skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having done this type of work before for a legitimate purpose, it is almost certainly a python or perl script with a nice library in front of it that makes it easy to follow links.

wget is too brittle, not extensible enough, and not as maintainable as a nice python script.
JS is worse than what? why?
A good reason to turn down the money is that this is an unusual event, and may get people thinking. And we also have an unavoidable mechanism that is our conscience. I'm fairly sure that his decision will make him happier and more at peace with himself in the long run.
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It's less of a statement about bitcoin as a statement about people. It shows that people will willingly deposit money into a scheme that they know is broken.

Just like with Bitcoin Savings and Trust, people essentially knew it was a ponzi scheme but they still deposited 263024 BTC. It was offering 7% a week which is 3373% a year. There are also debates about whether the people who profited are morally obligated to send their profits to the people who lost money. Are the people who profited considered to have stolen from the people who lost?
Thanks. I didn't know that the differences change in space in such weird fashion. I guess what was meant were spatial differences, not temporal ones and it now the part about magnetic field makes some sense to me.
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Much better than one would guess from the title.
Pretty much. It self-selects for libertarian ideologues, money-launderers, and people trying to take advantage of the ideologues and/or ride the bubble. The cool thing about BTC is that the tech bubble has given a particular set of fools a whole lot of money from which to be parted.
JS is worse than a competently designed and implemented language.

This is because it was not competently designed and implemented.
I deposited the minimum just to give it a go (80c... Can't hurt?) and the Ponzi sent me back an absurdly larger amount of bitcoins... Not quite sure what happened, but hey. When this hit the top of Hacker News the site wasn't loading any bitcoin stats or such so I feel the load must have had something to do with it possibly. (That or I just got double spent on, which would be a real sneaky trick to get a user to send back the 'perceived' amount, but coming out of their pocket.

This is personally why I wouldn't trust any programs to handle currency so openly on the web. The inability of the average user to stress test or put proper testing through applications can cause quite a fault. Having experienced the methods that banks undergo for software cycles there is a tiny chance someone would have the resources to properly engineer something so fragile (relative to money) properly.

Because of this I would assume the main reason the author actually shut the site down (or at least so suddenly) was because of scaling technical issues.
Upstart was created before systemd.

Edit: Upstart was a great sysvinit replacement, at least during those years before systemd appeared.
The previous title was "Some women are nothing but boobs (of the intellectual variety)". Care to try to improve on the title? (I thought I did, but maybe not?)

Thanks.
Could somebody explain like I'm five?
This took longer than 36 days, but they made the Titanic a kids slide:

http://24flinching.com/word/gold-seal/crazy-world/sinking-ti...
honestly I do not understand: how is HTMLBook better than the old DocBook?

I mean, is

<section data-type="preface"> ... </section>

really an improvement over

<preface> ... </preface>

?
An excellent article, but it brings up a question about authentication using the various load balancing tools out there, such as pgPool or pgBouncer. I've found the auth tools in them to be extremely poor, to the point that it's easier to just leave it off.

Has anyone gotten it to work transparently?
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The only reason Space Shuttle has required a pilot when landing from the point when the re-entry burn has started was to push a button that lowered the landing gear at a proper point in time. In fact, there was some equipment stored on the ISS that, if installed, would allow the Shuttle to land autonomously (the intended use for that was deorbiting a Shuttle with significant tile damage).
I think it's possible to agree with both this post and with the other programmer he's railing against.

Yep, I know that if I don't take care of my own training, it's just not going to happen, most companies are not so altruistic that they'll hand me everything on a silver platter.

But at the same time, a company that never hires people unless they already have the exact skillset they're looking for, a company that fires people on a whim because priorities change, and a company that provides zero incentive for people to keep learning (e.g. with 20% time or a willingness to let employees experiment with new tech) – well, those are not companies I want to work for.
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Which cryptocurrencies have such a feature?
The media appears to be fascinated with wget for some reason. Perhaps it's the allure of command-line utilities in a society where such interfaces are seen by the vast majority of people as arcane, or stigmatized as ones used by computer criminals.

The Post did an article on Manning and wget back in July 2013: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/30...
I'm so glad I'd already read the story. This is the kind of title the mods should be changing.
Yeah this is basically like drug dealers saying I give all the money to charity.
It seems that this was the only instance of its use in the whole codebase. I certainly agree that a comment should have been placed there, and of course creating a function would be the most idealistic solution. But I think that, without knowing the specific context, it is hard to say whether creating a function would have been an improvement or detriment to the code -- especially considering it is just a single line of code.
Hence, since Magical Tux (the owner) is motivated not to go to jail, he will not run off with people's BTC.

For those of you who are wondering, this is because MtGox is Japan-based. In Japan, virtual/digital goods are considered property that can be "stolen." There have been a few cases on this in Japan, though it's never been tested outside of the gaming context and AFAIK nobody's actually gone to jail for stealing a virtual good (yet).
pangrid, a crossword file format interconversion and publishing tool (the name is a tribute to pandoc). no repo up yet because I need to get approval from work first, but it works nicely for a few text and binary formats, and I'm working on extracting grids from images in PDF files and on webpages to reexport into some interactive format.
That's a terrible way to run an RPG, IMO. But it would be an even worse way to write a movie. Give up 3,000+ years of learning about story in exchange for a bunch of random crap. "Yeah, the lead died from a burst appendix just before the confrontation with the big bad, but one of the extras introduced in the next scene got a really lucky shot and killed the bad anyway, so I guess it all balances out."
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An amazing new level of awful. Double-tap cycles between three font sizes. The useless hovering nav-bar won't go away. There's some JavaScript trying to make page down do the right thing despite said nav-bar.

Look, NYT: I want to read some text, you want to put some ads next to it. There has to be some solution that is less bad for both of us.
The word "creep" or "creepy" occurs 8 times in this article. Every time its aimed at men.

Its important to make a distinction. Not every guy that is attracted to you is a creep (even if his attempts at winning you over are awkward or creepy, that does not mean his intentions are - case in point when I first entered the world of dating all of my moves, were, in retrospect, very awkward or even accidentally creepy and I just did not know any better). Its not necessarily an age thing - I have seen cringe-worthy attempts at hitting by males in their mid-thirties.
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You may as well say that your job advancement is your responsibility and not your employer's. And it would be true, strictly speaking you're rarely owed promotion - even if you perform incredibly well, there are no guarantees. However, someone could still not wish to work in a dead-end job.

It feels to me that that's the sense in which the young man's comments were meant. It doesn't seem unreasonable in that light. So the compensation he'd like isn't entirely monetary in nature, that's hardly unique.
I think what he's trying to get at is to stay on top of large industry changes in general. Even though there are many frameworks and libraries being created everyday, it's still reasonable to keep informed about the ones that have a substantial amount of traction.
This little CSS experiment is usually the kind of irrelevant demonstration that is commonly frowned upon because it has no practical use.

But no matter how apparently futile this showcase can appear, it's still inherently valid because it maintains a clean separation between content (which in this case comprises 14 lines of HTML) and its representation (provided by its CSS styling).

I won't use it but I will learn from it.
Can anyone give a quick rundown of the different init systems?

For the most part it can get confusing for a non day to day system administrator when I am trying to get a program to "run on boot". Between rc.local, init.d, run levels, etc. sometimes it is just frustrating.
This whole thing is nuts.

> Maybe in the future I can figure out how to keep my big
> mouth shut and let women continue to wear their Daisy
> Dukes with ass cleavage hanging out the bottom etc.
> while they loudly proclaim themselves helpless victims
> and pawns in a world where only men have power and
> while they equally loudly proclaim that all men are
> unrestrained asshats who can't keep their eyes, words,
> or hands to themselves.

Good thing it's light on the hyperbole.

The author seems to think herself the arbiter of sexual appropriateness. Cross the line, show an ankle, and you have what's coming to you. Men and women should have the same dress code.

> One of the things I get strongly criticized for saying
> is that if you are the target of unwanted male
> attention, it is in your best interest to dress
> conservatively and make sure no one can construe your
> manner of dress or demeanor as provocative or inviting
> such attention.

So, be powerless?
> If open sourcing the code removes most (or all) the value you propose creating, that's a warning sign.

I tend to disagree here: if source code provides your core values, that is a good sign for a healthy business opportunity. Creating your own competition (by open sourcing it) might make sense in some scenario, but it is not a universal good.
That's not compelling.
You should probably add clone to the title.
I like this. It's pragmatic, not idealistic.
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She's being pragmatic. And I respect her for that.
On the other hand, a title of "The Egg" might not have attracted enough views and upvotes for you to have seen it. There's a pique/spoil trade-off, now in social media more than ever.

(In this case, the first line might have worked just as well, though: "You were on your way home when you died...")
Wow. Did you just... You DID.
I was explaining to my kids he other day this great silly game and they already knew what it was. The first thing they said was people play that all the time at school. The top reviews are "tounge in cheek" to the addictiveness of the game.
I'm not really sure if you're agreeing or disagree with the post, but I think that this is one of the points the author was trying to convey.
Yes, the Buran had tiles.

However, it was not vulnerable to falling foam, because the Soviets put the insulation on the inside of the Energia: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20664-cosmonaut-soviet...

That having been said, it's still not safe enough. For example, what about a birdstrike or other debris? A small capsule on top of the stack would have a protective shroud while it is in the atmosphere, and the heatshield is at the bottom anyway. The Shuttle/Buran design was too big to protect in this way.
This really does not compute for me, so it's bad to stop ruining people's lives if in ruining their lives you could help other people's lives? What if the people addicted and raging over Flappy Bird are the same ones that you think should be helped?
I second... Wannabe hacker and don't understand
>There are also debates about whether the people who profited are morally obligated to send their profits to the people who lost money. Are the people who profited considered to have stolen from the people who lost?

The same could be asked of state lotteries and other forms of betting. Not sure there's much difference from a moral standpoint.
I keep a bag of nuts (almonds or whatever I have around) near my desk or in my backpack. Then nibble on them every so often between meals. Also consume lots of water. These two things help me stay alert and stave off hunger for a full meal.
Now even more people are going to rush to the App store and download the game today before the app is taken down.. assuming that would really happen.
Mattermark wasn't a pivot.
This is a really thoughtful article with some practical advice. I hope people read it thoroughly and really think about it before commenting on it, because it would be very easy to skim it and have a knee jerk reaction against the very broad strokes of what she's talking about.

It's not a "blame the victim" article at all, just an analysis of how current social norms might be making things harder than they have to be for women in the tech world.
Replying with a non-mobile link for those who are as lazy as I am when I see a .m Wikipedia link :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
I agree. And you know what sucks? Illogical people, office politics, and having to play them. We shouldn't have to... But a logical and analytical person understands they exist whether we like it or not and plays them (if they care about getting to a desired result quickest).
I find my most innovative thinking happens in the shower. So I bought a diver's board to write notes or ideas down in there. I think it was $6 on amazon.
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Reading this thread on Reddit actually puts in perspective how hard it must be for governments to design and implement effective economic regulations. It's a real balancing act.
> maybe we should be licensing that kind of knowledge...

Or regulate it until it's illegal.
Wouldn't you rather go to wendys.menu then their website and search for it? Or your local pizzastore.menu?

Or instead of searching for pages - samsung.support?

Also people remember things like searchenigne.travel better than some jumbled made up word. Once one brand shows it is easy to market I think we will see adoption.
Not that I can think of. Upstart is slightly simpler than systemd to build configuration files for, but that's also because it doesn't have any advanced features like memory/processor/IO limits or the like. Additionally it doesn't even properly manage child processes... so you have to use wrappers to get Unicorn management working right in Upstart.
This was exactly what happened. I didn't know what the recovery key was and reset that thinking it was okay to.
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The above quote is from Assange's "Goverments as Conspiracies" essays: http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf

They're interesting reads and pretty short.
I used to work on software purchased by the DoD, and the amount of access control, logging, auditing, and other related security features required to fulfill the requirements was astounding.

I totally agree with you that the apparent openness of the intelligence networks information systems is the most newsworthy aspect of this. I don't think that journalists are really knowledgeable at all about intelligence community is supposed to handle compartmentalization. They think the NSA handles things just like they do at their paper.

(The sad part is that apparently, the journos are right.)

The problem of these loopholes allowing classified information to leak was exposed with Bradley Manning. Yet, even in that case, I didn't hear any calls from the press or public to see head further up the chain roll.

But, that should have been enough to highlight the holes in our networks. Apparently it wasn't, and exactly the same thing has happened again.

I want to see heads roll right up the chain for this lack of duty with respect to protecting our national secrets.

By the way, none of the above is intended to imply that I think what the NSA has been doing is legitimate. I am glad that Snowden came public with this information. However, how do we know that other, more critical secrets haven't been sold directly the the Chinese or North Koreans? We only found out about the Snowden leaks because he made them public.
"When the President does it, that means it is not crazy."
It's OK to say I don't know but I can find out. It's better to over-communicate status. As much as everyone talks about working smart over hard people still appreciate hard work.
Only for python?
the other day I had the task to batch download product pictures from a website... every picture had a sessionid on the uri so I could't make a simple image wget. I wrote a simple python script that wrote a shell script with a lot of "wget -E -H -k -p \n sleep 30" and ran it trough a cloud server for a couple days... after that, some simple scripts for renaming the pictures, some regular expressions here and the, and voila, 250k perfectly named pictures for my product catalog... (it's for an intranet, so I guess I wont have copyright problems"
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Nice, looking forward to reading your thoughts. I've been thinking about this myself recently.

I'd suggest using a higher estimate for the value of rewards points. (You used a 1%.) You can explicitly get >1% cash back on many cards, so I'd argue that's really the lower bound.[1]

Most reward points can be redeemed for ~2%, with conscious consumers getting even more than that. [2]

Consumers are very aware of the value they're getting, too. If you read AMEX company filings, the redemption rate on MR points is >90%. I found that shockingly high. It's tough to get consumers to switch to bitcoin when it's worse value and more risk.

[1] https://creditcards.chase.com/freedom?jp_cmp=cc/freedom/off/...
[2] http://boardingarea.com/onemileatatime/2012/05/25/my-updated...
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What InclinedPlane said.

The huge-giant wings were needed so Shuttle could fly cross-range back to Vandenberg after going over the pole.
Not disagreeing with the author, just trying to add some clarity as to why some men might be perceived as creepy. :)
And you don't have to get too deep into everything. Take frontend js frameworks. You could learn one, say angular and then read about how the others differ. Gives you insight into the whole field.
This is a little reminiscent of Mormonism (minus the 'only you and me' bit)
This is a ridiculous and rather arrogant response. First off, if the user doesn't understand something, you can't just always blame the user. It in fact did completely bork my synced data. I don't care what you want to call it, if user's lose data there's a problem somewhere in the design of the sync system.

No where in the user-flow did it say anything about losing data if you reset the recovery key. These confusions are why they're changing the FF sync system!
The engineers knew why there was blow-by on the O-ring -- joint rotation. The obvious solution was to redesign the field joint to resist this rotation, so that the O-ring would never be exposed to hot gases. All they needed was time and money.

Then Challenger happened. Now, no Shuttle could ever launch again until the joint was redesigned and proven to work. Time and money were no object.
This might be a helpful explainer:

http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2013/...
It works perfectly in chrome. I don't know what's with the obnoxious yellow banner - I thought firefox people were against the "best viewed in internet explorer" attitude.
I would start with K900's rundown here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/132gle/eli5_the_syste...

More on the Debian debate:
https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/upstart

And the Phoronix has a good overview of how this is playing out:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU1NjA

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ5NzQ
I think it works out fine here. You have one path through all lives, you can't be adam and eve at the same time but you can interact with yourself as either of them at some point in your path. Of course i think original sin should come pretty early in your path ;)
Systemd isn't portable to non-linux. (And while you may not care about debian kfreebsd, some people do)
Here's to hoping the magazine won't be sent as one big image to subscribers!
I wonder when this was written?
That's a pretty colossal misinterpretation of what was written, and the reason why she put so many caveats and explanations in there (which were conveniently ignored).
I'd strongly suggest "Sum: 40 tales from the after lives" for anyone enjoy this story. It's a lovely collection of short stories with very similar writing style and theme.
I've read this several times before, and this bit always gets me, as they say, "right in the feels":

“Don’t worry,” I said. “They’ll be fine. Your kids will remember you as perfect in every way. They didn’t have time to grow contempt for you. Your wife will cry on the outside, but will be secretly relieved. To be fair, your marriage was falling apart. If it’s any consolation, she’ll feel very guilty for feeling relieved.”

It's just so human. It's almost confrontational in its degree of, "That's just how shit is sometimes," but it's delivered with utter compassion. That juxtaposition captures so much of how I feel about the human condition.
that's the old sync.the new sync TFA is talking about doesn't have this functionality at all.

personally, i perfectly understood the old scheme and found it great, but apparently that's not your case neither the general case.
A Linux operating system has a core program called a kernel, which has the job of creating and maintaining an environment where other programs can run. Other programs include the login prompt, the shell that lets you execute programs, etc. However, there is a chicken-and-the-egg problem: once the environment is running, how do you run the first program? This is solved by having the Linux kernel run a program called "init" as the first program, which manages everything else (bringing up services, executing the login prompt, etc). There are multiple versions of this "init" program with different features and idiosyncrasies -- the Debian committee voted to use one called systemd rather than some competitors. Switching versions of init requires system administrators to relearn how to do many things, so the committee spent a lot of time weighing a lot of factors before making this decision.
When women use the word "creepy" what they mean is they are not attracted to them and any attention received by them is unwanted. As a guy, there are two ways to avoid being labeled as creepy:

1) be attractive
2) don't be unattractive
Totally agree with the "might me good for maintenance mode" sentiment. I'm working on a pre-1.0 project. I'm thinking about the few commits where I was first implementing localStorage caching. Tons of files were effected on each commit. If there was a particularly tricky line in there (there were several), how would I have specified it in a commit? That'd be extremely hard to read when compared to the alternative of putting the comment above the code.