skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why even write the html to disk? 4chan flushes history so aggressively I'd think you could fit all the high-traffic stuff in memory.

if there's a power-blink and the posts get lost? Its 4chan.
As an Oregonian, this whole episode irritates me to no end; the fact that I'm shoving an application into this meatgrinder is just insult piled onto injury.

State and local governments should learn from this and other episodes ( our failed DMV upgrade from a few years back for instance ); that an RFP and a procurement process that eats 5% of the budget before anything actually happens is bound to betray the public trust.

While I'd like to think that there was an easy solution; say appointing an 'implementation czar' and requiring open source solutions be the default. I don't fool myself as to the likelihood of that working any better.

Governments are human nature magnified and focused and as such they have all the human frailties; not to mention that everyone involved is pushing and pulling in a different direction.

That said; I do believe that all government IT projects should be open sourcing everything they do or have done for them ( not the data, the functionality ) so that it is open to public review and provides the possibility for public improvement.

At the very least if that $43 Million had been spent on something that left a github repository behind; Oregonians would have something to show for that money...
What I love about Jekyll and Github pages is I get all the backup that git provides. The likelyhood of me losing my hard drive data and Github losing my data at the same time are nil.
I am not a hardware guy, but from my understanding a CRT uses an electron gun a distance from the screen to cause a matrix of phosphors to emit light. Hence the depth of CRTs. The electron gun can repeatedly scans from top to bottom, left to right (or whatever direction).

It can be adjusted to make any number of vertical "lines" as it sweeps over the phosphor matrix, but the matrix has a fixed dot-pitch. Because an electron beam is being shot at the matrix from a distance, there's a certain degree of bleed-over to neighboring phosphors. Firing electrons at the phosphors at coordinate 100,200 means a little bit of energy is also received by 99,199 and other neighboring "virtual pixels."

In other words, while the phosphor matrix was just as rigid as the pixel matrix of an LCD, the power source that caused light to be emitted was not perfectly matched 1:1 with the matrix. There isn't an electron gun for each pixel, there is a single electron gun for the whole display.

By comparison, each pixel in an LCD monitor (putting aside the three internal pixels for colors) is an individual mask over a uniformly white back-light. The panel adjusts the opacity of the mask to allow more or less of the white backlight through. The mask over a backlight is what gives LCDs a challenge with viewing angle (because there's a non-zero gap between the light source and the mask and the mask itself has a non-zero depth).

Finally, as I understand it, a plasma television is a bit like both. It's a matrix of phosphors like a CRT, but with individual power sources for each pixel like an LCD. Because light is emitted at the surface, plasmas tend to have very good viewing angles.

OLED then is, in my opinion at least, a spiritual successor to plasma. OLED emits light at its surface like an LCD or plasma, but uses no mask layer over a backlight, like a CRT or plasma.

(Take all of the above with a grain of salt because I'm just a layperson when it comes to hardware.)
I was thinking of GCHQ 'inspecting' the Guardian and having them destroy hard drives. Same modus operandi as far as I can tell.
because `./build.py; rsync -r site/ site.com:~/site/` is easy?
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Anyone here working for Fortune 500 company's IT department knows that hiring companies like IBM global service, accenture, capgemini to do large IT projects is like rolling dice on craps table. Large private corporation's procurement process isn't any better. Anybody here ever had to deal with PEGA systems? :shudders:
The entire universe is a pixel. You are inside it, what do you see when you look out to nothing?
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I swear I am astonished that they didn't just tell Zynga to build it, call it 'Healthville' or something, I am sure my Facebook feed would fill up with "Jimmy Can't Sign up for Colon insurance unless he can get 8 friends under 40 to sign up with him, click here to sign up for Jimmy!"
Fun fact: You can guess an individual's SSN using information often available on their Facebook profile and about 100 lines of code. (Someone demonstrated this to me using a TI-82 program in high school. The result has since been replicated in more reputable literature. http://www.ssnstudy.org/)
Are there any sites crowdsourcing provider charges?

There have been some data sets released by CMS, but they're far from comprehensive.
Tipping is a cost sharing mechanism between restaurant operators and customers. Through an immense social reengineering effort, we could rid ourselves of the convention, and at the same time simultaneously raise prices for customers everywhere while at the same time lowering the income of professional (ie, non-temporary) servers. This doesn't seem like a great place to invest effort.
Wouldn't the use case for something like this be sport bars, late-nite bars or clubs?

People splitting up tabs after a night of drinking can be a mess for everyone. On top of that - people walk out without closing their tab all the time. I feel like this is where you could make some serious inroads.

How is there not an "uber for bar tabs" yet?
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You're mostly right, but along with working scanner people should hire an auditor to fix real bugs. Or it is just useless, spending a lot of money annually for scanner forgetting about real vulns.
Under his site's "Presentations" section (https://www.trustedsec.com/downloads/presentations/), it lists this talk...

"July 2010 – Blackhat and Defcon Presentation on PowerShell" (http://www.trustedsec.com/files/PowerShell_Defcon.pdf)
It's not 100% for a nobody like theboss but I can 100% guarantee you the FBI isn't going to come after Dave of all people...an extremely well-respected, knowledgeable, former-NSA employee...
Samsung reportedly developing 20-megapixel smartphone camera
That makes little difference, or brings little consolation to the parent of the child at end of the day. That was kind of my point. Take the hospital system, laws, economic environment, regulations, solar wind, doesn't matter, mix it all in, shove it in one side of the black box, and at the other side, a bill of $1600 comes out and gets sent to a parent for a dab of glue to fix a minor stitch. Whoever needs to lose and go bankrupt, the insurance company, the hospital, the doctors, the congress-person, doesn't matter, as a supposed "developed" society we have collectively and miserably failed if at the end of the day, it is the parent who has to pay that price for that procedure.
Yeah, super obscure. It does exist but rarely mentioned.

http://www.discount-low-voltage.com/Connectivity/Shielded-Pl...
Do you buy $1000 hamburgers?
Thanks. Yep, that counts.
The problem with medical pricing seems to be the same as pricing for students and pricing for housing. When people can borrow the money or have it payed by insurance, the prices skyrocket to match the available funds.

It completely screws anyone not 'in the game'.

Luckily medical costs are generally reasonable here in Australia, but we still see crazily inflated housing prices due to residential property being treated like a stock.

Huge tax incentives are given to those 'investing' in property while 'buy to live' buyers like families get screwed.

Also, having your employer involved AT ALL with your medical insurance/bills is fucking insane.
I'm not real thrilled with their use of Oracle as an example... If you've used Oracle you've probably done it wrong is kind of a mantra for me, anyway.
I hope not, personally I am on his side as well. But the govt, especially the executive branch, is not a stranger to vindictiveness and petty agenda following prosecutions.
Ooh, I suspect it's even more so. Careerism is a harsh mistress.
Yay! Another article where the older generation shits on a younger generation.

Is it possible - and this is just me talking here - that maybe our generation isn't composed of a bunch of emotional weaklings who can't bear the stress of life, but that you guys fucked it up pretty badly for us? Your self-interested conservative personal responsibility do it yourself policies bankrupted the economy because you were asleep at the switch, and now we can't find jobs.

I can guarantee you that if you flip back several decades you'll find an article in Life Magazine written by some asshole asking the question "Why are the baby boomers such pussies? We fought World War II for crissake!"

A load of horseshit. Life is hard. Help, you assholes.
Clearly it struck a nerve, and a clever design. I've lobbied for a 'DC' outlet strip where I could plug in like a half dozen iGo tips which would automatically regulate to the correct voltage. Of course now with everything going 5V (which is kind of funky since as a engineer it irritates me that even embedded designs now need both a 5v and 3.3v supply) this is made much simpler.
I agree with you, but by definition, we in the US also live in a first-world country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World
It might just be the unfamiliarity, but I have a feeling that a benefit of 24fps is that while it loses data, your mind fills in the details to make it more believable. At higher framerates I have a subtle feeling that the acting seems more fake, maybe because the higher detail of the framerate highlights the mistakes of the actors more, or with CGI it highlights the unnatural movements of the computer animation.
> Suburban residential is very low-population-density, a few people per square mile...

It sounds like you're confusing "suburban residential" with "backwater rural." Census data[1] shows that there are a lot more people per square mile than you suggest.

Even a small metropolitan area like Vernal, Utah, which has a population of just 25,224, has a population density of ~250 people per square mile.

[1] http://www.census.gov/population/metro/files/CBSA%20Report%2...
I do test a lot of websites actually but I mis-understood what you meant.

Like the other guy said this area is grey. If he accidentally finds a stored xss of the magnitude you suggest I'm 100% sure he still wouldn't go to jail. Who tests with a malicious payload? There would be no malicious intent in the situation and no unauthorized access...still.
Nice dig disingenuously implying the US isn't a first world country, it is of course the very definition of one. The term also doesn't relate to economic development. Anyway, even some developing countries have universal healthcare, e.g. Cuba.
> IF IT WORKS IN AFRICA, IT'LL WORK ANYWHERE

Nice little insult there. Way to start out on the wrong foot with Africans.

PS: Yes I'm actually African, and that pissed me off.
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These kinds of things are cute and fun—but does anyone use these sorts of language x to language y translators in practice? Not talking about specialized language interpretation. With JavaScript, the most common operation is to manipulate and capture from the DOM—something that this tool is not capable of readily doing, not, at least, without getting one's hands dirty with JS.
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You didn't say this was a grey area. You said "Nobody will EVER go to jail for an XSS" and then cited the CFAA as evidence of that fact, suggesting that you might have some minor gaps on how XSS works and that you definitely have major gaps on how CFAA works.

Pro-tip: avoid stringing "Nobody will EVER go to jail for" and "CFAA" together in the same paragraph.
If you like Python you should really look at CoffeeScript and even better ToffeeScript. You can write code that looks a lot like Python. Actually the spirit of Python is to be close to pseudo code, and if you want to you can write CoffeeScript/ToffeeScript that beats Python in that respect.
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If you are part of the Ushahidi team, I'd like to thank you and the rest of your team. It was an important part of my life for a short period of time during a difficult disaster recovery event. A product like the BRCK, with the power of Ushahidi, can genuinely make lives better during disaster deployment. I could have used quite a few of those devices myself.
Wrong. There are choices and not everybody is spastically out of control like apparently you would be for a few stitches.

You people have such a hard time with simple concepts, such as an ideologically disagreement on the role of government.

Your first world government did a good job of indoctrinating you.
This was never a technology problem -- it was a business problem. Extremely complicated industry dealing with legacy infrastructure, data, and processes with sprawling, out of control requirements.

As context, take a look at Alabama's RFP for their health exchange. [1] It's 286 pages long. A version of it was issued just a month earlier. And this is just the RFP -- I assume the product spec was longer, much more detailed, with changes issued right into summer 2013 or later.

[1] http://www.aldoi.gov/PDF/Consumers/FINAL-Alabama-HIX-RFP-v47...
Ultrasharp is to Dell monitors what "MacBook Pro" is to Apple laptops. Dell clearly intends, with their 24/32 vs cheaper 28, to have pro quality and mainstream quality displays both at UltraHD/4k resolution the same way they have both pro quality 1080p (ultrasharp) and cheap crappy 1080p (not ultrasharp).

It is unfortunate for dell that the 2160p resolution got labeled something so similar to their existing brand.
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Classic butthurt!!

Maybe this will help: http://bluebirdofbitterness.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/butt...
It depends on the airport, has nothing to do with the airline.
I hear you, but I can't. I considered not even posting that comment at all, but thought the greater point deserved to be aired.
Maybe he didn't, I tried to guess what he meant when he says,

> "Everything from hacking someone's computer so when you visit a website it tries your computer back to being able to extract first names, last names, locations"

at 0:24 and guessed XSS + SQLI but I could be wrong about the SQLI now that I'm paying closer attention to how he phrased it.
Comments like yours are why people say HN's comments are degrading in quality. You can't even grasp the difference in viewing distance of a television versus a computer monitor, and the obvious impact that would have on how noticeable a particular pixel density is, yet you wrote a condescending comment. Unbelievable.

Incidentally, given that displays seem to be continually trending larger, I expect that we'll eventually have an entire wall in our homes that's a display. 4k is just another step toward that.
The average parent's age for first child has never been higher, just like the rate of 20-somethings still living with their parents.

No matter what the reasons for that are, you can't refute that it's bound to have some interesting consequences on the psychology of the 20-somethings in question.
Upon further thought, I agree. I wouldn't have wanted to learn Python from a Visual Basic to Python translator. ;-)
Amortized over the uninsured people who don't eventually pay list price, and the insured people whose insurance only pays 20% of the list price? (oh, and over the billing department that is 10 to 100 times bigger than it is anywhere else in the world) - not much profit.
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I was just a soft-launch for a pop-up restaurant. I had been eating from them at the farmer's market every week for the past four months or so. The farmer's market served as a kind of an MVP, and now they are shutting that down and trying the pop-up. They were trying it out with friends and family to figure out how to operate the kitchen and the restaurant in general. I was also curious about how they were going to handle payment: the wife walked around with the same Square system they had when they were at the farmer's market. And sure enough, she came back to hand me the phone so I can sign and tip.

It did get me thinking about the use of tablets in a restaurant. I was thinking of the exact things you brought up here, about the experience of being waited on. (On the other hand, the last Applebee's I was at was packed, we had a large group, waited for maybe 30 minute before we were seated, and some of the orders got mixed up and took a while ... but I hardly go to Applebees so I can't say that was a typical or exceptional experience).

I think you are right, that, having the wait staff be able to walk around taking orders with the tablet would be good. I'm ambivalent about having something at the table. For example, I keep thinking about my OCD friend, who'd insist on sanitizing the tablet :-D I don't think we have all the pieces of the technology yet, but something that can project images into space and allow you to interact with it without touching anything physical (like you see in sci-fi animes) would be better. Particularly if the projection is discreet. That is, if can be blended in well with the overall experience.
> Have you seen the profit margins for the hospitals with these high prices? They certainly aren't raking it in.

The entire notion of hospitals being profit-making enterprises where people die when they can't afford to pay is literally absurd.
This isn't a story representative of a generation, this is a story about one messed-up 30 year old. I can't think of anyone I know who can't figure out how to do laundry and homework in one day, and I don't think it's because I'm in a circle of particularly self-sufficient Gen-Yers.

Honestly, if the Onion were stuck for content they could publish this article word-for-word and I'd gladly believe it was supposed to be satire.
Life is hard. Help, you assholes.

Are you serious with this statement? This is exactly the attitude that the article and all of the others like it are referring to.

Life is hard. Be harder.
'tptacek is right, for the most part. Regardless of what issues may or may not have been found, most developers don't think of security at the start or "bake it in." We've been trying to make it incredibly easy to do that, and our customers love it, but it is definitely not the norm.

Hopefully one day it will be.
A lot of these parents are enablers. They made it ok for their overachiever kids to have no job as opposed to a job not in their field of study.

I graduated during the recession of 2003-2004 which was almost as long as the Great Recession. We've been technically out of the recession for over 3 years.
I'd like to try this. Has it been rolled out in Outback nationwide, or is it just a trial?
Many of the subjects in the article had insurance. Even with the insurer negotiated discounts, the prices are still insane.
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Once at a Techcrunch party I remember a YC startup showing off their Nokia-based prototype. This was in 2008.

They were excited about the prospects, big Sysco microwave warmer chains across the country were clamoring for a solution like this.

I nodded, smiled politely and asked how long was the sales cycle.

They said 5 years.

Congrats.
Man I remember learning this and having my mind blown. It's scary.
And yet, almost undoubtedly, his presumably socialist nanny-state government is providing an equivalent standard of healthcare for a fraction of the cost and complexity. Sign me up!
Yep. Hence the constant stream of security issues.
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I'm thirty but I do notice many of my coworkers and other folks my age cannot grow up. It's not even just a matter of getting a job. Most of the folks I know are still partying all the time as if they're at a high school kegger.

I'm not sure of the exact cause, but I do think people having children later in life (late 30s, early 40s for many people I know) coupled with the fact that most of them are only having one child causes a bit of over-involvement and softening of parenting. There are too many "special snowflakes" who grow up and cannot handle the fact that none of us are these special creatures and you have to compete for everything you want and need to live.

I think shifting blame to older generations is a result of some of these things. Yes, there have been some messed up things handed down to us, but it's nothing we can't fix. We just have to get our act together, plan things out, and work hard.

Life IS hard, but it's how you respond and adapt to hardships that define you. Blaming everyone else is not going to do anything.
Ironically, most of this pain was designed to prevent government waste.
(the point being that as shallow as the design may be, it caused people to share it and upvote it, so chastising the marketing is a bit odd)
It seems every generation discovers the same new problems of every generation before it. And as each earlier generation matures, it describes the new generation disparagingly.

This article described the movie The Graduate, which everyone felt described a generation coming of age in the 60s. Pick other movies and books for other times.

Take it far enough back and you have this quote

"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers."

which sounds contemporary but dates back centuries (often attributed to Socrates, but not likely that old). It sounds contemporary in every time.

I conclude things aren't suddenly getting worse -- http://joshuaspodek.com/arent-suddenly-worse -- which makes my life better.
Disclaimer: I have been doing CrossFit for about 2 years and I am also working on software projects for CrossFit gym owners and athletes.

I agree with most of the arguments in Mark Rippetoe's article. There is a huge quality difference between CrossFit gyms and coaches. CrossFit makes prospective gym owners take a weekend long course and then one can apply to be an affiliate owner. The CrossFit company doesn't provide any other support besides that. CrossFit is not a seal of quality. Being an affiliate means the owner took the course and paid the annual affiliate fee.

The system is very much based on reputation and smarter athletes move from gym to gym to find the quality they are looking for. Given that around the world there are 30 new CrossFit gyms opening every week (!), competition among the gyms is increasing dramatically.

I see more and more gyms opening either by former CrossFitters or coaches who do CrossFit-like exercises. Even though they don't affiliate themselves with CrossFit directly, they are benefiting from the "CrossFit hype" as well.

CrossFit can be a great exercise and training. It's important to find a good coach though!