skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we're piling on bad newegg experiences, I spent years ordering lots of server components and standard PC hardware from them.

1) Bought a Supermicro 2u server barebones kit that shipped with a defective mainboard (tested RAM and CPU in a similar 2u I had at work, all the other variables I could think of.)

2)I shipped the server back to Newegg who refused to process it since I forgot to include the rackmount rails

3) Newegg ships the server back to me in a box with no padding / packing material whatsoever. Literally a 2u server loose in a big cardboard box - many points of physical damage.

4) I RMA again, explicitly telling newegg they damaged it in shipment.

5) Newegg refuses the RMA, blaming me for the shipping damage.

6) I contest the charges with my Newegg Preferred Card (another mistake). They ruled in my favor, but then 30 days later was notified they reversed their decision. They refused to discuss it any further.

7) Newegg disabled my account.

Quite an experience and I had previously loved Newegg as a retailer. These days I basically stick to Amazon, more esoteric stuff needs to go through TigerDirect or some other electronic retailer. I haven't bought anything from newegg since.
It's just not in Google's interests. Their current plays (Chrome, ChromeOS, Android) illustrate their interests.
>It's probably best to do nothing at all.

False dilemma.

>You're right. Raising awareness is a waste of time

Raising awareness to what end? Things get done by doing, not by talking about doing. What you are doing is raising awareness about raising awareness. Your endgame is for everyone to be aware that nobody is protecting their freedom of speech. Your efforts are to keep a conversation alive, not the freedoms that the conversation is about.

Raising awareness is only the goal when what you really want is to be included in a conversation in order to identify with a social circle.

Raising awareness is a side effect of when you be an example by doing what you believe in.
First they came after climate scientists ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General_of_Virginia's_... ), but I am not a climate scientist...
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Thanks - glad you like the concept. A video intro is a cool idea, we'll look into it.

The join button just isn't clear enough, when it scrolls up it's just taking you to the challenges on the monitor, since you signup through there.
once I link to my github, why do I need to select a username, password and email to enlist?
Yeah, I was confused about this too. They hook up your github then...don't even use it?
The wiki for her sister mentions it's actually /woʊˈdʒɪtski/ woh-jit-skee
I think any entity that has to somehow be attracted to any kind of "food", and be repelled from any kind of "pain", ie, I think, any kind of life, has due to the above, ingrained the concept of "happy".
I assume you're referring to the Firefox vulnerability that was exploited to attempt to identify users of the Tor Browser Bundle?

FWIW, that had also been fixed by the Tor Project and a newer version of TBB was available. The users who had upgraded were not vulnerable.
'Rocket ship for the mind': Mysterious startup Magic Leap raises $50MM
25 microchips that shook the world.
Right now we save all your progress on the kata, though you need to find it again by searching/list view... We're pushing a "favorites" list soon that will allow you to earmark them for later.
Couple of bits of feedback

- Server was unreachable when I tried to submit an answer, and the submit button was then permanently disabled
- Not sure if my sign-in with Github was successful, it just shows login still
- Now getting 'The code does not execute properly. Try to figure out why.' and there is no code in the box to enter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW

I believe that's an example of visual/graphical programming, it's fairly mainstream in some areas and not vaporware.

Re: Rest of comment - Filtered site, I'll read it at home.
Tried finding a public datasheet for e.g. Atom Z2460?
Very impressive! I hope this is bringing us closer to the possible of New York Times-style maps for all of our datasets.
from my experience samba, nfs are awfully slow when working with big projects. When you use an IDE or Editor that indexes all files for fast search and Intellisense, using NFS/Samba is problematic imo. Thats why i like the vagrant approach, i can edit the code with all the speed of my local tools, and just the vm accesses them through NFS which is fast enough for serving requests in 1-2s.
Yes, for sure. As someone who works there, there's nothing more annoying for staff assistants sitting through hundreds of irrelevant calls from uninformed people reading a script. It's not a problem to call offices already in support of the legislation, but make sure those calling know that before they dial!
Great point! I have never heard that, but it makes perfect sense. Hopefully I will remember in the future.
Of course, I know you didn't mean to dampen the vibe. I really love the site and the love idea as it got my brain thinking which is why I was really bummed to see a forced login. Obviously you want to track progress, difficulty, and customize per user which is understandable and smart. I could be an outlier to the enlist statement/requirement so please grab other data points on this subject ;)

Keep up the good work on it!
Great point.

With the goal being that this can run in your browser as you browse the web, would it be more expensive to make an additional entire HTTP request to a, possibly non-existent, humans.txt for every single domain? Or simply pass additional bytes along?

In the discussion on github[1] I raised the suggestion of possibly having the browser extension pass a special accepts or requests header so that it's only passed for people who have the extension installed. Then a simple conditional would be used for the server configuration instead of a statement.

Does that satisfy concerns with "bloat" or are there other considerations, do you think?

[1] - https://github.com/randomdrake/human-headers/issues/1
The really stupid part of this is cpu mining for btc could not even be measured as a btc fraction at current difficulty.

You could probably run your cpu 100% for a year and not generate one satoshi.

That said, there are some botnets out there stealing gpu cycles and generating massive hashrates for scrypt coins. So I could see the cause for alarm but knowledge like that is going to get out regardless.
1) Thoughts, this seams to be a bit of a brick wall, it gets lots of research papers published, but proposed solutions never seam to hit mainstream spreadsheet users.

2) Web App Builder for spreadsheet users. Surprisingly, it has a lot more power than other app builders. http://www.cellmaster.com.au/AppBuilder.html (just something I am working on, your thoughts?)
While it might not be the best feature-set for this specific startup, those are features that I would be looking for if I wanted to use this for my business.

However, the "About" page makes it very clear that this is nothing more than a project (not a business), so adding the feature request would likely take more time than it would bring in dollars.
I have a Windows 7 PC but it is only used perhaps once every week or two (and usually for just a few minutes at a time). It's certainly not the best tool I've ever seen but Chocolatey [0] makes keeping (nearly all) my installed applications up-to-date very easy.

[0]: http://chocolatey.org/
When did the IETF process change? From looking at SIP (with all its combined RFCs, it's one of the largest standards), there's plenty of insane cruft. There's even an RFC that takes delight in coming up with crazy messages that are technically valid and suggestions on how implementations should try to guess the intent of the message. SIP goes back to the late 90s, so the process must have been corrupted by then.
Why Bach Moves Us
Yea right now it's not a full github sign-in, but allows us to let you auto-signin when you return. We still need to other info to create the account.
I'd love to see some improvements done around their plain old text based diffs, and merging.
I would absolutely buy and use any operating system called ManOS.
http://chocolatey.org/

Open up a command prompt ...

C:\> cup

... and done.
The style spec is a feature I have been waiting on for a long time. Does anyone know if there is a leaflet plugin out there for rendering styles based on the spec when adding a geojson layer?
>It is sheer folly to trust cryptographic software without source code. Do we need to fall prey to another RSA fiasco again?

This software does not encrypt anything and thus the user does not care about the correctness of the implementation. User machines would be testing hashes for bitcoin mining as compensation for access to web resources. What does the user care if the hashing fails as long as they get credited properly for the CPU time?

>Indeed it does. My machine, my rules.

"I choose not to run this software while it remains closed source." does not create a reason for the government to compel the creators to release the code. Otherwise, I don't see what your comment has to do with the story other than a generic comment saying "People shouldn't use closed source software."
Limited regions, mostly in advanced countries, where both environmental controls and offshoring of highly polluting activities has taken place, are cleaner.

Many aren't.

Within the US you have hog farms in the Carolinas, CAFOs in Kansas, the Mississippi river basin, Gulf of Mexico, and the great rivers of the developing world: the Nile, Amazon, Ganges, Yellow, Yangtze, and Indus, are in much worse shape.

Licensing programs have succeeded in increasing fish harvests

They're not doing a whole lot for fish stocks however. And that's the rather bigger problem.
On the other hand, the Mozilla counter proposal, which was trying to do low-latency audio by using Javascript as a DSP was pretty awful. It's like saying you'll do 3D by handing a framebuffer to JS and doing rasterization in software.

"Forcing it through the standards process" sounds like the kind of rhetoric Republicans use when bills get passed they don't like.
Never, never, never push to production with debug mode on!
"Everybody else was adding a free browser to their OS"

Who else had an OS that mattered? Apple had single digit share, maybe < 5%. What other OS do you have in mind?

BeOS? Sun? NeXT?
So it's ok to rewrite titles now?
Yes, it is.

AGPL requires you not only to release your changes to that code, but to release any code that talks to AGPL'ed code over the network.
Well this is a developer working on Christmas promotions. It's a bit difficult to take him seriously. Let's see how he copes on a smallish 20,000+ person hour project scope with a 5 year+ expected maintenance lifetime and then revisit the discussion.
> People need to be angry at the credit card industry for designing such an insecure system, not Target.

He explicitly said the blame doesn't lie on Target.

Payments systems are a chicken and egg problem, however you would think the entity that feels the most pain from credit card fraud would try harder to replace the broken system.
Exactly. And fraud is low enough that they're happy to do this.
I like seeing this probabilistically!

That said, I think the operative decision is "should I cut the corner?". If so, you should also factor in the p( ___ | not cut corner ) probabilities.

So, you should cut the corner if the benefits exceed the costs. Written out:

p(~P|C) * b(~P) - p(P|C) * c(P)
>
p(~P|~C) * b(~P) - p(P|~C) * c(P)

Symbols: p = probability; b = benefits ($); c = costs ($);
P = problems; ~P = no problems; C = cutting corner; ~C = not cutting corner.

Rearranging to:

p(~P|C) * b(~P) - p(~P|~C) * b(~P)
>
p(P|C) * c(P) - p(P|~C) * c(P)

Then you get a simpler form:

b(~P) * (p(~P|C) - p(~P|~C))
>
c(P) * (p(P|C) - p(P|~C))

An amazing fortune awaits any person who can simply evaluate this inequality in real-world situations.

It is also useful to know when the cost of gathering the information to evaluate the expression is not worth the potential benefit!
This kind of reminds me of the original Wall Street movie, where Charlie Sheen broke into companies via their cleaning service, and then stole inside information.
I won't. And neither are they. Perhaps a very, very sparse approximation taking advantage of diagonal and/or block structure that actually computes a miniscule fraction of that.
Sorry, also there is #startups on freenode.
I won't use Virtualbox either. Too many problems and I don't need yet another hypervisor when VMware Fusion works fine.
The problem is that it won't be your pain, it'll be other vendors' pain as they have to reverse engineer Blink's implementation.
Even the infamous saurik got floor-hit. closes jaw
> Maybe once in a blue moon a company with P/E of 500 is justified because they MAY be the next Google or Apple or Microsoft

Well, in this case a P/E of 500 would already be a massive improvement. Twitter currently has a negative EPS (aka, no profits at all), so it doesn't even HAVE a P/E.

> I wonder if this bubble will deflate slowly or crash and burn like it did back in early 2000s.

Crash, probably, but not like in the early 2000s. The key difference now is that the internet is established and has multiple viable business models. Netflix has a P/E of 200, it wouldn't be surprising to see its stock price plummet from $400 to $40 (where it would then have a more sustainable ~20 P/E). But that won't change that the company is actually making money and has a profitable business model.

However that doesn't help the various startups and such that don't have viable business models, like Twitter which just keeps bleeding money with no sign of stopping.
State of the Octoverse 2013
Aston Martin Recalls 17,590 Cars Due To Counterfeit Material
No, that's not what I meant.

I'm saying that DOM through its relationship to HTML has weaknesses that make it unsuitable for building application components out of. "jQuery-enabled div-soup" is an example of how mixing presentation with model and logic yields unmaintainable results.

I have been interested in React.js recently, since it provides an interface to create reusable components and to use them inside a rich programming language with full types. I think that's a better example of a competing idea.

My experience is with building single page apps from scratch, so maybe there's a common use-case (embedding a twitter widget, or a 3rd party comment system in a blog) that Shadow DOM and Custom Components will address that I'm not familiar with.
Is this article supposed to be some sort of meta-satire? "Satire newspaper revealed to be front for promoting socialist uprising"

I'm so confused now...
When I saw the title, I thought it was, "Come back after you practiced for 10 years" which doesn't help much.

I used to think the solution was better interfaces, or making programming more accessible to the lay person. I get less sure of this over time. It seems like what we've gained in language ease of use (Python versus C) we've given back in environmental complexity. The net is better productivity for programmers, and more people crossing the divide (CS programs growing by leaps and bounds) but we're far from being there for the Everyperson. I don't see this changing in 10 years without increasing the rigor and logic requirements of our entire educational system.
It's confusing why btrfs support was prioritized ahead of zfs considering zfs' superior architecture and ops capabilities. Is docker (formerly dotcloud) going to start withholding capabilities as licensed features?

Edit: prelim zfs driver work is here https://github.com/gurjeet/docker/tree/zfs_driver
I was instantly buying this book on the full prize, until I realized it's only paperback. No thank you!
Javascript is fun (and scary)
i stand behind quitting your job
Uh, no, that's not true at all. Chromecast works with Netflix, Pandora, etc... None of which are part of the "Google ecosystem". And you can cast from just about every device.
thanks jenn!
I'm a Windows Systems Administrator... And It's OK
I honestly say I liked this. I would've agreed to disclosing my address to the others to keep the experts together.
Which statement of mine do you disagree with? Do you mean that there are few people working on the maximum common subgraph problem as it applies to small molecule chemistry? [1] What forms the basis for your opposition?

Of course there are many different notations. One need only look to Newton and Leibniz notations for calculus, or Schrodinger's wave equations and Heisenberg's matrices for quantum mechanics, to know there's a long history of different mathematical abstractions for the same concept.

In my own field, I recently discovered (by reading the literature and getting feedback from conferences) that there appears to be a previously unknown connection between this maximum common subgraph problem and frequent subgraph mining, so it's not like connections are altogether rare.

Indeed, I'll argue that these occur all the time, and research libraries exist in part in order to help people find them.

Which is why I asked why this project might be better than traditional means, and I gave an real-world example to give a basis for discussion.

[1] There's plenty of MCS research, but since the problem itself is known to be NP-hard, most of the mathematical work shows that certain limit cases, like planar graphs or outerplanar graphs, is solvable in polynomial time. As the structures I deal with don't all fall into those categories, I can't use them as a general purpose solution. [2]

[2] I might be able to use them as a special purpose solution, and this project might help identify codes I can use for this case. I just can't figure out a way to make it easier than the current methods.
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Other retailers should be less concerned about if they have done business with this vendor than they should be able letting any vendor have insecure access to their network.
I'm not suggesting we go back to that level of network segregation though for branch offices.

We agree! My point was just that, even if there are physically separate networks within the store (and who knows, that might make sense in some cases...) all of those networks will connect in some fashion to the internet, so the air gap doesn't really exist. You can eliminate some onsite vlan'ing by running more cable, but as long as Target wants to be able to administer cash registers from far away, they'll need some sort of VPN setup, and you're right back where you started.
This article paints a strong argument in favor of the new CEO. I think he stands a chance of pulling this off!
why though? you've verified me via github. should simplify the process.
Totally off topic, but always bugged me: why does the NPM site display email addresses in clear text on profile pages? I don't see the added value in doing that (except for making email harvesters' job easier)
I don't know about the CSS stuff that spawned this thread, but the rest of the shadow DOM stuff is polyfilled to work in other browsers:

https://github.com/Polymer/ShadowDOM
Saw you guys demo at a meet-up at Carbon5 almost a year ago, cool to see your progress since then. I actually use the site regularly, nice work, especially with the way your hide the spoilers so you can't just cheat if you get stuck.
I know. It's ... trying to marshal the argument in the most effective way possible.

A friend pointed me at a 1978 address Milton Friedman made on energy policy. It ... boils my blood (I'm not a Friedman fan): http://fixyt.com/watch?v=hj1974Ek4nw

It starts out relatively well: Friedman is quoting W.S. Jevons. And then he repeatedly simply asserts "he's wrong". And equivocates Jevons being mistaken in other predictions (which are pretty vaguely unspecified) with being wrong on this one. Etc., etc. I've been watching and reading a bit more of Friedman recently, and what I'm realizing is that 1) his biggest tools aren't factual ones but rhetorical ones, and that 2) he really likes making his debating opponent look dumb, even when the opponent is expressing views, however poorly, that Friedman himself supports. Makes me find him all the more non-credible in general.

Nailing down the language of peak oil seems somewhat useful. So I wasn't picking on you so much as trying to clarify (mostly to myself) what in the "there'll always be more oil" phrase bothers me.
I just wanted to say how slick their service is, I just used it earlier today and was paired with a very competent agent. I'm now waiting for the day Flightfox can take care of the whole thing, including booking a flight. There is a definite opportunity there!
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Susan's quite sharp. She ran the product team for ads (AdWords and AdSense) in the early days and made some pretty big moves, including pre-buying premium ad content on NYTimes and other sites to make the content network attractive to advertisers when it was initially seen as lower-quality goods. She's very quantitative.
Being a bit of a miles guy myself, I agree with jdcryans. Most other award booking services charge ~150 per person so $69 (or even $99) is a great price.

That being said, the website doesn't really address the quality aspect of their award bookers. Extensive knowledge of routes/partners/tricks is essential to building a (good) award itinerary. I'd be hesitant to go with Flightfox even if it's a bit less expensive because a knowledgable award booker can mean the difference between getting an award and not going on the trip at all.
i'm going to reach out to them--if you have a contact there feel free to send an email to cindy at experiment dot com
Susan introduced Anne to Sergey.
Seriously, at this point, any of the major interpreted backend languages (PHP, Ruby, Python) are capable of pretty much the same thing. The claim that a language is more loved by its users or has a better community is nonsense. Until you can prove that with numbers, it's just useless banter.
I ordinarily avoid "me too" posts, but I'd really like to emphasize joeguilmette's request: do you have specific pointers to any sources for discussions among yachters of concern over the state of the oceans, and of their abandoning boats, marinas, etc.?
Funny you should mention it, but the converse is true: The US seems to reserve the right to prosecute someone for doing something in another country that is legal in that country: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/us-drug-policy-war-...
TakeLessons Acquires Betterfly, Becomes Largest Online Marketplace for Lessons
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we require that all projects are using the scientific method to answer a research questions, so if the answer is yes then go ahead and start a project at experiment.com/start
Floats and version numbers: just say no
The lesson is to have more than one credit card, because eventually the one you use regularly will be compromised -- even if you only use it at physical locations. And when it is compromised, you will have to get a replacement, which is an inconvenience (hence the need for a second card). Oh, and keep an eye on your statements. And if you use a debit card, you may be worse off -- when it is compromised, you will have bills bouncing until you can get it straightened out. Even more of an inconvenience.

If you use a debit card, go to your bank and have them turn off the "feature" that lets you overdraft (and get charged a $35.00 fee each time). Set up a separate account (one that doesn't have a debit card), to use for all your bill payments, so at least that doesn't get behind if your main account is cleaned out.
Maybe it was a news story they picked up from the Onion. :)
how do they verify that the third party libraries they are going to use actually do what they promise to do in all cases?