skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does. COBOL also runs a large number of major banking and government infrastructures. Should we be working on a revision to COBOL with prettier syntax?

I don't hate PHP, but I've written, looked at, and audited enough of it to come to dislike it.
You're assuming I'm female.
Dogecoin is silly, but damned if they aren't getting some kind of coverage out of this.
Yes, I also found the claim on the name "Chess 2" vaguely annoying. I mean, jeepers, just look at the S page, locked to "Games" only: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/mainquery.php?displayinve...
How outsourcing can destroy your startup
The animated GIF that accompanies the article doesn't show an radioactive material arriving on the shores of California yet, so it hardly seems like a suitable explanation for things that are currently happening.
I'm working on this problem, and I'm going to put out a paper soon that explains my solution.
Like the adulterer who professes to love his wife, you have some things to work out.
> A lot of the OO support in React is there as a concession, more than being considered a virtue. It's really cool to have the FP community involved in the UI space. Those people are already sold on FP and statelessness and get the luxury of programming in tomorrow's paradigms today (how ironic that FP has been around for decades!)

As Sir William said, "There is blood in the old ways yet".
The ESA's Gaia satellite - A billion pixels for a billion stars
Target: 40 million credit, debit cards compromised
This isn't about watching your tongue. This is about not harassing someone.

I actually recognized your name from the other thread on the front page right now about a woman being harassed due to her having a rare skin disorder.[0] In it, you post a comment[1] clearly contradicting your opinions here, including such things as:

> I truly believe after spending so much time on Reddit I became a worse person [...] It's taken me quite awhile to get back to being a normal, nice, human being

What caused you to do such a 180?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6937945

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6938146
Youtube rejected No More Room in Hell monetization
As someone who can't stand PHP, Laravel is pretty much the only thing that's made me feel like the language has some worth. It feels very similar to the Python and Ruby frameworks I'm used to, and is actually pretty nice to read.

Now if only the rest of the PHP devs stuck in 2005 would switch to it...
If that's really true for Ember.js that's great! I'm curious as to why it performs so badly? http://www.petehunt.net/react/tastejs/benchmark.html
My Favorite Affiliate Program Especially for WordPress Blogging
But if you see lots of ads for that thing [on a shared internet connection] then it might now?
Hard to say. But it makes a lot more sense for that service.
When we were doing the Apple Newton, Ko Isono (who was working on the tablet sensor code) committed suicide. Our manager got us into a common area, then told us the news. We were pretty shocked.

Many of us went to the funeral in the east bay. I remember it was very cold and rainy, and that I didn't mind.

We put Ko's name in the "About Newton" page. Nobody in management objected to that.
Do you know for a fact that any retargetting companies are actually doing that, or just that it is possible?

After the Facebook Beacon[1] and Google Safari cookie control bypass[2] settlements I would have thought legitimate companies would be a little reluctant to push the envelope so far as to explicitly bypass privacy controls.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Beacon

[2] http://www.informationweek.com/security/compliance/google-se...
I am not saying open source == secure. Rather, closed source == impossible to know if secure. Making something open source doesn't instantly add a "secure" tag to it, but keeping it all closed leaves no chance for the tag to even appear.

With open source you can get intelligent, experienced experts to look through it. And if enough of them look through it and say it's good (for example, as many experts have done with the Bitcoin client and protocol), you can at least gain some degree of assurance, even if the possibility of a critical exploit being found in the future still always remains.

Also, you are right in that in this particular scenario, open source would only be the first step as you couldn't know if their servers are actually running the source they published. Open source + full end-to-end encryption and authentication are both required, as is the case with OTR and Moxie's project.
It gets worse, France actively committed "terrorist' activities against organizations opposed to the French using French occupied Polynesia as a location to test their nukes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior

I guess we were just as bad with our activities there, but at least we're ashamed of it now.
BAM GitHub prediction nailed: 4M users in August, 5M in December
Thanks, I figured that out eventually.
AllThingsD Daily Headlines for 12/19/2013
I agree--- if any author were to use `he/she' consistently, I'd probably find their writing quite annoying. Still, that hardly means they'd have no other ways of being gender-neutral ;)
5-minute Logstash: Parsing and Sending a Log File
How to use Logstash file Input, its grok Filter, and its Elasticsearch output to get logs indexed (and then viewed with something like Kibana)
>The past is the future in the Arcanists’ worldview [...]

Hahaha, loved that!
There was a rash of news reports about fifteen years ago suggesting exactly that: that people regularly die at their desks in Japan from overwork. Since then, I've read that it was a vast exaggeration, but perhaps the person to whom you're responding missed those reports. They may not know what they're talking about, but it's probably not entirely their fault.
Rookie mistake missing those $. I think that python is different. One of the advantages of Perl for me is that it's more forgiving.This can suck sometimes especially if your trying to keep your code error proof. I've programmed for 3 years now. Its heavily impacted my thoughts. Often when giving directions I'll find myself self slipping into python pseudocode, "if you see the store turn right" or "while your on this road look for_." These are of course minor phrasing changes but not what I would have said before I knew python. Perl is refreshing because it seems to conform to how I think, not force me to think like it.
Sure. I agree.

Violence for self-defense isn't pacifism though. Pacifism is not "only use violence when it is justified".

That you recognize that violence can be justified (for instance, in self-defense) means that you're not a pacifist. That is okay, most people are not.

The author asserts that violence used to prevent additional violence is illogical. You and I both recognize that as false, as both you and I recognize the value that violence can have when it is used for self-defense.
This is a really great point. We don't see as much negotiation as might be expected, however what you say is definitely true to an extent.

How do you think we could improve that aspect?
I wish it were still open. They want you to send them an email to start the challenge, mine went unanswered.
Even scarier, researchers have shown that there are ways of backdooring CPUs via transistor doping so that even if the manufacturer suspects a backdoor, it may still be very difficult for them to find it: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/researchers-cre...

Full paper: http://people.umass.edu/gbecker/BeckerChes13.pdf
I find retargeting creepy to the point that I installed an adblocker. The first time I noticed it, was when I booked a holiday to New Zealand and paid a deposit to hire a camper van online. Suddenly started noticing ads for that company everywhere online, where as previously I hadn't noticed any. Even after I came back they persisted for a while but eventually ceased. When in reality I'm unlikely to repurchase something like that for another 1-5 years.
FYI, bluekitten, you've been hellbanned since December 13.
An Easing of Rules on Charges by Amex
This 100-year-old deal birthed the modern phone system
The graph plotting lines of code vs. time is interesting. The lines for C and R steadily, almost linearly, grow over time. But the line for Fortran comprises long level periods punctuated by sudden jumps.

I assume that these sudden jumps represent existing Fortran libraries getting attached to the R system, and that organic growth of R is nearly all in R and C.
I think understand your position a little better now, that as you said checking people's status has a chilling effect. I was thinking of the undocumented thing in the context of an actual protest with people holding signs saying they are undocumented. I believe this is basically daring the police to do something about you. There is basically no way for an undocumented immigrant to protest without crossing over into civil disobedience, which has obvious costs. I still don't think it's totally the same, but I see where you're coming from.
>Rather the question was specifically for the cases where "there is a delay"

It appears to be the case that Coinbase honors the price and, in fact, we know of at least one case wherein it goes beyond that. That is, they gave the buyer BTC at the new, lower price when the unreasonable delay would have otherwise meant a significant loss, had they enforced the higher price quoted at buy time. I believe that was posted somewhere on this thread.

>The risks on these transactions would only occur in case of BTC dropping.

But, that's a non-statement, right? I mean, the risk is involved because no one knows whether the price will go up or down at the time of the transaction. To say there is only risk if the price drops implies the benefit of hindsight. Perhaps you meant to say there is only a loss incurred if the price drops. I'm not being pedantic. The difference is significant. The former implies that there is a scenario under which there is no risk. But, in fact, there is always risk. It just may be that all works out fine (i.e. the price does not drop before fulfillment).

>But "any experience", how did you deduct that?

Perhaps I misunderstood your original question regarding the buying process at Coinbase. Initially I thought you were asking about the simple-case, which would imply that you had no experience as a buyer. You've clarified that you were inquiring about the unreasonable delay scenario, so I retract that.

>Right back at you

I'm sure we all have our moments. :)
Are you sure? Random information on the web suggests that nuclear testing in total released something like 10^18 Bq, while Wikipedia suggests Fukushima released a similar amount (.5E18 Bq).

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp157-c2.pdf
I run a retargeting company and this annoys me too!

The reason this stuff happens is because many players in the space soak up advertiser spend by not immediately opting users out of product retargeting campaigns after a purchase is made. The advertisers don't always know to ask for this and the retargeting companies make more money if they don't suggest it.

These personalized campaigns are so profitable for the advertisers that they don't notice the extra spend being bled out on people who they shouldn't be retargeting.

This tends to happen among the big "enterprise" retargeting companies that serve large online retailers like Macy's. There's so many people involved in the deals and operations of the campaigns that no one person is there to say, hey, let's make sure this doesn't happen.

The takeaway: Only work with retargeting vendors that give you control and visibility into who you're targeting and why! We do this, but so do others. Not everyone is this lame.
Okay, then let f XOR the input with a randomly generated integer. There is no loss of generality here.
The Stream of Consciousness made me die. Been there too often.
That's still not even close. How easy is it to side-load on Android? Browse the file system? Obtain root access? Recompile and update the kernel? Replace the window manager? Android may be a lot more open than iOS but it's not even close to a Linux desktop.
Ask HN: Target developer willing to give us info
Just asking. My wife asked about her target debit card which is linked to our bank account and whether that is at risk the same as others credit cards. Any info you can share?
> Apparently, I'm a melting pot of neuroses.

It's great to be a human, isn't it?
Requests are going up, and compliance is going down.
Coinbase uses Bitstamp pricing +1%, so depending on how much you're transferring it could be worth it. Bitstamp, and BTC-e are really the only two options for US customers that want any decent order book depth.
Not at all. It's praising the view that the children have on the world which is different than yours.
U.S. Air Force general drank too much, fraternized with foreign women in Moscow
Malnourishment can cause bloated stomachs you know.
I coincidentally signed up for Buffer today in part because the customer service has been excellent during my trial. So she earned my business.
How is that any different from Xbox One? Buy a disc off the shelf, get caught swearing online, get banned from Xbox Live and lose everything!

Far as I know, nobody was banned from Steam for swearing online.
To all supervisors:

If one of your employees dies while you're on vacation, cancel the rest of your vacation. No exceptions.
Take some psychedelics and die mentally. Maybe have some spiritual literature near by.
I am whelmed by this whole conversation!
I like the overall message, but I can't help but think about that thing about the work visas.
Serious question: I've never quite understood the "what if you have a kid" argument. Is it the company's fault you had a kid? Why are they obligated to pay you more because you had a kid? If you were worth $100K and you negotiated for that, then that's what you make -- a kid has nothing to do with it.

Put another way, let's say we both make 100K in salary, and then, all other things being equal, you have a kid. Do you get a raise to 120K just because you had a kid? I didn't have a kid. Don't I get a raise too?
My favorite bit from this article:

“A tobacco store lady talking about physics in the wee hours of the morning doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me,” [General Carey] said in an interview with Air Force investigators, according to the report. “You need to watch out for that because that’s just like our training says, you know, people are trolling for information.”

*

Nuclear disarmament never sounded like a better idea.
Don't forget the keyboard! None of this chiclet insanity or new Lenovo mess.
Uh, what point is that? If there is evidence that a tag is actually part of a criminal conspiracy to perpetrate drug deals or murders or whatever, OK.

But otherwise a tag is a tag.
So was mine.
Two guys made a life-sized Lego car that runs on air
Tesla home-charging unit to blame in CA garage fire?
I couldn't help but read this in the voice of Ed Norton's character from Fight Club.
I agree. It has been extremely useful during development
well with Internet nowadays it's really easy to check the information compared to 15 years ago. There's really no excuse to write something as if you are sure of what you are saying without double checking, especially on these kind of topics.
GED is essentially materialism and that leads to depressive thoughts easily.
Could An App Have Saved Trayvon Martin?
Tell more about your experience working with him. Maybe not here, but wherever.
Maybe to his parents, too.
It really doesn't undermine her "high road" response, IMO. Just shows she is human. Which is sort of the entire point.
I don't believe ads get retargeted by IP address very often. The miss rate is far too high when you have multiple people behind the same IP, and it only serves to subvert people who use incognito mode - which creates an angry user rather than a sale.
Pierre Omidyar's news project gets a name and a business model
Reicast is a new, super-fast Dreamcast emulator for ARM devices
I see. Do you believe a form of a guaranteed-money-back policy, for the fee, would make it more palatable?
2) Windows is knocked out as a gaming platform

I will cheer for Windows demise only when GOG starts selling their games for Steam OS.
On a totally unrelated comment, the article is missing the White Knight: Someone that's more worried about the overall problems of justice and fairness than from the job he's suppossed to do.

E.g.: I'm sorry, I refuse to name variables after animals that are on the verge of extinction.
[citation needed]

EDIT: preemptively, I'm not anti-nuclear, though I am rather skeptical of the way we're currently doing it.
I wonder if we'd have fewer suicides if we publicly acknowledged the contributions of people before they died.
"If you vote for a party with a history of doing terrible things then you are asking them to do more terrible things."

Which of the two parties that can plausibly win elections do you believe does not do terrible things?
OctaneCloud AMI zooms past expectations, now free
Eh, I own the dumb things I've done.
Thanks for pointing out this feature of CyanogenMod. I took a look at after reading your comment and I was really quite surprised at how many apps on my phone were asking for stuff I didn't think they should have access to. And of course LinkedIn was one of them too.
I'd imagine he only reason adblocking is still as effective as it is is because it's used by so small a number of users. If it would ship by default, advertisers would have a much greater incentive to work around it, and ruin it even for the small minority of people using it now.
This is less alarming than the potential that private-social-network based sites such as facebook, etc. have for mockery and harassment. Imagine if someone locally took a surreptitious photo and posted it to a social networking site, it ended up spreading, and this woman would be walking around in public, unaware that she was an object of mockery to the strangers around her.

At least, since this was posted on the public internet, it eventually was able to gain the benefit of wide scrutiny, and the original posters were somewhat chastened.
Newsweek in 1995: Why the Internet will Fail
That sounds a lot better then pretty much 100% of Android systems come with proprietary software from day one.
Yeah, it was a wild guess. I have a habit of making things more verbose for future maintainers.
Obits in the paper?

Startup idea here, folks. Monitor my mail contacts etc and notify me when someone dies.
You are doing the right thing. Your app exists to Collect photos for a business, that's what it should do.

Some apps have screen shots that aren't screenshots but more like presentations explaining screenshots. You could try that to make clear the great things going on at the other end of your Collect app?

Your real audience will be the Business's users, but in this round, your audience is the Apple reviewer. It needs to look, to them, like it's doing something cool.

Or, since your install vector is a link:

* Use an HTML5 app!

That was the original intent for the platform, and iPhones and iPads support that.

Have a look at http://forecast.io or http://forecast.io/lines for examples of apps that install as HTML5 apps w/o using app store, and do cool things.

In your case, you can upload photos and EXIF data, and you can get to an install faster.

There are so many async js file uploaders to S3 at this point, you're golden.
Having just moved from LA to the Big Island of Hawaii, these questions resonate with me, too. We moved because of my wife, but I can't say that I was opposed. Away from the crowded, paved LA basin to a small town, affordable housing, friendly people.

The internet, though...
His parents flew in from Europe for the funeral. It was unreal to imagine what they went through, my coworker's entire family was essentially erased. I wrote his father a letter explaining what his son meant to me. I never received a response... I didn't expect one either knowing what they went through, but I felt like it was my obligation to at least let them know.
>That statement is flawed under the same premise that the author is calling me out for, maybe to a greater extent. There is no way for the author to prove or disprove that I can or cannot make these statements

Not really. My statements were not definitive declarations based on my opinions, nor were they refutations of demonstrable facts (ex. how Coinbase works). Yours were. Even if you have knowledge of the domain, it does not mean that you understand Coinbase's business better than they or are solely and eminently qualified to predict the future regulatory environment, etc.

BTW, in stating that I cannot "prove or disprove that you can make these statements", you are asking me to prove a negative. The onus is on you to show why you know better than Coinbase. So far, you have not done so.
Oh for the love of...

> that 400 tons of radioactive wastewater... an additional 300 metric tons of highly contaminated radioactive wastewater

Wikipedia:

> The volume of the Pacific Ocean, representing about 50.1 percent of the world's oceanic water, has been estimated at some 714 million cubic kilometers.

Are we done here?
Rails Authorizers, Extractors, and Policy objects
Spice up your Chef recipes with Chef Sugar
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
IT is a very big industry, I work in more of the higher end and in that area, there is a huge push to get more women in, these are the same companies that are incredibly hard to get jobs at for men. I think you will find that push to improve ratios is mostly concentrated on the preferred jobs, based on conditions or pay.

I dont see anyone trying to improve ratios in female dominated jobs, like Teaching and Childcare, and if they did #2 would be the same for men in those cases.

At quite a few companies I have worked at the pre-screening is done by the corporate HR department of which has been 100% female in my experience, then the next level is done by team managers and sales teams, which I have found to be fairly evenly split. It is only when you get into the trenches where the engineers are found that the ratio falls apart.

The funny thing is we all work in the same building in the same office, so the company itself has a pretty good ratio its just the engineering jobs that dont have many women, so you cant say its a culture thing because the culture is the entire company not just one job type and/or segment.

Anecdotal, when I do work for government clients they have a much higher female IT workforce especially engineers, they however get 3 weeks extra annual leave, 7 day fortnights and in some cases you can even work part time. And because of unions the pay is very competitive and if not more than the private sector. However there is a "glass ceiling" in government as all wages are set by collective bargaining and applies to everyone. Where in the private sector you have much more latitude to increase your earning potential at the expense of your free time and personal life, something that a lot of my co-workers (men) do to increase the opportunities that their families are offered. It is this kind of work that some of the female engineers are reluctant to do this, and I would say rightful so, from my discussions with them they are not motivated by the pay but are striving for a balance with work and family. However the men I work with are under a lot of pressure to cover their wives earnings so she can stay and look after the children, something they (the wives) are asking for.

It is a very complex topic but I dont think you can truly have 50/50 ratios in every industry without first removing any difference in motivation to work between men and women, and those with and without families. These motivation factors create a huge bias in how people subjectively choose their working conditions and environment.