skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm well aware OP is in .uk but is there anything fundamentally different about their legal and economic system that blocks my basic argument of:

They want to put X amount of roadblock in your way, and you are willing to put Y amount of effort to move the roadblock and all that matters is X<Y or X>Y. And depending on the strategy of the hired guns aka lawyers doing the fighting that effort could be measured in all manner of things, money, labor time, clock time, paperwork, nuisances, things of that nature. But fundamentally if they decide they own you, you need to figure out how much it'll cost to gain your freedom, and are you willing to pay it. And HN won't be able to estimate better than perhaps 4 orders of magnitude how much it'll cost, but your paid legal representation can probably figure it out pretty well.

Lets consider the rules about sacking, if the company knows the court will fine them $100K but they've got $150K worth of hate to dispose of you, well, you're gone because 100 < 150. Your employer probably being much bigger than you are, they likely have better legal representation, and likely have an excellent idea how much it will cost them to provide a certain level of annoyance to you.

My point still stands.. The legalities don't matter unless you're one of the hired guns working on your strategy, what matters is how much they're willing to spend to mess with you, vs how much you are willing to spend, vs what kind of deal and trades you're willing to make.

It may very well be next to nothing if they don't really care. Or maybe if you're going into direct opposition with a better product, they'll spend their entire net worth, which likely exceeds yours.
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Welcome to the internet - any public internet-facing service needs to be regularly updated, as all of them (apache, openssh, .net, rails, php, java apps, off the shelf things like wordpress) have multiple exploits discovered regularly, and bots randomly try urls at servers to try to take over the machine. That's not a very pleasant experience and often isn't clear to the client/users, but that's the cost of being on the internet.

No matter which framework or application you are talking about (including Word as it happens, if anyone mails you docs), you're running a risk if you run software which is old. On the desktop you'll mostly get away with this, but when it is exposed to the internet directly, the timeframe before someone tries to exploit you is probably measured in minutes, not years. You can still easily lose data/time/money by using out of date desktop software like XP, Acrobat or Word though.

I agree the article doesn't give a good clear explanation of costs and benefits, and is mixing up two things - regular upgrades to software for security, and upgrades to software for other reasons (like additional features or making the dev's life easier). Often in bigger companies these jobs are split, but in smaller companies you might pay your developer to be sysops, developer, backup specialist and all-round computer person, so they tend to do both (and mix up both in quotes). Whatever tech you choose to use, you'll find you incur similar costs for maintenance (in my experience at least), though perhaps not these costs. It mixes up too many concepts (security, features, maintenance), which is a bit confusing and I could see being frustrating as a business owner who wants to pay for new features, not pay for keeping old ones. Unfortunately running software on the internet comes with a maintenance cost, which should be explained to clients up front as a separate cost from development, because the reasons for doing it (security) are mostly separate, and it's more like maintaining your server than website/app development (it should also include updating your web server software for example).
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Isn't there a new movie about this? One pissed off techie reprograms drones to attack US civilians above US soil?
What if they're really good and outdo you? You'll want them. But, they aren't going to want to shack up with some second-rate company.
I'd love to use this .. but who has time to learn yet another configuration and provisioning management tool? I mean, I can make the time - and will - but since this is just another docker management tool, lets use this moment to pick on it, a little bit..

What this needs is the ability to be pointed at a working VM - lets say, Ubuntu 13.10 server - and then just figure out whats different about it, compared to the distro release.

Something like the blueprint tool, in fact.
ElectricAccelerator is predominantly written in C/C++, with some Java for the cluster manager server component. As of the 7.1.0 release, it's about 375KLOC in C/C++ (excludes comments and blank lines) and 100KLOC in Java (excludes comments and blank lines). Compiling and linking from scratch takes about 29 minutes serially, but only about 2 minutes when I use ElectricAccelerator to build it (with a cluster of 16 worker agents).

We use ElectricCommander to orchestrate our CI process:

* checkout from Perforce

* build (which uses ElectricAccelerator)

* run unit tests

* build installer

* install on test cluster

* run integration tests
But what I don't quite understand is why there aren't 'perp walks'. It seems odd, because I imagine lots of FBI agents would love to take down guys at a big bank.

I'm not saying this to point out a huge injustice, it's just very curious.
Dotgpg: Easy-to-use storage for your production secrets (2014)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY

Tesla already demoed this.
To be fair, people on /r/dogecoin don't care much about day to day value, they're in for the long run and the fun.
Why would electric cars change that?

Density is how you remove reliance on the car.
> It is very much in Russia's interest to make sure ultra-nationalists become the dominant party in this

Honest question: How is this in Russia's interest? The paramilitary UNA­-UNSO helped fighting the Russian military in both the Abkhazian and the Chechnya conflicts, according to their own account.
Different courts have reached different conclusions on this matter. It will probably end up in the Supreme Court at one point. Until then, various three letter agencies will treat it as if it is legal and act as if they are immune from consequences of abuse (which they are, presently).
I agree with all your points with a minor exception: Crimea does have more than 50% Russians[0] - it's the only region that has more Russians than Ukrainians.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea#Demographics
Lessons learned from declined job applications
Bigcommerce is Australian too. Notice on their website in the footer it is a "Pty. Ltd." co. Aussie!

Great to see 2 out of the 12 Aussie companies :-)
"There are no black holes", says Stephen Hawking
Wow. I had heard that many Chinese factories will use retired molds for casting processes and the like to create copies of things like golf clubs, but this brings the whole process to an entirely new level.
I think it's debatable based on your view of a company's purpose: is it to serve its stockholders or is it to serve its customers?
Any decent programmer working in a dynamically typed language will implement pre-checks (and maybe even post-checks) to validate types at run-time.

Some dynamic languages even allow for type specifications and static analysis, optionally or through an external tool.
Thanks—though I'm not a troll. Here's a longer discussion of the problem and what could be done about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6810259 .

A more straightforward response would just be to call for HTML to be brought back under the control of the W3C. There are certainly merits to that, but at the same time a) W3C has its own obvious flaws as the overlord of HTML, b) no matter how benevolent a dictator W3C would or could be, even democratic (or quasi-semi-democratic) control is not the same thing as actual openness in the form of de facto (not just notional) forkability, and c) there's no easy and obvious way to get the yoke of W3C control back on the necks of the browser-vendor cartel, no matter how desirable it might be.

Regardless, one important first step is for people in general to have a clear-eyed view of what the present situation really is. One necessary part of that is for people to stop having a reflexive feel-good response to the 'Open Web' slogan.
Ok, figured it out! Should be all fixed now.
Libsass is over 10 times faster than Sass
Do you really need the latest iPhone if you upgrade to iOS 7?
It's interesting how Uber's messaging has evolved to coincide with argument that they simply facilitate the connection between drivers and people who need a ride. Where they used to say "Everyone's private driver," [1] now they say "The Uber app connects you with a driver at the tap of a button." [2]

[1] Uber.com, January 2013: http://cl.ly/image/261W1r3J1r00
[2] Uber.com, today: http://cl.ly/image/302s342N2r3l
It's also because people in Germany have manners. In California, or the rest of US, people just throw garbage on the side of the road. It's so infuriating! I once saw a guy throw a cigaret pack on the ground literally, and I kid you not, literally 3 feet away from a garbage can. I had to "kindly" insist that he picks it up and disposes of it properly. It's like some people here were raised by fucking wolves or something. I see people throw fast food bags, half way full drink cups, and plastic bags out of their cars on the freeway all the time.
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django-websocket-request doesn't really know anything about websockets specifically. The example I provided uses sockjs which provides websocket emulation and does upgrades to other methods if supported.
Fascinating. Your writeup is probably the best thing I've read all year. Thanks!
Is it equally silly that laws from the 19th century apply to somebody born in the '80s? It seems like more or less the same thing — laws keep applying to new instances of the things covered until the laws are changed.
One slide from a May 2010 NSA presentation on getting data from smartphones – breathlessly titled "Golden Nugget!" – sets out the agency's "perfect scenario": "Target uploading photo to a social media site taken with a mobile device. What can we get?"

To me, this is quite telling.

The NSA is not considering what data they need to achieve their mission, and then trying to find that data. Instead, they're just looking for "what can we get", and worry later about how it might be useful (or legal!).

This is no way to run a successful organization in the 21st century.
There's a real lack of awareness among these comments that privacy, the fourth amendment, and the fifth amendment are incredibly harmful to society. They allow organised crime to operate with great ease. They facilitate the corrupt in any walk of life, be it political, corporate, or even law enforcement.
I think they'd have to show that saga is something their titles can't live without.

Candy Crush, Pet Rescue, Bubble Witch, etc. all stand on their own. Saga doesn't add anything that makes any of them more specific.

It makes them all sound like they're part of the same series, which makes them sound more generic, if anything.
The politics here, however, is far older than two months. Participation by my Russian-speaking Jewish friend is current as of today and the Russian language message I mentioned is from January 23rd (four day old).
One of them was by a registered offender who they shouldn't have hired, another was PG admitting he didn't know young women all that well, so it doesn't support what you seem to be implying all that well, unless the month I looked at isn't representative. And also there's the fact that the list doesn't report the number of meetups/cons where no incidents are reported. But as I said before, I'd certainly need to see it happen at the events I attend before I believe it happens at all events or that the entire community is hostile towards women. You might as well list all such crimes reported in the US and use that as evidence that everyone living in the US is a misogynist.
People claim damages. They have to show that these are reasonable damages. They can also apply to have costs of legal action awarded to them.

Thus a company could attempt to snow under someone bringing legal action, but that's just driving costs up so if they lose, and costs are awarded, they've just increased the amount they have to pay. Their lawyers + your lawyers + awarded monies.
I'm guessing that Marc will try to curate the projects so that you learn a lot in as little time as possible. You could work on rent a coder instead but presumably on that site, most projects will be web based CRUD apps whereas I'm imagining that these projects will help you grow as a developer.
Differentiating Rails as a framework and not a language is helpful when people compare framework to a language and say that language is inadequate. I'm not sure if that's why you're clarifying this?

Frameworks tend to extend languages to the web/internet, because none of them handle the web very well. I only know of a few languages specifically, and written for the web/internet first.
For every story like this, there's 50 stories of a lower-class kid who started plugging away at a computer in school or at a friends house and ended up being a programmer or sysadmin.

Plenty of people now would love to thank their aunt or grandmother for buying that obsolete-but-still-very-usable Amiga or Atari at a yard sale, or that math teacher who had a Mac in the back of the classroom, or the librarian who let them in an hour before school started to play Arkanoid and read the BASIC books.
Exactly!

And how many of you have actually read the agreement that the EU presented to Yanukovich to sign. You will be surprised at the scope of the changes that Ukraine would have to implement. [http://eeas.europa.eu/ukraine/assoagreement/assoagreement-20...]

It is hard to believe that Ukrainian citizens are even aware of the details in this agreement. How can they decide whether or not it is a good deal if they do not even know the details?

Too many Ukrainians believe that this agreement would give them visa free travel to the EU (it would NOT) so that they could go there, get a job, save up the money and come home to buy a house and live a life of ease. This actually happened to a lot of Polish workers when Poland joined the EU, but the EU economy was in a different state back then. Since that time the EU has imposed strict rules around new members working in the EU so that Rumania and Bulgaria did not experience that same gold-paved road that the Poles experienced.
The charge of whataboutism hinges upon the irrelevance of the counter-charge. Since the two are being accused here of exactly the same crime, the charge fails. Not to mention that, from reading the wikipedia article, the inspiration for the term comes from a situation where the counter-charge comes from the initially accused party, which is not the case here.
If you're programming in Java, C++ or another OOP language, you are still getting benefits from static typing. It's not as strong as if you were programming in a language with a more robust type system, but I cannot agree that there is no benefit.
Static typing is a blanket of testing that covers the entire project. Likely not thick enough to be sufficiently warm, but still a better base layer than a patchy sprinkling of straw.
I think all the companies are technically considered startups until their IPOs.
After moving to California 3 years ago I've seen stretches of Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, and of course California I'd never have seen without a car. Gotten to go to places impractical with any other transportation. I can't really imagine not having a car for my weekend trips.

I get not wanting to stay in a car for 40 minutes each way on a weekly commute, but being trapped in a city like LA or San Francisco with no access to the boundless natural beauty and adventure would cause me to go nuts. Hipster coffee shops and artisanal food only do so much for my sanity.
I know this story is satirical anecdotal but I wonder what weight your parents' programming jobs has in your decision to be a programmer, at least compared to other professions? My parents were both COBOLers and that never at all interested me, yet we had a computer at home early on and my dad bought BASIC books for me to use.

Anecdotally, it seems most of my academic friends also have parents in academia. Chasing tenure track seems insane to me but if you grew up in a professor's household, it may seem less strange
What's the other option you're thinking about?

The US cannot unilaterally revoke citizenship.
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Exactly. Interesting, Yann LeCun in his G+ post (https://plus.google.com/u/0/+YannLeCunPhD/posts/LnKBPi9cCWm) explicitly mentioned that the acquired ML scientists have been focused in reinforcement learning. Also, they have published ArXiv paper on the subject: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.5602v1.pdf.
Quite wrong about the history. Vigorous drug enforcement took off in the 1980's. The Bank Secrecy Act was passed in 1970, the same year as RICO. The target was the Mafia and other criminal organizations that are a lot scarier than Silk Road.
For a contrary perspective, see my blog-post "We can’t afford to write safe software" (http://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/we-cant-afford-to-wri...) in which I make the rather obvious point that all the scaffolding you have to erect in statically typed languages is itself a cost, and that ignoring that is misleading. ("You have to fill in a form in triplicate before you can throw an exception", as one of our poets has written.)

Please note (if you can't be bothered to read the actual post before responding), I am _not_ saying that static typing has no value. I'm saying it has both a value _and_ a cost, and too many arguments seem to consider only one of these.
Within specified areas.

Inside cities/towns, the limits are often both strictly enforced and dynamic. That is: they change with traffic conditions and are signaled via electronic signboards.

Germany also has some horrific auto accidents, though the death rate per 100k population/yr. is less than half that of the US, at 4.4 vs. 10.4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
The user-experience is not good as compared to the previous HN Search. I couldn't figure out that the filters were located underneath the search bar initially. Also, the thumbnail doesn't look good for me as I'd prefer the compact view where I could see more search results in my screen.
Lastly, I'd prefer using a contrasting highlighted background color for search text instead of having them bold, as it should be more distracting so that it strikes into the user's eyes when he searches.
Ask HN: What will you pay for?
Yesterday, I post a list of 6 items I would pay for. I was hoping other people will chime in with problems they were having that they would pay for. So, I'm just going to ask directly: What would you pay for? Or what have you paid for recently?
I can see this being much better than Yelp. How are you doing the recommendations? Something along the lines of PageRank?
Ask HN: What will you pay for?
Yesterday, I post a list of 6 items I would pay for. I was hoping other people would chime in with problems they were having that they would pay for. So, I'm just going to ask directly: What would you pay for? Or what have you paid for recently?
Would like to add two more companies to the list.

13. Pardot, Atlanta (Bought by ExactTarget for 95 m, ET was subsequently bought by Salesforce.com)
14. AirWatch, Atlanta ( Recently bought by Vmware for 1.54 B dollars, AW did raise a huge VC growth round but it was much later its lifetime)
So having the private communications of innocent people compromised as collateral damage to an investigation of a few bad people is ok now? They have servers full of communication logs and only a handful of people have been charged with crimes based on that information.
How is that not a silly question?
saw a branded vehicle on the street from Apple Pharmacy:

http://www.applepharmacy.co.uk

edit:

meaning, users will confound Candy Crush with The Banner Saga as much as Apple Computers and Apple Pharmacy, which is none. they're only picking on the little guys because they can.
I am strongly anti-dynamically typed for this reason. I spent 5 years in a dynamic language writing so many asserts/unit tests to handle basic compiler type cases that it more than invalidated any argument for conciseness or time to market.
The real big risk seems to be that they might not acknowledge that the transfer of bitcoin can happen 'in person'.
I have a 9-5 and am bootstrapping a startup. Unfortunately my startup may compete with yours :)
Can you link any of this, please? I am genuinely interested.
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Yes. Especially knowing what I know about the world of money laundering.
I believe they also require a regular safety check of all vehicles that would determine your car was capable of safely driving at speed on the autobahn.
It's unfortunate that there are so many legal issues with a seemingly very simple service. Having to worry about insurance policies and driver damages has got to be a pain. But, that's all part of the business I guess...
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I know its is how the legal system works, but it seems kinda silly that murder laws from 1860 apply to my autonomous knife-throwing killbot.
Open port 3306 on both machines on your internal network, the one replication is running over.

Edit: Port 3306 is the port mysql runs on and is the same port your slave is using to connect to the master. Make sure you don't open it for the external interface.
The original Mac's display was 512x342, not 384.
I honestly don't know. When I first wrote a program, I felt like Mickey Mouse putting the sorcerer's hat on. My interest wasn't particularly rational.
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Context: "Hi! I'm Jennifer Dewalt and I am making 180 websites in 180 days. You can follow the project here and on the blog."

http://jenniferdewalt.com/
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That content of that cited email is ambiguous as to whether the banker in question had any reason to believe the client was guilty of anything (as opposed to operating a legitimate business inconvenienced by his country of origin)
Regardless of what he did and didn't know, or the intricacies of legislation around letters of credit, he was smart enough not to write "cool" in response to an email to the effect "so many of his transactions smell like fraud or money laundering", never mind negotiating a "kickback" by email. It's kind of hard to plead innocent when you do that.
Your last few sentences have me very confused.

>"at least its encapsulated: you're in a war zone..."

Yemen is not a war zone in any sense of the word. There is no declared war on Yemeni soil. You could call it a "conflict zone", a term that could be applied to the vast majority of the developing world.

>"...a place without functioning rule of law, and pose a military threat, you're fair game."

According to John Yoo and Eric Holder maybe. There is plenty of dissent over this particular doctrine.

>"If a terrorist is just a "really bad criminal..."

Terrorists are really bad criminals. Are you able to draw a bright line between the two? If not, then what's the use of the distinction?

>"...instead of a foreign soldier..."

Al Awlaki was unambigously NOT a foreign soldier. He was never uniformed, he was not in a declared war zone, and he was not a citizen of a foreign nation. Unless I'm an idiot (always possible) there has never been any debate about this.

>"in what other cases of "really bad criminals" do Constitutional protections go out the window?"

None? A trial in absentia does not forcibly deprive the defendant of any rights if he is free to attend the trial, which Al Awlaki was. It would have been his choice whether to attend, and thus whether to take full advantage of his rights as a citizen.

Am I mistaken?