skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh, so to you, you assume that something labelled "archival" means "is especially fragile, must be treated with care", that's what "archival" and "treated so" means to you?

Odd. To me, something labelled "archival" means "is expected to last a really long time, and be especially robust."

I _think_ that's what it means to most people. Although it's hard to say. But compare to wikipedia says "Archival paper is an especially permanent, durable acid-free paper." Especially durable and permanent, not especially fragile and needs to be treated with unusual care!

If they are marketting something as "archival", I am reasonably certain that _many_ people are going to think that means "especially durable and permanent", not "especially fragile, must be treated with care."

But yes, there are many more factors to long-term preservation of digital content than simply media reliability, including inter-operability with future hardward/software. Integrity of the bits on your media is certainly one factor though. And yes, multiple copies and regular integrity checks is crucial, not just counting on your media to last. Media long-term reliability still matters though.

(I work in libraries, and I work with and next to people concerned with digital preservation, although I don't work on long-term digital preservation myself).
A nostalgic look back at the Windows 95 UI
Might have an opportunity for you. If you don't get an internship at a YC, let me know! (details in profile)
You have to be willing to lose in life. It's unrealistic to expect all hits all the time. If some organization or open source project seems too perfect, look for a "memory hole" where their negative results get flushed.

So XULRunner and Tamarin did not pan out. But we have lots of hits, some still ramping up: Firefox, Firefox OS, Gecko, Servo, Rust, Fennec, various SpiderMonkey iterations including OdinMonkey for Emscripten/asm.js, PDF.js, Shumway.

Negative results are important in science, as roc blogged once (he cited a "Journal of Negative Results", in one of the physical sciences I think). Let's learn from them and make better results, not deny that they happen or keep on banging heads against stout oak trees....
While the video and audio feed – routed from Russia *through seven
proxy servers* – was choppy, Snowden’s message was clear.

Seems legit. (Anyone else got that reference?)
Why is Christmas on December 25th?
The UK public sector outsourced most technical work years ago to the likes of EDS, IBM and BT, transferring over existing employees. There's very little internal expertise left. Most contracts seem to be negotiated in a way that allows the big firms make huge amounts of money on the inevitable change requests.
"Linguistic analysis" and...pretty much every facet of evidence there is. Newsweek is such a joke.
Yeah I'm really enjoying it, would love it on Android. It's different enough from Threes and Fives to warrant its creation.
Sha256 is not a suitable key derivation function. Attackers could then crack the keys pretty easily (now the keys are only as secure as the passphrases). Use something like pbkdf2/bcrypt/scrypt.
“If we allow the NSA to continue unrestrained, every other government will accept that has green light to do the same.”

Drink ejecting through nose.
Yep, would it be possible to work from a different continent and a different time zone?
I have a huge problem with this, because what should be obvious is, the number of people who can be in management/architecture roles is necessarily much smaller than the number of people who are in basic development roles. Assuming the majority of aging programmers don't die of unnatural causes, the only way all of them continue to be employed is if the total size of the software industry is growing at a significant rate (as it has been for the last few decades) but there's really no guarantee this will continue forever and not only that, basic math tells us there is no way this can continue forever. I am starting to think that similar to models and athletes, whose careers start fizzling out in their 30s and 40s, our careers start fizzling out in our 40s and 50s.
See callmeed's comment above. Most likely that's the source.
Go to local meetups. You'll see the supply and demand play out right in front of you. How many employers are there, and how big of a group of potential employees are they talking to?
Maybe theory isn't the best word to describe what I mean. I've updated the posting s/theory/idea/. Basically, I want to illiterate the idea of something vs the implementation.

> There is no "theory" of Linux containers. It's bound to the implementation of Linux. FreeBSD jails are another, earlier, completely separate implementation of the same idea.

I think you have just hit upon my point re: FreeBSD jails are another, earlier, completely separate implementation of the same idea.
> "and get liberals attacking him"

If there is one thing I don't understand about this entire issue, it is how partisan politics are actually playing out. Normally I just look at what people in my extended family think, but all of the Republicans/conservatives in my extended family think that all of this NSA stuff is A Big Deal(tm) and think Snowden a patriotic hero (presumably because they think that it paints the Obama administration in a bad light, which they are always all for.)

I agree with their conclusions, though I have a different motivation for doing so.

Furthermore, I would say that all or almost all of the pro-NSA viewpoints I have heard from people around me are from not necessarily liberals, but people who buy into the Democratic party line very hard. They seem to have the same basic motivation as my conservative relatives, though different political alignment.

What is the deal with pro-NSA Republicans/conservatives though? I haven't actually met any in person so I haven't been able to grill any. Has anybody else had the opportunity?
Looks an interesting set of examples. I couldn't run the first one in http://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut.html#Named-backreferences (need parens and = assignment it seems)
Why would a software update fix it? Note that it doesn't have hardware support for the 5 GHz band, much like the iPhone 4.
You can't make the claim that a greater number of features makes something more advanced.

Especially when many of them are poorly implemented one-offs on one model on one carrier for a few months before support and updates are cut off permanently. (Why the hell should something like screen sharing be a feature of one particular model?!?)

In terms of actually working, the iPhone is lightyears ahead of huge swaths of the Android ecosystem. Maybe not Google Nexus, but then you're locked into the inferior network coverage of AT&T or T-Mobile.
That's the vast majority of Mozilla's income, you can check the publicly-available financials. It's small potatoes compared to the companies Mozilla competes against: Google, Apple, Microsoft.
And then use his real name in the paper? That doesn't make much sense.
There are also nice libraries in Ruby, Java, C++, Go, JS... You don't need any particular language, but still most bioinformatics teams have Perl code to work with.
Heh, nice trick! The only way to get high score is to actually play, though :P
GruntJS, gulp.js of the future -- from 1989
Sounds like a good way to end up in jail.
I think this is a valid way and i think that my current employer (software company in germany) would allow this - as long as it is not in competition with my employers business.
Point taken, but I already knew Slovenia > Moldova because hockey. I only qualified Slovenia because my statement was "total and per capita", rather than "per capita" only. It was probably still unnecessary, since even though they have a small population most historical empires did as well.
It also doesn't help that much - you can still look up the api key in the package, which isn't a whole lot harder. You could probably sign your own cert, tell your device to trust it, and MITM it, too.
1) That's not a feature. The carrier's devs are just worse than Apple at securing their products.
Interview with the Guy Behind the $240,000 Social Network
Marriage vows don't always last but #AMTRAKRESIDENCY's rights to your work would
It seems Kickstarter is making it increasingly difficult to start a campaign outside of those countries and obviously using a middle man.
I legitimately can't tell if this reflects an actual press release from North Korea, or if it's satire. It seems like it's legitimate, but it also feel like The Onion ran this article a few years back.
> We have developed libcontainer in the hope that other projects will reuse it.

Any plans on making that into a separate repo? I thought that would be more community friendly and easier to envolve.

In addition, dokcer/pkg/netlink [0] seems to be a package that others can use as well. Also, any plans on adding IPv6 support to that [1] or is pull requests for that welcomed?

[0] https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/tree/master/pkg/netlink

[1] https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/blob/master/pkg/netlink/n...
I've had my iPhone5 restart happen during a call in iOS7.0 - the call went along as if nothing had happened.

Was it really a restart or just the UI (springboard) restarting?
Third group. People who already have an Undergrad degree in another field and are using the Masters Degree to switch careers.
Clean Room Technician: You know what they do with engineers when they turn forty?
[to Aaron, who shakes his head]
Clean Room Technician: They take them out and shoot them.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/quotes
More work for the user to do is a symptom of a less advanced system.
Congrats to drifty/ionic team, what you have achieved so far is great, your angular symbiosis is remarkable. I'm developing my startup mobile app with ionic despite its alpha tag. I have a question, maybe I must ask on your forum but I'm here right now. Do you have plans to implement some UI components truly native? through cordova/phonegap plugins. I think that you are in good position to implement that, even using angular directives as you do now. That will be great.
$ python

>>> 523 / 6

87

>>>

I can't remember any time when I've been called upon to write an algorithm for integer division.
I went to school in Florida a while back. The nearby city of Waldo was then notorious for being funded by speed traps. It went as far as people making T-Shirts saying "Don't speed in Waldo" and the AAA buying a billboard on both sides of the town warning about it. Maybe they need to rework the law so that traffic fines go to the state instead of the city.
Why do economists think we care that bitcoin isn't a currency or store of value or unit of account or whatever other economics 101 term?

We call it a currency because there's no other good name for it.

How about instead of telling us everything it isn't, they just tell us what it is? I'm guessing the reason they don't, is because they don't know either.
Qualcomm Working on Neural Processor Core
Great "time waster" - just got 5752 score from first try! Very well executed, who cares if its a clone! :) Great job!
I am sorry, but I read that as Android offering 1) an easy way to make your phone completely unstable and possibly break it permanently; 2 (and 5)) a variety of ways to make your already chaotic phone UX even more ugly and unusable; 3) ways for third party apps or social engineers to replace core system features with adware-infested malware (like browser toolbars on Windows)....

6, I like, though; applications providing services to one another is a great idea. But when you combine that with "full access to the filesystem", you don't -need- an intents system for inter app communication, you can just save files and open them in different apps. It's this kind of inconsistency of what Android is actually trying to do - be computerlike, or be a walled garden 'appstore' ecosystem - that contributes to the overall chaos of the UX.
But it doesn't matter to software developers, especially small developers. Catering to jailbroken phones and people who don't like iOS7 is an opportunity cost that would only hurt. It's almost always better to use the new API's, along with bug fixes in the latest version.
He's a hero in my book. He shorted a company because he vastly overestimated the interest that the government and the business community would have in exposing and rectifying an open scam that preys on the ignorant. Now he has to become an activist to save that investment.

Money where his mouth is.

His history with MBIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBIA

"Ackman [...] called for a division between MBIA's bond insurers' structured finance business and their municipal bond insurance side, despite statements from the insurance companies that this would not be a viable option.

"He argued that the billions of dollars of CDS protection MBIA had sold against various mortgage backed CDOs was going to be a problem. He also argued that it was not proper for MBIA, which was legally restricted from trading in CDS, to instead do it through a second corporation, LaCrosse Financial Products, which MBIA described as an 'orphaned subsidiary.' Ackman bought credit default swaps against MBIA corporate debt as a way to bet that it would crash. When MBIA did, in fact, crash as the financial crisis of 2008 came to a head, he sold the swaps for a large profit. Ackman reportedly attempted to warn regulators, rating agencies and investors about the bond insurers' high risk business models."
That's cool! My current strategy is just to keep going until I lose. Admittedly, I'm pretty bad at my own game :P
The problem Perl has is that it is the language tied to the first dot-com crash. Prior to the dot-com crash, there was the AI Winter. This is where Lisp died, for almost identical reasons. When a major tragedy happens, someone or something has to take the fall.

SV needs to continually reinvent itself, so that VCs can sell their smelly IPOs on Wall St. They needed a new paradigm, so we got Web 2.0. Enter PHP. What is PHP? It's pretty much Perl. In fact, it is Perl. Just a highly shit version, done by monkeys that don't have a clue. Perl 2.0. Facebook, the shining star of Web 2.0, is built on it.

But Web 2.0 isn't new, either. The story of Web 2.0 is how advertising prevailed over technology. Now we're entering a mobile post-web period, where we go back to proprietary lock-in with a cloud twist. It's the 1980s again. But it's fresh on Wall St. Better start learning Objective C. If you believe Android will remain relevant (I personally do not) then keep those Java skills dusted off.
So, the current Debian/Ubuntu package is called docker-lxc -- is that name going to change now that Docker doesn't (necessarily) have anything to do with LXC?
I don't know about "stylometry", but textual analysis is definitely a field that is grounded in statistics and probability.

And here's an excellent textual analysis of Satoshi's writing -- really quite convincing:
https://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/satoshi-nakam...

The verdict? Nick Szabo, a professor of computer science at GWU and trained attorney, with significant expertise in the digital economy and smart contracts. He's got a fascinating blog at: http://szabo.best.vwh.net/

To be honest, I was convinced by this particular analysis back in December, but I haven't been passing it around because I respected Satoshi's desire for anonymity. However, now that an innocent man is being hounded and harassed, I think it's about time that the creator step up and claim his creation. We also need to know what happened to the Satoshi stash for this amazing project to move forward with greater certainty.

So I would encourage the real Satoshi to step up. I'm not at all convinced that Dorian Nakamoto -- albeit a pretty fascinating man -- is actually the creator of Bitcoin.
This was a "well-known" (quoted because it's well known as far as enthusiast communities are concerned) fix attempt for discrete GPU cards on desktops. I've seen a lot of success stories where old GPUs (think GTX 8800) would crap out; owner would take off the shroud, heatsink, and any other removable parts, put it in the oven for a few minutes, and boom, reflowed solder fixed the issue.
I'm imagining the scene from Goldeneye when they're tracing his signal.
What terrible UI on that website. I think in 2014 we know how to scroll already and don't need a full page pop-over to explain it.
An important point is that H1Bs basically increase the supply of talented engineers. So even though they're being paid salaries equivalent to their American peers at MSFT/GOOG, without them, the Americans would be making a lot more. With a shortage of engineers, who knows, may be the starting salary would've been $200k instead of $100k. I personally think this is a good thing and keeps America competitive. But some would argue otherwise.
Oh, and every "economist" (intentionally in quotes) that calls bitcoin a Ponzi scheme should have his credentials revoked... just like a geek who says his iPhone ran out of memory due to all the pictures he took.
I try to keep the highest numbers at the top row (ideally with the highest in a corner, next highest next to it, next highest next to that, etc).

I'm pretty sure I never used the down arrow in this game (sometimes you have to). If your high numbers end up in the middle you're kind of screwed.
I kind of hate myself too, I haven't been able to do anything other than playing since I finished building the game :P
Given that Apple still sells an 16GB iPhone (for some baffling reason) I wonder what percentage of users will not have the necessary 4GB of unused space.

Anecdotally, Several of my officemates have had this issue.
Actually, this is not really true.

Writing a fully-fledged RFC1459 parser that handles all potential corner-cases in a secure and efficient manner is actually very difficult. By moving the essence of the protocol to an encapsulation that is based on JSON, it can be parsed with already proven JSON libraries.

As an example, the bug which crashed EFnet at the end of 2012 was caused by an unanticipated side-effect in the way RFC1459 messages are formed. Ratbox is a server which has benefited from the work of many experts on parsing RFC1459, and yet the bug was still there.

A simple JSON representation maintains the serviceability of using telnet as a client, but the proposals made on the bug were ridiculous. Either way, you guys trashed it so it gets buried for now.
I think this is one area where most of us agree on. Mind you - that doesn't mean we will do anything proactively to curb the NSA but we agree in principle what Snowden is saying and respect him for his actions.
> Then mission accomplished! Wait, so companies really were not hiring the best people who give them the most value and now suddenly are thanks to people speaking up? When did all of this happen?

being addressed != addressed

This discussion has obviously run its course.
>>but all of the Republicans/conservatives in my extended family think that all of this NSA stuff is A Big Deal(tm) and think Snowden a patriotic hero (presumably because they think that it paints the Obama administration in a bad light, which they are always all for.)

I'm glad there are republicans/conservatives that are against what NSA is doing because it supports my wild theory[1] about what would happen if things finally reach a boiling point.

I'm not glad that they hold Obama responsible for something that probably started before he showed up and he probably doesn't have absolute power to shutdown.

Of course, I'm not happy that Obama publicly defends NSA's behavior. Since he doesn't need to be re-elected, I'm assuming the opinions he has these days are truly his own without any other motive. That hurts. :(

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7003678
Edit: I have completely misunderstood this game.

Very fun though.
"The core of the software is ultimately pretty simple, however it really needs to be custom tailored to each organization. Some groups want to track whether artists are persons of color, some groups want to have explicit fields for evaluating, and some just want space for a recommendation and a way to attach an in depth review, and every organization believes that theirs is the one true method. These changes are all pretty simple to make, however they are large enough and sometimes architectural enough to make building one monster app and database with support for all the iterations rather imposing. Especially when I can't afford to work on this full time."

"Do I try to make one monster app that can serve every organization, risking complexity, less flexibility, and security? Do I just try and optimize and optimize until it can run happily on a less beefy machine? Or do I have too many pre-conceived notions about how customers think, and I just need to pump out a project, set a price, and start going? Help!"

This seems like a problem that can be solved with some pretty basic OO in your business logic layer, and a little creative database work. One system to run all of the sites will save you headaches in the long run. It will likely save you some money as well. Were I in your situation, I would certainly go with the one central system approach.

Off the top of my head, I'd be creating one set of abstract business logic classes that contain what your clients have in common; and a set of abstract methods that will return objects that contain data they do not. I'd create a class inheriting the abstract one for each client, each containing their custom requirements. I'd create a view layer that can adapt to the custom data, and a data layer that is capable of storing the custom data. Let me know if this is too vague.
may I ask which country you wish to raise your family in?
So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery
If you remove one key it'll get to 256. I removed the `down` key and larger blocks started gathering on top, which was advantageous.
For me, XULRunner is a big success. I use it to run my own xul-based file manager (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/fire-commande...) and I definitely want this tech to stay alive and rocking!
It sounds very likely that this town will go the way of New Rome, Ohio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rome,_Ohio
As someone who didn't track the progress and chronicles of 37signals until after I joined the Rails bandwagon, the first 300-400 words of the OP kind of read as a non-sequitur? Is 37 Signals really dead, or a "ghost" of itself? Is there some actual metric for that or is it just supposed to be self-evident because of the re-branding?

And what does that have to do with anything, anyway? Is the startup community one blob that rushes from one inspiration to the next? Who cares? I guess what I'm saying is that what makes Buffer interesting, its transparency, is interesting (and inspiring) enough on its own without this strange and needless juxtaposition of 37signals' journey.
While the video and audio feed – routed from Russia through seven proxy servers – was choppy, Snowden’s message was clear.

Edward Snowden is the gift that keeps on giving. I feel like "seven proxies" is the proof of concept for a practice that should be more common. From now on, every statement about technology, especially the intersection of technology with important issues like civil rights, should be watermarked with at least one meme or obviously absurd statement. If a reporter regurgitates the meme as fact, readers are warned about the reporter's lack of general knowledge about the subject and will be primed to read the rest of the article with a more critical eye.
They are a tiny company. They don't compete with anybody, at least in the sense that another firm would view them as a threat. That said, the addressable market I would focus on is the one that IB does. Retail equity platforms are numerous, extensively marketed, and sticky.
I think most US undergrads start applying for internships during the fall semester and many of them will have already accepted an offer by now. I strongly suggest YC to open up this application earlier, ideally in October or November.
Tringgr : Group video chat with zero plugins