skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When they say "I need these features out in the field today", my response would be: "shall we reschedule the interview then?"

Don't waste your time on an interview when you've got a tight deadline. Make some time for the interviewee.
How to make $10 for every $1 spent in online marketing?
I was looking for a fitting quote by Erich Fromm (whom I kinda should give credit for "my theory", I'm pretty sure I pieced it together from stuff he said), couldn't find one - but it seems that his book "The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness" might be worth a read :)
"Product Launch"

They have launched no product.

They've successfully generated buzz because it's an incredible idea, but as we know from the infinite submissions to HN, "it's all about the execution," and the folks at Coin, Inc. haven't executed on anything yet.

They can make one helluva pitch, though.
Selling the login credentials would probably be illegal. It's a grey area, at least.
I disagree, Industrialization, Electricity and Computer Science are all relatively newer concepts that really have changed everything in the last 200 years. Timescale changes everything!
Found this quote on HN a while back:

I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent -- their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy -- they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent -- he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord
Can I suggest putting image size information directly in the html (or at least in a css class) to avoid end-user dizziness?
Isn't the entire point of civil disobedience to admit you are guilty of the crime and then go on the fight the fact that it's a crime in the first place? Otherwise you are not some heroic freedom fighter, only a coward who took the easy way out.
Thanks for the context. These statistics favor monocultural societies and collectivist societies over individualist ones. Your point on innovation is but one overlooked factor that these stats don't account for.

I'd love to get some global statistics on educational knowledge of 18 year olds in all of these countries, and also get statistics on the per capita numbers on new businesses opening up by this age group in these countries as well. Just a thought that IMO may not skew these stats so much towards monocultural/collectivist societies so much.
Çingleton 2013 videos are now out
Yes, RESTful requests end up in a big-ass state machine like that: https://raw.github.com/wiki/basho/webmachine/images/http-hea...
It's great because it allows for a great diversity of clients. In exchange the system is much more complex.

If you can require your client to behave in a normalized way then all this complexity is not necessary and you're probably avoiding some bugs along the way.
>Just makes me sad that they're not publicly traded

I used to think that too, but then I read about Elon's opinion on that and changed my mind. Being privately owned allows them to take huge risks and whether the inevitable catastrophic failure. You can't really do that when you have to be accountable to millions of shareholders and market pressures.
Valve joins the Linux Foundation ahead of SteamOS launch
bilb0s, where did you find the report by state?
and exactly the same goes back to you. Have a wonderful day!
Stop the silliness. There are a lot of electric outlets and costs add up quickly. If you turn a blind eye to energy theft, you can easily lose thousands of dollars a year. (Asumming casual thieves. Serious thieves running heating and cooling can burn through tens of thousands of dollars a year.) The police are right to nip the problem in the bud.
When (and when not) to use EC2
Write-ups from dotJS 2013
I was more expecting to see the link of how you did it on HN. I mean I got there from the link you posted but as this is a technical crowd I'd have thought that was the more interesting thing.

As an aside, I'm very impressed that the Sun appears to dim during a solar eclipse (http://mgvez.github.io/jsorrery/?scenario=EarthMoon&planetSc...) but I'm surprised it isn't hidden completely - have I just got the timestamp wrong for the specific viewpoint you're using?
How to add Apple’s Safari Web Push Notification to your Rails app
Nothing to see here! Move along!
Interesting concept - but what happens if you lose control of your email account (as a user)?

Imagine e.g. problems with your DNS (self-hosted and you forgot to renew the domain), outages of your mail provider, or the worst case (for the service provider): your outbound mail server is placed on a blacklist.

This way your entire user management system goes up in smoke without ANY way for you to fix it!
The above suggestion is an idea. Understood that today GMAT might not allow such functionality, but the organization has the data internally to send score reports.

Correct, not supported today, but feasible with business development.
don't be mystified. all of this comes from your lack of knowledge and experience of native development. if it works in a webview then making a 'native' app out of it is not going to be complicated - you make something with a webview and the html or whatever other source data in the package.

its not magic, its not even hard, you just happen to not know about how it works... if you are interested this is easy to fix with google and experimentation. :)

knowing about android sdk versions is something you would also know if you were an android developer. its everywhere from the first time you install an sdk or ndk - i agree that Google suck at developer tools and docs, absolutely 110%, and this is a good example of that - a lot of their tools I consider 'unshippable' they are so bug riddled and unusable - but thats a tangent.

i do wonder though why even use a native app like this? isn't a web app more friendly? you certainly won't get any of the performance benefits of native code without some real heavy lifting on the part of the framework/library/sdk. isn't a landing page asking you to download a native app just annoying? i know its popular but its just a UX fail however I look at it...
If source you previously wrote is available on Github for anyone, would that pass? What if you built an incredibly successful plugin, like lightbox?
I'd say that there have been some major improvements to driver support in the last year. There are two drivers for ATI gpu's out there, the open source driver and the catalyst driver that comes from ATI. The open source driver has been stable for quite some time, but the performance was lacking. The Catalyst drivers have recently been shown a little love that they desperately needed, and there was a kernel patch sometime around v3.8 that fixed a problem with Radeon and KMS conflicts.
I've not spent much time with GIMP, but opening dialog boxes as separate applications put me off of it pretty quick. Got the job done, but I didn't exactly feel like it was helping me do so.
Theft of property could include money. By using this electricity, he's making the school pay marginally more in utility bills.
I love the idea of Evernote but their implementation is absolutely horrible. The slow and cluttered UI has frustrated me to no end.

Please, someone, make a good alternative for Evernote.
Pair Programming and becoming a better Software Engineer
Passengers today know that everyone on the airplane is going to die if they don't act. That child is already dead if they don't act. People with nothing to lose are extremely dangerous, and that's what any hijacked passenger is now. Sun Tzu says never to back your enemy into a corner with no way out. 9/11 only worked because the passengers thought they had a way out. Nobody thinks that now.
Some one had to take an extreme step like this to push for open access of government funded research.. I wish he has this kind of support when he was alive.
Yup, there's that one, but it also means that you model your application logic as a state machine...
It's a fair point, but a lot of other countries have similarly strict laws.
A $0.10 pencil is worth 200x the value of an full iphone charge[1,2].

[1] which has an economic value of ~ $0.0005 in the USA.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing#Price_comp...
Ah, so it's a problem with working around the existing awful UI. So, "git checkout" does four different things parsing all of which requires a lot of context: (1) switch branches (2) visit an arbitrary commit (3) revert a file (4) create a new branch.

And it's not as if "git checkout HEAD" makes any sense either, this is a no-op, since you can't be on anything but HEAD.
Read the links Scheiner posted in the OP; apparently Lithium batteries is a really new thing, only the last couple of months.
Cyber Criminals Defraud Display Advertisers with TDSS
I mentioned this as a comment on the original HN discussion about Booth's article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6742780).

The TSA itself has admitted that terrorist threats to aviation are nonexistent: http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/tsa-admits-...

Even if we ignore the independent investigations from third parties, what more evidence could we ask for that the TSA is ineffective and superfluous, if not its own admission?
Too tough to push apps onto people.
Only three reported deaths last time I checked. One in 1979, one in 1984 and another in 2009. Pretty sure more deaths occur from other equipment than that, every year even.
This is MIT. There is no security there by design. Swartz is guilty of what?

RMS - " Hackers typically had little respect for the silly rules that administrators like to impose, so they looked for ways around. For instance, when computers at MIT started to have "security" (that is, restrictions on what users could do), some hackers found clever ways to bypass the security, partly so they could use the computers freely, and partly just for the sake of cleverness (hacking does not need to be useful). However, only some hackers did this—many were occupied with other kinds of cleverness, such as placing some amusing object on top of MIT's great dome (), finding a way to do a certain computation with only 5 instructions when the shortest known program required 6, writing a program to print numbers in roman numerals, or writing a program to understand questions in English.

Meanwhile, another group of hackers at MIT found a different solution to the problem of computer security: they designed the Incompatible Timesharing System without security "features". In the hacker's paradise, the glory days of the Artificial Intelligence Lab, there was no security breaking, because there was no security to break. It was there, in that environment, that I learned to be a hacker, though I had shown the inclination previously. We had plenty of other domains in which to be playfully clever, without building artificial security obstacles which then had to be overcome. "
They're all over the place in Northern Virginia, and I saw a bunch in California when I was there recently too. They look something like this: http://www.blogcdn.com/green.autoblog.com/media/2012/12/publ...
1. I will hack on my codebase for an interview. Look at my github account and choose say three issues. I will fix one and you can see the pull request.

2. Otherwise, fuck you, hire me. I am available on a day rate for heavens sake. You can throw me a project that will tart up your site, improve your jenkins flow, add 100 test cases. Whatever.

This is a massively scalable approach, an the way you should be parcelling out work most of the time.
Google knows Android phones aren't really robots, right? ;)
My first two years with Simple
this will become something serious

I agree. It seems to me that robots have the potential to have a greater impact than the internet, social, mobile. And that's not to diminish the profound change those innovations have brought about.

It just seems that the ability to act in the physical world will bring incredible, profound changes.
It's not "casual racism." It's simply a recognition of the fact that blacks in the U.S. face unique challenges that are not just economic, but social. Those challenges, while important, have effects that can obscure whatever it is that you're actually trying to study.

If you're trying to evaluate school quality, it makes no sense not to control for race and socioeconomics. It wasn't the schools that enslaved blacks, segregated them into ghettos, then subjected them to disparate treatment in a violent drug war. And schools won't be the solution to those things either. This isn't an "excuse" it's a recognition of reality. Education by itself cannot be America's salvation for its past sins.

Failing to control for race and sociology-economics leads you to the wrong conclusions. If you look at the test scores of students in Chicago, ignoring race, you might be tempted to conclude that Chicago has a problem with its schools. Maybe they need more funding or better teachers. That's the wrong conclusion. The reality is that 90% of kids in Chicago public schools are black or hispanic, and almost 90% are low-income. The schools are in areas of strong gang presence, and gang activity has infiltrated every one of the schools. The gangs have replaced parents and teachers as authority figures and the bedrock of social order has crumbled. Schools, no matter how well funded, and teachers, no matter how qualified, aren't going to fix those root causes.

My wife taught in a school on Indian land in eastern Washington. She had an awful experience, because she realized that these kids didn't need teachers with degrees from good schools, but fathers who weren't alcoholics, or indeed fathers in the first place. Schools and education cannot replace these things.
I built Fitwatchr for Fitbit (http://www.fitwatchr.com/apps.html) using PhoneGap Build and absolutely love it. I can develop locally in Chrome, switch between Android/iOS using the DevTools, then deploy using Build. Coupled with Kendo UI Mobile, which auto translates the UI of your app to fit the platform, it took days to get a basic prototype running instead of weeks. Highly recommended!
An attack on an airplane is simply too challenging for the vast majority of people to execute. Is it impossible? No, but almost nothing is impossible.

I don't think you are making the point you intend to make - the very fact that pulling off a successful attack is inherently difficult is what stops those people, not any security agency.

Same thing with attacks anywhere else. For example: The Times Square bomber couldn't even build a working bomb despite two college degrees and the 2007 London & Glasgow Airport bombers couldn't figure it out either, for their swan song they put propane tanks in their jeep cherokee, lit themselves on fire and drove into a barricade in front of the airport, despite one of them having a doctor's education.

In all of its existence, the TSA has never detained someone who was later convicted on terrorism charges, despite the vast lowering of the standard of evidence for such charges since 9/11. The fact that we've seen so few attacks on "softer" targets (roughly 3 civilians have been killed in islamic-extremist attacks on US soil since 9/11) means that the size of the actual threat is practically zero - including the fools.
You know what, I'm getting real sick of all the hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing over a fucking website. Getting a website to scale is hard. Really hard in fact. Comparing numbers for the ACA website against Amazon who has had decades of effort put into this is just patently absurd. Why is anyone surprised that there are issues with the website in its first month? Is this not typical for any large engineering effort of this nature? Anyone who expected any different is either lying to themselves or being disingenuous for political effect or pageviews. Even Google rolled out their social network slowly to ensure they had enough capacity. If Google can't be a full capacity from day one, why does anyone expect so much more from a site contracted out to the lowest bidder?
But none of them will do 8 hours of analysis and put it into a report.
It's an interesting concept and agree with the lost email access issue.

As for the other stuff (DNS, outage), it is a much bigger deal to loose these than an account at a 'nice to have' social website.

But this coupled with two factor authentication to recognise new computers is a nice idea.
Mmm, yeah that's a good point, I didn't think that quite through, and to be honest I've not used Xamarin myself. How does it handle the UI layer? Is it re-done for each platform, using C# but with the Android UI and iPhone UI classes?
Sorry, that's what I meant, yeah.
I would hate to find myself in a situation like that, but bad code isn't the only thing to look out for. I would dread finding out 80% of their code came from open source and that they made it a point to not contribute the changes back to the community. This would really rile my feathers. Particularly if they asked applicants about their open source contributions.
The analogies are beside the point. Logging in to a system which you don't have permission to access just is illegal in many countries, whether you think that it ought to be or not.
As 3rd world nations develop economically, SpaceX should be able to make a ton of money selling a ready-made "space program in a box" to US-friendly nations that want to demonstrate their new affluence. There is a big question if the US state department will let them, however.
A web server is subject to the same issues.
related: https://login.persona.org/

I will be a very happy person when / if I see a persona login page on more sites
(1) and (2) are the same. Branches are pointers to commits.
I am afraid I can't answer your question.

But I would be cautious about wanting to work in the world of thinktanks and policy institutes. Thinktanks, like policy makers, are influenced heavily by the ideology of the donors who support them.

One way you could make a significant, positive impact on society (without compromising your conscience, I hope!) is to volunteer at your local homeless shelter.

Good luck!
Repeal it yesterday.
In the US, the CFAA:

https://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act_(...

Apparently neither Prezi nor the guy who found the login are American, so this particular law might not apply, but many other countries have similar laws.
I completely agree about the wisdom of padlocking things you want to secure, and am undecided about the utility of calling police when you fail to, but these are completely orthogonal concerns to the question of a property owner's legal and moral rights, and his right to complain, in the event that they're the victims of theft for something they haven't secured.
Take 100k and invest 20k in five early stage startups for five to ten percent of equity.. pray for the next two years that one of them gets acquired for a billion
We might have Motorola phone that's "Make in USA by GoogleBot" soon. Google probably can overtake Foxconn and it can scale up/out to build $90, $60, $40 Android phone.
> * The same holds for functions with side-effects.

Just about every haskell program I write has functions with side-effects.

> * Ceylon is less type-inferred, which makes it more readable IMHO ... 2. type annotations are not just for the compiler, but for documentation too).

So having to write type annotations all the time is an advantage for you? You can just as easily add type annotations to Haskell, are you saying that since it is compiler enforced with Ceylon, that Ceylon code as a whole is easier to read?

Furthermore, doesn't less type-inferred just mean "type inference isn't as good", or was that a design decision?

> Also - less confusing compiler errors.

Any examples of confusing Haskell compiler errors? I personally haven't seen any memorably confusing compiler errors from Haskell. Have you seen any with Haskell or is that just something you've heard about?

Any examples of compiler errors where Ceylon beats Haskell?
Any examples of compiler errors where Ceylon beats Java?

> 1. regular syntax

By "regular syntax" do you mean "algol derived or inspired"?

> * In general, Ceylon feels pragmatic, Haskell academic.

This is interesting, because it's something I've heard from just about everyone I've asked about Haskell. Recently I have delved into Haskell myself and haven't found it true.

For instance, arrows are something many consider "academic", but they enable the very pragmatic and real world advantage of handling HTML like:

-- haskell
-- added bonus of type safety through type inference!
images tree = tree >>> css "img" >>> getAttrValue "src"

-- python
def images(tree):
imgs = [elem for elem in tree if elem.tag == "img"]
sources = [img.get('src') for img in imgs]
return sources

-- alternate python
def images(tree):
return [ img.get('src' for img in filter(lambda i: i.tag == "img", tree)]

If my understanding is correct the Haskell above is (at least could) take advantage of stream fusion which has the real world advantage of being really efficient and really fast.

> * In general, Ceylon feels pragmatic, Haskell academic.

This is something that is entirely subjective. I will have to look into Ceylon more in the future. I will say that from the outside Haskell looked very academic for me, but after writing some code, Haskell feels/seems to be/has proven to be a very pragmatic language that doesn't deserve a reputation of being "academic".

As a whole I wish that many other languages weren't just dismissed as "academic" so that we could innovate more quickly and improve technology as a whole. There are valid arguments to be had about much of the experimental stuff, but calling something "academic" is usually a cop out in my experience.
I applaud any effort to fix the "password problem," but isn't this functionally equivalent to just using the "Forgot my password, email me a reset code" link every time you want to log in?
Well, he was charged with over nine felony counts. So how is that unrelated to the "three strikes" cases?

Plus, the Obama administration raised maximum sentences for hacking count to 20 years (up from 10).
They still should be able to figure out how to take down the website to avoid being exploited.
> "collected wind is channeled to pick up speed" doesn't
> seem to be explained anywhere -- how exactly is that
> done, and how much speed would the wind gain?

I'm not saying that your bullshit detector isn't justified, but that is a fairly self-explanatory claim (well, the "how" part anyway, numbers are lacking).

When you have an input flow, and the cross-sectional area is decreased, the speed has to pick up to compensate.

For example, if you have a fluid flowing through a 2ft-radius tube at 10 cubic feet/second, just divide the volumetric flow rate by the area to get a velocity of 5/(2π) ft/s. If later in the tube, the radius decreases to 1ft, that reduces the cross-sectional area by a factor of 4. But, 10 ft³/s is still being pushed in, so that's what needs to come out. That comes out to 10/π ft/s.

I'm sure there are losses when the fluid is compressible, but wasn't a sentence that tipped off my BS detector.
Probably close to 90% of the murders on that chart are related to the drug trade. Notice how they are mostly in Central/South America.