skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish it were strange reasoning.

It's utterly normal. It's the common reasoning of a vast body of people who are completely divorced from conscience; and/or who have ulterior motives; and/or who are apathetic or ignorant to the ramifications of a total surveillance state because they don't personally feel its weight; and/or who suffer a deep cognitive dissonance that generally stems from nationalism and allegiance to political sports teams under a shared umbrella.
QuiQui Drones: Go Home
He also didn't invest in Enron, though. Just saying.
For work I've done, NodeJS would have to be proxied behind something like Apache. Specifically for being FIPS 140-2 compliant and tested[0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140-2
If you don't trust the manufacturer and their software, why would you think declining an update would prevent them from "0wning" you?
I've also backed a couple projects that claimed to give me DRM-free digital downloads of video material.

In one case, what I actually got was a bunch of private web streams, with promises of downloads "someday in the future when it's all finished".

In another case, I also got a rather poor quality web stream with awful subtitles - eventual pirate versions offered a much higher quality product.

It really is sad that even with things like Kickstarter projects, legal digital video offerings still remain awful compared to what you can get illegally.
I would prefere to keep metro as the more "consumer friendly" ui solution and then REALLY improve the desktop so it can fight evenly with the linux ones and become really the place for us "pro" user who need to get shits done
I'm a product manager at GoDaddy helping to head up enhancements for web professionals (hackers, web designers, SEO, etc.). I know we've had a checkered past, but things are drastically changing and we're making huge commitments to the web professional market. I think you'll find a different company emerge over the next few years. It's going to take some time before the outside world sees what the amazing talent inside is coming out with, but it's coming, and it's exciting.
They will offer a .net, .org, ssl certificate and a private registration with the purchase of 1 share. Jokes aside I'm wondering how their bad reputation in the tech community will affect the IPO.
We, the USA, fly drones in other country's air spaces. At least we are gracious about letting Mexico, Canada, Russia, China, etc. fly their drones over our air spaces to make it even. Oh, wait...
I agree, it sounds ludicrous. But there are plenty of ludicrous instances in the EU where free trade gets banned by some stupid law legalizing a monopoly. As much as I'd like it to be, the EU is hardly perfect in this.
No, you will find coupons in FatWallet.
Don't particularly understand why that's a tired argument - I think that's a wise piece of the puzzle for any investor to consider. It's so interesting to hear investors criticize a savvy pitch like crazy then hand over a bucket of money to something like Secret.
Amazing summary and inspirational - thanks.
Do you allow groups to create private chat rooms that are invite-only? Having that debate at the moment in our team.
Meet Loomio, the small-scale decision-making platform with the biggest ambitions
Agreed. It's like some 17-year-old trying to sound cool.
I agree. This would be far more awesome if you could install it with a fucking shell script. It is called fucking shell scripts. Not fucking ruby scripts.
That's exactly my thought. I would have stayed at BAC if they paid me the same as Google.

In retrospect, that would have been a poor choice, but I guess it all worked out in the end.
Your understanding is limited.

PHP has the ability to be written "inline" basically all of PHP acts like a templating engine. That's not how FB makes its developers write. That's a big difference.

Also HipHop supports a subset of PHP's functions, which actually causes you to write better code because you can't lean on things like "eval" and dynamic defines. This makes your code better.

There is a lot of "this kind of stuff" that makes PHP very different from HipHop.
If you don't care about touch, then frankly you won't care about this announcement. I think this is the perspective of most posters here. But as someone that wanted a better touch-optimised full-fat browser, I am very disappointed.

Metro is all about touch, and the problem with Firefox in that context is that its touch performance sucks-- zoom is irresponsive and stepped, and scrolling performance is sub-par too; IE on the other hand excels at both of these-- which is why I use IE-metro in touch scenarios despite having a strong preference for Firefox normally.

If Mozilla fixed these core issues (which I should note are 'solved' on their android browser, and I believe are important anyway for their desktop mode), then I think they would have had a lot more interest in using Firefox in metro mode.. which is essentially what I have always wanted when using tablet-style, but have been waiting it out until they had something usable. I think their 'marketing' has been really poor too.. I can't say I really had any idea there was a metro mode to the existing Firefox.. why didn't they try giving some kind of notification to windows8 users who had touch screens? And, personally (perhaps naively?), I just don't see that Mozilla don't have enough resources to handle this alongside existing projects, dumping it seems very short-sighted to me. Regardless, a big set back for those looking for a great full-fat browser experience with a touch-focused UI.
This article is inane. The authors have no understanding of what it means to have large amounts of money.

Where else should companies store their billions of dollars in cash? You can't just store money in a bank, because that bank could go belly up, meaning there is a certain amount of risk. Having money in US treasuries is essentially the lowest risk you can get, and they are extremely liquid.
Yes, because words are only allowed to have a single meaning. Using the word 'steal' to refer to piracy to bypass payment to the rights holder has been happening since at least the mid 80s(NYT reference from 1986: http://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/28/nyregion/cable-tv-operator... )
5 years? Craziness.
When I saw this I thought I had missed something really important on the Windows store. I don't recall seeing it...

Wait. You have to install the desktop version to get it to work in Metro? What? No, don't make me do that. No wonder no-one used it.
That caliber of leadership and oversight requires immense skill, authority over capital allocation, AND trust from the next level up. Organizations that can maintain this are rare and typically have a brutal filtering process.
WePlay: Twitch plays Pokemon in pure JS
Attention?, I think you mean 'eyeballs'.
I think this is one of the major weaknesses of our economies. Should there ever come to be a "hot cyberwar" with one nation-state firing off all they've got against the infrastructure of another, then a lot of the security-by-certification stuff out there will fly in our faces.

You can never be sure you're secure, no matter what a company that you pay a lot of money tells you. Even moreso, considering that in case your certified system blows up, you will probably not get any money in damages, because the certifying company could well go heads up if the attack is wide-spread enough.
That doesn't mean there isn't a net benefit using NodeJS vs. other solutions.
Node.js is asynchronous, not Non-blocking. Don't use the two interchangeably, because they aren't interchangeable.

Not understanding this leads to pain and suffering on a massive scale.
Selling Node.js like snake oil with hollow marketing BS is seriously going to backfire very, very soon.

I have no strong feelings about Node either way, but people who value Node should downvote stuff like this into oblivion.

I've seen more substance in copy for a Herbalife ad.
Good idea but there's quite a lot of exploits in virtual machines that let them infect the host machine too. :P
So it's really pretty hard to stay safe.
You could always run your OS from a read-only CD?
At least you'd be none-infected on each reboot.
If you're going to use ruby, you may as well commit and use sprinkle. You still get to use all the shell scripts you want and you get the deployment power of capistrano. I've really enjoyed using it for my small provisioning requirements.
http://docs.ansible.com/script_module.html :)
To those here who recommend this poster go into product management---- I'm in the exact position as he is, and I'm wondering what I have to do to convince companies that I'm worthy of managing designers and developers.
There is zero legal basis to sue a company for not maximizing shareholder value. A company does not have the legal obligation to maximize shareholder value.

Of course, anyone can sue for any reason, and I'm sure companies may have been sued over something as dumb as this, but they won't win, unless there is fraud/negligence involved. Not deciding to put money into alternative investments is not an issue of maximizing shareholder value.
Also, check out Filebot. It does sub hunting and has organization and renaming facilities too.

English speaker, but I have hearing issues.
I can't agree with calling this underhanded on Christie's part. The law, while stupid, actually is the law, not a creation of the governor's or regulator's discretion. See his justification:

"This administration does not find it appropriate to unilaterally change the way cars are sold in New Jersey without legislation and Tesla has been aware of this position since the beginning."[1]

It would be far more underhanded for the governor to exempt a single organization from the rules. Yes, the rules are stupid, but tomorrow it's going to be a time when you do agree with the law, and it amounts to giving a bad guy some special privilege.

[1]http://www.itproportal.com/2014/03/13/new-jersey-bans-the-sa...
States impose different taxes on their gas. Presumably if NJ allowed self-pump, those prices would be slightly lower.

However, in the grand scheme of things, the eliminating the payroll costs from the gas price in NJ would barely have any impact.

At a normal gas station which is neither busy nor desolate, an attendant may be able to serve, let's say, 30 cars an hour. If they each get $20 worth of gas, and the total cost of the employee per hour is $20, then the prices would go down only a fraction of a percent if he was eliminated.
Scott Berkun [0] writes amazingly on this topic. Read his articles, read his books. I read "The Art of Project Management" [1] in 2005 and still go back to it.

Good luck!

0: http://scottberkun.com/
1: Now called "MAKING THINGS HAPPEN: MASTERING PROJECT MANAGEMENT" http://scottberkun.com/books/#post-52
I agree with all of your points, thanks for chiming in.

It just seems odd to me that the article cites Metro's adoption as "flat" based on "less than 1000" daily Metro users versus "millions" of prerelease Firefox users when the product wasn't marketed or widely available - the comparison is so unfair that that particular data feels like fluff.

It sounds like the actual decision to pull the plug was made using both a critical eye on the market and much better data than the anecdote from the article would lead one to believe.
It is becoming a very viable strategy in the "questionable derivative works" scene to open source the assets before a release in case you are C&D'd.

It is wonderful how the Internet makes it hard to suppress information.
It's not a good name. Outside of the Valley, where youth and irreverence do not dominate, the name makes this a non-starter.
Ok, great, Node.js seems really insecure. Can you tell me how to hack a Node.js app so easily?
Is "Stockholm Syndrome" becoming the goto plug reply to anyone who doesn't agree with the hivemind? I have been noticing it a lot lately.

>Clearly you haven't suffered the misfortune of having to program in PHP recently.

If anything PHP has become a lot better than what it was half a decade ago. Clearly you haven't used it recently.

I find amazing that despite PHP being popular than all the other mainstream web languages combined, comments such as "Does anyone still use PHP?", "PHP is so bad no one ever uses it." show up. Its akin to close your eyes and what you don't like goes away.

I am not rooting for PHP, but comments like these are silly and adds no value to discussion.
> So, with that, there is a burgeoning field that combines business and technology - think of it as being a "translator" of sort, turning jargon into actionable business information.

Does this field have a name? It sounds like what I enjoy doing.
Certainly. This explains it all.

But more seriously, don't worry. If you are on any list, it's one for activists and the like. At least, whenever you have problems crossing a border or experience "curious behavior" of your computer in the future, you have an explanation.

It might console you that there are a lot of people out there that are on lists and don't have the slightest clue. I'm thinking of IT-employees in European/Asian infrastructure companies whose personal access will be attacked should an interested player want to hijack/scrape something running on that infrastructure (as happened in the Belgacom hack).
The “Stolen” Mt. Gox Data Contained Malware That Robbed Users Of Bitcoin
JuiceSSH for Android has hit 500,000 users – offering free upgrades all weekend
Those are some unexpected upper bounds. Any reason you didn't use "10-99%" and "up to 99 people"?
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It's already been forked multiple times via GitHub. I'm guessing whichever fork currently had the most active developers will continue the application. It's like the movie industry doesn't know how technology works or something...
Lulz -- can't wait to see how the Google fanboi circles come out and spin this one.
Except that the terms "economic central planning" and "rent seeking" are orthogonal, even if the results are the same. You could, in theory, have economic central planning without rent seeking -- though it may not work that way in practice.

I think the above poster had it correct; refer to it as "crony capitalism" to non-economists.
In the past year, I've touched on Erlang, C/C++, C#, Python, Javascript (NodeJS) and PHP.

I take issue with a quote from a Director of UX being used to back up how NodeJS is taking over the Enterprise.
Unfortunate. I use Windows 8.1 every day as my main OS on both a traditional desktop and on a Surface RT. I had no idea that Firefox had a Metro version available. And I happen to use Firefox as my main browser on my desktop.

I would have loved for a notice to appear when starting it up one day to say "Hey, we see you use Windows 8 - did you know there's a Metro option available? Find out More or Never bother me again."
We can infer that any developer in the US or any real buddy-buddy country with the US probably had police at their door. Yea, they didn't break a law, but the police aren't for law enforcement really.

They also probably got a few thousand notices they would be taken to court.

Their entire goal worked, though - make the app in private, have it blow up, and since the code is FOSS now thousands of people have it and it won't die. Forks can spring up and improve on it just fine - hell, the original developers can work on it still under someone elses repo - but they aren't liable for anything.
I agree. The notion of creating false demand on the internet by constraining supply is not going to work ever, as it is ad infinitum a cat and mouse game.

What does work is making content that is desired easy to get to and consume (at their own pace without delays before releases etc) at wide scale. People will pay for ease and they do like rewarding the creators of good entertainment and educational services. The better experience will always win, even if it is pay.

Where before content creators wanted everyone tuning in at one time for big ad dollars and network effect, now it is the opposite, they should want consumers to drift through their lands of content at their leisure and not want to leave. This actually distributes traffic and demand as well so there aren't huge funnels of bandwidth hogging false demand schedules (HBOGO recently failed on the last episode of True Detective, where House of Cards people watch more distributed because it is all available at once).
Yeah, that makes sense to me. But apparently hcayless is not in the same situation but still got offended when they weren't promoted.
Almost every time I have to work on a client's site hosted with GoDaddy, their unintuitive interface basically requires I call into support (read: sales).

Despite their attempts to pitch me, I always tell them that I'm just working on a client's site, but they still tell me "if you've got the access code, you can make these decisions."

Yeah, that's a great way to keep my clients happy...
This is disappointing, I've been looking into touch interfaces for kiosks. Currently the best option for us is using IE on Windows 8.1.

OS X isn't really built for touch, and the browsing experience isn't that great on it with a touch screen.

Chrome and FF in desktop mode doesn't deliver the visual cues that the pages are loading the same way IE does. Which I didn't even realize until I got my hands on it. For some reason people (read me and everyone that has tested it) feel like a response should be instant when you click a link on a giant touch screen. IE does a great job of popping up UI to communicate that it is working. Chrome just sets the tab's favicon to a spinner.
Source please regarding teslas OTA process.
I thought it was a desktop app that used 3rd party torrent movie search APIs (YIFI, OpenSubtitles, etc.) to stream torrents. How does a desktop app "shut down"? I must be misunderstanding part of the architecture. Did they have a centralized server? What did they use it for?

I know they took the down the download link. People are reporting the app no longer works.
$20 / ($20 * 30) = 3.3%
No, I think he/she wants Racket. Only Racket has the capability of being a "JVM-less Clojure". It's really all about the ecosystems, though, and Clojure is winning in that regard no less due to the JVM.
Christie didn't say "I wish this is repealed, but it's my duty"; he said it's for the good of the consumer. It is industry protection.
If Node is taking over the enterprise, we are going to have a lot of broken Enterprise apps that are wildly unmaintainable in a few short years.
Killing Windows XP Wastes Billions
> ... immutable data-structures. You stick one of those suckers into an AtomicReference and presto you've got a thread-safe data-structure.

Thread-safe – yes (and Clojure does this beautifully; in fact any Clojure DS is thread-safe); concurrent – not really, because you can only have one writer at a time, which simply doesn't scale for large data structures.

> I'd love a comparison between the two btw

Quasar has true lightweight threads (M:N multithreading as in Go or Erlang), and an (optional) actor system built on top. Quasar actors can and should block as much as you want, have selective receive (just like Erlang), and are especially easy to use. Also, Quasar has Java and Clojure APIs that feel natural and idiomatic in both languages.
It's not an argument, it's a prediction. I welcome them to prove it wrong.

Unfortunately when you take money from someone else, the conversation changes to how much money you're going to make from that initial money.
It's actually much bigger in the newer nightly

http://i.imgur.com/dVZl0YP.jpg
yeah, using a professionally managed CDN is fine. as long as you host everything near each other.

I dont think hosting your vendor code on cndjs, and then your application code from wherever you serve the rest of your static files, is wise.
The Unfinished Story of Words
> I know we've had a checkered past, but things are drastically changing[...]

Wait, how is this supposed to compute?

"Checkered past" (= "sleazy business practices to maximize profit") plus this IPO (= "woo! shareholder value!") suddenly equals "enhancements for web professionals"?

I'll believe it when I see it.
I've been looking to abandon Chrome and I would definitely give Metro Firefox a try on my desktop. I enjoy the metro split screen with the Windows 8 Store Twitter client (it's awesome to get push notifications). If I had a nice browser for metro then I would definitely try to migrate.
Ask HN: Best managed server for anti-DDOS and west coast US low latency?
If you'd like an alternative that is even simpler than ansible, yet still idempotent, try pave:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pave

https://bitbucket.org/mixmastamyk/pave
Identifi - Distributed Identity and Reputation Database
This is actually a pretty big deal. I was around at the formation of ICANN. At the time I remember saying "the fix is in" as a result of the interactions between Network Solutions (the sole contractor prior to ICANN) and government connections with SAIC corp a big contractor with ties to the government security community.

http://www.saic.com/markets/national-security/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Solutions

It's a big deal because given the security connections I never thought this type of thing would happen.
Why do you still call it "Metro"?
I use:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remember-pass...

It's heavenly.
And Paypal! I closed my paypal account because of that
Selfish gene, dead or alive?
I think the OP meant maintaining a large code base not application performance.

BTW did you mean to say "Node.js scales quite well for CPU intensive problems."? If so, that is very incorrect. I/O intensive yes, CPU intensive no.
Do you realize there are legitimate cases where you don't want to use a MS account?

Ex. When you use a domain account managed by someone else (ex. your employer or school)
You mean like buying billions of gallons of oil from the Middle East?
Toyota trucks of that era were great mechanically, and the 22RE was a great little engine, but they would rust out in no time. OK for the south but not a good choice for anyplace that salt is used.
360 Video Fundamentals
Can't they just disable forms that have the action attribute in forms pointed at anything other than google domain? i.e. a form with action="badbadsite.com/customfile.php" would be disabled.
I have to agree with you here as you make an excellent point about QA/FAQs. It's entirely possible that the people behind this know exactly what they're doing, but from a client perspective it is a bit sketchy that there is no information other than server specs.
> The country is incredibly polarized and its a negative thing for the USA. As a world leader and he is one, the responsible thing would be for him to be (at least publicly) moderate on the topic, and he happens to be right, we need the debate to figure out several very important issues about our democracy and what are the real threats to it.

If you consider him to be a world leader it is also his responsibility to be a leader on topics that matter to things like the future of governance.