skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny you should mention this.

So I used to be the lead sysadmin for the largest profit-center dept at one of the most well known universities. I left due to pressure to degrade security of the network for credit card processing and cash registers. It wasn't a protest as much as wanting to keep some appearance of integrity.

On the plus side, the institution managed to deploy departmental firewalls and take Joe Sixpack's and Sally Sue's business desktops and servers off public IPs. If you wonder how many seconds it take to infect an unpatched windows box desktop, it's other the order of 60 s +- 25%. Yes, the desktop staff intentionally tried a few times just for kicks.

It's a cracker's paradise.... fast links and there are like 2 semi-security people. But their duties and tasks are so diffuse, it's almost impossible to catch anything except boxes.

Their organizational resistance even pushed away a couple of brilliant people you might have ran into at hope|ccc|bh.... Instituting a security officer and listening to them + letting them reach out to teach, influence are two different things.
Scalatags 0.2.0 Released Compiles to both JVM and Javascript
>why central banks do everything they possibly can to avoid [deflation].

Right. It can't possibly be because inflation makes it easier for governments to repay debt obligations and increase their cash flow without overtly increasing taxes.
Along with speakerdecks
creators (Ordered List), GitHub acquired gaug.es and Harmony.

Both are still running (although gaug.es has subsequently been given to Fastest Forward in November 2013). But that is really all I can say. As a gaug.es costumer, I saw no improvement or change on the service for all the time. Basically, GitHub kept it running, but didn't exactly show love (which they admitted in their email announcing the transfer to Fastest Forward). It's better then shutting it down, but thats more the better of two evils. This was an acquihire and the didn't buy Ordered List to continue working on their products. I expect that to be the same here.

Harmony doesn't seem to be cared about as well.

speakerdeck isn't really changing as well, but thats okay, because its whole reason of existence is its absence of advanced features.

edit: previous version sounded like I am not a gaug.es customer anymore. I still am.
This Swedish startup wants to digitalize all government snail mail in 2014
>So idea theft does happen

That implies that one can actually own an idea.
CapitalOne does a 360 Café idea in many places that's quite similar.
For smaller webops shops, blocking ntp might not be possible.

For larger ones, having local strata0 timesources are an option. GPS gives you very precise, relativistic time for extremely low cost. (Bias: /me == Frmr Trimble employee.)
That made me really sad.
I'd agree but it really depends to be honest.

A 100% increase in query time for a query that originally takes 50ms is neglectable, for a query that takes 500ms it will indeed make a vital difference.
Eye-Tracking Game Controller for PCs Launching This Summer
I released my first iOS app 
I've made this app inspired of this site's url (http://lifehacker.com/5886128/how-seinfelds-productivity-secret-fixed-my-procrastination-problem)
The answer to the "Can you walk on water?" question is presumably no, as water isn't a non-Newtonian fluid then.
http://diovo.com/2010/11/collapsible-comments-for-hacker-new...
Wealthfront is very rigid on its asset allocation. You pick a risk score, and that's it.

Thus, they can do some pretty interesting things that Betterment can't. Such as, if your assets are more than 500k, they replace the S&P 500 index with all 500 stocks, which increases the amount of tax loss harvesting.
I agree. I am an Indian and if I catch hold of random people on a street and ask them to pin point America on a map, I am sure majority of them won't be able to. Hell people can't even identify Indian states on a map of India! It is really unfair to label Americans as being geographically unaware.
The vast majority of the times I hear the word "router" nowadays, it refers to the box everyone with broadband internet has at home, connecting the internet (via DSL/cable modem) and the home network (via ethernet/wifi).

Are you saying that's not a router? I'm pretty sure there are more of those deployed than the big kind.
Actually, I find that programming is more akin to Technical Writing (for example, instruction manuals for furniture assembly) than it is akin to mathematics.
Lego Simpsons
I love my Allsteel Acuity chair which has a mesh back and a firm and not too plush seat. Armrests adjust up/down, side to side and the whole thing oozes quality.

I used to use those cheap vinyl office depot chairs and they are just too plush to be good for extended sitting periods. They also tend to break down after a while.

In our office, I bought a ton of used high end furniture from a dealer in San Jose who buys them from Apple/Cisco, etc. when they upgrade. We got everything for about 20% of original price and they steam clean and delivered to our office. We're using Knoll Life chairs and a mix of Herman Miller Mirra chairs, both of which I like a lot.
The origin of almost every Jewish last name
Not to forget, it is pretty easy to copy the AK47 design. The Register once called it The Open Source gun that took the world by storm[0] - it's actually a much better article than the Economist's

[0]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/03/ak_47_60_years/
The article does a somewhat poor job of explaining the success of the AK47 in the context of the time it proliferated. Because the discussion of such things tends to be dominated by fanbois of one military rifle or another, the good and bad of the weapons tends to be overstated.

One of the biggest advantages of the AK47 is that it could be manufactured en masse with relatively simple manufacturing equipment that was widely available and inexpensive in the middle of the 20th century. Consequently, it could be produced even in marginally developed countries as a matter of both technical ability and economics. Contrary to popular rumor, a number of countries produced AK47s with relatively tight tolerances so lack of precision machining was not intrinsic to its success.

By contrast, and many people forget this, when the AR15 family of rifles was first produced, only a handful of industrialized countries had the ability to fabricate the precision aluminum parts used in the rifle en masse. When the design was exported, the US often exported precision aluminum foundry and machining technology at the same time. That limited adoption as a practical matter.

All that said, the reputation of both the AK47 and AR15 suffer from relatively isolated instances of defective implementation. A well-made AK47 has perfectly serviceable accuracy, comparable to many European assault rifles. However, its operational ergonomics are atrocious. By the same token, the AR15 functions far better in filthy environments than popular mythology suggests; most infamous incidents of documented systemic failure were ultimately traced back to out-of-spec components. An AR15 will not take quite as much abuse as an AK47, but it makes up for it by being one of the most highly optimized assault rifles in the hands of a skilled operator due to the unusual operating design.

In short, both the AK47 and AR15 offered compelling economics because they were designed for and used by disjoint markets with very different priorities.
cigarette lighter
There is a Ken McLeod book, set in the future, in which the world is overrun by a computer virus and the only software that is immune is the firmware in the Kalashnikov product of the time.
Considering that an iPad can do everything that (as I recall) a C64 could do, yes. The exception of writing and executing user-entered code could be called out, but I don't view that as a requirement of a "personal computer" but rather a "general-purpose computer". Oh, sure, we geeks think they're the same thing. But most users of C64s that I knew didn't, at least judging from how they used their machines (i. e., not writing code).
For what it's worth, that's a problem faced by many drugs with side effects, especially psychoactive ones. Sometimes active placebos are used, as in the magic mushroom studies at Johns Hopkins (I believe they used a stimulant). But even people who've never used psychedelics can probably tell whether they've taken speed or hallucinogens.

I didn't read the study in depth, but the problem you describe is widespread and well-known. Well-known doesn't mean solved, so perhaps you have a better solution?

One option might come from clever experimental design, in which subjects do not know the hypothesis you wish to test. The problem is that this is often guessable - i.e. here subjects might not have known that AP was being tested, but they might have believed mental performance was, and if they thought they were in the treatment group they might have extra confidence, which could confound the results. That's hard to design around in practice, though.
> It's funny to see people queueing here to wash their dishes. It's not obligatory, but it's appreciated. They even wash each other's dishes. It's very social.

I don't understand why pay-per-minute would lead to this. Doesn't that mean people are paying to wash other peoples' dishes?
How so? Does he get any compensation should he get expelled from the college?
I finally splurged on an Ergohuman. My back has stopped aching since and I've stopped slouching as much.
It is different.

Using DSL to describe your domain (application) is normal. One application = one domain.

Learning in addition 15 different DSLs for libraries and tools, just because it's cute, is not the way to go. Soon you will argue about the exact definition of monad instead of shipping code.
Apple, Samsung CEOs agree to mediation over patent dispute
Actually some of us hope that mobile brings back the browser to its right place, interactive documents.
The contacts on my realtime communication media are all close people - the kind that won't hesitate to ignore my interruption if they are really truly busy. Also, I use the Hindi word "Sunn..." which means the same as (but is not as intrusive-sounding as) "Listen" but it doesn't translate very well in English.

For me, email is more of a documenting system rather than conversation. Also, in my mind, I still consider email to be a medium for formal exchange inspite of the fact that smartphones have made them almost instantaneous, as you very well put it.

Still, to each their own, I guess. Thanks for the insight! :)
Based on this, and other essays, I am beginning to suspect Paul Graham is the technological equivalent of David Brooks (the NYT columnist). I'm a well educated middle middle class white American and after reading this essay, I immediately groked how the non-white Other groups (gays, black, etc) in society get offended by the ignorant and simplistic assumptions or stereotypical thinking of the In groups (the politically correct brigade being outrageously sensitive to even mere nuances or surface details, of course, in a needless fashion). I am beginning to understand the various criticisms of the HN community... then again, my life has been much more varied than the average middle class American and I'd like to think I have a more comprehensive understanding of life (yeah, arrogant). Or I just think and read too much.

Or maybe it is more a matter of values, and the values of rich white guys in Silicon Valley are hardly those of most of humanity. One's values are factors in the blinders you were while interpreting reality, along with whatever unconscious crap you're not dealing with (or maybe those feed into the values) and from that arises your attitudes, etc.

Anyway, my immediate emotional reaction on reading this was WTF? I wasn't impressed.
Pentagon on watch for disruptive technology worldwide
Google Chrome to encrypt Stored Cookies by default to enhance browser security
Google screwed me over good today.
Around Dec 20 admob refunded me $4400 in multiple transactions. then few days later they took $2700.
This gave me $1700 refund which looked ok, since I deposited around 200-300K into admob over time.
Today I woke up and found a -14K in my BOA account after admob decided to batch rape my account with 120 transactions for around 17K.
My Bank of America that gives me a fraud alert every time I make an extra purchase just let them have this, no problem oh Google Gods.
I called my bank today and did a claim, they didn't give me temporary credit pending investigation like the usually do because of the amount and the number of transactions, blah blah, and it can take up to 90 days to get my money back.
I spend the whole day today trying to figure out how to run my business with no money.
I can go on and on about how much $h1t, grief, nerves and money this has caused me, but I don't have time to whine.
I'm not the type to sue people, but they are going to pay for this.
not even out of principal, the $h1t just got REAL.
Yes. It's easier for people from lower class backgrounds to break into SV than it was 1-2 decades ago.

College admissions' focus on social justice has only increased over the past few decades (% of low-income students at the very top universities has only gone up). The proliferation of angel money means that it is actually easier for you to get the connections necessary for VC. In the past, VC was an even tighter and more exclusive circle than it is today.
Somalia: Al-Shabab bans mobile Internet and fiber technology | Somalicurrent.com
Why are you annoyed? You now have all the licenses you'll ever need!
I see what you mean, but, personally, I'd much rather have the recipient ignore me than get yanked out of 'the zone' with my query that may or may not be up their alley. It is not so much pleasantries as a super-short 'SYN-ACK' and then straight to the point.

Also, as I was mentioning in another comment, people on my realtime communication media contact list are quite close - the kind who would definitely respond to a SYN-req with stoic silence. I guess, it is a communication quirk that has evolved around my network and may not be true about the rest of the world. Apologies if I made it sound like that.

As I said in another comment, to each their own. Shall we agree to differ on this one? :)
This is also cool http://auduno.github.io/clmtrackr/examples/facesubstitution....
>> There is a great deal of sophistication and cultural consciousness in hip hop and it certainly has its share of successful businesspeople.

Read carefully.
So, would you also classify the iphone as a PC?
I questioned this myself as well and came up with the answer: I simply can not.

The point is that the more complex an issue is, the more requirements wont be defined anymore or things just get forgotten to require. In this situations people will/have to interact with each other. Based on this maybe even a sub-issue needs to be created for a specific requirement. If you work on a platform like odesk or so you will act the same way and contact the freelancer by Skype.
This is one of the main reasons why the issue-manager on IssueBidder always has the control to cancel or finish the ongoing issue. I also struggle around with the idea to include the GitHub comments on on IssueBidder as well - not that it's needed but to make things more clear from the beginning.

Not sure if I hit your question exactly. If not precise it more please.
Site doesn't load on IE 6. I wonder if you've configured the SSL certs with SNI? Would have been nice to see the page turn red, but I guess I know the answer without having to run it...

Edit: It's not an SNI issue, IE 8 on XP can load the site.
this is really the only valid argument for a non-responsive design. kudos to you and your sensibility.
China Blocks The Guardian
Also removing the affiliate link from the first question of the FAQ would help make the project more credible. Right now, the whole thing looks like an ad for something that actually provides better privacy (VPN).
I don't see what all the fuss is about. People complaining about their spec of land being missing, mostly. If I was asked to draw a map of the world from memory in a few minutes, I'm pretty sure I'd omit a few peninsula's and islands. I'm also pretty sure I'd have omitted the south pole.

Also, people seem not to register the fact that this is an averaged map, and since the positions of islands and peninsula's will vary wildly from drawing to drawing, it's pretty obvious those will be masked.

Everything considered, I think the result is rather encouraging. I'm sure that if I did the same experiment with university students only in my home town, the results wouldn't be much better...
Choice quote:

> I got a call from Developer Relations saying they didn’t allow “that kind of app” in the store.
Since I'm not from the US and we don't have 'levels' of math where I live (you take math in high school and get some or all of the above combined), can someone explain to me what each level entails?

While I know the definitions of each term, I'm unclear on what exactly 'Pre Calculus' would be in this case. Also, is Trigonometry higher than Algebra or Algebra 2, if that question even makes much sense? Finally, what are the differences between Algebra and Algebra 2, and Geometry and Geometry 2?
Ex vinyl collector here , great idea !!
good luck! there is market for this kind of app
I am not the one to ask about this. I simply don't know enough to verify that the way you are doing this is right.

Given, I did take a quick look at it and it seems like an ok way of going about it. The factory implementation and using queues does make sense but I think it is a rather old way of handling concurrency and I am unfamiliar of any newer ways of doing it.

From wikipedia, Java usually uses Shared Memory for communication between threads. So as long as you are handling the application with some form of locking (e.g., mutexes, semaphores, or monitors) to coordinate between threads it should work. Rosetta code some information on Java concurrency: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Concurrent_computing#Java
And with using a mutex: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Mutex#Java

I'd say look at other implementations for concurrency in another language and do a comparison if you can. It sounds like you are doing some of it right.

You may get a better more thought out response from http://lobste.rs/ if you are a member there. If not ask on Hacker News to get an invite for it. They are always posting some fairly in-depth programming discussions and you might get more of a response there.

Also try reddit r/programming they can be harsh but helpful at times.

I am not much of a fan of java. I'm much more of a fan of whatever fits the job best but in most cases that is C/C++. It doesn't suffer from "enterprise everything with long ass names" like Java or C#. C has some decent threading/concurrency libraries just because when people do performance work on computers they often go for C because it is very close to bare-metal.
Odd. It made me ... content, is perhaps the closest word. It's hard to make a product. I've had several attempts of mine fail, while I make a living as a consultant. In fact, I wouldn't say that I've had a success yet. So it's nice to hear someone else talk about the ongoing difficulties in software product development, rather than only from the occasional software successes.
What is the advantage of speed given the size of torrent files?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-utility-su... does the trick if you are on Firefox.
Seven Habits Study Guide
Unless you happen to be buying near the top of another stock market bubble. Then you might easily see a negative 50% return over the next 10 or 15 years inflation adjusted.
Freaking creepy/disturbing video
Why not just use the Tor Browser Bundle?

http://www.torproject.org.in/projects/torbrowser.html.en
Get the same problem stated above with PirateBrowser, yet the Tor Browser Bundle works beautifully for me.
Docker at Spotify
AT&T pays a 5.3% dividend. Given they're still effectively splitting a monopoly with Verizon, that's pretty close to guaranteed. You'd want to track the company's quarterlies, the competition (risk of a combined Spring + T-Mobile hurting them), and any big business moves, but otherwise it's predictable. The stock itself - and your principle - would get compressed in any market down turn though. The nice thing about holding T, is that you can liquidate your entire principle at any time easily.
>counterproductive

Unless it encourages someone to change poor behavior.

>pointless

See above.

>against the guidelines

Perhaps. Perhaps the guidelines should be rethought.
after starting a discrete mathematics class, this is the closest to programming you will get. I think it also helps that symbolic logic serves a basis for computation.
A Live Map of DDoS Attacks Around the World
お好みカラーで貴女のサイズで製作できます★マタニティドレスも可能★二次会、お呼ばれ、結婚式にも大人気のキュートなドレス★
お好みカラーで貴女のサイズで製作できます★マタニティドレスも可能★二次会、お呼ばれ、結婚式にも大人気のキュートなドレス★
I thought that was what I said, maybe I wasn't very clear.

Anyway, it's a really interesting range of problems, as is what's worked and what hasn't. Personally I think code morphing still has a lot of promise, but mostly in software level "emulation"/trans-coding.

Something interesting about Itanium is that eventually it's actually become pretty good. But it's now in a market niche that it's not going to be able to break out of. The big problem with IA64, in my opinion, was that they neglected IA32 performance with the first gen. They made the classic error of prematurely committing to a new design before it was proven, which contrasts greatly to the AMD64 example where they did everything possible to ease the transition and maintain, or even improve, performance with x86 only code.
http://jntlesnev5o7zysa.onion seems to be the official one, according to https://twitter.com/tpbdotorg/status/203221129513545729
Peers block law on being annoying in public
Mesosphere – Learn how to use Apache Mesos
I'm getting an invalid syntax error when I try to run the scripts on Windows.

C:\Python33\Scripts\quietnet-master>python listen.py
File "listen.py", line 71
print ''
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Always has to be an american guy claiming something is wrong with AK and prefers M1A who has used the guns only in his collection and perhaps shooting out in a gun-range on fine weather-days.
> All it restricts is your ability to claim it is your own code.

Neither of those licenses allows you to claim some code is "your own". Copyright still applies.

> The GPL adds several more restrictions.

I can easily rephrase that as GPL adds more freedoms. Your restriction is somebody else's freedom. A matter of perspective.

> does not mean you can claim they are not restrictions

I can claim anything I like, and I provide a reasoning.

> Lame straw man crap like pretending anyone ever said the GPL wasn't "valid" doesn't belong in a reasoned conversation.

Except that I never said that. Oh the irony.
Yup. That's the response, I usually get.

This is where I would normally lay out the gist of my problem, e.g. "If you aren't too busy, I need help with zipping files on the client side, is there a JS library (or anything) that will allow me to do that? I need it by <insert urgency of request here>"

I make two implicit assumptions here: One, (and this is highly subjective but it seems to apply to my personal network) if you are very busy/'in the zone', you won't respond to my first ping. If you do respond to my first ping, you might not yet be 'in the zone' and I'm not (yet) wasting valuable productivity time. Furthermore, I immediately lay out the gist of the conversation but there is no obligation on you to answer. Win-win, even if I say so myself?

Of course, although this holds true about me and my personal network, it may not apply anywhere else. :)