skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that I didn't get from the post:

> Oh my, another OAuth anti-pattern! Clients should never reveal actual access_token to the user agent.

From what I understood by reading the OAuth RFC is that front-end intensive applications (a.k.a. public client) should have short lifespan access tokens (~ 2 hours) and the back-end takes care of reissuing a new access token when expired.

Can someone clarify on how to make a those calls from a front-end application without revealing the access token?
I seem to have run into a wall - further research requires locating this resource:

http://biblioteca.universia.net/html_bura/ficha/params/title...

Which seems to be paper-copy-only conference proceedings, despite the claim that it's located on NTRS (whose search function seems to be embargoing my IP, but whom friends note says "No Digital Version Available").

Maybe it was one of the things removed when NTRS was mysteriously taken offline in March due to some sort of security concerns?
This is cool, but seems over complicated to me.
Why not just have a thermometer connected to the 'standby saver'. How many people have a 'standby saver'? I've never heard of such a thing.

It may not even need to have a digital setting, a mechanical selector would probably do fine.
I believe this lady may be particularly helpful in this endeavour: http://www.windytan.com/2014/02/mystery-signal-from-helicopt...
Can you use these services' VPN (Rackspace et al) for using BitTorrent?
"How much money would you bet?" Is not a good way to start a healthy argument.

Opinions and statistical molding are not conclusions in this sense. They are just opinions. There is no possible way to "resolve the answer". Every every person is an individual, relationship is different, and they change over time. There's absolutely no way to prove or conclude that equality in home and monetary responsibility are emasculating men and ruining sex lives. People should be evaluating their sex lives on an individual basis, not blaming them on any broad "conclusion" posted to the internet based on poor statistical inference.
Alright, well I suppose I'll play the role of contrarian.

Performance reviews should be given in the context of preset goals. Without defined goals, a review is pointless. You might as well be commenting on the weather for all it is worth.

I break my goals up into three general categories when I give them: tactical, strategic, and developmental. Tactical items are boring shit, do your job, close your tickets, answer the phone, etc. Strategic goals push the business forward, assist on a project, visit a customer, or implement a new thing. Developmental goals are all about you: attend some training, mentor a peer, or learn a new thing.

Goals should evolve with the employee. Have you just started? I'm giving you goals to familiarize yourself with the business. Sit with the CS team, the sales team, or some of the product meetings. Have you been here forever? I'm giving you responsibility to mentor peers, do some lunch and learns, or take on a new project. Craft goals for your team to fill gaps in the team's capabilities and to shape key employees for advancement.

Performance reviews aren't inherently bad, they provide a really clear milestone or report on how you're meeting these goals. We'll talk about them weekly during our one on ones, but this codifies what we've been discussing into something more tangible. They're where the rubber meets the road and seeing yourself rated on your goals really calls attention to performance.

Reviews and goals may sound like corporate bullshit to you, but that's just because your manager sucks. I've had several excellent managers who leverage goals to push me towards new opportunities. My reviews are largely a formality, I know where I stand with my manager, but I don't think that's the case with most employees. Perhaps I just haven't been burned badly enough by bad managers in the past.
Lack of available living space is a manufactured problem. All SF needs to do to solve this problem is allow construction at the population density of Hoboken, NJ (39k/mile^2). Hoboken is not exactly a dense megacity.
You assume that there is some relationship between churn, and total unemployment. I don't see how that would work.

If Uber were convinced that it was terribly immoral to fire someone, they would just put greater effort into making sure they got the best people in the first place.

So your policies favor a society with 5% of the people unemployed 100% of the time, instead of 100% of the people unemployed 5% of the time.

Job security is of questionable social good because it places a nonsensical emphasis on the harm of getting fired, as opposed to the harm of not getting hired in the first place.
Share buybacks are what happen when you run out of ideas. Financial engineering
Would you even need a 61.7 db gain antenna? It's going to be doing a near earth flyby.
"Video editing isn't that bad if you know what you're doing or willing to put in time to learn."

You're thinking like a developer (o; End users see the cool videos and don't see the learning curve needed to produce slick videos. As soon as they're hit with that curve they realise it's not that simple. iMovie goes a long way but it's often a very foreign ui/workflow.

"There aren't that many different modes" not there are not, but the UI on v1 & v2 camera is simply confusing. Trust me.
Fake-food scandal revealed as tests show third of products mislabelled
I don't think their engineers are the ones who thought it up.
The Mill aims to be good at general purpose computation. HPC is not general purpose computation, and is a tiny fraction of the market.
Demand for housing is highly inelastic. You don't need a lot of population growth for scarcity to be painful.

(Same situation with food. Demand is inelastic, so a small scarcity hurts a lot.)
Not voting is nearly impossible on Uber though. As soon as you open up the app it prompts you. Often I forgot the ride and just press 5 stars unless something was exceptionally bad.
I've been working on something similar for a project I'm working on. I've got a combination of NPM modules, angular modules and regular javascript. Not wanting to have to update every file in a common.js format, I've decided to go with component.io as a solution instead of browserify. For those interested, it may be a good option, though most of the energy these days seems to be behind browserify.
This VPN won't anonymize any traffic, just encrypt the traffic between you and the server. The Rackspace account would be tied to you, so any piracy-type violations will go to them first, which they will pass along to you.
I've actually found tremendous comfort in the Litany Against Fear. One of the greatest verses in literature IMHO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_is_the_mind_killer#Litany...

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

After I hear it or say it, I feel icy cold and extremely rational. I'm aware of emotion, but it fades into the background and I'm "freed" of it to make decisions and think through complex problems.
Haha, cute, but it sure hasn't helped GIMP (the giant in that case being PS).
Yes, this is what I meant. Cider does suck, because Cider is based on a proprietary fork of a 7 year old branch of the Wine code and couldn't keep pace with the open source version. There's a reason Transgaming abandoned Cedega as a consumer product, and it's been that free Wine has been vastly superior for a while.

Codeweavers has already moved into the porting space using their expertise around free Wine, and perhaps not surprisingly Transgaming has begun to pivot into completely different areas.
That was a great story!
Yes, but it may be against their TOS.
"Krita" means crayon in Swedish.
And who pays this increased revenue, the tax payer - so your chain of comments to contradict my original point is untrue
Raganwald! Downvote or don't downvote! Why are you trying to shame akeri_!?

Point, set and match.
Ironically -- or perhaps intentionally -- online coverage of this stunt may garner more traffic than a straightforward ad would have.
90%? Mea culpa then, remembered it was quite a bit less.
'Smart Purse' Seals Itself To Prevent Overspending
Why not just use Sidestep?
I would really like it if Wine steam and Linux steam played better together. At the moment you have to log out of Linux steam, open Wine steam, and then launch a Windows game. It would be much more straightforward to just have the Linux steam be aware of the Wine install of the Windows game.

One solution is to just port all the old apps with Wine wrappers so that Windows steam isn't needed. Another solution is to just have both steams open together (Valve has promised multiple simultaneous login support in the near future, as it's a requirement of home streaming).

Another option would be to have full-on support for detecting Wine within Linux steam and offering to run your windows games using community-derived Wine settings (akin to playonlinux or winetricks). That would be kind of radical, but I don't think they'd be gutsy enough to go that route.

Yet another option would be to simply endorse porting with Wine and tell developers how easy it is and how much money they could make by porting the back catalog. Last time I asked Valve didn't want to endorse a particular porting technology, but perhaps they'd change their minds if one was good enough and it meant developers would be more willing to port games with it.
Mailpile Alpha Demo
Wolf Richter: Cracks In The Tech Bubble (That Doesn’t Exist) [Twitter]
I took the word "fable" too loosely, and didn't realize I was reading a made-up story until 5th paragraph.
If you just need secure browsing and you have a shell somewhere (like a VPS, EC2 instance, a Linode, etc.) just use ssh.

ssh -D <port> user@host

Then configure your browser (I use a plugin called FoxyProxy) to use localhost:<port> as SOCKS5 proxy.

This is also very cool: https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle

Edit: I should add that I do not think your DNS requests will go over the proxy. You might be able to configure your browser to do that. Caveat emptor.
The Start of the Age of Flynn
These class warfare style pieces are tiresome. SF could be argued to be a "foodie" destination which may attract outside visitors regardless. Artificially caping supply will only serve to increase prices anyway if people really want to eat somewhere. Conflating this with a housing argument is a misdirection mishmash that is borderline linkbait by the post.
If you just need something for yourself or a few people, you might consider an Android device. I use Gidder on a cheap tablet and it seems to work fine. Multiple users/repos. Easy to setup. It has a DynDNS option as well.
TED Speaker Daniel Kraft on Sensor-Medicine and Health Tools
You're abusing your refcode in the DO link. DO prohibits this linking.
Different approaches of tracking events in your iOS application
Also you're assuming perfect response times which is BS.
Not if their inability to do so makes one's life shorter.
We got it cleared with them first. In fact, they're the ones who told us to do it; originally that link contained no refcode.
This downright absurd metaphor confused the hell out of me. If you want to craft an explanation of a problem, reason from 1st principles, not an analogy. This analogy REALLY complicated understanding the situation for me, as I'm without a huge body of knowledge about the problem. Fucking birdcage makers and burgers. What the fuck did I just read.
FWIW, you're replying to Paul Lutus: http://www.arachnoid.com/administration/ ; I think you can assume he can read.
I think this is a misuse of the word 'sociopath'. There are lots of things that are not strictly legal that we do all the time. Some of them result in in jail sentences (eg. possession of marijuana can hardly be called sociopathic).
I'm really glad Github paid him, but reading what the exploit can do I really think he deserves more, sure they were a series of small exploits, but all together... they are pretty damaging in the wrong hands.
What im trying to elucidate here, is the issue with ownership and property

The problem you're missing is that many purchases are governed by contracts which can and sometimes do have obligations for the purchaser after the moment of purchase. Additionally, you only have the ability to operate certain software pursuant to the terms of a license agreement, which is yet another contract.

Do you feel you should have the right to breach contracts when you feel like it?
I've heard this claim a lot. The reason I think it's hogwash is that, application compatibility being equal, people would actually prefer to run Linux over Windows. That absolutely wasn't the case with OS2 and Blackberry.

Linux is free. OS/2 was strictly more expensive than Windows, and required you to buy a copy of Windows to run the Windows apps.

Like it or not, Linux was effectively second to the party. We faced a chicken and egg problem, and had no first-mover advantage. We simply weren't strong enough to cajole users into defaulting with us because we could hold all their favorite apps hostage if they didn't. We had no apps, legacy or otherwise.

We tried to get people to want to migrate badly enough by excelling in other areas (like being free). But our biggest problem was that they couldn't come even when they wanted to: 80% never heard of us, 80% of those left had hardware issues, 80% of those who remained had an application with no native equivalent. 20% of 20% of 20% is 0.8%, which incidentally is the exact market share we had.

But we're solving those issues now. People are becoming more aware of the viability of the platform. Distributions with commercial backing and their hardware partners have been solving the hardware issues. But there's still that application barrier for migration. Wine is a huge part of the solution to that.
I wonder what "exceptional" even means?

I expect a driver to get me from A to B, and notice whether I'm interested in talking (in which case talk and be friendly) or not interested in talking (in which case don't talk please).

A half-pint of water is nice but hardly necessary - it won't convert a horrible ride into a great one, and its absence doesn't make a great ride a bad one.

So much is outside the control of the driver - a late night drive with no traffic is generally more pleasant than a sluggish rush-hour drive, but it's not the driver's fault.
I'm not so sure how much it's "reenable" and not "re-engineer". I can certainly understand why it would take many millions of dollars to develop and implement a transmitter no longer in use in 7 months.
It might be manufactured, but building high-density housing is not going to bring any prices down.

I lived in downtown Sacramento for a few years. I moved into new high(er) density apartments [0] the first year they were built. I paid $1000/month for a 400 sq ft studio with parking. For price reference, later I rented a more traditional apartment that was twice as big, several blocks away for only $650.

The takeaway is that until everyone who can pay ridiculous prices has housing, prices are going nowhere but up in SF. Decent middle-class apartments with a couple bedrooms in Mountain View are $3k+.

Prices are expensive because the SF bay area is awesome. It has a massive number of high paying jobs, ridiculous natural beauty, a gorgeous climate, tons of culture, diversity, and history.

Contrast to Stockton, a mere 90 miles away, where you can buy a 2,000 sq ft 4bd house for $276k [1]. But Stockton's got none of the appeal of the SF bay, and it certainly doesn't have the jobs that SV does.

People will fight hand over fist to get into SF, nobody's sprinting to live in Stockton.

(nothing personal against Stockton).

[0] http://1801l.com/

[1] http://www.redfin.com/CA/Stockton/9467-Ravenna-Ln-95212/home...
The differences is that an artist doesn't have to worry about maintainability, scalability, orthogonality, or any other such concerns.

Art is art, code is code. Art is beautiful, code is clever. They are different.
Living in Seattle, almost every bicycle commuter I know has a GoPro, and they are fanatical about their love for it.
I don't take advise from guy's who come from rich families.
Yes--it might sound like envy, or class warfare, but I have
found their world is very differnt than mine. What worked
for them usually won't work for me. My world is loaded
with wealthy know-it-alls. They always leave out the part
where Daddy paid for this, or that--or the family lawyer
quietly set up everything. I have found one truth; It seems like the most ingenious ideas, and talent came from
individuals with modest upbringings. This goes 10 fold for
artists and writers. I once hear George Soros complain that
his writing isn't taken seriously because of his wealth.
I read some of his rants and that's not the reason George.
At least you were honest about how you made your money though? (George Soros is one of the 1 %'s). I once
heard the best advise is no advise. I think that is way
too extreme. I just wish people with the real talent, or insight would step forward. But no, they always seem to
be at the back of a room, or quietly trying to hold on their
own sanity. Yea--but this is about programming, and basking
in the glory of a great Start-Up. The Gold Rush?
10 Ingenious Hacks That Helped Facebook Take Over the Internet
I get annoyed after 12 on my 14" laptop running Chrome
StoreMe | Miami storage startup, never go to a storage facility again
That's not a very good comparison. Many of these costs you'll incur, regardless of whether or not you drive for Uber (insurance, tabs, tax, depreciation, etc.)

To actually calculate the costs of driving for Uber, we should only be looking at the variable, or the per-mile cost, which as far as I can tell should be:

- Gas
- Maintenance
- Loss in resale value
A very good question. Anyone who says programming seems deterministic has clearly only been exposed to a trivial kind of programming.
RequireJS allows for asynchronous loading. Browserify doesn't.

That alone is a huge reason for why people use RequireJS.
I'm curious to know more about the garbage collection of stale peers.

- AFAIK, etcd is built on RAFT, which relies on a 'joint majority' method of transitioning cluster membership. Are there any issues forming agreement on what the new membership should be when it's unclear what nodes are still supposed to be part of the cluster?
- In the land of ZooKeeper, cluster configurations are typically very very stable, so tracking membership takes very little information. Is etcd targeted to more dynamic environments where the garbage generated by entering and leaving nodes is significant?
amurmann: You're apparently dead.

I agree with your comment. Granted I only visit SF now and then, but it seems very strange that things don't just go vertical. That's the obvious solution, isn't it? Build huge retail+office+residential towers like those proposed over half a century (or more?) ago.

At first evaluation, it seems that people who own space must be extremely opposed to this and that works its way into local politics. I can't imagine people are voluntarily height-capping these little buildings I see going up.
Because as a user often when I see a new SaaS product, the first thing I'll do is look for a price. I'm annoyed when I have to jump through another hoop. If you're a git host, then tell me what price for what repos upfront.
>Hey, uninsured motorist rates just went up! I wish they didn't do that, and instead Uber fares and pizza prices went up because I don't use them. They have no business imposing externalities on me.

Indeed. If someone drives in such a way as to be uninsured, shame on them.

Still not the company's fault for the individual's lack of responsibility.
Today's $1,000 core i7 machine has about the same GFLOP as supercomputer of 1991 that cost $100,000,000.

So $3 million is understating. They couldn't have built anything close to today's smartphone even with $3 billion with B.
Not quite. Without housing ordinances you could buy 10,000sqft, build a multi-story building where once there was a single-story building, and sell 50,000sqft. You can still turn a profit by selling at a lower rate than you bought since you can multiply quantity between buying and selling.

Through the magic of multi-story buildings we actually can manufacture "land" out of thin air. There wouldn't be such a crunch without building restrictions.
why would you want to stand on the shoulders of GIMP
For-profit developers who invest now will be building the current unit prices into their model

I struggle to follow this. For profit developers will build if they can do so for a profit. The only thing that will matter is whether the cost of construction is less than the PV of the future cashflows of a constructed building.

An apartment building that costs $50M to put up costs the same $50M whether a 1BR apartment rents for $1,000/month or $5,000/month (for the most part ... if you get a lot of development in response to price increases, you can end up with a shortage of labor and labor costs can increase the total build cost ... but that will be on the margins).

Furthermore, the cost to put up a building may be coming down. Here's a story about reducing construction costs by prefabricating buildings.

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/09/broad-sustainable-buildi...

I don't know what it costs to construct and apartment building in SF, but if the rest of the world is a guide, there are plenty of projects that would have a positive NPV even at lower rent levels. So development would contain prices and could even bring prices down.
Really? Americans have gotten soft. I once had a date
who questioned what I was driving; I took out her roommate
instead. I guess we all have our own "Comfy" zone though?
No one is arguing Google's revenue is mostly ads. It just doesn't mean Google is a one-hit-wonder. There are different advertisement products.

You could generalize any company that way. Apple would be a one-hit-wonder who's revenue comes from one source - selling consumer electronics.
Y'know how you can use ENV on Linux to have programs be configured or tell multiple programs what port something is listening on?

Imagine that, but across multiple servers at once. Plus a few other things that some use cases have been built up for.
Okay, show me a google maps image of a 'ghost city' and I'll zoom it out 2 notches and show you it's (barely) a 'suburb' of a bigger city.

Show me the a google maps image of a road that is a under used, and I'll find a bigger road in the US that is used less.

People buying houses and not living in them isn't "china building ghost cities" that's "people buying houses and not living in them".

By all means believe western propaganda all you like, but given you live/work in china I'm surprised you don't see it for what it is.
Google finally had to comply with french privacy authority
Details don't look as interesting as headline suggest. Snapchat doesn't throttle messages, so you can "snapchat bomb" a user with 1000's of messages/sec which will freeze up the phone.
Discovery looks interesting. Can it be used for a client to discover a cluster?

I've been digging into Docker link containers a bit.

I'm not entirely comfortable with how they work,and I'm not really sure why. The only thing I can put my finger on is that I feel like discovery is a separate concern to deployment. But at the same time they are so closely linked o can understand why Docker needs to tackle it.

Is there a way etcd can work better with Docker links? Maybe it could automatically read/write Docker published ENV variables or something? Though I don't think that will quite work across physical machines without some additional work.
Tim Cook's WSJ Interview – Further tidbits
Feynman gave the firing squad problem in his lectures on computation, so it can't be a modern shoehorn.
Another iPhone 6 mockup