skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I wasn't aware that you had confined your comment to our industry. I am in quite definite agreement with you that extant credentialing efforts don't appear to have been successful. I don't think they are intrinsically doomed to failure, however. Suppose that an organization was constructed by professionals from industry organizations who buy into the idea of a credential recognizing competence (as has been done, for instance, in the non-virtual engineering field in the form of the PE). What specifically would be the problem there in your eyes?
Simple: optimize the amount of optimization, and you're good to go!
Obama Panel Said to Urge N.S.A. Curbs
Sprint rumored to be prepping for T-Mobile bid
Hack on the JDK itself
It competes with Costco, has traditionally targeted business customers heavily, has a different business model and margins than Walmart, and competes for a slightly different pool of labor.
It's funny how media outlets often use pictures of gold coins with the Bitcoin logo on it to illustrate Bitcoin. If it doesn't have a physical representation they make one ;-)
This is a bummer. I just started a couple projects on the platform and was super excited about it. Even though theres the attempt to lighten the news

> "We’re delighted at being able to make this team change while having the Trigger.io product continue to improve and grow sustainably."

You still get that feeling that the 'founder spark' is gone.
So the surgeon should use cold water before gloving?

It seems more sensible to heat the water at the tap like they do in Germany and Barbados.
I... what?

Are we really so divided as a nation that our choice of ice cream now has political consequences?
A fingerprint is just a small, easy to recognize string that identifies a pub key of a trusted individual. It's helpful with recognizing the "trustfulness" of a release. More important than the fingerprint though is the pub key of the release engineer, and a web of trust to verify that key.

The process that is the gold standard for this, IMO, is what's used over at Apache Software Foundation.

https://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html

For those who aren't familiar with the topic, I'll illustrate with a release I made a few years ago, here's the release artifacts for Lucene.Net 2.9.2:

http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/lucene.net/source/2.9.2...

You'll find a .zip, .asc, .md5, and .sha1 file. The .zip is the release artifact. The MD5 and SHA1 are just two different hashes to prove that the package you got is not corrupt and is what it should be, similar to a checksum (note: these hashes should also be signed, IMO). The .asc is a signature for the release.

A signature is made from the release engineer's key pair and the release artifact. gpg can take the .asc and the .zip as inputs and tell you what pub key made the signature (and it reports it as a short fingerprint). If you've imported a trusted key into gpg, it will tell you that it's a verified and trusted key, and tell you who it was.

My pub key for ASF signing is available here:

http://people.apache.org/~thoward/F1AADDE6.asc

If you pull all these files together and verify them, this should be your result:

$ curl -sSL http://people.apache.org/\~thoward/F1AADDE6.asc | gpg --import
gpg: key F1AADDE6: public key "Troy Howard (CODE SIGNING KEY) <thoward@apache.org>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)

$ gpg --verify ~/Downloads/Apache-Lucene.Net-2.9.2-incubating.src.zip.asc ~/Downloads/Apache-Lucene.Net-2.9.2-incubating.src.zip
gpg: Signature made Fri Feb 25 09:33:40 2011 PST using RSA key ID F1AADDE6
gpg: Good signature from "Troy Howard (CODE SIGNING KEY) <thoward@apache.org>"
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: 062B 4DAF 06F8 61CD 2E71 E40B 8EAA A8A8 F1AA DDE6

Anything else, and you should not use the release.

A good package and release system, like Docker Index/Registry should build these verifications in automatically. A tool like Quay can host pub keys, and can automatically sign images. The Docker Index API can be extended slightly to support fetching the signature. Docker itself could be extended to support "verified" mode, where it refuses to run images that don't have a signature, or fail key verification from a trusted set of keys.

Hmm.. maybe I need to write another blog post. ;)
I believe that the simple answer you are looking for is scalability. For many businesses, especially online business, to be successful they need to be able to reach beyond their local communities for customers.

All of the companies you mentioned that generate their revenue from advertising and many others have reached a critical mass in their audience size. This allows them to be a viable channel for a wide variety of vertical markets and or an extremely targeted option in a limited set of vertical markets. This is the reason advertising can dwarf manufacturing. Advertising can touch multiple verticals and have multiple customers spending dollars to compete for the same customer.

The real challenge for those companies that generate their revenue from advertising is the ability to identify audience interest and intent. Advertising companies that do well in generating revenue from advertisers are generally able to identify their audience’s interest and intent when it comes to products and services thus providing their advertisers with the best possible marketing opportunities.
No, it's about resolution (or a unit of length, but that boils back down to resolution): http://omnicognate.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/in-css-px-is-not...
This whole time I've been taking hot showers for nothing.
For me it's these:

AdBlock Plus
Firebug
HTTPS Everywhere
JSONView
Markdown Here
PDF Viewer (former pdf.js)
Readability
SPDY Indicator
User Agent Switcher
Web Developer

And in case you use Firefox, but like Chrome's UI: FXChrome + Omnibar
Good point.

The interesting thing is that Google has gone about the introduction of Dart in a scrupulously open way. They publicized the language early on it's design and implementation, they open sourced their implementation immediately on announcement and continued development in the open with input and contributions from all comers. The goal of the project is make it easier to develop better web apps. Now they've begun a standardization process.

In other words, Mozilla couldn't ask for a more open, standards-friendly, for-the-betterment-of-the-internet process. Regardless of Google's overall impact on the world, the Dart project is very much in line with Mozilla's mission. On the other hand, Dart competes directly with Javascript. Javascript is Mozilla's baby. The more that Dart replaces Javascript, the more Mozilla's power and influence declines.

So I expect Mozilla will oppose Dart, but they'll have to twist themselves into rhetorical contortions in the process. NIH is alive and well.
You're speaking there as a tech-informed taxpayer who is being slightly nationalistic.

Most taxpayers, even if they agree with you, are likely to be more worried by the prospect of the British Library developing its own tools for access to its digital collections when perfectly adequately ones already exist.

By leveraging Flickr, the library frees itself of the problems of dealing with tens of millions of users attempting to access its material. Memory institutions have centuries of experience dealing with the lone, dedicated researcher. They're less used to dealing with massive number of researchers accessing collections at the same time.
So, I think I agree with this but I have a legit question: If this is such the case, why is there almost no zooming functionality in native apps?
The article states there is a palace, but he has repurposed it as a shelter for the homeless.

This is is a deliberate decision, not becasue of a lack of resources.
It's a pretty oldskool way to indicate footnotes in plaintext. These days footnotes are often links.
Alternate theory: "lousy" is a subjective measure, and those languages are popular because in many other peoples' subjective reality, they are not lousy. Just a theory though, by all means, keep thinking that languages are objectively ranked identically to your subjective ranking and anybody using ones at the bottom are just dumb dumbs who are incapable of using the ones at the top.
Use Go for your next Apache Mesos framework
Not so fast. South america is a weird place (disclaimer: I live in Brazil).

The overall vision is that the coming of democracy, after a history filled colonization, monarchies and military dictatorships in most countries, has been a net win; but at the same time, the presidential figure gets a disproportionate amount of worshiping in all of those, which is a sign that the democracy has not fully matured.

As positive as the bills passed by Mujica may be, the notion that the president has to be some sort of Robin Hood, Batman of the poor, is problematic, as it inflates the State, turns the legislative power useless, and has a tendency to pass popular policies, as opposed to good policies.

EDIT: Brazil is falling prey to that ideology, as many other countries around here, where the approval of the president is at an all time high, despite the government's failure in addressing all the systemic issues (education, crime, public health, infra-structure, foreign investment). There's an awful cognitive dissonance between what the population perceives and what results are, mainly because the poor are misinformed and cannot judge (the government will always blame an external force: the opposition, capitalism, USA, whatever), and the middle-class prefers to ignore reality (for them, it's better to have an incompetent, but left-wing government than to forfeit their ideologies).
That's true, but there's still a valid reason to test things on small traffic: you don't necessarily need to have statistical certainty on every decision. A lot of the time, it's sufficient to know that when comparing two dramatically different options, you can't quickly and easily distinguish between them. That's a strong hint that you should put your future efforts elsewhere. It makes no sense to dedicate lots of effort to a project if the impact is statistically indistinguishable from noise.

Moreover, the changes that matter early on are the 10x changes, and they'll often be subjectively visible to you, even if the math shrugs and tells you that it isn't confident. So while it probably isn't worth testing button copy or images on 100 visitors a day, it might be worth testing complete redesigns, or entirely different value propositions.
It's a good thing that icky, conservative Baskin Robbins is banned from blue states. Oh wait: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=baskin+robbins,+san+jose,+ca
I tried really hard to get audio out of a remote Xen VM without a soundcard, for quite some time, and failed.

Happy to send you my notes, see if you get farther.
Garry is among the best people I've ever worked with--he's both a very smart and helpful investor and a great guy. Extremely well deserved.
I'm sorry, but NuGet is a package manager that makes most Maven haters want Maven back...
These are images from dating up to the 19th century - there's nothing there affected by data protection laws.

As for the "terms of the deal" - that is only relevant if nobody bothers to download these images now. The images are all so old that the originals are out of copyright, and as far as I can see, the British Library have tagged them all "no known copyright restrictions", as Microsoft, who did the scanning, donated them to the public domain.

So these complaints are meaningless: Have a concern about the hosting? Mirror the images. As I'm sure various people will.

Even if Flickr were to shut down tomorrow, British Library still have them, and likely Microsoft too. And the books they are from still exists. It is the British Librarys job to ensure the preservation of the source material -, and they can provide them to other parties.
Thanks for you answers. I have decided to write an app for iOS, can't be bothered to learn java. Got a macbook and my first app is on its way.
your site doesn't load at all if javascript is disabled. i recommend fixing this. otherwise, good looking site.
SpaceX wins rights to Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex
If you had a blackbox, where for every $1 you put inserted, you got out $1.25, how much money would you try to put in?

A tuned online advertising campaign does exactly that for advertisers. Google and Facebook harvest even more granular data so you can adjust more finely tuned knobs to improve advertising performance. This is the whole reason why a lot of advertising dollars are moving away from broadcast and print media to online media.
Estonia has a population of 1.3 million, and the head of state certainly has all of those 'trappings' and security etc. It's more about a deliberate choice of how the country's money is spent.
Nice story, but it has nothing to do with the topic. Amazon Pantry is for dog food, not electronics. I don't think the same amount of extensive curation is needed for most of those products.
I'm not biased against someone without a degree, many of the best people I've worked with didn't have degrees. But if you don't have a degree, you have to have something else to show.
Sprint wants to buy T-Mobile and leave US with just three major carriers
Does this mean that Google will cache the images before the email is actually opened by the user?

Edit: just tested and it only pulls the image on open by user
Oh I'm sure they COULD if they really wanted one, you just don't generally have the same security concerns you have with a large country. It's just not as surprising to me that they decided they didn't need one.
Sprint reportedly preparing bid to purchase T-Mobile in 2014
Please at least learn what Mono is before spouting this tripe.

http://mono-project.com/What_is_Mono

(hint: search for the word "subset" on that page)
Restraining the N.S.A.
He doesn't even have the trappings of the Governor of Oklahoma.
To make them more readily available. Their job is to preserve and provide access to them. The images are in the public domain (donated by Microsoft who did the scanning, by the way) - if any UK based programmers want to do something with them, they can.
SteamOS: It's here
Huh? Did you read the article?
Is this the ugliest Website in existance today?
Maybe. But my hands feel better with hot water.
It's odd they'd caption their picture of Musk calling him 'Chairman of Tesla' -- when he is (more importantly) a founder, but even more importantly the owner of SpaceX, the company at topic,
This isn't a theory specific to the premise of drones. It's a natural human tendency. It's why school-yard bullies exist.

In the absence of an principled, ethical personality, the discovery of impunity, combined with any obvious benefit obtained by way of abuse precipitates unrestrained abuse.

A greedy person that can get away with something will act in favor of obtaining an object of desire.
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Bill Moyers: We are this close to losing our democracy
I always thought the purpose of hot water was to improve the reaction between the soap and the oils on your hands.

Use cold water, and the oil thickens, which makes it harder to emulsify, and less likely to get washed away in the water. Use hot water, and the oils are easier to wash away. Oils can trap dirt and bacteria, so washing them away makes your hands cleaner.

There's a telling quote from the article that makes me think they're not really studying what they should: " Even water as cold as 40°F (4.4°C) appeared to reduce bacteria as well as hotter water, if hands were scrubbed, rinsed, and dried properly."

But how do they fare when hands aren't scrubbed rinsed and dried properly, and does the average person scrub, rinse, and dry their hands properly? More importantly, are they more likely to do so if the water is pleasantly warm? If hot water helps in the actual common case, then it's still important.
I definitely got the feeling from toying with node that you're working at a very low level, basically interfacing with system calls. There's not necessarily anything wrong with that, but you have to understand that in order to know what you're doing. It's a curious experience to be using javascript on the one hand, and be doing extremely low-level systems programming on the other. It would be useful to have better documentation on exactly what those node functions do when you call them.
Boxed looks interesting, but why do I have to use an iPad with it? They don't offer the option to access their service with a browser. I don't think I like that.
They have high adblocking among younger users (<35). This is why everyone is interested in buying (non-revenue-generating) chat apps lately. Adblocking hasn't matured enough yet to block ads wholesale in applications. Facebook and Google want to recapture the ad impressions and clicks lost on users who are using blocking technologies.
So what is actually wrong with it?

Nothing you mentioned sounds bad at all (and the translation of that article seemed pretty poor, so hard to draw conclusions). I would LOVE to live in a more "socialist" country. I'd much rather be poorer in a place where my basic needs are met and I don't have to fear starvation or freezing to death if I catch an unlucky break. Instead of a rising tide lifting all boats, I'd rather lower all the boats but make sure that none of them sink.
Bitcoins were dealt a blow in Norway as the government of Scandinavia’s richest nation said the virtual currency doesn’t qualify as real money.

I don't see how this is a blow to bitcoin. All this does is leave the door open for people to use bitcoin and escape the tax system without being punished. If the government of Norway didn't accept the physical phenomenon of gravity, would gravity have "failed the test"?

The market is bitcoin's ultimate test. Not the government's recognition of it.
I am not sure about the implausibility you mention.

"There are worlds who are simulations" !== "Most / all worlds are simulations". The second assumption is possible but by no means implied by the first. If we could create such complex simulations, it would prove only that it's possible that we live in one.

On the bottom end of the stack, for such thought exercises ordered by descending charm, it could be that we live in a simulation created by someone / something that exists in the real reality, and we aren't even in a sophisticated pinnacle of technology achievement like a supercomputer, but in the real reality equivalent of a cheap videogame given away as a real reality equivalent of swag: "Universe 2000, Acme Inc special edition".

Ouch. What a depressing thought.
This "accidental" leak turned out to be a pretty good advert itself for Facebook video ads.
You're right. They also think that the purpose of washing one's hands is killing germs instead of removing them from the skin.
This is really great. There are so many fields where companies can revolutionise the world but who would have thought about making a space company that would one day stand along NASA ... Possibilities are endless.
Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products through friends
How to decide whether AngelList syndication is right for you
What's wrong with implicits?
You're doing it all wrong! You're only optimizing for the local maxima of your optimization's optimization!
> or predict and prevent a meteor strike on itself

Wait, we don't know that for sure, yet.
I was going to aim for a single GPU just to avoid having to deal with having such a wide block of coolers. It's something I'll have to experiment with a bit I think, I haven't built a computer in years. Last time I did I was using AGP cards rather than three slot monsters drawing half a kilowatt.

I'm quite happy spending money if it's something quality and will last a reasonable amount of time. I consciously avoid buying cheap things that I will dispose of in a year.
I think most of that dynamic was pretty common in paper memos. The only thing I see as plausibly novel is the "moving to Bcc" thing, where you politely drop participants from a Cc list.
It seems more sensible to heat the water at the tap

That would be luxurious, yes, but it's the more technically challenging/expensive option. You need a heater in every tap, and you have to run 10AWG or a gas hardline to every tap.

(I happen to have been contemplating the feasibility of this on my own)
A link explaining what SteamOS actually is might come in handy:

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/
Is this some kind of leak? steamdb.info is evidently not affiliated with Valve in any way...
Oh, the horrors of fiscal responsibility!
Make it a cube to get use out of those other four sides!
I tried getting some work done there a couple of years ago. All the desks were taken and the internet was a nightmare to get onto and highly restricted. Things may have changed since then. I tried going into the Business centre but lacked the required ID.
I'm not sure that's true for dense urban zones like NYC. I'm pretty sure my phone registers with many different towers frequently.

There's a tower on almost every other building in New York, and sometimes even within buildings and underground.

Considering that smart phones are particularly promiscuous, especially in the presence of poorly conceived and opportunistic apps (downloaded by my rotten teenage kids), my phone is probably a shining beacon of electromagnetic activity, constantly transmitting high-score updates, and my entire contact list and GPS coordinates to web servers hosting silly JSON APIs.
Creating Slide-out Menu with UIDynamics (iOS)
Evidence? I don't see any of that as worse than 15 years ago except the rents. And that I'd blame on demand spikes more than nimbyism.
They are listing the best NEW addons.
I think that yapcguy's concern around the data protection laws is not in relation to the contents of the picture collection, but rather the personal data, access logs, etc of the people using Flickr to search and view the collection.
Over the years, there have been many instances of short-sighted technology selection by publically funded British institutions. However, I don't think this is such a case.
That these documents are going into the public domain means Flickr can assert no rights over them.　If Flickr is able to profit from hosting them then competitors will surely do so too. Meanwhile, this will cost the Library nothing to implement or operate. They can just rehost if and when Yahoo! Flickrs out.
Developing against the Flickr API presents the usual risks to third-parties, but that need not be the concern of the Library.
Make some trinket with a wallet address on it and post pic over on r/bitcoin - instant karma. Everyone wants a physical representation.
Yea sorta, but you get to host it on your own server and keep all your data.
I'm in my 40s, but I only learned in the last ~10 years that soap didn't kill bacteria, but only helped remove bacteria that was stuck in the oil in your hands. My sister, who is in the medical field, told me this and at first I refused to believe her because the idea had been with me basically my entire life.
Yes it is useful on mobile-"optimized"-sites.

The fact that mobile sites somehow assume that zooming is bad is the exact reason for why they are useless and most people, that know what they are doing, are not browsing mobile sites at all but going to great lengths to get the full blown version that lets you get an overview and zoom in on the interesting parts instead of endless scrolling to find what you are looking for.

I've yet to experience a mobile site I prefer to the real thing, on any of my mobile devices.
In other news: The sky is blue.

Well, it's actually grey right now. Sigh.
fascinating.

"The president is a former member of the Tupamaros guerrilla group, which was notorious in the early 1970s for bank robberies, kidnappings and distributing stolen food and money among the poor. He was shot by police six times and spent 14 years in a military prison, much of it in dungeon-like conditions."

Is t-word applicable here ? :)