skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be frank, I'd like to be able to believe and trust you and work myself in a climate where this is generally safe to do. But we're no longer in the early 90's, so we can no longer base technical decisions that concern security on trust in other people's decisions and behavior (esp. when they are not on our payroll). Nor can we trust contracts and legal assessments when even governments are breaking the law.

There are no technical measures that can prevent you or the companies hosting these files for free from serving modified JS arbitrarily, or on some authority's demand, to everyone or to selected individuals. If we could put a checksum in the <script> tag, we'd be fine (to some extent, provided collisions are really hard to find - so no md5 please), but we can't, so we aren't.

Like many other web site owners, I believe security to be more important than my bandwidth or a few 10 more miliseconds of loading times, so I can't be convinced easily to use a public CDN for JS.

(and yes, I still have to trust other people for not backdooring other software and hardware I'm using, but I try to keep the attack surface as small as possible)
Nice ! We should combat procrastination by recording IP addresses of players, and banning them from HN for a day.
It appears that Postgres is currently more popular among developers than MySQL http://www.databasefriends.co/2014/03/favorite-relational-da...
Tango Raises Massive $280 Million
So there is a chance that from the time the image is taken till today it has drifted and the search area would again has to be widen around that location?
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I am hardworking and very consistent with my work. My communication with coworkers is always friendly and respectful. I am able to point out mistakes and faults without hurting the person I'm talking to.

There you go, what did you learned about me?

If you base your hiring on what people wrote about their own personality, you will hire plenty of great salesmen. They will all be able to guess what the boss might like and generate nice sounding sentences to him.

They can still be poisonous jerks. And if they do, they will be perfectly able to hide the toxic culture they created from you.
github link: https://github.com/coleforcongress
I don't read "Processing Failed" as an indication of hacking or a data breach.

Sounds to me more like an overloaded website falling back to a small static error page.
There are just so many stories in the media it is hard to know what to believe. This airline disappearance is becoming a place for all sorts of conspiracy theories.

I hope people take cognizance from the disappearance and learn how such a thing was even possible in our high tech world of today.
No crazy, but I'd add that you should come up with a plausible plan for coming into the office every once in a while - keeping in mind that no plan survives first contact with reality, the details can be adjusted, but it might go down easier with your boss if you're still going to be in the office say three days every month. Maybe there's a recurring team meeting that you could commit to attending?
Great idea!
If Adobe charges a smaller commission to the asset designers than the existing marketplace sites then it would be better for the designers because they could build their profiles in a centralized, trusted place instead of bouncing between the hottest marketplace for each "asset class". I'd imagine that would make it a double win for designers because it would not only lead to net more "asset" sales but also more design work because you'd be able to search by "highest rated" asset creator etc. Adobe could even extend to being a freelance marketplace in the sense that they can be the asset creators' pimps by showing the current highest rate per hour that the designer is being paid and that you'd have to pay to get access to them as a freelancer :)
Elasticsearch: When giving it more memory causes more OutOfMemory errrors
Rendering rigid bodies as metaballs is a big step away from buoyancy
Also interested in answers - posting as a lazy bookmark! :)
For applications on Google Play that integrate this tool,
usage is tracked. This tracking is done automatically using
the embedded version string (b2_liquidFunVersionString),
and helps us continue to optimize it.

Is this tracking functionality restricted to libraries by Google employees? Seems like it would be useful for all third-party library developers to see how their libraries are being used and can be improved.
https://code.google.com/p/jsbox2d/source/browse/trunk/build/
"Yhdet vielä" – A Finnish Version of 2048
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I would imagine that you've identified the problem, the price of the ticket is more related to the extra space you take up and the lost revenue they get.

The cost of a few glasses of champagne and slightly better food is a tiny fraction of the cost of flying.

First class is that price because they can, people want to differentiate themselves by paying more, not because they get a vastly better experience.
The article shows a map produced by OpenStreetMap, but with no credit to OpenStreetMap. This is clearly a copyright violation. They are required to include the text, "© OpenStreetMap contributors". See http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright for more details.
Startup or cult?
Happy NewsBlur user here, and thank you for making it!
Anatomy Of The European SaaS Ecosystem
History is great as a topic in its own right. But in my view, we already have lots of books that cover crypto through World War II.

Very little of it is relevant to modern ciphers. Some of it is even actively harmful, witness old advice about "RNG entropy depletion" and "stale keys" resulting in overly complex and failure-prone crypto systems.

What we need more of relevant, modern, best-practices-in-light-of-latest-attacks information suitable for careful, conscientious developers who have to build actual systems out of it.
Sure there is an element of that. But there are huge numbers of tech people who are into aviation, radio, satellites, image processing and solving puzzles.

I don't want to forget that this is a tragedy for the families involved. But I think it is more technically interesting story than a javascript text editor or the latest crypto currency news.
So after going back and forth with our startup on SOA or not, I have felt like separating these services out of (in our case) a monolithic Rails application has made sense. I would like to use Sinatra for one service, rails for the web interface, and possibly Python for the last service. I understand this adds a lot of overhead by creating an interface and authentication for each service.

For me the logical division of services seems to make sense especially when using 'the right tool for the right job'

I may be over optimizing, but I think it will pay off at a later date with more developers and the need to scale each service separately. Maybe someone can point out issues with this thinking (besides those addressed in the blog post).
Am I missing something obvious or is this just a static webpage?

DID THEY FIND
THE MALAYSIAN
PLANE YET?

maybe...
There is one, it is right above Blaze cafe (1225 Charleston Rd). There's a huge sign by the visitor's area: "Google Research & Development".
It's surprisingly reasonable that they did not use Python or JS for it. I wonder how they came up with this project though - do they want to boost Android/NaCl games?
If this is part of MH370 then you'd wonder why Jindalee didn't pick it up in the air. Just bad luck?
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> Istanbul isn't even a state (though it's a very large and important city). The USA is a federation of states

Which has more political pull, New York state or New York City? NYC isn't even confined within NY; the Chinese system of "cities of a certain level of significance are their own state-level entities" seems to make much more sense (to me) than the US model does.
I chose the name without any thought, really.

An early version of the code did use log2() on the score internally, but now it does pow(2) externally.
Over $100K in Bitcoin Was Stolen in a Ridiculously Low-Tech Heist
Other big benefits you get from well defined interfaces include security - you can do application level firewalling, statistics, anomaly detection really easily - and testing (play back known traffic, literally generate every possible message and see what happens, etc.)

Also, HTTP can be a poor choice in security terms for its complexity baggage (cookies, headers, methods, DNS baggage, SSL baggage, etc.). Alternatives such as MQs can be useful to consider, especially at later points in growth, since they can handle complex topologies with ease.

I believe the author could benefit from making a distinction between stateful and stateless in his description of dumb and smart API clients, since state is the main factor resulting from assumptions here.
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I´m just wild guessing here, but if the US had had the MH370 located with a classified radar or satellite, and they know it had crashed, It would be stupid to disclose that technology. They would better use available resources to point the actual position to the search teams (like: "look at this interesting satellite ping arc"), without showing that they knew the position all the time.

I´m not telling this is the actual case, but I would do it if I were the one in charge of such technology.
Beautiful residence, but it's still striking me as an overbearing set up. I suppose people are choosing to be there. He says they're getting 3x more work done, but i'd love to know why, in terms of work hours etc.
Depending on what you're doing, you can perhaps have an authenticated client do things which are not authorized. This can mean that you have to do things server-side to enforce business rules.

Example: I had an inadvertent trust-the-client situation where I let Javascript decide if someone's credit card was going to be charged. I did not anticipate that anyone's computer would ever be hit by a lightning bolt during a transaction, and as a consequence my server got 24 callbacks and dutifully charged the client's card 24 times.

Sometimes authenticated clients can abuse the system intentionally, depending on what you're doing with it.

You will likely discover at some point that your service has to interact with other services, which may or may not be easily doable with a particular client orchestrating all of the work itself.

Depending on your problem domain, you may need to do things on behalf of a client when that client is not connected to the service/the Internet/etc. This counsels having a non-dumb server side piece available.

There exist many other reasons one could name. What are you thinking of doing in your dissertation?
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i live in a small village in rural india where I'd guess the average monthly income is less than $150. So, its a poor area, but not a destitute area. People generally have water, enough to eat, and the kids all go to school. They want cars and big houses like people in the west want faster cars and bigger houses. As a whole even for people doing labor the lifestyle isn't obviously bad. They work fewer hours, are in a more natural less poluted environment and are generally less stressed by life and work than their urban counter parts. There's a perceived lack of opportunity driving people into the cities. But its a similar drive that motivates people in the states to leave relatively nice styles in the midwest to move to Los Angeles or San Francisco to chase a dream even if it means working long hours in a restaurant and living in a crowded apartment.

One reason I think this theme resonates here is that software people are location independent in a way few other industries are. If you can work from anywhere being somewhere where your core living expenses are $200 makes sense. Siver's questions becomes real - what then ?
Reported to HR for not loving and worshipping Dear Company and devoting every single moment of your existence and every fiber of your being to increasing Its Holy Profits and Stock Value! :>
I´m finishing a blog post on how to use the satellite ping chain (with the consecutive position arcs) and the known cruise speed of the B777 to create a probable route tree over the maps.
Maybe it´s not going to give much information (pings are one hour a part and have an error of about 100NM or more), but If it serves to dismiss some parts of the actual ping position band, that would save time to the search teams.
Would've been nice to see a table comparison instead of a huge page dump.
Gender diversity promotes radical innovation, study finds – ScienceDaily
I think you'll find a large proportion of people who have ordered the dev kit have done so just for a taste of what's to come. And I'm sure OculusVR don't mind at all because the sales generate additional revenue and PR without all of the responsibility that comes with shipping a consumer product.
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For Silicon Valley engineers, the bar is higher than ever
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Show HN: Gameboy port of 2048
The inherent dysfunction of functional teams
That's really the first thing that comes to mind, isn't it?

I mean, I feel like it could go either way: eccentric jazz musician Sun Ra's Arkestra lived (and still mostly live) communally in a Philadelphia row house, and they haven't gone insane. On the other hand, the demands of a business are different from those of a musical group.

It seems like, for young tech people, the pendulum is swinging in the direction of communal living. Co-working spaces, specialized housing for groups of tech-entrepreneur-types[1], and more holistic workplaces (Google providing day-care, lots of startups bringing a chef on board to do meals in-house) seem to be in vogue right now. This looks like a particularly extreme extension of that trend (especially since they're leaving the city, a fundamental fixture in the SV startup culture), but I guess we'll see how it works out.

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Tech-entrepreneurs-rev...
For what it's worth, Magnum integrates Bullet and can target Emscripten, NaCl and Linux/Win/OSX PCs.
Ok, so unless they were trying to rendezvous with the secret undersea Nazi base on the underwater volcano, it looks like the "steal the airplane" thing either was wrong entirely or went completely awry.

So I wonder how it got out there.
Between Dreamers And Doers
Introducing StandDesk
So... Not for anyone with a significant other. Or a family. Or an aversion to spending all day and night with your co-workers.
Damn, this version seems so unplayable-- so much chaos.
When I play on my own, I already do so many random moves until I reach 512. After that every move that I make is evaluated. I have no problems reaching 2048 (or 29,000 points) within 10-15 minutes.

Here, I just get frustrated with the slowness of the moves (not to mention the strategy of the "democratic group" is way off)
The 10's were the middle of the wave of Indian teachers coming to US shores and offering the public a first glimpse of non-Christian spirituality. The catalyst was the Parliament of World Religions of 1893 [1], when Vivekananda came to the US. By the end of the 10's, Paramahansa Yogananda had come to the US to found the Self-Realization Fellowship, the Theosophical Society was reaching the height of its popularity. The Bahai movement was beginning to take hold, etc.

It was basically when Eastern spirituality first wove its way into the American consciousness.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivekananda_at_the_Parliament_o...
Better to be safe that sorry
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How is it raised?
Yes, startups try to game VCs already. But if the 'features' that your business needs to achieve for VC are
1) hard to achieve and
2) generally drive you towards success
then what's the issue with that? We want more startups to succeed and VC investment is an important feedback mechanism that ought to drive more startups towards success or early discovery of failure.

I mean let's say startups try to game the VC game and they learn they need to demonstrate product market fit before seeking investment. Is this a bad thing? We'll try to be as transparent about our insights as possible so startups know what we think drives/indicates their success the best.

I think you are right in that final decision is certainly not going to be reduced to a supervised ML algorithm classifying investment opportunities. But I don't think this fundamentally has to do anything with antagonistic and non-antagonistic - you just need different types of methods
Irrational terrorist, irrational pilot, irrational/mentally unstable criminal, mentally unstable passenger, mentally unstable pilot, mentally unstable terrorist, or an as-yet-unimagined mechanical malfunction.

In no order.
It's interesting how much Google is using Github. Will we see an acquisition of Github in the near future?
Is DK2 shipping in July or consumer?

Not entirely clear.
Thanks for this. Very interesting!

When you consider that the dominant hue shown against is orange (the logo) it makes sense that the vast majority of choices are either complementary (blues) or supplementary (oranges). The fact that there are lots of greens and few purples is interesting however.
These look quite bad on a retina display. I wouldn't use any icon unless it was a font icon.
Blockchains as public record
The music fits surprisingly well, its Interstate by The Juice To Make It Happen, whoever they are.
If I was guessing, I'd say that I very consciously made my CV/cover letter/blog "intriguing". I'm an OK programmer, but at the moment my strength is probably that I have a diverse list of fairly wacky and mostly unrelated other stuff that I've done. I think this meant that a lot of companies who would otherwise have passed straightaway were at least curious enough about the guy on the other end of this application to talk.

I should point out that after a Skype or 2, most of said speculative companies did realise that whilst founding a clothing company that makes sweatshirts with pictures of fruit on them is cool, it doesn't really help you write Clojure when you don't have any functional programming experience ;)

Of course, it could just be something boring like the fact that companies really need Ruby guys at the moment.
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It reminds me of the YouTube story. Google tried to do the same with Google Video and finally gave up and bought YT.

Google tries with Google Code now, but GitHub has probably much more traction. So, you may be right. I'm just not sure if they would do it, because the monetization is different. Or will we see AdSense inside GitHub pages for open repositories ;)

Probably does not make sense to them, most GitHub users are programmers who surf the web with ads disabled.
Musl-libc version 1.0.0 released
High level language? I haven't heard that kind of condescension in years. Whatever you're working on isn't as hard as you think it is. Most experienced programmers could probably do it as well as you in a couple of months.

And who is renowned in this industry? Game programmers. Not Sass, enterprise or consumer web programmers, who make up the vast majority of working programmers. No, one of the tiny subsets of programmers who do need algos.

You're stuck in your own bubble thinking it's bigger than it is (and seemingly thinking it's "proper" programming). So you're wrong because your premise is flawed. 95% of programmers do "high level language and develop client facing / application layer desktop/web related stuff". Simply open a job website and search for "developer". Add them up by SASS/Enterprise/Consumer Web and then everything else. The first category will be much bigger, 20-30 times bigger.
"For applications on Google Play that integrate this tool, usage is tracked."

Imagine if every open source library did that.
Most likely not. That's not how decisions in enterprise environments work. Those decisions take a while (i.e. years to even decades) anyway.

That said Java 8 might have some nice improvements productivity-wise but that's one of the least important criteria in enterprise environments.
Everything you said was golden, until the last paragraph.

<sarcasm> Picasso really should have stopped faffing about with his silly brushes and gone to work in a canvas factory instead. The world really didn't need another bloody painter. </sarcasm>
Seems an awful lot like a post-college fraternity...
There was a time I would have really hoped for that. When Github was still new and the only, pathetic, alternatives were SF and Google Code. But back then, Google had its head stuck all the way up SVN's trunk.

Now I really hope they don't acquire Github. No website I know of has improved in such a consistently good way. Pure UI improvements, awesome new features and no feeling of feature creep on the user side (I don't feel overwhelmed by Github's features at all, I just want to try them all!).

Google does a decent job on their apps but I honestly think Github is a much higher quality shop: do one thing and do it extremely well.

With all that said, how much Google uses Github has little to do with acquisitions. They also use Twitter and you won't see them acquiring that.
Watched a mind-blowing TED talk by former NASA researcher Dan Berkenstock on the state of Satellite imagery and what we're going to be able to do in the next couple of years:

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_berkenstock_the_world_is_one_bi...

One fascinating use-case is “gleaning a country’s consumption from images showing the number of cars in every one of its Walmart parking lots"

We live in such interesting times!
Flying is my bet.

As for scenarios, based on what CNN had on their screens I would say of the media, they have pretty much jumped the shark.

I am more and more interested in what steps international authorities will take with regards to requirements for commercial aircraft. We have the technology to prevent disappearances like this from occurring again, so will they step up and require them? The costs of the search must be pretty high by now
At that time, nobody was looking for it. Unless you know to look out for something specific, it's just one more of the approximately 5,000 aircraft in the air at any one moment. Also these radars can have very narrow beam widths, typically half a degree. Suppose it was already being used for some other task?
hmm; if you're such an ai company, i'd love to hear from you so please post =P
Just simple things so far; desks, tables, and book-cases.

One of the more enjoyable jobs was fitting some bookshelves beneath a recessed window, complete with a secret compartment!
Perhaps we should employ harvester vessels that collect that garbage, make something useful out of it?
"Under the hood SockJS tries to use native WebSockets first. If that fails it can use a variety of browser-specific transport protocols and presents them through WebSocket-like abstractions." - SockJS

How this is helping?

"Flash is absolutely not required for Socket.IO to function. If Flash is available, it'll be leveraged, as it provides almost the same capabilities as WebSocket. If it's not, the next best transport will be chosen." - Socket.io
Obviously I would say this, but the Stripe process was really enjoyable, rapid and well thought through. It was clear that everyone really cared about making sure that you were able to really show your true skills and abilities. The team is great (and obviously just got 5.8% more great when I joined) and really happy to answer any and every question you might have.

So I strongly recommend. Although I would say that.
has the ping data been published?

to my knowledge, we've seen one arc (from the last ping) that has been split into two parts based on assumptions of maximum and minimum ranges of straight flight at even speed.

that's a lot of assumptions.