skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the idea! We've gotten a bunch of feedback asking about more specific categorizations once the basic set of votes are saturated. This could be a pretty fun way of getting at something like that. We'll keep it in mind going forward!
If you require comments to try to help programmers follow a confused set of return value conventions, I submit to you that comments aren't the real solution, since they're minimally helpful in addressing the real problem.
How else do you test on IE?
Still think Microsoft should open source XP. They have no interest in developing it despite user demand, let someone else take over.
Am I the only one who wasn't really aware of the fact that people feel guilty about taking their vaccation days? I am working in IT since 2007 and I always felt that I needed much more vaccation then I got and I never felt bad about taking my vaccation. But it is perhaps because I come from a workers family and worked as a heating engeneer and on an assembly line before my IT career?

While negotiating a higher salery my boss told me that he wasn't able to meet my expectation moneywise and asked what I would like to have instead, a new computer, phone, etc. I took a extra week of vaccation days instead.

Don't get me wrong, I liked the job, it was interesting and I made good friends there, etc. but nothing beats a week abroad meeting new people, partying and so on.

And btw. yesterday I started at a new company, and I'm going on a 2 weeks vaccation next month already, nobody seems to have a problem with it.
Ah, ok. I use browserstack, but I see your point.
If this is promoting new Back To The Future content, I think a video game makes much more sense than a movie, since the actors are getting old but their voices can still adapt.

For those unaware, this has been done once already via TellTale's Back To The Future: The Game (http://www.telltalegames.com/backtothefuture/) which offers interesting story and featured many of the original actors' voices and takes place a few months after the original movies. (If you don't want to buy it, you can also watch a playthrough on YouTube.)
They haven't -- the cleanup label is still there. They added a `fail` label which explicitly sets the result variable to 0.
> The simple fact of the matter is, ESR is still right.

ESR is not completely mistaken here, but the problem is that he's not exhaustively right with "Linus's Law".

It's more a description of why beta testing with access to source code is good, than a description of why open source is inherently good (and before you flip out, I've contributed to open source longer than I've done my day job).

Some types of code flaws will simply never show up to the kind of beta testing that introducing software to a wide population provides. E.g. proving that a X.509 certificate which is faulty in a certain way is actually caught by a software library; few people run into that in practice.

What these types of bugs require is code auditing (after the fact) or before-the-fact code review that prevents their entry into the source in the first place. But neither auditing nor pre-commit review are inherent to open-source, and in fact it could be argued that closed-source software companies are better able to ensure sure things happen.

The saving grace for open source is that these companies optimize for market success and not code quality (except to the bare extent needed for market success). Additionally you can pay to audit open source code much more easily than you can closed source (e.g. Google's audit teams that do exactly this).

But "bugs are shallow in the presence of sufficient eyeballs" is not unique to open source, either in theory or in practice.
(1) Maybe it's not

(2) He gets to decide that, not you.
This happened to me once. I had a joke in the help file. They actually called me to discuss it.
It also shows what happens in an environment without insurance. If Mt.Gox was insured, this catastrophe would have been avoided for the customer by either the insurance company paying out or by Mt.Gox never getting hacked due to the security controls that the insurance company would have demanded.

This, of course, raises the questions of "who insures the Bitcoin insurance company" and "how do the insurance companies protect their Bitcoin now that they are a target?"
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I hear a lot of people crapping all over Nagios, but none of the alternatives are any better.

I recently had an opportunity to do a clean sheet build out for monitoring, so I evaluated Zabbix, Munin, and combos of statd/Graphite, etc. and none of them were better.

That said, I have a stock Nagios base config that I can install and have monitoring in five minutes. The key to Nagios configs is to define hostgroups in one file, and then create config files for each host, assigning it to a group. Then you put the service definitions in a service file. Easy peasy.
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> I didn't see how you go from using spreadsheets to using your solution (at least from the code samples)

Sorry about that. The video is for an older MVP. I pushed the product live last week before attending NodeDay, so I really need to update the video.

The specs are actually written using a small JavaScript file which is then serialized to JSON, which is used to generate the JavaScript.

The best way to experience Exponetial.io is via:

npm install -g exponential

Then just create a login on www.exponential.io and you're ready to go.

If you don't have Node installed, then installation instructions for Mac, Windows and Linux can be found at:

http://exponential.io/docs

Site note: We're definitely early alpha. So Exponential.io as it stands now is for early adopters who are ok with giving feedback to drive product features. Our target is to hit beta by April 30.
If you have no use for Windows 8 that makes it worth buying, and no problem with running an unsupported OS, why are you even commenting?
at this point they should be treated like ie6 users. Its been 15 years
Electric Kool-aid Acid Test[0] by Tom Wolfe is an interesting perspective on LSD as well. It starts with the main character, Ken Kesey, taking part in the CIA-run LSD experiments in Menlo Park. The book details his journey from straight-laced-not-even-alcohol to driving a psychedelic bus across the country and finishing with large-scale public acid trips -- all before LSD was criminalized.

[0]: http://www.amazon.com/The-Electric-Kool-Aid-Acid-Test/dp/031...

[Edit to fix run-on sentence]
I'm not sure that there is a difference between the world and tech companies solving the problem. Furthermore, this is a matter YC, a VC firm looking for the best investments, should solve. If not only for their own benefit.

The assumption that VCs always pick the most promising start-ups is a flawed place to start. If we were to break down the graph further and look for black male co-founders or foreign born co-founders with accents (nod to PG's comments on the matter) we'd find even less more than likely.

Many male startup founders are 'not prepared to be startup founders' this can be seen in any series of stories of poor PR, presentation of selves, and ideas like the 'dating ring'. Nothing about 'women' as the other half of the population makes them statistically less likely to be prepared to be startup founders. In fact, considering the young age of many YC applicants, whatever science there is indicates women would be better able to handle the stress and themselves.

It would be a fallacy to ignore bias simply because it hasn't been admitted. I would be interested to see how many women have applied as well, but as a woman in tech, I can say the bias is real.
they aren't violating it since they just do "location-shifting"

This is my understanding. For $8/mo, people are renting the physical space that contains an antenna. The crux of the case is whether renting a sensor, or access to a space with a sensor, is illegal.
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COULD BE, MAY, MIGHT, TEND TO, THROWS DOUBT. Where's the research?
You don't understand? Seriously? Can I pass along a life lesson? If you're ever unsure of another's motivations, just assume "money". You'll be right 98% if the time.

Broadcasters, if they could, would never transmit over the air and keep their $1 month/subscriber.
Do you really believe there is any sort of significant demand for XP? Maybe you could make an argument for 7, but really the almost 13 year old Windows XP?
Of all the speculative explanations so far, this one would make the best plot for a movie script.
I was the one at Adtuitive who chose Cascading.JRuby. It was a pre-existing DSL on top of Cascading. It needed some work, but it was a pretty nice concise way to generate Cascading jobs. However, with half a dozen to a dozen people hacking features into it over time at Etsy, and with no real design coordination, things got pretty out of hand. There were a couple of fundamental problems:

1. Type system mismatch. Ruby is dynamic and not type checked; Java is static and type checked; Cascading is somewhere in between and unfortunately doesn't seem to use Java's type system as well as it could.

2. User-defined functions in strings. For some reason Cascading lets you write user-defined functions as strings and compiles them dynamically during job execution. This was the way to write user-defined code in Cascading.JRuby.

Cascading requires a compilation step, yet since you're writing Ruby code, you get get none of the benefits of static type checking. It was standard to discover a type issue only after kicking off a job on, oh, 10 EC2 machines, only to have it fail because of a type mismatch. And user code embedded in strings would regularly fail to compile – which you again wouldn't discover until after your job was running.

Each of these were bad individually, together, they were a fucking nightmare. The interaction between the code in strings and the type system was the worst of all possible worlds. No type checking, yet incredibly brittle, finicky and incomprehensible type errors at run time. I will never forget when one of my friends at Etsy was learning Cascading.JRuby and he couldn't get a type cast to work. I happened to know what would work: a triple cast. You had to cast the value to the type you wanted, not once, not twice, but THREE times.

Scalding fixes both problems since it is statically typed and lets you write real user-defined functions instead of stuffing them in strings. To me, the main moral is never, ever design an API that involves writing code in strings. It's just bound to be a disaster. Also, if you're going to have a compilation step anyway, you might as well get some static checking for obvious problems like type errors as part of the bargain.
Crap. I just realized what I said was completely ambiguous. What I meant was, does it deal with FLAC images of albums? (whole album stored in a single file with cuesheet.)
Exactly. They'd prefer not to. But then they can't charge the cable companies as much. A weird circle, huh?
tl;dr: Mt Gox had a lot of coins stolen in 2011 and has been running a fractional reserve ever since. Mark tried to delay the inevitable insolvency by creating a bot to manipulate the price, and eventually tried to cover it all up by blaming "transaction malleability" attacks.

One of many plausible explanations. It's going to be really interesting seeing how this actually plays out.
User demand? You mean the people saying "develop and give us free updates forever because we don't want to pay you for Windows new edition"?

They have no interest in developing it

So... where did Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1 come from, if not "interest in developing Windows"?
Persecution occurs when someone is not allowed to visit their dying spouse in a hospital because they are of the "wrong" gender.

Persecution occurs when the spouse dies, and her partner is deprived of any part of her estate.

Persecution occurs when we bestow a host of tax benefits upon married couples, but only if they are of the "correct" genders.

Persecution occurs when gay couples are denied corporate health insurance benefits automatically conferred to straight couples.

And persecution occurs when bigots justify these things by saying that gay couples don't "produce children".

Thank you for illustrating my point so vividly.
Microsoft actually offers VMs for testing various incarnations of IE. They can be kind of a hassle (I think the Win 8 based ones are timebombed and you have to periodically download a new VM), but they work and are free & legal. http://modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools
A more recent version is here: http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/

And a write-up from the original author here: http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3881/dhtml-lemmings-primer....

(IIRC the original site had to be taken down after complaints from the official copyright/trademark holders.)
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Typically, someone who is already using some form of cloud-based infrastructure. From there, it's a fairly easy step to send your monitoring data to a specialized service. And cloud infrastructure can pose monitoring challenges (servers coming and going; multiple systems logging different types of data; unpredictable I/O performance causing problems for monitoring backends) that we help with.
By that measure, having women priests/ministers (or just letting a woman conduct a reading, as even the Catholic Church does) is also a no-no:

"Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak" -- 1 Corinthians 14:34.

And clerical celibacy is also out:

"A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife" -- 1 Timothy 3:2.
http://modern.ie/ ? Microsoft's got VMs for almost every IE/OS combination you could want.

Edit: meaning, why are you limiting yourself to just XP. I realize that was unclear.
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It isn't inherently something that needs to be SaaS. I could host the webfont on my own server, for example, if it were a legal option. But that isn't allowed, so you're forced to load it off their servers. So yes it's a SaaS but only because the licensing forces it to be that way.

I.e., it treats downloading the webfont into a user's browser as a copy and distribution of software. This is the bit that is ridiculous and needs to change. Print design for example labors under no such restrictions.
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This article is ridiculous. It never mentions anything about the quality of the animal protein, yet points out that people that follow paleo are probably eating a high protein diet. People that are actually eating paleo aren't just eating any animal protein. And that makes a big difference.
> User demand? You mean the people saying "develop and give us free updates forever because we don't want to pay you for Windows new edition"?

Yep, those people.

> So... where did Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1 come from, if not "interest in developing Windows"?

Not developing the XP branch, that people are still interested in (as this article demonstrates).
Because software engineering should happen with programming languages plus service engines, the service engine should not be the total replacement for all.
How can they say it's the "first and only icon system created for the modern web"?

The Noun Project has been doing SVG icons for years (http://thenounproject.com). It's slightly harder, but you can change colors/resolution/etc.

Sites like FontAwesome (http://fontawesome.io) cover all the basic icons and are insanely easy to use

LivIcons does animated icons (http://livicons.com/#demovideo)

I guess they're cool, but they're not innovative enough for their overly boastful slogan -- unless I'm missing something?
I did notice that the owner of a large mining pool was receiving error notifications from Mt. Gox. This mining pool has tampered with mined blocks to include religious messages, so they'd definitely be in a position to do transaction malleability attacks to provide Gox with plausible deniability.

/r/bitcoin thread with sources: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zifxf/why_is_the_a...
Am I missing something? I thought they pay the FCC to use the spectrum.
You can't test current IE (beyond IE 9?) on XP.
Path finding algorithm visualization
Stuff below the fold, but I can't scroll is a little annoying.
The "DVR in the cloud" argument was settled a long time ago with the Cablevision lawsuit. Personal DVRs in the cloud are legal as long as the data is not shared between consumers.

The question here seems to be, how far from the receiving antenna can your TV be?
I wanted to give you kudos for stating the level-headed answer that isn't brought up often in these doom and gloom articles:

>...funding is not so bleak that it's hopeless. [It] does however require me to pick and choose only the most promising projects

I feel part of the reason for the anger shown in this conversation is the definition of "academic freedom." Academia is more free than other avenues of research, but it isn't completely free; your grants have to be convincing enough to get funded, and this is how the system was built. This distinction can be subtle, but can only be seen with a certain degree of level-headedness.
> Do you really believe there is any sort of significant demand for XP?

Well, I RTFA, so yeah, I do.
Does this make anyone else's conspiracy antenna twitch a bit? The Apple one was only a little suspicious in that way. A bug in another major crypto library that weakens it in a very similar way makes it look a little more suspicious. Since this is OSS, the investigation of the source control logs will probably be a bit more public. I wonder if they'll find anything interesting.
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+1 - this is a point a lot of people don't get: it can take roughly 10 times the water and 10 times the energy to produce meat rather than vegetables and grains.
You can choose.

It does depend on whether they have space on their books of course. But by and large, people choose a GP close to where they live, and pick the first one they like the name of on the list at one of the closest surgeries.

The way the system works here is if anything is life threatening, you just go to Accident & Emergency at the nearest hospital.

Otherwise you go to your GP for pretty much everything. You'll have an appointment within a couple of days if it's non-urgent, or told to go in immediately. They perform a basic diagnosis, and either take care of you then and there (minor first aid, basic procedures, prescriptions), or you get referred to a specialist. If you are getting referred, you can say which one you want to be referred to.

And from all of that, you never ever get a bill or see anything relating to accounts. You just get your treatment and care.
Then again, Adobe has moved to SaaS only (or are they selling licenses for non-CC apps?), so designers don't have much of a choice anymore.

Sure we do. You can still buy versions up to CS6 as a one-time purchase. Rather like Microsoft, Adobe's biggest competition has become the old versions of their own software that aren't crippled with ongoing payments and the risk of involuntary future changes to how they work or what they cost.

Presumably they've done the math and reckon they're going to make more money between the people who signed up for Creative Cloud and the people they can now lure in who can afford a relatively low monthly fee but couldn't front the whole cost of CS in a single payment before than they're going to lose from people who won't give them any more money now but might have paid for upgrades under the old scheme. Given how little value they seem to have added either in the later CS series upgrades or since the move to CC, I suspect they're right.
I wonder what this means for those of us who are casual weightlifters. Our protein intake is much higher than 0.7g per kg, and in fact most come in around double that value.

The benefits of being at one's peak strength are innumerable, but a fourfold increase in cancer risk is startling.

I assume a healthy balance would be to obtain a greater percentage of our intake from vegetable sources. But most of us are wired by evolution to enjoy the taste of animal protein much more than other sources.

Perhaps a foray into endurance sports is in order.
My employer is currently transitioning from ~25 employees a year ago to ~50 now. When I was interviewed last year, the policy was that there was no vacation policy. By the time I was hired a few weeks later, that had changed to a maximum 10 days of vacation a year. They used the argument of 'it leads to people taking less vacation' to justify their new abysmally small policy. Of course, if that was their true intention, then they would implement a minimum vacation policy. But that obviously isn't the case.
Is there a list somewhere of which applications use GnuTLS?
I thought it was a good article, there are a lot of different programmers out there, not all do web programming. This provides necessary coverage of the core web stuff you need to know if you want to get into it.
Sources? Otherwise you're no better than the article...
Is Craigslist search malfunctioning for anyone else?
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Well, the icons are responsive. They increase and decrease in detail depending on their size.
oh wait ... that should have been 'expected'
No actually, I meant the MtGox source code that deals with transactions. The malleability issue was known long before MtGox announced the exploit. It's possible that MtGox initially handled transactions correctly, but later introduced the malleability issue so they can blame their problems on that. Like I said before, I don't believe that's the case though.
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Hyperbolic title doesn't entirely match up with article:

But whereas middle-aged people who consumed a lot of animal protein tended to die younger from cancer, diabetes and other diseases, the same diet seemed to protect people's health in old age.
I just held down my right arrow key.
There is a big difference between processed meat products from feedlot animals and non-processed meat from 'naturally' raised animals.
thats interesting to know... i think you misunderstand me though. neutrons rain down on your hardware right now from deep space with significant energies... nuclear reactors aside.

this is the primary reason afaik for things like ecc and encasing your hardware in boro-silicate glass...
In other words, it seems that branding agencies sometimes use proprietary type families out of habit and ignorance, not because they've evaluated the tradeoffs and made a careful choice.

I think their choice is more rational than you give credit for. While there are now quite a few good freely available fonts for use on your blog or small business site, there are still few, if any, open font families that offer the same breadth as good commercial offerings. If you're a large organisation, bringing in an agency to create overall branding guidelines that will apply to everything you produce from slideshows to printed brochures via web apps and business cards, it would be foolish of that agency to suggest typography that didn't offer enough range to be future-proof.
Its incredible how the media pushes us to be as unhealthy as possible.

Eat more natural, thats the only real thing. It doesnt matter if its meat or fats or vegetables or whatever. If its processed its made with the only purpose to taste good so it would be easy to sell.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7336175
What is "GoxBTC" vs "Real BTC" ?