skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The combination of the style of Udacity and content of coursera would be an ideal combination. The idea of having tutors help through the tough material on the subjects as a source of revenue is great.
It works under Firefox 25 and Chrome. Should also work with Firefox 23 and 24. The others I have not tested. But some of them lack audio support.
And I would not try Firefox beta. They have changed the audio API and probably fixing bugs right now. I had problems to get it running under Firefox 25 after they implemented the web audio API.
To put this in contrast, this is the most successful console launch, they sold more in one day than any other consoles have in a month from their launch (from neogaf.com):

http://abload.de/img/screenshot2013-11-17a34cad.png
Kind of slow, but the OP is talking about seconds in response time, something is going badly wrong. Software issues not CPU throughput. It doesn't help that IO is terrible, there is no point putting in a faster CPU without SATA and a bit more throughput overall.

They are in a great position for volume, so should be able to do better than the current choice that was suboptimal in so may ways. Not clear that the 64 bit stuff will be that cheap soon (plus porting code will take a while) but it depends when they are going to do something. Cheap is important.
You are correct it is "a".

Reason was simple.

Customer was under duress and needed to get a job done. You stated a price and they accepted that price. That agreement was important.

With "b" - "whatever it costs is ok!" they could come back and say "Wow I didn't know it would be that much". So even though most people would go for "b" my experience was "a" was better.

Of course now if I wanted to argue the other side I could say if you really were trying to jack up the price than "b" might be better. Why? Because you are jacking up the price so if the customer say "I didn't know it would be so much!" you have some flexibility to throw them a bone and lower the price and make them happy.

My attorney on bills typically puts in all the hours he spends as "time spent, time billed" giving you some idea that you are actually saving money. As if he is cutting you a break.

"and future endeavors"

Right because you managed expectations successfully. Same reason perhaps paying $35 for parking is not the same as getting a $35 parking ticket.
Yes, I noted the mismatch too. So what is producing the interaction then (and how does it know what changes with the interaction). It must have something to do with "user" in "userline", that is, "userline" is some primitive that includes interactions. How exactly, I cannot find.
Yeah, but I wouldn't do it with anything too expensive/has batteries etc., and you gotta give it a couple days to dry out so nothing shorts inside of it. The rinse cycle is usually fine. You may or may not want to use soap, I usually wash it with dish soap and a brush first then rinse it in the washer.
Ask HN: Do You Use Appcelerator For Mobile Dev?
Wondering if anyone uses Appcelerator for mobile development? Any thoughts on its boost to productivity, using their cloud vs. not, etc.?
A lot of songs are not working. Try only the button "Slightly Random Choice.sid" They all work.
The second USB port is just for the USB Hub (which is why the connector says "HUB" on it). It is not required for using the Das Keyboard. My Das Keyboard doesn't have any key wiggle or mushiness issues. What type of Cherry MX switches did you buy? You may want to get MX switches with more resistance if you are looking for a feel similar to the Model M.
Ate two in Denver a couple of weeks ago. At least in Denver, if you buy the McRib "value meal", you can get a second McRib sandwich for $1. They got me on the margin.

McRibs are at least as bizarre as the article says, in my opinion. I'm also going to use the phrase "enjoy your symptom" at work, if I possibly can.
Gotta wonder if the sedentary lives that many of us have isn't going to lead to health problems. Throw in the long hours and there has to be a health downside.
Works fin-ish in Chrome Version 31.0.1650.48 m. but if I put it into background tab it sounds like a broken record.
This isn't really 1-to-1 with the article. I meant something like max_clients, max_requests_per_child, etc.

The best I know if is my co-workers' efforts here:
> https://github.com/genesis/wordpress/pull/64
Is this use of MD5 subject to the known length extension attack? If so, what would a better alternative use for an HMAC hash?

Discussed here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6151
dsync seems to stop working properly after a while for some reason, the usual solution is to upgrade it, which implies a compile from source. after a while it's a pain to keep all these packages up to date.
And by the transitive property, subsidized processed food, including corn syrup, is making healtcare expensive.
Hmm, never encountered this issue before. I've been using the TM/netatalk mechanism for at least 3 years now, and I'm still using the same sparsebundle from 3 years ago. I'm not using a raspberry pi though.
Title was a bit linkbait-y, but the content was good. And true.

"We have met the enemy and he is us."

It's not just 4chan talking here, it's all of us. We can't reply because everything is true. The only difference is the guys posting on 4chan are free to post under anonymity. Here? Not so much, I don't want my 714 karma to stray too far from my 720 days here.

I still like you HN <3
I've noticed a different bad thing that happens to me when I am active on HN. I become very argumentative IRL. On HN it's fun to engage other people, debating, disagreeing and arguing your point. It's constructive and usually we all get something from it.

I noticed that the more time I spend active on HN (in comments) the more I tend to correct friends when they make a mistake or vigorously argue a point of view on something not that important (these aren't bad things the but the frequency with which I was doing them annoyed me and my friends and it wasn't just the important stuff I was arguing, it was stupid things).

When I logged out of HN for a while this behaviour slowly started to improve. I couldn't stay away for ever though but I am much more aware of the effect and try to stop myself before I get too deep into a stupid debate/argument both on HN and IRL.
High prices for equipment like this (over $7k I read somewhere)
http://www.mobisante.com/

There's a less expensive thermal imager in development at http://muoptics.com, so I don't see why the principles can't be applied. Cheaper devices can only mean better health for all.
I have 4 mechanical keyboards, DAS'es, and Duckies... And I reverted to using an apple (aluminium) keyboard.

I tried Brown and Red switches. I have to say, my favourite is the Duckies by far, with Red switches.

Of all the keyboards though (I'm a freak with them), the AUD 60 apple keyboard wins (has to be replaced once a year). It's just super quiet, and my typing tests show I can easily get more words per minutes on it.

I don't want to be a mood killer, these are just my findings. Apple's are great. Even on PC.
I've found when people talk of a "github account" they just want to see some code, not that github is in any way required. Kind of like calling a cola a Coke, or a copier a Xerox. Have yet to hear a negative comment about my bitbucket account.
LDAP is used for storing the Postfix configuration "databases": users, aliases, transports, etc.
Using other people's words as your own
A Dell account exec told me last week that Dell had built and implemented the Sydney AWS data center - any truth to that statement?
http://www.hacker.org/bitbath/ is a really nice one in Java.

And this one is ok, http://berlin-ai.com/ - you just provide the URL of your AI and they POST game states to you, and you have 5 seconds to reply with your orders.
A SASS consultant? Is there such a thing?

I don't think there is any shame in learning from clients. In effect, whenever you talk to a client about requirements, you are asking them to teach you about their problems domain. As a consultant who develops things whether web sites or software, your value to the client is not in the completeness of your prior knowledge, but in your ability to execute upon their requirements and deliver the solutions that they need. So if they can teach you the occasional technical trick, this is just fine.
HN can be like FB - highlight reels that people sometimes compare to the full view of what they are experiencing.

There are also posts about failure but I'd say they are a bit less common than the ones about success.
Fast forward to HN in 2018 with the latest news on the y-combinator drone army narcowar.
The articles recommends using a form of HMAC and not MD5 directly. The first code example is just a basic example of what the general concept behind is.
My brother is a doctor. I work in a university hospital in medical informatics and I'm friends with literally dozens of doctors across a spectrum of specialties. Every single one of them will put obesity at the top of the "what's wrong with healthcare/the population/people" list.

Just stop being fat.
Probably missing a lot of context here, but wondering why you wouldn't use something like nginx or squid for serving static content, as they are designed for this kind of use case.
Despite what you've been told, you aren't 'left-brained' or 'right-brained'
We do something like this with Evergreen (www.evr.gr). It's a virtual currency that is partially backed by rainforest that we purchase when people exchange other currencies to ours. We are for-profit but have partnerships with a couple non-profits that manage the conservation efforts.
Actually, I think you meant to say "fuck it up its ass". You're welcome!
Is it possible that more than one factor is making healthcare expensive?

The US gov't itself already spends more (per capita) than does the Canadian gov't. Is the US obesity rate much higher than Canada's? Have a look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States
Me too, meanwhile I ordered a Beaglebone Black to test out, which has a bit better specs for heavy-CPU jobs.
http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone Black
Well for Domestic flights, at American, it is actually $3300. Unfortunately it looks like international is about half that.
And the main reason people don't ship is convenience (cost is also a factor)
Of course the blog post really wasn't complaining about the lost bag or the cost of the log bag. It was complaining about how customer service handled the situation.
Meteor: Live Data Sepcification
actually i love all of this stuff on HN. i really don't agree with the argument presented here - as well presented as it is.

hn is a resource where the stories of the kind listed in this article are available at all. for me this is important because i want to read those stories, i want to learn from the mistakes of others and see what other people /think/ worked well for them. sure it hurts my productivity, but so does the beer i would drink, the movie i would watch or whatever else that i would do in my down time because that is when i read HN for the most part.

what is bad for my well being here is all the 'self-entitled prick with first world problem' stories. i have no respect for them and it saddens me that the community as a whole seems naive enough on average that this stuff is considered news and not just 'smart' people embarrassing themselves with an utter lack of common sense or life experience. it makes me genuinely angry. the worst part of it all is that these stories and promoting them feed the very cause you fight against... see just thinking about draws me into wanting to collectively slap the majority of the community around the face and tell them how it is, you know the good ol' sciency way by pointing at data and examples littered throughout history instead of jumping on some crazy emotional bandwagon.

enough.
I actually took around 2 months off of Hacker News over the summer when we were coming up on a big deadline with the beta launch or our new game, and I must say I noticed a significant uptick in productivity over this period. Completely fasting; however, hasn't turned out to be the best idea since I'm now more addicted than I was previously. The newsletter idea is probably the best of both worlds.
Undefined Behaviour: What Happened to My Code?
Have you seen the profiles of Congresspeople lately?
I don't know. The iphone was the first smartphone that I ever wanted. I felt so strongly I even bought some stock.
Premature optimization with nginx configuration
How does this interact with iOS? I feel like that sort of thing is off-limits.
Great stuff! Seems like the store_accessor works with the :json column type out of the box as well.

Throw in a JSON schema validator and we have full-blown validations for :hstore and :json!
I must have missed all those articles about languages/frameworks you need to learn immediately. Generally I feel pretty comfortable with the tools I have now and don't feel threatened if I see some new cool tech everyone's excited about, but it does make interesting reading.
> Why would you want to hide your identity unless you are writing something crappy or being a troll on Youtube or Play Store

Do people really think this?

How about: Why would I NOT want to hide my identity, unless I'm writing to people I know (and they know me as my identity)?
Sometimes, but other times /r/aww is exactly what I need to reset my frustration button on a problem.
I would just love a 3"-4" touchscreen for my RPi, but that seems impossible to find.
Insurance companies make healthcare expensive.

Pass a law that requires all payers to pay the same rate for the same service, be it an insurance company or an individual paying out of pocket and the system would get fixed in short order.
Successful "healthcare service providers", not obesity is what is making healthcare expensive. Ask a Porsche salesman who his clients are.

Obesity doesn't explain a $800 knee MRI or $4K ambulance ride. A californian hospital billed us at $3.7 per second for a broken wrist.

Your brother, not fat people, is making healthcare expensive. This is so freaking obvious I'm starting to veer into conspiracy theories territory failing to explain this craziness: they'll start suspecting "mongolians and puerto-ricans" as factors before they'll notice this enormous elephant in the room. Every US city has a neighborhood where "doctors live". It's sickening.

Also, ask your brother what he thinks. I have a few friends in healthcare and they're very open about it (it's hard to deny if you know their lifestyles)
There's only one minor problem; DLL hell. As long as none of your applications break when you update their shared dependencies, everything's fine. The package management system generally takes care of this in modern distributions, and the package maintainers usually do enough coordination to avoid (much) breakage.

But if you're trying to produce commercial shippable software (what used to be called shrinkwrap), you're not going to fit in as easily with a package management system. Your binaries will probably need updating when the shared libraries update; that's a major headache. And this is one of the reasons why there hasn't been much of a commercial market in software for Linux. Everything generally works much more smoothly if your only dependencies are glibc and a handful of other bits.
I'm not sure how many of you do this, but I often find myself looking something up on HN, just out of curiosity of what was discussed and what people thought about it.
Good question -- however, it's not completely static content. The hotel reviews and photos are more or less static (updated only on deployment), however a fair number of the features of the site are dynamic: user accounts, real-time pricing, search, recently-viewed hotels, etc.

See also my comment on reddit about design decisions: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qu5ai/saving_9...
Assert what you did there :-)
I would love to see optimization guides with actual benchmarking.

It's like saying `for(var i=..` is faster than `.forEach` without given any numbers.

Always test for performance, do not blindy follow guides or copy paste configuration files in your web server.
really useful
This could be said about nearly all tech news sites. At least HN is a cross-section of sources...
Thats true, but personally I don't see many being swayed by the argument.

Though perhaps the authors intention is simply to raise a couple points, rather than actually get folks to visit less.
$ time curl ifconfig.me
88.177.189.XX
curl ifconfig.me 0,01s user 0,01s system 0% cpu 2,517 total
$

How is this for "cluttered with ads, taking too many seconds to respond"?
I'm gonna go ahead and say it's not as simple as just "passing a law".
I really appreciated that this response was not overbearing, or just raw opinion, and rather compared many of the similarities and differences from mercurial to git, and how they approach similar issues differently.

Honestly, I've struggled in moving from SVN/TFS to GIT, but it's been worthwhile.. having local branching, and being able to work locally is great. I can't really compare this to hg, as I haven't worked with mercurial at all.

The company I work for has moved a lot of its' development to a github enterprise deployment, and it's been interesting. I like git extensions for windows, though it's a bit rough around the edges. It's also a bit limited in terms of VS integration, but I can manage. I think that Tortoise + Ankh was a better combination overall in terms of the polish of the tooling, over what git currently offers.

I tend to now work with a few console windows open, and have been using the command line much more.
To add to this: I would guess that the majority of our contracts are boilerplate, and executing them involves no additional legal expense.
Any way in particular that this would be preferable over using desktop tools and shell utilities?
Rumor: Apple Acquires PrimeSense, of Microsoft Kinect Fame
The strength of your principles can only be tested at the extremes. We can't beat corruption with wishy-washy values and situational ethics.
Ask HN: What are your favorite newsletters?
The author of "HN: Bad For Your Well Being" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6751191 posted links to a few newsletters that aggregate/curate posts on some programming languages. What are your favorite newsletters that provide a similar aggregation/curation function in any topic? Math, art, physics, literature, programming. I think the wider the variety of subjects, the better.
"In a fit of rage I paid someone to cat 6 the house."

Made is sound like you paid to cat6 the house in the hopes it would fix your speed issues. Did you mean RG6 from pole to house? Cat6 is the Ethernet cabling. Even then, if the issue was due to poor cabling from pole to house, that should be apparent in signal levels on the cable modem diagnostics page.
And here I thought it was because red is the most conspicuous color.
I use TFS at work and Git at home - I do miss Visual Studio's merge features which have been greatly improved in 2012 and 2013. How did you get your head around resolving merge conflicts in Git?
Some friends are involved with this. Feels pretty relevant:
https://www.tigernation.org/

I can connect you if you like, email in profile.
It seems to me that often HN is an echo chamber for people who want to feel superior about their tech choices - an attitude that's inherited from it's creator PG. I mean, "Blub programmers"? Can you get any more elitist?

I view HG as a boy's club for programming fashionistas. It just happens that sometimes amongst all the posturing there's something genuinely valuable.

Regarding the OP - I think that HN is fine as long as you learn to skim and filter.
You can define a null pointer access as what it actually does on the typical architecture, touching the memory at address 0. Obviously this won't magically fix unintentional NULL use, but it will let the kernel-mode dereference-before-check work fine.
You just keep nuking that lava into jail where it belongs. People said it would never work, that you just couldn't police volcano eruptions with the threat of massive nuclear retaliation, but they don't say that anymore, do they? Not since they all died in the giant radioactive caldera, anyway.
For starters, because you can't use desktop tools to reliably figure out your effective, routed IP address.
Based on the blog, I doesn't sound like AA can prove they did even that much.
> The software mechanics resent the engineering questions but the engineers can't understand how you could not ask them.

The "software mechanics" resent an engineering question being used as a hurdle for a job they know does not involve "engineering". While the employers are looking for a "software engineer" at a "software mechanic" price.
I-L-L!
You should keep adding stuff to this. You're right, with the exception of your IP address, most of this information is crudded up either with ads or with archaic 90's web interfaces.
Absolutely. There's a lot of "I don't like X, so X is bad" out there. It's quite disturbing the number of people who can't imagine that other developers might approach the world in a different way and with different values.
Whether my reasoning, if applied consistently, would have implications for drug laws is not really relevant to this debate. The question to me is, given that we have decided to make certain things illegal, should we restrict employer's ability to make use of the public information about which laws people have broken. If particular laws are unjust that should be dealt with by changing those laws.

The arguments that convictions can be used as a proxy for race is weak for two reasons. First, the crimes that are most prone to racial bias are also the least serious crimes and therefore the least likely to appear on a background test. Second, not much quantitative evidence has been given on how much the conviction rates for Blacks is distorted, relative to the true ratio of rates of crime.
You can use defensive C that checks for undefined behavior whenever it could possibly occur to implement the runtime of an undefined-free language.

And with intelligent coding you could probably get those checks to be very minimal.
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti on Startups, Sustainability and Being a Geek
Wow, if it's that simple, that is a great way to destroy a competitor's domain's reputation in Google, isn't it?
Oh, yeah, they eventually get paid. It's just shocking how many people try to not pay them.
This. Middlemen always push the prices up and they exist to get a cut, nothing more.

In many cases, the insurance agent who sells the policy gets paid the roughly the same amount as a primary care physician for looking after a patient. Only one party here is actually doing needed work...