skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it really worth the trouble? An employee could just copy-paste the data into excel next time.
"Your mama writes Perl code so bad she made Larry Wall switch to Python!"

Wrong type of Perl one-liner?
To our knowledge, no one was working on an open source jailbreak, and given that the site I'm building is designed to incentivize things like free and open source software, this was a huge component. I've also been told there are a good number of people that have jailbreaks, and it's possible that they might be motivated to release it as FOSS if enough funds are raised.

And it's not like anything is keeping evad3rs from getting donations if they release a closed source jailbreak, or even if they or anyone else releases a FOSS one and claims the prize (in fact with other related campaigns, lots of donations came in after the fact).
I'm seeing the same thing and do block referrers
Imagine all the lives saved from killing off millions of Jews.
I could pay $1 dollar to my team to subscribe to their service and call it "profit". But I do agree that most teams spin their wheels without actually executing much.
Hey, that's great, but to be brutally honest most of those sites are borderline inconsequential. The fact that SE has yet to launch a site that's gotten bigger than StackOverflow is pretty damning. Everything else you describe is just work, it's not innovation.
Haha, that's the best type of Perl one-liner! Just let's make it proper:

perl -E 'say "Your mama writes Perl code so bad she made Larry Wall switch to Python!"'
4500/360/10=12.5

No weekends, no vacations, and 2 hour daily unpaid overtime. :)

Probably, back of the envelop calculation, with a lot of rounding in the parameters.
1. The soft keyboard

2. The mandatory glass encased cameras on both sides, that cannot be reliably AND CONVENIENTLY covered at all times, nor readily dissected from the main board

3. The accelerometer that perpetually records its state

4. The continuously cached screenshots retained for transition animations.

5. Potential to compromise by attacking the combination data/power port, with a malicious charging cable.

6. Battery lock-in.

7. The walled-garden integrated app environment represents proprietary intellectual property, probably hinting at the Apple kill switch, which probably requires the App Store and iTunes to remain present on the device, in order to receive any level tech support from Apple. I bet Apple refused to budge on that. Let's face it though, they could just jailbreak the software environment if it was really that serious. At that point though, Obama would probably need the NSA to rewrite the phone's OS from the Darwin kernel all the way up.

All of these things seem like opportunities for vulnerability in my book.

Cell phone microphones in general are a problem, especially with all the hype regarding ultrasonic mesh networks, lately.

Some BlackBerry models have all of this, but I bet the one he has doesn't have items one through four.
Thanks for the tip on the Ruby post. Will shoot you an email.
I know programmers at microsoft who use SO as an intern.

They just post questions about strange windows problems they can't work around. Somebody on SO will respond with a 1,000 word essay with 500 lines of code about it within a day, thus solving their problem with no employee time "wasted" by thinking or researching or paying for anything additional resources.
Power struggle: Green energy versus a grid that's not ready
Lincoln's election was the trigger to the Southern attempt to secede.

Also, I think the assertion that libertarian ideals are had much to do with participation in the Underground Railroad deserves some citation. Participants include free blacks, Native Americans, certain Christian denominations (like Quakers and Wesleyans), and other abolitionists. I don't doubt they share many values with libertarians, but more obvious motivations for each type of participant come to mind than libertarian fervor.
The fact that they didn't immediately disclose that the Cobalt had been found, as well, doesn't instill much confidence in them having likely found it. Seems like they would have definitely disclosed that fact.
Nope, seems pretty standard to me. I use SendGrid and am extremely satisfied with their service.
I can´t agree. THE most important thing is not what they learned, but how they learned it. They went out and did the difficult stuff, they started selling, and kept doing it till the end.
The point is to sell, afterwards you´ll be able to improve your technique and the theory behind...
The concept of freedom can quickly become confusing, but I think the accepted terminology is that "freedom from" is negative freedom as in protections like universal healthcare. While "freedom to" is positive freedom as in expressions like absolute[-1] freedom of speech [0]. Where negative freedom is more left and positive freedom more right. You of course also have to account for the political y-axis (or similar concept [1]) i.e. the level of authoritarianism.

I think it's interesting that many of the concepts that the US prides itself on originally included negative freedom in a more prominent way than you see today [2][3][4].

[-1] Non-absolute freedom of speech can probably also be seen as a negative freedom.

[0] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum#Other_multi-...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Truslow_Adams#American_Dr...

[3] http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms
Once you start developing against the POSIX API you will notice how beautiful it is and how horrendous the Win32 API is in comparison. :)
DoD and Boeing have been on BB with special security for ages.
This seems to be where Valve is really trying to push - I've seen quite a few quotes from Newell saying their first step is to use their massive leverage to get graphics cards makers to improve their Linux drivers.
"You felt quite privileged to use it."

And using that high-quality stuff could give some semblance of order and comfort while debugging tough hardware problems. ("At least I know the problem is not with the 'scope.")

I used to use HP oscilloscopes and logic analyzers from that era, and I still have and use a DMM and a couple of calculators.
You're right, it should word-align the addresses, but I didn't want to complicate things. This was just supposed to be a 'minimum viable allocator' to shove into a kernel temporarily then move onto other more interesting things.
I got the same sense from this article. He values "cyberlibertarians" based on what they contribute to the right vs left and concludes that their contributions favor the right more. Although the distributed vs centralized argument is nothing new (see federalists vs anti-federalists in the late 18th century) it seems to have been largely absent from political discussions for a long time.

The author seems to be struggling to fit these new ideals into his liberal vs conservative world view and rather than being able to see this "free and open" movement as something different, concludes that it's a political ploy to weaken big government regulatory powers for the profit of wealthy capitalists.

It does seem that younger generations are more open to a wider variety of political ideology, but I don't think familiarity with technology has much to do with it other than the incidental fact that the internet allows people to be exposed to ideas they would probably never hear from the mass media or mainstream political debates.
He could get an iPhone is he really wanted to. Who would stop him? It's pretty clear that he is choosing to abide by the security recommendations of people who know more about these things than he does.
OTOH, California was the first of many US states to require disclosure or
notification of personal information security breaches,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_breach_notification_l...

and will soon be requiring disclosure of breaches of "personal
information that would permit access to an online or email account"

https://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2013/09/articles/californi...
Sneaked?
This might answer your question: haveibeenpwned.com/HowFastIsAzureTableStorage/?email=foo@foo.com

I'm writing up how the back end is done and will post it in the next day or two, IMHO it's massively impressive but also very easy :)
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Can I link to pictures hosted somewhere else or everything is hosted on your platform?
If I've already requested access, will that form help me get in sooner?
"Never play at any kind of game."???

Right... This may have been of interest and gone "viral" 150 years ago, but I fail to see how it's of much interest today...

That some of the advice is still relevant is hardly surprising. After all, human nature has changed very little over the last few thousand years...
In general, experimenting more. You've tackled the narrow use case of a single question with answers, but is that all SE can be, or should be? The thing that I think SE is most lacking is better ways to tackle the sheer amount of data on the site. There's a lot of information there but in general it's not very well organized. Go back to the original announcements about the launch of SO and see what it was supposed to be and how it has either lived up or not to those ideas.

Try this thought experiment: if a stack exchange competitor showed up tomorrow, what sorts of features would it have to have to make you start waking up in a cold sweat every day?
Ask HN: Which is the better language to use Perl, Python or PHP?
Well I want to build a web application, I know how to use all those languages, but in my school the teachers say Perl is better, because is so strong and powerful.

I like Python, It's easy to write code, and its POO is pretty cute.

Which is better for You, Why?
It's "snuck" rather than "sneaked." Considered incorrect by many for nearly 50 or so years.
Is this better? If you have large files it requires a fast internet connection to use them without problems. Accessing files over the internet is completely different to what the standard dropbox software does. It also means you have no backup from say dropbox if anything goes wrong with them.
The right way to resolve such bugs is to have abstraction layers that hide these awful hairiness.

If hair regarding low-memory conditions, Internet Explorer and other things all appears in the same function, some abstractions are definitely missing.

Also, if the reason for these things isn't clear, that's what comments are for.

Rewriting code, from my experience, has had only great results.
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I'm not certain your example of Tobacco is a success. My point stands, that Cell phones are needed by the economy so we'll have cellphones. Tobacco sales were needed by the economy and now they're not. Also, your idea that Tobacco fell out of market acceptance because of the health risks, widespread campaigns is wrong.
The real reason is probably that Android was developed before OpenJDK was released. That and carriers' irrational GPLphobia.
http://www.bugmenot.com/ is useful for such a case, registration required for a download.
is this a joke or something?
The Tektronix logic analyzer from the time used an embedded copies of Windows and had no 'remote' capability. No doubt if you hook it up to a modern network with Internet access it would become compromised immediately.
Kind of a passive statement, isn't it? It makes him sound like he's not in charge of anything, let alone sitting in the most powerful office in the United States.

A far stronger, leaderlike statement would have been, "for security reasons, I have chosen not to have an iPhone."
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I don't know why you'd link to wikipedia for this- I often see instances where wikipedia has incorrect information.
Feature request: allow wildcard searches, with a sufficiently large literal starting prefix, to return a simple "zero" or "more-than-one" result.

EG: "john*@gmail.com"

I'd then feel better about typing my address into a random site, and be able to check site-specific variants of my address more easily.
You're missing the point here—we're grateful that people in the jailbreak community release things as FOSS, but the majority of jailbreaks as you yourself mention are not FOSS themselves, which is part of what motivated Chris, who proposed the prize, and myself.

It seems to me that that opensn0w campaign may have been fake (there are a lot of those on IndieGoGo).

And to be clear, in talking to friends in the security space, the auditing the code aspect was a huge concern, so I'm glad we can at least agree on something. :)

We're also planning on helping to fund many open hardware projects, and I'll actually be speaking at the SF Hardware Startup meetup tonight to solicit ideas from the community.
I'm looking forward to biking or just crossing the street without worrying about homicidal drivers.
I mean it's completely offensive and outdated.

My original comment was suggesting that without a generational change via natural death, we may never see the sort of progress in our society that renders terms like "retarded" a thing of the past. The word "retarded" being a now derogatory term for people with a mental handicap.

Are you trolling me or do you just have your heart set on getting mad at me? It appears you've completely misunderstood my comments.
If you use LastPass, this is a good time to run their Security Challenge (https://lastpass.com/index.php?securitychallenge=1) to audit the strength and uniqueness of your passwords. If you're not using LassPass or something similar like 1Password then today is a good time to fix that.
Google never wanted Java, they just want to tap in to one of the largest developer populations around. Licensing Java or buying Sun wasn't in their interests, and this has been proven in court.
I think aggressively pursuing market share through subsidised products hardly counts as Nobel Peace Prize material. Bill Gates would not have needed to do all that exhausting philanthropy now...
Fuck buddies.
Key take-away: It's only business. Understand that in most salary/price negotiations the other party has a range in mind. They're going to start with the end of the range that's most beneficial to them (ie, low end if it's their money, high end if it's your money). Going into the negotiation you, too, should have a range in mind.

The goal of the negotiation is to find the sweet spot that fits both ranges. There shouldn't be anything personal about it (as in the author's hilarious example).

If your ranges don't converge, then you're in the wrong meeting.
The biggest change I have made is drinking a good amount of water each day. Currently I'm a night owl (which I'm working on changing) and instead of drinking pop, I drink water.

Exercise and staying active makes me feel awesome, but sometimes I don't have time to make it to the gym.
Certainly a good - and probably the best - option right now.

But maybe there are simpler alternatives. Maybe passwords shoudn't mean anything, just like losing a key on a busy street is not exactly a security threat to its owner, password leaks shouldn't be harmful. Maybe the problem is not how passwords are stored or encrypted but how meaninful our 'ids' are - and how they are attached to that password.
passpack.com

But I would not really be comfortable using it on an unknown computer, unless I had good knowledge that it was properly administered.
Does Depression Go Away on Its Own?
Say, have you heard about the microwave background radiation? You are being exposed to radiation in all microwave frequencies from all directions right now from the fusion of nuclear isotopes at the start of time, also, would you like to buy this giant Faraday cage.
Exactly. If you have complex question (the actual problem) it will be unanswered or downvoted to oblivion. That is logical because inexperienced engineers don't know what they don't know and experienced ones will be wisely silent.
And the worst thing is that some answers are wrong but since they are upvoted so they seem "right" (the joke is that all javascript questions are answered with "use jQuery").

So in short: if you are novice engineer (or novice in certain field) then StackOverflow might help. If you are experienced engineer, stackoverflow is useless.
"One could say that health care reform was inevitable, and would have been enacted in some form, or another, regardless of who the President happened to be at the time."

But that would clearly be erroneous.

For example, Hillary Clinton's effort in 1993 (your first link) was plowed under. And it came very close to happening with ACA as well. ACA passed only using the reconciliation mechanism in the Senate, and survived the Roberts court on a 5-4 vote. It's not inevitable at all.
I'm guessing that's either a reference to gambling or a caution against unproductive fun in general.
You aren't bored 'because coding', you're bored because what you're coding doesn't excite you. For some people that's okay - it pay's a wage, and they find other outlets for excitement (or none).

If that's not you, find something to get excited about. Volunteer, join some clubs, get a job completely outside your sphere (not so easy I know). If it's something you can apply your coding skills to, fantastic! If it's something that requires you to learn new skills, even better!

But whatever it is, use it to learn from, not because it's 'your purpose'. Your purpose will find you, you just need to put yourself out there so it has a chance. (And locking yourself into a military career is not it, IMHO, as although it has its own merits, it has greater drawbacks.)
Some of these are outdated, some are flawed, and some are plain Victorian silliness.

But this maxim is one of the most important that I guide myself by, and the way it's stated really resonates with me:

"Your character can never be essentially injured except by your own acts."

And if it spoke to you too, you should read Marcus Aurelius.
I don't mean to sound rude, but does "Don't: be annoyed or upset" really make a difference? I mean, who objectively and dispassionately decides to be annoyed or upset?
Sometimes sites limit you, my bank for example has an 8 character limit.
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Phooey.
How the NSA is tracking people right now (infographic)
You may not be able to prevent yourself from getting annoyed, but you can remember to stop being annoyed.
BSD wouldn't exist if APIs were copyrightable in the 1980s/90s.
> Well, I dunno, a tuple looks like a regular Ceylon list to a Java client, but I don't think that really breaks _compatibility_ as such. Depends how you define "compatible".

Fair enough. The idea that the object graph I see in scala corresponds 1:1 to the object graph I see in java for the same object is comforting, but I haven't actually tried working without it. (OTOH I have concrete cases where I need existential types for compatibility, much as I wish I didn't)
Here is a discussion from 2011, when bitcoin was much easier to mine, but worth a lot less:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8405.0

Back then, when bitcoin was about $5, one guy was able to mine 0.38BTC (~$2) in 9 hours for $20 of EC2 time. Now that bitcoin is over $1000, you might think it is profitable, but mining has become more difficult than in 2011.

Bitcoin mining is designed to get more difficult over time...like listing the prime numbers, where the 1 and 2 digit ones come easy, the 3 digit ones get tougher, and so on. Intuitively, I would say that if you could put $100 into some new mining technology and get $150 out, then everyone would do it, and the low-hanging fruit would quickly dry up, and soon you'd be putting $150 in to get $100 out.
There's not a problem, but is there a point? It means creating an essentially useless HTML page. There's expense and overhead to doing it, in both initial dev and maintenance.

That expense has to be justified, and what is the justification? "Some guy says you shouldn't have an API, just alternative representations of your HTML, therefore we must have HTML versions of our entire API, even if their content is fully dynamic and doesn't need a permanent static URI".

No sale.
Continuous Integration for Android Applications
It's worth reading that G+ post just to see Alan Cox and Linus jumping all over GNOME
I'd just make graphic snapshots of tweets and insert them as pictures.

This way you won't depend on outside technology that could enable/disable information flow at their will.
Considering that America was overwhelmingly Christian and that many of the maxims borrow ideas from Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, and Psalms, it isn't surprising.
I thought things like xdg_shell grow up as either extension or in Weston, and then it gets merged into the stable Wayland protocol after it is battle tested and ready. Is this not the case for xdg_shell?
I wish this had existed years ago. To raise a $150k round from an angel group, it took me 10x the time (150 days). I spent countless hours on dog-and-pony shows, negotiations, documents, contracts, lawyers, and ended up with ridiculous amounts of drama around the board composition, placating founders, and literally weeks of driving around to pick up individual checks from the angel club members... to ultimately gain investors whose interests weren't really aligned with ours and, aside from writing a check, did nothing to help to company.

I'm not saying we walked uphill both ways in the snow to get a round of funding... but it's definitely easier right now. Hope YV and Kima is more representative of a new normal than a passing fad.
Space bar had been broken for a while, then fixed. No page down, space, or down arrow is a truly remarkable feat of web breaking.
You can subpoena ISP's to see who owned an address (I believe) up to 6 months back. How exactly do you think the RIAA filed so many lawsuits against internet pirates?
Exercise regularly.
Two notes on these:

1. On the first one, note also numbers 11 and 12 Scott mentions in the comments.

2. The second is not always so specific to P vs. NP (and indeed has some overlap with the first -- #1 on the second list is a stricter version of #3 from the first). #3 and #4 for instance could be applied to lots of hard open problems, #6 to really any hard open problem, and #5 is basically fully general.
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It did improve programmer productivity, but Hacker News has sort of evened things out by wrecking it again through an advanced form of continuous nerd-sniping.
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If my employer was tricking or misleading me into giving false information in a courtroom, and I found out, I would quit.