skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're moving to Detroit and so should you SXSW 2014
I'm getting similarly horrible performance on Chromium what-I-assume-is-latest (32.0.1700.107) on Arch Linux; Firefox has no performance issues but doesn't actually render all of the CSS being showcased.
hint: ipad
That's not what the law says though. It only says that if I'm renting to you and I find out that you're cooking meth I should evict you; not that I should refuse to rent to you because I heard you've cooked meth. I'm responsible for meth being cooked on property I own, whether it's me cooking or not.
In the same way, if I find out you're doing something illegal (file sharing for example), I should stop you.
#2 is partially what I was getting at. It's a rebellion against all of the dishonest games out there.
I was seeing a cached version. Wonder why they chose to do it that way.
Looks like a Bank Run? Bitcoin exchanges that engage in some kind of fractional scheme need insurance coverage. I don't know if Mt Gox is doing that, but it kind of smells like they don't have enough BTC on hand to allow withdrawls.

On the upside, Bitcoin seems like a perfect laboratory to re-run the experiments in banking leading up to the 1930s when you know, the "communist" FDR imposed banking regulations which are still hated today by some. :)
I'm kind of amazed I got a payout. I threw in 0.3BTC for the hell of it, and out popped 0.2999 + 0.0239.

Also, where does it say the experiment has ended? I don't see that on the page, and the chat is still lively. [Edit: Now I see that]
Even if end users can't modify it themselves, they can hire developers to do it. This effectively creates a market for software customization/personalization, whereas closed-source software is more akin to a monopoly (whoever holds the source code, holds the monopoly to fixing bugs/adding features).
I really wish we had time to add something like that in. Hopefully down the line.
Could this be used on every website if it were a browser extension? If it were, I would expect Logout links to be disabled by default.
If he hates the game so much, why did he release version 1.2 on the 7th Feb (two days ago!) with a new title screen, new UI, "new birds" and new backgrounds?
Except that one is just a copy of the html and nobody is going to get paid, the chat doesn't even work.
Google forced to display CNIL punishment on home page
-1 for disabling zoom on mobile devices. I expect better from Google.
Not sure how true that is. How much recoil force is contributed by the bullet versus the gas that propels it?
Nothing But A Bunch of Boobs
All good. Thanks for adding this, definitely significantly reduced the friction to getting this done for me!
REST is an architectural style, a set of constraints applied to the design of a web API. An API can be considered RESTful if it satisfies ALL of the constraints.

The most commonly ignored/misunderstood constraint is that of Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State. You can read more about the application of the term here: http://roysvork.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/why-im-giving-rest-...
Google Loses Appeal, Forced to Publish €150,000 Fine on Google.fr
how was this a helpful, informative comment? yes this has been posted before, over 2 years ago with no comments, but you've added no information to this discussion at all.
Please give me peace...

I’ve emailed Nguyen to find out more and will update this post if I hear back.

Classic.
Yahoo to partner with Yelp on local search engine results
Comparing Mac v/s PC to iOS v/s Android
No idea but if I had to guess... author got scared. BTC deposits were rocketing in just before the site went dark and he would probably have shot past the 1000BTC mark in hours rather than days if he'd have left it up. Running a public ponzi scheme that attracted over half a million dollars worth of deposits in a week with no signs of slowing down would have certainly given me sweaty palms :D
Except that you don't generally get to choose whether to pay into Social Security.
I'm pretty sure the pairing code system came along quite a while after password-based encryption and authentication. I've been using Firefox Sync since it was branded Mozilla Weave, and the first time I came across the pairing code thing it was an unpleasant surprise that was totally at odds with my prior experiences with associating a new computer. I had previously had no trouble adding a new machine without direct access to a previous machine.
Glad it made it easier :). The awesome folk at Cloudflare actually did all the hard work to get the app built.
So this is the same as logging in and taking screenshots of the top 10 posts on a public Facebook page?
LLVM and GCC devs might begin collaboration
Search for a Market Niche, and You Might Find a Crowd
This and the Ariane 5 first test flight failure are a must read for any practicing engineer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5#Notable_launches
The GNU libc 2.19
Javascript, making people's lives easier with technology
Yes, that was a poor choice of indicating this is a repost.

If you search the archives for "Amazon 1994" you will find that this has been posted to Hackers News a lot (the one with the most comments seems to be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2044945).
Perfect weight loss tips
Great weight loss article that will help you a lot if you want to burn fat quick!
"You might learn useless stuff. But learning is never itself useless."
Great article. Thanks for posting.
Pseudonymous BTC, XDG, LTC inbox
> At the rate at which it was going, payout was more or less ensured (300btc * 1.2 = 360. They quit 16 coins short)

I think you misunderstand how ponzi schemes work.
Not true, there would've been options available. After the loss of Columbia, engineers came up with two ways to save the crew: a rescue mission, and an emergency repair EVA.

The rescue mission would've been hazardous, but the expected loss of life would have been negative. (More likely to save seven astronauts on the Columbia than to lose two astronauts on the rescue mission.) The repair would've been jury-rigged and may not have worked, but it would have been better than reentering without attempting to repair the damage.

Once you'd inspected the Shuttle, you'd know that it was in pretty bad shape. And then you've have moved into Apollo 13 mode -- how do we come up with a way to save the crew? And maybe it would've worked. It's only because the Shuttle was not inspected that NASA proceeded as though nothing were wrong.

Incidentally, they had the STS-27 astronauts check for tile damage, back in 1988. The astronauts were convinced that they were going to die on re-entry, but they still did their jobs for the rest of the mission.

This also means that NASA had 15 years to develop in-orbit repair methods before Columbia needed them. But nothing was done in this area either.
I think it’s too late now to split it up, so yes. But it would be interesting to see how people on HN are distributed among these cases. I think I will re-submit the poll with better categories one day or other.
Consider that there is also the change address

https://blockchain.info/address/14ji9KmegNHhTchf4ftkt3J1ywmi...

And, they seem to be paying again, so there's still hope. Obviously the (half) shutdown (half) stopped the inbound flood, so there was damage done.
Oh god, I bought this hook, line, and sinker. Son of a...
How would they not have enough BTC on hand? It's not like they loan it out like banks.
I don't see the flaw in his reasoning, can you elaborate?

EDIT: I will, then. If when he put money in when there was a total deposit of 300, the total owed by the system was 300 * 1,2 = 360. So it would all be payed when the total deposit of 360; he considered that at the rate it was going at the moment it would have been reached quickly (here is the gamble) but instead they closed the site 16 BTC short of that target.

Are you sure you did understand? Or am I on the wrong path?
Those are the votes for systemd:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00294.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00283.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00297.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00282.html

For anyone wondering, 4 votes are enough because Bdale's vote (the chairman of the Technical Committee) count as two votes in case of a draw.

EDIT: see this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7203479) comment below - if the other 4 members of the TC vote F, then systemd would not win.
All of the above. Or almost. And being a jack of all trades really works for me. In fact, that's what I think my focus really is - picking up new skills, figuring stuff out with an obsessive drive to know how everything works. And having done this all my life, I've gotten pretty good at it. I was never happy doing just one thing for any length of time. Now I do them all (consultant with multiple clients doing very different stuff for each, plus my own projects). First time I really feel like I'm enjoying my work.
You need another serving of God.

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First, the Beacon-generated numbers cannot be predicted before they are published. Second, the public, time-bound, and authenticated nature of the Beacon allows a user application to prove to anybody that it used truly random numbers not known before a certain point in time. Third, this proof can be presented offline and at any point in the future.

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God says...

9:13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it
under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying,
Jehu is king.

9:14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired
against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all Israel,
because of Hazael king of Syria.

9:15 But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds
which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of
Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth
nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.

9:16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay
there.

And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.

9:17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied
the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram
said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it
peace? 9:18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said,
Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do
with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The
messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.

==========

You are not behaving humble and scared shitless.
Women who program aren't unicorns
> if you concede to an attacker INSERT/UPDATE/SELECT (ie: if you have SQL Injection), even if you've locked down the rest of the database and minimized privileges, you're pretty much doomed.

Well... no. If you lock down your db correctly, using the correct privileges for the users accessing the data, and using veil or rls, the sql executed on the db is just an other way of accessing the data you can see anyway through the webapp. The webapp becomes just a nice frontend so the user does not need to execute sql directly, and if there is an sql injection vulnerability the attacker would still be able to only see the data he has the right to see anyway. He is just accessing it with sql instead of the webapp.
These are some of the best paragraphs I've seen on the subject. Well said...

The magic is that people can actually convince themselves of realities they know to be false.
If it is not meant to be hand coded then I would think that starting with Markdown is a bad idea. Markdown was meant to be human readable with minimal markup. This means that there are many limitations as to what you can represent in Markdown.

To me, it would make sense to start with something more expressive. There are many different types of books (fiction, technical, poetry, interactive) and many types of semantic information that you will need to encode that publishers may require. Moreover, it is not just semantic information you need to capture. For some books the placement of the elements on the page, the font used, etc. may be important. If this format is also meant as an intermediate format for printed books then you only need to take a look at LaTeX and its numerous packages to get an idea of all the different things someone might require.

Even if you decide to go with something like Markdown, it makes sense to look at mmd and pandoc extensions (e.g. for tables) before coming up with another syntax.
If you're only pushing data realtime to down the client and don't need realtime upload, then consider Server-Sent Events (http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/) as an option.

SSE is HTTP-compatible, so for example works on mobile networks that force port 80 to go through "transparent" WebSocket-disconnecting HTTP proxy.

Additionally you get Flash-free polyfills for IE7+ and automatic reconnection on error built into browsers.
If it has nothing to do with a way to increase production, then the company has no business by investing in you learning that. BUT, if the company can benefit from you learning those skills, then it could be a missed oportunity not give you the resources to do it (learning it while on the company's time).

Of course it's all a product of culture and supply-demand (systemic), if there are enough great programmers that are willing to learn everything on their own time, then of course it will become the norm that programmers should learn everything on their own time. And, of course, that's great for the employers.
Right, I added afterwards.
Rich Hickey created the Clojure programming language and he has the same background as you. In school, he focused on music, and his creative energy was directed at music composition. There is a mountain of anecdotal evidence suggesting a link between the type of mind that creates music and the type of mind that creates software. After school Hickey got a job at a music studio, and it was there that he first encountered computers. See here:

http://www.codequarterly.com/2011/rich-hickey/

Fogus: What drew you to programming?

Hickey: I was running a recording studio and got a computer for it. I was intrigued by what it could do—this was in the relatively early days of MIDI—and filled with the possibilities of what it might do. So I taught myself C and assembly language and started writing music software. I was immediately hooked.
By taking it.
http://coincurious.com/ is a more interesting experimental art piece as it's not a blatant scam.
I think better insight would be derived from analyzing when you should not open source your startup. Where would Microsoft be if Windows and Office were open source and companies could get them for free?
Isn't default postgres user password authentication still MD5?
(slightly skeptical) Open Source Educational Society
The newer posts on there are the digital equivalent of graffiti. The original Linux post is clogged with a bunch of junk as well. It's always upsetting to see traffic driven to these posts leading to trash from visitors.
It sounds to me like what they need is exactly the other way around: Dalvik VM + all the Java APIs in Android, on top of the WP kernel (or they could go with Linux, but I think the kernel doesn't matter as much).
"Text Messaging Communications Suite for Businesses." tell me something more than this
Ask questions. Ask lots of questions. The thing that makes the saddest is to watch a new person flounder and waste days trying to figure out something on their own which I could have easily helped them out with.
That sort of sounded snarky but I'm not sure if it was meant to.

HN is a good place to get educated about a subject through the medium of debate. I know it's a bit of an echo chamber etc, but you can learn a lot here. Frequently I read a article posted here and have an opinion only to see it challenged back and forth by people who know the field well.

Philosophy and deep mathematics collide somewhere alone the line so you're probably not that far away in your studies :) Some years ago I coaxed my brother into jumping from a philosophy degree straight into mathematical logic (he went on to drop out of a PhD in category theory).
Can you provide any citation for that quote?

(Note...this isn't one of those pedantic "prove it" citation requests. I'm seriously interested...)
How does one go about becoming a total master at this? I find that, out of all the programming that I do, I love working with SQL the most and I want to dive deeper into it.

Exposure, exploration, and experience.

I started my career in a role similar to the one it sounds like you're in today: at first, I was just another developer. Then I was the developer who knew and liked SQL pretty well. At some point, there was a shift where I started spending more time helping people do database-y things than I did developing. Subsequently, keeping our PostgreSQL instances happy was officially made my job. Then I got a job with the title DBA based on that experience. Though I've moved on a couple times since, that's the hat I've worn for the better part of a decade now. It's not always the most exciting work (and when it is exciting, it's often enough the wrong kind of exciting), but it's almost always interesting.

It probably helped that I've always been a technologist for sake of fascination with technology, who happened to realize you could also make a decent living with those skills. I'd started playing with Linux in the late '90s, for example, out of a "What's this all about?" sort of curiosity. Net, I almost accidentally ended up checking nearly every box in that "ideal administrator" section. My C is pretty rusty, and my network admin-fu is weak, but I don't think the breadth of my skills are unrelated to people (management and technical folk alike) at my last several jobs telling me I'm the best DBA they've ever worked with.
In the old system, the pair code was effectively a password. It's obvious that resetting the sync key wiped out your synced data

Except that I can change my password on Facebook without losing all my data and change my bank PIN without losing my money.

The truth is that isn't a password at all.

And it was completely borked. The 2nd most common use case for Chrome Sync for me is logging onto a new computer and wanting my bookmarks. If I had my other computer with me I wouldn't be logging onto a new computer!
Dev removes Flappy Bird after becoming too successful
Dianne Hackborn (who works on Android) responds in the comments:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/neithe...
I use Windows 7 in VirtualBox under OSX quite a lot. It's just more convenient than rebooting into Bootcamp for things that work that way.

Of course, as a heavy Windows user, I want Aero. It just looks wrong to me without it. I also want my Windows to be as fast as it would be if booted natively, and I even occasionally play games inside VMs. To achieve this, VirtualBox translates the DirectX calls in the VM into OpenGL calls on the host. Rather than reinvent the wheel, VirtualBox uses libraries developed by/for WINE.

I also use WINE to run the odd Windows application or game under OSX or Linux. You can look up compatibility ratings of games on the Wine website, and for many it works absolutely perfectly. (For those where it doesn't, I sigh and reboot into Windows)
Terrific post. This is exactly the type of individual I want to work with - someone who recognizes that they're in charge of their own advancement, and doesn't lay blame on any outside factors. As developers/builders/hackers we are ultimately responsible for our own success or failure.
For the next few months, physical oceanography.
I wouldn't exactly call Firefox OS an Android fork. Android is more than just the Linux kernel, it's also Dalvik and a large set of Java APIs. From an app developer perspective, the language and APIs matter much more than the kernel; Firefox OS is completely different from Android in this regard.
FreeBSDJournal
Or the attributes that define whether something is good or not are not the same as they used to be.
>Android, as delivered by OEMs, is not designed to adapt to other hardware. It's open in the sense that the core code is available, but not in the sense that the higher layer can be used as is on a new device.

Don't you think that's more due to the way ARM / mobile hardware scene is than due to Android? There isn't something like a BIOS or ACPI type of standardization to make that kind of thing happen. Also the pace of obsoletion is way faster in the mobile space than it ever was in the PC space.
Doctors 3D Print Hip Implant for Teen Who Can Now Walk
Doctors have 3D printed out an implant for a teen, who was confined to a wheelchair.
Fwiw, the only other vote that's been cast so far, which is in the other direction (3 people haven't yet voted): https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00288.html
Remember Susan Boyle's breakdown post her win on Britain's Got Talent?

The media story around Boyle wasn't "she has got an amazing voice", it was "wow, such a nice voice coming out of something so ugly". Even Futurama got in on the deal by literally depicting her as an ugly arse-wart. Boyle wasn't contending with the normal 'surprise fame' story.
Hum: Organizing all your songwriting ideas
It's funny because I made an SFCave clone for the Xbox Indie marketplace back in 2009 when it looked like that store might not be totally awful. My girlfriend was playing Flappy Bird and I told her that it makes $50,000 a day and she said "Didn't you make a game like this already?"

Ah if only I had felt compelled to remake it for iPhones.
It's not quite as simple as that, because if all the remaining committee members vote F (further discussion) ahead of D (systemd) then D gets dropped before the casting vote stage (Debian constitution A.6.3).

So far one of the four remaining committee members has done this, another is expected to, leaving the decisions of the remaining two to determine whether the vote completes or not.
A good point. The gamer crowd is the most self-entitled, abusive audience of all. A popular game is going to receive plenty of trollish abuse if it doesn't run perfectly, the abuse running up to and including threats of rape and death.
$I $don't $like $this.
But the Javascript that's doing the encryption comes from the same server that you're trying to hide the data from. Browser crypto does not work.
I wonder how long upstart will survive in Ubuntu after the next Debian stable
To attempt this security model, which can work if everything in the universe goes right for you, your application needs to be designed for it from the very beginning. Virtually nobody does this.

If your application wasn't designed from the start to make its database connection "just another view onto data users would have access to anyways" (paraphrasing), locking down the database is closer to make-work than it is to critical security measures.
Because it's Magic the Gathering Online eXchange.