skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because to traverse that NAT, you need to either forward ports manually in your router (one of those activities that seems second nature to techies but is obscure to everyone else) or use UPnP (an ugly, insecure hack). IPv6 solves the need to resort to this.
Yay another startup whose genius marketing plan is write startup-articles for HN.
I believe that is the price if you've previously had a license that is now expired or about to expire. If a new version is released within the year of your subscription, you can upgrade for free.

The price is lower for upgrades so that you don't re-pay the full cost of the product every year.
LESS Hat – hacking LESS CSS language (view source)
The teenagers I know want both an iPhone and cable TV. And one study in 2012 stated that teenagers watch nearly four hours of TV a day up from three hours in 2004 (study from Sanford C. Bernstein). In my experience, teenagers are embarrassed if they don't have everything they think someone else has.
Milton Friedman asserts in Capitalism and Freedom that capitalism results in increased product made possible by division of labor and specialization of function, and then goes on to say that freedom itself relies on capitalist society.

There's also Ayn Rand's money speech, where Francisco d'Anconia says, "And when men live by trade -- with reason, not force, as their final arbiter–it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability–and the degree of a man’s productiveness is the degree of his reward. This is the code of existence whose tool and symbol is money. Is this what you consider evil?"

When I said "good," I meant in terms of freedom, quality of products, and diversity of products. I know those are vague terms as well, but I don't think there's much benefit to going any further into it than that.
Technology is only good if you know how to use it (or can find out). If you keep the underclasses poor and dumb they will never be able to afford it and won't know how to use it. This is why the digital divide is such an issue.
"only Mt. Gox knows who controlled those specific coins after I began trading them."

And anyone who knows one of the subsequent addresses those coins touched in the blockchain. Of course, it also doesn't really matter who they went to.
I suppose the only way to combat this is to combat ASCII art in general?

This would make a very interesting paper on machine learning.
Rich in bitcoins - yes. Rich in USD? Not yet.
I wonder, is research like journalism where an academic is morally obliged to issue a retraction or correction for conclusions shown, conclusively, to be false?
The obvious term is "baryonic" developers, but somehow I don't think that will catch on.
/assuming everyone who isn't an entrepreneur/

i've used the term poorly if you think this - that is clear.

i'm not even thinking of entrepeneurs. i don't consider myself working '9 to 5' even if those are coincidentally my hours... the amount of time i work is much more to do with my desire to fulfil my tasks and deliver.

i've used the term wrongly, but i think of the '9 to 5' mentality as the eagerness to pack up and go home at 5, but yet not wanting to leave early so that you don't get docked minutes in your pay packet.

my point was more to differentiate between those there for survival or routine, compared to those there from desire.

i've met plenty of entrepreneurs who have no passion for what they do and are either terrible or lucky at it... some doing it out of misguided expectation from family or peers. its got nothing to do with that.
this was submitted & discussed already a couple of weeks ago. TL;DR nice showcase, no interactivity
Don't put information on the public internet if you don't want the public to read it. You can keep your private information nice and safe behind a firewall, or on a private network not attached to the internet. Easy peasy.
Sounds elitist. The only crime the author would have committed there is choosing a linkbaity title for their post, because something like that could cover any amount of interesting topics.

"Understanding Go and Coroutines as a PHP developer" for example might be useful, and it wouldn't suffer from being written by someone who hadn't absorbed the living spirit of Rob Pike before they wrote it.
Base64 encoding assets — the what, when and how
This ignores an incredible amount of imperialism by capitalist countries. If capitalism is so natural, why must it be forced on so many indigenous peoples?

Furthermore, appeal to nature is a fallacy. Most of human history could be viewed as us trying to do BETTER than what's natural.
I'm using one I wrote myself. I'm not sure if it makes sense to ever release it, seeing that there are already over 9000 more mature generators out there, but I'm trying to solve some problems I've had with others, which mostly are:

* A simple interface (Unlike e.g. Pelican, which uses Makefiles to prettify it's command line interface)

* A sane template engine (Basically ruling out anything Ruby. Jekyll's Liquid engine for example only provides includes, no template inheritance)

* No unnecessary large dependencies like requiring Django

* Freedom of choice (I want to use YAML and Markdown)

* Tightly coupled asset pipeline

* Enough building blocks to quickly solve most usecases

* Should easily be usable on Windows (No makefiles please, no compiler necessary to install)

* Pluggable theming and extension support

Most newer generators solve most of these problems. For some reason most of them are written in Ruby though, which to my surprise has very popular template engines which don't even provide template inheritance.
Cool, someone _does_ read my blog :)

I've been feeling like a bad developer because I never write. Then when I try to write, I think wonder why anyone would read what I'm writing (because it's about my first Go program) and I give up. Even when I come up with something relatively novel, I usually just get the info out via StackOverflow.

The point: those useless dev blogs with posts that don't matter to anyone are there because many devs (i.e. me) without much to share, feel obligated to write.
They were taking unskilled jobs or jobs they were extremely overqualified for just to make ends meet is what I was trying to get across. Several of my friends parents had to do this until things got better.
I guess police is not reporting anything now? I don't get any incidents in http://radekstepan.com/deadmonton/

Also, welcome to Canada, if you are into football/soccer there's a "2nd division" team in Edmonton http://www.fcedmonton.com/
I believe my Dollar Shave Club Executive razors have 6 blades. So smooth.
That first paragraph highlights the problem with the EFF's analysis.

It is not in 'the public interest by advancing political criticism' if at the end you try and sell you shitty toy.

I would buy the argument it if it was broadcast as a non-profit campaign and at the end a shot 'sponsored by', but this is a commercial plain and simple.
Bunnie Huang (Xbox hacker, Chumby designer, etc etc) also has a good blog series about such things. Here's the first one in the series about making a real BOM (it's more than just the parts!): http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=2812
you are right, it is a naive high level view and a deeper analysis is probably warranted... but i think its a pretty defensible position once you start looking at details, and especially if you are willing to lay the entire of WW2 at his doorstep... certainly in terms of human life lost and impact to industry and economy, its hard to think of a 'single event' from the past 100 years that even comes close.
Between Bob's army and insipid comments rising to the top, the comments sections of a lot of interesting, community oriented channels became useless (more so, even, than before). If nobody is actually looking at the comments section, then it doesn't really make technical sense to keep it as it is - it's just busy work for their engineers.
So it makes sense then for them to either attempt further fixes, or, in true Google fashion, simply remove the feature altogether.
That was exactly what had changed for me that day. I had already liked the company on my Facebook page out of choice and was perfectly happy to genuinely show support in my own way. Telling me at what hour I needed to post a particular link to my Facebook page was way over the line for me. It also did not work in the long run. It sent me violently in the other direction of removing all my genuine support. All that said, there were other staff members who did not seem to be bothered. In fact, I was the ONLY person on the team who showed any alarm, so maybe it is partially a personality thing.
The Time magazine chooses ultimately, it is only influenced by the voting.
Not true. I'm a "dark matter" developer. I don't blog, I only use Twitter to keep up on sports, I only use Facebook to keep up with far away friends and family. I post something programming-related on Facebook about once a year.

However, I know (and know that most of my fellow dark matter peeps know) the latest and greatest out there. We discuss it, take a look at it, and usually come to the conclusion of "been there, done that, not mature enough for our system that handles billions of dollars in transactions annually".

Also, one thing that's bothered me recently with developers is the focus on greenfield development. I've done both green- and brownfield, and find brownfield to be tons more stimulating than greenfield development. I know that a lot of my fellow dark matter folks do too. Constraints are more thought-provoking than "I can do anything".

That's why you don't see us caring about some new javascript framework or RoR or Azure, or any other "new" (and usually unproven) technology. We're too busy kicking ass and finding beauty in mature, established languages and frameworks that actually have all the features (and then some) of "newer" technologies.
OK, Data, how about this:

Should a company should be able to bury a clause in their ToS such as "by accepting this contract, you agree to forfeit to The Company your first born and every cent you ever make henceforth"? Of course not.

People should be able to knowingly enter into whatever contract they want. The problem is that (as I cited elsewhere) information/effort/payoff asymmetries makes such a scenario ripe for exploitation. Therefore it follows that regulations should constrain what can reasonably appear in a contract. One should not have to parse 100 pages of legalese just to make sure they're not tacitly agreeing to indentured servitude for the rest of their lives. If this were not the case, it would be painfully easy for unscrupulous business to bury unsavory claims under mountains of incomprehensible legalese. What regulation does is balance the scales in favor of consumers.

This does in fact follow from the fact that 99.9% of the public does not read and/or cannot comprehend every instance from the set of possible legal contracts.
If You Really Want to Help Musicians, Then Help Me Finish Making This Film…
I too couldn't leave comments. It took me awhile to figure out it was because I was blocking third party cookies. Apparently the new G+ comments on YouTube rely on them.
You could easily use something like gorp (https://github.com/coopernurse/gorp) alongside Gadget (or any other Go web framework). Like Flask, the use of SQLAlchemy isn't innately tied to the framework.
If you or anyone knows: What's a rough starting salary range for "junior level" (what? programmer, I guess?) in the high cost U.S. cities (like SF, Boston, NY) and the lower cost rest of the country?
Not good enough for open source
This will probably not be a MongoDB killer. Check out http://www.amisalabs.com. That will have more potential but also probably won't be a Mongodb killer.
Slashdot did this ages ago. Google should look at their moderation system too.
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Can This Little Cube Bring Music Sales Back To Life?
I doubt the real identity of Satoshi will ever be revealed. Seriously, if the claims of Satoshi mining the first 20,000 Bitcoins is true (with a value of almost one billion), would he seriously want to be publicly known?

I would imagine the FBI amongst other Government organisations and figures would love nothing more than to pick Satoshi's brain (by force if need be) if his or her identity were to ever be truly revealed. We won't ever know who the real Satoshi is.

I can make baseless and factless accusations as to who I think Satoshi is as well. I think it's Al Gore, he invented the Internet after all.
It seems to average 10-14 days to reject another million spam comments, from this load-graph:

http://blogspam.net/load/

(I've got stats going back the past two months or so, when the server was reimplemented in node.js.)
Skyrim modder lands dream job on Destiny
A Scala Tutorial for Java Programmers (v1.3)
Anyone else having trouble pinning it to the taskbar and loading the cfg?
Play is the best. Or spray.io
He had a balance of ~1200 btc on mtgox in March of 2013, during a time when bitcoin was hovering around $50. Had he sold it all then it would have been a cool $60k. Had he kept it until now, it would be approximately $1MM (it's never been below $50 since that time).

Whether that counts as "rich" is a matter of perspective, I guess.
There are hard questions: Are you sure this is going to work?

And then there are hard questions: Am I going to get my money back?
These are good examples, Henry Ford is an especially good example, as the pioneer of much of what we consider to be common sense or standard working practices today.

I'd disagree on Oppenheimer though - other than his media popularity for the famous comment on the atom bomb and the trial, his contributions to physics, whilst considerable, are easily trumped by his contemporaries in that field. Dirac, Feynmann, Einstein, Pauli, Fermi to name a few...

Its an interesting topic for discussion to be fair. Probably worth more thought than I give it credit...
So everyone else is clear, we did pay for the account after the trial ended. So we were paying customers, this wasn't an incident where a trial expired and we tried to get our data back.

Also, to be clear, the customer service experience was horrible. The support team repeatedly ignored what we were saying and send us form responses back which were just not relevant. The twitter team claimed we misread the retention policy. The whole thing was kind of ridiculous.

Even more to the point, and the main reason why I tell this story, is that people should know how this company operates. People should know that they don't have backups of backups, that there is no margin for error should your account lapse, and that their systems in general are not robustly programmed in the sense that there are ways that your data could be lost and you wouldn't know it.

From my perspective Backblaze only has one thing going for it over competing companies, and that's it's marketing department.
No. Dollar cost averaging is splitting an investment into chunks over time: $X in 2013 invested as $X/12 each month.
Keep a notebook handy and whenever you have thoughts worth writing, write them. Expand on them later. Write drafts, expand on those, iterate, rewrite. Once you feel you have a concrete idea or article down, publish it.

A lot of these developer blogs read like spur of the moment publishing. Unorganized, baseless rambling.
As have been their previous papers on the subject.
>When IPv6 becomes the standard, which currently it is not, we will provide support for it.

Except that it won't become the standard if nobody adopts it.
If you are talking about storing things like files etc then you could have a look at Amazon S3. If you are referring to user records etc, then use a good MVC framework (with ORM as makerops suggested).
The answer is complicated, because the law isn't shaken out yet. Doubt it will be for centuries.

I've written "Is scraping legal?" here, with details, and my own view morally. https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/04/is-scraping-legal/
I think you missed "selfishly motivated". Not all societies place emphasis on the individual. Those that do move towards capitalism; those that don't move toward communism. Obviously there are many shades of each, but indigenous societies were basically communists. They didn't believe people should be able to own the land; they lived together, used reciprocity instead of markets as the trade system.

As for why some societies are more selfish and some more communal--that's a good question. I think it comes to which religions they develop. Abrahamic religions place great emphasis on the individual whereas many polytheist and indigenous religions are the opposite.

Now as to why those religions developed, that's anyone's best guess. Probably sheer luck and climate conditions
"I am not Spartacus!"
You might consider checking out these companies. They help folks at your stage with all the nitty gritty details of manufacturing a physical product:

http://www.dragoninnovation.com/

http://highway1.io/

http://makesimp.ly/
This is not even the first paper by Dorit Ron and Shamir on Bitcoin; they did an analysis of the transaction graph earlier: http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdf‎

And that one too was quite poorly done; from the text, it actually seemed like they thought that "the blockchain" is a file stored on blockchain.info. Disappointing from the inventor of Shamir's Secret Sharing and differential cryptanalysis.
Ummm... No.
in the original article they clear that it isn't a photon, it is exciton that does the traveling:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.4688v1.pdf

"In these systems excitons initiated by
the incoming photons should travel really fast throughout a chain of chromophores in order to reach the
reaction center where they are converted to chemical energy."

>loss less and super fast way for photons to traverse a random network^1.

My understanding is it isn't exactly loss less. It is a trade-off. The "natural" QM way of simultaneous multi-path travel is the super fast way of finding the reaction center. The issue is that many of these multi-paths may interfere and as result some degree of "entrapment" happens significantly delaying the arrival at the reaction center (Anderson localization - on a lattice draw all possible ways from A to B, including loops, etc... and whenever paths pass through the same edge with different direction double the edge time on each path and given lattice complex enough the propagation would almost stall - very-very rough illustration). To minimize the delay, the nature seems to came up with workaround - [slightly] breaking the phases on different paths and it seems that coherence is still preserved so we still have multi-path simultaneity while the above mentioned Anderson localization is decreased because of phase mismatch. This phase breaking is result of interaction which causes some energy loss/dissipation.
I whole heartedly disagree. The supreme court may have changed things here and there, the intention of our finding fathers is right there in plain English. I think anyone can understand what our finding fathers were trying to achieve when you think of the context therein. It was designed to protect we the people from an oppressive government, while enumerating the 6 core functions of the federal government, quite simply might I add, in the preamble. Considering this, it is very relevant to the state out country is in. This document is a set of principles, and principles are timeless.
Yes. I saw quality slipping last year around hardware and software when I dealt with a lot of different items from Apple.

The perspective also depends on how you look at your devices and the timeframe of expected use. Apple equipment used to be the kinds of devices you could have in production for many years. But, they are really now much more a consumer device company and part of the device churn. If this is acceptable to you (as a user) then you probably don't care because you will just skip the next hardware revision and get the one after (timed with some sort of Apple software obsolesce incentive) and be fine.

Last year around this time, I wrote this:

http://mergy.org/2012/12/irecognition-i-am-no-longer-apples-...

But then Lloyd Chambers did a detailed piece on the decline here:

http://macperformanceguide.com/AppleCoreRot-intro.html

But there are many more examples before me and others. Before the holy war kicks-in, I think it really is an expectation thing.
LVM would use more disk space, wouldn't it?
At one of my old jobs we were told that our Social Media specialist would be writing short snippets for us to post from our own social accounts as if we had written them. Normally I'm pretty causal in this area (I like talking about work) but having prewritten ad copy was pretty creepy. Needless to say, I moved on soon after that.
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The programming model is also much much better.

Explicit control over write durability and out-dated reads alone is a pretty big advantage. When you start to factor in how much better ReQL is and the atomic nature of ReQL queries RethinkDB pulls far ahead.
Mozilla Hires Digital Ad Star Darren Herman To Lead New Content Unit
This is important because non-technical people have a very hard telling what’s possible and what’s not and we’re in the business of technology so it’s important to understand capabilities, outcomes, tradeoffs, all those kind of things.

There's another side to the technology and how it applies to opportunities and business in general: If the businesses and people you seek to help/be your customers don't recognize it despite the problems they face and how your solution can solve it, then you are going to be too early. One of my family members has a small business and completely castes aside the notion that automating things and having software for things like taking orders, tracking specific sales, and how much money is lost due to throwing away perishables at the end of the day for items can make their job easier and their business more efficient. There's a big disconnect because of it.
Actually it's not (edit: only / mainly) a question of venue, it's a question of personal jurisdiction as defined by Rule 4(k) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

The general rule is that a federal court only has personal jurisdiction where a state court of general jurisdiction would have it. So both the constitutional due process requirements (International Shoe, et. al.) and the state long arm statute come into play. (This assumes the patent statutes don't have unique PJ rules, they might.)

All that said, without having actually looked into the case law, I'd imagine you couldn't defeat jurisdiction by not doing business in the forum because the Calder effects test would be construed to apply to infringing a patent owned by an entity in the forum.
The company is looking for triple-f investment. Maybe one of the founders was in your fraternity. Or maybe one of the founders is your cousin.

But probably not.

Unless the founders are offering the employees more than 50% of the company in aggregate, people who will ask others to work for no pay and with any future reward solely at their discretion are still in control.
Bitcoin almost reached $1000
> it actually seemed like they thought that "the blockchain" is a file stored on blockchain.info

People seem to confuse that a lot. It's a badly named service at the best of times. I wonder how many legal requests the site will get from people believing they run Bitcoin.
Hello all. I just posted this because I believe that we have reached a point where tech and the real world are on a collision course regarding Music. This documentary that the article speaks about discusses the collapse of the music industry in large part because of the tech industry. There are good and bad points on both side of the argument, but I submit that no matter your point of view, we all have to agree that it is not working. I welcome some thought by any of you working in a music tech and wonder if you have any thoughts on how we will fix this growing dilemma. Thanks.(Disclaimer: I am the Founder of a streaming music start-up)