest.research.chop.edu/ We're trying hard to not do all the things I listed above.
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A smart dishwasher could be programmed to run at the point in the day when your solar hot water heater reaches a certain temperature, or when electricity prices reach a certain level.
"Hey Steve, normally, it's not your turn to do the dishes, but I see that John is out of town this week. Better get on that!"
Right, that's not ideal. Maybe Google Translate can help you get through the signup process.
Yep, never had a problem with USPS or UPS, but I absolutely hate FedEx Air[1]. They pulled a "we don't deliver in your area from Dec 20 to Jan 2" crap and I had to drive 90 miles to pickup the package myself. I told the vendor if they shipped the next package via FedEx, that would be the last one ordered[2].

I figure your local people are the determining factor since consistency seems not to be a corporate function for any of them.

1) mixing up Air and FedEx Ground will get you yelled at

2) we were getting parts and cables shipped overnight
Plonk that into an autobox module (like perl5i and/or autobox::Core) and enjoying even more caddadadaddaaaaaring around!

For eg:

use perl5i::2;

sub autobox::Core::ARRAY::car { $_[0]->[0] }

sub autobox::Core::ARRAY::cdr {
my $last = $#{$_[0]};
wantarray ? @{$_[0]}[1 .. $last] : [@{$_[0]}[1 .. $last]];
}

then...

my @a = 1..4;

@a->car; # 1
@a->cdr->cdr->car; # 3
@a->cdr; # 2, 3, 4

my @x = @a->cdr;
@x->cdr; # 3, 4

Some refs: https://metacpan.org/pod/perl5i | https://metacpan.org/pod/autobox::Core
Because most people have not even thought of the possibility that password can be stored in anything but plaintext, and take it as granted that all websites do. Thus the websites can't possibly be blamed, and the hackers must be the bad guys.
It's simple- That's awesome.

To all the snark related to "modern", oh you mean the cluster-f*ck of animated javascript and sensory overload that has become the modern web? please.. you can K.I.S.S it.
It's a video capture technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Shadowplay
I think it's too early to say if this is a successful experiment or not. His current rate is up to 107 (average about $53/hr so far). I imagine at least a few people were interesting to work with along the way.
But then the fridge maker wouldn't have "anonymised usage statistics" (to sell) so where's the incentive for them to make a smart fridge?
There are a bunch of specific devices that I would really like to connect to the internet:

Irrigation system: I shouldn't need to punch buttons on a controller box outside in the rain.

Anything with a clock, e.g. microwave, thermostat: It should get the right time itself.

Pool heater: I should be able to control it from the house and check the temperature.

Barbecue: It should let me know if it was left on (like happened yesterday).

Freezer: It should let me know if the door is ajar, before everything thaws.

Alarm system: monitoring and control.

Stereo: should be able to control from my phone.

Washing machine: notification if I left wet clothes in it, or if it goes off balance and stops.

These are mostly available now, but not in an easy-to-use way. Home automation seems to be like the home computer industry in the 1970s: you have to really want to do it, you need to be a bit of a hacker, it costs a fair bit, and what you end up with is pretty primitive. I think there's a huge market for someone to solve home automation. What I want is when I buy an irrigation controller from Home Depot (for example), it "just works" as part of a home system.

Edit: A couple people asked why connect to the internet? I should be able to do these things remotely, e.g. from the office or my phone.

a_c_s mentions that the time tinkering could outweigh the benefit. That's kind of what I'm getting at with my 1970s home computer analogy - you could do e.g. word processing back then, but it wasn't worth the difficulty for most people. Now non-technical people can buy a computer at Best Buy and easily do word processing. Likewise, home automation needs to become something that is built in to products and "just works" by default, rather than something for hackers.
I got a UPS box to get all my personal/business mail. Works well. But I also live in an area where everyone has a car and not like how it is in NYC, so there's that...
imo, "can visualize". In my experience, those strong in math easily visualize math problems geometrically. This is opposed to, for example, having to grind through the quadratic formula.

Try to mentally (or on paper) graph the freelancer's pay. The x-axis represents "hours" and the y-axis represents "pay per hour". The function we get is the linear function "f(x) = x". I.e. for the first hour, he's paid $1; for the 300th hour, he's paid $300. A very straightforward graph. If we cut off our x-axis at $300, the graph looks like a right triangle.

If you want to find the total amount of money he's accumulated, all you have to do is find the area under the triangle (which is a special case of integration). For a triangle, geometry class taught us "Area = (1/2)(base)(height)". Calculus courses prefer that we integrate, which has broader application. Integration of "f(x) = x" gives us "f'(x) = (1/2)(x^2)". Our "integral" is equivalent to the "geometry-class equation" because for our particular triangle, the base is the same as the height. For comparison:

Area = (1/2)(base)(height)

f'(x) = (1/2)(x^2)

DoubleMalt is saying kjay's visualized "shortcut" (intuitively faster approximation) is slightly off. This is because the triangle in our actual problem looks like a staircase, and not a smooth slope. But kjay's shortcut has a margin of error of only about "-0.033%" which is a good enough approximation by most people's standards.

Also, DoubleMalt's equation should look like

x * (x + 1) / 2

instead of

x * (x - 1) / 2
The rule of thirds springs to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds
I get more little things than big things.

Certainly if other delivery services could use the box it would help.
I think at my last job we got an oversized item by DHL, though it could have been FedEx.

sub $100 A-frame ladder with $2.99 overnight shipping FTW.
his pictures of the Waldo distribution remind me of the eigenvalues of the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble!

http://www.math.wisc.edu/~valko/courses/833/circle.jpg
A 14-year-old who didn't build a fusion plant.
As usual, irony is not one of the HN's strongest properties.
Just looking at the home page, the text being sooo close to the left-hand margin really bothers me. I use a portrait monitor and browse full screen and it just feels odd having to read the text butted up against my monitor border.
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I'm more commenting on the effectiveness of arguing through shitty analogy. There's no logical reason to imagine any of this let alone compare it to the programming industry. It breeds disagreement, distraction, and useless side-discussion that treads water and makes people angry at each other.

And if you want to keep taking this to an extreme, using the shitty analogys provided:

Would a hospital with 5 highly trained surgeons and no receptionists or nurses complete more surgery than a hospital with no surgeons and 100 nurses and 600 receptionists? Yes. But now we're saying absolutely nothing about the programming industry or what's we think is wrong with it.
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The job crisis in Italy has affected directly or indirectly developers.
The best way to combat it is to give maximum visibility to job opportunities in Italy.
I settle a few things and put it on gihtub open for those who want to collaborate
On a more serious note, the silver denarius actually holds up pretty well today. It has about $2-5 worth of silver in it, and originally had a nominal value of $20-50 (depending on how you calculate it, not debasement). If you're collecting them today, you can get some of the cheaper coins for $20 or so.

I'm no historian, but I'd wager the denarius never collapsed the way - say - the Confederate dollar did. It probably just became rarer and rarer in circulation as old coins were melted down to mint new ones, and then one day it was worth more as a store of historicity than value
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The new openSUSE has lots of goodies in it.
Thank you -- knowing this makes me certain I will not be signing up for Prime at this time. I think the USPS squirelliness is not limited to any particular region... I have had nightmares with various post offices over the past few years.
The LG Magic Remote is by far the best remote I have ever used, particularly for "smart" content, browsing, using apps such as NetFlix, etc. It's almost as natural and simple as using a mouse and hands down beats other TV type input methods I've seen (game controllers, Apple remote, etc.).

Shame LG seem intent on ruining it with the spying, I hope they have a change of approach and resolve this.
The University of Waterloo hosted the virtual server for assignment use. The webapp is made for the assignment host on that virtual uml server. That server is the server I do the brute force.

No one complained to digital ocean. The digital ocean told me that they detected the attack by their router.

I am not attack any other servers. What I attacked is the specific virtual server hosted by university of waterloo itself.
My understanding is that the NSA captures "data" (i.e., content) (e.g., voice conversations, fax contents, messages, e-mail content, etc.) and not simply metadata. I doubt the "data" is very useful in catching terrorists either. But it's political/social/economic value is inestimable.
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For better or worse, the one thing that I can say that is very positive about php, is php.net has basically great documentation and it's usually easy enough to find what you need about particular methods. If php didn't have the documentation that they do, it would not be as successful as it is.
Search does not work without javascript.

Fixed header takes away screen real estate.

Grey text is hard to read.

Sends every pageview to Google.

I do not like it.
Note that users of extensions like Ghostery will have the search functionality (e.g. http://us2.php.net/results.php?q=curl&l=en&p=all) "broken." You'll have to allow the Google AJAX Search API permissions for it to work.
> However, I would happily pay more than $79/year for a version of prime which guarantees that the USPS will not be involved in shipping ... I would venture to say there are a lot more people like me out there.

On the surface, it sounds like it would make sense for Amazon to let you choose your carrier for some additional cost.

But that sort of active, involved, optimizing customer is probably where Amazon takes the biggest loss on Prime.

Bezos has probably done the math on the value of the goodwill of those customers.
To pull the analogy through to the extremes, even a highly skilled surgeon might not be able to do it because he doesn't know how to improvise, refuses to operate in a non-hospital environment, or insert a billion other reasons in here.

tl;dr, T-shaped skillsets are good, specialists are good.
Actually, the only interesting behaviors all involve phoning home at some point. That's where a product like Little Snitch comes in handy - whatever it is (including OS updates), you can see what is accessing the outside world. It turns out this is actually pretty good way to detect bad stuff.
Disclosure: I'm an XBox hardware engineer and encourage you to try the new kinect before writing it off. It is completely re-engineered with new time-of-flight technology that achieves orders of magnitude more precision than the last gen. This is not some BS hardware hype either, it translates into better real world use cases. I've never had to wear any special clothes or paint my walls... it just works for me. It will also work in nearly pitch black environments.

I think the hardware/software co-design for this particular peripheral was done phenomenally well, and MS has had some time to refine its use cases and integration into the system. I'm really excited to see where this goes.
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I can't tell if you're serious or not. "Almost certainly"? If this were true, why wouldn't every smartphone already have this? Turn on the front-facing camera and send a picture of the user to the FBI. We've had this capability for years, and the Xbox doesn't add much new to the equation.
Wow, indeed. Hopefully that's a bug and not that way by design.
Cool. All valid points. I have a question, do you think builds in Go for a large web app will remain fast? I ask from the experience of working in Java with several minute build/deploy times...
Yes. Software is important and I like your examples. What training would prevent them, yet still make all the advances possible? People die and it is OK as long as we keep the number low. I am leaving for an orienteering run right now. I may be injuried or die due to it but I'm glad I can take the (low) risk.
>TDD is huge in Java and Ruby ...40-50% ...JavaScript’s percentage of projects using a testing framework is considerably lower, coming in at 25%.

I doubt it is even that high. Sadly, many of the JS projects I look at have a tests folder and one test in it that usually amounts to:

equal("tests written", false)
This kind of spatial scan statistics is really easy to misuse without careful multiple-comparison corrections. Would they have reported a 52% effect? a 51% effect? What about 1.4 inch bands? or 1.2 inch bands? That "remarkably thin" 0.3 percent will disappear pretty quickly.

Sorry that this is dismissive, but this piece is just a slightly more complicated case of http://xkcd.com/882/
Access control is going to be pretty hard to implement for something like EFI firmware, CPU microcode, or other forms of embedded software.

As much as people whinge about sandboxing, I think it's a great idea and hope there's more of it. Apple's model for OS X where certain kinds of apps come with certain limitations, but there is a switch for people to opt out of those restrictions, is a great compromise. Safe for users with limited technical ability and wide open for those that need it.
And this is why blogs make lousy home pages.
I've noticed this too, and can only imagine that Apple clamps down hard. People I admired before they joined Apple (such as David Betz, Jordan Hubbard and Doug Field) became practically invisible, as if they'd fallen into a black hole.

I suppose they're well cared for, but I also suppose that it can be lonely in there.
This new PHP.net site is also dependent on javascript, as the search engine does not work without javascript.
I live in a mountainous area and the Postal Service won't deliver to my house. (FedEx and UPS will). So FedEx Smart Post creates the same problem for me-- I have to go to town during Post Office hours to pick up the package (and usually wait in line). I would also pay for a UPS/FedEx only Prime. I sometimes force the issue for important or large deliveries by ordering it Next Day for $3.99 more, which ensures UPS/FedEx to my home.
It isn't often that a doc doesn't solve my api level problem but when it does, user notes always save the day. There is always someone who faced same corner case as mine. One of the many advantages of using the world's most popular server side language.
Minor nitpick, but I don't like this characterization of genius. He has not accomplished a lot through just being a genius; he accomplished a lot through discipline and extreme effort. Genius probably made it all easier, but I feel that ascribing one's accomplishments to one's intelligence ignores the hours upon hours of hard work that goes into them.
Just to note, OP is the creator of Backbone. Subtle endorsement?
This stealth company nestled against (inside?) Google is building flying cars
I had expected some pretty home page indeed remarks in the comments, none yet.
The distribution story is definitely appealing. I think it was only the other day a post showed up here with someone making command-line tools with it. I find this appealing.
Remember the cloud to butt chrome extension? Sounds like we need a new one for hack
I'm so happy that you mentioned that. I've been busy building out the infrastructure to do just what you're talking about. Unfortunately it's pretty complicated so it's taken me awhile. The first step was the ability to get majors/minors in the system. My next step is making the degree programs more useful by being able to add required core courses, etc. Once that is in place, I can move on (finally) to graphing out paths for students.

I already have linkage between pre/co requisite courses, so almost everything I need is in place. I'd also like to integrate with universities existing systems so that I can have what courses the student has already taken available and merge that into the graph automatically.

Additionally (rambling now), I'd like to get cost per credit hour info from the university, and allow students to say "I'd like to get a B.S. in Computer Science from University X. What is the cheapest way to do this?" and have the option of mapping things out from a start at a community college and transferring versus starting at the 4 years school.

Thanks for the feedback!
He's not at the edges of the page partially due to the print process. You need a large border of disposable material that can be cut from the edges (bleed) should the alignment of the pages be slightly out when the book is bound and trimmed. It wouldn't be much finding half of Wally, so they don't put him where he might be cut in two with a guillotine.

(He's still better as Wally than Waldo.)
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I thought the same thing. I'd overlook it as it seems like Brooklyn does get USPS, but he seems to assume this is universal. I've gotten Amazon packages in Austin, San Francisco, Los Angeles, the Coachella Valley, Seattle, and rural eastern Washington, and almost none have shipped USPS.
You could use it to just live on. That's kind of the point of the patronage system. You need time to work, and you need food and housing during that time.
Ask HN: What do you think about Litecoin? 
I've been tracking the other cryptocurrencies movement along with bitcoin and was wondering if you think Litecoin will be viable in the future?

Is Bitcoin gold and Litecoin silver? Or is there only room for one?
In a lot of cases, they do let you upgrade for $3.99
I see some text on a very plain page with a top bar logo that feels oddly squashed in relation to the other content. Feels like 2003 to me.
> And what's the alternative?

I think the author gives an alternative in the form of his pilot training; intense training before being allowed to write code (= a proper and full education, instead of a course), and pair programming (= co-pilot) with an experienced or non-novice pilot (developer).

The big corporate world doesn't tend to agree with this though, two people doing one job seems like a waste of money and time to a lot of managers that don't know any better.
If I understand you correctly, that exists already and is called pwdhash: https://www.pwdhash.com/.

Available online and as browser plugin for the major browsers.

The already mentioned supergenpass seems nice as well.
As A kid I could not get enough of finding Waldo. I even had the Nintendo game.
>Not a big fan of underlined hyperlinks though

Don't worry, soon it will become illegal to care about usability and then everything can exist for purely aesthetic purposes.
Reminds me of this great StackOverflow thread on how to programmatically find Waldo using Mathematica: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8479058/how-do-i-find-wal...
I think DHL left the US domestic market for overnight.
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On our ranch, we have an automatic gate opener with keypad. While FedEx and UPS will use a key code if one is printed on the address label, USPS refuses to enter through an open gate. Maybe they were just afraid of the cattle (http://www.LonghornSteers.com).

Fortunately for us, UPS delivers virtually all of our Amazon orders (2-3 a week since it is easier to use Prime than drive into town). The day that Amazon uses USPS for us is the day we cancel Prime, too.

The only worse delivery company we have dealt with is DHL, who Microsoft uses. I think it stands for (D)ump the package (H)aul tail away, and (L)ie that no one was home. On numerous occasions, DHL has left thousands of dollars worth in software at our gate which is on a busy country road.

A tip that I have found with delivery drivers is to be nice and get to know them. Smile, ask them how they are doing, offer them a bottle of water on a hot day, etc. Many will go out of their way to help a friendly face.
That is news-worthy?