skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That being said, I don't think it's legal to block a vehicle, and protesters would probably be better served doing something productive rather than complaining immaturely in this matter.

Would you have said the same thing about the Greensboro sit-ins? Not trying to be snarky, curious as to where the line is drawn for being productive or being a nuisance in your opinion.
I understand what you are getting at, but what I meant (and I should have clarified, my fault) - by actual value, I mean current (i.e. not estimated or anticipated) value - rather, empirical value based on hard evidence (the books, preferably non-cooked version ;) ). The value that companies are traded at does not reflect their current value -- if it did, trading would be kind of meaningless, like placing bets on a finished race.

That said, you are correct - the free market basically determines a "real" anticipated value of a product, even though this value may be inflated or deflated by fear, hype, fake volume, other factors.
We've seen that before when in 90-ies everybody tried to learn some Visual Basic and later some Java.
Maybe I am wrong, but programming require quite a systematic effort in knowledge acquisition, lots of practice and a good mentor. I also think community is not a substitute for mentorship, well it is a superset of it one may say, nevertheless.

When a politician asks everyne to learn how to code, I assume it is already too late for everyone to do it. There are more smart kids in India with IQ more than 100 than there are kids in the US in total.
WhisperSystems is working on an iOS app https://github.com/whispersystems/TextSecure-iOS
Ask HN: Do you think the NSA has compromised voting Machines?
All the talk about the NSA surveillance has got me thinking. How hard would it be for them to snoop on voting machines? Is this even feasible? If this is possible, how hard would it be to believe that they have altered/snooped on elections if they had the power to do so. This could be a stupid question. But I am just thinking out loud.
Thanks. I agree, that would be a great feature, I will try to implement that.
For some reason, it looks like JavaScript doesn't make it onto the Web Platform landing page[0] (or maybe I just can't find it?)

It's in the drop down list when I hover the main menu, but I can't seem to navigate to it otherwise.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web
AbsurdJS or Why I Wrote My Own CSS Preprocessor
Same. The only downside is that the buildings they provide service to are horrendously expensive.
Post author here. Thanks for the comment.

I just got a response to on Twitter from @grayj_ , saying "Making a KPI go up will often get you a bonus or a promotion; advocating good UX won't."

However sad, I suspect this is the reality of LinkedIn being a large and slow corporation. Unfortunately :(
One thing that's always confused me about the reader is the fact that there's no bracing to prevent stress on the audio jack during a swipe. Almost every merchant I've seen using the reader has some kind of silly putty or jury rigged apparatus that's designed to hold it steady and not stress the jack. Does Square provide some kind of shim now, or is this just not as big of a problem as it seems it would be (and I've seen anecdotally with quite a few merchants)?
what startups are offering $250k salaries fresh out of college? In fact, what companies are offering $250k salaries to any engineers?
Zero-downtime Unicorn deploys are broken with PostgreSQL
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INterestingly, I revisited linkedin today and found it an improvement that I didn't have to look at the boilerplate text and/or update it to send a request.

I don't send requests to people who won't recognize me, so I much prefer avoiding the extra step when 'connecting'.

That said, I still haven't found a meaningful, practical use for LinkedIn. So far it just nets me self-styled ninja recruiters haranguing me based on keyword searches, which is just irritating.
Please add caching of full rendered wiki pages for logged-out users. I'd much rather get a cached page from yesterday in 100ms than wait 10 seconds for today's edits to be rendered.
We're the first rich country when they move to the east (from a Romania/Bulgaria POV) - and Germany is the last of Europe to have a reputation for being financially stable, providing social/healthcare coverage and not being overly racist.

France/Great Britain, in contrast, are not very favorable target countries: France has a strong nationalist/right-wing extremist political movement (Le Pen's Front National), and Great Britain, while rich, is not covered by Schengen agreement and excepted from a lot of EU regulations - so it's both difficult to get into, and stay in.
New security features added to Microsoft accounts
> But coding? Unless it's part of your job, the odds are vanishingly small that it will ever be of much use to you.

It's silly to reduce this to "Programming is useless outside of STEM". I once saved an admin assistant _days_ of work because I happened to stop by her desk to chat and noticed the task she was doing (combining some spreadsheets) would be trivial to automate. She had estimated at the rate she was going, she had 17 hours of work left.

I'm not suggesting she should know how to write script to parse and combine a bunch of csv's... But a basic 'literacy' in programming would have at least let her know there was a better way...

I have plenty of similar anecdotes, and I would guess many of you do as well...
Correct. Specifically, she used TweePy to grab recent followers/unfollowers and try and mine some basic information (bio, loc, etc.)
The mother of all Grace Hopper biographies (very long):

http://www.history.navy.mil/bios/hopper_grace.htm
Ask HN: Flashcard software (spaced repetition learning)?
Help a student out.
Preferable OSX but feel free to add anything that is relevant.

Studying tips are also welcomed.
> I don't think it's legal to block a vehicle

Civil Disobedience is pretty much by definition illegal.
Even though the amount of taxes you pay might not be that far off from European countries there's a big difference in how much of that money is used on welfare. See this table:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state#Welfare_expenditu...

For example according to this table Germany spends 27.4% of GDP on welfare (excluding education), while the US only spends 14.8% of GDP.
git, but if you come from svn and have no clue about git, run mercurial as it has a similar ui.
Yeah its harder to read ^_^ and I think worse looking the old version.
Docker provisioner - that's great. I could use Ansible to provision Docker containers, but its nice to have a built-in option as well.
Ancient fresh water lake on Mars could have sustained life
Exactly! BTC has to become mean for exchange of some serious commodity, like rare metals, before being considered true money. Anyone heard of tech contracts between large companies valued in BTC?
Checkout http://www.studyshuffle.com/ and http://quizlet.com/
It is untrue that there is no redundant data in the tracks.

Track 1 and 2 both contain the account number (PAN) on credit cards. This article matches up what I saw when I worked in the payment industry:

http://blog.opensecurityresearch.com/2012/02/deconstructing-...
> the more gadgets we have, the less we can think.

True for you, but not for everyone. One of the marks of growing up is realizing that your experience isn't universal.
Yes, but there's a big difference between "can't legally know, and in fact the knowledge about what knowledge is compartmentalized, too" and "MegaCorp, Inc has 45,000 employees, who work in 19 different divisions". Most ordinary corporations don't have formal compartmentalization. Compartmentalization would be too costly, and prevent any kind of synergy or economy of scale.

There's nothing preventing a telco's outside techs from talking to the IT people that build and maintain the DSL testing app, other than inertia.
"I guess younger generations build technology into their lives whereas for older people it is just an interruption."

I hardly speak for every obsolete senior citizen over the age of 25, but its more of a perception of what is good or bad taste rather than neo-amish-ness. Social etiquette. For any elderly geezer over the age of, perhaps, 30, walking into a social occasion and ignoring the meatspace people to instead play with a phone would be considered intentionally highly insulting. If gentlemanly behavior means always doing everything possible to increase the comfort of those around you, which is a reasonable short definition, ignoring people to play on the phone doesn't score very high.
> Anyone find it lame how people are tweeting about an incident instead of communicating with each other when they're like 10 feet away?

no, it's like the "open letter"s you see floating about the internet - they don't care one way or another about the protesters, they are actually addressing the people whose opinions on the matter they do care about (in this case, their twitter followers)
Sure, let me just see if Millie has the budget for a Rails app to run her blog with a paypal button selling beads, hand blown glass lampshades, random antiques, and beanie baby collection. Because I bet she can afford a wordpress skin and some plugins. Maybe I'll even talk her into letting me install woocommerce and I can learn about payment gateways while earning about 1800$

PHP is what your neighbors can pay for.
Yes, you are correct - value can be a vague term (Future value? Book value? Estimated value? etc). I think I should have clarified as you did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yc6z2oSPdQ
> Even a janitor could develop, say, a logistics application to optimize his path through the building he cleans, or build a roomba to vacuum for him.

Those require a lot of effort (and required knowledge) for minimal returns. A better example might be a janitor could make a web-app which lets himself/others note what places need to be cleaned, what time they were cleaned, and then potentially notice patterns that might help him find a source of the problem, minimize the response time, etc. I feel like that kind of a thing might be more useful and given the right tools/frameworks, might not even be all that difficult to implement.
Also see the "The Circle", a recently-published dystopian novel by Dave Eggers about a social network of the same name.

The story/plot/characters are meh, but I give it 5 stars for provoking thoughts about hyper-connectedness, net neutrality, surveillance, over-sharing on social networks, the ubiquity of technology, etc.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Circle-Dave-Eggers/dp/0385351399
The gp is using the strict accounting definition of goodwill, you use it in its popular meaning. Strictly speaking nobody values goodwill before a deal, but it's often used as a word for 'the soft stuff we find hard to quantify'.
If it means anything, that question has occurred to me, too. I think it would be pretty easy to snoop or hack US voting machines, except that the storage and care of those machines is so decentralized.
I've done this, myself. It is really easy to accidentally hit this connect button when swiping on the iPad.
ACLU: Feinstein's NSA reforms bad for privacy, bad for business
This article is very 'unpatriotic' ... I don't think normal god fearing individuals with so much power would even think to do these horrible things.

Time for my 'delusion' pills ... ;)
Excuse me mister president, but I was born a computer scientist. I have the pictures to prove it.
It's a great website! easy to use and the listings look very nice!
Is it common for people to still swipe cards in some counties? I pay nearly all my small purchases with RFID and bigger ones with chip and pin.
Just because we currently teach everyone trigonometry, it does not mean we should also teach everyone X. What exactly is the point of knowing how to code a little, without being very good or proficient at it, which most people won't be able to attain ? But I do agree that every school should have C.S. curricula as an option, not as a requirement
Convince her that she wants that job, then vote for her.
The myth of the American Dream
Actually, in the case of a change of control (e.g.: acquisition), you will recognize fair value for brands and other identifiable intangible assets on the balance sheet. The Goodwill becomes the remaining difference between the consideration (purchase price) and the FV of the net assets.

Funny thing is that I'm actually working on a purchase price allocation right now.
The export limit is limited to 30 days only by the UI, if you do a request but change the timestamps you can get any range of dates. This will get you all your data as a KML from 1/1/2005 to 1/1/2015:

https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/kml?startTime=11...
OpenStack’s Contributions to the NSA’s IT Operations
The point Bret is making is deeper: Skype and Screenhero shouldn't have to be 'applications' that dig into mucky parts of the OS to try to get screen and pointer sharing to work. And even with those applications, other applications get wonky if they are used via screen-sharing.

"Sharing" (of applications, data, peripherals, and capabilities like network storage) to be a first-level primitive provided by the system and all applications ought to be designed to work with it.

Consider this: we're all connected via networks and bluetooth. So why can't I, in a simple way, let your mouse control my cursor? Or send just part of my screen to part of your screen on the OS level? Or have a photo library on my NAS that smartly caches things I look at often on my iPhone, syncing changes back when I edit a photo? Or share a vim session such that my mouse and keyboard follow my vimrc and yours follow yours? Why do these things have to be built in hacky ways, over and over, specific to individual applications rather than built as reusable building-blocks?

We've gone to so much trouble to bolt sharing on to "personal" computers, when that whole idea is flawed. Engelbart's goal was to create a fundamentally networked system where the combined abilities of everyone would exceed the mere sum of their capacity.

If Engelbart's vision were alive, we wouldn't be excited that we have Skype and screenhero. We'd ask, now that we have these things, how can we build software that uses them to get better outcomes? A medical tool the lets two doctors interact over a patient's EMR and rotate CAT scans together in a way that increases the odds that they get the right diagnosis? A pair programming method that finds more bugs, and gets better designs, more than just one person looking over another's shoulder? A spreadsheet that lets two business founders argue about their core assumptions and business model collaboratively?

Read about the early history of computing to see examples of this. One that comes to mind is the timesharing systems in the early MIT AI lab, where there were no security systems. RMS talks about copying bits of code and configuration that he found in his professors' private folders, and the way that people would snoop on each other and build complex systems out of these shared parts.
Lame, but thanks: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pec21x5ti9k6ge0/location-history.j...
LinkedIn is definitely a funny beast. My favorite thing about it is that, unlike other social networks in my life, it's only there when I need it and I don't check it compulsively. If I want to check if I know someone at Company X because they might be interested in something to do with my professional life, I can hop on LinkedIn and see if I know anyone there or have a connection. I never go to LinkedIn otherwise, so I have no problem connecting with anyone and everyone.

Facebook and Twitter, on the other hand, I check multiple times a day to make sure I'm not missing something "important" in the firehose, which just wastes tons of time.
Their math seems suspect. $1B / $271 = 3.7 million stops. Assuming 39 bus stops in the Bay Area [1], a 7d/wk schedule (i.e., no separate holiday/weekend schedule), and that every bus stop gets an equal number of stops, that's 86 stops per day per bus stop. Or once every 17 minutes, around the clock. I'd believe that frequency for peak hours at the busiest/largest stops, but not as the all-day average across every stop.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000087239639044398290...

Edit: From their website & flyer: http://www.heart-of-the-city.org/

Tech Industry private shuttles use over 200 SF MUNI stops approximately
7,100 times in total each day (M-F) without permission or contributing
funds to support this public infrastructure. No vehicles other than
MUNI are allowed to use these stops. If the tech industry was fined for
each illegal use for the past 2 years, they would owe an estimated $1
billion to the city.

The numbers still sound high to me, but ... shrug
cough cryptocat cough
I didn't build this, but a cool tool that the author hipped me to on Reddit - http://mdn.io/

It's basically a LMGTFY search on whatever you put after the slash, for example - http://mdn.io/css%20transitions.
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Teach people to learn on their own and set their own agenda. Wouldn't that be radical.
I have to admit I liked the previous color scheme much more too. White / light blue background + gray text (~#4D). Why is it so popular to make low-contrast sites these days? It's inexplicable to me, other than just the designers' craving for change (yes it probably has all the contrast coefficients within the norms, but it doesn't mean this couldn't be made better).
HotSpot JVM garbage collection options cheat sheet (v3)
We certainly don't currently teach everyone trig...
This is fantastic! I just used Vagrant to help automate testing on an email library I wrote (https://github.com/tedivm/Fetch, if anyone is interested- new tests are in the "testing" branch).

Vagrant made setting that up really easy. In fact, the hardest part was scripting different responses for whether the machine was already up or not, and the new Machine-Readable Output will make that far, far easier.

Thanks for making a great tool better!
nemothekid,

You're absolutely right, my apologizes, its been a while since i read that article. Thank you for the correction! Much appreciated.
Editors at the Prestigious Journal Nature Get Serious About Reddit
> how to cook basic nutritious meals, personal finance, etc..

This is already being taught (atleast here in Norway.)
And I see someone fixed it, just as I was in the middle of adding it :D
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It's almost the only way it's done in the US, still. RFID is available on a lot of readers but just a few cards, and few people seem aware of it. Chip and pin doesn't exist at all.
We don't want government to simply "perform functions". The best government is the least government. Like code, we want no more government than is absolutely necessary, and I say we have way too much government already. Your stance would make sense only if adding more laws would improve things.
Might be an American thing. In Europe things aren't so bad.

I live in Poland and I have a pretty good connection (think ~60MB for $15 a month), and for years I never really had any problems with my ISP. That is not to say they aren't any crap providers out there. The rule of thumb is: landline and mobile phone company give crappy, capped, unreliable Internet for riddiculous prices; cable TV companies give good, high-speed, high-reliability connection very cheaply.
Fixed. BTW, MDN is a wiki so if you see stuff like that again I think you can fix it yourself. :)
Probabilistic bug hunting
They are planning on adding that soon (from the post):

We will also be adding some minimal visual feedback to the stock
CyanogenMod Messaging app to indicate when the user has an
expectation of privacy and when they don’t, but the base
experience won’t change at all.
You are describing any terrorism here.
Since most pages would be read far more often than they are written, you could probably get good results by 'compiling' the page to a static cache after each edit.
Unfortunately, in the US, it isn't being taught :(
Most of the things baited and switched probably wouldn't be required to be put in writing or not, because they aren't legally binding anyway. Even if the legally binding things are put in writing, usually we're talking about at will employment anyway, so they could just fire you instead of making good on a 'promise'.

The types of things I'm talking about with bait and switch are related to what projects you will work on (say you will be put on Team X's sexy initiative, then on Day 1 told you that Team Y's maintenance isn't going well and your skills are needed there), what the future holds for the company (over-optimistic about funding promises, sales estimates, delivery dates, etc.), or how you will be able to progress.

Does the management team have a history of promoting from within or will they hire a former co-worker for the role you are in line for? Can you look at tangible past results and numbers as evidence.

It's not very likely to get these types of items in writing, and unless it's legally binding you don't have any remedy in most cases.
I am not obligated to "reason" with anyone who stops me, illegally, and demands my attention. I don't see why it's different for the average Google employee.
Very common - this is one of the basic mechanisms that mix lakes. To clarify, the summer surface waters are heated by the sun, causing stratification. This is usually broken down in the fall by the combination of wind mixing and heat extraction (leading to denser surface waters which sink). This is an important component of ocean surface dynamics as well. The mechanism just described can mix the top few hundred meters of the North Atlantic in winter.
In case anyone else is wondering: if sender and recipient use CM or TextSecure, the encrypted messages are not sent via GSM SMS. The transport uses Procotol Buffers, HTTP and Google Cloud Messaging/Apple Push Notifications.
Does anyone know how these guys are processing Bitcoin? Are they using Coinbase or another processor? (Would it be feasible to roll your own transaction handling?)
But they could do a lot with it on Android. And haven't.
> Work will begin on pulling the Vagrant AWS integration into the core distribution -- to start -- so that you can use Vagrant with AWS (and other providers) right after installing it and without having to juggle plugin versions.

This is awesome, I can't wait. I've been waiting for this!
How To Do Undo In A Web App
Is what that bad, lift or its relevance? Lift is no worse than it ever was, I feel it was pretty much terrible outside of templates. Nobody uses it because the community around it is so terrible and the official scala people labeled play as the official scala framework.
As a parent, here is how I interpret this:

Obama isn't saying my child MUST learn how to program. He is just highly encouraging it. And as a parent looking toward the future, I will highly encourage it as well.

However, that's just one useful skill. I believe a lot of skills are very useful. Knowing how to cook, how to change a tire, how to balance a personal budget, etc, are all extremely useful. They aren't mandatory; it's possible to get through life without knowing them, but life will be that much easier with them.

So I'll be exposing my child to computer programming, as well as a litany of other things. My aim isn't to turn her into a computer scientist, it's to give her another valuable skill as she figures out what she wants to do with her life. If it's to become a programmer, awesome. If it's to become a doctor, or dancer, or whatever, equally awesome. But at least she'll have exposure (but not necessarily mastery) of a range of useful skills.
Snapchat files for restraining order against ousted founder
Here are the leaked videos of testimonies so you can form your own opinion about the situation: http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-lawsuit-video-depositions-2013-11
Getting the water out of reserves beneath the ocean sounds expensive - I wonder how it stacks up energy wise vs desalination of ocean water.