skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That this advice even needs to be said is telling of the startup culture. There seems to be alot of people attracted by the allure of billion dollar exits, or whatever motivates people to build stuff for "other people".

Personally, I only build things that I want myself. Being my own Customer Zero is really fun & rewarding, and even if the product doesn't sell, it wasn't a complete waste, because at least I got the product I wanted.
I was thinking something like a smooth toy railroad track would be less traumatizing.

The current design doesn't seem to let the fish just swim around without moving the car. There should be a slightly bigger area for the fish to swim and only make the car move when the fish is in a small area of the tank in the front or back.

It would be interesting to have the track go into different areas/rooms with different colors or lighting to see if the fish spends more time in certain areas. That might shed some light on whether the fish is aware that it can control where the train/car goes.
Check web servers using Node
Russia will do nothing. Today, even Kharkov, the unofficial capital of eastern Ukraine (which is supposed to be loyalist) featured a 30+k manifestation of opposition and had president, mayor and governor fly to Russia.

It's too late for Russia to do anything and they won't even if it wasn't.

Russian here.
So the result may not be what you expect. It's very hard to identify all the unintended implications and it doesn't seem like proponents of this scheme (which I like in principle) have thought of any.

How do you deal with instruments that trade on both a foreign and local exchange? Or instruments that are highly correlated, one of which trades in a continuous market?
>You were doing so well with your warning about sweeping generalizations..

He didn't warn against sweeping generalizations. He warned against MISTAKEN sweeping generalization. This one looks pretty spot on, and has even been tested on survey like questions.
Finding 5 people to buy your product/service does not validate your idea; but if you can't find 5, then you can save yourself some time and money.
In this make believe scenario, the world is divided neatly into opposing camps of "competent devs" and "enterprise CRUD devs". It's dismissive, cheap analysis at its best. It's a straw man whose only real purpose is to embolden us with a smug sense of superiority.
Nothing wrong with that -- it's just paying an acquisition cost. PayPal paid out millions: $10 for new registrations, and $10 to the referring user back in 1999 (?). By incentivizing customers to add payment info, it takes the friction out of future opportunities.
That $100 is funding the ongoing development of EdgeOS though. It doesn't seem to make much sense to buy an ERL if you're just going to put another OS on it. Shrug.
Researching? Tell me you don't mean reading random wikipedia articles and browsing the web here.

You're at the stage of life where you need to develop deep skills in subjects. At the early stages of that process it can be hard to motivate yourself. You're gonna have to power through and realise you're doing this for future you not current you.
It's becoming quite a chore to keep your computer and online accounts secure. I'm in the industry; anyone who is not is probably a babe in the woods these days.
http://youtu.be/WgAtBTpm6Xk?t=14m40s

WhatsApp CEO responding to a similar question in an interview.

"The basic idea will continue to be a simple messaging app."

"That's the beauty of an open and free market system, you can go download another application that let's you do that [share ephemeral photos]"
Free runner Damien Walters Runs a Loop-the-Loop
Take it from someone who fucked up and went for arts:

You get demotivated there too. At least with math and programming jobs, you have some money to fix things.
>there is precedent in letting the minority itself decide which persons are members of it and which are not

I've never heard of this precedent of seen it in action.

We think of Marx or Dylan as jews because we've read their biographical information, not because some jewish minority decided we should do so.
I would make it part of the interview. Look at the code, think about it & ask the programmer about it. Reserve judgements until you have made an attempt to learn something about the context.
Give people choice: People who like it old way are still happy and people who like new stuff will just switch.

Make a dialog at the start of the session when you release new features, asking if you'd like to enable new features or keep your old settings for existing users. Install new features on by default. Everyone happy, no complaints.

Then collect stats after some time and see what is actually getting used and if 95% is in favor of some option - remove the old feature.

This could also be a nice incentive to provide stats to developers - your opinion gets counted.
How are you aware of this?
Social media is work, just like housework is work, and it's about as dull as waged work too. Work is a relationship where some entity extracts surplus value off your unpaid labor.

I like the forced, scrolling text: makes you slow down and pay attention, but also not switch tabs halfway through and get distracted.
There is something better. It's called Org-mode, and it is part of Emacs, although that shouldn't scare you off immediately; I'll talk more about that shortly, but first want to mention some features you might find appealing. You can write LaTeX documents in it if you like, or you can write Org-mode documents in a far more humane syntax, which the editor understands on a semantic level, and which can incorporate LaTeX snippets where they're needed while otherwise insulating you from having to write LaTeX source by hand. (Although of course you can if you want to.)

Org-mode has exporters for LaTeX, PDF (via LaTeX), HTML, DocBook, PDF (via DocBook), various flavors of plain text, OpenDocument text (which can get you to Word if you want to go there), all of which work quite well; if you need to supply LaTeX source as input to some external pipeline, Org makes it possible for you to do so. On the other hand, if you prefer to spend as little time as possible dealing with raw LaTeX, which in my experience seems like a sensible attitude to take, Org makes that possible as well. And on the third hand, if you need to write LaTeX source directly for complex diagrams and such, or if you want to override the way Org generates LaTeX in specific cases but let it handle the rest of a document on its own, Org doesn't get in your way there, either.

You can also include code snippets in an Org-mode file, of arbitrary length and in arbitrary languages. If they're in a language Emacs understands, you can have it render them with syntax highlighting, but that's just the tip of the iceberg; you can also have Org-mode execute those snippets, whether ad hoc or as part of the compilation process, and it can incorporate their results into the document verbatim or after a variety of transformations, and also use those results as input to other code snippets in the same document. This is why the literate programming folks love Org-mode as much as they do; there's nothing quite like it for interweaving text and code and then being easily able to do interesting things with both.

And, although Emacs is by far the most powerful editor for Org-mode files, there's nothing saying you have to use Emacs to edit Org-mode files. You can, for example, use Vim to write your Org-mode source, probably with some degree of highlighting via some vimscript file or other. You can then invoke Emacs in batch mode to compile your Org source into whatever format you want to come out the other end, without ever having to see or deal with the Emacs editor interface, and without having to involve yourself save on the most superficial level with Emacs Lisp. (I'll be happy to provide the general form of such an invocation, if you're interested; let me know.)
not this thread (congrats Sam!)
From looking at the code it seems like there should be a way to change the instructions to "fix" the issue, but in a round-about way. This code:

if (sslVersionIsLikeTls12(ctx)) {
/* Parse the algorithm field added in TLS1.2 */
if((charPtr + 2) > endCp) {
sslErrorLog("signedServerKeyExchange: msg len error 499\n");
return errSSLProtocol;
}
sigAlg.hash = *charPtr++;
sigAlg.signature = *charPtr++;
}

is only executed in the TLS 1.2 case, but the sigAlg structure is always on the stack. So if this code remains "skipped" in the non-TLS 1.2 case, then later on:

if (sslVersionIsLikeTls12(ctx))
{
err = SSLVerifySignedServerKeyExchangeTls12(ctx, sigAlg, signedParams,
signature, signatureLen);
} else {
err = SSLVerifySignedServerKeyExchange(ctx, isRsa, signedParams,
signature, signatureLen);
}

the broken "else" case can be replaced with instructions to poke the proper values into sigAlg and then relative jmp to the code offset where the inlined SSLVerifySignedServerKeyExchangeTls12 begins (0x86cb9), as that version of the function does not have the bug.

I checked inside the SSLVerifySignedServerKeyExchange disassembly and the compiler expectedly omitted the remainder of the function, so it isn't as simple as sticking a few nops in.
Adderall would make anything fun.
I must have some lying around, will give them a go. The bootloader works with my USB stick, but Linux doesn't like it. Will see if FreeBSD does or not.
What I'm trying to say is that for the vast majority of peoe that have to produce documents, it isn't an apples to oranges comparison. For most proe, Word and LaTeX do the same thing. And one of those is vastly easier to use to get their job done. So while LaTeX is the technically superior, Word will still get the job done. And because of the network effects that working with collaborators has, People like me are stuck using Word even if I'd rather have my papers written in something else.

In some fields LaTeX is the easier method to produce documents (good luck with anything more than a simple equation in Word), but those are relatively small niches.
Hey there! From the sound of it, you're about sixteen years old and live in Britain. A few years ago, I was your age and in a similar position. What grades are you getting at the minute? A-levels might be easier for you than you realise.

As to how to motivate yourself to study for them... study the cool things you can do with maths. Try to solve problems. Calculus, linear algebra and statistics are the fundament of the maths curriculum, and they're all hugely useful. Figure out how to prove things. Figure out how to solve mechanics problems with calculus. Program some statistical analysis stuff.

Frankly, if you're a smart kid and enjoy maths/programming, I expect you'll do fine at A-level. And if not, it doesn't mean much. Some of the best programmers I know didn't bother going to university.
I don't mean to sound insensitive, but if we don't have men and women like Jim, Rake probably will never be here. The technology that exists today would never be if we didn't have people that have a passion for knowledge. On the flip side, I agree, we need to take better care of our health.
Why do you want to know if it received the message? If you need that why not call a function? I used to do a lot of work with soft real time message passing using MPL (Motorola Programming Language) and SDL where the whole program was simply a state machine implemented by sending messages. I don't think I ever felt the need to have one process send confirmation back to say that the message had been received.
57 is fucking young.
In theory, though nfs and me/my network setup don't get on.
> four listed browsers

> Firefox, Chrome and IE 11

I think you missed one.
I think we can abstract the advice you're commenting on to "if you don't feel motivated to do what you're doing, do something else", which seems okay. It's quite possible that continuing to do things you are not enthusiastic about doing may be a bad idea.

I see your point that it's not a very actionable bit of real advice. Pragmatically, if you told my 16 year old to pack a bag and leave, I'd want to smack you :D
Existance of Voynich-A and Voynich-B dialects supports the theory that the script was invented by a small group of people. Different languages also is consistent with the theory that the script is written in some language that didn't previously have a writing.
or mtgox-otc if you don't want to pay fees to a third party.
If you study computer science, you will need to learn this. However I would guess that most or at least a lot of people here have never studied computer science at university level.
Can someone provide a tl;dr; for this? I'm not nearly on the inside enough what audience this site is targeting...
I feel like I need wages for putting up with that UI for 30 seconds.
From a technical standpoint, I find the forced scrolling on this page incredibly frustrating. I read faster than the vast majority of people, yet I could not take control of the scroll bar to read the page at my own pace. I gave up about a third of the way through.

(Yes, I'm aware of noscript and the like. I've chosen not to browse with it, to have the same experience as the vast majority of the non-tech population this site owner might want to reach.)
But I want to write on my text editor on a terminal emulator because I have access to all of the built in operating system utilities.
How can I move the menu bar under window title?
I actually like to move windows by the title bar and not move my mouse over the whole screen to the global menu.
Safari fails on 10.9.1.
Facebook needs to either reinvent itself or go back to its roots and I'm afraid that buying success stories with billions isn't going to help in that.

Facebook is currently rather incapable of delivering what I originally signed up for when I joined: keeping posted about how my friends are doing, and thus having the incentive to post something about my life as well because my friends could see how I'm doing. I can't in practice control what I see and how much I see from each friend. Things happen and I don't know about them until I happen to read through my friend's timeline manually. I don't know who actually sees my posts. That makes it rather useless.

The core of what Facebook used to be would be really simple to implement and most people wouldn't genuinely need much more.
Sounds just like me at 16. Wasn't very motivated despite studying the A-Levels I wanted to (Maths, Physics, Computing). Spent all my spare time stealing Internet access at the local University (this was back in 1992/1993). I got decent grades (AAB) and got into my first choice University, but the motivation to do well still wasn't there. Ended up getting a 2:2 where everyone expected me to get a 1st. After that I was lucky and ended up in a good job where degree result didn't matter.

Looking back I wish I'd talked to someone (not my parents) about it at the time. So I'd recommend finding someone to talk to at your college; your form tutor (depends, I didn't get on with mine), careers advisor, pastoral care reps, etc. Just remember that they should be there to help you do your best, not bollock you for not putting your full effort in.
Duke student turns to PORN for tuition
Bowser (only browser with WebRTC support on iOS) discontinued
This seems to be the current thread on the topic, so I'll mention here in case anyone cares that iOS 5.1.1 does not contain the vulnerability, according to gotofail.com's test for it.
Hold alt. Drag anywhere. In general, these kinds of questions are best answered by holding down the windows-button until the help shows up.
> Your success in life will mostly be determined by the connections your parents have

Sorry but this statement doesn't ring true to me, because I know of several cases where two brothers have had divergent success outcomes based on their personalities and the choices they've made.

There's also MANY ways to forge your own connections in life.
I agree with that distinction. Another notable class of mathematical "hypotheses" are those, like the continuum hypothesis [0], whose truth is formally undecideable but that many mathematicians nevertheless believe to be true in some sense. If this class of statements has any analogue in the empirical sciences, I guess it must be "unscientific" (untestable) hypotheses, about which philosophers (or theoretical physicists) might still find interesting things to say.

Mathematicians also use the word "hypothesis" to refer to a whole implication in the phrase "inductive hypothesis". But it most often simply means the left side of an implication: the phrase "A is true by hypothesis" means that A was assumed to be true—that is, it was the starting point of a proof.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_hypothesis
Some of the nootropics are Prescription Only Medications.

Being arrested for possession would have some negative consequences for OP. Accepting a caution would be worse.

So, if OP does want to try this be careful about the legal status and if the police do call be polite but say, firmly and clearly, that you'll answer their questions after you've spoken to a lawyer, and refuse to say anything else.
Douglas Adams metaphorically summarized this a long time ago IMO:

MAJIKTHISE:
We’ll go on strike!

VROOMFONDEL:
That’s right. You’ll have a national philosopher’s strike on your hands.

DEEP THOUGHT:
Who will that inconvenience?

MAJIKTHISE:
Never you mind who it’ll inconvenience you box of black legging binary bits! It’ll hurt, buster! It’ll hurt!
Don't most PC makers just make back the Microsoft licensing fees through bundled software deals? I'm not sure if price is really the reason people buy Chromebooks either - a ZDNet debase seems to agree [1] - people often buy Chromebooks for the simple reason that they aren't Windows PCs.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/zdnet-great-debate-results-there-are-go...
What a delightful idiom. I had to look it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babes_in_the_Wood
Ray ID: 100dd24eafde09be
I like the idea.

But I also believe that solving personal problem is a good place to start. After all, if one person has a problem, it is likely that there are at least 5 other person who shares the pain.
I think the "not as mature" comment was about the support for it, not a comment on OpenBSD.
That's not correct. The cURL version shipped with OS X uses SecureTransport.
FWIW, staples.com is selling the (discontinued) WD My Net N750 for US$30. It's an AR9344 box w/ 16 MB of flash, 128 MB of RAM, a 5 port GigE switch, 2 USB 2.0 ports, and a 0.1" pitch TTL serial header already installed on the PCB. It's supported by OpenWRT trunk, and most of the bits to support it are in FreeBSD, so that might be a "just works" option one day.
But, as someone who also went towards the arts (I'm a regularly gigging musician) and letters (I have a BA in Philosophy and dumpped my PhD during my dissertation), I can say that it wasn't super hard to get back into a technical position coming from a high-school and early college education where I learned a lot of logic, math, and programming skills... since leaving my PhD program I've been consulting doing PHP-based development for the last 4 years, and I'm on track career wise as I would have been if I was teaching at a university somewhere.

This is wholly a un-based feeling, but I feel that it has been a lot easier to pick up new and professionally useful technical skills in my 30s than it would have been if I had done well in my 20s with a technical career and had to pick up the useful philosophical and musical skills I enjoy using in my 30s.
+1. yikes. If you want to convince me of something, at least don't make it painful to read.

In the little I gathered, it seems their argument is about as well thought out as their UI.
None of the games were playable for me on Chrome. You might want to do some quality assurance before going any more public with this.

Chrome Version 32.0.1700.107
Safari under 6.1.3 is vulnerable, according to this site (I just tested my old iPhone)
You're completely right. It's not true. Your success in life will mostly be determined by the connections you make.
Looks promising! May I ask why you forked from the original (https://github.com/JamesFator/GoogleMusicMac)? Looking at the commit history it seems to be under active development.
curl https://gotofail.com:1266/

Client's that aren't vulnerable should flip out when trying to load that.
OP has to get into university first.

They're not likely to do that if they drop out of A level study now.
I am not sure if this statement is correct or is likely in grey area. The person who sold it to you has gained $200 if they choose to buy now.
I recently saw this documentary, 'Who gets the best jobs'[1]. It overwhelmingly supports OP's stance.

1.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bD7U8kqI8A
First thing - don't search for motivation or don't try to get yourself motivated. You'll end up looking for things that will make you feel good which will in-turn promote procrastination and thereby take you away from actions. The truth is motivation doesn't last. It's a push mechanism. You'll have to focus on things that pull you towards it.

If you keep going like the way you are currently, how would your life be? Definitely you understand the problem with it and this post is the proof. But ask yourself - "why do you want to get A-levels at school?". If programming and researching keeps you going, by all means, you should focus on it. Make sure you put the best possible efforts in it; the rest will follow automatically.
Ask HN: Which mobile messaging service do you prefer?
Are iMessage, WhatsApp, SMS, Facebook Message, Viber, etc more or less secure than one another and does that factor into your decision?

Does one service's interface compel you to use it over the other alternatives?
Wow, this is exactly what I wanted a few months back when I was using Google Music extensively. This may get me to re-subscribe. Great job!
It would be great to check status codes, I'll probably send a pull request.
Sixteen is old enough - especially when he can always return. Being away from everything for a few months really puts things into perspective - why are you doing what you're doing, why you were so afraid of some things, whether you're on the right path, and more.
Actually this demonstrates the opposite - this vulnerability has just been patched for half a billion people with no effort on their part.
Basically all of these games try to get you to make in-app purchases, which is a huge turn-off for me.

Honestly, I find these in-app purchasing platforms to be completely against the spirit of game development. I totally support a game developer's right to make money off their work, but the way these games aim to do that is so unethical.

Remember how fun games used to be before they were perverted by the greedy in-app purchasing tactics? I'm sure there weren't many games making a million dollars a day like Candy Crush, but with a classic game like Civilization you come to respect the genius of Sid Meiers. What's more important to you, a million dollars a day or the respect and admiration of the gaming community? It seems like an insatiable appetite for wealth, driven by the example of successful in-app purchasing games like Candy Crush, has been instilled in the game development community.

One more thing - when your performance in a game depends largely on how much money you spend on it, the value of actually being good at the game is basically nothing. How am I to know that the top players in the world didn't just drop a couple grand on the power ups and gold and whatever other virtual shit they try to peddle. In games like Civilization, the only way to win at the deity level was to be a bad ass motherfucker who doesn't take shit from any other civ - if Civilization was invented today, you would be converting your real money into virtual gold during those economic crunch times in a war campaign.

Back in the day, it took a genius to make a financially successful game. Nowadays, it just takes an in-app purchasing API. I hope people stop paying the people who game human emotions for personal profit and start paying the geniuses who make great games.