skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope they lose more than their merchant account for this, (better: their status as a registrar, with their executives winding up in a US court)

Who approved this and were they insane?

The most ludicrous thing about it is that being Network Solutions is basically a license to print money (with industry-leading margins) because of a large legacy customer base who aren't aware or simply don't care that they've been the most expensive, rather than the only game in town for years. So you provoke them into caring?
It's like being a casino that steals from your customers. At gunpoint.
Would you be willing to do me a favor and take the implicit association test on gender at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit and post back the results?

I really think that it's the best answer I can give to someone like you who would want a bit of deeper understanding into what this is all about ...
I didn't mean to imply (and I don't believe) that all radical/separatist feminists believe that, but that the idea originated in that movement. I don't equate PIV with sex but didn't want to add jargon to what was meant to be a 101 post. Hence quotes.

Thanks for your help disambiguating.
You can use a service like Costco:

http://www.costcoauto.com

In order to get the best deal, however, you will probably still need to haggle. You can use it as a starting point though.
I'm getting organic search traffic for niche keywords, like 'free solitaire online'. http://sudokuisland.com seems to have a decent amount of keywords already, but perhaps you can think of more. Organic search is probably the only way to get traffic at the scale you need for an ad-monetized game.

My plan is to improve the PageRank and DomainRank, and eventually to make the product better (since Google presumably picks up on that through bounce rates, time on site, sharing). So that'd be the general strategy I recommend.

Another metric you can optimize is the number of times a first-time visitor returns, because it acts as a multiplier on your traffic. Say you get 100 organic first-time visitors per day, if each visitor returns 5 times, you'll have 600 total visits per day.
Ask HN: What should I do with my abandoned project?
I wrote a Clojure IDE[1] in Objective-C with a good chunk of it (parser/lexer) written in C. But I gave up on the effort, because of difficulties integrating a scripting language with C, and because writing in C is kind of annoying.

At this point, the project is probably dead. It's currently only barely useful. Should I take it down, or leave it up?

I could see one argument for taking it down being that it might confuse people who are looking for a real IDE and find it somewhat-broken instead.

On the other hand, one argument for leaving it up could be that someone else might take it over.

And maybe there are more things I'm not taking into account. Hence I come to you for advice.

[1]: https://github.com/sdegutis/leviathan
Remember when everyone said bitcoin was doomed because it's deflationary?
It's the significant change in number of poor ratings. I used to get one or two 1 star reviews per month, now it's nearly one per day. And most don't leave a comment, whereas they used to. I haven't released a new version for months, so unclear to me why else there would be a sudden change in bad reviews.
Googbye Hal
This is not new at all. Clear back in "Applied Cryptography", Schneier said that there is no security without physical security. If someone can physically get at your box, it's all over. For most people, he said, that level of paranoia is overkill, but for some it is very real.

And then there's what happened to Target. Someone got to their machines, not physically, but with a trusted download. That paranoia now has to be carefully thought through by everyone who cares about their security...
No, I mean that he was making a point, as if (s)he was in a debate and he was assigned to argue the opposite side of the argument
Ya, I think the car databases are backwards... I have never seen a Peugeot in America. I'm sure there are some, but I've never seen one.
Can't prove, but it's a very sudden change in behavior from users. Would also welcome other suggestions about what could cause this, or ideas for how to prove.
>without even thinking of a distant possibility to make it an ad platform or a paid

The point is that distant possibility wasn't enough in this case. Of course everyone had a distant possibility in mind, 95% of the readers of this article already thought of a distant possibility of where the company could have made money eventually if it had kept growing.
StrongLoop has a few good videos to help you get a fundamental understanding of what node.js is and how it works, highly recommend spending a few minutes watching these:

http://strongloop.com/developers/videos/#a-video-intro-to-no...

http://strongloop.com/developers/videos/#a-video-intro-to-ho...

For professional consulting, training and certification, check out http://strongloop.com/node-js-consulting/strongexpert/ as well.
That's actually a pretty aesthetic pattern of 1's.
This is a nice hack.

BUT: This has been done years ago for under $1 (the price of a nRF24L01 board) by using a nRF24L01 itself.

http://travisgoodspeed.blogspot.de/2011/02/promiscuity-is-nr...
While I wouldn't put it past the USG to use arms to prop up the dollar, I'm not sure if there are specific actions you're referring to.
Cool project. Like others have said, not particularly convinced that it's cheaper than Google's enterprise geocoding, but I'm more than glad to see the competition.

I wrote you guys a Ruby client: https://github.com/davidcelis/geocodio

The code's maybe a bit rough, but it's worked in my limited usage. Maybe you can take it for a test run before I push version 1.0.0 to RubyGems?
As your comment above says, the PID loop is probably just an MCU, sensor (for boiling water a diode sensor is probably fine and cheaper than compensating a thermocouple), and a relay and those are relatively inexpensive components.

However, a bimetallic strip rated to switch the current directly is likely an order of magnitude cheaper.
Generics are "so seamless" in F# that they ship in fact with two versions of Generics.
Interesting perspective, I would say that almost nobody ever actually wins an argument. Nor do I think that winning an argument is even a meaningful goal, especially online.

The best that you can hope to do is make a new and interesting point that will resonate with someone. Don't be afraid to do that. Even when you're wrong.

You're totally wrong on the contraception thing, by the way :)
Developer activates Apple’s upcoming iOS in the Car system
Just looked at the former, and it starts with an example of zero-sum thinking -- namely, that someone's disadvantage is necessarily a source of an advantage for others. Other social justice concepts are apparently also derived from this logical fallacy.

I love feminism btw; it has been, and still is, a truly progressive movement, despite it being currently infested with SJW's. The fundamental difference, which results from exactly this zero-sum thinking, is in the approach: are we pulling women up (the conference in question being a great example of that), or are we dragging everyone else down? Are we trying to reduce the gender gap by helping women to increase their value in our society, or do we try to make the society less efficient and reduce everyone's value, just so that the disadvantaged parties feel better?
> The reason crowds of people exhaust me is that I am constantly trying to read and understand the feelings and motivations of those around me.

Your theory is interesting, and I'm curious to hear how you'd interpret my situation. I get equally exhausted from being around people, but my problem is not so much that I am constantly trying to read and understand people, but rather that I seem to pick up and mirror the incessant (negative) emotions all around me when I'm in a group, with little filtering.

So if two colleagues get into a bit of an argument, I pick up on their negativity and feel my energy slowly drain away. Even if I don't really know them or care about them.

For much of my life I tried to address this by trying to understand the details of the situation and ideally by playing a role in solving it. That didn't really help much, and more recently I've allowed situations to just be. But while that gives me more peace of mind, it actually seems to increase my sensitivity to things around me.

It's reached a point where I try to manage it by avoidance: taking a bike instead of public transport to avoid seeing someone cry or get into a fight, focusing on my work as a contractor/freelancer to avoid a draining eight hours in an office, socializing less when my energy levels feel particularly low, etc.

While this solution works, it's not ideal, as I do have a strong desire to interact with others on a meaningful level.
I made a serious and thoughtful comment as well, but this one is getting way more votes :P
Hired.com, White Truffle, Linkedin and the Who is Hiring thread are pretty much all that seems to work for me.
I don't think philosophical arguments are very alien to HN. They're usually just applied to different problems, like what the best programming paradigm is, or how security should best be implemented in the kernel, or what's the best attitude to found your start-up on, etc.
I've begun taking over volunteer webmaster duties for a non-profit beekeeping association (made up of non-technical >= middle-aged folks) with domain reg and hosting through network solutions. I spent an hour on the phone with NS getting to the bottom of some things and got pretty appalled fairly quick. If the org hadn't renewed their setup with NS a month prior to my stepping in, I would have canceled everything on the spot. In addition to a couple other points, they charge double what godaddy charges for a .us domain. (~$40 vs. ~$20).
Original link http://blogs.computerworld.com/cybercrime-and-hacking/23412/... Well, it's really a collection of interesting links to other sources, but at least it's useful.

Or, given the numerous vulnerabilities, perhaps a breach already has happened. These are exactly the kind of security flaws bad guys exploit in large-scale breaches.

That's exactly what I've been wondering. Hackers have certainly had enough time to get in there and look around. How much data has been taken, and where will it show up?
And the fraction of a day decimal is significant, it's dropped my ranking from 112 to 173, and ranking for main keywords from 1st to 2nd.
Some compilers aren't generally available. Hypothetically, what if ICC wasn't available freely to educational users, but some of the students had side-jobs where they used it?

You can always mandate a large set of compilers, make them all available, and leave it up to the students to determine which is fastest. I think that acheives both the competitive/educational goal and the level playing field goal.
> sometimes it's best not to collect it, just because you don't know how it'll be [mis-]used

An example where this has happened: Some (many?) U.S. public libraries have stopped storing historic checkout data for patrons, in order to avoid having to turn the data over to a govt. agency. I recall being able to get a list of every book I had ever checked out. Not any more.
That is a correct definition of BFT, but as I said, Paxos does not tolerate Byzantine faults. Here's a direct quote [0] from Leslie Lamport, the author of the Paxos algorithm.

Assume that agents can communicate with one another by sending messages.
We use the customary asynchronous, non-Byzantine model, in which:

• Agents operate at arbitrary speed, may fail by stopping, and may restart.
Since all agents may fail after a value is chosen and then restart,
a solution is impossible unless some information can be remembered by an agent
that has failed and restarted.

• Messages can take arbitrarily long to be delivered, can be duplicated,
and can be lost, but they are not corrupted.

So, to be clear, Paxos tolerates processes that crash arbitrarily, but not processes that send malicious or incorrect messages.

For a consensus algorithm that does tolerate Byzantine faults, see Liskov's Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance [1].

[0] - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...

[1] - http://www.pmg.lcs.mit.edu/papers/osdi99.pdf
Sigh what a squishy article. What is the methodology? What is the sampling error? What does "OK" mean relative to "Good" ? This reminds me of the anecdotes in "Proofiness"[1] which talk about how the news industry figured out they could manufacture news by taking a poll.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Proofiness-Youre-Being-Fooled-Numbers/...
Can't speak for all package managers, but I know that some do not handle multiple versions of the same package well. In contrast, NPM handles this very well. Publishing packages is also much easier than pip or Packagist (PHP) in my opinion.
I think it's a fair guess that many members of the HN community are well off. As I encounter more and more developers, entrepreneurs, and others who visit this site regularly, I find that the question of whether one should feel obligated to give to charity becomes more relevant.

Thoughts?
Talking about Snowden's faults is like debating how candies are bad for your teeth while your city is being bombed. Technically, you can talk about such issue in isolation, but if you really care about your health, you should first solve the bombing problem and then worry about your teeth.

My argument is about priorities. If the entire point of blaming Snowden at all is "because national security", then it's important to start solving the problem of "national security" with the most important issues first. The issue number one: the people who supposedly provide you with national security 1) require blind trust from you 2) were abusing that trust 3) always lie 4) have guns and you don't 5) immune to the consequences of their actions and you aren't. To understand that you should be thankful to Snowden in particular.
3 so obviously follows from 1 that anyone who thinks contraception is a good thing clearly does not believe 1. It's so direct that it doesn't really qualify as an argument, but merely a restatement of the original position.

It's like saying that spheres are good, and when asked why, saying that they're three-dimensional and round, and three-dimensional round things are good. Is that an argument? I don't really think so. An argument is where you state your reasoning in such a way that it could, at least potentially, convince the other person. Merely stating one of your opinions that happens to be related to another of your opinions doesn't qualify.

Personally, for #1, I don't think there's anything good or bad about a birth. More or fewer births, by themselves, don't matter. They take on good or bad qualities based on the context in which they happen. Preventing a birth before anything related even happens is not by itself good or bad, it's just something that happens. I'd wager most of the others on the "pro-contraception" side think likewise.
I actually think what he did (making a big mess out of it so it ends in HN) is likely the right thing to do, it'll likely solve the issue faster and punish them more severely.
#GSF2014 :GSFIndia's annual event will be held in New Delhi on Jan 31 and Feb 1
Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync (2004)
> I have some pretty deplorable thoughts myself, and I seem to be getting away with it

Only because you don't have 24/7 surveillance on you. Yet.
> .NET's type system is quite elegant

What do you think about being able to use Void in Generics?
Java's issue of not supporting primitive types pales in comparison to that.

Also, while reified generics and structs are fine, most of the optimizations one would reasonably suspect to be supported are just not there. Some time ago, it was still faster to pass value types by reference ... that's just embarrassing. Maybe RyuJIT does better here?
U.S. Court: Bloggers Are Journalists, even when they're libeling you
The selfish miner(s) build a blockchain in private and choose the right moment to reveal it. This paper describes it in more detail:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.0243v2.pdf
I would definitely ban using any compiler that wasn't generally available to the class, or at least disqualify their output from winning the contest. I'd take a generic approach where it's worded just like that, rather than trying to come up with an official set of acceptable compilers, though.
This is the closest that I have seen to an answer:

<i>Since Bitcoin is a digital bearer instrument, the receiver of a payment does not get any information from the sender that can be used to steal money from the sender in the future, either by that merchant or by a criminal who steals that information from the merchant.</i>

I don't know enough about how the costs of payment fraud breakdown to know what percentage of the administrative costs of the system result from stolen card numbers. I can imagine it being a big percentage, but I can also imagine it being relatively small since solutions to it might be have the same characteristics of scalability as the fraud itself whereas the other failure modes associated with credit card fraud require more comprehensive human involvement both in their perpetration and in their redress.

For the moment then, it looks as if Bitcoin is an improvement to existing costly solutions to the BGP, but not an absolute solution. But that's better than no solution at all, which is how it seemed.
Any time. I believe there's a high amount of nuance to the writings, activism, and ideas referred to by the phrase "radical feminist," and without noting it, it becomes very easy to get the wrong idea about the whole thing. "All sex is rape" and "all PIV is rape" are two vastly different statements in the context of this politics.
Would as well recommend Namecheap.com, really professional.
If it was one of my relatives, it would have been that or some geo coordinates to an almost impossible to get to place resulting in nothing (or a sign that said "gotcha").
As a CarWoo customer, this is really disappointing. I used CarWoo for my first dealership purchase and it was an incredibly pleasant experience. I was able to walk in to the dealership knowing exactly how much I would pay and confident that it was all a matter of signing papers.

I really hoped CarWoo was going to disrupt this industry. Bummer.
I don't think I'm the run of the mill HN user, but I'm an undergrad in biology.

Still give to charity.
In the event a customer is actually charged for said service, it absolutely is. I have a feeling the attention they're about to garner will correct that prior to ever occurring.
Of course, that's purely rational. Get a bunch of $100K/year programmers in a room and ask them to build software that improves the workflow of working with offshored $7/hour developers, and see the response you get.
>> I guess you have to worry about the recipient if you are sending email to a non gmail/hotmail/ymail address?

Virtru allows you to send securely to any recipient, regardless of the email provider they use. The easiest way to read the secure message is to use the Virtru software to integrate with your existing email client.

Our iPhone client uses IMAP, so it works with any email provider that supports IMAP.

Our browser extension currently integrates with Gmail, Yahoo, and Outlook.com. If the Virtru browser extension does not integrate with your email provider, then we provide a mechanism to read the secure email in your browser without installing anything. However, you cannot reply securely without the Virtru software.
I think, it's just the opposite. Since the fall of the communist idea (of course it has fallen already before), one religion now is dominant: Capitalism. Meaning, anybody that does not believe in the "true god", is guilty of Thoughtcrime.
I think the arity limit is more or less planned to be fixed in Scala > 2.11 anyway.
Their website says "Negotiation Free"
Back in 2007/2008 or so I bought a pair of Seagate 7200 500gb drives and got bit hard by their extremely broken firmware. I haven't bought seagate drives since then, it's sad that their overall QC is still so terrible across the board.
I'm assuming some HNers are soon to arrive saying things like "why does it matter that a founder is a black person?", "why make an excluding event? isn't racism all the same", "imagine if someone made a 'white founders conference'?"

I would like to ask you to think for a moment, before raising these concerns (I am not bothering here to debate with haters, only with those who are genuinely concerned that this might be racism, all the same).

If a group is underrepresented in some professional, economical, academical field, it is worthy to understand the causes. Sometimes is a historical gap in fields that have a self-perpetuating cycle of dominance (such as women in politics). It is tough to address such underrepresentation, and it take generations to make any change (as it took generations and generations to create the initial gap).

This is not the case for black founders. Here we have a much simples issue: stigmatization. At least, this is how most people in this field, including the organizers of this event, seems to classify it. It is easier to address because a cultural perception is easier to change than institutionalized cycles of power (as in politics).

And, as I see it, this is the only goal of this event. No one is claiming that blacks are better than whites or asians in founding startups. Or the opposite, that blacks are worse than whites in founding startups and that they need special treatment. This event is only trying inspire blacks, and that founding startups shouldn't be stigmatized as a white and asian club. Blacks can have a good life in founding one if they give this thought a chance.

So there the only assumptions I see in this event are that: (i) founding a startup is a good thing that they should inspire people to do (something largely supported by HN audience I would guess) and (ii) that blacks aren't currently being correctly or ideally presented, attracted and inspired to these opportunities of founding a startup.

These two assumptions may be contested. If you disagree with assumption (i) you a have a much bigger fight to pick, basically the whole illusion that Sillicon Valley sells to the world, this event isn't particular relevant in this broader debate.

And if you disagree with assumption (ii), that this event is not necessary, it means that is no harm done by such an event occurring. It would by useless at most, but not particularly harmful.

This is my perception of this, and I am writing it hoping to avoid a thread full of heated debate based on false assumptions. Maybe I am being pretentious, but I swear I am just trying to help and expose my thoughts on the subject.
I'm an American hacker with a tattoo. For me, I wanted something that symbolized my life up until that point (and since, but I don't like to make assumptions about what I'll be doing in the future). So, I ended up with a very simple lambda on my left shoulder -- it was the best symbol to summarize what my life had been up until that point. Very few others ever see it, so it's really just for me; a nice reminder of my commitment to hackerdom.