skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ban private buses? You mean, like, prevent people from operating private buses entirely? No greyhound? You can't mean that, because it's ridiculous, but I'm not sure exactly what you do mean.

A huge number of people employed on the peninsula would absolutely live close to work and build communities there, if those peninsula cities weren't so hell-bent on preventing dense development. There just isn't the supply there.

And what the f do you mean by "natives", anyway? Native Americans? Everyone else is an immigrant. If you moved here a year before I did, do you have some more legitimate claim to live here? I don't think so.

Of course supply and demand applies to the situation. Your suggestion of banning private buses, while ridiculous, is specifically an attempt to influence demand. Your own suggested solution assumes that the "Econ 101" theory applies.
They've stated publicly they made it easy to get around.
The best way to validate your Python files: Frosted a fork of Pyflakes
Most people if they run into this often enough will just pay the $15/month, for various reasons. For those that don't have any money, simply viewing in incognito mode is sufficient to bypass the paywall.

Of all the things that I spend money on each month, though, the $15 that I send to NYT is easily the one I feel that I get the most value from.
Canada rules bitcoin is not legal tender
Various pre-smartphone Japanese phone OSes, e.g. I think au had one called "KCP", which was based on "BREW" from Qualcomm... BREW was apparently used in various forms by others too.
The sociopath part was where he simultaneously was a kind, caring, sensitive person, while simultaneously comfortable ordering the execution of somebody, and three of his completely innocent roommates. That part is pretty messed up.
Did they do it on launch, or just after it was widely publicized that bypassing their paywall is laughably easy?

Edit: Afterwards. I'd be more inclined to believe them if they had said it from the start.
homakov, I'm a fan. Some day, we'll hire you to do security consulting for our products.
Lucky they at least give you the choice. In Belgium we are obliged to use the modem from the provider. We don't need to pay for it (but I assume it's paid inside the monthly subscription I pay).

Befoe this was not a problem. I connected my own router behind it and everything was still ok. But now they provide their own router/wifi combo in the modem (and free hotspot). I can disable the wifi and hotspot but not the router functionality. Which means I have to NAT behind it. This gives other problems like vpn into my own network and such.
> Similar performance characteristics (or better) than Go.
Nope. It's without a doubt 100% better. The GC is brilliant and realtime with deterministic properties. The community has outperformed C++ in ray tracers and games, Ada in text manipulation, etc. It's absolutely freaking blazing since it compiles to really tight C and takes advantage of the 50 years of C compiler research & design.

> Library situation is a little iffy.
Libraries are hardly iffy. Any C code be called, and most c++ code can be called very, very easily and with little boilerplate. The standard library has a huge pure section, and for almost everything else it has dozens of bindings to C libs. And there are plenty of existing libraries in the babel library manager, such as SFML.
Unfortunately there is no right answer for such question.

Moving to a country that is advertised of the polar opposite of China is like watching an advertisement of KFC and decided that KFC is better than McD.
As much as I'd like to read this article, Blogspot's themes are so aggressively reader-hostile that I simply cannot.

Please, people, if you're using Blogspot, stop. Or at the very least, avoid the craptacular "dynamic" themes like the pox they are.
I'll just comment on Best Buy specifically.

1. Person ringing up your items would ask you if you wanted to subscribe to magazines for free but they never told you it was actually for 6 months before they start charging you.

2. Selling older TV models and other stuff when they could get away with that. Most laptops were semi-new but otherwise I would never go to BB to buy (for example) a refrigerator because the people there don't know shit about it and are probably trying to sell me last year's model at this year's prices.

3. Geek Squad is terrible and I don't want to look it up but I'm betting there are hundreds of, "please don't reformat my laptop HD" stories where they end up doing it anyways.

4. UPSELLING ME ON EXTENDED WARRANTIES... for a USB cable (while back but just replace it now with HDMI cable) that I had to buy because I needed it immediately.

So I can either get something on Amazon, maybe lookup reviews from another site, and then click buy and get it within 2-3 days, _OR_ I can go through with the above. Yeah, No thanks. That's why you lose customers Best Buy, not just because of online. Your stores are run like shit and then you treat most of your customers like shit.
Dart vs. ClojureScript: first impressions
Launching a Startup for $49
It's even more funny when you know that "pau", in Catalan, means "peace".
> That gap closes very quickly if you have to say anything other than words (versus typing it). Saying numbers or symbols is far slower than typing them

Might be fixable in a language with a limited variety of symbols such as a concatenative language, or a somewhat reimagined smalltalk-ish language. Then the few common symbols get assigned to e.g. click consonants.
And I believe it's a problem of the education system. Back in high school they had me solve dozens, if not hundreds, of derivates and integrals, it was not until college that a fantasic teacher had the guts to come up with his own syllabus, threw away all the "traditional" calculus and taught us what was a diffeeential, what were we doing when getting a derivative and an integral, completely changed my mind.
There was a constant palpable rivalry with both NYC and Southern California

Living in the Bay area, I can't say I relate all that much. You hear about New York in the context of food and finance, and about LA in the context of fashion and Hollywood. But not really in terms of a competition of some kind. Maybe it's a peninsula thing.
Lost me at " Use a spread�sheet-like dataflow pro�gram�ming en�vi�ron�ment to man�age client state."
> I'm ok with a SPA as long as long you also have an API

That would be great, but I have no faith that the same developers who are today shirking responsibility for shipping their content as HTML with transcluded resources at stable URLs, will someday start shipping their content in a stable schema and API. They think nothing of turning their data and URLs upside down and changing their client to match, because they have a blind spot around the very idea that theirs is not the only client.
I studied Maths to the second highest level available in high school (so higher than the majority of students) and although I used e.g. 2PiR all the time this is the first I've actually understood how it works. It isn't something we were taught. We were taught how to get the answer, not why/how that is the correct way to get the answer.
The difference is that Javascript generally has no API for accessing file system and OS resources, but Java applets by default give full access to the entire Java standard library; it simply restricts certain parts of it with the sandbox. If a Java applet can find a way to access things on the blacklist, then it can download and run any file with your OS user privileges.

With Javascript there isn't actually a sandbox to break out of.
Good to see this step in the right direction.

The private key should be encrypted such that the only way to know if you guessed the right password it is to try to login. Some formats, like putty ppk, add an unencrypted checksum in the file, which allow a local check to see if decryption was successful. Way to make offline attacks easy! You'll see a line like:

"Private-MAC: A1B2..."

For example, instead of PKCS#1 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3447#page-7) just store the encrypted private exponent (an integer) with nothing else. Do not store 'n' (RSA modulus) within the ciphertext. Do not keep the public key file on the same server.
>Stanford actually will give an automatic full-ride scholarship to any accepted student whose family makes under $100,000/yr, since not many admitted students qualify for it anyway.

From what I understand, this is now common practice not only at Stanford but at many of the top private schools.
An append only log? The value of writing data is that you can read it, otherwise your structure is semantically equivalent to not writing at all.
Android compatibility layer doesn't include Google Services so no GMail, Google Maps or other programs.
Thanks. Accounting isn't my thing at all. I recently heard that a previous employer of mine was begging staff to take some leave as all the leave on their books is somehow counted as a debt and it makes the books better if people burn off some of their accrued leave. People were forced to take 2-3 month holidays to clear their 10+ years of leave they had saved up. Quite how the workplace functioned with so many on leave at the same time is beyond me.
They're not working on a production device, but they have an internal prototype which the few third-parties who've tested it consider mind-blowing even compared to OR's Crystal Cove. It might be the result of Ellsworth's work though

https://twitter.com/DaveOshry/statuses/423961443889717248 (Palmer is Palmer Luckey, founder and CEO of Oculus Rift)

https://twitter.com/TheDavidHensley/statuses/423591891171426... https://twitter.com/TheDavidHensley/statuses/423592847531466... (Tripwire, Killing Floor & Red Orchestra)

http://garry.tv/2014/01/16/steam-dev-days-day-1/ (Garry's Mod author)

http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/1vc9gz/im_a_dev_that... (random schmuck who got to try it)
Are the Chinese rich mostly (former) Communist elite members who succeeded on grabbing assets during privatizations or are many of them self made entrepreneurs?
Seriously? You want them to spend thousands of dollars to show you a site that looks like it's from 2000 for the next six months, only to redo it more modern?
What does XCODE call a "library"?

…
a framework.
I miss the feature of hiding boards from the menu.
The new alternative of showing only starred boards doesn't do the trick for me...
Where's the unit-tests?
Yes, but the main point he makes is an excellent one that is normally missed everywhere else: namely the cultural one-way street that exists between the US and Europe. Europeans watch American TV, listen to American music, read American blogs, etc. But does that also work the other way around? No. This already fails at the language level, as most Europeans speak English, but not many Americans speak another European language. I would even go as far as saying that most European journalists read more US sources than they read sources from their neighbour countries. This is also mostly caused by language skills.

As a consequence, when trying to gain attention as a European startup, you can either try to conquer the European countries one by one - or you can try to get American attention (e.g. techcrunch) and let the European tech journalists copy from there. This is a though choice US entrepreneuers don't have and its caused by the cultural one-way street.
We do. And silly songs on YouTube. And any other good content people want to make.

This being HN, how about someone whipping up a Web application where teachers can post 'want ads' for small things like this and creative visual people can respond by posting links to bits of work? For the lutz and to help?
How does that happen? We used to have a lot of stuff, but hiring movers never cost anywhere near even one month's rent. Are these the same people who are half a paycheck away from disaster all the time?
Pozible
We've had this argument here before and in some sense you're right in that culture is relative and 'more diverse' is essentially a meaningless phrase.

What is true though is that Americans tend to underestimate the homogenizing effect a shared language, border, government and media apparatus has and the degree to which it helps in facilitating cross-country trade.
Here's a dark horse which might become interesting soon: http://highfidelity.io/
These Smart Streetlights Only Get Bright When They're Needed
It's abundantly clear that there's a lot of corruption in China, often involving government officials or those with connections to the government, and much of it really obvious.

The Chinese government hasn't generally cracked down because they were feeling virtuous, but because their hand was forced (corruption was revealed independently), and they feared social discontent more than they feared upsetting the gravy train.

It's certainly believable that they would sometimes use "corruption" as an excuse to persecute those they don't like for political and other reasons -- but they can't just ignore every case of true corruption, especially obvious ones, because they don't want to risk real public unrest.
Based on what I heard and read there were very significant restrictions put in place in recent years that effectively disable the export of the capital from Russia. You still can "grab", bribe, grease and grow rich, but all your money will stay in the country.
Very nice.

Practical: take a 15cm ruler and drill small holes at each end. Thread a 1.2m ish loop of string through the holes so there is a radius of 57cm. Tie the string together about 20cm from the ruler.

The result lets you measure angles on the horizon, e.g. width of Moon (not Sun with children please!) and the altitude of navigation stars near rise and set.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_%28navigation%29

http://kaloujm.com/page_kamal_uk.php
If it doesn't hurt to think about it, we're not going to try it
And Europe (not just the small EU subset) has 50+ countries.
Minimum Viable Research
The menu on the right cuts off at the bottom of my screen and there is no way to scroll it down. Also, the default font size is too darn big, zoom out to 75%, thats how it should look.

They haven't rethemed the manage pages yet, looks hilariously out of place x)
Yes.

The more-content less-joking answer to this question involves things like self-made entrepreneurs whose first dollar came from a $10 million dollar contract from a factory owned by the Chinese army which, totally freakish coincidence time, happens to be run by their dad.

The magic word for Googling about this is "princeling."
Hopefully, they get higher quality support reps with better understanding of English. I'd also like the ability to be able to call someone, that's something that GoDaddy does better. I guess they take advantage of the cheaper technical salaries in Eastern Europe though so that's why customers aren't able to talk to someone.
Funny you say that, because that's exactly why I come here -- I want to hear people come out and say the things they're thinking of saying but wouldn't because it would violate some social guideline. I was having a conversation with a libertarian the other day (in fact it actually was a dinner party) and I kept getting the feeling that on certain points he /wanted/ to go to logical extremes (as did I) but didn't, because if we had gone there we'd inevitably end up talking about some pretty heavy stuff, including my country's history and how we mistreated many people. But the reality is that it actually is really hard talking about these things face-to-face (it is, at least to me). Online, where most memory is ephemeral as concerns people's identities on large forums, you don't know my race, religion, creed - you're not going to waste mental power trying to word things so that I don't get offended, you'll just come out and say what you mean. That's really what I want. But even I can't do this in real life (or at least, have significant trouble doing it), so I come here... and other places online to talk about those things. Because, if I'm not talking about these things at the dinner table, then where else would I talk about them if not online?

I'd rather that we just get down and dirty, in an honest and direct manner. We often sacrifice progress on many issues by getting set back by social rules. Let's stop doing that.
WeatherBug advertises extension by impersonating Chrome permissions dropdown box
I kinda sorta agree, at default zoom level, everything is way way way oversized, the logo rocks though.
> Works in Chrome.

Hmm, looks like Chrome isn't respecting the Public suffix list for setting cookies ATM, even though the site for the list claims that it does.[0]

For an example, view [1] and [2] in Chrome, and note that cookies set by [1] are viewable by [2] even though this shouldn't be allowed given blogspot's entry in the public suffix list. Firefox doesn't exhibit this behaviour, and I'm thinking this is a recent regression in Chrome, but who knows.

> Also look at translate.googleusercontent.com, if you bomb it, Google Translate will stop working.

I haven't taken a look at it, but would it make sense to add dynamic <original>.translate.googleusercontent.com subdomains for translated sites and add the base domain to the public suffix list?

> it should be solved by browsers too & length should be limited

IMO this is only going to be solved by a revision to the spec that resolves the ambiguity. The core issue is that browsers and servers disagree as to what a "reasonable" cookie jar size is, and servers are rejecting request with "unreasonably" large cookie jars.

Until those limits are actually part of a spec that people follow, someone's going to be sending too much or allowing too little and legitimate requests will get rejected.

I don't know if you've read Michal's "The Tangled Web" or the Browser Security Handbook but they both go into it a little.[3]

[0]: http://publicsuffix.org/learn/ (under Chromium)

[1]: http://cookietestblog1.blogspot.com/2014/01/cookie-test.html

[2]: http://cookietestblog2.blogspot.com/2014/01/cookie-test.html

[3]: http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_p... (under cookie jar size)
> Most legitimate Websites will not use hidden or obfuscated JavaScript, and few will redirect users without authorization, he explained.

What?

This was addressed on reddit [1]:

Since I'm the person who submitted this data
for the annual security report inside of Cisco
and also have the interviews surrounding this...

91% of client side compromises had to do with
the java plugin to the browser. Java applets,
not server side java.

Sometimes JavaScript is used to obfuscate the applet,
the applet load, or the entire page, the vulnerability
is not in JavaScript.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vj917/java_pri...
not at all. I just feel it is time that someone else takes the role of world tyrant for a while. Very sick of USA belting out that holier than thou crap.
The cookie attack is an attack against browsers, not against sites. The effect is that the server refuses your request.
When I was working at HP, just after graduating from college, the CEO (Lew Platt) announced that he would be stressing work-life balance among employees. He specifically said that he wanted to accommodate working mothers, and especially single-parent families. He officially blessed the idea of job sharing (such that two people could each have a part-time job) and flexible hours, to help in that way.

The particularly poignant part of this story was that he learned the importance of such flexibility the hard way: His wife died from cancer, and he was left taking care of his children by himself. Suddenly, he realized how much work it was to raise children, and he decided that HP should try to take into account people's personal needs, such that they could be with their families and have jobs.

I don't know how deep those changes really went, and I don't know how many of them have continued until today. But those announcements and attempts to help people balance their personal and professional lives have stayed with me for about two decades.

Sure, I work crazy hours (as a freelancer, and also trying to finish a PhD) -- but part of the reason I work late at night is because I value spending time with my wife and children. I cringe when I see startups (and other companies) expecting people, explicitly or implicitly, to sacrifice their family time for the sake of the company except in unusual circumstances. And yet, there's no doubt that for many of these companies, success often does demand more than a simple, 40-hour week.

I'm glad that the original author realizes now that he could and should have spent more time with his family. But I do wonder if he is willing to tell the people working at his startups, "Hey, that program can be debugged tomorrow. Go home and spend time with your children. Software can wait, but they can't."
It may be worth noting the theory behind such devices is enough... bit.ly/1moIHDQ
Happened to me relatively recently, actually. Had an encrypted machine that hadn't been rebooted in months. No backups (it's not production related, just a personal box, but still). Power outage hits. MFW when I can't remember the login after trying for an hour:

https://31.media.tumblr.com/a5edfd83a17768f9f9dd4366e34ecad6...
Ask HN: What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?
I was going through my bookmarks and found this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4000394
I was merely being tongue in cheek in pointing out that Europe has experience in massive science/industry as well.
It's not like we came over from Europe or anything.
I'm sure there's a substantial effect there. I have no idea how to estimate or measure it, and I don't really care, either. I also don't really care whether the US has larger or smaller cultural gaps than Europe, and I wasn't talking about that. I spoke of present reality in the US as I observe it, not long-term trends.

Present reality is that anywhere east of the Rockies may as well be a foreign nation. I am far more comfortable with many foreigners, even non-Western foreigners, than with most people in the eastern US. Present reality thus leaves me utterly unsurprised that Silicon Valley remains relatively unique in the US.

Edit: Incidentally, I'm amused by the strongly negative reaction I'm getting from Europeans who wish to tell me, an American, what America is really like. What would be your reaction, exactly, if I started telling you what Europe is really like?
Requiring lots of effort != Hard (Engineering).
Anything that requires a lot of money instead of ingenuity is particularly unattractive to engineers, I believe.
(That should be "more benefit for servers", of course)
The number crunch: Will Big Data transform your life - or make it a misery?
It's active. Interesting article about mapping social graphs at events based on wifi probes: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2013/papers/imc148-barber...
You're spot-on, this practice of summarizing a "romantic Japan" that doesn't really exist has a name: Nihonjinron. There's a lot of complete bollocks to be found in Western literature that falls under this term (even though it started out as a Japanese thing). Even Oscar Wilde made fun of this trend:

>Oscar Wilde has argued that supposed aspects of Japanese culture widely reported in the West take on a life of their own as orientalist clichés long after the phenomena in question have disappeared from the socio-cultural landscape, saying "The actual people who live in Japan are not unlike the general run of English people; that is to say, they are extremely commonplace, and have nothing curious or extraordinary about them."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihonjinron#Quotes
Another magic word to Google is "Guanxi," the Chinese version of "networking" in the old-school social sense, but more...intense.
Proust is shorter than "The War of the Roses, WITH DRAGONS!", and plenty of people have ploughed through that.