skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did this article manage to not use the byte sequence 'DNSSEC' or mention the fact that it's only deployed on a tiny % of domains under TLDs that support it?

Reports like this just add to public misconception.
Have a Rails 2 app? You can run it on the newest Ruby
Brain drain has come so far in Spain it is now self-reinforcing.
Response to Intervention (RTI) and Learning Disability (LD)
To the founder -- show it off here: http://consumers.creditnet.com/Discussions/forum.php
if you havent already.
They aren't part of the government elected by the public, that's what many people class as important.

As for subject to congressional oversight, seems like pretty loose oversight if you ask me...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY8xz3Q7aig
It's not the GDP which was cut down but the estimate of the GDP growth.
Two problems: first is that casual association may be invisible to even hand-waving criteria; think good crypto PRNG output which is fully determined by seed and is serial number, but the parameters are practically unfittable from the data because the function is so chaotic. Second thing is that the more hand-waving you allow the more totally incidental relations will look "true". With a modern amounts of hypotheses, even Pearson correlation often becomes useless in this manner.
An open letter to the Node community
I think we idealize our jobs. They're stressful and dangerous. Stress, obesity, back, blood circulation and respiratory problems do kill eventually.

Then there is depression, working alone, never going outside.

But hey, you could always become a consultant: travel much, eat badly, work everywhere, ignore ergonomics...

And one more thing, I wouldn't compare myself to the millions of unemployed, or low-wage workers, but to the upper middle class.
'Permanent 2' sounds like kind of a contradiction.
Great site, incredible idea, awesome founder.
this may sound stupid but i'm just wondering why the article is dated in the future (Mar 10, 2014)? we're on even on March 3 yet, and yet its there http://search.time.com/results.html?N=46&Ns=p_date_range|1

I'm not a regular time magazine reader, am I missing something here?
Thanks for the clarifications but it's still hard to get it.

Is pCell an alias of Picocell?

What's the difference between a pCell and a Femtocell with cooperative MIMO and distributed antenna system (DAS)?

"pCell is indeed protocol agnostic" means nothing has been modified in LTE Rx/Tx physical layer or data link layer right? Then does that mean all the inventions are in the antenna system?

Without cellular, how do you handle the dead zone issue, because real time tracking & beaming will be blocked by walls?
That's more or less the rule: the gain is taxed when it is "realized" which is roughly when it becomes "yours." It doesn't actually have to be cash in your hand (otherwise it would be quite easy to get around tax laws simply by trading assets on accounts without taking cash out). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realization_%28tax%29.
One Year of Discourse
HHVM vs Zephir vs PHP OPcache: The Showdown
Hi
I'm the author of the post.
You've guessed right - I'm not a native english [I had the post proof-read though by a "native" (he said) so I've got some follow-up to do], but a humble members of the French Tech. We'll try to work on our language skills asap!

Beyond this I truly appreciate your feedback [and of course we all know at Aircall what is a PBX and how to make one quickly in the garage :-)].
I got mugged last night, and gave the mugger a little extra because he was just so darn enthusiastic about mugging.
More than 10 Russian military helicopters also flew into Ukrainian airspace over the region on Friday, Kiev's border guard service said http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/28/us-ukraine-crisis-...
I see exception warning on line #6 when javascript disabled.
I'd love to take a look, but the page isn't being served. Or at least it's taking more than 5 minutes to load. Anyone have an executive summary?
Haven't yet- will do. It's still kind of rough so I'm trying to get some feedback before I really publicize.
Our SaaS app helped a customer make $18k
It's a pity your post isn't at the top of the thread. It is sound advice.

I find it fascinating that there are (apparently) people in this thread who lost $500k at MtGox and despite the loss would still have no problem paying $250k in taxes on it if they were required to do so.

I would hope if you're making that kind of money you'd either have a sound sense of financial risk management, or the wisdom to hire somebody who does to manage it on your behalf.

Of course, it's easy to criticise with the benefit of hindsight.
Let me know when you watch it- I definitely need a new one. I am working on an instruction video now. Something more personal.

I can add a tagline in the page title. Great suggestion- and I'll ask a friend who does SEO about it
This is my favorite Coding Horror post: http://blog.codinghorror.com/international-backup-awareness-...
Why was "goto fail;" added without any other change to that part of the code?
Looking at the diff between the two versions of sslKeyExchange.c released by Apple http://opensource.apple.com/source/Security/Security-55471/libsecurity_ssl/lib/sslKeyExchange.c and http://opensource.apple.com/source/Security/Security-55179.13/libsecurity_ssl/lib/sslKeyExchange.c
I was trying to come up with a reasonable explanations of how this could have happened, but failed.

Here the relevant part of the diff:

@@ -627,6 +628,7 @@
goto fail;
if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &signedParams)) != 0)
goto fail;
+ goto fail;
if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.final(&hashCtx, &hashOut)) != 0)
goto fail;

How could this ever happen? It does not look like a copy & paste error as suggested in other places,
it does not look like refactoring. Was it added intentionally to test something and commited by accident?
Is there any possible non malicious explanation someone could come up with?
I don't think the numbers even reach the low billions, so no Madoff still takes that award.
dat troll
I don't think that is anything out of the ordinary, besides if pw->pw_name is longer that sizeof(li->username) it will get truncated. I was more thinking of error checking macros and error handling.

Basically the remark was that the comment went from discussing error handling, to the (much) broader scope of 'C and C++ done "right"', and as an example 5 complete, large open source projects were dumped for us to find the examples ourselves.
Talk is cheap, show the code
That's pretty much the same as the UK (and presumably everywhere else).

Pretty ghastly situation to be in if you do end up with a tax liability because of something like this.
Yes, definitely, but I think the success of Bitcoin depends on mainstream adoption, not just libertarian adoption.
How We Built a User Community for Our Product
Is there any website that collates cool Github projects like this?
I get what you're saying, but gold is not 'completely and absolutely worthless'. It conducts electricity very well and does not corrode very easily. It is used on satellites to reflect electromagnetic radiation. It can be used as a glass coating to help prevent ice formation (airplanes). A gold isotope is used for cancer treatment. It can be used to tint glass red. It can be put into cinnamon schnapps...
Adobe's Actionscript did the same thing with their lists. Each list item was reused when it scrolled off the top/bottom with different data.
"as long as you attribute the source"

danielbarla said that they presented the material under a false name; this goes beyond copying and becomes plagiarism, which I can't imagine is an intended result of the CC license.
I have an executive summary, where should I send it? try to refresh www.bukit.co . I just checked and it's not loading for me so I am going to go into the servers and check what's going on, it was working a few minutes ago.
Same here. As well as Time Machine. Just in case Dropbox ever breaks.
Apart from two (two!) comments, of which one is [dead], expressing confusion about why this is important, there seems to be no divide. There's really no need to translate anything to "HN crowd" (by that I assume you really mean hacker community in general). Competent programmers (hackers) and really highly technical and highly competent people tend to appreciate good design (not just graphical design, but design in general) even if they don't know particularities of it. It's a matter of taste, and good taste is objective (PG already articulated this better than I could do[1] [2]).

A couple of anecdotes:

- TeX came to be because Donald Knuth was horribly annoyed with the low quality of then nascent digital typography in the first edition of The Art of Computer Programming. AMS Euler[3] typeface is a product of his collaboration with Hermann Zapf.

- The first practical application of Unix was to run the typesetting in troff for technical documentation at Bell Labs.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/goodart.html

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMS_Euler
Post it here. I'm guessing not only peeters would like to read it.
Another reason to hate it, which my wife runs across all the time on Facebook - she scrolls by dragging the scroll-thumb down with her mouse. Once she gets near the bottom, the page jumps as the extra content gets loaded, and she has to find her place again.
Who trades goods for gold?
So is the average level of education of people working in the tech industry and the barriers of entry.
It's also worth remembering they're under continuous, distributed assault by human-intelligent agents (at least to a first approximation) trying to game them specifically. The miracle is that Google works at all.
Recruiters: Don't say HTML5, you probably don't mean it
Crux of the issue right here:

I’ve thought a lot about why HTML5 became the codeword for CSS3. I think it stems back to the decision by iOS to ban Flash. iOS friendly web pages needed to use HTML5 instead of flash, so the term “HTML5” came to represent everything that came along with mobile friendly websites. That includes responsive design, and animations that run smoothly without a lot of power. Both those things are in the domain of CSS3, not HTML5.
Thanks Spooky23, I spent a lot of time working with people on one one so I know how much people are paying- and how much money people are losing because they aren't dealing with the issue.

For a lot of people, it's worth it just to have the peace of mind that a collection agency will never call them again.
20 Biggest Data Breaches of 2013
send it right here V
Look, Ma, I’m Googling with no hands in Chrome’s latest beta
You wouldn't transfer $10; that's just an example. You would split your transaction in such a way as to reflect the maximum permissible exposure you are comfortable with (the largest amount you're willing to risk losing - not forgetting the other transactions you may have on the table elsewhere). If this value is $100 you probably have no business dealing with Bitcoin anyway.

If, on the other hand you're the guy trying to cash out $500k worth of BTC, a $25k loss is probably acceptable risk so you might exchange your $500k over 20 independent transactions of $25k each. In reality, you're not going to be able to sell $500k of BTC in a day anyway, so it's difficult to see this process as onerous -- it's just part of the game.
> completely new UI, and WAY more novel use of Ajax than outlook

As to novelty: XMLHttpRequest was invented by Microsoft for Outlook Web Access. "Ajax" was invented by Jesse James Garret as a new name for XMLHttpRequest.

I remember the first time I saw someone use OWA on IE, thinking: HTF does that work? Then I remembered he was using IE and chalked it up to proprietary browser extensions, which was correct. Proprietary but useful enough that the other browsers eventually had to duplicate the feature, with different syntax.

That duplication is what made Google Maps (and later, Gmail) possible.

So, yes. Microsoft gets credit for this one. Not for the generosity of their hearts, but for doing it and making it work and dragging the rest of the world along behind them. That had been the tradition with browser tech since the beginning, with positive and negative effects. This was a positive one.

Definitely not a Microsoft apologist here. And XHR could have been better. But no one else cooked it up, so, they get some credit.
5 Best SEO Resources for Startups
It's sad to see so much trolling on this language but I suppose we all had to maintain old C++ programs that became spagetti codes and dependancy hells.

I'm currently working on a new project using C++11/14 and it's a pleasure to see more functional features that will allow to be more concise.
Will do. It's too bad slide rocket closed down, I used to have all of my decks there and it was easy to share.
The difference isn't subtle.

There's this site called "News360" that sends a lot of traffic to my site every time I post something. It copies the post in full. Apparently it's a popular app for iPhone and Google Play. This is an aggregator.

Google copies my site so it can send people to my writing. This is a search engine.

Then there's the legion of sites that copy my stuff and send no traffic even though they link back. Most of these are scrapers, meaning they're adswill garbage dumps that get no traffic after recent algorithm updates by Google, but some are attempts to build new aggregators like Huffington Post or that News360 thing.

The scrapers are a nuisance, but don't harm me in any way. Google is free, relevant traffic. Aggregators find an audience and provide useful content to them with credit, probably using the RSS feed I publish for that purpose.
I'm so conflicted in how I feel about Libertarians lately. I've always been sympathetic to many the ideas, especially those that relate to moral values rather than economics.

OTOH "I love the music but I can't stand the scene."
I think if banks started doing it, the Fed could regulate the banks with respect to bitcoin. I don't believe it would magically apply to anyone else, though.

Admittedly I don't follow finance, though.
India unveils its first home-grown astronaut capsule
Hello! fellow diæresis user:)

The only problem with doing multiple transactions is the amount of time required to both withdraw and send. If I waited, the price could fall (or rise...)

What's needed is a non-governmental/industry-driven method of showing solvency and competence. Blockchain-transfers and signed messages to show bitcoins solvency maybe? I'm not sure how to show solvency in a national currency. I'm also not sure how to show full compliance with the protocol without an auditing organization.

Also, users need to pay attention. As soon as mtgox started making bad transactions people should have started questioning them more. When they didn't properly fix those transactions, people should have started moving away.
Microsoft Said To Be Considering A Free Version Of Windows 8.1
of course...but it's not the first estimate...and this isn't a small correction
Vietnam says Bitcoin transactions are illegal
It may depend on why the exchange went insolvent.

If it is not a technical problem, and is rather a Ponzi Scheme, the tax implications may be much different since there are IRS rules that handle Ponzi Schemes. Additionally, those that gained profits in the exchange may be required to pay back those profits to victims through clawback lawsuits+.

This IRS link below is a brief overview of how victims of Ponzi Schemes are treated. The most important piece of information is that there is a real chance of a clawback for the people who withdrew and currently think they made money.

http://www.irs.gov/uac/Help-for-Victims-of-Ponzi-Investment-...

I don't have time to read these documents this morning, but I do know that the people who received returns from Madoff are now the focus of lawsuits.

Here is a Forbes article on the subject, there are plenty more you can read out there as well:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jordanmaglich/2012/10/23/ponzi-s...

Here is one example of a hospital having to pay a Clawback.
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/hadassah-docto...

+My guess is that the clawback lawsuits would yield very little real money since much of the value of Bitcoined gained was due to price appreciation which may keep lawsuits against those who gained fairly minimal since there isn't much money for lawyers to sue for in complex litigation.
great idea, im surprised this does not already exist
Improved shaking UX for my computer-generated music app
I really have to disagree with marco on this one. Infrastructure investment isn't free, and in order to align incentives toward more investment and not less, we need to start implementing metered usage. This would lower the cost of internet access for 95% of people by limited the subsidy to the top 5% of bandwidth consumers.
Never posted here before, how should I upload an executive summary? What is the best way?
Show HN : Changing the way how websites are developed
Developing Websites directly from the browser can actually help you in saving majority of your development time.

dockPHP | Let's Code Websites Visually is our attempt to enable Simpler and Faster Development!
Just because the code doesn't misuse memory doesn't mean the code is correct. In this case, the return value of strlcpy should be checked to verify that the username is not truncated as it is added to this data structure. The comment even states that the truncation must be avoided, but rather than adding a check there is simply a XXX ;P.
Meetup under DDOS attack
Nope. As far as having an effect on weight loss, net-energy balance (energy added - energy used) is several magnitudes more important than anything else, and the "energy added" side of this equation is entirely calories. Hormones are driven by your environment, and food is a huge environmental stimulus, especially when we're limiting our discussion to weight-loss. But don't conflate that with the idea that hormones are more important; they are subject to your environment (the food you eat), not the other way around.

Over 100 years of hospital-ward, double-blind, clinical trial weight-loss research have ALL shown the exact same thing; Nothing comes remotely close to the effect calorie intake has on weight. The macronutrient content of diet (ie. low-carb, mostly sugar, or high protein) and meal timing has NO significant effect and is completely drowned out by the influence of calorie intake.

But of course that's boring and difficult. What sells books and adverts on Dr. Oz is "calories don't matter".
The company's lawyer said at the news conference that Mt. Gox had outstanding debt of about ¥6.5 billion ($63.6 million) with assets worth ¥3.84 billion.

That can't include the value of the bitcoins lost can it? So presumably the assets doesn't include the value of any bitcoins that they still have which all makes this statement rather meaningless.
Japan says any Bitcoin regulation should be international
hey Everyone! Congrats- the traffic has crashed the site :) I am going into the server now and fixing it
Assuming loginrec.c, it's been refactored to this in 6.5p1:

if (strlcpy(li->username, pw->pw_name, sizeof(li->username)) >=
sizeof(li->username)) {
error("%s: username too long (%lu > max %lu)", __func__,
(unsigned long)strlen(pw->pw_name),
(unsigned long)sizeof(li->username) - 1);
return NULL;
}
Take the road that scares you a bit, that's the best bit of the post for me.
Every search engine does this.
"Google is really killing the "release early and release often" approach, if people will now have to do a ton of SEO learning and tweaking to avoid having your MVP permanently banned at launch day."

Judging by the downvotes this is not a legitimate concern? Why?
Be scared of Bank of America's iPhone app. Be very, very scared.
If anyone's wondering what comic/graphic novel those panels are from, it's from 'Watchmen'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen
How about screwing with credit bureaus instead? They are an order of magnitude worse than the debt collectors.
This is where it's worth remembering that humans are in the justice system by design. While the line is intrinsically fuzzy, one can at least agree that at one extreme a marijuana user coming up for charges who suddenly claims he has a marijuana-based religion in an attempt to get out of it isn't going to get very far. Judges are not required to be as stupid as computers interpreting the law.
Until Mt. Gox publicly confirms that no one will be getting their BTC and/or fiat money back, I think it's wrong to assume money owed to the users has been lost. Please have faith that they will do the right thing.
"Google is finally doing something about scraping"

I hope this is genuine and not a disingenuous diversion on Google's part. The fact that the Huffington Post still ranks very high for trendy searches makes me wonder.

As usual, follow the money: the scraping sites exist to make money, often through Google's advertising; Google gets a cut. The original content is often on sites with no advertising or real traffic, from which Google profits nothing.

EDIT: To expand on this: Google-search for any hot topic in the news, say the name of some misbehaving pop star. See the HuffPo result near the top of the page. Look down to see several results from real newspapers. This is where the original content can be found. Most of these newspapers are about to die because they're not making any money. HuffPo investors are filthy rich because they're gaming the search engines to profit from copy-and-paste.

ANOTHER EDIT: I apologize for my characterization of the Huffington Post. I was describing, accurately, the nature of that site as it was the last time I visited it some time before its purchase by AOL three years ago. The HuffPo I see today is utterly transformed. They use wire services, do plenty of their own reporting, and many of the links on the front page go directly to other news sites. They are no longer a copy-and-paste site.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but did Mt. Gox have their wallets? Why didn't these people keep their wallets with them?
Show HN: 1 Weekend, 1 Developer – validating an idea and taking a break
I know it's common to start projects and never finish. I’ve started tons of them: mobile apps, games, web apps, etc. Every once in awhile, for some unexplained reason I’ll finish what I started. The success is small but incremental. I don’t exactly know what it is that makes someone finish what he or she started, but I guess if we did then things would be different.

I’ve been working on a mobile app for months now. It’s one of those apps that I know I’ll finish, but I wanted to take a break and try something different. So last weekend, I set a goal. I’ll give myself the weekend, from Friday to Sunday night, to make a micro game. A small game is something I can complete, and I did complete it. I also had a lot of fun in the process. I knew I was rushed, but I had a goal, and I could see the end.

The game is out, it’s up, and it’s free on the App Store. It’s not doing great as far as downloads go, but that’s ok. I’m totally feeling rewarded for my efforts. I’ve gotten some feedback from friends, and I really enjoy seeing their reactions when they play the game.

Now, I’m more charged and ready to finish my big app. I remember what it feels like again to put something out there, and I like it.

Just wanted to share,

Jon
I'm getting nothing but a 503 error.
If this had been Python it wouldn't have been an issue ;)

I find it hard to believe that this code had a proper peer review before being committed. A 2nd and 3rd set of eyes experienced at reading C should have spotted this. Peer review is especially important when dealing with core security components like this where simple mistakes can have huge consequences.
Java 8: Sorting values in collections
ARGH! INFINITE RECURSION!
Italy cancels "Google tax" on web companies
Oh, I missed that it does that.