skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was that there may be no viable market for the metal; there may be a very small market of service providers who might might require made to order servers or may be even build their own like here http://www.opencompute.org/ . There won't be any reasonable margins left in the low end server market to sustain a hardware only company

The existing market of SMBs and enterprises for "the metal" is going away.
Or that someone who was a 'constitutional expert', and ran on "Hope and Change" for two consecutive terms would risk nothing politically (in terms of re-election) to dismantle what is obviously an unconstitutional measure?

"COME ON!"
-Gob Bluth
This page was readable until my browser finished downloading the web font, at which point it became impossible to read.
That stuff becomes comparatively more expensive, but still most of your expenses are for the basics (housing+ transit+ food probably add up to ~80-90% of most people's expenses) so it's not that big of a deal.
then why is the top comment banging on about solving problems for equality.
The other two insisted that no one should look into the legality.
Why We Need To Rethink Everything We Know About Habitable Zones
Can't you go almost anywhere else in the EU?
State of technology in conference and meeting rooms
Disclosure i am the founder.
This article is fan fiction at best.

For example, there was a big push toward tools support for Office. MS said this was a pillar for VS2010. I spent a lot time doing Office development with VSTO/VSTA.

Windows Phone 7 was released with a new user experience and was the answer to iOS and Android. It actually got developers excited. But, a year later with Windows Phone 8, Microsoft told all the developers that the investments they made in Windows Phone was a waste of time because none of their apps will work on Windows Phone 8.

Huh? That never happened. Virtually all WP7 apps work on WP8.
Assume attackers have source code - OWASP
Look at, for example, Jack Henry & Associates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Henry_%26_Associates

Their core banking stuff, which powers the $600 million capitalization local bank I use, is System i (AS/400) based as I understand it.
iPhone 5 with iOS 7 randomly shuts off
This talk at GitHub makes good watching
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8syV5t2_3QI&feature=youtu.be
14 Startup Postmortems
So eh.. when is your book coming out?

(that's cryptic internet speak for, man I really like what you wrote, I can totally imagine the next chapter being about George asking Ivy how she did that!)
...says the crazy libertarian.
i was hoping to find something clever or interesting. thats not a reason to not continue trying to learn
I loved the game but my favorite was the "Gule, Gule" story in Sudden Death, especially the line, "their high school guidance counselors had steered them into a very deadly profession."
Working overtime (here and there) and Crunch Mode might not necessarily be the same thing. The problem is it's hard to break the shackles. Imagine when a new person joins this small group of people. They see you are all working until 10pm, how does that make them feel about their responsibilities of being "accepted"?

It's just not healthy for any sustained amount of time. I don't know what kind of lifestyle you are living when your only activities are sleep (less than you need), eating (less than you should, and/or unhealthy food) and work.
Just met an Italian programmer here in Denmark, they just moved!

You can too!
Have you also tried posting on the Kiva Friends forum? In particular, you might be interested in the Double Loan Listings thread:

http://www.kivafriends.org/index.php/topic,506.0.html

On page 52 of the thread there's an example of different women being photographed at the same store. So it definitely does happen sometimes.
I'm going to guess that the "pump" is probably piezoelectric? ...but however the pressure is created I suspect it will have a significant effect on battery life while the keyboard is active, which is going to make adoption difficult. I'd always take charge over bumpy keys.
I think this is the most important point. She's packaging the concept of programming in a way that kids are likely to embrace (a la Sesame Street).

Whether the book is effective at teaching Ruby to kids remains to be seen, but I'm pulling for her.
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Yeah, that's what I don't think people are realizing here. This isn't an issue of Network Solutions culture, but a result of Web.com purchasing them recently. It's Web.com culture.
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The current policy (as enunciated by Stefan Monnier, who took over as maintainer from RMS a few years ago) is for new packages to be added to the package archive unless there's a very strong argument for their providing core functionality. (Packages that already ship with Emacs are unlikely to be removed from the core, though.)
The user isn't asked because questions about sharing do not arise in the design of the software because Google's vision is that everything is shared.

This is why it's not a privacy leak. "Privacy" has no meaning when the context is Google. It only has meaning outside their operations.
It matters that it's a macbook? Really?
I use the Evernote Clearly extension in Chrome for this sort of "design". There may be better options.
Also available for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/w3schools-hider/ig...
Forgot password: Some wild ideas for an alternative approach.
I was also struck by the hokiness of the video. It looked like something I'd see on my local news.
I was just thinking the other day about how the last time I was ever happy composing text on a phone was when I had a Treo.

I didn't do it consciously, but ever since Apple introduced the toushcreen keyboard and it became the standard I've changed my mobile usage pattern from primarily producing (composing text) to consuming (reading and playing games.) The novelty of playing games on my phone wore off quickly, but the loss of productivity has been permanent. For anything that isn't passive, the smartphone is more of a chore to use than it used to be. So I hope this works out.
It's harder to do with cars as:

- You can't just put them in your carry-on, making it difficult to avoid duty/tax

- There is paperwork regarding not only taxation, but also safety regulations; the latter may require inspections

- Most cars don't come with an international warranty (except to the extent required by laws, e.g. in EU), and that's probably more important (and more likely to be used) than it is with a desktop computer.
Here is a screenshot of my emacs.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7346/12104669276_154ae3d98f_o....

Scroll bars and menu turned off. Theme solarized and transparent background. I feel good when I am programming :)
Yeah, I don't think there was any "golden age" for MS coders. Each individual tier gets to a point of "okay, now we've got this figured out" and then they deprecate it and give you a new mess from scratch.

The biggest disappointment is how many times they've started from scratch within the .NET framework. The constant churn of database APIs mentioned in the article is a great example. Finally now MS has followed a more open-source-ish development process with EF.Net and MVC - ironically by switching to faster iterations I feel more confident using it because I know it's being well cared-for and won't get abandoned and deprecated.

The big disappointment is how .NET has failed to be "write once run anywhere" even within Microsoft's universe. Every platform except the server gets a restricted subset of it, and you often don't find out that your subset is unavailable until run-time.
Considering there are quite some illustrated books about programming, especially "why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby", the whole thing doesn't seem to hurt either.

Kids have different tastes, like everyone. So why not an illustrated guide? It does not necessarily "fix" a problem, but provide a wider range of material. Not everything has to be code.

Linda has credibility when it comes to teaching code, so I would not put myself above that.
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When you log onto your corporate intranet, you may not realize how much of what you see if powered by IBM. They sell a lot of big software packages that cost gobs of money and are often used across an entire corporation, so perhaps you weren't in the position to make the purchasing decision. For example, tons of companies used Lotus Notes for email (now Connections), there are loads of Websphere Portal software add-ons, and they're really into business process management and collaboration software these days (Facebook and Dropbox and wikis and whatnot across the organization).

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/
CSP would be useful defense in depth if the blog has comments and an admin interface on the same domain or subdomain within TLD/public suffix — XSS in a comment could lead to session fixation/hijacking.

XFO also might be useful if the blog has predictable layout of the admin interface — logged-in blog admin could be tricked via clickjacking to perform potentially undesirable actions.
are you saying that using less code, more steps and less maths with a simpler algorithm requiring much less knowledge is going to make more obfuscated code?

any mathsy code is going to be obfuscated without comments explaining the underlying assumptions and for geometric stuff like this what you really want is diagrams...
Ask HN: Any interest in a modern QBasic?
My son started playing with QBasic the other day. He's really getting a lot out of it.

It's really convenient to get started in. It's super helpful that it's an IDE with a built-in interpreter and comprehensive help section. The semantics aren't that hard to pick up. And it has a built-in basic graphics library.

But it's lacking in a few areas. The IDE's fixed screen resolution is really hard to work with. In general QBasic's syntax is confusing and inconsistent. The IDE is missing important features like undo/redo, which I totally forgot about.

So I was thinking, why not write a modern alternative? My plan was to build a very lightweight IDE (probably using Qt), that has a built-in interpreter, using a custom language (probably a stripped down version of Ruby without all the crazy). It would probably use something like SDL and export a basic graphics library too. And it would come with a comprehensive help section including a tutorial.

Is there any interest in using and/or helping with such a project?

(I've looked at a few existing options. Most of them seem to be more drag-n-drop "visual" languages, which I'm not interested in.)
They cannot be included because they take over everything else. It is not a lie and the questions I have asked backed that up. GPL imposes things on code that is not GPL.
Sure it makes sense, what doesn't make sense is the library reading anything it is thrown at it.

I'm thinking there should be a "root path" for the library to be able to access files. Sure, you want to include "base.xml" it's in a specific directory and the library is allowed to read only that, and no "../../../../etc/password" tricks.
Nope. In fact, Win16 code still works on Windows 8 as long as you aren't running 64bit (and that is a processor limitation not an OS limitation).
Because roughly 50% of children are girls, while less than 50% of programmers are. I just backed this to give to my son and my daughter.
Because men would never have thought of creating a programming book for kids?

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aprog...

Or maybe because men can't draw as well as women?

Edit: probably I'll get downvoted for this so I'll just add that I think it's good this book is being made. Can't hurt to try different things to get kids interested. Just not sure why the gender comment was necessary.
In italy young developer are VERY VERY VERY lucky if the get something like 1200 €/months (and I think that I haven't stretch enough the VERY LUCKY part)
I've found the latest revisions of Emacs to be incredibly ugly, and I have to turn off most of the crap (menus, etc.) to be comfortable.

Stock Emacs also seems to want to open up a minibuffer when I've told it "please just edit this set of files". It's also got some idea that I want to to suspend the shell I launched it from (er, no, not ever).

The argument I see on forums is: "Well, the right way to use Emacs is to just start it and then never leave, so you only have to get that stuff out of the way once."

So I spend 30 minutes figuring out the right elisp stuff to disable so I can get rid of the crapware.

Crapware in Emacs. What's next, AOL sponsorship splash screens?
Those communist bastards, how dare they? /s
I think children will be better off reading _why's (poignant) guide instead, as it will teach them both the basics of common programming and give them a primer in avant-garde literature.

That or stop treating kids like kids, give them some standard and classic books, bootstrap an environment and let them dive in.
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Indeed; it wasn't until very recently that I regretted re-electing him. Then again, I can't imagine Romney would've behaved any different. God damn two-party system.
and if the vaccine is successful too
How Cloudflare obfuscate E-mail address
Interesting. A bit off-topic: how much would it cost per month for basic amenities for a college student in Berlin?
The issue is grownups who don't have a logical mindset for program is the ones who design curriculum and not an under estimation of children's abilities. It would be really interesting to have a pre-school that teaches these concepts first:

breaking down one big problem to smaller problems
sequencing beyond 1, 2, 3 but in problem solving
logical thinking / prediction
This paper ignores some very basic features of the VMS. The Ghibelline merlons on f86v, for example, show that the manuscript was produced with knowledge of northern Italian castles. Tucker and Talbert entirely fail to address this.

http://www.jasondavies.com/voynich/#Ros/0.767/0.174/6.00

Another strong refutation is that Tucker and Talbert believe the text of the manuscript to be a simple transliteration of Nahuatl. This has already been effectively ruled out by Kevin Knight, who shows for example that bigram predictability far exceeds most natural languages.

http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/voynich-11.pdf

(Section 4.2).

It is important to note in conjunction with this that he also found that the VMS has extremely weak word order, and that the line unit has significant features that distinguish it from paragraph features. (Sections and 5.1 and 6.2) These features combined make it very unlikely that the VMS is as simple as Tucker and Talbert think.

Ultimately, the VMS has remained a very tough nut to crack, even after repeated attempts at smashing through the outer layers by several generations of professional and amateur cryptanalysts. The longer this situation continues, the less likely there is to be any simple solution such as we had for the Soyga tables.

http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~reedsj/soyga.pdf
I'm trying to understand what if any overlap a pharmaceutical nonprofit has with any value YC could add, from the scale of funds required, to product advice, to business model - everything seems entirely out of the range of YC's expertise.
The Errors of A/B Testing: Your Conclusions Can Make Things Worse
This would likely be a very good indoctrination of programming via narrative for kids between 4-8, specifically 4-6. For kids that age, this takes something real and presents it as a magical force exerted on the world which can bring order and control. Kids that small are very intelligent and will get, much more, an emotional kindling for programming from a book like this...

I'd take more issue with the obvious branding. It would have been more elegant if the penguin and robot had more generic renderings.
If you want labor, you must pay for it.

You can't pay for it with lottery tickets, also known as equity. You can't pay for it with exposure. You can't pay for it with experience.

You can only pay with cold hard cash. The landlord only accepts little pieces of paper with pictures of dead presidents on them. So if someone is going to work many hours a day, founder or otherwise, they need an absolute guarantee that they will receive many such pictures in exchange for that work.

Period.
(I feel bad always spamming my Chrome extension, but it's made my life so much better I feel compelled to share)

This Chrome extension adds a right-click menu item "make readable" that fixes the font on pages like this.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-fix/ofafkoecd...
You'll have more luck keeping an eye out for 35mm screenings near you. I saw it on 35mm a few weeks ago, the picture and color was stunning. Much better than any bluray release would be :) I wonder why there's no bluray, it might be caught up in some licensing hell. There's not even a good US domestic DVD.
Maybe better edit the question so that it applies to the whole Germany. You'd get a much larger data set, and there are not really big variations between major cities regarding salaries.
Swipe typing on Android rules.
Watching a Tarkovsky movie is a very interesting experience. People that never did are in for a treat. All you need are good subtitles.

One might say that a movie is a movie, a sequence of images, and it can't be that much different.

Yet, there is that feeling, that unmistakable sensory discovery that you make, when watching a movie like Stalker, or Mirror. You will find yourself in an unusual, novel, state of mind, and will witness your thoughts wandering on new territory.

I have, as many others here, difficulty putting these things into words. But that is for the better, as you should see for yourself.
Then talk about Doge. Don't spam "so wow!" sixteen-dozen times.
spies don't work like that, do they?

there's something of a "tradition" of people who have exposed corruption / illegality in american power through the press. those people seem to form a separate group from spies who disappear or are caught. in particular, the latter group don't send things to the papers and don't try to provoke public discussion - instead they quietly ship data of to their paymasters.

do you think that "deepthroat" was a foreign-aided spy? because it seems to me that snowden is more similar to that than, say, the rosenbergs.

what motivation is there for snowden to make such a public fuss? why not simply disappear and move to russia?
kind of fun watching IBM just disintegrate in slow motion
I'm glad to see this finally being acknowledged and the funding behind these attacks being called out. In fifty years, when economies are collapsing due to rising sea levels and all the upheaval caused thereby, will we finally look back (as we did with smoking propaganda) and realize what influence malicious greed can effect over ignorance?
Too late to edit, but to give numbers, Lenovo had gross margin of 13% last quarter. IBM had 48%.
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You can go and work in any EU country and you're trapped!!?? Jesus Christ.

> I tried to look away, apply for a job/internship in the U.S. but the reason is always the same: visas are hell. I would do anything to get my way out.

Just a random suggestion, since you'd do anything to get out, but have you considered perhaps (I know it sounds really crazy, but hear me out) applying for jobs that aren't in US?
In some areas it’s usual to publish the preprints, for example in the arXiv: http://arxiv.org/ “Open access to 909,134 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics”

In some other areas, the journals have more strictly policies, and don’t like preprints, reprints, free author pdf copies, ...

I’d really like to see a peer-review article, even if that means waiting to see the research data. There is a lot of bullshit inside per-review articles, but there is even more bullshit outside per-review articles. A per-review is not a guaranty that the article is correct, but at least it guaranty that some expert in that area had read the article and had no found any major fault.
The title is a little misleading. The story is from one of the scientists targeted in the attack, not an insider from the attacking side (which would be very interesting indeed).

Decent article, but not exactly surprising given what I've already read about on some of the attacks on climate science here in the U.S.
Do you have a source for this? I've worked on user data and privacy-related stuff (I work on Maps, not Calendar) and everyone involved took it extremely seriously. We sent PMs back to the drawing board more than once when we found edge cases with potential privacy issues.
What’s Wrong with OKCupid’s Matching Algorithm
Just thought this was relevant to this community. We do a lot of A/B testing on everything.
Facebook Must Win Mobile Or Perish
Avoid The Biggest Mistakes in Booking Flights
Eventually, all of them.
> X-Frame-Options is fine, since modern ads use JS and not IFRAMEs.

Also because X-Frame-Options restricts what can frame you, not what you can load in frames.
Also, "without bonuses" part makes no sense, since in Germany some bonuses are contractually enforced and employer doesn't have an option not to pay them. For example, Weihnachtsgeld (Christamas money) is usually 1 or 1/2 of monthly salary and is defined in every contract. In addition to that comes the yearly bonus, which is rarely not awarded in its entirety. In my company it's about 15% of salary for previous year, and only way not to get it is to leave company before the payday.
So, a long term /three/ way relationship, then? The employee, the employer, and the state.
This would also be great for gaming, since you could use this to provide a d-pad and tactile buttons.
Will My Parents Ever Understand What I'm Doing?
Everyone is equal except we're not
I disagree. There are rather huge gaps between Berlin vs. cities like Frankfurt or Munich. Living costs are much lower in Berlin, and so naturally, wages are lower, too.
Aaaand there goes our precious low difficulty.
From i to u: Searching For The Quantum  Master Bit
Sorry, you're still not getting into YC14
Having worked at IBM I know they will do anything to make the quarter numbers look good. This $2.3bn will help for some time but I wonder what they will sell next.
How we got more than 1,500 survey responses with a last-minute scramble
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison 'In The Studio' (2012)
I've been running emacs server for at least a year or two now on OSX using homebrew.

"$(brew --prefix)/opt/emacs/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs" --daemon
What are they supposed to do? A large (in american politics terms) group of people tried really hard to get 'hope and change' elected and look at what that did?

By 'get people off their butts' what do you mean exactly? Not patronizing, just curious what you think a solution would be, other than trying to get someone you believe in elected (to president in the above case). Are you suggesting some sort of revolt or more physical action than campaigning and voting?

It seems that there really isn't much option for change as far as actual politics go... As South Park noted, you usually get the choice between A Giant Douche and A Turd Sandwich.
A sexist illustrator?
Right. So you write "Tell Phil at example dot org he's a jerk," or "Tell phil, example, org he's a jerk," or something else that makes sense to humans but not machines.
Masterpieces like you’ve never seen them before
Take this statement with a grain of salt. Living costs are shooting up dramatically, currently.
> every object is a member of the empty interface

There are no objects in Go, given that Go is not an object-oriented language... oops! (pun intended)
3 points for "€100k or more" already sounds like bullshit to me at this time.

Either that or I would love to hear what you do !
Interesting idea, I'll have to think about that one