skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seven months and you haven't gotten more specific feedback than 'you'll find something' on where you're lacking?

You need to figure out specifically what's wrong and pose a more specific question. Otherwise no one will be able to help.

Do you have any projects to show your prowess?

How many job applications have you pushed out? Are you targeting them? (web/mobile/desktop is reallly broad.) How is your networking? (the interpersonal type)

Do you get interviews? If you do get them, where do you tend to stumble?

This is my experience -- four months of self-taught programming to a job, in the Bay Area.

https://medium.com/life-hacks/3e990967a1f3
https://medium.com/tech-blogging/79fcfd2d66e8

I understand you're discouraged, but this post comes off as whiny. Consider this a kick in the pants.
Is Bitcoin a Real Currency? [Natural Bureau of Economic Research]
It never left. You won't read about it here because its not in. Remember that this community revolves around a younger generation of programmers that learned to build web cruds with rails. Not a bad thing. They just see Perl as old.
The surprising reason we have a 40-hour work week
And how is HTML any better?

This is a good example : http://fb.html5isready.com/ a fairly sophisticated facebook application in HTML. It's barely usable on my Lumia 920 (IE10), barely usable on my BlackBerry Z10 (webkit based browser) and doesn't even render properly on a Nexus 7 2012 (Firefox). All these are pretty powerful devices.

Doesn't look like HTML is working everywhere as people claim.
California elects republicans statewide all the time. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Pete Wilson, a Senator can win too. Not that I would want them to.
Many have taken to running their financial related transaction on a virtual system to isolate the system rather than just the browser.
Rather than adapting the existing Wordpress theme to Pelican I decided it would be better to just start from an existing Pelican theme, the article wasn't meant to be a benchmark.
This is exciting, especially the CC licensing, which will encourage kids to expand the game themselves. As a kid I've made similar projects, and I know I'm not the only one. Good job! :)
-Master Scala
-build at least one full-stack project with Scala (most likely a twitter or vine clone)

-AngularJS

-Vim

-Dvorak
A : 2,000 iPhones Topple Like Dominoes to Wish You Happy Holidays
Over the past decade, the US has had between 11-18k murders per year. Back-of-the-enveloping it to a bit less than 10k/year for 66 years gives us around half a million murders in the US. The US has a depressingly world-average rate of murder, and is only 5% of world population.
the Chinese firewall is easy to get around, it's just there to make it inconvenient enough so most don't bother. I use vpn when I'm in China and offer to set it up for my relatives, but the response has been "it's too complicated". Most people don't want to learn the tools just to access youtube/google, especially when there are Chinese equivalents that cater specifically to a Chinese audience.
This demeans the word 'apology'. It's bereft of meaning and viciously partisan to the extent that I find it disgusting in view of the many who've suffered and are now dead and unremembered. Pity energy wasn't better spent in further public explication of his significance and achievements.
I think you're looking at it backwards: App consumers aren't interested in well-crafted apps. Consumers treat mobile apps like "gladware": they want cheap and disposable/replaceable. This plays very well with companies' desire for cheap production. Hence the steady march toward the commoditization of web app development and the "war" on native, especially in the mobile space.
> edit: anyone downvoting actually live in the UK?

Yes.

> Any of you actually have any hard facts? Or are you just regurgitating the crap you read on the internet.

Ok, what counts has hard facts and not just "read on the internet" that you have that the rest of us don't?

> It's nothing whatsoever about censorship.

Drivel. Pure and simply wrong. This is the infrastructure of censorship. The fact that it's only going to be applied to censor "think of the children!" things may be true, but it is handing enormous power to censor whatever they chose to this government, the next government, and the governments after that. The boundaries can change. Actually that's the point of the article, did you take anything on board from that?

There are several posters elsewhere in this discussion who have witnessed it firsthand in other countries. Is that hard fact enough? it's not a forgone conclusion that the UK will slide down the same slippery slope, but that's no reason to be complacent about it. This is a nasty thing that should be resisted.
The Key For Remembering, Organizing And Using Everything You Read
Dorsey Is Joining Disney’s Board
https://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/
I just saw instructions how to upgrade to 1.1 and it became clear how far away from prime-time Firefox OS is.
Beware Geeks Bearing Gifts: How the Latest iPhone Jailbreak is Actually a Trojan
Who posts on Hacker News?
Mad Scientists – Where Creativity Comes From
If all we were about was building a petition site I'd agree with you. Restore the Fourth SF has already written an SF City Council resolutions, gotten an Apple Shareholder proposal and organized two public protests.

This is just the opening salvo of our efforts to specifically target Senator Feinstein. Tangible public interest gives currency and credibility when talking to the press and other activist groups.
You are fairly limited w/regards to space.
CoffeeScript acceptance tests
Dude, it's not even a "released" phone yet, what you have is a dev version at best.
Fancy words there, but I wonder if you have any idea what you're talking about. The best way to stop someone is not to fire Rambo style over their heads and scare them away. The best way to stop someone is to land a bullet where it counts. I've never heard of a general retreat because they were shooting too many bullets over their heads. Armies don't advance in linear form. A squad formation isn't likely to be stopped by "suppressive" fire. And in urban combat, it seems like it would be an utterly useless strategy.

The difference between a well trained soldier and rabble is that soldiers don't lift their guns over their heads and fire. They look at what they shoot and they aim to hit the enemy.
I don't think that having a bucket for "Gold Toilet Seats" or "Classified Research" is the key problem. I think that the problem is that there is a gigantic integration effort that fails due to a variety of interlocking political factors and the malincentives to get the job done right.
You forgot to mention that the NSA's S-Box tampering actually made it stronger against differential cryptanalysis, which was unknown to the public at that time. It seems like the key size reduction was a compromise for that enhancement. It's an interesting move because it shifts the power from the smartest adversary to the one with the most brute force, perhaps with the assumption that only the U.S. and its allies had access to systems capable of cracking a 56-bit key at the time. That would have made the cipher more secure against other countries that had to rely on cryptanalysis, while still giving them the access they needed if they so desired it.
Some degree of "pirates" are just underserved customers. This is a good business move - especially if the brand is strong.

Iron Maiden is a great example, a "thinking man's" metal band that often produced music inspired from famous books (Dune), movies (Where Eagles Dare) poems (Rime of the Ancient Mariner), and tv shows (The Prisoner). Their mascot is very distinguishable.
Ask HN: Travel Tips
I am a simple data analyst who has nothing to do nowadays and i just want to build something. I am so new to this ecosystem as a player, i am just "looking on" for years from bench.

I have travelled in Europe last year and have seen so many places. Before journey, i have collected so many tips from 4sq, yelp and tripadvisor. Now i want to build a website and mobile app about "handcrafted tips" for specific city and/or districts (of course i want to monetize my project, even if it does no flow, at least it drips; this is my first time). i will collect the tips from this sites again which i haven't expreienced but trusted ones beside that i have experienced. i will summarize the tips and give link to this sites (so user can see the original tip from it's original site). basically, that's all.

I don't want to be faced with problems later (because i'm summarizing some tips from the site and giving exact links; for example : " must visit : clinton baking street! (http://4sq.com/1fC4ymP) "
so how should i approach to this issue?

Thanks.
There's not one filter, some of the most popular ISP have been talked into installing their own, which they will manage themselves.
This is pretty dangerous. If you do it at scale, you get noticed by google and getting noticed isn't a good thing.
The point on handguns is the most underrated part of the US debate on gun control. Assault weapons are a mere blip on the annual murder chart. Two-thirds plus of murders in the US are done with handguns. The remaining third are longarms and other methods.

Assault rifles are visible because they're occasionally used in spree killings, but the problem is handguns.
16gb works just fine, regardless of what the sticker says :-)
If I hear the words "get things done" one more time, I might just flip out....

Sorry this isn't directed at you, but I view that phrase on the same level as "changing the world".
"It's not true. It's not true. It's not true.

"...

"It's old news."

I'm loosely quoting a source I can't remember, but I think it was ridiculing a repeated tactic of some candidate. It's a dynamic that seems to play out a lot if you know to look for it in issues that involve a lot of public relations games.

I think you are right to emphasize how little we remember when we learned what. That's why the above tactic works so well. It lets politicians' dance around their tactical mistakes and change positions without undermining their own base. It is also how disingenuous people can now able to talk about "welcoming debate" and have a large portion of the population perceive this as advocating some reasonable middle ground.
"Everyone was saying that Boston is so Puritanical, but that just seems to be a knee jerk reaction. I really haven't gotten anything other than enthusiasm [for O'Actually]." "We are just saying [that Boston is Puritanical] just because we are used to saying it, not because it's true anymore." To bring home that point, Maloney explained how the most conservative people she knows, the one's she expected to push back or be offended by O'Actually, were actually the most receptive.

Most anti-porn people are worried that it's either dehumanizing or caters too much to common male fantasies. It makes sense to me that explicitly addressing those issues would make people more receptive.
Metallicops video: http://youtu.be/mb_jLAisPzk
Moto G with Firefox. Header renders but has graphical errors. Main body of page doesn't render at all. html5isready? Funny.
You don't have to assume the NSA is evil to understand that its mandate means you can never trust their incentives in something like this.

You don't have to have any bad guys to have conflicts in purpose and incentive, and this has clearly been true for the entire existence of such interactions.
Hmm? I thought the whole point of the article was "Most people know about sort(cmp=), which takes two parameters. But check out sort(key=), it only takes one parameter, which means the key function only has to run once per item", but for Perl.
Only there most popular ISPs were taken to court.
Yeah, but Bitcoin is the seasoned second-time founder taking on the banks, Dogecoin is the young 21y old kid giving them the middle finger.
Oof. I think that's this issue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5069752/ios-4-2-webfont-t...

I think the problem is that none of the TTFs include bold italic, so the browser generates a 'fake bold' of the italic. This time, MobileSafari is doing it oddly. Apparently a workaround is to fake bold yourself with -webkit-text-stroke (icky) and pretty workarounds would be to avoid bold italic or have a separate .ttf for it.
Its not even showing on Bloomberg (yet?). I doubt this will make a dent in the stock price anyway, even if its irrefutably confirmed.
My main problem with it is the lack of enough fields to store all contact information. If you have, for example, a person's home phone number and mobile phone number, you end up using two entries instead of one, because last time I checked (and at least on the SIM cards I own) the storage format is a simple two-column list: Name-Phone. Furthermore, there are strict limits on the amount of characters one can insert (and the character set is very limited, too). Additionally, one can only store 250 entries or so (varies from card to card). To sum it up in one word, for me it's very unpractical. I remember having to use Bluetooth to transfer contacts from a old feature-phone to a new feature-phone because, obviously, the SIM card would not hold all the contact information I had in the old phone.

We certainly have the technology to make better cards with more storage (BTW, the space for SMS text storage on the cards I own is ridiculously small, too). But as people moved on to store information on "rich" contact systems and, more recently, in the cloud, I think there isn't much motivation to innovate in that area.
Ex-Google Ad Man Saves You From Ad Hell with "Disconnect2" browser plugin
> Almost every objection to legal purchases made by pirates over the years has been answered

How about the big one: content available in a timely fashion? For example, TV shows still don't show up on iTunes until typically the next day. Movies don't show up on Netflix for a long time. Movies also take a while to show up on iTunes, and even then they're often restricted to purchase-only for a few weeks.
I've applied without much success on craigslist, indeed, cybercoders, simplyhired, weworkremotely, stackoverflow careers.

1 or 2 interviews per month and yes, I do ask for feedback... Most will tell you that you they are going go forward with other candidates or other vague saying which doesn't tell me much.

Whiny? I am not saying "Give me a job" or "I deserve a job" I am looking for work.
Yes. It's just to protect the children. You probably don't have child employees
It certainly has a more distinct ring to it than "To whom it may concern:"
Bitcoin More Speculative Than Real Currency, Study Finds
Not sure if this tidbit made Hacker News -- the OpenSSL project added Dual_EC_DRBG support at the request of a paying customer: http://openssl.6102.n7.nabble.com/Consequences-to-draw-from-...

They're under NDA and cannot reveal the customer's name. The thread doesn't say how much the customer paid, does anybody know? A friend told me 600k USD last night, but I cannot find any sources that back this up.
Slashdot declared the AK-47 one of the top 10 hacks of all time in 1999 (src: http://slashdot.org/story/8804 ) alongside Perl, Bletchley Park, the SR-71 Blackbird, Apollo 13's recovery, and Future Crew's "Second Reality." It's a little strange to see a PC demo on that list, but I would definitely put the AK-47 on there.
How feasible is it to change the C standard to allow for implicit struct unpacking? So if I have `point foo(void)`, I can do `x, y, z = foo()`. It seems like it would work well with the many ABIs that return small structs in registers.
I put together a sort-of static site generator for my own purposes called, originally enough, "sites"[1]. It is really just a front-end for GitHub's open source git-backed wiki system, but it works well.

[1]: https://github.com/peterkeen/sites
What side project were you hoping to launch in 2013 but did not?
i don't think speed is the only issue. The steps for testing and toying around a theme in wordpress is always a pain : The personn starts by installing wordpress and a fancy theme on its computer, or on some random server, starts putting content, then wants to migrate all this on some "production" server.

Then, most of time, they end up spending an awful lot of time with the wordpress export/import tools (which is made even worse once you starting using payed plugins). Which sometimes involves looking at random php errors.

Compare that with copy / pasting a bunch of file via ftp, and then you're done.

and it works for backups too...
not instant (must download first, then watch) - but: easy to automate auto downloads, can watch offline

Not really. It depends on the format you desire and can fine. There are plenty of flash streaming sites out there that will instantly stream content to you, sometimes in HD (depends on what's been uploaded).
i'm currently doing this with a session model. and i override my model save/fetch to validate the session before performing some operation.

it's not packaged because i'm hesitant to include any client-specific code (yet) and i'm not sure it's any sort of secure. if you open an issue on the project i'll remember to respond with more detail.
"It's curious" is a polite way of opining that that which you call "curious" is foolish, ignorant, wrongheaded, evil, or some combination thereof. I'm curious which you mean in this case.

You strike to the heart of the matter when you describe a firearm as a means for one person to work his will upon another. This is true, but only in conjunction with the unstated assumption that the other so described has no similar means of defending himself. A man is not helpless against his enemy so long as both are similarly armed, but you render him quite thoroughly so when you disarm him -- which is precisely what you do when one man is an honest citizen, the other is a criminal, and you pass a law prohibiting the ownership of firearms.
http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/ondemand

http://www.dish.com/entertainment/vod/

http://www.directv.com/technology/on_demand

http://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A2858905011%2Cp_drm_rights%3AR...

http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/xbox-video/buying-and...

http://us.playstation.com/playstation-store/moviestv/

http://www.apple.com/itunes/charts/movies/
FWIW, being crackable with extreme brute force (that only the best-funded attackers have) can be a reasonable compromise -- NSA can't crack everything, just the few pieces of data they are willing to spend compute on.

The part that I don't understand is Moore's law: if a government lab can crack 56-bits11 in 1979, surely my phone can crack it today?
How does one go about identifying these companies that are willing to invest in smart people who might not have experience in LibraryVersion 2.1.9 or something?
Yeah, the page is pretty messed up on my Chrome/Win7 also.
Did you have anything useful to contribute here?

I'm fine with Clojure because I'm more interested in languages with type systems anyway.
Looks way better than anything I could do. Did Troy do it all himself?
We Made Our Book Free – Here's What Happened
Not as good as syncing to some online service e.g. Google. I recently bought a new Android phone, before that I used a Windows Phone 8 phone and before that another Android. On both the WP8 and second Android, I simply logged into my Google account and all my contacts synced in mere minutes. (On the Android, it also reinstalled all my apps, reconnected to all my WiFi hotspots etc.).

I believe a SIM card can hold 100 numbers. Many people will have more numbers than that, so that's not really a viable alternative.

Manually exporting to an SD card and then importing (which I believe can be done on Firefox OS, although exporting requires a third party app) is another option, but it's not as convenient as syncing to an online service.
I'll go further, and state that "defensive weapon" is a contradiction in terms and semantically null however applied. A weapon is a tool; offense and defense are perhaps the two broadest categories of the ways in which such a tool may be employed.
Introducing the Ubertarian
Looks elegant.

What's the status on the JVM backend? Had too many resource leaks running mono daemons (several years ago, not sure if mono has gotten better).
I really think you're using scale counterintuitively here - representing dynamism as what is scaling rather than traffic.

And conflating "interesting" with "dynamic" is rather dubious to me as well.
It doesn't sound like this stuff has "finally been revealed", since the highlights Ars points out were in the indictment, which has been public for most of the year.
> how the RSA is supposed to realize the NSA is evil before the Snowden leaks.

I'm surprised at this interrogation. I've classes in schools talking about economic/state intelligence methods. The responsibility of a big corp is to secure itself from outside threats and visible links to state agencies will be analyzed by observers.
If he has set out to prematurely end yours, then it's certainly key to whether your experience continues beyond the point of decision or is abruptly truncated at that juncture, to say the least of the matter.
Huge props to Brian for writing this. This is as candid and unfiltered a look into the tribulations of a small consultancy as I've ever seen: particularly with regards to firing and open source.
If that is true, why can't second hand shop even give away CD's?

if its all about price, surely buy 10 for $1 is a should sell out in seconds? Heck, I would not be suprised if some places refused music CD's to be gifted to the store, just because its not worth the space.

CD and VHS is sharing the fate of obsolete physical medium. We did not stop watching moves when VHS died, nor did we become enlightened and said "all this films are crap". Nor did we say it when DVDs started to fall, nor should we claim piracy when the doomed VHS store had to switch to DVD, which had to switch to blueray, which had to become a streaming service.

> music sales are overall down

Fewer people buy a full track compilation CD to get a single good song. Rather than spending $70, they spend $7 and get the song they want, or they spend a monthly fee and get unlimited songs each month.

If the overall music sales are down, its because the market has changed. I strongly doubt that the number of individual purchases has gone down at all, and would speculate that it has gone way way up. Feel free to contradict with number of songs sold and listened to by subscribing members, vs number of CD's sold in the 1990s.
Much ado by tech guys who are complaining about a law they apparently have not bothered to read. The courts are not required to provide free public access to court documents, they are simply cannot charge more than is necessary to maintain the e-filing/docket system. See sec. 205 in the pdf linked by their post.
Chinese users welcome Apple, China Mobile deal
The screenshot of ibm.com seems to be from a text crawler, if this is your site you might want to grab a better shot from http://epcostello.net/library/ibmcom/ (full disclosure: my site).
The situation into which you were born and the condition of your life are/were shaped by violent action. Ask yourself what your life would look like had the World Wars not happened, or had the UK not built an industrial empire based on forceful colonization, or had the American civil war never happened, as examples.
I completely disagree with you. What's the evidence for this?
We're responding to our valued customers as fast as we can over on Twitter. https://twitter.com/RSAInsecurity
I currently use KeePass on Windows, Linux, and Android. Can anyone explain what KeePassX is and what its relationship with KeePass is? All I can seem to find is that it's a cross platform version of KeePass (which KeePass is for my needs) and only supports the older database format.