skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general I agree, although there are certainly times when anonymity could be problematic even submitting an article on HN - for example, lying about an individual or a company, or starting a dangerous rumor.

The benefit of anonymity is, generally, to protect the anonymous from retaliation for things said or done anonymously. This is important, priceless even, when evil is being done by the powerful. For example, whistleblowing.

So the question is, is anonymity being used in any given case for good, neutral, or evil?

In the case of Facebook/Google+, I think the policy is understandable, if annoying. There's no business benefit to them to provide anonymity, and substantial business risk if they do.
Many mail servers delay account checking for that very reason.

They take in all mail - instead of telling the sending MTA that the account doesn't exist the message is accepted and sent to /dev/null. A bounce message may be generated but the automated MTA won't see that as the message will be carrying invalid mail sender information.
Oh yes, please! It looks like Amazon is having troubles to handle too many requests.

Thank you very much for your feedback. Just for you to notice, the guidelines are totally editable, but you have to be a member.
The article would lead one to conclude the people behind the show will clean up their act and come back with a more sensitive approach.

An alternative possibility is that they will simply keep the format, but find another less discerning group of developers.

I think the latter possibility is the more likely one, and all developers would suffer as a result of the ensuing portrayal.
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Indeed. It's an organizational relief valve that doesn't rock the boat much from a UI or product perspective. This is less of a problem at a small company, but a big problem at large companies. Standardizing the creative unit also makes it much easier to manage, and can be changed quickly by a semi-technical person if they are given a tool.
Ok - but do you think that (continuing the example) the JavaScript entries do add up to something more than just what Lint says to do? Cos I can see it.

I do think there are benefits in more assistance for people with style and structure - I was just wondering if a longer format would suite the need better.
I'm unsure why this is relevant to a site like HN. People are compromised all the time. It's not news. It's not even helpful for avoiding the same mistake: the author does not tell the details of the attack and gives some pretty bad advice for avoiding "cyber hackers" (such as turning off your computer to prevent your email getting hacked).
Stackoverflow is mostly kind to newbie questions; Serverfault however however seems to be moderated by a bunch of stuck up assholes. I had a newbie question when I was setting up some dedicated servers for the first time: my newbie question, about networking/nas etc, got shutdown with bunch of snarky comment on the line of "hire a trained experienced networking guru". I have never gone back since then.
.net is "Source Available" perhaps, Microsoft makes the source available so that you can step into their code when debugging. They make it extremely easy to point VS at their symbol servers(and cache locally for performance) so you always get the exact right source you need while debugging.

If you prefer to browse the source http://referencesource.microsoft.com/ has it all including the license. It appears to be a non free license as it is for reference use only.
Same way you convert one-character hex to binary. Then you simply do it again.
Add'l data on how carousels don't convert.

"Don’t Use Automatic Image Sliders or Carousels, Ignore the Fad"
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I dunno, I want to see it work for real. It's whoever wrote the demos fault really. Throw some integration tests up and drive it through its paces. I bet you there's more missing areas.
Their opinion on what marriage should be was morally wrong.

Their action was also constitutionally wrong. When voters vote on propositions, they exercise legislative powers much as elected representatives do. As with elected legislators, they are required to adhere to the state and federal constitutions, even though, as with elected legislators, they are not individually punished by law for their unconstitutional acts.
Wouldn't that add a transactional cost to bitcoin, not unlike PayPal or Visa?
Note that the list is based on self-reported data from PayScale.com, and doesn't include any graduate-level education.

It's not news that engineering degrees pay well coming right out of undergrad.
I am viewing this thread Emojified.
Well, the alpha version just went live at http://www.mysliderule.com/data-analysis-intro.

We'll work on structure / organization and release an updated version later this week.
Yes

If you write this: x = 1; // sets x to 1
I HATE YOU

Explain the WHY not the WHAT

It's the same crap with the Hungarian notation, where half MS didn't get how to do it properly. It's not the computing type, it's what the variable represents. Thank you, I know this is an int, the compiler knows it's an int. What I need to know is what this is counting/representing/etc
I'm confused. iPhones have an alarm clock already, and you can already set it to vibrate. Why do I need this app?

(Serious question. I'm hard of hearing, and I do this with my iPhone already.)

To answer some other questions I see in the thread, they make alarm clocks and doorbells specifically for deaf people. I personally own an alarm clock that has an attachment that you slip under the mattress. The vibrations from the attachment shake the bed, waking me up. I don't use it anymore, since I share the bed with my girlfriend, but it worked wonders for me in college.

Here's a website with some deaf-centric things like alarm clocks and doorbells: http://www.harriscomm.com/
But a quick read over your ToS defines bitcoins as having no value and not subject to law ("Bitcoins and Litecoins ("Coins") do not constitute a currency, an asset or a form of property at law or otherwise") and that you're not responsible if they mysteriously vanish ("Any purchase or sale of Coins, for money, virtual currency or other consideration, involves inherent risks and may lead to the complete loss of any value, virtual currency or other consideration, and you agree to wholly accept any and all such risk.")
Or, arguably worse, they are only interested in new, shiny things, whether they work or not. Let's run scalaz streams in production. It compiles, so it must not have any performance problems!
> Coinbase provides your full transaction history to the FBI, FinCEN and IRS every day. They are under a gag order.

How is that legal/constitutional? It's one thing to monitor one "target's" transactions, but everyone's?
Depends on the game.

I still play a game that's almost 20 years old (the original Descent), which has a small but active multiplayer community [0]. I regularly play against players in my own house as well as players from as far away as Brazil, Qatar, and Australia -- so I have to deal with various connection consistency issues. Given the game physics, I would much rather have out-of-order packets (resulting in an opposing ship briefly flashing in a wrong location and firing a shot from there) than having a delay on in-order packets (resulting in an opposing ship completely freezing, and then completing several seconds of movement and several seconds of shots in a fraction of a second).

There are other games that behave differently, where TCP would be preferable.

[0] descentrangers.com for anarchy, cooperative, and team games; descentchampions.org for competitive 1v1s.
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TCP and UDP use the same underlying wire and the same hardware. If UDP would lose a packet or it would arrive late, the same could happen to TCP. TCP will retransmit and you lose a little bandwidth. But in both cases, you can't use the late data anymore - audio has about the hardest timing restrictions you can have when dealing with humans. Lateness means forced loss. TCPs ACK packets don't help there either, you want to keep down latency because your data can not be used any longer if it's dropped or late. Reliability becomes increasingly irrelevant, latency is everything.
I can see this being big with the media-art crowd for installations if it has any sort of real graphics oomph. From what I've heard the pi is just barely capable of hd video, anyone able to divine these tech specs into a comparison with the pi's graphics capability?
I know "progressive enhancement" is a little passé at this point (at least as far as the HN crowd seems concerned), but the flash of unstyled content (before javascript loads) is really ugly. (Try disabling javascript and see how the unloaded carousels take up a ton of vertical space).

The script says it uses CSS3 when available, so I wonder if the markup can also be structured to be styled when the page loads, instead of when javascript loads. (I've done this before with my own carousel -- everything is set up with CSS, and javascript is only used to make the left/right arrows function).
What form would the IRS require it to be filed as? I don't know of any industry/company that is required to file a monthly/daily 1099 for customers. Even the banks are only required to file that stuff yearly via a Schedule D.
I think the sociological and common definitions of homophobia are getting mixed up here and elsewhere in the thread. Eich probably doesn't fear gay people (common definition), but his support of the anti-equality campaign contributed to a society where homophobia has serious and sometimes fatal consequences (sociological definition).
So here is the interesting thing. I am an ACTUAL user of this type of software and a paying SUBSCRIBER to two different SaaS call tracking platforms. I run a marketing agency and have almost 200 clients using call tracking on the twilio platform.

Firstly - thank you! What an awesome contribution to the community. I cant comment on code quality or license attribution but I can tell you that it is an extremely valuable service.

I have not downloaded and installed your code, but I will - here is where I see the market need these days, and its far greater than just source attribution.

Google has done a great thing by encrypting searches, but it is terrible for website owners and marketers because it is so difficult to prove ROI.

The place that we use using this successfully is by using the UTM source information of a click to change the incoming phone number on the site using dynamic number insertion - this helps clients have a justifiable ROI to continue to use the service.

If you have questions about how I am using this, please feel free to let me know - but kudos to you on building and open sourcing it.
This is clearly one of the best, or the best carousel out there right now, but I have a feeling soon everyone is going to have a Slick carousel on their bootstrap site.
You don’t need to understand pointers to program using R
We are about to release a webhook feature which you can register your deposit addresses (you can also set it at a predetermined confirmation count). That way at least you will get notified immediately (so you can confirm it with your customer). although the forwarding is still up to blockchain.info to be timely. Contact us over scott@helloblock.io if you are interested.
Here's a better solution:

function main()
do_blah_blah();
do_something_else();
end

function do_blah_blah()
obvious_thing;
obvious_thing;
obvious_thing;
obvious_thing;
end

etc..
I was pretty surprised to see him too.

Derek Smart's Desktop Commander!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIn1_9YvGds
Not affiliated with the OP or the project, but I threw up a sandbox to play with this at http://awstest123.notesies.com:9001/static/main.html
Thing is, just like with code, you write good comments by throwing away bad ones. The writing of the bad ones is not optional.
I didn't look at the game, but converting from hex to binary is easy since one of those bases is a power of the other. It's a 16-entry lookup table, but just like memorizing the multiplication table, there are easy-to-remember patterns. The fact that there are two digits just means to do it twice and concatenate the results (padding to 4 bits first).
It might just be that nobody's seriously tried it.

A practical concern might be that a library needs a librarian to shush people. And it needs people to obey the librarian when they do that.
I've spent a couple months trying to come up with ways to protect bitcoin consumers, and the only thing I can think of is for exchanges to purchase some kind of high-risk insurance which will cover losses by the exchange. Nothing else will protect users, as far as I can tell, precisely because of bitcoin's irreversible transactions.

Honestly, the best thing for the bitcoin ecosystem is to learn from Paypal and Visa, and to emulate their good qualities. I know it's popular to hate on the existing ways of doing things, but the existing ways have a lot of hidden wisdom embedded in them.
Picture element implementation in Blink
True, I'd be more interested in their actual resolution process and the steps they take to safeguard domain owners.

It works both ways though I think, the same steps they take to secure your domain are the same ones that will make it hard for you to get it back.
Maybe it is time for an updated version of USENET, not tied to Google a la Google groups. I am aware that it still exists but the clients are outdated and they could use additional features.
I agree with you with the "bad advice," opinion. There's no glamour or valor with how she got her domain back. In reality...it appears from her article that she really just paid to get it back.

So I guess her suggestion is to have $30k stashed to make up for lack of security. From what I read...she's still out money, even though she did get her domain back.
You aren't getting this are you? The carousel doesn't have anything to do with pinch or zoom. If you put it on your site, boom , pinch and zoom your face off. I chose to disable pinch and zoom on MY demo website, because it is already formatted for mobile.
What Data Scientists are reading. And why.
Did you just promote your own listicle?
I think there is no right or wrong in writing code, it's a matter of style, so at CSG you have different alternatives and you can just pick what you think is most convenient for your code!

I dont understand what you mean by "if a longer format would suite the need better"
What cruel fates conspire to tease man with this fool's existence? The solemnity of the grave seems a comfort when faced with the endless torments of a life of gaiety. If only the dead could speak aloud their regrets, that we might continue our sermons long past the crumbling of the mount.

Tis but a season's breadth afore yet 'nother trial befalls the stoic knights of castle hacker. Stay true in your labors, lest mirth's foul hand stir your mind to thoughts impure and sundry! Death's grip closes, and time is short, tary not along the path but stride through and bask in the righteous exultations levied upon the earnest and forthright! Down with the usurper, that lowly succubus whose poisonous impositions distract the holy from their cause!
email.site@domain.com is at least a distinct email address, unlike using +. Especially if you use different passwords for each account, it means if one of the emails is compromised then the attacker can't use it to recover passwords of your other sites.
Fred from Coinbase here.

There is no full list, and there is no leak. We're drafting a more formal response now.
Ask HN: What's the name of that HN user's ambient noise mixer website?
I unfortunately didn't bookmark the site, and can't seem to find it now. It's a basic site with different ambient noises (ocean, rain, etc.), and lets you mix them together to taste.
I don't understand what is the purpose of a carousel in a website beyond delay the load time and showing just random picture annoyingly that are just ignored most of the time. IMHO, is just better to put the image that give more impact related to the business persona and the website aesthetic overrall.
(worse debugging experience etc.)

How do you know? Maybe try this first? Apparently, there is a in-browser debugger you can activate just by including two files. This is theoretically a first-class debugger that doesn't even need source maps.

http://moonshinejs.org/how-to/debug-locally/

Were you assuming that Moonshine is a compiler targeting Javascript? It's actually a Lua bytecode VM.
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C# Brain Teasers (Interactive)
God forbid someone gets their thoughts together with comments outlining what a function is going to do and then fills in the code...

Or, while deep in thought, someone taps out a bit of redundant commentary on a line or two of their code...

Or someone needs a bit of natural language to provide an anchor in their code.

The important thing here, I think we can all agree, is that we are smarter than that person.
The code is ugly, checkout https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose (GPL & MIT) or https://github.com/sunsetbrew/civetweb (GPL)
Why UDP isn't good for real-time applications:

* lack of a connection
* lack of order
* lack of retransmission
* lack of error checking
* lack of flow and congestion control
* lack of integrity/security

Why TCP isn't good for real-time applications:

* latency
* latency
* latency
* latency
* latency
* latency

SCTP's only advantages over TCP for real-time applications is unordered data delivery and selective acknowledgement. In this way we can still use the most recently arrived message instead of the correct ordered one, which will reduce latency in one area.

But the 'association' is still be affected by congestion control, especially with multiple failures in the same window. Using Reno SCTP, this may be mitigated, and it is argued that some congestion control is much better than none at all. But without evidence specific to an application's implementation, UDP is still the superior real-time protocol if you don't care about what data you're getting.
Yes, but you can code with 0 based indices just fine, when you need it. I know, because I've done it.
The most unfortunate part of this story is that the site owner had to use underhanded tactics of her own to regain control of her site. She didn't get her site back by going through formal legal channels, she got it back by using tactics similar to those used by the criminal she was dealing with. Different intent and legal standing, but same methods.

It would be interesting to know what would have happened if she had instead waited for the legal methods to play out. Instead, it's a story of one trick undoing another trick.
> "How are we going to attract and recruit the best engineers unless we've got a reputation for the very best and most foolish April Fools trickery?"

You say that sarcastically, but I see that as a legitimate concern. Why miss out on a great opportunity to make a connection with thousands of users who otherwise wouldn't see any uniqueness or individuality to what you do? And the only risk is that they'd piss off someone with a corny joke.

That said, I sympathize. I enjoy jokes, but I'd like to read real news too.
It should be pointed out that with inlining, both versions are exactly the same at runtime.

Descriptive function names never lie, comments often do.
X-Wing vs Tie Fighter, a classic read on networking over the internet: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131781/the_internet_su...
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Could it be that VR has wider applications than just video games?
If you put in an active email, it sends back the name through the API. Similar to the way that snapchat API bug sent back a username with a phone number as input.
Also check out git-remote-gcrypt for fully encrypted remotes.

https://github.com/blake2-ppc/git-remote-gcrypt
I agree for the most part. I guess the Airbnb landing page is an obvious counterexample. I'm confident that they A/B tested it to death. In that particular case the transitions are very subtle and don't detract from the CTA (even though it's in the middle of the carousel images). The images themselves serve the purpose of "showing, not telling" what the product is.
Actually, many password forget forms do not provide any information about whether the email was recognized or not. More than once I've seen a message along the lines if "If the email entered was associated with an account, a password reset has been sent.".

EDIT: On the other hand even if the response is always the same, I expect most implementations to be vulnerable to a timing attack ;)
I use _, not "+" and anybody else might use "." or "-" depending on the configuration of their mail server. Sure, you can always add the full email and every possible stripped email to your lists, but in practice, few people seem to do that (judging by the amount of spam I get to me_randomstuff@example.net as compared to me@example.net).
SCTP has always looked intriguing to me, but would most backbones and ISPs pass it natively?

It sounds like it would be a waste to tunnel it in UDP, which is the alternative...
Not Q3. Q3 has a more elaborate scheme, keeping more updates in the resend buffer.
Yeah, you definitely don't want it wide open. Now that I got to the signup page I see you have github + twitter + facebook for signup options so it appears I was preaching to the choir :)

I'll check it out!