skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you do spreadsheet work based on numbers, a number pad comes in handy. Some developers have to do estimates or accounting where this applies.

I only have a full-sized keyboard to get the arrow keys. Being able to smack "Enter" in the corner is a nice bonus.
You mean ten years ago?
The debt holder (your investor) makes the "decision". It's important to realize that the use of debt like this is a legal hack. It's not intended to be a real loan or repaid like one. This is one of the things YC fixed with Safe http://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-the-safe-a-replacemen...
I think the most important rule to keep in mind when posting is to post quality items. If you post stuff that is good, it will gain traction, no matter the time it was posted. Likewise, if you post junk, it'll never move up, even if it spent the entire day on the "new" page.
60 Minutes Hit Job On Clean Energy Ignores The Facts
Be the adult in your relationship and tell him no. What is worse, pissing off your friend a little bit now, but he eventually gets over it when you bring over a six-pack and the Speed DVD, or pissing him off 6 months from now when you kick him off the project because he's dragging you down? There ain't no amount of beer and Keanu that heal that feeling of betrayal.
That seems like something that can already happen or is already happening. I saw a sign for 10% off your order if you're the FourSquare mayor a few years ago.

It's tacky, but most loyalty card things feel that way to me.
> Many who speak for basic income (including this article's author) argue that it's the heavy bureaucracy and stigma associated with such sollutions that cause people to be caught up in it.

"Heavy bureaucracy" is a source of social cost, but neither it nor stigma are, as I see it, the real problem with means tested programs.

The real problem with means-tested programs is the perverse incentives of means-testing, which directly serve to inhibit people from progressing up the economic ladder by creating penalties for outside income (when, as is often the case, the programs have inadequate benefits to start with, this often forces people into under-the-table work just to survive, which has negative cultural effects as it erodes cultural acceptance of the rule of law.)
What is your definition of good engineering, for example, does your definition include this as being good engineering? http://googleblog.blogspot.se/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-g...
Bitdeli (https://bitdeli.com/) is another free service that provides analytics for Github pages. I have been using it but didn't like the association with AdRoll, a targeted advertising company.
For text editing, sure.

For an IDE for, say, C/C++, Visual Studio beats it soundly. For Java, Eclipse.

All that said, these tools are quite useful despite being old--I don't mean anything pointing out their age other than that a somewhat old laptop is probably still quite sufficient.
I was surprised actually watching the show how ineffective the torture was. Once I started watching for it - in every single case using torture actually did get information out of the victim, but the information either came to late or was a red herring. I don't think they were trying to subtly undermine the justification for torture, but in that fictional world at least it was inevitably ultimately futile
I meant using PostgreSQL as the backend.

Benefits:

* when you back up your main data store, your jobs are also backed up. If you use sidekiq, are you remembering to do frequent backups of redis?

* only one data store, not multiple. Simpler architecture.

* jobs can be inserted/updated in the same transactions as the rest of your data

* PostgreSQL supports listen/notify, don't have to poll for new jobs

* can use SQL to query jobs

* jobs can have foreign key constraints to the rest of your data
GitHub: Upcoming changes to the default media type
About a year ago I came across a funky looking insect and found my answer by going to http://www.reddit.com/r/Whatisthis/. I then wondered if someone would create a site just for this purpose. I guess Jelly is what I was thinking.
I wish there was a webapp, seems iOS or Android only for now.
I'd consider advertising Facebook on a wifi hotspot as soon as they offer to pay for it by assuming liability for customers using that hotspot to share a bunch of film and TV show torrents. As long as courts keep pretending that an IP address is the same as a person, it doesn't make sense for small businesses with small pockets to offer free wifi.
And I think that it works exactly like Aardvark did. Strange stuff. I don't think that this could be useful, since hard questions will be unanswered, and easy questions shouldn't be handled by humans either. So I guess this kind of application shouldn't be really used, and instead we would need large, compact databases, where we can store and query quality knowledge.
Ask HN: Which tech conferences will you attend in 2014?
Weird. Citing Opera mini as a reason to switch from icon fonts to svg, despite the fact that IE8 and back does not render SVG's. I'm willing to bet the latter has a large audience share.

I would add a counter argument to "it feels hacky" because to me, it feels like the perfect solution: icons are symbols that we use to explain things, just like words.

The font format in particular seems perfect for this:

- One single download to get your entire icon set

- Font rendering engines have been around long before web
browsers, so they are relatively mature on all platforms

- Scales just as nicely as SVG
The new Photosynth
What happened to US life expectancy?
Probably one of my favorite quotes of all time is from that episode:

You just have to say "no, I won't" one more time than they can say "yes, you will".
undergraduate students = apprentices, graduate students = journeymen, graduate degree holders = masters

Closer, but still not quite right. The concept of graduate students is quite a recent one; and until recently the MA was the standard undergraduate degree.

This is still seen at Oxford and Cambridge: After 3 years of study, you write examinations and receive the BA, whereupon you leave the university; 4 years later, you receive the MA. (And until very recently, upon applying to receive the MA you had to certify that you had "continued to practice" in the intervening years.)
This might not be the place to discuss it, but I can't stand websites messing with my normal scrolling experience. I expect scroll bars to move content along their respective axis, not control animation.
People consistently underestimate how much value an Apple notebook has. The reason they cost >$1000 is because of what's inside.

Dell doesn't have the resources to make a MacBook Air type computer in volume. Apple's bought the gear, invested heavily in the suppliers to get them up to speed, and starves competitors of the equipment and supplies needed to produce similar computers.

Secondly, Apple focuses on a handful of models and makes a lot of them. Dell tends to produce dozens if not hundreds of models and can't get the volume on any single one up to the level required to really slash costs on exotic manufacturing processes.

HP has tried on a few occasions to produce something close, but they never stick with it long enough to really gain the benefits of scale.
What do we mean by “architecture”?
The First Look at the New Oculus VR Prototype
Will Digital Networks Ruin Us?
This has been available for several months now. To answer a few questions I've seen, it uses a typical captive portal approach, so an unencrypted WiFi hotspot. Upon connection, you are redirected to an encrypted site with embedded Facebook account verification, at which point you can go wherever the Internet service lets you. The router typically has content filtering and also tracks Internet usage (bandwidth, visited sites, etc) as well as limits on visit length etc.

It is a useful option for merchants, as customers expect WiFi for free. Further, they expect it to be fast and that doesn't expose them to security risks. In other words, this gets expensive and difficult to manage. There are great solutions out there already, but they cost money - so the business case is based on marketing data. Email authentication would work, but it is difficult to gain much insight about customers, also you would need to give people access to their email server to setup their authentication. SMS doesn't work for people who don't have cell phones, or if there is poor coverage - also marketing data would be very difficult to gain. So, Social Media authentication (Facebook) turns out to be a really great option.

Obviously you have the choice not to use the service, but this isn't going away. Industry codes of conduct need to be set and I don't think they have. Privacy laws need to be understood and enforced. Retailer and coffee shop activities with this data haven't caused me much concern, but Facebook is another story.
I am not really sure why so many people here are alarmed at the privacy implications. Google or Apple and your ISP / Telecom already know where you are at all times unless you are one of the very few people that don't carry a cell phone. Your ISP already knows every site that you look at from your home computer - how exactly is this different? Why is Facebook inherently any more or less trustworthy than any of these other companies? They are just happen to also know where you are when you optionally check in?
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Ask HN: Fastest setup for Restful Web Service 
Because I don't trust the results of google and how old they are I am going to ask the HN Community. I want to get a proof of concept out for an app. I am more of a UI developer and have dabbled in django/tastypie however it will take me a good couple days to get that setup in AWS. I have a data model that I could easily implement in a database (pretty good with SQL) but not tied to relational DB. My Question: What is the absolute easiest and fastest way to setup a restful web service based on a datamodel. (And I'd like to use json for the format) GO!
Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages
Absolutely. If you point out that it's an affiliate link, I'm perfectly fine with letting you get the upside.

Otherwise I look at the anchor URL and get rid of the ref code. It's not a big deal but it's annoying seeing people use blog posts or forum comments to post stuff they normally wouldn't if they weren't incentivized.
Don't see any reason it should be flagged, it seems informative and worthwhile.
9/11 Fraud Case Accuses Retired New York Cops, Firefighters
Let's see:

My desktop machine is harvesting all sorts of information on me and Google can probably identify me with ease.

My mobile phone KNOWS what my contacts are from services I haven't even installed yet (WTF!).

Facebook tried to sneak in even more permissions on my Android device a couple of weeks ago (deleted it since).

It seems every time I lose more and more and more anonymity, and guess what: The 14 year old me from the past didn't care, but the older I get the more I want services to leave me the fuck alone!
It is pretty garbage by today's standards, and is inferior to CRT screens I had ten years ago.

If this is for developers, pixels matter.
The new Information Worker Resume or CV Template
> Honestly, no they shouldn't.

If the only thing they know about the difference between HTML and CSS is that one is spelt H-T-M-L and the other C-S-S, then what skills do they bring to the process?
My friend owns a small tutoring business. They give out free wifi to all of their students. I think having this as an option would be a great way for them to build awareness of their local business.
IIRC, season 4 was the torture season. It actually laid it on so thick, it became cartoon funny. Pretty sure that season caused some controversy and after that they toned it down a bit.
At the W3C, no spec can reach REC without having two interoperable implementations.

Also note everyone copying the reference implementation isn't good either — there's no guarantee the spec actually defines enough to recreate the reference implementation then!
For me it's a complete and utter deal-killer. Any laptop with a number-pad, regardless of any specs and price otherwise, is a laptop I will not buy.

Numpad = No deal.

I still curse the trend of putting them on laptops. May it soon pass.
Tech companies face off on the foosball table
مشاهدة مباراة مانشستر يونايتد وسندرلاند
True. So everyone is replaceable.
Might be a DNS cache problem, too.
I guess those users have the choice of signing up for Facebook, or not using the Free WiFi?
I don't read these. I know I'm not really being contacted by Random Founder from the Bay Area when I see one.
Just to clarify: GitHub Analytics at https://bitdeli.com has been a fun side project of mine and jtuulos - it has nothing to do with AdRoll.
Optimizing the distribution of goods through a network of highways is just one of the, literally, hundreds of applications where this could (and probably will) be useful.
http://www.zoottle.com/ does this, but gives you more control and is not limited to facebook login of course. It also gives you detailed stats (I didn't see any mention of getting visitor stats by FB wifi).
I'm just not sure how you can ignore the fact that his employer is NSA. By proxy, he's doing evil (at least imo).

He chooses to work for an agency that breaks the law. Do we just turn a blind eye?

If he was answering phones there, it'd be one thing, but he's a cryptography expert. I'd imagine he'd be only a degree or two removed from something nefarious.

Just following orders is not an excuse if you have a conscience.

e - grammar
JPMorgan Settles With Federal Authorities in Madoff Case
It already has this problem, and its solution was to default sort to "Top Stories" instead of "Latest Stories." A lot of accusations that it was a money-grubbing play for pay-for-performance, but I don't think they had much choice. They had to fix the problem of a few noisy people, pages or apps dominating users' feeds. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5320207
Maybe I am reading it wrong but I dont think it says google was at fault as such (the HN headline is far more inflamatory than the actual headline). It more higlights the risk that changes in android brings with that might not be obvious to the user.
Aristotle said that the rhetorician is a rhetorician not because he absolutely can convince someone of something, but because he is aware of all the means of persuasion.

likewise, there's no guarantee that a doctor can heal /you/. but you go to the doctor because he is aware of the various means of achieving health. this is different from evolutionary biology, where firm predictions can be relied on.

same goes for lawyers; they can't guarantee a victory, but they are aware of all the methods in the courtroom. These are professions and fields of study whose variables are humans. i agree with the parent commentor that the distinction is worth investigating.
Some people create solutions for existing problems and others create new ways doing existing tasks.

This falls into the latter. Coming from Biz Stone you shouldn't be that surprised. I'd be shocked if his start up was solving a well known and critical pain that is immediately obvious.
Interesting -- I had a submission autodeaded a few days ago too, but I assumed it was the site (infoworld.com) rather than my account which had been banned.
still down (or, down again?)
> On the other hand, people who want to go to those websites in the meantime will be inconvenienced.

…and they may well move to another browser which doesn't support TLS/1.2, or stay on an out-of-date (insecure!) version of the browser, which doesn't help web security either.
As a student I would love to learn how to secure a website on frontend and backend. Too many tutorials skip this part, like which algorithms to use for hashing passwords. It sounds simple, but every month some major site has a breach and we find out passwords were stored plain-text.
Technology could change the future of voting
Given the Microsoft investment in Facebook, this seems likely
Oh thank you thank you thank you! This disappeared when they introduced the new graphs, and I've been missing them ever since. This time we can even see uniques, which is awesome.
I wrote a blog post about this back in 2005, when Hostel was coming out. It seems that's right about our fascination with torture on TV has started. While I cringe at my writing from 9 years ago, it seems like things have only gotten worse since then.

> With seemingly inevitable theatrical success of 'Hostel' and recent mainstream movies such as 'Passion of the Christ' and 'Sin City' reveling in accurately depicting violence and torture, I started thinking what does that say about our society and what horrors are next in line for the viewers, hungry for more blood and suffering. And then it dawned on me - almost this exact situation was already predicted, in a dystopian 1966 sci-fi story by Robert Silverberg called 'The Pain Peddlers'.

> 'The Pain Peddlers' depicts a scary, bleak and sarcastic view of the future - in the early 00's, television is king. And what brings most money to TV networks is live surgery. In the story, the main character is a TV producer who got a very promising prospect - an old man suffering from gangrene and a family, too broke to take care of the hospital bill. The old man needs to have his leg amputated, and the family agreed to do it on live TV. It's the producer's job to convince the family to have the amputation without anesthesia - for more money, of course. Nothing brings in the viewers quite like real human agony.

> Remembering this story, which I read long time ago, was a very scary experience for me, because... in 1966, when it was written, it was pure fantasy - the notion of something like that actually happening never occurred to Silverberg or his contemporaries. But does it sound that incredible now? With TV viewers getting tired of same-old reality shows and public's growing hunger for violence, how long until a new reality show depicting real surgery appears on, say, HBO? Probably not right away. But I can definitely see something like that happening, not too far away in the future.
Listen to what I say, don't do as I do.

Also there are very good reasons for using windows - dogfooding your own security solutions, fact that a lot of threats are targeting windows machines and the fact that he is not a high profile target (or wasn't before the NSA stuff) so no one will waste undisclosed zero day on him.
Quoting from them article:

JPMorgan, having served as Mr. Madoff’s primary bank for more than two decades, had a unique window into his scheme. In a document outlining the bank’s wrongdoing, prosecutors argued that “the Madoff Ponzi scheme was conducted almost exclusively through” various accounts “held at JPMorgan.”

On two occasions, in 2007 and 2008, JPMorgan’s own computer system raised red flags about Mr. Madoff, according to prosecutors. But both times, prosecutors say, JPMorgan employees “closed the alerts.”

“JP Morgan failed to carry out its legal obligations while Bernard Madoff built his massive house of cards,” George Venizelos, a senior F.B.I. official, said in a statement.

The F.B.I. and prosecutors traced the problem to JPMorgan “willfully” failing to create sufficient controls against money laundering. “There was no meaningful effort by the Bank to examine or investigate the Madoff Securities banking relationship,” prosecutors said.

Any current or former JPM employees out there? Your comments will be especially, especially welcome.
Other than Wifi, does the user get anything out of this deal?

Is another free hotspot worth giving up your data?

It would to me if they made wifi ubiquitous and drop dead easy to use.

That said, I don't think wifi is in the plans of the future. Eventually some other constant data connection will take its place.
I have seen what appeared to be a penalty from pausing a campaign once.

More detailed write-up at http://www.eanalytica.com/blog/unforseen-risks-when-stopping...

Perhaps similar to your experience?
The thing about Sidekiq is the management is closer to my app, but I'd of course need to look into Rabbit's UI before making any decisions.

I suspect that if this project takes off someone will put together a front end that mirrors Sidekiq's in short order.
Pretty much every coffee shop and at least half of the restaurants I walk into offer wifi, so I think the problem is smaller than you claim.
It always seemed to me that the benefits of icon fonts would be fleeting. Their popularity has been directly correlated with monochromatic icons being "in-style".

Eventually such fonts will inevitably fall out of style. When that happens, will we be left with a useless ecosystem surrounding a fundamentally inflexible core? Or will font rendering engines have evolved to adapt?
None of those points have anything to do with this specific Facebook wifi product.
It's not an option for people who don't want to agree to facebook's TOS, you mean..
I really doubt the fact that NSA have direct backdoor in windows. A lot of countries will treat it as casus belli.
I received a document in a message from a friend and it opened in Microsoft Office's cloud. They seem to have a lot of Microsoft integration.
"Cannibalism quickly followed."

It usually does ;-)
> He is probably a very nice, very earnest person.

Obviously. Being a pushy jerk explicitly forcing your employer's agenda wouldn't be very fruitful and thus would be a bad job performance by an NSA employee in such position.

> Igoe has been on the job for many years now, and, from my remove, that job seems pretty thankless.

Have you seen his NSA performance reviews? :)
Looks like the next iteration of http://fluther.com which Ben founded: http://www.fluther.com/users/ben/
Note that I didn't say the two candidates are the same on everything, only on those certain issues. I agree that there are substantial differences when it comes to things like health care policy, but those are unrelated to civil liberties. I voted for Obama twice partly because of his support for health care reform (even though I don't particularly like his version of it, I think it's the best we can hope for at the moment), but I had no illusions about how he'd handle the post-9/11 security state.

Likewise, gridlock is preventing big changes on certain issues, but not these. There is nearly universal consensus among politicians in both major parties when it comes to civil liberties and things of that nature. How many members of Congress want meaningful electoral reform? How many members of Congress voted to close down Guantanamo Bay? It's not gridlock stopping these things.

And again likewise, there's no real division in the electorate on these issues. There's lots of division over things like tax policy and health care and such, but not much over civil liberties.
I'm the OP. The torture that most jumped out at me was in the first season of Fringe...
Here's a rather more balanced report on the research and the implications of it - http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2014/01/07/can-pancr...
There is literally no room in the Air for socketable memory. Look at the teardown (http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Air+13-Inch+Mid+2013+...) if you don't believe me. This thing is 80% battery, 20% highly dense circuit board.

There's barely enough room on there for an upgradeable SSD.

Until they make a standard DDR3 socket that's smaller, there's simply no way to fit removable memory into a computer that thin.
It's pretty easy to limit the bitrate by client. In addition with Facebook wifi, people might be less inclined to bad behavior as they use their facebook account (granted, they could create a bogus one, but still, that makes them traceable).
I'm sure that many people will think that tradeoff is worth it - I doubt many people will think about it at all.

Not everyone is a Hacker News reader.
"I white-male-gazed at the mirror"
If someone sued rackspace for that, chances are they'd get ignored. They're too big to bother with frivolous threats that would be thrown out immediately.