skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same could happen with any currency (and does). Your rent would not fluctuate if the price of cars/tvs/food went up in the middle of your contract.
Code review files side-by-side with GitHub Spectacles
Agreed. The subset of people who think they're great, and are great is vanishingly small IME. In fact after around 15 years of working as an engineer, I can think of maybe 2 people who fit that subset, and easily 50 who were legends in their own lunchtime.

It's gotten to the point where anyone who proclaims to be an expert in something is immediately suspect to me. The smartest guys I know never have to say it, and truly never brandish their skillset like some kind of gaudy prize. That kind of attitude makes it very easy to be undermined.
I can't believe they lost the opportunity to call it untraceablog.com.

On a serious note, those look really interesting.
So you have to click on the ad to select a file? Or would it support drag and drop only?
My elisp setup for using Emacs as web browser
Nice, but for some reason the link is to a point "below the fold", hiding the headline and the starting paragraph.

The proper link is simply http://tagide.com/blog/2014/02/the-evolution-of-cs-papers/.
Legal, Illegal: HEMP – The Apple of Discord
Cannabis has been cultivated and used for its medical potential for over 6000 years and has even been listed as an official medicine by the Chinese Emperor Chen Nung in 3000 BC.
One useful set of gcc flags to consider when building a statically-linkable library/executable and aiming to reduce executable size is -Os -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -Wl,-gc-sections.

This causes gcc to put each function in a separate section in the resulting object file, and the -gc-sections option makes ld strip the sections that are not reachable by calls from main (basically a tree-shaker).
I got called out for using the "Start" button by a coworker, "I'd never seen anyone actually use it." But it was, quite appropriately, the 'start' of a bunch of keyboard macros my fingers had memorized.
Google Capital Invests $40M In Renaissance Learning At $1B Valuation
Here is the actual blog post from the official blog: http://www.ftlgame.com/?p=647
Works well. I like the size at which images are displayed: http://drp.io/rUNp
eglibc is basically the same thing, except better. Ubuntu, Debian, and Arch all use eglibc.
I think you're exemplifying my point. Any company that has enough resources to buy a System z mainframe, can also afford to have a support contract and thus won't be bothered by HP/IBM/Oracle's decision to hide firmware updates behind a pay-wall.

Perhaps I should have phrased it "RISC machines" instead of specifying the OS they run.

One fault in my argument is that HP sells smaller x86 machines, not only RISC behemoths. So the small customer that bought an HP server a while ago, ran off the warranty period and cannot afford a support contract, is royally screwed. Even here, this go back to my argument: these people are not who HP/IBM/Oracle are focusing on so they couldn't care less.
That name is already taken: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_(Scheme_implementation)
Did you read the article? This is for the CIO... the C.I.O of the MoD she isn't some project management office admin clerk, she has previously been the CIO of the Post Office too, so is well qualified in the matter.
they certainly do not get the full 60 per copy. I am not sure what current publishing deals are set at but I would be surprised if they even see 40
>> "Nowadays, everything is "terrorism"."

This hasn't changed. Mandela was once (stupidly) thought a terrorist by the current British prime minister. People's definition of terrorism constantly changes. I'm sure there are many people in the Middle East that consider the US a terrorist. It's a ridiculous classification as it's far too vague.

Edit: does the person who down voted this feel like explaining why? I don't see how it doesn't add to the conversation.
"When you have mature frameworks like Rails or Django that take a lot of the grunt work out of traditional RDMBS systems, I don't think it really is correct to say that Mongo DB saves developer time."

Depends. Sometimes Django ORM is great. Sometimes, it is awful (yes, sometimes the models have crazy links between them, this is the most frequent cause of problems)

Sure, if your data is relational, go for a RDBMS. But sometimes it isn't.

And yes, if they're taking 6 months to do something in MongoDB there's something wrong with what/how they're trying to do it.
If it accidentally worked due to bugs/spec violations in the old OS, but is nonconformant in broken ways?
(had some trouble posting on Hackernews earlier)

Re. Qt on Macs: sure, matter of fact I prefer to work with Qt on my MBP, the fonts are prettier etc.

I first tested Qt one year ago, they are really making progress, you should check out the recent release 5.2.

BTW, I've started a blog (mostly) about Qt:
http://tripleboot.org
I think he really meant "accordeon"?
Agile A/B testing with Bayesian Statistics and Python
We don't need another bridge between Python 2 and Python 3. That's Python 2.7's raison d'etre.
The messages on the right are really annoying. Too fast to actually read them and no visible way to stop them.
Yes, you're missing netting fake Internet points to show off your visually stunning but ultimately pointless web application.
You keep putting words to my mouth. I have not compared OpenSSH, Go or Rails as web frameworks. I compared Ruby's speed to Go and Rails' security record to OpenSSH. But I give you misrepresentation is a great way to make someone look stupid.

My personal intuition is that Rails is insecure and becoming increasingly insecure. I have cited a high number of CVEs. If you disagree, go ahead and use Rails for your app. You'll save some time, but remember to remain vigilant about security issues.
BiteSMS 8.0 Public Build Now Available in Cydia
My father, an East German now living in the UK, was saying the other day that he sees parallels between the rise of the Stasi in the 1950's onwards and the UK government's behaviour over the last two decades. I'm inclined to believe him.

The legal system was pretty much the first thing to fall there as well as the criminalisation of literally everything. We have so much legislation now that deals with criminalising people that people don't have a chance if they get in trouble even for something trivial.
The lagginess of the webcam leads me to believe that it's real, also I saw a couple of fish stop and eat algae off of a rock. A 3D simulation (which the company does do) would hopefully have better performance.

Is it safe to feed fish every hour? That seems excessive.

I use to have this screensaver running, it's very nice. I'm not sure if it's been updated in a while though. http://www.dreamaquarium.com/
Healthcare organizations under siege from cyberattacks, study says
2014 Linux Jobs Report: Demand for Linux Expertise Drives Hiring Priorities
So harassing and silencing "extremist" preachers would be... fine? Is this OK?

A Christian street preacher was arrested and locked in a cell for telling a passer-by that homosexuality is a sin in the eyes of God.[1]

Is the law too broad only when it hits someone whose cause you care about?

And how do we decide which opinions are "extremist" or may serve as justification for detention? Hey, maybe we could have courts rule on that.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7668448/Christian-p...
How Would a U.S. Bitcoin Transaction be Taxed?
Pretty sure the word choice was for effect -- like Murphy's Law.
If enough people flag it, we can get rid of it very quickly.
Saying that intelligence, fitness or any other quality does not matter is living in the future, in an alternate universe.

Probably it won't matter in the future, but it matters today.

Probably in the future it won't matter, but if the future is 100 years from now it is not a good strategy to live your alternate reality until then.

Just believing that technology alone will solve all the problems looks naive to me. Imagine for example that a dictator, like Castro could modify their genome with very expensive treatment for living young forever. This does not mean the people he forbids earning more than 20$ a month(everybody in Cuba) will.

Of course, if he does it will be because "he cares so much about his people", or the revolution, not because he wants to, like any other dictator or person in power, they will justify maintaining their power over anyone else.
But... that seems a bit of a wrong approach. If it takes you another 6 weeks to fill the role, that's 6 weeks someone could have been "learning on the job", no? And there's always a ramp up period - you're making an assumption that the person coming in without X years experience in tech Y will by definition not be able to learn fast enough on the job to be productive enough to hit target Z. But by not filling that role, you're definitely not hitting target Z. I do also get that there's time that's spent in onboarding any new hire, but that's possibly equivalent to spending more time hiring no?

I understand your main point, but I just think many companies hold fast to that position far too long, when the alternatives might be better than they think.
This article reminds me of a talk given at 29c3:

http://youtu.be/f3zUOZcewtA

Embedded devices are woefully insecure and no one seems to care!
By any chance are you above 40?

I wouldn't be so quick to judge somebody by their hobbies. How about judging him based on his work? http://www.asheavenue.com/
David Brailsford (Performance Director of the GB cycling team) implemented a very similar strategy. The general gist is that anyone who already excels at something is unlikely to manage to improve on that thing by any measurable amount by just focusing on being better at it. If instead you break down everything that intersects with it and improve those by 1% then you get an 'aggregation of marginal gains'.

This can be things directly related, or something really as simple as, I believe I remember hearing, making sure that the athletes own pillows are packed for them when staying at hotels for events rather than relying on people getting used to the bedding provided.
Neat. I like that you are using OVH to host instead of AWS. Way cheaper. Are you deleting the images ever?
Sorry, my point wasn't that I thought it was ok if used to silence certain people. It was that they have a reason that a lot of people would not object to. Hate speech isn't allowed in the UK (people have been locked up for racist tweets).
I don't agree that this is a valuable target. AFAIK most consumer routers disable access to the web interface from outside the LAN range (by default).
So v1 is buggy, because sales numbers need to be up and its rushed to production. However, sales Q3 is down, so let's charge for "added functionality" (aka bug fixes) on the shit coming out the horse. Old trick, same crap.
Note to self: Upgrade softwares on servers regularly
You might like http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/
So, tell us about your dev stack.. This is HN after all
A carousel is a stupid design element, mostly used as a way for a product manager to avoid having to choose between all their brilliant ideas.

Every time I've done analytics on a carousel (say a carousel with 3 choices, A, B and C), I run a test: A vs B vs C vs Carousel(A,B,C). The Carousel has never won.

There is a very simple reason why. The user doesn't see "oh cool, a carousel, let me wait for it to spin around." They see A, B or C at random. As a result, their conversion rate is the average of the conversion rates of A, B and C.
> because before Bush, nobody knew that word

There were various terrorist operations in the 80ies that were in the news. I would find it probable that the word is more used/abused these days, but the statement above is factually incorrect.
The Half-Life of Innovation
Actually as a resident of the UK, it was a "meh" thing. The word terrorist was still an extreme word used in rare circumstances even back in the height of the bombings.

And no one really actually cared about it that much.

Now it's a label for every crime. "The defendant is a terrorist unit proven otherwise".
eglibc has slowly been merged upstream for the last 2 years. The next eglibc release (2.19) not only will be the last, but it's recommended to use glibc instead unless there's specific need:

> I have now set up the EGLIBC 2.19 branch. This is the last EGLIBC release branch; unless you are relying on changes in EGLIBC relative to glibc that have not been merged to glibc, you are advised to use glibc 2.19 branch instead of EGLIBC 2.19 branch. If you are relying
on such changes, listed below, you should plan to contribute such features to glibc so you can cease using EGLIBC

http://www.eglibc.org/archives/patches/msg01327.html

Although versions are unspecified, for all intents and purposes testing eglibc was either identical to or better than testing glibc.
Is there an API that can be used for uploading with e.g. curl? Other than that, looks nice and simple.
AFAIK sellers often require some data like a verified mobile phone number.

Than there is your registration on localbitcoin. You would need a truely anonymous email address.

And the site behaves really poorly if you try to use it over tor.

If you do the cash transfer in person, the seller might be able to identify you.

If you don't do it in person you would have to send it via some money transfer service.

It is allways hard not to leave traces when you interact with something / someone.

Edit: As 'austerity' stated: 4. Do not accidentally leak your identity in one of million possible ways. [...] But #4 is next to impossible.
From dino egg to 3DS star: The History of Yoshi
It was Margaret Thatcher that considered Mandela to be a terrorist, not David Cameron. I didn't down-vote you.
Since when did something not really being illegal prevent a cop from booking or at least harassing people doing something he didn't like? ;) Not that I totally disagree with him in this case, though. ;(
The article's URL is "Glory to the Helix", and there are derivatives like "Ask the almighty Helix Fossil"

http://askhelixfossil.com/
In case you're wondering why this obviously brilliant article doesn't get much discussion, or many votes, some people here have seen it before. Here are some of the previous submissions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=brief+imcomplete#!/story/forever/p...

Of course, it may get lots of discussion and lots of up-votes. We'll see.
Seriously, please don't waste your time this way. If you are really bored, create something lasting by editing Wikipedia or OpenStreetMap instead.
Understanding the RAILS_CACHE_ID Environment Variable
I see a very exciting possibility for the future of academic papers in certain disciplines where we could have a machine validation step performed automatically, not only on submission but as a tool for the author to check their work. Like a git commit hook that forces a test suite to run. Of course, this would require some formalism to tag data, diagrams, and formulae but it's probably in our best interest in the long run to make the body of our research more machine-accessible anyway.
Wow, I was expecting this to get some criticism as I clicked the comments, but this is a bit more negativity than I would have expected from HN.
I understand she was in power at the time. Cameron was linked however to this[1] 'hang Mandela' campaign poster. I'm not positive but I believe he apologised in parliament after Mandela's death.

[1] http://i.stack.imgur.com/TeN0o.jpg
Aw, submit your article to HN and GoDaddy expires your domain on the same day... cache?
Why Google is buying a seemingly crazy collection of companies
I think the problem in NZ (like most of the western world) is that individualism has overtaken collectivism and the climate for collective social revolution isn't present anymore.

People may stick it to the Man in a personal way, but not collectively.

Your example of the businesses banding together isn't quite a Libertarian example, more like a Capitalist response of maximizing profits in the face of constraining government regulation.

If life was harsh, or the political institutions totalitarian or corrupt, then collective social revolution would eventually appear.

New Zealand is so far away from that type of environment that I doubt it will ever see the type of Libertarian activism that would be required to make lasting social change.

1. Lifestyles in NZ are good, and it really is quite a lot more egalitarian than the USA or UK. New Zealand ranks 11th in the world for Quality of Life Index.

2. Political institutions are not totalitarian or corrupt. New Zealand ranks the lowest in the world for corruption (equal to Denmark) in the Corruption Perceptions Index [http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2013/results/].
Say what? ;)
The quality of the screenshots on App Store is pretty poor. You should save them as PNG files instead.
You can extend it even further. You can ask people what gifts they want for their birthdays or Christmas or any other occasion. Ask if they want cash instead of a gift. You will be their favorite person at the party and your gifts won't get returned.
you just blew my mind wow any further reading you could recommended along similar lines to what you wrote? thanks
Yes but you can break almost any routers wifi password in 24hrs.
Article seems nice, but without data it's rather hollow.
Why wouldn't they? Conveniently and safely in the same location as the code they were built with. Tagged the same way. Having a separate repository is just inviting trouble down the road, no?
Not for the moment.
Yes, yes they do.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=skydrive+onedrive#!/story/forever/...
Setting the Record Straight: My Experience at an Urban Charter School
"The more I "level up" in development, the more I'm convinced there is not enough attention paid to how to really advance through those levels."

This for me is the major takeaway from the article. Trying to learn material 2 levels up is unhelpful. It's especially bad since most of us are used to formal schooling where level progression is determined for you
More like "After aptitude has been canceled out, attitude determines altitude"

Not many folks are hiring based on attitude these days.
The username is a relic. Here is how to fix it
The material used in silicon solar cells Galium Arsenide isn't an environmental friendly material. For us to have large quantity of solar power the materials used in the solar cells can't be dirty in themselves or the environmental advantage are lost.

Here are some alternative links

Organic solar cell
http://www.heliatek.com/newscenter/latest_news/neuer-weltrek...

A question in my mind is if plants is the ultimate solar cell, cheap to produce, naturally converting solar energy into biomass, sugar and potentially diesel. There are also ecoli based solar conversion.

Boing Green diesel breakthrough
http://www.energypost.eu/exclusive-report-boeing-reveals-big...

Ecoli biogasoline
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/30/kaist-researchers-produc...
That was great fun for non webdev Javascript coder, and I was about 3 mins in and finishing 4th problem.

However, getting one of the tests wrong in 4th problem because of two chinese UTF-8 symbol having more length than "tiny" kind of irked me and reminded me why I do not do webdev.

I suppose this is actually a good kind of test, because real webdevs would actually have learned not to use s.length but use something else.

What is it though? This seems like a Javascript fail more than anything else.
Maybe its just recordings of the fish being fed.
The end of the end-to-end argument
The key is neutralizing the triple-rocket launcher and optionally the ion weapon as fast as possible (i.e. by teleporting). With that taken care of and sufficient damage output the boss is not much of a challenge. Actually, killing off all crew turns over the control over the ship to the AI which is capable of making repairs in any room which is undesirable.
Nope :(
I am currently working on a node-webkit client for windows.
You must have a generous helicopter budget :-)
Well, to be fair, I hadn't ever applied for anything in Boston. Also, I acknowledge that not all places may do this, just that I've never encountered one that didn't. Which could say more about the quality of the recruiters I was using than anything else.

Basically, in a 300 mile radius around Washington D.C. there is apparently a shit ton of little, bullshit consulting agencies. There are at least two in even the small towns. Bullshit consulting agencies are the type I'd expect to do contract-for-hire.

It's also, for no reason I understand, the only types of places that would ever look at my resume. Perhaps that is because the alternatives to the consultoware places are health insurance companies (which I patently refused to apply to) and financial services companies (also not terribly appealing). Those sorts of places always looked like they were exactly the same sort of poorly managed shit-show as the consultoware places, just that the client was in-house. Not much consumer-facing software being made out here, I guess.
Anyone knows how does Google detect that an app is trying to download and run code remotely? Is it an automatic process done by Google?
For example, if I use this library but don't ever download new code - so that it's not really used - will it come up on their radar somehow?

Thanks
Show HN: iOS SDK to live-stream app to any web browser (built at PennApps s2014)
I made something similar a while ago while I was learning some jQuery. It only uses pasting from clipboard as I use it for sharing screenshots. And chrome only at the moment.
http://quickscreen.me/
My business artisurn.com uses a drop shipping model and it's been working out well. I use Shopify for my website and e-commerce and Ordoro inventory and shipping app that integrates with Shopify. I deal with individuals (artisans) not companies so I had to tweak my setup to accommodate that by setting up virtual warehouses and assigning shipments to those warehouses.
Certificação em Construção Sustentável LEED
Nothing fancy, symfony2, MySQL and some jquery. But I am working on a nodejs/mongoDB version of this :)
From the FB comments:
"Jamil Elie Bou Kheir
hello from hacker news. thoughtful article! i think it's not the mere intelligence, beauty, or wealth…"

Caused me to cringe, now not only calling yourself a hacker is a commodity, but if you can't stretch that far, just declaring that you read hacker news gains you status?

Not pretending like this site is an exclusive club, but c'mon.
> This article is highly misleading. Shoddy reporting from the Guardian there.

Like most of their journalism.
It is much easier to remote-work with people you already know in person pretty well. Remote work from the outset is much harder.
Yes this certainly doesn't add incentive to get things done right the first time around.
I have a (disabled) wrt120n and unfortunately, it doesn't support openwrt or dd-wrt :(
A probabilistic model of prime numbers based on network theory
Math education even more pointless than Latin or Greek?
So what's more expensive, hiring an expert at $4k/day who by herself in one month can accomplish what an entire team of complacent government employees probably can't in three years or keeping around a staff of employees who for the most part probably are grossly under-qualified to perform this kind of work?

This article reeks of a lazy financial assessment of this investment (ie, person A is really expensive in dollar terms so we should be appalled that the government laid off person B who was paid 1/100 of this sum).
Clearly HP is not giving a shit about its end customers, they do not want to sell servers as its more profitable to sell IT services. I will not shop HP the next time.
More meta-negativity than anyone was expecting.