skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Give Firefox time. Mozilla is really small, compared to Chrome... and Firefox is stable! Hehehe.
css transform is still a major performance sucker.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=css%20t...
Closed source isn't a significant obstacle to understanding code, and Microsoft's code is the most comprehensively reverse-engineered in the industry. It would be extremely stupid to hide a backdoor in binaries that Microsoft ships.
Thanks for responding.

"It's probably still a drop in the bucket, but at least she came away feeling like she did something, rather than sitting still."

Valid point. This is just something that's always frustrated me as someone who creates work with value (to those who need it), but which is also easily copied. Since sometime in my mid-teens, I've consistently failed to understand the entitlement mentality that allows people to justify the behavior that compels authors and publishers to spend time and/or money combating the behavior.

I suppose, ultimately, efforts like the one the nearly-pirated author made are the probably the most effective as they at least have a chance at educating people as to the effects of the actions they take.

Doesn't make it less frustrating though
Essentially, for me, it boils down to not being able to keep up. Unless you know every new toolset, you're almost redundant. You stand little chance of being hired by a successful startup or the next Google/Dropbox. It's as if new toolsets are being produced to actually slow the majority of people down.
ugh...this is the reason I have not eaten poultry for the last 10 years, except when I am back in Ireland where I can buy organic, free-range chicken from a farmer....it might cost $27 a pop, but as my grandma says....it tastes & has the texture of what chicken used to be like.

I used to love bacon / pork, but cannot eat that stuff anymore after reading about how toxins are formed / retained in the meat.

The only beef I eat is grass-fed pasture raised - no hormones or antibiotics.

My opinion is that you pay for your health one way or the other, either in preventing illness or after you become ill, there is no escaping the high cost of staying healthy in western, urban centers.
Stories like this one make me even more excited about the possibility of producing meat in a lab on a larger scale.
The Hot Pursuit of Coffee Roasting
Upgrading to v26 now. Will see if it helps at all.
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Corporations don't want to upgrade operating systems at the same pace as Microsoft releases them anyway. Hell, there are companies that are only just now finally upgrading or decommissioning RHEL4, and every release of RHEL is 100% targeted at corporate users. (RHEL4 initial release: 2005. RHEL5 initial release: 2007)

Personally, I bet if Microsoft only focuses on making a good "commercial" OS on the "tock", it could still work out fine. Then they can use the "tick" to be creative and go after "private" use, and the corporations won't care.
Template Systems in Node.js
Since it's NVIDIA, I imagine you'd use CUDA (since CUDA is a bit more mature than OpenCL, and tailored specifically to NVIDIA cards).
Microsoft stands to lose a lot of revenue because of the near indelibility of the internet.

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Crowdfunding for open-source pharmaceuticals
United States dollar almost doubles in value in a single day
Sorry, should have included this:
http://intense-taiga-9081.herokuapp.com/users/new
A couple of years ago I moved to the Yukon and had the opportunity to go Moose hunting. I really didn't know if I'd be OK with killing such a large animal and "getting down to it" and have found to experience to be quite powerful.

There is a lot of respect for the animal and we treat every square centimeter of edible meat with the utmost care. It's quite a strange sensation to be working so hard (it's extremely heavy and time consuming to field dress such a large animal) but have this feeling that it's the right thing to be doing. Somehow, I know my ancestors have been doing this for tens of thousands of years.

When I cook at home I make certain that every plate is eaten or saved for leftovers. I would never let someone simply scrape that into the trash, as I might have done when buying shrink wrapped meat from Safeway.

It's a highly rewarding and enlightening process which I highly, highly recommend to anyone that eats meat.

UPDATE: I've been putting the finishing touches on a blog entry about this experience and photos from my first moose hunting trip.... I'll try to have it done later today, the post will be at the top of http://theroadchoseme.com when it's done.
I agree entirely. I was particularly taken by an interview I heard (NPR probably, was years ago) about a rancher who raises high-end free-range veal.

He said that these cows have exactly one bad day in their lives, as they spend their entire lives with their mothers in grassy pastures.
The very act of torture requires a level of emotional depravity that merely killing does not.
What a stupid paragraph to read through. No seriously, what a stupid paragraph to read through.

> Reading through HN's headlines it is hard not to notice that most discussion is generated around countless "threats".

Why did you put quotes around threats? You seem to imply that the NSA, piracy, patent trolls, banks, other countries' governments [and how they integrate with ours], and big corporations do not warrant our awareness. In fact, you don't even believe they are threats apparently by your continued use of quotation marks.

> A hacker is supposedly someone who is enlightened about the power of their own creativity. If you are focused on creating something, none of these "threats" would matter.

Where did you discover the following rules?
(a) a hacker is an enlightened creator
(b) when focused on creative pursuits, threats do not matter

Could you prove them for me? If not, then why do you use them as reasonable premises for your concluding argument?
In fact, you might have an easier time arguing that a creator is more highly aware of threat because they don't want to see everything they worked for go to waste. Programmers naturally become skeptics; not because they want to get down on people but because they immediately look for the holes in the logic. Because, um, it's our job!! Are you surprised when you meet a compassionate nurse? How about a sly politician? No? Then maybe you're starting to get it. The lens we see through the world through is different than the nurses's, and so we have our own stance on say, the NSA, or Obama's re-election, or congress shutting down, or any other human event that takes place. It makes sense that we would use this community to talk about that outlook amongst other fellow craftsmen who have the same kinda lens.

Some, not all, care what's happening around us. We're not this fantastical creative hacker secluded from society. The idea that we are, coupled with the idea that we shouldn't be concerned with threats, is insulting. It puts us in a box and gives rise to the "us vs them" attitude. Whether you idolize us or demonize us, you miss the underlying fact that we're humans too.

>So what's the reason for attributing so much power to these external "forces", none of which have ANY intrinsic power beyond what you give them?

Now for the grand-daddy of stupidity. Apparently the NSA and any other big world power is just an external force that doesn't have any intrinsic power besides what we give it! I forgot!

You're not stupid enough to believe this, I know this. You're just saying it to give greater power to your already weak argument that hackers are insecure. This is a very intelligent, progressive, and open-minded community. We regularly debate things in a way congress wishes it did. You have the audacity to put us in a box, call us insecure, stamp a cute label "enlightened hacker", and question why we should ever be concerned about politics. Get the hell out of here with that nonsense. I'll say it again: we're humans too. We're allowed to have other interests besides programming (though at times I wish my boss knew that!).
Nice to see that I'm not the only one having problems with this page. First I thought I have JavaScript disabled but it was not. I just gave up after a couple minutes struggling and refresh.

I had a very similar feeling when I login to g+. It's loading and loading and loading but I don't get anything in the end. I started to think twice before I click a google link.
Mostly hoarding/investing, but some times I put me prospecting goggles on and head out for the BitCoin hills!
Tabcasting currently only works with PCs, and not with Android. Android support is coming soon though.
Umidi: Design Your Own DJ Controller
I know that - I'm just really confused about what crunchbang really is now. So it's just debian with a different default wm?
So is there no middle ground then? Is it a simple case of you can't have one without another?

I believe that you can eat meat, provided that animals live in a decent,stress-free environment. I know it's very hard to find meat that carries any sort of a guarantee on it,but at least here in EU "free range" and "organic" mean something that is legally enforceable, so every time I buy chicken/beef/pork that is organic I hope that these animals were kept in good conditions.

I do feel sorry for the American readers,for whom the meat industry is just a massive black box with no way of finding out what is going on - and I genuinely believe that if I lived in America, I would have stopped eating meat too,for that very reason.
I disagree considering that in Canada, we already have PayPass (by Mastercard) and Interact Flash for simply tapping and paying on the go. It's faster than logging into my phone and keeps the simplicity of credit cards. And the risk is on the credit card companies for small payments (<$50).
Reckonings; A Rent Affair [2000]
Oh cool, I never heard of Viki previously. I watch some Korean TV shows like Running Man, but was previously forced to stream the whole Chrome tab.
Not at all. My first wife not only didn't know what I really did for a living ("Oh...he does something in IT..."), she didn't give two shits as long as the money kept coming. And if signing a piece of paper and not asking questions meant more money coming, she would have happily done it without a second thought. I can completely relate to this level of willful ignorance.
http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/27/bitcoin-leveldb/
It feels like the companies I've worked for have managed to make every one of the four mistakes in promotional marketing listed in this post. It's nice to see a company that takes driving traffic from social to e-mail seriously and hands you a solution to make it work.
You can get good poultry in the US if you go out of your way for it and are willing to pay for it. Even if you leave ethics out of it, the taste and texture difference between a $17 chicken and an $8 chicken is pretty huge.
i try other distros but i always wind up back w/Xubuntu. so hard to beat. recent 13.10 upgrade on an old Inspiron 8600 is clearly faster than 11.04 it was previously running. what a concept ... OS version upgrades w/smaller resource footprint. Mint/Xfce sounds promising, i'll give it a shot this weekend on similar old hardware. will also try CrunchBang's "older hardware" version. but Xubuntu is the rock.
From http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/10/5196076/chromecast-suppor...

The full list of apps that have added Chromecast support today includes:
Songza, Vevo, Plex, Red Bull.TV, Revision 3, PostTV, Viki, BeyondPod, RealPlayer Cloud, Avia
It would, but on a default, non-CM Android-build it would also require you to run StickMount or OTGHelper to mount it somewhere where the apps and OS will be able to use it.

And for that you may or may not need root. And if you're already there, why not just use a custom kernel (with FAT support) while you're at it?
Firefox 3: Yay!

Firefox 3.6: Let's see what's new!

Firefox 4: oooh pretty UI (at least that's what most thought)

Firefox 26: sigh another one?

I think only every 10 versions should be news. Since they moved to this useless release cycle (basically replacing bugfix releases with major releases), we should shift our news upvoting from major releases to major-major releases (i.e. treat the decimal sign as if it were 2.6x instead of 26.x).
Sigh... wired fails at citations again.

From Masters of Doom:

"A sympathetic computer administrator at the University at Wisconsin, Parkside, named David Datta volunteered to let id upload the Doom shareware to a file transfer site he maintained on the school’s network." (page 123)

Edit: formatting
DataNitro is now $99
Just finished Masters of Doom on the plane Sunday. Fantastic read. I highly recommend it to all software folks, even if you're not a gamer. Tons of a highly relevant stories and accounts in there.

http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cultu...
Looking at the last graph in [1] there were certain improvements in certain areas in recent months, both in Firefox and Chrome, however memory usage has been slowly but steadily increasing [2].

However I'm not an expert regarding those graphs.

[1] http://arewefastyet.com/
[2] https://areweslimyet.com/
Zero to Tessel: Teach Yourself Node
Quite nice to see Julia taking off.
My company (a smallish telco) is just putting the final touches on the plan to move from XP->Win7 in Q1 2014 (that means late 2014).
I don't think this individual cares about points.
David Marcus basically wants the IBM RFID payment solution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eob532iEpqk
/dev/random is not blocking on FreeBSD.
That's easy.

They are different things that inflict a different amount of suffering and distress on a creature capable of feeling suffering and distress.
The opinions on this topic around here are so depressing given how easy, cheap and healthy it is to live without meat, or dairy, for that matter.
The future of data-binding is Object.observe()
That is because all these threats are trying to kill creativity.
Now where were we? Microsoft and Linux must support RedSea as a replacement for my FAT32 and ISO9660. Disable SecureBoot everywhere.

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/RedSea.html

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"If you’re a broiler chicken... you weigh at least double what you would in the wild, but lack the muscle even to waddle, let alone fly."

So...yeah chickens don't fly.

Otherwise this article is good. There's a lot to be said for responsible consumption.
Looks interesting.

Does my device store keep the service credentials, or do your servers handle all the third party communication?

Does every service you integrate with provide a suitably restricted oauth token, or are we trusting you with access to our most important iOS dev tools?
Why Facebook 'Likes' Horse Laxatives
This e-mail stuff is awesome! Combine my newsletter system with the social campaigns looks pretty cool.
Where does the food chain fit in? The idea of certain species and groups of animals being higher and lower on the food chain than others.

Do we just ignore that? Genuinely curious.
Too bad its on Rollingstone. Can't visit that site after they glorified the boston bomber on their cover.
I do not think this is a good solution. This is once again just smashing another security trade-off in the face of the end-user. Once the user is responsible they can be blamed and the browser is considered secure with stupid users.

If the developers at mozilla can't verify the security of the applet, how on earth would my grandmother be able to?

Note: This is not an attack against mozilla in particular, almost all vendors does this (e.g. "antivirus: wanna allow suspicious file?" or "browser: invalid certificate". These questions are asked as if everyone is a computer scientist. We developers need to start formulating these questions so they can be answered by a normal person.

Note 2: I guess it's better than doing nothing at all, since it might stop some drive-by attacks.
Tell us how not eating meat is necessary or desirable?

I don't mind a salad, but we are omnivores and I have no issue eating meat (or byproducts like milk and cheese). I rather enjoy being at the top of the food chain.

There is nothing wrong with enforcing humane treatment and handling of animals. I think THAT is a very valid cause to fight for. Animals do deserve to live comfortably without the idiocy that they are somehow people too.

Eating meat = Suffering is every bit as stupid as Guns = Violence. It's all about doing stuff responsibly.
No, you do not start counting things at zero. Because at zero that thing you are trying to count doesn't exist. If I put five rocks in front of you and ask you to count them, you don't point at each rock and say "zero, one, two, three, and four".

The stupid part of all this is that typically if you request the length of the array of our rocks, you will get five. But request the index of the last entry and you will get four. The simple fact that to refer to the last index in the array you have to use something like array.length - 1 points out the silliness of the whole thing.

EDIT: After a moment I felt the need to add that I'm not necessarily saying that all arrays need to start at one over zero, it's just that the whole thing is silly on first appearance. If the reason to start at zero is technical then fine, but as frustrated developers we have to have something to complain about.
Agreed on both counts, on further thought. Speaking mostly out of frustration - see reply to original author (above) for a more detailed response, but the gist was: yes, education via feather duster is going to at least have a chance at changing behavior, whereas splattage via sledgehammer will have the opposite effect.
Does this type of currency have any intrinsic value?
I really wish more people who eat meat would put themselves in a position to experience this. It's awesome that you took away so much respect for the animal and the process. I'd love to see that kind of awareness at scale. (full disclosure: I'm vegan)
From Wikipedia:

Domestic chickens are not capable of long distance flight, although lighter birds are generally capable of flying for short distances, such as over fences or into trees (where they would naturally roost). Chickens may occasionally fly briefly to explore their surroundings, but generally do so only to flee perceived danger.

So…yeah chickens do fly short distances, unless they weigh too much.
Why not? Because of the problems due to running updated software or are you aware of some problem with packages?

I ask because I have run Arch in production for the past 3 years on about 10 servers without any problems (knock on wood). Only official packages and always after quickly testing the latest pacman -Syu on a test machine.

Compare to a couple Ubuntu servers I have to deal with I have to go out of the way to get more recent packages, which are often unofficial (I avoid having to build packages where possible).
You can do this with bank cards[1][2] in the UK. I've seen them used in Gregg's.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contactless_smart_card
[2]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18265388
In many industries there are always extremes. Consider all those series about restaurants and the famous chef trying to right them. Really, how are some of those places in business? How are inspectors not fired? After all its clearly convincing that some of them are a threat to both customer and employee.

So it goes with farming. However having grown up around this industry I do know that farmers themselves do not tolerate suffering of animals in their care, and regardless if they are dairy or meat, they are in your care. You are also on the lookout for conditions that will get you fined or shutdown.

So my bias when it comes to this article is this, if the evidence is so convincing then where are the inspectors? Where is the government? Surely something so exaggerated must deserve immediate attention!

Sadly, considering the names of some of involved organizations I dismiss their stories immediately. Especially anyone dealing with PETA and similar. Groups whose only interest is headlines and are more than willing to ignore abuses to animals in government run shelters, if not their own run facilities.
"there is no escaping the high cost of staying healthy in western, urban centers."

You can go largely vegetarian, eating meat only rarely. But you have to take care that your diet is balanced.

It's also a great way to save energy. I recall reading once that going even mostly vegetarian saves more energy than trading in a Hummer for a Prius.
I completely agree on the first five paragraphs. Well written. I have yet to see a game as good as the first Deus Ex. Do you have any suggestions besides the usual?
Common Sense, The Federalist Papers, Candide ...
I was searching the missing link from social to email and here it is! Now I can easily convert my facebook likes to quality email subscribers, which means I can finally sell to them! Great service guys!!!
Note: Plex-support is currently only for PlexPass subscribers.

http://elan.plexapp.com/2013/12/06/plex-on-the-chromecast-it...
Ask HN: Python or PHP?
Which language do you prefer and why?*

Python or PHP?

* I am not trying to start a language flame war here. Just trying to see how everyone feels and what their reason is for using their language of choice. I have been using PHP on and off for years but recently learned Python and am curious if it's worth knowing one over the other.
> I think only every 10 versions should be news

Numbers aren't intrinsically important – what would be really nice is saving the announcements for specific features of note.
I am aware that we are causing pain to animals. But eating meat gives me so much happiness that I am not willing to live without it.
Technological advances can enable advances in morality, or at least ease them. Soon we will be able to grow meat and milk at least without the animal.

I for one would immediately switch to vegan meat and dairy.
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By abstaining and choosing plant-based alternatives to meat, we stop factory farming, and we support the humane treatment and dignity of animals.
Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees
This seems like a reasonably strong claim - and has the post title, "Claiming Bitcoin's Bug Bounty":

http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/27/bitcoin-leveldb/

The corruption explained there matched the pattern seen in representative cases supplied by the core team.

The core team may not have yet awarded the bounty, and there were a few other possibly contributing factors regarding proper use of LevelDB on OSX before the above work... but there's certainly a strong case made that a real fix has been discovered and deployed.
The animal as people logic doesn't hold up. With this reasoning what do we do about animals that hunt and kill other animals for food. Are they behaving immorally because they must kill to survive?
I've been thinking about how to make my social marketing better, good points!
Did you just "Kleenex" Starbucks?

Starbucks has the wrong ambience for squatting, probably partially by design. Go independent, seriously.
Who actually use IBM's Power these days? And SPARC? I see ARM, AMD and Intel only.
That doesn't reduce entropy, it just fails to increase it.
How does this compare when you include the cost of running the computer driving the GPU?

Also your analysis only considers the "use in cluster" case, there may be cases where the Parallella provides the power and size budget needed for a single case. For example, using this in endpoint devices in control systems, sensor arrays, etc, may make a lot of sense.
"By all measures, Win9 should be a great OS. MS just has a nasty habbit of releasing experimental software as if it were ready for production."

I think they have jumped the shark with 8.x as far as their desktop OS goes.
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