skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Text editors are very opinionated. Emacs ships with tons of propaganda, including the complete text of rms' political manifesto; and Vim advocates for a charity in Uganda.

edit to add: It's the GNU Manifesto, which is an appendix in emacs' Info node.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ma...

On Vim it's the startup splash screen:

~ Help poor children in Uganda!
~ type :help iccf<Enter> for information

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/uganda.html

edit2: But that was an excellent choice of analogy, there was no need to delete it!
The Big List of D3.js Examples
Apple Repurchases $14B of Own Shares in 2 Weeks
I think that depends on user. Some use CDNs to improve performance via already cached files, others to offload traffic and use the actual CDN performance from Geo balancing.

Personally I don't think a user will have anything cached other than jQuery from Google. Which in this case I removed to follow the rule of eating own dogfood.
And have pride parades[1]

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/03/mormons-gay-pri...
I'd prefer a typesafe version (that would be a library with a struct type). It could even be a trivial wrapper struct for the char *.
I guess if you're African American, this is "racial profiling". I'm white and when it happens to me, and it does, I don't think I'm being racially profiled... I just think "whatever."

As the security guard in your instance was also African American, I submit that this isn't "racial profiling", but rather just "profiling".
Gay sex was a federal crime before 2003, and punishable by death in the 1700s. Progress is speeding up.
In addition to what tlrobinson said, you only need a small threshold of hash power for a cryptocurrency to function. More hash power reduces susceptibility to 51% attacks for those coins that are at risk for it (including Bitcoin), but it does not impact the functionality of the coin in any practical way.
US official caught on tape cursing EU for handling of Ukraine crisis
It was an earnest question. I'm not familiar with slahdot or it's community.
I am from India, born in 1980 and saw first hand how fast things changed from 1991 onwards when economy was opened up [See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalisation_in_Indi...]

Yes, Indian parents focus on education but that is not what lead to growth in personal income. My father did not finish high school nor did he go to a college but we saw remarkable improvement in our life style thanks to overall economy improvement as there was more demand for his work. I know many people who are completely illiterate but were able to grow their business as there was no more red-tape by government. In 1991, government allowed private banks to open (before that all banks were state owned) which lead to better access to capital allowing tons of businesses to flourish. Reliance Industries [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliance_Industries] is the the largest private sector company by revenue and ranks 107 in Fortune 500. The company was started by Dhirubhai Ambani who did not go to college but was able to grow his company many fold after economy was opened up.
Pretty much everything we hear about Russia through English-speaking media is propaganda...
True. Many of the comments nearby (personal testimonials) are missing the point.

If we're talking about the tablet market, we do need to talk about kids, grandma, and average people who want to be entertained. Not nerd hobbyists who are frustrated by the shortcomings of tablets relative to general-purpose computers.

These feelings matter to us, but in a discussion of the market, they are irrelevant.
That's not exactly a relevant comparison. We're not talking about a Prop 8 or DOMA supporter lecturing Russia. We're talking about a Google using their enormous soapboax to do so in a fresh, defiant, and powerful way.

Google has been quite active in fighting for gay marriage within US, submitting amici briefs to the court cases, spending money on campaigns, and so forth...
Unfortunately we've had to prioritise building product and taking care of our customers - the corporate site is a lower priority item ;)

But we're hiring, so anyone who desperately wants to fix the website should send us an email.
In particular, the code snippet from the blog post,

if (size && size > SIZE_MAX) {
errno = ENOMEM;
err(1, "overflow");
}

is a total no-op. It can't ever be true, the compiler might as well just remove the whole thing.
Great article.

What I have come to appreciate more and more about physicians is their on-the-fly algorithmic decision-making ability whereby the doctor must account for factors that go well beyond pathophysiology and extend into statistics, social/cultural conventions, benefits/costs analyses, financial situations (insurance coverage, or lack thereof), and more. To gather, categorize, rank, simplify and prioritize data is an incredibly valuable skillset no matter your profession, particularly for an entrepreneur whose roles can vary greatly hour-to-hour.
This is like a 60 Minutes report on "hacking" where a guy from Symantec ran Windows Task Manager for a credulous Leslie Stahl and postured about how all that activity could be viruses.
Permanently sending humans into space is about making life itself a cosmic phenomenon - transforming the dead matter of the universe into self-aware consciousness, instead of merely passing from one oblivion to the next.

It is about making a future for uncountable trillions of (post-)human beings, instead of the few measly billion our single planet can support.

It is about blossoming new cultures in far off places, instead of stagnation and unity.

It is about expanding the human economy to include effectively limitless new land and resources instead of fighting the same zero sum game.

It is about providing a cosmic lifeboat such that one single catastrophe doesn't wipe out the human race or all life on Earth.

Sorry, I think the burden of proof is on those who say the above is meaningless.
Quality Is Future Speed
I watched the video, and don't understand the value-add here. Our team uses a number of tools, chiefly Pivotal, and we've never had a problem. Everyone knows what they need to do before releasing because they have Pivotal stories, and then when the weekly release comes it's not a big deal—the guy running the deploy sends out a warning email, it gets deployed to staging, there's a few hours of buffer for people to notice any kinks, and then it gets deployed to prod.
That's all true, but I still think that if anyone (indie, AAA, or otherwise) knew they could have the no 1 spot in the app store simply by making Flapper (a relatively small investment to develop), they would have done it. Even if the game is free, the publicity alone is worth a huge amount.

But nobody knew.
What he's talking about is avoiding primitive obsession. Always good advice, although I find its greatest benefit comes in typing collections, rather than just using primitives like List or ArrayList.
Thank you for pointing this out. Saved me a lot of citations. You are, by the way, absolutely correct.
So all you have to do is slip an error into "the machine" and it becomes nearly impossible to fix? I'm thbiking that makes "bureaucratic terrorism" a very real possibility. One database hack or clever feat of social engineering could effectively end the paper lives of dozens of citizens.
I'm going to somewhat disagree. Traditional data warehouses (teradata for example) can handle well into the petabytes. I think Ebay's main TD cluster was around 15 or 20 PB last I knew.

I think you're more along the proper direction in the single server vs N server. Every data warehouse I've worked on in the past decade or so has been multi server.
in the modern climate of bootcamped rails hackers, knowing that memory even needs to be allocated at some point is advanced.
Looking at the archive, I'm surprised you made it this far. A cursory search reveals many "political" doodles.

http://www.google.com/doodles/50th-anniversary-of-jfks-inaug...

http://www.google.com/doodles/50th-anniversary-of-the-i-have...

http://www.google.com/doodles/south-african-freedom-day-2013

http://www.google.com/doodles/election-day-us

http://www.google.com/doodles/international-womens-day-2005

http://www.google.com/doodles/sopa-pipa

Anyway, I use DDG from time to time, I like it but the results aren't always the best in my experience. More power to you, I hope DDG works well for you, your comments in this thread just seem pretty disingenuous.
Sex is often the end result of emotional and physical attraction, but it's not the most important aspect.
> What I take from this story is that the financial law is so complex and unapproachable one can not reliably navigate it without landing in jail, even being a seasoned professional.

Because this story was written by a liar and/or idiot.

Option accounting law is simple and clear. Market value – exercise price = loss taken by shareholders. This goes in the quarterly report so the shareholders know how much they spent on employee compensation.

The financial planner "Michelle" was trying to simply not report the cost, to fraudently make the numbers look better. This is one of the oldest frauds in the book. Frankly I am amazed she did not get multiple life sentences for her crimes.

The story author falsely tried to make it look like some sort of terrifying subtlety, an accounting landmine that nearly blew off his leg. It is not. Every responsible accountant would start shitting kittens if confronted with this fraud in their company.

Edit: From other comments, the story was not even about the actual crimes. So the author is not an idiot, but manufacturing a scare story Daily Mail style.
It's more than just the games. The laws are effectively sanctioning violence against gays.

http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/02/03/russia-sochi-games-highli...
Ah, the mythical HTTP batch GET.

Last time I tried this, I ran into the problems of 1) unbounded URL length breaking down in old browsers, routers, etc. and 2) hobbled caching. (And also going against the grain of REST.)

I'd be interested if anyone has actually done something like this successfully. Did you have the issues I did? Was it worth it?
All of the Chromeboxes - the Samsung first, then the Asus now - have been called "Chromebox" in the same way that all of the Chromebooks have been called "Chromebook."
The longer version of the report shows more details:

http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/nbc-news-web-extra/honeypot-tes...

On the phone they went to a website and ignored warnings in order to download and execute a malicious APK. On the PC they followed a link in a scammy looking phishing email to download and open a malicious Office document. On the Mac they visited a website that had an ad suggesting that they needed an "antivirus program" so they downloaded and installed it.

So the devices were hacked not because Sochi is especially dangerous, but because of pure stupidity. Nothing can help you if you deliberately ignore warnings, and deliberately install Trojan horse malware. The exact same thing would have happened in the US.
This is like asking for a citation for what color the sky is. It's common knowledge and accepted fact. The Android store (Play store? Google store? Idk wtf it's even called anymore) is a complete joke and an embarrassment to app stores everywhere.

Even the design looks like it was whipped together by developers.
Yes, for every single argument there are two equally valid sides.

Right.

Give me a goddamned break.
Either English is not your first language, or you're being deliberately obtuse. I can't tell which.
Your baseless speculation can be disproven extremely simply, and that is by pointing out that Apple would never broadcast a move (such as entering the payment market) by squashing competition, until they're actually ready to announce. Since they're not announcing anything, it's pretty obvious that this is not motivated by squashing competition for anything.
I'm trying to reclaim the name for positive associations. Many people don't even know how Oliver Cromwell was, I've even encountered British people who didn't know the history.

Anyway, there's actor James Cromwell. We need to band together and overcome the negative association with the good ole' Lord Protector.

(My grandfather used to tell me that he traced our ancestry and supposedly we are closely/directly descended, but I don't buy it. On the other hand, 23andme localized my ancestral DNA pretty strongly to the UK)
You can install home screen apps freely.
iStore = wallet (potential intent)

Square = card (actual transaction)
That's really interesting. I assumed a lot of this "hacker fear" was due to the fact that a lot of these "professional" hackers happen to exist in Russia and Eastern Europe, there have to be a few who are just not that good and do it for fun or internet points. Wouldn't imagine the professionals to be caught up in this mess, as I'm sure they have more lucrative things to work on, but maybe a younger hacker or hacker group might step up and try to fuck around?

This is, of course, assuming all of this is being perpetrated by regular civilians, not the Russian government. Seems that a "dossier built on reporters and officials" would be more interesting to a government rather than a hacker group, don't you think? Is the Russian government being accused of/watched for this kind of shit?
So, in parallel, Christianity, since it advocates the religious ceremony of marriage between a man and a woman, must also be inherently sexual in nature.

I hope it is not too arrogant of me to assume that you are straight because I cannot fathom a gay person arriving at the conclusions you have arrived at.

Working under this assumption, would you say then, that any relationship you had with a member of the opposite sex was inherently sexual in nature?

Again, give me a break.

You can love someone and want to be with them for the rest of your life and not want to have sex with them. It really isn't a stretch of the imagination.
Dogpatch – An HTTP API testing framework
The way you describe it they are the worst sort of consultants. I once worked on a project that a big 5 consulting firm was charging 1.7 million to deliver. After 6 months, a tech savvy guy convinced the CEO to hire me for 3 months to sort everything out. I came in, had systems up and running partially (but delivering useful results) in 2 weeks. Then I spent the rest of the 3 months delivering every deliverable that the big 5 firm was behind on. The customer refused to pay the big 5 firm's bills and took them to court to recover money already paid out. The big 5 firm settled out of court by returning all money previously paid plus 90,000 for my bill. It was one of those secret settlements which is why I am fuzzy on the details, but when I mentioned it to other people in the software development business, the stories poured out.

Note how Ben Horowitz did not just farm out the decisions to a prestigious consulting firm but gave it to a guy that he knew and who he had carefully checked out in order to know that he was trustworthy.
This may be accurate, for the most part, at least until voice recognition passes the turing test. Depending on when that happens, it's not clear whether we'll have input devices close enough to children's brains to bypass decorated-glass entirely.
I read somewhere that the no-fly list is so widely distributed that currently known terrorists are not actually placed on that list as this would leak information about who the US considers a terrorist to too wide an audience.

Obviously I have no way to validate that story, but if true it would cement the story about that list being an utterly useless farce.
Added the proposed auth method. Still awaiting merge for previous pull request: https://github.com/larvalabs/pullup/pull/11
Strangely, at the time that this all occurred, there was a glut of feral kittens wandering around Mountain View. I always wondered where they had come from, but now I've got a good explanation!
>This time? You're using something invented the LAST time around: The Internet.

And how well did that turn out for the people who invested in it? The dot com bubble is perhaps the perfect example to demonstrate that even something with real potential can still suffer a speculative bubble.
A few times a week is decides to re-download all our dependencies for reasons we haven't been able to figure out. That's the big one we've been dealing with right now.
Already tossed LinkedIn, never looked back. Two contacts over the last year isn't even close to worth it. Plus, all I've gotten is recruiters and invites from some guy I met on Craigslist years back.
It shows that people want birds, but they had grown tired of the anger of angry birds. This bird speaks to now.
> which some sarcastically refer to as the "Senate" Launch System, because it is designed to spread money among the states

I thought it was because the project was invented in the Senate version of the NASA budget, where Senate staffers made up arbitrary requirements for its design and functionality.
Letting the media tell you what to think is also valid.

Right.

Give me a break.

Seriously, without getting snarky, how about you actually read the whitepaper. The person who wrote it is a lawyer and member of the LGBT community.
Whenever I see algebraic formula written like that, I have this odd compulsion to try and pronounce it as if it were english.
I find it horrific that you consider your rights to be personally violated by your making use of a free, non-government-controlled, non-required public service.

I find it also horrific that you make a false parallel to text editors which also have demonstrable 'political' (as you've employed the term) positions.
You can see huffingtonpost and drugereport post completely opposite, manipulative, news as far as American politics go. However, when it comes to international news, stories on both align perfectly, there is never a story that's off of the USA-party line. Russia bad! Putin bad! Olympics bad! I haven't seen a single positive thing, and I very much doubt there isn't a single positive to report. I read plenty in Russian press, even anti-establishment.
Yay! Congrats paul :), keep it up
You saved me even bothering to click the link. Thank you sir.

Also... Im highly offended by their blatant disregard for the Asia Pacific Region.
Being required to make application and schema compromises in order to scale to tens or hundreds of terabytes is a symptom of the inadequacy I was referring to. It is not a property of databases generally, it is a property of MongoDB.

I get the argument that customers should not over-engineer their database systems but in other databases a lot of that "over-engineering" comes almost for free in terms of user effort.

Also, for many types of analytics, there really isn't a concept of "cold" data. A single query should be able to access data inserted milliseconds ago and data inserted a month ago as though it were in the same table. A lot of "real-time" analytics work this way. This does not need to be done purely in-memory if the storage engine is designed well. The old OLTP/OLAP dichotomy of the 1990s has been slowly fading for a long time.
Why networking events suck and you shouldn't go to them
Global Trends
The lives of these two software stalwarts corroborate the age-old concept that leaders are born. They possess inherent and inborn qualities that make them stand out in the world firmament. They make a mark by dint of their sheer talent without making any kind of fuss for help or support. It is their natural instincts that take them along the right path, and make them innovative. Leading by example, and optimizing the use of available resources are the two essentials making one a leader. It was not circumstances that led them to become leaders, but their natural talent and instincts. Thus, leaders are born, not made. The article is dedicated to President Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr
Ask HN: What happened to Stuxnet?
What happened to Stuxnet? Has it completely died off? Is someone working on another version?

http://vimeo.com/25118844

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/how-digital-detectives-deciphered-stuxnet/
Still reading, but impressions on the intro and first chapter: what a totally bizarre paper. It's a "white paper", but it's written as an autobiographical narrative of his research process. And usually "Executive Summary" does not refer to a top 10 list.

It's very obviously written for the purposes of advocacy, despite protestations that it's not. The defense of this law seems to be:

1) It's not that bad. It doesn't target the LGBT community, it just bans any sort of public acknowledgement of a class of people that just happens to include LGBT folks.

2) The media has blown this way out of proportion by saying what the law only implies. Also by not mentioning that the law was enacted to protect the children. Why don't they mention the children?

3) Even if the law is that bad, it hasn't been enforced much yet.

4) Even if the law is bad, those guys over there are just as bed.

Oh yeah, definitely want to consider both sides of this argument.

Just out of curiosity, boyter. When you refer to "both sides", how would you sum up the other side in one sentence? "It's not that bad" is not, in fact, a defense of anything.
> we need a bit of anti-establishment push back

Wow. Understatement of the century.
So many of the news stories about Russia recently have been fraudulent. Like the uproar about the child protection law that is called an "anti-gay" law, but nobody has found any evidence of the law being enforced. How many silly laws get passed in the USA that never get enforced? That's what democracy is all about. There is no wise all-knowing king who can rule by proclamation; instead we muddle through with a crowd of flawed human beings who got themselves elected by a bigger crowd of citizens who are at least as flawed as the legislators.

And how come the haters of that Russian law, never target any of their venom at the Russian legislators who wrote and passed that law with a large majority?

Investigative journalism is dead. Journalists are now bought and paid for by rich patrons. If you want to find a source of reliable news that you can trust, then sorry, you are out of luck. That era has long since passed.
Can we please get back to discussing how Russia is abusing the US yogurt company Chobani by not letting its yogurt cups into the country.

This is all over the news wire, every outlet is reporting on it, the Obama administration has intervened, and it needs to be on top page of HN like now.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/nyregion/russia-blocking-a...

(*sarcasm)

Is there any story about Russia right now that's not actively searching to criticize something?
I disagree, the future of windows is why ReactOS is important. For the same reason DosBox is important, to run legacy apps.

10 years from now, how are you going to run those XP apps that aren't compatible with even windows 7, let alone three more cycles of ugprades.
I read the executive summary. It's great that Russia is making legal progress, and I mean that, but that doesn't change the situation on the ground where people are being beaten and arrested.
It's not really a fork in the development sense (they didn't start from Windows code, they completely rewrote it), unless I'm missing something and they did fork GPL/BSD code. They are sharing a lot of libraries with Wine though.
Largest bitcoin days destroyed of all time
Most news stories about technology where a technologically-illiterate reporter relies on a so-called "leading expert" to tell him what to report are 100% fraudulent. They did this for a surprisingly long time with Bitcoin, where the "expert" would inform the reporter about SHA 256 collisions and the reporter would twist that around into a statement like "so you're saying that Bitcoins can be stolen?" Obviously, they can and have been stolen, but not by some lucky bastard finding a SHA256 collision.

In the end, it is the general public that ends up with these ridiculous misconceptions, while only a handful of people (e.g. the readers of HN) actually see through these ridiculous stories.